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Abolition Mooting.
On the list of officers of the Andy Johnson,
Abolition meeting, on Friday night, we find
the names of Speaker Customs, of the House,
and Senator Komszy, of Bucks county.
"The thing; we know, are neither rich nor rare,
Mat *ender how the devil they got there."
Time not Changed.
We understand that the Democratic State
Central Committee, at their recent meeting in
Philadelphia, to consider the policy of chan
ging the time fixed for holding the State Con
vention, refused to make any change. The
Convention will, therfore, be holden on the 17th
of June.
The Mayoralty.
' In ordinary times it is scarcely the province
of a public print, professing impartial support
to the principles of party, to mingle its opin
ions with matters purely of local moment and
importance, much less to interfere with ex
pressed preferences for particular persons for
any public office. It is far from the design of
this journal to indulge unnecessarily in per
sonal criticism or attack, nor does it wish to
obtrude impertinent opinions on those domes
tic concerns of our municipal affairs, which
usually partake in a large degree of subjects
whose discussion is more properly confined to
persons and places without the scope of gene
ral rules and principles. The imminent and
peculiar attitude of our national affairs, how
ever, the lessons we have learned from the
previous management of our citrevernment,
demand at this time that we sho dismiss for
once the precedent of silence, 10 urge upon
the consideration of our party friends such
just and general suggestions as may be of ser,
vice in the right selection of the Chief Magis
trate of our city.
We desire, to begin with, among the Demo
cracy of the citeas much unanimity of opinion
in reference to the choice of the right man for
Mayor as possible; and we wish to enjoin es
pecially upon their attention that proper defe
rence to the will of the majority which has
ever been the cardinal idea of all Democratic
organizations.
No splits or compromises can be effected
here or , elsewhere with safety to party success,
or with credit to party prestige. The will of
the majority once fairly ascertained, it is the
duty of every honest Democrat to lend his aid
in securing the nomination and election of the
man whom the majority endorses. We doubt
not there is a willingness and a desire on the
part of every true Democrat in the city to
promote unity and good feeling in the party,
and observe and be guided by what is known
to be the wish of most of his party friends ;
at all events, we can conceive of no excuse
sufficient to exempt one and all from the obli
gation which rests upon them to be faithful to
that time-honored usage of party fealty which
compels the.one to submit to and accept as
his rule the voice of the many.
Presuming that all desire for the office of
of the next Mayor a man who is a strict and
Uncompromising Democrat, it is only necessary
to indicate some general suggestions which
may with profit be borne in mind in the selec
tion of the right man-at this peculiar time for
the place in question. The Mayor who is to
hold office during the next three years in the
Capital of this State, will be required to per
form unusually important functions for the
welfare of its society and citizens. He is
40118Utatted the virtual guardian of many per
sonal rights which do not come within the
immediate operation of the more general laws;
and aside from the responsibility of protection
and administration of all municipal regulations
and the security of life and property which
devolves upon him by virtue of his office, he
is liable to be called upon to defend and main
tain against all encroachment that civil liberty
and immunity which the State Constitution
guarantees to all within its limits. To rightly
administer an office requiring so much—du
ties which the exigencies of the future may
directly impose upon him, a wise, prudent and
laxperieneed man should be chosen fer them—one
with proper firmness, consistency and dignity
to stoutly and fearlessly protect the rights of
all our citizens committed to his keeping.
Accuracy to manage the details of the office,
and perfect integrity are the primary requi
sites for a careful and upright Mayor; these
Slone may answer the qualifications necessary
in ordinary times; but we are far from belie.
Wing these only will be required during the ino
seeding term threeyears—which will carry
as through a momentous crisis in our national
history
•
Let the will of the majority, therefore, of
Our citizens and party friends be respected;
and let the choice fall upon the best man, in
full realisation of what may be required at his
bands.
We want for an exponent of our party prin
ciples
not merely a sterling and unwaverieg
Democrat, but a fearless, honest man—the
best man the party can afford—not one "Mae is
to be made the subservient tool of Maolltion
tyranny, nor one who is to prostituto"the dig
nities and duties of the office to the !party pur
poses of an opposite faction, .neither a spy
upon our persons, nor the minima a power
ful autocracy which is threatening our civil
rights, and whose encroachments must be met
by all the moral resistance in our power.
Sentiment of the Army.
If we desire to ascertain the real sentiment of
the army, we must seek for it in the private
letters of soldiers written lee friends at home,
not in resolutions written by ambitious, un
principled officers, for the purpose of securing
their own promotion. We might publish col
umns of letters written by of f icers and privates
in the army, all breathing the same spirit of
opposition to the policy upon which, and the
object for which, the war is now obviously con
ducted, but we have heretofore preferred filling
our paper with matter better calculated to en
lighten the public mind upon what we consider
the true principles of republican government,
believing that such knowledge, generally dif
fused, was the best protection against Execu
tive and Congressional encroachments upon the
public liberty, and the most effective means of
saving the Constitution and Union from the
ruin contemplated by insidious foes. But we
have a few•short extracts on hand from letters
written, mostly, by men who entered the army
as Republicans in politics, which it may not
be amiss to circulate, as a refutation of the
gross calumnies against our soldiers with
which the Abolition prees daily teems.
The Wayne county (Ohio) Democrat furnishes
the following :
Capt. J. H. Downing, formerly a leading
Republican stump orator, and much _addicted
to calling Democrats traitors, after the manner
of the administration parasites, now writes :
" Oh ! that our friends at home would go to
work and settle this unholy rebellion, which
can never be settled by war."
This much from a Democrat would entitle
him to the euphonious appellation of "Cop
perhead:"
S. Metzler, jr., a soldier in the Army of the
Mississippi, writes to his brother and sister :
"Alexander has been writing to me to give
him my views on the negro question, and I
will now do so. For •my part I am not for
freeing the negroes, and d would rather give
my bounty money to have them where they are
than to see one of them freed. Were it not for
the Abolitionists of the North agitating the
negro question the war might be settled in a
short time. But such people still cry out :
"Free the negro; free the .negro," and that
enrages the men of the South. Those men in
the south who have had no reason to fight, now
have a reason to protect their slaves; and they
Jay that we may kill them allbut we can never
whip them. They further say that if we suc
ceed in whipping them they will teach their
children to fight us.—And now you see there
is no honor in fighting such a people ; and I
say Compromise on any possible terms."
The next is from H. G. White. dated "10
miles above Vicksburg, Feb. 1, 1863." He
says :
"The soldiers here are willing to agree to
any compromise; for the war will have to end
in compromise at last. The fighting will nev
er end the war. That is sure. If, I were
where it was possible I would come home and
risk everything. I did not enlist to free the
infernal negroes."
The next is from Jacob Reider, dated same
place and day, and says :
" We don't care about seeing any more fight
ing, especially under the present polioy. We
enlisted to fight to restore the Union, but it
looks very much now as though we were fighting to
destroy it. I think it has been plainly shown,
that we can never conquer the South by force
of arms, I beleive now as I always did, that
the only way to settle this unhappy struggle is
by compromise, and the longer we fight the
wider will be the breach.between the contend
ing parties, and the harder it will be to com
promise, * * * Democracy and compro
mise are all the go here ncw."
All these letters the, editor of the Democrat
says, were written by men who started upon
the war path Republicans in politics ; and from
information which we have, derived from sour
ces perfectly reliable, we firmly believe that
they embody the sentiments of four-fifths of
the whole rank and file of the army, and, to a
very large extent, those of the officers, field
and line.
The Hartford Times publishes the following
extract from a letter written by a member of
the Connecticut 14th. His politics are not
given`:
FAlmotrm, Feb. 24, 1863.—Y0u spoke in
your letter of Governor Seymour. I see by the
New York Herald, that he was nominated for
Governor. This' suits us all. There isn't avian
in the 14th regiment, now, so far as I can learn,
that wouldn't vote the Democratic ticket—and
there are some here who - were the most rabid
Republicans you ever saw.
" There was a nice time in a New York regi
ment the other day. The colonel is a Repub
lican, and he called out the regiment to see
which way they would vote if they were at
home. The whole of them voted Democratic, and
the Colonel was as mad as a March hare. You ,
would think he would go wild. He would
hardly speak to any of the men for some days
afterwards, he was so mad. What made it
worse for him, he had some spectators to his
voting-4riends who had came to see him that
day and whom he had excited by telling them
that he was going to show them that all his
men would vote the way he wanted them to."
The letter which follows we copy from the
Bridgeport (Connecticut) Farmer. "The au
thor," it says, "when he went to Virginia, was
a Republican of the rankest growth :"
• " WOLFE RUN SHOALS,. VA., Feb. 3, 1868.
Moses Wilson arrived here yesterday, and is
going home to-morrow. It was quite pleasant
to see a Bridgeport face. * *
•Wilson says they talk of running Tom Sey
mour for Governor next Spring. I think if
they do he will be elected—and I know he would
if the soldiers could vote. Every body out here
is down on the proclamation, and Old Abe Lin
coln, too, and are not afraid of Fort Lafayette
for saying it either. We came out here to re
store the Union, not to meddle with the..d—d
niggers; and I for one, (and there are a good
many of my opinion,) if they put a nigger
along aide of me to fight, will put a bullet
through his black herd.'
This will do for the piesent. We have a
small batch on hand ourselves, from soldiers in
the Army of the Potomac, which we have here
tofore refrained from publishing, not wishing to
expose the extent to which disaffeetionin the
army has reached. Some of these we shall
publish, and hereafter will not be careful in
our course in relation to such letters as may
be sent to us. The Abolition papers shall not
have the whole game in their own hands if we
can prevent it.
The whole of New England is now being
scraped to get up one regiment of colored sol
diers.
So-called " Union rileetings”—What they
Are, and Who Sustain Them.
If any of our Democratic friends are ca
joled into engaging in any of the so-called
Union meetings now being inaugurated under
the auspices of the administration throughout
the country, we trust they will bear in mind,
before becoming entangled in troublesome
'inventions of their political enemies, what
must be the inevitable tendency of such gath
erings, and with what spirit and intention, and
by whom they are conducted: Union saving
and 'Union-sentiment are queer professions in
the mouths of those whom, we contend, are
doing everything in their power to disrupt the
country, and to destroy the Constitution, by
virtue of which alone the Union can exist.
The war,.diverted from its original and legiti
mate purpose, has been made to conform to
the policy of the few fanatics, who, within a
brief memory of the whole• country, spurned
the idea of a perfect union of the States, and
spit upon the Covenant which was and is the
only bond of union. The war is their war, and
ours no longer, until, by a change of policy,
if it must still be continued, it shall be brought
back to its original and only true purpose—the
maintenance of the Constitution and the pre
servation of the Union. If any are persuaded
then, either that the Democratic party can
sustain the war as it now is, and be faithful at
the same time to the doctrines it professes, or
that such a war can lead to desirable results,
they may as well cut loose at once, and declare
themselves out of the immutable organization
which existed in power long before these trou
bles came upon the country, and will exist so
long as constitutional liberty. remains.
We hold, as Democrats, the war in its pre
sent policy is wrong; we hold that it is no
longer a war which we can endorse. We hold,
therefore, that it is the duty, and the only true
policy of the Democratic party, to stand mo
rally aloof from all that tends to aid and sup
port the iniquitous schemes of the administra
tion which have become not only part and
parcel of the war, but its essence, soul and
spirit. We hold that every legitimate opposi-.
Lion to the policy of the war should be brought
immediately to bear upon it; that, convinced
that nothing of temperance or justice can be
hoped for any longer from the power which
the administration is gaining to itself, and by
which it means to conduct the war for its own
aims and ends, we can in no wise be in its
favor. These aims are not the people's ; they
are not those of true Democracy. Public
meetings going to sustain the war as it now is,
sustain the administration, and virtually ratify
its acts. No true Democrat, who believes that
the wise and unproscriptive policy of his ewn
party can alone save the country and the Con
stitution, can lend his sanction to such meet
ings. The duty of the party and of the indi
vidual in this crisis is plain ; Democracy must
fold its arms and calmly await, in resignation
and submission, the return of better wisdom
to our counsels and brighter days for the pros
perity of the Republic. It is hard to sit a
spectator to the grim spectacle of rain which
surrounds us—hard to see the country drifting
away from all the securities of law and order
into the turbulent sea of disruption, into the
disorganized and contending elements of fury
and fanaticism, without the immediate power
to rescue it; but it is no part of the wise citi
zen and the law-abiding lover of his country,
either to aid in the work of destruction by
countenancing those who are its authors, or, by
bringing down upon himself the imputation of
open revolt, vitiate at once and forever every
hope of our salvation hereafter.
We sternly reprobate and repudiate these
"Union" meetings. They are subtle engines of
political power, intended to break in upon the
organization 'of the conservative party. They
are specious expedients to destroy the effec
tiveness of the only party with whom alone
rests the power or the desire to restore the
country. Let those men, calling themselves
Democrats, who have entered into them and
lent their name and sanction to them, renounce
at once all allegiance openly and boldly to De
mocracy. We have known many men fall from
the grace of - party fealty and be kroken in the
fall; but we are not aware that Democracy has
suffered by their apostaoy any diminution in
its strength. Let them beware, therefore ; for
ourselves, we do not trust them. The transi
tion is easy and downward when they depart
ever so little from true faith and purity of
principle. If motives of expediency govern
them, and they are wedded only to the idol of
political preferment and not to the principles
they pretend to espouse, such will be found,
as it has been found, we opine, a slippery and
unsafe foothold, so sensitive is the public mind
to the slightest departure from good faith.
If it is necessary that the public voice should
be heard at all in these times, let it be heard
in unqualified reprobation of the acts of the
administration and against its policy ; but let
us hear no more of these pretended go
betweens, who profess to go for the war and
not the principles on which and for which
alone the war is now being conducted. All
such doctrine is specious and absurd; it tends
to divide opposition, to weaken effectual resis
tance to the destroyers of the country,. and,
above all things, is what an anarchist admin
istration would desire.
The Next Governor.
Oar attention has been called to the follow
ing article on the subject, which appeared in
the Chambersburg Valley Spirit, of the 26th
of November last. We cheerfully transfer it
to our columns :
" We learn that the Democracy of Lancaster
county design urging upon the next Demotratic
State Convention of Pennsylvania the propriety
of nominating their fellow citizen, Hon. GEORGB
SANDERSON, for Governor.
" We do not at this early day propose to com
mit ourselves to the support of any particular
individual for the important office designated,
but we may say a few words in relation to the
gentleman named.
" With all honest men who know him, George
Sanderson bears a most enviable reputation.—
His moral character throughout life has been
without stain or reproach, and his integrity is
altogether unimpeachble. In politics he is
soundly conservative.
" He has a mind of excellent depth, a judg.
ment of far more than ordinary sagacity, an
extensive knowledge of public affairs, a calm,
even temper, and a moral courage that would
withstand any odds or influence when called
upon to defend the right.
Pennsylvania is sorely in need of a high
toned, honest, courageous, old-fabhioned Gov
ernor, and we trust the Democracy will take
care to give her such a one. It matters little
what his name may be or where he may be
from, if only he comes fully up to the Jeffer
senian standard."
General News.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of
David Wilmot as judge of the Court of Claims.
Ban ought to eschew whisky now, doff his
smoking jacket, and put on his studying cap.
Gen' Burnside having been assigned to a
command which he will soon assume, left Was
hington on Saturday for the North. Lieut. Col.
Oliver L. Shepherd, of the 18th United States
infantry has been promoted to the colonelcy
of the 15th infantry in place of Col. Fitz John
Porter.
Gen. Rosseau, it is said, has been authorized
by the War Department to raise ten regiments
of mounted infantry to operate in the West
against Forrest, Morgan, and other guerrilla
chiefs.
Thomas Olcott, of Albany, New York, has
beep nominated by the President as Comptrol
ler of the Currency under the recent act of
Congress.
A recent expedition from the Army of the
Potomac, under Col. Phelps, into the counties
of Northumberland and Lancaster, Virginia,
has returned, says a dispatch of the 7th, hay
ing captured two important rebel mails, 1,000
bushels of corn, fifty horses and mules, Col.
Claybrook, of the rebel army, a smuggler of
contraband goods, two influential rebel citi
zens, two clerks of the Richmond departments,
with a quantity of private letters, and official
correspondence to parties in. London, including
Baring Brothers.
A Carlo dispatch of March 7, says Admiral
Porter is of opinion that the Indianola and
Webb were both sunk in the late engagement.
A Washington dispatch of March 8, says the
removal of Gen. Curtis from command of the
Department of the West has been determined
on, and Gen. Sumner indicated as his succes
sor.
A bill has been introduced into the Missouri
Legislature fcrithe gradual abolition of slavery
in that State. It provides that children born
after the 4th of July next shall be free, but be
apprenticed to their masters until they are 21
year old.
We learn by telegraph, Detroit, March 9,
that there has been no serious attempt to re
new the late riot. Measures have been taken
to preserve order. The reported less of life
was much exaggerated—only one man is known
to have been killed. It is true that thirty-five
buildings were destroyed.
In the 'United States Senate, yesterday, Mr.
Anthony, of Rhode Island, offered a resolution
to appoint a committee on manufactures, to
consist of five members. There had formerly
been a committee on manufactures and one on
agriculture, but both were dropped in 1857.
The resolution lies over under the rule.
Editor s Patriot and Union
We observe that the Telegraph has devoted
the greater part of a column to the adulation
of the Senator who, by the merest accident, is
permitted to misrepresent this district. It is
altogether true that it was by our own folly
we are now writhing under the buffoonery of
this miserable mountebank. Rent in twain as
we were by the unfortunate split in the Dente
°retie party throughout the United States in
1860, this man, Frank Bound, slipped into the
Senate that fall ; and no one knows better than
he that he is now misrepresenting the people
most shamefully and disgracefully in every act
of his senatorial life. What plainer instruc
tions could any honorable man require for his
guidance than the voice of his constituents as
expressed at the ballot box on the second Tues
day of,October last ? The Democratic majority
on the State ticket
In Northumberland county was 983
In Montour ..... do 474
In Columbia d 0... 1,570
8,027
Yet in the face of this majority of 3,000 votes,
he holds on to a seat which no honorable man
would consent to occupy for a single day, de
nouncing, as he does, everyman as a traitor
who dares to speak of the manner in which the
war has been carried on. But, thank God !
the day of reckoning is fast approaching ; and
that the democracy of this district will rebuke
the mendacity of this our present senator at
the ensuing election, by sending in his place a
sound and reliable Democrat, and that by a
majority of at least four thousand, you may
confidently rely. . Every man, woman and
child in this district is unalterably determined
that the rebellion shall be put down ; but we
are not to be gagged for finding fault with the
manner of conducting the war. "To speak his
thoughts is every fremans right," and all the
torments of the damned,—nay, all the powers
of H-11 combined have no terrors for a people
determined to scrutinize the actions of those
who have been placed in power to rule over
them. The enormous frauds and plunderings
of the public treasury have awakened the tax
payers to an examination . of our real condition,
and neither the gillotine nor the beadle will
stop their mouths from speaking what they
believe to be true of men in public stations.
Northumberland Co. Pa., March 9, 1863.
THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT.
The following letter from an intelligent and
responsible correspondent contains some mat
ters not referred to in the resolutions published
in the Telegraph, purporting to have been unan
imously adopted by the Eighty-seventh regi
ment. We attach no consequence to such
proceedings, knowing the manner in which
they are gotten up, by officers seeking promo
tion or notoriety for services other than such
as are valiantly performed in the face of the
foe, awl should not publish this communication
were it not to gratify those who have friends
and relatives in the regiment, and naturally
desire to see them placed fairly before the
public :
Tonic, March 7, 1868.
Editors of Slit Patriot and,Unton:
Your notorious contemporary, the Telegraph,
of this morning, contains a communication
from the Eighty-seventh Pennsylvania Volun
teers, which has been mainly raised in this
county, and from the tone of which one would
be led to suppose that had that regiment voted
at the last election, it would have oast a unan
imous vote against the Democratic ticket.—
Now, Messrs. Editors, that all looks well in
print, but here we know something about that
regiment—know the men that compose it—and
feel no hesitation in saying that no regiment
in the service (if we dare believe the hosts of
men we have conversed with) is more anxious
to have the war stopped. Recently we had
the pleasure of conversing with a captain of
the regiment, who was an ardent supporter of
Lincoln at his election, who told us that the
men were not only tired out., but played out,
and are looking anxiously for the end. The
communication referred to was shown to a
member of the regiment this morning, also a
Republican, who laughed in his sleeve at the
affair and said it must only be a joke. Again,
will the Telegraph, .or its correspondent, an
swer why the French Brigadier who com
mands this same Eighty-seventh is now under
arrest ? If not, we will answer it for him.—
Because, having had unlimited experience in
the French wars, and consequently knowing
how men ought to be treated, was not willing
to allow his baggage and ambulance train to
be filled with niggers, and the equipage left
behind, and his soldiers obliged to walk, many
of them with no covering for the feet. An eye
witness related to me that on one occasion the
train was filled with these "sable brothers,"
whilst the necessaries were left behind, and
the soldiers on foot were obliged to guard the
train and "free Americans," and that many
of the soldiers were so worn out that they could
scarcely drag their weary bodies along, and
beoause the Brigadier remonstrated with the
higher authority and would not say Amen, he
was suddenly relieved of his command. In
conclusion, Messrs. Editors, I say it, resolu
tions to the contrary notwithstanding, and
with the evidence of members of the regiment
in our midst, that although the regiment has
never participated in a battle, that no men in
the service will hail with more joy the day that
will discharge them than the Eighty-seventh
Pennsylvania ; and I feel firmly convinced that
could an honest expression of opiniop be had
to-day, three:fourths of the regiment would be
found on the side of the "Union as it was" and
"the Constitution as it is," At some future
time I will give you a history of the regiment
since its formation and show it in its true
colors—how some of the officers who figure
conspicuously in the resolutions were mainly
instrumental in deceiving the regiment and
having it placed, into active service, and that
too without the consent of the men composing
it; and contrary to their wish, as it was raised
only as a public guard regiment. More anon.
Yours, "ONE Wao KNOWS."
PENIVA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
MONDAY, March 9, 1863.
The Senate was called to order at 7 o'clock.
A number of petitions were presented asking
for a national convention and in reference to
local matters in central por e tions of Pensylva
nia.
Mr. REILLY introduced a supplement to the
act regulating banks, requiring any bank to
go into liquidation when two-thirds of the
stockholders so require ; also, a supplement to
the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven railroad.
Mr. WALLACE, 'a supplement to the Tyrone
and Lock Haven railroad company.
BILLS CONSIDERED.
The supplement to the actincorporating the
Penna. railroad company, allowing the com
pany to issue bonds for branch roads, &c., came
up in order on third reading and passed finally.
Mr. REILY called up the bill to repeal the
law for the selling of the repairing of the pub
lic: road's in certain townships of Schuylkill
county, which was negatived.
A number of private bills were passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The House was called to order at r 7 .o'clock
by Speaker CESSNA.
Mr. SMITH (Chester) offered a resolution
inquiring of the Governor what provision, if
any, has been made for the payment of the
expenses of the late draft. The resolution was
adopted.
The SPEAKER presented a communication
from the Auditor General relative to the auc
tioneers of Philadelphia.
A message was received from the Governor
vetoing a supplement to an act to incorporate
the Penn exploring and mining company. The
Governor states that the supplement places the
control of the company in the hands of new
parties, who thus seek to revive an old charter.
Numbers of petitions were presented from
the interior of the State, asking for a National
Convention.
Mr. WALSH presented petitions signed by
2,500 names against allowing carrying compa
nies to have mining privileges.
Mr. COCHRAN, a petition from 416 citizens
of Philadelphia against the discharge of old
school toad:ton Without providing for their
support.
Also, a remonstrance against any law to pre
vent negroes from coming into this State. •
Mr. GRABER, twelve remonstrances, signed
by 550 names, from Schuylkill county, against
allowing mining companies and dealers in coal
to hold large tracts of land.
Also, a petition for the passage of an act to
prevent negroes from coming into this State.
Also, a petition for the recharter of the Mi
ners' Bank of Pottsville.
The Committee on Accounts offered the pos
tage bill, amounting to $2,429 25, for appro
val and payment by the House.
Mr. REX offered an amendment requiring
the Postmaster,
Geo. Bergner, to make a pub
lic oath at the bar of the House that the ac
count is correct.
Mr. REX delivered a speech, reviewing the
past history of the Postmaster, and arguing
that, from his antecedents, it was no more
than just and proper that he should be required
to swear to his bill.
The amendment was lost by a vote of 11
yeas to 68 nays, and the aecount was passed.
Mr. HOPKINS reported affirmatively, from
the City Passenger Railroad Committee, a sup
plement to the act incorporating the Lombard
and 'South Street railroad, and moved that the
House suspend the rules and proceed to the
consideration of the same. This was decided
in the negative.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr. COCHRAN, an act to incorporate
_tie
Friends' educational association; also, an act
to compel answers to suits of recovery to be
made orally in open court ; also,
an act to pro
vide maintenance for old and faithful teach
ers; also, an act to facilitate business in the
courts of Philadelphia.
Mr. M'MANIIS, an act confirming the title
to a certain piece of ground on Somerset
street.
Mr. GRABER, an act to incorporate the
West Pennsylvania railroad company. •
Mr. JACKSON, an act relative to the agents
of foreign insurance companies.
Mr. VINCENT, an act to provide for a regis
try of Pennsylvania soldiers. Adjourned.
PUBLIC 8-. LE.
In pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court of
Dauphin county, will be exposed to sale,
. On SATURDAY, the 21st day of MARCH,
Next, at the Court House, a Lot of Ground situate ou
Third street, between Pine street and Cran 'berry alley,
and bounded by property of Robtert W. M'Clnre op
the east, and by Thomas C. WDoweil on the west, the
lame being twenty feet four inches' in front, more or
less, by one hundred and Aye feet deep, to property late
of Peter Keller, deceased, on which is 'erected a Two-
Story Brick Dwelling Rouse, etc., late the estate of
Andrew Murray, deceaced.
• Bale .to commence at 2 o'clock, p, m, of said day,
when attendance will ,be given and con ditions of sale
made known by A. H. TAHNIISTOCK,
• Toes RINGLAND Clerk
Administrator de bonus non.
, 0. 0.
Harrisburg, Feb, /803-feb2o-deliWta
MONETARY AFFAIRS.
CORRECTED DAILY Taos THE PHILAPELTZ:I DIAL
GOVERNMENT 13ROURITIEF.,
New 1 - rirk Prices.
Ti. S. 6s, due 1881, Coupon If) 101 4 .
Do ....due 1881, Registered Int. off. 2'2) 101'
S. 7 3-10 Treasury Notes .. 105; , 6
One year 6 per cent. certificates 1 :•':4 go
Mar
11. S. Demand Notes, old issue. 52 ket stesa3% Pt
steads
SPECIE UT
DANKABLB GIIRRSN
GOLD.
American ...... 53 a 54 pr
Do (dated prior
to 1834) 51 a5B pr
80v.,Tictoria*. 7 50 a 7 55
bkiv, old 745 a 7 tO
Napoleon, 20frs. 5 55 a 5 60
10 franeg 2 75 a 2 85
Prin. Dont). Fr.
Won .
Doubloons, 5p..23 00 a 24 50
Do. Mexican... 22 00 a 24 00
Do. Costa Rica.2o 00 a 22 00
Bars 900 fine.. .
California, $5O
and $2O pieces. 50 prm
California, $lO
and $5 pieces.. 48 a
10 Guilder Pie-
ces 5 70a 5 75
Ten Thalers 9 00
20 Mille Reis,Brazil 11 25 all 35
*A heavy Sovereign wei
NT MO
Discount.
New England X
New York City.. X '
New York State X
Jersey—large X
Jersey—small v
• 2
Pennsylvania Currency. 3(
Delaware par
Delaware—small X
Baltimore X
biaryland X a 8
Die. of Columbia .4 4
Virginia 8b a 40
RATES OF DOME
lkiscount.
805t0n.......—, par a 1-10prm
New York... 1-10prm
Albany X & X
Baltimore... X a X
Nashingt , n,D.o X a M
Pittsburg X a X
Detroit, Mich.. % a
Lexington, Ky.. 2 a ..
Milwaukie,Wis. X a m
PENNSYLVANIA. COUNTRY BANK NOTES
I=
MANE or BARKS. WHERE REDEEMED.
Allentown Bank, Allentown Manta. & Mesh. 13 , k.
Bank of Catasauqua Farm. 3..: Meek. Bank.
Bank of Cheater County Farm. & Mech. Bank.
Bank of Danville Bank N. Liberties.
Bank of Delaware County..
Bank of Germantown
Bank of Montgomery Count;
Bank of Phcenixville
Doylestown Bank, Doylesto
Easton Bank, Easton
Farm. B'k of Bucks Co, Br
Farm. & Mech, Bank, Easto
Farmers' Bank, Lancaster.
Lancaster County Bank....
Mauch Chunk Bank
Miners' Bank. Pottsville...
PENNSYLVANIA CO
11164011 NT IN
Allegheny 8ank. . .......
Anthraeitellik,Tamaqua
Bank of Beaver Co
Bank of Ohambersburg.
Bank of Chester Valley,
Coatesville
Bank of Crawford Conn-
ty, Meadville
Bank of Fayette C 0..... X
Bank of Gettysburg .... X
Bank of Lawrence C0...1
Bank of Middletown.... X
Bank of New Castle....l
Bank of Northumberl'd, X
Bank of Pittsbu'g,prem. 60
Bank of Pottstown
Citizens B'k, Pittsburg, X
Clearfield County Bank.. X
Columbia B'k, Columbia X
Downingtown Bank - x
Radians B'k, Pitteb'g.
Farmers' B'k, Pottsville 3i
Farmers' B'k, Reading.. X
Farmers' & Drovers' B'k,
Waynesburg.
Franklin B'k, Washing.. X
Harrisburg Bank
Honesdale Bank. X
Iron City B'k, Pittsburg,
New '2lbutrtisernente.
NOTICE.—Pig Iron and Scrap are being
so frequently stolen from the premises of the sub
scribers and other places of deposit in tLe city, we warn
all proprietors of foundries and other persons not to
purchase the same, otherwise they will be dealt with
according to law. PRICE & HANCOCK.
Harrisburg Furnace, March 9, 1833;.4ttaw*
ViEBSTER'S ARMY AND NAVY
POCKET DICTIONARY.
Zutit received and for sale at
SMELEFFEWS BOOKSTORE
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT
OF
LITHOGRAPHS,
Formerly retailed at from $3 to $5, sre now ctTered at
50 and Tb cents, and $1 and $1 bo—ittbliSb.ed by the Art
Union, and formerly retailed by them.
Splendid Photographic Album Pictures of all distin
guished men and (lenerals of the army, at only 10 etc
For sale at SCHEFFEWS Bookstore,
18 Market street, Harrisburg.
VAIPTY BARRELS.— A large number
ri of empty Wine, Brandy and Whisky Bairels for
sale by WM. DOCK, jr., & CO.
ThP.ANESE choice lot of
this celebrated Teajust received. It is of the first
cargo ever imported, and is much superior to the Chi
nese Teas in quality, strength and fragrance, and is also
entirely free of adulteration, coloring or mixture of any
kind.
It is the natural leaf of the Apeneoe Pea Plant.
Por sale by 'WM. DOCK : jr., k Co.
L OTS FOR SALE-ON NORTH ST.
and Pennsylvania Avenue. Apply to
R. T. HALDEMAN,
Cor. Front and Walnut sta.
mars-4tf
1863. 1863.
PHILADELPHIA & ERIE RAIL
ROAD.—This great line traverses the Northern
and Northwest counties of Pennsylvania to the city of
Brie, ore-Laka Brie.
It has been leased by the, Pennsylvani2 Rail Road
Company, and under their auspices is being rapidly
opened throughout its entire length.
It 15 noer . in use for Passenger and Fre7ght business
from Harrisburg to Sinnemalloning, (Ist Fork,) (174
miles) on the Eastern Division, and from Sheffield to
Erie, (78 miles) on the Western Division.
TIME OF PASSENGER TRAINS AT HARRIS-
BURG.
Leave Northward
Mail Train.-- 2,30 a. xu, Exprenis Train.. 820 p.
Cara run through without ohange both ways on these
trains between Philadelphia and Lock Have% and be
tween Baltimore and Lock Haven.
Elegant Sleeping Cars on Express Trains both ways
between Williamsport and Baltimore, and Walianasport
and Philadelpbta.
For information respecting Passenger business apply
at the S. E. cor. MU and Market streets.
And for Freight business of the Company's Agents.
S. B. Kingston, Jr cor. 13th and Market streets,
Philadelphia.
J. W. Reynolds, Erie.
J. M. 14111, Agent N. 0. B. R., Baltimore.
H. H. HOUSTON,
earn Freight Agt.,
LEWIS L. HOUPT,
Gen'l Ticket Agt., Pidra.
JOEL D. POTTS,
Gen'l Manager, Williamsport._
marb•dy
DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS
If OR BALE, west of the Capitol, fronting mama
street and Hammond lane. Enquire of
GZO, CUNKLM,
Mt Market street,
INCE PIES!
febll-Imd
RAISINS, CURRANTS,
CITRON, LEMONS,
SPICES, CIDER,
WINES, BRANDIES, &a.,
For sale b WM. DOCK, la., & CO
DOCKET KNIVES.—A: very fine as
-1 simmen'3, 130HEFFERI BOOKSTORB.
BUCKWHEAT MEAL.-15,000 LBEL
.1.0 SUPER, ZITILA, from. Wyoming Valley, for sale
by WM. DOM. Js., & 00.
trONEY TO LOAN.—Money to Loan
_MI_ on Bond. and Mortgage. Apply to
febianat JOHN HALDMILLN, Trade.),
OTATIONS.
'OT THE STANDAP.D
BILVN3
American, pricr to
1852 $1 50 a 1 55
Do Quart's... .1 50 a 1 53
Do Dimes and
Half Dimes. 1 45 a 1 55
Do Halves acd
Qrt , s(netv) 1 45 a 1 50
Dollars, Am. and
Mexican.... 1 48 a....
Do Sp.,perfect 148 a....
Do carolus .. 148 a....
Do S. Amer... 1 45 a ....
Do Norwegian. ... a ....
Five Francs.... 135'a 140
, Branca . 27
Guilders. 2 4 1
iPrussian Thr-1..r5...... SO
iGermanCrowns, 1 17 a
French.... d 0... 1 14 a
Eng. Silver p 700 a 715
Spanish and Mex. sm.
silver, per or, 1 65
Bars, U.B. assay . p. oz. 1 89
hs 6 dwts. 236 irains.
EY QUOTATIONS.
Discount
'Wheeling 2N
I Ohio par
Indiana . • par
Indiana.—Fm,. 1%
Kentucky . par
Tennessee 10
Missouri 2 to 20
'lllinois ....... .... 2 to 60
Wisconsin 2 to 60
Michigan 13;
10wa.......... .... -... 1N
Canada prm 50
TIC EXCH.I.II7CTE
Discount
St.Lonie l a
Louisville ... a ..
Cincinnati ..... # a
Cleveland...... a
Chicago . a pal
Dubuque, lowa, 1a .«
Davenport, do.. 1 a ...
St. Paul, 3iin.. 1 a
Montreal, Can.. a
Bank of NorthAmem
Farm. & Ifeeh.Banl3
Western Bank.
Manes. S: Mech. Bib,
n..... Philadelphia Bank.
Bank of North Amer
iatol—Farm. & Mech.Manh
n Girard Bank.
Mechanics' Bank.
.......Western Bank.
Girard Bank.
Bank of North Amer
NTRY BANE NOTES
=I
Jersey Shore Bank 4'
Kittanning Dank k:
Lewisburg Bank Ai
Lebanon B'k. Lebanon.. g
Lebanon Val. Wk, Lab.. g
Lock Haven Bank .kf.
Meet's B'k, Pittsburg.. g.
Mechanicsburg B'k, Me-
chanicsburg ......
Merchants , & Mannfact.
Bank, Pittsburg
Mifflin County B'k, Lew
istown 3i
Milton Bank, Milton....
~A,"
Monongahela Bank,
Brownsville
Mount Joy Bank
Northumberland County
Bank, Shamokin....• • 31
Octoraro Bank, Oxford., Ai
Pittston Bank, Pittston,
Stroudsburg Bank
Tioga County 8ank.....
Union Bank, Reading...
West Branch Bank, Wil
liamsport
Wyoming B Wilkesb'e
York Bank, York
York County B'k, York, Af,