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Democratic Convention.

HO FOR AKIZOJtIA, OIL A, AND SONdRO!! LEW WALLACE is bound for the above regions. lie wants at least thirty healthy, enterprising, euergctic men to accompany him. IIc will be gone, on? year. The out-. .i fit will cost $200. per nian. ,Alput half jhis company i3 already formed.. Now is I the time for the young men of old Montgomery. Whoever is disposed to go roust apply ftnd be ready to leave for St/Louis by the second week in April. For fall details- oi the expedition, apply to Copt. Wallace. /V.V

Young men from the neighboring conntics are also invited to take part in the (trip-

I ho Democracy Union (own- ,, is answered by the writer. Kossuth did f*llip will liu-el ill 1 ho OourL I IouC. 111(,L :ip|ropriatc a dollar of'it to his own

on Saturday the I'.Uh insl., al one o'clock, P. M., lo nominate candidates for the yoveral township office?.

BSyThe Circuit Court .convenes in this place on next Monday. The following are the names of the irami Jurors:

John Simmons, .James livans, John Barnet, John Pavis, Thos. II. Mt/.^erahl, (!eo. Bratton. Aljilicus (iregir. Samuel 1. Smith, (.lew. Heckathorn, David Black, John Stover, James Wilson, Ksq.

l,F.Ksi)N.\i..—The lion. Lew Wallace returned homo from the capital on Wcdncsday night last.

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an able legislator, and we are confident

The route determined on will be through

IMINTKIJ AM n'i'.LlMll'n KVKHV SATUR- the wildest regions of the Gila and Colo1.U MOI.N IM. I'.i rado through vast districts hitherto uncxC:IAH:J:S n. nowK.v. 4l plored, but said to be the richest nunr?rThfi:rnwron1svillf Itrvinv, furiiiMi

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imI to rttifow.rilicrsal $l,.0 in mJvaitcc, or *2, ,-j if not paii! iviOiin the venr. Next week we will say more about the it I' I, AT 1 N t-rip. In the meantime, let the entcrpris--AKCKK THAN aXV f'APEK PUBLISHED IN »'g get ready and enrol themselves. frsuvfoi tlsvillc! 0 -•.'••A.lvortinor* mil ii| nii.l tw.iminoonr li.-.t of ."TlJK Lost JKnoSACT DlSCO'VEREU.—Thn ^r" H^CKiIiU... ..(S, remains of Ira J. Thurston, the JEronaut s. II. Pauvin.SouiIi Kictcomer rolnniti.i mul ]10 ,1!C^ Je.itli by his unfortunate asMain HtrcctH. Cincinnati, Olim is our Agent to ... ir»c\irc rvlverti*cminth. ccnsion from Adrian, Mich., on tlie lbth lot* September last, were accidentally dis-

Herein. rr.II Lw.1 A.K.rUM.i- »i'.l ™ered on Sunday evening last, about ten traiii~iunt :wl voi-U.-liiff on« iloll.tra s'|uare, (of miles south-west from Toledo and about ten lines.) for tlio fir.-t insertion ami twentx fi\e ],ii!es from the place of his second as-

cats for cvt:rv in.-filion.* C. II. HOW EN. .IKHK. KI:ENF.V. :n:.y S.'.'S]

For President in 1880,

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jcent. The remains were taken to Adrian and identified, iV/''W. kji

KO.SSfTII IN LONDON.

A correspondent of the 'New York Ledg er whom the Evening Post believes to bolion. II. J. Baymond, furnishes in the last

Snhject to the thxision of the "Democratic number of the Ledger a long and enterNational Concent ion, to

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holden (it

(aining account of a visit, made last fall, at the present residence of Kossuth in London.

The Hungarian patriot is established in f'ppcr Gowcr street, Bedford Square.— lie is in straitened circumstances, living on the proceeds of his lectures and contributions to newspapers, eked out by the remnant of his wife's $20,000, most of which was lost in railroad investments in the Uuited States. It may be observed here, though the Ledger writer does not mention it, that Hichard Cobden is said to be a victim to the same speculative preference for our country. Kossuth still admires our country and its institutions, and thinks lie made some mistakes on his visit here, in consequence of his ignorance of our affairs and the advice of interested friends. In European politics lie takes a warm interest, censuring with unqualified severity Orsini's plot against Napoleon's life, and Mazzini's local insurrections, as identifying the cause of liberty with murder and assassination, lie still confidently expects its triumph in Kuropc and other lauds, and whether he shall live to see it cr not appears to liini a matter of small consequence.

The question what became of the 8100,000 collected lv Kossuth in this country

use, but expended it all on the political objects for which it was contributed. By its aid lie sent agent after agent on expensive revolutionary service to Hungary, two or three of whom were executed, and the vigilance of Austria rendered his schemes abortive: "It is seven years,'1 says the writer, "since Kossuth left the United States, but he looks twenty years older now than lie did then. His flowing beard, then jet black, is now plentifully sprinkled with gray, lie lias grown very bald and conceals his dtlncss by combing his hair over the top of his head. If is faec is marked with deep wrinkles, and the impress of •care stamped on his voice as deep and melodious, and the light of his dark eye as soft and as tender as in the days when

.. thov so won the hearts of our people, and 11K HAS Aunmi.. r. ion

^'e publish in anothei column |'|']10I„

i0 ]10 «0„| this nation vibrate like

of world-wide notoriety, arrived yesterday |10 strings of the lute to the touch of gemorning from Chieago. Mr. B. is here on I nius and of skill." a visit and will rusticate a week with us. He is stopping aWhe Crane House. ., Atvmr.NT.—On last Monday, a young

^-sj lad some fourteen years old, a sou of Mr.

speech of the Hon. James V1. llariuj, up- |.\lPtory jn jhis place, lost the fingers of on the State Treasury S\»tcm. Mt. 11., ]ia]U] ],y accidental]}' catching during the past winter, ha.- proved himself

SiuiE tfc ErPKKsoN.—This firm are now ,]:]co picturesque in the delineation of inin receipt of their spring and summer dividual jihenomena and artisticilly skilful stock From an examination of their stock in the didaciic arrangement of the whole o.r. work. In all the modern languages into we must aeknowlctlge tfiat it is tlie linesi ... ..

his immense stock of spring goods, consist- for instance, those of the wild ass, the ing of clothing, boots and shoes, and an endless variety of fabrics. Every article in the dry-goods line can bo found at this house. Of course every lady in the town and country will visit BROMLEY'S, for the

simple reasou that lie has got the largest, in variety of form for while the Hebrew the finest, and the cheapest stock of fancy poetry breathes a warlike enthusiasm, from dress goods in the State. No lady nee'd

send abroad anymore for her silks, f°rjaml

l.ROMLEV has anticipated every want, and

provided against all contingencies in the future.

Yomig, employed in the Stave

thtfm tho knifc ugcd f(jr

J.osllua

•ST'On the death of the Hon. E. A. Ilannegan, Prentice says:

Poor Ilannegan, during the last few j'ears ot his life, had a dpep aud terrible sorrow, which no doubt rendered death a relief to him. If blessings were flowers, his grave would be robed iu perpetual bloom.

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I whicli the hook ol Jol.) iui5 boon traii^ialcvi,

anil best assorteil ot any in the town. tlnnvn from the natural scenery the liuc of fancy dress goods they

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that his course is fully sustained by tlie 'Pnr BOOK ov Jon.—The book of Job is Democratic party. generally regard as the most perfect spcciI I

tin1 East, leave a deep impression on

abundantly supplied. The ladies should, the mind. "The Lord walketh 011 the not finil to visit their establishment. heights ot the waters on the ridges of the

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wave towering high beneath the force ot

DROMI.EY'S I1AZAAH OF FASHION, the wind." "The morning red has covcrAVM. BROMI.KY, a srcntleman evcrv inch 'e^ tl,G margin of the earth, aud ariousl} ... .. .• *, I fonnina tlie covcnns of tlie clouds, as the of him and withal one of the most clever 7 ,i „i„. hand of man -holds tlie yielding clay. fellows in tlie world, is now receiving daily ,)C

habils uf anima

arc

described, as,

horse, the buffalo, the rhinoceras, aud the crocodile, the eagle, and the ostrich. AVe see "the pure ether spread, during the heat of the south wind, as a melted mirror, over the parched desert." The poetic literature of the Hebrews is not deficient

Samuel, the little book of the

.„ gleaner Kuth preseuts us with a charming

cxquisitc

picture of nature. Goethe

jlc period of his enthusiasm for the

East, spoke of it as the lovliest specimen of epic and idyl poetry which we possess.— IIiwiMl's Cosmos, vol. ii, p. 60.

S^'Rcmcmber the Convention on next Saturday. Let every Democrat in the township be in attendance.

t&~ Aaron V. Brown, Postmaster General, died at Washington on last Monday mornins

'wmw}hnwa, ^At«xit^a newts

j. HA KING READY Nature has strange ways of .doing tlie most Beautiful thingg. |Out djf the egtjty earth, the nrad and^nflsf eany Spring, come the most Hellcafc "offlowers, their white leaves horn Oat of the dirt, as unboiled and pare as if they had bloomed ia/the a a a I

That vras. a glorious

raiu^thcy had last

night country war3 warm .^rattling summer rain, that took 6nt the frost and 'settled' the ground, and made the people think of the plough and the seed-time/ It awoke those old choriators of the swamp, that talk Greek, and washed the plumes of the pines till they looked ,new again. The little snowdrift that has managed to keep out of sight of the sun, was gone this morning, and very blank, bare and black, looked field and garden.

But things arc making ready to be beautiful, and by and by—March-may fly into a passion once or twice, to be sure—but by and by, April, the blessed gate of the year will be set wide and the lilies of the field that bloom forever in the Sermon on the Mount, will stand up before the Lord, and the pastures will grow^reen along the water courses, and there shall be violets to look up and catch the color of Heaven.

Springs come nearer together than of old they begin to grow thick along the route of life gardens that burst upon the view, as one flashes by on the swift train in summer time. Spring is the sweetest of preachers. That 'how long shn.U we sleep!.has been the question on all times and tongues since the morning stars we re singing, and sweetly lias Spring solved it. 'If a man die shall lie live again'' And once a year have the, daisies,answered it, and April's 'little infant' given its.fragrant testimony, and every day,, has the Morning testified it, and yet the world is murmuring still, "if a man die, shall he live a» :iiu?"—Chicago Journal.

BLACKWOOD

FOR

FEBRUARY.—The Feb

ruary number of this old favorite magazine has been received.. Its contents are as follows:

Carlylc.—Mirage Philosophy.—History of Frederick. llow Ave went'to Skye.

Objectionable Books. Popular Literature. Ptrtll.—The Periodical Press. r'

Bawlinson's Herodotus. Falsely Accused.

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Mephits and the Antidote. A Cruise in Japanese Waters.—Part III.

NR. REMAINS FOUND

THURSTON'S AT LAST. From tlie Adrian (Midi.) Expositor,iturcli S/j, Our city was thrown into considerable excitement, this morning, in conscqucncc of the arrival of two or three gentlemen from Sylvania, with a part of the remains of the lost aeronaut, Ira J. Thurston, whse tragic fate, last sumnior, is so well remembered byour readers.

The facts of the discovery, as near as we can ascertain arc these: Last Sunday, as the son of Michael Iloag was ,-iearching tor some sheep in the woods, on the farm of Mr. S. Miucr, about four miles southeast of the village of Sylvania, lie discovered the remains of the body of a man.— [Ie immediately ran to his father, who in company with Mr. Miner, repaired to the pot, and there found abundant evidence that the remains were those of Mr. Thurston, who must'havo fallen from his position on the valve of the. balloon, where he was seated when carried off so singularly last uninier, These gentlemen immediately proceeded to collect what could be found, but only succeeded in finding the skull, and one foot in a, boot, and a few other small bones. The rest of the body has been carried off by wild beasts. They found however, the coat, pants, vest and shirt, and with them Mr. Thurston's cards upon which lie took his minutes 011 his balloon trip 1-rpm Adrian to the place of landing, near Sylvania. The pencil marks 011 the cards were so water-soaked the writing could not be made out.

They found however in a memoranda book a letter directed to Mr. Thurston, from a firm in Philadelphia, which was in reply to enquries about- Balloon silk.

They also found Mr Thurston's watch, and knifc, both of which arc fully identified by many of our citizens as his property. The watch is unhurt, but stopped at twenty minutes to 12 o'clock, which shows the time he fell.

All that remains of the unfortunate Thurston, about whose fate their has been so much solicitude, is now enclosed in. a small box, at this ofiice, where we have so often greeted his honest face, and answered his plcasent salutation in days past.

DEMOCRACY IIV KANSAS. It is now a fact amost beyond dispute, that when Kansas shall come into the Union, it will be as a Democratic State. Ever since the old free State party died out and political organizations were merged into Democratic and Black Republican, the former lias constantly acquired strength, while the latter is rapidly falling to pieccs. The Democrats have carried the charter elections in Leavenworth, Wyandutt and other places, and it is even probable that an election in the whole Territory to-day would result in their favor, Some of the Black Republican sheets there have already becomc satisfied of tlie insufficiency of their organization, Here is the way in which one of them talks of it:

The cxigiency of the times requires some other organization to combat the Democracy yet we are not at a loss to know what kind of an organization will best answer the great end for which it is designed. We are not fully persuaded that the Republican organization would answer tlie purpose—there are objectionable features in it, aud a great prejudice exists against it.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION.

COXOORE, March 8,"11 P. M.

Returns from sixty-seven towns foot up as follows: Goodwin, Republican, 16.S80 Cato, Democrat,-IS,S93..--Thirty-six Democrats have been elected to tlie House, and eight of the twelve Senators are Republicans. The three Republican candidates for Congress have been 'elecfed. I

SECOND DISrATClI. hiyi'I

The whole Republican ticket is surely elected, including the three Congressmen.

•afThe Atlanti cable was paid out at first, and has never paid anything since,— It lived along while upon its credit, but now even its last tick has stofped

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Of \lW£rJ. T*,m coutr, in l£pBSr mnSo dnrii^l theili^w'wpspo bills rcporteibfuw CofflmiBWe t)fw»ys and Metuiiy for tbe re«odeliag of the

State Treasury System. '/(Jbaugc is come an established maxim in politics.-—

of one system——wherein it fails to meet the reqniremen ts, of., the public, ^atid idso the spac.ific nature "of the reform, with, good reasons why it is better adapted to the exigcrrcicVof the case, thaii the one itr supplants, before we can justify the ialtera tion. ,-(3 ottid )?£t "tsns

The Committee of Ways and.- Means, from,the nature of. their duties, from the Message of his Excellency, the Governor, and also from the decided interest manifested by the pnbiic upon the subject of the State Treasury, wereicrirly.induced to examine carefully into that matter. They have not traveled out in search, of subjects for investigation, but have confined themselves strictly to matters in. their line of business, and from which they could not have shrunk even had, .they demised it.—The present treasury system has been, changed but little sincc the organization of the State: Our Statute now is the same as that of 1843, and it is fair to presume that the change of institutions. and the increase of wealth and population would necessarily imply, some..change in so important a department of the Government. For many years the old State Bank was the only institution of the kind in the State, and by-virtue of its position, and from the fact of. the State owing stock in it, it became to a groat extent the fiscal agent of the State, and the medium'of the transaction of the most of its business.

The State Bank has now ceased to exist, and numerous institutions, buplic and-pri-vate, calling themselves banks, have sprung.up all over the country, and. any L'Uv authorizing the Treasurer' of State to deposit the public money in a bank would now virtually allow him to loan it 10 whomsoever lie should see fit. Although she State has many reasons to congratulate itself upon the faithfulness and honor of. its public officers and the little losses it has sustained in the many financial vicisitudes it has passed through, yet in the nianagnient under the system thei:c, arc precedents established that are liable to grave abuses.— Safeguards for the public are to much neglected, and nearly everything is coiifided to the honesty and discretion of the officer. In further tracing out the defects of the system, I could suggest that tlie bond given by tlio officers to the State is indistinct—not conditioned for the performance of a specific charge, but only for his general faithfulness and honesty, leaving it very doubtful whether he. is liable for any losses that may occur during his term, unless he is proven guilty of embezzlement or malfeasance in office.

Again it dose not provide for public settlements between the officers they only make reports of the condition of their department, leaving the public without other means of information. From this defect gross abuses may originate. In other States fraud and peculations have been covored up by false reports,- and nothing could be known of it until the State had been swindled out of enormous amounts, and the Treasurer himself bankrupt.— With such glaring examples before us, it would be folly for .us to defer a reform ill our system that has the same defects, until we meet the like bitter experience.

But the most palpable objection to'the present system is there is a Treasurer to be elected and qualified, but

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Treasury

provided. The law says lie shall keep an office at the seat of government, but it dose not say that the money shall be kept there. An established usage, known to the public and recognized by the Legislature in many instances, has almost become a law, allowing the Treasurer of State to lone or deposit the public moneys, wherever the greatest per cent could be realized to himself and the best security to the State. And it has been urged that we must allow the Treasurer to make all he could out of the deposits, inasmuch as we paid him so small a salary—certanly a very thriftless and injudicious way 0? compensating a public officer. We virtually elect a banker instead of a Treasurer, and give liini all the means of the State to operate upon so as to make his salary, while the State foots up the losses.

Under the operations of such a system it is a marvel to me that we have come out so well. In the new system that we propose to inaugurate, the first distinctive feature in it is that it provides a place where all the money belonging and accuring to the State, from auy source, shall be paid in and there kept until paid out under the provisions of the law. This seems to me to comport with what is the evident of intention aud wish of every tax payer. He does not toil and labor to accumulate enough money to pay his taxes that the Treasurer may the next day loan it out for tiie sake of the interest, buy stocks or speculate upon it. If anyone should have the right: to lone it, the tax payer himself should be prepared as a borrower, and therefore have kept the money until it was to be used. It should be the spirit of the law, as it is the intention of the tax payer, that when he pays over the money it should remain in the Treasury until paid out for the support of the Government. This principle seems well' founded and correct. The next question is what shall we receive into and pay out from the Treasury? Shall it be coiu exclusively, or will we also receive bank paper, the more common currency of the country. I confess my preferences are and ever have been for coin exclusively, yet I must acknowledge there are many strong arguments against it, and in this case I find it impracticable to be carried out. We can not pass a bill of this kind in this Legislature, and if any are responsible for this state of things, it is those that voted for the laws of organizing these banks that gave the people the currency and made it almost a necessity that we should recieve it for revenue. It will not do to ma^c a specie sub-treasury a test of Democracy at this day it is too late, now. that the banks are fastened upon us. We must learn to take things as they are, and not as we should like to have them. For ray part, seeing the necessity of remodeling our present system, I shall fore'go my preferences leaving it to the future legislation to perfect that' which we have begun, rather than to accomplish nothing ourselves,,

Resides, at the present .time there does not exist sufficient ground for what is usually the strongest argument in favor of specie alone, and that i?, for several ycari

m^tnwie mo^ey ^ahylleipfe of t!^ sjmoqcil of our, years, an^jhe mone

ISere i»th ife ar twi be paid then, should ~we put'the people to the trouble and-annqya^ee-.of huatiogg-up speeieko Ipayttheif'&xea, W e*eTyffott« gratification of paying out the same immcdiately to our creditors: It would seem, in this'lfase', that the risk 6frreceiving-the papenis, scarcely [sufficient to justify the, duc$nvenience it would,cqasion to the people by having to pay coin, it is urged that this hill makes paper a legal tender but, Sir, I cannot see where it isi It is nothing more than legalising what the Treasurer of State has always done-1-that is, define what kind of, money we will-re-ceive for taxes. Certainly this is no .innovation. The Legislature is at least competent to'do what the Treasurer of "State" has always done. Wo do not exact thepayment Of paper. We only proffer to receive it instead of demanding coin, exclusively.. Certaiuly no argument can be found upbn that assumption. But, I protest against the proposition, as stated by gientlemen, as being au issue between hard money and bank rags. .No Sir, thatis not the question. .. It is. a choice betweenf-two systems one founded iipon certificates of deposits—bills of bxehange, drkfts on banks, or individual acceptances, sucli as is usually found in our treasury, the result of the stock jobbing. and speculations of the Treasurer, .upon the hard earnings of the people, one hundred, and seven thousand dollars Of which is n'ow'cnlled by the Treasurer'a suspended debt, and of very doubtful value. And the other proposes to take just the money that the people pay in the treasury, and keep it safe until it is paid out for the purpose for which it was intended. In this view of the ease, I am at no loss for a conclusion, and have no doubt as to what will be the voice of the people upon that subject. Under our present banking laws notes of a bank are much better secured and safer than certificates of deposits of the same bank. How is'it that gentlemen arc all at once so wed to a specie currency, that they oppose all reforms in tlie treasury system because it does not come up to the high standard they have set. Such a course seems only intended to defeat any action on the subject.

Why,

Again, the bills now before us propose that once a month there shall be published a statement by the Treasurer of State as to the amount of money received, the amount paid out-, and the amount remaining in the treasury—so that the people have at all times the means of knowing the exact condition of their .funds, and also what becomes of the money. This featur

is certainly an important safeguard to the

ic. Indeed, the bill seems securely

guarded at every point against loss to the

otate so tar as is possible, anu receive cur-1

1. t\ vOUv, .LliJUUlUb tlllU disposed to sneer at the idea or a Demo- 1 1 -1 1 .. ii 1 cral, !2y each ltd erat voting tor a system founded 011 cur-.! rency. I tell them that they will yet be

trie mis ot the measure. Charges have i„_i.,

ccrs receive cnorinous salaries in the way

ot tees ami prequ.sitcs while the people

were thinking icy only lived upon the j.yr

email moiety allowed then, the regular

ary onJ. lhese charges become rumor

ill over the land, enlarged and simplified,

and the public hive oecame excited upon

vital a question as ''money,- and if we

ow a disposition to stifle^investigation-

hang to the old order of wi.ngs with al

Ot Us abuses -we may expect to meet

questions -very difficult to answer, and have'

to confront charges without an apology sufficient for the occasion. Openness aud fair dealing is the best policy. Let us know what labor thc officers .perform, anil what pay they get for it, and sec that one is proportioned to the other, and make tlie laws 011 the subject so explicit that there can be

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misconstruing the meaning, arid

the penalties so severe that they will deter a violation of them. I know that this measure bears hard upon the office-holders. Their bonds are heavy—their duties increased—their liabilities are severe—while their emoluments are reduced to a specific sum, and all proquisites whatever cut off—and to them it might appear that v.'c were making individious distinctions and pointing our reform tit certain parties and distinct cases, but such is not the fact.

I believe that public offices should not bc beneficiary institutions for increasing the fortunes of thc incumbents. There should be rigid responsibility and a fair compensation. It is wrong to hold out pecuniary inducements for men to leave their ordinary avocations and engage in the uncertain business of politics. An honorable ambition to serve his country in a position of trust and importance should be the highest incentive te seek office. A mere mercenary laboring for nothing but the hire, is unworthy of a high position.

The public is wrong iu stinting tlie officers with meager salaries, aud making it up in contingent fees, and then charging upon the incumbent all the abuses incident to such a miserable system and so far have tho abuses been carried on both sides, that there seems an odium attached to office holding in thc United States. And, Sir, now nothing is more common than to hear thc most degrading epithets applied to of-fice-holders by individuals, and see the same charges paraded in the newspapers until there is a scandal attached to public positions, and whether pertinent or not, thc sarcasm is popular and requires a remedy.

I think it due to our public officers that their position should be relieved fiomthe the charges preferred against them, anil that they should not bc compelled to b3' coutinually coming before thc public explaining their conduct and defendingthemselves against chargcs that are justly due tlie law under whieh they operate. Public bffices should be places of honorable distinction, and their name and character should be spoken in terms calculated to excite thc emulation of thc aspiring rather than their contempt and ridicule. And may it not bc the ignominious terms that are applied to such funotonarics has its effect upon those whose weaker intellect inclines theni to lean npon society for moral support, and may induce them to think there is but little difference between censure and praise, right, and wrong, honor and dishonor, and thus break down the feeble barriers that separate between them and thc commission of the same offenses

Aijkecl ISgunst jftsitioni&ey imitate

feu.

This bill has passed. both brancho8*of the Legislature, and provides, says Hie State Sentinel that the State Js4ill ^divided into the following districts: Posey,

risen, Floyd, Washington, Clark and Scott a S Dearborn—Fr'anklIn, Fayette, Union and Wayne—Jackson, enmngs,TBartholomew and Lawrenco—^Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, Monroe arid

1Brown—C!reen

Clay, Owen

and' Pntna'ni—Vigo, PArk ai/cl Sullivan— Rnshj Henry, Hancoelj, Madison and De-catur—-Marion,, Hendricks and Boone— Montgomery,. Vermillion, ^Fountain, and Warren—^!HainiIt6nVTipton,"Ciintoh, Howard and Grant—Tippecanoe, Benton, Wliite' and* Carroll—Lake," Porter, Jasper Stark and Pulaski—Laportc, St. Joseph, Marshall and 'Elkhart-r-Randolph, Delaware,. Jay and Blackford!—Lagrange, Steuben, Dekalb, Noble and Whitley—Allen, Adams, Huntington and Wells—Cass, Miami, Fulton, Kosciusko and Wabrtsh—in eaoh of which district their shall be elected a Common Pleas Judge, 011 the sccond Tuosday .qf: October, A. D., I860, and every fourth year thereafter.

The annual salary is fixed at one thousand dollars per annW. This court is to be hold three times a year in each county beginning with the first Monday in January, annually, and then on the first Monday of every fourth month thereafter, but if the Circuit Court of said county shall be in session at the time, the common pleas shall be held on the Monday succegding the term ,of, the Circuit Court. .ti.-r c,

The Judges now' acting arc to" serve in the districts in which tbey arc elected respectively, and the provisions of the bill electing Judges at the October election 18G0, shall not take cffect until those elected shall be commissioned and quali fied.

This bill reduces the number of Common Picas Judgos from ^forty-three, the present number, to twenty one, but it enlarges the districts and the duties of the Judges.

..TIIIO SALARY LAW.

The new salary acts fixes the following compensation or yearly salcries for the officers named, engaged in'the public service: (governor, SiJ.OOO Treasurer of State, S3,1)00 Auditor of State, $2,500 Secretary of .State, $*2,000 President of

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Thc increase of the salary to thc Covernor cannot take effect during the term of the present Executive, and only applies to his successor iu ofiice. All perquisities and fees received by tho State oilicers are hereafter to be paid into the Tresury, and they receive no other compensation except that provided in the bill.

QI AI:T TIOIPKKA.NCK I,I« The following is a synopsis ot thc act whieh passed both branches of the Legislature and has received the signature or the Governor, "to regulate and license the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors, and to prohibit the adulteration of liquors:"

No person shall sell or barter, directly or indircctly, any intoxicating liquor less than a quart at a time, without first having procured a license the word "intoxicating liquor" shall apply to any spirituous, vinous or malt liquor, whieh is used or may be used as a beverage any white male inhabitant desiring to obtain license shall

give notice of the prccisc location of the jgjn9

premises where he desires to sell, at least Lj.

less tl|jr^am mo^ihaC|I^'^im-t prisonmctotifPl* co^Hyjaiuia^be Maed, not cxceMtaflpBO da^gWcyHulterating or the sd^idg ofLiny ^NllterWMd liquors, to be finetrin aiify suwOOt' 4MS' than or morethan $500, to which imprisonment in1the. eounty. iail may be added, not exceed-^ ing thred taDoth&i all ^laft^s trkcre intoxieating liquors are soldi in violation of ihia sWr§n^l^rWemed*1*omra(nfrflalS4tfce&

mo^t^air^iO^and ftnp^^onihent not exceeding three months—but no prosecution lff||ffbc fostitotcd' for any violation of the act^etwcen' flie time it "shall take effect and the close of the first regular session, of the Board of Commissioners of the proper county thereafter, the beginning of which session not taking place inless thun four weeks after this act shall have taken effect the Circuitand Common Pleas courts to have jurisdiction to hear and determine *11 com-5 plaints under the act, and it is made the the duty of the Grand Jury to take congnizances of all offences against its provisions, as in case of felonies Justices of the Peace to have jurisdiction also, but in all cases 'where $25 is deemed to bc anjnadcquate fine, the party offending shall bo recognised to appear at tho next term of 1 any court having competent jurisdiction 4 the Common Councils of cities anil the board of trustees of incorporated towns can enforce a fee for license from all keepers of coffee-houses or other places where intoxicating liquors are sold and drank within the limits of their respective corporations in addition to the fee for license under this act an emergency is declared to exist, and is to bc in force from anil after its publication in the Journal and Sentinel.

WASHINGTON ITEMS.

PiiiLADKLritiA, Wednesday, March 9. Tlie New York Heralds Washington correspondent says thc nomination of exSenator George W. Jones, of Iowa, as Minister to New Grenada, was sent in and immediately confirmed.

The city i3 already rife with speculation as to thc successor of Postmaster General Urown. Cave. Johnson, of Tennessee, Colonel Orr, of South Carolina, Mr. Anderson, of Ohio, General Jones, of Iowa, General Davis, of Indiana, and Mr. Holt, the present Commissioner of Patents, are spoken of.

Thc President has informed thc Senate that he will require their attcndancc until Friday next, when lie will send thc name of a new Postmaster General. He has refused to day to cominunieatc to any one whom lie will probably select, lie says he will not make any selection till after the funeral.

Tho New York Times' Washington despatch says Mr. McLanc left this afternoon for Mcxico, and was escorted to the boat by a distinguished fillibustcr. Thc liberals here regard .Mr. McLanu's appointment as an important step iu tho right direction. .Mr. McLane, I hear, objected to Mr. Thrasher as Secretary of Legation, in consequence of certain antecedents whieh might give coloring to the mission.

Senor Mata will leave to-morrow for Niagara, but will return to New Orleans in time for the next stcaiiKr.

The ratification of thc Cass-llerron treaty disposes of a troublesome portion uf the Central American difficulties.

All the Washington and Oregon Indian treaties have been onfirnied they occupied the attention of tho Sena'e to da".

The City Council met ihis in-rnin/r, and passed resolutions of respect to the late Postmaster General Crown. The corporation offices will lie closed until after th

trusted with a license, and to give bond with Auditor of the Treasury. Emory D. Potat leas ttwo freehold sureties, residents of, ter heretofore rejected" as Collector at Tothe county, to be approved by the Auditor, ior|()j

funeral, and the Council will attend tin: funeral in a body in their ofVu-ial capacity. Tlio Executive Department will he draped in mourning and be closed for public business. The time of the funeral has nut been decided.

The late Congress passed an act affecting thc Iiounians Grant in Louisiana, which has been disputed for half a century, and is worth more than $5,000,000. Those •assuming to be thc grantees succeded in obtaing a patent in LS 15, but two years afterwards an authorized suit was brought to test tlie validity of it, which Jiidne Campbell pronounced inoperative and void. Tlie land thus became subject lo survey, aud sale in June 1858. Notwithstanding this judicial decision, a law was passed resulting to the benefit of the grantees.— Hut the last act arrests thc patent issued to them until the end of thc next Congress, in order that in the meantime justice may le done to tho five hundred or more settlers on thc grant.

Senator Slidell claims two thousand two hundred acres, worth one million of dollars, and one or two other claims iu the remainder.

Thc Senate to day confirmed the nomination of Joseph Holt, of Kcutucky, thc late Commissioner of Patents, as Postmaster General also, .John Hubbard, of Maine, as Boundary Commissioner, which Wig-

recently nominated for but ?fcjeet

twenty days before the meeting of the fro[J1 low'a, as Minister to Bogota: also. County Commissioners from whom lie in-1 jll(]fc,c l'ettit,

tends to apply for a license applicant to 1 Kansas, vice Lecomptc also, Bartholobe a man of good character, aud fit, to bc

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in the sum of $500 that he will keep an !confirmed. Some other appoiutments of orderly housi and pay all fines assessed against him for any violation of thc act to pay to County Treasurer S50 as a fee for license for one year, to be applied to thc Common School fund no license to be granted for Jess than a year the license under the act does not authorize the selling or bartering of auy intoxicating liquors on Sunday, to auy person under the age of twenty-one years, to a person in a state of intoxication, nor upon thc day of any State, county, township or municipal election "every person who shall directly or indirectly, knowingly sell, barter or giveaway any intoxicating liquor to any person who is in the habit of being intoxicatied, after notice shall have been given him by the wife, child, parent, brother or sister of such person, or by the overseer or overseers of thc poor of the township where he resides, that sui.'h person is in the habit of being intoxicated, shall be deemed gollty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof bc fined not less than $5, nor more than $50 any person not being licensed who shall sell intoxicating liquors, in violation of the provisions of thc act, shall bc fined not less than 85 err more than $100, to which may be added imprisonment in thc county jail for any determined period not exceeding thirty days any person who shall sell, barter or give away any intoxi eating liquors to a person under twenty-one year3 of"age, or to any person at the time in a state of intoxication, to be fined not

nominated, and was

less conscqucncc were also confirmed' Thc Senate will meet to-morrow at two o'clock, and will then, formally, close tlie present session. It is not expected thcro will bc a quorum present.

The Supreme, Circuit and Criminal Courts have adjourned until Friday in order to attend the Postmaster General's funeral on to-morrow afternoon.

Orders have been issued throughout thc country to thc public officers to pay appropriate tribute of respcct customary on tho death of such an Executive officer of the Government.

NEWS BV TIIE QUAKEIt CITY.

NEW ORLEANS, March 9.

Thc steamer Uncle Sam met with a terrible gale, and returned to San Francisco on the 12th, and sailed again on the 16th for Colorado.

VERA

CRVZ,

March 1st.—Mcrimon sent

a force to attack Jalapa, which was defeated, anU returned to Perota. 3Ierimon then marched eastward, and arrived before Alvarada with 3,000 men, intending to march to Yet a Cruz via the sea coast road.

Yera Cruz is much excited, but confident of defeating Merimon. MINIALITTAN, March 5th.—It wa3 rumored ju3t as the steamer was sailing that an express had arrived, announcing Merimons' arrival before YcraCruB with f,000 men and 39 jrun?.