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gladly in the thingled Long enjoyment of the light-winged Venus. will those hours be remembered OHIO,-We learn with regret that THOMAS CORWIN of positively declines a re-election as Gover. nor Ohio. This will perplex our friend., successor. meet in Convention next Tuesday to Rominate who a JOHN the BROUGH has been re-elected State Auditor and by Legislature, He is the Benton of Thomas spends a gnod deal of his time electioneering Ohio. vice Kennedy has been prelected State Librarian. 7. Mills, Whig. turned FLORIDA.-The Territorial Legislature Call vened toward the end of last month. and conthat transmitted his Annual Message. It appears Gov. in the Territory has been involved speculations, viz: 1st. to the Union Bank of of which debt bonds by loaned Bank $3,000,000 $3,900,000 Florida, the is believed to be pretty safe. The Bank punctually, and the State has pays realestate. &c. as security; 2d. liens the interest of Southern $400.000 heavy to Life and Trust, of which $150,000 have not been used, and will probably be cancelled: the balance have been sold to a worthless purchaser. and are a dead loss.but the Stateha security, and is probably safe 3d, $500.000 to the Bank of Pensacola, on which the interest has been paid, and which. the bonds having been sold not on conditions not warranted by the act authorizing them. the Governor squints at repudiating. They are held by Hope & Co. Amsterdam, and Gowan & Marx. London, who call on the Territory for no-claim their interest, but the Governor thinks they have on the Territory till their remedy have been utterly exhausted. is the Bank shall He against This wrong. admits, however, that the Territory must ultimately pay, if the Bank does not All the Florida Banks being now the Governor recommends the nerveless, suspended creation and of a new one that shall pay specie under all Citcumstances. If an act of the Legislature could secure such a result, we would go in for this Bank As it is, we shall wait awhile. IC The Resolutions of Mr. Clay, submitted to the Senate on Tuesday and published in our last, indicate the true line of National Policy in every respect. Let them be adopted and reduced to practice by Congress, and the Country will soon emancipate herself from debt and difficulty. Is there not virtue and energy in the Whig party in Congress to carry out fearlessly those admirable suggestions We will hope there is, and that the Protection of American Industry, the payment of OUR National Debt. and the creation of a basis. at least. for a sound equable Currency, will be effectually ensured. HENRY JONES, late Sheriff of Otsego Couniv. having deceased. Gov. Seward has of Cherry to fill JONAS PLATNER. Valley, appointed the vacancy. Mr. P. was the Whig candidate for Sheriff at the election of 1840. KP Judge Conklin has directed that the Notices in the Northern District in this in shall Bankruptcy be State published Weekly instead of Daily, and the price shall be. for the twenty-day notices $1, for the seventy-day do. $2.50: total 3 50, for what in this District costa some $16. The difference is an item worth saving to the destitute Bankrupt, or his Creditor. A convention of those in the States of Ohio. Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee interested in the manufacture of Iron, is to be held at Louisville, Ky. on the 7thof March. The object is to collect and prepare such statistics and argument= as shall influence Congress in its action upon the Tariff. in favor of Protection to our Home Interests. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.- fire broke out yesterday morning at about 3 o'clock in a 141 Centre street. From the vard. No. mahogany Commercial we gather the following account of its ravages. Four adjoining brick buildings-three of them owned by John T. Flandrow, the other by Mr. and all as were insurance them consumed. Willoughby, The occupied upon workshops, expired three or four days since and had Rot been renew. ed. The wind. which was very high. drove the flames across the street, one of the widest in the city, 140. 142 and 144-frame and Nos. house< occupied as dwellings-were burned. The large brick building at the corner of White street, ocenpied by the Washington Temperance Society and 28 a City Dispensary, though adjoining the yard where the fire commenced, escaped without injury. The first celebration of the Enterprise Lodge of the I.O. of O.F. will be held this evening at the Tabernacle. For Programme of the musical performances, &c. see advertisement. KF WASHINGTON'S birth-day is to be celebrated 1 at Boonsboro'. Washington Co. Md. by a grand Temperance procession. I About forty persons have recently died in f Toledo by ulceration of the throat-attributed to the spring-like weather. IC A large meeting in favor of the New-York and Albany Railroad was held at Dover Plains,
