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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-
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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
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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.