BURG
CH'R
CLE
TiEWIS
II. C. IIICKOK, Editor.
0. N. WORDEN, Pristes.
L-ii'icm'l!C PflliOXICLE
sjW on FKWA Y morning at Lewitburi
Union county, renntyivama
rnn..i .viper year. artnaHy in adranee
1.7i. if paid williiu three months; fiOli if pai.i within a
jr: h nm p:ui """"-.t;
mlr numbers. SulwriplioM fcir ax moothsor less, to
' r : . . .i - . . t t.
t l in aaranee. iiwiiuinmnu ipi.iuiut wuu
PuMi'tier, event when the year in paid up.
IKBnnnn hnd.mely inerlJ at SO emta per
e.ittsre, one week, $1 lour wei-ks, $o a vear: two squares,
1 iurau muoUi.,,7 t.r year. Ma'muiiie a4verU-
DK'iit!. n4 eseeediut: one fourth or roluoin. $HJ a year.
Job WOltK an ra....l adrerUmint. to be paid
when hsnd.-d in or delivered.
Coeucxli-snox milK-ltea on all MWyeel or penerai inte-
rest n-rf within the rati?'' of wtrty or aertnrinn c.nl.-st.
All letter tnurt mm eort-paid. acromi.anli4 by me p-nl
e-ldres of the wriu-r, to receive attention. v-Tli,e
tflattii? PXrluMTi'ly ti the KliUirial IVirtuient. to lie di
rxted to HiTMtY O. HirK.nt. K. Hldtir ami Uiofie oa
Jin t. . WoRbtjc. Vultintirr.
OFFICE (for the present) in Beaver's block
on X. 3d Su, firsl fl.ior, 4th door from comer.
Correindvncr of the Lewicburg Chronicle.
Faibvlat, Wis., May 17, 1S"3.
In traveling through Iowa, Illinois and
Wisconsin, I find everywhere evidences of
a most backward and unfavorable spring. 0f tuose wh0 cater tne .ppctite of the
The farmers are at least one month later Jruukard and the glutton, is surely visited
with their wort than usual. This is owing Uj,on themselves or their children,
to the almost iucessant rains with which jjt ngci-aLle in life, and most loath
we have been visited for four weeks past, me and horrid in death, is the "wageV'
But few have finished sowing their oats, 0f J.iccnciousness. The slave of sensuality
w hile many have not a foot of corn ground suffers in every stolen enjoyment, and sac
j loughed yet. rifiecs the purer pleasures of honorable
The farmers of this region are turning ovc flir a iife of low intrigue and fears,
their attention to raising grass, oaU anil Th(J Avar:c;ous mm ;s a cantor consu.
corn, and to the feeding of stock, which m;ng j.jg own vitai8) anj himself to
pay. them much better than raising wheat, ,jcatn to accumulate what generally proves
t,r indeed auy other grain, for market. a source of evil hia neirA
Stock coimiiaiids an extraordinary high , We might cnumerate a long catalogue
price, and it) in great demand. This is 0f which bring their own punishment,
partly owing to the California emigration, but ,.1 witn a ging,e iHustraUon.
and partly to the immense emigration , Oppression is surely a sin, and of all
coining to this part of the west. Good 0ppre8Sion the making of one being the
horses and cattle are as high here as any- s'avc 0f another is the greatest,
where east ' An(i it ig fuoiish as wicked. For Slavery
I have observed within four weeks that cnta;is JuJolencc and extravagance, gives
hundreds of waggons, with their loads of tlic rein to evcry jjrutai passion, and pro
emigrants, etc., origiually intended for duccg povcrtyt effeminacy, and premature
California, are stopping in Illinois and deMy Our Southern States are naturally
Iowa. The recent accounts from the gold bwse(i witu better resources for creat-
regious not being as flattering as formerly,
many who were ready to start, who had and gcnial cilnate ;n niineral and manu
8 .Id off all their property here, bought fiic,ur;ng f:lcnitics, in early and vigorous
their waggons, teams, Ac., Lave given it seUicmerjt) they had evcry advantage. But
up, and have settled down again, satisfied Low wiJe iho contrast a8 to their prosper
that the chances for bettering their condi- ;,y . The pree have far oulstrippcd the
tions in California, would not compensate shxe in every eemcut 0f prosper-
them for the sacrifices they make to get itJ anJ pnysicai.
there. I am of opinion that there will be j Thb 8pcaJf of Tie 0y
very little emigration to the gold regions jMne and ajs0 0f Jl Exceeding Si'-1
next spring from this region. : fuIneu fy tSU The reward of Holiness
The appearance of the winter wheat, "u Life The wages of Sin is Death. O!
north of llock lliver, does not indicate ya ;mmortal beings who serve your worst
more than a half crop. Though the weather enemy, Strike! strike for better
for a month has been very favorable, and W A0S ; The wages of Sin is Death
it may yet " come out." ! jt the gift of God is eternal Life through
Railroads in Illinois are all the lage. fbrist our Lord." Sigma.
There is scarce a prominent point on the j . , .
Illinois or Mississippi rivers, at which a "I would BOt Live alway."
protected railroad does not terminate. And
they will be built, too. Our experience
in railroads in Illinois; is very limited ; so our country. It was written by a Protes
far, however, money invested ia them pays tant Episcopal clergyman, Muhlenrero
a much better interest than in any other by name, and first published in the Phila
cRterprise. It would be a source of won- ' dclphia Episcopal Recorder, about the year
ucruieu. w aa iier oiau to a.-u me
T A A . a A . A U aI.
arriral of Ute eastern emigrant trains of
4V 01 1 A il.. I .
u vuicago, u co nee w .u.u.c
. ..
daily and
lies, to lo- ;
nsed that
litmrly arriving with tbeir faiuilii
rati; iu tut: fM. hcc ?u. ii im:u tua.
a. aI. . a ir. . i ak..w ;
. m ,i
many are couwrntoty t-oui. worn
taai, uu j iucii auaciMx.- ta awmij w
ticcd. But we are vet more surprised to '
find them all arriving here among us, to
.i . e . , . rri
the amount of two thousand daily. They
(itay hcrC one III trllt, Scatter in tllC Uiornill'',
go their ways, and are never beard of
O - '
agaiu. Vie knOW not whence they Come,
and take no note of where they go.
Yours,
Oakland. ;
Tor the Lewisburg, Chronicle.
Strikes for much better Wages.
Tfiat cvery one should receive a just
reward for his works,whcther they be good
or evil, is not less a Divine than a human
law. To regulate payments for services
rendered, is one of the most intricate pro
blems of life one most difficult to settle.
iut mere arc J'OIULS in IU1S question Ol ,
wages, which can be fully determined. It
is asserted by the great Lawgiver that The
tco'jes of Sin is Dradi. Look around you
my readers, and see if you can not trace
the operations of this law generally open
but sometimes mysterious and apparently
fontradictory in all the events of life.
Look on the broad Map of the World,
and tell me which are most happy the
most Christ-likc, or the least Christ-like
nations. Look again at communities, and
you will find that as a general rule "The
wages of sin is death," and that Christian
families and individuals are in the long
run most happy and most prospered.
And yet, how prone is fallen Man to
toil with ardor unquenchable and servitude
hopcAcsi, for him whose "wages is death"
eternal and degradation temporal I How
few of ns resolutely and whole-heartedly
labor for Him who promises "eternal life"
through faith in lIiB Son !
We will take for cnniplcs those who
from their hearts never love or m r..l
11 Jl r.
mcir creator, j-cc to what f.,llics,to what
VHif. to wiiat aim
iK's; want cf ucveticii to !
our great and good Parent loads millions
( ui our tuiiuw men, wucrc ciu rciguo iu
every heart. And in Christianised laud,
the same want is expressed by the despcr-
ate ajjQgsa 0f heart the overweening
. l i 1 - r f i r . i .
vanity anu exayaiiuu ui ecu iu iuu ruuiu
' , - , ,. , . ,
jrou tue icuucu BUUDuaiui nuivu civu
. - . . .
agoniZCS to SUpprCSS Conscience tUC tirC-
, . . - . , . .
less activity and tremulous energy which
- ..k l,...!
Seeks OUt nCW Ways to SHOW a hatred Of
: in fli rasA nf norsnrm pvnn nf
i 1 J J X --
cultivated minds.
"Ah me, the laureled erert that MnrJer rears
Illnotl nurwl. and watr-d by the v itlow'a tears,
S ?m not TO foul, so tAinttsl. or ao dn-a.1.
As waves the night-shade 'round the Sn-ptie head.'
Idleness or Laziness is one of the most
heinous of sin3. Its "wages" are cunui,
discontent, lassitude, disease, want, and
temptation to every evil.
The "wages" of Intemperance are seen
cvery ,ay among us. And the punishment
1 nc,g tban the ;ortbern in fertile soil
rTI.Io rinis)iol nnotienl rnmnnsitinn mar I
be found in most of the Hymn Books of
: a w . 1 1 lal
ij. it appearcu anonymously, nut nas
wou ita way to the popular heart. The
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autDOr stm preacnes to a congregation in
u.u.. v..S.t-S-UU
sixth Avenue, New York, and also edits
The Kcamjrlknl Catholic, in a late issue
of which he publishes the following revised
- i i i t 1
ni n-iiirii iin nuiiiisiips im? ioiiiwiiit rnvisi'ii
copy oi me original imu, ron.s
" I wcnld not Lire alway." Job ii. 16.
. ,. . Iir. .,.T.,T
; , no, l ii not linger, when bidden to go.
!Tbe4aysof onr pilgrimage granted us hers,
Ak J b ,.,r fllI1 f iU rliw
Would 1 ebrink from the path which the prophets of CoJ, I
tKT'T ""iTl"""' k
hue brethren and friends are all bat-nili home,
Ui spirit uublesnd, o'er the earth woalil I roam?
i f would not live alw.iT T ak nr.t to .Ltv
where trtu aJVr storm Hm darjt oVr the wy;
j V fcrrr, making fur i-ee, we but borer arouud,
j Like tb ismtrisurh'n bini, aitd n tvitting to ttinl ;
I W lit-re liupe, when site paiatu ber gay how In lb tur,
Lear iu brill more to fede In the night of depir;
; A iid joy's flfetinK antrl ne'er f4iet glad ray,
Save Hie gloom of the plumage LU&t bears hiin away.
I woulJ not lire alway tiro IVtOred fcy rin,
' Temptation wilLeut, and corruption within;
I In a moment of strength, if I rwTer the chain,
j Sratre tlte victory a mine ere I'm captive again.
E'en the rapture of pardon is mingled with fears,
A ..4 msw ivt n than karri wirnr with rial nit-tlt t- ss.rW .
The -stinl trump oalls for jubilant sonjrs,
llut m spirit her own "aiiotu" prolongs.
I would not lire alwajr no, wrlrorae the tosih;
Sides Jesus has lain there, I dread not its (loom;
Where lis deiiroed to sleep, I'll too bow my head,
Oh, peaaful the .lumbers on that ballowwl bed.
And then the glad dawn soon so follow that night,
U hen tha sunrise of glory shall beam on my sight,
U ben the full matin song, as Uie sleepers arise
To shout in tbs Braining, shall peal through the skies.
Who, who would lire alwuj? sway from his God,
Awsr from jam Heaven, that blissful abode,
When tha rirers of pleasure How o'er th bright plains,
And the noontide of giorj eternally reigns;
w bere the ssiots of ail ages in harmooy meet.
Their Savior and brethren transported to grartj
While the song of alraHan eiultingly roll,
And the smile of U lard it Use feast of the anal.
That heavenly mask! what b it I bear?
The notes of the harpers ring sweet in the air;
And see, soft unfolding, those portals of gold I
The King all arrayed, hi Ills beauty behold!
O give me, O giro me the wings of a dove!
I-1 me hasten nry flight to those manshms ahore?
Ay, lis now that my soul on swift pinions would soar,
And in eodary bid earth adieu evermore.
".Hon. Robt G. Campbell, formerly a
member of the Assembly, from New York
city, and latterly private secretary to cx
Presidcnt Fillmore, died at his residence
ion Saturday
evening He was Lut 23
years cfac.
LEWISBURG, UXIOS
To th. Editor of the Lewi.. Chronicle:
The followins lines on the death of a
child, were sent in by a young lady from
the West, and are supposed to be original.
If deemed worthy, please copy, and oblige
A Buffalo! Patron.
A TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF EMMA.
The fairest Hewers of earth niiud fade,
Chilled by the witherlii); liresth
AimI mantled hr the dnrknome phade
Of the winged "Angel Unth."
The lore!iel f-rms too ofl diwlnM
His rHIIInjr. Matine powers:
The hrieliteftt eyes tile WNinest closs
On this raiu world of ours.
Heath marked the flower yon railed your own,
The prize he lored full well.
Anil thought to fit it for that lmnw
Where spittkys seraphs dwell.
Ton pure to bloom beneath the Sales,
8iih innoreDce iu found,
And Ihilj has gently snapped the ties
l bich tiie young spirit bound.
Mid Klnries br;ht, that lored one now
Whrre. wrealidoe flowrets are
Entwined rmnd the SVH)ars brow,
Shines erer sweetly there;
And, hsppy, tunes a golden lyre
In her fhir. Miasful home.
With tliat hriislit band, the ann?l choir.
Around the dnxsliiig throue.
Ifow dear the thought, and sweet th hops,
That you may meet her. there.
Where eares are o'er, and life is past,
And in her triumph share! Lot ISA.
Under all N. P. Willis' literary affec
tation and dandyism, there lies a vein of
strong common sense, that crops out oc
casionally in quite refreshing style. The
following paragraphs from a recent number
of the Hume Journal is in point Ed.
Curon.J
Out-Doors at Idlewfld.
In the making of a shelf-road around
one of the precipices of Idlewild (some
thing like the way to a hanging-bird's
nest when we began, but, at present, the
winding and easy access to the cottage
from the Newburg side) we have had a
larger amount of tcaU-lating than has en
tered into my previous out-door experience;
and I hare taken a lesson in it, of which
perhaps, I can say an instructive word or
so. My friend the builder will not take
the alarm, I hope. I would not rashly
invade his art and mystery. I refer, not
to mason-work proper such as is done
with trowel and hammer, plumb-line and
pirit-level but to such laying up of loose
stones by the hand as is done for common
day-wages, though usually by the smarter
class of laboring men.
My study of the matter was by the way
of understanding the preferences of two
of my " hands" who seemed equally in
dustriousone wishing to work by the
day, however, and the other to be paid by
the rood. As they were both old at the
business, I thought it must be rather a
difference of natural character than of skill
or profit in either case, a difference worth
understanding and, as the weather was
of the kind that throws us upon ourselves
for amusement, I put on my mittens, and,
ias the fanners n " hoId" with mJ
i men.
Our way, that morning, lay through a
group of large hemlocks ; and, by the in
exorable level of carriage-road grading,
the noblest tree was undermined on the
; ,, , T iha , , mAtr,.t,
buid a wj, wouJ hwlJ tfl frcsh !
1 I
Kh mce More ,ronnd t, d fe
:carth onc More aror,nd the
,T f),r first exper;
Iaing ,t not dccpcn
! . , , . . .,
mcnt at stonc-
' . .
.
I the old tree, pcruaps to nave uone tuis
j lf but I shall enjoy it more from
enjoy
having made sure of my welcome to it
One is a better judge of most work by
having had some little apprentice-slap at
it, and, by what I found difficult or easy
in my own handling of the material, I
soon began to see the difference between
my friends By-tliCiday and By-the-job.
By-thc-day worked much the hardest. He
lifted two or three stones before he got
bold of the right one, held this one between
his knees while he decided where lie would
lay it, and twisted it round two or three
times after he had got it in place. By-the-
job was a little longer looking at the fresh
cart-load before making his selection, but
the taking the stone up, and setting it in
its place, was usually but one movement ;
or, he gave it a turn in the air with his
upward lift, brought the proper face of it
to the front with one effort of mind and
hand, and, once dropped into the line of
the wall, (hat stone was done with. If it
was not a fit, (though it generally was) he
had given it its proportion of look and lift7
and the next one must remedy the defect
prop or overlay it He built as good
wall, on the whole, as the other man,
seemed to be taking it very easy in com
parison to the other's hard work, and got
on a trifle faster. The difference, I saw,
consisted in thoroughly deciding on evcry
movement before it was made, making it
promptly, and wasting no time in re con
sidering. If I had been a casual observer,
I should have thought By-thc-day was the
more industrious and better' man. By-the-
job would be my preference, after thus
seeing them closer.
Andtalking of working men I was
amused, a few days since, with a contrast
as to treatment vf vlztadrs, between two
who were workin'' for the same wages )
worth dt:ciibin2. lecauso it illuitMtC6i
COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1853.
with some truth the difference between the
eommon American mind and the common
European. We were preparing to throw
our bridge across Idlewild brook. A quiet
little narrow-shouldered American, with
my horse hitched tor a drag, was drawing
stone for the road-way beyond, and a broad
shouldered fellow from the old country
was di;o;inn earth to fill in. As I stood
CO o
looking on for a moment I saw a thrifty
little cedar, whieh had been partly uproot
ed ; and, requesting the digger to set it
upright, and shovel some dirt around it, I
walked on. Returning a few minutes af
ter, I saw my cedar erect enough, but its
roots exposed. " Why didn't you cover it
with dirt?" I asked. "Sure, Sir," said
sturdy Great Britain, with a look of most
honest regret that he had not been able to
oblige me, " you told me to diovct it, and
I had no shovel." He was working with
a tpath !
It was not ten minutes after this that I
saw my little Yankee dollar-a-day unhitch
ing the horse from the drag. " What are
you going to do?" I asked. "Why,
there is no more stone to be got on thb
side," he said, " and that carpenter don't
seem to be coming along to fix this bridge.
I thought I'd step over and get What's-his-name's
oxen and snake them timbers
up, and then haul 'em across with a block
and tackle, and timbers over, and put on
the planks. I could draw stone from the
other side, then." Here was a quiet pro
posal to do what I looked forward to as
quite a problem, even for a professed me
chanic. I had bespoken a carpenter foi
the job, three weeks before. There stood
the two abutments six feet high and twenty-five
feet apart, and a stream swollen by
a freshet and hardly fordable on horseback
rushing between ; and how those four im
moveable timbers, thirty feet long, were
to be got across, without machinery and
scaffolding to span this chasm of twenty-
&ve lect, 1 was not engineer enough to sec.
3 n,ong tDC " chores that a man with
j common gumption could do, easy enough,"
however, as my little friend said, and it
was done the next morning, with block
and tackle, rollers and levers he going
about it as naturally and handily as if he
had been a bridge-builder by profession.
There being no higher price, for day-labour
with hit amount of " gumption" and day-
labor such as the other man's, who could
not conceive how a spade might be used
row ahovel, shows hojr common a thing
ingenuity is, in our country, and bow
i characteristic of a Yankee it is to know
no oostacic.
thought
It was worth recordi
Some Interesting Statistics.
There are in the appendix to a report
of the Secretary of the Treasury, lately
communicated to the Senate, on the Colo
nial and Lake Trade of the United States,
several important and useful tables of the
general trade of the country. The sub
stance of some of these we shall give in a
condensed form :
Our average imports from 1S21 to 1826,
specie included, were 830,878,848; fromlWali
1848 to 1852, they were $18l,9GGJ79,
1 .1 . .1 I .1 1 . LI t
snowing uiai tuey nave more man uouDieu
in thirty years. Our average imports from !
1821 to 1826 were 69,43'J,785, and from!
1848 to 1852. 175.9 18.3G0. In 1821 the:
tonnage of the United States was only
1,298,958 tons, in 1852 it was 4,138,441
tons, showing that it has more than trebled
in thirty years. Next to Great Britain we
have a larger tonnage than any nation in
the world, and in five years, at the present
rate of increase, we shall surpass Groat
Britain.
The value of our animal products ex
ceeds three thousand millions of dollars, of
which only about $170,000,000 arc sent
abroad, leaving $2,S30,000,000 to be con
sumed at hone and interchanged among
the S tates. A t leact $000,000,000 is thus
interchanged in the glorious free-trade sys
tem which prevails between the States of
the Union. How small, after all, is our
foreign trade, about which we legislate so
much, and for the defence of which, and
the collection of the duties upon it we
spend so much, compared with the inland
business I
The total debt of the several States in
1851 was $201,541,024, which was less,
by some millions, than it had been during
the nrcvious ten Tears. The value of
property assessed in the same States was
$5,983,149,407, the real value being, how
ever, $7,068,157,7798 pretty good secu
rity, we think, for their debts, whether
owing at home or abroad.
The total population of the Tillages,
towns, an! cities of the United States, is
only 4,000,000, while the rural population,
"the honest peasantry, their country's
nride." is 19.263,000. The four cities of
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Bal
timore contain a population of 1,214,000,
the amount of whose real and personal
property is $702,000,000, or S578 each.
The property of the rural population is
$2,311,000,000, cr about $12.0 win.
From returns of the agricultural crops,
it appears that we raise annually $143,-
000,000 in wheat, $391,200,000 in Indian
corn, $190,275,000 in hay, $ 70,840,000
in oats, , 3,125,000 in Irish potatoes, and
$129,000,000 in cotton ; the whole crop
being $l,752,.ri83,042. No crop of ours
makes more noise in the world than cotton,
yet, when it is compared to other crops,
such as wheat and Indian corn, and partic
ularly with the whole annual crop, we see
no reason why it should take on so many
airs ; but we suppose the reason is, that it
goes abroad a great deal, and, like traveled
gentlemen, rather looks down upon the
stay-at-homcitics. Why, the animals
slaughtered are worth quite as much as
the cotton, bringing some $1S3,000,000
per annum ! One of the most useful of
our erops, wine, is yet in its infancy, the
West having made only a little over
I, 000,000 of gallons in 1851, worth about
$500,000 ; but the cultivation is increas
ing, and in a few years will be immense,
especially when New Mexico and Califor
nia, which are admirably adapted to it,
shall go into the business.
No portion of the trade of the Union
has grown more rapidly, within a few
years, than that connected with the steam
marine. The total number of steam ves
sels now'employed on our coast is G25,
with a tonnage of 212,500, and employing
II, 770 men as officers and crew. In the
interior the number of steam vessels is
7C5, with a tonnage of 204,725, and em
ploying 17,607 men. Our whole steam
marine, therefore, amounts to 1,390 ves
sels, with a tonnage of 417,226, manned
by 29,377 men, and carrying, besides
freight, about 40,000,000 of passeagera
every year. In this vast travel only 750
lives were lost in 1852 ; far too many, bat
not so many as some people, who fancy
evcry steamboat a puwdcr-housc, are pre
pared to expect
The amount of money paid into the
treasury of the United States, as duties
on foreign goods, in the year 1852, was at
New York $28,772,558, at Philadelphia
$3,715,126, at Boston $6,250,588, and at
Baltimore $1,063,530. It will be seen
that New York more than trebles all the
other cities.
There are 12,808 miles of railroad in
operation in the United States, and 12,612
in progress ; more than in all the rest of
the world. Of those in operation, three
fourths are in the free States, and almost
ta xopurtion holds good in respect
those which are projected. A". Y. Putt.
The 3300 iATlcL
The following very important opinion
as the construction of the Act of 1849,
known as the Three Hundred Dollar Law
Act,' which completely reverses the prac
tice upon it, was read a short time since
by his Honor, Chief Justice Black, of the
Supreme Court :
Hammer vs. Frecse. In the Northern
District Appeal from the Common Pleas
of Northumberland.
Freese's personal property was levied on
ani 80,(1
The proceeds
amounted to
rrM i e i . . i ..
The defendant in the execution
present when the levy was made, but
! AA mil thjtn nlaim vif -nn rt sI.a r.j.A ,
-"j g-jvua
wereexcmptedbytheActof 1849. About
tlic commencement of the sale, however,
n demanded the benefit of the statute.
The Sheriff sold the property and paid the
proceeds into Court, on Freese's petition,
ordered $300 of the money to be paid to
him.
We are of opinion that the debtor can
not, under any circumstances, entitle him
self to three hundred dollars of the money
for which personal property sells at Sheriff's
sale. The Act speaks of property, not
money. It requires him to select the
goods he wishes to retain, and have them
appraised, and property thus chosen and
appraised, shall be exempt from levy and
sale. This excludes the idea that he is to
have his choice between retaining the
property, and demanding the money out
of the proceeds. There are sound reasons
why he should take the goods or noth
ing. The law was made for the benefit of
the families of the debtors, rather than
for the debtors themselves; and a family,
stript of cv.ry comfort, might not be much
the better of 8300 in the pocket of a
thriftless father. Property which apprais
crs would value at $300, might not sell
for the half of it, and if debtors had this
choice, it would deprive the creditors of
twice as much property as the law intend
ed to take from them. A convenient
friend could be got to buy it in at a price
far below its value, and a part of the
money awarded by the Court would pay
for it.
The former laws on this subject rpceificd
the particular articles which might be re
tained. The act of 1849 sires the rkht
of designating them to the debtor himself,
fixes the qtflntiry of them by their value ;
but if bp may be silent until after the sale,
he can virtually take property which he
has not selected, to an amount far greater
than the law allows him, and without up-
piyinsr me local standard ot its valup.
Such a construction is against the spirit as
well as the letter of the statute.
The debtor not being entitled to money
under any circumstances, would have no
other remedy than an action against
the officer, even if he had demanded his
right, in a proper way, and been refused,
but he did not make the demand here in a j
manner i
hich the Sheriff was bound to
notice. He did not point out the property
be elected to retain, nor ask for an ap
praisement He said nothing on the sub
ject until it was too late. Regularly, a
debtor who wishes to avail himself of this
act, should make his election at the time
of the levy ; the Legislature could have
meant nothing else by saying that proper
ty so elected should be exempt from levy.
But he mav be in time if he d,.mn,!, it
after it is seized, provided he does not wait
so long that a compliance with his request
would nostnone the sale. Hi. ri.l.t Jti
Mo.ete. ;r i.o ,.,;t, nn;i i. ...i. t . .
wiwtj c J soiu auui iuu sate uaa
begun.
The decree of the Court of Common
Pleas is reversed, and it is ordered that
the fund in Court be paid to the executing
creditors in the order of their liens.
Thomas H'Creary and Gov. Lowe, j
More than a year ago, a man named j
Thomas M'Creary kidnapped a free negro j
girl, named Rachel Parker, from her home
in Chester county. She was carried to Bal
timore, and there deposited in a Slave Jail
preparatory to being shipped South and
sold. A number of her Chester county
friends, who knew her to be free-born went
to Baltimore, interfered to prevent her ship
ment, and to secure her a trial for her free
dom. Their efforts were in part successful
though at the sacrifice, under suspicious
circumstances, of the life of the person from
whose house she had been taken.
A . . 1
A wiai
Governor of Pennsylvania upon the Gov-
ernor of Maryland, who consulted with
his constitutional aJviscrs. andhasannmin.i
i , , , , place mm out. ut tuc reacu ui wiouwuva.
was had after many months' delay when L. . . r
,i , ,. . , ; , Thinking, perhaps, such an arrangement
the testimony to prove the right of the al- . . . fc' 1 , ? K ii m
i i . , ... 6 i might operate beneficially to him, Mr.
leged slave to her liberty, was so over- ",t . . .. J1 . ,!
Z t . ., , , , Budd granted his request, and he was
whelmingand incontrovertible, that thede-L fc e .
fence abandoned their ca and Rachel ofJ ,nd
Parker and her sister, who had been kul- .gJL tf having -sen better
-3TT-1 year. prev.ou.Jr, were de- d It b u, be hoped that his -elf in-
ttelrVr ,n tntt,ph 40 camrationwill accomplish the reform-
cir omes. j t;on of this young man, and induce him
In the meanwhile, the men bawe.ough j futUfe of
dare to commit the crime of selling a j ,nJbriety. it is a sad thing to set one
free woman .ntoSlavery, went unpunished j M ;gi tndiBteUigent abandon him
and steps were .mmed.atcly taken to bring M -immonhtiea ,od -ptise.
them to a trial. A requuition was issued , m mmmon drMula.Ais
fnr hoJy vt Thomas M Crcary, by the i t. OQ
ccd his determination not to deliver him ments of his enterprise in Pennsylvania
up for trial. M'Creary is thus shielded! are already familiar. At Chicago, last
by the State of Maryland from punishment ! week, there was a gathering of his conn
or even trial for his crimes I To comment! tryuicn, at which he made speech, and
upon such an outrage could not make it ! wl rapturously received. The Norwegv
more hideous than the plain statement of; aB Church was crowded with Norsemen,
the facts. Lancaster Ind, If hia. j Ole Buil spoke of religious toleration, im-
7"; r
. SlaTery In Kentucky. I
A friend of mine who resides in one of
'the central counties of Kentucky, and i
. whose property is estimated as worth at;., . ,i v ;,!, .k.
, . . , .
least $ la0,000, made up his mind last year
to sell out, remove to Ohio, and invest the j - - -
proceeds in real estate. He reasoned' Eff.Ttsare beiugmade in New York to
thns: "I have a large property here; I j introduce foreign and rare birds into Green
have great care and responsibility in super-! w00 cemetery. Cages of some of tho
intending one hundred slaves. The mere; 6acft songsters, and birds of the richesl
management of such an interest is arduous ! plumage, have already been taken there,
and laborious. And yet after feeding and ; the hope that they will pair and domes
clothing all, and providing necessary sup- i tate themselves. The result is uncertain
plies, I find myself no better off at thend j ut the seclusion of the place, the grand,
of the year, than at its commencement ' 0,J woods, and the impossibility of moles
If the same capital were judiciously inves- j ta,ion DT the sportsman, renders the suc-
ted in a free state, I could live upon the
interest, and my children would reap the
advantage of its increased value." This
is the statement of an intelligent corrcs-
ponaeni oi me 1 una. uegister.who names!
a. I Wafj n .
towns ana counties in the Lest portions of,
Kentucky where population is decreasing,
or stationary at best, and where migration i
to the 1' ree States is increasing.
v..U3 i.a. via, oiu.es iu iuu
Editor of the N.Y.Tribunc, that his farm,
1:1 r .1. . vr r -i . , . e '
which was profitless when cultivated by
slave labor, now yields him good returns.
He employs some white hands and some of
his former slaves; and although many
obstacles are thrown in his way, he sees
clearly the advantages of well paid labor
to the employer as well as the laborer.
Clebical Lonqkvitt. The Hamp
shire (Mass.) Gazette gives the following
instances of clerical and family longevity:
Rev. Solomon Williams, of Northampton,
preached bis half century sermon in Nor
thampton ; Hon. Eliphalct Williamsroiiff-
Uatlter preached his half century sermon
in East Hartford, Conn.; and Rev. Solo
mon Williams' great-grandfaArr,YtMkaA
his half eentnry sermon ic Lebanon Tonn.
and ReT. W. WiaaBgrro great grand-
Ar Ticked is half eeaturj sermon
ia HatSeW, Mass.
The Chinese population in California
amounts to about twenty-two tbousan 1,
and their capital owned and ioteed h at
Ic-it rue million cf ddlau. !
VOLUME X NO. 8.
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Wjiole Xcmbfr, 470.
Sentence of Reese Evans.
G.W.Palincr, Sheriff of Luzerne county v
has received the death warrant of thi
unfortunate boy. Evans docs not seem t
realize his situation fully, or he must have
great nerve, and commanded of himself.
He says: "Yon cannot always tell by a.
man's looks what his feelings are." It it
vcrJ e n his ease. Yesterday afternoon
; about 1 i Sheriff Palmer read the
warrant to him in the presence of several
respectable witnessess. On entering tha
cell Evans sat by a small table containing
his books and nodded pleasantly to hi
visitors. He seems very little changed
since his trial. His cell is neat rad clean
with pictures from some of the Magazines
fastened around the walls, and .Lis name
is marked on the floor with the hot poker.
m . . 1 1.1 . . r I
ucriu announced uie purport u. u
'Wt and M he coramen!d J6 r"
ceptible tremor passed over Evans features
-nJ -rj aoon covering his face with bid
hand he i
uk sobbing upon the little table
by his side, where he ' continued till his
visitors had departed. The time fixed by
the Executive, for his execution ia Friday
Sept 9. between the hours of 10 A. M.
and 3 o'clock P. 31. 1 llketliarre Rec
ord, M iy 25.
Effects of Rom.
On Friday morning a young man, rep
resenting himself as Henry Cox Cheestnaa
son of an eminent physician in New York
made application to Justice Budd, of Cam
den, to be committed to the County Jail
alleging as his reasons that he had become
a common drunkard, and had been on a
spree for three months past, until all hia
substance was gone, and he was left per
fectly destitute. He said he wished to re
form, and believed that incarceration in
the jail for awhile would materially assist
him in carrying out his wish, as it would
1 . u a us
j ' ...T. .'
BV.01e Bull is doing a good work for
the Norwegians in America. The state-
pressed the utility of secular and moral
eJucatk)rj ani aJvocated the Free School
..,m TIl AMrmlim!, f Earone cania
u,,.,,, ,.i .ufE-iki in
'tuts mciuru m.su ui vuun. uv
: , - -. , Stat
of tne experiment quite proDatie.
The idea Is beautiful and praiseworthy.
A Dramatic Company from the Celestial
Empire, are performing nt Niblo's in Nt
York; they represent religious ceremonies,
Ord marriage ceremony, and Japanese
tumblinc Sic. The Trilmut says of the
Thc sinzing aud vIzum were
like a compound of distressed cats aud old
pump hamtles, umrreased cart wheels, a.
- -
poker on a tin kitchen, and the spiritual
rappers in communion with the infernal;
regions."
To give some idea of the value ft real
estate in desirable locations in New York
City, the times states that Messrs. .Duncan
Sherman & Co. have purchased tha south"
west corner of Nassau and Pine Sftrt ets,
which tbey will erect a first class yanking
House. The lot measures fifty feet so
Nassau Street by eighty-three on- Fma
Street, end the price paid far it wan ena
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The Great Card me. Case, lately tn trial
in Washington city, is noally ori eS th
hands cf the lawyers and bus been sV
mitted to the jury hr dkit-ion. I'p to t&
latest dates wa hart not heard fhe purport
of the verdict rendered.
In the State of Ohio there are thirty,
three railroads completed and is fmrmm
of completion. The number of mile -i!d
is 1 2S. and those tufnialaed ia 17 19
mating an agvytc c 3,025 j