besides myself. Thinking the gaming was over, I turned to go oat, but found the door locked and the key gone. There was evi dently something in the wind. At all events I reflected that, incase of need, the windows were not :very far from the ground. I re turned and saw the winners dividing the spoil, and the poor shorn 'greenhorn' lean ing over the backs of their chairs, staring intently at the money. The notes were deliberately spread out, one after another. Those which the loser had staked were new, fresh from the press, he said, and they were sorted into a heap distinct from the rest. They were two dol lar, three dollar and five dollar notes, from the Indiana Bank and the Bank of Colum bus, in Ohio. 'I say, Ned, I don't think these notes are good,' said one of the winners, and exam ined them. 'I wish they wern't, and I'd crow,' cried out the loser, N ery chop fallen, at his elbow. This simple speech. lulled the suspicions of the counter, and he resumed his counting. .At last he took up the last note, and, eyeing it keenly, he exclaimed in a most emphatic manner, 'l'll be hanged if they are genuine! They are forged!' 'No, they ain't,' replied the loser, quite as emphatically. ‘l. t•ery opprobrious epithet was now hurled at the latter. Ile, without more ado, knocked down the speaker at a blow, cap sized the table, which put out the lights, and in the neat instant darted out of the window, whilst a bullet, fired from a pistol, cracked the pane of glass over his head. lle Lad leaped into the small court-yard, with a wooden paling round it. The winners dashed towards the dour, but found the 'green one' had secured it. When the three worthies were convinced that the door would not yield to their efforts, and when they heard their `victim' gallop ing away, they gave a laugh at the trick played them and returned to the table. 'Strike a light, Bill, and let's pick up what notes have fallen. I have nearly the whole lot in My pocket.'• pica light sow. made its appearance. ..')hat! none on the fluor? Capital; I think I must have them all in my pocket, then;' saying which he drew out the notes cud laid them on the table. 'Fire and furies! These are the forged notes! The rascal has whipped up the other beep!' While all this was going on, I stepped to wards the window, but had not stood there long before I heard the clanking hoofs of a horse beyond the pailing, and a shout wafted into the room, 'sloped for Texas!' The worst part of the story remains to be told, it was any horse on which the rogue was now galloping off. skjiZLO SAXON SENTIMENT.—May the rup ture of the Electric Cable be, so long as the same ]anguage binds the two nations togeth er, the only rupture between England and America. TIIE BEST MONUMENT TO jENNETL—A young lady was solicited to contribute to the Jenner Statue. "Nay," she said rever ently, "I consider I have already erected a monument to his honor," and she pointed to her beautiful countenance; and true enough, thanks to Jenuer's discovery, there could not be discerned upon it the smallest disfigurement of the small pox. Acting up- An this idea, we have to make the following smooth faced proposition. L We beg to sug gest that every handsome lady, single, or married, or widow, who, basing been duly. ,vaccinated, has succeeded in preserving her 'beauty from the ravages of the above fear ful visitation, be requested to take her turn in fa:Lading fur one hour only of her lifetime on a pedestal in Trafalgar Square. We Inaintain that the exhibition of her face, in its unblemished state of love:Mess, would be the handsomest, at the same time the most appropriate. statue that could possibly be erected to Ofenner; and a statue, too, that would serve in every age to command the ready homage of all men. A. Wont) rnom Arov TO JUMNA.-"Cry • Ih% rt.ocx!' and let blip the dope of war." TII r. MOCK Pillr.ANTnnorisr.—lle giveth crusts to babies.—Conf ucius. en txr.sr. SATlNe..—Trust not the flatterer. In thy days of sunshine, he will give thee pounds of butter—and in thy hour of need deny tl•ec a crumb of bread! A Goon OMEN.—Lord Palmerston was ob served last week reading—Ws .Aerer too Late to Nesid. The Reform Bill was lying before IMI Ben rerley !'wore, in a speech at the Agricultural Banquet held recently at Lou isville, (Ky.) gave the following "opinion" o£ "Old Bourbon," which he had met with at sundry places in Kentucky: "In old Kentucky, every where, sir, have I been greeted by gentlemen, with 'their hearts. in their right hands, their . right hands in mine,' and (must I •ay it?) with battles of unequalled 'Old Murbou' in their lzft hata4l' 4 1.ng.,100g ire r;' hear: w;.ch rich inrii,orieii Like 11 which logoa hog o once been dl.4lllrit You n.u•• IPOMIk. you Ti,:', :Iv ',me if you mill. —.:tra friekent of that Bourbon will linger there eti.l— zse-In one of the courts lately there was a long and learned discussion as to whether a . wituesit should be allowed to answer the question "What did Mary say?" Three judges gave long and elaborate opinions in the and the question being re peated, the answer was "sot a word." Jrfirs.—Why am de beloved ob my ,heart, Miss Diann, de sunflower ob de bill, „like a kind ob cloth dey make in Lowell? I don't know, nigger, why? Cos she's an unbleached she-ting. siiirWhy is a hen who destroy s her health by laying too many eggs, like a young lady who is anxious to make herself attractive? Because she lays herself out to please. _WITTY III:7 I•Vicxzn.—A sour fellow says that he always looks under tho marriage lead fur tae news of the weak. iiiirCan nn -.7pright man be called a truly ddwnriglit honest fellow. itte eihnitbia gels. I PENNSYLVANIA INDEPENDENT JOURNAL. COLUMBIA, PA. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1857 BED—Rev. Alfred Nevin, D. D., will preach in the Presbyterian Church on next Sab bath, morning and evening. Services com mencing of 10} o'clock, A. M. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. - E. K. Boice, Agent, Rouse for Reid; IL C. Fondersmith, .Vic Cootie.; Pratt & Butcher, Magic Oil; John Herr, New Goods. FIRE.-A barn belonging to Mr. Ulmer, situated on Mill street, and occupied as a stable, by Messrs. Smith & Bruner, of the Columbia Rolling Mill, was burned on Thursday evening last, about eight o'clock, and in it four horses and harness, hay, feed, &c., to a considerable amount. It was evi dently the work of some villain who thus vented his spite against the occupants.— From the fact of a reduction having just been made in the wages of the employees of the mill, creating much dissatisfaction, there is strong reason to suspect that the fire was a work of revenge on the part of ono of the hands. We trust that no effort Will be spared on the part of the borough authorities, to aid Messrs. Smith Bruner in the attempt to detect and bring the scoundrel to punish ment. We need more stringent police reg ulations; our town has been too long the theatre for all manner of ruffianism and vio lence. An example made of the first rowdy who breaks the peace, followed up by future strictness on the part of our constables and magistrates would soon make our authori ties respected, and our streets fit fur a lady to walk in unprotected. TAGGART'S PATENT 'HORSE SIIOE.—We clip the following notice of this valuable improve ment in the manufacture of horse-shoes, from an article in the Lancaster Express, on the Agricultural and Mechanical Exhibi• tion, now being held at Lancaster. Mr. Taggart was formerly of this place, and his friends, as well as ourself, will be pleased to hear of the high estimation in which his in genious invention is held. "John Q. Taggart, exhibits specimens of the patent horse-shoe, with movable toes and catkins, of which he is the inventor and patentee. This shoe is the object of much attentilin among the farmers and others in terested in horses. We noticed this inven tion some months ago, and all we then said in its commendation has been more than sustained by recent experience. We look for the introduction of this improved shoe into gene:al USC." Ilsa."A new system of Commercial Penn manship, containing a full series of copies. Carefully prepared fur the Counting House and Schools—by T. Kirk White, President of the Pennsylvania Commercial Institute at York, Pa." Front Punch The title of the above so fully explains the object and uses of the publication that it scarcely needs further comment. The system is a good one, and the execution of the series of copies, graduated to suit all stages of progress in the scholar, is so beau tiful that it cannot fail to bring Mr. White's "Pennmauship" into must extensive use in our schools. We recommend its careful ex amination to all who desire a thorough and beautiful assistant in teaching or learning' the art of pennmanship. For sale at Saylor & McDonald's, Head Quarters and News Depot. "BENE EST RIDERE."—Thus Sharpley heads an appeal to the people of Nebraska City, I whence he sends us a few brief remarks, kindly greeting his friends in Columbia, and desiring us to announce his coming some time next summer. Nothing like speaking in time. He comfortably assures us that his Mar has dcen a successful one, and lie is now on his way to rejoice the hearts of the people of Kansas, Texas, and all the region round about. We rejoice iu Samuel's good fortune, for be is a princely nigger, and pays the printer. May his houses never be less. YORK Cot:Nrr FA in.—The Fair of the York County Agricultural Society, held in York last week, was a successful and most excel ' lent exhibition. It is said to have been su- Iperior to in every respect to the former fairs of the Society, and the reputation of the past displays is inferior to that of no other County Exhibitions in the State. We notice with satisfaction, that fluey's Patent Shingle Machine, under charge of Mr. Lewis Tredenick, the indefatigable agent, took both a diploma and a premium, having a marked preference over every other Shingle Machine exhibited. l. 0. R. M.—The election held in the wigwam, of the Chiquessralungo Tribe, No. 39, on the 30th Sleep of Corn Moon, G. S. 5618, resulted as follows: S., J. B. Zahm; S. S., George N. Fry; J. S., John 11. Jor dan; K. of W., Gerhard Brandt; C. of It., Wesley W. Cpp. GnAu M'S MAGAZINE.—Graham fur No vember is already with us. welcome as usu al, with its fund of originality, and its admi rable gleanings of all the fugitive good things of the day. It is abundantly illustra ted with fashion plates, and a number of wood cuts. We venture to assert that Mr. Leland does not control the pictorial depart ment of Graham, or he certainly would have excluded the execrable cuts which illustrate the principal tales, and disfigure the present number. GOOFY FOR NOVI. IfISER.—We acknowledge the receipt of Godey, the lady killer. /t is rich in novelties of feminine gear, and, more over, teaches the ladies to get up their own "fizins" at a most moderate figure; a desid eratum these hard times. Altogether a good number of Godey. In the t. S. Circuit Court, on Saturday, Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, naked for an injunction to prevent the performance of Conrad's tragedy of Jack Cade, at the Arch street theatre. Tho case is not yet decided. THE ELECTION.—The very mild agony is over, and after the most tranquil election on record the country is once more freed from the hands of the politicians. We lift our neutral but independent voice in hum ble thankfulness for the deliverance, and even were the successful candidates elected to life estates in their respective offices, we believe that a heartfelt Amen! would be our response. A general return might be made as "Everything gone for Packer and the Dem ocratic State Ticket," such is the one-sided ness of the result. We give below the re turns, of the County as fully as obtainable up to going to press. Mr. Wilmot's majority will not vary much om 1200. " . The contest between Messrs. Martin and Carpenter, for Prothonotary, will be very close, and the official vote only will decide which is elected. All the other candidates on the Union ticket are elected. Wilmot. Packer. 'tiara. Carnarvon, 135 139 13 Clay, 171 49 2 Cocalice West, 142 157 Columbia, 95 219 211 Conestoga, 105 Conuy, 95 Colerain, 50 Earl East, 70 Earl West, SO Elizabeth-twp., 30 Elizabethtown, SO Ephrata, 230 100 6 Fulton, 141 115 38 Ilempfield West, 177 Indian town, 138 57 24 Lancaster, N. E. W., 170 231 106 " S. E. W. 97 309 70 " N. W. VV., 137 462 183 " S. W. W., 112 247 86 Lancaster twp., 44 19 15 Lampetar East, 130 94 39 "'Ammeter West, 175 Leacock, 154 98 Leacock Upper, 148 122 24 Manheim twp., 45 Marietta, 182 132 55 Maytown, Millerstotrn, 12G 74 32 Mount Joy, 110 Paradise, 140 143 Pequea, 99 Petersburg, 107 85 25 Providence, 139 73 Rapho, 178 162 2 Rolirerstown, 15 Sadsbury, 159 74 Strasburg bor., 36 24 Strasburg twp„ 111 Warwick, 260 148 3 Washington, Bart, Drumofe. 2G Salisbury, 160 Adamstown, 15 Brecknock, 6 Little Britain, 116 83 24 Coe:ince East, Penn, Manic, 5083 3007 Wilmot over Packer 1170, with two dis tricts to hear from, which will probably in crease the majority about 50. WOODVILLE, October 6, 1857 Of all months October is to me the love liest, and to-day has been one of its bright est days; no chilly winds have come as yet to crisp the leaves, and scatter them along the road and over the fading grass; and yet I dearly love to hear the brown leaves rustle, and see them dance in the autumn winds, bounding lightly on end, then drawing to gether in great circles whirling round and round and mounting into the air in a wild weird extatic rapture, then sinking down close to the trees and fences with a low, soft rustle as tho' panting fur breath to begin LEM I have mounted my rostrum this evening— the window scat of my dormitory—and the large atlas resting on my knee forms the desk from which I send forth my valedic tory. Look out of the window with me, and see if you would like to bid adieu to that valley and those hills. Just below you catch glimpses of dahlias and other flowers, bright with the waning year's last sunset hues, before the night of winter comes; far beyond is a chain of hills that form a vast amphitheatre whereon the lords of the forest lift high their sylvan beads, and beautiful is the valley they look down upon, well wa tered and fertile as the land the Lord bath blessed. I cannot see the river, fur Judge Bowlies house stands right in my way; a large oblong building, painted (must I say it) red, tho' the contrast with the darkening hills is now quite pretty. The front faces the river; at the back is a porch extending the length of the house. There I can re cognize, by his tall erect figure, my cousin Philip, and the slight fairy form that scarce reaches his shoulder as they walk to and fro, the fair and winsome Nannie. No eve ning shadow rests upon their hearts; with them it is the morn, the bright spring time of love. Next month Philip goes to seek a home in one of the new cities of the great west, and in the Spring returns to claim his bride. Mrs. Bowlie has come to the door; she seems to be urging them to come in.— They have gone—the door closes. Tom's health is still delicate, and papa thinks a winter south would quite restore him, so in a few weeks Tom and I start for Savannah. I want to go by sea, but mamma says "no, we can take our time by land, and see the places titre' which we pass," but I do not care to see them; I would like to be out of sight of land on that deep myste rious ocean, where my thoughts will soon eo often go, in search of one of those 'Oak leviathans whose hntre ribs make Their clay creator's the vain title take, Of Ocean's lordi.” A three years cruise, three weary years must this great steam plow furrow the deep green waves, by the shores of Africa, among the far off Isles of the sea, by the land of gold, close to the Peruvian and Brazilian coasts, before we can hail the joyful harvest home, if that time over comes, for I think of the Central America and shudder. A vessel so strong, what could shatter it? man had put forth his powers to protect and save, but the waves arose in their might and "it sank like s. stone in the mighty waters." The two millicnp of gold it carried could not purchase ono single life. Cities are suffer ing for the lack of gold. God has shown its value and its wortblosness. There will come a day when the sea shall give up its dead—not its gold. £h, blessed day to those who rest in hope! they will meet to part no ./ more. Three years! they will soon have passed, so I will not grow old with repining, and only shed such tears as hope may paint with rainbows. If death should come he cannot sever the hearts that God hath joined to gether. “Life bears Love's cross, death brings Love's crown.. I must say good-bye, for I am straining my eyes in the gloaming and I see aloft the shining knobs on which night drapes her curtain—it falls: good night, To serve in the Court of Quarter Sessions, commencing ..Ifonday, the 16th day of No vember, 1857. John J. Andrews, Colerain, George Bogle, Columbia. Christian Buckwalter, Manheim. Benjamin Buckwalter, East Lampeter. E. C. Darlington, City. Isaac Erans, Carnarvon. Joseph Emhart, Drutnore. Levi Getz, East ilempfteld. Wendel Iron, Earl. Amos S. Henderson, City. William Hutton, Fulton. John Naylor, West Donegal. Amos S. Kinzer, East Earl. Isaac Kinsey, Rapho. Michael 11. Locher, City. Abraham Landis. Ephrata. Martin Metzler, Rapho. Peter MeConomy, City. Richard Marshall, Sadsbury. John Martin, Manheim. Daniel Richwine, Earl. Jonas Ititer, Columbia. ---- Samuel Shoch, Columbia. _ - Benjamin Urban, Conestoga. PETIT JURORS. To serre in the same Court. Henry Breneman, Strasburg. John Brady, Manor. Michael Book, Strasburg Borough. Abraham Bruner, Columbia.__ _- Christianßrimner, Earl. David B.tir, City. Benjamin Buckwalter, Earl, Levi K. Brown, Fulton. William S. Dickey, Columbia._ John Doner, Manor. Henry E'penshade, Paradise. John - M. Eckman, Eden. Samuel Ferree, Eden. Mahlon Fox, Sadsbury. Thomas Crash, Manheim. William Gibson, Columbia. - John W. Gross, West Donegal. Christian Gast, City. James Hopkins, Salisbury. Christian B. llerr, West Lampeter. John Hastings, Drumore. Harrison N. Hibshman, Ephrata. Samuel Kauffroth, West Ear]. F. J. Kramph, City. George P. King, City. Martin Kreider, 'West Lainpetor. Andrew Landis, Penn. John Lintner, Manor. Michael Moor, Sadsbury. John 11. Miller, West Lampeter. Daniel May, Manheim Borough. John Musselman, City. Christian Myers, West Earl. John Masselman West Lampeter. John 11. Piersol, City. J. C. Filthier, Columbia. -- C. J. Rhoads, Manor. Henry 11. Skiles, Salisbury. George B. Shober, Warwick. • Joseph Swift, Fulton. John Shark, West Hempfield. Samuel Slokum, Sadsbury. Frederick Smith, Conoy. Martin E. Stauffer, East Earl. Adam Trout, City. Joseph C. Taylor, Little Britain. Nathaniel Urban, Washington Borough Joseph Welchans, City. 23 15 229 178 2 To se-re in the Court of Common Pleas, com mencing on Monday, the 20th day of October. Caleb B. Bradley, Drumore. Henry Breneman, Conoy. George W. Buckley, Salisbury. Andrew Bowers, Conestoga. Simeon Balance, Little Britain. Reuben Bowman, East Hempfield. James Cresswell, Eden. John Ditlnw, City. Solomon Diffenderfer, Earl. John Graybill, Upper Leacock. John S. Gable, City. Martin Herr, Strasburg.. Abraham Horst, Itapho. Juhn P. Herr, Strasburg. George W. Hensel, Eden. Henry Hoffman, East Hempfield. John Howenstein, Penn. Jacob Hildebrand, Strasburg. Thomas Livingston, Salisbury. George Lauber, West Earl. James Montgomery, jr., Eden, Wm. MeCaskey, City, John Messner, Brecknock. Thomas R. Neal, Drumoro. Jacob H. Nissley, East Donegal. William Steele, Sadsbury. John 11. :Sammy, East Donegal. Benjamin Sherbahn, East Donegal. George M. Steinman, City. Henry Stauffer, East Earl. George G. Worst, Leacock. Mitchell Weaver. City. James Wright, Columbia.. Christian Wissler, Clay. John Zug, Penn. Jacob Zook, East Lampeter. All the banks in the cities of New, York, Boston, Troy, Albany, Hartford, Portland, De.troit,and Brooklyn, suspended specie payments on Wednesday. The sus pension is now general everywhere. Last week• (woke deaths from yellow fe cer occured in New Orleans. We have by telegraph from New Orleans two weeks later news from California and the Pacific, the steamer Grenada having ar rived there with California papers to the 20th ult., and $1, 0 50,000 in gold. The Cal ifornia election has resulted in the choice of Weller, Dam, Governor by 11,000 majority over both his competitors, and a large dem ocratic majority in the Legislature. :Near the boundary of Lower California disturbances have occured between the Mex ican authorities and a company of Ameri cans, supposed to filibusters. Governor Castro, of Lower California, is, however, said to have joined the latter in anticipation of a revolution by his own people. Slight shocks of an earthquake had been felt near San Francisco. As the English and French fleets had left the Chinca guuna islands on the coast of Peru, they were at the mercy of Vivanco. In Oregon the discussion of the slavery question was agitating the Constitu tional Convention. THE NEW ENGLAND BARS. Roston, Oct. 14.—At a meeting of the Bank Presidents of this city, held this morning, a general suspension of specie payments iglus voted. The Concord, Manchester, Lawrence, Methuen and Bangor Banks have suspended. MARY WOODVILIX Grand Snrors LIST OP JURORS Items of News Failures of great mercantile and banking firms are plentiful everywhere. On Wednesday a municipal election took place in the city of Baltimore, and as usual s; number of -desperate and bloody riots marked the event. On Tuesday night an American party procession was fired into by a gang of Democrats, and the Americans re torted by sacking the houses from whence the shots were fired. A number of persons were wounded. On Wednesday, a riot took place between the Democrats of the Eighth and the Americans of the Fifth Ward, in which fire arms were freely used, and sever al persons were said to have been killed. The Herald announces that the committee appointed some time since to investigate the New York City finances, have discovered that for five or six years, sums of money, amounting to the stupendous aggregate of eight or ten millions of dollars, have disap peared from the city treasury. The money has been expended, but there are no vouch ers, or specifications, or indications as to the purposes for which it was paid away. Mrs. Cunningham failed to appear in court in New York city, in the Burdell suit, and her counsel denied all knowledge of her locality On Monday night the custom house at Richmond, Va., was broken open by robbers, and plundered of ;20,700 in gold coin. The accounts of the Kansas election are still contradictory. According to the one authority, the Free State men have elected their candidate to Congress by from five to eight thousand majority, and carried both branches of the territorial Legislature, while the latter, according to other sources, has been carried by the pro-slavery men.— It seems to be generally agreed that Parrott, Itepublican, is elected to Congress. The Washington Union has a despatch from Leavenwyrh city, October 10th, saying that Parrott, the Free State candidate for Congress, is elected by from four to five hun dred, but that the Democrats have a majori ty of one in the territorial Council and three in the lower house. EC= The steamship Atlantic arrived at New York yesterday, from Liverpool on the 30th inst., her advices being three days later.— Tne Atlantic brings later advices from In dia. The dates are from Calcutta to August 23d; Bombay to the 31st, and Delhi to the 12th of August. Numerous sharp encoun ters had occurred at Delhi, in which the rebels were defeated, but they still held pos session of the city. The European rein-' forcements were arriving and an assault was expected to be made about the 20th.— Gon. Havelock had reached Lucknow, after two more victorious encounters, but owing to his furco being weakened by the encoun ters and disease, he had, been compelled to return to Cawnpore. A doubtful despatch says that Havelock had reached Lucknow, the garrison of which still held out against the besiegers. The garrison at Agra were secure at the latest advices, but their condi tion was precarious. The Bombay Times, received by the overland mail, does not men tion the arrival of Gen..Havelock at Luck now. It designates the intelligence received as of a disastrous character. A letter from Aboo says that the King of Delhi has offer ed to accept terms, provided that his annual stipend was increased largely; but ho was informed that nothing but an unconditional surrender would be accepted. A number of the mutineers were leaving Delhi every week. An English officer reports that he saw a boat, containing Nene Sahib and his family, swamped in the Ganges, and that all were drowned. A telegraph despatch from Marseilles, received at Paris, says that the population of Bengal were beginning to rise, were killing the English, and that the revo lution was becoming general. The accounts say that more mutinies have occured among the Bombay troops, and that several suspec ted regiments have been disbanded. Lord Elgin has transferred the frigate Shannon and Pearl to the use of the Indian govern ment. lie was about returning to China. Martial law has been proclaimed at Begum. The Paris Pays says that a serious dissen sion has occured between Lord Canning, the Governor General, and Sir Colin Camp bell. Lord Elgin sided with the latter.— The latest accounts says that General Have lock's position is regarded as precarious.— The Punjaub is tranquil. The organiza tions of the Sikh regiments for the relief of Delhi are rapidly progressing. The King's magazine at Indbpore was struck by light ning, and exploded. Nine hundred persons were killed, and a million pounds sterling of property was destroyed. The whole pro vince of Bengal was alarmed. The Civil ians at Gegah had fled to Patna, leaving the Treasury in charge of the 64th Regiment, which is in a precarious condition. Calcutta was becoming crowded with fugitives from all parts of Bengal. The imports at Calcut ta were accumulating. There were no buy ers, and money was disappearing. The pa per of the East India Company was quoted at 25 per ct, discount. Sir R. W. Carden has been elected Lord Mayor of London,— The French decree prohibiting the export of corn has been extended to September. A modification of the Spanish Ministry is still agitated. Sardinia is making advances for a reconciliation with Austria. There are also later dates from China, which state that Admiral Seymour had proclaimed a blocka ded of Canton River. The imperial inter view at Studttgardt lasted four days, during which the Emperor Napoleon and the Czar had several private interviews. The Czar and Emperor of Austria were en route for Weimar. The question is agitated for an early meeting of the English Parliament. NEW COITNTERPETTEI.-WO notice the fol lowing new Counterfeits on banks in our neighborhood: ONE—Columbia Bank, Columbia, Pa,— Bank has no ls. TURLE—Columbia Bank, Pa.—Bank has no 3. Ftvit—cork County Bank, Penn. Vig. man and horso ploughing—Franklin's head on right—girl on left end. FlFE—fork Co. Bank, Pa.; rig. two men, horses and plow; Franklin on right; boy, girl and dog on left. FlVE—Columbia Bank, Pa., altered—Vig. three females reclining—portrait of Wash int= on the right—goddess of liberty on left. TEN—Harrisburg Bank, Pa. Vig. Wash ington and Rittenhouse—canal boat on one end female on the other—unlike genuine. The Bill for the Belief of the Banks. The following is the bill as passed by both Houses: An Act providing for the resumption of specie payments by the Banks, and for the relief debtors Section I.—Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represetatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General As sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the provisions of every Act of Assembly, or of incorpora tion or reincorporation, heretofore passed declaring or authorizing the forfeiture of any bank, saving, trust, or insurance com pany or corporation having banking privi leges, or inflicting any penalties, or author izing any compulsory assignment, for or by reason of the non-payment of any of its lia bilities, or the issuing or paying out the notes of other banks incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, though not specie paying; or its loaning or discounting without the requisite amount of specie or specie funds, since the first day of Septem ber, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hun dred and fifty-seven, be and the same are hereby suspended until the second Monday in April, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and all forfeitures and penalties, or liabilities thereto, hereto , fore incurred, or that may be hereafter in curred, before the said second Monday of April, under such acts of Assembly or of incorporation or reincorporation, for or by I • reason of the causes aforesaid, or any of them, are hereby remitted, and so much thereof as prohibits any bank from making loans and discounts, issuing its own notes, or the notes of other banks incorporated un der the laws of this Commonwealth, though not specie paying or declaring dividends during the suspension of specie payments, or from loaning or discounting without the requisite amount of specie or specie funds as aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby sus pended until the day and year aforesaid, and any such bank, during such suspension of specie payments, may declare dividends to an amount not exceeding six per cent. per annum on its capital; and this act shall extend also to all banks, saving, trust and insurance companies, and corporations with banking privileges, chartered or re-chartered under any law, for periods hereafter to com mence, and to the payment of stock to all banks incorporated by the legislature at its last session. Section 2.—That, in addition to all state ments and returns now required by law, each and every bank in the cities of Phila delphia, Pittsburg and Allegheny shall, on the first discount day in Janury next, and weekly thereafter, and every Other Bank in this Commonwealth on the some day, and monthly thereafter, make up a statement, to be verified by the oath or affirmation of the President or Cashier thereof, showing— first, the amount of its loans and discounts; second, the amount of specie in the posses sion of and owned by such Bank, and the balance due from other banks, in distinct items, third, the amount of its notes out standing, fourth, the amount of deposits, including individual deposits and balances due to other Banks; which statement shall be published in the next succeeding issue of a newspaper of the county in which the Bank is located, or, if there be no newspaper in such county, then in a newspaper of some neighboring county; and any violation of this law, or failure to comply with its pro visions by any President or any'Cashier of any Bank, shall be a misdemeanor, and each of the said officers shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the Court; one half to be given to the pros ecutor, and one-half to the county in which such bank is located. Section 3.—That the said banks aro here by required, until the second Monday of April, aforesaid, to receive at par in pay ment of all debts due or to become due to them respectively, the notes of all the sol vent banks of the Commonwealth which paid specie for all their liabilities on and imme diately prior to the first day of September last, and which shall continue solvent, and the said banks are also hereby authorized to pay out, in all their business transactions and discounts, the said notes so long ns the banks issuing the same shall remain solvent; but in case any president, and a majority of the Board of Directors of any of the said banks shall certify to the Governor, under oaths or affirmation of the president, his ap prehensions and belief that any bank in said certificate named is in an unsafe condition, the Governor shall thereupon appoint three judicious persons, not interested in said bank, as commissioners to investigate the condition of such bank. And the said Com missioners shall after taking an oath or af firmation to perform the duties of their ap pointment with fidelity, forthwith proceed to make the said investigation and report the result thereof within ten days to the Governor; and if the officers of the said bank shall refuse to permit the said commis sioners to make such investigation, or to produce any books or documents necessary for that purpose, or if the said commission ers, or a majority of them, shall report that the said bank is in an unsafe condition, the Governor shall thereupon issue his procla mation declaring the charter of the said bank to be forfeited, and the said bank shall be deprived of all the benefits of this act, and the Directors thereof shall forthwith make and execute an assignment in the manner provided by the act entitled "An Act regulating banks," approved the 16th day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and the expense of such commission, including the compensa tion of the Commissioners at eight dollars per day, each, shall be paid by the bank against which it is issued, unless the report shall be favorable to its condition, in which case they shall be paid by the applicants; but any bank or banks, which shall, before the period hereinbefore limited, resume and continue the payment of specie on all their liabilities, shall not after such resumption, and during such continuance be subject to any of the provisions of this section: Pro vided; That no bank shall be required to receive the notes of any bank against which a certificate may be made as aforesaid, at any time after the delivery of the same to the Governor, until the Commissioners shall report in favor of such bank, after which the notes of such bank shall again be re ceived as required by the provisions of this section. Section 4.—That the several collectors of taxes, tolls, and other revenues of the Com monwealth, and also county treasurers, are hereby authorized to receive for state pur poses the notes of the solvent banks of this Commonwealth, though not specie paying banks, in payment of the said taxes, tolls and revenues, and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized to receive and receipt for the the same in the same manner as though said banks were specie paying. Section s.—That the deposits by the State Treasurer, or to the credit of the Com monwealth, in the several banks and other corporations, and all bank notes which aro now or may hereafter be in the Treasury during the period of suspension aforesaid, shall, from time to time, on demand of the said Treasurer, be paid by the said banks or other corporations respectively in specie, in such amounts as may be required by said Treasurer, to enable him to pay the interest accruing on the public loans of the Com. monwealth. Section 6.—That upon all judgments heretofore entered in suits commenced by writs or otherwise, or which may be entered during the period hereinbefore mentioned, in actions instituted by writ or otherwise, in any Court in this Commonwealth, or be fore any Alderman or Justice of the Peace, on judgment obtained before said officers, if the defendant Anil be Possessed of any estate in fee simple, within the respective county, worth, in the opinion of the Court, Alderman, or Justice, the amount of the said judgment over and above all encum brances, and the amount exempted from levy and sale on execution, he shall be en titled to a stay of execution thereon, on judgment now obtained or to be obtained on suits now brought for the term of one year from the date of the passage of this act, and on all others for one year, to be computed from the first day of the term to which the action was commenced; and every defendant in such judgment may have the same stay of execution thereon, if within thirty days from the passage of this act, or within thirty days from the rendition of any future judgment, lie shall give se curity to be approved of by the Court or by a Judge thereof, or by such Alderman or Justice of the Peace before whom such judg ment was obtained, for the sum recovered, together with the interests and costs; Pro vided, That this section shall not apply to wages of labor nor to debts upon which stay of execution is expressly waived by the debtors, nor to judgments upon which a stay of execution has already been taken under existing laws: And provided, That the pro visions of this section shall extend to judg ments entered, as well upon bond and war rant of attorney as upon mortgages to secure the same, and to any subsequent grantee or owners of the premises so bound, as well as to the original obligor or mortgagor; Pro vided further, That said stay of execution shall not apply to judgments or mortgages, or on bonds secured by mortgage, unless the interest thereon shall be paid within sixty days after the accruing of the same, in such funds as the Banks aro authorized by this net to use. Section 7.—This act shall take effect im mediately, except the 3d section, which shall not go into operation until the provis ions of this act are accepted as herein pro vided, but no bank or other corporation shall be embraced within its provisions more than thirty days after the passage hereof, or after any bank shall have suspended specie pay ments upon its notes or obligations, unless the stockholders of such bank or other cor porations shall before the expiration of the I said thirty days or within thirty days after any bank shall have suspended specie pay ments upon its notes or obligations, at a meeting to be called by the Directors thereof for that purpose, on ten days' public nOtice, in one or more newspapers, accept the pro visions of this act by a majority of votes of said stockholders, to be voted and counted according to the provisions in the charter of such accepting bank, or other corporation regulating the election of Directors, but to make such acceptance valid, there shall be filed in the office of the Auditor General of this Commonwealth a certificate that this act has been duly accepted, under the com mon seal of such bank or other corporation, attested by the signature of its President or Cashier. And each of the said banks ac cepting the provisions of this act shall also, pay into the Treasury of the Commonwealth,. on or before the first day of January, Anno, Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, or within thirty days after any bank shall accept the provisions of this act, a sum equal to one-fourth of one per centurt; upon the capital stock of said bank, in ad: dition to any amounts they are now by law required to pay. Section B.—That the 47th suction of the act approved April 16th, 1856, entitled "Ae Act regulating banks," be and the same is hereby repealed: Ptovided, That all suite brought or now pending for forfeitures or penalties under tha section hereby repealed shall not be effected thereby. .- • - Section 9.—That the Legislature 'hereby reserves the right and power to alter,"revoke, or annul the charter of any bank or banks, corporation or corporations, accepting the provisions of this act, whenever in their opinion the same may prove injurious to the citiaens of the Commonwealth, in such man,. ner, however, as to do no injustice to the con? porators. Section 10.—That no bank, savings fund, insurance or trust company shall, directly or indirectly, purchase, or be concerned in the purchase, of the notes of any of the kiwi . ? porated banks of this State at less than tlipif
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