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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 8,1861
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Profitable Farming.
The reader is referred to a report in another
part of this paper, made by the superintendent
of Prof_ Mapes' farm, near Newark, N. J., of
the receipts and expenditures upon the same
during the year 1860. It will be observed that
the nett profits were over six thousand dollars ;
and this, too, derived from the cultivation of
only some thirty-five acres. A better illuetra
tion of the great advantages derived.from care
ful scientific farming can scarcely be found.—
Agriculturists will not fail to note and and
profit by it.
The Albany Argus says if Mr. Lincoln's Ad
ministration does not take measures to restore
harmony, "we will then carry this issue down
to the electors—with the friends of the Union,
of peace, of National brotherhood, of National
prosperity and happiness, arrayed on one side,
and the enemies of all these gathered on the
other. No sagacious man can doubt upon which
banner victory will perch. The enemies of
the Union, those who rally under the gag of
'No Compromise—no Concession,' will be routed
and dispersed, and then may we hope for the
adoption of Constitutional remedies for the
present National troubles_ If the Administra
tion of Mr. Lincoln choose to refuse all adjust
ment and carry this question to the polls, we
accept the issue."
Ix reviewing the Inaugural of Mr. LINCOLN
the Missouri Republican says: We fail to see
in it any disposition to sweep partizan plat
forms and party policies aside, but its guarded
words and studied sentences seem, on the con
trary, to have been prompted by the sole idea
of meeting the expectations of the Republicans
who elected him. Mr. Bates, the Attorney
General of the new Administration, while wri
ting of the Chicago resolutions, last summer,
said that party platforms are commonly made
"with the view to conciliate present support
rather than to establish a permanent system of
principles," and "are hardly ever acted upon
in practice ;" but President Lincoln, it would
appear, recognizes no such ruie. So inflexibly
does he stand by the Chicago platform, and so
requisite to success does he regard his devotion
to it, that one of the first things he does is to
call attention to this partisan creed.
We hoped for a more conservative and more
conciliatory expression of sentiment. Much
Will now depend upon the putting in practice
of the ideas advanced. That will test the ques
tion, be it one of expediency or of right,
whether the forts can be held or retaken, and
revenues collected, without producing—what
Mr. Lincoln says he wishes to avoid—violence
and bloodshed. God knows, we wish the prob
lem could be solved peaceably and honorably.
Under his guidance, and with the blessings
of God, I believe and trust, and confidently
expect, that an Administration that is inaugu
rated amid some distrust and painful appre•
pension, will close upon a re-united, restored,
prosperous, free and happy republic. The State
of New York, the greatest and most powerful
of the States, will lead all other States in the
way of conciliation; and as the path of wisdom
is always the path of peace, so I am sun that
now we shall . find that the way of conciliation
is the way of wisdom.—Mr. Seward in Washing
ton, Nareh 4th.
"The way of conciliation is the way of wis
dom." So says Mr. Seward, and his words
speak hope for the Union. A spirit of forbear
ance, and a determination to render equal jus
tice, may yet effect a great change in the minds
of Southern men.
But suppose the opposite course is adopted,
and the " force" policy is resorted to. The
whole South will then fly to arms as one man,
and secession will become a permanent insti
tution, eventually to be recognized as such—
perhaps after terrific slaughter and desolation_
The only hope is, that, whatever may be the
avowed determination of the President to "en
force the laws," there will first be a long inter
val, industriously improved to show that, in
spite of all evidence to the contrary, the domi
nant party is now prepared to cut loose from
rash and fanatical counsellors, and to do justice
to all sections of the country_ I' ow is the golden
opportunity. Is there in the new Cabinet
enough of true conservatism and of statesman
ship to improve it? or must the Union be
plunged into the horrors of civil war ?
Truly, " the way of conciliation," in the
present emergency, is " the path of wisdom,"
and the only one which offers any hope for a
peaceful solution of ow gra.ve national diffi
culties.
The Rush fur Office.
The number of applicants for office under the
new Administration is past all calculation.—
We find in the Journal of Commerce the follow
ing statement of the rush for office in New
York :
The rush for the snug Federal berths in this
city is perfectly terrific. Some papers are
publishing what purports to be lists of candi
dates for all the principal offices ; but, es com
pared to the vast frantic hest in the eity and
surrounding countryw- 'h
a are pressing their
claims on the President, publicly or privately,
through papers, individuals or organizations,
those catalogues of candidates, long as they
are, are but a drop in the bucket. Every Re
publican editor, every stump speaker, every
defeated candidate for Congress or city or
Minty offices, every committee man, every he
roic Republican who made a martyr and a
laughing stock of himself last fall by wearing
a coachman's oil cloth cape and carrying a
smoky lamp through the streets—all these are
scut only "willing" but anxious to shoulder the
burdens of Federal office. With common in
stinct, they begin by asking for a first class
place, leaving plenty of room to It fall" in the
extent of their demands. There are probably
not less than one hundred strong applicants for
every important Federal office in this city—and
behind them come a countless swarm of candi
dates for the petty places. In fact, the whole
Republican party in New York is a candidate
for—the best it can . get.
The local spoils are rich. The Collectorship
is worth $6,340 in annual salary, and at least
$30,000 in yearly fees. The Surveyor receives
$4,900 salary and fees equal to the Collector.
The Naval Officer has $5,000 salary, and fees
equal to those of his associates. As one-half
of the proceeds of all sales of property seized
by the Custom House officers is divided between
the Collector, Naval Officer and Surveyor, (the
other half going to the general government,)
their revenues may be almost indefinitely in
creased by vigilance and energy. The pa
tronage of these three offices is immense—the
Collector alone having the appointment of an
army of persons. The Navy Agent is entitled
to only. $3,000 from his fees, and is expected
to pay the rest over to Government.
lER. BUCWANAN AT HOME.
LANCASTER, March 6.—Mr. Buchanan was
received here this afternoon by a large con
course of his fellow citizens. The civil and
military procession was several squares in
length. The arrival of the special train was
greeted with a national salute of thirty-four
guns and the ringing of bells, Mr. Buchanan
is accompanied by Miss Harriet Lane and Miss
Hetty Parker. The procession was composed
of the Mayor and City Councils, the firemen,
Fencibles and Jackson Rifles, and large dele
gations from the country. It halted at Centre
Square, when Mr. Preston, on behalf of the
Baltimore City Guards, made a neat speech,
handing Mr. Buchanan over to Mayor Sander..
son.
Mayor Sanderson delivered the following
address:
ADDRESS OF MAYOR SANDERSON, OF LANCAS
TER, TO EX-PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
Mr. Buchanan, Honored Sir :—lt is my
pleasure to have been deputized by the citizens
of Lancaster, irrespective of party, to extend
to you a cordial welcome back to your own
home and fireside, and to those social enjoy
ments and courtesies from your old neighbors
and friends, from which you have been, in a
great measure debarred for the last four years,
owing to the pressing public duties which
necessarily engaged your attention.
You, sir, have long been in the service of
your country in different capacities, and now,
after having received from the people of the
United States the highest honor in the Republic,
you gracefully retire from the perplexities and
responsibilities of official station, and return
to spend the evening of your protracted and
eventful life in the place made sacred to you
by the recollections of half a century. After
having served your country faithfully and well,
at home and abroad, you at length seek the
repose of your beloved Wheatland, without a
solitary aspiration for the future, except an
ardent desire for the welfare and happiness of
your countrymen, and the perpetuity of our
republican institutions.
Your administration of the General Govern ,
meat, sir, will be marked in the histcry of the
nation as the most eventful one since the day
of the Father of his Country. From your
accession to the Presidency until the close of
your term, you had difficulties to encounter
which were not experienced by any of your
distinguished predecessors in the high office,
and you retire from the Chair of State at a
perilous time, when, through the machinations
of foreign and domestic foes commenced years
ago, the nation trembles from its centre to its
circumference...wham amen of our sister States
are in open rebellion against the authority of
the General Government, and when the dangers
of civil war and bloodshed are fearfully immi
nent. That such a sad condition of things is
deprecated by you, as it is by every true
hearted patriot in the land, cannot be doubted.
We know your heartfelt devotion to the
Union ; we know that you anticipated and
faithfully warned your fellow citizens, time
and again, of the dangers that at the present
moment menace the country ; and now that the
troubles you predicted with true statesmanlike
sagacity, as the result of a sectional contro
versy of long duration are upon us, in all
their horror and intensity, short of the shed.
ding of fraternal blood, which has so far been
happily averted by your calmness and prudence,
I am sure that no language which I can employ
will be sufficient to express the deep feeling of
grief which must pervade your bosom at the
discordant and dissevered condition of the
country.
Your fellow citizens of Lancaster county, sir,
have differed in opinion as to the propriety or
policy of some of the measures of your Admin
istration. This, of course, was to have been
expected, as no previous Adrainistra.tbn has
been exempt from pass ng through the same
ordeal, but all are willing to admit that your
intentions were honest and patriotic in what
you did, and that the welfare, the glory and
perpetuity of the Union, were near and dear to
your hear. all the time.
Believing this, sir, thousands of your old
neighbors and acquaintances have assembled
here to-day for the purpose of bidding you wel
come, at the same time trusting that, in your
retirement, you may long live and enjoy the
confidence and esteem of those to whom you
are endeared by a thousand recollections, not
only from your eminent public services in the
councils of the nation, but also from your pri
vate benefactions in the county.
It only remains for me, sir, on behalf of the
people of Lancaster county, to bid you a hearty
welcome to your old home. I perform the task
with pleasure, and extend to you the hand of
friendship and fraternal feeling, invoking upon
you heaven's choicest blessing in time and in
eternity.
MR. BUCHANAN'S REPLY TO THE MAYOR
Mr. Buchanan replied substantially as fol
lows:
My old neighbors, friends and fellow citi
zens :—I have not language to express the feel
ings which swell in my heart on this occasion;
I do most cordially thank you for this demon
stration of your personal kindness to an old
man who comes back to you, ere long to lay his
bones at rest with your fathers, And here let
me say, that having visited almost every clime
under the sun, my heart has ever turned to
Lancaster as the spot where I would wish to
live and die, and be buried. When yet a young
man, in far remote Russia, my heart was still
with your fathers—my friends and neighbors
in good old Lancaster. (Applause.)
And although I have always been true to you,
I have not been half so true to you as you have
been to me. Your fathers took me up when a
young man, and fostered and cherished me
through many long years. All these have pas
sed away, and I stand before you to-day as a
man living in a second generation. (A voice—
I saw you mount your horse when you marched
to Baltimore, in 1812.) I feel with all my heart,
though in the midst of posterity, that these
sons are manifesting the same kindness which
their fathers would have done, had they lived
to this day. Generations of mortal men rise
and sink and are forgotton, but the kindness of
the past generation to me, now conspicuous in
their sons, can never be forgotten.
I come home, fellow-citizens, to pass the re
mainder of my dnys among you, as a good citi
zen, a faithful friend, an adviser to those who
need advice, and a benefactor of the widows
and fatherless. (Loud applause.) All politi
cal aspirations have departed. All that I have
done during a somewhat protracted public life
has passed into history, and if I have done
aught to offend a single citizen I now sincerely
ask his pardon.
May God grant that this Union and Consti
tution may be perpetual. (Applause.)
I close by repeating the sentiment dear to
my heart. God grant that the Constitution and
the Union may be perpetual, and continue a
shield of protection to ourselves and our chil
dren forever.
BUCtIANAN retired amid enthusissiie ap
plause. He then resumed his place in the car
riage, and was escorted to Wheatland.
OCCUPATION OF SYRIA.—The period fixed by
the treaty for the occupation of Syria by the
French troops expired on the 8d of this month,
It is probable that by this time the Conference
which was to meet at Paris to make arrange
ments for the future governmrnt of the pro•
vince is in session. It is understood that the
Commission of Inquiry appointed by the Euro
pean Governments to report to the Conference,
has adopted a plan, of which the following are
the principal features: It recommends that a
Pacha, invested with power for life, shall ad
minister the affairs of the Province, with the
title of Governor General. A fifth of its reve
nues is to go to the Porte, the remainder being
employed for internal expenses. A constitution,
to be agreed upon between the Sultan and the
Great Powers, is to be given to the Province,
and its execution is to be watched over by the
Consuls General at Beirut.
A Divan, elected by the votes of each district
in proportion to the number of inhabitants, is
to form a consulting council for the Pacha, and
no more Ottoman troops are to be sent into Syria
from Constantinople, but are to be replaced by
military forces raised in the province itself.—
The Lebanon and anti-Lebanon districts are to
have at their head a Caruslean, dependent on
the Pacha, and an Ottoman subject, though of
the Catholic religion, Two Camaicans, one
Maronite, and the other Druse, are to be under
him to govern the two populations which occupy
the mountain, and the government of the mined
villages is to be constituted in such a manner as
to have their inhabitants always placed accor
ding to their religion, under the direct authority
of one of their own faith.
This plan appears calculated to do away with
all the difficulties arising out of the religious
feuds of the population and the substitution
of the authority of the Porte by a foreign force.
It remains to be seen - whether Prance, in the
prosecution of the designs imputed to it, will
throw any obstacles in the way of its adoption.
GENERAL NEWS.
BLOODY AFFAIR IN HARDIN COUNTY, KY.—We
learn, says the Louisville Courier of Monday,
from Capt. Wtn. H. Taylor, conductor on the
L. and N. Railroad, of a tragic affair in Hardin
county on Saturday. Thos. H. Duncan, a mer
chant of Elizabethtown, paid a visit to his in
valid mother, who was residing at Stephens
burg, in that county, with another son, Herson
Duncan. An altercation ensued between the
brothers in reference to alleged ill-treatment of
the mother. Herson seized a shot-gun with
hostile intent, but Thomas shot him with a re
volver before he could bring the gun to bear
on him. A son of Herson's then caught the
gun and knocked Thomas down. While beat
ing him, the latter shot his nephew, the ball
entering his abdomen,
IMMIGRATION AT NEW YORK.—The whole
number of passengers landed at the port of
New York during the year 1860, was 155,371,
viz: from Ireland, 47,350 ; from England 11,-
361 ; and 8,582 from other countries. Of these
50,209 were citizens or persons not subject to
bond or commutation; and 105,163 were aliens,
for whom commutation was paid or bonds exe
cuted, showing an increase in alien emigrants
of 25,840 more than 1859, and 28,573 more than
in 1858, but being 78,611 less than in the year
1857, and 37,180 lees than 1856; while the pro
portion to the average of former years, since
1846, is less than half.
A BLACK MAN AT THE FRENCH COURT.—Na
poleon gave a grand ball just before the begin
ning of Lent, and a correspondent of the Eve
ning Post writes: "At this ball a stout, burly
negro, black as ebony, with the wooliest of hair
and whiskers, and the thickest of lips, wearing
a magnificient order, was received with the
utmost distinction by the Imperial pair, and
by the grandees of the court. This sable per
sonage was the son of the ex-Emperor Sou
longue, the once high and mighty Duke of
Marmelade, received at the Turneries with all
the respect paid in courts to the scions of fallen
royalty—white or black."
THE BORDER SLAVE STATES IN CONORESS.
In the present Congres Delaware has 1 repre
sentative, Maryland 6, Virginia 13, North Car
olina 8, Kentucky IQ, Tennessee 10, Missouri
7, Arkansas 2—total 57. Under the census of
1860, Virginia loses 2, North Carolina 1, Ten
nessee 2, Kentucky 2—total 7. Missouri gains
2 and Arkansas I—total 8. A net loss of 4.
So that under the new apportionment, the eight
border slave States will have only 53 votes.—
The anti-slavery States will have 150 votes
under the new census, nearly three times as
many as the border slave States have.
NEW YORK Is THE PLACE TO LIVE IN.—The
New York Commercial Advertiser says the Poly
technic Association is, at its next meeting, to
be feasted with sugar made by chemical trans
formation from old rags, and with pudding
made from the gelatine of old shoes. Leather
being composed of tannin and gelatine, the
tannic acid is extracted, and the gelatine is
then purified from the discoloring tannite of
iron, after which it is fit for culinary purposes.
It should have added the limitation—"in the
commercial emporium."
THE COMMISSION OF CAPT. SCH/EPFER STILL
WITHHELD,—The report that Captain Soli wirer,
of the District militia, had received his com
mission turns out to be untrue. Mr. Buchanan,
on an appeal being made to him, ordered it to
be delivered, but the Secretary still refused on
account of Captain Sob mffer's refusal to declare
that he would aid the General Government in
coercing Virginia and Maryland in case either
seceded. The President not desiring to make
an issue with a member of his cabinet, allowed
the commission to remain suspended,
MINORITY PRESIDENTS.—In 1824 Mr. Adams,
who was in a minority of 141,420, and who had
much less than half of the popular vote, was
elected by the House of Representatives. In
1844 Mr. Polk was elected by the people, and
was in a minority of 24,119. In 1848 General
Taylor was elected. He was in a minority of
151,708. In 1866 Mr. Buchanan was elected.
He was in a minority of 378,620. In 1860 Mr.
Lincoln aas elected. He was in a minority of
946,650 of the popular vote.
JAPAN.—The Government at Washington has
received late dispatches from Japan, from
which we learn that the port of Osaca will be
open on the Ist of January, 1862, instead of
1863, as contemplated by the treaty with the
United States. The treaty with Prussia re
ceives this advantage, and this country in com
mon with the most fovored nations, shares in
the advantage.
Mr. Sheffield, a wealthy property owner in
New Haven. Conn., has written to a tenant of
one of his Chapel street stores the following
note : "Dear Slit On aeootint of the hard times
your rent will be reduced two hundred dollars
for the next two years!" Might not other
landlords go and do likewise, with real profit
to all hands?
General Scott, it is said, will endeavor to
have two regiments added to the United Mates
army the coming summer; or, if that is not
acceded to, be will endeavor to have double
battalions to one or two. The proportion of
mounted persons in the army is not PO large as
it should be considering the exigencies of bor
der duty.
THE INAUGURAL FOR ENGLAND.--It is stated
that a lengthy synopsis of the inaugural was on
Monday evening transmitted to St. Johns, N. F.,
thence to be forwarded by steamtug to inter
cept the steamship Fulton, bound to Europe,
off Cape Race.
The California Legislature, by a vote of 41
to 32, have expunged the , resolutions of censure
formerly passed against the late Senator Bro
derick.
No loss than $1,560,000 are invested in bee
culture in Ohio.
MURDER AT CONESTOGA CENTRE.—A colored
woman, at Conestoga Centre, Lancaster county,
on Monday, alleged that her husband, Abraham
Allen, had been murdered in his bed. The
neighbors repaired to Allen's house, and found
him on the bed, eut and hacked in a frightful
manner, and just expiring. No person was
seen about the premises, and it was at once
suspected that the woman was the murderer.
She was accordingly arrested.
POLITICAL CONDITION Or THE SENATE.—The
Republicans have now a majority in the U. S.
Senate. They have now 29 votes against 24
on the Democratic side. The vacancies of Mr.
Green. of Mo., and Mr. Gwin, of Cal., have yet
to be filled, but they will be followed by Dem
ocratic successors. It is expected that the
present officers of the Senate will he changed,
except, perhaps, the venerable secretary, Mr.
Dickens.
ARREST OP FUGITIVE SLAVES.—Within a few
days several fugitive slaves from Maryland and
Virginia have been arrested in the District of
Columbia. An effort was made in Philadelphia,
en Monday, to arrest a fugitive slave woman
from Washington city. She Aided the officers,
however, by secreting herself.
CELEBRATED AT PANAMA.—The annaversary
of the birthday of George Washington, the 22d
of February, was duly honored in the harbor of
Panama by the firing of a national salute from
the United States flag-ship Lancaster, United
States sloop St. Marys, and H. B. M.'s ship
Mutine.
RHODE ISLAND.—The Constitutional Union
and the Democratic Conventions, on the 6th
inst., nominated Wm. Sprague for Governor,
and the rest of the present State officers. The
Democrats also nominated Geo. H. Browne for
Congress in the western district.
Alfred )3, Street has been elected an honor
ary member of the Literary Union, in Nurem
burg, Germany, and his poems have been trans
lated in the "Album des Literarisehen Vereins,"
at that place.
Among the articles sent to Paris from China,
are said to be seventy-five splendid pieces of
fur for the French Empress ; also some beauti
ful coral, and a pearl necklace of unparalleled
beauty.
A panorama is exhibited at Liverpool show
ing the progress of the Prince of Wales in this
country, and contains views of the principal
cities and towns through which he passed.
The placing of pieces of rattan in ordinary
brooms to expand the brush is said to be an
economical improvement just introduced, which
is likely to be generally adopted.
Col. Ellsworth, the "Zouave," will, it is
stated, be the chief clerk of the War Depart
ment.
The Hudson is now open from New York to
Albany, and the season of navigation has com
menced.
The number of persons killed and wounded
in Texas by the Indians, during the past three
months, is estimated at 470.
Rev. A. Hoffman, of the German Reformed
Church, committed suicide in Montgomery
county, Pa., last week while deranged.
Mr. Holt publishes a letter which exonerates
en-Secretary Thompson from the charge of
having betrayed CabiLet secrets.
England obtained from other sources than
the United States in 1860, 860,000 bales of
cOttOn.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, March 7
The War Department to-day received letters
from Major Anderson, dated the 4th inst., but
they contain nothing of special importance.
He represents that the most friendly feeling
exists betwcen himself and the South Carolina
authorities. The postal facilities are still open
to him, and the privileges of marketing, to a
limited extent, continue.
Gen. Cameron leaves to-day for Pennsylva
nia. He has not yet been qualified, but will
return probably on Monday. In the meantime
Mr. bolt, by his request, will continue to dis
charge the duties of Se 3retary of War.
John A. Jones, of Illinois, was to-day ap
pointed Superintendent of Statistics in the
State Department vice H. C. McLaughlin_
There were numerous visitors at the Depart
ment this morning and many applications for
office were Med, The new cabinet held their
first meeting to-day.
Dispatches from Flag Officer Stribbing were
received at the Navy Department today. He
says that in consequence of the disturbed state
of China, hr had not, until the Ist of January,
considered it proper to send any vessel to the
Southward. The John Adams had sailed for
Manilla, Siam and Singapore. The commerce
of the United States with Siam, he says, is of
considerable importrnce, and an occasional
visit of a man of-war to that country is advi
sable, as well as to all the countries around the
China sea and Japan. The frequent presence
of men-of-war is beneficial to our commerce
and our countrymen residing there. He ex
pected to go North with the Hartford and Sagi
naw.
The New Orleans Picayune of the 2.4:1 instant,
received by mail, contains Galveston advices of
26th ult. The Texas forces under Col. Ford,
accompanied by Commissioner Nichols, visited
Brazos and found there twenty soldiers under
Lieut. Thompson, about twenty guns, plenty of
artillery stores, and ammunition. Capt. Hill
had previously withdrawn the light battery,
and a party were on the route to Brazos to
destroy the gun carriages• and immovable
stores. On demanding of Capt. Hill the sur
render of Fort Brown, he called Commissioner
Nichols And his men traitors. He had sent to
Ringold Barracks for two hundred men. Capt.
Hill's men say that he is determined to defend
Fort Brown to the last, and that he refused to
obey the order of Twiggs to surrender. The
troops at Fort Brown are in excellent health
anti spirits. The Texas State troops are being
sent from Galveston to reinforce Col. Ford at
Brownsville.
Messrs. Crawford, Forsyth, and Roman, Oho
commissioners from the Southern Confederacy,
are now in Washington, and it is said will make
known the object of their mission to the Presi-
dent on Tuesday next.
Destructive Fire.
A fire at Dundee has destroyed thirty-five
dwellings, a church, two taverns, and all the
gores in the place except one. The loss is
estimated at $lOO,OOO, but was generally in
sured.
Ntw Muertizetnents.
TO BUTCHERS.
BELLED PROPOSALS to furnish the Dauphin County
Poor HOUS9 With such meat as' may be wante4,
time to time, Will be receir d by the Directors up to the
27th DAY OF MARCH, and opened and contract awarded
on TUESDAY, the 2d of April, li6l, to the lowest bidder.
The meat must be of good quality, and delivered at the
building. -
All proposals to be handed to the Steward of the Poor
Mouse. JOHN RAYSOR,
SIMON DANIEL,
PET ER BISHOP;
marB-3tdaltw Directors of Poor.
PTIBLIC SALE .—Will be Sold, at
Brant'a Ew•opean Hotel, on Wednesday Fvening,
March 13th, 1861, a certain TWO STORY FRAME
DWELLING HOUSE AND LOT OF OROUND, AND
VACANT LOT, situate on North etreet, near Second
—being 50 feet on North street, and extending bock 51
feet. The House is well finished, with seven rooms and.
Basement Kitchen. Sale to commence at 7 o'clock.—
Terms will be made known by HENRY ROBERTS.
mar6-ltd* W. BARR, Auctioneer.
THE BIBLE ON PIVORCE.—The fol
lowing words are from Mark a. v. 9,12:
"What, therefore, God has joined together let not man
put asunder."
L(W shall put away hie wife and Merry another
committeth adultery. And if a woman shall put away
her husband and marry again she committeth adultery."
Legislators and others, the above is the edict of the
Supreme Lawgiver, from which there is der appeal.—
"What, therefore, God has joined together let no man
put asunder." Auld dtt
NEW Yowl, Match 7
T REASURER'S ACCOUNT.
JOIIN C ARE, Treasurer of the County of Dauphin, Penn
sylvania, and ex-officio Treasurer of the Rouse of Em
ployment and Support of the Poor in the County of
Dauphin, in account with the said County, for the use
of said House of Employmedt, &c.
RECEIPTS—IMO.
To balance in Treasury. due for the use of the
House of Employment, and of the Poor in
the County of Dauphin, as per settlement
m ade by the county Auditors, January 12,
1860.- • • - $63 61
To cash received from the Commissioners of
the County of Dauphin, for the use of the
Renee, ste , as aforemid, pursuant to requi
sitions by the Directors of the Poor, &c.. in
conformity to law, dated January 2, 1860,
on orders issued by said Commissioners, to
wit: N 0.528 12,000 00
To cash received from the following named
persons, derived, as herearter stated, for
the use of the aforesaid House of Employ
ment, to wit:
Jan. 24.-to cash from John Enders,
Esq., fines. . .....- $1 79
Teb'y 0.-To casli. for Lime-from John
Baylor-- - - - 70 52
0 .. 6, H Brown 12 84
April 2.-To cash for rent of M'Mahon's
property 20 00
" To cash for sundries 1 20
April 4.-- " from H Brown board
for paupers ... . 38 00
te To cash for Lime sold to D.
Shell 31 52
April 21.-To cash for Logs sold 6 00
46 24.- " from George Gilbert,
Esq., fines 10 05
May 2.-To cash for lime sold 500
June 2.- " proceeds of Mi11....114 25
June 5.-To easlrFrederick Gilbert for
support of an invalid 62 00
Aug. 15 -To cash for board to paupers 35 40
23.- " " Lime sold 45 00
" 30.- " " Pasture .... 10 00
Oct. 12.-To cash, Rroceeds•of Mi11...130 00
66 6 6 for Lime from John
Raynor.. .. 21 60
Oct, 13.-To cash for pasture 15 00
NOT. 24.- " " board to paupers 10 00
Dec. 4.- •• .. Lime sold 24 00
ci 19.- .. ~ paupers, Lancas
ter County 80 00
1;812 58
To aggregate amount MAT 64) of orders is
sued in and during the year 1860, by the
Directors of the Poor and House of Employ
ment for the County of Dauphin, unpaid at
settlement made by the County Auditors
of the County of Dauphin, Pa., Tannery
11, 1861.
Order No. 8, Tobias Hendricks.-....-. $2 00
64, John M'Mullin 1 80
85, R. Maguire 1 80
88. George Westheffer 1 90
109, Mary Ann Gould 2 00
112, Tobias Hendricks 2 60
168,.... do ..... -do - ...... 200
261, D. Leonard 4 09
403, Mary Waechter 2 00
876, Matthias Sinklow 90
419, Mary Sheets 2 00
455, Mary Waechter 2 00
463 Catharine Young 2 00
471, Ma•y 6heetz ... 2 00
510, Mary Waechter 2 00
518, Catharine Young 2 00
526, Mary Sheets ... 2 00
540, David Boyer 90
549, Widow Forney 2 00
550, Mary Forney.. - .......- - 200
865, Mary Waechter 2 00
573, Catharine Young 2 00
581, Mary Sheets 2 00
601, Widow Coryer 90
646, Mary Sheet: 2 00
690, Adam Kraemer 2 00
490, George Manly 3 00
614, Widow Forney.... . 2 00
615, Mary Forney ~2 00
630, Mary Waechter- - - ... 200
638, Catharine Young 2 00
654, Bridget Boyles 6 00
662, Widow Forney 2 00
663, Mary Forney ..... .....- . 200
703, Mary Fleck . 5 92
706, George Snoke.... --- - . 2 00
711, George Trullinger- -.- 24 04
713, John Matter 119 28
716, John Lingel 16 00
710, Sloan & Boyd .5 50
721, John A. Weir 695 96
722, Jonas Rudy 80 52
723, E_ E. Zollinger 86 02
- 1,057 04
Balance due John Care, Treasurer of the Coun
ty of Dauphin, and ex-officio Treasurer of the
Directors of the Poor and House of Employ
ment of said County 78 18
PAYMENTS.-1860.
By aggregate amount ($l3 503 08) paid and
unpaid of orders No. 1, to 725, both in clusive,
issued in and during the year 1860, by the
Directors of the Poor and House of Employ
ment for the County of Dauphin, as entered
in numerical order and detail in Order Book
of the Directors aforesaid $13,503 08
By order s paid issued by the Directors as
aforesaid in 1859, unpaid at settlement made
by the County Auditors, January, 12, 1860,
to wit
Order No. 438, Widow Forney $2 00
430, Mary Forney 2 00 ,
485, Widow Forney.. 2 00
486. Mary Forney 2 00
541, Widow Forney 200
542, Mary Forney 2 00
687, Widow F0rney..........2 00
588, Mary Forney -.. . 200
6112, Aaron Rombangh 98 00
578, T. H. Wilson. 5 00
525, John Raysor ]0 75
529, John Raysor . 45 52
533, John BaySor 3 50
530, Simon Daniel.... - . 72 72
510, Michael Yerges 2 00
507, Thomas Herod 2 00
498, Samuel Garberieh— . 200
488, Julian Walborn 2 00
305, Thomas Herod.--...,... 200
528, Joseph Clark 37 8D
524, Joseph Clark 14 88
314 17
By credit allowed John Care, Esq.. present
Treasurer for the amount of first item
charged against him on debtor side of this
account, said account not yet p4id him by
the late Treasurer, in consequence of a diffi
culty existing between him and the Board of
Directors of the House of Employment, of
which Rouse said Directors have the control
and direction 68 51
Commissions al lowed Treasurer, to wit :
On receiving $127,44.07, ji of 1 per cent. 15 93
On paying $138,17.25, 34 el 1 per eent....46 06
61 99
We, the undersigned, Auditors of the county of Dau
phin, Pennsylvania, elected, appointed, sworn and af
firmed according to law, report : That we met, did audit,
settle and adjust, seem ding to law, the foregoing ae
count of John Care, Esq., Treasurer of the County of
Dauphin, Pennsylvania, and ex offic.o Treasurer of the
House for the Employment MA Support of the Poor in
the County of Dauphin, in account with the said County,
for the use of the House of Employment aforesaid, com
mencing January 2, 1860, and ending December Si, 1860,
and that the account as above stated is correct, as entered
in Settlement Book A, of said House of Employment,
kept in the Commissioners' office of the County afore
said, and that we and a balance due the Treasurer afore
said the sum of seventy-eight dollars and thirteen cents.
In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands
at Harrisburg, this eleventh day of January, 1861.
HENRY PEFFER,
JONATHAN SPAYD,
J. P. itIITHERPORD,
Auditors of the County of Dauphin.
ATTEST: JOSEPH MILLER,
Clerk of County Auditors,
Statement of the Receipts and Expenditures of the House
of Employment and support of the Poor of the County
of Dauphin_
DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES.
Attending Sick $27 84
Bags 10 00
Burying Paupers 3 90
Beans 15 00
Blacksmithing --- - 249 52
Bricks - • - 6 50
Beef 368 77
Coal, (1859,) 341 26
Cookieg • - -- 38 00
Costs in Suits 43 64
Costs on Arbitration 1 35
Coifing && .0. , 358 14
Carpenter's work - - - 506 36
Cows - 115 50
Cattle -`404 28
Conveying Paupers 152 59
Directors mid Clerks, extra fur settlement. ~ , 20 00
Due Dr. Mellinger._. . ..- 10 00
Expenses to Trevorton . 25 60
Fixing Pump 28.18
Fence -making.-»- 22 92
Farm hire ..... -...- - - - 171 64
Farming Implements 150 10
Groceries . . : .. 1 1 21/ 14
Harvesting - . 3 76
Horse -doctoring - 9 02
Hay, &c., (1859,) 37 46
Harness. - • ........... -.. 27 73
Hats and Caps _ .... - 62 62
Hardware and Tinware . 2 60 6 7
Horses - - 2 0
Horses and Cattle .-- 261 82
.T.n‘urance Tax 9 00
Issuing orders for removal of Paupers 105 35
46 19
46 70
Lumber 307 09
Medicine -.. ._.- • 328 26
Merchandise...-. ..... - - -- - 740 84
Mason's w0ik......, ....... , ,----•-• •-•-•-• ....... 0 00
Making shoes 50 18
Making Clothes 106 84
Medical Attendance, (out -door Paupers,) 42 33
Plumber's work 42 77
Printing .............. ..... ........ ............ 185 50
Postage. Stationery, &e 25 78
Repairing Clock 2 60
Repairs at Mills en 25
Road Tax 29 69
Support of out door Paupers 103 17
Serving BUoP99nd* --- , 850
Shoats...-. 17 00
Shop-work and Toll ... 5 73
Surgery
.....' --... 105 00
• •- -
Sup - poit of Paupers in other Counties 144 30
- 69 90
Support of Pauper. in the Asylum 2,210 46
Trave1ing................
Tax on
Veal .....................................
Wheat . ... ..
.............. ............... .
Wagon work
......
David Fleming, Esq., Attorney's salary 1 year.
Brown, Steward's
Daysor, Director's
Daniels...."
Bishop .. ti
Caslow, Clerk, salary six m0nth5.......
J. W. "Frantz, Clerk, salary two months.
Dr. Misn., Physician, salary one year....
Salary due John Raysor from
John Mie', attending Sick, and as Clerk.
Amount et Okaerk issued.. -
STEWARD'S EXPLANATION.
N 301205 A . ....T..:1..0.:::....5,t 1 .5 1 9 0 2 0:
PRODUCE OP FARM.
542 Bushels of Wheat
1,167 44 Oats
850 " Potatoes 50u '''''''' lie 1 0
225 " Turnips
1,925 " Corn
. ... ,... : ... 1 .... 5127 . 09390 ,1 61 1 1 . 4:05 5 527
34 " Onions
25 I I Red Reets....._. t3 OO .................... ...'..
e 4
:I sa
Rye -....... 20
3,635 Heads of Cabbage 21 ,0
1,456 Pounds of Butter
Lard -____ ] 2,,,,,.. •
.... 87 8.1. `'
732 "
1,052 gc Tallow
516 " veal
Calf Hides. u. [ 0 8 7 7 ..... ................
3 : 8 6 1 2 9 1
82% "
12 0o ... , f,25 v i
11,741 Go . Beef
1,654 " Hides
4408 . " Pork
48 Loads of Hay
MANUFACTURED IN THE 11.0 u-SB:
31 pair of men's shoes, 34 pair of women'
rboonems:
P of children's shoes, 50 pair of mews pantaloons
If,
pair of bco s' pants, 157 shirts, 98 eh-rnises,s undershirts,
48 pair of stockings, 31 roundabouts. 36 rtsts. 23 pair of
winter pantaloons. 49 women's dresses, :37
children , 14 frocks. 31 sacks, 27 womerOs sprees, 30 sheett,
18 comforts, 21 chaff-bags, 31 bolsters, 2 quilts, 48 pillws
slips, 245 pounds hard soap, 14 barrels soft soap, 750r,0
bushels of lime burned,
PROCEEDS OF THE MILL,
1861 from the let of January, 1860, to the let of January,
TOLL GRAIN AND FLOUR GRINDING, TER lIONTIT.
January $ i 52 50
February 145 51
March •. • • 163 51
April • 160 04
May . 155 00
June
75 42
JOY•-• • • • • " • '
August ..... 8693
September —•• • • 57'52
October— 11744
November. 201 9.0
December 128 ti
Income in full for 18601,;E13
DIED DURING THE YEAR.
Henry Holsinger, (hanged.) Fred Shieler, Chas il ou ,
man, Prank Singer, three children (buried in one raffia)
Sallie Finley (colored,) Benjamin Minnick, laticindt
Haul's child (colored,) Black Tack, Mary Bernell (eel.
ored,) Susan Snowden, (colored,) Mary Riley, a colored
babe, Anna Jones (colored.) Harriet A. Davis (colored , )
John Loxley, Margaret Rape, Joseph Forney, Patrick
McGowan, Ellen Scale's child, Lucinda Zimmerman's
child, John Bell's child, two babes (buried in one coilia,)
a babe (colored.)—Whole number. 24
LIST OF COMERS AND GOElid.
January 248, February 248, March 251, April 169. May
189, June 272, duly 123, August 109, September 168, Oc•
tober 113, November 222. December 248. Total 2,356.
95 Americans, 2,261 Foreigners.
CASH RECEIVED AND PAID OUT BY THE STEW
ARD.
Cash paid into the Treasury ...$l2 4.8
Cash recd for Boarding Paupers, pd. into Treaey. 38 00
000
Lime-- • 500
Boarding Paupers 35 40
Lime,
.." 48 00
Pasture 10 00
15 00
1000
2100
HENRY BROWN, Steward.
Attest: J. W. FRANTZ, Clerk.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE DIRECTORS FOR THE
YEAR 1.2411.
Henry Brown, Steward ; Dr. Geo. F Mish, Physician;
David Mumma, Attorney; John F. Peck. Miller; J. W.
Frantz, Clerk. SIMON DANIEL
PETER 3131109,
JOHN RAYSOR,
Directors of the Poor.
Attest: 3, W. FRANTZ, Clerk, mar7.2bl.ltw
VOR RENT.-110USE ROOMsufacient
.11: for a, small family, in Third street, above North
street_ Enquire of Constable GIAHMAN.
WASHING MADE QUICK AND
EASY.
$13,947 75
HARRISON'S
HOUSEHOLD SOAP
It is BETEIMIV.M. It removes all dirt, and rake.*
with or withnut rubbing.
It is ERASIVE. It removes all stains by Oil, Paint,
Printers' Ink, Wagon or Machine Grease.
It is a ItLEACI(ER. It bleaches brown adios +Alt
and white clothes ithiter.
It is WHO uLIENT. It gives a rich permanent lather,
and makes the hande soft, white and elastic.
It is a PERFECT WASHER, in any water, hot areal,
hard or soft, salt or fresh, of finest lawns, and all grades,
to the coarsest clothes.
It is LASTING. It does much washing with little
east.
It is ECONOMICAL. It eaves wear and tear, time,
labor and money.
It combines all the good, and none of the bad proper
ties of every other Soap; therefore it is a rum!' OUP,
It is a Perfect Soap for all the uses of a Household.
In the Laundry for clothes of every description—for the.
Wash-stand—for cleaning Paint, (•lass-ware. Porcelain,
Crockery, Table, Kitchen and Dairy ii utensils.
Directions accompany each cake. samples can be lad
free of charge upon application at our store.
mars WM. DOCK, Jo., & CO,
Agents for Harrisburg,
A NEW FEATURE IN THE SPICE
TRADE!!!
IMPORTANT TO IiOtTiIiKEEPERS ! ! !
E. R. DURKEE & CO'S SELECT SPICES,
In Tin F 0 1 .% ‘ ..,ined with Paper,) and full Weight.—
BLACK PLPPER, GINGER, NUTMEG, WHITE PEP ,
PER, ALLSPICE. MACE, CAYENNE PEPPER,
CINNAMON. CLOVES, MUSTARD.
In this age of adulterated and tasteless Spices, it is
with confidence that we introduce to the attention of
Housekeepers these superior and genuine articles. We
guarantee them not only ABSOLUTELY AND PERFECTLY
PURE, but ground from fresh Spices, selected and cleaned
by us exprepsly for the purpose, without reference to
cost. They are beautifully packed in tinfoil, (lined with
paper) to prevent injury by keeping, and are FELL
WEIGHT, while the ordinary ground Spices are almost
invariably short. We warrant them, in point of strength.
and richness of flavor, beyond all comparison, as a sin•
gle trial will abundantly prove.
Every package bears our TRADE MARK.
Manufactured only by E. R. DURKEE Sc CO., Nor
York.
$13.947 75
For sale by [feb27.] WM. DOCK, JR., &CO
ALL PERSONS who have any Affection.
of the Lungs or Throat, or Chronic Tiseases, and
wish to be cured, should consult Die. STEWAR I', who .
has bad many years' experience in different sections of
the United Metes and Canada, and has cured cases which
had been treated without benefit by what are esteemed
the NEST PHYSICIANS in the Union.
. . . -
He bus been in Harrisburg for many months, and has
restored to health, invalids who bad expended hundeois
of dollars with Physicians and Patent Medicines. lie
can refer to some of the best families in Harrisburg, and
can give the names of persona in the city, and nearly :1h
parts of the State, whom he has cured of almost every'
Chronic Disease.
lie does not profess to cure all diseases afterthe man
ner of some advertising quacks, but will give a candid
opinion in regard to curability atter exaininalion. The
medicines of Dr. B. are vegetable, and derived from more
than a hundred sources while traveling. In Lung and
Throat Diseases he has had great success by means of
his CARBON MAD. which may be taken by the Stoma:ll
or Inhaled.
Beware of Caustic and the Throat Stowers of the old
school.
In COMPLAINTS OR FEMALES his success has been
remarkable, and he has cured affectiona of the Eye and
Ear said to be incurable.
Die. STEWART solicits cases of the following, given
up by others :
NEURALWA, RUEVMATISM, SeneateLA, Uteutn, Dr"
COMPLAINT, SWELLED NECK, SEXUAL DEBILITY, DROPSY,
FALLING FITS, PRIVATE DISEASES, DYSPEPSIA, GRAVEL.
Cancers removed by a new remedy procured in Canada.
When RO requested, Da. STEWART will visit patients
at their residence.
. .
In regard to qualifications, Dr. S. refers to Professors
Pancoast, Dunglison and Meige, of Philadelphia. lie
6169 bop leavo to refer to Senators Chase and Pugh, and
Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio.
Patients or their friends should can at the BUEHLER
HOUSE from 9 a m. to 6 p. m.
Letters promptly attended to, matt-014w
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War with Maxim.
PRICE SEVENTY-PIPE CENTS.
Eor sale at SC WEEP ER'S BOOKSTORE ,
mar° No. 18 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa.
WARRANTED TWELVE MONTHS!
ANOTHER LOT OF
hiOttl i ON s S 'UNRIVALLED GOLD PETS . /
PERSONS in want of a superior and really good noun
rspr will find with me a large assortment to select frog!,
and have the privilege to exchange the Pens until their
band is perfectly suited. And if by fair means the
the pur
mond points break off during twelve montba
chaser shall have the privilege to select anew one:
without any charge.
I have very good Gold Pens, in strong silver-platea
cases, for $l, $1.25, $1 80, $2.00
For gale at SOHNFFNR'S 11.00/WORE,
mare No. 18 Market Street, Harrisburg, Pa-
EXTRA SUGAR CURED SAMS--
Jot received by
no - 10 W. DOOM, JR,, G 9.
Boarding Paupers
Lime .
Terms Moderate
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