Betting On Elections

This vicious practice last year was openly practised throughout the United States by great numbers of respectable and pious persons. It was countenanced by many political pnpers br the purpose of helping their respective parties to gain the confidence of the rnultitude. The evil has been brought to the notice of severa 1 Legislatures. That of Connecticut, al its recent sossion, made betting on electious a penal oíTence. The act is eniitled, "An Act in alteration of an Act concerning Crimes and Punishments." It reads thus: "If any person shall, dircctly or indireclly, or by an ogent, oras the agent of any olher person or persons, bet or vager on any election, and shall be thereof duly convicted, such person shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than twenty dollars. Sec." 2. If any person shall be a stakeholder of any sum of money, or of any other thing betted, staked or wagered upon any election, as in the preceding section mentioned, such person so oftending, being thereof duly convicted, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not !ess than twen- tv dollars nor more than one hundred dollars."Or" The Cmcinnali Times hns a correspondence bot ween Maj. Lewis Figg and Col. R. M. Johnson, and a politica] address from Major Figg, which estubüslies thee facts: thal FigET and Jubnson vrerc meístnates at the time of the batlle of theThames: tliat both were badly wounded: thal Figg killed Te comseh: thnt while confineü in tlie tent togeiher by thoir wounds, Johnson made a barCT-.iin wilh Fijrg lo (ett him (Johnson) have the credit of killing Tecumseh, as Juhnson in tended to take a partin public life, and the reputation of killing Tecumsph wonld be of service to him: thnt Figg agreed lo this, provided that if he (Figg) shonld ever become a coiKÜdate for office, he shonld be at liberty to state the '.ruth. To tliis Johnson assented. - Accordingly, Johnson has had the credit of killing Tecumseh up to this time. Bot Figp ha vuig bpcome a candidato for ofñc.c address ed a note to Johnson, June 1, 1845. remiriding him of die old burgain and rrquesting his nssent to a statement of the truth. To which John-on replied, June 6, admittíng that Figg was the nal killer oí Tecumseh, and expressing himself perfeclly satiefiVd with what the repvtation of killing the chief had done for himself. This transnciion s not mnch to the credit of Col Jolinson.{L?= The Detroit papers contain notices of the "Copper fever" which is prevalent there. Multitudes areseeking their fortunes in the regions of the Nortli. A correspondent of the Advertiser writes from Mackinac: "Amongthe ndventurers whoarecrowding tho goodiy citizensof this ancient borough, we find the representatives of sucli classes ns stock holders and trustees of tnining companies, state geologists, pupils from JJecole des mines, itinerant doctors, lawyers, ex-members of congress, state senators, som e X and some without the sign of the cross, letter writers, practical miners and laborers, all anxious, not only to go ahead, but each one to get ahead of hts neighbor."QJ3 TheTrue American, C. M. Cloy's paper is a Jiitle lorgertlian the Signal, and conlains, beeiiles antislavery matter, a large a - mount of miscelloneous reutling. lts circulation in Kontucky hnu doubled since it coinmenced,and in Lcxingion it is larger than thnt of all the other polilical paper We presume the puuiber of subscribers m the Free States is Inrge, comprising both Whips and Aboliiionists. Cassuis proposes that an anti slavery Convention for Kentucky be held in Frankfort, July 4, 1846, and that a pnper be commenced immediately m Louisville, to bc owned exclusively by non-tlaveliuldcid and laborirg men.