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Wednesday, November 4, .1857
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COURT.--Nest Monday the November
sessions of our county court will commence,
and will doubtless bring to town many of our
patrons. , To all those who are indebted to us
for subscription, advertising, job work, etc.,
and can pay, we look for a hearty response
to the call which the tightness of the times
induces us to make—PAY ur !
ANOTHER HANDSOME PRESENT.—Last week
two bushels of potatoes and a dozen heads of
cabbage were left at our office as a present
from Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Schneider, Sr.
If such presents should be forced upon us
every week or two, we can make a clear esti
mate of what it will cost us in cash or bank
rags to exist like fighting cocks until the
chilling blasts of winter shall be over. But
for fear such. articles might freeie if sent in
during cold weather, we would suggest to all
Who feel inclined to contribute towards our
pile, to do so as soon as convenient, or ear
lier if possible. Mr. and Mrs. Schneider
will please accept our thanks for their kind
ness.
THE Baxx.s.—The Banks have not yet de
termined to accept the late Act of Assembly
legalizing their suspension. Their delay is
bringing ruin upon many of the best houses
in the city. So far the people have not been
benefited in the least by the action of the late
extra session of the legislature, and a general
feeling of hostility to banks is being engen
dered.
CLAIMS AGAINST THE COMIONIVEALTH.—Wo
are authorized to state that the Canal Com
missioners will issue certificates for all claims
for labor or materials contracted by J. D.
Leet, late supervisor of the Upper Juniata
Division, which has been found to be correct,
under the Act of the last session of the leg
islature. The application for such certifi
cates, must be made in person, by letter, or
by a regular power of attorney.
A TIMELY lIINT.-A New York journal
compares the publisher of a newspaper to a
farmer who should sell his wheat on credit,
and no more than a single bushel to any one
person ; the payment of a year's subscription
is of the same importance to a publisher as
the payment for the bushel of wheat would
be to the farmer. The harder the times, the
more entire is our dependence on the pay
ment of these small yearly subscriptions.
PAY YOLTIt LITTLE BILLS.—The New York
Express pithily gives the public of the empire
city the following sound advice, which should
be heeded here and everywhere else :
Nothing helps the money market more than
the prompt payment of little bills. It keeps
up trade, keeps money moving, helps the
banks, and makes everybody feel good.—
When everybody holds on to all the money
he gets because he fears times are going to
be worse, he helps to make them so.
Kansas.
There is no reliance to be placed in any of
the rumors from Kansas. One day we see a
dispatch that Gov. Walker would. be removed
for refusing to recognize as legal the votes
polled. in a certain district. Next day the
rumor is contradicted and another started
that Walker was compelled to leave the coun
try to save his life, &c., &e. Next day rumor
second. is contradicted, and some other exci
ting dispatch sent over the wires. The daily
press must be fed with news, no matter whe
ther true or false.
Trouble in Baltimore
Much excitement has prevailed in Balti
more for the past few days, growing out of a
controversary between the Governor of the
State of Maryland and the Mayer of Balti
more, in regard to supremacy of power, in
view of anticipated riots at the election
which is to take place to-day. The late dis
turbances at the polls induced a number of
the citizens to call upon the Governor for a
military force sufficient to protect them in
their rights of suffrage from the lawless ruf
fians who have heretofore interfered to prevent
a full expression of popular sentiment at the
polls. The G oveinor responded to this call, and
ordered several regiments to hold themselves
in obeyance to preserve the peace and hold
the people intact in their political rights and
privileges. To these proceedings the Mayor
of Baltimore dissented, declaring that his
power is competent to guard the polls and
maintain the peace and dignity of the city of
Baltimore.
On Sunday, committees of citizens repre
senting the Governor and Mayor, prevailed
on the Governor to withdraw his proclama
tion calling out the military and placing
the city under martial law. We shall now
see whether the Mayor will do what he ne
glected to do at the late election—protect the
voters at the polls from the assaults of gangs
of rowdies.
"WnAT Is 2 ToN."—Chief justice-Lewis,
of this State, has given an opinion deciding
that the law of Pennsylvania making 2000
pounds a ton was constitutional, that although
the United States Constitution had given Con
gress the power to regulate weights and
measures, making a uniform law throughout
the United States, yet, until they did exercise
the power,. each. State had jurisdiction over
the subject within her own borders. Thus
Judge Crier's decision that nothing less than
2240 pounds could form a ton, is overset.-
Moderation ; or, the Teachings of the
Times
"MAKE rIASTE SLOWLY."
There never was a period, perhaps, says
the Pennsylvania Inquirer, when the philoso
phy of moderation should be more apprecia
ted than at the present time. The financial
world is agitated and convulsed, and among
the sufferers are many of those who have ex
ercised extraordinary power, and occupied
positions which challenged at once the admi
ration and envy of the comparatively humble
and obscure. The eagles have been stricken
down, while towering in their pride, and firms
that have been looked up to for half a centu
ry, as based upon a rock, have been compel
led to yield for a time to the wide-spread panic
and the extraordinary pressure. Among the
victims are not a few who, years ago, could
have retired with ample fortunes, but who,
insensible to the philosophy of moderation,
and not satisfied with enough, ventured on
still more deeply into the mazes and quick
sands of commerce and speculation, and were
overtaken by the sudden storm, with scarcely
an hour's consideration, and in a condition
wholly unprepared to wrestle against and
triumph over its terrific fury. They had be
come so absorbed in the world of traffic and
of trade, that they had no time to reflect, or
no disposition to give heed to the admonitory
warnings of the still, small voice within.—
And this error has been nearly universal.—
The exceptions are rare indeed, and there are
few who can justly argue that they heard the
mutterings of the thunder at a distance, that
they saw the approaching hurricane, and that
they shaped their conduct accordingly. The
calamity, therefore, is a common one, and as
such it should be received and treated. If
we have not suffered ourselves, and directly,
our relatives, friends and neighbors have suf
fered, and hence we naturally sympathize
and feel for them. It is not worth while to
find fault, or to indulge in a harsh and ungen
erous spirit. All have been living too fast in
some sense, all have been influenced more or
less by the same system. All have forgotten
or disregarded the wise and wholesome phil
osophy of MODERITION. The desire to accu
mulate
wealth rapidly, has tempted many a
man into a wild and hazardous speculation,
while the go-ahead, the impulsive, and the
progressive temper of the age, has induced
hundreds, nay thousands, to venture beyond
their means, and to take risks, which now in
their calmer and cooler moments, and with
such sad results before them, they contem
plate with surprise. A little while ago, and
any individual, whether a merchant, a man
ufacturer or a financier, who was cautious,
resolute and moderate, who looked thought
fully, and inquired thoroughly, before he ven
tured upon any great enterprise, was regard
ed as slow, prosy, and old-fogyish, and was
jeered at and ridiculed accordingly. He was
said to be " too careful, too practical, too
plodding, for this electric and onward age.—
And yet, what are the facts? These disci
ples of moderation, these advocates of the old
fashioned system, these sober-minded follow
ers in the footsteps of their fathers, are now
looked upon as the only individuals who pos
sessed and exercised true forethought, who
really knew what they were about, and who
were not carried away by the Quixotic schemes,
the empty follies, and the brilliant bubbles
of the day. They were satisfied with the
philosophy and the fruits of moderation.—
" Make haste, slowly"—was their maxim,
and although they did not attain the very
topmost round of the financial and commer
cial ladder, they were contented with a strong
and secure position below, satisfied that if
they did fall, the injury would be compara
tively trifling. And yet, we must not be
misunderstood. The dull, the idle, the list
less and the indifferent, are by no means ex
amples, and should never be pointed to as
commendable, useful, and shining members
of society. They are constantly waiting for
some remarkable chance, and unwilling when
it presents itself, to stretch out their hands
and exercise their faculties, with the object
of making it available.
We merely mean to argue, that there is
reason in all things, and that those who are
moderate in their tastes, their desires, their
appetites, their expenses, are the true philos
ophers, and will, in the great majority of
cases, be found far more reliable, far more
contented, and far more prosperous in the
just and comprehensive sense than the eager,
the greedy, the avaricious and the grasping,
who, never satisfied, are constantly aiming at
something beyond their reach, and which
they rarely or ever attain. May we not hope
that recent events will teach us all a lesson,
and that one great influence will be, to check
our desires, to restrain cur superfluities and
extravagances, to make us avoid unnecessary
indebtedness, and thus illustrate in a practi
cal form, the truth, the beauty and wisdom
of MODERATION !
HARD TI3IES AND LADIES' HOOPS.—An
ex
change paper thinks the hard times quite as
much attributable to ladies' hoops as any
thing else, and thinks such a reason guile as
reasonable as some others which arc given
for our troubles. Thus it talks:
"Hoops produce inflations—they cause a
rise in cheap and em•pensivo dresses—they
cause the dear ladies to take 'up twice as muck,
ground as•they are fairly entitled to; by the
bruises they have inflicted, they have caused
skin plasters to abound, &c, &c."
What do our readers think of the argu
ment? if correct, should not petitions be
drawn up and presented to them? Will they
not take compassion on us? Could they not
be induced to subside and relieve their
suffering lords, and fathers and brothers!—
Who'll a4k 'em?
The near approach of the United States
troops to Mormon Holy Land is exciting no
little feeling in the breasts of Governor Brig
ham and his associates. Accounts . .from Fort
Laramie to September 19th, state that the
tp.ll expedition is making fine progress, and
is only 300 miles from Salt Lake City. The
number which will reach there this winter
will probably not be more than 1500 troops,
though others are on the way. The troops
are to concentrate on Green River, 165 miles
cast of Salt Lake City, and there wait the
arrival of the General in command of the
expedition before crossing the mountains.—
The saints regard this movement on the part
of the general government as a dreadful in
fringement upon their vested rights, and in
the prospect of a speedy loss of all their
temporal importancd, they have waxed ex
ceeding wroth, and now bluster and fume in
quite a ferocious manner.
Chief Justice(?) Kimball has lately dis
coursed upon his removal from his judicial
functions, and has assured his hearers, in
very serious and unambiguous terms, that
"if this people should consent to dispossess
Brother Brigham Young as our Governor,
they are just as sure to get to hell as they
live, and I know it; for God would forsake
them and leave them to themselves, and they
would be in worse bondage than the children
of Israel were." He notifies the ladies that
it is their duty to sell their finery and buy
"instruments of war," and that they should
arm their children in the holy cause. He
declares that "we never shall leave these
valleys till we get ready; no, never. We
will live here till we go back to Jackson
county, Missouri. [The congregation shout
ed Amen," and President Brigham Young
`it is true: If our enemies force us to de
stroy our orchards and our property, to de
stroy and lay waste our houses, fields and
everything else, we shall never build and
plant again till we do it in Jackson county.
But our enemies are not here yet, and we
have not yet thrown down our houses. Let
me tell you, if God designs that Israel should
now become free, they will come and strike
the blow, and if he does not, they will not
come." He announces the novel fact that
"we arc the kingdom of God, we are the
State of Desert," and further that "we will
have you, Brother Brigham, as our Governor
just so long as you live. We will not have.
any other Governor. I mean just what I
say; and this people say they will not have
any other Governor, and especially any one
that has to come here under arms, for we
consider that any man is a poor, damned
curse that has to come here under arms to
rule over us," &c., &e. Governor Brigham
cries Amen to all this, and pronouncesßrother
Heber a prophet. A Washington correspon
dent says.
Major Van Vliet, who has just returned
from Salt Lake City, gives an amusing ac
count of Brigham Young's bravado. Young
made a speech to him, in which lie recounted
the prowess of Mormon arms, and threatened
death and destruction to the American troops.
He wished Major Van Vliet to reply, but lie
declined, saying speech making was not the
object of his mission. He replied however,
in these words:—" CA' overnor Young you have
been honest in expressions, and 1 will be the
same. The troops we are sending to Utah
are not sufficient to whip you. This I know
very well. But you know equally well that
if you resist those few, the government will
send enough in the spring to annihilate you."
"True," said Young, "but when that time ar
ris es, you will find Utah a waste, every house
burned, and every tree, felled. We shall
send our provender and supplies to the moun
tains and retreat there. I will fire my own
house if necessary.
A &TOWER. OF MANNA.—Do not be incred
ulous reader, when we inform you that on
Monday last, at the foot of Clear Lake, in
this county, a shower of sugar candy fell,
covering a large tract of country. It covered
everything—leaves of trees, rocks and the
earth's surface alike. When discovered by
the inhabitants the next morning, a part of
it was of the consistency of syrup, and the
rest as perfectly crystalized as the candy of
the shops. Its taste is precisely similar to
that of enflavored candy. Mr. J. Hole, the
Clear Lake expressman, saw it while on the
ground and collected a box as samples which
he brought to us. There is no mistake about
the matter, as the public may learn for them
selves by calling at our office. The speci
mens before us are generally irregularly
crystalized, rounded at one end and irregular
in form at the other, as if broken off from
some surface to which they adhered. They
are from one fourth to five eights of an inch
in length, some pure white and others of a
delicate pink hue. Their general appear-.
ante is that of very small stalactites, such
as we have often seen in caves. A similar
shower occurred at Salt Lake some years
since. Naturalists pretend to explain such
phenomena by saying that such saccharine
show ers are of insect origin; but their ex
planation scam even more improbable than
the fact itself—the latter being well attested,
and the former a mere theory to excuse igno
rance of Nature's wonderous workings.—
Napa Republican.
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THE DROMEDARY EXPERINENT.—The Gal
veston (Texas) News states that the camels
and dromedaries, imported by the Govern
ment some years ago, into that State, for the
purpose of trying the experiment how they
would answer the purpose on our great Amer
ican deserts or in the extreme west of the
State, have proven eminently successful, and
come up to the full expectations of all. At
last accounts they were on their journey
heavily laden, to the extreme frontier of
New Mexico. All are now satisfied that the
importation of camels was no chimerical
flight, as was anticipated, but a wise, judi
cious and economical scheme ; reflecting credit
on the originators of the plan. There are
now employed nineteen- dromedaries, and
thirty-two camels on the frontier. The eli
mata agrees with them admirably, and but
few accidents, by disease or otherwise oc
curred.
Utah
The Land Speculators.
An article in the Chicago Tribune informs
us that shoals of people from New England
and the Middle States are traveling west
ward to look after the farm lands and build
ing lots, in which they invested so much
money last Summer and Spring, at a time
of great inflation, or upon the security of
which they lent money to Western men.—
The _Tribune adds that these investments arc
hopeless, and will be so for years to come.—
But this probably depends upon whether the
holders of such lauds and lots continue to
expect good prices. The article we quote
from says that the amount of land now for
sale is immense, in fact, out of all propor
tion to the demand at present, or any pros
pective demand for the next ten years. As
for the building lots nine-tenths of them
might as well be sacrificed at once by their
owners, for any price they will bring. From
the tone of the western papers it is quite
clear that none of the land now held by
speculators will be saleable for a long time
to come, unless thrown into the market for
whatever it will bring. Then emigrants and
settlers will be attracted to the regions
which the eager appetites of speculators had
swallowed up. But if not, then the next
tide of emigration will pass over them en
tirely, and they will he forgotten.
General Jackson and the Banks
Hear what the old Hero says in his fare
well address to his countrymen :
" The severe lessons of experience will, I
doubt not, be sufficient to prevent Congress
from again chartering such a monopoly, (as
the Bank of the United States,) even if the
Constitution did not prevent an insuperable
objection to it. But you must remember, my
fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the
people is the price of liberty; and that you
must pay the price if you wish to secure the
blessing. behooves you, therefore, to be
watchlid in your States,as well as in the Fed
eral Government. The power which the mo
nied interest can exercise, when concentrated
Leder a single head, and with our present
system of currency, was sufficiently demon
strated in the struggle made by the Bank of
the United States. Defeated in the General
Government, the same class of intriguers and
politicians will now resort to the States, and
endeavor to obtain there the same organiza
tion which they failed to perpetuate in the
Union ; and with specious and deceitful plans
of public advantuges, and State interests,
and State pride, they will endeavor to estab
lish, in the different States, one monied insti
tution with overgrown capital, and exclusive
privileges sufficient to enable it to control the
operations of the other banks. Such an in
stitution will be pregnant with the same evils
produced by the Bank of the United States,
although its sphere of action is more confined;
and in the State in - which it is chartered, the
Money power will be able to embody its whole
strength, and to move together - with undivi
ded forces to accomplish any object it may
wish to obtain. You have already had abun
dant evidence of its power to inflict injury
upon the agricultural, mechanical and labor
ing classes of society ; and over those whose
engagements iri trade or speculation render
them dependant on bank facilities, the do
minion of the State monopoly will be abol
ished, and their obedience unlimited. With
such a bank, and a paper currency, the mo
ney power would in a few years govern the
State and control its met - . ures ; and if a suf
ficient number of States can be induced to
create such establishments,_ the time will
soon come when it will again take the field
against the United States, and succeed in
perfecting and perpetuating its organization
by a charter from Congress.
" It is one of the serious evils of cur pres
ent system of banking, that it enables one
class of society—and that by no means a nu
merous one—by its control over the currency,
to act injuriously upon the interests of all the
others, and to exercise more than its propor
tion of influence in political affairs. The ag
ricultural, the mechanical and the laboring
classes, have little or no share in the direr=
tion of the great moneyed corporations ; arid
from their habits and the nature of their pur
suits, they are incapable of forming exten
sive combinations to act together with united
ibree. Such concert of action may, sometimes
be produced in a single city, or in a small dis
trict of country, by means of personal com
munications with each other ; but they have
no regular or active correspondence with
those who are engaged in similar pursuits in
distant places ; they have but little patronage
to give to the press, and exercise but a small
share of influence over it ; they have no
crowd of dependents about them, who hope
to grow rich without labor, by their counten
ance and favor, and who are, therefore, al
ways ready to execute their wishes. The
planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the
laborer, all know that their success depends
upon their own industry and economy, and
that they must not expect to become suddenly
rich by the fruits of their toil. Yet these
classes of society form the great body of the
people of the United States; they are the
bone and sinew of tire country; men who
love liberty, and desire nothing but equal
rights and equal laws, and who, moreover,
hold the great mass of our national wealth,
although it is distributed in moderate amounts
among the millions who possess it. But
with overwhelming numbers and wealth on
their side, they are in constant danger of los
ing their fair influence in the government,
and with difficulty maintain their just rights
against the incessant efforts daily made to en
croach upon them.
" The mischief springs from the power
which the moneyed interest derives from a
paper currency which they are able to con
trol, from the multitude of corporations with
exclusive privileges, which they have suc
ceeded in establishing in the different States,
and which are employed altogether for their
benefit; and unless you become more watch
ful in your Slates,and check this spirit of
monopoly and thirst fur exclusive privileges,
you will, in the end, find that the most im
portant powers of government have been
given or bartered away, and the control over
your dearest interests has passed into the
hands of these corporations.
"The paper money system, and its natural
associates, monopoly and exclusive privileges,
have already struck their roots deop in the
soil, and it will require all your efforts to
1 cheek its further growth, and to eradicate
I the evil. The men wire profit by the abuses,
and. desire to perpetuate them, will continue
tv besiege the halls of legislation in the Gen
eral Government as well as in the States, and
will seek, by every artifice, to mislead and
deceive the public servants. It is to your
selves that you must look for safety and the
means of guarding and perpetuating your
free institutions. In your hands, is right
fully placed the sovereignty of the country,
and to you, every cue placed in authority is
ultimately responsible. It is always in your
power to see that the wishes of the people are
carried into faithful execution, and their will,
when once made known, must sooner or later
be obeyed. And while the people remain, as
I trust they ever will, uncorrupted. and. iimor
ruptible, and continue watchful and jealous
of their rights, the Government is safe, and
the cause of freedom will continue to triumph
over all its enemies.
But it will require steady and persevering
exertions on your part to rid yourselves of
the iniquities and mischiefs of the paper sys
tem, and to check the spirit of monopoly and
other abuses which have sprung up with it,
and of which it is the main support. So
many interests arc united to resist all reform
on this subject, that you must not hope the
conflict - will be a short one, nor success easy.
My humble efforts have not been spared, du
ring my Administration of the Government,
to -restore the Constitutional currency of gold
and silver ; and something, I trust•, has been
done toward the accomplishment of this most
desirable object. But enough yet remains to
require all your energy and perseverance.—
This power, however, is in your hands, and
the remedy must and will be applied, if you
determine upon it."
India and England
The extent to which the Indian mutineers
are taxing the powers of England probably
surpasses that of any previous war in which
she was engaged. The struggle is now appa
rently for existence, and the most absorbing
attention engrosses all classes in England.—
One of the leading English weekly papers in
its review says:
The interest of the week centers in India,
before which all the domestic and foreign oc
currence "pale their ineffectual fires."—
This is not to be wondered at, considering
the strange and unprecedented scenes of
which that part of the world is now the the
ater. Never in the Colonial history of this
country was the tax on our energies greater.
The .American war, strained the resources of
the empire in the days of our grandfathers,
but these Indian mutinies follow each other
with such extraordinary rapidity, and evolve
such startling facts, that they keep the pub
lic mind in a state of anxious suspense to
which we remember no parallel.
It is true that this war must not only be
au enormous tax on the wealth, but a drain
on the population of the British Islands
which will seriously interfere with industrial
pursuits. England will be compelled to look
about for recruits wherever she can, and will
probably, as in the ...imerican war, seek to
enlist Germans, both as officers and men in
her Indian army. . .
This Indian war bids fair to be of long
continuance, the wealthy and influential Me
hommedan families, the descendants of the
nabobs and rajahs, who were the nominal
defendants of the great Mogul, head this
movement and with them are the leading
Brahmins. The natives, though not equal to
the Europeans in war, are yet more fermida
ble than in the days of Clive, Coot and Mist
ing. They bring too, to animate them, all
the fatalism of one creed and all the blind
superstition of the other. Religious wars
are proverbially of long duration. They
believed that the English intended to compel
them to abjure the faith of their fathers, and
they revolted; when they learn that there is
no hope or mercy for them they will fight
with desperation, and in so extensive a coun
try as India they will be able to protract hos
tilities for years. In the meanwhile the cli
mate and the cholera will destry the levies
like rotten sheep. Everything indicates a
long and fearful struggle before the Sepoy
rebellion is crushed out and the domination
of England established in the Peninsala.
If the warlike Sikhs and the men from the
Sub Himalayan hills of Nepaul should fail
to swell the l'`,nglish armies, there would be
really little prospect of success Such coun
tries as India and China, so vast in extent
and so populous, can only be conquered by in
ducing one portion of the population to aid
in the subjugation of another. That game
has been tried in India fir a century, but
now it seems as if the entire country was
roused to expel the invaders.
- Escape--Daring Exploit—Recapture.
Our usually quiet village has Leon the
scene of intense and continued excitement,
since last Saturday morning, produced by
the escape from our jail of a man calling
himself Joint Johnston and other aliases, on
last Friday night. Ile effected his exit by
drawing his hands through his hand-cuffs,
filing the hobbles elf his ancles, digging a
hole through the plank stone wall of tile jail,
and scaling the wall of the yard. Whether
all this was accomplished without assistance
it is difficult to determine, the probablities
are rather in favor of the belief that he re
ceived sonic aid either at the time he escaped
or previously, but what amount it would be
impossible to guess. Bat the singular part
of the story remains to be told.—No trace of
the escaped prisoner could be found on the
next day, but on the night following the
Sheriff's office in the front part of the jail
was broken into by some persons by break
ing open the shutter of one of the windows.
The sheriff's desks broken open, and a trifle
of money, all that could be found, taken, sev
eral tracks were found in the mud iu the vi
cinity, evidently those of the burglars. On
the same night a valuable horse belonging to
Mr. Jacob Hoover, of Laurence township
was missing. By this time the excitement
had become considerable, additional pursuit
was made for the stolen animal and the gen
tleman who had released himself from the
custody of the law by ariverba/ writ of ha
bear non Coapus,•who was supposed to be the
thief. About three or four o'clock on Mon
day morning. after having been pursued and
seen frequently the thief was taken in the
neighborhood of James Blooms, on the road
leadinr , from Curwensvillc to Luthersburg,
and found to be the escaped. prisoner. The
horse which he had been compelled finally to
abandon was also recovered. He was accor
dingly brought back to be again lodged in
jail, but crc he could. reach that sanctuary, a
crowd of excited persons, as soon as the
wagon upon which lie was conveyed in charge
of the persons who had arrested him, reach
ed the centre of our town, mounted the vehi
cle with a rope, declaring their intention to
hang the prisoner without further ceremony.
By the exertions of our citizens however they
were induced to desist in case he would make
a confession, and give the names of his ac
complice,,. This the fellow proceeded to do
as well as his fright would permit him, and
implicated several citizens of our county;
several of whom have been arrested and
some of them committed for trial.
Of one thing there seems to be but little
doubt. Our oounty is evidently infested
with a gang of depredators who are engaged
in all kinds of lawless and criminal occupa
tions, and whom it seemed to be impossible
to detect, although everybody were aware of
its existence. We hope that the late inci
dents may be the means of its being broken
up and its members brought to punishment
or compelled to leave the country entirely.—
We regret to see the tendency of our usually
orderly and quiet community towards Lynch
law, the worst species of lawlessness in ex
istence. Our laws are both wholesome and
efficient, if properly administered, and the
people should rest satisfied with their action:
—CleaVield Republican.
__ . g -The Phila. Pennsylvanian of Monday
ISE
" We are glad to notice a movement in the
right direction, not only upon the Pennsylva
nia Railroad, but all the great lines leading
to the West, viz: a reduction of expenses
an increase of fares. The new arrangements
went into effect on the Ist inst. The increase on
the rates of fare and freight varies from 5 to
1S per cent on the Pennsylvania Raihoad,
while the, salary or pay of all persons receiv
ing over $2OOO per annum is reduced 25 per
cent; all persons receiving an annual, salary
or wages of $2,000 and between $l,OOO and
$2,000, including that of $l,OOO, are subject
to 15 per cent. All persons receiving an an
nual salary or wages under til,ooo a reduc
tion of 10 per cent, while extra compensation
for good conduct and satisfactory perform
ance of duty, as now allowed by the General
Superintendent, is to he submitted to the
Board for their approval before being paid.
EQUALIZING THE CURRENCY.—To supply
the leading defect of the banking system,
says the Philadelphia itreratry, it is proposed
that Congress shall pass a law authorizing
the Sub Treasury, at its various offices, to re
ceive gold on deposit, and issue certificates
therefore, in sums of $2O, *5O, and *lOO,
payable to bearer, or order, as may be de
sired. This plan would. afford a currency at
par, from Maine to California, and serve to•
equalize exchanges also_ It is, certainly, a
very serious defect in our present system,
that we have no paper money suitable for re
mittance, which would have the same value
in every part of the country. The Sub Treas
ury has proved an admirable custodian of
the public funds. If it could furnish a cur
rency based absolutely on gold and silver,
and of equal value in every part of this coun
try, the necessity of banks might be - largely
obviated.
THE ftEmitny.—The entire Bank capital
existing in the United States is stated to be
three hundred and forty-three millions of
dollars.
The entire paper currency is set down at
one hundred and eighty-six millions of dol
lars, of which fifty millions is in five dollar
notes, and about the same amount in ten
dollar notes.
The amount of specie is two hundred and
fifty-five millons of dollars, of which the
banks hold sixty millions.
These statements have been made in offi
cial public documents, and are probably as
near the facts as can be arrived at.
In view of them, the remedy for a suspen
sion of specie payments is apparent and'
linci
Let the General Government and the States
co-operate to abolish the five and ten dollar
notes
'Tice result would be to reduce our paper
currency one half, and secure in its place
gold and silver.
A suspension then would not occur once
in a century.
This remedy was proposed and urged by
James Buchanan when a Senator. The in
fluence of his administration may be consid-•
ered pledged, therefore, to co-operate with
the Legislatures and. Governors of the States
in bringing about this great reform.
ICo question of domestic policy is so trans
cendent in its importance. It is a people's
measure. All parties should unite upon it,
and demonstrate that the people are able to
manage their ccflhirs of Government.
Of course, the remedy would be applied
with due caution, so as not to disturb vio
lently the measure of value or the relation
of debtor and creditor.
In our opinion, this grand and only cur©
of the American Banking System might be
applied during Mr. Buchanan's Administra
tion.
A conger period is not neeessary.—Jefer-
sf);,tail
SCALPING A WOMAN ON THE PLAINS—HER•
EKTRAOIMINARY FORTITUDE.--The Red Bluffs
Beacon, of 10th Sept. ; thus tells the talc :
An instance of the most remarkable forti
tude and heart-rending cruelty we ever beard•
of, was related to us by a black man by the
name of Scott, who has recently arrived here
from Missouri, by the way of the plains. He
informs us that a short time before he arrived
at Stony Point, on the Humboldt river, the
Indians attacked a train of six men and one
woman and child. The men were all killed.
but one, who made his escape. The child
was also killed, and its mother shot in sever
al places with arrows, scalped and left for
dead.
All the while they wore scalping her and
stripping the clothes from her body, she was
perfectly conscious of what they were doing,•
but feigned death, and let them tear the skim
from her head without even giving signs of
life, knowing that if she did, they would
either dispatch her at once or take her into
hopeless captivity. At one time, when they
had loft her for a moment, she ventured to•
change her position, in order, if possible, to
relieve herself from the uncomfortable posi
tion in which she was lying, but on their re--
turn they very soon discovered that she had:
moved, and for fear that her life might yet
be extinct, they took- hold of the arrows that .
were still sticking in her body, and worked
them about in the wounds,- and pushed them
deeper into her flesh, and stamped upon her
with their heels. All this she endured with
out uttering a groan, or drawing a breaths
that could be perceived by the 'savages, and
in that condition she was left as food for the ,
wolves. Fortunately, however, a train came
along before she had lain long in that condi
tion, and dressed her wounds, and:brought
her along with them, and not the least re
markable fact attending the- whole matter, is,
that she is fast recovering from her wounds,
her head, we arc told, is nearly well, and the
arrow wounds arc doing better than any one
expected,