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NEW YORK LHGIsLAruRE.
Senate.


ALs,sr, Msreh al, 1850.
nftLs nErosrEp.
Mr. sr,SroS, svorabiy, the bill for the relief Of the
Missionary Society OF the Methodist Episcopal Church
Alsc fsvorsby the bill Incorporating the Thistle Be-
nevolent Society Of New York.
Mr. Coos to complete the bill for the protection Of
ssvirss' banks receiving the deposits Of married
women.
Mr.. JoHvsoS called for the confederation OF the re-
BSI' . ''' ''' ' - ''' ".'''''' '''
Mr.. N,rr declared HE intention OF voting against
tfis bill
Mr.. Josrso- took ~ for granted that, inssmuch AZ
fhs opposition 10 the bill admitted that au const
tuSisna ohecticn removed that the question vas
nov left 60 be decided the merits Of the cot lie
then replied 20 IN. obectsns raised BY the Senator
from the the 10th, (sir MsnnD
Some debate then followed technicsiities In the
bjii In wh,ch Messrs Johnson Schermerhorn, Mann,
rcos, stone, stanton, and Geddes engaged.
The bill vss slightly smendsd IN TIE nrst section, and
Dir moved TO amend the second section, 80 ~
40 allow an appeal TO the regular Court Of Appeals.
Nr. JcrSse- opposed this amendment.
Mr.. GEpDEs supported.
The motion vas lost-1o TO 1s, ~ follows
Ayps-ne-srs Bsbooet. Brsndrsth, Ccct, Fer oetdes.
Nsns. Nii,r. Rehinsor, Simmer, sitsns-W
N0rs hsssn. Beshnss. Carroll Coli cvslus' Geek
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By and ptfh The .3drtee and Conssnf Of The Senate.
LphIsin George squier of New York. 10 be Charge d.
ARes Of the United States TO the republic OF Gua.s-
msls. In the place Of Elljsh Hse
Thomas NJ foose, Of New York, to be Charge d. AZ
faires a the united States to ths republic OF New
Grenada, In the place Of Benjamin A. Didlack, de.
ceased
william G. Rives, Of Virginia to be Envoy Extraor.
dipary and Minister flepipotentisry of the United
States 20 the French republic In the place Of Richard
Rpfh, recalled
Henry :. sandfort, Of Connecticut TO b. Secretary
Of the Legation Of the United States to the French
public in the plsee of stephen X. stanton.
Alexander X NcClung of Mississippi 70 be Charge
d'AfAires OF the United states to the Republic OF
Bolivia, In ths place of Jonp Appleton. r-signsd
l.. w. Jerome, OF New York, to be Cop-ul OF the
United States for the city Of kavenna io Italy In the
place Of Henry J. Brent
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Assembly.
ALBANY, March n, 1850.

Assembly,
ALBANY, March Il, 1850.
BILLS REPORTED.
By Mr. GngES favoraby the bill s,thorizing the tax
alton Of bachelors for the benefit of ndg-n old maids
AID orphane Mr. g. said he reported this bii because
he believed II proper to tax luxuries
MrYARp moved that all old maids who have ected
those bachelors, be included
Mr. RAyMosp moved to lay the whole subject on the
table Carried
Mr. ii. J ALLEN, bill granting to Jane B. Blstch-
ford and others. certain lands under water.
MIR. FIsKE, bill to amend the charter of the Green
wood Cemetery. Referred to Report COMMITTEES.
Mr.. BowEN the bill relative to taxation In New
York. Complete.
MIR. PRArr, the bill relative to the Richmond lien
law Complete.
Mr.. Yam, the bill to change the Commission ers'
map Of BBGuAlyn Complete
The Jssse fixed upon Saturday immediately after
the prGstion of petitions for the third reading Of
bills, some forty being on the table.
CITY or BRooKLvN.
The bill to divide the Sixth and Seventh wards Of
Brooklyn was read third time
RAILROAD DEPOT AT EAST CHESTER.
The House went into Committee Of the Whole, Mr..
HARMON In the chair, on the bill directing railroad
depot to be established at East Chester In Weohsstsr
county. Passed.
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Dart. Dinmck, Guipnip. johnson, Morgan Noyss Oven
Schoonu sker Snyder Stanton futile rs
The third section was slightly amended and then the
report of the committee agreed to-
Mir. CRoss asked consent, which granted that the
bill for the relief Of the Roman Catholic Orohsn
Asylum In BrooklyB, be read third time -Passed
Mr. CRoLus bill for the protection of srers In
manufacturer SC, where stes engines ussd. Re-
ferred to select committee Of Senators from New
York.
Pending the resolutions the Senate took recess till
O'Clock,
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ticuler similarity between them and Dr. Psrkman Q
stab between the seventh and eighth rib would not
necessarily reach the heart IL Il had there might -
more or less eusion Of blood externally scoording 70
circumstances; II the wounds exterps,y and Inter
nslly, corrsepondsd. there might be externsl II the
external wound slipped by the Internal the enPusion
would be chiefly internal my custom room 10 over that
OK Dr. Webster; have never heard noises from his
room the students In my room sit on rising ssots
stand en- the floor.
Cross exsmned-Could NOT know what the eau-
sion OF blosd would be, without knowing the
direction Of the knife II the knife touched the
heart most blood would binside but not probably all
nave heard the noise Of students below the demon.
strstors room which is at the head Of the stairs
cannot say that the hair had been singed BY nre
not familiar with the effects of carstca A. 70 hat
effect could be produced by them but vas e.
believe that all did had been so produced NOR
tel blow might be struck the head and no efusiou
Of blood take place.
William d. Eaton sworn-Is q police officer was
present whom the thorax taken from the tee chest
first rent there by the Marshal was ssxrohiug
ono part Of the building with Mr. Fuller We took the
tea chest nd carried IL out into the middle the
turned It over and the body out with back
rubbed of some Of the sand. Saw hole In the sand
remarked that t about the size Of that ksfe .s
found In the tea chest The knife cosed when
The wound on the left side; removed bv putting
my finger to It, There half q dozen Of rs there
should say Fuller, Heath, Rice, and Sturses;
brushed on some tan With my hand; passed my hand
lightly over IL saw the wound first when liisu the
body out TO turn IL did know that there was
any thing but minerals In the box till We had turned
other night, till the body removed did myself
turn over the body saw some one do 1t don't remem
Der who.
Court adjourned at twenty minutes to seven p M.
1.-THE testimony Of Drs Keep and wymsn, to day,
has been intensely exciting aud has created general
conviction among the audience in the roor that
the body found was that Of DR.. Psrkusu
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Political Intsllixeuce,

NEw HAMPsHIRE ELEc crIoN.-Ths returns Of the late
State election In New Hampshire except Twenty two
towns have been received aud show . heavy gain for
the democrats, summing up fer Governor With the
following comparative result -
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The April term of this court VIII be opened on the
trtt Ncpdsy In the month. Notices Of issue rust bs
tisd On CT before the TEgsdsy previous 20 The open
ire cf the tenn. Judge Ntson being engaged IN the
Sufrsne Court 81 Washington, the businsss of this
Circuit Court vii utcn the opening Il the tern, b
adjourned over 20 the latter part OF May bseinrng
* June rben the csutts will be preceded With Ia
their fteulsf crter.
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lie Ctutttbd Jpiy came IN a. O'Clock, when
Df Nctls's srantrstion vss ressmss-fhe Medical
Ccifge YES epsnsdin the early rstt of November "
the ssfly part tf my studies test worked Or.
Tslnsns tstth begsn about he lith q ssP,.Gbsr,
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27
Aggregate AVERAGE value,

Aggregate average value, =, 10000
The American trade with the Western
Coast, Liberia excepted, does not average
$4,000 per annum.
Such is the opening prospect Of the coun-
try to which it is proposed these steamers
shall ply. The committees report explains
the moral and political advantages of the
plan; and when the whole are considered to-
gcther, it strikes Us that the subject deserves
tic ila,)st earnest and deliberate attention of
Congress 1t is also to be borno in mind,
that the steamers would touch at all the I'M
portant islands of Africa, and some of these,
we well know, occupy conspicuous rank in
a commercial sense The subject will be
warmly advocated, and unless want of time
prevents, it will meet the appreciation of the
two houses.-Er. Balllefin
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27
WISE COUNSEL.

An~address of the venerable DIR. Mott
President of the Union College, New
York, says:
| have been young, and am now old !;
and in review of the past, and the pros
poets of the future, declare unto you, be-
loved pupils, were it permitted me to live
my life over again, | would, by the help
OF God, from the very outset, live better.
Yes, upon the very outset would frown
upon vice, | would favor virtue, and lend
my influence to advance whatever would
exalt and advance human nature, alleviate
human misery, and contribute to render
the world lived in like the Heaven to which
| aspire, the abode of innocence and fell
city. Yes, though were to exist no long
er than the ephemera that sport away their
hours in the sunbeams of the morning,
even during that period would rather soar
with the eagle, and leave the region of
flight and fall among the stars, than creep
the earth and lick the dust with the rep
tiles, and, having done so, bed my body
with my memory in the gutter.''
The life of DIR. Mott has been dailv
illustration Of the value of the sentiments
he SO handsomely expresses. He is now
patriarch of seventy-six years, and ha:
presided over Union College for As wears
preserving in his old age that fire of genius
and that kindliness of heart which have
made him the idol of all who have enioyed
his instruction.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27
CUSTOM OF ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.

The Egyptians had a funeral tribunal,
by which the dead were tried, before thew
could be buried. After death, every Egyp-
tlan was brought before this tribunal, and
if convicted of having in his life acted un-
worthily, he was denied place in the
burial place Of his ancestors. This was
great disgrace to- his family, and, accord
ing to the Egyptian theology, it deprived
the spirit of the deceased of an entrance
into heaven. One of the things which
caused the inflicton Of this mark of dis
grace, was that of dying in debt. If, how
ever, the children or friends of the de-
ceased should pay his debts, as they some
times did, he was allowed to be buried.
Such an institution as this must have had
a powerful effect upon the people in their
commercial transactions with each other.
4 man who knew that very act of dishon-
esty, unfair representation, or trickery,
which he might practice in the course of
business, might be remembered and uttered
to the disgrace of his family, over his dead
body, would be cautious not to give occa-
sion TO such procedure. As we have no
exact information with regard to the mode
of trial, we may perhaps be allowed to
picture 10 our imagination the form of the
proceedings. Letus suppose it was some
what like this An Egyptian merchant
dles-the day arrives for the investigation
of his conduct. The Hall of judgement
is thronged with citizens the body fol-
lowed by a long train of mourning rela-
tives, is brought in and placed in the midst
the judges take their seats, and the whole
assembly is hushed into silence. An Off
Ger OF the court proclaims-
" If any of you know any just cause OF
impeachment why the body of our deceased
tellow-citizen should not be committed to
the grave, We are now TO declare it,
A voice-"I object TO the burial, for
had often dealings with The deceased, and
| could never depend upon his word
Another voice" object to the burial,
for deceased attempted to iniure my char
acter IN order to get away my customers. :"
A third voice-"I object to the burial,
for he lived at most extravagant rate
when he knew he was not able to pay his
debts
A fourth voice. object to the burial,
for he made over his property to friend,
and then took the benefit of the nsolvent
debtors act"
The judges rise and exclaim-" Enough!
enough take him away! take him away !!
You may throw away the body to be de-
voured by the beasts of the fields or the
fowls Of the air. but never let the earth
be polluted by receiving into its bosom the
worthless remnant of SO vile man. =
GiiberfS Lectures.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER ez. 1850.
2eoetrp.
WE WERE BOYS TOGETHER.

By GEORGE P. MORRIS.
We were boys together,
And never can forget
The school-house near the heather
In childhood where we met il
Its sorrows or its joys,
That woke the transient smile or tear,
When you and were boys.
We were youths together,
And castles built in air;
Your heart was like a feather,
And mine weighed down with care.
10 you came wealth with manhood IS prime,
To me it brought alloys,
Foreshadowing in the primrose time,
When you and were boys.
We're old men together,
The friends we loved of yore,
With leaves of autumn weather,
Are gone forever more.
How biest to age the impulse given
The hope time meier destroys
Which led our thoughts from earth to heay'n,
When you and were boys
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27

How IT CAME.-Ds the disobediencc of
lad in 1909, a gafden gate in Rhode ISL
and was left open, a pig got in and de-
stroyed few plants quarrel between
the owner Of the pig and the garden, grew
out of it, which spread among their friends,
defeated candidate to the legislature, and
gave the State a Senator, by whose vote
war was declared il 1912, with great Brit
am
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27

SHOWERS OF BLooD.-One species of
butterfly, papiLo TO (peacock butterfly inn
mediately after leaving its cell, lets fall 2,
drop OF blood; and in France, where pea
cock butterflies are very numerous. many
believed that shower Of blood had fallen,
until an able entomologist discovered the
true cause, and undeceiyed the minds of
the inhabitants.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27

Every body recollccls Monsieur Chau-
bert, the fire magician, who plunged his
hands into molten-lead, cooked and eat
his stakes in hot oven, &C., &c, some
twenty years ago. 1t seems he was a
feet or so'' ahead of the savans of the day,
who are just beginning to discover that it
was by covering his skin with sulphurous
acid, that he did his wondrous feats. Jug
glery ahead Of science--a good Joke this.
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The Sea Serpent has been shot at off the Irish
coast, and according to the account, he was
struck and reared his form thirty fathoms out of
the water. With the aid of glass the persons
who fired at him observed that the eyes we're of
immense size, about nine inches across the ball.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27

Years may pass over our heads without
affordlng any opportunity for acts of high
benehcence or extensive utility whereas
not day passes, but, in the common
transactions of life, and especially i'll the
intercourse of domestic society, gen:lencss
finds place FOR causing the happiness of
others and strengthening in ourselves the
habits dt true virtue.
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Vol. XXXyl.-Whole No. 1893.
Rates of Advertising.

Communications recommending persons for
Office, must be paid in advance at the rate of
q cents per square.
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FOR SALE.
600 bbls. No |, 2 and 3 MACKEREL
0OO so half-bbIs. No. DO.
80 do. No. 2 do.
500 sacks SALT
200 Dairy do.
10 hhds. city cured HAMS
5 do. Shoulders and SIDES
do Sugar House MOLASSES
TO bbls. NO. do.
5 lhds. of SUGAR
10 hbls Porto Rico d crushed SUGAR
80 Bags of COFFEE
100 Kegs NAILS
20 Boxes GLASS
100 tons Plaster
500 tons WilbesbaEre Goal
300 tons Pine Grove do.
500 tons Lykens Valley do.
10000 bushels Bitumlnous do. for Black
smiths
100000 feet LUMBER Boards, Plank &c
100000 SHINGLES
1000 bushels OATS
100 bhls FLOUR
50 bbls. Monongahela WHISKEY
BY VIM. REWALT.
Lewistown, July 10, 1850
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27

An address of the venerable DIR. Mott,
President of the Union College, New
York, says:
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-27

Three thousand Hungarians are about teal
crate to alis country. An agen'
New York commissions
900 to 100, 600 a"'0
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find no such policy countenanced by the
WHIGs. There will be no objections, we
apprehend, to any motion to send for per-
sons or papers. Every facility will be
afforded to the most thorough and minute
investigation. In all its relations and
bearings, we trust that the conduct of the
Secretary Of War will be examined, and
the subject disposed Of with despatch.
While the investigation is in progress,
we trust that the Opposition press will
have the generosity to permit the matter
to rest, and not seek to prejudice the pub
lie mind by partial or garbled statements,
or by any injurious insinuations. We
shall seek to consider the subject our
selves with impartiality, and we shall ex-
press our convictions with candor and sin
cerity. The test which we shall apply to
the official honor of WING Administra-
ton will be the same precisely by which
we should judge our opponents, saving
only that we should hold Wing to a
rather more rigid accountability than
LocoFoco.
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Mr.. CraMford.

II will be seen, by reference to the pro-
ceedings in the House of Representatives
yesterday, that letter was received by
Mr.. COBB from the Secretary Of War,
calling for an investigation into his con-
duct and relations in the matter of the
Galphin claim. 1t will further be seen
that, on the motion of Mr.. TooMBs, Of
Georgia, committee of nine was ordered
to be appointed for this purpose.
eff the House of Commons" says an
able writer in the Edinburgh Repie,o, "'was
of no other use but as an organ for pro-
claiming and inquiring into all alleged
abuses, and making public the results
under the sanction of names and num-
bers, which no man dares to suspect of
unfairness or inattention, il would be
enough 10 place the country in which it
existed above all terms of comparison
with any other, ancient or modern, in
which no such institution had been de-
vised.o
In the same light the American people
look upon their House of Representatives.
The theory of our Government is, that the
people are entitled to examine all the ac-
tons Of their rulers, and hold them TO a
strict accountability. II is, therefore,
very proper that public officer, whose
conduct is assailed, should court Con-
gressiona scrutiny. He stands self-con-
demned when he objects to any inquiry,
however searching and severe. The OBJ
stacles that we're thrown in the way of
the investigations undertaken by Mr..
WISE, during General JAcKsoN's Admin
istration, reacted upon the gentleman
who sought to interpose them. We shall
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ton, on which our difficulties can be adjusted
coming from member from Illinois. In conclu-
sion, he spoke of the mutual advantages of the
States in the valley Of the Mississippi more particu-
lary, and of the destruction of the Union as an in
effable calamity.
Mr.. GREEN obtained the floor, when
The Committee rose and the House adjourned.
The following petitions were presented yester-
day under the rule:
BY Mr. HOWE! The petition of Josiah c. White
and two hundred and twenty eight others, citizens
of Lawrence county, Pennsylvania, praying Con
gress that State be hereafter admitted into the
Union, unless the constitution of such State shall
expressly prohibit the existence OF slavery within
its limits. Referred
Also, the petition of Henry Pearson and two hun
dred and eight others, citizens of the same county
praying Congress TO repeal all laws and parts Of
laws adopted or enacted by Congress, by which
slavery or the slave trade is authorized or
toned in the city of Washington or the District Of
Columbia; and that, in the event Of their non
peal, the seat of Government may be removed TO
some more suitable location. Referred.
Also, the petition of John Reynolds and two hum
dred and twenty five others, citizens of the same
county, praying Congress to provide by law, that
whenever person shall be arrested as a fugitive
slave in any State other than that in which he is al
legged to be held to service he shall be delivered
to the claimant or his agent, except on the finding
of jury that he is the slave of the claimant. Re-
ferrcd.
Also, the petition of William H. Shaw and three
hundred and twenty mine others, citizens of the
same county and State, praying Congress to ex-
pressly prohibit by law slavery and the slave trade
in all the Territories of the United States. Re-
ferred.
By Mr.. HUNTER The petition of. M. Holmes
and fifty three other citizens of Harrison county
Ohio, asking for reduction of postage. Referred
to the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads
Also, the petition Of Asa Branson and fifty-two
others, citizens of Belmont county, Ohio, in favor
of cheap postage. Referred as above.
Also, the petition of Benjamin Hoyle and fifty
other citizens of Belmont county, Ohio, in favor Of
cheap postage. Referred as above
By Mr.. HAMMOND: The petition of A. p. Broth
ington respecting his claims against Mexico.
Also, the memorial Of the heirs Of Peter Random
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4 H Z r E ? U BLIC.
WASHI N GTON:
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 1850.
Congress.

In the Senate, yesterday, after the usual
morning business, the compromise reso-
lutions submitted by Mr.. BELL were
taken up, and debated by Messrs. BALD
WIN and UNDERWOOD; the latter had not
concluded when the Senate adjourned.
In the House Of Representatives., letter
was read from the Secretary of War, ask
ing for an investigation into the matter of
the Galphin claim, which at present ex-
cited the public attention. On motion,
the subject was referred to committee
of nine. The House then resolved itself
into Committee of the Whole, and re-
sumed the consideration of the Presidents
message in relation to California.
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received the appointment Of Secretary Of War, he
advised with the propriety Of further prose
cutting the claim, during his own continuance In
Office. aud animated disposition to dispose of his
interest in it. Igave it as my decided opinion that
there could be no improperly nor even indelicacy
in his doing under the existing circumstances;
that it which he could not officially
act, either directly indirectly. II could not
come before the Cabinet, being expressly referred
by the act itself TO the Secretary Of the Treasury
for his decision That opinion remains unchanged;
can see no good reason why the mere accident OF
official connection with one department Of the Gov
eminent should preclude party from the asser-
ton of his just rights before another and wholly in
dependent department.
From the above simple narrative of facts, you
will perceive that Mr.. Ewing had no connection
whatever with the settlement of this claim; and,
further, that it adjusted principles present
ed in the report from the First Auditors Office
several months before the present Administration
came into power; that those principles, though not
officially affirmed by the late Secretary of the Trea-
sury, were nevertheless not overrued by him, and
the question was thus referred open pending
question to the decision of the present Secretary.
Whether those principles right or not, the Pc
culiar circumstances of this case were such as to
render the allowance act of simple justice,
which the Government could not withhold without
violating those great principles of right which
should ever regulate the conduct of States as we'll
individuals.
Very respectfully, yours,
Late clerk in the First Auditors Office.