Corrcsitootlettee of the National Intelligenecr. Bavrzsronc, Monday, May 4,1640, Half-past three o'clock. This was the day fur the assembling of the Notional Convention of Whig Young Men to respond to the Harrisburg Nomi nation. No tongue or pencil can give an adequate idea of the enthusiasm of this tre mendous concourse of the free voters of the People from all parts of the United States; all gathered together, united with ono heart and one soul on one object—the election of General HARRISON to the Presidency of the United Ste tea. The delegations have been coming in by hundreds and by thousands for the last forty-eight hours; and the very stones of the streets of Baltimore have been in me tion. The procession moved off from the Eutaw House at 10 o'clock A. M.; the firing of minute guns announced its march. The whole was preceded by a band of mu sic; and then followed the Committee of Arrangements and invited guests. Seven handsome open barouches, each drawn by four white horses, contained the Whig members of Congress. Mr. Webster was in the first barouche. Mr. Bell, of Ten nessee, Mr. King, of Georgia, Mr. Cushing, Mr. Graves, Mr.' Curtis, Mr. Hainan, Mr. Wise, Mr. Stanly, Mr. Corwin, Mr. Mason, - of Ohio, Mr. Fillmore, Mr. Morgan, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Williams, of N. C., Mr. Clark, of Y., Mr. Garland, and a great many others of the House of Representa tives, were among the company. Then came the difflirent delegations from the several States, each preceded by a full band of music, with standards and banners. The splendor of the pageant was beyond description. I counted seven hundred ban nere, some of them of the most gorgeous kind. (A full description of each will be riven hereafter.) The standard of the Tennessee delegation was hung with crape, in memory of JUDGE WHITE. Every State was represented in the procession, besides the District of Columbia. The delegation from the District numbered near 300;* they made a very imposing appearance; their standard and banner were inferior to none in the procession. As the great picture of the Capitol, inscribed on the Washington banner, floated in the breeze, at every square, as the procession halted, you would hear a new shout from the thronging mul titude who hued the street: and the waving of ten thousand handkerchiefs from the la dies Mahe windows told that the delegation from the Capitol were most heartily welco med and appreciated. The delegations from Pennsylvania and Maryland were most numerous. Each county in Pennsylvania was preceded by a different banner. Those who came from banciater county were decked with red ro ses. Several of the members of Congress walked in front of the State delegation.—, Mr. COST JOHNSON preceded the Frederick, district delegation on foot. Mr. RIDGWAY was with the Ohio delegates. The banner and tournout from Pittsburg was very hand some. There were eight log cabins in the procession, drawn by six horses—one from Delaware, three from Pennsylvanta,and four from Maryland. After the State delegations. followed the Tippecanoe Clubs of Baltimore, with ban. ners and badges.. There were eighteen thousand Delegates in the procession They were one hour and a.quarter passing a certain point. One hundred thousand per sons must have witnessed the procession.— Such a sight never was before seen on this 'continent. More than thirty thousand strangers are in Baltimore. The stores have been closed during the day, and no business done. Every elan has.a badge ott his coat. The procession moved on to the Canton race ground, where pavilions and accom modations had been prepared. A committee of one from each delegation was appointed last night to report the oft cers of lila Convention this morning. Wheri the Convention arrived at the place of meeting, it was opened by n pray er from the Rev. H. B. BASCOMII. Mr. M l . Winos, of Md., was chosen President by "ncclarnation, (who had been reputed by the committee.) Mr. M'MAnors made an address of a few minutes. Addresses were also made by Mr. CLAYarld Mr. WanTER. The above is Only a sketch of to-day's proceedings. The Convention had not ad. _punned at a little after 3 o'clock. Moans.—Great excitement was pro duced among the immense throng in Balti more, by the wanton . murder of 111 r. Thom as Laughlin, whilst marching in the Whig procession. The Sun gives the following account of it, which corresponds with the verbal statements we have heard on the subject: 'The particulars of this melancholyiind disgraceful affair, are these: As the proces sion were proceeding down Baltimore street, a gong of half grown boys were marching up, carrying on the top of a pole a stufnd figure, representing General Harrison as u petticoat hero, and when they arrived near Howard street, they attempted to firm in with the procession; Mr. Laughlin stepped out of the ranks with the view to stop them, when he received the blow over the head from a stick, which deprived him of life. An inquest was held over the body by A 11. Greenfield, Esq., coroner, and- the jury returned as a verdict, that he "came to his death by a blow from a stick, in the hands of some person unknown to the jurors." if these fellows , came oat far the parpose of insulting and disturbing the procession,they ought to have bean arrested and severely punishad for their insolence and blickguarti i on." . Tho Awrican says that Mr. Laughlin was a respectrtele mechanic—a carpenter— residing on. Federal Hill. lie has loft a widow and four children. The fuleral of Mr. Laughlin was atten ded by the Delegates to the Convention is a trxiy. The ChiHf Marshall of the Con vention Jamls 0. Law, supported the we6p ilsi and bereaved wife of the deceased,from the carrier to the grave, where her condi thxt wat upat pitiable as she stood. convulr sod with an agony of grief, at ber sudden and irreparable loss. The Massachusetts Delegation subscri bed and paid over the sum of one thousand dollars, for the benefit of the widow and orphanS of the murdered Laughlin. Supposed Murder.—Tho body of a man was tuund in the basin yesterday (says the American of Wednesday) who is supposed to have been murdered, from the circum• stance that a stab had been received in ono of his eyes. He had on a Harrison (Bala. more) badge. From tbo Albany lourual Whenever a Govornmeot provokes the contempt of the People its downfall becomes inevitable. An Administration that cannot command popular respect lacks the first and surest clement of human power. The Fed eral Ministry at Washington is reduced to this coLdition. It has neither firmness to enforce the principles it professes, nor suffi • ctent magnanimity to abandon them. The interests of sixteen millions of Free men cannot he made forever the sport and plaything of a few adventurous and intrigu ing politicians. Weaker men than Mr. Van Buren have often times obtained power un der false pretences; and abler managers, have been hurled from ill acquired eminen ces by the disgrace which the exposure of their own frauds has brought upon them. Mr. Van Buren came into office in the double character of Avenger and Regener ator. He was to eradicate evils and diffuse benefits. This the People expected from him, for this he promised to perform. Hu was to correct alleged abuses; separate Bank and State ; introduce a system of finance which should elevate the Currency of the country to a purer standard; bring back freshness to the eieek and renovated virtue to the heart of the Nation. These were tho objects to be attained under his superintendence of public aflitirs He has now entered upon the last year of the constitutional term of his office. Dur ing the whole period that he has occupied his high station the party with which he is identified has held an undisputed majority in both houses of Congress. The Execu tive Departments have all held themselves in readiness to do his bidding and assist his efforts. Even the Federal Judiciary has knelt at his feet. A majority of the State Governments have shown themselves equal- ly subservient to his will. Never during the existence of the Government has a Chief Magistrate possessed equal facilities for the introduction of a new policy, and so many concurrent advantages for bringing it to the immediate test of practical operation From ' month to month and from year to year the People of the United States have been watching with eager eyes and expecting hearts for the blessings of Van Bureniem to break upon them. How has their faith been requited? How have their expectations been fulfilled What can the President's friends boast that he has accomplished? What public abuses has he corrected 1 They complain ed that the country was suffering from the expansions and inflations of paper money. Have they reduced the circulation of this species of money ? Have they not increas ed it by the addition of Twenty Millions of Treasury Notes within the last three years? Have they added specie to the coffers of the Government, or diffused gold and silver a• mong the people I Mr. Van Buren came into office on the 4th of March, 1837, when the Banks redeemed their notes on demand; and in less than three months from that day these institutions suspended specie pay. meets. Within seventeen months after. wards another partial suspension occurred, commencing in Pennsylvania and extending throughout t he Southern and South• Western States. Within the first two years of his Administration the Banks have twice for feited their charters. The voice of corn• munity has indignantly called for remedy against these open and repeated acts of in solvency. Has the President provided or even attempted to provide one? He de-1 nounced a union between the Government and the Banks, when the latter were sound and conducted themselves honorably and advantageously. Ho has continued that union with those that have shown them. selves most unworthy of public confidence. The connection of the Government with the United States Bank of Pennsylvania shows with how much sincerity Van Burenism desires the disunion of Bank and State. Were we to write a volume it would scarcely serve to display rho hypocrisy, the profligacy and imbecility which character ize the present Federal Administration. We shall not attempt to enumerate the evils it has brought upon the country. Still the people are told of benefits that will accrue from its continuance in power , ! When, let us ask, are the blessed fruits of Van Burenism to'begin? Where even are its miserable consequences to end? There must be some period at which the useful re cults of a wise policy will become apparent; and there ought to be some limit beyond which even the worst of Rulers shouldhes• irate to press their pernicious schemes. If the friends of the Federal Government will not fix that period or define that limit, the people must do it for them. An adminis tration that is Incapable of explaining the consequences of its own policy, deserves the derision and contempt of the People. GEN. HARRISON'S APPEAL FOR THE WIDOW AND-ORPHAN OF GEN. PIKE. h► regard - to Pensions to disabled sol diers and widows of deceased - soldiers, Gen. EL on different occasions took asearn eet a• part as we have already seen that he did in regard to .Revotutionary pensions. On this subject it is due to his patriotism and to hip discriminating mind-, as well as to his liberal disposition, to place his views more distinctly before our readers, which we du by making the following extracts from the contemporaneous history of the time. On the 15th of December, 1917, Gen. Ilarrigon oflfire•d the following resolution: "Resolved, That the Committee on Mil itary Aflitira be, and they are hereby. in structed to int - rare into the expediency of continuing the pensions which now are, or have heretofore been, allowed to the widows and orphans of the soldiers who were killed or wounded in the service of the late war, for a term of five peals beyond tho periods when they shall respectively cease under existing laws." In offering this resolution Gen. H. said: "Some of the pensions which have been granted have already expired, and others will expire probably, before the present session of Congress closes, AmongSt the latter is.that which was granted to the wid ow and orphan of Brigadier General PIKE. In descending the Ohio rivet, (said Mr. H.) the eye of the inquisitive stranger is attrac ted by the humble dwelling which shelters the widow and orphan of that distinguished hero. Should his curiosity carry him fur ther, and ho should be induced to visit the abode of this interesting family, he would find, however humble the exterior, that neatness, frugal hospitality, and comfort, were to be found within its walls; that the lady bad expended a proper portion of her pension in the pious purpose of educating her daughter. But, (said Mr. H.) if the visit should bo repeated at the end of a year, and the law which the resolution contem plated should not pass, it would be found that the comforts of which he bad spoken had fled, or that the moans of procuring them were obtained by the personal exer tions of the lady herself. From my know ledge of her sitivation, (said ho,) I can state with confidence, that her dopondenco rests, for a comfortable support, upon the gener osity—no, sir, not on the generosity—but on the jultice of this nation—for can there be, under Heaven, a ju.ter claim than that ' which is presented by a widow ii;-ider such circumstancesT In fighting your battles, she has lost a husband. He has bled that his country might be groat, might be free, might be happy. But our advantage has been to tier an insuperable misfortune. It has thrown her— .On the wide w 063, without that only tie Tor which she wished to live, or feared to die I "It is our duty to supply, as far as we can supply, the loss she has sustained. There are other cases, mir, which form the strong- I est claims upon the justice and the honor of the thstion. Lot me not be told (said Gon. II.) that the Government has performed its contract by giving the five years pension which was provided at the coinmencemet of the war. Sir, the contract was all one side, and it would have been immaterial what had been its provisions. 'rho noble spirits of ALLEN, Of HART, and of PIKE, would have met your enemy with as much zeal and devotedness as if the provision for their families had been such as they would have dictated. No personal consideration would have withheld them from the field of glory. But, (said Gen. H.) there are mo ments when the claims of Nature will have their full effect. I have seen (said he) the wounded and expiring warrior in that aw ful moment when the martial ardor which had filled his bosom had been suspended by the pain which he felt—when, the sacrifice being made, naught of public duty remain ed to be performed—then it was, sir, that the thoughts of his family would fill him with the greatest solicitude. A beloved wife and children left friendless and unpro tected—the latter without the means of edu catkin, and both without support. In such a situation I have heard, amidst the fervent aspirations to Heaven for their happiness, a consoling hope expressed, that his country would not forsake them. Shall we, sir, not realize that hope? Should cur cowry be engaged in another war, let us commence it with the benedictions of the widow and orphan upon our heads. Let not their pray ers ascend to [leaven charged with accuse tions against your justice and humanity.— But, (said Gen. H.) I am anticipating a thing which cannot happen—the resolution will pass, as will it law that will be reported in obedience to it." The motion thus moved and supported by Geu. Harrison was adopted nem con. -.,• 0 0....- FATRAVAOANCE OF OUR RULERS.- The average yearly expenditure of the adminis tration of Mr. Adams was 812,575.497. In the first year of Gen. Jackson he spent 812,. 660,400—and continued to increase until, in 1835, they amounted to 817,514,950. In 1835, however, the administration re gained the ascendency in both houses of Congress, the expenditures ran up to $30,- 868,164 per annum—and from that time they have vibrated between this sum and 840,427,217, which was the amount of ap propriations in 1838. The expenses of the present year of Mr. Van Buren's adminis tration are more than equal to three times the yearly expenditure of Mr. Adams ' and are treble to those of the first year of Gen. Jackson. Mr. Van Buren has spent more forAfefainiture of the President's house since he camp into office:than the entire cost of maintaining the embassy of Great Brit. ain, during the whole of Mr. Adams' term of four years. These are facts which will not be disput ed. We present them to our readers, Just, as they stand. The voters of the country are tho true commentators upon such abuses of public trust.—Log Cabin' Advocate. -..•••Sor WHAT HAVE WE GOT 1-•• W hat have we got for the one hundred and eleven millions of dollars that we have paid to Mr. Van Bu ren for the last three years? Answer.—We have got a deranged; ,cur• rency ; low wages; property reduced in value: manufactories shut up; laborers without employment; corruption in high, places; distress amidst the poor; bankrupt cy in the National Treasury; and last, but .uut least, gold for the office holders, very cheap! Shall we try him again? Hartford Courier. SAMUEL Tuorarsos, Treasurer of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions,has received from Rev. Dr. H. R. Weed, of Wheeling, Vu. $2OO, from the Young La dies Missionary Society of his church, to constitute Martin Van Buren, President of the U.S., and General William Henry Har rts_on, members of the Presbyterian Board of F,oreig . n Missions.. • From the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times Myrmidons DISAPPEABANOL—We learn that a Mr. Cope, a merchant of Cincinnati, who had been staying at the mansion house, corner of 11th and Market street, during the greater part of the winter, suddenly dis- appeared about the first of Apiil, and has not been since heard of, either by the land lord, Mr. Ottenkirk, or any of his friends in this city or Cincinnati. Ile left in his room all his baggage, among which are several trunks locked, which are supposed to con tain money, clothes and goods of value. He had always been very prompt in paying his board, and at the time ho disappeared, was only about a fortnight or three weeks in ar rears. He was known to carry about his person, generally from $5OO to $l,OOO. Another mysterious disappearance has occurred in Philadelphia. Mr. Paul Geri. des, a merchant of M'Ewesville, left his lodgings at the City Hotel,and has not since been heard from• He is supposed to have had some $4OOO with him. Still Another.—A young man named Moses Fry, from Lancaster county, (Pa.) arrived in Philadelphia, the latter part of last week, with a drove of cattle and sheep. Ho sold his stock and was at the hotel in Callowhill street, where he stopped, on Sat urday evening. While in the bar room he was soon to count about $5OO in bank notes,' which he had received for his cattle, and placing them in his pocket, he went out, since which time ho has not returned. His hat containing a bill for cattle that he had purchased, was found in one of the pig styes of the yard on Sunday mornings THE PEol'LE.—There is a spirit a Mang tho people which promises lasting good to tho country. It is swelling up with a power which will be felt. As mere partisans, we might rejoice at this re'ult. But there is a wider view to be taken of it; a view which will awaken nobler sympathies, and feelings which bet. tar become patriots. Good men, of all parties, have looked for a long time, with deep anxiety, at the pres ent state of the country. New influences wore at work. The spirit which had ruled in Revolutionary times, was gone, and a new spirit had been created, which was to direct us, and control the coming generation. Unfortunately, in the creation of these new influences, ambitious aspirants bare exerted a controlling power. Personal suc cess was their consideration. But the plea under which they sought to advance them selves was good. Still, the effect has not been the less certain or startling. We per. ceive, in consequence, a change in almost every thing: State Legislatures disregard. ing home interests to do the bidding of a central power et ‘Vashington;—parties, with opposite and conflicting opinions, uni ting to gain office, upon the horrid principle that "to the victors belong the spoils;"— public officers lending their authority to sustain political friends, and a President of the United States appointing these officers with that. view;—rulers at Washington sac rificing the rights of states, violating the sanctity of the constitution, endangering the property of the people and the peace of the land, to keep themselves in office, and the party to power;—and all this done, too, as if one heart only beat, and one mind only directed! Was this to be the spirit of our day? For, if so, then was the spirit of the past destroyed only to peril the liberty which it had won. The result cannot be avoided. It stares us in the face, as if it were a living reality. The question, then, was a fearful one; and glad are we—glad will be all pa triot hearts—that another and a nobler spirit burns among our people, promising better influences for the present, and a richer hope for the future. And so it is. Every where the people are awake. They see the dangers which threaten, and, in the temper of the olden time, they mean to overcome them. They feel as if their freedom had been exposed, and, in tlimpirit of their sires, they are re solved to possess and perpetuate it. Our fear are over. The danger is past; for the people, not content witlr protest and solemn declarations, are storming the very citadel whence first proceeded (hese doctrines, and that spirit which were so big with mischief and rein. Fall it must, and with it fall, too, the men who first endangered the lib erties of their country.—Cintinnati Gaz. BEAR A VAN BUREN POST MASTER.— Extract of a letter from a Van Buren Post Master in Ohio, to a gentleman in Albany. "I am sorry to inform you that the Whigs have elected all the county officers by a majority of about 1000. The county of Geauga was divided last winter and I am now iu Lake county. Last fall we elected our state Senatorfrom Geatig,ii and Aahta hula counties; so you will perceive there has been a strong turn about. Tho vote in this town (Madison) stood 302 Harrison and 112 Van Buren. Last year we carri ed our ticket; the truth, and there it no saying no more about it, we have got to go for Harrison in this state or there will be only officers left to muster on our tolls—out of all the men in our employ (about 110) only three arc with us, and they not' very warm." Grtz.At REFORM.--A letter from Dublin to the New York American says,— " We are at this moment undergoing one of the most extraordinary moral revolutions which the annals of the-world narrate. 1 allude of course to the great Temperance Reformation effected by the Rev. Mr. Mat thew, a Franciscan Friar of the city of Cork, now justly styled the apostle of Tem perance. Already have one and a half mil lions of persons received the temperance pledge from his hands, and scarcely a de faulter has been found;. persona of all religi ons flock to him. Ile spent the week be- fore last in Dublin, and there administered the pledge to 70,000 individuals. I have .with my own eyes witnessed the most con firmed drunkards completely reformed. I could not believe the accounts with which the newspapers teemed, until.) myself be. carne a witness.'.' "BORROWED CAYITAL. " —What was on ly Inspiration yesterday may be prophecy to-day. The oracles of Gen. Jackson are decisive of the fate of Van Buren. When the 'old Roman' pronounced his emphatic condemnation upon those 'who traded on borrowed capital,' hc littlti dreamed how soon 'the Government' would rank among thorn. Could he have foreseen r 14c! llllSCia tile shifts to which his successor would re sort to keep in office and supply deficiencies in the National Treasury, perhaps he would not have declared so unreservedly that "the borrower deserved to break." The whole stock in trade of the present Federal Administration consists of 'borrow ed capital.' It commenced business upon 'the good will' loaned by its predecessor. It borrowed its democratic appellation from those who little conjectured the uses that were to be made of it. Its hard money prin ciples it has borrowed from the despotisms of continental Europe, from China, mid the Island of Cuba ! Its rapacity, as profliga cy, its hypocrisy, its imbecility, are all that it can claim as origiaally its own. Upon this basis the Federal Government has cionducte.l its operations for three years. During that time it has squandered upwards of one hundred millions of the people's too. ney, besides some three or four millions that its Sub. Treasurers have ran away with. Add to this the surrlus it found in the Trea sury and feloniously converted to its own use instead of paying over to the States accord. ing to the provisions of the Deposits bill, and the two millions of the oli batch of fed eral shinplasters still outstanding, together with the five millions of Treasury Notes manufactured to order the present month, and we find about ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY MILLIONS of "borrowed capi tal" sunk or purloined by Van Burenism within three short years! With this spec tacle before us we fully sympathise in Gen. Jackson's antipathy to those who trade on "borrowed capital" so far as our federal ru lers are concerned. That they at least "ought to break" there can be no sort of question. Their "ruinous excesses" are unparalleled in the annals of fraudulent bankrap:cy. And yet these are the men who prate continually of their honesty, their economy, and their capability for managing public affairs !—Albany Journal. From the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette THE CHINA NEWS. We hare given large extracts this mo►n meg from the Canton papers, because we be lieve that the newe, taken in connexion with that from England, leo! considerable impor tance to the commerce of the United States. The blockade is declared by Capt. Elliott on the condition that an Englishman who has fallen into the hands of the Chinese au thoritiee should not be given up. That con dition removed, and the blockade ceases. But what is the tenor of the instructions sent out by the British governmentl We believe it has not transpired ; but it is said that while a strong demonstration will be made, say a force of thirty ships of war, there will be a conciliatory tone. It is probable that this surmise is founded on what would be the true policy of Great Britain. It is evi dent that in the present state of things in China but little can be hoped for by any ap peal to reason and commercial advantages. The government is administered by a man of very narrow capacities, a century behind the emperor who received and entertained the Christian missionaries; and while Eng land sits down at the entrance of the king dom with her fleet, she may annoy the Chi nese, molest the Americans, and ruin her own trade with that country; but numbers will be wanting to do much more, and the Chinese; though they may know little of the art of war, are likely, by physical force, to defend their own territory. The blockade, of course, is easily maintained; the river at the Bogue below the ports is scarcely as wide as the Delaware (perhaps not more than halt as wide) opposite our city, and a sloop of war anchored below could prevent merchant vessels from ascepding; and Can ton is the only city with which any com mercial transactions can be had with fur- cignore. But England will, wo think, have connec. led with her demonstrations of hostility a proposition for amicable adjuetment,on terms which the Chinese can accept. A long delay jeopards the claim for in. detnnification for the opium, and the edict of the Emperor prohibiting the introduction of British manufactures levels a blow at Manchester, which will be seriously felt.— We have not at hand the means of telling how much of British fabrics found entrance into China, but a great amount certainly, and the duties on return teas were immense. All of this is to be cut off, and the only re turn is prize money (if they can get it) to the Navy, and the glory (if it is achieved) for the nation. Tho Chinese of course offend the British, but they put in force only their own laws, and compel none to come within their oper ation. Some of our readers will recollect the promptness with which the Chinese courts administered justice to some of their own nation who had committed• piracy on a French vessel. As we supposed, some of the loco foco pa pers more cunning and less candid than the Keystone, are not willing to admit that Mr. Stevens bought up any of the democrats in the Legislature to prevent them from vot ing for an improvement bill. The editor of the Pennsylvanian reads the Keystone a long lecture on the impolicy of making such_ adinissi.ms. lie thinks they have a widen .cy to expose to their enemies what they re ally think of each other, and to put tempts tions in the way of other members of the party in the Legislature by informing them that Mr. Stevens stands ready to put a price upon their heads. We should be: sorry to do even such loco focus as those in the Le gislature so gross an act of Injustice, as is implied by these two papers in the articles referred to. We had more faith in the pu rity of the democracy , the Legislature than this, but we must surrender our opin ion to those who know them better than we do.—Harrisburg chronicle,. PUNISIMENT OF AASLANDEREII• — When General Harrison was Governor of the In diana Territory, and Indian Commissioner, he was accused of Lewittl malversation and corruption by a land speculator, whose pi ratical machination and gambling in the lu• dian lands, he exposed mid defeated. Gen. Harrison forthwith institute an action against his accuser for slam:rr, and the jury to whom was referred the decision of the issue, promptly and without quitting the jury box, returned a veridict in favor of General Harrison, with heavy damages.— He approached the defendant, and declared his intention nut to receive one dollar of the damages, saying, that, after all the legal charges were paid, the balance remaining should be apportioned among the widows and orphans of those brave soldiers, who fell on the Tippecanoe battle field. Instruc tions Were given, a d the money distributed iu conformity to General Harrison's decla tions, among the widows and orphans of his gallant companions in arms, who full bat tling for the honor of their country, on the field of glory. If all the slanderers of the General were served the same way, me thinks the widows of the soldiers that 101 l at Tippecanoe would be richly dowered. BACKING our.—The Argus, with a pocu liar flourish, cattle out this•Tnurning with an offer to bet $5O that Virginia would vote for Van Buren, $5O on Pennsylvania, $5O on Ohio, $5O on New York, and $5O that Van Buren would bo re-elected. Mr. Croswell was promptly waited upon by gentletnen who informed him that they desired to take the proffered bets. But tn stead of meeting them ho first quibbled and then BACKED OUT I And "to this complexion" Van Burenism "has come at last I" Croswell offers to bet on the four largest States in tho Union.— These States all voted for Van Buren in 1836. When an offer was made to take these bets—bets on States without which Van Buten is utterly extinguished—bets with which he "played brag" this morning —he draws into his shell and backs out of his "banter!" P. S. We are requebted to say .hat John Van Buren, Esq. and Collector Seymour, were also called upon and invited to takiithe bets offered in the Argus. But the gentle. men all declined I "Straws," &c. We are farther authorized to say that whenever Croswell and his friends are ready t o back up their brag, they have only to say t he word.— Albany Eye. Journal. AN INCIDENT ON THE OIIIO.—One of out townsmen,—a staunch administrationist,-- who returned this week from a trip to the east, relates the following incident as having occurred on the Ohio in descending that river. He was a passenger, with upwards of 100 others, in the steamboat Mononga- - hela from Pittsburg. As the boat approach ed Notth Bend, the farm of Gen. Harrison, one of the passengers stepped into the cab in, saying that the old general wasofanding upon the beach, and proposed that all who were for him should mount the hurricane deck and give him three cheers. A rush was made from (ho cabin accordingly, the deck mounted, and the cheers given with hearty good will; when our townsman, looking round to sea how many of the pas sengers remained to keep him company, found htmself standing, like Col. Benton, "solitary and alone." EXAMPLE: root FARAIERS.—A gentleman with whom we conversed a few days ago, who was recently at Bangor, says that ther present month a Van Buren Farmer bro't into the market a fun of Iluy, which cost him $:3 dollars for teaming, and after much effort (mind himself compelled to bell the load for 85 or carry it home again. He at length disposed of it for that sum, unloaded the product of many weary day's labor, and, threw the chain and liav pole upon his cart, with an exclamation which ought to ring in every farmer's ears in New England: "I shake Iran Burcnism.—Purl. Journal. THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE AS THE PRE SIDENT UNDF.RSTANDS IT. -If the following remarks of Mr. Van Buren, in the Conven tion for revising the N. Y. State Constitu tion, do not disclose the innate tory:sm of the man, then we confess that there is no difference between generous democracy and exclusive toryism. In reference to the effect of universal suffrage, Mr. VALI Buren said: "The character of the increased number of votes (from 14,000 to 1.5,0004 would be such as would render their election a CURSE 'rather than a blessing; and would drive from the polls all sober minded peoplel"-- * * "the just equilibrium between the rights of those who have, and those who have no interest in the government, could, when- once thus surrendered, never be re gained except by the sword." STATB DEBT.—From a statement made on the 24th of February last, by a gentle man at Harrisburg, it appears that the State debt agreeably to the present ratio of repre sentation, amounts to ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN DOLLAttS FOR EVERY TAXABLE INHABITANT OF THE STATE. If each county wore made liable by law for the discharge of this debt, - agreeably to the number of its taxable inhabitants, Chester county would have to pay one million Iwo hundred and forty-nine thousand nine hum drcd and seventy four dollars. West Chester Register., A RUFFIAX A ItRESTED.—We, learn that; saveral cowardly ruffiaus.found a Connecta cu'. Delegate alone in one of the streets of: Baltimore on Monday.mght, and attempted: to make him tear .otr..hia.badge. This he• refused to do, when three of then) attempt ed to coerce him. Ile soon succeeded in: .disabling two, and the third he arrested aud . ) took to the watch house. lie was there. recognised as a miserable villain, who was ; some }ears since arrested for rubbtoz4, mail, and escaped the Penitentiary , by turn ing States' evidence.. Tpi . fa hiring.. N. 0. Bulletin AND XIMPUBLICA.N BANN:ER. GETTYSBURG May, 1:1, 1840. PEOPLE'S C.I.I*DID-ITE S. FOR I'iIF.3IDENT, GEN. WILLIAM H. HARRISeN, FOR VICE• PR ESIDENT, JOHN TYLER. TIIE MADISONIAN.—Tho office of this paper was a few weeks since, destroyed by fire, togeth er with all its contents. It has made its appear ance in an entirely new dress, and, to use the language of the Edit 'has arisen from its ash es, like the Pim:nix,' ..Sell-born, begotten by the parent flame In which it buru'd, another and the same." Dua•r.o Alicl.non, Esq. a gentleman well known to the political community us an able and talented writer, is associated in the editorship of the Madisonian. Wo wish you success gentle men, and hope that you may nut again be burnt down by loco•foco matches or the torch of the incendiary." TIMEI4.—A late number of the Beaver Argus contains upwards of risvca coLumas of closely printed Sheriff's Salo advertisements. This is but a partial illustration of the embarrass ment which now prevails to an alarming extent iu almost every section of the country. A Town in Ruins. The '•Ilero o 1 Tippecanoe," published at Ship ponsburg, Cumberland county, states that the town of Springfield in that county, was visited on Saturday the 2d inst. by a most destructive fire, which destioyed 13 houses, 1 store, and eight stables and barns, together with all the furniture. The fire originated in a stable about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. 'rho Young Men's Convention. Since the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers—since the founding of this Republic, there hos not as sembled such a multitude of freemen as met to gether in ,Baltimore on the 4th inst. A passing notice is all wo can give ut present, referring enr readers to a sketch in another column. It seem ed as though the whole nation, convinced that their interests must be sacrificed, unless the abuses of power were resented, and a presuming Execu tive removed, had, with one mind, met in one common assemblage—under one common impulse —with but one common aim, under the broad ban ner of Harrison and the Constitution. No tongue can describe the scene. Tens of thousands were in attendance—their banners numbering upwards of seven hundred, floating in the strong breeze which existed during the day—appropriate mottos from each hill and valley were sent forth to swell the universal shout which at each step broke upon the ear, "long and loud"—and more than all thou sands upon thousands of tho fair daughters of the Monumental City, with smiling countenances and waving 'kerchiefs, tho tokens of their appr.ibution and enthusiasm, rendered the thrilling scene dou• bly joyous. Such an innumerable host, urged on by the mothers and daughters of the Republic, would affird a theme uplin which the mightiest pen of the ago might fall and write the certain triumph of our vi,_turious candidate. "The pro. plo's avalanche was there," in the expressive words of the el,guent President, and with them was the huge Ball, which has been rolling, first from New York and lust from the Alleganh e. It has passed on from Baltimore on a projected tour, which is to cud in its arrival at Washington on the 9th of March next, when the crowning of its peregrina tions will take place,in seating our Log Cabin can didate in the Executive chair. Never can the scenes of the 4th of Muy, 1840, ho effaced from the recollections of th 'Sc who witnessed them— never ! while enthusiasm and zeal in a good cause is commendable—never ! while congregated beau ty can excite admiration. It was a glorious day in the annals of the Republic! Its voice has ere this penetrated the walls - of the palace, and in tones more loud than - thneti of the minute guns which at intervals boomed' through the air and mingled with freemen's rejoicings, has thundered into the ears of the trembling- tenant his* certain doom—",flute! Meng! Tried uphahlin !" Thou art weighed in the balance and foUnd wanting. The Murder oftaughliag The atrocious murder of this poor, unoffending citizen by Van Buren's British Tories and cut throats, affords horrible evidence of the desperate wickedness and abandoned principles of Luco focoism. Finding themselves on the point . of being hurled from the power thry hove so much abused, by the awakened indignation of the free and virtuous people thby would have enslaved, the present tyrants of the Republic resort to means of intimidation, violence and murder, to overawe and lepress public sentiment and smother its ut terance. Their bullies and assassins arc set onto their bloody work; anti the unfortunate LAIIOII. Lis, butchered in the open street, in the face of day, in the inictst of a civirprocession,is the first victim and martyr in' the bacr,d cause of the peo ple! - . And du the tort' leadere;drunk as they are with ambition and rage, expect that they can crush the spirit of a free people by wielding over their hoods, toe bravo's dagger ur the assassin's knife? No! The name of their victim will go down to the re- . inotest posterity, coupled with those of ilarmodi tal and Aristogituti, na uno of the protomartyrs of American liberty! Freeman! A moricanf! Friends of Law and or dial The murder of LA,UMILEI is unavengod! ./Es blood cries from the ground! Hate sorrowing wife, his helple!nl ba,hes deprived of their parent and protector, their slay and support by the hand of a Van Buren assassin, invoke your sympathy and your pity!` Manifest it, then, not simply by hunting out this vile and ignoble assaassin, hot by hurling from power those; more vile and ignoble still.: who armed his Mind with •the murderous I.yr apou, and, by meir lawless - and • Jacotnnical brecitop mak, principles, usgiul WU to the ‘ 4l) fit' of death! . be this, orprOparco to crnueh cainid , sively to the mandates of a master and bare yoUr fir slauiliter at his bidding! On the preceding , page will be found the par ticulars relative to lifts unfortunate affair. Up welds of five the4end dollars were promptly subscribed by the Harrison delegates at Wainer° for the benefit of Laughlin's widow and children. The delegation from Pennsylvania contributed from two to tares thousand dollars. At the tiro• the unfortunate man fell, an attempt was made to arrest the murderer, but owing to the Immense crowd and the great confusion for the moment, he eirecled his escape. Glorious Victories! Bedford County Awakened. "Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, Tremble Van—we come—we come!" The fires that were kindled upon the western prairies hove been raging eastward, have crossed the cloud-cappod Alleghanies, and lu! Old Bed ford is purged,—that oimost-Sodom is purified! redeemed!! Well done! We announcP the grat. living intelligence of the triumphant election of Major David Washabaugh in the county of Bed ford, by a majority of G2s over Mi. M'Donald, the Loco Foco candidate, at tho special election held on Wednesday last, for a member to fill the vacancy in the Legislature, oceasioned by the ex pulsion of M'Elwco. 'Who can doubt? Who dare concieve a doubt of the election of Gen. Harrison? The home of the glorious loader of the democracy! in the Legislature—the co - linty which has been allowing itself to be represented by the most brutalized specimen of creation which has exhibited itself to human gaze, under cover of man's apparel, and all because they saw there the personification of Loco focoism—this same county has absloved her allegiance to Van Buren, and declared volt THE r•LIAI Eli or Noire!! Basin! Let it be told from Maiuo to Georgia--let it be borne on the wings of the wind—Dl IYFORD IS REDEEMED!! by a majority of oikts for tho Harrison candidate!!! "Thu prospect still brightens." The albany Regency Routed. And again ! The charter election of the capi tol of the empire State was held on Tuesday last, and resulted in the election of a Harrison Mayor, Aldermen, and all the ticket by a large majority ! The famous fourth ward elected Cm anti& Whig ticket ! "As goes the fotinh Ward sci goes tho State." Is this a victory ? Ayo is it ! Bedford and Albany by different mails—One hundred guue for each !! °How bright the prospect." Virginia Redeemed! Returns have been received from, all the coon. ties in Virginia, with the exception of Braxton & Lewis, Lce, and Scott, which no doubt will go in favor of the administration; and Nottoway, Louisa, Fairfax, Bath and Roanoke, in each of which, says Richmond Whig, no doubt is en tertained of the success' of thb Whig caudidate,on a purgation of the polls. Allowing-the remaining eight counties yet to be heard from, to the adiniri istration, the Whigs will still have a majority of ten on joint ballot. We have accounts of the popular vote in 95 counties, says the Baltimore Patriot, which show the following result:--- W hig, 26,416' Loco Foco, 22,181 Whig majority, 4,235 At the Presidential election it 1826, the vote in these counties stood— Loco Foco, 22,727 Whig, 17,886 Loco Foco majority in 1836, 4,841 Whig majority now, 4,285 Whig guia since 1836, Senator• Ruggles' Lettee... We abk attention to the spirited and patriotic reply of the Hon. John Ruggles of the United States Senate, to an invitation tendered him, by the Baltimore city delegation, to the late National Convention, "to attend the sitting of that conven tion as one of its guests." It is worthy of the pen which inffited and the heart which dictated it. The sentiment which it contains is endorsed by the whole people, and is acknowledged by all —a change must come. Itarrison, is pointed out as the name which can break the spell, which has been] the nation, and which has animated the country with hope. The position which the honorable Senator occupies before the people— the tone with which ho speaks of the incumbent of the Executive chair— and the eulogy which, in a few words, be passes upon Gen. Harrison. "who has never yet disappointed the expectations of the country," are each of them sufficient to scenic for thia'letter II calm, considerate perusal. It will be remembered that this gentleman was elected as, and has hitherto been a zealous friend of the Ad ministration, from Maine: WA . SIIINGTON CITY, 2ti May, 1840 Gentlemen:-1 have received the invita tion to "attend the settings of the National Convention of the %V bi b e Young Alen, as one of its guests," with which you have hon ored me, "in behalf of the Delegatds froth the City of Baltimore." It would afford me great satisfaction to be present on that in teresting occasion, would' my public duties permit. The necessity of a change or measures with a view to the relief of a people suffering be) and any former exattiple, !s now manifest to all, if not acknowledged by all. No small 'minim of those who aided in bringing into power the present incumbent of the Execu tive chair, have witnessed with painful dis appointment the pertinacity with which he has persevered in forcing upon the country a system of measures destructive of its best intere9ts and ruinous to the enterprise and basiness oldie people: And they have resol ved, as the only means left of 'staying the progress of those measures, to aid in calling from retirement a distinguished citizen, whose enlightened patriotism, great practi cal wisdom and sound republican principles have secured for hith the highest respect and confidence. The name of HARRISO/Y has animated the whole country with hope. It has roused an enthusiasm which pervades all grades and classes of the people. That enthusiasm, chastened by wise dounsels'and hallowed by pattiotisin, will he the* animat ing principle of the "National Convention." 4eljecting. as its members will, the prin chiles and feelings of the great majority of the people throughout the Union, their de 711berstioss will be no less nation's! in their diameter titan patristic in theit'deslgn; , and will tend, it is confidently believed, to har more and iniiigorate the efforts of the na tion to place the Executive government in the bands of one who has never let disap pointed the expectations of his country. He who, by his bravery in the field, redeemed the honor of the nation, when betrayed by treachery and cowardice, will not fail to correct by his wisdom and prudence the errors of the civil administration of the Government under which the country is severely suffering. Thanking 'the Delegates from the City of Baltimore" for their gratifying invitation, and you, gent lemen,for the acceptable terms in which it is conveyed, I have the honor to be, with sincere regard, Your obedient servant, JOHN RUGGLES. To Neilson Poe, Esq. and others. VAN DUREN COSYFSTION. A Van Buren paper says there was a Conven tion, (not a National one, by any means,) held in Baltimore on Tuesday last, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Presidency, and the following are the officenc— For President—Gov. William Carroll, of Tenn. For Vice President—Wm- T. Rogers, al Pa. •• Goy. C. P. Van Ness, of Vt. •• Wm. N. Edwards, of N. C. •• Dr. Chas.-Parry, of Indiana. John Nelson,Esq. of Maryland •• Hon. Alex. Mounton, of La. For Secretarics--Geo. A. Starksreather, of N. Y C. I. M'Nulty, of Ohio. G. B. Aodrian, of New Jersey •• Albert F. Baker, of N. Hemp. The United States Gazette says, •there was ri grand committee appointed to prepare an address, and another to write a preface to the address. A speech by Mr. Grundy, of Tennessee, is, without exception, the most carious we ever read. He commences by saying, .4 am a veteran in the cause of Democracy. I was bard so." Born a veteran!!! Ilaltlmore Convention—Haar an Ezeniy. The Philadelphia American Sentinel, an Ad ministration print, And& to the groat Harrison Convention at Baltimore, and' says:— “History mentions no such gathering of people since that in the Champ do Mars to swear to the constitution. Whether we speak of the numbers present, their bound less enthusiasm, or the vast territory from the most distant points of which they assem blA, we rimy, as chroniclers of passing events, mention it as a surpassing pageant, and a thrilling demonstration of the intensi ty of that feeling which animates the sup porters of Gen. Harrison.” At the time the Editor of the American Senti nel penned the following, he evidently had that low, vulgar and abusive journal, the Keystone Went him. The low,-cocrse, brutal abuse, with which many of them teem from week to week; the violence and vulgarity of their attacks upon the personal characters and past services of opposing candidates, are just of a character to beget a breed of bullies, and urge them on to emulate the Marats and Dantons of revolutionary France. We can never open some newspapers without thinking of the lamp post and the guillotine. The Loco Focos, as we intin.ated last week, were positively compelled, to resort to a system of Ruckerizing, in order to get up what they are pleased to call a National Convention. Notwith- Standing every effort was made, and every nerve was strained to the utmost, but comparatively few states were represented, end those few but parti ally. Massachusetts it appears was represented by one delegate, Mr. Phineas Allen. In the Whig convention which assembled at the same time,there were fifteen hundred delegates from that State. This is said to be a pretty fair representation of the relative strength of parties in the old Bay State. We cut the following article from the Reading Journal of the 2nd instant.:— BRIMS COVSII BAs.—A most dastard ly effort to injure the character of this in stitution was mad during the past week by certain Philadelphia brokers. A large a mount of paper of the bank was presented at the counter, which the institution was un able to exchange fur the notes of other banks without some time to make the necessary arrangements. The brokers having•efrect-' ed this, raised a cry against the bank, by means of which they were enabled fopur• chase a quantity of its notes below par.lind thus swindle the multitude (Which is always easily alarmed) out of a considerable sum. Arrangements have now been made by which the notes of the bank are promptly exchanged for those of other institutions, if required. The notes are freely taken by the business community here, and the entire solvency of the institution is undoubted. The trial of Edgar P. Newman for the murder of James B. Wroth took place in Kent county,. fad., on the 210 ult. New man was a Philadelphian, and, it will be recollected, at the time of the deed, said he committed the crime because of the jeal ousy, and in the full cenfidente that David Paul'Brown, of Philadelphia, would be able to procure a verdict of acquittal. The act was admitted and insanity pleaded.' The jury returned a verdict of wilful murder in the first' deg ree. Newman was a lunatic in Philadelp hia - three-quarters of the time, or, as'Mr. Hutchison said, en - idiot when he was sober and a maniac when drunk. The mental aberration Was" hereditary. Sen tence, eighteen years in the penitentiary. U. S. Gazette. THE FATHER OF THE CLERGY.-WO UR derstand that tho Rev. Dr. Ripley, senior pastor of the first Congregational Church in Concord, Mass., entered on his 90th year cm Friday last—and that on Sunday he gave 'Ern extemporaneous sermon to his peo ple. This he declared his last, but we trust it will prove otherwise; and the spirit and vigor of the performance were such, we hear, as to justify this expectation. Tho venerable Doctor is now in the sixty-third year of his ministry at Concord, a case of very rare occurrence. We do not know where a parallel just now ii to be found to it. It will be borne in mind that the Doc tor hss never relinquished the active sarvi cos of die Oftfoii:- 7 /ta.m . J'auma/.• IST RAII ROAT DESTROYED — Several Litifil Lost.—The St. Louis Bulletin of. the 27th states that the steamboat Bedford, Captain Walker, while recently descending the ;Nis- Souri river, struck a Snag and sunk in less I than five minutes. The Bulletin adds:— She first struck a snag in the bow, which knocked a hole in her bottom and careened her nearly over, but immediately struck another which brought her up again. It wa not precisely ascertained how Many were drowned; but our informants state that Mr. Moore, an old revolutionary soldier, a negro woman and three children, a white infant, whose mother was saved, and a gen tleman wearing a leghorn hat, which was picked up, could not be foirod. The yawl was put in requisition very awn, and every thing which could be was done to save lite. Two or three gentlemen on board were sick, one of whom died yesterday morning near the place of disaster. We derived the in formation from two gentlemen who were passengers, Mr. J. H. Adams, of Caldwell county, Ky., and John Burroughs, of [low. and county, Missouri. A ROWDY ARRIMED.—The Baltimore Sun says: "Charles Irwin was committed to jail. in default of bail, charged with an assault and battery on Asa Hubbard, of Con. necticut. Irwin is an old offender, (having been once tried for murder, and often for minor offences) and was yesterday parading through the streets with a large stone tied iu the corner of a handkerchief, with which he assaulted a number of persons, and at tempted to pull the badges from the bosoms of many of the stranger delegates to the convention. An attempt of this kind made upon Mr. Hubbard, gave rise to the above assault; and (Ir. H. was severely wounded in the bead." MURDERER ARRESTED.—Yesterday Con- Stable Johnson, of Upper Delaware Ward, arrested James Bottelor on a charge of hav ing murdered James Bridewell in Baltimore five years since. Bottelor was at the lime of his arrest an inmate of the Philadelphia Alms-house. He was taken befor4 Alder man Binna, and committed to prison to await the formal demand of the Governor of Maryland.—Phila. U. S. Gaz. Nuts Lives LOST.—The Henderson (Ky.)..Stsr states that on the 22d ult. tho steamboat Green River, which plies on that stream, while descending the river, in at tempting to pass lock and dam No. 1, the river being very high, and the current un usually strung,after crossing the lock,struck an eddy and capsized. Nine persons were drowned, five females and four men. The names of those lost we have not learned.— Four of the females were daughters of a widow lady, a passenger. The captain, Mr. Browr., and lady, came very near meet ing with the same fate. The boat was own ed by Mr. Brown, and was built for tho pui - pose of carrying rock to the locks on Green River.. Cubed FlEtiNo.—Col. Pleasofiton, of Phil. adelphia, hue another I•beI scrape o►, hand. It will be remembered that he was a few days since sued for libel by Gen. Simon Cameron. He has now returned the com pliment by instituting a suit against the ed itor of the Pennsylvanian, for publishing the reply of Cameron to the declarations of the directors of the railroad company. "Go it, ye crippled." VIRGINIA ELECTION LAW.—According to the laws of Virginia, an elector can vote once for members of the House of Delegates in every - county in which lie owns a free hold, and also for State Senator, pioVidod he does not vote more than once for Sena tor in any one disirict; while in the choice of Presidential electors, the only officers ever elected by a general ticket throughout the State, no man can vote more than once. A NEW CoNvERT.--The Louisville Journal states that Albert G. Hawes, Esq., the Van Buren nominee for Governor of Keritacky, but who *ould not accept the nomination, has renounced his allegiance, and declared that a change of rulers is necessary. Two LII/E8 LOST.—The Bultimere Sun .states that on Monday, the 4th inst. a sail boat containing six poisons, when neat Can ton, upset, and melancholy to relate, two of them were drowned; the other four were picked up by a boat which went to their re lief. We could not ascertain the names of the unfortunate mon. They were all dress. ed in the apparel of sailors. THE WESTERN WATERS.-We have be fore tia a letter, written by a Philadelphian, who was on his way down the Great Risers. We extract a paragraph to shovi how the current iietb in that quarter. The time al. luded to was about the 10th of last month: We had some sport after leaiing Pitts burgh upon the subject of the Log Cabin and Hard Cider boys: The New York steamer left a lbw horirs before us: ,We soon overhauled her, and.passed her several times in the course of our trip to Louisville. We would land and wood at one point, and she at another. They bragged aloud of the character of their boat, and - gave us to un derstand they were true blue, and no mis take for old Hard Cider. We were not to be outdone, and dared them to the count. The next meeting we had they reported two Loco focos—all the rest for Harrison. We flapped our wings and crowed, and then reported to the following effect:' one man on the fence, supposed to be tinged with Van Burenism; all the rest Hammitt men. We had about one hundred and twenty-five passengers. Pennsylvania against' New York forever. Light on the Subject! fir HE subscriber offers good TALLOW - 11 - CANDLES at wholsale or retail, for cash, or in exchange fur tallow, at his lac. tory, west endof Chambersburg street, Get tysbtirg.'. JOHN JENKINS. MO , 120E40. R TM EMI A L REGISTER. MARRIED. On the sth inst., by the Rev. B. Keller, Mr. Emanuel Herr, of Lancaster county, to Miss Mary Alusselman, of Adams county, , On Tuesday morning last, by the Rev. J. C. Watson, Mr. John buphorrz, of Emmitsburg, Md. to Miss Rosanna Denwiddie, of this borough. On Tuesday evening lest, by the Roy. Mr. Smith, Hoy. Datrid Ryder, of Johnstown, N. Y. to Miss Rebecca Al'. Reynolds,. of this borough. On Thursday the 7th inst. by the Rev. J. C. Watson, Mr. Albert Vandyke, Merchant, of Mu masburg, Franklin tovfnship, to Miss ilfary,daugh. tor of Mr. Bolomoca Hartman, of Menalieu town ship. On Thursday morning last, by the Rev. Mr. Fisher, Rev. David Smith, of Shippensburg, (for. merly of the Gettysburg Seminary,) to Miss Weldy, daughter of Mr; Jacob Weldy, of Hamil. tonban township, Adams county. Od Thursday last, by the Rev. R. S. Grier, Mr. John K. Longwell, Editor of the .Westminster -Carrollkonisn," (formerly of this pisOe,) to Miss Sarah IL, yolingebt daughter of Major John M'. Keleb, of T•ineytoWn, Md. OBITUARY RECORD. DIED• On the 24th ult. at the house of his father an-law, Mr. Peter Wolf, in Washington, Pa., Mr. Charles B. it! 'Gonigal, printer, formerly of this place. On Thursday last, at the residence of his son in this place, Mr. Robert M' Creary, of Cimberland township, in the 68th year of his age: Borough Accounts. .irrc R. F. onaughy, Treasurer of the Borough of Getlysburg l from May 10, 1839 3 0,May 9, 1840. DOLLS. CTS To Cash - received of Michael De- grotl fbr rent of Still in Mar ,. ket-house, due Aug. Ist, 18:39, 5 00 Do. James Percy, do. 500 Do. N. Codori, do. 5 00 Do. , Geo. Petrer, do. 500 Do. Joseph Little, for manure, ~ . 500 Balance in hands of Treasuiot at last settlement, 1:28 46 Balance of Duplicate for 1838, :39 51 Borough Tax assessed for 1839, 201 17 Road do. do. 347 66 By Orders paid as follows; to wit : DOLLS. CTS By Cash paid Joseph Little, Street & Road Commissioner, 197 01 By do. paid Moses Degroff, do. 135 85 1i• Vanorsdol, in trust for officers of Borough Eleclion, 0 00 S. R. Russell, Esq. administering (Saha, 1 00 Henry Rupp, keeping Engine in repair,' 10 00 J. Mathias, winding Town Clock, 10 00 R. S. Paxton, Printing,' 13 50 R. G. Harper, do. 14 50 George Arnold, 2 79 Jacob Culp,' 2 75 Christiap.chritzman, exonerations On Duplicate, 1838, • •, 2 73 John Slentz, Collectors Fees and Releases. 33 76 Salary of Clerk and Treasurer, 30 00 Do. Burgess and Town Council, 30 00 Balance of Duplicate of 1839, un collected, 225 27i Balance in hands of R. F. M'Con nughy, Treasurer, 20 03 WE do certify that we have examined the items which compose tith above eyccount. of Robert F. M'Cdnaughy,• Esq. Treasurer of the Borough of Gettysburg, and find them to be correct, and that there is a balance of twenty-six dollars and three cents, remain ing in his hands. Witness our hands this oth May,11340. JOHN SLENTZ, D. M. SIIIYSER, GEO. ARNOLD, DAVID Ni.CREARY, JACOB CULP, ' Town Council. May 12. • 3t TIPPECANOE CLUB. A . N adjourned meeting of the Tippecanoe Club of GOitysburg, will be .held on Friday Evening next, at the Eagle Howl, (J. A. Thompson's) for the puipose of nom ! Mating candidates to be supported at the approaching liiiiough election. N. B. The citizens generally are reques ted to meet in connection with tho Club. M. C. CLARKSON, kiesit. H. D. Swig/Inv., Sec'rv. May 12, 1840. Wholesale and Retail 00117.1130TIONAS7 ; Baltimore sired, two doors from the Court. House, Gettysburg, Pa.' JAMES' GOWEN; BEGS leave to acquaint the public that he has commenced the above business to all its various br'anches. The Candies are manufactdred by experienced workmen, and warranted to be of the best quality—he would, therefore, solicit a share of public patronage. Ilia assortment consists of a large stock of all kinds of CONFECTIONARY. Merchants and others are invited to call and examine his stock, as he is'deterthined to sell as low as they can be purchased iu the city. All orders thankfhlly received and punctually attended t&. May 12, 1840: 21. NOTICE, - THE subscriber having bepn appointed by ROBERT M. HerCIIISioN, his As• signee under a voluntary assignment far the benefit of his Creditors, hereby gives notice to all persons indebted to his estate, to call and make payment without delay; and all persons having claims to present them pro perly authenticated for settlement to the un dersigned, residing in the town of East Berlin. G. L. FAUSS, Assignee. May.l2, 1840. 31 TWJ APPRENTICES To THE PRINTING BUSINESS: you ILL be taken at this Office if jam°. V V diate application be mete. raNHE Subscriber returns his sincere thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the liberal encouragement he has received; and would inform the public that he has now on hand, A LARGE ASSORTNEICT OP COPPER, ar1i212131.-2,7124, WaelfP 77 A 2t• which he will dispose of on reasonable terms, for Cash of editable Country Pro duce. Ipt:r Country Ilferehanti will be supplied on reasonable terms. GEU. E. BUEHLER. Gettyabing, Jan. 28. 3m N. B.—The-highest prices always giv en for OLD COPPER, PEWTER, and LEAD. G. E. B. SPRING GOODS. It. G. AI.4C-re.o..ry, f AS just received and now offers for, sale at very reduced prices a good assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS— comprising a very large and handsome va riety of 3-4 and 4.4 Calicoes and Chintzes— French painted Lawns (very fine) Mouseline de Lainee and Ginghams, 5-8 and 5-4 French Bombazines; Black and Blue Black Lustring Silke— Coloured Gro de naps and Polio de acne; Splendid Figured Gro de Oran--: Summer Scarfs and Drew; Handkerchiefs Very beautiful styles itonnete and Cap Rib; bons; Lace veils; Cambric Handkerchiefs; Gloves . Laces; French Collars; Cambric and Jaw s nett tnuslins— With a general assortment of Hosiery. Fine Black and Blue CLOTHS, Green Brown and Olive ditto: Black, Blue and Fancy Cassitnei; Summer Cassimer and Summer Cloths,' Sattin, Velvet:, and Marseilles Vestings;* Linen and Cotton' Drillings, ~ 7-8 and 4-4 Tickings, (very good,) 5.4 and 6.4 Brown and Bleached Sheeting,' Bleached and Unbleached Muslins, American Nankeens, Cotton Stripe, Car potting, &c. dec. , $741 80 A Fresh Supply of GROCERIES AND QUEEXS WARE.' which have boen bought . ,very cheap, and, will be sold at small advance for CAsu or Pno num Call and examine and be convinced.' Gettysburg, May 5,1840. tf. REGISTER'S NOTICES. $741 80 notice is Ikevelcy . To all Legatees and other persons con- IL corned, that the ADMINISTRA TION ACCOUNTS of the Estates of the' deceased persons hereinafter mentioned,. will be presented to the Orphans' Court of Adams county,' for confirmation, on . Tues day Me Znrlday of Atie IE4O, to . wit The Accou nt . of ;scot) Gardner, one of the Elecutors of the Estate of Borius Fab.; nosiock, deCeased. The Account of Jacob Gardner, Admin istrator of the Estate of Elizabeth Fames deceased. The Account of Isaac E. Wiermnn, ad ministrator of the Estate of Mary W. Pear son, deceased. The,Account of Jonathan Sanders, Exec utor of the Estate of Catharihe Sanders, de ceased... • The 2d Accoun tof Martin Lohr, Admin istrator with the wall' annexed of Samuel Gobrecht, deceased. .., The Guardianship Account of Daniel Eyster,Guardian of Polly and Elizabeth Sell, minor heirs of Ludwick Sell, deceased. The Account of Henry Myers, Ai!Minis-, trator de bonis non of the Estate of Daiid, Demarco, jr. deemed.' ~ . The Guardianship Account ofJohn era, Guardian of Margaret Myers, (now Brame) one of the minor children of John Myers, deCeased. The Account of Bernhart Gilbert, Admin istrator of the Estate ofJesse Gilbert, dec'd. The final Guardianship Account of Jacob Dollen°, Guardian of Margaret M'Creary, minor child of John M'Creary, dec'd. The Account of Isaac W ierman and Jacob Schlosser, Executors of the Estate of Henry G minter, deceased. The further Account of Henry Myers, Executor, of the Estate of Peer Deardorff, deceased.' ... , . The Guardianship Account of David Coo ley, Guiiiiiian or Eve Spangler and Juliana Spanglei, minor children of Peter Spang ler, .deceased. . The GUardianship Account of Petei Fe ous, Gnardian oflohn Spangler and Marti Spangler, minor children of Peter Spangler,' deceased, . . . The A - ccou'nfof Robert Nickel, Executor of the Estate of William . Nickel,deceased.. The 6nal Account of Gedrie Ziegler and' Jacob Ziegler; 4‘dir.inistrators de horde non:` of the . Estate of Daniel gprenkle dec'. The Account of David Chambe t irlain / AK ministrator of•the Estate of Dennifi'M k tAluire deceased. • The final Account of Ilaitru s Weidner. Administrator pith the will annexed of • Daniel Weidner, deceased. WM. KING, Register. Register's Office, Gettysburg, May 5, 1840. S, tte' -.tLBO
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