Lie No, 2430.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
| ONE DOLLAR PER A!V!VUIff;
IN ADVANCE.
For six months, 75 cents.
I Ul NEW subscriptions must be paid in
L. If the paper is continued, and net
jtbin the first month, §1,25 will becharg
nat paid in three months, §1,50; if not
E six months, §1,75; and if not paid in
iooths, §2,00.
n3 pers addressed to persons out of the
'will be discontinued at the expiration of
e paid for, unless special request is made
contrary or payment guaranteed by some
isible person here.
ADVERTISING.
i; nes of minion, or their equivalent, con
j square. Three insertions §l, and 25
[or each subsequent insertion.
West Branch Insurance Co.
OF LOCK HAVE*, PA.,
!R£S Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer
ndisc, Farm Property, and other Build-
B d their contents, at moderate rates.
DIRECTORS.
flhn J Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey,
I Mali T T ' Abrams '
. t Mayer, 1). K. Jackman,
Crist, w - w, ' ite '
Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen.
Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres.
T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres.
t Kitchen, Sec'y.
REFERENCES.
1H Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D.
IVinegardner, VVm. Vanderbelt.
Marker WnK Fearon.
•' J Dr. J. S. Crawford,
(iJiggle. A. Updegraff,
\' Maynard, James Armstrong,
Simon Cameron, Hon. Win. Bigler.
Kent for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW-
Esq. _ ___ •P* 23 .
nitv from Loss and Damage by Pi re,
U ftriU / Murine and Inland Transportation.
CONTINENTAI.
SSURANCE COMPANY.
r.rated by the Jsyidainre of Penuxylca
nia, with a Perpetual Charier.
Authortzetl Capital, 1,000,000.
So. 61 Walnut St. above Sceoud, Pbila.
[lnsurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer
ise &c., generally. Marine Insurance
irgoes and Freights to all parts of the
."inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by
Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to
iris of the Union, on the most favorable
p consistent with security.
DIRECTORS.
re W. Colladay, William Bowers,
>l. Coleman, Joseph Oat,
|V. Machette. Howard Hinchman.
iEORGE W. COLLADAY, President.
LEX WILON, Secretary.
\jent for Mifflin county, Wm. P. EL-
T, E-q. febl9-ly
MITY AGAINST LOSS BY F!RE.
nkiin Fire Insurance Compa
ny of Philadelphia.
Koe 163-A Chestnut street, near Fifth,
merit of Assets, $1,827,185 SO
January Ist, 1857.
ifccd agreeably to an act of Assembly, be
ing.
Drtgages, amply secured, $1,519,932 73
f.-tate. (present value. $109,-
L) cost, 89,114 18
E. present value, $83,881 12,)
i, 71,232 97 j
4c., 64,121 56 j
$1,827,185 80 I
tttual cr Limited Insurances made on every
pticn of property, in Town and Country,
as low as are consistent with security,
ts their incorporation, a period of twenty
par-. they have paid over Three Millions i
liars' losses by fire, thereby affording cv- i
tof the advantages of Insurance, as well j
6 ability and disposition to meet with I
ftness all liabilities.
Losseg by Fire.
6 paid during the year 1856, $301.638 84
DIRECTORS.
X Bancker, j Mordecai D. Lewis,
Wagner, j David S. Brown,
el Grant, j Isaac Lea,
it Smith, | F.dward C. Dale,
W.Richards, j George Fales.
JHARLES X. BANCKER, President.
'5. G. B.VXCK.ER, Sec'y.
["Agent for Mitllin county, H. J. WAL-
S,F,sq., Lewis town. ' mar 19
Pennsylvania Railroad.
and after Monday, June 22d, 1857,
rains leave Lewistown Station as follows:
Eastward. Westward.
J"' 514a. m. 540a. m.
15e > 10 47 p. m. 729 p. m.
1 . 404 " 304 "
Freight, 500 " 150 a.m.
?ant 500 " 3 25 "
' 7 25 " 12 40 "
K ?. Harrisburg, $1 50; to Philadelphia,
tu 2? na ' f "*• to Pittsburgh, 470
ne Ticket Office will be open 20 min
Jp lore the arrival of each Passenger
D. E. ROBESON, Agent.
oundry and Machine Shop.
fnt^'i 0 a Y £ hereby notified that I have
" ,e Foundry and Machine Shop in
Irr hewistown, known as the "Ju
• n "wks," and the large and general
iJ , , Patterns, late the property of
tsd w WiUis ' now John Sterrett &
illkiids '"' S ' an< * thdt * am P re P aret f
Idling, Turning,
,l' o 0 ; le,t notice and in the best and most
iu , JOHN ZEIGLER.
i*n, April 17, 1856—tf.
*lWeow RIISTIST.
business promptly attend-
FiCF v iar S es reasonable.
i ./ ° n Main street, second door
tter ff ° Wn and nearly opposite the
mce - je2l, 1855—tf.
and Square Paling, 3000
13 ' • on ' ia nd and for sale cheap by
FRANCIrtCUS.
ipwbsswse) AS m ®2i®3&®ig iFßtfrsnsyc&isißa mm s wmm , ssrs$ 9 s j |iF 2 , S) ipa©
m inasam.
WHAT iMAKES WOMEN I
Not costly ilrcts, nor queenly air;
Not Jeweled hand, complexion fair;
Not graceful form, nor lofty tread.
Not paint, nor curls, nor splendid head ;
Not pearly teeth, nor sparkling eyes,
Nor voice that nightingale outvies;
Not breath as sweet as eglantine.
Not gaudy gems, nor fabrics line;
Not all the stores of fashion's mart;
Nor yet the blandishments of art
Not one, nor all of theie combined,
Can make one woman true refined.
"l'is not the casket that we prize,
But that which in the casket lies;
These outward charms that please the sight,
Arc naught unless the heart be right.
She, to fulfil her destined end,
Must with her beauty goodness blend:
Must make it lier incessant care
To deck herself with jewels rare;
Of priceless gems must be possessed.
In robes of richest beauty dressed;
Yet these must clothe the inward mind,
lu purity the most refined.
She who doth all these goods combine
Cau man's rough nature welt refine—
Hath all she needs in this frail life
To lit for mother, sister, wife;
lie who possesses such a friend
Should cherish well till life doth tnd.
Woman, in fine, the mate should be,
To sail with man o'er life's rough sea.
And when the stormy cruise is o'er.
Attend him to fair Canaan's shore.
ImiiimßMii a."
A DETERMINED AND DISINTER
ESTED LADY.
Tbe Cincinnati Gazette gives an account
of u lady who while living in California
three years ago, was the means of marry
ing a young lady friend of hers to a fellow
named Munson, who robbed his wife and
soon deserted her—sailing for New York.
The lady who had brought about the match
left California ami boldly laced her respon
sibility in tbe premises, and on the sailing
of the next homeward-bouml steamer, she
took passage for New York, determined to
follow the betrayer of her confidence and
the love of a wife to the bounds of civili
zation, and bring him to punishment. Ar
riving in New York, she got traces of his
footsteps, followed him over various routes,
until she tracked him to a village in Penti
svlvania, where she found him with another
wife, to whom he had been married before
going to California ! A warrant was issued
for las arrest for • bigamy, but, having no
proofs of his second marriage, after a short
examination, he was discharged.
Nothing daunted by this unlooked-for
termination of affairs, the lady immediately
returned to California, procured the neces
sarv affidavits substantiating M onsen's
marriage there, together with evidence of
the fact of his having absconded with some
§15,000 of liis second wife's funds, and
once more returned to the Atlantic side in
search of the betrayer of her friend. And
that search she has prosecuted now for two
or three months, with the most determined
and restless perseverance; hut thus far
without success. He had left the village
where he had resided when arrested for
bigninv, ami although the lady had obtained
some subsequent traces of his movements,
when we met her site had not yet succeed
ed in ascertaining his present residence,
although she is satisfied it is somewhere in
the West. She had already expended a
large amount of her own funds in the pur
suit, and expressed her determination not
to give up the chase until her " sweet re
venge" had been gratified, and the villain
brought to justice. The lady pursuer has
gone to Cleveland, where she has friends
residing. If she may not he classed am
ongst the "strong-minded women," she is
certainly a most determined one.
MON KISH LEO ENDS.
In one of his notes to " Lacon, C'olton j
gives the following account of the marvel
lous things wrought in the bosom of the j
" mother church" in ancient times. Some
of the saints, especially, Duns an, Dominic
and Lupus, must have been fond of a prac
tical joke, and pretty cute hands at play
ing it off, too, to have so far forgotten the
weather-gage of the devil —for he is said
to be a full hand. _ j
"These legends abound with stories of j
prodigious things, some of which are very
ludicrous, such as St. Swithin s making a
whole basket of eggs by the sign of the
cross —Patricious making the stolen sheep
bleat in the thief's belly after he had eaten,
it; then, St. Bridget's bacon, which, in
great charity, she gave to a hungry dog,
and was, after the dog had eaten it, restor
ed again in her kettle. Of the like nature
is the story of St. Dunstan, who took the
devil by the nose with the tongs, and held
him till he roared with pain. Dominic
made him hold the candle till he burned
his fingers. Lupus imprisoned the devil
in a pot all night. A consecrated host be
ing put into a hive of bees, to cure them
of murrain, was so devoutly entertained,
that the bees built a chapel in the hive,
with steeple and bell; erected an altar, and
laid the host upon it, and then sung their
canonical hours like monks in cloister.
SINGULAR VISITATION BY A
BIRD.
Captain Johnson, of the barque Ellen,
savs: "Just before six o'clock on the af
| ternoon of September 12th, I was standing
on the quarter-deck with two others of the
crew on deck at the same time, besides the
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1857.
man at the helm. Suddenly a bird flew
over around me, just grazing my right
shoulder. Afterwards it flew around the
vessel, then it again commenced to fly
around my head. It soon flew at my face,
when I caught hold x>f it and made it a
prisonor. The bird is unlike any bird 1
ever saw before, and 1 don't know its name.
The color of its feathers is a dark iron gray;
its body was a foot and a hall' in length,
with wings three and a half feet from tip
to tip. It had a beak full eight inches
long, and a sort of teeth like a small hand
saw. In capturing it, it gave me a good
bite on my right thumb. Two of the
crew who assisted in tying its legs were
also bitten. As it showed a disposition to
bite at everybody I had its head cut off',
and the body thrown overboard. When
the bird flew to the ship, the barque was
going north of northeast. I regarded the
appearance of the bird as an omen, and an
indication to me that I must change my
course. I accordingly headed to the east
ward direct. I should not have deviated
from my course had not thejbird visited the
ship; and had it not been for this change
ol course I should not have lidlen in with
such passengers of the Central America."
A (Just: of Probable >S'usjuinled Anima
tion. —' On the 2d of October,' says the
N. Y. Evening Poet, 4 we published the
death of a married lady of this city, which
occurred suddenly on Thursday, the Ist
instant.
'The friends of the latuily assembled on
.Saturday, the BU, to attend tbe funeral;
but it having been discovered early on that
day that the body still preserved its natu
ral appearance, ir was decided to perform
the services in the house, deferring the
burial for the present. The body was ac
cordingly removed from the coffin to the
bed and now continues in a state of perfect
preservation and natural condition on this
the &i centh tiny rince it* supja/scd deecuse.
The utmost solicitude exists, of course,
in the family, and every effort is being
made to assist nature in tbe restoration of
her functions, although as yet no symptoms
of active life have appeared. It would
seem to he a case for the most extreme mea
sures to he adopted, lest the prolonged sus
pension of life may of itself prove fatal;
and yet instances of a pause of weeks in
the natural powers are said to have been
recorded in Europe.'
WHEN THAT'NOTE WAS 1)1 K.
A man in Boston (of course) was sorely
persecuted by an avaricious business ac
quaintance, to pacify whom he was obliged
to • settle,' and not wishing to pay over a
few hundred in cash lie drew up a note ob
ligating himself to discharge the account
after a specified date of time. The credi
tor, who was noted for his 'sticking princi
ple,' was not, in justice, really entitled to
the money, but when thirty days after date
expired, he anxiously presented the note
for payment. The debtor, instead of meet
ing it, replied:
' The note is not yet due, sir.'
'But it is. though. It reads, 'thirty ;
days after date 1 promise to pay' so and so,
and thirty-one days have elapsed since the j
date thereof; and so—'
• 1 don't care if thirty-one years have
elapsed since the date of the note, 1 shall ,
contend for its immaturity,' answered the j
debtor, interrupting the not very good hu
mored note-holder, w ho soon made his exit, I
slamming the street door after him and j
muttering incoherently about law, judg- |
meat, executions, Ac.
In a few days both parties were before a j
magistrate, who, on concluding the inves
tigation, proclaimed that he must certainly |
award ' judgment' against the debtor for j
the full amount of the note, and the cost '
of the prosecution besides.
'And what then ?' inquired the defend
ant of the judge.
'I shall issue an 'execution' if the plain
tiff desires,' returned his honor.
'To be sure —I want one immediately,'
bawled the plaintiff, whose countenance
revealed his determination to allow no mer
cy, as he urged his way as near the judge
as possible.
' You are resolved upon judgment and
execution ?' demanded the defendant.
' I am,' replied the judge, taking up his
pen to record the same.
'To be sure we are,' coincided the plain
tiff, with a chuckle.
'I presume your honor can spell correct
ly,' said the defendant, as he picked up his
hat and sent it further upon the table he
fore him.
'lnsolent!' exclaimed the judge, choking
with rage.
'Will you oblige me by carefully spelling
and reading the first line in that valuable
document,' urged the defendant, disregard
ing the anger of the magistrate, and di
recting his attention to the note that lay
before him.
The judge looked at the note and then
at the defendant, but probably thinking it
was best to take it coolly, proceeded to do
j as requested, and read aloud, in a very
! lucid style—
j ' Thirty days after date I prom —'
1 'Stop!' shouted the defendant, 'you don't
read it right.'
' I do/ was the judge's response.
' You don't !' returned the defendant; 'I
thought.you couldn't spell.'
The judge was now boiling over with
rage, and siiiotp the desk before him so
violently with his clenched hand as to
cause those who stood about him, including
the expectant plaintiff', to retreat a few pa
ces in double quick time.
' Keep ypttr temper, judge, or we shall
be obliged to'have the case transferred to
another court, where the magistrate under
stands the art arid mystery of spelling
words ot one syllable, and don't make a
fool of himself by kicking up a row and
smashing office furniture. There, you may
keep your sent and tell those present what
the first line of that note says,' said the
defendant, with a coolness that surprised
the audience and puzzled tbe judge.
Having again glanced at the document,
and appearing to detect something that
had until that moment escaped his percep
tion, the judge proceeded to read:
' Thirty days after death 1 promise to
pay—'
' Rightexclaimed the defendant; 'you
con spell, I see.'
'This note is not due, gentlemen, until
thirty days after <frnfh,' proclaimed the
magistrate; ' the case is accordingly dis
miss d, and the court adjourned until to
morrow morning.'
4 \\ hat !' exclaimed the plaintiff, 4 am I
thus fooled ? Villain !'
The unexpected and ludicrous conclusion
of the suit threw the whole assembly, save
the unlucky plaintiff, into an uproarious fit
of merriment, which having subsided, they
separated and dispersed. The note is not
due yet.
(iItAMMAT 10A!*/ QI'EST IONS.
What arc the regular parts of speech ?
The tongue, palate, and lips.
What is a love-letter?
An indefinite article.
A creditor's letter?
A definite article.
A boy informing against, his companion.
Accusative case.
'fhe companion whipped?
Vocative case.
The master whipping ?
An active verb, governing both the ac
cusative. and vocative.
' Billy do you remember the golden rule ?
' Yes, marm.'
4 Then what makes you quarrel so with
your brother? If you do not want me to
whip you, you should not fight your broth
er.'
4 Reokin' ye'd better mind the golden
rule yersclf; if you don't want me to lick
von. you shouldn't lick mc !
4 Billy, how did you lose your finger ?'
4 Easy enough/ said Billy.
' I suppose you did, but how ?'
4 1 guess you'd a lost yourn, if it had
been where mine was.'
4 That don't answer my question !'
' Well, if you must know/ said Billy,
' I had to cut it off or else steal the trap.'
DR. MARKS.
HAVING resumed the practice of medicine,
may always be found at his office in the
Public Square, opposite the Lewistown Hotel
May 7, 1857.-tf
GrEO. W. ELLEU,
Attorney at Law,
OFFICE in West Marketstreet.oppositeEisen
bise's Hotel, will attend toany businessinthe
courtsof Mifflin, Centre, or Huntingdon coun
ties Lewistown. Jul v 1,1853.
A GASUBo
• pHE undersigned would take this method of
L informing the 10,000 customers of the BF.E
HIVE DRUG STORF. that they have purchased the
entire stock and fixtures of that establish
ment, and will continue to wait upon customers
in their usual style—selling Drugs, Medicines,
Ac. cheaper than any other establishment in
town —for cash only.
0c1.3m JAMES H. McKEE & CO.
~ BUNBURI COAL.
JUST ARRIVED, Canal Boat Logan, from
Sunbury, with fifty tons of Coal. For sale
by JOIIN LEVY.
August 27, 1857.-7t*
dood floods and Low Prices!
McCoy & Ellis's
CHEAP STORE!
| rpHE undersigned, trading under the name and
L firm of McCOY & ELLIS, respectfully in
form their friends and the public generally that
they have just returned from Philadelphia, and
opened in the house formerly occupied by J. &
J. Milliken, on Market street, directly opposite
Geo. Blymyer's store, a neat assortment of
Seasonable Goods and Superior
Groceries,
j to which they have added a good supply of gen
> tlemen's, ladies' and children's
2Soota ant> Sbftoea,
suitable for the season. The market price IN
I CASH will always be given for COUNTRY
1 PRODUCE, and liberal advances made on Flour
] and Grain on store.
PLASTER, SALT, FISH AND STONE COAL
' always on hand. A quantity of Salt, suitable
! for Cattle, now on hand. F. McCOY,
| Jen R. F. ELLIS.
iYO.OOO Gross Kent's best Matches, for
sale to the trade at lowest ratea.
augl-1 FRAJfCnCUS.
THE RELIEF BILL,
An act providing for the resumption of
specie payments by the Hanks, and for
the relief of debtors.
Section 1. Be it enacted by tbe Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com- j
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same, That the |
provisions of every act of Assembly, or of
incorporation or re-incorporation, hereto- j
fore passed, declaring or authorizing the
forfeiture of auy bank, saving, trust, and !
insurance company or corporation having
banking privileges, or inflicting any penal- j
ties, or authorizing any compulsory assign- j
tnent, for or by reason of the non-payment j
of any of its liabilities, or the issuing or
of paying out the notes of other banks, i
incorporated under the laws of this Com- i
monwealth though not specie-paying, or
its loaning or discounting without the
requisite amount of specie or specie funds, j
since the lirst day of September Anno
Domini one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-seven, be and tbe same are hereby
suspended until the second Monday of
April, Anno Domini one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, and all forfeitures
and penalties, or liability thereto, hereto
fore incurred, or that may be heretofore
incurred, or that may be hereafter incur- ;
red, before the said second Monday of I
April, under such acts of Assembly or of ;
incorporation or re-incorporation, for or by j
reason of tbe causes aforesaid, or any of
them, are hereby remitted, aud so much
remitted, and so much thereof as prohib
its any bank from making loans or dis
counts, issuing its own notes, or the notes
of other banks incorporated under the
laws of this Commonwealth, though not
spccie-payingordeolaring dividends during
the suspension of specie payments, or from
loaning or discounting, without the requi
site amount of specie or specie funds as'
aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby sus
peudc i until tbe day and year aforesaid,
and any such bank, during suspension of
specie payments, may declare dividends to
an aniuuut 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 the periods
hereafter to commence, and to tbe payment
of stock to all banks incorporated by the
Legislature at its last session.
Section 2. That, in adition to all state
ments and returns now required by law,
each aud every bank in the cities of Phila
delphia, Pittsburg and Allegheny shall, on
the first discount day in January next, and
weekly thereafter, and every other bank
in this Commonwealth, on the same day,
aud monthly thereafter, make up a state
ment, to be verified by the oath or affirma
tion of the president or cashier thereof,
showing—first, the amount of its loans and
discounts ; secoud, the amount of specie in
the possession of and owned by such bauk,
and the balance due from other banks, in
distinct items ; third, the amount of its
notes outstanding ; fourth, tbe amount of
deposits, including individual deposits and
balances due to other banks, which state
ment shall be published in the next suc
ceeding 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 provisions by auy presi
dent or auy cashier of auy bank, shall be
misdemeanor, and each of the said officers,
shall upon the conviction thereof, be pun
ished by a fine of not less than five hun
dred dollars, nor more than one thousand
dollars, at the discretion of the Court; one
half to be given to the prosecutor, and one
half to the county in which the bank is
located.
Section 3. That the said banks are here
by required, uutil tbe 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 tbe
solvent banks of tbe Commonwealth which
paid specie for all their liabilities on and
immediately prior to tbe first day of Sep
tember last, and which shall continue sol
vent, and the said banks are also hereby
authorised to pay on, in all their business
transactions and discounts, the said notes
so loDg as the banks issuing the same
shall remain solvent; but in case any presi
dent, and a majority of the board of di
rectors of any of the said banks 6hall cer
tify to tbe Governor, under oath or affirma
tion of the president, this apprehension
and beliet that any bauk in said certificate
named is in an unsafe condition, the Gov
ernor shall thereupon appoint three judi
cious persons, not interested in said bank,
as commissioners to investigate the coudi
| tion of such bank. Aud the said comuiis
| sioners shall, after taking an oath or af
i firmation to perform the duties of their
appointment with fidelity, forthwith pro
ceed to make the said investigation and
report tbe result thereof within ten days
to the Governor ; and if the officers of the
said bank shall refuse to permit the said
commissioners to make such investigation,
or to produce any books or documents
necessary for that purpose, or if the said
commissioners, or a majority of them shall
report that the said bank is in au unsafe
New Series—Vol. 11, No. 50.
condition, or conducting its affairs in viola
tion of law, the Governor shall thereupon
issue his proclamation, 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 forth
with make and execute an assignment, in the
manner provided by the act entitled " An Act
regulating banks," approved the sixteenth
day of April, A. D., eighteen hundred and
fifty, and the expenses of such commission,
including the compensation of the commis
sioners 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 con
dition, in which case they shall be paid by
the applicants : Provided, That no bank shall
bo 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 commis
sioners shall report in favor of such bank,
after which the notes of such bank shall
again be received as required by the provis
ions of this section.
SEC. 4. That the several collectors of taxes,
tolls and other revenues of the Common
wealth, and also county treasurers, are here
by authorized to receive for State purposes,
the notes of the solvent banks of this Com
monwealth, though not specie paying banks,
in payment of the said taxes, tolls and reve
nues ; and the State treasurer is hereby au
thorized to receive and receipt for the same,
in the same manner as though said lanks
were specie paying.
Sec. 5. That the deposits by the State trea
surer, or to the credit of the Commonwealth,
in the several banks and other corporations,
and all bank notes which are 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 pub
lic loans of the Commonwealth.
SEC. 6. That upon all judgments hereto
fore entered, in suits commenced by writ 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, er before any alder
man or justice of the peace, $n judgments
obtained before said officers, if the defendant
shall be possessed of any estate iu fee simple
within the respective county, worth in the
opinion of the court, alderman or justice of
the peace, the amount ef the said judgment,
over and above all incumbrances, and the
amount exempted from levy and sale on exe
cution, he shall be entitled to a stay of exe
cution thereon, on judgments 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, ho shall give securi
ty to be approved of by the court or by a
judge thereof, or by such alderman or justice
of the peace, before whom such judgment
was obtained, for the sum recovered, together
with the interest and costs: Provided, That
this section shall not apply to the wages of
labor, nor to debts upon which stay of execu
tion is expressly waived by the debtors, nor
to judgments upen which a stay of execution
has already been taken under existing laws:
And provided, That the provisions of this
section shall extend to judgments entered or
to be entered, as well upon bond and warrant
of attorney as upon mortgages to secure tiie
same, and to any subsequent grantee or own
ers of the premises so bound, as well as to
the original obligor or mortgagor: Provided
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
I the banks are authorized by this act to use.
SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immedi
j ately, except the third sectien, which shall
not go into operation until the provisions of
I this act are accepted as herein provided ; but
j no hank or other corporation shall be cm
| braced within its provisions more than thirty
days after the passage hereof, or after any
! bank shall have suspended specie payments
| upon its notes or obligations, unless the stock
; holders ef such bank or other corporation
• shall, before the expiration of the said thirty
1 days, or within thirty days after any bank
shall have suspended specie payments upon
! its notes or obligations, at a meeting to bo
' called by the directors thereof for that pur
pose. on ten days public notice, in one or
more newspapers, accept the provisions of
this act by a majority of votes of said stock
holders, to be voted and counted according to
the provisions in the charter of such accept
ing bank or other corporation regulating the
election of directors, but to make such accep
tance valid there shall be tiled iu the office of
the Auditor General of this Commonwealth a
| certificate that this act has been duly accept
ed, under the common seal of such bank or
! other corporation, attested by tie signature
S of its President or Cashier; and each of the
said banks accepting the provisions of this
act, shall also pay into the Treasury ef the
Commonwealth, on or before the first day of
i January, Anno Domini one thousand eight
hundred arid fifty-eight, or within thirty days
| after any hank shall accept the provisions of
this act, a sum equal to one-fourth of one per
centum upon the capital stock of said bank
in addition to any amounts they are now by
! law required to pay.
SEC. 8. That the forty seventh section of
the act approved April sixteenth, one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty, entitled "An
act regulating banks," be and the same is
hereby repealed: Provided, lhat all suits
brought, or now pending for forfeitures or
penalties under the section hereby repealed,
| shall not be affected thereby,
I SEC. 9. That the Legislature hereby re
serves the right and power to alter, revoke or
annul the charters of any bank or
corporation or corporations, accepting the
provisions of this act, whenever in their opin
j ien the same may prove injurious to the citi-