Domestic News

rtfcw Hampshirc- At a large State Liberty Convention at Concord, June 14 Judge Berry was nominatod fur governor. Among tho resolution we lind tho following : Resolved, That ihc Liberty party can bettor answer the great ondofils mission by stcadily adhering to its defincd principies and objects, ralher than by mak ing issue on fiscal and olher questions wbich have no direct relation to those principies and objects. Tho Liborly voto for Governor, just canvasscd, was 11.379, instead of 19,379, as printed last week. Our copy misled us. VcrillOllt - At the State Liberty Convention, Lawrenco Brainerd, of St. Albans, was nominnted for Governor, aad John Scott, of Barre, for Lieutenant Governor. A paitof the Massachusetts and Vermont Railroad is to be opened by the first of Januarv next. Three ihousand dollars, in fines, have been collected in the county of Worcoster, Mass., for violation of the license law. All this was collected during the present term of the Common Pleas. There are eight silk establishments, in Massachusetis, which produced, during the last year, 22,500 lbs. cf sewing silk, valuedat $150,477. The census of Lowell, lately taken, gives a population of28,741. Tne number of families is 4,218. The valuation of the real and personal property cf Boston for 1845,was8l35,946,700. The taxes amounted to $708 for each inhabitant. There aro 99 places of religious worship in Boston costing $3,246,500, and having accommodations for 84.174 persons. The Bond of Brotiierhood is the tille of a small sheet published by Elihu Burritt for gratuitous distribution, designed to advocate peace and love. He issues twenty ihousand copies. Ninety trains of cars leave Boston every day for twenty-five dilferent stations. The editor of the Boston Travelier couned 400 sail of vessels, small and large, all outward bound, in Boston harbor, last week. Ship Ilzaide, which cleared at Boston last week for London, has a cargo of six hundred and fifty tons of ice. Another ship will sail soon for tho same port with six hundred tons, making a total oftwelve hundred and fifty tons. The U. S. workmen, 700 in number. labor 15 hours in the Charleston navy yard every Sunday, by orders from Government to fit out vessels of war. - Not a clergyman has yot uttered a word against it. The laws of war supersede all other !aws, human or divine. Eleven green turtles and 48,000 pine apples have arrived from Eleuthera, in the Schooner Lacinda Snow. Mr. Caleb Loud, of Westhampton - who has just put into operation a mili for the manufacturo of wrapping paper - has made a quantity of paper from broom corn stalks - quite a good article. He intends soon to "try his luck again," if he succeeds ngreably to his expectutions, growers of broom corn may find a profitftble demand for their stulks, which aresometimesjroublesomearticles to dispose of. - Northamplon Gaz. From tho single port of Boston there ï ias been sent out to heathen landd 5,180,000 gallons of Alchoholic poison. ( l'lio nnmber of Bibles sent has not been i correctly ascorlained ; but the amount is supposed to be in proportion of one copy v to a thousand hogsheads. t Seven hundred men are ccnstantly ' ployed, saya the Post, in the Navy Yard ' at Charleston. A large Right Whale was captured iu Barnstable harbor on Mondny, last ' week. It was thought that fifly barrels ' of Oil would beobtained from the blubber and thai the bone would sell for 8100. A small Whale was also captured there y the week previous. CoilllCCticilt. - Iri the Connecticut Legislature, a bilí for the punishment of those who attempc to improperly influence the v'otes of persons in their employ : passed the House by a large majority, several whigs voling with the democrats. The penalty is a fine from fifty to an hundred dollars. An act repealing the License Law of last year's Legislate, was also passed in the House, by a large majority, on tho llth inst. Both bilis will undoubtedly pass both Houses by large majorities. The papers montion frequent failures in New Haven. Khode Isl and.- Somebody posled up all over the city of Providence the following placard : ■ "War! War!! War!!! Wanted 50,000 able bodied young men to shoot and be shot at in Mexico, at -SB per month, glory thrown in. N. B. Christians need not apply." A woman 7."j y cara of age was arrestcd in Rhode Island for altoring the dale of a pension certifícate. Rhode Island licenses two taverna to sell spirits only in two towns, Foster and VVestGreenwich ; and in Providence six stores are licensed tosell by thequart, not lo be drunk on the preinises. Vcw Yorli. - Fifty indictmentshave been found against virious tavern keepers in Brooklin, for violations of ihe license law. They have severa lly given bail, and raised a sufficient sum of money to test the validity of the law. The OddFelIows of this village, says the Palmyra "Courior," are preparing for a grand celebration, on the 17ih of this month. Eucatnpments and lodges from abroad are expecied to join with the members of the order here. Rev. John A. Maffit is to be the orator of the day. It is 3tated ihat fitleon rnillion of bricks are annually manufactured in Albany : - a number sufficient, il placed longitudinally ija contact, to extend from New York to New Orleans. A meeting has been called in New York to nomínate Gen. Taylor for the Presidency. Babe, the pírate, has been set at largê, a molle proseguí having been entered by order of the Secretary of State. Babe lias been in prison nearly three yearl The Magnelic Telegraph Comp&y have set the Government an cxccllejjflfc ampie. They do nut use tl.1 which the Almighty has given tHP desecrale his Sabbath. We trust tÉit rio ordinary pressure will induce thdm to break over this excellent rule.-jRoch. Dem. f In the State Convention are two Liberty members from Delaware County. They voted for Birney in 1844, and were elected by the aid of anti-roniers. - All the Anti-rent members are for free suffrage. The Anti-License majority in Albanv was 1,500. Yet the Mayor granted 100 licenses for the ensuingyear. There are 800 causes pending in the Supremo Court of this State. The trial of Freeman, the murderer, has been postponed till tho next term of court. In the case of VVyatt, accused of murder, nine dayswere spent, unsuccessfully, in attemptmg to get a jury. Gov. Seward is counsel for the prisoner, and it issaid, uses the technicalities of the law to great perfection. The N. Y. Com. Adv. says that there were only Iweniy thousand fice hundred and fifty fivc baskets of strawberries brought down the North river to that city ono day last week. A resolution of inquiry into the proprioty of requiring an ability to read and write as a pre-requisito for votiug was adopted by the State Convontion. A convention of persons opposed to the new License law has been held at Batavia. They passed sundry resolulions against it : among others, one dcclaring that no man should be supported for office who is not in favor of repeaiing the law. We state on the authority of the Tribune, ihat on the Erie Railroad, the freight on milk alone in one week is more than a thousand dollars: and more than 200,000 quarts are brought to the city. A special strawberry train is run over tho rpad evory night, during the berry season, and brings to market each trip from thirty to forty thousand baskets;The daily consumption or flower in New York is 22,000 barrels. A consuniptivc people - very. Pcimsylvanïa- The Pittsburgh Gazette exuhs over tho great mnss of ron that are cast or wrought in that city. Tho big guns made by Messrs. Knapp & Mottonof the Fort Pit Works, are said to woigh nearly 10,000 pounds after being boarcd, turned and finished, and casting n shaft of from 12 to 14,000 pounds weight is spoken of as a matter of every day business - indeed it is said that a shaft weighing twenty tons might be cast, if necessary, as that amount of metal can be cast at one time. Piltsburgh, Pa., one hundred years ago was a French fortress; now it contains 30,000 people, forty churches, and twice as many steamboat and iron factories. - Such is the progress of the age. The County Board of Philadelphin have passed appropriations in payment for tho payment ofcounsel, witnesses and military for suppressing the riots, amountingto $11,000. Finnegon, who kidnapped a colored family in A.dams county. Ponnsylvania, has been arrestcd, and is in jail at Gettysburg. There are fourleen glass manu factories in Pittsburgh and vicinity, manufactaring about one milliou dollars worll of glass annually. Mrs. Polk, the President's lady, has been presented with a beautiful bonnet, made of glass and silk, by tho manufacturer, Mr. Joseph Weed, of Kensinglon, Philadelphia. In the U. S. District Court, at Philadelphia, on Satuaday, Eben fl. Clark, convicted of the embezzlement of a letter while he was postmaster at Sherry Ridge, Wayne county, was senteneed to ten years mprisonment at hard labor in the eastern penitentiary. The Danville, Pa. LUeïligencer says that 690 tons af railroad Iron were made at the rolling mili of the Montour Iron Company during the monlli of May. rtfew Jersey. - The law of New Jersy, wJbich imposes a tax of ten cents on every passenger passing over the Railroad routes through that Slate, brought last year about 800,000 into the treasury. TTIaryland. - The President has accepted tho services of two Calholic chaplains to the army. Thoy have proceeded to the Rio Grand. A maniac in the Maryland Hospital at Baltimore, got loose, and killed three persons before ho was secured. The Roman Catholic Bishop of the U. S. are hulding a provincial Council in Baltimore. There are 22 Bishopa, each attended by apriest. Virginia. - It is stated that the Whigs of Virginia, alone, have subscribed the very hand-jomesum of 810,000 for the relief and supporUatf the mother and family of the latMíffn Hampdon Pleasants, who was killed by tho hand of Thomas Rijchie, Jr., a few weeks since. The people of Richinond reeen tl y tendered a public dinner to the Hon. Abbott I Lawrencc of Boston. Want of time preLveníed his acceptance of the invitation. At a late session of the Wood court, setting in the memorable town of Parkersburg, the following persons were convicted ofreading incendiary matter, and putundcr bonds to keep the peace. Rev. Benjamin Athey, $100 for 3 years. Ed. McPherson, 200 for 2 years. Barcus Cook, 100 for 1 year. Gov. Smith of Virginia, has not laid aside the "green bag" since he was invested with the Executive robes. He appeared in a murder case, in Fanquire County, and defended the prisoner. This is the first Governor that we ever heard of, who did such a thing while he was in office. Soutli Carolina. - The slave ■ Biirney recently convicted of murder, and who was to have been hung to-day, has had his sentence commuted by the Governor to four months solitarty confinemont, twenty-five lashes each month, and at the termination of his imprisonment banished from the State. - Charles, ion Mercury. Georgia. - One Putteraon has been senlcnced to 19 days imprisonment for buying a bushei of corn of a negro slave in the night. Considerable excitement has been occasioned in Macon, Geo. and neghborhood, by the fuilure of the Commercial Bank of that placo. A run was made upon it for one day, and the next day it stoppcd. The circulationisaboul $100,000. iUiSSissippi - The Steamer Queen City blew up at Natchez, küling 12 persons, and scalding 32. There are now in Mississippi eight colleges, educating only four-hundred and fifty-four students. In the whole state thero are but three liundred and ninoty-six cornmon schools, educating i only b,263 schollars out of a population ; of near 200,000 whilus. i Grenada, Miss., appeals to the public . for relief. One hundred uud twenty-twoOMses wcro destroyed, twenty-one killed nd-sixty two wounnod there by the JmQ ornado. A Mr. Ward, an ovorseer on ihe planation of Geo. W. Tnrlton, within nbout 0 rniles of Natchez, Miss., wasmurderdon the lOth inst., by a negro named )avid. He was struck twico on tho ead with an axe and then thrown into pond. The negro was taken to Natchz for trial. tVIabama.- The state of Alabama as ndopted tho freO or white bhsis of epresentation, which is a concession to lic non-slaveholders in the Northern norion of the State. The same question is being agitated in Mississippi, Virginia, ind several other slaveholding States. LOllisiaiia. - We copy the followng "loud" advertisement from the New Orleans Delta of the 4th: - Florida Ranoers. - A few old Floriians wish to raise a Company to spend he Aih ofJuly in the city of Mexico. - jet us soe what we can do.. Rendezvous at 4G St Charlos st. JACKSON TERBUSH. FLORIDA COX. m 12- 3t "A noble examplo has just been set by he Rev. Richard A. Stewart. Being in his city when the news from Taylor's army arrived, he immediately returned lome, and arrived yesterday with 100 stout volunteers from East Baton Roguo xnd Iberville. Captain Stewart was fornally a distinguished lawyer and politcian in the state of Mississippi. - New Orleans Paper. A lady from East Felician, has just completed a bed quilt, made by her own lands which is six feet four inches wide, and seven foet long, containing 3,266 [licces! Texas. - The Baltimore Patriot anys that of the 10 volunteerss froin Texas who went to relieve Gen. Taylor, ff teen were Germans. The Cherokees have commenced demonstrations of hostility upon the borders of the new State, and a requisition has been sent to the neighboring counties for men to defend the fronties, A report came over land to Port Lavaeb to the oílect that a large body of Indians consisting of the warriors of several tribes, comprising the Comanche Nation, were hovering about in the vicinity of the American entrenchment opposite Matamoros, with a view, doubtless, tojoin the victorious party, and share the plunder of the defeated. - The East Floridian siatcs that Col. Pitchlin, a Chicf of the Chactaw tribe of Indians, has deelared his deter#1 nation to raise 5000 warriors of his Nation, anti offer their esrvices to the Government, to march r.cross Texas against Mexico. Col. P. is an educaied índian, and a man of fine talents. Tennessce. - Nashville, with a population of only nine thousand, is said to contain two hundred and sixty rumselling establishments! Myriads of locusts have made their appearance in some paris of Tennessee. KenfUCky. - The Rev. Georgo Kearn has been arrested and imprisoncd in Roswell county,Ky.,for harboring &- assisting runaway slaves to O3cape from their masters. An extract from a letter to a friftnd from Mr. Fairbank imprisoned in Kentucky Pénitentiary for aiding slaves to escape, reads as follows : "1 am spiritually happy ; I am a Teacher in the Sabbath School, and have 38 prisoners in my class." IlIillOÏS. - John Wentworlh, commonly called Long John, ís nominated for re-election. Thesum of $200,000 has been offerod for the Temple, by a gontleman who deaires lo purchase it for a charitable purpose. The Monnons have concluded to accept it. Rev. Mr. Allen has beer. arresteJ at Peorin, Illinois, charged with secreting a runaway slave from Mississippi. Ollio. - The Great Wakken fijie. - The Committee appointed to examine into the losses by the fire of June first, report that the total loss of property will not fall short of $50,000, and may exceed that sum. It is probable that about half the amount will be met and pcüd by insu ranee'. There are 16 daily newspapers published in Cincinnati, eleven of which arein English, and four in the Germán language. In a suit before the Supreme Court, it apneared that Arnold, a merchant, advertised in a newspaper that he would take notes of the St. Clair Bank at par for goods. Phillips immediately bought of him goods to the value of 665,73, and offered the notes of that bank, which Arnold refused, and demanded current money. The Court held that the notico was a proposition on the part of Arnold to the public, and was binding on him until publicly withdrawn, or until notice had been given to individual customers. Tho law was similar in reference to rewards oflercd in the papers. Any person peribrming the service could collcct the re i ward oiïcred.