the. In the meantime Mr. Snyder came '
efeeriaburgh, ind Was called on to sub
-.-iteatiatiOthe charges. He failed to pro.
dnewene earticle of% testimony to support
/belt;:,--Dr. Weggonseller appeared at the
spOitited tireciwith about twenty witneie
.desiied to confront his accuser.
'The committee informed him that nothing
had been proved against him, and discharg.
led - Witnesses without examination.—
....gerStlitif previously felt Hamsburgli, and
dexd Waggonseller of the ()peer
~40
-07 wing how the ex parte affida
. &min obtained. It is understood
that be was prepared to prove that Snyder
misinformed tho deponent who was unable
to read English, of the contents of the depo
eition, and that the deponent was and is
—willing:to swear that he was imposed upon
by Snyder. However this may be, it is un
deniable that charges seriously affecting the
reputation - of resretable won were made
by John Snyder and others, and on tho day
of trial ha foiled to appear or to furnish any
testimony to prove them, whereby innocent
men were wantonly vexed, dragged from,
their homes, and put Ito the expense acme
playing counsel, and the Commonwealth
was saddled with the costs of numerous wit.
nesse*. '
One more example, and the undersigned
-will leave the others to be inferred from
those cited.
After the undersigned had supposed the
testimony closed, to wit, on the 4th day of
March, instant, Wm. Ayres, Esq. of Harris.
burgh, made his appearance before the corn
mettle and gave evidence. tie stated, a•
meg other things, that he went from here
to Pittsburgh in September last, with Mr.
Fean, and saw some thing injudicious on
the public works. That on the summit of
the Portage Railroad they met Mr. Willisa
public agent—that there willr p ly the three,
AyresAyres Fena and Willis, i ear. Fenn
and
;
entered into conversation about
a difference which - had d edcen place between
Willis and one of the workmen. Fenn up.
proved ,of Willis's dismissing the hands—
used hard language against Wiestlim i guid
said he would have him removed whilf he
returned—told Willis that they would sus•
tam him (meaning the administration)—
said he could have any mail on the line re
moved if he thought proper, dm Mr. Ayres
- further testifies tote want of judgment in
Mr. e, in mann 'lig the canal—points
out eat confitipnee the evil and the
remedy minims on the superior merit
of Governor cers, and gives it as
his belief, that th cers under the present
administration are not experienced In ways
of office.
The undersigned are at a, loss to know
which most to admire, the spirit which
prompted the committee to inquire into the
private conversation of Mr. Fenn, who holds
no official station under the government, or
the cold impudence and self complacency
of the witness. The whole of his state
ment with regard to Mr. Fenn, bears upon
the face of it strong marks of error. If Mr.
Fenn supposed himself to possess the pow
er which Mr. Ayres makes him claim, it
hardly to be supposed that he would boast
of it, even in the presence of the most =con
fidential friends of the Governor; much less
in the hearing of , those of doubtful friend.
shire; certainly; nothing could have drawn
it from him before an open enemy. It is
presumed that Mr. Ayres had held the lat
ter position towards the administration.—
He was a loud, if not a sincere supporter of
the principles which brought the present
party into power. When the executive pa
tronage was about to be distributed, he rip
; plied for the office of Prothonotary of Dau
phin county. The Governor bestowed the
appointment nponenother. He instantly be
c:atne the open and avowed opponent of the
administration, and remained so to the time
of bearing testimony against it. This was
well known to Mr. Fenn. He is the last
man, therefore, in whose presence Mr. Fenn
would be likely to-utter sentiments which
he would wish to have concealed. But in
addition to these strong probabilities, Mr.
Fenn swears to the atter falsity of all the
part of Ayres's testimony which relates to
himself. This is strongly corroborated by
other evidence. Ayres and Fenu were go
ing to the Pittsburgh Convention, which
*might a large number of passengers upon
'Se Rail-road, in addition to the ordinary
travelling. The care were probably crowd
' ed. Mr. Fenn states that they were niore
than full, several riding on the top. Yet
to avoid detection, Ayres monopolizes to
himself, Fenn and the agent Willis, a whole
car. - Can,it be believed that Willis took
posBollllioll of the car, and drove the pressen
gen to the top of it?
But this witness draws comparisohs be
tween the present agents and those of the
last administration, and decides in favor of
Gov. Weirs officers, who he says were
not only comparatively but positively good
—that Mr. M'Allister was a remarkable
man. The undersigned are not disposed
to. undervalue any of the officers of the for
ms, administration, but unless they greatly
err, Mr. Ayres was loud and long in his
clamor against them until Governor Ritner
refused him office. Nor do the under
signed doubt, that had he been appointed,
"he would have believed the officeholders
of the present Odministration superior to
those of any former time. It gives us plea
sure to find one portion of his testimony
which has strong claims to veracity.. He
OM it as his deliberate opinion, that . Mr.
arose and other officers of the present day
Method thee experience of the old ones!—
coaceded,h
they and the great mass
~ 01" she honest portion of the community
:aitatays would have lacked experience in
444iiil dities, if the bloated cormorants,
'O k i: bed fed 'so long upon the people's
„Seism, had not been hurled from the eta
perhaps had corrupted them,
ad Which tit all events they disgraced.
be Concluded.]
- Vrianc..—liose they do things on
' 7 ' aw_ n.)--Not long since,
iVettOshed a settlement on Mon.
ground on Tuesday, built
. .
M elt :: 1V
y, 41gnt married,"_ on
Plow Saturday, and . with
reit of the settlers, went
Star A' Republican Banner.
/lASI per annum, halt yearly In advance.
GETTYSIIVEGH4, PENN.
MONDAY. MORNING, AfAlr 8, 1837.
lion. Daniel Webster.
ci.We have before us a copy of the great speech
delivered by the Hon. Dxszsr. WIESTER before
a large concourse of individuals, on the 15th of
March last, in the City of New York.. It is an
able paper, inferior to none that has heretofore
sprung from the same source. We re,gret that we
cannot publish it entire. We must make room,
however, for a few extracts.
14r. Webster, comrnences as follows:
Mr. Chairman, and Fellow Citizens:
IT would be idle in mu to affect to be in
different to the circumstances under which
1 have now the honour of addressing you.
I find myself in the Commercial Metrop
olio of ihe Continent, in the midst of a vast
assembly of intelligent men, dra..su from
all the classes, professions, and pursuits of
life.
And yea have been pleased, Gentlemen,
to meet me, in this imposing manner, and to
offer me a warm and cordial welcome to
your city. I thank you. I feel the full
force and importance of this manifestation
of your regard. In the highly flattering
resolutions which invited me•here, in the re
spectability of this vast multitude of my fel
low citizens, and in the approbation and
hearty good will which you have here man
ifested, I feel cause for profound and grate
ful acknowledgment.
To every individual of this meeting,there
fore, I would now, mast respectfully, make
that acknowldgement; and with every cue,
as if with hands joined in mutual greeting, I
reciprocate friendly salutation, respect and
good wishes.
But, Gentlemen, although I am well assu
red of your personal regard, I cannot fail to
knOw, that the times, the political and com
mercial condition of things which exists a
mong, as, and an intelligent apirit, awaken
ed to now activity and a new degree of anx
iety, have mainly contributed to fill these
avenues and crowd these halls. At a mo
ment of difficulty, and of much alarm, you
come here, as Whigs of New York, to meet
ono whom you suppose to be bound to you
by common principles, and common senti
ments, and pursuing with you, a common
object. Gentlemen, I am proud to admit
this community of our principles, and this
identity of our object. You are for the Con
stitution oft he country; so am 1. You are
for the Union of the States; so am I You
are for equal laws, for the rights of all men,
for constitutional and just restraints on pow
er, for the substance and not the shadowy
image only of popular institutions, fcr a
Government which has liberty for its spirit
and soul, as well as in its forms; and so
am I. You feel,thut if in warm party times.
the Executive Power is in hands distinguish-
td for. boldness, for great success, for perse
verance, and other qualities which strike
men's minds strongly, there is danger of
derangement of the Powers of Government,
danger of a new division of those powers, ' ,
in which the Executive is likely to obtain
the Lion's part; and danger of a state of
things in which the more popular branch
es
of the Government,instead of beingguards
and sentinels against any encroachments '
from The EXecutive, seek, rather, support
from its patronage, safety against the com
plaints of the People in its ample and all
protecting favour, and refuge, in its power;
and so I feel, and so I have feltfor eight long
and anxious years.
You behave that a very efficient and pow
erful
cause, in the production of the evils
which now fall on the industrious and com
mercial classes of the community, is the de
rangement
of the currency, the destruction
of exchanges and the unnatural and unne
cessary misplacement of the specie of this
country, by unauthorized and illegal . Tree-
Bury orders. So do I believe. I predicted
all this from the beginning, and from before
the beginning. I predicted it all last spring
when that was attempted to be done by law,
which was afterwards done by Executive
authority; and from the moment of the ex
ercise of that Executive- authority, to the
present time, I have both foreseen,and seen
the regular progress of things under'it,froin
inconvenience and embarrassment, to pres
sure, loss of confidence, disorder, and bank
ruptcies.
Gentlemen, I mean, on this occasion, to
speak my sentiments freely, on the great
topics of the day. 1 have nothing to con
ceal, and shall therefore conceal nothing.—
In regard to political sentiments, purposes,
or objects, there is nothing in. my heart
which I am ashamed of; I shall throw it all
open, therefore, to you,and to all men. [That
is right, said some one in the crowd—let us
have it—with no non committal.] Yes,my
friend, (continued Mr. W.) without non
committal or evasion, without barren gen
eralities or empty phrase, without if or but,
without a single touch, in all I tray, bearing
the oracular character of an Inauvral. I
shall,on this occasion, speak my mind plain
ly, freely, and independently,to men who are
just as free to concur, or not to concur, in
my sentiments, as lam to utter them. I
think you are entitled to hear my opinions
freely and frankly spoken; but I freely ac
knowledge that you are still more clearly
entitled to retain, and maintain, your own
opinions, however they may differ or agree
with mine."
bn the subject of the Constitution of the United
States, Mi. Webster thus speaks:.
Again, Gentlemen, we are one in respect
to the glorious Constitution under which we
live. We are all united in the great both
erhood. of American Liberty. Descending
from the same ancestors, bread in the same
school, taught, in infancy, to imbibe the
same plitieal sentiments—Americana all—
by birth, education, and principle, what but
a narrow mind, or woful ignimince, or be
sotted selfishness, or prejudice ten times ten
times blinded, can lead any of us to regard
the citizens of any part of the country as
strangers and aliens?
The solemn truth, moreover, is before us,
that a common political fate attends us all
Under the present Constitution, wisely
and conscientiously administered, al! are
of our country's fame may fill all our breasts.
It is fame enough for us all to partake in her
glory, if we will carry her character onward
to its tru destiny. But if the system is
broken, its fragments must fall alike on all.
Not only the cause of American Liberty,
but the grand cause of Liberty, throughout
the whole earth,dependson a great measure
on upholding the Constitution and Union of
these States' If shattered and destroyed,
no matter by what cause, the peculiar and
cherished idea of United American Liberty,
i will be no more forever. There may be
i free States, it is possible, when there shall
be separate States. There may be many
loose, and feeble, and hostile confederacies,
where there i' one great and united Con
federacy. But the noble idea of United
American Liberty, of our Liberty, such as
our Fathers established i:, will be extin•
guished forever. Fragments and severed
columns ofthe edifice may be found remaiu
ing; and melancholy and mournful ruins
will they be; the August Temple itself will
be prostrate in the dust. Gentlemen, the
Citizens of Ibis Republic cannot sever then.
fortunes. A common fate awaits us. In
the honor of wholding, or in the disgrace
of undermining the Constitution, we shall
all neces s a rily partake. Let us then stand
by the Constitution as it is, and by our
Country, as it is, one, united and entire;
let it be a truth eneraven on our hearts, let
it be borne on the flag under which we ral
ly in every exigency, that we have ONE
1 COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DES
TENT..
Mr. Webster remarks as follows on the effects
of the disarrangement of the Currency on the in
terests of the working-mea, as verified by what is
going on now in the Cities of New York, New
Orleans. and other places:—
Gentlemen, I hold this disturbance of the
measure of value, and the means of payment
& exchange,this des ungementond if I may
so say, this violation of the currency, to be
one of the most unpardonable of political
faults. He who tampers with the currency,
robs labour of its bread. He panders, in•
deed, to greedy capital, which is keen
sighted, and may ' shift for itself; but he
Ibeggars labor, which is honest, unsuspect
1 tog, and too busy with the present to cal.
culate on the future- The prosperity of
the working classes lives, moves, and has
its being in established credit and a steady
I medium of payment. All sudden changes
destroy it. Honest industry never comes
in fur any part of the spoils in that scramble,
which take place, when the currency at
Ithe country is disordered. Did wild schemes
I and projects ever benefit the industrious?—
'' Did irredeemable bank paper ever enrich
the laborious? Did violent fluctuations ever
do good to him who depends on his daily
likir fur his daily bread? Certainly never.
All these things may gratify greediness for
sudden gain, or the rashness °Haring spec.
elation; but they can bring nothing but in•
jury and distress to the homes of patient in.
dustry and honest labor. Who are .they :
that profit by the present state of things?
They are not the many,but the few. They
are speculators, brokers, deniers in money,
and lendersof money at exorbitant interest.
i Small capitalists are crushed, and their
Imeans, being dispersed, as usual, in various
parts of the country, and this miserable
policy having destroyed exchanges, they
have no longer either money or . credit.--
And all classes of labor partake. "and must
partake in the same calamity. At d what
consolation fur a!1 this is it, that the
.public
lands are paid for in specie l That what
i ever embarrassment and dedress pervade
1 the country. the western wilderness is
I thickly sprinkled over with eagles and dol
lars? That gold goes weekly from Mil
waukie and Chicago to Detroit, and back
again from Detroit to Milwaukee and Chica
go, and performs similar feats of egress and
regress, in many other instances, in the
Western States? It is remarkable enough
that with all this sacrifice of general con
venience, with all this skyrending clamor
for government payments in specie, govern
ment, after all, never gets a dollar. So far
as I know, the United States have now not
a single specie dollar in the world. If they
have, where is it? The gold and silver
collected at the Land Offices Is sent to the
deposit° banks, it is there placed to the
credit of the Government, and thereby be
comes the property of the bank. The
whole revenues of the Government, there
fore, after all, consist in mere bank credits;
that very sort of security, which • the friends
of the administration so much denounced.
Remember, gentlemen, in the midst • of
this deafening din against all banks, that if
it shall -create such a panic, or such alarm,
as shall shut up the banks, it will shut up
the Treasury of the United States also.
The Orator's appeal to the Whigs of Ncw
York, is beautifully eloquent—hear him:
Whigs of New York! Patriotic citizens
of this great metropolis! Lovers of consti
tutional liberty, bound by . interest and affec•
tion to the institations of your country.—
Americans in heart and in principle! You
are ready, I am sure, to fulfil all the duties
imposed noon you by your situation, and
demanded of you by your country. You
have a central position; your city is the
point from which intelligence emanates.and
spreads in all directions over the whole land.
Every hour carries reports of your sent'.
meats and opinions to the verge of the
Union.
You cannot escape the responsibility
which circumstances have thrown upon you.
You must live and act on a broad and con
spicuous theatre, either for good or for evil,
to your country. You cannot shrink away
from public duties; you cannot obscure
yourselves, nor bury your talent. In the
common welfare, in the common prospeitty,
in the common glory of Americans, you
have a stake, of value not to be calculated.
You have an interest in the preservation
of the Onion, of the ConstitutiOn,and of the
true principles of the government, which no
man can estimate. You act for yourselves,
and for the generations that are to some af
ter you; imd those who, ages hence, shall
bear your mimetr, and partake your blood,
will feel in their political and social condition
the consequences of the manner in which you
' discharge your political
„
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on mine, though feebly and imperfectly on
mine, the offices of kindness and mutual re•
gird, required by this occasion, shall we not
use it to a higher and nobler purpose? Shall
we not by this friendly meeting, refresh . our
patriotism, rekindle our love of constitution
al liberty, and strengthen our resolution
of public duty? Shall we not, in all hones•
ty and sincerity, with pure and disinterested
love of country, ati A mericang,lookinAf hack
to the renown of our ancestors, and looking
forward to the interests of our posterity,
here, to night, pledge our mutual fai:h, to
hold on, to the last, to our Hrofessed princi•
pies, to the doctrines of true liberty, and to
the Constitution of the Country, let who will
prove true, or who will prove recreant?—
Whigs of New York! I meet you in ad
vance, and give you my pledge,for toy own
perforinance of these duties, without
cation or reserve. Whether in I.ublic life
or in private life. in the Capitol or at home,
1 mean never to desert them. I mean never
to forget that have a country, to which I am
bound by a thousand ties; and dm stone
which is to lie on the ground that shall cover
me, shall not bear the name of a son migrate.
ful to his native land.
Money affairs in, Xtpv Fork,
AND ELSEWHERE
ccy.We give below a few paragraphs respecting
the great distress which prevails in New York and
elsewhere, owing to the present derangement of
the currency of the country. It will be seen that
even Gen. JgeitsoN does not escape unharmed
from the devastation which ho and his minions
have been instrumental in creating.
NEW YORK, April 27.
JACKSON UNDER PIROTEsT!—A draft for
so,ooo,drawn by Andrew Jackson, Presi
dent of the United States, de facto, in this
city, was, as we understand, protested for
i,on payment. The Old General probably
expected to receive 15 cents for his cotton,
and so valued upon his tlictor here. Cotton
at Si cents only pays 50 cents in the dollar,
the balance would have to be paid by one of
those who deal upon "borrowed capital,"
and who, as the General said, "ought to
break"—to avoid which he no doubt allows
the draft to go back to be reduced to its
proper size.
MORE FATAL RNSULTS FROM THU PRES•
SURE.--TRE GREAT CANAL THREATENED.
—The gentlemen who had undertaken to
build the new aqueduct across the Genessee,
have, as we learn from the Rochester Dein.
ocrat of April 21st, given up their contract
and stopped the work. No money is to be
had. On the 16th the Forwarders at the
same place representing the ixiceri regular
lines of Canal boats, resolved not to start a
boat on the canal until the banks give sub
stantial financial aid. They cannot get along
with ten day discounts.
It is rumoured that bv'the failure olthe
great Tennessee house of Yeatrnan, Wood
& Co., General Jackson is a severe sufferer,
and that he had loaned his mime to a reln
lion closely connected with land Speculations,
to.the amount of $300,000. If so, the Old
Chief has to break also, an apt illustration
of his own measures.
Turcs.—The Northampton Courier
says:—"At Ware, Chicopee, Cabottsville,
and the Northa•npton Woolen Company,
the reduction has already commenced and
the great Paper Mills at South• Hadley Ca
nal have stopped nearly half their machine
ry. Some failures have taken place in this
section of Massachusetts, in consequence of
houses with which they were connected
having stopped in New York.
The Cocheco Mannfacturing Company
at Dover, N. H. have sopped one of their
mills, by which 200 female and 40 male
operatives are thrown out of employment."
The accounts from the interior present a
melancholy picture. Nearly every paper
that we open sates that some manufactory
has closed, or mechanic discharged his
hands. The working porth ns 01 the corn
munity are just beginning to feel the effi.cis
of the ruinous policy of the rulers they ha% e
chosen.
FBOM MOBILE.—A meeting or the citi
zens of Mobile was held on the 22d inst. at
which resolutions passed in favor of an im
mediate call of the Legislature. They ex
press themselves opposed to all "stop laws"
or any law tending to impair the obligation
of contracts. They recommend that the
Governor call a meeting of the Legislature,
and that that body when assembled shall pass
a law for the relief of the people under the
present commercial embarrassments, based
on the issue of State Bonds bearing an in
terest of six per cent, payable semi-annually,
and redeemable in twenty years—or by au
thorizing the several Banks to issue Post
Notes, at twelve months. receivable in pay
ment of debts,or of the suspended debt,under
protest.
NEW•ORLEANS, April 25
Bad, worse, worst; In the early part of
March, we had the bad of thing. Toward
the first of April, they became worse.—
Then a calm, that some men would fain
interpret as prettionitory of the crisis hav
ing past. It is now approaching very ra
pidly the worst. We have an extensive
cotton house failure yesterday, for what a
mount Whoa not transpired. It was sup•
posed that this establishment would wea
ther the storm, but it could not hold out a
gainst the violence of the gale. It will
carry other establishments with it.
The house of BURKE, Warns, . & Co.
went by the board yesterday. It was the
largest cotton house in the city. Mr
BURAE is the President of the Union Bank,
and the uninitiated conceived that he could
not fall. The amount of his failure has not
transpired, but it is greater.than any be-
fore him. He will take with him some ten
or fifteen horses here and in Natchez.
Cotton is generally brought for remit
tance. Rates are still ruinous. Thousands
of bales aro in our warehouses and on our
levee, valueless, and I fear destined to rot
in the sun and rain.
MOBILE, April. 27.
CorroN.—Our Cotton malret has at lad
Retests. Darin , the lad
week our brokers have not pretended to
make a repoit of sales, and we believe the
transactions of the whole week would not
embrace more than from 6 to 800 bales—
"the extreme prices of - which have been Ei
and 13 cts. About 4000 bales have arrived
since our last, while 11464 have been ex
ported. As compared with last year's
statements, the number of bales already
brought to market this year are less, by
some ten or twelve thousand.
FROM NEW OntunNs.-oflice of the True
A inericap, April 2- 4 .—Our levee, once the
most animated scene in the country, is now
deserted; and wl.ere thousiinds were engag
ed in the business, now tens and twenties
straggle along, looking the very picture of
the times, sad and hopeless. It is true that
piles of cotton are here and there scoop but
they are comparatively worthless.
The Boston Advocate (a Van Buren un•
per)of Tuesday last says:—We have -eldom
seen — a more gloomy day in Boston than
yesterday. Failures, the weather, and the
money market were alike dismal. More
heavy failures took place, and all confidence
appeared to be destroyed."
We perceive by a notice in the Fredonia
Censor that all operations on the New York
and Erie Rail-road, are suspended for the
present. The difficulty of obtaining sup
plies of money for the payment of the hands
employed, is the alleged reason. A great
number athe workmen have been discharg•
ed and are now out of employment.
From the Baltimore Chronicle
Political Forecast.
"I have no frith in the present state or the
country. It is unsound There is a plethoric,
ideated state of apparent prosperity; but the slight.
eat reverse will throw our WWI) iilolloy concerns
into irretrievable confusion. The currency, both
of Great Britian and America, has never before
been in so critical a condition."
In February last the sentence above quo
ted was pronounced by a Senator of the
United States,in a speech on a bill to reduce
the Lira Who shall say that the orator
who had thus, in advance, anticipated with
so much accuracy the present state of things,
is not, himself, "a prophet or the sun of a
prophet?"
Any man may predict after the fact, but
give us the statesman who, whilst others
cry "all's well," can discern danger ap•
preaching in the distant horizon. Like the
skilful mariner, when all his passengers are
fI )at ing quietly on Ow bosom of the um Wiled
ocean, he discerns the speck that forbudes
the storm, and they hear him with incredu
lous astonishment give order to "reef top
sails." so many of his colleagues, mindful
only of the moment, and not possessing his
power of political vision, heard with indiffer
ence. the profound politician, two months
since, when all was apparently calm and
bright in the commercial atmosphere, con
chided a powerful speech, by the declare
troy"l have no faith in the present state
of the country. It is not sound. There is
a plet .erie, bloated state of apparent pros
pertly; but the slightest reverse will throw
the whole money concerns into irretrievable
confusion. The currency both of Great
Britain and America was never before in so
critical a condition!" Who was that Sena-
tor? No other than John C. Calhoun.
"THE EXPERIMENT. " —The Globe turns
up a moat rueful countenance at the idea of
Gen. Jackson's having been caught in his
own trap, arid tacitly admits that his drafts
have been returned under protest. Rumor
goes further, and states, that a near relation
of the General's has failed in the Nest for
a large amount, and that the General is his
endorser and consequently comes in as
lame duck." Those who do "business on
borrowed capital ought to break," said the
General, on another occasion. But then,
" circumstances alter cases." And this
speech, which was uttered when the Hero
and his friends and followers wore rich and
fat upon the spoils of office, and supposed
to be out of reach of the "experiment,"
would probably find less favor in his eyes
now that the evil day has come upon these
also. One rumor has it, that the ex Presi•
dent is on paper, and otherwise liable, for
this relation to the tune of a couple of hun
dred thousand dollars. Hereafter, he will
at least think there should be some oxcep
timid to the rule that "all who trade on bor
rowed capital ought to break."—Bull.. Put.
General Aretes of the Week.
At a meeting of the Town t %mod! of the
Borough of Gettysburgh,• convened April
29th, 1837, the proceedings of a Ines:ling
of the Young Men of the Borough, held on
Saturday evening the 23d of April, were
read, ►n which they resolve to form them•
selves into one or more Fire Companies, as
soon us the Town Council and County Com•
misstoners will procure suitable apparatus.
Resolved, That the Council approve of the
proceedings of said meeting,and recomtnend
the subject to the early attention of the next
Town Council.
Resolved, That J. B. Ill'PuEnsoN, and
R. Slam', Esqui IT% who are about to visit
the City of Philadelphia, be requested to
ascertain what sum a suitable Engine earl
be o h t mined for, and report to tne next
Council.
Extract from the liltnutee.
THE AUTHOR or Jumus.—The claims
put in on behalf of one Laughlin Macleane
to the authorship, the letters OfJunins, have
caused considerable speculation, and we
spent some winks on it ourselves.. The
editor of the Richmond Enquirer who is
indefatigable in every thing he undertakes,
has found the following paragraph in Wood
fall's edition of Junius, which impairs in
some degree the pretensions of Laughlain
Macleane.
":1 thonsand other proofs, equally cogent
and insurmountable, might be advanced, if
necessary, against the pretensions of Mr.
(Hugh) Boyd. Among, these, let the rea
der compare the letter of Junius, subscrib•
al Vindex, March R, 1771, (Miscellaneous
Letters, Nn . xci.) in which he publicly rid.
louts* Mr. Laughlin Maclean, upon his
defence of the-Ministrv, in rc;;: u •d to the
Falkland Islands. Mr. Laughlin Maclean°
is well known to have been the best and
steadiest friend that Boyd ever possessed;
and a friend who adhere to him uninterrup.
tedly, &ern 1764 to 1778, in which year
Macleane commenced a voyage to India up
on official business relating to the Nabob
of Arcot. It was Maclean° who, according
to his biographer, furnished Boyd with the
greater part of the secret transactions of our
own government, and the intelligence ho
made use of ►n relation to the Oriental con
cerns of the Nabob Malunned Ali Milan,
who largely and liberally assisted him with
pecuniary aid while at !mine, and
fully promised hint ho would, upon his re
turn from India. asst-4 in clearing, him irons
all his pecuniary difficulties." The prook
are unquestionable, that the above letter
wits written by JuNitis, and that he wrote
it also, in contempt and ridicule of Laughlin
Macleane, who, instead, of being an o p ts° .
mutt of the Nlinistry at the time, was au
avowed defender of them. Will Mt.
Boyd's biographers and advocates. after this
anecdote, so lilt. vility Ins' memory as to
contend that it was written by himself?"
RA V A Remarkable Fact.—This
town in OLiu , stands t:n u fixed and mode
rately elevated tract, directly on the divid
in;; line between the waters which run into
the Ohio, and those which run into Lake
Erie. The old court house is so situated
that the rain which falls on the north side
of the roof passes into the Cuyahoga, and is
discharged into the St. Lawrence; while
that which fills on the south side passes in•
to the Mabonina, and is finally poured into
the Gulf of Mexico, so that this house, in a
ably day, is a fountain of wavers for two
opposite hemispheres of the globe.
In the case of RICHARD ft. warm, in
dicted in our. Circuit,, Court upon a charge
of burnino the Treasury building in March,
1H33, and now tried on that indictment for
[he third time, the Jury, after being shut
up three days and nights, came into Court
yesterday morning, again without n verdict,
declaring that they should never be able to
agree upon one. The Jurors were, of
course, discharged by the Court.
Upon the built or innocence of the ac
cused in this case, we have no opinion to
express. But, really, it appears to us, that,
[fever so gui:ty of the offence charged, he
tins been already severely punished, by
three long and tedious trials, and so many
months' confinement, without labor or. ex=
ercise, in one no wise commodious jail.
If innocent, he hits very. dearly paid the
penalty of keeping the company of men snore
w;ckeCl than himself.
Every (glint of ingenuity has been exhaus
ted in vain to arrive at a knowledge of the
true culprits in this case,, whether agents
or instigators. The public prosecutors have
lailifully done their duty; but we ure no
nearer a knowledge of, the motive of the
incendiaries than we were before the first
trial. Under the circumstances of three
trials having been had 'without conviction,
in connexion with the punishment' of the
long confinement and of being three times
tried. it appears to us that the Attorney of
the United States could not incur censure
in any quarter, 'and would greatly relieve
our Court and Bar, as well as jurors and
suitors, by abandoning the further prosecu
tion of the ease.—Nut, /Ma.
The dwelling house of me. G. W. May.
son, of Hamburg, S. C. was burnt down on
the 23d ult. Most of the furniture was saved,
hut a trunk containing $13,000 cif the notes
of the Bank of Suuth Carolina, wus Con
sumed.
Ber ;7lint School Exercise.
YORK, (Penn.) April 17, lan.
Mn. CitATinta . a--Nly Dear Sir— Will
You permit me to mention through your
columns, to such as may be conceined, an
interesting school exercise, commenced
with much spirit and energy by the teach
ers and pupils in York and several places
in the same :vicinity. I mean weekly
scientific excursions for the purpose of col.
feeling, delineating and describing plants,
minerals, insecti, and other specimens of
nature, for the doable objeet of pelt improve,
ment and the general diffusion of know-
Besides the valuable collections in the
form of family cabinets which are com
menced by nearly all the young people in
this vicinity, very many of the young ladies
and gentlemen, and even the young -mi)s
ses and lads, have attempted with grentsue
cess, to gate...pencillings f
: many of the ob
jects and .Weenery'ot nature which are en
couraged by their teachers, as a regular
school exercise, much to the amusement
and instruction of their pupils. The youn
gest children are particularly anxious to
write setilettcO about the specimens they
collect, or some other objects which come
under their observation. In these objects
are embraced vOriOuis articles of food; of
household furniture,.-efothing, farming uten
sils, mechanics' toolp,' trees, garden plants;
birds, quadrupeds.4s -
After the sentenceitre written upon slates;
and the necessary corrections made, they
are transferred into ksinall books, which:
t'ileti child is anxious to Torm with, 111/V
much neatness and as perfectly as postsi•
blo.
[Communicated
It must be evident to everyone,. that in
the exercise of writitigAescriptione of the
common objects of natitiie and of arfoire
embraced, spelling, "pearnanship, cud the
structure of sentences, in a far more prat.
Heal and successful, as well as a more a.-
g,reeabla mode, than in the ordinary exer
vises of - committing spelling book cOluinut
imitating writing copies and repeating tht:
rules and definitions of grammlir.
The teachers hare have'remarked, what
hundreds have done beflare them, that Alley,
find that pupils who seldom mistake the
spelling of a word whe, i put out to thew
from a hook, made frequent mistakes in their
first attempts at writing the same words - in,
sentences, but that after a fewcescreisee in
constructing sentences, they finking* cern.
mit an. error to orthography.
Their improvement in penmanship is
WASHINGTON, Nlay 2.
equally gratifying and far greater than is
ever effected by the ordinary copy writing.
It is a particular aim among pupils to have
their books of sentences formed in the nea•
test manner in all respects, which produces
a perfe.lion ot'penmanship which can never
be produced by the simple exeat►utes of im
itating copies.
In thu structure of sentences, the im
provement resulting from the exercise men
tioned, is in the highest degree gratifying,
and even surprising, to those not acquainted
with the power and skill of young minds, in
exiressing, their thoughts and the Jesuits of
their obsei vation.
Perhaps the most important circumstan
ces connected with this exercise, so delight.
rid to children, is, that it lends them to
think, which is not required, scarcely per.
mitted, by must of the cone:non tit:11001 OX.
ereises.
Much energy and suceesd,is given to this
mode of school instruction, the circuit].
wane°. that the :specimens of nature and of
their improvement in various !Onus, are
intended, in par or distribution among
wheels or lyceu other towas, states or
countries.
Every teacher and parent must see, that
this exercise for juvenile improvement, 50
happy in its reults; can, without any dif•
ficulty, he introduced the comin ,, season so
fir as they or.: disposed to encourage it, iii
to e4ch.of the fifty thousand schools, and
of the two million of families in the United
i‘ j . States. The fact that much was done the
last season, and with uniff inn success, of
fords the best ground of belief, that still
'7 y more will be done during the season which
lis now opening upon us - with ninny beauties
and riches, worthy of being admired and
sullied. With high esteem, I am yours
: 1 • truly,
NEWS FOR TilE LADIES•TiIO fOiIOWIfIg
paragraph appeared in an Eastern paper,
as an extract of a lettei from Chicago, [M-
Y nois:—"lnteresting women are in demand
here—for such the market is a sure one.—
' I understand when the steamboats arrive
here from Buffalo and Detrioit, that nearly
all business is suspended, and crowds of des
olate, rich young bachelors dock to the pier,
and stand ready to catch the girls as they
• land. Whether they use the lasso, an ac
complishment which some of them have
acquired in catching ponies on the Rocky
Mountains, .or whether they take them by
the force of smiles,, am not informed; hav
ing just arrived I cannot speak from obser
vation; but I believe the re ult to be a pret
ty universal surrender."
The Hanover and Maryland line Turn
pike Railroad Company has declared a
dividend of three per cent. for the last twelve
months on its capitai;rateck, payable on the
Bth inst.
The Hanover Savings Institute hits de
clared a dividend of four per cent. on its cap
ital stock for the lust six months, payable
the 15th inst.
A ROYAL Lerree.—The editors of the
Sandwich Island Gazette,'present in one of
their humbere, the following as the trans
lation of a letter from his Majesty, King
KAIIIKEAOI3LI, in reply to an application on
their part for permission to work their
pretii, and publish a newspaper ut Honolulu,
Oahu:
"To STEPHEN D. NIACKINTOSII,
Honolulu, Oahu.
I assent to the letter which you sent me.
It a&rds me pleasure to see the works of
other lands and things that are new. If I
was there, I should very much desire to see.
I have said to Kioau, make Printing Pres
ses. My thought is ended. Love to you
and. Reynolds.
By King KAUIRUAOULI."
A yiking man named John Bierborrer,
said to have been formerly of this place, was
murdered on the 20th of April, at Brooklyn,
New. York, and robbed of 810. He is said
to have a mother and relatives living in this
vicinity.— Carlisle Republican.
Tun WOMAN WHO WENT AIIROAD.—A
lady who was in tho habit of spending most
of her time in the society of her neighbors,
happened one day to be taken suddenly ill,
and sent her husband in great haste for a
physician. The husband ran a few rods,
but soon returned exclaiming. "My dear,
where I shall find you when 1 back?'
LACONICAL.
Mts.4 S. S.—Will you please conjugate
tho word love, as a verb in the fialijunctive
mood, present tense, firs• person; singular,
also in the indicative mood:first fikture tense,
second person singular, and send' me an un-
I'. 11.
Stn:—The word love, whnn conjugated
as you request, will rend os follows;
Subjunctive mood; if l love,
Indicative mood, - Wilt thou love,
ANBWER—With all my; heart. S. S.
HANDY WOIZIE.-1104 Jersey Blue pub
lishes the following motice which, if it
comps to-liand by the thief should be at
tended to:
fICPThe gentlemel,who left his or' right
HAND_ L ) flew efenings since, ft John
Ehler's lien roost, ag Wehuwken, iy retino,t
ed to call and ialtialt away --as it will not
keep much • ' .
' QuEsirrox FOE DIII4.TING SOCICTIES -18
ismall dog whose' tail curls so tight as to
his hind legs from the ground,a biped or
quadruped._ •
..-,
•s• .
bremsious.—lt is no uncommon practice
t our Court of Sessions, fOr the wives of
nsoners who'6iav© no children, to borrow
baby for-the occasion, in order to excite
he tender sympathies of the worthy recor
-r. . This ruse seldom fails, and the fortu•
i ',ate prison e r is discharged, with an atlino
'hition to "go home and take care of his wife
4alkijanii l 3ll" , --IV. Y. Thies.
THAI PLACE FOR Gam—Fitly marriages
Wok place in a small town in Mississippi in
one week, a few months ago.
J. HOLBROOK.
The station you have called me to by your
election, is one which in this Common.
wealth, and elsewhere in our Country, has
been occupied by the most eminent citizens.
However unworthy I must leel myself to
be associated with the illustrious names
which limn the roll of Presidents of Convert.
tiotis, it cannot but be felt as a high honor
to have a place in the same list will, them..
It is deeply felt to he so, and I beg you to
accept for it my must sincere acknowledg•
mews.
The subjects we are to deliberate upop
are of no ordinary character. It is not 'au
exaggeration to say that they are of trans
cendant importance. The Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania was one of the first, if not
the very first, to imitate the example of the
whole !ample of the United States, in tnki:•g
down the fabric of government which had
been provided amidst the exigencies of a
new and disturbed state of existence, and
in replacing it by a solid structure, delibe-
rately formed, and intended to give permit
nent security to all the rights of every
member of the community. At the end
or fifty years, the system of social order
which was then framed, is committed to r ur
Ininds,that we may examine it,and if need be,
propose to our fellow•citizens such improve
ments as this great fundamental law may
seem to require. Such a work,it must be ac
knowledged,detnands the utmost exertion of '
wisdom and exemption, as far as possible,
from the influence of prejudice and passion,
and every disturbing motive—and, withal,
a spirit of pure and generous -patriotism
which seeks no other gratification than
to promote the lasting happiness of those
who are, and those who are to be the in
habitants of this great and favored Common.
wealth.
A Constant sense of the magnitude of the
duty we are called to perform, and of the
grave accountability we are under for its
Guild& peribrinance, cannot fail to produce
calmness and ordor in our deliberations;
while at 'the same time a becoming serious
ness, with mutual kindness and respect, will
be an earnest to our fellow citizens of the
singleness ci purpose with which we follow
the stir.) that great duty. and with the
blessing of u gracious Providence upon our
counsels, the best - means of accomplishing
good results.
STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER.
BY ROBERT W. MIDDLETON.
GETTYSBURGH, PA,.
*Monday, allay 8 1 1837.
0::7 - The Wagon price of Flour in Balti
more—Sß 25•
() -We call the attention of the public to the
notice in another column of Marshall College at
Mereersbargh; as well as to the advertisement of
the "Weekly JllesNenger, " a religious paper under
the editorill supervision of Rev. Mr. SCUNECK,
formerly of this place. .
Wrightsville, Pork and Gatyerbitrgh
Rail Road.
The attention of Contractors is called to
the advertisement for laying Rails on that part of
the above road between Wriahtsville and Yorh.
co-We copy from the U. S. Gazette a notice
of the proceedings of the °integrity of the Union"
folks. We shall copy their resolutions in our
next. We have also liven promised a notice of
the proceedings by a member of the Convention.
Borough Election.
CrAft election fur Borough Officers was hold
on Tuesday, last which resulted as follows:
B U !MESS,
William McClellan 86
William W. Paxton 67
'TOWN COUNCIL,
John B. Marsh 89
Robert Smith . 4 " 87
Samuel H. Buehler 85
Robert G. Harper 84
George S'hryocle 79
George Cluitzman 67
Edwin A. Alice 68
John Gilbert 50
Hugh Denwiddio 44
David Little '. 43
Daniel Gill , ert 27
Samuel S. McCreary 20
Daniel Baldwin " . 24
STREET AND ROAD COMMISSIONERS,
George Chritzman 9t
John Slentz 65
John Emmitt 63
George Gilbert . 45
Samuel Miller 35
SCHOOL DIRECTORS,
William N. Irvine
,lea Cooper sr
John Houck
David McCreary
Those in Rallis aro elected. Of those elected,
Messrs. Smith, Shultz and Cooper are Anti-MS-
S/Ms; the others aro Royal Arch Masons, Whigs
and Van Burenites.
Editorild Con vela Lou.
Thu Editors of the 16th Congressional Dis
trict held a meeting at Milton week before lust,
and appointed the following delegates to tho Con
vention proposed to be held by the Printers:
Alexander Cummings, Henry F. Middleton,
and J. R. Eck, of Lycoming; Gen, H. Frick, M.
Sweeney and H. A. Kerr, of Northumberland; and
G. tearich, C. Seebold and ItA,;:Zellara, Union.
It seems that the time of 44)14 the Conven
tion has been changed to the 4th of July next.—
Do the Editors of this Congressional District in 7
tend moving in the matterl
Constita=iEoniit Contention.
cl. This Convention, called fur the purpose of
proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the
State, assembled at Harrisburgh on the 2d inst.—
Mr. McSuenn r nominated Gon. THOMAS S. CUN.
INGUAM as President pro kin., and Mr. BLACK
nominated Gon. HEN Ur SuEE•rz—the former was
elected, 66 to 64. After Gen. Cunningham took
the Chair, the Convention proceeded to the elec
tion of a President, which resulted as follows:
JOHN SERGEANT, (Anti-Van Buren,) 66
JAMES M. PORTER, (Van Buren,) 6:1
Scattering 2—Absent
Mr. SERGEANT was declared duly electcd,ani'
upon being conducted to the Chair by Mr. Pon-
TElt, delivered the following neat and appropriate
address:—
Gentlemen,Members of the Convention:
To the utmost of my humble
promise to co-operate with you in whatever
will tend to give character and efficacy to
our proceedings.. With but little aid from
experience, 1 am very sensible -of my de
ficiencies, and how much I shall stand in
need of your continual indulgence and sup•
port. My hope, and Trty beliefis that thc•v
will he liberally extended to unintent , onal
error, and further than this you may be as-
sured there will be no claim.
Pardon me for detaining you a moment
longer, to express to you my heartfelt wish
that all who are here assembled,may, to the
last day of their lives, have cause to rejoice
in the acts of this Convention, with as firm
Conviction that they have done nothing to
weaken the foundations of human freedom
and happiness.
Of Wednesday's proceedings, we have nothing
further than what is contained in the subjoined
extract from the Harrisburgh .riCey-Stone:"
To day the convention met at ten o'clock
and elected Samuel Shoch secretary. Fran
cis R. Shunk, additional secretary, and
George L. Faust+ and Joseph Williams, as
sistant secretaries. A resolution was pass
ed authorisini, the President to invite the
Clergy of Harrisburgh to open the conven
tion daily by prayer. The same orders
were taken for the payment of postage and
subscription to newspapers usual with the
legislature. A temporary adjdurntnent,tin
til afternoon took place, when the conven
tion again met, elected James E. Mitchell
Sergeant at Arms, and adjourned alter two
unsuccembfid ballotings for printers of the
Debates in the English language.
Case of Abduction.
.For several days, week before last, there was
a great tumult in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was caus
ed by the abduction of a highly respectab, e un.
married female about 20 years of age. She was
confined, violated, and after three weeks detention
suffered to escape, and return to her friends, and
has been since then in a state of mental alienation.
Tho following particulars were deriVed from her
before she became deranged in mind:—
"On her return home from singing school,
which she was in the habit of attending
twice a week she was accosted by a man on
Fifth street. who inquired if her name was
not Miss —. Site Answered yes. He
stated that her brother lay at the point of
death, and that he had been sent expressly
to convey her to his bed side; she thought
lessly accompanied !inn. He conducted her
too house in an obscure street, and` need
her into a dark room, and locked the door.
The room was kept dark during her confine.
meet. which was upwards of two weeks,
during which time she was threatened and
o.reut i 2d with cons!derable violence by the
monster who had her in custody. She could
not recognise the countenance of the man,
who visited her. But theme was a woman
who was in the habit ofgoirer into her rootm :
whom she thinks sheAvoutri know Waite were
to see her again, as she upon one occasion
carried a candle with her into the room
On the night , of her escape the door had been' I
left unlocked, whether by accident or design
she mina unable to say."
Her narrative was corroborated by the lady with
whom she resided, who stated “that a man called
at her house and enquired for Miss ALLaN, stat
ing that her brother:was dangerously ill; and upon
being told that she was at singing school, said ho
would go for her."
Two individuals, one named iforfit and the
other Lazarus, were arrested. Mrs. KINO, the
lady with whom Miss Allen lived, recognized
Mork as the person who called at her house for
Miss Allen the evening she was missing. From
Mrs. King's testimony and other evidence, it ap
peared that Lazarus was an accomplice. They
were both committed, and were still in prison at
the list accounts. Not less than three or four
thousand individuals wore assembled in and around
the Courthouse during the trial. The Military
were ordered out to keep the peace.
Late from £a gland.
jßy the arrival at New York of the packet
ship Hibernia, London and Liverpool papers to
the Ist of April inclusive have boon received.
The Commercial intelligence appears to be of a
gratifying nature, satisfactory arrangements hav
ing been made for mercantile houses connected
with the American trade. Merchants and others
connected in New York, Philadelphia and else
where, appear highly delighted at the intelligence,
and receive it as an omen of better times being in
store for them despite of the iron-rod exorcised over
them by their rulers at house. God grant that
they may not be disappointed.
Mrs. Fitzherber, widow of George IV. died at
Brighton on the 28th of March lust. Tho Mar
quis of Batt died on the 27th and the Bishop of
Norwich was not expected to live more than a few
hours on the 31st. The commotion excited by
the affair of the Vixen, appears to have died away.
It was reported at Paris that the King of Prus
sia was dead.
Louie Philippe, the King of the French*, has
another grand-son, in'tho person of Philippe Ferdi
nand Eugene Leopold George, son of the King
and Queen of Belgium, who was born on the 24th
of March last.
Ministerial changes were spoken of, at the latest
date from Paris, but nothing definite seems to have
taken place.
General Daremont, the 'new commander-in-chief
at Algiers, had gone to Toulon, to hasten the
preparations for the expedition against Constan
tine.
From Spain we learn that the defeat of - the
British auxiliaries under General Evans, has been
followed by a similar disaster to Espartero, who
was met on the 21st of March and compelled to
retrogado with some loss. Saarsfield and Irribar
ren have also been compelled to give way.
A powder magazine was blown up at Santan
der, by which a whole street of houses were de
stroyed awl many lives lost.
ocy-The Carlisle Republican, a “Democratici!
paper, has the• following significant paragraphs:
"The columns of the Globe are very re
gularly occupied with sage strictures on
the Banks and, the currency. Can the ed
or tell ug what has beemne of the Hard
Money Currency so often promised to the
people? Is it not all locked up in the vaults
of what are dennininated pet banks?"
Mr. Senator PRESTON, in a speech on the
Salt Duties, at the last session gave, will) a
few meaterly_ touches, an admirable picture
of Mr. VAN BUREN:
. The Executive might, indeed, present a
double face to the different minions of the
Union. To tho So tl West he mi :hi
wear . a. gilded smile, which would induce
them all to th ink
. that he was decidedly anti
tariff; decidedly a strict constructionist; de
cidedly a State right's man; decidedly an
anti abolitionist. While, at the same time,
over the othei• shoulder there might be
another face, nodding to the North, and
thr re all might be equally sure that the Presi
dent was tariff, unquestionably tariff; a lib
eral constructionist; a friend of internal im
provement, with a little touch ofabolition.
.From_ the Columbia Spy of Saturday last.
COLLECTOR'S OFFICE,
- .
COLUMBIA, May 5, 1837.
IPEEKLP REPORT.
Amount of Toll received at this office
per last weekly report, $67,735 50
Amount received during the week
ending this Jay,
Whole amount received up to
May Gth,
$72,309 41
W. C. M'PIIERSON, Collector.
INTEGRITY OF TIM IJ:llO:V.—The Penn•
sylvania Convention of the friends of the in
tegrity of the • Union, assembled, in the
Court House, at Harri•.burgli, on Monday
last Ist inst. and after some preliminary con
versation, appointed a Committee to report
upon husiness--Mr. McG din, of Washing.
ton, occupying the chair pro tern. In the
afternoon, Judge 'Baird, or Washington
County, was chosen President, and Morton
McMichael, of Philadelphia, S. D. Patter
sot., of S.. W Randall, of Erie,
rind Joseph Williams, of Delaware, were ap
pointed Secretaries. Hon. T. B. Dallas, of
Allegheny, George Fisher, of Dauphin, Ccl.
Walter S. Franklin, of York, Thomas Bell,
of Chester, Nathaniel Ewing, of Fayette,
Hon. George Chambers, of Franklin, Snail
H. Lloyd, of Lycorning, James M. Pauling,
of Muittgotnery, Hon. John firetden, of But
ler, Gen Thomas C. M iller,of Adatns,Mar
tin Stambaugh, of Perry, and Michael Hol•
comb, of Cumberland, was elected Vice
Presidents. A committee of thirteen was
appointed to prepare resolutions and an ad
dress.
The 'Convention met again, on Tueodov
morning 2d inst. NI r. Thaddeus Stevens,
of Adams, and other delegates, not present
at the previous sessions, appeared and took
their seats. Mr. Kane, from the tMunnit
me of thirteen, reported a preamble and
"lexica of resolutions, setting forth the semi
_
1 / 44
•/' nts of the Convention. After considers
: conversation, in which 4r. Stevens bore
agonspictions part, the resolutions were a
dopted with great unanimity. and in the af
ternoon the Convention adjourned. Thirty.
three counties were represented, and the
delegates generally were men of the highest
standing and intelligence.—U. S. Gas.
POSTSCRIPT.
..ct• l Two prisoners broke jail yesterday after
noon. See the Sheriff's oilveliseinent.
0c:7 -The Gettyaburgh Troop will parade at 10
o'clock, on Saturday morning next.
CCrThe Town-Council mat on Friday last (we
believe,) and appointed ROBERT SMITH, Esq.
Preshlent.,..Moszs M'CLE..sa, Esq. (no other per
spn in the place being capable!) Clerk, and Mr.
Ezekiel Buckingham High Constable.
OJOHN ASH wee elected, on the 28th ult.,
MAJOR of the Z. Battalion,Soth Regiment,P. M.
IiYMENIAC REOIRTHR.
aim( Itl ED.
On the 2nd inst. by the Roy. Mr. Keller, Mr.
JOSHUA SennityY, of Waynesburg, Franklin coun
ty, to Miss IlaNsAu Ftrusnuory, of Mountplcas
'ant township, Adams county.
On the same day, by tjpa same, Mr. THOMAS
UNDKOWOOI), of this place, to Miss LOUIS♦ Lot,
formerly of Creagerstowii, Md. .
Un tho 4th inst. by tlasame, Mr. DAVID BLAKE
LT to Miss HAIIU/ET \VEAVEU—both of Frank
lin township.
On tho same day, by the same, Mr. awes Uzi.
CAMPER, of Straban township, to Miss Msure MC,
CALEP, of this place.
On the 19th ult. in Hagerstown, by the Rev.
Mr. Helfenstine,, Mr. Hues L. GrAz.r.suna, of
Charlestown, Va. (and lately of this place,) to
Miss Eraz.tarru C. Bowen, of Shepherdstown,
Virginia.
On the 27th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Watson, Mr.
JOHN Bo r En, of Carroll county, ALL to Miss !WALL.
CURET TROXEL, of Frederick county, Md.
At Beverly, Mass. Dr. lire +ILLS MI -Fannon,
aged 68, to Miss LYDIA SMITU, aged 98. By
this marriage the husband becomes brother to his
son, and uncle to his grand-children; and the wife
becomes mother to her sister, and grandmother to ,
her neices, (the father and son mwricul sisters)—
the son has five daughters by the youngest sister.
OICITITAnY RECORD.
DIED.
On the 26th ult. Mr. DANIEL DIEHL, of Mount
joy township, in the 31st year of his age.
In Chambersburgh, on Wednesday last, Rev.
HENRY L. Rice, of the German Reformed Church
of that place.
Suddenly, in Frederick, on the sth inst. Rev.
DAVID F. Sdiusprzn, D. D. in the 51st year of
his age, for many years Pastor of the Lutheran
Church in that place.
$lOO REWARD:
i.SCAPEn from the prison of Adams
county.(by mean's ofassistance through
an accomplice, by unlocking the outside c a fe
of the Jail wall,) on Sunday the7th of May
inst., two men, named
GIERERT dIP
ELLIS ELDRIDGE.
RA MSEY is about 5 feet, 10 or 11 inches
high, stout made, rather stooped, down look,
hlue ayes, brown hair, low forehead, ab , ut
25 years °rage, with a pair of grey cassinett
pantaloom, far worn; blue silk vest, well
worn; no coat; fur can. rim turned up; also,
a cost pattern ~f claret colored cloth.
EL RIDGE is 6 feet high, stout made,
bold appearanre, turned no time, dark eves,
dark hair, and swarthy complexion; dark
cloth pantaloons; no coat on.
The above reward will be given for the
apprehension of both the above persons so
that they can be got—or Filly DMlarri for
either—and all asonahle expenotta paid.
W M. TA UG !UN B A Gil, Sherif.
,tysburgh, May 7i 1837. Bt-5
RELIGIO NbTICES
The Rev. Mr. BAUGIIER r will preach in
the English Lutheran Church on Sunday morn
ing next, at half past 10 o'clock—and Rev. Mr.
KELLER in this evening, at 7 o'clock.
ryThere will also be preaching in the Metho
dist Church on Sunday morning & evening next
cO• There will ho preaching v also,. - on Sunday
morning and evening next, in till - Presbyterian
Church.
PUBLICK NO711(141S.
ADAMS COUNTY LYCEUM.
A MEETING of the "ADAMS COUNTY
t LYCEUM" will be held in Mr. Cooper's
Law Office, in the Borough of Gettyaburgh, on
Tuesday Evening, May 9,
4,673 91
A LECTURE will be delivered by a member
q. All persons desirous of promoting the oba
jects of the association, arc invited to attend,
become members and participate in the exercises
of the meeting.
May 8, 1837
•
TETE Petershurgli Evangelical Who
ran Church will be consecrated on Sunday
the 4th of June next. - There will be ser
vices in the English and German languages.
May 8, 1837. td—ft
IVIARSHaLL COLLEGE,
MERCERSBU RGH, PA.
•
THE W inter Session has just closed, fol
lowed by an examination of three days.
The Summer Session, in the 'Preparatory
Department, will commence on Tuesday
the 16th of May—in the Collegiate De
partment, the 25th of May. The expences
are:
For Tuition, the Summer &Salon,
Fur du. do. Winter do.
For Miscellaneous Items, the Session,
I3oarding is at present much higher than
usual, owing to the high price of provisions;
but the price of the best does r►ot exceed $2
per week. In plentiful years, it may vary
from $1 25 to $1 75.
The Summer Session continues from the
25th of May to the last week of September.
Tbs. Winter Session commences six weeks
after, and continues eighteen weeks, to the
end of the year.
S. W.' RUDD, Sec'ry to the Faculty.
May 8, 1837. 3t-6
TO CONTRACTOrtS.
gooROPOSALS will be received until
IL Thursday evening ' the Bth of June
nest, at the office of the Wrightsville, York
uud Gettysburgh Rail Road, in York, for
wing a single track of rails
on 12 miles of the above Road.
extending from Wrightsville to York.
0:1 - Plans and specifications of the work.
will be exhibited in the office after Monday
the Bth inst. and further information will be
irnished by Mr. J. F. HousToN, P. A. at
York.
S. NV. MIFFLIN, C. E.
Muy 8, '1637. td-6
Or- •The "Telegraph," Harrisburg)); "Patriot" and
"Chronicle," Baltimore; "Inquirer" and "National
Gazette," Philadelphia; "Examiner," Lancaster;
"Republican," York; "Journal," Reading; and "Rail
Road Journal," New. York; will each give the above
3 weekly iusertious and forward their accounts to the
"Star "
A LIST or RETAILERS
OF FOREIGN MERCHANDIZE,
wiTRIISI the county of Adams, agree
ably to a certificate of the same fur.
nihhed to me by the Clerk of Quarter Sea
ms of sa:d County, designating those who
have taken out their License for one year
from the Ist of May, 1+337.
I °l
Albert V andike Enoch. Simpson
George . Beck J. P. Aulabaugh
Abraham King ' Henry Bittingee .
Henry Schriver Cooper & M'Sherry
Hugh M'Sherry Wm. (It tilespie
Joseph Carl George Arnold
Michael Lawyer Wm. Reynolds
Peter Mickley B. R. Robinson
Henry Roberta Samuel Witherow
Robert Smith J. A. Winrott
&mil Folinestock Jesse Gilbert
John Picking S. H. Buehler
0:1F - List of those who did not ,take out
their Licenses on the Ist of 4fay,,1837:
T. & E. Friend Ellis & Riddle
Adam Epley George Bange
David Sheets H. W. Slagle
Blythe & M'Cleary John Houck
Wm. Johnston D. & J. Brinkerhoff
Hiram Boyd George Myers
Jacob Haflaigh Peter P. Bercaw
J. A. & J. S. Davis John Miller
Morritz Buddy E. Eckeurode
Jesse Houck J. A. Deiuier
George Wilson Michael Shutter
John M c Knight A. S. E. Duncan
Simon Becker Thomas M'Knight
John Conrad Abraham Scott
George Menaigh John Marks
Win. Gardner-David Beecher
Thomas Stephens E. Owings ..
J. B. Lyon • Wm. Hildebrand
J E. Temple Joseph Miller
David White Philip Miller
flte•Alt those who have not taken out
their Licenses, will take notice, that agree.
ably to the duty of the Treasurer, he is corn
polled to institute suits against all delin
quents who faitto take out License on or be
fore the firet day ofJtme,ne?it.
, N. B. All persons dealing as aforesaid
who do not find their names on the above
list, will do well forthwith to report them
selvee to the County Treasurer and obtain a
License, or otherwise they will subject them.
selves to a fine eyed penalty.
JESSEVILBERT, Treasurer.
Treasurer's Office. Getty'
• , L 8 t
at 7 o'clof k
IL W. MIDDLETON, Seery
WHET -:-WARUKIOW''''
RESPECTFULDf itiforiforAiC-01d,
friends and custoniers that 14:hia . ta•
ken a Shop convenient to his d
he is heady at all times to fill the orderitif
those who may wish work done in tho Cabi
netmaking line. _
He has-also on hand a-variety of
NNW 7111:11TITURE.
. .
KrHe is also prepared to wake . ("oz.'
PINS, as mud', at the shortest notice,
out of either Mahogany, Maple, Cherry or .
Walnut.
. .
Thankful for past favors, ho hopes to : re..
ceivo a continuance of the public's. liberality:
May 1, 1 1 . 1 37. tf
iffireoft
SAMUEL WITHEROW -
IIAS just returned - from the City wits
a large and splendid assortment of
(Ca ul (40 1
purchased on' on' the best terns, and•of a int.
perior quality; which he is now opening at
his old stand. They consist of
Dry gioods, Groeer4s,
HARDWARE, QUEENSW4RE,
all of which he will dispose of CHEAP ,
for Cash or Country Produce. ,
Gettysburgh; May 1; 1837. 11-*-
$l2 00
1 00
3 00
wtvo • •--- ; 0-00.gi
In the room lately occupied by M. C. Clarkson,
Esq. as a HAnowene Store, on the West Cor.
nor of the Diamond, in the Dorough of Gettis-
'FRE Sulariber having returned from
'AL the City, has just opened,
A LARGE AND SPLENDID ASSORTMEN7'OR,4
GOODS,
OP ALL KINDB-CONSYSTIN4 OF
D.Rir GOODS; • .
Such ai Cloths, Silks, Lawns, Painted Mt.ts'..
fins, Chintz's, Calicoes, Cotton fabric's, and
generally goods of every kind.
hifardware, Groceries and
Queenstoare
which he is determined to sell CHEAP for .
Cush or Country Produce.'
The public are invited to call and see his
assortment, and judge for, themselves.
JOHN PICKING.
if--5
May 1, 1837.
PUBILIC
riglHE Commissioners of Ademb Countv t
.will offer Att public Auction,, at the
Court HOUSO in the Borough of Gettysburg,-
on Tuesday, the 30th day of. Nay iitst: tlt
C o'clock P. M. •
20' Shares of Stock in the
Gettysburg IF'ater Company
Also—at the same time and place, Will
be offered for sale a LARGE QUANTITY OP
JOURNALS.
By, order of the Board of Commissioners.
WILLIAM KING, Clerk.
May 1, 1937. 3t-6
THE IXTEEHLY MESSENGER,
A Religious, Literary 4. Falaily Newspaper,
Publimbed every Wednculay, in Chambereburg, Pa.
B. S. SCHN ECK, Editor.
Tawas: $2 in advance--Or
.2 50 if not paid within the year.
• 1 26 for 6 months. always in adiance.
r r ilitS paper has been in existence
-IL more than 18 months; and from the
regular increase of its subscription list, the
pleasing hope is indulged; that it heti realiz-
ed the expectations of the Christian public.
Although primarily devoted to the; ixitt : „ v ;
of the Reformed Church,it aims,at• twig eA i" 1 " •
time, to be useful' to all, tvitheut,enteriett-,,
into the denominational controversieti,
lamentably prevalent in cur day.
The Weekly Messenger is designed'to&f , ,t'
a useful Christian Family Newspaper. -Its 2:l\
aim is, to promote love to God and man, by,
disseminating the doctrines and duties of
the Christian religion, and enfOrCittglberii
by its high commands,its alluring prornities,;,
and its threatened woes.
The fourth page usually contains selectsd.
or original matter, especially appropriated
to Miniators, Parents, the Ladies,. Student*,
and Children, besides a Temperance and a
Farmers' Department.
The profits of this paper are sacredly ap.
plied, by the Board of Missions, (under
whose auspices it is publislod,) to the cause
of Domestic Missions. , •
(t Any person becoming responsible, or
paying in advance for five aut4cribers, [8 10,1
shall receive one copy gratis, Of the ettiOltet •
of one copy, in money. POstinasters are
authorized to forward money, (at our risk ' )
for which a liberal per centage will be al. •
lowed. -
For the Executive Committee of tho of Miesiota - 1:
JOHN SMITH, Treasurer.
. ,
May Ft, 1837'.
.• 111-6
ST Ift Airw _
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QTRAYED from flai : att s baigbar in' tide..‘. 1
), piac'e, on the 24th 01f...4 :YELLOW,:
~ p i / , / s :, CO ,,
r ,,--7-, , M U LXW, (dry ,) short . '
.. ( m , ~ ' ~.
Vi."'- t i legs, hearty body, fleshy beg
9 1111 .:!L with a nuraboir or warts ,it hit!
tea', and.a white spot tti- tier forebeed
.._...
Any person giving' information where aiiii.
lb, will be liberally rewarded. - . ....,....
~:,.....,,-;
SAMUEL_ EITZMI4 O2 :''' ...-.'e':-I,h
Mav 8, 1R37.' '' - -•' 4
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