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;v ' ? * > - ^ * v ->- ; ; -. :" 1'111 ' ' imnnrn mi mum i ?d a V _ . From tAe Sbuti Carolinian. p THff LANCASTER MURDER CASE, j What an awful lesson is presented, in h the following eloquent remarks of Judge d Butler, of the terrible influences and v .consequences of intoxicating liquors!? ti "Can any one read it and not tremble?for y himself or others??or think of it, serious- t< ly, and not feel it his duly to use his in- b fluence in putting away the dreadful ti "temptation," both from himself and t - others? s John Sweat: il Vou have just witnessed the last so- h Iftmn ceremonv of the law, in relation to 1 v your trial; and you will learn, by the sen- e tence which I am about to pronounce, that " your days are numbered. After a full and fair trial, in which evpry form was observ- fl ed, and ererV principle of the law consult- ii cd that couid avail you, you have been ti convicted of nn offence for wliicli you c have forfeited your right to remain on the p earth. You should realize the dreadful u position which you now occupy. You o are on an isthmus between time and eter- d nity. You have seen the spring, but you fl may never witness another harvest time, a The things and interests of this life should a cease to employ your mind, any farther h than a jnst contemplation of the pa*t, may y enable you to think of and prepare for the a awful future. There is a God, and he is the Avenger of wrong. The history of your life shews that you have thought lit- ? tie of Hisjndgment, or of that hour of re- , tribution, when you will be called on to ' give an account of every motive that has ^ operated on your conduct in life. Your bloody hands, and the bleeding wounds ^ of your victim, will not then be necessary to expose your wicked deed. Human power and judgement are limited in their ' jurisdiction, and can only take cogni- . zance of obviods wrong; but the judg- j ment of God will reach the bottom of the . heart; and none but a good heart can be acceptable to the Author of Good. I . hope that the fe v days which will be allowed you, may not be unavailing, in tj .e; . preparing you for your fearful transition. I shall not allude to the circumstances - c.i *>f your case, with any design of inflict- y ing pain on you; much less, tp mortify ; the feelings of others, who may be connected with you. Nor shall I do so, with V"V the purpose of vindicating tliejusiire of . ^ the verdict which has condemned yon to Y die; but with liope that n proper review of your conduct, may penetrate your w mind with contrite conviction. The slinks of remorse may bleed and cleanse the ^ K- T. heart. rj The deceased Thomas P. Picket, the h victim of your unaccountable revenue, ^ " -<--_.tvas a yonth of nineteen; and while he|j( was standing nn the threshhnld of thisj^ life, yon thrust him, with a rude hand, in* ' to an unknown eternity. tj It seems that you arid others, on the p 14th of -March?the Sabbath day?had assembled at a fish house on the Catawba v ihie-IMetrict. and giving your- ff selves up to drink, and vulgar carousal. ^ In the evening the deceased rame and j. joined the company. He had been drinking before he came, and continued to (|' drink afterward. Having given himself j)( un to intemperance, he was wasting life ?r with criminal profusion. In the tvanton-|J( rness of untutored youth, he was violent o) in his expressions, and offensive in his de- tj portnrcnt. Without having any enmity vj ' to any one of the company, he was abu- w sire to all. In the blind and mad fury of jn his passions, he drew a pistol, saying gu that he would shoot any one who should oppose him. He pointed the pistol at a nr man by the name of Moore, and said he nv would shoot him. It seemed to have bepn an idle threat, or was unheeded by the ob- q ject of it. You took no notice ofhis vioJer.ce, at the time. His Conduct was that of a maniac, wliilst your subsequent art t was like that of a demon. YoO did not " yield to the impulse of transient passion, and upon the moment resent the affront ^ that was offered to the company, or to yourself. It did not appear that you had any particular cause of complaint, for any ,n( wrong done or insult offered to yourself, individually, at least: Or? if you had, w you said nothing about it at the time.? J"1 Before twilight you avoided having any se quarrel or collision with the deceased.? ei' You suffered your anger to be pent up in yl secret. After night-fall, when the com-pany was dispersing, and when one of ('? the witnesses had persnuded you to go lrl home with him, yon said to the same wit- yf ' ness, that you would not go till yon had killed Picket; and, with your knife drawn, or V-you said you would go' in and kill him be- n< fore you left the place. dc The witness, (J. Mo?fe) who Wns astonished at your remark, rebuked you, and Ju told you not to do soj that if there was ?n anythinz between Picket and yourself, lo re wait till you were sober, before ydu set- P? tied it. The witness, supposing that you had assented to his suggestion, left you P' for a moment to get his brother, who was in the house: and while he was at the m door you passed him, with both hands be- 10 hind you, under your coat. It did'not appear whether you then had your knife 10 drawn, but you had a atone in your hand, i ?' and stealthily approached the deceased.'?s Without givijig him any notice of jour t0 design, yon gave him one blow uith the {lri stone in your hand, which threw him ct bark against the wall. He had a frow in m bis hand at tho time. -Whether ho was 'a standing up, or aiuinjg on a bench, or ?! whether he saw youVaa .you approached r' Jiim, wag uncertain; for there was but a1 m glimmering light, from some coals in the ,'a <ke place. When.he receired yotir hlnw,|^ fcfi rwovered himself, and knocked you $ ' V . - . -v' , > - . " r I own with the frow. Whilst you were I rostrate on the ground, and he on you, Hi on called out for quarters, saying, take im off. You were separated near the b oor still?you being put out of the house, y /hilst the deceased was carried to a parti- h ion door in the building. In a short time n ou came in, and without saying a word A a any one, or intimating your presence 8 y any sign, you reached round one of v lie witnesses, and gave, with your knife, k he fatal and treacherous wound which ii pill the life-blood of the unfortunate and s I! fated youth, of whose muctler you have b een convicted. In secret you stole your tl ,'ay out of the ho.use, and ran off?ex- s mplifving the truth of the remark, that o the wicked flee when no man pursueth." b At the time you fled, the blood was t! owing from the deceased, anil he was call- h ig for assistance. Such was the consierna- 6 inn and confusion of the iritoxicuted ti rowd, thai you were not pursued and ap- p rehended till the next day. After you ii 'ere apprphended, and before the death e f Picket, you acknowledged it was your I esiirn to take his life, at the lime you in- e icted the wound; but you added--and it tl ppears in bright relief to the shocking n trocity of your conduct?that you hoped c e would not die, and that thenceforward y ou would not trust yourself to carry o nother knife. v Was this suggested by the apprehension a f danger, or was it the result of remnrsp, ^ nd penitent sorrow? Your shocking de- ^ larations, and past conduct, would seem j( > imply that you had stifled these latter jelings; and that you had accustomed jr A ... k-rw.,1 rti/nr mischief violence. I L JlirilllllU IW Uiuuu 1 - JJ ml bloodshed.* To one witness, who wish- | rl to trade for your murderous knife, the | ?me that you used on the deceased, y in till you would not part with it; "that you v itended to keep it, to cut some man's ather." To another witness, you suid, tj ithout there being any occasion calling >r the remark, that you did not mind tak- * ig human life more than killing a chicki, for that one could do you harm, and le other conld not; and when he said, in t| stonishmenl, why so? you replied, "be- -t uisc you had Portuguese blood in you. / ^iih a miud thus educated in depravity y nd wickedness, and devoid of social du- "n it is no wonder that your hands have t een familiar with blood. If I am not icorrecll7 informed, this is not the first, ^ r tire second time, in which you have * fTered violence to human life, by stabbing ^ :th your knife. You may have suppesI that ferocity became your Portuguese ^ lood, and was calculated to give you ter- tj ble distinction. This would indicate a j lind feeling of destruction, without suf- ^ rienl purpose to influence human motive, uleed, from the circumstances before the tj ourt, there wns no snflicient clue to your lotives?even to your bad motives?on ^ le occasion of this homicide. 1 felt a jarful solicitude, on your trial, lest intstice might be done to you, from pererted or defective testimony, coming <?m witnesses who, like yourself, had een drinking to excess. In your (Iron ? ? ? i y ennPSS, your passions may nave ueeu / ^ Kcited, anil for a time may have usurped j tj le throne of reason. Your stealthy delisration would oppose this conclusion.? he conduct of the deceassed may have w pservetl rebuke; but you took no notice . f it at the time, by an open demon-urn- J un of reseniment, such as furious and ^ olent passion, agravated by intoxication. ^ ould have suggested. Had you entered to a quarrel with the deceased, under ich circumstances, and a contest had ened, in which he was killed, you might ^ ?t have been stained with the 'Crime of, ^ urder, although you might have been | j, lilly ot a highly criminal homicide.? pen reseniment for sudden wrong, must gf it be confounded with secret revenge, ^ at broods over injury, attributable to p iman infirmity. The one is the transit of passion, and the other is malice . urethought, flowing from a wicked art. 0 I felt too miirh anxiety about your case tfc )t to make every enquiry in relation to "] to salisly my mind of ihe motive, by hirh you was actuated. According to )ur statement, made to others, it would ht em that during the evening the deceas- pi 1 had reproached or taunted you with w >ur color?it not being as bright as that w ' ordinary white people? arid being un- ty irstood that you arc of Portuguese fex- at action. Stung with the insult, which It )U did not think it prudent to resent at vt e lime it was offered, you determined lii t revenge, to be obtained with little Or > personal riski With this feeling, you cl diberatelv and clandestinely nttaked the ri ceased, and finally killed him, when d< i tlid not know of your approach?giv- m g him a wound near the bark, which si ached the kidney. There is little to te tliate, and nothing to excuse your crime, hi any possible view of the subject. With hi ofane violence you have extinguished th e light of human existence. Yoii can- n< ?t, by any power of your own, restore T its vital Circulation, the blond which Fh itit* hand so Rudely spilt. It is profanity, in break into the temple of human life, u| id exiwguisn me nre ai me auar, anu it in a high crime against human society, C put its security in jeopardy, by des- d( oying one of its members. You have se >mmitled a crime, for which you have in nonly incurred the highest penalty, and T st sanction of human power, but it is di ie which is peculiarly the subject of Di* g< ne denunciation. "Thou shalt do no tb order:'' blood dcfileth the land, and the fr nd cannot be cleansed therefrom but by D os blood of iiim that shed it.- The jus- in ce of human law has the sanction of j-i . v " ~ I *, 4 *"* ?* $? '; . leity, ill saying that you do not deserve ) live. Let the few dajrs which remain to you 6 employed in making your peace with ou God. Do "not ' lot the delusion of ope, seduce you into a belief that you jay obtain a pardon from the Executive, tnd do not deceive yourself by profesions of penitence and reform, with a iew of conciliating the good opinions and ind offices of men. Place not your trust i human power. Endeavor to make the ecret meditations of your heart accpptaJe to the Judge of motive, who will hear he prayers of a bleeding heart, but will coff at the offerings of the obdurate heart f the hollow hvoocrite. Head diligently y day, the precepts of the Savior; and in lie deep solitude of night, when guilt is east at ease, melt your heart down into incere contrition and humility. Soliciude and crime are not usually quiet comanions together. The one is a searchig monitor and rebuking censor, and will xpose the hideous deformity of the other, n performing the office, it may, in the nd, operate as the agent of mercy; for lie heart must be stung with remorse, and telted with penitence, before it can reeire the balm of forgiveness. Should our mind be indifferent to other sources f influence?and there are many to rhich it may appeal?think of ll)^ slightd counsels, the affectionate admonitions, nd the fervent prayers of a pious wife.? [er simple and unaffected deportment, ut deeply concerned countenance, durtg your dreadful trial, touched the whole udience. Het affecting prayers for yon i jail, penetrated the hearts of all who card them, and had a sensible effect on he feelings of your counsel. If you ave nature in yon, you cannot be indifwent to the fate and happiness of one ho has united herself with you in mystial identity, and who has stood by you to te last, with unshrinking devotion. If on Itail been influenced by her, you mold have been a belter man; and think, ow, what happiness it would be to such woman, to have produced on her mind le conviction,that her supplications were lstrumentnl in arousing you from your ita! delusions; and to be able to say to our child, that though his father left this rorld a lelon, he died with Christian peni;nce! Snch considerations may give out mind virtuous employment, while ou live, and -enable you better to meet our melancholy fate, which it is my duty ow to announce. Tlte sentence of the law, is, that you - ..i? i?:I ?c ,i.:_ c uu\ni tu n;c uchi m i ima l/ian m l, uuw >ierein confined, until the first Friday in uly next: and that, on that day, between ie hours of ten, in the morning, and four 'clock in the afternoon, you be taken to >e place of public execution, and be hung y your neck until your body be de xd; iud may God have mercy onyour soul, SAVANNAH, MAY 20. MORE INDIAN MURDERS. We learn from a passenger in the steamr Geo. Clinch Capt. Harden, arrived esierday from Pilatka, that information ad been received at Jacksonville, stating iat live men were killed about a week go near the Okefenoke Swamp by a party f Indians. Capl. May, with a delachlent of Dragoons, stationed in the vicini immediately went in pursuit. There as also rumor at Jacksonville, that a feinle and child had been killed near Tra* Hill in llsmden Cmintv. FROM ST, AUGUSTINE. By the steamer Charles Downing, Capt. eut, arrived yesterday from St. Augusnp, we have received the News of the >th inst. The election teturns for Delegate art, t fat, incomplete. In East Florida, as r as heard from, Levy nas 727 votes, owning 488, Ward 93. We extract from the News the followThe War.?-Extract of a letter from an fficer of the Army, received in this city, ited: Fort Armistead, E. F. (Sarasota) ( April 27, 1841. S The Only news is this, that a runner isjusl arrived who was sent out to Hostlalika, Wauxy Hadjo, and Sam Jones, ho repoits that they have all run olf, and ill not come in; consequently, the trea' is probably at an end in this section, id fight will soon be the word. The it Regiment of infantry is at present ?rv sicklj'j about one third being on sick jt*?? "Fort Fierce, may i.?coacooiee, with his negro Joe and fifteen warors, paid me a visit on the 28th ult. tin?r a safe guard from the General Comnnitinrr Hp rpmainod oil niirht oml 6" "** ?'8?M ept in my quarters, and I Tell much betr satisfied than I should to hare slept in is, He was accompanied by the elite of is band, no doubt the indentiral Indians lat have committed the horrible murders ear St. Augustine during the last year.? wo or three of them were as savage and rncious looking fellows as I have seen i Florida, under complete command, end :>parently ready for any deed of blood at le bidding of their chief. Negro Joe is oacoochee's right hand man, and no >ubl exercises great i fluence, as he pos* s considerable shrewdness, and carries his countenance the marks of a villain, heir camp* they informsd me, was two lys march from this post. They are to 5 to Tampa, they say, the moon after lis. Coacoochec spoke of his escape om St. Augustine, and asked after Capt. it no mi Uiii ?.. .1 - - ?--11 - ? * 1 * n uut iiitiuc iiu ttiiusions 10 nis leais your vicinity. -He speaks to his warors as one accustomed to be obeyed; I * graceful in his movements; and his guV tures more expressive than his/words." "FORT- PRINCE, MAY 1-On the 26th ulU, Coacoochee, with fifteen men and boys, paid ns a visit. "appears to be on nothing more than a beggingexetir- / = sion, and seems about as little desirous of getting in others and going to Tampa, as making a trip to New Holland: His im- d pudence and insolene was almost unbeara- !< ble; and had. 1 been commanding officer, andhe without his safe-guard, the whole c batch would have been put in irons. He n called us liars, women, stingy fellows, p and every thing else; but we were coot- c manded to treat them with civility. He had passes from General Armistead and v C?l Worth. Powder, flints, and horses, d were among the articles he asked for.? Of course, we gave him none of these.? o The scoundrel had the impudence to go to , and offer to buy a cannister of pow- p der, saying that the officers would never find it nut. He left yesterday, after laying dead drunk ail night in our quarters. A man by the name of Pinckney, (a lireman) was missing from on board the stea- b mer Wm. Gaston, on Saturday night last, ? while lying in this harbor. His body was ji discovered on Wednesday evening, float- i ting about within a short distance of the v wharf, supposed to have been accidentally i drowned while endeavoring to get on board c the steamer. h Sad Accident.?A sad mistake took ? place on Sunday night last, at the house t of a Mr. McCornick, about 8 miles from j, Jacksonville. This residence has been b attacked more than once by Indians, and c near night a man was observed in tile field, t apparently appropching with great cau- s tion. Mrs. McC. and her two 6011s only s being at home, concluded it was an Indian, t and the boys took their guns, and awaited $ his approach. He had something in his <j hand which seemed a gun, and as itap- ? pcared that he was about using it, the boys ^ tired, and the object fell. On approaching B the spot, it was found to be a poor deaf r and dumb man named Gordon, who was t thus accidentally killed. His appearance p there created an alarm, that it was the r enemy, and under the circumstances of ^ the case* the jury returned a verdict of t justifiable homicide. c ST, AUGUSTINE, MAY 14. J Indian.?We are indebted to the atten- a lion of an officer of the army, for the L following letter from Capt. B. L. Beail, of ( the 2d Dragoons:. 'Fort Brooke, E. F., May 2d, 1841. 0 "1 have just returned from a scout in G pursuit of a party of Indians who killed g the express rider between this post and n Fort Clinch on the 28th ult. I found his t body about 27 miles from here, with the 0 head and arms severed therefrom and j burnt; the mail entirely destroyed, with t the exception of two private letters^several r ropies of the new Regulation for the Army, with the leaves cut out and scattered a -about'; the woods for about a mile burnt t in order to conceal the trail?which I am t happy to state they did not effect. I fol lowed their trail about thirty miles, and 0 at sundown come up \vith'lJtwo of the party, encamped near the1-edge of a dense v hammock. (I say two, although I saw but g one: but I took two rifles, pouches, and ^ two powder-horns full of powder.) The i fellowendeavored to get to the hammock, but I was loo quick for the gentleman-?1 shot him, scalped him, and hung bim up to dry. He shot or.e of my horses. He proved to be an Indian called Kenihee, or Waxie Hadjo, a Micasookie sub-chiel. 254Indians and negroes will be shipped lor Arkansas to-morrow". The General is in good spirits. Upwards of two hundred men are sick of Col. Davenport's command at Sarasota. The General has ordered the post to be broken up, and the regiment will go to the Key near Cedar Keys. No further news here. will send you a piece of Kenihee's scalp. I huhg the gentleman up higher than Ilaman (whom we read of in the oook) was hung. Your friend and ob't. srv't., BEN J. L BEALL." Note.?Lt Lincoln goes out with 40 men ;o bring in some of Allack's party, (where he is I do not know,) 88 Indians came up from Sarasota a day or two- ago. Hospitarkee did not come with them, as : he have gone to meet Sam Jones, who had | a council at Big Cypress Swamp about 1 that time. Some Indian runners, on see ing the dead body of the express rider, 1 sent in a warrior to inform the Gen. of 1 the circumstance. i Dr. Mounsey, by way of ridiculing 1 family pride, used to confess, that the j first of his ancestors, of any note, was a ba- 1 | ker and dealer in hops, a trade which cn- " jabled him, with some difficulty, to sup* 1 port his family. To procure a present b sum, this ancestor had robbed his feather * beds of their contents, and supplied their a deficiency with unsaleable hops. In a P few years, a severe blight universally pre- 81 vailing, hops became more scarce, and of c course enormously dear; the hoarded treasure was ripped out and a good sum pro- ^ cured for hops which in a plentiful season were of no value; "and thus," the Dr. used to add, "our family hopped from ob- r scurity." % The national debt of Texas, consisting n of bonds, treasury notes, and debts of various descriptions, amounts to seven mil lion dollars. The amount of one year's taxes is estimated at one million dollars; 4 and the expenses of government for the ^ same period, at five hundred thousand dol- n< lars, par money. Ot * "' . .T > . " ^ ^ Til E S ES3I0N. ' The extra session 6( Gon&rcu will meet on Mooay next,in pursuance of.the Proclamation 6f ;the ite President. ' ' ~ The propositions which yfdl W C??^b|iiocta prais. usaion and aotlon before. ttyat body, ore no Jcpj^^.Xf-.^' natters of conjecture. The official organ cfjthc . resent adminatration baa made jJicm kpovrn.to'tfie ountry. The follotving are the measures_wju<&5tisj?id rill be the subjects of deliberation, arid it is confi.- '' [entTy anticipated that they will be adopted^ 1st. The distribution ofthe proceeds ofthesales ,f the public lands among the several States.'" . 2d. A revision and increase of flio'dutle* on im3d. The repeal of the Independent- TrsasnTy-ldw. rTNs? nofnliliohmnnt'of aWatfontti Bknk-'- . ' ^ 5th. The creation of a public debt. These are the measures, announced befciwKtad; ~ j the National Intelligencer, the organ of Wearr** ' V rid Clay, and perhaps of the President too,'which - 1 tie required that Congress should couauioiiiate,'?fhc boldness with which these prop^tiqga aps ad- ' anced, and the reasoning by which they arpsiisainod, cannot fail to alarm,lijp true friends of (he institution. It required that only one other should . iave been added, to hare ideveloped, at once, the 9 hole policy of the leaders now in powpi?tkaljof he aisumption of the Stole dehU. That .tbt* s a darling project thcro can bo nodoubt, mt the period has not yet arrived when it canbe ipenly avowed. The official ofgan, in Wencnceio ho subject of the distribution of the proceeds of the '. . ales of the Public Lands, points to this-policy, it ays: "It is, nevertheless, a great satiation io.ua o know that this measure, which a mojority jof theStates and of the People have always decrned,c*pe. iicnt as well as just, is now recochmeudeB-Jby the dditionol consideration that it will yield to the in. lebtod States (whom the general depreseiun of buiness has involved-in the embarr aeement.rtV ^ [leans, in part, at least, of payingtbe-intercs^vpen' '"-J'.'. heir debts until they become able to pa^tiie/princL / al, and thus averting the otherwise'inevitable bankoptcy of some Statee?a catastrophe little less toc dreaded and deprecated than the"bankruptcy of he Union?and involving indeed the^worat^cdue* [uences which would attend such a disaster. Hap. >yis it not for the coun'iy tlint relief can thus bo iffoided to'the debtor States without a violation of my principle, and especially without incurring the idium attached to the idea of jyj assumption by Ut? <jj Jcneral Government of the State debts!" " J "The odium attached to the idea1" The re-is- no * ' dium in the thing, if it can be accomplished; it is ?" nly in the idea! The truth is, the veilip too Sim., ey, under which H is' attempted- to faido'ihejgreat. aeasuro which Mr. WsBarnt has at-^ he "idea of on assumption" is all to wbich^pny dium ead'be attached is clearly e?8crted,>afi<f.if lis worshippers can be brooglU-iDto famiRyi^ witti his idea, it may perhaps appear lcte odious en i. ? nore intimate acquaintance. . . . - That the President favors IhisdisuibutiOTsisbcrno, swell as the measure of revision and increase'.of, .. he dulios on imports, we have the strongest reason* ? ' [> fear. But the coorra he raay pursue on the, sub. sot of a National B^nk ia not so-clear, though-th*. '-2.', pinion that ho would approye cif socha'..measure, ia# been gaining 8trength for apxne.t?o?tf pMt^notwithstanding hi? former strong, atrdoj^rentjjr nr urrnoantablo objections. The official organ, after: lisoussing all the othorjquestion% takea:jj|r^{^t of ? National Bank, and in concluding iti views-on this object sap: "We believe in the expediency ndeed necessity, of n^National Bank, to .rhscbargftV T tt he doable functions of a fiscal agent for the Governncnt and a regulator'?? the currency for the'feople. fhis is the opinion of the Editors of this paper, in epeating which now and hore thoy do notprctoOd, ,J-3Ea lot being authorized, to represent the viewsTef the; Executive." So that we take it for granted that the Editors sere "authorized to represent the views of Hh^ Exicutive" on all the other subjects which ii >d to bring before the Extra Session. Does^hwynt- ' jrewion pot afford a ray of Uopc Uiat Rpident TrjER may jot defeat the object of those who advocate he establishment of a National Bank? Bui does it iot strengthen and encourage, in an equal-degree, he expectations 'of thoee who look upon fhedjatji. tution scheme as the entering wedge to^^: tftastef ncasurc, the ossumptiun of the State debts byJho General Govern men 17 . We have before spoken of ourTears with respect o the deliberations of the Extra Session. We ?hd anicipate an angry, heated and ombi tiered scene of >arty strife. ' The death of Gon. H?s*rso?, and the nelancholy reflections which such an evtni'it wcM calculated to arouse, may, perhaps, and ought, at ^ '* eaal, to have the effect of making the Session l?s mgjy than we had reason to fear. Tire nieafure? ; rroposed for the consideration of Coo greet, am of a nost momentous character, and. ought to. hfcTe the nost careful and searching investigation. The rVhigs themsclvos, (not the leaders,) we know, ?e tot prepared to act immediately <m. these measures, -the people have not been consulted on the subject, J:,' i or could they, were thoy to Bee the Whole scofie and ' earing of them, ever bo induced to give them their motion. A fearful responsibility n*u upon ttis | lembers of the Extra- Session of Congress,end hap?% ' ^ y will it be for them if they shall, so acquitthem, rives as to escape the deep denunciation of their . - .vi onstitaents. We shall look with intereat to the proceedings et J lio Session, and shall keep onr readers advised of 'h 1 tiers. . j.. i The message of the Presidonf will not, of coffee, Bach us in time for our next paper. v . * ' . ' The Hon. Crarlcs Oolb, Representative in Coo- , ress from the Stato of Pennsylvania, died at hie :/\j2 jaidence is Somerset county, on the 10th instant. -.1 Connbcticot.?Few of tho Slates of-this .Union i p o in so enviable position aa this.. Aftet two has- >j ed years of legislation, all the public statutes are s* i intained in a single volume. The annual expenses ' the State do not exceed $80,000; and it owes itbing. The School Fond is opwards of $3-,000,. *; 10, and yields an annual income of $113,000. 1 r v" ;* Vj - . ' . . j _ ' ' ... *.. ? ; .... aM