fawAi—s—an— R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. HI oomaburg, Thursday, July 3 , 1851. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. FOR GOVERNOR, WILLIAM BICrLER, OF CLEARFIELD COUNTY. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, SETII CLOVER. OF CLARION COUNTY. FOR THE SUPREME BENCH. JOHN B. GIBSON, OF CUMBERLAND : ELLIS LEWIS, OF LANCASTER. JEREMIAH S. BLACK, OF SOMERSET, WALTER 11. LOWRIE, OE ALLEGHENY. JAMES CAMPBELL, OF PHILADELPHIA. The New Postage Law. This law will go into operation on the first day of July next, and will operate to ihe fol lowing ellcct upon the STAR OK THE NORTH, 1. Subscribers will receive il by mail, in Columbia County, FREE OF POSTAGE. 2. For a distance not exceeding fifty miles, at FIVE CENTS per quarter. 3. Over fifty and not exceeding three hun dred miles at TEN CENTS .per quarter. 4. Over three hundred and not exceeding one thousand miles, at FIFTEEN CENTS per quarter. 5. Over one thousand and not exceeding two tlsousand miles, at TWENTY CENTS per quarter. 6. Over two two thousand and not excee ding four thousand miles at TWENTV-FIVE CENTS per quarter. 'l'hoeo who desire a good, and decided Columbia county Democratic paper, free of postage, should subscribe at once for the Star ■of the North. Tniatiou and Governor Dlustcr. " And a decree went forth in the days of Claudius Cscsar that all Ihe earth should be taxed, says the record of Ihe olden time. It seems to us that we havo fallen in the evil days of a second Ceasar. From the ciown of tho head to tho sole of the loot everything bears the stamp of the taxgathcr r. In these days il is unlawful to open a house of amusement, a house tu cat in, to drink in without a license—and it is equally forbidden to vend medicines either to kill or cure, without the authority of the exciseman. In fact, a tax is now imposed on people for coming into the world and a like one for going out. And who would have thought that credit would be claimed for a Governor who brought about this thing 1 Yet evon so it is, and infatuated men talk of a slight reduction of the state debt with such glee that an over good natured, unresisting men would almost be driven to think the Governor paid this 6tate debt out of bis own private purse, and not from the public coffers. One of Governor Johnston's first acts was to suggest to (lie legislature some score of •new subjects for taxation. Accordingly his administration commenced by a law taxing beer-houses,oj slercellars, restaurants, eating houses, billiard-rooms, bowling-saloons, ten pin alleys, distilleries, breweries, venders of patent medicines and real estate brokers.— The lax upon theatres, circuses, menageries, bill brokers and stock brokers was doubled, and in some cases more than doubled Tho tax upon bank dividends and dividends of other corporations was also raised to double its former rale. The militia tine has been iimpesed on every citizen, and its payment in money made compulsory. The official report of the Slate Treasurer shows that from these new laws the following revenue has been derived within the past year:— Distillery and brewery licenses, $4,203 91 Billiard room, bowling saloon and ten-pin alley licences, 3,045 81 .Eating-house, beer house and res taurants 6,530 97 Patent medicine licenses 2,633 04 Militia fines, say half, (§12,953 73) 6,476 86 Brokers licenses, say halt (§lO,- 22873) 5,114 36 Tax on bank dividends, (153,877 14) 50,000 Theatres, circuses &c., (increase) 2,000 00 Premium on charters, 89,262 21 Tax on enrollment ol laws (increase) 7,000 00 Collateral inheritance tax (increase 50,000 00 Tax un new counties 750 00 227,017 16 Add to this the large increase of tolls which the people pay upon the public works, •from a heavy increase of business, and wo can sco where the money comes from which pays the elate debt. The Slate Treasurer reports that the revenue from the act of 10th •of April 1849, and which was passed upon Governor Johnson's recommendation, was $197,193 74. This includes inost of the items in the above list, and shows that we Jiave not set our figures too high, for we in clude the product of several other now rev enue laws. l>et the voters of the commonwealth re •metober that these new tax laws, (at least the heaviest one,) were passed upon the special recommendation of Governor John son, and let his administration be spoken of as the era of TAXES. Let it be remembered that Mr. Evans of Chester, the leading Whig supporter of Gov ernor Johnson prepared the tax act of 1849 ) which taxes everything with a double tax, and that it was done at Governor Johnson's recommendation in bis message. The people of Pennsylvania are ever ready to bear the necessary burthens of sus taining their government, state as well as national; but they do not wish to see the demagogue send the tax gatherer to fleece them, and then with pharisaical blustering, tell how he has been a blessing to them and paid their debts. A Democratic Governor first established a aiaking fund and paid off a portion J}f the etato debt; and he did it without taxing every mouthful in the eating-house, or overy glass, full in the beer-house. He did not urge that we should be taxed for enjoying the amusements of life—taxed lor our meat in heallh and our medicine in sickness taxed for our birth and taxed for our death taxed for having lineal descendants to enjoy an estate, and taxed heavier still lor leaving it to collateral heirs. Then people could af ford lo be bom—could enjoy life in comfort— and if they got sick, could afford again to die in peace, but these— these are the days of TAXATION. Every thing is hedged up by taxes excopl—the hot weaiher. A Model Jury. Mr. Dayton, the chief financier of the Morris county Bank in New Jorsey was last week actually convicted, of perjury in swear ing to an incorrect annual report of the Bank's finances. Ho swore ihat th.e Bank at a given time had a certaix amount of " specie funds," as required by law, when in fact it bad nothing but that amount of bank notes. This is tho usual process of business in these shaving shops, and is well illustrated in tho case of the Susquehanna county Bank. But tho jurors who convicted a bank finan cier should be taken about the country and exhibited as curiosities. Wonder where Barnum is. He ought to see to this tiling. Talk who will about hearing Jenny Litid, we want to see the jury that convicted a bank financier. We'll buy the first ticket— if wo can—or do almost anything else un der tho sun to see what manner of men they are. We nominate tho Foreman for Presi dent of tho Union, and if he should happen to be elected wo hope he'll just be good enough to remember that our papet was the first one out for him and that ergo we're to bo his Secretary of Slate. .Tho rest of the jurors we hope will emigrate to Pennsylva nia where we can make Judges o r them. "Tho Star belied Mrs. Freeze."— Columbia Democrat. The Star said nothing about Mrs. Freeze, but referred lo a story ol hers which the Democrat palmed off upon the people of this latitude as "original" after it had been published as original in tho Boston "Draw ing Room Companion" and copied from that paper into tho 'Saturday Visiter." A ref. erence to either of these papers will show that they give the lie to the Democrat when it denies its petty plagiarism. Wo never char ged Mrs. Freeze with having any lot in tho matlbr, and the Democrat need not attempt lo lake shelter behind her. Let it settle with the Companion and Visiter. As to the Colonel's allusion to a commu nication which he knew was publisned during our absence ut Williamsport; we need Only say that it was not printed in any objectiona ble manner—that only a filthy, grovelling mind will hunt indecency, or can find indeli cacy where none was known by others or meant lo be, aud where not two persons in a thousand could see aught wrong. Decen cy, does not discover an indelicacy in an ac cidental ambiguity—only a blackguard points it out, or loudly calls attention to it. Try' it. A friend of ours says ho is incredulous as to the feasibility of conveying coal through a tube by the force of water. Wo answer that the plan has been tried for a short dis tance and found to work well. The pipe can be put up for §l,OOO a mile, and the in come on the transportation of only 20,000 tons of coal per year would be $4OO. A few years ago ihere was no one so low as to do reverence to the idea that news could be transmitted by lightning. So too it was once voted ridiculous to think of ma king vessels move by steam. Progress rules this age, and if even the old Standstillians did onca make Galileo say that the earth stands still, it moves nevertheless. Delaware and Hudson (until. This Company have within the past year expended several hundred thousand dollars to enlarge their Canal from Honesdale to Roudout on the Hudson river. The old boats carried 25 tons, and the new ones are of 125 tOii burden. Freight has, by this means, fcecn reduced from $1,31 to 85 cents, making a difference Ot $230,000 in the cost of transporting 500,000 lons pf coal. Over and above this outlay for widening ihe Ca nal the net profits of the Company for the past year are $450,000, almost half a million of dollars. The Company offer to furnish at New Yoik broken and screened coal for family use at $4,25 from yard, or $4, from boat. Schuylkill coal is offered at the same prices. Foreign coal could not be delivered from vessels for less than $7, sometimes not for less tliail $B, Talk about a tariff on coal after this, will yon? THE LEGGETS GAP RAILROAD which ox tends from Seminoma in ihe centre of the Wyoming coal region to Great Bend near the New York line is expected to bo in running order by the Ist of September. The people of Central New York will be much benefit ed by il for the purpose of obtaining cheap coal. fF The Free Soilers of Luzerne county, have issued a call for a convention to be held at Hyde Park oa Wednesday the 9th of July. CS"Among the heaviost sufferers by the lato fire at San Francisco was Mr. Joseph B. Kidlemau an enterprising gentleman who went out to California from Easion Pa. His loss is $175,000. ty Felly Best is out against Judge Camp bell. A pretty good recommendation for his Honor, that. A young lady appeared in the streets in a western village, in the new stylo of "pctti loons and short gownthe dogs took altor her, taking her to be some strange animpl, run her some distance, and treed her on a high fence. BT Struck by Lightning is the phrase now used among roguery hen they are caught through telegraphic intelligence. JUDGE JESSIJI'. We have been several times asked what connection this gentleman, now a candidate for Supreme Judge, had with the exploded Susquehanna county Bank, and it is perhaps better that the truth should be known, than that conjecture and suspicion should make his case worse than it is. Before the books of the Bank wero opened for subscribing slock, Judge Jessup says, persons ir. Mon trose determined that all the stock should be taken in that neighborhood and formed a company to take all surplus stock that resi dent individuals did not want, and thin pre vent foreign influence from controlling the operations of tho bank. Of that company Judge Jessup was a member. The siook of the Company stood in the name of James C. Diddle St Co., until the death of Mr. Bid die in 1842 when the company assumed the name of Wm. Jessup & Co. Subsequently this stock was transferred to the bank by Mr. Jessup, and tho stock notes of the Com pany were cancelled. So much of the orig inal capital only as was deemed necessary to do business by the directors was actually paid in, and the residue of the stock was represented by the notes of the Company. Such is Judge Jessups testimony. 110 says he had §5OO worth ol stock originally in the bank, which ho subsequently transferred..— At first he was a director of tho Bank, but ceasod to be such before it went into opera tion. TLe following is an extract from the min utes of the to sell the stock of the bank. "Sept. 1, 1837. Commissioners met at court-house in Montrose. On motion of Wm. Jessup Esq. Resolved, That in payment of subscription to the stock of the Susquehanna county bank, the subscribers thereto be permitted to pay in current bank notes or specie the five dol lars to be paid on each share, and the pre mium, if any should be paid." It appears clear by the evidence that the surplus stock held by tho company was never paid in to the bank and that uo cer tificates were ever issued for it. Yet the act of incorporation provided in the seventh section as follows: "No discounts snail be made, nor any notes issued by said bank, until the whole of the capital stock thereof be paid in ; nor shall the said bank purchase any, nor shall any loan be made upon the pledge of its own stock." Returning to Rcuson. It will be remembored that tho Sunbuiy American has taken ground against Judge Campbell for the Supreme Bench and taken upon itself to declare him incompetent. In the last number, however, the editor cannot avoid doing the jnstico to say incidentally that Judge Campbell's opinion on a question of law lately dedided is more like law and common sense thir. the decision of Judges King and Parsons in the matter. The edi tor's opinion as a lawyer is much better than his character as a politician, and he says : "Judges King and Parsons, at the Court of Common Pleas, in Philadelphia, last week decided that the operator was bound to dis close the contents of a telegraphic commu nication wheu required to do so iti a legal proceeding, as it was not among tho class of cases which have the privilego of secresy. With due respect to their honors, we su b rnit that the reason it has not been included in that class is, because, the case has never occurred before. If this is the law, our next legislature shall alter it." Lycoming Insurance Company. The last annual report of the Lycoming Insurance Company is published, and from the list we notice the following losses by fire in this neighborhood : Richard I'lumer, Columbia, §lOO William Roat " 300 William McKelvy " 200 John L. Hossler " -160 Isaiah Conner " 3,50 Samuel Dyer " 2 Susan Wirt, Luzerne, 1209 Edward Hughs " 20 Elisha [layman " 394,48 Michael Heller " 432 Jacob Sechler, Montour 933 Jacob Sidler, " 001,25 During the year the Company has adjusted claims for losses to the amount of $94,693,- 17 —a very strong argument to show the utility of such companies. General Scott Says that for thirty odd years ho has scatee ly read any thi."s on the subject of slavery. The following is his confession in a letter written by him in 1843 : "Io boyhood, at William and Mary's Col" lege, and in common with most, if not aii my companions, I became deeply impressed with the views given by Mr. Jefferson, in his "Notes on Virginia," and by Judge Tucker, in the Appendix to his edition of Black stone's Commentaries, in favor of a gradual emancipation of slaves. That Appendix j have not seen in thirty odd years, and in the same period have read scarcely anything on the subject; but my early impressions are fresh and unchanged." REVOLUTION IN PMNTING. —Mr. J. S. Os borne, of Akron, Ohio, writes to the Scien tific American that he has projected a print ing press, by which ho thinks ho shall be ablo to print a Biblo in one second of lime. The idea embraced is, to have the forms stereotyped and curved for cylinders, and to have the cylinders so duplicated as to print both sides of the paper or book at one oper ation. Tho Connecticut Liquor Bill ha 3 been con curred in by both branches of the Legisla ture, which added a proviso that, on account of its stringency—prohibiting the sale of ar dent spirits in that State —it shall be first ap proved by the people. POLITICAL COMPLIMENT. —They are not over delicate at ihe West in their nicknames ot candidates for office, but the editor of the Princeton (Ky.) Republican is too refinod to call the Democratic candidate lor Lieutenant- Governor of that Slate "Greasy Bob," so he calls him "Oleagenous Robert." ty A Convention in Virginia has nomi nated Hon. Damol Webster for the Presidcn- i———l Every lach a MOD. Archbishop Hughes of New York is cer tainly ft great man, and can sny n whole some truth in the strongest and prettiest of ways. While in London, the Catholics invi ted him to a public dinner, and ill course of the evening he made a speech which has created the highest admiration on both sides of the Atlantic. Dr. Hughes is an Irishman by birth, and an American citizen by adopt ion. He left his native country early, whon, as he says, he discovered that "the rights of his birth out by tho rites of his bapdsm"3Sn ecclesiastical pun which gives the impress of wit to a melan choly truth. Neatly and artfully—pleasantly yet sadly Dr. Hughes speak* of the feelings connected with his emigration, thus : "lean remember still every line and cur valute of that horizon which was to a me*then the end of the world; still, when I became maslef of the unhappy secret that I was not to be tin an equality with others of my coun trymen, the beauty of the scenory faded, and I thought theie must be something beyond the horizon. (Loud applause.) It was one of those unfortunate secrets the communica tion of which removes thojbliss'of ignorance; and 1 found I was under a State which made distinctions among her children, which Vns a mother, and perhaps more than a mother to some, and a stepmother to the rest." "Of cokrse, as 60on as opportunity pres ented itself, I. liko other driftwood from tho old wreck, floated away on tho western wave, and fogod another land far beyond the horizon I Jiave to ; and there, though I had no claim on her hospital ily, thai strange parent took mej to her bosom, and treated me as her child, and soon ranked me in honors among her oWn. most favored and first born.'' (cheers.) Post Cllicc Case. Mr Cook of the Danville Democrat in wri ting from Williamsport under dale of the 251h ult. says:— Jas. Armstrong, Esq , who was appoihted by the Court in June l>st year, as Master to distribute the money found in tho possession of Charles M. Goarhart, the thieving Post Office Clerk of Danville, among tho claim ants, made a report yesterday afternoon, by which it appears that the sum of $1525, which was brought into Court by the U. S- Marshal, and-was found iri different parcels upon Gearhart, was distributed among the fjllowing claimants. Wherever the amount was identified , the whole was returned, after deducting Master's compensation, the bal ' ance was distributed pro rata. This accounts for the apparent inequality of the returned money. Names. Anil claimed. Am'l rexived. T. O. Van Alen, $l5O $133.75 Rev. I. 11. Torrence, 50 48.75 C. S. Wallis, treasurer Lyc. Insurance Co., 101 98.19 Juo. Carskadden, 25 21.38 John K. Ramm, 256 227.11 R. Manly & Co., 200 177.30 P. M. Traugh, 97 75.33 Wm. Donaldson, 372 280.10 Moore Si Biddle, 39 29.40 Lyc. Insurance Co., 97 73.12 Charles Matchin, 18 13.55 $l7ll $1486.88 Master's compensation, fees, &c., 38.12 m $1525-00 ——• Willis and Webb. In the Webb and Coddington case, the Supreme Court of New York decided that the Inman letters should be handed over to Andrew Warner, Esq., as a receiver—thus re-aflirming a former decision, which coun sel for defendant endeavored to set aside. Webb succeeded, however, in getting rid of the penally ,he was likely to incur, for contempt of court—but not without a sharp reprimand from Judge Duer, who condemn ed his conduct throughout, as highly censu rable. In regard to the question, whether Col. Webb could legally use the Inman letters in a libel suit against Willis, his Honor expres sed himself very emphatically in the negative THese documents, he said, could never be used in that or any other suit—never could be so used without an utter dereliction of truth anh honor. The letters, it is presum ed, will now be handed to Mr. Warner, and by him transferred to Mrs. Coddington, the only person who has any legal or moral right to them. INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY CLAUSE. —We learn from the York (Pa.) Gazette that a lot of 100 shares of slock in the old "York Bank," was sold at public sale, by the orders of the executors, on Saturday evening last. It was sold in lots of 10 shares and brought art av erage of $33 27j per shares of $25, being an advance of 334 per oenfT These prices are as high as any obtained for some time past, and as they are among the first sales since the stockholders accopted ihe new charter containing the "individual liability" clause, go to show that the introduction of that fea ture in to their Ranking systems has not im paired confidence in stockholders oj depres sed the price of Bank stock. WILL NOT ACCEPT THE NOMINATION.—Lu cius B. Peek, nominated for Governor by the Free Soil Convention, at Rqtiingion, Ver mont, declines to be a candidate, and gives his reasons in a letter in the Montpelier Pa triot. He says that he cannot assent to the resolutions pased by tho convention, inas much as he believes the fugitive slave law to be constitutional, and he cannot admit that the act passed by the late legislature, authorizing the Slate courts to take by habeas corpus a %lave out of the hands of United States.officers, is a just exercise of the pow ers of the State. This is rather a queer can didate for the Free Soil party. Cy "Isn't the world older than it used to be V said a young hopeful to his senior. "Yes, my son." "Then wdint do folks mean by old times V "Go to bed, so.mey, that's a good boy, and we'll talk of those things on the morrow." Cattmvlssn Railroad. At the railroad meeting at Tamaqua on last Thursday, John Hendricks, Esq., made Borne well-timed remarks which are report ed thus in the Legion .*— " Mr. H., looked upon this work, when completed to Erie, as the First —tho Best— and the most important, which Pennsylva nia as a State would possess. He viewed the West as the Store House of tho I nited Slates, from which those who drew most largely would be mosP'prosperou* ; dwelt much upon the elTorts of New York, to lake not only her own share of this great trade, but aided by the seemingly never onding torpor of Pennsylvania, to appropriate the amount legitimately duo to Philadelphia.— New York with her three avenues to Lnko Erie grasps all, while Philadelphia with not one is a passive spectator. Mr. 11. then turn ed to the South, and brought before the moot ing the increasing prosperity of Baltimore.— She too was alive to her interests, and through the Slate of Pennsylvania, was about to con struct a line to tho very point which tho Cal luwissa, Williamsport and Erie Bond war first aiming to reach, viz: the town of Wil liamsport. This line would speedily bo put under construction, tho raco would bo between tho two companies for completion. Baltimore, from llurrisburg to Williamsport, has 03 miles to construct, while Philadelphia has but SI miles, and the superstructure o( 30 to lay down. It was high timo for Pennsylva nia to uwako or the Kcystono would drop from its position. It was high time for Phil adolphians to awako, and rouse their sleep ing energies, when a little community liko Tamaqua wore allowed the honor of boing the first movers in this great cause. Mr. H. spoke at much length; showed the disgrace the whole Stale labored under, by reason of her culpable neglect to improve the opportunities in her reach—went into an examination of the trade of the Susquehan na, and the efforts of New York to control it, and concluded a vety appropriate speech, which elicited the approbation of all pres ent. ' The Philadelphia Statesman in speaking of this Tamaqua meeting says : "Wo cannot be surprised at the interest manifested by the citizens of Tamaqua and the whole region, which must eventually be developed by these improvements, for it is apparent that the completion of the Calta wissa road will draw (rom the very heart of Pennsylvania an incalculable amount of mineral wealth and agricultural products, and, while it opens and expands the resour ces of the interior, will proporlionably en large the commerce, and enhance the wealth of the citizens of this metropolis. The challenge is openly and broadly given to our citizens by this Tamaqua meeting, which claims to have taken tho first step towards the completion of a movement calculated to advance the interests of a far distant point, even more, perhaps, than their own. Are such overtures to be contemptuously rejec ted, or met only by feeble determinations, and not by resolute and energetic action 1 We hope, and we believe, that the commer cial magnitude of the objects of the meeting will be recognized by all classes of our citi zens, and that the recommendation to hold further meetings, for the purpose of en lightened consultation, and vigorous effort, i will be responded to immediately and ef fectively. There is not in the whole range of our business relations, a subject which should elicit more attention and study than tho immediate completion of the Cattawis sa Road to Williamsport, and the construc tion of the Sutibury and Erie Road to Erie. Dogs and Slieep, Act of 23d March, 1809, Sec. slh. If any dog shall be seen worrying sheep, it shall bo lawful for any person seeing the same to kill such dog ; or if any dog shall have been known to worry sheep, and infor mation thereof be given to the owner of such dog, if he does not kill or cause hirn to be killed, ho ihall make full compensa tion for all damages done by said dog; and any porson soeing said dog running at large may lawfully kill him. DREADFUL ACCIDENT. —A boy aged about 16 years named Daniel McConoway, was caught in one of the coal screens, attached to the works of the Lehigh Coal and Navi gation Company, on Saturday the 21st ult., and almost instantly killed. His body was horribly mangled and torn to pieces in con sequence of the narrow space through which he was forced by the machiuery.— Carbon Democrat. POWER'S GREEK SLAVE.— We learn from the New York Tribune, that there are three copies of Power's Greek Slave. Mr. Power made a statute of tho Slave, several years since, for Mr. Grant, of London. He repea ted it fur Lord Ward, and again for an Amer ican g'C.ndeman whose name is uot stated. ANOTHER CONSTITUTIONAL, TRIUMPH, LLIFL Beformed Constitution of Ohio, has been adopted by a majority of 15,655 votes, ac cording to tho incomplete returns in the Ohio Statesman. The bank I made a desper ate struggle against it, but it prevailed never theless. ROMANTIC.— The Tunkhannock Democrat records a wedding whioh lately* came oil in thai latitude Uuder a green shady bower, At sunset's golden hour.' DROWNED.— On Tusduy afternoon last, James Dintinger was drowned in the river immediately below the bridge at the upper mines, the Tamaqua Legion says. • tar The Mauch Chunk papers givo over 11,009,000 feet as tho extent of the Lehigh lumber shipments the*present season, to Ihe 21st inst. EF" The Lewisburg Democrat says that the Hotels of that place are now regularly closed on the Sabbath, and no liquor has been sold on that day for several weeks past, {y Gen. Winfield Scott is sixty-five years old, having been bom June 15, 1786. Whig Convention. The Lancaster Whig Convention closed its work by the following proceedings : Upon proceeding to nominate candidates for Supreme Judge—on first ballot Iho result was as follows: William M. Meredith, Pliila- 77 Richard Coulter, Westmoreland 113 Joshua W. Comly. Montour 104 Georgo Chambers, Franklin 90 Jos. Buffington, Armstrong 52 John H. Walker, Krie 13 Jamos T. Halo, Centre 27 M. C. Rogers 2 John Bank, Berks 1 W. Jessup, Susquehanna 02 D. M. Smysor, Adams 14 Daniol F. Gordon, Berks 30 D. I! Mulvany, Montgomery 11 D. O. Parry, Schuylkill 2 The Chairman decided a majority of votes polled to elect, making the number requi site 02. Aftor the clerks had agreed in their report, and the result had been announced, a read ing of the roll and mention of the name vo ted tor was demanded, when Mr. Billing, of Philadelphia Co., slated that he had voted for Chambers, and not for Jessup, as the clerks made it appear. Considerable excitement ensued at this announcement, it being considered an at tempt to defeat the olcction of Jessup, in de priving him of tho necessary vote. Mr. Bitting subseqnently said he had no ill feeling in reference to the matter, and if another ballot was gone into he would vote for Mr. Jessup, therefore he asked that his vote for Jessup be allowed to stand. The President said that he had already di rected the clerk to make the alteration, and would not re-admit the vote ol Bitting. Whereupon Messrs. Coulter, Meredith, Comly and.Chambers were declared nomi nees. A second Ballot was then moved and agreed to, for a fifth and last nominee for the Supreme Bench, which resulted as fol lows : Jessup had 50 votes, Buffington 54, Hale 11. No choice. Third Ballot , (Hale withdrawn ) Buffing ' lou had 57, Jessup 57. During the call of the fourth ballot a mo tion was made to suspend the call and ad journ for an hour which was agreed to. Upon rosembing, the Convention procee ded with the fourth ballot, which resulted as follows: Jessup, 77; Buflington, 38. Whereupon Jessup was duly declared the fifth nominee for the Judgeship of the Su preme Bench. GAMBLING. Green the reformed gambler in a late communication in the New York Tribune gives the following remiuiacenses of this vice in Pennsylvania : "Harrisburg, especially during the session of the Legislature, had long been a favorite place of resort for gamblers. They were seldom, if ever, molested, and during the Winter season were sore of doing a good business. • Bedford Springs, in Pennsylvania, a fash ionable place of resort during the Summer season, was also celebrated for the gambling habits of visiters, who were so numerous that the players required special accommo dation, aud therefore a gambling houso was erected for Simpson, a Baltimore gambler, who paid a thousand dollars a season for the use of it, and thus occupied it for some ten years. m Bodford, a village near the Springs, was also a resort for gamblers. In the year 1839 Capt. Howard (a Southern desperado,) who xvas lately killed in the streets of St.Louis, and an individual well known to the writer open ed a faro bank there, and won over seven thousand dollars in a few weeks, an officer of the county losing against them between two and three thousand dollars. The action ot other Stales, in reference to gambling, had a ter.deucy to increase the vice in Pennsylvania, and paved the way for the passage of a more stringent law, as a matter of self-defense, and, in 1847, upon my own direct application, a new law was passed, by which the keepers of gambling apartments are liable to a fine of from $5O to $500; and persons engaged in gambling as a means of living, or found with gamb ling implements, may be imprisoned in the penitentiary from one to five years, and re quired to pay a fine of $5OO. Any one in viting or persuading another to visit a place used for gambling purposes, shall, upon con viction, be held responsible for the money or property lost by such persuation ot invita tion, and fined from $5O to SSCO. It is mado the duty of all sheriffs, constables and all prosecuting attorneys, to inform upon and prosecute offenders ugains'. the acl, under the penally of $5O to $5OO, All auspoeted places snay be broken up with impunity, and the gambling apparatus carried off, de. lained and destroyed. This law went into Operation the Ist of July, 1817, anil on the 9th of the some mortlh the first arrest under it took place. This was the case of Aaron YVillet, a colored man, who kept a gambling house in MarVland-st. Philadelphia. He was arrested by Aid. Snyder, who entered his house and found the implements of his pro fession, on the premises, and carried them off, and the gambler was coraitted to prison l Kerrison, the keeper ol a billiard saloon in Philadelphia, where gambling was allow ed, was alse arrested, convicted, and sent to the Penitentiary, but subsequently pardoned. Two thimble-riggers, named Jaoob Arnold and Jonathan Hornberger, were found guilty at Reading, Pa., of swindling a boatman, by their thimble-playing, and were sentenced to pay a fine of $3O and costs, and to im prisonment in the Penitentiary in solitary confinement for two years each." 1 iy There are al present in the oily of New York, six men under sentence of death for the orime of murder. ty During the yoar 1850 there vvero 35- 00 doer killed in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. The average value being about S3 each. , FYom the Philadelphia Ledger. I . The Tariff Question. We yesterday read an article in a morning ( paper, impliedly eulogistic of a high taiiff and condemnatory of free trade, as the wri' r tor is pleased to style the present revenue policy of the government; a policy, by the way which yields the government some fifty , millions of dollars annually, and which ' steadily favors the inc,ease of domestic pro ' duce, the exports of last mouth being over ' 5800,000 more than for the corresponding month of last year. Still, the high protec tionists will insist that the country is laboring under all the evils of free trade, and that the evidences of wonderful prosperity that every -1 where, ull over the country, show themselves 1 are so many signs of bankruptcy and ruinj only deferred to the present by the interven tion of the "Irish famine." Why all these ' misrepresentations? We have no free trade, nor is the country otherwise than prosperous. It is true there are some manufacturers who 1 are making less than they desire, and they would have the law compel those engaged in other pursuits—the farmer, mechanic and laborer, at whatever occupation—pay to ihein such profits as would insure fortunes in a few years. Tliero are some manufac tories worn out or having in uso machinery that cannot compete with others enjoying the most modem improvements ) that may loso on their work. But that is no government affair, nor is it any proof that the same description of goods cannot be profitably produced in this country. Indeed, such goods are produced duily, and new preparations for their creation are daily ma king in almost every section of the Union. So much for the facts—now, a word for tho tneer at free trade ? I have corn and I want pork. My neighbor has pork and wants corn. We exchange: that is free trade.— That is tho thing which tho protectionists sneer at and ridicule. They say to the far mer, your free trade is a very bad thing for you; do you just pay the government a third of the price of the pork you get from your neighbor, and let him pay the third of the price of the com he gets of you, and it will be much belter for both of you. That is a tariff of protection. Which is best for far mers and ull other laborers who have this description of lax to pay? The shoemaker makes shoes for his neighbors and takes their grain, meat and potatoes in payment. This is free trade. Would it be better for hsm and his customers to make him pay the governmens the value of one third of all he gets in exchange for his labor? That is tho tariff policy. t>o it is with all other classes of society. Free trade permits everybody to sell what they have for the best price they cat: get, and to buy what they want as cheap as they can. A farmer drives his wagon to market, gets the best price he can for his load, buys what he wants, and is on his re turn home. It is free trade thus far; but at the boundary of his county or his town, there is a little toll-house, the keeper of which makes him pay to the government a sum of money equal to one third of the val , ue of all he has in his wagon. Is this better than free trade ? Better than carrying home the money he has left ? Would it be a good thing to have these toll-houses at tho hues of all our towns, counties and cities, to tako a third of all that Comes in; or its value in money, from the farmers, mechanics and other laborers, who are always carrying the products of their industry to and fro for a market ? Would it be bettei than free trade? Our constitution establishes free trade be tween the States. Would it be better for our farmers and others if toll-houses or cus tom-houses were erected on every road, riv er or canal, where it crossed a Slate line, to take from every passing cart, wagon or boat, for the use of the government, one third of all the products aud goods transported in them or their value in money ? Would it have been wiser in the framers of the con stitution to bave given us such a system, in stead of the free trade that they have estab lished ? Few there are who will maintain, that it would be a good thing for farmers to be taxed on the road to their neighbors, ora ( the town,-with the products of their farms or the goods or other produce they have put cased by their sale. What difference does it make whether the farmers or mechanics who exchange products, live on opposite Bides of a stone fence or of the Atlantic ocean? What difference does it mako whether the articles coming in exchange lor the farmers' products are taxed at the gate as they enter his yard, or at the Phila delphia custom-house, where they enter his country? Is it not the same to him? Is it bettor for him that they should be taxed at either than that they should not be taxed at all? Is it better that the tariff should deliv er them, taking from the farmer one third of their value at tho same time, or that free trade should deliver them without taking from him anything? So much for our neighbor's sneer at freo trade. Outrage—Narrow Escape. As Constable Jdhnson, of Wilkesbarro, was conveying a negro barber, named Ma son, to jail, on Wednesday last, the negro drew a razor which he carried concealed in a handkerchief in his f lf|and, and made a dash at Johnson's th?W, which took effect in his face, cutting a deep wound from the cheek bone to tho corner l of his mouth.— The negro thetr in attempting to escape was seized, unsuspectingly by Major F. I- Bow man, when a similar attempt was made up on his life, but whioh, however did not take effect. He is now solely lodged in - irons. The affair produced quite an excitement iu the borough.— Pillsion QMette. i,,,i i_ UNION CANAL. —The Philadelphia Ledger understands that the remaining 5100,000 of the eight per cent, preferred stock issued by Jha Union Lfeuul Cgmpany, for tho enlarge. mentof the Western Division and Branch of the Canal have been all subscribed, ar.d that the work is fully expected to be finished by next September, aud epencit for the fall bu siness. E7 Martin Van Buren is up in Vermont tickling trout. His health is said to be ex cellent and his spirits fine.
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