THE STAR OF THE NORTH. R. W. Weaver Proprietor.] VOLUME 7. THE STAR OF THE NORTH IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNIBO BY It. W. WfiAVER, OFFICE —Vp stairs, in the nno brick build ing, on the south side of Main Stieet, thiul square below Market. TERMS :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the lime of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents if not paid within the year. No subscription re ceived for a less period than six months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages ere paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three time* for One Dollar and twenty five cents for each additional in sertion. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. CHOICE POETRY. X3T We extract the following lines from the poems of Thomas Mnckeller, author of " Droppings from the Heart." These poems were published tn 1847, by Carey and Hart. These lines below have much of the quaint ness and pathos of Hood. They will no doubt find favor with the Printer, whose toils and troubles are feelingly described: THE DOOM OF THE PKINTER. A printer weary and wan, IDs face all mortally pale, As bo slowly plodded his homeward way, J Before the dawning of early day, Broke out in a bitter wail. His voice was husky and low, As though his lungs were gone ; And lie coughed as he gasped , and coughed again* Aud he pressed bis hand to hjs breast in pain, While thus his plaint ran on: " A world of pain is this ! It hath no joy for me : >Tia labor by Hay and labor by night, By the light of the sun, aud by candle-light, Labor continually. " Some men have a day of rest, But Sabbath for me rhere is not; It it mil alt the week, and toil on the day That God has given to rest and to pray— Lo ! this is the printer's lot 1 " When I was a boy," he said, "1 played on the hills of green; I swam in the stream —I fished in the brook, And blest was 1 to sit and to look Unlettered on nature's scene. " For twenty sad years and more, My life has worn away In murky rooms of poisdnuua air, Wten I've yearned for a sight ot tbe valleyi fair, And the light of the open day. "An innocent prisoner doomed, My heart is heavy within: Oh why should a man, untainted by guilt, Who the blood of a creature never haihspiU, Be pent, like a felon for sin ?" The pnfcer then coughed and sighed: The stars were arowing dim, . And he upward glanced at the morning sky, Aud he inly thought it were good to die, And death would be rest to him. His heart was tired of beating; He prayed to the Lord above; To pity H man whose heart had been riven, By toil, for other men's interest given, And he sought His mercy and love. He hied to hi 6 humble home ; His infant awoke to cry, "Ob, father 1 Oh, mother! I'm hungry for bread!" And the printer bowed, with an aching head, On his Mary's bosom to die. Oh ye who have never known, The riches found in a crnst, When nothing is seen on the desolate shelf, And the poor man's pocket is empty of pelf, . Receive my story on trust. Say uol in your careless scorn, What boots the tale to you 1 The rhymer who traces these rough-written rhymes, Has known of .such sufferers in other Jay • times, And much of his rhyme is true. Remember this holy truth— The man who aloof hath stood, When a heart-broken brother for succour did crave, And he stretched not a finger to bless and to save, ■ Is verily guilty of blood. DANCINU MEN FURNISHED TO ORDER.— The following is a part of a letter from the Parts correspondent of the Courtier desWEtats Uuis: " There is at Joubert street, No 238, an in stitute where they furnish to order young men to dance at parlies and private balls. They are generally young dry goods clerks, whose awkwardness have been removed by intercourse with the ludies at lite counter. Tbey simply know how to compliment them on their toilets—which causes them to be j considered, by the ladies, very amiable and | quite witty. They are clothed, gloved, ruf fled, booted, and presented, stomach empty I .Tbey cost a louis a head, and with a dozen you cm have quite an animated dance. Wednesday last, the institute of Joubert street furnished one hundred and twenty-six to the divers hops of lite Chaussed' Antin. As it appears, (hat comprised its whole num ber. They ate now hurrying up recruits, Madame Ra havir.g engaged for her self atone thirty for the 2Glh of this month— twelve flaxen haired, twelve with black hair, and six bald-headed gentlemen." " The balJ-hended ones cost twenty-five francs a head. They are taught a dignifi ed air, and are expected to represent young jnagieirates, lawyers, and young men of promise worn out by midnight toil. There is a fine look lug old soldier, who basbeen decorated with the ribbon of lite ' Legion of Honor,' who will not furnish himself for less 'than thirty francs, who, besides, requires a second pair of gloves of his hostess at two o'clock ir. the morning." £T Profit it the crpwo ol labor. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTf/PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1855. tor the "Star of the North." TROUBLE Iff TIIE CAMP, ANOTHER DREAM. * BY CDVIBB. JIT! PROLOGUE. Never did thunder clap more alarm timid children, or discharge of grape among a flock o' pigeons causo greater fluttering, than did the innocent publication of otir " Dream" frighten and confuse the animals ami birds of ill omen, we then and there so truthfully classified and described. An uproar among 'em equal to the satanic chorus uf " spirits that are culled Out of regions under earth" followed, each species giving vent to lis feelings in its own vernacular— SlMLE jab bering, PonpoisK blowing, Owls screaching, and the Shanghai! — Lord, how he "crow ed!" Then came a pause, during which, unliko the pharisaical church-goer, who is in the habit o' Sunday's of distributing the different parts of the sermon to others and applying none to himself, each oifo of 'em owned up— hit. Indeed several not classi fied look home our " life pictures" to them selves, among whom ia " ZADOC" in the " Democrat" of the 14th inst. Though pre tending to disregard our descriptions by pro nounchig them "erroneous and absurd," and a''ludicrous arrangement of the ration al and irrational" "emanating in (not l'rom eh?) some morbid brain," his "Rejoinder' clearly demonstrates g sensative place was probed—and deeply too. We cannot help it. He has thrown himself in the way, and should wo " skin and film the ulcerous spot And leave the sore unhealed," it may teach him to be more cautious in fu ture bow he volunteers fighting the battles of others. But who is CUVlEß —that daring Ishmae! that would raise his pen against the " faith ful?" What kind of looking "animal" is lief la he "hyena," man, or devil? Rest easy "b'hoya,"— perhaps he has been " a chiel among ye takin' notes An' faith does ptent 'em," or maybe his " vision" is so acute that he is able to follow you, enshrowded as you are by the darkness of night, and point you out so plainly that all may know ye. So make the best of it. TIIE DREAM. The old clock had toll'd the hour ol Nine. Feeling the somniferio pressure of the fin gers of Morphia on onr eyelids, we retired lo our couch and were soon in the land of Nod. But while wo own to the soft Impeach ment of indulging, on ceitain occasions, in copious potations of Young Hyson—that • uidoosener of tongues and unlivener of wit"—the ".herb" of China, we ate frank lo declare it is only when we are obliged to be up o' night, in which case we avow that we are more legitimately employed than the tribe of " ZADOC" who are addicted lo con gregating for " plotting lomo conspiracy" when honest folks should be Aabed; and fur ther, that upon the night in question, our only libation was '' Water cold and uneort With beat or other mixture." Nor was our "brain" made "delirious" by the fumes and expressed juice of that other "herb"— TOBACCO. From its defilements we are happily free. But soon after a refreshing nap had " laid its soft attachment on our senses," we found our imagination playing some very singular autics again. The sulject that occupied it j was vapid and worthless it is true, yet urdike the majority of silch "dreams" which ore found quite difficult to collect on awaking, we remembered this one with vivid distinct ness. Here it is:— We were taken—we don't remember how —some distance West of our domicil—we donl say how far—and led into a chamber where a dim light was burning and a lone "creature" setting with pen, ink and paper before him, and by his side the " Dream of Cuvierl!" But ugh I ero we could survey him minutely our nostrils were filled with the fumes of the " herb" narcotic, which in dark pitchy columns Wcro rapidly aesending fr#m his pipe; and.to avoid personal contact 1 with the bountiful streams of salvia which ever and anon were ejected from his mouth, we fouud it convenient not to crowd too close to where he was perching. Afier having secured a sale position, and with the precau tion to apply our 'kerchief to our face to prevent " delirium," we courageously main tained our ground, for to analyse the bird before us we were determined belore back ing out. Ai this moment, its eye resting on the sixth division of our "Dream," it mut ters — "Mr. Cuvier" classifies me as a SHANO* MAX. Curse him, my name is " ZADOC," and I'll have revenge. It pauses, perhaps for breath, or it may be to drown its angry thoughts in blank ob- I livious— smoke. At any rate thicker clouds ascend, and while these are going up, wo mentally observe, " thou art mistaken 1 ZA DOC!' If thou wast in ihe medley gathering the other night, thee escaped our notice. We did not allude to thee, much less give thee a classification, Though thy " pedal extremities" are long enough, thou art nof a SHANGHAI. The species would not own thee. Thee could not "crow'- to save thy beautiful neck. Thy vernacular is a " gabble," fond and boisterous at timas 'tis true, but a gabble nevertheless. Thy rank is among a spe cies of the ornithological genus not very particular in Iheir habits of feeding—we mean the TUBKEY BUZZARD. Finding ouraelf in such olose proximity to a " bird o'prey," we kept our finger on the latch, and our regard for our personal safely prompted us to exchange our colcrul 'ker chief for one of dimity white, for nothing, we had been told, so exasperates the male turkey and makes him show disposition for fight so much as sight of color correspond ing with the huts of his neck I But hold! He suddenly started -to his feet and rapidly "struts" the room. His shoulders shrug spasmodically, and bis neck is in one revo lution of "jerks and twitches." (Ah we see it now! He too is afßicled with Chorea!) At last he screams in characteristic notes "I'll battle, and hack, and cut, and stab, And gouge, and throttle, and curse, aud jab, And olinch, and wrestle, and yell, and bite, And with " CUVIER" make a bloody fight." But here another movement attracted our at tention. The door quietly opened, and a second " creature" came limping in, puffing endless clouds of "good will" to CUVIKH from an interminable cigar! He very com placently took a seal by "Zadoo's" side, made sundry suggestions, and gave him ma licious counsel and advice. Where we ran ged him zoologically in our vision we shall not say ; though should we meet him in such company again aKI for such a purpose, we may be tempted " wake him up" from behind his dreamy vapors of " half Spanish" and his glass-house, incognilio. VVe turned again to"Zadoo/' His counte nance was perfectly awful, evincing a mind in one convulsive throe, and the movements of the body sympathised with the action within. Ah some great and ponderous idea was struggling lor birth; some new and tar- j ribla thought would be added to those alrea dy existing in this naughty world!, ft came —it casne. He snatched his pen and in bold chitography {hying to imitato the style of " Cuvier") added to what he had already written— "The creature is forever trying to delude' its observers and ape the manners and ways of its superiors. This may be seen in the ; article alluded to, by the frequent use of: terms which do not pertain to an English j education; a bombastic effoit, no doubt, to pass as a classical graduate but which 1 am j inclined to belive he is r.ot, for such gradu- 1 ate 6, communicating with the public, through ; the medium of the press, especially with [not through eh?j such a newspaper as the ; " Star" would use such language as would bo understood by its patrons." O—o—o—dear! Our naughty, erratic,' "pretending" quill!! Well if we write ! mo(o)re, thought we, our " language" shall ba such as " iinii—hie sneiir, / r rrftttil " understand." But once again ; it is the finishing dash— the closing effort: — "Whore I, he, and a subject ot such hor-1 rible phantasies with such a wandering im- j agination, with a mind containing so many erroneous ideas and wild hallucinations, j with a depire with all to injure my fellow : citizens, and ruin my own integrity, I would scorn the idea of publishing my trash, but would lie down supinely upon ray back and ? die." Boo—hoo—hoo! How we skould repent! for writing out our "dreams." But alas; wb are too much " hyena" for that. We j only thought to ourself—lf (his (Zodoc'e) ar- j raugement ( of "terms, and style of composition j " pertains to an English education," we' have somelhings to unlearn, and that would cause us a pang of regret. JGI EMLOUPE. SucßWls our vision. At the moment of ■ our waking and for a period after, we . were inclined to the belief that w a had been haun-! led by some phosphoric illusion, which had been bobbing about in tbe convolutions of our brain, begat of nothing but vain phanta sy, and more inconstant than the wind; when lo! tbe" Rejoinder" we gave "Zadoc" writing in our vision, appears in the " Dem ocrat" of the 14th inst. If " Zadoc" won't try " UDaffind" eh? Pa. WiArtfenu on the Surrender of Fugitive Slaves. A curious document has been recently brought to light by C. L. Ward, Esq-, at Towar.da, Pa., by which is shown that Wm. Penn, the Quaker, did not believe in harboring end keeping run away slaves, when their masters demanded them. The document referred to is said to have been accidentally discovered in one of the pub lic offices of Pennsylvania, containing the early archives of the State It was mark ed ou the outside, "H'm. Penn to the Sut quchanna Indians," and is as follows: | "My Good Friends —The people of N. Y. | having again wrote earnestly to me about : those prisoners taken by you, especially ye woman and ye boy, saying that they bought them fairly of the Governor of Carolina, who sold them for slaves. And they being very good friends and neighbors, and all under the same King, 1 must therefore de sire you to deliver the woman and boy to bearer hereof, Silvester, who will carefully carry them to New Castle, and there put them on board of a vessel bound directly for New York and by so doing, you will greaily oblige your very good friend and brother. WM. PENH." Young men should bear ir. mind that coal tails, cigars, profanity, tall shirt collars and bluster, do nol make MEN. ir Always do as the sun does—look at the bright aide of everything. For while it ie just as cbeap.it ia just as good for diges tion. Truth and Right God aud our Country. From the Wayncsburg Eagle. ESSAY t Delivered In the Wnynesburg College, i BY MIBS MARIA LIMDSKT. Waynesburg , March 28th, 1855. 1 The location, during the past winter, of a email body of that singular people generally called "Gypsies" in the immediate vicinity of our town, induced me to enquire inie their origin, and to learn something of their history. Who are the Gypsies 1 Whence came they? Are tlioy simply bands of outcasts from different nations, heid together by tho cohesive power of common profit, resulting from their thieving operations and knavish propensities! Are ihej"but ordinary vaga bonds such as are in be ioe( withjg alt coun tries; the excorii i ihrowtrof from community the thousand civilizing agencies constant ly engaged in the work ofsocial reform, and human elevation! or are they a separate, and distinci people having a tribal origin,arid an individual nationality ! These questions presented themselves to my mind, and I thought that some inquiries respecting them might be neither uninteresting or unprofita ble. Upon turning to the pages of history, I found that they were not a collection of thieves, robbers, and ootlaws from various nations. They are a separate and distinct people—a wonderful people—without a country, without a home, without law, with out political institutions, without rulers, nnd without any of die machinery of government, which olhe people have found necessary to self-preservation. They are a tribe of exiles —forever wandering over.God'a grepn Earth: like the dove thatspead i', weary wings over' the wide waste of deluged waters, —finding no place of rest—no spot to consecralo by the endearing name ot home. 1 heve said they have no country: and yet they are found in ali civilized countries Wherever Soetoty has carried its organization and its blessings. Wherever civilization has unfurled its banner of light and love,—there too, llipse enemies of society—these scoffers ! at civilization huve pitched their tents.— j They fol'owed the footsteps of the haughty | Spaniard to the land oi Itis golden dreams: I and to day they revel in the "halls of the Montezumas." They have tracked tho har dy Anglo-Saxon, in his march across this continent, and now chant their wild incanta talions to the mocking waves that break up- I on the shores of distant Oregon. Their tents | gary ; on the storm-swept plains of iron Rus sia: and among the gorgeous castle ruins of Spain: and everywhere they ore the same dis tinctive people, having the same ineffaceable typo of their strongly marked tribal charac teristics. Respecting their origin, we know nothing definite. The ballad singer and the wander ing minstrel, who were did earliest histori ans in oilier nations, appear to have had no existence amor.g them. The muse of history kept no date of their birth , and wrote t:o rec ord of their early progress. I'oetry flings no star-like radiance oyer their native land; and sings no strains of tearful sadness over their exodus.* If sculpture had perpetuated the features of their founders, posterity might have conjectured their character irom the at tributes of their ancient heroes, or the dra pery spread around them. If painting had embalmed their primitive customs the anti quarian might be guided iu bis researches by the representation of quiet pastoral scenes, or the portraiture of barbarian battle fields. But far them, the marble never assumed a form, for them the canvass never glowed with beauty. One only guide-post remains to point the inquirer backward along their path 61 travel. A single taper throws its feeble ray into the darknese which gatliersabout their youth time. Language, that uever-failing key to the descent of tribes—is true to its mission bere. By tracing up their words to their ra diess, linguists have discovered their mother tonguv, and found it to be one of the oldest known upon earth. Amid their contused and often unintelligible jargon, the venera ble sancrit constantly peeps out, like the love ly face oi one of Raphael's angels from among tbe tattered rngs which, the Artist designed should make the world believe the celestial visitant was but a beggar boy. This infallible test of language proves them to be of Indian origin; but Ihq light reaches uo further. All beyond is utter dark ness. Whether they aro an off-shot from some Tartar tribe and hurled from their ancient seats by the rude hand of conquest, or the fugitive descendants of some scattered cast of benighted Mindostan, must be left to mere conjecture. We know indeed that their pri meval home was somewhere in the storied plains ot the East—the old East; the fount ain of light—and the cradle of humanity— but whether their tents first arose among the mountains which look down upon the land of Confucius; or along the Abana and Phar par, those pleasant tivorsof Damascus which the leprous Naaman loved; or in the valleys of the Nile, where amorous brasses delight ed to kiss the brow of the beauteous Cleo patria; or along the jungle-banks of the dark Ganges, where the fanatic mother still flings her wailing babe to the wild waters, the world may never know. Their appearance in Europe was just aftqr one vf those terrifio events which have now and then startled the world by its fearful sub limity, and wilt forever tower above tbe un distinguished years of by-gooecenturies, like vast-ialend-promontories looming up above the nameless waves of a turbulent Ocean. | The mighty Tametlane at the head of his Tartar hordes, burst with tornado force, upon the plains of Eastern Europe, and trampled down whatever seemed sacred or lovely.— The flowers of innocence withered. The fruits of industry perished. The homes of innocence curled in flames and the Genius of distinction poured out all bis wrathful vials. When the storm hail swept by, tbe Gypsies were seen to follow in its track—stripping the dead and plundering the living. Since then, they have followed the sun in his west ward course around the globe. No mount ain was too high for them lo climb; no river too broad for litem to cross; no forest too dark for them to penetrate. Over the wide Allan tic they seemed to come on the wings of the wind—temoled not less perhaps by tne con- I geniul freedom of our country, than by the superstitions credulity of our people. From city to city—from town to town they have wandered through our land; and, wtiatsome may consider as remarkable as any other in cident in their history, they have at last discovered there isaucti a place as Waynes- j burg. And they will be likely to remember it too; for, if Madam Rumor speak, truly, their knavish impositions were practiced with con siderable success upon the credulous in the neighboring community. Fortune telling, which has ever been their favourite mystery, is suid to have been pe culiarly profitable here. Many sober, etaid ) and respectable citizens—ashamed to visit them in the light of day,—would wait till the lengthening shadows of eve fell upon the F.Hflh, nod then NLTRR A CAREFUL rcconnol satics of tho ground to be certain that tie cu rious eye was watching their movement,, the would glide stealthily up to the Uypsej tent, and present their broad palm, with as much eagerness as ever sn ancient dupe fell at the shrine of the Delphian Oracle. 1 have been told, it was quite amusing to see the effort, of these pretended seers to please their victims, and to command their faith by predicting the gratification ot their most cherished wishes. To liio young maidens they promised lov ers—.always handsome, anil sometimes rich: lo iho young gentlemen ihe realization of those visions of glory, aud dreams of fame which are j<o alluring to Ihe youlliful mind; to ihe old rrches, and nothing but riches, for they had sufficient knowledge of the human heart to be avyare that avarice is the last pas sion that dies within it. Hut they do not re -4) iUforimie-tell'Mg. 1 liy have many othi r impositions which ore equally pro fitable. One of them vras recently practiced upon a simple-hearted individual, not twen ty-five miles from the shadow of these Col lege-walls. They promised him that if he would deposit all his money in a particular placo, and let it remain lor several days, with out looking at it, it would be doubled in val ue. He did so. Of coursg the money was abstracted by one of their gang before the, appointed day; and thus the hard earnings of years were swept away fram an honest but ignorant man. Pity him, we cannot; contempt for such superstitious weakness checks the laeliirg of compassion before it rises to a high, or finds expression in a tear. The Gypsies are suiterstitioua themselves; hut lliey have no superstitions of Iheir own. Every tfcnig which they believe they havo leanieti from other races. The sorceries, charms, spells and witchcraft, of the na- | lions among whom lliey dwell, are implicit ly believed by them ; while they have not the slightest faith in their own pretended arts ol palmistry, and divination. But the most remarkable feature in lite national characters of this singular people, in their utter irreli gion. Theologians have asserted that the most benighted tribes have some vague con captions of a Grout First Cause, and of reli gious obligations. The Gypsies constitute these only known exceptions to the correct ness of this general remark ; they seem not to have hail the most distant idea of a Su preme Being, or the faintest dreatn of a futu rity. They reared no alters—They kindled no sacririoial fires—they built no temples— they carved no idols. Their minds w#ta a dark, and gloomy chasm, where no ray of revelation cast lite feeblest gleam of the great hereafter. If they ever had a national re ligion, it is now shrouded in profound mys tery. Upon their first appearance in Western Europe they stated (lint they were penitents who had been condemned by the Pope to wander through a certain term of pilgrimage in expiation of the sin of their Egyptian an cestors, in refusing succour to the holy fami ly. But this was merely otto of their fabri cations to gain credit, and obtain money.— They now profess all religions, and care for none; they claim tobe Protestants, Catholics,. Mahometans, or Mormons as their interests may dictate; and they ridicule, renounce and blaspheme all without compunction. It would seem natural, that such a tribe ot wanderers dispersed among all civilized na tions without social organization or recog nized rulers, would soon loose their national ity, would mingle with and become merged in the respective predominant races of the land in which ihoy dwelt, just as the mount ain rivulet which leapmgfrom its native rock and dashing down' the wild glen mingles | with the rushing rivor, and looses its self at I last, in the blue expanse of the majestic I ocean. Not so the Gypsies. Like dwarfted and blasted fir among tbe princely cedars of Lebanon, tbey stand isolated, incongruous, ; and alone in tbe midst of a populous'world. Claiming no *kindred with tbe stranger, ac knowleding ho ties of affinity, bound by no < bi.galion of morality, possessing no spot of Earth whereon to rest a weary nead, or dig a lowly grave worshipping no God, kneeling at no shrine, connected with the past by no •hoary tradition, linked to Ihe future by no cheering hope; they still have for more than four hundred years, preserved the same nu merical strength and the same incomprehen sible nationality. AN ACT, To Restrain the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. The bill to repeal lire tavern-license laws and restrain the sale of liquors, has beeomo j a law, having passed both branches of the I Legislature, arid received the Governor's ap- I proval. We publish u bo low, entire, as fi nally enacted. It is materially different from the bill originally introduced in the House, by Mr Curnmuigs. An Act to Restrain the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. SECTION 1. Be it enacted, tfc, That from af ter the first day of October next, it shall be unlawful to keep or maintain any house, room or place, where vinous, spirituous, mali or brewed liquors, or any admixtures I thereof, are sold and drank, except as hero- / inafler provided, and all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be, and the same arc hereby repealed. SECT. 2. That il any person or persona within this Commonwealth, shall keep for sale and sell, or in connection with any oth er business or profitable employment, give, receiving therefor atiy'priee, profit, or advan tage, by any measure whatever, and at the aine time voluntarily afford a place or any other convenience or inducement by which the same may be used as a beverage, any vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixture thereof, he, she or they, and any ope aiding, abetting or assisting therein, shall bo deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction, shall be sen tenced to pay a fine not exceeding fifty dol lars and undergo an imprisonment not ex ceeding one month ; and for a second or anv subsequent offence, shall pay a fine not ex ceeding one hundred dollars, and under go imprisonment not exceeding three months. SECT. 3. That if any two or more persons conspire or act together, by which one may sell and the other provide a place or other convenience (ordrinking, with intent to evade the provisions of this Act, each one so offend ing, upon conviction shall be punished as pro vided in the second section of this Act. SECT. 4. That it shall be unlawful for any person to sell or keep for sale, any vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or an) admixture thereof, in case not hereinbefore prohibited, in a less quantity than one quart, nor without license granted by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the proper county, or. pe tition presented for that purpose, to bo advei4 tised according to the first section ot the Act of the twenty-ninth of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, supplementary to the various Acts relating to tavern licenses; but no such license shall be granted to other than citizens of the United Slates, of temper ate habits and good repute for honesty : Pro vided, That no certificate shall be required or published as mentioned in the act herein referred to : Provided, That no license for the sale of liquors, as afuresaid, shall be granted to the keeper of any hotel, inn, tavern, res tanrant, eating house, oystorbouee or cellar, theatre, or other places of entertainment, amusement or refreshment. Pr'ovidst Fur ther, That so much of any aot or acts of As sembly as. requires a license from a city or county treasurer to authorize Ihe sale of spirituous vinous or malt liquors, be, aud the same is hereby repealed. SECT. S. That the said Court, by their rules shall fix a time at which applications for said licenses shall be heard, at which time all persons making objections shall be heard. SECT. 6. That it shall not be lawful for the Clerk of said Court to issue any license, as aforesaid, until the applicant shall have filed the bond hereinafter required, and the cer tificate of the City receiver or County-Treas urer, that the license fee has been paid to him. SECT. 7. Thai the appraisers of License un der this Act, shall be appointed as provided by existing laws, except in die city of Phila delphia, where, on the passage of this Act, and thereafter at the beginning of every year, three reputable and temperate persons shall be appointed by the Court of Quarter Ses sions, to appraise dealers in vinous, Spiritu ous, mall or browed liquors, as a foresaid, and of distillers and brewers, and to do and per form all duties now enjoined by law, rot in consistent herewith ; andsaid Appraisers shall be citizens of the United Slates, in no man ner connected with or interested in the liquor business, and shall be compensated ae now providod by law. SECT. 8. That no license shall be granted, without Ilia payment to the Receiver of Tax es of the city of Philadelphia, or to the Treas urers of the other counties of the Stata, for the use of the Commonwealth, three limes the amount now fixed by law, to b*e paid by venders of spirilooue, vinous or malt li quors, or brewers and distillers: Provided, That no license shall be granted for a loss sum than thirty dollars. SECT. 9. That the bond required to be ta ken of all persoos who shall receive a license to sell spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed li quors, or any admixtures thereof, shall be in or.e thousand dollars, conditional for the faithful observance of all the laws of this Commonwealth relating to the business of vending such liquors, with twosuffioientsure ties and warrant of Attorney to confess judg ment ; which bond shall be approved by one [Two Dollars per Annua NUMBER 14- of the Judges of the Courl of Quarter Sessions o r the Peace ol the proper county, and to be filed in said Court; nod whenever a judg ment for any forfeiture or fine shall have been rocovered against the principfe therein, it shall be lawful for the District Attorney, of the proper oounty, to enter judgment agaiost the obligors in Ihe said bond, and proceed to collect the same of the aaid principle or sureties. SECT. 10. That every person licensed to sell spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, as afore said, shall frame his license under glass, and place the same so that it may at all times I be conspicuous in his chief place of making . sales, and no license shall authorize sales by any person who oball neglect this require ment, norsbull any license autocrine the ato of any spirituous, vinous, or mall liquors ou Sunday. SECT. 11. That any sale made of any spir ituous, vinous or mall liquors contrary to this Act,Fhall be taken to be a misdemean or, and upon conviction of the offence, in the Court of Quarter Sessions of the proper coun ty, shall be punished in the manner prescri bed by the second section of this Aot. SECT. 12. That the provisions of ibis Actj as to appraisment and license, shall not ex- I tend to importers, w ho shall vend or dispose ol said liquors in the original cases or pack ages, as imported, nor to duly commission ed auctioneers selling at public vendue or out-cry, nor to domestic producers, brewere or distillers selling in quantities not less than five gallons; nor shall anything herein con tained, prohibit the sale, by druggists, of any admixtures of intoxicating liquors as med icine. SECT. 13. Ihul it shall be the duly of every.. Constable of every town, bofough, township or ward, within this Commonwealth, at ev ery term of the Lo'irt of Quarter Sessions of each respective county, to make return-on oath or affirmation, whether, within his ktuowledge, there is any place within his bail iwick, kept arid maintained in violation of this Act;and it shall be the especial duty of the Judges of the said Courts, to see that this returu is faithfully made ; and if any person ' shall make known to such Constable the name or names of any one who shall havo violated this Act, with the names of witness es who can prove the fact, it shall be his du ty to make return thereof, on oath or afhrm- I ation, to the Courl, and upon his wilful fail | ure so to do, he shall be deemed guilty of A misdemeanor, and upon indictment and con viction, shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the jail of the county, for a period not less I than ono uev mors titan ihme months, ami I pay a finej.qJ exceeding fifty Rollers. 1 SECT. 11. That this act shall not interfere with any persons holding a license, hereto fore granted, until Ihe lime for which the same was granted shall have expired ; nor shall any license which may be granted be fore the first day of July next, authorise the . sale of said liquors, or admixtures thereof, after Ihe first day of October next, contrary to the provisions of this Act. A Glance at Uausas. Many young men,and hot a few .middle aged, in various portions of the Eastern States, determined to direct ibe'u footsteps to tha new territory of Kansas. It is important, therefore, that correct information should ba afforded in relation to that section of the He public. According to Messrs. Boynton and Mason, members of a committee appointed in Cincinnati, the climate of resem bles that of Northern Missouri Central Illi nois, and Southern Ohio, ana is capkble of producing the grains, Iruits and vegetables of the Middle States. The ground is usual ly free from frost by Ihe Ist of March, which returns again about the Ist of October. The quantity of rain that falff annually, is about 30 inches, which is said 4 10 be considerably less in the average than in the Atlantic Slates. Streams and springs are Numerous, and mill-sites are abundant. Timber is found all among the various water courses, anil coal is ascertained to be embedded io many parts of the territory. The cost to a settler of a farm in Kansas of 160 acres is ot coarse at 5i, 25 per acre —2oo. The crop, before the land is entered, though he ie entitled to it under the pre-emption law, will more than pay for il. The first ploughing will cost at present two dollars and a quarter per acre. The crop will be ae follows, according to our travellers: Gorn, 50 to 100 bus. an ao. Wheat average 20 to 100 " " Oats—say do to 100 " " Potatoes 200 " " 300 some times raised. Hemp, at $1,20 per ton, 1000 lbs. The praries yield from one to four tons of bay au acre—sometimes even now cut by a mowing machine, to which no obstacles are in the way. Fruit and vegetables that grow well in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ken J tucky, may be produced in Kansas to per fection. In ifarea years locating on Ihe prai rie, a man may have his farm surrounded and divided by hedges; his dwelling adorn ed with shrubbery and shade trees; fruit trees anil grape vines in bearing, and young forest, if he pleases, already capable uf sup plying him with small timber. The adapta tion of the soil to grain and stock is Obvious. The prices of horses, oxen, cows and mules ate about due same as Missouri, Ohio and Kentucky; that of grain is high this season, on account of the extreme droufh, being 81,50 a bushel for corn, $6 a hundred for flour, and Ihe like. The geological forma lion indicates iron, and lead has already beau found: The Indians have bronght in speci mens of lin and zino ; gypsum has been dis covered, bads of copper are Said to ex in and clay for bricks is abundaut. In brief, Kansas holds out many inducements to the young, the bold the enterprising and the £K severing,
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