Intelligencer &'#ournal.
GEO, SANDERSON, EDITOR,
Lancaster, January 15,1550*
APPOINTMENTS BT THE DIRECTORS OP THE POOR.
—Drs. John S. Atlee, H. A. Smith, J. A. Ehlerand
C. 0. Richards, Physicians to the Institution.
Benjamin Herr, Esq., Solicitor to the Board,
ET We announced some four weeks ago that we
bad extended the time for commencing our con
templated German paper until the Ist of March, so
as to afford our friends a full opportunity of c sub
scribing, and obtaining subscribers for it. Since
then we have received a number of names, but still
not half enough to justify the undertaking. We
hope, if they wish a paper of the kind to be started,
that no longer delay will be had, but that proper
efforts will at once be made to acomplish the ob
ject. The approaching Courts will afford a fair op
portunity to ascertain what can be done. We should
like to know something definite on the subject very
soon. *
in* On our first page will be found two poetical
productions, of rare merit, entitled “Kossuth's Solil
oquy,” and “The'LastWish,” to which we invite the
attention 'of our .readers. The author has kindly
volunteered to be a regular contributor to tbe Intel
ligencer—we can therefore safely promise, at regular
intervals, a rich treat from his gifted mind and
ready pen.
lD*The proceedings of City Councils, in reference
to the subject of New Market Houses, are published
at length in another column. The report submitted
by the committee and adopted, is an able expose of
the financial, condition of the city, and merits that
attention from the citizens the great importance of
the subjects upon which it treats demand.
017* We are indebted to the politeness of C. C.
lßLiNG,<£sq., for a copy of the very able and satis
factory Report of Col. English, Superintendent of
Motive Power on the Philadelphia and Columbia
Railway, for the Fiscal year ending Nov. 30, 1849.
H7*Messrs. Meek and Zerbet, of the Legisla
ture, wi}l accept our thanks for their polite atten-
tion to us.
07*We direct the attention of persons desirous ol
purchasing a pleasant city residence, to the proper
ty advertised by Jonas D. Bachman, Esq. in anoth
er column.
lE7*The Reading Gazette has recently been
enlarged and considerably improved in appearance.
This speaks well lor the enterprise of Mr. Getz,
and we hope the Democracy of Old Berks will
yield tbe Gazette a patronage commensurate with
its deserts. •
■ ICJ-Rev. Mr. Butler, Rector of Trinity Church,
Washington City, has been elected Chaplain to the
U. S. Senate. Rev. Mr. Sljcer, late Chaplain, was
his competitor. Tbe vote stood 30 to 30—and
was decided in favor of Mr. Butler by the casting
vote of tbe Vice President, from which we infer
that Mr. B. is a Whig, although his political predi
lections are not stated in the Washington papers.—
Mr. Slicek. as is well known, is a sound and
thorough going Democrat, and withal an able, elo
quent and energetic Preacher. His re-election to
the post he has so worthily filled for the last four
years, would, doubtless, have given universal satis
laction, and we regret that the Senate have thought
proper to dispense with his services.
H7*The Ladies of Strasburg were quite success,
ful with their Fair on New’ Year s Day. The nett
proceeds amounted to about $3O0 —a sum sufficient
to accomplish the object they had in view, the liqui
dation of the debt resting on the Presbyterian Church
ol that Borough. When Ladies undertake a praise
worthy object, there is no such word as fail known
amongst them.
Tlie Approaching Spring Trade-
Advertising.
Now is the time for the Philadelphia merchants
to advertise. Preparations for their spring supply
of goods will be made by country merchants, and
if the wholesale establishments in the great city
wish to do a “rushing” business, it is necessary
that they should let the storekeepers and public
generally through the country know what they
have got to sell: The present, therefore, is the
proper time'to advertise—and as the Intelligencer ,
from its wide circulation through Lancaster and
the adjoining counties, affords an excellent medium
for the city .merchants to interchange business
facilities with their customers, and those that they
wish to become such, throughout this region of the
State, they should send on their advertisements in
time. Let them recollect that changes are con
stantly occurring in business—old firms dissolved,
and new ones formed—that old partners retire, and
new ones take their place—and they should im
prove by the hint we have, so seasonably given
them. Note, we repeat, is the time to send us on
their advertisements.
Kew Line of Cars,
We are pleased to learn from the Columbia Spy ,
that George Wolf, Esq., of that Borough, intends
placing a new line of cars on the Columbia and
Philadelphia Railroad, to accompany the Way Train,
on or about the middle of Febuary. The cars are
being built after the pattern of those on the Central
Railroad, and will be superior to them for magnifi
cence and comfort. They are to be under the care
of Capts. E. A. Lowe and W. A H-ambright, both
of whom are experienced agents, ahd universal fav
orites on the road. The fare is to be $2,35 from
Columbia, ands2,oo from Lancaster to Philadelphia.
Destruction of the Jail of Adams
county by Fire, and Loss of Two
Lives.
About 3 o'clock this morning, fire was seen issu
ing from the window in the second story of the
Jail of this county. The alarm was at once giveni
but all the efforts of the firemen and citizens were
unable to stay the progress of the devouring ele
ment. But most melancholy to relate, two human
lives were lost by the catastrophe— lsaac M.ussle
man and John Toner, both insane and confined for
safe keeping, each occupying a separate room. —
Every effort in the power of man was made use of
to rescue them from a fate so terrible, but in vain.
The immense volume of smoke issuing from their
apartments was perfectly suffocating, and those
who attempted to enter were driven back stagger
ing. It is therefore evident the deceased had ex
pired from suffocation ere their rooms were reached.
Eventually, the body of Toner-was recovered, but
life was totally extinct—and a portion ol that of
Mussleman, after the falling in of the building.
The fire originated in Mussleman s room, but
how is left to conjecture alone.— Gettysburg Com
piler of the Ith inst.
“ The Mining Register and Schuylkill County Dem
ocrat.''' is the title of a new Democratic journal re
cently started at Pottsville, first number of
which it before us. It is a large, well filled sheet,
and promises to be conducted with great sbirit and
efficiency. Ihe Editors Messrs. Hall and
Vliet. We wish them abundant success.
Distressing Aa-uhni —we learn that a youn&
man named Wcidlet Jinultr, of Leacock township
was thrown from his horse on the 30th ult. and in
stantly killed. He was a highly respectable young
man, and his untimely death i* deeply regretted by
a large circle of relatives and friends.
ID’’ Col. Du Solle, late of the Philadelph lt p
Times, has assumed the editorial management ol
the New Yoric Globe. *
\ ID* Reuben Wood, Esq. is the Democratic
nominee for Governor of Ohio.
: Valentine Best and Ills Whig
Friends.
Whenever an individual of any prominence in
the Democratic party turns traitor to his previously
avowed principles, either in whole or in part, the
Whig papers from one end of the State to the other,
at once enter the arena in his defence, and are loud
in their praises of the apostate. Such was their
course when Penrose, Dickey, Burden, and their
co-adjutofs in the Legislature of 1835-6, abandoned
the Democratic party and went over to the enemy.
. They were loud in their approval of the conduct
of those recreants, and took them to their embrace
and into their confidence with enthusiastic friend
ship. Most of our readers will recollect all this,
and it is only necessary to advert to that memorable
period in the history of our State to bring vividly
to their recollection the disgraceful scenes then
enacted at Harrisburg.
The same course is pursued by the Whig journals
now in reference to Mr. Best, a man who repre
sents, or rather, we should say, mis-represents a
democratic constituency whose majority in his
district is very little short of two thouiand votes!
Whilst every honorable high-minded man, of every
. party, must look upon his course with detestation
and abhorrence, and whilst every honest man must
point the “slow, unerring finger of scorn” at him,
still, these whig journalists, without a solitary ex
ception so far as we know, are out full-mouthed
in his defence, and boldly justify his disgraceful
conduct. 'Well, be it so—if they love the treason,
as no doubt they do, it is but right and proper that
they should nourish the traitor, and shield* him, so
far as they can, from the justly merited denuncia
tions of the Democratic press. So fond are the
whig leaders of recreant Democrats, that, in every’
instance in which they have succeeded in electing
a Governor for the State, they have been meri who
started out in political life as Democrats, and ac‘
quired the’standing they had from the Democratic
party. As a proof of this assertion, we refer to
the last election of McKean, to Joseph Hiesten
Joseph Ritner v and last, though not least, William
F. Johnston. And it is a singular fact that, in
every trial to elect a real wool-dyed Federalist, they
signally failed. Mr. Best is now their special
favorite, and we should not be surprised if, at the
expiration of Johnston’s term, considering their
good luck heretoiore in running apostates, they
should make him their candidate for that high
station ! Stranger things have happened heretoiore,
and it is, perhaps, the very best thing they could do.
In point, of. talents he is equal to Ritner, and su
perior to either Heister or Marker —so that no.
objection could be made on that score. Besides,
he is just the man whose conscience is flexible enough
to induce him to go any length, or resort to any
means to carry out their wishes. We are strongly
inclined to the opinion, therefore, that, if not at the
next, at the succeeding gubernatorial election, Mr.
Best will be the whig candidate for Governor of
-Pennsylvania. lauding him. as they do,
Whig papers, whether they so intend it or not, are
preparing the way for his nomination. And we 1
can tell them this, too, lor their encouragement, I
that they need not be afraid to trust him. All ex- j
perience goes to prove that apostates from the Dem- j
ocratic party become its bitterest and most uncom
promising enemies,and that they will go any lengths i
to oppose and even persecute their quondam friends, i
Mr. Best's course, since he took the Speaker's ;
chair, shows that he has made rapid strides in his
downward career, and that he is ‘already a good
enough Whig to please the most fastidious of that :
party.
Our neighbor of the Union 'Tribune seems to
have taken the Speaker under his special guardian
ship and protection, so far as Lancaster county is
concerned. We wish him much joy in the acqui
sition, and hope that when his ward becomes Gov
ernor, he may kindly remember the guardian who
so nobly volunteered to defend him in his tergiver
sations. y
ID" The Examiner will permit us to doubt its
allegation that Mr. Buchanan entertains similar
views on the tariff question with those held by Mr.
Meredith, although, at one time, we admit, he
was in favor of specific duties to a certain extent,
in preference to a uniform scale of ad valorem
duties; but this, we believe, i 3 not exactly the
position taken by the present Secretary of the
Treasury. What Mr. Buchanan’s view’s at the
I present time are we do not know’, nor is it material
to the subject at issue. He is now’ a private citi
zen, and in this respect holds an entirely different
position from that of Mr. Meredith. This much
vye do know’, however, that in his recent tour to
the western part of the State, he was charged by
the whig press, and, if we mistake not, by the
Examiner amongst the rest, with having exulted
in the election of Mr. Gamble as a verdict of the ;
people in favor of the tariff of 1546. We also
know, and we refer our neighbor to the record for
the truth of the assertion, that both Mr. Buchanan
and the lamented Silas Wright, of New’ York,
voted for the bill oi IS4-2 under protest —preferring
to have it become a law-with all its inequalities
and injustice, rather than by defeating it, as either
ol them could have done, in the closing hours ol
the session, to leave the then existing administration
without means to carry on the government. Mr.
B. so stated in a speech he made at the time, and
intimated further, that the act would, and ought to
be, repealed or essentially modified, as soon as the
Democrats again got into power.
Now, as the Whigs generally, and we presume
Mr. Meredith with them, still adhere to the opin
ion that the tariff of 1842, which was based on the
principle of specific duties, was greatly preferable
to the act ot 1846, which has the ad valorem prin
ciple for its basis—of course it follows, that the
views entertained by the two gentlemen in question
on the subject ot a tariff) are very Jar from being
identical. The Examiner must for Mr. Meredith
and the whig party in general, first change their
views entirely with regard to the former act, which
was repudiated at the time of its passage by Mr.
Buchanan, belore it can, with any show of justice
or credibility, claim the latter gentleman as enter
taining opinions in consonance with tkose of the
former. Is our neighbor satisfied?
The Mator Elect of Pittsburg. —At an elec
tion held on the Bth at Pittsburg, for Mayor of that
city, Joseph Barker was elected by a majority of
270. There were three candidates running Mc-
Cutchen, Whig, Guthrie, Independent, and Barker,
the Bible candidate. It appears that Barker, the
Mayor elect, was arrested,-some lime since, and
sentenced to one year's imprisonment in the Pitts,
burg Jail, for preaching in the public, highways,
and otherwise disturbing the peace. At the time
of his election, Barker was confined in prison. It
is said that Governor Johnson has granted him a
pardon. So we see that the denizens of the “city
of smoke” have been compelled to go to their Jail
to procure a Mayor.
Mr. Clay in the Field.
“ Observer," the Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger , writes as follows:
Mr. Clat is beyond a doubt or question a can
didate for the Presidency, and Mr. Seward, of New
York, a candidate for the Vice Presidency, with a
reversionary interest in the Presidency its#. This
may give a complexion to both Houses, although
Mr. Clay, in a recent speech in the Senate, dis
claimed all desire on his part ofassuming the lead
ership. Messrs. Chittenden, Toombs and Ste
phens are dead men, one and all.”
Death of the Eldest Inhabitant.— The last
Athens (Ga.) Banner , announces the death of Mr.’
Daniel Hale, of Franklin-county, who died on the
2d of July last, in the one hundred and nineteenth
y<*ar of his age, leaving on the premises where he
raided at the time of his death a son seventy-six
y<*ar» of age, a grand-daughter forty four years o{
ugfi, and n great-grand daughter twenty-two years
old.
State legislature.—Standing Com-
mlttees.
lar the Senate. -
Finance— King, Packer, Crabb , M’Casliri, Dome.
Judiciary—Streeter, Walker , Drum, King and
Muhlenburg.*
Accounts—M Cadin, Matthias, Ives, ScuHervrd
fernon.
Estates and Escheats—Drum, Mrrtthint j Guernsey*
Frick and Frailey.
Pensions and Gratuities-—Sanitey, Jones, Sadler ,
Shimer and’Packer.
Corporations— Matthias, Frailey, Haslett, Streeter
and Savery.
Sanks— Crabb, Brawley, Sadler, -Konigmaeher ,
and Ives.
Internal Improvements—Packer, Sdiikey.JHashU ,
Guernsey and Crabb. '
Election Districts— Malttkias. lve&, Stine, Hugus
and Guernsey.
Retrenchment and Reform—Sterrett, Stine, For
syth, Darsie and Streeter.
Education— Lawrence, Hugus, McCaslin, Brooke
and Malone.
Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures— Cun
ningham, Fulton, Brooke , Shimer-and Savery.
Militia—Muhlenburg, Stine, Brawley, Cunning
ham and Shimer.
Roads and Bridges—lves, Sadler, Sterrett, Konig *
macher and Malone.
Compare Bills—Forsyth, Haslett, Ives, Jones and
Frick.
Vice and Immorality—• Savery, Sterrett, Cunning
ham, Haslett and Fulton.
Private Claims and Damages—Hugus, San&y,
Fernon, Darsie and Cunningham.
Library—Jones, Lawrence and Fernon.
Public Buildings— Konigmaeher, Frailey & Frick.
Executive Nominations— Walker, Lawrence, Hu
gus, Stine and Fulton.
Committee on Apportionment— Brooke, Brawley,
Darsie, Forsyth and Walker. Messrs. Packer and
Matthias were afterwards added.
[We have placed the names of the Whig mem
bers in Italic!]
Messrs. Hoge, Beaumont, Bent, Cessna, Cornyn,
Hastings, Leonard, Miller, O’Neil, Packer, Smyser,
and Souder, Committee on Apportionment
Also, the following Standing Committees:
Ways and Means—Messrs. Conyngham, McClin
tock, Burden, Baker, Stockwell, Allison, Malloy,
Burt, Nicholson.
Judiciary—Messrs. Porter, Cornyn, Conyngham,
Packer, Smyser, Biddle, Rhey, Laird, Schofield.
Claims—Messrs. Nicholson, Rutherford, Beau
mont, Reid of Erie, Williams, Hoge.
Agriculture—Messrs. Haldeman, Cridland, Flow
ers, Gibboney, Hart of Erie, Steward, Nixley.
Pensions Messrs. Klotz, Brower, McCurdy,
Dunn, Powell, Scoulier, Kinkead.
Domestic Manufactures— Messrs. McClintock,
Baldwin, Black, David Huplet, Jones, Trone.
Accounts—Messrs. Mark, Flowers, Zerby, Es
pey, Ewing,.Jackson, Dobbins.
Education—Messrs. Finletter, Bowen, Henry,
Cessna, Hart, (city) Killinger, McCurdy.
■Vice and Immorality—Messrs. Meek, Evans
(Berks) Fortney, Miller, Gaffey, Steele, Feather
ILlitia System—Messrs. Biddle, Evans, (Indiana)
Shaffner, McLean, Walker, Downes, Wells.
Election Districts—Messrs. Morrison, Hasting,
Lewis, Duncan, Grier, Hart, (city) Steward.
Banks—Messrs. Laird, Steele, Watson, Lewis,
Porter, Simpson, Morrison, Mowry, Allison.
Estates and Escheats—Messrs. Cornyn, Baker
Morris, Reid, Roberts, Finletter, Leet.
Bridges, Roads, &c._Messrs. Shaffner, Slifer.
Scofield, Leonard, Smith, oi Cambria, Little, Gib
honey.
Local Appropriations-Messrs. Stockwell, Zerby,
Smith, (Beaver) Hurford, Black, Brown, Cridland
Retrenchment and Reform—Messrs. Evans,
(Monty.) McLaughlin, Leech, Meyers, Acker!
Griffin, Robison.
Corporations—Messrs. McCulloch, Biddle, Evans,
(Mont.) Smith, (Beaver,) Souder, Burt, Grier,
McLaughlin, Haldeman.
Lands—Messrs. Henry, Evans, (Ind.,) Marx,
Killinger, Smith, (Cambria.) Roberts, Burden.
Comparing Bills-Messrs.' Steele, Pierson, Hemp
hill, Klotz, Drum.
Printing—Messrs. Bent, Pearson, Evans, (Berks.)
Library—Messrs. Hastings, Rhey, Church.
Inland Navigation and Internal Improvements.—
Messrs, Beaumont, Biddle, Hoge, Slifer, Brindle,
Smyser, Cessna, Wade,Leet, Walker,Souder, Jones,
Packer.
Public Buildings—Messrs. Meek, Duncan, Downer.
Divorce—Messrs. Zerby, Baker, O'Neil, Simpson,
Cornyn, Hemphill, Morris.
Things at Harrisburg,
No business of an important character has yet
been transacted by the Legislature. A great many
petitions and memorials on various subjects have
been presented in both houses, and quite a number
of bills, of a local nature, read—but there is nothing
as yet to interest the general reader. We subjoin
an abstract of petitions, bills, &c. which have reler
ence to Lancaster county, together with some
others that relate to other places and things. In
the course of a week or two, the proceedings of the
Legislature will be more interesting, and we shall
endeavor to keep our readers advised of what is
done.
IN SENATE.
A memorial has been presented, by Mr. Konig
macher, for the extension of the charter of the
Lancaster County Bank—also one for the Farmers’
Bank of Lancaster. The same gentleman a Bill
for “an act authorising the election of Prosecuting
Attornies.”
Mr. Savery, “an act to incorporate the city ol
Philadelphia, with enlarged boundaries.”
A bill, changing the name of the York Savings
Bank to York County Bank, has passed the Senate.
Mr. KoNiGMACHF.n, a petition from the Lancaster
City and County Insurance Company, praying
compensation for destruction of property, caused
by sparks from a locomotive.
Mr. Walker, reported a bill for the government
of the Lancaster County Prison.
A bill, for the permanent creation ol the office of
State Printer, was passed.
Mr. Mathias, “an act relating to the usury
laws.” This important paper reads as follows:
An. Act Relating to the Usury Lam.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, &c.—That from and after
the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for all
persons to pay and receive such rate of interest, for
the loan of money on any promissory note, draft,
acceptance, bills payable or bills' ol exchange,
drawn for any time not exeeeding twelve months,
growing out of commercial or business transac
tions, or contracts therefor, as the parties may
agree upon in writing.
Sec. 2. That no greater rate of interest than six
per centum shall be charged on any judgment after
the date of the rendition thereof, entered in any
courts of this Commonwealth', although such judg
ment may be lounded upon a writing stipulating a
higher rate of interest.
Sec. 3. That nothing in this act shall be con
strued to apply to any loan, where the sum or
thing lent shall be assured by any grant, charge,
or incumbrance of real estate, nor on any loan or
discount by any bank or banking association.
Sec. 4. That so much of any existing law or
laws, as conflicts with the provisions of this act, b%
and the same is hereby repealed.
IN THE HOUSE'**’
Mr. Cessna, of Bedford, read a bill in place,
providing for the election of the Auditor General
and Surveyor General, by the people.
Mr. Finletter, a bill relative to Common
Schools in Lancaster county.
Mr. McClintock, a resolution in favor of con
ferring gold medals upon the officers and soldiers
of this State, who served in the Mexican War.
Mr. Hurford, presented a petition for the re
charter of the Farmers’ Bank of Lancaster.
Mr. Nisley, one relating to the collection of
taxes in Lancaster county. Also, an act for the
Collection ol taxes in West Lampeter township,
Lancaster county.
The Public Lands.— From the Report of the
Commissioner oi the Gen. Land Office, it appears that
during the past year upwards of six million acres
of land were advertised for sale,’and more than six
and a half millions are prepared for market, a great
part of which-will be proclaimed during the ensu
ing year. The report shows that the quantity dis
posed of in 1847, by warrants equivalent to cash,
amounts to $3,596,254 08, and in 1848 to $5,482,
810 2G. Iq the first three months of 1848 it
amounted to $3,937,160 30, and in the first three
months of 1849 it amounts to $4,297,737 26; show
ing that the increase in the amount of land dis
posed of keeps pace with the increase of population,
and the consequent wants of the community.
Congressional Proceedings*
The House of Representatives having spent about
two weeks in daily repetition of fruitless balloting
for a Clerk, at length, on Friday last, on.lbe 20th
ballot, succeeded Tn electing the late Whig incum
bent, Thomas J. Campbell —he having 112 votes,
Jons W. Fobnet, the Democratic nominee, 96, and
12 scattering. This result was brought, alxmt by
eight Democratic members voting for Mr. Campbell;
TJiey are, Erring, of Tennessee; Venable, of North
Carolina; Hubbard, of Alabama; and Woodward,
Orr, Colcock and McQueen, of South Carolina.
[Col. Fouxet, upon several ballots had run up
to 107 votes, and in one instance came within two
votes of an election. We regret exceedingly his
defeat, and cannot but think if the Democrats had
all adhered to him, a very few ballots more would
have secured his election. But, a different course
was pursued, and the House will have to put up
with a Whig Clerk for two years to aome. Col.
Fornet s services, however, will not be lost to the
Democratic party. Although defeated, he will
stilL battle manfully and energetically for the
Democracy, and the columns.of the Pennsylvanian
will no doubt show that he still wields as powerful
a pen as ever, and that the cause of the people is,
with him, paramount to every personal considera
tion.]
At the last accounts the House >vas engaged
balloting for Sergeant-at-Arms; but it was likely
to prove as tedious as the election of Speaker and
Clerk. Nothing else has yet bsn done.
In the Senate, the debate on the resolution of
Gen. Cass relative to Austria, with a somewhat
violent and acrimonious debate on the anti Slavery
resolutions of the Vermont Legislature, introduced
by Mr. Upham, is all that was done in that body
during the past week. The first mentioned resolu
tion was discussed by Gen. Cass, Mr. SEWABD.Mr.
Hale, Mr. Clat and Foote —and the latter one by
Messrs. Mason, Hale, Phelps, Yulee, Calhoun,
Borland, Chase, Clemens, Jefferson Davis and
Butler.
In the House.
Editorial Convention.
A large and respectable convention of Editors
was held at Harrisburg, on the Ist inst. Hon. N-
Strickland, of West Chester, presided : The fol
lowing resolutions, and Memorials to Congress
and the State Legislature, were unanimously adopt
ed :
Resolved, That the Editors in The different coun
ties of the State, be requested to have the memo
rials, adopted by the Convention, to the Legislature
of this State and Congress of the United States,
circulated and signed, and forwarded to the re
spective bodies for which they are intended.
Resolved , That it is the opinion of this Conven
tion that papers should be allowed to circulate
free of postage within the Congrcssionals Districts,
in which they are respectively published; and that
such a law would meet the almost unanimous ap
probation of the people, and tend to»disseminate
intelligence among them.
Resoleed, That we respectfully request the mem
bers of Congress from our State to use their in
fluence for the passage of a law in conformity
with the above resolutions.
Resolved , That in States where the laws of the
Legislature are published in the papers ol the State,
it is found not materially to increase the cost of
publication, but most effectually spreads it before
the whole people, and gives them the knowledge
thereof, of which they otherwise remain ignorant
Resolved, That in the opinioa of this Convention,
the Legislature of Pennsylvania would be confer
ring a great benefit upon the people of this State,
by passing a law which would authorize the pub
Ucation of general laws in the papers of the whole
Commonwealth, and those of local bearing, in the
papers circulating in the district to which the law
is intended to apply.
dissolved, That as ignorance of the law is no ex
cuse against its violation, the law-makers owe it to
the law-governed, to provide the most effectual
means to allow every citizen to become acquaint
ed with the rules laid down for his observance.
Resolved, In the language of the Vermont Edi
torial Convention, “ That as representatives of the
press of’ Pennsylvania “we disapprove and will
discountenance ill natured personalities in editorial
intercourse; that we discern and rejoice in a grad
ual improvement by observing strictly in our edi
torial allusions the amenities and courtesies which
should mark the intercourse of gentlemen.
Resolved, That we recommend to the editors of
this State, to refuse to publish advertisements sent
them by city Agents upon any other than regular
terms.
Resolved , That onr State Legislature be request
ed to pass resolutions urging upon our Senators
and Representatives in Congress to urge tbe pass
age of a bill to carry out the views of this Conven
tion, in relation to the free circulation of newspa
pers within each Congressional District.
The following Memorials to the Legislature and
to Congress, were adopted by the Convention and
the Committees appointed, authorized to affix their
names thereto in behalf of the Convention.
To the Honorable , the Senate and House of Represen.
tatives of Pennsylvania :—
Gentlemen : —The undersigned, appointed a
Committee by an Editorial State Convention held
at Harrisburg on the Ist of January, 1850 beg
leave, respectfully to request your attention to tbe
propriety of publishing all laws of a general char
acter, in the English and German papers through
out the Commonwealth, at the expense of the
State; and also that ot requiring laws ol a local
nature, to be published in the newspapers in the
vicinity-interested therein.'at-the expense of the
County or parties .concerned. This is now the
law in New York, New Jersey and Ohio- and it
is the only method, by which the people of the
State can be generally informed of the character of
our laws, we would think its adoption judicious
and proper. We are aware that objections may
be urged against this proposition, on the grounds
of the expense, that must necessarily attend it
This objection, however, could, and we think should
be obviated. A large sum is annually expended
in the publication ol our laws and journals in Ger
man—of which few, if any copies are sold in the
year. The amount of money that could be saved
to the State, by curtailing the German publications
as far as practicable, and some of the other expen
ses of government that can be done without detri
ment to the public interest.
Your serious attention is respectfully, but ear
nestly requested to the subject. The laws by
which the people must be governed, should be uni
versally made known. It is alike due to those
who govern, and to the governed; and we are fully
persuaded that if carried into effect with a proper
observance of economy, it will meet the hearty
approval of your constituents. [Signed by the
Committee.] }
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United States in Congress dissembled.
At a Convention of the Editors of Pennsylvania
held at Harrisburg, on the Ist inst., the undersigned
were appointed a Committee to memorialize your
honorable bodies, for the passage of an act permit
ting the free circulation of newspapers within the
Congressional District where they are printed The
passage of such an act is asked by the people of
the Commonwealth. Under existing laws, taxing
newspapers for any distance, however short, and
allowing the city papers to be carried and distrib
uted gratuitously outside of the mails, the citizens
resident in the interior of the State are subjected
to an onerous taxation and the Country Press is
seriously injured. Such a clog upon the dissemi
nation of useiul and general intelligence should not
be suffered to exist.' No undue advantage should
be extended to one portion of the public press at
the expense of another. The general education of
the people, being one of the chief aims of our insti
tutions, the postage law of our country should be
framed upon a liberal and enlightened basis, and
believing that this object cannot be accomplished
under existing laws, and that the present system of
postage is unjust in the extreme, we respectfully
petition your honorable body for redress. 1
At a meeting of the citizens of Lancaster
held in the Court House, on Wednesday evening,’
January 9, 1850, for the purpose of appointing
Committees to solicit reliel for and distribute the
same among the indigent poor of the city, on mo
tion, Hon Michael CAHPE ST EE,May or of the city
r ’ and Wm ■ B ■ mie ' y a PP oi^
. The Chai . r having stated the object of the meet
ing, on motion, a Committee of four in each ward
wasappointed, consistingof the followinggentlemen
wStrS?aK^i„^ m - J ° hn H^’
North East Ward.— Wm Frirlr
Dr. Eli Parry and Newton Lighter r ’
RoiTvvr H ' ard — l Metzger, George F
Kote, P. K. Brenneman and H. Nauman 8 '
th. “i*r. That thC be Published in
City Meeting.
MINUTES OF THE COUNCILS,
Councils met. A committee composed of the
Presidents of Councils, and Messrs. Gonier, Sam
soil, W.,P. Brooks, Gantx,HamiltoD, Zecher, Car
penter, and Metzgar, presented the following re
port and resolution, which were read and adopted.
REPORT
The undersigned committee to whom the foiego
ing sesolution was referred, beg leave respectfully
to report: That having-given due consideration to
the subject, they are unanimously of opinion, that
it is inexpedient at the present time to take fur
ther action in the premises.
The question of establishing better Market ao
comodations has engaged the attention of Coun
cils as well as of a portion of our citizens for a
considerable period; and the information elicited
by the agitatioh OFthe subject, will be of essential
service when the period of providing further Mar
ket accomodations shall arrive. But in the judg
ment of your Committee after a full interchange
of sentiment and a review of the facts disclosed in
the frequent discussions which have taken place,
it is inexpedient at this time to establish new
Market houses, and we respectfully ask attention
to a brief statement of some of the reasons which
have influenced us in arriving at this conclusion.
1. The expense attending it.
It is apparent that the adoption of any one of
the numerous plans proposed, for the erection of
either one or two Market houses, will occasion a.
large expenditure of money. The mere erection
of the necessary buildings, and the expense of
grading and turnpiking the streets in which they
are placed, without reference to the cost of the
ground would in themselves amount to a consid
erable outlay, which in the opinion of your Com
mittee, the state of the City finances at this time ;
will not justify.
The present amount of City debt proper is about
$40,000, and that of the Water debt is about
$140,000, making an aggregate debt of $lBO,OOO.
The interest of this debt together with the
amount necessary for the ordinary expenses of our
municipal government is raised from the water
rents and from taxation. Owing to a prudent and
economical administration of the affairs of the
City, the interest of this immense debt has been
punctually paid, and the credit of the City soli we
maintained that wSlle the Stocks of other cities
are frequently sold below par, the City of Lancas
ter's recently borrowed money upon bonds bear
ing interest at five per cent.
It may not be improper to remark that in pro
portion to population, the debt of the City of Lan
caster is as great as that of the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
Large however as is our indebtedness the pe
riod has arrived when Councils are imperatively
called upon to increase it considerably. It has
been manifest for sometime that the supply of
Water from the Water Works has been deficient
and the Water itself impure and liable to engen
der disease among those who used it. During the
months of July,-August, September and October
of 1848 and 1849 the quantity was so limited that
the greatest precautions were necessary to prevent
a total failure, while at the same time the Water
was nauseous and offensive to the taste. To pre
vent the recurrence of a similar casualty, a Com
mittee of Councils was appointed in August last
to recommend such improvements in our Water
Works as they might deem necessary. It is un
derstood that the Committee after a long and care
ful examination, and a consulation with several
scientific gentlemen familiar with the subject, have
come to the conclusion that in order to ensure a
copious supply of pure Water, it will be necessary
to erect an additional Basin and to lay a new Main
of pipes from the Water House to the Reservoir.
The cost of these improvements is estimated at
$40,000.
Apart from considerations respecting its quality
the pressing necessity that exists for an abundant
supply of Water, to protect our City from the rav
ages of fire, requires us to carry out these recom
mendations without delay. Should it be postponed
for another year and owing to a scarceity of Wa
ter in the meantime, a portion of our City be laid
in ashes, a heavy responsibility will justly rest
upon Councils. On this account therefore a loan
of $40,000 must be contracted during the next
Spring and Summer.
For the purpose of lighting the streets of the
City during the ensuing year another loan must
be made. It is proposed to erect iron posts in all
of the streets, so arranged as to be suitable for
burning either gas or any other infiamable fluid.—
As an act of simple justice all the streets should
be lighted, and not only those through which the
gas pipes at present are laid. By the erection of
iron lamp posts throughout the City, and by the
use of Gasjwhere the pipes are laid, and of some
other fluid giving a clear light, in other parts, this
object can be effected until such time as the Gas
v-/ompany may extend their pipes. The cost of
the material for lighting up the streets will of
course be paid out of the annnal appropriations,
but the cost of erecting the posts and the fixtures
must be raised by a permanent loan. It is estima
ted that from $5OOO to $BOOO will be required for
this purpose.
The propriety of lighting the City is so obviou s
that we need not enter into an argument upon the
subject. The oil lamps formerly used, which on
ly served to render “ darkness visible” were dis
ehsed with because they failed to accomplish the
object intended. But when the opportunity is
now afforded properly to light up our streets, it is
the duty of Councils forthwith to make the neces
sary arrangements.
It will be incumbent then, upon Councils dur
ing the next season to borrow upon the credit of
the City nearly $50,000 for improving the Water
Works and lighting our streets—objects essential
to the health, comfort, welfare and safety of our
citizens. Your Committee do not entertain a
doubt that this amount of money can be borrowed
at a rate not exceeding six per cent. The pur
poses to which the money is to be applied are
plainly so necessary, useful and beneficial that
prudent men will, without hesitation, invest their
funds in this loan. But if an addition to the in
creased debt of $50,000 in a single year, we pro
pose to borrow another large sum merely to im
prove our market accommodations, we need not
be surprised if the credit of the city shall prove in
adequate to accomplish the purpose.
The necessary improvements before mentioned
will increase the permanent debt of the city to
nearly $230,000, and it is a question of sheer pru
dence whether it is not our duty in justice to the
creditors of the city and to the people who have
elected us, to take ho step to increase the public
debt beyond that large sum. “ The sober second
though of the people is never wrong and always
efficient,” and the decision will be for them, wheth
er there is such an overwhelming necessity for
New Markets, as to require us for that purpose
merely, to jeopard the credit of the city: incur an
enormous debt, and postpone the erection of con
venient, useful and necessary improvements. If
it should ever happen that members of Couacals,
loosing sight of every thing else essential to the
interests of the people, should endeavor to cany
out one single idea—that of New Markets for in
stance, and sacrifice to it every other question of
Expediency or justice, it would result most disas
trously to the character and welfare of the city.
2. Revenue and payment of City Debt .
On the 2d day of January, A. D. 1844, an Or
dinance was passed directing the annual appropria
tion of the .rent of Batcher and Market stalls to
form a sinking fund for the payment of the City
debt. Under the provisions of this Ordinance the
■mkinff fund now amounts to $7,458 49, Ths
increase for the year 1850 will be $1,252 22, oi
which $BO5 08 is the proceeds of the rent of the
stalls and $417 14 the accruing interest upon the
bonds belonging to the fond. At the Aid of the
fiscal year of 1860' the sinking fond Will be
$26,201 39 andthe annual increase $2,377 14,
In 1870 it will amount to $57,534 16 and the
annual increase $4,257 23 and if continued until
1888 it will be sufficient to cancel the whole
amount of our present debt This fund therefore
affords the means by which, without resort to tax
ation, at no very distant day, we shall be enabled
to pay off the whole city debt. But to effect this
desirable result it must be guarded with jealous
care and sacredly preserved lest in a moment of
improvidence or extravagance the accumulated
fruits of years may be swept away.
_ It will be observed that the annual appropriation
of the market and butchers rents is the basis of the
sinking fund, and any project therefore which is
likely to effect the amount of these rents should
be closely scrutinized. Before we hazard the pros
perity of the fund it should clearly appear that the
rents of the New Market Houses wilt be greater
or at least equal to those now paid, which is by
no means certain. On the- contrary, it will be
borne in mind that the whole of these rents, if the
desired change be made, will not be applicable to
the purposes of the sinking fund as those of the
present Market are. For out of their gross amount
a large deduction must be made to meet the inter
est upon the first cost of the ground, grading and
paving the streets and erecting the Market Houses
Tho balance alone, if any, will be applicable to
the extinguishment of the debt, and there is little
risk in asserting that it would form a much less
sum than is now appropriated to that object.
It is true that is a mode by which the ob
ject could be effected without increase of the city
debt or hazard to the fund set apart for its gradual
payment. Should the lot owners in any part of
the city, proper for a market, and where property
or business might thereby be enhanced in value
see fit. to furnish the requisite space without cost to
the Treasury and contribute funds for the neces
sary improvement of the streets and erection of the
buildings, the matter would then present quite a
different aspect. In that event the only question
would be one of comparative convenience. But it
is unnecessary to enlarge upon this mode of ac
commodating our citizens, inasmuch as it must
spring from themselves and not from their repre
sentatives in Councils.
January 5, 1850.
In conclusion your committee would suggest
that regulation, dispensing with the ring
ing of the bell and for lighting up the market
space has obviated some of the objections which
formerly prevailed. A rigid observance of existing
Ordinances uppn the subject will also remove many
of the evils incident to a contracted market space.
However desirable the establishment of capa
cious and extensive market houses may be, we feel
assured that in view of the facts presented, the good
sense of the citizens of Lancaster will induce them
to submit to a temporary inconvenience rather than
jeopard the credit and cripple the resources of the
city at a time when all our energies should be di
rected to the construction of other improvements
essential to our comfort and safety. The people
do not desire that the “ market house project ”
shall override every other consideration of prudence
and economy—add an indefinite sum to our city
debt—and increase the amount of taxation, already
sufficiently onerous and oppressive.
Your committee submit the following resolution:
Resolved , That the committee be discharged
from the further consideration of the subject.
It will not do to make the vote cast by Col. Bio
lsr, in the Senate, at the close of the session of
1845, a justification for that of Mr. Best, cast a
few days since, in the same body. The circum
stances are entirely different. Mr. Bigler was an
experienced member—had filled the Speakership
with eminent satisfaction to the Senate, and credit
to himself—was, at the time, the nominee of his
party, and their instrument in maintaining an as
cendancy to which it was justly entitled. In addi
tion, his vote was given at the close of the session,
when there were no duties to perform, or emolu
ments to receive. But, above all this, I know that
it was not the intention of Col. Bigler to retain
the place beyond a few hours.
The last day of the session W’as being spent in
fruitless attempts to make a speaker, with most
important, nay, indispensable measures of legisla
tion yet unfinished' Under these circumstances,
and with the hope that a few hours’ time might
enable his party friends to unite, and secure the
election of himself, or some other Democrat—goaded,
too, with the treachery of those who were disposed
to defeat him—and urged by all his party friends,
Col. Bigler came to the determination to vote tor
himself, and serve during the passage of the appro
priation bill, and other important measures, in the
hands of Gov. Shunk, who had avowed his deter- 1
mination not to sign bills after the Legislature ad
journed; when he would vacate the chair, and al
low the Senate to make another choice. The op
portunity to carry out this determination never oc
curred; but the miscount of a friend, induced Col.
B. to cast an ineffectual vote, at the close of the
balloting. Thus, you will perceive, that if the
purpose of this vote had been attained, the most
fastidious could not have found cause of complaint-
The Senator elected over Col. B. was the agent
of his own success, by withholding his vote; an<j
one-third of all the elections, for ten years, had been
accomplished in this way. If Mr. Best had been
the nominee of his party, and an election, sustain
ing its ascendency, could nothavebeen accomplished
in any other way, I do not think I should object to
his voting as he did. The odious part of his con
duct, to my mmd, was the open agency which he
exercised in consummation of his own treachery,
with his political opponents, who are to gain all—
the party which elected him, none. Justice.
Harrisburg, Jan. 10,1850.
The Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of
Commerce notices a recent pamphlet from an emi
nent member of the French assembly, which is en
titled—“ The Township, the Church, and the State,
in their Relations with the Working Classes.”
The author reckons the number of worlsnen
domiciliated in Paris,at 75,000; and of tjie unsettled
or transient, at 30,000, of whom two-thirds belong
to the building-business. The number of Work
women, he supposes to be about 60,000; he assigns
two boys, on the average, to the married workmen,
and to those who live in concubinage—that is, a
hundred thousand gamins, ready at any moment, for
street-riot. He calculates 4000 rag-gatherers, and
gipsy-traders, half of whom are deeply corrupted.
“Judge then,”he adds—“what elements of pertur
bation and anarchy must be afforded by this work
ing population of 265,000, when agitated by want,
wrought upon by secret societies, and inflamed by
the incendiary preachings ot the clubs.” Thirty
three thousand of the male sex, and 20,000 of the
female, are pronounced, on the authority of the
Police-registers and calculations, to be of the abso
lutely vicious classes of society, and half of them
downright drunkards, the vice of intemperance be
ing Commontoall. Two-thirds of tlefemales are of
the worst description, The estimate of the very
dregs is not less than a total of fifty six thousand
persons, independently of the gamins , who all have
had a large share in the insurrections. Fregier,
who presides over one of the bureaux of the Prefec
ture of Police, asserts, in a work which was crown
ed by the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences,
as an able exposition of evils and remedies, that
“ Paris has constantly in its bosom eighty-six thous
and malefactors, upon whom all action, whether
moral or of police, is nearly null,—utterly ineffica
cious,”
inr Ex-Governor Pratt (Whig) of Maryland,
has been elected to the U. S. Senate, in place of
Hon. Reverdy Johnston, Attorney General of the
United States.
James Black, Clerk S. C.
James L. Reynolds Cl’k C. C.
Correspondence of (he Pennsylvanian.
Col. Wm. Bigler.
book: notices.
MtrHOBWT' rlvixw.—We have
been kindly tarnished by the Editor, with the Jan
uary number of this periodical, one of the best and
Cheapest publications in the United States, v Each
nurnber contains -160 octavo pages, besides an Ad
vertising sheet of 32 pages—making in all, at the
end of the year, a volame of 768 pages, and only
$2 per annum. The Review is edited by the Rev.
John M’cClintock, D. D., one of the most learned
Divines of the age, and the reading matter embra
ces Biblical Literature, Theology and General Lit--
erature—together with a summary of Religious
Intelligence, and short Reviews and Critical Noti
ces of New Books. Each number is embellished,
with a splendid portrait, and Maps, Plans and En
gravings are given with such articles as may
require them.
-The January no. is embellished with a Portrait
of Bishop Janes, and its contents are as follows:
1. Plutarch.: His Life, Character and Times.
1. Oregon.
3. Biography, of Rev. Jesse Lee
4. Interpretation of Mark IX— 49, 50
5. Life and Writings of Dr. Richards.
6. Lowells Vision of Sir Launfal.
7. The Condition of the Dead.
8. Living Authors of England.
9. Egypt and its Monuments.
10. Reviews and Notices of Books.
11. Miscellanies.
12. Religious Intelligence.'
13. literary Intelligence. _
“Thk Other Side.” —A work has just been is
sued from the New York press, giving a History
of the Mexican .War, written by Mexicans. The
New York Post says: “It was written in Mexico,
and translated into English by Col. Albert C. Ram
sey, of the United Army, who served in the war
against Mexico. The translator has added some
notes by way of illustration and explanation, but
few that might contradict the text, when mistakes
were committed by the author, and the reason giv
en for this in the preface is, that his object was
simply to lay the work before his countrymen, and
not to review or criticise it. The picture given of
the sufferings and hardships endured by the Mex
ican soldiery, and the calamities brought by the
war upon the Mexican population is vividly drawn.
The curiosity cf the public to see in what manner
the Mexican has related the history of a war in
which his countrymen endured so remarkable a
succession of defeats, will cause a good deal of in-'
quiry for the work. The volume is illustrated with
charts and plans, and likenesses of the Mexican Gen
erals, looking veryjsmooth and civilized.” -
For sale at Sp angler's, .Price $1,50.
A Change.— We learn from the Saturday Express
that Mr. Jones has retired from that establishment,
and Mr. Meeser has taken his place. We raise
our beaver to the new editor.
P. Office Agents.— The P. M. General has ap
pointed Joseph Gleim and George Wiiight Route
Agents between this City and Philadelphia.
THE MARKETS.
HOUSEKEEPER’S MARKET.
Lancaster, Jan. 12, 1850.
Butter —Continues scarce and commands a good
price. Table butter ' sold at 18 to 20 cents per lb.
Inferior Drought 16 to 18 cents.
Egos —Scarce, and sold at 15al8 cts, per doz.
Potatoes —Good potatoes at Balo cents per half
peck. By the bushel they are sold at 62ja75 cents.
Chickens —Plenty at 25a31 cents per pair.
Apples —Sold at 14alSi cts. per half peck.
Dried Apples —Sold at 3a4 cents per quart.
Honey —Sold at 25 cts. per lb.
Apple Butter —Sold at 37fa50 cts. per crock.
Cabbage —From 3 to 6 cts. per. head.
Lard. —Extra sold at Ba9cets. per lb.
Celery, Red Beets, Beans, &c. plenty, and at
all prices.
Fresh Pork —Some very fine pork in quarters
sold at siab* cts. per lb.
Hams —Good article brought 12| cts. Shoulders
—sold at 6aB cents. Flitches 5 cts. per lb.
LANCASTER GRAIN MARKET— (wholesale.)
Jan. 12,.
Flour —Fresh ground $4,50 per barrel.
Wheat— White $1 per bush. Red 90a95 cents,
Corn —Old, 44 cents. New, 37ja40 cents.
Rye— s 6 cents per bushel.
Oats— Sold at $1,06, in bags of 3 bushels.
Corn— From 45 to 50 cts. per bus. in the ear.
Oats —27 cents per bushel.
Clover Seed —s3,7sa4.oo per bushel.
Whiskey—24 cents per gallon.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 12, 1850.
FLOUR.—The flour market remains very quiet.
Holders ask $5,121 for standard shipping brands,
but no sales have been reported. For city con
sumption, the sales are at $5,25 to $5,75 cents.—
Rye Flour is dull at $3,00. The last sale of Corn
Meal was at $2,75 per barrel.
GRAlN.—There is but a limited amount of
Wheat offering and prices are steady. Sales of red
at $ 1,06 a 1,07, and white at $1,15. Rye has de
clined. A sale of 1000 bushels on Saturday at 62
cents per bushel. Corn is inactive.. We quote old
yellow at 64, and new at 55a56 cents. Oats—Sales
of Pennsylvania at 35a36 cents per bushel.
WHISKEY—Is in limited demand. Sales 01
both bbls. and hhds. at 27a27* cents.
CATTLE MARKET.—The offering of Beef
Cattle for the week was about 1000 head. Beeves
are selling from $5,50 to 6,75 per 100 lbs. .Hogs.
—There were 800 head in the market, and sold
from $4,50 to 5,00 per 100 lbs. Cows—2oo sold
as follows—s2B to 30 for fresh, $l5 to 25 for
springers, and $8 to 15 for dry. Sheep and Lambs.
—The former from $2 to 4, and the latter from $1
ot 3.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 12, 1850.
FLOUR.—Sales made yesterday at $4, 75.
GRAlN.—Prime red wheat 98al02c—white 105 a
108 c—family flour white 110all2 cents. Corn, 48
a5O for new white, and 50a53 for yellow. Old corn
56 for white and 62 for yellow. Oats 32a33 cents.
WHISKEY.—SaIes of bbls. at 28 cents, and of
hhds. at 27 cents.
MARRIAGES*
On Tuesday, the Bth instant, by the Rev. E. Y.
Buchanan, Henry A. Miller, of Soudersburg to
Mary, daughter of Daniel Miller, of East Lampeter.
At Mauch Chunk, on the 23d ult., by the Rev.
Mr. Bower, Robert K'otz, Esq., Representative of
Carbon and Lehigh’counties in the State Legislature
to M.ss Sallie A., daughter of Col. John Lentz, all'
of Mauch Chunk. 9
On the Ist inst., by the Rev. J, J. Strine, Mr.
Abraham Newcomer of West Hempfield to Miss
Mary Mann of East Hempfield twp.
On the Bth inst., by the same, James Griffith, of
Colerain, to Catharine Carpenter, of Earl twp.
On the Ist inst., bythe Rev. J. Wallace, Mr
William Murray, of Salisbury twp., to Miss Christi
ana Mayberry, ot Salisbury twp.
On the same day, by the same, Mr. Jno.H. Skiles,
to Miss Sophia Ellmor, both of Salisbury twp.
DEATHS.
Athis residence, near New Berlin, Stark county,
Ohio, on the 2d inst., the Hon. Samuel Schrantz,
one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Com
mon Pleas of that county. Judge S. was a native
of this county, and removed from Warwick town
ship in 1835 to Stark county, Ohio, where he has
since resided.
On the 21st ult., in Des Moines county, lowa, Mr.
Philip Albright, formerly of this city, in the 78th
year of his age.
On- the sth inst., in this city, Walter Jerome, son
of Henry A. and Phebe L. Pinkerton, aged I year,
6 months, and 25 days. V
On the 23d ult., Jane Isadore, infant daughter of
Jameß and Eliza M. Black, aged. 10 months and 8
days.
Or the 2nd inst., in this city, Catharine Rebecca,
daughter ofSamuel C. Sturgis, aged 19 months and
22 days; j
Michael .Rondel
Will be a candidate for the office of City Assessor,
subject to the decision of the Democratic City Con
vention. [January 15, 1850-51
Turnpike Dividend.
THE President and Managers of the Lancaster,
Elizabethtown and Middletown turnpike road
have this day declared a dividend of one dollar on
each share of stock payable on demand.
J. M. LONG, Treasurer.
51-3 t
January 15, 1850.
IN the matter of the Charter of incorporation of
the Presbyterian Church of Little Britain tovm~
shipy in the county of Lancaster * iy
NOVEMBER 3, 1849. The said Charter of
Incorporation being presented and the fcourt
having perused it, 6nd it to contain nothing immo
ral, or that would be injurious to the community,
direct notice to be given as directed by the 13th
section of the Act of Assembly of the I3th of Oc
tober, The same to be confirmed on Monday
the 28th day of January_next. Attest
jaa 8
HENRY BTOEK, Proth’y.
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