New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-02-17
POLITICAL

The late Connecticut Democratic State Convention
was not favored with the u.ua number OF Posmastsrs
There we're only abOa. thirty present SIS delegates
A Speakers warrant has been seLt to Phlsdelphis,
to the Sergesnt-st- Armss deputy for the arrest oil
John Cassn, who hss refused to appear before the
Sherman Investigating Committee.
"A bill hiss passed the Michigan House Of Repre-
senstivts amending section % Of chapter lj3 Of the
Revised Statutes, TO punish any per'on bringing
coored person into the State claiming him slave,
by imprisonment no. exceeding tea year, or by fire
not exceeding 81 600.
Iii rumored that Chief-Jus'ics fancy aud Judge
Mclean intend resgnng their seats on the bench of
the Supreme Cont. Both are very eyed, and IN ntrn
hesb the Chief Justice being over eighty years Of
age and Judge Mclean seventy-six.
-Resoutiors are now pending in the Legislature of
Wisconsin, giving The consent of the Legislature TO
the organization Of new State sOng the southern
shore Of L.ke chgsn and that portion of the Stats
iof Wisconsin WHICH lies abDy, the ljth degree of at
tude, or from about the mouth Of the Menomonee
River in Green Bay, westward, in nearly direct line,
b. the St CrOix branch Of the Mississippi River;
thence up that branch, On the present boundary to
Lake Superior.
A rev bill, fixing tae salaries OF the State officers
OF Indiana has been introduced into the Legislature of
that Safe. IL proposes 20 give the Governor $1,000
State Treasurer g. 500 Auditor OF STATE = 600, Ssc
retary and Controller Of State each 81 800, Gov
ernor Private Secretary 800 Snperitt endent of Pub
lie Instruction 500, Safe Librarian $780, Slpern-
tep5ent of Irsare Asylum g 200, Of Deaf and Dumb
$1,000, Of Blind $3.50, Warden OF State Prison 81 500,
Moral Instructor and Physician OF same (esch) $500,
Judges Supreme Cour; s. 900, Circuit Court 81 500,
Common Pleas Court $500, Prosecuting Attorneys
$500 Or, if New-York City officials could be brought
down to this standard
The rev Apportionment bill, introduced by the
Democrats of the Illinois Legislature, is SO arranged
that should the Republicans carry the 80 counties,
claimed by them snd the II Doubtful countess together
containing s25, ll3 popu.tOn, they would elect only
80 members of the House; while If the Democrats car
RED the remaining 10 counties, with population of
ISL SO, they would elec; II members.
Another case Of Wolcott obsinacy IL foreshaiowed
by the Washington correspondent of Tie Philadelphia
Press He ssys that Wendell, the Public Printer, has
been before the Committee which is invest eating Sea-
mans accounts ard tIsossc.ions while Superintendent
Of Printing. He has not answered certain inquiries
tou,hing tie application Of large of money sd-
mt,d to DO received by him from various contractors
TIE Committee expect to trace this money TO Seaman,
end will not be banked by refusal ~ disclose the
truth. II viii be proposed, /: recesssy to bring this
witress to the bar CT the House. But, unless that
body should be more in than usus the expert
melt Jud result in temporary restraint Of personal
liberty ana practical advantage. Toat was the eI-
peiieuce in Wo!cotts csse, who large beneficiary
by the passage Of the present tariff.