I
t
tiavcs from ti.- r mPsfers-m every instance
tn- an 1 :.ae heard. the marl has averted
ti.P riviifs of the owner, and the jury hut
promptly returned an adequate verdict on hie
h 'liaif. , ~
W ell sir, there is then some remedy whilst
vo.i are a part o( the Union for the recovery of
your saves, and some indemnification for their
1 h,'. What would vou have if the Union was
►■-vered 1 Why, limn, the several parts would
be independent of each other—foreign coun
<r:,ie a n,i slaves escaping from one to the other
would he like slaves escaping from the United
States to Canada. There would be no right
of extradition, no right to demand your slaves;
no right to appeal to the courts of justice to
indemnify you tor the loss of your slaves.
Where one slave escapes now by running j
awav from his master, hundreds and thousands
would escape tf the Union were dissevered—
! care nut how nor where you run the line, or
whether independent sovereignties be estab
lished. Well, sir, finally, will you, in case of
a dissolution ot the Union, be safer with your
tiaves within the separated portions ol the
States than you are now ! Mr. President, that
they will escape much more frequently from
the border States no one will deny.
And. sir, 1 must take occasion here to say
that, in my opinion, there is no right on the
ptrt of any one or more of the States to secede i
from the Union. War and dissolution ot the |
Union are identical and inevitable, in my
opinion. There can be a dissolution ot the
Union only by consent or by war. Consent •
no on can anticipate, from any existing state j
of thiugs, is likely to be given, ttnd war is the '
only alternative bv which a dissolution could
be accomplished. If consent were given—it
.t were possible that we were to be separated
by one great line —in less than sixty days after j
such consent was given, war would break out j
between the slaveholdmg and non-slaveholding ;
portions of this Union —between the two inde
pendent parts into which it would be erected ;
in virtue of the act of separation. In loss than •
sixty days, I believe, our slaves from Ken
tucky, flocking over in numbers to the other
Fide of the river, would be pursued by their
i oners Our hot and ardent spirits would be
restrained by no sense of the right which ap
pertains to the independence ot the other side ,
of the river, should that be the line of separa
tion. They would pursue their slaves into the j
adjacent tree States; they would be repelled, j
and the consequence would be that, in less
than sixty days, war would be blazing in every
part of tills now happy and peaceful land.
And, sir, how are you going to separate the j
States ot this confederacy ? In my humble
opinion, Mr. President we should begin with j
at least three separate confederacies. There
would be a confederacy of the North, a confed- '
eracy of the Southern Atlantic s'aveholdtng
States, and a confederacy ot the valley of the
Mississippi. Mv life upon it, that the vast
population which has already concentrated and
will concentrate on the head waters and the
tributaries of the Mississippi, will never give
their consent that the mouth ot that river shall
he held subject to the power of any foreign
State or community whatever. Such, I believe,
would be the consequences of a dissolution of
the Union immediately ensuing; but other
confederacies would spring up from time to
time, as dissatisfaction and discontent v.ere
disseminated throughout the country —the con
federacy of the Lakes, perhaps, the confederacy
of New Kngland, or of ttie middle States. Ah,
sir, the veil which covers these sad and tlisas-
Irous event?, that lie beyond it, is too thick to
be penetrated or lifted by any mortal eye or
hand.
Mr. President, I am directly opposed to any
purpose of secession or separation. lam for
staying within the Union and defying any por
tion of this confederacy to expel me or drive
me out ot the Union. lam for staying within
the Union and fighting for rny rights, if neces
sary, with the sword, within the bounds and
under the safeguard of the Union. lam for
vindicating those rights, not by being driven out j
of the Union harshly and unceritnoniously by
any portion of this confederacy. Here lam
within it, and here I mean to stand and die, as
far as my individual wishes or purposes can go
—within it to protect my property and defend
myself,defying all the power on earth tn expel
rr.e or drive me from the situation in which 1 am
placed. And would there not be more safety
in fighting within the Union than out of it?
Suppose our rights to be violated, suppose wrong
to be done to you, aggressions to be perpetrated
upon you, can you not belter vindicate them—
if you ht ve occasion to resort to the last neces
sity, the sword, for a restoration of those rights
—within, and with the sympathies of a large
portion of the population of the Un'on, than by
being without the Union, when a large portion
of the population have sympathies adverse to
your own? You can vindicate your rights
within the Union better than if expelled from
the Union, and driven from it without ceremony
and without authority.
Sir, I have said that 1 thought there was no
right on the part of one or more States to cecede
from the Union. I think so. The constitution
of the United States was not merely for the
generation that then existed, but for posterity
unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual pos
terity. And every State that then came into
the Union, and every Slate that has since come
into the Union, came into it binding itself by
indissoluble bands lo remain within the Union
itself, and to remain within it by its postevty
forever. Like another of the sacred connec
tions in private life, it is a marriBge which no
human authority can dissolve or divorce the
parties from. Ard if I may be allowed lo refer
to some examples in private life, let me say to
the North and to the South, what husband and
wife say to each other. We have mutual faults,
neither of us is perfect; nothing in the form of
humanity is perfect; let us, then, he kind to
each other—forbearing, forgivir g. • aeh other's
"faults—and, above all, let us live in happiness
aid peace together.
Mr. President, I have said, what 1 solemnly
believe, tbat dissolution of the Union and war
are identical and inevitable ; that tin y ;<re con
vertible terms; and such a war n.s it would l>"
following a dissolution of fhe Union ! Sir, we
may search the pages of history, and none s"
ferocious, so b'oudy, so implacable, so extermi
nating—not even the wars of (irecc, including
those of the commoners of England and the
revolutions of France —none, none of t.'iern all
would rage with such violence, or be character
ised with such bloodshed and enormities as woi Id
the wur which must succeed, it that event ever
happens, the dissolution of the Union. And
what would tie its termination ? Standing ar
mies and invi'-s, to an extent stretching the
revenues of each portion of the dissevered
members, would take place. An extermina
ting war would follow—not, sir, a war of two
or three years duration, but a war ol intermi
nable duration—and exterminating wars would
ensue, until, iifterthe struggles and exhaustion
of both pame, some Philip or Alexander, some
UJKVI it or Napoleon, would arise and cut the
(mrdian knot, und solve the problem of the ca
pacity of man for self-government, and crush
the liberties of both the severed portions of
this common empire. Can you doubt it ?
Look at a 1 ! history—consult her pages, an
c.wiit or isudero —fooir at human aature; look
at the character of the oonirst in which you
would lie engaged in the supposition of war
following upon the dissolution of the union,
such rs i have suggested ; and 1 ask you it it
is possible for vott to doubt t hat the final dispo
sition of the whole would be somedesjxit tread
, ing down the liberties of the people—the final
result would be the extinction of this last and
glorious light which is leading all mankind,
who ate gazing upon it, in the hope and anx
! ious expectation that the liberty which prevnils
here will 6ooner or later be diffused throughout
1 the whole of the civilized world. Sir, can you
j lightly contemplate these consequences ? Can
' you yield yourself to the tyranny of passion,
amidst dangers which I have depicted in colors
far too tame, of what the result would he if
; that direful event to which 1 have referred
' should ever occur 1
Sir, I implore gentlemen, 1 adjure them,
! whether from the South or the North, by all
that they hold dear in this world—by all their
love ul libeity—by all their veneration for their
! ancestors —by all their regard for posterity —
by all their gratitude to Him who has bestowed
on them such unnumbered and countless bless
ings—by all the duties which they owe to
mankind—and by all the duties which thej
' owe to themselves, to pause, solemnly to pause
| at the edge of the precipice, before the fearful
and dangerous leap is taken into the yawning
I abyss below, from which none who ever take
iteliaii return in safety.
Finally. Mr. President, and in conclusion, I
implore, as the best blessing which Heaven can
i bestow upon me upon earth, that if the direful
and fad event of the dissolution of this Union
is to happen, that 1 shall not survive to behold
the sad and heart rending spectacle.
TIIE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1830.
TERMS:
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For six months, 75 cents.
NEW subscriptions must be paid in
advance. If the paper is continued, and not
paid within the first month, $1.25 w ill be charg
ed ; if not paid in three months, $1.50; if not
paid in six months, $1.75; and if not paid in I
nine months, $2.00.
11?" The Authors of two eommunica- I
tions signed 4i Order" and '* Clem," have
neglected to give us their names.
nr The proceedings of Congress are
void of interest, slavery and efforts to em- :
barrass (Jen. Taylor's administration being
of greater moment to the locofocos and
abolitionists than the welfare of the conn
try.
In our legislature apportionment bills
have been reported—the iocofoco monster
being all on one side. It gives Mifllin a
member of the House, and unites it with
Union and Huntingdon as a senatorial dis
trict. Another bill gives Mifflin a member
ol the House, and makes Perry. Juniata.
Mifflin, and Centre a senatorial district.
'l'he discussion on die amendment to the
Constitution making Judges elective is con
tinued in the House. Mr. Cibbonev has
presented petitions in favor of a I'oor
House in this county, and Mr. Cunning
ham one for the incorporation of a certain
turnpike company (probably Milheim)and
two for laying out a state road in Mifflin,
Union and Juniata.
Sudden Death.—J. li. Appeehaegh,
Esq., for a number of vears a much re
spected citizen of this place, died very
suddenly on Tuesday last at the residence
of his son-in-law ( \. McKee) in .Cram die
township. He had been in usual health,
and while engaged out of doors was seen
to fall, and a few minutes thereafter breath
ed his last. He hied profusely, and is
supposed to have died from the rupture of
a blood vessel connected with some \ itul
part.
New Turnpike.— There is a project
afoot in Centre county to construct a turn
pike from Milheim to Iteedsville. My this
road the distance frotn Milheim to Lewis
town would he about 18 miles, and if con
structed would add materially to our trade.
Business men here ought to aid the matter
in consideration by a liberal subscription.
Bedford County.— The locofocos of
Bedford county seem to be of that ram
pan! class who can make a good deal more
noise in time of peace than in war. A
meeting was lately held " in the majesty of
their strength.'" as one of the organs de
scribed it, and resolutions unanimously
adopted which clearly entitles them to the
banner of \ ulgarity, if nothing else. Much
a tissue of low \ituperation and shameful
abuse of public men, is fortunately seldom
met with, and the only wonder is that any
man laying claim to respectability should
sutler his name to be coupled with such
billingsgate.
*y" A locomotive upset an omnibus at
j MeVeytown on Saturday last, in which
several gentlemen had taken seats. The
omnibus was somewhat injured, the pas
sengers but slightly. The vehicle was
standing on the track at the time, a spot
J which no carriage of any kind, horse and
rider, or person ought ever to occupy,
whether a locomotive is in sight or not.
Keep off" the track, and you will always
be safer than 011 it.
Dr. Charles Loib, of this State, has
■ been appointed Special Mail Agent.
Profession and PrarfDe.
' 'l'Jie Democrat, in an article on the pros
perity of the country, says:
j " The Democracy hold the noble sentiment of
| the patriot Jackson, that 1 it i 9 the duty of the
I government to dispense its favors, as the dews
of Heaven, alike upon the poor and the rich.'"
| Although there is more of Shakespeare
than Jackson in the above sentiment, we'll
let it pass with the remark that such is the
J profession. \\ hat the practice is, we will
! let Air. MEEK, a locofoeo member of the
Legislature from Centre county, answer.
In his speech on granting further "special
; privileges" to the Reading Railroad—priv
ileges which no poor or unfortunate man
could obtain—he said :
1 hare watched the progress of this bill, now
| before us, with mingled feelings of grief and i
j dignation ; nor do 1 now rise to address lite
I house in opposition to its progress, with any
i hope of arresting it. No, sir, 1 have seen too
much legislation to hope for any such result. I
have learned, by painful experience, that there
is no resisting a measure of this kind when
backed by corporation power. But 1 must ex
| press my total dissent to its passage, and repre
| senting as I do a plain, unsophisticated demo
; eralie constituency, 1 dare not sutler the passage
, of a bill so MONSTROUS IN rrs PROVISIONS, with
! out speaking out my disapprobation in the most
| unmistakeahle language.
1 cannot disguise the fact, that my own heart
j heats more faintly—my high expectations of
| successful legislation now drag in the dust—ali
my hopes quail, and I am wounded for the cause
| of my best devotions—the triumph of sound
i democratic principles. How is it, sir, that we
promise so much at home, and net do so little u-hen
here, (hat is REALLY DEMOCRATIC? Are
j we not continually deriding our whig opponents
with the meanest subserviency to incorporation
privilege—with the most abject devotion to
wealth and its usurped prerogatives—with being
i the party who are always ready to confer privi
lege upon the few, while we claim to be the de
votees of principles known only by this motto,
j "equal and exact justice to ali men—exclusive
privileges to none?"
I should not liaye said a word on the subject,
l hut that I wish to hear my testimony to the
soundness of our people at home and their hon
j est adherence to principle. They send us here
| with right views, but alas. Iff.' do not stay right,
and our DECEIVED and BETR.IYED constitu
! ents are still left to wonder why it is so—why
they elect a majority of the members of this
House charged with the cause of their rights and
principles, and yet, whig [Mr. Meek ought to
have said I.ocofoco ] principles always prevail.
But look at this bill before us. Two years
ago this company was here a-king us to incor
porate eight or ten millions of debt as preferred
stock. Wc refuse it that privilege. It now
comes, and asks us to suspend for 20 whole
years the operation of our collection laws, while
it acknowledges over sixteen millions of liabili
ty ! How comes all this to pass? Two years
since it was involved, we are told, in a debt of
ten or eleven millions, it has increased to be
tween sixteen and seventeen millions. The offi
cers of this company have grown rich, built
palaces, and ride as nabobs through the land ;
they have paid no debts—no sir; they have in
creased them vastly. Hir, did you ever know, j
or read of any people in their corporate capa
city, paying a debt of this size? Never, sir, hut
in the case of our own noble Union. Whether
she will be able to pay again remains to be seen.
With this corporation, 1 hold, it is impossible
that ever it should pay its debts. The road is
one hundred miles long, and cost $16,325,032: I
each mile, therefore, cost $103,200, and must at
least yield an annual income of $lO,OOO for in
terest, beside the cost of repairs, management, j
ckc. This it cannot do ; no sane man will be
lieve that it can possibly subsist any longer than
it can borrow money.
Sir, 1 dare any man in this commonwealth, in i
his private capacity, to come and ask us thus to
step in between him and his creditors ! No, sir.
no; such an application would be scouteO
from this hall! Well do I remember the man
with the red shirt, who, with many other hard
working men, had settled upon a tract of what
they considered vacant land ; after years of toil,
sacrifice, and patient endurance of privation,
and when they thought themselves in possession
of homes for their declining years, a British sub
ject sued upon them a writ of ejectment. They
preferred their cause to this body, and asked us
to interpose the shield of our protection. Were
they heard? no sir: the constitution was in our
way. Poor fellows! we could do nothing for
them ! they were not a corporation. " Alas !
poor Yorick!"
Sir, we hear, with the deepest emotion, of the
threatened rupture of our hoiy Union : and dis
may portrayed upon every face when the hare
possibility of such a catastrophe is spoken of—
one lays his finger upon his mouth, and dumb
with amazement, he hears the fearful and por
tentous word " DISUNION"" pronounced as the
death knell of his country's glory. His country
—aye, the country of destiny—the glory of all
lands —the beacon light of the benighted, down
trodden, oppressed, and injured of all the na
tion®—the country to which we invite the hungry,
homeless, and persecuted of every clune to come
and find an asylum in the " Land of the free and
the home of the brave." And yet, sir, ice, by
our profligate legislation, are likely soon to make
it hut an empty name—a shadow—a skeleton j
only will he left to the people, if we continue
thus to rob them, for the benefit of soulless corpo
rations.
Sir, we shall hear of this bill again, when we
come to elect a Governor or President. The
whigs will hurl it upon us as the party in the j
majority, and having the power to prevent such
legislation. We profess to hold the best—the
only good principles upon which to administer a
republican government, and urge men to sustain
us by arguments addressed to their hopes and
fears, their rights and liberties, A.VD YET I)IS- i
A PROW ALL A.VI) BETRAY Oill PAR
TY. la the name, sir, of the democratic parly
and its principles—of my constituents ot (,'cnln
county, and of the constitution which I have ;
sworn to sustain, I protest against the passage of
this hill. .
II '* an honest confession is good for the
soul,*' Mr. Meek lias made a clean breast
of it, and portrayed the hypocritical pro
fessions of his party as well as Hogarth
himself could have done it, were he still
living. As predicted, this " monstrous"
hill was passed hy what is called a demo
cratic legislature, and as the governor could
not doubt the " democracy" of a bill em- j
anating from old Berks and advocated by !
her representatives, lie of course will in
terpose no veto.
TRAITORS. —From a remark in the 11.
S. Senate of Mr. Butler, of South Caro
lina, it appears that Foote of Mississippi
and Hunter of \ irginia, both locofocos,
first suggested the project of a Southern
Disunion Convention. These fellows, as
well as their abettors, whether whigs or
locofocos, ought to form a lodge, with
proper banners and regalia, and call it after
their illustrious predecessor, Benedict Ar
nold.
LIST OF TAXABLE IMIABII AMS OF TIIE
(OHFLO WEALTH.
Counties* IS3>. 1812. 1819.
1. Adams, 5,1G7 5,212 5,619
2. Allegheny, 13,684 18,610 28,547
3. Armstrong, 4,553 4,398 6,086
4. Beaver, 5,314 6,670 5,743
5. Bedford, 4,712 6,763 6,286
6. Berks, 11,743 13,701 16,262
7. Blair, (erected Feb. 26, 1843,) 4,457
8. Bradford, 4,721 7,197 8,569
9. Bucks, 10,450 12,027 13.151
10. Butler, 4,322 5,335 7,490
11. Cambria, 1,912 2,433 3,642
12. Carbon, (erected Feb. 15, 1843,) 3,742
13. Centre, 4,705 4,44 4.946
14. Chester, 11,682 13,433 14,769
15. Clarion, not erected 3,311 5,087
16. Clearfield 1,395 2.236 2,639
17. Clinton, not erected 2,019 2,316
18. Columbia, 4,818 5,641 6,721
19. Crawford, 5,164 7,516 8,130
20. Cumberland, 6.047 6,477 7,554
21. Dauphin 5,508 6,652 7,683
22. Delaware, 3,900 4,462 5.267
23. Elk, (erected April 18, 1843.) 877
j 24. Erie, 6,082 7,285 8,434
' 25. Fayette, 6,094 7,008 7,611
j 26. Franklin, 7,060 7,766 8,386
27. Greene, 3,347 4,277 4,447
28. Huntingdon, 6,102 7,430 5,309
29. Indiana, 3,193 4,538 5,530
30. Jefferson, 902 1,769 2,622
31. Juniata, 2,065 2,459 3,112
32. Lancaster, *16,583 18,967 22,844
33. Lawrence, (erected March 20, 1849) 4,425
; 34. Lebanon, 4,410 4,901 5,708
| 35. Lehigh, 5,355 6,175 7,286
36. Luzerne, 6,0b3 7,651 10,898
i 37. Lycoming, 4,396 5,101 5,418
' 38. M'Kean, no return 1,089 1,213
i 39. Mercer, 5,196 7,356 6,923
j 40. Mifflin, 2,411 3,122 3,17*2
[4l. Monroe, not erected 2,374 2,785
42. Montgomery, 9,773 11,697 13,516
| 43. Northampton, 9,211 9,604 8,908
I 41. Northumberland, 3,933 4,472 4,655
[ 45. I'erry, 2,942 3,989 -1.455
Philadelphia city, 16,449 17,559 22,730
' I Philadelphia co., 31.398 33,562 54.554
i 47. Pike, 937 889 11,200
43. Potter, 556 681 1,346
49. Schuylkill, 4.700 8,086 12,867
50. Somerset, 3,639 4,428 4,924
51. Susquehanna, 3,592 4.940 6,116
52. Sullivan, erected March 15, 1847.) 769
53. Tioga, 2,585 4,091 5,237
54. Union, 4,353 5,053 5,350
55. Venango, 3,014 3,157 4,027
56. Warren, 1,690 2,593 3,149
57. Washington, 8,470 9,079 10,029
58. Wayne, 2,120 3,078 4.375
59. Westmoreland, 8,223 10,353 11.618
60. Wyoming, not erected 1,540 2,14*2
61. York, 9,559 10,693 13,060
Total, 317,300 387,417 466,733
'Columbia district not received, j Estimated.
The return of taxables for this countv,
compiled front the returns made by the
Assessors, is as follows :
Districts. Tuxahlts. I)ea/&( Dumb. Blind.
Lewistown, 527 2
Oliver township, 330 2
Union " 296
Armagh '• 333 3
Brown " 212 1
Wayne " 254
Dcrry " 277 1
Menno " 25C
Granville " 244
Decatur " 206 2
M'Veytown, 156
Newton Hamilton, 68 -
Total, 3,179 5 6
There are doubts in the minds of manv
persons as to the correctness of this return.
After making all due allowances for tran
sient laborers on the railroad, (which
swilled the vote of 1848 to 3155, only '29
less than the number of taxables now re
ported.) for emigration, Arc., it is still diffi
cult to conceive that this county has in
creased but 57 m taxables in seven years,
while the couuties around us can count
their increase by hundreds and thousands.
In Centre, during that time, the increase is
500; in Juniata 700 ; Union 300; Hunt
ingdon and Blair about 1500; Clearfield
400; I'erry 500! If correct, it exhibits
the fact that there must he something
" rotten in Denmark," or our noble hills
and fertile valleys, abounding in inexhaust
ible mineral wealth, would not remain
stationary while all our sister counties are
on their march with rapid strides to power
and wealth.
APPOINTMENTS. —The most sensible
thing the Canal Commissioners have done
this winter is the appointment of a number
of editors to such offices as State Agent,
Cargo Inspector, Ac., but it would have
been more sensible had thev been named
for Superintendents or Supervisors. Among
them we are pleased to notice that our
friend CUNNINGHAM continues his duties on
the Columbia Railroad, and that TKAUGH,
of the llollidaysburg Standard, has been
promoted (?) to count the regiments of
pretty girls, nice young men, and " dirty
faces who may pass over the Portage.
r3T An adjourned Court lias been HI
session this week, at which some intricate
law cases were ably argued. During one
of these trials, JAMES T. HALE, Esq., of
Bellefontc, delivered an argumentative
speech which we have heard spoken of as
one ol the best delivered at this bar for a
number of vears.
? v" It is said that nearly one-half of the
members of the present ('ongress were
once journeymen mechanics. V\ e doubt
this—mechanics arc not the men who
would make the House of Representatives
a lfniisr of J?t probates.
The Journal, published at New
town, Bucks county, will be offered at
public sale on the '23 d inst. It is consid
ered an eligible situation for a practical
printer.
A new I'ostoflice has been established
at Ennisville, Jackson township, in Hunt- i
ingdon county, and Alexander Stewart ap
pointed Postmaster.
From California.
The steamers Empire Citv and Ohio
j have both arrived from Chagres, the for-
I mer with more than a million, and the
j latter with half a million of California
gold dust, besides a large amount in the
; trunks of passengers.
The account of the great tire, as at first
' published, was much exaggerated, but the
i property destroyed was immense, being
estimated at a million and a halt.
A correspondent of the He Aid, writing
: from California gives the following account
of the
PROGRESS OF SAX ITANCISCO.
Since the commencement of the present
year 1,000 houses have been erected in
j San Francisco, and the levee at New Or-
I leans, or the wharves of the East River,
do not display such an amount of business
! as the banks of the San Francisco bay ex
| hibit. Among the oilier improvements,
! several wharves have been built; the most
' extensive, the Central, built by a joint
stock company, already extended 290 feet
into the bay, thus enabling vessels to lie
alongside and discharge which u ill, when
completed, be 2100 feet in length. Seven
churches have been erected—2 Episco
palian. 2 Presbyterian, 1 Baptist, 1 Meth
odist, and 1 Catholic ; so that we now en
joy 44 the stated preaching of the Gospel"
iu our churches, beside having a tearing
sermon on the plaza every Sunday after*
! noon, from a brass-lunged Methodist itin
■ erant. A large theatre is now in progress
of erection, under the auspices of Col. 11.
T. Myers ; and saw-dust and dimity fly
right and left in a capacious and well
managed circus.
THF. CALIFORNIA ADVENTURERS.
The town is crowded with people.
Every day some new vessel pours its
hundreds on our shores, many of them
with fine prospects awaiting them, and
many destined to be most bitterly disap
pointed. Many a poor devil landing here
with bright visions of " big business" be
fore him, finds himself, in a few days,
rendered penniless by the enormous Cal
ifornia prices, and the next we see of him
: is peddling newspapers in the streets, or
shovelling gravel for the corporation in
filling up mud holes. Many a man finds
; night coming on him in this town, where
: gold appears to be the staple commodity,
without a place to lay his head, or where
: withal to purchase him a supper. 1 fear
that much misery will occur this winter.
| Almost every morning a dead body is
found in the streets. This is owing, how
; ever, in most cases, to drunkenness and
dissipation. But California is a great
; country " for a' that," and men with
strong hands and stout hearts need never
lear to come and see our elephant.
SQUATTING AMD MEXICAN LAND TITLES.
Extensive "squatting" operations are
in progress throughout all portions of Cal
ifornia ; in some cases extending so far as
locating upon town lots and mission lands.
THE BURNT DISTRICT.
The rebuilding of the burnt district of
San Francisco bad commenced, with an
energy surpassing anything we can recol
lect to have been recorded in our Atlantic
cities, after similar disasters. The tire
occurred on the 24th, and on the 28th
several house frames had been erected
over the ashes, and two of them were al
ready weather-boarded and shingled : the
iraine of the Exchange was up, and was
to be completed, as per contract, in 16
day s, at a cost of between 25 and $30.-
OOO—the builders forfeiting $ 150 a dav
lor every day beyond that period. Lum
ber u as bringing $325 a thousand.
A FREE SCHOOL.
At San Francisco a movement was in
progress to establish a free school, under
the charge of Mr. J. C. Pelton.
DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT RUINS.
A long account is given bv a writer of
the discoveries he has made in Northern
California and New Mexico of ancient ru
ins. pillars of granite, 11 feet high, which
still retain numerous traces of the pictures
ol men, plants and animals, intermixed
with hieroglyphic characters. Another
discovery, on the Colorado, was that of
American pyramids.
THE GOLD GAMBLERS.
'Die New York Tribune savs, an intel
ligent friend, who enjoyed good opportu
nities lor iniormation in San Francisco,
estimates the amount of gold in the hands
of the gamblers idone of that city on the
Ist of January, at fourteen millions of dol
lars. These 4 sporting men,' by the way,
have done the largest business of any class
of operators in California during the last
y ear. Toil-worn diggers who had bagged
their thousands at the cost of unsurpassed
fatigue, privations and exposure, ha\ e come
down to the citv and gambled, and lost
their last dollar within a week. The
gamblers, it should be stated to the credit
ot their forecast, never hesitate iu such
cases to lend a 44 cleaned out" digger $56
or $lOO to enable him to return to the
mines. Nor do they confine their favor?
entirely to their customers. They sub
scribe liberally to new churches, and as
sume the character of public spirited eiti
zous.
THE MARKETS.
Lewistown* Feb. 15, 1650,
Paid by Dealeri. Kttaxl.
Flour - - $4 12J $5 00
Wheat, white - 95 I 10
red - 90 1 05
Bye - - 50 60
Oats - - 26 35
Corn, - . 45 00
Clover seed old, 3 75
Do new, 4 00
Flaxseed . . 1 00 1 25
TiinotliyseeJ - - 2 00 2 50
Butter, good - - 15 15
E" (r s - . j2 pi
Lard ti S
Tallow - 8 ii)
Potatoes - c-.'s
I'Hll.UHa.i'lliV, Feb. j 1. 1650.
The I'i-OVK MAKKKI eunlimies quiet. Eale*
.if coiiiiiioo bi&uds fur shipment at .$,l 7") ir
barrel. Sales t" the city dealers at >1 -q, a
$5 for common brands,
RYKFI.OL'R is steady at V 2 1)4
CORN MKAL — A small tale of Pennsylvania
At .<j fi 6S 3 r per barrel.
GRAlN—There is little or no inquiry lor
Wheat. Prime red is held at &:,06,and white
at $1,14 per barrel.
The demand for CORN is limited. Sales, f
50.10 bushels new So itheru yellow at 55a55Ar,
weight.
OATS sell slowly at 55c per bushel for Penn
sylvania, and 32"33c for Southern.
COIFLI: is dull, and prices tending to decline.
NEW VOKK. February 13,1650.
The COTTON MARKRT is dull, and prices
j have declined to fct, per lb. sines theoteam
i cr's advice?.
FLOCK IS quiet and rather in favor of buyers
—sales of 4000 bbis. at $4 67 to ijio for com
mon Western and State brands; pure Genesee
$5 50'5 62; Southern $5 25 a 5 57; Cana
dian $1 67^
| The GROCERY MARKET is quiet COFFEE
j continues heavy and the tendency downward.
BALTIMORE, Feb. 13. I*so.
FLOUR —Sales at #4 75, and at §4
GRAIN—SmaII parcels of red Wheat, by wag.
on?, sell at 103*106 ets. Prime lots,afloat,
are worth 101al08cts.
Sales of CORN to-day at 52a53 cts. for white,
and 53a54ct?. for red.
Sales of GATS at 35a36cts.
i
MARRIED,
On Wednesday, 6th inst., by Rev. J. Moore,
Mr. ROBERT M. TAT LOR, of Inion township, anl
Miss MART W. TAYLOR, of Brown township.
On Thursday, 14th inst., by Rer. J. Rosen
berg, Mr. HENRY HOFFMAN, of Granville town
ship, and Mrs. ELIZABETH BEAR, of Centre co.
COTTON YARN HOUSE,
ISOSUtfiS A IIAM UOOD.
,Vo. North rront Street, Philadelphia,
GOTTON and I.inen Chain, Warps,
Indigo Blue Twist, Coverlet Yarn,
Tie Yarn, Camp Wick, Cottton Laps, Wadding, t,~.
1 February 16, Ip3o—3m
BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS!
rgiHE PUBLIC.are hereby informed that a
A Patent has been issued by the United
States to Stephen Crane tor a Wash Mixture,
j and the undersigned is a joint inventor, ami
Holds the Patent Right for Pennsylvania. A
certain person who has been eel ling rights is
neither the inventor nor proprietor, and will be
1 prosecuted, with all others violating the patent.
CO" WANTED-Good Agents, to canvas
: the State.
D. M'VOV, Baltimore, Md.
CO" Every Editor in the State who will copy
the above notice three times, and send a copy
to me, shall have a family right forwarded to
him, valued at §5. D. M.
February 16, 1350—3t.
$25 REWARD."
T OST, on Wednesday, either in Lewistown or
I j on the road to Mann's Axe Factory, a small
; POCKET WALLET, containing some 70 or SO
■ dollars, and a few papers of no value to any one
but the owner. The above reward will be paid
1 on its return, with its contents, to the editor of
the Gazette. WILLIAM MANX
February 16. 1850—3t
IT /**> cn T >" rr.
A. W ATE teL *
r PHE public is hereby cautioned not to inter
fere in any manner whatever with the fol
lowing articles, purchased at Constable's sale on ,
the 14th instant, as the property of E. Brittain, '
j viz :—A Corner Cupboard, 2 lots of Carpet, Ta
ble, Clock, Bureau, Stove, Cooking Stove, Tabie
Fixtures of Oyster Cellar, 11 Chairs, Oyster
Lamp, iVc., Looking Glass, 1 barrel Cider, and
I Counter—which property 1 have left with and
loaned to the said E. Brittain during my will and
pleasure, and will hold all persons responsible
in law who mav intermeddle with the same.
WM. F. MOVER.
Lewistown, Feb. 16, 1850—3t
/.\ 111E .V.ITTER of the Partition and I 'aUii
tmn of the Real list ate of ill LLLLM /,.
JI.IRRIS, deceased:
IN the Orphans' Court of Mercer county, Penn
sylvania, No. 31 of September Term, 184b.
Writ issued to the Sheriff to part and divide, or
value and appraise,donation lot No. 726,0f two
hundred acres, in the 4th district in Mercer
j county: Which said land has been appraised
i and valued by a Jury summoned by said Sheriii.
i at the sum of Eleven Hundred and Twenty-Five
j Dollars. ($1125 ) Notice is hereby given to
! James Harris, Martha Harris, and Laird Howard,
Thomas Howard, David Howard, Harriet How-
I ard, intermarried with Dr. Thomas Vanvalzah,
Ami Howard, intermarried with William Wilson.
Jane Howard, intermarried with Joseph Green,
who were children of Elizabeth Harris, who wa<
intermarried with Thomas Howard, both oi
whom are deceased, that the Court aforesaid
did, on the 29ili day of December, 1849, confirm
the inquisition aforesaid, and give judgment thai
the same should remain firm and stable forever,
and made a rule on the heirs and legal repre
sentatives of the deceased, to appear on the first
: day of next term, (Ist day of April next,) and
accept or refuse the premises at the valuation.
Certified from the Record, at
Mcrccr, this 29th day of December,
A. 1) . 1849.
M. C. TROUT, crk o. c.
Notice to be given by three publications intti e
Lewistown Gazette and Lewisburg Chronicle.
Feb. 16, 1850—3t M. C. T
SHERIFF'S SALE.
HB virtue of a writ of Venditioni Exponas issued
out of the Court of Common Pleas of Mif
flin county, and to ine directed, will be exposed
at public" -ale, at the Court House, iu the bo:*
ougli of Lewistown, on
TIU KSD.IY, Jlarch 1-lth.
1850, at It) o'clock, A. M., the following Krai
Estate, to wit:
A Tract of Land in Wayne township, Mtlllm
county, containing 29 acres, more or less, about
six acres cleared, adjoining lands of Samuel
Withrow on the west, Abraham Lukens'heiis
on the east, and having thereon erected a log
house, small frame house and stable.
Also, A Tract of Land in Wayne township,
Milllin county, containing f>3 acres, more or less,
about 15 acres cleared, adjoining lands ol
Samuel Withrow on the west, Cyrus Stiue on
the. north, John and George Lukens ou theeasß
and the above 29 acres on the south, hav ing there
on erected a small log house and stables. Seized,
taken in execution, and to he sold as the pro
perty of George W. Coulter, Administrator t
William Laughlin, dee d, with notice to the
\v idow and hi irs.
I>. MckKAN CUNTN'BR, Sherif
SHERIFF' * Orwrr. i
Lewistown, Feb. 10, 1849 \ :d.
N. R.—Purchasers at the above Sheriff's said
are hereby notified thai the amount ol the sa
will be required to oe ua.d itmnediateiy oB e
property bring knicked down, or it vi i ib- u'-
with ii-sold m :IJ.* liijiivoj biiU'-r.