The Columbia Democrat. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, August 13, 1842, Image 2
DOMESTIC CREDITORS. CIRCULAR. Treasuiit Office, JIarrisburg, Aug. 1, ',1842, , To the "Domestic Creditors of the Stale Pennsylvania. In order that you may bo able to under stand fully the provision of the Ao of Assembly, passed a) the extra session, in relation to tho payment of the claims of the Domestic Creditors, I havo directed tho section of said act, relating thero to bo published horcwith, to wit: " Section 1. Bo it enacted by the Senate and Houso of Representatives of tho Com monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met: And it is hereby enacted by the authority of tho same, that tho State Treasurer shall be.and ho is hereby author ized, empowered and -required to apply and, pay out so mucn oi tno interest runus, as may be necessary to meet demands on tho Treasury undor tho requisition of law, to various purposes designated by tho specjfic acts of Assembly.undcr which sucb requisi tion shall be made,(exc"pt the interest guaranteed to Rrailroad and Navigation Carapanies;) and tho Slate Treasurer is also directed to pay out of tho said funds, the sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, to the Commissioners of the Internal Improvement Fund, to be expended if necessary for ordinary repairs upon the finished lines of Canals and Rail toad of this Commonwealth, and tho balance whieh may bo in the Treasury on the 1st day of August, November and February, jiextcxcept the money which appertains to the Motivo Power Fund, and such sum not exceeding forty thousand dollars, as the Treasurer may deem necessary to re tain for purpose of meeting the current demands on tho Treasury,) shall bo paid by tho Slate Treasury to such creditors of tho Slate as nave received, or are entitieu credit for the amount of their elaims on the books of the Auditor General, bearing inter est from the fourth day of Mav. one thous and cieh hundred and forty-one, by virtue of a resolution passed tho seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty two, including tho retained per centage on all work dono prior to the said fourth day of May, and all payments heretofore made to contractors shall bo applied to. work dono prior to the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and also to payment of such of the creditors as have claim upon the State for labor anil- repairs, and new work done, and damage?, ot materals furnished, or fuel for Iocorao lives on the finished linos of canals and rail roads, prior to the first day of April last. And when (he claims of the foresaid credi tors shall have been paid, then to the pay mentof all those having claims entered on the books of tho Aditor General, for work - a -. ..."i.uim nielli lillnHi-A.I .1 J , .... a t ii 1 uiiuv numbing ..uuu.uu uuu soriy-iwo: rrovided that the oniraeiois on the Erio and North Branch Extensions shall not ha emit.,' i i,- act, unless they forthwith suspend all opera- tinn tinnn coir! -T. im . . ..r I l V "ur8uniii oinerwiso direct- m uy law.Ana tnose creditors of the Com monwealth.who signed receipts and vouch ers for their claims, in advance or previous " V"" "' ac'ai payment of the nllall Uo anoweu interest up to the uiO U, acuai payment, according to the y.u,,o.o,i ui mo act ot tho seventh of v , out. luonnna eight hundred and for-ty-two: Provided. also, that all the credi- .u.o ciiuucu iu d0 paiu under this act, shall be paid pro rata in porportion to tho several Bums due each. The amount of available funds in the Treasury on the 1st of August after raaking ho payment &c. first provided for under the act, being but small, (and the whole amount of claims not having beea a?cer ained ) and inasmuch as the pro rafa v d dend if made at that time would bo small, I have therefor ,io4 :. . . . . , "lUUgll II JS my de3jre tf,atJU..Urll- dhuuiu DO naiil-aa. i .-Tr-aa uosBinie.innl In will .o ,r :.nw g"nent " ,,. """oer payment, as they would hue been entitled to at Aueust and SV! ,ad ,he P?y-ns bSsomadJ ..,, Hlso niioruthe opportunity H"V P?.er g'nt made " 2 " wmtu " relation tho claim, &c, JOB MANN, Stato Treasurer: "The following is an extract of a letter from -A. BerUon, written to a friend in n.,n:, " ,U Sli ce. HB ID Ml 9 onn. UalA fnr iho n.:.i . . .uvuu, -xuu are in o oiuunij uioso wno are ,.ww,..u m, lllu resiliency, l 1Uy M L'dn nnv I I. - - luenn uui OI inai Tr ' , ' """""ig a nomina- lon from the citizens of Philadelphia city iiju Luunw: nnn. flpi-nnrtit, u t.i i: nOllSlralinnn. mi mv nirl mn.i l j , -wwvi.m.v. uv 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f. tin. , , v mull iiuyo cscap- id the observations, of such of my fiiends n your quarter, as have classed mo among he list of candidates or expectants, at tho insuing canvass.' Justice Wiley, convictfid nf ,;..: tolen money, viz: tio large amount stolen um i,ib rreuericK uanK.of Msrytand, is l prison waitine for sontfinr n f?nim. . . XWUUU1- J the iudfmsni nf tlm 'fnnri Kotn.,.' - . i w uuiiiouio uuuri riHR ntitrm. A PPROPRrATION BILL. The Harrisburg'Reaortor gives the fol- wing synopsis of the Approptiation Bill, as it passed both branches of the Lcgisla turc upon tho report ot a Uommitteo or Conference Sec. 1 Authorizes tho State Treasurer to apply so much of tho interest fund as may be necessary to meet the demands on the Treasury, mado under requisition of law, except tho interest guaranteed to rail road and navigation companies. It also appropriates $170,000 to be expended, if necessary, in repairs, and the balance in tho Treasure on tho first Mondays of Au gust, November and February except the motive power funds, and a sum not exceed ing $40,000, to bb retained to meet the cur rent demands on tho Treasury to be paid to such of tho domestic creditors, in a pro rata proportion as havo claims on the books of tho Auditor General, for work dono or muterials furnished prior to the 4th of May, 1841 tho contractors on the Erie and North Branch Extensions not to be cntitlqd to the benefits of this act unless they forthwith suspend all operations on said works. Sec. 2. Authorizes tho Governor to borow tho sum of $870,000, at an interest not exceeding six per cent, which sum is to be specifically appropriated to the pay ment of tho interest duo on the first of Au gust, and to tho payment of tho interest guaranteed to railroad and navigation com panics. Sec. 3. in case tho Governor is unable to negotiate the above loan, certificates of State slock to be issued to persons to whom interest is duo. bearing an interest, oi 0 per cent, and redeemable on the first of AugUBt 1843; provided that no certificate shall be issued for a less sura than 815; all claims less than that amount to be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury. Sec. 4. Authorizes tho Governor to sell at public sale all the stocks bcloncins to tho Commonwealth provided they shall bring an amount Which at the rato of 5 per cent, interest, would produco au in terest equal io the dividend received by tho State on said stockf) for tho year 1841. Sec. 6. Authorizes tho State Treasurer to receive in payment of tho above stocks, certificates of Stato stock or credits on tho books of tho Auditor Gener al; and if such stocks shall not bo sold, then persons holding certificates of stock or credits shall be per mitted to exchange tho Batno at par for any of the stock authorized to be sold by tho 4th section. Sec. 6. Provides that no private act of assembly shall bo enrolled in tho office of tho Secretary of tho Commonwealth, or havo the force and effect of law, until tho parties interested shall pay-into Uieucasu ry tho following sums: For every act incorporating or re-chattering. any bank.with a capital not exceeding tho sum of $200- 000, the sum of $200; over $200,000; and not, ex ceeding $400,000, tho sum off 400; over $400,000, and not exceeding $600,000, tho sum of 500; over $000,000 and not exceeding $1,000,000, tho sum $800; over $1,000,000, the sum of $1,000; on every law incorporating a canal or rail road company $100; on every law incorporating a coal or iron real and personal property now purposes. Scc. 8. .Provides that whern uhc mm on a uonarcsniio actual value of all taxable for state nnv rnimfif etial! assess and collcct'for stato purposes a less sum than tho appropriation made to said CD-anly for academies auuuunncs anu common school purposes, said county shall mako up tho deficiency out of the - . L . . conferenco struck out that fPL. - . j.a.w ui uioomrciauvoio tho l'eunsylvania canal arm ran roau company, being from tho 8th to tho 3lst section. Sections 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 30 and 37,provido ,. mo mica in wo iommon wcillh. aecuons 39, 40, 41, 43, 43, and 44,authorizing the Governor to give notice olandreceivo proposals lor the sale of the improvements of tho Common wealth, and to communicate tho result to the next tvgioiuiUIU The Centurv Plant j3 Grem fW.,- ty We learn with great pleasure that our ciucrjjrioirig inenu. Bernard Duke, has in his possession the largest nnim. nr i. r o I """" V. IJIU -...M.jr ,ain, ui yjao nunureu vears-, in. -I. , n , muu, )in iportof the rarilv of . i r ouuoiiug up us nower stems me i airoon s green house in Albany has .. vumog me aaionisnment oi all Amer V . "u.Ke nas quey suffered his doubly splendid specimen to pass on to uuresounco wiinout a comment.completely Stealinrr a mnrnl, nn ... ' . J 1 1 ? ui (juou ciuzens, who i.wmiu iiuvo uvcrrun ins extensive ground "uwj una wuuueriut production o iiaiuiv. ine piant, which is over ll Vt. faa, In C thirty ,vv ui uiiuuiuicrcncc, is now in I'cuccuii; io uower-stem being upwards of twenty feet in height, and covered on every branch with thousands of rich deep yellow blossoms' Its appearanco is singu lar, grand, and curious, and will, no doubt B-wiuiiio asionisnment ol the whole of tno lasiuuii anu ueauiy oi our c tv: T)ii,in.. : . wttmcg ouc iiuna ni inn a it. .n nn i have flowered in America: ihn firi r i.;..i. a small plant, plossomed on the grounds of ...... jxuuiiiun, r,sq. at ttio Woodlands, thousand persons; and the second, which bloomed at Lemon Hill. '..w.w i , itu!, Tiaiicu uv univnrfio nr rl.!l II ,. i. . WAUiuiiisu III I luladelphia for the benefit nf il, Phiu.i.i phia Orphan's Asylum, to about thirty five housand visiiers. The present plant, which , CAUiuiicu ai mo niasonic Hall, is now ninety fivo years of ago, and was originally growa by the same gentleman at his conservatories. It has been, sinco his death, tho property of the McMahon family and is now in tho hands of Mr. Dqko' The editor of the Savannah Republican was recently presented with a watermelon, which weighed forty-nine and a haf Tho editor of tho WoBhing(onian,a Tom perance paper published at Canton, Ohio, gives tho following gtowing description of Mr. Piko, a former partner of his, but now editor of the Circlevitle Watchman: Mr. Pike and I published a newspaper in 1837, among tho Miami Indians, in the stato of Indiana. It was a great partnership that. Wo had two advance paying sub scribers, one of whom liquidated his sub scription with white beans, the other with saw logs. Godfrey, tho chief, took fivo copies, and couldn't road a word. Our paper was called the Peru Forester, which being printed in the woods, tint title was appropriate. The town ot roru had many magnificent names for its streets, such as Pearl, Btoad- way, vc. which streets exhibited tho ani mated and bustling spcclaclo of stumps, trees, and weeds, as high as a man's hod. The stirring events which transpired in this interesting city imperiously demanded a couple of chioniclers, and Piko and I Were at hand to dischargo that important func tion. Piko wrote poetry, and I dipped consid erably into stale politics, and discussed in a learned manner every question of interest to the few settlers and Indians. Pike was a queer fish. Ho had more irons in the firo than any man 1 ever Knaw. JJcsiues being an editor and printer, he kept the Broadway Hotel, was postmaster, justice of tho peace land agent, pettifogger, canal contractor, overseer of the poor, painter had been a school master, and a day laborer, was brought up a Quaker, was twice a widower and the last lime I saw him ho was a Baptist, had his third wife, and was an auctioneer ! A Snake Story. It is said, of course that it can be well authenticated' It occur red on tho farm of Mr. Hayes, a few miles from Lewisburg, Peon., and is related by a correspondent of tho Philadelphia Led ger: 'A son of Mr. Hayes, quite a small boy was frequently in tho practice of craving incessantly for bread, at certain hours of the day, and from thence proceeded to a small woods about a quarter of t mile dis tant fiom tho house he repeated if so fre quently that aroused (ho suspicions of the family; the brother, therefore, resolved to watch him, and the following, day after the boy had taken his usual tour, he repaired to the woods, and secreted himself within the enclosure of a largo tree, and in a few moments perceived two large rattle-snakes usher forth from the root of the tree the boy was seated at; the boy, who from all. appearance was anxiously awaiting their arrivairfed them with his little mite, fre qucntly chastising them with a small wcap on he had with him, and at other times -gazippfln ihcmjYilexjuiisjtQLjdniirflUon. tlcScriBpuT When ho was going to make a descent on them, they retreated in good order from their companion. Tho fnmii- uuaiuus ior uio luuire salely or tho boy possible. On the following morning they . -.v Mv.uicu inuiii as snnn ia u wiin mo assis- .ai,uu vi buiue oi ineir ncignuori, destroyed feet long.' uiu iBiiiiics. i iiov rnciisurnrt nvnr tliroo iuuiimu, lvuringtno nrsi six monins oi the present year, the mortality has been great in several towns bordering upon both sides of Conneciicut river in New Hampshire and Vermont. Up to the month of May, .there had been, within a icw miles ol Haverhill Corner' about one nunureu deaths, nnncma v c hi dren. Tim disorder most fatal has been a malisfiaht putrid soro throatr Gradually has it ryipii. oed lo adults, and tho disorder is in almost all cased ratal when it fall r " tliroal to ih .-- aw lungs. Jho towns of uuui . I I T finil I .vtmnn All,.nl..l .1 mv4 ut u ai ciiuuiuii tin inn iinm iiampsniro side of the river, directly abovo Havorhill, have encountered a mortality to an extent equal almost lo the destruction by ...u wuuicia in iojs in somo oi our cities. ijyman nas a population of 1,500, and liath 1,000 souls. The number of deaths rrom the 1st of February to this timo,(8hort .i.iiuu; iiua ocuu Bixiy m uatn,maK inrr nl Itm .ifl r 6 u, .am ui uuo ueam per year in every fourteen inhabitants Six persons are aaiu io nave laid uninterred corpses in the same day in Dath. An unusual mortality ,iao ui.i.uiicu amung woman in cnild bed no less Man thirteen persons in tho samo iuwii since mo latai leyer lirst made its an nanrnntn 'PI .... ' iuuiuiii.i,. x iicJU wuro saiu to oe more cases oi lever in liath last nen : tlmn ii.ar.. nau ueen at any previous time. Concord risner. w,,ftuf 4 uuciilc. ivb tenrr. rnm ihn Georgetown (U. U.) Advocate, that last u. i,u ijuii iiuiii x una- delphia, the fust instalment of a l,a,l r weeu mere arrived at that port from Phila uiiy uerman lamiles, who, undor the au spices of the German Agricultural Society, nr. r- nt. I am luuceeuillK io laKe Possession nl a nnr. chase of 30,000 acres of land, recently ihmju in nary anu Hampshire counties, Virginia. The Advocate savs. 'thesa fi'u- .Humus iiiu io uu succecueu next year by fifiy more, and so continuo at the n,ti r ti: i . . ' ' : annual rate, until two hundred familial. s;iaii have been settled on the land.' Tho Wayno counlvyindianaiChronirdn cuius, jruui iiiuianono IS. t iat tlio amnnnt r : r.i; " .. .. . ' liquidated in tho bankrupt court at Indian. opolis, so far.amounts to about two million. anu a nan oi aouars, Important Decision in Bankruptcy". Judge Conklin, of the Northern District of New York, has given an important opinion in a recent case of bankruptcy. An assign ment was made by a firm in Oneida county on the 20th of April last. 'They directed, in that instrument, that alt their property and tho proceeds thereof should bo divided null (liciriliiilcd nmnnrr their creditors bv their assignees, in the samo manner as if tho same were in tno nanus ot an assignee under tho bankrupt act of the United States, by virtne of proceedings duly had in bank ruptcy. Their assignment Was accepted lo by somo ot their creditors, as in itself an act of bankruptcy, or at least as contravening Iho purpose or Hie bankrupt act, anu tney were petitioned against in bankruptcy. The decision of his honor, Judgo Conklin, de clares their assignment void, and at ihc same lime notifies tho world that voluntary assignments, whether they give preferences or do not give them, must henceforth cease under tho bankrupt law of the United Slates Probably a consent in writing, lor consid eration, signed by all tho creditors, might uphold a voluntary assignment, uy acqui escence, too, on the part of all tho creditors in a particular instance, the trust created by such an instrument might bo executed, and not be disturbed aftcrwaids. But in cither of these cases, the debtur should not himself become a petitioner in bankruptcy, until tho completion of the trust. A TERRIFIC SCENE. A correspondent slates that he was pres ent at a Camp Meeting in the lower end of Yorli county, on Btinday, me U4iti uit. anu that between 11 and 12 o'clock in tho even ing there was a thunder storm, which, for rain and lightning, and loud thunder he says he never heard equalled. The light- nine: struck into the camp, and killed three horses dead on the spot, besides stunning a number of the persons present on tho occa sion. The scene he describes as one of the most terrific and awful; the shrieks of the women, tho neighing of tho horses, and the successive peals of thunder, preceded by the most vivid shoots of lightnintr, made tho whole spectacle one of great and awful sublimity. No person was hurl. Lan. Int. An Old One. The oldest man in France, M. Noel de Quersoniercs, is now one hundred and fourteen years of age, having been born, nt Valenciennes, in 1728, lie resides in Paris, and a journal of that city the Presso says he is not subject to any imfirmity takes four meals a day shaves himself reads and writes without specta cles sings very agreeably sleeps sound ly writes excellent poetry and his conver sation is full of wit and sense, abounding with anecdotes. It appears that at the juventile age of ninly, Monsieur married a venerable ago of sixteen, and that sho died in giving brith to a son. Mons Q. stated that his grandmother died at the ago of one nunureu anu twenty live would havo lived lnnn. l.i.t f.. - - lit III I versing gaily, he will frequently invito hi iuugci uui iui a ouvere laill Wlien COn- s menus toaiienu ins luneral in tho next century. A NOVEL CASE. A physician in Kontucky thus decribes a most extraordinary case which has been for a long timo under his care; in connex ion with other members of tho faculty; Our patient is a young lady, 24 or 25 years of age.who has been subjected to a disloca tion of almost all the joints belonirinir in the human system, ever sinpo. iooa;"aiso to violent cpoomo. (sometime last fall there commenced forming in her mouth ossifick matter, and iluring the months of November mm uecember, there were taken from her moutn some 25 or 30 bones, of various sizes and shapes, after which she appeared I'uiuuiiy iu ruiiuin ner nea wi. bin w ih n tho last 40 davs Drs. G. F. W. self, have laRen from the month, cars, nose throat, left arm, side, and all tho way down to the foot, bono amounting in all, during iil-i iaai unless, 10 1UH. Une 1 linrr is vnrv ,0"r remaikablo, that no mater where these s .present themse vos. not a drnn r oiood lollowa their dislodgment from anv part of the body. Tho vounir lad v cneeriuiness and vivacity amidst nil bor I . - . - . suuenngs, and appeared to eutorlain doubt of her recovery.' no Serious if not Fatal Accident Ys. torday, between 12 and I o'clock, as a man named Hugh Patton, who resided with his wile and three young children, in Cross stieet, was encaned as a laborer on ihn inn scaffold of tho new four story building, ready for tho roofincr.at tho corner of Dimnn and Centre streets, ho accidentally fell a distance of fifty seven feet, and sinking, I, i , . fa. when "ear tho ground, on a long scantlintr, duiiio imir uicnes wuck uy six wide, was c r m o (nim int.nn it.;l. 1... l taken up insensible. Ho was carripil- the grocory of Mr. Firnie, near the place, where he revived, and said he was verv bidly hurt, complaininu of his back, and was conveyed to the City Hospit?!, where he is in a very critical state. It was not ascertained that any bones were bmkon.and his injuries appeared internal. How he escaped immediate death is a marvel. N. r. Courier. The Wheeling, Va, Times says, that owing to tho largo crops of wheat in tho West, flour will no doubt snnn sell at that place for two dollars per barrel, From tho Kangaroo (Illinois) Journal of July 29 MOKE Ol-" THE MOJfMONS. Wo learn from iho Warsaw Signal that Orson Pratt has cono from Nauvoo. Ho eft a communication with his friends, which slaicd that ho had been iuduccd to take this course on account of tho troatnicn'. of his wifo by Smith, and of tho General manapo. ment of tho affairs of (he church by him. Wc learn Ironi other sources that Smith finding his allompls on Mrs. Pralt wero matters ol notoriety, went to her husband with a manufactured story, that Ins wife was a base woman, and that the fact was well known to hint. I Ins communication had such an effect upon Mr. Pratt at once blasting his happiness tmd tho reputation of a vuiuous woman inai mo wretched bus. band left tho city. It will be recollcclcd that Mrs. Schindlc. in he; affidavit, detailing the altempt of Smith upon her, said 'ho told her she must never tell of his propositions to her, for ho had all influence in that place, and if sho told, he would ruin her character, and sho would be undor the necessity of leaving.' This same scheme has been carried out in reference to Mrs. Pralt. Sho told' on the imposter, and was maiked by him for destruction. In a public speech in Nauvoo on tho 14lh, Joo spoko of this lady a wo man whoso reputation has been as fair as virtue could make it until she came in con tact with him in a manner only befitting the lowest and most degraded vagabond in existence. There havo been various decisions of lato in different parts of tho United Slates, as to what articles of furlnituro aro 'neces saries.' These decisions have arisen upon the Bankrupt Law, but in the Court of Common Pleas last weok, as we learn from tho Boston Atlas, in a case depending upon tho attachment law of Massachusetts, Chief Justice Williams ruled that a toolh brush is neither a 'tool of trade' nor 'household fumituro' nor 'wearing apparel,' and was not exemp from attachment; but nis honor was clearly of opinion, that a thimble, in actual use, could not bo taken.or debt in Massachusetts. Muskets. The United Stales musket is far too heavy for the use of tho militia and volunteer corps. This remark has often been made during the last war, but has not, it seems, ever been deemed worthy of attention by those whoso duty it was to have a proper representation mado on tho subject. The United Slates go on from year lo year making tho heavy mnskcts, wilh ordinary old fashioned locks. I prophesy that, in less than fivo yeais, tho Government, at an enormous loss, will "condemn" half the proscnt armament, and direct Iho manufacture ot lighter muskets, with percussion locks. Any one who Uvea this prophecy of an Old Soldier; N. will tupll rpnli7A tho tntih nf r. aianaaru. DISGRACEFUL. Mr. Oldridgo an old gentloma.i, aged about seventy years a citizen of Providence deacon of ono of tho Baptist churches thero was notified on Thursday last to quit that place under panalty of confinement in tho Algerino Bastile. His offence consisted simply in affixing on the pump in front of his house a placard.upon which was wiittcn tho words 'Free Suffrage Water. Tho fellow who notified him lo quit is an office) holder under Providcnco authorises who calls himself MumfnrJ, but whose real naniai --id to be Murphy. The old man has left Iho placo. Is tho republican go vernment guaranteed to the nennln nf nnh Slate by tho Constitution? Rnliimnr n.. publican. It is staled that during a recent debato in the United States Senate, on certain bills fol the relief of lheidow of the soldiers of tho revolution, one was presented in beh alf of a widow who had been the wife of ihreo men, either of whom would have been entitled lo a pension. Tho Senate acted favorably to claim, and allowed her tha three several pensions required. She is a widow worth having. Seventeen private soldiers of tho French army, during Napoleon's career, by iheir bravery and talents, raised themselves to tho following disiinguised stations: Two became Generals, two Field Maishals.nino Dukes, two Princes, and two Kings. Bituminous Coal has ririnik. imnn rn. in Augusta, Oneida county, New York I ho discovery was accidental, A Mr. 1 orter, on whose land the coal was found, was digcinrr a well, and at ihn .lonii, r of seventy feel.he struck Iho vein. Mr. P. has been offered 620;000 for his farm hv an eastern capitalist. The Brookln Eagle says that the smntt pox i prcailinc oxtensivclv in tlmt and that measures have been taken by tho Hoard ol Heallh to shield iho public from contagion A Choral Humw Several h German emigrants arrived at Buffalo, No-v York, about sunrise, a few davs since, and when landing, (he whole of'ihem strtink tin one of their national anthems. The efTfirt. says the Buffalo Commercial, in tho calm stillness of a dewy morning, the spires the domes of a silent city .just touched with iho golden beams of a July sun, was almost sublime'