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THE DAISY.
The daisy o!o>som< on the rocks,
Ainu! the purple heath ;
It Mnssorna on the river's banks,
That threads tin* glens beneath ;
The eagle, in h.> pride of place,
Beholds it #y hi- nest;
And in the mead it cushions soft
The larks descending breast.
Before the cuckoo's earliest Spring
Hi- silver circlet know -,
When greening buds begin to swell,
And zephyr melts, the snows;
And when December's freezes howl
Along the moorlands hare.
And only blooms the Christmas rose,
The daisy still is there.
Samaritan of flower-! to it
Ail raees are alike—
I he Switzerori iii- glacier he ght,
line Dutchman 01; hi* dyke,
The seal-skin v. ste.t Esquimaux,
Begirt with icy seas.
And, underneath 1 is burning noon,
The parasolled Chinese.
The en. grant on distant si.ore,
'Mid scenes and faces strange,
Behold 'i flowering in the swaru
Where'er his footstep- range;
And wi en h - yearning, home-sick heart
Would bow to :ts despait,
It reads hi- eye a lesson sage
That God is everywhere!
Stars are daisies that begem
The blue field* of the sky,
Beheld bv ail, arid evervwhere,
Bright prototypes on high.
If in tn. then, unpretending flowers!
And ' > the u avei er be
An ft?--b!"*v: , St. rani's content
Ai ' Stephen's constancy.
fft I * T l' i\ V 1 PYT I g v
{lff Ai I i \)S\ I jf>A,
1 ;. e Lb ami-rattc ton ty Convention rnet at the
' auft-Hosisu in Bedford on the 23d ol' June for the
pun •--• of rior: .: at.: g a Ticket lor county oiheers
t-> be -iibiiutted to the citizen- thereof for election
• the yd Tuesday of October next, when the foi
ling delegates appeared and took their seats:
Bedford Borough—Job Mann, Dr. Reamer.
Bciloud Township—John Amos, Daniel ilelzel.
- road Top—Alexander Croft, Thos. V\ . Ilortou.
Co - mm Urn. (fssria, Abm. Weisel.
• . \afley—Philip Harvleroad, Geo. Sliger.
Hopew* it— 10-ej-.;, t'.ff-ge. Jaiaw MeCt-arjr.
Harrison- fhn I) Smith, Jacob iMaho: ey.
Jwiill—i >-ter |-. i.ehil.au, Ber j. liousel.
Libert-.—George Rnnads, John Long.
l.o: :iuerry—.lame- Devore, John Hvs=ong.
M. roe—David I.vans, Bernard Steckinan.
Napier—Andiew Cn*man, Win. Wmk.
r i-t Providence—'*• A.T. Black, 'A rt:. .Mellon,
•i est '• l'. G. Mo-gait, S. Bender.
Me. -burg Bo.—John S. Scheb, John Kemnrserv.
- jtl:amnion—Tbos. Donahoe, Wm. Adams.
t. Clan--John Als'ciit, Jackson Crisman.
1 ■— b.nnc-1 Bui ket, Caseltoc Ake.
M. Wood..—Jack-on t-ialbraitii, Wm. Pierson.
>. Wood.—Samuel N icodemu*, John B. fluke.
f ' ' ••". Job Mann appoint*-:' President,
I D. A. T. Black, Secretary.
!'r. Reamer no Peter T. Lehman, 1-;. Tellers.
■ -.e fallowing Ticket \va- then agteed upor:
Pr ; 'rn darv—S.\ .ML fl. T.ViiA il-d! td.
Sheriff—WM. S. FLtiJKK, ?•!. Woodbflrry*
- ■ in r-SA.ML. DAVIS, Bedford.
' -r;.-r—o. EVANRj *''-• Providence.
Director—UKO. S.MOI si', Vv. Pr vid. r -.
A iii-.r-JOHX W. CttISMAN, Si. Chir.
Th. T.as H. Murray, David A. T. Blur k at d J. 11.
s appointed conferees to riu-et a like ritirr.ker of
're*- fro .i each of the counties of Huntingdon
sou -r-et at such t.n e and place a- may bereal
t-r agreed upon to uorrut ..'e a candidate for the
oS-ire I.- -fate Senator for thi.- Di-trict.
• Miitu . 11.I 1 . J. .Mcigart. and Win. Keyser ap
t Med r i.ierecs to no eta like i urnber of cnitfe
•- in i m-r-et county at such time and place as
•} - ** agreed upon to place in nomination two per
■ -a- Ci- .i.dales for Assembly.
I .o, lowing resolutions were -obmitted by the
' -i.t an ! unai.imoii-ly adopted :
h - - i-d. That we fully approve of the course of
Wm. C. Reamer as a member of the House of
"utativt-s iroin this district during the last
Re- ved. That we will n e all honorable mean* to
-*cur- :si** elect on of ttie Tick, t this day nominated,
"vingthe utmost confidence in the integiity and a
vot theper-on* nominated.
Resolve.), Tl.at we Hilly approve of the nomina
- sr ..'e by th" Democratic State Conventions
* March and June in-t., of Gen. Packer for Go
*rr r. Um. Strong and James Thamson tor Judges
J - Siipr. rr>e Court, and ISimro-l Strickland for la
'al ton n, - - oi <r, being persons well tried and
known t. be well qualified lor the discharge of the
■ t e- „f s , lr h Stations.
: •- lived. That thus far we fully approve of the
-. .'in stratum of the General Governrrieot, by our
and highly <ii-tinguished President, "Penn
: 'arna's noblest son."
K -olv. d. ; fiat we ent-rely and cordially approve
th- appointment of Hon. .1. S. Black as Attorney
era; r\\f L*nit"d Slates,
ke-rh. !, That although w are not opposed to a
ai ju cious -ale o! th" Main I, ne of the State
1 ' provements and the faithful appropr at oo of the
P'uceeds to the payment of the State debt, yet we
opposed to the transfer thereof to the Penn-ylva
■' a Ibid Road Company under the provision* of the
41 ot the Legislature of last se-sion, which releases
'mi con panv from the payment of tonnage iax to
" State, now amounting to upward- o) $'280,000
at.rmm, and which will yearly increase, and all
-'. her duties or taxe- to the Common wealth.
Resolved, That we have full confidence in the in
•"2r ty and ability ot Wro. F. Packer, our caudlifate
"t (■nvernor: and judging from the faithful manner
•aw hich he discharged his duties as Auditor Gene.
'= State Senator, ike. have every assurance, that,
; " eoted, of which we have no dubf. will make a
,ov ernor equal to any this or any other State ever
had.
CAMP MEETING.
, --'""The Camp Meeting of Bedford Circuit of the
• L. Church will be held on Solomon Sparks' land
shout three miles Horn Bloody Run, commencing on
Mi* 21st of Augu-t. The Brethrmof Bediord sta
'-■oriare cordially invited to tent with us.
JAMF.S A. COL KM AX,
WM. H. STEVENS,
June Of, is.',7. Pastors.
TniiM OF THE COXSTiTI'TiGi
Pollock and his Black Republican L- epistature
Rebuked by the Supreme Law of the hind
unanimously declared by a full Bench, of
which Gov. Poll odds appointee, is a
member!
Since our last issue, the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania have given their unanimous opinion that the
I "vital question" involved in the Black Republican
; Bill for the sale of the Public Works is L'XCONSTI
II 1IONAL! Chief Justice Lewis del ivereil the o
puiion, which is so overwhelming that it cannot fail
to carry conviction to the mind of all that read it.
Vt e publish below such parts of the Opinion as
will ,ntere-t every tax-payer in the county. The
i Philadelphia News, a paper bitterly ho-tile to the fr
i mocratic party, thus notices the decision of the
Court :
"It will be seen, in the first place, that the
the Court were unanimous in their decision, arid
that, as we anticipated, whilst there is no at
tempt to interfere with the right of the Gover
nor to oiler the works lor sale, trie injunction is
if ranted against the Railr< ad * '.>mpjnv in terms.
Ihe . fleet of the decision of the court is, tl at
tin- Pennsylvania Railroad Co. muv jiurch ise the
Cine, i| it chooses, on tin* same terms as any
other biiidei, but that its doing s> vvij|! not re
in ve it from j dying tonnage or any other kind
of taxation, ihe acti u of the Court must, of
course, prove fatal to the hopes of that Compa
ny to p s„>ss the line un ha the bill of las', s-s
--i n, and the investments made by its boo is,
for the purpose ot passing the :,j!l, will prove to
he rather Fl-misSi in tis results, to say the
ot it. !wo years ago, this corporati n under
an act quite similar to the one under which the
line is i.;> w to he offeri d, deelim dto bee nne the
lurch... r. on ti.egr.und that it was nut worth
toe amount indicated in tim law: and after the
las.o ii <d t:.e di:g in tlit-manger, although refu
sing themselves to buy, tlmy l v misrepresenta
tion drove of.;! her parties, wl. , if left to tbeni
•< ; ves, would hive become | urcliaseis. Tf the
Pennsylvania Railroad (.'■ .n.pany bid fur the
itm under existing i ircum>t.,:.ce., and L> comes
the pure!, i- rs l!;-v gain nothing, as . y theoji
e: ition ol the Supreme Court the tonnage tax
w ill ean led on eighty miles of read now in
i' -s-s-i i) < I the Slate, lhir tl.e use ol which,
whatever else may pay, tiny are riot so 1 Set t
tax*. I'here is no doubt a! iut tec : redness of
this decision, and whilst the Curt have be<-n
careful to throw rjo obstacle in the v\.,\ of a
fair and legitimate sale, jt has rendered the
State and this community a service which w ill
n>' be s-■.■■-it forgotten, 'i'he a'teir j t "ii the
part of tie T,m(- -jutore t t ivf. r '■< Imect tei •
tliis oveigrown and unpi iuciph-d cm; nation;
ind tii.it, to—as is generally' admitted f>r a
c m-iuerali —was the ;... ;t boh: >:; ! unsou
pulous act which we have t vi*i i > .-n called uj>o n
to ii■■tic , ami the rebuke thus administered
through the u ap stv ol the law —ought to have
: w holes ifi.e • if'ect on all future a -mbiages of
like character."
0 panic 55 oftlie < tmrS.
We row* ome to the vital quests >n mvol
• ;••! in th se applications. The Act of A -i-m
--'!V of IF Ith Wi?. makes pr vi-I n I T a
;!;•* sale, and, fir the i urpi se ci inviting
cnir.pi titi :i, directs that f übin* notice <! the
time it)..! place, be given in one or n re paper
I extended circulation, publish d in the cities
i Piilhl.'eii hi':, Pit'- •• Igb, IV . ing toil, J] .--
tun, .New V->rk, an I in tin* borough of H :rri--
hurg. It authorizes "any p rson or j rs. m, or
1 lilroa ! or canal company now incorporated,.or
"■ liich t; av hereafter he it rr.rr iated under ti.e
laws of tins (b'rnmorswi ait!',, t.) I eCottte the pur
chasers I r ar.v sum not less than 7,500,0 ! '0
d liars." But there i> a provi- in tl. • 'id s< c
tC'ii, VP I ich declares tlat "i! t .e Pennsy Uania
Railroad Company shall become the purchasers,
;' the sm I tl! lie sale, or by 1.-S'gllll et.t, the\
shall pay, in a : iiti >n to the purchase-momy, at
which it mav ire struck down, the sum of $!,-
fW'.o.uo, and in consideration then of, the said
Railroad Company, and the Harrishurg, Mount
Joy,arid Lancaster Railroad Company, shall be
discharged by the Commonwealth forever, from
the payment of all tax>s upon tonnage or
freight carried over said railroads, and the said
Pennsylvania Railroad Company shall also be
released from the payment of all other tax. s
or duties on its capital stock, bonds, dividends,
or property, except for school, city, county, bor
ough or township purposes." The amount of
faxes proposed lobe released is beyond calcula
tion. ft can only be conjectured. It would
be greatly increased by the- 'ax which would of
course he levied on the pr petty about to he
sold to the Company. Judging from the in
crease during the last five y.-ais, and the con
stant augmentation of commerce and travel a
lor.g the route, it would seem r>as cable to be
lieve that in five years from this time it would
he double its present amount. Hut conceding
that the tax to be released will hereafter n
m< unt to no more, per annum, than the sum
jiaid in 1856, the amount, according to Ilie ad
mission of the Railroad Company itself, would
he §280,739 21 perannum forever. This sum
ism re than equal to tlu int. rest on $5,6tH),-
000 at fi per cent., the rate in he chaiged to
the purchasers. In other w orris the Act of as
sembly proposes to give the Railroad Company
a consideration equal to $5,(>00,000 for §i,-
500,000, and thus to give 11 vat Company an ad
vantage equal to §1,100,000 over every other
bidder at the sale. By means'of this privilege,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company may drive
| from the field of competition all other bidders.
It is essential to every lair public auction, Ihat
| all the bidders shall stand upon the same foul
ing.
11 the object had heen lo make a fair sale of
this pnition of the Smte revenue, it might have
] been evinced by a provision f>r the transfer of
it to tim highest bidder, without any distinction
in favor of any one. But this w'as not done.—
The extraordinary proviso in favor of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, is partial and en
tireiv repugnant to tin- general intent of the
act, and il allowed to stand, the sale under it
noil form one of the most magnificent exhibi
tions ola ".Wc auction" that the world has
ever witnessed ! We rejoice to say that the
.'■igliiy respectable and upright officers of the
corporation disclaim, in the most solemn man
ner, under oath, all agency in proemir.-g the en
actment in question.
But lias the Constitution conferred upon the
Legislature the authority to extinguish, forever,
by nargain and sale, the power to raise leveiiue
for tire support of government? All free gov
ernments are established hy the people for their
hern-fit, and the powers delegated are to 1... ex
ert-is-rl for their common good, and n -t, under
any circumstances, to he sold or destroyed, so
long as the nations establishing them have (he
physical power to maintain their independence.
Individuals cannot subsist without I or!. De
prive them of "the means w! er-hv" ilmv live,
and you d- stray them certainly us if you did
it hy shedding tin ir bin .d. The" necessities - f
governments are as great as those of individu
als. \n government can subsist without reve
nues to d- fray its expenses and support its < di
cers a:,., agents. I .he revenue is the f I indis
pensable to its existence. D-prive it of this
and you strip it ol all power to perf. rrn its du
ties, bring it in far tempt hy its us.-S< ss.-wss and
help!- ss:., ..... and uitin atelv destroy it as el;', c
tua:iv as if it w. e overturned lv dorm .-tic vio
lence or subjugated by the conquest rfa i ireign
foe. Government is ut an aggregation of in
dividual ngnts nii'i r -veers. If ha- no ir, -re
right to commit j . ilica! suicide than an indi
vidual has t i destr v the life given by his Cre
ator. ( ntractiug a" iv the taxing paver in
perpetuity tends, as we "have seen, inevitably to
tiie destruction of I, - government, it twelve
or twenty no i :,s of taxable property may
la i-as'-d to-.- ay. me fundi • d mil lions mav he
released to-morrow, and, the principle being -
-la'dislo'd, toe |jr cess night go en until all the
power to raise revenue via- gone. |( this- did
not destroy the government, it would result m
something infinitely m- re dang.-, us to the l:b
--rlics of the p. pi.-, J> would n ;;!ce it l.'.eser
vi.e oepender tof the weallitv corpora!i ms or
iruiivi.iuais to whom if contracted away its
imam- of support. A!(;•(•ugh the laxmg. power
is hut an incidental one, to be exercised oniv as
'•o- net • s-arv means ol pet f<>rning Governmen- '
tal duties, it is nevejth.dess a branch of the Leg
islative power, which always in its nature im
p!t not <mlv the power of making laws, but
I ait-ring and r-p. Ting them as the exigen
cies of tlie State and cif/ut -Line-.- ol the jju .>
i: av r .iiiie. nnimiioros t,lUnes ol ,t„
f . ma I Law,b 3, vh 3, s3. If one portion of
! leg is. .live puv. er 1T... xbe s iif, arw.th.-r n~\
he dlSp-. -eil |.f' I!) the Millie Wa V. If tile poWe|
to IO:-" revenue : e s hi to-dav. t,-e power
to punish (orciirr.es uav be sold to-mnrrqw,
and the pow.-i G p;.ss laws for the rcd.-.-ss of
civ il rights mux be sold the n. Xt r,:v. If the
l-gislative power may b< so!;', the Executive
and Judicial pou. r may be put in the market
with . qua: proprb : v.
*
Tl.e r. soft to v. lin h the priaeif le must in -v
--itably had, ; r.ivt-, that the .-ale of any portion
nf governmental uovver is utterly tin .-insistent
wth tiie nafnie ; f ourl.ee insfifuli ... a:, i to
tally at variance with the object ami general
; rovi-dms of the C.>nstitill n< f the State. It
ipav be urged that we must confide in the fidel
ity of tiie i >t - .suture, and that there is nvrv
ground fur In t e ti .;t th- y would not carry such
-astires to an imrea, unable length, 'i ids is;
no answer to (lie argute i'l- it is a qm>ion<>i
c mstituli 'i a! .. nil ritv, and not a case i t confi
dence at ail. Limitations of pOer establio
-d !>v written constitutions, have their origin in
a dLtrust of the infirmity of man. That dis
trust is fillv justified I v the history ol tile I ;.•
and fail of nat|. us.
But conceding that this practice will ret he
carried so far as to dt.-trov tlie Government, is
there any warrant lor it to the extent to which
the act of Assembly proposes to go in tlie pr s
ent case? It was held by lhi< Court, in Wood's
Estate, 9 Harris, 114, that the duties ol sover
eign and suhj-'Ct are reciprocal, and any person
vviio-i.s protected by a Government in his per-,
son or property, may he compelled to pay for j
that protecti m. As tare s ar> to be assessed tor
the sole purpose of supporting the government,
tin* propriety ol exacting them, the persons arid
property to be made liable, and the rules for
their assessment and collection are to be deter
mined bv it - authority, it is, however, a rile
of Ike public lull', founded on a principle of'
justice which no government can disregard j
without violating tht rights of its citizens, that
taxes shall be assessed in such manner that nil
the citizens son/ pay their quota, in prop' rtion
to their nin/iliis and the advantages flirt/ derive
from the society" —9 Hariis, 114: 10 Harris,
497. l ios priori; le is sanctioned by writers
of the highest authority—Vattel, b 1 cii 20, s
240, Rutherforth, Inst, of Nat. Law, b 2, ch 3, •
s f); Puffendorfs Law of Nations, h 7, ch 9, s
10. It isexjr<ss!v declared by Baron Puffen
dortF that no "immuuitiesor exemption-, '{from
11Xl.ll >n) ought to be "granted to certain per- ,
sons to the defrauding or oppression ol the i
rest." It i? upon this piinciple that, when the
piivate property ol the citizen is taken I .r pub
lic us... just compensation is to be made to him
out of the common fund, in order that the cr>n
t n iit ion to the public interest may fall in a
just proportion Up n each citizen—Ruthert >rth,
i) 2, <h3. s5. As the Legislature are neces
sarily the judges of the method of assessing tax
> -. it is to be presumed that they have regarded
the rule of contribution sanctioned by justice j
and the equal rights of the citizens: and 'heir
enactments were not always subject to judicial
review. Where they make appropriations to
institutions of learning or charily, or grant
lands or pensions to persons who have served
in defence of the nation, it is presumed to he a ,
compensation tor the good (hat has been
or is to bo done to the community. Where-
Freedom of Thoight and Opinion.
FRIDAY MOHXKfi, BEjFOIID, PI. ,11 i.V M 857.
tij-jr grant to the same institutions or individuals
at exemption 1 lorn taxation, such grants, tor
tltsame reason, are not regarded as a violation
otjtiie ruli-s of justice and equality. So Jong as
tlf.rp is no contract which may tie the hands of
succeeding lag.statures against repealing such
exmptions—and so long .is they are not rt—
p'il'it, they seem to have been enforced as a
Ultimate exercise of legislative power—i S.
I., 02 ; (1 Watts, 435.
lut where there is no pretence of an inten
tiiji to equalize the taxation among the people,
bo an avow. J purpose to sell to one class of
ciijiens an exemption from all taxes forever,
ant thus to throw all the public burthens upon
theoii r. for all time to come, it is, to all ir;-
letp n'd purposes, imposing a tax upon them
w'c.out the consent of their representatives,
ant is sucli a plain, | a!f able and open v jo lut ion
ol he lights and liberties o! the proph;—such
a c.ear case of transcending the just limits of
leij lative power, that the judiciary is hound
t ' r >n eince such an act null and void.
fo class of corporation? stand n te in need of
tnrjprotection of the government, or occupy
mo| of the time of the Legislature and the
( ogrts of Justice, or occasion more expense to
fhejCiovernineiint than Railroad Corporations.
I'ldtn the extensive nature of the opt rati ns,
Ihep i'.verto take private property f.r the con
sult inn o{ their \\ irks, and their continual cot
w ith < ach other', interests, and u itt the
interests of indivi is a!s and irpinicipal cor ,n.u
nitiis., the\ requi: - the constant and the errer
_'e!r pre tertioa of the stn nga/m cftiieg wi r
• *'st. Withdraw that prolecti ,n fti.ii th.-v
w i' ; he I. !' to t!,e mu cv of popular out
•r> i .n.an;!.-, ting then s l\ es!.\ op; ■ -ui.m ! i
heji progress and ll e d j slructi. not 'heir w. il.s
ivhe'o-ver the ! cat .on (i tin ir roads or their
I. pe's. or an v of tie ir numerous :.nd necessary
: nations come in cor diet with tin interests <;
i-fu! jvular 1 c.liilii -. These corpoiationsshould
the last to cm >e u t that the C;iv rnrt ■ r.t
hi.ii enfet 1..! l y the ii imi nut ion c,| its
•-vn-.m-s, or ask that it slv'old he bound to s
--mt ;'1 ilc eneigjes, and incur large and c n
•tanl;expenditures for their protection, while
i>"Voire exert .t 3: :n conlrd 'dicg tin ir J■ ar.
'1 Hcs princij I ■ are :otso it frm as t staid
nned f I the st of authority for support. —
Ihy are t! e r. si t of that 1 :*.j-rt v and equality
vhicli was •<!.. lishi i tie' rev Hit; -n::r\
tiuggle of our ancestors. They are perfectly
mderstr-od by ev y one who has capacitv lo
n bend (lie f-.tun' of our free ihstitutiors.
i'herare (1. eplv in pressed on the hearts of the
>eop|e. rmd thev are fully recognized by the
iis!.i|v, the objects and the language of our
{institution.
It is ordered that upon the complainants, or
it!.- rcf th. no tiiling a -nil in the penal sum
I tie th usatif! dod os, With Milhciellt sureties
i he anpi ; .\.d b\ t! is Court, or any Jmige
!.<• ■ i, i< lu'it. ■ r;- ito indem: ifv !&• d ten
r.t# :h i. ill! ceo ages that may he sustained by
he inp.e.c t n g t, ion tho ndin, nn in
unction be awarded, commanding the Pennsyt
•t;nin R'Ui'i vofi ('<>" ,"/:• >/ nr: •! i's nf];r .•• and a
cfit-f named as def-mdards in this lull to make
io bid f r i pure'use (be Main Line of the
> ul.lit Vh rks under lb,at i :fr! of the proviso in
third s. eti notfi •* act t liilb Muy, IS">7,
i :ch r- - ir- - said Corrq any I ■ .~y in ad i
;>n t the put chase u.t.m v at which the
iVorks may he struck dow r, the sum of one and
!• 111 millions of <1- !.-:rs. a: : in c-.nsiderati n
hereof assumes t i discharge f.ulever the said
iailn ad < rr p,.:n . and aKo th- HarrisHurg,
h-.rtsmouth, M-.nntv and Lancaster Raili ad
on par:v, from th~ ;a\ rrient of all taxes upon
ohnageand In ilit over said railroads: ami al
t i relieve the -aid fern syivania R.ii! F a.l
'•urjuuv from the payment d all other taxes
>r fiuti-.'s rn its capital st -ck, bom's, dividends,
r prop i v. except lor school, city, cohr tv, ho
ough nr totvnsi.ip purp.oses. .7 nd also com
:nding Itn s id I i nriyi-lx'inin Railroad Com
■ any, and it .v odnrrs mid agents aforesaid
t net I v to 'abstain from accepting anv : assign
re tit on the teim> stated in-the aforesaid part of
he said j ro\ iso, or executing, or delivering to
he Treasurer ol the State any bonds of the said
on.pane, for any greater amount than the sum
! which the Main Line of the said Public
Works may be struck down at a pu! lie'sale, on
; t'.iir and equal competition with ail ofher bid
lers. . 7 ndoho commanding t/ie said pennsyf
•nnii Rni/yaint Company, and its officers and
arr.nts aforesaid, strictly to abstain from accpt
ng anv transfer of tbe said Main Line cf the
iid Public Works from the Sectelary of the
"omnxmwealth, under the great s-al of the
date, founded upon, or in consideiation of any
lurrhase up. ri the terms fier. in prohibited.—
\;;d a!s.i 'icommanding Henry S. McGraw, the
freasur. r of the State, striitlv to af.stain from
iccepting the delivery of any bonds executed
v the ..aid Pennsylvania Railroad Company
iimn the terms her-in prohibited, or t.>r any
;r.! er amount than the sum at which tlie said
Main Line of the Public VV.rks may he struck
iown at a fair public sale of the same, upon e
jnal terms to all perrjcr.s and coi desi
ing to purct.ase. And al>o comrrtandirig Ar.-
irew (J. Cur tin, Secretary of the ('on tT>on-
Aealtii, strict v to a - stain from making any
ransfer of the said Public Works under the
;reat seal of the State, upon the terms herein
rrohihited, or for anv greater amount than the
urn at which the said Works may be struck
low n at a lan public saleirs aforesaid.
M IA FA MO tS BILL!
(Wr*Tlie Philadelphia News ot June 21 says:
'•During the |a-t sessioh or'tbe Pennsylvania Le-:
jislature a Bill w is introdutud in the Senate altow
r.g INFIDELS To appear < witnesses and testir'v
n our Courts of Justice wiftiWt talcing a -olemn oath
o tell the truth, the whole troth, and nothing but
l.e truth, and was pa seitby an overwhelming vote." .
This Bill, the News says.—
"Demands of Government the abolition of all laws
t'cogr.izir.c the existence ol a Supreme Being."
VH. JORDAN voted for the Bill.
A Remarkable Metros*.
Jf not a Comet, Something that "Struck'' as
Hard.
The Ltica papers have an account ot' a vc-rv
singular phenomenon, which was witnessed on
Saturday the 1 fit It iust., which cam. d the cieatii
ol two persons :
"During the aft Ttiooti, a tunnel-shaped mo
ving body of a nebulous character, appeared at
i a point over Utica, moving rapidly along with a
j humming sound, it struck the ground near the
dwelling oi Mr. Hoot, in Deerfieid, tearing dowu
a frin <■ or two, and passing on, gradually set-
I tiing lowfr aiid lower. At last, having reach
: ed a j. .'iul some iive miles in a north-easter Jy
(direction frqm this city, near tfrir dwelling of
Mr. athan Hud long, in Schuyler, it made a
descent upon his tarn, ripped it up and scatter
ed it to the winds. Ti.-h passing on, tearing
; up trees, fences and out-houses in its terrible
course, it finally struck the dwelling of Mr. J.
Warier . which v. as lilted from its stone lounda
tn ; , carried a distance of .-.ma* til teen feet thru'
tlie nr. arid dashed in splinters upon the ground,
having a clean piat of grass t. twon the place
where jt had M jud and the piie of rubbish.
"In the house were a family oi sis—pair 's
and children. Mr. Warren, seeing tie ten role
0 j-ct rushing down upon him, tearing up trees
and i-nv.< in its onward course, au-i buzzing'
hire a thousand hornet's nests combine I, called
Up.'ii ins wife and children instantly toaccom
! .1: v him to the cellar, and. suiting tin icti m
t ' the word, seized two of the chitdreii and leap
ed down the stairway. The nil- ■ .—a .•d to
loii'jw, but her footsteps u ere tardy: she was a
moment —an instant too Die: the engine of de
structmn t- re the building up, carrying her
self and child, together with a little .-on who
was ' hind her, with it. The husband had but
tiin j to s e In r ascend with the building that
tore away from above him, and then he stood
.. dto 'lie i: v. in bis open Cellar. Me
v. -nt to view the ruin of his home: it was c m
p!' . H'-re lay the dead and nude body of his
wife, t!>, desti \ ing power having stripped the
d.'thing from her p . there lav his s*>:i cov
er. <1 v.ith ; ..I, ami senseless, and, iust beyond,
b iff dwelling lay one such mass of destruction as
pf ' m!y never was beheld before. Broken arid
splint.i ' • "steads - , cradle... tabli s, ] fs, L-t
--th-s, tl.aiis, boxes, trunks, crockery, tin ware,
hats, clothes, stoves, bottles, 'nicks, piaster,
clocks, beams, stones, shingles, and endless et
cetras, lay crushed and en.:: I -:i in one heap
before him.
".>cxt, in th-* due s utheasteriv line oi its'
course, jt uprooted several large tr.-es, scattered
the iences, cr ssed the road and demolished a
large arn, belonging to Mr. John M. Bud long.
1 uild, and by T<) fee? upoh n<'t>a v l -*,'*V- a ?U?' :
;! v!rue!i ve element tore it to pieces, scattering
large turn ers about the fields at a distance of
Iron! five to fifteen rods, distributing of the roof
in various direct ions, arid actual: v taking up an
iron cylinder threshing machine, weighing per
haps four hundred point ... and deposited it at
bast eighty feet from the barn. A row belong
ing to .Mr. 8., standing m ar the tain, was kill
ed. without an apparent outward wound. A
-1 out St) r< s farther on, in a direct line, a small
er horn, belonging to the same g. in leman,-\\ as
t;r dished; nut! what is vetv smgirlar in this
instance, but little of the material . I wiiich it
was co fist sue ted, is to be found any where. A
few shivered boards and timbers alone attest to
its pr- vious existence. The dwelling of Mr.
Btidi mg had a narrow escape. A shingle or
tvv t; ;n from orVe corner ol the it of indicate
how narrowly it . scaj. J.
"Beyond the premises of Mr. 8., for about a
mile, piostrate trees and fences plainly evidence
the track oi (lie destructive messenger. It,
I . wev r, S.'en;',' ' to have released its hold Upon
the . .nt . soon alter leaving the farm of Mr. 8.,
f.r it was distinctly seen to rise from the sur
face and dissolve its conical shape into a g. lur
ch ml form. The phenomenon was followed
by violent rain and wind. Two men, at work
in a fi hi, saw the strange apparition approach,
and '.o kto 'heir he. Is, Pare!y . .-rapine its track
as it passed on. It seemed to saise from the
earth in four or five minutes from the time it
was first seen, and the evidences before us of
d. struction lie in a district not ov r I ur oi five
miles in extent, in a due southeasterly direction
fiom vvht-re its first touch was felt, and in a
track about fifteen rods in width. Whatever
substanc- presented itsell in this track was swept
away, and the ruin presented is certainly fear
lu! to behold."
From the Baltimore Snn, June '.
I'ataJ Elatlpor.d AcciderJ.
On Saturday morning last, an accident oc
curred to one of the trains on the Northern Cen
tra! Railway, by which Mr Jacob Mathias, a
well known and highly respectable resident of
Westminister, Md., was almost instantly killed.
!Im particulars of the melancholy occurrence
are tlies.*: Mr Mathias, vvith his grand-daugh
ter, appeared at the Calvert station and took
passage on the train. At the Hanover Junc
tion, w heie the trains are rarely detained o
ver a minute, Mr. Mathias left his seat and
went to the public house kept by Mr. Cibsner,
and asked f>r a glass ol lemonade, but he
declined Serving him, and told deceased,
that he would not have time to make it, nor he
to drink it, and urged him to take his seat in I In
curs. Immediately the bell rang and .Mr. Ma
thias started, and running after the train grasped
at the step-railing o< the middle car and missed
hi- hold; but seized the next and was instantly
I whirled around by the .motion of the cars u:H j
thrown under the wheels. Both hgs Were cut
oil below the knees and his skull fractured.
The train was immediately stopped, and Mr.
Mathias still living borne into the parlor ot Gles
ner's hotel. Though perfectly Conscious, he
did no! sp. ak of Ins injuries once, t>ut only ask
ed those about him to "raise his head," ai*d dud
in about fittecu minutes. The body and muti
lated members wcie placed in a cottin, and in
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• charge of John Miller, one of the agent* of the
company. removed to the Hanover branch, and
forwarded by the superintendent over that ma t
to itsterminus, arid thence to his afflicted family
at Westminister. Mr. Matfuas was quite aged,
nearly seventy-five years, and well known in
this city. He was universally beloved and res
pected lor Ins many MK ill and public qualities,
and years ago was a representative from Carroll
county to the State Legislature at .Annapolis.'—
He filled other posts of iioth public, and private
nature, and at the time of his death was presi
dent ol the runners and Mechanics' Bank of
Carroll county, located a! Westminster.
As regard the culpability of any of the em
ployees of the road, it is due Air. Q. W. iiat
clilfe, the conductor of the train, to state that
lie promptly g*ve the .-bgnal to stop the train
as sunn as he pejo ived that Air. Alatbias was
I'd! behind, ami end. avoring to overtake it, but
unfortunately t > late, though the train came to
a halt almost simultaneously with the occur
rence. Mr. C. Adre .11, the superintendent
'■/ the road, was in Harrisburg, hot being tele
giaphed i;mr;t .iiatelv came down to Hauover,
and 9-uj t rii.tenc d the rem >val eft he corpse to
Westminister. The sad aifair has caused a
deep gloom to settle upon the whole communi
ty.
B'rossFsS'e—*l* Ihtstjrcr*.
Airs. Margaret Ann Marble, one of the cap
t: •i s tak'-n at -A ..:! Lai: .at the time of the re
cent massacre, aii iv-'-i .it .Minnesota cn the 10th
of May, in charge ol' Mr. Charles E. JFlaiidran,
agent for the Fious of Hie Mississippi.
"On the loth of March, a band of Indians
came to th- ir residence, at Spirit Lake, lowa,
murdered her 1.u.-oand, and took her prisoner to
their camp, where she ( und three other while
female captiv's— a Airs, Thatcher, a Aiiss No
ble and a Miss Gardner. Mrs Marble thinks
the husbands of Airs. Noble, and Mrs. Thatcher
both escaped being killed, but the entire family
of Mrs. Gardner fell a prey he fore MrssG'sown
eyes, and then she was dragged away to the
wigwam ol the war Chief ol ;he red murderers,
and brutally violated, jmmediatelrtalter com
mitting the murder J at Spirit Lake, the Indians,
with their captives started westward, and trav
elled for about one month through .1 circuitous,
rough route, unknown to any except the sav
age, and en imped at last at a place called
Skunk Lake, west ..i the Rig Si ox river, and
a out one hundred and fifty miles northwest of
Spirit Lake, where the outrages were ccmmi!-
ted.
"On tii ■ rout'' the captives v ere subjected to
the severest hardships and torture, being corr
j "!!• !' > carry heavy packsoi shot, and to per
forin the most riegradi-ig service by day, and
en.hrnit to the most iw—' *-■ njc-hm —
- ■ • "i their captivwy ih.-j
--[ s-strd their tormentors, but were beaten with
elm sand threatened to be shot until they at
last submitted, in the hope sooner to be rescued.
"Airs. Thatcher, who was in feeble health,
was unable to carry the burdens imposed upon
her, ari l w hen endeavoring to cross the Rig
v i ux riv-T upon some trees which the Indians
cut -.'owner. b-'dh sides, to form a bridge, she,
I "wj very we'll:, ! ist her balance and fell into
t e river. SI - (it- r neri her burden and suc
ce led in swimming almost to the chore, when
atr India: dei ' -ratelv aimed iris rifle at her and
;ot he thrt u'i 'l-e head, killing her instantly,
i'h" t.odv was i.ft to float down the current,
which was reddened with her warm life bloou.
This t:a er:c scene was hailed by the Indian wo
rn n (who s- no d i•: j us of the presence of the
white captiv s) wiiir wild shouts of exulta
tion.
"Mrs. Marble informs me that she and her
surviving cm panbms rad, with a dreadful cer
tainly, the tat" which awaited them w hen fa
tigue should overtake tin ,n. Mrs. Marble had
ier li' ei'v purchased bv Indians who wereient
out for 11; at purp se.
"On the 'J3d mst.. a party of friendly Lar
qui Parle Indians was dispatched to Skunk Lake,
with all the requirements, in the shape of pres
ents, to purchase the r. lease of Mis. Noble and
Miss Gardner. Forir days' travel would bring
them to the camp of Ink-pa-du-tah."
Tm-.i: JIJI.I; TORNADO IS ILLINOIS.— It appears
that Christian County, 111., was visited last
Saturday altern on by a tornado of great vio
lence. The Chicago Journal says .
Our informant was at the village of
that county, during the "blow," and describes
its effects as terrillic.. It was accompanied by
hail anil rain. Buildings were swept from the
foundations, and - >me of them carried into the
air, others unroofed, and others torn into atoms.
A number of new stores that had just been com
pleted wire scattered into fragments: the Pres
byterian church, a large frame building, was
moved some six feet from its foundation; the
Illinois Central freight depot was unroofed, a
train of freight cars was blown from the track,
and worse than all, five persons—a woman and
f. or children—wo re killed by being struck with
falling timbers, or carried into the air and"
throw n upon the gi un L Several other persons
w ere more or less injured, some of whom may
die from the effects ot their injuries.
T ' RFPI ORD SPRINGS. — We it am from sev
en I of our exchanges that this lashionsble and
, p< pular sumo - r resort has undergone great im
provements, and is now open for the receptiou
of visitors. Bedford is one oi the prettiest in
land towns in the State, and can boast of advan
tages which belong to but few towns ot its size .
The Springs are Mtuatt d about 1 i miles from
town: accessible by one of the most romantic
pieces of road it lias ever been our pleasure to
travel ovr. These Springs are noted for the
fine medicinal qualities el their waters; and in
all other particulars are not surpassed .by any
other watering place in the ITiion. We would
advise our Baltimore friends, those at least, who
are si eking a return of health —who would re-
Tin've the hectic flush from the cheek —to visit
this healthy and salubrious region.
11 uxorir Spectator.