(11)e fcliigl) Register.
Allentown, Pa.
THURSDAY, APRIL It, ISM
Bank Bills Passed
Agreeable to order, the House on Thursday
afternoon, the 15th inst., proceeded to the con•
sideration of the Bank Bills passed by the Sen•
ate, and disposed of them, as follows:
1 The re.oharter of the Easton Bank,
passed without a division. 2—The Commer
cial Bank, at Pittsburg, by a vole of 50 to 91.
B—The Anthracite Bank, at Tamaqua, Schuyl
kill county, by a vote •of 46 to 42. 4—The
Carlisle Deposits Bank, in Cumberland county,
by 48 to 89. 6—The Farmers' and Meehan.
ice' Bank, at Allentown, Lehigh connty, by
46 to 42. o—The Erie City Bank, at Erie,
Erie county, by 47 to 43. 7—The 'Meadville
Bank, it Meadville, Crawford county, by 44 to
48. B—The Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank,
at Phamixville, Cheater count b 44 to 40.
The following bills wore laid over, to be dis
posed of the following day, (18M) and were
then passed as follows: 9—The Bank of New
Castle, in Lawrence county, by a vote of 47
to 39. 10—The bill to increase the capital of
'the Southwark Bank, of Philadelphia, from
$29,000 to $400,000, by 45 to 38. .11—The
Farmers' and Traders' Bank, of the Northern
county, bT4 - 4 - 3 - 97
12—The Bank of Warren, in Warren county,
by 43 to 41. 13—The Bank of Hanover, in
York county, by 42 to 38? 14—The Valley
Bank, of Monongahela, in Westmoreland coun
ty, by 42 to 38. 15—The Harrisburg Savings
Institution, by 44 to 39. The Pottstown Bank,
was defeated by a vote of 33 to 47.
Besides the above, we must not forget the
Mauch Chunk Bank, which passed both hou
ses, also another Saving Bank, in all some
16 Institutions with discounting privileges
are now in the hands of the Governor. How
he will dispose of those bills ramifies to be
seen. Reports from Harrisburg announce with
much confidence, that Gov. Bigler will veto the
whole lot, with:perhaps the exception of two
or three, which are regarded by him as neces
sary. Whether the Governor will deem the
Bank at Allentown—with the small capital of
one hundred thousand dollars—to be among the
necessary ones, time will show. ~
The Agricultural Meeting.
We would call the attention of the members
of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society, and
those who intend to become members, to the
importance of their general attendance at the
Meeting to be held on the 21th of April next.
It is there that the measures must be matured,
that give life and spirit to the association; and
every member who feels a real interest in the
cause, should attend and take part in the pro
ceedings. Among the matters to be discussed,
will be that of holding an Exhibition, of fixing
the time and place, premiums, &o.
Pottstown and Allentown
In our last week's paper we informed our
readers that the Allentown and Pottstown Rail
Road Bill had passed the House, and that the
Bill was then in the hands of our attentive Sen
ator Gen. Shinztr t who would see to its passage
through that branch of the Legislature. Our
paper had scarcely left the press, before we re
calved the intelligence that the Bill had also
passed the Senate. This is indeed very plea-
sing news to our citizens, as it now only
requires the signature of the Governor to be•
come a law. The bill, however, found' some
unlooked for opposition in the Senator of "01 , 1
Berke," H. A. Muhlenberg, who moved to have
it stricken from the private calendar, but he
missed his mark. We learn too, that Senator
Jones, of Montgomery, for some reason or
other, ventured to demand the tax upon the bill
before it altouid be passed. What induced this
genius of a Senator to pursue such a course we
cannot imagine.
This Rail Road will make the shortest route
to Philadelphia, of any now in contemplation,
being only about sixty eight miles, with only 28
miles of Road to be built to form a connection
with the great Lehigh Coal Region.
The. Bounty Land Aot.
Senator Broadhead on the 13th instant, pro.
sented four memorials of citizens of Pennsyl-
vania, praying Congress to modify the bounty
land act of September 28, 1850, so as to give
to each person intended to be benefited by said
act, and the seamen and marines who served
in said wars; not less than one hundred and
sixty acres of land; which were referred to the
Committee on Public Lands. Meetings are
being held all over the country in favor of this
amendment, and we trust that Congress will
yet listen to the prayers of the petitioners.
The Plough, Loom and Anvil.
This excellent monthly for April has Won
received. it contains much interesting and
valuable matter for the Farmer, the Manufac
turer, the Mechanic, and all who pursue any
of the industrial vocations of life. This is ono
of the few periodicals of real practical utility,
and is worthy of the most extensive patronage
from those who think when they read, and
read to be instructed. It is published by My.
ton Finch, No. 9 Spruce street, for S 3 a year.
Whig Congressional Caucus.
A meeting of the Whig members of Con
grass took place on the evening of the 9th of
April, in the Senate Chamber, "to consider
matters of importance to the Whig party."-.--
Senator Mangum presided. Tho Caucus was
in session till about 11 o'clock in the evening,
add after an animated and arnicible conversa
tion on several point, of party and public inter
est, adjourned to meet again next Tuesday
evening, 27th inst. It will be the duty of the
Caucus to fix upon the time and place for
hcilding the National Convention, and it is the
general impression that Baltimore will Ile the
glace selected,
Plain Faots
Labor is the foundation of all property and
of all the prosperity of the country. Whatever
lends to encourage labor tends to increase
property, and add to the prosperity of a nation.
The measures of every governmeht should
have a constant bearing, therefore, on the en,
couragement of labor.
A Protective Tartj not only promotes the en
terests of the Manufacturer, the Farmer, and
the Mechanic, but it also encourages labor. ft
gives to this class constant employment and
good wages, and thus enables them to consume
the products of the Farmer, which is an en
couragement again to his labor.
In this way, money is kept in the country,
and soon becomes abundant and cheap, for
money has a price as well as any other article.
A cheap currency will diminish the price of
rents, for It will enable the rich man, who
wishes to keep it active, to build houses and
thus keep down the price of rents. When mo
ney is sent abroad, its value is raised at home,
MEM
ue is raised at honie. Had the im
mense amount of gold derived from California
been retained in this country, money would
have been abundant, its value would have been
diminished, and the laborer would have ob.
tained more for the same amount of wages,
than he now does.
Laborers, Mechanics, A rlizans, Operatives of
- every - descriptioni - nre - interested - in - encourag=l
ing a policy that will keep the gold and silver
at home, to he employed in building houses.
Rents are high now, because our capitalists
can get a better profit for their money, by the
purchase of stocks and railroad bonds, than to
employ their money in building. Lay a pro.
tective tariff keep our gold at home and
money would be so plenty that capitalists
Would perfer to employ it in erecting tene
manta for rent
A tariff would add much to the employment
of the working classes. There are probably
five millions of laborers that wou'd find constant
occupation under a protective tariff, which at
one dollar a day, lot three hundred days, would
give an aggregate of fifteen hundred millions
ol"dollars saved annually to the laboring class
only by the operation of a protective tariff.
Barn Destroyed by Fire. A. Remarkable Man.
On Saturday evening, between 7 and 8 o'clock j The Germantown (Ohio) Emporium has
an
the Barn of Mr. Martin Semmel, in North White• obituary notice cif Mr. John Schafer, who died
hall township, Lehigh county, was diFeovered in that vicinity on the 24th of March, aged 62
to be on fire, and with the contents, excepting year.. The notice concludes with these sur
the cattel, which were taken out, Wfis liorned p;i>i i 2 statements :
to the ground. At the time the barn was die, I "File deeeazed was the !rirgest man we ever
covered in flames, a man was also seen run- !saw. Tne cotlitt sollipienily large to con
ning from the hiildin g t owar d s th e woods. I lain five men of of - din:lly' size; measoring in
Suspicion immediately arose, and th e person ! width three feet four inches in the clear, and
was pursued, taken and recognised as Aaron three feet in height. Three men could have
Drudttemniffer, arid was lodged in jail on Sunday / worked in it at the same time, with conveoi•
morning. Many reports are in circulation in ence. It required six melt to take him from
regard to this affair, which we rut not justified the bed on which he expired. This was done
to make public, as it will no doubt undergo a by raising a platform removing the head
strict examination at our next court, and if he is board of the bedstead, and taking him out end
found guilty, will be punished accordingly. I wise. They could not get the coffin into the
We have not heard the loss of Mr. Somme' house, but by taking off the door facing of an
estimated, neither have we learned whether his old vacated house that stood in the yard, they
property was insured or not. get it into that and carried the corpse thither
on three empty bags. A wagon and four hor
ses stood prepared, and ten men placed the
coffin and its contents upon it. In letting down
the coffin into the grave, they had two lines
doubled—one at each end and one large well
rope in the middle; and seventeen men to let
down this great sprinkle of mortality into its
last home on earth; His weight was •not
known."
A Pretty Pioture
In February last, the course of trade was as
follows, as we find in the National Intel!igen
cer of March 6
Total imports,
" exportp,
Excess of imports of merchandize $5,171,521
Specie exported to foreign ports, 3,551,543
" imported from " 110,293
Excess of imports of specie, $3,441,250
What a pleasant picture for a true Ameri
can to contemplate ! In one month access of
importation of merchandizo, 85,171,521—ex
cess of export of 5pecie : 53,441,250. Under the
tariff of 1846, we were compelled to buy abroad
much of what under a Protective Tariff we
were formally able to make at home. To pay
for these extra purchases, our coin is sent to
fill European coffers to the tune of over three
millions a month ! Thus much for permitting
the Free Traders in Congress to fasten upon
the country a revenue system which discrim
inates in favor of British Labor and British
Capital against the Labor and Capital of our
own country.
Henry Clay.
On Monday last the great Western Statesman
was seventy-five years old. He was born in
Virginia, near Richmond, on the 12th of April,
1777—nearly a year after the Declaration of
Independence—so he was the subject of no
King, but a free citizen of the United States.—
We regret to hear—everybody will regret to
hear—that the hind of sickness has pressed
harder upon him for some days past, and that
the hopes which were indulged a short time
back, that he would yet be restored to the coun
cils of the nation, have nothing to encourage
them. We still hope on—though hoping, it
may be, against hope—that he will be spared
to appear once more, at least, in the Senate
Chamber, there to enforce and confirm by his
presence and his eloquence, the wisdom of
the policy which Washington taught, and
which Elenry Clay has ever sustained.
The Major William Barnet.
Our Steamboat MaJ. Wm. Barnet, is begin.
fling to do a large business between lhis and
the railroad. Captain Young appears to be in
good 'spirits, and well he may be. He is a very
gentlemanly man, and seems to have got the
confidence of the.public generally. We hope
the river will keep so as to allow the Boat's
running a good
well.
Her downward trips
must pay very well. On Monday last we Judge
the number of passengers could not have been
less than one hundred and seventy.five. The
Boat seldom leaves here without a good load.
The mode of traveling is new to our citizens,
and its convenience so great as to call custom
from all quarters of the neighboring. country.—
ition Sestina.
The United States in 1950
An article under this title in Hunt's Mer
chants' Magazine for April, contains some
tereating speculations based on the report of
the Superintendent of the Census, ebtwing the
progressive increase of populatimqellll3 Uni
ted States, during decennial periods of their
existence, as an indepen4ent people, from the
first census in 1790 to the seventh in 1850.--
The result of the estimate is that in the Year
1000 our pdpulation will have reached, 72,-
214,211; and that in 1950 it will amount to
236,813,729. This estimate is made, taking
the natural increase from 18 ; 10 to 3850, or 26.-
1 12 per cent., the ratio of our future advance.—
This result it is admitted, is very improbable.
Various causes will conspire to prevent our fu•
tare increase equalling the rapidity of our
growth hitherto. Although the additions to
our population in.decennial period; in coming
years may greatly exceed the increase in slim•
liar intervals of time in cur past history, yet
the per centage of increase in such accessions
must, almost of necessity be reduced. In the
course of thirty or forty years, foreign immi
gration, now so powerful and auxiliary in
swelling our numbers and raising the ratio of
our progression, must become a comparatively
unimportant item in our periodical advances.
The writer makes another estimate, by which
our population in 1950, is computed•at 164,-
86 ; 246; and this, he thinks, will fall short of
the reality. Ile ventures the assertion that
there are those now living who, if internal dis
sentient; and fratricidal quarrels, do not previ
ously destroy our existence as a nation, will
see us a people of more than 200,000,000 souls.
'Our territory embraces 3,136,447 rquate
and the present population amounts to but 7
inhabitants to the square mile. Should this
vast area, presenting every variety of climate,
and inexhaustible fertility of soil, be as densely
peopled as Great Britain, which has 220 within
the same limits, our numbers would reach•69o,
020,540 ; and should it ever rival Holland and
Belgium in density of population (267 to the
mile,) the result would be the enormous
amount of 837,43 4,018, equal to four-fifths of
the present estimated number of the human
race.—Daily Sun.
$9,139,285
3,967,764
Fannin Massacre.
A friend who was present at a recent ad
dress delivered at Huntsville, Ala., by Gener
al Sam Houston, informs us that Gen. H. sta
ted a fact which seems to be not generally
known—to wit: that the Slate of Texas, years
ago, passed an act, giving to the next of kin
of each soldier who fell in that massacre, six
teen hundred acres of land,, to be located on
any of the unappropriated Oblio land's belong
ing to that State. He requested those present
to give as much publicity to the fact as possi
ble. In a conversation with our informant, af
ter the speech was delivered, General Mitts
ton recommended him to call the attention of
the people of Georgia to the fact, as very many
of Fannin's men were from this State, and the
information would probably benefit the heirs
of those ill-fated heroes. We hope our cotem.
poraries of the press in the U. S. will give this
subject a suitable notice in their columns."
.Bounty Land Warrants.—The bill which late
ly passed congress, authorises all warrants is
sued or hereafter to be issued, under any law of
the United States, and all valid locations, to be
assignable by deed or instrument of writing
made and executed after the taking effect Of the
I act, according to forms and regulations prescrib
ed by the Commissioners of the General Land
Office. Any person entitled to pre.emptlon right
to any land, shall be entitled to use any such
warrant in payment of the same at $1 25 per
acre. Warrants may be located in one body up
on any lands of the United States, subject to
private entry at the time.of such location, at the
minimum price. Whe n
l said warrants shall be
located on lands subject to entry. at a greater
minimum than $1 25 per acre, the locater of said
warrants shall pay to the United States, in cash,
the difference between the value of such war.
rants at $1 25 per acre and the tract of land
lo
cated on.
Marriage in high Life.—Among the lasi mar.
riages recorded in the Vienna Zeitung, we slum.
ble over Herr Liebesel, Kaiserlich, Koniglieher.
driter.' Oberhofs-staatsgerichtsratha-kanzelei.un
terinspecrions.institut and Bandy Lachenmayer,
Kaiserliche Koenighliche Tabacks.fabrikants
Tochter.
Homicide.—A fatal affray 'encored in West
Tennessee, week before last, between a Mr. Ed
wards and a Mr. Watson, in which the latter was
fatally injured. The difficulty had its origin in
an old foptly feud. Edwards was tried and tic
qultteti on the ground .or self defense.
"To the Victors Belong the Spoils."
The following capital article we glean from
the West Chester "Register and Examiner," it
' gives a faithful history of this abominable
practice, adopted as the lever of party polities :
When the venerated WASHINGTON was
called to the Presidential chair, he found the
Government in an almost chaotic state. The
Confederation, united and strong, while external
enemies were in the field, but divided, weak and
inefficient, the moment peace was declared, had
given place to a "Union under the Constitution."
George Washington was unanimously selected
by the American people to organize the new
Government. Never was a trust committed to
better hands. Wise, cool, and eminently patri•
otiC ; with no thought but the public good, and
the perpetuity of our institutions; this great and
good man endeavored to establish, in every de.
partment of the National Governinent, the policy
best adapted to these ends. Thomas Jefferson
was an early member of his Cabinet, and it is
perhaps to the deliberations of that august,
though small body, dint we are intebted-to—the
celebrated interrogatory of Mr. Jefferson,—" Is
he honest, is he capable, is he true to the Consti.
tutlon V' The appointments made by President
Washington were models of patriotism, capari•
ty, and integrity. No inquiry was made as to
what particular clique they belonged; none as
to whether the applicant had " spent his money
freely at the election, in purchasing votes with
liquor;' nor were recommendations declaring
that •the appointment of a certain candidate
" would bring a large and influential family to
the support of the administration" attended
with success.
John Adams succeeded General Washington.
lie retained all the officers appointed by his
predecessor, but when new offices were created,
or vacancies occurred by death, or resignation,
Federalists alone were appointed.
When Mr. Jefferson became President, he
found that by far the greater portion of the uffi,
cers were adherents oldie Federal party. Where
well grounded complaints existed, removals were
made, and Democrats, tried. by the rule above
quoted, were appointed in their stead. This
policy Mr. Jefferson determined to " continue
until the members of each party hell a propor,
tionate share of the offices."
During the administrations of Madison, Mon
roe and John Quincy Adams no removals were
made for opinions entertained. The officers ap
pointed by Jefferson, except those removed by
death or resignation, continued in the public
service until the induction of Gen. Jackson,
When a clean sweep was made to find room for
the hungry pack following at his heels.
During the forty years, from 1789, the time
the Constitution went into operation, until 1829
the commencement of General Jackson's term,
the whole loss by the Government from the delal.
cations (!)r public officers did not exceed a few thou •
sand dollars. In the next twelve years, that is,
duritig the administrations of Jackson and Van
Buren, the defalcations of the collectors anti
other officers of the Federal Government amount
ed to many millions, in sums varying from one
thousand to a quarter of a million of dollars.
It would seem from a view of the whole of
that remarkable period, and from correspond,
ence since made public, thit the object of the
applicants, public plunder" was well under,
stood among themselves, and also by the ap
_
pointing power. Samuel Swartwout, in a letter
to Jesse Hoyt, dated. Washington March 14th,
1829, says: Whether or not I shall get anything
in the general scramble for plunder remains to be
proven; but 1 rather guess I shall." We rather
guess he mn, Ifn two tons of solid silver are
anything."
The securities t " a ' ken in Mr. Swartwout's case,
and indeed in almost every other, were what
lawyers sometimes term straw sureties"—
men not worth a dollar in the world. At the
time Mr. Van Buren appointed Jesse Hoyt col.
lector of the Port of New York, he knew that he
was deeply involved, and without credit or char.
acter; yet he committed the funds of the coon,
try, collected at its commercial metropolis, to his
keeping, upon securities which no correct bu-
siness man would have loaned a thousand dal-
lars. His defalcations were also measured by
tons of silver." It is a melancholy fact, that
there was scarce'an officer of the General Gov.
ernment fingering the public funds during that
period, who did not appropriate a portion of it to
his own use.
If the nation has suffered pecuniary from
this abomidable doctrine, our own state has, in
its individual capacity, felt its withering ehTccts.
I'he readers of this paper have been made ac•
quainted with the squandering of the Common
wealth's money by its officers on canals and
railways, from the Canal Commissioners down
to the petty supervisors on the works. They
know that at no distant date, the "favorites re_
ceived for three cords of wood, the price of, and
receipted for five ; they know that oil was pur_
chased in the same manner, and they know that
this was the system pursued throughoin every
artery of the public works and "is so now in
certain quarters
But it is not in the loss of millions to the Na-
tional or State Governments that the doctrine
has inflicted/the deepest wounds on the country.
It is in its demoralizing tendencies, and' in its
corruptions at the ballot box we must expect to
find its greatest injury. The dishonesty of men
in high places, the unblushing scramble for the
spoils, the undue influence exercised by money,
and place, at the elections, the bribery of elec
tion officers, and the falsification of 'election re-
urns, of a government, based on the virtue and
ntegrity of the people
Bad Legislation. Banking in Wisconsin is
taking a very unsafe range. The House of As
sembly has passed a general Banking law, ad.
milling railroad bonds as a basis of bill issues.
Under such an arrangement as this, no safe cir•
culation can be expected. Wisconsin has also
fixed 10 per cent. as the legal rate of interest un•
til 1858, and subsequently 7 cent.
tar P. R. Frees, Esq., has published the Ger-
mantown Telegraph for twenty-three years ; but
Mr. Harper, or the Oettysbotg Sentinel, beats
him—having been the publisher of that journal,
without intermission, for over thirty.tlve years.
CPA Cincinnati printer was knocked down
and robbed - of ten dollars. What business has a
printer with so much money.
GSP — Phe printers of Pittsburg have abolished
Sunday work.
10' Howdoesalirielook withoutbeingspaced.
115 P -The conductors ofa newspaper have more
difficulties to encounter in the way.of pleasing
people, than any other person in the world.
ra- The pay of Louis Napoleon is to be fixed
at $140,000 a year.
07 - Suspicion is always worse than fact.
17'The stage fare from Allentown to Phila..
delphia is only one dollar.
rir It is stated that in the town of West New.
bury, Mass., there were raised and put up, last
year, of marketable apples, 14,009 barrels, worth
$28,000.
rlr Benjamin Franklin died on the 17th of
April, 1790. His remains are interred in the
northwest corner of the grave yard, located at
Fifth and Arch streets.
—ccyrbe-Virginia-Monument- to-Washington,
which was estimated-to cost $lOO,OOO, has al.
ready cost $81,867 05. It is now estimated that
the entire cost will be $143;583 31, though it is
thought unsafe to bet on any amount under $2OO,
CtirThe gas house in Norfolk took fire last
week and a portion of the roof was destroyed.
ar The Lewisburg (Pa) Chronicle is offered
MM
Death from using Chloroform.
The New Haven Register states that Mrs Em
ily Norton, wife of Mr. Hartz Z. Norton, of Nor
, walk, having been afflicted for some years with
a disease of the jaw and cheek, requiring the ex.
traction of several diseased teeth, - came to that
Icity with the purpose of having the operation
i performed by her former medical attendant, Mr.
Park. She had last year taken chloroform with
I
happy effect, under his care, and •now insisted
upon having it administered preparatory to the.
operation. She was allowed to inhale the chlo•
reform, in very small quantity, for several min.
utes ; and almost while she was saying that she
felt no effect from it, and was asking for its more
free administration, the doctor noticed the pulse
suddenly to fail. Within three or four minutes
from this time this change was noticed, all signs
of life were gone, and the most vigorous efforts..
to resuscitate the woman proved unavailing.—
The quantity of chloroform used, was much less
than is commonly administered in surgical op.
erations ; and the operatorp regarded as a skill-1
ful, judicious, and prudent physician. At his re
quest
a jury of inquest has been called to make
a full and public investigation of circumstances
of this painful case
Phosphate of Lime in Consumption.
When an account of Dr. Stnne's
_jof New
Orleans) success in treatment of consumption
was published, it naturally enough interested the
profession, as well as the friends of those who
were suffering, because it raised a gleam of hope
in cases where none existed. The following
facts have come to our knowlege, and mny he
considered favorable in regard to this method of
treatment. A gentleman of the neighboring city
of Charlestown, whose son was considered in a
hopeless state from the diseased condition of the
respiratory apparatus was induced to adminis
ter Dr. Stone's medicine. All the phosphate of
lime procured at the shops appeared to be im•
perfectly prepared—being coarse and otherwise
objectionable. A purer article was prepared
especially for the occasion, reduced to an im
palpable powder, and ten grains were adminis
tered three times a day, followed by a swallow
of cod, liver oil. No material change was dis
coverable in the patient for two weeks. Sud
denly, as it were, a fixed pain of long standing
in the chest then abated; sleep became refresh
ing, the appetite improved, strength returned,
and from being moved above the apartment re
clining on an invalid's chair, he is now daily
riding on an average, ten miles on horse-hack,
facing the wind and breasting the cold with tm.
punity. This is a synopsis of a case related by
a greatful parent, who would be glad to have
others, under similar circumstances, make an
effort with the phosphate, combined with cod
liver oil.—(Boston Medical Journal.
Notes Under Five Dollars.--Yesterday in the
Common Pleas, before 10(12e Thompson, two
cases' were tried, in which the parties were Mar.
garet Yocum, who sues as well fur herself as
the Commonwealth, vs. James 'P. Warren.
This was an action for a penalty, under the act
of Assembly interdicting the circuiting of for
eign notes of a less denomination than five dol
lars within the limits of this State. The party
prosecuting was the.only witness offered to es.
tablish the fact of passing the note. The act of
Assembly provides for the recovery of the pen
, shy in any action of debt in the name of the
Commonwealth, as well for the use of the coun•
ty as for the person suing. The Judge held
that, the law having provided the action of debt
as the form of remedy, it embraced the incidents
of such action, in respect to the admisSion of
evidencet and as the witnessoffered was enti
tled to one half of the aum to be recovered, she
was not admissible under the ordinary roles of
evidence, being directly interested in the verdict
sought to be established by her testimony. V.er. ,
diet for defendant under the charge of the Court.
—[Philadelphia Sun of 16th.)
Executive Mansion. The Harrisburg Tele
graph says : Miller of the county of Phil-
adelphia, has provided a bill koviding for the
erection of an executive mansion at Harrisburg,
at the expense of the State. The bill appropri
ales the sum of $lO,OOO for the purpose. It is al.
together proper that such a bill should pass.—
As it now is, Governors on moving to Harris.
burg, have greaLtlialcully in procuring houses
for their residence. Thy late Gov. Johnston, in
consequence of this d , ili-ulty, for a long time
boarded at.one of our 11.itels. A house should
be built for. the Governor's residence. There
will be no expense to the State for a lot::
New Kindrf Tobaeco.—A new kind of tobacco
is cultivated in some places in Maryland. Ii
is named Persian tobacco is of a beautiful color,
and commands a higb price,. •
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GLEANINGS
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tegistative Proceedings,
SEN ATE.
April l4:—The Senate to.day, passed the fol
lowing bill.apportioning the State for Congres,
atonal purposes as follows :
1. Southwark, Moyamensing, Passyunk, in the
county of Philadelphia, anAl Cedar, Lombard,
Spruce and Newe ' darket Wards, In The City of
Philadelphia.
If. City of Philadelphia, except the above
wards.
111. Kensington and Northern Liberties.
- IV. Spring Garden, Penn District, North Penn,
Kingsessing, West Philadelphia, Blackleg, Bich ,
mond, unincorporated Northern Liberties, Bridea
burg, Aramingo, in the county of Philadelphia.
V. Bucks county and Bristol township, Upper
and Lower Germantown, Upper and Lower.
Manayunk, Frankiord, Roxborough, Byberry,
Lower - Dublin,-Whtie-Hall-Oxfard and- Morer
lan& in the county of Philadelphia..
VI. Chester and Delaware..
VII. Montgomery and Lehigh
VIII. Berl:s.
IX. Lancaster
X. Lebanon, Dauphin, Perry att - '1 Juniata'
X!. Schuylkill and Northumberland.
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Luzerne, Montour, Columbia and Wyonar
x X v II I I r .. Isi x - t. o o r r t i h t a a m im p l l e o n u , m N b L e i n ri r a o n e d ,.Car bon, Wayne
1 and Pike.
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XIV. Bradford,_Tioga_and-Susgnehanna.
XV. Lycoming, Sullivan, Centre, Clearfield',
Clinton, Potter and McKean.
XVI. Union and Mifflin.
XVIII. Franklin, Adams, Fulton and Bedford'.
XIX. Somerset, Fayette and Greene.
XX. Washington, Beaver and Lawrence.
XXI. Westmoreland, Indiana and Cambria.
XYII. Allegheny county, except that part ly
ing East and North of the Ohio, and West and
North of the Allegheny Rivers.
XXIII. Butler, Armstrong, and part of Alit'.
ghany county above excepted.
XXIV. Mercer, Venango, Clarion, Elk, Forest
and Jefferson.
XXV. Eric, Crawford and Warren.
April 10. Mr. Shimer, read a Bill in place.
legitimating Jacob and John Geisinger, of North
ampton county.
April 17. The bill to incorporate the Norris.
town and Freemansburg Railroad Company.
' HOUSE.
April 10. On motion of Mr.Sehell, the second
reading of the bill authorizing the publication of
the laws: of this Commonwealth in the newspn,
pers, was again resumed and the bill defeatell—
yeas 27, nays 38.
Decision in the Economy sec;cly s
Grier and Irwin, of the U. 8. Circuit Court fix
the western district of Pennsylvania, have giveit
judgment in favor of Joshua Natchcrie.b, who
recently brought suit against the trustee.l.of the
Economy Society, at Harmony, Ind., for $60,000.
The plaintiff, it appears, was a member of the
society for twenty-seven years, when he ex
pelled without cause, by the late George Harp
and his associates, and deprived of all share of
the property, valued at $2,000,000. He brought
suit for $60,000, as his share, but the court, in
its decision, ordered the appointment of a com
missioner to ascertain what would be the share
of each member, and, how much will be a fair
compensation of the defendant for his twenty.
seven years of labor, after deducting monies
paid him.
Workings of the Present Tariff—One branch
after another of the American manufactures
goes down under the present tarif. The Keene
(N. II.) Sentinel states that the only remaining
manufactory of window glass in New England
closed in a few days since. The manufacturers
in this village employed seventy•five to one hun
dred person in the various departtnems, and the
materials, with slight exceptions, were of home
pPoduction•"
Strange Distribution of Wealth.—liana Wilson.
of Steubenville, Ohio, who died on the 21st ult.,
in the 82d year of his age, bequeathed; in his
will, to his only daughter4 . loo7.l; to the crithiw
of his only son, now the wife of• Rev. Dr. Cox,
of Piqua, $300; the balance of his fortune,,esti.
mated at $200,000, he devided in small sums to
different churches in his town, and in large
sums to foreign and domestic missionary aocie.
Free Banking in Maryicind.—A bill entitled an
act to authorise and regulate the business of
banking has been submitted to the Senate of
Maryland, from the select committee of that
body, upon the subject of a general Banking~
Law. The general features of the bill are simi
lar to ihose of the New York system; under, the
general banking law of Alai State. The•stoCks
to be received, however, are limited by the Senr.
ate's bill to Maryland stocks and stocks of' the
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[Jolted States'.
What Itailioadi Db.—They galvanize the dead
to life. Our streets, and hotels, says the Erie,
Pa. Chronicle, of April 6th, are now thronged'
daily with the immense tide of travel. pouring:
through. and piles of freight are tubledlinto the
depot warehouses, by the freight• trains.
chants from the great west; and others of the'
travelling community, are continually passing:
and repassing. Not less than sii,or.sevetrhun• .
Bred passengers on an average go thropgh,.
towards the east' and•west every day—probably
over three thousand dpring the last weey. And
still they come.
MARRIED.
In Mechanicsburg, Cumberland co., Pa.,
on the sth inst., by the Rev. Jonathan Mon
roe, Mr. Willing:kJ'. Wonderly, formerly•
of this place, to Miss Caroline E. liam
moml, of Lewisburg, York county.
On the 2d inst., by the •Rev. A. J. G.
Dubs, Mr. Solomon Klein, of Lowhill, to
Miss Cyrena Peler, of Heidelberg.
DIED
In Philadelphia, on the , 6th inst., Swim
3. Neigh, wife of Wrn. H. Barger,•iii tha
10th year of her age.
On the 23d inst., in Maxataw,ny.,
' bells Ritz, in the 70iti year of: her age
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