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JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries . , Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. irreash 'paid for good eating Apples. S e pt. 11, 1861-Iy. ' ' • JOHN MUNNELL , Dealer in Groceries and Gonfealonaries, and yariety Goode Generally, Wilson's New Building, Main street. Sept, H. /861-13' 1100103, &a. i . LEWIS DAY, Ocelot hr i je m and Miefoetataernis Beaks. Ettadon ery. latif and Paperer One deer test of Parter'irstare, street. Sept. 111€61-Iy. effmmunirationo, For the ]Messenger 71TE TONNAGE TAX.—REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INVESTIGA TION---COHEZPTION OF THE LEG ISLATURE, A short time before the adjourn ment of the liegislatare the Commit tee raised to enquire into the ques tion as to whether the Central Rail Road Company of Pennsylvania had procured the repeal of the Tonnage tax law through the means of money, &c., reported, through its Chairman, Col. lionc.ms, the results of its labors. I propose to lay before your read ers a brief abstract of the report, the whole of which would occupy more of your paper than you can conveni ently spare. The Committee devoted their at tention to the collection of evidence, under the following heads : 1. As to whether the Press had been tampered with. 2. Whether the Company had dis tributed the accumulated. Tonnage Tax, which it withheld from the State, among sundry Rail Road companies to influence the members from the counties through which these branch roads passed, to vote for the repeal ; an d 3. Whether monies had been di rectly paid to any of the members of the Legislature, by any officers of the Central Rail Road Company. I. Mr. Rhue, of the Allentown Democrat, proved that a certain Jas. Fuller, of Lehigh county, paid him $2,000 as an inducement for him to publish the bill, which subsequently paSsed the Legislature, accompanied by certain printed arguments sustain ing the propriety of its passage, and containing reasons for sustaining Sen ator Schindel, from that county, if he should vote for the bill. Fuller was called before the Committee, and sus tained Rhue's testimony as to the payment of the $2,000. Rhue testified that he did not sus tain the bill, and denounced the Sen ator for voting for it. Fuller denied receiving the money from any officer of the Rail Road com pany, and claimed that it was his own money; and yet when asked to give a reason why he thus lavishly spent his money, in a matter in which he testified he had no direct interest, gave the singular reason that he did it to "make political cap ital for himself and the Republican party in his Legislative and Senato- Ifistrict." The Committee very properly pro- nounced this a "most improbable sto ry," and his statement that he "did not expect to be re-i mbursed," (if he had actually paid the money out of his own pocket,) as still more im probable. Our excellent and facetious neigh bor Hurd, of the Brownsville Clipper, also testified before the Committee, and stated that he was at Harrisburg during the session of 1861, and that a member of the Legislature from Hun tingdon county, invited him to the room of Thomas A. Scott, the then Vice President of the Central Rail Road company, who very soon went into the question as to how he (Hurd) stood on the Tonnage Tax question ? Hurd was prejudiced against its re peal. Scott thought h might be in duced to change his views, and han ded him a bundle of documents to read. Hurd had not time then to ex amine them—was on expense, Ste.— Scott said he would make all that right and handed him three or fogr hundred dollars ! Hurd took the documents with him to Philadelphia, and after a careful examination, concluded to write an article for his paper favoring the repeal of the Tonnage Tax, but upon further reflection, (finding, perhaps, that the money was secured at any rate, and that his people were against the repeal,) he countermanded the pub lication of his article Although these editors, both, ulti mately opposed the repeal of the Tonnage Tax, and the Company seem to have spent their money in vain, yet the iniquity of the attempt to bribe them with money, is none the less criminal, and the painful irrtpres sion is left on the mind of the honest tag payer, of how many other edi tors received money for a similar ob ject, about which the public know nothing ! 11. Upon the second branch of the enquiry, as to whether the Company used the SBOOXO which it withheld from the treasury of the State, to in fluence votes for the repeal of the Tonnage Tax law: An examination of the bill shows that the branch Rail Roads to which this money was ap plied, passed through some twenty counties; some of the directors of the Raid Road company admitted that this provision was inserted in the bill, "to increase the chance of its passage." Burns, a member from Al legheny county, testifies that he vo ted for the repeal, upon the assurance of Scott, Vice President of the P. R. R. Company, that provision should be made in the bill repealing the Ton nage Tax, for the early completion of the ateubenville Rail Road, and that he voted Air the biltenty on that con dition. • . Ttvt;; . srok members bribed to yotit WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, FA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1862. for this bill with the money thus filched by this company from the Treasury of the State ! They not only gave away the $BOO,OOO then due the Treasury, but an annual revenue of from four to five hundred thousand, accruing to the State from this fund ! Israel Painter and Jacob Ziegler proved that Scott, the Vice President of the Rail Road company, entered into a writing with the North Wes tern Rail Road company—a concern whose stock in the market was worth only twenty-five cents to the dollar, to take, on the part of the Central Rail Road, four hundred thousand dollars of its stock at par, provided that the bill for the repeal of the Tonnage Tax should pass ! Painter testifies that kupposed Scott would expect the parties interested in the completion of the North Western Rail Road to use their influence with Senators and members representing the counties through which Me road passed to vote for the re peal of the Tonnage Tax." A very natural expectation, indeed He further testified that he had no doubt that the members from. Butler coun ty were thus influenced to vote for the bill, and that he had frequent conversations with then on the sub ject. It is thus that the interests of the hard-working and tax paying People are treated by their Representatives ! 111. The Committee next gave their attention to the question as to wheth er direct bribery was resorted to. Tom Scott, the Vice President of the Company, was supposed to be the ntediiim through which any money might have dropped into the laps of the members. The subpoenas of the Committee chased him all over the country. It will be recol lected that sometime previous to the investigation, Scott had gone to Washington to assist his friend Cam eron, in the disbursement of the mon ies of the Government necessary to carry on the war. His public duties was a most convenient excuse for not giving the Committee a small portion of his precious time. Mr. Secretary Stanton (than whom no more honor able man can be found in the coati try,) was twice applied to to know, if possible, when Scott could be releas ed from his public duties long enough to give his testimony before the Com mittee. Permission was both times given by Secretary Stanton, but Scott never :got before the committee, although his reputation was involved in so do ing. The Committee say "from the disclosures before the Committee the conviction is left upon their minds that the said Thomas A. Scott did use money in connection with the Legisla tive question, and that he purposely kept himself out of the way to svoid be ing examined as a witness." Kennedy Marshal, a member of the House from Allegheny county, testi fied that he voted -for the bill, and about the time of the adjournment of the Legislature he went to the room of Mr. Scott, at the Coverly House, in Harrisburg. That there were certain persons in the room, and that he and Scott went into another room, and that Scott handed him a small pack - age, inclosed in an envel ope, remarking, "This was left here for yon; I don't know by whom, nor what it contains." That in going to his own room, and opening the pack age, he found it to contain five hundred dollars in bank bills ! He also testified that he saw i n Scott's room a number of other envelopes, bat could not tell to whom they were addressed. lie further testified that on the day of the adjournment of the Legislature, he went into the room of" Speaker Da vis, of the House, and saw lying on his table or bed a large amount of bank notes, and that he picked up some of them and put them in his pocket, remarking to Davis at the time, "Where did you make such a raise ?" and that Davis replied, "from Tom Scott." Marshal remarked, "I wish he would serve thereat of us the same way." He said that Davis then, said, "I was only joking, it belongs to other parties living up the Alle gheny River," &c. , Davis, who was also, previously before the Committee, testified that he had received over thirty free passes over the road for his friends, during the session of 1861, from Vice President Scott ! D. D. Dewit testified that Thomas Osterhout, a member from Wyoming county, admitted that he got enough money for voting for the bill to pay his debts ; that if he had not done so he would have been "stoned up," that the bill would have passed any how, and his friends should not blame him for making money out of his vote. John Day testified to the same thincr and that Osterhout fixed the amount which he got, but which amount he could not remember, but it was from one. to three thousand dollars. J. Baker testified that Osterhout told him that he had made enough of money by voting for the bill to pay his debts. Charles Roomy testified that Oster bout told him he thought the bill would pass any how, and he would get all the money out of it he could. He did Make a good thing out alit, and brought the money home to pay his debts. Pb. Committee tried to get Oster hout before them in person, but he eontrived to evade all their efforts, and flatly refused to come before them after they had succeeded in reaching him with a subpoena. The Committee complain of the many obstacles thrown in their way in their efforts to get before them wit nesses who were believed to have re ceived money for their votes. In many cases the members themselves were in the army, and beyond the reach of the Committee; as well as many witnesses outside of the two Houses, who had been pointed out to them as having knowledge of the fact of bribery being used on the members. A great number of wit nesses, upon whom subpoenas had been served, refused to attend, and kept out of the way of being punish ed for the contempt in not obeying the commands of the subpoenas. They made an attempt to have the benefit of the testimony of J. Edgar Thompson, the President of the Rail Road Company. They subpoenaed him to attend before them at Harris burg. He alleged illness as an ex cuse for not appearing. They then attended at Philadelphia, where he was then residing, and proposed to examine him at his own house, but his physician interposed objection, that "if he was much disturbed it might ir,• crease constitutional irritation," &c.— One would naturally think that un pleasant reflections might have such effect! The Treasurer of the Com pany, who might be supposed to have some knowledge of any leaks that might have taker. place from its treasury, was unfOrtunately also too unwell to appear before the Committee when subpoenaed? The Committee after again alluding; to the many obstacles which they met in making a satisfactory investi gation, conclude their report as fol lows : "In summingup the whole case, then, co far as the limited time allotted, and the surrounding circumstances would enable us to prosecute our inquiries, the con viction is forced upon the minds of your Committee that in procuring the passage of the bill for the commutation of the ton nage duties, unlawful means were used by Thomas A. Scott, Vice President of the Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, who has himself successfully eluded the process of the House. Thus have we the startling fact presented, of an officer of a gigantic corporation procuring the enactment of a law by corrupt means, by which some $BOO,- 000 dollars were abstracted from the treas ury, in violation of every principle of mor ality and justice, and which also relieved the corporation from the payment in future of an annual soul of say 5400,000, and ‘vhich will continue to increase to almost an indefinite period. "Wicked and unjustifiable as is the pres ent rebellion, which isseeking to overthrow the hest and most munificent government the world has ever seen, it is not more to be deprecated than is the corrupting of the fountain whence emanate all the guaran tees we have for the protection of property, life or liberty. When the law-snaking power becomes so corrupt as to barter away millions upon millions of the people's money, for the pecuniary benefit of its members, it is enough to cause every true patriot to tremble for his country. How can we expect God's blessing if we shame fully violate His laws. "How can we expect our State to prosper if the press is to become the auxiliary of corporations in inflicting great wrongs upon the people ? and if corruption is permitted to march, with brazen face, into our legis lative halls, and buy up the guardians of the public interests like cattle in the mar ket ? The higher the position and charac ter of Ouse engaged in such demoralizing acts, the more lamentabl it becomes. lint neither station nor reputation should screen them from the condemnation of outraged virtue." A CITIZEN. A letter from an Illinois gentleman gives the following account of the he roic conduct of a drummer boy on the battle field of Pittsburgh Land ing little boy, only twelve yeurs old, whose mother resides in Wood burn, returned last week from Pitts burgh Landing. He was a drummer in a company of which his father was a lieuitenant. His name is Char ley Bliss. I am well acquainted with the family, having been their physician. This boy went through the whole of the Donelson fight, and was engaged during the two days of that at Pittsburgh. His father was wounded in three places, whilst he had his clothes pierced with bullets, and blood once slightly drawn from about the knee. His drum was shot entirely away. The little fellow's gear looked very rusty, and his girl ish face was tanned as dark as *lc, olate. His colonel sent him home, with four wounded men, by whom he had remained, and to whom he carried water on the field when the battle raged the hottest.. They say he never flinched. At Donelson he got hold of a gun, dropped 'by a rebel, and fired twenty rounds himself, by borrowing. cartridges from the sol diers about him. I tried to get him to stay with us over night, promising to take him home in my carriage early in the morning. But no, he said he preferred to walk three or four miles in the mud and rain, after dark, for he wanted to see his mother that night. His father was left behind in a hospital." When we remember Charlotte Bronte's stormy and sorrowful life, lightened for only a, few brief months toward its close by her marriage with her father's curate, Nicholls, there is a melancholy plaintiveness in her last words. Addressing her husband, she said : 'lam not going to die, am I ? He will not separate us; we have been so happy." Poor Oliver. Goldsmith's farewell words are also very plaintive. "Is your mind at ease ?" asked his doc tor. "no, it is not," was poor Gold smith's melancholy reply. This was the last sentence he ever uttered, and it is sorrowful, like his life. One of Keat's latest utterances is full of a singular pathos and beauty. "ffeel, he said, on his death-bed,--"I feel the flowers growing over me:"--, Tasso's last words La niamus turns Domine" (into thy hands, 0 Lord, do I commit my spirit)—are eminently religious. They were uttered by him with extreme difficulty, and imme diately afterwards he expired. The son of Edmund Aurke, the great statesman, was a young man of rare promise, and his early death hastened the decease of his illustri ous father. It is related that on the night of his death, young B t arke sad deuly roan xpi ant ***aimed : "Is that rain? *i; it is the pound of the wind among the treas.". He then tweed to his (Ow, re. rd.. him • 11111KLe never wait as good as he aboaid be, that Both not attire to be , better than he is, 4 ;r. . . A HEROIC DRUMMER BOY. Bizaticuatto. LAST HOURS. Surely there is something very pa thetic in those last words of Dr. Adam, of Edinburgh, the Nigh-school head master : "It grows dark, boys; you may go." As the shades of death were fast closing around him, the master's thoughts were still with his work; and thus regarding the shades of death as but the waning twilight of the earthly day, he gave the signal of dismissal to his imag inary scholars, and was himself at the same instant "dismissed" from work to his eternal rest Every one knows that the two last words which Goethe uttered wore truly memora ble : "Draw back the curtains," said he, "and let in more light." At the time of Humboldt's death, the sail was shining brilliantly into the room in which he was lying, and it is stated that his last words, ad dressed to his niece, were these: "Wie herrlich diese Strahlen, sic scite ihen die Erde zuin rufen (How grand these rays ; they seem to beckon earth to heaven!) Sir Walter Scott, during his last ill ness, more than once turned to Lock hart, and exclaimed with great fer vor to him : "Be a good man, my dear." When we recollect the char acter of the man who uttered them, is there not a little sermon in these words? Judge Talfourd, it will be remembered, died suddenly whilst delivering the charge to the grand jury at the Stafford assizes. The last sentence which ho uttered before his head fell forward upon his breast, is pregnant with wisdom; and from the eternal truth which it so nobly enunciates, forms a fitting conclusion to Talfourd's benevolent and useful career. "That," said he, "which is wanted to bind together the bursting bonds of the different classes of this country, is not kindness, but sympa thy." And so, with that last word "sympathy" yet trembling upon his lips, poor Talfourd passed away. Dr. Johnson's last words, address ed to a young lady standing by his bedside, were : "God bless you, my dear." And "God bless you! . . . Is that you, Dora ?" were Wads worth's last words. There is a singular identity, also, between the last utterances of Mrs. Hannah Moore and of the historian, Sir James Mackintosh, the last words of both consisted of one word, and both alike breathe the same spirit of happiness. "Joy," was the last ut terance of the former, and "happy" that of the latter. "I am ready," were the last words of the great actor, Charles Matthews. John Knox, about 11 o'clock, on the night of his death, gave a deep sigh, and exclaimed, "Now it is come." These were his last words, for in a few mo ments he expired. General Washington's last words were firm, cool, and reliant as himself. "I am about to die," said he, "and I am not afraid to die." Noble words these ! There is something in them which reminds us of Addison's cele brated request to those around him "to mark how a christian could die." , Etty, the great painter, quietly marked the progress of dissolution going on with his frame, and coolly moralized thereon. His last words were : "Wonderful—wonderful, this death'," and he uttered them with perfect calmness. Thomas Hood's last words were : "Dying, dying;" as though, says his biographer, "he was glad in realize the sense of rest implied in them." Amongst the last utterances of an other great wit, Douglas Jerold, was the reply which he made to the question "how he felt?" Jerold's re ply was quick and terse, as his con versation always was. He felt, he said, "as one who was waiting, and waited for." with a •look of great affection, and then commenced to recite with deep feeling these sublime lines of Milton, from Adam's Morning Hyinn, which he knew to be his father's favorites: "His praise, ye winds, that from tour quarters blow, Blow soft or loud ; and wa'ie your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship, wave." Just as he pronounced the last word, his strength failed him; the lamp which had flickered up so grandly in its socket was quenched; be fell for ward into his father's arms, and so died. Burke's grief was terrible, and he did not long survive his son. Burke's own last words were the saute as those of Johnson and Wads worth—namely, "God bless you." Who that ever read them can for cret those noble last words which 73ishop Lattimer addressed to his fellow-sufferer, Bishop Ridley, when brit h were about to perish in the flames at Oxford? Addressing Bish op Ridley, he said : "Be of good cheer, brother Ridley; this day we light a candle in England which shall never be extinguished." We question whether; if the archives of all the "noble army of martyrs" were to be ransacked, there could be found a record of any more memorable utter ance than this. King Charles 11. also died with a joke upon his lips; his death bad been expected some time before it occur red, and thus many of his courtiers had been kept up all night. . lie apologized to those who stood round his bed for the trouble he had caused them; he had been, he said, a most unconscionable t;rue in dying, but lie hoped they would excuse it, This was the last glimpse," remarks Lord Ilacauley, "of that exquisite urban ity so often found potent to charm away the resentment of a justly in censed nation." There is an instance related of the death-scene of Sir Charles Napier, the great Indian warrior, which is so curious and suggestive that (although, strictly speaking, it does not come under the category of "last words," since no words were spoken by Sir Charles) we cannot resist referring to it here. It appears, then, that the 22d foot was the regiment with which Sir Charles' chief victories were achieved, and to which he was most strongly attached. Just as the old warrior's spirit waspassing away, 7.lfr..lllcAfurdo, his son-in-law, seized the tattered, shot-torn fragments of the colors of the 22d regiment, and waved them over the dying warrior. A grim smile of satisfaction crossed Sir Charles' face as this was being done, and thus his spirit passed away. Zwingle, the great German reform er, was killed in battle in the year year 1531. His last words are cool and brave. Gazing calmly, and with undaunted courage, at the blood trickling from his death-wounds, he calmly exclaimed : "What matters this misfortune? They may indeed kill the body, but they cannot kill the soul " And now that we are speaking about the last words of warriors, who can fail to recollect those noble last words of our great Nelson ? "I thank God." said he, "that I have done my duty." And so, with the great guns booming overhead, pro claiming the victory so dearly bought, he died. in the year 1591,5ir Richard Gren ville--the Sydney of the sea--was serving in an English fleet against Spain. They were assailed by a Spanish fleet of far superior force.— After inflicting the most terrible chastisement upon the Spanish fleet —it is said that Sir Richard was en gaged with no less than fifteen ships—The Revenge (Sir Richard's vessel) was taken, and Sir Richard Grenville himself was carried, mor- tally wounded, on board the Spanish admiral's ship, where he was treated with distinguished honor. But in a few days he felt that, death was at hand, and spoke these memorable words in Spanish, that all who heard him might bear witness to their fer vor : "Here die I, Richard Grenville, with a joyful and a quiet mind ; for that I have ended my life as a good soldier ought to do, fighting for his country, queen, religion and honor : my soul willingly departing from this boody,leaving behind the lasting fame of having behaved as every valiant soldier is in duty bound to do." We purpose giving, as the final il lustration of our subject, the last utterances of a soldier who fought in another warfare, to wit, the Venera ble Bede. Bede died at Jarrow monastery, near Newcastle, in the year 735. The account left us of his death is very striking. For a long time previous, Bede had been engag ed upon a translation of St. John's Gospel into the Saxon language.— His work, which was to give God's Word to the common people in their own tongue, was very nearly com pleted; but Bede's strength was ebb ing feat. He sat in his chair, howev er, canscions still, though the shades of death were fast gathering around him. The scribe who was writin g to Bede's dictation, now hastily ex claimed to him : " Dear master, there is yet one sentence not writ . NEW SEEM-VOL, 8, NO, 48, fast- failing sensez ; gathering togeth er all his strength, he answered : "Write quickly;" and then dictated to the scribe the last sentence of the last chapter of the Gospel according to St. John. The scribe wrote it down rapidly, and then said: "The sentence is now written." Bede re plied: ‘`lt is well. You have said the truth. ft is finished ! CoAsurn matuat est:" yIOHAEL FLANNIGAN AND FATHER Not many years ago there lived in Ireland a priest named Father O'Lea ry, who was a staunch temperance man, and used every means in his power to disseminate his views. Be ing at a fair at Donnybrook, he was amusing himself gazing on the many interesting objects, when a fight commenced—one of the old-fashioned kind which has given a world-wide celebration to Donnybrook Fair; al though he took no part in the dis graceful proceeding's, except ie try ing to quell the disturbance, he was suddenly knocked down by a man named Michael Flannigan. The fol lowing day he bad Michael arrested, but at the trial all the defence he made was, that being drunk, he re membered nothing about it. Father O'Leary had a few private words with the judge, who then informed Michael that through the interces sion of the reverend gentleman, he bad concluded this should be the sen tence: " That Michael should be come a teetotaler - for three months, and at the end of that time beg the priest's pardon." To this the pris oner rather reluctantly agreed. At the termination of the stated time, a genteel -looking, well-dressed man, might have been seen knocking at the door of Father O'Leary's resi dence, and when Bridget opened the door she was greatly astonished to see her old friend Michael (though she had lost sight of him for some time) looking so changed ; after the usual greeting he asked her to toll her master that a jintleman wished to see him, but she ran into Father O'Leary's study, and with a half-sup pressed titter, told him that Michael Flannigan wished to see him. "Show him in," he replied; and when he saw Michael, he was so surprised at his appearance that be hardly knew what to say. At length he managed to ask, " Well, Michael, I suppose you have come to beg my pardon." "Shure, and I aint, your honor," was the reply. "What do you mean, you rascal ? Don't you remember knock ing me down at Donnybrook Fair, three months ago ?" said he, almost forgetting himself so nraged was be with Michael's coorreply. "Cer tainly I do," responded Michael; "but I can't beg your pardon, for faith and I'm only sorry. that I didn't knock your riv'rence down twenty years ago." The priest felt very wrath, but on second thought he un derstood why Michael made use of such language, and was well pleased to forgive him without being asked.. Reader, the moral is a good one. ROMANTIO MET The Glzette des Tribunaux has the following strange story: "A shoe maker and his wife, with a daughter about eight years of age, who occupied a small lodging on the fourth floor of a house in the Rue du Temple, were much struck with the sorrowful air of a lodger named Bernard, who had just hired a room near their own, and thinking him in want of com mon necessaries, they adopted a thousand little expedients to relieve him without offending his delicacy. They were always asking him to take of this dish or that, and he (mew. sionally consented to dine with them. One day, however, he said that, i.. convenient, he should like to take his meals with them always, and would pay them 100 f. a month. The wo, man though it too. much ; but he would nut hear of paying less.— About a week ago Bernard received a letter which appeared to cause him great agitation. After reading it he threw it into the fire, left the house, and never returned. The shoemaker and his wife were uneasT about their friend, fearing that he had committed suicide ; but a day or two after they received a letter from him thanking them all for their kiminess, and begging them to accept a sum of 10,000 f. in bank notes, which he had left in a certain drawer in his room. They were also to sell his furniture, and keep the proceeds, as be was going a long journey, from which he should never return. As the letter was posted at - - Senlis, the shoemaker went the - 140.10 ntitke in quiries after his friend, bit' could hear nothing of him: He socoirdingly returned home and appropriated the 10,000 fas his benefactor had desired, in establishing himself in business on his own account." Lam.. WHIPPLE, in his memoir of travels in Oalifornia, states that there is a spring of cool, sweet water in San Lliego county, not far from the desert, whieh has no power of quenching thit. IN the London exhibition bible Iritt be exbibitettin AtC4 bwAllod ! O'LEARY.
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