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S. B. ROW, Editor asd Proprietor.
CLEARFIELD, PA , MAY 20, 1857. .
THE TENDENCIES 0E THE AGE.
The peculiarities of this great, "universal
Yankee nation" of ours, have been a prolific
theme, and the conclusion invariably arrived
at is, that we are decidedly and unmistakcably
a fast people that the "go ahead" principle
predominates, let it be directed as it may, ei
ther for good or fer evil. The term "fast" ex
presses, perhaps, better than any other word,
or any combination of words, the prevailing
sentiment and condition of affairs. Our coun
try, within comparatively a few years, from a
dependent colony has advanced to the first po
sition among the nations of the earth. A re
cital of its progress seems more like the rela
tion of a dream or incredible fairy tale, than a
truthful narrative. The Age is, beyond all
doubt, a progressive one not only in the arts,
sciences, manufactures, agriculture, educa
tion, religion, &c, but also in vice, immorali
ty, infidelity, brutishness, and all that is de
grading, filthy, and beneath the dignity of ra
tional beinps. Murder stalks abroad with un
abashed eflrontery over the land, in daylight
as boldly as at "the itching hour of night"
horse-stealing, counterfeiting, and thieving of
all kinds, prevails to an unexampled extent,
and is followed or encouraged by individuals
who desecrate the house of the great Jehovah,
not only with their vile presence, but even
presume to be his disciples and worshippers
rascality of a more insiduous character is prac
ticed under cover of law ; and gluttony and la
sciviocsness are indulged iu to such a fearful
extent that comparatively few are "above sus
picion." This, we admit, is a rather frightful
picture, and may seem at first sight highly
wrought ana exaggerated ; but look about you,
scan the actions of the world closely, and then
tell rts what conclusion you have come to. Do
not, however, think that we embrace all in
this catalogue wc do not say or think so
We believe there are many, very many, good,
well-meaning, righteous and God-fearing peo
ple ; but at the same time there is high au
thority for believing that there is a greater
number of those who are steeped in the sinks
and slews of iniquity and ungodliness.
; In pondering t hese sad truths, for truths they
are, the reflecting man naturally seeks the pri
mary caus ; which produces such deplorable
effects, and with a surprising degree of intui
tion finds it centred in one word money.
"With some, its accumulation is the great ob
ject, and to acquire it they resort to means in
compatible as well as compatible with hones
ty. One deals in spurious notes, bogus coin,
and commits forgeries and direct "robberies ;
another "gets it by some species of hunibug
.gery, or by legal stealth; the venal politician
will shout the loudest for those who pay him
best; and instances are known in which the
justice and sacredness of the bench and pul
pit have been prostituted for "filthy lucre."
With others, possessing it, wealth is employed
as a means of accomplishing their aims and
ends whether they be good or evil whether
it be to carry out some philanthropic or char
itable design, to crush a brother, or to outrage
and destroy chastity and virtue.
During the last dozen years tbero has been
a manifest increase in the disposition to in
dulge in extravagance of every species cost,
ly and gaudy dress, superb furniture, magnifi
cent houses, splendid carriages, fast horses,
&c, and to do all this golU is required. Once
launched upon the ocean of fashionahle folly
and extravagance, there is no drawing back
appearances must be kept up, if in the end it
does shipwreck the poor, deluded fellow who
has ventured on this uncertain sea.
Our space will not, however, permit us to
amplify these ideas. We have merely touched
upon them ; -but it might be well enough if all
would reflect upon them, and set about apply
ing a corrective to those evil and pernicious
tendencies which are but too well calculated to
endanger the permanency of correct morals,
true religion, and our republican institutious,
ana imud up an aristocracy on their ruins.
The Philadelphia Sun, the oldest American
paper in the Slate, intends issuing a campaign
sheet, from and after the 1st of June, "for the
success of the election of David Wilmot and
the whole State Ticket." Each issue will con
tain forty columns, and will bo furnished at
the rate, for the campaign, of fifty cents, or of
five dollars to clubs of 20 subscribers, or one
dollar per annum for the present weekly.
Tat Ladies' Jocrjiax, and Illustrated Mis
cellany, is the title of a new monthly periodi
cal published in Philadelphia, by Scattergood
& Co., at $1,50 a year. The May Xo. is before
ob, containing some choice, reading matter, a
splendid fashion plate, and a number of other
illustrations. We have no doubt that it will
be received with favor by the public.
Pat OrricE While the salary attached to
the Attorney Generilship of Virginia is only
$2,000 per annum, yet Sehlen & Withers' in
debtedness to that State, reaching ove $200,
000, is about to be paid, and upon that sum
the Attorney General is allowed a commission
of 5 per cent, f.r collecting, making in the ag
gregate over $20,000 for the two ytars salary.
OTTbe Republicans carried the recent e
Jection in Wisconsin by increased majorities .
Correspondence of the f'Baftsman's Journal."
Hae&isbcko, Hay 16ih, 1857.
Dear, JouaxAT, : On Tuesday, the bill for
the sale of the Main Line passed the House, as
it came from the Senate, or in oth'-T words,
the House agreed to all the Senate amend
ments. It only remains to be signed by the
Governor to become a law.
After the hill had passed, the House took up
the bill to prevent the floating of loose logs in
the Bonnet's Branch of the Sinnamahoning.
The bill was amended, so as to apply to all the
streams of the West Branch above the Sinna
mahoning, and also, so as to empower the
Courts to license persons to float their logs,
when they give proper security to pay all dam
age that may accrue to rafts from obstructions
caused by these logs. ' This is a compromise.
The bill secures the raftsman from damage,
and yet gives the floater the right to float his
logs, if he first give security to the raftsman
not to obstruct the highway, or which is the
same thing, he gives it to the Court," for fhe
raftsman's benefit. According to this bill, the
raftsman will recover for all damage that may
accrue to his raft from the floating of loose
logs. All that is needed is proof that the float
ing cf the loose logs of this or that individual
was the cause of the daniago. The log man
fakes oat a license for floating, t,pays ten dol
lars for if, I think,) stating the number of logs
he intends to float, and his mark, and this li
cense will last far one year and no longer.
Many of our raltsmcn here at home think this
bill does not afford them adequate protection ;
that it would involve them in endless litiga
tion, (a nice thing for the lawyers, at least,)
and that it would impliedly legalize the float
ing of loose logs. It is thought that this bill
will not pass the Senate. Ed.
The bill to increase the pay of District At
torneys has passed both Houses. By this bill
the foes are : Drawing indictment and prose
cuting case, in Oyer and Terminer $10,00, in
"Quarter Sessions $5,00 ; a bill returned igno
ramus, in Oyer snd Terminer $5,00, in Quar
ter Sessions $3,00 ; case settled with leave of
Court, $3,00; and every case of surety of
peace, $3,00.
The bill to increase the salary of Associate
Judges, passed the ILvtise this week. By this
bill, they will receive a salary in proportion to
the time they serve. Those who serve the
fewest number of weeks, will have their salary
increased only five dollars, while those who
serve as many as thirty weeks, will receive in
all as high as $400,00.
Both Houses have agreed on the appropria
tion bill.
The Apportionment bill is now the bone of
contention.
The Senate have not acted yet on the Sun
bury & Erie Railroad bill.
The bill in relation to the floating of loose
logs is in the hands of a committee in tbe
Senate.
Mr. John M. B. Petrikcn,a member of the
House from Lycoming,died on Friday between
one and two o'clock, of the National Hotel
disease.
The Legislature will probably adjourn next
week, and yet they may not get through with
some of the important bills.
Tours, fcc, Cuts.
Ttrose & Lock Haves Railroad. The
friends of the Tyrone and Lock Haven Kail
road will, no doubt, be glad to learn that the
Western Division of said road, from Bellefonte
to Tyrone, is now under contract. The letting
took place at L'nionville, on Thursday the 7th
inst, at which time and place th"e Board of
Managers met for the purpose. A large num
ber of bids were made for the work some for
separate sections, and others for the whole di
vision. After carefully examining all the pro
posals handed in, it was ascertained that Sam
uel Brady & Co. had agreed to grub, grade,
bridge and finish the road ready for the lies
and rails for the sum of $6-3,500, which being
the lowest bid, the Board accepted it and at
once entered into an article of agreement to
that effect. The work is to be commenced in
fifteen days from the date of the agreement,
and to be finished . by the first of December
next. Bellffonte Whig.
The End of the U. S. Bank. The Trenton
American says, the books, papers, drafts, notes
of hand, etc., of the United States Bank, to
the amount of forty tons, have been purchas
ed by Messrs. Bottom & Co., of that city, and
will be made into paper. Ten tons of this vast
amount is of correspondence, autograph let
ters of the first statesmen, politicians and fi
nancial men of this and other countries drafts
upon the Rothschilds for hnndreds ol thou
sands of dollars, certificates of stocks trans
ferred to leading bankers in Europe, checks
and drafts from Clay, Webster, Adams, Cal
houn, Houston, Crockett, Cass. &c. &c. all
scattered, ready for the important transforma
tion into clean unsullied white paper. From
this large mass of papers some idea may bo
formed of the business of the institution,
which once occupied such a prominent position.
A Great People. According to the last
census of the United States we have two mil
lions and a half of farmers, one hundred thou
sand meicbants, sixty-four thousand masons,
and nearly two hundred thousand carpenters.
We have fourteen thousand bakers to bake
our bread; twenty-four thousand lawyers to
set us by tbe ears, forty thousand doctors to
"kill or cure," and fifteen hundred editors to
keep this motley-mass in order by the potent
power of public opinion controlled and manu
factured through the press. -
The Church in Conclusions. An idea is
spreading in England, that a real effort is mak
ing to. Romanize the Episcopal Church-thro'
the agency of the Tractarian, or extreme High
Church clergy. The idea, however, has not
been much regarded by the public or the press,
at large, until the Privy Council, the other
day, gave a decision in St. Barnabas and St.
Paul's, Knightsbridge, cases which would
seem to show that the highest court of appeal,
in Ecclesiastical controversies. Is on the side
I the Tractarians. - ,
KANSAS AN IMPORTANT STATEMENT.
To the Editor of the N. Y.Daily Times:
As the proposition of Governor Robinson
and other Free State men, to Mr. Secretary
Stanton, seems the cause of different judg
ments on the part of our Eastern friends, an
explanation of the causes which produced that
proposition may aid in the formation of cor
rect opinions concerning it.
The writer hereof was present at Lawrence
during Mr. Stanton's speech, and heard it all ;
and participated in the conversations whict
ensued between him and the citizens during
the same evening and the following morning.
Hence, what I shall here state will be given of
my own knowledge, and will also be substan
tiated by various others cognizant of the same
facts. The most important of these facts is
this s ' that Gov. Robinson's proposition was
the result of Mr. Stanton's own suggestion.
During the supper which followed the out door
speeches, Gen. McLean admitted that the law
providing for the election of Delegates to the
Constitutional Convention, had been framed
with great care to ruin tho Free State Party ;
knowing, to use his own words, that by it "wo
have you dead !" Afterwards lip attempted to
account for this ruinous anticipated defeat, by
the great mimercial superiority of the Pro
Slavery Party in Kansas. So absurd a state
ment drew out a burst of good humored ridi
cule ; and amidst the excitement, Acting Gov
ernor Stanton inquired of Gov. Robinson and
others whether they were willing to make a
fair trial of strength, if a chance were offered.
The reply unhesitatingly.was "yes." "What,"
said Mr. Stanton, would satisfy you 7" "An
honest revision of the census list, and half the
judges of election," was the reply. The plan
proposed in Gov. Robinson's letter was then
mentioned ; he approved that part relating to
the census, and thought the other might be
satisfactorily arranged. He was told that he
had not tho power to secure these changes ;
but expressed himself confident that his in
fluence would suffice. At his own request,
the proposition was reduced to writing ; and as
ho had left Lawrence before its completion, it
was sent to him at Lccompton.
During the next morning, in conversation,
he reiterated his confidence in being able to
secure the co-operation of the Sheriffs and Pro
bate Judges in this plan, and left town with
the apparent expectation of receiving and act
ing on. the proposal.
Knowing all this, you may imagine my as
tonishment at the tone and character of Mr.
Stanton's answer I 1 had no faith in the suc
cess of the plan, but I did not look to see him
so unhesitatingly and disingeniously ignore
the whole offspring of his own wish, and coolly
assume to instruct his memorialists in the very
principle of law and matters of fact which they
had taught him a short time before. He was
told that he would not be allowed to execute
any such plan, at the same time that its propo
sal was yielded to his earnest entreaties ; yet
here we have him imparling to his correspon
dents the very ideas he would not receive from
them I
But the cause is clear ; Laving found, on re
turning to Lccompton, that his friends, the
'Free StateDemocrats," (Sheriff Jones, Judge
Wood, Gen. Calhoun, &c.,) would allow no
such tinkering of their just and fair Conven
tion Law which it is the confessedly special
policy of Mr. Buchanan to see "executed"
Mr. Stanton was obliged to retrace his steps
in the easiest way, and chose this path. W.
The Indian Diffici lties at Spirit Lake.
We are indebted to a friend at St. Peters,
Minn., for the official account of the lato In
dian difficulties at Spirit Lake. We glean
from it a few items of interest.
Spirit Lake is situated near the north line of
Iowa, adjoining the Des Moines river. A white
settlement was established there last year,
which had progressed to six or seven houses,
when winter closed in ; simultaneous with this
settlement was another, ten or fifteen miles
from the Lake, called Springfield, which at
the time of the Indian troubles, in March, con
tained two trading houses and several families.
Tho nearest settlement to the south of Spring
field, is In-yan-yan, on the Rock river, forty
miles below the extreme vergo of civilization
unpossessed of the means of self defense and
unable to secure immediate assistance from
others. The Indians were hunting in the vi
rility of this settlement ; one of them was bit
ten by a dog belonging to a white, and he kill
ed it. The white assaulted tho Indian and
beat him, and tbe whites proceeded to the In
dian camp and disarmed them ; but recover
ing their arms, they attacked the settlement.
The result is not fully known. They then pro
ceeded to Spirit Lako, attacked one house at a
time, and either killed, took prlsouers, or
drove away all persons residing there.
The first that was known of this outrage was
ascertained by a Mr. Morris Markham, who
hud been residing at Spirit Lake, in the fami
ly of Mr. Gardner, and who returning after an
absence of some time in Iowa, proceeded to
his former residence on the 19th of March last,
and found it sacked, and three dead bodies in
the house. He visited two other houses that
day, and found them deserted ; he then secre
ted himself until night when he went to a fourth
bouse and saw six or eight lodges of Indians
encamped near it ; supposing they had been
the cause of what he had witnessed, he went
immediately to tho Des Moines settlement and
reported what he had seen. .
A company of the Tenth Infantry was dis
patched from Fort Ridgley to the scene.
Thro a trader, who was killed by them, the In
dians learned of the advance of the troops and
made good their retreat. Troops have been
stationed there to prevent further outrages.
It has been ascertained that the whole number
of persons missing is twenty ; the number kill
ed is not known. '
The Indians who committed the outrage are
a branch of the Wak-pe-tu-kl Sionx, led by
Ink-pa-du-ta and are well known. They do
not number more than eight or ten" lodges or
about . fifteen men. The Sioux who oonn.
the Reserve, which includes the Des Koines
and Spirit Lake country, are as much incen
sed as the whites at tho conduct of the depre
dators under Ink-pa-du-ta, who are not inclu
ded in the treaty have no right on the Re
serve, and are not on amicable terms with their
Sioux brcthern.
It is safe to say, therefore, that the stories
of great Indian up-risings, great t laughter of
whites, &c, are exaggerations growing out of
the fear, which a near resident to so powerful
a tribe as the Sioux, inspires.
NEW FEE BILL.
, The following act was passed by both bran
ches of tho Legislature and signed by tho
Governors
An Act relating to Fees of Aldermen, Justices
"o jrtmce ana lonstapies.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
me,t, and it is hereby enacted by tho authority
oi the same, 1 hat from and after the passage
of this act the fees to be received by alder
men and justices of the peace, shall bo as fol
lows: For information or complaint on behalf of
the Commonwealth, for every ten words one
cent. -
Docket entry of action on behalf of the com
monwealth, ten cents.
Warrant or mittimus on behalf ol the com
monwealth, twenty-five cents.
Writing an examination or confession of de
fendant, for eveiy ten words, one cent.
Administering oath or affirmation, three cts.
Taking recognizance in every criminal case,
twenty cents.
Transcript in criminal cases, including cer
tificate, fifteen cents.
Returning the same to court, for each mile
circular actually travelled, to be allowed in ou
ly one case at each session of the couit, three
cents.
Entering judgment on conviction for fine,
ten cents.
Recording conviction or copy thereof, for
every ten words, one cent.
Warrant to levy fine or forfeiture, twenty
cents.
Bail piece and return or supersedeas, fifteen
cents.
Discharge to jailor, fifteen cents.
Entering discontinuance in cases of assault
and battery, twenty cents.
Entering complaint of master, mistress or
apprentice, ten eents.
Notice to master, mistress or apprentice,
fifteen cents.
Hearing parties and discharging complaint,
twenty-five cents.
Holding inquisition under landlord and ten
ant act, or in case of forcible entry, for each
day to each justice, one dollar and twenty-five
cents.
Precept to sheriff, for each justice, twenty
five cents.
Recording proceedings, to each justice fifty
cents.
Writ of restitution, to each justice twenty
fivo cents.
Warrant to appraise damages, twenty cents.
Warrant to sell strays, twenty cents.
Warrant to appraise swine, twenty cents.
Receiving .and entering return of" appraise
ment of swine, five cents.
Publishing proceeding of appraisers of swine
fifty cents.
Entering action in civil case, ten cents.
Summons, capias or subpoena, each, ten cts.
For every additional name after the first,
two cents.
All witnesses' names to be put in one sub
poena, unless seperate subpoenas be requested
by the parties.
Subpoena duces tecum, fifteen cents.
Entering return of summons and qualifying
constable, ten cents.
Entering capias and bail bond, five cents.
Every continuance of suit, ten cents.
Trial and judgment in case of defence made
by defendant or defendants, twenty-five cents.
Entering judgment by confession, ten cents.
Investigating plaintiffs claim and entering
judgment by default, fifteen cents.
Taking bail, ten cents.
Entering satisfaction, to be charged only
when an actual entry is made on tho docket,
five cents.
Entering discontinuance, five cents.
Entering amicable suit, ten cents.
Entering rule to take depositions of witnes
ses, fivo cents.
Rule to take depositions, ten cents.
Interrogatories annexed to rules for taking
depositions, for every ten words, one cent.
Entering return of rule, five cents.
Entering rule to refer, five cents.
Notice to each referee, five cents.
Entering report of referees and. judgment
thereon, ten cents.
. Written notice to a party in any case, ten
cents.
Execution, fifteen cents.
. Entering return of execution, ten cents.
Scire facias in any caae, twenty cents.
Opening judgment for re-hearing, ten cents.
Transcript of judgment and certificate, 20
cents.
Return of proceedings, or certiorari, or ap
peal, including recognizance, forty eents.
Receiving tho amount of a judgment before
execution and paying the same over, if not
exceeding ten dollars, ten cents.
If exceeding ten and not exceeding forty
dollars, twenty five cents.
. If exceeding forty dollars, fifty cents. .
Every search whore no service is rendered
to which any fees are attached, ten cents. .
Entering complaint in writing in case of at
tachment and swearing, or affirming complai
nant, fifteen cents. . .' . ' ;
, Attachment, twenty centa. - .
- Entering return and appointing freeholders,
ten cents. , , .
Advertisements, eich, fifteen cents.
Order to sell goods, fifteen cents.
Order for the relief of a pauper, each jus
tice twenty-five cents.
Order for tha removal of a pauper, each jus
tice fifty centa ! '
Order to Seize goods for the maintalnanceof
wi
fc and children, twenty-five cents.
Order for oreniinni for wolf or fox. or other
scalps, to be paid by the proper county, fifteen.
ce
:nts.
Every acknowledgment or probate of deed
other instrument of writing, twenty cents.
or
Taking and signing acknowledgment of in
denture of an apprentice, for each indenture
twenty cents.'
Assignment and making record of inden-
tu
rc, twenty cents.
Cancelling indenture, ten cents.
Comparing and signfng tax duplicates, each
slice fifty cents.
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For marrying each couple, making record
thereof, and certificate to the parties, 2 dollars.
- Certificate of approbation of two justices to
the binding as apprentice of a person by over
seer or directors of the poor, each justice
twenty-five cents.
Certificate to obtain land warrant, fifty cents.
Swearing or affirming county commission
ers, assessors, or other township or county of
ficer, and certificate thereof, to be paid by the
county, twenty-flvo cents.
For administering oaths or affirmations in
any case not herein provided for, ten cents.
For issuing precept to lessee in landlord
and tenant proceedings, each justice fifteen
cents.
For hearing and determining complaint, and
all other services rendered therein, fifty cents.
For recording proceedings therein, each
twenty-five cents.
For issuing and receiving returns of writ o
restitution, including entry thereof, each jus
tice twenty-five cents.
Section 2. The fees for services under the
laws of the United States shall be as follows,
namely :
For certificate of protection, fifty cents.
For certificate of lost protection, twenty-five
cents.
For a warrant, twenty-five cents.
For commitment, twenty-five cents.
Summons for seamen in admiralty case,
twenty-five cents.
Heariug thereon with docket entry, fifty
cents.
Certificate to clerk of district court to issue
admiralty process, twenty-five cents.
Section 3. That tho fees to be received by
Constables shall be as follows : "
For executing warrant in behalf of the com
monwealth, forty cents.
Conveying to jail on mittimus or warrant,
arresting a vagrant, disorderly person, or oth
er offender against the laws, (without proccts,)
and bringing before justice, levying line for
forfeiture on warrant, twenty-five cents.
Taking the body into custody on mittimus
where bail is afterwards entered before the
prisoner is delivered to jailor, tweuty-five
cents.
Serving subpoena, ten cents.
Serving summons, notice to referee, suitor,
master, mistress or apprentice personally, or
by copy, each ten cents.
Executing attachment, thirty cents.
Arresting on capias, twenty-five cenls.
Taking bail-bond on. capias or for delivery
of goods, fifteen cents.
Notifying plaintiff where defendant has been
arrested on capias, to be paid by plaintiff, ten
cents. .
Taking inventory of goods, each item, one
cent.
Levying or destraining goods, and selling
the same, for each dollar not exceeding thirtv,
five cents.
For each dollar above thirty, three cents.
And one half of the said commission shall
be allowed where the money is paid niter levy
witiiout sale, but no commission shall in any
case bo taken on more than the real debt, and
then only for the money actually received by
tho constable und paid over.to the creditor.
Advertising the same, forty cents.
Copy of vendue paper when demanded, each
item, one cent.
Putting up notice of distress at mansion
house or othor public place on the premises,
fifteen cents.
Serving scire facias personally, ten cents.
Serving same by copy, fifteen cents.
Serving rule and interrogatories in attach
ments of execution, twenty cents.
Executing bail-piece, twenty cents.
Travelling expenses on an execution return'
ed nulla bona and won est inventus, where the
constable has been at tho place of defendant's
last residence, each mile circular, three cents.
Executing order for the removal of a pau
per, fifty cents.
Traveling expenses in said. removal, each
mile circular, ten cents.
Traveling expenses in all other cases, for
each mile circular actually travelled, counting
from the office of the justice to the Dlace of
service, three cents. ,
For making returns to the court of quarter
sessions of the proper county, fifty cents each
for one day.
Mileago tor same, counting from residence
of constable to the county seat, to be paid by
county, three cents per mile circular. .
For appraisemnnt and all other services un
der exemption act 9th April, 1849, one dollar.
. For serving precept aud returning same iu
landlord and tenant proceeding, 25 cents.
Executing writ of possession, and returning
same, fifty cents.
When the rent shall be received from tbe
lessee by the constable, snch commission as is
now allowed by law on writs of execution. -
Section 4. That the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh
sections of tho act approved March
twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred
and fourteen, and of the third section of the
act appoved March twenty -eighth; one thou
sand eight hundred and twenty, in relation to
penalties for taking illegal fees and bills of
particulars, are hereby re-enacted, and their
several provisions extended and made applica
ble to all violations of this act. "
Section 5. That tho provisions of this act
shall not apply to the city of Philadelphia.
'Approved, April 8tb, 1857. ":
SALE OF THE MAIN LINE.
The bill for the sale of the Main Line wa
taken np in the Senate cn Monday, May 11, it
being the order of the day on final passage!
Several motions were made for further a
mendments, which were all negatived.
The bill was then passed finally by the fof.
lowing vote : Yeas 18 ; nays 14.
On Tuesday, the 12th, the bill was taken up
in the House and the Senate amendments a
greed to, so that it but now wants the Gover
nor's signature to become a law. After provi
ding for the sale of the main line at public
sale,&c., the bill as passed provides as follows i
jind provided further, That if the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company become the purchasers
of said main lino at said public sale, or by as
signment as aforesaid, they shall pay in addi
tion to the purchase money at wbich'it mj3"Ce
struck down, and which shall not be less than
the sura of seven and a half millions of dol
lars, the sum of one and a half millions of dol
lars, the whole amount of sale t be paid in tbe
bonds of the company, bearing interest at th
rate of five per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually on the thirt.wfirst days of Jan
uary and July of each year, and which bonds
without further record shall remain a lien up
on the said main line, one hundred thousand
dollars, of which said bonds, to fall due on tho-thirty-first
day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and filty-efght and one hundred thou
sand dollars thereof annually thereafter, untii
the thirty-first day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and ninety, when one million of tho
rcs'due shall fall due, and one milliou annual
ly thereafter, until the nhoiu is paid; and up
on the execution and delivery ot said bonds to
the Treasurer of the State, the Pennsylvania
railroad company, and the Harrisburg," Ports
mouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster Kailroal
Company, shall, in consideration thereof, bo
discharged, by the Commonwealth, forever
from the payment of all taxes upon tonnage or
freight carried over said railroads ; and the
said Pennsylvania railroad company shall also
be released from the" payment of all taxes or
duties, on its capital stock, bonds, dividends,
or property, except for city, borough, county,
township and school purposes, and that it shall
be lawful for the purchasers, or their assigns,
either to purchase or lease, hold, and use tho
Railroad of the Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt.
Joy and Lancaster Railroad company ; and to
straighten and improve the said Philadelphia
and Columbia railroad, and to extend the amu
to the Delaware river, in the city of Philadel
phia ; and it shall be further lawful fur then
to alter, enlarge and deepen the canal portion,
of said main line, and to'make such addition A
locks and dams, and to make in whoh? r 'a
part a slack water navigation, as nay Le d?em
ed expedient, ond in the event cf a sale it
lease as aforesaid, by tho Harrisburg, Ports
mouth, Mount Joy and Lancaster raih oad com
pany, the said company shall have the pover
to sell or lease, and the said purchasers, or
their assigns, to buy or take on lease said road,
and to make and receive respectively all uch
contracts, deeds or asstiranres, as may I hi ne
cessary to carry the same into effect : Provi
ded, That the right of the Commonwealth to
enter upon, resume and purchase the road of
the Pennsylvania railroad company, as provi
ded in their charter, shall thereafter cease and
determine : .Ind provided further, That in case
of the refusal of any stockholder or stockhol
ders of said company to comply with tho pro
visions of this act, after same may be accept
ed by a majority of the stockholders of said
company to pay to the stockholder or stock
holders so refusing, full market value of his,
her, or their share or shares of stock, and such
share or shares shall enure to the txrnefU of
tho company, to be disposed of by directors
for the benefit of the balance of the stock
holders. Sec. 4. That if the said main line of publ'c
works shall be sold toother parties than tho
Pennsylvania railroad company, the purcha
sers shall be entitled to a like credit upon tho
amount of said purchase money, and for tho
performance of the conditions of said sale, in
behalf of the purchaser, and for the secuiity
of the purchase money to the Commonwealth,
the said purchase money, until paid, shn re
main a lien on said works ; and tho individu
als or company purchasing as aforesaid. hall
within sixty d.iys after said sale, give a mort
gage on said main line of the pt-.blic works,
and bonds for the amount of the purchase mo
ney, and in addition thereto, .shall deliver,
within ten d lys alter said sale, to the Gover
nor, for the use of the Commonwealth, bonds
of tho State of Pennsylvania or of the citv of
Philadelphia to tho ammint or one hundred
thousand doll.irs.and within sixty davs the ad
ditional amount of one million 'nine hundred
thousand dollars, or in lien thereof a like a
nionnt of first mortgage bonds of the Pennsyl
vrnia Railroad Company, and payment of the
principal of such purchase money shall bo
made in certificates or loan of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvanio, at par or in cash, and
of tho interest in cash semi-aunuallv on the
thirty-first days of July and January in each
and every yc ar upon any balance remaining due.
An Elopemr xt. Joseph Darr, Jr., of Cin
cinnati, a member or the City Council front
tho 13th ward, has eloped from that city with
a Newport w idow, and has cone, it is said, to
Europe. Mr. Darr is well known in Cincinna
ti- The widow is Mrs. Armstrong, a daughter
of Capt. Summons. Darr's wife" whom ho
leaves behind, was the sister of Mr.Armstrong,
aeceasecl. 1 he widow leaves behind her four
children. . Darr leaves a wire and two children.
Ilad Darr been a "Black Republican" wo
should probably" have had tho fact made very
prominent in the Buchanan papers, but as ho
is a Democrat, we shall probably hear nothing
about it. Ohio Slate Journal.
Eckope. The Steamer Asia arrived at
ifew York with dates to the 2d. inst. i Tho
Duke of Constantine arrived at Paris, and was
received with great honors. The Queen of
Spain, in her speech, announces the re-establishment
of triendly relations between Spain
and Rome. She hopes that Mexico will apol
ogue ana pay indemnity, otherwise Spain will
take hostile measures. Reports are again in
circulation that the King of Denmark will be
forced to abdicate. Tho British Parliament has
met, but formalities only have as yet transpir
ed. Except increased discontent in the Turk
ish Principalities, there is but little European
news. ...
Better Beliktb in the Comet. A French
journalist advises that belief in the coming end
or tne world should bo encouraged. He think
we shall become better men.' With" death so
near, every one will wish to put his conscience
at ease, to repair wrongs, to do good; t ab
stain from evil. Ambition will be checked,
avarice be abated, and liberality be 'universal:
The many masks of society will fall, and sin
cerity prevail. It were better, at least, that we
should try the experiment, and see tbe change
that it would work in man, to believe tho
world near its end.
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