BY JAS. CLARK,
We Were Boys• Together•
_BY Geoune P. MORRIS.
We were boys together, .
And never .can forget
The school-house near the tether,
In childhood where we met—.
jte sorrows and its jays,
Whenwoke the transient mils or tear,
When you and .I Were Wye.
.
We Were youths tog,efhei,
And castles built in air ;
YOii: heart was lilt's a ferithei,
Mid mine weighed down with care.
To you came wealth with manhood's prime,
So me it brought alloys—.
roreshadowed in the primrose tirrie,
When you and I were boys.
We're old men tog ether.
The friends we loved of yore,
With leaves of Autumn weather,
Are gone forevermore.
How blest to hail the impulse given—
The hopes time tte'er destroys—
Which led our thoughts from earth to heaven,
When you and I were boys.
THE MARRIAGE CRUCIBLE.
Thrilling Tale of High and Low Life.
BY THE AUTHOR OF 6 ‘ THE LADY OF LYONS."
I was born in one of those little ham
lets situated in the neighborhood of
i'ilontelmart, in the south of France. My
father had made many a fruitless effort
to raise himself above indigence.—His
last resource in his old age'arose from
the exercise of a talent Which he had
acquired in his youth, that of bellows
mending. This, too, was the humble,
profession which I was destined to fol
low. Being endowed by nature With
quick and lively. faculties, both of mind
and body, I soon grew skilful in my trade
and having an ambitious spirit, set off'
for Lyons. to prosecute my calling there.
1 was so far successful that I became a
great favorite with the chambermaids,
who were my chief employers, and whom
my good looks and ' youth Interested in
my favor.
One evening, however, as I was re
turning home after my day's round, I was
accosted by four well dressed young
men, who threw out a few pleas
entries on my profession, which 1 an
swered in a style of good humored rail
ery that seemed to surprise and please
them. I saw them look significantly at
each other, and heard one of them say,
" This is our man." The words alarm
ed me, but my fears were speedily dis
pelled. "Rouperon ' " said one, " you
shall sup with us. We have a scheme
which may do you good. If you do not
agree to it, we shall not harm you, but
only ask you to keep our secret. Do
not be afraid, but come With us? See
ing all of them to be gentlemen in ap
pearance, I did not hesitate to accept
the offer. They conducted me through
a handsome house, in an apartment of
which we found six other young men,
who appeared to have waited impatient
ly for my conductors. A few explana
tory words passed respecting me, and
soon afterwards we sat down to slipper.
Being young,. thoughtless and light
hearted, I gave way to to the enjoyment
of.the hour, and ventured a succession
of pleasantries which seemed highly to
please my chance companions. But
they all grew' silent and thoughtful ere
long, and finally one of them addressed
me anis "The ten' persons you see be
fore you, are all engravers and citizens
of Lyons. We are in good circumstan
ces, and make a very handsome living
by our occupation. We are all attached
to one another, and (brined a happy so
ciety, till love stepped in to disturb us.
In the street of St. Dominic there lives
a picture metchant, a man of respecta
ble station, but otherwise an ordinary
personage. He has, however, a (laugh , '
ter, a creature possessed of every ac
complishment, and endowed. with every
grace,
but all whose amiable qualities
are sliaded,by one defect,--pride, insup
portable pride. As nn example of the
way in which this feeling lied led her
to treat others, I will own that I myself
paid my addresses to her, and was ap
proved of by, her father, as one by birth
and circumstances much their superior,
But what was the answer which the in
solent, girl gave, to my suit 1 "Do you
think, sir, hat a yowl, woman like me,
was born for nothing better than to be
the wife of an engraver 1" •
" Her.great charms and her pride
has been felt by us all," continued, the
speaker, " and we hold that she cast a
slur on us and our protessiou. We,
therefore, have resolved to show this
disdainful girl that she has not indeed
been born to the honor of being born to
be the wife of an engraver.—Now will
will you, (addressing me) venture to be
come the husband of a charming woman,
who, to attain perfection, wants only to
have pride mortified and her vanity
punished V'
"Yes," answered•l spurred on by the
excitement of the moment ; " I compre
hend what you would have me to do,
(I,l,,nfAm\
and .I will fulfil it in such a manner that
you will have no reason to blush for your
pupil."
The three months that followed this
strange scene were wholly occupied
with preparations for the part I was to
perform. Preserving the strictest pos
sible secresy, my confederates did their
best to transform me from a plain bel
lows mender into a fine gentleman.
Bathing, hair dresses, &c., brought my
person to a fitting degree of refinement,'
while every day or two one of the en
gravers devoted himself to the task of
teaching me music, drawing and other
accoMplishments ' • and nature had fur
nished me with a desire to study, and
memory so retentive that my friends
were astonished at the progress of their
disciple. Thoughtless of all else, I felt
the deepest delight in 'acquiring these
new rudiments of education.—But the
time Caine when I was to be made sen
sible, for the first time, of the nature of
the task I had entered upon. The con
federates at length thought me per
fect, and in the character of the rich
Marquis of Rouperon, proprietor of large
estates in Dauphiny, I was installed 'in
the first hotel in Lyons. It was under
this title that I presented myself to the
picture dealer in St. Dominic street. 1
made a 'few purchases from him and
seemeed anxious to purchase more. Af
ter a little intercourse of this kind, he
sent me word one morning, that he had
received a superb collection of engra
' vings from. Borne, and begged me to call
and see them. I did so, and was not re-'
ceived by him, but by Aurora. This
was the first sight I had got of that lov
ly girl, and for the first tune in my life
my young and palpitating heart felt the
power of beauty. A new world unfold
ed itself before my eyes ; I soon forgot
my borrowed part ; one sentiment ab
sorbed my soul, one idea enchained my
faculties. The fair Aurora perceived
her triumph, and seemed to listen with
complacency to the incoherent expres
sions of passion which escaped my lips.
That interview fixed my destiny forev
er ! The intoxication of enjoying her
presence hurried me on blind to every
thing else. For several months I saw
her every day, and enjoyed a state of
happiness only dampened by the self ac
cusing torments Of solitary hours, and
the necessity I was under of regularly
meeting my employers, who furnished
me with money, jewels and everything
I could require. At length Aurora's
father gave a little fete in the country,
of which I was evidently the hero. A
moment occurred, in which, thoughtless
of all but my love, threw myself a suit
or at her feet. She heard me with mod
est dignity, while a tear of joy, which
dimmed for a moment her fine eyes,
convinced me that pride was not the on
ly emotion which agitated her heart 3
yes I discovered that I Wris'beloved
I was an imposter, but Heaven is my
witness 1 deceived her not without re
morse. In her presence I remembered
nothing but herself ; but in the stillness'
of solitude, sophistry and passion dis
appeared, leaving a dreadful perspec
tive before me: When I associated the
idea of Aurora with the miserable fate
which was soon to fall upon her delicate
hands, employed in preparing the coars
est nourishment, I shrunk back with hor
ror, or started up covered with a cold
prespiration.-- , Birt self love would dome
to my aid, and I thought if she truly
loved me, ehe might' yet .be happy.--I
would devote my life, 1 swore, , to the
task of strewing flowers along her path.
But all my hopes, all my fears cannot
be told. Suffice it to say, that her fath
er believed me when I represented my'
estates as being in Dauphiny, a distant
'province.. I would not allow a farthing
of Auroras' portion to be settled other-
wise than on herself. So there was
one baseness of whicii I was not guilty.
We were married. At the alter, a
shivering ran through all my veins,
general trepidation, seized my whole
frame, and 1 should infallibly have sunk
to the earth in a flood of tears had not
some one, come to my rescue. The sil
ly crowd around mistook the last cry of
expiring virtue for an excess of Sensibil
it 4fortnight after the.marringe, as had
been arranged by my 'employers, at
whose-merey.l was, we started for Men-,
telmart, my unfortunate bride believing,
that we were going to a far different
place. : Several of the engravers were
themselves our attendants, disguised
and.aetitig tie courtiers to our magnifi
cent equipage. The awful moment ol•
exposure arrived, and when it did dome
it proved more terrible than I ever •had
anticipated. Tate engraver made the
carriage be drawn up before a mean and
miserable cottage at the door of which
eat Iny Jitituble but•venerable father.—
Now camethe awful.disclosure. The
poor,
deceived, and surprised Aurora
was banded out.—The engravers came
up ; they pulled off their disguises ; and
HUNTING DON, PA., T UESDAY „JANUARY 22, 1850.
he whoa) Aurora had so pointedly re
fused, exclaimed to her, "No madam,
no, you have not been born or brought
up for mg engrit/er ; such a lot would
have dorre.too much honor .to. you; a
bellows mender is wott4 of you, and
such is he whom you hays made your
husband!"—Trembling rind boiling with
rage I would have replied, but the en
gravers entered the coach, and like the
shifting of . it scene in the theatre, • all our
grandeur disappeared with them!
Poor Aurora scarcely heard what had
been said. The truth had flashed upon
her, and she sank back in a swoon. Rec
ollect, that I had now acquired a con
siderable share of -sensibility mid deli
cacy from my late life. At. the cruel
moment I trembled alike at the thought
of losing the woman I adored, arid of
seeing her restored to life. I lavished
on her the most tender cares, yet almost
wished that those cares might prove un
availing. She recovered at length her
senses, but the moment her frenzied eye
met mine,. "Monster f" she exclaimed,
nod was again insensible. I profited by
her condition to remove her from the
bight of those who had gathered around
and to place her on a humble straw
couch. Here f remained beside her till
she opened her eyes ; mine shrunk front
ner glance. The first use she made of
her speech was to intdrupt the broken
exclamations of love, shame and nmerse
which fell from my lips, to beg to be left
alone for a time. The niece of the cu
rate of the parish, however, who ann.
ced to be by, remained beside her, and
the poor young victim of villany, for she
was but eighteen, seemed glad of her
attentions.
How shall I describe the horrible
night which I then passed It was not
on my account that I suffered or feared.
She alone was in my thoughts. I dread
ed above all, for my love was predoMi
nant, to see that heart alienated, whose
tenderness was necessary to my exis
tence, to• read coldness in that eye, on
whose look my peace depended. But
could it be otherwise 1 Had I not base
ly, vilely darkened all prospects of her
life, and overwhelmed her with intolera
ble shame and anguish I That night
was a punishment which would have
almost wiped out any lesser sin. Fre
quently, it may be believed, I sent to
know how Aurora was. She was calm,
they told, me; and indeed, to my sur
prise, she entered, in
,the morning, the
room where I was. She was pale, but
collected. I fell before her on the ground
and spoke not. " You have deceived
me," said she ; is it is out your 'future
conduct that my forgiveness must de
pend'. Do not take advantage of the
power you have usurped. The neice of
the curate has offered me an asylum.
Theie I will remain till this matter can
be thonglit of calmly."
Alas!. these were soothing but deceit
ful words. Within a day or two after
this event, the interval of which I spent
in fOrming wild hopes for the future, I
received at once two letters. The first
' from the engravers, the cause of my ex
altation and my fall. They wrote to me'
, that toy acquaintance had begot in them
a friendship for me; that they had each
originally subscribed n Certain sum for
the execution of their plot ; andthat they
would supply me with money and eve
ry thing necessary for' entering . into
some business, and ensurin . q, the credit
able support of myself and Aurora. The
other letter was. from Aurora—. Sonic
remains of pity,' she said, ri which I feel
for you, notwithstandlni your conduct,
induce me to inform you that lam in
Lyens. ft is my intention to enter i
convent, which will rid me of'your pres
ence ; but your will do well to hold your
self in readiness to uppqar before every
tribunal in France, till I have found one
which will do tie justice; and break the
Chain in which you have •bound your
Victim."
This letter threw rria into . despair'. 1
hurried to the curate's, but could hear
nothing of Aurora's retreat, although
became assured that the curatetind his
niece, despising my condition, had been
urgent advisers of the step Aurora had
taken. 1 then hastened to Lyons, where
the affair had now created a great sensa
tion. 1 lived unknown however, and
saw only the engravers, who notwith
standing the base plot which they bad,
through. me, effected, were men of not
ungeuerous dispositions.. As t hey had
driven me out of my former means of
livelihood, I considered myself at,liber
ty to accept the sum which they offered
me to enter into trade with. . They told
me how to dispose of it at once, and I
laid it out in a way/which speedily and
without .trouble to me augmented it,
greatly. Meanwhile, the father of Au-
Nye had made everY.ProlWatiPo for Pp
nulling the marriage. This could only
,be done by publicly detailing the treach
ery which had been practised. Never,
perhaps, was a court house more crow
ded than that of Lyons on the day on
which the case was heard. Aurora her=
self appeared and rivetted'the eyes of
all present ; not to speak of my own.—
UnknoWti and unseen, I shrank into a
corner, like a guilty thing. 'the coun
sel for Aurora stated the case, and plead
the victim's cause with so much elo
quence as to draw tears from many eyes.
No counsel arose for me, and Aurora,
whannerely sought a divorce without de
siring to inflict that punishment she
might easily have brought clown on the
offenders, would have at once gained the
suit, had not one arisen for me. It was
one of the engravers, the one who had
been refused, as meplioned by Aurora.--
He made a brief Tileading for me; he
praised my character, he showed and
confessed how I had been temp:ed s and
how I fell. At last he concluded by ad
dressing Anrora. —
" Yes, madame," said he, "the laws
may declare that you are nog his wife,
but you have been the wife of his bosom!
The contract may be annulled, and no
stain may rest upon you. But a stain
may be cast upon another. Can you,
will you throW the blot of illegitimacy
upon one even more innocent than your
self 1" The appeal was understood ; and
was not made in vain. The trembling
Aurora exclaimed, • "No-, no arid the
'tears fell fast as she spoke.
The marriage was not annulled—was
no longer sought to be annulled. But
while the contract (which I had signed
With my own name, believed by them to
be the family name of the Marquis de
Roupeon,) was declared void, and it was
also determined that Aurora should re
main unmolested by the adventurer who
had so far deceived her, every legal pre
caution wits taken that 1 should have no
control over her or her affairs. After
this event I.did not remain long in Lyons,
where I heard my name every where
branded with infamy. Master, by the
means I have related, of a considerable
sum, I went to Paris, where 1 assumed a
foreign name. 1 entered business, and,
more to drown remembrance than for
any other cause, pursued it with an ar
dor which few have eVinced In the like
circumstances. The wildest specula
tions were those which attracted me
most and fortune favored me in a most
remarkable way. I became, the head of
a flourishing commercial house, and ere
five years had passed away ; had amassed
considerable wealth. At this time, how
ever, the remembrance of nay wife threw
toe into fits of anguish and despair. I
dared not think, nevertheless, of attemp
ting to g o near her, until it chanced
that 1 had it in my power materially to
serve a banker in Lyons, who pressed
me much to pay him a visit. After much
uneasiness and anxiety, 1 resolved to
accept the invitation. Once more I en
tered Lyons, and on this occasion with
an equipage which was not borrowed,
though as handsome as my former one.
My friend, the banker, on being ques
tioned, told me that Aurora still lived in
the convent, and was admired for her
propriety of conduct and for her unre-1
misting attentions to tier child her boy;
but he told me her father had just died,
leaving tier almost dependent upon the
charity of the abbess. This recital ex
' cited in me the most lively emotions. I
took an opportunity afterwards of visit
ing one of the engravers, who scarcely
knew me, changed as 1. was, .but who
received me warmly. I requested hut
to assemble the creditors of the father
of Aurora, and to pay his debts, giving
him funds for that purpose. I told him
to purchase seine pieces of furniture
which ! knew to be highly prized by Au-
Every hour of my stay in Lyons
strengthened my desire to see my wile
and at least to fold my boy in my arms.
The feeling became at len7th irresisti
ble, and I revealed myself to the banker
beseeching him to find some tray of ta
king use to the convent. His astonish
ment to find in ine the much spoken of
bellows mender, was beyond description.
.Happily, however, he was acquainted
with the abbess, and assured me that it
was easy at least to obtain a sight of my
Wife: Ere an hour passed away, my
friend lied taken.me there! I was in
troduced as a Parisian merchant, and
beheld, aids.. emotions unspeakable, my
wiie seated in the ;convent parlor, with a
beefy child asleep upon her knee, in con
versation. with her venerable friend.—
Aurora, now twenty-three years of age,
seemed to me more lovely. than ever. I
had purposely,wrapt myself closely up,
and she khe'or me not, though I perceiv
ed an invOluntary.sturt When she first
saw rhe f as if my presence 'reminded
her of some once familiar object. I could
not speak ; friend maintained all the
conversatipn. But the boy awoke. He
saw strangers present, and descended
from his mother's knee. Looking et
myself and my friend for n moment he
came forward ,to me. Oh ! what were
toy feelings when I found myself cover
ed with sweet caresses, the innocent kis
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sts- of my child! An emotion which I
had no power to subdue, made me rise
hastily, and thraw myself with my child
in my arms at the feet of my pate and
trembling wife. "Aurora Aurora!" I
exclaimed in broken accents, "your child
claims from you a father ! Oh, pardon !"
The child clasped her knees and seemed
to plead for me. • Aurbra seemed ready
to faint. Her lips quivered and her eye
was fixed as if in stupor upon me, a
flow of tears 'came to her relief, and she
answered my appeal by throwing herself
into my arms. “I know riot," she sob
bed, "whether you again deceive me,
but your child pleads too powerful ! Au
rorais your's !"
- -
This event closes my history. I found
Aurora much improved by adversity, and
have tasted a degree of happiness with
her such as no penitence for the past
could ever•make me deserving of. Only
one incident in my history after toy
reconciliation with Aurora seems to me
worthy of note. I took my son and her
with me to Paris, but at the same time,
seeing it to be my wife's wish bought a
small country house for her near Lyons.
Sometimes we spent a few weeks there,
and on one occasion she invited me to go
down with her to be present at a feat for
which she had made preparations. Who
were our guests 1 The ten engravers,
who were the original cause of all that
passed 1 It was indeed a day of pride
to me, when I heard Aurora thank them
for the happiness, which under the agen
cy of a wonder•working Providence,
they had been the means of conferring
on her.
THE MOTHER.—A writer beautifully
remarks that a man's mother is the rep ,
resentative of his Maker. Misfortune ;
and even crime, set tip no barriers be
tween her and her son. While his
mother lives, he will have one friend np
on the earth who will not listen when
he is slandered, who will not desert him
when he suffers, who will soothe him in
his sorrows, and speak to him of hopes
when he is ready t 3 despair. Her af
fection knows no ebbing tide. It flows
on from a pure fountain, and speaks
happiness through the vale of tears, and
ceases only at the ocean of eternity.
BEGIN BIGHT. —Are you stepping on
the threshold of life 1 Secure a good
moral character. Without virtue you
cannot be respected ; without integrity
you can never rise to distinction and
honor. You are poor ; perhaps. No
Hi atter : poverty is olliener a blessing
than a curse. Look at the young man
who is worth half a million. What is
his standing 1 Of what use is he to
the world 1
A country merchant having procured
a new clerk, waked him up the morning
after he was hired, at a very early hour,
by calling out that the 'family were sit•
ring down to the table.' 'Thank you,'
said the boy, as he turned over in bed
to adjust himself for a new nap—'thank
you, but 1 never allow myself to eat any
thing during the night!'
A young man feeling restless in
church, leaned forward and addressed
an old gentleman thus—•'Pray, sir ; can
you tell me a rule without and excep
tion 'Qes sir,' he replied, 'a gentle
man always behaves well in chu.ch.'.
A clsrgy man recently,- after exhaust
ing all his zeal and eloquence on an audi
tory, and finding them still obdurate,
concluded his prayei as foilows : "And,
oh Lord, make. the hearts of these sin
ners as soft as their heads P
WEALTILI-Mtirtin Luther said 'wealth
is the smallest gift of God.' What is it
to be compared with his Word, corpo
real gifts, such as beauty, health anti
activity 'I What is it to the gifts of the
mind, such as intellect, science and art.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
I.P.,trei Front Rarrisburg---No. 1.
corro , yundynce of the Ituntitigdon Jottrual,
limuusuunG, Jan. 12, 1820.
DEAR Sin I-The second week of the Session
is passed, and thus far, not much action worthy
of speculation, has occurred. It generally takes
this much of, the Session every year, to initiate
business, allow the petitions presente4 to be
considered, and the bills read in place to be ma
tured in the Stauding Comnoittee rooms. Noth
ing is really lost by this apparent laziness to
complete business. Wham the preliminary pre
paration iu the committees has been bad, the
despatch eventually is greater, and acts arebet
ter .and more cautiously passed, than when a
rush is made at the beginning,of the session to
pass a gettat many laws. restitta lelete,—to
"make haste slowly" -4s the beautiful Italian
motto, which should he inscribed on the door
way of every Legislative Hall. Caution and
deliberation in the early stages of legislation Is
the more requisite this year, on account of the
great and unusual proportion of new and untried.
members who have been returned to the lower
branch. To be sure, we have alone; with the
youngsters, a few of the old war-horses of leg
VOL. XV, NO.
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islation, men of more than ordinary abilities, On
both political sides. The Democracy have
James Madison Porter, the gentleman* famous
for his knowledge of "orditt , try means of pro
curing legislation," for having been John Ty
ler's Secretary war, end for having •been
sentially used up by Thaddeus Stevens in the'
old Bef,rirt Conberiticti, He has jitst made a
report to the. House on the subject of divorces ;
Which is marked by his usual ability, and em
bodies some valuable suggestions and rotes for
the future action of the Legislature in relation
to those numerous “dissofittions of the Union?
which every winter plague the General As
sembly. The abuse of tbreign apPlications for
divorce is especially alluded to. The roles
suggested have been adopted by both Hodges;
and future petitions for divorces must be accortV
panted with evidence of 30 days notice to oppo
site party.-- , and ten days notice When deposi
tions ale to be token ; that no petition for tH
vbree shall be received where the domicil of
the party is not in the State of Pennsyluanial
and the causes for the divorce, shall always be
erriluYilied in the net of diVoreer The report
correctly remarks, in conclusion, that where
the marriage contract is held most sacred, and
the greatest difficulties are interposed.to its disz
solution, the tone of morals is always found to
be the most pure and elevated. Besides Mr.
Porter (who, by the way, is said to have a
Democratic tank charter project under his care)
the Locofoeos have, in the House, Hon. An
drew Beaumont, of Lucerne, an ex-Congress
man, remarkable for his almost Robesperrian
democracy, free-trade opinions, bankphobia,
anti-free soil notions, and North Branch Canal
ism. Ills colleague from Lucerne, is the
tingnished Judge Conyngham, who represents
the conservative wing of Locofocoism in that
county, as Beaumont does the ultra-radical. He
is a man of talent, of sound judgment, and is much
respected. He too is said to have a bank char
ter under his wing ; and like his colleague goes
his death for the North Branch 'Canal; and wilt
endeavor to induce the Legislature to put the
completion of the work on a more permanent,
speedy, and less contingent footing, than it nosy
rests upon by existing laws. According to the
report of the Treasury officers, $300,000 of .a
surplus may be safely applied this year to car
rying on the work to completion. If State
Treasurer Ball's project were adopted, of a
temporary issue of $500,000 in relief notes, to
finish the Canal at once, it would be paying a
handsome revenue to the State in a year or
two from this time. And why not 7 Asa cur. ,
rency they haVe urea proved better and safer than
bank notes, and it is in the nature of a free loan,
without intereet, from the people themselves !
As the policy of completing the Canal has been
determined upon, it is self evident that thQsoon
er this is done, the quicker the Treasury will
reap a return for present and the past outlays
upon it,
Another . ieadiirg "Democrat" of the House; is
Mr. Speaker McCalmont. He is a son of old
Judge McCalmont, and represents Clarion coun
ty. Ile isquite it young manoi lawyer 01 fair
talents, and a strict partizan, who "pullers- in d
double sense" with the people on the Tariff
question. He is tall, and slim in person, and
mikes a pretty gOod Speaker. His standing
Committees are extremely one-sided. These
spurious democrats who make sucha howl about
proscription, always take care, in season and
out of season, to proscribe Whigs. .
Dr. McClintock of Pittsburgh, the annoma
ions locofoco representative from the county of
Allegheny, or rather Pittsburgh, was Mr. Mc-
Galmont'a principal opponent for the Speaker
,ship. He is a tall, straight, pheasant-hooking
man, Wad formerly Mayor of Pittsburgh, and by
being smooth in tails, while ultra partizan in
action, dad by cultivating the, voting elpnalakili
the fire department of , the smoky city, Le Irian
ages occasionally to achieve success, in the teeth
•of a \\'hig majority. ,He is undoubtedly a lead
, ing member of the party here, and is a Camel*.
onion in his faction leanings.
These are the principals of the Democracy of
the House; though there are others who claim
to be "no small potatoes," whom I may notice
at a future period.
The Whigs who occupy what may be caTTed
the leading position, I shall stake the subject of
remark in my next letter. They present a gal
, any of names of which. the party may well be
proud. D. M. Smyser, of Adams, (old Adams
ie always .well represented) John Allison, of
Beaver, one of the best and noblest men in the
State, your brilliant young member, A. k. Cor.
nyn, Mr. Killiger of Lebanon, the talented
young Whig from a sterling Whig county, and
others shall receive a brief allusion to their Po
sition and character.
Your Representative, Mr. Cornyn, has intro
duced the following bills t
One to constructs plank road from Hunting.
don to Melleavey's fort.
A supplementary act relative to the Penna.
Railroad, enabling, a majority of the viewers to
assess the damages and one or more to have
power to adjourn froth day to day.
And one to. rePtal a State Road Law front
Drake's Ferry to Sbippensburg.
The Subject of debate in the House to-day
was the resolution of instruction against .tfog
ging in the Nhvy. Mr. Cornyn made an Able
speech in their favor, and they were passed with
a rush. 1 hope his speech will be published at
length. X
-rat.