'the E.rtraordiotary alessage. l
Pltiladvlphia Ledger," an
Independent paper, processeilly, but hav
ing, 34 tve thick, a strong leaning towards
Luculocoism, has the lollowimi. remarks
upon the (;overnor's last extraordinary
Message
'CITE cow. ANt) THE LUMBER
MERCHANTS.'
The Governor's messa.,s'e is a curiosity.
Ile expresses great indigni.tion at being
suspected of any participation in " con
tracts for lumber," and yet takes the very
step best fitted to involve himself in sus
picion. If he be innocent, nothing can
show it so thoroughly, if at all, as a full
investigation, and a publication of the
whole case; and to this he is too intelli
gent to be blind. The Legislature was
attempting such investigation, and to ac
complish it, make a witness of one of the
parties accused, and for the purpose of
procuring his testimony, promise him im
munity. The Governor, upon an intima
tion that his name, has been used by the
accused as a party concerned with them,
tells the Legislature that their promise of
immunity to the State witness shall not
avail him, hut that lie shall be prosecuted
like the rest of the guilty. The obvious
ellect of this message will be to stop the
mouth of the witness; and the obvious I
interpretation of the Governor's wish to I
stop his mouth, is fear of his telling too I
much! If the Governor wishes to meet i
the charge boldly, his mode of operation
is singular.
If the Governor be desirous of conceal- I
any thing connected with these scan- •
(kiwis transactions, his message is very
artfully drawn. Ile says lie has reason
to believe that certain letters are in the
hands of persons amenable to legal pro
cess, tending to prove a !conspiracy to
procure corrupt legislation during; the
sessirin Of 846 ; that - these letters contain
false references to himself, of a character
wicked enough to call for the immediate
prosecution of all parties concerned, i in
order that the Executive may be punished
if the charges be true, and the authors be
punished if the charges he false. Ile adds
that the recent resolution of the I.egisia- I
ture, directing a nolle prosequi, upon any
criminal prosecution against George Ilan
ily,is subject to a condition, with which he
may or may not comply ; if he has fully
complied with it, he can plead it against
any pros , :cutiorr, if he has not, he is not '
entitled to protection ; that lie has directed
prosecution to be istituted against Handy,
and those implicated with him. Ile then '
recommends that all original letters, or
any vouchers, in possession of any coin•
mittee, or either House, be preserved as
an essential part of the trial.
Let us examine all this. The Legislas
ture promises immunity to Mindy, upon
condition of his telling the whole truth.—
'the investigation is pending, and Handy
is testifying under the promise. Yet in
the very midst of this investigation, the
Governor assumes that he has nut com•
plied with the condition, and directs a
prosecution against him. Upon what
right does the Governor assume this,
before the witness has told his whole
story 1 How can the Governor know,
before the testimony is finished, what
parts of the case the witness intended to
suppress, or whether he means suppress
any? It the testimony be not closed,
this prosecution will effectually restrain
the witness from telling any thing more.
If lie is to be prosecuted, lie will sooner
trust big chance for acquittal upon the
portion of the tale already told, than upon
pleading the resolution aga inst promise of
iminuity after lie has told the whole.—
Besides, after telling the whole story, and
pleading the promise in bar to the prose.
cution, lie will be obliged to prove that he
has told all ; for as, in such a plea, lie offers
affirmative matter, he takes the burden of
proving it. And how can he prove that
lie has told all i The nature of the case
renders this impossible, unless by the tes
timony of some other party implicated ;
soil such other party cannot testify with
out " turning State's evidence," for which
the permission of the Attorney General is
necessary. And if the Attorney General
should nut grant such permissi,m, Handy
cannot prove that he has told all, and
consequently cannot sustain his plea of the
legislative promise. The Governor, a
shrewd lawyer, sees all this, and Ilandy's
counsel sees it, 'therefore Handy will be
apprised of his danger, and advised to
hold his tongue. And thus upon the ex
traordinary assumption of the Governor,
before the investigation is closed, that the
State's witness will nut disclose all the,
facts, and by the extraordinary prosecus
Lion founded on that assumption, is the
investigation virtually suppressed.
The Governor says that certain letters,
iii possession of the parties implicated,
refer impioperly to himself, and that, for
the purpose of eliciting a full disclosure,.
he has directed all the parties to be prose.
cuted. How, in the name of law ands
common acme, can a full disclosure be
elicited by such a step? All the parties
being prosecuted, not one of them can be
a witness, without the permission of the
Attorney General ; and as that officer has
not granted die permission to Handy, liel
will not prebably grant to any of the rest.
As a transaction of such a character would
have no witnesses who were not parties,
its details cannot be known beyond these
parties implicated ; and as these, being
prosecuted, are not allowed to testify in
their own favor, and cannot be compelled
to criminate themselves, we cannot ima
gine how the transaction is to be proved.
the wily testimony that can be procurcil,l
will be the disclosures already made by
dandy ; and as these may not be sufficient,
and as lie i s restrained from saying ally
more, the prosecution must fail for want
of evidence. Thus the Gevernor, by this
very step, will have prevented that very
!disclosure for which he professes to be so
!solicitous.
The Governor mentions letters in pos
session of the parties implicated, as im
plicating himself. Dues he expect to
procure them by prosecution of the hold •
ers ? If the letters implicate such holsters,
as are thus mentioned by the Governor as
part of the testimony to be offered against
then,, these holders must be dull indeed
to deliver them to the Attorney General,'
or any other person, for the purpose of
being produced. They are not fools
enough to accuse themselves, or furnish
testimony for the prosecution; and they
will therefore be especially careful to
conceal all letters and other documents
still within their cantrol. The Governor
knows this ; and whatever were his inten•
tion, he has virtually told them, in this
message, to keep their letters out of sight
If they choose to do this, how can the
Attorney General reach such letters 'f—
ile can issue no process to obtain them
which they are bound to obey ; and if he
call for them, they wilt tett him to prove
that any such letters exist, and it• they
exist, that he has any right to them. As
he cannot prove the Erst, eXcepting by
themselves, nor the second at all, they are
perfectly safe. And as a last resort, they
can say that the letters tend to criminate
themselves, and therefore that he has no
r'glit to them. If the letters are in the
possession of the holders, and are not,
upon this proceeding of the Governor, put
entirely beyond the reach of the law, we
shall give these holders Very little credit
for common prudence.
The Governor directs arty committee of
the Legislature to preserve any letters or
documents already furnished. They are
riot obliged to obey this, arid it will cer
tainly stimulate the owners, or witnesses
who have furnished them, to regain them
without delay. Arid if the committee, or
,other present keepers, should surrender
them, where is the Governor's prosecution?
The message virtually tells all whd have
furnished letters or other documents to
the committees to withdraw them without
Let this affair be thoroughly probed, and
let all the guilty be brought to light and,
punished, whether they be public servants'
or private citizens. The people of this
State have been cheated enough by knaves
in office and knaves in private life. No
dodging now!
Unmitigated Rascality.
As one instance among thousands of the
Governor's dishonesty, we refer the reader
to the following put forth in his last
organ:
" Had net the currency of the State
been corrupted and debased by the Fede
ral ' tinkers' of last year, and had the tolls
accruing froth our public, works consisted,
as before, in par funds, there might have
been a show of common sense in the
protocol Of these complaining dignitaries;
but, it will be recollected, that by the pro.
visions of the " inatehless eanalive," alias
relict-law, of last session; the 4th of May
issue was made receivable in payment of
public dues. Consequently, by far the
largest portion of the tolls arc paid in this,
depreciated trash--the product Of a FED.
EI?AL legislation- —it having been COnsti
' toted by that Federal legislattlre a legat
tender."
The villany of this extract will only
appear its full tocce, when it is known
that by far the most depreciated and
worthless of these " Relief Notes" are
those of the Towanda and Earie Banks,
each of which the Governor authorized to
issue 9100,000 more than the law allowed;
or rather, he authorized the Towanda
Bank to issue this sum, and the Erie Bank
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS more than the
law allowed Was ever such barefaced
impudence before exhibited t--Ifurrisburg
Chronicle.
Death of the lion. Joseph
Lawrence.
The sad duty devolves upon us of an-I
flouncing the decease of another Member
of the House of Representatives, than
whom that body possesses few whose death
would be more lamented than his will be
by those who true enjoyed the opportunity
of knowing and appreciating his many ti
tles to respect and esteem.
The Ron. JOSEPH LAWRENCE, one of
the Representatives front the State of
Pennsylvania, expired at his lodgings in
this city yesterday morning, at a little
after 11 o'clock. His illness had been of
some two weeks' duration, and is suppo•
sed to have been induced by fatigue and
anxiety of mind consequent upon his lat,
painful attendance upon the death-bed of
his eldest son and son's wife, and upon
the illness of other members of his family,
from a protracted visit to whom he had
but recently returned.
Mr. LAWRENCE %vas fifty-four years of
age. For many years he had been in pub
he service. Nine years, first and last, he
served in the Legislature of his own State,
during four years of which he occupied
the post of Speaker of the !louse of Rep
resentatives. For four years, in the nine-
Wendt and twentieth Congresses, lie was
a Member of the house of Representa
tives of the United States. (Inc year lie
was Treasurer of the tale of Pennsylva
nia; soon after retiring from which station
upon a change of parties, be was again
elected a Representative to Congress, and
took his seat at the opening of the late
Extra Session. His public itiities he dis
charged with faithfulness, ability, and as
siduity.
Uniting with great amenity of manners
and kindness of heart, much experience
in public affairs, and the most inflexible
integrity, his influence was alwaya great
and salutary, and his death will be felt as
a loss to his State and to the Public.
To the family of which he was the af
fectionate and beloved head, his death is
an affliction which no earthly power can
relieve. But to them it will be some con.
solation to know that he died the peaceful
and happy death of a faithful follower of
that religion of which he had fur a long
time been an earnest proreisor.— • Adtional
Neiligencer.
From Rhode Island.
The Alexandria Gazette says —" We
are gratified to see it stated that the Rhode
Island case, havinr , been laid before the
Executive by both r 'parites. from that State
the President and Cabinet decided with
entire unanimity in favour of the legally
constituted authorities, and will, if neces
%dry, exercise the power granted by the
Constitution, to preserve the state trom be
ing wilawfu!ly revolutionized by the de
signing demagogues who have misled and
deceived a large portion of the people
there, and who seem bent on exciting civil
war."
A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT.--
The Providence Journal of Thursday con
tains a Postscript, embracing a letter from
President Tyler, in reply to a letter from
the Governor of Rhode Island.—The Na
tional Executive says:
It will be my duty to respect the
requisitions of that Government which
has been recognised as the Existing Gov
ernment of the state in all time past, until
I shall be advised in a regular manner
that it has been altered and abolished, and
another substituted in its place by Legal
and Peacible Proceedings adopted and
framed by the Authorities and people of
the State."
The Providence Chronicle of Thursday
evening has a postscript stating that the
revolutionary party are determined not
to change their cour s e in consequence of
the President's letter, but will persist in
holding their elections nutter the preten
ded new constitution, this day.
That election will of course tie illegal,
and the parties acting/therein will subject
themselves to condign punishment under,
the laws of the State. What will be the 1 1
result will now soon be known.
flow TIIE ACCIDENT TO TILE MEDORA
Ocetline.—
nSome facts have come to
knowledge of the disaster to the Medora.
Joseph Craig has confessed that Ite camp
ed the explosion, by removing the weight
on the lever of tile salety-valve to its
further extremity, and then putting on
additional weight; and that ..am;ay
Ferguson were cognizant of his doing so
—that it was in fact the act of all three
by agreement, though actually done by
him—and that they did nut intend to do
mischief, but had intended, as conjectu
red by Mr. Watchman, to display the
qualities of the boat to the best advan
tage. These confessions, if established
as true, will go to confirm the testimony
of Mr. Brown and others, taken at the
inquest, touching the great strength of
the boiler.
714 If oidled.—Capt. Sutton it in al
fair waj of recovery. John Samuel'
Mitchell, brother ofJames Thomas Mitch
ell, is also doing well and expected to re
cover. Daniel Stevens, from the Eastern
Shore, Dorchester county, who was badly
scalded in the face, though suffering much,
is well attended to, and expected to sur•
vice. Joseph Graig, is also slowly im
proving.— United States.
AND LOSS Or LIFE,- Ne
copy the following letter,
.giving informa
tionof the lost of the American ship Majes
ty, with thegreater portion of her crew,
Isom the N. 'V Commercial Advertiser of
last evening.
IfAvnt, March 13th, 1842.
Sir—l have just received a letter from
my Vice Consul, at Boulogne, informing
ine of the loss of the American ship
Majestic, Capt. Morrison. wind' took
place on the 10th of January, on the
coast of Merlincour, six leagues to the
(westward of Boulogne.
It appears that this ship lately sailed
from Antwerp, bound to Apalachicola,
and out of 16 persons which formed the
crew, only 5 were saved, the captain, as
well as the two mates, being amongst the
number who unfortunately perished. The
ship, which went to pieces, was to be sold
this day by the Marine for what she
would produce, as it would otherwise
prove a total loss. A bag containing
1500 francs was found in the wreck. It
is not known whether Capt. Morrison
had the proceeds of his outward freight on
board or not.
The weather has lately been most
boisterous, and several accidents have
happened near this place. 1 have not,
however, heard of any other American
vessel having been lost during its continu
ance. I am, very repectfully, sir, your
obedient servant, for It. G. Heasley,
Mows TAYLOR.
Walter R. Jones, Esq., New York.
Le2,irgsse
Not [Ong since a fellow thus talking to
himself, and imagining all right, and hav
ing arranged every thing to his satisfac-
Coo, said as he staggered along. "Well
if I owe any body any thing, I'm willing
I to forgive 'cm the debt. Yea that will
do. Anil %%hat I owe the landlord I'll
stay and board it out•—/linootitt,
j•.ATF.ST FROM MEXlOo.—Advices from
'Matamoras to the 3d instant were recev
ed atNew Orleans by an arrival on the 9th
inst.: at that time every thing was quiet,
nor was there any talk ot army movemeots.
Gen. Arista was at Monterrey, 400 miles
from the frontier of Texas. Monterrey
papers to the list have been received,
from which the following items are ex
tracted:—
!A letter from Gen. Rafael Vasquez,
commander of the expedition to Bexar,
land dated on the banks of the Rio Grande,
!March 11th, gives art account of his re
treat, which was affected without hindrance
or molestation on the part of the Texans.
lle adds, that on his arrival near the
Great River, so exhausted were the horses
of his men, that had they been attacked
not more than forty of them would have
been able to juin in the charge.
A letter from Pedro de Ampulla relates
,how he captured Goliad with only 120
men.
By the bye, General Vasquez says
that the Texans were 26G strong at Bexar
before they abandoned the place. A
letter from General Arista, after expres
sing his satisfacion that no outrage on the
rights of individuals or property had at
tended the occupation of Bexar, by the
Mexican troops, repeats the assurance
that the promise held out in his proclama
tion of the 9th of January, will be strict
ly fulfilled.
LATER FROM TEXAS.- 1111 C Ne.v Or
leans Picayune ot the 7th, reports the
arrival of the steamship Neptune, bringing
Houston papers ot the 2J, and Galveston
papers of the 4th inst. Nothirg very
important relative to the war with Mexico'
was found its them. In tact, nothing to'
corroborate or justify the exaggerated
rumors circulated here respecting the
immense Mexican invasion.
POLITICAL AND MORAL STATISTIcB.
Rhode Island which has lived in war and
peace for nearly two hundred years under .
a Charter, has suddenly wakened up to,
the want of a Constitution, which they arei
determined to have, alter one half the pro
pie kills tuff dm other half. They will
have it, "be daw-derned if they don't"—
unl!ss the charter Governor loads his mus
kets with lead.
In Virginia, the people have taken up
rails" against the sheriff, on which they
intend to ride hint and his bidders at sale;
and the members of the legislature are go
in g home from Richmond with their pock
ets full of—coffee—see Star.
Pennsylvania compels the banks and all
others, to pay up instanter, and then repu
diates her own debts.
Delaware is the most perfect Yankee
'state in the Union. She enjoys all the
benefit of the rail roads and canals of
Pennsylvania and Maryland, without ex
pending the first red cent, and has money
to lend both of these big fat states, at a
usurous interest—if they can give iier se
curity. Illinois and Indiana are both
covered over so thick with irredeemable
bank paper, and irretrievable bad debt,
that the rich soil under these incumbtan
ces cannot be conic at. It took all the
last cotton crop of Mississippi to snake
certificates of state stock, which has left
that state minus more millions titan she
has negroes to pay. Uncle Sam had so
much surplus money in store a few years
since that it all spoiled on his hands.—
Like wheat overkept, the weasel got into
it, and he is now suffering a famine.—
Pittsburg Visiter.
BRILLIANT blEnsoa.--The Buftalo l
Commercial Advertiser of the 11th inst.
says : —About half past two o'clock this!
morning, a most brilliant meteor shot
athwart the sky a little to the south and
west of this city. When first seen, it was
at an elevation of about 45 deg. nearly in
the south-west, and thence moved rapidly
to the northward till it reached a point to
the northwest of the city, when it burst
with a loud explosion resembling the
,blasting of rocks, succeeded by a heavy
rumbling sound for sonic moments. The
meteor was very large and its light was
like that of day. The sky was perfectly
cloudless at the time. In the fore part of
the evening there was quite a brilliant
display of the aurora borealis.
SHAMEFUL NEGLECT.- The New York
authorities have refused to keep Hogan in
limbo, or to make even a big dog, much
less a lion, out of such a whelp. The
Courier and Enquirer says :
"J. S. Hogan has been discharged by
the magistrate before whom he was brought
at Rochester; there being no sufficient
testimony against hint. It is difficult to
decide upon the relative claims to ridicule
in this case. Whether the loafing vaga
bonds who caused him to be arrested, or
the bowhiskered puppy who was the sub•
ject of the farce, have earned the best title
to contempt is exceedingly doubtful.
DISASTROUS FIRE IN COL , PORIA, S. C.
—The town of Columbia was visited by
a destructive fire on the morning of the
12th inst. which consumed the most beau
' Wel part of the city including the buisness
poi tion of the place. Twenty-nine stores
and dwellings, besides numerous nut-buil
dings were consumed, comprising the
most valuable houses.
The loss is estimated at about $200,000
a portion of which is covered by polices.
WINNING YOUNG LADIES.—The Pic
ayune says: " Young ladies R ho read the
newspapers are always observed to pos
sess winning ways, most amiable disposi,
lions, and invariably make good house.
wives." -
THE JOURNAL.
One country,one conatifutiononedeetrny
lluntingdon, April 27 : 1842•
The Case of our Sheriff:
In to•day's paper may be found another
extraordinary document, which emanat ed
from the wiley brain of that "outraged
innocent," the Governor of Pennsylvania.
We publish it entire, and as we have no
Pennsylvania coat•of.aims quite as neat
as the oae in the original, we insert the
"emblem," which answers just as good a
ptrpose in this particutnr case.
The said document is not a matter of
as great importance to any one as the
"LUMBER CONCERN," nor is it the subject
of much astonishment here, where its au
thor is perfectly well known. It is simply
a piece of parchment bearing the name of
David R. Porter and the '•great seal" of
the Commonwealth, purporting to be a
revocation or anpersedcas of the Commis
sion of John Shaver as Sheriff of Hunting
don county. We wish our readers to see
the contents of the parchment, and dig•
cover the mean and contemptible subter
fuge used therein ; and the bold assump
tion of power and authority by the Gover
nor, not vested in him by the Constitution,
and Laws of the State.
His Excellency sets out with a recital
of the Commission of the Sherifr. The
conviction and sentence are next recited
it: order.
Now, what arc the conviction and the
sentence ? From the records of the Court,
it appears that on the Bth of September•
1841, before the election of John Shaver,
he, together with several others, commit
ted an offence against a positive statute—
against the election laws of this Common
wealth. After the election, on the lot day
of November, a prosecution was commen
ced against him—at the November Ses•
sions a " true bill" was found--at the
January Sessions 184S1, he was tried and
convicted. There was then no Coroner
in commission in the county, and there
being no officer to carry the sentence of
Ore Court into execution, the Court eon
tinged the matter over until the April
Court. In the mean titne a Coroner was
appointed and commissioned, and we be
lieve the commission was recorded at the
expense of that loyal subject, the deputy
Attorney General ; and at the April Ses
sions John Shaver was sentenced, as set
forth in the pretended supersedeas.
On the trial it was plainly shown that
John Shaver had been entrapped by de
signing politicians—that he had been per
suaded and drawn into a compliance to a
scheme which was devised by others, in
order to withdraw one candidate from the
field, and deteat another thereby. The
scheme, it is known, was successful, and
John Shaver was elected. On the trial of
the indictment it was made perfectly man
ifest that although John Shaver had In
fringed the letter of the law, yet he was
not such a subject as the spirit of the law
contemplated to punish. It was on this
account that the Court passed the rninznum
sentence upon him. The law left it iM
the discretion of the Court to fine in any'
sum, teat less than one hundred dollars, nor
exceeding one thousand dollars; and to
imprison for any time, not less than one
month, nor ►nore than twelve months. It
will be perceived that the Court passed
the lightest sentence upon him that it was
possible, under the law, for them to pass.
It was because that degrading guilt which
was intended by the law to be severely
punished and suppressed, was not found
in John Shaver.
And it must be evident to all who have
paid attention to the whole matter from
beginning to end, that it is a persecution,
got up against John Shaver, prompted by
the malignant and revengeful spirit of
disappointed politicians. His persecutors
no doubt thought, and still think, that as
they had contributed greatly towards his
election, and laid the very scheme for him,
to secure his election, (for which he is now
prosecuted, and persecuted and pursued
with savage vindict‘veness,) that he should
have done as they expected him to do—
that is, to be made a pliant TOOL in their
hands, to accomplish selfish purposes.--
This we are led to believe, from seeing
the course they have latterly taken in re•
yard to the matter.
But to return to the "public document"
[ tinder consideration. At . ler reciting the
offence, by the Governor himself ,
but a misdemeanor, which the law defines
to be a "petty offence," an "ill behaviour,")
and the conviction and sentence, his Ea ,
celleney proceeds thus : Now know you,
that by virtue of the POWER and A ITIIOIII -
"EY vestal in me by the CoNsTri rt lox and
LAWS of this COnmonwealth, and for the
!CAUSES ABOVE STATED, it fully
appearing to me that you hare NOT 11 EWA
VED YOURSELF WELL. IN said office," &c.
Now, mind you—" FOR THE CAUSES
ABOVE STATED," (the petty offence)
and it fully appearing to Governor Porter
that John Shaver has not behaved himself
well IN said ofice of Sheriff'--for these
reasons David K. Pm ter, Governor &c.,
?evokes, annuls and suprrsedes the Com
mission of the said Sheriff Shaver.
It is needless for us to add that his Ex
cellency's" Greeting" bears a bold and pal
pable LIE upon its very face. The al
leged misdeameanor to office is stated on
the face of the parchment to have been
committed before IIE WAS COMMF.-
SIONED—BEFORE III': WAS ELE("P
ED.
Then too, the "1111:11 AC I%I.ATE" talks
of the power and authority vested in him
by the Constitution! There is no stick
power given to the Governor either by the
" old" or the new Constitution!! That
must be an error of the " transcribing
clerk"!!! Or perhaps his Excellency got
hold of the new Constitution of Rhode
and that may confer such power
and authority upon him.
The pretended supersedeas or the "su
percilious" as we have heard it called, was
attempted to be entered and tiled of record
in the Court of Common Pleas, but as the
Judges were divided in opinion it was not
done. John Shayer still acts as Sheriff of
this county, and will continue to do so.
His persecutors will no doubt resort to
other measures to harrass him, arid endear
vor to disturb still further the due admin
istration of Justice. It is their vocation ;
but it will avail them nothing—it will not
succeed.
Oz, — Governor Porter has appointed and
commissioned Joey sim,sorq, of this Bor
ough, Corcner of Iluntingdon county—
neither of the two persons elected within
the last three years having taken out eon,
missions.
Ct:r. r. IRA HOADLEY, late assistant at
the Washington Hotel in Harrisburg, has
become proprietor of the well know Amer
ican House in Hollidaysburg, which he
conducts on temperance principles. Mr.
!loadley is a gentleman highly spoken or
by all who are acquainted with him.
Kr In another column will be found an
account of the death of the Hon. JOSEM
LAWRENCE, member of Congress trout
Washington county. Since the election
of 1840, Pennsylvania has lost five of her
delegation in Congress: namely, William
S. Ramsey, Charles Ole, Henry Black,
Davis Dimock, Jr. arid Joseph Lawrence.
OYJAmr.s M. KlNlcn,th has been ap
pointed Post Master at Yellow Springs, in
this county.
0:7 - As was expected, Senator Ptivit
taAN and all others who go in for investi
gating the charges of bribery and corrup
tion, are denounced as " hired slanderer,"
by the whole posse of Loco Focu presses.
0:7" Governor Porter'sprnsioned editors
'are reviving the old " hue and cry"against
Biddle and the Bank. But it wont do—
they cannot so easily divert public atten
tion from Kickapoo, Winnebago &
Messrs. Editors, the veil is entirely too
thin—the cloven toot " sticks out a feet."
Try something else than Biddle arid the
Bank. That " dog has had its day."
& It is stated that JOSEPH Pi.axixt,.
TON, Esq. late county Treasurer of Phila.
delphia, is a defaulter to the amount of
fifty or sixty thousand dollars. It is al 4.
stated that the county and the state ate
fully secured by the official bonds given
by him.
Mr. P. has resigned his office, and
JAMES H. PAGE, Esq. has been appointed
in his place.
Wonders.
Wonder how many "mint drops" it
took to resuscitate a certain sickly locotoed
print, located in" these 'ere diggins 1"
Wonder how many feet of " Winneba
go scantling" it takes to keep said print
propped up
Wonder how many " min! juleps" Its
Editor has been treated to for his sttvi•`
ces - -