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Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19

ScrHx NOT IN TIE BrLLs.-On Saturday evening" at
the Walnut Street THEATRE in Philadelphia, at the end of the
performance of the new tragedy, "The Lydan Queen"
written by Mr. Duganne, the author called for and
before the curtain and after thanking the audience for the
compliment to him. turned with much severity Mr. Coul
dock, who had part in the tragedy, charging him with
butchering" it. as well by his actng by omissions and
interpretations ntimaed that characteristic Of
that these unwaraned liberties with the text were exercised
from evil and from good motives. The assault was fol-
lowed with much confusion and noise, amid which Mr. Coui
dock appeared conessedy much excited To the complaint
to the in which he bad performed his part he re-
piled that he had done his best to make the most and
erred to his uneitng attention to business at the Walnut
for the past eight months If he had ed the fault
his-hat bis interest well his wishes succeed
well in every part As to the fling that he foreigner,
he replied that the world was his country, and America his
home-h family and his interests here-it here he
had living make, and that could be most eecusy
ed y faithfully performing his duty to the best Of his ability
He felt be had done this in his part in the tragedy.
Failure if failure there was, he thought centred elsewhere
than hmthat the concentrated genius Of GaIrck,
Kemb and kean centred in any individual he could
not make great character Of Zsgreus He mentioned his
success the character Of Mario, in the Beroha and
hoped that should Mr. Duganne write another play,
and he be cast in he would be able 10 do credit both the
author and himself He spoke Of the complaint Of actors by
authors uncommon occurrence and that rarely hap
pened that performers could up the notion of authors
There Kisses and three cheers amid which Mr. c.
withdrew The scene quite excing-altogeiher more
than the most thrilling part Of the tragedyso truly is fact
more efectual than iction.-Philadelphia Ledger.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19

The influence which is silent and STILL feIr
rather than seen channg the hands but restraining out
actions by gliding into the heart.
The transition from joy to easiest in pure minds
the diamond when mcsened by the BREATH
its lustre sooner than false ones,
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19

HARRIsBuRs, AfaIL IA, ls5l.-The Susquehanna Rail
road bill authorizing the between the Cumberland
Valley and the Central Railroad on the bank Of the
Susquehanna, has just passed both branches Of the Lega
ture On Saturday night it defeated in the House by
tie voe and carried to-day by 4s to AZ votes after the hard
est struggle Of the session.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19

Lanes AaRryAL OF GuAso.-The ships Emerald, Allen,
and Aexandra Walker with full cargoes OF gusnc from the
Chipcba Islands, arrived at Baltimore Sunday The
latter vessel has been ordered proceed Alexandra dis
charge her cargo.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19

FRoM TIE CHERoKEE NArfos, dkc.--We are in receipt
Of the Cherokee Advocate of the 18th utmo. The Old
Settler Council called at the instance Of Col Dunnen were
meet and il thought their business would be SET
tied to the satisfaction of all concerned.
Upwards Of to be paid this year to the
Eastern Cherokees The building Of the national Jail au-
horzed by the last General Council Of the Choctaws had
been commenced, and will probably be completed by the end
Of April. 8 6 6p #'es go
The payment of the Chickasaw annuity for 1850 closed at
Post Oak Grove, Fort Washa, the llh ul.imo II
commenced Friday, the 7h and terminated ON the
Thursday oowng having been suspended on the Sabbath
ton is 200, and each individual annuity amounted to
S350 Chilly Mcintosh, head war chief OF the Creek Ma
ton has been ordained to the Gospel ministry and is
employed BY the Baptist board Of the native preachers
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19

APATRIARcH.--The census marshsl Of New Mexico re-
ports o Cdiene Jose ntonio Prrg0 as having twenty
five children living thirteen and twelve dsughtes-by
one wife, Jose and his wife are also living, in good health
ut the venerable ages respectively, Of 80 and So years.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19
New Yoax, ArRrI IL.


DEsTRUcTIvE FTRE.-A quarter before one o'clock this
morning the beautiful soneont store, No. $50 Broad
way, occupied by Messrs HUnsos RoaERrsoS dy-goods
merchants discovered to be FIRE. The flames spread
with great rapdiy, quickly communicating with every part
Of the building The building high that was use
less to attempt it. and the exerions Of the emen
directed to the protection Of the adjoining buildings
During the burning Of this building large fakes Of brown free
stone snapped of by the heat and several persons
severely cut by them.
The Howard Hotel was in imminent danger, and notwith
standing great exerions made to it, fifty
have been rendered untenabe The hotel was filed with
boarders, many Of whom aghted from their rooms with
what portion of their baggage could be most easily carried.
Their individual losses could not be ascertained
On the north side Of Hudson & Robertson's store the
flames spread j. D. Chevaliers cutlery establishment
which was completely destroyed.
The Of small brick buildings the Of Broad
way and John street next became prey to the flames These
buildings numbering from two to six entirely destroyed
Hudson Robertson receiving goods up to halfpast
ten o'clock, and they say that there fire in the fur
naces and lights except stationary Their loss cannot
be accurately asceaned They insured to the amount
of $780, 900 the stock and S20,0 900 the building.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19

richest Of powerful Conederacyat the Worlds Fair be
elected in the Senator in Congress- whose
duty shall be to report to the next Legislature the result Of
their Investigations concerning agriculture arts manufactures
and mechanics, and who shall without compensation
In oen times mountains made enemies when isolated
feuda system, supported by fraud and force, with its lords
and se the denzens of castles who prospered by the page
of paupered yeomany, till wrongs became too grevous
be borne and the sword Of chvay eaped from its scabbard
and avenged them. Then came the middle ages, with the
diplomacy of Machiave and the priesy statesmanship
Of Richelieu, Medic, Wolsey, and Mazarin. But
the day past "when words given to conceal thoughts
Then came years of revolutionary struggles Of wsrs and
bloodsed breaking up Of established usages destroying
of oppressive institutions order of things out OF which
sprang an era Of the constitutional liberty And in the midst
its dawning we behold century Of progress, where the
useful is encouraged, the beautiful patronzed
century Of steamboats, locomotives daguerreoypes and
teegrsphs century of and inventions by which
not the few but the many beneted and as the crown
ing Of this of human progression, behold novel spec
acle, tournament Of peace where arts not arms are to
win the golden prses and we nation have been invited
exhibit the products Of mechanics agrcultuss
ufactuers and artisans woud not undenate the crimson
auels due the sword and the but It is now time
that the loom the anvil and the plough should receive their
stainless honors that labor, which has long borne "he in
science Of Office and the purns that patient merit Of the
worthy take" should meet with brilliant recognition
and the Presidents Emperors Kings, Sutans and Princes
of continents have been invited to do honor the industry
the people For the better purpose Of presenting the useful
result Of this grand reunon and making It available the
creation Of these delegates proposed that whatever may
of utility in any department Of labor may be reported BY
them be adopted by citizens and also by careful OBJ
servaon, market may be found for products in whose
growth manufacture may have the good fortune 10 ex
cell This exhibition strikes republican in principe
and Empire State, whose coat Of bears the
Excelsior" should realize that motto in the future as has
the past being among the first to advocate and
design whose object the benefit and elevation Of the
,oiling millions Of the earth.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19


The may be given also to the objection found
ed upon the seventh amendment the constitution which
provides that Sin suits Of common law, where the value n
controversy shall exceed twenty dollars the right Of trial by
jury shall be preserved"
The summary mode Of hearing and deciding upon the claim
the service Of the fugitive prescribed by the act
the that prescribed by the act Of l793 which the
court in the case already referred to- held to be clearly con-
stutional in all its leading provisions.
The proceeding contemplated by the clause Of the consu
ton in question 10 not suit at common law within the
meaning Of that amendment Il settles conclusvey no right
Of the claimant to the service Of the fugitive except for the
purpose of the removal to the State from which he she Aed
justice for the purpose Of removal settles his guilt The
ton OF right TO the service in the and Of guilt in the
other, open to final hearing and trial in the States from
whence they have escaped After the arrival of the fugitive
there the certificate Is no longer any authority evidence
of any right
Indeed, SO obviously does the constitution contemplate
summary hearing and decision in the matter that the counsel
for the State of Pennsylvania in the case referred to- did
not make point OF call il seriously in question on an ar
gument.
have now gone the several provisions Of this law
and some OF the more material questions arising out Of
and. am not greatly Mistaken have shown that all the
leading features Of IT. all the principles involved have been
either confirmed by the only tribunal competent to pass upon
them, obvious that no lawyer think can entertain
well grounded doubt about hem and that Congress has
but obeyed an imperative constitutional obligation in its
enactment.
II law, therefore, which every citizen bound to obey
and the public authorities to enforce with all the powers
ferred upon them by the Government
The Legislatures Of Of the States have passed laws
bearing directly upon this provision Of the constitution and
upon its execution in the mode prescribed by Congress- SO
far these laws in conflict with the provisions Of the one
in question, tend to obsruct and embarrass it's execution
they are unconstitutional and utterly void and can afford no
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-19


end to the complete execution Of the law or, indeed
of any law Of the General Government by which the party
subject to arrest is not claimed that the State magic
administer the act and enforce it's provisions under
this writ that authority have seen, confined TO
the tribunals appointed by It for the purpose The fugitive
be- therefore, if taken at ALL taken out Of the hands Of
the federal officers by force Of other and the ques
ton whether he she shall be discharged remanded will
depend upon the application Of that law the particular
What that law is may be, must necessarily depend upon
State regulations and the rights Of the claimant under the
constitution and laws Of the Union, will be thus determined
by law Of the State.
The eectual abrogaoa Of the act by the inerposon Of
this writ il admitted, will be still apparent when
reflect that the power exercised under it Is such State
Legislatures may choose prescribe and that the State m
bunals are not only invested with that power, but if they act
all are bound 10 act in obedience to, and in conformity
with it. There is no limit therefore, to the extent of the
powers that may be exercised un1er this proceeding, in
spect 10 the arrest and de,aner Of the fugitive but the dscre
upon their magistrates reexamne and revise the acts and
decisions of the federal tribunals out Of whose hands the ur
gitive aken and the State magistrate would be bound to
execute the power accordingly 1t is manifest that It would
be impossible to uphold the due execution OF the law with
the admission ofany such authority.
Concedng hewever, the soundness Of this general view,
ana the inability Of the State tribunals to interfere with the
authorities when they acting upon cases arising
under the constitution, laws Of Congress, treaties still
asueo 'hst they possess the power, under this writ to
INTO the legality of the authority under which the p
soner Is held and which may involve the constutonay Of
'ne law, and Jurisdiction Of the court or officers
Dut sobvious that the existence Of either power, the
part oi 'ne state tribunals, would be fatal to the authority Of
ne CONSTITUTION, laws treaties of the General Government
government could maintain the administration or the
execution OF Its laws, civil or criminal If their constitutional
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more than fy years and its consitutonay recog
missed and affirmed by the courts Of Massachusetts, Pennsy
vania, and New York. and by the Supreme Court of the
United States in Prigg the Commonwealth of Pennsy
vania-l6 Peters 439 e Pick. Rep IL Commonwealth
vs. Griffin; serg. aud Rawle 81 Wright Us. Deacon;
Johns. r 81 Glen us Hodges and IL Wend. Rep 3ll
Jack Martin s. G. ib soy and has never been denied
BY any court with the qualification that will be presently
ticed.
The Of Prgg rs the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in the courts Of that State, exception these remarks
the jury found special verdict and the judgment was en-
tered by agreement of counsel for the purpose
carrying the question before the Supreme Court.
Doubts had been expressed and In instances decid
Cd opinions given by State judges that was not competent
for Congress to confer upon State magistrates the power
carry into execution law Of Congress- nasmuch as the iu-
dcia power Of the Federal Government vested by the
constitution in Supreme Court and in such inferior courts
Congress might odan and establish II also argued
with much force, that Congress possessed this power
burden the State judiciary and magistrates with duties
uat would De incompatible with, embarrass, the faithful
discharge OF those which concerned the State
Influenced by these vews other the Legislatures
some Of the states passed laws fobdding their mags
ttes from acting under the law in the surrender of fugitive.
and enforced the prohibition with heavy penalties II i. not
doubted but that was entirely competent for the State to
prohibit neir own magistrates from assuming the duty of ex
ecutngIthe laws but 1t was held in Pgg u.s. the Common
wealth OF Pennsy vana TO be clear that if not m foYbdd
twas competent for them act and that the ererc;ae f
authority under the law would be valid and binding upon an
The parties concerned
Ins interference OF he state Legislature greatly paayxed
he execution Of the law; and indeed had the effect for the
time being to abrogae virtually, the provision Of the con
aton. 1t left but one at most two officers in State
mpetent to execute it. the power thereby restricted
the district and circuit judges Of the United States Our
State, as early 1880, forbade their magistrates from
ating, under the penalty Of fine and imprsonment(2 r.
8. 465, Sl4)
These, and other direct ntererences by legislative
Of the States, with the execution Of the law Of 1898,
toeher with the open resistance with which its execution
met, in instances, by combinations against law,
led necessarily, to the recent supplementary act and to
with wish particularly to call your attention.
his act designed first, to substitute officers Of the Fede
raj Government in the place Of these State magistrates and
secod to the officers with sufficient power and authority
to enbe them to execute the law against resistance,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-01-02
Coffee.

In an interesting article communicated 10 Hunts
Merchants Magazine, by writer at Rio de Je
nerio, estimates are made from the most reliable
information, Of the present production and con-
sumption of coffee throughout the world. BY these
estimates 1t appears that the amount produced in
l849 was 426 100000 lbs ofwhich more than one
third was produced in Brazil But immense as is
this amount, the consumption is still larger being
estimated in l6l9 al 630,00O,0 900 lbs swallowing
up the entire production of that year, and the whole
stock on hand at its commencement. The con-
sumption, it is also stated, increasing at the
OF ID per cent. year In the United States, and
% per cent, on the average, in other countries
1t follows, therefore, that consumption must be
checked by an increase of price, The production
increased. for the demand greatly exceeds the
supply. Butthe writer says that any adequate
increase at present is not to be expected, owing to
the want of slave labor in Brazil and the inposi-
biliiy Of soon Introducing free labor there, and
correct, we have not the means OF knowing-but
whether they not, it is probable more coffee
speculalions will be the result.
The writer closes his article with the following
interesting and important query
"As civilization alone can put a stop 10 the
slave trade on the coast of Africa, and as coffee
produces most abundantly upon every part of the
coast, ii is not worth the while of phianthropiSts
to turn their attention TO colonization, and there
by secure two great 0bects-the stoppaee Of the
trade, and an abundant supply Of al article now
become necessary Of life, besides many others,
and refuge for the emancipaed slaves Of the
United States 2"
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-01-02
The Laborer's Hire i'm Ireland.

AT the KanuIk Sessions this week, James
Greene "a respectable looking farmer.) was
summoned by awreched looking man. named
Walsh, for Ia. 3D., for the hire of 8 days reap
ing and saving The harvest. as
Walsh being sworn, deposed TO his having
worked g days, for which defendant agreed 10
pay him ONE PENNY PER DAY. .
efendaDt-Genllemen, | deny it. Why
should | agree TO pay him a penny per day.
when | could get the best men in the country
for that now | have witness. | agreed
with him for ONE HALF PENNY PER WEEK, which
rendered him, and he refused it, now tender
it TO him. and again, in the presence of your
honors. Defendant produced well filed
purse, and offered cd. TO poor Walsh, provided
he had The change a TO give him. laklng good
care TO hold it fast.
Plaintf-Why should | take il! lie owes
me Is. Cd your honor, and well | earned it,
Whilst was with him, | was obliged to be
up in the morning about four o'clock, TO let the
cows out of the sleeping field, and remain
herding Them until The other men would come to
work, and used then obliged 10 work them all
day. snd get norhng for my support but dry
Indian Cruel They used 10 give the milk to
the calves and pigs before my face, and would
nol gve me drop. -
! Defendant endeavored, in very earnest
! speech, to convince the Bench Iha, bargain
was bargain, and ought TO be kept, aud that
he ought TO get he benefit Of his bargain
| The Bench fully concurred with Green, by
decreeing him the Is. cd. hire, with S. Cd. for
, the loss Of time and COSTS and ordered ihe inn
mediate issue of The warrant.
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-01-02
JANUARY 2. 1851.

MS lrlal, charged with The murder of his wife
As usual IN such cases, popular feeling was
largely against him, and all The eloouence and
ingenuity of his counsel were required 10 make
any Impression in his favor upon Jury, which.
however impartial il might desire TO be in The
consciousness Of sworn duty, could no, but see
the waves of popular prejudice surging in up
on il.
The case was ably argued The counsel
for the defense made mos, vigorous and impas.
stoned appeals. The case was submitted TO
the jury and they retired, 10 make up the YER
dict. Time passed, and as the setting sun
warned all of the approaching night, the large
lhrong In attendance, the judge, counsel, etc.
retired, all the anxious, the accused moi, the
least so, to learn the verdict of the jury, and
some wondering that the j"ry, hesila,ed for one
moment TO bring in verdict of guilty In the
meantime the jury had come 10 point beyond
which they could progress no further The
appeals OF the counsel Of the defense had no,
been without their influence, and the jury stood
nehangeably six for conviction and six acqui,-
al. Something had TO be DONE In those days
Twelve good fellows could not be go oge her
for nighI, and sleep. Cards appeared mys-
terlously from the depth of suGdry large pock-
cts, and exercises in seven up and poker ere
zealously commenced
AbouI mdninght one of their number, Col.
f., proposed that they should play game of
seven up, The result TO decide the verdict
The proposition was heartily and unanimously
agreed TO, in all seriousness, and the whole
crowd collected aroJnd Col P and his oppo-
nenr, who proceeded to play The game on
Which was staked human life. Colonel P
played 10 save the accused. His opponen
played and quite as zeaIOusly, TO secure The
conviction. The hackers, FIVE and FIVE, stood
behind them, encouraging ,he champions, and
watching the game dimly seen by the ligh, o
two allow candles, with The most intense in.
terest
The game p:oceedrd with very equal for
tune, ,ltilI both parties stood six and six twas
Col P.'s deal he dealt, and TURNED JACK
The prisoner was acquitted, and every man oil
the Jury Joined in shout which startled The
~ hole village, even The reveIers in "ihe gro
Gerry" Next morning the jury went ino the
courl and gave, 10 the asionishment of mauy,
the verdict Of mot guilty" The juTyman who
played The unsuccessful game for human life,
slll lives, much respected citizen of this
dlsitIct.a b Que Of !he counsel Is very dis =
aguls he'd membef Of tbe Memphis bar and
!be accused has, as we believe, gone o high
er court but neither Of them, nor any Of tie
assembIage, nor The couF,, ~ho matyaIIed at
the serllcr, eigh'eea years ago have ever
know that human iie was saved ay turning
Jack There are some curious episodes III
the history Of our early settlements but who
would 'hlhk Of venuring life upon turning Jack
Memphis Eagle.