frirdompiltr.
IP• 1. ilearie, lidisor and Prairrieser
GETTYSBURG, PA
MOW/ Morning, March 1, 1859
tirplo Democratic State Conven
tion, to nominate candidates for Canal
Commissioner and Judge of the Supreme
Court, will assemble at Harrisburg, on
Tharaday next, the 4th of March. J.
W. DOUGLAS, Esq., of Chambersburg,
will repr.sont this Senatonal district,
sod Dr. $. F, Sump, of Littiestown, the
county. Thu Convention will fully
endorse President BccHANA.N.
Der Gen . HAILNXT and Col. Summon
arrived at Washington on the 14th
direct from Leavenworth, Kansas, hav
ing been telegraphed for. They both
report everything quiet in the Territo
ry, end say they apprehend no farther
difileablas, provuled Congress will give
tbmea a government'of their own, by
admitting them under the Lecompton
Constitution. If that ia done, in less
that' alpety days all trouble will cease.
IMIPPOtir troops in Utah wore in goad
health on the sth of January, the last
date received. The United States Dis
trict Court for Utah bad indicted Brig
ham viktuag, Kimball and other Mormon
dignitsries, with high treason.
.Pub Lie O p inion.—There is not a soli
tary Democratic paper in the great
State of Now York—not cno—whieh
does not fully and unequivocally en
dorse ibo N.llll/1111 policy of President
Buena:cam!
The Voice of the Democracy.—The
Pittsburgh Union very pointedly says :
"The tan Democratic Senators in the
Pennsylvania Legislature, from the
Congressional districts represented st
Washington by H. 383115. HICKMAN, Ow
a louts, RCILLY, DzwAar, and CHAP
MAN, stand fairly and squarely up tc
the Kansas policy of President BUCH
ANAN and the Democratie party. This
is a siguifieant fact, and cannot well be
ovurlooked."
Ts Nora- IVesters Counties.—We find
the following item in the Vesango Spec
tator, with reference to the Democratic
sentiment in the Northwestern counties
of this State. . The Spectator says: "The
Democrats of Warren endorsed the Ad
ministration at a meeting held, last
week. The Northwestern counties are
now $ unit. This is what we expected.
It is the height of presumption to sup
pose fbr a moment that the Democratic
party will turn ite i back - upon the Ad
ministration, and thereby play into the
hands of the opposition."
11111rThe Opposition are growing s►v
age at the prospect of the speedy ad
-IniSelOn of Kansas into the Union, (wit.
sea, their journals published hero.) As
•son as that is accomplished, they very
well know, their chief " occupation will
be gone "—their thunder dead, and
their party nearly or quite so. So let
them howl—nobody it hurt by it, whilst
tho awlionce are amused.
.Pardon of Hoy/woe Stewart.—Governor
Pecker has signod the pardon of Mon
roe Stewart, convicted in connection
with Charlotte Jones and Henry
of the murder of George Wilson and
Elisabeth ito3iasters, in Allegheny
county. The confession of both Jones
and Fit), upon the gallows, freed Stew
artfrom any complicity in the murders,
and since then petitions to an enormous
extant have flooded in upon the Govern
or, asking for a pardon. Stewart was
undersentenco to be hung on Lust Friday.
-XlaztA of Judge Kans.—The Hon.
John K. Kant, Judge of the United
SLOW* Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, died at his residence,
nom Philadelphia, on Sunday night,
about sizty•five years of age. Hu was
admitted to the bar in 1817, and rapidly
roes to distinction as a lawyer and pol
itioisa. In 1845, Governor Shunk ap
pointed Mr. K. Attorney General of
leasasylvania, and in 1846, upon the
death of Judge Randall, of the U. S.
Maria Court, President Polk appoint
-04 Mr. Z. to the vacancy, and he tilled
that positkus up to the time of his death.
letivos * wife and four children ;
Wee tans and a daughter. His de-
Mewl son Pr, Z. .K. Ups, by his Arc
aapeditioas search of Sir John
Franklin, has shed unlading lustre on
Ike Away name.
.N gland Biyotry.—a. meat Theo
=ll.l,3l4Y meeting in Now Maven
license to a tututtit4to for the
14.0 11 7, because he woulifitot promise
se Jima against " shivery." After
-1111111161 ire atediditte, Mr. Monteith, ap.
ime soother meoctstinn and was
The Mir hha Greeted quite a
aiWagipint New Mere*.
eiligt - thet gentloman who
- at the proprietors of
` -S iu Deveeport, lowa,
ot •
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TUrney has introditeid in Oa
Senate, an important bill relative to
debts due to decedents. It empowers
the " Courts of Common Pleas upon the
application of any trustee, trustees or
assignees, or for the Orphans' Courts of
this Commonwealth, upon the applica
tion of any executor or administrator
by petition or otherwise, representing
that tbere aro certain debts due and
owing such estates, evidenced by judg-;
men ts, notes, bona,, bills, book accounts,
or other evidence of indebtedness in
writing, that are doubtful or cannot be
collected, to authorize such trnatee, l
assignee, executor or(iidneinistrator, to
make public sale of snob claims to the
.
highest and best bidder, provided that
notice of such sales shall bo given by
written or printed handbills for ten
days." Such a law is now in operation!
in Ohio.
in the Senate, on the 17th ult., Mr.
Brewer read in places bill for the relief
of J. 10. Schick, Lite Tros.snrer of Adams
county—in order to balance an account
at the Auditor General's office, for Mil
itary Finus, 11c T paid to the Independ
ent Blues, of Gettysburg, amountiug to
about $165.
Kr. Brewer ale.) read a bill to ineor
porate the Mummasburg Mutual Fire
Insurance Company, of Adams county.
On the seine day, in the House, nu
merons petitions were presented in fa
vor of abolishing the office of County
Superintendent of Common Schools.
The bill to repeal all laws for the
collection of Collateral Inheritance
Taxes was defeated in the ouse, as
was a bill to alter and amend the fee
bill.
On Saturday, the 20th, the Senate
passed thif House bill to repeal the law
relative to Sealer of Weights and
Meatsures so far as concerns York co.
Mr. Brower read in place a bill rela
tive to the Banks of this Commonwealth,
the object of which is to provide a bet
ter currency for the people of Pennsyl
vania. The first section pro Odes that
the several banks of the Commonwealth
shall take at par, on deposit, in pay
ment of debts and of claims received
for collection, the nctes of all solvent
specie paying banks of the State, and
authorise them to pay out in discounts,
&c., all such notes.—Thc second so, tion
prohibits the issue of notes of a lola de
nomination than ten dollars.
On Monday, the 22d, Washington's
Farewell Address wai road in the Sall
of the }louse, in the presence of both
bodies, the Governor, Ileads of Depart
ments, &0., and the usual number of
copies ordered to be printed for the use
of the members.
Mr. Ramsey, of Philadelphia, has in
troduced into the House, a new license
bill. Amongst other changes it takes
the licensing power' rom tho Courts,
and vests it in the County Commission
ers. The bill also compels persons ta
king out license to file a bond - in the
Quarter 'Sessions' Court for 5500, con
ditioned for the preservation of order,
and fur not selling minors drink. Per
sons applying for license in Phila
delphia and Pittsburg who sell $lO,OOO
worth per annum, and upwards, to pay
$200; those from $5,000 to $lO,OOO, to
pay4loo ; from $2,500 to $5,000, to pay
$5O; those who sell $2,000 and under,
to pay $30.-1n the country and bor
oughs, the latter ohm to pay $25 per
annum.
In the Senate, on Wedneiday, the
majority of the committee on tho Kan
sas resolutions reported a resolution
in favor of the Looompton constitution,
accompanied by a lengthy report urg
ing the speedy admission of Kansas un
der the Lecompton constitution, with a
declaration that it is the right of the
people to alter it whenever they desire,
through proper legal means. It was
ordered to be printed, and a motion to
postpone action to allow the minority to
report was defeated by the united vote
of the Democratio members.
t
The promised address of Gee. Cal
houn, President of the Kansas Leoornp
ton Convention, has been published.
lie says that he has written to Gover
nor Denver to procure the sworn state
ments of the Judges of tho controvert
ed Delaware Crossing election precinct,
and have them taken under each cir
cumstances as will secure a free and un
biased exhibition of the facts. By the
sworn statements so procured he shall
be governed in the certificates of elec •
tion to the members of the Legislature
from Leavenworth county. If it shall,
as it probably will, place the govern
ment of Kansas in the hands of his ono
miss, (the " Free State " men,) no ono
will regret it more, yet he shall honest
ly discharge his official duties.
•On Friday morning week, Mr .
Gro. Upp, of York, was seized with a
sudden attack of paralysis, and for sev
eral days was in such a condition that.
his life was despaired of. Hie left. side
was completely paralyzed, but we aro
pleased to learn that he is ranch better,
and that his attending physicians enter
tain strong hopes of his ultimate re
covery.
Bliss, widow of the late
Major BUM, United States army, and
daughter of Gen. Taylor, the ex-Presi
dent, was married on the 11th ult., to
Philip P. Asadridgs, Fog, of Virginia.
The marriage took place at New Or-
Arnie' tateilor of Lwow has a
poblie deb otOtiVer:-
WILL kAlrthill ANIMM?
We skewer yes. And (to Mop, the
language of the Lancaster Intolligencer)
why should it not bo under the Le- 1
compton Constitution! The people of
Kansas had decided by a majority of,
over five thousand votes, as a prelimi
nary measure, that they desired to quit!
their Territorial dependence and be
come a zovereign State of the Union.,
This decision was had in pursuance of '
the provisions of an Act of Congress ; '
and, in irecoidanee with the popular
ILish, the Territorial Legislature enact-'
a a law authorizing the election of del-
egates to a Convention for the forma-!
Lion of a State Constitution. The Con
vention met at Lecompton, in the Ter
ritory, and after mature deliberation
and reflection, agreed upan a Coustitu-;
tion for the government of the now
State. This Constitution is now before
Congress fur their approval, and is
there in pursuance of law. - The only
questions, then, in oar humble opinion,
for the National Legislature to inquire,
into, are : First—Was the Convention
a legal body, authorized to frame a
Conifiitution ? and, Secondly—ls the
Coristittition, so framed, republican in
all its features according to the require
ments of the Federal Constitution 1 If
those interrogatories 'are answered of
and we. apprehend there
can be no other response, the question
is settled, and we do not see *hat
should prevent Kansas from being at
once admitted into the Union as a sov
ereign State. This, we believe, is a
plain and °oriels° statement of the whole
affair.
AFFAIRS IN KANBAB.
The unauthorised Topeka Legislature
was still in session in. Kansas at last
accounts. The regular Territorial Leg
islature had, done comparatively noth
ing, and according to the most authen
tic advises the aspect of affairs in the
Territory is undergoing a marked
change. The people want peace; and
a large majority at the present time aro
in favor of the immediate admission of
KftollllB under the Lecompton Constitu
tion. The honest and fairminded
throughout the Territory are heartily
sick of agitation, and they believe that
the only way to puts stop to agitation,
and kill off J tit Lass and his worthless
and corrupt gang, is to admit Kansas
as a State. The herald of Freedom,
and other papers heretofore opposed to
Lecompton, now favor its admission.
The gross and shameless profligacy and
selfish scheming of the late legislature,
and tho mad designs of the Topekaites,
have oontributod largely to unite public
sentiment against the agitators and in
favor of the immediate assumption of
State rights and dignity. The Terri
tory can never know prosperity until
this war of faction and sell interest is
crushed out.
: T I 1 M
A small company of very serious and
anxious looking men, assembled at
Herr's ];hotel on Monday evening, in
übedicnoe to a call for a Republican
State Convention. Tho delegates were
entirely-self-constituted, embracing tho
Republican members of tho Legislature,
and sundry old politicians, who have,
as Whigs, Americans, and latterly Ro
publieans;lod and shipwrecked the op
position. 'These old political doctors,
with Thaddous Stovans at their head,
amembleti in solemn counsel over the
dead body of their last victim, and put
their heads together for the purpose of
ercoting a new party, or giving the late
Republican organization some appear
ance of life. After much tribulation,
we hear that they determined not to
call a Convention at this time, but to
continuo the old oommitsee, with Lem
uel Todd as chairman, and to meet in
convention at his cal.—Harrisburg
Union.
iiiirWe learn that a Convention of
all the iastitra mix come off at Harris
burg about tho first of July next, to
nominate candidates for Canal Com
missioner and Supreme Jndge. Dem
ocrats will not allow themselves to be
caught in a trap which they can so
plainly see.
slid :~',:i;pi iii
A difficulty recently occurred at
Brown's Hotel, in Washington, between
Gen. Cullom, of Tenn., and James B.
Clay, of Ky., and the latter challenged
the former to a duel, which challenge
was accepted. Friends interfered, and
after no littlo parleying, the matter
was referred to Senators J. J. Critten
den, R. Toombs and A. Kennedy, for
honorable adjustment, who reported
Mr. Cullom in the wrong, and that he
make a satisfactory apology to Mr.
Clay. So the matter has been . wisely
dropped. It seems that the difficulty
arose in this way : Gen. Cullom asked
Mr. Clay to drink, which he declined;
Cullom insisted, and Clay more positive
ly refused; offensive remarks passed,
when Cullom struck Clay a blow.
AIM 0:411:t
The Philadelphia Banks, whose mis
conduct brought on the suspension,
and who brambly besought tho Legisla
ture to grant them relief at the extra
session, have had the impudence to ask
the present Legislature to release them
from the obligation to receive the notes
of solvent Wintry Banks at par in
payment of debts. When the bill to
release them was before the Senate, Mr.
Bazwaa made a brief but spirited speech
against it. Mr. Scams., the able dents
tor from the Bedford district, also spoke
in opposition to the mesistire.—These
and other gentlemen deserve great
praise for their efforts to protect the
Country Banks froth the rapacity of
the City institutions.—Caambersbarg
Spirit.
aphis • that India la worth
to BillOad uharlAMlsoo9,o!)o per
annum,
umra nom watantoirox
Wamumfrawc, Fib. 2s, 1252*
Dais Hostenao greed doling as &haw
:gond, coo . the occasion of She inauguration
of the statue of WAJIIIIIOTOX, on Monday, eat
short Coogreuioaal work fora few days. How
ever, there Is still something to note since my
Lat.
We have reports from the Senate' Committee I
on Territories, in regard to the Kansas sues
tion. The majority of that Committee, (re-
porting through Mr. Green,) take the ground
that the Lecompton Convention was legally
called, and its acts binding; and allude in
proper terms to the bad spirit which actuated
the abolitionists in Kansas in refusing to vote
when the great and only question of controver
sy was presented to them. And now, whilst
claiming to be a majority of the voters of
Territory, and therefore able to elect a Legisla
tore and Courention, the agitators ask Con..
gross to wrongfully do for them what they may
at legAl times and legal places ightfully do for
themselves; that to change" or abolish their
Constitution; and in case Congress refuse to
comply with their constitutional demands, they
threaten to afflict the country with an attempt
at bloodshed and revolution. Unless Congress
will do for them what they assert they are
anxious not to do for themselves, but which
they wilfully refine to do, they threaten to
plunge the country Into civil war. This con
duct is so exceedingly unrusoaable as to force
the conviction upon the mind, that they are
conscious of being a powerleu minority, and
only expect to be able to compass their un
warrantable ends by departing from the general
way of moo sad quiet. The bill recites that
the people of Kansas framed for themselves a
Constitution and State Government, repub l ican
in form, wad the Convention held at Lecompton
has, In their name and behalf, asked Congress
to admit her. Therefore, it is declared that
Kansas should be admitted into the Union on
an equal footing with the original States, in all
respects whatever. The bill prescribes boun
daries, and contains the usual regulations
relative to, and grants of public land, as in the
case of Minnessota, and gives Kansas for the
present, one representative in the House of
Representatives.
Mr. Douglas presented a diuenting report,
as did Messrs, Cahouet. and Wade, the latter
using such logic as is usually found in the
columns of the New York Tribune. Mr. Doug
las argues in favor of an" enabling act," con:
tending that the Lecompton Convention was
not clothed with the necessary power to es
tablish a Constitution without the assent of
Congress.
The bill for the admission of Kansas under
the Lecompton Constitution will be taken up
in the Senate on Monday next, and " put
through " without much delay—say a week—
anti if passed in the shape as reported, will also
pas, the House, by ten or twelve majority,
but the struggle spay be more protracted than
in the Satiate,
That the question may be speedily settled is
the prayer of all really sincere friends of the
Union throughout the States, and in Kansas it
is rapidly becoming the general one. The Tri
bune and its co-workers aro losing their ooeu.
pation. " x.. T. Z..
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The recent action in favor of Mr.
BUCHANAN'S Kansas policy by the De
mocracy of Delaware, Chester, Snyder,
Union, Warren, Cambria, Lancaster
and Lawrence counties puts the cap
stone to the oolumn of Democratic ac
tion by which that policy has been en
dorsed in his native State. The whole
question is now at rest so far as party
sentiment is concerned in Pennsylvania,
and those who antagonize the President
in his course with reference to the
speedy admission of Kansas under the
Lecompton Constitution, do so in direct
opposition to the official expression of
Democratic sentiment, in all sections of
the Commonwealth. With a_ solitary
and unimportant exception or two, ev
ery Democratic county assemblage yet
he:d has fully sustained the position of
Mr. BucuAmaN, and expressed the ut
most (...onfid3nce in the wisdom and pa
tiotism of tho motives by which he has
been and is no governed and con
trolled.
TD ATTIEEPT TO ANABBINATE
SENATOR BTOVU.
Light shed upon it.—Wo take from a
late number of the Albany Atlas the
following additional information upon
this subject :
A New Way of Defeating an Opposing
Party.—ln the Kansas Legislature,
elected on the 4th oZ January, accord
ing to the returns, there were 22 Dem
ocrats and 22 Free 4tatte man in the
House, and 10 Demecrata to 9 Free
State men in the Senate. To make a
tie all round ) the Free State men shot
Stover, one of the Democratic Senators,
and it is said that ho has died of hie
wounds. This is rather sharp practioo,
we are thinking; but there is no ex
treme to which Black Republican fana
ticism will not go, to carry its point.—
Journal of Commerce.
We have a letter from Kansas which
is explicit in charging the assassination
upon the Free State leaders. We sup
press the name of the alleged instiga
tor:
Wrtacnorrr., K. T., Jan. 25, 1858
Hon. Samuel Stover, the Democratic
State Senator eloot from this district,
was shot in the woods about four miles
from this place. Tb-3re can be no doubt
that —'s Secret Inquisition is at the
bottom of this moat hellish deed. Sto
ver, as State Senator, stood in the way
of the election of to the United
States Senate; and thore is convincing
evidence that that black-hoarted man
plotted his assassination.
Honest people at the North will be
astonished when the real character of
the leaders of the Free State party
shall be spread before them.
seirlt is rumored that the Hon. Geo.
M. Dallas, our minister to England,
will be appointed 11. S. Judge in Penn
sylvania, vice Judge Kane, deceased.
"A Good Egg."
Mr. Groaor, EPLZY, orFreedom town
ship, sent to this office, last week, a
Hen Egg measuring in circumference
8 inches one way and 81 the other. A
large a yield," certainly; and what is
equally note-worthy, flv3t ttiat tit*
bon lays aikigg of nearly ott vita the
aims as may day. • .
lolrß & eotntil tiffkii.s.
Oa litonda3; evening last, D. ♦.
Busaus, Esq., delivered a Lecture be
fore the Young Men's Christi*n Asso
ciation, in St. James Church, on "Crom
well." Professor Srotvica will deliver
his Lecture on " Aaron Burr," in
tho Methodist Church, this evening, at
7 o'clock. The succeeding lectures will
be delivered by D. WILLs, Eaq., Rev.
R. S. Garr, and Rev. Dr. Bavaria,
which will close the course.
These Lectures base generally been
well attended, and no doubt afforded
much pleasure to our citizens.
stir A. special meeting of the Amami.
ation will take place in the Lecture
Room of St. James Church, on Saturday
evening next, at 61 o'clock.
Court House Letting.
On Tuesday last, the proposals for
the building of the new Court House
were opened by the County Commis
sioners. There were some twelve or
fifteen bids. We understand that Er.
Tummy., of Carlisle, gets the contract,
agreeing to 'build it, as per plan and
specification, for sl4,37s,—giving good
and sufficient security. The building
will be 50 feet by about 102—the Com
missioners having determined to ell
large it some 13 foot beyond the origi
nal plan.
dasociate Judge.
Issec E. WreasfAx, Esq.,-of Hunting
ton township, has been appointed, by
Gov. Packer, an Associate Judge of this
county, in place of Hon. David Horner,
deoeased. It is no exaggeration to say
that Mr. Wierman is well fitted for the
station, and will discharge its duties in a
wanner ace eptable to the people of the
county.
Resumed.
The Bank of Gettysburg has fully re
sumed specie payments. It is duo to
the management of the institution to
say, that While the specie vaults of all
around us were closely loeked, the Bank
of Gettysburg did not entirely suspend,
—but paid 'out during the panic suf
ficient specio to supply " ohange
for the community, thereby relieving
everybody from great inconvenience
in that respect. Few other places have
been as fortunate.
The Bank eiijoys unlimited and de
served confidence. and its paper is re
gardod as worth its face in gold by all .
who aro lucky enough to possess any
of it. We apprehend, therefore, no
disposition on the part of any to de
mand of the Bank more specie than
will answer the ordinary purposes of
business.
Don't Miss the Chance!
Public attention is " waking up"
more and more to the reliable charao
ter of the investment offered in tho
Gettysburg Railroad Bonds. We learn
that last week upwards of five thousand
dollars' worth were disposed of, and the
prospect of increasing sales is highly
propitious. None can doubt as to the
safety of tho investment. Tho not
earnings on that part of the road now
worked (between New Oxford and
Hano&) are alroady sufficient to pay
the interest- on all tho Bonds which
the company coed sell.
Waahiagtoa's Birth-Day.
Monday last, the natal day of the
groat and good WastrrNOTON, was un
usually lively in this place. The Inde
pendent - Blues and Brass Band wore
out on parade several times during the
day. In the morning they were ad
dressed in an appropriate manner, in
tho German Reformed Church, by
Capt. C. H. Buzaus—Lient. E. F.
Farmwives.' reading 'Washington's
Farewell Address. The church was
orowded—indeod, the town appeared
crowded—the day having brought to
gether many, old and young, from the
surrounding country. The Hanover
Company did not come.
In the evening, the Blues and Band
partook of an ek.oellent supper at Tato's
Hotel. At the same time, some forty
or forty-five gentlemen done full and
appreciating justioe to a first-class
supper at MoClellan's Hotel.
inico Ito Turk layablisiuk.
MILITARY MATTEIS.
From the report of Gen. Thomas J.
Power, Adjutant General of the Com
monwealth, made to the Governor, and
accompanying the reports submitted
to the present Legislature, at the com
menoement of the session, by Gov.
Pollock, in connection with his annual
message, wo learn that there aro 63,225
uniformed militia, (volunteers) in the
State, composed of Cavalry, Artillery,
Infantry and Riflemen. The number
of Companies is 271 ; consisting of 40
companies of Cavalry-43 of Artillery
—96 of Infantry, and 59 of Rifles. In
this, the Fourth Division, composed of
York and Adams oounties, there are
four uniformed companies. In the First
Bridade, (York co.) we have the Worth
Infantry, of York Borough; the Scott
Infantry, of Wrightsville, and the Bu
chanan Guards, oillopewell and neigh
boring townships. In the Second
Brigade, (Adams co.) the Independent
Blues, of Gettysburg, is the only com
pany. The military spirit, from these
facts, does not seem to be very active
within the bounds of this Division.
The field and staff omoers of the two
Brigades composing this Division are:
Flan Biuomm—Ycrax oocrim.
Brigadier General—George Bay.
Brigade Aid-de-Camp—Abdiel F. lichelberger.
Brigade Major—Jobs Y. Deitch.
Brirld• Quarter-Master—Solomon Myers.
Brigade Inspector—D. A Stilling's:.
BICONI? Ursine—Anemia comm.
Brigadier Geaeral—William F. Walter.
Brigade Aid-do-Camp—Themea A. Marshall ,
Brigade liajor—D. A. Buehler. -
BrlgmhiQuarter-lleater--flasuel Mahe ltm.
Brigiii&laspector—Joba Scott.
MIIPThe
was
&Imam in th• Baldish
language was printed at Oxford, 10*
Tribute of Respect:
At a meeting of the members of Oniska
Tribe. No. 40, of the 1,, O. of R. M., of East
amfia, on the Sleep of the 12th Sun, Snow
Moon. U. h. 5618, the following resolutions
wire goanitnaully clopted on the death of
one of-its members
Resolved, That in the death of Bro. Joss.,
S. BALIS we have lost one wbo, while with us,
we esteemed as a friend and Brother,
Resolved, That we deeply sympathise with
the family and relatives of Bro. Baker in
their bereavement.
Resolved, That we attend the funeral of
our deceased Brother as • tribute •f respect
for his memory, and weir the usual badge of
mourning for the period of thirty days.
Resolved, That these proceediugs be entered
on the Record of this Tribe, and published in
the Gettysburg Compiler. and that a copy there
of be communicated by the Chief of Record to
the family of the deceased.
GIORGI H. SHAFFER, Sachem.
A Query.
A man passing through on Saturday last,
boughta coat of James Jones for $B, and gave
in payment a $5O note.
Jones took the note to John Smitii, to get it
changed; gave the man $42, who then went on
his way.
This morning, Smith discovered the note
to be counterfeit, and took it back to Jones,
who borrowed - $5O of Geo. Johnston to re
deem it.
The Juan having left town, the note is thrown
on Jones's hands. Row much does he lose?
Monday, Feb. 21, 1858. S.
H. J. STAHL., &IQ :—Dear Sir :—I do not
know whether your „ correspondent W. claims
the authorship of the Problem published over
the signature W. As be gives no credit, how
ever, one might presume so : yet I would hard
ly suppose him guilty of such a piece of pla
giarism. He has, however; changed some of
the dress in which this Problem appeared as
published in the "Adams Sentinel" of Decem
ber 21st, 1835, as given by "Studlosus," who
stated that its author (to him unknown,) gave
it the name of the " Mathematician's Toy :" a
copy of which, as published In the "Sentinfl,"
I give below—as also the "answer" given 27th
December, 1835, by "Studlosus Jun."—which is:
Length of the walk 360 feet ; length of merid
ian line 270 feet; distance of the bee (Yore the
lily 202} feet; course of the butterfly S 53°
08' E; course of the bee S 36° 52' W.
" In my garden having found
A walk that runs due East and West,
At its east end, with a good design.
I drew a true meridian line ;
And at the point of intersection,
There planted was by my direction
A white Narcissus, which there grows,
And at its western end a rose. •
S Aithward where the meridian ends,
A Leauteous lily drooping bends.
Nuw to the lily from the rose
A butterfly directly goon,
And at right angles to its rhombs
A bee from the narcissus comes :
And just two hundred eighty-eight feet
From the sweet rose these insects meet:
They tarried not, but did pursue,
- Their former course each renew.
The bee stopped when it got due Neat
From where the butterfly would rest ; -
But feet one hundred sixty and two , -
The butterfly must yet pass through
Ere it eau sip the lily's dew.
What length's the meridian!—and
How long's the walk. I do demand,—..
And ye who're skill'd in Geometry.
How fur's the lily from the bee ?
And ye who navigation know,
The (worse of either insect show."
CONO WAGO
Brushtown, Feb. 23, 1858.
PRISM) Svamin:—l send you a volution of
" W's" Problem, published in The Compiler of
Monday last, which I believe is correck
. I
The walk is 288 feet, the meridian line fs 218
feet, and the butterfly was 36‘) feet from dm bee.
Feb. 24, 1858. 8.
air Answer to last wages Enigma--" York
Spring's Female Seminary."
.
Littlestown Railroad.
The instalments on tho stock of the
Llttlestown Railroad are now all -due,
and we aro requested to etato that on
all arrearages suits will be instituted
withoat regard to persons.
What's the Matter with Goy. Wacker 1'
—When Gov. Walker took ground
against the Leoompton constitution the
opponents of that measure seised upon
him and held him up as a witness
against the political honesty of Presi
dent Buchanan. It appears, however,
that the anti-LeoomptOnites are not
satisfied with ' their witness. Gov.
Walker does not corns up to the mark
in his testimony. In fact, be does not
speak at all, and the Philadelphia Even
g Bulletin, (anti-Looompton,) which
‘rofesses to doriveits knowledge from
"reliable author: ty," says thorn aro
fears entertained by those who oppose
the Leoompton constitution that be has
betrayed and abandoned thorn. It fur
ther adds:
"We learn from most reliable au
thority that the leading actors in the
Philadelphia anti-Lecompton meeting
believe that ho was purposely absent
from it, and the letter from him, which
was read at the meeting and published,
was, if not actually fabricated, modified
here, in a way to make his excuse seem
more plausible."
Ohio and Kansas.—The Cincinnati
Enquirer says that so far as the Ohio
members arc concerned, the vote on the
Helms resolution is not considered any
test of their vote on the bill for the ad
mission of Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution.
" / Can't Touch a Nigger !"—Ono of'
the most striking illustrations of the
utter hollowness of the Black Republi
can sympathizers with the negro-race,
that has ever fallen under our observa
tion, occurred very recently in this
city. A professional gentleman was
called upon to perform a slight surgical
operation upon a darkey, when he said,
"I am a thorough-going Abolitionist;
bat I can't touch a Diner." Comment
is anneoessary.—Piti. Argus.
iThe wife of* painter in Syracuse
died the other day. Among the sym
pathising friends was a young lady
from A.nbart, a stranger to him. The
sympathy of this young lady made such
an impression upon the heart-broken
that the next day after the
. he consoled himself by taking
her to his arms.
111.1 bit malt pox isteat
libulailltexlsort at N e w =f
his add skie satt - Leemeptoulhoiososis‘li •
Congress bees gives up the ides of boothoit as
address to the peopt• of the Usefel
Sensible.
By the foreign news we lee simsllossf
is very abundant in Europe and Qui ipebort ouks ,
ed at low rates of Wiriest. •
Confidence is test celiviagin all qua/.
ters, and manufactories which bad suspended -
operations under the pressure, both la this
country and in Europe, are resuming buslisse..,
A poor mechanic, to Chicago, him bately:
become heir to an estate, In England, valued it
over $200,000.
At Wethentleld, (Conn.) a day or pro
ago, a lad of twelve years ellabed the listen..
ning rod of um Congregational Church eidre,
one hundred and fifty feet bigh.
There are very few members of °user* _
ty who have way thought of deserting, te tit*
enemy, bat let those who sympathise with the e
••
anti-Iwcomptoa movement haven care lest they-
find themselves where they had no iiteatioaelr • •
going. ' • . .
lur The Compiler
It Ls stated that the Spanish
can diXcnities have been peaceably set lisill as
last, and that Gen. Concha has recelslidoihMal'
information to that effect. s
......The Harrisburg' Herald says ibetlii t hi' - ‘
probability that Hon. F. M. IClmmetrwlit M '
the Democratic candidate for Congress inibis --
Somerset anti Franklin district; that this will •
cause a vacancy in. the President dirsebip of
that district, and that the vacancy thus creatipd .
will probably be &lied by the election of Hen..
James Xlll.
tor The CCWII.?
It is understood that Judge Douglas
_ls
giving up the struggle u lost ; but feels obits-•
ed to continue the fight swims cense to sustain
his new friends.
The Democrat who deserts We Freakiest
and the great mass of his party Sow, vlll ass
long find himself as badly golds, those amid..
ing Democrats who suffered themselves *to
be persuaded to take an " Inside view" of
"Sam." •
The Steele says that the novel spectacle
of camel and dromedary racing will be pro
sided for the Parisians in the coming spring.'
On the first of February, in Havana, two
murderers were garoted. Both of them were
quite young, but were old offenders. _The fec
und une was so affected oa approaching the
scaffold where sat his lifeleu companion that
he could hardly ascend the steps of the swot.
The maidens of filtranbing, in Bavaria,
are the victims of a terrible coasphisey, the
young men of the place haying pledged them
selves not to'dance with any girt daring
carnival who wears crinoline.
President Buchanan, say. Punch, had
better not throw sway any powder red shot ea
the Mormons. Let him send them fashion
books. The necessities of crinoline destroy
polygamy. It will render Brigham Young him.
felt utlable to support more wires than one.
Great Shooting Mcitch.—Tho following
match has boon made botwoon Mr. Tra
vis and air. Samuel A. Sy dam, of New
York city. Travis hots sydam $l,OtV
that he will find a boy who will stand
at the distanou of ton paces and place
an orange, not to exceed two and a half
inches in diameter, in each hind and
one upon his hood, which he (Travis)
will shoot from their respective locali
ties. No object to intervene. If Tra
vis fails to find the boy who will stand,
or fails to bit the oranges in the three
shots, or at any shot touching tho boy,
he loses the but. Tho match to ho shot
in Louibvitio, Juno 15th, 1858. .
ter The Compiler
Canadian Kinj.--..tho Sandwich
(C' W.) Slertsury is nivoeating the erec
tion of Canada into an independent
kingdom, with * pemsnent -ruler.
The most eligible person to tasked *Ca
nadian dymksty, the ilerourrtlubka, is
a Prince of England ; for, while his el.
evution to the throne of a newt king.
done " would be a graceful tribztd of
loyalty to our graciun 4Ltooll, it. w.i411
remove tho disadvantaged dodo; which
we at, present labor, awl would bind Its
more tirsnly, as an. entirely italepsad.
ent nation, to the first empire la the
worki."
A Funny Affair at Patsburg.—At
Pittsburg, on Friday night week, the
chamber of a faithless wife was invaded
by a certain Don Juan; who had to
stow himself under the bed, pantlesa, to
make room for the husband. The wife,
after her liege lord had taken his ac
customed plaoo, feigned a violent at
taok of choice, or some kindred disease,
and begged her thusb.till to go for msd
icine, lie jumped out of. bed, jumped
into the strange man's pantaloons, and
upon reaching the drug store, found
any quantity of gold and bank notes in
his pocket, whereupon the whole truth
developed itself to his mind.
Bloodless Duel between two Army OA
ettl. —Wesutwram, Feb. 23.--Lieuten
ants Bell and Williams, who had a col
lision in a barper shop, on Sunday,
went beyond Bladensburg this morning,
at five o'clock, accompanied by than"
respective friends. It is said that Bed
fired at the word "one," the ball of his
pistol penetrating Williams' hat. Wan'
liams, who was the assailing party, heir,
ing given the sstisfactioa demanded,
discharged his pistol in tho snow, sad
both returned to Washingtoirappareato
ly reconciled.
No More Madeira.—A Punctuil oor•
respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
says that it is not an open inestli,
whether any more Madeira wino will
over bo produced. None has been
made since 18M, and there are now
only some seven or eight thoosind
pipes upon the entire Island. All re
cent attempts to manufacture the wine
have utterly failed, and pumpkin vines
now adorn the old grape arbors MOO
covered with abundant clusters of rich
grapes.
The Late Thomas Ritchie.--It is ssli"
that in the late Mr. Ritohie's honsey'in
Washington, D. C., inkstands w
trihnted wherever one mild welLlll.
placed, and even oesupiete plu
garden. This was dohs fer_Sisitosir.
pose of noting a thought, and kr a tkik
meant the veteran edito=lllll44ll4
what other men would ha
MirTo please everybody, ilit that's
necessar y i 4 to aesommadate, "eery
body. if /Me weals" At lemas-at tau
dollars, let him have ittemplifswes wilt
speak welt of you tilt rpt uk itha
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