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Exunsine your Tickets.
(civ.We advise the people of this
district to examine their tickets before
voting. Trust not to the interested
Demagogues of the Mob party.
From the Carlisle Expositor
FRIENDS OF
MACFARLANE,
RALLY ! RALLY ! ! RALLY ! ! !
ON NEXT TUESDAY, being the
fifteenth day of the month, the freemen
of this district are called upon to elect
a Senator in the place of Jacon CAS
sat, Esq. who was found dead in his
bed on the morning of the 26th of De
cember. He was weighed down, and
hastened to his grave •by sorrow for
the outrageous violations of law and
order committed by a mob of the Van
Buren paity,who had driven the Senate
out of their chamber, and usurped all
the powers of government, until the
presence of citizens soldiers quelled '
them.
FREEMEN OF ADAMS ! by
this dispensation of Providence, the
HONOR is thrown upon you of being
the FIRST portion of the people, who,
at the BALLOT. BOXES, can testify
your abhorence of MOB LAW and
MOB RULD. Deep will be your
DISGRACE, should you suffer the,
MOB PARTY to obtain the ascendan- I
cy ; and if they do, you will have no
SECURITY for your rights.
The man who remains at- home
when such is the question, if he not
be of the mob party, becomes an ac.
cessary to that party, by giving it aid
and countenance. Let every honest
man, therefore, who to m his country,no matter what may bifits party name,
turn out and vote AGAINST the par
ty which employs and justifies MOBS.
The Election ! The Election !
Of Tuesday next, the fifteenth inst.
is to decide whether the good_ people
of this district, are FAVOUR of the
CONSTITUTION and the LAWS,
or the rule of LAWLESS MOBS,
and the plunder of the people's money
by the corrupt oflice-holders of the
Van Buren party. Who will disgrace
himself by staying at home when such
is the. question ? —ib.
THE MOB
AGAINST
The, Constitution and Laws•
This is the true issue to be tried
on Tuesday next. If the mob party
succeed, we may as well dispense with
a legislature as useless. Our courts
of justice will be but a mere song,
and a lavdess rable may control their
decisions. The next step 'will be to
drive Religion from our borders.—ib.
Would any man select a MURDERER
as a fit representative for a moral and
intelligent community ! We think not,
bat if it did, we should expect the
judgment of Heaven to fall upon such
a people. Is it not the same thing
to choose a man who would treasonably
stab to the heart the honor and welfare
of his native State. What can be ex
pected from such an individual ? We
answer dishonour and disgrace.—lb.
The contest which is to take place
on Tuesday next,is not an ordinary one.
It is to determine whether the people
of this district will sanction the FORCE
OF A MOB IN PREFERENCE TO THE
POWER OF THE LAWS. It is not
merely to decide whether one man or
another man shall be elected to the State
Senate, but it is to settle an important
principle upon which our present form
of government may depend. If unfor
tunately
for the country, - Thomas C.
Millet,the 'Loco-Foco candidate for the
Senate,should be elected,will it not very
justly be considered that the people of
this district approve of the conduct. of
the mob at Harrisburg, of which this /
$4)14 AtAN Miller,was one of the mosr
ACTIVE RINGLEADERS? Will it not be
an incentive to violence hereafter? And
will it not give encouragement for polit
ical desperadoes to band together and
control the destinies of the country.
On such grounds we URGE upon ALL
--z—without regard to party—who disap
prove of violence,insurrection and anar
chy, to assist in the election of JOHN
F. MACFARLANE.
We know..there are many who have
always been opposed to us, but who
will now sustain the cause of order and
peace,against mob law. To our friends,
we say, BE ACTIVE—Iet NO BUSINESS,
!no argument, no over confidence, nor
no want of it,keep you from doing your
' duty at the polls. ONE VOTE—and that
may be yours—may decide the election.
Your country calls and you must obey.
You now contend for that which you
inherited from your sires,aud which you
should transmit to your posterity—THE
LIBERTY OF YOUR COUNTRY. We say
once more, DO YOUR DUTY.—ib.
&After the insurgents had turned
the Legislature, Secretary of State and
Governor out of the Capitol, they set
about deceiving the people at a dis
tance by the most impudent assertions
!that no violence had been used—no
mob existed. This was an after
! thought of the villains, when they
found that the people Would not jus
tify mobs for any purpose. While the
tumult was going on however they
wrote to their friends in a very differ
ent strain. Senator Bell, of Chester,
a leading Van Buren man, wrote to his
friends that a "most dangerous mob
had possession of the Capitol."
Mr. Flennikin, a leading Van Bu
ren member of the House, from Fay
ette
county, wrote the following letters
to his intimate friends, on the 4th, sth
and 7th of December:
11ARRIsliCIRO, nth Dec.
, "My Dear S--t We are doubt
-1 less here in the midst of a fearful revolution
The town of Harrisburg is crowded with
the most exci,ed population beyond all con
trol. They yesterday drove out the Sen
ate. The Governor has, it is said, issued
his proclamation for .5000 militia. It will
bring in 15000, before night this day. I
fear that blood will flow freely in this devot
ed place, (extract relating to his family)
excluded. I have laboured until 1 can
scarcely stand, to prevent that state of
things, but all in vain. I fear the days of
Stevens, flurrowes and Penrose are number
ed. In great haste.
Yours, truly.
Copy of Lotter of same to the same.
LIAIMPIIIIIRO, sth Dec
_
My Dear S'—‘:—No actual fight.
ing has Vet taken place at Harrisburg, but
how long it will remain so, God only knows.
The people have entire possession of the
Capitol. The Senate cannot meet, and the
seceding branch or rather the fractional
[or factional] branch of the [louse are not
permitted to meet. We met this morning
at 10 o'clock, and transacted some business
and adjourned until to-morrow, but whether
we will again be permitted to meet, is ex
tremely doubtful.
The militia under•the Governor's tequis•
ition are now on their march to this place,
I and are expected to be here to night some,
and early in the morning others.
The moment an armed force reaches here
there will be collision and bloodshed. Oh
deplorable condition of our beloved Com
monwealth. I have this afteinoon made
my best efforts with a Committee of the
opposition to preserve the peace and order—
of my native state. I reel now broke off
from every point of hope. I have (as far
as! can see) to look to but the most fearful
scenes to be enacted here.
What a dreadful state of things we have
reached, and all this on account of the per
verse obstinacy of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth, in withholding the majority re
turns in his possession from the county of
Philadelphia, from both branches of the Le
gislature. Had he produced both returns
no difficulty would have occurred.
I can write no more at present.
Yours, trulyi,
Extract ofseveral letters from the same to
another person.
HARRISBURG, Dec. 4.
"Leiper came here on Sunday at the
head of 100 mein from Philadelphia county,
500 more are expected from Adams and
•alt is expected the opposition will bring
in men too."
"Hopkins was conducted to the chair by
men who would have hurled Cunningham
headlong from the seat he desecrated—if he
had refused to yield it. Here the galleries
rung with the moat tremendous shout of ap
plause."
"1 fear a Pennsylvania Legislature will
never meet again until the close of a revolu
tion,"
Elannisnuno, Dec. 5.
O , We are in the midst of a revolution,
worse than my fears ever realized."
"I have apprehensions that before to
morrow night, the blood of our fellow cat
zens will flow in the Capitol, and in the
streets of Harrisburg."
"The members aro arming themselves
with weapons or death."
"I fear the &ye of Penrose, Burrower and
Stevens are numbered."
"The people have possession of the Hall
of Legislation."
Extract from another letter of December
7th or. Bth, the r•atue writeryays:
I ""It is rumored that there are armed
troops on the other side of the river—hope
not. As soon as they set foot on this side
of the river, blood will flow, in 48 hours,
20,000 democrats will assemble here to op
pose them. lam prepared in peace or in
war, to do iriy duty to my constituents."
JOHN SNYDER one of the "commit
tee of Safety," returned home on Sat
urday after the meeting of the Legisla
ture, as one of the members and a
gent of the "Provisional Government,"
to raise men and money to overturn the
Constitutional Government. His ac
count of their acts would certainly not
be worse against them than the truth.
I Mr. Durham, a merchant of great re
spectability and intelligence, of Lu
zerne county, testifies as follows :
DA [WHIN COUNTY, SS.
Before me, the subscriber, a Justice of
the Peace for the said comity, poisonaliy
appeared Alpha Ilurhain, of Tuekhannuck,
in the county of Luzerne. who being , duly
sworn, duth depose and say, that on Sunday
the ninth dny of December, A. I)., 1631,
he wits in Bisslir's Tavern, in the town of
Seelinsgrove, cud county of Uuium, nod then
and there heard a man of the name of John
Snyder, who is said to be a son of the late
Governor Snyder,, and who resides in or
near Seclin's 'Grove, aforesaid, us deponent
has been informed, in a conversation with
'George Kremer, of said county, nod others,
any, that he had just returned from Harris
burg the day previous, mid had been in liar
risburg when the Legislature met on the
preceding Tuesday, and during all that
weelt,until the day previous to that,(said Sun
day) when he had come home; he said there
had been much disorder in the organization
of the [loose of Representatives and Seliate
—that the Whigs had got the advantage of
their party in the orgsLization of the Sea
ate and [louse of Rt-presentutives ou ac
count of the way the Secretary of the Coin
monwealth had sent in the returns, and they
or his party were determined to prevent
any legislation, as they were afraid ,that the
‘Vhigs &c. having a majority in the Senate
the Whig or Cunningham House would
meet and act with the Senate and pass laws
and do acts that would be injurious to tlwir
party—he said they, the Democrats, were
determined to prevent any such legislation
by force of arms, because it would be of no
use to have the Supreme Court decide on
such legislation, acts or laws, that that was
too slow a process—that the Judges of the
Supreme Court were believed or supposed
not to be Democrats, and intimated some
thing about the corruption of the Judiciary,
or Judges,—he said if the Whigs did at
tempt to legislate in this way and surround
ed the Capitol with troops to guard it and
themselves, his party would file or play
upon the Capitol with artillery; would drive
in the doors of it with cannon balls, and in
this way drive the members out, ol the Lap
itel,—lie said that nt the meeting or the
Legislature onthe•previous Tuesday his or
their party had a parcel of fine fellows there
from Philadelphia and other places, and it
would have been as easy for us to have had
a gallows erected on the Capitol-hill at
Harrisburg and had Stevens hung on it, as
'to have said the word; and if they had said
the word, they could have had Penrose and
Burrows tarred and feathered, or any other
violence,done to them they'derired,—that it
required restraint to prevent them from do
ing so, and that if they, (we) or his party
had given the word to them, those fellows
would have . demolished the Capitol,—that
those fellows had come to Harrisburg to
see that their Philadelphia members had
their rights, got• their seats, arid were nut
cheated out of them; he gave an account
of what he said tuck place in the hall oldie
House of Representatives the then prece
ding Tuesday,—lie said that when the Sen
ate met on the same day, there was a great
creed in the Senate chamber, and that
when these persons who had come from
Philadelphia to see that their members were
not cheated out of their rights, saw the
course that the Senate wailpursuing, that
Hamm and Wagner were admitted, and
Brown & Stevenson kept out those persons
became very much excited and made noises
and said Brown should have hi 4 seat, 7 -that
Brown attempted to address the Senate, and
the'Speaker told him that he could not do
so, as he was not a member of the Senate
—that the crowd in the galleries called out
and insisted that Brown should be heard—
that when the Speaker of the Senate refused
to let Brown speak and' called to order, or
shortly after, he himself hallowed or cried
out loudly "Ride the Speaker on a rail "
and then those people in the gallery moved
forward ; that atter this the Senate did con
sent to let Mr. Brown speak—that imme
diately after this the Speaker called Mr.
Rogers to the chair, and having left it, be
ing afraid as he supposed, escaped from the
Senate chamber through a window and
cleared off: He fuyther stated that the
Governor had issued his proclamation call
ing upon the tlilitia to come there'and keep
the peace, and some troops were expected
to be at Harrisburg then or shortly,--that
their party thought it would be best to have
more men there to help to keep the peace,
and he expected that a great many thous
ands would be there to help; that they
(the Democrats) had sent out expresses in
different directions, and had an understand-
ing so that they would have a great number
there to help thong--he mentioned the
names of a number of officers, captains, &c.
of Artillery, and other. traups, that -were
ready to come to bplp their party, but de.
Fitment cannot now recollect the names of
the officers said Snyder then mentioned;
he said he had not the least doubt that a
great many thousands would come there
under arms, that a much greater number
would come there than the Governor got
to come, and they, that is, the said Snyder
and others, as deponent then understood
him, had determined that if the troops
brought there by the Governor, spilled a
single drop of blood, that every one of them
should be put to death.
The said Snyder detailed what he said
had been dune at Harrisburg at cousidera.
bly greater !ength than the foregoing--a
considerable part of the "foregoing, to the
best of deponents knowledge and belief, is in
the precise words used by the said Snyder,
changing the same from the third to the
first person where necessary as applicable
to the person speaking, and the remainder
is the substance ot what he then stuted in
relation to the matter before referred to ;
he also stated how ho had led or assisted to
lend men up to the Arsenal to turn out
those in possession of it or take it—that
they had sent off an express to get 11 r.
Porter to come down and be Matig,uratod
th t next Tu,sdny, if the people thought lit
to do so. The said Snyder further statt•d
that he had that day, or by that day's mail,
received a letter from Harrisburg, inform
ing him that his presence there might be
bencfi.•ial to the democratic party, and he
was determined to start again to Harris
burg early the next morning.
A 11'11 [WIWI% 11.
Sworn and subscribrd before /DP, Decern
ber 24, 1-4:38, 51. Wlif N N EY,
Justice of the Peace, &c.
To the. People of ddrions
Conniff.
FELLow CrrtzEris: —I promised you a
111010 extended account 01 the alarining act+
of the lust month, which compelled mu to
withdraw from the L•gislature.
The circumstances which led to that step,
have baen so falsely stated by guilty parti
zans, that I ant aware that calin, impartial
truth, wt.l at present, find it difficult to coin.
mend universal belief. But the transactions
of the petiod are too important to he omit
ted in history and he who shall ho found '
worthy to write an enduring account of the
title and fall of our Republic; of the establish
went, and - overthrow of our Liberty, will
discover the tendency, and do justice to the
acts and the actors of this crisis.
On Tuesday the 4th day olDecember last,
the members elect assembled at Harrisburg
iii accordance with the Constitution, to or
ganize the different branches ~ I the Legisla
ture. It was Itt.owa that several cases of
contested elections were likely to be present
ed to the several Houses. It was doubtful
which sot of Senators from the Huntingdon
I district, was entitled to their seats in the first
instance, although it was well known t h at
the Anti• Masonic members had received
above three hundred inure votes than their
opponents. But, in cousequence of the re•
turn Judges treat the several Counties huv
ing laded to carry out the vote of flunting•
dun County, in their acidifier) of the several
returns, the Van Berea candidates chinned
their seats en the organization of the Senate,
although, if the vote of Huntinedon were
included,they were in a large minority; and '
although the votes of fluutitigdou County
were regularly returned by the return Jud
ges of that County, to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, and by him, to the Senate.
In the District composed of Chester,Del
aware, and Montgomery., Mr. Brook receiv•
ed a majority of seventeen votes over his op
lenient Mr. Bell. But, in making out copies
for the return Judges in the Trappe District,
the Clerk wrote two hundred end treenty.six
(the number of votes cast for Mr. Ball,) so
that it might well be read two hundred and
seventy six, although the true number (220)
was carried out in figures. The return
Judges chose to read it seventy six,and made
up their returns accordingly, thereby giving
Mr. Bell thirty three of a maker.) , 111 the
district. Thie.they did from the thee of the
returns of the several counties,alt hough they
had before them, the retains, tally papers,
Judges and Clerks of the Trappe District,
ready to prove the error. The County
Judges decided, perhaps correctly ,t hat their
duty being merely clerical and not judicial,
' they could not correct it.
In the County ofPlitladelphia,which elec
ted two Simmers, eight Repreeentatives,and
in districts, two members of Congress, the
return Judges met to "add up" the votes giv
en in the several Districts. C. J. Ingersoll
appeared before them, and proved that in
the 7th Ward of the Northern Liberties,the'
Judge (a Van Buren man) had lust the tally
papers. That Ward wive about 300 major
ity for the Van Buren ticket. Ingersoll
asked, not that it should be sot aside, but
that all the votes of all the Wards of the N.
Liberties, seven in nut:data., should be rejec
led, being near 6dutt ill all, and giving to
the Whig f:tintlidatee, idiom 1000 majority.
The law is explicit. The Judges could do
nothing hut "add up" all the votes returned
from the several o:stride, without inquiring
into then legality. 'Foal reserved fur the
several branches of the Legislature. The
Van Buren Judges, how. ver, determined to
"mild up" only toe remaining dist fleet, utter
excluding the severs wards of the Nortiteru
Liberties.
The Whig judges deterinieed to add up
all the votes given in the county. and called
upon all the return judges to furtiisit the
returns from their respective - iietricts, cud
did add up all the votes thus furnished,
some of the judges withholding theirs.—
The returns thus legally "added up," were
duly sealed, directed to the Senate and
House of Representatives, handed to the
High Sheriff, and by him sent to the Secre
tary of the Co4rm'wealthats di reeted by law.
Thu Van Baren judges added up a part of
the returns; and refused to add the balance,
although offered to them. A few days af
ter they / were disposed of 16 the Sherifra
office, (us is supposed) although that is not
officially known. By the returns made by
those judges who went upon the principle
of casting up the whole number of votes, and
which were officially transmitted to the Se
cretary of the Commonwealth, the whig
members were elected by between one and
wo thousand majority.
Several seats were to be contested in both
Reuses upon the above and other returns
The manner of conducting these contested
elections, is regulated by the Conititution
and laws passed in pursuance thereof, and
is easy to be understeod. ,But the difficulty
was likely to arise in organising the Houses
us to who should have their seats in the first
instance.
• By the law of 1799 applicab:o to all sin
gle county districiti ) it lJ provided that "as
soon LW all the votes - aball be mild of and
counted, the judges of each district, in
case the county be divided into districts,
shall make out under their hands a fair
statement and certificate of the number of
votes which shall have been then and there
given for each candidate, distinguishing the
station or office he has voted for, which
numbers shall be expressed in words at
length, and nut in figures only: and one of
the said judges shell take charge of such
certificate, and, on the fourth day after the I
day of election, prtdnee the same ton nieet.
ing of one jud g e from each district within
the Said county. at the Court House, and
for the city and county of Philadelphia, at
the State House; for which service he shall
be allowed out of the county Treasury, ten
cents lot every mile he shall have necessa
rily travelled, in corning film, his proper
electron district to the said Court House,
and m returning therefrom to his own home;
and the judges (tithe several dust riots of the
county o 0 rust, shall add togeihtr the num
ber of votes which shall appear to be given
for any person or persons who shall there
unto be lound to be highest in vote, or
elected as Repiescntative, Senator or other
officer, and shall forthwith make out dupli
cafe returns of the election of such person
or persons as shall be so elected and chosen
to any of or elation, which the electors
' at the said county are entitled to choose fur
themselves unconnected with any other
county or district; and when u Governor is
to be chosen,-like returns doll the votes
given for tiny person or persons for Gov
ei nor; and having lodg3d ono of each of the
said returns ni the office of the Prothomltary
of the county, shall enclose, seal and direct
when the same relates to the choice of a
Governor, to the Speaker of the Senate ;
when to the election of a Senator or Sena
ntors, to the Senate ; when to a member or
members of the House of Representatives,
to the House of Representatives; when to
Sheriff or Coroners, to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth ; when to a Commissioner
or Commissioners fir the county, to the
Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of
said county. And one of the judges shall
deliver the returns so sealed and directed to
the .3 he rill' of the county, endorsing thereon
the time of delivering the same; and the
said Sheriff shall within fifteen days there
CiIIISC the return directed to the Clerk
of the Cnurt of Quarter Sessions, to he de
livered agreeably to the said direction; and
having received the returns of any district
fur the election of Senator or Senators. or
cue or more members of the House of Re
presentatives, which may by law be direct•
ed to be completed and made out within the
said county, ter the same election, the said
Sheriff shall forthwith by himself or his
deputy, transmit the whole of said returns
to the Secretary of the Commonweilth, so
that the seine shall be delivered into the
Secretary's office within twenty days alter
the last of the returns shall nave been re•
ceived by the said Sheriff; in which case
and not otherwise, lie shall be entitled to
rozeive from the State Treasury, on war•
rants drawn by the Governor, ten cents fur
every mile be shall necessarily travel, in
going from and returning to his proper
county."
This is the whole law which has any bcar•
tng on the Perladelphia County returns,
which has been the pretext for so much law ;
less conduct. The returns made out by the
Judges who added up all the District, which
,were furnished them, were "enclosed, seal
ed and directed" to the Senate and [louse
of Representatives, their one of the
return Judges endorsed them "offivial re
turns of the County of Philadelphia," and
signed his name as return Judge; delivered
them to the Sheriff of the County,who trans•
milted them to the Secretory of the Corn
monwealth as the official returns. Being
sealed, of course the Secretary had no right
to inspect theta: and, if he could have divin•
ed their contents, he had no right to judge
whether they were true or false returns. Ho
bud but one duty to perform—to transmit
them to the several houses to which they
were directed. They were the only returns
from the County which he could thus trans.
mit until the [louses were organized • and
capable of calling on him for further infer.
mutton. Those returns might be false, or
the persons t herein returned aselected,might
have been unduly elected The Inw supposes
such cases might happen, and has provided
the remedy in accordance with the Consti
tution. But that remedy could not be applied
because the issue could not be made up until
the members returned to the Secretary, and
by him to the House, had been duly sworn
in.
Until then. no parties existed between
whom to form the issue. It is absurd to say
that the prima facie decision of the conies
ted seats in, the House of Representatives,
can be postponed until all the undisputed re
turns are read, and then those members de
cide the disputed ones; because, until the
Speaker is elected and the members duly
qualified,. they are not a body competent to
entertain any question. Every thing ante
rior to that,is a mere consentuble agreement
among so ninny gentlemen. And by the
Constitution and Laws, there must be one
hundred members capable of voting for
Speaker,and taking their seats at the organi
zation. If the disputed seats are to be post
poned until such organization is perfected,
it would be easy to defeat it altogether, by
contesting all the seats, and leaving none as
umpires. This, however, is an entiiely false
view of the mutter. The House is compe
tent to take no vote as to the right of mem•
bets to seats. There must, in every in•
stance,be sitting mernbers upon the returns
furnished by the Secretary of the Common
wealth; and the only wit!, by which they can
be unseated, is by a petition presented by
the claiming members, complaining of . a
false return or undue election oft he returned
members—and that petition referred to a
Committee 'elected by lot, according to the
act of 1701; whose-report is final and con
elusive.
He who supposes that the House, or the
members thereof (except the Committee
albresaid)cen, by vote, determine either the
prima facie or ultimate tide to seats, lies
examined the subi.c.t.with little eitention,or
little ability to under/Omni it. Never, since
the Act of 1791 until the late Revolutiona
ry proceeding, h .s it bee iiretended, that ii
objected to, any member could take hie
I seat on any other evidence than the return
'furnished by the Secretary. So well estab
lished were the law and the practice, that
no difficulty would have been anticipated in.
any of the above named cases, had not cer
tain party organs have given notice. "that
the Yen Buren members for the county of
I Philadelphia, should hare th‘ it seats on.
the first any of the Sessio ,, , and if it was
resisted, twenty thousand bayonets should
bristle in Harrisburg, and the best blood of
the Country should flow in the streets."
flits wits believed by most gond citizens, or
be but idle gm , conade as it could net be sup
posed that in a Republic, scarcely half a
century old, traions could he found hold
arid profligate enough, to brine an armed
mob to overawe the Legislature, and pro.
earn by f,rce, what, if they were entitled to,
they could have lr'ully obtained in a few
days: arid what, tt not entitled to, might
,nun he made to appear; end whether en
titled to or not, torl'orciiie it by a rebellious
multitude, is certainly and fatally destruc
tive to liberty.
VI hen the members had assembled at
the seat of Government, a few dins before
the day of organization, it was ascertained
that a large 111111'1)er of hired ruffians had
lean brought froth !ht. suburbs of Pliiladel.
phia, attired with deadly weapons, to en.
litrce the claims of the Van Buren members
to their seats; and, as some el their leaders
declared, to throw the Legialu'ure out of
the windows" if they refmed it. The Alai-
Van Buren members of the Senate and
House of Representatives, then assembled
to deliberate as to the proper course to he
pursued ; and to consult es to the true legal
method or organizing both brunches, that
they might do melting unadvisedly and
notliteg to be 'spewed el. They hold two
title" tad meet ings on Saturday and Monday.
At each of these, Mr. Strohm, a Senator
from the County of Lancaster, presided.
After full deliberation, and examination of
the Constitution and Laws, several Resolu
tions, which 1 shall, in a future number, give
at length, were unanimously passed, deviate
itig "that the only legal mode of organizing
in the first instance;was upon the returns
furnished through Me Secretary ; and that
if it were alleged that they were false, or
fraudulent, that could be tried only award
tag to the act of 1791, by a Committee lifter
the organization"
Among the. members of the House then
present, Were Chester Butler and John
sturdevant of Luzerne, and John Muntelius
of Union county, making in all, tifiy two
members of die House, and u quorum of the
Senate.
On the lst Tuesday (the 4th) of Decem
ber, the members elect assembled in the
Hall of the House of Representatives. An
unusual number of people filled the galleries
and lobby ; several of the aisles, and the
open space in front of the Speaket's chair,
were cloaked up with rude lookingstratig
ers ; and the chairs of several nriemberri
were surrounded with rough, brawny •bul.
'lies. My seat had the honor of being
guarded by eight, or ten of the most desper
ate brawlers of Kensington and Spring
Garden, who thrust themselves determined
ly against my chair and when 1 left it oc
casionally, one of them occupied it until my
return. Most of them wore coats with out
side pockets in which their handsi were
generally thrust; and, as 1 afterwards sat.
isfuetteily ascertained, were armed with
double barrelled . pistuls, Bowie Knives, and
dirks. Men of a similar description and
similarly accoutered, occupied the platform
mound the Speaker'schair. They seemed
to be under the guidance of such men as
Jack Savage, J. J. McCahen, Thomas C.
Miller, Win. Leipet, Lewis Corryell,
Charles Pray and others, when several of
my friends, seeing my danger, endeaVored
to intreduce themselves between these rut
flans and my chair, Pray (a claiming mem
ber from the county of Philatielphia,)caine
up and whispered to them "to stand close
and be ready."
At the usual hour the Secretary 'of the
Commonwealth appeared, and announced
to the members elect that he delivered to
them 'oho official returns of the late elec
tion for members of the House of Represen
tatives." He deposited them on the Spea
ker's chair and withdrew. A member elect
then proposed that they should be opened
and read ; to which all agreed. The clerk
oldie last House, who was present, wits the
person . designated to open and read them.
'Flits is usually the case, ultheugh ho is no
kepi- in office, having gone out with the
House that elected him on the second Tues
day of the preceding October. But having
experience, he Is generally selected for this
purpose. He did proceed to open and read
the returns, until he reached the County
of Philadelphia (being near the first.;
Upon their being opened, Mr. Pray rose and
pulled 110111 his pocket, what lie said was a
certified copy of the true return, alleging .
that the one opened
_was a false .ioluru.
Mr. Hopkins proposed that both should be
read. Thus. S. Smith, of the city of Phila
delphia, rose and objected to reading any
paper but the returns furnished by the Sec
retary of the Commonwealth; declaring,
that as the House was hot organized and
capable of voting uu or examining any con
tested return, nothing could be done until a
Speaker was elected, and the membeis
sworn in upon the returns officially fur
nished. That he hoped bone who thought
that the legal mode, would violate the law
by voting on Mr. Hopkins' proposition.
The Clerk, however, asked the gentle.
man if he should rend both returns; some
suid "yes," and he did read them. Alter
lie Mid finished reading all the. returns, 1
rose and stated On substance) that a differ.
emu of opinion as to the legal mode of or- .
gnn,izuistito,,,'histhowaltiluaustToy%.vraismilei,knetlyortulalaveri,sul;
bui
trusted no dif fi culties would arise to disturb
proceeding. lf either party
erred
o i r n de i
r tsjudgment of the law, that error
Could be peaceably corrected Ly the proper' -
tribunals. With those tribunals, we were
willing. to trust our case; and I hoped our
opponents would seethe proprictv ol follow
ing the same course, and doing nothing to
disturb the pea:o or sully the honor of the
Commonwealth. That 1 would propose --
that we should proceed to tag-maze by elect-
lug a Speaker, and that the names of those
members returi.-A by the Secretary should
be called. If any gentleman thought any
other mode legal, they , would call such
names as they pleased, and if in so doing
two Speakers should happen to be chosen,
they Certainly would be courteous enough
to find room for both on the Speaker's plat•
form until the law decided between them.
I then named tellers Mr. Watts and Mr.
and asking the gentlemen if they
were agreed, they answered affirmatively,
and the tellers went to the Speaker's desk
and called the names of all the members
returned by the Secretary—fitly two of
them voted for Speaker—several others an
swering but not naming any candidate for
Speaker.
Gen. Cunningham was declared duly
elected, and took the chair. Then for the
first time in a Legislative Hall, that I have
ever witnessed, n large number of persons
in the gullerv, lobby and Hull,
The oath was administered to the Speak•
or by Mr. Smith and by him to all the mern•
burs who presented themselves to take it
fifty•two including himself. Motions were
made and committees nppointed to inform
the Semite and the Governor of our orgntii•
zation—and ill older to prevent if possible
arty collision with the other body then or
ganizing, a resolution offiired by Mr. Crahb
Was passed fixing our time of meeting at 10
o'clock, A. M. and 2 f o'clock P. M, oc the
alternate days of the week, I having sug-
gested to the other gentleman to accommo•
date their meeting to these hours. We
then adjourned to meet the next day at 2i
o'clock, P. M.
While the House was thus organizing,
Mr. Hopkins moved that the names of the
Van Buren men contained in the return fur
nished by Pray should be added to the list
of members, and they be considered mem
bers.
The question was put ; and forty-eight
members elect and a large number of the
.'prople" scattered through the !house voted
"aye"—and the Clerk said it was carried,
nod installed Pray and his associates at once
its members! arid immediately atter in call
ing the names to elect a Speaker, called
them, arid not the members officially return
ed for the county.
The forty eight who did not vote for Mr.
Cutruitightim. and the eight added as above
proceeded to the election, rind Mr. Hopkins
was elected Speaker. He went to the plat
form amid the loud shouts and anplanses at
the mob! I. J. Md.:alien and several of
his associates, not members, mounted the
platform with hiin—McCalion standing be•
hind Speaker Cutininghnin arid beckoning
several of the mob to bike possession of the
steps leading to the Speaker's chair, which
they obeyed.
When the Speaker declared the House
adjourned, M'Calien said "you shall never
meet in
_this House again." This fellow
was in no way connected with the Legisla
ture' but has been for years an officer:in the
Philadelphia Post Office, resigning occa
sionally on the morning of an election,so as
to 'qualify himself to act as Clerk or, judge
in the Kensington district Mid being recom•
missioned the next day 1
' This is what
.the mob call "protecting
their rights;". and the general government
tlr purity of the elective franchise." - The
House of Representatives had by its calm
and conciliatory course given no pretext
for actual violence, and became organized
contrary - I'6llm determination of the leaders
of the mob. They expected we should
submit to taking votes upon the legality of
returns before we were organized, when
they should be able to intimidate the weak
and dictate their course.
Mortified at being fbiled,they held a meet
ing at which Gen. Miller presided and resolv
ed to go to the Senate and "claim their
rights." Thu Senate met at 3 o'clock and
proceeded to organize upon the same princi
Tiles that the lioals3 had adopted. When
the Philadelphia County returns wore read,
Mr. Brown presented certified copies of re
turns similar to Pray's l und Mr. Rogers inov•
ed that they be read as the true returns. The
Speaker decided flint no returns could be
read in the first instance but those furnished
by the Secretary of the Commonwealth.—
They having returned !Messer. ['mina and
Wegner, they appeared mid were sworn in.
In the meantime, Mr., Coping' and others,
members elect, but ant sworn in, attempted
to address the Sennte,but were called to or•
der by the Clieir, not being yet qualified to
net as members. Much confusion existed
in the gallery. After Hanna and Wagner
ere sworn in, Brown attempted to address
the Senate, but was called to order, nut be
ing u member. Persons in the gallery then
cried out, "hear hind" "bear him!" "Brown,
Brown!" "You shall hear Brown!" John
Snyder culled out "ride the Speaker on a
rail!" When hundreds cried out "a tc4 l "
4 'a row!" jumped over the railing into the
lobby, and in spite of all the efforts of the
Sergeant at arms, Door Keepers and their
essistants, rushed into the Senate chamber
headed by M 'Cullen, Pray, and others, con
tinning to yell "Give us our rights!" "We
will have our rights!" "Re-consider your
vole!" "You shall admit Brown and Steven
son!" "Hanna Red Wagner shall resign! Wo
will have our rights or blood!" "Wo will
have Burrowos', Stevens', and Penrose's
.. -
Mood"! "Dawn with Stevens, Down with
Burrowes!" "You shall hear Brown!" All
was then confusion and alarm.. Brown was
permitted to proceed, sometimes addressing
the Spanker, but generally his "fellow eiti:
zees," as he called the ruffians behind him,
, descanting upon his and their rights, and
they answering him with cries fur "blood!"
land for the "lives of Penrose, Burrowes,and
'StiivetaL" Their fury increased and was.
f'rnet►ted by their leaders,9l r. Burrower and
myself' were standing in front of them, near
the fire. We were urged several times to
withdraw us the only means of safety and of
preventing the effusion .of blood. Mr. Pen
rose, the Speaker, finding it impossible to
restore order, left the Chair, putting Mr.
Rogers n► a man of their own party,Who
told the Speaker that if he did not leave he
could not be protected. Private information
was conve) ed both to Mr. Penrose and my
self; by persons from the crowd, q►a they
heard the ruffians arranging it to "stao or
"knife" us. Mr. Burrowes, following the
advice rife very cool and judicious gentleman
from Philadelphia, had left the house by a
back window; and as the tumult grew thick
er and nearer, after dark Mr. Penrose and
myself did the same, and were followed by
a large number of gentlemen, Senators and
members of the House, as well as others.—
We hnd scarcely got behind the Treasury
'wilding, when twenty or thirty of the mob
woke out of the Capitol, and run around to
lie window whence we escaped. On seeing
t open, a person present testifies that they
said "we are a minute too late!"—and in•
quired for Mr. Penrose.
We went to the Secretary's and from
!hence to the Governor's. Neither of us
returned to our lodgings that night. I wits
informed by those not likely to be deceived,
that my path was waylaid by at least three
parties of assassins. One of the gang hnd
been heard to say, "that I shnold be in the
3usquehannah before morning."
After the Senate was thus adjourned, the
people as this mob is sty led by their
leaders. took undisturbed possession of the
Senate Chamber, their chieftains mounting
the Senators' desks, and preaching sedition
and bloodshed.
That night they re.nssembled in the
Court House, Gen. MILLER again in
the chair, and resolved "that the Govern
ment was at an end, and appointed a Com•
mittee of Safety to carry on the govern
ment of the State." Their orators, Barton,
Penniman and others, told them lo call on
the Secretary fir other returns, and if he
did not give them, "then" "then" said
they, slapping their fills together, and mak
ing significant signs of assassination ! They
urged them 'logo to the Captfol the next
day and demand their rights, and if they
were not zranted, TILE CA PITOL
SHI'ULD SMOKE 14%1TH BLOOD."'
They appointed several Committees to 'take
care of the government." Among the
Committee of Safety some of our own
citizens. Gen. MILLER, Cul. IRVINE,
and others, found an honorable place.
Th e next day the Capitol was filled with
the rioters. The Senate did not attemp' to
meet except to adjourn (lire's depute.' Speak
er. Mr. Spackman went to the House, at
the request of the Speaker, to adjourn
but found it filled by the mob, even to the
Speaker's chair: and, when he attempted
with resolute firmness, to discharge his
duty, lie was seized and dragged out of the
House, amidst violent tumult—Many esca
ping through the windows.
The keeper of the Arsenal bad garrison
ed it with a few men, to protect the arms,
when the mob surrounded and attempted to
force it. I ought not, perhn ps,to say "mob;"
they were insurgents regularly officered.
Gen Diller had the comman d of them;
and aided by Gen. Miller, and several other
officers of less note and infamy, drilled them
for about three hours on Capitol. hill. As
nearly as could be ascertained, without see
ing their muster roll, there were nearly four
hundred men in rank.
In the mean time, the "Provisional Gov
, eminent" was in session at Chase's tavern,
'receiving reports, appointit , Committees,
and despatching agents to thc?difihrent coun
ties,to raise funds and "minute men" to °pro
tect the rights of tho Philadelphia butchers!"
Neither the Governor nor Secretary of the
Comm'wealth,da red logo to their Executive
cl•ambers,and the obnoxious members of the
Legislature, were compelled to stay away
from the Capitol, on pain of instant death!
Nor could they, with safety, appear in the
streets nor in the bar-rooms of the public
houses, until the arrival of the troops under
Gen. Patterson.
I have been thus minute, and I fear,
tedious, in relating particulars, because the
actors and leaders in these scenes, with the
effrontery of practiced feluns,deny that there
was any mob--any outrage! They say "that
none were assembled there hut good peace.
able citizene,nnxious to protect their 'rights!'
and " that the small excitement was no'hing
more, than the virtuous indignation of nn
injured people, grieving over the wrongs
they antlered!' I
If there was no mob, no tumult the
Legislature was not dissolved, and govern
ment broken up ;—why appoint a Commit•
tee of Safety ? Why have a "Provisional
Government 7" Why have a Commander
of Armies, if the Governor was still Com
mander in Chief? Why raise "minute rim"
in' Berks, York, Northumberland and else
where, if there war no Revolution 7
But, who were these virtuous "People,"
who became so inr'tgnant at the infraction
of their rights? They were not the march.
ants, and householders, and mechanics o
Philadelphia County. They were not the
Farmers and honest labourers from the
country. They are not wont to appear in
deliberative assemblies, to "grieve" wtth pis.
tole, and assert their rights with daggers"
No 7 The People who wore thus "excited
were n hired banditti from the currupt put..
Imes of Philadelphia. They came in bands
under regular !ceders. Mr. Flennikin, a
leading Van Buren member of the House
from Fayette County wrote on the 4th and
sth December, to one of his Constituents
"that LIEPHR was there at the head &Ono
hundred men from the County of Philadel•
phia, and five hundred more would follow I"
About Iwo hundred actually arrived. The
most respectable of them•—the "Captains
of Tens," were keepers of•disorderly houses
in Kensington. Then came journeymen
butchers, who were too worthless to find
regular employment - - next, professional
Boxers, who practice their pugilastic pow
ers hi. hire ; low gamblers who infest the
the Oyster cella(s of the suburbs.—A por
tion of them consisted of a class .of men,
whose business you will hardly understand,
Dog•Keepera who, ill Springgarden and
Southwark, raise and train a ferocious
breed of dogs, whom they fight weekly
for wagcri,and for the ammusement of this
" indignant people"! .Their troop was
flanked by a few professional thieves and
discharged convicts. These men, gathered
up from the lanes and hovels, were ro•fitted
with such cast-offclothes, as their employers
could command, and hired at fifteen dollars
the heed and freight, to come to Harrisburg
and ',instruct the Legislature iu ite duties,
and protect their "rights."
This is a faithful and - not exaggerated
description of what sou tire told rs - as the
"Democracy' that visited the Legislative
Halls ! This, to be sure, is the kind of
Democracy that such renegade Federalists
as commanded them, generally find cum•
munion with."
I have thus given yeti an honest, though
imperfect account of the scenes of the first
week of December. 1 have stated nothing
hut what I know personally, or have learn
ed from unquestionable authority. A 'Land
much more, is capable of proof. 1 believe
the actors to be guilty of Treason ; and so
far as am personally concerned, 1 shall
always treat them as Traitors. To call
their leaders mere insurgents or assassins,
would he doing injustice to thiAignity of
their crime. They went ter empire the
Laws to them, are 'servile shackles; They
prefer " Provisional government," on I
"Committee of Safety." next will come the
"Revolutionary Tribunal and the guillotine;
and these leaders of the "People" will shine
forth, the Duntons and RiZespterres of the
age ! Why do we forget the magnitude of
the question, by stooping to inquire which
of the Philadelphia returns was correct 7
Can that question be settled by a rebellious
ermy expelling the Legislature from Halls
which should ever be inviolate, and then,
they he justified by pleadin g the correctness
of their judgment on the legal points thus
decided ?
This paper in already ton long. I shall
defer the further history of the crimes of
some and shame of others, until another
number.
Very reapee•,tfully
your obedient serynni,
THADDEUS STEVENS
GETTYSBURGH, PA.
Tuesday, January 15, 1 8:19.
DF.MOCRATIC ANTI MASONIC NOMINATION
FOR FR FSIDENT,
(cn. Wm. illenry Ilarrimon4
FOR VICE•PRESIDENT,
Daniel Webster.
DEM 0 CRATIC-ANTIMASONIC
NOMINATION :
FOR SENATOR :
JOHN F. VITARLANE.
Lancaster Examiner.
We beg our friend MIDDLETON not
to be so hnsty in jumping at ronclusions.
If "the Star no longer C 0111913 to , him," the
fault is not with uti. It is regularly mailed
to his direction here. The last number was
not issued until u day or two after the reg
ular time,.being kept back for the proceed
ings of the Conferees. Perhaps this is
what has put our neighbor out of humour•
Pshaw ! man ; we could not send you our
paper before it was printed !
OtrWe trust to see every friend of law
and order at the Polls on Tuesday. Our
opponents, the Mobitea, not content with
having, by fraud and perjury, cheated the
people out of their rights, and secured the
election of David R. Porter as Governor, to
the eternal disgrace of the State, and then
by the aid of a hireling, insurgent mob,
prevented the organization of the Legisla•
lure within the'setison in which his election
could have been contested and its illegality
shown, now have the effrontery to present
to us as their candidate for Senate, General
THOMAS C. MILLER--one of the most
active. ringleade-s of the mob—toko p,esi
tled over their meetings—was a member of
their REVOLUTIONARY TRIBUNAL
—sought to introduce here the REIGN OF
TERROR--and sustained and still justifies
their whole proceedings!
Thus, the issue between a mob 'and the
people—between law and violence,. is ten.
dered by our opponents themselves. 47
Drunk with success—intoxicated with pride
they think no insult too gross, no extray.
agance too great, for the:people tosWallew.
Surely, in no other way, can so wanton and
hazardous an experiment on the Intelligence
and patience of the public, be accounted for.
The friends of Gen MILLER have plac
ed him in a position,. in which even his per
sonal well-wishers, if at the same time they
are the friends of laws and order,cannot con
sistently vote for him. They must now choose
between personal friendship and public duty.
The patriot cannot, will not hesitate. He
will vote against the mob candidate "not be
cause he loves CAESAR less, but that he
loves ROME more."
THEQU E ST lON
Do the people of this Senatorial dis
trict approve of, and do they intend to
sanction the doings of the mob ?
Be it disguised as it may, this is
the true question to be answered on
Tuesday next; and to this it must still
come back.
The lamented Mr. - CASSATT,
whom beyond all doubt, the conduct
of Gen.t t MILLER'S mob, precipitated
into his grave t -was elected to the Sen
ate by the friends of the Constitution
. and liberties of the State. He was to
the hour of his death, their steady
champion; and died in defending. them
against a vile mob. His place is to
be filled. The MORITES propose to
fill it with Gen. MILLER, their lead
er. To elect him, then, would be to
say that your late representative, was
in error, and that you disapprove of
his course—that you approve of the
mob which he fell in resisting ;—and
will testify the same by REWARDING
the instruments of his death.
His remains are scarcely yet cold in
the grave; and shall those who tri
umphed in his death, AND EXULTINGLY
PRONOUNCED IT THE JUDGMENT OF
HEAVEN, be suffered to insult his ashes,
and hold their unhallowed revels over
his tomb? If you can sanction this,
vote, in Heaven's name, for THOMAS
C. MILLER, General . of the Revolu
tionary Army and PRESIDENT OF
MOBS!
MASONRY•
13-The recent outrages committed
at Harrisburg, have shown the neces
sity of keeping up the opposition to
Free Masonry,and all secret oath-bound
associations. The transactions which
occurred there, so disgraceful to Penn
sylvania,have afforded proof of the dan
ger of these associations; and how sus
ceptible they are of being converted in
to engines for the destruction and over
throw of the Laws. For it is a well
known fact,that the Treasonable "Com
mittee of Safety," was chiefly compos
ed of high adhering Masons, and that
the mob which obeyed the orders ; of
this substitute for the Legal Govern
ment, was, in a great measure, made
up of odd-fellows and members of other
Secret,oath-bound Societies. We ask
the people to examine this fact—for a
fact it is, that EVERY prominent leader
of the insurgent mob, which drove the
Legislature from the Capitol,was a Ma
son. So is Gen. Thomas C. Miller.
FARMERS DO YOU WISH TO PRESERVE
YOUR FARMS, and your property, then
go to the polls on Tuesday next, and
VOTE AGAINST THE MOB PARTY. The
mob • which. drove out the legislature,
were mostly from the county of Phila
delphia, bullies, men of desperate char
acter; men who prey upon society. Men
who do . not work, who cannot, and will
not obtain a livelihood by honest indus
try; they are in favor of an equal divi
sion' of the land of the country. They
havit been hired by the Van Buren party
to turnout the legislature, to drive from
their seats the representatives of the peo-;
ple. They have found their way into
the country, and they have found out
their power. They may xtri chose to
COME AMONG you,and in the same mum
ABUSED name 'of democracy, DIVIDE
YOUR FARMS AMONG THEM. The courts
of - law cannot protect you, if you coun
tenance them, for they can as readily
mob your courts,and compel them to act
for, and with them, as they have been
able to mob the legislature, and DRIVE
OUT your representatives.
If you would not share your hard and
honest earnings with such lawless hordes
do not slumber; do nit-dream away your
rights in false security, but GO TO TILE
poi,Ls, on Tuesday next,lay aside party
spirit, and vote against the mob party.
Let it be seen that the FARMERS of
the country are opposed to such pro
ceedings, and corrupt politicians will
not again employ such mobs.—Exp'.
From the Lancaster Examiner
.11r. Str•ohm's Explanatory
- - -
.Iddress.
Since penning the foregoing remarks on
Mr. Strohin's letter of last week, we have
received his promised "Address," which
.will be found in another column. It will
be remarked upon at length in our next..
We cannot, however, now let it pass without
saying, thut Mr. Strohm has failed to ad
duce one single ex•enuattng act, reason or
motive for his conduct, and in this he will
disappoint his most warmest apologists!
After all his long yarn about "professions,"
"solemn oat he," dec. the whole matter might
have been put into a "nut shell." On a ques
tion of vital interest to Antz.Maaonry, and
by far the most interesting question that has
ever arisen in the Legislature of the Sloe,
and on which depended the very supremacy
of /he Constitution and Laws, Mr. STROUM
JOINED AND VOTED WITETDE MASONIC VAN
BURIN PORTER PARTY, AND AGAINST
THE A NTI.MASONS AND WHIGS!!;
No exp'unation can deny or alter this fact!
or the fact that none of the Porter newspapers
in the State condemn the conduct of Mr.
Strohm; and that none of the Rimer papers
approve of his conduct.
NOT ACCOMMODATING.'
Of the troubles of life the Loco Faces ap•
pear to have their full share. Like the.in•
mates of a penitentiary, they un sooner get
out of one difficulty than they become in
volved in another.,
the Pentis Iranian. and some more of
they organs, have come on in a most
mournret strain. because the special elec.
lion for State Senator, to supply the pin re
of Mr. Cassell, happens to take place on the
15th of January, the day Gen. Porter is to
be inaugurated. The officers of the Gen
eral Government, having to attend at Har
risburg on that day, it will be impracticable
for them to ausnd•in their accustomed way
to the election in the District. 'They blame
the Speaker of the Senate for being so dia•
obliging rts not to consider this matter,
when he fixed on the 15th as the day fur
holding the election.
We cannot tell what plan the Loco Focos
will adopt, but it would be very unrensona
ble to suppose that they will pursue ans
course in which raNcaletv has no part.—
Perhaps they will open the elections at an
earlier hour than that prescribed. as they
did at Halifax in this county ; or the county
of Adams may be thrown out in making up
the return of the District. Some stupen
dous trick of villainy will no doubt distin
guish the day of the inauguration of the
Loco Fuco Governor —• Ha rrisburg Chron•
Inecresting Correspondence
GETTYSBURG, JAN. 9, 1839.
Dear Sir,
The opposite party having
industriously circulated a report that
you are a Mason, and in favour of
Secret oath bound Societies, I address
you, on behalf,of the County Commit
tee, for the purpose of inquiring,whether
such be the fact. An immediate
answer will oblige me.
Yours respectfully
ROBERT SMITH,
Chairman of the Co. Committee.
To J. F. Macfarlane, Esq.
GETTYSBURG, JAN. 9, 1839.
Dear Sir,
In answer to your letter of
this morning, I say that I never was
mem of any secret society bound
together by extra judicial oaths. I am
opposed to all societies leagued under
such sanctions ; and recent occurrences
have increased my repugnance to them.
Very respectfully
_ Yours &c.
JOHN F. MACFARLANE.
To R. Smith, Esq.
MARRIED.
On tho 27th ult. by the Rey. Mr. Weyl, Mr.
E riots Bureaux, Merchant, of Heidlersburg, te
Miss Etazart ATLI SUOIMAN, of Huntingdon town
ship.
DIED.
In this place, on the 9th inst., Mies MARTIIL
Gowan, daughter of Mary and Daniel Gowen,
(formerly of Lancaster county,) aged 19 years,
and 8 months.
Public 'Meetings.
OF THE FRIENDS OF THE
Constitution and
Laws.
riPHE Citizens of Adams county, in
JIL favour of the Constitution and Laws,
erg informed that meetings will be hold at
the following places, to make arrangements
for the important Election which to be
hold on Tuesday the 15th inst. It is to be
hoped there will be a general rally of the
friends of order.
Notice is hereby Given, •
riro all Legatees and other persons eon
s- eerned, that the ADMIAISTRA.
TJON ACCOUNTS of the deceased per.
eons hereinafter mentioned,will bo presented
to the Orphans' Court of Adams County, for'
confirmation and allowance, on Monday
the 28th day of January, inst., - viz:
The Account of James Bell, jr. Adminis.
trator of William Boyd deceased, who was
Administrator of the Estate of Elizabeth
Martii, 'deceased.
The Account of James Bell, jr. Adminis
, tram!. of the Estate of Elizabeth Martin, de-
By Order of the Committee. I ceased.
At Illilleratown, oti Saturday evening
he 12th inst.
At Ilunteretovrn, on Saturday evening
he 12th inst.
At Gettysburg, on Monday evening the
4th that.
Jan. 7.
Notice is 'hereby Given.
9110 all persons concerned, that the fol.
11 - lowing TRUSTEE ACCOUNT is
filed in the Prothonotary's; Office at Getty.-
burgh, and will be presented to the Judges
of the Orphan's Court of Adams County,
on the 4th Monday of January, 1899, for
confirmation and allowance—viz :
The Trustee . Account of Christian
Wirt mid Peter Ovordeor, Trustees of John
Sturgeon.
The Trustee account of lane Brinker
hoff, Trustee of Elizabeth Cross.
B. GILBERT, Proth'v.
Dm. 25, 1839. 3t-39
14-kt):: - O-Erik itl/4
Corner of Baltimore and Howard streets
BALTIMORE
T HE subscriber would make known to
his friends and the public at large that
ho has taken that long established and well
known house, the GLOBE INN, formerly
kept by Mr. Geo. Belizhoover, but more
recently by Mr. Joshua W. Owings, one
door above the corner of Baltimore and
Howard ate., Baltimore. The house is el
igibly situated for those engaged in country
business, and has long been, a favorite stop.
ping place for country merchants. The
undersigned would observe that, en far as
in him lien, nothing will be spared to ren
der entirely agreeable the situation of all
who may favor him with their custom.—
The House ie now undergoing a thorough
repair.
ROBERT M. BEAST
Jan. 15.
NOTICE.
THE subscriber, having been appointed
Auditor, by the Orphans Court of
Adams county, to distribute the assets in
the hands of Jesse Seabrooks, dec'd, to
and among the respective creditors of said
deceased, will attend for that purpose at his
office in Millerstowif,' - on . Saturday tire lfth
day of February next, at 1 o'clock, P. M.
- which those interested will take notice.
AMOS McGINLEY.
42—td
Juiv 15.
GETTYSBURG
STEAM POITITIDEar.
A HONG the great variety of articles;
Ala- made nt this Establishment, ere the
following. many of them now on hand, and
will he made to order at all times on abort
notice.
Forge Hammers, Anvils, Gudgeons,
Saw Mill Cranks, Kogwheel Segments,
Apple Nuts, Mould-boards,
Mill, and Factory Work, Threshing
and all other kind of Nlach,mnry.with n treat
variety of Stoves. Hollow-Wore At.c.
orders thankfully received and promptly tit
tended tn.
GEO. ARNOLD.
January t 5, 1839.
TANNERS TAKE NOTICE.
rtilllE subscriber, will sell at private sale,
AL the
TAN YARD PROPERTY,
situated on Baltimore Street, Gettysburg,
and now oevupied by Samuel S. Forney, at
a fair and cheap rate, any person desirOus of
following Om Tanning, would find Flits a
most desirable situation, and are invited to
call and see the proporty,the particulars will
be made knovin by Samuel S. Forney, still
living on the premises. or by
DAVID S. FORNEY,
of Carlisle. Pa. or
JACOB FORNEY,
Hanover, York county, Pa.
January 13. 183 R. • Bm-43
OENEE..26'L ORDERS.
Adjutant General's Office,
HARRISBURG, January 1, Pin. k
BY virtue of the authority vested in the
Adjutant General, by the militia laws
of this Commonwealth, it is I,e' /eV direct
ed by him, with , the consent and concur
rence of the Governor end Commander-in-
Chief of Pennsylvania, that the system of
instruction in military knowledge, and reg
ulations for the Militia and Volunteers of
the State of Pennsylvania, be, from and
after this date, that system which has been
prepared and arranged by Brevet Captain
S. Cooper, (of the U. S. Army,) Aid de
camp and Aasistalit Adjutant General, and
is entitled "a concise system of instructions
and Regulations for the Militia and Volub
teera of the U. States," iSsc.
All officers and non-commissioned offi
cers, musicians and pritiatei of the Militia
or Volunteers of this Slate r will therefore
henceforth conform, in the perfiirmance of
their military duties, to the regulations for
their government prescribed in the above
system, and all and every other mode of
instruction in military tactics, not consist
ent with that above referred to, are hereby
positively prohibited, for the instruction of
the Militia and Volunteers of this State.
As a matter of course, all instructions of
Volunteers or Militia will be •given in the
English language.
Jan. 15.
RegisteesNotices.
JAS. A. THOY4PSON, Register.
Register's Office, Oettys
burg, len. 5, 1838,
11•HIBIT
Of the Receipts and Expenditures, by the
Managers of the Hanover and Carlisle
Turnpike Road Company, from the 10th
December, 1837, up to the 11th Decem
ber, 1939.
PR.
Tolls receirod ofJacoh Bear,
Gate keeper, of Gate No.
Do. John Honor, No. 2,
Dia. Catharine Jones, No. 3,
Do. Wm. Thompson, No. 4,
Do. Andrew Dickson, No. 5,
Tolle receivod of Stockton and
Stokes, stage toll,
Rent received for old Gete.bnuse,
1113,580 Ea
Deduct this amount— being coun
terfeits received by gate keep- 19 00
ere and paid to Treasurer.
CR.
Paid Debt of lust year, expendi
tures being more than the re.
ceipta of Tolls, &o. during
the year,' 6397 96
Paid rent of Gatc.houses 79 24
Paid Printers for publishing ac
counts, &c.
Paid S Gato-keoper's salaries and
probates ofreturns,
Paid repairs of Roads and Dridg.
es, &c.
Paid, Superintendents of toad—
their vine*,
Paid Managers' services,
Paid Secretary's salary,
Paid Troasurer's salary,
3t , -.-42
Roceipts,
Balance duo by the Company,
- the expenditures and pay•
X 75 J 7
manta being greater than the 11
receipts,
1 do certify that the 'foregoing Exhrtie
is a true and correct amout of the. hmai
nens of the Hanover and Oaths(' Thropika•
Road Company, during the above etate4
periode.—Witness my hand, One. Nth, day
of December, 1838.
THOS. STEKIENS, Tremor'''.
Attest—SEOßGE Eas,Scc"i.
January H,1839.
WM. PI PER;
Affrt Gen. of Pennsylvania.
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6bl 25
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