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pitance. Such occasions it to to be la
mated, are of themselves quite exciting
enough, when all concerned possess their
sober senses; but once let loose the drunken
Devil among the boisterous crowd, and . the
farewell to every thing like honesty and de
corum. Then is the most liberal circulator
of the liquid poison, the best patriot,and the
nun best qualified to fill the office to which
ho
But it would he n vile slander upon the
people, to say that among them and among
them only is intemperance to ba found; but
is justice to the people, as well ar, to their
representatives let it be told, that drunken
representatives in proportion to their num•
ber, are not more rare than drunken con
stituents.
Yes! to the disgrace of the country he it
spoken, intemperance has been permitted to
drag her black and serpentine form, into the
very sanctuary of liberty, without n single
effint having been made to oppose her en
trance into that holy and consecrated place.
To such an extent does this vice prevail in
the councils of our General Government,
(if the testimony of one of their own num
ber may be believed,) that drunkenness and
nothing more nor less than drunkenness, has
not unfrequently prevented a •quorum of
members from appearing in their sents,when
their sworn duty called on them to be there;
and hence the practice of not Lolding after
noon sessions. Whilst all must admit, that
tt is disgraceful to the whole country, and
especially to those districts who send them,
that drunkards or even regular dram drink
ers, should be found among the guardians of
the public weal, yet, it is by no means sur
prising. Nothing is more natural, than,
that a drunken community should be repro
sainted by a drunken member.
This is human nature; and wherever
you find a representative, in ninety nine ca•
ses out ()revery hundred, you will find him
in a greater or lets degree addicted to the
vices of his constituents. He represents
their vices, as well as their virtues; and it
depends much on the arsnnnt of virtue or
vice prevalent in the community whose rep
resentative he is, whether, he will be n mor
al or an immoral representative. For it is
as contrary to the nature of things, that an
intemperate and immoral community,shou Id
eend a temperate and virtuous representa
tive, as it is, that one distinguished for' mo
rnlity and temperance, should send a man
notoriously depraved and intempeinte.—
Hence it is, that some communities can tol
erate, drunken magistrates, drunken repro .
sentatives, or even drunken clergymen,
whilst others, and such I am glad to say is
the one here assembled,would loathe and ab
hor the idea.
If the preceding be true, it must appear
to all how important it is, that virtue and
temperance, should be fostered and cherish
ed in every community. For he it remem
bered, that on the character of the people,
will in a great measure depend the character
of their public servants,and on the character
of the lager will depend the complexion of
the laws enacted by them.
But besides these immediate effects,which
intemperance has on the welfare of the cowl
try, there are others, which are collateral
and more remote; but which from their des
tructive tendency, deserve no less to be at.
tended to and guarded against.
Meek- f our prosperity and glory as a
People, depends on the character and habits
of the rising generation. ,If the youth of the
country be not virtuous, intelligent, and tem
perate, they cannot and will not be prepared,'
to guard their own individual interests,much
less the interests and happiness of their coun
try. Intemperance is the natural enemy of
'education and morality; and as these are the ,
main propellers of the Car of State,her pro.
grew' on her way to future greatness and
happiness, will be retarded in precisely the
Lime ratio.
Can the cause of education, in which we
as Pennsylvanians, should feel such u deep
and mighty interest, be expected to prosper,
if the exertions of our legislators and public
instructors,be not seconded by those of tem•
perate and intelligent parents? No matter
how perfect may be your system of educa
tion, no matter how well calculated to pro
mote the intellectual and moral advancement
of the youthful mind and heart; still I hold
that if these faculties be not cultivated in the
family circle, as well as, at school, your eye.
tern will fail in a great measure, of accom-
plishing those noble objects for winch it was
intended.
In vain will you attempt to bring up, the
youth of the country,in virtue and knowledge;
though you may have the best instructors on
earth; though your
. system of education,
might challenge peifeetions self for an equal;
if the child on returning from school,be per
mitted to visit a fireside circle, in which,
virtue, temperance and rationality find no
abiding place. The precepts and examples
of parents, aro always adopted and followed
in preference to those of strangers; and if
they be intemperate and depraved,they will
without a doubt, entail their vices on their
defenceless offsprings.
What is it, if it be not intemperance,that
fills your poor-houses and asylums with pau
pers? and what is it if it be not this selfsame
vice, that peoples your jails and penitentia
ries with convicts? and thus imposes a heav
ier tax upon the country than would be re- '
quired to educate every child within her bor
ders. But time will not permit us to con•
sider the many other ways, in which intem
perance is calculated to undermine the pros
perity of a free country. Do you ask me
for an example of the deleterious influence
of intemperance on National prosperity? Do
you require of me an instance, in which the
downfall of a nation's happiness can lie attri
buted to the prevalence of this vice? Depart
ed stiiritpf the gallant and heroic Red man!
yowl invoke, to you I appeal for the naswer!
Gaut thou not date much.of the destruction
and degradation of thy people, to the intro
dilution of the white mans fire water amongst I
you? And (lost thou not think, that it has
done more to render thee, what thou art,
Iban,oveu his sword and his rifle? Yea alas!
here is en example, the hones and ashes of
this once pwerili I people, which lie inhumed
beoemh the soil of your meadows& uplands,
speak in 4 langirige not to be mistaken, the
ttiotsphs of intrinooranoe eve r nal ionn I pros
amity MI happiness. This and other in•
vent's:ins of civilized man, have almost euc.
veeded in exterminating this savage though
noble people,from the face of the eat th. And
whilst we deplore the fate of him, who was
once sole bird of the flirest, let us not forget,
that one of the most powerful agents that hnd
combined to work his destruCtion, is also
doing his work among us; and that we are
no 'ess vulnerable to his attacks, than was
the red man. Let us hear in mind, that if
we tamper with this dangerous foe,our civil
ization will avail us nothing; but on the con
trary will enhance our degradation.
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Tuesday, Oriareh 5, I 529.
DNMUCUAT/t; ANTI.IIIASONIC NOMINATION
FOR PRESIDENT,
Gcn. Wan. Ucnry Harrison.
FOR V ICR 'PR FBI DENT,
Daniel Webster.
Democratic State Convention.
The friends of HArintsoN and WEBSTER
in the several counties of Pennsylvania, are
requested to appoint Ddegates, equal in
number to their numbers in the State Sen
ate and House 01 Representatives, to meet at
the Court House in Harrisburg at 12 o'clock
A. M., on
WEDNESDAY, THE 22d OP MAY, 1839.
for the purpose of nominating a Ticket of
Electors, to be vo'ed for by the people of
Pennsylvania, at the Presidential Election
in 1840, and pledged, if elected, to support !
the candidates for President and Vice Presi
dont of the United State settled by the I.
ocratic Antirmsonic National Conven
which was held in Philadelphia in Not
ber 1838.
THOMAS H. BURROSVES,
THOMAS ELDER,
THEOPHILUS FENN,
A MOS ELLM AKER,
FRANCIS JAMES,
WILLIAM W. IRWIN,
WILLIAM AYRES,
HARMAR DENNY,
SAMUEL H. FISHER,
WILLIAM SMITH,
NER MI DO.LES W A RTH,
WILLIAM M'CLURE,
GEORGE MOWRY,
LEVI MERKEL,
MAXWELL KINKEAD.
Harrisburg, March A, 18t.0.
0-3• The address delivered by Mr. C. %m en,
before the Mountjoy Temperance Society, (part of
which we publish this week,) should have appear
ed much earlier, but owing to the crowd of other
matter, and the fact of its having been mislaid, it
has been out of our power to publish it until this
time.
( - Connitass will adjourn on Saturday night;
a great number of private bills have been passed
during the session.
cCrWe call the attention of our readers to an
Article in another column, in relation to the affairs
of Maine. "Among the rumours of the day there
is one that the President will speedily call the new
Congress together, his object is to avoid responsi
bility. The Maine business has greatly alarmed
him, while the reports from the Canada Frontier
are not so pacific as could be desired. Van Buren
is wholly unsuited to preside at the head of the
affairiof this nation."
Appointment., by tile Governor
JOON J. M'CAnear and Wm. J. Learen, have
been appointed Aides-de-camp, to the Governor.
Loiper is the same man who came to Harrisburg,
with two hundred butchers and bullies from Phil
adelphia county, to assist the mob in its lawless
and wicked designs. Al'eahen stands convicted
by the Grand Jury of Dauphin County. for the
part he took in the same treasonable proceedings.
Joseph loftier.
osThe. above named individual, after having
occupied the Gubernatorial Chair of the Common..
wealth of Pennsylvania, with distinguished ability
for the last three years, is about to retire to the
quiet of private life. There in the pursuits of hus
bandry, to which he has been accustomed, by a life
time of experience, he will taste, we have no doubt,
more true happiness, than - his competitor will do,
in the possession of his power and patronage.
It is indeed a beautiful exemplification of our
institutions, to see him who has occupied4he high
est and most important office in the gif('of a free
people descend from it, and mingle again with his
fellow-citizens—laboring with his awn hands for
his own bread, thus teaching the beautiful political
truth, that all are equal, who are equally wise and
equally good.
co- We receive in perfect good part the remarks
of the Editor of the "sentinel," in his 1a,4 week's
paper on the subject of the candidates for the Pres
idency: and the advice contained in them would
be wholesome if administered to that portion of the
opponents of the National Administration who
have not yet solemnly determined upon their
course. We belong to the Anti-Masonic party.
That party has made Its nominations; and by these
nominations we shall abide, until that party shall
say that it is no longer expedient to do so; and we
are the moro inclined to pursue this course with
sternness, because of the fitness of the candidates,
put in nomination by that party. What can be
&hedged against them? Lives there a purer patriot
than Gen. Harris m? Where is there a riper and
tii)ro enlightened statesinati . than Daniel Webster!
Why then put them aside to make room for Henry
Clay, or any other man!
When Wo spoke of the comparative popularity
of Gen. Harri, , on and lieliry Clay in this county,
we uttered what we belie% ea to be the truth; and
we are assured that we did Mr. Clay no injustice.
But to the Editor of the "Sentinel" we say, ..let
there be no enmity between thee and me"—for it
is mon• than probbble, that in this contest of the
people, against a wicked and usurping adruinistra
lion, we shall both do battle together in the ranks
of the people—let them select their own leaders
and when the fight is done we shall shout victory
together. •
Kr From tha Lancaster Examiner we
learn, that there has been several large and
highly respectable meetings of the citizens
of Lancaster County, in the immediate
neighborhood, end among the intimate ac•
quaintances of the Apostate STROU%I, at
which resolutions expressive of the sense
of the meetings have been unanimously
adopted, which in terms not to be misunder
stood proclaim aloud to tthnt gentleman the
estimation lie is held in by his former friends
and constituents.
This second "Arnold" by a course of
conduct, (the deliberate treachery of which
was only equaled by the contemptilus sub
tifuge of his attempt at nation) has
brought upon himself the justly merited
scorn and indignation of every lover of his
country, not only in his own county, but in
every part of the State.
Wo subjoin some of the resolutions, pas
sed at one of the meetings ref: - .4 red to.
Resolved, That we regard the course pur
sued by our Senator, J,►hn Strohm, in the
Senate of Pennsylvania, during the present
session of the legislature, as a direct aban
donment of the principles of Democratic
Anti-Masonry ; and as a ‘irtueal ncknow•
lodgement on his part, of the right 01 a band
of famished ruffians, to obtain seats in the
House of Representatives, on the faith of
no other returns than dirty papers drawn
from the breeches pocket of an abandoned
Dog Keeper.
Resolved,'Phat in voting fir the recogni•
tion of '•the Hopkin's House of Represents•
lives," John Strobl") did not only run count
er to the wants and wishes of his constit
uents; but he also belied his own course,and
gave to the world the most convincing evi
dence of his total unworthiness to be any
longer a representative of a democratic
people.
Resolved, That our principles being de•
cidedlv in favor of the Constitution and the
Supremacy of the Laws, we cannot there.
fore be either fairly or honestly represented
by one who in preference to both, sustains
mob rule and the lawless violence of a Loco
Fuco rabble.
Resolved, That we consider the defence
ofJohn Strohm an extenuation of his treach
erous conduct, ns contained in his two let
ters to the Anti• Masons of Lancaster coml.
ty, to be contemptible in itself and on the
whole a most signal failure.
Ist. Because he commences by present
.
ing the subject to his constituents in a false
and improper light, and then by a train of
fills° arguments, Droresses to arrive at de•
ductions, which, wherr carefully examined,
are found to be as untenable in fact as they
are • destitute of found:l:ion in truth.
2d. Because he has endeavored to evade I
the true question ofiltlaqenry•and Anti Ma-
sonry, and of mobism and 'Constitutional
Government, and raising a (also tssueil has
sought to mislead the people in order to
gratify his own petty feelings of personal
resentment against ex Governor Ritner,
Thaddeus Stevens and others, even at the
expense of breaking "down the trammels of
party" and sacrrficing the pure principle of
Democratic Anti-Masonry.
3d. Because ►n the whole of his defence
we can discover nothing but false reasoning,
contemptible equivocations, hypocritical
cantings, and an unmanly denunciation of
honorable, high minded, and honest men,as
"disappointed office hunters," which is only
worthy of thoman, "who by family influence
and other improper means, has been ena•
bled to secure to himself an official station,
for almost during the whole period of our
juilitical existence.
4th. Because in neither of his letters to
the Ant►-masons of Lancaste - r county, does
he advert to, or account for the glaring in-
consistency o his vote on the '2oth of e
ember, I t 338. "That the body claiming
to be the Houseiit-Reprt in
ized on the 4th inst. by II /m.
Hopkins, Esq., as Speaker, was not consti
tuted a House of Representatives according
to the Constitution and Laws of this Com
monwealth," when contrasted with the"con
crentons" vote, afterwards given by him on
the 25th of the same month. "That it was
the legal and properly constituted House of
Representatives; 'and when in fact, nothing
had been done to change h.s original posi
tion arid make that legal and constitutional,
which according to his own oath and "coo
scientous" shewing,was from the commence
ment illegal and uncanstitutional.
sth. Because when he was at lenoth
drawn into a defence of an explanation of
this barefaced contradiction of himself, by
Mr. Middleton, he basely sought to screen
himself, from the honest indignation of hie
constituents, by declaring that he "had been
duped," and Was not therefore bound to
persist in error. although he hud himself
presided as chairman of the meeting, where
the whole matter was fully canvassed, and
the legal mode of proceedure agreed upon.
6th. Because if it were true that he was
"duped," (which in charity we will not be.
lieve,) lie has given us in that declaration,
additional testimony of his total unfitness to
bt, any longer our representative, because we
want men who 'possess judgment to support
our principles, and not automatons who can
be moved by wires and i'clupre into the
support or abandonment of particular mea
7th• Because, independent ofevery other
objection, we hold that the treason and de
fence, meeting as they do with the loud ap
probation of the Masonic, Loco Foco party,
cannot be therefore of such a character, as
to entitle them to . the respectful considera•
lion of mon who contend only fur "the Su-
premacy of the laws."
Resolved, That we have never yet recog
nized, nor will we now admit, that, there is
any power which is so tar above the Con-
s•ilution and laws, as that it can he exercts
ed With impunity, to the vinlatiun of private
rights, the buliversion of good outer, and
the ultimate destruction of all civil govern
ment, nor will we now admit, that the Sen.
ate or House of Representatives of this
Commonwealth, is prescribed by the Con
stitution and the Laws.
Resolved, That we supported John
Strohm, because we believed that he held
the same views and would support them with
that honesty which we supposed he Asses
sed; but the event has shown that we were
"mistuken" in him and he in us.
Resolved, That this misunderstanding
being =trial we are therefore unanimously
of the opinion, that he owes it to himsel',
the county and ourselves, that he should re.
turn the trust which lie has so basely viola
tnd,into the hands of those from whom he re •
ceived it, by an immediate resignation.
Resolved, That the determined stand
which was taken by Thaddeus Stevens, the
Hon. Charles B. Penrose, and the other fif.
teen Senators who stood out as gallant defen
ders of the Constitution when assailed by
Masonic, Loco Foco mob violence, merits
and receives our deepest feelings of grati
tnde, for by this act alone they have shown
themselves worthy of that confidence, of
which democratic fret men made them de.
•
p^eitottea.
Resolved, That the independent course
which has been pursued by the Democratic
Antimasonic papers of this county, in rela•
lion to the recent affairs, is such as cannot
fail to meet with the decided approbation of
every friend of his country and our republi
can insulations.
Resolved, That the wholesale abuse
which ha:4 been heaped upon Mr Middldtnn.
the Editor of the "Examiner and Democrat
ic Herald," by the enemies of antimnsonry,
is the best evidence we cnn desire, of the
fact that he possesses moral worth and that
he will continue to be, ns he has heretofore
si,own himself, n faithful sentinel on the
watch tower of the Antimasonic party.
FrOin narriSbllrg
HARRISBURG, Feb. 26, 1829
Mu. P.x•roN:—Tho bill extending the time to
the Wrightsville, York and Gettysburg Rail Road
company, two years to complete the road between
Wrightsville and York, and ten years to com
plete it to Gettysburg, passed both branches of the
Legiilature to day, and only wants the signature
of the Governor to become a law.
The bill to adjourn the Legislature on the 2 — th
of March to meet again the 7th of May has passed
b o th branches, and that matter settled, the people
will now know that an extra session is pending.
HARRISBURG, Feb. 27, 1839
Ma. PAXTOIC:—As there must bo considerable
excitement in your place, and along the line of
the Gettysburg Rail Road,to give you correct infor
mation that may have a tendency to allay the ex
citing fears as regards the suspension of the work
on the Road and money, I have the pleasure to in
form you that the following Resolution passed both
branches of the Legislatilie-to day, and will no
doubt receive the signature of the Governor, viz :
°Resolved by the Senate and House of 'Repre
sentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
in Gerund Aaaembly met, that the °entractes,' on
the Gettysburg Rail Road, be, and they are hereby
permitted to continue the work, until the first day
of May next, unless they should sooner be paid
the amount due them by the Commonwealth, in
which case, they shall stop as soon ad they are
thus paid, according to the Resolution already
passed for that purpose, provided that no additi
onal hands shall be employed upon said work.
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For the Star & Banner
Henry Clay's Speech.
The very occasion of this speech was an
insult to Northern Freemen. It was in sup-
I port of a petition from the inhabitants of the
District of Columbia, remonstrating against
any interference of the other parts of the
Union with the question of abolition in their
"ten miles square." Now had a petition of
an opposite claracter been presented, it
would have been spurned with contempt from
the Vice Presidential chair,or have met with
most clamorous opposition even upon a mo
tion for reception. For things have now
come to such a pass in the Capitol,that boast
ed temple of liberty, that not only the peti
tions of private citizens,but even ofsovereign
States, as was lately seen in the case of the
Vermont resolutions, are treated with the
utmost indignity: No objection is made to
the reception of this petition, no opprobrious
epithets are applied to its signers, no threats
of personal violence, of "death without the
benefit of Clergy," are thrown out, as would
have been the case ir another portion of the
people whose servants they prof;•ss to be,
had appealed to that "honorable body." But
passing over these humiliating considera
tions, we come to the speech itself.
What is the first rerneby Mr. C. proposes
for Abolition? is it that Congress should
deliberately examine this subject, acknow
ledged as it is, of immense importance, and
devise means for remedying the grievances
of which complaint is made? He does not
dream of such a thing. Is it. that it should
satisfy us that all is done that the circum
stances of the case admit, and that some in
terest is F-It in a subject of such vital impor
lance? Not at all. Well, what then is the
potent spell by which it is proposed, by this
skilful exorcist, to quell the wild demon of
agitation, and lay the restless ghost of free
principles and of free discussion which it
scars their very eyeballs to look upon? Why
—he would delude us by an "observance of
forms!" "0, most learned judge—A Daniel
come to judgment." Why what do we cure
for forms? If justice is violated, it mutters
very little to the injured party whether it is
done formally or informally. But see the .
Machiavellism of the thing! "1 agree with
you," is about the substance of Mr. Clay's
first argument, "keep these fithatical aboli
tionists in a strait-waistcoat, flout them,keep
their heads shaved and put then on bread
and water; but— witliall rest them with
mock respect, call their dungeon a, palace,
their stony seat, a throne, and give them
some straw for a sceptre." Mr. Clay does •
oot suppose that we are to be cajoled by such
manoeuvres? Let us have our constitutional
rights,let us have free discussion on the floors
of Congress, thrOugh the press, sod by our
firesides and social circles; let us have free
access to the reason and consciences of our
fellow citizens, and let truth operate freely,
and we shall be satisfied, leaving the result
to the decision of that all just Providence to
which, you so impiously look for protection
in the perpetration of sin. This is all we
ask, and we shall be satisfied with nothing
short of this.
His division of Abolitionists into three
clatises is either the result of inexcusable
ignorance, or a stole artifice of tyranny hav
ing for its motto "divide and conquer."—
Knowing the strength,numbers,intelligence,
and wealth of the Friends he will not assail
them openly, but flatters ever whilst endeav
raring to subvert one of their holiest princi
ples. But lie ought to know that it is from
their midst that proceed the most resolute
champions of the Anti Slavery cause. Gar
rison, Whittier, Burliegh and many of their
prominent men are either Quakers or deep-
Iv imbred with the old fashioned principles
of George Fox. So that his first and third
classes of Abolitionists ore identical arid the
division is as false ns it is puerile As to
the second division, he is equally mistaken.
It is true that a great many have heeu lidded
to the Anti• Slavery ranks by the repeated
and outrageous violations of tho right of po•
tition, but that was done by arousing them
ton sense of their own personal danger,whon
it was evident that slavery rendered the
rights of whites,ns well as of blacks insecure.
It is also probable that not a few politicians,
seized this pretext of entering the Anti.
Slavery ranks—but what then? this only
shows that they have sense enough to per.
ceive the direction in which the current of
public opinion is strongly and rapidly setting.
But the truth is that there is but one class of
Abolitionists, but one feeling—that of en•
ending enmity to slavery—actuates them•
As to the system of measures to be pursu
ed, they are pretty well agreed, indeed al
most unanimous, that they must he peacea.
ble. Some it is true are opposed to all im
mediate action, supposing that slavery is a
rotten and crumbling edifice which if let
alone will soon fall by its own weight, and
that attacks upon it from those without only
induce those within to pao•h and prop it up
the more carefully and defend it the more
stubbornly. Let this class of Northern free•
men once see that the tate of slavery is in
their hands, and they will cu•operate with
the wildest Abolitionist for its destruction.
But look at the picture he draws of those
who express their determination to exert
themselves to the utmost in order to bring
back this nation to its first principles, its
original abhorrence of every form of despot-
sm. Is it like? like what? Just about as
much as Lord 'loriboddo's description ofthe
first man is to the original—it is even worse
than a caricature in every essential feature.
For instance—he says Abolitionists have no
regard for consequences—whereas their
professed object is to avert the fearful con-
sequences of slavery—to prevent the degra
dation of human nature—to avert the yen
geance of Him who has said "Wo to thus
tat spoilest and thou west not spoiled!" tie
says "with them the rights of property are
nothing," whilst the great offence with whtph
they stand charged is that they insist that
every man has a right to his own mind and
body, to the fruits of his own labor, and to
the property thus accumulated. It is true
that they deny that man can be converted
into property, but in this fanatacism, if such
it be, they are supported, at least in theory,
by every constitutional government now in
existence. Nor are they regardless of the
powers of the General Government, for they
ask it to exercise just such powers as it has
and nO others. They ask for its legislation
in the Districts and between the States, not
in Canada, nor in the States—but of this
hereafter. Muth less are they reckless of
civil war, for many of them deny the lawful•
ness of war in every form, and they unani
mously dissuade the slaves from taking up
arms for the assertion of their, liberty and
rights, much more would they abhor the im-
bruing of their bands in the blood of fellow
citizens who hnve done them no personal in.
jury by the enslavement of others. As to
the cries of "disunion, and civil, and servile
war,"- they do not come from them, but from
the ancient retreat of Tory power and prig•
ciples. Nor is•there any more foundation
for that summing up of the evidence against
them "that a single idea hue taken posses
sion of their minds, and onward they pursue
it, overlooking all barriers," &c. for it is
notorious that the prominent supporters of
A bolit ton,have been equally zealous in every
benevolent enterprise of the age. Take as
examples, Arthur Tappan and Gerrit Smith
—these men have continually poured . their
wealth, with an unsparing hand into such
plans as these of the Bible• Society, Foreign
Missions, Education, and the like, but as M r.
C. has never met them on the hustings, or
the horbe.race, or at the gambling-table he
is perhaps excusable in saying that they
have but one idea! His accusation that they
attempt to "array one portion of the Union
against the other," is not much better foun.
ded. For, in the first place, they profess to
be laboring out of sympathy for the great
mass of "our Southern Brethren"—und al-
hough those who have excited their iotereet
are the laborers, the farmers,and mechanics
of the South, they can see no reason why
they should have less respect and love for,
them,than for the proudest planter that ever
sold his cotton-crop, or the wealthiest and
most enterprising merchant that ever bought
it. The very essence of their crime is that
they express kindly feelings for the great
mass of Southern citizens. Nor do they wish
to•excite hatred against the remainder.—
True they express a jdst abhorrence of their
crimes and expose their enormity, bat let
the blame of that rest with the criminals and
not with those who attempt to bring them
to a sense of their duty. It might just as
well be objected to the friends of Missions,
that they array Christians against the heath-
en, when they tell of the thousands crLshed
by the car of Jugigernant, or of the tens of
thousands ofinfiints murdored by their own
perents. in Ordert hut the corrective twilit.
plied, t h y, disease must be known. And I
here challengO Mr. C. and the v. hole host
of those who huve been so clamorous against
"oxiggerated stittentents,and highly colored
prints, to adduce a single orrur,or falsehood
so gross id its uuture b that the reality of
everyday life in slavery does not complet e l y
throw into the shade.
His introduction of O'Connell into this
lierndo against cisntlantic agitators, is car.
tainly rather uncalled for, hut I suppose
••the Western Orator," I hiblis his commis.
Edon extends to the suppression of this, sect
every where, even if in his persecutions he
should have to travel lint only as far ne
Damascus nod othcir "strange cities," but
even beyond "the big water," to London--
however leaving him and the American
Minister to "stop O'Connel's wind," I Bhalf'
merely, say that f suppose, the Irish Libera
tor thought he wn.. acting in the spirit of his
fiery young countryman Emmett, who tnti.
mated that he would 'think himself dis
honored, by taking the bloodstained hand"
of. the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, so that
ho will not feel much distressed by this
threat of '•eternal non intercourse."
His charge of inconsistency against Abel.
itionists for now resorting to the ballot box,
after having at first professed nothing more
than a desire to enlighten the mind and
awaken the conscience, is highly absurd.
For, in the first place, why should they not
send men to Congress who will discuss the
subject there, where it can be done to so
much advantage seeing that the nccusers
and the accused, the Abolitionist and the
Slavehclder, will there meet face to
face. But, in the next place, what if Abol
itionists 'aave changed their operations? It
shows that they are not so obstinate in error
as some persons would us believe, for they
thus profess a willingness to pursue a plan
that they nt first rejected. But there is no
g round for the charge, for these who at first
deprecated political action still deprecate it.
Garrison will have nothing to do wit
.civil
Government. But others with diffoient
views have become Abolitionists, !her are
determined to exercise all the influence
which they can bring to bear on this sub
jest. And why should they not ? Slavery
is a potitical as well as a moral and religious
question, it is interwoven not only -with the
Constitutions of States, but is also ongrnfled
upon the constitution of our General Gov
ernment. The representation in Congress,
which ought to be a representation of free
men, is based upon Slaves. The slave is
thus spoiled of his rights which are - confer.
red upon his oppressor. We are also bound
to put down servile insurrections if they
break out, and have we no right to devise
measures for their prevention, when the
work of their suppression, if they over be
came formidables as in the very nature of
things they inevitably must, must devolve
chiefly upon us?- We are bound to restore the
fugitive slave, and are thus a party to hie
slavery, and must our hands be tied in refer
ence to his liberation 1 These are purely
political considerations, and shall we say
that there is to be no political action?
(TO BR CONTINUED•)
From the Harrisburg') Intelligencer
Justice where least expected.
The Pottsville Emporium, . a rank loco-facia
*beet, .pays the following tribute to Thaddeus
Stevens. Except come slang about Mr. 8. being
a ocorruptionist in politics," &c., it is literally
true :
"The good qualities of a man's heart
should always accompany a ..developement
of his evil propensities ; and notwithstand
ing we look upon Mr. Stevens wan in
triguer and oorruptiunist in politics, yet we
admire him for that GOODNESS OF
HEART which renders him populnr in the
social circle, and for that. GIANT INTELLECT
which soars far above the mental quid
ifications of those who abuse
To the deserving Poor his well lined
purse has never been closed—to in
digent Orphans he has always acted
the part of a kind Parent—and in
Educating Children at his own expense,
he has evidenced a philantrophic , dis
position which we fear will never be
exhibited in Stephen Girard's big col
' iege. We - speak knowingly. : Many
a widow and many an orphan would
have wanted for provisions and Cloth
ing in Adams County had not his un
solicited, donotions of orded the neces
sary relief—and yet, masonic like, his
contributions are kept a profound secret.
HE WAS THE HEAD AND FRONT
OF OUR COMMON SCHOOL
SYSTEM—one which will some day
or other place Pennsylvania beyond the
necessity of requiring the services of Eas
tern ahool-masters, and fit the rising gener
ation for those posts ja the councils of the
Nation which have heretofore been so hon
orably held by distinguished citizens of the
Keystone state. Then let his good and bal
qualities be 'weighed in the balance' and if
he be 'found wowing' let the overplus of
iniquity only be brought to bear against
him. So much for Thaddeus Slovens.")
Rev. Dr. Fisk.
We have a letter before us from Middle
town, (Ct.) which leaves little doubt that ,
melancholy tidings await us by the next mail.
'1 he letter was written on Saturday, imme- •
diately after an affecting interview between
the writer and the Rev. Dr. Fisk, President
of the Wesleyan Ui.iversity, by his dying
bed-side. We make the following extract:--r •
• * * i•Our dear President, is dying
—in a few moments he will be no more. • 1.
have been to see him this morning, to bid:: :
him fare Well- It was an afflicting sight to.
see that noble figure struggling with detith,„
As soon as he saw me, he extended his milk,
hand to meet mine, and in a soft but enrich
ed wisper, he'bade me farewell; his word* -
to mo were these: "0! Henry, I am slrtig;.,
glint; with the King of Terrors! be pre
pared t „i rtjag i e with hini.
Farewell-r-Henry."—N Y. Con. Ado,
DREADFUL EARTII4O ME —The Island
of Martinique has been ve,ited by n dreadta
earthquake. Many houses and lives werei
destroyed at St. noire; hut the. greatest de
vastation occurred at Port Royal, whore net
less than YOUR HUNDRED lives were lestl .
Correspondence of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.
Mr. Van Buren hes to-day violated his
religion a little, by holding a cabinet coun
cil in relation to the Maine and New Bruns
wick war. To-morrow, the President will
VIVO us a message on the subject, and mark
me, when I tell you that prudence will be
c on of its most distinguishing trails.
Do you know, that I happen to be of opin
ion, that our old chum, Sir John Fair held,
Governor of the kinedem of Maine, has be
b.ived somewhat lia‘tilt and foolishly in d .
claring war against Sir John Harvey, K. C.
IL, &c. &c. G wernor of the Empire of New
Brunswick! The whole business will amount
1,, a • tea.peet in n ten-pot; Maine will be
laughed at, as were the chevaliers who en•
gaged in the Toledo war, that was waged
between Ohio and Michigan; and those gen•
liftmen war-hawks, who predict a regular
built fight with John Bull will be disap
. 'Jointed.
If Maine has been insulted; if the hair of
one of her citizens has been touched by John
Bull, and any outrage has been offered to the
American dam, end Mr. Bull refuses to do
the genteel thing about it, why then let us
go to war, and fi.lit for '•glory or the grave;"
but do not let us be in too great n pucker
about the business.
If we must have a wnr with the British
Queen, why then, I say let's go at it in good
faith—flog the rascals first, and inquire into
the justice of the case afterwards. Igo for
my country, right or wrong, and so du you.
But,it does puzzle me confoundedly when
I try to ascertain how it is, that Maine has a
right. to convert the "Disputed Territory"
into a kind of a petty field of Waterloo,with
out pausing to say as much to the country,
as "by your leave, sir." The' Disputed Ter
ritory" does not belong to Maine, or New
4105rtviswick, and will not belong to either till
he question of disputed limits is settled.—
Uuntil that territory stand confessed the do
main of Maine, the Down Easters have no
right to quarrel with Mr. Deputy Bull; or
Miss Victoria Guelph about the matter.
The fact is, the Disputed. Territory has
been a kind of hobby horse for polititaans to
ride, ever since Maine came into the Union.
It has been used by one party to got the oth
er out, and vice veract,tho last twenty years,
and it should not he so employed hereafter.
Mr. Kent, the late Governor of Maine,
employed it as a hobby; but he was some
what prudent; and Sir John Fairfield, the
now Loco Foco Captain General, command
er-in chief oldie armies and navies of Maine.
has seized it, and as he wishes to make a
deal out of it, and secure his re election,he
has grown desperate, and has succeeded in
getting up the dander of the Down Easters,
and induced them to get up a war with Now
Brinanvick. It's a very bad business to say
the least of it, and I cannot but hope that it
'. will be peaceably settled. The Down East•
era are good and brave fellows, and if they
are required to fight, you may depend upon
it you will not hear of any dodging.
.. The Maine and New Brunswick war has
treated much Sensation here; and I am
- somewhat surprised to hear many of our
• .good jeeople.talk very eloquently about the
necessity and expediency df a fight. Some
think that it would be a happy thing for us
to have a bit of ascratch with Mr. Deputy
Bull, and °pipe that a small matter of a war
should silence the violence of the political
asperities of the day. Pr chaps such -a re
suit might be produced; but would not the
oxperitnenroost too much?
I was to-day talking with a friend from
the delightful end religious kingdom of Ark.
ansas on the: subject. As he is a bowie
?mire man, and wears an armoury under
neath hisjacket,:and hates a Yankee as he
does cold water, I was much surprised to find
-him in favour of the Maine and New Bruns
TRUTH.
Death of Col. ElVas.
who a •
This estimable citizen, who has been, for
many yea's, foremost in all enterprises in
which the public interests of onr city were
- ItOticerned,and whose upright conduct in pri
vote life rendered him deservedly dear to u
larwe number °four citivis,died on the Mk
*, • e.
;•:: inst., after a short illness, in the 58th 3 car
ICfl'.4lo is age.
SrevAnT has filled many important
trusts,wii.h.great credit to himself and
ingnirl advantage to society. In the late war,
he acted as a Lieutenant Colonel, and was
distinguished for the intrepidity which h- dis
played the &roller. of his city when
- threatened by a form gn foe. Ile aas after
was d i a memb-r of !Mega:es,
and of the Executive c nulcti, mei .Ilayor of .
, cite city of Ilaltimae. A ,•s Wm é
has death, the prebk.ot liavur, his old and
tried friend, 'appointed him with the consent
00;4 Conucilp the office Of colh . yeter et the
tz.-vit..•s4:.
-wick war. And bow is it, my dear boy,
said I, that you happen to be in favour of
:the Yankees at this moment 7 Why, said
lie, 1"11 toll you how it is. I hate the Yan
kees, heaven knows, bad enough; but if you
can only stir up a fight down east, we can
ettebd it along the borders till it teaches
Arkansas. Now, do you know that we have
long been waiting for an opportunity to kill
offsome half dozen tribes of Indians residing
on our border, and as they hold off; and will
be, peaceable, we cannot accomplish our
wishes. But only give us a border difficul
ty that shall extend from the Canadas to the
limits of Arkansas, and we shall have a fine
excuse for cutting the throats of some fifty
thousand Indian rascals, who are in posses
sion of one of the finest tracts of land on
earth: We want that Innd, and by —we
must have tt Hurrah.!—one hundred guns
for Arkansas philanthropy ! The Arkansas
gentleman who discharged tbese ennobling
sentiments at me,arrived in town yesterday,
from his own delightful and patriotic region,
and up to five o'clock this evening, had not
been enabled to get up a fight. Poor fel
low ! Is he not to be pitied
The Legislature of Virginia having he.
come satisfied that it cannot elect n Senator,
lots Postponed the subject indefinitely.
The Loco Focosat Washington are in a
quandary about the Maine affair. Mait.e,
you know, is Loco Foco of the "worst kind;"
end if Mr. Van Buren fines not espouse her
causes promptly and speedily, she will or
may kick In the traces. Well may Mr.
Vun Buren exclaim, "our sufferings' is in
,
tolerable."
!MEE!
~..y.:~..~uc:;~ ~,
City taxes, a selection which met with' the
universal approbation of the public. But he
was not destined to enter upon this new
sphere of duty. At the time of his death
Col. S held the rank of Colonel of the Fifth
Regiment of the city guards, who, we under-
stand, will attend his funeral for the purpose
of rendering 'the last tribute of respect to
their late commander. We havo been re
quested by several citizens also to suggest
that the flags of the Shipping he displayed,
throughout the day of his funeral, at half
toast.— Baltimore Chronicle.
Death by Hydrophobia !
We ore called upon to notice the death
of Mrs ELIZA BETH KEELY,wife of M r.
Jacob keels', of who died yesterday
the 12th oft. of HYDROPHOBIA.
We are indented ton friend for the follow
ing particulars of this distressing case: Mrs.
Keely was attacked by n mad dog on Satur
day the :31:1 of November last, and bitten on
the back of the hand, receiving an exten
sive lacerated wound, which penetrated to
the sinews She immediately consulted a
plivaician who ordered her to soak her hand
in salt water, and afterwards to put on the
wound a salt poultice. Feeling apprehen
sive of the result, she on Monday following
commenced the INC of Stoy's cure and pass
ed through a full and regular course of that
medicine.
Srortly after she had made use of these
.precautionary measures,the family removed
from Philadelphia to Lancaster. Since
their removal to this place she enjoyed goad
health until shout three or four weeks ago
from which time until the period of her
attack she said she "was not very well
wound had healed up well, but the scar
always remained tender and livid. On
Wednesday evening the fith tilt. she felt
soreness on the back of the hand around
the wound. On Thursday the soreness
proceeded up her arm and reached her
elbow. On Friday it had travelled up to
her shoulder; when of her own accord she
applied a blister bidow her ithouldet.
On Saturdsy, the pain in her nrm being
worse, and passing into the left breast and
side of her neck, she sent for a physician,
telling• him, on his visiting her, that she
"had an attack of rheumatism in her arm."
During the early part °film follnwing night,
the pain left her arm and settled at the lower
Part of her breast or pit of the stomach.
Having retired to bed she was soon roused
from her sleep by a sense of great anxiety,
and stricture of the chest, with a sensation
of smothering. Thirst coming on she
attempted to drink, but found she could not
swallow. The distress, anxiety, restless
ness, and sense of sufflication became worse
and worse until Sunday morning, when her
physician was sent for. Apprehending the
true character of the disease he at once
commenced a rigid course of treatment,
which appeared to hold the disease in check
and for a time produced manifest amend
ment.
This hop"fiul slam of things. however,
was succeeded on Monday night by symp
toms indicating a rapid advancement of the
disease. The spasms became alarming,
the sense of smothering extreme, the horrors
of countenance ir,discribable, and she fell
into a state of the greatest nervous irritabil
ity. The flickering of a candle, the distur
bances of the air in the room by walking,
the approach of fluids towards her, and
even breathing on her face brought on the
most' awful spasms. • She contiued in this
way until Thursday morning.
Throughout this day her spasms were
not quite so violent as the night before,
although her system was becoming more
nervous and excitable. Towards evening
her mind became wandering and delirieu. •
making it difficult to fix her attention.
Sometimes she became almost frantic.
Near bed-time, however, she became more
composed, and enjoyed a short repose; after
which her mind became more and more
unsteady until it run into constant delirium.
On Wednesday morning she became rap
dty exhausted and stink into entire inseosi
hility at half past eleven o'clock, from
which time she lay perfectly calm until 1
o'clock, when the spirit left its earthly tone•
mentl—Lancaster Examiner.
We regret to learn that about one half o
the'eastern division of the dam erected a
creqs the Susquehanna at Columbia by the
Tide-water Canal Company, has been car•
tied away by the ice. This dam cost 8150,•
nno to erect, and its destruction now will
probably throw back the operant; of that ca
nal to next fall. It has been the intention
of the company, to open it on the 4th o
Idly next.—Tekgroph.
ITELIGIOITS MOTICES.
t ra? The Rev. Mr. KnAUTU will preach in
the Lutheran Church on Sunday morning next,
and the Rev. Mr. ',cons in Me evening
The Rev. Mr. MeTasitr, will preach in his
church on Sunday mornirg next.
FOR S.l LI?,
A PAIR of Mahogany SIDE TABLES,
quite now. Inquire at this office.
March 4, 1830. It-49
SPRING WHEAT,
frIHE subscriber has on hand 100
Bushels of Spring !Meat
which he will dispose off at 82 per Bushel.
the same being the product of about five
Acres of ground which would have been
much better had it not have been for the
great drought of last season, any person he.
in desirous of making a trial of the same,
had better make early application for the
same.
The subscriber will have, in a few days,
a large quantify of BACON for sale, to
gether with a large quantity of FLOUR
and IRON.
DAVID ZIEGLER.
Gettysburg, March h, 1839. 49—tf
ATTENTION.
AMEETING will be held in the Court
House, on Friday the 8/h sne., to take
into Consideration the propriety of forming
an ARTILLERY COMPANY. The
young cnitp tiro respectcull invited to attend.
• MANY.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
POOR-HOUSE
avaavutQ
Samuel 111. itherow. Treasurer.
in account with the Directors of the
Poor and of the House of Employment
in thc
_County of Adams,lB3B.
DR. Dolls. Cts.
Balance in hands of Treasurer
from last }ear, 82 63
January 3,t0 order on Jesse Gilbert, 200 00
February 6, to order on John
H. McClellan, S 1000 00
April 6, to do. do. 500 00
June 10, to do. do. 1000 00
Auaust 27, to do. do. 500 00
October, to do. do. 1000 00
November 13,t0 on. do. 500 00
December 20,t0 do. do. 1500 00
CR.
Quintm Armstrong in Trust to
pay Justices' orders, 5 54 20
For support of out door'paiipers, 484 00
Funeral Expenses of out door
paupers, 5 32 60
Stock Cattle and Sheep, 507 89
Beef, Pork and Bacon from
Wilson Campbell anduthers, c 1407 06
Grain and Flour, 066 12
Merchandize from Witherow,
Arnold, and others, 1045 13
Mechanics Bill's 381 70
Payments to George Chritz
man for Building New Hos
pital, 950 00
For Lime, Ashes and Manure, 165 20
Three Horses, 212 On
Mule Hirelings, 189 . 79
Female Hirelings, 110 11
Stewards Salary, 225 00
Physicians Salary, 100 00
Clerks Salary, 25 00
Executing orders, 5 04
Extra Services of Directors, 15 00
28 00
63 56
Coffins,
Drugs and Medicines,
Middleton,Harper,Lefever and
Koehler for printing, 35 00
Duct. John K. McCurdy, for
attendance of out door pau
pars, 20 00
Repair to Yard and Spring, 20 00
Houck and McCreary fur Bricks, 31 75
For Plaster, 22 75
Debt paid toPhiladeiphia Alms
Howie, 5 40 00
For Apples and Cider, 70 87
For wood chopping. 81 49
Treasurers Salary,
Balance due Treasurer,
E, the subscribers, A uditor9 to settle
and adios' the Public Accounts,
DO CERTIFY, that we have examined
the Items which romnese the above Ac
counts, and do report that they are correct.
and that there is a balance of SIX HUN•
DRED AND EIGHTY TWO DOL
LARS AND FIFTY TWO CENTS, du , '
Samuel Witherow, Esq. Treasurer, being
from the Ist day of January .18.3, to the
7111 any of January 1839.
FREDERICK DIEHL,
JOHN L. NOEL, Audit's
JOHN G, MORNINGSTAR,
Quinrin eirmstrong, Stewart,
In account with the Directors of Poor
of Adams county, from the Ist of fon
uary IA3B. to the 7th of Janua y 18:i1
DR. Dolls. Cis.
To produce sold to different •
persons, 65 62
Clover Seed sold, 87 164
Two old Horses sold, 45 00
Hauling, 75
To Cash received for Board-
ing differend persons, S 70 60
Cash recived from Estate of ?
Jacob Stick, a pauper, S 167 24
Cash received from Estate of ?
Polly Sell, a pauper, 104 03
To two order's on Treasurer
not lifted by persons for
whom they were made out. 0 87
Balance due Stewart,
CR.
Balance due Stewart last year,
By Cash paid for Vegetables,
Paid for Merchandize,
do. Sundry IVNeliturics for work, 43 96
do. Male Hirelings, for dig•
ging driche & Sundry works, 65 06+
do. Femnle Hireling, 33 23
do. For executing orders, 27 031
do. For Harvest Hands, 40 37i
do. Debt paid to York Poor
owls. S 25 50
do. For Cattle and Sheep, 57 75
do. For Straw, 19 65
do. For Butter & Apple Butter,
.24 40
do. Money given to paupers
on leaving the House, 15 00
do. Cash paid for hauling
goods from Baltimore, 12 28
do. For Spring Wheat, 5 25
do. For Flour, 4 75
do. For Ashes and Manure, 6 264
do. For Butchering, I 62i
do. For Vinogar, 15 Of,
do. For Meet and Fish, 5 :-.5
do. Postage, 5,--1
alance due Stewart on settlement. $R 8.4
WE, the subscribers, Auditors to set•
tle and adjust the Public Accounts,
DO 'CERT' FY that we have Examined
the Items which compose the above Ac
counts, and do report that they are correct.
and that a bahmee of EIGHT DOLLARS
AND EIGHTY EIGHT- - AND. -
FOURTH CENTS is due the Stewart of
the Inetitution—boing from the lit day of
January 1838, to the 7th day . of January
1839.
FREDERICK DIEHL,
JOHN L. NOEL, Audit's
JOHN G. MORNINGSTAR,
Produce ofthe Farm-1838.
134 bushels of Wheat,
12 do. Italian Spring Wheat.
100 do. Rye,
1000 do. Oats,
253 do. Corn,
2 do. Flaxseed
330 do. Potatoes,
54 tons of Hay,
4000 pounds of Beef,
2300 do. Pork.
91 Paubers remained at the Poor-house on
the 2d day of January, 1834.
121 Paupers remained at the House on the
7th day of January, 1539.
32 Paupers supported out of the house in
part.
210 Paupers admitted in the course of the
year, including out door paupers.
March 5
e 6262 63
Dolls. Cts
To the Voters of Sldoma
FELLOW CITIZENS:
l Offer myself to your consideration as a
candidate for the offices of Register, Re
corder and Clerk of the Orphans' Court, at
the ensuing election.
Having, (rem practical experience acqui
red a perfect knowledge of the duties of
those offices, I (lope (if nominated and elect
ed) to be able do the business promptly, cor
rectly end in person..
The Public' Humble Servant,
WILLIAM KING.
Gettyslitira, Feb. 26 1839. to-4
T o %lit Ar otex s of Manus
grim Subscriber, offers himself to the
-111 - consideration of his fellow citizens of
Adams county, as a candidate for the office
of Prothonotary of said County, (provided
he shall receive the nomination of the Con
vention to settle a county ticket.) And res
pectfully solicits their support.
B. GILBERT.
Gettysburg, Feb. 2(3, 11._:39. le-48
Ti TA W Mi ILI Cllla kV
01001)Z.
, 31HOS. J. CO , respectfully lo
w forms the public !hat he has just re
calved
6920 15
25 00
A FTIESTT 51'1`PLY- OF
SPRING GOODS,
consisting. as lidlows:
Dry and Domestic Goods, Hardware,
Queensware, Shoes arid Gro
ceries, &c. &c.
6915 15
6252
86262 63
And all of which will be sold low for cash
or produce.
" Gettysburg, Feb. 26,1830.
Booth's Baltimore Lottery and Prize
OFFICE.
' TICKETS and shares in all the Lotter.
ies drawing daily, for sale as ab we, whom
prizes to the amount of many thousands of
dollars have been sold. Orders enclosing
the cash or prize tickets wilrveceivc imutc•
diate attention if addressed to
W ASHINGTON BOOTH,
C.irner of Market and M'Clellan street,
Baltimore.
February 5, 1 F 139. I rn-45
0 c
911 HE s•ihscriber, haviiig been appointed
JIL Auditor, by the Court of Adams coun
ty, to 'distribute the assets in the bands of
James McClure, Esq. and John L. Sadler,
Administrator of the Estate of Joshua Sni
der, deceased, to and among the respective
creditors of said deceased, will attend for
that purpose at the house of Mr. Moses My.
era. in Petersburg, (York Springs) on Sat
urday the 9th of March next.
GEORGE DEARDORF.
February 19, 1839. td-47
Notice, is hereby Given.
fro all persons concerned, that the foi
l"- lowinz TRUSTEE ACCOUNT is
filed in the Prothonotary's Oa .° at Gettys.
burgh, and will be presented to the Judges
of the Orphan's Court of Adams County,
on uesday the sth of March, 1839, for
confirmation and allowance—viz :
The Trustee account of Isaac Brinker
hoff, Trustee of Elizabeth Cross.
B. GILBER'F, Proth'v.
February 5, 18:39. tc-45
$552 811 i
8 BR.
8561 79
Dulls. Cis.
9 47
25 77i
110 061
VALUADVO PROPEMTY
FOB SALE.
r tlll-1E subscriber will sell at public auc
tion, on the premises on Wednesday
the Bth day of March next, according to
the 'terms therein prescribed, the tract of
LAND therein mentioned, containing be.
tween 375 and 400 acres. This. tract of
land lies in the county of Jelrersen'ariear
the Winchester and Potomac
,
misey.s.ol Rail road, about a quarter of a
milefrom Thompson's depot, and
six miles from Charlestown, pos
sesses unusual advantages as a grain, or
grazing farm. The improvements are of
the best kind ;t n excellent k,,,-„;
Brick Dwelling House, with
necessary out buildings, a first
ate orchard, a good well in '-
the yard and two springs, and the land (a
par; of which is good meadow) all o ell en•
closed with good fencing, and in excellent
heart. There is a su'lleiency of timber on
the land, of the very best quality. The
location of this farm, taken with the many
itdvantages it presents for farming or graz
ing, renders it one of the most desirable
situations in the Valley-. _ Persons desiring
to invest money in hinds are requested to
call upon Mr. James Griggs, who will show
the property. Posseasiou will be given on
the 15th of March.
8 5 81 78
552 w 94
For terms, npplv to
JAS. G. FICKLIN, Corn.
Frederick county, Va. Jan. 12. (d-43
C candy.
C ouuty .
11. AI EBB Ua II IP
Of Common Sehool. 41 - p - p - ropriation ant from the Mate
to tWaiffer cut Districts of Adams County,
94thcti
_ 1835 1818 1837.
Ber;eriek Paid
Ponowago Forfeited
Crunberland Forfeited
Franklin Paid
Germany _ Fotfeited
Gettysburg Paid
Hamilton Forfeited
liamiltonban Paid
Huntingdon Paid
Latimoro Forfeited
Liberty Forfeited
Menallen Paid
Mountjoy Forfeited
Mountpleasan Forfeitel
Heading Forfeit. I
Straban Pohl
Ty rune F.ufeiteJ
EarTHE foregoing statement exhibits not only the dividends of State appropria
tion for theffth Common School year (113 O,) payable on or after the first
Monday of Juno, 1838, when that year commences, to all the districts in the county ,but
also those for the Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th school years,(viz: 1835, 1830, 1837 and 1839,)n0w
due to such districts as have either not accepted or not vet applied in the proper man
ner for their money. The whole amount of State appropriation yet due for each district
since the first year of the system, is exhibited in the last column.
The State appropriation for 1835 or the first school year, was $75,000; for 1836, or
the second, $65,00; for 1037, or the third, $200,000; for 1838, or the fourth and pre
sent school year, 8700,000, (including the Building Fund of ssoo,ooooand for 1939, or
the fifth, it will be $200,000, if the law remains unaltered, but if the Legislature and
8100,000, it will be $300,000; making an agregate given by the State since the com
mencement of the system of $1,250,000 without, or $1,250,000 with the expected in
creased.
Undrawn dividends of the twofrit yearn' appropriation are to be received from the
COU 11 ty Treasury.
The dividends of subsequent years are payable by the State Treasurer on application
to the Superintendent. The following is the form of the necessary certificate,which should
be forwarded to the Superintendent, iu every case, as soon as the fact will justify it:
..g District Tar for 183 (Date)
To the Superintendent of Common Schools: .
"Sta-1 do hereby certify that a School Tax amounting to dollars cents. has
"been regularly levied and assessed for the School year 183 , upon district county;
"that a warrant for the collection'thareofha. been delivered to the district Collector according to law;
"and that the aforesaid Burn is at least equal to this district's annual Share of the State appropriation.
"1 do further certify that of Post Office, county, is the Jawfully appointed
."Treasurer of this District.
"Attest,
-
Preeitlent.
St4retary.
"---Post Office ----county. Peat Otfico , county".
By the next mail after the receipt of the foregoing certificate at this department, a
warrant on the State Treasurer for the appropriation of the current year, will be sent to
the District Treasurer, together with similar warrants for all undrawn dividends of for.,
mar years, remaining in the State Treasury. To obtain the latter no additional tax is
necessary, Do that one tax, for the current year, equal to the District's share of the ordi
nary annual State appropriation ($200,000) will be sufficient to enable it to receive all
dividends of former undrawn appropriations.
As soon as a District, previously non accepting, accepts the system and receives its
money from the State Treasury, it is thereby entitled to all money remaining for its use
in the County Treasury, provided it accepts before the Ist of November, 1838. In, that
case it is the duty of the County Treasurer to pay over such money forthwith to the Di
strict Treasurer, on the order of the Board of Directors. The beat proof of such amp
once and of the receipt of the money from the State Treasurer, Is the circular which ac
cornpainies the warrnnt of the Superintendent, on the production of which the County
Treasurer will be perfectly safe in paying over the dividends in his hands.
.qcceptance of the Common School system, under the present laws, can only take place
by n vote of air.ajority of such citizens of each non-accepting District, as assemble on
t he day of electing Directors, !icing in most cases the third Friday to March. *The citi
zens then assembled have two acts to perform, Ist. to elect Directors,which most be done
whether the system is to be put in operation or not; and 2d. to decide the question wheth
er the system shall be accepted or not. This last question is only to be submitted in moil
Districts as previously rejected the system, but not in accepting districts, and may
decided in the affirmative by a mere majority of the votes polled.—See the 13th Section
of the Common School Law of 1830.
.liarnsburg, February 11, 1839.
By the fifth paragraph of the tenth section of the act to consolidate and amend the
several acts relative toe general system of education by common schools, passed the
13th June, 18:;6. the Superintendent of Common Schools is directed annually, in the
mouth of February, to transmit to the commissioners of each county, a statement of the
amount every district therein that has, and every district that has not adopted the Com
mon School system, may be entitled to receive out of the annual appropriation of two .
hundred thousand dollars, and the commissioners shall immediately cause such state
ment to be published three times, in one or more newspapers printed in said county.
By the third section of the supplement to the above recited act, passed on the 24th
day of April, 1838, it is thus provided
SECTION 8. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of eneh county in the State,
triennially, to ascertain with the assistance of the respective assessors, the exact number
of the resident taxable citixensof each Common School district in their several counties
sod do certify Cie same under their hands and seal of office, to the Superintendent of
Common Schools, who is hereby directed to adopt the number of taxables, thus certified
to him, as the basis of distribution of the State appropriation; the said certificates to be
prepared and tramamitted on or before the first day of April in every third year, com
mencing with thr first day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty nine : Provided, That
if the commissioners of any-county shall neglect to forward such certificates, on or before
said day, the Superintendent may, in that case, adopt the number of taxables set forth in
the next preceding certificate or return.
You perceive that there will be some difficulty this year, in carrying into effect these
provisions, as the enumeration to be returned on the first day of April, is to be the basis
of distribution, while the Superintendent is to furnish' the statement of the amount to
which each district is entitled in the month of February.
It is impossible, at this time, to conjecture the proportion of the two hundred thous
and dollars, to which each district will be entitled. It hen the number of taxables is as
certained by the enumeration to be returned on the first of April next, the proportion
will be reduced according to the inciease of taxables. As the main object of furnishing
this statement in the month of February, is to give notice to the districts of the amount
of tax they are required to assess in order to entitle them to the State appropriation; and
as the reduction in this sum, arising from the additional number of taxables, will not be
great, it is considered that a publication of the statement furnished to you by the Super
intendent, in February, 1P39, will substantially comply with the law. You will, therefore,
re-publish that statement during the preset month, for the information of the districts,
and inform them that it contains the amount, to which they are entitled, of the two hun
dred thousand dollars for the present year.
I am constrained to urns upon you the necessity of furnishing the exact number of
taxables in each of the districts in your county, agreeably to the above recited section,
as soon as practicable, and not delay the matter longer than the first of April. You per
ceive by the concluding part of the section, that if this return is not made in time, the
taxables in the preceding return are to be adopted, by which your county will be de
prived, for the year, of the State appropriation to the additionrl taxables in theitispec
live districts, granted by the eleventh section of the act of , l2th. April, 18380 which
makes the amount of the Stateeppropriation equal moue dollar ibr cacti taxable citizen.
FRANCIS R. SlltiNK,
Superintendent of Common Schools.
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February 29, 1839.
. NOTICE.
ILHE Subscriber,
residing in the Borough
of Gettysburg, hereby gives notice to at:
persons indebted to the Estate of
AGNES WRAY,
late of the Borough of Go tlysburg,A da ms County,
Pa.deceased,tocall and make immediate payment!
and those hating claims against said Estate, wil.,
present them withe-,3 delay, properly authen
..--
skated, for settlement.
HV.Z. VANORSDLE, Adm'r. • I
February 19, 18:'9. 6 t-4711
SWAIM'S PANACEA.
VOR the cure of 'Scrofula or King's
st Evil, Syphilitic and Mercurial diseases
Rheumatism, Ulcerous Sores, diseases o
the Liver and Skin, White Swellings, gen.
erat debility, iStc —ALSO
SWAIM'S VERMIFUGE,
a certain remedy for Worms—for sale ai
the Apothecary and Drug Store of
G. R. GILBERT, de Co.
Dec. 25, 1939. (1.39.
Paid
47 $3
Paid
Paid
PIM
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
55 25
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
67 87,
Paid
129 4$
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
149 55
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
156 67
Paid
Paid
Signod,
re, WEAVER'S. CELEBRATED
J.J . EYE SALVE, an article highly re
icommended as superseding all others fia
sore, weak and inflamed eyes. It has fre..
lquently effected cures after all other prepa
rations had failed. Fa efficacy is attested•
by many certificates, which can be examin
ed on application to the subscriber.
Price 25 cents per box, and for sale at the
Drug Store of
FIR. BUTLER'S EFFERVESCENT
11 AGNESI A N APERIENT. for
dispepsia or indtgestitm, norvous
giddiness, hoadache,acidity of the stomatch
habitual costiveness, cutaneous threases,
ent, gratef, &c. and much valued as tb
4elitle Cooling puriptive; an article highly
recommended by the Faculty, has just bees
received at the thug Stor of
a, R. GILBEAT, & C.ck.
Dec. 25,1838. • - -
Paid
'452 45
- Paid
207 IS
129 49
167 68
240 84
246 66
260 91
174 16
233 07
220 78
149 55
145 02
312 06
145 02
227 89
158 67
208 48
119 77
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
522 58
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
547 47
Paid
Paid
G. R. GI LBERT, & co.
Total Due.
207 16
759 24
167 68
240 84
248 86
260 0.1
174 16
233 07
220 76
8 1 6 93
146 02
812 05
145 02
227 89
918 68
208 46
119 77