Publication ol State Laws,
Senaior Killekgeb, of Lebanon, has in*
traduced a bill to provide for the publicaiion
of the ads passed by the Legislature, in the
newspapers of each county. We agree with
the Harrisburg Herald, that “the actual ne
cessity of this plan to make the people of the
State fully acquainted with the laws, should
long since have urged its adoption. “Igno
rance of the law” is no excuse in a Court ol
Justice. While we agree that “ignorance of
the law should never be received as an ex
cuse for its violation, yet we ask every can
did, intelligent man, how a knowledge of the
law is to bo oblamediuoder (he present pamph
let system 1 ' True, a “favored few” receive
copies after many months delay in issuing
them from the press, yet the -masses of the
people, who are as deeply interested as law.
yers and county officers, are denied the privi
lege of learning the acts of the Legislature.
No people can be law abiding if a knowledge
of the law is concealed from them. How
common is it to find yourself or neighbors the
victims of a law, whose existence on the stat
ute book was unknown. Yet the stern rule
(granted above) is applied to you, and the
penalty must be borne. Our Legislature
spends every year four months in making
only a very few acts are brought to
*lliq notice of the people. Others which may
concern them more deeply, are enacted, and
their existence only known by an innocent
violation. The objections to this enlightened
policy, is the expense attendant upon said
publication. The very same gentlemen who
vole against this act of justice to the people,
on the score of 100 much expense, are found
recklessly giving away thousands in useless
public improvements, raising the salaries of
officers (themselves included) and in keeping
up the corrupt horde on the State Works. —
It is a striking instance of “penny wise and
pound foolish policy, ’’ so common in the his
tory of modern legislation. A few thou
sands added to the expense of the present
pamphlet system would spread before the
' people of the State every law in their county
papers. There is not a taxpayer in the Com
monwealth who would not approve of the
expense, as he would be so amply benefited
by *t. We hope to see the press of the State
speak out on this question, and call upon the
Legislature to pass it at once. So far, we
are sorry it has met with little encouragement
in the Senate, but let Mr. Killing er throw
the weight of his influence and energy in its
favor, and if he fails, he will still receive the
thaqks.of his.fellow citizens, and will hasten
the day when this simple act of justice will
be accorded by a unanimous vote.”
Cincinnati! Election.
The eleciion of municipal officers came off
in the Queen City the fourth inst., and resul
ted in the eleciion of James D. Miller, ihe
American and reform candidate. The elec
tion was attended with riots and bloodshed.
The statements in relation to the causes which
led to such disgraceful scenes are contradic
tory* Dul it is evident that the Catholics and
old line democrats, as the hunkers'call them
selves, were determined to carry the election
by fraud and lorce, and the reform party were
equally determined that equal rights should be
maintained and illegal voting should be sup
pressed. The foreigners had the entire con
trol of several Wards and kept the Ameri
cans from the polls by force. These pro
ceedings arroused the American spirit,and
large parlies from different parts of the
city, forced a passage to the polls, and thus
secured by force, not legal, the right of suf
frage to American citizens. In the general
melee pistols wdre discharged and missiles
were showered upon both parlies. A cannon
belonging to the Slate was captured from (he
Germans by the Americans, and was turned
upon the crowd of foreigners and discharged
into their midst. The boxes were taken pos
session bylhe Americans in two Wards, and
the ballots destroyed after it was ascertained
that they outnumbered the voters in the Wards,
an unjustifiable though summary way of sup
pressing illegal voles.
The government of Cincinati the past year
has been without an exception in the hands of
foreigners and catholics. A citizen of the
city informed us (hat every member of the
police force was of foreign birth—many of
them Italians, whose physiognomy and gen
eral deportment plainly show that their occu
pation in the mountain gorges of their native
land was not the arrest of offenders. With
such a police force it is not surprising that
knockdowns and robberies are of nightly oc
currence in the streets of Cincjnalli, and al
most any means to secure a reform may be
justifiable.— Keene (N. H.) Newt.
Gov. • Reeder, of Kansas. —Id relation
to the remarks ot The Banner of yesterday
morning on the conduct of "the Governor of
Kansas,” we remark that the Proclamation of
Reeddr for an election in that Slate was issued
on the 26th, February, and the election was
held on the 30th, of March. There was
therefore, more than “sixteen days" notice of
it; there was thirty-two days’ notice. Wo
were informed by Gen. Whitfield, the Dele
gate from Kansas when he was'in this city a
week or two ago that the President directed
the Governor of Kansas to hold thle election
in March, at the request of himse|£(Gen. W.)
The citizens of Kansas wished the election (b
bo heKJ before (he spring emigration of the
Abolition Emigration Society arrived. We
have before us a copy of Gov. Reeder’s proc
lamation Ordering the election. In relation
to the qualification of voters, he only recites
the law. We.have been disposed to regard
Gov. Reeder’s conduct with suspicion. But
the-evidedee in our possession entirely disap
proves the cha'rges rdpealed against him by
The Banner.—NaehnUe ( Tenn.) Union.
A Bbaotjfol mulatto girl was hanged in
Eutaw, lost Friday, for murdering,a chjld—»
thacircumstances as follows: Her master
was' is, young man and overseer; be seduced
the girl, end then bought her. When her
child was three years old, he married-a young
loidy of small fortune and bought a plantation
for himself. The lady soon ascertained that
her {jipabaq, was the father of the curly head,
apd at pirn, becajpe indignant towards it, and
ailjhe offence would cruelly abuse
tlje phild, ; The mother bore it with patience
fo/ a. while, seeing her mistress got no
bp{ter,|he knocked herchild's brains out with
ari went to the Court House, told the
cucunwsnpeS' gave herself up, and was 001%
aiiUM »p^Udh.— Daily Tim*. -
THE AGITATOR.
M. 11. COBB, EDITOR.
*,* All Business, and other Communications must
be addressed to the Editor to insure attention.
WEtLSBOROHGH, FA.
Th iisday Morning. April IQ, 1885.
REDUCTION IN TERMS !! 1!
The Publishers of the AGITATOR
respectfully inform the Citizens
of Tioga County that they will
furnish the paper hereafter, to
those who pay OWE YEAR in AD
VAWCE, at OWE DOLLAR.
O’ See Corn Planter advertisement and C. Os.
muit's advertisement on 3d page.
Honabe 6aezi.tr has gone to Europe. Louis Na.
polcon has gone id England.
O’ The present is a busy season for lumbermen,
and a good portion of our citizens are “gone dowri
the river.” Pine Creek is rejoicing in- a bosom full
of its natpesake, and is likely to have so long as Ibo
woods arc full ol snow.
O’ Mrs- W. F. Wilcox has' just commenced the
third term of her Writing School in this village.
We hopo she will be as liberally patronized as she
has been heretofore.
We have examined the writing of soma of her pu
pils with whose previous style we were familiar, and
most cheerfully testify to a decided improvement
therein.
“ It Does move. Though!”
So said Gallileo Gallilei alter recanting his dan
gerous heresy of the earth’s sphericity and diurnal
motion, at Rome, where be had been summoned to
snswer for promulgating such a monstrous doctrine.
The Papal See did not wish to depart from the strict
ly orthodox dogma, which set forth that the world
was Sat, like a pancake, supported by a rock which
rested upon that indiscribable something called “No
thing.” Romh was right, If to look out for No. I,
under all circumstances, is right. She stopped Gal
lilco out of her abundant zeal fur her cherished dog
mas. Interest bode her pronounce Anathema Mur
anatha and she obeyed. For the supremacy of
Rome depended upon keeping the outside world at a
stand-still. Progress to her was, and still is, heresy.
She started with the assumption that the few should
think for the many, and proceeded to the legitimate
conclusion that the many should succumb to the will
of the few. Therefore, when she decided that the
earth was a disk instead of a sphere, and had the
•an, moon and stars continually circling around her
like a bevy of fine ladies and gentlemen attending
upon a mortal queen, she commanded Gallileo to re
cant his heresy, which degraded the earth into a
simple member of a planetary family. She wrung
a lip-denial from him, but the troth remained un
kempt of the Holy See. . Earth still swept on in its
mighty orbit undisturbed by Rome’s feeble wrath
While she impeded the rapid diffusion of Truth she
could not affect its imperishability.
We have been glancing at the course of Ihe Tem
perance movement; and when we observe bow
steadily it has advanced from its birth up to its glo
riously triumphant Present, in the face of l|ie stor
miest opposition, we feel hopeful and glad. It hat
hsd a worse than Rome to contend against, and has
climbed over the hills of Difficulty that have been
heaped in its way, without ever once looking back.
Rum has exceeded in acts of intolerdeco all the pon
tiffs that ever sat in Rome, and ila priests have fought
with a'desperate bloodthirstiness ftr its interest;
still, Us triumphs resemble In a remarkable degree
that of the Church over Gallileo. For when bad
men legislated against the movement the check was
only apparent —never real. It is so ordered that the
reckless deeds of the bad shall recoil upon and work
the ruin of their authors.
Nkal Dow, tho founder of Prohibition, has earned
(be proudest fame that ever fell to the lot of mortal.
His memory wilt bo fresh, and his name will be spo
ken with a feeling akin to reverence when those of
his haters and traducers havp rotted. He conceived
the plan which will at no distant day work itself oat
in the entire emancipation of Alan Irom tho sway of
the cruetest of tyrants. For Prohibition duet move,
notwithstanding the land denials of the Rum inter
est. It h rapidly extending its beneficent influ.
.enco into every part of this Rum-ridden land, and
“the gates of Rmndom shall not prevail against it.,"
New York has at last adopted this policy, and if
the temperance men of that Stale continue as wake
ful as they have been in time past the curse of the
domestic circle will be removed from its people.
“It won’t do, you can’t make Prohibition work
here 7"—says the trafficker. And in proof of this
we are pointed to Maine—tho cradle of the move
ment. Well, let us look at Maine. Prohibition has
been her policy for several years; and so immensely
unpopular has it become there, that it has never been
repealed I On the contrary, her Legislature has in
creased its stringency every year. Neal Dow was
beaten lor Mayor in ‘53 by Fanis. This was herald
ed by the Rumocracy as a triumph over Prohibition.
A few days since Dow was elected Mayor of Pori
laad by 67 majority. It must bo remembered that
Portland is the stronghold of Rum in Maine. To
he consistent, (he trade, with John Neal at their
head ehonld march in procession with craped ban
ners, in token of defeat,
It is alleged by the opposition that more ram is
sold m Mains under the law than before its enact
ment. We take this to be an outrageous falsehood
—equal to any ever concocted by the enemies of
Temperance and good order. Reliable men say that
it is not so; and as the trade is pccnliarly interested
in the issue, their evidence cannot bo admitted. It
is strange that the trafficker should denounce and so
desperately oppose a law, which,admitting bis own
evidence, so admirably subserves his interests I Is
it not passing alrange! Why, if the traffic in rum
is a good thing, and if the Maine Law increases Die
facilities for selling, the trade should not oppose Pro
hibition, but advocate it. Gentlemen should not be
ruinously blind to their own interests. It is outra
geous!—About os contemptible a dodge as the
fraternity ever got up, gentlemen.
Nat long ago we happened to hear an intelligent
looking stranger converting about the Maine Law.
He talked Very flippantly and worte still, ignorantly.
For instance, be asserted that the original law per
mitted private residences to be searched the same as
ttoresj grocetioe, &0., oq suspicion'. Now, anybody
competent to talk about the law knows belter than
this. He made several 'other statements abont Pro
hibition equally falsa and absurd. We make men
tion of this ease because it is one of almost daly re
currence, here and everywhere.
, Now the troth 1* 'that the Maine Law required
positive proof that a sale of liquor Ind been made
in a private house, within a month, before a warrant
could issue. We speak from the record, to which
skeptics are referred. It was no more obuothms in
ths respect than, the common law of search; indeed
it is ten objectionable if we are rightly posted. Wo
havefcoown a search warrant tb be takenoutin this
State by virtue of which more than fifty private res.
idenceswero searched, when Hot njoiq.than two or
three of them were even suspeotadjcif containing
slolop property. We observed on that occasion ud
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOE.
afterward, that certain men denounced the right of
search as urijust and anti-democratic. We observed
further, that these very men proved to be the owners
of premises upon which were found certain articles
missed by other people very mysteriously.
Of course people were at liberty to draw their
'own conclusions, and we were forcibly reminded of
he old couplet—
“No rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law."
Amid all this shower of Buncombe indignation
about ‘every man’s house being turned lopsy-tdrvy,"
by “rascally temperance fanatics," ono great fact
stands prominently revealed i No. true friend of
Temperance raises objections to the right of search
clause. No honest man will bar his doors against
a search warrant civilly executed. Thieves and rob
bets, only, are afraid of the operation of defensive
laws. So men who meditate a breach of the law
within the sanctuary of their dwellings, will not bo
backward in denouncing the Maine Law. No hon
est man can object to submitting his house to be
searched by the proper officer under existing law—
then why under the more moderate provisions of
the Maine Law T
“What has the ideashro gained for Temperance V
asks one. Look back and see, Before its adoption
in Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut,
the prison rolls in those States were hutch more fully,
written out than at present. Crime is decreasing
wherever tho law has bad time to act. In Connect
icut the change fur the belter is strikingly marked.
In Massachusetts the law as first passed was not ef
fective. In the large towns it opposed little or noth
ing to' the prosecution of the traffic. But the law
was fortified by a new and more stringent provision
last winter and will probably do its work better.
Trial has proved that it is a great moral and reform
atory agent, and that wherever it is set at work the
Temperance car “does move."
The Struggle in Kansas We hope the aiders,
abettors and apologizers of and for tlie Nebraska-
Kansas infamy will read the account of the late
Kansas election, and either acknowledge themselves
traitors to Freedom and Right, or shortsighted dem
agogues and unworthy of public confidence. Tho
right of suffrage there, is conferred at the point of
Die bowio knife and the muzzle of the revolver.
The disgraceful scenes of last fall have again
been enacted, and freedom in Kansas no longer ex
ists even in name—it has died the death. When
the ballot-box becomes a plaything in the hands of
desperadoes and mado the iuslrument of throttling
liberty instead of perpetuating and extending it, and
all this under the unreproving eye of the General
Government, it is time for the true men of the North
to stand up and demand restitution of those insulted
privileges. Wliat with the treason of Northern men
and the cowardly subservience of the Administra.
tion, it would be no strange thing if the just indig
nation of the true friends of liberty should burstxmt
in open rebellion. Think of it! Several hundred
tools of Donglos and Alchinson crossover from Mis.
souri to Kansas and control the elections in that
Territory, and to the prejudice of its interests ! then
return to their homes in Missouri, with bands play
iug and banners flying, boasting pf their triumph
over law and good order! This, gentlemen dough
faces, is Southern chivalry ! This is the folly sense
of honor about which your Southern compatriots
boast, and which yon are forever ascribing to the
trafficker in immortal sodls! Such are the men that
Northern Union-worshippers dread to part company
with!—perjured desperadoes, who would whet their
knives on the marble statuo of Liberty to cut the
throat of every friend of Human. Rights.! Jf the
Administration is too weak to redress such grievan
ces, lot it retire and give place to one that shall bo
both free and fearless. There is more executive
ability and decision in nine-tenths of the Tioga
backwoodsmen than tho present National Executive
ever did or ever will exhibit, should be sit till dooms
day. jr
IT We call attention lo the fact that there are
two establishments on Main street, in this borough,
called groceries, but which are nuitaneo in the full
est sense of the word. Cider guzzling is carried on
in these places in a high stale of perfection. Every
day we hear that a set of half fuddled men are con
grcgaled at one or both of these places, undergoing
a metamorphosis from tho human to the beastly.
We have seen some evidence of these things several
times, and intended to call attention to tho fact some
lime ago.
Tlicro aro two Lodges of Good Templars and a
Division of Sons in working order, right here in the
borough. W hat are they doing 7 One of these
nuisances reeks into publicity within a stone’s cast
of the room where these organizations meet weekly.
Gentlemen, this docs not look well. A great deal
has been said about the aselcssnoss of these organi
zations that could not have been justly said had they
employed their influence aright A well disciplined
army is formidable only when led against the enemy.
Let us hope that these Orders will turn their atten
tion to these matters soon.
We are not naturally quarrelsome; but if those
dealers in whiskied cider hure no consciences of
their own, the law may bo brought in as a creative
agent. These establishments must be attended to
immediately, either by the borough authorities or by
private individuals. New which shall do it ?
O* We must beg of our neighbor not to wind up
his thunder with quotations from the dead languages.
We have searched grammar and phrase book for
dear life, and yet we have not been able to discover
the relationship between—“wo rest for tho present,"
and “ad infinitum"— With which ho wound np his
sermon on consistency two weeks since. If it
means any tiling, It reads—“we rest for the present,
and/orewr !” "Oh, what a rest that will be, my
countrymen !” \Ve can imagine how tho Colonel’s
quill danced to the tunc of—
“I'll 'ang my 'arp on a villow troe." .
—when he came lo that sublime “wind up." Hope
you'll have a good lime of it, neighbor.
Tire new Liaooa Bill. This bill, which has
received the Governor’s signature and it now
a law of this Commonwealth, will bo ,found in an
other column. While we are not suited with it, we
consider it a great deal better than none, bf its
kind it is stringent, bat not stringent enough.' Had
it fixed the lowest rate of license at WOO instead of
030, and the bonds at 010,000 instead of 01000—
and bad the least quantity sold been fixed at 40 gal
lons—it would have done its work batter. Under
its provisions no keeper of inn, taverp, restaurant,
eatingliouae or other house at entertainment can be
licensed to sell any vinous, distilled, or brewed liq
uors after the Ist of October. Sit kann nicht mthr
lager Bier xlTMffta, meinu Freunden!
O* Those the subjeot of Spiritual
ism, or vjrlshing to investigate Use Spiritualistic
doctrines and their claims to public credence, can
probnre any of the several works that have been 'pub
lished on the Subject, by sending their orders to
Messrs. Partridge & Britlan, 300 Broadway, N. T.
These gentlemdu publish all the standard works re
lating to Modern- 'Spiritualism, in the best style of
typography and binding. Those who jvish to got
works of this description may: be sura of fair and I
honorable dealing with Me«n. Partridge do Britton. |
Living. —ln these times of scarcity and high
prices there is need of marc than usual providence
in the planting and sowing of the farmer. It is the
duly of every farmer Id, make two hills of corn for
every ohe planted last -year. Tho crop of cereals
must at least be doubled, or next winter will go bard
with the poor. That just past has thinned tho ranks
of poverty frightfully, and it is the duty of every
producer to guard against a recurrence of the catas
trophe.' The farmer may depend upon a ready mar
ket for every bushel he can spare aud at prices that
cannot but prove remunerative.
Breaßsluffs are ruinously high and the opening
navigation will not, it is believed, result in a materi
al reduction of prices. Tho middle of May is tho
earliest lime that a general resumption of navigation
can be depended upon. This delay, with the grow
ing demand for grains will keop down any surplus
from which a redaction in price might be looked for.
We trust that this will not be overlooked by the far.
ming community here, or anywhere.
Runaway. —A team.of horses attached to a load
of grain, got loose near the post-office last Friday
afternoon, and after dumping (heir load in the rand
ran dawn the side-walk at a break-neck speed to the
material ihjnry of sundry shade trees and store rtepa.
They brought up against a tree in IVont of Judge
While’s residence end were secured. Luckily no
children were in the way.
P. Si Same team ran away next day.
New Books in Press— T. B. Peterson,
102 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, has in press, and
will publish on the sth of May, Mrs. K. D. E. N.
Soutuwobt’s celebrated work, "■The Misting Bride."
This work is pronounced by all that have read it su
perior to anything this talented lady has ever writ
ten. The scenes are all founded upon facts, and un
der the weird spell of Mrs. Southwards genius glow
with a facinating beauty, Mrs, S., is the most tal
ented writer of romance in America. Her charac
ters arp always well sustained and in this work are
If possible, more than usually vivid and marked.
11. Long Sc, Brother, 131, Nassau street New York,
have just published the last production of the late
Wu. Nortu, author of Anti-Coningsby, and various
other novels which reached great popularity in both
hemispheres, Tho book just published is called—
“ The Slate of the Lamp." It is pronounced by the
best critics to be a work of unusual interest, and of
superior literary excellence. One critic writes—
“ For earnestness and intensify, I,hare met no novel
that equals this. Thera is a charm in it like that
said to be possessed by the rattlesnake; you wish to
lay it aside, but you cannot—it overpowers you.*’
IT Messrs. Bailey Sc, Foley have shown' us a spec
imen of Gold Ink for writing tender epistles to the
fair. All the young gentleman in our office have tried
it with distinguished sudeess.
The Kansas Swindle.
The Missouri compatriots in Kansas of
Douglas and Atchison thus telegraph to The
St. Lopis Republican the results of (heir
labors:
“Independence, (Mo.) March 31, 9P. M
—Several hundred returning emigrants from
Kansas -hove just entered our city. They
were preceded by the Westport and Independ
ence Brass Bands. They came in at the
west side of the public square, and proceeded
entirely around.it, ihe bands cheering us with
fine , music, and the emigrants with good
rews. Immediately following the band were
about (wo hundred horsemen, in regular or
der; following these were one hundred and
fifty wagons, carriages, &c. They gave
.repeated cheers for Kansas and Missouri.—
They report that not an Ami-Slavery man
will be in the Legislature of Kansas. We
have made a clean sweep.”
The election in Kansas took place on tho
30th, and on the 3lst “ several hundred re
turning emigrants from Kansas ” marched
into the Missouri frontier city of Independ
ence, and similar cohorts, of course, into
other Missouri towns on the Kansas frontier.
They were-"returning emigrants,” you see,
on the 31st of March—just the season when
most emigrants are hastening to their future
homes ; hilt these were -then returning from
their prefended homes in Kansas to their real
homes in Missouri. And the following dis
patch gives the fruits of their labors at the
ballol-bozes of a part of the new Terri
tory :
“Kansas, March 31, 0 P. M. —Pro-Slave-
ry ticket triumphant as far ns heard from.—
Total vote : Lawrence, 778 to 255; Tecum
sell, 266 to 34; Douglas, 330 to 6; Doni
phan, 320 to 25 ; Shawnee Mission, 40 to
16 ; Leavenworth, 699• to 90 ; Hickory
Point, 233 to 6. Election passed off quietly,
and with very little disturbance.”
Here are 3,212 votes polled at only seven
precincts—more than there were legal voters
in the entire Territory, as ascertained by an
official census four weeks previous. And the
‘‘voters” parade Missouri openly next morn
ing jin triumphal procession, with hands of
music, banners and cheering on their return
to their homes in that Slave State.
What say the abettors of the giant fraud
andj crime whereby Kansas was opened to
Slavery ? What tl |i|k The Union, The
Pennsylvanian , Albc ny Argus, Boston Post,
Detroit Free Press, Qhio Plaindealer, SfC.,
of this exhibition of ‘jPopularSovereignty?”
Whist says Douglasi? Has Gen. Cass an
eleven-column speech to uller on (hesubject?
Is (his indeed the entertainment to which
all invited us?' They were voluble
enojigh in telling us what the effect of the
Nebraska bill would 'be; now let them tell
us vbhat they think oil what it (thus far) has
been. They cannot how elude observation
by silence and secreSy, for the People are
sterhly regarding them. Messrs, Northern
Servitors of Alchisot) & Co, in (he matter
of (the organization jof Kansas I Fifteen
Millions of betrayed freemen are waiting for
your views of the Validity of this Kansas
Election, and the degree of-respect to be ac
corded it by Qongressj and the country—dare
you!speak out?— Tribune.
Earthouakb at Taxpa, Florida.— <The
report and shock of qn earthquake, or some
otbqr unusual convulsion of nature, was very
sensibly, felt and heard by many of the in*
habitants’ of Tampa, Florida, about five o’*
clock on Tuesday, the- 27 th ult. The air was
felt jto,vibrate and fho (houses shook with such
violence as to ipspirp many of the citizens
with terror. The Pe|un»n?ar says some ap
prehension was felt by. the citizens of Tampa
that the shock was occasioned by the'explo
sion of the United Slates steamer Texas Ran*
gerj whose non arrival at that port with a
I area .cargo of munitions of war bad caused
much uneasiness. In another paragraph,
however, the editor denounces the safety of
the steamer, which had been heard from at
the 'mouth of the Maotee river,
THE NEW LIQUOR BILL.
AN ACT.
To Restrain the Sale of Intoxicating Li
quorsi
Section 1. Be it enacted , <Sfc. , That
from and after the first day of October nest,
it shall be unlawful to keeper maintain any
house, room or place where vinous, spiritu
ous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admix
tures thereof are sold and drank, except as
hereinafter provided; and all laws or parts of
laws inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, be and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec 2, That if any person or persons
within this Commonwealth shall keep for sale,
and sell, or in connection with any other bus
iness or profitable employment give, receiving
therefor any price, profit or advantage, by
any measure whatever, and at the same time
voluntarily afford a place, or any other con
venience or inducement by which the same
[ may be used as a beverage, any vinous, spir
l itous. malt or brewed liquor, or any admix
ture thereof; he, she or they, and any one aid
ing, abetting or existing therein, shall be
deemed guilty pf a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction shall sentenced* to pay a fine not
exceeding fifty impris
onment not exceeding one month, and for a
second or any subsequent offence, shall pay a
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and
undergo imprisonment not exceeding three
months, )
Sec. 3. That if any two or more person*
conspire, or act together, by which one ; may
sell, and the other provide a place of other
convenience for drinking, with intent loevade
the provisions of this ael, each one so offen
ding, upon conviction, shall be punished as
providedrftTThe■second seciioh of this act.
Seg/ 4, That it shall be unlawful for any
person tikgell orkeep for sale any vinous,
spiritous, malt or brewed liquors, or any ad.
mixtures thereof, incase not hereinbefore pro.
hibited, in a less quantity than one quart, nor
without license granted by the court of quar
ter sessions of the proper county, on petition
presented for that purpose, lo be advertised
according to the first section of the act of the
twenty-ninth of March, one thousand eight
hundred and forty-one, supplementary to the
various acts relating lo tavern licenses; but
no such license shall be granted to other than
citizens of the United Slates, of temperate
habits and good repute for honesty : Provi
ded, That no certificate shall be required or
published as mentioned in the act herein re
ferred to : Provided, That no license for the
sale of liquors as aforesaid, shall be granted
to the keeper of any hotel, inn, tavern, re
staurant, eating-house, oyster-house or cellar,
theatre or other places of entertainment,
amusement, or refreshment.
Seo. 5. That the said court, by their
rules, shall fix a time at which applications
for said licenses shall be heard, at which
time all persons' making objections shall be
heard.'
Sec. 6. That it shall not be lawful for
the clerk of said court to issue any license as
aforesaid, until the applicant shall have filed
(he bond hereinafter required, and the cer
tificate of the city receiver, or county treas
urer, that (He license fee has been paid to
him.
Src. 7. That tho appraisers of licenses
under this act shall be appointed as provided
by existing laws, except in the city of Phila
delphia, where on the passage of this act, and
thereafter at the beginning' of every year,
three .reputable and temperate persons shall
be-appointed by the court of quarter sessions
to appraise dealers in spirituous, vinous, malt
or brdwed liquors aforesaid, and of distillers
and brewers, and to do and perform all du
ties now enjoined by law not inconsistent
herewith ; and said appraisers shall be citi
zens of the United Slates, in no manner con
nected with, or interested in the liquor busi
ness, and shall be compensated as now pro
vided by law.
Sec. 8. That nd license shall be granted
without the payment 1 lo the receiver of taxes
of (he city of Philadelphia, or to the Measu
rers of the other counties of the State for the
use of the Commonwealth, three times the
amount now fixed by law to be paid by ven
ders of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors,
or brewers and distillers: Provided, That
no license shall be granted for a less sum
than thirty dollars.
Sec. 9. That the bond required to be ta
ken of all persona who shall receive a license
to sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed li
quors, or any admixtures thereof, shall be
in one thousand dollars, conditioned for the
faithful observance of all the laws of ibis
Commonwealth relating to the business oj
vending such liquors, with two sufficient
sureties, and warrant of attorney to confess
judgment; which bond shall be approved by
one of the judges of the court of quarter ses
sions of the peace of the proper county, and
to be filed in said court; and whenever a
judgment Tor any forfeiture or fine shall have
been recovered against the principal therein,
ii shall be lawful for the district attorney, of
the proper county, to enter judgment against
the obligors in the said bond, and proceed to
colledt the same of the said principal or sure
ties.
Sec. 10. That every person licensed to
-sell spiritous, vinotis or malt liquors as afore
said, shall frame his license under glass, and
place (he same so that it may at all times be
conspicuous in his chief place of making sale;
and no license shall amhoriza sales by any
person who shall neglect this requirement,
nor shall any license authorize the sole of any
spiritous, vinous or mall liquors on Sunday.
Sec. 11. That any sale made of any
spirituous, vinous or malt liquor contrary to
(his act, shall bo taken to be a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction of the offence in the court
of quarter seasionabf the proper county, shall
be punished in the manner prescribed by. the
second section of this act.
Sec: 13 That the provisions of this act,
as to appraisement and license, shall not ex
tend lo importers who shall vend or dispose
of said liquors in the original case or pack
ages as imported, nor to duly commissioned
auctioneers selling at public vendtie or outcry,
nor to (brewers or distillers selling in quanti
ses not less than five gallons, nor shall any
thing herein contained, prohibit the sale by
druggists of any admixtures of intoxicating
liquors! bb medicines.
Sec. 1 13. That it shall be the duty of eve
ry- constable of every town, borough, town
ship or ward within. this Commonwealth, at
i every term of the court of quarter session*
of each respective county, to make return on
{oath or affirmation, whether within his knowl,
?dge ihere is any plnce within his bailiwick,
kept and maintained in violation of this act ■
«nd it shall be the especial duty of the judges
of the said courts to see that this return u
faithfully made ; and if any person shall
make known to such constable the name or
names of any one whd shall have violated
this act, with the names of witnesses who can
prove the fact, it shall be his duty to make
return thereof on oath or affirmation to the
court, and upon his wilful failure so to do, ha
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon indictment and conthufion, shall
sentenced to imprisonment in the jail of the
county for a period not less than one. nor
. more than three months, and pay a lint a 0(
exceeding fitly dollars.
Seo. 14. That this act shall not interfere
with any persons holding a license heretofore
granted, until the time for which the same
was granted shall have expired ; nor shall any
license which may be granied before the first
day of July next, authorise the sale of'aaid
liquors or admixtures thereof alter the first
day of October next, contrary to the provia
ions of ths act.
A. mirror which Shows the Fi.
ture.
Neal Dmp, author of tha.oiiginal “Maine
Law,” was chosen Mayor of Portland, Me, s
little before said law was enacted. > Of course,
he distinguished himself by his efforts to up.
hold and enforce it, and the Rum influence
made a desperate rally next spriogjand ousted
him. Last spring, the Prohibition's tried to
reinstate him, but failed by a small majority.
This spring, they have tried again, and sue*
ceeded. See the vote in the first and last of
these three trials:
1852. Dow. Farris, 1855. Dow. McCobb
Tout 1,496 1,91)0 1,896 ’.829
Muj. against Dow 404 Moj, Tor Dow-.. 67.
This, you will perceive, is the vole of a
city only, and a city which has done a large
business in Rumselling, in the former m.
stance, the Portlanders had just tried a strin
gent enforcement of the Prohibitory Law,
and decided to relax; now they have tried
out the IVee-and-easy policy, and decided la
return to Neal Dowism. Will those whoare
so stoutly predicting the speedy repeaTof our
Maine Law just consider these facts T Rely
on it, they mean something.
Maine pioneered the way to Legal Prohi
bition, and Maine has just stiffened her Law
by a vote of 90 to 29 in the House and all to
nothing in the Senate. Massachsbbtts soon
followed, but not stringently enough to cut off
the tap in some of the larger cities, especially
Boston: so Massachusetts has just driven the
hoops on her Law by the strong vole of 258
to 45-!-Bosl6D,.for the first lime, giving a
majority for prohibition. Rhode Island like,
wise prohibited; her Judges broke down the
Law ; but the People remodeled and reinac.
ted it. Connecticut failed twice in her efforts
for such a Law—the first time by means ofa
Veto—but the People rallied again, carried
the Maine Law last year, and have just sus.
tained it. New Hampshire has just decided
for it, for the first time, Vermont has it with
out further dispute. New Jersey has just lost
it, by one majority in the Senate, after carry*
ing it in the House. Delaware has just car
ried it. Ohio adopted a modification of it
last year, which is popular and working well.
Michigan passed it two years ago, but four
(half) of her Supreme Judges held it invalid
because it was submitted to the People: so
her new Legislature has just passed it again
without submission. Indiana, Illinois and
lowa have each enacted Prohibition, and lowa,
it is reported, has ratified hers by a popular
vole. And Wisconsin has twice passed such
an act, but lost It through the Governor's Ve
to, for which the! People will veto him,
) Y. Tribune.
A New Territory.
A letter from New Mexico to the New Or
leans Picayune states that it is proposed that
the Territorial Legislature shall memorialize
Congress to erect a New Territory ont of the
southern portion of New Mexico, The writer
says:
“The name suggested and recommended in
the memorial is P'meria, which was origin
ally the name of the region now proposed to
be erected into a new Territory. The name
|is, I think, euphonious, and would sound
well as the name of a Terilory ora State.
' The present Territory is about eight hun
dred miles long by six hundred end fifty broad,
with a superficial area of 520,000 square
miles, inhabited by about 100,000 people. It
is settled principally in Jits central-portion
from the north to (he south line, and has, be
side, a large population in the territory late
ly acquired from Mexico, extended from the
Rio Grand to near the California Gulf. With
in this newly-acquired territory there are sev
eral towns formerly in the Mexican Stales of
Chihuahua and Sonora. That portion now
proposed to be erected into a new Territorial
organization is far removed from Sanfa Fe,
the seat of government. The Jornada del
Mue'rto intervenes. There is much difficulty
in extending and executing the laws over that
region of country on account of its dislanco
from Santa Fo, and the officers. The road
is dangerous and difficult to travel. For in
stance, Las Cruces, the county seat of Dona
Anacounty, is three hundred and fifty miles
from the seat of government, and over the
Jornado del Muerlo, (Dead Man's Jouney.)
The nearest town in the new territorial acqui
sition in new Mexico, and which would fall in
the new Territory, is about six hundred miles,
and the roost remote about eight hundred
miles, and over routes almost completely ren
dering all communication with Santa Ffe, im
practicable from the circumstances. The
Territory proposed is-said to possess vast ag
ricultural and mineral resources, - and fo be
capable of supporting a large population, and
is claimed to be the finest pastoral'country in
the world. The climate is mild and salubri
ous.”
The proposed boundaries are then slated,
and the letter concludes:
"If Congress should endorse this measure
and create (he Territory as prayed fbr, it will
contain a larger population at (he time of its
erection into a territory than either Oregon,
Washington, Minnesota, Kansas, or Nebras
ka Territories had at the time of their crea
tion. Much the larger portion of the land in
’Fimbria’ is public domain.”