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Thomas mart Benton.
We find a carefully prepared biographical
sketch of this remarkable man in the New
York Herald, from which we gather the fol-
lowing:
Colonel Benton was born near Hillsborough,
Orange county, North Carolina, Marci 14,
1782. His father died when he was bight,
years old. ; his early education was imperfect;
he was for some time at a grammar school,
and afterwards at Chapel Hill, the Universi
ty of North Carolina, but finished no course
of study there, as his mother removed to Ten
nessee to settle' on a tract of land belonging
to his father's estate. Thomas studied law,
and soon rose to eminence in that profession.
He was now elected to the Legislature, serv
ing only a single term, during which he pro
cured the passage of a law reforming the ju
dicial system, and Of another giving to slaves
the benefit of a jury trial, the same as white
en - en. One of his earliest friends and patrons
was Andrew Jackson, at that time a Judge
of the Supreme Court, and subsequently Ma
jor General of the State militia. Benton be
came his aid-de-camp, and during the war
also raised a regiment of volunteers. It was
from that service he derived the title of Col
onel, which has clung to him through life.—
Notwithstanding the close intimacy between
Jackson and himself, which was of the most
cordial and unreserved character, a rude and
sudden rencontre took place (in Nashville,
between Jackson and a posse of his friends
on one side, and Benton and his brother on
the other,) in which severe pistol and dagger
wounds were given, and produced a rupture
that estranged them for many years. After
the volunteers were disbanded, slr. Madison,
appointed Col. Benton, in 1813, a Lieutenant
Colonel in the army ; but on his way to serve
in Canada, in 1814, he heard the news of the
peace and resigned. He now removed to
Missouri, and took up his abode in the city
of St. Louis, in 1815. There he devoted him
self anew to his profession. Soon, however,
engaging in the politics of the day he was
led to the establishment of a newspaper, en
titled the Missouri Argus. In this position
he was involved in many disputes and. conten
tions. Duels were usual at that time, and he
had his share of them with their unhappy
consequences. In one of them, which was
foreed upon him, he killed. his opponent, Mr.
Lucas, an event he deeply regretted, and all
the private papers relating to Which he has
destroyed.
In 1820, with the organization of the Mis
souri State government, Mr. Benton was elec
ted a member of the United States Senate,
and remained in that body an active and con
spicuous member till the session of 1851,
(thirty years in the Senate,) when he failed
of a re-election. As Missouri, however, was
not admitted into the Union until August 10,
1821, more than a year of Mr. Benton's first
term had expired before he took his seat.—
This interval he occupied in acquiring a
knowledge of the language and literature of
Spain ; and thenceforward, for many years,
his industry as a student during his extra
hours, seized from the early morning, and ap
propriated from the night, form a most inter
esting feature of the economy and regularity
of his personal habits. The results, too, were
of the greatest advantage to him as a Senator,
for having acquainted himself intimately with
the political, social, and religious systems,
and with the languages, laws, and literature
of the governing nations of ancient and mod
ern times, his knowledge of every great sub
ject involven in a Senatorial debate covered
the most minute experience and teachings of
the history of man, and of his progressive
steps from the patriarchal institutions of the
Hebrews to the comprehensive civilization of
our own day.
When Colonel Benton entered the Senate
Mr. MonrOe was President; Governor Tomp
kins, Vice President ; John Quincy Adams,
Secretary of State; William IT. Crawford,
Secretary of the Treasury; John C. Calhoun,
Secretary of War ; Smith Thompson, of New
York, Secretary of the Navy ; John McLean,
Postmaster General, and William Wirt, At
torney General ; of whom all have disap
peared from the stage or action except Mr.
McLean. And here that voluminous and in
teresting historicopolitical work of Mr. Ben
ton—of his " Thirty Years in the Senate"—
interposes its rich and copious details of the,
leading public characters, measures, events
and issues which agitated the country, divided
its political parties and determined the game
for the Presidency from term to term, through
all that long period. In glancing over the
pages of these solid volumes of a " Thirty
Years' View" of "the Working of the Amer
ican Government," we find that the first
speech of Mr. Benton, prominently referred
to, is his speech of 1824, in favor of an a
mendment of the Constitution of the United
States in relation to the election of President
and Vice President, so as to secure their elec
tion directly by the popular vote. It was
not, however, until after the rupture between
President Jackson and. Vice President Cal
houn' in 1831, and the breaking out of the
war between Old Hickory and the United.
States Bank, that Colonel Benton took the
front rank in the Senate as a, debater and the
champion of the administration. The war
against the bank was virtually declared in
Gneral Jackson's first annual message to
Congress, in 1829, and the war began in earn
est in the Senate upon the question of a re
chatter in 1831—Mr. Benton leading the way
as the most radical advocate of a gold and
silver currency.
The tremendous events which followed the
removal of the government deposits—the re
moval of a Secretary of the Treasury for re
fusing to remove the deposits from the bank
—the consequent condemnation of General
Jackson by a resolution of the Senate—the
passage of the bank e-char ter—Gen eral Jack
eon's veto—the universal panic from the dy
ing struggles of the bank—the expansion of
the State banks upon the basis of thirty mil
lions of government specie—the consequent
demoralizing and wide-spread epidemic of
speculation and extravagance..--the sub-treas
ury—the withdrawal of the deposits from the
pet hanks, and the terrible-financial collapse
of 1837,,are all, familiar matters of history
with the readers of this paper. It was in
this war upon the monster bank, declared in
1829, fairly commenced in 1841, and practi
cally closed up with the Senate's expunging
resolutions of 1837—it was in this terrible
war of the Titans that Col. Benton achieved
his highest renown as a senatorial debater,
and' as the steadfast, staunch and earnest
supporter of General Jackson's administra
tion. His highest distinction and his great
est victory, with such men as Clay, Webster
.and Calhoun battling against him as for life
and .death, was the passage of the famous
" expunging resolution." The Senate bad
passed,. some years before, as already men
tioned, a_resolution condemning the removal
of the deposits, &e., as high-handed execu
tive acts in derogation of the Constitution
of the United States." Benton's resolutions,
on the other hand, just passed, black lines,
were drawn around the aforesaid resolution
of condemnation, and the words " expunged,
by order of the Senate," were written across
the face of it, and so the record remains upon
the journal to this day.
But the rejoicings of the Democracy over
the expunging resolutions were brief. The
great revulsion of 1837 was upon them. In
March of that year Martin Van Buren came
into the Presidency as the anointed successor
of Old Hickory. The bank rag and shinplas
ter inflation brought about by Gen. Jackson's
pet bank system had reached its utmost ten
sion, and the inevitable collapse was at hand.
The specie circular of 1836, requiring all
dues to the government to be paid in gold
and silver, and the withdrawal of the govern
ment funds to be distributed among t"...e
States, had applied the breaks to the pet
banks, and the result was a general contrac
tion, a general suspension, and a general and
overwhelming collapse. It was on the brink
of this stupendous revulsion that the extra
session of Congress of 1837 was resolved
upon, and called by proclamation of the
President. But the general crash came on
in the " merry month of May," while the ex"-
tra, session, with a view to the relief of the
country, did not assemble till September.—
Little, too, was done at this session, except
the passage of a ten million loan, and a vain
attempt to pass a bill establishing an inde
pendent or sub-treasury. The Administra
tion party in Congress, however, kept at this
important bill from session to session till
1840, when they passed it through both
Houses, and it was signed by Mr. Van Buren
on the 4th of July, as a government declara
tion of independence against the banks.
Through all the various phases of this em
bittered financial contest Mr. Benton, in the
Senate, was ever foremost of the advanced
guard of the democracy, his grand idea
throughout being not only the separation of
the government finances from the banks, but
the establishment of a universal hard money
currency. Hence his soubriquet of " Old
Bullion." His hard money speeches through
all the desperate battles of this financial rev
olution, from 1829 to 1840, appear, in many
instances, at this day, like the teachings of
a prophet, although nothing more than the
simple reasonings from cause to effect, with
the principles of common sense as the touch
stone.
The sub-treasury did not bring immediate
relief to the country—immediate relief was
beyond all human agencies and yet the peo
ple holdint , Mr. Van Buren, General Jack
son and the Democratic party responsible for
" the hard times" brought upon the country,.
swept the party from power in 1840 with the
force of a tornado. "Things cannot be made
worse, and they may become better with a
change," was the irresistible argument which
carried the election of Gen. Harrison almost
by acclamation. It was a political revolu
tion without a parallel in the history of the
world—a revolution effected by a univ%rsal
carnival of spontaneous music—monster'Pro
cessions, monster barbecues, and long parades
of wild Indians, wild hunters, wild animals,
beautiful girls, clothed in white and borne
along in triumphal cars, log cabins on wheels,
cider-barrels, canoes and coon skins. It was
a mighty revolution in the form of a univer
sal popular carousal, in which reason and
argument were drowned in the swelling cho
rus of
" Tippecauoe and Tyler too:'
Thus the currency regulator of an indepen
dent treasury—the crowning measure of Van
Buren's administration, which " the sober
second thought of the people" has confirmed
as a measure of wisdom, economy and safety
was the last parcel which broke the camel's
back.
In the discussion of the Compromise men
ures of 1850, Mr. Benton was mainly instru
mental in breaking down Mr. Clay's Omni
bus bill, and in reducing each measure there
of to its own merits. At this point a divis
ion which had sprung up in the Missouri De
mocracy—Benton and anti-Benton—resulted
in the defeat of Benton for the Senate. lie
then ran for the House as the Benton candi
date for St. Louis, was elected and distin
guished himself in an opposition to the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill, which wound up his polit
ical career. His subsequent trial for Con
gress, and for Governor in Missoui, were sig
nal defeats ; and his course in the last Presi
dential election against his favorite and idol
ized son-in-law, Colonel Fremont, it would be
useless to attempt to explain.
The political rise and fall of Colonel Ben
ton afford a. stiking illustration of the rise,
the glory and the decay of the Jacksonian
Democratic party. While Jackson stood at
the helm Benton was a giant in the Demo
cratic camp—when Jackson was removed,
and the party began to split upon factious
and sectional issues, Benton with Van Buren
and all his most faithful followers were thrown
out of the orthodox church upon the test ques
tion of slavery. As the policy of Mr. Cal
houn has become more and more the policy
of the Democracy, this Van Buren element
of the North has sloughed off into the repub
lican came, leaving Benton in Missouri high
and dry. Thus expelled, as it were into pri
vate life, the politician and the statesman has
rendered no small service to the country in
his capacity as a political compiler and his
torian. His "Thirty Years' View" embraces
an immense fund of varied and invaluable
political information, written in a style at
once simple, beautiful and strong, and his
compilatimi of the debates of Congress, as it
has progressed, fills an important desidera
tum in our political archives.
The tone, manner and bearing of Mr. Ben
ton in the Senate were not suited to the pop
ular taste, nor adapted to win the partiality
of the mass of his Senatorial brethren. His
tone was bold and imperious, his manner
precise, somewhst dictatorial and dogmatical ;
and his bearing that of a giant among the
pigmies. He was by . many men considered
a coarse, savage, egotistical, selfish, vain glo
rious and loquacious old aristocrat; and yet,
in solid substance, his speeches, on great and
small matters, will favorably compare with
the best which any other man of our coun
try has produced, and his real character, in
fact, was that of a most pratical Democrat.—
As the head of a family, husband, father,
companion and host, he was a model of af
fection, simplicity and hospitality. Among
his neighbors no man could he more popular.
Among his children and grandchildren he
was literally worshipped as their best friend,
their teacher, their companion, and their
guide. At his own table or by his own fire
side his gloisnial spirit, his extensive readings,
his experience and minute observation con
cerning men and things, and his wonderful
memory,rendered his conversation postively
charming, upon whatever subject they might
turn. And upon the little trifles of every
day gossip he could talk by the hour, and give
an essay upon a. lady's bonnet and the change
of the fashions as readily as upon the treaty
of Utrecht.
In person, Colonel Benton was tall, mus
cular, and robust, and with a presence sin
gularly. majestic and commanding. His fea
tures were of the strong Roman mould, and
their habitual expression was that of a self
posessed, self-relying positive, and resolute
man. His marriage with a daughter of Col.
McDowell, of Virginia, secured him an ami
ble and exemplary partner, and the domes
tic associations of an extensive circle of influ
ential families. Mrs. Benton died some four
years ago. Of his four surviving children,
all daughters, one is " our Jessie," the wife
of Col. Fremont ; another is the wife of Mr.
Wm. Carey Jones, late returned from a gov
-ernment mission to Central America; anoth
er is married to a Mr. Jacob, a well-to-do far
mer, of Kentucky, and formed one of Fre
mont's amateur mountain men ; the fourth
and youngest, some years ago was married
to an attache of the French Legation at
Washington, now French Consul General at
Calcutta. In the important matter of relig
iop, Col. Benton was, if not a member, a
fkitllful attendant with his family at the New
School Presbyterian,Church, near his resi
dence in Washington. Among the people of
Washington he was esteemed as a citizen, and
beloved as a neighbor and friend.
With Benton, the last, excepting Cass and
we may say Crittenden, of the compeers of
Clay, Calhoun and Webster, is gone. If
Clay was distinguished:for the love of his
friends, and Calhoun for the veneration of
his disciples, and Webster for the admiration
of the commercial politicians of the North,
Benton was particularly distinguished for the
esteem of those who knew him most intimate
ly, and for the bitter hostility of his oppo
nents who only knew him from his excusable
egotism, and sometimes offensively harsh and
imperious manner as a public debater in the
Senate.
An Act
To make better provision for the punishment
of frauds committed by bankers, trustees,
and other persons intrusted with property.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted, cbc., That if any
person being a trustee of any property for
the benefit either wholly or partially of some
other person, or for any public or charitable
purpose, shall with intent to defraud, con
vert, or appropriate the same, or any part
thereof, to or for his own use or purposes, or
the use or benefit of any other person, or
shall with intent aforesaid, otherwise dispose
of or destroy such property, or any part
thereof, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 2. That if any person being a
banker, broker, attorney, merchant, or agent,
and being entrusted for safe custody with
the property of any other person, shall, wish
intent to defraud, sell, negotiate, transfer,
pledge, or in any manner convert, or appro
priate to or for his own use, or the use of
any other person such property, or any part
thereof, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 3. That if any person intrusted
with any power of attorney for the sale or
transfer of any property shall fraudulently
sell or transfer, or otherwise convert such
property, or any part thereof, to his own use
or benefit, he shall be guilty of a misde
meanor.
SECTION 4. That if any person being an
officer, director or member of any body cor. ,
porate, or public company, shall fraudulently
take, convert, or apply to his own use, or,
the use of any other person, any of the mon
ey or other property of such body corporate
or company, he shall be guilty• of a misde
meanor.
SccrioN 5. That if any person being a di
rector, officer or manager of any body corpo
rate, or public company, shall as such receive
or possess himself of any money, or other
property, of such body corporate or public
company, otherwise than in payment to him
of a Just debt or demand, and shall, with in
tent to defraud, omit to make, or to cause or
direct to make, a full and true entry thereof
in the books and accounts of such body cor
porate or public company; he shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 6. That if any director, manager,
officer, or member of any body corporate or
public company, shall with intent to defraud,
destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any of the
books, papers, writings, or securities belong
ing to the body corporate or public company
of which he is a director, manager, officer, or
member, or shall make or concur in the ma
king of any false entry, or any material
omission in any book of accounts or other
document, be shall be guilty of a misde
meanor.
SECTION 7. That if any director, manager,
officer, or member of any body corporate or
public company, shall make, circulate or
publish, or concur in making, circulating or
publishing any written or printed statement,
or account which he shall know to be false
in any particular, with intent to deceive or
defraud any member, shareholder or creditor
of such body corporate or public company,
or with intent to induce any person to be
come a shareholder or partner therein, or to
entrust or advance any money or property to
such body corporate or public company, or
to enter into any security for the benefit
thereof, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 8. That if any person shall re
ceive any money, chattel or valulible security
which shall have been so fraudulently dis
posed of as to render the party disposing
thereof guilty of a misdemeanor under this
act, knowing the same to have been so frau
dulently disposed of, he shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and may be indicted and, con
victed thereof whether the .party guilty of
the principal misdemeanor shall or shall not
have been previously convicted.
SECTION 9. That every person found guilty
of a misdemeanor under this act shall be Sen
tenced to an imprisonment of not more than
two years or be fined in any amount not ex
ceeding one thousand dollars, at the disCre
tion of the court.
SECTION 10. That nothing contained in this
act shall affect any remedy at law or in equi
ty which any party aggrieved might have
had if this act had not been passed, arid no
thing in this act contained shall affect or
prejudice any agreement entered into or se
curity given by any trustee having for its ob
ject the restoration or repayment of any trust
property misappropriated.
SeirrioN 11. That the word "trustee" shall
in this act mean a trustee on some express
trust created by deed, will, or instrument in
writing, and shall also include the heir and
personal representative of any such trustee,
and all executors, administrators and assign
ees. The word " property" shall include
every description of real and personal prop
erty, money, debts, and legacies, and all
deeds and instruments relating to or eviden
cing the title or right to any property, or giv
ingn; right to recover or receive any money
or goods, and shall also include not only
such property as may have been the original
subject of a trust but any property into
which the same may have been converted,
and. the proceeds thereof respectively, or
anything acquired by such proceeds. And
the converting or appropriating to his own
use, or the use of another, by an officer, di
rector, or member of a body- corporate or
public society of any property belonging to
or entrusted to the care of the same; shall be
deemed fraudulent within the meaning of
this act, unless authority to make such ap
propriation or conversion be shown and a
correct statement thereof appear to have
been made at the time in the regular book or
books of account kept by or under the direc
tion of such officer, director, or member.
' • G: NELSON SMITH,
Speaker (Pro tem) of the House of Rep's.
WILLIAM H. WELSH,
Speaker of the Senaie.
APPROVED the fifteenth day of April, An
no Domini one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-eight. WM. F. PACKER.
A Great Swindle Exploded.
Various parties have from time to time
called at the Mayor's office, and complained
that they have been victimized by the "Grand
Consolidated Lottery," and exhibited three
newspapers which puffed up the swindle, and
had the means of drawing them into the
snare. The newspapers were entitled The
Benefactor, Jersey city, E. Cooper & Co., pro
prietors, 85 Wall st. ; The American Month
ly Ledger, J. 11. Hall & Co., proprietors, 92
Wall street ; and The Golden Era, Charles
W. Morton & Co., proprietors, 102 Wall st.
Mayor Tiemann directed Sergeant Birney to
ferret out the swindlers, and seize all the lot
tery apparatus be could find.
The sergeant accordingly proceeded to Wall
street, but no traces of the swindlers could
be discovered within its charmed limits. The
postoffice was then visited, where Sergeant
Birney was informed that the letters address
ed to the above firms were re-directed to Nor
wich, Connecticut. He started immediately
for Norwich, and on arriving there, 'pounced
upon the lottery men, and arrested fourteen
of them, by the aid of the mayor and sheriff
of that city. The firm of J. H. Hall & Co.
was found to consist of Wm. P. Petit and
John W. Hooker. The parties who sailed
under the alias of " Charles W. Morton &
Company" were L. B. Richardson, E. Rich
ardson, and Geo. IL Wright, and the firm of
E. Cooper & Co., who were overhauled in
New London, Conn., was represented by Geo.
A. Pratt, Geo. A. Pratt, Jr., and Sam'l H.
Freeman. Besides the proprietors, six print
ers, viz : D. E. Sykes, Hiram Hazen, J. N.
Perry, John Frangley, L. Forsyth, and J. F.
Forsyth, who Were charged with setting _up
the matter of all three lottery newspapers,
were arrested. The newspapers were full of
urgent appeals to those who desired to en
rich themselves in a short time to subscribe
to the lottery, and were published monthly.
One hundred thousand copies were issued,
and sent all over the country, together with
circulars, containing forged, extracts from the
Express and Dispatch newspapers. Circu
lars, newspapers, lottery tickets, money, and
the whole apparatus were seized and trans
ported to this city with the prisoners, who
were held to bail to answer the charge. The
Grand Consolidated Lottery has been in ope
ration for six years, and has cleared half a
million of dollars' for the proprietors. It is
supposed that the receipts amounted to $l,-
000 per day. The prizes were ostensibly to
be drawn in accordance with the Delaware
State Lottery, but false drawings were re
turned to the patrons, and no prizes were
ever received. There are now 3000 letters
in the New York post office, addressed to dif
ferent lotteries and gift swindles.--Vezv York
Courier and Enquirer of the —th.
New and very Valuable Discovery.
A Flour-mill, of a perfectly original and
new construction, is in operation, at present,
at Robb, Pile & McElroy's Printing, estab
lishment in Pemberton court, in the immedi
ate neighborhood of the Exchange. The ma
chinery- is exceedingly simple and very ef
ficient in its working. It is portable and ar
ranged in a manner to be easily transferred.
The whole space, occupied by the portable
merchant flour-mixing and distributing ap
paratus, which is combined with a grinding
and bolting merchant flour-mill, does not ex
ceed thirty feet in length, by four feet in
width, and eight feet in height. Within this
small compass the operation is performed, of
converting the grain into extra flour, super
fine and fine flour, middlings, shorts, ship
stuff and bran. The rapidity of the process
is astonishing, while every part of the ma
chinery works with the utmost precision.—
From two to three barrels per hour are turned
out. The flour is of the best quality, and the
yield per bushel more considerable, than that
of any other mill known. The cleaning of
the offal, too, is more thoroughly performed.
But one of the main points is, that while a
mill of the old style costs from $lO,OOO to
$20,000, the new mill costs from five hundred
to seven hundred dollars. The construction
beinc , extremely simple, the repairs will be
very few and not costly. Power of any kind
can be applied to the machinery, and this is
done directly with ordinary appliances. Six
horse-powers suffice, though larger power
may be used. The necessity of erecting
buildings especially for the purpose, which
is in other cases a very great item of expense,
is obviated, as any building in any locality
will be found suitable. Considering the im
mense amount of grain annually _raised and
consumed in this country, and exported in
the shape of flour, it is impossible to overrate
the value of this invention. It will prove ex
ceedingly useful to all parts of the country,
and especially to the West and North-west,
which regions may justly be termed the
world's granary. The working and construc
tion of the machinery may be examined at
the place above mentioned. The inventor
and patentee is Mr. JAIILES" M. CLARK, Phila
delphia, and we are gratified to learn that he
is disposing of his patent-rights to good ad
vantage.—Pennsylvanian.
A Hrr 11r " OLD SANDS Or LIFE.—The
Gleaner publishes the following testimonial:
." 2lfessrs. Editors ;—Permit me through
your columns, to bear testimony to a valua
ble medicine. My great aunt has been striv
ing to reach heaven for twenty years. Hav
ing a cough, she finally fell into the hands
of the "retired clergyman" whose "sands of
life have nearly run out." She purchased a
bottle of his Cannabis Indica, from which
she gained strength, judging from the vio
lence of her cough. On taking the second
her strength so increased that she was able
to cough all day and night without interrup
tion. The third landed her in heaven.—
Thus in the brief space of time, the fond
hopes and anticipations of more than a quar
ter of a century are realized for the sum of
seven dollars twelve and a half cents."
TREASURER'S SALE of Unseated
LANDS In Huntingdon County.
"%Fontana, By an act of the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled "Am act to amend
an act directing the mode, of selling unseated lands for taxes
and other purposes," passed 13th March, 1815, and the other
acts , upon the subject, the Treasurers of the several Coun
-1 ties within this Commonwealth, are directed to commence
on the 2d Monday in June, in the year 1816, and at the ex
piration of every two years thereafter, and adjourn from
day is day, if it be necessary to do so, and make public
sale of the whole or any part of such tract of unseated
land, situate in the proper county, as will pay the arrear
ages of the taxes which shall then have remained duo or
unpaid for the space of one year before, together with all
costs necessarily accruing by reason of such delinquency,
&e. Therefore, I, (F. H. Lane,) Treasurer of the county of
Huntingdon, do hereby give notice that upon the following
' tracts of unseated land, situate as hereinafter described,
the several sums stated are the arrearages of taxes, respec
tively, due and unpaid for one year ; and that in pursu
ance of the direction of the aforesaid act of Assembly, I
shall on MONDAY, the 14th day of June, next; at the Court
House, in the borough of Huntingdon, commence the Pub
lic Salo of the whole or any part of such tracts of unseat
ed lands,
upon which, all or any part of the tuxes herein
specified shall then be due, and continue such sale by ad
journment until all the tracts upon which the taxes shall
remain due or unpaid, be sold P. H. LANE,
Treas. of Hunt. co., Pa.
TREASURER'S OFFICE, "t .
April Ist., 1858
Amount of taxes due and unpaid on the following tracts of
Usnseated Lands, up to and including the y-ar 1350.
Barree Township. Tax.
WARRANTEES OR OWN ERs. Acres, Perch. Del. cts
Wm. Shannon & James Ash, 597 132 16 97
George Bighorn, 433 83 11 19
Wm. Crownover,lso 191
John A. Wright& Co., 350 2 03
Charles Newingham, 400 73
_
Brady.
Lewis Igow, 54 2 22
Jesse Hawkins, 446 10
Robert Watson, 379 2 61
John Watson, 402 2 76
Wm. Watson, 425 1 23
Andrew Bell, 43 39 1 22
James Fife, 110 4 65
James Watson, 397 2 25
David Caldwell, 400 9 08
Samuel Caldwell, 400 9 00
Samuel Ilartsock, 400 78 5 20
Edward Nash, 299 98 4 13
John Nash, 289 110 3 91
Henry Sill, 207 2 67
Samuel Morrison, 297 135 4 31
John Fried, 400 5 20
Sarah Hartsock, jr., 430 11 52
Jacob Barrick, 405 1U 95
Mary Barrick, 190 1 81
Sarah Barrick, 400 10 SO
Peter Ilartsock, 400 10 SO
Isaac Hartsock, 400 10 SO
Elizabeth Ilartsock, 400 10 SO
Mary Fried, 400 5 20
Hugh Morrison, 200 2 91
Neal Clark,, 157 7 55
Andrew Sel, 207 5 05
John Sell, 207 5 33
Clay.
Abraham Wright, 409 18 44
Abraham Green, 2SO 105 16 52
Isaac Green, 332 61 20 78
Thomas Green, 244 63 14 59
John Green, 209 56 15 SS
John Evans, 249 143 11 27
Joshua Cole. 204 140 13 58
Thomas Green, sen., 303 108 11 65
Zaehariah Chaney, 252 339 13 12
Ephraim. Galbraith, 413 120 8 09
George Green. 253 31 13 S 5
John Dunn, 440 11 78
Robert Dunn, 4-10 11 SS
Thomas Green, 50 6 43
Dublin
Titus Harvey, 41(1 Be. F 55
John Forrest, 500 7 50
George Wilson, 17 28
.Franklin.
John Callan, 92 20 13 30
John Parmer, (Houk) 11 1 07
John ?AcCahan & It. D. Petriken, 100 19 40
James McCßand, 39 17 7 34
Win. Gardner, 30 9 12
David Caldwell, 40 0 04
Henderson.
A. P. Knipp, 174 140 23 74
Hen, y Gates, 40 9 34
John Fritz, 43' 40
John Whitehead, S 34
• Hopewell.
J. Herring, 37 29
Abraham Levi, 200 1 50
Adam Levi, 205 1 35
Mary Levi, 207 1 56
Sarah Levi, 202 1 50
David Shaver, 105 1 57
Conrad Herring, 200 1 50
Peter Herring, 210 1 58
Hannah Herring, 97 73
Peter Wilson, 223 84
Isaac Warupler, 174 95
Benjamin Shoemaker, 202 75
Samuel Davis, 240 83
L. Rumbler, 180 69
Conrad Bates, 200 75
Henry Dates, 200 75
Jackson
Thomas Partner, 400 1 GO
Jacob Hil Widmer, 416 1 77
George Steever, 400 1 GO
Hillary Baker, 413 3 00
Thomas Russell, 400 3 00
Thomas Ralston, 400 3 00
David Ralston, jr., 400 3 00
David Ralston, 400 3 00
Ephraim Jones, 400 3 00
Jonathan Priestly, 437 G 5 3 31
Robert Johnston, 400 3 00
Charles Caldwell, 400 3 00
James Deane, 422 113 3 15
Henry Canal', 400 3 00
John Adams, 400 3 00
Henry West, 400 3 00
Alexander Johnston, 400 3 00
'Hugh Johnston, 400 3 00
Thomas McClure, 400 3 00
John Russell, 400 3 00
John Ralston, 400 3 00
James West, 400 q 3 00
Samuel Steel,
Wm. Steel,
Samuel Callan, 420 24 3 15
Abraham Deane, 395 60 2 96
Samuel Marshall, 400 1 00
Robert Caldwell, 400 3 36
John Fulton, 400 3 00
John Galbraith, 400 3 00
Joseph McClure, 400 3 00
George Wice, 400 1 60
Norris.
2:1
Robert G. Stewart,
Oneida
Elisha Shoemaker,
Robert Young,
John Kerr,
John Jackson,
Joseph Miller,
James Sells,
Peter Shafer
Porter.
Ruth. Green, 400 3 00
Ilenry Green, 277 2 06
Elcazer Waltasters, 46 60 69
Win. Smith, 402 18 09
Mary Kennedy E.: Hugh Coen, 319 9 56
John S. Isett, 294 8 81
Shirley.
James MeWillin, 45G 64 1 71
Peter Wertz, 411 80 1 54
Benjamin Brown, 240 120 2 14
Daniel Shindell, 375 1 44
Samuel Kennedy, 414% 2 85
Wm. & John Patterson, 175 35
Springfield.
Nathan Orb, 420 102 3 36
James Orb, part in Dublin tp., 450 131
Samuel Caldwell, 9 14
Stacy Young, 414 150 2 07
Simon Potter, 355 129 2 63
John Pease, 414 10 3 10
Adam Clow, 431 30 3 24
George Truman, 395 113 2 96
John Caldwell, 344 31 1 38
Win. Anderson,lso 4 15
•
Todd.
Jacob Cresswell, 107 • 86
do do 80 68
do do 30 1 20
Wm. Spring, 400 5 30
Benjamin Price, (part) 200 - 1 60
Henry Alexander, 400 3 20
Daniel Newcutuer, 100 7 00
Samuel _Darkly &W. W: Edwards, 400 19 80
do do 400 18 20
Isaac Huston, 400 98 18 00
Nancy Davis, 409 13 97
Henry Roads, 55 27 19
Cook & Elder, 133 2 14
John Singer,
436 15 43
A. S. Russell, 76 2 20
Wm. SheatT, 439 12 82
-
Philip Wager, 333 10 31
Benjamin Rush, 400 12 06
Philip Stein, 400 12 68
Jonathan Jones, 400 12 06
Owen Jones, 400 • 12 06
Thomas Denton, 371 11 01
Dr. S. Mowan, 456 13 23
Richard Mowan, 432 12 76
Win. Mowan, 418 12 47
James Mowan,
336 9 89
Isaac Mowan, 394 10 60
Thomas Mowan, 398 14 70
Francis Mowan, 448 8 05
Sally Chambers, 431 14 64
Robert Chambers, 455 14 48
Cass.
100 12 00
353 2 83
100 14 91
129 X 5 84
ERE
:n0 79
402 3 00
397 3 00
PEI
Nancy Chambers,
Samuel Chambers,
:Tames Chambers,
Robert Calender's heirs,
John Musser,
Robert Irwin,
Neal Clark, (now Amos)
Barndollar & Everhart, (Ander
son .k.Horton,)
John P. Baker,
J. S. Stewart,
Jonathan Houston,
Martin Michael,
Jonathan Pew, : . 100
John Philips, 390
George Buchanan, 311
David Impsly, 353
John Chambers, 400
Joseph Brown, - /76
Matthew Atkinson, 100
Reyzen Davis, 400
James Witer, 400
Samuel Cornelius, 395
Sohn Daugherty &0. `V. Speer, 439
do do 438
Speer & Martin, , 76
Elie' Smith. 152
Sarah Hartsoelt., 408
___
Tempy Shaffer,
John Freed,
Thomas Mitcbener,
John Blau,
Wm. Blau.
John Murphy,
Michael Martin,
Daugherty &
Hamilton & Evans,
Samuel Caldwell,
John Bell,
Arthur Fee,
Robert Bell,
Thomas Bell,
Abraham Sell,
Frederick Sell,
Robert Fee,
Solomon Sills.
Benjamin Elliott,
Abraham Morrison
Joseph Morrison,
Wm. Barrick,
John Covenhoven,
Hanse Morrison,
John Patton, 4.17
Samuel Caldwell, (now Juniata) 100
West.
Elisha Shoemaker,
Wm. o r,
Thomas Mitchener,
John Jackson,
The following heal Estate, upon which personal property
cannot be found sufficient to pay the taxes returned by the
several Collectors, is charged with the taxes thereon as
sessed for the years, 1355 and 1856, will be sold as unseat
ed lands, in pursuance of the directions of the forty-first
section of the act of Assembly, entitled "an act to reduce
the State Debt, and to incorporate the Pennsylvania Canal
and Railroad Company," approved the 20th April, 1844.
J. F. Cotterell,
Wm. Buebanan's estate,
Jas. Rose' estate.
Jas. Drake's estate,
Wise & Buchanan,
Fisher & McMurtrie,
Allen Green,
Porter Wilson,
Eliza Boise,
Wilson & Mifflin,
John Henry,
John Marshal's heirs,
Robert Ramsey.
Henderson J. Wharton,
Jesse Coales,
Abram Lane's heirs, et al
Pat terson's It eiro,
Walker.
E. B. Pike S: James Gardner, 1100
FISHING TACKLE WAREHOUSE.
Fish Hooks and Tackle, best Kirby, Limerick, Vir
ginia, Improved Trout, Sea, and every description of Fish
Hooks, Trout Flies, Gut and other Snoods, Brass Reels,
Fishing Rods of all kinds; Canton Grass, Silk and Hair
Lines, Nets, Gilling Twine, Seine Twine, Wrapping Twine,
Piano and Dulcimer Wire, Violin Strings. Genuine HAR
LEM OIL, an effective remedy for Pain in the Breast, Grav
el, and similar diseases.
Au.;o,—Fine English Twist Single and Double Guns, Pow
der Flasks, Shot Belts and Pouches, Game-Bags, and Gun
ning Apparatus generally. • - . •
GEO. W. HEYBERGER, Importer,
No. 68 (old No. 50) North Third Street, Two doors below
Arch St., and next door to the St. Charles' Hotel,
March 2.1, 1858-Im. Philadelphia.
TIIE GOOD TIMES COILING I
THE FIRST ARRIVAL!
NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS!! _NEW GOODS! I !
MOSES STROUS has opened at his Store-room, in Mar
ket Square, the first arrival of NEW GOODS, to which he
invites the attention of old and new customers.
His assortment consists of every vaiiety of Ladies Dress
Goods and Dry Goods generally, Groceries, Hats and Caps,
Boots and Shoes.
Also, a heavy-stock of READY MADE CLOTHING, for
Men and Boys.
Call and examine my Stock of New Goods. Prices low.
All kinds of Country Produce taken in exchange at
the highest market prices.
Mauch 31, 1555.
1858()SPRING & NEW 0
SUMMER GOODS 1130151)•
31. GUTMAN & CO.,
Informs the ptthl is generally, that they has just received a
large Stack of SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING, con
sisting of COATS, 'VESTS, PANTS, &c., &c. Also, BOOTS
and SHOES, HATS and CAPS.
His stock of Clothing is of the latest fashions, and man
ufactured of the best materials; and as they are deter
mined to sell at least as cheap as the cheapest, the public
will do well to give them a call and examine their stock.
-kis -- Don't forget the place—Long 's brick building, on
the corner, Market Square, Huntingdon.
March 24, ISSS.
3 00
3 00
UMBRELLAS and. PARASOLS.—A
very fine assortment of well made UMBRELLAS
and Fancy and Plain PARASOLS of every descrip
tion, can be found at the Manufactory of the subscri
ber, at the Old Establlillied Stand, North West cor
ner of Fourth and Market Streets.
The attention of dealers iu the above description of Good*
is re,peetfully invited. JOS. FUSSELL,
No. 2 North Fourth St.. Cor. of Market street,
March 10, ISsS—ant. Philadelphia.
NOTlCE.—Letters testamentary on the
last will and testament of :lames Porter, late of
Henderson townshib, Huntingdon county, dec'd, having
been granted to the undersigned. All persons indebted to
the estate will make immediate payment, and those hav
ing claims against his estate will present them for settle
ment to the undersigned.
LIVINGSTON ROBB, Porter tp.,
B. F. BROWN, Wuterstreet,
March 2-1, 1858
NOTlCE.—Letters of Administration
on the estate of Peter Stryker, late of Porte A-tow
nship, dec'd, having been granted to the undersigned. All
persons indebted to the estate will please snake payment,
and those baring claims will present them for settlement
to the subscriber. JOHN T. STRIKER, Adm'ter,
March 24, 1858. Arch Springs, Blair co.
CANAL BOAT FOR SALE. —The Ca
nal Boat (James P. Pent,) Three Mules,Harness, 6:c.,
for sale low. Inquire of F. J. HFFMAN,
March 24, 1858. Lewistown, Pa.
rplIE SUMMER SESSION of the
MOUNTAIN FEMALE SEMINARY, Birmingham,
Pa., will open for the admission of Pupils, April 29, 18.58,
March 17,1858.3 m. L. G. GRIER, Principal.
CLOTHING.—CaII at M. GUTMAN
& CO., liuntingdon. A Sprin g Stock of the best a nd,
most fashionable, just received. (March 24, 1858.
sILADIES DRESS GOODS !
A Splendid assortment at STROUS' Cheap Store in
larket Square. [March 31, 1858.
ICLOTHING !
A new arrival for Spring and Summer, at STROUS,
Cheap Store. Call and bo fitted. [March 31, 1858.
..._
COUNTRY PRO - DUCE
N,_J Received in exchange for New Goods, at M. STItOUS,
Store. (March 31, 1858.
UTMAN & CO.,
Are selling„CLOTß x
ING at eceedingly low prices.—
Ca 1 and see. ' [March 31,1553.
GROCERIES
Of all kinds at STROUS' Cheap Store
Ir . IOME ONE-COME ALL,
j To the Cheap Store of M. STROI3S, and examine his
New Goods and Prices. [March 31. 18.38.
1000 POCKET KNIVES, soiree of
the best in the world, for side by
April 7, MS. JAMBS A. BROWN.
TF YOU WANT TO BE CLOTHED,
Call at the atore of BENJ. JA.COBS.
369
406
400
50
400
347
150
100
150
/5
400
400
400
417
25
39
Union
102
109
77
110
78
78
78
Tfralker
103
437
42.8
22.93/4
ALSO,
Bradi,
2CG
90
10
10
240
Barra.
153
Era n /din .
14
4%
Henderson.
50
Jackson
100
Springfield.
S 2
100
370
44S
NE
Executors
12 &S
10 09,
13 83'
1 90
14 12
12 29
8 75
I 6 47
13 05
16 62
24 64
23 35
9 89
1 50
3 72
5 00
1 25
4 90
3 12
MI
15
83
MI
2 80
06
2 00
1 75
4 436
1 42
EMI
1 93