Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, May 08, 1841, Image 2

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-Jslirsp Donne's rlirnnr on tree Death of
(j. Hr.rl(iti.
A mono; the most eloquent tributes lo t!;o memory
'T i!ie lute venerated President, may bo re-coned ihe
''fcnurpc of Bishop Doanc, before the citizen of
""r!i'r.;'on. We exlract tho-oponing pmtiuii.
Il is a duik Uccemlier Joy. A elcep now clodirs
t';n ground. A ihaipamt cuiting sloet ilrivrt with
');! wind. Again! tlio Minding st'irm, and through
iVo deepening drift, a youthful mildior with hi
i ::!pr.ir!i on his baclv, pursues his steadfast way.
A Mriplirgof ninrlccn, blender frame, and feeble
i.'.ihh, he i nil Ensign to tLo army of America,
'i'vli Washington's commi-sicn, nnd ho marchr
v. ii'i hi mall detachment, on his first service. It
v.-,i? n patriotic anJ r'.ii itli.in duty. There arc those
i. (Moreno who nmcrlxr we!!, wht, in my young
t'ays, was yet n nursery word, at which Ihn mother
pressed hrr infant to lur bosom, and children galli-
fd closer to tlio fire St. Clair's Defeat Il was
t,i ilmt battle Held, Vi ir;trr tiie bones of nix hundred
; :..in, that our young Ensign hastened with his
i ur. And though it was a patriot and a christian
ikily, hotv much more s'.crnly than lha fieroe.-t on-t-t
rf the heady figU ti.u-t that still foircst field,
;Le lowering s!:y, the bowi ng wind t'.ioso ga'lant
icn butchered by s.ivage hands, ond u' the rccoi-!-c
ior.s and fonboJinjs ufthat inoM disastrous day,
I' tvetl.o fpirit of a youthful solJier,' on Lis first
campaign.
Il was u thill November night, when a small nr-n-y
of AiiHMicanecuc.ii. ipcJ themselves upan a point
f land, between the Wabash snd a tributary stream.
They wero the gentlemen ond yeomen of tho coun
who had enrolled themselves under tho tento
rial Governor, to defend t'tcir homes egainst tho in
roa Is of the hotlilo Indian tribes, and to chasliso
il.tir insolence. A long ond tedious march,
tliroagh a most dreary wilderness, brings them at
list t.Ik ro tKeir wily foes await them; and on
t.':cir proposition for a conference and treaty, hos
tilities are intermitted for a day. Slowly and cheer-l-:-.-s!y
too night wears off, within that guarded
camp, with clouds anil rain. But weary mentci'iV
sleep, whatever may betide them ; and now, for
I.oum, no sound has stirred the stillness of the scene
i vc tho lone fcetitry's guarded step. But what is
hat, which through "the misty moon bourn's
smiling light," i3 seen, not heard, as it glides
through tho prairie grass? Is it a snake that
v.iiias Lis ucalihy way ! No, but subtler Indian :
bt'd in one instant ho is dead ! Another: and the
tavago yell darts every sleeper from his cold damp
rjuch, and death begins his wcuk And wos this
ti'rrjiiia taiun deceived, surprised betrayed? V as
t.'H.ir Commander faithless to his trust? No; every
man had slept were he must fight, hit clothes on, and
his gun loaded. And he, while yet the night was
young, t-nt by his tent fire, till the hour should come
!o route his we try comrades. In a moment he was
mounted; Where tho fight was hT.tcst, there was
I.e. A ball with no commission for his life, fliei
I'iroug'i his hair. In vsin his cfi'rris remonstrate
villi lii tn for hi fearless hazard of himself. He
thinks of bravo St. Clair, and tiie gillant victims of
that fatal field. Ho thinks of wasted towns, and
blazing homes, and mothers slaughtered with their
infants. And the morning dawns not till tho victo
ry is won !
Along the banks of the Ohio, spreads a smiling
firm. A plain mid modest mansion rises from a slo
ping lawn. Its owner, having filled with credit to
himself and honor to his country, almost every
station but the first fought its battles, governed its
territories, seived it in both houses of Congress,
and represented it abroad wears out, in frugal in
elutry, hia griTii old cgc, a plain Ohio farmer; his
hou'c, tho very homo of huspilalily ; his name, the
refuge ond sidnrc of the poor, the .-tunger, and the
orplia::s ; his title, the no!. lest that is known lona
luic's heraldry, a patriot and a patriarch.
; It is a givty day in March, Before the morning
i!awns tho Federal City U alive wiih men. It
ercn.a now full overflowing ; and yet every hour
brings bundled?, thousands more. A cavalcade is
funned, lulls rirr;, ond cannons rear. Fair women,
and brave men, throng every w indow of that noble
Avenue. Not n et.te of tho wkulo twenty six that
is not repainted in that lon drawn line. It is the
nation's Jubiwc. All classes, till conditions, both
sexes, every oge, parluke the general joy. A grave
plain man, arracJ in modest black, that rides, un
covered, on the rtccd, more concioua than bimslfof
tho occasion, is the mignet that attracts tall ryes,
und touc!:es every heart. lie reaches the Capitol
lie ascends tho iieps. lie stands inajc&lic in his
imcl.urs niid .impliciiy, before the immeasurable
iiiultitude whohaee brought wi:h them the homage
of the nation. The highetit o.T.evr of Justice aJ-
ri.inilcrs to him tho most maguillcent oath that
ever tUcs to heaven. And hc youthful ensign,
the g-llaiit gcncial, the laborious fariuer, is 1're.i-
dent of li e L'nittd States.
"Oi.e little mouth" has passed. It is a fitful A
prilday. Again, the Federal city is astir. Cannons
are heard : but these nrc ininute guns. The bells
I ed out but 'tis (he funeral knell. The streets are
thronged t but every fac is sad, and every voice is
still. Once more, a long procession passes down that
noble Avenue; but yen and cypress take the place
of nodding plumes, and tnuf.led drums beat time to
etbing hearts. Again, that grave, plain man is there
no more erect and tall "the pillar of the Sis to," but
in his grave clothes, stretched upon tho funeral
Car. He futci not the gate, as when we lust be
held him, to thut glorious Capitol; but turns aside,
to the still spot where slerp the honored deJ : and
" earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dut," con
cludes me story ana ins h eue. ievcr naci man
funeral 10 sublime. Never, for Chieftain falleu,
did whole nution so pour out its heart Was it
Hot beautiful and just as it was beautiful that he,
who, on tLut alevety day, began bis public life, with
pie us riles foi $L Clair's butchered host, should find
himself such sepulchre 1
A MuaAncu. The late Sultan of Turkey died
of dcli.ium tremens, the result of vinous indulgence.
'1 he prxaerit Julian, bis son, ou his accession to the
throne, isiued a proclamation agaiust the use of
wuif, auel caused one uiillioa of piasters' worth of
wire to le tl rowo into lie BospUius.-icwum
The Cronp enret ty Colli Water.
The Yankee Farmer (llosion) mentions several
r.tes of croup having been cured by the application
of cold wat-r, and pnUishcs an account ef two In
stances in that city in which the experiment was
tried with complete success. In the former of ihess
Cases the patient was a boy three yeats old, had
been subject to to attnrka of the disease from in
fancy. The process of the first experiment of the
kind with this child is thus related by the father:
About fonr o'clock, In the night of dy before
yesterday, we were awakened from our sleep by his
distress. lie was laboring under a severe attack of
the croup, lie breathed with great difficulty, and
fcrmcd almost suffocated. His ceugh was extremely
hoarse and crnupy, and he could hardly speak in a
whisper, ond all the symtoms grew worse rapklly.
We rose immediately, and took him from his bed
and sttipt him, and began to bathe him all over
Willi cold water, bnt most freely about the throat,
head and chest ; and his mother took a vessel of
cold water and poured it upon the back of his neck;
and -llius we continued to bathe him till he became
quite chilly. We rubed him off briskly till his skin
was dry and somew hat excited. Dut as thero was
considerable heat in the throat, we took a napkin,
doubled six or eight times, and wet it in cold water,
and then covered this wiih a dry cloth, and took
him into bed between bis parents.
Almost immediately, when we hrgnn to apply the
cold water, the symtoms began to subside very fast,
and he said, with n grateful tone, that he felt U tter
in the morning, when ho arose; nocroupy symtoms
remained : and, after being bathed and clothed, he
went out, as usual to take his airing before break
fast. Yesterday and totlay, he has showed some
remaining symtoms of a, cold, and has not been so
well as before the attack, but he has played about
tho house, and lccn out aa usual, and has been
incomparably better than he was after any former
attack ; and on neither of these occasions, did the
means used afford him any thing I ke asspecely re-
lief as the cold water did upon this occasion.
E. ALLEN, 40 Elliot et.
Boston, April 2, 1838.
The foregoing statement being published in a
Boston paper, led to the following experiment, and
also the cure made in Rochester, the account of
which was published last week :
Sm : In October, 1833, myself wife and little
daughter, then nearly three years old, took a jour
ney of about thirty miles, to sjicnd a week in the
countiy. From exposure or improptr diet, or both
the littlo girl was attacked with the croup, tho third
night from home. fSlio aroused hrr mother from
sleep by hngirj her around the neck. She could
not speak, and it was with extreme di.Tic.uliy that
she could breathe. I sprang from the bed, and
hastened for a tub, and pail of cold water. I strpped
her, and placed her in the tub, and poured the water
on her freely. We then took her into bed, and
commenced rubbing her briskly with flannel, and
gave her cold water to drink. Sho became better
rapidly, and within one hour we were quietly asleep
again. In the morning, our little girl received her
usual bath, and has continued well to the present
time. M. WlltLLLK.
Boston, March 20, 1810.
Burglary ud Murder.
A burghry and murder of the most atrocious
character were perpetrated at St. Louis on the 17lh
ulu A letter from there gives the following account
of the catastrophe : "On tho ICth of April there
was deposited in the warehouse of Collier & Pctlm",
near $GO,000 in specie one young man and a
middle aged one slept in the store. In the middle
of the night the More was entered by burglars, who
murdered two cleiks, Weaver and Jcsso Baker and
set fire to tho house, after having, as il is supposed,
plundered the vaults, in which, it is said, there were
at the time ubout laro hundred thousand dollars.
The building was consumed, also tho roof of an ad
joining house. The goods in the latter weru much
injured by water from the engines. When the
firo was discovered, the fust whoeuteied, found the
elder clerk murdered near the front door, cut up in
the most horrid manner with knife and pistol ; ows
ing to which, it is presumed he made violent ret.ist
anoc. The other waa murdered in his bed asleep.
Ilia remains were not found. Collier & Fettus
have saved scarcely any thing, their papers and
all their bock, it is feared, are consumed, and the
second and part of a thiid warehouse aro entirely
destroy ceL
"No clue has yet been discovered as to the mur
derers. In addition to the above two men, another
was killed by the falling tf a wall. One of the in
mates was seen near the door of the store at eleven
o'clock, and it is presumed the villians rushed into
the store past him. They did not succeed in geling
any money it is thought ; as soon as they can gel
to the fireproof it will bo ascertained for certain.
The excitement here is veiy great The populace
would hang any one they could ascertain was en
gaged iu this horrid affuir.
A Canine l'oslbcarrr.
The Derby mail is met every morning, at ten o'
clock, by dog from an extensive ironworks at
Worksop, waiting to be the bearer of the letter bag
foi his master, which ia regularly dropped by the
guard without waiting. If, however, the canine
messenger is not somewhere about at ten the horn
is sounded, and the dog is immediately observed in
the distance coming along the toaj to meet the
mail at the lane end ; but this is very seldom the
case, as tho dog usually seats himself upon the wall
adjoining the works, listening for the approach of
th maiL When the lag is thrown down the faith
ful creature, without delay, invariably takes the near
est way home through tire hedge and over the
fields. Later in the day the empty bag is brought
back by the dog ts meet the mail to Derby, but In
consequence of the guard not gelling off bis seat,
it is necessary to send person with the bag, who
can throw it upon the mail while it ia going. The
dog, feeling bia inability to . uppy Af titfitiencW
denotes his anxiety by barking and howling. With
ois ncrpuoa me animal performa all the duties of
a letter carrier lor In. mast., "who punctuality, and
despatch Jupir.
tlrlttsli Tfrannjr.
The He. J. Fiermont givca the Mowing dee
cription of the horrid tynanny ef lha UrilUh Gov
ernment .
The aangiiinary x"tTn vbicai Great 1 ritinn
has subjugated the hundred millions of.India, and
atcm despotism with which she rules and starves
them, that her merchant princes may roll in splen
dor and lep themselves in voluptousneM, have a
voice which tho whole thickness of the globe can
not keep ut of our cars. "A more beautiful coun
try," say a brother clergyman recently of this city
"than that from Ctiddolone toTaryore (in Madras)
cannot posMMy be imagined. The dense popular
tion and rich soil give their energies to each other,
and produce a scene of surpassing lovoliness. Dut
tho taxes and other causes keep down (he laborers
to a state below our Southern slaves." 'Turn your
ryes backward," says a speaker of their own, no lon
ger ago than last Septemltcr, "turn your eyes back
ward upon the scenes of last year. Go with mo
into the northwest province of the Bengal Presi
dency, and I will show you the bleaching skclo'
tons of five hundred thousand human beings, who
perished for hunger in tho space of a few short
months. Yes; died for hunger in what has been
justly called tho granary of the world. The air
lor miles was poisoned with the effluvia emitted
from the nulrifving bojies of the deal. The rivers
were choked with the corpses thrown inlo their
channels. Mothers cast their httlo ones beneath
the rolling waves, because they would not se them
draw their last gapp, and feel them stiffen h their
arms. Jackalls and vultures approached md fat
tened upon the bodies of men, women, and aiildrcn
before lifo was extinct. Madness, disease, md des
pair stalked abroad, no human power preseit to ar
rest their progress. And this occurred in British la
ish, in tho reign of Victoria the First. For was
the event extraordinary unforsecn.. Far from it.
1835 witnessed famine in the northern piovince,
1833 beheld one in the eastern. 1822 saw one in
the Dcccan. They have continued lo Increase in
frequency and extent under our away, for more
than half a century." Under the Administration of
Lord Clive, a famino in tho Bengal provinces swept
off three millions ; and at that time the Biiiish spec
ulators in India had their granaries filled to rrple
tion with corn. HoniJ monopoly of the nrcessi'
rics of life ! Throe millions died, while there was
food enough, and to spare, locked up in the store.
house together. To add to the horror with whi
ho had been called upon to regard tho last dreaJTu!
famine, (that of the last year.) we nre inado ac
quainted by the returns of the custom-house, with
the fact that s nu-.h grain was exported from the
lowcrmVK of lleng.i!, aa would have fed the half
million who perished, for a whole year. Yet this
aw feil oppression and these desolating famines must
go on, that England may extort a hundred millions
of dollars every year, from her hundred millions of
Hindoos ; and poppies mu-t grow ins'ead of wheat,
that, at her cannou's mouth, she may force her o
pium upon the three hundred millions of the Chi
nese, while some one solitary Marahman, peibaps,
is translating the Bible of the Christians, to bring
theso countless millions to accept the religion of a
nation that stands ready at this moment to destroy
one half of them by war, that it may destroy the
other half by poison."y
15ev. II. Haleolm.
f See Thomson's lectures at Manchester, pp. 58
and 51).
rircmnstant lal Rvltlrnee.
A melancholy instance of the uncertainty of cir
cumstantial evidence occurred at Gibraltar last Feb
ruary. A wealthy English merchant of thut place,
named James Boxwell, waa convicted upoa that
kind of testimony, of the murder of his own daugh
ter. On proceeding to the place of execution, he
recognized an Englishman named John Keats, who
had been active in procuring his conviction, whom
be forgave for his hostility, aa he desired to die in
peace with all the world. Keats seemed much
affected by this, ond just as the sentence of the
law was about to be executed, cried out. "It is I that
am guilty, and not the convict" A great sensation
was produced by this exclamation, when Keats
came forward and fully confessed his guilt The
tope waa immediately taken from the neck of bis
victim, and the cap from his face, but it was all too
late. The wrelchej father waa corpse having
died of grief and terror! Keats was taken to jail
amid the execration of the multitude, who weie
with dilliculiy restrained from tearing him lo pieces,
1'lee Great Forgeries.
Tho New Orleana Advertiser has the following
paragraph which goes to explain the mode in which
the lecent impositions on the Banks were practised,
A fellow by the name of Matthew Dracr, depos
ited four sevcial amounts in the Commeicial Bank
of New Oilcans, between a hundred and seven, and
a hundred and twenty dollars, each, on or ubout the
20th of March, and received certificates of deposito
therefor. With this anchor to windward, the
scoundrel obliterated the figures and the words, and
inserted "tweniy-one thousand Mexican dollars," in
the body of the certificate ; and at the bottom, iu
the left hand corner; are the figures $21,000.
The alteration ia not a perfect fae simile of the
original filling .-p, though it is ueai enough to de
ceive. The check was sold lo the Girard Bank, ia Phil
adelphia, is now sent here for payment endorsed by
W. D. Lewis, the cahier of that institution.
There can lie no doubt that there are three other
such checks afloat
McLcud's Trial.
The Judiciary committee of the New York Le
gislature reported, this day week, a bill, to provide
(or a Sj-tcial Circuit Court fur the trial of McLeoJ.
The bill provides that the Court may be held in
such eountv as the Chief Justice shall deem most
expedient If this is tarried into elfeel, and Mo
Leod acquitled as now appears to be most probable
difficulties on this score between the V. States
I and Great Britain, will be at an end.
Saturdau Evtnin rt.
9 a
'HE AMERICAN.
Saturday, May 8, 1641.
Democratic Candidate for Governor,
Gen. DAVID 11. PORTER.
,'olUe. There will be divino service in
the Protestant Episcopal Church in this place, on
Sunday next the 9 Ik insl.in the meining and at
night.
jrjj ArijornwMEST. The Session of the Legis
lature closed on Tuesday, having been in cession
precisely four months.
gj1 The United Stales Bank has made an assign
mcut, of upwards of seven millions of her effect, in
trust for some of tho City Banks, which held her
post notes for that amount
j A eorreypondent of the Baltimore American
under date of May 3d, aays that six boats had arri
ved at Ilavrc-de-Grace that morning, by the Tide
Water Canal. They report Utc whole line of canal
in good order. From the bent authority received
there, there must have been upwards of seventy
boats on their way downward.
ty Bicknclls Keportcr says, a man named Eli
jah Field was arrested in Philadelphia a few days
ago, for passing counterfeit one dollar notes n the
Salem (N. J.) Banking Company.
Eorongk Election.
At an election held on last Monday, the follow.
ing persons were elected officers for the ensuing
year, viz:
Durgrstet Frederick I.aza'U, J. II. Husted,
Assistant Burgeitfcii John Young, Geo. Young
Joseph Eisely, John B. Price.
Common Council Henry Yoxtheimer, Eli Dic
mcr, C 1). Wharton, Peter Kerlin, Jacob Khawn,
George P. Buyer, Wm. M. Gray, Henry Petery.
High Conttabh John II. Turdy.
Cl:rk John Eisely.
A 1) round Jlaii.
On Saturday list, the body of man was found
in the North Branch of the Susquehanna, about C
miles above this place, which had evidently been in
the water for many days. The body was recogni
sed os that of Mr. Stusrt, who was drowned st
Nanticoke, in attempting to leap from ihe shore to
a raft that was rapidly descending the river near
the dam.
Mfum Ship President.
The anxiety which has for some days pervaded
the community respecting the fate of Ihis vessel, is
still unabated. The report that she had put into
Fayal seems to have been totally destitue of founda
tion. 1 he baique r ame suited rrom r ayai on tne
3d of April, and when she left, no intelligence of the
President had reached that port. The President
had then been out 23 days, having sailed on the
I lib. of March.
Shamokitt Coal and lrou Company.
The cnterprizing manogers of this company have
landed at their wharves in this borough, two sta
lionary engines, each of eighty horse power, to be
used in propelling their extensive furnaces at Sha.
mokin.
Each engine has five boilers thirty inches in dia
meter, and thirty feet in length, and two sleim cy
lenders twenty-two inches in diameter, Willi a six
feet atroke. The blowing cy lenders are of the ver
tical description, beautifully moulded, sixty-two in
ches in di-meter, with a six feet stroke, and connect
ed together I y a lever beam twenty feet in length.
The whole machinery necessary for complete ac
tion, constructed according to the most approved
model of stationary engines in England, orul cor
responding with those now used in the most exten.
sive iron manufactories in that country, is now re a
dy to be transported on the rail road from this place
to Shamokin, wliere it will be soon deposited in its
appropriate place for action, and contribute its
mighty aid in driving the prosperous business of
that stirring region. The furnaces will be put in
oerallon as soon as these immense agents can be
propei ly eeijusleil.
The same company his extended a branch from
the main rail road, to the edge of the basin in the
river at this place, forming a gentle inclined plane,
for the purpose of facilitating tho extensive opera
linns which are to be carried on, during the present
season, between the anthracite region at Shamokin
and the iron region at Danville. We under-
stand that arrangements have been made to keep
up an uninterrupted interchange of those valuable
minerals, anthracite and iron ore, during the whole
season.
Busiutss fourcutiou.
The proposition to hold a business convention at
llarri.burg, on the 25th of the present month, set ms
lo have elicited a very general, indeed, we may say,
an universal approbation. We have not heard
voice unfavorable to the project, and may reasona
bly anticipate a lull representation oi Hie business
men of the state on that important occasion.
The farmer, the manufacturer, the mechanic, the
miner, and all who are in any degree engaged in
developing the resources of Pennsylvania, are in
tensely interested In ascertaining the mode in w hich
their respective operations can be most readily con
ducted, and tha products of theii lubor or their art,
moat advantageously disposed of.
' An interchange of the views of experienced men
upon tha momentous subject of the butinest of ihe
country, is emphatically called for by tha peculiar
and embarrassing condition of our financial con
cerns, as well Uiose of the commonwealth, aa of a
majority of the individuals engaged in Ihe general
business of tho country. Wa Lava been sufle ring.
heavily, from temporary resorts to doubtful expedi- '
ents, in the vain hope that change would sponta
neously tome over the spirit of our trade, and allay
the revulsions which have been -so sorely felt by the
business community, crippling the energies of the
aubstantial capitalist, and prostrating or blighting
the hopes of the less steady, but equally meritorious
adventurer, who founded his operations on an un
sullied credit, golden integrity and a never broken
promise.
To enquire into the rent state of ihe multifarious
branches of commerce within the boundaries of the
commonwealth, and their relations with each other,
the tesources which bountiful Providence has so
abundantly and peculiarly implanted in the bosom
of our own territory, with the best means of deve
lopement, and the consideration of plan for future
permanent operation, will be among the most pro
minent subjects presented to the proposed assem
blage.
No community in the state is more deeply inte
rested in the establishment of firm basis for trade,
in every brunch of industry, than our own. The
elements of wealth have been sown in our immedi
ate vicinity with broad cast and bountiful band,
and the luxuriant growth of business requires only
tho fostering and systematic attention of its vota
ries to produce the highest reward to individual and
combined industry.
The county of Northumberland should be fully
represented; not only by a strong delegation of en
terprising proprietors nJ intelligent operatives, but
her statistic should be there. Her vullies, than
which none richer are spiead beneath the sun, bea
ring upon their aurfacea the rieJj recompense of the
husbandman's toil, should I rcpiesented by her re
spectable farmers; her bills, neplelo with tho kin
dred elements of anthracite coal and iron ore, groan
ing to display their ponderous and glittering con
tents to the glars of day, snd subject their well test
ed worth to the light of science, should he represen
ted by the mechanic, the miner, and the merchant;
and aZ, for all are interested in its great results,
should remember the power of manufacturing and
transporting the varied products of the land, which
its waters, "broad and deep," furnish to all who de
sire their aid. Wo have unrty of interest, let us
have unity of action. Meetings for tho appoint
ment of delegates and the collection ofinfotmation,
we hope, will be immediately held, that our country
may not be tardy in contributing her mite to the
accompli&hnient of an object of such universal inte
rest.
The Bank or Revrnue Bill
This biil contains twenty-nine sections anJ as it
has not yet become a law we do not publish it en
tiie, but merely give its prominent features, that our
readers may know lww lo appreciate tiie excellent
vicwa of tho Governor, contained in bis recent mes-
sago to the legislature, returning the bill with his
objections. There are two piovisions in the bill to
which the Governor hid insuperable objections, but
he is willing to forego his own opinion with respect
to many other matters, for the sake of the public
good. The choice of two evils is presented, and he
is obliged to make a selection.
The following are the principal features of this
Hll, which we take from the Pennsylvania Repor
ter:
Sec. 1. Authorises the Governor to negotiate i
loan for $3,100,000, in certificates of $100.
2. Banks to subscribe to it, and then issue $1, $2
and $5 notes to tho amount of subscription.
3. When a holder has $100, he may present it,
and obtain a certificate.
4. Banks to receive an interest of one per cent
foi their trouble.
5. Banks complying with the law, to be cleared
from paying tax on dividends.
C. Bank charters lo be forfeited, if they do not
comply with the law.
7. ltauk issues graduated in proportion to capital.
8. Banks may receive snd re-issuo these notes.
9. 10. Levies further taxes ou occupations and
on storekeepers by classes.
11. Banks may fuud debt, except Uuiled States
Bank.
12. Banks may issue small notes, on comply
ing with the provisions oi the section.
13. Banks, when they leave notes in the hands
of Auditor General, aball not pay iutercstor receive
compensation.
11. Appropriations.
Common Schools, $330,000 00
Higher institutions, 45,000
Pensions, C0.000
Repairs on public works, 400,000
f 3,500 for repairing dam across
West Branch at Lewisburg.
Debts for repairs before Nov. 1610, 268,003
Orphan's Asylum and House cf Ke-
fuge, 7.000
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 16,400
Bald Eagla Navigation guarantee, 10,000
Danville and Poltsville do. 15,000
Monongahela Navigation Co. 70,000
Stats Library debts, C29 43
Damage Fund, 60,000
Premiums on Silk, 0,000
Militia, 20,000
Expenses of Government, 350,000
Lock-keepers, collectors, fee CO, 000
Temporary Loan, 15,000
N icholson Court, 1 ,500
Debts on Shenango line, 250,011 83
Conncaut line, 2C1.388 05
North Branch, 613,714 92
WUcouirco, 91,837 23
Inclined plane, Columbia, C.CC0
Reservoirs. 60,000
Ropes for Portage RoaJ, 17,851
Superintendent of public grounds, 600
Debts on Sinnamahouiiig, 1,100
Repairs on Delaware, 0,000
Locomotives, 7,500
Canal Commissioners and new work, 25'000
Geological survey, 10,200
Ralaying N. track CtL R. R, 63,130
$3,775,623 60
Engineer corps hereafter not to cost annually
over $20,000.
Money may not be diverted from its special
object of appropriation.
16. Governor to provide for carrying law into
effect
17. Banks not to pay over 0 per cent, interest
and law of last year repealed, and provisions except
ing Bank of U.S. from operation of the law.
18. 19. 20. SI. 22. 23. 24. Provisions respect
ing the mode of winding op Bank of U. States.
25. Proxies of 60 days standing may vote.
20. 2T. Banks not accepting to be under law of
April, 1840.
28. 29. Banks accepting to notify Governor of
it. Secretary of Commonwealth to notify banks of
the passage of the act.
The bill having bees, returned with the objections
of the Governor, which related principally to tho
1 7th section, it passed the senate by constitution
al majority, but failed in the honse. After its re
jection Mr. Titus moved a reconsideration, on which
he was seconded by Mr. Weaver. Tho motion was
agreed to, and the whote subject postponed till to
morrow. Another bill being before tho house, Mr.
Luk moved to amend it, by inserting the Revenue
Bill which had been vetoed, with a modification of
the 17th section, obviating the objectionable features
in the bill. Mr. Lusk's amendment was so amend
ed, as to repeal all the penalties against the bank
(excepting as to the United States Bank) until the
10th May, 1811.
The bill as amended passed tho hone, 49 to 41,
and was sent to (he senate for concurrence, where it
will no doubt pans.
Tassaqe cf the Bank and Bcvcnnc Bill.
Since the above was in type wi have direct in
formation from the seat of government, that the
Bank and Revenue Bill, which was under re-consideration
on the 4 th inst., had passed the House ol
Representatives by the constitutional majority. As
it had previously passed the Senate by a similar ma
jority, the bill of course has bcco.ne a law without
the signature of the Governor.
By ihe list of yeas snd nays below it will be seer
that thirteen of the democratic memltcrs voted foi
the bill. The enlightened constituents of thesr
gentlemen ought not to pronounce judgment upoi
them hastily, but loying aside party prcju.lice, in
form themselves well of, and calmly consider all th
circumstances under which they acted. We hav.
not room for further remarks at present, but wd
hereafter allude to tin subject more in detail.
Yias Messrs. Andrews, Banks, Bard, Bel
Boal, B runner, Chrisman, Church, Clark, Corr j
Cortright, Cox, Cummins, Darsie, Dilworth.Douc
las, Dunlap, Eyre, Fuus, Foreman, Funk, Futhcj
Gamble, GillU, Gratz, Hanna, Higgins, Hinchmar
Holcman, Horton, Johnston, of Armstrong, Kenni
dy, Kerr, KiefTer, Law, Letherman, Livingstoi
Lusk. May, M'Clure, M'Curdy, Middlcswartl
Miles, Montgomery, Musscr, Myer, Tearson, Pei
ncl, Puraroy, Rush, Skinner, Smith, Smyser, Sniv
ly.Snyder, Sprott, Steele, Titus, Von Neida, Wea
er, Wright, Crabb, Speaker 02.
Nats Messrs. Anderson, Apple, Barr, Bca
Bonsall.Brodhcod, of North'p, Cioussillat.Ebaug
Fclton. Flannery, Flennikcn, Flick, Fogel, Garre
son, Haas, Halm, Hill, of Wesl'd, Kutz, Leid
M'Cully, M'Kinney, Moore, Painter, Pennlma
Pollock, Scott, Wilkinson 28.
More Indium Troubles.
Advices from Wisconsin, under date of April 1
are, that large bodies of Sioux were gathering
the neighborhood of Fort Snelling, with intent,
was supposed, of making an attack upon it. One
the tribe, it seem, being drunk and disorderly wii
in the limits of the garrison, and resisting an
tempt to remove him, waa shot down ; hence t
hostile aspect of tho tribe. Two companies fr.
Winnebago and Crawford had been ordered
Fort Snelling.
The War Qctstiok. The Liverpool Albion
a late date say a : "Wa hope soon to learn, th
in the East, no ships will be required but those
our merchants ; and we anticipate nothing 1
than a speedy and satisfactory termination of
vexatious differences with the United States. S
it is prudent to keep en eye upon our defences
order that we may have as accurate a measure
possible of the extent of our own means, as c
pared with (hose which might, at the worst,
brought against us."
Tax Gamblirs at Vicksbvso are so nur
ous that they talk of vengeance againrt that c
for the lynching of their comrades some yeaTs i
j Trouble is expected with them, as they are aire
so bold and audacious as to defy the civil laws
outrage moral principles.
E. Littell of Philadelphia, wishes a sprci.
copy of every newspaper in the United Stales,
a library. In return he will send lha -PubIisl
Circular," edited by him. Editors will pi
notice.
A Mea! Tmsr. During a recent fire et
Louis, some individual went into a cabinet mat
shop and slolo a collin. Such a man should be
ried alive.
LIST OF MKMDEKS
OF THE "GOOD WILL FUSE COM PAN
John Lsndaw, John Kandulls, Jacob Re
George Lyon, Henry Landaw, William Hoi
John Arnold, Samuel J. Fry, J. H. Zimmeri
Caleb Fisher, Cbarlea Waters, Harris Awl, Si
el Montz, B. Krohn, E. Biosius, M. ltucher
Hileman, G. Harrison, C. Burner, H. Simpsoi
Harrison, P. FreeJ, (1. Wialls, V. Shindel, F. 1
er, J. J. Klfher. A. Shipman, J. M. Baslian, J. I'
F. Merrill, W. Searles. II. M. Uo.tert.
List f L'jrvetleJ Mtmheri.
Joseph Boniu'tl, Jacob 8. Christ, Amos Sdic
F. A. Clark, Geo. Clark, N. Kr.tzer.
Honbury, May 8, 184 1.
Shingles.
BETWEEN 800 and 10O0 Shingles 1
been taken up adrift in the Susquehanna
iIm subscribers. The owner is requesud to c
forward, prove property, pay charges, and take I
away. MKUA8TIAN HOL'P'
CHARLES WATEKH
Sunbury, May 8, 1611. 3t