The Wyoming Democrat. (Tunkhannock [Pa.]) 1849-1854, March 25, 1851, Image 2
DEMOCRA S. S. WINCIIESTF.I4EDITOR Tiinkimnnock,Tuos..Marth '25,1 :t.-;1 run. GgvErtivou, , WILLIAM BIGLER, Of Charfiettl County. The Bridge The building of the bridge across the river at this place, was let by the Di rectors, on 'Wednesday last to IVniel. .A. Bardwell of this place, and Col. W m. W. Jeffertes, of Philadelphia. The company have been fortunate in getting responsible, thOrough going and egicient mends contractors. Cot. JetfierieS came wet!' tecomMended as an old experinced bridge builder. Having been engaged fot a, number of years in the business, he necessarily brings with him improved skill and ,much practical information. His partner, Mr. Bardwell, bears the name in this community of being a shrewd, active business man, and well acquainted with the rule of number one, and so 'far as our knowledge extends, we -believe he has never been overestimated. With such men to do the work, we May expect that, it will be done well and with great promptness. -a"." The democracy of this county will soon be called' upon to select and place in nomination competent and NN'Or thv men to fill the various offices. There is to be elected this fall, a- Sheriff, isto thonotary, two Associate Judges, Re- . gister and Recorder, and Commissioner,' beside the Members, &c. The duties ap pertaining to . these offices are of a respon-i sible and important character, and it be-";: 'hooves the party to make selection of competent men and sound and reliable democrats. lyc. want none of the strat gu...tta pertha democrats, with which the county is infested, placed in nomi nation. We make these suggestions-' thus early as a_true sentinel upon .the I watch tower, to warn - the people, to be prepared to defend themselves against the plots and counter-plots of the cor rupt demagogues that are already at • work scheming, for their selfish aggran dizement. Democrats of the out town ships be watchful of your rights. Wyoming ahead on the Turf We-wore shown a letter the other day by Col. Daniel A. Barnwell, givinm an account of the black trotting horse sold by hini a short time ago to Wm. S. Wells, of Wilkesharre. Mr. Barnwell sold 'tor 13300—Wells sold him in a short tithe for $5OO or s6oo,since which, the letter states, he has been sold twine —in Newark and Baltimore—at New ark fot $3,000, and at Baltimore for sB,oob. It also states,that he has made time at 2.26—the fastest trotting on the annals of the turf, _ which places .the lame .of Wyoming far ahead of all com petition for fast nubs. Let the high met tled Chlialry Of the South .boast of their pure. bloodecl importedchargers ; but, the fleet 'fooled steins raised upon Wyo ming's classic hills-are bound to wear the laurels of victory. ThisiS a great country. - - . . i The Pittston Gazette, in, speak ing of a settlement in Prospective. onthe Otfiei'Sideof the river says it may in deec e Considered a central part or suburb 'Of Pittgton itself." rillich will you liaVe gentlemen, the Ventralpart or's/barb-1 , We don't see linw it tan be Thii rernizi'ds,us of an announcement that paper _made riot long since,of the fact that,Dr. Miner .of Williesbar re was thrown from Ins carriage-and s•- injured,. Arlirch ar.noiince' ment - com menced about - 'as follows: g; dire regret to learn that Dr. 'lqin• r narrowly escaped • a 'very serious -acci debt); • • What; name of mercy, have these" tiditdri Trathst that 'excellebi t)hy aicianoh4l they should regret ,thatle (..;:capaii an :accident. • Gteason's 11;dorzil ititivilg: Room Cothp'ortion,is - Ct-ithe most beauti wity-Prioted amid most interesting:family papers - &Ve has e vter -seen. It is 'print t.4-inietuarto forth, find. issued weekirat BosWa-by Gieason,at sape.4naurn. It is we'll worth the :price A:Dot:we s•rphibitory. 91 smoking - is displayed -in qbe.,Qinntal..:Palacf,at London, in no !eits Than t.:ix Jiff ient I.in;uagts-.5' Correspo,ndeitcf. of the Dimocrat. . , aat.rE . rti:—ThO keit cointnui. - . nication,otf 4 Omicron",(in ttiik TV4t)4 more properly speaking, what he in his legitl learning would lerin a-stirejoin der, hardly merits a reply from me. The matters at issue have been sufficient ly eSptaioed, and torthe public, to judge who has the vantage ground ; and it is not for me to claim in a boasting way whatihe people would not award. "Omicron"- claims the victory ; but it is one thing,to claim, ani) another to mer-, it. The thief in .the crowd often cries ‘i stop thief!" in order to divert atten tion The matter is with the communi ty, and with ,their, decision I will be content The main point :with friend "Omi= crop" appeats now to be whether I am a friend to temperance or not ; and as to that I care not what he claims or what his assertions are--4t. will not change the matter either the one way or the other. • You say " begin to hope that the homoeopathic doses of gentle rebuke" which you "have administered" to me, "will be productive of permanent good." I am not particularly familiar with the Homeopathic system of medical science, tint believe its practice is to administer the smallest possible doses immarinable, and. the smaller the more certain ofecure, or the better effect the medicine will have on the disease' .of the patient. .If I am correct, then-yours have been truly horriceopathic doses ; and when there is no disease, h itncetTathy is undoubtedly the best system. You will admit, how ever, that the dose administered at the 'Methodist Church was not according to homceopathy, but must have been under the old or alapathic system. When I hear a person boaiting of his learning, and using high sounding words in order to gain applause, and accusing others of not being versed in the sci ences or of malting use of ungrammati cal expressions, it reminds me of the fol lowing story : A gentleman one da}r invited a frienc' to dine with him, and in the course (it the conversation that took place, the Tntleinan boasted a great deal of the literary attainmentg'ot 'his son. • • I " Why," said be, " he is a graduate of two colleges." 44 That," said the friend, " reminds m a a neighbor who had a very fine calf, and it being so promising, he allowed it to suck two cows." " Well, What wis the consequence." "it was the greater calf." • As you are the chosen champion in this controversy, I:will remind; you of the parable of the man who.fell among thieves. This Jew, in traveling from. Jerusalem to Jericho, was assaulted„hy robbers, who, not ; being ssatisfied with taking his - money, stripped him of his raiment and beat him unmercifully and left him for dead ; and by ciartce there came down a certain priest,that way, and when he saw him, he - passed down on the other side; and likewise a Levite came and looked..op : him, and he too:pas sed on., But a. 6.ertain Samaritan, as lie, jourriied, came where he•was, and w hen he,saW him, -he had compassion upon him, and, went to him. and bound up his wounds, pouring in, oil and wine, and set him upon his own beast and brought hint Son Of Temperance, I . was aotrig to say; but holm examination it says,he took him •tO an Inn, and.took -cars of him,, ,money with the host to defray his_ expenses. Nov this vt,as: very-naughty in . the, Samaritan in taking the wounded man to an Inn, as the example there, 4 ,, Moral Reformers" would say, is,bad. If the Priest, had done his duty .and taken the map to his home, and there. nursed and , cared for him, this example.,would ,pot have oc curzed. But.no doubt Inns ar' e different now from what ,they were is, those days, I will now remind you, .as you thipls at -k.ine future ,day, to -make proposals, that- I- object. to the word Atn.lctm, as `applied• to me. I believ,e, that appella- I ion :Troperly- belo.ngs tomarried ladies ? and not to.single ones. You will there, tore -take ;potice j -..and'govern,yourplf accordingly / . . • • TEMPERANCE: 117" Mr. Thomas,Ritebie has,sold the Washington Vaion ..to'Andrew.,lackson Dooßlson, late 'American Alinister .to Prussia, .and Genexial.-.-Arinstrong, late A m ericaßi Consul Itit:-'l4‘vtrwel,, DonelOwia the, Id9t!)( l4 Pncli; 410 1 70 . wortot. A ildre7l , facklemi, ;;E s i;c4el the.politic.4l assoriations,,anid prgAilez, `bons Massrs ! :Dcmeison ,an A !lir strong, it, is inferred :i that the . , f.Tni ? n advocate - Gen. Sam frouston-at dat , for stab Preqi-donry. IWO Tovirnehip Elections \ we- :Pubtiiti a 41111 list of .the.. Justices Hof; the ' Peace and Coustat4S elit'eteiliiLthicouilt..y:Ain_ Friday 134. Tie democrats elected . fifteen Judges, i CONSTABLES. : ' TunkhaLnock Boro.—Oren Leirton—J•)seph B. Harding. Windham—Henry W. Bassett. Tunkbannock Tp.—Robert Myers. Eaton—Reed Harding. Mehoopany—Benjamin Ross. Forkston—RitSsell G. Robinson. Northrnoreiand—George Nicholson—George E. Phillips. Clinton —Benjamin Cornell. Monroe—W. F. Carle. , Braintrim—George H. Gaylord. Exeter—ii4nsom .Coolbough. Washington—George Felker. Falls—Albeit Townsend. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Tunkhannock Tp.— C. S. Vasburg, P. H. 1V they. Monroe--M. W. Newbury. Exeter—Henry Gay.l Falls—Francis Hough. Temperance Convention.' In pursuanceof a call . I ‘iously.cir culated, a large number of the citizens of Wyoming county met in ('on' erdic . n at the Court-house, on Mi)pdiv the 24 , th iitstant, for the purNse of taltir,g action in relation to the passage of a law hyt+e present Legislature by which the traffic in intoxicating liquors should hi re strained or• entiri!v prAibited through out the County. On motion, JAMES BESTIDDEF, of Northimoreland was called to the chair : S. G. BCF:NTON and TIIEODOEWS HART appointed Vice Presidents,mnd C'harl , s Lathrop and it!. IV. Smith Secretaries. The object of 'the meeting was stated by Hon. John Brisbriti, in a' !mot but succinct Mariner, after which the meet ing eloquently and argu mentatively by Rev C. R. Lane, IV m.lll. Platt, A. K. Peckham, and R. R. Little, Esqrs. The lollowiag preamble and resolu tion, offered by Hon. John Brisbin, were adopted by acclamation : Whereas, Te necessity for the pas sage of the law designated in the call tor this meeting has beery superseded by the Act that has already passed the Sen ate ; and Whereas, The provisions of the said Act now pending meet our aPPro- Lation, therefore, Resolved, That our Ropresentatives in the Legislature he, and thes herAy are, respectfully and earnestly requested to use tioeir best exertions to procure the speedy . passage of Ihe Act above referred to as having passed the sentate. On n'iotion of C. R: Lane, Resolved, That' a CoMmittee of three he'appointed by the Chair, for the pur pose of forwardingthe names appended to the call for this me tirz, to our Mem ber at Harrisburg, together with a copy of the res6lution just passed. The Chair appointed R. R. Little, Wm: M. Platt, and Samuel Stark, 2d, •, said Committee. On motion the meeting adjourned (Signet by the officers.) Coroner's Inquest. Cbinmonteealth of Pennsylvania. Wyoming r ounty, SS. An inquisition indented, taken at the township of t Nichodson, in the county aforesaid, thl , 24th day of Alth.ch, A. D: ISsll . befbre Me; DanielNewmari, Cot- , Oiier'in 'and 'for said county aforesaid; upon the Vie W . . -et the body of Lydia LlVery, *fen and there lying dead : upon the oithi and affermationS of Alfred Hine;jamesKellY, James Fttzgerald; A. H. Eollos, J. W. Lyman, N. C. Martin i IsaatOsterhout,Daniel l;"D L. Peck.: ham, Andrew - Gordinier, Washing,ton Stansbury and William Scott, good.and lawful' Men of said county, who bring sworn and - affirmed and' charqed t 6 iris dn 'the part find behalf ot the Cnm , hdnwealth; when, where and how the staid Lydia Avery came to - her death-- , . "coo saripon their 'oaths and liedirrnatiOns, that were , Marks upon - her person fli'at tom obserVer might leait"to'a suspicion that'the saia Lydia might have come tofiii death:by violence .; bdtlfrorn a close *in t 'ati'd careful. examination Orall the . facts gathered from a large 'number orinddical and other witnesses Who the Jury aresaffshed'ilial'She'dieif:from natural causes ; ancLwhileltif'y soLstai6 ana liri ey' are, ownpWlea to t say that th6re ajijieats to hive beiit a lack of ltind ness attentiob, such as 'ehoistd mark Me duty' btu hitsbrinit toWitret a , wife tip -01.4.-014fdlari:icknresis,f) Datiiittha=last , ' ten :yearv.the nurnbernt slaves in Maryland has- de creaied five litunirpri - acid fryriv...one, :-.loegisl4l •- • • j 4„ftiv e described speiailqr partial 141s1,11tifin ai the4iolatiOn of a trust, by :'Legislaturiks rfaing bile thing, Whilo' only atilliqr*ctlo dp another. .An4ly-:„ sis of each act of special legislation will slio'NV the titehlof this definition. A dozen persons ask for a charter for manufacturing iron. Under existing laWs; anybody may manufacture iron, and .rnast do it, under legal hiabilitie_s at tached to . any species of business. ,If I. he contracts debts in this busines;l,' 'all his property, persbnal and real, is little to, execution foi'their PayMent. So if tWeni`Y perns - undertake the same' bus: iness as partners, each putting into the partnership a thousand dollars of his property, the whole property is liable for all the debts of such papartnership: ership : This rule is universal, compiehending the whole community, and 611 kinds of business. But these twenty partners 'wish to escape from the liability of sur rendering their whole property, if it be necessary, to pay the debts Of their part nership. They would subject to this duty the common fund, the twenty thousand dallars of the partnership a- Im,e; and while thus thy de!its mat; 1), a hundred thousand, the partners mould , extinguish - them by paying one-fifth. For this purpose they ask the I..egisla . Lure for a charter, cot.stitutir:g enrporahon, and co:ls,qurntly thtnn habh- thy 1ay...4 I •S. II:oh (..t,..1;1,, comr.v.y aids all of his property is not put into the part nership, iron all liability Lir its debts: and it these debts exceed the corporate property, the creditors must lose the rrst, thou4h each corporator is abun dantly able to pay them from his other property. So one may invest a thou sand dollars for each. , Yet if he have a million, other property, nut a dollar of it can be tither) to pay the eighty thous and by - which his corporate debts exceed his corporate assets. Thus a member of a corporation may evade his liabilities while a person nut thus fortified must meet and discharge theM. Thus a mt7m ber or Apartnership without a charter must surrender his private property to pay the partnership's detti, while a iNtri,ber of a corporation may. protect his private property against the 'corpo rate debts. Is this ' right of protection a special' irk dep., or a common tight 1 It be longs only to corporators, and is there fore , a special privilege. It enables them' to do what is denied to all-the rest of the community. And this special' privilege, this right of ding something denied to all the rest, this right-above a common ri 4 ht, is obtained throUgh that special legislation, the grant of a char ter. The reader can 'decide how far this is a Violation of that equality in rig/di:which is the basis, the foundation of the body politic, and to preserve and Maintain which, sovereign power de fines and limits legi4Jative power by constitutions. Public interest . may or may n limitation of require the of a cred itor's right against a partnership, to the proPerty of that partner`ihip, as distin guished from all other, property of the partners:. We do not discuss that ques tion now. But whatever rule public interest may require, that -rule should be Universal, equal, should operate upon all alike. If both private and associate property should be so held, a 'luirter should make no difference between one partnership and another, and a Legisla tureshifuldnot be' allowed to exempt certain partnerships from. the rule. • If associate property alone should be' so held, the law should exempt alike the private property Of al l'AssOciations. Tl - e Legislature . should not be' allowed to gat this exemption to obe partnership or class of partherShips ivhite: denying it to all others - : Hence no charters simuld be 'orantedl Whatever is ,au thoriied hv•a - chafter in particiflar Per ions, shinfid •be authorized In all by a general laW. A charter is. special "legi§- lation.,. granting to a few, whets denied alf the test, and as such, is inconsistent wi ti that fundarnentul peinciple of de.- moitracy, equality of 'tights.— Public ,Ledger, •.: • ; • . tr - r . The wife of the'cliiel engineer of the steamer Atlantic was removed-to the 'Lunatic -Asylnm last week,- having lost her reason in c,onsequence,4 her : belief 4hather hushan'xl was The iifst trial 4 . 1,131 7 1t0n1e place in Vienna a few weeks Since, and' a 4rge crowd prescint 02? hoi 7 f Worked Wi,se !ralltipg We seldom meetwith so much gldo , rious troth, spoken,so; : hriefli, and i\•ith s in the foll'ow ,mg ~.pragraph, f . i,oni_Fynry . _ , A . W ise. It u•as recently uttere - the - Constitu tional Convention, now ,in session at Richmond. . _ _ . Air. Chilton, of Faquir, had the te merity to announce the following denti ment,o(hia,party. : 7 --!‘. We Fus:44.,ve an infaston . j monarchtcal and aristocratic principles 'in .rder (p, check pure De- Mocrncy." Mr. Wig .reslandc4.as-19)lows.: " He is a traitor to his' native land, A traitor Ito mankind, whVima 'cause That down the 'course of time will , Ere the world, Rides not tipon' thelightning of the.sky, To save his country." • .• I deny here, that there is a particle of aristocrady necessary to the well or safety, either of person or prop erly I deny it. I vindicate Ameri can doctrines—l, vindicate American liberty. Here, standing in the Capitol to( Virg,inia,in this Assembly;iepresent inz the sovereignitY of the 'people of I -,' VI l' ' r ; Pia it' the name of my fora -lathers ' ---Ift the name of my cliildeen--Lin the name of my own gghts—in the name of the di r, its of human at Mre t and the authori!v• of that reason and conscience, which assimilates tile to my God, 1 deny that doctrine, and In it. I t' . 1!.1, cr, , ntli.maii for nerving my ME t!;Is laour. , Sir, you and I in principles. YOur'dOc. 7 till nes have been for se% enty odd years too !ouch regarded. .I must speal plain ly among our people,_ c and especially , . east of the mountains of Tiroinia.— Thank God, every evil cures itstilf.. There IA as once a day.' when the aristoc racy of Virginia wore white topped boots, and ruffs and powdered hair. There was once a day when white men could stand at the door, with -hat under arm, and bow to that aristocracy ascot roll d by in Olympic chariot, casting its dust into the eyes of the people; but now, in old Virginia, to be taWing about aristocracy, when it is so poor, that none are so poor, ,as to do it reverence [Laughter.] That is just the ticket, Mr. Wise. This gentleman, says-the Ohio State man, was a Whig !Ong enough to ascer tain that they live, move; and have their being as a party, only for building up a system of exclusion in favor of their sa called better classes, who shall he sup: ported from the unrequited substance of the masses. He found that the senti mer.t of Daniel W. , bster, the worst Fed eralist since. Alexandea Hamilton— take care of the rich, and the .rich will take care of the - poor," was,the ru ling sentiment of the Whigs, and . Mr. Wise left that party. The above extract shows the soundness and the sincerity of his conversion. • Criminal Examinations :There is now before the Hound' of Representatives, a supplement,, intro duced by Mr. Mowry, to the .Act , pro viding.for the .election!of. District At torneys', that is designed to expedite the criminal- business of our .Con rts otQuar ter Sessions.. The supplement provides that the Justices of the, PeaceOf the.sev eral,counties of the State, before whom any criminal examination shall be had, which is orare returnable to the Crimi nal Court, or Courtsok their ,reaper,tive counties, shall make pkutia dertified ;trans- cript of the whole :proceeding in; each, case, and deliver Ahe. same to, thejitiii- . trict Attorney of the proper county, at least one week previous to theisitting qt said court Or„pourts and : , all . criminal examinations which shall,be had before said Justices withip std, period of , ,line week, shall be Jet E10,,,c0 the proper District, Attorne y',. in the., !partner ifore.! &l id, on the first day of pit', court. Phil atlei ph ia and Anegheay,count nre ex calptqci, irgp the opratii - An of. this lion. i:: Death of , Geb! , AleDtillle. VVe rom the papers o „am.: den,,S 7 ,c., that qen,.Geo. 111cA i ttifie died on' the 11th inst ., at theresi4eoce of Richard Singleton, Esti., in , Surpt ! T. Be bad teen in Sailing a urnber,of yea' crqm, ening of brain, or some kindred clis easp, which not-oglydestroye4 phys -1) . • Icati strength , ut,serious7 ;o w m tm aired s i'iliaintiatitlici sitiOn at the•South'ird seitietFirtrith'idis. titictimi-*ia - GOi , erno i r of the State, itpi as a member of the T.T. S:Setiate. " Sad FOcerlirrence. ;;;:OU ; ;Frid,X, morning last there was au tenitision of Fire Damp , in the Wash , t9loConipany's4al Mines at Port Griffith, which in its consequences WaB very - diiastrous. TWO yowl; Men - were instantly killed, and seven others were injured—two of them very badly, • The, young men killed , were deorge and Robert Nesbitt, brothers, recently from Pottsvile• . , We understand iherc . was 1., .fire_in the mine;and mai it, vieiWta it, _the. mouth-of- the:entrance hat .been closed. On -Friday morning; .ii,numb er of hands were - eiieWitis - opening the entrance. After succeeding,. the mph>• sion' occurred.: The two young raen killed were thrown some distance-'-one of thern had nothing retraining oti when ,he .ititick the ground except a ' boot on one leg... • , A ‘gentleman l somewhat the diffitilties'in mines where Fire Damp exists,.,informs its that there Was ? L. in' this this case, an • extra&dinary ' peculiarity. , It was discovered some days before-that a gas escaped through fissures, into the mine, which, , en ,being ignited, would Et burn with Et, c onstant - glare of )ight, 'and without explosion. As aprec.autionon air shag- was sunk, connected .at the lower end witb a furnace. furnace, a quantity 4:if coal ignited. ;.rn order to smother and extinguish the'fire, the air shaft andthe• entrance into the mine, were armed. -Alter remaining closed for some time, both Were Opened, and the Superintendent went, with a safety lamp, some distance-intO the mine, and returned, believing the air Nei; pure- The hands were then at Work at the mouth of the entrance. ,the Superinten dent having Just lett %nem, aria alked._ but a few rods from them,•when the ex plosion occurred. , The surviving hands say no lamp 'bad , been verlied - Jinto the mine, atter it'was. opened, by either of them. It is supposed the explosion may have been spontaneoris. It is more . probable however, that the; fire in the mine had not been extinguished, and that it 'ciiised - the 641osionrafter the admissiop of the air. We learn that ode of the men, whe was badly injured, has since died. An other is badly hurt. We understand the • latter was hurled through the Engine House, passipg through a hemlock board over two inches thick, without the breaking of a bone.—Willivsbaree rld vacate. ArOod Mt The mania for corporations in this State has become so great that , niost of the time of the Legislature is taken ut: in diseusSiri,“orporate Privileges Ev ery few pereons H ho associate together for the purpose of transacting businetss, must be incorporated 7 -otherwise their enterprise cannot g9', on. The fallow inepetition presented to the Legislature a few days sines*, is,an adMirible hit at this " corporation mania : 7 ' • To the Senate and. House of Represen la! PlRercAsel 7 lbi.V. met— Th'e petition of the subicriber respects fully reptesents, that be has: purchased fodi sexes' of land on the side - of the Sharp,kountains, and hOt cleared the same,- and has built a small house. As his indivithi in eafis have been .esbaust ed in this uudertaking,,apd the commu nity. surrounding: him feet the want , of waster mid-11611,10i tipviifg at large; he fbeiefore?petifiOni, your' honorable bod • im-Ap. grant Ji with a, capi tall of . $2OO, to ; dlvided:tnto, 200 shares of ,$l.-f4l l / 4 undey : 494 \ restric - - tiOnS and regulations as your honorable bodies. may .think proper, for the pose of enabling him' to dig a Well, and erect a Pig which` be of `great b r eriefit to the in his borhoixl, in procuring water, and pro. titling them from the 'depredationtof his pig: - And he will evef 7 ;pray, &e. PAMCII.-ilitriEßALt). t.Leingh Canal. , • ,•-- • • 4-, Tti ei l ifboiitlvniercrat satii==:Welitre aul of , 4. 4 ) 1 sydte . it;fit 4 *Lie . . • r will be le.t i.o o .4hts.htlf.tct l PrimptoVeinento betnikehlViatich thunleatict Easton, to day,,(lst h Merit t) :§fieelitthe'tiretither continue;faverable - /Vemity.llitidipate an early opening , of the Siiiiiirbusiness. The Stqierttiferitirit,' .. af D 561 011 03 a Esq., nd . 4sSiiA t iiit'efititii,. dveiiiie`.gteat - • .. cielk for hasty: PalilleikoßlPt , the repairs atuVinfproveinesital cbmtnencisi afteF,,the c i c l i "g; °f "*n. V . ,' Th - 0 I eOHOWITIg 111 good advice:— „ Wheri the - gtate,iiot;'r, Then put the • '