The Springfield Daily Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

March 18, 1857

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The Springfield Daily Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

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Wednesday, March 18, 1857

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ROM BOSTON Patent Ambrotypes Photogrptu Advantage of Having Three John Sprague has escaped punishment at Portland Me by being proved more guilty than he was charged with in the indictment He was tried by the supreme court for bigamy last week and the fact of bis having had two wives was clearly established when his counsel introduced evidence to prove that he already had one wife when married to the other two in fact that he had three wives at once and as the indictment was based upon the assumption that the second marriage the first and legal marriage it was contended that as to the last marriages considered by themselves no bigamy was committed be" cause Sprague was the legal husband of neither The judge sustained this position the case was noZ and the man who was charged with having two wives got clear by proving that he had three Great and wonderful is the law The reported successes of Walk lieutenants Lockridge and Titus against the Costa Ricans on the San Juan river Nicara gua are considerably let down by the latest ac counts The engagement at Point amount ed to nothing and the ista Ricans retreated in good order losing no arms and suffering node feat Castillo wjs not taken and Col Lockridge did not capture 400 rifles The truth stripped of all ornament seems to be that the filibusters suc ceeded in getting up the river as far as the island of San Carlos that the fort of that name in the possession of the Costa Ricans was prepared to give them a warm reception and that the plan of the Costa Ricans was to allow the filibusters to proceed a certain distance up the river and then cut off their retreat and use them up at their leisure Nothing decisive can be known until the arrival of the next steamer about a week hence The Ball Last St day the and the Irish Mutual benevo lent ball in the evening made up the total observ ance of the anniversary of patron saint in this city yesterday The morning exercises were to be seen all along the streets the even were visible only to those who were ticketed at the City Hall door There were about a hun dred couples on the floor at the ball and per haps three hundred in the galleries looking on so that the attendance was fully up to any honest expectations and the funds of the society are doubtless to be visibly strengthened thereby The Gemunders furnished the music and Hunt Holmes the table and it would be needless to commend either or attest further to the suc cess of the ball than to say that everything was conducted regularly and in order and left no cause of fault finding to any one SPRINGIELD MASS WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 18 1657 Mr Brown who comes to Springfield with an approved reputation propos es to give instruction in the desirable accomplish ment of writing short hand on the phonetic sys tem It takes precedence of all other systems of short hand writing Mr rooms are at Mrs Court street The Argumentum ad Irishman We learn that an eloquent Catholic priest in attempt" ing to persuade his flock to avoid the ball room on Saint day in the evening closed his appeal this perfectly conclusive and to an Irishman knock down and drag out argument: Irishman who goes to that ball is no better than a No anathema could add to the force of that The Stoughton Wife Poisoning The inquest in the case of Mrs Briggs at Stoughton was continued on Tuesday A fur ther communication was received from Dr Jack son stating that he had discovered more remains of arsenic in the parts sent him for examination and believed that she died of that poison Asa Holbrook testified that on the 23d ofebru ary Briggs endeavored to hire him to go to Bos tonto purchase arsenic for him that he refused to go and having the impression that Briggs in tended to poison his wife went home and wrote down the substance of the conversation with Briggs He produced the record Briggs re quested him to say nothing about the affair Asa Holbrook father of the previous witness also testified that Briggs had asked him to procure poison for him which he said he wished to use to poison dogs There was also testimony in respect to intimacy with Miss J)rake which he carried so far as to sit with his arm around her waist in presence of his wife giving great offence to the latter and leading to hard words on both sides Mrs Briggs was a sister of Mrs Hardy the large woman who went from Wilton Maine to museum Briggs is a shoemaker ranklin and The next ag ricultural fair at Northampton occurs on Wednes day and Thursday October 7th and and the one at Amherst on Wednesday and Thursday October 14th and 15th The Northampton young temperance society have wisely chosen George Wright president with A Clark secretary and The Sunderland bridge company advertise for proposals for rebuilding that portion of the bridge carried off in the late freshet to be received till the The old tav ern stand at Corner Montague owned by Dr Cooke and occupied by George Burnham was damaged by fire on Monday week to the extent of $200 fully The store of Allen Sons at Greenfield was robbed of over 8200 worth of cutlery and hardware last week riday ranklin Williams of Sunderland has a Durham bull calf ten months old which weighs seven hundred The lorence village dramatic company have been giving acceptable entertainments at Northamp Sawin Jr of Greenfield has finished a beautiful and elaborate picture of Pittsfield the first of six pictures of as many of the prominent towns in Western Massachusetts this picture is already sold to a gentleman in Pittsfield for 8100 Bliss of Hatfield has been appointed a deputy The exhibition of the North ampton high school last week Thursday even ing was very successful EdwardH Raynortook the first prize for declamation and Helen Shep herd the first for Judson Har ris and Dexter Burt have been committed to jail to await trial for stealing $100 from the residence of Joseph Smith at Hatfield while the family were at church on a recent Sunday and Daniel Geer of Sou hampton for violence to a conduct or and indecent actions in the cars of the Con necticut river railroad has been sent to jail for twenty days and to stay longer in default of his fines The first congregational parish at North ampton meet to day to choose between several prominent candidates for the vacant pastorate Knnsaa Notes The St Louis correspondent re ports that some of gang are about in the vicinity of Pottawotomie and re cently robbed and almost hilled one Sherman known as Dutch Henry The account appears very much like those got up last spring to excite hostility to the free state men Near the close of the session of the bogus leg islature that body made thorough work in the filling of offices County officers judges sher iffs etc were appointed for each county and where any of the old appointees were suspected of qnsoundress the they were promptly expelled and undoubted ruffians sub stituted All the militia officers above the rank of captains were also appointed by them a bill to allow the companies to elect their own officers having been defeated The members elected themselves to all the important offices in the ter ritory some of them getting three or four offices apiece Next to the members of the legislature the commanders of the invading Missouri troops were the favorite and successful candidates for office These officers appoint all subordinates Thus the squatter sovereigns of Kanzas are not only legislated for by outsiders but have not even the poor privilege of electing their com monest civil judicial and militia officers The legislature voted $370 bonus above fees and expenses to marshal Preston for the exploit of bringing Gov Robinson from Lexington Mo back to the territory last spring On the last day of the session the legislature adopted resolu tions of confidence in Gov Geary and adjourned to his office where the feast of reason and the flow of rye continued till daylight The ruffians report that the governor made them a speech complimenting their laws and assuring them that he would see them enforced Col Samuel Black of Pennsylvania who is mentioned as the probable successor of Gov Geary is the blackest of black democrats He is the man who made a speech at the Cincinnati convention in which he told the southern mem bers that in case of the dissolution of the Union Pennsylvania would go with the South in prefer ence to the North Atchison is astir again for the enslavement of Kanzas He has an agent out in Mississippi drumming up recruits and the papers of that state are urging the South to strike a final and decisive blow by pouring into the territory in time to fix upon it a slave constitution Persons wishing to emigrate to Kanzas from the western portions of New England can ticket for Albany where through tickets can be ob tained at the office of the Central railroad for $2757 These tickets are good for first class fare to Kanzas William Barnes of Albany secreta ry of the New York Kanzas aid society will give the necessary information to those who may call upon him At the garrison at Newport Ky ten sol diers were drummed out of the service one day last week They afterwards met Sergeant Miller in the city and because he would not treat stoned him inflicting severe injuries The oivil authorities have them in hand A man about sixty years old was garroted and robbed at Troy Saturday evening He was a stranger in town and asked the way to the depot when two men offered to show him They led him into the railroad tunnel under Con gress street and one choked him while the other robbed him of 810 They think they had a smart earthquakeout in Ohio riday week Ashtabula was considera bly shaken and at Lenox the snow had been tossi about in divers directions and by a motion which gave it the form of large snow balls The oreign Vote of the West The letter we recently published from Edward Pierce of Chicago showing the relations of the foreign vote of the country to the interests of freedom has attracted much attention both in and out of the state Its influence it is already seen has been very great in determining the minds of members of the legislature upon the suf frage amendments to the constitution and no one now supposes that that one Insisting upon a four teen residence from foreign born citizees can be passed It is doubted even if it receive a majority in either branch Mr letter has been printed in a pamphlet at Boston for further circulation in this and other New En gland states The Chicago Tribune the leading republican paper of the north west highly compliments both the letter and its author and endorses his state ments We quote from the Tribune trust our New England friends will con sider carefully the facts he states and sustain the conclusions he draws These facts are indis putable If so why is it that any friend of free dom or any opponent of the extension of slave ry should assail the freemen among our adopt ed citizens? Mr Pierce draws these conclu sions irst That it was through the aid of the vote of our adopted citizens that the north western states which voted for remont were saved to republicanism Second That the states lost to republicanism were lost through the opposition or division of the native or American party Third That the repeal of the Missouri compro mise was received among the naturalized Ger mans with more general reprobation than among the native born citizens ourth That it is by the excess of immigra tion to the North over that to the South that the free states have been enabled to overcome the three fifihs representation of slaves allowed to the slave states Mr letter is the ablest we have had on this subject and we hope it will be widely circu lated not only through New England but in ev ery free state of the ires The woolen factory of Perry Go in Dudley was destroyed by fire Monday morning loss about $24000 insurance $16000 The fire took from the dropping of the bottom of a lantern into a loose pile of The house and stable of Mr Arnold at Bath Me were burned on Saturday on which there was $5250 insurance $2750 of it in the Hampden company of this The store of Hatch Brigham in Castine Me was burnt on the 2d inst Their stock was valued at $4000 In sured for $2000 and the store for $1800 The law library of Abbott in the same build ing valued at $1200 was also The jewelry store of Wakefield Woodward at Great alls IL was partially burned on the 11th inst Damage to the stock $4000 and to the building An incendiary fire destroyed a building connected with the oil and candle fac tory of Secomb Dennis at Salem Sunday morning loss between $4000 and By tie burning of the barn at East Lexington Sunday another revolutionary relic was destroy ed the barn having borne marks of British bullets Money and Business The influx of gold into the country since the discov ery of the California mines has increased our national specie currency to about two hundred and fifty mil lion dol'ars and greatly diminished the demand which may have previously existed for banks and bank notes The specie now in use is greater than the total amount of bank circulation The New York bank statement for last week is as follows: Loans 113250989 an increase of 1350840 specie 11077732 a decrease of 629618 circulation 8452541 a decrease of 13156 deposits 66714525 an increase of 1819583 The whole specie reserve in New York at the present time is $26640000 about 300000 less than last year Railroad earnings: Norwich and Worcester for ebruary 18505 ajnerease of Cliicago and Rock Island in same month 61000 a loss of 8914 the earnings of the same road in the first week in March were 28000 a gain of 8221 The falling off in ebru ary is chargeable to the damage by Galena and Chicago in ebruary 71624 a decrease of 17940 York Central in ebruary 460897 a gain of Harlem in same month 108129 a gain of 25 Baltimore and Ohio 355398 a gain of Pennsylvania central in ebruary 413779 an in crease of Wabash and Lake Erie in same month 33269 The quarterly statement of the Erie railroad for the term ending with December shows a decrease of gross earnings as compared with the same portion of the previous year of 122145 and a decrease of net earnings of 257747 while the expenses have increased 135001 The railroad bill lately passed by the legislature of Missouri provides for granting additional state' aid to railroads as follows: To the Pacific road 1000000 Southwest Branch 1500600 North Missouri 1000000 Iron Mountain 600000 Platte country 700000 Cairo and ulton 400000 Total 5200000 The state re serves in all cases a first lien on the roads to secure the payment cf bonds The entire state aid to be given to all the roads when it shall all be absorbed and all the roads built will not be far from The Ra cine and Mississippi railroad which is to run from Racine WiB on Lake Michigan to Savannah III on the Mississippi river about fifty miles below Gale na is now in complete running order for about one half of its distance and the ut finished half is soon to be completed The road has already cost 1 2607094 and will require for the remaining half some 1200 the first sum having already purchased an amount of track for the unfinished section and nearly all the rolling stock of the read The stock horse spoken of on Tuesday as having been sold by Town Trow of Barre Vt to parties in Manchester for $4500 was probably the sired by the val uable horse as this is the only stock horse the above gentlemen have been known to raise The temperance meeting at the South church chapel Tuesday evening was large and enthusiastic Several excellent speeches were made Thomas Chubbuck was chosen to assist Alfred A Allen in forming a temperance glee: club The meeting adjourned for one week when it is expected Rev Mr Thompson will be present and speak A California A party of some twenty persons from Orange county Vt are to sail in the steamer George Law on the for California and several of them were in town last night at Hotel The company includes three or four men'with families and four young ladies going out to teach and subsequently to be numbered among the mothers of the Golden State California will find no better citizens than in our own New England emigrants Success to them The New Boarding Mrs rost who has for some years kept a popular boarding house in block on State street has en gaged with the lessees of the Mills building cor ner of Main and Court streets to provide the ta ble and superintend the internal arrangements of that new boarding establishment The house will now be opened in a few weeks and a large number of persons have already engaged rooms while there are still a few more left It is antici pated that there will be about fifty table board ers when the house has been fairly established THE SPRINGIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 1857 LOCAL INTELLIGENCE This Evening John Saxe of Burling ton Vt lectures at Shelburne alls Mark Kemble a pupil of Charles Kean and brother of anny Kemble will read selections from Shakspeare and Hiawatha at the Town Hall Northampton A suit is now before the supreme New York city of Dr Price Moore Eliza Blackwell and Alfred defrauding the former of certain propertv suit was instituted in 1852 but has exupw the delay and the present hearing tended with new interest from the fact that Moore has just been acquitted of a chare conspiracy to murder Livingston and frnmk very general belief that that charge was trumr up to override and defeat the pendin" suit A McKnight of Buffalo is chama with forgery some $12000 of the forged 37 having come to ligbt Duniel Emery was aS ed at Bangor Me on Monday after cash on a forged check for $651 at the William Smith teller of the Ln? Island bank Brooklyn for 19 years has made hr escape and is found to be a defaulter to th tent of some $15000 A startling accident occurred at carpet factory in Danvers an Thursday a axel placed to hold a scuttle fell two stories ana striking the head of a young girl fractured tk skul 1 and entered the brain The fragments of the skull were extracted and put in place by th surgeon and although the girl lies in a precarion condition there is hope of her recoveiy A laboring man recently died at the hoai tai in Boston of an affection of the knee whfek in his last hours he confessed was occasioned bv a blow with a stick of wood in the hands of drunken At Exeter the other dav fifteen liquor dealers plead nolo contendere and paid each a fine of $50 and costs making a in fines alone 10 Mrs Sylvester suffered camphene marty dom lit Cohoes Wednesday having stir vived ten or twelve hours after the catastrophe' She used the dangerous article very carelessly having poured some of it into a saucer while she filled the lamp and an explosion should have been anticipated It is understood that oil wiT not explode under similar circ*mstances 0 The legislature has given its approval to the important constitutional amendments mak ing reading and writing necessary to the right of euffrage a measure first proposed in this state by the Republican and establishing the district system for the House of Representatives and re ducing its numbers from 370 (the average under the present system if continued) to 240 The amendment to elect the senators from single equal districts has passed the Senate and is sure of the approval of the House These are all valuable and radical reforms and will probably be given to the people for final judgment in April or May and are all pretty sure of success The other or fourth of the amendments origi nating in the last that which makes fourteen residence by foreigners necessary to the acquirement of the right of suffrage in received its death blow in the Senate on Tuesday It has been rapidly growing unpopular at the State House and with the peo ple for the last few weeks and even its oppo nents are now surprised at the little favor it meets with In its place will probably be passed an amendment requiring a residence after naturalization before voting which is a more ef fective and less unjust way of remedying the evils which all honest men lament in connection with the foreign vote Gov resignation is confirmed and if the telegraph reports him truly he gives a very singular reason for it That he should at this time resign because Mr Pierce did not render tke militaiy support pledged to him without waiting to see if his special friend MrBuchanan would not do better seems hardly reasonable or quite just to the present administration It looks very much as if the border ruffians had thoroughly frightened him by their recent out break at the capital of the territory His resig nation places the president in a very embarrass ing position and will compel him to show his hand either for or against the forcible subjuga tion of Kanzas by the Atchison cabal Will the democrats now stigmatize the testimony of Gov Geary as to the character and purposes of their ruffian allies as black republican lies and shrieks for Kanzas? The Operation of the New Tariff How favorably or unfavorably the new tariff is to affect the manufacturing interests of the Unit ed States is a matter of difference even among manufacturers themselves The makers of plainunbleached cottons are quite apprehensive that they are to be opened to a severe foreign compe tition by the reduction of the rate of protection on these goods to 19 per cent This reduction it seems was an accident in the committees of conference neither House cf Congress nor any member of the committees demanding it The lower House had all cottons fixed at 24 per cent the Senate 23 per a difference without con sequence and easily reconcilable Mr Letcher of Va a member of the committee on the part of the House demanded however as the price of his agreeing to other portions of the bill deemed essential that blankets be reduced from 20 to 15 per cent and coarse cottons from 2 4 to 19 and this was agreed to but in writing the amendment in it was so worded as to include at 19 per cent all cottons bleached printed painted or Nobody knew of this the bill was not re read in either House but rushed through as it came from the conference as near ly pll matters were in last days of the ses lion Tib woolen manufacturing interest anticipates large benefits from the reduction and partial abo lition of the duties on wool and the entire abro gation of those on dye stuffs and other impor tant elements in their goods Yet as manufac tured woolens are reduced from 30 to 24 per cent and fine wools only the same it is doubtful wheth er the broadcloth and fine cassimere business will be able to rear its head again The trial will probably be made however and indeed we look for such a speedy and extensive enlargement of the woolen manufactures of the country as to produce a vigorous if not at first suicidal home competition This matter will regulate itself however in good time if no further changes are proposed in the tariff which will not be with any hope of success unless the interests of reve nue demand it Those interests are now confess edly the only controlling ones in the arrange ment of our tariffs The Pennsylvania iron interest resisted more itrenueusly than any other the new bill because it reduces iron along with sugar wool and other leading staples from 30 to 24 per cent The iron makers affect to believe that the operation of this reduction will be very injurious to their busi ness if it does not again give England the mo nopoly of our great market for iron But we hope and think the experiment will prove less disastrous While Pennsylvania is thus more sensitive than any other state to the reduction of the protective system she rarely gives any effect ive support to the party that sustains that sys tem Her vote is usually decisive of the victo ries of her industrial opponents As an indica tion of the temper of the Pennsylvania opposi tion to the recent change we quote a paragraph from the Washington correspondent of the Phil adelphia North American men really se'tled the tariff and Mr Banks constituted the committee on the part of the House in inch a manner that Pennsylvania had no voice in tbe decision of her great interests Care was taken how ever that New England should be heard and this was eflbctually proven by giving her interests a degree of protection which they were not disposed to exact in the last resort Perhaps the day may come when the Bpeaker and hie trends may have occasion to remem ber their inaratiude and injustice on this occasion Pennsylvania has been struck down by base treachery and eveiy instinct of human nature demands that such wilful wrong shall not be forgotten or Extra Judicial The Dred Scott Case We suppose the popular opinion to be that the decision of the supreme court in the Dred Scott case or rather that of its slaveholding majori ty is directly applicable and relevant to the case and binding and final in all the opinions put for ward in connection with it Nothing can be fur ther from the truth There was but one question before the court and that a question concerning its own jurisdiction in the case In fact the court gave no judgment and simply dismissed the suit for want of jurisdiction Its Jong lines of general argumentation though some of them bore upon the merits of the case were extra judicial That especially relating to the unconstitutionality of the Missouri prohibition was gratuitous and un called for by any but political reasons There is probably no rule in law more firmly established and widely recognized than that the opinion of any court touching any question outside of that be fore it is of no binding force whatever The question before this court was whether it had any jurisdiction in the case It decided that it had not Everything beyond this uttered by the court is just as binding as if it were uttered by a southern debating club and no more It un doubtedly shows how the court will decide in cr bale by THE SUBSCRIBER a GOOD 2d hand Double Mahogany Counting Room Desk HAMILTON No 3 Block Springfield March 11 1857 gj Bailey Pynchon Bank Block Importer and Dealer in all kinds of Wat hes Gives his personal attention to the repairing of the above io all their different varieties jan6 dtaprl SPHEREOTYPES Th18 new and beautiful style of portraiture is now taler in all its perfection at SPOONER Gal lery of Art No 4 Pynchon Bank Block Call and see them marie if cases involving the questions which it argues and this gives its extrajudicial opinions their only power and significance Wc have do dis position to underrate the possible consequences of the position of tbe court upon these questions That we have a political supreme court which denies citizenship to negroes everywhere tbe country and sets aside the constitution as inter preted by its founders and the validity of a con sistent and persistent course of legislation for more than sixty years is a fact grave in its as pect and terrible in its possible consequences But the consequences are not yet and it is pos sible that when they come they will not please Mr Justice Taney and his brethren But perhaps we are too fast and slightly ir reverent Let us see Judge McLean decides one point for us and we give his words this case a majority of the court have said that a slave may be taken by his master into a territory of the United States the same as a horse or any other kind of property It is true this was raid by the court as also many other things which are of no au thority Nothing that has been said by them which has not a direct bearing on the jurisdiction of the court against which they decided can be considered as authority I shall certainly not regard it as such The question of jurisdiction hieing before the court was decided by them authoritatively but nothing be yond that Perhaps we have gone too far in charging po litical motives upon the court Judge Curtis is not a man who makes charges lightly but it must be confessed that in the following extract he bos set a sad example of irreverence before the country: question here is whether they (certain consid erations) are sufficient to authorize this court to insert into this clause of the constitution an exception of the exclusion or the allowance of slavery not found there in nor in any other part oi that instrument Toen graft on any instrument a substantive exception not found in it must be admitted to be a matter attended with great difficulty And the difficulty increases with the importance of the instrument ana the mag nitude and complexity of the interests involved in its construction To allow this to be done with the constitu tion upon reasons purely political renders its judicial in terpretation impossible BECAUSE JUDICIAL TRIBUNALS AS SUCH CANNOT DECIDE UPON POLITICAL CONSID ERATIONS Political reasons have not the requisite certainty to afford rules of juridical interpretation They are different in different men They are differ ent in the same men at different times And when a strict interpretation of the constitution according to the fixed ruies which govern the interpretation of laws is abandoned and the theoretical opinions of individ uals are allowed to control its meaning we have no longer a constitution we are under the government of tn divtdual men who for the time being have power to declare what the constitution is according to their own views of what it ought to mean When such a method of interpretation of the constitution obtains in place of a republican government with limited and defined powers we have a government which is merely an exponent of the will ot Congress or what in my opinion would net be profitable an exponentof the indi vidual political opinions of the members of this We quote Judge Curtis again to show what he thinks of the decision of the court and of the manner in which it was arrived the decision of this court in Livingston vs Story the law has been settled that when the declara tion or bill contains the necessary averments of citizen ship this ci urt cannot look at the record to see wheth er those averments are true except so far as they are put in issue by a plea to tbe jurisdiction This is the settled law of the court But I do not understand this be a rule which the court may depart from at its pleasure If it be a rule it is as binaing on the court as on the suitors If it moves from the latter the powerto take any objection to the personal disa bility of a party alleged by the record to be compe tent which is not shown by a plea to the jurisdiction it is because the court are forbidden by law to consider and decide on objections so taken I do not consider it to be within the scope of the judicial power of the ma jority of the court to pm upon any question respect ing the citizenship in Missouri save that raised by the plea to the jurisdiction and I do not con sider any opir ton of this court or any court binding when expressed on a question not legitimately before it The judgment of this court is that the case is to be dismiss ed for want of jurisdiclion Into that judgment ac cording to the settled course of this court nothing ap pearing after a plea to the merits can enter A great question of constitutional law deedly affecting the peace and welfare of the country is not in my opinion a fit subject to be thus That is what Judge Curtis thinks of the court and its legitimate as well as its extra judicial opinions Ifhis words have the form of polite ness they have the essence of contempt If they seem to be opinions upon a general question they are really directly condemnatory of the mo tives on which the majority of the court have acted We would not choose any stronger or any other language than that employed by Judges McLean and Curtis to show that the court has transcended its legitimate sphere comprom ised its dignity by becoming subsidiary to a po litical interest denied the most sacred rights of a large class of our citizens and condemned as in valid the universal interpretation of a clause in the constitution and a multitude of acts based upon it under which our country has grown up and prospered to a degree without parallel or precedent The five judges have come before the people not as judges because they go outside of their case but as a political committee deciding great questions of constitutional law in accordance with the designs and policy of a par ty as men so overflowing with law and learning that they do not find scope enough in their legitmate sphere for its absortion It is proper of course to quote the opinion of Judge Curtis in regard to the gratuitous opinions of the court and with that we close eent therefore from that part of the opinion of the majority of the court in which it holds that a person of African descent cannot be a citizen of the United States and I regret I must go lurther and dis seut both from what I deem their assumption of authori ty to examine the constitutionality of the act of Congress commonly called the Missouri coinpremise act and the grounds and conclusion announced in their opinion so grave a subject as this I feel obliged to say that in my opinion such an exertion of judicial power transcends the limit of the authority of the court as de scribed by its repeated decisions and as acknowledged in this opinion of the majority of the Virginia The May election in Virginia is formembers of Congress state assem bly one half of the senate and a commissioner of public works Tbe legislature now to be chosen will elect a senator from the 4th of March 1859 and Goy Wise whose present office expires about that time is a prominent candidate for the succession Senator Hunter who is now in his second term has no idea of being run off and the contest between himself and Wise in the democratic caucuses is assuming quite a lively aspect Wise has the Richmond papers and the state officials and Hunter is backed by consider able popularity among the people and influence with his party friends William Rives for mer senator and minister to rance under illmore has been nominated for assemblyman from Albemarle county aud Augustus A Chap man former member of Congress is nominated in Monroe county Zedekiah Kidwell cf Marion county member of the late house of representa tives has been nominated by tbe democrats for commissioner of public works an office that is good for six years at $1500 per annum with trav eling expenses The Virginia ree Press says that Hunter Wise and loyd are trimming their sails for a presidential race iu 1860 as it is versally conceded that the next democratic can didate is to come from the The mother of presidents it therefore seems is ambitious of having more sons Correspondence of The Republican i Boston Tuesday March 17 (as the old whig! used to call it) has been the order of the day in both branches of the legislature The House took up the reading and writing amendment and I without debate passed it by a vote of 266 to 43 The member from Worcester who persists in spelling asylum went in for it as I predicted the member (whose name I 1 have ascertained) who proposed the order that the elerk should omit to read the journal except i when ordered so to do I The fourteen years amendment was taken up at half past twelve in the Senate the question being tbe motion of Mr Hoar of Worcester to commit the amendment together with Mr War substitute (two probation after nat uralization) to a special committee of the Sen ate Mr Usher Mr Rogers and Mr Messenger of I Suffolk and Mr Batchelder of Essex opposed the commitment and Messrs Hoar of Worcester and White of Middlesex took ground in its favor After considerable bush fighting the vote was taken by yeas and nays with this result Messrs Albee Ames Atwood Brakenridge Churchill Esty ield Green Hitchco*ck Hoar Mer rick Mixter Poor Sabin Shaw Stone Swift Taft Warner Whitney White Young 22 Messrs Batchelder Bliss Bonney Burbank Cowdin Harris Haynes Bunking Messenger Mitch ell Rogers Sawin Turner Usher 16 against Burbank Clark Harris 4 American for Shaw The special committee consists of Messrs Hoar Rogers Warner Bonney and Albee They will probably report very soon the amendment of Mr Warner in a modified form but without material change 1 understand that Mr Rogers though he voted against the commitment is in favor of the new proposition There is but little if any danger that the fourteen years amendment will pass either branch If all the humbugs cannot be slain let us rejoice that this the worst of the lot is among the dead John Milton Earle and 536 other legal voters of Worcester petitioned for tbe removal of Judge Loring (byMrlloar) A petition from the town of Dennis (by Mr Swift) and another from Dorches ter came in for the same purpose Childs and others of Conway asked for the hundred days session and Henry Burgess Sons and others of Hartford Ct Sylvester Brown and others of Sunderland Washburn and others of Irving Ira Lucy and others of Nortf field Goss and others of Montague and David Ball and others of Winchester all re monstrated against the petition of James Mills and others in relation to the South Hadley locks and canals In the House the committee on printing to whom was referred the Senate bill to repeal the act of 1855 making the Bee and American Patri ot official organs reported a substitute which provides for a repeal of that act but declares that the secretary of state shall publish the general laws and other official information intended for the public in such paper or papers in the state as he may select the annual expense not to exceed $300 Mr Baker from tbe judiciary committee re ported an important bill relating to the election of town officers which provides that boards of se lectmen assessors overseers of the poor and school committees shall consist of three six nine er twelve persons tbe towns to make their elec tion which number at the first annual meeting after tbe passage of the act One third of each board shall be chosen for one year one for two and one three and after the first election one third shall be chosen for three years There are also provisions for filling vacancies On motion of Mr Sanford of Boylston it was ordered that the committee on the judiciary in quire whether any further legislation is necessary for restricting or regulating the sale of arsenic strychnine prussic acid and other deadly poisons that the difficulty of procuring them for the purpose of taking human life may be in creased or when procured and used for this pur pose that the time place and circ*mstances of the sale may be more easily ascertained and ad duced as proof against the murderer It was also ordered on motion of Mr Ranney of Boston that the committee on the judiciary consider whether any further legislation is neces sary in relation to courts having authority to nat uralize aliens The resolve providing for the completion of tbe indexes of the journals of the legislature (paying $1500 when the work is done under the direction of the present clerk of the House) was passed to be engrossed The bill to repeal certain acts concerning per sons under sentence of death was brought up under motion of Mr Titcomb of Lynnfield to re consider the vote whereby it was ordered to a third reading Mr itch of Sheffield spoke at some length in favor of reconsideration when the pre vious question was moved and sustained and the House refused to reconsider by a vote of 95 against 148 It is due to Mr Greene of ranklin county whose name does not appear upon the record of the votes upon tbe veto in the Senate to mention that he was absent from the city and did not or in" before the lobby influences from the other end of the state house I believe that Mr Warner was also away from Boston Warrington Ambrotypes Sphereotypes and Daguerreotype At SPOONER fc Gallery of Art No 4 Pynchon Rank Block Health and Dr 0 Richardson's Sberby Wine Bitters is the beet Medicine ever used for Spring and Summer con plaints It has been more liberally patronized than any other ever established in this country It is the same Bitters which has restored so many invalids to health throughout the New England States during the past thirty years Beware of imitations called Sherry Wine Bitters The genuine have a facsimile of my signa ture upon the outer envelope or sale by Druggists everywhere and at my office No 51 Hanover street Boston 1 or sale by Brewer Geo Reynolds and Bigelow octM eodawlyZd Me and do you Good Now is the time to use the Great Spring and Summw Medicine DR ROOT HERB BITTERS Composed of Sarsapaiilia Yellow Dock Wild Cherry Thoroughwort Prickly Ash Rhubarb Man drake Dandelion and so combined as to act directly upon the cause of disease and forming one of the best remedies in the world for Jaundice and Liver Complaint in all their forms Dyspepsia Coe tiveness Humors of the Blood and Skin Piles Indi gestion Headache Dizziness Heartburn or Acid Stomach Languor Weakness Loss of Appetite De bility Bilious Diseases Mercurial Affections and all Impurities of the Blood no matter what the cause may be ever and Ague Coughs and Colds broken up and cured at once They are pleasant to take useful at all times and sure to do good They cleanse the bowels purify the blood heal strengthen regulate build up and keep in order the whole system Everybody should use them Nearly 600000 bottles were used last year proving it the most popular medicine ever known Price only 25 and 37j cents per bottle Depot St Union street Boston Sold by all dealers in medicine everywhere mar3 6md Dr Indian Pulmonary Pastileb the most valuable and effectual medicine evir discovered for the sure cure of Coughs Colds Influenza Bronchitis As hma Croup Hoarseness Whooping Cough Tickling in the Throat Pain in ths Chest Night Sweats Incipient Consumption and al) other Diseases of the Throat and Lungs The great superiority of these Pattiles overall othe) medicines for lung complaints either lozenges wa fers or those in liquid form consists in a great meas ure in their possessing as a part or their compound the powerful medical virtues of several rare and un common INDIAN ROOTS AND HERBS which are not contained in any other medicine in istence These with other valuable ingredients com bined in their present form render Dr Pastiles not only the most effectual extraordinary and pleasant but the cheapest medicine in tbe known world as each box contains over 60 doses for 25 cents THEY ARE WARRANTED to give relief to the most obstinate coiqh and if any person after giving them a fair trial does not find that such is the case the price of tke box will be re funded with pleasure This offer is made to indues all to try this invaluable remedy as they will run no risk in so doing Sold Wholesale and Retail by BLI88 HAVEN sole proprietors Always Break up your Nothing in the history of medicine has had such re markable success as Dr Vightabu Chemical Powders They are working an entire revolution in the treatment of colds It has been but two months since they were first noticed in the papers and in this short (i me the sales have been unprece dented by any medicine within the memory of the oldest druggists They are supplying a distressing want that has always been felt in this iome thing that will immediately break up a cold on its in ception and at once arrest all its dangerous effects as evers Coughs Asthma Catarrh Sore Throat Croup Rheumatism Consumption Ac Simply ftr the want of a convenient and agreeable midicinefot breaking up colds people have been inclined to let them have their own course and this too with the knowledge that they are always the first or exciting cause of all the above complaints Now this remedy supplies a want that is felt by every member of th community for no one is entirely secure from colds It is free from any objection that can possibly be urged against a medicine It is supremely convenient and so agreeable that children take it with no trouble is recommended for no difficulty not arising directly from a cold so it cannot be misapplied Every knows when he has a cold coming on He haa train of symptoms that always appear and are iar and when first perceived he takes a dose at men) times and on retiring and evi ry trace of tie trouble some complaint vanishes like magic while the patient has not been subject to the least sweating dieting or interruption of nor II he rendered liable to take a fresh cold as he is any other remedy now known The strictest inquk les have been made of those who have used it and ths reports all corroborate tbe above statements Sold by Segur opposite Massas oit H' Springfield Masi mjliN.

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