Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1850-04-23

hliOhM ~ 'ANApA ~ reform meeting
was lately held in Brooklyn, Whtby. Cana
da, at which five hundred persons were prs.
cnt. Seventeen resolutions we're passed ln
favor OF the reduction OF al sIhrics, hour, vt
public business Ia offices. cudi6caliou Of she
laws, abolition Of the Courts Of Common
Pleas, Chancery and Division, simPllkr1tloa
" Law forms, the right Of every man to cun-
duct his own case, universal suffrage, vote by
ballot, trennial Parlamcnis, equality II rep
rcsrntation, application Of the elective fran
chIse to public iunctionaues OF every grade.
abolition Of the clergy reserve and rrcioucs,
free trade, direct taxation, election Of jurors,
repeal Of the usury laws, the medical law.
the license law, the law Of Pnmogcniturs,
and the law Of copyright.
PrRJuRY ASD THE JuRY Box. Mayor
Mills, n Bangor, IN his late Inaugural I'D.
drr-s, thus comments upon certain matters
and things in that goodly city. His honor
draws gloomy picture -
Indeed, the exhibitions in the witness boz,
have become truly revolving Perjury there.
Is almost an every day affair. Would that
Truth would suffer me to end the picture here
without affirming as do, that in my judg.
mcnt, the perjury IN the witness box, bad A.
II u, does not compare, either ia amount or
cnormliy, with that of the jury box. The
scnslblliles Of this community have recently
been shocked to an extent almost uncomfortable.
And IN some Instances, under circumstances
that lead TO the belief, that jurymen had been
tempered with, if not bribed. | see but two
ways to cure this mons,rous wickcdncSs.-
One il, for public opinion to set her face as
Hint against Il. The other, for the Aldermen
II cities, and the sclecimcn OF towns, 20 ~
wise often, thc box frsm whence the names OF
jurors are drawn, aud allow no names there,
but the names Of men Of PrObity; men who
truly appreciate both the solcmnity Of the oath
Of God, and its binding effect upon them to
it, fullos, extent. Jurors should b. men Of
claractsr-mcn Or higher grade, much, than
we have witnessed, with some few exceptions,
for the last several years. And TO gain this
end, the correction mus, b. made at the foun.
tain head"
Ar ms OLD PRASKG-Tha, parsonage OF
whom our l,ocofoco friends were wont to write
and speak in past times, Old Whiisy ycsier-
day had his war spirit considerably revived.
We are informed, that as the fremen's pro.
ccssion passed with his martial music, his re-
joicing knew no restraint, and that with name
and tail erect, he plunged into the midst of
them, and spread dismay aud confusion along
the whole line.-[Rcpublic.
He has more spunk than his master for
the latter quietly keeps his nose in the public
crib, wi,hou, being in the slightest degree
disturbed by the dsmay and confusion pro
duced " along the whole line" Of the States
by his cabinet.
tg The mint at New Orleans is closed for
want Of treasurer, the incumbent having no.
lifted the department several months ago that
he resigned from April /, and several persons
having declined the appointment, because the
'oDds arc $50, 900 and the salary only $4,000.
There is good deal Of California gold in the
mint, which wants coming, and the certih-
'a,es for which are in the market. The
reasurcr Of the mint is also the officer with
whom ,hs collector should deposit public
non.vs