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Trenton to be supplied from Mi. Pleasant. 9 mites -and back, once a week. .. Waterloo to be aupplied front Cambridge, 5 mi lee »nd back, once a week.

1. Seven minutes are

ing the mails at all offices, where no particular nme is specified but on railroad and stentnboa: f°"te® there is to be no more delay than is necessary to deliv

and receive the bags. 2. The mail is to be conveyed in preference to pas-

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totheirentire exclusion, if its weight and

bulk require it 3. prefereuee is to be given to passengers brought in tho connecting mail lines over those traveling in

p/'s'Office blanks, mail bags and special agents of the Deparmrtjnt, on the exhibition of their credtn-

are fo be conveyed without further charge on mail lines adiniting of such conveyance. 5. Mail agents are to be conveypd without charge the principle railroad and steamboat lines, where tho size of the mails and the number of of the offices vrill require their employment by the Department, and in that case a separate apartment for the assorting and safe-keeping of ihe mail is to be provided by the contractor under the direction of the Department. 6 In all cases, there is to be a forfeiture of the pay of the trip, wh«»n the trip is not run a forfeiture of at least one-fourth part of it, when the running or arrival is so far behind time as to loose the connection with a depending mail: and a forfeiture of a due proportion of it, when a grade of fervice is rendered inferior to that in the contrnct. These forfeitures mny he incrared into penalties of higher amount, according to the mm re or frequency of the failure and the importance o' the mail. 7. Fines will be imposed, unless the delinquency be satisfactorily explained in due time, for failing to take from, deliver at a post office, the mail, or any pnrt of it for sulTering it »o be wet, injured, lost, or destroyed for conveying it in a place or any manner that exposes it to depredation, loss, or injury for reluseine after demand to cinvev a mail by anv coach, railrond car, or steamboat, which the contractor refeularlg runs on the route, beyond the specified number of trips in the contracts' and for not arriving at the time set. And (or setting up or runine an express to transmit commercial intelligence in advance of the mail, a penalty will b» cxacteil equal to a quarters pay. 8 The Postmaster General may annul the contract for

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allowed for

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failures for violating tho Poet

OHee law for disobeying the instructions of the Department lor refusing to discharge a carrier when required by the Department for assigning the contract without the consent ol the Postmaster General. or foraetting up or running an express as afore-

"g^Tlie PostmHcter General may alter thecontrnct and .Iter

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scliedule. he allowing a pro rata increase of aomp^nsntlon, within the restrictions imposed bylaw for the additional scrvicc required, or for the increased Booed, if ihe employment ol additional stock or carriers

ia rendered

necessary but

case,

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contractor may, in snj-h

relinquish the contract, on timely notice, it he prefers it to the change. He mni, a'so discontinue or curtail the service, he allowing one months extra nav on the amount dippnnsed with. 10. The payments will be made through drafts on Posts offices or otherwise, after the expiration of each quarter, say in February, Mny, August, and

November. .. 11. The distances are given

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to the best in

formation but no incresed pay will be allowed, should they prove to be greater than is advertised, if the places are corrcctly named. 12 The lPostmaster General is prohibited by law from knowlingly makinga con.ract for the transpona tion of the mail with any person who shall have entered into any combination, or pioposed to enter into any combination, to prevent the making ol any bid lor a rtnil coniract by any other person or persons, or who shall have made any agreement, or shall have given or performed, or promised to givo or perform, any consideration to do, or not to do, anything whatever to induce any other person not to bid for a mail

CT:?rnOn conch routes where the present contractor shall bo s.ipnrcoded by an underbidder. who may not h*vn the stage property requisite for the performance of tho contrnct he shall purchase from the present contractor such of his conches, tenms. and harness heloiigin? to the route as shall be needed, and m*V be suitable for the service, at a fair valuation and make niyment therefor by reasonable instalments, as his pay becomes due, unless the present contractor shall continue to run stages on the J°"t

they not agree «s to the suitableness of iho property, the terms, or the security, each m»y choose a person who may appoint a third, and their decision shall be final or tho Poitm«8ter General will name the umpire. Should the underbidder fail to comply, hi*bul w.llbe offered to the contractor but «hnld he decline it, the propsals of the underbidder will be accepted ''"conditio,.ally. The nn lerhiilder should «i»« «•'»riy notime of Wis intention to take or not to take the stock, and ll the latter, of hi* reasons and the prcsen: contrsctor is to determine, on the first application, wether he will sell

?4. A bill received after time, to wit: the 14th April next at 3 m, or without the guarahtce reouired by law or that combinrs several routes in one sum of compensation, cannot be considered in competition with a regit ITproposal, not adjudgeded to be

^^Sor may offer on coach, railrond.or strambont routes, whoro that transportation is difficult or impracticable rt certain seasons, to subatitute how or wagon conveyance, or to intermit services specified nun bcr of days, weeks, or months. He may propose to omit an office that ia inaccessible, or is not on the railway,or «t a steamboat landing, as the case maV be. or he may offer to substitute an inferior mode of supply in such cases. He may propose different dn.Vs and hours of departure and arrival, provided no more running timn is asked, and it is ohvious that no mail conneciionor other public.

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He may ask for a specified number of d".*8 for more running time to the trip at certain ^sonsofpecuhHr h»d roads. But beyond these changes, a proposal for service different from the advertisement will prevent its being considered in competition with a regular bid, not set nsido for cxtrvagance and where bid contains anv of the above alterations their disidv.intages will bo estimated in comparing it wiih other proposals. ., 16. Thore should be but one route bid for in ti pro-

Tlia route, the service, the yearly pay.thehidderVnntna and residence, und the nameol each member of the firm, where company offors, should be distinctly stated. ,. 18 The following is the form of the guaranty whic.i should be filled. :he first blank with the name of lie guarantor, the second with that of :he bidder and the third and fourth with U»e beginning and terminating points of the route and after being dated, should be signed by the guarantor, who must be shown by the written certificate of a postmaster, or other equally satisfactory testimonial, to be a man of property, and aMe to nmkc iroftd his guaranty. Tin* guaranty, ao certified, should accompan) each bid. "The undersigned guaranties that it his bid for carrving ihe mail from to

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by ihe Pos'master General, shall enter into an obhga'ion prior to the 1st daV of Jnly next,with good and sufficient sureties,to perform tlio service proposed.

19 ""The bid should bo sent under seal, nddr^wd to tho First Assistant Postmaster Genera!, with Mail Proposals in the State of wntten on 'he face of the letter and should be despatched eeivedbyor before the Nth April next, at 3 clock,

90. The contracts are to be executed before the 1st

July mxu

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TO TUB MRRCH A\T8 AXD TRApERSOP

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MILL at Lafayette, Indiana, »nd cost in obtaining the most approveii Maeh neryj»nd skill from the East, are prepared t° r«U*i with every kind of irv most favorable term. The lr»enf««J' »^e !,L» calf and Western Enterpnte, are invited to wrn and to save their Rasa, which will be received in ex change for Paper or Cash at A KNP5

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To vie with the splendor of—BEAOTV IN SMILES KD

Man roves through creatron a wandering stranger, A dupe to its follies-a slafe to its toils But bright d'er the billows of doubt and of danger, The rainbow of promise is—BEAUTY IN SMILES.

As the raysof the sun, o'er the bosom of nature, .§ Renew every flower which the tempest despoils— So jovs faded blossom, and man's aching bosom, Revive tn the stinshine of—BEAUTY JM SMILES.

The crown of the hero—the star of the rover— The hope that inspires, and the hope that beguiles The song of ihe poet—the dream of the lover— The infidel's heaven, is—BEAUTY IN SMILES.

"PATHOLOGY OF DRUNKENNESS. If ever an ago was characterized by philanthropy in regard to those who are suffering from the evils of intemperance.surely it must be the one in which we have the happiness to live. Men of all professions of faith, and of all orders of talent, throughout the civilized world, admirably concur in 'ihe opinion that a great mot'al revolution must be brought about. Drunkenness, in all its forms, from the palace to the Indian's wigwam, has spread its fearful ravages through every land, and vice, crime, and death follow in its train. The present general movement of good men to stay the awful plague will be regarded, in after times, as an extraordinary epoch in the history of our race.

Much as "we deplore the sin of intemperance, we have sometimes felt weary in trying to keep pace with the publications which are extensively circulated, both to alarm the inebriate and to urge reformers to labor in the good cause with undiminished ardor, since Heaven blesses those who ask for blessings on a penitent. Some one has politely sent us an extra Examiner from Albany, containing a letter to E. C. Delavan, Esq by THOMAS STWAI.L, M. D. on the

Some use prating words because they are of a morose disposition. Their languoge, as well as their manners, shows an unfeeling heart. Others use rough words out of affectation of frankness. They may be severe in their remarks, but they clnim that they are open and independent, and will not be trammelled.— They are not flatterers they say, and this they think enough for all the cutting spctch which they employ. Others wish to he thought witty, and they will witli equal indifference wound the feelings of friends or foe, to sliow their smartness- Some are envious, and cannot benr to speak kindly to others or of them because they do not wish to add to their happiness. Others are so ill-bred that they seem to take delight in using unkind words when their intentions aregood and their feelings are warm. Their words are rougher than their hearts they will make a sacrifice ol ease and property to promote comfort, while they will not design to employ the words of courtesy and kindness. Of these, the Scotch have an impressive proverb, that their bark is worse than their bite."

A VIRAGO OF THE 16TII CENTURY. Far different were the strains that arose from the neighboring abbey of Maubisson, under the rule ot Mde. d'Etress. That splendid mansion, with its dependent baronies and forests, resembled far more the palace and gardens of Armida, than a retreat sacred to penitence and prayer- She was the Bister of the too famous Gabrielle, to whose influenco with Henry Bhe was indebted for this rich preferment. Indulging without restraint, not merely in the luxuries but in the debaucheries of the neighbouring capital, she had provoked the anger of tho king, and the alarm of ihe general of the order. A visitation of the house was directed. Madame d'Etress imprisoned the visiters, and well nigh starved them. A second body of delegates presented themselves. Penances, at least when involuntary, were not disused at Maubisson. The new commissioners were locked up in a dungeon, regaled with bread and water, and soundly whipped every morning. Supported by a guard, the general himself then hazarded an encounter with the formidable termagant. lie returned with a whole skin, but boasting no otlwr advantage. Next appeared at the abbey gates band ot archcrs- After two days of fruitless expostulation, they broke into the enclosure. Madame now changed her tnctics. She took up a defensive position. till then unheard of in the science of stiategy. In plain terms, she went to bed. A more embarrassing manoeuvre was never executed by Turenne or Conne. The siege was turned into a blockade. Hour after hour elapsed night succeeded to day, and day to night, but aiili tho abbess was recumbent—unappareled, unapproachable. Driven thus to choose between a ludicrous defeat and a so re scandal, what 1- renchmen could longer hesitate'? Bed, blankets, abbess and all, were raised on the profane shoulders of the archers, lifted into a carriage, and most appropriately turned over to the keeping of the Fitles PeuiUnttt at Paris.

JOHN JACOB ASTOR.

The New York Toiler gives the following rather amusing sketch of John JacobAstor:

Mr. Astor is now at the wrong side of eighty, and naturally begins to feel ihe hand of time press heavthr on his constitution: but still ho eniovs himself, cracks his joke, empties his bottle, (for though no inebriate, he is far from being a teetotaller,) smokes, and interests himself in the rise and decline ol stocks. In tact, though oki, there is nothing of the dotnge, the childhood oi old age about him His mind, on the contrary, is as sound as a bell, and his head clear when he used to be shovelling infepanish dollars by

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says that it coet him more labor and ge

nius to make his first thousand dollar*, than the million that followed and that now, were he a young man, he woald rather undertake, at the hartrd of losing his life the task of making a hundred thousand doHare on the foundation of one thousand, than one thousand

oui of no'hing. Tbe labors of Mr. A«torday,at thejmwent writing, are divided somewhat as follows: Ije rises early, dnaars without a valet, and sirhalf «i ot tobacco. He then breakfasts, somenuu* on mi.k. Njt mostly on

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article—but afterwards h« res through and rht ehat of the day, and is mightily tie Med when ho I anything bwtrr than usual. Pi» again. Then, when be able, a saunter about and a crock wiih il*c mijrhbore concerning stock or the weather

Next, a wo hour sieate,andthen to dinner, whereat John does srreav execution, for be is a wonderful hand at the trencher for an old maa. The P'PCj cfan chat, and a mild glass follow and tli- is spent until 9 oVlock. wben he calls fo ®n* »altr£ up

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From an old Irish Periodical.

BEAUTY IN SMILES.

O weep not sweet maid, though the bright tear of beauty. To kindred,emotions each feeling begfii!es '"v The 8oftne«8vof sorrow no magic can borrow,

l'jPathulogy

Drunkenness, or the effects of Alcoholic Drinks, vaiih Drawings of the Drunkard's Stomach,'''' accompanied by four plates, beautifully executed on stone, and colored, of the natural size. No anatomical work, within our recollection, presen's more exact representations of that organ. The blood vessels exhibited on the inflamed mucous con really look ns though they would bleed if roughly handled. The excellency of this illustrated letter onsieli in the fact that any one can understand it. Although strictly scientific, it is essentially the thing wanted, because it speaks plainly yet positively to the drunkard. Willi his own eyes he may examine the very appearance of his own burnt stomach, and if he should not be either reformed or alarmed by the fac simile, the letter by Dr. SEWALL muBt awaken his sensibilities if he has one remaining spark of consciousness.

Circumstances at present debar us from making extracts from a work which meets our warmest approbation. It should reach every hamlet in the Union—and physicians should unhesitatingly aid in carrying on a work in which all well-wishers to the human family are engaged. Dr. S. treais the subject properly there is neither a display of temper nor ill-will towards the drunkatd nor is there a mawkish sensibility discoverable in his remarks. Take it all in all, he has certainly contributed importunt aid to the cause of temnernnce, for which we, in common with the friends of numnhity, tender our thanks. The letter, with its splendid plates, is really the commencement of a new effort, which we pray that our medical brethren mny enlarge upon and carry foiward to their utmost ability.

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KINDNESS IN^CONTERSATION. There is no way in which men can do good to others with so little expense ond trouble as by kindness in conversation. "Words," it is sometimes gaid, "cost nothing." At any rate kind words cost no more than those wh.ch are hnrsli and piercing But kind words are often more valued than tl«emost co3tly gift, and they areoften regarded among tho best tokens of a desire to mnke others hnppy.—We should think that kind words would be very common, they are so cheap but there are many who have a large assortment of all otlier languages except kindness. They have many bitter words, and wiity words, and learned words in abundance but their stock of kind words is small. The churl himself, one might suppose, would not grudge a little kindness in his language, however closeVy he clings his money, but there are persons who draw on their kindness with more reluctance than on their purses.

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SHORT CREDITS MAKE LONG FBI Some of the Journals south of the Potomac are read* ing the merchants of New York a lecture, which in this season of embarrassmenta and high rateL^|f exchange is not unworthy of their considerations 711 is well known that the grasping ambition of Blew, xork and the anxiety of her merchants to supply the.entire south and west, has crippled the resources of that city beyond all other causes The credits which could not be obtained in any oth«r town in'tfin Union, were easily obtained, najr urgently solicited in New York. When the business (Ren of that city are repining over the losses they have sustained abroad/they should remember that most of rhe debts which were contracted there during the season of great prosperity, two or three years since, were forccd purchases.

As the Richmond Compiler remarks—merchants were importuned to huy—they were dogged about the streets of the great Emporium by the drummers of the great jobbing bouses, treated to dinners and suppers, and ticketed to places ot amusement—by these and variooi pleasurable devices, men who were loth to buy, at best, were induced to lay in unusually large stocks and incur heavy debts, which they were afterwards unable to pay and their New York creditors, whenever they could get the opportunity, prosecuted thetn with great rieor- The importations were immense, and to force them upon the market here these schemes were indispensable. Men in the South ond West were trusted for thousands, who would not have been credited at home for as many hundreds and that too upon their own notes, unendorsed. There were some hard things said ot the South then but if the transactions upon which those sayings were based had been fully known, they would have been much lesB creditable to the Gothamites.

In consequence of these easy and unlimited crcditjfecountry merchants were enabled to offer unprecedented inducements to the consumer to buy. All over the South and West. New York liberality enabled "the farmers to live sumptuously every day and dre$s with more than ordinary expense long before their crops were in market. This state of things resulted from the pernicious influence of long credits, which happily are now nearly abandoned—Both the consumer and producer will be benefitted if that system is never again resuscitated. Money easily obtained is usually spent with wastefulness and prodigality. Credit injudiciously extended or unworthily bestowed, is equally abused, and the worst evila always result from such indiscretions to the country.—Phil. Gazette.

REPUDIATION.

"Yah! yah! yah!" shouted GumboChafF as he burst into tliecellcr where Mr. Washington Pomp was just applying a brush full of Day & Martin to a boot upon the fast —"Yah! yah! cotch'd you at last, hab I? Come, nigger, come! Pay up! pay up!" "Go way, nigger I'se not at home on de word ob a gentleman." "Can't come it ober dis child1" replied Gumbo, applying his digits to his nasal organ. "Jestin1 'port— pay up! pay up! Largo 'mount to make up to-dav— six or seben hundred dollars, and yu owe me six shiliin's—dat's a fact." "Don't dispute it, sar, don't dispute it," replied Pomp, leisurely putting aside his brush, throwing himself back in a stool, and displaying his brass-ringed Angers on its arms "But what I want to say is just dis—I an't going to Too' de account." "Gorramity, nig—you tell me dat!" "Not a gwan'to pay a cent sar!" '•Do yah mean to say," exclaimed Chaff, his huge white goggle eves growing perceptibly huger and protruding from his head. "Do yah mean to say yain've stopped payment?" ''Not 'zactly dat, nig, eyether," replied Pomp, "but I've concluded to repudiate my debts!" '•Debbil take me if I see de difference!" muttered Gumbo, ruefully. "Oh! as for dat," replied Pomp," "I muss refer you to Gubernur McNutt ob Mississippi—he'll tell you all 'bout, nieger, beiter dan I can—he was de fuss to 'tart de doctrine ob 'pudintion." "Den I ell you what,"said Gumbo, decidedly,

Gubernur McNutl was the auther ob dat doctrine, Gubernur MciVKrf is eyether cracked or dey'd oughtcr hit liini on de head and make.him shell out!"—Boston Times.

INDEPENDENT ORDRR OF ODD FELLOWS. "Theobjcct8 of ihe institution (the writer is not a member, by tho way,) are so plain and excellent, that whoever learns them can hut accord his respect to the "Independent Order." There is, in the meetings of Lodges, no excuse for conviviality, and there are, so far as we have noticed their proceedings, no public feuds, orany thing of that description. The end and aim of the association is for mutual assistance. A stated sum is paid for admission, "dues" ore paid monthly in aid of the funds. For these disbursements each member is absolutely entitled to a sluted sum, in case of sickness. The question is not asked "are you destitute and needy?" bin the visiting committeesna-

certain if you are sick. If you are, though jw»ur iii^

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libel, and he «in part, atsd always bas been, a great reader, especially of I literature- Likewise he wr liberal patron of »«««taTT men, a* it drnced by the fact of his waroilattadjmefit to Washington Irvine, and bis choicc of Ri Green Halleck, lor a a

Another hhet Uw char** again* Mr. A»tor. of Atbewm. 'neUnatioa never lying that way. On the whole Jacob Aator ia rather a good old tnan than otherwise, hat no particular wcr about torn but hk M«e«. to (hsungineh him front the rest of m.

We write this sketch, thinking it might gratify ihe Ktdtr to learn aotneibtag of *he hawta, manner*, ate. of an old gentlemen dad* income is wor inonsand and odd dollars

come be as great ns that of John Jacob Astor, this ^eo. 10, loll.

weekly sum is paid you not as a charity, but as a fulfilment of 0 condition on which you become a member. Incnso of death, an appropriation is made for the decent interment of the deceased member ond in sickness, aside from the sum of money paid weekly, the invalid brother is provided with watches if he need them, from among the members of the Lodgo. In one word, the Odd Fellows Association may be safely pronounced as among the most excellent and efficient charitable associations in existence."

VOCAL MACHINERY OF BIRDS.—It is difficult to-ac-count for so small a creature as a bird making a tone as loud as some animals a thousand times its size but a recent discovery has shown, that in birds the lungs have several openings communicating with corresponding air-bags or cells, which fill the whole cavity of the body, from the neck downwards, and into which the air passes and repasses in the process ot breathing. This is not all the very bones are hollow, from which air-pipes are conveyed to the most solid parts of the bodv, even into the quills and feathers. This air being rarified by the heat of their body, adds to their levity. By forcing the air out of their body, they can dart from the greatest height with astounding velocity. No doubt the same machinery forms the basis of their vocal powers, and at once solves the mystery.— Gardener's Music of Nature.

SUNRISE.—This is what Graco Harkaway, in London Assurance, savsof it: The man that misses sunrise loses the sweetest part of his existence. I love to watch the first tear that glistens in the opening eye of morning—the silent song the flowers breathe—tho thrilling choir of the woodland minstrels—to which the modest brook trickles applause—these swelling out the sweetest chord of creation's matins, seem to pour some lofty and merrv tale into the daylight's ear, as if the world had dreamed a happy thing, and now smiled o'er the telling of it!

THE STAGE.—The world is a stage men and women are the players chance composes the piece fortune (blind jade) distributes the parts the fools shift the scenery the philosophers are the spectators the rich occupy the bnxrs, the powerful the pit, and the poor the gallery. The forsaken of I^idy Fortune snuffs the candles Folly makes the concert—and Time drops the curtain!—Bentleg's Miscellany.

A late Paris paper contains the following account of a singular attempt at curing rheumatism. Is

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to have occured at the vill

age of Brot in the commune of Chavenges. A man by the nnme of Naudin, of a Urge frame and full of habit, had been for along time suffering from rheumatism. After having

various domestic medicines, his wife and niece tried the following method. They undressed the patient, covered his body with leaves of the plane tree, which they fastened with Pack-thread. Having completed his toilet, they put the husband and uncle into a bag, which they tied at the top, leaving his head out so that'he could breath freely. All this was arranged in a few moments before they drew tho bread which had been baking, from the oven. 'As soon as the bread was out, the two women, without losipg a moment, put the patient upon a board and slipped him into the oven, which was still at a burning heat. After a few moments the unfortunate man cried out bitterly, and besought his wife to take him from this furnace, which was a foretaste of hell. But the wife and niece, who stood at the mouth of the oven, repeated to him several times, that he must be patient, and that the pain he suffered was a sign of a euro.

was not tmtit his lace assumed the

expression of death, that they concluded to take him from the oven. Naudin was in a frightful state, the excessive beat had melted his fat. "Water, fresh water," cried the poor mam What was his niece doing She iraa to the next pump and brought a j*il of water with which she inundated bcr roasted uncle. The blood rushed to his Inngs, and it is unnecessary to add that after a few days of dreadful sufficing, be expired.** The Provincial paper says that incredible as this narrative may seem, they had it upon the authority c-f credible people. t-

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ACTS AND JOINT RESOLUTION'S,

Passed by the General Assembly ofthe SMe of Indiana at its recent Session.^^

To recognize the 8th and to create the 12lh Judicial circuits. noi

Repealing the 18lh 21st and 23d sections of the act prescribing the duties of county treasures, approved Feb. 12, 1841.

To amend an act incorporating Congressional townships and providing for public schools there in. approved February 17, 1838, apbroved Febuary 15, 1841.

Relating the Jurisdiction of justices or the peace in the counties of Knox and Vigo. For the relief o* the heirs of Daniel Lanmore, deceased.

To provide for the distribution of the Law of Congress to the several counties in this State. To amend the act entitled an act to incorporate the Richmond Trading and Manufacturing company.

Suplemental to an act subjecting real and personal property to excution, approved February 4, 1831. ...

To amend an act entitled "an act to regulate the taking up of animals going astray, and water crafts, and other articles of value adrift," approved Feburary, 15,1841.

To amend an act entitled "an act regulating the mode of doing county business in the several counties in this State," approved February, 15, 1838.

To amend tn act relating to County Seminaries approved February 17, 1838. Suplemental to the act entitled, "an act providing for selecting, relating and selling lands yet due on the YVabash and Erie canal, east of the mouth of Tippecanoe river, and for other purposes," approved February 24, 1840.

To abolish Imprisonment for Debt. For the relief of the borrowers of the Loan Office funds of the State of Indiana.

To amend an act entitled "an act authorizing the appointment of Constables, and defining their duties," approved Febuary 17, 1$38, and for other purposes.

To prevent the forfeiture of school lands and for other purposes. Relating to the jurisdiction of justices of the peace in actions by and against corporations.

Supplemental to an act entitled "an act to provide for the revision of the laws," approved Feb. 4, 1841.

Amendatory to an act entitled an act concerning clerks approved Jan. 28, 1831. To prohibit the amalgamation of whites and blacks.

To incorporate the^White Water Valley Canal Company. To provide for the collection of debts due from the Lawrencebourgh and Indianaplis Rail Road Company.

To amend an act entiled an act pointing out the mode of levying taxes, approved Feb. 12, 1841.

To amend an act entitled "an act more effectually to secure the purity of elections approved Feb. 15, 1841.

To amend an act declaring Patoka a public highway, and for other purposes, approved Jan. 27, 1841.

Giving further time to assessors. Amending an act to authorize the payment of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal east of tho mouth of Tippecanoe river ap-

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Suplemental to the act to provide for a keeper of the state house and library, approved Feb. 2,1841.

Concerning criminal practice. To authorize agents of the surplus revenue and others to dispose of lands by them bid off on behalf of the state.

To prevent further sale or hypothecation of Indiana State Bonds by nny Fund Commissioner, or other agent of the Slate.

To provide for the continuance of the construction of all and any of the public works of this State by private companies, and for abolishing ihe Board oflnternal Improvements and the officers of Fund Commissioner and Chief Engineer.

To incorporate the Indianapolis, Crawfordsville, and Lafayette Turnpike Company. Relative to exchange brokers.

Authorizing the sale of the sixth chain reservation of land bordering on the Wabash and Erie canal.

Supplemental to an act organizing circuit courts and defining their powers and duties, approved Feb. 15th, 1638.

Amendatory to an act to organize probate courts and defining the powers and duties of executors, &c approved February 17, 1838.

To incorporate the Franklin turnpike panyTo limit the time of holding the circuit courts in Vigo county.

Further to amend an act relating to public roads and highways, approved Feb. 17, 1838.

To provide for a State road in Greene,Sullivan and Vigo counties. To amend an act to organize the Militia of Indiana, approved February 10, 1831.

To provide for the appointment of a commissioner to make deeds and for other purposes.

To amend an act to incorporate the Vevay and Napoleon and other turnpike companies, approved Feb. 8, 1836.

Amendatory of an act to provide for the settlement of accounts of commissioners of the three per cent, (und in the several counties, approved Feb. 4, 1837,

To amend an act relating to public roads and highways, approved Feb. 17, 1838. To amend an act allowing and regulating the writ of ad quod damnum, approved Dec. 20, 1823.

To amend an act to incorporate the Indiana manufacturing company, approved Feb. 17, 1838.

To incorporate the trustees of the New Albany theological seminary. For the better security of the college and seminary funds arising from the lands in Gibson and Monroe counties.

To amend an act lo provide for a more uniform mode of doing township business in the several counties therein named, approved Feb. 17, 1838.

To corect a misprint and to extend the time for completing the public printing ordered by the present legislature.

Regulating the duties ot' clerks of the circuit courts and county auditors. To amend the several acts in relation to the surplus revenue.

Amendatory of the several acts in relation lb crime and punishment. To amend an act for the relief of tho poor, approved Feb. 17, 1838.

On the subject of improving the navigation of the western rivet*.

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To amend an act to provide for the sale of certain lands therein named, approved Feb. 2, 1833.

Amendatory of the several acts regulating

and domestic attachment.

To amend au act concerning insane persons, approved Jan. 22, 1818. To amend an act proscribing the duties of bounty auditors, approved Feb. 12, 1841.

To amend an act regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace, approved Feb. 17, 1838, and to secure the observance of the 103d section ot said act.

Applying certain funds to purposes of Education. Authorizing the issue of $5 treasury notes for the redemption

the$50jreasury notes

now in circulation. To keep in repair the Cumberland and Michigan roads, tv' a

Supplemental toau adt to re-locate part of a state toad therein named, approved Feb. 3, 1841, and for other purposes.

Extending the provisions of an act for^the relief of the settlers on the Wabash and brie canal lands, approved Feb. 24, 1840

To amend an act to authorize the paym&nt of contractors on the Wabash and Erie canal, east of Tippecanoe river.

To amend an act amendatory of an, act to allow further time to the Lawrenceburg and Indianapolis railroad company to settle up and close their affairs, approved Feb. 4,1841.

To amend an act to regulate the mode of doing county business in the several counties therein named.

To amend the act supplemental to an act for the appointment of trustees to receivedecds for lots or lands given or purchased for the use of schools, meeting houses, masonic lodges, approved February 10, 1831, approved Feb. 16, 1839.

To exempt the lands of revolutionary soldiers from taxation. For the relief of late collector of State and county revenue.

To authorize the distribution of the road laws. To authorize the collection of State revenue in those counties which have failed to assess and collect the same for the year 1841.

Relative to the duties of auditor and treasurer of state. Making general appropriations for thevear 1842.

To amend an act entitled an act for the preservation of sheep, approved Jan. 25,1841. To fix the fees of Sheriffs in ceitain cases.

To amend an net entitled an act concerning ejectments and for the relief of occupying claimants of land, approved Jan. 13, 1831.

To exempt probate judges from arrest. Providing for classifying and selecting the lands not yet offered for sale, belonging to the Wabash and Erie canal, east of Tippecanoe river.

To compel speculators to pay a road tax equal to that paid by actual settlers. Prescribing the duties of Quarter Master General, and fixing his rank and compensation.

To authorize John Callahan to build a bridge across the mouth of Tanner's creek, in Dearborn county.

To amend an act entitled an act to revive and amend an act incorporating congressional townships, and providing for public schools therein, approved Feb. 17, 1838, approved Feb. 15, 1841.

Supplemental to an act entitled an act authorizing the appointment of constables Tind defining their duties, approved Feb. 17, 1838.

To amend an act entitled an act to amend an act dividing the state into judicial circuits, and fixing the time for holding courts therein, and for other purposes, approved Feb. 10, 1831, approved Jan. 28,1839.

To authorize the President Judge of the 3d judicial circuit, to hold an extra term in the county of Dearborn.

To amend an act entitled an act authorizing aliens and foreigners to hold real estate within the State of Indiana, approved Jan. 14, 1818.

To amend an act 111 relation to county auditors. To amend an act granting to the citizens of Madison and Lawrencebugh, a city charter.

Amendatory of the acts now in force on the subject of notaries public. To provide for the preservation of the southern end of the southern division of the Central canal.

To amend the several acts for the regulation of the State Prison. Levying a tax for State purposes, and for the gradual redemption of treasury notes.

For the relief of the borrowers of the sinking fund, surplus revenue, and other funds, and for the belter securing of the payment thereof, -r

To repeal so much of a law passed Feb. 16, 1841, as provides for converting the college fund into bank stock and other matters therein contained.

To create the seventeenth branch bank district. Taking individual stock in the several branches of the State Bank, and for other purposes.

To amend an act to provide for distributing so much of the surplus revenue of the United States as the State of Indiana may be entitled to and receive by virtue of an act of Congress approved 23d June, 1826, approved Feb. 6, 1837.

Giving additional stay of execution when specie is demanded. To amend an act to revise and amend an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

On the subject of canal lands mortgaged to the sinking fund. Respecting sales of personal property on execution.

On the subject of a resumption of specie payments, by the States of Ohio, Kentucky, and Illinois.

Memotial and joint resolution on the subject of the National road. To provide for distributing the acts of Congress deposited in the office of Secretary of State.

Appointing in agent to examine the state and condition of the State Bank, and ench and every Branch thereof.

In relation to pensioning the surviving officers and soldiers who served in Waynefs campaign.

For the liquidation of a claim of the late treasurer of state for duties rendered in relation to the Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis railroad company.

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In relation to the early settlement of this State. Providing for the" preservation of the manuscript journals of the senate awl bouse of representatives.

Requiring the state agent to file an official bond, and to take an oath of office. Designating the same day throughout the United States for the election of President and Vice President

On the subject of a lunatic asylum On the subject of bank stock -1 Ot the Legislature of the State of Indian an relation to the Indiana University

Prom Report qf the VomitUt of IPav* and Meuns. STATEMENT No. 5.

A statement qf the amount of interest to be paid al the Treasury annually. on the mtfcWc tiebtJ 1. On $1,353,000 Treasury

Notes at 6 percent. this am't however, will be annually diminished as the notes are redeemed for taxes, 2. On $11,908,378 75 5 cent. bonds, (except $100,005 which are at 6 per cent.)

The annual means of the Treasury set apart for the payment interest of public debt, may be estimated as follows, viz: 1. Interest on cnnal lands, (annually) 2. Final and partial payments on first and second selections of

THK SLAVE TKADE.—The following are said to be the ptincipal provisions of the treaty recently concluded between Great Bnitain, France, Austria, Rusia, and Prussia, for tho suppression of the slave trade. "The right of search iu respect to all vessels liable to tho suspicion ol being engaged in the slave trade, is mutually granted by each of the Five Powers, parties to this beneficial treaty, to all vessels of war bearing the flag of any of the five. Thus, tho constant existence and unremitted activity of the most effective naval poliece that any or all of the Five powers can establsh for the suppression of the slave trade, is made part of the public law of Europe.

It is agreed, moreover between the Fivo Powers, that the legal character and donomination of the crime of trading in slaves upon the sea, and that of co-operating iu tho traffic by the supply of capital or talent in its aid, shall by the law of each of them, be made to assimilate as speedily as possiblo t: those which tho legislature of Great Britain has imparted to these crin es.

The Britislrlaw in respect to the slave trade, embodied in the 3d and 4th of William the Fourth, c. 73, is to the effect that any subject of her Majesty, or indvidunl residing in any of part of her Majesty's dominions, who shall engage in the slave trade, or in the conveyance of slaves upon" the sea, shall be held to be guilty of the crime of piracy and that any one who shall knowingly embark capital, or lend other aid of any kind to the traffic, although not personally engaged in it, shall be held to be guilty of felony, and punished accordingly, the former crimes involving the punishment of death, on the adjudication of a competent tribunal of any civilized state, the latter that of transportation on the adjudication of any competent British tribunal.

Such as we have described, will hence forth* in virtue of this treaty, be the public law of Europe. That this law will bo rigorously carried into execution by a naval poliece, which Great Britain and France have tho power and the disposition to establish, there can be no reasonable doubt.

It is not much to say that the treaty of December 20th a death blow to the slay® trade throughout the world." 'V —n

The Ball to Mr. Dickens,at the Park Jhea* tre, last night, was very brilliant. The Theatre was thrown open from front to rear, (the wings of the stage having been removed,) and was beautifully and appropriately ornamented, to represent Boz's Curiosity Shop. The number of persons present could heardly have been less than 5,000, of whom a fair proportion were ladies, in all their balNroom breavery. Mr. and Mrs. Dickens entered a little before ten, and were greeted with hearty cheers.

The Tableaux were well received, and* every thing, in fine went, off to the satisfaction of every body preeent.—American.

SCOURS IK ANIMALS.—A writer in the Maine Farmer, recommends for this disease finely pulverised bone. We have never seen it tried, but from the nature of the substances that constitute bone, such as lime to correct too great acidity, and gelatine to smooth the irritated surface*, it is probable its employment would be useful.

UNPROFITABLE.—The books of the British Queen and President Steamship Company show a loss of nearly fifty thousand doilars. is

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$81,180 00

667,943 00

$749,123 00

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Canal lands, estimated for 1842 at 3. Sales of lands (east of Tippecanoe) second selections 4. Balances in toll collector's hands, Nov. 1st, 1841, 5. Water rents due Mov. 1841, G. Interest on loans of 3d installment Surplus Revenue in hands of Sinking Fund Commissioners. 7. Water rents for the year 1842, 8. Tolls from the public works after contingencies of collection,

30,000 00

10,000 00

2,742 32

24,000 00

9.265 59

30, 000 00

Total of estimated means, $136,727 69 Under the revenue law of 11st year 30 cents on on the valuation of caoh $400 of taxable property was set upait for Intern.il Improvement purposes but this fund will doubtless be paid in Treasury notes and cannot be so applied, so that the committee havo not thought it proper to place any part of the revenue as means to meet interest oil public debt.

RECAPITULATION.

Annual liability for interest as above is $749,123 00 The means provided to meet this debt amount to 136,737 69

Leaving a deficit in tho means to meet the annual interest on the public debt of $612,395 31