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;POTTSVILLE.-
%ArrgrritMOßNll:4Gy FEB. ALCN.II3I2.
b Printing Offices - .
The sabactibur busProc.' tired the time' sari tlpe,
poses diti.• and 'has attaChed a complete Job Print
_mg Office to his Estabiblement. where all kinds of
CardsiPamptdete,llaidbills, C.hecks, Bills ofLading,
itc.7 - will be printed aethis very loweit rates, and at
theshoner notice; Mil determined to accommo
-'ste this public at tbe!very lowest rates, at home, he
stitpacifulty solicits the patronage of the publi,o•
• l B. BANNA N.
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aratit &Ornaineatiii Trees, Shrubbery, oto.
Persons in want of 'ice it sod Ornamental - Trees.
and Shrubbery of the chciicest kinds, can, be supplied
at a few day's-notice; by ilitsving their orders at thug
s • Ger*, where a eataloglie can be examined. The
.priees of Pear, Plum 'and Cherry Tree.. have been
reduced one half since bit year.
- It is desirable that orders for spring planting should
I bn:handed in nearly n iaoasible.
WANTED-rfit this cti, an active lad; between
thirages of 14 or 16, whd can 'read. write and spell
woll—as 'an apprentice fto the printing basinen.—
None but one ,who.cani, come well recommended,
-need apply. , Feb. 19. 8--
To the Working men of Schnyikill County.
The timelhas at leni;th arrived when we can
address you—not only as patriots, not only es cup
porters of your Give nment, but as individual
sufferers. When we an appeal to you, by eve
,xy desire you feel fUr ou own safety—by every
Wish for your own
,p i tection—by every' selfish
feeling that crowds :erilund the human heart—to
• arir and make one stiuggle ere the birth-right of
• reemon—the recompense for your labor—is
irritated from jou. Wfi have long endeavored to
'urge 'Open yiu the necessity for action; we have
king sought to impress !upon your minds the im
minent danger which surrounds you, and which
is dviwing its fo.ldl - ;cloeer and closer as the time
for the final crush aPpriaches.-• That time is now
near at hand on the Ist of July, 1842, all duties .
on foreign goods will reduced to twenty per
cent. and the effect of th s reduction upon the com
munity is an plain that • child could comprehend
it. Alresdrhaveforei merchants and manufac
le
toners engaged houses in out principal sea portii,
:and are now making arrangements for i 'flooding
•this country with the Produce of their-biblit ,st a
-chasm rate than Wo-ian cell. Should this' des
: tructist measure go in(o Operation, what has the
!shouting man,to hope= furl We call upon, you
Idea to took - at-this-thing as it is, sod after seeing
• the pahiying; ruinous e act it will have upon every
i gi l ec i e s of d o ' ines t io t i de—to ask younuives the
question, whether throughout all,,this t you can re-
Main unscathed $ Thh blow, will fall harder upon
the mechanic and 'stirrer than upon any other
member of the community, and it needs no effort
of logic to prose it.. Laborers in this country are
a di ff erent race of bin s from the laborers of Eu-•
rope; the ploughman of England always remains
*,.a pioughthan—be is literally chained to it; ;o with
all who depend upon 'their toil for support. But
with us it is entirely different; look around you,.
.'and you Will see - that the molt indefatigable, enter-'
• prising and wealthy Mania the count ry,,were but
a 'slurry tune sines daiiy laborers. We have many
instances of this kind
f n our own county. ;Nearly
ona-bitlTOUthe colliers of this region, who mine
and ship •thousands oil tons of Coal annuli*, cam..
here Mika fsw years since as laborers, and why
should it not be so!
! We recognize here no dis-
Suction of class-4.we are all members of one free
family —4l4e tythe an - tax burdens with which en
oppressive mobility lo de the working men of Eu
rope, have heretofore ormed no precedent for us;
it has atoms been, iind are hope al ways will be
different. ' A laborer 4Cre by a frugal, honest and
industrious course, mity in a few 'years rank with
tha'wealthy and distinguished of the nation, al.
. ways provided that f l overnment grants him that
protection-which the Interests of the country de
mand; aid which its, own duty imperatively re.
- quires. I
It has been loudy proclaimed from certain
'quarters for the last few, years that there exists a
British Pany in this country—we are not aware
of the existence of such a party, apart -from fo
reign agents—but if there is, it can be composed
'-of no other than the Free Trade advocate—those
men, who to gratify their ownparticelar stews or
mercenary projects. Would blast the interests of
• the eonintonity—eanlifiee its commerce—ruin its
' unnufaeteres, and shift the laboring class, by a re.
auction of wages, to a level with European serfs.
But this question ught not to be' identified
with the party polni of the day—it is a common
:auttagte to avert a loounon ruin—it isa feeling
• in which 'alt shoold unite, and then let the contest
- be between Atiterical pstriorism on the one side,
• - inJ foreign irifluencel milli° other.',The crisis is
an alarming one—thfl immense deal of suffering
which the presecutiou of this miserable policy will
..entail upon the penpo can hardly be imagined,
• and the strongest oppOsition to the measure ought
to come from those who will be the greatest;suffer-
Or/. Then meat toglher! memorialize Congress
—form Home Leagues—ged lot your voices be
'raised in condemnation of that principle, which
would with so unspaiing hand, deprive the labor
. or of the reward of his toil, by squsodering his
right and his `Claim ? for the Support of foreign
'Workshops and foreign manufactures.
Tr W
..Us . ICATUER.-4Nairer :lie fore have we wit
nessed such a. varieti of changes in the weather
as we have lately bee(i visited with—it is as vari
able as the phases ii a 'pretty '
;woman's disposi
tion, or to make a more satisfactory comparison—
as uncertain as the linientions 1 6f our National
Legislature; and indeed we think would answer
very well as a typei of their proceedings. One
day we have sunshin ; e and warmth—balmy as a
•
bright spring Morn— t ea°th er day murky, fOggy
and. rainy, depressing the spirits, clouding
the mind and-filling tie heart with' indescribable
4 6,
uridefinabbs presages. The sun again breaks out,
• and with his appea ce all gloom has lied; the
little flower spirits sn out of their hiding plac-
es; 'shake the frost from their tiny wings, and
- laughing at the ice l9ng, are peeping around in
anticipatiOn of anothei season of happiness—but
• vainly do they hope eas thinly as the nation,)
4
for anon there comes'. a chilling blast that sends
them crouching to th• il ,
cells; then follows a thick
end-heavy snow stn , (such as, we have jest ex
_ perienced) and the wh:de scene of,the week winds
:.up ,yeith one of the
• Most tempestuous howling
_: blasts that ire have e l ver listened - to —e'en while
serum write the ineMory of it makes us fairly
- ,.. - "Wiseau use .c oisaLosrs.. r •Snow; fell to the
~, depth of about ten. in'shes on ' TueSday last, and . Our i
mountan a are o ne again clad in the. white
- drapery of Winter- - the sleighing is gloribus—
' end our ears are const4ntly 'saluted by the jingling
of the merry belle. Cur landlords are busily en
- gaged its stoCkingth t eir cellars with ice- =and —ma
-
should our city frien d] stand in need of this corn
utedityoet.them aendion their orders by the rail
lee ' We areal mi n prepared to Warm theta
in
inter and cool thin summer.
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no laliate.Conoentibn of Cool and Iron men
miU ale mble atHaniburg on Tuesday next,the
*24 but. If any oftheilelegistes frotn this coon
, ty, appointed `et the recent =Om& are unable
to ott!na, ore would advieur them to 'procure nab
du l etiVaia times lo the county m=y Ini fully
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The curse et penustrlsraastat Liegiattutots.
At the last session the Legislature waaitiong
ly petitioned by the people: to piss a Bin Illtiltdl=
icing the Banks to issue small notes for the per.
posci.el relieving there from the many difficulties
which the want preach a medium created. This
pantien was refused; but shortly after the famous ;
Relief Bill was passed with the Feteice ofassisting
the community. woos it was in fret a measure
matured fur the purpose of enuring the re
electioe of Davitnt. Potter—nme.tentits of _the
people, being strenuously opposed to it, because
totally; different from the act they had petitiOned
for. The sys'ete accordingly went into Operation
—the State was -flooded with nearly two milliods
of Relief notes—the people of the State bad learn
ed to ;depend entirely upon this currency for a
median - when the very first act of the perste
Legislature is an attempt to pass a law depreciat
ing qi l e value of their earn bantling' at least 50
per c e nt., and thereby swindling the community;
holding the trash, oblof nearly a million of dol
lars t i end this BM passed the lower House by a
vota'of 70 to 23. Such an impudent and glaring
dereliction from the upright c ;urea of honest leg ,
iblation we bad never even dreamt of. We do not
ktioW Where to finks ; parallel for such rascality—
the Repudiators of Mississippi would rise in the
comparison, as their doctrine is far front robbing
their own citizens. is true that , this Bill was
arrested in the Senate:7-frightened af.the execra
tiona.iiivhich an injured and insulted .people were
heaptug upon its originators, they shrunk from the
tisk, l and reported apether Bill as a substitute
whiehis a perfect specimen in itself. If the first
wee el type of their honed'', the second is the in
dezi of their abilities—tor we must coefess,ind
not; alone too—that a more ridiculous project was
neveribefore created, by any set of men in any
situattort.NTaking into consideration the whole
of thej : r i prAeedings, we are not at all surprised
etitione, generally signed, are circulating
through the State, requesting them to adjourn
brthwith;es thry have become in fact a laughing
stock to the community,
‘. Men are but children of a larger growth:"
thir attention s attracted forcibly a few days
since by the folloWing circumstance occurring
before our office door. A fine looking little ur
chin,iwith his pockets full of marbles, strutted up
to a erowd of boys congregated on the pavement,
and .ccosting there a ragged, cunning looking lit
tle diig,'said
'ome, Bill, let's have a game of marbles."
T which the other replied, "1 can't Ben, I'm
reglir busted."
Well," says Ben, "never mind, I'll lend you
somi."
So, accordingly at it they went; in a short time
the juvenile banker was broken, and having inti
mated that fact to his companion, he very gener
ously returned him the marble he had borrowed
in the first instance,whichin the next game was
also-lost. — Ben, after searching through his pock
ets and turning them all inside out with the hope
of fining a stray alley, stood looking the very im
age of despair.
"Well Ben, wh on't you lay in r?
hai'nt a arogle oluz , left—Pm busted now—
won't you lend me one 1
"bend you one' IV) I'll see you dang'd
- (Exeunt omnes..)
_ .
first."
Now here, thought we, is a perfect simile in
miniature of cur own state of affairs. Bill rep
resents the Government, and Ben the Banks.:—
We leave our readers to carry put the applica
tion. -..-
A:Fascss sari I'llunnEn.—On Sunday after
noon last, a disgraceful affray occurred in Bar.
low's Tavern, at New Philadelphia, on the
Schuylkill Valley Rail Road, during which a
man by . the name of Michael Waltz received a
violent" blow on hie head with a club, which
caused his immediate death. Another person
present was also considerably injured. We learn
that liquor wl4l the cause of the whole affray,
and that the man killed was endeavoring at the
Mlle peaceably:to 'quell theAisturbance. We
have also;underatood that the keeper of this tav-•
ern or grog ahop;l- is addicted to intemperance,
and therefore his license
S ought to be revoked
forthwith, as affrays are commmi at this house.
The principal combatants engaged in the fight, as
well as the man that gave the Mond blow have
all been arrested, and are now lodged in jail at -
Orivigsburg. -
'Sr. VALENTINES Dar.—This anniversary,
usually so full of interest to many of our pining
love-Making friends, occurred on Monde!, last.
The custom of choosing a particular friend on
this, day is one of great antiquity, and fur which
it is difficult .to find an origin. St, Valentine is
described as being greatly distinguished for his
loving and charitable disposition, and miny.con
ci ive that this feature in his character has tendeil
to give rise to the practice; another reason for,
the custom, and we think the most appropriate, is,
that thials' the day on which birds always choose
their mates. We never witness this anniversary
without our. thOughts'recurring (almost involun
tarily') to the Glovees pretty daughter and Harry
of the Wynd. May their exampli always be a
precedent for all future Valentines.
COMMITTER os Foams Arial ns.--One of
the most silly acts which has characterised the
present session - of Congress, was the resignation
of four of the Southern members on the Commit
tee of , Foreign Affairs, because •John Quincy
Adams was chairman of said committee. The
Rouse very properly accepted these resigaations
with hut one dissenting voice. It is lamentable
that men of enlarged views, imbued with a spirit
of patriotism instead of/at/ion, cannot be select
ed to legislate for the people.
Lines Rccsirrs.—We learn that the receipts
on the Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville Rail
road, for the transportation of 'passengers, mei
chan:fize, Coal, &c., have averaged, since its open
ing, -*bout Eight Hundred Dollars per day:- -
These receipts are much larger than was antici
pated at, this season of the year. If the Compa
ny have the means to accommodate the trade, the
receipts will be doubled next spring.
Tns APVICIAWIIIIII AN AIVSI3IIA illt.--011 Taft
day next the citizens of our Borough inteApay
ing the usual tribute to the memory of Washing
ton by various celebrations. The military will
all parade on that' day; and we anticipate a bril•
lam turn out. Thei evening will close with two
Balls,'one of which will be held at this Pennsyl
vania Hall, and the other in the Town Halk,,the
large 'room of which, we understand, has been en
gaged for the pu'rpose. '
Dsonsansotrps Inzirsses.—Wo were call
ed upOn yesterday by Mr. Hoicistizsa, withe few
specimens et Daguerreotype Itheuesses• fur our
inspertion--they are more distinct than - any we
have ever wen,. Mr; H. has taint a room in
Market street, under the .printing office of the
German Pro.., where he respectfully Widest, the
citizens to cell and examine for themselves. His
terms eta very . moderate. ,
HOME LEACIIIX TOE Tax Paorzcrtoz or
ADISRICAN persotur favorable to
the formation of a ft,ente tag* will please all
and leave their names.at this alike preparatory to
the calling of a pubke meeting for the organize.'
tian of_the same.. - *O' should like to see; the
whole community embark in this =um. Mine,
raeattanira, laborers, merehants4llV—for are
interested. , :=•!,
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ME
ME
MEE
MMM4M=INIE
MENsni! iOIIIIX Ar.
rangemente-will be Made M liehertlinWM;
liver the Me m?' Jounifil tif the &coin of o ur **.
senberi PhiltiLielphie,ery ls . l . oll4 4afteribon
, ,
Tasvez.irso.—A n 3 eetingof Stage Proprietors
was hold in this Borough last weeltisnil!i lies o f
stages, „1„,.; io con tieetion with' the Rail Road,
was arranged, extending to the, bike Counties, in
New York, to take effeckifter the first of April
next.
:1
These arrangements, as far as we can learn, are
as follows:—Thspasseng fit will leave Philadel
phia. e t half past 6 o'clocki,'—dinSin,Pottaville,—
arrive at Northumberland' about 7 o'clock—take
t h e , Picket Boat for Williamsport—sup : on
board, and retire to rest—iarrive at Williamsport
early unit morningand take the Williamsport
and Elniira ROI Road es' far as completed; and
stages from that point connecting with . the Lakes
and the great Erie Canal.! At Northuvberland
the line will also' branch off to Wilkes-Barre and
North Pennsylvania, by means of Packet Boats
end Stages. It is believe,t .that all tho travelling
from that section of t he country. will pass through
this place next spring, ,it being the nearest,
cheapest, and most expeditious route to Philadel
phia and the city of New. York. , •
a The fools are not all dead yet," is a:very
common expressioii,—bui we have nver seen it
so completely verified as in finding in the' pro
ceedings" of the 'Legislature, applications, and one
or two BillsrePorted, for the incorporation of Coal
Companies. The applicants must be fit subjects
for a lunatic assylum, and ought to•be caught and
caged forthwith.
The Richmond Star lie,— under a great mis
take. We newer steal, nor copy from that paper
without credit. If we chase up a good joke in
our exchanges extracted from that Journal with
out credit, we are not guilty of the larceny. Are
you satisfied Corporal ?
Mr;Snyder, of Columbia county; has reported
a Bill in 'the Legislature for the removal of the
Sea of Justice of Columbia county from. Daville
to Bloomsburg.
We learn that it is intended to mate he remo
val of the Seat of Justice, the test qn , gzfion in this
County at the next election.
Mexico.—Recent accounts from Mexico, re
ceived at New Orle'ans, stale that a part of the
Texian - prisoners, captured on the Santa Fe Ex
petlition, had arrived et Mexico. and were engaged
in the felon's occupation of street cleaning, under
a strong guard, It is doubtful whether the tyrant
Santa Anna will release them from bondage un
less compelled by force.
The nomination of Mr. Barker, as First Comp
troller of the Treasury Department at Washings
t-m, has been very properly rejected by the
Sena:e, by a vote of 23 to 17. Mr. Darker was
removed by the lamented Harrison, and afterwards
re-instated by President Tyler.
Among the signs of the times it may_ailWell
be mentioned, that there is at preseida commit
tee at Washington from Virgini a, urging Con
gress to establish a Tariff for the protection of
American Industry'.
SitIiFEFUL, CONDUCT.TIVO persons were, on
'Wednesday of last week, convicted in Chester
;County for fighting and creating a riot on the
election ground last fall, and sentenced to one
month's imprisonment. On the Saturday follow- .
ing they were pardoned by the Governor.. Why not
abolish our Courts of Justice at once, and save
the - people the expense of trials by jury.
Pas►anrao.—One of our boat-builters is mak
ing arrangements to build Cars for the Rail Road
To Conntssosnaxxs.—Several communica
tions crowded out of our present" paper shall ap
pear in our next.
If the sy6tem of whipping in Schools does not
facilitate education—it certainly does make boys
smart.
Hortnlßtr..—We understand that a -Miner,
whose name we have not learnt, whilst descend
ing an air shaft in this neighborhood, was pre
cipitated head forernost do:Ca the slope, and shock
ing to relate, broke his pipe.
It was once observed that a celebrated mnsi
cian was a dissipated fellow. "Yes," said anoth
e 4 "the whole tenor of his life is base.
PERIODICAL AND NE , ;IIPAPER AGENCT...-W0
refer our readers to " Our Card," in another part
of the paper. We are determined to make our
Establishment not only the head-luarters' for
News, but also for the dissemination of the best
Periodical Literature Of the country.
We see by our Wastiington papqrs that Ben.
ten's resolution for the postponement of the bank.
rapt law, had been rejected by a Er . akjority of five.
The law is therefore Safe , foi the present session:
Tits STYANER MISSISSIPPL—WiII some of
the Philadelphia papers inform us whether this
steamer is using American or British Coal
The interest on the State Debt was paid at the
Bank of Pennsylvania during the past wgek.—
Governor Porter superintended the payment in
person.
The a Dickens Bill," according to the N. Y.
Tribune, was the most splendid affair that ever
came off" in that city. •
CONGIMISICINAL TEXPZIFIA . TICE So erzry.—We
are gratified by observing in one of our late Wash
ington papers, the Constitution and Proceedings
of a new Temperance Society there, organized by,
and composed entirely of, the mentbeis and ex
members of Congress. Their Constitution is
prefaced by the following reasons :
gg Regarding the use of intoxicating liquors as
injurious, and tending to produce individual and
social evils of the most dangerous kind; and de
sirous, by uur individual 'example and nnited ef
foits, to check and control those evils, - vve do hero
by, agree to form ourselves intoa Temperance Bo
cietl." .
• TUE PEOPLE IN . TUE kforliso.--Tne
Peoria Regtstei, after giving the priits44 prod nee
in that market as follows:
"Pork $2; Wheat 62 1-2 e; Potatoes 25e.&c:.
and stilt tco high to rend off. as Wheat hi but, Vic:
at St. Louis; Pork but 2 cents at New Orleans;
Lard Sc., Butter 12; Potatoes 2c.—Adds :
" If these prreea do not make the sellers Tariff
men. we know not what, will. Give us a Pro.
tectivo Tariff. and Pork Can never , bewOrth lesi
.than $3 per 100 pounds heti. nor leo than double
this!price in New °deism' We rejoice to see
that a movement is on foot:here to this , end. A;
petition was in circulation this week, which was
signed by almost every man to whom it was pre
sented. We will give itwith the names of the
6igners in our neat. ' • - ' • •
&mat Tariff meeting, without regard kcl Par'
ty, was, held at Harrisbing last weak - ,f udg e
Blythe participated in the proceeding of the 1128 eta
. .
The Presidialt,`, hie! appoi n ted .Viraehni Ir.
...
ving *mimeo. , !3pein--liiid Wieldy Thozipsen,
of South Caroline; - Minister to . :
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Two Watchmen were arrested in New York
•it week tot robbing stores.
THE MINERS'
f:Xtraoolaanr_refformaii
!•delpidakfieiulintat Poi 1
t r : Wrifingl in the ttotai S
~ :
&m
'day . last, Ito following ata
. ,
ou..
ance Of the new x.whee g
tke establishment of Messrs.
Hat day last, furnish ed , bY:G
'iroperigiulatt of. transports
urtpreeedenied length an
any other performance on a
world. • IN N,,
" This engine hart six I! c
sections. - The large drive
ameter,) are bchinolthe fire
,with the 4 truck wheels, (33
by cog gearing, in Such a
'Whetting) orthe whole weigh
little additional faction, an
allow the requisite play: to c 1
Her weight, in running
on her large drivers', 11,775 1,1
each; on the truck wheel 18,
on each, and her cylinders ar
and. 16 inches stroke.
This engine hauled, on lb
of 117 loaded cars, weighing
Reading to the Inclined Pla
Railroad, 54 miles; in 5 ho
bring at the rate of uver 10
whole way. •
She consumed 2 6.10 cur
porated 3,110 gallons of w
train.—Weight of freight, 3
consisting of 259 tons aeon
nails, and 94 tons of sundr
including 53 live hogs. 10
bbls. flour, ship stuff, butt
cars, 215. tons, making a
eluding engine and' tender, 11
lbs.
•
Whole length of train, 140
a quarter of a ;pile. Th
transported in the ordinary I
road, and was run without
tion of engines, care or fuel
The engine was clOsely watl
of the train, and not the !ca l
her wheels could be percetv •
markably well throlighout th
of 819 feet radius, with ea
and no, perceptible increas , '
gearing. Her spead with'
was found to be 9 miles per
Whole length of level, o
train was hauled, 28 miler
level, 6 4-10, miles; "total'
where the train , was started
210 feet."
Tut thurrit BARK BILL
tures in this Bill are the
pulsioa it places upon the
resume the payment of op
forfeiting their charters, with
Bank shall be compelled d
ninety days to pay a grea
. er ceat of its capital actual
lief notes are to be received
of the whole issue to be can
State, Mier the first of Marc
We think it probable - this
it should, vre_doliot see ho
peopla 9r effect the ,banks.
• Since the above was in t
nighu Mail, that the Sen.
passel the legislature.
Or IbOAL 4
ON Tat RAIL
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_
Rosa.—The promulgation of the rates o f toll and .
Transportation of Coal on this road for the pre
sent year, Los caused quite d sensation among the
_Coal operatives in this regioa. The very low rate,
(one dollar and fifty cents
t er ton, with a deduc
tion of 80 cents per ton those who furnish
their own cars) will securel to the road all the
trade they con accommodate the ensuing season,
unless the liavigafion Company make a further
reduction of toll on the Canal. This is the gen
eral feeling here, and it has already given a con
siderable impetus to the trade, knowing; as we do.
that.if these rates are adhcrad to, this region can
place Coal in the Atlantic markets at a much
cheaper rate than any of the other Coal regions in
the State.
t
ThcrPhiladelphia II eke t i efuseto take the notes
of the country 'Brinl I without a deposit. The
country Banks oughtio adript a similar arrange
ment with regard to the city Banks. his notori
MIS that the country Banks hove lost more by the
depreciation of the mites of Icily Banks, than the
city has lost by those of the - country. .
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GREAT FEaT.—The New York papers state
that George Washington !Dixon secemplished
the feat of walking 48 homd without rest. Sev
eral others made the anemia, but broke down—
one poor- -fellow was- taken'off the plank, after
walking 46 hours, in a state of delirium:
In 1830.. we had the bes,:currency . in the
e
world. The lopes 'declared they would - coals it
better. Have they ;done so} ‘ ` . 7..et the people an=
ewer that question.i
The Ledger takes strong ground in favor of
immediate resumption.—Penn.lnci.
The Ledger ititai take.s strong ground against
1
a Protectiv?Tarifi; the wan l of which will prevent
the banks from maintaining a permanent resump
tion if they shOula attempt resume. '
J. B. Boyd, late Cashier of the ToTtn.a
Bank, shot himself in Philadelphia,onA'hms
,
day last.
The estate of Mies Grogan is said to be worth
$2,000,000 or $3,0p0,000.
Ma. Wlearsa.—An atrocious calumny upon.
Mr. Webster, which first appeared in so in
fluential a paper as', the LoUisville Journal, bas
thence beer' circulated through other less respon
sible journals.
We mean not to soil our eolninns even with
any distant allusion to a story so foul end false,
and advert to it now merely that :we may state,
as it gives, us unfeigned satisfaction to do, that
upon Mr. Wiekliffe' l a calling the attention of Mr.
Webster to the publication in the Louisville
Journal, that gentleman at once .went before a
magistrate, and denied, under gall, every partend
parcel of. the alleged of and every clerk in
his office (most or all of whom' were, in the ittery,
sa id to have become cognizant of the 'nutter) in
like manner made 'path to the falsity of - ell tbat
concerned them.. I
We have "seen authentic copies of theseaffilla
vita, of which the Origami's hale been transmitted
by the Post Muter General to the Louisville
Journal for publication.
We trust the editor of that paper will give to
public indignatiOn l the authority upon which he
was induced to put forth a statement so cireuro
stantial'and so dishonOring to an eminent public
-N. • • -
sery
.anser. •
Hcrxnuck,nevitan.—Tbe /fonorabk Thomas
8. - Benton, linoWiag the 'absence of ipecte from
the rational Trearry.—ci ceas t„ e d by his owt,i
;humbug schemes Obtain a a - better curreicy"—
than which, (Until hirnielfd a said financial
puke undertook to improve
. 11) tho' world never
A a new better, has caused a eheedrawn by the
Clerk of the Senate, for his per dientlhmenee,
to 4 protested, he refusing to receive', Victory
P 70164 which Were the last resort of f i le late*,
ministration, of which he walla leading member.
This doneif and Aimosaile Mr. Benton, charges
the government for the bijest tr arul &tureen his,
nominal residence and the seat of government,!'
from: which , he 'neverpirforms,Mn); it is said,
does riot pay fda vim; clebte;'even . Treanny
Nome:or/hid) his aMclittiri would be very glad to
receive! , sO,. most honest Tago 1" Does not he
feel ticklish 'boat the melt r--conn.
URNAL.
tee on theYbilev.
svillidtadritad.
Ice Mutt* of Mon.
einem, of. the per.
ed Loeomotie - O, from
sldwin & Vail, on
A. Mono:m . 4 Erq..
ion.. This train is
weight, by that of
ilrosd in the known
WHAT rr Corrse—The expenisea of the Uni
ted States Government are about $2,500,900 per
month. ,
. The,zr arA . !rper!alotieriorthe United States
Goveritment who hove .di the last year,
=mints to 862.' - •
__; ,
hir than ono thousand dollars has been &In-
Ilibuted,lo Albany to team the suffering opera,
lives of lasgow, Scotland,_
s and outside con-
(44 inches in di
bee. and connected
ocherin diameter.)
ay as ttiobtain the
I of the englite„wittt
at the same lime 3
,riles.
A VALeCIATIONr4t ie primate ( ' that Lon
don pays, ,£200:11/0 per day more for its bread than
it would Dave_ to pay, were the Cosa Laws Owl
ished.
• cp It is stated in the Nashville Banner, that
the Legislature of Tennessee had agreed to ter.
minate its session on the 7th inst., and it was not
expected , that any election of Senator would be
ma3e. -
,ader, is 30,000 lbs.;
Lbs.; or 5,887 lbs. on
025 lbs.or 4,565 ibi.
re 13 inches diameter
The national debt of Russia is upwards of
$300,000,000. 'lt draws only 5 per cent. inter
est, and yet the certificates sell in England at 14
per cent. premium, to the same capitalists who
will not touch the United States; six per cent.
loan.
- above date, i train
in all 590 tons, from
e, on the Columbia
n rs and 22 .minutes.
1 miles per hOur the
of wood, sod'etra
, ter, witb thei above
5 tone, of 2240 14.;
, 22 tone of iron and
other merehyndize,
di. of whiskey. 188
r • &c. Weight of
oral weight, not in
-590 (boa of 2240
In part of the Netherlands, the women,partake
with men in "the most laborious operations of
husbandry—and a recent tourist says he saw "a
young woman harnessed with a man."
• Corii.E.—Ctiba yields $3,000,000 worth of
Coffee annually.
Mr. Upshur has given instructions to the
several Navy Yards, to supply the- Crews of
vessels going on a cruise with a Bible—one to
each mess.
feet. or 82 feet over
above train was
'eight business of the
y previoue prepare.
lor the performance.
hed at all the starts
t *lipping of any of
I d. She worked re
-1: trip, turning curves
i e to her machinery,
! of friction in her
e train on klevel;
/ our. ,-
The Senate of Tennessee has adopted a reso
lution calling upon the Banks 4 that State to
resume specie - Payments on the filet of January,
1843.
Lao, Svssmsas.—The Secretary of the Navy
has ordered one or more iron war steamers to be
constructed on Lake Erie without delay.
'An electkin will beheld on the Ist of March
for a member , of Congress, to. occupy the seat A ,
the late Hon. David Dimock. The locosAave
nominated Almon HI Read as their,ndidate.
!er which the above
longest continuous
all, from the point
to *hero it stopped,
The debt of Maryland is no,w-lifteen millions
two hundred and thirteen thousand dollars an
average of about s47,..toevery white inhabitant of
the State.
—The principal fea
rollowing: The corn
. . : to immediately
.
e under penalty of
he provision that no
ring any period of
1 1 Y r amount than five-
in 18336 therewere in Paris 3,147 furnished
hotels; containing 39,619 lodgers; in 1839 there
were 4.967, with 62,153 lodgers ; and, at present
there are 5,065, having 75,500 lodgers.
paid in. Th e
re-
usual, and
-lled annually by the
, 1843.
Moamostssi •lID LOCOVOCOISX BLENDED,...
Joe Smith has issued his edict. directing the Mor
mons to vote for the locofoco candidates for State
officers of Illinois.l happy union. The reli
gious principles of the one, are almost as absurd
as the political principles of the other. They are
both founded on the principle of.huinbisgisin
bill will pass, and if
it can benefit the
pp, we learn by last
resumption bill has
DEATH WanuaNT.--Nicholas Reinhart is to
be executed at Reading, on FridathU 25th of
Match next.
At the marriage of the President's daughter,
no wine,ot ardent spirits - was used by the com
pany.
HONE IsT2frar.—A convention of the citi
zens of the Miami Valley, without distinction of
par,i4vomble to the encouragement of Domes
tic Industry, is to be field at Hamilton, Ohio, on
the 16th of March, 1842.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Patriot, thinks that the session of Congress
may go much beyond May, and even to the mid-
Ale of July or August.
B iNlCßUPTll ! — trioarde of three hundred pe
titions have already been filed in the Boston Dis
trict. -
A locofocn Stabs Convention, held lain week at
Richmond, Ye., proposed that the Resumption be
postponed until next Decpmbei,
ResustrrzoN trr MARYLAND.—On Tuesday
last, thdlenate of this State by a vote 0f . 12 to 5,
agreed to name no earlier day forresumption than
the Ist August next.
The Catholic Temperance Association of Al
bany, numbers upwards of 3;500 members.
YALE Cotr.los.—Mr. Bancroft says that Yale
College owesits birth to ten worthy farmers, who,
in 1779, assembled at Branford, and each one
laying a few voluines on a table, said, "I give
these books for the founding of a college in this
colony."
It is -rumored, but not ienerally believed, that
the - Hon. Waite, Forward intends resigning his
situation as Secretary of the Treasury.
He who says that poverty is a virtue, makes a
virtue of necessity.. _ •
. „
The lion. Wm. Sprague - as been elected Sen.
athrin Congress frourifie State of RhOde Island,
in the placeillon. Nathan F. Dickson, re
cently d p
there are any who doubt, oar faith,. let thein
.k of what importance religion is .to calamity
and forbear to 'weaken its force if they cannot
restore our happiness, let them not take away
the solace of our affliction—Afacirenzie.
The Baltiinore Patriot is of opinion, .that the
state insolvent . _ laws have been abrOgated and su
perseded by the passage of the Bankrupt Law.
The tolls for Anthracile coal on 'the Busquehan
pa and .1 4 forth Branch divisions of the canal, a
mounted to $41,500 the last year, being en in
crease of 100 per cent. -
Bsar SPLII%—rThd great marble building , in
Wall street, erected by the United Stites Bank,
and now 'owned by the=i3ank of the 1%6, is be
ing split in two by means of the erection of a
centre wall, and is to be hereafter occupied by
the Bank of the 'State' and the Bank of Com
merce.
A man in New York undertook to walk forty
eight hours without -rest. lie kept on his feet
thirty-five, and then gave out.
Last week the U. S. Marshal at Charleston, S.
C., seized a valuable lot of jewelry that had been
smuggled into that port from France. The own
er escaped to Havana.'
WILT. ACCEPT.—The Legislature of Tennessee,
has passed a bill to receive the proceeds of the
Government Land, agreeably to. the Distribution
Law of the Extra Session_
P 110011323 OF imarzasaci.—Neit, Moore, &
Co., nvtensive Mail contractors in the West, re
fuse to employ any Stage.drivers who drink spir
ituous knots. ' •
A young Frenchman, the son of a merchant,
thus4l.cmsmences his biography : a/ am the son of
Piertle,Jarehts 4 Co." •
WAS lISSF^S few days sinee,•running at large
in ourboiougb, a.biped—genus unknown—he is
SupPoae&to have strayed away from some tra'vel•
ling menagerie look out fors reward. -
isNo IfoxlWOovsneratErr."—The New
yea Herald says . * Mis. Tuttle, of Prospect, was
—mated to jail on Saturday by the Superior .
Court at New Haven, “for refusing to testify; on
the ground of conscientious sertiples, die &hying'
the jurisdiction of the COurt and all human laws. .
She still remains in jail, and thinks the acconyno
datiens prettY good for a martyr." She helonga
to the secabsignated as “Non-resistiinte' • '
The Phopli, Bank of New York, was gobbed,
of $l4OO at the*thinst., - •
2tll,6*inte'_:oC - 34itio.'r
comet mid Setected.)
Ell
From the. Newark Advatiser. •
"The obl.man Eloquent.”
Win-Adams is, perhaps, ihe most remarkable
man'of our day and conotry. Possessing a
powerful and unclouded intelltct, noorished by
wholesome learning. raised -and instructed by
fearless though reverent questionings of the wise
of other
. times, exercised by free discussions among
the living. and by mixing, with energy and zeal.
in the practical affairs 'of public life fur half a
century. be now enjoys a green old'age, and uni
formly eihitcts the intrepidity of Luther in the
pursuit of what he considers the right. And
pithaps at no period iu his life has he given
greater testimony' of his remarkable preparedness
for auy and • every exigency, than during the
present effort in Congress to 'turn him from his
purpose.
Our readers have already had some 'account
of,his fainous reply to the_Marshali resolutions
on Monday of last week. The correspondent
of the New York American has drawn a graphic
description of the whole encounter, and we• ex•
tract the following sketch of the figure and ap
pearance of the venerable patriot on that memora
ble occasion. thlr. Marshall had just presented
the resolution is an imposing speech:
When he 'concluded, and the Speaker an
nounced to Mr. Adams that his position entitled
him to the floor, I thought of a parhilel scene,—
" Then Agrippa said unto Paul, It is permitted
unto thee to speak for thyself. And Pahl stretch
ed forth his hand and said.--"
Up rose, then, that little, feeble. bald, gray,
tottering old man, his eyes dimmed and his hands
trembling with constitutional infirmity and age—
upon whose consecrated head 'the vials of tyrannj
wrath bad been now outpoured; while aroind
him gleamed a hundred lowering broy,4l long
standing hereditary hate kindled into new fury by
-•.• rousing of the vilest, moat-> rutal and 'sordid
• ions. Among the crowd z of slavers who filled
the galleries, he
around
no friends, and but
a few among thir around him over all of whom
in years goy, he had held almost imperial
sway.e vision of that hour, that moment, I
felt aw e s worth more to me than all the rest of my
life. No romantic or dramatic, scene of fictitious
interest ever awakened by the powers of poetic
fancy, the high emotions of this solemn, throbbing
reality.
- Mild, calm, unexcited, undepressed, he turned
his meek face on a scene appalling to many,„s
heart that had o stouter covering, and raised'his
voice, high keyed as usual, but clear, untrertMlous,
and firm. The infirmities of body disappeared in
a moment, and if ynu noticed his' shaking, half
hand. you did so only tothink of the old
Doge of the Adriatic Republic on " the Giant's
stair-case."
"Thou-tremblest, ledliero."
"'Tie with age thew"
At fust,Xleare was nothing of indignation in his
tone, manner , or words. Surprise and cold con
tempt were all. But soon a flash of vithering
scorn struck the unhappy Marshall to the earth,
and a single breath blew all his mock judicial
array into air and smoke. ‘• Ms puny mind !"
0, it wee exquisite ! Poor Marshall is on his
back flat in the mud, and will never rise again.
But the grandest touch of the whole was where
Adams, in a tone of insulted majesty, and rein
vigorated spirit, and in reply to the audacious and
atrocious charge of "high triason."--.. I call for
the reading of the brat paragraph of the Rect.. ri.s.
TION OP INnzezinevcs.! Read it! Read it!
And see what that says of :the right of a people
to reform, to change, to dissolve their govern-
ment."
The look, the tone, the attitude and gesture of
the venerable inSulted patriot, at that instant,
were most Imposing. The voice - was that of
sovereign command as of a Cesar to his legions.
His slight stooping frame seemed to dilate and
heighten ; the burthen of seventy-five years had
rolled off from him, and he shone out above the
slight things around him, (who hod thought
themselves his equals in being his associates.)
like an ennointed king, or an inspired prophet.
When the reader came to that passage of the
Declaration ,that solemnly proclaims the right of
Reform, Revolution, and resistance to oppression,
the old man thundered out, read that-again!"
And he looked proudly around on the listening
audience, as he heard his triumphant vindication
sounded forth in the glorious sentences of our
Revolutionary Magna charta. The sympathetic
instantaneous revulsion of feeling was tremendous
and palpable, though voiceless. Every drop of
free, honest blood in that vest assemblage, bounded
with the high impulse; and every fibre thrilled
with the excitement. The whole action, though
simple, natural, unaffected, was dramatic and ef
fective - beyond Bhakspeare's noblest conception.
John Philip It emblo might have learned in this
school of nature's action.
A - strong exhibition of the facts in the case,
mostly in cold, calm, logical, measured sentences,
concluded Mr.' Adams' high toned appeal from
the profane babblers of this slavish generation, to
the sainted Fathers of that system of Revolution
•gry liberty, of which he is the coeval, and the
noblest champion and representative, and then he
sat down vindicated, vietoricus.
From the Y. N. Tribune
WOO Per TOE Durtsst—lt has been so often
repeated . by Southern men, that the planting
States pay an increased price both on articles
obtained from abroad and those supplied at home
by reason of high duties—that many intelligent
pen, but without practical knowledge of trade
suppose this to be true. Whereas—the reverse
is the fact; the Northern manufactures consumed
at the South are chiefly coarse fabrics that could
not be imported if there were no duty to be paid;
and high duties on- imported goods used in any
great, quantities by the Southern People have
never been levied by Northern influence, nor in
truth been paid.
' The aggregate increased cost by reason of a
duty above 20 per cent. for the last 15 years, on
all the products and merchandize--bath imported
and supplied by the Northern States--consumed
in aU the Southern States—is not as great as the '
loss by the merchants of this city in any one
year of large importation, by bankruptcies and
derangements of our currency caused by the ab
sence' of noteetive laws. We o ft en hear the
enquiry rage : When will the Southern People
learn; their true interests I when will they join
with !us to pass laws beneficial to the 'whole
country?. The answer.must be—never—so long
as disappointed politicians sway the Southern
minds. Political rivalry is more intense in its
effects upon the minds and temperaments of men
than any other—and whilst the injurious results
act upon the interests of others no hope of change
of opinion or feelingi can be expected.
The question is_ not one of political economy
but of political ascendency, and the opposition to
laws protective of Northern industry arises from
dread of Northern supremacy, an intense hatred
of Northern prosperity ; and the sooner, this is
understood by the "honest men both in the
Southern and the Northern' States.the better fOr
the interests of all.
The States claiming purtection for they' • labor
are in the majority and it is their:duty to the
whole country. to pass lam that will protect the
interests of all. Let there be ifyou,pieui o
dis
crimination in favor of the planting States by
taxing as heretofore more slightly pricks used
chiefly in the Southern:States: but let not the
positive interests of the whole Union be sacrificed
to increase the political consequence of. Southern
demagogues., • •
Yin: Taus
.Docrataa.—fa writer in the lies.
ton Atlas says, that, having been a careful ob.
server 'of causes and effects, acts and results, se
they have .been brought forward and .unfolded
within the last few years," he has drawn iam b
conclusions, which if not e x actly axioms with cer.
lain great writers on political economy, neverthe
less appear to him to be consiatent with common
sense. They are as follows:
1. 1 hold it trite that a nation which is wholly
agricultural, which expods its 'rew produttions,
and imports nearly all the . manufactured mucks t
it consumes, will alwiis be pour and ignorant.
2A`tkt a nation which pays a doilara day e n 1
hater, can' never compete in manufecturea with
another which pads :quly 20 cents, if Trade is
free. The price of labor must decline in the one,
or rise in the other, or both these ceases combin.
ed mud make an equilibrium, otherwise tha cheap
labor, will Command all the work.
3. That inasmuch as a liber is wealth," and
Inasmuch as the combined wealth of individual s
makes the aggregate of national wealth—so the
value of labor ie a consideration of equal impor
tance to the individual and the nation; and there
fore, that the nation which can keep tly,price of
labor up to a dollar a day, is richer - individually
and collectively, than one whit cannot raise it
over twenty cents.
4. That if these tero,n tions, paying these ex
treme prices for 1E4604 open their ports to each
other on terms orperfect reciprocity, the price of
wages in durich nation, must decrease, till its
workin en sink to the level of working men irs
the oorer nation if these latter ere suf f iciently
umerous to supply the wants of both with ease.
5. That for these reasons, and for others which
it is not now needful to mention, free trade, if
we could have it with all the world, would 'quer'
the price of our labor to the standard of Europe,
crush a large portion of our Manufacttirers, and
with them our working imen ; cripple our, com
merce; make us dependent on foreign nations for
articles of necessity, comfort and luxury, save the
raw - productions of our, ; form a continual
drain upon our resources; give us poverty in place
of wealth ; ignorance instead of education; vice,
crime, and misery, for virtue, peace and happi
ness; and finally, despotism for freedom.
FACTB FOR THE CURIOUS-NOTES 111031 MR.
Tit.c.shinos's Aonnitsa.—The revenue derived
in Europe, on American TObacco, is upwards of
$ 30,000,000—the tost of which here, is $ 7,000,-
000. England alone charges upwards of $ 17,.
000,000 on 18,000 hogsheads of-our Tobacco.
The duty on Rice is Ors. sterling, being more
than one hundred per cent. On the cost.
Flour is, in ordinary times, subjected to a pro.
bibitory duty.
Salted Pork pays a duty of $6 per bbl. , about
its present price in this country.
Lumber is subjected too prohibitory ditty.
• Every article of American Manufacture is met
by prohibitory , duties.
Coal also is prohibited, the duty being upwards
of $7 per ton.
Even , cotton pays 2a. fld. per cwt., and as
soon as she has succeeded in getting her India
plantation to produce the requisite supply, Ameri
can cotton will be aret l with a prohibitory duty.
Five years, it lie confidently'predicted, will bring
about this (to them) ‘derdrable end. India will
drive the Cotton and Rice planter from the Eng.
lish market, as she did the producer of
The cost of production in India is nothing, as
compared with even that of slave labsr. Manilla
Sugar is now selling in Boston, after paying duty
at 5i cents per pound.
HOURIBLE BannaniTz.--The Belfast (Me.)
Signal states that the wife of Joseph JeilisOn, of;
Brooke, in Waldo county, came' near being mur
tiered by having hot lead poured in her ear. Tile
family consisted of Mr; Jellison and wife, and
three small children'. They retired to bed as,
il
usual. About two o'cloii she was awakened by'
o sensation as though her head was onlire, en
screamed. Her husband seized hold of her a 1 ,
asked whet was the matter. She told heinto g
some water and pour'into ' her ear, which reliev , 4
her somewhat. They sat up together tli rematit)-
ing part of the night ; she received, no ire , ; *
~ 1
kind treatment, though , no physician was eTt fo
until morning. The physicians testified tbitt Ai
cavity in the ear was filled with eithey led)
j ii
some fusible matter—that it was visitilalppon r i
amination, and that the cavity of thheer skaiq
firmly fi lled that they could not f(ll4l6if # l it
1 ,5
tyeir instruments, though they had taitep ,oi,
'leveed pieces. The woman. as may besupfilio
ci
hak nearly if not wholly lost her 'itilis44,B
whether she will survive is doubtful. i' jelli ~ .it
has been examined before a magistrate and .64' ).
ed to go at large.- a , 'I
GOOD EFFECT OT THE BANKRUPT Law.
The Evening Post, in commenting on ,the
number of applications for the benefit of this lavr
on Wednesday, rematks:
"The 'fewness of the applications ( may be ID
pag accounted for by the fact, that many patinas
wholad spoken of taking the benefit of the set,
entered into compromise with their creditors.,
One gentleman of the bar, who had been engaged
to present twenty applications, found that sixteen
of his clients had matte arrangements with their
creditors before the law took erect."
The u Bond payers" in Mississippi are 'in
creasing in numbers and respectability: It would
not be 'surprising if that 4 , repudiating" doctrine
should yet be expunged in that state. The
Natchez Courier has opened a list of seceders from
the repudiating party and. the following paragraph
speaks of its success. The number for January
22d, says—
, Dour! Peysns.—Our list continues daily to be
tilled op with names. Let 01l our friends 'come
up and chew the world that old Adams county is
yet honest. We will publish our list as soon as
wo think we have -nearly all the names of the
city.. The, list is still open at our office.
• The Steamboat B 1116TOL, which had been de
tained in Pittsburg by the Sheriff; under claims
for upwards of ss,ooo—cleared out with two of
the Sheriff's officers aboaid of her. The Sheriff
had placed officers on board fu_ r. several days and
the boat is supposed to have left while the men
were asleep. The Pittsburg American says the
Sheriff has set out to New Orleans in pursuit.
HOME Isnurruye—A State Convention is to
be held on the 17th inst. at Hartford, Conn. to
adopt - measures for laying before Congress the
claims of Home Industry, to be prOtected by dis
criminating,duties against the labor of countries
that virtually exclude from their markets the pro
ducts of our Labor.
The aill for this Convention, which appears
in 'the Hartford Courant, is signed by,, the most
responsible men of the leading towns in'Conneee
ticut,,
The proceedings of the meeting of Coal and
Iron men of this county, were presented to the.
Legislature on Saturday last, by Col. Straub.
Sinout.sa.--Prentiee, of the' Louisville T"'"
nal, has lost the use of both of his sm.'s, and can"
not mite for the paper at primant•
.e:
- -
E:7POTTSVILLE AT.EISIIANINIISOTUT.
&
A meeting of the Institute for tbe . • 0 ,2r. t 0 e
gtlettiOn. 4
,WOUld bergoont po or the En tar
'Pianos in change their presen of Government
to that ota at Town Hell.
23tb, et ?o'clock:
" n 1; 1 2 4 7 4 9. " ern i ngioams FOSTt.R. secer.