. 444. " 0 1 ° \ 1;1 Li 11 bL 1 4' A . i •~ WILLIAM BREWSTER, DE 'TORS. SAM. G. WHITTAKER, J cJct Vottry. Published by Particular Request. The History of a Heart. Bo—spread the whole wide universe Before your spirit as a chart; You'll find no sadder study than The history of one human heart ; Behold it thrilling with delight— Then bound witlimisery's heavy chain; We have in south one common heart, Whose euinmou heritage is—Pain In youth it strewn the earth with flowers And secs bet cloudless skies above, But soon there risesTrom its depths Tile presence of tlid new4orn Love ! A dim delightful vision o'er ' The mirror of the soul is thrown r We own the magic of a glance— We feel the music of I; tone— We stand in beauty's smile, nor see The dark clouds gloaming overhead ; The bolt descends—the light returns— Bat the sweet hopes of youth are fled And all is desolate within, And all is doll and cold without ; A shadow rests upon the mind— One feeling—universal doubt. And virtue seems an idle sound, Religion but a worldly strife, And love a frenzy of the brain— The beantiful has gone from life Another hour—another change— Love ta k es Anfbition's sterner name, And from the chaos of the heart Up springs the bright creation—Fame It wearies, and the laurel crown, Like a vile weed, is thing aside ; The hope of glory is fulfilled, Grown abill and hardened into Pride, Next conics the lesson of contempt— To walk alone amid the crowd ; Fate stands between on and our will— It yields, and pride itself is bowed. Yet in that lone and dreary hour A solace to the heart is given, For Hope has vanished from the earth, But sought its native home, in Heaven, Its voice is heard within the soul, It calms the tempest of despair ; The shadow passes from the brain, Awl the love of cud is thees 1 Oh, it-is sad, our :human heart Must know the gloomiest m-mtl 111:411, Tin purified into muddy slain, • It struggles into perfect light I Then spread tie whole •vide universe Beforelour'spirit as a chart. The strangest mystery of all Is that dark scroll—tire human heart. R:~ ~~,J .s cc.o.o~c 1~ u~ . TRIAL OF NM M, THURSDAY AFTERNows, APR] :loTa. [reported for the Mira Inning Awned.] At twenty minutes to live o'c:ock. on Thursday afternoon, the case of the Com monwealth vs. David Stringer llcKun was called up for trial. l'he room was dense ly crowded with spectators, and the whole male portion of the town appeared to have concentrated itself in the Court. The .Bppearanee of the Prisoner. David Stringer M'Kiin nt five o'clock entered the romp, preced-d by the Sheriff. He came in with a firm step, and with an air that, though api arently cool, showed him to be inwat'Jly agitated by the excite ment of the occasion. His features w ire a forced calmness, and now and then, du ring the reading of the indictment, his fin gers twitched convulsively. Ho was ra ther pale, but a slight flush appeared up on his cheeks. [-le stood perfectly erect, and regardless of the gaze of the crowd a: round him. Any one not knowing the charg, of which he stood charged, would have taken him for a quiet, hard-working hum, had it not been for a certain restless motion of the eye, as quick as lightning. His gaze was mostly towards the clerk, but never firm and steady. “Guilty or Nut Guiby” The indictment wag read to him by the Clerk of the Court, Mr. Joseph Baldrige. To the hrst count he answered in a firm and strong voice, "Not guilty, air." To the second, third and fourth counts he returned the same answer. When the fifth count was read, in refer ence to the alleged cutting of the throat with a razor, the accused winced consider ably, and his hand contracted itself into a tight grasp. To this charge he also re plied as before, 'Not guilty, sir," and ac companied the words with an emphatic shake of the head. The usual question was then put to hint as to how he would be tried, and the response was, "By God, and the laws of my country." M'Kim then took a seat by the side of his counsel. Immediately after the formation of the jury, the Court adjourned until afternoon. AII'EIINOON SESSION, The Court met nt two o'clock on Priday afternoon. Floor, doors and windows were thronged. District Attorney Hammond opened for the prosecution. Mr. Hammond continued at lengeh, and detailed the circumstances that have oc curred since the arrest, such as the finding' of the letter to Bonner, &c. We have ne ver in our experience, listened to such a . lucid and concise statement of facts, Evidence of an .filtoona o,ftieer. Squire Doty, sworn,-1 am a justice of the peace at Altoona; on the morning of ' the 15th of January, I went into the Ex change, and saw a ton,, lying upon the set tee; there Was a contused wound on his temple, and four other wounds. lie was still living, but insensible, his extremeties being cold, as though frozen, or nearly so : bo said nothing, but lived until about 20 minutes• pat three o'clock in the afternoon, on his person we found letters, on search- ing . for some clue to his identification : they are here, (two letters shown ;) there was a watch on Isis person also ; that, I be- ! lieve, is it, (watch shown ;) in his port' monnaie was one ten dollar gold piece, five ono dollar pieces, and n one dollar note on the Fox Lake Bank; a huge breast pin and box, which I have here, we took • from his pocket; the body was put in the possession of Mr. George Kramer. I think, and put in the Company's warehouse ; the razor was handed to me during the day that the body was in the house ; I was pre sent at the post moriein examination ; Des. [lays and Stark weru present. '!'he Victim. at Pittsburg. . . John 1103fasters sworn,—l ' keep the Eagle flute! in Pittsburg; I have seen that bank note before, (identifies the 11l note found in Norcross' porttnonnaie;) f gave the note in change to Norcross on the pay ment of his bill, the evening he left my house, where he had been staying, (Eagle Hotel Register shown witness,) Norcross arrived at my house on the evening of the 11th of January in company of a man whose name was given as David AEKin ney ; Norcross gave his own name ; he eau.: int, oh, was at die bar and Norcross told me to register his name, The prisoner .is the man who was in company with Norcross. Both he and Norcross were present in the house fre quently, remaining there about twenty-four hours. They staid and conversed togeth er) they arrived in the Western train on the 14th, and left in the evening train on the 15th ; Norcross had, 1 think, a $2.0 gold piece in his poste-inommie; the two slept together. orosslextunined by Mr. Elofics for the defence More at Pitlsbarg. Same McMasters 'sworn.—On the 16th of January I was clerk at the Eagle Hotel, Pittsburg; 1 recollect very well the two men who were there, spoken of by my brother. The young man's name, was S. T. Norcross, the other one's' name, just below his, was David McKinney, Phila delphia. I first saw them on the I.sth January, immediately after breaklast to the morning ; I had a conversation with McKinney. Mr Haus objected to the prisoner be ing designated as McKinney, when he did not himself thus write his name on the re• gister. Mr. Stokes replied, and was sus tained by the Court. The witness conti• nued : I had a conversaiion wilt the prisoner; picked up a fur cap that was lying on the hotel counter, and when I laid it down, Norcross picked it up and put it on and walked front; the prisoner then walked up to the outside of the counter, and leaned over the counter on one arm ; to tile, who was inside, in rather a confidential manner he said that no one could believe the trou ble he had with that young man; in tithing him from the . Wost to his friends in the East; that he had been sick, and was sub ject to fits of insanity, and he had a great deal of trouble with him; that at tunes it would take three or four men to hold him; that he had slipped out of tied from him the night previous, and commenced to hammer his head against the wall, and waked him up, and that be had a great deal of trouble with him ; he said he (Nor cross) when he had those fits, took every plan to destroy himself. Cross-examined—l was much struck with Norcross' appearance and his quiet demeanor. After the two men left the house, the prisoner came back to the hcuse for two or three nails, saying that the bot tom had come out of ono of his trunks, which had been left at the depot, only a square distpnt ; there was no conveyance to the depot, Recalled by Mr. Stokes- Question—Did you observe anything extraordinary in the conduct of the young man called Norcross. " LIBERTY . AND UNION, NOW AND FOREVER, ONE AND INSEPARABLE. " HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1857. Objected to and exception token by 11.. Ilofius, on the ground that the opinion of the witness was not evidence. The Court ruled the question a proper one, and the witness replied : '[saw him do nothing peouliar or singu- John . McMasters recalled—l heard no peculiar noise in the room that night that they slept in my house. Cross examined—Witness detailed the position of the room occupied by the two young men. In reply to the question of Mr. Stokes, he saki that the corner of his sleeping•room was two feet or less distant from, the sleeping room of the two men. The Departure for the East. Jacob Shimbro, sworn—l was hestly. of Mr. NlcSloster, at Pittsburg, on the Nth January last ; the two trunks before me I brought out of the baggage-room of the Ohio and Pennsylvania liall.road on 'Thurs day, the 15th of January; the trunks were those of Norcross and M'Kiin ; the oldest man of the two who were at the Eagle hotel gave me the checks to get the :n ; I cannot recollect whether I seen this vkati here now or not; I brought the trunks to the Engle and the oldest man came out and said, 'Hold on, troll not take them out —we'll go right up with them;" then they both got in the wagon, and I took them up to the Central Pennsylvania R.tilroad de pot, in the sitting room; I left them there; I put the trunks also.in the sitting rosin ; it was about eight o'clock, and was dark then. Cross examined—The bottom of the yel low trunk was loose, and drove a nail in t.) it at the Pittsburg depot; I had the nail in my pocket. The Trunks of Norcross and M'Kint. Joshua Cresson, swilit—On the 16th of January 1 was baggage.master on the Ex press train on the Pennsylvania Railroad ; the first place 1 can identify these two trunks is at Philadelphia, when they were not claimed ; that was on January 16th, the train left Pittsburg at 0.30 o'clock mi the loth; the chocks on the trunks are • phin; no owner appeared for these trunks that night ; the trunks being unclaimed 1 delivered them into the charge of the Bag gage Agent, Philadelphia. T. M. Garrett, sworn—l was baggage agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Phi. ladelphin on January 16th last; 1 received the trunks from Mr. Cresson, baggage !nester of the Express train—Cwitness ex ambled the trunks]—one of thorn is mark ed en the bottom, M'Kim, Dunleith, Illinois;" the trunks were unclaimed; an other trunk of Norcross was delivered by me to Mt. Poland, a relative of the de ceased, on the 35th of January. ' On Saturday morning the trunk of Nor cross will be opened and exumined. The Court then adjourned. PROCEEfq NGS uG sAruntaY At eight o'clock. Saturday morning, the Court met. Jonathan `iresson was recalled, and i dentified the checks given Milt, Joseph Trout.—Recognize the prisoner at the bar ; knew him when he worked on Mr. Thurlow's job about a mile and a ludf above Altoona; think he worked with him in 1853 and 1654, he was ompl.led as a Koss carpenter, erecting shnntieq, &c., saw him when he was here in the jail; 'P.'s job was on the new Penn's. R. it, a mile and a half above Altoona. Andrew Purcell.—Was running an en gine on the Penn'a. R. R., in "the middle of January last ; on the pith was coming 1 from the tunnel to Altoona; observed a roan lying about a mile and alalf from Altoona, between hell past eight and nine; he was put on the engine; ho was hurt and was lying on his back beside the track; he ap peared to have two or three wounds on his neck, and some on the head. 'l'ook hint to near the round house in Altoona, and saw hint carried toward the Exchange; the man appeared to have life in him. Saw carpetbag, fiddle bag, shawl and cap like these. Croes•oxamined—The Wound in the neck looked like a cut; didn't nonce on which side of the head the wound was; suppose the skull broken. Don't think his eye was bleeding; saw no tther wounds he was not able to speak. Ile made nu eflort to speak as l observed. Snow was on the ground. Claudius F. Eaten.--Live in Dunlieth, 111., by occupation I am a blacksmith, but during last'winter kept four boarders ; a mongst them Niger°. and AV Kim: recog• nize the prisoner at the bar as being M'. Kim; Norcross and AVKitn slept in one bed. After their first actinaintance seem ed quite intimate. Did not know Al'Kun to have any large amount of money. At two or three times M'Kint said he had no means of paying for his board, but as soon US Mr. Curry paid him ho would pay ate. The day befog he and Norcross left he paid what he owed me except nine dollars fur which he gave me a due bill on Mr. Curry; at the same time . he said he was short of means, and if delayed on the road he would be short, but when he got to Pitts burg he had friends there, and could get any amount of money he wished; that's all he said on that point. He represented him self as being tolerably well off; he said he did not expect to work more than would pay expenses; his business west was to look for n location, and he and a brother with whom he was concerned, intended to invest about $30,000 in some mechanical business; he spoke of starting in some town as master builders, and connecting with the building such machinery as would be necessary in that line of business. Nor cross woo in bad health; lie bud an abcess under his left arm; he also had a burl cough. Never heard of his having fits, being cra zy or attempting to destroy himself. Nev. er knew of his being unruly, or any per son having to hold him; he was very qui• et. Recognize the shawl soil comforter us being Norcross', and also the other Articles. The aboess was very sore and painful.-- M'Kim and Norcross left my place, Dun leith, on the morning of the knh of Janu ary last, think they left my house togeth• er; did not see them on the cars. Whilst Norcross was at my place he was under the medical aid of Dr. Umbold; M'- Kim dressed his arm most of the time ; did sotnetimes. M'Kim said he was going to Philadelphia ; owned a house there, No. 10 Poplar street. He said he hod a wife and one child; that his house was well furnished and pleasantly situated; his wife and child were in Philadelphia.. He invi ted Air, Norcross to stop at his house and rest—that he could stop there any length of time, he had a family physician who was t,n eminent surgeon, and it should be of no expense to Norcross while at his house, and when his health was unproved he would see hint home. This last con versatina was two weeks before th-v left. Can't sacar 110,itively: to truer having, a razor like that with him at my place; see no di derence hi.tween this ate and the one had. :11'Kini had whiskers when out West. Norcross' first na s trie was Sam ar t 'l.'.; prisoner gate his nitrite art David M . l<iini Ire generally went by the name of MI, ioney; he answered to that name. Norcross culled him . Al' m came to my place on the 24th; of Novern. her lust, to board with me, Norcross on the 25th. WlCiin and inyst,lf were speaking about he and Norcross leaving, and about Norcross' health; he said that Norcross had but little means; die. not think ho had en ough if detained on the road, to get home with—but staid he 'could see him through all right any way. At the mine time ho said he did not like to go with Samuel, as sonve.hing 'night happen him on the road, and be would be blasted for it—that he might die. This last conversation took place on the 11th of January, the day la• fore they left Bid both Norcross and 1l'• Kiln good bye; deft the house betore they did next morning. Uross•examined—Norcross was in a fee ble state of health when ho left my house; went with McKitn and Norcross the night before, but the curs did not go ; they came back to my house; Norcross went there and back without assistance; it is a quar ter of a mile front my house to the cars. Think M'Kim thrived Norcross the day before he left, it may have been the Fun• day before. Norcross got his razor. with a black handle, bat it would not do, and IWKiin got his--one like that on the table; never new the razor but that one time ; think I had the razor in ray hand, but am not positive; there was another gentleman there named Whetford, who had a razor, and there was some talk about razors; all I can say is that tne rimy looks like the one I saw. Did not get the name of the prisoner from himself; in the first entry in the book it is M'Kitn, afterwards called him M'Kinney, because everybody else did ; among his cronies he was culled Da vie; we are not very reverential in the west by culling people by their first names, and are not very particular whether we put on the handle Mr. or DavM, or anything else. Norcross could not dress himself in con• sequence of the abcoss under his arm. The sole cause for Norcross leaving was on ac count of his ill health—advised hint to go east to hisThends; whether he thought he was going to die, I cannot say ; he spoke confidently of getting well. Andrew Kaufman—Was eubpwned by M'Kim as a witness in his case: lives in own; know the pri•wner; ho boarded with him in Dubuque. Don't know whether he is a rich or poor malt; he paid his bill with me. S3w this coat on Nl'Kun while wor king; he•had a silk vest wheu with me, but cant say this is the one. i.„[ ,. :.7) 1 .„., (.1 rk <4 • Cross-Examined— The District Attor ney served the subpcenn on tne; asked if I had seen M'iCiin in Dubuque. Had a free pass aver the l'a, R. R. from Pittsburg• [CONTINUED ON OUR INSIDE.] For the Huntingdon Journal. FREE SOIL. Free Boil ! Why is not this leading principle of the Republican party carried out in its full sense t Not a free soil that will merely shut ont ..chattle" slavery, and allow aristocratic landholders to claim land enough to melte slaves of hundreds of hon est laborers—but a free soil that means free from ..chattle" slavery and free tone tual settlers ; free as the sir we breathe or the water we drink. This is free soil, and to the Republican party, the people justly look to have this principle carried out,as sociated as it is with freedom and the in terests of the mosses. We look upon fund monopoly as an evil, equal almost to sou them slavery, and productive of consequen• ces equally disastrous to national prosperi ty. Wherever you find the land free, nnff o"cupieil by the greht body of the people, there will you find the masses happy and prosperous ; and where you find the land in the hands of the few, there you find the masses miserable and poor. As an flies (Atm of this truth, we refer to unfortun ate Ireland. At a Tenant League meet ing, u Presbyterian minister, Rev. David Bell, spoke these words of earnest and so ber truth :—"Soine years ago, the popula tion of the country, (Ireland) amounted to nearly eight millions. Unlimited and ir responsible landlord power has, however, long since disposed of two of these mil lions. There are still about six millions, and how many of these have a legal inter est in the soil of the country—have a right to work, eat; sleep, die and be buried tri the land that gave them birth? Why eight thousand out of sixty hundred thousand ! The privileged few ore absolute lords of the enrth, from the centre to the sea, or for ought I can tell, to the extronest confines of the solar system. The remaining fifty !!!rte kindred and ninete-tienitum....--I permission done for them ? Why, in a population point of view. it has in number less instances banished the people like wolves or foxes from the face of the land." This is an illustration of the result of land monopoly. Three-fourths of a nation are gone, some to other countries, and ma ny to premature graves. Dilapidated walls in many places point to heaven, offering testimony that the power of landlordism knows no mercy After depicting the awful results of land monopoly in Ireland, this sante clergyman goes on to say of this country :—'Look a way over the heaving waters of the great ocean, and you Hill discoverer multitudes, who, beneath the tall forests of the West, are toiling for that bread of independence which was so unmercifully refused them here. There they are building up great nations, in whose hearts' core rankles un changable and unmitigated hatred to the accursed system which drove them away from the green land which they loved so well, and in whose bosom the bones of their fathers relpse! But land monopoly has already taken a deep root even here, in this our bbasted land of equality ; and unless the hand of practical wisdom shall guide our future po licy, the evils which Ireland now suffers from this cause, will reach us. In fact, what section of tho country does not alrea dy feel its effects, and especially may this be said of the South and West. When the fact stares us in the face that millions of acres of our western lands are owned by foreign nobles, and land monopolists of our own country, who have purchased it, while American citizens are homeless and doomed to service under capitalists, for a want of means to purchase a Immo, we are. ashamed of. the narrow policy of our gov ertimont—ashattied that this giant cause of slavery of white men is suffered to hold up its hydra head and is tolerated in our midst. It is a disgrace to the country, and a curse to the people. What country in the world ever had an opportunity like ours to adopt and contin uo a proper system of landed property?— Is there not room enough here to allow a landless men a few acres on which to rear a family in independence ? There is plen ty of it waiting the hand of industry.— There is at this time, about 1,380,000,000 urea of wild land owned by the govern• 'James Ash, a Maryland negro and meat, or held by it in trust for the peo,ile. slave, sued fur his freedom in the Circuit Sufficient to make 129,000,000 farms, of Court of the District of Columbia, as Dred 80 acres each, allowing oneloarth of the Scott did in that of Missouri. The case whole, or 345,000,000acree for waste land, seas iu like manner carried up to the Uni- Nearly, if not quite sufficient to furnish ted States Supreme Court. But it met every frinily in the whole world with a with a ditTerent reception end a different homestead. Will not the masses move in decision, the matter, and join in the agitation of free not!, until it in announced front one end of the iand to the other that FREE•SOIL has actually been adopted by Congress. Then will the laboring classes be elevated above slavery—our charitable institutions will be relieved, beggars dispersed, mobocracy will cease, crime diminish, and the liberties and rights of all tall be respected; because labor will then receive its just reward. Men of wealth, if you will but take a proper view of the subject, considering the impetus it will give to our national prosperity, and its saattary effect upon so ciety at large, you must move boldly and determinedly in the cause of Free Land to all. If a bountiful nature, aided by man's labor, has spread a table that has seats en ough for all the children of men, think you that the strong arm of willing labor trill ho forever driven from a place at the festive board? Let man have the means to escape from the grasp of sordid avarice, by going to the mighty West, taking a home where the green hills and sunny plains of that rich region will cause his heart to rejoice. bet him have a little more than a crust of 1 bread and a cup of water as his shore of the bounties of a kind Providence. REPUBLICAN. May, 1857. A Father Swindled by hie Son, Earl) this morning, a rough, ignorant specimen of a Huntingdon Co. farmer, made his appearance at the Central Depot of Criminal justice, in Philadelphia, with a complaint against his son. It seems that, a month ago, the son a-1 foresail determined to leave "his native heath," and come 011 a visit to the City of , Brotherly love' Like Cmsitr, "lie came— he saw—he conquered"—but before ho achieved the victory, he engaged board at a city hotel. While there he found very agreeable company in a body of youth, whose morals were not first class, and who were of the "artful dodger" order. But funds, like woman's love, are even e: cent, and so our second "Norval" found. Ills financial liabilities exceeded his reve nue, and one of the 'Charley Bates"? of h Abe "suit of his father rrrot'e to his pa. tereal ancestor, and stated that he had drawn a prize of $35,000 in a lottery, and that the motley was deposited in the Ad ams Express in this city. II Before the dollars could be obtained, however, the son stated that there were sundry expenses to be met in the feeing of lawyers. &c., in this city, and with expen ses amounted to upwards of $6OO. • This sum he requested his father to send him, and at the same time that he made this re. quest, sent letters purporting to be from certain legal gentlemen of Philadelphia in relation to the matter. Of course these were all forged. The father, on receipt of those precious documents, hurried from his hearth, and sent word for his son to meet lam at Har i risburg. "They mart !" The old gentle tnan f o rked over the required money, and the son took the train for some spot or spots unknown. The parent on reaching home, and remaining there for about a week, be gan to look for the $35,000 that was com . leg. Ile looked again and again, and at last came to the decided "and emphatic con. elusion that ho had been sold "sold" by his offspring. There is not much Olin! love up in Hun. tingdon, and the enraged and duped father thre,atened vengeance dire on the head of the offender. He came home post haste by railroad to this city, and having ascer tained the whereabouts of the Mayor's of fice, entered his complaint. High Consta ble Blackburn gave him some considerate advice, cooled hint off to n great extent, and told him that the best thing he could do was to go home and trust to the Detec tives and the conscience of his son to set matters right. . He did so, and whether the future will see the unfortunate scion of Huntingdon county landed in the States' Prison, or shipped to Nicaragua remains to be seen.—Pen n sylvania Inquirer. TANEY IN 1849 vs TANEY IN 1857, Chief Justice Taney turns Dred Scott out of court on the ground that he is a ne gro end a slave, and consequently not a citizen, and not entitled to sue in the Uni ted States Courts even to recover his free. dour—the court having no jurisdiction in such cases. The best answer to this is Chief Justice Taney's own decision in a similar case that came before him in 1843 Mr. •Chief Justice Tat)ey delivered the opinion of the Cow. (We quote (rout VOL XXII. NO. 19. Williams vs. Ash, Howard's Reports, vol. 1, pp 12-14.) '''Phis case," said his Honor, "is brought here by a writ of error from the s eircuit Court, and came before that Court upon a petition for • freedom: It appeared upon the trial that the petitioner was the proper ty of Mary Ann Greenfield, of Princo George's County, in the State of Mary land, who died in 1824 having first duly made her lust will and testament, whereby; among other things, she bequeatbad the petitioner, with sundry other slaves, to her np phew, G. T. Greenfield, with a proviso iii tho following words : .Provided, he shall not carry them out of the State of Mary land, or sell them to any one, in either of which events, I will and devise the saia ne groes to be free for life.' Upon the death of the testatrix, G. T. Greenfield took pos session of the petitioner (Joints Ash) until December, 1839, when he sold the peti tioner to the defendant (Williams), and the potitionitor freedom was filed shortly after the sale. • "Upon this evidence the Circuit Court instructed the Jury, that by the fact of such .sale of the petitioner, the estate or proper. ty of the petitioner so bequeathed to Green field ceased and determined, dnd he there fore became entitled to his freedom. We think the bequest in the will was a condi tional limitation of freedom to the petitioner and that it took effect the moment he was sold. The judgment of the Circuit Court is therefore affirmed." So that this same Chief Justice then held that a negro might not only be a party to a suit before the U. S. Supreme Court, like any other citizen, but that a slave might go there and recover his freedom ! IVhich is the law—that expounded by Taney in 1813, or his flat contradiction of himself in 1857.—Mb Evening Jour nal. • Pennsylvania Legi slature. The new banks thus far authorized by the House of Representatives of this State are as follows : . ....,.• a...an, •-•1 -.WM. Corn Exchange Bank " 500,000 Allegheny City Bank, 500,000 Union INA, Reading, 300,000 Central Bank, Hollidaysburg, 300,000 Easton Bank, 200,000 York County Bank, 200,000 Citizens' Deposit Bank, Pittsburg, 500,0110 Pittston Bank, 200,000 Batik of Lewisburg, 200,000 Kittaning Bank, 150,000 Octorara Bank, 150,000 Coatesville Bank, 150,000 Doylestown Bank, 150,000 Shamokin Bank, 150,000 F'rin'r's ,t, Drov'rs B'k, Waynosb'g 100,000 Catasaqua Bank, 400,000 Pottstown Bank, 200,000 Total now Banks, $5,350,000 The most of these have passed both Houses and only require the Governor's signature to be legally authorized. Besides the new hanks, there is an increase of ca pital of other banks, t amounting to several millions of dollars. The total increase of the banking capital of the State is likely to reach nine or ten milllions. Poisoning of the President. The eincinnai Commercial, in an arti cle to show that the poisoning at the Na tional Hotel in Washington was in reality an attempt to make away with President Buchanan, prints the following extract from a private letter, written to Washing ton but a few days ago: saw, passing a go ,light, a couple of gentlemen, one of whom, although I had not seen him for over sixteen years, I al most knew to be the President. I stepped alongside, and a glance informed me that I was not mistaken. The old man totters. His legs are weak. A half stumble drew some remark front his companion which I did not hear. His reply was: 'J am not right. Illy health is not recovered,' ad. diner, in a sort of begging tone, 'But I am getting better.' Ills voice is weak, and his legs are weaker. He is going, de pond upon it. -A few more weeks and he will be no snore. A vain young orntor front Kentucky will be the acting, and his friend Stephen Douglas the actual Presi dent of the United States ' " LEGAL TENDRIL—A writer in one of the New York papers furnishes the following statement derived front the law regulating the payment of debts with coin : 1. All gold coins at their respective vs. lees, for debts of any amount. 2. The hall dollar, quarter dollar, dime, and half dime at their respective values for debts of amounts under five dollars. 3. Three cent pieces for debts of ens. ounts under thirty cents; and 4. By the law just passed, we may add, oue cent pieces for debts of amounts un- der ten cents. Or A merry heart makes labor light, pays Veer Richard. _
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