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SlIUGEltT'S PATENT
7ASHI1TG MACHI1TE.
rHIS Maclriiie to as now been tested by more
than thirty families in this neighborhood, and
aa given entire satisfaction. It is o simple in it"
onatruction, that it cannot get out f order. It
ontains no iron to runt, and no springs or rollers to
at out of repair. It will do twice aa much wash
ig, with less than half the wear and tear of an) of
ic late inventions and what is of greater in-por-nce.it
costs but little over half jia much aa other
ashing machines.
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umberland. Union, Lycoming, Columbia, Lo
rn snd Clinton counties. Price of single ma
me 8- H. B. MASSE R,
The following certificate is from a few of those
lo have these snschines in Dae,
Sunbury, Aug. 54, 1844.
We, the subscribers, certify that we have now
ue, in our fsmilies.Shugert's Patent Wash
I Machine," and do not hesitate etylng that it is
iiost excellent invention. That, in Wahing,
iU nave an ore than one hall the usual labor.
at It doea not require more than one. third the
ial quantity of soap and water and that there
10 rubbing, and consequently, little or no wear
or tearing. That it knocka off no buttons, and
t the fineat clothes, auch aa cottars, race, tucks,
a, Ac, may be washed to very short time
bout tb lesst injury, and in fact without any
a rent wear and tear, whatevrr. We therefore
erfufly recommend it to our friends and to the
lie, aa a moat useful and labor savins machine.
CHARLES W.UEGLN3,
A. JORDAN,
CHS. WEAVER.
CHS PLE8ANT8,
GIDEON MARKLE,
, Hon. GEO. C. WELKER,
BENJ. HENDRICKS, ,
GIDEON LEISENRING.
V Hoti, (formerly Tremont House, No.
16 Cbesnut aueet,) Philadelphia, September
:sl, 1844. -.
have uaed Shugert'a Pstent Washing Machine
y houe upwards of eight months, and do not
ata to lay that I deem it one of the mot naa
,nd valuable labor-saving machine ever inveo
, I formerly kept two women continually oe-
ied in waahiug, who now do as much in two
i as they then did in on week. ThsfS is no
r or tear in washing, and it require not mora
i on-third th usual quantity ol soap. I baa
number of other machine in my family, bu
la so decided! superior to every thing else, and
ttle iabl to get out of repair, that I would not
Mtliout on if they ahoold coat ten times the
. the ar aold for. DANIEL HERR.
iwjtx. SEED Th highest prio will h
given for Flax Bead, at lb
og. 9, 1845 HENRY MA88ER.
mm-
" AU!0U 'c,uiMcenM in th decision of the
By Maaser &, Osely.
From the Sunday Times.
TALKS OP TUB REVOLUTION.
The attempt to 'blow vp the Eagle 04 Gun
Ship off" the Battery, in Ifew York, in Ju
ly, 1776. v
. Howe, in it fright, starts upright,
Awoke by auch a clatter
Rubbing both eyes, he loudly cries,
; "For God's sak what's the matter?"
. At his bedside, he then espied
' Sir Erskine at command ;
Upon one foot, he had one boot,
The other in his band,
'Arise! arise!" Sir Erskine cries;
"The rebels more's the pity
Without a boat, and all afloat. -i
Are ranged before the city." r
Hnpkinson's Battle of the Kegs, in 1777.
In the month of July, 1770, the Eagle 04 gun
ship, bearing the flag of Admiral Lord Howe,
waa lying in the harbor of New York, below
the city, about half way down to Staten Island.
In the farly part of the month a large fleet ot
vessels of war and transports, with troop from
Halifax and England direct, arrived at Sandy
Honk, and landed the army, at Graveaend and
on Staten Island.
It haa always seemed unaccountable why the
two Howes did not attack the city at once on
their arrival, and take possession under the
guns of their shipping. The artillery of the A
mericana waa entirely too feeble to have op
posed them with any success f and by so doing,
tho British, commander would have struck a
severe blow at our cause. To show how use
less were the American batteries, this extract
of a letter from Washington to Congress, dated
New York, July 12, 1776, is proof :Tho de
sign of this is to inform Congress, that at about
half after three o'clock this afternoon, two of
the - enemy' ships of war, one of forty and
one of twenty guns, with three tenders, wiegh
ed anchor in the bay opposite Staten laland, and
availing themselves of a brisk and favorable
breeze, with a flowing tide, run past our bat
teries tip the North river, without receiving
any certain damage that I could perceive, not
withstanding a heavy and inevsaant cannonade
was kept up from our several batteries here,
as well as from that at Pauhts Hook. .They on
their part returned and continued the fire as
they ran by.' '.'.
General Putnam at this time was the exe
cutive commanding officer in New York. Ilia
head quart era were in the house now occupied
by Mr. Prime, at the corner of Broadway, fa
cing the Bowling Green. He had for some
time been devising a plan to destroy a part of
the men-of-war in the habor by means of rafts
and fire-ships. The British sailors, however,
were too wary to fear much danger in this way
and 'Old Put's schemes were useless.
Among the Connecticut troops was an officer
of the name of Buehncll, a man of education,
of somewhat eccentric habits, but of a very
strong mechan'cal turn of mind. When at col
lege, in 1775, (the year ol his graduating) he
had prepared a model of a submarine explosive
machine, or torpedo, of very ingenious construc
tion. This coming to the ears of Putnam, he
sent Major Burr (Aaron Burr waa at this time
the aid de-camp of Putnam) to Bushnell, with
an invitation to dine with him. After dinner
Putnam mentioned to bis guest that he under
stood he had invented a machine for destroying
ships, by attacking them under water, and ask
ed him if auch was the case. Bushncll replied
that ho had the model of such a machine at his
quarters, and if the general desired he would
acvid for tt. An order was at once despatched
to fetch if, and after an hour spent in the ex
amination, Putnam declared with an oath, that
'if the machine could only be got into h I, it
would blow up the devil himself, and bed d
to him V Putnam had a very bad way of swear
ing in those dsys. Bushnell was immediately
supplied with the necessary funds, and act to
wk on the lorpeJo.
In the course of three days the machine waa
completed. A condensed description may not
seem out of place. Outwardly it bore some
appearance to a large sea turtle And what
would be the head of such an animal, was an
opening sufficiently Wrge to hold a man. This
apartment was air-tight, at the same time, con
taining air to eupport the operator for half an
hour. At the bottom, and opposite the err
trance, waa lead for ballast. The operator aat
upright, aod held an oar fur rowing forward or
backward, and was furnished with a rudder for
ateerittg. . Ad aperture at the bottom, with its
valve, admitted water for ibe purpose of des
cending, and two braes forcing pumps served to
eject the water within when neccasary for as
cending. . Behind tha submarine vessel waa e
plane above the rudder for carrying a large
powder magaaina this was made of two pieces
of oak timber, large enough, whea hollowed out,
to contain on hundred and fifty lbs. of powder
with the apparatus uaed for firing it, and waa
secured in its place by screw turned by . the
operator. Within the mags tine waa 'an appa
ratus conatructed to run any proposed period
under twelve hours when it had run out it
time, it unpinioned a strong lock resembling a
gun lock, which gave fire to tha powder. To
tha curious in such matters, for a full descrip
tion of BuahneU'i machine, we refer them to
MOT AMERICAN,
' : AND SH AMOKIN JOURNAL.
majority, the vital principle of Republic, from which
gunbury, IVbrttaamberland Co.
'Howe's Memoirs of Eminent American Me
chanic.'
Unfortunately, this well managed scheme
failed through the simplest reason in the would,
and that was, the want of a quid of tobacco I
You shall hear. A brother of Captain Bushnell
whose mind waa as ingenious as that of the in
ventor, was fixed upon to go down in the ma
chine t but he was taken sick the day before
the attempt waa to be made, and the trouble now
was to find a substitute. "Atlengltta sergeant
in a Connecticut regiment from New London,
volunteered for the service.'
The man's name was Abijnh Shipman, bet
ter known among his comrades as 'Long Bije.'
He was an amphibious kind of fellow had
been in early life a sailor, engaged in carrying
'stock' or horses to the West Indies, and was
what would be termed a 'queer fish.' lie stood
six feet two inches, and was remarkably lean
and bony, and full of dry wit or humor in his
remark. Fear formed no part of his composi
tion, and his chief faults were rather too strong
a liking for St. Croix rum and tobacco. .'Rign
was taken by General Putnam and Bushnell to
inspect the machine. After a full inspection
the only remark he made was this:
'It's all right, 1 guess 1 But I tell ye what,
Gin'ral, if that'ere thing is to be my coffin this
hitch, there'll be some trouble to get me out on
resurrection mornin.'
Yes,' replied Putnam; 'but sergeant, you
can send the Eagle vp first, to clear tha way,
you know.'
Before daylight, on a morning in July, the
sergeant was put on board the torpedo on the
North River side, preparatory to being pulled
ofl into the at ream, from, whence he was to drop
down with the tide, and get under the bottom
of. the Eagle. Putnam, Bushncll, General
Heath, Colonel Knowlton, . Burr, snd a large
number of officers accompanied him to the
shore. The undertaking was extremely hazar
dous, snd required great skill in the manage
ment of the machine. ' If the sergeant could
strike the ahip, and attach the magazine to any
portion of her bottom, her destruction was ine
vitable, beyond doubt. But to do this, great
skill, caution and judgment was needed.
Every thing was now ready-. 'Bige had got
aboard hia'tarnal mud turkle,' as he styled the
machine, and was about to enter (he aperture to
screw himself in the air-tight room or hole,
when of a sudden he ran up and exclaimed
'Thunder arid marlinspikea ! who's got a chaw
o tntiaeen 1 I Ina nhl nil ifl won Inat nn linur !
and he threw it sway.
A general laugh took place at the oddity of
the sergeant's appeal, at audi a juncture, when
the serious attention of all waa riveted upon the
machine and its operator, about to depart on so
dangerous service. Inquiries passed round for
tobocco, but not even a bit of pigtail could ba
raised among tho group. Daybreak too, waa
nut far off, and it was necessary that 'Bigo
should move immediately. '
Ah ! sergeant, yon see how it is,', said Put
nam, 'we continental oflicera are too poor even
to raise a tobacco plug. Push ofl, my fine
fellow, and to-morrjw aome of the Southern
officers shall supply you with a keg t)f old Vir
ginian?
Too bad V answered 'Bige despondingry,
but mind, Gin'ral, if the old turkle doesn't do
'her duty, it's all tm account V my going to
sea without tobacco mind I tell ye,'
, The machine was towed into the stream
cast off, snd 'Bige and his 'eternal mud turkle'
disappeared under water. .For the apace of an
hoar and more did the oflicera wait upon tire ex
treme point of the Battery, expecting momently
to see the Eagle ascend into the air. When
day broke, suspense gave way to fear, Nothing
was to be teen of the torpedo, and the officers
began to mourn 'Bige as one to be reported a
mong the 'mlssing'at the next call of bis regi
mental muster roll -Pntmaohad
been examining the vicinity of
the Eagle with his glass, when be suddenly exclaimed-'
'There he iaV Sure enough, the
top of the machine was left of the Eagle. It
waa observed from th ship's deck, for a volley
of musketry waa fired into it, and down below'
popped the turkle, 'Bige evidently not liking
this species of recognition. Barges were now
sent off the shore to pick him up, ami the Ea
gle was observed to be getting under way in
great hast. The sergeant was taken up near
Governor's Island, after having cast off his ma
chine, which being set to run about an hour, ex
ploded with tremendous force, throwing up the
water in every direction. The Eagle up an
chor, followed by the Asia, Chatham and sever
al other men-of-war ( and such a rapid 'gitten
down to New York bay' waa never seen before
or ainc. Lord How thought ayounghell'
had broken loose under charge of tha Yankeea,
and it is a fact no less strange thaa true, that
until tha morning of the s battle of Long laland,
not an English veaael ventured from 8laten Is
land up the bay. ' 'Bige, on landing, gave th
following account of hi per iloua journey under
water t
Jist a I said, Gin'ral it all failed for want
there ia no appeal but to force, th vital principle
Pa. Saturday) May 23, IS46.
of a chaw! You see, I'm narvous without to
bacco. I got under the Eagle's bottom, but
somehow tho screw struck the iron bar that pa
sea from the rudder pintle, and 'twouldn't hold
on no how I could fix it. Jist then I let go
the oar to feel for a chaw to aid my narves, and
hadn't any. ThecusFed. tide swept me under
her counter, and away I elipt top oV wster. I
couldn't get bsck, so I pulled the lock and let
the infernal critter slide. It raised h It, didn't
itl I say, can't you raise a chaw among you
now T
Thus ended Bushnell's famous torpedo
scheme. Bushnell died in Georgia,' in 182R.
'Bige died near Now London about twenty yeara
ago, avowi.ig to the last that Admiral Lord
Howe owed his earldom, which he won by his
famous victory over the French on the 1st of
June, 1794, solely to old Put's not furnishing
him, 'Bige, with a quid of tobacco when he
went down in the "eternal mud turkle."
TUB PROGRESS OaT TUB IlKPt'BLlC,
The following passage from Ma. Critten
den's speech on the Oregon question in the
Senate is aa full of meaning as it is eloquent in
expression : .
It is a little more than two centuries since a
tceble band, very few end very feeble, landed
on the bleak shores of an unknown land. And
what do we now behold ? They have spread
their empire across this broad continent, from
sea to sea; they have overcome the wilderness
and filled it with cities; from a few hundreds
of people fhey have already multiplied to tweu
ty millions, and the child is born who will see
that number swelled to one hundred millions.
And sll this done by the mere course of Na
ture. No art hss been called in to urge for on
ward progress; the country haa grown up with
people, and aa rapidly as the one multiplies and
spreads, the other holds out her supplies, snd o
pens her rich resources. That is your inheri
tance. How proud ought it to make ua feel!
Why so impatient to get to-day, what, by the
mere force of circumstances, by a destiny that
cannot be controlled, will be yours to-morrow ?
Cannot we afford to be a little wise, a little pa
tient! We are going ahead upon a tideof pros
perity, upon a aca of glory, with unequalled ce
lerity and the speed of the wind. Can wo not be
satiofit-d Why must we be trying artificial
means to get on still faster? This is the only
wsy by which our onward progress can be suc
cessfully impeded. We are the' greatest born
of this continent. This continent is ours by a
title indefeasible, irreversible, irresietible. I
limile inwardly and exultingly at all petty Eu
ropeans' endeavors to cheek us, by establishing
what they denominate a balance of power.''
It provokes no freling in my breast ; I know it
is natural'; it rather provokes my pride. This
republic is not seventy years old; ass nation
it haa not yet attained, to the length of an imli
vidual life it is justly and correctly spoken cf as
an "infant republic" and yet a e see it exciting
the wonder and the jealousy find the diploma
tic plots and schemes f the kingdoms of Eti
rope. What can they effect What can Mons
Guieol's fine drawn policy! a "balance of pow
et" on this Western continent accomp'ith in
stopping the march of this advancing people,
We are this dsy twenty millions ? where will
ho find his 'balance' fur this t
wss much amused the other day by read
ing a memorial of the Count de Vergennes ad
dreased to the King of France. It accompa
nies a survey of the United States, and the
memorial treats of the trne basis for the future
policy of the French Government towards ns.
This was written sixty years ago, just after
the treaty of our independance in 17S3 ; and
the policy and wise Count there states to the
king, his master, that there isa Very powerful
and formidable tribe of Indians called the Clie
rokees, who live in the gorges of the western
motintsins, snd he recommends the K ing to cul
tivate friendship and alliance aa a "barrier a
gainst the people of the United States'' mark
that Jmtrch langter, "least the people of the
United States," says the wo: thy Count, "more
ambitious than wise, should attempt to cro8the
heiglita of the Alleghany Mountains, and look
even as lar as the Mississippi ttsetr. uenew-
ed merriment thro' the Chamber and gallor
ies.
To cheek this overwhelming daring of an am
bilious people, he recconimends an alliance be
Iwventhe Crown of France and the powerful
nation of the Cherokee! . Here is Monsieur
Guiaot's "balance of power." In that day tho
Cherokee Indiana were to be the counterweight
in the French balanee of power to keep ua back
from being ao daring as to look even towards
the Mississippi itself. Poor Count da Vergen
nea ' The day is coming when our posterity
will look, with the ssme feelings uf wonder.nt
our present anxiety snd greediness to get the
'whole of Oregon," just as if it would not be
ours without .any action ol our own. Nothing
can withold ua from our natural destiny ( we
cannot avoid it but by the grossest folly and
wickedness. Nothing els can disappoint our
hope or frustrate tha afcrigns of Nature and
and immediate parent of dcspotlem.-J.tr
taaoa.
Vol. GXo. 35Wnole Wo, 295.
Providence in our behalf. Let th nga alone.
Take care of your Union that is all you have
to look' to. Tho shadow of your free institu
tions goes before you every whera ; or rather
let me ssy tho bright radiance of those institu
tions illuminate your path in every direction.
The people of our countries, living under oth
er systems of despotic rule, or solicitously vol
unteering to come under the shelter of your
lawa and the security of your protection
Without wrong or injury or violence, without
a blow snd without a wound, you may conquer
more effectually than ever did the Roman le
gions. This, this, and not the sword, is your
all conquering power. It is tha burning sxam
ple"of your liberty. This it is that carries hope
into the breasts of the hopeless and teaches the
most depressed that there is happiness yet with
in their reach. You are yourselves tha great
living practicable illustration of your own prin
ciples; you want no more. Why, then, so impa
tient to pluck that fruit green to-day, which
to morrow will fall full ripe into your hand!
I say not tliene things in any spirit of aggran
disement, or with any desire to have my coun
try usurp its neighbor's right. No sir; no.
is a part of the elements of our conquering char
actcr, a part of the augury of a great career,
that wo shall be just to all ; that we shaH vio
late no right ; that we shall do no injury ; that
we shall respect the weak, but submit to no in
justice, iske care ot yourselves, preserve
your sacred Union, and all the rest ia certain as
the coure of Nature. For ourselves not mere
ly, but for the common race of man, we hold the
sceptre of an empire such as never before was
seen upon earth. Do not, by precipitancy and
childish impatience, roar the fortune which na
ture and destiny hold out to you,
To Make Fbuit Tries THatnT. In the
spring wash them ai high as a man can reach
with one quart whale nil soap, diluted in fifteen
gallons of water; and if in April there are cat
erpillars, give them another dose; then put
round the roots of the apple and pear trees two
or three shovels of cltarcoal or anthracite ashes
to the peach, plum and nectarine trees I have
tried various experiments, yet have hitherto
been most pleased with tobacco stems, which
are purchased at two cents per bushel. . Half
a peck of stems around each tree is sufficient.
Tha roots sre first la id bare ; the tobacco is then
placed over them and covered with soil. To
this three or four shovels full of anthracite ash
ea may Ire added with advantage. The past
spring I have tried on all, save peach and nec
tarine trees which "were so disessed with
worms that I ordered them cut up an applica
tion of warm (not hot) coal tar from the gas
Iioiifc. We first removed the earth from the
roots, picked out the worms, and then, with a
painter's brush, covered the trnnk of the tree
eight inches up from the roots. After, this soil
wss immediately replaced around the tree.
The effoct was astonishing. In May we appli
ed half a pint of gtinnjas a top dressing to each
tree, and thriftier trees, fuller of fruit, and with
a deeper, richer green foliage, cannot be seen.
I mean to treat all my pearlu s this way, as the
chcapeat and beet manner of protecting them.
Two peach trees I gave up last fall aa past a
hope of saving. On these I tried an experiment
of putting to each fiAecn gallons of urine neu
tralized with-a peck of Plaaterof Paris. Tha
treea are now living, and the leaves are green ;
but whether they will thrive well remains to be
seen. I think, however, the dose will effect a
cure; and if so, it is worth knowing. You shall
have the result hearaftcr.
R. I. COLT.
- Patterson, A. 'J.', June 5, 1813
Demc-ioi) Apple Fluking. Pare and chop
fine half a dozen or more, according to their aise,
the best cooking apples grcsse a pudding dish,
cover the bottom and aides half an inch thick
with grated bread, and very small lumps of but
ter; then put u layer of applea with augar and
nuttnega and repeat the layers Until the dish is
heaped full. Befirre adding the' last layer,
which mutit be of bread and butter, pour over
the whole a teacup lull of cold water. Put it
into the oven aa soon aa the dinner ia served,
and bake it mr twenty-five or thirty minutes.
It n.sy bo bnked the day before it ia wanted ;
when it must be heated thoroughly, turned in
to a shsllow dish snd sprinkled with powdered
sugar. It requires no sauce. Am. Ag,
It is estimated that 215,1100 persons have
been annually killed in battle for the" last
lour thousand years, to aay nothing or the
wounded. .
Christianity ia all mildness and beauty it
breathes nothing but pure benevolence to God,
and it appeals to the best feelings of man. It ia
is esscuiially a religion of love, and hai uodaik
shades blended with its brilliant tints.
Moral principle ia the citadel of tha heart.
All education, therefore, which ia conducted ir
respective of this, ia but tha erection of out
works to tteeiega the strong holds of viitua.
rntcia of AnvnnTisixc.
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half column, $12 ; three squares, 8 ; two squares,
$5 ; one square. 1 13 60.
Advertisements left without directions aa to th
length of time they are. to be published, will b
continued until ordered out, and charged accord
ingly. .
fXj'Siiteen lines or less make a square.
THE REVEStVB BII.Im
The following iaan abstract of the new Re
venue Bill, which we take from th Lancaster
Union.' We are getting along wonderfully in
the wsy of taxation. A few improvements
upon thia bill would place ns in the happy eon
d it ion of tire tsx-ridden subjects of Great Bri
tain. -.
Sec. I. Requires the commissioners of every
county in the Commonwealth, at the usual pe
riod of making coanty rates and levies, to as
sess, ot caose to be assessed, for the use of the
commonwealth, npon all stages, omnibuses
hacks, csbs and other vehicles, used for trans
porting paasengers for hire, and upon all an
nuities over two hundred dollars, except those
grsntedbytlns commonwealth or hytheUni
ted Statos, and npon all trust property real or
personal, fnot taxed under existing laws. ex
cepting all such property as shall he held in
trust Tor religious purposes, three mills upon
every dollar.
Ftc. 2. Requires the commissioner of every
county to include in their precepts to assessor
the several objects of taxation mentioned in the
preceding section, and to sscertain the amount,
description and nature thereof, and make return
to them as now required by law, and provides
that the taxes on said property shall be collec
ted in the same monuer as all olher tax' s.
Sec. 3. Requires every pTson, firm. P'psi
dent, Secretary, Cashier or Treasurer of evry
compsTiy or otporation to deliver to ase
in writinu, a statement slmw in? the affp-e-K'sj
amount of money tine to them by solvent 'I"'"
tors, whether on mortgage, judgment, K.nd.
note, contract, agreement, account, and attle
mont inOrphana' Cowl and Coot t of Common
Pleaa.
Sro. 4. Requires said statement to be niatfa
out and certified to within fifteen days, or in
case offieglect or refusal to do so, the same f hall
be done by the assessor.
Sic. Jk Provides that if any person, Presi
dent, &c. shall not make ont a true statement,
he shall be fined one hand red dollars.
See. 6. Providea - that the commissioners
shall tax all moneys, stocks, debts, &c con
tained in said statement at the same rate aa
similar property is now taxed by the the Act of
April 26lh,1841, with a provision that 50 per
cent, shall be added in all cases when partiea
refuse to make said statement.
Sec. 7 Require the Auditor General to for
ward to county commissioners forms of atate
ments required by the preceding sections, and.
all ncceasary instructions for carrying the act
into uniform effect.
Sea 8 Provides that all loans and 6tocks is,
sued by companies chartered by the State,
whenever interest is guaratited by the common
wealth, shall be taxed one ha'J mill lor the us
of the Slate.
Sec. 9. Limits the Act of May 4h, 1841,
to the 4th of May, 1940, and exemp'e Binke
from receiving 'Releif notes' issued by them in
payment of debts.
Set. 10. Requirea the State Treasurer to
pay all fees for Searches, Copies, F.ntries, &c.
into tho Treasury for use of State.
Sec. 11. Requirea that all dealers in do
mestic goods shall pay the same annual tax that
dealers m foreign merchand ee now do, ex
cept mechanics who keep a atore at their owo
shops.
Sec. 12. Provides for the better payments of
the taxes of dealer in merchandise.
Sec 13. Relates exclusively to the city and
county of Philadelphia. -
Sc 14. Double the tax on collateral inner-'
itances.
Sec. 13. Relatea to Philadelphia only.
Saw. 10. Requires the next tri-ennuat assess
mcnt to be made in this year (13I6,)and tri-an
nually thereafter.
Sec. 17. Declares that the assessment in, no
county shall be below the valuation fixed by tha
revenue corn mission era, though it may bat mad
higher.
. Sac 18. Relate to Bedford county only.
Sec Require that all assessors shall
make oath that they have made a true and juht
return and authoriacsthe county conimiesioners
to administer such oa'.K,
Sec. 20. Imposes a tax of fifty dollars fiuo
on any person who ahall refuse to eervo aa col
lector. Sto. 21. Declares that collectora warrant
shall be effectual for collection of taxe after
two yeara.
Sk.,22. Repeals .ho act giving fr0,000
Pittsburg so far as the W,000 not yet paid ia
concerned. .
Sto. 23 Provides that property left by de.
ceased persons may be taxni in tha name of the.
Administrators, F-xecutora or heirs, snd that
such tax shell remain a l:enon th part taxed
for the period ot one year.
: A woman may be of great assistance to het
hucband in buisines, by wearing a clicerful
smile continually upon her countenance. A
man's perplexities and gloominess are ln"reaed
a hundred fold, whea his belter naif moves a
boat with a continual legw uoon her brow.