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i-iuuaLtJMuwMijw 1 mHU-UMMBll tract should not, upon the motion of either party, be referred to auditors, as well as actions of book debt and account. The Constitution provides that the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, and no action of yours should in the least impair that right but you mar impose conditions upon jury trials without a violation of the organic law. WhHe therefore, you cannot provide that all actions founded on contract naturaHzatSon laws, which, wrong In themselves, are still more objectionable on account of the loose manter in which they are administered. Again, combinations of our alien population social, political and military are existing all over the country. So far as the swial combinations do not interfere with or distrust the rights of others, they should remain unmolested.

The political organisations so far as they are now existing, composed of nationalized citizens, cannot ledisturled but I do not believe that military companies, to consist entirely of foreign pom citizens, should be formed. Every thing about such a company reminds its members, not they aie American citizens, but that they owe allegiance yet to their native land. A very large number of our foreign citizens are members of the same ecclesiastical denomination, the spiritual head of which owes no allegiance to our Government or its laws that denomination as a matter of history exacts the most implicit obedience from its members, wbo generally are very zealous and devoted to its interests and so "far as it attends only to spiritual matters it tOXXEtTlCET LEGISLlTrRE. SENATE. Thursday Morning, May The Senate convened at eight o'clock.

Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Fisher. Reading of the Journal dispensed with. Com.

on reported on the contested election of the 9th Senatorial District, giving the seat to Lean.ed Hebard. Mr. Ferry, from the committee, explained the facts in the case. Mr. Taylor opposed the report, because due notice had not been given to the occupant of the seat, and demanded that more time should be given to Mr.

Smith to show his right to the place. Mr. Alsop advocated the acceptance of the report. The discussion was continued by Messrs. Jennings and Taylor, in opposition to the acceptance of the Mr.

Alsop moved the acceptance of the report which was carried, and the resolution passed giving the seat to Learned Hebard, who appeared, was qualified, and took his seat. A message was received from the House that they were ready to meet the Senate in Convention. Whereupon the Senate, preceded by their President, repaired to the Hall of the House of Representatives. Upon the return of the Senate from the Convention, the report of the proceedings of the Convention was received and accepted. Several resolutions from the House were concurred in.

Mr. Alsop was appointed a committee to wait upon the Governor and inform him of his election, and Mr. Gridley, to wait upon the other State offi-ccrs. Senate then took a recess until half-past one o'clock. Thursday Afternoon.

The Senate came to order at a quarter before two. On motion of Mr. Belden, the Seuate took a further recess until three. Senate came to order at three. Mr.

Alsop, as committee, made a report of the aorpntarice of William T. Minor of the office of mindful of the solemn obligations and responsibilities that are, thrown upon me and shall endeavor so to act with refeience to them that the interests of our State shall be protected, and its honor remain unsullied. You are assembled, gentlemen, in accordance with the provisions of our constitution, to legislate for our beloved Commonwealth to ascertain what new interests have arisen, and adopt such provisions as you shall deem adequate to their just protection to search out abuses that have crept into our present system, and apply the proper remedy for the correction of those abuses. In the prosecution of our labors may we all look to that Supreme Being in whose hands are the destinies of nations, to uphold, as he has hitherto done, and so to direct us that all our measures may be dictated by prudence and wisdom. In every constitutional government, changes are constant.lv occurring, new interests are yearly arising, and new feeling are growing out of the progressive spirit of our people, all requiring some alterations of the organic law.

Our constitution contains an admirable provision permitting such alterations to be made a provision, which while it prevents hasty action, yet will allow such amendments as are demanded by the people. In accordance with this provision, the House of Representatives of last vear originated three alterations of the constitution, all of which will receive your attention. One providing for a single capital for this Sfctte, and requiring the legislature of 1856 to designate the place. Another, that each town in this State shall be entitled to one representative only, in the General Assembly and the third, that all male citizens of the United States who shall have attained to the age of twenty-one years, having resided in the State for the length "of time now required by the constitution, and sustaining a good moral character, shall be electors and requiring, farther, that every person shall be able to read any article of the constitution, or any section of the statutes of this State, before being admitted as an elector. The first two of these amendments are to be decided as questions of policy, and I have no doubt that they will be carefully considered by you, and correctly acted upon.

The third, while it proposes to extend the elective franchise to a large class of the citizens of our State, also guards the purity and integrity of that franchise. The people of this State are the makers of its constitution, and in that instrument they have reserved the right of deciding what changes shall be made. To their decision, this, as well as all other proposed alterations, must be referred, upon an affirmative action of the General Assembly, indicated by a vote of two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives. In every thing that has reference to the important question of the elective franchise, either to its extension or restt iction, whenever such extension or restriction is demanded by any considerable portion of the community, the legislature ought not to prevent final action by the people, unless some stem principle of right stands iu the way. If those of our citizens to whom it is proposed to extend the elective franchise, are in the main moral and industrious, and qualified to act understandingly whenever called upon to exercise this privilege, it is difficult to understand why this, the highest right of a freeman, should not be conferred upon them on the contrary, the theory of our government, and justice to them, seem to require that it should be; neither, in my opinion, will this extension of the franchise be attended with results improper or inconvenient.

In any event, it will be safe to leave this question, for final decision, to that tribunal where it is left by the constitution. The latter portion of this proposed amendment, requiring that every citizen, before his admission to the rights of an elector, shall be able to read some portion of the constitution, or the statutes, is better calculated to restore the elective franchise to its primitive purity than any other method that could be devised. The proposition is founded upon the idea that popular education should I the foundation of this, as it confessedly is of all our institutions. Your action upon all these amendments will be such as you shall deem right and proper. The agricultural interest of the State should receive such encouragement at your bands ns its importance demands.

Whatever advances the prosperity of agriculture, equally advances the prosperity of our State. The progressive spirit of the age has made itself felt in the art ot tilling the earth; it has developed new sources of wealth in every thing that appertains to the business of cultivating tfie soil, and placed agriculture among the sciences. County agricultural societies have been established, and their annual meetings have teen attended with the best results. These meetings have been confined to the counties in which the societies are located, and their benefits have consequently been limited. Last year the State society originated the plan of a State agricultural fair, and for the purpose of enabling the society to make a creditahie display of the products of the State, the General Assembly appropriated the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars.

The results of that fair were all that its most sanguine friends had anticipated. It is proposed to hold another fair at Hartford during the coining season, and the liberality of the State will again be appealed to for another appropriation in aid of this very deserving object. 1 recommend the matter to your favorable consideration. The report of the Commissioner of the School Fund will give in detail the present condition of that fund. Its income the past year has amounted to $129,108 75, which has been divided according to our present laws among one hundred thousand one hundred and thirty-ei2ht children at the rate of 51.25 to each child.

There has been an increase of the number of children between the ases of four and sixteen, during the past year, of eleven hundred and fifty-eight. If the same increase should hereafter continue, and the income of the fund remain the same, the dividend to each child must necessarily be diminished in a ratio corresponding with such increase. Our present School Fund is an example of the munificent provision made by those who have preceded us for educational purposes! Its originators did well their duty to the times in which they lived but I cannot for a moment suppose that they intended to throw upon that fund the entire burden of educating the youth of this State, and to relieve parents and the community generally from any responsibility in the matter, Former legislatures have deemed it proper to establish a Normal School peculiarly for the education of teachers they have made appropriations for county conventions of teachers, and have, provided for the appointment of a superintendent, whote duty it is to look after the interests of education in this State. The report of that superintendent and of the trustees of the Normal School will be before you, demonstrating the great benefits that have already accrued from these provisions. But legislation in this State is not yet exhausted, to make our common schools what they should be second to none, equal to the best." Every town should have within its limits a common school in which not only the rudiments of an ordinary education may be acquired, but every thing requisite to qualify its pupils to become useful and honorable citizens of a free republican government, in whatever situation they may be placed.

If a library of reference books should be provided for every sehool district in the State, a great impulse would le given to education new thoughts and suggestions would be originated in the minds of thepu-pils, and facilities of communicating information would be furnished to the teachers which they could derive from no other source. I do not believe that the State should be called upon to furnish such libraries, but if the Superintendent of Common Schools should be directed to send to each school district that in his opinion should be entitled BY TELEGRAPH TO THE By Houm' Printing Uw, la Mai3 Jew Yrk Sarfeetg. New ylir Cotton firm sales 500 bales. Flour 12 cents better sales 550) ys. 39:75 a 9,93 Ohio, a 10,25.

Wheat inactive. Corn two cents better sales lasrs-' mixeSl.13 for Western; wLite 51,10 a 1 p- Stocks are heavy. Morey and Exci changed. li Scamd L'cardX. Y.

Cent. bds. 83; N. I niort. Goshen lire, Harlem 1st M.

0 GO; 111. Cent. Ids. 7oJ; Cumberland, vi: 49 N. Y.

Cent, R. luver m. Mich. (V S3; Reading R. Hudson II.

41; cago, 91 Harlem R. 30. New Yoss, May 3. Consul Faber.s was brought up in the trict Court, to-day, and ordered to $10,000. His trial is set down Kr Mot.dar.

TIcffalo, May 3. The first propeller of the season reached c'-r to-day. She got through the ice without tauch difficulty. Tall of a Bridge. Patterson, N.

May 3. The new bridge recently erected over tl.e Passaic River, above the Falls, fell this morning time the test of twenty tons was applied. There were about thirty persons on the strnct'irc, at the time it gave way, the most of whom were precj j. tated into the water. Two of them were serUlr injured, and it is feared that' there are persons among the ruins, as some aie mi sv.no.

Workmen are busily employed in clearing the away. This is the second suspension bridge has been put over the river at this point within 1 vear. A Nephew op Kossuth Killed in- a Coal Fit A distressing and fatal accident, says the Pittsburgh Democrat, occurred about half-past eight o'clock, fs Monday morning, in Snowden township. Itaf pean that a Hungarian, named Kossuth, in the employment of Thomas Kiddoe, as a coal digger, et into the pit to assist one of the hands, and there a large mass of what miners call "horeback" fell upon him, fracturing his spine, and crushing him ia a horrid manner killing him almost instantly. I he deceased, if his statement can be relied on as correct, was a nephew of the illustrious Louis ex-Governor of Hungary, and is said to have resembled in a striking degree the great Magyar.

He took part in the Hungarian revolution for free dom, and had many hair-breadth escapes during ths: memorable struggle- SPECIAL NOTICES. Percvias Griso. As there are various subetar.ee dc offering for Peruvian Gn3no, to avoid imporiiion, be partic ular to observe that every bag of the genuine article iH have the following brand: "Warranted 1 Peruvian Ga-ano, imported into the United States by F. Barreda. Brothers, for the Peruvian Government." SIcXiRT Si Erci.

at the sign of the ''Good Samaritan," Xa 15 State st. Circa-lars containing ample directions for its ue, fortrarded ty mail free to post-paid applicants. Herd's Grass, Timothy, Illixois Medicx Clover, of excellent quality sold at the Seed Store, at the sign ct th 'Good Samaritan." A SECOSD-HASD SODA PCMP, RETORT. DraCCHT, TtBI and Column for sale, all in good order. Enquire at the sign of the "Good Samaritak," Xo.

18 State street. Pcrb Boke Dcst. 500 bushels of Bone Dust, ia bag of two bushels, of the best quality. For sale by McXaet fc Bcck, at the sign of the ''Good Samaritan-" Defiasce Salamander Sates. Kobibt JI.

Patiici i the sole manufacturer in the United States of the celebrated Safes, and C. Gorns's Imfesetrabli Ci- fiasce Locks and Cross-Bars the best Safes and Locks combined in the world, to whom th highest premium have just been awarded by the Committee of the Metropolitan Mechanics' Institutes of Washington, and the American Institute, "ew Vork. Safes of all sizes ou baiid ad made to order at the Depot, Xo. 192 Pearl s'reet. one te: below Maiden Lane and at the manufactory.

Ko. 60, 62 64, and 66 Cannon street, Sew York. dec 15 Crr.d Vegetable asd Flower Seeds. A fresh supply for sale by Jobs Pitkin, 1S6 Main st. rHYSiciASs' Prescriptions will receive the accurst attention which their importance demands, at Pitiis's, U6 Main street.

Aieb's Cherrt Pectoral 119 and retail by Jons Pjtiis. Sold at whols- rocDRETTE. The subscribers ofler the Improved Poa-drette of the Lodi and the Liebig Companies' manufacture at the annexed rates, which are factory prices: one Isrrel $2,00 two bbls. $3.50 three bbls. $5,00 sis bbls.

and upward, at the rate of 1,50 per bbL, delivered at th Siean-boat wharves and Ruilroad Depots in Hartford. solicited and promptly responded to. Pamphlets kkt had on application. McXitT Bees, 3eedmen, 18 street, sign of the "Good Samaritan." Success Crowsiso Merit. We are alway jr'sd real merit is crowned with success, as in the which we are about to speak, we believe it is not undeserved.

A few years ago, the Proprietors of lr. Jiuztrs' Syrup if L-iterirort, 'J ar and CanchaJasua opened an fce in "i city, and modestly announced that they had a vaija'H Cough Kemedy for sale. They did not re -rt to reckless -high pressure of puffing, as did otfcer that we could name, but in a straijfht-forward. c.tar.')B-senee manner explained the nature tuideilectt of their icine, told what it would do, and presented the wrong most unimpeachable evidence of the good which tt b4 done. The result has been that while some of thce overpraised Medicines which "went up like a rocket, have corr.

down like a stick," this excellent article has been sttna gaining ground, until now it stands rimmx the first, if 21s hot, indeed. vert first of its kind in ibenmrset. Tr. sales are becoming unprecedentedly large, and "its jr'-e are on every lip." that takes it. This is owing to the intra-sic excellence of the Medicine itself, which wi'I rea'y Wholesale Agent for this State, Joes Titeis.

1:5 i1-3 Hartford, who supplies dealers at lowest yrite. apSO Extra Earlt Peas. 10 days earlier than ar.r known Tom Thumb, 6 inches in height Hair Marrow, Bedman's Improved Imperial Champion of ET land, Early Dwarf, Fnnce Albert, and a2 Ci good varieties, of oor own raising and A. Bees, Seedsmen, sign of the -Good reproducing them on paper is now daily practised at A Moore 3 Mir uiLiiti.u; jaaiq si. -also copied here by the photographic proces.

Tie pe-tures can be finished and obtained the day af.er the impression is taken. are lso takw these rooms at a reasonable prices sa at other and it will be hi endeavor to gie out none bu: af err pictnres. A new lot of fine Gold Locket have jul fc received. See Dr. Phelps" advertisemeut of Tra tamaoUier ed-amn also of the '-Raspberry HiU Snrsery." Top Oxio -Goes 5 aitas," Xo.

IS State tret. Ve keep at all times a fiJ Drvo KJM. zoUT in our fit. complete assortmeiii 01 warrant pure and eP Physician Prescriptions ul rce al but and iWipi attention. In compvnndin Ir, r.i "epwStand of Torture, 1 l-oeinscsai arc "-7-- is uec- 7 Verged Sash- St'' Powder.

Puis, Winder soap. Brushes, doth JfS Combs. Pocket Combs Patent Mtdicim-f hve on hard rt kind of Patent Medtcines. ad of genuine, and will sell them very low 1" Ta Al-w). Shoulder Braces, supporters.

Kci CotrVerWion Tubes. Trusts. Tfaerm.metcrs-1 for the Hair. Articles for the Teeth, soda luer Cigars. Medicinal Herbs, conpmir? n.Saiiv fouisd in drug store, ail of which can of the best quality, at low prices, at the tuy "-wis.

133 Main su Hexst UOw" Easit BaSSaso Beet. This is an Italian Beet, ed by the ubsrfber, very Sat. pink outside nd side the most delicate of all Beets, aitd than the Blood Turnip For sale at the Seed McXiit Beet, o. IS Stu suw. ia of Samaritan." all that is claimed for it, and to the trutn.ui honorable manner in which it has been placed community.

If you have a Cold or a Cough. Titr ir. to our estimate of its irtuea you will very soon liquors as a beverage under the restrictions of the license system agaiu the whole matter was left to moral means. It has been found difficult to convince the people of the justice of the former; and the latter, although successful up to a certain point, has been found to be inefficacious against the efforts of those engaged in the traffic, on account of the large profit incident to it. The only thing then remaining was the entire prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.

I have already said that I believe the law of last year to Le constitutional if constitutional, is it right 1 To decide this question, it is necessary to understand the effect of the law since it.has gone into operation. So far as my observation has extended, the effect has been highly beneficial; in certain localities comparative peace and quiet now are found, where previous to the first day of August last riots and affrays were of almost weekly occurrence. In other localities crimes such as ordinarily proceed from the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors have been much less frequent since than before the first day of August, and every where, with few have every reason to believe from observation and information derived from others, that the law has been the daily public traffic in intoxicating liquors has been broken up and abandoned. I do not mean to say that the entire traffic has been broken up, for doubtless many who have been engaged in it either from choice or for gain, have devised means still to continue it to a certain extent in secret. It is the same as in all matters which the policy of our laws is obliged to declare criminal.

In fine, the effect of the law has been such as to recommend it to general favor and very many individuals, honestly and sincerely opposed to the law at the time of its passage, are now firm advocates of its continuance, believing as they do that by it the value of property has been enhanced, crime has been lessened, poverty and misery alleviated, and the happiness of many a fireside restored. I therefore not only believe the law to be constitutional, but right; and should regard its repeal or modification to be detrimental to the best inteiest of our State. The balance in the Treasury at the end of the last fiscal year, to the credit of the civil list, was S36.401 56. You are well advised, gentlemen, that claims are frequently made upon a full treasury that under other circumstances would never have been presented. These are to be cautiously scrutinized, and allowed only so far as they may be just but there are claims founded in humanity, the justice of which former legislatures have recognized, which I trust will be met with liberal appropriations on your part.

I refer to the claims of the deaf and dumb, the blind, the insane poor, and the inmates of the state hospital. Your constituents expect that you will continue the provisions that have heretofore been made for these unfortunate beings. There is another class, the idiotic, for whom no appropriation has as yet been made. They certainly are equally unfortunate and equally deserving as the other objects of the State's noble charities. Whenever a well systematized effort has been made with reference to the improvement of the idiotic much good has resulted, their condition has been ameliorated, and light has been thrown into the darkened chambers of their mind.

It will be difficult for you at the present time to appropriate any thing judiciously for the idiotic from want of facts and statistics to guide you but I recommend that you take the necessary steps to ascertain the number of idiotic in the State, their present condition, the probabilities of improvement and everything requisite to enable a future Legislature to act wisely and humanely with reference to this class. Intimately connected with this subject of appropriations for humane and charitable purposes, is the reformation of juvenile offenders. The General Assembly at its session in 1851 made an appropriation of 10,000 for a Reform School, which was subsequently established at Meriden. Since that period the school has received in direct appropriations, and from bank bonuses, 41,500. A little more than a year since the school went into operation with 144 acres of land, and buildings capable of accommodating 116 boys.

There have been confined there since the commencement of the school 152 and on the lCth day of April last 140 hoys from all parts of the State were there, not confined as criminals, upon whom the deep mark of infamy should remain stamped during life, crushing out hope from their souls but their minds and morals cared for, and their reformation attempted. Experience has shown that a successful appeal to the hope and ambition of a youthful offender will work a complete reformation, and it has also shown that the confinement of such offender with the hardened criminal almost itivarMtbly makes the two, companions in crime and in feeling. The object of punishment is thepievention of crime, and no mote certain means can be devised to prevent crime than the reformation of the offender. I have the fullest confidence that the State Reform School is accomplishing great good not only to those confined there, but also to the State. You will have before you the report of the trustees of this institution, particularly calling your attention to its wants, and detailing its benefits.

Any legislation that should essentially interfere with this institution, or should fail to extend its blessings and advantages, I should deem injurious to the Stale and the caiue of humanity. The judicial expenses of the State for the past year have been 554,329 61. The largely increasing amount of these expenses during the few past years has frequently engaged the attention of the Legislature. At the last session a committee was a -pointed to investigate the matter; their report will be before you for such action on your part as its character demands. It is the duty of every well regulated republican government not only to furnish to its citizens methods for the redress of grievances and enforcement of claims, but also to take care that its constitution and laws are so framed that none of its citizens shall be deterred from the attempt to enforce a just claim on account of the delay and difficulties attendant upon it.

During the ft! past years very much complaint has been made1 by the people of this State in relation to the great delay in the prosecution of causes before courts of justice. The evil is not confined to one section or one county, but is co-extensive with the limits of the State. In some of the larger counties causes have been pending before the Superior Court awaiting their turn for trial for a period of more than two years. The injury must be great or the claim large that will induce any citizen to attempt the redress of the one or the collection of the other, when he is honestly assured that he must patiently wait at least two years before a determination of his suit. The delay is not the only hardship that is suffered by suitors before our-courts; but consequent upon that delay and necessarily growing out of it, is the largely increased amount of costs and expenses connected with the prosecution of every suit.

In very many instances the two causes to which I have referred operate practically as a denial of justice. While all admit the evil, the remedy is a question of more difficult solution. If a thorough re-organization of the judiciary system should be deemed the most advisable under the circumstances, that cannot be effected except bv a change of the constitution but a very great improvement of the present state of things can be accomplished under the existing provisions of the organic law. In deciding upon a remedy it may be well to ascertain the causes of the evils. Our present system was organized under the constitution at the time of its adoption, and since that period, for more than thirty years, it has remained substantially the same no addition has been made to the number of our judges, and but little, if any, additional facilities furnished for the trial of causes.

If the situation of the State were the same now as to its population, and its different interests, probably no cause of complaint would exist; but since that period our population has been steadily increasing new manufacturing interests, and to a large extent, have been created, under the enactments of various legislatures, and a large number of rail roads have been constructed, spreading all over our State. rom tuese causes originates litigation not contemplated by the legislatures which established our present judicial system; new legal questions are constantly arising growing out of the manufacturing and rail road interests, each of which has been, and probably will continue to be for years yet to come, a fruitful source of litigation. The consequence has been, that the dockets of our courts have been cumbeied to such an extent that it has been found to be impossible to do that justice to parties that their rights required. Again, the judges of the Superior Court are now required to perform circuit duty, and also to expend eight weeks yearly in the different counties as a Court of Errors, to revise questions of law that may have arisen in the Superior Court a duty onerous upon them and requiring much time that otherwise might be occupied in the trial of jury causes. Under the constitution, gentlemen, you have the power to increase the number of the judges of the Superior Court, and, in my opi: ion, duty to yourselves and to your constituents requires that'such an increase, somewhat commensurate with the increased wants and demands of the communitv, should be made.

We now ave laws referring, upon the motion of either party, a large class of cases those of book debt and account to auditors; and also upon the agreement of both parties, actions of assumpsit. I know of no leason, except it be a constitutional ore, why all actions founded in con (lumniiit. HARTFORD-- FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 4, lS5a. mI.ATIVE REPOKTS. The Hartford Da.lt CotnAstllloomaln, during the I aoDroacmnf session of the Legislature, Impartial report.

the proceeding, in the Senate and House of Representa- ttve. It wUl be mailed to any part of the State, during the for Seventy-Five Cent, or it will be sent during the elon aud tinista the publication of the after the for One Dollar. KIT Subscription, mu.t be accom- with rh inrariablv in advance. Jgb t. rilit subscriber, and remitting pay i nnnnr tltraa rrtnnt hi Election Day Parade.

The weather was glorious not too hot nor too COol the air exhilirating and the sky clear. The sovereign people thronged the streets in great force beauty shone along the sidewalks and blazed from the open windows. The bells rung out their merriest peals, the boys popped their fire-crackers the girls enjoyed themselves in their own way and all the world seemed good natured and happy. The military never appeared better they made a very soldier-like appearance. The music of the uinereub Danus was ci-cuvim.

vvt. uiuv 1 through his duties with becoming dignity and grace and on the whole, we doubt whether Hartford ever saw a more successful and satisfactory election parade. The best of order prevailed in the crowd, and we saw nowhere any evidence of the presence of King Alcohol. Few lamented his absence. There were several large bodies of Americans and Youo.2 Americans in the procession, with Na tional Flags and appropriate badges, rejoicing in the success of their principles.

The Junior Sons seemed particularly happy. In short, Election-day in Hartford iu 1855, was a great day, long to be remembered. Squatter SoTerelgnty. Y7e have never known a new theory of political right return so soon to plague its inventors, as this illegitimate doctrine squatter sovereignty. Brig- liam Younff is claiming under it, the allowance of polygamy in Utah and, trusting to the late support which it received at Washington, the pro-slavery squatters of Missouri who go into Kanzasonly to vote, are demanding the right of choosing their own Piftvirnnr.

Thn.se who advocated the aDDlica- tion of this doctrine to our territories, under the specious motto, "Let the People rule cannot, on their own principles, resist these claims of Brigham and the Missouri slave power. We had some wise statesmen in the last Congress, especially in the Seuate! 1 Information wanted, as to who is the Clerk of the United States Court for the District of Connecticut. Alfred Blackman, of New Haven, was Clerk but by Sect. 4 of Art. 10, "no person holding any office under the authority of the United States" shall be a member of the General As-.

sembly. We presume Judge Blackman has resigned his office of clerk but have seen no mention made of such in the public prints. We understand that the Speaker has rooms ia connection with the Hon. Cbas. P.

Alsop, over Southmayd's Saloon on Main street. Persons having business with the Speaker, will usually find him at his room, when not officially engaged. 13P We thank the New Britain Greys for the compliment paid this office, yesterday afternoon The company is a fine looking one and well disci plined, eomenow, an cam men looKea wen yes-. terday. The Citizen's Guard, of Rockville, Capt.

Smith, accompanied by the Talcott Brass Band, also made a fine appearance. We acknowledge the compliment paid to this office. 3 Governor Hoppin and Gen'l Anthony, of Providence, were in town, to see 'Lection in Con-- necticut. fW Mr. J.

N. Gillette, of Burlington, has laid on our table some superb specimens of apples, Baldwin, Hubbardston's Nonesuch, Russett, Greening, Peck's Pleasants, Fally water, Green Sweetings and Blue Pearmain. For the season of the year, and considering the general character of last year's crop, this show is very fine. The orchard and cellar that can turn out such fruit is more to be valued than the vineyards of Rudesheim. II is sad that in St.

Petersburg the war party has completely got the upper hand, and that Alexander throne would not be worth a week's purchase if he were to attempt to thwart the current of national feeling. The rich nobles, who in their hearts long for jeace, and will be the greatest sufferers by thexwar, are compelled to swell the nonnlar rv, TIipv nflir intit.ri1inHi in tlm hope of averting a sweeping ad valorem property-tax, amounting to confiscation. Father Shehane, an old Universalist preacher in Alabama, is called by the people "the walking Bible." Ia a county court it was discovered on a certain occasion that there was no Bible in the court bouse to swear the jurors upon. The judge, casting his eyes upon the venerable preacher, said, "There's Shehane, he has the Bible in his head; they can lay their hands on him, and that will answer every purpose." Miss Bunkley, whose escape from the nunnery at Emmetsburg Md. has produced so much talk, had prepared a volume on the subject and was about publishing sheets and took out a copy right upon them.

She has commenced a suit to reobtain the copy right. To the Residents on Asylum Bill. The est Hartford omnibus has commenced its noon trips to the Hill, leaving Main street, (corner of Asylum) at before 1, and returning in season to arrive at before 2. As it will be a great con venience to those of us who live upon the Hill to have' such a conveyance at hand in all weathers, it is hoped that it will be well patronized unless it is so, it will le abandoned. A Dweller on the Hill.

A Member or Parliament Absconded. Under thw bead the London Times, of April 11th, alludes to the fact that the Hon. Francis John Robert Villus, fourth son of the Earl of Jersev, and M. P. for leaS behind haIf a dollars.

It comXatl8t Pdings have been such as to SS181 charactr- His constituents quemSdanted 'rteetore- rf resign, but rnn nt tide ft inr vc iuiiu. proeedinCT "legal 1819; he was in aims in 1837, obtained hi, army the army in 1817. DUrwffny-" 1848' and he was aid-de-camp Can his service Ceylon, and finaliv mHiUrv fttwta What could fortune and Maira8-a single man? It is to be hoped thZ more for answer may be given to the 8ome fittins encd." His delinquencies are said to k1-W tion with horse racing. He was a wardf leadning jockey club. reward of a AvnTuT flu v--ii i iro- j.

umiicr partv last week, the conversation turned upon the fowl mania, recently developed in this country; or.e "en-teman referred tothepopularcngravincsof Shan-Thai monstrosities, another- to Bumbam's book on the hen fever, and a third to Melvill's story in Harper of "Cock-a-doodle "yes," observed another, wuer versea in cotton than literature, "the thin to De getting into books fast I saw one ad Vertisivl nti.i r.t, cm cuiicu- Hottest lioost; an- Sk! S2 rl '0rk' 1 suWe." The best of the kw IrJInS was at the table, and witbia ear -ovjn. raivscript. shall at the request of either party be referred by our courts to auditors yet the constitution win sanction an enactment depriving the party objecting to such reference of the right to recover costs, after so objecting. Auditors are now appointed by the Court upon each case separately, iu which, by law, such appointments may be made. It needs no argument to convince you that it will always le difficult, and sometimes impossible, to dispose of the cases thus referred between the sessions of the courts, on account of th.

conflicting engagements that under the circumstances must necessarily be made. If a board, to consist of the proper number, to be called auditors or referees, should be yearly appointed for each County, to whem all cases of book debt account and assumpsit iu any of the courts in such County shall le referred, and it be made the duty of such board immediately after the adjournment of each court to meet and make provision for the trial of all the causes referred to them, all conflicting engagements would be avoided, affd very much more accomplished than under the present system. Any improvement, gentlemen, of the present judicial system will be attended with cost to the State. If it is right that such improvement should be made, the additional cost, upon sound principles, must be regarded as economical. In any event, the people require action by you, and if that action be dictated by a feeling for the best interests of the Commonwealth, their approval will sanction it.

If then the number of our Superior Court Judges be increased a board of referees be-appointed for each County, and all cases founded on contract be referred to such board under suitable provisions with reference to the preservation of the constitutional rights of the parties, I have the most entire confidence that good and great good will result. I earnestly recommend the whole subject to your favorable consideration, and hope that the just complaints of the community will be heard, and a remedy provided. The banking institutions of our State are believed to be in a sound and healthy condition, and generally attentive to the wants of the community in which they are located. The report of the bank commissioners will give in detail the situation ot each bank, accompanied by such suggestions as may be necessary to enable these institutions to carry out more fully the designs of their creation. The militia of our State should receive the fostering care of the legislature to them must Ave look for defence in case of foreign invasion, and for protection to our persons and property in time of domestic insurrection, and eil will they discharge their duties if at any time called upon to act, in the one case or the other.

They compare favorably with the militia of our sister States, and take pride in sustaining the reputation commenced by the citizen soldiery of Connecticut on the battle fields of the Revolution, and sustained in all the wars in which the country has been engaged. "In time of peace prepare for war," is a dictate of sound wisdom, and calls upon us to sustain this right arm of our defence. The last General Assembly passed a law satisfactory to the militia of the State, and which it is believed will protect and promote their inteiest. Since the passage by Congress of the act organizing the territories of Kanzas and Nebraska, the people of this State have once before expressed their sentiments in relation to that act of Congress, and again in the e'ection that has just taken place have they reiterated their emphatic condemnation of the measure. No action of Congress has ever awakened such a feeling of indignation at the North as their wanton violation of a solemn compact; for although the Missouri compromise was but an act of the legislature, yet it had ever been regarded by the whole nation as a compact, and as such had been acquiesced in.

The original compromise was forced upon the North, and after the slave power bad derived all its benefit from the measure, again its repeal was by the same interest forced upon us and thereby a large tract of territory which had been solemnly dedicated to freedom, by the original compromise, was seized upon for the extension of the political slave power; and all was accomplished under the deluding cry of popular sovereignty, exhibitions of hich have been witnessed in the elections that have lately taken place in those territories. I shall cheerfully co-operate with you in any further legislation that in your opinion may be necessary to protect the just rights of our State. There is another topic not only of interest to this State but to the Nation, which the sentiment of the people requires should be presented to you. I refer to the foreign immigration, which from its extent and character, and the pernicious influence arising from it, has excited the just alarm of our citizens. The bad government, misrule and poverty of the continental nations of Europe, with the revolutionary struggles that have been agitating them for the last few years, have turned the attention of large masses of their citizens to some other home for themselves and their posterity, and their eyes have been naturally directed to our country.

From these causes a strong and increasing current of immigration has been setting towards our shores. The number of immigrants now annually coming among us is about four hundred thousand in 1845 the number was about two hundred thousand. With a corresponding increase during the next ten years, at the end of that period eight hundred thousand ill annually be brought to our shores. This large mass of aliens, some of them tinctured with the social infidelity of continental Europe very many of them blind followers of an ecclesiastical despotism a large majority of them without correct ideas of the duties appertaining to citizens of a republican government and by early prejudices totally unfitted to learn them differing in language, in national customs and feelings, and scattered all over the country, still with tenacity holding on to and observing those customs, and from among them, as appears from the statistics of crime and pauperism iu the different states in this Union, comes a majority of the inmates of our prisons and Almshouses when these things are considered and in addition the facts that our taxes are largely increased for the support of our foreign population, that in many instances the Almhouses of the Old World have been emptied, their prison doors thrown open, and the inmates of both transported by their Governments to our shores a regard for our safety as a nation requires additional legislation with reference to foreign immigration. The early founders of our government could not possibly have anticipated the dangers that would arise to their country from this matter; else, with their jealousies of foreign influence, agair.st which the American people were solemnly warred, some measures would have been devised to guard against that danger.

If the immigration had continued the same, as to its extent and character, as during the first thirty years of our national existence, no just cause of apprehension would have existed. Then comparatively but few came among us, and most of those were political refugees fleeing from persecution at home but now in five years a number almost equal to the population of the United States when the struggle of the revolution commenced, is added to our population. Every Country of Europe is pouring its masses in upon us from every condition of life, with customs, prejudices and language all differing. The nations of each country remain isolated and distinct from those of another, as well as from our own citizens, and it has been found a difficult problem in statesmanship, to blend together all these conflicting elements so that the whole may I harmonious. I would not willingly do injustice to any portion of our foreign population some of them I know are intelligent and educated, with the ability to under stand and the disposition to learn the character of our institutions; they have left behind them the ties of childhood, the associations of nation and kindred, and endeavor faithfully to discharge the duties of true and loyal citizens of the Government and these too, must recognize the evils connected with excessive foreign immigration.

If the evils were confined to the extent and character of immigration, perhaps all danger might be avoided but the large mass of our alien population, after a residence ot live years-only among u-, are admitted to citizenship with all the powers and rights incident thereto, unacquainted with the character of our government and of its institutions, very many of them thoroughly imbued with the feelings that resistance to the ruler is the duty of the ruled they are but poorly fitted properly to appreciate or discharge the duties of citizens of a republican government. Our alien population certainly cannot demand, as a matter of right, that the privilege of citizenship shall be granted to them. Our laws guarantee to them protection to their jersons and property, and furnish education that they and their offspring may be prepared for the duties of American Citizens but when we consider that citizenship is the highest boon that can be conferred by government upon the foreign born, and with the exception of ours is only granted by other nations as an especial favor and farther that incident to citizenship are the power to make our laws and the right to become our rulers, we may well be startled at the imminent danger to be apprehended from the operation of our prefent should not be interfered with, but the protection of our constitution and laws should be extended to it the same as to all our other religious denominations. A different course would be in violation of all the principles of our Government for when our forefathers landed on Plymouth Rock, driven from their native home by religious persecution, they laid the foundation deep and broad, of freedom of conscience and religious toleration. Upon that foundation are based all our laws and constitutions.

Every resident of this country has, and should have, the right to worship his Maker according to the dictates of his conscience, and when that right is seriously invaded will have commenced the downfall of America's liberty. May that day be ever in the future But as a matter of policy connected with the privilege of citizenship to be conferred upon the alien, we have the right to enquire how far the allegiance due from the members of any religious denomination to a foreign spiritual head is compatible with the allegiance due to their adopted country and if we find that combinations for political action exist, composed of members of this church, throwing their entire vote one way or the other, as the wishes and feelings and interests of those controlling may dictate and farther, if we find that these combinations are but instruments ia the hands of demagogues, either native born or thrown upon our shores by the revolutionary upheavings of Europe then a strong reason is formed, why a longer residence should be required before the alien can be naturalized. The subjects of immigration and naturalization are matters that can only be acted upon by the national legislature. But so far as our own State is concerned, you have the right to say who can exercise the privileges of freemen to make our laws and ru'e over us. You have also the right to express your sentiments upon any questions of general interests, and that expression wilt have the effect to assist in creating an American feeling and action throughout the country will give us those thoroughly imbued with those feelings to rule over us in all the departments of government, and to represent our interests abroad; will help restore our government to its primitive purity will nationalize our army and navy will cement the bonds of our national union, and will make our country great and prosperous.

May conciliation and harmony characterize all your proceedings may patriotism direct you for your country and your country's good and may the great Supreme Being watch over all your labors, that they may redound to the honor and prosperity of our beloved State. General Assembly, Mav, 1855. WILLIAM T. MINOR. The Governor then withdrew and the president of the Senate declared the convention dissolved whereu on the Senators retired.

The Speaker resumed the chair. Resolution ordering 750 copies of the Governor's Message printed for the use of the House. Voted that when this House adjourn, it adjourn to meet to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. Adjourned. What an Intelligent German Thinks of (he Know things Mr.

Valentine Heckler, a German, now residing in Richmond, has published a letter in which he says: "If I was at my native home in Germany, and an American citizen was to come there and set himself up for an office, I should not feel that he had any right to complain of me, and feel unkindly towards me. because I prefer my own countrymen to him and I think it would be a very hard matter for any American to get an office where I came from, that was worth anybody's having and for that reason I don't complain because Americans choose to have their country controlled by their own people preference to mine." Again he says: for proscription I don't sec that as a German, I am any more proscribed by the Know Nothings, than, as a Whig, I was proscribed by the Democrats." And iu another place he says "I am under greater obligations to the natives, than I am to the foieigners and therefore mean to vote with them. I have been three times ruined since 1 have been here twice by tire and once by robbery and have been three times re-established in business, and every time by the native Whigs and Democrats; and no fellow-countryman of mine ever yet lent me any aid in my distress, and, therefore, they have no claim on me to support them for office, that, by the way, they will never get and if any of my countrymen are weak and silly enough to let the democrats use them as tools for their own purposes, up to the time of the election, and then be laughed at for their folly, thev may do it, but they don't catch me in any such trap." Insult and Rebuke. A Mormon Elder was invited to officiate as chaplain of the California Legislature at the opening of a morning session. The ReverenR Mr.

Shuck, Baptist, of Sacramento, had been invited to officiate in the same capacity, whose feelings are expressed in the following note which he addressed to the Legislature: "I am now precluded from accepting the invitation you have extended from the fact of the Assemblv having, by a large vote of yesterday, acknowledged the Christianity of that daring imposture of systematized licentiousness called Mormouism. And with it or its elders I can have no religious affinity, sympathy, fraternity or intercourse. I claim for myself, individually, no superiority in righteousness over other men; but, as a Christian minister, I do claim for Christianity a superiority over every religious system on the face of this whole earth and as to Mormonism itself, I regard it js dishonor to the one living and true God, a libel upon Christianity, a disgrace to the philosophy of human progress, and a bold insult to the intelligence of the nineteenth century. 1'res-byterian. Sentimentalities.

By a Sentimental Young Lady de I age de 85 ans. The heart is a nursery of the tenderest plants, to which the least chill often proves most destructive. White hair is the chalk with which Time keeps its score two, three, or fourscore, as the case may be, on a man's head. Two's a secret, but three's none. The heart-strings will snap, just like harp-strings, from excess of cold and neglect.

Good nature is a glow-worm that sheds light even in the dirtiest places. Man has generally the best of everything in this world for instance, ia the morning he has nothiDg but the newspaper to trouble his head with, whereas poor Woman has her curl papers. Kindnesses are stowed away in the heart, like bags of lavender ia a drawer, and sweeten every object around them. Punch. The Second Babt.

Between the first baby and the second baby what falling off is there. my country women! Not in intrinsic value, for the second may chance to be "as pretty a piece of flesh as any but in the imaginary value with which it is invested by its nearest kin and more distant female belongings. The coining of the first baby in a household creates an immense sensation that of the second is comparatively a common place affair. The first baby is looked for with anxiety, nursed with devotion, admired.with enthusiasm, dressed with splendor, and made to live upon system. Babv i number two is not longed for by any "one, except, perhaps, the mother, is nursed as a matter of course, and admired, as a matter of courtesy is dressed in the ea.st otf clothes of number oiie, and geta iuitia- tea into ine without much ceremony ot system, The law of nature, fixing the numerical relation of the sexes, is an everlasting testimony against polygamy.

Tie number of females born is slightly greater, about 4 per than males but at 20 years of age they are nearly equal at 40 there are more males than" females and at 70 they are nearly equal again. The mortality of females between 10 and 40 is very great, and is" probably too bv the confined and unnatural lives they lead after 40 their chances of long life are mucn letter than men's, and the last census showed several hundred women iu this country over 100 years old. Governor. The Senate then proceeded to meet the House in Convention to inaugurate the Governor and receive his message. Upon the return of the Senate, it was resolved on motion of Mr.

Prentis that 250 copies of the message of the Governor be printed for the use of the Senate. It was resolve on motion of Mr. Ferry, that the hours of the meeting of the Senate shall be ten A. M. and two P.

until further orders. On motion of Mr. Rose, adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thursday Morning, May 3d.

The House came to order at 8 o'clock. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Ballou. Roll of members called Journal of yesterday read and accepted.

Resolution appointing a Committee of two to invite the Senate to meet the House for the election of State officers. The Chair appointed Messrs. Booth of Bridgeport, and Parsons of Somers, that committee. The Spectators upon the floor of the House were requested to withdraw, when the Hon. Senate preceded by their President and Clerk, entered the Hall and were seated in convention.

The president of the Senate took the chair and called for the reading of the rolls of the Senate and House. Alter which the doors of the House were closed. The President of the Convention then announced the next thing in order to be the election of Governor for the year ensuing and presented the names of William T. Minor, of (Stamford, and Samuel Ingham, of Saybrook, as by law entitled to the suffrages of this Convention for that office. The President appointed Hon.

Mr. Belden, of the Senate, and Messrs. Vesey and Davis of the House, tellers. The Convention proceedod to ballot with the following result. Whole number of votes, 217 Necessary to a choice, 124 William T.

Minor had 177 Samuel Ingham had 70 Whereupon Hon. William T. Minor was declared to be duly elected Governor of the State of Con necticut, for the year ensuing. lhe Convention then proceeded to ballot for Lieutenant Governor, with the following result. Whole number of votes, 246 Necessary to a choice, 124 Wm.

Field had 177 John T. Wait had 69 The Hon. Wm. Field was declared duly elected Lieutenant Governor, for the year ensuing. The Convention then balloted for Treasurer, with the following result.

Whole number of votes, 243 Necessary to a choice, 122 Arthur B. Calef had 179 Talcott Crosby had G4 Hon. Arthur B. Calef was declared elected Treasurer, for the year ensuing. The Conveuticn then ballotted for Secretary of State, with the following result.

hole number of votes, 237 Necessary to a choice, 119 Nehemiah D. Sperry had 170 Roger Avery had C7 Hon. N. D. Sperry was declared duly elected Secretary of State, for the year ensuing.

The Convention then balloted for Comptroller, with the following result. AVhole number of votes, 246 Necessary to a choice, 124 Alexander Merrell had 180 Thomas Cowles had C6 Hon. Alexander Merrell was declared duly elected Comptroller of Public Accounts, for the year ensuing. The President then declared the Convention dissolved, and the Senators retired from the Hall. The Speaker then resumed the Chair, ami in accordance with the rule of the House to that effect, reported the proceedings of the convention report accepted.

The House then passed resolutions declaring the State officers elected to their respective offices. Resolution appointing a Committee of two to wait upon upon his Excellency, the Governor elect, and inform him of his election, and that the House was ready to receive communications from him. The Chairman appointed Messrs. Perkins and Blackman, that Committee. Resolution appointing a Committee of two to inform the several State officers, of their election.

Chair appointed Messrs. Tiffany and Wakely. Resolution raising Joint Standing Committees, passed. Resolution extending the time of the appointment of the Joint Standing Committees to Tuesday the 8th inst. Moved that when this house adjourn, it adjourn to 3 o'clock, this afternoon.

Petition of Chauncey Jerome and others de Tradesman Bank, referred to Committee to be raised on Banks. Adjourned. Afternoon Session. House came to order at 3 o'clock. Resolution appointing committee of two to wait upon the Senate and invite them to this Hall to witness the inauguration of the Governor.

The Chair apiwiuted Dr. Hunt of Windham, and Mr. as that committee. The committee appointed to wait upon the Gov ernor elect.reported that his Excellency accepted his appointment and would communicate with the Legislature at such time as they should designate. lne committee to wait upon the Senate reported that the Senate were ready to meet the House.

I he benate, preceded by the President and Clerk, then entered the Hall. The President of the Senate took the chair. Resolution appointing a committee of three to wait upon the Governor to inform him that the two Houses were now assembled in coveution readv to receive him. The President appointed Hon. Mr.

Alsop, of the Senate, and Messrs. Perkins and Blackman, of the House, that committee, who immediately proceeded upon the duties of their appointment. The Governor was then announced at the door of the Hall and was received bv the members of the convention standing. His Excellency having taken his seat, praver was offered by Rev. Dr.

Clark. The oath of ottk-e was then administered bv his Honor Judge Storrs, when his Exeellenrv read his Message to the Convention in a full, clear and manly tone of voice, and at the close was m-eeted with unruistakeable applause. COTERTOR'S MESSAGE. Mr President and Senators: Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the that high otliei upon the discharge of the duties of wuicb the suffrages of the ieople tion yourjyitaetior under the coupon, has called me.

vr. iii of th ct -tnt I nress to v.T, f-' OU permit me to ex- of 4ur for distinguished mark of your and their confidence. I am not un- io receive me same, irom its improvement and manifest interest in education, oi.e copv of Webster's unabridged dictionary, an inducement would be presented to the district to procure other books of the same character. Our sister r.r chusetts and New York have pursued thU with good results to the cause of vdnoai, you arc satisfied that it is right to adopt the sug gestion, an additional reason may be found in the fact that the author of this great fetandar.i Ameri can work was a native of Connecticut, and expended almost the whole of his life in untiring upon the composition of that work hkh will remain an imperishable monument to hi name. But the educatWw of teachers at the Normal Kchool, and their preparation for the noble work to which they are to devote their time and talents the appropriations for the encourasemcnt of countv inven tions of teachers, and the establishment of libraries iu every school district will be in vain, utiles the entire community are brought to feel an interest in the moral and mental training and discipline of the whole youth of the State and if no other method can be devised, I bhall cheerfully co-operate with you in making our common schools free; for such, in my opinion, the true policy of our government requires that they should be.

The last General Assembly passed a law for the suppression of intemperance. That law, founded upon the principle of prohibition, was drafted with great care, and it is confidently believed that all of its provisions are sanctioned by the Constitution. The numerous evils at which that law is directed are so well known and generally admitted, that it is unnecessary io particularize tnem. The efforts of good anl pnilantliropic men had been for a lontr time directed to the remedy for these evils. At one time the legislation of this State was founded upon me idea ot legalizing the sale of intoxicating.