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WEDINSSDAI, AJNUARY 31, 1855
rHE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST NEWSPAPER
N JUMBRitLAND COUNTY
('arms—Two Dollars a year, or One Dollar and
Fifty Cents, if paid punctually in Advance.
$1 To if paid witlaiuthe year.
MODERN NV ARFARE
, An estemed correspondent sends us a
chapter on modern warfare, which will
be found on the seventh page, in which.
Apeakinci of the Minie rifle, he says it
is in use by the soldiers at the Car
Barracks, and that experiments in target
iring were tried with it a few days since.
While on the subject of the hew de
vices of modern - warfare, we may men
..ion that in a. recent letter from,a London
correspondent to a city paper, a descrip
:ion of a more humane invention is given
.t is that of a bullet extractor. It is au
ingenious contrivance of an air pump at
tached to a tube; the latter being inser
ted in the wound, a vacuum is . 'created
:aid the bullet is drawn up without thc
operation of cutting it out: The English
{overnment is sending out large quanti
ties of them for the use of the army.
imp. PUBLIC WORKS.
A bill has been reported in the House
by Mr. Smith, of Philadelphia,- entitled
An act to abolish the Board of Corn
tuissioners and to' provide for the better
regulation and management of the Public
Works." It provides for the. appoint,
meat, by the Governor, every three years
of one person, to serve as Superintendent
of the Public Works, at a salary of $3,-
000 per annum, who shall perform ail
the duties now enjoined by law upon th(
Canal Commissioners, Which latter offi-
ees are abolished. Said Superintendent
lb have the power of making all the ap
pointments necessary to carry on the
works, as also to appoint a principal Clerk
and revenue Clerk at $1,500 a year each.
The.bill is a long one, and we have no
room for all the details. One of its pro
visions is that no free tickets are in any
IASe to be granted.
If nothing better can be done we hope
this bill may pass, but we should prefer
to see the Public Works sold altogether.
Al bill for that purpose has been reported
in the Senate by Mr. Price, which pro
poses to 'dispose of them for eight mil
lions of dollars, payable in twenty annual
payments. It has generally been thought
that the stringent condition of monied
affairs precluded any hope of selling the
Public Works, but the New York Herald
of last week says that some capitalists of
that city, in connection with parties im
mediately identified with rail road inter
ests in Philadelphia, arc making arrange
ments for the purchase of the main line
of Pennsylvania improvements.
X1& - Our neighbor Cornumn of the
Democrat, J►aving understood, as he says,
time it was -reported he was a candidate
- for re-appointMent as -Superintendant o
Public. Printing, takes occasion to give•
the report a, flat denial. He has no no •
Lion of trying to-keep in office a la Ba;
ley. Mr. C. has been an efficient office
and as we learn has been the means o
saving considerable money to the Con
monwealth -in the vigilant discharge
his duties.,
SW-Among the important bills ahead..
introduced in the House of Represents •
tives, is Mr. :Ball, of Erie, for th
economical and thorough 2ollection e
taxes, It provides that the Count
Treasurer shall give public notice and al
r\ tv
te d at the several places of election :.
givir•times, and receive the taxes levied.,
for hich he shall be entitled to,two.pt ,
cent. on all monies , ••dellecte ' and prii
out, and all not paid after certain timo,
to be coactod by the' con table.
DIODE L FIN A NCIERING.'
In the Senate on the 17th inst. Mr.
Haldman offered a resolution calling upon
the State Treasurer for information in
relation to certain outstanding temporary
loans authorized by the appropriation
bills , of 1853 and of 1854, designating
the banks and the amount due each. It
appears from the statement made by Mr.
Haldman, that under the authority grant
ed in these bills, temporary loans were
made, to anticipate the revenue, and that
these loans, amounting to over a million
of dollars, are still outstanding and un
paid, while the balance nearly, if not
quite sufficient to liquidate them, remains
in the treagury, and is *played to an
admiring public as a balance in hand.—
In some instances, the_very banks that
are the creditors of the Commonwealth
for a portion of this loan, are the recipi
ents of the public: money in -- the shape of
desposits, so that they ;realize 'six per
cent. from the Commonwealth on the
money loaned, at the same time have
funds of the State deposited with them,
out of which - they make another six per
eetit. at least. This is a singulor speci
men of financiering, to permit money to
lie idly in the treasury, while interest is
paid on temporary loans, and it loudly
demands investigation. The resolution
Of inquiry-was passed . ,unanimously after
the explanatton . given by Mr. Haldeman,
and some remarks - from Mr. Darsie, en%
dorsing the correctness of his statement,
DOWN ON METnornsm !—From attack
ing the Know Nothings the Volunteer
has now got to denouncing the ministers
of the 'Methodist church, and falsely as
serts that there are not twenty of them
in the State that 'are not now actively
engaged in politie,s! We should depre
cate, as Much as the Volunteer, anything.
like an active interference by ministers
of the gospel in politics, but such an as
sertion the Volunteer could not have
made without knowing it to be a gross
and unjust exaggeration.. The fact that
a young minister of that denomination
(but whose occupation for several years
has been of a rather secular character)
has been preSented for an important
station, forms no ground for statements
so widely variant from truth. - One of
the few Methodist ministers. who are
interfering in politics it is well known is
exerting all his influence in Harrisburg
in favor of Oen. Cameron for -United
States Senator!
COURTS OF CONCILIATION.-A bill
has been introduced into the lower House
of our Legislature entitled "An act to
establish Courts of Conciliation." The
bill provides that the voters of the sever
al wards, boroughs and townships shall
elect annually a " judge of . the Court of
Conciliation" for their respective districts
who shall have jurisdiction in - allthe ml
uor criminal offences, and in civil suits
where the claim is not exceeding $5OO.
One of the sections provides that the ex
aminations are to be conducted in private,
and another, that the parties must appear
in person, and not by agent or attorney,
and that no oaths or affirmations shall be
administered, except both parties assent
thereunto, nor' shall• the parties call and
examine witnesses. The author of this
bill is a Mr. Clapp, who hails from Are
nango- county. The bill is simply ridicu
lous, and never should, and we trust.
never will, become a law,,
UNITED STATES SENATOR.—In Penn
sylvania the election of a Senator, to,suc
ceed Heti. James Cooper, will take place
on the 13th of February. The promi.
nent candidates-are' Hon. A. G. Curtin,
Secretary of the Commonwealth, ex Gov
ernor William - F. Johnston, Gen. Simon
Cameron, James Veech, Esq., Hem Da.:
yid Wilmot and' Professor Tiffany.
CATHOLIC CHURCH DIFFICULTIES in the
United Staten are getting frequent. In Chi
cago four of the-)clergy at the Catholic Col
lege have been removed. The congregation
of the church of the Holy Dame ktt that city
have held a meeting and protesfed against
the removal of their clergyman, -in , whom
they express the highest confidence. They
have appointed a committee to appeal to
Rome on the subject.
Carlisle 4eralb.
UNWHIPPED OF JUSTICE
An extraordinary trial took place
Philadelphia last week, which terminated
in an extraordinary verdict. It was the
trial of Robert J. Simpson, State Treas
urer of Philadelphia, before Judge Black
of the Supreme Court at Nisi Prius. A
letter writer says :
Simpson'at the time he went out of office,
was a defalter in the sum of. $175,000, but
he has since t iat time paid it up to $30,000.
Messrs. Se' se and Harris,',Simpsons securi
ties, ant V. J . Christman his confidential
Clerlfas also indicted on thesame bill, but
the Court agreed to give them separateyials.
The trial as it progressed developed , a most
extraordinary state of affairs. The 'parties
loaned out the State Tax in their possesSion
at usurious interest and speculated in real es
tate. In fact it was contended by the Coun
sel for Simpson, that he had the money, but
it was invest in property in an adjoining coon
nv, and that he conld not realise it at present
without a great sacrifice! Simpson is an it
literate man, and was elected to office during
it high political exciteinent. fie at one time
kept a small oyster stand in . the Second
Street Market, where retailed soup at three
cents a bowl, ,and when he was elevated to
the office he was making money by keeping
an Ice Cream gurden in Queen street.
It requires very heavy security ($30,000)
for the office o' County-Treasurer, and in or
der to obtain this, Simpson placed himself
entirely in the power of his securities. Christ
man, who was his confidential clerk is the
son-in-law of one of the securities, and it ap
pears that he had notes of hand in the bank
of Penn township, in the year 1853, amour
ting in the - aggregate to over one hundred
and seventy thousand dollars, while those in
the Girard Bank 'run up to nearly as much.
The none' of the-State-was-usedlor-shaving
purposes, and, in the opinion and according
to the' ruling of Judge Black. with the knowl
edge of Simpson, he adopted the most char
itable view of the case, - not that which . would
make•it actual theft of the money by Christ
man. The opening speech of It. J. Brewster,
one of Simpson'.; cout:s..dil made the defen•
dent open his mouth and eves -in wonder.—
kle set out by sal ing that Simpson was an
ignorant man, wholly unfit for the office, and
predicated the defence-on the ground that he
was made the tool of crafty and designing
men, and was not therefore, himself accoun
tkble for any misaplieation of the funds - in
his charge during his administration? One
of the witnesses testified that Simpson did not
know the debit side from the credit side of
his books
The charge of the Judge was most de
cidedly against the defendant, but the
jury, after thirty-six hours deliberation,
returned a verdict of not guilty !
A VOLUME IN A WORD.—The follow
ing is John Mitchel's opinion on the.
Naturalization question. This is enough
to weigh down all the rhodomontade of
the foreign-party press in this country
about the persecution of the foreigner :
" I will avow at once my opinion, that the
naturalization laws of the United States re
quire change; that., however needful they
have been for promoting population and in
troducing labor in time past, they aro too
liberal now; and that no body in the world
would be entitled to complain in the least,
if Congress should at any session, limit with ,
in any bounds it might see fit, the creation_
of citizens by adoption. The new law would
soon become known , and then no foreigner
coming hero for ,the future would run the
risk of being cheated.
FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES.—
The, intelligence from Washington is, that
the Free Traders are at loggerheads
among each other. The Secretary of the
Treasury has had interviews with several
leaders of the Free Trade School in the
Senate and the House, and the result is
believed to be rather a widening than a
closing of the breach between them. lie
will not modify his plan by yielding any
of the features which they stigmati'ze as
Protectionist, and they will except no
thing less than the absurd and destruc
tive m asures of the Committee of Ways
and--M ni)s. - The consequence is that
nothing will be done.
SAM AGAIN !—An election 'lately in
Wheeling, Va. fOr city officers, resulted
1 the election of the whole Know Noth.
ing ticket, the mayor receiving about
400 majority. This looks bad for Wise's
prospects in the old Dominion.
rair Gov. Bigler r just before going out of
office, pardoned Alexander Huchinson, con
victed and sentenced to be hung for the
murder of a negro,Edmondston, at - The canal
basin,- in Hollidaysburg, about four years
ago. Ho escaped from prison some two
years since, and the authorities have allowed
him to go free ever since.
01`;' . JUDGE .PORTER, the man who . WAS
going to play perdition with the KnoW-Noth
ings, prosecuted an editor of Easton' for
libel. The trial took place last week, and
the jury, after mature consideration, fined
the editorfifteen dalpr.sl adjudging that to
be the value of the Aides reputation.
Town anti 0.011140 311atters.
• SLElaniNa.--The weather for some
days past has displayed a rather disagreable
mixture of snow, rain, slush and finally a
cold snap, t whieh has converted the slush into
an icy foundation which the young, folks are
determined to avail themselves of fOr sleigh
ing. The beautiful moonlight of the nights
enhances this rare enjoyment.
PENstANsmr.—Mr. P. Ilammar4
Teacher of Penmanship, proposes to open
classes in our borough for instruction in this
most useffil art. 'We have known Mr. H.
a number ofiyears as a successful teacher of
writing, and can therefore warmly commend
..him to patronage. His specimens show him
to be thoroughly master of the art. Terms
$3 a course.
TILE-STORM AT SHIPPENSESURO—The
violent storm, of Sunday night 'a week last, it
appears was very destructive in its effects in
the vicinity of Shippensburg. The Iqtcs
says several buildings in town were injured.
The brick school house AnoWn as the
`hull's `eye," was unroofed ; one of the ga•
ble walls fell in and other portions of . the
walls are so much .injured that it will be
necessary to take them down. The Catholic
church on the South side of -town was also
unroofed. 'The barns of Charles M. White,
Jacob Rebuck and Wm. Weakly, and the
cabinet maker shop of Col. Rebuck, were
blown down and some of the contents de
stroyed. =The barn at _the ±!Bauk.farm!!_now
occupied : by John McPherson 'lost a portion
of its roof. The barns of Wilson Snodgrass
North of town, and of the Messrs. Crisswell
at Scotland, Franklin county were unroofed
or injured to smite extent. Thousands of
panels of fence were levelled with the ground.
In some of the woods and orchards trees
were uprooted. The storm seems to have
been the most destructive on the South side
of tile valley,'we have not heard of much
damage being done on the North. The tem.
perature of the air changed immediately af
ter the storm and since Monday morning it
has been colder and more 'seasonable. From
our exchange papers we learn that the gale
of Sunday night prevailed as far East Nev'
York and West as Chicago, doing a groat
deal of damage to buildings, shipping Le.
.1 4 .1xtunmoN. ---We neglected last
week, to . notiee the Exhibition of the "Big
Spring Literary Institute," in their New Hall
,in Newville, on.the evening of the ll th inst.
The exercises were of an interesting charne.
ter, and were attentively listened to; a
large and respectable audience. The "Big
Spring Brass band" Made their debut on the
occasion, and though but young in practice,
performed in a highly creditable manner.—
The Institution is in a flourishing condition,
and through their energy and perseverance,
have erected a large and commodious Hall
three stories high, which will be when finish.
ed, a magnificent structure.—News.
REviv:A4s..,---We learn fronvthe Me
chanicsburg Cleaner that extensive revivals
of religion have taken place in different parts
of the county. In the church at Kingston
there have been about, forty accessions of
converts—about eighty.five in Now Cumber.
land—six in Mecha'itiesburg and frorniifteen
to twenty in Wellsville.
REOISTER OF SALES.-7Sale bills for
the following sales have been printed at the
Herald office. "
Sale by John Mitchell, of West Penns
boro township, on Monday the 30th of Janu
ary.
Sale by Elizabeth lluntsberger, of New•
on township,. on Monday, the 13th of Feb
•nary.
Sale by Simeon Fisk, of Dickinson tow':
ship, on Thursday the 15th of February.
Sue by adrninistratOri of JOSeph King,
xlee'd. of Upper Allen townshi - Kon Tues4ny.
the 20th of February.
Sale by the executors of George Widder,
deed. of Dickinson township, on Tuesday
the 30th of January.
Sale by Jacob Plank, sr. of Monroe town
ship, on Thursday the,lsth of February.
Sale by John Ditinore,
,of Monroe tbwn
ship, on Monday, the 12th 'of February.
. „
Sale by John Brandtiof Monroe township
on Friday and Saturday, the 9th and 10th of
March,
Sale by the admini trator of Andrew
Senseman, dec'd., of East Pcnnsboro town-
ship, on Monday the 6th of March.
Salo by L. McDcwel, Ad r. of Martha
Bowman, of Frankford township,on Wednest
day the 7th of March.
Sale by Jacob Miller in South Middleton
township, on Thursday the 22d of Foburary.
' 7 ° ~Sale by Adam Girler in Lower Allen
township. on Thursday, March Ist.
OE
SAVANNAH DEBATING Sommv.--Monda'r
evening, Jan. 22d, 1835.—Soeiety met and
essrs. Abrm. M. Line, John Fishburn, jr.
and George Kisiinger were appointed by the
President, as Judges to decide' - upon the at..
gunients. The question adopted at - the last
meeting of the Society, That Capital
Punishment should be abolished," was now
taken up and,, discussed : Geo. W. Leidigh
and John Lee appeared in the Affirmative,
and- Dr. Wm. G. Myers, Joseph Ritner, jr.
Jas. Lee,, in the Negative. The decision was
given in fairer of the Negative.
On motion of Jas. Lee, the following was
adopeed.ns the subject for, debate at the next
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meeting of the. Society.
Resolved, That the present wants of our
country require a Protective Tariff. Society
adjourned to meet Monday evening, January
29th 1855.
SPECIAL COURT.-A special Court is
ordered, to commence on Monday the,l9th
of February. The list of jurors is as fol
lows:—
Carlisle.—Earnest Brady, John Mell, Eph.
Steel, John Irvine, David Grier, William
ne, Wil Barn itz, John McCartney, sr.
Dicb•htson.—William Johns, Samuel Corn-
man.
East l'emnsborongle.—David Deitz.
Frankford.—Jobu boner. • .
Hopewell.—Robert Boyd, William Brown. •
Hampden.—Levi How, Peter Basehore.
Lower Drawbaugh.
Atifflin.—Robert Middleton,(George !Toon..
Meellaitiesburg.—George Bobb y Henry F.
Eberly. _
llanroe.—Samuel Algeir, John Gleim.
Newton.—Daniel Kindig, Josiah Lindsey.
New Cumherhout—George Chapman.
North Middleton.—John H; Spahr.
Netrville;.—John Dunfee, John M. Davidson.
Mlrer . Sjiring.L-Adatn Bishop, Jacoli - Leidy;
- Solomon P. Gorgas.
qutle Middleton.—John Anthony, Jonas Ru
dy, William Moore.
Sortikampton.—John Stough, George C. Haw
thorne, William K. Weakley.
tTpper Allen.—Simon Dean.
11 7 e4 Penn borough.—John Elliott.
C MBERLAND' 8 S HARE—From the
_Auditor General's Report we learn that
Cumberland County has contributed to the
State Treasury during the last year, the sum
of $39,915 35, derived from the following
sources, viz:
Tax on Real and Personal Estate, $31,423 29
Collateral Inheritance Tax, 3,909 69
Militia Tax, 1,460 87
Retailers' Licenses, 1,281 42
Tavern Licenses, 899 65
Tax on Writs, Wills, &c., 473 05
Tax on Corporation Stocks, , 180 00.
Distillery and Brewery Licenses, 126 35
Eating Mouses Licenses, 80 75
Billiard Room Licenses, 50 00
Patent Medicine Licenses, 9 50
Pedlers' Licenses, 7 61
Pamphlet Laws, 6 18
BEAUTIFUL PLATE. —The publishers
of Graham's Magazine R. H. SEE & Co.
106 Chesnut street, Philadelphia, have issued
an elegant steel engraving of the likt nesses
of the fourteen Presidents of the United
States, designed as a present to each of the
subscribers to their excellent monthly, and
all others who may become so for the pres
ent volume. The execution of this engrav
ing is highly creditable to the artist, and
its offering by the publishers as a souvenir
will be highly appreciated by their.Subscrib•
era, who will doubtless see its claims to fruit.
ing and suspension on their parlor walls as
a useful national as well as ornamental pic
ture. The terms of the Magazine are, for
single copy $3,00 per annum, with which
you receive this plape, itselfworth the money.
13y clubbing, 2 copes can be had for $5,00.
5 copies for $lO,OO, and 19, copies for $2O.
EXPOSURE OF THE MORNIONS.—The Boston
Daily,Times publishes a letter, dated Chi
cago, Jan. 16th, from two females, signing
their names Mrs. Sarah Young and Miss
Eliza Williams, who say that they hate just
returned from the Mormon settlements at the
Salt Lake, after a sojourn of ten years, on
the part of the first, among the "Latter-Day
Saints.": . Mrs. Young was one of the wives
of liringliam Young, and speaks in terms of
indignant disgust of him and the whole coin _ D
munity. She announces her purpose to ex•
: pose the jaunty thereof in a course of lee-.
tures, and will produce documents to sustain
her assertions.. She intimates that the Mor.
mons have secret plots and purposes inimica'
to the welfare of the Union.
AMERICANISM IN NEW JEnsey.—The Tren
ton correspondent of the Newark Mercurs
says, there verygeneral disposition among
the leading Americans or. the State to ri,
their organization of its secret, operation
While persuaded that its secret character ha
contributed greatly to its amazingly rapi ,
development, they fear that, having serve ,
this purpose„it will hereafter prove an injut
rather than benefit, all experience' burin
deraonqrated that publicity is the law t
Ameritan affairs, 'and that every politics
agency which seeks to operate powerfull
upon those affairs, must •rigidly observe i
It is not at all improbable, therefore, that a
shall have an open and distinct.-America
party in this. State. There are agencies i
operation, Nit; yet distinctly manifested I
the public. eye, which are fast producing th
result. It is sufficient that it will advent
rapidly enough to have a most imports!
bearing upon the next exection.
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