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95 Asa Whitney Jonas Earll, Jr 91 S. Newton Dexter James Hooker. David Hudson. David Bisseil .92 George H. Boughton Benjamin EROS. 192/Samuel B. Ruggles: George W Little .92 Henry Hamilton Stephen Clark Whereupon the candidates agreed upon by the Loco-Foco Members in Caucus were all duly elected. The bill repealing those sections of Anact to prevent Illegal Voting* &c. require a Registration of Voters has passed the Assembly. The Senate. by a party vote, has refused to adjourn on the 31st of March. VIRGINIA Democratic State Convention was held last week at Richmond, Va. The Address that the of Specie to the next Payments near proposes by meeting the Banks of of the Resumption that State Legislature-in be postponed December ! Ex-Congressmen Dromgoole and Gen. T. H. Bayly, two eminent Sub-Treasury champions-the latter turned Loco-Foco from pure love to the Hard Money policy-were prominent advocates of this indefinite postponement. Gen. Bayly stated, during a recent debate on the Retaliatory Law of the last Legislature imposing certain onoreus and vexatious restrictions on the ships and commerce of this State, that a correspondence had been carried on with certain Loco-Focos of this State, who had excused their party from attempting to overrule Gov. Seward's course in regard to Virginia's claim of alleged fugitives from justice, on the pretext that Gov. S. would not heed were to pass any. We presume their resolutions they dread will of if also the they be Governor's restrained, by a corresponding Veto, from repealing the law granting Trial by Jury to persons charged with owing themselves to other people. The verb to shuffle' is destined to be conjugated through all its moods and tenses by our new masters at Albany this winter. DR. LARDNER'S LECTURE.-The Lecture of Dr. Lardner at the Park Theatre last evening was remarkably well attended, and was, as all of hix been, highly interesting and instructive. Its main subject was the Planets, and its prominent features*were, of course, essentially the same as those of his_former lecture on the same topic, which we have already published. But its order. language and illustrations were SO different as to make it entirely a different discourse He brought forward several very beautiful and striking illustrations of the method of estimating the distances, magnitudes and weights of the several bodies of the Solar System, and alluded in a very interesting manner to the wonderful discoveries of LINNEUS, fortified by the investigations of DECANDOLLE, that flowers have cycles corresponding precisely with the alternation of day and night, closing and opening unvaryingly as the Earth turns upon its axis. Several of his finest transparencies were likewise exhibited. OHIO.-A letter from our corre-pondent at Columbus, (which we cannot make room for this morning, announces the passage of the Senate's Bank Resumption bill on its third reading in the House by a vote of 38 to 30-one Whig voting with the majority. The Whigs proposed and urged a Gradual Resumption, commencing on small notes in in August. May, and becoming overruled. complete and July and but were our friend the most violent from the deconsequences apprehends sudden disastrous contraction and and struction of Currency which must ensue. Let us wait and see. Our friend announces the utter failure of the Granville Bank, of which the notes are now selling for fifty per cent. in goods. It had redcemed $130,000 of its notes before it gave up the ghost. The Urbana Bank was under strong suspicion, and in the state of feeling which prevails, was certain to go by the board, if it had not already done 30. All is confusion, panic and terror. K Mr. Bradford's Oration last evening at the Broadway House on occasion of the Anniversary of the Birth of General Harrison, was a chaste and beautifully written eulogy on the character and services of the eminently distinguished subject of his discourse. Mr. B. very succinctly sketched the Revolutionary services and ran rapidly through the career down of a subsequent to the period public his of death. General enchaining Harrison, crowded audience for above an hour. A mere incidental allusion to the great Harry of the West produced a spontaneous three times three, with most deafening applause. The Oration was preceded and followed by patriotic edes composed for the occasion. and sung by an efficient choir. IG Mr. B. JESUP. the excellent host of the Pacific Hotel, writes us to state. in reference to a communication in our last, that his Hotel is in no sense a political one, but that men of all parties are alike welcome and alike well treated. Of course they are-no one could understand his jocular eulogist differently. K A Public Meeting of Scotchmen and others sympathising with the terrible destitution of the suffering poor of Paisley and other manufacturing towns of Scotland, will be held at the Society Library this evening. We trust there will be a generous attendance. As EXPRESS.-A Wisconsineditor acknowledge es the receipt of Congressional documents .. in ad vance of the mail" in consequence of a flock of wolves chasing the post-rider across the prairies.
