New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-03

FOR CIRCUIT JUDGES:
Whiq Opposition.
Alexander 4. TiHsny, Warner Wing
Z Samuel j. NJ. Hammond, Charles w Whpple:
s Ssmi T. Douglass In Dem Andrew T. McRsynolds.
{ Oney Hawkins, David Johnson.
g. Moses wisner Joseph t. Copeland.
T. John 8. Goodrich, IYsePn ~ WNa sskksr
O. George Martin. Alexander r. Bell.
FoR REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY:
!. DR.. Michael A. Patterson.
s John Owen, ElOn Fnnsworh.
4 Rev 0ustsvus Foster. james Kingsley.
g Msrcns II Miles, Charles H. Palmer,
T. Joaathan Il White Andrew Parsons.
.. Nathan Barlow, Jr, William Upjohn.
Rufus Hosmer, ESQ., was a Wing candidate
for Judge in the Hid (Detroit) District, but de-
clned. Ira Mayhem, ex Superintendent OF
Schools, received the Wing nomination for Regent
In the LIST Monroe) District, but declined TO run.
The last that was heard from the With District,
the radical and Hunker Locos were balloting
away without any result-the vote on Judge
standing for Pratt and for Clark.
The course OF Elk Gov. Felch in the u g. Sen
ate on Land Reform, meets with no favor from
bis constituents, and on the 18th ut. Hon. Mr..
Kimberly, Wing from Shiawassee County, OBJ.
tanned 4 unanimous permission from the House,
las we learn from the Lansing correspondence Of
the Detroit Tribune for the introduction of a
Joint resolution, nstructing the Senators and Mem
bers in Congress to vote for the gratuitous graut
Of 100 acres to every actual settler on the public
domain. 1t ut once passed to third reading, and
was referred. Since then, some of the locos be-
gin to oppose it, under the plea that 1t is direct
censure on the course Of Governor Fetch and
Gen. Cass, in the U. s. Senate aud a reputation
of Gov. Felch's speech. We shall see by the
nssr from tb. gs bbS8RR GIG BaEsa listed glG
nens or debar a man. because he is poor, from
homestead. Mr.. KimOerly deserves the thanks OF
the farmer, mechanic and laboriug man Tor bus ell
.s.e.... han n
price.
eral bigh positions in the State Government from
the formation of the State, died at Grand RAPIDS
on the 18th ult. He was a native Of New.J ersey,
where he commenced his practice at the bar;
from thence he emigrated to Illinois, where he
spent four years, when he moved TO Michigan, l9
wears ago, and took up his residence at Ann Ar
Dor. He was q member Of the first Constitution
al Convention, and had served in both branches
of the Legislature, was elected Lieut.. Governor
and Attorney General butt was on the Judiciary
where he displayed the greatest ability as Or.
cult Judge and Judge of the Supreme Court, and
had he lived he had promised to serve on the new
elective judiciary.
The House adopted $500 as the represents
tive ration, and instructed the Committee to re-
port bill accordingly.
According to the Senate bill for the division
Of the State into Senatorial districts there VIII
be tbirty.two districts.
MARRIED IN THE WooDs.--A young couple
residing in Ohio, near the line OF this state, hav
ing determined to become man and wife, and
not finding it convenient to obtain license, as
the laws Of that State require, came over into the
town of Amboy 10 this County, few days since.
accompanied by their Parson and witnesses as
the law directs, and were married in the woods
only few rods from their residence. This is one
Of the advantages Of residing near state ;s line
of the g. members composing the House OF
Representatives of this State, only are natives
of Michigan OF the remainder, 80 were born in
the State OF New-York, in Connecticut in
Massachusetts, 4 in Vermont 3 in Pennsylvanis,
ain Jersey, 2 in New Hampshire, in Scotland,
in Virginia. in Ohio. and IN Ireland. OF
these, SO are Farmers, Merchants, Lawyers,
Physicians, 9 Lumbermen. . Mechanics, Min.
ing Agent, Brick maker, Contractor, Miller,
l Surveyor and having miscellaneous occupa'
tions.
The citizens on the borders Of the Lakes in
Michigan, as we'll as in Wisconsin, are raising
subscriptions among themselves for the Improve
ment Of their neglected Harbors. In Alegsn
County, where Gen. Csss wrote his eleetioneering
letter, pledging himself to advocate River and
Harbor Improvements generally, and that on the
North Black River of Lake Michigan, lin which
his friends the Hollanders," were situated two
enthusiastic meetings have been held, without
distinction OF party, and effective measures taken
for the collection OF funds by private contribution
for the improvement Of Kalamazoo Harbor, an
important outlet Of the Kalamazoo Valley, whose
Inhabitants are deeply interested in all the In
provements on the Lakes.
Under the new Constitution, much Of the
local legislation heretofore performed by the State
ofsupervisors.