®l|c lancrtstcr Intelligencer. VOL. LI. TREASURERS ACCOUNT, JOHN F. SHRODER, Esq., Treasurer of Lancaster County , in account with said County, January 7 th, 1850. dr: To balance in hands 3 a 3 per last An ditor's Report “ Outstanding taxes “ Assessment for County purposes for 1849. as per Certificate of Coun ty Commmisaioncrs “ Excess of taxes ou Duplicates of ' 1848 240°? of 1849 4J ' ' ftlividuals. 31.680 00 “ Cash for Loans from i: per P. G. K. *• Proceeds of 4 notes discounted at Lancaster Bank 19 824 18 “ 1 " Farmers Bank 7 914 (37 “ 1 ” Lan. Co. Bank 4 94G 07 “ Cash of Jacob Huber. Ksq.. Sher iff. llneß and jury fees ‘‘ Janies Wiley. Clerk of Mayor's’Court. lines * *' P' G. Kborman. for sale of an old stove ‘ John Landes, part of sale of bridge and old plank 1). W. Martin. Clerk of Quarter Sessions, tines " John House. Esq., tines collected for breach of peace " John Hess. Esq.. sale of stray hog in Lampeter ** Charles Good; Guardian .taxes on quarry land in Bart “ John H. Duchuian. for old fence on Prison ground ‘‘ *' Jacob Huber. Ksq.. Sher iff. Cues and jury fund • “ Arthur Quinn, old fence on Prison ground ' ‘‘ John Love, for his por tion of bridge at Steelville * " R. B. MLaUister. for sale of stray Steer in Manic ‘‘ ' £ R- P. M'Callister, fines from J Kreiter and P. Diffenbaeh for profane swearing *' " M. Groff, for sale of stray Steer, sold by I). Couynghain. in Leacock M. (iroIT. for sale of stray Steer. sold by N. W. Sample 2 37} Henry Herr, on account of bond for bridge ' 100 00 " " ' Henry Miller. ;• •• 10000 u J. 6:1. I'. Herr, for plank ''Spikes, Sio.loft of bridge 12 00 V “ Chn. Huntsieker.onaeet of bridge at bis mill 11 " H' W. Martin. Clerk of Quarter Sessions, fines *’ “ S. Huntsicker.in full, for bridge at his mill „ ' Jacob Huber. Es (l .. Sher iff; fines and jury fund ‘‘ John l<\ Hummer. Es«i . Pule of Stray in Penn “ “ Herr & .Miller, iu full, of Bond for bridge c Johu Miller, for plank sold at Rank's mill . *’ J llO Selmader. Esq., sale of stray Bull in West Earl •• Jacob Huber. Esm. Sher iff} line from J. H. Piersol - (•. Iluntsicker. on aeet of bridge at his mill M. Carter, for his por tion of one-third of bridge at Octorara Creek ‘ " 11. Zook, for his por'ion of bridge at bis mill •• Jacob Xocher. for old fence on Prison ground John Benediet. ditto 1 ” John Schwartz, do ‘ •* John Uamber.for lumber of bridge at Rank's mill “ Part of bills and certificates re maining unpaid j u Percentage received from Slate Treasurer, on payment of State , l t “ ea „ v 3.615 79 Loss allowed to Collectors of this 2.601 26 By payment of Court orders in favor of Chrn. li. Rauch. David Stone and Andrew MehafTey. fur auditing ' State and County ucc'ts for IS4S, and making statements thereof By ditto in favor of I’. (j. Ebormaii. making out specified statement of Couuty accounts for publication By ditto of 228 Constables returns 014 Itoadviewers orders 521 Court bills and cer* 22 Commissioners orders on account of new Prison <52,430 41 ditto from No. 1 to 40G, except the above 22 order.', and Nos. 23. 80. 15S. 203. 207. 290. 30S. 395 and 390. and not presented l9 “ ll " 4 ditto for 185 U 1.234 2u “ ‘‘ ’• 1 ditto for 184 S. present- ' ed in 1849 3 on Exonerations and commissions to collectors viz: for 1844 20 28 " IS4T 50 *■ 18452.30590 - 1841* 905 95 Outstanding taxk- for 1847 205 72 - IS4S 490 29 ” 1549 9.241 80 '• Per centage at the rate ol 8-lu of one per cent on *5112.042 received by him Balance remaining in bis hands JOHN F. SHUDDER, Esq.. Treasurer of Lancaster County, iu account with said ('ounty for State appro priation'for Common School purposes. Jan 7 IKSO DR. • To balance in hands per report of Auditors CR. 184'J. April IG. by cash paid Jacob Echternncht. Treasurer of Com mon Schools of East Cocalieo “ June IS. by ditto Marks (i. Wen ger. ditto of Leacock *• Sept. 3, by do .Michael'G. Wen ger, ditto of West Earl Per centage on soo7 25. whole amount that passes through his hands, without allowance last year Balance in his hands 1 he undersigned. Auditors of Lancaster County. Do Report, that they have carefully examined the account of John }■. Shroder. Lsij.. late Treasurer of Lancaster County, m account with said County, and find a balance in ms hands, on. the 7th day of January. 1850. for Coun ty purposes, ol twenty-oue thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and sixty-five and a half cents Ba £- , r , , <121.873 601 ,p B at Ihe same date, a balance or state appropriation for Common School purposes in his hands, uf three hundred and sixty-three dollars and six c«-nis. say Making the aggregate sunouut in his hands, twenty-two thousand two huudred and thirty-six dollars and seventy-one and a half cents, for which amouut he has this day produced the receipt of Miller Fraim the present Treasurer of the County, suv T v» ti l •+ "^ e ** so hnd that the Collectors of the following townships have paid and settled ofT their duplicatS for the year 1849, viz : Brecknock, Carnarvon. West Co calico. Colerain. Conestoga, Conoy. Elizabeth Won Hempfield. Last Lampeter, West Lampeter. Lancaster Penn. Rapho and Strasburg. niucisttr, At the same date we find the duplicates of the Col lectors of Conoy, West Lari, Mountjoy and Strasburg Boronfh forlS4~’ ° f - West and Strasburg Uorongh for IS4*. remaining unsettled. fc amount, of outstanding tax*--' T ' 3 ? W> ' T Uh th “ of last y™ r - regret to find at the above date, unsettled balances die tile County for the years 1848 and 1847 ; and. in justice to the punctual tax payers of the County, we Llcou- Btramed to protest against sueh practice of Collectors permitting their duplicates of ouc or even two yeure previous to remain unsettled at the time of auditing the annual accounts ; we are especially at a time 1 K the present, when the financial condition of the Countv requires a considerable portion of such taxes punctu ally paid into the County Treasury, to be assessed for 5”? JPP r °P n ated to the payment of interest on Loans '!!“J? C°unty. The County Commissioners or Treas. hinds't'Ko r.PPrrsoting this evil in their nanas, the Auditors feel themselves so strongly justified jmtmfn , t n^ 0 h 1 ,l " 0Wa Treasured intend hls . accou ntfor unsettled balances of du y«?rs, for which a credit had al accoLt?“lSrthrm\f„Sr„ B f:i om ' !n ' oft . lle ‘i, ou “ tJ tinning in office, have'' resold i? th con- Of the honorable Court, to adont sn^^ 6 a PPr°batiou next adjustment of the' Treasurer's account” 0 ' thWvLK^ Common School purposes, from the County Treasury' still leaving a balance, as above stated, unMllld f™ *' Since, by an Act of the Legislature, the adoption of t w the*Cnuuiv 01 S , ys , tcm haß become general throughlu? the County, the balance of the appropriation should come In possession of those districts which are entitled to their shares, by their drawing it from !. h ® ?° f Unty ua Pitting an end to its longer 1 “ C< V has been one of continued “decline' 1 I from its infancy. through the frequent “consumptive tWn® A° !,h? lt 8ub J ectetl the commissions thereon allowed to each successive County Treasurer dunng-the ‘-long term ofits existence” amongst us ’ We have also examined the account of William fior recht, Lsq., Treasurer of the Poor and House of Em ployment of Lancaster County, and find the same cor rect as presented to us. with a balance in his hands of sixty-two dollars and twenty-four cents. $O2 24 Witness our hands at the*.,Commissioners’ Office of Lancaster County, this 23d day of January, A D . 1850 DAVID STONE, ANDREW MEHAFFEY. J. B. TSHUDY, The following is astatenu and Levies remaining < 19.192 41 ditto for 1844 19 8G v 1847 351 72 18481146478 ' Bart CocalicoTlast Columbia Borough. Conoy East Donegal West Donegal... . Drumore, .• Ephrata.. EarL . - West Earl. Fulton. . East Hempfield.. . Lancaster City.... ’Leacock. , L'pper Leacock.. .. Little Britain. . . . Manheim........ -Martic. . Manor Mountjoy Paradise.; Salisbury Sadsbury, Strasliurg bor. . . Warwick 11.836 36 04.365 52 S2US 72 1 hose marked thus [.* ] hare aihee b< Excess of Taxes received by th< for 1848 1846. Strasburg Elizabeth! . . .. Rapho. Carnarvon. . .-. Brecknock. . . . West Conegai. . Drumoro. .... Elizabeth Lancaster City. Leacock ' Lpper Leacock, Little Britain. . Manor Martic. Sadsbury Paradise Warwick Penn Salisbury Earl The following is a statement of the Commissioner' orders drawn on John F.’ Shroder.-F.sq Treasurer o Lancaster county, for the year 1849, and four orders u 1 .oO; also, of o2L Court bills and certificates. Assessors' pay. £ art Oeo. I. Baughman $-37 00 nreeknock Anthony (food 31 op Carnarvon A. S. Weller 36 si> ( oealieo East Johniiower 30 UO Uocalico West Samuel Eberly (n) Colerain Wm. Galbraith 37 uo Coucstoga Beujumin Urban 40 OU \ " ,,o y Solomon Haldeman 30 oo Donegal East James Johnson 45 00 Donegal West • Jacob Redsecker 30 00 Druiuore Erastus Reynolds 38 00 Ephrata William Bentz 45 00 k ;ir l John Kurtz 50 00 Earl. West Johu Sheaffer 3 1 '00 Elizabeth Peter Kiser 35' 0 u John Scott •'jltou „ 34 01, iteuipheld Last Wm. Parker gg ou Hempfield West Joseph Bard 34 00 Lampeter Last John Smith 3(j 00 Lampeter West H. M. Rohrer 30 Oo Lancaster J\ M. Franta 17 ou Lancaster City Michael Bundle 250 On Leacock Abraham Bair 40 UU Leacock Upper Lewis Sbeaffer 30 00 Little Brittain Robert Patluu 35 uo Manheim John Garber 42 uo Alartic James Simpson 35 00 .Manor Abrabm Landis 45 Do .Mount Joy William Wilson 42 ou Paradise Geo. Slaymaker 20 ) 0 l >enn John Hummer 30 00 Samuel Ensminger 30 Uo Salisbury William Andrew 45 00 Sadsbury Joseph D. Pownall 35'00 Strashurg George Wicker 40 00 \\ arwick George Gcyer 41 50 Drumore. 1838 Lrastus Reynolds 33 00 2.357 88] 8140.015 S7l Total Erecting Bridges. Joseph Russel, in full, for building Bridge across Conestoga Creek at Uunseckers Mill $2OOO 50 Henry Zook, in full, for building Bridge across Cocalice creek at his Mill Samuel Hopkins, in full, for building Bridge across Little Chiques crcck at S, Bakers Martin Krey.'on account of Bridge across Muddy creek near Freys Mill. Repairing Bridges. George Fink, for Carpenter work in repair ing Bridge across Conestoga creek, at Ranks Mill §3lO 09 Bonj. Benedict, lor work and labor to do. 30 25 B. K. Wayne, for Mason work to do. 26 50 Samuel Lutz, for boarding bands for do. 8 jq 4" J Lehman. for sawing timber for do. 7 S 3 Wm. W. B:\rd. for bawling stone &c.. for do. 3S U 0 John Lehman, for boarding hands >• •• 00 John Buser. for Iron Work •• So 00 Jacob F. Young, for Powder. See.. •• 453 George Bear, for hauling Stone •• •• 0 50 Samuel Hank, for Stone •• •. 7=^ Simon Hostettor.-Tor lumber t; •• 20 70 John "W itmer for superintending work 28 62 1 0.303 15;«. 102.009 8o Court of Quarter Sessions. David M. Martin. Esq., clerk fees. I. E. Hiester. Esq., Att'y General's fees Juror's pay Witness do Justice and Constable costs Crier and Tipstaves S9O 33 21.873 654 Mayor*s Court. James "Wiley, clerk fees at Jan'y Term, 1849 S°9 07 Juror's pay 'joß 00 Witness pay j 0 5 44 Aldermeu s pay r (l Crior aud Tipstaves Til 25 $146,015 87* Juror's pay Crier and Tipstaves Mathias Zalitn. rare and keeping court house $32 oG Ditto for wood, candles, and sundries 29 1G C. Fmfrock. for scrubbingcourt house walls 2 5U K. Eslibrenner. cutting vood and carrying in 473 1 Coroner. John Wright. Esq. coroner, ami others, hold ing inquests on the bodies of 35 persons luuud dead in Lancaster county , Commissioners Office. P. G. Eberman. for one year salary as clerk. due Oct ISth, 1849, to Commissioners.' 4500 00 Ditto on account oo Henry ti, Long. Esq. 1 year salary as clerk 175 00 l. O. Eberman. for half ream letter paper 1 ou Samuel White, for blank books for office 15 Telegraph office for despatch 40 Mary Dickson, for postage 3 55 John F. Long, ink, wafer.., twine. £c. 2 25 -Mrs. Sarah Porter, for pauiplet laws ' £OO Geo. D. Eberman. for eight-day clock 5 00 John Tangert. for 2 loads chips *» Qy itiner. Esq,, for 106 days services at $1 50 per day ns Commissioner, and 2430 miles at 6 cents per mile % John Landis. Esql. 147 days services as. Co mmissioner, and 1932 miles Henry Mussulman. Esq.. 95 days services as Commissioner, and 2005 miles I. B. Eddinger, 1 gross steel pens -Martin Brunner,-assisting clerk Return Judges, for holding General election $933 19 Officers of township election g 22 52 Assessors, pay for making lists and attending (lections ' > 256 73 Constables pay IQ6 79 Fuel. , William Gorrecht, for 31 tons coal $127 871 Cuas Herr, for 211 cords and 1 load wood 106 OO'* t- Jail. Javid Hartman. Esq . late Sheriff, from Oct. Ist to Oct. ISth. IS4B. for maintenance, key e < S ' soap. oil. &c., clothing, keeping Ham ilton, drawing jurors, summoning, &c., ami ! . carnage house, ice. 5 $ 333 92’- . aco über. Esq., sheriff, maintenance 1624 lot Key fees 159 37 f boap. on, Slc. 187 20 Clothing »> 33 Qg Conveying convicts to Eastern 1 eniteutiary Summoning jurors 1 ” 701 " 30,1 Sl!Ssion3 Blankets and mending shoes Keeping Hamilton 6 Sundries Drnwingjurors Costs remitted Bringing G. Gregg to Lancaster jail Doct. H. A. Smith, for 14 months services aa physician f • Steinman &, Son, for sundries Codfned Zahm, bill for brushes and repair ing pump F Frederick Remley, smith work $3487 92 . „ . ~ Loans and Interest. _ * wStS BaS ty Baak ' "f* tatereet $3056 33 ' • 41«0 00 • CITY OF LANCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1850 mt of County Rates iue, Jan 7, 1850. I 1847. I 1848 I 1849. 1 298 7o i IS7 7G 1 291 46 y-iU 64 1098 43 534 50 ; 1202 08 191 10 864 75 179 31 ;»9o n;j 99 II 239 48 i 2.19 19 62 77 141 66 ; 2(JS 41 496 29 9241 SO ;en paid. ie Treasure 30 34 33 -JS $4l 13) ‘ $ 383 67j 338 50 142119 1881 09 698 43 187 50 Common Pleas. Court House. Elections. 172 96 54 81 16 75 69 43 7 50 4 30 “ THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS, WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD.”— Buchawah. •Printing. W. Hamersly, publishing annual acc r ts, Sheriff’s proclamationa. blank 3. notices.<S*c. $lB7 50 E. C. Darlington- do. do. 190 00 John H. Pearsol. adjoin'd courts, notices. &c. 28 50 George Shroyer, publishing notices 1 00 E. w. Hutter. annual fitc. 114 25 John Ensminger. adjourned courts 6 00 M. D. Holbrook, annual accts. proclam*s. «S-c. 47 00 J. B. Garber, annual accounts. &c. 21 00 J. S. Jones. Gor'rs and Sher’s proclamations, 15 00 John Bear, annual acc'ts. blanks, notices. frc. 122 00 A. E. Eshleman, adjourned courts 3 00 G. \V Sanderson. Sher : s procl'n. notices. &c. 18 50 Jacob Myers, annual accounts, notices, proc tarnations. tf’c. $BO4 16 Poor and House of Employment. William Gorrecht. Esq. for support of Poor for the year 1849 $10,500 00 Penitentiary. Eastern Penitentiary for support of convicts for 1549. $1331 ig Public Offices. John Wiley, shoveling snow $ 1 67 George Brubaker. Esq. Register counter and sundries for Register's office 31 S 7 George F. Rote, stool for office 2 00 Whitohill. repairing seal press 4 00 C. KiefFor. cannon stoves for offices 22 00 George M. Steinman. for keys 3 00 George Doersh. for blank books, and binding S 2 00 Conrad Veissley. repairing door 75 H. Pinkerton, cushion for Orphans’ c't office 2 00 Ralph Gilmore, scrubbing and whitewashing 7 50 Samuel W. Taylor, glazing 7 28 John Dreppard. mending seal press 3 25 Joseph Real, shoveling snow . - l 00 C. Anne, repairing window blinds 7 62 ; Road Damages. John Snyder. road damages in Mnrtic. $4B 00 John Smith. $29 00 ; Martin Kce.se. $25 00 $lO2 00 Bcnj .Miller, damages in W. Lampeter twp,. $24 00 :'Krs. Herr. $B3 00; John Kachel. $4O: William Miller, $2O $179 00 Robert Linton, do. in Manor Township 05 00 ; •• Mountjoy •• 70 00 t hrislian Risser. '• Elizabeth * 93 50 Dauiel Good. ' Martic •• 45 00 i.-uue Itedsecker. *■ W. Donegal " 50 00 H. trank &. others •• Warwick •• 173 75 Henry Laudis, •• •• •• 30 05 John Markley. 55 00 Christian .Neff, E. Lampeter •• 50 00 Joseph Jameson. ~ L. Britain - 90 00 Charles Penuook. *• •• §5 qo Jon.ia Mess, .. 6 00 Jacob kins. '• ■■ ■■ 60 00 iV C , h r l gei. " " “ CO 00 Uaiiiol D. Swift, " 60 00 Samuel Bokius, •• 40 00 J. Deutlingcr and others, E. Lampeter 150 00 George Vundt. Earl *• 15 00 James M Sparran. Drumore •• SO 00 Anti Barr. Martic •• 27 00 C. A: J. _\l. Shenk. *• *• •22 00 8 IS OS 12 12 1 90 18 IT J\'ew Prison. John Haviland. Esq.. on account of building .New Prison 00.000 00 James Carpenter, regulating prison lots 0 00 M. Carpenter. Esq. Mayorof the city of Lan caster for city lots fur new prison 500 00 JounC. Jlanipt. for lot ofgrouud for prison 100 00 John 11. Duchman. forpiece of ground do. 871 87 James llarnes. for house and loi for do. 582 50 Henry F benedict, for services rendered 25 00 J. B. Newman, extinguishment of ground rent on lot No. 819 for prison 177 00 Uitto. for half lot No. 119 do. 103 35 $62,425 I*7 ‘ -Miscellaneous. George Wiker. distributing tally-papers. as sessments. circulars. &c. $B5 00 il. O. Long, professional services 40 00 K. A F,vans. serving subptenain case of Com monwealth vs. J. Smith, alias Drummond 8 76 r ti-' I t vsl . n * ! ‘ ■ cosl ' ia above case J 7 00 J. H . Davies, serving suprena in Com'th vs. Drummouds j r ( Q Good & Johns, boarding jurors. <s-c., 20 00 1’ £ r ? un “ r ; Cl^yiu » transcripts 15 00 t-. Rohrer. horse higher aad services 1 00 Samuel White, blanks for election lists. 0 00 J. r . Heigart. takiug testimony. &c. 12 00 J. Reese. fur omnibus hire 2 50 - or and constable costs for vagrant cases 76 37j . '>; s , arl -, c °lO' in h' transcripts 5 00 Baud Übkichler. do 6 00 , 1 Duehmau. Lsq.. recording Treasurer's bonds . b - ()0 Dr. H A. Smith, post mortem examination on body of C. LVmoror io uO Dr. John Leonard. do do 10 00 George U iker. distributing assessments 15 00 IG. Lbermau. distributing tally-papers 15 00 Thomas L. Franklin. Esq., professional ser ,r”cin , 10 00 U m. B. Fordney. do Jo 10 UO 51. Brunner. lor copying transcripts 5 00 ry -;]• Martin for 2 certified copies ot G’d Juries 4 50 “ sl bm. crying sale of fence ou prison ground 2 25 51. Bruucr. copymg duplicates. io 00 ' ‘.J.' -'Jartm. recording names of township ollicers, 76 25 DM. Martin, copying duplicates, 16 00 John fimnth. copying duplicates. 22 00 . I. G. Lvaus. coats in ease of Com. vs John Hood, for horse stealing. Laucastcr city. 1 year wale* rent, ‘w' co *ts in case of Com. vs John Hood, lor horse stealing, li.-urj llcmlrr for bringing John Finley from Lebanon to Lancaster Jail, 9 yg Geo. -Norton lor bringing J. Dennis to Jail. 2 83 Wse “““ K Frederick Redding, shovelling snow, 05 Geo Hughes, services in Com. vs J. Finley, *9 00 51. Bundle, for duplicates, jy q 0 F rs. Keenan, for auditing Dockets and aec'ts I U' P n b c; UfflCeS - • 151 50 . Davis, arresting 11. Colt, for murder, 800 L- F ley. eleauing cellar. x yy * ' Postmortem examination on body of Johu Lovet. jq CO Daniel Lahm and others, in case of stolen goods ot Capt J. Lhler. g yy \\ m. Chambers, arresting and bringing J. Beckart lrom Ohio to Lancaeter Jail, 124 To n \i ‘ Nl ‘' vn V in - Ground Rent one year. 5 14 D. 51. Martin, transcribing Petition and Road Indexes and Book. = n no j Geo. Hughes, serving subpoena in Com. vs • Isaac Beckert. 10 on John Hatz. hor>e hire. 7 0(J i Doi ’ lo «H.a. Smith and r: O. Richards, post , ‘ xamiuli . ti oii on body of B. Myers. 20 00 ,?• Hughes, services in Com. vs K. D. W. cut. -- p ,e .°; Brubaker. for indexing Inventories 66 00 1. G. Lbermau. distributing Transcripts. 15 00 D.jctors Hull and Garber, post mortem exam mat ion on body of F. Miller iy 00 Samuel Mornsou, for error in commission for nr “r,7 i ax ‘ n township, for 1845 5 00 Dr. J. 11. Kurtz, Prothon r v. balance at settle ment with county g -- M. Carpenter. Esq. Mayor and constable fee 3 ‘ ‘ in vagrant cases g, - r John f l ' ll u‘ U H\ lUr / isU boards {,)v public buildings 175 John l Ketidr for painting sign boards b 720 Ge»rVf. H.,^ SUrV * nS . SUbI, * Ua Com ' th vs 324 George Hushes. sor7ing attachment s no Reuben 51 uller.for arresting D. Pritchard and bringing him to Lancaster jail s~u 4 eV Sht i S ' Ke J vin S «üb : a. out of county 19 00 John F . Slmnler. J-.sq. ireas'r. for an abate ment on $14,976 05 advanced by him for State tax J <, O John Connor, for arresting C Eaby. £c. *2l 12 M. Zaliui. crying sale of lumber, at Rank's mill Jonathan McVoy. for arresting D. Pritchard, horse thief 0 20 00 James Laird, apprehending horse thief 20 00 James Hudgsou. constable services in case of Comth vs A. Smith *>- on P. R°yc r . services in Comth vs Erukbart M4O chambers. in full for services in case of Comth ts Bnchart ~n Joseph Kl.ermun, cleaning town clock, care and winding one year nr nn J °of , , C on, r ,'i,' case ol Comth vs Bichard •it no in Comth vs Simon ‘ Goye and H. Rich in John Hatz, horse hire and services ’ g 75 Ditto. j 0 0,0 Geo. Wiker distributing' tally papers, ic. 45 00 Jos, Real, shoveling snow. Four orders drawn ip 1850, 1014 on One do 0f1543 and paid in 1849, 3 00 „ $105.972 95 f. G. EBERMAN, Clerk. W. Whiteside, H A.TTOR NE YATLA W, the office formerly occupied by E. C. Ileigart, Esq., in West King street, ou nouse below Mr. Reed’s Tavern. April 10 Or. M. M. Moore, Oenti&t. S'^rrir>^r? t^nues to P er^onn *• operations on the TEETH upon terms to suit the times . Office Worth Queen street, opposite Kauffman’s HoteH april 19 George w. M’elroy, ATTORNEY AT LAW,. uners ills professional services to the pub lic. Office 1"? r Square ’ in th <= room formerly occupied by M. Carpenter, Mayor. fMavt,’49-14 JONAS D. BACHMAN, . ' ATTORNEY AT LAW- Office in 11 arket Square, in the room lately occupied by G. W. ;v]’Elroy, Esq J v april 24 *49 OFFICE FOR THE Purchase and Sale of Real Estate, WEST KIES'S- STEMaiE®, HaAHOAg PENNSYLVANIA, nOT _IS-12-3 m ] . D. W. PATTERSON. Alexander l. hayes, ATTORNEY AT LA Wr Uipce— West King Street, next door below C.. Hager T . St Son’s Store. January 9, >49 „ , intelligencer & Journal. PUBLISHED EYERT TUESDAY MOIINING, BY GEO. SANDERSON. T E RMS: Subscription.—Two -dollars per annum, payable in advance; two twenty-five, if not paid within six months; and two fifty, if not paid within the year. No subscription discontinued until all ar rearages are paid,-unless at the option of the Editor. r Advertisements.—Accompanied by the CASH,and not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents foreach additional insertion. Those of anreater length in proportion. • Job ParNTiWG.—Such as Hand Bills, Poking Bills, Pamphlets, Blanks, Babels, &c«, &c., executed with 1 accuracy and at the shortest notice. miscellaneous. to-day and to-morrow Don’t tell me of to-morrow ! Give me the man who’ll say, That when a good deeds to be done Let’s do the deeds to-day. We may all command the present, If we act and never wait; Bat repentance is the phantom Of the past, that comes too late ! Dont tell me of to-morrow! There is much to do to-day That can never be accomplished, If we throw the hours away. Every moment has its duty— W ho the future can foretell 7 Then why put off till to-morrow What to-day can do as well? Don’t tell me of to-morrow! If we look upon the past, How much that we have left to do We cannot do at last! To-day! it is the only time For all on this frail earth; It takes an age to form a life, A moment gives it birth. From tbs North American, Reminiscences. The North American gave us, a few days since, some reminiscences of Philadelphia in ISOB. ]f we recollect right, whoever came to this city from New York, forty-years agone, by the Su-ift-Sure route, spent one night on the road, crossed the Del aware in a boat at New Hope, and was dropped at McCallas, in North Fourth street, after dark the second night. By paying ten dollars, and travelling all night, he could, perchance, make the journey by the mail stage in twenty-four hours, borne years alter, when steamboats had got into full operation, and the population of both cities and the intercourse between them had greatly increased, the mass of travellers still stopped a night at New Brunswick going to New York, and at Trenton coming to Philadelphia. The jam ol passengers and baggage in and upon the stages between these two places, and the clouds of dust which enveloped the long caravan in the dry weather of summer, were amongst the miseries of the day. To go to Lancaster by the then celebrated stone road—the Lancaster turnpike—required a very early start in the morning. You breakfasted at the Buck, and stopped to water and refresh, it may be, at the Spread Eagle, the Paoli, the Ship, and at Hunt Downings, and dined at Slaymaker’s— tav erns celebrated throughout the country. Indeed, the tavern keepers on the Lancaster turnpike were men of note. Jonathan Miller, Edward biter, Gen. Joshua Evans, Casper Fahnestock, John Bowen, Hunt Downing, Jaspar Slaymaker, landlords at the houses named, were men of energy and enterprise, large estates, furnished one member of Congress Irom their number, and when they died left good names behind them. One of them is still living, now a successful merchant in this city as he aforetime was a successful keeper of the Spread Eagle. Stopping at Slaymaker‘s, or at Shocks, in Lancaster, the two great houses of the day, you found yourself in the largest inland town in the United States, then the seat of government for the State. Looking round a little, you find yourself near the residence of the greatest capitalist of his day west of Philadelphia— a millionaire —the secret of whose accumulation was, his skill in con verting iron ore into gold. You called to mind that this has been the abode of George Ross, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Jasper Yeales, who made his fortune here at the bar, and then oc cupied a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court. Montgomery, James Hopkins, and Charles Smith then held commanding ground in the profession of the law. Jenkins was just beginning to loom up. Molton C. Rogers and James Buchanan, who so soon afterwards led the bar, had then scarcely com menced their career—indeed, the latter was not yet admitted to practice. ComingTjack from the Lan caster turnpike and the Conestoga region, we are reminded that our own Market street, at that day, in certain seasons, presented to the eye the appear ance of a double line of stable stalls from Fourth street out. We have seen it fully occupied on both sides for many squares, often with ranges of wag ons backed up to the curb-stone, the horse fastened to the poles and feeding from troughs, which, when the teams were in motion, were hung in the rear these same horses, of gigantic size and strength, fat and sleek, furnishing evidence ol the pride their owners took in them—thq wagons nearly twenty feet in length, with covering of substantial cloth, and, generally, with broad wheels. Many a first rate man of interior Pennsylvania, including, if we mistake not, more than one ol our Governors be gan Jtis career in life by driving team. . ’ Our market Houses did not then extend beyond Fourth street. The original Court House, at that time occupied by the city watch, still held its place at the termination of the range, in the centre of the street, on the north side of where Second street crossed, with the figures of 1705 conspicuous on its. vane. The Centre Square was then occupied by a build ing subsidiary to the works at the basin, south of the Schuylkill bridge, for the supply of the City with water. It was surrounded by a circular en closure, leaving but just space for the street within the public ground. This enclosure was plStited with Lombardy poplars: and about this time, on the east side, was adorned by the same wooden sculpture, by Rush, with a jet dmu from the bird on her shoulder, which we now see at Fairmounl. On the northwest corner of Market and Broad streets, was what was called in that day a pleasure garden, where the pedestrian, wearied by his long walk out of town, might stop and rest, and refresh himself with a glass of Mead. The vacant space between this and Arch street, had not yet been covered by that prison, which so long deformed it afterwards, however classical by the associations which the recollection of two individuals, once its inmates, will always call up in the minds of many who still live. At that day, every Sunday afternoon, you might see crowds on crowds, male and female, old and young, thronging out Market street, on foot, to get a little fresh air. The pleasure gardens, where cheap luxuries were sold, abounded in all the adja cent region;—while out of town, Gray’s Ferry and Harrow-gate were still, as they had been long, cel ebrated places of resort. Although steamboats and railroads may take greater throngs a farther dis tance on Sundays, still, the city, in its interior, it must be conceded, has much more the aspect of a day of rest. Another reflection, n-ost obvious, is, that railroads and locomotives have gone far to do away with taverns. In times gone by, a traveller was hardly considered a gentleman, who warmed his hands at the fire of the inn when the horses were changing, without making his contribution at the bar; and the too frequent stimulus to the driver, when a lit tle more speed was wanting, was a similar contri bution. ISOG. ID*Dr. Martin Gray, one of the eminent med ical men of Boston employed to examine the remains of Dr. Parkman, died in tbat city on Sat urday. [By Request .] A\i\l AL meeting Of the State Temperance Conven tion of Pennsylvania. The Convention met in Lancaster, on Wednesday’ the 23d ult, at 10 o’clock A; M., pursuant to ad journment last year, and was organized by the ap pointment of the following officers: President —Dr. H. GIBBONS, of Philadelphia. Pire Presidents —Hon. George McFarland, of Hollidaysburg; Rev. Eliphalet Reed, of Carlisle. Secretary— rß. J. Judd, of Lancaster. A Committee was then appointed to prepare business for the action of the Convention, consist ing of Dr. H. Gibbons, Leonard Jewell, Dr. Sumner Stebbins, Dr. Joseph Gibbons and R. J. Judd, who reported the following resolutions, which, after a prolonged and interesting discussion, were unani motfsly adopted, with the exception of the last, which lies over for discussion to the next meeting at. Columbia, in November next: Resolved , That intoxicating drinks in tbeirpumf state, but more especially in the adulterated condi tion in which we usually find them, poison the body, enervate the mind, deaden the moral facul ties, and destroy the soul. Resolved , That the love of Rum is. not natural— that the habit of drinking is wholly acquired, and that it is progressive and highly insidious in its -character, stealing upon its victim so imperceptibly that he is often unaware of his danger until he finds himself in the death folds of the serpent;' and there fore the only safe rule for all those who would not be deceived and ruined is Total Abstinence from all intoxicating drinks, including an entire avoidance of all the places and occasions of intemperance. Resolved, That self-conquest is true greatness that he who by the might of a virtuous will cor rects in himself the habit of Intemperance—which is perhaps the most difficult of all vices to be cured —is deserving of the respect of evety good man but Ife who makes this only the beginning of refor mation. and, with aspirations after the right and the good in all things, struggles on in the way of welldoing, he is a true man, and to him may be aptly applied the words of the wise king—‘-Greater is he that ruleth his own spirit than he that taketh a city.” Resolved , That Temperance Associations are adapted to aid the struggling inebriate in his efforts after self-conquest, and are, therefore, a philosophi cal remedy for intemperance; and further, that they do embody and give power to the public sen timent of the virtuous against this vice, and hence it becomes the duty of all to unite with them. Resolved, That the'Liquor Traffic is injurious to all the other branches of honorable business, inas much as it materially diminishes the number of paying consumers, and limits their demands to the merest necessaries of life, and that hence, it is the interest of every Agriculturalist, Merchant and ‘Mechanic to unite in effor s for its suppression. Resolved , That this Convention hail with cordial approbation, the endeavor of the lot holders at the new county seat of Delaware county, to exclude the sale of intoxicating drinks from their limits, and that their laudable endeavor is in accordance with every principle of justice and humanity, and will, we believe, meet with favor in the Legislature. Resolved, That the foregoing Resolutions be for warded to the Legislature, with the signature of the officers of the Convention. Resolved, That intoxicating drinks are the ac knowledged parent of most of the crimes that infest society, and as a greater amount of suffering and evil is indicted on the people through the sale of intoxicating drinks, than by all other injuries and immoral practices which have been deemed worthy of Legislative prohibition, and as the traffic aforesaid is lor that reason the greatest of all nuisances, it should be placed on a level with gambling, coun terfeiting,- burglary and other acknowledged crimes. Resolved, That the friends ofTemperance through out the Commonwealth be recommended to concen trate their efforts, to obtain a law entirely prohibit ing the sale of intoxicating drinks, and that they should be urged to accept nothing short of this, and not to remit their endeavors till the object be ac complished. To the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania. A State Convention of the friends of Virtue, Law and Order, now assembled in the city of Lancaster, speaking the sentiments and wishes of a large por tion of the citizens ot the Commonwealth, respect fully represent—that our License System is an in tolerable grievance, from the evils of which we ask •to be delivered. In our opinion these evils do not arise merely from any lack of vigor in the enforce ment of present laws, but essentially from the char acter of those laws, and the practices and habits that are sanctioned and fostered by them. Intern perance with all its concomitant crimes, prevails to an alarming extent in our Commonwealth, not withstanding our most strenuous exertions to sup press it. After a long and toilsome, though not vain contest with effects, attendants and consequen ces, we find this demon of society so safely entren ched behind a citadel of Statute Law, that we are forced to petition your honorable bodies to break up his hiding place, and cease to screen the mon ster lest we be reluctantly compelled to abandon a moral enterprise, the most important and benificent the world has ever known. Permit as. then, to glance briefly at some of the prominent features of our license regulations Under them the retailing of spirituous liquors, in quantities less than a quart, is torbidden to all but a.few individuals, (who, anomalous as it may ap pear, are compelled to furnish certificates of moral character.) to whom a special license is granted.— .Why is this? If the business is an useful and mor al one. why should the Law interfere with it? Why attempt to restrain that which is necessary and proper ? Why attempt to provide good agents to carry it on? Can the dealer change the nature of the commodity in which he deals? Can he make poison wholesome for food or drink? Why not forbid all but moral men from selling flour or meat? Why not carry out the principle and forbid all bad men from doing any good thing? Again, if the traffic is immoral in its nature and tendency, why require moral men to conduct it? If a brand is applied to one of our dwellings, will not the fire spread and consume regardless of the moral character of the individual that applied it? Can good men dispense that which is pernicious and crime engendering without injury fo society? As well might we license gambling houses and brothels, and attempt to counteract the evils by providing good men, (if the thing were possible,) . to superintend them. The truth is, our license laws are nothing but a tissue of deception, answer ing none of the purposes intended, and evincing only the short sightedness of the Legislature that first enacted them, and in our opinion will continue to be the reproach of all succeeding ones that allow them To remain unrepealed. We have surely made a fair and full trial of such laws, and they have signally failed, as might have been expected. We do not see how legal enact ments made with a view to the proper regulation of a vice, is ever to restrain much less to suppress it. The principle is unsound. It is notorious that all suet attempts have done more to sanction the evil than to check it. Our present laws aim at nothing more than moderation in the use of liquor, and such moderation (even if desirable) is, we are confident, absolutely unattainable under any license law that the ingenuity of man can devise. Absti nence is natural and easy, but moderation is always difficult, and with many persons impossible. In the first place, we doubt the constitutionality of all such laws. If the liquor traffic is right,- they are wrong, because they debar ninety-nine out of a hundred of our citizens from engaging in it; and if the traffic is wrong, they are scandalous, because they give a legal sanction to vice and crime. So that whether intended as a restraint on a trade which all men have a natural and imprescriptable right to participate in* or as a legal authorization of a business that destioys life, safety and happi ness, they are equally repugnant to the fundamental principles of out government. We believe that the State might almost as well set up schools for, in struction in gambling, counterfeiting, and licentious ness, as to license liquor selling taverns. The right to trade- in useful commodities, is a natural right which government may regulate, but cannot limit to a favored few. But if men have a natural light to vend alcoholic liquor to be used as a beverage, from what source do governments de* rive their power to say how many, aiid what kind of men shall engage in the business? We admit the authority of government to tax the trafficker in I such liquors on the same principle that it taxes the ; agriculturalist, the merchant and the manufacturer. But has it the power to compel the farmer to go annually to some public functionary, and take .out a license for his occupation before he is privileged to plow his ground, sow his seed, and harvest his crop. Has it the right to say that none but “men of good repute for honesty, and temperance,” shall follow the business of tilling the earth? Has it the right to prevent the merchant from trading in use ful commodities, unless he shall first obtain a legal j permit to do so? Has it the right to say who shall J be a merchant, and that no more than a speemed number of stores shall be allowed to a given popu lation? We are aware that our storekeepers are made to pay what is called a “ license " for vending loreign and domestic merchandise, but they are no*! forced to obtain such license before they can com mence business, nor are they liable to a fine or im prisonment for going on in their own business with out it. It amounts to nothing more than a tax, which is levied and collected like other taxes on professions and trades. Has the Legislature the power to prohibit the manufacture of shoes, by all except such as have a statute license to follow the business, and has it the right to prescribe the char acter of, and number of shoemakers in a town, borough, or city? It it has no right to interlere with, and arrest human industry in everv case where it is not prosecuted under special govern mental permission, on what authority or principle, does it limit the number of intoxicating drinks, and force each one to procure a license for his business before he can engage in it ? Are not these distinc tions between the callings of the spirit vender and that of other people made on the ground that his right to traffic in liquors rests entirely on Legislative favor, a favor which we think has been wrongfully and unconstitutionally granted, and which ought to be immediately withdrawn, and forever prohibited to ali as it is now prohibited to ninetv-uine out ol a hundred of our citizens. What we complain of is, that the retailer of in toxicating drinks enjoys special privileges, under cover ol which he seeks his own private emolument to the manifest injury of the public wellare. Un like other citizens, he can inflict incalculable dam age upon society without being held responsible.— He makes money by dealing destruction around him, and the statute gives him an exclusive right to the work of ruin in his neighborhood. By his law authorized occupation, he can instigate men to the commission of the most horrid outrages, and the most diabolical enormities. He can make widows and orpnans, and paupers and felons with impunity. He can make rich men destitute, wise men fools, respectable men loalers, good men bad. and bad men worse, without check or hindrance. He can levy a rum-pauper tax, and compel people who never drink rum to pay it. He can levy a rum criminal tax, and force sober men and women to bear the unnatural and cruel burden. He is per mitted by law to take money for a poisonous and debasing article, while for a much less offence the provision dealer is indicted and punished. Forsor did gain he may infuriate his customers with drink until they commit batteries, larcenies, and murders, but uniike other criminals he escapes, while the law inflicts its vengeance on the poor dupe of his guilty traffic. This we regard as a flagrant wrong, and a glaring absurdity; it is overlooking the cause, and striking a cowardly and useless blow at an effect; it is letting the principal go, and punishing the agent. It not unfrequently happens that the rumseller himseil is called to sit upon the very jury which is empannelled to try one of his victims, lor a crime committed under the maddening influence of his liquor. What a scene to be enacted in the sacred name of Justice! In our opinion, there would be no little violation of righteous principle in compell ing such a juror to change places with the criminal at the bar. But what renders such trial? a still greater farce, is the revolting fact, that the same Court who sit in judgment on the wretched rum made culprit, grants a licen>e to the rumseller to pursue his demoralizing vocation. Can such things be and not excite our special wonder? How long, or in other words how much longer will the Leg islature of this enlightened State permit such mon strous anomalies—such iniquitious enactments to disfigure our Laws, and shed blight and mildew upon a suffering people? Is it not a strange and shameful thing, that vice should be installed and upheld by statute; that a governmental sanction should be given to tha' which is the principal instigator'of crime, and which causes a daily, and almost hourly inlrac tion of the law. We raise legal mounds around each individual'for the security of persons and property, and then as it lor the very purpose of defeating their object, we license that which causes them to be rent asunder. We pull down with one hand what we build up with the other. Protective 1 laws are of no avail, while that is encouraged by law which never fails to insure their violation. Of what use are laws against assaults, blows, their, robberies and murder, while we commission men to deal out that which makes ruffians, thieves, rob bers, and murderers? What sense or reason is there in such legislation? Ail the-purposes of a good government and a well organized judiciary are defeated by the liquor traffic, and so long as this traffic is sustained and not forbidden by law. so long shall we feel that we are deprived of that legal protection to person and property which the., people have a right to claim of their rulers, and \ which it is the first duty of all governments to ! afford What would be thought of a Legislature that should construct a system ot wise and wholesome laws tor a people, and then cap the climax by the addition ot a statute, the direct anil necessary effect of which would be, to insure the nullification ot the whole previous code. Their wisdom might be likened to that ot a man who should build a fine house tor himself and family, and then cause a crevice to be opened ...under the eaves sufficiently large to allow the first blast of wind To unroof it, and expose its wretched inmates to the peltings of ; every after-storm that might chance to beat upon them. Our legislators, whatever may have been their motives, commuted an act ot equal folly, when they trained our present License laws, and we shall be in the condition of a family inhabitii.g a roofless house, or a community without govern ment. Our whole criminal code is a splendid cheat, Bnd our judiciary a solemn mockery. We say this because we know we are dealing in a matter in which the innocent are forever doomed to suffer with the guilty, and we would call your special attention to the tact that the innocent are the greatest sufferers. The most frightlul ac cidents and casualties are constantly happening from intoxication: horses are driven by persons inflamed with liquor, through town or country at the top of their speed, endangering the lives and property of all in their way; fire is carelessly handled by drunken men, and extensive conflagra tions are. the consequence. We have no security against such disasters so long as the law remains as it is. We cannot enter a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or packet ship, without putting our lives and property jeopardy from the besotted heedlessness of drivers, engineers, pilots, and cap tains. How many steamers‘loaded with human beings have been blown to atoms, how many ships freighted with untold wealth have been foun dered in the ocean, how many cities laid in ashes, through the direct and indirect agency of alcohol It has been proved by Parliamentary evidence, that nearly three millions sterling are yearly lost to the British nation by shipwrecks and other ac cidents at sea, and that by far the greater number of these casualties are the immediate results of in temperance or causes iniitnately connected with it. From November 11, 1838, to March 16, 1849, (four months.) one hundred and sixty vessels were wrecked and crews all perished ; forty-two stranded; twenty three foundered, ninety-two abandoned, sixty eight sunk, twenty eight condemned, two hundred and twenty-seven wrecked, seventy six not heard from. Total five hundred and seventy-six, with a loss of twenty-six hundred lives—chief agent be lived to be intemperance. In the eloquent language of one of our Navy officers, “could the wave that has been the winding sheet of the sailor speak, could the lonely §hoie reveal the secrets of its frequent mounds— there wohld be voices on the ocean, and bones on the strand, to tell a tale of death, more wild and .dark than any that ever yet knelled is terrors through the most tragic dream. It is not the tempest cast ing the proud ship a naked hulk on the deep, nor the rock strown fragments 61 its perished, strength, that has wrought this scene of desolation, and filled so many hearts with unavailing sorrow—it is that cup of insidious poison—mingled and mixed,.and i ,l' at:eL 10 tis lipd by the government! Yes, by the government!' 1 . I coeplt 6 trU * s> ere Is no safety for any one in society, male or female, old or young, rich or poor, '"'“Knhog liquors are sold as a beverage. W hether at home or abroad, riding or walking, lying down or sitting up, the life, property and hap piness, of every human being i s endangered by the continuance of this horrible traffic. We ask to be ■ protected from this state ot things. We believe it is in your power to protect us by the passage of a -w forbidding the sale of such beverages, and we feel that we have a right to claim this much at ypur hands. It was . tor such protection as this that our government was organized ; it is lor this that we pa}', our taxes and bear the public burdens. We know that there are persons who pretend to doubt your constitutional power to banish such an outrage on all that man holds dear., Where then do you get the power to stop locomotion—to ar rest a man s right to travel because he is afflicted with certain ailments ? The State has established a Quarantine on the Delaware river, at which'they forcibly detain all vessels having on board persons abormg under contagious or inlectious diseases.— s not the right to establish such an Institution de rived from the laws of selikleteuce ! And will not ihe same principle authorize society to protect itself trom the consequences of a business more dreai lul and blighting than the whole catalogue ol the worst distempers, that ever ravaged the world ! If we may not invoke the power of the law lor the suppression of this appalling and des. triictive business, then is the constitution a nullity, and civil government a farce. We know it is contended that taverns are neces sary lor the public accommodation, and that they cannot be kept wirhout the privilege of selling liquor. We grant that public houses are needed, but deny that more are necessary than can live by supplying the real wants of the public. Are we - bound to foster base appetites and depraved habits ill order to secure a sufficient number ol taverns? As well might it be argued that we are boiuuJ to take medicine when We are not sick, in order that the public may be accommodated with physicians and apothecaries when wanted. That the present number ol taverns could not be supported if con fined to the useful part of their business is quite probable. Granting this, it lbllows that there are at this time more taverns than the public conve nience and public good require. And what else does it show ? Why clearly that the whole excess over and above what is really required for the public accommodation, which, for aught we know, may be one hall the whole number, owe their ex istence to a traffi ■ which neither promotes, nor . seeks to promote the public good—a traffic which is not only a waste ol all the money it involves, hut which is the source of nearly all the poverty, crime and suffering that exists in the State. The public want taverns, and must and will support so many and such as are needed, but they do not want dram-drinking taverns.. Better a thousand times would it he to have none at all, than to have such as produce infinitely more evil than good. We are aware that the vender pleads poverty as an excuse for continuing the traffic. He says ho must sell the liquour to support his family. This we deny; we do not believe that Providence has so ordered things, that we cannot live without preying upon each other. Ninety-nine out of a hundred of our people live without the privilege, and think it no hardship. As well might we have everlasting war among the nations of the earth for the mere purpose of giving steady employment and high wages to officersjand soldiers; or as well might the makers of idols in heathen lands oppose the intro duction of Christianity because it would spoil their trade. .But if those engaged! in the liquor business cannot support themselves and their families by some honest and useful vocation, then we say let the public support them. We would much rather be taxed to maintain them, than the rogues and paupers which they are constantly throwing upon the public. We are willing to bear all necessary buidens, but are tired of sustaining the oppressive load which is heaped upon us by a legalized vice. We are also aware that it is contended that a pronibitory law could not be enforced. This we do not believe. We are confident that it would be more easy to enforce such a daw, than to prevent a violation of our present license system. The. sale ol strong drinks can be prohibited and banished, but it cannot be regulated, so longas'it is approved by law. We look upon the legalized traffic as the parent of the illegal traffic, and we doubt not that so long as the tormer is permitted, the latter will prevail in spite of the most stringent enactments to the contrary. Give us the law and we will see that it is executed. If alter its adoption men are found ready to violate it, we shall not be surprised, nor shall we regard that as a reason for its., repeal. The laws against fraud, theft, and counterfeiting, are frequent ly broken, yet no one thinks of making such in fraction a pretext for their repeal, or an excuse for licensing the crimes which they are intended tq prevent, if liquor be sold for a beverage, we wish it to be sold contrary to law. We think Us effect would be much less pernicious. We maintain that our laws should be-on the side of virtue and mo rality, whether they can be enlorceif of not; as it is better that men who will do wrong, should act in the face of the law, than that the law should be made to sanction their wrong doing. Lastly, we hope you will see the justice and ur- gent necessity of granting the act we solicit to the whole commonwealth; but iu case you cannot bring your minds to comply with this request at the present session of the Legislature, plore you to give the desired benefaction to Chester, and such other couniies. as by their votes on the question of "Sale, or "No Sale' of liquors, as sub mitted to them in March, 1847, declared by large majorities that they were opposed to the detestable tiafiie. And we will ever pray, &c. H. GIBBONS, President. Eliphalet Reed, ) ... n ~ u > Vice Presidents. K. iVicr aulaxe. y Attest: R. J. Judd , Secretary. Lancaster, Jan. 23, IS3U. Resolved , That these proceedings and Memorial be published in all the papers in the city of Lancaster. Horrors of tkic Jail of Vienna. But let us listen for a .moment to the voice of a more recent victim of the Austrian Court, the young and patriotic Count Gonlalonieri, whose crime it was to be an Italian and to love his country. In a lew ol the most awful lines ever penned, thus he wrote the story of his life: “I am an old man now, yet by fifteen years my soul is younger than my body! Fifteen years I existed (for 1 did not live, it was not life.) in the self-same dungeon, ten feet square! During six years I had a companion; nine years I was alone; I never could rightly distinguish the face of him who shared my captivity in the eternal twtlight of our cell. The first year we talked incessantly together; we related our past lives—Our joys forever gone—over,and over again. The next . year we communicated our ideas to each other on all subjects. The third year we had no ideas to communicate, we were beginning to lose the power of reflection. The fourth, at intervals of a month, or so, we would open our lips to ask each other it it were indeed possible that the world went on af gay and bustling as when we formed a portion of mankind. The fifth year we were silent. The sixth, he was taken away—l never knew where, to exe cution or to liberty; but I was glad when he was gone; even solitude was better than the dim vision of that pale, vacant lace. Alter that I was alone. Only oue event broke in Upon my nine years va cancy. One day (it must have been a year or Iwo after my companion left me) the dungeon door was opened, and a voice—l knew not whence—uttered these words: “By order of his Imperial Majesty, I intimate to you that your wife died a year ago.” Then the door was shut; I heard no more. They had but flung this great agony in upon me, and left s me alone with it again.” i£7~An old lady said her husband was Very fond of peaches, and that was his only fault. “ Fault, madam,” said one, “ how can you call a fault?” “ Why, because there , are different ways of eating them, sir. My husband takes them in the lorm of brandy!” _ NO. 2.
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