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SON Nta% Beastlyand Ike Wave. 14sAtrit sat tracing with sportive finger, Names, on the rcean's sand one day ; VVatching how long each wave would linger, Ere it had washed the print away ciciss'd it, .j►irst, HOPE'S she sketched—the waves just Then sank to ocean's breast again, 'As half regretful to have mised it, And with the maid let Hope remain. fling, Next, FRIENDSHIP'S name, so fond, yet flee- The maiden on the sand enshrin'd, 'The wave How'd on—but soon retreating, No trace of Friendship left behind. Lovz's then appear'd, 'twas deeply graven On that frail page; by Beauty's hai.e. ; The wave return'd ; alt! silly maiden, Love's vows were ever writ on sand. When one by nne, each name had persh'd, Beauty grew wearied of her play ; ~,Finding that all most priz'd and cherished, Some passing wave will sweep away! I`dI~3~~,LS~.P..IT.:~OUI~. 1 From the Salem, Mass. Register. ,s Extraordinary Case. We were 111101'1MA Ili a case of insanity .in this county, a few da/S.ago, circum stances co,oected with whica are so ex. traordinary as to be well worth recording. It seems, there has been in the Ipswich Alms House, ur House of Correction, for stout twenty years, an insane man who was sent t.iere from Salem, and had al ways gone by the name of "Captain.''_ Of - his teal name and residence nothing was ever known by the authorities, MN bas any thing been diseoveted until within a few months past. The man is perfectly harmless, his malady tending lather to idiocy, and he has long beet, alloweo to go about freely, sointimes wandering ' into the neighboring tow its, but always re• turtling in safety. . A few months ago the keeper presented a cord to hint, and said, .•Captain, will you give me vour address I.'" lie cup• tain very readily took the card, and writ ing upon it, in an elegant baud, a gentle man's name, with the name of a town in the state of New Turk, returned it. As it was somewhat uncertain if this was re, ally his name a few days taterwards ano• tier card was handed iii him with the re quest that he would give his father's ad dress. He immediately wrote the dame surname and town, with another christian name. It was then supposed that lie might have given his real address, and, to 'ascertain the fact, a letter wits forwarded to the place mentioned, directed, to the person whose name was given as the lath. tr. with a request to the postmaster, it such a person had ever resided there and hail removed, to lorward the letter to the ,present place of residence of the gentle limn or his tastily if it could be ascertain. Id. Nothing farther was heard until a few rirks ago, when a letter was received um New York on the satject. The let. „ter was shown to the .captain," and as onion as his eyes tell upon the superscrip. Tilton, his countermine changed, his eyes ~i w ere sofluseil with tears of jay, and he cried out in the most touching time, "my „i mother! toy mother!" It was iti fact a letter from his mother--the father having been dead a number of years. She wrote .that nothing had been heard of the son for ;twenty Iwo or twenty three years and he ;'was supposed to be lung since deceased. s he .captain" was Pitt emely affected on ,perusing the letter. The mother is at present residing with another son in the :t . ,city of New York. A farther correspond. ence has taken place between the parties, 1 and some of the relatives are expected to' come on shortly and take the lost restored' home. With what fervor can this mother exclaim, when she greets the wanderer— .. For this my son was dead, and is alive againt he was lost and is found." THE JOURNAL. DEF E ftit Ex" A wrAcLEs. THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, Huntingdon, March 8. 1843 "One country, one constitution, one destiny,' DEBATE, In the Senate of Pennsylvania. on the Veto of the Congressional Acportion meal bill. TucsDAy, Fel.. 2141, 1841 The Secretary of the Cotnmonwealth being intcoduced, presented a ine,.sage from the Governor, announcing his veto of the apporiintiment bill. Mr. PENNIMAN moved the printing of 1,000 copies. Mr. DAlif•II: was opposed to the printing, He thought if it was put on the Journal, it would be PUfficieNtly honoring it. He considered it as the most extraordinary document ever transmitted to a legislative ootly. The Governor had returned this hill. accompanied by reasons which, for the first time within his knowledge, were given for disapproving an important bill like the present. It had been the custom heretolote it' a bill was to be vetoed, for an Executive to assign constitutional, or other equally imperative reasons for so doing. But what was the spectacle pre sented here I Has the executive in this case done so? No. Mr. Speak •r; but in stead of taking high and constitutional grounds for his opposition to it, he tells us his regard for the banocratic parry will not allow him to sanction it 1 He hoped that this high handed attempt to frustrate the wilt of the People, as expressed by their representatives, would be treated uith the scorn it merited, and that Sena by Exe6ttive dictation. Mr. CRAIG hoped an abundant number of copies of the message would he printed.-- Ile wished every voter to see it. In hi annual message, the Executive intimated, that as his friends hail a majority in both !louses, care should be taken, in forming the apportionment bill, not to trample up on the rights of the minority. Accord-. ingly, his friends had framed a bill, just such a nue as he himself had recommend ed, which gave to the maj wiry their full Aare, and to the minority, sonnet like a law numb., if not entirely so. Ile had considered the bill passed its fair as eimlit ur expected, and therefore gave it hi, sup port. The tl-itiorratic pity in t'n.! Sen •ite had acted 1-ii, ly et . now the tiovernoi dmerinitied, it sm-meit, to rennet their Mutest tiotett•init id no effect. NIy..SPACKMAN disagreed with the Sen tor limn Washington in his opinions til the ion, Ile considered it far, very far, from 'being a lair bill. Bad us the bill WO, vet it seems they [the Whig-] were in Fare sill! worse ; aim he presumed if the Ex ecutive had the power, not a single Whig would be returned to the next et/flares-. But thank God, [...twinkled Mr. there is one elistsic I. in the Commonwealth which it is not in his power to gerryinan der to suit his unholy purposes, without it violation of the constitution—and that was the district lie had the honor in part to represent on this Hour. the Executive, is sending us his veto had embraced the occasion to appeal to the political passions of Senators—and for aught he knew, the inundate of power would be obeyed, and the privileges it the minority wantonly disregarded and trampled in the clust.—.. Ile hoped, however. that such might not be the case. Mr. PesisimAzi had a few words to say, and coosid, ring the relation he stood to the bill vetoed, it was proper he should. He was not surprised at receiving the message,--on the couttary lie had esiiect eil it. The people could have an oppur itunity of judging of the- statesonto.hip 01 the Executive, from the tact of his send such a message. It was a grovelling up peal to the worst passioos of the party-- more worthy of being addressed to low bar-room politicians, than to lugh•minded Senators. It was an a ppe.o Ito party— and to party alone. The Governor complains. that the bill Concedes too much to the mi nority. Now, no person conversant with political events. would agree with the Ex ecutive that the minority has nit equality of members, by this bill. It was untrue --and this attempt to impose upon the in telligence of Senators and the people, would nut succeed. [Mr. P. here review .d the bill at length. showing that the Whigs were allowed but 8 members cer tain, while the Democrats were sure of having 14, and stood an equal chance with their opponents, of securing the remain- "ONE COUNTRY, OhE CONSTITUTION. ONE DESTINY." 'INtiDON, PHNNSYLVANI der.] The Vk hips, (continued Mr. P.) have now 13 member~ of Congress; in 18- 38, they had 11. And now, sir, by the bill now vetoed, they had but 8. He con sidered that they were fairly entitled to at lecst 8 meeibers, and would willingly submit his vote, granting them tha.t nuni ber, to the People.' kV, !kat particular trust hail been repotted in the Executive? They were also representatives of the Prople and their itninediate respon-i •ility greater than his. lie thought the bill fair and honest--and had therefore given it his support. He would be the last to lie sert the party, or allow it to be sold —but I he dared any Senator to rise and give the slightest reason, except it be a political one, why the Detimerdtic patty were eti titled to all the districts in the State.— The idea was ridiculous- -nay , outrageous, and lie should tar one, combat it to the Nut. Mr. Gtnosts considered the bill an ob noxious one; and it seemed as it every one on the subject, as well as the present. disfranchised his constituents. It would appear that the Democratic Senators from the county had said to the Whigs of this us 4 members and divide th.. rest of the State as you please." This was the sine qua non, and were that thIE culty removed, we should lung since have• had a fair and hottest apportionment bill.-- Such, however, was not the character of the present one, by any means. Ile should oppose any bill that did not give to his constituents their rights. He was willing to grant the minority their just rights, bu; nothing more. Setntlors most not sell the Democratic party—they had no pow • er to du so, except front the example set by Esau, who sold his birthright filr a mess of pottage. Yet in this case, the member from the county had no control over the Democracy of the State • and therefore no right to sell them. The Sen. ator from the county had called the Gay. ernor many hard names.for what reason, he could not say. He believed they agreed in most things— they were both responsi ble to the same party—it d he believed they both supported Van Buren tit John Non.„ Seoutor Irmo Lehigh could vouch that the Governor was a Van Buren or Johnson nut . Mr. GiaoNs could nut vouch that such was the case—neither could he yowl, hr. the course of the Senator from the county. Mr. PENNIMAN could vouch fur his 1411 course. Mr. (moss complained of the great in. justice done his con•tiluelltS—atkil 111;11 he supposed if it hail not been abso lutely neres-ary to plate the county of, Lehigh -oniewhere, it would he--like the, Iri dim horse—now hei e ! [Laughter.] If a fair bill was wanted, it could be 41b-1 tamest by passing dial now in the other hick was defeated by the combi. 1 11;1114)11 1.41111,1 111141 till this to:/r, Mr. PENNImAII had a word to reply in regard to the combination spoken of. He had been accused id combining with the Whigs here. He himself could say some. hing in that line. Senators had come to him, and uttered to grant the city and county 4 members, provided he would con sent to go into caucus to settle the remain lag '11,41104. Wile this no attempt COMbill.ilion? He contebtled !hat there had been combination. here in 1841, and, alluding to the passage of the suspension and Relief Bills. inquired tl the Eit , cutive had any thing to do with the I . ..mug of the combinations then entered into. He [Mr. had been accused of combinii.g with Whig Senators; he cared not, he should tln with them when they were right, but no further. Mr. Gluons wished to inquire whether 1 , the Whigs were al way , right? Mr. Parmistmc-In this case they were. The city and county were entitled to 4 members, and with the help of a right cause they eould obtain them. The Sen ator from Lehigh complained of the Mall tier in which the county of Huntingdon was districted by this bill. So far us his LW. Ws.] ktitmledge extended, he could safely say, that it wan Eddy and j us il, dealt with. Ile wan sure that it would not he opposed, except by some whose palms itched to represent that district in Congress. Mr. KIDDER was sorry to see the turn the debate had taken. The quest' was simply a motion to print ; and yet Sena tern had taken this occasion to introduce sui t jects'entirely foreign to the 'natter.— When the Senator from the county in :de his motion to print. he was in hopes that the gentleman was about to return to the Democratic fold, but lie found himself mistaken ; for such were not, it seems, the intentions of the Senator Irmo the county. It now appeared that the gentle men made the motion for the pu'rpo-e tit having an opportunity of abusing in the most shatneless manner—anal in his usual peculiar style—the Executive of this Com moewealth, for a conscientious discharge of his duty. Mr. K. considered that this , bill gave to the Whigs too largo a repro- . WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8,. 1843, sentotion in Congress, stating that by it, they were given 11 certain, and Democrats nominally 13—leaving the Whigs a lair chance of securing the remainder. This was wrong; it was treason to the Demo. cratic tarty; and yet he hail seen Demo. erotic Senators unite with Whigs on this floor, and assist in carrying the project into effect. lhe Whigs had went fur it, a solid phalanx, and by their votes it pas sed this only. Mr.STEwsar rose to explain. He hid not voted for the bill, as he considered it an unfair one. Mr. Ktpoen continued. tie was hap py to be corrected in this matter so far as the Senator from Mercer was concerned, who, he I.4!lievell, was Italia Democrat.— [Laughter.] But ..ith this exception, such was the case. In the House the sante late awaited it; it was pushed thro' with unexampled haste;, the gag•law, by nosams of the previous question, applied, —and all to accommodate the irembers from the county who desired 4 'members for their share. It was true, 41 staunch country De iiiii erotic members had oppos ed it with heart and hand, yet their efforts were of no, avail. He deprecated the giving to the city and county of Philadel phia, representatives in Congress, at the expense of any portion of the Common wealth. He considered the present bill as a very obnoqious one, and trusted that it had received its quietus from the Gov ernor.., Mr.TitAmievres said that as he had vo ted for this bill, he was willing to assume the respoosibility. Time were features in die bill he did not like, but on the whole, he eas satisfied that no better could be obtained. He had beet. taken to task by the gentleman from Lehigh, fur not 'lid- franchising the distiict which he had the honor in part to represent or. this floor,— Although the majori'.y in that county dill% erect in politics front himself, yet his con• science ferbade him from taking any undue advantage of them. He would never con sent to barter their rights away, while he held the position he slid as their represen tative, tie would never consent to dis t T 111, 1 .4 C niaawit ‘l.k subjects. A representative of the people should look to !uglier 'objects than patty, and while he held a seat in that body. his censtittients should find him prepared to defend thew rights on all occcasions, come from oliaisoever quarter it :say. Mr. C. declared that he had honestly and consci. entiously believed the Whig party in Peens)lvania to be entitled to 10, or at least 9, members of Congo ess ; and so be fit vice, he should 01:plose any bill not giatittii4 them their just rights. He con sidered that he would . prove recreant to the trust confided to how by his constitu ents, were lie to stiller Bits occasion to pass by without defining his position on the matter in question, or without saving something in ttefence of that bill which It .11 this morning been returned with the Executive veto. tie considered the rea aorta advanced for his course, by the Gov erner to be specious in their character, and entitled to no force, from the fact that they were merely appeals to the political vissmiai of Senators—appeals which, he sincrrely looped, ottuld not be responded to by Senators on this floor. MG COCHRAN had a word to say on this subject. He hail voted leer this bill, al. !Neagh reluctantly, believing it to be the best that could be had. The Whigs he considered, had been unfairly treated! by the operation of it, and yet it seems that they were not to be uncured the small number of representatives arising from the manner in which tick hill was appor tinned. Ile supposed the 6overn(r would eon rest satisfied until he hail such an ap porieinti,ent effected as weduld entirely disfranchise the great Whig party el Penns) !runit, For one, he raised his voice against such iiijustice and oppres sion—such a gloss (mirage on the eights of a large body of citizens. The Wiw i ; party were fairly entitled! to 11 members, although receiving but 7 by the present bill. lie hoped that this 16.4 h-handed illlempt at Executive dictation would meet the rebuke it so richly merited. Mr. FARRELLY did not vote for the bill now under discussion because he cunsid end it a fair one, but because he thought it the best that could be got. It Ilia not do justice to the numerical strength of the Whig party, as any one conversant with the political statistics in the State would ;o hm!. So far as he was concerned, he had been itilluencecl by im combinations, . neither should he be, He should support any bill which he conceived honest mod fear, despite of such accusations, Mr. STEw.tor agreed with the Senator from Lancaster, [Mr. Champneys] that the Whigs of this Commotiu cold' were entitled to nine or ten representatives to Congress. Senators differing from him on this floor, had constantly referred to 'the Whig vote polled in 1841, as a crite rion bu which the State should be distric ted. * Was this fair, Mr. Speaker? Was it just ? Why,,ha would ask, single out that particular year, when it was well known the Whig party was completely disheartened and broken down, from causes to which he need not here allude. Neither would he [Mr. S.] desire the ma jority to apportion the State in accordance with the vote pulled in 1840.. For that year, he was willing to acknowledge, the Whip had, perhaps, ()nisi/ ippeq their actual force. But he wished Senators in framing a bill to take into con.ideration some mtertnediate year. [and there were enough of them] 'n which the Whigs pult• ed a lull nod lair vote, and district the State according to the strength there exhi bited!. It seemed evident, that there was a disposition on the part of the Executive I—and he was sorry to say on the part of some Senators—to disfranchise the Whig; ' party of Pennsylvania—to trample their rights as citizens in the dust. It was true, the Executive arid his friends could chum a majority in the State; but was that majority so great, and dill their strength so far exceed that of their oppo s. nests, as to justify the disfranchisement of neatly one halt the citizens of this Commonwealth 1 For one, Mr. S. pro tested against it ; and while he had power to raise his voice, it should by heard in defence of the 164 the people. DEBATE, In the Senate qf Pennsylvania, on the Communication ol the Attorney General. relative to the suit of the Commonwealth against Frederick Fritz. late Collector of Tolls on the Cdurabia Roil Road. TUE•iDAY, February 21; 1893. The SPEAKER laid before the Senate a communication (rum the Attorney Gener al, Ovid F. Johnson, in reply to an inquiry of the Senate, made neatly Iwo months ago, and repeated the 17th inst., in regard to the measures which he had adopted to recover tOr the use of the State, the de- Salvation of Frederick Fritz, late Collec, tor of Tolls on the Columbia Rail road, the same amow:ting to 40,000 dollars.— The Attorney General accus.-d the Senate leant o oly a d p i m p r e e t z t t a • e t t due from one department of the govern. i ge v e co l uu l : g tes t y te n th a o t r wa a st went to another. He then proceeds to say, that some time since, suit had been brought against Frits, ant' one, but 1111 i bole ui its sureties, The trial was put off from time to time, for reasons which were satisfactory to the court trying the same. He thinks it ex pedient not to push Henry Spriginan, the reinaning surety—and concludes by ob serving that he has not yet collected any motley, nor does lie know when lie will be able to do so, it at all. After the reading, Mr. SULLIVAN moved to refer the communicatton to the Judi ciary Cieltmittee. Mr. Hans's: said, that as the Attorney Getwral cumplaiord of injustice, he wish ed the Clerk to read the resolution of inquiry referred to. [The resolution was simply a call Inc certain on the subject in question, couched in re spectful terms, butt noticing the fact that a former and similar call still remain ed untinsweieil.] Now, Mr. Speaker, what are the facts of the case? Why, sir, in 1839, it was discovered that this Frederick Fritz was a defaulter to the amount 41140 000 ; and at the next ses- I sion of the I..egislature, the Senate passed 'a resolution, inquiring of the Attorney General what steps had been instituted , to recover the sun e--to which he replied I that suit had been instituted agaii,t Fritz, and that he had no doubt the whole would be recovered. But, now, it s ee med, the Attorney General had altered lui• ptiud— lur according to the present reply, nothing would be collected Irmo him or his sure ties. No to ogress •whatever had been made in the matter for the space of three years—and when, a month and a half ago, he (Mr. D.) had submitted a resolu tion id inquiry on the subject—and s ubs?. quently, that remaining unnoticed—still' another, the Attorney General had the au audacity to send a communication to this buil y,taking them to task for daring to trou ble him for the information required--and coolly winding up by sayins that it is doubt ful whether the whole or any part of the de• bileation will ever be recovered tit the use of the Commonwealth! The Attorney General must indeed have a pour opinion of the character for dignity which the Senators entertain, if he expected such a communication to pass unnoticed—or to' be treated with courtesy. M. CH4MPNEYS considered the language used by the kttorne, Gem-ral a. very ex traordinary, to say the least, He recol lected the ,esnlu'ions introduced by the gentleman from Allegheny, and thought at the time, they were respectful and cour teou.. He thought the same now, and yet the Attorney General had thought proper to send into this body a communi cation complaining of disrespectful treat meet. It would seem that the Senate, if [WnoLE No. 372 desiring to learn something connected with the proper discharge of their duties, were to become suppliants to the indivi duals who mia,ht happen to hol , l any tri ffing office under the Commonwealth. Mr. SULLIVAN recollected the resolu tions of inquiry, and considered theta perfectly free front offensive terms.-- Ample lime had been allowed that officer to make his report to the Senate—and common courtesy and duty required him to du so at the earliest opportunity. Mr. S. forbore to make any further remarks at the present time—but must observe that he thought it every extraordinary answer, coming front the officer it did, to a simple resolution of inquiry. He concluded by so modifying his motion as to instruct the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the expediency of procuring private counsel to conduct the suiton the part of the Com ' monweelth. Mr. PENNIMAN also viewed this docu. meat as a very exttaor Unary one. The Attorney General speaks of the courtesy due from dill'erent departments of the Government. Does the Attorney General constitute one of the departments? If so, he (Mr. P.) was not before aware of the tact. fly whom, and by what authority, was he so constituted ? So far from con sidering the office of Attorney General as constituting one of the Departments of Government, it was even suspected that there was no authority under the Consti tution, for creatin , r e the office he held.— Dowever, let that be as it may—we find this individual, besides taking his own time to perform his duties accusing this body of disrespectful treatment. For his own part, he would wish to see the com munication returned to the author, were he worthy the contempt of the Senate. As it was, he was indifferent as to the course pursued. Mr. Ginoss moved to lay the resolution on the table. The resolutions of inquiry, he hail thought, were sufficiently respect ful—but a mistake may have been inade in transcribing—if so, very well. If not, he wished to have the matter fairly con " SinctherktiettreuNA thwtinirt-rito-lye out of order, there being one motion al ready before the Senate. Mr. SULLIVAN accepted the views of the gentleman (ruin Lehigh, and with drew his motion—and the motion of 141 r. G. postponing for the present was agreed to. Awful Calamily—Great Land Slide at Troy, New York. We have accounts of a tearful calamity at Troy, N. Y., occasioned by a land slide, which occurred on Friday last, scarcely inferior in extent, and it is feared, even more destructive of life, than that which occurred several years ago. The slide occurred south of the twiner ,one, on the small hill—the as !dandle crushing, and nearly burying several frame buildings, at the foot of the hill, and extending quite across Main street. The accounts varying in particulars, but all concur in representing the loss of life, and the scene of distress as terrible beyond description. The scene presented an awful and mel- Acholy sight. :Babes ill their cradles, (mothers %int their children in their arms, and stalwart men, who but two hours be, fore had breathed freely and in good health, had been taken from the ruins, mu tilated and mangled corpses. The build ings destroyed were nearly all new, and had but recently been erected. Smite eight or ten of the dwellings, oc cupied by poor families, were crushed and buried beneath the mass of earth. In these, it is supposed, there ►sere not less than thirty nr forty persons, only ten or twelve of whom escaped. Within an hour alter the occurrence. 'nine bodies were dug out from the ruins, qve of which were without life, one par tially injured, and three not beyond re covery. A man from the country, passing at the time with his team, leaped from his sleigh, and escaped. The horses and the load of wood were buried beneath the earth. MESMERISM.- .. Am you willin if I mesmerise you, Sambo?" Sartin I is Cully." Here follow the basses, quite a la-Mes - mei' and the .community of sensation' is soon established. Is you gone to sleep, Sambor Yes, Cuffy, fess asleep." 4, Well, den, what hab I gut in my moon" tastin4 abit of sugar. How tlibil l know C;;!,..)? I'm fuss asleep." The unkindest CUT OF on..—A lard oil manufacturer, in Pittstiurg has a cut over his advertisement re resenting two fat hogs eating a whale.- -Boston Post, Rough diamonds are sometimes mist: - ken for riebbles.
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