TERMS OP THIS PAPER
Tits Corrmsa Is published every Monday
looming, by Ifeirut J. STARLI, at $1,75 per
!Malta if paid strictly is aDvance--$2,00 per
annum if not paid in advance. No subscrip
tion discoutined, unless at the option of the
publisher, until all arrearsgegare paid.
ADYNITISIKKITII inserted at the usual rates.
Jos Patsorsa done wit i p neatness and dis
pitteh, sad at 111014mmte prices.
Orme to Boath Baltimore street, directly
Opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment, one
and a half squares from the Court liotue—
"Coorttsa" on the sign.
Co-Partnership
NOTICE.—The undersigned hare assoeia
ted with them in the Lumber bugineas,
E. C. Sexual'. They would therefore give no
tice that the business hereafter will be con
ducted under the firm of SMALL, BLNDfIt k
Co., and they hope, by strict attention to
busittesa and art earnest desire to please, t
merit a continuation of the liberal patronage
heretofore beatowed upon them.
iiItLIAN SMALL & CO.
Lumber Yard,
Obi forth George Street, near the Railroad,
YORK, PA.
We would invite the attention of Mechan
ics. Builders, and others, to our large and
vrell selectee: stock 0f1.1111131:11, consisting of
every description of White Pine Bards and
Plank, Joist, Scantling and Fencing. Also,
Pine and Chesnut Shingles, leiths. Pickets.
Worked Flouring and Wcutherboarding,
dc.c. We are prepared to CUT TO
OF DElt any size, quantity and quality of
WRITE PINE & OAK L UMBER,
at the shortest notice, and have it delivered
to any' point accessible by Railroad. Wo
also manufacture and keep on hand a gene.
ral assortment of
SASH, DOORS,
antlers, Blinds, Window Frames and Door
Franks/.
siartirders for any sizes not on hand filled
with dispatch.
kr Our stock 4.nd assortment is equal to'
any others, and we are determined to sell at
the lowest market kites.
serAii orders and communications ad
dressed to the undersigned, at York, Pa., will
receive prompt attention.
SMALL, BENDER It CO.
York, May 24, 1838. .ty ,
New Marble Establishment.
A V..IIOMBIC would most respeotfully
"-• inform his friends and the public gen•
crally, that he has opened a new Marble Yard
at JP-Sherryslown, Adams county. PulL where
he will execute all kinds of work in hip line
of hapinepo,snelt as; MONUMENTS, TOMB
& 11EAD STONES, &c., with neatness nod
diPpatch, and at prices to puit the times.
All orders addressed to A. V. llombneh,nt
M Saorrystown. Adams county, PA., will be
promptly attended to.
May 24, 1858. Gin
Who will Refuse
mil% worth of their money and the right
-A- change bark t
NORBEOK & MARTIN'S is the place to
get it, where they sell all kinds of Groceries,
Confectionaries, and Fancy Articles—in a
word, evervthirg belonging to a first-class
Orucery. Slolasses of seven different kinds,
from 40 cents up to 75 per gallon ; Sugars,
six different kinds, from 8 cents up to 14 per
lb.; Coffee, five kinds ; Teas, Chocolate, Rice,
Crackers. Tow Cakes, Bottled Pie Fruit.
Cheese, Fish. Pickles, Salt. Bacon and Lard.
May 24, 1858.
Coach Trimmings.
r ; /I nn YARDS of Silk Coach Fringe ; 400
")""" yards of B'uts and Prab Trinim ng
Cloth 1,540 Conch Tassels; 75 Sides Patent
Leather ; )4,000 Bolts, and a large rariety of
nil kinds of Trimmings, which we will sell at
rolaccd prices for cash._ N , .w is the tiine for
bargains et
FA USESTUC KS'.
Shea& & Buehler
j. Have constantly- on hand, at their yard
/' oil Wittillinglon and Railroad streets,
Ai any variety of River and Mountain
B LUMBER—White Pine. hemlock,
A' Poplar. Ash. &c.—Boards, Plank,
R Joist, Scantling and Studding. They
are ready to fill all orders. at the short
est notice, fur any amount, for builning pur
poses, at prices which will surprise those
who may favor them with a call. They have
also on hand a lot of worked Flooring, Win
(low Sash, Palings fur fencing. Piastering
and Shingling Laths. kc.
Gettysburg, hay 3, 1858.
The 500 People
TiTTIO bought their Winter Clothing from
FRANKLIN B. PICKING, are all com
ing hack, and bringing with them theif
friends and acquaintances, to examine his
XLST assortment, of Spring And Summer
Clothing, just opened at lib% new Clothing
establishment in Chambersburg street, up.
posite the Lutheran Church. They will have
the cheapest and hest assortment of Goods to
select from ever brought to Gettysburg.—
They will find every style of Summer Coats,
Pantaloons, Vests, Raglan Coate of every
quality, Frock Coate nf Italian Tweed, Cash
meres, Linen, Che.,l; Luck Costa, Ike.—
Pants of black and fancy Cassimeres, Tweeds,
Jeans, Linen, Duck, Cotton, &c.
FRANKLIN B. PICKING.
April 2G, 1858.
John W. Tipton,
"aws-ATin.ts."
Go to Tipton's---gn . to Tipton'a-..
Go to Tipton's in the corner—
In the eorner in the Diamond—
In the Diamond near McClellan's.
If you want your Lair dressed finely--
If you want your face shaved smoothly.
Bachelors who never knew it—
Tip's the fellow that can do
Do it in the latest fitshion-,.
Do it quick and do it neatly,
And improve your fine looks greatly,
Make you look so young and sprightly,
Make you feel more young and brightly,
' Make you f..el like going nightly
To call upon some pretty damsel
Who before wool I not look at you.
At you as you passed her daily,
Duly on the public street.
An men who wear monstaehes, •
Who want some one to sew patches—
Patches where your breeches tear...
Tip's the boy to make up matchas—
Matches with some lady fair.
Then repair to Tipton's shop,
Dandy. Fogy, Flirt and Fop.
Jan. 11, 1358,
Men's Wear.
JI.. SCHICK would invite the attention of
• buyers to his large stock of
Fine Black Cloths.
Fine Culored
Fine Black Cassimerea,
raney Cassitneres,
Side Striped do.,
Vesting*.
Cravats, Hosiery,
Gloves,dars, Handkerchiefs, ke., Is.
April th.71i58.
Clothing.
Tux best assortment. and the cheapest. in
town. Call and see them. at the Clothing
Emporium of ' GEO. ARNOLD,
A .ril 5, 18.58.
Plat Iron Heaters,
IVR sale by &LEADS £ BUEHLER.-
1 These moves are intended to save fuel and
promote comfort. They will heat six Irons,
and at the tame time may be used for boil
ing, having a ring upon the top upon which
slay be placed a kettle of almost any size.—
They may be placed in the fire place ur in
u s e yard, beincro small that they will not be
ia We *AY. Those interested will see ibe
alveolar of them. Doable the price stay
b e sired, in fuel is a sinzle season. 'Also
/ 3.1,
CHARCOAL FUR CRS;br vale cheap.
Jane 7, t _A. •
Br H. J. STATILE
40" YEAR•
Die ij'oefs
We're Growing Old Together.
We're growing old together,
* We're growing old apace,_
And tell-tale care and sorro* strew
Their lines upon thy face.
Yet still to me as dear art thou ta,
As when in youth's bright morn,
The ruby lip and rosy cheek
Did thy tair lace adorn.
s
\ f
W 're growing old together,
As ime flies sweetly by,
And t ul grief has somewhat dimmed
The lustre of thin* eye:
~...
Yet still it beams as fondly, loft,
As when we stood beside
The old oak tree—l held your hand—
And asked you for my bride.
We're growing old together,
But still our hearts are young,
And future days of changeful life
Shall Ind us brave and strong:
And may &Section true enchain
Our hearts together still,
As oft in days of yore we felt
The same emotions thrill.
&leaf 3)ll,,sceli4x)ij.
" Wbat's in a Name"
Everything, we may say. Charles
Lamb understood this matter when,
speaking of giving children ugly joiliris
tian names, - he said: "Don't ilieude•
nius a man into nothing." A _boy's
name has more to do with his happiness
and prosperity than we aretnpt to im
agine. A diminutive ill•sounding cog
nomen has kept many a poor fellow in
the background all his days. And an
unlucky niakname, applied to the wear
er by the caprice or malice of his fellows,
not unfrequently affects hie peace and
respectability through life. We once
know a man whose real hona-fide name
was "Stuffle Sickle." Ile was called
*tuff Pickle," for short. Well, what
or him r lie was a "nobody," ofeoursc,
and his whole history "nix." Reader
if you are young (as wo hope you are,)
and married (as you ought to be,) and
should have sons and daughters, re
nietuyir that much depends on naming
them properly. Beware of top-heavy
names—Ruch as Byron, and ‘N ashing,-
ton, and Sliakspeare—which only serve
to belittle the wearer. Better by half
call them all John and Mary, and then
numher them, us they do steamboats in
the West. Give them good, plain, man
ly, spelling-book titles, and then if any
imp "nicknames" your child, prosecute
him for slander.
An Ingenious Escape.
A prisoner escaped from the Wiscon
sin Penitentiary, lust week, in a very
ingenious manner. He pretended to be
sick, and was therefore allowed the
privilege of walking in the yard. He
then made a sort of an image, cut the
hair from his own head, decorated the
top of the image with it, and deposited
it carefully in - his bunk and took his
customary walk in the yard. At night
the watch looked into lis cell and no
ticed him, as he supposed, reposing
quietly in his accustomed place. The
next morning when his cell was visited
he was still somnolent, and on account
of his sickness was further indulged.—
At noon, however, it was thought about
time ho made some sign, and the watch
proceeded to stir him up. But ho
wasn't there. ,
ser The Brandon (Mississippi) Re
publican mentions a curious well, dis
covered in Smith county about a month
ago. A Mr. Baugh was boring for wa
ter in the piny woods, and when he had
bored about forty feet " a mighty rush
ing wind" came out of the bole, which
continued for several days. Ho quit
boring and waited to see what would
come of it. Re places a bottle over the
bole, and;tho.wind makes a noise in it
which can bo heard a mile. It" blows"
about a week at, a time, and then it be
gins to" suck in," which continues for
about the same time, and then blows
again.So far no diminution of its
force has heec discovered. It ban at
tracted many persons to see it., and as
yet none can tell " whence the wind
comoth, or whither it goeth."
o@lr'"•,lr. —, I want to buy a shil
ling's worth of hay." " Very well, you
can have IL Is it for your father ?"
".No, 'taint. It's for the boss. Dad
don't oat hay."
lar"Jury," said a Western Judge,
"you kin go out and find a verdict. If
yoti ead't find - wto of your own, get the
oue the jury last used." -The- jury re
turned a verdiet of " suicide in the ninth
degree."
A Society of Early Risers.—Several
tradesmen's daughters at Middlesboro',
England, have formed themselves into
a baud of Early Risers, and tho hour
of assembling is six o'clock in the morn
ing. Those who fail to appear at the
appointed hour are fined. This is a cap
ital idea for any country. Suppose
some of our girls try it.
Ifir A Frenchman in Canada, thus
advertises his better half, who has left
his bed and board :
Notess—My wife that's Catrine—ehe
lef my hogs--shan't az me---any man
truss him on my name that's loss for
you. Louts LA FLAMME.
iiiirA little boy whose f a th er was
miserly in his habits, took it upon hisi%
self to "say grace" as follows :
"Four slices of brisul for four of us,
We bless the Lord there slut no more of us."
1111rWbee does s oow become real
estate When taraed law a field.
HMO
Sir Th e poor maa, who travels with
a pack on his back, is generally far bet
ter than the blaok-leg who travels with
a pack in his pocket.
1111rA flne cost my cover a fool, let
never conceals one.
Itmorratir, faro anti *tamilg Mournal.
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, JULY 1 , 1858.
"Sound on the Goose."
The Lafayette Argus relates the fol
lowing, which, we take it, is a severe
and cutting rebuke to that pious poll
titian, Rey. T. L. Breekinridge :
Breckenridge met a member of the
Old School Presbyterian cleurell, the
other day, who inquired of him w Prettier
he had called on Rev. Mr. Allen, the
nelov pastor of that church. Mr. B.
said he had not. and inquired of this
member whether Mr. Allen was " sound
on the goose ?"
" What goose?" inquired the number.
"The slavery goose," said you
know he is a Kentuckian."
" I do not know bow eggn - may
be on your goose,"mid Ilte member,
" bat I am satisfied" he is sound on
Jeans Christ."
Breckinridge was mum for onco
Taking 4 Quarter.
During the trial of a ease in the Es
sex Common Pleas, at Newburyport,
on Monday, a witness,who was brought.
from Plaistow, N. H., was asked by
District Attorney Abbott, " Didn't you
boast, when you lived in Nowburyport,
that you were the greatest liar in the
city r The witness looked wise for a
minuto or two before ho answered :
"Oh, I know what you mean. You
see I went into a room one night, and
found a half dozen fellows who seemed
to be telling stories. Says one of them,
' Here's —, he'll take the money.'
'What money,' I asked. That quarter
on the table,' was the answer ; ' the
man that telly the biggest lie takes it.'
I merely told them that I shouldn't try
for it, as I never told a lie in my life,
and they gave me the quarter."
Brutal Sport.
Last week in Cincinnai i, a wager It as
laid by a Scotebman that he could kill
twelve rats, in regular dog fashion, in
less time than a Scotch terrior, famous
for his destruction of those cunning lit
tle animals. The wager was accepted,
and on Saturday aft"rnoon the contest
came off in a rat pit near the corner of
Third and Sycamore streets, about
which a number of the "fancy" had As
sembled to witnetts the " sport." The
man and the dog were placed in the
ring, and both went to their work ener
getically and bravely. The human
creature would snatch up the rats in
his hands, and, biting them across the
back of the neck and spine, precisely
Its the terrier, kill them at once. Both
did well, but the man killed his twelve
rats just as the dog had finished his
tenth. When the Scotehman came out
of the ring he was covered with blood,
and his hands were bitten in various
places, but he seemed to care nothing
for his wounds, after having obtained a
triumph over a dog 1
The Last and Worst Kansas Chttraye.
woman writing from Kamm a hor
rible account of the outrages perpltrat
ed by the border ruffians of both par.
tics, reaches the climacteric thus :
" But the meanest of their mean nets,
they threw into the well.my straw bonnet
which 1 had left behind in a bandbox, it
being raining when I sit out."
What the Girls .Need.—Mrs. Ellis
thus hints at the deficiencies of English
girls in household knowledge. The
cap_ will fit our American young ladies:
The truth is, my dear girls, you want,
generally speakirrg, more liberty and
less fashionable restraint; more kitchen
and less parlor; more leg exercise and
less sofa; more making puddings and
less piano; more frankness and less
mock-modesty;, mere breakfast
less bustle.
• The Sex of Eggs.—M. Ifenin blest ad
dressed the Academie des Sciences on
this subjePt. Ho says ho is able, after
three years' study, to state with assur
ance that all eggs containing the germs
of males have wrinkles on their smaller
ends, while female eggs aro equally
smooth at both extremities.
A Startling Sign.—A 6ign board at
the corner of 3d Avenue and 84th street,
New York, reads :
" BOIT ROAD TO HELL,"
underneath, in small letters:
"gate ferry."
If it were not known that the route
indicated led to the ferry across Hurl
gate to Astoria, there world be reason
to suppose the direction very profane.
As it is, the sign was painted thus equi
vocally in order to attract attention,
and does it.
sir" That's a very emphatic indi
vidual," said a gentleman to his corn
pinion, as ho pointed to an intoxicated
fellow leaning agsinst, a fenco—" How
so Why, don't you see how ho
leans I Ho is in Italic."
It has been remarked that ladies
hilVO generally a great fear of lightning,
and this has been surperficially ascribed
to their natural timidity ; but the truth
is that it arises from thuir consciousness
of being attractive.
*WA countryman at a hotel table
helped himself to a glass of wine be
longing to another gentleman opposite
to him, who thereupon exclaimed—
" That's cool ?" " Yes," said the other,
"I should think there was ice in it."
a recent ride to Peoria, says a
country editor, we discovered the fol
lowing placard upon a gatepost : " for
Sail two story Bows And ben the Oner
Xpex, to Go 2 californy."
COMPIL ER.
" MUTH IS MIORTY, AND WILL PRIEVAIL."
Ever Changing, yet Ever the Same.
The chameleon party are about to
undergo a now transformation. A
writer in the Trenton American details
some of the facts as follows:
" It is very evident that the 'Oppo
sition ' snake is again about to change
its skin. This has come to be a yearly
operation with the animal, and ceases
longer to excite snrprise. A month
ago it was all 4 Anti-Lecompton ;' to
day it is all tsriff.' With all its shame
lONS treachery to principle, and I its
change of tactics, it is the same y
party of expediency, marsh b the
same wretched crew of place hun rs.
"After twenty years of uninterr pt
ed prosperity, the country finds itself
in the midst of one of those business re
vulsions which are the inevitable con
sequences of extended trade and com
merce, and which human laws are in
.adequate to prevent. The enemies of
the Democratic party, ever on the alert
for political capital, are now proceeding
to press this new element into their
service. But, will the country trust
these restless and unprincipled schem
ers?. Who stood higher in the old
Whig party, as tho advocates of a pro
tective tariff, than Ashman of Masa.,
iihit Vinton of Ohio ? , And yet, only
two years ago,these men, in conjunction
with other leading men of thepotective
policy, organized themselves into a
regular lobby association at Washing.
ton, with the avowed object of admit
ting iron (the loudest interest for a
high tariff) duty free ,They sent cir
culars to all the mammoth railread cor
porations, offering their services
. to
lobby for low duties, for a stipulated
hire ! Look at the revelations of the
late tariff investigating committee, and
you will find the groat Therlow Weed
receiving a 115,000 fee for laboring in
the cause of free trade, against one of
the great agricultural interests of the
East and West. And yet, this Man, in
his editorial capacity, is glamorous for
high duties! I ask again, can the
country trust such a gang of expobed
and convicted political hypocrites?—
With them, the welfare of the country
is secondary to personal aggrandize
ment."
The liarriablirg Telegraph refines to
publkh a communication from a corres
pondent, recommending a candidate for
office, and accompanies the refusal with
the following very appropriate re
marks :
,‘ We feel disposed to oblige any of
our friends, political or otherwise; but
we cannot lend our columns or influence
to any man's political interests who is ,
too penurious to patronizo a journal of
his party, although both weakly and
ambitious. There is too groat a dispo
sition on the part of politicians to make
of journals stepping-stones to political
favor, without a thought of the patron
ago which is necessary to give power
to the influence they invoke. Indeed,
nine-tenths of those who glide into po
sitions upon the waves of polities, do it
through the influence of their local
journals, to which they have egut rce con
tributed the pittanco of a year's sub
scription. They seem to think it is a
duty which a journal owes to every
individual constituting the party, to
further their claims, without ... thought
of the reciprocal ohl' -ations which the
assumed position of each imposes."
A School Teacher Killed.--A school
teacher named Gogerty was killed in
Middlcsscx county, Va., on the 17th
inst., by a boy named litristow, aged 18
years. It appears that Gegerty chas
tised a pupil, who wag a brcther of Brie
tow, and that the father of the boy and
Gogerty had an altercation in conse
quence, when the elder son interfered,
and, it is alleged, inflicted the in= 1 1,
wound with a knife. Re then
his escape. These facts are given in a
letter to the Richmond Dispatch.
"Starvation" - in Davenport, lowa.
Some two hundred laborers, who are
either out of employment or won't
work, formed themselves into a pro
cession in Davenport, on Friday, and
marencd to the office of Mayor Cook,
and to the residencesipf several of the
wealthiest citizens, demanding work,
and declaring that they must either
have work, become a charge upon the
county, or starve. The mayor and
others promised to do their best to de
vise some method for their relief. It
is said that only the day previous a
farmor applied for laborers in Daven
port, and offered fifty cents a day and
board, and some of these starring men
refused to accept the offer.
lOTA negro being caught stealing
from a hen-roost, excused himself by
saying, " Dat he only came dar to see if
de chickens sleep wid dar eyes open."
SeirA Maine editor says that a pump
kin in that State grew so large that
eight men could stand around it. This
is liko the fellow who saw a flock of
pigeons so low that he could shake a
stick at them.
NiTA steam machine for manufac
turing ice has been put into operation
by a London firm. The cost of the ice
will be 10 shillings per ton.
ler Vegetation scarce at Cape
Cod, Massachusetts, that two
.mulleri
stet ka and a huckle- berry. bush ajo called
a grove.
iFor seven years ending 1857, the
production of gold in California and
Australia aMounted to six hundred and
eighty millions of dollaft.
arab' three peat aoaquorars.of
the world are Fashion, Loge and
Death..
Well Said.
Mason and Dix. 's
Tha following into ting facts in re
gard to the delinit: establishment of
the ISne between ' rylanci and Penn
sylvania, nearly . century ngo, are ta
ken. from a rest t lengtii• contribu
tion, to the New 'ork : id, the an
thorhip of whi ... is *Uri , eted, and no
doubt correct! • , : .
• After referring to
the long continued and sometimes bloo
dy disputes which occurred on both
sides of the division line betiieen the
two States, the paper goes on to say :
So Sono became the strife on the
boabigrs of these setilementa that at
lad, iW1760, Frederick, Lord Baltimore
(the great-grandson of Ceeelinseulvert)
nod` Thomas and Richard Penn (the
gra adsons of Mlliam Penn) each named
commissioners-to carry into effect the
decrees, the execution of whish, upon
various pretexts, lead been delayed fur
so rbeny years.
In 1739 the first commission bad been
organized to run a temporary line divid
ing the provinces, but their labors worn
interrupted, and the results wore not
satiafactorv.
The principal surveyors of 1760-63,
as appears from the names subscribed
each day to the minutes on file in the
archjvcs at Annapolis, were John Lu
kens and Archibald M'Clean [the latter
residing in what is now Adams county]
on the part of the Penns, and Thos. Gar
nett and Jonathan Hall on the part of
Lord Baltimore. John P.A. Priggs after
wards held Garnett's position. Theis'
assistants were Archibald Emory, John
Watson, John Stapler and William
Shankland, together with a number of
M'Cleans, as will be turther seen.
The duties of these surveyors, in ac
cordance with the agreement of the
oprietaries, and the decrees of James
11., and of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke,
in 1750, were as follows : " To begin at
Cape Holopen and run a lino due west
to a point midway between that Cape
and the ahem of Chesapeake Bay."
i t -ninsula was found to be 69 miles d
.' : perches, and, of course, the disurtace
if o " middle point" was thirtyffour
file. and 309 perches.)
Fro.. this "middle point" a line was
obe r• northerly in such direction
hat it, . 'mild be tangent to' a circle
hose ce tre was decided .to be the
•entro of th Court House at New 018-
le, Delawar and whose radius should
.e twelve En_ *sh statute miles, mea
:iired horizontal -. From the tangent
• int of contact • f the'northerly lino
•ith the periphery • r tlie circle the lino
as to be continued • ue north, until it
hould reach a poi. fifteen English
Latute miles, menu =• horizontally,
suth of the parallel of titudo of the
ost Southern part of PL adelpl i lia.
From the northern ext .mity of the
id due north line, a line w to be run
ue west, contiduing upon a' Amite' of
atitudo, until the western limits of
Pennsylvania end Maryland s ould re-
Nc a
peetively be reached, which wes defin
• to be Sy" degrees of longitn e west
.f the Rivet- Delaware.
Also,'that in case said due no h line,
rom thetangent of the circle o Now
oath! ;shall break in upon th said
hole .in such case so much of th said
Areleiiiis shall be cutoff by the sai line
t • all'belong to and be part of the un
ytNew Castle. (See Col. Grah 's
1 t.) The above mentioned nort air
line from the "middle point" to e ei
• ngaint point was found to be sigh •
(- ne miles, seven' • -4s . • •
The commissioners and 'surveyors
met at Now Castle on the 19th Novem
ber,\ 1760, and soon afterwards corn
menood their operations. In order to
&wart:fun the probable course of the
northerly line, they ran a due north
expenmental line through the forest
from the " middle point" of the penin
sula (which they had ascertained) time
they arrived at a point nearly opposite
Now Castle. The hue was about eighty
miles in length. Then diverging on a
line to New Castle, they wero asle to
calculate the approximate course of
their northerly line, which they then
proceeded to run from the same "mid
dle point." Then having sarveyed their
twelve mile radius from New Castle
Court house, they fixed the Tangent
Point.
operations, running through prime • l
wc)ods, over a largo extent of country-,
•nd •Jneasuring by chain and ,(over
rough ground) with a rod, then i early
surveyors labored• under maa l y disad
vantages, Born and brooglir up In our
forests, like the young surs/yor George
Washington, while they wet' not lack
ing in the necessary /matikeinatical
knoveedge, and in the tkoory alkd prac
tice of their professich o they wore yet
Il k
Thies ork occupied •em for nearly
throe rs. Bat the m gnaws of the
day, y now-a-days, imagined
tilers not science and energy
monk at e, and so, on 4th A.eguit y
176*, the P as and Lord Baltimore
TWO DOLLARS A-TEAR.
employed, in England, Charles Mason
and Jeremiah Dixon, two mathemati
cians and surveyors, to take charge of
the work. They arrived in Philadel
phia November 15, received their in
structions from the Commissioners De
cember 9, 1763, and proceeded to the
work ass;gned them, in connection with
some of the old surveyors.
They brought with them a full supply
of the best instruments of that day;
among others, for astronomical obser
vation, an excellent Rector, or six feet
radius, "which magnified twenty-five
times," belonging to lion. Mr. Penn,
"the first which over had tho plumb
line passing over and bisecting a point
at the centre of the instrument."—
They, brought also excellent standard
chains, and a brass standard measure,
of five feet, provided by the Royal So
ciety.
. Bancroft speaks of Mason and Dixon
as having run the line in 1781. It was
not oommenced by them till 1764, and
not completed by them until 1767, and
not finally marked till 1788. See Ban
croft, Vol. 11.• p. 896. (Latrobe's ad
dress.) ;,
~. . • :
de . ine the latitude oft e sent. .rn
most . • int of the city of Phtlad phia,
which . "the north wall of .0 house
then oecti .• .. by Thomas " nmstoad
and Joseph . i ddle, on t south auto
of• Cedar street.
It is recordedin the • that in Novem
ber, 1763, they emplo • a carpenter to con
struct an observatorgota II • nth part of Phil
adelphia. On the 4th ofJ ry, 1764, they
determined its lode, 39 deg. • min. 29sec.
N. This w e first utronomi relation
and the t observatory is Ameri _bye
They then carefully examined the
various lines run by their predecessors,
which they adopted as, correct. .lion.
J. H. B. Latrobe, of Baltimore, in his
address before the Pennsylvania Histo
rical Society in 1854, remarks :
IP& far as the work of the old surveyors went,
)(aeon and Dixon do not seem to have mended
it ; for they record in their proceedings of No
vember 13, 1784, that the true tangent line, as
ertained by themselves, "would not pass pns
to the westward or eastward" of the post
irking the tangent point sat' p the sound by
those whom they superseded.T
In the autumn of 1764 they ran their
parallel of latitude west to the Suisquo
hAnna, thus commencing the famous
fine which bears their name, and which
is now the boundary betviTeen Pennsyl
vania and Maryland.
In 1.764-65 they ran the line due
north from the tangent point, to tho
northeast oornor r of Maryland, and in
170, described such portion of the se
micircle around New Castle as trutbled
them to fix the point which is nbw the
point of intersection of the three States.
They then, beginning where they bad
left off at the Susquehanna, continued
their line due west. On the 27th of
October they had reached the „North
lountain. ___
On the 4th of Julie, 1766, they were at the
ausoolt ot the Little Allegheny, and at the end
of their summer's work. The Indians were
now trublesome, and they were masters in the
woods.'mLaraoss's ADDIS'S.
The Six Nations had come down from
the north, about 1889, and conquered
their leer warlike neighbors of the
Lenni-Lenspe. The Delawares and the
Susquehannocks,Genoese, and other
Indians in - Sout hern Pennsylvania, in
their treaties always acknowledged the
Six Nations as the possessors of that
territory at that time. A negotiation
with the northerri Indians was there
fare necessary, which Sir William John
son successfully conducted, and in May,
1767, sent to the surveyors a delegation
of Indians, with permission frdm the
Six Nations to continue their surveys,
and asaiteseort to protect them against
the roving savages of the South.
On the Bth of June they recommenc
ed their line at the Little Allegheny.
On the 14th they had advanced as far
as the summit of the GreayAlleghany,
where they were joined bf,- their esoort
of fourteen Indians, with an interpre
ter. Mason and Dixon now had with
them some thirty surveyors and fifteen
axemen,.boside the Indians. Mr. La
be says :
The Indian escort seem to have bad some
vague apprehensions in regard to the results of
all this gaming into the heavens and measuring
upon the earth, and to have become restless
and dissatisfied, and on the 25th of August the
surveyors wrote that "Mr. John Green, one of
the chiefs of the Mohawk nation, and his
nephew, leave them in order to return to their
own country." The roving Indians of the
wilderness began also to give the party of
white men uneasiness, and on the 29th of
September twenty-six of the surveyors quit
the work for fear of the Shawnees. At length
they reach a point 244 miles from the Dela
ware, and within 36 miles of the whole distance
to be run. And here, in the bottom of a val.
ley, on the borders of a stream marked Dunkard
creek on their map, they come to an Indian
war path, winding its way through the forest.
And here their Indian escort tell them that it
is the will of the Six Nations that the surveys
should be stayed. Thera is no alternative;
and retracing their atom they return to Phila
delphia; sod, reporting to the Commissioners,
receive an h. o le discharge on 26th De
cember, 1767
The remainder of the lino mut run
by other - surreyorii in 1742, bet not
completed nor conflux' till M .
bitrobe rays
11/At the sad of every in . mile a tiotifeLkas
plaamd, green with the *flit of Air Pins
tautly on one side, sad of Lard liehtmareten
tha other. The intermediate masa Wen Mak'
ed with smaller stones, having as *ie ,Isto
side sad • Pon the other. The star yere
all sent from England. This was done tiller
as filtleling Hill, bit here ail wheel tteinsphr•
intim ceasing in 1766, the farther merktag4tas
the vista, eighty yards wide, with piles of Seas
on the crests of all the mountain most hailt
eight feet high, as far as the sumptit,iff the
Allegheny, beyond which the line was tracked
with posts, a_rgund which stone, sad mirth
were thrown/ i
too
. 0, • unity to me • re
of Intl , using tho long get
in D are for that pa • • • May
1• d tho ongth of a degree of ••• de
i the pro • cos of Penney an Mid
• aryland, latitude of l 9 12, •
368,771 foot, or i •-896 .sKglish • •
miles. ti
NO, 42.
•
They ww allows da ring their sir
rep twenty•olier ehillin each pertiay.
The commisaioners apps to have set
-4117
tlectith Orem, without rep iati
4 4ng
portion-4f their pay—a f its
bliouhrle biguruendeti to the ' Nation
The amount paid by the Ponlts •labo
under these proceedings, from IT6O, to
1768, was £34,200, Pennsylrasis ear
reoey.
Mason and Dixon returned to 'Rag
land, and were 'subsequently elapsed
mornbers of the Royal Society. Mason
was an assistant of Dr. Beadley at the
Royal Observatory at Greenwich before
ho came to America. • •
After their operations here they were
employed under the direction of the
Royal Society to observe the traneit, of
Venus across the sun at the Cape Kt
Good Hope in 1769—(Latrobe).
•Ma
son died in Pennsylvania iu 1787-4 En•
c} -clop. Americana).
Dixon died at
Mr. Bacon's again.
Simon Cameron, ono of the most dis
honest and corrupt men in the whole
country, is spoken of as the candidate
of the opposition for President in INN
Ho is the very man for them. A. matt
more contemptible or more unfit cannot
be found any place. Tho movenitint
to bring him out has not yet ''matured;"
but wo trust it will, and that opeciJity.
With him upon the course, a Democrat
ic victory would be easy. In Nrgilt
moreland county his votes would be
easily counted, and so it Ntould bo all
over the &mos.—Greensburg Democrat..
The Vermont Reform antra:Ulm
Rutland, Vt., June 28.—0 n Satitrdijr,
in the reform convention, Mrs. Julia
Branch, of New York, introduoed•s
resolution setting forth that the sluvety
and degradation of woman proceeds
from the institution of marriage,, ood
that, by the marnage contract,
,Ole
loses control of her name, perstonal
that quarter
t9'-Considerable excitement him Whin
occasioned among the foreign residents
in Mexico in consequence of the Will
ing of a decree by the governmentiik.
during foreigners to leave the eoelitily,
because of their refusal to subsoribo! to
a forced loan upon imports.
ter A duel Wok place at New ;Or
leans, on Tuesday afternoon, WINO%
Mr. Ganlon, of the True Delta, and,Mt.
Gibson, of the Crescent, in which the
hitter was killed.
Seduction.—The father of Nauey
Wilson has obtained in the Pontotqo
(Miss.) Court, a verdict of $40,0Q0
against Robert Wilson, for the seduc
tion of his daughter, who is only ;MS
years old. Tho defondant, who
wealthy, in the meantime Owed his
property out of the reach of the
When (bra Grows.—Dr. IL R.
rison, of Prince George county,t
has taken pains to make some aare4l
examinations to ascertain whether to
grows, as is generally sePixmod, I,cirp
at night than by day. August 1, an%
grew in twenty•four hours dye iamb •
at night ono and A half inches. ":9• ,
2, it grow four and seven-eight ine 4 .,
at night one and seven-eights.
the d:ty throe inches
seirGootho'said " man is theaids , A.
jeot that properly interwar) nma.," l
guess the old fellow wan ukatt ,
Wommt is a much moreteros
. ,
joot than man, anyh irA
ow.
EWA °Knott" fa a rose b
which every young Wan a g'
{eat and the thorns araluit
band.
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on the whole that
ore of the propel/ Ors
Lord Baltimore, .We
send £BOO or .1260,
:rive it et Fredertek.
he 24th of this month
weed with. We are,
, toble eerranti,_
CHAS. MASON,
DER. DIX0:11.
Ail 14, 1760.
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