before mentioned. Tho return judges to
transmit a certificate of election to thoso e
lectcd lo fill the abovo'ollicea within five
'days after making out the return.
The prothotiotary is required to send a
certified copy of the returns deposited with
him to the secretary of the commonwealth
through the post office. He is also Tequir
ed to record in a book all the election returns
in tho county, and to lay the returns for
county commissioners, auditors end town
ship officers before tho court of quarter sessions.
He is obliged to givo a certified copy of
the list ot votors and other election papers
lo any person requiring tho same on tho pay
ment of tho usual lees as in other cases.
When the returns are not received by the
secretary of the commonwealth in fifteen
days afier they are required tn bo placed in
the post office, he is to notify the prothono-
tary of the same, who is to transmit to him
a certified copy ol such returns.
Upon the receipt of returns requiring tho
commission of the governor, tho secretary
of tho commonwealth is to lay the same
immediately before him Tho returns for
senators and members of the house of re
proscntatives aro to bo by the secretary of
the commonwealth sent into the halls ol
these bodies on the second Tuesday of Jan
uary of every year.
The returns of elections to fill vacancies
in either houso to be delivered as soon as
received to the house in which the vacan
cy occurs, if in session.
Tho returns for governor to be delivered
to the senate within five days after the meet
ing of said body.
The returns of counties not received before
the result of tho election forgovernor is pub
lished by the senate, aro to be considered
null and void, unless the election is contes
ted, when they are to be received.
The judges, inspectors and clerks to re
ceive one dollar and fifty cents per day, ex
cept those of .Philadelphia city and county,
who are to be paid two dollars. Nothing
to be allowed for refreshments.
"Return judges to be allowed two cents
per mile travelled in going U and returning
from the place of meeting appointed by law.
The Governor may direct the sheriff to or
der the election to be held at another place
in the neighborhood when it is shown that
contagious disease prevails at the place of
eleciton; seven days notice to be given.
No armed troops lo be present at any
place of election during the time of such c
lcction. The coroner to perform any duty requir
d to bo performed by the sheiifT in his ab-
8C'iCC.
When constables or sn pervisors neglect or
refuse to perform the duties required by this
act, they are to be fined respectively not
less than fifty nor more than one hundred
dollars.
For illegally refusing .to insert in the list
of taxablcs any name returned to them as
duly assessed, the commissioners aro caeh
to pay a fine of not less than $50 nor more
than $100.
When on inspector or judge neglects or
refuses without good cause to attend on tho
day of election at the time appointed by
law, he is to forfeit and pay $20.
If an inspector, judge or clerk, refuses
or neglects to do the duties of his office, he
is lo pay tho sum of 50. If after having
taken upon himself the duties of tho office
he refuses or neglects to perform them, ho
is to pay tho sum of $100 for every such
ofienco.
If an inspector, judge orclerk.lprcsumes
to act in such capacity before taking the re
quisite oath, he is to be fined not less than
650 nor more than $200.
If any inspector, judge or clerk be con
victed of wilful fraud lie is to be imprison
ed not less than three nor more than twelve
months, and to be fined not less than $100
nor more than $500, and not permitted to
vole at any general or special election, or
hold any office, for seven years thereafter.
If any inspector or judge knowingly re
jects the vote of a qualified voter, or know,
jngly receives the vote of an unqualified
person, or conceals from his fellow officers
ny fact which would receive or reject said
vole, on conviction he is to be fined not less
than $50 nor more than $200.
If any inspector or judge receives the vote
of a person whose names is not on the list
furnished by the commissioners or asses
sors, without requiring the evidence dirce
ted by this act, he is to be fined not less than
850 nor more than $200.
If an inspector, judge or clerk, or other
person, beloro tho poll is closed, unlulds,
pries into, or opens a ticket with a design
to discover the pame'of any canditate there
in, he is to be fined not less than $50 nor
more than $100, and imprisoned not less
than one nor mora than three months.
If any person shall embezzle or unlaw
fully deface, alter, change, substitute ordes
troy, any ticket or election paper, he is to
be imprisoued for a term not less than twelve
months nor more than three years, and fin
ed nut less than $100 nor more than 1000.
If the commissioner of : county add, or
knowingly permit to lie added, tho name of
any person to the Iitit of taxables furnished
them by the assessors, and return the same
to the inspectors, each commissioner con
cerned therein is to uc lined not less than
$50 nor more than $200.
For revising to assess any citizen of this
commonwealth, subject to assessment by'
law, or for refusing to return the name of
said person so assessed, or intentionally
neglecting or refusing to perform any duty
(oioined by this act, the assessor i3 to be
ined not less than 50 nor more Uian $200.
A
For neglecting lo furnish the inspectors I
with tho necessary papers and boxes the
commissionsrs aro to be subject necli to a
penalty ot 51).
If any person attempts to prevent the
holding of an election, or in any way dis
turbs the officers of said election in tho per
formance of their duty, blocks up the win
dow, or avenue to said window, or uses in
timidation to any elector, he is to be fined
$500, and imprisoned not less than one nor
more than twelvo months. And if said
person is not a resident entitled to vole in
said district, ho is to be fined not less than
$100 nor more than $1000, and imprisoned
not less than six months nor more than two
years.
It is the duty of every mayor, sheriff or
deputy, alderman, justice of tho peace, con
stable or deputy, lo clear any window or
avenus to any window at the place of gene
ral election, when called upon by an officer
ol the election, or by three qualthcd voters,
if the passage to said window is so obstruc
ted as to prevent electors from voting. Up
on refusal to do the same he shall bo fined
not less than $100 nor more than $1000.
Tho constables to bo present in person
or deputy, fortho purpose of preserving the
peace.
It is the duty of every peace officer pres
ent at such disturbance to report tho same,
Willi the names of witnesses, to the next
court of quarter sessions. When a riot or
disturbance occurs at the place and time of
holding elections, and the constable does
not return tho same, the court is directed to
cause him to be piosecuted against for mis
demeanor in office, and on conviction is to
be fined not exceeding $100.
The courts of quarter sessions are to ex
amine on oath the constables as to whether
any disturbance took place on the d:iy at
the plare of holding the elections, who are
luspectively lo make return thereof as part
of their official duty.
If any person bets or offers to bet, by
verbal or written proclamation, he is to for
feit three times the amount of the bet.
It is tho duty of every alderman, judge,
sheriff, justice of tho peace and constable,
having a knowledge of any bet, or offer to
bet, lo com.ncnce proceedings against the
person ollcndmg.
The inspectors and judges to refuse the
vote of any person who they, or any of
them shall know to have bet, or to bo inter
ested in a bet, or who shall be proven to
have bet or to be interested in a bet.
Tho guardians of the poor.having knowl
edge of a bet, to bring suit against the win
ner ot a bet, within two years after snid bet
is made. The stakeholder and winner to
be liable for tho same during that lime,
whether tho money is paid over or not, to
be recovered as debts of like amount are
recovered. If said guardians neglect or re
fuse lo bring suit they are to be fined not
less than the amount of the bet, 'nor more
than double.
If any unqualified person fraudulently
votes at any election, or brings a qualified
voter out of his proper district, or if any
one knowingly procures a votes for an un
qualified person, lie is to be fined not ex
ceeding $200, and imprisoned-nol exceed
ing three months.
If any person voles at moro than one o
Icction district, or fraudulently votes more
than once on the same day, or fraudulently
folds two or more tickets together and hands
them to the inspcctoi, with tho intent to il
legally vote, or shall vote the same, or if
any person procures another so to do, he
is to bo fined not less than $50 nor more
$500,and be imprisoned not less than twelve
months.
If any person, except the sons of quali
fied citizens, not qualified to vote, shall is
sue tickets or attempt to influence the voles
of qualified persons at the elections, ho is
to be fined not exceeding $100 and impris
oned not exceeding three months.
If any elector receives any meat, drink,
money or otherwise, for his vote, he for
feits his right to vote at that election, and is
subject to an imprisonment of not less than
one nor moro thanUx months.
If any person by offers of, or loss of em
ployment, or in any other way by which
the voter is to sutler or gain, attempts to in
fluence an elector, he is to be fined not less
than 100 dollar nor exceeding lOOOdollars.
and to be imprisoned not less than one nor
more than twelve months.
For making or procuring to be made, anv
false oath, to which tho provisions of this
act relate liu is lo suffer the penalties of wil
ful and corrupt perjury, or subordination of
perjury.
If any person knowingly publishes, ut
ters, or makes use of any forged or falsa re
ceipt wilh intent to deceive any inspector
or judge, at any election, he is to be fined
not (ess than 50 dollars nor more than 500
dollars.
If any prolhonntary or sheriff neglects
or refuses to perforin the duties enjoined on
him by this act, or misbehaves in doing so,
he is to be fined not less than 100 dollars,
nor exceeding 500 dollars, and ho impris
oned not exceeding twelve months.
If ajustico of iho peace refuses to re
ceive a ballot box, or neglects the safe keep
ing lheicof, he is to be fined not less than
100 dollars nor moro than 1000 dollars.
F.very specific fine to be recovered by ac
tion of debt, or by indictment in the court
of quarter sessions. Whuro it is not speci
fic, by indictment in tho court of quarter
sessions. Suits to be commenced within
one year.except wherein otherwiso provided
for by this act.
The Jaw from the 128lh to the 153d
sections provide fur contoMd election in
the cases of Governor and members of the
Lcgislaturo. From the 153d to tho 158th
it provides for contested elections of coun
ty and township officers. From the 157th
to tne tooth it provides for tho election of
u.d. senators. 1-rom the lultli to iho
174th for the election of a stato Treasurer.
The remaining section repeals a number
of election laws.
Indian disturbances in the fVest. Wc
gave, a few days since, a paragraph res
pecting the disturbances and murders among
the Cherokee tribe of Indians. We arc in
debted to a gentleman of this city, clerk of
the steamboat Itasco, aio moro particulars
of these outbreakings. Our informant left
Little Rock, Arkansas, on Sunday, the 17lh
instant. On the 4th of July ihcre was to
have been a special convention of the chiefs
of tho Cherokee naton at fort Gibsun, for
tho purposo of devising what measures
were necessary to be pursued, relative to
tho murders recently committed by the
Ross party, on tho Ridge portion of the
Cherokces. Tho result of the deliberation
of this convention was general, that Ross
would be killed, as he would not give up
the murderers of the chief Ridge his father
and Boudinot. The latter of these it may
be recollected, was a half breed and was
formerly edited the Cherokee Phmnix, in
his own language, previous to his removing
to Georgia.
Tho tiution is divided into threo parties:
the original emigrants who located them
selves west of the Mississippi previous to
the ireaty with the United States, ceding
their land the Ridgo party who made the
treaty with the government and immediately
thereafter removed ; and the Rotis party,
who refused to emigrate until fairly com
pelled to do. Rous is an educated, cunning
half bred chief surrounded by seven hun
dred warriors, equal in numbers if not su
perior to both tho other segments of the
Cherokee nation. His ambition prompts
him to an usurpation of authority which
will be tolerated by such of the chiefs as
consider their right to rule prior to his, both
from the voice of their tribe, and long pos
session of their soil. This is tho principal
cause of the murder and contention now
existing among Cherokces; and the opinion
prevails in the Arkansas, thai the difficulties
will not be settled except by bloodshed, per
haps the death of John Ross.
If the council should have determined on
a bloody revenge, it was supposed that the
Creeks would assist tho party against Ross.
In that event the United States troops would
be compelled to iuterfeie to picserve peaco
among the several tribes. This we under
stand, to bo the object of their location in
tho vicinity of the -Indians not to interfere
with their laws of self government, or
manner of redressing grievances jt but to
preserve neutrality aniong the various tribes
quartered in the far 'west.
THE BLESSED SPIRIT.
Tho annexed extract from the St. Claris
ville Gazette, shows that the " Blessed
Spirit," alias Wm. Morgan, was alive and
kicking, at the last advices. Here have
our patient friends, the antics been battling
to advance their cause not principles
these nine years, "on the strength of a dip
in Lako Eric," and lo ! whom should wo
have an account of but the blessed head of
the party himself. No wonder our old
friend aunty masonry, has given up tho
ghost, and is now Harrison-ism Clay or
any other ism, its leaders may choose to
make it :
Col. Stone of the New York Commei
cial Advertiser says, that some years ago a
story was put in circulation, as a joke upon
human credulity, as to Morgan, the preten
ted revealor of masonic secrets, thai he was
actually living in Smyrna.in Asia Minor.
Tho subject is just recalled to mind by a
wonc issued irom me Jionuon press by F.
II. Sandwich, Esq., entitled "Shores of
the Mediteranean," who relates that he met
at Smyrna with a renagade who had renoun
ced tho Christian faitlf and turned Mahom
etan. Ho is a native of the United States
of America, by tho name of Morgan and
pretented to have revealed the masonic se
crets. His life at home was threatened ;
hi credulous countrymen believed he had
disappeared in the falls of Niagara, but he
found safety in flight, and is regarded .by
the Asiatics as a regenerated babe."
Dr. Rome was tho person who, on his re
turn from Greece, in 1828, corroborated tho
slatement put foiih at this timo by the com
mercial Advertiser, that there was a eccen
tric individual at Smyrna, whose name was
Morgan, and pretented to know tho secrets
of tho free masons.
What a number of tears tho anti-masons
and feds havo shed for nothing.
The Baltimore American publisher the
following :
REMEDY FOR DYSENTERY.
Grate a dry oak gall (or ball ) fine, and
slew it for a few minutes in about the third
of a tea-cup full of water ; then add a tea
cup full of brandy and sufficient loaf sugar
lo make ii very sweet. For a grown per
son talte a table spoonful, and repeat every
hour or two according to tho virulence of
the disease. For a child a tea-spoonfuli is
sufficient. Two or threo doses will gene
rally effect a cure.
1 have known this remody to succeed in
the most violent cases of dyeonteiy.
I do not know whether the oak-gall can
be had of the apothecaries, but they aro a
bundant in the countcy, and can be obtained
gratuitously almost every farm tu the vi
cinity of Baltimore,
Specie. Tho New York Journal of
Commerce, one of tho bust whig papers in
the country, presents us wilh tho following
summary, of the amount of specio imports
into the United Stales during tho year end
ing on tho 20lh of September. 1638. The
amount was $17,747,110, as follows:
"Gold bullion, $530,004 ; silver bullion,
$302 843, goldcoiii$Il,444,189,silvcrcoin
$5,070,300. Tho amount of specio imported
in the provious year was SlO,5Gfl,414. I"
1830, $13,400,781. Inl835, $13,400,881.
Iul831,$l7,91i;032. In 1833,94, 129,075.
"In tho last fivo years, tho aggregate a
mount of spcicio imporlcd into this coun
try is over $77,000,000, besides what has
been brought in my emigrants? within the
saino period $27,000'000 perhaps have
been exported. Leaving a balanco of $50,
000,000, in favor of the United States ; or
average of $10,000,000 per year. And
yet if a few kegs of specio leave us, wo
have the fidgets at onco I"
A Yankee's Economy. He had on his
farm two hired men, (overseers,) who lived
with their families, on tho stipulated sum of
two hundred dollars each per annum. They
were busy men and their wive3 and chil
dicn were engaged in tho rulture of silk ; I
stayed at the house of ono of these men some
hoilrs and was amused beyoni expression.
Everybody has seen in our cities and towns
squirrels confined in a cage, with a rotary
aparment for their diversion constructed
with wires I need not describe the ma
chine. Here I saw four of thes cases, with each
three large rats for prisoners, compelled lo
work by the litllo girl who constantly an
noyed them with a brush. In their strug
gles the wire wheel I soon observed were so
many reels ; and balls of silk worm were
reeled off upon what is called by the weav
ers a " quill" appended to the extended di
ameter of the wire wheel."
What, said I to the woman, do you make
your rats and mice labor for their living !
Yes she muttered, the rogues can be mado
to pay for their mischief; they earn three
cents a day apiece, and instead of being tor
mented with rats as every body says the yare
I wiih they would bring them to my house,
they are worth feeding, and earn their liv
ing better than half tho folks.
Southern Spy.
The Mammoth. Tho remains of a huge
animal were recently discovered twenty-two
miles From St. Louis, near Sulphur
Sprigs, on the Herculancum road imbedded
from 7 to 1 1 feet from the surface beneath
solid rock. Mr. Koch of the St. Louis
Museum has succeeded already at conside
rable expense, and after great exertions, in
rescuing from'lheir burial place the head
and the tusks of the animal, which ccrtain
lyin immensity of Rizo surpasses every
thing heretofore known in the animal
world. The tusks inoasure ten feet each,
and the head and tusks together weigh 1100
pounds ! The mammoth in Peal's museum
must be content with the name of dwarf
when compared with this animal. Mr.
Koch, also discovered on the same spot n
poition of the remains of another animal
of the same species, but of a smalli":
growth. St. Louis Argus.
The Philadelphia Evening Star of Wed
nesday says" We understand that yester
day morning a warrant was issued by Al
derman McMichacl, against Rev. Zclotes
Fuller, for assault and battery, with the in
tention to seduce Mrs. Eliza Flounders.
On a hearing, tho Alderman bound over tho
defendant to answer the charge to the Crim
inal sessions, l ne urand Jury lound a
' True Bill' tho same day against the de
fendaut, and (rial is to como this week."
A large elephant cxibited his sagacity
lately in England, by taking the gold ring
from tho finger of his keeper and" returning
it to mm again. An exquisite present, tick
led with the feat held out his litllo finger,
on which sparkled a gem of the first water.
The elephant politely took of the ring but
being dazzled wilh ils splendor, very delib
erately swallowed it, leaving tho exquisite
in great horror and dismay at his loss.
Polilicul.1 1 say you Sam Johnsing,
doe3 you know anything about dis wo
man, Polly Ticks, dat white folks talk so
much about.'' Well, 1 doesn't. You aro
too hard for dis child dis time.' ' Why, Sam,
I tort you knowed ebeiything.' So I doz.
I knows Polly Jones, what sells coffeo in
the wegelable market, and I knows Polly
Tomson wat deos gwoin out to day's work
up in Canal street; but when it oomes too
Polly Ticks, I'm boderod. Guess you'd
better ax white folks,Pcte; dcy peer to know
all about her.'
Robespierre,- A biography of Robespir
re, which appeared in, an Irish paper, con
cludes in the following manner: 'This
extraordinary man left no children behind
except his brother, who was killed at the
same limo,'
Madame do Stael lived, and may say to
have died, in tho belief that revolutions
wore effected, and countries governed, by a
succession of clever pamphlets. This is
very near the truth. The powerful news
papers of tho day, with what is.called the
leading articlo, are nothing more than a suc
cession of clever pamphlets. It is said that
throe newspapers in France effected the rev
olution of July, 1830.
B003S.
The Quebec Gazelle says it is Paphieati's
intention to remain in Franco, and ho has
given a power of attorney to sell his prop,
erty at Montreal. 1
Commodore Bill Johnson with a party of
ladio3 has arrived in town, and has taken
lodgings at the Clarendon House, No. 30 1
Bioadway. m
The Buffalo Repulican says " If $05 .
000 and a Wall-street agency in London Vs
sufficient to buy off one Presidential candi-'
date, how much will it take to buy of" tin
whole Whig ticket." '
A Mr. James Jackson, of MiildlM,.,... I,
'Mass, nailed up his pow in the church at
that place on the Fourth of July, and env
ered over with boards, painted" over with
red ochre, in order to prevent its being used
for the dissemination of Democratic princi
ples I
A gentleman recently travelled from New
Oilcans by steamboat 'to Louisville and
back again in eleven days and a half, luv
ing remained thirty hours at Louisville.
The whole distance ia 'about three thousand
miles.
Tho Raleigh (N. C.) Register says there
is now living in that country a man, named
Arthur Wall, who is 119 yeais of ape, and
and who is in the enjoyment of good health
and spirits. There is also a negro man
supposed to be about 125 years of age.
In' 1777, the Legislature of New Hump,
shire unanimously voted to Brigadier Get.e
ral Stark, "a complete suit of clothes be
coming his rank," &o. Certain friends nf
the gallant officer regroftcd that the coinph
inent hid been paid in this shape, as it
seemed to prove either that the General was
stark naked or the Legislature stark mad.
The editor of tho Essex Gazette says an
acquaintance of his had six children In H't
months. What a chap he must be.
Tho editor of the New Orleans Courier
is said lo be worth a million and a half of
dollars. He can afford to "write for glory
and print for fun," if he has a mind to, as a
country editor said hejiimself did,
Two hundred thousand dollars damage
are claimed by tho heirs of Mr. Steel, re
cently killed on the Philadelphia and Tren
ton Railroad.
Two notorious rogues who had been
committed to jail in Scott county, Miss, on
a charge of murder lately effected their es
cape from confinement. They left behind
them a note, which concluded by saying
"we will not stay where we can get no
whiskey."
Wc learn from the North Star, that Elder
Daniel Mason, of Craftsbury, N. II., aged
about 75 years, committed suicide by bang
ing himself on 10th inst. Depression of
mind is supposed to be the cause.
Thomas Vail has been sentenced in
Meigs county, (Ohio,) to ten days impris
onment in the county jail to be fed on bread
and water and pay a fine of fifty dollars, for
whipping a Wife.
A Mississippi lawyer has four suits on
hand for which the fees are $10,000 each.
The Journal Dcs Debate, the leading
ministerial journal of the French capital,
distinctly recommends the acknowledge
ment of Texan independence.
The New York Era says : " Bill John
son wilh a party of ladies, has arrived in
town, and has taken lodgings at the Clar
endon House, No. 304 Broadway."
Wo learn that several Tcxian vessels of
war aro being built at Baltimore.
A gentleman near Baltimoro has sold 15
acres of Morus Mnlticaulis for $32,500.
The town of Newport, R. I. was visited
by a dreadful storm of wind, thunder and
lightning a few days since. Two houses
were damaged, one 'lady nearly killed, and
several persons much injured.
Tho Duka of Wellington speaks of the
vote by ballot as an " obnoxious and un-
Wo regret to see it staled that large num
beis of the poor of Ireland, were in great
distress at tho last dates, in consequence of
scarcity and dearncss of potatoes.
The Baltimoro American mentions tho
salo of a lot fo morus midlicaulis trees,
growing in a lot of about two acres, for tho
round sum of 6O00 dollars.
Tho wife of Braham, tho vocalist, recent
yl presented him with twins. The father
is over 70 years of age.
A German paper states that the camp
near Borodino, in Russia, will consist of
200,000 men' At tho review at Waisaw
(hero will be at.loast 80,009 men under
arms.
Sixty Sheep struck by lightning, wero
found dflad On thfi fnrm nf 1r. Ilnrnhcck.
at Libortyvillc, Ulster County, a few days
since, Several cattle wero killed in Green
field, Muss. .
NorlllPfllR. (lin nnintnr nnun anil llntlllO
devil templed every body but the idle; tho
idln tmnfnrl tlm ilnvil nn.l ilmf ilin iniirfft
of the skull was tho devil's workshop.
It is a praclico entirely to prevalent in
this queer world that wo inhabit, to con
demn tho performances of others, when we
know that tho task could not bo belter ac
our SCSHLAP
complished by oiiKelves,