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ADVERTISEMENTS
Krillewell, Wilson .i• Hillard
GROCERS & COMMISSION
M ERCHANTS,
Corner of Commerce and Pratt Streets,
BALTIMORE,
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20 Mids. %Vest India & N. Orleans ditto
200 bags Rio Coffee, (part strong scented)
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10 pipes and half pipes Champagne and
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200 boxes Raisins
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r r HE subscriber has just returned from
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HE
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November 17, 1837. tf-83
CO-PARTNEHSHIP.
DAVID HEAcfl
AND
DANIEL TRIMMER,
HAVE this day entered into Parinership
in the busines of
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IN ALL ITS VARIOUS BRANCHES:
which they will carry on at the Old Stand
of David Heagy, in Chambersburg Street,
Where they will keep constantly on hand
for sale, at the lowest prices,
Bureaus, Tables, %Bedsteads,
and all other articles in the line of their
business.
OK7 - They will also make C OFFIXS
on the shortest notice—and have a HEARSE
with which they will attend Funerals when
required.
They hope for a share of public patron.
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DAVID HEAGY,
DANIEL TRIMMER.
March 13, ISM tf-50
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Second street, a few doors east from
the Market liouse,in Chambersburg, where
he will build SMITH GAR DN ER'S
PORTABLE HORSE POWER
THRESHING MACHINE,
which ho will sell in Franklin,. Adams and
Bedford counties. These machines are now
in operation in this county, and are equal if
not superior to nny other —and may be had,
by persons wishing to obtnin them, in any of
the above•named counties, on the shortest
notice, by applying to the subscriber, who
hopes by strict attention to business to secure
a share of public patronage.
KTAn advantage which this Machine
has over others, iv that the horse power is
constructed to work under the overshot of a
barn, so that ram does not interfere with its
operations.
JOHN TAYLOR.
Chambereburg, June 5,1838. tf-10
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August 14, 183 g. If-20
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ATTENTION !
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August 21, 1888.
THE GARLAND.
—"With sweetest flower' enrich'd,
From various gardens cull'd with care."
IVIOTECBR 2 S
/lON. Nan. NOOTON.
WIiEN first thou aamtst, gentle. shy, and fond,
My eldest-born—first hope, and dearest treasure,
My heart received thee with a joy beyond
All that it yet had felt of earthly pleasure;
Nur thought that any love again might be
So deep and strong as that I felt for thee.
Ira•thful and fond, with sense beyond thy years,
And natural piety that leaned to Heaven ;
Wrung by a harsh word suddenly to tears,
Yet patient of rebuke whenjustly given ;
Obedient, easy to be reconciled,
And meekly cheerful—such wert thou, my child!
Not willing to be left: still by my side
Haunting my walks, while summer day was dying
Nor leaving iu thy turn, but pleased to glide
Through the dark room where I was sadly lying;
Or by the couch of pain a sitter meek,
Watch the dim eye and kiss the feverish check.
Oh. boy! of such as thou are oftenest made
Earth's fragile idols; like a tender flower,
Yo strength iu all thy freshness; prone to fade,
And bending weakly to the thunder shower;
Still, round the loved thy heart found force to bind,
And clung, like woodbine shaken in the wind!
Then thou, my merry love ! bold in thy glee,
Under the bough or by the firelight dancing,
With thy sweet temper, and thy spirit free,
Didst come, as restless as a bird's wing glancing:
Full of a wild and irrepressible mirth,
Like* young sunbeam to the gladdened earth!
Thine was the shout—the song—the burst of joy,
Which sweet from childhold's rosy lip resoundeth
Thine was the eager spirit nought could cloy,
And the glad heart from which all grief reboundeth
And many a mirthful jest and mock reply
Lurked in the laughter of thy dark blue eye I
And thine was many an art to win and bless,
The cold and stern to joy and fondness warming;
'The coaxing smile, the frequent soft caress,
The earnest, tearful prayer, all wrath disarming!
Again my heart a new affection found,
But tho't that love with thee had reached its bound
At length thou earnest—thou the last and least; (era
Nick-named 'The Emperor' by thy laughing broth
Because a haughty spirit swelled thy breast,
And thou didst seek to rule and sway the others,
Mingling with every playful infant wile
A mimic majesty that made us smile.
And oh! most like a regal child wert thou!
An eye of resolute and successful scheming,
Pair 'builders. curling lip, and dauntless brow:
Fit for the world's strife—not for poet's dreaming
And pri ud the lifting of thy stately head,
And the firm bearing of thy conscious tread.
Different from both!—Yet each succeeding claim
I, that all other love had been forswearing,
Forthwith admitted, equal and the same ;
Nor injured either by this love's comparing,
Nor stole a fraction for the newer call,
But in the Mother's Heart found room for all !
Wltal ElaiTf3El4ol73Wo
TROBI THE FREDERICK HERALD
THE VICTIMS.
A TALE OF HUMBLE LIFE.
[Prom the Scrap-Book of a Legend, Gatherer
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iunArran. I.—TILE VILLAGE M
“Faie•Lacy'svas th.e long delight of the young,
No Damsel with her could compare,
Her charms were the theme of the heart and the
tongue.—W. A mAros.
Friend! didet thou over pass through the little
village of H— in the western pert of Penn.
Sylvania? I mean not dash through it express,
hut canter slowly and easily along with - the grace
of - a man of leisure? If thou hest, thou couldet
not have failed to notice a cottage more neat than
the ran, almost hid in the embowering honey
suet to. There it yet stands; but the neat white
palings are neglected and are now of a russet
hue; the rose bushes ore untrimmed, and the
honey-iuckle, feeling the air of decay, droops in
swine! e.
Years ago, Susan Murray lived in that same
cottage, ere the garden was yet docked with alt the
beauty of tint and richness of variety, which made
it the envy of less-blooming parterres. But Susan
was a good housewife, and .Susan's Henry' was
obliging, hut above all, Susan had a daughter, an
only chid. She was the pride of her parents,
upon whom they bestowed their choicest love.
Three twee had been nipped by the frost of death,
and Susan moved to H- lest this too should
sink into the cold grave. Much did they fear for
their "violet," for such they loved to call her.
But Lucy should have beers called the Fawn; with
nll her rich stores of gay happiness; her light,
springing step; her laughing, dark blue eye, her
"Rosie, dimpled cheeks,.
And her rinelettc•wreathcd browe,
Like byacinthes on beds, of snow's,
And her lowe voice eilverre sweet°
From her lippe withoutc dcccitc;"
And tho Fawn has all the claims of the violet to
sweet, retiring modesty. put be this as it may,
the lovely Lucy could well lay claim to either title.
She was the admiration of the country round,
and her village rivals could not dislike her, when
they looked upon her face beaming with tender
ness.
"The air crorthed balmy summer,"
Mellowed into Zeph) ni of commencing Autumn,
the sun was shedding his lost parting beams qn
the valley, when Lucy returned to the cottage,
bearing with her the choicest bouquet of her gar
den, carefully placing it in a glass of water, she.
stood for ono moment comtemplating it. Affec
tionate pleasure sparkled in her eyes as she mur
mured a name, when Susan with a good-humored
smile, asked:
"Lucy, will John bo here to-night 1"
The blush which roso to the maiden's cheek
old that Jblin hid now the affections of tho vio.
et of H
crt/riosn . IT.
And they did non make merrle and gladden their
hcartea with mirthe.-01.0 TAM
Tho joyous spring followed fast upon tho lazy
footsteps of sluggish old Whiter, as ho slowly de
parted with his snowy lucks. It brought too, the
appointed day; on which John was to claim Lucy
for his own.
Oh ! it was a delightful May morn, that which
would make Lucy a wadded wife. The birds car
rolled with unwonted joy, and the garden bloomed
with tenfold beauty, Lucy's heart fluttered; was
it with hope or grief? with happiness or sorrow?
for strange rumors had reached her ear, and dark
misgivings had crossed the solitude of her lone
chamber. Yet, whilst she thought upon them,
she prayed, "If it be thy will, 0! Father, I pray
thee let such a cup pass from me." .
The hour hod come. Robed in a simple gar
ment of spotless hue; unadorned:except with her
maiden purity; a single white rose decking her
hair, Lucy stood before the altar of God. Her
responses were given in the heartfelt tons of sin.
"I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY 7..iv11r0 ACTIONS, TO KEEP HINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION. --SHAKO
IitZIANPUT/Z2V,2303.1Ete Z1 ) 42 , 4 tPUPOWberart o caystrlpaut 9a, asmog,
eerily, whilst the unfilled eye told in Whom she.
trusted for aid to perform her vows.
A blithesome day was that for the village, for
beaux and bonnie-belles, far and near, were gath
ered together, "and they did soo make merrio and
gladden their henries with mil tho."
CHAPTER 11/.-TRE
'That makes her sup a bitterness
--
• • • a a •
And ■at to watch
Till he should die, and watching him shc. mourci'd.'
Five years rolled away. Susan and her Henry
were no longer with Lucy to cheer, her in the
hour of trial, but affliction had laid - them in the
earth. Within a little enclosure lay four 'graves,
the good old people and their namesakes. There
they yet sleep in quietness.
Far from the village, in an almost hovel, which
yet had about it the appearance of refinement, for
what is there that the purity of woman will not
refine, lived the once, now no longer so,, beautiful
and happy Lucy. Ono pale, sickly boy sat, by her
side, gazing on the countenance touched• by the
finger of death. He lisped forth in tones of infan.
tine tenderness:
"Mother, why do you cry?"
She looked on hirn,--and oh! the anguish of
that look.
"She's gone were sorrow may not come,
Where pain may never be."—Rtimis DAwn
Another little mound was raised - in that enclo
sure, yet the first horn was with Lucy. The pale
cheek has deepened into the wan and sallow hue,
which betokens approaching dissolution while the
hectic flush too plainly showed her disease, a bro.
ken heart. None could have known in thot faded
form, the once beautiful Lucy Murray, joying
"—ln Life's plensan' mornintr;
Young fancy's rays the hills adorning,"
Or have believed, that the sunken eye was in b
gono days lighted up with Hope—Ah, No!
Her dead boy, the child of happiness, was
brought to her bed side. In the embrace of the
lifaless clay, the sorrowing mourner looked up to
Him, "who is the Giver of all Help," in silent
prayer.
li:M3
Mother and Son sleep in the same grave; the
victims of INTY,MPERANCE.
CIIAPTEIR V
Withnreil: ttll the choicest affection of the .
heart, John Harvey wandered to the Western
wilds. Recovered from his vice, he strove to earn
an honest name and an honest independence.
Sadly, from hitter experience, did he warn youths,
"Look not on the wino when it is red."
Frederick, Md., August 13, 1838.
oz:7 — Maternal tenderness and watchfulness
ere beautifully exhibited in the following brief par
agraph from ._ , Fireside Education," a new tiratA,b •
Peter Parley
"As the infant begins to discriminate be
tween the objects around, it Soon discovers one
countenance that ever smiles upon it with poculi
or benignity. When it wakes from its sleep,there
is one watchful form over bent over its cradle. If
startled by some unhappy dream, a guardian an
gel seems ever ready to sooth its fears, If cold,
that ministering spirit brings it warmth; if hun
gry, she feeds it; if in pain, she relieves it; &hap.
py she caresses it. In joy or in sorrow, in weal
or we, she is the first object of its thoughts. Her
presence Is its heaven. The mother is the DEITY
OF INFANCY."
Who that toflecta could over wound the sons
bilitioa of a MOTHER?
FROM TIIE FREDERICK HERALD
_Domestic Happiness.
Oh,if there-be an Elysium on earth,it is this,it is this
nijiliY--:happier far than thou,
With the laurel on thy brow,
She that Makes the humblest hearth,
Lovely but to one on earth!
Bachelors and Libertines may rail at the sacred
institution of Matrimony, and revel in their boast_
ed freedom, but the married man in the society
of his wifo, and in the bosom of his family en
joys a degree of felicity totally unknown to them.
How delightful for him to be aware when the
cares and business of the day aro -over, that at
home "there is an eye that marks his coming, and
grows brighter when ho comes," that there the
youthful bride of his affections is over ready with
her winning smile to welcome him.
How many search after happiness, where it is
least likely to be found; in the pursuit of fame
and riches, what numbers devote their time and
talents; while some appear to consider wealth as
the summum bonum of human life, others are
ambitious of having their names blazoned on the
records of time, and themselves ranked among
the mighty men of earth.
Not leas numerous aro the giddy votaries of
fashionable dissipation; they spend the spring-
time of their existence in a ceaseless round of
pleasures and amusements which can never satis
fy the heart, and sorry I am to say, though truth
and justice demand it, that among the most court
ed of the gay and giddy throng, may nightly be
found American Mothers, who forsaking. their
'Ain Firesides,' where they should be the life of
the family-circle, shedding a hale of joy and peace
around, prefers' the homage of the crowd to the
adoration of their husbandsi, the caresses of their
children and the bliss of Home, sweet Home.
But this (to the honor of the Fair of our country,
be it said,) is seldom the case ; they rightly ap
preciate the value of Donseslie Happinest.
The Friendless.
It is remarkable how a single word, unaffected
ly uttered, will sometimes reveal to us, more fully
and strikingly than could many books, the deep
and long experience of a human heart. Not
long ago, a friend of ours invited a small party of
orphan children from an asylum, to spend an hour
of a Wednesday afternoon at his house, (in Bos
ton.) They manifested, each in the way that
Nature prompted or education allowed, the most
eager delight. It was evidently a rich treat to
them in their lonely state. It would have done
any body's heart good to see and hear them.
As he was distributing amongst them the con
tents of a basket of oranges, he chanced to hear
ono of the little girls say to a eompanion who was
sitting at her side, know why Mr. has
invited us to his house—it is because we haven't
any friends. I haven't hod a friend come to see
me for jive years."
Merciful heaven ! Only twelve years old, and
not have seen the face of one friend for five long
We have heard many a sad tale of orphanage,
and thought that wo felt sympathy for the friend
less before, hut we never heard words that went
directly•to the heart like these—that made so pal
pable the dreariness of the long days and nights
that heavily follow one another, unenlivened by a
single smile or kindly tone of ono living being
•with whom the homeless can claim kindred. We
thought, too, that we knew, of old, something of
the value of our friends, and estimated, not alto
getheitoo lightly, their joyous and assuaging in
lluence upon the pulses of the soul, but never be
fore. did our natural relatives seem so precious to
our regard, or did our heart involuntary seek to
bind them to itself with such a tenacious embrace,
as since the simple words of the poor orphan girl
have Eiiven, to us one slight and inadequate im
pressiiin of her unutterable and melancholly ex
perience.
No wonder that God from Lis secret throne has
sent out so many kindly messages and sacred
promises of love to the solitary and forsaken, the
parentless and the widow ; for, 0 how much do
they need the sympathy of Heaven, who have no
friends on earth ! and how pleasant to the angels
of consolation to pay their unobtrusive and peace_
ladenvisits to the children of loneliness and
Would it not repay us richly, aye, n thousand
fold, if we would open our doors more frequently
to those who have no home, and distribute our
kindly sympathies, which aro, indeed, the bread
of life, more freely to those who hunger and thirst
for words of friendship and looks or affection and
tenderness.
PERSECUTED LUTUIERANS.—The N. York
Star gives extracts from German papers, which
mention the arrival at BCrlin of a number of emi
grants. all rigid Lutherans,formerly composing the
congregation of tho Rev. Mr. Schirhel,ogainst both
whom and his flock the military were turned out.
They were bound to Hamburg,and from thence to
America,where they hadibeen preceded by agents
to purchase land,as they ore not without resources.
They emigrate to .'preserve the true faith," and in
this feature resemble the Pilgrims of old, who left
England and then Hollsnd,to come to this country
to preserve the liberty of conscience.
PCrThe Baltimore American says:. Ab
stracts from the accounts of the Commissioners
show according to a stqtemont in Tait's Edin
burgh Magazine, that the annual expense of her
colonies to Great Britain is £3,733,727 sterling.
The ontiro military establishment is set down at
95,988 men,52,000 of whom are employed at home,
and 34,000 in tho Colonies. Taking into account
the 'expenses incidont to the transportation of
troops, to and fro and tho groat mortality which
provails among them lif.theeoloniesdt is estima
ted that the whole amount paid for the support of
the ,Celoniee by the mother countty i5.q,000,000
'sterling. •ilutting- down-the4ivervige Tircaluct of
the revenue of late years at £15,000,000, it would
seem that nearly ono-half goes to the . maintenance
of the Colonies establishments. The author of
the article from which the above is taken, asks,
what has Great Britain in return for all this, ex
cept the ministerial patronago which it afforcisl—
value of the mar itimo commerce of all the
Colonies is estimated at £35,000,000, on which if
ton per cont. profit be allowed, the result will be
that the mother country pays in pence £7,500,000,
and in war twico or thrice that sum.
Surf FLowEne.---A writer in the South
ern Agriculturist who cultivatessun flowers at the
rate of two hills in every fence corner, (Virginia
fence, remember, has a corner at every intersec
tion of rails, or once in every twelve feet,) soya
that about the time his last forego gives out,these
begin to bloom. As the blossoms begin to appear,
he cuts them off about a foot from the ground,and
gives thorn to his horses, which oat them very
readily—leaves, - buds, stocks, and all. This ho .
considers a very wholesome as well as nutritious
food. Thus the ground, that has to be kept clean,
is made in the mean time to yield profitably.
The Constitution.
From tha American Sentinel, a Van Buren paper
Let Well Alone.
No. VIII.
The first section of the Vlth article re.
lates to sheriffs and coroners. The present
constitution directs that two persons shall be
chosen for each office; one of whom for each
respectively shall be appointed by the Gov.
ernor. The new constitution says that "one
person shall be commissioned by the Gov
ernor.". This seems to be right enough;
but I don't know that any harm has hnppen
ed from the present practice, which I find
from the old book of laws, has been continu
ed since the year 1705. I believe that the
Governor has always appointed the person
having the highest number of votes, if he
could give the security required by law. I
don't know how it will be under the new
constitution, if the person returned should
not be able to give security. I suppose that
the Governor will then appoint whom he
pleases; whiCh will give him greater powers
than he now has. The amendment seems
to me, however, not likely to do much harm
or good.
The second section makes an important
alteration in respect to the militia. By our
present constitution, the freemen of this common.
wealth must be armed and disciplined for its do.
fence. This was tho opinion of tho patriots of the
revolution; and in all free countries of which 1
have read, tho militia have boon considered as the
only true and safo means of (Throne°. It seems,
however, that our convention is of a different
pinion; and that tho militia is not fashionable e.
nough (or our radical reformers—so that it is all
left in the power of tho legislature, who may, if
they please, repeal all the militia laws, and take
away the arms, from the militia and volunleora,
and raise a standing army, if they choosoon place
of them. This scorns to ins a very dangerous
thing, and enough of itself to condemn this new
constitution; and I don't understand why those
who worn for tying the hands of tho legislature,
as they have done in several cases, should give
them so much power over the militia. There is
certainly something behind the curtain here too.
Make the judges dependent i and disband tho mili
tia; and what will become of our liberty? The
reformers will say that there is no danger of the
legislature, doing so. But I should like to know
what security we, have for that. What is the use
of a constitution, except for the purpose of estab
lishingcertain great principles, and preventing
the legislature from breaking thorn down? If there
is no clangor of the legislature violating these
principles, (of which I think the provision for the
militia Is one of the m"at important) then there
is noose ofa constitution at alhand wo might have
saved nearly all the expense of this convention.
have heard a good deal said about the militia
training being expensive and oppressive, and a.
bout nrn getting drunk at them; but I don't con.
eider that any reason for allowing the legislature
to abolish them altogether, and to abolish also the
arming and organizing the people. You might
as well say because elections cost the county a
good deal of money, and there are sometimes
fights at them, and men get drunk —therofore tho
legislature should have power to abolish elections
altogether, and have standing offices of all kinds
from the Govornor down. Yet Ishould like to
see any body propose this to the people. Now I
hope that every man, before ho comes to vote up.
on the !WV eoustitution.will rend this section over
carefully. At first sight it does not seam to mean
any thing very serious; but examine it closely
and compare it with the old constitution,and you
will see that I am right in saying that it confers
very dangerous powers on the legislature.
No. IX
The 3d section of the'Vltli article'relates
to the appointment of Prothonotaries and
Clerks of the Courts, Recorders of Deeds,
&c. which I have already spoken of. In
the Gth section there is a small verbal alteration
respecting the election of the State Treasurer.—
The 7th section relates to Justices ails° Peace
and Aldermen,which I have also mentioned. Tho
Rth section shows how careful people ought to bo
in examining for themselves and proves that the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, who certifies
that the amendme4te aro in holies and the retain
ed portions of the,.firesent Constitution, in Roman
letters, has not bdan as particular in this respect
as ho ought to hate been. Tho whole of this long
section is in halids; and when I came to read it
over I thought thAt those were, in general, very
good provisions; but that I had soon them some
where before; and lo! on examining the present
Constitution, I found them all there in almost the
same words, but under different heads. Now I
thought that if this wad intended to impose upon
the people,
by making them believe that the Con.
vention ha d introduced those amendments, it is
not very honorable. At all events, in the way
that this and other sections are printed they are
calculated to mislead. For instance the first two
sentences of this section are taken from the Bth
section of the lid article of the present Constitu.
tion,with an alteration ofa few worde,which gives
the Legislature power to direct how appointments
shall ho made to officorknot provided for in the
Constitution. Tho 3d sentence is also taken from
the Bth section of the 2d article of the present
Constitution, with a alight ultoration, The 4th
sentence seems to be now,hut it furnishes another
proof, that the members of the Convention, who
spent ao much of the pubho time and money,woro
very slovenly in their way of doing the public
business. If any body will take the trouble to.
urn back to the 19th section of the first article of
this now Constitution,ho will find it provided that
"no Senator or Representative shall duriog the
tine for which he shall have boon elected be ap.
pointed to any civil office under the Common.
wealth, which shall have boon created Oik the
emoluments of which shall have been Increased
during such time." And then in this 4th sen
tence of the Vlth article, it is declared that "no
member of the. &West of the House of Repro.
sentatives shall bo appointed by the Governor to
any office during the term for which he shall have
been elected- Why, if a member is not to be ap
pointed to any office during his term, what is the
use of saying that ho shbil not be appointed to
any office which Anil havo been created or in
creased during his term? It may be said that the
last clause applies to appointments by the Gayer.
nor only. But there are no other appointments
mentioned in the Constitution, except Prothono
(erica of the Supremo Court, to whom this clause
certainly don't apply. All the other cases are
elections by the people or the Legislature. lam
afraid that those amendments will never do; for
besides the serious objections that I have men.
tinned to some of the alterations, thetas contradic
tions and defects will make it very d fricult to
work; like one of them' Yankee clocks, that they
carry about for ealo, which look vory fine outside,
and go pretty well for a day or so, but very soon
coma to a dead stop. Now our good old Consti
tution has none of these grim cracks about it. It
has gono very well for nearly 50 yeara, and will
gO for 50 more if theiawyors and other radicals
would only LET WELL ALONE.
No. X.
The 9th section of the Vlth article mere
y repeats what had been said several times
before, viz: that the judges and others, who
are to be appointed for a term of years,
shall hold their offices on condition of gond
behaviour. It seems to me that there was
no occasion for this amendment at least; and our
roformeis might as well have staid at home, if
they had no hotter use for the public limo.
There is ono advantage, however, about this
which can't be said of all the proposed amend.
.
meths, viz. that if adopted it can't do any harm—
so I leave that, and pass to the next section, which
provides that if any person 'shall fight a duel or
send a challenge for that purpose, or aid or abet in
fighting a duel, ho shall bo deprived of the right
of holding' any office of honor or profit in this
State. This ie cortainly quite now; for I don't
find any thing liko it in the present Constitution.
I understand, however, that a similar provision is
to be found In the constitutions of sumo of the new
States in the Western country, where if they do
not fight duels they do worse, by stabbing people
with Bowio knives, end shooting thorn down in
the streets with rifles. I don't know whether
this kind of assassination hos risen from passing
such severe lows against duailing ; but I under
stand that their constitutional provisions against
duelling don't extend to the man who stabs or
shoots ybu, and who may the next day bo elected
or appointed to tho highest office in the State.
For my part, if we must have ono or the other, I
'should prefer the old fashioned way of duelling,
though I am against both. I perceive by this
section that the Governor is to have the power of
remitting 'the offence and all its disqualifications'
This gives him very groat authority indeed; since
ho will have the control of the political life' of
every man who. has fought a duel, or given a chal
lenge, or had any port io a duel. Upon the
whole I am rather inclined against this section.
The Vilth article contains only one section that
appears by the italics to be new, viz. the 4th sec
tion, which provides that the legislature shall not
invest any corporate body or individuals with the
privilege of taking private property for the public
use, without requiring such corporation or indi
vidual to make compensation, or give security be.
fore taking the property. The present constitu.
tion provides (in the 10th section of •the IX-th
article) that no man's property shall be taken or
applied to public use without the consent of his
representatives, and without just compensation
being made; and this provision is repealed In the
new constitution. The difference is that the new
constitution ezpressly allows private property to
be taken by private corporations and private per
sons, against the owner' s will, though on the con
dition of paying or giving security beforehand;
where's 1 understandthat some eminent lawyers
have doubted whether, under the present consti
tutiurf, the legislature could authorise such cor
poration to take private property. I know that
it has been open done; and perhaps without it
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some of our valuable public improvements could
not have boon made. I don't (pile understand
how this provision Ca' payment nr security before
hand is to be carried into tenet; sine°, it often
happens that when n canal or rail road is finished
the person over who se land it passes suffers no
damage, but un advantage. Still the amendment
may be right, though I don't think it is worth the
expense or trouble ore convention.
The Farmer Governor.
1:111111 TUE wateLx.ia (VIUaIIUA) Timm
WHO IS JOSEPH RITNETO
tit:rfile is the present Governor of Penn
sylvania, a man who" by honesty, invariable recti
tude of 'conduct and an application of his capaci•
tire. has raised himself from the station of an in
digent boy to the highest °nice in the gift of the
people of the Keystone State, and who, by his of-
Geial conduct, has planted himself more deeply in
the affeettons ofthe people who have made him their
Chief Magistrate than have any of his predecessors.
His official acts have resulted in the•relief of the
people of the State 'from Taxation, have Paid Off
largo sums of the State Debt, have so organized the
State Works under his control that they, have
yielded a revenue to the Treasury,while they have
answered the full purposes fcir which 'they were
constructed in enriching the peop!e and prosper
ing business, have raised the standard of popular
Education throughout the State to an eminence
never before attained, and the last, not least of his
official acts has been to call upon the monied in
stitutions of the State, in behalf the Laws and the
People, to redeem their promises against all oppo
sition and place the curroney upon its former foot
ing. In all cases, he - has evinced'an intelligence,
statesmanship and independence rarely found in a
public man. For this he has been honored, and
his course approved by a large mass of the most
intelligent men of the State, who are determined
on sustaining him for the higli office he now holds
in opposition to—whom? DAVID R. Poaran.
And who is David IL Porter? A lawyer—of
eminence] No! he has been rarely heard of out of
his own county until he became a candidate for go
vernor. Though engaged in a profession the best
of any calculated. to give hint eminence and a
name, he has lived in obscurity. We aro told that
for ten years he has been in public life, put there
by the citizens aim county; yet what has he done?
Has he in that public station been the originator
of any scheme for the public good] has he ever
achieved aught for the prosperity of the state or
has heaver given evidence of abilities beyond those
of the common herd of men thruat before the pub
lic (or party purposes? Never, and yet his friends
think to thrust him on the intelligent people of his
state in opposition to a tried public servant like
Joseph. Ritnerl
The idea is absurd. Pennsylvania will never
brooks it more than they will brooke the insults
lately'heaped, by his opponents upon their worthy
governor.
Ritnetos •Irdministration.
(From the York Republican.) ,
There are three things connected with
Gov. RITNAVE administration which dven
loco foco impudence cannot attack or 'loco
loco mendacity deny.
The first is the REPEAL OF THE
STATE TAX, which weighed so heavily
upon the people during Wolfe , administra
tion.
The next is the VETO OF THE MAM-
MOTH IMPROVEMENT BILL, which
a:r DAVID R. PORTER VOTED FORLao
On this the loco feces are entirely silent!!!
The third•ia that last year the tolls on the
public works of Pennsylvania, under Gov.
Ritner's management, amounted to MORE
than they had EVER DONE BEFORE,
although those on the Now York Canal FELL
oFF under the general prostration of business,
consequent upon the suspension of specie
payments!
But a fourth, which they have indeed en
deavored to misrepresent; though ineffectu
ally, is equally beneficial to the people. It
is the Proclamation bringing about a RE
SUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENTS.
'rho people are now enjoying the benefits of
this measure—on Monday last the specie a
gain came into circulation, from which it
was driven by the mad measures of the na
tional administration. The loco locos how
ever are not satisfied—they wish to have
Railer driven off' and Porter elected; but
their efforts are vain—the people will tell
them in October that,
"We seek no change; •
And least of all, such change as you would bring us."
.1 Comparison.
Wolf increased the STATE DEBT.
Ritnor has reduced it.
Wolf would have increased it many mil
ons more.
Ritner has said he will not increase it. .
Wolf imposed a heavy STATE TAX
upon the people. ,
Ritner repealed it, and saved the People
in one year 8294,509 17.
Wolf left the Treasury bankrupt—only
$30,000 in it.
Ritner has kept it well filled—more than
a MILLION in it now. . •
Wolf borrowed money every year to sus
tain the credit of the Commonwealth.
Ritner makes the Commonwealth work
upon her "own hook," she needs no "bor
rowed capital"and will never "break" while
he directs her.
Wolf could not make the Public Work*
productive.
Rimer . has Made them a source of rev
enue.
Wolf was in favor of Common Schools.
Ritner is likewise, and has done more for
em than Wolf ever thought of.[Chron.
GENtItNE GALLANTRT.-W,OilOthearedi
Guards were encamped at .04/10, a gen
tleman and two ladies approached.ope piths
sentinels on duty. "I have not the couetept
sign," said he, "and presume I cannot page:"
"You have a countersign upon each atm,"
was the gallant reply, and thagamlanuok
and ladies were porioitted to pan.