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AWFUL PEJURY
Kr Fraud and Swindling of the blackest dye ! !
The records of fraud, perjury and crime, seldom if ever furnished a more fla
.grarrt instance of dishonesty and fraud, under the awful solemnity of an oath,
than that disclosed by the affidavit of JOHN H. STONEBREAKER, Esq.
We may ransack the histories of criminals, from the organization of our gov
ernment up to the present time, without finding a parallel instance of so wanton
a disregard of the obligations of an oath taken in the presence of God, as is
proved against DAVID R. PORTER. It fixes upon him 'O-PERJURY—
BLACK and DAMNING PERJURY, incited by cupidity—WANTONLY
. COMMITTED from a mercenary lust for money! ! !—Here we have the teiti
mony of a man of unimpeachable veracity—of a citizen, horn and bred in Hun
tingdon county, against whom the poisoned arrows of calumny will . .fall harm
less—whose reputation is pure and spotless, and fortified by the certificates of
twenty-one as respectable citizens as reside in Huntingdon county, under the
solemn obligations of an oath, to facts which place upon DAVID R. PORTER
the guilt of DELIBERATE PERJURY, than which no - BLACKER, FOULER
caner is found in the black catalogue of our criminal code. It also proves
upon him, as clearly and conclusively as human testimony can do, that FRAUD
—DELIBERATE, CONCERTED, MATURED FRAUD, was committed by
him in secreting a large amount of bonds and claims with a view of CHEAT
" ING HIS CREDITORS, and which he afterwards appropriated TO HIS
OWN USE. The testimony is . strong as "proof of holy writ," and can
neither be impeached or "denied. The case is fully made out, and we call upon
David R. Porter, or his friends, to disprove this overwhelining charge, or in
the event of a failure, candidly acknowledge their candidate to be, what he has
repeatedly been shown to be, a base dishonest villain, who sets at defiance the .
laws of God and man, and deliberately commits an act punishable with IM
PRISONMENT IN THE PENITENTIARY. •
So large a mass of testimony, all going to prove Porter's dishonesty, was
never before adduced in the case of any man. The certificate of Mr. Allison,
of Beaver, first brought the true state of the Insolvency transaction to light;
and now the matter is brought to a climax by the solemn testimony of Mr.
Stonebreaker.
In the eyes of all candid and reasonable men the guilt of Porter is manifest
beyond all question. The waters of the Juniata could not wash from him the
stain. , The whole, transaction shows a depravity and want of moral honesty
seldom witnessed in the most hardened felon arraigned in our criminal courts !
There is not one mitigating feature in the whole transaction. On the contrary,
theie appearS the most callous and hardened depravity. PERJURY! What
crime is more henious, more awftp, more damning in the eyes of good men !
Is NOT DAVID R. PORTER A PERJURED MAN ! READ AND JUDGE. A'
blacker tale has not reached the ears of the people in all the past history of
political men and parties... Here it is :
• Undeniable Proof! Stonebraker's affidavit.
HUNTINGDON COUNTY, SS:
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and
for said county, John H; Stonebreaker, and on his solemn oath doth depose and
say; that 'BEFORE David R. Porter took the benefit of the insolvent laws,,
Thomas m. Owens, and,his father,John Stonebreaker, were bail for Porter for
sixteen hundred dollars. That SHORTLY BEFORE HE FILED lIIS PETITION FOR
THE BENEFIT OF THE INSOLVENT LAWS, Porter having secured Owens for iriS
half of the bail money, out of the bonds given for a tract' of land in the Western.
part of the state, which he (Porter) sold for . two or three thousand dollars;
BROUGHT THE BALANCE OF THE BONDS, AND ANOTHER BOND
OP - ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO JOHN STONEBREAKER,
AS WELL AS THE TITLE OF A TRACT OF LAND IN BEAVER COUNTY, (I think)
AND DELIVERED THE WHOLE TO MY FATHER WHO WAS TO SECURE HIM
SELF, AND KEEP THE REST SAFE FOR PORTER. Some time AFTER
Porter was DISCHARGED under the insolvent laws, HE CAME TO JOHN
STONEBREAKER, AND GOT
.FROM HIM THE BALANCE OF THE
BONDS, (after deducting the $BOO bail money) AND THE TITLE FOR THE.TRACT
OF LAND, which land I afterwards heard him tell said. John Stonebreaker, that
.hesold for about $4,500. The bonds and lands thus SECRETED AND RE
TURNED AFTER HIS DISCHARGE, AMOUNTED TO MORE THAN
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS, NONE OF WHICH WENT INTO THE HANDS OF
HIS TRUSTEES BUT INTO HIS OWN. Some time after the above mention
.ed :property had been left with my father, PORTER BROUGHT THE BOOKS
OF ACCOUNT OF. PATTON AND PORTER TO MR. CALDWELL'S
TAILOR SHOP NEAR OUR HOUSE, AND GOT SAID JOHN STONE
BREAKER TO TAKE THEM IN A BAG AND HIDE THEM IN A BAR
REL IN:THE GARRET, WHERE THEY WERE SECRETED. FOR SEVERAL YEARS,
PORTER OCCASIONALLY CALLING TO. EXAMINE THEM & DRAW
OTT' ACCOI,TNTS. PORTER FINALLY TOOK THEM AWAY IN A BAG SOME
YEARS AFTERWARDS. I resided with my father during all the time of the above
transactions ; and know them well, HAVING OFTEN SEEN THE BONDS .
AND DEEDS. My brother Samuel also, I think, must know the same facts,
as he and I haVe often talked about PORTER'S SECRETING HIS PROP
ERTY WHEN HE TOOK THE BENEFIT OF THE INSOLVENT LAWS.
J. H. STONEBREAICER.
• Sworn and subscribed this 18th day of July, 1838, before
DAVID SNARE.
le-To shoW in what estimation JOHN H. STONEBREAKER is held by those,
who known him, we publish the following tertimony:
We whose names are hereunto subscribed do certify, that we are well acquainted
with John H. Stonebreaker, Esq., and know his character to he good, and that his word
or any statement he may make, are entitled to full confidence and credit.
' Janies Saxton, jr. S. Davies, John M'Connell,
Thoa. T. Cromwell, James Steel, Sanford S. Dewey,
A. J. Stewert, James Clarke, James Thompson,
James Morrow, Philip Roller, John Brisbin,
Eli W. Wike, Adam Keith, John S. Taylor,
• . Henry Neff, Robert Lyttle, Alex'r
- John Reed, Jacob Hainan, Thomas Read.
ter•Now read the following OATH taken by DAVID R. PORTER when he
took the benefit of the Insolvent Laws of this Commonwealth :
"I, David R. Pc:nor, Bolero!) , and sincerely swear, in the presence of Almighty God,
that I will deliver up and transfer to my trustee for the use of my creditors, ALL THE
PROPERTY THAT I HAVE OR CLAIM ANY TITLE TO, OR INTEREST IN
at this time, OR THAT I AM IN ANY RESPECT ENTITLED TO IN POSSES
SPN, reversion or remainder, and that I HAVE NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECT I
LY twiny time given, sold, conveyed, leased, disposed of or intrusted any part of my
property, rights or claims, to any person, whereby to DEFRAUD MY CREDITORS
OR ANY OF o 'fHEM, or to secure, RECEIVE OR EXPECT ANY PROFIT, BEN
EFIT OR•ADVANTAGE THEREBY." So help me God.
%1 Afterreading the above, we cannot see how David R. Porter can clear
himself of the charge of PERJURY - -a charge which we (says the Harrisburg
Intelligencer,) now-deliberately make, and make with sorrow too; as we re
gret, that Pennsylvania should have the disgrace cast upon her of a party,
Within her, borders, seeking to elevate to her highest post a man who his been
gUilty'of -the deeds of darkness PROVED AGAINST DAVID R. PORTER!
Let the hOnest men of all parties ponder well on the facts.above given be
fOre'it is too late. For our part, we cannot see how any man having the least re
gard-, for iwzinsTr, or a desire to see HONEST RULERS placed over him can
vote for - . David .H. Porter—especially when he has to choose between such
a aim' as Porter and the honest,upright Farmer Governor.. ' •
or More Disclosures coming!
Political Matters,
BROM Trtl .11FICILICIAII STATE rotturat.
J Jacobite Crido—.4l Bernet Oa .g ang Cow.
spin's, against the "tipple.
0:7 - We find the following account in the
Detroit Advertiser of We 31st ult. We have re
ceived corresponding information of the Conspira
cy through other channels. Our limits preclude
us, this wcek,from doing ample justice to this last
desperate piece of iniquity of a desperate party.
We need only ask, to what patriotic piiaciple or
measure is the sentiment of this people opposed,
that these professed friends of the people need to
shroud their schemes in midnight darkness! The 1
oLTIT or stealer, we may, (and the common sense
of the people will say the same,) is flagrant evi
dence of GUILT!
THE cessrutacr AGAVIST THE PEOPLE.—
When in a recent article we casually allud
ed to the existence of a secret society In this city
whose members were bound to secrecy And whose
object was political, soxe good friends were not
prepared to credit the astounding assertion: We
are, however, enabled to re -assert the fact, and
now point them to the "Union Club," at present
completely organized and in full operation among
us, as one of the most daring cabals that has yet
been attempted tinder the existing reign of terror.
We charge pointedly and defy contradiction. that
such a club exists in the city of Detroit, that it is
bound together by ties of secrecy, that it has a
regular constitution of bye laws, that its object is
exclusively connected with national and state
politica,thet among IT, OTTICERS AND 316118ER8 Alt
LEADING WUNCTIONARIEBOT OCR -lATIONA LAND STATE
Gotantine.orr; and that it meets nightly in Repub
lican Hall to advance, its anti.republican and de.
structive purposes. Who now will doubt that a
plot is on foot to enslave the people? That mid
night caballing is intended to accomplish what
frank discussion cannot? That the agents who
have been once chosen to manage the government.
now that their faithlessness is demonstrated in
letters of light, have become floSsapierres, Dan.
tons and Morals, bound together by the moat un.
holy ties and sworn to build op their own fortunes
upon the ruins of the state?
The "Uuion Club" is but a branch at the Great
Central Inquisition established at Washington, and
but one of the affiliated Janie, that are scattered
throughout the nation. So adroitly and harmoniously
if the whole managed by the ARCII RIO Vt•, that the
cord once touched by him vibrates electrically in
every City town and vilftge,,io which it extends.
The decrees of the party are thus promulgated with
secrecy, rapidity and certainty; the will of the
great magician is at once made known and obeyed;
the whole moneyed and political power of the Ad
ministration, through ibis terrific engine will be
brought to bear upon the popular voice nai l ,,
press
shall be silenced, freedom of opinion destroyed, re
publican liberty a thing that was, and the people of
Michigan prostrate in the dust-
Who are the earn that would thou trample span our
rights and sacrifice them to • political fiend? Who
are the men that have organized themselves into a
secret band, who gather at the midnight boor, who
prate of liberty in the streets but forge the chains of
despotism in secrecy—who are the area? Tot or
novas or one Govirasascsr, and those whom they
have 'educed into their design,. These are the men
who conspire against your liberties. These are the
men who plot your ruin while they kiss von in pre
tended friendship. Denrcrats they are by reeves
mon, they are tones—agrarians—levellers—jaeobins
—dernagognesix PRACTICE and rvitssirs AT Il RA RT.
What is their object? To sustaln themselves and
the party in this state and to matinee Martin Van
Rarest in power To sell Michigan to that arch apos
tate from democracy, perpetuate the reign of terror,
subvert our democratic and time-honored institutions,
and fasten opoo osi an executive despotism more in
tolerable
than that which wrings with anguish the
soul of a Russian serf, or excoriates the mangled re
mains of a Tit/kis!' slave. Away wills such men.
Down with their infernal machines. No more of
their PROVES/310NR. They have flattered us Lug
enongli.—Lar ma NOT HZ BETRAYED.
From the Harrisburg Intelriveicer.
Porter's aloral Depravity.
There is now living at Lewistown, Mifflin
county, a woman n3med 'Peggy' or Rebec
ca Beatty—generally called Peg Beatty--
She is a white woman,hut is now living with
a NEGRO named James Mason. Many
years ago she was n virtuous girl,living as a
servant, we believe, at a tavern; but the des-
troyer came, insidious in his advances, and
stole away her virginity. Now, she is an
abandoned and depraved outcast. ft was
through the persuasions of DAVID R.
PORTER that this woman lost her virtue;
he was her seducer, and to him she had two
children; the one a girl, now living in Ohio;
and the other a boy, who follows limiting on
the canal, and is known as John Beatty; he
reieses to take the name of Porter, declar
ing he will not bear the name of his unnatu
ral father, nor support his father for gover
nor, because his father never supported him.
These facts are well known in the vicinity
of Lewistown,where the frien3s of Mr. Por
ter dare not deny them.
This woman,Peggy Beatty,recently made
affidavit that Porter had seduced her—that
he was the father of her children—and that
he had advised her to marry. An extract
from the affidavit was published, in which,
by some mistake, it was stated that Potter
had advised her to marry the negro, which
was not in reality the case. The actual Cir
cumstances were as follows: after being con
nected with hor for a length of time, Porter
advised her to marry, and then turned her
off. By this marriage, which took place
some years ago,her name was changed from
Collins to Beatty; and since then she has
lived the life of the vilest harlot, accessible
to all colors. It is only within the last five
years that she has taken up a permanent
abode with Mason.
Taking advantage of the error in the pub
lication before alluded to, some of Mr. Por
ter's friends at Lewistown, who ought to be
ashamed of such dirty work, have prevailed
upon the woman to make statements impli
cating certain gentlemen at Lewistown in
dishonorable conduct relative to her affida
vit. These gentlemen have come out in an
extra of the Lewistown Gazette and prompt.
ly denied the charges. Being personally
acquainted with them, we can bear witness
to their respectability. It is worthy of re
mark, that in all the certificates of the Lo
cofocos, paraded with the pomposity of a
Congo jubilee in the last Keystone, me
FACT THAT PORTER HAD conweertozir WITH
THE wO.IIAN IS NOT DENIED.
Although we believe the people have a
right to know the moral character of condi
dates for their favor, we should not have al
luded to this unpleasant subject had it ea
been for the dishonorable conduct of the
Lewistown locofocos.
A GOOD loi.—A good honest German
neighbor of ours being much insisted on by
a Loco Foco wiseacre, to support Porter,
obser%%‘d, '•lt would be a good thing, he
thought, to elect Porter, for the State was
now over head and ears in debt, and DAvy
could just take the benefit of the insolvent
act ngain, and clear us of all of it!"
110 tat muumuus° Timzeisru.
Estimate Of the result of the
election of 1 83 8-. majorities.
RITNILIR. POUTER.
1000
1200
Adams,
Allegheny,
Armstrong,
Bearer,
Bedford,
Berk",
Bradford,
Buck.,
Butler,
Cambria,
Centre,
Chester,
Clearfield,
Columbia,
Crawford,
Cumberland,
Delaware,
Dauphin,
Erie,
Fayette,
Franklin,
Greene,
Huntingdon,
Indiana,
Jefferson,
Juniata,
Lancastos,
Lebanon,
Lehigh,
Luzern.,
Lycoming,
Mercer,
Mifflin,
McKean,
Monroe,
Montgomery,
Northumberland,
Northampton,
Perry,
Phila. City & Co
Pike.
Potter,
Somerset,
Schuylkill,
Susquehanna
Union,
%enango,
Warren,
Washington,
Wayne,
Westmoreland,
Ritner's majority, 14,250
The above estimate of the probable result of
the election in October next, is made from infor
mation collected from sources entitled to the ful
lest credit. In making it, however, to leave no
probability of being deceived ourselves, or of de
ceiving our friends, we have in several instances
set down smaller majorities to Gov. Ritner, and
larger ones to Porter than they will receive. For
instance, wo have set down Adams at 1000 for
Ritner, where be undoubtedly will get from 12 to
1600, Allegheny at 1200, when it will probably
exceed 1500; Beaver at 1100, where it will run
from 1400 to 2000; Erie at 1300,. which may
exceed 1800; 'Washington at 40, where our
friends do not expect less than 600, and the city
and county of Philadelphia et 2700, whore there
is good reason to believe that it will exceed 3500.
In the other counties, we have no doubt but that
the majorities for Ritner will be considerably above
the estimate.
We have also given Porter a majority of 300 in
Schuylkill, where our friends believe that Ritner
will have a majority ; of 1000 in Westmoreland,
where it will not probably exceed 6 or 700; of
300 in Northampton, where it may nut be a single
vote ; of 500 in Luzerne whore the majority may
be on the other side ; and:of 200 in Tioga whore
the Old Farmer is as likely to go a head.
The counties of Crawford, Cumberland, theme,
Jefferson, Lycoming, Schuylkill and Susquehan
na, may be considered doubtful; but the result
wo believe will prove More favorable to Ritner
than is set down. •
The above calculation is not made, like the one
that has been issued by the Porter party, for effect.
It is deliberately made up, and given out to our
friends as a safe calculation. from the best.infor
mation that we have been able to collect.
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Tut Gsamans.—The masonic presses contin.
ue to abuse and slander our German population,
because they refuse to support David R. Porter for
Governor. A late number of the Harrisburg
Keystone, the leading Porter paper of the State,
contains the following paragiaph
o:T"There are three books they read—
Sign Posts, Finger Boards and Dutch Al
manes, and they read man POSTS MUCH
THE BEST I ! " .,L
But a few weeks ago, the same party called
Gov. Ritner DAMN'D DUTCH HOG!"
Germans of Pennsylvania! Will you support
a party that thus insults your intelligence and
patriotism? Will you vote for a candidate whose
partizans stigmatize you as "ignorant and illiter
ate Dutchmen ?" Answer these questions at the
polls.—Lancaster Examiner.
From tho Domocratic Star.
TUE WOLF AND MUDLENBURG PARTY OF
TIOGA. OUT FOR GOV. RITNER.
We have made considerable inquiry into
the political prospects throughout our coun
ty, as opportunity has afforded, in regard to
the Governor's election and we must say,
that we are really surprised to find so much
unanimity of expression in favor of Gov.
Ritzier, among the warm supporters of
Messrs. Wolf& Muhlenburg. We have con
versed with a great many of the warm sup
porters of both Wolf and Muhlenburg, from
different sections of our county, and among
the whole number, we are gratified to say,
that upon inquiry, we have found that they
are all goini to support the re-election of
our present chief magistrate, with the ex•
ception of two or three.. In this our readers
may confide. -
If we ask a man, whom he will support
for governor; the answer is, "Well, I guess,
I'll have to give the old Farmer my support
this time, but 1 voted fur Wolf at the last
governor's election,"—or ''hut I voted for
Muhtenburg." Either one or the other ep
isode is generally the concomitant ofthe an
swer. Again the answer of some is, 4'l
will support ititner,- ; -he's n good governor,
and 1 know him better than Porter—Por
tcr's too much of a sub-treasury man."
This is the way men of all pains reason ;
this is the way,thc farmers reason ; and in
500
500
300
100
400
1000
1300
600
200
1100
700
100
3000
1000
300
SPECIE PAIIBIENTS.—The Journal is at a
loss to understand what the people of other
states have to do with the Specie Proclama
tion of Governor RITIVER. If the sharp eyed
Editor of the Journal will take tho trouble
to read the notices taken of this Proclaim
t ion in his exchange papers,he will then see
thnt JOSEPH RIMER is now looked up
on throughout the whole Union as the de
livercr of the people from the plague of
Shimplasters,and the restorer of GOLD and
SI LV ER.—Lancaster Union.
300
100
200
Rives upon the ticket as candidate for Vice
President. Will Mr. Rives accept the nom.
ination for which he once tried - in vain, his
claims having been postponed in favor of
Richard M. Johnson?
Rattle Snakes are so thick on Mount Tom,
in Massachusofts, according to the Northampton
Courier, that persons frequently get into the very
midst of a drove of the reptiles, without being
aware of their danger, until warned of it by tbo
gloms of their uyo balls.
WELL ANSWERED.-L-A gentleman came
to our office yesterday to notify us that the car
rier had omitted to leave the paper at his house
for one or two nights. Another parson who was
in Cho offico when ho entered, hearing' his corn-.
plaint, remarked, "I should think friend B. that
you read newspapers enough down town, without
wanting any at home." "Very true" replied B
good humoredly, "but you know my wife and
children do not aubscribo to the Nows Room."
NEW MAIL AERANOEMTNT.—It Is stated
in a Western paper that a new mail lino has boon
established between New Orleans and Louisville,
by which the mail is to be carried in Steamboats,
regularly three times a wook, between those cit
ies!. There are to be eight boats in the line, and
each boat to have a postmaster on board whose
duty it is made to attend to the receipt and dolly
ery of the mail at the different points on the route.
The contractors fur thus carrying the mail, aro
to receive for this service, 8180,000 a year:
PREVENTIVE AGAINST HYDROPHOBIA.—
The New York Gazette says that a physician
has discovered that a few drops of any mineral
acid applied to a wuund occasioned, by the bite of
anyrabid animal, will prevent hydrophobia in the
patient. The acid will decompose the poisonous
saliva, and consequently no bad 'Alban will follow.
The accounts from Florida are most dm-
Ironing. The Indians have recently murdered
tho family of a Mr. Wilds, consistine of himself,
hie wife, four children, and two sisters; and the
family of a Mr. Singletary, consisting of hirnsolf,
his wife, and two children, in the most cruel and
barbarous manner.
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGIE.—A bill for the
endowment of colleges and academies in Penn
sylvania, passed the Into logielatme of that stato,
by which the above institution will receive $l,OOO
a year for ten years. Tho same act, says the
Gettysburg Star. incorporates the female somina.
ry of that place, and appropriates to it $5OO a year
for the same time. Pennsylvania college has in
deed been fortunate as it merits to be: But o few
years since it had its origin in tne private efforts
of a few individuals, (we blush not to name, our
humble golf among the number) by whom the old
academy of the town then encumbered with debt.
was purchased—and immediately raised into a
flourishing gymnasium—subsequently a charter
was secured under the title of Pennsylvania col.
logo with an appropriation of some VO,OOO end
now the handsome sum of $l,OOO more per year
is suporadded. The friends of education in this
noble state, may indeed be proud of their legisla
ture. It speaks not in word only but in very deed.
From a catalogue recently furnished us by the
kindneis of ono of the gentlemen comprising the
faculty of Pennsylvania college. the institution
already numbers upwards of 120 students from
different states, including Pennsylvania, Mary.
land and Virginia, dnd in every respect is pros
perous. We hope it may continuo auch,and moot
no blighting influence to Impede its onward
course.—Winchester Virginian.
Mernoutsx IN TExAs.—Wo Were actu
ally astonished, and at the same time gratified, at
seeing. in the Natchez Free Trader, a statement
of the progress of religion in Texas. The Metho
dists alone have in that mounty twenty societies
and three hundred and twenty preachers, induct.
ing six elders and three exhorters. Ono of their
Missionaries, (the Rev. R. Alexander,) has travell
ed this your, in the course of his circuit, twenty
two hundred miles on horseback, through swamp
and pt airie, swimming rivers, and sleeping out
exposed to every privation and inclemency.
The Fre:. Trader, after giving the above men
tioned particulars, bestows upon the Methodiat
clergy some neat and richly merited encomiums,
which we copy below.
, The itinerant of the Methodist church—the
real unsophisiocated followers of Wesley and
Whitfield--are,the must 'extraordinary body of
mon that ever lived. They ire the poiniers of
civilizations; they heed not danger however im.
minont; they stay not for luxuries; they care not
to tread the carpeted hall nor to .eek learning or
pleasure in cloister or saloon, but on. on they go,
to the remotest verge of the globe, wherever err
iug men has waudered; wherever there is one
.
deed, His excellentlogic—it is good, plain,
common sense. '
Gov. Ritner, will get a large , portion of
the Wolf and Muhlenburg vote of our coun
ty; of this we are well satisfied. Success
is attending our cause—it is onward, and
glorious will be the result.
Loco Focorsst UNMASICED.—Satan peeps
out of hie visor every now and then, when
we see what he is at. We invite attention
to the following resolution, from the pen of
Mr. Horn, one of the leaders of the Loco
Foco party of Philadelphia, and supposed to
enjoy the confidence of the authorities nt
Washington.- They were submitted and
adopted at a public meeting of the friends of
Porter, held in Walnut Ward, on Monday
evening last. We give them as expressing
the sentiments of the Loco Focos of the day.
Resolved, That the delegates of this ward
be and they aro hereby instructed; not to
place in nomination for any office, the name
of a single individual who is connected with
any bank or banking institution. either as
director, stockholder, or borrower, or who
is liable to the suspicion of conservatism,
which is only another name for federalism.
Every Director! Evntt Y Stockholder!
EVERY BORROWER! including in the
proscription not only every man that owns a
share in a Bank, but every Trader, every
Master Builder, every rit ECIIANIC—aye,
every man who is in any way ►n debt to a
Bank! If a Master Builder in tbu city of
Now York contracts to build a House, or a
Steam Boat, and goes to a Bank, and bor•
rows the money to purchase the materials,
he is to be PROSCRIBED for thus giving the
Mechanics labor to support their families.
The Van Buren party is attempting to
rtbe Virginia, by offering to place 4r.
General Intelligence.
soul to be roclaimed,there they gu,to wrestle w i t h
the world, to defy its temptations, to enlighten Its
moral darkness. - Apart from the holy ,charactor
of his mission, there le' a moral Al•andeur hi the
Methodist itinerant as he wends fits way through
pathless forests, without associates, without re
ward, without 'even the stimulus of praise. lie
leaves home, and kindred, the do of early love,
porhape,and goes forth, to struggle unknown arid
alone—to doom himself to poverty, to the gibes
and jeers of the gay, to broken health, to prema
ture old age. And what is his impetus? It is
not ambition; it is not pride; it is not any ono of
the selfish motives that sway the human breast.
What is It? RoAder—it is to preach Me trier& of
life to the poor.
The Canada napors mention that the emi
gration from those Provinces to tie United States
is very active.
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF TITS SUN.—TIIOrO will
ho Onion a total eclipse of the sun on the 19th
September next in the United States It will ho
tho last contra! eclipse of the sun visible in the
United Stales, until that or May 811, 1854, which
will ho also annular. Tho next total oclipso or
the sun will be August 7, 1864.
WHAT CONSTITUTES A VAG RANT?--Tho
ICntekerbockar relates a good antic oto of a well
known vagabond, who was brought before a ma
gistrato as a common 'hip nut.
Having suddenly harpooned a good Idea, her
pulled from a capacious pocket of his tattered coat
a loaf of bread, and half of a dried codfish, and
holding them up, with a triumphant look and ges
ture, to tho magistrato, exclaimed: "You don't
ketch him that way! I'm no vagrant. An't them
wisiblo Malls o' support, I should lake to know."
THE ArirrzEriT GREEK AND ROMAN TABLE -
The difforenco between the dint of tho ancients
and that of us moderns is very striking.. The an.
dent Greeks and Romans used no alcoholic li.
quor, it being unknown to thorn; nor collo, nor
toe, nor chocolate, nix sugar, not butter; forievon
Galen informs tie ho Iliad aeon butter but once in
his life. They wore ignorant of the groator num
ber of our tropical spices,as clove, nutmeg, mace,
ginger, Jamaica popper, curry, pimento. They
need neither buckwheat, nor Fronch beano, nor
spinach, nor sago, tapioca, salop arrow root, nor
potato, or its varieties; nor nven.the porainon, but
a sort of marsh grown, bean; nor many of our
fruits, as the orange, tamarind, nor American
maize. On the other fiend, they ato substances
which we now nogloet—the mallow, the herb ox.
tongue, the sweet acorn, tho lupin. They used
greatly radish, lettuce. sorrel Tito , / liked the
flesh amid asses, of little ridge, of the dormouse
of the fox, of the bear. They ate the flesh of par.
rogue's and other rare birds,*and of lizards.' They
were fond ofe groat many fish and shell fish,which
wo now hold in no °Bloom. They employed as
seasoning, rue and assafadida.
TO CLEAN PAINT TIIAT IS NOT VARN.
11311 CD —Put upon a plate , some of the best whit
ing, have ready some clean warm water. and a.
piece of flannel, which dip into the water and
squeeze nearly dry; then take as much whiting
as will adhere to it, apply it to thopaint, when
little rubbing will instantly remove any dirt or
grease; wash well off with water. and rub it dry
with a soft cloth. Pain' thus cleaned looks equal
to new; and.without doing the least injury to trio
most delicate color, it will 'preserve the paint
much longer ilian if cleaned with soap; and it
(NOB not require more than half the time usually
occupied in cleaning.
CORN irrlissounr.—The crops in this•
state (says the Cincinnati Republican) are
yielding an unusually large product this sea
son, according to the various accounts re
ceived from there. The Booneville Emi
grant states that a gentleman• residing in
Boon county.planted fifty acres, from which
he will get from five to six hundred barrels
of corn—say from fifteen o eighteen hun
dred bushels. This is an average of thirty
three or thirty four bushels per acre.
Accounts from Calcutta announce the
death of the wife of the Rev. John H. Mor:
rison, a Missionary of the Board of Foreign
Missions of the Presbyterian Church, who
sailed from Philadelphia last fall in the ship
Edward..
A man, named M'Anally, having a dispute
in a blacksmith's shop in New York, on
Wednesday last, with an Irishman, thrust a
red hot poker several inches into his side,
between the fourth end fifth ribs. At the
last accounts, the Irishman was still living.
The St. Augustine Herald of the 4th inst.
states that Colonel Harney had started,with
a force of two hundred and twenty men to
scour the Withlacoochee, m consequence of
the murders committed in that neighborhood
by the Indians. One hundred of his men
were armed with Colts's rifle, and disguised
as Indians.
REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.-It 118181 B•
ted in the Charleston. Courier of Tuesday,
that in making arrangments for the re-build.
ing of a house in the burnt district of that
city, which was destroyed by the great con
flagration, the workmen discovered that a
parcel of coal remaining in' the cellar was
on fire, and a piece of fat pine imbedded in
the same was also in a state of ignition,hav-
ing without duubt been in that state since
the morning of the 28th of April last, a pe.
clod of three and a half months, being pro
tected from the air by the rubbish which
had fallen on it. The part is vouched by
credible testimony, and deserves therefore
general attention.
HAVANA.—The New Orleans Bee states
that the only information received there in
relation to the recent insurrectionary move.
merit in Havana, is derived from private let
ten. which affirm that the seditious spirit
had been completely quelled, and that the s'.;
city had regained its usual tranquillity. The
movement, it,seemsmis not solely confined
to Havana and Porto Rico, but had exhibi
ted itself at Puerto del Principe and at Mat
ammo. In both these• places :the firmness
and promptitude of the governor general had •
sufficed to nip insubordination in its bud.
The schooner Liberty, at New Orleans
from Havana, Aug. 12th ieports, that above
400 arrests had been made in the city, and
it was thought a good many more'would
take place. Slave vessels were arriving eve
ry week from Africa,with from three to five
hundred slaves each.
Sr:NMl:man Di:NM—The West Union
Free Press says, that on Saturday last, Reu
ben Settle, aged forty five years;' came to
his death by swallowing the bone of a chick:
en, which located somewhere near the en
trance of the stomach. For seven or eight
days alter it happened but little apprehen
sion was entertained. A few hours before
his &Atli a vomiting and purging of blood
commenced, and thus soon -terminated his
existence.
• The Tunnel of the Lancaster and Harris
burg Rail. Road, is now finished,and passen
gers are conveyed directly between the two
cities. The trip from Philadelphia to Har
risburg is now made in eight hours.
From the Philaielphia Inquirer
Education.
Mr. Stevens and the Children of Canal
Labourers.'
One of the best and most philanthropic
suggestions that we ever remember to have
met with, is embodied in the following ex
treat of a letter from the President of the
.guard of Canal Commissioners in Pennsyl.
vania. The friends of education shopld act
upon the hint forthwith. Carried out to the
extent to which it is capable, it cannot but
be productive of immense benefit, and will
be remembered with pleasure and gratitude
by thousands, whom it is calculated to rea.
cue from the bonds of ignorance, and place
is the high road to usefolness and honour.
Penn Sylvania and her authorities have al.
ready talton n noble stand upon the patriotic
subject of general education, and it ;lards
us pleasure to mulct! every movement adapt
ed to win still turther 'credit for'her on this
score, and promote the mental and moral
happiness of the rising generation.
TO TITS FRIENDS OF EDUCATION.—The
condition of the children of laborers on ca
nals and rail roads, in regard to their.expo
sure to tempiation i from idleness and want o
instruction, calls upon the friends of educa
tion for some movement in their behalf.
We !mow not (says the New York Ameri
can) how we can better serve this cause,
than by publishing n communication from
Mr. T. Bal.:ye:vs, President of the Board of
Canal Commissioners, in Pennsylvania, an
enlightened and untiring advocate of univer
sal education.
'rho fate, of fourteen of the persons re
cently sentenced to death in Upper Canada,
has jdst been determined. Three of them,
Chandler, Waite nod McLeod, are to be
executed on the 25th, agreeably to their seri.
tence. Eight others, including Miller and
the other Americans, to be transported to
some one of the British colonies for life.
Three others, to the penitentiary for three
years. The case of the remaining convict
Wagoner, has not been decidedgreat ef
forts having been mode by his friends to
procui:e his banishment to the United States.
Sixteen other State prisoners wore also
released from the jail at Torimto last week.
Several of them were condemned to death
—among the rest, Charles Durand, a rela-
tive of Doct. Duncomb. It is supposed that
the order for their release was received by
the Great Western.—nn It. American.
From the United States Gazette
AVID Cons I I 'Won.
I'Ve have been informed that many ofour
citizens entertain the belief that all the mem
bers of the Convention agreed to the amend
ments proposed to the Constitution, because
their signatures are found, to the amended
Constitution: This ts•an errer which may
induce some person to vote for it, who oth
erwise would not. It is well known that
some of the most important changes in the
Constitution, passed by bare majorities.—
The first form of the Certificate offered to
be signed by the members ofthe Convention
contained expressions which implied their
concurrence in the amendments, or might
have been so construed. It was at ilet'
objected to, nor would it have received the
signatures of the minority. It was then
put in the present form, which merely cer
tifies "that the foregoing is the amended ;
Constitution of Pennsylvania,.ux agreed to,
in the Convention." The members only,
testify to the fact, that it is the Constitution
the Convention had agreed to, but not that
they individually approved of it, or had a
greed to it,:or recommended it to the adop
tion of the people.
. •
A Goon Jorce.—The New York Arneti- .
can intimates that the Philrnielphia bunks
were enabled to resume in consequence of
the previous resumption of the New York
bankit. • We saw the moon, a few mornings
since, in the last quarter, creep up the ens'.
ern horizon, in her waning beauty, and
shortly afterwards, at his appointed time,
the sun arose, and dispensed its light and
heat upon all within its influence. We re•
!narked, however, that notwithstanding the
early resumption of ita labors, the moon did
not occupy much attention after sunrise. [lb.
EDUCATION IN Onto.-Mr. Lewis, the
Superintendent of Common Schools in Ohio,
and' Mi. MeGitflie, President Of the Miami
University, are making the tour of the State,
and presenting the subject to meetings of
the people. They addressed large meetings
at Cleveland, 0 , on the 9th and 10th:
So.vna CozprAon.-4t is stated, in the
Globe that directions have been given to, the au•.
porintiindent oflho Mint at' Now Otleans to con-
tinuo the coinago of pieces of 25,;11;; slid 5 cents,
until tha country is "thoroughly supplied with
•
silver change."., • , •
MARRIED.
On tho 23d Inst. by the Rev. Mr. Watson, Mr
DENJA.MIR HELLER to Miss dtack:r. Wannas
daughter of Mr. Edward Warren—both of Menol
len township. • • . .
In this place, on the same day; by the Rev. Mr.
Smith, Mr. Liern s : , : No nuts, of Ohio, (formerly of
this town,) to Miss Sansu Cnau., of Frederick
county, Md.
On tho 19th inst. by the Rev, Mr. Sechler, Mr.
GEonoE Kt:FAEII, of this county, to Miss CHAR
toTTP. li:V;;G, of Carroll county, Md.
On the bth inst. by Jacob Ernst, Esq. Mr. Js
con Mum:at:sr, of lurk county, to Miss SETRA7NA
Monsnirre, of Hamiltomownship, Adams ccunty.
On tho 21st inst. by the Rev. D. Gottwald, Mr.
Cs MLLE., 1111irra to Miss EaNcsrusc Ilusu-7both
of Monallen township.
On the samoday, by the same, Mr. PETEn F.
Smrrn,to Miss MATILDA G nr.rs - r —both of Peters.
burg, (Fork Springs.) • : • •
On the smile day, by tiro same, Mr. Ron NUT
NICKI4:00 Miss ItSUECCA i‘lcsnourF—both of
Huntingdon township. •„
•
,
On the 23d inst. by the same, Mr. ,
GairL
rY, to Miss Era z4ntlll Itx3T—both of Cumber
hind county.
BY ROBERT WHITE MIDDLETON.
GETTYSBURGEL, PA.
Tuesday, ✓lugust 28, l 838.
DEMOCRATIC ANTI-MASONIC NOMINATION
TOR GOVERNOR,
JOSEPH RITNER
FOR CONGRESS,
JAMES COOPER
ASSE3IriLY,
THADDEUS STEVENS,
CHARLES KETTLEWELL
COMMISSIONER,
DANIEL DIEHL.
AUDITOR,
JOHN G. MORNINGSTAR
DIRECTOR OF TUE POOR,
PETER TROSTLE.
TO CORRESPONDENTS
c - -.AVe have several poetical articles on hand
from our fair correspondent. They will all ap
pear in duo time.
"l'Ort.Learrowri" in our next.
Steam Foundry.
Ky. We auk the attention of the public to
the advertisement of our enterprising citizen, Mr.
Gsonos ARNOLD. We trust ho will meet with
that encouragement which industry and enter
prize so richly merit.
L... The Pittsburg "Saturday Evening Visiter,"
published by E. BURKE FIriHEIL and Co., reaches
us this week in a now and beautiful drese. It is
decidedly ono of the best literary papers extant
Persons desirous of having a useful and entertain
ing Visitor, would do well to forward, forthwith
$2, and procure that valuable paper.
oyTho Chambersburg "Weekly Messenger,"
Edited with so much ability by the Rev. B. S.
ScurtacK, for the Board of Missions of the Ger
man Reformed Church, also appears this week in
a much handsomer dress than it has worn for the
last tWelvemonth. It is such a "Messenger" as
never fails to impart pleasure whenever and
wherever received, and no family should be with
out it. Terms, $2 per year, in advance.
Commendable- Honesty.
••••••A passenger an last Sunday night's stage
lost his pocket book containing from six to EIGUT
HUNDRED dollars. . It was fortunately found by
the honest driver and returned to him yesterday
morning. The driver, Mr, WET:1'1011T, was liber
ally rewarded.
Committees of Vigilance.
(:}erlie Delegates to the late County Conven
tion will please forward Committees of Vigilance
for their respective townships as early as possible.
Great allieeting of the People
of :letams County!
ozyWo have only room to say that the County
meeting yesterday was one of the largest and most
respectable over held in Adams County! Persons
were in attendance from all parts of the County,
all in good spirits and confident of giving the
Farmer Governor a TREMENDOUS MAJOR
ITY! The address of Mr. PEP:Rosa was the
most eloquent and cutting ono we ever heard. He
fairly skinned the Loco Focoa and their hopeful
candidate! The proceedings will be given in our
next.
. 7 1leeting at lianterstotan.
( rilt will be wen that the friends of Gov. lila.-
?kr rat have changed the day of meeting in Hunting
town from the v fificerilh to the EIGHTH of Sep.
=ber next, on account of the.,iirst named day
being the same on which tho.proposed Encamp
ment of Volunteers is to be held in Gettysburg.
We hope our friends will note the alteration, and
bo all in attendance on that day.
lizrOur Strannn friends hnve requested
us to tender a respectful invitation to the friends
of Van Buren, Porter and the Bub-Treasury to be
present at the meeting, and take part in the
cussions. Wo hope they will accept the invi
tation.
The True Issue.
ozy•Wo wish to impress on the minds of our
Anti-Masonic friends, that the contest between
Jost.en Rurssit and DAVID R. PORTER, in a con
test between Masonry' and Anti-Masonry--ba•
tween the Lodge and the People. We wish them
to recollect, that the Masonic convention which
nominated David R. Porter, made up the issue,
and tendered tt to the people, whether the LAWS
or MASONRY were to be triumphant for the
future?
Anti-Masons ought not to forget the persecuting
spirit of the Lodge, and that having been forced,
for a while, to yield an unwilling submission to
the laws, its indignatiorites become, "seven times
hotter" against those whom it supposes to have
contributed to its temporary humiliation. They
should consider, after this humiliation, if it again
bo.permitted to rise above the laws—control jud
ges and juries by Its influence as formerly, that its
vengeance will be visited upon them in no stinted
measure; that they will be made to feel its effects
and suffer from its hostility in all their relations,
both public and private.
We, therefore, urge upon our friends the neces
sity of using every exertion, compatible with hon
esty and justice, to prevent the election of David
R. Porter, the Royal Arch eanclidatei , selected to
reuxegaibet Joseph Ritner for the office of Gover
nor of this Commonwealth: The contest is no
trivial one, even if it wore viewed in no other as
pect; but all the great political , interests of the peo
ple, their prosperity and all, are staked upon the
result. , ' ,
1t,74,0":40 you Choose?,
. .
~.Thcrit'arti presented to the choice, of the
people of Pennsylvania two candidates for the
(Mee or Governer:' The ono, JosErn RITNER, is
a Farmer, who has exhibited the rarest abilities
in cenductin
. ellthepublic'busincss in which ho
has been engaged; has always maintained a. moral
character above reproach, and, by it, together with
his talents, raised himself to his present exalted
station. •
The other, Demi) IL Poaxatt, was bred a law
yer, but failed in obtaining practice for want of
capacity to conduct business! He then betook
himself to trading in the Iron business, which he
managed so badly that he became insolvent, in a
short time, to a large amount, and took the Bene
fit of the act provided for the relief of insolvent
debtors! He has been a member of the House of
Representatives and also of the Senate of this
Commonwealth; but in this capacity he was never
heard of by the people, having never made a sin
gle speech or introduced a bill into either House!
His moral character is highly exceptionable; he is
not only a xi 11E111.1Kx, but at _the time when he
took the benefit of the Insolvent Laws, he SE
CRETED A LARGE AMOUNT OF PROP
ERTY, which ho afterward, received back for his
OWN USE, although ho SWORE, when he was
discharged, that ho had surrendered Immix-roma
be owns possessed of, in reversion or remainder,"
for the use of his creditors!
IPhlch do von Choose?
Lyeoming Eagle.
j.Tho Compiler and its underetrappers, of all
colors, try to make a considerable noise about the
above paper turning from the support of Ritner
to that of Porter. What are the facts? Tho
principal owner of the Eagle is one of the
violent opponents of Gov. Ritner in the State; and
but a few days before the Eagle turned its sum
mered, bet $lOOO against Ritner. He was an
applicant for sections on the West Branch, but,
BIDDING TOO num, did not get any. He then,
together with others, went to tho Editor of the
Eagle, who is represented to be a rather Iciose,dia
sipated character, and agreed to securo him good
subscribers to the amount of $2,000 (two hundred
dollars of which was offered in hand,) if ho would
come out for Porter, and make the best excuse he
could for so doing. The proposition was accepted,
the Eagle is now n tierce Porter paper, allhough
Me Editor took his $2OO (the hand money) and
bet it on the election of Joseph Miner!
He, however, told the friends of Ritnor before
his second number was printed, that money wee
his object, and thnt if they would pay him the
same price which the Porterites had agreed to, US
WOULD TURN DICK AND ISUPPOST RITNSR WITU
ALL 1175 11E•IIT !!
But neither the Editor nor the paper can or will
loose us a single vote. Indeed, five Ritner men
afterwards paid him each a dollar a pied', if he
would continue his opposition until after the elec
tion!! So much for this, "great change!"
co -- -The Harrisburg Key-Stone denies penning
the paragraph copied from it week before last,
abusive of the Germane. That paper attributes
it to Whig origin. We do not believe it, having
never observed it in any other paper than the ono
to which we credited it, and in which we still be.
hove it originated.
az2.The Harrisburg Key Steno most be careful
how it abuses the aDutch," if it wishes such abuse
to escape the notice of the Gettysburg Star. Our
Grand Daddy was a Dutchman of the first water.
Any insinuations against his "Faderland," the
Star will dart upon like a "lamp-lighter!" Potter
swallow your Porter and let tho Dutch alone. You
will be boat any how, without abusing them. -
al Segn!
0:1•Tho 4 , Clearfield Journal" is the titlo of a
new paper, just issued, which supporta the old
Fanner. Success to it.
ANOTIItIt
yTho I.Busquehannah Register," a Wolf pa:
per, has come out for the old Washington Farmer!
YET ANOTHER!
pi-The "Carroll Gazette." a neutral paper,
has hoisted the Farmer Governor's broad banner!
IF'DI THI3 MITTVBDUI/0111 STAR AND BAIQABH.
The Lodge Revived !
::) , •It has been known to our citizens that "Good
Samaritan Lodge, No. 200," which, in days gone
by, used to bold its meetings in this Boiough, has
"given up the ghost" and most of its members
turned honest Anti-Masons. A few of them,
however, it would seem, have recently held a
meetina t and either revived the old one, or estab
lished a new one! They do not now call their
presiding officers by the Aristocratic names of
Worshipful Mester, Senior and Junior Wardens,
&c., but have adopted the .gbenweratic' appella
tions of .4 President," Vice-President," &c. I
Well, this newly organized body hold a Grand
Convocation a few days before the entrance of the
Great Show into this place, anti elected the fol
lowing ..brethern" to preside over their delibera
tions—viz :
President—JOHN SHEETS.
Vice President—JOHN GEYER
- -
Secretary—E. CONNELEE.
Treasurer—D. C BRINKERHOFF.
Corresponding Committee—P. It. HARKINS mid .
SAMUEL KENDLEHA RT.
Door-Keeper—ELlAS DEGROFF.
After the officers were duly installed ) and each
ono instructed in all the "signs" and "ceremon.
lea" of the order, the Grand Master of Cere•
monies offered the following resolution, which, af.
tel being prefaced by one of the most awfully el.
oguent harangues ever listened to by mortal than,
was "unanimously" adopted by the Lodge, and or.
derod to be forthwith published in "our efficient
organ," for the benefit of the Craft in general and
the Ritner "Cowana" and "Eves•droppers" in
particular
Resolved, That the eves-droppers, who are in
structed by their masters, to attend at the windows
of our meeting room, in order to give incorrect ac
counts of our proceedings, ho instructed to stay at
home and mind their Ritter affairs, as we have no
need of such company.
gcyThe Lodge will meet at brother Yeatta' a
little after the "going down of the sun," every
Saturday evening until the day of Grand Master
Porter's abduction. Brethren will "mark and
govern themselves accordingly." Boaz:
Important Paper.
The Pennsylvania Telegraph or Wednes
day gives an Important document—a paper by the
'Secretary of State and the Auditor Gonoral, in
reply to the defamatory representations made by
the friends of Mr. Porto^. The Editor of the
Telegraph says,that It ma triumphant exposers of
the disgraceful and disengenuous falsehoods and
fabrications, which have been published tar the
purpose of deceiving the people in regard to the
Administration of Governor Ritner. The state
ments to which this document is a reply were put
forth on the WI instant, under the imposing
guise of an Address by the Van Bu'ren and Por. I
for Central Committee, and bears at the head of
the eignere the name of " DANIEL STUROBON,
State Ttrossurer." The abuse Of official station
into which Mr. Sturgeon had been led by tuir par.
ty devotion,'.ie very properly rebuked in theepen
ing paragraph of the reply of Mr. Burrows', and
Mr. Hobart, and at the same time their own as in the promises is justified as public officers
and patriotic citizens,
DIED. On : •
Sunday lut, aftet a long illness, Mr. CNIIIM•
TrAN Cuzr, an old and worthy citizen of this bo
rough, aged about 80 years.
'On the 24th inst. Miss Sanaa ANN SMITE!,
daughter, of Mr. James Smith, of Mountjoy town
ship, in the 15th year of her age.
On the 23d inst. Jacon, infant sen of Mr.
William'Keefaver, of Cumberland township, aged
2 months and 27 days. •
ON the 20th Inst. Miss MABOATTT SATIT,
daughter of Mr. Michael Sheet, of Heidleraburg,
Adams county, aged 10 years, 7 months and 6
days.
On the eeme day, Mr. MATIII.IO SUYD•T, 0
Tyrone township, aged 76 yeani.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
TO TUE PUBLIC.
I am sorry to obtrude affairs of a private nature
on the public, at a time when matters of genera
concernment aro occupying so much of its atten.
Lion; but 'having observed a communication in
the last "Sentinel," and also in the "Compiler,"
charging me, on the solemn affirmation of Sax
trsr. Mt ta.zu, with having offered to "insure" him,
the said Samuel, fire hundred dollars for his in
fluence in favor of Gov. Rimer, I deem it a duty
to myself to deny, in an effectual manner, the
charge so solemly made—though by thus doing,
ati imputation of a high moral is cast upon
Samuel Miller, This, if it had been possible, out
of tenderness to Mr. Miller, I would have gladly
avoided ; but as ho has reiterated the charge, for
merly made in casual conversation, under the sanc
tion of an oath, I am compelled in justice to my
self to show by the affidavit of a disintered wit
ness, that an offer to bribe or purchase his infra.
ence for $5OO was never mode.
It will bo seen, by the certificate of Mr- JACOtI
RoaoEns, that this pretended offer was made in
the town of Westminster, in the presence of
Mr. DAVID IVlcCatAite, of this borough, and by
the certificate of Di. CUAILLE , I BLIBIII, that it was
made in Me presence of somcoody, because Stun.
uel Miller alledged that "he could prove it." .
Now, by the affidavit of David McCreary, it
will appear, that altnotigh he, McCreary, wont in
company with Samuel Miller and myself, from the
Dank in Westminster to the New Jail—during
which time Samuel Miller alleges that the con•
venation in which the offer was made took place
—and heard all the conversation which took place
on the way, and which Mr. Miller has detailed in
his published affidavit, yet he heard nothing of the
offer to bribe Mr. Samuel Miller, or purchase his
vote or influence for $5OO. And Mr. McCreary
further positively declares in his affidavit, that,
"no such offer Maas made by Mr. King to Mr.
Miller in my presence," and that he was "pros.
ent all the lime." What, then, becomes of Mr.
Samuel Millet's allegations, made, though they be,
under the sanction of an oath 1,
The public will also please to bear in mind, that
Messrs. Bliab and Rodgers went before Mr. Jus
tice Blake, of Hampton, to svrear to the stater
ments made by thorn ; but that this justice (l) re
fused to qualify them t But I shall make no com
ments on the conduct of this man, in refusing
this simple act of justice.
The gentlemen whose affidavits end certificates
are published to disprove Mr. Miller's statement,
Are all known to the people of the county us men
of the highest probity and of the most unbleintsh.
04 reputation ; it will, therefore, be incumbent on
to add some other testimony to his own
affidavit, if he wishes it to be credited by the Pub.
lic. He will find it necessary to produce the
proof which ho alleged, in the presence of Dr.
Elfish, ho was able to furnish.
To the Itffidavits and certificates of the Gentle.
men above named, I havo added my own, deny
ing the truth of Samuel Miller's statement.
August 28, 1838
CERTIFICATEg.
Having been this day called upon by Mr.WILUAM
KING to 51510 my recollection of what I heard Sans':
Mater say in Berlin, on the subject of a Ritner man's
having offered a Porter man money for his vote and
influence. I cheerfully comply with.his request,as sa
act of justice to himself.
On or about the 3d day of August, 1 am not certain
as to the exact day, I saw Mr. Miller in Berlin. at
the public hou eof Mr. Philip Rich. He remarked,
in the course of converiatiou about the election, that
Ritzier voles must be sCarce,as the Ritner men were
offering $5OO for veto'. After some remark in reply
on my part, which I do dot exactly recollect, he said
■ Ritacr man had offered a Porter man $6OO for his
vote and also his influence along. I remarked,l think
that they might say so, but could they prove it? to
which he replied that there was a third person pre
sent, and, as well as I can recollect, that there was
proof of it. I then toldlim that perhaps the Ritner
matt was not worth $5OO. His reply was that be
thought he was worth 91,000. The above is accor
ding to my best recollection at this time.
To the above facts I am ready to testify in a Court
of Justice or elsewhere, whenever legally called on
so to do.
JOSEPII 511LLER.
August 23, 1838.
4114 MS COUNTY, SS.
.JACCIB 1100E118 being duly sworn berate tne, the
subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said
county. doth depose and sayohat h ei came in whilst
the conversation was passing - between &tmei Millet
and Dr Biiskspoken of by the !wet is his deposi
tion, I was not present at the commencement of it.
I heard Millet say that as he. King and a Mr. Mc-
Creary, I think, were walking together from the
Bank to see the new Jail,after the money was deposi
ted, Mr. King said to Miller that if he would tell him
how much money he bad In that bet,he (King) would
tell him how much he had—that Miller replied in
substance as stated by Dr. Blight and if it were not
so, he wished he might be lodged in goal, or to that
efect. That Mr. King then said, "Mr. Miller. if you
will use your influence for Ritner in the same way
that iota are using it for Porter,l will insure you
, JACOB ROGERS.
August 23, 1838.
ADAMS COUNTY, 814.
Before mc,thc subscriber,a Justice of the Pea ce, in
and for said county,personally appeared Dr. Cu A a cgs
Dusit,who being duly affirmed according to law,doth
say,that some short time since I saw Stimuli Miner,
of Gettysburg. in the town of Hampton, at the house
of James Boyd ' • he was speaking of what transpired
between himself, William King and others,at West
minster, a short time previously, when they went
there to put up a bet of $l,OOO in the Westminster
Bank,ou tho Governor's election. As nearly as my
memory serves me, he said, among other thlngs,that
after they had left the Bank, while walking together
Wm. King said to him, (Miller,) "If you will tell
me how touch you have in that bet, I will tell you
how much I have." Miller said he replied, "as to
that I do tell you there Is not a man In or about Get
tysburg has a dollar in it but myself " My impres
sion is, that ho said the conversation was followed up
by Mr. King saying to Mr. Miller that we know you
are a man of truth and an honest man; and what you
say we can depend upon; and if you will come over
from Porter to Kilmer 1 will insure you $500.. I
think I asked him whether he could prove this; and
he replied that he could. ,
C. BLISFI.
1838, August 2.3d,—1, Charles Blish, do certify that
in company with Mr. Rogers, I this 'day went before
SAMUSL BLAKE, F..sq., a Justice of the Peace, in
Hampton, where we also reside, and requested him
to qualify us to the proceeding depositions, and he af
ter demurring some time, refused absolutely to do la).
He was pressed by Mr. King and Mr. Smysor, who
were present, to do so as a simple ace. of justice to
Blr. King, but still refused. There is no other Jus
tice In Hampton. or within four miles. and this was
represented to Mr. Blake, who still persisted in his
refusal. lam willing, and Mr. Rogers expressed the
same in my bearing, to bo qualified to the above sta te
=st, as well as the deposition referred to, at at):
WILLIAM KING
WAS taken from Mr. Perry's-Camp
Ground, where he was tied on the
morning of the 23d inst. about 9 o'clock, at
the breaking up of the meeting, a large
BAY HORSE,
Saddle, Bridle and Martingals, all of fair
Leather, the latter new—he has a star in his
forehead; his hind feet white, a long switch
tail, full mane, moves well, but rough when
racked fast—and is in good order.
W.:3 "^I will give the above reward for the
Horse, Saddle and Bridle and deliiery of the
Thief, or $l5 for the delivery of each, if
brought home to Dr. Richard T. Hammond,
living in Woodaboro', or to Walter C. Hain
mond, living 2 miles. North East of New
Market, Frederick county, Md. or if recur•
ed and information given so that I get the
horse again.
RICHARD T. HAMMOND.
August 28, 1838. • 4t-22
Ccrinank Abrett for sate It ere:
,
time when eta harts • fitaug Sod 'soot enient Oppor•
tunity to do o
• C. MUSH;
I was preskm, and ooncurfullv in the above
statement of what passed with Esq. Blake.
• DANIEL M. SMYSER.
At the request of Ur. Wu. Kum, I make the
following Statement:
I was present incompany with Mr. King and
Samuel Miller, in Westminster, at the time epok
en of by Meagre. Rogers and Bluth, when we all
went in company from the Bank to the new Goal.
The conversation that took place on the way, is
correctly detailed by Mr. Samuel Miller in his
published affidavit. except as to the overture al.
leged to have been made, by Mr. King to Mr. Mil
ler, to purchase his vote and influence for $500.
No such offer was made by Mr. King to Mr. Mil.
ler in my presence. I was present all the time.
If there was any thing of the kind passed, I have
no recollection of it.
DAVID MOCREARY.
ADAMS COUNTY, SS.
DAVID MCCIDCART being duly sworn, doth may
that the facts sot forth in the proceeding state
mont ere correct and true, to the beet of his know
ledge end belief.
Sworn and subscribed, this 24th August. A. D
1838, before me, S. R. RUSSELL.
ADAMS COUNTY, SS.
Before me, a Justice of the Peace, In and for
said county, personally appeared WILLIAM Kuva,
who being duly sworn according to law, doth say,
that the statement published by Samuel Miller, in
the last "Sentinel" and also in the "Compiler,"
in relation to his (King) having offered to pay
him or "insure" him five hundrod dollars for hie
influence to bo used in favor of Governor Ritner,
is unraua and WITHOUT YOUND&TION; he, the said
King, never having offered to bribe or purchase
the vetoer influence of the said Miller for any sum.
WM. KING.
Svvern and subscribed, August 24th, 1838, be.
fore R. W. MIDDLETON.
PUBLIC METING.
The friends of JOSEPH RITNER are
requested to meet at the house of Jacob
Sourbeer in Straban township, on Saturday
the Bth this; of September next., at L
o'clock, to adopt measures for the'proruotion
of the Election of our present worthy chief
magistrate, Joscrn RITNER. It is expect
ed several addresses will be delivered.
August, 14th 1838.
APPRENTICES WANTED.
2OR 9 Apprentices to the Saddle and
Harness making business. Boys of
good moral character, from the country, and
about 16 years of age, will find a'good anti.
ation by applying immediately to
EDWIN A. ATLEE.
Gettysburg, Aug. 2Q, 1939. tf 22
GETTYSBURG
STEAM rovNnIZW.
T HE subscriber has established a
Steam . Fauftdry in Gettysburg,
Adams county, Pa., and is now prepared for
making
cjal4ll l 3llo -I _4'
of every kind, in toe neatest and bes
manner.
Having the best gray Foundry Pig in the
State, and long experienced Workmen, the
castings cannot fail to be smoother and n
superior quality; and in a abort time will be
prepared to do all kinds of
Brass Castings and Sniith
Work.
Turning of every kind in
IRON and nitAss,',.
Persons having any thing to do in the above
line of business, would do well to call. , All
orders and particularly those from' distance,
thankfully received and punctually attended
to.
• kiltsT itATit
NitteNATAEA nit Vathrh
iTiltikev
is attached to the Establishment. Patterns
can therefore be furnished at all times on
short notice.
OLD MEATAL taken at the Foundry
in exchange; and the HIGHEST PRICE
IN CASH paid for Old Copper and
Brass.
0:7 - From a disposition to please, and a
determination to make suntan:in work,—
(none other shall leave the Establishment,)
the subscriber hopes, therefore, that he may
be patronized,
O. ARNOLD.
Gettysburg, August 28. 1839. 3m-22
TRUSTEE'S NOTICE.
DAVID R. MAUS. of Berwick town
ship, Adams country, Pa., having made
an assignment of his property to tho under
signed, for tho benefit of creditors, notice
is hereby given to alt indebted to him to call
on or before the
.tat of October next, and
make payment. Those having claims against
Mr. Maus, will also present them for settle
ment.
ANDERSON EWING, Trustee.
August 2q, 18:1S. td-22
STOP THE THIEF!
$3O REWARD.
Wrightsville, York. Sc iet
tjliburg Rail Road..
N OTICE is hereby given to the Stock.
holders to the above road, that an elec
tion will be held at the house of Mr. James
A. Thompson, in the Borough of Gettys.
burg, on Tuesday the 4th of September ner,,
at 10 o'clock A. M. for ONE PRESIDENT
EIGHT DI RECTORS of said Company.
It is deemed necessary to state, that, ac.
cording to the act creating the Company,
"no share or shares of stock shall be entitled
to vote at any election, or at any general or
special meeting of the said company, on
which any instalment or arrearvges may
have been due and payable more than twen
ty days previously to the said election or
meeting."
R. W. Al I DDLETON, Sec'ry.
August 21, 1838. te-21
ltretti
R. G. 31. 9 CREARII
H AS just returned from Philadelphiaand,
Baltimore, wish a fresh supply or
SEASONABLE DRY GOODS,
EMBRACING A sPLENDID VARIETY or
Black Italian Lustring SILKS,
Superior Coloured GItO DE NAPS,
French Painted Muslin DE 'LAINES,
Ribbons, Laces, Gloves, Hosiery.%
3-4 & 4-4 Chintzes and Calicoes,
WITH A LARGE lITOCA OF
CLOTHS, CaSSIOIER ES
Doe Skins, Checks, Ticking, Muslins, Ste.
MANY.
WITH A GENERAL AssORTIKENT OP
GROCERIES,
All of which he is disposed to selVon
the most pleasing terms to all who may fa
vor him with a call.
August 21, 18:38.
GROCERY AND FLOUR STORE.
V HF. subscriber, having returned from
the West, informs his former cus
tomers and the public generally, that he has
again commenced the
GROCERY*, CONFECTIONA
RY & FLOUR BUSINESS
at the Old Stand in. Baltimore street. •
1119 isToCIL CuriBisTB PARTLY •IN
Tea, Coate, Alkvir,
Fish, Salt, Candles, Fish-Oil, Tobae.
co, Snuff, &gars 4.c. "
ailhnonds, i'4Therls, English
Walnuts, Palm Nuts, Groutld Nuts, Rai.
sins, Candies, 4.e. 4-c.
He is thankful for past taunt, and
a share of public patronage.' •
Country Produce taken in exchange for
goods.
WM% GI LLESPIE, Sen.
Gettysburg, August 21, 1838. Bt-21
ilissolettion of Par•tnershfp.
IrrTHE firm of GILLESPIE dt Wow
WED diasolvod on tho Ist inst. by mutual
consent.
TIM CRIERS 1111.4 X TEM.
4 1HE Board of School Directors of Stra.
- 0 - ban Township, will meet at the house
of Mr. Jacob Sourbeer, in Hunterstown. on
Saturday the Ist day of September next, to
roceive proposals for TBACIJERS in the
several Districts.
By order or the Board,
DANIEL COMFORT, Seery.
Auguit 14, 1839. 31-20
TEACHER WANTED.
riIHE subscribers having determined to
- 15 - establish an . additional School in the
Borough of Gettysburg., are desirous of em.
ploying a TEACHER, competent to teach
the following branches—namely: Reading,
Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar,
Geography, Book—Keeping, Surveying,
Algebra and Geometry. To such an one,
employment and a liberal salary will be giv
en. Apply to the subscrtbers,in the Borough
of Gettysburg.
T. STEVCNS, go
G. CHRITZMAN,
WM. N. IRVINE, ,_, E=
JAMES COOPER, I .Y
A. B. KURTZ, 2
W. W. PAXTON, )
.-5
Augek 14; 1838. 11-20
TO JOURNEYMEN.
AJOURNEYMAN BLACICSMITH
wanted immediately by the subscriber,
residing in Meliallen township, about one
mile from Arendiatown. To a gooi and
steady one,, liberal wages and constant em
ployment will be given. Apply immediately.
JOHN BURKHOLDER.
AuEust 14,_1839. 3t*.-2G
JOURNEYMEN WANTED*
WANTED immeeietely, 2or good
JOURNEYMEN SHOENA
KERB, to whom constant employment will
be given fur one year, or a shorter period
if required.
- JOHN DEEMER.
. .
Petersburg, (York Springs,) j.
August 7, 188.
nt.DRIDGE'S. BALM OF COLUM•
BR and Elm& -ListmErrr—fer sale
at the Drug Store of-
August 14,.1838.
Money Wanted/
itCrelle Editor of the Star would - feel;
under great obligations to his friends if they:
would call end pay's part of their sulticrlptione s
as he is greatly in nernkof money. at this time..
He hopes the call will not be . argliaitsi.. •
`'PUBLIC'NtYne:-:'
S. H. BUEHLER. ••
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