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'MNMKtifrWSCVIlS- eyyrewrWt'iVC'-sr b. Kr a wmmmt be determined in favor of the plaintiff, the project of shinptasterism in the bud, So it is better fyr tbe free black" judgement shall be rendered for the prin- accompanied by the praiseworthy circalar '-l: cipal sum due, on such note, bill, of the Attorney General, giving practical ticket or paper, together with interest force and efficiency to the laws, and pro-thereon at the rate herein after provided tecting the people frouj enduring a second for, and full costs. time that worst of evils, a worthless and Section 4. Tbe drswer and accep- degraded currency. Who with such an lor of any such note, bill, check, ticker array of testimony before 1 him, can for a or paper, and every persoa or body corpo- moment doubt that Pennsylvanians have he regards himself or his a slaveholdiog slate, and it is also for the atate itself that he should early as possible.

Nor will this sebeme conflict Colonization Society; as the colored Trinidad at anytime, is free to leave when he has acquired wealth, "can been immeasurably the gainers by change of tulers. The second great Fire in Mobile. The following further particulars of the fire mentioned in our paper on Saturday are from the New York papers Mobile, 9th October. The city is again on fire. About half past 2 oclock this morning, the Mansion House was in flames; the whole block of buildings of Eslava the Planters Bank i9 burnt; we depend cpon he strength of the uhsi; lhes are Df solid sheaf iron riitled aad lhen lhick brlck wajs a and practised under writs of quo warranto; and in case of a verdict for the commonwealth, the court, instead of the usual judgment ia such cases, shall have power to inflict a penalty not exceediog fire thousand dollars, and to adjudge the charter and corporate power of Buch bank, or other incorporated company, thenceforth subject to be forfeited, annulled, and de- dared, for ever void by the legislature, Section 6.

It shall. and may be law-, ful for any justice of thq peace, in every case where a second suit shall be brought against any incorporated road, bridge or canal company, after a judgment under this act against such company, to call to hia aid any other justice of the peace of the same county, and they shall issue a precept directed to any constable, commanding him to summon five disinterested and judicious freeholders, named by said justices, to meet at a certain time and place, in the said precept to be mentioned of which meeting notice shall be given to the keeper of the gate or turnpike nearest (hereto, and the said justices shall then and there, by the oaths or affirmations, of the said freeholders, inquire whether such company or its officers, or any of them, after a judgment lawfully rendered against such company or its officers, or any of them, under this act, shall have a second lime made, issued, re-issued, circulated, received, or paid any note, ticket, or engagement of credit not authorized by law, or contrary to the -provisions of this act, and shall cause an kiquisition lo be made under1 their handstand seals, and under the hands and seals of the said firee- rate who shall indorse or in any way put his or their name upon the same, shall be liable to pay to any holder thereof, together with the principal sum expressed therein, interest thereon to be calculated at and after the rate of twenty per cent, per annum, from the time when such note, bill, check, ticket or paper was first issued, and that without any demand upon the drawer, or acceptor or any indorser or party to the same. Section 5. Any person or persons, or body corporate, who shall have paid away, passed, exchanged or transferred, any such note, bdl. check, or pa per, shall be hable to any holder hereof, and shall pay to him or her, together with4 the principal sum expressed therein, interest thereon to be calculated at, and after the rate of twenty per cent, per annum from the time when such note, bill, check, ticket or paper, was fiist issued, and that without any demand un the drawer or acceptor, or any indorser, or party to the same.

Section 6. In the trial or hearing of any suit or action, which may be brought upon any such note, bill, check, ticket or paper, if the time when the same was first issued, shall not be clearly proved, then the same shall be deemed, and taken to have been first issued one year before the bringing of auch suit or action, and interest shall be calculated thereon at the rate of twenty per cent, accordingly. From the Keystone. Porter and Kitncr. THE DIFFERENCE.

Perhaps no single fact more strikingly exemplifies the superior policy of the present Executive of our state, over that of his blundering and condemned predecessor, than their relative bearing under the pecuniary difficulties produced by the suspension of specie payments in the summer of 1837, when the federal governor was in power, and the suspension of the ptesent day, when a democratic Executive wields tbe helm. No sooner had the first suspension been announced, than almost every petty corporation in the Commonwealth, from that of the city-of Philadelphia, down to the meanest watering company of the most obscure village, flooded the country with irredeemable paper promises, in the shape calling for almost every intermediate sum from three dollars down to six and a quarter cents. This evil and pernicious example being suffered to pass with impunity, private individuals, influenced by the love of filthy lucre, deemed it one worthy of imitation, and in a brief period we found hundreds of citizens, wholly irresponsible in a pecuniary point of view, adding their mite to the shinplaster era, and flooding their respective neighborhoods with a litter of abominable rag promises, which they were unaht.e and unwilling ever to redeem. All these tranbeendant evils' it will be remembered, were inflicted upon the community in contravention of the positive injunctions of an act of assembly, prohibiting tae issue of any notes, tick- similitude of etc, or other papers in the bank notes, under the denomination of fire dollars, and making their issue and circulation a PENAL OFFENCE. The laws were disregarded openly and fla- grnntly violated by men in office and az out of office.

Where stood your federal Governor, Joseph Ritner, and his i Wyoming Anthradlc ICrglon. A correspondent of the Philadelphia North American furnishes the following description of the Anthracite Coat region of Wyoming Valley. The opening of the Tide Water Canal will afford us full opportunity of judging of the quality of the fuel from that quarter. You with to get the idea ol'the coal as it lies in the valley of Wyoming, which is one great store houte of coal. Conceive of it as a great basin, formed of coal.

The bottom and aiJea are coal. Over the but-tom is the soil and the river Susqtiehao. na. Tbe sides extend up the mountains on each side some 6 or 800 feet. If, then you want to draw coal out of this abundance, you opeq a mine at tho foot of the hill and go into the mountain at an ascent of about nine degrees.

This will csrry off all the water, and allow your loaded cars to run out of their own accord. Suppose now you have opened the mine and got to the coal. You begin to go into the mountain. Tbe coal here is supposed, as far as can be ascertained, to lay in fine layers or veins, between each of which is a rock of hard sandstone, from four to fiftjf feel in thicknesa.jmd a thin layer ol slate. Tl.i smooth flat rock is the roof of youi1 mine; and as you go in, it alopes, or, dip as they call it, -wards you, at an angle of fioni 0 to 45 degrees.

The uppermost vein, and the only one which has been touched in this region, is 26 feet thick, of pure, beautiful, solid coal. Every square yard nukes a ton, and every acre of ground yields 43,000 tons. The next or second vein is supposed lo lie a-bout 18 feet; the third 14, the fourth 10, and the fifth 6 feei. If ibis estimate be founded in truth, then every acre will yield at least 1 10,000 tons. Suppose the Valley to contain 54,000 square acres, and that the coal lies beneath it in this ratio, and suppose loo, it is tvorih only six cents a ton as it now lies in tho mine, then the mineral wealth of this valley alone, is worth at least three hundred and fifty millions of dollars! What a sloie house! But have they reason to think this is so? I answer they have opened mines in at least 120 different places, from which they lisvo taken more or less, and ao far the results are the same.

But the cdal is actually worth 5 cents a ton in the mine. It coals but 33 cents to mine it, and from that up to 50 cents at the high eat. They do not Mine in here, they quarry it, which gives these mines a vast superiority over most others. I will explain. You go 'into the daik, small mouth, and grope your way along in the dark as well as you can.

You may be in a mine just commenced, like that of the Baltimore companys at Wilkesbarre, or the mine at Carbondale under the village. Suppose the latter. You can ridq in the ears as they go in, if you choose. You get into one of these smutty caverns, and the boy behind pushes you in. He tells you to "hold dow your head, and every few moments you hear the same song, Vitold down your head.

You hold it down till your very neck aches, and you are smothering in the cold dark place, and you think you will carefully look up and see where you are. You raise your head in the dark, and thump it strikes a rock, and the boy sings out "hold down your bead, but the fire has been struck so ss to fly out of your eyes, and you have no further need of the exhortation. The most humble man could not appear more humble than you do. After riding and riding in the dark till you have got in about three quarters of a mile, you begin to hear voices and whispers, and all manner of unearthly sounds. You go onward, and by and by you aee little lights dancing about seeming to mnvu of themselves, as you can see nothing else.

These are little lamp stuck into the hats of miners like cockades. But soon you see the whole region filled with white eyes! and at last, the dim forms of men begin to be developed. These are the miners. They pick under the layer of coal with pickaxt-a till they have got somewhat under, and then going up they drill a holts and blast it with powder, A single blast sometimes will bring off fitly and even sixty tons. From this main channel, they branch off into chambers on each side ad litilum.

At Carbondale these chambers thus excavated are about 63 acres, while tbe largest near Wilkebarre as yet occupy not over three or four sere. About one sixth of the coal is left in pillars to support the roof, and even then, sometimes falls in, lo a great extent. At you come toward the lights, in sev. eral of ike mines, you seem to be a world of diamonds and jewels. Ttiv round aad the notes of the bank, kept in an iron chest, in the Cashier's vault; and the funds of the bank in the teller's vault, also in an iron chest.

Half past ten oclock The fire is fully suppressed and the general impression is, that the property in tbe vaults of the bank is safe. The cashier and tejler being absent with the keys, the vaults could not be reached in time. The Bank notes aud bills receivable, and all other valuable papers not in the vaults, were saved. This, as also yesterdays conflagration, is no doubt the work of a gang of desperadoes who infest our apparently doomed ciiy. Hitchcocks large Hotel is burned to the ground.

Extract of another letter We bad hardly got through giving you an account of the fire the night before last, when we have to inform you that last night another fire out in the Mansion House, and consumed that building with the large Government-street Hotel, the Market House, that splendid edifice the Planters and Merchants' Bank the books and papers of which, we are happy to learn, has been saved; all the valuable Eslava property on Royal street, up Government-street to Dr. Roberts corner. The fire is still raging, and God only knows when it will stop. Several attempts were made to burn Col Lewis Jndsons properly in Water and Commerce-streets. Some six or seven whites have been taken up on suspicion.

The Post Office, you know was in the Mansion House. The papers, we believe, are saved. Extract of another. Another conflagration last night. It appears that the devils are determined to burn up the whole city.

I wrote you yesterday about the fire that occurred the night before, when there were thirteen blocks of wooden buildings burned, but last night the fire commenced in the third story of the Mansion House, which was total'y consumed, as the Planters and Merchants Bank, the new hotel of Hitchcocks, in Government street; a.I on Royal, between Government and Conti, to the old guardhouse, all on Government up to Roberts house, and all in front of the Mansion A great many more attempts were mafle'to fire several other places the Chronicle office, was attempted. I will desenbe to you the boundaries of the previous fire. It commenced in the rear of the old theatre, burnt all on the north side of Conti street, up to the Catholic Church, and crossed to the Methodist Church, all on the south side of St-. Mirhael street, down to St. Joachim" street all on the south side of St.

Francis street, the other side of the city square iNIoiiiwe. 1'tdnaL Dimocrmt. M. W.CoolUogh 1188 I jr. 1 197 No foderal opposition.

Joim flick 1197) Lehigh. 1973 I C. W.Weyaud 1959 If. Selpel Cumberland. A.

A MKInnay 2333 I 8. Piper 2335 Lycoming. 1471 1 kAenl Clearfield. Bradford David r. BrHow 2227 Mercer M.

Bkur II. Faftl 1630 1537 1474 113 Brooar J. II. UrerV 2045 SENATORIAL DISTRICTS. 1 District, Philadelphia city.

Dem. ed. 3653 Speck man 5534 Federal majority 1884. 3d DietricL Montgomery Chester Delaware. J.

B. Sterigere N. P. Hobart Menthomery 3464 Charter 41oO Delaware I131 8833 7416 Democratic majority 1389. Cth District, Lancaster and York.

Christian Keesy. T. E. Cochran. York, 2849 Lancaster, 4080 6929 7323 Federal majority 399! 10th, Northampton and Lehigh, Abraham Short.

Wtm Eckart, JS5T" SS 'iff 4152 2674 Democratic majority 1478! 12th, Centre, Northumberland, Clinton, and Lycomifig. Fleming. 607 1776 Hasson 1506 226 Centre, Northumbertuud, ('limon, Lyrommg 1567 107 3950 lf-39 Ik.th democrats no federal tondidute in the field. i 16ih, Westmoreland. J.tJ.

Plumcr, 2357 Nooir.m T-R 3557 3902 1202 1033 Allegheny, llutfer, 4759 MW Clarke, abolitionial, had 161 rote IQ Allegheny Federal majority 3Ji. 23d, Armetrong, Indiana, Clearfield, Clarion, and Cambria. Findtuy Patteraon, Cambria, Armstrong, Indians, Ctssrfield, Clarion, 770 511 645 Democratic majority. 76 From the Key it one. Collector at Columbia.

FEDERALCALUMNY CONTUADIC-TED. The Chronicle and other kindred prints hare done Iht collector of toll at Colum-bia the groat injutlice lo decry him as a defaulter to the amount of sixteen eighteen thousand dollars. The allegation ia infomoualy faltc, and we hare it our power, to meet it with an unant war able refutation. So far from thia being the caae, the collccior there haa OVERPAID his account the turn of fwur hundred and thirty nine dollara and tvranty two rente, at it fully proren by the subjoined official certificates emanating from the cacal eomroiaiionera and the atate treasurers office. VV ill the federal calumniators, who hare re-published Ihw faleahooda of their leaders, hare the magnanimity to retract their in'amous mis statements, now that they are thus Unanswerably sspoaed and nailed to the counter.

We shall tea. Canal Commiasionert Room, Suta Capitol, Harrisburg, Oct. 1833. I hareby certify, that it appears from the weeklj reports made to this office by James Patton, collector at Columbia, that tha lolls collected by him from the period be entered upon the duties of his office to the 16th of October, 1839. is one hundred and eighty two thousand four hundred and twenty eight dollara and eighty four cents.

THOMAS I- WILSON, Secretary. Pennsylvania SS. I hereby certify that James Patton, collector at Columbia, has paid into the treasury office of Pa. one hundred and eighty two thousand eight hundred and sixty sight dollars and six cents as collector aforesaid up to the lOili October 1839. In lealimony whereof have '5 hereunto ael my hand and a V'i t) fixed the teal of said treasury toffies thia twenty fifili day of October 1839.

JOHN NE1LSON, for D. Sturgeon, State Treasurer. 4 From the Baltimore Republican. DEMOCRACY AGAIN TRIUMPH ANT 1 1 An election was held yesterday, in this city, for the choice of two members from each Ward, to the First Braneh of the City Council. The Democrats have elected their candidates in seven out if the 14 Watds, giving us a majority of four.

The Second Branch, which was elected Net year, contains a Whig majority td 2 The Damoeratic majority in joint ballot, by which the Mayors nominations ol officers have to be confirmed, will be two. The Monumental city ia redeemed. EX-PRESIDENT JACKSON -Sev rial papers have contained a aiatemet of tha reported death ol Ex President Jack-son. It is accompanied with a statement of bis having been for some time sick, and comas by way of Philadelphia. was not so airk as to prevent bta being in attendance at the inauguration of Gov.

Polk the Nashville papers of the 1 6th io alant mention nothing of his death, and we have no doubt that the report is en tirely without foundation. (KrThe Philadelphia "World, an opposition paper, holds the following language. The World seems lo have beep ostracised by the Whigs, because it iaapt at intervals, to speak the truth: The Attorney General undthe Banks. The Attorney 'Generala Deputies, Messrs. Barton and Brooke, have addressed a circular letter to each of the banks of this city and county, saying it is understood that each of them has issued, paid or transferred, bank, notes, bills or tickets for less than five dollars, and requesting each to state if it designs to persist' in such proceeding, and adding that if it be repeated, prosecutions will be instituted.

"IFe again ask our readers lo notice iht contrast between the present and late Stale goremment in relation to this dotation of the taw. IN 1837, THE OBJECT OF THE PUBLIC OFFICERS SEEMED TO BE THE DEFEAT OF THE LAW; BUT NOW TI1EIB OBJECT 13 ITS ENFORCEMENT. This is exactly what the people require-and will support. While the laws exist, they should he maintained; and the best mode by which public confidence is to maintain the laws faithfully and fearlessly. The evils of the banking system have become intolerable, and he is the best patriot who will strive most lo remove them by temperate remedies.

A great evil of the system is too much paper and too little coin. 'Let the paper be restrained, and the coin will -multiply. A new issue of shin plasters would banish cve- I Act of 22d March, 1817. An act to prevent the making, isaaing, re-iaining and circulating certain description of note and tickets in the nature of bank notes, and for other purposes. Whereas, Notes and tickets in tbe nature of bank notes have been issued, as well by individuals as by corporations not established for the purpose of banking; And whereas the circulation of all notes of a small denomitation has been productive of inconvenience, fraud and loss to the public, and has a tendency to prevent or retard the gradual and speedy restoration of aspecie currency Section 1.

No bank or office of dit-counl and deposit within this commonwealth, shall make, issue, re-issue or circulate any hank note, promissory note, ticket or engagement of credit in the nature of- a bank note, and not such bank shall receive any such notes, tickets or engagements, other than those made or issued by itself, or under its ownimmedi authority, and that for the mere pur- poce of cancelling or destroying the same forthwith, of a Itss denomination than one doliar under the penality of twenty-five dollars for each and every such note so made, issued, re-issued, cucuialed, paid or received, to be recovered by any person or persons suing for the same, before any alderman or justice of the peace, within this commonwealth, as debts under one hundred dollars are by law recoverable. Section 2. No incorporated body, public officer, association or partnership, or private individual, other than such as have been expressly incorporated or established for the purpose of backing, shall make, issue, re-issue or circulate any promissory note, ticket or engagement of credit, in the nature of a bank note, of any denomination or amount whatsoever, other than such as have been issued by banks lawfully and expressly established and from and after the first day of May next, no tuch incorporated body, public officer, association or partnership, shall receive any such note, ticket or engagement of credit, other than those above excepted, or those.rnade and issued by it or himself, or under its or his immediate authority, and that for the mere purpose of cancelling or destroying the same, under the penalty, in the case of a public officer, of ten dollars, and in lire case of a corpora-tion, association or partnership, fifty dollars for each and every note so made, issued, re issued, circulated, paid or received, to be recovered by any person or persons ruing for the same, before any alderman or justice of the peace within this commonwealth, as debts iindtr one hundred dollars are by law recoverable. Section 3. The mode of proceeding against any bank or other corporation un der this act, shall be by summons served on the president, cashier or other chief officer, director or manager of such bank or corporation, and where judgment shall be entered thereon, such judgment shall be as well against such hank or corpora lion, as against such president, cashier, chief officer, manager or director, or so rnmy of them severally, whereon such service shall hare been made, and execution may thereupon forthwith issue, as well against such bank or corporation, to be levied upon any debts due to them, as upon the shares of their capital stock or other property, real, personal or mixed, and against each such president, cashier, clii officer, director or manager, to be levied on his personal or real propt rty, or if a sufficiency thereof cannot found, or plaintiff'shall so require, against their and each of their persons, to be proceeded on ns is usual in the case of a capias ad satisfaciendum.

Section 4. For a second and each subsequent act of making, issuing, re-issuing, circulating, passing or receiving, otherwise than is herein before excepted, any of the notes, tickets nr engagements of credit aforesaid, the penally or sum to be recovered, shall be increased in an a-mount equal to the original penality or sum mentioned in the first section of this act, but shall in no case exceed fifty d-l-laison an individual not a president, cashier, chief officer, director or manager of any bank or corporation, association or partnership, or five hundred dollars in the case of such bank or corporation, association or partnership, any such penally or debt to he recovered, where itexceeds one. hundred dollars, before the Court of Common Pleas of the proper county, in the. manner and by means of process, judgment and execution, as is described in the i second section of this act; and all sums recovered under this act shall be one half i thereof paid to the person or persons sii- ing for the same, to his or their own use, and the other half into the hands of the treasurer or county commissioners of the county wherein the recovery shall be had for the use thereof: Provided always That r.o public officer or private individual shall be excluded from the performance of his duties or from being a 'competent witness in. any suit under this act, by reason of his being subject to the payment of County rates and levies therein, jor by reason of one moiety of the sums to fe-covered, being payable to the cjdniy treasurer or commissioners as is herein before directed.

Section 5. Whenever judgment shall have been had against any such bank or corjioration, in any two suits in the court of common pleas, or before two different justices of the peace, and certified copies or, transcripts of such judgments filed with the piothouotary of the court of common pleas of the proper county, and tbe same should have remained unpaid for three month, it shatkbe the duty of the attorney general, or his deputy in such county, to file in the said court an information in the nature of a quo warranto tbe process awarded on which shall bd served by the sheriff or his deputy, on the president, cashier, or other chief officer, or any director, or manager of suchWank or corporation, and on a return oft service, in manner aforesaid, to the satisfaction of such court, they shall proceed therein a nearly as may be, in the manner directed ry from circulation. Every oo' citizen wilt aid the officers in enforcing the penal statues against small notes. depart with th dena for the land of kis ancestors, a. -l ancestors.

As tk schools of Trinidad are-geod, miwioniriL may there be educated for tbe purpose evangelizing Africa, and ef replanting th African race on its original soil. So i lead of jarring with the American aehei it is in entire unison with its purposes aad objects. Norfolk Beacon. Imprisonment Ruiz and Mont, The New York pipers give the foUowiDff as the affidavits upon which the writs were issued' by Judge Ingraham of the Common Fleas, and Chief Justice Jones of the Supreme Court in Connecticut for the arrest of Signora Rui and Montez who claim the blacks of the Amistad. ij appears that they refused to find bad and were committed.

Theodore Sedgwick jr. is counsel for tbe Africans. State of Connecticut, County of New Haven, ss. New Haven, Oct. 7, 1859.

Fonni, a colored man, depoeeth and saith. That he was born at Yilnuh a town of Bumbeh, in Africa; that his kin was Kabandn; that he was sold to the Spaniards at Lomboko about six months ago; that be was brought from Lomboko to Havana and landed by night at a village near the city of Havana, where he was kept five days; that he was then taken to another village and kept there five days more; that he was forced on board the vessel at Havana which brought him here; that on board the vessel he bad not enough to eat or drink, only two potatoes and one plaintain twice a day, and half a tea cup of water morning and evening; that be asked for more water and was re fused; that for stealing water be was severely flogged, that he was held down on a piece of timber by four men, and tha: Pope, who claims to be his master, and the cook, each gave him twelve lashes; that powder, salt and rum were applied to hia wounds; that tbe flogging was repea ted four times; that Kimbo, Picb, Moru, Yaboi and Burnah was punished in the same manner; that the marks of his wounds are still to be seen. X. State of Connecticut, County of New Haven, ss. New Haven, Oct.

7, 1839. Kimbo, a colored msn, deposeth and saith That he was born at Mankobah, town of in the Mendi country, in Africa, that he was sold to a Spaniard at Lomboko, more than fix months ago, that he was brought front Lomboko to Havana more than six months ago, that he was landed by night at a small village near Havana, where he was kept five nights, thence removed to another village, where he was kept fire nights more, that he as then carried by force on board the vessel in which he came to this eoantry, that ow board llie vessel he bad not half enough far eit'snd di ink, one plantain- twice day, half a teacup of water morning and evening, that asking for more water he was driven back wiib a whip, that the Spaniards washed their own clothes in fresh water, that for stealing some water be received a severe beating, and was held down ever a piece of timber, and beaten with twemj-three lashes on the back, that thia was done by Pepe, who bought bim (his master) the cook, Antonio, andanother uniting; (hat this flogging was repeated morning and evening two days, that powder and rum were applied to hia wounds, that Pepe told the sailors to do this, that Pepe struck him four times, and that the marks are still visible, and that Yaboi, Fonni, and Burnah were beaten in like manner. X. The above named deponent subscribed this affidavit by making the annexed mark in my presence, and tbe said affidavit was taken by me tbe day, year aad place above written, by the aid of James Covey, who was sworn as interpreter, and nterpreted tbe questions put to said deponent, and his answers thereto under oath, and said deponent declared that the said affidavit was true and that God knew it to be. true, before me, SAMUEL J.

HITCHCOCK, Judge of New Haven County Court. The Collector at Columbia, The Harrisburg Chronicle Las published, and the other Federal prints have-copied, a most malignant falsehood ia reference to Msj. James Patton, the gentlemanly Collector at Columbia. They assert that he a. defaulter ia the aura eighteen thousand dollars! A more baseless calumny was never fabricated.

The fact is Maor Patton has overpaid his account and is bow prepared to exhibit bis vouchers to that effect. There is do gentleman in tbe employ of the State, who is more correct in the discharge of. tbe duties of bis office; -and there is certainly none who possesses public confidence in a larger degree. Tbe quantity of wheat raised the put year in New Hampshire, is estimated at a bushel and a half for each inhabitant. In Michigan, says the Free Picas, they have raised, more than twenty bushel to each man, woman and child in tbe state.

A great Man. In a New Hampshire newspaper, published more than fiff years ago, I find an account of Dependence Bickford, of Newington, who died in 1782, aged 50. He measured 7i feft across tbe breast, and weighed about 700 pounds. He was drawn, to his grave a sled by fouroxen, and it! required 1 men to put him on. George M.

Dallas, Minister to Ro sia, and family, arrived io New York on Monday of last week. His fir ends i Pennsylvania, will bo glad to learn lht he is in excellent health, hold ers, and if the said company or its officers, or any of them, shall be found by the said inquisition to have a second time made, issued, re-issued, circulated, received or paid any note, ticket or engagement of credit not authorised by law, or contrary to the provisions of this act, they shall so certify, and send one copy of the said inquisition to each turnpike or gate-keeper in the proper county, or in case of a bridge between two counties to the toll gatherers, if such there be, at each end thereof, and from thenceforth -all tolls which might otherwise have been demanded by reason of the use or passage on, tfirough, or over such road, canal or biidge, shall be suspended: Provided Such suspension shall not, in the first instance, continue more than one week, for the second, not more than two weeks, for the third, thiee, and for each subsequent off. -nee, one caliendar month: Pro vided also, That no certiorari shall be issued out of any court of record within this commonwealth against any proceedings had before aoy justice of the peace, under the provisions of this art, but in all cases either party may appeal from their proceedings to the next court of common pleas. Section 7. So much of any act of assembly heretofore passed, as deprives or prevents the holder of any note, ticket or engagement of credit in the nature of a bank note, from recovering from any individual, bank oi corporation, association or partnership, by whom, or by any of whose office is or agents, the same bas been made, signed or issued, by reason of such note having been made, signed, or issued, without, nr in contradiction to law, is hereby repealed; and the holder of every such note shall have the same legal remedy for the recovery of the amount thereof, from the or parties, whether corporate, association or partnership, or individual, who made, signed, or issued the same, as Can, by the provisions of tins act, or by the existing laws of this commonwealth, be had on a similar note, I ticket, or engagement of credit, that has been lawfully issued.

Section 8. From and aftpr the first day of October next, no incorporated 1 bank wiihm this commonwealth shall, un der the penalties imposed by this make, issue, or circulate any notes denomination less than five dollars. act, of a Act of 12th April, 1828. An act concerning email notes for the payment of money. Section 1.

From and after the first day of January next, it shall not be lawful for any person or persona, or body corporate, with the intention to create or put in circulation, or continue in circulation a paper circulating medium, to issue, cii-culale, or directly or indirectly cause io be issued or circulated, any note, bill, check, ticket or paper, purporting or evidencing, or intended to purport or evidence, tiiat any sum less than fire dollars will be paid to the order of any person, or any person receiving or holding such note bill, check, ticket or paper, or to tho bearer of the same, or that it will be received in payment of any debt or demand, or that the bearer of the same or any peison receiving or holding the same, will be entitled to receive any goods. or effects' of the value of any sura less than five dollars and from and after the said first day of January next, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons or body corpoiate, to make, issue or pay away, pass, exchange or transfer or cause to be made, issued, pawl a-way, passed, exchanged or transferred, any bank note, bill, ticket or paper, purporting to be a bank note, of the nature, character or appearance of a bank note, or calculated for circulation as a hank note, of any less denomination than five dollars. Section 2. Any and every person and persons and body. corporate offending a-gainst any of the piovisions of the first section of this act shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum ot five dollars, to be recovered by any person su.

ing for the same, as debts of like amnuol are by law recoverable, one half for his own use, and the otbet half to be for the use of the overseers, guardians or directors of the poor of the city, county, district or township within which such offence shall have been Committed. Section 3. No such note, bill, check, ticket or paper, mentioned in the first section of this act, shall be held or taken to be void or of null effect, by reason thereof, but all suits actions may be brought and sustained 6n such note, bill, check, ticket or paper, any thing herein contain- i t. i 1 i consti-lutionii! adviser, William Buckshot Reed, at this crisis? Did they, in pursuance of their obligations solemnly attested upon he Holy Evangelists, step forward and Hake rare that the laws be faithfully ex. tout'd? Did they, as it was their sworn duly, call the transgressors of the law to account, and carry its violsted provisions into effect? Did they, as good abut I3 a million citizens and faithful officers, come to the relief of an abandoned commonwealth and exercise this important branch of iheir official duty? 'Our own experience alas, furnishes the answer to ihpse interrogatories.

It is yet fresh in our recollection that for upward of fifteen months was the reign of sliinplasterism permitted to continue in Pennsylvania and not a breath of against it by the patriotic executive of the state. At EMIGRATION TO TRINIDAD, the end of this perjod. when we etood up Mr. R. SouUer, jr.

is prepared to de-on the eve of the election which was to de- spatch vessels to Trinidad with the per-cide the political fortunes of the Ritner sons and effects of such free blacks as may dynasty, it is true, the scales seemed to wish to reside on that island. Trinidad have fallen as if by miracle from the eyes is a British island, about tea degrees north of our modern Rip Van Winkle and a of the equator, where frost and snow are specious gull-trap in the shape of an ex-! unknown, and where flowers are in bloom post-facto proclamation was put forth un- all the year long. Its soil is good and is der his hand and the great seal of the I devoted to tbe cultivation of sugar, cocoa state, for the first time requiring an end coffee, and atl the delicious fruits as well to be pot to these open infractions of, as useful vegetables with which a tropical the spirit of the laws and threatening climate abounds. those who had issued notes There are no slaves frrTrinidad and nomination than five dollars with his royal the free black man will be enthled to all displeasure, if they failed in redeeming the privileges of a British subject. The them within a given period.

This.it councel of the island is composed of white up to Beans house. Our cily is at present aboot half laid in ashes and ruin. They have a number of persons up on suspicion, but what it will amount to there is no telling. The place is nothing bat smoke and ashes. The building-of the Planters and Merchants Bank cost $160,000, and the Mansion House was valued at $125,000 ensured for $98,000.

The total loss of dollars. The aggregate loss by the great fire of the 7lh, is estimated at 1,500,000 dollars. Upwards of twenty houses were blown up. and about- one thousand persons rendered houseless, and almost every article of their property destroyed. The building were of wood, with only four or five exceptions, and none of the wholesale dealers or commission merchants suffered.

will also be remembered, took place after trie banks Lad of tbeir own accord concluded to resume specie payments, an event which of itself, without tbe aid of the gull-trap proclamation, would have banished sbinplasters and their concomitant evils most effectually from existence. How strikingly different the prompt, unhesitating and efficient course of Governor Porter, and tbe present Attorney General, in the crises which at present rests upon us! How marked and significant the contrast! Do they foM their arms in Bupine indifference for a year and upwards, mere "lookers on in Venice, while the spirit of cupidity lays waste the most sacred statutes and entails evils upon the community, compared with which war, pestilence and famine would almost have been a blessing? Far-far from it. The intelligence of the second suspension of specie payments reaches the seat of government one day and the next morning the mails bear to and colored members, and the public schools are excellent. -A gentleman who recently visited the Island, informs us that there are at least 1500 children in the different schools ir. one town The climate is well adapted to the constitution of the black.

There aie several colored, men there who own large sugar estates and who are reputed highly respectable. VVe doubt not that the encouragement held out to free blacks to reside on the island- is more flattering than in any other while we wish wfell enough to Trinidad, we confess that our object in promoting emigration to that island, is to benefit our own State by ridding our soil of the free black poulpation. In a slavebol ding country the free black and the slave cannot coalesce without probable injury to one of the parties or to the wliite population, and the free black man, while be possesses tome of the privileges of free dom to such a degree as to awaken the sensibilities of the slave, can never attain nor his offspring after him, to the consideration and character of a real freeman. ed, to the contrary notwithstanding; and quarter of our commonwealth the admira-m such suits or actions, if the same stfalljble proclamation of Gov. Porter nipping every ir in.