=MEM ary rnevernents,r he lesson will be invaluable, and t rresent disgrace productive of last flag kr' e T o ',fit. But if a repetition rif the out. rage countenanced and mob threats be. come the rule of legislation, then it requires little political sagimity to foretell the speedy downhill of our liberty, and the complete prostration of all rights. The desperado who enterers legislative Hall to day with his but. lice, to compel the admession of a particular member, will arsunrilly, end perhaps, on the morrow,doinand the passage of a law to pro mute his private interest et the expense of ()there. Nor will it be long before he uses the same means in a court of justice. to es. cape punishment or cheat his neighbor.— Then the diffemnee between guilt and inno ceuce,the value of title deeds,aed the sacred nese of all rights,will be only nominal Might will be right; and the minority and the timed slaves. The evil efficts of the late disorder will, I fear, be immediately felt in the pecuniary credit of the commonwealth, unless you.her representatives,nct promptly and efficiently. Well may capitalists and creditors doubt the faith ore community to thern,when that corn munity is faithless to its own dearest rights. It therefore becomes your imperative duty, gentlemen, not only to your posterity and majesty of the laws, but to yourselves and your own immediate interests, to say to the world that similar outrages shall not again take place, and that what bas happened is the work of only a few desperate men, and, pot of the people of this great state. This, it creme to me, can be accomplish ed by the enactment of severe laws against all riotous or violent proceedings at the seat of government during the session of the le gislature, and by compelling the county or counties, whose citizens shall be •originators or ringleaders of such proceedings, to pay all the loss caused by them and expense in. curred in their suppression. It will also be proper to revise the acts of Assembly relative to election returne,and to render the mode of making them so plait' t hat no one can misunderstand or evade them. In their existing shape, there is some diffi culty in arriving at the true intent - of the le gislature. In the present case, I have not the slightest doubt but that the duties of the proper executive'officer, with regard to the disputed returns, was legally and faithfully performed. But the subject is one of such vital importance that the law should he ren dered perfectly plain and every shadow of doubt rpsnoved. I am clear in the opinion that the whole of the late difficulties arose from the return judges assuming powers never intended to be delegated to them. They are merely min jeterint aseers. Their duty is only clerical, urei consists exclusively in adding up and de elarin,g the whole vote polled for each candi date within their district,end Making return thereof to the,proper officer. ,The law gives them no poWer to reject or exclude the - vote of a districtor part era district. It is from the unauthorized assumption efsucb danger ous power,that the whole of the 'recent dis. turbances . proceeded. I would, therefore, recommend . the infliztion hereafter of IQ most severe penalties on similar usurpations. I shall now proceed to lay before year the message ae it was prepared to be transmit ted on the 4th inst. Many eubjecte of gretriinterest will occupy the time of the Legishilure at its present session. The radical alterations which have taken place in the Constitution t impose duties that will necessarily claim your first attentiee.— The people have willed the change,and it iii the duty of representatives to carry out and perfect its details. Of prominent moment among the new features in our organic law is that which relates to the right of suffrage. It consists in, a residence of one instead of two years within the State; of ten days actual resi dence within the District in which the elec tor offers to vote, (which was not required formerly,) and of the payment within two years, of a tax actually assessed on the voter, at least ten days before the election. There are also other changes, chiefly declaratory of passages in the old Constitution which were not clearly expressed in that instru ment, and which do not require recapitu latiln. • For years much abuse and evasion of the Constitutional provisions, and of the laws relative to voting, have been supposed by many citizens to exist. The present occa sion will aiiiird an opportunity to guard, as far as it can be done, this inestimable right from violation. Another reason now de. mends more strict and specific Legislation. The number of officers to be directly chosen by the people will give to the elections more of interest, and to each individual vote More of present and local value than they former ly possessed; and will consequently subject the .power of the individual voter, which has now, in a great measure, become the direct appointing - power, to greater danger from fraud and malpractice than heretofore,' when its influence was more remote. Under these circumstances it is a first duty of the Legislature to form such a code of Laws for the regulation of Elections, as will cause their results to be known and re spected as the honestly expressed will of the majority, and also to place around them such guards as shall completely preserve peaceand order during their, progress. Both these desirable objects may be ac complished by defining and establishing, beyond cavil or evasion, the evidence of those qualifications required by the Consti tution, to be possessed by every elector, and by,ensuring the punishment of ell violators of the peace at Elections. Two qualifications in addition to citizen ship, (which is as heretofore,) entitled to a vote. let Residence. 2nd the payment of a ,State or county Tax. • The Constitution. al frovisions-with regard to neither can be charged nor by the Legislature ; but the mode of establishing the fact that. thews qualiifr•stinns are really posiessed, in other words tbo evidence, eta. would 'firepole then that geasral reei demo ap , the State for, and doting one year next ilefor* the day of Election, any be proved. se heretofore, by the oath of the party (Owing to vote, if there be any &Mit oaths object. This mode nom aeceeari• ly.be, relied on, or the voter be perhaps de. prived of has right, for in many cases be might not be able to offertory other proof: But that the particular residence for tea days, if doubted by any qualified citizen of the District, shall beestablished by the oath or affirmation of a resident Taxable citizen of the District, who shell have already voted at that election, and not by the oath, vr af firmation, of the party himself: and that the party himself shall be obliged to swear or affirm if required that his bona fide resi dence, in pursuance of his lawful calling, is in the particular District,---that he at the time of voting, has no other residence or home,—and that he did not remove into it for the purpose of obtaining a vote therein. There could be no hardship in such provis ions, nor could they deprive any of their just rights, inasmuch as no one could possi bly reside during ten days in one Distflct without such fact being known to at least one of -its resident citizens. Neither would it be oppression to require disinter sated proof of actual residence, in the mode proposed, because it would only be demand ing the best proof the nature of the clues , tion admits of, which is done in every other case. Equally strict proof - of the asserisment and payments of taxes should be exacted in all instances. • In case of persons claiming to veto on tax assessed and paid within the Districtfor the current year, the assessors corrected list,or n certified copy of it, should be the only evi. dence of assessment. But to prevent all al-' tering of, or tempering with assessor's lists,a certified copy of the list in each township should be published, by being put up, and exposed at the house at which the election 1 is held, nine days previous to the day of election. This would both enable each per son, constitutionally entitled to a vote, to have himself assessed on the day before the list is completed, and would also present an opportunity to the whole District of exam ining the list of proposed voters and of tak ing means to prevent imposition. And in calms of a right to vote claimed on an assessment for a former year, within two :yeast; next preceeding the election, and with in the District, no other proof should be ad mitted than the "assessors list of the proper year, or the published copy of it just descri bed, which might be preserved for such use from year to year, by being taken down at the end of the election by the Inspector, and sealed up to ono of the ballot boxes by the Judges, with a certificate to that effect en dorsed on it by the Inspector. The cor rectness Of such a document would not be questioned. To guard against illegal voting by persons assessed and having paid tax out of the Dis trict, they should be required to give their names to the assessor, to be by him put up, at least nine days previous to the election,at the election house, appended to the list of assessed taxables before described, that all persons might have an opportunity of know ing the names of those who intend to vote; and an original receipt for the tax, from the proper Collector of the district in which it Was paid, should be produced at the time of voting. The hand writing of the Collector should also he proved, by some disinterested person, before a known justice of the peace or alderman, and a minute of such proof en dorsed on the receipt. If to these restrictions with regard to tax receipts, which have been the ready means o( much fraud, were added one that no re ceipt whatever shall be competent to prove payment of tax, unless it express on the face of it the year for which it was assessod,and that no tax assessed more than two years previous to,though actually paid within two years of the election, shall entitle to a vote, there would be little room for evasion or violation of the Constitution. - I deem this latter provision proper, as well as necessary, 1 1 because I suppose it to be the intent of the Constitution,that the tax must not only have been paid but assessed within the time nam ed, and that during that period the voter must have contributed to the support of the Government under which he lives. Assess ment and payment of tax being both requir ed, it is fairly presumable that they were in tended to occur, not only in, but for the pe riod, or at least part of the period, designa ted by the Constitution. To preserve order at elections, I would recommend that it be made the duty of the constable ofeach ward,borough or township within which any election is held to lodge information before some justice of the peace Or alderman thereof,of the names of persons engaged in any assault,battery,mtimidation, riot, or other broach of the peace, at and during the day of such election,and to return as witnesses, on the part of the Common wealth, the names of such persons as were assaulted; beaten, intimidated or otherwise injured, or of such other persons as were cogoiaant of thefacts, who, with the parties accused, shall be bound over to appear at the next court of quarter sessions, or May. . or's court, as the case may be: that any con. stable neglecting or refusing for, 24 hours to lodge such information, on .being required so to do by the party injured, or by any three qualified voters of the district, shall, upon complaint before a justice of the peace - or al derman, and proof of such requisition and neglect, be finedin the pun of filly dollars; that the party or partiestiund guilty by the proper court of such assault, battery, intim idation, riot or other breach of the peace, shall be sentenced to pay the costs of prose cution, and be confined in the proper county gaol, not less than six calendar months; and that it shall be the duty of the proper court before whom each constable makes hie quer terly return, to examine him expressly whe.• ther the elections held in his district were peaceably conducted, and if he report, or if it be otherwise proved, that they were not, and that be failed to institute the requisite proceeding, then to inflict the foregoing fine on the constable. And to secure, ha much as possible, the purity of elections, I would strongly ,recent mend the passage of a more effectual law aginst betting on elections, which practice terms the very worst and most pernicious species of gambling. Betting and gaining of other kinds only injure the parties them eelvos, but this ititheta a wound on the rights of all, and destroys that confidence which every citizen should feel in the decisions of the ballot. hox. I would therefore urge that, whenever thereto required by any voter of, the district, or whenever be shall think it neceasary,the inspector of each election shall cause any person offering to vote, to declare on oath or affirmation whether he is or is not directly or indirectly interested, either as principal, partner or stakeholder, in any bet on the result of any election to be held on that day; and if he adintt that he is, or if he decline to answer, then to refuse such person his vote, and to cause the clerks of the election,to make a minute thereof on the list of voters. (TO BE CONTINTED.) THE CARRIER'S ADDRESS TO THE PATRONS OF THE STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER. January 1, 1839. Chret more the niMblo footed If ourv, Have whiri'd the Car of Tiino along; A. passenger in it I come . To greet you with my New Yeer'e song; Though young the minstrel, rude his lay, Uoguerdon'd rtend him :IA away. I s'pose you've heard the latest news, 'Tie strange and almost past belie•ing— That prick'd by conscience fur their sine, Lawyers ncrw seek en honest living ! Of all their pronks the latest caper— You'll find the proof on't in our viper. For there, at top of page the Ent, The important tidings is eonvey'd, That Cooper, Smyser and Co. have Elet up the Editorial trade; And now with all their might and rosin They wield the Edi!orial pen ! They bid me say they wish you all A happy Neer Year, and a merry; And if %would unit you to aubeeribe, They would be very thankful—very! The price? Pehaw! A mere circumstance 'Tie but two dollars--..-12C •DV•NCII For Job mod Ad•ertiaing'work They say they beat ell natur . too— And, if I might slip in a word Upon my. soul I think its true. Printing or Law—they're not faatidious, They'll do it cheap--fat Clan or Pnotoncst They ere, I lb MUM you, airs, Half horses and, half alligators— They mean to use the rebels up Witb all their out throat instigators; And tear and claw with tooth and nail. The Governnswil Provisional: We've fallen, sure, on evil times When Traitors desecrate the soil And wimple on the dearest tights, Our fathers bought with blood and toil And seek to raise Rebellion's cause, Above the power of the Laws! Alas! And bee it come to this! Must Anarchy and Bloodshed reign! And shall our brave departed sires, Have fought and bled and died in Taint Forbid it, Spirits (litho mighty dead,• Ye who at Brandywine and Monmouth bled! Aro Law and Order empty sounds! The Constitution but e name? And must this fair and goodly land By civil broils be rent in twain! And civil war with all its train Of pillage, rapine, murder reign! Forbid It, every Heavenly pow'rl Avenging spirit of the Laws Awake! Artso ! In vengeance coma And vindicate thine Holy cause! And stamp with everlasting shame Each baffled, upstart traitor's name ! With ARNOLD having cast their lot, With Aarrorx let their portion be, Condenited to everlasting fame And never dying infamy ; And beer, like Oats, a felon'ii brand The mark for scorn's unerring band ! Perhaps you ask the Tuntrite names— They're many—and their name is Legion 'Tie even said some fow are found In this most highly favor'd region. I know them, but it might appear Invidious to name them here. Bnough of tbis—l had design'd To canvass divers other themes ; To moralise on human life, Its visions end its airy dreams: How Joy and Sorrow sisters am Twin.bom, and near allied So Cars ?ki■ I:ifo's at boat a chequer'd scene Of Pains and Pleasures, Hopes and Fears ; Aaid often smiles of rapture boom From oyes that gluten yet with team! Change and Succession is I wot, Of humankind the common lot. Hence learn we wisely to improve Each passing moment as it flies : Life is a flower of transient growth, And even whilst it blooms it dies ! Time's ever hurrying stream rolls swiftly by To swell the abyss of Eternity ! Kind patrons ! Should yodr condescend • To toile on and reward my strain, I'll do my best, if lifo is spar'd To rhyme for you next year again : Meantime, that you may life and-health enjoy So moat sincerely prays tho CARRIER BOY. County Convention. The Delegates from the several Town ships in the County of Adams, appointed to choose three Confories to nominate a candi date for the Senate of Pa. in the room of Jacob Casgat, Esq. deceased, met in the Court House in Gettytiburg, on Friday the 4th , inst. at 10 o'clock A. M., when the following named Delegates appeared and took their seats. Borough.—B. Gilbert, A. B. Kurtz• Cumberland.—Andrew Walker, War. Hamilton• • Straban.--John Dickson, Esq.Saml. F. Neelev. Throne.—W m: Yeaten, Sam!. Sadler. Menalkn.—Philip Bomar, John Burk, holder. Franklin.—Daniel Mickley, Col J. P. Paxton. Huntington.—Thomas Stephens, Jehn L. Sadler. Hamilionban.-4oseph Baugher, 'Geo. Irwin. Laberip.—Maxwell Shield, Joseph Huo ler. Freedom —James Cunningham, Esq. N. M. liar per. N't.l4.--Jesse D. Newman, Geo. R. Hoffman. Germany.—Alfred Cole, Andrew Little. Pleasant.—James Lockart, jr. A. Reading.—Wcn. Jones, Benjamin Mel ono. Hamilton.—Dr. G. L. Fame, John Pick- mg. Laiimore.—Cal e b Beales. Bertrick.—Peter Diehl, Henry Gist. Conowagq.—J. A. Gubenator, John G. Morningstar. Convention having organized of adpoint ing JOHN DICKSON, Esq. Chairman, and John L. Gubenator,Esq.Secretarv, they proceeded to nominate Conferies to meet those from the Counties of Franklin and Cumberland at Sh•ppenehurg, on Monday the 7th inst. which resulted in the choice of Col. J. D. Paxton, Jamee A. Thompson and Peter4Dietil. On motion of A. B. Kurtz, the Chairman appointed B. Gilbert, A. B. Kurtz, and Peter Diehl, to wait upon the Editors of our papers to stay their papers till such limo as to enable them to announce the re al of the meeting of Conferies. On motion, Resolved, that the Confertes have power to fill vacancies. JOEL 3. F. elfil F.fl R16.1.4"E was nominated as the Candidate for Senator. The following resolutions wore unani• mously adopted: Wu cimAs, en election is about to take place, which is the first that will occur, since the Constitution and Laws have been violated and defied, and rebellion against them, rendered successful by the timidity and treachery of pretended friends; there fore Resolved, That the questions, submitted to the peeple of this District, at the coming election, are, do you approve of the mob which, drove the Legislature from the Capitol 1 Do you approve of the conduct of those Senators, who for money, or through fear, betrayed their friends—violated their oaths=---sanctified the prodeedings of the mob—and gave the lie to the votes which they had given but five days before, when they declared that "the 'Hopkins House' was not organized, according to the Laws and Constitution of the Commonwealth ?" Resolved, That the Delegates to this Convention, after having carefully examin ed the facts, of which some of them were witnesses, are entirely satisfied that the Rouse over which Thomas S'. Cunningham was elected Speaker, was legally and con stitutionally organized. Resolved, That the Asseroblv,over which Williaz Hopkins was elected Speaker,tras not legally and constautionally organized ; and that the conduct of a majority of the Senate, in declaring it to be so, was a more fatal stroke to Constitutional Liberty, than till the outrages perpetrated by the mob. Resolved, That while those Senators who, at one and the same time; betrayed their friends and committed treason against the Constitution of the Commonwealth, are deserving of the execration of every honest man ; those who remained firm in the dis charge of their duties, are entitled to our unfailing gratitude and respect. Resolved, That the conduct of onr own Representative Thaddeus Steven., Esq. and those who acted with him, during the reign of anarchy, which we fear is not loon to end, is such as we expected—firra,nobler and disinterested. Resolved, That we fully approve of his conduct and that of those who acted with him,and believe that if a similar course had been pursued by all, disgrace and ruin would not have come upon the Common. wealth. Resolved, That our late Representative in the State Senate, Jacob Cassuitt, Esq. died nobly contending for the honor and dignity of his native State. Resolved, That we ask of our constit uents to ponder upon tho questions submit. ted to them, and to answer them at the polls on the ltith inst. AYE or NAY'? Resolved, That we will support no man for the office of Senator to supply the vacan cy, occasioned by the death of JACOB CASSAT, Esq. who is an . advocate of the lowa force, and opposed to the peaceful end proper remedy prescrided.hy theConati tution and the laws in all capes whatsoever. Resolved, That we have the most entire confidence in the honesty, ablity and 'neon. temptible integrity of JOHN F. SITAR LANE, Esq. and in order to secure his election we respectfully ask support of our fellow citizens of this Senatorial district. Resolved, That we look forward upon the result of this contest as a decision whether the people of this district are willing to sue. tam the supremacy of the laws end the dignity of the . Commonwealth, or whether they will surrender their dearest rights to the mercy and dictation of a lawless :nob and the encroachments of the Federal Goiernment. ' Resolved, That we, the Roman firmness of our talented and patriotic Senator, the Hon. CHARLES B. PENROSE, Eeq. and his aasociates.who so noble stood by him in defence of the Constitution and the laws; whilst we cannot too deeply condemn - the perfidious and suicidal course pursued by those coward Slaves who would sap the foundation of an hallowed and "time-hon ored Institutions and erect a despotism upoti their ruins , On motion, Resolved, That Abe proceed ings be signed by the officers. and publish. ed. JOHN DICKSON, Pree't. JOHN L. GUBENATOR, Sec'y. ~o ail Concerned. ripilE subscriber informs those indebted - 0 - to him for Subscription, Job Work, Ore. that,he will he in Gettyabarg at the January Court, when he be obliged to them if they would call and make settle ment with him. RODF.R'r w. MIDDLETON. January 4 , 1 c 30. • 3t-41 THE VOICE OF ADAMS. LARGE Meeting of the friends of the Coos Mutton and Laws. Agreeable to Public Notice a large and respectable meeting of the Citizens of Ad onis county, friendly to the Constitution and Lows, tact at the Court House, on Friday the 4th last. The meeting was organized by calling John Dickson, Esq. to the chair. Pi) st DENT JOHN DICKSON, Esq. VICE PRESIDENTS HENRY ITT P.ETER II U LICK , JOHN BROUG II, JAMES CUNNINGHAM, Esq. JOHN SADLER, Sen. CALEB BEALES. NICHOLAS BUSHEY, Esq. ROBERT M'CREARY, THOMAS STEPHENS, VICTOR WILIIENY, ANDREW. WALKER, JAMES SMITH, - WM. YEATTS, GEO. IRWIN, WM. SADLER, ABRAHAM KING, Esq. SECUETARIES J. G. Morningstar, Esq. John Picking, Robert AP Ilheny, Maxwell Shields, Peter Diehl, Capt. Wm. jonrs, Alfred Cole, Wm. Bell, John Brinkerhof, Joseph Hunter, Andrew Lowe. James Ewing. The meeting was then addressed by DAN IEL. M. SYYSIZE, Esq. who stated the object of the meeting. And on his motion, a com mittee of Twenty-six was appointed by the chair to, report Resolutions for the consider ation of the meeting, and also an Address to the citizens of the County. The following wore appointed on said Committee, viz: Daniel M. Smyser, Esq. Samuel Neely, Capt. John Walter, Daniel Comfort, Sam'! Sadler, Cept: Andrew Little, John Lorimer, John L. Sadler, J. D. Newman, John L. Gubernator, Esq . John Cleveland, R..F. M'Conatighy, Esq. James Lockart. jr• John Mickley, Jr. Jacob Weldy, James Rensha•,v, Dr. G. L. Fauns, Goo. Deardotf, Col. J. D. Paxton, Robort Slenimons, J. Baumgartner, Goo. R. Hoffman, Henry Brintwlinir, Copt. Wm. M'Gaughy, J. King Wilson, James Morrison . During the absence of tho Committee, the meeting was addressed by JAM Coonn, Esq. Cho Committee through their chairman D. M. Stu. s. r, reported tho following reso lutions and address— Hewlord, That the citizens of this Coun ty have seen with regret and alarm proper tionate to the magnitude of the injury, the late triumph of a stipendiary and lawless mob led on and instigated by reckless polit mai desperadoes from the counties of Adams, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, over tho . Laws and Constitution of the State,and the sancti. ty and inviolability of the Legislative bodies Resolved, That the example, now for the first time witnessed in republican America, of the Legislative bodies controlled in their acts of Legislation by a mnbthreatening as• sassination and outrage,and violently expel!. 'ea from their Halls, is a precedent of the most alermin e l and dangerous tendency—an invasion of the most sacred rights of the whole people—a violation of the most sol emn guarantees—and the substitution of an irresponsible power resting its claims or violence alone, for the regularly and legally delegated aovretgnty of the people. Resolved, That to represent the late scenes of violence at the seat of government, as a mere collision of party interests,and a strug gle between the claims and alledgod rights of individuals, is a gross pervervion of truth, and falls far short of the fearfully important issue involved—an issue between violence and treason on the ono side and order and law on the other, upon the decision of which must depend the fate of Liberty in this Coun• try. Resolved, That we have learned with sor• row and shame, that some of the citizens of this County, were actively engaged in the late disgraceful transactions—thereby doing their best to bring disgrace and ruin npon all that is most dear and precious to the heart of the patriot. Resolved, That we avow ourselvesats we have ever, been, the friends of the Laws su- premacy, and will continue our best efFirts to restore and maintain it, undismayed by the fearful examples of treachery and vil• lainy of which the history of the last month• furnishes so many examples. Resolved, That amid thestorm of anarchy and treason, the citizens of this County still looked with firm and implicit faith, to the Senate, as the sheet anchor of the patriots hopes—as an impenetrable barrier against which the waves of Revolution might break, but which they could not pass; and ,therefore view with corresponding astonishment and indignation, the shameful, inexplicable and unlooked for betrayal of such hopes and con fidence. Resolved, That the blood of the Constitu• tion must forever cleave to the skirts of the Sp i no ff , because, having it in their power to save,they raised a parricidal arm and struck the final and fatal blow. Resolved, That we return our-thanks !o those Members of the Senate, as also, of the House of Iteprese.ntatives, who, surrounded by revel treachery and coward fears,rernain ed true to their country and their trust, and strove to avert the fatalsatastroptio., Resolved, That this meeting, profoundly penetrated with grief for the death,of their late ablo,upright and talented Roprosentativa. in the Senate JAclit CAssArr, Esq. find a consolation in ref••cting that his last and OX inring energies & oti,r swe eV:" r e l i wi a zeal, constancy and fervor worthy of all admiration, to avert the blow which Imam• lateil Liberty on the altar of party; failing in this, the heart of the pitriot burst in the eon diet of feeling, and he (lied of a broken heart, his memory embalmed with the tears of it nation, happy in escaping the sight of the consummation of the ruin of his native slut". The fi'rst martyr in this struggle, his Mein. my will long live en !oared to the hearts of freemen. Resolved, Thnt this meeting contemplate with repugnance, the shatnefill contrast to the noble conduct of Mr. Cassatt, presented by the recreant Sonntor4t o Strohm,M'Conkey, Miller, Fullerton, Case and Michler, whosit treason,apostasy and cowardice,have bron't the State to the brink of ruin, and covered hemselves with last.rig disgrace. And whereas Junes M'Conkey, a mem ber et the Senate of Pennsylvania, was to 1835,elected to the sent he now fills from the Senatorial District the , ' composed of the counties of York and Adams, by the party he has misrepresented and etrayed, by a majority of 713 votes orwhich this County gave him 630, over his c .mpetitor Mr. Small; and . whereas a very large majority Of the people of this County disapprove of his conduct in voting for the recognition of the body styling itself the House of Represents. tives over which Mr. Hopkins,of Washing. ton do. presided, and view it as ri betrayal of .heir rights and interests, Therefore Resolved, That it is the unanimous wish and opinion of this meeting, that the said James M'Conkey should resign his seat in the Senate forthwith, as nn act of justice to the constituent. who elected him. Resolved, Thnt a committee of three to appointed by the Chair, to communicate II e preceding Preamble and Resolution to Mr. M'Conkey, and request an answer. [The Committee appointed under this re. solution,aro Ana ADA DI KIND, ROBERT M sivir, and DANIEL M.. SMYSEIL Esquires.) Resolved, That we have soon with appro. bation and gratitude, the firm and manly re sistance opposed to the progress of misrule and anarchy,by our talented and distinguish• ed Representative THA DDEUS STEVENS, in its first steps and all its subsequent stage's; he has merited our thanks,and deserved well of his whole country; and established for himself, now claims to the confidence and support of his constituents. Resolved, That we approve of his with: drawing for the present from the spurious House of Representatives, and returning to his constituents to ascertain their views and wishes. The question of his returning to Ilarrisburg,aild entering the spurious House begotten by the Mob and fathered by the Senate,we trust entirely to his own judg,mept, patriotism and sense of duty, in which we have the fullest confidence. Great as our immediate interests are, we do not wish him to return to vindicate them, if he is thereby to sacrifice the paramount interests of the Commonwealth and of posterity: We leave altogether to him to judge, wheiher circum stances shall occur, which may render it proper for him to enter that defective body, to defend his friends, and the great interests of the State. If he can then do so without a sacrifice of principle and honor, we shall rejoice in it. If, in doing so, either is to be disregarded, we de not claim, nor could we expect him to yield to it. With him we leave the whole question, confident that in his hands, his and our honor are safe. Resolved; That his ColleagUe, CHARLES ICErmswEz.s., has by his conduct in the late trying crisie,nlso fully justified the confidence of his constituents and deserves our thanks. Resolved, That at the approaching Special Election on the 15th inst. for a Senator to fill the place of Mr. Cassatt, we will use our ut most efforts to secure the election of the cnn didate who shall be put in nomination by the friends of our cause and that of the country; because the question is now directly presen ted to the votes of this district,whether Law or Violence shall rule the destinies of this great Commonwealth. When the issue is, "Mob or no Mob," as patriots, as freemen, as American citizens, we would deem it treasonable to hesitate. The credit of our district is concerned in electing our candi date; for defeat would be at once received by the world and hailed by our opponents, ns ts verdict of, ratification and approval of the doings of the mob. Resolved, Thnt the several Township and District Committees ofvigilance be re estab lished as they existed at and before the last general election, and that they be requested individually and collectively, to use every exertion to secure victory to our standard, and that the County Committee be instruc ted at once,to enter into the necessary com munication and correspondence with them. And Whereas, under the amended Con• stitutien,there ere a !area number of County and other officers, to 6: elected by the pee ple which were heretofore filled, by Execu tive appointment; and whereas it has several times happened that the party professing the principles we hold, although having a very large majority in the County, have through division and want of concentration on one candidate .been defeated in the choice of those county offices heretofore elective, Therefore, Resolved, That this meeting request the County Committee to cull anoth ir County meeting on the lidonday of the Tannery Court, for the express. purpose of then considering the propriety of hereafter nominating the candidates for .Shcriff, Pro thonotary and other county offices by. tho County Delegates,as other parts of the Coun ty ticket have been heretofore nominated. A , DDRESS. FELLOW Crrrznivic—HaVing been appoin ted a Committee to address you, we shall Jo so without apology; we need none ; we are freemen speaking to fellow-freemen, on the subject of dangers cowmen to all, which threaten the interests of all. A detailed account of the outrages committo l at Harris burg w• - i do not pretend to give; the hounds which we have prescribed to ourselves will not permit it—nor is it neces.arv. It is known to all, that the assembling rf thn Legislature at the Seat of Governro.nt. t 1 n• present Eestiion, was attended v ith fiances mid outrages, forever disgraceful Pennsylvania A blood-thirsty mob drove the Legislature front the Capitol, and the tissassins who composed itolenuuneed death against the members who dared to oppose them. The Hall of the Senate, after the members had been driven from their Rents, wa s occupied by this banditti. who-were there harangued by nn Officer of the Gen • oral Government. who incited thern to deeds of violence end blood. The Government was declared to be at end, and a substitute—the name for which -was borrowed from the times of revolutiona ry France—was established in its stead. Over the murderous mob which committed this treason against the 'Commonwealth. Gen. Thomas C. Miller presided, and was a l . Nerds a member of '.The I.ommittee of Safety I" We mention this, not for the purpose of heralding the infamy of the in dividual, rind exhibiting him as the compan• inu and s.socinte of cutthroats and asses• sins, but to show that Adams county partici pated in the treason. Hero ended the first scene of the drama which exhibited Pennsylvania as a spectacle 'of degradation. The second was no less Winked, and fur more disgraceful. Attar the insurgent mob had dispersed,on the appearance of the military force ordered to Harrisburg by the Governor. and a num ber of the lenders arrested, quiet was in a grant manure restored, and men began to hope .that the stability of our ,iru3titutions was established by the suppression of the rebellion, All that woe wanted to confirm hat hope, was the action of the Senate. No one doubted but that it would recognize •the House over which Gen. Cunningham presided, except, perhaps, those who after. wards steeped themselves in inftuny, and proved recreant to their friends, their con• stituents tied their country. The House and the Senate were organized on the same principles. Messrs. Day, Reed and their associates, were admitted to seats in the House on the same evidence that Messrs. Henna and Wagner received their's in Sen ate. Both were admitted on the same Re turns; and it had been agreed upon by our friends in both bodies, before the organiza tion of either. But the action of the Senate was delayed from. day to day, until the hearts of our friends were made sick by its, procrastination—and until the threats and bribes of the enemy had caused the deem• non of three men, who acted with our friends in the organization 'Phis, howev• er, was a trivial blow of no importance, ex cept to show that there were those amongst our friends', liable to corruption, and dead to the fear °lien:my. All still depended upon the Senate ; and at length, on the 20th of December, its determination'eppeared to be taken, and it declared, by a vote of 20 to 13, that "the House over which William Hopkins had been elected Speaker on the 41th of Decembe.., was Ivor organized ac cording to the Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth." It was thought that the question was sot• tied, and our friends looked for a speedy re• cognition of the Cunningham House. But delay again took place; the plane err the conspirators were not yet ripe ; enough had twit been corrupted to ensure the consum mation of the devilish plot. Finally:hew ever, on the 25th of December, just five days after the vote by which the Senate de. Oared that the Hopkins House was nor Constitutionally organised, it declared by another vote, that it wAs constitutionally organized r Thus was Pennsylvahia dis graced, betrayed and her destinies commit ted to the hands of a mob I By this blow, your own ronrssentative in the Senate was at ruck down and died, but he died nobly contending for the Constitu• tion and the Laws—and you are now called on to select a man to fill hie place. Will you fill it with one who will endeavor to re trieve the disasters which the Common• wealth has suffered, or, son ono, who, i that be possible—will fill still fuller the measure of its ignominy and disgrace 7 These are the questions, Fellow citizens, which it is our duty to propose to you and which it is your duty to answer at the polls on the lfith inst. Do so we beseech you— answer "aye or "nay ;"--11 aye, we shall still struggle to save the Commonwealth; if nay, we may as well at once Ibld our arms, commit the ark of our safety to the mob, and hid a final adieu to national free. dom. All is at stake; let your exertions be correspondent to the magnitude of the .questions involved. The Committee having reported, the meeting was addressed by TRAM:IEIIs STE. VEND, Esq for about an . hour, who, in the course of his remarks, gave a full history of the transactions of the last month at the seat of Government,und vindicated his course in withdrawing from the spurious House of Representatives. The Address and Resolu. tions were then unanimously adneted. On motion Resolved, That the proceed. inge of this meeting, be signed by the offi cers and nuhlrehed. [Signed by the o.fficeral COATEB EE .111 E E TING. SE IPPE.NRDURG, Jan. 7, 1839. This being the day upon which the several Con. ferret; from the counties of Adams, Franklin and Cumberland, were to meet by agreement for the purpose of nominating a Senator for the district, in place of"Jscou CAstuvr, Egg. deceased, Mr. MADEIRA. of Franklin. Wei appointed Chair• man, and J. J. Mune, Secretary. • The following gentlemen, from fhe severed counties comprising the senatorial district, op , peered as Conferees, v,iF Adarns.—CA. Fasten, James A. Thomp eon, R. F. McConaughy. Fran klin.—tioo. A. Madeiritt I. E. Brady, Wallace. Cumberlatid.—E. M. Diddle, J. J. Myers, • Satnuel . eutith. Upon•motion.of R. F. McConaughy, Esti. Mr. John F . .171cFarlafte. of Adams. ai.The last °Compiler," we perceive is out against John P. ArFarlane, the eandidate nom inated by the friends of the °Supremacy of the Laws," for the State Senate. This, of course,ivill be esteemed a recommendation by honest men.— Still we conceive it our duty to contradict its false. hoods and correct its misreprementatinns. This potty organ of rebelion, the °Compiler," asserts, that Mr. Macfarlane was jealous of the esteem in which our late lamented Senator, Jacob Ceasatt, Esq. was held by his party, and that 'she indulged in the most violent persoaal abuse of that gentleman for many years." . This we pronounce to be as vile and arrant a falsehood as ever was published; got up for the purposo of injuring Mr. Macfarlane, in the estimation of the friends of the deceased Senator. The °Compiler," and the con temptible little junto which control it, will find themselves mistaken. The friends of that Senator, if they possess a tithe of the petriousm which he did, will scorn alike the contrivance and the con trivers. The diCmrpiler" bad better draw the at. • W it 4 414r11 41. ' deljtaf r tg " eit42. 44 6 41- - ft/ ( 4 0 1‘ , / 444 te fete- tt. &media, try t‘wats% county, ' %Le-unanimous vote of the Con. Alves, and that . 9 name be presenti.d to the vo teie of th e Sonata 'el district, as the candidate for said office. On motion of J. E. Brady, Esq., Resoh•ed, that a committee of three be appointed for, tiff. purpose of drafting resolutions expressive of the sense of tho conferees iu regard to tho late proceedings at ifarrist:urg. r Lmsj rhirE. M.Diddle, and Robs. F. McConnughh yv oked, That JOHN F. MeFARLANErrof the county of Adams, be recommended to all voters of the district who are in favor of the su premacy of constitutional law and government, and opposed to the spirit of lawless violence so prevalent In the land—and which has Seen at fearfully manifested in the late successful attempt to control the action of the Legislature by a mob of hired bidlies and bravoes. Resolved, That in the death of Jdcob Cassatt, E4g , this senatorial district has lost a faithful pub lic servant of unblerniabed character, of sound principles, of correct judgment. and an uncom promising advocate of the supremacy of the con atitution and laws. Resukcd, That we approve of the firm stand taken by the Whig and Anti•msaonic mambas of the Legislature against the brute force which woe collected at Harrisburg to 'intimidate them in the discharge of their duties and to force them to receive into their body men who were not ( ualified members. Resolved, That we regret the departure of some of the Whig and Anti-masonic members of the Senate, from the high ground of rineipie up- on which they stood, as they here thus concurred in that which they had declared unlawful, end have given to a MOB the power now and hereaf ter to control the rights of the people. Resolved, That in the ensuing contest ere in volved the purity of Elections, the freedom of Legislative action—the rights of representatives, and other important principles of government; we therefore call upon all anxious for the success of our views, to come forward and wand° the can didate of our choice. Resolved, That we have no confidence in tho administration of Martin Van Buren—because its measures are destructive of the hest ititcresta.of tho country, and its men are the pliant tools of cor ruption, Resolved, That the proceedings 'ho signed by the officers, and published in all the Whigland Anti-ma.onic papers of the district [Signed by the °Sierra.) GETTYSBIIRGH, PA. Tuesday, January f 3, 1839 DEMOCRATIC ANTI•MASONIC NOMINATION VIII PRESIDENT, Gen. Win. Henry Harrison. FOR VICE•PRESIDENT, ,Wehster. Irr"Tlie Star," by a sale rnsde . oti (he 4th inst. be passed into the hands of Mr. Realm: S. Reqrresr, by whom ..it be litweedier ronducted. Mr. Pitmen 14 lirk ar deal riend of the "Supremacy of the Laws," and will give hie whale attention to the busk !kali which he lies now embraced. The paper, the need hardly add, will continuo what alas hitherto been—a supporter o the Constitution and Laws—opposed to mobs, and all associations, secret or open, which are calculated or intended to injure socidty. Wo bespeak for Mr. Paxton the support of our triends—assurod that he will prove desorving pf it. COOPER, SMYSER & CO Thonias C. Oilier. j.Thie man was once thought honest. Be once was, wo suppose, but how Is at nowt Habit° as be is, that is only one of his like qualities.— When he was elected Sheriff he wee bankrupt— now ho i■ worth fifty thousand dollars end more. Has he made it honestly! Ho bashed no produc tive means (except his office) by which to acquire it. We will tell you how he acquired It, end let him seek hitt remedy if we slander him. He extor• ted it from the poor defendants against whom he had writs, overcharging (hens in almost every instance. We charge tfm, in the face of the pub lic, with charging illegal fees to a vast amount. Ho knows cur names, and if we slander him, knows his remedy. 'The SetsteroP. (0 -Joint F. hticrAntarrx, Esq. a gentleman well known throughout the benatotial District cis e firm intelligent end patriotic citizen hes been put in nomination by the friends of the Constitution and the Supremacy of the Laws—no man is better calculated to meet the present fearful crisis; deter mined, yet conciliatory; he will know how to de fend the rights of his constituents and of the Coun try. The friends and defenders of mobs and revo lution have very appropriately nominated Thomas C. Miller. We rejoice in this; let pirates eail un der the bloody flog. Lot insurgents select for office the leader of the mob. The people have now of fered to them a fair opportunity of deciding on the momentous question which has convulsed the commonwealth; of selecting between a friend of order and the head of an insurrectionary govern ment—between a peaceful citizen and a Captain of cut-throats! Let them come to tho polls one and all, and deliver in their verdict. • rypeat.a, - • RO4 4..4a 44.4%-is to.bit tendon of the people to the fact, thst it was by his attempt to arrest the treason, which Thomis C. Miller, wee fomenting, that the death of Senator Caseatt was produced. ca•We have a few grave questions to propose to you valid) we desire you to reflect upnu and answer. Are you prepared for a state of Anarchy, in which you no longer require the protection of the laws Do you believe that Courts of Justice should he broken up, and every man become the redresser of his own wrongs? Do .you think it conducive to the safety and happiness of the people. that the Legislature has been put in the power of the mob and obliged to act by its dictation? Do you believe it a proper exercise of popular novreiguty, for aome'two or three hundred men, who assume to ho the people, to compel either branch of the Legislature, to admit to seats, or, de prive of seats; such member. as they may think ft? Upon these questions we desire you would ra floct,as upon matter. in which you have a personal stake—in which your posterity as well as your selves aro interested. If you answer thorn in the affirmative, then you declare for anarchy; you re ject your old safeguard the laws, and rely upon your own strength or your own address for the security of your persons and your property. Hut heforo you do so, Ponder well upon the consequen ces of such a state of licence as must ensue, when the reign of the Laws end, end that of Anarchy begins. For our own part, before we would forego the protection of the Jaw, Gi-The issue is now made; Tito.% ss C. Mire tau, the man who presided over the mob which drove the Legislature from the Capitol, has been nominated as a candidate for the State Senate!— In thus offering to the people the leader of the mob, the rebels have declared their approbation of the disgraceful outrages which took place at Harris burg. We are glad to see'"it—we are glad that they have cast asside the veil. of hypocrisy, and avowed themselves in favor of treason, by nominat ing a partaker in it. We repeat it; we are glad of It, because thus early, our suspense will be termi nated, by the question being.,snbmitted to the peo ple, whether they approve or the desecration of the State Capitol by a mob—violence to the Legiela lure, and Treason to the Commonwealth? If they vote for Thomas C. Miller, who led and presided over the mob, they ratify its doings and declare against the laws. if they should do so, we submit; we know our fate; we need struggle no longer for the supremacy of the laws—look no further for the protection which they have hitherto afforded us. We must then arm ourselves, each man to defend his own rights; for then will have commenced, the war of the strong upon the weak. The coasti tuted tribunals for the vindication of our rights will have been cast do wn,and every man must take upon himself to redress his own injuries and swinge his own wrongs. We pray heaven tbat those things may 'not be; for when they coma ;o pass, .4tlio beginning of the end" will have taken place, and them will be but a few steps more between Liberty and its grave. Z-Treason, amongst all nation/4, is looked upon as a crime of the deepest atrocity; .bqcause it is ained against society, and is only /successful in its dissolution, which can only take place amidst con vulsions, breaking up civil organisations and sun dering social ties. The general attendants upon this crime aro rapine and murder, and its fruit anarchy. In a republic,treason is a crime, committed Melia immediately against the people than in other forma of Government. Treason is defined to be, tin crime committed against majesty," which in a republieart Government, resides in the people, and is bodied forth in the Constitution and Laws. To attack them, or conspire their overthrow, is treason as much so, es it would be in England, to rti4ck the person of its monarch of conspire his death. The only difference is, that treason, committed against the Constitution and Laws, more Meetly affects the people by destroying these their safeguards; whereas treason committed against the person of royalty, does not necessarily, as in the former case, deprive the people of the protection afforded by the laws. The monarch may die, and the safety of the people survive his death; but when the laws perish the safety of the people perishes with them. We have been led to these remarks by the fact, that those who style themselves the people (I) have nominated Thomas C. Miller as a candidate for the Senate—the very man who headed the Harrisburg conspiracy in its overt demonstrations against the Constitutions and Laws. Oh I Peo ple of Pennsylvania, how are you disgraced by the demagogues and traitors, who stoat your name, and under it, commit crimes against your. selves ! In this instance, the very men who were in open rebellion against the people, call themselves "the people," and - ask the people to believe them I Shameless impostors what will they not do ! crlThis . noble county, the first in wealth and importance in the Commonwealth, has always led the van in the cause of correct principles. Bullet). Red by a patriotic and inlightened population, des pising every thing that is mercenary and base,this county bar always been 'regarded as the place, where pure principles were carried out in honest practicu. And its representatives in the Legisla ture, taking character from their constituents, have always exhibited a firm and elevated patriotism, equally honorable to themselves their County and the Commonwealth. Holding the first rank It. mongat the friends of the supremacy of the Laws, her representatives have been hold up as examples, worthy tho 'mutation of the patriotic and the good. But she can no longer display an escutcheon with- Fellow Freesuent g. We'd rather be the meanest craven That crawls 91A. Old'Oppression'e sod, Than underneath our own bright heaven Loam tbie fair heritage of God." ""Do minim* Lox non curia," Cried Sheriff Thomas C. No defendant sure will mind it, Should I charge a clever fee. A fool is he,,,who has office got That doeit not well improve it, But I'm not one of those I vvat, Who possess so little wit, The people, says Thomas, I'll make tools— Write, "guars daemon fregil," They'll think the words belong to law rules And pay two dollars for it. You have liaten'd to me a minute, A good song to you I've sung, There's something about roguery in tt, And now good folks I have done. Luncoster County. **'d ' .4,42a;v. out apt or blemish. Fier people aro cull noble; but she hos bred a traitor. who has brought die grace,hoth upon her and the Commonwealth. The name of -JOHN STROHM ? like the name of Benedict Arnold, will become a term of reproach, and will ortOie repeated, when he that beariitla execrated:fir his malicious and mercenary treason. 4010 n Strohm: co• - -Thos nuiina.of thi s wan, has aitesdy become synonymous #ith`thut of traitor, and if any man were to call his neiehbor. ...John Strohm," it. would bo linderstood at once, that he meant to charge him with treason. Truly has ho become inininGUS, wiles to call your neighbor by his name, would subject you to nn action of Blunder ! Public 2`4ltetings. OF THE FRIENDS OF THE Constitution and Laws. 111./1F: CifizonA of Adams county, in - .11 - favour of the Constitution and Laws, are informed that meetings will be held ut the following places, to make arrangements for the important Election which is to be held on,Tuesdav the 15th inst. It is to bo hoped thera? will be a general rally of the friends of order. At the home of 'Jews bogy in Con berland tewnbuip, on Tuesday Evening the Bth inst. At Petersburg, on Wednesday evening the 9th inst. At Llttleatown, on Thursday eeentng the 10th inst. Alßerlin, on Thursday evening As 10th inst. At Abbottstown, on Friday evening Me 11th inst. , At din Two Taverns, on Friday coming the I,ltit inst. At - killerstovrn, oh Saturday evening the 12th inst. At Hunterstown, on Saturday eventng the 12th inst. At Gettystmrg, on Monday enc.:zing the 14th inst. By Order of the Comrnittee—. Jnn. 7. FA 'IL Wit B 'lt Of the Receipts and Expenditures, by the Managers of the Hanover: and Carlisle Turnpike Road Company, from the 10th December, 1837,upi0 the 11th Docena ber, 1939. DR. Tolls received of Jecob Bear. Gate-keeper, of Gate No. 1. $BO5 Do. John Heagv, No.• 2, 720 00 De. Catharine Joues, No.•a , 615 26 Do. Wm. Thompson, No. 4, 586 07 Do. Andrew Dickson, No. 5. 6bl 251 Tolls received of Stockton and Stoke.. stage toll, Rent reeelved foroldGate.houre, • • Deduct oiim amount— being corm • terfeits received by gate-keep ere and paid to Treasurer. CR. Paid •2414 if year, expend,- turoeboing more than the re. • • coiple of Tolls, &c. during the, year, 8397 96 Paid rent of Gatti-house. • 79 25 r. Paid Printe for publishing ac counts, &c. Paid .5 Gate-keeper's salaries and probates of returns ' Paid repairs of Roads and Bridg• ae, &c. Paid Suporintendonts of load— their ;wages, Paid Managers' services, raid Secretary's salary, Paid Treasurer's salary, $3,637 303 3,561 37 -------- Balance due by the Company, tho expenditure, and pay s7s 374 manta being greater than the receipts, 1 do certify that the foregoing Exhibit . is a true and correct amount of the busi• nose of the Hanover and Carhee Tnrnpike Road Company, during the above stated periods.—Witness my hand, this 17th day of December, 1838. THOS. STEPHENS, Treas'r. Attest-GEORGE January 8,1830. PROtt.I.II.I7IIOA • Rocolpts, ,VHEREAS the Speaker of the See ate, of Pennsylvania, CITABLE)! B. PartrtnosE, Esquire, has issued a precept to me directed, bearing date the 29th day of December, 1839,f0r holding a SPEC! A L ELECTION, for a member of said Senate, in the room of JACOB CAIISAT, Esq. de. ceased, in pursuance whereof, 1, WIL LIAMTAUGHINBAUCH, Sheriffof the County of Adams, do hereby make known, and give the Public Notice, to the Electors of the 'raid County of Adams, that an . ELECTION Wilt be held in said County, on Tuesaal., the 15th dal el Junnitvl next, at the several Districts composed of the fol lowing Townships, viz : In the First District, composed of the Borough of Gettyithurg, and the township of Cumberland, at the Courthouse in Get tysburg. In the Second District composed of the township of Germany, at the hoinie now occupied by Alfred Cole, in the town of Littlestown, in the township of Germany. In. the Third District, composed of that ' part of the . township of Berwick, not in cluded in the 15th district, at the house of John M iley, Esq. in the town of Oxford. In the Fourth District, composed of the township of . 'Latimore, and that part of Huntingdon township, not included in the 11th District, at the house of Daniel Miller, in the township of Huntington. In the Fifth District, composed $1 the townships of Hamilton and Liberty, at the house of E. Plythe, Esq. in Millerstown. In the Sixth District, composed of the township of Hamilton ? at the , house now neCurnedby Jacob'Ruehey, in the town of • In the S:ventb .Distilet;:iompneed of ti e township of Illpeallen, at the house of W. and F.,Hapke i iii said townshiv: ID •Itre Eight District, corapesed of the township of Strffian, at theitouse o copied by Jacob Sowerbeer, in Fliinterstown. In the NintirDistrict, composed of the township of Franklin at the house now oc cupied by Henry Minr.ich, in said township. In the Tenth District, composed of the township of Conowago, at the house of Adam Oaster, in M'Sherrystown. In the Eleventh District, composed of the township of Tyrone, and all that part of Huntington township math of the road leading fi Rest Berlin to Carlisle. and east 00 - mete road, including ell the voters tete ine'contigious to said State road, at the house of Frederick Bowers, in Heidelberg, in Tyrone township. In the Twelfth District, composed of the township of Mountjoy, at the house of Mrs. Lorimer, in said township. In the Thirteenth District, composed of the township of Mountpleasant, at the house of Anthony Smith. in said township, situate at the cross roads, the one leading from Oxford to the Two Taverna—the other from Hunterstown to Hanover. In the Fourteenth District, composed of the township of Reading, at the Public School House in the town . of Hampton. In the Fifteenth District i coupposed of the Borough of Berwick, and that part of Bar wick townthip ONLY, included within the following limits, o wit : beginning where the Hanover and Petersburg turnpike read crosses the York county line, thence along said turnpike, thence along the said Oxford road, until it intersects the new rood from George Mutumurt's farm, on tho 4 T - 'llitid Ox ford road, thence along said road to the York county line, near David Hollinger's saw mill, thence along said York county ' ~ line to place of beginning ; at the public school house in Abbottstown. In the Sixteenth District, composed of the townsip of Freedom, at the house of Mr Nicholas Morritz, in said township. AT WHICH TIME AND PLACE WILL BE ELECTED. One .111.eukber tonic Stuate, of Venuslivanio., to re.. irr esent the District tom . -pest& of the, Csiantits of diaanas, Franklin sad. Unixibefittna,(for Osebun evelTea. term of Unseat, Esq. deceased.) By the 15th section of the act of the 15th of February, 1799, it is provided that the Judges and Inspectors chosen km and before the preceeding general election, shall attend and servo as such •respectively at such occasional election ; and the said Inspectors end Judges will therefore meet at the proper place in their respective districts, on the day 'of election aforesaid, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, to do and perform the several duties enjoined on them by law. .3,580 57 e 3,561 57 The Return Judges of the several Elec tion Districts, are to meet at the Courthouse in the Borough of Gettysburg, on Friday the 18thjof January next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. with certificates of the Election in their respective districts, to perform the duty re- 1 quired of them by law. 1 And in and by an act of the General Assembly passed on the 2d of April 1821, it is enacted and declared that every person 1 holding an office of_profit or trust under the mcvern.ment of the U. States, wheter a com missioned officer or otherwise, a subordinate officer or agent, who is or shall be employed under the legislative, executive or judiciary departments of the United States; and also, that every member of Congress is by la v incapable of holding or exercising at the same time the office or appointment of Judge Juspectors or Clerk of any election in this retate. 9189 09a 370 00 96 00 30 00 50 00 And by an act of the General Assembly, entitled, an act to regulating election districts," passed the lath day of April, 1839, it is provided in Section 38, That no Inspector, Judge, or other officer of any election, hall bo eligible to any office at such election, nor shell any person holding an office under the General or State gov ernment, be an Inspector, Judge, or other officer of any such election. Given at Gettysburg, the 81st day of December, in the year of our Lord 838, and the 02d year of the inde pendence of the United States. WM. TAUGAINBAUGH, Sh'ff. 3-40 STRAY SHEEP. Jan. 8! grA ME to the subscriber, re- t 4 . ‘-/ a:4111g in Germany town- ; : zf, • ~‘ ship, near Littlestown, TWO ,r so? SHEEP. The owner is request ed to• come forward, prove property, pay charges and take them away. JONATHAN C. FORREST. January A. 1P39. 3t-4I A LL persons are hereby cautioned ELEA to take an assignment of five Bonds for $2O ench, and one of 810, 92, all dated on or about the 10th of Feb. 1816, and pay. able - in the years 1839,40, 4.1, 42, 48, and 44, given by am to my late father Hen • Cronister,drc'd, and now in the possession of Wm. Patterson hie Executor—as I never ' received value for said Bonds, and am re solved aot to pay them unless compelled by law. Dec. 25, 183 P. NOTICE. ALL. persons indebted to the Estate of , GEORGE HARTZEL, deceased, are hereby" notified to call on the subscriber, at his residence, in !Mealier' township, and make immediate payment:ord those who have claims against said Estate, are re quested to present them, properly author' . 'tested for settlement. LIEN RY H. RTZEL, Adm'r of Goo. flartzel, at -110. Per.2s, 1 qB9. NOTICE. JOHN CRONISTER. 3t-39. ReOstPesNotkes. - Notice hi hereby eiye taeOintees.and other s pert*eco I (TOM, that the A DMIAISTR A. TION ACCOUNTS of the deceased per. sons - hereinafter mentioned,will be prei:ented to the Orphans' Court of Adams County, for confirmation and allowance, on Monday the 28th day-of January, inst , viz: Thn Account of James Bell, jr. Aaminin• trawl- of William Boyd . decenneo, -rho was Attimniqtrator of the Eatato of. Elizabeth Martin, deceased. The Account o(.farnes Bell, jr. Adolinis )kator of the &state of Elizabeth Martin, de ceased. JAS. A. THOMP4ON, Register. ligioter'it Office, Gettxo- . 1 burg, Jan. 5, 1838, "'Xi: tc-41 THRESI.III. I -14ACIIINES. THE Subscriber has (Ton appointed a gent for selling FRET) 'K GkIEB Co.'s Treshing Maclaine. There is now one of the Machines at the Barn of WiMain M'Clellan, Esq., near the Alms Rouse, where Farmers can have en opportunity of seeing it—being the same kind that is in general use in Chester, Lan. caster and York counties, Pa. and in Wash. inton and Fredeiink ccitintios;'M . d. .Tbey give general satisfaction, and for fast. and clear threshing- are surpassed by none.— Prica. 8175. - GEO: ARNOLD. January Fi,.l PIN; • " 4t-41 ffw:v..7:vgir4w,:viw;7/34 THE Subscriber has just , returned from Philadelphia and' Baltimore, with a fresh supply of SEASONABLE GOODS, CONSISTING IN PART OP Black, Blue, Brown and Green CLOTHS, Supei Plain and . Buckskin Cassimeres, Caeeinettes, Blankets, White and Colored Flannels, .Littesys, Canton .Plannels, Eng. lish and French Merinoes, Plain and Fig ured Silks, Velvet and Sattin Vestings,• Ribbons, Morino Shawls. Blanket Shawls, Calicoes, Checks; Ticking, -Colton Yarn, Carpetting, Umbrellas; &c'.;&c..&c. WITH A FLUX 6TOCII OF GROCIERVES, All of which will be sold ou the best terms. Lemons wishing to purchase Goodb, will find it to their advantage to call and see. R. G. McCIIEARY. January, 8,:1P99. 4e-41 Ir -CR EDITORS. riNAKE Notice that 1- have applied to the ' A L Judges olthe,Court of Common Pleas of- Adams County, for the benefit .of the Insolvent laws of this Commonwealth, and that said Court has appointed Monday the 2gth of January east, for the hear ing of roe and my creditors, at the Court - house in the Borough of Gettysburg k when and where • you may attend if yob think proper. DAVID ZIMMERMAN. January 8, 1899. tc-41 PCP Torch 'Light, Hagerstown, and Harald,Frederick,- will please insert the above, and charge this office. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. SEALED Proposals will be received at the Office of the Sup't of the Gettysburg Eitension Penn'a R. R. in Gettysburg, until sunset of Monday tho 21st of January next, for tho grading and formation of 3 sections or said road, viz : 24, 25 and 28. Plans and specifications of tho work will be exhibited at said office the week preced ing the letting, and all necessary information. , furnished. M. C. CLARKSON, Sup'f.. Dec. 22, 1838.... 4t-39. NOTICE TO Constables, Wholesale Dealers & Re tailers of Foreign Merchandize. PURSUANT to an Act of the Legts lature of Pennsylvania passed the 7th day of ApriI—CONSTA BLES will take notice, that agreeably to the second section of the Act, graduating the duties open Wholesale Dealers and Retailers of Merch andize, and prescribing the mode of issuing Licenses, and collecting said duties; they are requested, on or before the first day of January term, to wit r the 28th day of ,Tan uory next—to make on oath or affirmation, and deliver to the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, a list of all the 11 hole. sale dr. Retail Dealers of Goods, Wares and Merchandize, Wines or Distilled Spir its, except such as are the growth, produce or manufacture of the O. States. MERCHANTS & DEALERS em braced in the provisions of the shove recited Act, are hereby notified, that: according to the fifth section thareof,the Associate Judges and the County Commissioners will meet at the Commissioners' Office, in Gettysburg. on Tuesday • the 29th day a; January next,nt ,1 o'clock P. M. to hear them • (if they see proper to attend) as to the amount of their -annual sales during the year pre vious. Licenses to be taken out on or before tho Ist of March next, for one year. Physicians, Apothectu les, •Surgoons and Chemists, as respects wino, used in' preparations for (be sick, and all female traders, or single women, whose - annual sales shall not exceed those of the Bth class; below enumerated, shall not be required to; take out Licenses under the provisions of this act. , • The following will be •the classification agreeably to the Act of Awtembly : Isl class, ain't of sales, 650,000-sft • 40,000' 40 • ' " 90,000 40 ,20,000 25 15,000::20, 10,000 15 . " 5,000 12 50 2,500 10 WM. McCLEA N, Associate GEORGE WILL, 5 J Odra.' JOHN WOLFRED, WI LLIA M R EX, Commies. PETER DIVIL, lin. 1. 11430.
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