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THE GARLAND.
—"With sweetest flowers enrich'il,
From various gardens cull'd with care "
THB , BLISS OF HOME.
IV THOMAS !MRCVS.
Mine be the joy which steams around
Tho hearth where pure affections dwell
Where love, enrobed in smiles, is found,
Aud wraps his spirit with its spell.
I would not seek excitement's whirl,
Whore pleasure wears her tiusel crown,
And passion's billows upward curl,
'Neath hatred's darkly gathering frown.
The dearest boon from Heaven above,
I. bliss which brightly hallows home;
'Tis sunlight to the world of love.
And life', pure %vine without its foam
There is a sympathy of heart
Which consecrates the solial shrine , .
Rohs grief of gloom and loth inipart
A joy of gloduevi all di*ino.
It glances from the kindling eye,
Which o'er affection sleepless tendo—
n gives deep pathos to the sigh
Which anguish from the bosom rondo.
Itays around the smiling lip,
When love bestows the greeting kiss.
And sparkles in each cup we sip
Round the domestic board of bliss!
Let others seek in wealth or fame,
A oplendid path whereou to tread—
I'd rather wear a I mbar name,
With love's enchauttnent round it shed
Fatuc's hut a light to gihi the grave,
And Wealth zit:never calm the breed,
But Love, a halcyon on Life's wave,
Flath power to soothe its strifes to rest.
52L11 MEET,!)olli?rbl2`teSo
From the Southern Literary Messenger,
,lablll,2lZaal UP.222V.P.W0
• CITIZEN OP VIIEDEPLICK, MD..]
The memory of joys are pasl,like Me music
of carol,is pkusant.bul mournful to the soul.
VIRGINIA ranks among her distinguished
sons ROBERT WHITE, late judge ofthe
general court,who was gathered to his lath
ers in March. 1831. He was born in the
neighborhood of W inchester, March 29,
1759, and received •but an imperfect educe•
lion at a grammar school,near Marsh Creek,
Penney Ivanto,under the direction of the Rev
Mr. Craighead, a Presbyterian minister.-;---
In his seventeenth year,he volunteered as a
private in a company commanded by captain
Hugh Stevenson, and marched on the 20th
of June, 1775, from Morgun's Spring, in
Berkeley county, to Boston,where the Brit.
ish army was now closely besieged by Wash
ington. Engaging-with youthful ardor and
zeal in the various and eventful scenes of
that well conducted enterprise, he soon ar
rested the attention of the commander in
chief.tiy his chivalric bearing. His discern
ing eye saw in the boy the germ of that re
markable decision of character, which in af
ter years, sustained hinvin numberless
ap
palling trials. He once told me that but for
the pious impressions mado on his heart,by
the study of the Scriptures, when at school,
he would then have been borne down and
carried away in the vortex of dissipation and
vice in which he was now involved. The
light of the Star of Bethlehem beamed en
his path.and he reached the haven in safety.
On the 17th of March, 1770,i he city was
evacuated; the enemy spread their canvass
fur a inure fortunate station; and White saw
his beloved chief triumphantly occupying
the position of a cruel and imperious toe.—
Following the standard of his country, he
shared the dangers and sufferings of the dis.
estrous campaign of the following summer,
when he was made an ensign. We next tied
him et Germantown, on the fourth of Octo
ber, 1777, where he fought as a lieutenant,
under major William Darks, of Berkeley
county,Virginia,lais intimate friend through
life, who, on this occasion, displayed an in
trepidity unsurpassed by "the bravest ofthe
brave." As the column of the enemy advanc
ed near our line, the lieutenant nu ticed an
elegant and daring young British officer,
animating his troops,by his own ozapple.to
press forward into the conflict: Darke
ed at him n fatal shot, with his fuzee, and
seeing him fall, laconically remarked,
"White, I have given that fellow his to,
bacco "
Alter this engngement,which resulted un•
fivorably to our num, the lieutenant was
constantly employed in harassing detached
parties of the enemy, in the spring of 1775;
sad by a vigilance which knew no bounds,
and a courage yieltkiig to no danger, he of-
• Our Maryland friend deserves. and will no doubt
reocivo the thanks of every Virginian, for this inter
esting sketch of one of bar gallant goo/ and revolution.'
sty heroes. We doubt not that it will be acceptable
to our readers generally.
ten protected the main body of our army
from surprise and loss. During one of these
perilous partizan enterprises, in the month
of June, of this year, at Short Hill, New
Jersey, in the act of crossing a fence, his
thigh bone was broken by a musket ball,
and nearly at the same moment, he receiv
ed another severe wound in the head from a
British grenadier. Ho fell senseless to the
earth—bleeding profusely. He found him
self, when somewhat recovered, a prisoner
of war, in the tent elan amiable and accom
plished officer, who had rescued him from
death, and who now treated him with dis
tinguished humanity and politeness. In the
autumn, after being exchanged, he at last
reached Winchester, by slow and painful
ofThrts,exceedingly lame, weak and emaciat
ed, by acute and protracted suffering. His
body was a mere shadow,but his noble spirit,
yet unsubdued, still panted to avenge the
wrongs of his country. By this time Fred
erick and Berkeley counties had in the field
setae of the best officers in our army. Mot.•
gun, with his riflemen, had already scaled
the walls of Quebec, amid the storms and
snows of winter. Dark() was then in the
prison-ship, near New York, enduring all
the complicated severities of rigorous con.
finernent; but the laurels he had won were
yet fresh. Swearingen was courting dan
ger in every form; and the patriotism of
White, elevating him above the severe tor
ments he endured, urged him again "once
more to the breach," before his wounds were
sufficiently healed. In 1779 he was com
missioned a captain of cavalry. For some
time h.. was hi employed recruting and
training his troop in Philadelphia, but was
compelled, from bodily inability, to retire
from service. His military career now clos
ed in the twentieth year of his age,but never
for a moment did he withdraw his eagle eye
from the thrilling events which afterwards,
illustrated our struggle for liberty, and of
ten regretted that lie was prevented from
mingling again in the glorious contest. His
maxim was, "What a pity 'tis that a man
can die but once to save his country." In
this year lie commenced the study of law in
the office: of his uncle, Alexander White,one
of the most profound lawyers in the valley
of Virginia. While here he was compelled
to read Blackstone, Coke, arid other books,
for nearly tour years, either lying on his
back, or propped, up on a couch. In this
forlorn condition,ho pursued his weary way
l
along the path of science,untill he appeared I
at the Winchester bar, December, 1783.
His health was new restored, and he was
quickly cheered with an extensive and pro
fitable practice. He was on able lawyer;
clear and cogent in argument, but not elo
quent; his voice rather harsh and shrill; and
in the impetuosity of debate,his
Was sometimes affected even to stammering.
Fur ten, years he maintained a lofty emin
ence at the Frederick bar, during which
period he was frequently elected to repro.
sent his county iu the house of delegates.
Here lie mingled with sonic of the most pro
rninent characters of the commonweal
and sustained a high reputation as an hop
statesman. He beard the celebrated Patrick
Henry deliver his wonderful argument a
gainst the British debts. He declared that
o language could describ!, the splendor arid
grandeur of the scene. immense clouds o,
anxious spectators thronged the court: the
members of both houses left their seats,not•
withstanding the commands of their speaker:
the windows were raised that the multitude
might at least catch the inspiring sound of
the orator's voice: dtutd silence reigned, ex
cept when broken by the silver tunes of his
eloquence: for some days the delighted MS
sembly Was transpored with the might v ef
forts of that pupil of nature, whom Lord By
roil styles "Demosthenes forest born." As
he related the event, nt my fireside in 1821
judge kV into seemed to be inspired with the
same feeling which filled the bosom of Hen
ry on that occasion: his eye kindled, his
breast heaved with strong emotion. "True"
said he, "success did nut crown his efforts;
but it might well have been said in the lan
guage ofehief Justice NI arshall,when speak
ing of Pinkney in the case of the Nereid,
'so exquisite was the skill of the artist, so
dazzling the garb in which the figure was
presented, that it required the exorcise of
that cold, investigating faculty, which ought
always to belong to those who sit on this
bench, to discern its ouly imperfection, its
want of resemblance."'
On the sixteenth of November, 1793, Mr.
White was appointed judge of the general
court of Virginia, which office lie held un
til his death.
Until 1825, this amiable and excellent
judge was not only ever indefatigable in dis-
charging the high trusts of his station at
Richmond, in June and November of each
year; but in each successive spring and tall,
(whatever might be the state of the roads
and weather) you would see him wending
his way, to his gig ; through five counties,o: .
which the tenth judicial district was corn.
posed, at the appointed time, for the very
small salary of 816u0 per annum. Like the
great Alfred he carried justice to every
man's door. As a nisi priva judge, ho had
no superior in the United States. Prompt,
energetic, firm and tesolute,he always coin.
mended the profimnd respect of all who en ,
tared the court. So jealous was he of tho
encroachment of military power, that ditr
tug the war of 1812, when Winchester was
filled with reeruits,he would not permit the
officers to appear before him with their
swords by the Bides. His reported opinions,
in the cose of Nlyers,who was tried for mi.
der,•and Preston's case, on a question of es
toppel, are universally acknowledge to be
powerful tpeeimens of sound learning and
extensive research.
When Judge White,was in the social cir
cie,t he sternness 011ie official character was
thrown turide, and the eon, insinuating man
~'l WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF Kir LIVINO ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR PROM CORRUPTION. --ansas
teWa lt ala WM OM la 4TGICL) tr4 3 l6 4 a2ka inP2a 90 9 aatz,
THE VALLEY OF THE MISISISSIPPL-A
writer in the Knickerbocker speaks of the
Mississippi Valley as one that has no parallel
un earth. Its length may be estimated at
not less than two thousand live hundred miles,
and its mean breadth at from twelve to fif
teen hundred. He adduces many facts to
prove, that it was once covered by an im•
moose ocean,and that the great change was
brought about by repeated and lung continu
ed volcanic convulsions. He describes this
Valley as not only the most delightful, the
richest, and the fairest portion of the earth.
but capable ofsustaining population of a hun
dred millions:
WkettiN MILK Slcxxi - ,ss.—The Gov
ernor of Kentucky has ofii3red a reward o
olio thodsand dollars for the discovery of the
that it may be prevented, of the dis
ease called milk sickness, which has been
exceedingly fatal in Kentucky, Indiana and
Ohio for some time past: It seems to be
equal in malignancy to the cholera, and has
cut off hundreds of the inhabitants:
PREMIIISI FORA MEDICAL EIMAY. —The
sum of one hundred dollars is offered by the
Medical Society of the State of New York,
for the best dissertation on "Diseases of the
Spinal Column—their diagnosis, history
and mode of treatment," which must be for
warded to their Secretary, on or before the
first 01*J:weary, 1839'.
SILK.—The West Chester Silk Co. o
Pennsylvania had a sale of handkerchiefs,
manufactured from their own silk, on Tues.
day last. There were 35 in number—and
the aggregate proceeds were 881,00. They
were knocked (Ain quick time at from $l,.
75 to 83 s•pioce,to the supporters of domes.
tic it.dustry.
PENNSYLVANIA Incv.—A friend who has
recently visited the interior of our State,and
spent a little while at Karthause,the seat of
Mr. Peter Ritner's experiments upon the
manufacture of irnn,spenks in high terms of
the success which has attended that gentle
man's great exertions in making iron from
the coke of bituminous coal. He now manu
factures 63 tons per week, of excellent met
al. The quality is yet rather too high, that
is, white, but is gradually becoming softer
and grayer; so that the-experiment may be
considered as eminently successful, afford-
ing a subject of high felicitation to every
Pennsylvania who feels that our Common
wealth can and, ought to be the:great pro.
doter of iron fur the U States4l7. S. Oaz.
Axortrex EARTHIQUARE:TiIe Rich
mond (Ind.) Palladiunrof July 7, says:—“A
slight quaking& shaking nf Mother Earth,"
was felt at that place oil Wednesday last be.
tweeu the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock.
The New York Star states that Mi. John
Jacob Astor has presented $lO,OOO to the
German Society of that city, of which he is
President. The fund is to be employed to
establish an agency to protect 'German emi•
grants against imposition.
nere of the polished cavalier, made him the
delight and admiration of all. Abounding
in interesting anecdote,he would bear away
your whole feelings, when relating the stir
ing events of the hattletield,or the more mild
incidents of his long professional career.—
Scipio Africanus himself did not possess a
more entire admiration ofthe female sex,and
insensibly this high and holy principle would
appear to insinuate itself into his judgement,
where inflexible justice did not forbid it.
Brave and intrepid as he surely was, the
prayer of virtuous woman never reached his
ear in vain. I remember a case--a miser
able and depraved man was convicted by a
jury of Loudoun, fur some offence, and the
court pronounced sentence ofireprisonment;
but during the term, the punishment might
of course be commuted. Various persons
besought him, in vain in behalf of the law's
victim. At length, the wile of the offender,
poor, humble, broken-hearted, appeared a
suppliant before him. He was unable to
resist, and amidst the tears which flowed
down his cheek, bade her to be,comforted
and depart in peace.
He kept on steadily in his high career of
usefulness to the cornrnunity.untit the spring
of 125, when in coming to court in Lou
doun, he halted for the night at a tavern on
the bank of the Shenandoah. He retired
to his room at an early hour,and was found
by the landlord, at bedtime, sitting by the
fireside,stricken with paralysis. He remain
ed in this situation for several weeks, and
was then borne, in a litter, to Winchester.
Here I saw him in the latter part of '27.and
never shall I forget the interview. Nature
had put on her winter garment; the leaves
of the forest were swept cabs , . every gale,
reminding us of the several generations suc
cessively passing away; the wind sighed
mournfully amidst the venerable oaks sur
rounding his mansion: night had cast her
gloomy mantle over the earth—l approach•
ed the patriarch, for the first time since his
affliction. A las,liow changed! His dark and
brilliant eye no more flashed with the light•
ring of genius: those lips, which once were
vocal in the discharge of his official duties,
and in establishing the rights of his fellow
citizens, were now almost powerless: the in•
tellect prostrated: his noble form in ruins:
all was desolate and sorrowful. "What aim.
dews we are,and what shadows we pursue,"
said Burke, on a melancholy occasion, and
the sentiment rushed into my mind,ae I be
he;d the emaciated frame of him who sat
before me. Often, but in vain, did I strive
to suppress the rising sigh, and check the
flowing tear—l wrung the hand of the pa
triot, and bade Inin adieu forever. iie died
a christian; and rests near the tomb of Mor.
gun, in Winchester. Gallant soldier, tare
thee weill
The Coast it in ion.
From the American Sentinel, a Van Duren paper,
Let Well Alone.
No. I.
Every one has heard, or ought to have
hen rd,of that Italian,who having n very gond
constitution,and being quite as well in health
its his neighbors, fancied that he had a varie
ty of disorders, and got together a number
of physicians to consult about his case, and
took a variety of medicines, until ho really
made himself ill and tried; and just before
his death ‘ hedirected that the following epi
taph, in Itejisiji;Aould be engraved ou his:
trrmb atotitt‘' •
. 1 1 WAS WELL, MIT I WANTED TO HE BET
TER; AND LO! HERE I AM."
It seems to me that we,the people of Penn
sylvania, are at the present time very much
in the situation that the Italian was when he
got a convention of doctors to meet about
his case, and that if we persist in taking the
medicines that these doctors have prescrib.
'ed for us, we shall shorten our days, and
I I have a similar epitaph written over our re•
mains. I know that many good men and
sound republicans are of a different opinion;
and think that (twee amendments are a sort
of panacea for all evils and grievances; and
I agree with thew hat if hey can first prove
that the people of Pennsylvania are aick.and
want medicine, then it will be right to take
something; provided we are sure that it will
not do more harm than the disorder itself.
Now, after all,there is more similarity than
people in general suppose between the con.
stitution of a man and that of a stale. By a
man's constitution,is usually meant his gen
eral bodily system, as respects health; and
we say that a man has a good or bad consti•
tution accordingly as he is more or less wall
or ill, or is in general.in good or bud health.
So it is with the constitution of a State. If
it works vvelhand the people are prosperous
and happy, and under no unreasonable re
strictions, but free to do whatever honest
men may reasonably desire to do, then it
must be a good constitution; but if, on the
other hand, the people have been oppressed
or injured,or dept ived of their natural rights,
and the laws do not afford thorn any redress,
then it must be a bad constitution,and ought
to be mended.
Now let us see how it has been with• Pen
nsylvania niece the year 1790,when the pre
sent constitution went into operation, that
I c w e e es a t l i a tu n
y tio i'i
u rtr not.
The
it
has
been
a good
The best way of trying whether a nation
or state has beenlirssir;u"n°t'l:toiook
at the ir,aaotopulatotrvieethere
is a bad constitution. as is the case in some
of the old 'Count ries,t he people don't increase
at all, or very slowly. But if things are
prosperous, and the people tree and happy,
they increase very lien. Now in the year
1790, there were in Peonsylvania,according
to the United States census, 434,373 per.
suns; in Ib3o,wlien the last Census was tak•
en, theme were 1,312 233; and in 1 tffi•J at
the sate rule of increase, there are proba
bly about 1,650.000 inhabitants, or nearly
lour times ns many as there were in 1790;
though since that time nearly two genera.
tams have passed away. So it is with other
things,only we have not the same means of
ascertaining the facts. &ice 1790,the riches
lot' the people have increased in much greater
proportion than the population. Consider'
the number of acres cleared and planted,t he
houses built, the crops gathered, the money
inade,and nobody can doubt that things have
gone on very well in this state. It is true
that during this time men and women and
children have died,and crops have sometimes
failed, and there have been low prices as
well as high; and some people have been
unfortunate and same wicked; but these
Wings happen in every country, an.l 'can't be
prevented under any constitution. The true
question is, what has been the condition of
things, and the welfare of the people gener•
ally. Now it seems to me, that 110 one can
doubt that the people of Pennsylvania gen
erally have been very prosperous and happy
under their present constitution, and I do
think that it is a very dangerous thing to be
trying experiments on our constitution, as
the Italian found out to his cost. It is best,
however,always to look a little into matters
before deciding. I propose, therefore, to
make some inquiries about these amend
menta separately, and to see what is the
particular difficulty about our old constitu
tion, and bow they propose to improire it.
NO. 11.
Being desirous of knowing exactly what
the provisions ()four present constitution are,
end also what amendments are proposed, so
that 1 might be certain of the defects and the
remedies, I have borrowed from a neighbor
a volume of lows, called "Purdon's Digest,"
which contains the old constitution; and 1
have compared it with the new one, which
is published in all the newspapers, as t'ar as
can learn, about once in every week.—
This is a very good thing for the printers
at least; so that it the Convention has done
no other good, it has at least put some of
the public money in the Rocketeer the mem
bers and of the printers. Having,' sav,com
pared the old and new constitution together,
I have made some remarks in my plain way,
upon the amendments, (as they are called,)
Which' I have taken this method of submit
ing to my fellow citizens, in the hope that
every one will examine ter him Sell; and re
membering how important c' thing a change
of Constitution is, will satisfy himself with
out prejudice or partiality, upon that serious
question whether he ought to vote for the
now medicine, or LET WELL ENOIRM ALONE
'Cho first article of the new constitution
relates to the legislature;. - and here, ou com
paring it with the old constitution, under
which we have been all so prosperous, I fii►d
only some small verbal alterations'of no im
portance at all, and certainly not worth the
trouble and expense ofa convention,uatil we
come to the IXth section, which, I find, re.
duces the term of the Senators fromfeue to
three years. Now, I am not in favor of long
terms of office for public men, but if there
is any use at all in a Senate, I do not see
why they should not be elected forfour years
as well as three. The United States Senate
is elected for six years; and I never heard
any body complain that the rights or liber
ties of the people were invaded by them.—
Besides, every one knows that some expert•
once is necessary to make a good legislator.
No man can make a pair (dolmas without
some tevlting. How then can he Jio ex
pected to understand the busineaS
laws, who comes in one year and goes out
the next? For my port, I see nothing in tlik
amendment to approve of. I know this,thut
if I had a good apprentice, or workman, or
laborer in toy employ ment,who had to serve
me for four years, I 01001 consider myself
a great fool, it I were to do as the Conven
tion wants the people of Pennsylvania to do.
viz: to turn away their workmen at the end
of the third year, and get fresh hands.
The XIII section alters the time of meet
ing from the first Tuesday of December to
the first Tuesday in January, which I do
not think is for the better. Farmers and
other men of business do not like to be kept
at Harrisburg until summer comes; and this
will certainly be the case if the legislature
is not to meet until January.
The XI Vth section is quite new, and like
the XXVIII. of which 1 shall speak present
ly,sedms to have been stuck in hero without
regard to its proper place; since it is a re
striction of the power of the legialature,and
not a provision for its organization and dis
cipline, like the other sections. Its proper
place would be the Vllth article. This is
not very important, however; but it shows
how slovenly this Convention managed their
business that sat so long and cost so much
money. The provision itself is of no great
value any how; since if the legislature choose
to take into their own hands all the power
relating to divorces, they have nothing to do
but to repeal all laws upon the subject, and
pass such as they choose from time to time,
in particular cases
Political afatters.
l'he Wan Buren Resolution
Erne following le tho resolution lonised at the
ale Porter Convention in Harriaburg. In the
Inca of all the evils which Van Buron's adrninia.
(ration has brought upon the country, tho Porter
party laud him to the skies)
Resdred, THAT WE HAVE PULL CON
FIDENCE IN THE TALENTS INTEGRI
TY, AND REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES GF
MARTIN VAN BUREN, PRESIDENT O,F
THE UNITED STATES:
Porter abandoned by the
Conservatives
From tho Erie Gazette:
The Conse.vative Democrats of Pine Ward.
Philadelphin,have recently held a inceling,at which
David R. Porter, was handled "without gloves."
Let it be borne in mind that those men belonged
to the party that placed Martin Van Buren in the
Presidential Chair. Had they but thought of him,
as they do of David R. Porter, we would not be
lamenting the ruin and distress which pervades the
country. The address speaks of Porter as "one
strongly imbued with the pernicious and prevail
ing plots of Radiculisin," and “tehose political
career has been distinguished by stupidity and
ignorance, and a blind aubserviance to (he decreea
of the Kitchen Cabinet."
The address further says:
"This Milt], who i an old Federalist, and
who,by low cunning and pretty fricks,aided
by accident, intrigued himself into the State
zienate, and who front his total unfitness for
an honorable and competent discharge of
the duties of chief magistrate of the Com
monwealth, was for these reasons selected
by this gang ofgamblers for spoils and power
as the candidate for the first Wilder In the
State, and is profanely nominated and called
the Deinocratick candidate Ibr Governor.
The sickly and mawkish fraud of his se.
cret pledge and solemn vow to play the ser
vile pander,and the obedient echo is ratified
by the disgusting pageantry of his nomina
tion, and these miserable and degraded mis
creams impudently call upon the pure and
dignified Democracy of good old Pennsyl.
vania. to suppot t by their suffrages this
sworn spy and traitor upon her liberties and
honour.
In the desire that, probably, some remote
and dis'aut hope might be encouraged, that
he was not this voluntary slave and fettered
wretch of fraud and corruption, a letter con
taining distinct, plain, and direct inquiries
upon his views and purposes, was addressed
to him by a very large number of highly
I table and distinguished Democrats of
the city and county of Philadelphia, which
ha has treated in terms that no longer leaves
in doubt his allegiance to the most abandon.
ed and reckless conspirators that over scourg
ed degraded a nation. "The democracy of
the State will entertain no respect for, or
confidence in, such a candidate,• and be will
be defeated."
From the Hollidaysburg Register.
- TO THE l'Untla
MR. EDITOR—We observe our names on
a list of delegates appointed to attend a Con
vention to be held in Harrisburg on the 4th .
July, inst. by the friends of Martin Vim
Buren and Da•vid R. Porter. 'l' ou will
please state that our names were placed there
without our knowledge or consent, and that .
we desire them to be withdrawn from that
list, as we are opposed to that party and all
its Shinplasters. We intend to vote for the
plain honest Farmer Governor, Joaeph Mi
ner, and do all that we can to secure his re.
election,, because we comside[ him far sups)!
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nor to his opponent liar thut office. We can.
not support Mr. Porter,becautie he is a Free
mason, and a wrirm adherent to its wicked
designs—a friend to the Sub•'l'reasurq and
opposed to the Banks or their Stockholders,
being liable for their issues—in a word we
cannot vote Fur .avid R. Porter beenuse
we know hirn,nnd because the charges made
against his private character ARE TRUE:
Yours, dm;
DAVID BRITBACKEK;
PHILIP WEAVER,
HENRY WEAVER;
Witness present;
JOHN STONER.
Newry, Hunt. en.
July 2, 1638. S
~ Y OILJ CAN'T COMF
Mr. Barraincr,—l was but a little SW;
prised when] observed my name in the Ad;
vocatn and Sentinel, placed amongst
.thti
Van Buren Porter delegation to attend the
Harrisburg Convention on the 4th of July
neat, I would therefore wish to inform them
through your paper that I do not belong to
the Veil [Wren shin plaster party, but I in
tend to vote for the, honest intelligent and
patriotic Governor inseph Ritner.
From the Washington Reporter
CARROLL Totvraiiiii., 29 June, 1828.
MR. Wl9R—Sza:—Cei•luit Very indUs:
trious Loco.foeos have been circUlating4
report that I am a Porter Man, and that
have left the Ritner ranks and gone over tit
the Shin-plaster and sub-Treasury party.
wish, through the medium of your paper, to
correct these misreoresentations.as they are
all entirely groundless. At the last t)iiber;
natorial deletion I was the Friend and sup =
porter of H. A. Muhlenberg—and new if
am spared until the second Tuesday of Oc:
tuber, I shall vote for Joseph Raner.the man
who has saved our State from bankruptcy
and misrule.
Revoctfully yours,
WM. SCOTT.
'rho Miner's found!, in 'reference to the
Evidence of David ft Porter's insolvency;
very pointedly observes—"lt will be eee•n
that David Antlortrie and Evan Crane are
acknowledge c•editors, that he gave in their
names as Ce-dit.n.s to the court of common
Piers of Huntingdon county. Now, if these
debts have been discharged by him, is it
likely that suits mead be pending for theilr
reciivery—one of the suits commenced be;
tore his discha - gb, and the other recently;
on a promissory note? Is it not a fair infer
once from the fact, that they were acknow
ledged to be due,and that suits are now pond
ing for their recovery,that they still are duo?
The reason why these suits Were not press;
ed to trial before was, that it is only lately
that David It. Porter has attempted to hold
property in his own name. His friends have
now proclaimed that he is worth 840,000:
If he is worth this money, he can evade the
payment of these acknowledged debts, ie
but one legal may, viz. by pleading the
mitation law! This it is belieVed he will do;
How then can any set of Men say that he
has discharged all his honest debts? Where
is the evidence; beyond their naked asses ,
time'
It was noted, in our paper yesterday,as
singular fact that, of the inhabitants of a
considerable town in Miseouri,nnly three are
Loco Focus. A friend at our elhow,reading
the account, furnished its with a similar in
stance within the borders of old Maryland;
Upon Smith's Island,Semerect County,therci
are min hundred voters, whose publics are
as follows:
Whigs, i 7
Loco Focos,
Doubtful, 1
The two Loco Focoa are the keepei of
the light house and his assistant. The lend
upon Smith's Island, notwithatandihg the
inhabitants are compelled to drink rain wat
er, sells for (nib hundred dollars an here. It
is believed that if the two Locos would ro;
move and the doubtful man turn Whig, not
an acre of land could be had fur kite or money:
The Secretary of the Treasury has re:
moved MARTIN EICIIELBERGERi Esq. &Qui
the office of Weig hummer of the port of Bat =
timore. Mr. EICIIELBERGER Was a soldiet
of thc Revolution, and received his commis:
Ilion front the hands of General Washington.
Could those Who hungered for the huriable
post he bus so long filled, haiie contented
themselves to wait but a few short months,
nature, in all probability, would hate spar.
ed them the necessity of the revolting task.
But the cupidity of office seeking acknow
ledges no restraints. Mr. ErctistacitGort
is succeeded by HENRY MeKitrirerzt., Esq.,
of whom we only think it proper to Bay that,.
in the bettet days of the Republic • he would'
scarcely have beet' deemed a fit person to'
supersede a veteran of the Revolution.
Go on. gentlemen, with your work of pro:
seription—Enjoy the spoils . ,whilst you' may:
You are but imparting a keener edge to thus
Sword ofretributian,whieb is even now &ail
ing over your deVuted . heads.—Balt.
The citizens of Hannibal, llfisseuri, got
up a brilliant illunoination of their town on
the occasion of the repeal of the specie cir
cular. Formerly a very huge majority et
the people of that town Were supporters of
the administration, but now there are only
three Van Burenifes in the city, and neither
adieu: is entitled toe vole.
It is stated in the Carlisle Herald as a fire t
Worthy of noto,timt at the Milner celuhrat ion
on Wednesday the 4th,,st the grove, near
that town, upwards of thirty persons were
present, who were either supporters of Wolf,
or Muhlenbergot the last eleottunA
ROBERT MORA%