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GOVERNOR'S VETO MESSAGE.
tißovernoes &Message.
V* th e „.
Speaker and Members of the House of Repro
• mentativea of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
GENTLEMEe:—It becomes my exceed
ingly unpleasant duty to return 'he bill en
/ titled "An act supplementary to an act
tled An act to incorporate the Girard Bank
in the city of Philadelphia, passed on the
third day of April Anno Domini, one thou-
Banditight hundred-and this ty two,” with my
•,‘ reasons for withholding the Executive sig
nature therefrom.
The general reasons upon which my ob
jections rest, will be best made known by a
recurrence to the principles relative to bank
ing and currency, adopted as the guides of
. my Exedutive conduct when entering upon
office; by a review of the measures that have
since been taken on those 'subjects; and by
a statement of the present condition of the
community, especially the commercial por
tion orit, with respect to Bank Capital.
It will be remembered that on the occa
' '7ision just alluded to, the following language
- . 7 ititui used:—
"The maintenance of a sound currency is
one of the most difficult, but indispensable,
duties of those who administer the govern.
meat, in 'a community possessing such vari
r• mufiiiterests us that to which we belong.-
7 C6rivenience, and that consideration alone,
has'.caused the substitution of paper money
for specie. The idea that money was to be
made by speculations on the inconvenience
ofa metallic currency; or that money was
to be created, merely to enable a few to re
eliie large sums, by turning the act of its
.-creation to their own - account, never, fur a
::`;moment, entered the minAwfjhose who
iiLadtpll4b-satifbrl an - dviMble` expo
7 ,- WW"'" Their object was the obtainment of
a representative possessing all the utility and
: value, without any of the inconvenience of
the thing represented. In this point of view
the increase oldie substitute beyond the
ac
tual•value and amount of its principal, is a
fraud upon thapublic. The man who takes
It in payment for his labor, his goods, or his
land, is cheated. My object will, therefore
be, on the one hand, to confine, as fir as in
me lies, the amount of paper money within
the bounds just stated, while on the other,
public accommodation and the demands of
• kusiness will be consulted."
These views were adopted after much de
liberation. They were believed to present
the true policy of the State, and to be in ac
• cordance with the cautious and honest habits
' of the mass of our citizens. No cause for
a departure from them has since occurred,
either in the ascertained wishes of the peo
ple or in the pecuniary interests ofthe com
monwealth. They have not been,nor, until
most sufficient cause for so doing appear,
will they be abandoned.
In accordance with those principles, and
in conjunction with the legislature, a most
momentous step has recently been taken in
the onward but certain progress of Pennsyl
vaniti's prospority. The Bank of the United
States, an institution whose origin WilS of
doubtful expediency, and alleged unconstitu
tionality, but whose existence has been sal
vation to the currency of the nation, is now
a State Bank. Time had decided the ques.
tion of expediency and usefulness. The un
questioned powers of a State removed the
constitutional objection. The interests of
Pennsylvania, as well as a just regard for the
welfare of the sister States, demanded the
measureAd it was adopted.
This great measure was accomplished in
the most strict accordance with the avowed
principles of this administration. A sound
currency: that ia a currency partly metallic,
whose value all admit, and partly of paper,
representing really and truly a similar a
mount of specie or of property equal to spe
cie, was to be maintained. The project
of incorporating as a State bank the stock
holders of the United States Bank, present
,
..ed an opportunity ofaccomplishing this most
desirable purpose, fortunate and preferable
above all others.
The object was to maintain or continue,
not to create a sound currency. All changes
in the circulating medium, no matter how
wisely planned or what amount of good may
be expected to flow from them,nre in them
selves as changes, dangerous, and if possi
ble to be avoided. To the man in really
useful and active business, who regards
money as the means not the subject uftrade;
to the capitalist whose fortune is invested in
such a manner as to yield its annual profits
himself, and affird facilities to his more ac
tive but needy neighbor; to the poor man
whose whole riches, his weekly or metith.
ly pay, are comprised in a certain amount
of the most usual and convenient currency;
to these,every change of a currency, depend.
ing as it necessarily must, on mutual credit
and confidence, is a matter fraught with in
convenience and danget. But to the yam
pyres of the body politic, to those who re
duce the healthy circulation of the system
•to a state of torpid stagnation, or drag it
into fevered excitement, that they may bat
ten on the heart's blood of the public pros
perity; to the stockjobber, the usurer, the
shaver and the legal extortioner, changes
in the currency are at all times welcome,
and are by them ever promoted From the
':fangs ofsuch I shall always hold it to lie the
proudest act of my life to have contributed
to save Pennsylvania. •
Contemplate for a moment. gentlemen,
;'our condition if we had allowed to escape us
' 17 opportunity of pecuniary safety which
just been improved. In that event, be
!` a doubt it would have been the duty of
ant to sustain our extensive and
Sgricultural, commercial, mane
- , • and mtning operations, by the
ion of a 'large amount of new bank
11;,:•,....That amount would moat probably
4 . awe distributed amongst a consider*.
ersaiall-teake in different parts
those banks, by
4 ,11$a, sho.e true character
practice them can fully
+law rivet far above
par, or even real value. In the unholy I politics would he equally injurious to the pro
!
thirst for profit from the mere net of crew- I fits of the one as ofthe other.
Ling paper money, the real object °fits erea I 7th. Ate ong the most prominent advert-
Lion, viz: public convenience and safety, I cages of the measure. is the vast increase of
would have been entirely forgotten. A fewl the common school fund. 8100,000 a year
fortunes would be re Ili-zed to the ruin of for 20 yen rs,will put bur system of education
thousands. The banks themselves when in beyond the reach of danger.
operation, all commencing in the midst of Bth. The repeal of the State tax, with a
this confusion, greatly increased by the fair prospect of being able to avoid a recur
winding up of the United States Bank.many rence to it for the future.
of them under inexperienced direction, and 901. The ability to continue the s%stem
all anxious fur business, would as a matter of of internal iniprmement for the development
course. free into circulation the whole a (Finer immense resources, and to complete
mount of their ; metes at once and without it, without addition to the public debt.
delay. To nccprnplish this in the midst of 101 h. The privilege of the State to bur
the existing rivalry, security, which in ordi• row from the bank 80,000,000, at 4 per
nary times would have been refused, would cent., and to receive a temporary loan of
be taken. Money would at once become 81,000,000 every year, during the charter,
plenty, speculation increase, property rise in at the 'same rate of interest.
value, (nominal value) and contracts for the These are some of the advantages of a measure
future payment of sums be made, to the hope which has placed the prosperity and credit of
Pennsylvania on a limisdation that cannot he sha.
that no cloud would ever overshadow the
ken by human agency.. It now only . remains to
golden prospect. All would nu ear to he
asci.rtaiti whether "public accomodation, and the
well. But it. the midst of this agreeable &mini& of fondness, have been sufficiently con
delusion, and the very next rnormnt after suited," or whether a further increase of bank
the banks had 'infused the whole of their capital is requisite.
"trash" into the vitals of the commonwealth, I
th a te iri d e e r c e it t l i e t tllii e n t r u o s p n ir w ti l o i n t
t t h h e at it is lt nr i ,t t , h nt least t
for
they - would inevitably commence the, to mensur i e "
which lies just been accor'n u plished,b g e r fo e r a e
them necessary, but to the community ruin- we proceed any further in the paper money sys
ous operation of saving themselves. They tem. If the benefits expected be the consequence
would begin rapidly to call in their debts
of .
i ha
the
step, sufficient has been done. If not, it
wl
defi s c r e o n n e e y no e u e g ti h te t i o l apply , further r t e h l e iefw when
and demand further security. Their debtors the
would fail; the banks themselves become Philadelphia this may y b a e ri Z a d r with greater cit y pro
embarrassed and most probably break; pro. priety than to ally other portion of the State. To
perty fail; business stagnate. In one word, that community, if to any, will be realized the full
measure of edvantag m
e fromtho means ulready
it a.
we should have to pass through the same
d IF
to sustain credit and comerce.
gloomy times that followed the litter of banks But is asserted that there exists at the present
of IQI4. To pay a bond given for paper moment Revere pressure in the money market of
. Philadelphia. That such pressure exist., or
money which had depreciated into its con
stituent rags, the farmer must coin his acres rather that it did exist, fur it is chilly decreasing,
tt i e i ri i . oco li d ut h tbat it is
t pe e rmaz e n h t in its , n a.
into hard dollars, the manufacturer his mill, lure, i sud
fri• .
' or
and the merchant his store. These would continue toriperate, y is a d n e y ni c ed. s And Wit be n e mole g
be still really worth as much as ever they accidental nr momentary evil, the application ofe
were, but - the bond, "the pound of fleAlt," permanent remedy would be improper, and pro.
must be paid, no matter at what sacrifice. diviiivee
pressure, olgreater evil..
° il t t
beyondr lr h rt the demand
to
meetemnn .1
it,
t ix
el
for bank
Not only has all necessity for change in accotnodationability
our currency, with its consequent evils, been known to be the result of the following cause.
thus avoided, but the one retained is of uni• Ist. Its origin was the anticipated winding up
versallv admitted soundness. It has stood of the affuirs of the National bank, arid the con
s eti t ue a nt rush into
toe
the see Slate
r b e a
i nk r
the lest of times both of de ion and pros• of ht institution,
p s th o o t i the ivea deln t o he
rs
ress
perity. It is scattered over the whole Union, Fame facilities which they enjoyed fro m it.
firming a strong bind of commercial confi• 2d. The inability of the U. S. bank, since the
receipt of the Stale char ter,to extend that 'teem()
dence. It la even to he found possessing
ddenititoeneto b u
se siness which it would be enabled to
unquestioned credit in foreign countries.—
To have checked a circulation thus health} by tint i 9s , i t i i i I ti n u r n i of its r Vi a i branches, , L i' i3 cr d e i dl os o a f i
—to have changed a medium thus general, two, three, and four years; the loaning out, in
or to 'have deprived ourselves of benefits so view or its final close, arid on long time, but on
manifest, would have been the very height certain security, so as to be repaid at the exact
period when required. of a great portion of its
of madness. disposable means: And the recent loan of VO,.
In addition to the a.lvantages of this great 00,0uo in aid of sufferings caused by the awful
measure just mentioned, and which are so fire in the city of New York, have,for
eat, cramped the ..,
important that the mere question of bonus, ability of the institution to ex
tend even ,. the ordinary accommodation of trade.
however large, is as nothing in the compari. 3d The sale of a large amount of the stock of
son, the following may be specified, viz: the United States Bank in Philadelphia. but own.
let. The absence of all danger to the
ed out of the Stute,chiefly in New York rind Bog.
community from the bank as at present or-
ton, for a short time, turned the balance of trade
against this State, and withdrew large sums of
gunized. This is to lie found in the strict re-
i
specie out of it.
gulations under which the institution' is, 4th. The increasing and vast amount of the
placed. Ist. In the restriction from issuing surplus revenue of the general Government, luck
ed as it necessary is, in
a greater amount of notes than the capital the deposits banks'.
and .o
heoodm
andpl completely el•
e,withdrawnt c o ntinue
actually paid in. 2nd. In the forfeiture of
its charter upon nonpayment of specie for we may attempt to correct the evil,' by creating
its notes, deposites, &e. 3d. in the right now bank capital, a most deleterious and paralyz
reserved to the legislature to investigate its ing effect, upon the prosperity ofour country.
affairs by a committee. 4th. In the forfeit. .sth. The groat extent to which bank facilities
in Philadelphia are
monopolized by dealers in
ure of the charter if it refuse to produce stock, and others engaged in pursuits not produc.
books, &c. before such committee. sth. In live of any advantage to society, deprives the use.
the power reserved to the legislature or Go. ful class of business men of those accomodutions
which were on intended for their use.
vetoer, in case of the abuse or misuse of its
The three foriner ol these causes of pressure
privileges, to cause such fact to be tried by will remn cease without legislative interference.
a jury, and if fount; against the bank, to re Not only will things, as far es those causes , are
yoke the charter. 61h. In the power re- concerned, bo restored to their fernier prosperous
served to the commonwealth to have the ju- condition, but it will be in the power. as it will be
the interest of the bank oftho United States,large
ry, which titian try such het, from the comi•
iy to extend its uccomodations. It is now a Blum
try and not from the city of Philitdelphia, bank; managed by high minded Pennsylvanians.
where the influence of the bank might have Connected to us by every feeling of State pride,
an undue effect. 7th. In the monthly re•
turns winch are to be made to the Auditor
General by the bank, ta hew int , in such man.
ner as may at any time hereafter be direct.
ed by lawots whole condition and operations,
for the public information.
2nd. The restriction from issuing notes
of a less denomination than ten dollars.—
Thus necessarily. increasing the amount of
specie in the State, and leaving the five dol
lar note business, for the present, to the
smaller state banks. The other notes of the
bank are not to be called in, but are to he
continued in circulation without change or
inconvenience to the public.
2d. The continuance of the present loans
and facilit les orthe bank to the business corn.
muuity, without any shock to trade, or al.
teratir,n of credit and security.
4th. The certainty of possessing a cur
rency for the next thirty years, which will
have a most beneficial effect on the ather
state banks. its existence will at all times
sustain their credit, promote their business
and control undue speculation.
sth. The great business advantages emir.
ed by the continuance of the bank to our
own commercial metropolis, whose proslieri
ty, because it is only the index of that of the
whole state, is dear to every portion of it.
6th. The entire disconnection between
the Giivernment and, the bank. The un•
natural eartnershipthat existed between the
National bank and the general Government,
was injurious to both . , and productive of evil
to community. Whether the charges oft he
Governinent against the hank were or were
not well founded,and whether the resistance
of the bank was the self defence ofconscious
innocence, or the attempt to conceal guilt,
are questions now of only historical cuiinsi.
ty. Certain it is, that no matter which had
the right, the people boreall the evils of the
unholy conflict, between the partners This
I for the future will be avoided. It will,now
be the duty of the State Government, while
it controls and restrains the bank to its prop
er fiructions in common with all other simi
ler institutions, also to promote and cheri.h
its welfare. It will be the interest of the
bank, while it is protected from nil undue
interference on the part of the Government,
to abstain from intermeddling beyond its
proper sphere, and to promote the general
prosperity, from which ite own particular
prosperity can alone arise. Hereafter the
management of the bunk can have no mote
connexion with Government and politics than
a well tillectfahu.: Thataalliga ihiliwiace of
and private Mimes,. Its first object, therefore,
will be to promote the true prosperity of Penosyl.
vania, on which its own depends. It will be the
imue enabled to accomplish this, inasmuch as its
means must necessarily, fin some time at least,
be confined within the commonwealth.
With regard to the two latter of the causes of
pressure above mentioned, their removal must be
acknowledged to boa matter of no little difficulty.
The remedy however is quite obvious. But that
remedy is not to be found in the increase of Bank
cnpital. Tim more you add to bank capital the
greater will be the amount of paper money, and
proportionally of specie, which will be swallowed
up by the surplus revenue. The more you in.
crease bank stock, the greater will be the number
of stock jobbers—the more wild will be stock
speculation, and the greater will be the amount of
bank facilities in the bands of those "operators"
on the best interests of community. It is futile
to attempt to choke with increase of food a throat
which seems, liku that of the Boa Constrictor, to
stretch to the size of any victim, or to satiate an
appetite that grows faster than the supply.
The remeily does not consist in smothering up
or smoothing over, the evils complained of, but in
restraining or removing them.
With respect to the Paralyzing effect of the ac
cumulation of the surplus revenue,per feet redress,
which can alone be found in its distribution or
application to some legitimate national object, is
in the hands of others. While this is admitted,
the remark may be allowed, that among the
strange occurrences of the times, not rho least sin.
gular in the fact, that the very proceeds ofour na
tional prosperity have become one of the worst
enemies of our commercial interests. And that
the regulation of our paper currency, the power
over which was denied to the National Legisla.
titre, is now attempted to be accomplished by the
National Executive,
In connexion with this part of the subject, I
would turn your attention to the circular address
ed to the Deposit banks, by the Secretary of the
Treasury, doted 23d February 1826, a copy of
which is hereto appended. The evident opera.
lion of which, if carried out to any great extent,
will be to vest the whole control of all the cur
rency and banks of the Dillon in the General
Government. Specie may be accumulated to any
amount—discounts expanded or contracted at
pleasure—a run caused on any obtiortioui or re.
fractury institution; in short trade and the pros
perity of the country be made to depend on the
dictates of caprice or passion. I do riot wish to be
at all understood OW saying or insinuating, that
the bank in question, any other institution in
this State, which may have, in the fur course of
business, become the depository of the national
wealth, has lent its chartered privileges in ant of
such a project. But while the surplus revenue
continues unappropriated and daily increasing,
the possibility and danger of such a catastrophe
also increases,und should be guarded againstpind
liortunately, the remedy against the extreme ruin
of the measure is in our own hands.
By the 9tb section of the act of 2fith March;
1824. entitled . 4 An eel to reeharter certain banks,"
the provisions nt which act have been extended
to the Girard and rather banks of the commute.
wealth, it, is declared, "if it shall appear that the 1
charters and privileges by this act granted to any
of the hanks herein mentioned, ore injurious to
the citizens of the commonwealth, the Legisla
ture reserve full power to altar, revoke, and an
nod them, or any of them, at any time they may
think pro,,er."
Beyond a doubt, the agency of any deposit
bank, in any operation having for its object the
hoarding up of the specie of the country, and the
consequent depreciation of the ordinary curren•
cy, and contraction of useful commercial facili
ties. would be abuse of its "privileges" highly "in
jurious to the citizens of the commonwealth,"and
would amount to a forfeiture of its charter. If
some means be pointed nut by the legislature, by
which that forfeiture may bo enforced during its
recess, the remedy will be complete. It would
also be advisable to make it imperative on all
banks, to transmit to the Auditor General full
monthly statements of their proceedings and situ
ation; sliliwing particularly the proportion of spe
cie to capital, with Its increase at each return.—
These measures would furm a remedy of the best
kind,because merely self defensive or precaution
ary. There would probably never occur any ne
cessity for their full application.
The removal of that portion oldie present pres
sure caused by stock jobbing, is of extreme diffi
culty. It requires the must anxious attontion,ond•
all the wisdom of the legislature. It proceeds
from a legalized system of gambling, which viti
ates the ut••ral sense, and dissipates all business
habit, by presenting continually to the mind of
the person infected with it, the ho2o of sudden
wealth without labor oullitiown part,or equivalent
the person duped. By correcting this evil the le
gislature have it in their power, not only to pro
duce a great moral good, hut to perform an act of
necessary justice and of real utility to the useful
commercial community. The bank facilities now
employed in this traffic, if thrown open to the
other classes of borrowers. would at once relieve
their wants and be invaluable to society.
It is at present unnecessary to go into an oz.
ainination of the various stock jobbing "opera
tions" of "cornering" "selling on time" "pledging
stock," and the hundred other means of changing,
and profiting by the changes of the money mar
ket. It is sufficient to say that they should all be
put down. The hypothecation of stock, which at
first sight scorns fair and proper, is in reality the
most ruinous of all. A man who has his wealth
invested in stock, drawing from G to 10 per cont.
should be satisfied with one profit. But instead
of that lie Ores the very evidence of the invest-
ment of his wealth, and on the faith of it procures,
without endorser, an equal amount of ready mon
ey whenever a chance for speculation arises
This lie loans out to the urgent necessities oh his
neighbor, engaged perhaps in really useful busi.
ness, at a usurious interest. That •neighbor most
probably is in as good credit as the extortioner,
but Ito is at his mercy; because his paper has
been thrown out of bank. And why thrown out?
Because the facilities of bank has been monopo
lized by loans on pledge of stock. Thus the same
person creates the pressure and reaps the benefit;
and the instant. his money bus drawn from the
bank, fails to yield its double profit, he repays it
and waits his opportunity for another specula
tion.
The evils of stock speculation might perhaps
be corrected by the following means :
lst. All contracts for the translbr of stock on
time to be rendered null and void, and perhaps
penal.
2nd. No contract rolativo to stock to be valid
in law, unless based on an actual transfer mode
on the books of the corporation, whose stock is the
subject of it.
3rd. No contract relative to stock to be valid,
unless In writing and in the name of tho parties
really interested.
4th. Every bank in the Commonwealth to be
compelled to make monthly reports to the Audi
tor General, specifying the amount of money lent
out on pledge of stock; the • duration and terms of
the loan, together with the amount otherwise loan
ed, for the public information.
Banking privileges are a part of the sovereignty
of the people, intrusted to the care of individuals
or corporations for the public convenience. Those
to whom they are committed should be authorized
to receive, in the way of profit from the business,
a sufficient remuneration for their labor and risk.
Any thing beyond that, is making the legitimate
powers ofGovernment a means of extortion, and
of oppressing those for whose good alone they are
intended.
It is in this point of view that the only kind of
bonus or equivalent for banking privileges.either
just to a bank, or sale to the public, is the pay.
went into the public treasury of all sums beyond
par value, for which stock sells at the time ofits
creation. The only period! means olascortaining
the fair amount of that excess is a sale by public
auction. At such a sale the keen foresight °Rho
capitalist, and the generally correct estimate of
public opinion, will soon fix the fair value of the
stock.
It is in this point of view, also, that the only
safe ratio of tax on dividends'is the graduated
one; that is, ono which increases in such a pro
portion, as to confine the profits of stockholders
within just limits.
The bill under c .nsideration possesses neither
of these features, which of themselves would go
far towards the suppression of the spirit of gamb
ling in stocks. The increased amount of stuck,
($3,500,000) Is neither to be sold by auction, as
in most other cases, nor even by the old abused
mode of a scramble for subscription, at par value.
In fact, there is no provision at all for i:s sale or
disposal in any manner, or at any time or place.
This seems strange. Bank capital is said to be
necessary, and yet when granted, the people have
no certainty that tt will be put in use whole
amount may be retained for years, or it may be
parcelled out among the present stockholders, or
even be retained by the present board of directors,
ilthey could descend to such a betrayal of the
trust reposed in them. IL may be brought into
market to. morrow, or be kept up for 10 years
The surplus funds oi the bank may be
each
into it,or a few dollars may be paid on each share,
and the whole then become one grand stockspecu-
Julien.
It may be said that this bank should nut be sub
jected to the graduated tax on dividends, because
she pays a bonus, and because, under the present
charter, she is exempted from the graduated tux.
But It must be remembered that the bonus,(s2so,-
000) falls far short of what the amount would be
it the increased stock wore sold by auction; and
that this is in effect a recharter, which has uni
formly in other oases been subjected to the grad
tutted tax. The present charter has only 11 vearii
to run, the bill increases the term to 20 years.—
Certainly this is worth something, even though
we look to its operation only on the existing capi.
tal of the bank.
IL may be said that though the temporary causes
which produce the present alledged pressure were
removed, there would still remain a necessity fur
increased bank capital; that Pennsylvania is not
now what she was five yours ago; and that bunk
facilities which were then sufficient are necessari
ly now insufficient. Much of this may be true.
But it-is respectfully remarked, that the detect
must be made to appear, before I can.cansent to
aid in applying the supposed remedy 1 cannot
believe that it is not better for a short time to feel
the want of means, than to overtrade in any bust.
miss, especially one so difficult to restore to a pro
per balance as that of the curt (meg. I look upon
the affixing of the Executive signature to a bank
11111, us in effect, indorsing all the notes of the
bank to my fellow citizens. I cannot perform
such an act unless. 1 have something like a mor.
al certainty, not only that the notes shall canna
us sound, but that the draft on their confidence is
necest.ary.
. In conclusion, I would express my firm eonvic.
Lion, that it' the means above pointed out fur the
removal of the present pressure be adopted. not
only will lull accommodation to business be the
immediate result, but for years to come We shall
hear no' more well flooded Oahu* for increase of
bank capital, at least in Philadelphia; and that no
oilier consideration has influenced my present
course than a conscientious belief that such in.
crease would be at this time injurious. It would
have been tar more pleasant to my wishes and
feelings, bad tho porformanco of duty in the pres
ent instance concurred with the opinions of the
Legislature. But this, unfortunately, is impossi
ble; all that is left for me, therefore, is to concede
to them the utmost purity of intention,and patriot
ism of purpose, and to ask a liko construction of
my own motives.
JOS. RITNER.
EXECUTIVE CIIAMBER•
flarrihburg, March 16, 1836.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
We learn that S. Jaudon, Esq. cashier of
the Bank of the United States, has sailed fir
England.
Two millions of dollars have been sub
scribed in Georgia to the stock of the Cen
tral Georgia Rail Road.
A SCENE IN THE WEST.—The Louisville
Journal of a late date says,—"John B. Smith,
who shot Woodbury Massey, some months
ago, at Dubuque, and who escaped legal
punishment for want of jurisdiction in the
Courts of the United States, was shot down
and killed, in the streets of Galena, on the
13th ult., by Henry L. Massey, a highly
respectable brother of the deceased. An
eve witness of the occurrence informs us
that Smith was shot with a pistol at the
tance of fitly yards. Massey has since left
the country."
Towards the end of the coining May there
is to he in Baltimore an Exhibition of roams•
lectured articles of ell kinds, on the plan of
the yearly exhibitions of the American In
stitute, New York. To the public spirit of
the Managers and Officers oldie Baltimore
Lyceum is our city indebted for this under-
taking. Those gentlemen have idre . iiily put
forth to the public on a printed sheet, the
rules and regulations to be observed at the
Exhibition, which will commence on the
25th of May, and continue for three days,
from 9 o'clock in the morning to 10 at night.
Premiums will be given for the best epeci•
mans of a variety of articles enumerated.
We trust that all interested will engage in
the scheme zealously. Such exhibitions,
which are given annually in other cities,have
an excellent effect in promoting a spirit of
improvement in the useful arts.—American.
INFLUENCE OF EZAMPLE.—A Mr. C. K.
BROWN, an Attorney at Law in Rankin
county, Mississippi, undertook to follow the
precepts of greater men at Washington,nnd
actually expunged some parts of the records
of one of the Courts. The High Court of
Errors, on proof of the fact being laid before
it, ordered his name to be stricken from the
roll of Attorneys of the State, as a punish
ment fur his offence.
A LONG WINTER.—The Portland (Me.)
Advertiser of the 16th inst. says:—'fo.dny
makes the one hundred and fourteenth day
which we have had sleighing this winter,
and the first snow which fell is now on the
ground.
Art OLD STAGER.—We spoke of a Ply-
mouth driver the other day. who is a vet•
cran on his route. We understand that Mr.
Wv mail, of Medford, who drives a stage of
his own twice a day between that and the
city, has been on his truck now 3 1 years on
the 17th of February. During that time
he has never lost one day, or even one trip,
by illness. He has lost no baggage—in-
jured no passenger never once upset, in
the worst of roads, at the worst of seasons.
He must have travelled at least 200,000
miles on his state box. His tolls, over the
Warren, and the turnpike, including extras
and interest, have amounted in this time to
the round sum of ten thousand, five hundred
and twenty-odd dollars! Pretty well for
one stageman.—[Boston Atlas.
OzrThe Globe says,—
"At the dose of the year 1834, the Bank of the
United States commenced its, expansion of paper is
sues. It led the Van."
It still leads the Van—and a pretty
dance it will lead him, if the Globe contin
ues to fis!dle much longer to the tune of
'•!)own with the Pennsylvania Bribery
Bank!" No sovereign State dispenses and
destroys her charters nt the dictation of
gentlemen residents at the Robber's Re
treat.—lb.
The Globe is of opinion that the great
price of Pork in thi western country is a
consequence of excessive Banking. It is a
singular fiict thrt while the price of Pork
has risen, Whole Hogs are held ridiculous
ly cheap. This Is particularly the case in
Pennsylvania.—lb.
The Legislature of Ohio has passed a Bill
prohibiting the establishment of Branches
or Agencies of the New Bank of the United
States within the State.
IMPORTANT FROM ANNAPOLIS.-.-INDE:11-
riTTY BILL PASSED.—lntelligence from An
napolis announces the important fact that
the INDEMNITY BILL HAS PASSED BOTH HOD
SES OF THE LEGIsLATURE. AND IS NOW A
LAW. The Bill passed as reported to the
House of Delegates by the Joint Committee.
It provides for the payment of the indemnity
by withdrawing horn Baltimore the 820,000
annually appropriated by the State, to be
expended under the superintendence of the
Corporation for keeping open the navigation
of Baltimore Harbor.—Bale Trunacript.
INCREASE or THE ARMY.—The Secreta
ry of War states that the aggregate number
employed in the military iervice of the
United States is, according to the present
law, 6,301. This is exclusive of those en
gaged in the duties relating to the custody,
preservation and repairs of the public arms.
Owing however to sickness, occasional ab
sence, &c. the actual disposable force, is not
more than 5,2c0. A plan has been pro•
posed to increase the present number to 9,-
955 men, and to alter the arrangement - in a
way to make them more useful in service•
The present ante it divided equally among
the frontier posts of the United States would
allow to each less than one hundred efficient
HANOING EXTRAORDINARY.—We notic
ed yesterday the "hanging" of the two crimi
nals in Boston, Russell and Crocket, for the
crime of arson. The inlnrmation gave us
no surprise for they doubtless deserved their
rite. But we were not n little surprised to
see announced in a paper of that city, the
hanging of the celebrated vocalist Mrs.
Wood, a fide which, poor woman, she could
hardly have deserved. The announcement
runs thus: "When the CI, tain fell *** lie
(Mr. Wood) reappeared amidst thunders of
applause, with his wife hanging on his arm,"
dec. We wish this mode of hanging inno
cent women were expunged from the statutes
of the editorial fraternity.—lbid.
USEFUL M EMBERS.
In every public body there are some in
dividuals distinguished for their comparative
powers of oratory; some for their great busi
ness tact and industry; some fir a happy
nmalgum and goodly portion ofeach of these
qualities; and some who possess little or
nothing of either. 'l'o he placed in the first
rank in reoard to usefulness, in a numerous
legislative body comprising • much of the
highest talent of the country, is an honour
which any one might covet, trio covet aught
were allowable. In the House of Repre
sentatives of the United States, comprising
many business as well as able men, it is but
a measure of justice to , the individual, to
state, that the palm of usefulness is by com
mon consent awarded to Mr. WIIIMESEY
of Ohio. And we observe by a letter in the
U. S. Gazette, and take pleasure in record
ing the testimony in favour of a gentleman
of hint) merit, both as a legislator and a man,
that the first class of useful members in the
House of Representatives, is awarded to
Mr. M'SnEHRY, of Adams county.—Bulli
more Patriot.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.
We learn by a Masonic paper published
in Easton that TitAmmus STEVENS, Esq.
has been invited by the students of Lufay
cite College to deliver the annual address
before them, on the fourth of July next, and
that he has accepted the invitation. This
selection is most creditable to the judgment
of the young gentlemen belonging to that
institution, and they may anticipate a rich
treat. Mr. Stevens is master of the great
powers ofeloquence; and in point of literary
acquirements, such as these young gentle
men are now laboring to obtain, he is pro
bably not inferior to any man in the State,
and is greatly superior to any with whom
we are acquainted, who have labored so long
and industriously in the practice of his pro
fession. In some of his speeches• on the
great subject of education, before the legis
lature,he introduced such a variety of classic
learning, that we could scarcely believe that
he was not fresh from the perennial springs
of Grecian eloquence and poetry. He is
indeed peculiarly fitted for the occasion, in
till literary, professional and statesmnn•like
qualities; and these are the qualities wanted
ler such an occasion,to fix the tasie,strength
en the judgment, and enlighten the minds
of the students, who are soon to take the
place of the "Fathers of the Republic."—
Pennsylvania Telegraph.
The bonus accruing to Pennsylvania in
consequence of the charter of the U. States
Bunk, has enabled the Legislature to repeal
an art, passed some years since, imposing
an onerous tax. The commissioners have
accordingly been instructed to omit a portion
of the usual collections. This affords to
every citizen of the State so plain a percep
tion of the benefits resulting from this mea
sure that those who have opposed it, blind
ly opposed it in obedience to puny dictation,
are afraid of the consequences, and in some
of the Counties where they still retain the
sway, are resolved to proceed with the col
lections as usual, laws and oi (finances to the
contrary notwithstanding.—Fred. Exam.
PENNSYLVANIA.—The Reform Legisla
ture of the old Key Stone State, (says the
Baltimore Patriot,) seems to deport itself
manfully in the war which is waged against
that commonwealth and its institutions, from
Washington. The new sections lately offer
ed by Mr. STEVENS to a bill in progress be
fore the House, proposing to annul the char
ter of any Bank of that State, which should
comply with any directions from the United
States Treasury Department, calculated to
interfere with the currency of that State,
came up on second rending, in the House of
Representatives. on Wednesday last, end
were adopted by a vote of 63 to 28. It is
said that the PENNSYLVANIA party, in the
Wve, has increased and is still increasing.
The collar members—that is, those who
look to Washington for "instructions" as to
their legislative duties, are reduced in num
ber to less than a score! This is symptomatic
of the effect of Globe thunder. Col. M'.-
CLIIRE, a member of the House, from Cum
berland, though an opponent of the Ritner
administration, says, on these questions he
goes the whole for Pennsylvania. And the
following, in the same spirit, is a remark of
the Delaware County Union, on the hostile
demonstration's got up by the. Kitchen. a
gainst that State, in the Legislatures ofohio
and New York. The Union is a thorough
going Jackson and Wolf paper; but when
the interests of Pennsylvania are concerned,
it thus scouts the collar:--
"We ebould like to know where such te
gislation will stop; we were opposed to the
re•charter of the Punk, but we scout at the
idea of Ohio.. or any other State, attempting
to dictate to Pennsylvania."
SINOULAII FACT.---TiVe:Vn thousand bush
els of American Wheat, which had been
carried to England, hondrd there, and re
exported to Baltimore city, were sold this
week.at 1: Il!” -°n'• rer bombe,. _
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GETTYSBURG PA.
.nlO►tdaj, .')larch 2S, I 536.
0:, - The Wagon price of Flour in Bali
more-86 75 to 6 87.
firWli.it a 'mind spirit is embodied in the car
cass of the Sentinel man! Every and any thing
emanating - "f the pens of "black spirits and
grey" against Mr. STEVENS, finds a ready and
willing place in the columns of the Sentinel—a
paper that has received the patronage of Mr. Ste
vens for a number of yours past! What black
hearted Ingrid itudb!
KrAn Elect:on was held in this Borough
fur Constables and School Directors on the
18th inst. We give below the vote.—
There was no opposition to the School.
CONSTABLES,
Christian Stout,
George C. Strickhouser,
Adam Maurey,
James Bowen,
Nicholas Weaver,
SCHOOL DIRECTORS.
George Chritzman,
Thaddeus Stevens,
The Governor's I"eto.
o*-We lay this document before our
readers today. Although lengthy, yet it
will and should be read by the people with
attention. Our Harrisburg C.orresporident
takes the right view of the Veto", us well as
of the course pursued by the Legislature;
and we doubt not the conduct of both will
give general i,atisfaction to the people.—
What a noble and commanding example the
Government of Pennsylvania sets a much
higher one! What a contrast between the
friends of the Governor of Pennsy vania,and
those time-serving minions of "the Govern
meat" at Washington!
Arational Convention.
Oz,- We are gratified to learn from the
Philadelphia Sun, of Thursday last, that
some of the most powerful and eloquent ora
tors in the Union will be in attendance at
this Convention. The Sun also remarks
t hat "our friends in the Southern and West
ern States are informed that the Convention
will be well attended, and that delegates will
be sent front several States not heretofore
represented." We hope the Sun will, from
time to time, published a list of delegates ap
pointed by the cliff:trent States. The fol
lowing are the delegates from Pennsylvania:
AMOS ELLMAKER,
HARMAR DENNY.
Thomas H. Burrowes,Thomas Elder,
Charles Ogle, Wm. W. Irwin,
William Line, William Piper,
Nathaniel B. Boileau,Franeis Parke,
Charles T. Jones, Henry Witmer,
Thaddeus Stevens, Isaac Richardson,
Witham Heister, Hugh Mehatley,
Cornelius Darragh, David Lawson,
Joseph Patterson, Samuel Parke,
Benjamin J. Miller, Jacob Alter,
Theophilus Fenn, Joseph Miller,
Benjamin Lauius, Henry F. Midilletin
Thothas Gwinner, William Clymer,
John Funk, John Dungan.
o::Tin all good faith we inform the York
Republican that we have no quarrel to pick
with it. The Republican pursues the course
it marked out when it struck the Anti Ma
sonic banner—that is, to sail between 91u.
sonnyand Anti Masonry, and to please or
"strays:" both sides—if it could! But at the
same time, we itilieren it, when men come
out for office and solicit the votes'of Anti.
Masons and pledge themselves to support
Anti. Nlasonry,and afterwards,when el( eta!,
turn traitors to, and oppose, Anti-Masonry,
we shell both claim and exercise .the right
of exposing their treachery, no matter what
county they may have the honor to repre.
lent. We fear no •'tools," whether-'.blunt"
or "sharp;" but shall at all times perform
our duty fearlessly.
OVA resolution passed the Senate on
Wednesday last, making Waynesburg, in
Franklin county, a point through which the
Gettysburg and Williamsport Rail Road is
to pass.
to Politics,
CONDITIONS:
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192
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47
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nil Dinnesl
=P - The hill calling a Convent ion toaniend • tinned harmony. Long may Pennsylvania
the Constitution passed the House on Mon• I retain such an Executive, and such n Legis.
•
day last. The Delegates are to be elected' lature! Then. will she be independent, and
on the 4th of November next, and the Con. teach others to respect her. ;
vention to meet on the second Tuesday of
May, 1837. The Senate has concurred.
o::rWe have only room for the tbllowing
;appointments made by the Annual Confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
which met in Baltimore during the present
month. We are pleased that the Rev. Mr.
BOND is to tarry with us another year. Mr.
liousswvAter goes In Huntingdon.
Carlisle District--A HEMPHILL P. E.
Carlisle District—G. G. Cookinnn.
Carlisle Circuit —W .0. Lumadon, E. Miller.
York—C. Kullilbs.
Shretasbury—J. Gruber. J. Ewing.
Hartford-11. Furlong, A. Smith.
Great Falls—J FL G. Dill,
Liberty—C. B. Young, H. Best.
Frederick City—S. Bryson.
Frederick Circuit—W. Butler, Jos. Parker,Jus.
Reed, sup
Getit sburg —R. Bond, James Binds.
Chumberaburg District—R. CADDEN P.E.
Chambershurg— Geo. 1111dt.
Wayneshurg—R. M. Lipscomb.
Shirpertaburg—W m. H. Enna.
Bteallifie/r/—J. Hodges, G. Berkstresser.
Mifflin—J. Striiiisimry, Joseph S. Morris.
4/Ilan's McEnally, R. T. Nixon.
Hagerstawn—W to. B. Edwards.
Bamshorough—John L. Gibbons.
Redford—t). Hartman, S V. Blake.
Cumberland—P. D. Lioaeomb.
Alleahany—B. Barry, J. G. McKeehan, N. P.
Cunningham.
C/rarspring.—J. Cleary, T. C. Hayes.
lErNext Baltimore Animal Cimloronme to be
hold in Ilst.Timone, March 22, 11.:17.
THE BANK OF THE IrTNITED STATES.-
During the month of February, the Bank
drew Ow all its funds in Europe, and dimin•
lshed its circulation 81.700.000. Its loans
on the fourth of March in the city of New
York,werenearly as great as the entire pub
lic funds in the depoite banks of that city.
REVENITE.—The amount of revenue col
lected in the port of New York fir the last
year exceeds the revenue ofthe former year
byforty per cent. The estimates house, the
same, the surplus of course goes into the
deposito banks. In 1828 the amount was
seventy-five millions imports; last year there
was ninety millions.—N. Y. Star.
TEXAS AND ARKANSAS...UIt is rumored,
(says the Georgetown Metropolitan,) that a
portion ofthe Territory of Arkansas has de
clared itselfindependent of the United States,
and claims to be a portion of Texas. Dele
gates it is said, have been sent to the Texian
Convention from the District." 'fatly por
tion of our happy country pi efer foreign con
nection or rule, let it go.
FROM TExAs.—The following is an ex.
tract of a letter, dated Lynchburg, Texas,
Feb. 10:
"The convention - will assemble nn the Ist
of March. Up to the present period there
is no new.: but while waitin , r, we are in per
fect security, and are very little annoyed by
the menaces of Santa Anna. Volunteers
arrive daily; and our marine is in a state to
blockade the Mexican ports. The result of
the delay in the actual strife with the central
giovernment will be a radical separation; and
if we may credit rumors, the United States
propel to this: we shall see hereafter. But
whatever may be the events, you may count
on our triumph• Texas is invincible; and
you cannot err in advocating her cause with
your fellow citizens.
ag" FROM HARRISBURG.
Correspondence of the Gettysburg Star.
HARRISBURG, Match 2!, 1836.
DEAR SIR: •
During the last week the Governor ve
toed the Girard Bank Bill which had passed
both branches (tithe Legislature. His rea
sons for withholding his signature you will
see in his message. They are strong, and
no doubt fully satisfactory to himself. All
give him great credit for his honesty and
firnines.s of purpose in doing it. But the
Legislature, having approved of the bill be
fore,did not deem it creditable to themselves
or complimentary to the administration to
change their opinion, and passed the bill by
the Constitutional majority—the veto and
the passage of the - bill, I have no doubt, will
redound much to the credit and advantage
of the Executive and the Legislature. The
Governor, by a firm exercise of the veto
power, (a power expressly granted by the
Constitution,) shewed that he could not 'yield
his own honest convictions to the previously
expressed opinions of his friends in the Le
gislature. And they, by reasserting then
own opinions in opposition to his, shewed
that they placed a just estimate upon his
liberality and magnanimity: that they knew
that the presei.t. Governor or this gie .1
Commonwealth, was above any desire or
wish to control or influence the co ordinate
branches of the gevernment, further than
such influence might arise from the force of
argument. This I deem the greatest com
pliment ever paid by a Legislature to a Go•
vernor of the same political party with them
selves. Snyder's veto was overrulled; but
there was a powerful combination of inter
est. Here tt was an isolated case; and done
merely to shew that Anti 7 3lasoi a ad
hered to the principles of the party, wheth
er exercised in relation to the acts of a po
litical friend or foe.
It seems to me that the unwavering in.
tegrity and independence of the present LP.
gislaturt3, furnishes a sublime moral specta
cle which seldom occurs. .Those who vo
ted against the veto unanimously award to
the Governor the most pure intentions, and
have strong doubts whether his reasoning
will not find full favor with the people. He
exercises his constitutional duties with firm
ness; and then, contrary to the practice of
his predecessors, leavce his friends in the
Legislature to exercise theirs without any
attempt to intimidate or oimproperly influ•
ence their conduct: Thus promoting. a spirit
of perfect equality and independence, which
must lead to wholesome legislation,and con.
Intelligence, Literature, Science,
HARRISBURG, March 22, 1836.
DEAR SIR:
P Mr.STnowit, a Senator from Lancaster
county, had the modesty, aided by FULL/M-
I." to introduce a bill to annul the appro
priation mode to our Rail R. ad West of
Gettysbarg, and transfer it to the North
Branch and Erie Canal-! He did this, too,
after having pledged himself to support it
when in the Bank bill! His conduct was
deemed so fitit bless and unfair, that he found
but nine men to vote with him! Mr. MID.
DLECOFF exhibited his conduct to the Senate
in its proper odious light. Indeed Mr.
Middlecon whole course with regard to
our Rail-roads and interests, has been char.
neterized by great zeal, firmness and talents.
Ho deserves the full approbation and esteem
of his cons'ituen•s. He made a most ex
cellent Speech on the Wrightsville, York
and Gettysburg Rail Road question; and
had it not been for the sickness and absence
of our Senator, the first repealinu bill would
have passed. However, I believe the pres
ent law better, ns the stock will no doubt
sell, and we are relieved from the necessity
of passing th , ough York; and we cati now
run Locomotive Engines the whole way.
Had we passed through York, we should
have been obliged to stop outside of the
town. The forged York and Wrightsville
Company have no richt to enter the borough
of Wrightsville, or join our public works.
WE HAVE.
HARRISBURG, March 25, 1936.
DEAR STR:
You will see in all the votes against CON
RAD all the Masons and must of the Whigs
vote in his favor—and that too when his of
fence was an attempt to make the people be.
lieve that the Senate had been bribed to
vote in favor of a Whig measure: Such a
party deserve never In have a favorite mea
stile passed, if it could be rejected without
toss to all the community—but the whole
secret is, Conrad is a Mason Old so are the
load:no , Whig , : Indeed, almo-t all the
Whigs in the legislature are the strenuous
advocates and tools of the Lodge. Mr.
REED of Philadelphia is an honorable ex
ception to this remark—He is an honest
and able man—of his colleagues, I will not
trust myself to speak.
•.--
From the Bucks County Telegraph.
THADDEUS STEVENS.
The gentleman whose name stands at the
head of this article, is one of the purest pa
triots and independent statesmen, that ever
entered the Le. , islative halls of this or any
otter Slate. Regardless of every thing
that may affect his own personal interest,
his toly (lbject is to pursuo thy ." ernirtie ,- -best
eatcularecrio• nOvance the prosperity of the
State. He at all times fearlessly displays
his talents in favour of equal rights, and the
supremacy of the laws, by exposing the
treachery and conspiracy of secret oath
bound societies, against the liberties of the
people, by showing the dangerous influence
they have already had in planning and ear
-1 :ling into eftixt frauds and crimea of the •
highest grades, charges which the members
of lhose societies never have attempted to
deny, or been able to prove to the contrary.
And when the members were called upon
by a committee of the house of Representa.
lives, appointed to enquire into those evils,
they refused to testify under oath that the
charges made are not correct, adding addi
tion3l strength if any were necessary, to
prove the truth of the crimes alleged againsl
them.
Mr. Stevens introduced into the House
o► Representatives the bill entitled
"An act to repeal the State Tax on Real and Personal
property, and to continue and extend the improve.
menu or the Slate by Rail Roads and Canals, and
to charter a State Bank to be called the United
States Book."
And by perseverance procured its pas
sage by which upwards of HALF A MIL.
LION of dollars will be saved to the people
annually, in providing for the payment of
interest on the State debt of 825,000,000,
whirl) was incurred under the Masonic ad.
ministration, in shape of ewards to political
t:ivorites. By the passage of the United
States Bank bill, the act levying a tux on
Real and Personal property for state pur
po,,es is RF:PGALED. The circular of the
present Secretary of the commonwealth,
informs the people that the State Tax laid
co the assessment to be collected, in 18:16
is not to be demanded. In case the masonic
tax party should attempt to collect the same
that they no authority, the tax act bring
repealed.
The Bank in consideration or the privi
leges granted by the charter, is required to
nay to the State the Following sums as a
Bonus. .
A cash payment of $2,500 000
An annual paynaeut antounting in the
whole to 2,000 000
A subscription to various improvements
amounting to
---
Making an aggregate of $5,175 000
An obligation to lend to the State Six
Millions, either at four per cent., at par,
or five per cent with a premium of ten .
per cent.
Making a ga•o of
Making a total profit to the State of 96,775 000
Also an obligation to make temporary
loans to the Stale, of one Million at a time,
at an interest of four per cent.
Si v hundred thousand dollars of the above
is to be applied to the pa% ment of interest
on the State debt of $25,000,000 borrowed
under firmer administrations—which sum
would otherwise have to be raised by taxa
tion. The $2,000,000 alluded to in the
above statement is to be paid $lOO,OOO an
nually for twenty years, in support of free
schools, to commence alter the 6th day of
July, 1836. Whereby the children of the
poor, as well as the rich, may be taught
gratis, the remainder to complete our rail
roads and canals, without reverting to taxa
tion.
And although he is labouring fee h ;
gricultscre, the Mechanic
of his fellow. citizens, by opposing all en
croachments upon the rights of the people,
the constitution and the laws, he is to be
hunted down by transfering after him in true
M:,sonic style, a false and libelous character.
And Ibr what, simply because he dare open-
Iv expose the treachery of the GRAND
HIGH PRIESTS of the GRAND ROY
AL ARCH CHAPTERS, the KINGS,and
Knights of Malta, gentlemen of the purple
and scarlet robe of the Holy and Celestial
Empire of Secret Oath bound Freemasonry.
AMERICAN SEWING SILK.—We were
shewis some days since four parcels of sew
ing silk, made by a Indy residing near Get
tysburg, Pennsylvania. The worms were
fed on four varieties of the mulberry as will
be hereafter explained, and the cocoons reel
ed on a common reel. The several samples
ore bound round by different colored thread
so as to point out the particular kinds ofroul.
berry on the leaves of which the worms were
respectively fed. The letter says:—
"That bunch with the while thread was
raised from the white mulberry; the bunch
with the black thread was raised or fed on
our common black mulberry; the bunch
with red thread around it from the wild red
mulberry, and that tied with the green, is of
n kind found in our woods, with a much
larger and thicker leaf, and the lady who
fed the worms and made the silk, says the
worms will consume the whole leaf, stems
and
AiII of these samples of silk are beautiful
and ilighly creditable to the patriotism, in
dustry and skill of the lady by whom they
were manufactured. Each is as lustrous as
the imported silk, and although the twisting
is not as well done, yet the elaboration of the
thread is unusually perfect and evenly drawn
out. All of them would compare with the
foreign article in glossiness, and in that deli.
cately rich hue which silk made from healthy
%voriiis invariably has. The last parcel
made, however, was boiled beyond the pro
pci• imint,and notwithstanding it still retains
the brilliancy peculiar to silk, it has lost
that: property of communicating to the
nerves of the fingers the sensation which is
imparted to them on the taking up ofa pinch
of the flour of sulphur, a thing which, if ob-
served, will serve as an excellent criterion
to test when the commodity has been long
enough boiled.—Farmer and Gardener.
On the 22d inst. in York, by the Rev. Dr. J. G
Schmucker, Maj. Jour( MUSSELMAN,ofHamiltonban
to Miss SUSANNAH MUM, of Berwick township,A
dams county.
On the 25th Inst. Miss HANNAH RUSSELL, daughter
of A lexander Russell, Esq. of this borough, aged about
41 years.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
FILES*" SUPPLY OF
Spring Goods!
TE10.17.6 IS J. CO OPER,
D OTH respectfully inform his old cus.
tamers, and the public generally, that
he has just received A NEAT ASSORTMENT
OF GOODS, CONSISTING AS rouows:—
CLOTHS, CASSINETTS, SILKS, CALICOES,
MLTSLINS, SHOES,
AND A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,
Queensware, Holloware, Iron
and Lumber.
All of which he is determined Visa low
for CASH and Country Produce.
March 29; ISM
CLARK'S OLD ESTABLISHED
LUCKY OFFICE,
N. W. Corner of Baltimore and Calvert Street',
(Under the Mtumum.)
Where have been hold Prizes ! Prizes I !
Prizes/!! in Dollars Millions of Millions!
BALTIMORE CITY, MD.
NOTICE. -Any person or persons thro'•
out the Union who may desire to try
their luck, either in the Maryland State
Lotteries, or in authorized Lotteries of oth
er Statei.,somemnne of which are drawn daily,
Tickets from ONE to TEN DOLLARS,
shares in proportion, are respectfully re
quested to forward their orders by mail (Post
('aid) or otherwise enclosing CASH or PRIZE
TICKETS, which will be thankfully received
and executed by return mail, with the same
prompt attention as if on personal applica•
n,und the result given when requested im
mediately finer the drawings.
Please address,
JOHN CLARK,
N. W. Corner of Baltimore and Calvert Streets,
under the Museum
March 28, 1836.
NOTICE.
V HE Account of Moms M'CLEArt, one
of the Trustees of ADAM LIVINGSTON,
is filed in the Prothonotary's Office, at Get-
tysburg, and will be presented to the Court
of Common Pleas to be held on Monday the
25th day of Apil next, for confirmation.
BERN HART GILBERT, Proth'y.
March 28, 1836. tc-52
675 000
600 000
Notice is herett• Given,
ripo all Legatees and others concerned
' I L that the Administration Accounts of
the deceased persons herein mentioned, will
be presented. to !he Orphans' Court for con
firmation and allowance, on Tuesday the
26th day of April next.
The• Account of Eve Shultz and George
Frvsinger, Administrators of John Shultz,
deceased.
The Account of Sampson S. King, Esq.
Guardian of the minor children of Adam
Livingston.
The Account of Michael Bevenawer and
Philip Fleshinan, Executors of Peter Flesh.
Rin, dec'd.
JAS. A. THOMPSON, Register.
Regrl.t.rNotlif••• Getiys
1836.
LICAN BANNER.
MARRIED.
DIED.
ly-52
TEMPERANCE.
A MEETING of the "Petersburg (Y.
S.) Temperance Society," will be held
nt the Academy, on Monday Evening the
4th of 4pril next. All are respectfully in-
vited to attend.
JAMES MoCOSH, Sec'ry.
March 28, 18.90. tm- 52
i w..R.,livto A
AMEETING of the "APPRENTICES
ATEMPERANCE SOCIETY" will be held
at the "Hill-Top Academy," on Saturday
the Oth day of April next, when an Address
will be delivered. Punctual attendance of
the members is requested.
itc:r The Young Ladies of Gettysburg
are respectfully invited to attend.
E. S. RILEY, Sec'ry.
March 28, 1836. tm-52
NOTICE.
T HE subscribers having been appointed
by S. S. KING, Esq his Trustees, un-
der a voluntary assignment for the benefit
of his creditors, hereby give notice to all
persons indebted to his Estate, to call and
make payment, and all persons having
claims, to present them properly authenti
cated for settlement, on or before the 20th
day of Mail next, to either of the undersign
ed residing in the Borough of Gettysburg.
OCrThe fees due to S. S. King, Esq. on
his Dockets having also been assigned to the
subscribers, they have been placed in the
hands of S. R. RUSSELL, Esq. for collection,
with directions to bring suits forall that shall
remain unpaid after the above mentioned
time. Those concerned will do well to at-
tend to this and save posts.
T. C. MILLER,
D. M. SIMYSER, Trustees.
March 2 5 4, 1836.
Alecliftnicsl Institute.
AMEETING of the "Mechanics' In. stitute," will be held in the College
ON SATURDAY EVENING NEXT, at 6 o'clock.
A punctual attendance is requested. Ques•
Lion for debate:--
"Are Rail ways and Canals beneficial to
the United Staters 118 a eommuntty?"
S. L. DETWILER, Sec'ry.
March 28, 1836.
C 1 3TION.
A LL persons are cautioned against bar
boring or employing a girl named
USEPHA FREDELL, bound by her fath.
er for a term of years to the subicriber—as
I am determined to prosecute all who relive
to obey this notice—She having left me
without sufficient cause.
W. T. SMITH.
MarctileB,lB34. ' 3t--52
GRAND JURY FOR APRIL
TERM, 1836.
Cumberland—Thomas C. Miller, Geo,•Schri
ver.
Liberty—Thomas Reid. Michael Willyard,
Emanuel Overholtzer, Jacob Kressly, Henry
Gorden.
Latimore —William Hamilton.
Huntington—tlenjamin Gardnei.Joel Bowers.
Borough—D•vid Linle.
Strabao—John Dickson, Jr. Jacob Weaver.
Wm Mcllhenny.
Mountpleasant —John Porrena.
Hamilton—James Clark. John Banblitz.
Menallen—Philip Reamer, Robert Majors.
Fr.nklin— Daniel Arendt.
Tyrone—John Myers. ,
Germany—lsaac Snyder.
Conowago—Martin Clunk.
Hamiltonhan —Hiram Boyd.
GENERAL JURY FOR A
PRIL TERM, 1836.
Tyrone—John Stealy, David Cooly, Jacnb
Hersh.
Cumberland—Abraham Linah, Emanuel Pita
et', James McAllister, Wm. APG.ugby.
Liberty— Martin Hill.
Borough—Samuel S. Forney, Samuel Fahn
estock, James Heagy. John B. Marsh.
Mountjoy James M'llhenny, Moses ill'llvain.
Idourupleasant—Philip Kohler, John Miller,
Henry Felty, Joseph Coshun, Egbert Eckert,
Samuel swope.
Huntington—Joseph Taylor, Christian Pick
ing. Jonas John.
Conowago—Jacob Kohler.
Berwick—John Bucher, Henry Lilly.
Reading—John Elicker, Benj. Malone, Moses
M. Neely.
Germany—Martin Keller, James Schultz, Ja
cob Siemer.
Hamiltonban—David Stewart.
Hamiltou—Ephraim Steel.
Straban--Alezander Campbell.
Latimore—Adam Gardner.
Pennsylvania College.
A STATED meeting of the Board of'
Trustees' of this Institution will be
held on Wednesday the 20th of April next.
The examination of the several classes in
College will be held on Monday and Thurs
day preceding.
Mr - The Summer Session will commence
on the First Thursday (2nd) of -June next.
D GILBERT, Sec'ry.
March 21, 1826. tm-51
HIDE, LE3THER .11XD
OIL STORE.
3,000 La Plata
2,000 Rio Grande
. 1,500 La Guayra
SIDES.
Pernambuco
700 Marucaibo
1,800 Green Slaughter
7,000 Dry Patna Kips,
6,000 Heavy Green Salted Kips,
1,000 African Kips,
128 Barrels Straits, Bank and Shore
OIL, and
A GENERAL VA RIETY OF
Telei *VIE R TOOL'.
Au, of which will be sold at the lowest
Market price FOR CASH, or on the usual
CREDIT, or taken in exc hange for all kinds
of LEATHER, at the highest market price,by
JOHN W. PATTEN. & CO.
Corner of 81 and Vine Street, ,
PH/LAD/ALMA.
3ao-49
March 7, 186
TEIVIPERA.74Cit;
AMEETING of the Rock CreekTem, t
pernnce Society will be held it - 111 , 's
Rock Creek Chapel, on 319nday .)the 41 s.;
of April ntzt.
The public generally are invited to qt. , '
tend, as it ts expected that the Rev. Mit:,
BOND and others will deliver Addressee. %;
JOFIN WILSON, Seery.
March 21,1:36. 51 rt
STATE TAX
fl ,
Y virtue of the following resolution, a(
dopted by the Legislature and approv
ed by the Governor on the 10th inst. viz:— 'j
WDF:REAS, Although the law levying tax
es on real and personal property for the use
of the State, will expire on the 2511, day of
March next, yet it appears by the report of ,
the State Treasurer made to the Legislature,
at the present session, that those taxeis, * (tre:;; ; 'i,
estimated in the receipts of the current
at two hundred and eight thousand nine
(fred and sixty•three dollars,and three iieltfri--! t i l g,
and that the same would have been colteete4 ; .f
from the people, notwithstanding the
ration of said law, but by the passage of
late act entitled "An act to repeal.the State
tax on real and personal pr0perty,:..61 0 40.44'
continue and extend the improvemetinrig4
the State by Canals and Rail Roads, and tit
charter a State bank, to becalled the United
States bank," the treasury will be supplied
in lieu thereof, and it is thereby ienderect
unnecessary to demand the plyment of the • Z 1
same from the citizens of this Corninon—f;:ri
wealth. Therefore. `';;;„:1
RESOLVED, By the Senate - and "House
Representatives of the Commonwealth'vr-g
Pennsylvania, in General Assembly inef-sfir-'4l
That the , Secretary of the Commenwcalth
be directed to 'give notice to the Comritis= - .
.•
sioners of the several counties of this State, •-•:- . 1
that they are not required to collect the State -
tax for the year A. D. eighteen hundred lied
thirty•six,which has been or may be asses-ed.
fur State purposes since October last, underl:N,
the act entitled "An act assessing a tax on.
personal property, to be collected with the
county rates and levies. for the use of the --
Commonwealth," and "An act to increase
the county rates and levies for the use of the
Commonwealth, passed the twenty fifth day
of March A. D. eighteen hundred and tlurty- •.
one," and if collected the same should be --.,:
refunded, and that because said notice Ici - he
published in at least two newspapers in each
county, where two such newspapers are .
published, and where but one paper is pub- , :`
fished, then in such paper, for three weeks •-, j
in succession the costs or publication to be •
paid from the county treasuries respectively. ,
But if no paper be published in any ceunty,
then in such manner as shall best promote • =
the object of this resolution.
NER MIDDLESWARTH,
Speakei of the Boos,, of ftepterentatbrea. •
THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM,
Speaker of the Senate:
AI'PROVED the tenth day of March, Anna .
Domini, one thousand eight -hundred and
thirty six, JOSEPH RITN ER.
N OTICE is hereby given to County Corn . ..
missioners, and all others concerned in..,
the collection ofState tax in the several coon.
ties of the Commonwealth, that they are not
required to collect the State tax for the year.,
1836, which has been or may be assesseci - ‘
for State purposes since October last, under
the acts of Assembly mentioned if' the furo.,,
going resolution.
Further notice is also given, that if the
dforesaid tax or any portion thereof„ has
been heretofore collected in nay of the coon.
ties of this Commonwealth, the same is. to
be_refunded to the persons from whom it was
received, without cost or delay.
THOMAS H. .BURROVVES.
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Secretary's Office, Harris
burg, March' 11. 1836
FREE-DTASONRT
UNIVIASICED.-
THE above is the title of a wort( just is
sued from the press, being the Masonic Tea.
timony taken by both partiesin the h t te tt ik,
betweenl Messrs. STEVENS and
The following are the
CONTENTS.
Introduction—in which is embraced Mr,
STEVENS' Speech at Hagerstown,and also
the Letter published in the "Compiler"
which occasioned the suit.
Plaintiff's Testimony:
Deposition of idatEs A. SuEnn, Esq. ofohio.
Do. Rev. N. N. Wurrirat,/ Ithaca,
Do. Mr. JOSETH ESTY, 5, N. Y.
Do. Mr. Jnutels F. HANKS,
Do. Mr. Ehiuu WHITE, [ New,
Do. Mr. ISRAEL PINKNEY, York -
Do. Rev. JOEL PARKER, City.
DO. CD!. WILLIAM I..STONE,
DO. 'l'llo9. HARTLEY CRAWFORD. Esq.
of Chattils•rsburg. Pa
Do. Mr. WM. E. CAMP,
Do. R. W. Minats.Tos, burg, Pe.
Defendant's Testimony:
Deposttioh THOMAS 'PIIENIX, Esq. Secrete
ry of the Grand Lodge of Ala,
r3,lnnd,
Do. ROBERT NitiLsort, Esq. I Haiti-
Do. JAMES tiowmtn, E.q. more
Do. SAMUEL KNEEL, Esq. City.
Do. CIIAS. HOWARD, Esq. J
An important Document from Washington
. 0
City.
Deposition of Gen 0 . .H.W1LL1A318,)
Do. V. W. RANDALL * E-q. Ha.
Do. WILLIAM D. BELL, Esq. gersc,-; t . ,..;,
Do. Mr. GEo. KEALHOFER, 10WW
Do. Dr. Thos. B. DucKsrr
Do. Mr. JACOB POWLES,
Do. Dr. J. M. LAWRENCE.
Do. RICHARD ItEntz,Esq. ) ! 11 , 11 !F.. , "
o:7•The price is 31i cis. per single
or 63 per dozen. Address, (post
Samuel
GeitYsburg,„N"
January 18.1-124,--- - ;"
work
the B:eraser Illsows. itemesi*
and at the WPM alb& • )11-