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kiatouivrar TEL MRARS--tLENTE TRIC RESULT."
From the Philadelphia Commercial Herald.
IPlseat, Rye, ite.
The holders ofgrain in the interior con
tinue to send it to this city, as they have
been accustomed to do heretofore, not be
ing aware that it bears a higher price at al
most any given place this aide the Alleeeny
-than it does here. It is well for them to
learn that we are not only amply supplied
with grain from Europe, but that we are ac
tually sending it into the interior at a profit.
A note from one of the largest wheat and
hour factors in this city to us, states that
"molt of the Pennsylvania wheat sold lately,
is sold to go up , the Schuylkill in boats, or
is hauled some distance• into the interior
by wagons. This caused no inconsidera
ble loss and waste, which tall upon the
owners." -The sable remark, the writers
think, will apply to New York and Balti
more—wheat having been shipped from
New York to Troy and Albany, which on
its way met cargoes coming from those
places to NeW York.
. We are informed by th 6 house alluded
to that the late importations of wheat from
Europe have been of the new crop,which is
of the best quality—entirely different from
the first cargoes received.
From the Baltimore Farmer.
To Farmers.
. The prospecti of the growing wheat crop,
,as far as we have been able to gather infor
"nation upon the subject, are inauspicious in
the extreme. In Pennsylvania, Maryland
and Virginia, present appearances are of the
most forbidding character, offering nothing
like well grounded hopes that the farmer
will receive any thing like a return for his
expenditures in the preparation and seeding
of his grounds, to say nothing about profits.
This will be the third or fourth year, since
an average crop has been made in the
wheatgrowing states, and many husband
men, we fear, are destined (tie present sea
son to.reap nothinff but disappointment, and
to find theircalcurations put to fault by the
ravages of the weather, during the past
winter, upon their wheat fields. In years
past, their most dreaded enemy was the
Hessian fly, but superadded to that, they
have more recently seen iheir hopes bligh.
ted by the alternations of weather, chang
ingfrom ix comparatively mild temperature
itp-one of the most intense severity in forty
eight hours; thus, by sudden transitions
opening the bowels of the ea rth„tied 'leaving
the roots of the young greiskiposed, in the
first instance, to be thrown out of the suit,
and in the,Japma, to subsequent destruction
feemilfil frost. With all these evils bedring
So disastrously upon the interests of wheat
growers—evils which scarcely admit of the
hope of speedy remedy, necessity would
seemte point cut the propriety of their turn
lug their attention, to some other staple, less
precarious in its cultivation, more exempt,
from casualties, and certairrof producing a
remunerating crop. What. that may be
rest with the cultivators themselves, and
must, depend upon time And circumstances
'to develope.,.. But in anticipation or suet!
change, it'may net be inappropriate to ie•
commend that, , with the present unpromis
ing prospeeta for a wheat crop, it might
be well for every agriculturalist to put in
more coru, oats, buckwheat, roots general
ly, as well as pumpkins.
•
CORN after it has passed the ordeal of the
crows and the grub, unless, indeed, the
season be one of peculiar unsuitableness, if
it be well tended, will always repay hand
+ ornely for its •cultivation, and although its
flour ballot so universal a favorite as that '
manufactured from wheat, it is a most ac
ceptable substitute. Indeed, there are but
few persons that could not, by its use, he
made to relish it with a most savory appe
tite, and hence while saving crops of it are
made, there is no danger of famine hi this
our goodlyland.
Orers, as all do know, is a grain, which - ,
Witii:but 'an ordinary chance of growing,
repay the labor and expense of culture.
and although it •be not in • this country a
grain.of human consumption, yet by multi
plying its product the present season, it
would greatly relieve the demands upon'
those grains which are.
, BUnawairAT. Wherever a failure of the
wheat crop may occur, large seedings of
this grain should take place,and deem] up
on fields previously prepared for wheat, it
would afford a very handsome profit.
Roots ofttll kinds should be freely culti
vated; they pay well, and contribute large
ly, towards real comfort on all establish
ments where they are attended to as they
ought to be. Carrots and Ruta Baga make
excellent food for horses as well es cows.—
Potatoes, Parsnips, Mengel Wurtzel, Beets
and Turnips, are equally well suited to thu
purposes of Stock generally.
PuNPaiNs, though we name it last, does
not stand in that order in our regards, for
we hold it that every farmer and planter
should cultivate them extensively, as there
is scarcely any other product more service
able on a farm.
Every farmer, (says the Baltimore Far
mer,) who has a few acres to spare for
such purpose, should devote it to patches of
dm Palma Chnirti and Sunflower. The
Stet lain great request for making Castor
Oil, and the latter' for expressing table and
lamp oil, and NO bring good prices.
ParaTorra-Usann. 13.x.Ozips.-Wo every
day bar complaints about watery potatoes.
Pat tato the pot a pace of lime as large as
a boa's agg; and how waters , ',Dever the po
tato' may have been. when the water is
poured of. the potatoes will be perfectly dry
sad apirals. Some persons use salt—whicb
saly baring palatal!.
IMPORTANT PUBLIC DOCUMENT.
Report of the aliturrity of the
Committee appointed by the House of Re.
pr'•esentatives to investigate the affairs of
the Canal Commissioners.
The undersigned, members of theicom
mittee appointed to examine the bublic
works, and the official conduct of the Ca
nal Commissioners, with a view to their
continuance or .removal from office, explic
itly, state, what may appear very extraor
dinary to honest men, that they were neith
er consulted as to the principles or de
ductions of the voluminous report of the
majority, nor never were they apprised of
its contents, until the evening previous to
its presentation to the House. At this
late period too, they were denied the prix
ilege of retaining and examining the doc•
ument until the next day, in order to do.
tertnine upon their course of action, lest,
as may be fairly presumed, its contents
would not bear the test of a strict scrutiny.
They would take pleasure in ascribing
conduct so novel to any other more jus.
tifiable motive, were it in their power to
do so.
The briof interval, therefore, of a day
(crowded with other engagements) allow
ed to the undersigned by the indulgence
of the Houso for the performance of so
important a duty, will deprive them of the
opportunity of presenting as clearly and
satisfactorily, as they would otherwise do,
the principles by which they have been
guided, the conclusions to which they
have arrived, end the grounds of their dia•
sent from the majority.
Since the introduction of our complicated
system oflnternal Improvemem, the House
of Representatives has repeatedly appoin
ted committees for a similar purpose to that
for which we were constituted. No in
stance, however, we believe has ever oc
inured before the present one, that the
committee was
_composed ofa majority of
the political adversaries of the administra
tion. Indeed, such a designation might
well have awakened in the public mind
suspicions of undue, bins and prejudice--
it was reserved, therefore, for the present
House of Representatives to depart from
a precedent so salutary in its consequen•
ces, so consistent with parliamentary wage
with common sense, and the humane pol
icy of our laws. In ordinary cases the
rights of property and personal security,
nr.d above all, that dearest and most sacred
of reputation, are strictly and tenderly
regarded. No man is permitted to enter
the jury box whose mind is not equally
balanced.
Instead of appointing a majority of the
friends of the administration upon the com
mittee, it was, as at first constituted, COM
posed entirely of members decidedly if not
bitterly hostile to it. A sense of propriety,
however, induced the House afterwards to
add two Members of a different political
party, still leaving them in a small minor
ity. ' This unprecedented organization of
the committee evinced at its- origin , that
something was expected from it, different
from the ordinary investigations of preced
ing sessions. Those investigations, if not
strictly impartiarwere known charitably to
lean to the side of the accused. 'This
was to be different from those, and to
which aide it was to lean, is not a matter of
conjecture.
So marked and unusual a formation of
the committee could not be a matter of
accident. The strong and decided indica
tions of intelligence which characterize
every act of-the Honorable Speaker, forbid
such .:a supposition)
Being thus prepared and armed with
power, toefFectuate its design, the commit
tee organized and proceeded to business.
The Canal Commissioners being engaged
in' the arduous duties of their office, asked
and were allowed to appear by counsel.—
The examination proceeded for sometime
without disclosing any thing prejudicial to
the official conduct of any person connected
with the public works. Indeed, if we take
into consideration the character of the
witnesses that had been hunted up by
spies and informere, the testimony was
highly, creditable to their management.—
Any witness who gave diffOrent testimony
were discarded workmen or agents who
had been discharged for incompetence or
dishonesty; or perhaps, here and there by
some old life officer of the late administra
tion, who in consideration of his long servi•
ces, had been unwillingly relieved from the
cares and burthens of the state.
The committee not satisfied with the
evidence thus furnished them by their pat
riotic friends along the public works whose
vigilance is sharpened by hunger, and thirst
of office, determined even at this "inclement
season of the year," to go forth in person to
the uttermost parts of the state, in search of
corruption. They divided themselves into
three sub committees, each of which was to
travel into a distant quarter of the Common.
wealth. This arrangement effectually pre
vented the Canal Commissioners from at.
tending the examination in person, or by
counsel, unless they should employ as many
different counselfors as there were sub coin•
mitteee, and pay them for travelling to dis.
tant quarters. This would have involved
an expense burthensome and oppressive to
the Commissioners, which their own hum
ble means and the scanty pay which they
receive, would not enable them to sustain.
It must be remembered.that their expenses
must have been borne by themselves, while
all the travelling expenses of these Sub
committees come out of the treasury of
the state, in addition to their daily pay as
Members. Against this , unexampled and
cruel exercise of the poWer of the coin
mittee, the Commissioners protested, and
appealed to the House to correct it. The
House, however, not only sanctioned the
proceedings, but passed a resolution in the
following words: Resolved, "That the
sub-committees have, power to administer
oaths." This was not a joint resolution,
but passed by the House of Represedta
lives alone. If any thing had been wan
ting to cap the climax of anomalies with
regard to the committee, this resolution
furnished it• No power to administer oaths
is possessed by at' tribunal or office or
, branch of the government, unless con
ferred on them by law. The : Speaker of
the Senate or House possessed* such
power, instil a law was passed grttnting it.
The setae act, dated 16th March, also
gave the same power to the "Chair Man of
every committee in examinations before
the committee." But no members of the
committee except the Chairman could or
can administer an oath. Niir can a com
mittee or either branch of the Legislature
separately grant such power. Oaths are
deemed sacred and solemn things. and it re
quires a Sovereign power, a law of the land
to authorize them. Bat no enactment be
comes a law unless passed by the Senate
and House of Representatives in General
Assembly met, and receives the 'constitu
tional sanction of the Executive. The House
in passing the resolution referred to assumed
the whole power of all the Legislative bran.
cites of this Government. The resolution,
therefore was clearly a nullity, and furnish
es no auilvirity for administering oaths;
consequently all the oaths administered by
the sub-committees. were illegal, extra
judicial, aid in a legal point of view, how
ever they may be in morality. are no hotter
than profine swearing. Perjury however
rank, committed under such void oaths, is
not indictable nor in any way punishable by
law. This perhaps is fortunate for some
of those witnesses who have joined in this
crusade against honest men? Thus in an
unprecedented manner,ha ye the Canal Com
missioners been deprived of the power of
cress examining the witnesses. or Of punish
ing them when guilty of wilful and slander
ells falsehoods.
No part of proceedings of the majority
have appeared more strange or unfair than
the manner and kind of proof first resorted
to. Heretofore, when the condition of the
public works un I the conduct of the State
agents connected with them, wore under
investigation by legislative committees, it
was ho practice to hold open sessions, at
one place convenient to the public officers
and recorg—and Irmn day to day to infirm
those whose conduct was implicated of the
names of the persons subpamed for Examina
tion.
No similar degree of fairness is to be
' found in the operations of the majority.—
After adjourning from Ha rrisburgh to places
remote and altogether inconvenient to the
hourd;—after sub-dividing themselves into
three committees, all clothed with the full
power of the whole;--after meeting in secret
and refusing EICCC:4B to the persons express
ly accused, or their agent, it perhaps will
not appear strange that not only were
the names ofthe witnesses for the proseau•
lion no furnished, but that those..witnesitos
were generally of the most suspicious des.
e ri pt ion.
It is a renri►kale fact also, that the first
jaunt taken by the committee, by the will
of the majority, and expressly for the pur
pose of personally inspecting that portion
of the public works between this place and
Philadelphia, was performed with the haste
of ordinary travellers, so as to entirely pre
clude the accomplishment of nay other ob.
ject than a speedy arrival at the city, in the
midst of what was known to be an eiaspera.
ted and disappointed set of discharied pub.
lic servants; and that on return, the-princi
pal part of the journey having been-made on
the Sabbath, and that therefore, neither go
ing or returning, was there any careful ex.
amination given to .the Inclined Plane at
Columbia--the establishment at Parkes.
burgh, which even ordinary intelligent cu.
riosity might desire to inspect—nor to the
much talked of Schuylkill Plane. No! the
prosperous condition of things at those points
was not such game as the majority.of the
committee hunted for. It was not till they
arrived - at the Marshall House that .a halt
was made to commence operations. And
who were the witnesses, to obtain whose
testimony this holyday jaunt and Sabbath
return were performed! Jos. L. Parry,
manager of Schuylkill Plane; Thos. Barber,
engineer of Stationary Engine at Columbia,
Samuel Warren, machinist at Schuylkill
Depot; George Peterman, master machin.
ist at do.; Gee. W. Carerr, fireman; John
O'Donnell, fireman; John S. Clark, super
intendent of motive powen—officers who
had all been discharged by the present
Board. Among the rest is conspicuous,
Wm. Norris, engine builder, and applicant
to the legislature for the sole - control of the
motive power of the' Rail.road, for :the al.
leged ground of mismanagement by the
present officers.
It would be tedious to give a list of the
remaining witnesses for the prosecution,
but on examination it will be found that
they are nearly all political opponents of
the offirers implicated by the investigation.
The undersigned will not detain the House
with a statement of what they testify.—
They hazard no opinion as to the truth and
importance of their statements. When
testimony wholly unprejudiced and unin
fluenced by feelings of disappointment or
loss of office may be had, a fair investiga
tion will not resort to that of an opposite
description, nor an impartial legislature be
influenced by it.
Others have testified who do not come
under the head of discarded officers, whose
bitterness might easily, were it worth the
labor, be explained. One instance will
suffice:
Joseph S. Snowdon, a transporter on the
Columbia and Philadelphia Rail road,
swears,—"there are three depots on the
Delaware. I have two. lam perhaps the
heaviest transporter on the road." The
undersigned are credibly informed that
this deponent owns trorn twelve to fourteen
cars. From this sample the character of
the whole of such testimony may be'deter
mined.
But, fortunately for truth and justice, the
majority could not even according to their
views of propriety, refuse to examine some
witnesses whose names were furnished by
the parties implicated. The person who
will take the trouble to wade through the
mass of evidence collected by the ceminit
tee,' will be struck with two remarkable
facts. The first is, that nearly all the wit
nesses for the prosecution are either discar , .
dad officers, or persons having a direct in
terest in producing a change, or warm po
litical partizan; and that on the other hand,
the witnesses subratned at the instance of
the officers . implicated are gentlemen whol
ly disinteierited, of high character . and.of
both political parties indifferently. The
other fact is only a natural consequence
from such a state of things. It is, that
while the former class of witnesses swear
unhesitatingly against all present arrange
ment, and officers, the latter, w'th manly
independence, not only state instances of
wrong conduct where they occurred, but
, also state that the proper remedy has been
applied; and give their opinion that things
are now generally conducted better than
formerly.
While speaking of these general results,
the undersigned would also remark that
they were astonished at the avidity o with
which the least hint of a trivial error was
pursued and magnified by the majority
while testimony of an opposite complexion
was slurred over with scarcely any regard
to appearances. As an instance of the
manner in which testimony was tortured,
it may he stated that many of the words
put into the mouth of Isaac Mason, fireman
of the stationary engine at Columbia Plane
by the majority, are denied by him, arid
that he is ready to give testimony of a
directly contrary description, and that cer•
tain questions propounded to him for the
purpose of proving that his superior officers,
attempted, under threat of dismissal, to in
fluence his vino, which he positively denied,'
are not, neither are his answers, to be found
among the notes of testimony recorded by
the secretary.
Among witnesses thus drummed tot/ether
—thus examined—and amidst testimony
thus recorded, the presence of names and
proof like the following, must be decisive,
upon every impartial mind.
Edward F. Gay, Esq. a civil engineer, of
high reputation, who had charge of the Phil.
adelphia and Columbia Railway a conside
rable time under the Into Board, and who
is a political opponent of the present Admin.
istration, states that -'Mr. Mehnflv," (the
present superintendent onl he road) "is an
excellent officer. I think the motive pow
er since he has been on the road alone,
quite as good as in 18,55, or any former
time. The locomotives manufactured by
Mr. Baldwin, I have always held in high es
timation. They were considered less liab:e
to injury, and more easily repaired. I
presume there are more hands on the road
than in 1835, but there are more engines.
Two of the British engines" (brought on the
road in 1 35,) "were worse than useless.--
Mr. Brandt was taken into employ when
locomotives first commenced runni and
is still on the road. I think he is a capible
officer;—he is an excellent mechanic; lie is
head machinist at Parkesbargh; ho is not so
fast as some men, but there are few as good
machinists as him in this country. Passen
ger cars go slower now than in 1835; this
is an advantage to cars, but travellers wish
to go fast. They get through - now in about
the same time as in 1835; perhaps the dif
ference may be as 10 to 20. When cars
are taken, and the breakers are in good
order, cars may be let down the Columbia
Plane in safety without being attached to
the main rope. They were so let down in
1835. They were never so let down by
my orders, but sometimes the engines were
out of order, arid then there was no other
alternative-"
Peter Osborne, formerly high Sheriff of
Chester county, and now proprietor of pas
senger cars 'says,"the road was in bad order
in the fall of 1835, and, spring of 1836, it
took a great deal of labor and attention to
repair it, there was every exertion made
(in 1836) to get the transportation on. I
think there was not power enough on the
road; I should say there were not more ac
cidents on the road last year in proportion
to the business. There were a good many
old cars upon the road, more liable to break
than new ones. The•motive power is very
well conducted since Mr. Mehaffey has it.
Every thing is higher on the road than it
was the year before. It costs more to run
locomotives; men could not afford to give
their services so low."
Geo. W. Johnson, agent oftransportation
and political opponent, states: "1 don't know
that there was more complaint last year
than formerly. There were more boat
lines running last year, and more goods
passed through and more 'passengers on ,
the road. As to the reputation of Mr. '
Orme, (supery sor at Duncan's Island,) some
found fault and lime not. He appeared to
be very industrious and underwent great
fatigue."
Ferree Brinton, Robert Parke, Peter
Stayman, Hathorn Freeland, Dr Kirkwood
and Joseph Howett, all transporters on the
Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, testi.
fy pretty much to the same effect. The
first named witness said: "I am a transpor
ter. 1 have been concerned in the business
since the 12th of April last, but owned no
cars until about two months since. The
Rail-road passes through my farm, and I
have a store and lumber yard. I have had
a good opportunity of observing the road and
its management. Since the commence
ment I hauled my lumber on it for building.
There was a good deal of mismanagement
in the summer of 1835, and until about four
menthe since. This mismanagement con
sisted principally in the engineers running
too fast, consequently breaking the cars.—
, There was also mismanagement for the
want of discipline in the year 1835—gene
rally with the engineers and the hands.—
There wean reform in this particular in the
spring of 183 P, but nut so manifest as to
wards the fall. In the spring of 18:9 there
were still remains of this insubordination;
but it was materially changed in the fall and
Winter. Both the road and the motive pow
er are better managed now then it has ever
been before. I spoke to Mr. Mehaffey
several times about engineers running too
fast, and the want of discipline among the
engineers and officers. He said they had
tried the experiment of using the power to
its utmost extent, for the purpose of getting
the goods through. That he was satisfied
that it would not answer, but that, Mr.
Ortlip was not willing to change the plan.
The experiment he alluded to was making
two tripe in the day. There was a diflicul.
ty in getting bands in the win'er of 1835-6,
in our neighborhood, to clear away the snow,
'r"..,..7;;/2C.
in consequence of a distrust among the
laborers as to theirpay. • This was before
the new set came in.' As a proof of the
distrust 1 have mentioned, i was spoken to
get hands to work - on the road; 1 called
upon several—told them they wore to get
a dollar a day. They said they would pre
fer me as paymaster at 50 cents a day and
board, that they were not willing to take
the state as paymaster—said others had
worked and got Mitchell's scrip, hut no
money. There was no difficulty of that
kind this wintor.
The British engines done n poor business.
so poor, some of them, that they did not
pay for the fuel. There was a want of mo
tive pniver on. the road in 1835, I under.
stood Mitchell gave script; got receipts, but
never paid. lie got the money. I think
the cars that were broken were principally
old ores. I saw no new ones broken, but
several old ones, principally Leech's.
[To be continued.)
Political Mailers.
Democratic .Anti-.ll7aBo.ltiC
Costal?, meeting.
A very numerous and respectable meet.
ing of the Anti- Masons of Adatns county,wus
held at the Court-House, in Gettysburgh,
on Monday evening, the 24th of April in
stunt. It was organized by appointing
JAvl ES RENSHA WV, Esq. President;
JAMES RontrarriE, Esq. Col. JOHN WOl
- JOSEPH CARL arid JOHN MVSSELMAN,
Esq. Vice Presidents; and D. Mddlecof
and John A. ilfuginleg, (of A.) Szicretaries.
On motion, it was unanimously Resolved,
That a, committee of three be appointed to
invite C. B. PENROSE and T. C. HA3IIII.It,
.Esquires. to attend and address the meeting
upon the subject of the Governor's Veto.—
SV hereupon the lien. William McClean,
James Cooper, Esq. and John M. Stevenson,
ware appointed said committee—who, after
a short Ithsence,reported that they had wait
ed upon the above named gentlemen, and
had the pleasure to inform the ineetingthat
they were now present. Messrs. Promos'.:
and HAMItLY each addressed the meeting
in a very eloquent manner, end were listen
ed to with much pleasure by the attentive
audience.
On motion, a committee, consisting of
T. Stevens, Esq. Hon. Geo. Will, Joseph
Taylor, W. W. l'azton, Esq. James Mc
Sherry, Esq. Geo. Deardorff, Esq. and D.
M. Sinyser, Esq. was appointed to report
resolutions for the consideration of the meet.
ing—who, after a short interval, submitted
the following resolutions, which were adop
ted without a division:—
Resolved, 'flint our abhorrence of the
Masonic Institution, and of all other Secret
Societies bound together by unlawful Oaths,
continues unabated, and is increased by
every day's experience of their evils.
Resolved, That we will "persevere" in
our efihrts for their destruction, untill a ma•
jority of the people shall come to our aid
and enable us to triumph. .
• Res,ilved , That the Letter of Governor
RITNER, on the subject of Gen. Washing.
ton's, Masonry, is a masterly and unanswer
able document; for which he is entitled to
the gratitude of Freemen.
Resolved, That we highly approve oldie
Governor's veto of the wasteful "Improve.
maid Bill," and tender to him our most
sincere thani;s for saving the State from
Bankruptcy, and our citizens from ruinous
Taxation.
Resolved, That the refusal of the Iletise
of Representatives to print the "Letter on
Masonry" and the •Veto Message" evinces
a narrow, malignant and illiberal spirit, un
worthy of the representatives of an enlight
ened people, and inconsistent with the char.
acter of enlightened and honest legislators.
Resolved, That a committee of seven be
appointed to procure the publication 0f3,000
copies of each of the above named docu
ments, both to be printed in one pamphlet;
and to furnish them to the people without
distinction of party, so that those who take
none but Masonic Van Buren papers may
not remain ignorant of the truth.
The following gentlemen were appointed
to carry into effect the above resolution:
Cul. M. C. CLARKSON,
Hon. GEORGE WILL,
BERN HART GILBERT, Esq.
Cu). JAMES D. PAXTON,
JAMES A. THOMPSON, Esq.
Cul. JOHN WOLFORD,
DAVID MI DDLECOFF, Esq.
After the adoption of the above resolu•
'ions, tho following was submitted by T.
STEvmvs, Esq. and unanimously concurred
in:—
Resolved, That we deprecate the attempt now
making by the Masonic Van Buren party to
make "Abolition" a party question. The cause
of the Constitution and Humanity should never
be introduced into party politics. Let each one
in his own way, and according to the dictates I;
his own heart and conscience, supplicate Heaven,
either that the "rod of the oppressor may be bro
ken, and the oppresse4 go free;" or that theheart
of our Slaveholding brethren may still incline to
retain their legal property in Slaves, as may best
tend to the ends of slurries, and the preservation
of the "INTZOII.ITY OE TILE UNION. "
Resolved, That the proceedings of this
meeting be signed by the oflicersi, and pub
lished in all the papers of the County.
JAM ES R NSHA W, -President.
JAMES RO INETTE,
JOHN W LF"D ,
i , V. Pres'ts.
JOSEPH CARL,
JOHN MVSSELMAN, J
David Middlecof,
John A. 11VGInley, of A. Sec'ries.
"UiNcowromd"—John A. Bryan, a Van
Buren demagogue, who went from this State
to Ohio for the purpose of introducing New
York tactics there, has been exposed by a
Legislative investigation,in fraud and spec.
illations as State Auditor. Will the Editor
of the Argus now take back all the hand
some things he has said about Mr. Bryan's
patriotism and integrity.—Alb. Eve. Jour.
Exrunorrio.—The Wheeling (Virginia)
Gazette says, that when Mr. Senator Ben
ton arrived at that place, his name was en
tered on the hotel register, as customary,
but it was soon after expunged. A black
line was drawn around it, and his favorite
word written in bold characters across it.
General AffitteUigeurp.
O — INTERESTING FROM EUROPE.
AFFAIRS IN NEW-YORK, die.
Correspondence of the National Intelligencer.
NEW YORK, April 22.
News from England arrived by the Geo.
Washington, at half past 12 o'clock this
morning,. when the newspaper boats came
up, and Wall street was in a buzz, every
body inquiring what is tl a news.
The Bank of England has come to the
rescue of three American houses, and was
still considering upon others. This is good
news; but England has not yet heard from
the United States, and we cannot come to
conclusions till the packets of the Bth, 16th,
and 24th inst. arrive. Wait,' wart, wait!
Cotton has fallen in England a half penny,
and on t he 24th rallied one-eighth of a penny.
This is more bad than good. .
The Bank of the United States is authoriz
ed to draw immediately upon the Bank of
England for 2,000,000 sterling. This is
the bank whose "credit" Mr. Rum has been
crying downl
The . George Washington brings back
protested bills to the amount °Nearly $150,.
000. This was not unexpected.
The English journals are looking to us
for relief, and with the greatest anxiety do
the merchants fix their eyes upon New York
for remittances! Will they come?
The Paris money market is ini a very bad
state. The run upon the French Savings
Banks continues.
There had been great failures in Liver
pool, Manchester, and Birmingham. One
firm in Birmingham for 22,000 pounds star.
ling. The English call this a great fail
ure. They have not heard from New Or.
leans.
General EVANS ' S British nrmnment has
had an engagement in Spain, in which it
suffined severely.
All things are quiet in England In apoliti
cal way. •
News from England will continuo to at.
tract the greatest retention Specie ;rind.
go, and forty Treasury circulars and two
hundred Administrations cannot prevent it.
Can they dam the Mississippi, and make it
run over the •Rocky mountains?
A meeting of the merchants is called to
discuss the present state of things. The
call will be extended to the mechanics, it is
probable.
TREASURY CincurAn.---The parry in
the West are getting sick of. the specie
circular. The Louisville Advertiser, as
devoted a tool as is to be hound in the Roy.
a list ranks, gives it a rap every day or so.—
It says:
4 , 1t0 operation has been highly salutary
—but it does not follow that the restriction
it imposes is now necessary or expedient.
We believe it has done all the good it can
accoinplish.
It wishes it modified, and that "rood bank .
notes of twenty dollars" be allowed to he
taken for the public lands.' In that case he
says "the banks in
.. the West would cease
to dread onerotiariir uaexpected drafts 0n. . - -
them for speciti.m:lit further says that the
banks aro dispoSed . to. curtail with more -
rapidity than' I . „ suate of the . country will •
t r
justify. It is tyo ftli‘t the Editiwor_the-..-
_-
Advertiser emir* n'hiii• heart the circular,
but ho is obliged.to cover, up,his cenkure
.:
with a little itonett:;:,ihtiOial!apcils7 sy,..
not be endannered. , ..:47. 7 . - :..".. - '..
* __ ~-.-.. : ..,.-Ar- eudo,..__ i ,-v.,,
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It is stated in the IVlnunssippi Repuhlican
that executions amounting in the aggregate .
to too mucous of dollars, 'wete lately nin
the hands of the Sheriff, against the citizens
of Clinton, Mississippi.
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WILKESHARRE, Pa. - Aprill7.
It is rumored that a intolniz NINE haw
been discovered on theland of Mr. Darius •
n Plymouth township, near . to,
Toby's Williams,Eddy; "It's not all gold that - Vit . ,
ters," nor is it all sdyer , we guess, Vat
,thines. But if this report betruo,Wyoming
Va! • y will figure quito conspicuously
the world's eye, for rich historical associa-Fle,
tions—coal sufficient to supply the globe—
fertile lands—and silver mines!
SINGULAR Pinson EscAPE.-- , -We
ed a few days ago the conviction, at Fin
castle, Va. of two men for passing counter
feit money. It appears that one or then)
named Heath, after being returned to jail,
preparatory to his cotiveyance to the Peni
tentiary, made hiri escape in the following
mantier:—The wife of the prisoner was ad.
mined by the jailor to an interview with her
huSband, representing that she was about to
leave the country, and that it was the last
time she expected :to see him. After some
time, the jailor returned to the prisoner's
apartment, and found Mrs. Heath, (as -was
supposed,) ready to take leave of her hus
band—wrapped up in a cloak, and her face
concealed by hertionnet. Thus attired she
was suffered to pass out of the prison, all the
time sobbing aloud In the greatest apparent
distress. On visiting the jail next morning,
instead of the convict, Mrs. Heath was
found neatly drettaed in the clothes of her
husband, who had been permitted to pass
out, in the manner desciihed, the night pre.
vious. •The heroine,?addei the editor, after
a loud laugh, explained to the jailor the
secret of her husband's escape.
HUMOR AND GOOD HUMOR.
From the Philadelphia' Pennsylvanian.
Fulfilling pledges—Obeying Instructions.
These nice questions in political morals
are now mooted in New York—a bingular
case having arisen, the 'decision of which
will frequently be referred to hereafter as u
binding authority. The matter, if we un
derstand it correctly, is as follows: Some
time since, Mr. PRESERVED Fort, of New
York, an active member of Abe political
party to which we belong, voted that if ever
a Whig alderman were elected in the
seventh ward, he (Mr. Fos) would run
through all the wards in the city without
his nether integuments; in other words, that
he would for once play the part ofa sans
culotte, and appear in the habit of an "anti-.
que Roman." Now, tt so happens, that
through our decisions a whtg alderman has
beau elected in the.seveatli •wardt_ and the
.~c..:xsv~c~~ _~---.~xres:n
,
wing presses, elate with victory, loudly call
011 Mr. natt - to fulfil his vow, and emilate
the heroic conduct of the Lady Godtva,
which took place in the streets of Coventry
a few centuries ago. In fact, it is said that
all parties unite in desiring that the gentle
man's galligaskin and the race against time
should "come off' as speedily as possible;
and should it be resolved on, we can think
of no tune that can be played so appropri•
ate to the occasion as that fine old air "The
Garb of old Gaul." It this be the style
contemplated by the vow, why should Mr.
FlBll hesitate about appearing in a costume
so graceful and becoming as the kilt?
Not hingcun be more picturesque. George
IV. adopted it from choice, during his cel
ebrated visit to "Auld Reekie," and the
Highland regiments still cherish their na
tional dress, as both economical and beau
tiful. If a foot race is to be run, what can
add so much to swiftness as being divested
of 'superfluous clothing? The influence of
the weather would also be counteracted by
the increase of activity.
AN UNLUCKY REGIMENT. -- Si lee the 54th
British regiment went to India they lost 34
officers, 1,200 men, 51 European women,
and 135 children, all from disease, except
about 00, who were killed iil the field.
A COUNTY WITHOUT A LAWYER.—War•
ren county, Illinois, containing a population
of 7,000, with three or four thriving towns,
and twelve or fifteen more staked out and
in market, has not a lawyer in it. It is not
because the profession are ignorant of the
'fact; for attorneys aro always among /the
first discoverer) of western towns, and es
pecially county seats; but from the almost
total absence of litigation. "Two or three
lawyers have tried to live here," said our
inforMant, "but they had to dear out."
HOUSE BUILDING' IN TUE WEST.—The
Illinois Patriot gives an account of a citiwn
of that region, who secured his lumber from
the mill, made a frame therefrom 15 by 24
feet, raised it, shingled and weatherhoardeci
it, put an window and doorframes, and part.
ly . painted the house—all in one day.
QUICK PASSAGE.—The steamboat Paris
recently made a trip from Pittsburgh to St.
Louis, and back again, in the short space
of fourteen days, including all stoppages.—'
The Pittsburgh Advocate says, the trip is
rarely done under eighteen days.
We learn by a letter from the West,
'that the Hon. Gisoacia POINDEXTER, late
Senator of the United States fram Missis
.aippi, his taken:up his residence at Lex•
. invert, 14.—Net. Intel.
• A Rusvrioiv.-4 down enet editor says
—"I have to edit my paper, keep my books
fur.the paper andittbar business, do all my
out:chior business, put up all my orders for
goods, do all my correspondence, generally
direct my papers, wait upon my customers,
have the care of my printing office, saw
• and split my wood, mAke my fires, feed
- -ray hens, instruct my "Ehildren, tend the
babies, besides other plitis and other busi-
Wis. With all this, and rigid economy,
hope" to gain 'something. when /get a
Waite
-• -LAW ELO . T7RI9II IN, KENTUCKY. —The
fOlitlvni)utowirliir o aeefaßt . and classic
peal4l4p....oo4lXliart: of Justice some-
Whrt6:th Kiintiiitki lifone of the "learned
hitiads i ' - of the lair: "Gentlemen of the
.JurY; do you think my client, who lives in
ihopleasant valley of Kentucky, whore the
hinds is rich and the soil are fertile, would
be guilty of stealing elei)ing little skeins of
cotitne I think not, I reckon not, 1 col
culate not; And I guess, gentlemen of the
jury, that you had better bring my client in
not guilty, _ for if you convict him he and
hiniton John will lick the whole ofyou.7
A . COUNTERFEITER SENTENOED.-JOrIN
WARREN, who was-some time since acres
,-led in Lancaster, (Pa.) on a charge of pass.
? 5 1,ttg counterfeit notes purporting to be 20's
of the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of
Philadelohia, had his trial last week, be.
fore the dyer and Terminer Court of Lan
caster county. After hearing the testimo
ny, the case was submitted to the jury with
out argument. Their verdict was count;
and the convict sentenced, to five years im
prisonment, at hard labor and aolitary con
finement, in the eastern penitentiary. Sure
ly, way of the transgressor is hard."
We are informed that Mr. John Ran
dolph's will of 1822, by which h 6 slaves
were libeiated, has been established by the
Court of Appeals of Virginia.
Looxixo Boston Gazette
of Monday ova: "at nearly all the chur
ches of this city, yesterday morning, the
sermons related to the pressure in the mo.
ney market and to the extensive failures
which have recently taken place. Be of
good cheer and help , one another, was the
prevailing sentiment."
A COINCIDENCE.--t irieral Jacks°h went
out of office on the :3(Cof March. On the
4111 at 12 o'clock, he put forth his valedic
tory, in Which he satitrhe was sure that
none of his mistakes had seriously injured
the country." On that very day the fail
ures commended in New Orleans!
Mrurn..LANve.--At the last session of the
Legislature, Militia- Laws were amended
so as to exempt citizens from militia duty,
on joining n volunteer corps, as contributing
members, and paying to such company the
sum of two dollars per annum.
REASON FOR MARRYING.--A young lady
tells us that she is not yet married, but that
she is always looking out in order to get
spliced. On being closely questioned, she
acknowledged that she thought old maids
were the happiest, but that they had_ the
name of being, cross, and she would rather
burthen herself with a husband than be cal.
led owe,. We have now discovered the
reason that the young ladies get married.
They are afraid of being callod cross.
STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER.
BY ROBERT W. MIDDLETON.
GETTITSBtMGH, PA.
'Monday, allay 1 ) 1837.
(*—The Wagon pticO of Flour in Balti.
more—sl3 25.
Democratic anti -Masonic Meeting.
ai-We give in another column the proceedings
of our Democratic Anti-Masonic friends in the
Court-house, on Monday evening last. It was
composed principally of our country friends—all
of whom seemed pleased and determined to sus
tain the FARMER GOVERNOR who at present
guides the helm of State. The resolutions adop
ted by them were of the right kind, 'and will be
the rallying points at the next election. Anti-Ma
sonry, Ritner and Economy will call together in
one solid phalanx all who desire the welfare of
the State and the Supremacy of the Laws.
C. B. Penrose, Esq.
ozy-Among those who addressed the Democratic
Anti-Masonic meeting on Monday evening last,
was CIIAHLEB B. PKNROSE, Esq. His remarks
were principally confined to thu Governor's Veto,
and the cause and effects of the present great dis
tress in the Cities of New Orleans, Now York
and other places. On those points ho was listene
ed to with great attention, and imparted much
interesting information to his numerous audience.
The way in which ho barkiled "The Government"
and "Patent Democracy," was a caution, and the
few "spirits" thnt ventured within his hearing wore
seen to tarn alternatelYt '•blue and pale!" Mr.
Penrose, in the last few years, has shown himself
to be a true-hearted Pennsylvanian and a Stites
man, far above those vile Domagngues who would
sacrifice the dearest interests of the State at the
shrine of party. Such men as Mr. Penrose de
serve to he, and will be sustained by the honest
freemen of Pennsylvania.
Conventions.
( ./ -•This day the far-famed "Integrity of the
Union" Convention will assemble at Harrisburgh.
After its adjournment, there will be TEN Allah
tionists where there is one now. Mobs, gag-laws
and denunciations aro the very things to increase
the cause and make for it thousands and thou
sands of friends. Dut as Davy Crocket used to
say—"Go a-heed.'"
To-morrow the Convention to propose a
mendments to the Constitution also meets in Hur
risburgh. If our friends are punctual and act in
harmony, either WALTEtt FORWARD or Jou ti
SERDEANT will be the President of that important
body. In such a body, all party bickerings should
be laid aside, and both branches of the conservative
party should act unitedly for the best interests of
the State, that they might .the better be prepar
ed to resist the innovations of the Dallasites, who
will doubtless be for "repealing Charters," "intro-.
ducing Slavery," and for carrying out all tho other
obnoxious doctrines of their great leaded
cc7.on the 22d instant, a Democratic Anti-Ma
sonic State Convention will also be held in Har
risburgh. Delegates will no doubt be in attendance
from every County in the State. The best feeling,
we are rejoiced to -state, prevails throughout our
ranks. All appear to be in readiness to go for
ward at the proper time in the good old cause, and
in sustaining our worthy FsnstEn. GovsnNon.—
One of the first acts of the State Convention will
be, to choose delegates to a National Auti-Maionic
Convention, when without doubt, the Heroe of
Tippecanoe will be again placed in nomination for
the Presidency. Should that course be pursued,
the days of the Masonic Van Duren party, so far
as Pennsylvania is concerned, will be numbered.
ajqt is also proposed to hold, at the same place
on the 23d instant, a Convention of Editors.
Such a convention, we have no doubt, would provo
highly beneficial, not only to the Fraternity, but
to the Public. We therefore approve of the propo
sition.
Mobs, Arc. iu Chamberaburghl
cCrit was no matter of surprize to our readers
to learn, an they did last week, that a mobbing
took place lately to Chambersburgh! There are
some "mad spirits" in that good Borough always
ripe for such things! Not long since, because an
intelligent Jury would not, right or wrong, hang a
man, those kind spirits" burnt them in efligy,and
threatened violence to their persons! A while af
terwards, a distinguished citizen of this county,
for his independence as a Legislator, was also com
mitted (in-effigy) to•the flames, by kindred souls
in a neighboring town! And a few nights ago,
because one of their Editors condemned such hon.
eit expressions of indignation, and contended for
freedom of opinion on all subjects, he too must
be burnt! He too must ho hung up in effigy and
made to dance to the music of such "black spirits
and whitA" Nor is this alb When the Chief
Burgess and other Citizens attempted to adopt
measures to keep order and quiet in the town,
these name hobgobblins wore on the spot ready to
create disorder, and elevate Lynch law above the
Constitutional laws of the country!
Such men, we care not whether they be "pro
fessional" men or not, are a disgrace—a damning
disgrace to the place; and we trust, for the honor
and character of Chambersburgh, the high-minded
and intelligent citizens of that place will ferret out
the leaders in those disgraceful scones, and bring
them io punishment.
The following remarks we copy from the
"Weekly Messenger," a religious paper, Edited by
Rev. Mr. SCHNICIC:•-•-•
CHAMBERSBURGFI, April 26.
We have heard with much pain and re
gret of the shameful conduct of several per
sons—for we hope and believe, that but
few were concerned in it—at a public meet
ing, held in the Court-house of this place, a
week or ten days since. The subject of
the meeting was, to appoint Delegates to
the Anti-Abolition Convention at Harris
burgh. M r.' Blanchard, an Abolition lec
turer being in town that evening, attended
the meeting, without intending, we believe,
to take any part in the discussions.
With regard to the actual conduct of Mr.
Blanchard, we have heard different state-
silents—according to some, he did not speak
at all; others say, that he attempted it, but
was prtivented—and others again—which
we believe to be the most correct—that he
merely answered "I will," to a question
proposed by one of the speakers, "whether
any one present were willing, to discuss
the subject of Abolitionism with him on the
following evening?" At all events, the son•
timents of Mr. B. were known, and this
seems to have been sufficient to cause a ta.
mull an the, house, from which he wag dri
ven, or followed to the door of the Hotel
and pelted with eggs, amid the hissings and
threats of the mob!
Such conduct cannot be ton severely re
primanded, and the offenders should be dealt
with in .the most decided mariner by the
judicial tribunals. We do not deem it to
be a suftcient excuse, that the disorderly
conduct alluded to, was perpetrated by a
few unprincipled individual* who have no
character to lose. Whoever they are, and
whatever their station in society, they ought
not be perinitted to qample with impunity,
on the dearest rights of man—freedom of
thought and speech.
We speak not thus from sympathy with
modern abolitionism—for we are free to de
clare, that we have no such sympathies—
but we deprecate the spirit of lawless vio
lence, of late so prevalent in our land. Let
the cause be what it may; let it be, or sup
posed to be, ever so absurd, or evil in its
tendency—it can never be justifiable to re
sort to such means for its overthrow.
ozy.The "Franklin Masonic Repository," it ap
pears, has made a "great discovery." It states,
as a fad, that nearly all the Anti-Masonic papers
are opposed to the Slavery Convention, which
meets to-day in Harrisburgh! What a wise man,
considering he lives in Chambersburgh!
ct,Sr. Jortsr's Cutrucii, a magnificent build
ing recently erected in Frederick city by the Catho
lic denomination, was consecrated on Wednesday
last, in the presence of a large concourse of yer
sons. °The cons"cratory sermon," the Times
states, "was delivered by the Right Rev. Dr. ENo
-4s n, of Charleston, S. C., and was justly admir
ed for its ability, eloquence and truly pious senti
ment."
c-2. There kayo been in New York, during the
present pressure, upwards of Iwo hundred and
twenty failures! In Mobile, upwards of one hun
dred! I Still the Globe cries out, there is no pres
sure! Money is plenty! Out upon thee, vile mis
creant!
A BRIGHT JUSTICE!
The following copy of a Copies, issued by
one of the Justices in a neighboring county, . has
been handutl to us for insertion. The words in
Italica were written by the "'Squire:"
COPY OF A CAPIAS.
To the Constable of in the Coun•
ty of We command you that you
take a Ceartuin man a petler hives with
four Horses—a Gra mare in the Leade 3
Brown horses with a Red pented petien
Wußon in the said County of and
bring him before Esq. one of our
Justices of the Peace in and for the said
County forthwith.
NEW YORK MIRROR.—CHARLES J. HOFF
MAN, EHq a writer of much promise, and
favorably known as the author of "A Win
ter in the West," has become connected
with the New York Mirror, as one of the
editors of that popular periodical. The ac
cession of editorial talent thus secured to the
Mirror, must largely tend to give value to
its pages, and make bettee that which be
fore was very good.
TEE WIIEAT CROP.—Kentucky papers
report, that in the north.eastern parts of that
State, the wheat presents a more• unprom
ising appearance than for many years past.
in Virginia, some of the farmers have
broken up their whlat land, and prepared
it for oats and corn: and from Maryland too
the Same cheerless prospect is presented.—
It is to be hoped that scarcity of bread.stuffs
may not be added the coming year to the
distress arising from scarcity of money; but
in truth there would seem to be some danger
of such a result. Vegetation every ~where
is very backward this spring; and from al
most all quarters we hear sad forebodings
of the complete or partial failure of the wheat
crop in particular.—Pittsburgh Times.
Mr. McPherson, who has been held to
bail on a charge of committing the late rob.
bery at Frederick, in a card to the public,
requests a suspension of their judgment,
until he receives an impartial trial from a
jury of his countrymen. This is nothing
but fair, as the law "presumes every man
innocent until he is found guilty."
It is stated there are more than two thou.
sand mechanics of various trades, besides
a vast number of laborers, out of employ
ment in the cities of New York and Phila
delphia.
Gen. Alma. LACOCH died at his resi
dence near Freedom, in Beaver county, on
the 12th instant, in the 6th year of his age.
Gen. L. has, at different periods, been a
member of both branches of the State and
National Legislatures, and was, we believe,
one of the first of the Canal Commissioners
of Pennsylvania.
We regret to be called upon to announce
the death of NATHANIEL ELLHAAER, Esq.
—father ofour fellow townsman Amos Ell.
maker, Ehq.—which occurred at his-resi
dence in this county, on the evening of
Monday last. Mr. Ellmaker was known
here and elsewhere as one of the earliest of
the advocates of Anti-Masonry. He was
among the first, if not the very first, in this
county, to raise his warning voice against
the iniquities and abominations Free-Mason
ry; and although the whole force of the Ma
sonic artillery was directed against him, he
firmly maintained until the last the stand
which he had assumed, and freely gave his
time and his means in aid of the great
work.—Lancaster Examiner.
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF THE CORRECT.
NESS OF THE VETO.—It is really gratifying
to witness the overwhelming evidences to the
sound judgment and true oatriotism dis
played by the governor, in his veto on the
mammoth improvement bill. The Anti.
Masonic papers thought the state loudly ap
prove it; the whig papers, so far as we have
teen, are unanimous is favor. Some of
the Van Buren napery, and many—very
many,of the Van Buren men now admit that
it is right, and say that for once Old Joe
has done well. This is truly strong evi
dence in favor of the veto. .
But the strongest, and most satisfactory
and conclusive testimony in its favor is yet
to. be mentioned: a is the refusal Of the
editors of the collar papers to publish it.—
The 4;" have all read the veto—they know
and ( r eel that its statements and its argu
ments are irresistible, and therefore they
suppress it.—Piasburda Gazette.
Lormavrne.—The Southwestern Chris
tian Advocate announces the death, on the
29th of February, in Davidson county, (Ten
nessee) oleo!. Adain Binkley, aged one bun
dred and thirty.six years! He served
throughout the Revolutionary war, at which
time it is said he had a wife and eleven chit
dm. '
EXTRAORDINARY.—Two ewes belonging
to Mr. Ebenezer Collings, a highly respec•
table farmer of Duanesburgh, N. Y. pro
duced the present season seven lambs—one
four and the-other three—all alive and kick
ing.
GOOD NEWS FOR Nm.v JERSEY.—Pine
leaves have been found to be a very valua
ble manure for potatoes.
Give pinch hogs as you have in your pen,
once a week, a few shovels full of charcoal,
or pieces of rotten wood.
HYMENIAL REGIBTE:R.
MARRIED.
On the 18th ult. in Charnbersbnrgh, by the Rev.
Mr. Bond, Mr. Jolts ODELL, of Gottyaburgh, to
Milts Kin Y ITULOW, of that place.
On the 13th ult, by the Rev. Mr. Gutelius, Mr.
WILLTAM CRIMMELL,Of this county,to MissELEO.
2:wt.( DOLL, of York County.
On the 20th ult, by the Rev. Mr. Gottwald, Mr.
JACOB' Yj.•uy to Miss CATHARINE BOYER, both
of Straban township.
ODITDADY RECORD.
On the 15th ult. Miss ELI ZA nKm STEIN, daugh
ter of Mr. George Stein, deceased, of this county
in the 18th year of her age.-
On the 27th ult. MT. WILLIAM HOLTZWODTII,
late High Constable of this Borough, in the 42d
year of his age. Mr. Holtzworth was born in. La
ncaster. and has resided in this place for a number
of years past. Ho has loft a wife and a number
of children to lament their loss. He had many
friends—enemies none.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
The Rev. Mr. BAUGHER, will preach in
the English Lutheran Church on Sunday morn
ing next, at half past 10 o'clock—and Rev. Mr.
JACOBS in the evening, at
.7 o'clock.
azr Rev. Mr. WLEAN will also preach in his
Church on Sunday morning next.
A DVERTISEMENST
JProthonotarky 9 s
Notice is - hereby Given
frO all persons concerned, that the
-a-fol
lowing TRUSTEE ACCOUNTS
are 610 in the Prothonotary's Office at Get.
tysburgli,and will be presented to the Judges
of the Orphans' Court of Adams County on
Tuesday the 30th. day of Nay inst., for
confirmation and allowance—viz:
The Trustee Account of Andrew G. Mi
ter and George Shry6clc,Vrustees ofJacob
Lefever.
The Trustee Account of Samuel S. Fog
ney, Trustee of David Eckert.
The Trustee Account of Jaines Brinker
holt; Trustee Of Etez Cross.,
The• Trustee Account of John Shorb and
Joseph Fink, Trustees of John Shorb.
Wm. Rex, one of the Trustees of Boreas
Fahnestock.
C. F. Keener, one of the Truster., of Bn.
roan Fahuestock.
B. GiLBERT, Proth'y.
May,l, 1837. tc-5
Registeeslotices.
Notice is hereby Given,
TO ali Legatees and other persona con
earned, that the ADMINISTRA
TIO-V ACCOUNTS of the deceased per
sons hereinafter mentioned,will be presented
to the Orphans' Court of Adams County, for
confirmation and allowance, on Tuesday the
30th day of May inst., via:
The Account of Joseph Taylor, Adminis•
trator oftheEstate of Henry Miller, demo.
ed.
The final Account of Rudolph Spangler,
surviving Executor ofthe Estate of Rudolph
Spangler, (the elder) deceased.
The further Account of Jonathan C. For
rest, Administrator of the Estate of Peter
Shift, deceased.
Tho Account of Wm. Rex, Executor Of
the Estate of Daniel Rex, deceased.
The Guardianship Account of Peter Har•
lecher, Guardian of Catharine and Samuel
Hildebrand, minor children of John Hilde
brand, Jr. deceased.
The Account of George Hewitt, Execu
tor of the Estate ofJoseph McCain,deceased.
The Account of George Fehl, Executor
of the Estate of Frederick Stetuour, deceas.
ed.
The Guardianship Account of John Rex,
Guardian of Henry Long, minor child of
James Long, deceased.
The Account of George Plank, Adminis
trator de bonis non, with the will annexed
of Jacob Weidner, deceased.
The further Account of Win. H. Lott,
one of the Executors of Wilbelmus Hough
telin, deceased.
The Guardianship Account of Moses Mc-
Clean, Guardian of James P. McConaughy,
minor child of John McConaughy,deceased.
The Guardianship Account of Moses Mc.
Clean, Guardian of Elizabeth McConaughy,
minor child ofJohn McConaughy, deceased.
The Guardianship Account of Moses Mc-
Clean,Guardian of Martha E. McConaughy,
minor child of John McConaughy,deceased.
The Guardianship Account of Moses Mc-
Clean, Guardian of David McConaughy,
minor child ofJehn McConaughy, deceased.
JAS. A. THom MON, Register.
Register's 04Rce,Get tya
burg, May 1, 1837.
Horse Bills
Neatly (ft expeditiously urinteci at this OfSca
DIED.
PUBLIC NOTICES.
CABINET WAREHOUSE.
DAVID_ ECEAGY
R ESPECTFULLY informs . his old
friends and customers that he has ta
ken a Shop convenient to his dwelling,where
he is teady at all times to fill the orders of
those who may wish work done in the Cabi
netmaking line.
He has also on hand a variety of
111317 TURITITITR.III.
Oz:rHe is also prepared to make COP..
rim, as usual, at the shortest notice,
out of either Mahogany, Maple, Cherry or
Walnut.
Thankful for past favors, he hopes to re.
ceive a continuance of the public's liberality.
May 1, 1R37. tf-3
ffirctift ffooks
•
• SAMUEL WITHEROW
H AS just returned from the City with
a large and splendid assortment of
SOOMO)
purchased on the best terms, and of a su
perior quality; which he is now opening at
his old stand. They consist of
Dry Goods,' Grocerfes,
HARDWARE, QUEENSW4RE,
all of which he will dispose of CHEAP
for Cash or CoUntry Produce..
Gettyshurgh, May 1, 1837.
"Nstbil Olootiot
n the room lately aceupied by M. C. Clarkson
Esq. as a HARD WAIF Store, on the Wcst Cot
• ncr of the Diamond, in the Borough of Gettvo
rEIHE Suh , cribor having returned from
111- the City, has just openod,
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
GOODS,
OF ALL KINDS - -CONSISTINO or -
DRY' GOODS,
Such a v Clothe, Silks, Lawns, Painted Mus
lins, Chintz's, Calicoes, Cotton fabrics, and
generally goods of every kind.
Hardware, groceries and
Queenstvare,
which he is determined to sell CHEAP for
Cash or Country Produce.
The public are invited to call and see his
assortment, and judge for themselves.
JOHN PICKING.
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May 1, 1837.
PISBIAC S&LI.
HE Commissioners of Adams County,
A will oflitr at public Auction, at the
Court House in the Borough of Gettysburg,
on Tuesday, the 30th day of May inst. at
2 o'clock P. M.
_ .
120 Shares of Stock in. the
Gettysburg. Prater Company.
Also—at the same time and place, will
be offered for sale a LARGE QVANTITY or
JOURNALS.
By ordor of Ow Board of Commissioner*.
WILLIAM KING, Clerk.
May I, 1837. St-5
lITYALLIDi
STONE DISEASE host thou only—an impuri
ty of the Blood, which by impeding the circula
Lion brings on pains or derangement in the or
gains or part where such impurity of blood settles
ITT lie true a variety ammo may bring abou
'Allis state of the blood—ouch as a violen
bruise or hill, damp foot, indigestion, pain in the
head, &c.—and although it may be said that
those diseases have not their origin in impurity
of the blood, yet the effect is the same—they all
end in impurity of the blood and our only object
to prevent the irritating influences being kept
up. is continually to purge the body, al long as
any unpleebaut symptoms remain, with
Dr. BRANDRETH'S VEGETABLE
UNIVERSAL PILLS,
which, if persevered with in sufficient quantities
to produce copious evacutions, will assist nature
to restore every organ to a state of health. This
is on the principle of draining. We drain a mar.'
shy piece of land, and from a state of sterility
soon ,produce a most abundant fertility, and so
it is with the human body. When any thing is
the matter with it, we have only occasion to
drain it by purgation, and experience has taught
those who have adopted this reasonable practice,
[because consistent with our nature,) that they
have acted rightly, the result having been sound
health. About ten thousand persons can be ie. ,
ferred to in New York city, and newly the same
'number in Philadelphia, who have been cured,
when every other means had become unavailing,
of diseases which appeared of the most opposite
character, and where to all appearance, no human
means could cave life, have patients, by the use
of those Pills, been restored to perfect health, the
devouring disease having been perfectly . eiadicat.
ed.
NOTICE..—Owing to the numerous attempts
of Drugists, to destroy the fame of Doctor- Bran.
dreth's Vegetable Universal Pills, by selling a
counterfeit, instead of the genuine article. the
Public are cautioned against purchasing said Pills
of any person, except the appointed agents, but
especially to avoid Drug stores; as they are never
in any case appointed as agents; and it is in their
hands the 'litigious Pills are usually found.
The following are the appointed agents for this
vicinity, for list of agents of other Counties see
their respective papers.
JACOB A WINROTT, Gettysburgh,
BENJ. ZIEGLER, York,
HENRY SIDLE, Dit'shine', York Co.
CRULL ofic BARTON,Lewisbury,York co
WM. GILMORE, Charnbenourgh,
JOHN SHAFFNER, Lancaster.
ErDr. Brandreth's Offices are 169 Race street
above sth street, and 43 Chesnut street above 2d
strbet, Philadelphia.
CAUTION—Beware of purchasing the Bran.
dreth's Pills of any Druggist, either in the city or
country,as there are so many counterfeits for sale
in their stores.
May 1, 1837.
FOR RENT,
./11HE HOUSE of thasubscriber in Clam
-AL bersburgh Street,from the . Ist
of May next. For further particulars,
enquire of Maj. Joim Asn. .
THOMAS DICKEY.
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April 24, 18n.
PUBLIC - -
Naricti.,
Ozr.O'NEILL'S
.Intt-Rhitrita tic: - Detection
z.rNsdpsx.rtl",•".-. •
An infallible remedy tbrCbionle; Inflimtnatnry
'end
RumumArrism,
Ent alto nureaLUMBAGO and SCIATICA and
it will be seen by some of the certificates, given
from Physicians a , ,d othora,thet it Is a "sovereign
remedy for SCROFULA,WH /.1 SW ELLINU,
DISEASE OF THE HIP JOINT, and all
tiona arising from en lIIPURD 'TATE Or TDB BLOOD.
2raHE underiigned takes pleasure in announe.
Lae ing to the public that he has discovered a
Sovereign Remedy for Rheumatism &c. At never
fails to cure where the medicine is taken agreea
bly to tho directions which aCcompany each
bottle.
— lnnumerable inatances might be given of this
happy effects and powerful virtues of this preps.
ration, in the cure of those painful and distressing
diseases which have been named above and a.
gainet whose resistless attacks the artillery of
medical ecience.has so long been directed in vain,
The transcendent merits ofthis prepariition, lie
sanative powers and unparalleled efficacy in the
cure of Rheumatism &c. haveNirawn forth, the
voluntary plaudits of thousands, who by it s use
have been restored from pain and tortiste, stiffness
and decrepitude, to ease, strength, activity and
vigorous health; credulity and scepticism mutt
disappear Wore tho powerful array of teetimo
nials voluntarily furnished by Physicians of high
reputation, who use it in their practice end have
the honesty to give it the character it ISO justly
merits.
Latter of Pr. Jos. Golzendanner of Montgome.
ry Co., Md., who was long and aoiarely - afiliOteti
with Chronic Rheumstiarn, and finallY cured'by
two bolting of O'Neill's Medicine: • ' -
Dear Sir:—ln compliance with. your, request,
I cheerfully add my testimony in.favor of your
Anti Rheumatic Medicine, and no selfish
oration could induce me to . withhold it. My "Mitt°
is, "honor to whom honor is due." I was great
ly afflicted with Chronic Rheumainim, and dia..
covered that the • "Materlis Medics" contained
nothing that would roach my disease. It is un
necessary hero to sta' e in detail, tiow Much I suf
fered; suffice it to say, that I have been severely
afflicted for many years, And suffered great-pain;
and that I obtained two bottles ofyour Auti-Rheu
matte decoction, and two phials of the liuitnemt,
which accompanies it, and tbat it lies banished
every vestige of Rhouniatisur froui my fritnni.—
Tfm afflicted would do well to resort to this lairl--
-edy, Your oh% servant &a. -
JOSEPEI GETZENDANNER,AI,II/
From the Froderick Times and Dem. Adioce:te.
Highly Important to the Afflicted.
It will no doubt be gratifying to our readers
to learn the wonderful success which has attend
ed Mr. P. O'Neill, in the use of his valuable Anti-
Rheumatic Medicine, which has bean appertained
to ban specific not only in Rfieurnatitra. bOt also
in White Swelling, diseasopf the Hip Joint, Scro.
foie, &c. &c We are - urged to make these re
marks, not from the certificates of unknewn par
sons; but from nor own knowledge of several-im
portant cures effecte4 by his medicine,which haca
created general astonishment. The most impor.
taut ono is that of Miss - Rohr, the daughter of'
our worthy Post.master s wfio, alter years of suf
fering, has been relievedpolely by the use or . Mr.
O'Neill's medicine — the -Medical Faculty having,
tried every thing in vain. These are Miss Rohr's
nwn statements. The high reputation of Mr.
O'Neill's endorsers justify us in saying ihstt their
statements merit Universal credence.
Frottrthe Lldtimoro Chic:wide
1 We are nut in the habit of expressing is °Pin
ion of the efficacy of Patent Medicines, but in the
case of the above mentioned remedy for Fthentne.
tun; wo feel called on. by principles of humanity,
to stab" that it has had the most surprising of.
facts. The inventor is a gentleman in whom the
greatest reliance•can be placed; but he has other
titan his own tostunony in . ftivor of the medicine
which he offers to the public. Clergymen, phy. .
sictans, and those who have been, relieved, hairs
borne voluntary witness to its estoaishiug.effioa,..,
cyt and those who have the Misfortune to be - aftlio;
ted with this distresiing complaint may he iissuir; ,
ed of im me diate relief by fosterling to this remedy..
The following is from the Frederiektewo Her-5
aid, edited by Win. Ogden Niles, E•q. April 6th
•
1833:
Mr. O'Neill'eßheumatiC.Bledicine, offered to'
the public in this clarii paper, if we form an opin.
ion from the character of the maker, and nuttier.
oua certificates in his possession from highly res.
pectable individuals, who beim been cured by the
use of it, is one of tl:to moat valuable of recent dia.
covery. Its effects upon that° afflicted with chro
nic and inflanimatory rheumatiew,have been truly.
marvellous; a few bottles enabling them to dma.
panne with crutches, flannels and band/wee, with
which for years they have protected their limb.
and bodies. Mr. O'Neill merits the gratitude of
the afflicted, and the testimony of respectable
physicians forbid. those imputations which are
generally attached to vender. of panaceas.
OCT For sale at the Drug' Store of •
Dr. J. GILBERT, '.
Agent, Gettyeburgb.-
May 1, 1837.
Regimental °vitro.'
HE 80th Regiment, Pennsylvania Mi
-
1 litia, will Parade for Drill and Jasper,'
lion in Gettysburgh, on Saturday the 13th
of May last, at'lO o'clock a. at.
Kr The Courts of Appeal will be held
on the 12th of June next—fos the let Bat.'
talion at the house of the Miss Hopkees
Menallen township; and for the 2d at Vim.
McCullough's, at Marsh Creek.
S. WITHEROW, Col.
May 1, 1837. • tp-
ENCAMPMENT.
WHERE will be an ENCAMPMENT
- 111 - OF VOLUNTEERS formed at Han
over, to commence on Thursday, the 4th of
May, and to continue until the close of Sat—
urday thelth of the same Month, for the
purpose of instruction in Camp and Field
Duty.
Kr it is expected that different Volunteer
corps within the bounds of the 2d Brigade,.
sth Division. P. M., together with some
corps from the. neighboring Brigades, wilt
attend. The Brigade, Staff, Regimental
and company Officers of Militia belonging'
to that Ist and 2d Brigades are invited to at..
tend.
Tents, straw, and fuel will be provided oar
the ground—and arrangements will be made
to furnish camp and field equipage so far as
practicable.
0:71t is earnestly hoped that all who wish
to acquire a practical knowledge of military
duty, will avail themselves of this opportu•
arty.
By order of the Committee of arrangement..
April 22,1837. .
BLANK Dan
AND
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kar Sa [rat the ( 1 0 107 de star +stow
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