Ohio

Tlie Whig nominntion for Governor of (lus State was offered to Mr. Splangier. Tlie Liberty Herald says he deelined on account oí the great petuniary sacrifices the situalion would require. Thaf. paper states that Gov. Corwin would Iiave been the unan:nious choice ofhis party, but he was understood io decline for similar reasons. In a Hite speech, Governor Shannon remarked to the effect thal his situation as Governor liad reduce d him to pover ty. Yet the Guvemor of Oiiio receives lifleen hnndred dollars a year. Tiie heavy expenses referred to by these gentlemen are doublless chiefly inciirred for eleclioneering1purposes. J he lashion oí taking the stump and perambulating the Districts adds greatly lo t-lie expenses of the candidatos. The prejudice against color eeems lo be al most invetérate in Ohio. In the Seiiate, the resolutions we re proposed: Resolved, That the standing cömniittee on the Judteiary be irietrucled to inquire into the expediency of reportin a bilí proliibiting all persons of nrned negro blood from exercising the elective franchise under the laws of tips State. Resolved, That the Ftnnding commiUee on Schools and School Lands be instrueted to in quiie into the expediency of reporting a bili to prevent all children oí mixed fierro and white blood 4rom being admilted into Corninen Schools. The first resolution was opposed by Messrs. lïazfcitine and Parker, on the ground that the Constitu'ion gave every white man the right to vole, and that the Supremo Court havingdeciilcd that persons ksslhan halfbluck weie white, thal was the law of the land. Mr. Disney thought the Supremo Court xvvre wrong, and wished to legislate them righi. Mi. Newton was opposed to any iegislation on the subject. Mr. Perkins wished resolutions referrod to the mov-f rj with leave tö report. A niotion to that effect was lost, 10 to 19. A. inoticm to postpone tbem iiulefinitely, was lost, 13 lo 10. The quesiion was finally tnken on the adóptiön of the rtsoluiion?, and lost, 14 to 1G. A large end spirited meeting was held in Columbiana, at which a memorial to the Legislature was adopted, praying them to take gfound against the slave representation in Congres? as Massachusctts had done. The memorial eays: "Tliat this repiesentation of the (unjustlv so called) properLy of the Slaveholdsrs of the South, on the floor of the U. S. House of Repicsentatives, is nearly if not quite as nnmeroua as the vvhole representaron from theslate of Ohio; and your mcmoriahsts considcr t still more disgraceful that the represenUlives of soutliern property have a voico in making lawsby whicii the Stato of Ohio must be governed. And your memoriulisls would further represent that the 6laveholding states of the umon are allmved ah increase erf electoral votes, for the same cause, and to the same extent, ns that of their representaron; your memorialists consider it very unjust that the properly of' Southern planters should have as much influcnce in the election of the Executive of the U. States as the whole of the free people ol the etate of Ohio." Also they petitioned the Legislatnre to make it penal for any State officer to aid ín the roturnofa fugitive from sla very, and to prohibit the iise of jails to slove catchers. The State Committee have called a Liberty party Conveniiou at Columbus, on the firet Wedneeday in February, to nominale Governor, and tuke other uieasures for organizing and aronsing1 and enlightening the State for ihe great political campaign of 1844.