INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., APRIL 20, 1858
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
JUDGE OP THE SUPREME COURT :
WILLIAM A. PORTER, Philadelphia.
CANAL COMMISSIONER :
WESTLEY FROST, Fayette.
LEGOItIPTON AGAIN
Kansas is still before Congress. On Tuesday
last, on motion of Senator GREEN, the bill for
the admission of Kansas under the Lecomp ton
Constitution was taken up, and a committee of
Conference was appointed, consisting of Messrs.
Gam, of Missouri ; HUNTER, of Virginia ;
and &wean, of New York—two Democrats
and one Republican.
A message was immediately sent to the
House of Representatii , es, informing that body
that the Senate insisted upon its disagreement
to the House amendment for the admission of
Kansas into tho Union, and asking a Commit
tee of Conference.
On Wednesday th• question came up in the
House, when Mr. MONTGOMERY, of Pa., moved
that the House insist on its adherence to its
amendment, and demanded the previous ques
tion. The yeas and nays were then called on
seoonding the demand for the previous ques
tion, and it was lost by a tie vote—yeas 108,
nays 108, the Speaker voting in the negative.
Mr. ENGLisa, of Indiana, then moved that
the House agree to a Committee of Conference,
and that three members be appointed. On
this motion he moved the previous question,
which was sustained. The vote stood—yeas
109, including the Speaker; nays 108. One
member, Mr. WHITLEY, of Delaware, was
absent, who would have voted for the Commit
tee had he been present.
The following named members had paired
off and did not vote, viz: Messrs. Adrain with
Huyler, Dimmick with M'Kibben, Gillis with
Roberts, C. B. Cochrane with Sickels, Reilly
with Thayer, Taylor of Louisiana with Kunkel
of Pa., Washburne of Wisconsin with Arnold ,
Olin with Corning.
The following named members, heretofore
voting on the anti-Lecompton Side, voted for
the Committee of Conference, viz : Messrs.
ENGLISH, of Indiana ; HALL, of Ohio ; PENDLE
TON, of Ohio; and OWEN JONES, of Penna.
On Thursday the Speaker appointed the
Committee of Conference, as follows: Messrs.
Emmen, of Indiana , Hoven), of Michigan ;
and STEPHENS, of Georgia—one anti•Lecomp
ton Demoorat, one Republican, and one Le.
oompton Democrat.
The joint committee was therefore composed
of three Democrats, two Republicans, and one
anti.Lecompton Democrat—a very fair divis
ion, and one of which the opponents of the
Administration have no right to complain, in
fact it was conceding rather more to them
than they had any right to expect.
The committee, it is supposed, would have
a meeting on yesterday, when, it is to be hoped,
some plan was agreed upon by which the
whole difficulty will be speedily settled.
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS
Both branches of Congress have resolved to
adjourn on Monday the 7th of June. In view
of the near approach of the close of the session
the proceedings, we presume, will now take a
practical turn. Four months and a half of the
session have been wasted chiefly on " bleeding
Kansas." The only measures of importance
that have received final action during the time,
are a Treasury-note bill, a Printing-deficiency
bill a. Sound-dues bill, and Volunteer-regiment
bill. There remain to be disposed of, the
Kansas bill, the General Deficiency bill, the
bills for the admission of Minnesota and
Oregon, the General Appropriation bills,
several Territorial bills, the whole private
calendar, and many other measures of
greater or less importance. This large mass
of work will all have to be accomplished in
the next six weeks, and it therefore behooves
the members of Congress to get to business in
earnest, and waste no more time in idle and
useless declamation. Work—work—work,
should be the order of the day from this time
forward.
A REAL BOGUS CONSTITUTION
The last so-called Constitutional Convention,
held in Kansas, assembled without any author
ity of law, and was, therefore, as much of a
bogus concern as the Topeka Constitution,
which all now admit to have been so. The
Legislature having neglected to give Governor
DENVER the three days required by the organic
act in which to consider the bill, it therefore
failed to become a law, even without the veto.
Last week we gave the able and perspicuous
opinion of Attorney General &am, upon the
point involved, which fully sustained the Gov
ernor in his declaration, that the bill for cal
ling the Convention was dead, and that any
action under it was illegal and void. This
disposes of the Leavenworth concern " without
a why or a wherefore," and fixes the stigma of
bogus upon it beyond cavil or dispute.
But the action of this bogus Convention is
ridiculed by some of the free State men them
selves. The Kansas Ledger thus speaks of the
negro equality clause in the Constitution :
Seriously, the Convention have given the
right of suffrage (for three years at least,) to
all the niggers in Kansas, thereby placing them
on an equality with the white man. Further.
more, they have provided, that black and white
children shall be educated in the same schools.
It then recommends for each membet: " a
vote of thanks, accompanied with a nigger
baby ;" denounces their conduct as a " dis
grace," and concludes by saying that " when
this Convention adjourns, these nigger lovers
will be politically dead, and we pray God they
may never be resurrected.
PRESIDINTIAL NOMINATION.—Hon. John J.
Crittenden is named by the Independent Re
publican, of Clairsville, Ohio, as its candidate
for the next Presidency, subject to the de
cision of the National American Convention.
Quere g—Has the singular course of this
Southern Senator, in reference to the Lecomp
ton Constitution, any thing to do with the
above announcement? and does a longing de
sire for a four years' residence in the White
House influence Mr. CRITTENDEN to turn his
back upon the section of the Union which has
BO long sustained him ? Time will determine.
This gentleman first entered the United States
Senate some forty-one years ago, and must
therefore be considerably past seventy years
of age. But, notwithstanding he is on the
verge of the grave,. it is pretty evident he still
has a hankering after the Presidency, and
evinces a willingness to coalesce with the bit
terest enemies of the South and Southern in
stitutions to compass the cherished object of
his life-long ambition ! What will not some
men do to gratify a longing desire after
power and position !
!tom The new License Law has passed both
branches of the Legislature, and is now in
the hands of the Governor.
NO- Gen. HOUSTON has brought forward a
proposition in the 11. S. Senate, for the estab
lishment of a Protectorate over Mexico.
ger. The bill for the sale of the State Canals
to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company,
has passed both branches of the Legislature.
Another flagrant outrage on the rights of the
people 1
THE SHA.MOKIN BANK.
The Lewisburg Chronicle says " there is a
great effort made to get afloat Shamokin Bank
notes. and also a general distrust of them."
The following statement show that its means
are almost wholly in New York broker's
bands and in drafts on New York—who these
brokers ate and how valid they are as secur
ties, every man must judge for himself. The
managers, we are informed, are strangers to
the business men of this section.
cent. of Shamokin Bank, March 241:
ASSETs.
Due from City Bankers.
Specie in vault
Loans and Discounts
Notes of other Banks 653
Cash items N. Y. sight drafts 38,000
8
Profit and Loss
Notes in Circulation
Due Depositors
Due other Banks—Nothing
Capital Stock
We cut the foregoing from the Philadelphia
Bulletin. How did this Bank get out a circu
lation of $33,000 of its own notes upon a dis
count of $600? Was it by loaning its own
officers that sum upon "N. Y. sight drafts"
on men of straw ? The " assets "of the con
cern, as stated, offered a rich example of the
condition of the whole batch of "Wild Cat"
Banks chartered 'by .Gov. Pollock, and we
warn our business men to shun the whole
fraternity of them. It is a striking coinci
dence, too, in the above case, that the "capi
tal stock paid in " amounts to s3B,3so—and
"cash items, N. Y. sight drafts " to $38,000
a happy coincidence! The available assets of
the Bank are no doubt limited to the amount
of specie on hand, the $653 of " notes of other
Banks," and, perhaps, the s6ooof " loans and
discounts."
We clip the above from the Harrisburg
Herald. It is a beautiful commentary on the
conduct of the late Know-Nothing adminis_
tration in chartering shoals of fraudulent and
irresponsible Banks, the design of whose pro
jectors evidently was to cheat and plunder the
community. The present Legislature have
been derelict in duty in not maturing and
passing a stringent general Banking Law,
which would compel honesty in the monied
institutions of the State already in existance,
and for their neglect of this all important
duty they will be held to a strict account by
the suffering people of the Commonwealth ;
but, it will be set down to their credit, that,
although they omitted to do right, they did
not commit wrong by imitating the unwise
policy of their predecessors. In other words,
we believe they have not chartered a single
Bank, and if they did, we have good grounds
for believing that Governor PACKER would
have discharged his duty by vetoing the bill.
Our neighbor of the Examiner justly cen
sures the Democratic members of the present
Legislature fur not passing Col. HODOBON'S
bill, for the better regulation of the Banks ;
but why not condemn the conduct of the
members of his own party, who, en masse, we
believe, opposed the measure ? It was wrong
in any portion of the Democratic members
opposing the contemplated reform, and we
heartily coincide in opinion with our neighbor
in most of his strictures ; but we respectfully
ask him whether it was not also wrong flfr
all the Black Republican members to do the
same thing—and, if so, would it not be proper
for him to administer an equally well-merited
castigation to his own party friends?
Will the Examiner inform its readers how
Messrs. PRICE, ROTH, ROLAND and POWNALL,
the members from this county, voted on the
question of a reform in the Banking System ?
FUNERAL OF COL. BENTON
The funeral services of Hon. Thos. H.
BENTON took place Monday afternoon, the 12th
inst., at 2 o'clock, from his late residence on C
street, Washington. A large concourse of
distinguished people were present, comprising
the President of the United' States, several
members of the Cabinet, representatives of the
foreign legations, and many members of both
Houses of Congress, that body having adjourn
ed as a token of respect. The exercises were
opened by the Rev. Mr. Hall, of the G street
Episcopal church.
After prayer, he read the beautiful and
solemn Episcopal funeral service, Rev. Byron
Sunderland then pronounced briefly a solemn
and feeling discourse on the lamented states-
After prayer and benediction, the procession
was formed and marched to the depot, the
following gentlemen officiating as pall-bearers:
Gen. Jesup, U. S. A. ; Gen. Sam. Houston,
of Texas ; Gov. Floyd, of Virginia ; W. W.
Seaton, Esq., of Washington ; Hon. James B.
Clay, of Kentucky; W. H. Appleton, Esq, of
New York ; Jacob Hall, Esq., of Missouri ;
John C. Rives, Esq., of Washington.
The remains were placed in a seperate ear,
attached to the 3 o'clock train for the West.
They were accompanied to St. Louis by Hon.
Wm. Carey Jones and Mr. Jacobs, both eons
in-law of the late Col. BENTON.
DEATH OF GEN. WAI. MARKS
The Pittsburg Chronicle says that Gen. Wm.
Marks died about noon, on Saturday week,
in Beaver, in full possession of his senses, and
in the hope of that joyful immortality which
his long Christian profession and practice
justified him in entertaining. He was about
seventy-eight years of age.
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Perhaps no man in Pennsylvania ever
served so long in political life. Entering the
Legislature in 1810, he continued in it until
1827, during which time he was for six years
Speaker of the Senate, and was generally
esteemed a prompt, decided and impartial pre
siding officer.
In 1827 he was elected to the United States
Senate, and served the term of six years. In
this distinguished body he was cotemporary
with Webster, Calhoun, Van Buren, Benton,
Berrien, Hayne, and others of the great men
of the day, most of whom have gone before
him into the spirit land.
It is note worthy that for five years he w
associated with Col. Benton on the Committee
on Military Affairs. They were, as we have
stated before, about the same age, and differ
ing radically in political faith, they were still
strong personal friends. That they should
have died on the same day, and within a few
hours of each other, is truly a strange coinci
dence. May they both meet the reward of
lives well spent.
4iir" A general resumption of specie pay
ments by theßanks of this Commonwealth took
place on Monday the 12th instant—that being
the day fixed by the relief law passed in Octo
ber. The two Banks of this city had resumed
of their own accord several weeks prior to
that time.
DON'T READ THE BIBLE
Ohio editors are not very deeply read in
" the Scriptures," if the following, from a
correspondent of Harpers' Magazine, is to be
taken " for gospel :"
" Governor Chase issued his proclamation
appointing a thanksgiving day. To make
sure of being right on the subject in hand,
the Governor composed his proclamation al
most exclusively of passages from the Bible,
which he did not designate as quotations, pre
suming that every one would recopi..rthem
and admire the fitness of the words, as well as
his taste in their selection. A learned editor
of a Democratic paper (the Governor is on
the other side) pounced upon the proclama
tion—declared that be had read it before—
couldn't exactly say where—but he would
take his oath that it was a downright plagiar
ism from beginning to end I That would have
been joke enough for a while, at least, and
perhaps longer; but the next day the Repub
lican paper came out valiantly in defence of
the Governor, pronounced the charge false and
libelous, and challenged any man living to
produce one single line of the proclamation
that had ever been in print before 1"
jeIf'HENRY WELSH, Esq., has been oleoted
President of the York Bank, in place of Michael
Doudel, Esq., resigned.
VETO MESSAGE.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Harrisburg, April 12th, 1858.
lb the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania :
GENTLEMEN herewith return to the Senate,
in which it originated. the bill entitled, " An
act relative to the Courts of Lancaster county."
. .
My objection to this bill is, that it proposes
to empower two of the Associate Judges of
Lancaster county, (one of them being learned
in the law, to hold Courts of Oyer and Ter-.
miner and General Jail Delivery in the county
of Lancaster, for the trial of all indictments in
said Court, and authorizes the Court so con
stituted to pass sentences upon all persons
convicted of the commission of any crime in
the aforesaid Courts of Oyer and Terminer and
General Jail Delivery.
I cannot reconcile the provisions of this bill
with the fifth section of the fifth Article of the
Constitution of Pennsylvania, which declares
that " the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas, in each county, shall, by virtue of their
offices, be Justices of Oyer and Terminer and
General Jail Delivery, for the trial of capital
and other offenders therein ; any two of the
said Judges, the President being onshall be
a quorum."
The organic law having expressly prnvided
the manner in which the Court of Oyer and
Terminer shall be organized, when held by the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, it is
submitted that it is not within the power of
the Legislature to provide a different organi
zation from that directed by the Constitution.
The Constitutional quorum being two of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, "the
President being one," the Legislature cannot
say that any two of the Judges may hold the
Court of Oyer and Terminer, without utterly
disregarding both the letter and the spirit of
the Constitution. The requirements of the
section referred to are in the plainest possible
language, and leave no room for any other
construction than that which arises from the
unmistakable meaning of the words used ; and
unless there is to be found in other parts of
Constitution some limitation or change of this
provision, it is clear that it forbids the exer
cise of the power proposed by this bill. There
is nothing in the Constitution which has the
remotest bearing on the question under con
sideration, except what is contained in the
first and third sections of the fifth article, and
the provision in the fifth section of the same
article, already quoted.
The first section declares that " the judicial
power of this Commonwealth shall be vested
in a Supreme Court, in Courts of Oyer and
Terminer and General Jail Delivery, in a
Court of Common Pleas, Orphans' Court, Reg
ister's Court, and a Court of Quarter Sessions
of the Peace, for each County, in Justices of
the Peace, and in such other Courts as the
Legislature may from time to time establish."
And the third section provides that " until
otherwise directed by law, the Courts of Com
mon Pleas shall continue as at present estab
lished."
It is difficult to conceive how the power to
alter the structure of the Court of Oyer and
Terminer can be derived from that given to
the Legislature to establish other Courts than
those enumerated in the first section of the fifth
article. That is a distinct power, having no
reference whatever to the Court of Oyer and
Terminer and General Jail Delivery, which
Court is definitely fixed by the Constitution,
and is therefore not dependent upon legisla
tive action for its existance. The " other
courts" which tile Legislature may or may
not establish, are exlusive of those particularly
mentioned in the section. Nor can the power
claimed be deduced from the right to change
the formation of the Court of Common Pleas.
In the one case, the Courts are to remain as
then established, until otherwise directed by
law ; in the other, the mandate is imperative,
applicable to the future as well as the present,
that the President Judge of the Court of Com
mon Pleas shall be one of the two Judges
necessary to make a constitutional quorum for
holding the Court of Oyer and Terminer and
General Jail Delivery. The two provisions,
taken together, amount to this :—The Court of
Common Pleas, as at present established, may
be changed by law ; but, however organized,
it shall have a President Judge, who, together
with one of the Associates, shall form a
quorum for the Court of Oyer and Terminer
and General Jail Delivery.
The jurisdiction of the several courts depends
very much upon the action of the Legislature,
and it may be altered, limited and extended,
except in those cases in which it is in terms
given by the Constitution,.and in such cases it
cannot be abrogated or abridged.
That one of the Associate Judges pf Lancas
ter county is a law Judge, does not, in my
judgment, in any respect vary the case; for
no law judge, except the President of the
Court of Common Pleas, will answer the
requirement of the Constitution, and if the
Legislature may lawfully dispense with the
President, it may of-) provide that one judge
learned in the law, or otherwise, may hold a
Court of Oyer and Terminer and General Jail
Delivery for the trial of capital or other
offences; as the provision that there shall be
at least two Judges present, is not more bind
ing than that which requires one of the two
to be the President of the Court of Common
Pleas.
I am aware that the views herein expressed
may be considered somewhat in conflict with
the decision of the Supreme Court of this
State, made in , the case of. the Com'th vs.
Zephon ; but it must be remembered that the
rule of construction in our Judicial tribunals,
....
in determining the Constitutionality of an Act
of Assembly, differs essentially from that
which should be applied by the Legislative or
Executive branch of the Government. It is
the duty of the lawmaking departments to
give the Constitution a strict construction, and
to avoid the exercise of doubtful powers.—
Courts of Justice, on the contrary, will never
declare an Act of Assembly unconstitutional,
if it can, by an rational deduction, be recon
ciled with the fundamental law. Where a
doubt exists, that doubt is solved in favor of
the validity of the Act, upon the presumption
that the Legislature, a co-ordinate branch of
the Government, has judged correctly of its
own constitutional powers. But a well found
ed doubt whether a proposed enactment is
not forbidden by the Constitution, is a suffi
cient reason for restraining the action of the
Legislature.
Doubtful powers can never be safely exerci
sed and consequently no law should be
enacted by the General Assembly which is not
clearly within the pale of the Constitution.—
The same rule enjoins the Judiciary, in the
discharge of its duties, to refrain from in
trenching on the powers of the Legislative de
partment of the Government.
A firm adherence to these rules of construe
tion will insure the fundamental law of the
State against infraction from any quarter, and
will thus protect our people in the full enjoy-
merit of those invaluable privileges secured to
them from Legislative or Judicial interference,
by that law which emanated directly from
themselves, and was adopted and sanctioned
by their own immediate voices.
Believing the bill under consideration to be
clearly unconstitutional, it cannot receive my
approval, and is therefore returned to that
branch of the Legislature in which it origi
nated for re consideration.
WM. F. PACKER.
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PETERSON'S PHILADELPHIA COUNTERFEIT DETEC
TOR, AND BANK NOTE LIST. Published monthly and
semi-monthly by T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 306 Chesnut
The following notice of the semi-monthly isms of this
valuable and reliable publication, we clip from Forney's
Press, of the 15th inst
"The new semi-monthly number for April 15th,
of Peterson's Counterfeit Detector, published this day, con
tains the list of thirty-seven new counterfeit bank notes,
which have appeared since the issue of last monthly num
ber. The best thing is .o subscribe to tke semi-monthly
issue of Petersons' Detector, and thus get a copy of It every
two weeks. We notice a new feature in the present num
ber. This is a page of information on finance, locally and
generally, written expressly for this work by one of the
least visionary, beet informed, and most able, experienced,
and practical monetary writers in this country. It will
be continued in each number of the Detector, and includes
information on trade, commerce, money, specie, stocks,
bonds, banks, and railroads. We have read every line of
the article, and are thus assured of its merits and reliabil
ity. The general contents of the work are admirable, and
every person engaged in business ought to become a regu
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semi-monthly is only Two Dollars a year; or monthly, One
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CITY d * QD COUNTY AFFAIRS
THE LANCASTER 'SANK —The Committee
appointed to investigate the affairs of the defunct Lancaster
Bank, Mayor Flurmwes, of this city. George Darsie, Esq.,
of Pittsburg. and J. Y. James. Esq.. of Warren, have con
cluded their labors, and sent the result of their investigation
to the Governo,, who has laid the same before the Legisla ,
tare. Below will be found the
REPORT OP THE 001111/SSION OF MRSTIGARION IDTO TER AY-
FAZES OP TEE LagGUITSR BJLTZL
Boa. WM. F. Pecxsa.
Garernor of I:b2nrgbania
Ste, The Commissioners appointed under the "Act to
provide for an examination into the management of the
Lancaster Bank." now respectfully submit the following
report:
As the investioation committed to them was not judicial.
but solely for the information of the Legislature, and as it
is by the act confined to one point. viz: ' be calms which
led to the failure of said Bank," the undersigned, in the
discharge of their duty, looked more to general facts and
results than to particular acts, and have not deemed it
necessary further to name Individruils than as incidentally
connected with such facts as are indispensable to a clear
understanding of the case; neither did they drive the in
vestigation further back than 1849, the date of the existing
charter; except, from previous transactions, to show the
condition of the Bank at that date, or to trace certain
causes of the failure to their origin.
In the performance of their task within these bounds,
they soon perceived that the minutes of the Board of Di
rectors, and the other books of the Bank, which were freely
exhibited by the Assignee, Horace Itathvon, Esq., (who
had also been the last Cashier) with his explanations,
would afford all the information required. It was not
necessary, therefore, to issue compulsory process to any
witnesses: but in order to afford Directors and Officers an
opportunity of explanation, a written invitation was eent
to those whose names are in the appended list. A number
of these were examined under oath, and their testimony
is annexed. The others did not attend—Mr. D. Longa
nectar, the former President, for the reason set forth in
his note.
Mr. H. Rathvon was examined at much length, and at
forded valuable information. It is proper to say, that,
while nothing was volunteered by him, except In regard
to his own election to the office of Cashier in December,
1855, nothing demanded was withhold. Every examination
of the books, however laborious, was made, and every
exhibit demanded promptly prepared. It was owing to
this assistance that the investigation was so soon com
pleted; and it may not be here out of place to express the
belief, that if his connection with the Bank as Cashier had
commenced seven years earlier, this investigation would
not have been necessary.
The Capital of the Bank was $403,900, in May, 1851,
when the present charter went into operation, and was
nominally the same till the failure. It closed its doors on
th 18th of November, 1858, when its apparAnt cnaition, as
per weekly statements of November 22, 1856, was as fol
lows:
122=21
Capital
Discount and Interest
Profit and Loss
Dividends unpaid
Notes In Circulation...
Individual Deposits...
Due to Banks
Bills Discounted
IM!t=
Bonds and Mortgages
Stocks
Lancaster Bank Stock
Banking House
Notes and Checks of other Basks
Due by Banks and Bankers
Expenses
This was the apparent condition of the Bank at the
failure. Its assets, so her inventory and appraise
ment hereto appended and made under the assignment.
February 3, 1857, were nominally $980.374.16, and were
appraised on that occasion at $540,895.86. This last sum
le not, however, to be taken as their actual value. Up to
this time $147,815.69 have been realized; and though it is
believed that something considerable will still be recovered,
yet it will fall far short of the appraisenient.
Of the notes in circulation at the date of the failure,
$460,024 have been received by the Bank in payment of
debts due to her, 1 eying still outstanding $046.025. from
which is to be deducted $396,910, redeemed by the Girard
Bank, as agents of the Lancaster Bank for this purpose,
and on which a balance of about $37,000 is due the Girard
Bank, but secured by collateral,.
It was not the duty of the undersigned to estimate or
report the probable result of the winding up of the institu
tion. The foregoing figures, in connection with the evi
dence of the Assignee, show all the information they have
received on this point.
Taking January,lB49, when the statement to the Auditor
General was made on which the present charter was
granted, and May, 1851, when that charter went into open
ation, as the proper starting points, it Is more than proba
ble that the capital was then Impaired. Certain extracts
from the minutes of the Board, and tabular 'statements
appended hereto, and explaining a distribution of Stock,
held by the Bank, amongst the etockholders in 1844, es
tablish this point. On the 30th of June, 1845, a short time
after the declaration of a lull dividend, the *intrinsic
value" of the Stock wee declared by resolution to be five
dollars per share less than its par value of $3O; and on the
3rd of the following November the same operation took
place, and a reduction of five dollars per shale was granted
on both occasions to those who bad given their stock notes
at the time of the distribution in 1841 thus conclusively
showing, by the action of the Board, that one-third of the
capital was lost. This was no doubt the care, though the
reports to the Auditor General do not disclose the fact.—
The loss woo probably concealed in the amount of paper
reported as discounted—the general practice of the Bank
being to carry all debts. good, bed, and indifferent. In that
item, and the one of 'Bills Bereivable.' In the latter was
also then contained nearly all the Stock notes connected
with this transaction—a few of which were paid at an
early day; a few have not yet been paid: and the larger
proportion only recently discharged, In the depreciated
paper of the Bank itself.
Aseurning, however, that the Capital was whole in May,
1851, the question arises—What has become of it?
In attempting to reply, the first thing that attracts at
tention is the fact, that not a dollar seems to have been
abstracted from the Bank without a nominal equivalent.—
If the paper and securities on hand could be converted
Into cash at par, the Bank would be solvent; but most of
them are worthless. and the Bank is broken—the process
elite ruin being equally certain and fatal, as if effected by
bold thett, though more adroit and imperceptible.
The means employed were various and may be thus
classed :
1. The discounting of doubtful or worthless paper by the
officers—a practice which commenced under the former
charter and continued till near the failure. It is in evi
dence that tally one-half of the discounting was done in
this way. It would be es unless as tedious, were it possible,
to specify all the cases of this kind. Some of the largest
operations will be given:
E. F. Shoenberger notes $ 30,000
John Ste: ritt notes and draft 210,000
W. L. Helfenetein notes 76,090
notes 10,214
Michael Barry & Co
Thoe. Baumgardner.
James Moore
.cert. and note 30,94
note 10,413
. .
F. A. Vandyke, jr. & Co
H. P. Remington
William Kiekle, Treasurer of Philadelphia and
.. -
Sunbury R. R. Co note 20,000
11. Longenecker and J. D. Bachuaan's notes 32.048
B. C. Bachman notes 5,715
Wm. 11. Irwin
$565,833
Of this amount a small portion has been collected by the
Assignee. as appears by hie detai!ed statement on the sub.
jest, and more may still be recovered; but, taking into
view the whole of this cisme of irregularly discounted paper,
it is sate to assert that the loss upon it will fully equal the
whole capital of the Bank.
2. Exchanging good paper and reliable securities for
doubtful, depreciated or worthless paper and securities.—
Meet of these transactions seem to have had the sanction
of the Board. Only such as are known have resulted In
actual loss will be specified:
Exchange with D. Longenecker, in May, 1855, of $13,000
of James' Mortgage Loan for 225 shares of Lancaster Bank
Stork at $6O. A total loss.
Exchange, in 1852, of real estate in Danville, for $14,000
Philadelphia and Sunbury R. R. Bonds. DM about $3,000.
Exchange of Wm. Glelm and others' Bonds for $4,000,
for Lancaster Bank Stock, in 1856, at $55. Total toss.
Numerous other transactions of this kind figure on the
minutes, which, though often without actual loss, were
none the less irregular,
3. Subscription to, or other acquirement of corporation
stocks and securities, generally with the copsent of the
Board. These are—
Subscriptions to Conestoga Steam Mill Stock authorized
by Board $39,000
Subscriptions to Conestoga Steam Mill Stock with
out authority of Board 55,000
Subscription to the Philadelphia and West Chester
Railroad 7,000
Philadelphia and Sunbury E. R. Srd Mortgage
Bowls, taken from D. Longenecker for overdraft
connected with N. C. Gold Mine 25,000
4. Re-discounts and sale of its best discounted paper in
Philadelphia at usurious rates. Thi■ practice was author
ized by resolutions of the Board, adopted November 24,
1851, and hereto appended. It Is now impossible to aster
tutu the extent of these transactions, ranging from 1 to 2
per cent. per month; but they are known to have been
considerable. It is but fair to add, that, though the reso•
lution is on the minutes, without limit as to time, amount
or rate, and was largely made use of, several of the Direc
tors do not seem to have been aware of its existence.
Other practices, impossible to be classified, under any
one bead, or to be brought within any recognized system
of banking operations, were also indulged in. Amongst
these may be instanced: numerous and large loans to
banks and money dealers. at low interest, and In some
cases without interest, merely to increase and keep at a
distance the circulation of the Bank; permission to over
draw accounts; Letter of Credit to D. Longenecker for
$20,000 ; loans of Factory Stock and of United States Treas
ury Notes to D. Longenecker and others; loans of $50.000
of the notes of the Bank to W. L. Helfenstein, to be used
as a special deposit elsewhere. Ac.. Ac.
The most unpleasant feature in all these transactions,
except those under the first head, is that the express as
sent of the Board of Directors, by resolution, seems to have
been obtained. The trusted but adroit officers who really
managed the institution, seem to have constantly succeeded
in obtaining the sanction of the Board to the most ques
tionable acts. It Is needless to cite the minutes to this
point, almost every page shows it. In fact, this record
seems to have been kept, more for the purpose of com
mitting the Board to transactions of an improper character,
than of registering the legitimate operations of the Board.
If entries of the latter kind are looked for, they are rarely
found; while those of the former class stare on In the face
from every page. And it was really painful to witness the
surprise and emotion of several of the Directors, when, ap
parently for the first time, they saw their own names and
votes in connection with resolutions, whose impropriety
they at once admitted. It is proper to add that, at least
in one case (that of Mr. Augustus Boyd) the evidence is
that the entry is false .
But this state of things, though it remove from their
consciences the sting of premeditated wrong, neither les
' sells the lose to the stock and note holders, nor the disgrace
to a community that once ranked above saspicion. They
were the trustees of the stockholders and depositors.—
Their character, as well for intelligence as Integrity, WM the
guarantee of the note holders. They were supposed to
manage the institution representing a portion of the wealth
and credit of the community, aggregated into a bank, for
the common convenience and good. All the books and
papers were at their command; and the actual condition
of the institution, in reference to means and liabilities,
earnings and expenses, should have been scrutinized
monthly or quarterly, or, at the very least, In reference to
all semi annual dividends. But this was not done—not
even to the extent of reading their own minutes at the
commencement of each meeting I and it now avails little
to say that they were deceived or misled, and that the in
solvency has been effected by their officers. Omission of
obvious duty was the certain and fruitful source of all the
other evils and errors of the bank. It first enabled the
officers to commit these acts—possibly In the beginning,
of indiscretion, but finally, of unfaithfulness—which im
pelled them on, from less to more, until nothing but the
most desperate measures served to put off the day ; and, in
the end, it forced the board itself into the sanctioning of
those Improper expedients that have terminated so disas
. trona to all concerned.
The great erns In the principle of Sound Banking—to
discover which seems to have been the object of this inves
tigation—were:
1. Neglect by the Directors to inform themselves, weekly
and at other proper periods, of the actual condition of the
Bank. Had the weekly statements been regularly referred
to and understood, the Protest List constantly scrutinized,
and the Discount List examined (for nearly all the irregu
lar discounts are on it,) few of these wild loans, now a dead
loss, would have been originally granted, and none of them
increased to the ruinous amounts they have reached; the
law would not have been violated, as it was on eighty : Ave
discount days out of one hundred, from Nov. 1854 until Nov.
1856, by the discounting of paper when the circulation
exceeded the limit of the charter; and, finally. dividends
would not have been declared out of an impaired capital,
as was habitually done, even to a date only fourteen days
previous to the closing of the Bank I
2. Disregard of the local object of the Institution. Every
Bank is created on the plea of necessity, and to accommo
date the community in which it is placed ; but, in this
case, the greater part of its means and facilities were at
the command of persons and corporations at a distance ;
leaving to the people of Lancaster county, in the end,
othhig but the loss and disgrace. It is cheering, howenir,
to' know that nearly all its regularly discounted paper
was imod, and that, with few exceptigna, its home debtors,
thus acc , mmndated. have met their liabilities.
3 Th. infAtunted attvmpts to increase circulation and
keep it at a distance. Mere circulation tome at low, and
sometimes without. Interest were commos. No bank can
long safely carry a circulation beyond the wants of a
community for which it was created, and whose confidence
is indispensable to Its credit. ' Its notes may, by undue
means, be forced abroad in large gum:Mita, fora short
time; but if the. sery act of over line "do not discredit
them, the first rumor of doubt pours them back upon It,
to the destruction of its standing: whereas. at home, there
is always a knowledge of the true facts of the case, to sus
tain a safe and proper home circulation.
4. Counting irregularly discounted paper and memoran
da of indebtedness in the cash drawer as notes of the Bank
on hand. This most improper practice falsifies the weekly
statement and canoes the circulation to appear less than it
really is; thereby deceiving the Directors and induce
ing them to discount when their issue is really greater,
but appears to be less, than the legal limit. Thin seems to
have been the constant practice by the officers of the Bank,
and the extent of it is shown by the fact when the drawer
was emptied, and the contents carried to the right aceount,
in Nov. 1856, the circulation, as shown by the weekly
statement, was in one week increased $361,936 by this
means alone.
6. Investments of means in stocks and other unusual
securities. The result of this practice generally shows its
inconsistency with safe banking. Being inconvertable
into cash at all, except probably, at great loos, the insti
tution, when compelled , to use them, is crippled—in pro
portion to the extent of the practice.
6. The payment of usurious interest. This practice,
growing in the present case, mostly out of an overvcalcula
tion, more surely and speedily leads to the insolvency of a
Bank than of an individual. It may probably be that the
profits of the merchant or the manufacturer are such as
occasionally to bear a resort to this expedient; but how
a bank can lend money at sia and borrow it at twelve or
tioeniy-jour per cent, and live, is incomprehensible.
These practices are all dangerous and injurious; yet in
none of these respects does the general banking law seem
to require amendment, except probably in reference to the
performance of their official duty by Directors. In the other
cases, if the law be observed and enforced, it world seem
to be sufficient.
It might, however, be useful to enquire whether similar
catastrophes might not be prevented, if the acts of dis
counting and declaring dividends—the two prominent
duties of Directors—were more strictly regulated by law,
and this class of trustees held to a more rigid accountabil
ity. Directors, it is true, say—We are not paid for our
services; we can only discharge our duties enjoined upon
us by placing in office those whom we know or believe to
be honest and capable, and by taking from them the pre
scribed bonds; if they betray their trust, we also suffer
with the rest of the stockholders; we give all the time and
attention that can be spared from our own affairs; and we
can do no more.
There is, certainly, a show of reason in all this—at least
to the extent of Indicating the remedy. -
Might it not be advisable, therefore to decrease the num
ber of Directors, and allow each a full compensation for
services rendered on discount and investlgrtion days? thus
removing the hardships of unrequited services.
Would It not also have a salutary effect to require the
list of paper discounted each regular discount day. to be
put on the books and signed by a quorum of the Board?—
And, if a committee be appointed to discount bet Ween
boards, to have a list of all the paper due by them put on
the books and signed by a quorum, in the same way at the
next regular meeting? All paper not on such signed lists.
to be irrecoverable at law, by the hank or its transferees.
It Would also seem proper to inflict a severe penality up
any Board of Directars, which shall declare a dividend,
without a thorough examination of the affairs of the Bask,
by a committee of its own body, made immediately pre
vious; and that report to be entered at large upon the
'minutes. as the basin of the dividend.
403,100.00
. 2.867.60
. 51.71,5.62
5,875.11
1,106 083 00
136 060 30
65,921.95
$1,772,573.58
$1,338,064.17
Perhaps, a provision rendering the keeping of regular
minutes of the proceedings of tie board, and the read
ing of them at the next meeting obligatory; requiring
them to show the amount of offerings and the amount dis
counted, and making them legal evidence to a certain ex
tent, would also be advisable..
304.202.95
108.71
In rouclu•ien, it need hardly be stated that the causes
which led to the failure of the Lancaster Bank. were. in
the opinion)of the undersigned : Improudence and unfaith
fulness on the part of the President and Cashier. (Dasid
Longenecker and B. C. Bachman,) and neglect of duty by
the Directors.
$.l 772, 573 58
For a more full understanding of the whole subject, ref
erence is respeotfully made to the notes of testimony. the
extracts from the minutes and the statements annexed ;
which are as full in their details and as orderly in arrange
ment. so the time at the disposal of the Commission would
admit.
LANCASTER, April 12, 1858
LETTER FROM MR. L. M. Honns.—Having in
common with the other papers of this city, (and from ono
of which we obtained our infhrmation,) noticed the sudden
and suspicious departure of Mr. L. M.lloeus, late Steward
of the Lancaster County Normal School, in such a way as
we thought it deserved, if the reports very freely published
and circulated in this community were anything like
correct, we deem It nothing more than an act of sheer
justice to give that gentleman the benefit of publicity to
the subjoined letter, received by mail on Tuesday last. If
Mr. H.'s statement of the circumstances of his departure
be true, and we have no reason to doubt it, then he is
entirely innocent of the charges of dishonesty made against
him, and ho should be pitied, rather than censured, for his
misfortunes:
Gus. SANDERSON, }No.—Sir: To-day a friend of mine
showed me a copy of your paper, The Lancaster Intelligen
car, issued Merck 23d, 1858. in which I am charged with
absconding with some $2OOO or $4OOO. leaving my creditors
in the back-ground; also statism that my Lanclster friends
would like to see tee book, and that they would give me a
situation in the *Stone Palace,"
Nose, Mr. Sanderson, I ask you to please to publish the
following statement, and hope other papers will do the
same: In 18531 asked the citizens of Millersville and vi
cinity to erect a building for a Select School. which I was
to take charge of, and to pay for the use of the building 6
per cant. for the amount invested, with the privilege of
redeeming the stock. In the Spring of 1854 the original
building was completed. I was at that time acquainted
with Mr. J. P. Wickersham. the. County Superintendent
of Common Schools. He was desirous of holding a three
months' Institute for the TeacherS of Lancaster county.—
I got the consent of the Trustees of the building to let Mr.
Wickersham have the use of sald building for that purpose.
The success of the Institute led to the enlargement of the
building, which has continued ever since. It naturally fell
on me to be Steward of the School. I had It all to furnish
and that without capital, and not only so, but the support
of my family during the erection of the building. The
furnishing of the building, from the first to the last, cost
me over $5l/00; my personal property outside about $lOOO,
and stock in the School buildings between $llOO and
$l2OO. I had all this to go through with, besides over $6OO
for the support of my family while the building was in
progress of erection. Now, sir, I had all this to meet out
of the'profits of boarding, and that at $2,50 per week for
board, washing, light and fuel. With close attention I
made out to keep up my credit. Diminishing my debts last
Spring, I was fully confident that I would be out of debt
this Spring. At the commencement of the Winter or Nall
Term, viz: last October, an article of agreement between
the Trustees and myself was originated, which can ba seen
by calling on D. S. Bare, Secretary of the Board of Trustees,
in which I was subject to be complained of by the Students
or Teachers of the Institution whenever they felt disposed,
which complaints were to be made to the Visiting Commit.
the. Said committee had the power to expel me from my
office. This being the case, I endeavored to do all that I
could to give satisfaction. And, sir, never was a man more
imposed upon than myself, in more respects than one;
fault was found with almost every thing in my charge. I
endeavored to do all in my power to maintain my position;
the consequence was, that, instead of liquidating my debts,
my expenses exceeded my income over $lOOO in five months,
which statement I could substantiate before a Cosirt of
Justice. Now, sir. lam accused of eloping With $3OOO or
$4OOO, instead of which I had but $l6O, and this I can
prove by my books—so much for that.
Now for the cause of my action. I had done all I could
to do right, worldly and spiritually. I promised to pay all
my debts this Spring, and when the School term closed
demands were made on me for money which I paid
out. My bills were much larger than I expeeted. I found
that I could not meet them. I felt certain that my property
must be sold, and I totally ruined. I knew I must bear
the slang of the gossips of the place. My family, the church,
my friends all pressed hard upon my mind; It was more
than I could bear. I know that it was weakness, but I
could not help it. It was not three hours after I saw my
condition that I left, without even giving my family notice;
it was more than T could do. It was worse than death.—
Thus was my mind worked. Now, sir, I wish the criminal
charge made against me recalled. Ido not wish to have
this accusation against me, preventing me from supporting
my family and earning money to pay my liabilities. If I
am guilty of the crime that I am charged with, I am will
ing to be tried and pay the penalty of the law. I can be
found in Wyandotte. or Olathe, Johnson county, Kansas
Territory. If an a:Joie] notice is sent to me that I am
summoned to appear before the Lancaster County Court, I
will come immediately. But, sir, if this is not done. I shall
expect you to do me the simple justice to recall what you
have published.
Sours, obediently, L. M. HOBBS.
.notes 0,500
notes 44,860
.note 12,000
THE GfETHEAN EXHIEITION.—The Seven
teenth Annual Exhibition of the Goethean Literary Society
of Franklin and Marshall College, took place at Fulton
Hall, on Tnoaday evening last. As usual on all such oc
casions the hall was crowded in every pert. and many left
on account of not being able to obtain a standing position
or an admission into the vestibule. The hall was very
prettily decorated. The banner of the Society, on which is
a handsome portrait of Urethe, was suspended over the
stage in a circle of wreathe, and underneath was a rich
arch of the same materials. The lady friends of the Greth"
cans exhibited a nice degree of taste in the arrangement of
Flora's offerings.
The orations generally were very rod: but some of them,
although well written, were hardly passable, owing to the
exceedingly bad delivery. The students prepare for these
occasions months before hand, and it is therefore utterly
inexcusable to perpetrate such wretched blenders Be were
made by three or four of the speakers on Tuesday night.—
The oration of the evening was delivered by Mr. W. S.
STENGER, of Loudon, Franklin county. Although the most
youthful orator of the evening, he held the vast audience
spell-bound: not the slightest whisper er noise was heard.
His theme was the "The Martyr Hero of Caledonia." Sir
William Wallace never had a more ardent and enthusiastic
admirer, or eloquent eulogist. Mr. Stenger has remarkable
powers of oratory for one so young, and a brilliant career is
in the future for him.
The music for the occasion was furnished by the Fend.
Isles' Band.- They performed their duties admirably, and
to the satisfaction of all present.
Not havidg room to notice the different orations,- In
detail, we have appended the following programme of the
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
MUSIC.
Prayer—Rev. Dr. liodgeork.
MUSIC.
Salutatory Oration—C. G. Fisher, Chambersburg, Pa.
Oration—The Feast of Belshazzar—.T. H. Wagner, Ortvigx.
burg, Pa.
MUSIC.
Essay—Reflections on the Return of Spring—T. C. Lein
bach, Myorstown, Pa.
Debate--Does the Spirit for Liberty prevail now as in the
days of '76 ?
Affirmative—L. J. Mayer. Orwigsburg, Pa.
krUBIC.
Negative—H. R. Nicks, Littlestown, Pa.
MUSIC.
Oration—Harmony. the Votes of Nature—H. Moaner,
Myerstown, Pa.
music.
Eulogy—The Martyr Hero of Caledonia—W. S. Stenger,
Loudon, Pa. •
MUSIC.
Goethean Oration—Grethe's Love to Gretchen—David
Evans, Lancaster, Pa.
MUSIC.
Benediction—President B. V. Gerhart, D. D
WaßaNK.—This favorite resort has again
passed into the hands of the Jolly "mine host" of the Ex
change Hntel, East King street, Mr. WILLIAM T. TM:WIT,
with whom our old and gallant friend, Capt. Joule H.
DI:ICEMAN, has become associated. We predict a prosperous
season to the new proprietors, than whom two better men
for the post could not have been found. Visitors can
depend that they will receive the most sumptuous fare and
polite and agreeable attendance. They are the "right men
for the right place."
THE LANCASTER bAVINGB' INSTITUTION.
The bill for the Investigation of the affairs of the Lancaster
Savings' Institution has passed both branches of the Luis
latnre, and been signed by the Governor.
THOMAS 11. BURROWES
GEO. DARSIE,
J. Y. JAMES.
WYANDO.TE : K. T., April 4th, 1858
.
gENCUILItB' BAND PROMENADE VONCERT..
—The First Grand Promenada„Concert of the Fericibles'
Band came off on Thursday evening last, before a large
and brilliant audience. The main saloon of Frilton Hall
was gorgeously decorated. U was made to assume the
appearance of a Park. In the centre was placed a beautiful
Fountain, from which a stream of water played throughout
the evening. Arcnindthis waregroupes of trees, shrubbery,
So. From the walls were !suspended handsome wreaths
and engravings. The stage was fitted up as an arbor, and
here the taste displayed by the managers was exquisite In
the extreme ; it reethidad_tri of cue of those places we have
read about where levirs wouliibe sure to go to lament over
their "griefs and cares." The whole scene presented the
appearance of a garden just arraying itself in all Its Spring
like beauty. The trees, shrubbery, be., were kindly fur
nished by Judge lonia-smith, from his Conservatory, in
East King street.
The music of the Band was flee—lndeed, better than we
have ever heard it discourse. The Promenade closed at 10
o'clock, and from that hour, until 12, nearly the entire
party engaged in the "misty mazes of the dance," favored
with some choice cotillion music from Keffer's Orchestra.
This concert was a novelty in Lancaster, and we are happy
to say was# complete success. We must add that the Press
was well represented. We noticed Onus, of the Express,
In the midst of a precious convoy of beauties, promenading
with all the grace and elegance so characteristic of "them
printer fellers." Wnxr, of the Times, was in a similar
predicament. The poor fellows' situation was pitiable!
The concert was continued on Friday and Saturday eve
nings, and although the attendance was not so large as on
Thursday, the enjoyment was, if anything, much greater.
MURRAY, YOUNG & 0028 BOOK STORE.—We
paid a visit to this extensive establishment, in North
Queen street, the other day, and were politely shown over
the immense stock of books, en., by the senior memberinf
the firm. We were astonished at the variety. Anything
which the student, the man of leisure, the farmer, the
mechanic, or the business man, would wish can be had—
In short, books to suit all classes. The prices are moderate
in the extreme; indeed, it is a wonder to us how Book
Establishments can make profits now-a-days on books and
periodicals, on account of the low rates at whirls they ore
sold. We passed a very agreeable half hour in the Store.
and were fully compensated for the time so spent.
A LARGE AUDIENCE.—Rev. D. STICK, of St.
John's Lutheran Church, Orange street, preached a sermon.
under the auspices of the Linton Prayer Meeting, at Falton
Hall, on Sunday afternoon last. The ball was crowded to
Its utmost capacity by one of the largest audiences ever
a-sembled in this city. The vestibule and aisles were
filled by persons who could not obtain seats. and many
left unable to get admission. The sermon was truly a fine
production and elicited universal commendation. We have
already spoken of the reverend gentleman's high qualifica
tions as a pulpit orator, and It is sufficient to say that he
was listened to on this occasion with the undivided atten
tion of the vest congregation.
CONFIRMATION AND ORDINATION. —Rt. Rev.
Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont, is now performing Episcopal
duties In the diocese of Pennsylvania. in the place of
Bishop Alonzo Potter, whose health requires rest from his
official functions. Bishop Hopkins will visit Lancaster on
Thursday the 22nd inst., and administer the rite of confir
mation. He will also, on the same occasion, ordain Rev. E.
W. Appleton, Assistant Rector of St. Joho's Fr. Church.
Bishop Hopkins Is regarded as one of the most able and
eloquent divines in the Episcopal Church and is the father
of Rev. T. A. Hopkins, Principal of the Testes Institute, of
this city.
LANCASTER CO. TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.—
The semi-annual meeting of :the Lancaster County Teach,
ere' Association will be held In the Female High School
Hall, North Prince street, on Saturday next, at 10 o'clock,
a. m. A lecture will be delivered by Prof. Brookes, of
Millersville, and several essays, by some of the beat Teach
ers in the county, will be read and then thrown open for
discussion.
DECLARE OF Mr. KRA lIPH.—We regret to
learn of the eudden and unexpected death of oar late
worthy townsman, Mr. F. J. KALIIPII, on Sunday morning
last, at his residence in West Chesnut street.—
He had been somewhat indisposed for several weeks,
but was convalescent, and again attending to business
during the greater portion of last week. On Saturday he
had a relapse of the complaint, (hemorrhage. we under
stand,) under which he rapidly sunk. Mr. K. was on• of
our most enterprising and useful citizens, and his untimely
decease bas left a void in this community which will not
soon be tilled.
QUARTER SEBSIONS' COURT.—The April Term
of the Qurter Sessions' Court commenced yesterday—Judge
Lang presiding. Any quantity of " darkies" are
in town at present. Columbia, we should judge, by their
appearance, is well rid of them, if it is only temporarily.
PANORA MA OF CHINA .—Boneau's P/11101 - alna.
of China and Australia, now exhibiting at Rtissell's Hall,
South Queen street, is nightly attracting large audiences,
It is said to be the best Panoramic exhibition which has
ever visited this city.
TRUSTEES OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL. —At the
annual election by the Stockholders of the Lancaster
County Normal School. held on Tuesday last, the following
persons were elected Trustees for the encuing year: Abra•
hem Peters, T. H. Burrowes, J. K. Shenk, Abraham Haus
man, Jacob M. Frantz, 11. B. Martin, David Hartman, Jacob
G. Shuman, John Lintuer, John Den tlinger, C. B. Herr,
Jacob H. Hershey, Jacob F Fry, John Brady, P. W. !ilea
tand, D. S. Bare. The officers are Abraham Peters, Fresh
dent; D. S. Bare, Secretary: Jacob M. Frantz, Treasurer;
J. G. Shaman and John Lintner, Auditors.
THE RR - EA.—The continued rains of the
present week have swollen the waters of the Susquehanna,
and It now rune bank high. A few rafts have already
arrived at Columbia, and a number that were left by the
water at this place and a short distance above, after the
last high water, have passed on to a market below. When
the water falls to a good rafting stage we may expect the
rush of oar Spring visitors, who will be welcome-I We
understand that a large amount of lumber Is on the way,
and from present indications the supply will exceed the
demand, at least in all the markets before reaching tide
water. Prices will probably range lower than last season.
—Columiia Spy.
A Femoua MEDICINE.—One of the most
astonishing medicines yet discovered is Dr. Keyser's Pec
toral Syrup. If you have any disease of the Breast or
Lungs, Dr. Keyser's Pectoral Syrup will cure you. Dr.
Keyser's Pectoral Syrup will cure Bronchitis. Dr. Keyser's
Pectoral Syrup will cure Laryngitis. Dr. Keyser's Pectoral
Syrup will cure Influenza. Dr. Keyser's Pectoral Syrup
will cure a cold In the head. Dr. Keyser's Pectoral Syrup
will cure Incipient Consumption. A recent letter from Mr.
J. W. Veatch, of Rokeby, Ohio, says "I want you to send
me two bottles of your Pectoral Syrup by mall. There Is
a lady here who has a cough, and the doctors can't cure
her. I was In the same way and tried every thing without
benefit, until I got a bottle of your Pectoral Syrup; I took
it but twice and it cured me sound and well. Ask for Dr.
Keyser's Pectoral Syrup, and take no other. Price 50 cents.
You can buy it at Heinitsh's, 13 East King street.
For the Intelligencer.
MONOMANIA vi. HYDROPHOBIA.
At this sermon of the yeas, time immemorial, the report
is communicated to the Mayor of the City, that a Mad Dog
has been seen by Tom, Dick, or Harry, running out some
back street (of course) and bit every dog that earns in his
way; whereupon the Mayor issues his Proclamation that
all dogs shall be penned up for 30 days, or be muzzled
while running at large. Now this seems strange to me. If
It were possible fertile Mayor to order the owner to muzzle
his dog, when he is about getting mad, I would think it
more sensible; because a mad dog is notany more account
able for his acts than a mad man—hence, when a mad dog
runs through some street, seen by somebody, let this sharp.
sizhted somebody watch, and see if the mad dog discrimi
nates between a muzzled or an unmuzzled dog, or (if he
bites at all) whether he won't bite a muzzled dog as soon
as another—then how can a continuance of mad dogs be
prevented by such a Proclamation?—because in 30 days
the muzzle dare be taken oft; and all dogs be permitted to
run at large. And if any muzzled dog was bitten by a
mad dog, during the 30 days, will his having been muzzled
prevent him from getting mad, and won't the danger be aa
great as ever, and won't these men, who always report mad
dogs In the back streets, be as bad off as ever, andwon't the
dogs, having their liberty again, bark at them, sus before,
when they travel at late hours at night I Nothing can take
from the dog his instinct of smell ; therefore, when such a
night rambler comes along, a dog can always, by the
smell, guess where he was, and barks at him, and if the
dog's bark could be turned into words, the dog would tell
him that if he, the night wanderer, thought as much of his
home as he, the dog, did there would be no occasion to
bark at him at such a late hour of the night, under such
suspicious appearances.
But these Mad Dog Reporters always accompany their
pelarvy with the awful consequence of mad dogs biting
men, women and children, and that one life lost by hydro
phobia, is worth more than all the dogs in the country.—
Now, I ask these Annual Reporters of Mad Dog in the back
streets, if any of them ever reflected on the lives saved by
faithful dogs, by preventing burglars entering their mas
ter's house at night, which act, is often accempanid by
murder, and whether a life last by being killed by a bur
glar, is not as valuable as one lost rby hydrophobia, and
whether there are not more burglars in the country than
mad dogs.
Again, I would ask has any of these Annual Reporters
ever seen a man die with mania petit*, and if so, to say
if it is not by far a more horrible death than hydrophobia,
and yet the mad dog has not become so by any act of his,
but the mad man goes into his madness, step by step, ap
parent to all around him. and is not his life worth more
than all the liquor he swallows in his life time; then, why
not stop the traffic in the stuff that makes men mad, which
is in the power of man to do, more easily than preventing
innocent dogs from getting mad. I for one maintain that
there are at least as many, if not more, useless ruruholes
in the country as useless dogs, and that more lives are lost
in one year by rum-drinking, than in fifty years by dog
bites. So I think this Annual Monomania should be a
little more discountenanced, and these forbidden fruit-eat
ers be told, when they come to make their Annual Report,
to be as faithful to their homes as the dogs are, and they
will not be bitten or barked at, at such an unusual hour,
and at such a suspicions place.
Query—Why don't dogs get mad after the Proclamation
as well as before. E. 0. S.
DEATH IN A BALL Room.—This morning,
about 1 o'clock, a sad affair took place at a
ball given by the De Soto Assembly, at Sar
anak Hall, at the northeast corner of Eighth
and Callowhill streets. While the ball was in
progress a young woman named Adeline Yea
ger, who was engaged in dancing, suddenly
fell upon her face on the floor. Her com
panions hastened to raise her up, when it was
found that she was dead. The melancholy
occurrence caused a deep impression among
the persons who were present at the party.—
The body of the deceased, attired in her ball
dress, were removed to the Fourteenth Ward
Station House, and from there were carried to
her late residence, No. 1224 North Sixteenth
street, above Girard avenue. The deceased
was thirty-five years of age. Her sudden
death is attributed to disease of the heart.—
Phil. Argue of Thursday.
I ,CONVESSION OP A.NDEILSON.
For the following details of the double-mur
der 'e are indebted to Mr. 11. A. Rockafield,
the publisher of the "Life and Confession of
Anderson," a book of 64 pages, giving a com
plete history of the murder, together with all
the particulars of his vicious and vagabond
life :
CONFSSSION Or THE MURDER
We come on to SReedville Forge, and there
we got our dinner. The next place we stopped
was at the mill, where we got a piece to eat.
Then we came on to a house where there was
no person at home. Henry then said, "Let
us break in, and steal what we can ;" but I
said that wouldn't do while the tavern was
close. He then said, " let us go on," and we
went on to the cross roads on the other side of
Litiz. We entered Litiz on the east corner
and came to the .urnpike, along which we
made our way to the place called Fiddler's
Green. Before we got there we stepped into
the woods until after dark, as it was our inten
tion to plunder at the old log house that night.
As soon as it was dark we came on to the old
log house on this side of Fiddler's Green,
(Neffsville) and Henry and myself had conclu
ded to rob them, but the people were traveling
to the Green to see a show that was there
that night, and we thought it would not be
safe to make the attempt. We then went to
the barn and got to drinking pretty freely.—
At last we laid down in the barn, and slept
there that night.
We knew two or three old bachelors (the
Binkley's) lived alone in this old log house,
and Henry supposed they had money in the
house He seemed to know more about them
than I did ; but we had agreed on the way to
rob them, and were only prevented by the stir
of the people going to and from the " show"
at Neffsville. As we had been drinking hard,
there is no knowing what the consequences
might have been if the show hadn't been.there
that night!
In the morning we went to the hmise, and I
told the man my feet were cold. Hh told us
we should go into the house and warm our
selves. We did so, and they gave us our
breakfast. From there we went to the next
house across the fields, where I got a chimney
to sweep for a levy and something to eat.—
From there we went to Landis' tavern (on the
Reading road.) and I asked him to sell me a
pint of whiskey. He refused, and said he
wouldn't sell a pint even to his own neighbors.
We then went to the Black Horse tavern, and
got our bottle filled, after which we turned
from the Reading road and went back to the
Litiz turnpike, which we crossed and went to
the Manheim road ; Going out that road I saw
the two men who witnessed against us in
Court. Passing them, we stopped at a house
where they were butchering. Then we went
on a little further, stopped in a house and ask
ed for work. The man said he had no work.
We then went to the blacksmith's shop and
asked for work there. ,He told me he had no
work for us, and we went on down the Man
helm road to the next house and again asked
for work, but still did not get any. The kind
of work we asked for at all these places was
chimney sweeping.
The next house we came to, a little further
on, was Isaac Kauffman's. We saw him and
asked him for his chimneys to sweep. Ile told
us he did not want them cleaned. We then
asked him for something to eat, as it was get
ting near dinner time, and one of the women
gave us some bread. I asked, in German, for
" liver wuret" (pudding) which made Henry
laugh. They said they had no meat, and we
left and went across the fields to where the
Garber's lived. We didn't know there was
any money at Garber's, but we had intended
to rob at one of them three houses (Grube's,
Kauffman's and Garber's) before we got there,
but we saw no chance at the first and second,
because the men were about.
%.% hen we got to Garber's house, I went in
first and Henry followed roe close after. Mrs.
Garber ami Mrs. Ream were in the kitchen.
I had been in that neighborhood before, sweep
ing chimneys, and they may have known us,
but I did not know them by mune. Mrs. Gar
ber had been churning and hake"got the butter
worked up in lumps ready for market the next
morning. It was laid out on a board on a kind
of a box in the next room ; think it was a wood
box. When we went in I asked Mrs. Garber
if she did not want her chimney swept. She.
said she did not, and I thought she spoke a
little cross or sharp. I was in liquor at the
time, and felt it working in my head. We had
drank all of the pint we got at the Black
Horse tavern but a short time before. I then
asked for something to eat, and Mrs. Garber
gave us bread and applebutter, and asked us
if we liked buttermilk ; we said yes, and she
went and got us some of that. We sat down
and eat our piece," and Mrs. Garber still
went on about her work. When we were done
eating we got up and started away. After we
got outside of the door we began to feel dry,
but we had no more whiskey and no money.
Henry said we musthave some whiskey. I
say, " let us go back %nd I will ask her for a
levy." So we turned back and went into the
house to get a levy to buy a pint of whiskey.
When we went into the house the second
time we met Mrs. Garber in the kitchen. She
was coming out with a bucket of hot water in
her hand, which I think she intended to take
outside to a kind of wash house to scald the
churn. or milk pans. Of that lam not sure,
but I know she bad a bucket of water in her
hand. As we went in I met her face to face,
and demanded of her if she had any money.—
She said no. I then said she must give us a
levy. She again said she had none to give me,
speaking quite cross, much more so than
before, and was about to go out of the front
door, when I stopped her and told her, in an
excited way, that she must give us money or
we must take it. This seemed to alarm Mrs.
Ream, who then got up to go out ; but it seems
that when Henry came in after me he locked
the front door and put the key in his pocket.—
Henry took hold of Mrs. Ream and said she
must give him some money before he would
let her out. She said she had none to give
him, and as she said that Mrs. Garber tried
once more to get past me out of the front door,
but I took hold of her or pushed her back with
mv left hand, and drew the hatchet out of my
belt with the other. And then the big
struggle commenced between us. She fought
desperately, and before I knew what she was
about she had jerked the hatchet out of my
hand and struck me over the back of the head
with it. She struck pretty hard at me, but I
kept it off with my arm, and it didn't stun me.
I then closed with her, wrenched the hatchet
out of her hand and struck her over the head
two or three times with the pole of it, but
didn't knock her down. We struggled on over
the kitchen a good deal, and she broke loose
from me and made to run into the room where
they had their money, but I caught her in the
next room just inside the door and threw her
on the floor. After she was down I hit her on
the head with the hatchet, and told her to
stay in that room until I saw what Henry was
doing with the other woman. I left Mrs.,
Garber lying there, stunned from the lasi blow
I gave her, and went into the kitchen. Henry
had got into a struggle with Mrs. Ream, and
had her down on the steps of the stairs. Just
as I came out in the kitchen she had struggled
up from him, and was about rather getting
the better of him, and be was in the act of
shooting her, with the pistol presented to her
breast; but I told him not to shoot as the noise
might raise the neighbors. Mrs. Ream still
had hold of Henry, struggling with him, when
I interfered and knocked her down with the
hatchet. I struck her on the head with the
pole. While this was going on Mrs. Garber
had came to and run into the room where the
chest was. I heard her making a noise in
there, at the window or where the chest was
behind the door, which afterwards made me
suspect that the money was in there some
place. I then left Henry with Mrs. Ream in
the kitchen and went into thy ; back room
where Mrs. Garber was ; but that room was so
dark I could not see her. I had about got in
when she collared me, and then the last bard
struggle was. She fought furiously, but I got
a hold of her and struck her again over the
head with the back of the hatchet, and that
stroke knocked her down. It was from this
blow that the blood flew on and spattered the
wall and ceiling, that some of the witresses
spoke of: but it was'nt done with the olub for
we did'nt use the club at all. When I had
knocked Mrs. Garber down, I took her by the
arm and dragged her into the next room.
Henry couldn't drag Mrs. Ream in as she
was too heavy for him, so I left Mrs. Garber,
and went into the kitchen and helped Henry
to drag Mrs. Ream in the same room' with
Mrs. Garber, where we laid them the same
they were found after we left them except
their clothes *
* * * * We then had to do
with both of the women, before they were
dead. Richards had to do with Mrs. Ream
and myself with Mrs. Garber. * * *
Mrs. Garber was sensible yet, and knew what
I was doing. 1 She raised her hand and tried
to push me away, but was too far gone. I don't
know whether Mrs. Ream was or not, but I