Massachusetts

Massachusetts. The Whigs have swept Massachusetts and elected Gov. Briggs by a majority of nearly eight thousand. In 310 towns Davis has 33,215 votes, Briggs has 54,585, and Sewall, Baylies, and others have 13,608 votes. In the House of Representatives, the Boston papers report the election of 170 Whigs, 29 Demccrats, and three Liberty men. Eight Whigs are elected to Congress. The Kalamazoo Gazette is out for "the abolition of all litigation," by doing away the Credit System. That will do to discuss, Mr. Gazoite, but it is not till a generation or two that it will be put in practice. This is the height of ultraism, and could not be effected without a radical charge in the whole structure of society. There has not been a civilized nation on the globe from the beginning of time to this present year, that has not had a code of laws for the collection of debts. How would the great army of lawyers, sheriffs and constables live, if no debts could be collected by law? Our village has been thrown into considerable excitement for a few days past. Madam rumor has been current that a couple of southerners have made us a visit for the purpose of apprehending runaway slaves. How far we are to credit the stories is left for the thinking and acting portion of community. But this much we will say, if the negroes (man, wife and children,) have lived among us for the last six or seven years and borne of their kin, been industrious and fugal, and gotten a good name, we opine our neighbors of the south will meet with about as much success as the Indiana committes did, when instructed to wait upon Henry Clay and ask him to give up his slaves. Clay's negroes had grown fat and sleek, those among us have become endeared to us, and will abide the public will for their apprehension and conveyance into the realms of slavery, of which, however, we entertain but little fear. - We shall probably say something further in regard to this matter next week. - Adrián Walch Tower. We stated the other day that the provisions of the New York Constitution on Legal Reform would prove valuable inasmuch as they would bring the administration of the law under the control of the people. They can make their wishes felt, in part at least, through the ballot box. The N. Y. Evening Post, commenting on the decision of Judge Bronson, that under the new Constitution practitioners of !aw must first obtain a license, as heretofore, pronounces the decision "absurd," and adds significantly, - "Every man of good moral character, and who is not noloriously unfit, is allowed by the new constitution to practice in the courts, and if the courts attempt to enact rules adverse to this liberal and just provision of the constitution, the people will see to it when they come to elect their judges." Here is the true remedy for oppressions and fooleries of the courls of law. "The PEOPLE must see to it ." The War Department has made a requisition for 7,000 additional troops - one regiment from each of the following States : - Massachusetts, N. York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. It appears by the report of the Secretary of the Navy last year, that there are 69 Captains In the Navy, and as all promotions take place by seniority, they are all old. Their average age is nearly 60, and is constantly increasing. The average age of Commanders, from whom Captains are made, is nearly 50. Continue the present system 20 years longer, and there will not be a Captain less than three score years and ten.