THE VOLUNTEER. John B. Bratton* Editor fttttlProprlotor CARLISLE* FEBRUARY 3* 1853. Eg?" MeMtfcJWljj JL'JSSfii. Henderson, Wa lerbury, Schell. and'DChuff,.of Ihe.Slale Leglala tare, will jjfeash "accept - out thanks for favors received,.',. Tn4NKa.—-\Vp lender our emccro thanks lo our ’rdfijiftber* *bf Congress, Hun. James X. M’Lanaitan, for j)ia kindness in sending ut bound copies of Up ' Conffifiional Oloie, containing full procccdlrifrbfi (l/ofirsl session, S2d Congress. This iso most valuable yvork, and will be of great use to us. ’ Fmt !~lhoindiabiki again at W ork.— Sunday roorning-^Mt*.about 1 o’clock, our citizens were startled .frotp-lheir slumbers by the alarming cry of fire. Soon the town was all activity, and our energetic foremen were out with-their engines and apparatus/ ready and willing to bailie with the devouring element.. It was soon discovered that the large stable in the roar of Mr. Rufus Shapley’e property/.North Hanover street .(now in the occu pancy of Mr. Hpvid Maftin.) was in flames. The fire, whloh was undoubtedly kindled by an Incon fliaryvsoort’reduced the stable and its contents to ashesi Two valuable horses, a cow, and some twenty or thirty choice fowls, the property of Mr/ Martin, perished in the flames. A new carriage, two kbits of harness, a quantity of oats, hay and slrayv, were also consumed. Mr. Marlin’s loss, therefore, is very considerable. The roof of the adjoining stable was also destroyed, but by the vigorous efforts of the firemen the progress of the fire was (hen arrested. As we have said, this fire was the work of on incendiary.’ It Is a miracle that a large portion of the town was not destroyed, and we think our citizens should at once adopt some measures for their own protection. There is no telling where or how soon the torch of the incendiary may be npplied r again, but certain it is we have good rea son (0 be under constant fear and dread. We hope our borough authorities may at once offer a liberal reward for the detection of (he incendiaries. Not True.— The editor of the Herald in Ilia issue of last week,relieved himselfof considerable bile, end heaped a greet deal of abuse upon (ho our excellent Governor, because, (as our neighbor asset* led,) he hod granted a previous pardon to M’Cqnneli., who was convicted at our last Court for passing counterfoil money, and sentenced to (ho Penitentiary for (wo years and three months. Where the editor ofthe Herald got his information, we can’t tell, bat one thing wo do know, and that is, M’Connell has not been pardoned. Mo is now in the Penitentiary* where, in all probability ho will remain until the sen. tcnco of the court has been complied with. Shakspeare HofKL, Harrisburg. —During n| late visit to our seat of Government, we dined at the Shakspeare Hotel, Locust street, between Sec* 1 ond and Third. Mr. S. VV. Mumper, who has recently leased the establishment, is a prince of a landlord, and has gone to a very great expense in remitting, furnishing, and beautifying hie house. IDs accommodations are of a substantial and ex cellent character, and everything about the house ia comfortable and pleasanfT Being convenient to the Shakspeare presents many induce* j days. Our friend apd townsman, Mr. Andrew has had groat experience as a land* lord—assists the proprietor in the care and super* vision of (ho establishment. Those of our friends who may visit the seal of Government, will fee) “at hojne,” al the Shakspeare. Injured dv a Fall. — ld taking down the walls of oar old jail, a few days since, a workman named David Havcrstick, a resident of Carlisle, felt from the second story to the ground, bruising and Injuring himself very much. One ankle was se rerely sprained and nearly dislocated, and caused him excruciating pain. He is under medical treat ment and is doing well. Next Stat* Fair. — What is doing by our citi zens towards bringing tho next Stale Agricultural Fair to Carlisle 1 The object in many respects, is worth striving for. After Harrisburg and Lan caster, wo think Carlisle can show just claim to bo selected as the silo for the Fair, and if tins claim is only pressed with proper energy, it can not fail of success. Our County Agricultural Society should see to this matter at onco. New Mode or Recommending for Office.— The Democrats of Zjncsviltc, Ohio, held an election on Saturday last for a Postmaster, to bo recommended to Oon. Pierce for appointment, which resulted in (he success of John D. Roberts over six competitors. Tbe Democrats of Steubenville, Ohio, held n similar election on the same day, when Thoi. Droshcor led the poll. Suppose the candidates for (lie Carlisle Posl offico settle the euoation in o similar manner ? Peart County.-— The Democrats of daughter Per ry held'a largo meeting at Bloomfield, on the Q-iih ull., and appointed Wm. R. Feller Senatorial, and Charles C. Brandt, Representative Delcgolcs to the next Slate Convention—without instructions. Tut Jackson Statue.— Clark Mills and tho Caloric engine have become famous in one day.— Mills Is a native of Now York, but went to South Carolina in his boyhood. His statue of Jackson has made him famous and ho la to bo the artist employed on tho equestrian statue of Washington. Tho bill appropriating fifty thousand dollars for Ibis purposes has passed both Houses of Congress With unexampled rapidity. It is a matter for the American people to congratulate themselves upon that our National Legislature, however faulty in other respects, has at all events been purged of o sot-of men who uniformly opposed all appropria tions for the encouragement of art, gelling ol the same time much credit from Buncombe, at faith ful guardians of the public purse. Health or Vick President Kinu.— Senator Clem ena hit received a despatch, slating that Mr. King arrived at Key West on (he 22d. Ilii lietllh was no belter then when he left Washington, end he has, himself, lost all hope of recovery, and will remain at Key We»t for (he preionl. Just contrary to this, is a despatch received by Senator Charlton, from (ho office of the Morning Neto»,of Charleston, dated Jan. < 25, stating that the steamer Fulton arrived at Havana dn the 22d. Mr. King's health was belter then liken be left Norfolk. - TaxpAßDotrinei Power.—A hill has been reported I ( In the Pennsylvania Sonata requiring (ho Govcror 1 Wbenevsr he shsll pardon any convict, to cauao to bo published ea soon an practicable thereafter, once a Week for two weeks, in at least one newspaper print •*’d ih the ooattty in which the penitentiary or Jail in 'wbioh caob convict ehall be confined may be located, or in which cuch accused person may reside, the reason*, if any, which have Influenced him in grant log each person* who may have petitioned for the pardon granted. TUB FLORIDA INDIAHB. ’ll is probable that o«r government will engage , in the effortto expel these Indians frotp, Florida by force of arm's s that* after* the Idas of- many Uvea, and the expenditure of a large'sum of mcq ey, the effort may be successful; but, we are in formed by a gentleman wlto la practically acquaint- - ed with the country, which they inhabit, that it is totally unfit for the residence of the while race, and utterly useless for all purposes of cultivation. It lies at the extreme sooth of Florida ; consists of fiwampa Aj-01l and is 00 unhealthy as to be totally uninhabitable by any but Indians and negroes. It was declared by Gon. Jessup, in an official dispatch, that it would cost more for medicines to keep while men in health than the country was worth ; and hence he advised that the remnant of Indians now there be permitted to remain. From the description of the country which we have received, and the hab its of (he Indians, were are led to.doubl the policy of forcing them lo remove. It would no doubt be profitable, and therefore pleasing, to some of the people of Florida, to have on army sent against these Indians ; but our government should lake humanity into consideration in its policy towards (he Indians. They might bo restricted to certain limits, where they would live peaceably and qui etly, and without the slightest detriment lo the people of Florida. As the lands upon winch they live could bo of no use lu Florida if they were ex pelled, such expulsion would seem to be (he in fliction of a grioveance upon a poor and defenceless people, without any compensating benefit. Billy Bowlegs, we are informed, was considered friend ly towards (he Americans during the last Florida war; and, as he has judgement enough to know the fully and danger of committing aggressions upon our people, there could be tittle danger, we presume, of having any disturbance, were he and his Indians to be permitted lo remain where they ere for the present. The encroachments of (ho white race ore grad ually extinguishing (ho Indian people; and they are destined (0 finally disappear from this conti nent ; but (his process of extinction should be conducted with as much tenderness and humanity - as may be consistent with safety and the spread of civilization, and not in a rapacious feeling. NOTICE TO FOREIGN NATIONS. Senator Halo is a pleasant speaker end sajjg some good things. In discussing the resolutions in reference to proclaiming the Monroe doctrine, and notifying Spain that she mnel not transfer Cuba to any European power, ho argued in favor of giving the same notice to England in respect to her possessions on this continent. Ho thinks it unfair that we should select weak powers to threat* cn, and leave the stronger ones unnoticed—and he is undoubtedly right. If we can say to Spain that site shall not dispose of her possessions on our coast without consulting ns, wo have the same right to use the same language towards England and other powers. Out wo think that we would act with greater wisdom, by permitting things to rest ns nt present. Cuba is what is aimed at. It sits so invitingly in our vicinity that we can scarcely restrain our selves from seizing it, as Spain has declined to i sell it to us. San Domingo and other islands will have their turn, and we are not likely to be con -1 tent so long as Mexico retains her nationality.— i leas continent is ours.” Hut wo i pared for so huge a grasp at present. Indeed, we think, that if wo were to give due attention to our present possessions for half a century or so to come, and leave other nations to manage their own affairs, we should find ourselves in a bolter posit ion at the expiration of that period, than we shall be if wo commence tho filibustering game now. Let us consolidate what wo have—spread internal improvements from ono extremity of ourpossess ions to tho other—promote harmony and love of country and of justice—and then we may notify the world, if we please, that when wc speak our words must recoivo attention. THE PUOLIC PRINTING. We agree with the Heading Gazette , and are glad to observe a disposition incur Stale Legisla ture to follow the example of Congress in regard to the public printing. Dy tho votes of all the Democratic members of both Houses, but four, the allotment of tho printing has been postponed, with tho view of attempting to pass a more advantage ous bill. Wo hope our Legislature will not hesi tate to oholish the existing contract system—o system which, while it professes to be cheap and economical, in nine cases out of lon, and in almost every business, works Injustice to one parly, and heavy loss to the other. Contracts are generally awarded in favor of bidders who know they can* not execute them nl the prices bid, and who trust | to extra allowances—which their pertinacity inva , riably obtains—to see them through. As an evi- I donee of tho economical operation of tho contract system in this State, wo may cite the fact that under it, for two years, the printing cost the State an average of $91,500 per annum; while during the seven years it was done upon tho correct prin ciple affair prices for good work , (ho average ex pense, per annum, was $16,000. Tub Philosophy op Advertising. —The New York Sun gives tho experience of an old advertiser, who says tho matter of profitable advertising is very simple. “1 make it a rule to always adver tise in the papers which have the largest circula tion among all classes of the people. When ad verlisemonts aro bogged of me for papers of trifling circulation, and offers ore made to insert thorn at a nominal price, 1 would say to myself, any money spent in such a way can bring little profit. It is more profitable to advertise a little more fn tho widely circulated paper, and pay its prices.*’ TmuMPii or tub Revolution in Mexico.—By a lato arrival from VoraCruz, wo have most Im portant intelligence from Mexico. President Arista resigned and retired from the capital on the Cth instant, leaving the duties of his office to devolve upon Sonor Uavollo, the Judge of the (Supremo Court, who has become President ad interim. General Mlnon, In command of (ho Government roops, has been beaten in a regular battle with ho Revolutionists.. The popular cause is trium- phant every whore, and the return of Santa Anna is moat anxiously looked for. - Important to tax Paverb.— A few clays alnco In (he Common Pioas, Philadelphia, the Court delivered an important decision, whereby, about one million dollars worth of property, in that oity, claiming ex emption from taxation under various note of Assem bly, U made liable to lie just proportion of taxes, which will diminish the rale charged upon other properly, herotofote boating all the burlhaft of taxa tion for public purposes. The Pennsylvania Hospital, ' Christ Church Hospital and other charitable, religous > and literary Institutions from which an Income le derived, bio mtdo to pay o las under this decision. (ffltrillgraplja Srissoriuga lit Town.— Tho FooH Killer. Ail. tub' Go.—Mooao tail moustaches New York; l Uncertain.— The weather tod Lancaster ''Bank Relief notea. conductor on the road to wealth was in town yesterday. gy Winter carries off more single girls than a (riffUtfal ooldemio. XT In Ihe'Tjaho of Morse vs. O’Riolly, IhaJJ. 6/ Supremo Coart ha a decided (baton art cannot ho patented. Ebenazor Graham, seven years old, died at Now York last Wednesday, from Injorioa received while anowballing. A Cincinnati editor being oaked 11 what is (he newe 7" replied : Sir, 1 sell my news at 10 cents a week—don’t bother me. XT A mooting of bankers Was hold at Cincinnati on the 20th* to devise some stringent measure to prevent counterfeiting. XT The Cincinnati hotel keepers say (hat there la more travelling through that city than atony time heretofore. 07 The 'mealy snow* In the streets has caused a great rise in ladies' drosses. (XT It is said that the Hon. U!'F. Stockton con. templates resigning his scat in the TJ. S. Sonale. 03* An old man of 90 years, ran away, lari weak, with tho "sweet sixteen,” daughter of Mr. Glass cock, of Singammon county, Illinois, 03* It is said thal'Mr." Fillmore will give a rmg nifioonl parly on retiring, a. la second Adams and Tyler—a filling finality. (Xj’Napolcon 111, has issued t regulation forbiding tho growth of imperials ; ho has grown bis own and wants no rivalry. CO* A bill ha* boon introduced Into the Now Jcr-1 sey Legislature to prevent the issuing and circula tion of small notes for (ho payment of money. It is said that a lobster, when in water, can, with one stroke of his tsil, propel himself a dislsnce of 18 feel- Wm. A. Hillard, of Bridgewater, Oneida county 1 was convicted before the U.S District Court, Al bany, N. Y. ( for using, for a second lime, a postage stomp. A Nice Place to Live in. —Tho New York Mir ror says that “robbers, assassins and rsvisbers lie in wail at every street corner” in that city. '■ Mr. Walker. —Hon. Robert J. Walker is in Wash, ington and rapidly declining in health. His disease is an affection of the thigh bone. He is extremely omaoiated, having changed very moch during the last fortnight. Absquatulated. —One of tho contractors on the Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad ran off, last week, from Mansfield, leaving $15,000 of debts unpaid.— The laborers who were cheated were terribly exas perated, and officers had to be sent to keep the peace The Cabinet. —A Washington letter to the New York Times stales, that an intimate friend of Ger. Fierce wrote from Washington to Concord, to an other intimate friend ol tho President elect, tlial nothing was know in Washington about the Cabinet. The answer was, there was very good reason for ig norance, because nothing had been done si Concord. This is reliable evidence (hat the Cabinet it still at There is no truth in the rumor which line got into Bouton, loft «35,i)1)0,' of President Pierce. isn, and llio amounl paid ahull bo a sol oft* on rcnl Infs ntii,s MonDER.-An orphan boy.sixyoars old ' "]* evidence of which ahall bo ihn , , n J J , collector a rcccipl. Bank djvidcnda nol exceeding was murdered on Saturday mglil, Ql Rand.ll'. lal-nd.',,, pcr cc „,, pcr „„ num p , y c | g | lt pcr ccnL „ 0l by iwo of iiia room males, boys only seven years-old ! ceeding seven per cent, pay nine per cent, not ex- Anollicr boy, who alopl in the some room, aaw the * seeding eight per cent, pay ten per cent, nol exceed* oulr.gO committed. Thev first .(rock 11.0 boy with ' !."*, n . in ” P? r “ nl -. I”? P»rMnl. &o. E.t, 0 . f *, i banking inalitution, or company, paying aix per a club, in his bed ; then drew him out on the piazza, j ppm. dividends on the capital stock, in taxed throe and after again beating him, left him to dio in llio mills on every dollar of stock, and an additional halt co td, j mill for every additional one per cent dividend or Whot horrible dcpra vlly is hero difdoßcd in the infantile mind I The Somerset Herald estimates that butter is on nyally sold in that county to the amount of three hundred thousand dollars. No county in the Stole has a belter reputation for making good butter than Somerset. We had no idea, however, that its citi zens went into the business so heavily. They deserve great credit for their enterprise in this particular, and wo commend their example to the consideration of our citizens. , A Yankee has invented a. nov and cheap plan for boarding. One of the boarders mesmerizes (ho rest, and oats a hearty meal, (he mesmerized being sails* lied from sympathy. One of the boarders having recovered, mesmerized (ho landlady on pay day, and endeavored to settle fur the whole company by pay ing for one —but it did'nl work. Mrs. Martha Marlin Douglas, the wife of the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from Illinois, whoso death wo have already noticed, woe (ho lost surviving child of the late Col. Robert Martin, of Rockingham county, North Carolina. Sho was married in April, 1647, and died at (ha residence of her husband in Washington, In the 24th year of her age. An aged mother and throe infant children survive her. She is said to have possessed a highly cullivolcd mind and surpassing sweetness of disposition. Wouan’b Rights.—The Cincinnati Nonpariol says '■Not far from the Brighton House wo saw a women in a smithshop, with a leather apron on, and a ham mer in hand, setting a waggon tiro." Senator Cooper, who has been sick at I’olUvirio' for three weeks, has recovered sufficiently to take hie seat in the Sonets at Washington. Tut Reindeer Case.— -The (rial of Copt. Forman Indicted for causing the explosion on board the steamer Reindeer, last summer, whereby a number of lives were loSt, amounts to nothing. The jury could not agree. They stood G for conviction to G for acquittal. Sortons nallroad Accident* A distressing accident occurred about 6 o'clock on Sonday morning tail, an llio Columbia Railroad, one mile above Chrlatianna, Lancaalcr county. The train woe running at the rule of twenty-five miles per hour, and consisted of an express, baggage fend three passenger oars, besides the locomotive. When it reached the point designated, (ho hind passenger waslhrown from the track In cunyequenoo of one ortho rails breaking, and in that.condition llio oar ran about one hundred and fifty yards, and then foil down the cmbarkmcnl some sixteen feel... Jlioro Wproton passengers in the oar, all of whom wary* so much stunned that they woro not conscious when the oar foil over. Tho stove was upset, the car sol fire to, and completely destroyed In less than* ton minutes. Thu occupants of the car wore immedi ately looked after and token out. All received aovoro injuries. Two men, said to bo contractors far the now Cathedral, at Pittsburg, who were sluing (ogoth- I or, bad. their logs and arms broken, and one is said to have been seriously . injured Internally, Their lives are dlipared of. Judge Wright o( Clearfield, wib out about the head and slightly injured on t|io •boulders. Ahothor passenger was badly burned and received a fracture of (he arm. The New Assosment Bill. Collection of Atnte and County Taxes* > The Commlnlonorfl, author lied by an ocl'pf tho las Legislature to revise (ho present code,vis: Jauesl. M. Porter, J. Etna Bonuau and E. A Pennimaw, EiljVa.i have made a-report to the Governor, and Ihoi -bill androporl are,now ift process of being printed.! havb discharged their duties ini a manner highly croditoblo to (hem, and iho'sug-l they ptake are such as will doubtlbsa com* #ij?nd Hip earnest'and most scrutinizing 'bare and ! iKontion of thd present Legislature. The object of is to,equalise taxation, byget|ing*a fair and equal osacßmenl of all the real and persitaal properly in (ho Commonwealth j though from its nature, it is oxcocdinglyinquisUbrial in Character, and this fear lure may prove'a strong objection to ils passage.—' The bill is ofoxcooding groat the follow ing synopsis ofils provisions will give our readers a very correct idea of its general features : 1 The assessors are authorized loBubpmna' , wltnesßci, examine thorn underoatA,and roqniro litlo papers to bo produced. Every taxable Inhabitant is obliged to swear to how much personal properly he is worth, j including his money at interest, stocks, bonds, seen* | rlties, and even his income and tho debts which may I bo owing to him by solvenldebtors—a matter wliioli is at all times very difficult to determine. The as sessment is tobomade tricnnollyjond where the 'taxpayer neglects to fill tho blanks left by (ho as. Bpasor.lho latter'must assess the properly twenty; per cent, above its' ascertained value. County Boards of Revision are provided. These Doardsafc hot to equalize tho valuation of land and town lots, and (ho improvements thereon, so that (hey wjll bc assessed at actual cash value,and (|ioy shall have power to subppna and examine witnesses, and require the production of title papers, end exorcise oil powers necessary (o ascertain (ho value df all real and personal property, and shall raise or reduce tho assessors valuation if they think injustice has been done to the Stale or individuals. If taxablcs who have refused or neglected to make return to (ho | assessor, shall present it In this B6ard, (hoy shall 'deduct (he twenty per cent, added by the assessor, {but if no statement is made, the Board shill add ! fifty per cent-to tho valuation. There can bo no appeal from the decision of this Board ; tho County Commissioners shall make no abatement, nor on* lliorize the collector’s duplicates to bo made out on any other valuation than that of the County Board I of Revision, or a Board of Revenue Commissioners. I Next comes a Board of Revenue Commissioners, to meet every three years at Ildfrlsburg, to equalize ! the valuation and provide a uniform rata of taxation. : The Board is authorized to subpoena and examine witnesses, raise or reduce oggrrgato valuations, | which are to remain as the valuation fur throe years, | 1 except the increased value of improvements on real i estate, which may be added by the County Commis>l aionors the two yean succeeding tho triennial assess* l-mcnl. Tho Auditor General transmits copies to tho ' County Commistionors, who increase or decrease tho 1 valuation of the Revenue Commistionors, ratoably among the real estate. Upon those adjusted valua : lions (he County Commissioners assess throe mills upon every dollar of roa) estate,salaries, omolumcns, trades, professions or employments,' one half mill ! opon every mortgage, moneys at interest, public loans, slocks and bonds on each dollar par Value, if I one per coni, interest accrues, and an additional half I mill upon every additional one ncr coni, annual in terest; and every person whoso income docs not | cX&cd $4OO shall bo assessed $4OO, and pay one half milPUpon every dollar as his Stale tax. I The Collector of Taxes is empowered to levy the ! amount, in case of neglect or refusal to pay within 1 thirty days, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the delinquent, first giving ten days no tice. He is also empowered to levy on such goods and chattlefi when ho believes (hey arc about to be secreted or removed, and he may do so before the thirty days grace has expired. Those who piy tho taxes before (he end of (ho year are entitled to an abatement of five, four, three, &c., per cent., ac cording to the time of tho year which they shall pay. Tho Recorder of Deeds arc required to return certi ficated lists of unsatisfied morlgogcs recorded, of less than twcnly'yoars, exhibiting tho names and rcsi profit. Every perron or copartnership telling wines distilled liquors, goods, or commodities of any kind,, of domestic or foreign growth, pioduct or manufac ture, except auctioneers and others duly licensed, arc to pay licenses os follows : SI,UOO,UOO piy $350, $700,000 pay 8300,5500,000 pay $250, 83UD.0U0 pay $2OO, $200,000 pay $l6O. $lOO,OOO pay $lOO, 885,• 000 pay $BO, $75,000 pay $6O, BGO.UOO pay $5O, $50,000 pay $4O, $40,000 pay $3O, $30,000 pay $35, $20,000 pay $20,815,000 pay $l5, $lO,OOO pay $l2 50,86000 pay 810,63000 pay ©7,slUjo pay $5 Every seller of wines or distilled liquors, with or without other commodities, shall pay fifty per cent, in addition to the above rales, winch must to spcci ficd on every licence. No seller under $l,OOO an nuolfy, no femme solo trader or single woman, whoso annual sales do not exceed $3,500, shall bo required to lake out a licence, nor mechanics who keep {-(ores (o sell their own manufactures. The appraisers ol mercantile lazes classify and assess, broktraof stock bills, exchange, merchandise and real estate, all ol whom shall pay three per cent, per annum upon ev ry dollar of their receipts from all sources. Naa res ident holders of real estate are taxed also, and debts due them for tho purchase of such real estates may bo collected of the debtor, the collector's receipt be. Ing a eel-off. If the collector is unable to collect such tax, tho lands thus hold by nonresidents shall bo returned and sold as unsealed lands in satisfaction of taxes. Tho State Treasurer is authorized to de duct from the interest paid upon the unexampled loons of the State and all corporation loans and stocks guorantiod'by tho Stale, one half mill upon every dollar of their par valuo, on which one per cent, annual interest is paid, and an additional half mill upon every oddiliional ono per cent. County (axes not to exceed the rates established for Stale purposes. Auctioneers of all oUsscs aro hereafter to bo taxed on sales of all domestic arlictas £ per cent.; on all foreign and domestic wines ond liquors ono per cent.; on all groceries one half of ono per cent.; on drugs, glass and earthenware, wood and. mahogany, three quarters of ono per cent, on every hundred dollars. Tho property subject to taxation is real estate, construed to include all land, buildings, ground, rents, .ferries, fisheries and wharves, ond personal estate, lall goods, chatties, moneys and effects, all moneys at 1 Interest, mortgages, public loans, stocks, bonds and securities, owing by solvent debtors, within or with out the Stale, all incomes from office exoecdlngs4oo per annum, derived by virtue of tho Constitution or laws, os well as from any trade, profession or em ployment, ond oil other property not comprised as 1 real estate, under tho obove definition. Property exempt from taxation shall bo that of the United Slates and the Commonwealth ; all sinking 1 funds for paying municipal debts; all court houses and places fur municipal meetings, jails, prisons, 1 squires and market places; engine and hose houses of companies in actual service ; all churches, meet. Ing houses, or other regular places of stated religious worship; all burial grounds of religious congrcga ilons, or individual family sepulchre, not exceeding one thousand square feet; all free or public burial grounds; all universities, colleges, ocudcmles, and school houses established by law, or private bounty ; 1 and all necessary grounds in aclusi use, from which! no revenue is derived; furniture, scientific cabinets, 1 and apparatus,bookstand mans; tho properly of tho| overseers of public schools • founded by charier in Philadelphia; all Insane,■ deaf, dutnb, blind and Magdalen asylums; hospitals, houses of refuge, academies of fine arts and natural sciences, libraries, tho Franklin Institute, and literary institutions open to tho public without charge; tho bed, berm bunk, and towing path of every incorporated canal/With 1 ono eighth of an abre/oroaeh lock house or ooUoo | tor’s office; every reservoir In actual'use, the bed of every incorporated railroad,‘with the width of ground 3 n each side, authorised by bharten all necessary dpbts, offices and stations for watdr and oil, with tho necessary grounds t household furniture exceeding two hundred dollars; wearing apparel, mechanical and farming tools, and private libraries: oil oaUlo Icsb than three years old, all swlna and ■lieep less than qno year old, all poultry, and (be loans of-lho State now exempt. Those arc the general featarenof (he bill—all its details would fill (he-paper. Tbs' effect of It, the Commissioners say, will bo'to increase the revenue' to an extent that will astonish the public. - When (lie revenue roaches $1,600,000, the lax will be ro-S duccd to two mills. It Is not probable that the Leg- 1 islituro will pass it, in its present form', though the Commissioners say that the fllHrigent provisions which have been inserted are its vitality: strike them out, and (ho bill is not worth (ho paper upon which U —n 1 - . FROM HARRISBURG. The Legislature is engaged in tho consideration of private, bi|ls, and wo have therefore but little nows, from that quarter. On Thursday; in the Home, Mr. M’lCoo road In pheo a bill to incorporate the Cumberland Valley Sjvings institution. On tho 28th, in tho House, a bill (p extend (he charter of the Carlisle Deposilo Bank, passed finally —yeas 48, nays 39. Messrs. M’Keo and Henderson voted in tho affirmative. In the Senate, on the Q9lli, (ho hill from (ho House to extend the charter of (ho Carlisle Deposilo Dank, was taken up and passed finally—yeas 19, nays 11. Mr. Daily voted in (ho affirmative. [This bill has since been sighed by (ho Governor, and is now a law.] On the 25(1i (ho two Houses of the Legislature mol in Convention in (he Hall of (ho House, at 12 o'clock, to open Uie bids and allot (ho public printing. After a long debate upon the question of proceeding to open tlio bids, (ho convention agreed upon an ad. joornment until tho 2lsl of Fcbiuary without open* any of the bids offered. The object is, in the mean- time, to revise the whole system of executing the public work, and, j f possible, provide fur the election of a Slate Printer. lu the Senate, on (ho 271 h, Mr. Kunklo offered the following preamble and resolutions : Wiir.nkAs, It has been represented that ono Rich* ord Neal, a citizen of Pennsylvania, was on ycslcr* day, the 26th day of January, 1853, arrested in the oily of Philadelphia, on a charge of inciting alovos to exoapo from tboir owners in Maryland, and that said arrest woe mode open the authority of a requi sition from the Governor of Maryland,complied with by lhe Executive of Pennsylvania : And Whtreat, It has not been the practice of (lie Executive de partment of (his Commonwedllh to surrender si legod fugitives from justice, clmiged with offences not known or recognized by the laws of this Coin monwcalth ; therefore. Retolved % That the Governor bo requested (o com municate to the Senate copies of the indictment or affidavit end requisition, produced before him in said ease, together with copies of the correspondence (it any) on the subject, and (ho roaaonn for his com pliance with the said requisition of the Executive'of Maryland. Mr. KUNKEL said it had been the invariable practice of the Executive department, not to grant a requisition for the perpetrator of an offence, which is not known to the law of the Stale to wlioso Exec utive the requisition is addressed. This Noil was a colored man, who had married a slave in Maryland, by whom ho had Issue, and lie very naturally desired to see her free. It was staled, by a morning piper, that the man had been seized in Philadelphia and carried to Maryland, upon a requisition granted by ic Governor. Mr. EVANS staled that lie had un interview wi the Governor upon this subject, and that he staled that the requisition had been inadvertently granted and that he had, at (lie curliest moment after discov ering mistake, telegraphed to Philadelphia to coun, lerinard it. The debate was continued by Messrs. Crabb, Dar sio, O’Neal, end others, when Mr. Duckalew moved to strike out dial part of the preamble, which recites the law, commencing at “whereas, it is not the prac tice to surrender alleged fugitives, Ate.” Ho thought thallho Senate should not solemnly resolve that such had bean (ho practice, nuuuui Borne exaunnairon• The proposition os thus amended was then agreed to—yeas 21, nays 11. Democratic State Convention. A( a meeting of (lie Stale Central Committee, held it Philadelphia, on Saturday loot, it was decided that ho Democratic Stole Convention, for the nomination if candidate* for Auditor General, Surveyor General, md Canul Commissioner,shall bo held at Uirrisburg in Tuesday the Ist day of March. Hon. Sam. Houston, of Texas, has been re elected to the Senate of the U. Stales for (ho term of six years from the 4lh of March next, by a vote almost unanimous, Texas has thus testified its apprecia tion of the eminent services of tho man so promi nently associated with her eventful history. tfttto. F MIL A DELHI! lA , Feb. 2, 1(503. Flour and Mum.. Flour-—Tho market is now very firm, sales of good shipping brands at $5 375, which is the asking rate, buyers offering only SO 31. Extra Flour is held at $5 TO a Rye flour is held at 4 20, and Corn Meal at 3 00 per hbl. THE now two story Brick House and Dackboild* ing, situated in East Main Street,and ot present occupied by J. D. Bratton, is offered for rent from the let of April next. For terms and particulars enquire of WILMAIW MOUDif. W HißKCV—Sales of bis nl 25i; hda 24 a 214 o. ■’’‘■nuTJ 13, 1853-31 Ghain,—Wheat is worth 125c.—Rye 80c.— Corn'GSc.—Oats 45c 2Wnt t lagrfl. On tho 25ih nit., by (ho Rot. J. Evans, Mr. John Stroiim, of Fronkford township, lo Mias Fanny Leh man, of West Ponnsborough township. On the same day, by liio samp, Mr. James M. Dun lap, to Misa Elizabeth Ilian, both of West Pennfe boroogh township. On (ho 37th ull., by tho same, (ho Rov.Wit.LtAM F. GnßAVtn, Pastor of the Lutheran Church in Now. town, Vo., to Miss Anna Amelia Wild, of NowvillwJ On tho 351 h ull., by tho Rev. A Height, Mr. Con . rad Sheriff, of Perry county, to Miss Mary Ann Coup, of Cumberland county. On tho 37th ull., by (ho same, Mr. George Smei,. laiiammer, Sr., to Miss Jane Miller, both of Silver Spring township. On tho Q7th ult., by tho Rov. A. 11. Kremcr. Mr. George Priest, formerly of Ghes'er county, to Miss Catharine Stroiim, of Cumberland county. [West Chester papers please copy.] 50cn tha. 'Near McCutchcnsvillc, Ohio, «n tho tho of December, Elizabeth, wife of David Erol'T** and daughter of John Myorn,’ Esq., ™ this county, aged 28 years, 2 months and ll£ a y B * In (his IJorough, on the 28th ult., Mr. Jr^yP* l * l '' In tho 78lh year of his ago. / To Ijumbormen, / CAUGHT atloat on tlioSujquchaiinJ"'"- 1 ;? 11,0 subscriber, on the 20th of Doec^ r * two white pine logs, 10 feet long, hu«/°ty* few knots in them. Ono Is marked with a *t, and has AX EXahdo double ,he olho ? ft Worked with rod keel. Tho