VOL. LI.
TREASURER’S ACCOUNT,
.JOHN F. SHRODErTEs?., f Treasurer of
Lancaster County , in account with, said
County, January Ith, 1850: !
OR,
To balance in bands, as per last Au !
ditor's Report
“ Outstanding taxes
i: ditto i
for 1844 i 15 86
- 1547 ! 351 72
44 1845 ll 464 78
*• Assessment for County purposes j
for 1840. as per Certificate of Coun- 1
ty Commmissiouer?
Excess of taxes on Duplicate? of :
IS4S :240 5S
of 1849 j 4)13
“ Cash for Loans from individuals. ;
peri’. G. K. 311680 00
*' Proceeds of 4 notes discount-ed at !
Lancaster Bank 1982418
1 Farmers Bank 7T)14 67
“ . 1 •• £an. Co. Bank 4 946 67
*• Cash of Jacob Huber. Esq.. Shcr- J
iff, fines and jury fees .
“ *• James Wiley, Clerk of":
Mayor’s Court, fines
44 !’• G. Kberman. for s:jle
of au old stove
Joliii Landes, part of sale
of bridge and old plank •
Marliu. Clerk of
Quarter Session-*, lines
John House. Esq..line*
■‘collected for breach of peace [ 600
John Hess. fc>q.. mje of j
stray hogin Lampeter
*• •• Charles Good. Guardian
tuxes on quarry land in Burt
Jcjhn H Duchman, for old
feuce on Ffi-un ground^
*• •• Jacob Huber: J-lsq.. Sher
iff, fines and ju *y land j
44 •• Arthur Quinn. old fence
on Prisnu ground B
’• “ John Love, for his por
tion of bridge at Steelville
“ , R. B. M'CaUistiT. fur
sale of stray Steer in Marik-
" It. B. M'CaUb-ter. lines
from J Kreiti-r and P. Diffonbaoh
for profane swearing
M\ Gr"lT.lorsaleof.-tray
Steer, sold by 1). Conyiigham. in
Leacock
11 •• M. (rrofT. for sale of stray
Steer, sold by N. W. Sample
“ •• Henry Ilerr. on account
ol bond for bridge j
Henry Miller,
4 •• J. fc 1 P. llcrrt for plauk
Spikes. JCC. left of bridge
• Chn Huutsicker.on acd
of bridge at his mill
D. W. Martin. Clerk of
Quarter Sessions, lines
S. Iluntsicker.in full, for
bridge- at his mill
Jacob Hubev. Esq.. Sher
iff. fines and jury fund
* •• John K. Hummer. Esq
sale of Stray in Penn
• Herr 8: Miller, in full, of
Boud for bridge
1 •• John Miller, fur plank
sold at Rank’.-; mill
*• •• .Inn Schnader.F.>q..salc
of stray Bull in West Karl
‘* •• Jacob Huber. Esq.. Sher
iff. line from J. 11. Piersol
•“ -• C. Huntsieker. on nect
of bridge at his mill
• " M. Carter, lor his por
lion of one-third of bridge at
Octorara Creek
l ; •• 11. Zonk, for his portion
of bridge at his mill ,
44 •• Jacob Zeclier. f.»r old
fence on Prison ground
“ John Benedict. ditto
44 •• John Schwartz, do
•* 4 - John (iamber.for lumber
of bridge at Rank's mill
" Part of bills and certificates re
maining unpaid
• Percentage received from State
Treasurer, on payment of State
taxes
Lops allowed to Collectors of th:
By payment of Court orders ju favor
of Lhrn. H. Kaurh. David Stunt
and Andrew Mi-iiutfey. for auditing
State ami County .are'ts fur I>>4>.
and making statements thereof
By ditto iu tavor of l\ td. Kbcrraan.
making out. statement of
County accounts for publication
By ditto of 22S•Constables returns
.. Koudvie.w.-rs orders
“ •• G2L Court bills and cer-
22 Commissioners orders
on account of new Pri-ou
; ditto from No. 1 to 4oG.
except the above 22 orders. ami
N<,s. 23. *G. 10$. 203. 2G7. 2I»G. GGS.
39 j and 39t>. and not presented 3$ .942 19
4 ditto for lbso 1.234 2u
•• •• 1 ditto lor IS4S. present
ed in 1549 3 00
; lixoneratioup and commission? to
collectors ..viz : for 1544
for 1547 205 72
•• 1546 -100 29
•• 1849 9.2-11 80
Outstanding taxes
“ Ter centage at the rate ot S-lu of
one per cent on $112,042 received
by him
*' ialauee remaining in his hands
JOHN F’ SHIIODER. Esq.. Treasurer of Lancaster
County, in account with said County for State appro
priation for .Common School purposes. Jau. 7. ISoU
DR.
To balance in hands per report of
Auditors
OR.
1849. April IG. by cash paid Jacob
Ecbternacht. Treasurer of Com
mon Schools of East Cocalico
“ June 18. by ditto Marks (j. Wen
ger, ditto of Lencock
'*• Sept. d. by do Michael G. Wen
ger, ditto of; West L,arl
Per centage s>9s7 25. whole amount
that passes through his hands,
without allowance last year
Balance in his bauds
5707 41
The undersigned. Auditors of Lancaster County. Do
ItrroKT. that they have carefully examined the account
of John F. Shroder. Esq., late Treasurer of Lancaster
County, in account with said County, and find a balance
in his hands, on tin* 7th day of January. ISSO. for Coun
ty purposes, oftwenty-one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-three dollars and sixty-five and a half cents,
say 521.57 d 05}
We also find, at the same date, a balance
of State appropriation for Common School
purposes iu his hands, of three hundred and
sixty-three dollars and six cents, say
Making the aggregate amount in his
hands, twenty-tvro thousand two liumlred
and thirty-six dollars and seventy-one and
a half ceuta. for which amount he has this
day produced the receipt of Miller Fraiin. i—
the present Treasurer of the County, say $-22,230 711
- We also fiud that the Collectors of the following
townships have paid and settled off their duplicates for
the year 1549. viz : Brecknock. Carnarvon, West Co
calico, Colerain. Conestoga. Conoy, Elizabeth, West
Hempfield, East Lagipeter, West Lampeter. Lancaster.
Penn. Ilapho and Strasburg.
At the same date we find the duplicates of -the Col
lectors of Conoy. West Earl. Mountjoy and Strasburg
Borough for 1843. and of West Donegal and Strasburg
Borongh for 1547. remaining unsettled.
Although the aggregate amount ol outstaucling taxes
compares favorably with that of last year, we regret to
find at the above date, unsettled balances due the
County for the years 1848 and 1847 ; and. in justice to
the punctual tax payers of the County, we feel con
strained to,protest against such practice of Collectors,
permitting their duplicates of one or even two years
previous to remain unsettled at the time of auditing
the annual accounts; we are especially at a time like Jail
the present, when the financial condition of the County David Hartman. Esq., late Sheriff, from Oct.
requires a considerable portion of such taxes punctu- Ist l 0 Oct. 18th. 1848, for maintenance, key
£ lnto tee County Treasury, to be assessed lor. lees. soap, oil, &c., clothing, keeping Ham
iWnatedto the payment of interest on Loans iUou . drawing jurors, summoning, &c.,and
M County. The County Commissioners or Treas- for carriage house. &e $333924
urer having tho means of correcting this evil m then- Jacob Huber. Esq sheriff maintenance igoj. id
hands, the Auditors feel themselves so strongly justified Kev fee? ’ trf «?t
in refusing to allow a credit to the Treasurer in the ad- Soan oil IR7 oo^
justment of his accouut for unsettled balances of du- . ClothW ' ,T Qi
plicates of previous years, for which a credit had al- +« e, U8 *
ready been given, at a former settlement of tho County TenSmi??? 1 * Eastern
Accounts, that the majority of the undersigned, con- Summoning jurors 130 nfl
tinwng m office, have resolved, with the approbatitf Fees in m/J-, n e... I *.. U 0
of the honorable Court, to adopt such course at tli Court yrS and Sessions
next adjustment of the Treasurer’s accouut. -*■ auuujj, lißSnfl
During the year 1849. three townships have draw and FRAME STABLE. There a fine l
their proportional share of the State Appropriation ft o.nU.j n • c - re 18 a nne
Common School purposes, from the County Treasur t " nvin S Orchard of choice fruit, a never failing well
still leaving a balariSfc as above stated, uncalled for.- °* water » an “ an excellent Bpring on thia tract.—
Since, by an Act of the Legislature, the adoption of th The whole is under fence, and the property is well
Common School system has become general throughou calculated for public business of anv kind hfincr .
the County, the balance of the appropriation slioul o np of tho m nit Hpsimhlp Inr-itinn. in u’ M •
come in possession of those districts which are stiL ol the post desirable locations in the south- :
entitled to their shares, by their drawing it frod astera portion or the county.
the County Treasury, thus putting an end to its longei .An indisputable*title will be made, and posses- 51
existence,” which has been one of continued-decline'! sion given on the Ist of April next. \
frpm Its infancy, through the fitqucut--eoDsumpiivi Sale to commence at 2 o’clock, P. M., when '
attacks ■’to which it was subjected by the commission; Hup ... . - „*> . ’ ,
thereon allowed to each successive County Treasured k , nce be given, and terms made
during the “long term of its existence ” amongst us. known by SAMUEL B. FERRY.
We have also examined the account of William Gor 29, 1850. 1-ts
recht, Esq., Treasurer of the Poor adU House of Emi
ployment of Lancaster County, and find the same c r A 0
rect as presented to us. with'a balance in his hands j 1 “UUuerj*
Blxty-two dollars and twenty-four cents. $62 ] [%/TRS. BAILIE will open an assortment
Witnosi our hands at the Commissioners’. Office j JjJ_ of Fashionable Millinerv on THTTRR-^^M
UAY November Ist, 1849, at her residence WT
| East Bang street. , U-40
Lancaster Comity, this 23d day of January. A. D., 1850.
DAVID STONE.
ANDREW MEHAFFEY.
J. B. TSHUDY,
The following is astateme)
and Levies remaining d
$19,192 41
Bart
Cocalico East
Columbia Borough.
Conoy
East Donegal
West Donegal... .
Drumorc
Epbrata..
Earl
W est Earl
r ulton
Ea=t ilempficld,. .
Lancaster City. ...
‘Leacock
Upper Leacock.. ..
Little Britain, . . .
Manhcim
.Yar:ic, .
Manor,
Mountjoy, ...... ~
Paradise,
Salisbury.
Sadsbury
Strashurg bor. . . .
Warwick
i 64.36.1
s2os 72
J hose marked thus [ * j bare since be
Excess of 7 'axes received by th>
for 1848 and 1&49.
Strosburg. .-. ..
Elizabeth. ....
R.apho
Carnarvon. . . .
Brecknock. . . .
West Conegal. .
Drumore
Elizabeth
Lancaster City..
Leacock
Upper Leacock..
Little Britain. .
Manor
Martie
Sad.-bury
Paradise.
Warwick
IVnn
Salisbury
Earl ;
The following is a statement of the
orders drawn on Johu F. Shrudor Es
Lancaster county, for the year 1849.’ an
ls5U: also, ot 521 Courtbills and ccrtifii
Assessors' pay.
Durt - Geo. I. Baughman $37 00
Brecknock Anthony Good 31 uo
Carnarvon ATS. W’eller. 36 50
Cocalico East JolinHowor 35 no
Cucalico West °amuel Eberly 3o 00
Culerain Wm. Galbraith 37 00
L'ouestoga Benjamin Urban 4o 00
* ’niioy Solumon Haldcuian 30 00
37 ou
104 on
Donegal East James Johnson 45 00
Donegal West Jacob Redseckcr 35 00
Drumore Erastus Reynolds 38 00
Kphrata William Bentz 45 00
Earl John Kurtz 50 uo
Earl West Johu ShealTer 32 00
Elizabeth Peter Elser 35 u 0
Fulton John Scott 34 ou
ilempfield East Wm. Parker 38 UO
Hempfield West Joseph Bard 34 uo
Lampeter East John Smith ;*> uo
Lauipeter West 11. M. Rolirer 30 00
Lancaster J.M. Frantz 17 00
Lancaster City Michael Bundle 250 00
Leacock Abraham Bair 40 00
Leacock Upper Le\vis Sheaffer 30 00
Little Brittain Robert Patton 35 uo
Manheim John Garber 42 00
Martie James Simpson 35 00
Manor Abrahm Landis 45 00
Mount Joy William Wilson 42 00
Paradise Geo. Slaymaker 26 ) 0
i’enn John Hummer 30 00
Rapho Samuel Ensminger 30 00
Salisbury William'Andrew 45 09
Sadsbury Joseph D. Pnwnall 35 00
Strasburg George Wicker 40 00
Warwick George Geyer 41 50
Drumore. 1835 Erastug Revuold? 33 00
T otal 1,539 00
Erecting Bridges.
Joseph Russel, in full, for building Bridge
across Conestoga Creek at Hunseckers Mill $2OOO 50
Henry Zook, iu full, for building Bridge
across Coealice creek at his Mill 690 00
Samuel Hopkins, iu lull, lor building Bridge
across Little Claques creek at S. Bakers 750 00
Martin Frey, on account of Bridge across
Muddy creek near Freys .Mill. 400 00
Repairing Bridges.
George Kink, for Carpenter work in repair* •
ing Bridge across Conestoga creek, at
Ranks Mill $3lO 09
Benj. Benedict, for work and labor to,do. 30 25
B. K. Wayne.-for .Mason work to do. 26 50
Samuel Lutz, for boarding hands for do. ’ 8 10
A. $ J Lfjiman, for sawing timber for do. 7 S 3
Wui. W. Bard, for bawling stone sic.. for do 3S 00
John Lehman, for boarding bauds •• 63 00
John Buser. for Iron Work •• 85 00
Jacob F. Young, for Powder. See., 4 53
George Bear, for hauling Stone 2 50
Samuel Rank, for Stone •• 7 50
Simon Hostetler, for lumber l - 20 70
John Winner for superintending work 28 62$
102.609 SO
1547 57 56
IS4S 2.308 fi«
1549 905 95
David M. Martin, Esq., clerk fees. $ 383 671
1. E. Hiester. Esq.. Atfy General's fees 338 so‘
Juror's pay 1421 19
Witness do 1881 09
Justice and Constable costs 098 43
Crier and Tipstaves ' 1&7 50
Sfio n:j
21.873 654
James Wiley, clerk fees at Jan’y Term. 1849. $ 29 07
Juror’s pay IDS 00
Witness pay . 105 44
Aldermen's pay 22 5u
Crier and Tipstaves 3125
■>l-10.015 S 7 j
Juror’s pay
( rier auil Tipstaves
Mathias Zahm. care and keeping court house $32 56
Ditto for wood, candles, and sundries 29 16
C. Finfrock. for scrubbing court house walls 2 50
E. Eshbrenner. cutting v.ood and carrying in 4 75
Coroner.
ohn Wright. Esq. coroner, and others, hold
ing inquests on the bodies of 35 persons
found dead iu Lancaster county $514 52
'Commissioner's Office.
P. G. Eberman. for one year salary as clerk.
due Oct 18th. 1849. to Commissioners. $5OO 00
Ditto on account 55 ou
Henry G Long. Esq. 1 year salary as clerk 175 00
P. (r. Eberman. for half ream letter paper 1 00
Samuel White, for blank books for office 15 25
Telegraph office for despatch 40
Mary Dickson, for postage 3 55
John F. Long. ink. wafers, twine. $-c. 2 25
.Mrs. Sarah Porter, fur pamplet laws 8 00
Geo. D. Eberman. for eight-day clock 5 00
John Tangert. for 2 loads chips 2 Qu
John Witmer. Esq., for 106 days services at
>1 50 per day as Commissioner, and 2430
miles at 6 cents per mile 304 81)
John Landis. Esq., 147 days service? as Com
missioner. and 1932 miles 336 42
Henry Mussulman. Esq.. 95 days services as
Commissioner, and 2005 miles 263 30
I. B. Eddinger. 1 gross steel pens 1 00
Martin Brunner, assisting clerk 3 50
Return Judges, for holding General olection $933 19
Officers of township election 822 52
Assessors, pay for making Lists and attending
elections 256 73
Constables pay luO 79
William 3l tons coal $127 87}
Elias Herr, for 21} cords and 1 load wood 106 00
mt of County Rates
tue , Jan 7, 1850.
! 1847. ! 1848 1549.
! 298 73
1 187 76
, 291 36
! 590 93
99 II 259 38
] 370 32
I 750 93
1 259 19
62 77 131 65
I 208 31
466 29 9241 56
?en paid.
ie Treasurer
$4l 13
Commis
sq Treai
bd four 0
icates.
$632 62}
Covrl of Quarter Sessions.
Mayor's Court.
Common Pleas.
Court House.
Elections.
CITY OF LANCASTER, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1860.
Sheriff’s proclamations, blanks, notices. <s*c. $lB7 50
E. C. Darlington. do. do. ' 190 00
John H. Pcar&ol, adjoin’d courts, notices, tfc. 26 56
George Shroyer, publishing notices 1 00
E. W. Hutter, annual acc’ts. proclama’s, Ac. 114 25'
John Ensminger. adjourned courts 6 00
M. D. Holbrook, annual accts, proclam’s. 4*c. 47 00
J. B. Garber, annual accounts, Ac. 21 00
J. S. Jonea. Gov’rs and Sher’s proclamations, . 15 00
John. Bear, annual acc’ts, blanks, notices, 122 00
A. E. F.shleman. adjourned courts 3 00
G. W. Sanderson, Sher’s procl'n. notices. Ac. 18 50
Jacob Myers, annual accounts, notices, proc
lamations. <s■<:. 52 00
$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 eonvicts
for 1849. $1331 19
Public Offices.
John Wiley, shoveling snow $ 187.*
George Brubaker. Esq. Register counter and
suudrics for Register’s office 31 87
George F. Rote, stool for office 2 00
James Whitehill. repairing seal press 4 00
C. Kieffer. cannon stoves for offices 22 00
George M. Steinman, for keys 3 00
George Doersh. for blank books, and binding 82 00
Conrad Wissley. repairing dour 75
H. Pinkerton, cushion for Orphans’ c’t office 2 00
Ralph Gilmore, scrubbing and whitewashing 7 50
Sumuel W. Taylor, glazing 7 28
John Droppard. mending seal press 3 25
Joseph Real, shoveling snow 1 00
C. Anne, repairing window blinds 7 62
John Snyder, road damages in Martie. $4B 00:
John Smith. $29 00 ; .Martin Reese, $25 00 $lO2 00
Benj Miller, damages in W. Lampeter twp.,
$24 00 : Frs. Herr. $B3 00 ; John Kachel,
$46 ; William Miller. $26 $179 00
Robert Linton, do. in Mauor Township 65 00
John Ksbleman. " Mountjoy " 76 00
Christian Kisser, "• Elizabeth
Daniel Good.
Isaac lledsecker.
H. Frank A others " Warwick
Henry Landis,
John.Markley. 55 00
Christian Neff, *• E. Lampeter •• 56 00
Joseph Jameson. - L. Britain " 90 00
Charles Pennock, " *• " 85 00
JoDas Hess.
Jacob King,
A. F. Ewing. " •• *• 60 0o
Daniel D. Swift. " - " 60 00
Sumuel Bokius, 44 u " 40 00
J. Dentlinger and other?. F.. Lampeter 156 00
George Y'urnU.
James M’Sparran.
Ann B.
lair.
C. & J. M.'Sheuk
John Haviland. Esq.. on account of building
New Prison 60.000 00
James Carpenter, regulating prison lots 0 00
-M. Carpenter. Esq. Mayor of the city of Lan
caster for city lots for new prison 500 00
John C. Hainpt. for-lot of ground for prison 130 ou
Johu Hi Duchman. for piece of ground do. 871 S 7
Janies Barnes, fur house and loi for do. 582 50
Henry F Benedict, for services rendered 25 0U
J. B. Newman, extinguishment of ground
rent on lot No. 819 for prison
Ditto. for half lot No. 119 do.
George "Wiker. distributing tally-papers, as-
sessments. circulars. &e. $B5 00
11. G. Long, professional services 40 00
It. A . Evans, serving subpeena in case of Com-
monwealth vs. J. Smith, alias Drummond 8 70
\V. G. Evans. Esq., costs in above case 17 00
a.W. Davies, serving supneua iuCom'th vs.
Drummund.3
Good & Johns, boarding jurors. <s*<\,
M. Brunner, copying transcripts
E. llohrer. horse higher and services
Samuel White, blauks for election list;
J. F. Keigart, taking testimony, tec.
J. Ilees. for omnibus hire
.Mayor and constable costs for vagrant cases 70 37}
James Dysart. copying transcripts 5 00
David Lebkichler. do 5 00
Wm. Duckmau. Esq., recording Treasurer's
bonds
Dr. H. A. Smith, post mortem examination on
body ofC. Cemercr 10 00
Pr. John Leonard. do do 10 00
George Wiker. distributing assessments 15 00
I’. G. Kbcrman. distributing tally-papers 15 00
Thomas E. Franklin. Esq., professional scr-
vires 10 00
Win. B. Fordney. do do 10 On
M. Brunuer. lor copying transcripts 5 On
l). M. Martin for 2 certified copies of G'd Juries 4 50
M. Zuhni. crying sale of fence ou prison ground 2 25
M. Bruner, copying duplicates. 10 00
D. iM. Martin, recording names of township
officers. 76 25
D. M. Martin, copying duplicates, 16 00
John Smith, copying duplicates. 22 00
M. G. Evans, costs in case of Com. vs Johti
Hood, for horse stealing. 29 571
Lancaster city, i year water rent. 40 00*
Geo. Hughes, costs in case of Com. vs John
Hood, for horse stealiug.
Henry Rentier, for bringing John Finley from
Lebanon to Lancaster Jail. 9 00
Geo. Norton, lor bringing J. Dennis to Jail. 2 S 3
Isaac Bideisback and K. Grady, arresting
horse thief. 1 20 00
Frederick Redding, shovelling snow. 20
Geo. Hughes, services in Com. vs J. Finley, 0 00
M. Bundle, for duplicates. 10 00
Frs. Keenan, for auditing Dockets and acc'ts
in public offices. ' 151 50
J. W. Davis, arresting H. Colt, for murder. 8 00
L. Frey, cleaning cellar. 1 00
A. 11. Carpenter, I’n-t mortem examination
on body of John Lovet. 10 CO
Daniel Zabm and others, in case of stolen
gouds of Capt J. Killer. 9 00
Wm. Chambers, arresting aud bringing J.
Beckart from Ohio to Lancacter Jail. 124 45
J. B. Newman. Ground Rent one year. 5 7 4
D. M. Martin, transcribing Petition and Road
Indexes aud Book. „ 50 00
Geo. Hughes, serving subpoena in Com. vs
Isaac Ueckert.
John Hatz. horse hire.
Doctors 11. A. Smith and C O. Richards, post
mortem examination on body of 13. Myers. . 20 00
Geo. Hughes, services in Corn, vs F. D. W.
Kent. 20 00
Geo. Brubaker, for ludexing Inventories. 03 00
I’. G. Kberman. distributing Transcripts, 15 00
Doctors Holl and Garber, post mortem exam
ination on body of F. .Miller 10 00
Samuel Morrison, for error in commission for
county tax in Colerain township, for 1845 5 00
Dr. J. H. Kurtz. Prothon'y. balance at settle
ment with county 0 77
M. Carpenter, Ksq. Mayor and constable foes
in vagraut cases SI 75
John Sehner. for sign boards for public buildings 1 75
John L. Kefler, for painting sign boards 7 20
J. M. ltoath. serving subp'ua Com'th vs Barr 3 24
George Hughes, serving attachment 8 00
Reuben Muller, for arresting D. Pritchard and
bringing him to Lancaster jail 57 14
George Hughes, serving tmb'a. out of county 19 00
John F. Shroder. Fsq. Treas’r. for an abate
ment on $14,976 05 advanced by him for
State tax . 75s 22
John Connor, for arresting C Eaby. &c. 21 12
M. Zahm, crying sale of lumber, at Rank's
mill 1 r,o
Jonathan McVoy, for arresting D. Pritchard,
horse thief 20 00
James Laird, apprehending horse thief 20 00
Jumes Hudgson. constable services in case of
Comth vs A Smith 25 00
P. Royer, services in Comth vs Brukbart 13 40
\\ r m. Chambers: in full for services in case of
Comth vs Brichart 45 CO
Joseph Ebermau. cleaning town clock, care
and winding one year 30 00
John Clark, and others, for services in case
of Comth vs Bichard 37 09
Joseph Briutnull. services in Comth V 6 Simon
Goye and H. Rich 10 32
John HatZj horse hire and services 8 76
Ditto. do. 3 00
Geo. Wiker. distributing tally papers, &o. 45 00
Jos, Real, shoveling enow. 37J
Four orders drawn in 3850. 1234 20
One do of 1848 and paid in 1840, 3 00
W. Whiteside.
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
HAS removed to the office formerly occupied
by E. C. Reigart, Esq., in West King street,
3d house below Mr. Reed’s Tavern.
April 10 11-tf
, $233 87}
Dr. M. M. Moore, Dentist.
STILL continues to perform a. operations on the
TEETH upon terms to suit the times. Office
North Queen street, opposite Kauffman’s HotelJ
april 19
George w. M’Elroy,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
Offers his professional services to the public. Office
in Centre Square, in the rcrom formerly occupied
by M. Carpenter, Mayor. [Mav l f ’49-14
JONAS D. BACHMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW;
Office in Market Square,in the room lately occupied
by G. W. M’Elroy, Esq.
april 24 M 9 tf-13
OFFICE FOR THE
Purchase and Sale of Beal Estate,
WIESE 5 E2MO- Ik&.SSO.&S'iriSIRL,
PENNS YL VANIA
no _!L l3 * 42 ' 3m 3 D. W. PATTERSON.
Alexander l. hayes,
ATTORNEY AT LAW:
Office —West King Street, next door below C. Hager
, *& Son’s Store.
January 9, >49 w 80
JOB PRINTING neatly and expeditiously exe
euted at this office.
ft THAT COUNTRY IS THE MOST PROSPEROUS, WHERE LABOR COMMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD.”— Buchakak.
Road Damages.
Martic
IV. Donegal
JS ew Prison.
$62,425 97
Miscellaneous.
$108,972 95
P. G. EBERMAN, Clerk.
SHENK & LONGS*
Coal aud Lumber Yard.
TFIHE subscribers have, taken the Coal Yard on
X Prince Street, in the city of* Lancaster, lately
owned and occupied by Messrs. B. & J. Reinhold,
where they intend keeping a general assortment of
COAL FOR FAMILY USE,
such as Lykens’ Valley, Baltimore Company, Pine-
Grove, Shamokin, Pittston, &c., with a great variety
of Coal for lime-burning and Sulphur Coal for
smithing. Also, a general
ASSORTMENT OF LUMBER,
will be kept constantly on hand. Having made ar
rangements with the Saw Mills, every kind o£bill
stuff" will be furnished at the shortest notice.
It is the intention of the subscribers to give their
personal attention to the business; and their object
will be at all times to please and accommodate all
who may favor them with their custom, pledging
themselves to sell as low as any others in the citv
of Lancaster or its vicinitv. Now is the time for
Bargains! B. F. SHENK,
R. H. LONG.
D 5" In retiring from business, our friends and the
public generally have our thanks for the very libe
ral patronagethey bestowed upon us while in busi
ness, and hope the same may be extended to our
successors, Messrs. iShenk & Long, as we are
confident they will merit the confidence of the
public. B. & J. REINHOLD.
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Marble Yard.
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ing their friends and the public in general,
that they have taken, the Marble Yard, formerly
conducted by Daniel Fagan, feituated in North
Queen Street, in the city of Lancaster, a few doors
north of Van Kanan’s (formerly Scholfield’s) tavern,
whe-e they are prepared to execute all orders in
their line, in the neatest manner, at the most liberal
prices, and with every possible expedition.
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of the business in the most celebrated Marb' i es
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Abner S. Bear was an apprentice to Daniel Fagan,
and has had many years experience. As their
work is all to be finished by themselves, they feel
assured, that they can afford entire satisfaction to
their customers. s-
They exhibit John Beard’s celebrated BOOK
OF DESIGNS, embracing a large and attractive
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to make satisfactory selections.
WILLIAM LEONARD,
Dec. 25-6m-4SI ABNER S. BEAR.
Conestoga Foundry.
STOVES! STOVES!! STOVES!!!
QfYOfY STOVES on hand, comprising the best
.vUUv assortment ever kept in Pennsylvania.
The following list includes a part of the mojt pop
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Hathaway's Improved. Cook Stoves. a
Buck's Superior Cook do.
The very celebrated <( Victory''do.
The “ Paragon” Cook do.
Also, a new Cooking Stove, called the “Farmer.”
Application has been made by the proprietor for
Letters Patent for this stove, whibTi fie has desig
nated “THE FARMER,” in view of;its complete
adaption to the wants and uses of this class of the
community. It has been constructed with great
care, upon the most scientific and approved princi
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In addition to the above, the subscriber has an
assortment of other COOKING STOVES adapted to
the use of coal or wood, such as the “Complete
Cook,” the “ Parlour Cook,” &c., &c., with all
sizes of NINE PLATE WOOD STOVES, and-a
large variety of Coal Stoves for parlours, dining
rooms and offices.
JK?“The proprietor of-the Conestoga Foundry has
purchased the right for manufacturing and selling
the Hathaway and Buck’s Patent Cook Stove for
Lancaster county.
The castings at this foundry are made of the best
No. 1 Codorus and Conowingo Iron, long'celebra
ted for strength.
All kinds of CASTINGS made to order.
DO 1 * Stoves will be sold and orders for castings
received either at the Foundry or at the store of the
subscriber in East King Street, a few doors from
the Court House in the city of Lancaster.
June, 13, ’4S‘-20-tf.] C. KIEFFER.
IVew Arrangement,
PHCENIX LINE WAY TRAIN now leaves the
Depot, No. 272 Market Street, EVERY DAY
(except the Sabbath J at 11 o’clock A.M., for Down
ingtown, Lancaster and Culumbia, and on its return
to this city, will leave Columbia at & o’clock, and
Lancaster at 9 A. M , and arrive in Philadelphia
at 1 P. M. This line is intended to accommodate
the public in general,and Passengers will be taken
up and put down at any point along the road.
The Cars will pass the following places at the
following times for Philadelphia:
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Lancaster 9 Downingtown 10 30
Bird-in-Hand 915 Oakland 10 45
Lemon Place 920 Steamboat 11 00
Kinzer’s 930 Paoli 1145
Gap—Buyers’ 950 Eagle 1145
Penningtonyille 950 Morgan’s Corner 12 00
Parkesburg 10 00 Philadelphia 100
The undersigned have purchased the entire stock
of the above Line, which will be run in future under
the control or management-of DAVID MILLER,
who will spare no pains or expense to make this
Line the most cqmfortablc and accommodating on
the road.
PROPRIETORS:
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Benjamin Mishler, Mich’l Musselman,
Henry Schenk, Benj. Snavely,
David Hartman, llenry W. Hess,
Henry Hines, J. B. Groff,
John Hertzler, A. C. Buyers,
Obediah Rock, Elias Kby.
OFFICES—At Philade phia, 272 Market Street;
at Lancaster, Lancaster City Exchange j at Colum
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P. S.—ln returning my most sincere thanks to a
generous public for the very liberal patronage be
stowed on this line under the former Proprietors, I
beg leave most respectfully to ask a continuance of
it under the present.
May 29,>49-18] D. MILLER.
HORACE F. ASH. ISAAC R. DILLER
Land and General Agency Office,
AT THE CAPITAL OF ILLINOIS,
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To non-residents owners of Illinois Lands—Holders
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of purchasing State lands with Illinois scrip or
bonds.
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—the capital of the state of Illinois—a Land and
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buying and selling all descriptions of state indebt
edness, this and every other description of business
attached to a General Land Agency on the most
extended scale, will be promptly and faithfully
attended to.’
ASH & DILLER.
Springfield, March 14, ’49.
REFERENCES.
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Gabriel Davis, Esq., ** Ci “
Hon. Daniel Sturgeon, U. S. Senate.
** Ja9. Cooper, “ i(
James Fox, Esq., Harrisburg, Penn’a.
Gen. Robert Patterson, Philadelphia, u
ts Adam Diller, “ “
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Col. S. W. Black, Pittsburg, te
His Ex’l A. C- French, Governor Illinois.
Hon. Thos. H. Campbell, Auditor {t
“ John Moore, Treasurer “
(< S. H. Treat, Judge Supreme Court.
“ Lyman Trumbull, “
“ J. Dean Caton, “
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[From the Sunday Time,.]
PETER CARTRIGHT;
THE .JOCOSE PREACHER
A Genuine Portrait from Fife in
Illinois.
Immense was the gathering at the Methodist
camp ground near Springfield, on the 2d Sunday of
September, 1532. A powerful magnet had attrac
ted this great mass ol people from their homes in
many counties a hundred miles round. The new
presiding elder, a late arrival from Kentucky, an
orator of wide-spread and wonderful renown, it
was known, would thunder on that day. • The glit
tering prestige of his lame had lightened far before
him, and hence the universal eagerness to hear one
concerning whom rumor's trumpet-tongue discour
sed so loudly.
Morning broke in the azure east, bright and beau
tiful as a dream of heaven; but the ex-prodigy had
not made his advent. Eleven o'clock came—the
regular hour for the detonation of the heavy gun ol
orthodox—and still there was no news of the cleri
cal lion.
A common circuit preacher _tpok his place, and,
sensible of the popular disappointment, increased it
by mouthing a miserable failure. The vexed and
restless crowd began to disperse, when an event
happened to excite afresh, their curiosity, and con
centrate them again denser than e\er. A messen
ger rushed to the pulpit in hot haste, and presented
a note, which was immediately read out to prevent
the people from scattering. The following is a
literal copy of that singular epistle:
• Dear Brethren. —The Devil has foundered my
horse, which will netain me from reaching your
tabernacle till evening. I mightdiave performed
the journey on loot, but I could not leave poor Paul,
especially as he has never left Peter. Horses have
no souls to save, and therefore it is all the more
the duty of Christians to take care of their bodies.
Watch and pray, and don't let the Devil get among
you on the sly, before candlelight, when I shall be
at my post. Your Brother,
In fashionable phrase, the reading of this‘“pro
duced quite a sensation.” Some thought the man
mad; others deemed the letter ; a hoax. But still
the effect as to one particular was unquestionable;
it heightened and interested the public curiosty;
and such, very likely, was the precise result inten
ded bv the writer.
At length the day closed. The purple curtain
of night lell over the earth from the darkening sky.
God's golden fire flashed out in heaven, and n»eu
below kindled their pale candles. The encamp
ment, a village of snowy tents, was illuminated
with a brilliancy that caused every leaf to shine
and sparkle as if all the trees were burnished with
phosphorescent flame. It was like a theatre. It
was a theatre in the open air, on the green sward,
beneath the starry blue, incomparably more pic
turesque and gorgeous than any stage scenery pre
pared withip walls of brick or marble, where the
elite of cities throng to feast their eyes on beauty,
and their ears on the music of silvery sounds.
Presently a form rose in the pulpit, and com
menced giving out a hymn, preliminary to the
main exercises, and every eye became riveted to the
person of the stranger. Indeed as some one said
of Burke, “a single flash of the gazer's vision was
enough to reveal the extraordinary man," although,
in the present case it must, lor the sake of truth,
be acknowledged that the first impression was am
biguous, if not enigmatical and disagreeable. His
figure was tall, burly, massive, and seemed even
more gigantic than the reality from its crowning
foliage of luxuriant coal black hair, wreathed into
long, curling ringlets. Add a head that looked
fdarge as half a bushel: beetling brows, rough and
-Craggy as fragmentary granite, irradiated at the
; base by eyes of dark fire, small and twinkling like
i diamonds in a sea—(they were diamonds of the
I soul, shining in a measureless sea of humor;) —a
j swarthy complexion, as if enbrowned by the kisses
of sunbeams! rich, rosy lips, always slightly par
ted, as if wearing a perpetual merry smile, and you
have a life-like portrait of Peter Cartright, the far
famed jocose preacher.
Though I heard it all, from the text to the amen,
I am forced to despair of any attempt to convey an
accurate idea of either the substance or manner of
j the sermon which followed. There are different
: sorts of sermons, the argumentary. the dogmatic.
1 the postulary, the persuasive, the punative, the
combative, “in orthodox blows and knocks,’’ the
logical and the poetic; but this specimen belonged
to none of these categories. It was sui generis, and
of a new species. , It might be termed properly the
waggish.
He began with a loud, beautifully modulated
tone, in a voice that rolled on the serene night air
like successive peals of grand thunder. Methodist
ministers are v celebrated for sonorous voices, but
his was matchless sweetness as well as power. For
the first ten minutes, his remarks being preparato
ry, were common place and uninteresting: but then
all of a sudden his face reddened, his eye lightened,
his gestures grew animated as the uaftures of a
fierce torch, and his whole countenance, changed
into an expression of inimitable humor; and now
his wild, waggish, peculiar eloquence, poured like
a mountain torrent. ' Glancing arrows ol wit, shafts
of ridicule, bon mots> puns, and side splitting anec
dotes, sparkled, flashed, and flew like hail, till the
vast auditory was convulsed with laughter. For
a while the more ascetics' strove to resist the cur
rent of their own spontaneous emotions; the sour
faced clergy frowned and hung their heads; and aIL
the maidenly saints groaned as with
anguish at such desecration of the evangelic desk.
These, however, soon discovered that they had un
dertaken an impossible achievement in thinking to
withstand the facetiae of Cartright. His every sen
tence was like a warm finger, tickling the ribs of
the hearer. His very looks incited to mirth far
more than other people’s jokes, so that the effort to
maintain one's equilibrium only increased the dis
positions to burst into loud explosions, as every
schoolboy has verified in similar cases. At length
the encampment was in a roar, the sternest features
relaxed into smiles, and the coldest eyes melted
into tears of irrepressible merriment Moliere's
best comedy on Sheridan's funniest farce was not
half so successful. This continued thirty minutes,
while the orator painted the folly of the sinner,
which was his theme. -I looked on and laughed
with the rest, but finally began to fear the result
as to the speaker.
How, I exclaimed mentally, will he ever be able
to extricate his audience from that deep whirlpool
of humor? If he ends thus, when the merry mood
subsides and calm reflection supervenes, will not
the revulsion o! feeling be deadly to his lame?
Will not every hearer realize that he has been tri
fled with in matters of sacred and eternal interest?
At all events there is no prospect of a revival to
night, for were the orator a magician, he could not
change his subject how and stem the torrent ol
headlong laughter.
But the shaft of my inference fell short of the
mark; and even then he commenced to change, not
all at once, but gradually as tbe wind of a thunder
cloud. His features lost their comical tinge ol
pleasantry; his voice grew first earnest, and then
solemn, and soon wailed out in tones of the deepest
pathos; his eye was shonf\>f its mild light, and
yielded streams of water, as the fountain of the hill
yielded water. The effect was indescribable ; and
the rebound of feeling beyond,all revelation. He
'descanted on the horrors of hell till every shudder
ing face was turned downwards, as if expecting to
see the solid globe rent assunder, and the fathom
less fiery gulf yawn from beneath. Brave men
moaned like sick infants, and fair fashionable wo
men, covered with silken drapery, and bedight with
gems shrieked as if a knife were working among
their heart strings.
Again he changed the theme and sketched the
joys of a righteous death—its faith, its h pe, its
winged raptures, and what beautiful angels attend
ed the spirit to its starry home—with such force,
fire and evident belief that all eyes were raised to
wards heaven, as the entire congregation started to
their feet, as it to hail the vision of angels at which
tne finger of the preacher seemed to be pointed,
elevated as it was on high to the full extent of his
arm.
He then made a call for the mourners into the
and five hundred, and many of them until
that night infidels, rushed forward and prostrated
themselves on their knees. The meeting was con
tinued for two weeks, and more than a thousand
converts added to the.church. From that time the
success of Peter Cartright was unparalleled, and
the fact is chiefly due to his inimitable wit and
masterly eloquence that Methodism is now the
prevailing religion in Illinois.
‘•ln what college did he graduate? Surely it
must have been a mighty alma mater to develope
such a son.*’
You are more than half right, my good question
er. Peter Ca'Ytright, like most preachers of his sect,
received his education in the great universal uni
versity, the same that produced Homer, Plato,
Shakspeare, Moses, Mendelssohn, Franklin, —that
weaver of garlands from the lightning's wing—
Washington and Patrick Henry. High up on the
highest mountain top, deep down in the lowest val
leys, far out away on the rolling billow, there he
studied and toiled together in the most glorious ol
all schools—the free school of self structure! “But
did he graduate?” Aye, and nature's own hand
wrote his diploma with a pencil of living light, and
stamped it with a seal of fire—the immortal fire of
true genius. *
Cartright became an itinerant at eighteen, with
no learning from books save what he derived from
the pages of hjs Bible and a collection of hymns.—
Year alter year he continued to travel the wild cir
cuits of the frontier, earning annually but a hun
dred dollars lor labors painful as a slave at the oars.
But his vocation afforded him an excellent oppor
tunity lor meditation, and even reading. In his
long journeys from one appointment to another he
was alone, with nothing around him but woods and
waters, birds, mountains, sun, moon, and stars.—
There he might and did ponder well. Aye, he did
more, he bought him a book of literature, and sci
ence, and poured over them as he rode along,
with an ardor and perseverance such as perhaps
never was witnessed within the stone walls of a
college. Thus he mastered mathematics, logic,
physics, law, and several languages ancient and
modern. Oh! believe me, believe all human history
—there is no teacher iike the student's own hard
working intellect urged on to action and guided in
its efforts by the omnipotence of an unconquerable
will!
Why did not this western prodigy achieve for
himself a more extended renown? Why did he
not climb to the loftiest stations in the church? If
his narrative be true, he ought before now to have
been a Bishop, at least.
Peter Cartiuoht.
The statement of a few facts will solve the prob
lem. Lei it be remembered, then, that the Metho
dist Episcopal Church is a hierachy, in which the
dispensation of clerical honors rests exclusively with
the Bishops -and general Conference of itinerants,
where the laity and local preachers are unrepre
sented, and consequently have no voice. Hence, in
that sect popularity, eloquence, and other showy
qualities, have never been found sufficient passports
to the pre-eminent distinctions of authority and of
fice, but often to the reverse. The Bishop's gown
must be worn by steady austere devotion, not by
brilliant oratory or profound and varied learning.
On this perilous rock Peter Cartright*s lofty ves
sel was shivered into the atoms of a hopeless
wreck. He made no pretensions to superior sanc
tity. nor was it manifested, in his conduct and de
meanor whether in the pulpit or in private life.—
indeed "he was distinguished by one very unclerical
peculiarity—combatativeness in the superlative de
gree. His battles, though always apparently on
the defensive, were as numerous as the celebrated
Bowie. The only difference was this, that Bowie
fought with deadly weapons, while Cartright used
but his enormous fist, which was as effective, how
ever, in the speedy settlement of- beligerrent issues
as any knife or pistol ever forged out of steel. Let
the reader judge from the following anecdote:
At the camp meeting held at Alton in the au
tumn of 1833, the worshippers were annoyed by a
set of desperadoes from St. Louis, under the con
trol of Mike Fink, a notorious bully, the triumphant
hero of countless fights in none of which he had
ever met an equal or even second. The coarse,’
drunken ruffians carried it with a high hand—out
raged the men and insulted the women, so as to
threaten the dissolution ol all pious exrcises; and
jet such was the terror the name of their leader,
Fink, inspired, that no one individual could be found
brave enough to face his prowess.
At last, one day. when Cartright ascended the
pulpit to hold forth, the desperadoes <»n the out
skirts of the encampment raised a yell so deafening
as to drown utterly every othersound. Cartright s
dark eyes shot lightning. He deposited his Bible,
drew off his coat, and remarked aloud :
“ Wait a few minutes my brethren, while I go
and make the Devil pray.”
He then proceeded, with a smile on his lips to
the focus of the tumult, and addressed the chief
bully.
“ Mr. Fink, I have come to make you pray.”
The desperado raked back the tangled festoons
of his blood red hair, arched his huge brows with
a comical expression, and replied;
“ By golly I d like to see you do it, old snorter!”
“\ery well” said Cartright. “Will these gen
tlemen, your courteous friends, agree not to show
foul play ?”'
“In course they will. They're rale grit,and won't
do nuthen but the clean thing, so they won't," re
joined Fink indignantly.
“Are you ready? ' asked Cartright.
“ Ready as a race horse with a light rider," an
swered Fink, squaring his ponderous person for the
combat.
But the bully spoke too soon, for scarcely had
the. words left his lips, when Cartright made a pro
digious bound towards Lis antagonist, and accom
panied it with-a quick shooting punch of his her
culean fist, which fell crashing the others chin, and
hurried him to the earth like lead. Then even his
intoxicated comrades filled with involuntary admi
ration of the feat, gave a cheer.
But Fink was up in a moment, and rushed upon
his enemy exclaiming—
“ That warn t done fair, so it warn 7 1.”
He aimed a ferocious stroke, which Cartright
parried with his left hand, and grasped his throat
with the right crushed him down as if he had been
an infant. F ink, struggled, squirmed, and writhed
in the dust, but all to no purpose ; for those strong
muscular fingers held his windpipe, as in the jaws
ol an iron vice. When he began to turn purple in
the face and ceased to resist, Cartright slackened
his hold and enquired.
“Will you pray now ?”
“ I dosn t know a d d word how,” gasped
Fink.
“Repeat after me,” commanded Cartright.
“ Welt if I must, I must,” answered Fink, “be
cause you're the devil himself.”
The preacher then said over the LonVs prayer
line by line, and the conquered bully resp onded in
the same way, when the victor permitted him to
rise. At this consummation the rowdies thundered
three boisterous cheers. Fink shook Caitrights
hand, declaring:
“By golly your’e some beans in a bar fight. I'd
rather set to with an old he in the dog days. You
can pass this ere crowd of nose smashers, blast ■your
picture?’
Afterwards Fink's‘party behaved with extreme
decorum, and Cartright resumed his Bible and pulpit
A thousand other incidents equally materia J and
ludicrous are related as to Cartright’s adventures
in Kentucky and Illinois. Many of them are pro
bably fictitious, But those genuine alone, if collected
would be sufficient to stock at Meast two vobumes
of romantic reality.
Such- was,the jocose preacher, and his biogr-aphy
teaches us the mighty influence of circumstances
in moulding tlje characters and fixing the destinies
of individual men. Had that splendid genius bee®
cast on the tide of war, or thrown into the fiery
vortex ol a revolutionary era, his name might have
been a signal of doom to quaking nations; his
renown might have been like a cornet through all
time. But he was born in the wildest mountains of
Kentucky; he was taught the spiritual tenets of
VVesley, and educated to regard the calling of a
Methodist circuit rider as the loftiest on earth; And
so now this poor sketch—this spark of fading fire
—as dim, flickering and evanescent as a shadow
is the last ray of his glory, left below the stars—an
epitaph by a stranger's hand written on the sand
which the next rain shall obliterate wholly—a
blasted limb, that the first wind shall blow away
into the Lethean sea forever.
Letter from Col, Win. Bigler.
Clkahfiecd, Jan. 5, ISSO.
Gentfanen:— l have your flattering favor of the
Ist inst., inviting me, on behalf of the Democracy
of Clinton county, to join them at Lock Haven, on
the Bth inst, in celebrating the approaching anni
versary of the battle of New Orleans. A slight in
disposition which has confined me to my room for
a few' davs past, will prevent me availing myself
of your kind invitation, which I very much regret;
for it would afford me especial pleasure to meet
our democratic friends of Clinton at the “ festive
board, on an occasion so well calculated to awaken
interesting and gratifying reminiscences.
.1 need not speak to you of the military career of
the Hero of the event which you meet to commem
orate; of his skill, his bravery, his untiring vigilance,
his toils, his victories and his final triumph at New
Orleans. These are part of our national history, are
familiar to all, and have long since assigned the
name of Jackson to a high place in the temple of
lame. As the beneficiaries of his useful life, enjoy
ing the blessings of his labors, we may very prop,
erly commemorate an event which distinguished
him at once as a brave, skillful and patriotic Gen
eral, and reflected the highest honor on the Amer
ican arms.
There are, however, features in the civil career
of this great man, still subject to the tests of time,
which in my opinion, may be appropriately and
advantageously contemplated. Indeed his whole
career as President of the United States is full of
lessons of wisdom.and instruction. Although not
regarded by some as a political philosopher, of as
having as thoroughly studied the problems of Gov
ernment as some other distinguished American
statesmen, his heart was fully embued'with the
pure- principles of Democracy, and his-impulses,
therefore, were always correct. He aimed at the
intellectual, moral and social elevation of .the mass
of his fellow-citizens; unceasingly resisting the
natural current ol power from the many to the
few; protecting labor, industry and enterprise
against the encroachments of capital and monop
oly, desiring always to give general and equal
prosperity to all classes of the people, and; “ special
privileges to none.” His sagacious mind readily
comprehended the right, and his .clear judgment
and “iron will” always enabled him to obtain it in
the least objectionable mode. Thus foreseeing the
inevitable ills to result from a continued existence
of the United States Bank, he determined, against
the judgment and wishes of many of his most inti
mate friends, to reject its charter. The justice of
this decision is now readily admitted—every years
experience from that time’to he present has served
to demonstrate its wisdom and patriotism. He
moYe fully foresaw the dangerous tendencies .of
such an institution, with its means of concentratin' 7
the monetary power of the country, and more com"
pletely comprehended its baleful uiflence upon our
political institutions, than any other man in the
Union. Many of those who then regarded its exist
ence as indispensible to the prosperity of tjie coun
try, looking upon it as the great regulator of the
currency and of Foreign and Domestic exchanges,
have been forced, by time and experience, to treat
the proposition as an “obsolete idea.” Another re
markable evidence of Jackson's great sagacity and
patriotism, was presented in the truthfulness with
which he foretold the ruinous consequences of a
wild and almost unlimited credit system then bein' 7
engendered by an excessive issue of Bank-paper—
Respect for his admonitions would have saved the
country much subsequent disgrace and suffemi*.
But his views as given to the New York panic
committees, were scouted by the merchants, specu
lators and Bankers of the country—they went on
in their wild career and finally became the victims
r f their own folly, which broke upon them in.the
shape of a commercial revulsion, the like of which
I sincerely hope the country may never again be
called upon to endure. There are very few°<it this
day who would be willing to assail the. anti-Bank
and anti monopoly doctrines of General Jackson.
The baneful influence of corporations and special
privileges on the rights and position ol the working
masses is shown by the experience of the world.
Every species, ormonopoly and special privileges,
tencl-to facilitate the passage of power and wealth
from the many to the few, amUnay we. not fear
that too great facilities for concentrating the mo
netary power of the country, may lead it to approx
imate the old feudal standard system in a‘ tyranni
cal and absolute control of the rights and prosper
ity of the people V It should be the business of
American statesmen to resist this tendency, and see
that the blessings of Government like the dews of
Heaven, are made to descend alike upon all. In
deed, in a mere commercial view ot the subject, all
experience seems to demonstrate, that where banks
of issue exist, the restrictive policy in reference to
their privileges, the amount of their issues the full
liability of those who are to reap the advantages of
the business of Banking, is the true policy for the
people. There is no danger of the country suffer
ing from a want of Banking—the danger is all on
the o her side. An excessive issue of Bank paper
never, fails to enhance the nominal valu r e of the
property,.goods and commodities of the country
above a true standard, thus engendering a spirit of
monopoly and speculation, and these bring in their
train a whole horde of lesser evils into society • and
certainly no more efficient mode of defeating the
protective feature of a wtyg tariff can be devised,
and yet our whig friends are at the same time the
advocates of Big Banks and High Tariffs. My ex
perience as a business man leads me to believe that
the more closely we confine our Bank issues to the
actual wants of a wholesome trade, the more cer
tain and ample will be the rewards of labor, and
the more reliable will be the prosperity of the
country; certain I am, that in the ratio that we
depart from this principle, we lessen the security
of the public in the case of Bank paper, and in
crease the chances of injury to the innocent. The
channels of circulation in this part of our State are
now polluted with all kinds of Foreign & Domestic
trash, in the similitude of small Bank notes which
are not unfrequently made the means ofijnjury to the
unwary; and it does seem to me, that the present time
when we are receiving large accessions of the pre
cious metals Yrom California and elsewhere, and
when the gold dollar is being extensively coined
and thrown into circulation, would, be a most au
spicious moment to begin the good work of substi
tuting coin for bank paper below ten dollars. I am
well aware that with the small issues of surround
ing States forced upon us. there would be some
difficulty in carrying this idea into practical opera
tion, but no worse state of Affairs than the present
could be produced, and might we not hope that our
sister States, seeing the good effects of 6uch policy
would follow our example, and thus release the
people of all from a great inconvenience and no
inconsiderable loss. As disease always attacks the
weaker parts of the human system, so the diseases
of our system of currency in the shape of counter
feits and discounts, always "fall upon those who are
least prepared to detect the imposition or to beat,
its injuries. -Within my business circle, I venture
the assertion, that there is not one man in ten who
has not got more or Jess'of this small worthless
trash on hand, for which an equivalent has been
I given. This is an evil that deserves consideration.
But, gentlemen, I am worrying , you with a long
llt-tfer about matters you understand much better
I than I do.
I azn deeply sensible of tbe honor conferred upon
me iby your invitation, and by your kind allusions
to my osvn personal and political character. You
will please accept for yourselves, and those you
represent, assurances of my high regard, and allow
me to subscribe myself, very truly yours,
WM. BIGLER.
Allison White, James Fearon, G. A. Crawford,
D. K. Jackman, H. L. HifTenbach, Esquires.
Camels ok the Pbaibies.—-if is proposed to im
port camels from the East, to traverse the plaint
west of the Mississippi.
NO. 3.