STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER.
BY ROBERT WHITE MIDDLETON.
GETTIMIIVROI2I. PENN.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1838
I:Ito - FLOUR in Baltimore, $7 75.
Franklin County Concerns.
gi-Last week we promised that we would no
tice the conduct of those Masonic Whigs of Frank
lin county who withheld their votes and influence
from our candidates for Governor and Congress,
and whose treachery defeated the Whig county
ticket.
It will be understood that we allude to such
men as Firvt,styros and Haartn, who pretending
to be friendly to the Whig CAUBC,IITO nevertheless
its most DANGIIROOB INXMIES. And we tell our
Franklin county friends, not in a spirit of dicta
tion or querulousness, but in a spirit of friendly
candor, that until they get rid of these men, thoy
can never count with certainty upon success.
They will continually be subject to the mortifica
tion of defeat, notwithstanding a good cause and
a sound majority of several hundred voters.
And we would ask what Is to bo feared from
casting off these men As open enemies, they
would be contemptible and harmless; they are dan.
gerous only as pretended friend,. In proof of
this, wetness the conduct of the old man For.x.sn.
Tots in certifying to Porter's moral character and
talents ! Being called, and calling himself a
Whig,whers he was not known, his testimony was
received as true, and the cause of onr candidate
prejudiced, because the lie was given to his friends
who had asserted that Porter was both immoral
and incompetent. Had he been an open suppor
ter of the V= Buren candidate, his testimony
would have been received with the allowance duo
to him as an interested witness; but professing
to be a Whig, his declarations were sounded from
one end of the Commonwealth to the other as the
opinions of an honest opponent! In this way, he
has done more injury than an hundred such imbe
ciles, openly arrayed against our cause, could have
done.
HAUPEB, the Editor of that sheet of shreds
. and
patches, is one of the same stamp and calibre.—
In the late contest, he pretended to be a neutral,
yet he was over reedy to stab Ritner! And has
not Franklin county felt the effects of such a neu
trality in the defeat of her county ticket, and in
the triumph of the friends of the General Adrnin
blue lion
. We hope, for the 'future success of our friends
in Franklin, that hereafter these men, and all like
them, will be found ranged, where they belong,
under the banner of the enemy. Inert, they will
cause no mischief.
The Election.
frrHuman patience is not equal to the
task of enduring the recital of the OUTRAGES
and FRAUDS by which the re• election of G ov.
ernor RTTINER was prevented! Etery mail,
from every corner of the Commonwealth,
brings tidings of the isoraritous TULARE
of the Van Buren party!
Freemen of Pennsylvania! It ou have
hitherto looked upon the right of sufrrage—
resentatives, ae an invaluable one, secured
to you by the Constitution. But what has
that right availed you in the late contest?—
It is true that more than 120,000 freemen
went forward to the ballot box and cast their
votes for Joseph Ritner; but what avails
this, when a smaller number cast more tick
ets for David R. Porter, the Government
candidate !
Our adversaries we re determined an secur
ing power, whether they had a majority or
whether they had not. And it is a fact well
known, that the Van Buren Central Com
mittee had directed, long before the election,
the majority which each township, in the
Porter counties, was to give, and that with
out reference to any change of circumstan
ces! This is a fact, susceptible of proof.—
Under the operation of such a plan of sys
tematic rillany, what ckance had honest
freeman! No matter what'exertions they
might make, those exertions were neutral!•
zed by the systematized fraud of their op
ponents!
In those counties in which the Porter men
had a majority of the Return Judges, all
boxes which gave Ritner large majorities
'were thrown away without having been
counted! At Youngwomanstown, in Ly
coming county, Ritnor's majority was 594,
but this box was thrown away by the Porter
Judges, without the allegation of any fraud,
except that some illegal votes had been re
ceived!! But suppose there had been fraud,
the return judges have no cognizance ofsuch
fraud--the Legislature is the Judge. The
Return Judges must be governed by the re
turn made by the Jtidges of the different
Polls; they must receive all—except in the
instance where two boxes are opened for a
district or towrsbip, entitled by law but to
out. In this case, it is the province of the
Return Judges to decide which is the legal
box.
The same that was done at Youngwo
manstown, also took place at Tunckhanock,
in Luzerno county; and similar frauds have
been practiced ip hundreds of places through
out the Commonwealth! In this manner has
the elcaion of David R. Porter been tiocured
and the people defrauded of their riglitsl—
Ais sure as we live, there is not one right
held dear by freemen, that is not in danger
under such a state of things! Our last hope
for Pennsylvania is in the firmness of the
Senate and House of Representatives. They
must look to the rights of the people,or those
rights are lost I
111**We would gladly turn front so dint•
gfeeable a subject as that of the defeat of
Jnetith Miner at the late election; but wo
VW be unfaithfol to our trust, if we were
to suffer such UNHALLOWED VILLANY as
was practiced at that election to go unnoti
ced. We are bound to admonish tho people,
that their dearest rights have been invaded
and abused by the reckless desperadoes,em•
ployed , by the National Government, to se
cure the election of David It. Porter!
In some townships in the strong Porter
counties, our friends wore driven from the
polls and not suffered to vote! In others,
where they were suffered to vote,the clerks'
lists exhibit the names of a hundred voters,
not one Of whom was ever known in the
township—and that, too, in townships where
no Public Works - are being carried on! In
this way, was Joseph Ritner defeated!
Look, too, at the conduct of the Judges
in the Northern Liberties, where, because
two Porter clerks had 10;1 or thrown away
the tally papers of tiro Porter Districts, the
votes of iye Whig Districts, against which
no informality was alledged, were thrown
away also, in order to elect the Tory Inger
sol to Congress!
Freemen, put up with such treatment if
you can, without murmuring! You will then
be fit for Stoic Philosophers!
Pennsylvania Election.
GovEuxon. AMENDMENTS
Ritner. Porter. For. Aga'. t
Adam; 3310 1535 300 4420
Allegheny, 6038 4605 4460 5049
Armstrong, 1610 2781 2597 949
Beaver, 2457 1931 2425 1612
Bedford, 2386 2478 1087 2736
Berks, 9215 7101 5823 3883
Bradford, 2219 2420 4116 188
Bucks, 4147 4553 4095 3362
Butler, 1700 1653 2383 712
Cambria, i 62 844 616 938
Centre, % '""" 2082 1565
Chester, 4971 4527 3979 5085
Clearfield, 474 792 987 199
Columbia, 1088 2616 1556 1506
Crawford, 1957 2304 3444 517
Cumberland, 2316 2743 2562 2419
Dauphin, 2843 1944 1032 3383
Delaware, 1731 1263 1299 1459
Erie, 2747 1565 3175 454
Fayette, 1984 2788 3023 1145
Franklin, 2560 2815 1728 3315
Greene, 1109 1649 2399 70
Huntingdon, 9687 2761 2640 3348
Indiana, 1723 1262 740 1133
Jefferson, 0. 0, 111,. 593 356
Brim rpm..
Juniata, 863 1019 657 1249
Lancaster, 6558 5503 2356 10059
Lebanon, 2228 1543 807 2673
Lehigh, 2349 2460 1792 2244
Luzerne, 2592 3132 3603 1141
Ly coming, 1555 2496 1932 2151
Ma Kean, "VW..
Mercer, 2935 2325 3306 1475
Mifflin, 1059 1227 1069 1153
Monroe, 366 1223 1248 209
Montgomery, 3748 4558 3690 4079
Northampton, 2A6& 3635 1641 3577
Northumberland, 1164 214-4 867 2144
erry, eflrJ lure 1.0",
Philadelphia City,72o3 3156 3322 6702
Do. County; 6187 7932 8093 5172
117 6521 ' ^""' 1ng,16
Schuylkill, 2271 1508 1460 1812
Somerset, 2244 883 556 2029
Susquehanna, 1261 1630 2085 412
Toga, 594 1448 1974 16
Union, 2268 1595 440 3186
Venango, p 0.... FIN,••••
Warren, 1: 11 3111 VIP
vs.as
Washington, 3528 3461 4394 1576
Wayne, 538 1062 .1380 99
Westmoreland, 2315 4561 .4105 2224
York, 3257 4197 1233 5500
119586 124315 112267 112092
State Senate.
We subjoin a list of the members of the Senate
for the session of 1838-9. The Anti-Masons and
Whigs are marked with a [ l ]—the now members
being in SMALL CAPITALS.
City of Philadelphia.—FnEnntres. FRALEY, •
Abraham Miller.*
Philadelphia County.—Michael Snyder, JAMES
HANNA.. WILLIAM WAGNER"
Montgomery,Chester and Delaware.—NaTuarr
tax, BnoortE! James Paul,• Henry Myers.
Bucks.—William T. Rogers.
Berks.—John Miller.
Lancaster.—JouN Branum,* JamesCon
key,* James A. Caldwell.
Lebanon and Dauphin.—JouN KILLINGETO
Huntingdon, Perry, Mifflin, Juniata & Union.
—JAMES M. BELL,• &MEAT P. McCzar.'
Columbia and Schuylkill.—Charles Frailoy.
Lehigh and Northampton.—Peter S. Michler.•
Luzerne, Munroe, Wayne and Pike.—Ebenezer
Kingsbury, Jr.
Bradford and Susquehanna.—Elihu Case.'
Franklin, Cumberland and Adams.—Charles
B. Penrose,• Jacob Cassatt,' David Fullerton.*
Bedford and Somerset.—Samuel M. Barclay.•
Washington.—.Torm H. EWING.'
Fayette and Greene.—Wir. F. Copwr.
Allegheny and Butler.—Jonar Viriztrears,*
William Put viance."
Deaver and Aiercer.—John J. Pearson.*
Crawford and Erie.—Joseph M. Sterrett.•
Jefferson, McKean, Potter, Tioga, Venango and
Warren.—Loco Foco—name unknown.
Indiana, Armstrong, Cambria and Clearfield.—
Alexander Irwin.•
It will be seen from the above that we shall have
more than two to one in the Senate at the approach
ing session. The state of parties will be—Anti-
Masons and Whigs, 23. Loco Focos 10.
House of Representatives.
DistriclB. s Anti-V. B. L. Joao
Philadelphia city, 7
do. county, B
Bucks, 3
Chester, 4
Lancaster, 6
York, .• 3
Cumberland, . 2
Perry, 1
Berke, 4
Schuylkill, 1
Northarapton & Monroe, 8 •
Lehigh, 2
Pike and Wayne, 1
Northumberland,
Juniata, Mifflin & Union, 3
Columbia,
Washington,
Westmoreland,
Armstrong,
Indiana,
Jefferson, M'Kean and Warren,
Fayette,
Bedford,
Franklin, •
Montgomery,
Dauphin,
Lebanon,
Luzerne,
Susquehanna,
Bradford,
Tinga and Potter,
Huntingdon
Heaver,
Allegheny,
Butler,
Delaware,
Somerset & Cambria,
Lyceming & Clearfield,
Greene,
Adams,
Centre,
Crawford,
Venango,
Erie,
Mercer,
Anti-Van Buren majority, 4 •
RECAPITULATION.
Fannie, 23 10
House of Reps. 52 ' 48
On joint ballot,
To the Friends of Joseph Ritner
FELLOW CITIZENS—The General Elec.
lion has resulted in a manner contrary to all
our reasonable calculations and just expec
tations. The opponent of our candidate for
the office of Governor, appears to be elect
ed by at least 5000 of a majority. This is
an event to which, if it had been fairly pro
duced, we, as good citizens, would quietly if
not cheerfully submit. But there is such a
strong probability of malpractice and fraud
in the whole transaction, that it is our duty
peacefully to resist it, and fully to oppose it.
The election has been characteriz"d by
features altogether unparalleled in the history
of our State politics. A few of those of a
more general nature, may be here instanced.
When the returns from all the counties
shall be received, it will probably be found
that the whole vote given for Joseph Ritner
on the 9th inst., is greater than that which
he received in 1833, by a number at least
equal to the natural, regular and legal in
crea.,e of votes in the whole State in three
years. It will also be found that his friends
in nearly every county polled fully as many
votes as they, before the election expected
to do, upon the strength of which expecta
tion a reasonable estimate gave him a ma
jority of 10,000 votes. The grave ques
tions then arise—Whence came the major
ities returned for his opponents and, Row
can he be defeated who has so well sustained
himself with the people, and so largely in-
It will be discovered that in the districts
in which the friends of Joseph Ritner had
the control of the elec:ione, a iiioderate-in
crease of votes for him, arising from suffi•
cient and well known causes, took place;
while in the same districts his opponents
had fair play and polled their full number
of leial votes. On the other hand, it is
known to all, that in the districts in which
the Inspectors and Judges were the friends
of Mr. Porter, not only were the friends al
Joseph Ritner in many cases wholly exclu
ded from voting, but his opponents admitted
without shadow of right, thus swelling the
majorities of Mr. Porter even beyond the
wild expectations and extravagant calcula
tions of his own friends. Is it right that this
state of things (the existence of which each
voter will determine by facts known to him
sslf ) should be submitted to in a free coun
try
Finally, it is known that in several coun
ties in which our opponents had the control,
the votes of whole districts favorable to our
candidate were, without shadow of law or
justice, wholly rejected, and false and par
tial returns made. Can there be any safety
under republican institutions if such high
handed oppression be tolerated I No! We
owe it to ourselves as free men - and good
citizens to examine into this matter; and if
fraud be detected, to expose and resist it.
We owe it to our country and to posterity.
On behalf, therefore, of the State Com
mittee of correspondence and vigilance, the
propriety is suggested of taking measures
al once for investigating the manner in
which the election was conducted, and the
result produced. /Veto al the time to make
the examination, while the facts are fresh
and the outrage recent. Let it be done
then peacefully, determinedly and thorough
ly. But let it be commenced with an hon
est resolution to submit to the result wheth
er it be favorable or unfavorable to our
wishes. This is the duty of all who con
tend for equal rights ann the supremacy of
the laws.
But, fellow citizens, until this investiga
tion be fully made and fairly determined,let
us treat the election of the 9th inst, as if we
had not been defeated, and in that attitude
abide the result.
In the mean time your State Committee
will take all proper measures on the occa
sion, and, when the whole facts are known
and the returns received, will probably ad
dress you more at length.
THO. H. BURROWES,
Chm. St. Committee.
Harrisburg, Oct. IN, 1838.
• v.--
From the United States Gazette of Oct. 15.
The County.
We stated in our lasi the Intuition in
which the county returns were left on Fri-
day afternoon. We learn that those Judg•
es who were willing that the people should
be heard, made out correct returns of the
County on return day, Friday, and banded
them to thcv Sheriff—who, in fulfilment of
his duties forwarded them to Harrisburg.
On Saturday, those return Judges who
had been unfortunately induced to hesitate
between duty and party reality, carried to
the Sheriff another set of returns: These
of course could not be sent to Harrisburg,
inasmuch as one set of returns had already
been forwarded.
Thia state of affairs so disastrous to the
Van Buren men, was brought about by the
greediness of Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, to
hive himself returned as member elect to
Congress from the Third " District—and
though his wicked plans were, it would seem,
adopted by the Judges, yet no sooner is it
proved that he has overreached them, than
those who would have rejoiced with him in
success, turn and curse him as the author of
their misfortunes. The Commonwealth
had certainly much occasion to blush for the
disgraceful plot which has exploded.
Flagrant Violation of Law !
High.handed Outrage!!! Upwards of
six hundred Labor era dented the
Right of Freemea!!!!
The most unprincipled and daring outrage
upon the elective franchise that has perhaps
ever been heard of, was perpetrated in this
borough on last Friday night.
At the Youngwomanstown election dis
trict, there were a large majority of votes
polled for Ritner. The election was perhaps
as fairly conducted at this district as at any
other in the county--it was a canal district,
and gave an overwhelming, majority, and
spoiled the Porterites' calculation of a thou
sand in this county. After the return judges
had met in Williamsport, it was discovered
that several affidavits and certificates had
been prepared ns testimony to net aside the
election. The judges, more than two thirds
of whom are Porter men, agreed to throw
the return of Youngwomanstown under the
table. They admitted no evidence for, but
heard all that was offered•agoinB4 the elec
tion, without inquiring into the character of
the witnesses; and we are credibly informed
that some of them did not see any thing of
the election; and others went therefrom oth
er districts to create a disturbonce,and then
came hero to testify that the election was
illegal.
52 48
48
75 5S
The return judges try to excuse them.
selves for this high-handed conduct by say•
ing that it does not affect any of the candi
dates, and can therefore make no difference.
Admitting that it does not affect the candi
dates, let us briefly examine as to its making
no difference. Are there no bets pending
on this county? There certainly are, and
the judges who rejected part of the votes of
this county have themselves bet on tho ma
jority in Lycoming county. Does it not
make a difference to them? Are they will.
ing to give up the bets? Or do they not
rather claim them? Is it just that they
should set themselves up as judges of their
own case? This disgraceful and high-handed
villany has no parallel in the history of the
Commonwealth. There is no precedent in
the world to which you can point. Every
good citizen ought to protest against such
daring trampling under foot of the laws of
the land.
The rejection of Youngwomanstown dis
•-"t• was a,nrqmoditated plot. It was fre
quently stated hero, two weeks prior to the
election, that if Chapman, Colebrook, and
other districts gaire too large a majority for
Ratner, they would be rejected. This con•
duct must put the seal of everlasting dis
grace upon all that were engaged in it.
But there is another light in which we
wish to set this case, to show whether it
makes no difference. SIX HUNDRED
AND THIRTY.SIX freemen voted at this
election. The judges from other districts
say that these votes shall not be admitted—
they say that the Irish on the canal,and the
laborers on the public improvcmen's wet e
permitted- to vote, and for this the whole
election must be set aside. Ye patriotic
sons of old Ireland! will you submit to such
an unholy proceeding? Ye laborers! ye who
make our canals and railroads--who toil
hard for the good of the country, will you
silently see such base and despicable insult
cast upon you? Are you willing that your
votes shall be rejected, and you deprived of
the dearest rights of freemen?. Your fath
ers fought and bled and died in achieving
and maintaining the liberty of Americaal—
Are you less patriotic than they were? Does
the same blood no longer flow through your
veins, and are you ready to be slaves to the
loco loco party? We hope not. You will
long remember this outrage—you will not
forget the party that has denied you the
right of suffrage. Wherever you may pitch
your tent—wherever you may sing the notes
of "Erinigo Bragh,"you will remember this
when you go to the polls.
ANOTHER LOCO FOCO OUTRAGE
UPON THE ELECTI VE FRANCHISE.
Since our paper went to press, we have
learned that the return Judgeb of the Sena
torial District composed of Huntingdon, Mif
fin,
Juniata, Union and Perry, which had
elected two Democratic Antimasonic Sena
tors in the place of Davtd R. Porter and Mr.
Slenker, two Loco Focos, have REJECT
ED IME VOTE OF HUNTINGDON
COUNTY, and RETURNED THE LO
CO FOCO CANDIDATES AS ELEC
TED. This is carrying out the system of
fraud, to its utmost extent. What will they
do next7—Harrisburg Tellegraph.
Dear Sir—lt is said, 'the Reading,dis
trict,' which gave Mr. Porter 12 majority
will be contested. The reasons Assigned
are, that some of the judges had considera
ble bets depending upon the election, and
that gross frauds were practiced in receiv
ing illegal votes. A part of the' district, it
is also said, polled above 200 votes more
than there are_taxable inhabitants in it. I
such be the case persons having made bets
upon Berks that would be effected by such a
contest would do well to hold on a little.
From the United States Gazette.
NEW MODE OF BLASTING.
With the heading above, we have seen a
paragraph going the rounds of the papers.
It contained an account of a new mode of
blasting rocks, by which they might be
"plit to (finders" with little trouble ; but we
From tho Lycoming Free Prom
DARING lITILLANIr.
Extract of a letter• dated
READING, 12, Oct. 38.
thought on Saturday and Sunday, that a still
more effective mode of blasting had been
brought into operation: The great mass of
Loco Focos of the county were united in
one mighty blasting of Mr. C. J. Ingersoll
and such a blow up as they gave him, we
have not often heard. There was a Con
centration of blasting—the whole current
of curses united in a focus on the poor man's
heed for having led them into a snare just
for his own convenience. We really felt
sorry to hear any human being so belabored.
"Mine enemy's dog that had bitten me"
should not have been so beblusted.
Belling.
Now that the election has closed, and Ilse
excitement. consequent upon the reception
of the returns has ceased, we feel it n duty
to enter our solemn protest against the prac•
tice of betting on elections, which practice
acquired an extent during the recent can
vast' wholly unparalleled, and which has
tended to vitiate the public mind and to op
erate most disastrously upon the election re
turns. We do not now allude to results
adverse or favorable to either party, but to
the consequences upon the purity of the
polls. It is impossible for the public to
have confidence in judges pecuniarily inter
ested in making returns; and even though
:he officer of the day should not have made
bets large enough to corrupt his morals,
still his friend, who has bets pending to the
amount of ten or fifteen thousand dollars,
and there are many such friends in this state,
may make it his interest to be as corrupt as
if he had bets to one third the amount de•
pending upon the results. It must be borne
in mind, that a groat portion of the bets are
made upon single counties or small portions
of the state. For example, during the late
canvass, it was a favorite bet to put Merits
against Lancaster and Chester. Now it
will be perceived that wherever large bets
are made upon results, there must be strong
expectations on both sides, and of course a
belief that a few votes either way would
turn the balance—the weak officer then, in
fluenced by his own bet, or by an interest
in the success of his friend, sees before him
a chance of profit, hen his violation of a
sacred duty would have an immediate and
certain reward, without awaiting the con•
tingencies of distant counties, or the delay
of receiving returns from the whole state.
This is one of the immediate evils which bet
ting is liable to work, and which we do most
undoubtingly believe has wrought, to the
public in the late eled.rn in Pennsylvania.
T:ie consequences of such n course, if per.
sisted in, must be a destruction of all confi
dence in elections, and a consequent disre.
gtird of returns. 'Phis is a destruction of
republicanism. We may hope, however,
that the flagrancy of the evil this autumn
will induce the legislature of the state to in
terpose some preventive of future evils, to
enact some law that shall disfranchise the
mat. that will not swear that he has no bet
pending to be 'influenced by the vote which
ho is about to give Something must be
done. We do not now allude to one, party
more than another—it is with bets tis with
other contests, there must be two sides—in
13101t11%, buwuver, bUlla rildrN ~, wrong In
the beginning.— U. S. Gazette.
DISPUTED ELECTIONS.—The St. Louis
Republican says :—"The Legislative elec.
Lion in several counties in Illinois will be
contested. Doctor Vandeventer, of Schuy
ler codnty, will contest the right of Wm. A.
Richardson to a seat in the Senate, Mr.
Richardson was elected by only seven votes,
many of which were illegal, and it is said
that a Loco Foco judge of the election
pocketed a number of the tickets handed in
by Dr. Vandeventer's friends."
ILLnvois.—The last number of the 111 i•
noian contains the official returns of the
pull for Governor. The aggregates are as
follows:
For Carlin, Administration,
Edwards, Whig. •
Administration majority,
Less than 1,000 in 60,000 votes—a lean
majority, indeed. In 1832 the Jackson
majority was 8,715; in 1836 it was reduc
ed to 2,982; and now, In 183 R, it is 996.
According to this scale of downward pro
gression, what will it be in 1840 7
ILLINOIS.—AII parties must be satisfied
with the result of the Congressional elections
in Illinois. Of the members, the Conserva
tives have one, the Whigs, one,and the Van
Burenites one.
MARYLAND ELEOTION.- - The ascertained
majority for Mr. Grnf,.sozr, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, as disclosed by the
official returns from all the counties, is 311
votes. Mr. Grason received 37,720 votes,
and Mr. Steele 27,409.
IN GEORGIA. The entire State Rights
Whig ticket for Congress is elected, and
the Augusta Chronicle states that the same
party will probably have a majority of two
in the Senate, and four in the lower House
of the State Legislature.
BALTIMORE, October 16.
CITY ELECTION. The municipal elec•
tion which was held yesterday in this city,
resulted most decidedly in favor of the
Whigs. Gen. SIIETPARD C. LEARIN, the
Whig candidate for Mayor, succeeded over
Col. MOORE, his Van Buren opponent by a
majority of 467 votes. In the City Coun
cil, we have carried 14 out of 24 members
of the First Branch; and 7 out of 12 mem•
hers of the Seeded Branch, thus securing a
Whig majority in each Branch of the Conn
cil, and a majority of six votes on joint
hallot.—Patriot.
A writer in the Genoese.) Farmer says,
`When I was a school boy I had a largo
wart upon my thumb. My teacher told me
to rub it against my frOnt teeth as soon as I
woke in the morning, for a number of morn
ings, and it would soon disappear. I obey
ed, and my wart disappeared in less than
two weeks, without pain except in - the act
of rubbing. I may add- that I have had
warts at times since, (being now fifty.four
years of age,) and the same means applied
for a bhort time always removed them.'
From the Baltimore American,
French Blockade.
A correspondence has taken place, be
tween the New York thamber of Com
merce and Mr. VAIL, acting Secretary of
State, in reference to the interruption of
American Commerce caused by the enforce
ment of the blockade of the Mexican and
Buenos A yrean Coasts on the part of French
cruisers. In their communication to the
Government the officers of the Chamber of
Commerce urge upon its attention the pro
priety of adopting such measures as the
rights and interests of the country may re
quire. Without venturing an opinion as to
the legality of the blockade in question, it
is stated that in the estimation of the Cham
ber its enforcement, without previous notice,
to the injury of innocent third parties, is
contrary to the comity practised among
civilized nations. It weirld appear tnat ves
sels which had left the United States previ
ously to the institution of the blockade, and
of course without any notice thereof, have
been forced to return home. Of the ruinous
effects of the blockade of the coast of Bue
nos Ayros, and that of Mexico on the Pa
cific, should such n state of things take
place, nothing of course can yet he known,
at the same time that the Chamber is ad
vised of several vessels with very valuable
cargoes, having left the city of New York
previously to any suggestion of a blockade
of the marts of Mexico, the cargoes of which
will probably he lost, should they be pre
vented from entering, the ports for which
they have sailed. The Chamber requests
to be informed, if practicable, of the extent
mid probable duration of the blockade so far
as the Government is advised, with a view
to impart information for the instruction of
agents in the countries concerned, under the
embarrassing circumstances of the case.
In his answer, Mi. VAIL, Acting Secre•
tary of State, after apologizing for not hav
ing, owing to the absence of the President,
been able to respond at an earlier period,
says on the part of the Government, that
aware of the inconvenience which would
probably arise from the causes mentioned,
orders have been given for the adoption of
such measures as should afford protection
to the interests of our citizens in the seas
named. Those measures will, it is stated,
he continued. No information had been
received of any blockade of Mexican ports
in the Pacific, nor does the Department
know any thing of the probable duration of
the existing blockade. Mr. Vail expresses
the belief that "from the sensation which its
operation appears to have excited through-
out the commercial world, and the efforts
understood to be made towards an adjust
ment of the dispute. which gave rise to it,
the hope is entertained that it cannot be
much longer, protracted."
DIVISION IN TIIE ALBANY SYNOD. The
Synod of Albany met on Tueiday the 9th
inst. at Hudson. One hundred and eight
members wore enrolled Some others af
terwards, appeared, making the whole num
ber 112. Immediately after the roll was
completed, a resolution was ollered, expres
sing an adherence to tho Assembly that mot
in ma ac•cutlr Olstsruir, Pliilatlolphio, (th.
old School.) Another was made to lay this
on the table, and the vote was,
Ayes 75
Noes 20
• • non liquet, about 13
The moverthen stated that it was evident
a division must take place, and that in an
ticipation of this, a room in the same Church
had been procured, and he requested the
minority to withdraw to that room. The
whole body then united in prayer. Those
that withdrew, including those that subse
quently enrolled their names with them,
amounted to 36, who organized as a Synod.
Those that remained and acted with the
old Synod numbered upwards of 60, and 10
or 15 declined acting at present. Some of
these are waiting the result of the law suits,
in November next. Nothing unkind was
said or done. The division seemed the re
sult of an honest difference of opibion.
LAND SLIDE. IN V ichsaunc•—The Nat
cies Free Trader of the 25th instant, de
scribes the beginning of an avalanche or sink
ing of the earth on the margin of the landing
at Vicksburg which threatens serious dam
age to the front street of that city. Deep
rents in the earth, parallel to the river, were
found to have been made as high up as Wash
ington street, nearly opposite to the site of
the late Pinckard Hotel, commencing near
the bottom of Main street,and running south
madly as far as the railway.
The large warehouse owned by Messrs.
Corfrew & Watts, at the.upper part of the
levee, near the bottom of Main street, began
to give. way, and in the course of a day or
two, became a ruin, allowing time for the
occupants to remove goods, &c. This house
was once owned by Judge Lane, and rented
fer 812,000 per annum; at the present time ,
it rented for about $B,OOO, to several occu
pants, •vhose business and goods must of ne
cessity be much injured by such a speedy re
moval. Several other houses are swerving•
from t heir perpendicular. The beautiful new
house, commenced by McDowell, nearly op
posite the late Pinckard House, has been
badly. cracked by the sinking of the founda
tion.
The first movement of the citizens of the
flourishing city of Vicksburg, should be to
procure a practical geologist to ascertain the
true state of the case,both the danger threat
ened, as well as the injury already done.
TIIMIRSCIVIIIO.—Governor 11111, of New
Hampshire, has appointed 'Thursday. the
29th of November tb be observed in that
State as a day of public Thanksgiving.
The same day is appointed by Governor
Everett, of Massachusetts, and wo presume
will be by the Governors of all the New .
England States. The N. Y. Journal of
Commerce says we hope Governor Marcy
will appoint the same day for New York,
Governor Pennington, for New Jersey,Gov•
ernor Vance for Ohio, and Governor Mason
for Michigan. If any other States are dia.
posed to join in this interesting festival; heir
fellowship will be most cordially welcomed
by the universal Yankee nation.
GETTYSBURGEI, PA.
retestlily, October 23, I 83S.
( oNearly all the returns of the election for
Governor given in another column, are taken from
the Official Returns received at this office, as well
as those on the Amendments.
jTho attention of our Anti-Sla%try friends is
invited to the notice for the meeting of Coates
ville. There should he a goodly number in at
tendance from Old Adams. •
The Borough Election.
'The Loco Feces have made sundry state
ments relative to the votes in the Borough. They
allege that they gave 101 votes for Porter, when
they counted only 84, and they have procured af
fidavits lending to prove it.
Now, all must see that these gentlemen, many
of them, must have sworn rashly, to say the least
of it. Several of them can neither read nor write,
but make their insrks. How could, they safely
swear who they voted for? At least a dozen of
the swearers were known to be drunk when they
were led to the polls. How can they swear who
they voted for? Several of those who swear for
others, were drunk also! One recent convert who
had conducted himself decently for several years,
and during all that time adhered to the Anti-Ma
sonic party, relapsed into drunkenness shortly be
fore the election, and swears for those who don't
know how they voted!!
Every body knows that half the men who vote
never open their tickets. How can such men
swear to their votes? In Franklin county, at the
lute election,Ritner men circulated and Ritner men
voted Porter tickets until near one o'clock, by
mistake and imposition, in three or four districts!
How rash, then, to suborn those poor creatures in
the Borough to swear what they knew nothing of!!
But if these things be true, it sbows the neces
sity of a thorough investigation of the election un
der the authority of the Legislature. Such inves
tigation will be rnade,and we invite our Loco Foco
neighbors to join us in it, and ferret out all the
frauds of the late contesh
The late Elections.—The Frauds
and False Returns of the
Loco Focos!
al-The late Governor's election has been con
ducted by the friends of Porter with a bitterness
and recklessness unparalleled even in the warfare
of those unprincipled politicians! Not only have
they dealt in the most unblushing falsehoods, and
shameless . caltimnies, but at the polls, and in the
counting,off the tickets, and making out the re
turns, frauds are believed, by judicious and inqui
ring men, to have been committed to an amount
exceeding 10,000 votes! This may seem incredi
ble to those of our readers who have not been in
formed of the villanous mode pursued by the Loco
Foco Darts heretofore in tho County of Philadel
phia, and this year extended into every County
where they had largo majorities.
For the last ten years in the County of Phila
delphia, the votes returned have borne no resem
blance to the votes actually polled! The Inspec
tors and Judges being secured, the tickets are poll
ed before the day of election, and when they count
off, the spurious box is substituted for the genuine
one! Tickets, with names to correspond, are ad
ded far beyond those actually polled! Such this
year is known to have been the case in the Coun
ty of Philadelphia, especinl:y in Kensington, mak
ing a difference against Mr. Ritner of about 2,000
votes!
That corrupt system, long practised in Phila
delphia county, has this year been put in success
ful operation in Derks and almost all their strong
counties. In many of them where the instruments
were bunglers, they have not been able to add
through the whole ticket, but have added only the
Governor's tickets. In several counties, the votes I
returned fur Governor is from 300 to 500 more
than for the other parts of the ticket! This is con
clusive evidence of fraud. In other countics,more
votes have been returned than there are taxables!
A thing impossible to be honestly done, except
where Public Works are in progress. The votes
actually polled heretofore have usually been about
two-thirds as many as the taxables in the State.
It is believed that 30,000 more votes over 1835
are this year returned than the true increase of
voters.
In the County of Philadelphia, the Porter re
turn judges excluded the whole of the Northern
Libcrtics,which gave Mr. Ritner about 2,500 votes.
In Huntingdon County, they struck out Morris
township, which gave him about 600 majority.—
In Lycoming County, they rejected Youngwo
manstown district, which gave him about 550 ma
jority. Moro than 1,500 fraudulent votes can be
proved in Berke, and in other Counties enough to
reduce Mr. Porter into the minority, and conclu
sively show that the whole election has been so
tainted with fraud as to render it an ad of jus
tice to the people to declare it toed. The Elective
Franchise is a mockery, if such things are permit
ted to pass unexamined. Honest men bad better
stay away from the polls, and let the gamblers
have it all their own way, unless such villany be
prosecuted and corrected.
In returning the Senators elect, the Porter Jud
gas in Philadelphia County refused to count the
votes of the Northern Liberties, so as to return
Ingersoll to Congress and their County ticket. In
the Huntingdon, Union. Juniata, Mifflin and Per
ry district, they threw away Huntingdon County
altogether, because it gave 900 majority for the
Ritner ticket, and they returned the Porter Sena
tors !
It worn be too tedious to enumerate all similar
cases of frond! Enough has been stated, to 'give
our readers some idea of the vi.lany of the late
election.
, Wo will further merely state, TIIAT locos FULL
CONSULTATION OF OUR FRIENDS, IT HAS
BEEN DETERMINED TO CONTEST THE
GOVERNOR'S ELECTION FIJLLY AND
FAIhLY.
Until tho decision is made, and Mr. Porter in
augurated, (as we believe he will never be,) we
would advise our friends to pay none of their bets.
If thowfinally lose them, they will lose them by
robbery.
Berko County.
ca•Wohare been requested (says the Reading
Journal) to caution our friends against giving up
at this time any bets made on Berke County, as
there is reason to believe that a groat number of
illegal votes have been polled, in reference to
wkich some investigation is contemplated.
The Washington Globe and
our Election.
(EySpeculation has been busy in our little com
munity for the last week, as to the causes of the
Major's recent hasty trip to Washington. tome
have thought that he had gone to claim the reward
of his unscrupulous services for the perjured Por
ter and their common master Van Buren. and re
new hie petitions at the foot stool of power, for a
Judgeship or some other snuggery in lowa or
Wisconsin; others have conjectured one thing
and some another. However this may be, the
Washington "Globe" of the 16th inst. explains
and unfolds one part of his errand.
In the columns of that paper, we observe an ar
ticle which bears evident marks of the worthy Ma
jor's skill in "ciphering'—in which the Editors of
that Journal,pronipted by this redoubtable worthy,
take up the recent election in Adams County, and
entleavoM to show that the large majority for Mr.
Ritner in this County was made up of illegal and
imported votes, and that without them,there would
have been a majority for Porter, and the Vnn Bu
ren County candidates—because they say the Re
publican (Loco Foco) poll was raised since 1837
from 1315, (Miller's vote) to 1335, the vote for
Porter—a gain of strength among the "resident
population" of 190 votes!
Now let us see, Messrs. Editors of tho Globe,
whether the Major has not prompted you wrong
a little: There is but one district in the County
(the Millerstown District) in which rail road votes
of any account, were polled. This district con
sists of two townships, Liberty and Hamiltonban;
in the latter only of which did any laborers nn the
rail road vote, as it does not pass through the for
met. Now, take the entire vote in this whole Dis
trict, including, of course, all the rail road hands
who voted, as well as the stationary voters in both
Townships,from the whole vote for Ritner in 1838,
and we have the result, Thus,
Whole vote for Ritner, 3310
His vote in Millerstown District 1234
which leaves
as the vote for Ritner in the County, exclusive o
the "big" district. Now take the vote for Stevens
in 1837, (viz. 1807.) from this, and we have an
increase of votes amongst what the Globe itself
will acknowledge to bo the "resident population,"
of 269 for Ritner since 1837!
But to this is to be added Ritner's votes obtain
ed among the "resident citizens" of the Millers-
town District—because in the calculation of the
Globe showing the increase on their side of the
house, by comparing Miller's vote in 1837 with
Porter's in 1838, the same thing is done; that is.
the 1535 votes for Porter included all the votes he
got in the County, Millerstown included, and be
cause they form part of the 1807 votes for Stevens
in 1837.
Now, the Anti-Masonic party always have hod
a clear, immoveable majority in that District,
(without the Rail Road,) of 150 votes. Supposing
Rttner to have had the sanic,. (and there is no rea
son to suppose be had less, because he gained in
all the other Districts,) his actual vote in that
District, exclusive of tho Rail Road, will be found
by adding this majority to the vote for Poi ter,which
was 116, making 266. Now add this to 2070,
Ritnefe vote among the "resident population" of
the rest of the County, and we have the follow
ing rennin
Ritner's resident vote in Afillerstown dis. 266
do. do. in the rest of tho Co., 2076
Ritneee whole resident vote 2342
Highest vote (Steven's) in 1837 1807
535
Showing, by the same scale of comparison adop
ted by the Globe, ti RitnPr gain since 1837 of
535 votes, without counting a single rail road
vote!
Now, as the whole Anti-Masonic ticket was e
lected in 1831 by between 4 and 500 majority,and
the Loco Focos have since,according to the Globe,
gained among the resident voters' only 190 votes
whilst we have gained 535 among the same class
of population, how does the Globe arrive at the
conclusion that the " Democratic gain, according
to the well ascertained number of legal votes,would
have elected the Republican County candidate?"
We queation whether twenty Jack Downings
could "rifer" that out !
Again: The Globe swells the actual increaso of
votes in the county,from 1837 to 1838, from 1693
to upwards alum) thousand!
In 1837, the vote for Stevens was 1807
Miller 1345
'hoNs number of votes in 1R37 3152
In 1838, the vote for Ritner 3310
Porter 1535----4815
Whole increase 1693
Of this increase, the Globe claims
for the Loco Paco party, out of
the resident population 190
Wo have shown a regular increase
of the same kind for Ritner of 535-725
Which would leave nine hundred and sixty-eight
to be set down to the score of laborers on the
Rail Road.
But it may be asked, how is this increase of 725
in an "old county" like Adams, in a single year,to
be accounted for! The answer is easy: The eon.-
sus taken a few years since of the taxable inhabi
tants of the fitate,to fix the ratio of representation
gave Adams county upwards of 4,200 taxables, if
we remember right—we have not the returns at
hand to ascertain the precise number.• Now if we
add the gain of 725 to the whole vote in 1837,-
3152—we shall have 3877, as the resident voters
who voted at the late election—a number short of
the whole number of taxables by about 300 or up
wards. Now contrast this with Berke and other
Porter counties,where one-fourth more votes were
polled than there are known to he taxables !
But the Glube's number of Rail Road, or as it
affects to call them, ..11111ED AND IMPOILTED TO•
Tams," being thus reduced from "upwards of 2,-
000 — to a littler over 900, we will still bo told it
was an awful sin to let these 900 laborers vote !
Why? Because they are LitionEns—a kind of
"coactas and Tusitsas"—of whom this same
Globe speaks so disrespectfully! Is honest labor
then, to work illsfranchisement? Is a man not
t' vote, because ho toils with his 'own hands to
earn honest bread? Were they not laboring on a
btate work, began and carried on under a law of
the State, for State purposes? And is the Laborer
•Since this article has been put in type, we have
ascertained the census of Adams in 1835 to be
5,161
in the employ of the State, on that account to lose
his rights? If so, how many would be willing to
take tho wages and do the work of so thankless a
service?
Oh, but says the Globe, they were Foreigners—
nascra.ty FOREIGNERS ! Well, and what then!
Is a man to be proscribed and out-Jawed, because
he is a Foreigner, although ho hae brought him
self within the pale of our laws and acquired the
rights of a citizen? But the Globe will deny that
these men had acquired such rights. Look at it:
There are now about 1800 hands employed on
the rail road. On the day of the election there
were more—probably 2,000, If the election in
the Millerstown district was characterized by the
fraud which the Globe alleges to have existed,
why were not those whole 2,000 laborers arrayed
at the polls and their votes taken? In Barks coun
ty such a thing would have been done without
scruple! The reason is, because those only a
mong them voted who were entitled to do so, and
the rest staid away. A few that did offer, were
promptly rejected by the Inspector, whose conduct
was such as to force the applause even of the Lo
co Focos on the spot, until after reflection, and
the promptings of such pettifogging demagogues
as the tale-bearer of the Globe, admonished thorn
to be silent !
So much for this part of the Major's tale !
In the same article in the Globe, we see re-pub
lished, from the Compiler, the affidavits in regard
to the election in this Borough: This we can
scarcely deign to notice. Here, where the men
are known, and the character of the agents under
stood, it has and will utterly fail in making the de
sired impression. A single remark will suffice to
show how this thing has been managed: We can
prove that one of the signers declared, on seeing
the pualicatior•. in the Compiler, that the Magis
trate had written down a dfferent deposition
from what he swore In, and that, as it stood, it
made him swear to whirl lie never swore, and to
what was a lie!
There are others among them, belonging to the
Loco Foco party, who call be proved to have voted
for Ritner. Some who declared on the day of the
election and the morning after that t ley had done
so, and persisted in so saying until the news be
ganto come in that Porter was elected, and the
little, rascally demagogues, who infest and dis
grace our town, began to whisper their temptations
to falsehood and perjury in their ears! and others,
who for a dram of whiskey, could ho procured to
swear to any thing—probably because they think
that this kind of extra-judicial swearing don't a
mount to much after all !
We dismiss the subject by adviiipg the Editors
of the Globe to cease their impertinent intertned
dling with Pennsylvania matters. We in little
Adams, at least, will try to get along the best way
we can without their interference, and take care
of our own elec!ions. Wo inform them,elso,that so
far as MENDACITY and FALSEHOOD are concerned,
their interference is unnecessary—as the Loco
Foci, organ here, under its present management,
is quite equal to bearing any burthen of that kind
that it may be seen fit, for the good of the party,
to impose !
0!-II-! P- 0!
r j •T're election in this State has resulted in
favor of the Loco Foco party—they having elec
ted their Governor, a majority of the members of
Congress, and a majority in both branches of th
Legislature. Among the Loco roc° Members of
Congress, we observe the name of Gr.o.Swr.s
Esq. formerly of this place.
The Presidency.
pjTho Pittsburg Times has placed the names
of Oeni WM. H. HARRISON and JOSEPH
RITNER at its Editorial head for President and
Vice President.
The Boston Atlas, one of the ablest Whig pa
pers in the Union. and supposed to be in the con.
fidence of Mr. Webster, has also broken ground
for the Patriot Harrison.
WASHINGTON COLLEGE. The Annu 1
Commencement of Washington (Pa.) Col
lege was held on Wednesday, 20th Septem
ber, in the spacious hall of the new College
building. An address was delivered on the
previous evening by JAMES C. WHARTON,
Esq. of Wheeling, the orator of the two
Literary Societies, to a large and respecta
ble audience; it was eloquent, and full of
strong thought.
Jens MURTAIIGH, who has been in '6.1) n •
finoment in the jail of Franklin county, un
der sentence of death for murder since A
pril last, and whose execution was to have
taken place on Friday last, has on account
of his continued insanity, again been res
pited by the Governor until the 2d Friday
in December next. The health of the
wretched man appears to be fast declining,
and it is doubtful whether he will live out
the period officially allotted him.
DIED, in Alton, Illinois, Rev GIDEON
BLACKBURN, D. D aged 66. During
the last fifty years he has occupied a large
space in the public mind. In several of the
western states the first churches were or
ganized by him. In winter and summer
he has swam rivers, traversed the praries
and the wilderness, made the mountain,rock
and the earth his pillow, to carry the Gos
pel of the SAVIOUR to those who were ready
to perish.
The Montreal Herald says the population
of Lower Canada may be estimated at about
520,000, that of Upper Canada at 350,000,
and , that of the two races in both Provinces
at 400,000 French and 470,000 English.
The population of Nova, Scotia, New Bruns.
wick, Prince Edward's Island, and Ner.
foiindland is about 300,000.
JEALOUSLY.—The "green-eyed monster"
holds a sway over all, black as well as
white. A negro woman in New York, be-
coming jealous 4 her husband; went to the
house of the supposed cause of her trouble,
a young mulatto girl, and threw into her
face a bottle of oil of vitriol, producing the
utmost agony, and in short time taking the
flesh from the bones. She was committed
to answer for the fiendish act.
A TOtion One of our neighbors had
a goose stolen from him last week, which
he had owned twenty-eight years.
To LADORERS.—Three hundred men are
wanted at Indianapolis, to work on the Na.
Lionel Road. One dollar per day is offored.
Mexican halfdollars, a base and spurious
coin, aro said to bo in circulation in Wash
ington city.
The establishment of Silk cocooneries at
Richmond is in contemplation by some gen.
tlemen of that city.
A Mr. Gordon D. Boyd, some time ago,
was appointed a Receiver at one of the Mis
sissippi Land Offices. Shortly afterwards
he proved to be a defaulter to the amount of
$.5f1000. The promulgation of the fact did
not at all abash him. He immediately be.
took himself to the stump for the vindica
tion of his character. "I did appropriate
the money to my own use," exclaimed he,
"and 1 expected to be able to repay it, but
my speculations turned out unfavorably.
'Tis my misfortune and not my fault
hope, gentlemen, you are satisfiedl"
yes" replied his loco.foco hearers, "we are
perfectly satisfied."
The Baltimore American states that the
merchants of that city intended to address
a memorial to the President of the United
States, praying for the establishment of a
line of government packets between this
country and Chagres, with a view to the
speedy transmission of intelligence, over.
land, to and from the Pacific.
A company has lately been formed in
Texas for the purpose of opening a new
road to Mexico, and supplying the inhabi.
tants with clothing,which is very much wan
ted, in consequence of the French block
ade. Merchandize to the value of filly
thouK.nd dollars, is to be taken by the first
expedition, which is to consist of two hun
dred and fifty men, under the command of
Major Le Grand.
The New York Gazette announces the
death, on the 14th instant, of Commodore
JOHN ORDE CREIGHTON,OI the U. S. Navy.
The Williamsport Banner states that a
section of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
extending twenty-nine miles above that
place, Is nearly ready to receive the water•
The NVliet.ling Times of Saturday says
that the Pork packers are making contracts
at e ix . cents.
A man has recently been fined five pounds
in England, for walking on a rail road—that
being a tresspass by the law. The tress
passer is punished both for carelessly endan
gering his own life, and for the risk of throw
ing a train off the track and endangering
the lives of others.
MARRIED.
On the 18th inst. by the Rev. Mr. Grier, Mr.
WILLIAM WI tsoN of Huntingdon county, to
Miss MxturnA daughter of 'Fhomas Gur
15y, Deg. Sheriff, of Frederick county, Md.
On the 3d inst. by the Rev. Dr. Paxton, Mr.
JAME 3 A. WHITE, to Miss JULIANA Micfcr.r.r,
daughter of Mr. Jacob Mickley, all of Franklin
township.
DIED.
On the 21st inst.: at Maria Furnace, Mr. Seim
sioN thews. aged about 70 years, formerly of
the neighborhood of Whitestown, in4bia county.
On-the llth inst. ARRA. CATHARINE, daughter
of Mr. George Ilebeisen, of Cumberland township,
in the 3d year of her age.
fn Itelatersburg, nt the residence of her father,
Mr. Michal Sheets, on the Bth inst. Mies Dux-
An ET/I &METZ, late of this place, aged 24 years
and 4 days.
In Durk county, Ohio, on the 4th inst. Mr.
Ssitunr. Honsxn, formerly of this county. Ho
died after an illness of about three weeks; and was
only married about six or eight weeks before his
death!
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
The Rev. Dr. Knewert will preach 4r: the
Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning nut.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Pennsylvania tint i-Slavery
Society.
EASTERN DISTRICT.
The next meeting of this Society, will ho held
at COATESVILLE, Chester county, on the 30th of
the Tenth month (October,) at 10 o'clock, A. M.
The local societies are requested to send full dele
gations and Wends of the cause generally are
earnestly invited to attend. It will be strictly a
BUSINESS MEETING,and matters of the high•
est Importance to the welfare of the cause will
claim its attentina.
Secretaries of local societies are requested to
bring or send to the meeting, written answers as
full and accurate as possible, to the following
questions.
The number of members in your society? If
It includes males and females, how many of each
sex? Tho names of the officers? How many
copies of the Ponneylvania Freeman are taken by
the society or its members?
How many copies of other Anti-Slavery publi
cations? specifying the title and number of each
kind.
Have you an Anti.Slavory Library? and if so.
how large.
How much money has limn paid from your so.
ciety or its members, to the funds of the State
Society, since its last meeting at Harrisburg?
How much has been subscribed or pledged,which
has not yet been paid?
How,much has been expended for the cause in
your own vicinity? and for what specifice objects?
October e3„1838. tm-30
PUBLIC SALE.
W ILL be sold at public sale on Tues.
day the 6th of November next, at
the late residence of WILLIAM McMIL
LAN, deceased, in Hamiltonban township,
THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY-1112
HORSES,
COWS, SHEEP:
Home, Horse-Gears, 1 Wagon, 1 Carriage
and Harness, Ploughs and Farming Uteri.
sils—togeiher with a variety of
Household %' Kitchen Furni
ture: Such as Beds and Bedding, Tables,
Cbairs,an Pght•day Clock, Stove and Pipe,
with many other articles too numerous to
mention.
ALSO,`
Wheat, Rye, Oats and Corn, by the bushel
—Two.thirds of the - Grain in the
,ground,
together with a quantity of Hay and Straw.
iria Salo to commence at 1.4 o'clock A.
M. when the terms will be made knoWn by
DAVID McMILLAN,
SAN% P. h1011114AN; Adm'rs.
October 1638, tib-30
PUBLIC SALES.
P.I74II.IIIMERag
FOR SALE.
T HE aubscribers will sell by public out
cry on the premises, on Saturday the
17th day of .November next, (sale commenc
ing at 10 o'clock, A. M) the farm late the
estate of.lacob Cri m, sen., deceased, situate
in Dickincon township, Cumbfirland county
nine miles southwest of Carlisle, containint.
165 ACRES,
About 100 acres are cleared, and in a good
state of cultivation. There is a good
TWO-STORY LOG C•in•c;..
DWELLING
• TAI g g
HOUSE, , I
Log Barn, and several out houses on the
premises. The above land lies on both sides
of the Yellow Breeches Creek; abo u t half
a mile west of Spring Mills. Terms will
be made known on the day of sale.
JACOB CRIM,
A BRA HA 31 CRI3I,
• Executors of Jacob Crias, dec'd.
Dickinson township,
October 23, 1939. ts-30
ViT4 4 ;1_6)4 2-0 Oie
FOR SALE.
rip FIE Subscriber will sell, at private sale,
-R. the
F A RM,
on which he now resides, containing 332
Acres.
The improvements, on this farm, are a
large and commodious
BRICK DWELLING
HOUSE,
I v.
log Barn and stables, smoke,"" — -
house, a stone Spring house and other ne
cessary out-buildings, an excellent and
never failing spring of pure water within a
few rods of the house, and running water in
almost every field.
The above farm is fertile and in good or
der, the meadows on the same are excellent,
• and a fair proportion of the land
is wooded, (about 80 acres;) there
are also on the said farm two ap
ple ORCHARDS, a peach ORCIIARD and
other frdit. This farm is situated in Fred
erick County, Md., on the road leading from
Frederick to Emmittsburg, about 6 miles
from the latter place, and 4 miles from Mt.
St. Mary's College. The situation is eli
gible in every point of view.
ICPThe above farm was originally in
two tracts; the ono containing 145 acres,
the other 187 acres; on the latter are the
Buildings, &c.; the former is without build
ings. This property will be sold together
or separately, as will best ,suit the conve
nience of any one desirous of purchasing.
() rlf the above property is not sold at
private sale, before the Ist day of January
next, it will on that day be offered at public
sale, on the premises, at 12 o'clock, M.
For Terms, apply to the subscriber on the
premises, or JANES Cooree, in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania.
JAMES COOPER, Sen.
October 23, 1838. ts-30
A VALUABLE FARM
FOR RENT.
WI LL bo rented by public outcry on
Thursday the Bth of November next,
on the premises, at 1 o'clock r.
A FARM.
Late the Estate of CONRAD SrirroEa, de
ceased, situate in Mountpleasant township,
Adams County, one mile from Bonaugh
town and 4 from Gettysburg, adjoining lands
of John Torrence, Joseph Smith and others,
containing" 271 Acres, more or less—
having erected thereon a good TWO nowt
IVEATRERBOARDED
DWELLING
HOUSE. ziljAn
with a Stone back-building and Kitchen at
tached—stone Smoke-house, a stone Spring
house, with a never-failing spring—an ex
cellent Stone Bank Barn, a first-rate Stable,
with sheds around it; and a wagon shed and
corn-crib. The farm is in good order,about
170 acres cleared-30 in good meadow, and
the balance in first rate Timber—with a
stream of water running through the farm,
and several never-failinff Springs on the
same. Any person wishing to vies the
property before the day of renting, will call
on HENRY SNYDER, residing on the same.
Terms made known on the day of renting
which will positively take place on the a
bove day.
BA LTZER SNYDER, Ker.
October 23, 1839. tr-30
PUBLIC SALE.
I N pursuance of an Order of Orphans'
Court of Adams county, the subscriber
will sell at public sale on Saturday the 27th
inst., on the premises,
A FARM,
late the Estate ofJ °SEM FeLLEß,deceased,
situate in Mountpleasant township, Adams
county, adjeinnio , lands ofJacob Hill, James
M'Sherry and others, containing 63 Acres
more or less—having erected thereon
A ONE AND A HALF STORE
in LOG
0 USE,
two wells of good water, stone spring hoase,
Barn ,and other necessary buildings—an
Orchard of good fruit, and about 15 acres
of excellent Wood-land.
ALSO, ,
a Tract of lama, -
in the same township, adjoining lands of
Peter Smith, James M'Sherry and others,
containing 33 Acres,. more or less—the
improvements are A LOG HOUSE, lo r ,c ,
barn, Spring house, with a good spring of
water convenient, an Orchard, dm
Sale to commence at 12 o'clock M.,when
the terms will be made known and attend
ance given by
JACOB SMITH, Adm'r.
October 16, 1829. is-29
ADVER. TLSEMENTS,
NOTICE TO COACT: RS.
RS.
4I EALED Prnr,nsits will be received nt .
the orgre of the Superintendent, in Get
t v short/. until surt-sel, at nertias Mc 6th of
IVoren:Err rust, for
Finishing . Section 3
of the Geftysbrar Erfention Pennserania
Railway, and as y other work that may
then be abandoned on said Road.
AL C. CLARKSON,
Strixrinterideni.
td-30
- October 23.153.1'.
LO OIL our:
TRIM Z. COOPER -
is just receiving a Fresh :Supply of
FALL - GOODli;
es romompi, yr= •
Cloths, Casslnsers, Cassjnets,
Silks, Mersnntes, Calicoes, Muslin:,
11.111 1 11111:91RE, assorted,
SHOES, ASSORTED,
gneinisvaive Groceries.
Iron /5
in fact, from a Needle to an Anchor—all of
which he iv determined to sell cheap, and
wishea nothing bre a call to satisfy all.
Gettysburg; October'23, IEO3. 31,30
TO OUR CREDITORS.
AKE Notice that we base applied to the
Ai- Judges of the Gallo of Common Pleae
of Adams County, for the benefit of the
Insolvent laws of this Commonwealth, and
that said Court has appouited Monday
the 26th of Norm a/7 neat, far the hear
ing of us and our creditors, at the Court
houge in the Borough of Gettysburg, N,ilen,
and where you may attend if 1. - r,a_think
proper.
JOHN BLAKELY,
DAVID UEAGY.
October 23, 1923. tc-30
WHEREAS the Bon. D. PUTZKEE,
Esq. Presidentof the several Courts
of Common Floss; in the Counties canvas
ing the Nineteenth DistnetA Justice of the
Courts of Oyer and Terminer, and General
Jail Delivery, for the trial of all capital and
other offenders in the said District—and
WM. M'CLEsx, and GEORGE WILL, Esqs.
Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, and
Justices at the Courts of Oyer and Termi
ner, and General Jail Delivery,for the trial
of all capital and other offenders in the Chun
ty of Adams—have issued their precept,
bearing date the 29th day of Aui:ust, in
the year of our LORD one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-ei.,abt,and to me directed,
for bolding a Court of Common Pleas, and
General Quarter SiNsionsof the Peace, and
General Jail Delivery, and Court of Oyer
and Terminer, at Gettysburg, on :Monday
the 26th dog of Norm:Aber next—
Notice is lie, - reirs 'Given,
To all the leak:es of the Peace, the Com.
ner, and Constables, within the said County
of Adams, that they be then and there, in
their proper persons, with their Rolls, Re
cords, Inquisitions, Examinations, and other
Remembrances, to do those things, which
to their offices and in that behalf appertain
to be done and aim they who will prosecute
against the prisoners that are, or then shall
he, in the Jail of the said County of Adams,
are to be then and there,to prosecute against
them as shall bejnst.
WM. TAUGIELINBAUGH, Sheriff.
October 23, 1838. tc-30
CO-P/111.
GEORC(E It. GILBERT
JAICOB W GILINERI;
AVING purchased the Drug Store
ALA- of Dr. Jnisc Gauzier, deceased, will
continue the establishment under the firm of
GEORGE R. GILBERT & CO.
at the old stand, in Dahlman, street, Get
tysburg.
It is hoped that the experience of ore of
the members of the firm in the business, and
the entire devotion of both,to the are-ammo
dation of the who may favor them, will
secure the confatence,and a reasonable share
of the patronage of the community.
A COMPILIM. AtSPELTMENT or
FRESH DRUGS
Tar AND
7 -1 ZII2DZIZI2aP,2k7e
Valuta, Oils, Sz b Stuffs,
will be kept on hand eans:ainly, and sold on
the mart wasonalbie terms..
icrilysidarts and Conatry alerchants
Will be promptly supplied at REDUCE,D
rst
cn Their orders are restfully solicited.
GEO. It- GILBERT,
JACOB W. GILBERT.
Gettysbmg, Oct. 16, 1E33. - tf-29
GETTYSBURG GUJIRDSI
‘TOU will parade in front of the Court
-IL home, on Saturday tie 3d ef Novem
ber next, at 2 o'clock, r. z precisely, in
winter uniform.
JOHN ZIEGLER, - 19;S: -
October 23,153..
-41730
PENNSYLVANIA RIFLEMEN!
Attention! •
- . DAR ADE at the House cf Mr. Jarpes
••• • Heagy, co Marsh Creek, on Sahrday
the 27th of Cktober vut. at 11 e"chick, A.
U. in full Uniform.
A Court of Appeal for the year
be held on said day.
PETER KETTOMES, 0.3
October 23, 1939. 'p4o