Mar 4' Republican .111(enuer.
BY ROBERT WHITE MIDDLETON
GETTrsnuitGli. PENN.
TUESDAY, ARPIL 10, 1838
1 -Flour in Baltimore, $7 00; Wheat, $1 52,
Corn, 75 cts.; Rye, 87; Oats, 35 ; Clover Seed;
06 60 to $8 75; Whiskey, 28 cts.
THOM THE PIIIL•DELPIIIA INCLUTUCR
Mr. Dillingham and the School
of Arts.
We are indebted to a friend at Harrisburg for a
copy of the speech of W. H. Dillingham, Esq. in
favor of the Bill to establish a School of Arts. As
might have been expected from the well known
ability and scholar-like attainments of that gentle
man, it is a polished and patriotic effort—worthy
alike the ago ir. which we live, and the beneficent
and paternal character of Pennsylvania. Wo re
gret our inaltility, in tho present condition of our
columns, to find space for the whole production;
but the following concluding passages will afford
come idea of its general tone and tendency:—
"1' rejoice, Mr. Speaker, that this is no
party question. lilt were,[ might fear that
some unconscious prejudice, or sinister bias,
or fealty to a something less than the com
mon weal, might influence the decision. I
rejoice to have had so much evidence that
upon all questions independent of party poll.
tics, intelligence and patriotism have gener
ally prevailed in this House.
If members can but be brought to consid
er this subject, they must vote for it. To
understand all its important bearings, sortie
thought and reflection are undoubtedly no
emery. We are all naturally averse to
intense thought. It is a few people in the
world who do the thinking for the rest. But
there are some reflections so simple and so
applicable that they must strike every one.
Independent of our duty to the Stute,is there
any member interested in cowl?—he has
personal interest in the passage of this bill.
Is there any member interested in iron?—
he has a personal interest in the passage of
this bill. Is there any member interested
in canals or rail roads?—he is personally
interested in the passage of this bill. Is there
any member interested in agriculture?—ho
has a personal interest in the passage of this
bill. Is there any member interested in
manufactures, or commerce, or the median
tie arts?—he has a personal interest in the
passage of this bill.
Does any one regard matter as more im
portat.t than mind—the body as better than
the soul—and ancient error as preferable to
cewly discovered truthl—he should vote
against this bill.
I have confined my observations pretty
much to a protest against the abandonment
of the School of Arts. Ido hope the gen
tleman from Adams, after the triumphant
vote he achieved for us on Saturdsy,will ral
ly his groat powers and come again to the
rescue. Despair should find no place in the
vocabulary of the statesman and philanthro
pist. That gentleman ►s the last man in this
House whom I should have supposed could
ever despair in a great and good cause. He
should trample under foot this enemy to his
good designs.
Connected with the subject of Education,
there are some larger considerations and
responsibilities devolving irp(si u+..is•
lora than I have as yet mentioned. Our
highest and most interesting duty is to guard
the public liberty. This is ever in danger.
The price of liberty, as has been well ex
pressed, is "unceasing watchfulness." How
shall we best guard this precious treasure—
this life and soul of our institutions.
I would that I could spread out before the
eyes of members, the great chapter of His
tory, and make one or two facts palpable as
it were to the senses, on a chronological and
historical chart. Casting a glance at that
chart from the time man was created to the
present day, taking in all countt ies,through
all ages, what portion of time and what ex
tent of apace would we see occupied by Re•
publics? Oae or two little spots,bright though
small, shine out upon the canvass—the rest
is all darkness. When we mention Greece
and Rome, we have, as it were, told the
whole story of Republics. Horo alone, in
the wide world, has liberty ever found a
resting place, since Time began. Here
alone, before our own experiment, has man
ever been found capable of self government.
Asia—no republic ever existed there. Her
countless millions have ever bowed the knee
in abject servitude to Kings! Africa—no
republic there —look Nhere we will,through
all countries, in all ages, and we find that
it is Kings,and Kings,and Kings who govern
the earth!
Would you learn the moral? ignorance
holds man in slavery.—lgnorance of his own
capacities and of his high destinies. Would
you make him free? Educate him—awaken
his moral and intellectual faculties to a sense
of the value of Liberty. Teach him that
this is equally the glory of civil society,and
the glory of his moral nature, and that if he
doea not possess it in the one, he cannot
long enjoy it in the other. Thus alone can
you make man capable of self government.
Licentiousness ever seeks relief from its own
excesses under the shade of despotic power."
The Randolph (Tennessee) Whig cen•
surea in strong terms the conduct of Judge
V. D. Barry, for admitting to bail the four
Joess's,who stood accused of the murder
of Col. E. WARD, their uncle, under circum
stances of peculiar atrocity which were de
tailed some weeks ago. The statutes of
Tennessee declare that persons charged
with treason or capital offences shall not be
admitted to bail; and notwithstanding that in
the present case the grand jury of Shelby
county had found a true bill for murder
against the parties, the judge decided to ad.
ant them to bail in the sum of ten thousand
dollars each, and they, are now at large. The
decision has greatly incensed the community
in which the murder was perpetrated.
His Excellency the Governor, of Mary
land has appointed JONATHAN MEREDITH.
Esq. Commissioner to Harrisburg, under
the resolutions of the legislature in relation
to the moor NATHAN S. 13Enrs and others
claimed by the Governor of Pennsylvania
ee liseits* from justice.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
li'romissory .Votes.
A correspondent proposes the following
questions: Ist. Is a promissory note valid
without buing witnessed? 2d- Is a promis
sory note valid without a date? 3d. If a
note be given without a date,endorsed by the
payee, and the indorser antedate it by 2t)
years can the latter recover interest on it
from such date? 4th. Can a pledgee of a
note, or of merchandise, for a certain time,
dispose of such pledge at his pleasure?
We answer as follows: Ist. Witnessing
is no necessary part of a promissory note,
but is useful in saving it from the statute of
limitations. If not witnessed, it is outlaw
ed in six years from the time of execution.
If witnessed, it is valid for sixteen, eighteen
or twenty yea maccording to circumstances.
We , have known jurors to find against a note
sixteen years old, and never knew of their
finding in favor of one twenty years old.—
Witnessed notes, like bonds, are subject to
no statute of limitations, but presumed to
be paid or not, according to circumstances,
after sixteen or more years. filler twenty
years, the presumption is always against
them.
2d. A date is no necessary part of a note;
it is therefore valid without one. But to
recover interest, the holder must prove the
time of• execution. If this cannot be proved,
the presumption is that it was executed on
the day of demand of payment, or of suit, if
no formal demand be made.
3d. If the holder of a note,whether payee
or endorsee, ante-date it without the consent
of the maker or endorser, or both, he can•
not recover interest or principal. The al.
teration is a forgery, which avoids the note,
and subjects the author of it to indictment.
forgery, in Pennsylvania, is a State Prison
offence.
4th. A pledge of a note, or of rnerchan•
dice, for a ceitain time,is bound to keep t he
pledge till the tune has expired; for then the
pledger is entitled to a return of the pledge,
on payment of tho money raised upon it.—
After the time has expired, the pledger can
sell it, by endorsement of delivery,if a prom
issory note; at auction, after advertisement,
if merchandise. If the pledge be sold before
the time expire, and the pledger is ready to
redeem, he can recover damages of the
pledgee.
From the Pennsylvania Telegraph
Mr. Fenn.—The enclosed is a copy of a
Memorial sent to both Houses of the Legis•
lature,which was presented some time since,
but has not yet been published.
Considering its publication desirable,hoth
as an act of justice to the :Memos ialists, who
are all, as they slate, Freemasons, and a
mong the most respectable citizens of West
Pennsylvania,and as strong evidence against
secret oath bound societies, f hand it to you
for your, paper.
'l l l.e mural firmness displayed by the Me
morialists, in thus strongly exposing one of
the many evil tendencies of oath buuud soci
eties, merits much praise.
To tho Honorable the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Memorial of the undersigned citizens
of Pittsburgh and its vicinity, and of the
Order of Preemasons,respectfully represents
—That your Memorialists have regarded
with much anxiety, the multiplication of
societies over the whole country, organzied
and established for ditTerent objects, and
bound together by tho most solemn oaths;
that they, with many of their fellow citizens,
strongly deprecate the frequency of such
appeals to the Almighty, as having a ten-
dency to weaken all the securities of life,
liberty and property, by impairing the solem
nity of those used in the administrat:on of
the laws, and that they are of opinion that
the evil is one of such magnitude, as to call
for the Interposition of the Legislature.
They, therefore, entreat your honorable
bodies to pass a law for the suppression of
extrajudicial oaths.
And as in duty bound they will ever pray,
dm.
Lewis Peterson,
James Corroy,
Sylvanus Lothorp, George Beale,
A. Brackenridge, Wm. J. Howard,
James Brown, Robert Rodgers,
Wm. Blaelte , ock, F. Lorenz,
George Singer, S. Smith,
John F. Wrenshall, John Rippey
Wm. A loon, of Wm., H. Brunot,
R. W. Poindexter, J. Painter,
W. Johnston, W. A. Irwin,
G. Adams, H. Smith,
G. Armstrong, jr, Malcolm Leech,
Isaac Lightner.
February 7th, 1838.
TRH BRIBRHY CASE.—Mr. CortAN,from
the Committee appointed to inquire into the
truth of the allegations charging Mr. Rey
nolds, of Westmoreland, with an attempt to
bribe Mr. Thompson, made report. The
report says that the committee, after a mi
nute and thorough investigation of the facts,
are of the opinion, that there is no ground
for the charges preferred against either Mr.
Reynolds, M r. Thompson or the York Bank,
or any person connected therewith.
Mr. FORD, from the minority of the com
mittee, also made report, the tenor of which
does not hold Mr. Reynolds so entirely guilt
less as the views of the majority would seem
to place him. With the majority, they
wholly exculpate the York bank,or any oth
er bank, of having used any improper influ
ence to effect Mr. Thompson's vote on the
anti•sub•treasury resolutions.
Two thousand copies of both reports,with
the accompanying evidence, were ordered
to be printed.—Harrisburg Chronicle..
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LEAD MINE IN GEonom..—Professor Cot
ting, who is conducting a Geological, Survey
ofthe State of Georgia, has discoverd a mine
of black lead in Elbert county. It is said to
be very valuable.
When will the people cease to play with
fire arms? Recently, at
,Louisville, two gen
tlemen,"who had been firing at a mark, in)i
opirit of playfulness, raised their guns and
pointed them at each other, when one acci
dentally went oil; the ball penetrating the
brain oft lie un6,rtu u sta,individual opposite,
and causing his death innoediatuly.
Jacob Forsyth,
S. Fahnestock,
The popularity of Joseph Ritner and his
administration, if the signs of the times be
a safe Index, is unbounded. The press, in
every part of the State, speaks with the ful
lost confidence of the prospects of his suc
cess at the coming election, and many even
of his political enemies have expressed the
opinion that it is useless to oppose him.
The bridge over the Valley creek,on the
Columbia and Philadelphia rail read, near
Downingtown, was destroyed by fire last
woek,occasioned by sparks from the locomo
tive. The house of representatives on Mon
day, on motion of Mr. STEVENS, passed a
bill through the requisite readings, appro
priating $15,000 for the rebuilding of this
bridge, which was immediately sent to the
senate, where it will no doubt be concurred
in.—Harrisburg Chronicle.
The Legislature of Ohio,amnng the laws
of the late session, passed the following:
"To repeat an act to prohibit the circu
lation of small bills.
lishment within this State of any branch,
office, or agency of tho Bank of the United
States," Su:.
From the National futelligencer of April 5
The Arai:damns. .
In conformity with the decision of the Su.
preme Court of the United States in the case
of STOCKTON & STOKES, Relators, against
the POSTMASTEIt•GENERAL. a writ or Man.
damns was, on Friday last, issued by the
Circuit Court In, the District of Columbia,
returnable on Tuesday, the 3d instant. To
that writ, return was made to the Court on
Tuesday, by the following endorsement up.
on the copy of the writ served upon the
Post master• General:
POST OFF/CD DEPARTMENT:
APRIL 3, 1939•
Having communicated the awards of the Solicitor
of the Treasury, referred to in the within writ, to the
Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Depart
ment, vr ho has the legal custody of the books in which
the accounts of this Department arc kept, I have re
ceived from him official information that the balance
of said awards, viz. thirty nine thousand four hundred
and aeventy-two dollars and forty-seven cents, 839,-
472 41,) has been entered to tho credit of the claim
ants oo said books.
A MOS RENDA LL,
Postmaatir General.
This being read in Court—
Mr. R. S. CoxE, for the Plaintiff's, gave
notice that he should on the following day
move to quash the return as unsatisfactory
and insufficient.
[ln the course of the day the Plaintiffs
received at the Treasury the principal a•
mount of the aw.iri made, under the act o
Congress, by the Solicitor of the Treasury.
So, to this extent, the act of Congress, and
the decree of the Circuit Court, affirmed by
the Supreme Covet, have at length been car
ried into effect, though not respected, as it
was the duty of the Postmaster-General, in
common with all other good and orderly cit
izr•ns of the United States, to have respect.
ed,at first, the act of Congress; secondly,the
Mandamus of the Circuit Court; and, third
ly, the decision of the highest judicial tribu
nal.]
Yesterday. in accordance with the notice
given, Mr. Cox!: rn:tdo a motion to quas
the return upon the writ of Mandamus a
gainst the Postmaster General. The man
tier of the return, Mr. C. argued, (in sup.
porting this motion) was a gross conterrivt
of Court; for the Postmaster-General puts
himt , elt, in his reply to the writ,on the very
ground over-ruled by this Court, and aban
dotted by his own counsel before the Su
preme Court. The Court, he said, could
hardly consider the return sufficient, with•
out admitting that the Postmaster-General
was right in his original groutid,and (hat the
Court was wrong in deciding against it.—
That the tenor of this reply on the part of
the Postmaster. General was entirely incon
sistent with his own previous action; ter
that, when the award of the Solicitor of the
Treasury, under the net of Congress, first
came into his hands, he undertook to give
instructicns how, and to what extent, the a
ward should be executed by the Auditor,
and it was nut until a 6irtnight after the do•
cision of the Supreme Court in the ease,that
ho found out he had nothing to do with it
and that ihe Auditor had exclusive control
over it. Mr. C. further straoested that.with
regard to this matter,the Postmaster. Gen
eral had not certified any ono thing .which
the writ of Mandamus required him to cer
tify. This, however, he said, was a mat
ter for the Court itself to decide upon, in
which the Relators had nu intelcatrinr cher
than to see the dignity of the Court sustain
ed.
On the part of the Relators, he rhaintron
ed that in point of substance the return was
wholly insufficient, because it had been now
only certified that a balance was due which
hai,l been reported Lobe due sixteen orseven
teen months ago, any in November, 1836
The award made by the 'Solicitor compre
hended the interest clue on the balance up to
the date of the award. The Postmaster.
General objected to the award of the Soli
citor, that he had transcended the authority
of the act of Congress, and one of the speci
fic objections was the allowing of merest
on those claims. This Court, by deciding
that the Solicitor had not transcended his
jurisdiction, and the Supreme Court by the
unanimous adoption of the same doctrine,
had decided that the plaintiffs were entitled
to interest, and, consequently, the paNments
that have been made, including interest on
ly to November, 1836, are payments on ac•
count, and not in full compliance with the
writ of Mandamus.
For these and other reasons, Mr. CoXE
moved to quash the return as insufficient.
The COURT took time to consider the too
tion.
The Harrisburg Key Stone heads an
article with '•Miserable Shifts of the Fed
eralists," and then goes on to berate the an
ti•V an Buren men about their means of car
rying on the contest. Would it not be well
for our brethorn of the Loco Foco press to
look to their own affairs a little, and they
will see that they do riot agree in their plan
of action in any two states—that they are
split to pieces in Washington and divided in
New York? We advise them not to meddle
with our party AO until they shall have
mended their own breeches.[U. S. Gazette.
"To abolish imprisonment for. debt.
"To repeal an act prohibiting the estab
Glorious Aews from Co
Mutt ran Buren liebz
Correipondenco of the National lateMg
NEV YORK, April 4, 1
The compliments of the State of #finec
tient, with a Whig majority of abou JIVE
THOUSAND, to Mr. Van Buren,his tioneble
Cabinet, and Congress, I send, and .1 4 e.
quest, too, of many of the Sovereign ftOple,
who think my news will first greet thc ". es
of the tenants of the Capitol and the %
House. The Whig victory is complete,
no ifs, nor ands nor bets about it. , ! . e
largest vote ever known in the State • /id
been given. The %Vhig gain is over SE N
THOUSAND.
TWENTY of tt.e twenty-one Senators eke
ted are Whig. Tho House will stand about
thus:
151
10 ,
Whig,
Loco-foco Van Buren,
Conservative,
But where there is such a complete route
of a party, particulars are not necessary.—
Every thing is ours unless it be Middlesex
county, and there the run is so close, that
!here is some doubt. The gam is a state,a
Senator in Congress—and, ultiolatcly, (.fall
the Members of the House from the State.
This news corning in upon our Charter
Election !ins cheered our politicians
The Connecticut boats come in with flags,
and the people cn the wharves cheer them
as they come.
The Connecticut Courant, published at
Hartford, thus speaks of the result:
Never was a more complete and thorough
regeneration known in the annals of ics,
than was witnessed in the result of the clec
non on Monday last. The entire Win,
ticket for State officers is elected by major
ties of from 4,!'00 to 5,000 over every thing
else! Last year, the majority Id. Edwards,
the loco (Coi, Governor, was . 2,'.2.+ 4 1* What
a chancre! what a lesson ot . "instruction" to
.lA[l 11. Niles and Perry Smith, U. S. Seri
ators! What a treniendrais rebuke to the
dealers in "unified expedients"! The entire
change against the administration sirce la t
Spring, it will he perceived,. including the
Conservato vote, amounts to upwards I.:tuzur
THOUSAND.
MARK THE STATE OF A FFA I RS.
It is now six months since the elections td
last full, which terminated so disastrously
for the administration. Then the Van ihi
ren men declared that the whole was a spas
medic action, which would soon cease, and
that in a few months there would he a re-ac
Lion; and we do not hesitate to say,that while
we never entertained a fe ir that the re ac
tion would be entire, we certainly did not
hope that the spirit of reform would continue
to operate with the entire effect which we
now see it producing. Connecticut has seal
ed the promises made last autumn, and con
firmed the highest hopes of the friends of re
form. The march is onward, and nothing
can stay its progress.— U. S. Gaz.
When Mr. Van Buren came into office,
wo had a surplus revenue of $40,000,000,
that we hardly know what to do with tie
has now been in the Presidential choir a lit•
Ile more than one year, and a public debt in
the shape of a ten millions issue of Treasury
Notes has already been created,and now Mr.
CAMIMELENG asks Congress to issue ten
millions more—making TWENTY MI L
LIONS OF PUBLIC DEBT under which
the country will soon have to labor, instead
of having on hand a surplus of 40,000,000,
with which Mr. Van Buren commenced his
administration. If he should manage as well
for the three years to come of his adminis
tration, as he has for the year past, he will
leave the country burthened with a public
debt of at least $- - 40,000,000 by the time his
term expires.—lingerstowu Torch Light.
No nation on earth haJ a better currency,
or enjoyed more happiness or a greater de
gree of prosperity,t ban the American pcopli',
before the Loco Foco currency tinkeis com•
menccd their experiments and operations,
under the management of Andrew Jackson.
No nation on earth now has a worse curren
cy; and, all things considered, a greater
amount of embarrassment,ditliculty and dis.
tress to encounter, than this same American
people. Thanks to Andrew Jackson and
his Loco Foco eiders and abettors.—lbid.
For several years preceding General Jack-
son's administration, the expenditures ()four
government amounted to about '1313,000,000
per annum. They have since run up to be.
veen 30 000,000, and 40,000,000H 1 Doub
ling and trebling, under the reforming and
retrenching administrations, of ANDREW
JACKSON and MARTIN VAN BUREN, the
prodigal and extravagant expenditures of
the Administrations of Mr. Me:lnez and
—Mr. ADAms!!l—
A PLEA FOR EDUCATION,--The Com
mittee of the Legislature of this state ap..
pointed to visit the Eastern Penitentiary,
report, that out of the three hundred anp
eighty-seven convicts now confined in that
prison,one hundred arid thirteen cannot read,
and ninety nine can read only. ' This fact
speaks volumes in favor of our Common.
Law, for as its effects begin to spread among
the community, crime will proportionately
decrease.
At a meeting of the directors of the Sur
olk Bank of Boston, held on Saturday last,
t was voted as the unanimous oppinion of
the Board, that it would be "inexpedient for
the Banks in Boston to resume specie pay
ments, unless the Banks in New York and
Philadelphia will resume at the same tune."
It will be rememberd that this is the gene
ral settling institution of the difibrent Banks
in Massachusetts.
is stated in . the Gei mantown Telegraph
that a few days since the engineer on the
Norristown Rail Road, accidentally saw
ahead of the locomotive a bundle across the
rails,and fortunately picking it up,discovered
it to be a now born infant, alive and in per
fect health and placed in tins position by
some-inhuman wretrh .with the obvious tn
tent of making quick despatch of it.
Important ii•oni Texas.
From the Nov Orleans Picayune. March 20
The steam packet Columbin,Capt.W
arrived yesterday, in 42 hours from Velas.
co, bringing 35 cabin and 15 steerage pas-
sengeril.
Th. Mexican blockading squadron has ar
rived in the waters of Galveston and the
mouth of the Brazos.
The Texians evince the most. sovereign
contempt towards this squadron.
The efficiency of the new currency says
the same paper,is becoming every day more
apparent. Goods, which are in abundance
at Houston, ca❑ be readily purchased with
the promissory notes of the government, at
a small advance upon the N. Orleans prices.
The citizens of Houston have been visit
ed by Cast re,a celebrated Indian Chief,with
several of his tribe, who are anxious to have
an amicable connection with the government.
Every thing seems to be exceedingly pros.
porous. We see that a steam saw mill is in
operation at Houston—this speaks volumes
biAltself.
HE BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
litee Steam Packet Columbia fired into!
n her way to this port,tho Columbia was
tight to while off the Island of Galveston,
' art of the Mexican squadron above men•
i va t , consisting of an armed ship and brig.
The . Rpers of the Columbia were demanded
but the'Vql.lant commander refused. A shot
or Iwo ism ,then fired at her,hut they did no
harm except , -that they frightened the poor
Mexicans who touched them off.
The passengers. on the Columbia after
wards held a meeting in the cabin,and high.
I y commended the cool land judicious conduct
of rfipt. Wrroht.
The Texas TelegraPkannounces the death
or 11r. Fleiniwr lialsmi,.of Lynchburg, Va.
1 was drowned in lititiliqßayou i near nous
,tn. ui the ''' , lll ult.
There is a re aid of : 4 3200, offered in the
Telegraph, for the apprehension of
William 11. Howard, a horse stealer.
E 'itor of the Hennepin (Illinois)
Journal complains in lei ling (elms (Till i e
:int of variety is his animal ihet, which it
appears has consisted ofieithing but venison
a nd “rou.4e. Of the latter, he says he has
sequin less than a dozen brace piled Up in
hta larder at it bore.
The Missouri papery mentioned the dea
of Gen. IV3I 1 1. ASH LF: V, on the h Marc
lie was one of the must distinguished ci
zoo of that state.
A Munnintim BODY Fousn.—Great ex•
citement has been produced in the town of
Sullivan, New York,by the discovery of the
body of Robert Barker, Esq. of Coleraine
Niassachusetts, whose mysterious disappear•
once in September last, was for a time a mat•
ter of much speculating. It is said that not a
doubt exists as to the death of .11 r. B. having
been caused by violence; while the murder
e r is ulso believed to be known.
A SINGULAR CotNetuENeß.—ln•the late
duel the names of the parties are singularly
amalgamated— IVise, Gilley and Graves!
THE PHESEIVT.—Tho present lb but a
narrow tongue of land,botween the two great
oceans of the paseand the future.
REPROOF' —k wealthy gentleman taking
his friend upon
,the top of his house to show
him the extent of his possessions: "There,"
says he, "that is'iny estate:" Then point•
jog to a great distance on the other side,
"du you see Shat farm?"—Yes. "Well, that
is mine." Pointing to the other side, "do
you see that house?" Yes. "That also be•
longs to me."' Then said his friend, "Do
you see that little village yonder?" Yes.
"%Veil, there hves a poor woman in that vii.
lage who can say more than all this." •‘Aiil
what can she say?" "Christ is mine!" He
looked confouniled and said no more.
ANOTHER SUID.TRICAI3I7RY EXPLODED.—
We (earn that Allen Hutchens, the Receiv
er at the lonia Land Office, has taken to
himself wings and fled, leaving Uncle Sam
minus some 10,000 or 15,000 dollars.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.—The President
and Fellows of Harvard University have
elected Charles G. Loring, to fill the vucan•
cy in their board, occasioned by the death
of Dr. Bowditch. ,
SPRING IVllRAT.—Farmers in Virginia,
Maryland and Pennsylvania aro giving in•
creamed attention to the cultivation of the
tlian Spring Vhoat
periments made with it last year concur in
establishing the fact of its great value and
importance to wheat growers.
CAUTION TO CLERGYALEN.—The Fred
erick (Md.) Herald says that at the last ses
sion of Frederick County Court, a qui tam
action was brought against a minister for
the penalty which the law prescribed for
joining in marriage a person below the age
of twenty•one years, with( ut the permission
of the parents. The facts in the case being
established, the (..€300) had to batinflicted;
and although the State, by law, had relin
quished its portion thereof, the Court, we
understand, decided that the law could not
affect the case. The minister (of Moravian
sect) was, we believe, ignorant of the fact
at the time of the ceremony. It seems to
have been a hard case; but "ignorance of
the law excusetli no man."
Foun Pcnsorcs DnowNED.—A HEROIC
LADV.—We learn from a correspondent at
Flerningshurg, (Ky.) that on the 17th ult. a
skiff containing five men, whilst attempting
to cross Licking river at the mouth of State
was drawn into the current and precipitated
over the dam a short distance below. Four
of the men perished,aud the fifth would most
certainly have shared a like fate, but for the
heroism displayed on the occasion by a lady
named . Mrs. Lee, who plunged into the
stream, threw a pole to him,and thus saved
hint from an untimely grave. The names
of the persons lust were Messrs. ll`eevs,Pur•
vis, and two by the name of Mclit , tintl
Junes was the miner& the person saved. 11 r.
J. is a man of fmtune, and although he had
The LeLfislature of Ohio adjourned sine
die on the I 9th ult. The Lauca'ster Ex
press says—" The 9111;111 Note hill has pass
ed, and the Franklin Bank of Columbus has
sire Idy made an issue of' them."
THE CABINET CII ANG ES• —A private let.
ter to the Editor of the Baltimore Patriot
says—" The reported changes in the Cabi.
net, are at least, partly un minded.' The
only changes that will be, are the Attorney
aeneral and the Secretary of the Navy—
the tatter reams in April, certain." -
Some murders recently committed neat'
Ocean Pond,have created a new excitement
in the South, and new movements in the In
dian war. We see it suggested that the
militia of the whole country. will have to be
called out, as the Indians are scattered at
all points.
ANOTHER LABORER.—The Kittanning
nazette has passed into the hands of Mr.
BENJ OSWALD, by whom it will beefier be
Conducted. Mr. Copley,in his valedictory,
saysi—"The friends of the present State ad.
ministration, and of its greet leading prin.
ciples, will find in Mr. Oswald a zealous and
fearless advocate of their eau.,e." In 1935,
the Gazette supported George ‘Volffin Gov
ernor.
Stin.TnEAsuny EntunTroN.—The Rich
mond Whig, which had divided the mem
bers of the Virginia Legislature into three
classes, the Sub-Troaqury men, the Anti-
Sub-Treasury men and neutrals, ribliglies
the following note from ono that waa class•
ed amongst the latter, by which it will be
seen that waa mistake. The %Vhig gives
it as verbatim, literatim ct.spellatim.
RICHMOND March the 29th 1838.
Mr. Gallaher editor of the whig
Dear sir
Casting my eve this morning a cross
he Whig 1 saw you have phosed my name in
that class with the fence men melt is the
first tune I ever new that I was of that cal
acter I therefore move to &Ate out and
place my name with the Sub treasury men
for I asure you that there is not a stronger
Sub treasury 111411 in this house than myself
I think therefore men ought to be careful
how the Speako of teens nullities Especially
those who publish the News
N B no Coony on the Rail
The Association of Naturalized Irishmen,
of Philadelphia county, numbering upwai de
of nine hundred members, resolved upon a
dissolteion of the association, at a meeting
on Friday last, by a unanimous vote. The
cause assigned for thus dissolving the socie.
ty is to enable the members to pass upon the
great question of constitutional re form,wh ic h
will come up for decision at the polls in that
State in October, altogether free from party
influences and organization. The funda
mental law is to be passed upon through the
ballot boxes, and on that day, say the asso
ciation, "we and each of us desire to be on
tho election ground, to record our votes on
that question. Fur this, above all other
reasons, be it and it hereby is—
Resolved, That when we adjourn,this as
sociation shall meet no more."—Hall. Put.
The numerous ex
GENEROUS PROMPTITUDE.—Tho follow
ing incident is related in the Philadelphia United
States Gazette:
About eight miles below Harrisburg,whilo
the roil road train was going at the rate of
about twenty . miles,an hour, the fire men dis
covered, some yards ahead, a man lying on
the tract, with his irgs across the outer rail.
The engine was immediately set back, but
t here %yes not the least hope of stopping the
train before it should pass over and far 'be.
yond him. In this dilemma, the fireman; at.
the peril of his life, leaped. from near the
limit of his engine, and kicked the man en
tirely into the track, so that the en.ine and
the whole train of cal s pabsrd over him,
.without doing him the least injury. Had
the fireman attempted, in the second of time
allowed him to act and think, to drag the
man from his perilous situation, the wheels
oldie engine and train must have passed over
the body. The man was, of course, drunk.
MORE AID —The Bill authorising a sub
scription to tho stock 'of tiro Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road Conmithy, passed the Sen
ate :... I .iturtlity with au (mini
port.m• anwildnient,hy a vutu of 18 to 10.
never seen Mrs. Lee before, who is a young
widow, he offered his hand in marriage to
the preserver or ht 9 hfe,which was acceptefl,
and they were j•uined in wedlock the Ibllow.
tug Sunday.
Ex ShetifTPArtriiNs,who entered upon his
s , !vergy- first year a few days siuce,has been
unconditionally discharged from prison.—
Five long years ho has spent in Bridewell,
in the debtors' ward, for reasons which will
soon appear from his published statement.
The publication will be looked for with much
interest, which we shall not forestall or an
ticipate, as it is already in press. One thing
is certain—he will now make his version of
the story heard.—.N. Y. Sun.
Gen. lions - vox ha, presented a splendid
snuff box to SANTA A NN.t,in lieu of one that
personage lost on the field of San Jacinto.
When Cmsar received a challenge from
Anthony to engage him in single combat,he
very calmly answered the hearer of the mes
sage, "If Anthony is weary of life, tell him
there are other ways to death than the point
of tho sword!" Who ever deemed this tin
instance ol ccmardice? All ages have admir
ed it as the act of a discreet and ire Ilant
man,who was sensible of his own importance,
and knew how to treat the petula•it and re•
vengeful Inn nor of a discunten'ed adversary
with di served contempt.
About 600 tracts of unseated land and
town lots, in Crawf;)rd county, in-this state,
are advertised in the Meadville Democrat
and Courier, to be sold at that place on the
2d Monday in June next, for taxes.
The present population of Upper and
Lower Canada is about 900,000.
JOHN RIPLEY
STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER.
At 92 pcir annum. half.yearly In Advance.
GETTYSSURGS, PA.
Tuesday, dpril 10, 1 83 S.
FOR GOVERNOR,
(11(0003 ) 212 allaVPalaiCil
'l'o CORRESPONDENTS.
CILLET'S LAMENT" will Wear in
our next.
cO.Our thanks are due to the Hou. DANIEJ
SuKFFEII for various Public Doennwnts.
CARSATT and M lIDLECOVF, and
Messrs. StEVEN9 and KETTLE %V LI. will accept
our thanks for Sundry documents and letters sent
to us during the past week.
IT Baltimore lia:eite nntl /rim' have
united, and will henceforth be published tinder the
title of ••77ee Baltimore Patriot and Commercial
Gwzrfte."
The Improve»tenl Bill--Ger
ysburg Rail Road.
a . - - AfAs the Bill passed the House of Represen
tatives it appropriated nearly i , 1,800,000 to the
Improvements of the State. Since it has been in
the Senate, several amendments havo been added
increasing the bill to about $2,500,000. Whilst
under consideration in the Senate, a motion wee
made by Mr. Strohm to strike out the appropria
Lion of $255.000 to the Gettysburg Rail Road.—
[As the bill passed the House, of the sum appro
priated to our road, $50,000 were to he expended
beyond the mountain and Waynesboro' made a
point.) Mr. B tner.ar moved to amend Mr.
Strohm's motion by apprvrietting $'205,000 to
the work already under ewaritet—which was a
greed to—ayes 20, Nays 12.
On the motion to strike out our appropriation,
the Senators voted ;IN fellows:—
Messrs. Carpenter, Caldwell, Ft!Horton, Kelly,
Legit, Miller of 13orks, Myers, all'Orter, Rogers,
Slenker, Snyder, Strohm—l2.
Messrs. Barclay, Burden, Case, Cass4,:har
ragh, Frttiley of Scb., Fraley of tho City,lfarper
Irvin, James, Kingsbury,. Michler, McConkey
Miller of •the City, Paul, Pearson, Purviance
Sangston, Sterrett, Penro,,e,(Sptaker.)— 20.
From which it will-be seen, that Dm•%rl R. For
ter, the Masonic I.oco roe, modidote for Gore;
nor, VOTED IN FAVOR
OUT THE APPROPRIATION TO OEI ,
ROAD!
The bill was afterwards ordered to a third mad
ing by ci vote of 22 to 10.
co.P. S. Since the above wee in type we have
received a letter from Mr. ICs-rrtt:ver:xx.dat;l on
Saturday evening last, from which we make the
following extract:
"This morning the Improvement Bill
came from the Senate whore it had been iti•
creased about 700,000 dollars. This House
non concurred in the amendments and re
turned it to the Senate. That branch ap
pointed Messrs. Buancrt, PENnosit and In-
VEN a committee to confer with a like corn
unite° from this House. On re-eiving that
information, Messrs. STEVENS, JOll NSTON
and WILSON were appointed to confer with
them—who will report probably on Mon
day."
Sub-Treasury Bin.
(0 - It would Rem from the following article from
the National Intelligencer of :•".'aturilny last, that
the Sub-Treasury Bill is not likely to become a
law:
WASHINGTON, April 7, 1838.
Tim Son-TarAstruv BILL.-IVe are hap
. rr to learn,upon so good an authority as the
ilia mond Enquirer of Thursday,that neith•
er the Senate Bill nor the House Bill fir
regulating the depositories of the public ma
ney has any chance ofsuceess; that the cal
culations and predictions of the official jour
nal on that subject nre altogether fallacious
and gratuitous; and that the defeat of both
these bills is inevitable.—Nut.
We are further indebted to the Richmond
Enquirer for information on the subject of,
the rumor of contemplated changes in the
Cabinet, which we noticed the other day as
being in very general circulation. Mr. Dzox
mtsoN, the Enquirer.states, will resign the
office of Secretary of the Navy about the ad•
journment of Coni,Tress,and Mr. BUTLER Will
resign the office of Attorney General at an
earlier day. Two members of the Cabinet
therefore are to be changed. Mr. STEVEN•
sox, the Enquirer thinks, may withdraw,
from the mission to England, but will not be
recalled—which we believe is what nobody
presumed. Who will be successors to the
retiring members of the Cabinet, adds the
editor of the Enquirer, "the deponent salt!)
not." That is, we presume, the deponent
knows, but under the rose,and can't disclose.
411 tens Courier.
ai-We aro obliged to the Editor of the above
paper for copying any thing from the Snit.. If
he will continuo freely to copy from our Political
department, we promise his readers that they will
he abundantly supplied hereafter with what they
have heretofore failed to receive—viz: Correct In
formation.
. co. Dons H. CULOGLETII, Esq. of Annapolis,has
been appointed to the office of Secretary of State
by the Governor of MarYland.
CorresponAnce of the York Gazette.
HAURISBURO, Mardi 31.4, 1838.
Gentlemen:—The resolution authorizing
transfer of the $20,000 from the Gettysburg
and Hagerstown Turnpike Road Company,
to the Wrightsville ; Yolk mid Gettysburg
Rail Road, with an express provision that
it should he applied to the payment of dam
ages duo the citizens between IV rightsville
and York; passed in committee of the whole,
to day, and will he easily passed through
the several readings.
Lt:Arnett I NSVECTOR.- -M r. 114 ratio G.
Waters has been appointed;.by the Geyer.
.tie! Council,Loather Inspector for Fred
end; t::ty.
(D3-The LADY'S BOOK for April has been receiv
ed. it Is embellished with a handsome plate of the
Latest Fashions. The following sub the 'contents' of
the present No.
Ormond Grosvenor, original, Mrs. Hale ; Good
Night, Little Ellen. do. B. B. T.; The Flower Girl,
do. Aliso Miles; Result of the Gladiators, do. Miss
Buchanan; Lines in an Album, do. Augusta; Adieu,
in J. E. It.; Review of Young Lady's Friend. do.;
The Praying Indians, do. Mrs. S Smith; Althea %Ter
nonj,do.. liss Leslie; "Let Ale live till I am old," do.
W. 11. Tappan; The Consumptive, do • Sleep the
Want of Sleep,and their Contlngencies,Airs. linftand;
Conchnlogy, original, Mrs. S. Smith; The Chamber
of the Pale Lady; The Touch Lady; "Gentle Lady, "
&c. set to Music; Katharine Phillips; Editor's Tabl.
April 10, 1839.
Literary ;Vallee.
T
grHE annual contest between the
Lit
erary Societies of "Pennsylvania
lege," will take place in Christ Church. on Tues
day Evening the 17111 inst. Two original Essays
will be read, and two original Orations delivered
by members.
(0- - -The following Question will also be debated,
by a member from each Society:
"Should the promulgation of Infidel.
principles be prohibited by law?"
April 10, 1838.
From the Harrieburgh Key Stone.
Colleges, academies, an
COM mon Schools.
The education bill which passed the . ouse
on Thursday, (and which will doudt s re
ceive the sanction of the Senate ;over
nor.)appropriates a sufficient siirnlo the sup
port of the common schogluiPihe state to
amount, with former appdpriations, to one
dollar for each taxable inhabitant. The sum
requisite for this purpose, is about 110,000.
X section is also inserted providing for cor•
rect. enumerations of the to xables to be re•
dirtied triennially, instead of seotennialy, ns
at present. An appropriation of $1.,000 is
made to each of.the colle ! , f'S in the st te,and
fr o m 8:!00 to 000 to each of the male and
female academies, not situated in counties
where the.hotintv is given to colleges.
The bills horn %%Inch this was framed,
were reported by N 1 r. Garretson, chairman
a the committee on education who, with
Me'sqrs Johnston, Stevens and Dillingham,
have Linen unremitting in their efl'orts in giv
int, it its present form and securing its pas•
sage. The endowment of female acade•
noes was introduced the last day on which
the subject was betbre the house in an a
mendment (Cued by Mr. Garretson, and
warmly and eloquently sustained by Mr
Johnston and Mr. Ddlintrham, who pour.
trayed in convincing terms, the great extent
maternal influence, and the cot,sequent
necessity of Cy nude education.
How is if?
The State's Advocate says:—"We have
hel(' from various quarters that Mr. Por
ter, some ) ears since, availed himself ofthe
benefit of the insolvent laws, and that now,
although he is able to pay the debts against
which he plead insolvency, he actually re
fuses to do so, and in order that he may not
be compelled by law to pay the same, he
leas phtocd his property beyond the reach of
legal:'process! Is this rumor true? We
should like to know the true state of the case,
and therefore:ask-for information."
Kr%Ve have also understood that suits
are now pending against Mr. Porter for debts
which he attempted to pay by taking the
benefit of the insolvent laws, and which he
still refuses to pay, although able if honest
enough to do so. How is this? We too
should like to knot*" from those who do know.
Will the Montgomery editor, who boasts a•
bout Porter's baying "a farm seven hun
dred acres," explain this matter?— Pa. ?el.
COURT 'LOUSE OF PREDtnICK CoUNTY.-
The Legislature ut its late.aeasion, passed a
law to nuthorise the Levy edUrt of Froder-
Ink County to levy the sum. of Two Thou
saqd Dollars for the repair of the Court
House or fitting up a clerk's oirce.
The Potomac AdvocateSays,that the lion.
Isaac McKim has left no will, and as he has
no children,one halfet.his immense properly
will go to his wife, who is fully competent
and willing to carry out the munificent acts
of charity for which he was so celebrated.
.1 S. beraff absconded!
We understand that the Sheriff of Perry
County, MARTIN STA 3IBOUG 11, has abscond•
ed, leaving his bail minus a large sum, some
say twenty thousand dollars! 'Phis may be
properly called a Sub. Treasury operation,
tis.it is a fair.elucidation" of that system in
practice. The Sheriff is a thorou , rh going
Loco Foco, Sub Treasury man!—Pa. Tel.
Death of Ogr. Senator Pelt:
Our obituary column this morning, con
tains a notice of the death of A lexander M.
Peltz. Esq. a member of the Senate of Penn
sylvania, from the county of Philadelphia.
Mr. Peitz was of un athletic frame, and ap.
parently of a most vigorous constitution; but
ni the discharge of his official duties, he suf
fered injury from a neglected cold, and has
been hastened away to the grave in the midst
of years and of usefulness. lie has passed
away from those scenes in which he was
performing an important part—from that
cittbigif affection of which he was the en
dearedcitotre—at:d none remain,we believe,
to cherisli a single feeling of unkindness.—
lie wa= decided as a partizan, but courteous;
not insensible to the worth which a political
opponent might possess, nor blind to the
liability of his own partizans to error. In•
tegritv of purpose and manliness of charac
ter distinguished the deceased, and corn•
mended him to the respect of his fellow cit
mons while alive,and his memoryoow that
he has gone, to their affectionate regard.
We knew him well and esteemed him
highly.--United States Gazette.
I/ELIGIOUS NOTICES.
Cr The Rev. Mr. KELLER will preach in the
Lutheran Church on Friday evening next, at 7
o'clock.
t o -Rev. Mr. BAUGHER. will ireach in the
English Lutheran Church on Sunday morning.
next. There will also be preaching- in the oven
ing,at early candlelight.by Rev. Dr. KRAUTH.
cr ... 7- Rev. Mr. WATSON will preach in the
Preobyterian Church on Sunday morning and
owning next....e1...A
,$~
s's~
t. ,
,„„. owAnn Roaixso:q(Whig) has been °lce
, . ember of Congress from the district lately
~ Rented by Mr. CitEcy!
er - from Washington!
lorrespondence of the Baltimore Chronicle.
WASHINGTON, April 7, 1838.
m i- THE WHIG VICTORIES WORKING
to ,
HERE!! SYMPTOMS OF FALLING
BACK!! A SUMMERSET!!!
03>In the House this morning Mr. HA:41..11,0ne
6* . , , e Committee cf Ways and Means,asked leave
tti i esent and have printed the following resolu
on. READ IT !
"Considering that the business, commerce, circula
\ion, and exchanges of the country are in a deranged
and embarrassed condition: and
'.Considering, also, that a part of the banks of lho
United States have expressed a desire to resumo
specie payments at an early period:
"Resolved by the Senate and House of Represen
tatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That if the banks, or a portion of them,
do thus re•nine, it will be the duty of the General
Government, within the limits of its constitutional au
th•irity, to aid such banks, as the present Administra
tion design to In, in retaining public confidence, and
to sustain , hem in their laudable efforts to fulfil their
obligations, to relieve the wants of the community,
and to restore to the Public a sound circulating me
dium."
Leave to print was granted; and Mr. H. gave
nJtice that he should cull it up on Monday. What
do you think of this?
In ten days, every loco-foco in the House will
say, and the Globe will swear, and the other or
guns will echo, that this has been the real "demo
cratic" doctrine, all along!
One thing it clearly shows: Wiflo THI'NDEII
FROM NORTHERN ASO EASTERN CLOUDS HAS
FRIGHTENED Tal ESE GKrvralf MOST DIREFULLY.
'nil,: TRIAL OF RATH BUN of Buffalo, so
long defrred, came on at Batavia March
27th. Niy counsol asked fora commission
to obtain tes•imony of Rathbun & Allen of
thelconeern.who fled io Texasond the Court
granted it, so the trial is again postponed to
the Circuit in September. Samuel Beards-
ley the Attorney General of the State ap•
peared as prosecutor for the State.
PENNSYLVANIA CANAL.—The Pittsburg
Gazotte of the 27th ult. says: "It gives us
much pleasure to announce that navigation
has commenced upon our great work. The
lirtit boat arrived this morning at half past
. o'clock from Johnstown."
HYMENTAL REGISTER
MARRIED.
On the 27th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Gottwald Mr.
STEPHEN WI ERMAN to Miss MA II I' AGNES M'EL
bnth of Huntington township.
On the 29th ult. by the same, Mr. PETEII G.
STnor.uta• lc En. of Menallen township, to Miss
M Anti A nET 1u LEVER, of Straban township.
On the sth inst. by the same, Mr. ELI., AU WA u-
KEN to Miss Lr DIA MEALs,both of Menallen town
ship.
On the same day, by the same, Mr. CIIIIISTIAN
KRUM to Miss F1.17,411E:1-a M 1.4.1.5, both of Ale
'lnnen township.
OBITUARY RECORD
In Logan county, Ohio, on the 9th tilt. Mr.
HENRI' St:11111v nu, formerly of this county, aged
about G 5 years.
In Lancaster, on the Ist inst. Jearas M'NEEtr,
son of Mr. Thomas Dickey, lately of this town, in
the 3il year of its age, after an illness of 12 hours.
On the sth inst. at his residence in Philade!
phia county, ALEx x nen M. PELTz, Esq. a mem
her of ihe Senate of Pennsylvania, aged 39 years
On the 3J inst.. HANNAu MAnis Lur-rt.r. t daugh
ter of Mr. Peter Little, of Mountjoy township
abed 9 years and 12 dAvs.
A D VE RTISE NI EN TS
Gettysburg Female 'leadenly
AN EXAMINATION of the pupils of
the Gettysburg Female Academy will
take place on Thursday and Friday, the
19th and 20th inst. commencing nt 9 A. M.
(Parents, guardians, and all who feel
en interest in the subject,are respectfully in
vited to attend.
Gettysburg, April 10, 1838.
write u.
SAMUEL FAIINESIOCK, of the 80.
rough of Gettysburg, having Made an
assignment of his property, to the•subscrt
hers, for the benefit of Creditors, notice is
hereby given to all indebted to him to call
without delay and make payment of their
several dues. Those who have claims a
gainst him will please to present the same.
MOSES M'CLEAN,
JAMES COOPER.
April 10, IS3R. tf-2
HERNIA, OR RUPTURE,
CURID BY
HULL'S TRUSS.
yr has been ascertained, beyond contra
- 11 - diction, that persons can be cured per
manently arid effectually of Hernia or Rupture by
the use of Hull's Truss. Numerous certificates
could be produced from Gentlemen of the first
respectability that have been cured by wearing
them. It is not only the easiest to wear of any
Truss ever invented; but it keeps the Hernia per.
fectly roduced,so that the person can ride or labor
as well as if he was not thus afflicted. A trial of
this instrument would at once convince every
person of its superiority over any other article
that could be offered for the same disease.
OU'A supply attic Genuine cuticle is just re.
colved and for stile at the Drug Store of
Dr. J. GILIiERT,
Gettysburg Pa. .
April 10, 1838. ti-2
- %'X' la ~"LY UV ILIA.
CA 51E to the premises of the subscriber,
in fiamiltonban township,Adams coun
ty, some time in September last, a stray
BULL, between the ago of two and three
years, black and white spotted, without ear
marks. The owner is desired to come for
ward prove property, pay charges, and
- take
said Bull away. _
JOHN 11IUSSELMAN.
3t-1
April 3, 1838.
DI ED.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
vroon.
THE Commissioners of Adams county
will receive Proposals, in writing, at
their Office, on Tuesday the 24th 'lay of
April inst. nt 1 o'clock, for furnishing
WOOF) for the Courthouse and Prison
during the ensuing year.
By order of the Commissioners,
WM. KING, Clerk.
April 3, 1839. td-1
AUDITOR'S NOTICE.
I .k7OTICE is hereby given,that the Audi
tor appointed by the last Orphans'
Court to apportion and distribute the assets
in the hands of the Administrator of DAVID
KEEFER, deceased,to and among the cred
itors of said deceased,will meet for that par
pose in Littlesiown, on Saturday the 14th
of April nest, at 10 o'clock A. m., when and
where all interested are requester; to attend.
DAVID SHRINER, Auditor.
March 27, 1838. tm-52
ELECTION.
A Election will he held at the house of
nil- Mr. William l3ailev,in Franklin town•
ship, Adams county, on Saturday the 21st
of April next, between the hours of 10 A. 31
and 6 r. M. for 0.10 E OLIJO ft, to
fill the vacancy occasioned in the First Bat•
!alien 80th Reg. Pa. Militia, by the resig•
nation of Thij. George Myers.
DAVID SCOTT, Brigade Insp.
March 13, 1838. to-50
NOVI CFA.
THE Subset ilier, residing in Mountjoy
township,horeby gives notice to all persons
indebted to the Estate of
ADAM RODRBOUGII,
Eat() of Mountjoy township, Adams County, Pll.
deceased, to call and make itninedisto payment,
and those having claims against said Estate, will
present them without delay, properly authen
ticated, for settlement.
FREDERICK KOHLHOUSE,Adm'r
March 13, 1H:4,4. 6: -5(
Lar):llV VLD A - ALIT (1) :IV
11,117 - EREAS the fon. D. DuatiEn,
w Esq. President of the several Courts
of Common Pleas, in the Counties compos
ing the Nineteenth DiStrict,& Justice of the
Courts of Oyer and Terminer, and General
Jail Delivery, for the tri.ll of all capital and
other oll;nders in the said District—and
WM. MCLEAN, and GconuE WILL, Esqs.
Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, and
Justices of the Courts of Oyer and Termi
nor, and General Jail Delivery, For the trial
of all capital and other offenders in the Corm
ty of Adams--have issued their precept,
bearing date the 24th day of January, in
the your of our Loin) one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-six, and to me directed,
for holding a Court of Common Pleas, and
General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and
General Jail Delivery, and Court of Oycr
acid l'brininer, at Gettysburg, on Mooduli
the 23(1 cloy of April next—
Notice, is 'hereby Given,
To all the Ju.tices of the Peace, the Coro.
ner, and Constables, within the said County
of Adams, that they be then and there, in
their proper porions, with their Rolls, Re
cords, Inquisitions, Examinat ions, and other
Remembrances, to do those things, which
to their offices and in that behalf appertain
to be done and also they who will prosecute
against the prisoners that are, or then shrill
Se, in the Jailor the said County of Adams,
are to be then and there,to prosecute against
them as shall be Just.
WM. TAUGHINBA;IGH, Sheriff.
March 20, IA3S. tc-51
Grand Jury, 3 :wit Term, t 83k
Straban—Robert John Cress, Jacob
Cassell, jr. Isaac Brinkerhoff, Daniel Comfort,
John Thomas.
Germany—Frederick Bittinger, Jacob Sterner.
Cumberland—Wm. Cobean, Geo. L. Schrivor,
George Guinn, James M'Allister.
Mountpleasant—John Lilly,Michael Geiselman.
Hamilton—Abraham Picking,Michael Geisehnan.
Borough—Saml S. M'Creary, Sam'! S. Forney.
Franklin—John C. Houghtelin.
Liberty •John Eiker.
•
Huntington—John Brame.
Latimore—Wm. Coulson.
Reading—George Spengler.
Hamiltonban—John Mickley, jr.
General Jury.
Cumberland.
Eli Horner, Hugh A. M'Chughy,
Robert Column.
Strabatt
Nicholas Teughinbaugh, Fre•lerick Waggoner,
Thomas Ibillreary, Henry Whitmor.
Mounljoy.
Cornelius Lott, John W. M'Allister,
Jesse D. Newman.
Germany.
Michael R. Nussear, Jacob \Veikert,
Amos Lefever.
Latimore
James Patterson, Isaac Tudor.
•
Huntington.
Moses Funk, Abraham Fickos (of J.,)
Wrn. Gardner, James M'Elwoc.
Arenalien.
George Fehl, Jacob Bossorman,
David Stewart.
Frank/in.
Andrew Heintzlemon, David M'Murdie,
John Pfout_ Robert Shookly.
Liberty.
WilliaM Scott.
Hamilton.
Andrew M'llvain.
Reading.
Andrew Brough, William Jones,
Henry Albert.
13)rough.
Christian Doebler, Robert G. Harper.
Tyrwie. '
Samuel Sadler,
John Lohman,
Joseph Hill.
April 10, 1838.
at a, ati t z a c ,
PERSONS disposed, can have sets (26
Numbers) of the WIIEATII, by calling
at thii office.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
TEMPEMANCE.
Firm; Rock-Creek Temperance Society will
- 12 - meet at Iho Rock-creek Ciiapel on Easter
jlonday the IClh if April, at 1 o'clock P. M.
Addresses are expected by members. The mem
bers are requested and the public generally invited
to attend. minim. M'CURDY, Seery.
April 3, 1838.
TE.II P lER.I.VC
ASEMI-ANNUAL meeting of the .Tempor
ance Society of Gettysburg and As vicinity'
will be held in the Presbyterian CLurch,on Satur
day the 14th inst. at 7 o'clock r.
11. W. MIDDLETON, Sec'ry.
April 3, 1838. (Sent. & Comp.)
NOTICE.
rani E hooks and accounts of DAVID !IDA'
GY have been placed, by his Assignee.
into my hands for collection. Those indebt
ed are requested to call and make payment
on or before Saturday the 21st inst. No
indulgence can be given after that day.
R. %V. MIDDLETON.
April 3, 1838. 3t-1
A1773-IXI3SONIC COUN
reMaIiTING.
WTHE Democratic Anti-Masons of Atl
u
. atria County are requested to assern.
We in COUNTY MEETING,at the Court Immo
in Gettysburg,
on &floating] the 23d of stipril
next, at 1 o'clock P. al
to take into consideration measures for the promo
tion of the good of the State, and to secure the tri
umphant re election of the FARMER GOVER
NOR over his Masonic aristocratic competitor, Da
vid IL Porter.
The Democratic A nti• Masonic citizens of Penn
sylvania have at length, in the nomination of the
last named gentleman. a high and adhering Mas.n,
by the Masonic Van Buren party, the issue fairly
and avowedly made up between Masonry and De
'norm(' y, and tendered to them by the party which
has long, under the cloak of the totter,been secretly
and is now openly supporting and defending the
former. It is hoped that the Anti-Masons of Ad
sins will boldly and fearlessly meet the issue and
show the dignitaries of Masonry that they ore still
erect and uncompromising as ever in their devotion
to the lows and their hostility to all secret conibi
nations against them. Let every Anti-Mason be
at his post,und let as many as can attend the Coun
ty meeting on the 23d of April next, so that there
may be a ftill interchange of sentiment and opin
ion, and those measures be adopted best calculated
he people.
to secure the success of the cause of
ROBERT
DANIEL M. SMYSER,
JOHN WOLFORD,
GEORGE L. PAUSS,
JAMES D. PAXTON,
JOHN HORN ER,
JAMES BELL, Jr.
March i:7,
Notice is hereby Given,
ru a lO all Legatees and other perhons con•
corned, that the A D 1111 A ISTR A
TION ACCO U.N TS of the deceased per.
sons hereinafter mentioned,will be presented
to the Orphans' Court of Adatns County, for
confirmation and allowance, on Monday
the 23d day of April next, viz:
The final Account of Andrew M. Dear 7
(loaned Henry Kant - linen, Administrators
of the Estate of Christian Kauffinan, dec'd.
The entire Account of Henry Gitt, Jo.
soph Carl and Frederick Baugher, Admin
istrators of the Estate of George Banker,
deceased.
The Account of Daniel Heltzell, Admin
istrator of the Estate of Philip Voglesong
deconsed
The Account of William Elildebrand and
Joseph Hildt, Administrators of the Estate
Francis deceased.
The Account of Henry Knop and Santue.l
Burkholder, Executors of the Estate of Ja
cob Ktiop, deceased.
The Account of %V illiam M. Scott, one of
the Executors of the Estate of Abraham
Scutt„deceased.
The Account of Sampson S. King, one o
the Executors of the Estate of A brahan
Scott, &ceased.
The Account of Darnel Mickly, jr. and
Elizabeth Cooper, late Flohr, Executors of
the Estate of Valentine Flohr, deceased.
The Account of John Marshall and John
Witherow, Administrator of the Estate o
Samuel Witherow, deceased.
The Account of Joseph Miller, Executor
of the Estate of John Fox, deceased.
Tho Account of ideon Griost, one of the
Executors of the Estate of Thomas Griost,
deceased.
The Account of Isaac Tudor, one of the
Executors of the Estate of Thomas Griest,
deceased.
MS. A. TEIONIPSON, Register.
Register's Office, Gettys
burg,March 27, 1839.
TAILOIING.
TEST; Subscriber returns his thanks to
his friends and the public for the sup-
port which he has received since he has
commenced business in this place, and re
spectfully gives notice that he still continues
to carry on the
TAILORING BUSINESS,
IN ALL ITS BRANCHES,
Al kis Old Stand, Smith's Corner, Gcllysburgi
Where he will execute work in his line in
the BEST and mos'' , FASHIONABLE manner.
ItO'As he will receive the FASHIONS
relzularly from the Cities, keep geed hands,
and as his prices will be very accommoda.
ting for CASU or COUZiptY ruobucE,he hopes
therelllre, that those who want work done
in his line will call and VAN
him a trial.
HEZEKIAH' ORS:DEL.
March 20, 1438. • tf-51
ROSE ONTMENT,
1 4 1 OR Tetteis, Ring worms, Pimples on
the flu:Ann/I other r 'Citaneous eruptions,
prepared by V AuoituAN & DAvts, Philti•
dolphin. Sold at thu Apothecary and Drug
Store of
Dr. J. GILBERT.
Guttysburg, April 10, 193 e. tf-:!
ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
As amended by the t;enveution of ono thousand
eight hundred and thirty-seven—thirty-eight.
Amendments in brackets, thus (
WE, the People of tho Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, Ordain aryl establish this Constitu
tion for its Government.
11.H11CLE I.
Sect. I. The Legislative power of this Common•
wealth shall be vested in a General Assembly,
which shall consist of a Senate and ifouse of Rep
resentatives.
Sec. 11. Tho Representatives shall be chosen an
nually by the citizens of the city of Philadelphia
and of each county respectively, on the second
Tuesday of October.
See. 111. No person shall be a Representative
who shall not have attained the ago of twenty-one
years,and have been a citizen and inhabitant of the
State throe years next preceding his election, and
the last year thereof en inhabitant of the (district]
in [and for] which ho shall be chosen (a Represen
tative,] unless he shall have been absent on the pub
lie business of the United States or of this Sudo.
Sec. IV. Within three years after the first meet
ing of the General Assembly, end within every
subsequent term of seven years,an enumeration of
the taxable inhabitants shall be made in such man
ner as shall be directed by law. The number of
Representatives shall at the several periods of mak
ing such enumeration, ho fixed by the Legislature,
and apportioned among the city of Philadelphia
and the several coun' ice, according to the number
of taxable inhabitants in each. And shall never be
less than sixty nor greater than one hundred. Each
county shall have at least one Representative, but
no county hereafter erected shall bo entitled to a
separate representation until a sufficient number
of taxable inhabitants shall be contained within it,
to entitle them to ono Representative, agreeably to
the ratio which shall then be established.
See. V. The Senators shall be chosen for [three]
years by the citizens of Philadelphia arid of the
several counties at the same time,in the same man
ner, and at the same places where they shall vote
for Representatives.
Sec. VI. The number of Senators shall at the"
several periods of making the enumeration before
mentioned, be fixed by the Legislaturs,and appor
tioned among the distticts formed as hereinafter di
rected, according to the numberuf taxable inhabi
tants in each; and shall never be less then one
forth nor greater than one third, of the number of
Representatives.
Sec. VII. The Senators shall be chosen in dis
tricts, to be formed by the Legislature; [but no dis
trict shall be so formed as to entitle it to elect more
than two Senators, unless the number of taxable
inhabitants in any city or county shall,at any time,
be such no to entitle it to elect more then two, but
no city or county shall be entitled to elect more than
four Senators;) when a district shall be composed
of two or more counties, they shall be aajoining;
neither the city of Philadelphia nor any county
shall be divided in forming a district
See. VIII. No parson shall ha a Senator who
shall not havo . attained the are of twenty-five years
and have been a citizen and inhabitant Of tho State
four years next before hie election,and the last year
thereof an inhabitant of the district for which he
shall be chos m, unless ho shall havebeen absent
on the public business of the United States or of
this State; (and no person elected as aforesaid shall
hold said office after he shall have removed from
such district.]
Sec. IX. [The Senators who may be elected at
the first General Election after the adoption of the
amendments to the Constitution,shall be divided by
lot into three classes. The scats of the Senators of
the first class shall be vacated at tin) expiration of
the first year; of the second cla'ss at the expiration
of the second year; and of the third class at the ex
piration of the third year; so that thereafter one
third of the whole number of Senators may be cho
sen every year. The Senators elected before the
amendments to the 'Constitution shall be adopted
shall hold their offices during the terms for which
they shall respectively have been elected.] •
Scc. X. The General Assembly shall meet on the
first Tuesday of (January,] in every year, unless
sooner convened by the Governor.
Sec. XI. Each House shall choose its Speaker
and other officers; and the &mail shall also choose
a Speaker pro tempare, when the Speaker shall
exercise the office of Governor.
Sec. XII. Each house shall judge of the quali
fications of its members. Contested elections shall
he determined by a committee to be selected,form
ed and regulated in such manner as shall be direct
ed by law. A majority of each House shall con
stitute a quorum to do business; but a small num
ber may adjourn from day to day, and may be au
thorized by law to compel the attendance of absent
members, in such manner and under such penal
ties as may be provided.
Sec. XIII. Each House may determine the rules
of its proceedings,punish its members for disorder.
ly behaviour, and with the concurrence of two
thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for
the same cause; and shall have all other powers
necessary for a branch of the Legislature of a free
State.
See. XI V. [The Legislature shall not have pow
er to enact laws annulling the contract of marriage
in any case where, by law, the courts of this com
monwealth are, ol hereafter may be, empowered
to decree a divorce.]
Sec. XV. Each House shall keep a journal of its
proceedings, and publish them weekly,except such
parts as mity require secrecy: and.the yeas and
nays of the members on any question shall, at the
desire of any two of thorn, be entered on the jour
nals.
Sec. XVI. The doors of each House and of
Committees of the Whole shall be open, unless
when the business shall be such as ought to be kept
Sec. XVII. Neither Houseehall,without the con
sent of the other,adjourn fur more than three days,
nor to any other .place than that in which, the two
houses shall be sitting. ,
Six. XVIII. The Senators and Representative.
shall receive a compensation fur their services to
he ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury
of the Commonwealth. They shall in all cases,
except treason, felony and breach or surety of the
peace, be privileged from arrest during their atten
dance at the session of their respective Hottamand
in going to and returning from the same. And
fur any speech or debate in either Ileums they shall
not he quekoried in any other plains.
Sec. X.IX. No Senator or Rcp:czaittative shall,
during the tithe f.,r ivl,2!ch he shall have b r an deco,
ell, be appointed to ariy civil office under this Com
monwealth which elm!! have boon created, or gut
einoluanmte of which sti l l; have been increased du
ring such three; sad no number of Cungrearematt,
er person holding any edßce,(eicept. of Osumi 4