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c lac febigli Register.
A ileißtiown,
IiTSDNESDAY, JIM 21, 185
FOR GOVERNOR:
JAMES POLLOCK,
Of Northumlierlan s d County.
FOR CANAL COMPISSIONER :
GEORGE DARSIEI.
Of Allegheny County.
FOR JUDGE OF TILE SUPREME. COURT.
DANIEL M.. SMY.SER,.
Of Montgoinery County.
Corner Stone Laying.
The. Corner Stone of the New English Luth
eran Church, in the
. Borough of Allentown will
be laid on Sunday next, the 25th inst. The
ceremonies will take place during the forenoon.
Service by eminent . F peak crs from abroad—of
Which a number will be present will take
place during the morning and afternoon. Judg
ing from the foundation and other work already
begun, we bespeak for the Church, one of the
batidsomeo buildings in the Borough. &large
collection . of people will no doubt be present
on the. oc.easien.
Increase of Business.
Strangers visiting Allentown, do notice the
fresh, energetic, enterprising spirit that prey - ails
among all classes of our business men, and
which is gaining ground every day. And when
they look at the improvements this spirit is
working in the town, our own people cannot
but roe that the first d.tty they owe to them
selves and to the town, is to encourage by ev,l
ery means in their power, this spirit of energy
and enterprise, which will eventually make
Allentown the most handsome and prosperous
Borough in the state. Withip the last few years
we have had an astonishing, increase in the
population, business and wealth of our Borough.
We are surrounded on every. side by furnaces,
mat:thine shops, car manufactories .and other
substantial evidences of increasing prosperity,
while hundreds of splendid dwellings and pub
lie buildings have risen, as if by magic, to
beautify the town. An unusually large number
of handsome and substantial dwellings will be
put up this season, and everywhere we see in
dications of the onward march of improve
mont.
The Fourth of July.
We are pleased to notice the spirit with
which the citizens in many places in Penneyl•
vania intend celebrating our National Aniver
sary. We are sorry to state, however, that no
meets has yet been made in our Borough. We
have always thought that old John Adams, was
right where he. expressed a wish that took
the to:or of prophecy, that the Fourth of July
ehould•be celebrated through all time, by the
firing of guns, the ringing of belle and other
public festivities. The mass of mankind re•
quire outward demonstrations to stimulate en
thusiasm, to recall patriotic association, to call to
greater activity the love of country. his by
commemorating the great events ofthe parts that
men learn to emulate thereon in the future.
Singing in Sohoo ia
We observe by our exchanges that the Rai
tom of singing in the public schools, so long
practised, with success in the New - England
States, • has been introduced in many parts of
thisstate. The custom is a geed One and has
during the last term been adoption by the
Teachers, with the advice of the• School
Directors in Allentown. Nothing is more in
spiring and elevating to the best affections of
the heart, than the singing' of children, with
their young,Ture, fresh, innocent voices, unit
ed and commingled together in "concord of,
sweet sounds." Mete may be said to be "a
resemblance between their melody and our
imaginations of the seraphic songs of the an
gels, both without sin, both without guilt, and
both we may hope free from the dross of the
olarth," tiy all means let us have singing in
or public schools. We commend the sugges
tion to the consideration of the Superintendent.
Hon. James Pollock.
. The eminently popular whig candidate for
Uovertior, Iron. Jams Pollock-arrived in Phila.
4 P delphia on Tuesday the 13th• instant, and took
up his quarters at the Washington House in
Chestndt greet. Ho is in the enjoyment of ex
cellent health full of energy and spirit, prepar
ed to do good anklaithful service during the
ensuing canvass with the brilliantprospects
success before him; and with his well known
powers ae a popular orator on the stump, he
cannot tad to carry the Whig banner in
with
through thecontest . Ile wilt meet with
a cordial greeting from .many , warm and ar
dent.adniirera.as he stumps the State, and WP
teelAkeiumell that those 'to- whom he has hither.
to' been a emingefileed but make his acquain7
fake' to'lieecirno his . ardent and enthusiastic
edit - 110ra and friends. Judge Pollock, is one of
that class of teen, whont to know is to love.
' 'Tkit# WheatZr.op.
The reports which (Imhof° us (says a Iluila.
16 paper) from the grainigion , lng,districts of
!be, Union, and particularly lipm 'the wheat
region, are of most promising crops. Thetas;
timooy is almost uniform in favor of a. pros
peotive largo harvest of wheat, and that too of
rigood qnality, 'fo.bn ante, none can tell how
plants will • mature, nor in what condition
tEei crop will bs jaar.vested and stacked; but
the'promiso ofa great crop is excellent. An.
inininial 'sowing of wheat took plaoe last fall
from the anticipation of "war prices" this year
in Europeorniqk great brolidth of land was put
ro anring,graitOpt ording from the same gen.
.rally operating cause, and. also Ppm the stint•
ylous. applied by, papers at,lke , East, which di.
rnalliqndirecprently .advised lynch culture to
the weeps of the Woof, •
High Price of,Provlsiims.
If the plain. men. of. the olden time could
rise from . 0194-graves and look around them at.
the -chimed ccindition. of, things•:'since they.
moved amongst:mm:l.llnd business, they could.
60e, many thiageto.:wonder at. But pothing
perhaps, not even railroads, steam- boats, and
telegraph's, would astonishish them more than
the high prices now. paid for provisions. Veg
etables that rotted, in their gardens, fruits that
tell from their orchards to greedy swine, eggs
Whioh were so numerous that they knew not
what to do with thdm, young chickens that, for
want of a better deltioy, were but two happy
to fall into the talons of hawks and owls, ten ,
.der young pigs that grew up into useless hogs,
veals that grew up into idle OW)), and went
dry for want of milking, and butter that grew
rancid-from being too long kept—all now com
mand prices that would-tax: most cruelly the
arithmetic of our,honest fathers.
There is a. complaint all over - the country
about the high price of marketing. Several
reasons may be assigned for this. One is the
general wontedly, of our people, and the Omar
dance of money. Another, is the• iacrease of
our population, especially in cities, all of whose
mouths require to be fed. A third is the corn
munication by means of railroads and steam
boats that has been opened between cities and
farmers. Another is that hotels, large hotels,
elegant hotels, are far more numerous than they
used to be, and that now there ate, perhaps, a
hundred travellers, where in the good old times
there was but one.
• Whatever may be the cause or causes—the
effect has been produced. Provisions are in
ordinately high, and. it is difficult to say who
makes the protit•out of them. Do the farmers
and gardens who raise them, the hucksters antl
market•men who traffic in them, or the
keepers of hotels and eating houses, realize
the profits ? One thing ip certain. The house
keeper who buys, not to sell, but to eat, makes
no profit. The boarder at the hotel, and the
eater at the restaurant makes no profit. These
three things. are certain. But nobody will
agree that be is the fortunate. •
Fraudulent Votine.
Francis J. Grund, !intensively known as "Ob
server" the Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger, and' also" one of Gov.
ernor Bigler's famous stump speakers in 1651,
was taken before Alderman ThomPson, charg
ed with attempting to vote in two precincts of
of the Eigth, and in three precincts of the
Ninth Ward,,in Philadelphia at the late Char
ter election. The Philadelphia Sun says : This
person, who is advanced in age, and who has
travelled throughout this and other countries,
has certainly shown a degree of ignorance, (to
say the least,) unparalled in political history,
in attempting to vote on the grounds that he
had stopped at a Hotel in this citylwo days.=
Some of the Committee of Vigilance appeared
before the Alderman but did not, we are sorry
to say, prosecute the case whereupon the Alder
man discharged the prisonor with a severe re
primand. We trust this case will not end here
and that Mr. Grund will be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law. His position at Wash
ington should not deter the officers of the law
from performing their duty and dealing with
him as they, would wilhanpother person guilty
of so flagrant an outrage. Tis well the polls were
se guarded yesterday by those capable of de
tecting such frauds, as were thtompted 'to be
palmed off at the ballot box.
Defeat of the Administration
The late election in Philadelphia has result
ed iti a most unexpected and overwhelming
defeat of the administratien at 4arrisburg and
Vl'ashington. To• whatever. party the boners
of victory may accrue, the mortification of de.
feat belongs to Gov. Bigler and. Frank. Pierce's
party. The Governor's opposition to the sale
of the Missouri Compromise, have not received
the approval of the voters of Phil'a. The elec.
lion is ominous. The President had his heart
fixed upon that city, and anxiously awaited' the
response to the Nebraska bill. Well, the re.
spouse has gone forth. That bill iscondemnecl.
The President must submit to his doom. But
the defeat in Philadelphio is not the worst as.
poet of the case—nor that of Washington pity
—there is the dread apprehention that these
electicins are but tho beginning of o revolution
which is destined to overwhelm the Preiiden
and his party.
Shall Bigler IRe, Defeated?
Them are now three anti-Nebraska candi
dates for Governor in the field—Mr. Pollock,
Whig ; Mr. Bradford, Native American ; and
Mr. Potts, Free Democrat. So far •as we are
all agreed on nearly every public question now
before the people. If the votes of the oppo
nents of the administration shall be foolishly
divided among the three, the eleetion must ne
oessarily smolt in the triumph of Bigler; but if
the - antiladministration strength can be concen
trated on one men, our success will be morally
certain. Shall not this union anti concentra:
tion be effected? Shall not personal prefer•
onces g li a w a y to the demands of the lolty pa
triotism whichwe trust animates every division
of the enemies o( our corrupt administration,
and unite thorn in a ;Ammon odetermination to
expel the Goths from the capital.—/nd.
Destroyed! ,
We learn that tho barn of 14r.9ap04 Ptirbe
near Centreville, in Upper tipper Mount 13eth
el„ was struck by lightning, dpring the heavy
god on Thursday lest, and destroyed, with, all
its - contents, About two tons of hay, a quantity'
of strisw, harness,'&o.; were in the barn a t the
time. It was insured in the Farmers' Mutual
Insuranee.Company.
The serno afternoon the, barn of Jacob Schott,
In Moore ,township, was s truck by lightening
aim entirely destroyed. It was a litrge sione
barn •and contained a variety of articles, bur
not mach farm produce.—Easton Argus.
Who Spits on the Phttform Now
Resolved, That the Democratic party will re_
sit t , allattempts at renewing in Congress or out of
the agitation of the Slavery question, under it,
whatever shape or color tlw attempt ray be made.
Baltimore Dem. Platform.
When Horace Greeley, in the indulgence of
his'peeellar ideas "spit" upon the Whig plat-
form, the political hounds of the Democratic par,
ty were unleashed, and set upon the track of the
veteran Scott. lie and the perty, were held re
sponsiblu for the conduct of, an outside fanatic
while the eqnally culpable avowals 01, the
New-V,ork Test, Bcnj. Hallett, Dr. Townsend,
weru. smoothed- over with the sweet salvo of
abolition accessions to the results., A platform
of convenience was adopted by the locofocos
at Baltimore, accepted as knecessity by the
incongruous elements, to be set aside when
'inclination prompted it. The resolutions above
stands in siagular contrast with the course of
the Administration and its friends.' The Pres
ident backs by the influence of hie position,
the darling scheme of, the most ambitious as
pirant to, Iha succession. That scheme has
been parried through by the renewal of the
slavery. agitation, which they had declared
should be forever settled ! Who spite - upon
the platform now The South,.whose interest
is alone involved in ibis proposed extension
of slave territory, has not sought to renew it.
A Pre.sidential aspirant, too weak to secure
the nomination heretofore, selected it as a hob
by by which to secure the requisite strength
for satisfying his vaulting ambition !
'The Nebraska bill has moat seriously renew
ed the agitation of the Slavery question, every
attempt at which these Baltimore gentlemen
resolved they would resist in Congress or out
of it. Who spits upon the platform—the Lit
e Giant and his party, or the Whigs
The Artful Dodger.
The Pittsburg Gazette, with great felicity of
description, applies the above title to Gover
nor Bigler; and it is so manifestly appropriate,
that it will not be surprising if in time the Gov
ernor comes to be regarded as the genuine or
iginal of the character, while his more obscure
prototype, the "Artful Dodger" of Dickens;
novel, shall anger a total eclipse, and his very
existence pass from the memory of men.
Orr the great question of the day he still
keeps mum. With the administration at Wash
ington he Ls the sincere friend of all its schemes
of infamy, and the Nebraska bill in particular
bet with the democracy of Susquehanna, Brad
ford and Tioga, be stands unalterably opposed
to the , repeal of the Missouri Comproinise.-,--
The venal presses which play the part of or
gans for him at Pittsburg, &c., urge him as the
Nebraska candidate; while Chase, and the oth
er democratic presses in the Wilmot region
advocate hint as the Anti• Nebraska candidate.
Then in regartt to the prohibition of the sale
of liquor, see the Governor's answer to the
Comniitte of the Temperance Convention, tom,
another strikit•.g illustration of his character.—
He was asked whether "a law prohibiting the
sale of liquor" would receive his sanction" and•
he answers that he deplores the evils . of intem
perance, but cannot pledge himself "to sanc
tion a law, the details, of which he has not
seen 1 ,!." Da ever a public man exhibit such
miserable driveling before Z The friends and
enemies of the cause of. prohibition rue alike
insulted by so contemptible a dodge, and if
they possess proper self-respect they will alike
place their veto upon hire at the ballot box in
October.—/nd. Whig.
Important Act.
An sot was passed by the Legislature, and
approved by the Governor, changing the mode
of erecting and dividing election districts in
this Commonwealth. Upon the petition of
one.third of the vt:tars of any election die.
trict, presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions,
it shall bo lawful for such district upon the
question of the location or Lhasigo of this Pin"
of holding elootions. The second section of
this act gives the Courts, authority to divide
any borough, ward nr, township, into one o r
more election districts, or to form an election
district out of parts of two or more to.wnships,
to suit the convenience - and wishes of the in
habitants thereof. No district thus loaned
shall contain less than one hundred voters.
What a Ligoofooo Says•
The Its county Press, one of the organs of
the Democracy of "Alt I3erks," in noticing The
passage of the Nebraska iniquity, says: "Thus,
by legislative legerdemain, and a violation of
the resolutions contained in the Democratic
platform, which declared the Compromise of
1850 a full and final settlement of the slavery
quettion, the repeal of the Missourt Compro
mise was effected. Such an unholy consume
tion asthis act, on the part of the majority in
congress to destroy the most sacred compact ex
istinglmtweon the States, adopted for the corn.
won preservation in ltip is
,a deed of blacken.
inginfamy . threatening the very existences of our
free institutions, and which will yet be rebuk
ed by the sovereign poople."--Vfflage Record.
A Nimrod of Me Wed.—The following descrip.
lion of a Kentticky hunter'is copied from the J
Vvansville. Journal:
..wat Eckman - has followed hunting for i live;
lihood since the year 1831. Since that period
he tills killed thirty.eight bears, nine hundred
and eighty four wolves,lhree thousand eight
hundred and fortyiseven coons, nine hundred
and ninety foxed, nine hundred and sisfy.one
wild geese, two thousand and forty pheasants,
fat) , four ground - I:logs, eighty wild cats; four
teen polceats,tWo hundred minks, besides
rels, quail, ,and other small game beyond his
poWer to calculate. The sum he has realised
from hirgame, skins,&c., falls but little Short of
twelve thousand dollars." .
lar The Cliolern hattnanifesteil.itself iO. n° s ".
ton, New Voik, end irimany places on the tresti
ern rivers.
Mysterious Atatir.
On Whit,Alonday, a hired man of Jonas Bic - -
ry, in Calasauqua, named Elias Rohnbach, felt
home witlt a horse and buggy for the Kleck
nerville, batallion. He returned in the evening
with a friend ut his, who got off on the road,
and since then nothing has teen heard of him.
The horse and buggy were found on the road
side, which were taken home. It is supposed
he intended to. leave for parts unknown.--
The next, - day he it is raid t was seen in th e
vicinity of Bethlelterri...As the report goes he
has cut such pranks before •now.
Self-Government.
The Nebraslcaites, (foto Arnold Douglass down
to the editor of the "True American," defend the
swindle by the lying pretence that it gives to the
people of the Territories the right of self.goveru c ,
bent. Even that distinguished but unfortunate
leader of the Locofoce bests, Gen. Cass, congrat:
ulate the Senate and the ',louse and the country
upon the establishrnentof ‘..squatter sovereignty"
immediately upon the passage of the bill. As
this is the only defence made'of the measure by
any of its advocates , it is to be supposed that it is
the only, defence that can be made, Let us see if it
is good for any thing.
The bill provides for the government of
territories in the following manner: •
• A Governor, (salary $2,500,) a Secretary, (sal.
all $2,000,) a Chief Justice and two Associate
Justices,) salaries $2,000 each,) a Districhist•
torney and a Marshal (paid by fees,) for said
Territory "shall be appointed by the President
and Senate—all to serve for four years,) except ,
the Secretary five)—all to be paid quarterly out 1
of the Treasury of the United States.
A Leg l islative Council of thirteen, and a Leg
islative Assembly of twenty.six members, shall
he chosen—the former for two years the latter i
for one year--,by the free white male inhabitants 1
of said territory, who are either citizens of the
United States or shall have declared their inten•
tion of becoming such, and sworn allegiance to
the Constitution of the. United States. The Gov.
ernor is to take a census, divide the territory in
-1 to election district; apportion the members, and
designate the time for holding the election. Hs
has beyond this a veto on all acts of the legis
lature, Which can only be overcome by a two
thirds vole in both branches. Towuship district
and county officers, are to be "appointed or elm
ted," as the governor and Legislative Assembly
shall dictate. Members of the Assembly have
$3- per day each, and the same for each twenty
. ! miles' travel "to be paid out of the U. S. Trea
sury, with public builctings, elerkhlre, sergeant.
, ai.arms a library, printing, .pc., for each Rouse.
A delegate to Congress is to be chosen,' and to
have the pay and power of other delegates.
A Governor, clothed with the veto power, a
judiciary having power to declare which laws are
laws and which are not, a District Attorney and
a Marshal, appointed by a President and Senate,
in electing which the people of the Territories
have no voice—a legislature elected from districts
made by this Governor—all officers, judges and
legislators paid out of the United States Treasu.
ry—this is squatter sovereignty with a venget
ance.
The intention of Pierce, Douglass and their
confederates, was to open the door for the ad•
mission of slavery into these territories, yet
free.from that umnitigated curse. Although the
organs of the slaveocracy in the North deny this
their alies in . the South positively assert that the
Constitution of the United. States carries slavery
theoretically into the territories unless prohibi•
ted by positive legislative enactment; that slave
! holders may carry their slaves there, and that
the Territorial Legislature will have no power to
exclude them.
While the bill was in the House of Repre•
sentatives, Mr. Mace, to- expose this contradic
tion in doctrine—this villainous fraud—moved
to insert in the first section
"And the Territorial Legislatures shall have
rower to admit or exclude slavery at. any time
by law." .
Here was an opportunity for the northern and I
southern supporters of the bill to come to a plain
understanding and state precisely what they
meant. What did they dot They
_voted down
the amendment-0 6 to 76; that is they "voted
against investing the Territorial Legislature with
power to admit or ezolude slavery.
Again they were tested by Mr. Fuller, of Maine
an Old Line Heinoprat, a friend of the Adminis ,
tration, desirous of acting With the majority if
possible. He moved to insert ;
'And the Territorial 11 4 egislatnres shall have
the power to establish or exclude slavery, as to
them shall seem proper' •
Mr. Fuller said that he would, as a National
I Democrat; like to vote for the bill, and would do
so if his amendment prevailedif it did not he
shohld vote against it. Here was an opportuni.
; ty to establish 'squatter soveieignty; at least so
far as slavery was concerned, but the .conspira.
-•
4. •
tors opposed it and the proposition was voted
down, Otto, 75. The plain meaning of thii vote
of the Nebrascals was: We, supporters • of the
bill, "will not grant- to the Territorial Legisli.
tures the power to exclude slavery." .
The real wish of the authors of the bill is to
establish slavery In the new territories, and no
amount of lying will convince the people to the
contrary. Mr. Douglass may proclaim from his
place in the Senate, or from the stump, that his
bill is only intended to giye to the people of the
territories the right of self,governmeni, and the
slaveocratic press may echo this falsehood—but
in the face of •faets' such as we have recounted,
1 it will be impossible to make the people believe
; the,assertion, • .
The authors, alders and abettors of the in
quit) , are doomed, but the people of the North
have another work to perform—the. territories
I must be saved-saved peOpling them . with
freemen from the northern states. An organi•
I,zation to aid in this good work - has already been
effected in New England, and we hope that it
; will be aided and encouraged by the friends of
freedoriVihroughout - the land. it seems to us to
be the most practicable method of defeating the
intentions of the slavity; tyrants ,vrhb are even
now con.gratulating themselves on the success
of their nssanlf upon freedom and the North,
GLEANINGS.
67: 1 One, of the new cztiets at %Vest Point meat
Ewes six feet eight inehes'in 'height, a future
Snip, perhaps. ILeas from Tennessee. •
I r !sham Williams, of Madison, 'County Cleet..
gia, came' to his deatli„on the 29th uitin?o; from;
being stung on the arm by a waati, lie died
,in'
ten miniiies after.being stung.
tfcy . An anthraotte blip furnace Wt.° eree•
ted at Norristown, by a .company possecting a
•
capital of $60,080.
Capt. Rynders, the New York politician,
last week ran away with and married a pretty
little Qaakeress,
BrltomCorn a tun of braom corn will make . '
MOO or 13C0 brooths. It is worth 1.50 a ton. be,
sides the beed. It_isa great crop in the filohawlr
I:3r Tim Harrisburg Herald learns that 0. Bar
rett, Esq., of the Harriiburg Keystone, has been
appointed by President perce, 0017.. of dap
Territory of Nebraska. . •
- tar Tbe wheat in' Missouri. - it . is. said, is the
-largest yield known for years.
11r The Custom Hous. Inspectors want their
salaries increased from 51100 to $ll5OO.
I:2lrA good natured husband, a dozen children t tea t enaet stamp.oets, refuse to listen to remein•
and a happy home are woman's rights. f strances and appeala, and treat its subjects as
Artesian well, now being dug at lien. dogs, it must be submitted to, for every man be;
dersoo, has reached the depth of seven hun. longa to the Government, and Must not re,sist it.
dred and fifty feet:- " l Washington and his revolutionary compeers, in
Wllett k iP. W. Bogen, minister to the German this view of things twinged to the British Gov:'
emigrants in New York, estimates. the total i Gcr ernment, and had no right to resist it. Let us
man population residing there at 80,000 or up.. thank God that they thought otherwise;ao thr.,
wards.- I a:though the Government which they framed on
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fF'The Established Church of England has • the basis that every man has a right to himself
within the last twenty years, without the assist' is in the hands of those who set republican pile'
tance of the State, built two thousand churches ciples at naught, ever day brings us nearer tO ,
at a cost of .£5,n00,000 or 527,000,000. j the termination of their mad career.
or Ueorge Kern has been removed from the So also if the State chooses to enslave a man;
Philade Mint, on account of voting the 'Na_ and authorizes him, to be bought and sold in
tive' ticke; and Mr. Barr, a Nebraska Loco, ap. matket overt, and scourged and maltreated, it is
pointed in his place. I all right; he does not belong to himself but to .
the State. A,cling upon this princrple, if the
\
Legislature of Pennsylvania should authorize
the enslavement of sttch political maniacs as,
the editor of the Transylvania, and authorize
hint to be sold opt of the. State, they would be
following out his own doctrines to their legitimate
conclusion.- They might, in such case, do the
State a service but we fancy that he would soon:
come to the conclusion that a man -has a right
to himself.
When the leading Democratic paper in Penn 4
sylvaaia utters such, an abominable theory as
this it is time for reflecting men to stop and ask
where these things will end. If, for the sake of
defendinr,JArnericen Slavery, to the support of
Which the newer:vie party has lent all its .
streng,in, it Gods itself, compelled to abandon,
old lantbrkatjcs, repudiate the fundamental doe s . ,
trines of litterty, and enunciate the: kits which
depotisnx . the world over hie -made its own, it
well becomes hones! . Demoe.rans to int:tulle it
they are not locked up in the wrong bozH,
The ductrees of the prolarationtarindepeodence
have already been repudiated by, the leading men
of that party, and one by one they, are giving up , ...
the cherished tenets colour furefathers,at the de
mand of the slave interest. vihich,rutea_ them,
asd ibeir party. Geeing leaved themselves
to the vilest system of oppression ander the sun,
it, is meet (hat the'y should east ofd the principles
of freedom and assume the laninage of tyrants..
But will the people, in whose hearts the. love of
freedom yet rests, and who cheetish a conviction,
that they have a right of ownership in themselves
—will they abandon the faith of their Lithers,,
and boW theit 'leeks to the yoke4hicis was.re.
jetted in 17761 we shall see.- 7 PilioGurg Ger.
wife, dune 7.
The Pacific) Railroad.
Whilst fanatics are devising the means to
dissolve the Union, the more patriotic men of the
North and South, are taking measures to extend
its usefulness arid establish its strength. The
Board of Directors of the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company, recently convened at their oft
rice, No. 64. Deaver Street New York, and unan.
imously elected the following persons: R. J.
Walker, President. M.7)ie:awn:4 Vice Presir
dent. Sant'[ Jaudon, Secretary. A. T. Smith.
Treasurer
This j 3 !he richest Company; today, in the
know world, and is bound to succeed at once.—
This Company has acquired four distinct char-
tern for a Railroad from the eastern boundary of
Texas to each of which Uorripanies was granted
by the LegiAlature of the state of Texas, at its
last sessions, 10,540 acres of land for every
mile of road to be built, making an aggregate
for the whole of these charters, now ownedby
this Company, or about 2,000,000 of acres. The
State charter contains a grant of 12800 acres
for every mile of. road built, amounting in the
whole to about 11,0U0,0Q5 of acres, anti, added
to the previous charters owned by the Company„
matting a grand. aggregate of 43.000,0.00 of acrest
This land is estimated lor the most cool. practit
cal and reliable minds, to be worth with the con,
strucuon of the Railroad, not less than $5 and
perhaps $lO per acre. Place the estimate at
one dollar, and thus as a basis, with the credit
of the_company, will be doubly sufficient to con,
struct the road' from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Ocean. The rich lands owned by this company
constitutes a territory in extent, equal to two
such Slates as pennsyleattii.
The first Land office has alriady been ortlert,
ed to be opened at fdarshall, in Harrison county
Texas. The great State Charter has been award,
to this Company. and R. J. Wst*Ett, Hos. J.
Bccr.tx, Juror li:rea and Due. POWLRES, have
been appointed Commissioners by the Company
to proceed to Texas to close the contract with
his excellency, Governor Pease, and these gen
tlemen are now there, or on their way, with the;
sno,ing. to 4Fpusit, required hy. the Act, and
which is to be returned to the CU:nearly by the
State of Texas, on the completion of the first (if. ,
tY miles, wjthin 1,8 months from the date of the :
contract. On the 4th of
. July, , the great Wm%
will commence, near .telfarson,Texas, with are.
eral hundred bands, ordered by reliable contrac.
tors,—sixty.six miles of the road have beeniet.
ont,—Contractors have given bonds to complate_
it in eighteen months, or they forfeit s3.oo,oootty.
the company. • The Company, in addition to al
call of one million on stoak t have effected a loan
of $500,000, for the immediate 'exieritlon o f this,
contract ; and this loan was taken the day. it was
offered, on the plot satisfactory lemma' Co t!A
,
Company.
To show that we are not singular in the °pill'
ion here expressed, we will give an e.xtract from
the report of Mr. PIIATFIELD, late Attorney fieu.
eral of New Ybrk who visited Vexes, for the
purpose of rnspeCting . the lands offered .by the
State, to aid in the constructing of the Pacific
Railroad. Mr. Cuesmw appeared before the
New York Ocographlcal §ociety, and gave art in •
wresting description of the . country through
which the projected road is to pass,. die is sat'
ihfied that the Railroad .would'be Oa'paying err
terprise and a good investment" for New York
Capitalists. He further says: •
The Teas country from itstertility would be
the most profitable through which they could
construct a Railroad, and on it could tie raised
from 1 to 2 bales of cotton. to thi acre, while
In Georgia. and the Carolinas' only 14 could be
.N.
raised. lie considered that the policy "of Texas
was most sfittesmail ' like in giving up public
lands forinternal improvements, for she was
now isolated as" far'at leasCas commercial irr
terest is concerned, whereas witti the facfrhy of
could
cominunication given by Railroads, she
surpass (Jeprgla, Alabama, and some of the parts
of,Loirsiana would be unabl e to compete with
.
her.
_ A line from -plow Yurk would pass all the
great li n o* o f ifoilroads and a proje,c.l to ApcOlTli
plish this would be very ,productive and profile
hie. His opinion was that the end of the freight
route should be at Lialveston or filatagotia bay,
either of which would require great improve
ment before it would be available tot NeW York
comtherce..-1-Kno,rrifis Whig. ' •
The Right:AM to Himself.
The Penrptylvtroiqn, a leading Demetatic pa.
per in this State,apd Oterni.organ of the adosi.
nistration at Waihlogoo,:advances with built
strides to the defetiee.ef'despotism and its prin
ciples. 'lt beganszeititaliyiag itself to Russia, ia
the pending contest'wilh;Turkey, has employed
itself. legitimately siiiice.ll defending slavery
and all its atrocities, and new ventures to strike
a blow at the basis of oar republican institutions.
It boldly denies "the right of a man to himself,"
and sets. itself up to defend the exploded dogma
of European, despotism, that a man belongs to.
the State to the Csivernritent, instead of himself,
and has no control over himself but that which
the governiprn,l is pieased to . accord to him.
It denims tbe dn T rihe, that every man h as
right to himself, to he ~ t he boldest sedition, ever
uttered," and claims teat state of constitu:
tiona I civilization every". hinian being belongs to .
the koniql„ organization—he beiongs,lo tb! State . '.
This is the theory of .Iyrapts .and oppresgprk
the world over. It places every man "within the,
power of the Govenrmcnt, to be disposed plal it.
lists. If the Cloverment choosi toiaikinie taxa.
Lion withoßt representation, if it lays a tax upon
7:iirk;sh il'l//:—ktet.tator left to bis eldest
son, one hpll of his horses 2 tcond stm one.third,
of his horses, to itjkl;iril,''soll.„orte-tiinth of
..„
horses—the teitator,hid^ . seveateen horses.—
Tke 'executor didstrilknow..Wltat to dp,,as seven.,
teen will not_ divide by two, by, three, nor by
nine. A lieriish .cente up on, horseback and,
the executor consulted him. The Peretsh:saids,
.telse my horse and add it to the 'others.' . There.
were then eighteen hoises. The executor then,
gave to the eldest son one.half, 9; to the . seconct
s*op one.third, 6 ; to the third son ontsminth,2 ;to.,
Tke i ,Pervish then said; "You don't
want my horse . now ['will take tiim back agnin.".,
I~{ugc
ertr .
Monday ol last week, two brothers of the name.
of Stone, sarprised a large bear, on •the,Bioad
Mounain. coming ; within a shot distance
the younger Steneffired but WSW, when Brut.
'in ir!Ade Et spring. nad•iwittsone. blow onnpf:llis,
'tip,v,e paw knocked bins senseleei to the earth,
tircaking several ribs.' The elder brother then,
fired at the year, and
. the shot taking effect in,
the heart - he drcipped dead. -The wounded man;
is an e cir way to recover,--41eatfing Gar.
•
177gfilin vsstifewNik.-7Yirginia started with
every adyantage•of.soii, climate, water pottier,
mineral resources, mayakime ports and giver
navigation, over lieviyork; now the latter ex,:
ceeds : her many times,%iti poPulation, - wealth,
commerce:and mannfacitiies. yirgrititi has
889 white male person's 44 her troth : Wok who
Cannot spell tqllemaerai." Of every
hundretk white persons, 01111110. Were over one bons
dresi and five who could 'not •spell.' New -York
has 00,870 who cannot read br wrlk• Newt
Yqrk eijiorra $59,000,000 worth; yearly, Virgin" `
York imports
raises and exports Slaves, New.
free labor. There's the secret: •
. •
. .
tian," wandering
Turlapis lloneurty, phtis
through the basaari; whike4 iolouy an embilsid
ered hankerchie( aTittkistishopkeeper. •He
asked the pitic e ,' pinettitce%.No,4
said he, awpre 'that it if as nearing' all Tra.
ders, whitever their creed, to ;Ilk at firth more
than the value,' .iihat IS' 'too ' much-1 will
give you 'seventy in said, as t h e 'dealer:seem .
ed to nUa assent, he eohnted',oitt the'
Mat hii syritise !tie wh'in ibe 144,41
grairely pushing back to tam "twenty
piasters, obSe'rved. 4 1 4 This I s inbre'ihnn The
price.' It is uIWaYS this custorii.hereiobitgain.
'over ti thing down to its j ue rvipei
and, lia`Bßy
•pi ss iess i s my proper firice,lttbsertivenlybelong
Eir WI) en is a la4y.obt e, lady 1 • When eke is
a liitle.tulhy. . • ,