THE PORTER.
111
JO E. 8. GOODRICH, .?„ E pr io n ,.
GEO. SANPERSON, y
Wednesday, December 20,1843,
PreSident in 1814,
COL. RICHARD M. JOHNSON,
AF. KENTUCKY.
.tubject to aecigioa of a Notional Convention:)
Operation of the-present Tariff.
"What's iii a name?" is an old say
ing,"and One_which"Alrejectors of 'a
. tariff must have welceimsidered, before
they "gave \ the name of “protective
tariff," to laws building up the rich, and
depressing - Pie poor. There is 'some
thingin this_name it least which at
. first pteposiesses the catual reader and
observer in its favor. The idea of los
. tering and encouraging home manafac
'tures, of being' dependent on ho foreign
country, is a patriotic and 'An3eitean
feeling, and those Who do not,- trace
cause and effect are very apt to fall' in
with that unjust and oppressive meas
ure, a highprotectiv e tariff, as being
most like - Li :to-effect -this. , They look
upon it merely as an enactment which
shall shut out all foreign commodities,
and supply their place with articles of
home manufactures -' But in doing this
they do not reflect that 'the duty must
be paid by the cons ming class of com
munity, who arc pri, cipally., the ones
least able to 'pay it, and that it goes to
build up the- wealthy "capitalists and
- tionopolists of the laud. Whom dpes
. it protect? Does it cheapen the ne
cessaries Which 'the- laboitng man is
obliged to *these for the subsistence
of his family: We all know that the
preseat tariff has increased the price
of thoie articles and left his wages as
107 or toter than formerly: Is there
a persim irt`Bradford County who could
be directly or indirectly benefitted by a
high - protective tariff? If there is, then
he is a stTekholder in some manufac
turing monopoly, and the remainder of ;
- ts.nr citizens must pay him tribute. s Wi
'have nefears for our manufactures;
they are iimiy established and able to
compete with any foreign manufac
tures without Legislative interference.
They will always' accommodate them;
selves to . the wants of a nation, and
any other foundAtion . except such ne
' cessities must be =certain and hazard 7
OEM, "KO ucing a deleterious and de
ranged at to of(rmmercial and pecu
_niary affairs, diverting the channels of
trade from their proper and steady.
course, and directing industry and cap
ital lo \an object which cannot be other
wise-Tho ruous. But we shall take
occasiotr to reoew this subject again,
as_nur prisent purpose was to intro
duce to our readers the following article
from the Philadelphia ; Ledger„ a paper
neutral in polities.' It- is well, worth
the attention of those . who - regard the
general good of our citizens, ishowing
as it does in faithful terms, the practical
operation of the present taiiff.
' ' , The more we look at a protective
tariff the more are we dissatisfied with
its unjust • and arbitrary\ operation.--
The natural effect of every tariff is to
- raise the • price of every article, on
svhich a duty ia imposed, to a sum
equal to the free trade price , and the
duty., • This, is rjainta every observer,
and if this has not been the case under
the present tariff. no persons hare been
more disappointed than thole who were
rumental in imposing it. It 'was
what they esigned to accomplish 'by
the law, an promised to do. If ,this
result hart t been effected on every
(..,
article, i is because some distirictinflu
ence has , been' In operatiOn to prevent
it; such I n , a glut in the m'arket,searcit y
among o f mon e y . . or great indebtedness among
consume , So soon as the casual in
fluences ara•reruoved, and the present
tariff has the full 'effect for which it was
designed, - we shall see the
,change in
prier* and feel , the soreness of the
burden which it iniposes. - To know
the true nature of the tariff. every sound
mind would judge of it according i to its
natural operation ,unaffected by tern pora
ry causes. But this raising of the prices
of articles to the amount of the duty is
trot ell it does. The wholesale and
the retail dealer each exact a profit on
: the duty itself is adianced by them,
the one about twe ty per '
cent, and the
other about. thirty three per et. This
increases the dut more than , half its
amount by the time it reaches the con
sumer. Suppole the cost ora dozen
'platesimported frciut" abroad to be ,
when reac hthe collector of duties,
-forty-four cents. ,He exacts , for them
a duty :off - thirteen and one fifth cents,
;Aids raises the cost 'to the 'importer
to fifty-seven and one,cfifth cents. Up
on this•csAt the . importer charges the
FE
retailer an advance—not on thesimple
free trade cost but on: the, duty also
'of about twenty percent, which makes
the price-to the retailer a fraction above
sixty-eight cents; on this ,cost:the re
tailer charges the consumer in advance
of some thirty-three and a third Per cent,
which makes the cost to the consrimer
ninety-one cents. it will be seen that
throughall, the hands to' the consumer;
~the per cantage of profit is i countd as
pi
well on the duty as on the( Ire trade'
e
cost of the' article. ' . The nate a(l price
of the ,article of plates, above instanced.
without duty, would have been about
seventy-one - cents a dozen --allowing
to the Importer and the 'retailer aft the
profits above set _down. viz: 20 per
gent. to the former, and 331 to the lat
ter. Thus is twenty cents drawn from
the consumer on the very common ar
ticle of a dozen plates, on the score of
the tarif f , whjle at the same time he is
led to believe from the face (Attie trans-
action that he pays but thirteen centa.
If the natural priceof pins or needles,
to the 'wife-of the firmer and laborer,
including the profits of the merchants.
Was sixty:four cents per pound, und er', ,
the.operation ol the present tariff the I
cost would be,, if the article could be I
imported,. ninety-six cents for ;he
pound. If the article could not be im
ported, then the home inanufaNrera
would raise the price to the . bursar
possible limit short of the cest oftrnpor
lotion under the duty. And this is the
coupe with all the articles shut out hy
the tariff."
i , We yesterday instanced dig article
Of plates for' the purpose of of illustia- , _,
Ling the fact that our ,present tariff was
fifty per cent. more enormous to con
sumers than they were led to , believe
from the face of the law, inasmuch as
the wholesale and retail dealer each
exacted a profit on - the duty as well as
on the free trade cost ,of the imported
article. We now purpose to give a
'more striking illustration, and to follow
one of the most important article of 1
domestic 'tact, through gill the steps to
the consutner. The common calico,
which is titled, more or less, by 'half
tie femalei in the country can be
brought to the Custom House for about
eight Cents.* yard. The first duty of
`the collector, under this tariff, is then
to consider each yard as costing thirty
cents. For each yard then lie ex'act a 's
duty of-thirty per cent. This duty is
nine cents. Add to it the actual cot
Of eight cents, and the cost to the im
porter, thus far, is seventeen cents.—
On this-he charges a profit of abotit
twenty per cent., which makes the
price to theietail merchant (not con
sidering the twenty cents a
yard. On this the retail merchant
charges a profit of about thirty-three
and a third per cent., and the article
goes into the hands of the . coesumer at
a cost,of twenty-seven cents - a yard.—
The natural price, with fair profits to
the merchant, would have been eleven
cents a yard. Let us fullOw/this a lit,-
de farther. Eight to ten yards are ne,
cessary' for the dress - of a female. Un
der the operation of the tariff. eight
yards would cost two dollars and six
teen cents ; under free trade - an% fair
profits, eight yards would cost, ighty
eight cents. The trimmings-- aez the
making of the dress are to be added
before the calico is of any use. There
aresome millions of females in this
country who labor for wages, and
whose wages are -one and two dollars
a week. ' It would require the labor of
such persons for - three or four weeks to
obtain the cheapest calico dress. To
go further, loot at,the article of urn
brellas, (and wile-is so-poor ai to be
without at least one?) there is a duty on
the coveting, whether of silk or cotton;
PIOMI
another on- thi. stick. another on the
horn tit)s, another on the heads, anoth-
er on the stretcher, another on.the run
ners, another on the wire,another on the
whalebone; and, as if these , were not
sufficient,. although prohibitory, there
is ajistinct dutkon the frames ;" and,
to cap the whole v Ad thus exclude every
vest* of the foreign article, thire is
yet a separate duty ort the mmbrelia.—
And yet we hear that the,preser4 duty
_ .
is not oppfes
REPORT 0' NARY OF
Wes.—The 1 stains the
report of Jam Secretary
of _War. We gleaWl3ffib following
information telative to the army. The
regular army consists ' of 716 commis
sioned officers, 17 inilitary store keep. I.
env, and 7..090 enlisted _men, (which
embraces non-commissioned officers;
musicians and, priVates of dragoons.
artillery, infantry and ritlemer,) 40
sergeants and 250 enlisted men re.
nance. making an aggregate 0f)8,613.
- "THE EXPOSITOR"—Is the : me of
a, nevi paper printed by A. C. Fer.-
LER, at Hinsdale, Cattaraugus Co.
Y. in quarto• form, at 51 50 per Yeas.—
It is .designed to‘ilinstrate the princi
plelof the Mantle! Laboring School,
established at that place: .
ADvtirruoso.—A cotem porary makes
the following sensible remark:-4 A
man's advertis' ement well circulated
newspaper, is a locomotive sign board
that, travels about and is seen by thou- .
sands weekly. MOrc.hantS and business
men should remember this."
M
Sight side of the Question.
,
The
.whigs -are asserting wi th more
than.usual confidence that they have the
ht side of the question. The Argil's
asserts it more than once in the lain Mun
i
ber;and 'therefore encourages the hope
of an easy victory. Now if the whits
with similar assurance should assert 'that
they were on all sides of the catcall n,
the history of their patty would sus ain
it. They have been' \ distinguished •by
some -dozen 'or rnoe names, and have
sailed under as m aiy piratical flags.--
Were they ou, the right side of the-ii.ties
/
tion in 1798. when they sustained the
i
Elder Adams wit his alien and sedition
and gag laws in st) osition to Tho
mas Jefferson ?
_were 'they on the tight
side in opposing the election of James
Matfilon ?- were they on the\ ri,ght side,
when opposing the declaration of the last
war, and congratulating the British on
every occasion -of their success? Were
\ • '
they on the right side when by a corrupi
bargain and sale with Henry Clay, they
succeeded, in defeatingl Genjackson
24, electing John Q. Adams ? were
they on the tight side when by this coa
lition they attempted to defeat General
.Jackson the second. time ? how have Ithe
people always decided this matter ?-'--
I again and again have they been called to
aCtipon it, and yet'notwithstanding, the
history of our country stamps the asser
tion al\farse, they still re-assert, the
same thing. \ The whits may say they
are right no\v„ because they are for a
protective tariff`and a national bank.—
Were they right in\lB2B when they re
pudiated a proteetive`tariff, if not, what
makes theni right now. \What is meant
when the' Whigs say they are on the right
is, that they are sonerAtivly„that they
are on every side, that is not the trong
side: For example in this latitude‘ they
are for a protective tariff, in the middle
and a portion of the southern states they
arJ for individual protection by way
of discriminating duties. In the ,north
they are abolitionists, in the south anti
abolitionists ; they .have indeed a set of
opinions for every , latitude, thus making
sure to be on the right side of the ques.
lion.
MAIL ROBBERY.--The mail _bag from
the Albany office,. for New' York, was
stolen from. the Post-coch or the.coach
office at Hudson, on Tuesday last, rifled
of many of its valuable contents,- and
thrown into the river, where it was found
by the Captain of the Steamboat Utica.
Of the. -- aniimut of money staled it is im
possible as yet to form any 'conjecture.
The post master at..4.. , 1,bany states that the
way-bill, was .a very heavy one, and that
there' were drafts to t i be amount of sixty
or seventy thousand dollars in the mail;
the payment of which will of course be
stopped, but the recovery of the money
is another.thing.'s
ALAMO/A.—The Democrats of this
State manifest the right spirit in refer
ence to the next Piesidency.
,Meeting.
have been held in various parti, and all
resolve to go for the nominee of a Na-
bona( CooVention. - W hen IT. Cal
houn' rriends were the most numerous,
resolutions w ere passed in favor of sus
.aining Mr. Van Buren, if nominated;
en 41r. ran 13) - ren's friends
the' majorily,in' favor of sup-
Calhoun.
we re i
porti
NEw YORK.—The New ' ork Her
a_whig paper, in sneaking of the
result of the New York election, says,
that it is satisfied that public opinion is
against Clay, Higtt 'tariff, and Nation
al Bank, and in P4 i vor of Martin Van
Buren and Democratic Measures. The
majority in the popufar vote for the De
mocrats is 21, 487
Accinkyr.—A highly esteemed and
promising young man, named Conrad
Rumage, Jr.4was accidentally wounded
so seveiely the discharge of his own
gun, while hunting on the mountaid, a
few miles to the south of „Wilkesbarre,
Pa., on Thursday ,last,, as to cause his
death the,, following morning.
FOUND.—The money and 4tes lost
by C. p.tmn. Esq., at the fire at Mr.
Post's houSe on court week, u:ere
found thit morning (Tuesday) among
the rubbish I carriediiut 'of the room =
after the fire wai.subdued.
~.... ,
- NoTA BADS.Nretrft-r-John W. Jones
‘
late 's entenced to - the Kentucky peni
tenti y for living with tWo wises, gives
us hi s Ne uss that when he had one she
&night him ;, brit when got' two
they fought each.other. , - , ,
. i
-
.. 'Mn. RE.Ab Witt accept *our tbanki for
.. --- ~ - ) ,
Congressiona i l GOCURnI,3. _
. lik -1 • .
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, -: ', • .
The Bight et Petition.
Henry Clay is making use of his cnn!
rang and craft to !secure die abolition vote.
He is deter Mined, if possible by any as
sarance, he eau give, to flatter arid coax
the abol;ionists into' his support.
Mr. arland, in a recent speech, made
atpbek
rl ri, Ohio, reek : a letter from Mr.
Clay, hi hly lauditory . of Mr. garland
and his 1 hors in the cause of the, aboli
tionists. T. 11,9 `people at Oberlin were
not to be , oaped in this way, and some
of them hive come out against him:..
l ai
The li Ilford Argui is - piping the'
,same tune, ' .. though it attempts to make
1 capital in ak other way. In its minutes
of the proc4edinis of Congress they say
that when the question was.taken on the
itst rule ..affecting the right of petition."
the Whigs ALL voted for it and those who
voted against it are ALL locofocos. Inti
mating thereby that the Whigs are in fa
vor:vf the right of petition and the ye j
mocrats are all against. It is by ,thiS
kind of misrepresentation and falsehoo
that‘the.whigs succeed, if they succee
at ail. The true history of this matter
i ?
is this. The 21st rule as it is called, .
one of the:rules formerly adopted for th
government of the house, , by the ege -
Lions of John QUincy Adams, and f r
the special , benefit of'the abotittonists.
Before it was tescb7ided, Congress w
flooded with abolition petitions, by whi
the business of the house was ret a rd
and much Ines of time. It was fina
decided that - Congress had no s right"to e
ceive petitions which jeopardised thetin
ion, and that they could not meddle wth
the institutions of any of the states, a d
so the rule was repeated.
. Ever sine this, Kr. Adams, who lis
the leader o the abolitionists in Congress,
rule - when Congres is
1 1
offers the .2,lst.
about OT pizing. The vote on the q es
tion S - how hoegreat favor the abcilitibn
ists : meet c ith -in cengreSs. As usnal
the 21st rule was reeently propn i sed
again ; as usual the deaiocrats vcited 1
against it ; but what has been unuival,
the whigs, nearly all of theM voted foriQ I
and the Argus upon this, domes out and\l
says ALL the locofoco delegation ;
Pennsylvania voted against the 401
petition. The true version of thiis is,
that the Whigs if they can gull the aboli
tionists or hood-wink the'm to vo+ for
Henry Clay.they will do it; the aboli
tionists have ever accused us of vOting
against the right of petitiOn, because our
members vote against the 21st ruk.l—
now the whips ac use us of the ame
thing. Stnyely they are determined to be
on the right side of the cinestion. •
FMB AT MONTROSE.--Me learn
he Montrose papers, 4 , that the •
sive Tannery or Mr. William Fos
Se west side of r
that c'illage, took
ion last before duals., and the
build., containing ;much raluab
chinery and stock in 'the works,
tirely consumed in a short time.
strenuous 'exertions of the citizets, the
east wing of the building, containing_ the
team Engine, Boilers, &c., vval saved
—also z an old, building on th'e oth r side,
a few feet distant, containing 4 large
quantity of bark. 'As Mr. Foster was
not insured, his loss must be scivere—
probably amounting to sl'ooo, or 1!1200.
ANOTHER A.t.mosT.--On Tuesday night
the dwelling of S. ;Hatch esq., Was dis
covered to he on fire, in the front chain.
ber, it having Caught the clothes hangiag
in the room. 1 ForiAmately . it was disco
c„
vered in time !and has xtinguished after
doing some damage. l 1
TRIAL FOR Ni#ILDER.--The trial of
Mrs. Elizabeth Tbrperting, for the Mur
der of her husbaid, occupied tearly the
whole of we 4 before last; before Judge
Moaell, at gh2gateton, N. Y I . She
was acqpioid by the Jury. The . ver
dict was
" cheered, by :the large assem
blage. f 5.)
As A uurruAnt .luaus.--Jutige Matt
ing. at St. Lotlitii, atmck thit ;names of
a Jury from the pannet .hecause they
(nought in 4 vtitclict contrary to his
instructions.
Wtscoitz.,.—it is said E 70,000 imi
grints har'il readied Wiseonson this y .
by way of the .14kes, and the nUmber•
has been itiereasid to 120,000,by emi
gration through other routes,
•Tttualow WE`a v, of the 4 lay (Eve
ning Journal, tas,returned from his tour
thro "gh Europe, and,.resum e d his editcr
rial-it'l s• " '
11
HON. M. Jows ' sos hail moaned to
his residence at White.Sulphur„Springs,
Scott co., IretitlickY;
H. cioss is ~n ounced one,
of the ediffiiiiorthe 4 , Montrose S r."
` 4 " Oksdr •
. .
Foßoßev.-:-I`he Elmira = Gaiette
aye " t hata on Saturday evening 'hist,
a certificate of deposits for $lOOO,
“payable to the order Of L. AV. Baker,”
purporting to have been issued' by the
Chemung Canal Bank, was received
by the Bank by mail, from a broker in
Buffalo. The certificate is supp Oiled
(
to have been cashed-by. The Bioker,
and as it is forged. he will be the loser
of all he paid for it, which amount is
yet unknown here. \Circumstaaces
render it certain that the forgery was
tbe :ti.ork of a journeyman prinpr,
•vained Sanauel Goldsmii#, (with a host
of alai ses) who was' employed in this
ogee, a few weeks in September and .
October, and went' to Buialo about the
i Oth dr November. A(4 days before
he left here, a lot of-blank, ificatee
were printed for the Bank; at th 4x office,
from, Which he is supposed io have par ,
loined a dumber, he having f l One .the
printing himself, and one ci , which' it
. 1
would seem , he has filled ; ou t with •an
amount to suit himself, -sand very prob
ably obtained, with the exception of a
reasonable discount, the 'full amount
for which - it was drawn.
• -•
in which he :prepared hi
for the forgery, bespeaks
disciple of Monroe Edwa
hope to see him meet the
but we fear he has fled
before,the forgery was de
TUE CALATHUMPIANS:
lawless detsperadoes, cot
the above name, and sw
the mischief possible, an
one 'another out of the
lately convicted in Co lin
and five' of their number
the Penitentiary. They!
to the neighborhood, de
property, stealing bee-hi
notice in the Columbia
marriage of one of_ their)
jail of the county the 'k
his depprture to the Pen
STEAMBOAT EXPLOSIO .--The Pius
burg Chronicle of Frida3, week contains
the particulars of a diStr i ssing accident
.which occurred at Freeport on the
•Alleghany- river, on the.. Steambpat
Warren. T,he acciden appened on
Wednesday evening, ju4t •) s
the Warren
was backing out from Freeport. She'
either collapsed hit- fiu4s or her boilers
exploded, it is UM known which, and
bf eighteen or twenty on board, twelve ,
are badly scalded ; some of them, four
or fi Ihysiciaus iithink will not
'Pm
of
EMI
from
--L.-We . earn from the
Journal of Commerce that a, petition' i
in circulation in Nen , Yo k asking
Congress to grant a peniiio for life- to
Pro
the widow of .Samuel wall, adel
quatekto her support, n the .ci n
round that
he was executed' for Piraci (on board
the 11. S. brig Somerii) without trial o t r
opportunity to defenOutris l elf, and that
subsequently,.. on •th ' l
tria. of Captain
Itilienzie for said e ecntion, no .evi
dence 111 : c
ce was introduce vv \ hich could im
plicate Crom well in the offence charged.
i -
Mairviasu.--The State debt of 14Tal: •
ryland, is 514,071,179 23. A tax of
thirty-five cents per tone hundred dol
lars will cover the yearly indebtedness.
,Twenty-five cents per hundred .411irs
has already been assessed. and the 4-
gislature will probably during this ses
sion, advance it to thirty-five.- -
EEO
121:21
SIM
main
e ma-
s
y the
A Co:Jammu:is MEMBEEL—Mr.
Wentworth a member of Congress from
Illinois is the tallest man in the House.
His height is only seven feet two inches.
It willr,be very easy for him to catch
the Speaker's eye. .
DEATH WARRANT SLONED.--..-The
death warrant of James and Bridget
Dolan has-been signed by Gov. Porter, ,
and February 16th appointed as the
day of/execution.
fiANK R0813E1131 —The Providence
Co my Bank, atliitie Rock R. I. was
lately eittered by false keys, and robbed
of $7455 in bills of the haiil4 and
§IIOB in gold. ,
number of letters
which annually putt through the - Uni.
ted States Poetis iwinty=fiitm
millions and a half.
SPEA/CER....-A. L. Aotortfort Esti is
proposed as a candidate for SpeAer of
the House of Representatives of*Penn-
Sylvania.
ADADt ilaitS.ThlS INIVIC4IO4 man,
*and Eivilt3r of the murder of his
own. wife, has made a lull con_ fission of
that and subiequent crimes.
7"
is..l,
arligressknit
, The twenty-eighth Congress ec ra
at Washington on Monday, Dee, 4 ,. 4
But little was dope the first we e k et
ganization of the two houses and
* ta i nt of preliminary busine ss cN,
in g the whole time. The election o t
gners-to the Herne of Rein ftente.
presenting the inestpeffeetunasik.lll
tweet" the friends of the several p rei4
tial candidates, is a source of tosei ttegi
fication to the democracy of th e t titt
Th pfficeis elected for the R N
Representatives, re as follows:,
spe l na‘ r John W. Jones of Vim.
Clerk—Caleb J. M'Nulty of Ohi o;
Printerd—Blair & Rives of Was,
Ser l geant-at-dlrrns—Rufus C. L ae
Indiana ;
Door Keeper—Jesse E. Doted
if
ingten•
Mr.' C. J. Ingersoll has giro
of is intention to bring in a bill nr \: n.
in tg--,-Gen'l Jackson with inteN .
fine imposed upon him at New 0
" one hour " rule has b ee 4
tained in the House.
Mr. Barnard attempted to tead3 „
test against the reception of those ,„
beim of Congress elected by general
ef, hut after considerable diseutl o
was tefused the privilege.
Mr. Barnard then arose and
should not press—the reading of i t ,
butper„ he objected to the membea
fVerie not elected t in conformity to'
taking their seats . ; .
No business of !iniportance to t
tionlias yet, been transacted.
manner
.
fo e
in a worthy
do ; isn't! we
ea 4130 fate,
some 'days'
ected."..
A baud of
blued under
In to' do all
then swear
HEAVY JUDO EMENT..•—•Ming;
Of M'Conuelleville, Ohio, pro
Stockton & More, proprietors a
Stage line running f t rpm lattimi“
Wheeling. The Ac on was b
io recover damages for injuries
'rained by Miss Bishop by opsel.'
a stage of the defendants in J
1842 ; 'and ihe case was tried it
burg a short lime sing. Miss
arm was broken, herielbowbadij
ed,,and her head somewhat inja
was proved that the driver was.
which caused the accident. The
retuned a-vitAict for, the pink:
36,500 and costs of suit.
scrape, were
biar county,
sentenced to
were a terror
estroying pro
es, ctc. We
Democrat the
number in the
- vening before
leatiary. • •
DREADED' ACCIDENT.---.We
corded in the Susquehanna
the shocking death of Mr. Ira Cr
of Bridgewater, in the following
ful manner : It ,is supposed •
lag !o some obstruction in eta
saw-gate, he leaned his headed
over die frame attached to them
as it started suddenly, tcearried
against the timber above, crest
stomach and holding his body '
till he was found in that sizaatz
after, entirely dead. Mr. Greg!
we belihve, about 36 years of t i t
having recently lo,t his wile, is
several young orphan childref
him."
LYNCH LAW.—The good
Z,astim, P a ., one day last area
ed themselves with the azl.,
Judie Lynch, and handled a ran
ed Lebar, pretty severely, 13 '
quence of his having atterapedg
die them in the wy of prey'',
chases. Several of the peoo
been arrested.'
TIIANKSGIVLNG
Atpnblie meetili, con \
for\
ouse on Monday eve:
for the urpose of adopt:. ,
dative to te,properobservant
appointed by the
monwealth for Thanksgivin;
to Almighty God, WM. B.
Jr.; I, was chosen President
wy.m. and Darts CAsy,\ 7 1(
and' E. S. Goodrich. San
object ot 'tbe.meeting haring
known bjr the Orel trderlr, 2D''
remarks made by Mr. Or
derson and Mr. Ewell, b.
solutions were unanimously
lesolved. That the
the Borough of Towanda ,
Thursday the 2lst inst asJA
Thanksgiving and Pray
er to
\
God, in conformity wiih the
dation of the Goverll4 r, nrld'' re
ance with the Oag;es of a/
Fathers— , •
Resolved. That the
s hip keepers ,and -Vecb:, ,
;-,'"'
i' t orough. be requested to
Stores, Shops, Otifees te , '
and that the citizens
grrie r
quested to .refrain from the
thrir usual occupations
liFemploymett l,
Resolved, That it is di
pected that religious se:
performed on tba4 day gall
in this boroUght
Resolved, That thew
signed• by ithe Officer!
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