Jlmwiciiw 00.1 niitm’. CARLISLE. I* A nmrailny Morning, April 14. IS7<>. f .Kr tiii; think The tiny before the flnnl adjournment of the Legislature, the Harrisburg Tct ,l/raph, tlic Republican organ at the .State Capital, contained this article. Read it; read it all: - “To-morrow is the day fixed upon for the adjournment of thp Legislature. We cannot say that wo are sorry to part \vith tlii.s body, whose action during the session has not been such as to deserve common-, dation. U the people consult their own interests and the interests of the Com monwealth, very few,of the men compos ing the present Legislature will be rciurn t.,iV The honor and interests' of the Stale alike require men of larger capacity and very different character—men of more reliable honesty and integrity, in the. Legislature than the body now about, ills persing can houst of. Some there aie in the present Legislature, it is true—of the right stamp-but they number too few to ,*xert any controlling Influen-e. “ eVils of the legislation of the picsentsession are many and great. Their extent will probably only be fuljy ascer tained and understood when people are prosecuted ami brought into court for vio- I latinu of laws of the passage of which they "’ere totally Ignorant. They to )U'in( (i public record q f their (ictA, not ns*lhey falsely alleged on account of the expense, for in other rcspcela llu-y were prodigal of the public money, lavishing, it without cUnt, but in order more effec tually to bidt their rascally action from, the public eye. Nearly the whole session has been dev..led to private hills, as they are mure profitable than those of a public nature, and our mer cenary legislators seem more intent upon promoting their own pecuniary interests' than guarding and promoting the inter- L .j.ta pf tiu* {Stale. Their conduct in many respects has been simply scandalous.— | They have shown themselves morally indisposed anti mentally unqualified to discharge honestly, wisely ami faithfully the duties which they were el acted Vo perform. “ May Heaven in -Us mercy and the people in their wisdom never curse, the Commonwealth wjth another such. The whole, business Is in the hands of the people, and if they do not, after their many and bitter experiences* elect in the future upright, honest and intelligent representatives, theirs alone will be the blame. Let them see to it. that they ore not again cheated.” . Wo repeat the caption of this urckde —let the people think 1 Our State, it is evident to the most casual observer; has been in tiio keeping* of its enemies. Why is it that the people are so cureless in th 6 selection of the men who arc to rep resent them in the State Legislature? it was not so formerly; it should not he so now. For the last ten or twelve years our- State Legislature lias been a curse and a disgrace to the people. Bribery is openly resorted to by those .who desire corrupt legislation, and the funds of the Commonwealth are used for banking and speculative objects wjth impunity. What can bo'done to remedy this groat evil? Elect better men to. tho Legishi-' Hire. The people must exercise move prudence, or they will find their once proud old State swamped in debt ami difficulties. It is a burning shame that our State Legislature should be pointed - at as a corrupt and purchasable body. Its character has become so uoforiou ly bad, that good and honest men hesitate before they consent to accept a seat iu either branch. There were, we know, -ran t ; -‘Lhhdti.sSast kvp.'" .“*? but unfortunately r,„ m e m and for the people, these pure men- were m a hope less minority, and could do nothing. We repent, then, let the people all, over tho State lie more careful in their selec tion of men to send to Harrisburg. We are not speaking now to one party, but to both, for both have'been at fault in this matter. ■ Let the people demand good men for Assembly, and refuse to vote for any man whose character is not above suspicion,"and tho great evil .-o much complained of will ho remedied. -VKTO OF ■ I’ll E ‘ISA ITiKOA l> BUM, Thoro was something very suspicious in tlio manner of tlio passage of the hil 1 which withdrew over nine millions of dollars from the Sinking Fund, and | •appropriated it to the contraction of | several linos of railroad. It was first presented in the Senate on a certain WeilnestVny, , tuu\ irucliod llivou^'t lightning speed; was then sent to the House, and passed finally on Friday of the same Week. Thus one of (ho most important measures which has been presented to the people of Pennsylva nia for years, was rushed through both houses of the Legislature in throe days. Notwithstanding the haste in its pas sage, there was no haste in presenting it to the Governor, lost lie might return it with a negative recommendation be fore thesession closed, it was therefore held until Wednesday, tlio day before tiie final adjournment of the Legislature, in the hope that the Governor would •hold it until next session, and that in the mean time lie might ho “seen.” But the railroad gentlemen, were start led, on Thursday morning, to find the Governor’s at the door of tho Senate with the veto in Ids hands. The veto message will he found else where, and as it corresponds with tlio views heretofore expressed in these col umne, wc take occasion thus publicly commend the action of Gov. Geary in this matter. Tho message is well written, and is an overwhelming argu ment against the proj used depletion of the treasury. Why Mierinnn Opposes 11. in speaking of the army retrench men t -bril-befbre-Congrcss, the 'editOr oMlnr New York Tribune says ; “Gen. Sherman is reported as opposed to the Army Retrenchment bill, nn the ground thatretrenchmentsliouhl begin in the civil rather than tiie military hnuich of the Government service. Precisely. Gen. Sherman la paid 518.750 per year; Chief Justice. Chase Sn.aoil. Retrench ment should begin hi the civil service by all means. Gen. Sheridan is paid SU.SO’O per year; Vice President Colfax sS,onn. Retrenchment should begin in tlio civil branch of the Government. Gen. Hal leek —our own darling Halleck—is paid Sli,- 802 per year;, the Secrelaryof War SS.ddd. Sure enough ; retrenchments/ioaW begin hi tho civil service. Of course, General Sherman la right.” These “military chieftains,” notwith standing their vaunted patriotism and' honor, have just as “ itching palms ” as (ho veriest “carpet-bagger” in Congress, who sells for ready money a cadetship! Tliq people may groan under the weight of taxation, nevertheless those mush room Generals are determined to retain Iheir largo war salaries, and defy both Congress and public; sentiment. BgyOrant, in his message, called (lid Constitution ‘that revered inslrnmenl.’ How he dare do (his after establishing military’despotism in violation of that “ revered Instrument*’ is more than we can tell. Bomo people stop at nothing'. N.I.'S lIO.HI X<»o. .Some lime ago the House of Ueprcscn tativea adoptefl a,resolution calling upon the President for information connected with San Domingo—how much money hail been .spent, ami from what fund, &c. The President to-day replied, inclosing a communication from the Secretary of State, to the ellcct that it would not bo compatible with the public interests to furnish the information while the subject was pending in Executive session of the Senate. - Washington fc(fcr y Ap)‘il l>. There is an impenetrable mystery connected with tills attempt to purchase the island of San Domingo. In our last wo stated that it had boon ascertained; to a certainty that President Grant and other speculators had invented largely in veal estate in'tfau Domingos.and that they expected this landed' property to advance in price 4hreefo.\i v a provided the island was annexed t c.rhe United States. In addition to tins V>. has leaked out that President Grant has actually expended a large amount- of the public money in lliis San Domingo.badness, but what the exact uinou.nl is, or how it was spent, has not been discovered. Por the purpose of getting at the lac's, a resolution -\sias adapted by the 11ouse a few days since, calling upon the Presi dent for Mu> desired information. The President (it will he soon by the" extract we give from a Washington letter-wri ter,) answers the House resolution, and ilatiy refuses to give the information called mr! This most extraordinary conduct on the part of the President has caused a great deal of talk and comment, and after the message had been road to ihe House, Hogan (Radical',) was heard to <ay that the “ whole thing had a dark and villainous appearance.” And Lo gan was right, for if Grant has used the public money—and this he does not don*r-to corrupt the mo,u in power in ftan Domingo to favor annexation, to the United States, ho has been guilty of a most heinous crime, for which ho should be impeached. It is*a humiliating fact that Grant has become so avaricious and grasping that he thinks of nothing but the accumula tion of wealth. That-be is connected' with rings and combinations is an es tablished fact, and that he gives infor mation to these rings and combinations which enables them to investan'd specu late understandirigly, is equally true. Grant is a cormorant, and can be induc- ed to pursue any policy or do any act, provided ho is first satisfied that it will pay, A beauty is he to be the President of the United States. As a commentary on Grant’s wealth, (it is said ho is worth at least a million of dollars,) we may mention the fact that every President of the XL States, from Washington down to Lincoln, lost money by holding the office. Washing ton, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and John Quincy Adams, ac cording to their biographers, went out of office much poorer than when they first entered upon their duties. Jackson was literally ruined, and had to borrow money from E. I’. Blair to take him home to Tennessee. Van Buren was wealthy when elected, but was in very straightened circumstances when ids ■term of office expired. Mr. Buchanan told us himself that he wass2n,ooo poorer; the day his term expired than lie was on tile day it commenced. Lincoln was thn tjjsfjr.-V, t-vw "—-") ii-U* w/ve 1 ‘L mlcd ■States. He saved ids whole salary! How ho managed to do tills is a Radi cal secret. But Grant—stupid, rcTlceiit Grant—lie went into the Presidency a little over a year ago worth nothing, and to-day lie is worth a million of dop lars ! Well done, Ulysses. It is a singular faci—no, not so sin 7 gnlar cither, when we consider their politics— that .the only two Presidents who made money by holding tho office were Radicals—Lincoln and Grant.— This is a way Radicals have,'however. Give them office, no matter what their salaries arc, nosinattcr what expense they arc at, and they will “ make their pile.” This is a principle with the “ trooly loil,” from Boast Butler down to Grant. IOXOUANFF. AM) CUIIKIWTIOX It is scarcely possible for a man of i edrroer impulses to peruse, rcnccnveiy, i tho daily proceedings of Congress, or of ; onrStatoLegislatnre, without entcrhiin ; ing a feeling something akin to mortifi cation, and yet not a little resembling honest contempt. Boih at Washington and at Harrisburg tho picture presented is anything lint edifying to nn intelli gent mind, it is almost disheartning to a mind prepared to regard a republic as the most equitable of all systems of human government. It is mortifying to a judgment disposed to view our legislators, generally, as gentlemen en dowed \i itli a fair share of common sense, and blest with occasional concep tions, at least, of public integrity. The “city of magnificent distances,” as Washington used to bo denominated, naturally arrests the general attention. There we behold tlio While House oc cupied by a Chief ■'Magistrate whose inexperience in .statesmanship is sadly paralleled by his incapacity. Wo behold a President, whoso presumed propriety of purpose is certainly rendered suspic ious by many of his appointments to public office. Nepotism is always de plorable; 1 ut when personal friendsand actual relatives are selected for official station who are constitutionally ineli gible or marvelously incompetent, their appointment is even politically inexens able. v ~Htrii more -reprehensible is the appointment ofmen who may be said to have literally purchased tho executive favor by meansiofroxponsivo donations —for what are contributions to purclm-jp a fashionable mansion, Ac., for another, but .donations ifi u different shape? “Like master like mini,” the proverb says; and what we see objectionable in President Grant, therefore, we find re peated in many of his less scrupulous followers in tlio halls of Congress., In the Capitol we are forced to contemplate, among some worthy men, a body of piebald legislators, whonre nothing but greedy speculators, and who-often lose sight entirely of their duty as represen tatives in their anxiety as impecunious individuals. Having wasted their own substance in securing an election, their primary object is reimbursement. And hence they see no dishonor in accepting bribes to procure cadetships, ami also in otherwise making their olilcial inllnence 1 subservient to their fiscal interests. Pohney had iinotherslobbering timn over a moh of negroes at Washington the Ollier day, in presence of the Presi dent. It was on All Fool’ a day, which seemed lo make it more appropriate. This time the darkeys will ho fooled. Tin: M.tiUo vote The following table, which wo take from the Now York Tribune, shows ap proximately the number of negroes who have been added to the voting popula tion of each of the States named, by the Fifteenth Amendment: Shilcs, ' ■ A'-’.oro popuht/ioii. AVic toUrs.' Callloniin. I.MJ ■Tonneellont. S,tj27 Palawan*, Illinois., Indiana, lowa, Kentucky , .Maine,- IMarylaml, , IMassnchuselts, Michigan, Minnesota, 2R;w Hampshire .Now Jersey. Now York. Ohio, ■Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin. It will bo soon by an oxainiiuition of the above table, that the negroes'will ■eonsUtutea very inconsiderable element in most of tho States named. In Ken- l,0M» 2.‘0,1(37 1,827 •71.101 O.M -0,700 2i,BW ofi.Sl!) tueky anti Maryland alone arc they sufficiently numerous to be formidable, but these Stales will remain Democrat ic nevertheless. In Pennsylvania the negro vote will amount, according to Greeley’s esti mate, to - if,475. That is a. very small fraction in a voting population of not less thaw six hundred and seventy-live thousand. It is only one negro vote to seventy whites. The'.Radicals who have been calculating on securing a contin uous'lease of power by the help of the negro vote will find that they have counted without their host. THE WATMUAMO.NW CASE. The WaU-Hiamoud contested election case lias been- decided in favor of Mr. Wall, the sitting Republican member, by the Radical majority of the commit tee and the Legislature. This is a most outrageous decision, but tho Radical majority would ooner do anything mean than, lose tile control ol the State Senate. Ik speaking ef tins outrage, the Harrisburg l\T/rh! says; It has been ascertained who were the men that offered Thomas Itassett, Judge of elections for the Sixth Division of tho Second Ward of Philadelphia, one hun dred dol'ars to chani/c one, hundred votes from Diamond to Watt. Hassett swears before the ComndUee Him Joseph Wat son ami John- Given, prominent repub lican politicians of Philadelphia, took him to a room at the Washington House hi that city and there made him sucli a proposition, Bullthas not been ascertain ed who committed tho Jprgery by which the hourly return of the Seventh Divis ion of the Third Ward, was so altered us to give Watt one hundred vgjcs more man he received. Somebody, doubtless, got a hundred dollars for putting.up this job. Fraud by the return judges, iorgery of election papers 'by radical politicians, perjury by buwdy-bouso pimps, pauei tbieves, professional pick-pockets, cut throats ami the vilest characters known to the criminal history of the three great cities of Hie Union, are the agencies by which W. W. Watt is to-be confirmed in his seat ill Hie Semite, The unjust action of the Radical ma jority in tho Legislature in this case, will* bo a lasting disgrace to every one concerned in it. It proves that fair dealing is not to lie expected from the Radicals, but that they aro incorrigible in partisan scheming and rascality. Tin; Next Radical Candidate .von Gqvebsok.—Forney is busy just 'candidate for Ch.vi-uor of this State. Through tho columns of - tho Dress he. Jb'r.inffs forward General Horace Porter, Grant’s private Secretary, and suggests that, his Democratic antecedents, and the fact that ho is, a son of ox-Govornor Porter would give him great prestige in the canvass. General Harry White, Winthrop.W. Kctchum, and other out and out Republicans, will please take notice. A renegade Democrat is to he foisted upon the party again. Straight outers will ho compelled to take back seats. They may do the hard and the •dirty work of tho Radical party in Penn sylvania, but when a Governor is to bo nominated lie must be a reconstructed locofoco. This pill maybe a bitter one, but they will have to swallow it. If Grant’s Private Secretary aspirosto civil lienors, wo shall have Forney and Cam eron combining to carry out tho project,, and the President using all the patron ■ Otto of tV\o Pcdartvl Oovovnikicmt to fuv thcr the scheme. The next Republican candidate for Governor of this State is to bo a i onogfado Democrat. The decree has gone forth. Senator linckitlou on llio liallrond Hill. On tlio first page of, this paper we publish tlio soeec‘h delivered by Hon. Charles R. Buekalew, in the Senate of Pennsylvania, in opposition to the Rail road bill, withdrawing nine million five hundred thousand dollars of Pennsyl vania Railroad bonds from the Sinking TTuid of tiie State Treasury, and sub stituting in their place bonds on rail roads which are not yet constructed. During his long and honorable career, Air. Buekalow’s voice lias always been raised in behalf of justice and integrity. As a sentinel on tiie watch-tower, his trumpet gives no uncertain sound when great public wrongs nre contemplated ami the rights of the people- invaded. His arguments in this case wore unan swered and unanswerable. Poliuk Hill Xii.led.— 'Tlio Senate Police'Bill for Philadelphia was taken up in the' House on Tuesday of last week, and killed by indefinite post ponement, the vote being fifty to forty three Tiie Democrats voted for the postponement, and tlio Republicans . against it,-except. Aimes, Biifiingicm.,- Chnmberlaiii, Corny, Craig, M’CTeary, Roinfehl, Smith, Steele, Stephens, and Webb, who voted with tho Democrats. Tiie iniquity is thus defeated for another year. Our neighbor tlio Herald goes olfiii to caniptions because tiie directors of tho Academy bf Music would not al low that building to bo used by the ne gro Senator, Revels, to lecture in. As eleven out of the twelve members of the hoard are Radicals, it is not our fu neral. Still itshows how the cat jumps. ifi/'On onr first page will liu ( ibund tlio speech of our member of ' ongress, Mr. Haldeman, as wo And it in the Cuiiyec.ieional Globe, on the subject of tiro farin'. Wo have road this speech carefully, and truth compels ns to say that wo cannot understand it. Wo hope onr readers Will give it a careful peru sal, however, and perhaps they may find in it something’worthy of com mendation. USyTninll seriousness, lids tiling of “annihilating” Woodward and Cox in ust lie stopped. Tho Democratic party can’t afford to lose two such valuable men. VKTO MESSAGE. KxKrrrivK chamukk, \ Uauuimu;uu, April?, Ib7o. j To the Senate and House of Jicprcscnla* fives of the Commonwealth of Pcnnmjl vania : Gentlemen— Senate bill No. 1070, eu tltied “An act to'facilitate ami secure the construction of uu additional railway connection between the waters »of the Susquehanna and the great lakes, Cana da and the northwestern States by ox tendingUio aid and credit of certain cor porations to the Jersey Shore, Pino CreOk and'Buflnlo Railway Company, ami in like manner to aid the construction oftho Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston mil-* way, the Clearfield,and ButTalb railway, and the Erie and Allegheny ‘ railway,” was only presented for executive approv al on yesterday, the Oth iust. * Regarding it as among the most im portant ever submitted for consideration, both In the principles it involves and the consequences of my action thereon, I have examined with as much care as “was possible in the short time allowed, and the* pressure of other duties at this laic stage of the session. For these rea sons it’would have been desirable that the views about to bo announced should have been the subject of more mature ro llection. v Entertaining, however,, firm comictio'us thaOtbe proposed measure is not ouiy in conflict with the Constitution, but'ftb'war with the best interests and true policy of the State, it is deemed an imperative duty to guard against all pos sible misconstruction by returning the hill promptly to the Senate, in which it originated, with the following state ment of the reasons for withholding my approval. . There are in the sinking fund of the State nine and one-half millions of dollars ($9,.500,000) in railroad bonds, viz: $0,000;- 000 in bonds of the Pennsylvania railroad company, and of the bonds of tbe Allegheny Valley railroad company, the payment of the latter guaranteed by the Philadelphia and .Erie railroad com pany, the Northern central railway com pany, and by the Pennsylvania railroad These $G;000.000 are a part of the proceeds of the sale of the main lino of the public works, sold in 1557; and the $3,500,000 arc bonds substituted for n like amount of bonds which were pro ceeds of Hie sale of other portions of Un public works, made subsequent to 1857. Tlie whole $9,500,000, therefore, are pro ceeds of the sales of-public improvements formerly 'owned bv the State; and.thq bill under consideration, if approved, will take this entire “sum out of the sinking fund and distiibuto it among the four railroad companies named in the bill, in the proportions theiein recited. In the consideration of tills most im-’ portanfc subject two questions naturally arise. SWI 1i 8.107 0,112 ■ First. Has the legislature the constitu tional power to enact this law? -and . Second. If the power exists, isit expe dient to.exercise It? If the first question be answered in the negative, the bill should not be approved. If in the allirmitive, then the second question assumes a grave importance. What then are tbe written constitutional provisions bearing upon the subject? The, latter clause of the 25th section of tbe first article of the Constitution declares that: • “No law hereafter enacted shall create, renew or extend the charter of more than one corporation.” The eighth section of the eleventh article is as follows: t ' “No bill shall he passed by the legisla ture containing more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title, except appropriation bills.” The proposed act is not an appropria tion bill within the recognized meaning of this section of the fundamental law. Every ope familiar with the history of our State Constitution knows the objects for which these clauses were inserted and adopted. Our State had been cursed with omnibus legislation, enacted by what in common legislative parlance was known os the system of log-rolling. Measures which alone could not slanfl upon their merits,’and which often had no merits on which to stand, were,fast ened together in one bill, and by ingeni ous combinations of local interests, the tvms i isirov , fdnm , sr ,, {v^xj‘ l iorcen ixTrfmigh“ia the same act. Essentially diverse, con flicting, and even rival and hostile inter ests and parties, who could agree upon nothing else, wore thus induced.to unite in a common raid upon the Treasury of the State. This evil became in time so intolerable that the people were at last compelled to - protect themselves against it; and they dUVao by these plain con stitutional prohibitions. The people in their sovereign capacity declared and wrote, it in their Constitution, that , “no bill should be passed by the legislature containing more than one subject,” and that “no law hereafter enacted shall create, renew or extend the charter of more than bne corporation.” • Tt is contended, and with some,show of plausibility, that the bill under con sideration embraces but the.one subject of railroads, and this, and this alone, Is expressed in the title; and that the act does A not create, renew or extend the charter of more, than one corporation. Technically, this may be so; but we are considering grave questions of constitu tional law, where different rules of con struction-must prevail, and judged by these it is clear that the provisions of this act are in manifest violation of the letter, object of those plain constitutional provisions: - Tir of the Common wealth vs. Clark (7 Watts and Sergt’s. Rep., Vi?) the late Chief Justice Gibson, in delivering the unani mous - opinion of our .Supremo'Court, said : “A Constitution is not to receive a technical interpretation like a conimoh ■ law instrument or statute. ItUtohcin- tcrprctcd so as to carry out the great principles of the government , not to defeat them.” Apply this authoritative, sensible and wclle c tabli.-bed principle of constitution al construction to the case in band. The Constitution declares, in substance, that omnibus legislation and log rolling en actments shall cease ; and to that end “no law hereafter enacted shall create, renew or extend the charter of raorethap, one corporation and “no bill shall be, pns&il by the legislature containing more than one subject. u The bill re turned includes four different railroad companies ns principals, and nine others as guarantors, and by a liberal construc tion assumes that they all constitute.but one subject. By this omnibus system the proposed act combines the interests, local rivalries and cupidity of nearly every section of the State, from. the Delaware to the Lakes, and has .thereby secured its passage. The several corpora tions, it is true, are not, technically, created by this law, but were first incor porated by other bills, with the manifest intent to ho followed by this act, which artfully, combines the local Interests of all the-, other beneficiary companies, breathes into them the breath of life by the appropriation of the public moneys and secures the very, identical ends pro hibited by t|io Constitution. 'Thus, by a “11 hoi‘ul~emrsinTclu)n...of the act, mid. a narrow amf;techm(rai interpretation of the ConstlLutloWJ-.ihe sound rules made applicable to both mo reversed and mis applied and the effort made to reconcile the statute with the* prohibition. The attempt is a failure. The Constitution can not he evaded or nullified in any such manner. As ruled by Chief Justice .Gibson, it must “be interpreted so as to carry out the great principles of the gov ernment, not to defeat them.” , But there are other provisions of the Constitution prohibiting such legislation. The 4th, sth and GMi sections of the Xlth article are as follows • “Skc. TV. To provide for the payment of the present debt, and any additional debt contracted as aforesaid, the legisla ture shall, at its first session after the adoption of this amendment, create a sinking fund which shall he sullleient to pay the accruing interest on s-mli debt, and annually to reduce the principal thereof by a sum not less than two hun dred unci fifty thousand dollars, which sinking fund shall consist of the net an nual income of the public works from time to time owned by the State, or the proceeds of the sale of the same or any part thereof, and of the income or pro ceeds of saleof stocksowned hy tho State, together with other funds or resources that may he designated hy law. The said sinking fund may he increased Imm time to time hy assigning to it any part of the taxes or other revenues of thcßtn'o not required for the ordinary and current expenses of government; and unless in case of war, Invasion or Insurrection, no vnrt of tbesaid sinking fund shall bo usoi e or applied otherwise than In extinguish 1 nient of the public debt until the amount of such debt is reduced below the sura of i five millions of dollars.” ‘ “Sec. V. The credit'of the Common- 1 wealth shall not in any manner or event ( he phdged or loaned,to any individual, i company, corporation or association; nor i shall the Commonwealth hereafter bo-- \ como u joint owner or stockholder in any i company,-association, or corporation.” Sec. VI. The Commonwealth shall 1 not assume the debt, or any part thereof, i Of any county, city, borough or town- I ship; or of any corporation or nssocia- ■ tion, unless such debt shall have been i contracted to enable the Stale to repel invasion, suppress domestic itisurrec- . tion,‘defend itself in time ol war, or to i assist tbe State In the discharge of any i portion of its present indebtedness. , . These throe sections are part of the i Constitutional amendments adopted by ■ a vote of the people In 1857. X boy speak for themselves,- and in / no doubtful lan guage. The -lib section requires the leg islature to create a sinking fund, to consist, among other tilings, of the net annual income of the public works, f'om time to time owned by the State, or the proceeds of the sale of the same, and declares further that, “unless in case of war, invasion or insurrection, no part of the sinking fund shall bo listed or applied, otherwise than in extinguishment ot the public debt. .How is it* possible to re concile these plain declarations of the Constitution with the provisions of the bill under consideration? These nine aud a half millions of bonds are the pro ceeds of the sales of public works; and they are in the sinking fund created by the act of 22d April, 1853,. in compliance with tins same section of the fundamen tal law; The constitution declares as plainly ps language can direct that “no part of the sa'ld,sinking fund shall be used or applied otherwise than in extin guishment of tbe public debt.” f lbo hill proposes to apply the whole of the nine aud one-half mil (japs to the con struction . of sundry Enumerated rail roads. The V section declares that the credit of Commonwealth shall not in any man ner or event be pledged or loaned to any individual, company, corporation or as sociation. This bill proposes, not technically, a loan or pledge of credit, but more :*it proposes to pay for the con struction of the railroads for these cor porations. How can this be done con sistently with the constitutional pro hibition ? Does not the greater include the less? In principle, or substance, how does the thing authorized differ* from tiie thing prohibited, except per haps in degree? True, the oho prohibits the loan or"pledge of credit, und the other appropriates memento pay for the work, but the actual result is the same, viz; the taking of the proceeds of the. sale of the public works out of the sink ing fund ai.'d appropriating them to the construction of railroads. The VI section declares that “the Com monwealth shall not assume the debt, or any part thereof, of any county,, city, borough or township, or of any corpor ation or association.” Technically, the bill under considera tion may not authorize tbe assumption of tlio debts of these railroad companies, but it does more. It actually provides for their payment, and takes from the State Treasury the necessary means with which to do it.- These are all clear violations of the very plain provisions of otir written Constitution. An effort Is made to escape from these conclusions, under the ruling of the Supreme Court in the case of Gratz vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad Company (5 Wright, 417.) which seems to assume that these bonds in tbe sinking fund are not the proceeds of the sales of the public works. Hut the court in that case justi fies its opinion on the ground that the act there in question authorized the sinking fund commissioners ro exchange depre ciated securities for those of more value. Here the attempt is to authorize the ex,- change of securities confessedly good for others of most questionable value. This P regard as a m.<st important distinction, and ope on which the legislation of last session may also be justified. Moreover, I consider the. assumption that the bonds now in the sinking fund are not the pro- Vv nu?i9 r tAVtenaiTl o | r iinwurran Un true. The purchase money was the pro ceeds of the sale of the public works, as understood at the time and, ever since. Not only tbe §lOO,OOO required by the law providing for the sale to be paid down at tli© time ofUie bid, but the whole seven, and one-half millions, which the same law designates as “ the whole amount of sales to be paid In the bonds of the com pany.” And if anything can make this more plain it is 'the fact that tbe same men, at' the same session of the Legisla ture, passed these constitutional amend ments of 1857, and also the not for the sale of the main line; and they naturally used (he same words and expressions to express the same ideas. The words of the Con stitution.have already been quoted, and the 12th section of the act for tbe sale of the main lino, approved’ 10th May, 1857, declares: “That the entire proceeds of the sale of 1 said main line shall be paid to the sink ing fund, and applied to the payment of 1 the State debt.” Surely it cannot be necessary to argue this question further, ft is very clear that the framers of the Constitution intended that the‘whole of 1 the proceeds of the public works should go into tiie sinking fund, and should-bo mi otlmr purpose thup tbu payment of the public debt ; and the. practice of the Government ever since ISoiJ, in all its departments, has conform ed to these conatifulional requirements. Nh manipulation of words, no artfully- drawn phrases, and no subtle distinct ions or contracted or mi.ssapplied rules of interpretation, can explain away Jhese plain constitutional restrictions on the power of the legislature ; or enable it, in defiance of them, to bankrupt the treas ury of the State through means prohibi ted by the fundamental law of the land. Having thus demonstrated the uncon stiUitionaiiLy of (he proposed law I might well be spared (lie discussion of its expe diency. It Is possible, however, that different views may tic entertained as to the Lgal question involved. I have, therefore, deemed it proper tosuhmit the following propositions as conclusively establishing the Ineqpediency of this scheme. First. By the terms of the act the Slate is to exchange six millions of bonds (SG -000,1)00) secured by a mortgage a road worth many times that amount for six (billions ($(5,000,000) of bonds to ho .issued by a company as yet unorganized and whose road is not yet commenced. Second. The contract of guaranty re quired by the bill is illusory, for it is un certain who is to execute it, ami if en tered Into by responsible parties it binds them to nothing except the construction and equipment of the contemplated road. The manner in which the road is to be constructed and equipped is wholly un provided for. Upon this vital point the bill is entirely ominously silent Third. The interest upon tliosix mil]» ions ($(5.000.000) bonds to bo- surrondpred. is payable, according to a recent decis ion oTiho .Supreme Court of tho United Slates, In gold. Tho interest on the bonds to he received would be payable in currency. Jihw'th. The State is now receiving up on thohond.s to besnnended fourhumlred and sixty thousand dollars ($100,000) per annum, and under existing laws is enti tled to receive that amomitnnnually, un til the whole ho paid. If the contract of guaranty mentioned in the bill wore per formed to the letter, the State could only receive three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) per annum for the next three years. The loss therefore to the revenue 'by this exchange would be one hundred niid sixty thousand dollars ($100,000) an nually for the first three years, and there ufter’tho wlnffe amount would bo lost unless paid by the projected road. Fifth, Other bonds to the amount of three millions and an half dollars ($3,- 500.000) most amply secured are to bo exchanged for second , mortgage bonds on a prospective railroad, tho first mort gage being already authorized for sixteen thousand dollars ($10,000) per mile at seven per cent, interest. ' ■ Siv(h. It may well ho doubted wheth er the proposed road from Jersey Shore would 1)0 a success. Almost every new road through such undeveloped regions ha*« experienced u period of Insolvency. The connection of the .Stale with annu lar enterprises presents a sad history of disappointment and failure, of which Up* Philadelphia and Erie road is a con uplcoiis Illustration. Tho competing roads already in existence lender the proposed J security entirely hazardous, if not worth ]CS&cvcnth. As already stated in my last annual message a largo amount of the debt of the Commonwealth will shortly fall due. During the next three years over nine millions of dollars (§9,000,000) will mature. Should the securities now in'the sinking fund bo exchanged for .unavailable bonds the Stale could not meet*her just obligations. This would load to renewals and these would in time impairourcredit. The people have declared and have the right .to expect that the debt shall bo paid off* ns provi ded In tho’Coastitution, ami their tuxes reduced. .. .. Eir/hih. This bill proposes to remit the State to the pursuit ( f a policy of public improvements by which in years past she identified herself with enterprises of doubtful expediency, and widely her cit izens have with great unanimity con demned. , . , Ninth. On what sound principle, of public policy, equality or justice can all the securities of the State be distributed to these four railroads, to tbe exclusion 61 the hundred others hi the Common wealth’equally meritorious aud to the exclusion also of nil the other interests of the State ? What have the great agri cultural, mining, manufacturing and oth er interest done, or omitted to do, that they should be denied all participation in the public bounty. Other objections to this measure might bo stated, out those already given are con sidered sufficient to satisfy every impar tial mind that the proposed scheme is as gross a violation, of the Constitution as of sound policy. It is therefore most rcspecfcfullysugges ted that the bill bo reconsidered, in the light of these objections, which may not have been fully presented during the few days occupied in the discussion and passage of this act. Jno. W. Geary. , /v. OCIII WASHINGTON LETTIOU. Sambo as Kuvcreif/ii—Daddy Deni Demurs—Tlibshad bribes after Sheridan—A COnscionlrss Collector— Grant, an n Lobbyist—Simon says trlfwic-tvayr/le — Jl'm* on Utah—Another relative in office—A Con trast. * Oirre.yio'Ulonee American Volunteer, Washington, April 9,1570 Allnsttho long agony la over. Sambo Is no longer merely “a man and a brother,” but Is now a full pledged fellow citizen of A frlcan ’scout Last week the proclamation of the Secretary of Stale, accompanied by a milk and water mes sage from the President, announcing the pass age of the Fifteenth Amendment, was sent to Senate and the House of Representatives, and caused great Jollification amongst the Radical members. The message contains several impor tant admissions. The President counsels the newly enfranchised race “to strive to make them selves northy of their new privilege ” Consequent ly he does not believe theyaro now worthy of it, and the Radical party arc convicted, out of the mouth of their President, of the folly anil wick-* edness of conferring suffrage upon four millions of people who are now unworthy of the privi lege. He also culls upon Congress to,take all possible means to promote and encourage popu lar education nmorgst the blacks, ns it is essen tial that public opinion should ho enlightened. Hero is another admission that the negroes do not poscss a sufficient amoTmt of luleligenco to guide them to a safe use of the ballot, and yet they have been entrusted with It to give the Radical party further control of the government- Hoes It uotscem like the merest mockery for the President to say '‘The. framers of our Constitu tion firmly believed .that, a republican form of government could not endure without Intelli gence and education generally diffused amongst the people ?” The man who enunciates this sen timent is the recognized leader of the party which bos made voters of four mil lions of blacks, nineteen twentieths of whom can neither read nor write, and who know nothing about the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. One of the Washington correspondents of the New York World Is responsible for the follow ing : When the fact was made known In the ante, room that the fifteenth amendment had receiv ed the signature of the President, father-ln-Jaw Dent happened lobe sitting on a sofa, his face half hidden between his hands, which rested on the top of a heavy gold-headed walking-stick.— lie bounded to his feet with the agility of a cat, shook his stick threateningly at the group of re portersovho were waiting for copies^ ” You’ll bo sorry for It! You’ll be sorry for it! The d—d niggers 1” hobbled qulckley out of the room, slumming the door uftorhlm, and leaving his dutiful son, the General, overwhelmed with conluslon. Quite a delegation of Friends, who represent societies in several Statfcs, have arrived hero to remonstrate with the President and General Sherman against General Sheridan being allow ed to remain a day longer hi command of the Indian country. They complain very earnestly against his conduct In the attack on the Plegnns, and ask that the opposite policy may bopursued against the Indian tribes. They have drawn up a plan for the transfer of the Indians to reserva tions, with the purpose of ameliorating their condition by the Introduction of the proper ele ments of civilization. But In their contest against Sho’rldan they appear to bo determined *to accomplish something. The recent mysterious disappcrrance of Reve nue Collector Halley, ol New York, and (ho proba? • ble loss .to the Government of three or four hun dred thousand dollars, astonishes nobody but the Itadlcal politicians, and their astonishment is all put on. Every one who knew anything about Bailey, know that his appointment was utterly unlit’ to he made. He was a very "loyal” man, and a devout Christian, but the tempta tions of his olllco were too much for Bailey’s piety and patriotism. After nil he wife Justdolng whirl, hundreds aiull.hausauda.of r.nw>r nonioai nabobs have done before him. It seems that the Republicans, from'the President downwards, hold that it is not criminal to steal, if you only 'conreul' the theft. The sin consists in being found out. Tills being their theory, crime in olllco Is everywhere oncouraged-by the individual impu nity which is guaranteed by the necessity of saving the reputation of the Republican party. Ulysses Grant bus become the great, lobbyist of the season. His desperate attempts to lobhy tho San Domingo treaty through the Senate, coupled with his openly expressed sympathies for Georgia Bullock, appears to have put the Radicals not a Uttlo on thcffnieltlo, and wlllbo a primary cause of the triumph of the Bingham amendment. Prominent Radical'Senators ox press themselves as extremely dlssatlstlod with attempts to force them to adopt the Presidential lino of policy, apd openly declare that, unless. Grant maintains the dignity consistent with his position, his power and Influence with the party will bo seriously Impaired. Senator Cameron, however, has written a letter to the President, 'nylng although he voted against the San Do mingo Treaty in Committee, he will, "loaccom mndate the President," support it In Executive Session. Simon always .keeps an eye open to the distribution of the spoils, and that Is the secret of his singular letter. Catch Old Winne bago napping—catch a weasel asleep, if you can. Grant Jins sot his heart on pushing tho Sail Domingo Job through, and Cameron knows it. It is tho biggestkind of a gift enterprise, and Simon don’t Intend to draw a "blank.” • Our Radical friends are getting their hands full of tho Utah question. It is about to prove an elephant of mammoth size. Thcj: have sud denly grown very virtuous and are about to de clare war against polygamy every place else but in tho District ol Columbia. Now whv not let the question settle Itself ? The PacJn'-’Rall voad is u greater enemy of Brigham Young than an “army with banners would be. Tho trains arrive at Halt Lake crowded with ■ Ultely.yQumL-m.oiion thidr way-4(x-4he-mlnes* and the Mormon glrlsseelng the largo supply’ are not Inclined to lake part of a man when each girl can secure to herself a whole husband. Under these clrcumslunces.common sense would leach us to leave the evil to Us natural and speedy death. But Mr Cullom. of Illinois. Intro duces n hill in the House of Ilepresenlailves at Washington, confounding the crime of bigamy with the Insane religious belief in polygamy, and proposing 10 pm- cturo it with the bayonet, ibis means war. All attempts to correct rellg ouserror through force result m war. Tho revolt now raging lu Utah against Brigham, and gath ering strength every. UaV, will end at once on the passage of suen a bill, and the Mormons will once more present an unbroken front to the en emy, Tho prophet will cut tho railroads, and our late war Ims domonstrrtod that, In face of such a force es the Mormon leader can rally for t thousand troops could not keepopen our lines of communication. Wo are threatened wlth’un Indian war, an i Brigham would not bo slow* to lake advantage of tho situation. Ourromotesot tleiweuts would bo destroyed, our frontiers dis turbed, and the entire i aclllc coast once more < separated from tho hasteniStates. And for what do Wo rim these risks? No man can answer. We have putupwith polygamy for twenty years, and now that it bids lair to die out Itself, wo suddenly rush into“thls crazy action. Is It that these railroads have made tho Mormon property desirable, or Unit certain gold and sliver mines lately opened by old Brigham have been found to be so exceedingly rich as to stir up our reli gious enthusiasm? Utah is said io contain over a hundred thousand Inhabitants—a very sober ’ hard-working, thrllly people. Tho better way Is to admit her us a State, and leave tho Immoratlfy of her people as wo do the Immorality of tho miners and border rnfllnns, to the schoolmaster and missionary, who will ilnd less to do there limn with the people of any adjoining region. Another relative has been provided for, J. Bussell Jones, cousin to the President, hits finally been confirmed as Mlnlstorto Belgium,and that little real eatato’tmnsuctlon in Chicago,-which •conveyed certain lands belonging to .1. Iluasell Jones to U. B. Grant, has been rendered valid. This will bo a happy thing for Jones, and a pro fitable thing for the U.B. Grunt Indicated In the deeds of conveyance, which are said to hear oven date,with the appointment of a certain Jones as Minister to Belgium, gllibcvttecmeutss. 1870. SPRING TRADE Ready Made Clothing, MMIM & BROWN, Opening 1o the pcooplo tho grandest stock of FINE CLOTHING for Men and Boys, that Onit Hall Ims ever contained. Since lust Fall wo have secured tho twt> larco lots adjoining us. and have erected upon thorn an Iron-front building, equal In size to onr for mer Building, mailing Oak Hull twiceaslaige a* before, in order to accommodate the GREAT MASS OF PEOPLE, Who have become our customers. We invito all our customers, with their neigh bors and friends, to pay us an early visit, to ex amine oar Mammoth buildings, and to inspect our MAMMOTH STOCK: WANNAMAKER & BROWN. CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT, Nos. 530, 502,531, 535 Marketstrcei, and Nos. 1,3, 5,7, 0,11 and 13 South Sixth street. PHILADELPHIA. • Send vour orders if yon can’t corm*. April il, 1870—Im List of dealers in . goods.^ Wares, and Merchandise, also Brewers, Ills-' tillers. Lumbermen, Eating Houses, &c.‘, within the count'* of Cumberland, as appraised and as sessed by David Wherry,’Mercantile Appraiser, in accordance with the several acts of Assembly, as follows, to wit; Leldich * Miller Dry Goods 9 BentzitUros. do 9 Ogllby C, do U Miles W. A. do 11 Greenfield L. T. , do 11 King J- G. H. . 'do 11 Harper A. Thomas . do 11 NellM. P. Fancy Goods 1-1 Coyle Brothers , - do. 13 RodgoisC.M. Jewelry 11 Conlyn Thomas do 11 Kramer F. C. do 11 HyslngcrH. „ do 11 Sax top Henry - Hardware -9 Miller* Bowers do 10 Ockor Mrs, A. E. Sowing Machines 1 Fullmer J. M. *S. H. do 11 FaberLowls do 11 Hinkle & M’Mahon do 11 Pelfer & Waahmood do ll McGonegal James Stoves ll RluesmUh&Rupp do H Fridley William . do • H Walker & Claudy , do |1 Sellers William Confectionary H Miller Peter do - ll Burkholder D. W. do 11 Kiefer Mrs. S. M. d° }‘J Hughes Robert do 14 Yocum George do J j .Martin Jacob do H Schredonbaugh J. • do Brown John d° “ Meclc J. D. .1° ‘ Wetzel Joseph S. do ll Faller Joint ’ d° , J / Hunter John do n labor George do iJ Franciscan Charles do ii JeiuUuus William 1 1 Zolgler J. A. Flour nnd Feed 1-1 liectcm & Co. Produce U Hosier & Bros. do . J . l • x». n rln U Huvkuess H. ' * ao n Btayman C. S. do 11 Cornelius & Bosh do 11 Low John do 11 Allison Robert do a 11 Hoover S. M. Dumber and Coal 11 Blair A. H. do 12 Delaney AShrom do 13 Rhoada H A Co Coal 11 Zlnn George do .14 GrethmauG, . Groceries 11 liiszmnnt). do 14 Ham W„H. Smith W. H. Wetzell W. M. *nder John Mosouholraer*J. M. do Sites A. KeonyD. B.’ do U Blair William&Soll 'do. 0 HlldebrantH. do 11 Kschenbach Frederick do 11 Zelglor Joseph do 14 Pohlov 11. • do , 11 Cameron W. J. ‘ do M SenerJacob do 11 »hoft* Christian \Vnshmood W, G. HofTmau G. B, Dqnlon C. Faust Peter Kgbord I. R. Bentzlcr Joseph Heckman John Coovor A Ba'sehore Iszman John Cnrnman Frederick Shnpley &• Halbert do 11 Ewing A. B. do . 14 SlpeD do 14 Dornor C. Shoes and Boots 11 Myora M. C. Porter W.M, leminp F. C Irvin John Strolun A Sponsler do 12 Uszman Philip « 1 do M tihonoweth William Millinery 1-1 Williams Mrs. E. " do 11 Nell’Mrs. M. ..do M utton Mrs, Railing William Clothing 11 I.echler A. G. do 11 Kronenbcrg S Leonard E. B. HmlloyJ. W.‘ do 14 Livingston I. do M Dornor John do 14 Ealcehs J. A, Kilter H. S. Ilantch N .olunnn A, Cornmnn Daniel Cjornman & Worthington .do . 14 Havcrstlclc Brothers do 13 Haverstlclc Brothers do 1-1 Frank T. S. Bosh G. G.’ Irvin A Herhst Spangler B. k, do , 14 ‘Livingston Jacob • do 14 Ensmlnger George Leather 11 Ensmingcr S. Rohes 14 Loehniah C. L. Photographs 14 LesherJohnC. do 14 Chapman H. P. Piper W. K. Loudon James lllinan S. U. ms Jacob [oiler John A Callio J. G. Sautolle N. WolfS. Myers D.V. Dotlerar H. Myers I).' Roush Jeflbfson SheallorJolm ./anurias A Co Ziicruiiiß & Co Banks W. O. Saddler A llowraim Glorsner John -Boolcfi-HrdrSon - LoncnecUor I. Hummel S. D. Roth A Bon Rerlnor Daniel Host Joseph Kslinßor Theodore Rupley Harry Moll/. T. M. Smith G. W. Neldleh I. H. Hood N. Kbner A. Musscr David Kltnmcl Joint Koser Mrs. Martin Miss A. Mount/. John \V. Templin J. M. Wolf 11. S. Rupp If; M. A Co Rupp Daniel Tomolln Cyrus Gilbert Cyrus Rupp J. J. A Co Good I>. U, Bowman A Co Kunkle A Bro. Hherrlek C. Dultrleh G. J. Brel/. A, A Son O'llarm 11. Dry Goods la MEGHAN ICSBUUG. Bowman G. W. Grocery 11 Flohr Israel do 12 Arnold 13. do i-l Devlnuoy David • do li Eoughl Samuel do . l-l Knutt'mnn .1. A. do 12 Eborly I>. W. do j;{ Emmtnger' do ll Mntttsun 13. W, do 11 Wise George do 11 IKUtorf&Giwald ' Dry Goods 14 CAUCASIAN 1870. apiul. • OPENING OF THE THIS MONTH. OAK HALL CARLISLE. J 3 S O o do II do 11 do 1-1 do 11 do 14 do 10 do 13 do 11 do 11 do 11 do 14 do M Furniture 11 do 11 do • 11 no 1 it do 11 do 11 do 11 do 11 do 14 do 14 do 11 Drugs 14 Tobacco 14' do 14 do 14 j»,Boolrs 14 w' do 14 Hats and Caps 14 Dealer 14 DICKINSON, ' Dry Goods ifcc. 11- 7 01 do 11 7.00 do 13 10 (JO do 14 7 00 Marketing 14 7 00 Produce 14 7 00 EAST PENNSBOROUQH Produce 14 7 00 do 14 7 P 0 Dry Goods 10 io 00 do U 7 00 do Id 10 00 —' —Groceries—l4 T“00* do 14 7 00 do 14 7 00 do 14 7 00 do 14 7 00 Lumber It 7 00 do 14 7 00 do 14 7 00 Confectionary 14 7 00 do 14 7 00 Clothing 14 700 Stoves 11 7 00 Furniture 14 7 (;0 do 14 7 00 Marketing 14 7 00 Millinery 14 7 00 do 14 7 00 FRANKFORD. . Dry Goods 14 700 HAMPDEN. Groceries 14 7 00 - Dry Goods 11 700 > do 14 . 700 do 14 7 00 Furniture 11 7 00 Whips 14 700 Produce 11 7 00 LOWER ALLEN. .Dry Goods M do 14 do 14 Drugs 14 Stoves 14 Soots uml Shoes ll MIDDLESEX. WcsthclFer A Bock Haber Joseph 11. Bruch A Boyer H uvstJ.U. A Son BafensbergcrK. Elcock A Co Brlndlc A Nelswauger Eberley a Sods Milllseu A Son Long A Son do ii Moor 11. S. do o Bryson T. U. • ' Produce n MUler A Garrett do 5 stayimm Bucher do u Sielmvood itTltzel - do ij TJrlch «t Halley do n Eberloy I>. & Son •. Hardware Bobb Klmmel do , i } . Clarke Bye is > Drugs u Nomumikerd.H. do n Day Alfred • do Herring J. B. AC. do • Bnftvclyir.H. do j, Crydor Christian •' Shoes u Zlnn Henry d 0 ~ iKoirn C. do CQlgle Levi • do vj Bowman J. C do i Heycl & Steiner „ do vl‘ Simon S. Variety ij Klsler D. L, Saddoriy and Blankets i] Burkholder C,K. Blankets and whips ij HazloiLitSon . Plumbers'h Bubb G. W., Agent Stoves 11 Halide a Co do 11 Wonderllch G. A F* do u Mauok & Diehl Furniture. H Tltzcl • ■/. 11. do ij Uujip John do u Swartz Jacob Jewelrv n Shaploy 11, IS. do .Palmer J. 8.. .Cigars ij GuswilerM. , , - * do u Uhler Hiilfp Confectionary ii Grovo&Slnley do ij Stretch J. 13. do n Wright W. B. do i Carr IJ. 0.. Agent • Clothing u Keefer I/. D. <3o ii Abrams L. W. • do u Bukcr J. L. Books ami Taper u Slelnowor&Tltzel Coni li MlllprJ.&Co Bitters ij Null II, _ .... . ' Marketing 14 Kosor Miss Clam Urynn Mrs. 8. Carr M. A. Lindsey Mrs. E. Y. Elsliel George MIFFLIN. Sherman John Null /. MONROE. Herman O. S. B. Plunk John Devlnny L. D. Plank Samuel Bpah r Henry NEWTON, Manning* Bro. Ilursh & Bro. Snyder Henry . Wagner S. C. Harsh J. A J. B. Stoner S. A. Clover * Earnest Kyle Joint Baker J. Fusnot J. C. *. Co Foreman Strohm A Co MelllngerC. *Co .Lewis <v Bro. • lleborllg iV.Son Minnlch John Benner W. K», Sanderson David Benner W. K. Byers E. Gibson George *Mutch Samuel SpencerD. W. • * lioch H. K , Horn C. U. - . Hnnzbcrgor Daniel Goodhart William NE»WVILLE, James E.& Bro. Dry Goods J Ul Slough & Elliott# do 10 3) .Mr.Cundllsh Thomas • do 11 U GlausorS. M. *'Bon Groceries 13 1) GlahsorS. M * Son do H Irvin A.*lj. Boots and Shoes 11 ; McClure J. W. do U ] Maxwell *Brickcr. do. 11 . MontzerJ. C. do .. 1} i North G. W. . . Clothing 1 • I Randall N. L. a Son do 1 7 WildS. G. 1 ! Reed Mrs. B. do 1 , Montgomery Dr, do 11 , HubyrS. S. • do 1 * J Woodburn & Shnlouborger Furniture ll 7 Brlcker John ' 1T l , l <> H 7 skinner a Son Hard ware 13 I) Shoemaker W, B. . _ do -W Lnndc-s G. W, . Jewelry 1 Mull George W. . r Stoycs 11 , Henry. U. Confectionary 11 / , Crawford J. V»V ‘to* 11 7 Dale Mrs. t do 7 Laughlln Joseph heed 14 M’Longhlln Hargett Millinery 11 I Smiley Miss A. „do H I Bamberger M. Notions 14 . ; NEWBURG. Hoover Jacob Stoves 14 Elliott* Barr Dry Goods II SwolgtrtG.W. do U M’Coy Daniel Boots and Shoes 11 StovlckO. C, Furniture 14 Bvers Hoover . do 14 Strnsarbridge Reuben Marketing ll NEW CUMBERLAND. \VlllotT. Dry Goods 13 .15 Bughman & Son do 11 '7 Ross & Co. - do Jl. 1? MassorH. R. • Lumber fl S' Oyster Charles do U ,7 JamenOwen do H < Lee John F. ' . do 10 3) Rcpmiui Henry Confectionary it 7 PENN. Dry Goods It 7 do . 14 Ti do 11 ' . . Marketing 11 7, Dry Goods 12 12: Groceries It 7 BHIPPENSBURG. Landis J. Jewelry 11 > HnysVV, D, E. Hewltig Machines 11 7 Davis Mrs. M. Millinery 11 7 HubleyMissS. do 11 7 Kraut/. Miss M. do .11 NCftskcr Mrs. do 11 | 'Mowera Mrs. L. E. do 11 7 Lawton aCo Produce 10 3 Long & Gish do 11 > Clenvor .t Son do 12 Rlnlr T. P. do U 1 Fosnaught C. Groceries H \ Tarman A Klmmel do .11 , » Noftsker John do II ji PaguoJ.lt. \do 11 ' ;l Martin Martha A. do. 11 i Weaver W. F. • ‘ . do 11 ' Art/, P. S. ' . do 11 i D-ilcoG. K. ' do 11 : ilallor S. C. & Son do 11 ' Anglo M. M. , ; do 11 ‘ Kelso James do • 11 i Reeder James do 11 ' Willis i. «t Co. do it * M’Pherson J. W. Dry Goods 13 | ,RueJo>uU> UO iL .‘‘ Kountz & Montgomery do 11 * Jameson W. L. . tlo 13 / Danner «fe Neely do 13 J ii<?d<Hs ,t. a J.a. ..iftaiV Wouderllch & Mell, Lumber 13 U Greason G. N. Confectionary 11 ; Clark William do 11 '■] Baughman Reynolds do H ; Mathews & Grlbblo ’ Drugs 11 j Altlclc J. C. - do H Keller B. K. do 11 | Earnest & Co. Clover A Co. Shenlc 11. & D. Bectom-Jncob Jay Cook & Co. u * Oeker Henri’ Croft O. W. Shoos 14 Colo G. B. do 14 Wallers 8. A, <t Bro. do 11 McPherson it Cox Hardware 11 Slevlck «fc Bobuck do 13 Grablll & Slowart do 11 Snoddyß. J. Furniture 14 Barnhart Duke & Bro, do 11 'Criswell David . do 11 Walters & Winters Stoves 14 Wolf&Bro. do 14 10 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 Kelso James Books 14 1 Scs John <& Sou Clothing • 13 1); is & Bender do -14 < Shearer «& Blair do- 14 1 Smiley J. M. do H • iMolm B. A. do 14 ' Diggs B. do 14 1 SOUTH MIDDLETON. Harman C. Dry Goods 14 M’Allißter* Bro, do 14 Bowman ■Js'Heinmlnger • do , 11 Hutton John do 14 LcldlchA.M. do 13 W Wolf Samuel .do 14 7 Wtibort&Co.. , - do . ’ 1® 7 Zelgler.J, B. Groceries N > m Zclgler D.-VI. do H. . j llartzel .1. F. do » 1 Clapper Philip .do U i Ward James do 1 .* Hupp Conrad , Furnituro H 1 HllfcrtJohn r do • ' i Wolf J. Ij. Drugs H i Rhupp Rachel Sundries 11 Downey Noah d Craighead &, Bro. Prr Glllln Samuel SILVER SP Leldig J. W. Dry Orris & Lain I) I.ongsdorf A. 8. _nurkliQlder_W. 8. . Noss J: ii. Loose* Ewalt Leidlg J. B. a J3ro. Pr< Glover T. E. Confer JirickemtmUer FrtftPk. flicker J 8. Leidlg Jnoob Miller 8. P. ,SOUTHAMPT 4 Miller Daillol Clever & Uhoads Clever George filrolini «fe Allison Allison C. & Co. Croft D. 8.. -Fisher D. S'. UPPER AULI Swartz J, Ch Guswller J. N. Dry' Hickman Henry Mai WEST PENNSB( Mm Gooclhurt Jj. A. iilHhop Wllllnm Hoss 6s Wise Swartz J. It. UelcYler J* K. Dryv Watson Harriot E* Brandon William B. Pro( Cnrolhcrs Josiah 7 00 7 CO 7 00 7 00 7 00 7 00 BATING HOUI Meloy Jolm Mcclmnli Sponslor William Carlisle DISTILLERIES AND D: Whaler J. w. Newton, Dll Kraus Ernest J. Carllslo. B: Faber O. do 10 00 .BILLIARD BALv. Hlpplo'J’ftcob 8 tables, O 11 Ipplo Jacob 2 tables, M Ober W. 13. 1 table, Ne Appeal to bo held atiho Coni llhlo. on tho second third und of April,lS7o. All persons «gt’ redress, April M f 1870-3^ •fr It! m ;n ie; ts, do .11 tin ■la 2° « do 11 do jo. 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