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-t- irtini illtfllllffiflftMTTriiinlH Reported for the Baltimore Sun. Inauguration of the County Seat of Bait. County, at Towsontown, laying the Corner Stone of the Court Rouse. Address of Coleman Yellott, About half past eleven o'clock last night broke out in the eash factory Messrs. Gnfhss and Cate on East Falls avenue, which ia destroyed.

Lumber yards are on Are, as well as the sash factory of Messrs Lapouaille and Maugh-lin. It is very destructive. Tribute of Respect. The funeral of the late D. Haddington took place yesterday morning from.

hi3 late residence, and was attended by the officers and members of the Tecumseh Tribe No. 3 Improved Order of Red Men. The deceased had been a member of this benevolent order for several years, and was much esteemed by the membership. The Sunday Liqvor Cases. We are requested to state that in consequence of the fact that the trial of Weighorst, indicted for murder, is still pend I 1,1 PRICE ONE CENT.

BALTIMORE, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1854. VOL. XXXV. NO. 134.

sacred fires of Liberty kindled at her altars bv the names of the builders, building committee and of that eventful day, and who at last lion-like, fought his way triumphantly through clouds of encom ficers of the county; the constitution ot Maryland and the united States; Washington's areweii address; life of Gen. Towson; United States coins; passing ioes, was major aiuiuecai uist, oi Baltimore county. It was the first time that the Ameri patr iot heroes of seventy-six. These fires are beacon lights to the world cheering the hopes of the oppressed animating their hearts and giving them courage to imitate our example. Our gates have been opened wide to the pilgrims from every clime and our hands have been out the newspapers.

Also, the number of can Continentals had dared to meet in the fierce encounter of bayonets the regulars of Great Britain inhabitants of Towsontown, being 200. with the name of the oldest, aged 90 years, and the young and it was Mordecai uist wno first taught his stretched to welcome them into this beautiful garden of Freedom, won by the valor, and conseira- countrymen that they were equal to the sustain-in ent of such a conflict. Even to the present day the people of Long Island ted by the toil and blood of our revolutionary sires. Its fruits they have been permitted freely to cniov point out the scene oi taai csperate struggle. in common with ourselves.

where Gist, with a few hundred Marylanders. with But is the duty cf hospitality the only one we stood, again and again, the overwhelming shock of have to perform? He takes but a circumscribed view of the destiny intended for America, bv an all-wise Providence, who thinks it limited vto so narrow a sphere. Her mission is even far more im-poitant. The benefits which she is destined to confer upon mankind are of a nature far more comprehensive and exalted. It 13 impossible lor all nations to become Ameri can citizens.

ere we ever so willing to receive them, and our country ever so capable of maintaining them, it would be physically impossible for them to make one universal emigration to our shores. But there is one great benefit which we can comer upon every nation of the earth- there is one great everlasting charity which we have it in our power to extend to each and all of them and this it is our duty to do. We can, by our example, teach theia all the pathway to Freedom's shrine. By guarding from every danger, foreign or do mestic, our own liberties, and preserving as a sacred thing our own constitution, we will show the capability of mankind for self-government, and thus prove the fallacy of all former theories about est, aged 3 days. After Mr.

Yellott had conclHded his address, the company separated, many of them being invited to visit the residences of those in the vicinity, to partake of Ealtimore county hospitality. LOCAL MATTERS. Anniversary of the Battle of TorJitottn. Parade of the Military Review on Broadway. Yesterday being the anniversary of the battlo of Yorktown, which resulted in the defeat of the British troops, commanded by the notorious Cornwallis, our various voiuntec-r companies, as usual, made it the occasion, as the law of Maryland directs, for a grand display, which attracted great attention and admiration from the crowds of citizens who occupied the sidewalks, constituting, as it did, the most beautiful and extensive parade witnessed in Baltimore for several years.

The various regiments assembled at the regimental parade grounds, and then formed into line on Gay street, the right restingon Exchange Place. Shortly after 10 o'clock they commenced moving along Baltimore street to Broadway, in the following order: First Light Brigade, Maryland Volunteers, Maj. Gen. George H. Steuart commanding.

Two com- ranies of United States artillery, from ort Mc-lenry, commanded by Col. Frank Taylor; First Artillery Regiment, Col. John T. Farlow commanding; Junior Atillerv Company, Major David Brown; Eagle Artillery, Col. John T.

Farlow. First Cavalry Regiment, Col. Owen Bouldin. In dependent Light Dragoons, Capt. Montgomery; Lafayette Ti oops, Capt.

Schneider; Taylor Light Dragoons, Capt. Eschbach, and Mounted Carbineers. Capt. John Stewart. Fifth Regiment of Infantry Col.

Rich'd France commanding Jackson Guards, Captain Myers; Independent Blues band, Capt. Holland; Washington Guards, Lieut. Grim; German Guards, Captain Kjein; and Law Greys, Lieut. Geo. W.

Herring. Fifty-Third Regiment of Infantry Col. James Ancerson, commanding Baltimore City Guards, Cspt. Joseph P. Warmer: Lafayette Guards, Cant, Thos.

P. National Guards, Captain Ed'w. W. Salmon; Mount Vernon Guards, Lieut. Sachs; National Blues, Capt.

Samuel Chesnut; Montgomery Guards, Lieut. John A. Toole; Independent Greys, Lieut, comd'g Samuel S. Mills. First Rifle Regiment-Col.

Peter Babb Band of the Monumental Riflemen, Capt. Schneiber; German Rifllemen, Capt. Holuefer; Monumental Riflemen, Capt. Hill; Wells and McComa3 Riflemen, Lieut. Sanks; Baltimore Rifles, Capt.

Jeahrling; Independent German Yeagers, Capt Trayser. We must not omit mentioning the Yollandt band. ing in the Crimi nal Court, the witnesses and principals in the Sunday law cases reed not attend to-day nor until Friday next, when they will be up and disposed of. In a Frc. A horse employed at the new build- -ing co; Tor r.f Calvert street and Court House lane, toekitiiVo his head yesterday to walk on some planks ce'vering the area cr the lane, and fell through iitto the cellar.

No limb3 were broken, and considt arable difficulty was experienced in getting him Out again. Cauctu NomMationis. In the Sun of yesterday the caucus nominations of the Know-Nothing members of the Ccuncil for clerks was published. The same party no minated W. Cole for door-keeper of the Second Bitfnch, and Andrew Saulsbury for door-keeper of the First Branch.

Fatal Accident. Yesterday afternoon, between five and six o'clock, whilst a laJ about fire years1 of age, son of Mr. Edward Burns, residing in Warren street, near Light, was" playing in front of his house, he was run over ty a carf loadtrd with brick, which caused his death in a for minutes. Cases for Court. Justice Magee has further examined the cases of Caroline Stran atid Henry Mantlebaum and wrife, charged with a variety of reciprocal hostilities.

The justice released them on security to answer at court. discharged frem Jail. Mary Henkel, in jail on the charge of larceny, was discharged yesterday by the grand jury, no bill being found against her, Proceedings of the Court. Criminal Court. Before Judge Stump.

Chas. J. M. Gwinn, Attorney for the State, prosecuting. The foil'jwing business occupied yesterday: State vs.

Henry Weighfrst, indicted for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Weighorst, on the 16th of July last. Messrs. Walsh, Pitts and Carr for the defense. This case was resumed, and the State proposed to ofler additional testimony for the prosecution it was in writing, as follows: The offer is made to prove by Dr. Junes A.

Reed ar watchman Brown, that, on the night of the occurrence he (Weighorst) admitted in their presence that he had thrown the camphen lamp at his ife, and that the caue was jealousy. It is oflered first, as rebutting testimony to the evidence of Jn.o. Weils that the conversation at -the counter was free from any exhibition of violence. Second To rebut the presumption raised by the particular facts alleged by Wells, as showing that lie bad no intention to do her injury. Third As newly discovered evidence material to the issue.

Fourth As evidence material to the iustice of the case, which the Court can admit at its discretion. The question of admissibility of the evidence offered was rrgued at length on both sides, and the court decided it was admissible as rebutting testimony. Watchman John Brown testified that he is stationed at the middle district watch-house; recollects the prisoner being brought to the watch-hcuse on a Sunday nigkt, about the middle of July. Lieut. Pindell and Lieut.

Jamieson were at the watch-house when Weighorst was brought in. Witness went for Dr. Reed, who sent him for some liniment to put on Weighorst's hands. Did not pay any particular attention to what the priso the "divine rights" of kings, while the continu ance of cur unparalled prosperity will convince an admiring world that a people can govern themselves far better than it can be done by a monarch upon his throne. Thus Americans will hold aloft a lamp, whose sun-like radiance will il lumine every shore, and enable nations hitherto in darkness, to see the deformities of these "Pagod things of sabre sway, With fronts of brass and feet of clay." whom they have been, taught, for thousands of years, to receive and obey as Demi-Gods especially dclcgated to rule by the will of the Almighty him- seii.

men tnror.es will to totter and upon thtir ruir will rise, as in our own fair land, the sacred alters of civil and religious liberty. Then and thus, America will have accomplished her most important duty to herself and to the world. 1 have fceiore spoken of the men of tha Revolu Yesterday was the appointed day for laying the cerner-stone of the Court-house for Baltimore county, the County Seat being selected at Towsontowri and a goodly number of persons, both from the country and city, was present. The building is to be constructed of stone, two stories in height, one hundred and twelve feet front by fifty-six feet deep, according to a plan presented by Messrs. Dixon Balbierne, architects of this city, and i3 to be built by Mr.

William H. Allen. The following are the names of the building commissioners: Joshua Ilntchins, Joseph D-Pope. Edward S. Myers, Charles Timanus, and "William Slater.

Among those present oa the ground we noticed the Rev. Steuart Bobinson and Rev. H. B. Ridga--way, besides many others from the city, who took an interest in the proceedings.

Thomas Wildey, the venerable representative of the Odd Fellows Was also present. At twelve o'clock, a procession was formed in the following order, Mr. Isaac Hoshall being Chief -Marshal The Building Commissioners; the tor of the day, Judge Constable and Clergy; Officers of the county: Band of Music; Towson Lodge, I. O. O.

Mr. Wildey being among them; Giti-xens of the county and city. In this order the company marched from the place of formation to the ground where the cornerstone of the new Court-house, the seat of justice for Baltimore to be laid. Whea arriv--ed at this point, (and we may say the music was from Capt. Philip Linhard's very excellent band,) the company lound a stand, with American flags was almost as a number of the fair daughters of Baltimore county.

Near the stand was the where the cornerstone was to be laid, and here the procession halted to proceed with the Judge Albeit Constable came forward and said It might be appropriate before announcing that this store has been laid, to express a single wish, that when this building shall h.ive been completed and occupied for the administration of justice, whoever may preside in the courts, shall administer justice with an impartiality and firmness, so as to illustrate and confirm the beautiful sentiment as to the law "that its seat is the bosom of God, and its voice the harmony of the world." Previous, however, to the laying of the stone by Judge Constable, the Rev. Steuart Robinson, of Faltimore, it- an appropriate manner, invoked the blessing of Heaven on the enterprise, and at the conclusion the Rev. H. B. Ridga way earnestly addressed in a prayer the Giver" of every good and perfect gift.

These ceremonies being over, the company repaired to the stard, where they listened to the following very interesting address from Coleman Vellott, me. yellott's address. Ladies and Gentlemen This day will be remem-tered as an important one in the history of your county. We have laid the corner-stone of the building. From its completion will date the final and complete political separation of Baltimore county from Baltimoie city.

The building we have this dav begun will be erected, not only for the present, but for many future generations. A century hence your descendants will assemble in this Temple of Justice; and then the ceremonies of this nineteenth of October, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, will have become a tradition of the past, and those who now witness them will be referred to as men of the "olden time." In this country and in this progressive age. a century is a vast period. How many wonderful changes, and what important events it bring? forth! Among the nations of the Old World, Time creeps along at a sluggish pace; but here he flies upon eagle wings. What it there requires many hundred of years to accomplish, is here performed in a single life-time.

A century ago, nine-tenths of the present area this great Republic was a wilderness, tenanted only by roving savages. The settlements of the European colonists were scattered over the comparatively narrow space between the eastern slope of the Alleghenies and the Atlantic coast; and the entire population of these settlements did not equal half that now contained within the single State of Pennsylvania. A century ago, there stood on Manhattan Island, at the mouth of the Hudson river, a thriving little town, about equfl in population to one of the twenty wards of Baltimore. That little town is row a vast city with a population of over six hundred thousand and a commerce rivaling that cf London. A century ago, there stood along the swampy shores of the Pacific an inconsiderable village, containing four brick houses, about twenty others, and about three hundred inhabitants.

That village is now Baltimore City. Europe has never witnessed such wonderful changes such rapid progress in the march of im-Jtrovement as are here going on in every quarter of the land; and if time is to be measured by events, we may justly claim to be the longest lived people of the world. The history of your own county is a striking illustration of the ever-changing, ever-progressive Character of our country and people. Baltimore county was established in the year 3659. Its limits were then far more extensive than at present embracing not only all of Harford and Carroll counties, but large portions of Anne Arundel, Howard and Frederick.

At that time the population of aH Maryland was only twelve thousand, and that of the newly erected county was probably less than one-sixth of that number. Now there are within these original limits of Baltimore county over three hundred thousand inhabitants. tr more than half the population of the whole tion. But there was a more recent struggle, scarce ly less important to the independence of this Republic convened upon similar occasions. When your ancestors assembled tolay the corner-stone of their first court house on Bush river when they met at Forster's Neck upon Gunpowder river when they met to found Joppa and when they met to witness the commencement of the first court-house at Baltimore they met together a3 the subjects of a British King.

You have assembled here to-day as American freemen. The people of this country are ever so intent upon the employments of the present, and so eager to anticipate the improvements of the future, that they are seldom inclined to pause and look back upon the scenes of the past. But there are occasions, like the present, when it is fit that those scene's should be recalled to memory. Though pride may tell us that we are wiser than our ancestors, we can always be profited by the contemplation of their noble examples; and gratitude should teach us never to forget the patriotic services of those by whom the foundations of our country's prosperity were laid. We meet upon a day which should ever be held sacred by all true Americans.

On the nineteenth of October, 1781, after a three weeks siege, Corn-wallis surrendered himself and his army prisoners to George Washington. By that surrender the war of the Revolution was virtually ended, and the Independence of the American Colonies finally consummated. In the glorious struggle which obtained that Independence, no State bore a more conspicuous and heroic part than our own Maryland- and no county of Maryland was more distinguished, through the gallant deeds of her patriotic sons, than that of Baltimore. The richest wealth of any people is the fame of their great men. All other evidences of their existence may pass away this only is immortal.

Caithage has long since mouldered into the dust but the name of her Hannibal still lives and reminds us of what his country once was. Sparta no mere, but the name of her Leonidas preserves the remembrance of her ancient glory. Athens has dwindled to an unimportant village, but the fame of her Solon, her Demosthenes, her Themis-tccles, and of many others distinguished in letters or in arms, remind us that she was once the freest ar.d most enlightened nation of antiquity. And so with ancient Rome the names of her Cicero and her Brutus, of her Ceasar and her Scipio, hand down to modern times the remembrance that a city, built along the shores of the muddy Tiber, and now tco weak to defend herself against the invasion of any petty army of French or Austrians who may choose to take possession that this feeble city was once the proud mistress of the civilized world. It is the duty of every people to cherish the memory of its great men whether their distinction has been won by efforts of intellect or by deeds of heroism in arms.

The renown of a great statesman, an accomplished scholar, an eloquent orator; or a successful warrior, foria3 a portion of the reputation of his country, and every citizen should feel a just pride in endeavoring to perpetuate its remembrance. Full justice has never been done to the memory of the noble heroes whom Maryland contributed to the armies of the revolution. The first histories cf that eventful struggle prepared at times when the materials for accurate narratives were accessible were generally the productions of citizens of the Northern States. The men of the South, prompt in action, had less taste than their Northern neighbors for writing accounts of the achieve-ments, and fewer facilities for publishing such histories, even if they had been disposed to write them. The result was, that the histories of the North, without meaning to do injustice to the patriot worriers of the South, gave especial pre-eminence to the ackhievements of those who belonged to their own section.

While enlarging with just pride, upon the gallant deeds cf their own ancestors and neighbors, they passed over in comparative silence those performe'd by the soldiery liom other sections of the confederacy. Thus, every school boy in Maryland, for the last fifty years, has been taught to admira the heroism of a Montgomery, a Greene, a Gates, a Putnam, a Sullivun and a Wayne while the equally glorious services of the patriot soldiers of his ownState of a Smallwood, a Gist, a Harwood, a Smith, ar.d a Williams have scarcely been heard of, or communicated as they were of a character which made them comparatively unimportant. It is full time that this injustice should be repaired. A recent interesting work written by Mr MeSherry, of Frederick, has done much to accomplish this object. I do not propose to go over the ground which he has already occupied with so much ability.

The ti.ae which it is proper for me to consume by this addres3 will not allow me to recite a histoiy of the heroic achievements of the Old Maryland Line achievements which covered them and their with elory, and which should be remembered with admiration, gratitude and pride by their descendants, to the latest generation. With a population scarcely exceeding two hundred thousand, Maryland contributed to the continental army to 15,229 regulars, besides more than 5,000 militia. No invading army occupied her own soil, but she generously seat forth half of her grown male population to defend that cf her sister States. Marylann was the firt to nominate Georee Washington a3 commander-in-chief of the American forces, and she ever sustained place designated for the county seat by this act, was the same afterwards known as Joppa. The commissioners appointed for the purpose, roceeded forthwith to build the new Court-louse, and had nearly finished it when, to the great disappointment of the good people of the county, the news came across the Ocean that Her Royal Highness Queen Anne, had vetoed the bill! What grave reasons influenced Her Majesty to prefer that the Court-House of Baltimore county should not be removed from Forster's Neck to Taylor's Choice, history hath not disclosed.

At all events, the commissioners discovered they had been proceeding under a void act; and they found it necessary to obtain a subsequent law to legalise what they had done. This was passed in 1712, and is entitled "an act for settling Baltimore County Court at the new house at Joppa." It recites the former proceedings of the commissioners, confirms them, and then declares "that Baltimore county Court shah be from henceforth held at the said Court-House now built at the said town of Joppa, and not elsewhere; and that the same house be, to all intents, constructions and purposes, adjudged, used, reputed and taken, as the proper Court-House of Baltimore county." It appears that the commissioners for building this court house at Joppa were peculiarly unfortunate. Their first blunder was in commencing operations before the Queen had approved the bill. They made another one equally serious in putting the building upon the land of a minor, to which they had acquired no legal title. It was found necessary to get an act passed in 1724 to remedy this latter mistake.

This act, as published in Kilty's edition, states, in its preamble, that a court house and prison had been erected at Jop( a at the county expense, but that the right of Uu' land was in a minor, "who could not convey, although his father, Col. James Maxwell, had re cei ed full satisfaction for the same." It then pro ecods to declare that the two acres of land on which the court house and prisons were built "shall be to the use of the county forever." Itfurther provides that certain commissioners should, by purchase or condemnation by a jury, obtain twenty acres land at Joppa and lay it out into forty lots, "to be erected into a town." It also directs that no house to be built in said town shall have any chimney unless of brick or stone, and that each house shall cover at least four hundred feet, or about twenty feet square. But the most important provision in this law, in reference to the commercial prosperity of Joppa, was one which would be regarded at this day as rather a curious specimen of legislation. The last section provided that every debtor who should bring tobacco to Joppa for the purpose of paying a debt should be allowed a discount or reduction of ten per cent, on the claim. This was intended as an inducement to draw trade to the new county seat, wtich was also made a port of entry.

The result proved that the legislators of that day were tolerably good judges of human nature. Tobacco was brought to "Joppa in vast quantities, and tradition informs us that she soon became an important shipping point, carrying on a considerable commerce, not only with the West Indies but with Europe. Her "population was never large, but she was one of the most prosperous and important seaports of Maryland, before the first house had been erected at Baltimore. The courts were held at Joppa down to 1768. In that year an act was passed for the removal of the county seat to "Baltimore Town." From that time may be dated the "decline and fall" of the ancient town of Joppa.

No vestige of her former glory now remains. The old court-house wasstld, and has long since crumbled away; her wharves, at which hundreds of the largest merchantmen had been laden, have disappeared; her dwelling have fallen, one by one, until scarcely their foundations can be traced. A solitary tenement, of antique style and venerable appearance, standing on the Hai ford shore of Gunpowder river, about half a rule north of the railroad bridge, is seen by the ti aveler passing between Baltimore and Philadelphia. That lonely building is all that now remains to mark the spot where Joppa once stood. Her history has never been written, and those who could have furnished the materials for it have now passed to the tonob.

By this time her very existence would have been almost forgotten, except for the name the numerous "Joppa roads'' which still exist, and remind us that the inhabitants of every section of Baltimore and Harford counties were once accustomed to resort to that important county seat to attend the courts and nay their debts in tobacco, less ten per cent, deducted according to law! How different a future was destined for Baltimore, the next and fourth county seat of Baltimore county. Of all the chief commercial cities of the Atlantic coast, she is the youngest, and, considering the recent period since she was founded, her growth has been the most rapid and wonderful. New York, originally called New Amsterdam, was founded by the Netherlands, a far back as 1011. Boston was founded in 16S), and Charleston in 1680; while Philadelphia, on the arrival of Perm in 1684, contained 2,500 inhabitants. New Orleans wrs founded in 1718.

It was not until 1729 that the Provincial Assembly of Maryland passed an act, entitled "an act for erecting a town on the north side of Patapsco, in Baltimore county, and for laying ot in'lots, sixty acres of land, in and about the place where one John FJemming now lives." This John seems to have been at that day the sole inhabitant the entire population of Baltimore town. A century npi unton The trioont of the subject sea. Ai ail that time, no eye beheld Her fiag suike to an enemy. "Her Nuvy bore her swelling fame, Atar and ner.r. triuniihaMly; Ar.d Britons claimed the j-roudet name The of the trackless sea." They appeared on the street for the first time with their new silver cornets, and excited much attention.

They were posted on the right of the 53d lhe attack of the Leonard upon the American frigate Chesapeake; the numerous aggressions of tne wnoie ien wing oi tne unusn army. Shortly afterwards Gist was made a Colonel, and in 1779 a Brigadier General. At Germantown he was in the thickest of the fight, and on the disastrous field of Camden it was Gist who stood side by side with the noble De Kalb, and held the whole army in check long after Gates with the rest of the American forces had retreated from the field. Lee, in his memoirs cf the campaigns of the south, says: "Rawden could not bring the brigade of Gist to recede; bold was the pressure of the foe firm as a rock the resistance of Gist." Here, as at Brooklyn, Gist's command formed a part of the right wing of the patriot army, and here, as there, he was the last officer to retire from the field, and was able to do so and escape capture only by cutting his way, with a mere handful of devoted followers, through the midst of-the enemy's ranks. Had the rest of the army displayed half the same gallantry as the Marylanders, the battle of Camden, instead of a defeat, would have been one of the most glorious victories of the American arms.

There fell the brave De Kalb, covered with wounds, and his dying moments were spent in expressing his praise of the noble Maryland regiments and Lis admiration of Gist and the other gallant officers. Among those officers standing foremost in every charge upon that bloody field, and among the last to leave it, was another son of Baltimore county and one, of whose achievements en many other occasions, she had just cause to be proud. I speak of the gallant, the lion-hearted Howard. John Eaer Howard was born in Ealtimore county on the 4th of June, 1752. At twenty-three years of age he joined the American army as a captain in the regiment of Col.

J. Carroll Hali, raised from Baltimore and Harford counties. Soon after, we find him in the army of Washington at the battle of White Plains. At the battle of Germantown, in the absence of its Colonel, detained by sickness, the youthful Howard had command of his regiment and led it again and again into the thickest of the fight. He was with Washington at Monmouth, with Gates at Camden, with Greene at Guilford, Hobjkirk's Hill and Eutaw and at Cow-pens, though not first in command, was the most prominent hero of the day, by whose skill and valor the glory of that victory was won.

No American officer during those seven years' war was more frequently engaged in desperate conflicts with the enemy, and by none were performed more numerous acts of heroic daring. The distant cannonade was not the kind of pleasing to his ardent teniperarnent. He delighted to meet the ide in the close encounter of cros-pd bayonet3. At Camden, Cowpens, Guilford end at Eutaw ke gave evidences of his unequalled skill in the use of that dangerous weapon. At Camden, after Gates had fled from the field, Howard, at the head of his Regiment, charged upon the ranks of the enemy, drove them before him with his keen bayonets," and was near retrieving the fortunes of the day.

At Cowpens, cheering on his men, he rushed like a thunderbolt upon the British Infantry while advancing as if to certain victory. The shock was terrible the fue were unable to stand before it. Tarlton's best troops recoiled fled and Howard stood master of the field. He had charged without ciders, and, as he stood with the swords of seven Eritish officers in his hands, whom he had just tiken prisoners, Morgan rode up to him and said "You have done well, for you are successful: had you lied, I would have shot you." A'ter this victory at Cowpens, Gen. Greene gave orders that the Maryland liae should use the bayonet in every battle.

At Guilford these orders were nobly executed: and Howard, with his Maryland bayonets, again drove before him the choicest veterans of the Eritish army. At Eutaw, when i portion of his army began to waver and fU back, Greene ordered the Marylanders and Virginians to reserve their fire and charge with the bavenet. That desperate charge, made in the face of a close and murderous fire, decided the fortune of the day. Howard's regiment was received by the a choice Irish corps, ar.d here was witnessed the fiercest enconr.ter of that hard-fought field. Ranks mingled together; bayonets were ciossed; and, for a time, there was between these two biive bands the most bloody hand to hand struggle.

But the "Buff'a" were at last fojeed to giveaway. Gen. Greene lode up and complimented Howard's regiment and its commander in the warmest terms. In his dispatches, giving an account of the battle, Greene said: "Nothing co il i exceed the gallantry of the Maryland Col. Williams, Howard, and all the officers, exhibited acts of uncommon bravery, and the free use of the bayonet by this and some other corps gave us the victory." After the close of the Revolution the State of Maryland testified her appreciation ef Col.

Howard's gallant services by thrice electing him her Governor, and afterwards twice sending him to rep resent her in the Senate of the United States. Gen Washington invited him to a seat in his Cabinet as Secretary of War, which high honor he mag i. animcusly declined. Great Britain upon our commerce, and her repeated exercises of her alleged right of search, at length forced our Republic to the choice of either making a virtual surrender of her rights as an independent nation, or of engaging in another war with the powerful aggressor. regiment.

When the column, which was under the command of Brigadier Gei.eial Hickman, arrived at Broadway, a most impo-insr scene was presented to the immense mass of spectators who occupied the various places cf vation. The line extended from Canton avenue to a point near Baltimore street, and was diversified with the splendid music of the bands. After the men had rested a half hour, thev 7-ere reviewed by Major Gen. Steuart. ner said; witness was standing near the prisoner.

In the early part ot the year lel2 there was a eighorst said he had thrown the camphen lamp at her (his wife) that it was not his intention to kill her, and had burned his hands in attemptins young man, a native of year own county, industriously engaged in car lying on his agricultural pursuits at the very place where we are now to put it (the fire) out. Weighorst said further issembied. lie had heard of the insults commit ted upon his country's flag, and his bold heart was fired with indignation. Presently the news came that Congress had at list resolved to vindi-cate the national honor by an appeal to arms. The young Baltimore county farmer heard that news with joy, and, abandoning his plow and bidding adic-u to tne peacemi employments in winch fie had been engaged, Le sought and obtained a commission in the army of his country.

In a few day after his appointment as Captain of Artillery, that it was all the fault of a man named Ballautf; did not how it was Ballauii's fault. Recoll'cts nothing else Weighorst said. By defense. Don't recollect telling any one of this; did not think he was to be summoned. Told the sheriff when he came to summon him that he knew nothing of the case witness was in bed then.

Weighorst did not say in witness' presence that the lamp was upset. Weighorst was and appeared to be in a good deal of pain. Cant say hew Weighorst came to make this statement; itness don't recollect saying any thing to him about it. Cant say hether Weighorst was laboring under excitement or pain at this time he appeared to be in much pain. Lieut.

Pindell, of the middle district watch, testified that he was present when Weighorst was brought in. Dr. Reed was sent for and came. Weishotst said a laan named Ballautf was the cause of it all he wa? sorry far it, aud would give all he -was worth if it had not happened. Weighorst said if he had a pistol he would blo-v his brains out.

Dr. Reed, whilst dressing Weighorst's hands, told him to keep his mouth and not talk about it. By defense. Witness can't ssy Weighorrt was excited he seemed to take it pretty hard; he talked a good deil during the night. Dr.

James A. Reed testified that he was called Nathan Towson had gathered around him on the spot heie yonder church now stands a brave band of his feilow-ccuntrymen, whose hearts beat in sympathy with his cwn, and then and there was organised that company which suon afterwards carried terror into the enemy's ranks all along the Canada friT. tier. War was "formally declared on the 10th of June, 1612, and six weeks afterwards i Towson was alieady on march northward to join witn ins company the second regiment of artujerr. cemmanded bv col.

intieid Scott. I must pass over the ether contests in which he was honorably engaged the nsjht attacic upon the Caledonia and Detroit, two British vessels captured by the heroism of Towson and ELiott trom under the very guns of ort Erie: his ser vices at Uueenstown, and his brave defence of to see Weighorst at the watch house on the night in question. When witness first saw him, asked, Black Rock. I must pass over his gallantry displayed at the capture of Fort George, at the defense of Foit Erie and at Stony creek. Time will not allow me to rpealt these portions of as was natural, how did it occur, some one replied that he had throws a camphen lamp at his ife and set her on fire, snd had got his hands his history.

burnt in putting it out. Thinks Lt. Pindell made But there were two engagements during that war which the en of American history' should Among the pleasing antecedents of the parade, was the picsentation to Capt. J. P.

Warner, of the Baltimore City Guards, on the part of the members of that fine corps, of a magnificent sword, silk sash, and pair of epaulettes. These elegant articles were obtained of MessM. Canfield, Bro. and presented in a few appropriate word by Sergeant William J. Miller, to "whom the recipient responded.

Captain Warner has been identified with the interests of the Guards ever blnce the day3 of the renowi ed end lamented Alexander Cheves, and richly reserves the good regards cf the corps. Effort of the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury in theii usral presentment of the condition of the Jail, made to the Criminal Court yesterday, stated that "in the performance of their duty they have visited the Jail, and find the efficient "Warden and his deputies prompt and faithful in the discharge of their duties. We would be unmindful of our responsibilities did we fail to present to your honor the palpable insecurity of this prison, built at a time when the population of our city was less than a fourth of its present number. Its arrangement is such that it is impossible for the Warden to so lodge his prisoners as to extend to them the small bocn of proper ventilation.

Common humanity requires that this evil be corrected, and the Grand Jury submit to your honor the above presentment, in the confident hope that measures will be at once taken by the proper authorities to remedy this barbarous evil." The committee of the Grand Jury who visited the Penitentiary state that "they have that institution, that" the gentlemanly and efficient Warden and his deputies extended every facility in the investigation, and that they take pleasure in that the duties of its officers seem to be performed with humanity and judgment that the entire premises are scrupulously clean, the sanatory condition of the prison abundantly evidences. "Your honor will perceive, from the report of the warden that the ni mber of inmates i.s unusually large. Three hundred and eighty-one convicts are now in his custody, and of that large number twelve only are sick or invalid. "Your committee believe that in view of the increase of convicts an extension of the dormitories i3 imperatively called for. They observe that seveial rooms, not intended for such purposes, are occupied as dormitories by co-victs, placed seven End eight together, furnishing them with opportunity to concoct schemes for escape, and entirely subversive of the discipline which the plan of isolation is so admirably calculated to enforce.

"Your committee would further present, that they find six convicts there who are deranged in intellect, three of whom are violent in their demeanor, and are kept in solitary confinement. "Your committee observe that the room heretofore set apart for religious services is now occupied as a and are informed that there is no large room procurable in the buildings for that purpose: they would suggest the propriety of the immediate erection of a chapel, that the convicts may no lorger be deharrad the privilege of attendance at public worship." The report of the warden states that thre are at this time in the penitentiary 353 male convicts, 206 white and 14? colored; 23 female convicts 4 white aiid H4 colored. Total whites 210, crolored 171 grand total 31. Of there 101 are engaged in weaving, 23 winding bobbins. 20 spooling and warping, 1 1 dyeing, 1 1 cording and spinning, 47 ever delight to record for they covered the American name with glory, and first taught our vaunting nemv that there still existed among our country men the same undaunted bravery which they had displayed foity years ago at Saratoga, Eutaw and hirc with a devotion unsurpassed even by tne Slate 1 orKtown.

this statement. Weighorst said he was guilty and should surfer for it that jealousy had driven him te it, or had been the cause of it; and thinks, but is not positive, he said Mr. Wells might have prevented it if He had been disposed. He lamented the position he occupied that he was captain of the Mount Vernon Guards, that they were to have a parade next day, and how it would look to have him absent. Witness told him not to say any thing, not to say he was guilty, as every word ha said there would be used against him.

He was greatly excited, so much so witness thought him intoxicated. lie was suffering very intensely from the burns on his bands. of his birth. It was on the afternoon of a hot summer dav. The act appointed commissioners for the purpose of lavinsr out Mr.

Flemming's homestead, then L'pon many a battle field of the Revolution, at Long Island, at hite Plains, at Harlera called "Cole's Harbor" into sixty Tequal lots of about one acre each. Such was the sagacity of During thwar ot ltfl2, Howard wa3 still living. this "eldest inhabitant," and such the foresight of Heights, at Jamestown, at Cowpens and at Eutaw, the best blood of Maryland was poured out freely for the common cause: and it was Maryland soldiers who were first and always ready to meet face to face, with fixed bayonets, the veteran legions of When the British army, flushed with their easy the members ot the Assembly, that they thought the 5th of July, 1814, upon an open plain on the Canada shore, that the glorious battle of Chippewa was fought. There nineteen hundred Americans, under the heroic Scott, met in close encounter and vanquished twenty-one hundred of the best legulars of the British army. The only artillery under Scott's command was the company of Tow.

son; aDd throughout that fierce engagement its guns poured upon the enemy's ranks a constant f-toim of canister which mowed them down like ictory at Bladensburir, were threatening an attacx By defense. Weighorst said his hands were upon Baltimore, some of the more timid of its in- nanitants proposed to purcnase tne satety ot their burned in attempting to extinguish the fire on hi3 wife's dress. It was'Lt. PindV-11 who mad the remark that the prisoner had thrown the lamp at Erinsn regulars. Among that nohle band there were many deserving of a conspicuous notice upon the pages of history.

property from impending destruction by an inglo- ious capitulation. Howard answered the proposi nis ite. 1 here was a bmaiiwooa, tnan wnom a more prass. and materially contributed to their final Cart. Lewis Hewell.of the middle station watch.

gallant officer was not to be found in the whole defeat. tion indignantly with a response worthy of his own character and of lasting remembrance. "I have," said he, "as much property at stake as most persons, and I have four sons in the field. But General Wilkinson, writing an account of thi3 teetined for the defense, that on the night in question he had a conversation with Weighorst; asked American army. He served throughout the whole war, and led the Maryland columns on battle, says: "A warm, close and bloody conflict of small arms many a victorious charge.

Directly alter trie close sooner would i see my sons weltering tneir blood, and my property reduced to ashes, than so ot the contest, tne legislature oi tins state testi fied their admiration of his services by thrice far disgrace the country." him how he came to throw the lamp at his wife, and he made two statements. One, that he had struck the counter with his fist and knocked the lamp off" against his wife. In the morning he stated that jealousy was the cause of it that he had the lamp in his hand, that he smashed it down on the counter and that it had bursted. Witness electing him her Chief Executive. He nowsleep3 and field artillery ensued, in which it was the good fortune of the gallant Towson to silence the enemy's chief battery.

The oblique attack of the artillery, and the perpendicular fire of the American line, was insupportable; and valorous troops mere was anotner oi ualtimore conntvs repre it not unreasonable to suppose, that, due course of time, and under the encouragement of favorable legislation, a town might be made to grow up around "Cole's Harbor," with a population of fu 11 sixty families. These sanguine hope3 were not disappointed. In 1732, three years afterwards, another act was passed "for erecting a town on a creek, divided on the east from the town lately laid out in Baltimore county, called Baltimore Town, on the land where-tin Edward Fell keeps store." This new city was called Jonas-Town," afterwards Jones'-Town; and was the moderate dimensions of ten acies laid off into twenty lots. In 1745, in the joint petition of the inhabitants of bcth places, Baltimore and Jones' Towns were incorporated into one, under the common name of ''Baltimore Town." In 1745 Baltimore Town was further enlarged by the addition ef about eighteen acres ol ground. The act of assembly providing for this extension contained the following wise provision for the safety of all the tenements then, or afterwards to be, erected in Baltimore: "Any person having a house in the said town with a chimney, and in use, who shall not, after the first day of December, keep a ladder high enough to extend to the top of the roof of such house, shall under the sod ot his native county, near the waters of the Potomac, with not even a stone to sentatives in the armies of the Revolution whose name should not be forgo ttcr.

Though not born on the soil, he had lived there from Lis earliest yielded the palm and retreated precipitately, leaving their killed and wounded on the field. Here, asked him how both hands came to be but ned.aod he replied that it was clone in trying to extinguish the flames on his wife.nd that he would give all as at ftimden, tne late oi tne day was settled by boyhood. Directly alter the first news of the conflict at Lexington, the committee of safety of Baltimore, headed by its chairman, Mr. Purviance. took the bold resolution of forthwith arresting the the artillery, and the American Towson may de State.

In 1726, an act of assembly wa3 passed taking from Baltimore county, and adding to Anne Arundel, all tha portion of her territory south of the Patapsro. In 1748, Frederick county was established, and the limits of Baltimore county thereby greatly rarrcwed on the west. In 1773, Harford was taken from her oa the east; tnd in 1835, she was made to contribute another large portion of her territory for the erection of Carroll. Baltimore, sixty years ago, wa3 known only a3 ''Baltimore town in Baltimore county." Her population having increased to about twenty thousand, fhe was incorporated as a city in the year but She still remained a portion of the county. It is time that she had been allowed a distinct repiesentation in the legislature of the State.

But in almost every respect she was but Baltimore city an Baltimore county. The same Court of Oyer and Terminer exercised criminal jurisdiction over toth; and Baltimore County Court, at the same terms, heard and decided all civil causes, whether the parties were residents of the city or county. There were the same sheriff, clerk and jurors. There was the same Record Office, the same Court House, Aims-House and Jail. The incorporation of Baltimore into a city did not separate her from the county in so far as the administration of the laws was involved.

In this respect, at least, they temained as before, constituting the same political (division of the State. The separation now about to be consummated fcas been a era dual one. In 1816, Baltimore City Court was established ivith criminal jurisdiction within the city only. In 1828, an act of assembly was passed requiring the Judges of Baltimore County Court to hold distinct terms for the trial of causes in which the defendants were "residents of the county, without the limits of the city." The same act directed that the jurors summoned to attend these county terms should be selected from among the residents of the county outside the city limits. servedly be ranked with the British Phillips, he was worth it if, or if the could, not say which.) had never occurred.

Bv State. These statements were made alter LT. British Governor ot Maryland, (kden,) then at Annapolis. They looked around for some daring and roy." Three weeks afterwards, amid the wr, and almost within the sprav of the mighty cataract of Reed and the crowd had left. He said that all the quarrelirg himself and wife had wis thidugh.

Niagara, was fought the memorable battle ot Lun- jealousy. spirit, willing to execute their perilous command, and found the agent whom they sought in the person of Samuel Smith, then commander of one of the newly raised patriot companies. Captain dy's Lane except Buena Vista, the bloodiest and most desperate battle ever foujht by an American jonn wonr recalled ny defense. is tne orotnec spike-making, 44 hired out at making (inthe pns mark the spot where the remains of a hero are laid. There was a Williams, who began his career at the first dawn of the Revolution a.s a Lieutenant in a rifle company raised in Frederick, and marched to join the army of Washington, encamped around Boston.

He came out of the war a Biigadier General and nosoldierever won promotion by more arduous, patriotic, and gallant achievements. There were many others from other parts of the State, whose names are worthy of our remembrance and admiration. Of these, I have not time now to speak. But there were men not less distinguished than any of those aiiuded to who stood during that war, among the columns of the American army, as the immediate representatives of the patriotism and bravery of your own county; and at a meeting like this, held upon the anniversary of a day so important in American history, the names of such men should not be forgotten, nor their services fail to be remembered. Smith, then a youtn ot only twenty-two, proceed of Mrs.

Weighorst. As far as witness knew, the prisoner always treated his wife kind and weU. Witness lived two years with them was in part army. 1 rom sueset until atteupoidnignt tne nos-tile ranks were closely mingled together in a mur ontubs, buckets, brooms, 10 bag-making, 11 sick and invalid, ed at once to the execution of the orders of the forfeit and pay ten shillings current money." He derous struggle, which left upon the field, killed committee. But these orders were disapproved Seriovs Collision on the Chesapeake Bay.

yarrow Escape. About 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, as must have been a true patriot who suggested this important measure for providing against conflagrations. Who can tell whether it was not the mean3 or wounded, nearly one-iourtii ot tneir wnoie numbers. Among the American forces were found nership with Weighorst. After the affair his sister told hini she could not live, and he went twice, at her the watch-house to get Weighorst to come and see her.

The officer told him it wa3 by the general committee of the State, and Capt. Smith was ordered to return to Baltimore. This gallant youth, soon after promoted to a the steamer lrgmia, Capt. air sanks, lrom Fredericksburg, bound to this port, with over passen of saving the infant settlement again and again from destruction, and preserving "Baltimore Colonelcy, win unfading laurels by his noble de out cf his power to permit it. gers and a large freight, was coming up the Bay, near Tilghinan's Island, she came incollision with isrown and fccott and Kipiey and jesup, miner, and Worth and there, too, in the very thickest of the fight, was the brave Towson, pouring leaden death upon the foe, from where a continued sheet of flame marked the presence of his artillery, Town," that she might become what we now be Jiy state KJiew Mr.

tfaiiaun; ne ana eignors fence ot J- ort Miimn, tnrough a seven weens' siege against the powerful land and naval forces of the hold nar! the schconerLovey Harrison. Captain Harrison, of were the bet of friends. He had gone to balls with Mrs. Weighorst. Biitish set-King to open the communication be Fostered by such prudent legislation, and pro Acccmac, Virginia, bound down, with a cargo of Himmuller testified that he knew the pri known then and eber after as "Towson's Light-Hcuse." The official dispatch of the command tected by the high ladders and numerous water- eoods.

itc. lie night was clear, witn a brigni tween Philadelphia and the Atlantic. He endured with Washington's army the privations of the soner for 16 years; that he had often seen him and ing officer says: "Towson's company wasthe first buckets, conunuea to prosper ana increase in population, until, in the year 1752. she winter's camp at alley Forge; and his undaunt his wile together, and nis treatment was Kina. ed courage was displayed on the fields ol lirandy- George Kust testified that he lived alongside oi could boast of having full three hundred inhabit In December, 1774, a convention of delegates from all partsxf Maryland, assembled at Annapolis, and recommended to their fellow-citizens to prepare for the contest which they foresaw was ants, and shipping to the amount ot one brig ana Weighorst; always found him treating hi3 wife well.

wine and Monmouth. After the adoption of the Federal Constitution he was frequently elected to represent his district in the national Congress; and, and last engaged, and, during tne wnoie connict, maintained that high character which they had previously won by their skill and valor." Both of his lieutenants and twenty-seven of his thirty-six men were either killed or wounded upon the spot. At the session of 1843, the General Assembly af one sloop. Two years afterwards, there was great conster Several other witnesses testified to tha amicable soon to De commenced, a lew weeKS aiierwaras, in response to this call, a band of patriots assem firmed an act ot the previous session, (wmcn tuns moonlight, and the captain of the steamer saw the schooner approaching and cal'ed at the top of his voice, but was not heard, and before he cohW change the course of the schooner she was run into about midships and There were four man on board, all of whom were rescued and taken in by the Virginia. Among these was Mr.

M. W. West, of Accomac, who had $5,000 worth of goods on board, all of which are lost. Mr. W.

barely escaped being drowned, tad when picked up w3 in his night clothes. Every thing belonging to the schooner was lost. for the almost unexampled period ot twenty-tnree terms on hich the prisoner And his wife lived. became a part of the State onstitution,) providing nation Baltimore. Braddock's army had been defeated; and it was reported that the French and bled within the limits of your own county, and years, filled with great distinction, the exalted and fiis Kind treatment ot ner.

flira. vjeignorsi. Speaking of has conduct upon another occasion, was about years ot age. ana a very prenjr Indians had advanced eastward to within thirty position of Senator of the United States from Maryland. In 1814, when the land and naval forces organized as the "Baltimore Independent Company." It was the first revelutionary corps organised in Maryland; and a young man, little over thirty woman.

miles of the town, lhe inhabitants were so alarm Ceneral Ripley said: "I cannot refrain from adverting to the "manner in which Captain Towson's of Gieat Britain made their attack upon Baltimore, At 1 o'clock, the testimony being clo3ed, Mr. ed that they had prepared to desert their homes years of ape, a native oi Baltimore county, was Artillery was seived: 1 have never seen it equalled. and embaik on board vessels in the harbor for the Gwinn made his opening statement to the jury. Citing the law applicable to the i3sue, and reviewing This officer has so distinguished himself that to General Smith was the commanding officer charged with the responsible duty of its defence; and it was owing chiefly to the prudence and firmness The steamer was considerably injured and run purpose of seeking safety in Virginia. The report fortunately proved unfounded.

But it is never chosen its captain. That young man was Mordecai Gist. Three months afterwards news arrived that the war had actually begun, and that blood had the testimony adduced ior tae prosecution, uu which the State relied for a conviction of murder say simply that he is in action is a volume oi eu-logium; the army only to be informed he is there, by a spontaneous assent, are at once satisfied that displayed by him on that occasion that the inva- ashore on Tilghman'3 Island, where they remained until the Hrgh Jenkins took the passengers off on her trip to Cambiidge, and on Wednesday even theless an historical fact, strongly illustrating the already been shed at Lexinetan and at Concord. in the second degree. At half-Past 2 o'clock, the court adjourned till 10 cieis were repulsed, and the fair Monumental city saved from the same fate which had just before On the 27th of August, 1776, Gen.

Howe's army wonderful progress of this country, that as late as November, 1754, only one hundred years ago, the inhabitants of yonder Great city serionslv aimre- ne nas pertormed wen nis part, i nave no mej that there is an Artillery officer in any service superior to him in the knowledge and performance befallen the iNationaiuapital. this morning, when the counsel for the defense of British and Hessians, thirty thousand strong, were on Long Island advancing to attack the City ing brought them all safe to the city. After the passengers left, Capt. Fairbanks succeeded in hav-the hole stopped, when the water (about five feet) was pumped out- and he brought the injured These patriot heroes are now no more. Gist, and hended an attack from a band of a few hundred will address the jury.

ol his duty." of New York. Gen. Washington was there, determined to defend it; but the forces under hi3 Superior Court. Before Judge Frick. The fol General Nathan Towson is now no more; but his Howard, and Smith, and the other gallant leaders of the old Maryland Line, have all gone, one by one, to their final resting place.

But the work Indians advancing across the Alleghany mountains. Fourteen years afterwards, Baltimore had be lowing business occupied yesterday: steamer safely to the city, wheie she is now on the stocks and will shortly be repaired. There is said to command were but little more than half as nu 1. ri. liibson, A at nan it.

stecjeweu merous as those of the invaders. A large portion gallnnt achievements will not be forgotten. His native county will never cease to remember with pride that his is one of the most glorious names hich ever adorned the rolls of the American come so important a place that it was proposed to the American army, under Putnam, were sta which they aided to accomplish still survives Anrerican Liberty, achieved by their valor and consecrated by their blood, still blesses their native and Joseph S. Hanna vs. Camillns Kidder, an aa-tion to recover the value of a promissory note.

be no blame attached to any one, it being considered one of those unfortuate occurrences which sometimes take place and no satisfactory reason can be tioned arcund Brooklyn to resist the enemy and make ner tne county seat. An act lor tfiat purpose was accordingly passed on the 22d of June, Verdict lor plaintiff, for 4,336 73. Addison an land, the richest patrimony which they could be assigned. The passengers subsequently had. a prevent his nearer approach to New York.

Far in advance of the main body of Putnam's army Frick for plaintiffs; Nelson and C. Mayer tor de queathe to their descendants. The sun wnicn meeting on board of the Virginia, and adopted re 1768; and very soon afterwards the first court house was built at Baltimore at the place where the Battle Monument now stands that being then army. The ceremony which you had assembled to witness has now been performed. The corner-stone of the building has been laid; and soon the edifice fendant.

was stationed its night wing, under Mernng; shines upon us to-day, in all his course from crea r-iw im.it rnurt. Before Judge Krebs. A solutions expressing sympathy lor Uapt. Harrison, and what was far better contributed $105 50 for his placed there to defend the widest and most prac tion's dawn, nas never looked down upon a people like this, or a ceuntry as truly great and glorious as case of Berry vs. Tuck, the Protestant Episcopal the northern termination of Calvert street.

When the constitution of 1776 was adopted, Bal benefit. They also adopted resolutions expressive ticable of the three routes to Brooklyn. In this wing is found a battalion of Mary landers. At dawn of day the dense columns of the British forces Convention et ajs.t mjuui-u uu itself will rise towards tne neavens, attracting, Dy the beauty of its proportions and the simple grandeur of its walls, the admiring gaze of every trav timore had so much increased in population that of their thanks to Capt. Tilghman, of the Hugh Court of Chancery, was argued in part yesteraay.

Brent for complainant; T. S.Alexander and Camp Jenkins, ior the prompt manner in wmcn ne came advance upon the American lines. After sustain it was thought just that she should be allowed the privilege of electing two delegates to the General Assembly, the same number given to Annapolis. tneir assistance. ing for a time the attack of superior numbers, the lett wing of the Americans is forced to retreat eler along your highway.

May it stand ior ages, in sunshine and in storm, firm and unshaken as the hill in which its-foundations are planted; and may it ever be pointed to as a temple of Justice bell for delenoants. Common Vleat. Before Judge Marshall. The assignment was called yesterday without finding any case ready fer trial. and soon tne centre under isumvan also cive way, But the members who formed the constitution seemed to have been suspicious that the prosperity of Baltimore was an ephemeral one, and that she Mercantile Integrity.

A few days since a gentleman who had been engaged in a business which did not require a license came to the office of the clerk of the court of Common Please, and paid $65 which he stated was due the State. He had been aiiu now, sumuing i. j't ii ima utuuiui ouiui.v -where the purest breezes of Heaven delight to The British advance and occupy the grounds between the Americanrightwing and their entrenchments at Brooklyn; and there stands Sterling's Assignment ior to-aay sso. io oi, inclusive. mignt prooaDiy soon begin to ceeay nice ner neign engaged in business for five years, until recently.

bor joppa. iney, therefore, added a proviso in these words: "If the said inhabitants of the town Port Tobacco Times savs the Commis little division almost completely surrounded by ours "Our country 'tis a glorious land! ith broad armsstretch'd from shore to shore, The proud Pacific chafes her strand, She hears the dark Atlantic roar; And, cradled mid her clustering hills, Fwcet vales in dreamlike heauiy hide, Where love the air with munic fills, Aiid calm content and peace abide: For plenty hi re her fullness pours In rich profusion o'er the land, And sent to seize her generous store. Thre prowls no tyrant's hireling band. Great God! we thank thee for this home This bounteous birth-land of the free; Where wanderers from afar may come, And breatfce the air of Liberty! Still may her flowers uutrampled spring, Her harvests wave, her cities iis; And yet. till Time shall fold Irs wing, Kemain Earth's loveliest for the election of a separate sheriff for Baltimore citr.

The Constitution adopted by the Convention on the 13th of May, 1651, provided for an entire change in the judiciary system of the State. The operation of that Constitution is to complete the separation of Baltimoie city from Baltimore county. They are now distinct political divisions of the State as much so as any two of the counties. Though your courts still hold their sessions within the city limits, they only do so by virtue of a special proviso in the Constitution, which declares 'that Baltimore County Court may hold its sittings within the limits of the city of Baltimore, until provision shall be made by law for the location of a county seat, within the limits of the said county proper, and the erection of a court-house and all other appiopriate bulidings, for the convenient administration of justice in said court." Thus the territory embraced within the corporate limits of Ualtimore no longer constitutes a portion of Balti-Snore county; and the area of the latter has been to that extent still further reduced. Although thus deprived again and again of portions of her territory, Baltimore county has continued steadily to increase in wealth and population.

As we have before stated, her population two hundied yeais ago was about .000. In 1773, it had increased to 17,238. Since then, Harford, jhalf of Carroll and Baltimore city have been taken from her; and yet, four years ago she could boast Ct population of 41,003, larger than that of any other county of the State. Il This is the fourth time that the county seat of Baltimore county has been removed. It seems to 'tae the general impression that the first court-house Jfor Baltimore county was at Joppa, upon Gunpowder river.

But this is an error. It is a singular fact that no living man can tell, 'With any degree of certainty, the place where the county seat of Baltimore county was first located. The county was established in 659, and the court Jjouse was not built at Joppa until nearly 58 years fterwards. The county court held its first session at the 3weLing of Captain Thomas Howell, in the year 5G61. Soon afterwards a court house was built, not Joppa, on Gunpowder river, but at some point on Bush river, which empties into the Bay about four miles farther north.

By reference to Bacon's edition of the Laws of Maryland, it will be found ttat the county seat was on Busk river a3 late as 683, and that a port of entry was established there in that year. The court house on Bush river was abandoned Sit some period between 1683 and 1707, and a second one erected on Gunpowder river, at a place called ''Forster's Neck." In 1707 the Provincial Assembly of Maryland passed an act directing that the court house at Former's Neck "should be deserted, and in lieu thereof fifty acres of land in a tract on said river, belonging to Anne Felka, called 'Taylor's phould be erected into a town, and the court house Of the said county should be built The sioners of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad will and had during that time disposed of about S100 worth of bafftrins'. which he was informed by a shall so decrease, as that the number of persons an enemy of more than hve times its numbers. The only chance of escape is to ford a broad and meet in this city on the Slst instant. having a right of suffrage therein shall have been, for the space of seven years successively, less than dangerous creek always before considered im linger, and where health would seem to have chosen her favorite home one, who is a stranger to the most of you, but who cannot feel as if among strangers, while looking round upon scenes familiar to his boyhood, and.

remembering that almost within view are his own birth place and the graves of his parents standing here to-day and feeling as if once more a citizen of his native county, he would fain unite with you in offering sincere thanks to Divine Providence for her past prosperity, and invoking in her behalf the same auspicious favors passable. friend was a violation of the license law. Not reconciling it with his conscience to defraud the State of a single cent, he immediately went and insisted on navinir th Wp sum. being the ftJ-W. W.

Lynde has recovered $4,359 damages from the city of Boston, for injuries received by defect in the sidewalk in Garrish street. QCh About 350 quarter casks, octaves and hogs-heads sherry wines, at prices varying fro?" 3' one half the number of voters in some one county in this State, such town shall thenceforward cease to send two delegates or representatives to the House of Delegates, until the said town shall have But Cornwallis' regiments are fast advancing upon them. Those regiments must be checked, or Sterling's entire command are lost. All the rest are ordered to make good their retreat, while a amount of the costof a State license for the whole five years. The sum was accordingly placed to the one nan ox tne numbei ol voters in some onecoun to 12s.

9d, were sold at Montreal last credit ot the State. Can a case oi cum al ty in this State." devoted band of four hundred their brave leader, rush forward with fixed bayo ter be found lor tne luture. They had much more confidence in the contin While enjoying these priceless blessings, let us never cease to remember with gratitude those Maeser, a tavern keeper at e. Wheeling, was robbed on Sabbath last while he and his wife were at church, of about May you live lone, but not long enough to see your nets upon the overwhelming forces ot cornwallis ued growth of Annapolis; and, therefore, thought it entirely unnecessary to insert any such condi Heavy Winds. Several vessels which have reached thi3 port from the old country suffered blow which prevailed the months of July UST, through whose sacrifices they were obtained; nor forget that we too have an important duty to perform, -not only to ourselves and our posterity, but country disunited, or her Constitution destroyed.

May you be ever prosperous, but never cease to remember in your prosperity, the debt of gratitude Five times does this Spartan band charge upon the foe. tach time the Marylanders are forced back by the mere weight of superior numbers. Another tion to tne enjoyment of her right ot electing two September, 400 persons c'ied in Cieveiana oi cao-lera. on the sea. Amongst this number is the schooner Sussex.

Cant. Knignt, belonging to this port, and to the whole human race. representatives. Seventy-eight years have since rolled round and even more aesperaie cuarge is miue uiu auj the hnice veterans of Cornwallis are giving way. treaty lately con cluded witn enezueia Of the whole habitable globe.

America is the and Annapolis, the former "Athens of uue to mose Dy wnose patriotic uh mv has been obtained. May freedom ever be yours, but never degenerate into wealth bless only spot where enlightened, constitutional liber by Mr. Fames, our minister, has been received and victory is almost won where it was never hoped ty nnus a secure-dwelling place. reached the quarantine grounds yesterday. It appears that she sailed from the Carribean sea, with a load of guano, and experienced, very stormy weather during the entire passage.

At one time, such was the severity of the gale, that they were you, but never corrupt; may peace smue upon juu, but never enervate; may no hostile invader ever lor. liut at tnis very moment, iue Drave piary-landers are assailed by fresh forces in their rear. Greece was once free, but the descendants of the Washington. CharlottesviUe Advocate thinks there Willbe not less than 560 students at the University brave Athenian democracy are now the degraded while th Hessians, under De Heister. reinforce et foot within your borders; but if such visitors subjects of a king.

Rome was once a great repub Cornwallis in front. Outnumbered ten to compelled to tnrow overooara pan oi tne cargo, of Virginia mis session. snouid come, may you De as prompt your to extend to them the hospitalities of a North Point welcome. Above all, may you and your posterity, (XJ-Simon Snyder, one oi inv lu lic; out ior centuries ail Italy nas Deen uivmeu into petty principalities, whose citizens have never attacked on all sides at once, they attempt to escape. A portion are forced to surrender: but three Inauguration of the Peto mayor.

nir. Mavr- elect, will be inaugurated on the second sioners ot nonnumoeruua week. companies, animated by the heroic example of been permitted to enjoy the smallest degree Am ulimAiia 1.1... r. .1 imwrtyi to tne remotest generation, enjoy tuaj- Monday of November, and it is supposed the new rit Council will be called torether soon after, in still adorns the bunks of the beautiful Severn but her commerce and prosperity are gone, and her population of three thousand is less than one-third that of the smallest county while yonder stands Baltimore town with nearly a quarter of a million of inhabitants, more than were to be found in all Maryland when the constitution of 1776 was adopted.

Such is the uncertainty of all human predictions, and such the wonderful changes which the period of a single life-time will bring forth in this Heaven-favored land. Suchs brief narrative of the establishment of the former county seats for Baltimore county. You have assembled to witness the foundation of a new oat. There is a peculiarity about this meeting which distinguishes it from all former ones nrr-The whole funded debt of the cny oi- ineir orave commander.cut tneir way tnrougn me thick ranks of the enemy, swim the deep creek an eartniy blessings, civil wu uwuy, protected by just laws, wisely and impartially ad the close of the last century, planted the tree of order to effect an organization, so that in case of freedom, but the ambition of Napoleon the Great soon uprooted it from her soil. A few years ago, Louis is $3,333,556.

flrj-MissKimberly is performing a Buffalo, Miss Locan at St. Louis, and Miss Dean at Boston. 1 last any disability of the Mayor to act, between the day rif inauguration and the time fixed for the annual bank. The valor of those four hundred Maryland ers has saved the rest of the right wing but it has she again proclaimed herself a republic; out another llonmmrte is now her imnerisil master. ministered.

The box deposited in the corner-stone contained -a great variety of articles. Among them was a manuscript of matters connected with the separation of the interests of the city and county; the meeting cf the Council, there may be some one to take his nlace. a duty which devolved, under the been done at the sacrifice of one-half of their own Crj-There were 56 deaths ruun.ui8 14 of cholera ajc.4 4 of diarrhea. But America our own loved America still numbers. city chatter, on the President of the First Branch keens burning, and as brightly as of yore, the The man who led, those gallant Marylanders upon.