From tho Telegraph and Intolligoncer.
PROFESSIONS AND PRACTICES.
The locofoco party have completely chan
ged their ground—have faced about—have
deserted their furmer principles—and are
now acting in open contradiction to all their
professions for tho last four years.
We remember well when the Leoi s i a
ture 0f1835-6 chartered the United States
Bank. There arose a cry from that par
ty that reverberated through the dome of
heaven like the rumbling that tells of the
earthquake's approach. Meetings were
hold in every county, and in every township
in the State —and REPEAL! REPEAL!
came home on the wings of every breeze,
from every hill and every dale—till it seem
ell that no earthly power could withstand
the onset. Charges of fraud—of bribery.
and of all manner of corruption, were made
against the men who chartered the bank.
They were denounced as traitors—as RANK
BOUGHT APOSTATES—as INFA
MOUS DESERTERS from principle, dzc.
No name was too opprobrious—no epithet
too vile to be applied to them. In vain we
said the chartering of the bank had brought
millions into the public treasury—in vain
we said she would prove a resource to the
commonwealth in the hour of her need.
Her opponents wanted none of her money—
they despised her means—they would not
recognize the validity of her charter—it
was conceived in sin and brought forth in
iniquity. They were determined, they said,
that it should be taken trom her, and the
4 monster' of ill omen driven from the Com
monwealth.
When the intelligence that the bill to
'charter the bank had been reported, reach
-ed Huntingdon,
ti At once there rose so wild a yell,
As all the fiends from heairen that fell,
Had pealed the banner-cry of bell !"
The party were 'indignant'—were outra
ged—their rights invaded—and they resol
ved to be heard at least. A meeting was
called—it was said FIFTEEN HUNDRED MEN
,ATTENvEn ! but wo do not know how true
this is, as the chairman may have been see
ing double—and at that meeting the strong
est anti bank preamble and resolutions that
could be drawn up, were passed. It was
not exceeded by any meeting in the State,
for eloquent denunciation; and solemnly
resolved, if our memory does not deceive
-us, that the charter of the bank bill was in
fact a nullity, and never could become bind
ing on the people. And who do you think,
reader, presided at this meeting, and signed
its proceedings. Why no less a personage
that DAVID R. PORTER, now Govern
-or of the state of Pennsylvania.
Well—time rolled 'on; and the cry a
gainst the bank was still kept up. The
members of the convention were elected in
1830, with reference to the repeal of its
-charter, when the people decided against
that measure; but still the cry of REPEAL!
REPEAL I was rolled back and forth as
the shibboleth of the party.
David R. Porter assumed the reins of
In
on the 15th of January 1839.
In his inaugural address, he overlooked the
repeal of the charter, but recommended a
.dissolution of tlieState from all 'entangling
alliances' with banks. Bills to authorize
the borrowing of money came up in both
branches of the legislature, when proposi
tion after proposition to compel the bank to
loan' at 4 per cent., were voted down in the
house of Representatives, in which the Gov
ernor and his party had secured a majority;
the ground that they intended to REPEAL
THE BANK'S CHARTER so soon as
they should get a majority in the Senate.
Well during the recess of the Logisla.
lure, the Governor borrowed money from
the Bank at FIVE per cent. and told the le
gislature in his annual message, that he had
done so, but with great reluctance.' Im
mediately on the reception of this message,
bills were introduced Into both branches of
the Legislature, to repeal the charter of
the Bank ; and soon after various proposi
tions, to compel the bank to loan money,
were voted down by the dominant party, on
the ground that, her charter was improper
ly obtained, and should be taken from her,
especially as she had led the way in suspen
ding specie payments.
But after all this denunciation—after all
these charges against those who chartered
the bank--after all this HUMBUG about
the repeal of her charter, we found the
Governor on Saturday last, announcing to
the Legislature, that a loan to pay interest
had not been taken, at the same time that
he made a private arrangement with a com
mittee of the U. S. Bank, by which it was
stipulated that that institution would take
the loan provided the Governor would check
all those rash measures which wore calcu
lated to produce a scene of unparalled
ruin and disaster, from the centre to the
circumference of' the Commonwealth!'
And in pursuance of that arrangement the
loan was taken as will appear from the fol.
lowing message, communicated on Satur
day, viz :
7o the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
GENTLE3IEN—I have to communicate to
the Legislature, that the loan authorised by
the act of the 22d January last, has been
taken as follows:
$lOO,OOO by the president, directors and
company of tho Bank of Pennsylvania ;
8100,000 by the Girard Bank ; and tho re
mainder by the BANK OF THE U 1 S.;
by reason of which the Commonwealth is
now able to pay ofFand dicharge $050,000
of the interest which fell due upon the Ist
instant, upon her loans.
The amount provided by the Legislature
for the payment of interest, in the said act
of the 23d of January last, was evidently
fixed by the report of the State Treasurer
on the subject of finances of 9th January.
From a statement now furnished by that
canoe, it appears that the whole amount of
interest dueon the Ist instant,
was
Deduct the appropriation ofth©
• 23, of January, $650,000 00
Patti from Troasury,27,73o 00
Thus tit* is a balance of $40,860 78;
for the paymerit of which immediate p'o•
provision should be mn'e by the Legisla•
ture.
It may not be improper to add, that the
further fiction of the Legislature on the sub•
ject of the joint resolution recommended in
my message of the Ist instant, ►s now unite
cessary.
February 3,1840.
What is the present condition of our rulers?
Every pledge violated—every promise d►s
regarded. Theypave not only recognized
the validity of the bank charter, but taken
loans from her on terms far more profitable
to her than those on which she could have
been forced to lend. Her charter WILL
NOT be repealed —the humbug on that
subject is ended. She will go on in her
course, undisturbed by any adverse or co•
ercive action towards her.
The reader must not suppose we regret
the change that hascome over affairs hero.
On the contrary we rejoice at it. We now
have our enemies bearing witness to the
wisdom and foresight of the Legislature of
1835-6—we now find the present Governor
acknowledging, in the most pointed man•
ner, the wisdom and patriotism of his pre
decessor, in providing a' beast of burden,'
(as she has been contemptuously designated
by those who now borrow from her)jo bear
the Commonwealth through her financial
difficulties. We have the testimony of his
acts, which in these days, is far more val
uable than that of profession.
But what will become of the honest but
misguided men, who have been led by un•
pi incipled politicians to wage a war of ex
termination against the institution that those
same politicians have now taken to their
embrace ? Will they still be led by these
who laugh at their simplicity, and use their
delusion for the vilest purposes? W ill they
'about face' with Goveirior Porter, and ac
knowledge themselves to be either knaves
or fools? We shall see.
THE NATIOMAL GOVERNMENT BANK
The people of Pennslyrania were com
pelled week before last to witness the dis.
graceful spectacle of their noble common.
wealth failing to pay the interest on her
public debt, and confessing bankruptcy to
her creditors. Now we have to announce
that the National Government is also ap
proaching that last effect of loco foco doc•
trines and management, and is threatened
with ran empty treasury. Although the
President declared in hi annual message
that " the financial operations of the Gov
ernMent during the last year had been very
successful," and that " all the out-standing
Treasury notes could be redeemed, and the
ordinary expenses paid without imposing
additional burdens on the people, either of
loans or increased taxes ;" he was compel.
ed to send in a supplementary message to
Congress sin Tuesday of last weekrdecla
ring:that certain judicial decisions" have
had the effect of decreasing the accruing TC•
venue, to the amount of two millions of dol
lars. The Executive and his Secretary oi l
the Treasury, say that to increase the rates '
of duties would not afford sufficiently prompt
relief for the exigencies of the Government,
and they urge upon Congress the adoption
of more expeditious measures. There is
nothing left then tg be done but to grant
authority for the issue of a new batch of
Treasury Notes, and now the governments
of the United States and Pennsylvania are
both proposing to issue their own irredee•
mable paper in order to meet the demands
of their creditors. Thus they pay their
debts by the issuing of now evidence of'
debt, to which they add the interest due on
the old principal, and at this rate of proceed
ing, we ask the people how soon they ex
pect to be clear of the burden, and be able
to say " wo owe no man any thing?"—The
present state of things is the legitimate con
sequence of loco loco rule, and if it is desi•
sable to return to a more safe—more hon
est, and more honourable administration of
public affairs, it can only be done by a
change of officers. Elect Old Tippecanoe
—throw klaide loco foco experiments and
expedients—use the public resources for the
good of the country, and not the emolument
of office-holders and the advancement of par
ty interests, and all will be again well—
prosperity will bo enjoyed, and the country
resume her onward march, uncacumbered
with pecuniary embarrassments and politi.
cal shackles.— York Rep. .
From the Philadelphia Evening Star
HEAR ONE WHO WAS AN OPPONENT
The Ohio Freeman, edited by Captain
Duffy an old soldier and an original Jackson
man, thus speaks of the gallant Harrison
and hie calumniators. Hear the old soldier!
GENERAL H.A RRISON.
As must be very evident to my numerous
readers, I have neither the time to write,
nor the room for long articles. Yet, if I
were to perpetrate a long article, I think
it would be in favor of General Harrison. I
know full well the light I am viewed in by
those who pretend to all the consistency in
the world, and who would fain make people
believe that they were the only patriots in
the world, because they would probably
prove themselves to be the merest slaves and
sycophants to their party. I hear of men, of
their character, who belong to all sides,who
are one day in raptures with the freemen,
and on the next, would serve him as was
served poor Captain Belisarius—that is tear
nut his very eyes and send him off to beg his
bread
But, as I am no office hunter, and have
no claims to make fin services rendered my
country—she having paid me up as I per
formed my duty—l may, as an honest and
disinterested witness, be permitted to say
just what I think of one, and ofall her yen•
arable and well-tried patriots ; and I may at
this time particularly allude to one of them,
whom a certain party, known as the Whig
Democratic Party, have nominated as a sui
table candidate for the Presidency•
Well, it is a great while since I read
MarmontaPs affecting little story of poor
blind Belibarius. I remember that I bor
rowed it from the chaplain of our ship, who
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677,730 00
$40,860 78
DAVID R. PORTER
was a pretty clever fellow,
without being a
very pious man, and that 1 read it between
two of the larboard guns, on the gun deck,
seated on a match tub. Years have passed
away, and I have been rich and poor, a sul.
dier, a politician, and a Muralist since ! But
the memory of poor Belisarius will some
times rise uppermost in my mind, oven
now ; especially when I hear some profane
and heartless tyro wagging his tongue, in
derision of the tried courage, the venerable
hairs, the patriotism, and the pure and spot
less integrity of the few remaining defen
ders of their country, in the days of her dif
ficulty and great need!
In the venerable person of Gen. Harrison,
I see nothing, 'tis true, that can yet compare
with the fate of poor Belisarius. Its eyes
are yet spared him to look upon the smiling
country, her cities, villages, and farms, he
was so instrumental in building up from
dreary and savage wilderness—he is still
permitted to walk abroad over the face of
the land he has so often and nobly defended,
through the Providence of Heaven, without
leader or staff ; but, like those of Belisari
us, his ears are too often pained with the
ungrateful acclamations of his countrymen,
and his venerable brow too frequently feels
the pressure of the ruffian hand of the par
tizan, tearing from thence the unwithering
chaplets of his pure and spotless fame!
There is, therefore, according to my cal
culation of the history of Belisurius, some
little similiarities in the two cases. Both
were soldiers, and both deserved well of the
honors of their country, and both were set
up as fit marks for the malignant ridicule
and foul derision of foul and debased party I
0, it is cruel, too cruel, and too unjust,
for the patience of a generous people to
bear, to hear one of the truest and bravest
and most worthy of their countrymen, tra
duced in character— a his services defamed
—and all the proud and noble darings of his
youth and prime of life, set at naught by the
foul tongue of party slander? The rich and
cherished honors of a life of toil, and of ar
dent and untiring patriotism, trodden under
foot by a ruthless arid mercenary, and ma
lignant band of ignorant demagogues,whom
a worse than ignorant people have chosen
as their leaders, and into whose hands they
have entrusted the destinies of themselves
and of their country.
I do not speak of him now as filling the
attitude of a candidate for the Presidency.
It is true, many of his countrymen have
chosen to place him in that attitude, and he
consented. And what of this? Shall his
fellow citizsns,his fellow countrymen,there
fore, in order to reach his patriotic pride
and dash all his hopes in the dust, throw a
shade of dishonor over the proudest era in
western history—an era in which he figured
so largely—out-topping, as it were,the toast
gallant spirits of his time!
If these demagogues do not intend that
he shall be elected, let them at least, far the
sake of their country, he just to him—for
his fame, and the fame of their country , is
so closely wedded together, that to mar the
one is to blot the other! Do they know;
that it they wound or destroy the fame of
Gen. Harrison, they must first tear away
many of the highest scrolls that emblazon
the proud escutcheons of their country, and
trample upon some of the fairest pages of
her glorious history - I
1 am no partizan—and there are many
others, who, like myself have become polit
ically heart sick! But we can stand aaoth•
or campaign, and we we will stand another
campaign, If it needs be, in defence of the
honest soldier who stood by us and our
country, before many of those traducers
were born, or fbund a peaceful asylum on
shores!
TALLAHASSEE, Jun. 7, 1840.
Gen. Read was, on Sunday night last,
very nearly killed by Willis Alston, broth•
er of Augustus Alston, whom Gen. R. shot
recently in a duel. This occurred in rho
supper room about half past 6 o'clock, and
whilst the room was crowded with persons
who, at the moment, wore peacefully enga•
gad with a dish of hot coffee, and your hum
ble servant among them. Alston had un
expectedly arrived from Texas; came into
to lin about • 4 o'clock in the afternoon, per
haps determined to revenge the death of
his brother. Gen. Read, I understand, was
advised of his arrival, but did not think
proper to keep out of his way—on the con
trary, came down to the Hotel after dark,
where Alston stopped. Alter the supper
bell had rung, arid all hands, about one
hundred and fifty persons, were seated at
the table Alston who came in, was standing
very near the entrance with his elbow out,
talking to some gentleman who were seat
ed eating—at this time, Gen. Read also en
tered, and, it is said,
• jarred Alston's elbow
as he passed going down the passage (about
three feet wide) between the supper table
and the wall of the hoube. 1 did not see
either of them then, nor until after the row
was over, though seated on that side of the
table. After Gen. Rend had proceeded on
his way about five paces below me, some
thing induced him to turn his head (this is
the report) towards Alston, and a hostile
glance was thrown by both at each other.
Alston immediately drew his pistol, and as
Gen. Read had turned to him, fired and
struck him about the lower part of the lap
pet of his coat, the ball entering and mak
►ng a terribleund, (at first thought to be
mortal;) and as Gen. Read rushed at him
with his cane and pistol, Alston fired a se
cond pistol, which missed Gen• Read, the
ball penetrating the wall at the upper end
of the room. Gen. Read then fired at Al
ston, wounding him slightly in the hand,
(so reported.) As Gen. Read rushed upon
him at the door, Alston stabbed him badly
with a Bowie knife, (not a mortal wound,)
and cleared himself; he has not been seen
or heard of mice Whilst this firing was
going on, as 1 observed, I was between the
combattsnts, and young from Alachua,
was standing up by me, and behind my,
chair. a little stooping. This was rather
an awkward predicament for peaceable peo
ple, and providential escape from death or
serious harm. Gen. Read is slowly recov
ering ; supposed to be out of danger.— The
GEN. HARRISON'S POPULARITY AMONG
IDS OLD SOLDIERS.
We know of nothing that can bet regard
ed as stronger proof of the real merits of
the Old Hero, than the uniform and enthu
siastic devotion which all his former asso
ciates and companions in arms manifest in
his support. They yield no reluctant—no
hesitating acquiescence in the general ac
knowledgments of his courage, his labours
and his sufferings in defence of his fellow
citizens, but one and all, without so much
as an exception to the rule, join heart and
hand in paying homage to his claims upon
the gratitude of his country. They were
with him in the times that tried men's souk
and none can better appreciate his worth.
To those in the Tory ranks who are vile
enough to attempt by false and malignant
aspersions to traduce Gen. Harrison, we
would present the testimony of onetamong
the thousands who still survive of those who
have seen him standing in the front ranks
of battle, and who are ready to testify to
the peril to which he has hundreds of times
exposed his life in defence of his country.
Col. OTallon, of St. Louis, formerly his
aid-de=camp, having been chosen president
of the Tippecanoe Club, recently organized
in that city, took occasion among other re
marks to pay the following tribute to the
merits of his former commander.—Ruston
Atlas.
" At the up of nineteen, I first became
acquainted with the distinguished patriot,
in whose behalf we have assembled, and
having been by his side through nearly the
whole of the last war, I can bear testimony
to his cool, undaunted and collected courage,
as well as to his skill, as an able, efficient
and active offider. Atter the battle of Tip
pecanoe, which has thrown so much glory
over our country's arms, it was universally
admitted that General Harrison was THE
ONLY OFFICER ,THAT COULD DAVE SAVED
TILE ARMY FROM. DEFEAT AND MASSACRE.
SHOCKING FAMINES
Sad Condition of British India-500,-
000 People swept yr.—British India is an
empire as large as Europe, exclusive of
Russia, with a population, including tribu•
tary states, of more than 150,000,000.
Over this empire and people, a sway is ex
ercised wholly British; while it is affirmed
that ignorance, poverty, crime and disaf
fection prevail there, to a distressing and
alarming extent.
It has been estimate I that the famine of
1837 and 183 S, in the Upper Provinces of
Ben , ral, swept off more than 500,000 peo
ple. The famine of the year 1830, visited
the Northern Provinces of Bombay and
Madras.
The Asiatic Journal for A tigfist, 1839,
sta!es that '200,000 were scantily fed dui
ly by Government and private individuals
in the north west provinces; yet this is but
a faint palliative. The people are dying
like dogs—mothers throwing their living
children at night into the Junina—disease
Idestroving numbers whore famine has spa
red—dogs and jackals actually devouring
bodies in which life was not extinct.' At
law:liar 'hydraphobia was t J fatal as chol
era—famine dreadful—horses, asses, buffe
t foes, every thing that has died a natural
death, eaten by the natives.' At gra
I 'police pick tip 130 bodies daily.'
On the 14th of April 1839, 79,000 pining
wretches, men, women and children, were
fed by bounty at Agra; and between the Ist
and 15th of March, 71,523 infirm and sight.
loss creatures were relieved in a similar
I manner. So great were the ravages of
death that the air for miles was tainted with
the effluvia from the petrifying carcases of
men and cattle, and the rivers of the Juna•
Mt and the Ganges wore choked up and poi
soned by the dead bodies thrown into their
channels. The water and fish of these riv
ers were rejected as unfit for use, and men
kept constantly employed in pushing the
accumulated bodies down the torrents.
The mortality was at the rate of ten thou
sand a month; a destruction of life which,
if it had continued, would have swept off
the entire population in less than a year.
A still more dreadful picture is given in
a letter from Calcutta, under date of the
10th of April, which says—'Since the des
patch of the overland mail per the Berenice,
which left Bombay at the close of last
month, public attention in this quarter has
been engrossed by the accounts which dai
ly reach the capitol of the horrid ravages
of famine in the provinces to the west and
north west. It is impossible to compute
the numbers who die in their tedious pro
gress from the desolate districts to the
towns where food is procurable. We h ear
almost daily of mothers deserting their chit
dren
on the highways—of infants crawling
around the granaries to pick up the grains
of rice accidentally scattered during the pro
cess of distribution at the doors—of the
roads being lined with dead bodies,. a prey
to the vulture and jackal—of the courses
of small rivers actually obstructed by the
masses of dead bodies thrown therein by
those who are employed to clear the high
ways—of the European inhabitants of the
large towns of Aga, Cawnpora, &c. being
compelled to abandon their evening drive,
from the impossibility of encountering the
effluvia from the putrid corpses around.'
Product., of the United States.—The
New York Herald contains a table, in which
the products of the United States aro thus
estimated:
Product of Consumption Export
1839. for 1840. for 1840.
Cotton, $81,000,000 $13,509,000 $67,503,000
Tobacco, 15,000,000 5.000,000 19,000,006
Rice, 4,000,000 1,200,000 2,300.00
Breadstuffs, 275,000,000 225.000,000 50,000,000
Manufactures, 300,000,000 276,000,000 12 000,000
Other articles, 50,000,000 30,000,000 20,000,000
$725,500,000 $ 548,700,000 $ 161,500,000
The following table, says the same pa
per, will show the proportion of the whole
exports and imports of tho United States,
which are made to and from New York:
1839. New York.
Whole imports, $127,600,000 $38,809,780
" exports, 118,339,00.1 29,071,89.)
In this table we perceive that the actual
balance of trade against New York was
near 8130,000,000; of which $43,000,000
have been sold on credit tb the south, south
west: and west.
lirbe wages of labor must come down!"
—Thirr:was the declaration of a mouth
pieceOf the administration on the floor or
the Senate. The Sub-Treasury, it was do.
clafed, would produce this resu:t, and on
thatiround was urged and suAairied. It
no doubt will be so; and every thing else
must go down with it, if the scheme is Ills
tened upon the people. Already the fir
mer feels sorely and deeply the effects of
the administration war against the great in
terests o o the country—their markets are
destroyed;their prices are reduced more
than one half, and evenat the lowest rates
they can sciiicely obtain a dollar of cash to
pay their taAes. The turn of the mechanic
came a Ittttp.;soonet; but now the laborer;
he who eariis,hread for his family, by day's
work, is to bear his share of the sulfuring
produced by g,tivernmental abuse. The
administration leaders are boldly, we may
say impudently, taking ground against the
laboring and producing classes; and the
word bus gone forth that prices must come
down and be kept down, as well of produce
as of labor! It is true that the administra
tion has for years been at war with the
best interests of the winking man; but they
have not before shown out their colors, so
plainly ; they have always managed to blind
and deceive their victims, and lead them to
destruction. But 004 slay has conic when
all may see ; the mists is thrown off; hy.
pocriiiy will avail nolUnger ; and the work.
regnant aro insulted i;itth,the declaration
that they have been too well paid for. their,
labor! Workingmen, Farmer?, Mechanics,
—such of you as have been instrumental in
sustaining the present dynasty . xvill you
longer give countenance to the rrikn . who
thus boldly assail your rights and interests?
Will you longer sustain the pampared:ar•
irtocrats, who would treat you with von.
tempt; and endeavor to degrade your lap-,
orahle pursuits? No, you cannot, you %rill
riot. Come with us then; rally to the stan
dard of the Farmer of North Bend—the
"log cabin candidate," ns he has been sneer
ingly termed by the federal leaders. We
extend a welcome hand to all who are tired
of this government, and desire a change in
the national administration—to all who
seek fur protection to our home industry—
who desire fair prices for the producer and
the laborer. Come with us, and share the
glorious victory we shall certainly achieve
over the enemies of the country.—Bearer
Argun.
Alluding to the next Presidency, Col.
Stone of the New York Commercial says:
"With the feelings now abroad through
the whole country, we hold the election of
General William Harrison to be just about
as certain an event as that the time of hold
ing the election will come. The evidence
to sustain this opinion, flowing in upon us
from every quarter is irresistible. And
yet, with the folly of the ostrich, which, by
thrusting its head in the sand, imagines be
cause it can see nothing it is unseen, the
lending administration papers are yet affec
ting to despise the strength of Harrison;
and, as though blind and deaf to all the ovi•
dencis of the popular will around them,still
talk of the re-election of Mr. Von Buren
The Richmond Enquirer the ether day
claimed New York, New Jersey, Ohio and
Illinois, for Van Buren. in sober earnest,
Mr. Ritchie, do not deceive yourself thus.
Your friends may bet, and they will be ru-•
toed. New York will go for Harrison by
fifteen thousand. Mark that, Mr. Ritchie.
Ohio will go for him by fifteen thousand
more. Mark that. Illinois by five thou
sand, and Indiana by ten. Set down these,
Mr. Ritchie Aye: and set down upon the
same side half a score of other states,which
will aid to elect him by a triumphant ma
jority."
These are the views of no partizan, but
of one of the coolest and clearest heads in
tho country. The truth is, the enthusiasm
with which the nomination of Harrison has
been received—the union it has produced
in the ranks of the opposition, have surpri
sed even the most sangine of the friends of
the distinguished patriot and veteran sol
dier. They all knew him to be popular,
but they did not thoroughly understand rind
appreciate the depth and strength of that
popularity. We candidly coincide with the
Commercial as to his prospects. They
seem to brighten with the progress of each
hour.—Pu. Inquirer•.
VAN BUREN ECONOMY --Facts worth
Remembering.—ln his speech in the U.S.
[louse of Representatives, on the subject of
the public printing, 51r, anAvis, of Ken•
tucky, stated that filr. Gideon, by contract,
executed for the Adjutant General's Office,
a piece of work for which he received twen
ty dollars. Tho same work had been for:
merly done by the printers of the Globe,
and they charged and received for it, one
hundred and twenty dollars.
Another fact was, that the cost of the
printing and stationary for Congress and
the public offices, in 1819, was about $70,-
000; while during the last Congreirs, their
printing and stationary, and the printing
and stationary of the departments, exceeded
five hundred and sixty thousand dollars;
which, estimating the profit at only twenty
per cent, would afford a net gain of one
hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
And this heavy sum, the Van Buren
members of Congress voted to put into the
pockets of the publishers of the Globe news
paper, rather than to support a proposition
for getting the work done by practical prin
ters, unconnected with the political press,
at the lowest and best terms to the govern
ment. So much for Van Buren economy,
in disbursing the public rnoneyl—Batt. Pat
"It is stated as a singular fact, that or the
four female sovereigns who have occupied
the (hien° of England, not one ever was a
mother. Three out of the four wore mar
ried: the first Mury, married to Philip of
Spain, the'second Mary, joined in her sov
ereignty with the ever to be remembered
husband, the hero of Boyne—and Anne,
married to Prince George of Denmark-7
Elizlbetli never was married. None of the
three. however, left a child to inherit her
crown."
Sou EDITORIAL Anvice.--41ajor No
alt, who has probably bad as nlgch7 experi
ence asiinyjciPrnalist iti .this &iuntry, in
culcates some wholesome advice to the craft
us follows:
"Editors trfghf possible look up were
they mire united —were there n better, a
more fraternal feeling amongst them—did
they stand by each other, and sustain each
other's acknowledged rights. But there
are anne•who seem to take pleasure in a
busing their colleague', nod elidea - Voring to
lessen them in the public es•imatitm—not
many, we admit ; and those who p-actise it.
are generally the poorest devils of the craft,
who, between brandy and water, shocking
tempers, and bad (lines, prefer venting their
spleen upon a colleague, when they can font
no ono else to abuse. It is, thus, that when
victory perches upon our banners, the mea
nest and least available, the unknown, rind.
sometimes most ufraiited, make ofTwith nil
the spoils, leaving the editors, who are said
to be 'looking up,' the merest crumb from
the official table. Were editors more uni
ted, men who obtain high stations from their.,
labors and exertions would scarcely venter()
upon the experiment of 'whistling them cdf,
and letting down the wind a prey to for
tune.' I go, hereafter, against the election
army man, who is not pledged, among oth
er acts of devotion to his country, to ba the
editor's friend:"
SFATI9TIC.3 OF MASSACHUSETTS. -It an.-
pears from the Massachusetts 'Register for:
1840, that in a 'nopulation of about seven
hundred and fifty thousand we have 1210
religious Societies, of which 559 nro Con
gregationalist, 260 Baptist, 180 Methodigt,
125 Universalist, and 42 Episcopal. Of
Physicians, 650 belong to the Messschu•
setts Medical Society. Of Counsellors and'
Attornies, the number is not less than 800.
The Legislature consists of about 550 mem
bers. 01 Pcstmasters we have 472. 123
13010. 46 Insurance Companies. In Bes
toTre are 42 Charitable Societies, and
not ea! than 59 other public institutions,
besijot schools and academies.
The Farna''rof North Bend.—The Lou.;
isville City Gazette
,says: "Some gentle
men a few days since veteran
Harrison, at his farm at:lsTerth Bend, find.
found him, flail in hand, thrtieliiiig out wheat
in his barn. This is the man whom office.
holders and destractives afl'ect to despise.
He is the people's man, for he is of them.
He will th.ash the little magician opt of
his magic, next November."
On a subject of great moment to newspa
per publishers, the New York Atlas sermo •
nizeth in the manner following, to wit:
A man who promptly pays b;s advertising
bills, is one of nature's noblest works. The
fact established is at once a passport for
him into society, which ho ornaments by
his virtues ; but the wretch who advertises
in a paper and does . not pay; who remorse
lessly would cheat a printer, is unfit for any
but the lowest and most depraved society
—if known ho should bo shunned by hono •
rabic persons.. No good and pretty girl
would encourage the addresses of snob a
man for a moment, and when he dies, ho
tumbles into pi, rotten and corrupt, leaving
behind him rip.bright memory to sweeten
his ashes. -
PAINEBVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 25.
Dear Sir:--The- Whig, Convention, at
Chardon, the 29d, proved to -be be Much lar
ger than.we had any teaStin to expeet—in
stead or thtithree houses I twined, - all . the
houses there were not large enough to hold
the multitude that assembled. The Con
vention'assembled in the open air. The
day was fine—indeed it was a proud' day
for old Geauga. Mr. Peikins, at the close
of his speech, challenged the Ashtabula
delegation to give as largo a majority next
fall, as Geuaga, and was responded to by
Mr. Wade, pledging old Ashtabula to give
3000 majority for Harrison and Tyler.
HUNDREDS OF VAN BUREN MEN HERE HAVE
RENOUNCED THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE
BOWERS THAT RE, AND HAVE COME OUT DE
CIDEDLY FOR HARRISON, and it is possible
that we may come up to the three thousand
majority next fall. In fact if the Harrison
enthusiasm continues we shall be unani
mous, saving the "office-holders."
A Peculiar Case.--A few days ago, the
infant child of Enoch C. Harrington, resi
ding in Phinn street, below Fifth, gave in
dications that it was in severe pain, and
that its sufferings were confined to its leg.
Dr. Mitchell was called in, but not percei
ving any mark upon the limb, thought it
advisable to send for Dr. Diane, with n hom
he met to consultation. On examining the.
thigh, something of the size of half a bird'
shot was ascertained to ha lodged and deep
ly embedded in the Substance of the mus•
des. On touching this matter, the child.
would scream violently. They immedi•
ately.came to the conclusion that an opera,.
lion was necessary, and Dr. Duffee accor-.
dingly made a very bold incision on the
lower edge of the vaslus exe'rnus muscle,
and cut through the fascia and a portion or
the muscle, and then extracted a large dar
ning needle ! now the needle entered tie
limb of the child remains unknown. It is
P 5 months old, and' is now doing wall.—
Ledger.
The Indiana Journal describing the im..
mouse concourse of people which lately con
vened at Indianapolis to respond to the no-,
mination of "Ohl Tip," says there was no
house in the State large enough to held them,
and they therefore atsembled in the open,
air, and "coveredffve acres ofgroutid..!!
•• •
Railroad Iron.--It seems fronT a i'Opto-':;;,`Pl','
made by the Treasury Department to thik - `- -- "-%
House c,t Representatives, that the amount
of duties remitted on iron imported for rail
roads, and steamboats, exceeds the very
large sum of three rnillien and a half of dol.
lars, 'Elis, certainly, gives some claim to.
the United States to II quire that railroads
should iratvport the public mail, upon bet-
ter terms than they transport freight or pas
son6ers..
PIIILOMATIIAtAN SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Coccsoc.—This Society celebrated its ninth an
niversary, in Christ's Church, on Friday evening
last, Notwithstanding the evening being unfa
vorable, the church was unusually crowded at an
early hour. Aft. r a prayer addressed to the
throne of grace by the Rev. Prof. B•ounsn, a n
oration on "The Man of Integrity," was delivered
by Mr. W. B. M'CLEctArr of this place, who
acquitted himself very creditably indeed. This
young man bids fair to become an ornament of
the Society, as well as of the Institution to which
ho is attached. Ho was followed by Mr. E.
Scriw,trerz, with an oration on nillagnanimity."
This gentleman deserves much praise for the able
• manner in which ho handled his subject . . Tho
Anniversary Address was then delivered by N.
C. I3nooxtr, A. M. of Baltimore. From the wide
ly extended literary fame of thin gentleman we
confidently expected a treat of more than ordina
ry merit,—in this wo were not disappointed,—
for, never within our recollection, were we per
pitted to listen to a more masterly literary pro.
,duction. It was a combination of sublime and
l '•• 'beautiful sentiments set forth in tho author's
usual elegant and lucid
. atyle. The Poem of
WiST Tnorereex, Esq., of Philadel.
Phiei:7 44 eqrsdrierLa rareittioduction of poetical
talent, aria forth enconiums of
Tails
, 0 4earit) 1 :1ilao heard it. The exercises of
•?54gteriiiiming We're greatly enlivened by appropriate
4issusie. •
We are pleased to learn that the Address of
Mr. Brooks and Poem of Mr. Thompson aro about
• to be published.
EMENEI
Asu
REPUBLICAN BANNER
GEMTTSBUIIO„ Fcbrustry 18, 1840.
PEOPLE'S C.4,1eD1D.4 TES.
rots EqDr.NT,
GEN. WILLIAIk4 IL HARRISON.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER.
SENATORI.It. ELECTORS.
JOIN ANDREW SIIULZE, JOSEPH RITNER
REPRESENTATIVE DELEGATES
ist District: LEVIS PASS MORE,
2d do CAD WALLA DER EVANS,
do CHARLES WATERS,
3d do ,JONATHAN GILLINGHAM,
4th do AMOS ELLMAKER,
do JOHN K. ZEMIN,
do DAVID POTTS,
6th do ROBERT STINSON,
6th do WILLIAM S. HENDEU,
7th do J. JENKINS ROSS,
Silt do PETER FILBERT,
9th do JOSEPH 11. SPAYD,
10th do JOHN HARPER,
llth do WILLIAM YPELIVAINE,
12th do JOHN DICKSON,
13th do JOHN M'KEEHAN,
11th do JOAN REED.
13th do NATHAN BEACH,
16th do NER MIDDLF,SWARTII,
17th do GEORGE WALKER,
18th do BERNHARD CONNELLY, Jr
19th do GEN. JOSEPH MARKLE,
2 )111 do JUSTICE G. FORDYCE,
2:41 do JOSEPH HENDERSON,
tt3.l do lIARMAR DENNY,
2:41 do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON,
21th do JAMES MONTGOMERY,
25th do JOHN DICK.
Our Ratancr.—"AVE itArn r I
LI&T/F.
iiIIOAD DANNER OF LIBERTY ARICTIII: Cog-
arrniTkox TO TIM lIILEEZI:,.I2(Scui min w
wonnis :—ONli PRESIDEN
TIAD,,TEM4I--THE: INTEGRITY OF THE
PUBLIC ..fiERYANTR—,THE SAFETY OF
THE P.URLIC - MONEY=4ND THE GEN
ERAL GOOD OF THE PEOPLL'."
J. A. El." will bo attended tom our next.
on our first page will bo found quite - en inter
asting article, from ilia pen of our fair correspon
dent at Liberty, Pa.
The Hon. JA MIN COO p!:n and Mr. Pr.rt noon of
the State Senate, will accept our thanks fur their
'e would inform the trifling scoundrel who
returned a late number of our paper '(that' had
born left at his office by tho carrier, withoui our
kno•.vlodgo or consent,) with a brief note written
on the margin, alike characteristic of the indi7id
us! and, hie talents, that if. he should' again . be
guilty .of a like offence, - we' trill be under the
necessity of inflicting a little 'of - that vrhole.seme
correction ho so justly merits, and whiCh he liar•
rowly escaped not long since. Bo careful, Moses:
A LACK , OF 2 4 754.:17
If aver there was an ircdividtnil
the execrations and contempt of the bo'nest por
tion of all partics,that tnari is WILI.TAM Horxrris,
of Washington county,,the present Speaker of the
House of Representatives pf - Penusylvania; Lib
ton, Freemen Cf Pennsylvania, to the language'of
this wretch, who would sacrifice you and your
dearest interests to his unholy ambition! Speak
ing on the subject of • his receding from the vote
ho had given on the resolution, reqUiring the re
sumption of specie payment's by tho banks, he
says—
" 1 'BELIEVED THE FINAL PASSAGE OF.
THAT RESOLUTION WOULD PRODUCE A SCENE
OF UNPARALLELED RUIN AND DISASTER
FROM VIE CENTRE TO THE CIRCUMFERENCE
OF TIM COMMONWEALTII.-BUT I DAD NOT
THE NERVE TO ARRAY MYSELF AGAINST
THE DEMOCRACY OP THIS HOUSE.
This "indiscreet" confession hos placed his par
ty in no very enviable light; even the base, low
and grovelling mob, who wore the means of pla.
cing him in the Speaker's chair, during the rave
lutionary scenes of December, 1838, dare not ad
vocate doctrines like this. If there is any thing
like honest mon in his party, (and we trust there
are) they must hold such a wretch in the most
abject contempt.
Both the Rail Road and Turnpiko Bridges o
ver the Susgnehanria at Ilarrishurg,bave been in
joreil by the breaking up of tho ice in that river
—though not sufficient to render them impassa
ble.
By an extra, issued on Sunday morning ,from
the office of tho Columbia Spy, we learn that a
very destructive fire occurred in that place,'• lute
on Saturday night last. 'rite fire originaterehi
the extensive stabling attached to the Sorrel Bort4
llottl, which was entirely consumed. In the
stables of Cul. Boggs' Hotel, seventeen head 'of
horses were burnt to death/ and the building
entirely destroyed. The dwelling house otpr.
Odell is a total loss; the Stable of Mr. Joht.grms,
and that of Mr. R. M'llovvell.
Tho loss by this conflagration cannot fell short
of $5,000 or s6,ooo—tho principal nvount of
which will be sustained by Col. F.,Biggs, and
'ho remainder by Mr. Charles Odell;Paul Hamil
ton, tho Good Intent Stage and 11411: *?ad Com
pany, anti Mr. Z. Durkee of Philadelphla, whose
loss in Hanes and harness could nota loss than
- 800 dollars. ,
Various surmises are afloat, 82yOttie Spy, res
pecting the origin of this fire. Lt)is pretty nearly
certain that incradiarielt nave been at work ; end
coloted man was arrested about an hour since
charged with the perpetration , of the crime.
VIRGINIA ERECT !
A Harrison GovernOr Elected ! !
On Tuesday, the 11th inst. the Legislature
of Virginia elected Thos. W. Gilmer, Governor
of that State,. for three years, from the 4th of
March.nett. Mr. Gilmer iii a warm and decided
friend - of Gen. Harrison.
The following bills were reported in the House
.if Representatives on Beturd'ay last:—
A Bill to incorporate a Church in Gettysburg.
A sapplerherittcr the art relative to the Carlisle
and Hanover turipike Road company.
The Dill to incorporate the Adams county Mii
tual insurtiice company, finally passed the House.
CO*t HESS is doing scarcely any thing—and
our stature something less.
HA; iisox MENTINO IN PITTS 1.11711G.-- . 12e
la t. and most enthusiastic meeting that over
W . as held in Allegheny county, assembled at Pitts
burg on Tuesday the 1 lth inst. 'rho meeting
was ably and eloquently addressed by the Hon.
HAmm.ta. DestmriPresident of the meeting, and
John D. Davis, Esq., Maj. Willock and Mr. John
V. Lynch, (the three last named gentlemen, hav
ing served under Gen. Harrison during the last
war.) We regret our inability to publish Cie pro
ceedings entire. Among the resolutions, we find
the following, which is a sure earliest of what old
Allegheny is going to do in the coming contest:
Resolved, That this assembly, infasideration
of the great worth and daily increashir popularity
of their candidates, pledge, to their fellow-citi
zens throughout the state. • mnjority of Twenty
jive Hundred Vo!esj)ts the freemen of Allegheny
county, for William Henry Hhrrison, as Presi
dent, and John Tyler, as Vico President, of the
United States.
EllAnuoun
The occupations of the mcmbet of the House
of Representatives of the Legislature of Pennsyl
vania are as follow,:—Brick layers 2; merchant::
0; farmers 491; lawyers 20; printers 2; physicians
8; hatters 3; gentlemen 2; saddler I; cabinet ma.
kora 2; inn-keepers 2; blacksmith I; tanner 1;
coach maker 1; carpenters 2.
Lsin: of Clinton county has been
efeeted'io the Legislature from tho counties of Ly
corning, Clinton and Clearfield, in the place of J.
H. Laverty;who resigned without appearing to
take his seat.
:Charles ',Wood and John Smith, recently con
victed of robbing a canal boat at Harrisburg last
summer, have been sentenced to the penitentiary
for three years each.
ALAnMlSO.—Upwards OrTIIREE HUNDRED ANTI
FIFTY persons have applied for the benefit of tho
Insolvent Lavvsin Philadelphia, among whom are
merchants, mechanics and laborers. These are
the "better times" promised us by our Loco Foe°
rulers. . ."
We observe the following presentations of pe
titions among the proceedings in Congress:
By Mr. Coo esti of Pennsylvania: The petition
of S. Witherow and others, inhabitants of Adams
county, Pa., praying for a duty on imported silks.
Which was referred to the Committee on Manu
factures.
By Mr. Reuss: of Pennsylvania: The petition
of citizans of Adams county, Pa. for the establish
ment of a post road from Gettysburg to Hanover,
via M'Sherrystown.
The birth day of don. HARM SON was celebra
ted at Harrisburg by tho Democratic members of
the Legislature and a large number of citizens, by
a public dinner at tho Washington Hotel.
A Bill to repeal the Fifteen Gallon Law has
passed both Houses of the Legislature of Massa
sachusetts.
The Louisvillo Juurnal says, thnt “in some of
the towns of Indiana, the support of Harrison is
eo universal that a Van Buren man, whenever he
passes along the streets, is pointed at as some
thing queer!"
The amount of tolls received on all the naviga
ble canals in Nei York, during 1839, was $l,-
606,382. Increase over 1838, $27,63.1.
PENNSYLVANIA BANKS.
The following is the substance of the Bank bill
as reported in the Senate, and which was made
tho order of the day for Monday last:—
Commissioners to determine, after exam
ining the assets of the Bank, whether it
ought to bo wound up, if so, they are to go
about it. For which they are to receive
three dollars per day, and to be authorized
to employ clerks, &c., and pay them out of
the assets of the Banks. If they use or em
bezzle the funds they are liable - to imprison
ment. Any bank considering itself aggriev
ed ey the conduct of the Commissioners
may appeal to the Court of Common Pleas,
making oath that it is not for the purpose of
delay. No Bank to act as agent for trans.
lerring the stock of another Bank. Direc
tors to be eligible only three years out of
five. Stockholders to vole on:y in their
own persons. Proxies abolished. Cashiers,
or other officers, to be fined and imprison•
went fur embezzeling trio funds, &c. Re
turns of the Banks to be made to the Audi
tor General four tunes a year, on days ape.
cihed, in addition to the times already re
quired—and returns to be made in detail.
Any Stockholder to be permitted to copy
FIRE IN COLUMBIA.
the list of Stockholders. Judges of the elec
tion to be appointed at a meeting of Stock
holders. No Bank to divide wore than
seven per cent. per annum. Contingent
fund to be seven per cent. on the capital,
and all above that go to the school fund.—
Dividends to be liable to further taxation.
When the capital.; authorized are not paid
up,the Directors to require them to be paid,
or to sell the stock.
BRIDOES OVER THE POTOMAC.-WO learn
from the National Intelligencer of this mor
ning, that the "Long Bridge," opposite that
city, after resisting the running ice for thir
ty hours, gave way about 11 o'clock on
Monday night, with a tremendous crash,
owing to the pressure of the immense bod
ies of ice which floated down the liver•
About two hundred yards of the bridge have
been entirely swept away, including the
draw and the buildings occupied by the
bridgo•keeper on the Virginia side of the
river. This destruction of so large a sec
tion of the bridge, will necessarily, impede
travelling to and from the South, for some
time.
l'he Chain Bridge, above Georgetown,
has also been considerably damaged by the
ice, and will probably be for a while impas•
sable.--Galt. Patriot.
FRESHET AT CUMBERLAND.
CorrePpotalenee of the Baltimore Patriot.
CUMBERLAND, 51d. Feb. 10, 1840
The thaw and consequent breaking up of
the frost, produced an unusual swell of the
waters in this vicinity. The innundation
of the low parts of the town extended far
ther than it has done upon any similar oc•
casion fur many years past. This was owing
in part, perhaps, to the encroachment upon
tho bed of the river by tile Canal Compri,.
ny's improvements. These were extensive
ly injured by the great quantities of floating
ice and high water. The fixtures about the
darn in progress at erection, were entirely
swept away—so likewise was the bridge
built by tho company across the river, just
below the town, to bring materials for em
banking over the river from the Virginia
shore. •
The embankment of the canal upon the
margin of the river; for several miles, was
likewise materially injured, and in some pla
ces swept almost entirely away.
From the Maryland Republican
THE FIRST HARRISON VICTORY OF 1840.
CALI - 131T COUNTY TRUE TO THE ntrunLre!
We begin th • n under the Har
rison Flag with •
_ph.
At the last election r. STErENS.
the Whig candidates, and Mr. ALNUT •
of the Van Buren candidates, received an
equal number of votes in Calvert County,
and the House of Dcle , ntes ordered a New
Election, which came of on Saturday la.t,
--the same candidates in the field, and real
old fashioned Democratic Culvert County
weather, we had thnt day. Their opponents
held the sceptre of power, but the Whigs
of Culvert never allow wind, or weather,
(I , 3ep creeks or snow storms, to keep them
from the polls. They were anxious to take
the first opportunity to make their mark up
on the course of the administration. Elec
tion day came—the battle was fought—
TIPPECANOE IS VICTOR-STEVENS IS ELEC
TED BY A MAJORITY OF THIRTEEN VOTES.
Thirtecn! The number itself is ominous
for the foto of the arbitrary assumers of
power. The old THIRTEEN forever to be
gin w:th. Huzza for Harrison and Tyler!
True, "The People are coming."
M.11.T1.710RE PRICES CUIEREAV.
From the Baltimore Patriot of Saturday last
Fr.otra—Howara street.—The market closed
last week at $5,60 from stores, and rather dull.
Wo arc advised of sales of several lots to-day at
$5,50 and $5,56, but most holders we believe are
willing to sell at $5,60. The car and wagon
price is $5,37i
Glut N—Wheat.—Wo note a sale of prime red
yesterday at $1,12, and a parcel of common red
at $1,04.
Loa N.—At the begining of the week good white
Corn was sold from store at 54 cents, and prime
yellow at 58 cents. To day, a parcel of good
white afloat, has been sold at 52 cents, and ono of
good yellow at 55 cents.
RTE.—The last sale was made some days ago,
at 65 eta. for a parcel of Frederick county.
OATS.—Wo hear of no transactions in this ar
ticle.
CLovEusEun.—A sale of prima Pennsylvania
w•as made yesterday at $9,50. The store price
ranges, according to quality and the quantity ta
ken, at $9 to $lO.
HIDES.-A parcel of La Plates lying in the
Norfolk market, has been bought by the trade
hero, deliverable hero at 1.53 cts.
lIVDIENI AL ItEGSISTER.
MA It Itl ED.
On the 4th inst. by the Rev. C. Weyl, Mr.
Henry Pincle, to Miss Juliana Huston—both of
Menstion township.
On Sunday last, by Professor Jacobs, Mr. David
Filez, :11,8s Barbara Eyler—both of Frcdcr.
ick county, Md.
OBITUARY RECORD.
DIED.
On Sunday morning the 9th inst. after n long
illness, Mrs. Catharine Study, wife of Mr. Lud
wick Study, of Litt!mown, aged 44 years.
On Tuesday last, at Pittsburg, Mrs. Lucretia
B. Cooper, wife of Mr. Franklin J. Cooper, for
merly of Gettysburg.
Lieutenant Colonel.
gi - IAPT. CONRAD THOMAS will be
m-. 1 supported, on the 22d inst., for LIEU
TENANT COLONEL, for the 80th Re
giment, Pennsylvania Militia, by .
Feb. 18. MANY.
Ilarriso IL aleeting.
PIFIEIE friends of Gen. WILLIAM H.
AL OAR. RISON, will meet at the school
house, in Fairfield, (Millerstown) on Satur
day the 7th of March next, at 1 o'clock, r.
3i. to fix upon Township Officers, for Ilarn
iltonban Township,
MANY.
Feb. 17. tin
ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE
TO BRIDGE BUILDERS.
PROPOSALS will be received by the
Managers of the Hanover and Car
lisle Turnpike road company for rebuilding
and repairing the Stone Bridge over the
Cunowa , ro Creek, near the town of Hamp
ton, in A dams t- county, which was lately in
jured by the ice and flood, in said creek.—
The piers, curtain wall, and arches to be re
built and repaired, and two additional ice
breakers to be added thereto; extending at
least, from 12 to 15 feet up the stream, to
be sheeted with good tough . W hiteoak logs,
to be bound down with iron strips. Pro
posals may be handed in to any or either of
the managers prior to the nth day of
March next, or to the board of managers,
prior to 12 o'clock of said day, who will
then meet at the house of SoLomoiv A LBEUT,
in the town of Hampton, in Adams county,
for the purpose of giving out the work.
HENRY - GITT, Pres't.
THOS. STEVENS,'
WNI. MOOR,
SAM'L BLAKE, wc o i
GEORGE EGE,
Feb. 18
To the Directors of Common
Schools, its aslams County.
THE following statement is made in com
pliance with the 10th section of the
school law, of June, 18:36.
Districts that have accepted the Common
Sc/tool System. -
The atnount which ouch accepting school
district is entitled to receive the ensuing
year, commencing on tho Ist Tuesday of
Juno neat, out of the annual state appropri.
ution, is n sum equal to ONE DOLLAR for
each taxable inhabitant in the district.
The amount of School Tax required to
be let ied, to entitle a District to its share
of the State appropriation, must be a sum
equal to at least sixty cents, for each taxa
ble inhabitant in the district.
Districts that have not accepted the Com
mon School System.
The amount of undrawn balances remain
ing for the use of non accepting districts,
for the school years 1635, t 936, 1837,
1839 and 1939, is mita DOLLARS and FOR
TY cr.ssrs, for each taxable inhabitant in a
district, according to the enumeration of
1935 ; and fur the school years 1840 and
1841, it is TWO DOLLARS for each taxable
inhabitant, according to the enumeration of
:39. The school year 1841, will com
mence en the Ist Tuesday of June next.
Hence it follows that each non accepting
school district, in which the qualified citi
zens accept the system, at the next spring,
actions, and lay a tax equal to sixty cents
itch taxable inhabitant, will bo entitled
to
equal
out of the state appropriations. a
1
1 sum equal to more than six DOLLARS, for
1 taxable inhabitant in the district.
11 ,
1.-. y a resolution of the Legislature, pass.
ed ths"24th day of June, 1839, the above
Jindratirn•baleinces are to be retained for the
use of nbn accepting districts only until the
Ist of November, 1840. On which day
they aro to be repaid into the common
school !mid.
Hence it follows, that as the law now
stands, unless the non•accepting districts
accept the system at the next spring elec.
lions, these undrawn balances amounting
now to a sum adequate to the erection of
school houses, and putting the system into
complete operation, will be forfeited.
Taxable Inhabitants in the Districts.
ENIIMERA.FION OF
1835. 1839.
nerve ich , 320 314
Conowago, 200 194
Cumberland, 259 241
Franklin, 372 392
Freedom, 93 94
Germany, 381 314
Gettysburg, 403 362
. Hamilton, 269 247
Haniiltonban, 360 719
Huntingdon, 341 314
La t i more, 231 201
Libetty, ' 129 153
M enallen, 41=2 402
Mourajoy, 224 217
Mountpleasant, 332 299
Reading, 242 215
Straban, 322 295
Tyrone, 185 159
I am yours respectfully,
FR. R. SHUNK.
Superintendent Common Schools,
Harrisburg Feb. 1, 1840. St
Harrison Jireeting.
THE friends of Gen. HARRISON in
Huntington township aro requested to
attend a meeting at the Academy in Peters.
burg, on Monday the 24th or February
inn., at 6 to'clock P. M. to make provisions
for the nomination of candidates to he sup
ported for the Township Offices at the elec
tion in March next; and, to adopt such
measures as may be thought best calcula
ted to promote the election of Gen. HARRI
SON to the Presidency of the United States.
Feb. 18. MANY.
PUBLIC SALE.
1 ILL be exposed to Public Sale. on
C W Friday the lath day of March
next, on the Farm, recently owned by
WILLIAM lIVNIILLAN, deceased, situated in
Elamiltonban township, the following prop
erty, viz:—
Six head of Horses, Twelve do. Cat
tle, Thirty. head of Sheep, Fifteen
do. Hogs.
Waggon. Harness, Sleigh,&c
Windmill and . Screen, Ploughs and Other
farming utensib, together with HOUSEHOLD
and KITCHEN FURNITURE.
ALSO —HAY, CORN, and OATS, and
a lot of line BACON and LARD.
Cr....75u10 to commence at 10 o'clock A.
M., when due attendance will be given and
terms made known by
SAMUEL P. WMIIAN.
Feb.lB. St.
ADVERTISEMENTS. ADVERTISEMENTS
D. N. R. sitltE
IxILL restmo his practice in Balti
more, and the private instruction of
pupils in Medicine and Surgery,on the 20th
of March. His private Infirmary, on Ger
man street, will continue open for patients,
who will have his daily attendance.
Feb. IS. 7t.
COLONEL.
7o the Enrolled mernhers of the 80th Re
giment Pa. Militia.
FELLOW•SOLDIRRB:
'rtlie solicitation of many of my friend,
offer myself to your consideration for
the office of
COLONEL.
Should you honor me with your confidence,
I pledge myself to servo you to the best of
my ability.
Very Respectfully, yours, &c.
JACOB MARK.
Feb. 18. te.
NOTICE.
rSIIIIE Subscribers, Trustees of JOHN
TAUGHINBAUGH.hereby give no
tice to all persons indebted to said Taugh
inbaugh, to call with the subscribers and
settle the seine without delay; also any per•
eon who has any claims against him, are
requested to present the same". to the sub
scribers. ROBERT KING,
G. I3RINKERHOFF,
Trustees.
Feb. 18. 4t.
TEMPERANCE.
A Special meeting of the "Total Absti
riL nence Temperance Society of Gettys
burg and its vicinity," will be held in the
Presbyterian Church,on Saturday Evening
next, (the 22d inst.) at 6.1 o'clock—when
an address will be delivered.
A. R. STEVENSON, Seery.
Feb. 19. td.
liars ison Meeting.
THE Democratic Harrison men of Sim-.
ban township, are requested to meet
at the house of Philip Shriver, in Hunters
town, on Saturday. the 14th of March uext,
nt 2 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of nomi•
noting a ticket for township officers.
MANY.
Feb. 18. td.
Ilarrison Meeting.
rEIIIE friends of Gen. HARRISON resi
-S- ding in Franklin township, will meet
at the house of John Green, in Cashtown,
on Saturday the 22d day of February
inst., nt 4 o'clock P. M., to nominate ofi
cers for the March election. MANY.
Feb. 18. •"'
ACIA R. J AYN E'S EXPECTORANT.—This in.
/ valuable medicine hi daily effecting somo of
the most astonishing and wonderful cures that
have ovor boon known. All who have evdr used
it for Asthma, Coughs, Spitting of. Blood, Hoop.
ins Couch, Croup or Hives, Consiimption,Chron.
is Pleurisy, floarsoness, Pain and Sureness elite
Breast, difficulty of Breathing, and every other
disease of the Lungs and Breast, can and do at.
teat to its usefulness. Bronchltis i a discos° which
is annually sweeping thousands upon thousands
to a premature grave. under the mistaken name
of Consumption, is always cured by it., The usu
al symptoms of this disease, (Bronchitis) are
Ciaughs.Soreness of the Lange or Throat, Hoarse.
noes, Difficuhy of Breathing, Asthma, Hectic Fe.
vor, a spiting up of Phlegm or matter, and somo.
times blood. It is an intimation of the finoskin
which lines tho inside of the whole of the wind
tubes or air vcasels,which run through every part
of the Lungs. This Expectorant immediately
suppresses tho Cough, Pain, Inflamation, Fever
and Difficulty of Breathing, and produces a free
and easy Expectoration, and a cute is soon °free.
led.
It always cures Asthmas—two or throe largo
doses will cure the Croup or Hives of Children,in
from fifteen minutes to an hour's time. It im
mediately subdues the violence of Whooping
Cough; and effects a speedy cure. Hundreds
who have been given up by their physicians as
incurable with "Consumption," have been resto
red to perfect health by it.
REV. JOHNATHAN GOING, D. D. Prosi.
dent of Granville College, Ohio, says—"ho woe
laboring under a severe cold, cough and hoarse.
noes, and that his difficulty of breathing was eo
great that he felt himself in imminent danger of
immediate suffocation, but was perfectly cured
by using this Expectorant." Mrs. Milks, of Sa
lem, N. 3. was cured of Asthma, of twenty years
standing, by using two bellies of this medicine.—
rs. Ward, also, of Salera,vvas cured of the same
complaint by ono bottle. A young lady, also of
Salem, who was believed by her friends to be far
gone with Consumption, was perfectly restored
by three bottles. Dr. Hamilton, of St. James,
South Carolina, was greatly affected by a cough,
hoarseness and soreness of the lunge, and on
using a bottle of this medicine, found permanent
relief.
Tim following cortificate is from a practising
Physician, and a much respected Clorgyman of
tho Methodist Society, dated
Modest Town, Va. August 27, 1838.
Dr.. Jayne—Dear Sir—l have been using your
Expectorant, extensively, in my practice, for tho
last three months, and for all attacks of colds, In.
flamation of the lungs, consumption, asthma,
pains and weakness of the breast, it is decidedly
the beat medicine I have ever tried.
Very respectfully yours,
R. W. WILLIAMS, M. D
Numerous other certificates might be added,
but the above are considered sufficient evidence
olio groat usefulness.
Prepared only by Dr. D. Jayne, No. 20 South
Third street, Philadelphia. Price $l.
Where also may be had Jayne's Carminative
Balartm, fur the cure of Bowel Complaint, &c.—
Tonic Vormifuge7 for the removal of Worms, &c
Sanative Pills, for Dyapopsta, Liver Complaints,
and Female Damages, &c. Also, Jayne's Hatr
Tonic, for the removal of Baldness and prelerva.
Lion of the Hair.
For sale at the Drug Store of
- • S. H. BUEHLER.
Gettysburg, Feb. 18, 1840.
I'4 LOOPING COUGH, AND CROUP. —TO
PAR ENTS--Ja vaz's Extitaroasvcr,is with
out exception the most valuable preparation in
use, for the above diseases. It converts Hoop
mg Cough into a mild and tractable dis6aso, and
shortons its duration more than one halfond pro
ducee a certain and speedy recovery. From half
to ono tea epos eful, will certainty cure Croup in
infants and young children, in half an hour to an
hour. The lives of hundreds of children will bo
saved annually, by always keeping it on hand
ready for every emergency, For sale at No. 20
South 3rd street Philadelphia.
For salo ache Drug Store or
H. H. BUEHLER.
Gettyiburg, Feb. 18,1640
JA'Y NE'S
CARMINATIVE BALSAM
,as a certain, oafs and effectual remedy for Drs.
4.1 enters, Diorruhroa,or Looreness,Cholern Mer
lins, Summer Complaint, Cholic, Griping Pains::
Sour Stomach, Flatulency, &c. &c.. end all Spas.
medic and Nervous D.2ell6ol.,llPrick and Nervous
lloadash, Elysteris, Cramp, &o. &c.
This is ono of the most efficient, pleasant and
safe compositions ever offered to the public for the
cute of the various derangements of the stomuct,
and bowels, and the only article worthy of the
least confidence for curing Cholera luruntum or .
Summer Complaint; and in all Um above diseases
it really acts like a charm.
All persons are requested to try ft, for there is
ilit 0 mistake" about its being ono of the most sal
able family medicines ever yet discovered.—
undred: nuy thousands, of certificates have boon
received from Physicians, Clergymen, and fami.
lies of the first respectability, bearing the strong.
eat testimonyln Its favour, too numerous to pub
lish.
CER7IFICATES.
This is to certify that I havo used Dr Jayne's
Carminative Balsam very extensively in Bowel
Complaints, end have not the least hesitation in
declaring it superior to any preparation that I
havo mot with, for the relief of those diseases.
WILLIAM STEELING. M. D.
Physician tc the Cumberland, N. J. Almshouse.
Bridgeton, Tuly 19, 1836.
Dr. D. ,Ltrivie.,—Dear Sir,—Having mado use
of your Carminative Balsam in my family, and
finding it to be admirably adapted to the corn.
plaints for which ii is intended, I lake pleasure
in recommending it to the use of my friends and
the public generally, believing those who are af
flicted With any of these complaints will find ro.
hof in tho use of this valuable medicine.
• JONATHAN GOING, M. D.
President of Granville College, Ohio.
New York, May 20, 1837.
For Salo at the Drug Store of
• S. IL BUEHLER.
Gettysburg, Feb. 18, 1840. •
TTENTION BALD HEADS. NO
41.1 A—
POLOGY FOR WIGS. Of all the roma.
dies over dovisod for the restoration'and prcierva.
Lion of the Hair, nothing has been found equal to
Jayne's flair onic. It soldom fails to 'restore
the hair to health and beauty. Many who wore
bald a few months ago, can now o*hibit luxuri•
ant heads of hair by the use of .tt.
Copy of a letter from Dr. S. S. Fitch.
PLIII.ADELPIIIA, May 10, 1859.
- Dr. lityne.—Dear Sir.-1 feel that I can hard
ly say enough to you in favor of the flair Tonic,'
prepared by you. My hair had been falling off
about two years, and had become very thin,threa.
toning speedy baldness,when I commenced using
this remedy, In about ono week it ceased to
Is II off. ' •
I have used it now about threi'months, and
have as full and thick a head abaft. as f can pas.
sibly desire,. I have recommended its ,use to a.
number of, my friends, who all speak well of it.•
If faithfully employed, I have no doubt of i.ts gen.
oral success. I may add, that before using the
Tonic, Iliad tried almost' all the various articles.
employed for the hair, Such as the Macassar Oil,
all the different preparations of Boar's Oil, Veg.
otable Hair Oil, &c. &c, without experiencing
much, if any benefit.
• Respectfully yours,
No. 172 Chestnut streot.
Tho Rey. LEONARD FLETCIIER, Pastor of mho
Baptist Church, Groat Valley, Pa. who had boon
nioto or less bald for many years, used three bet.
ties of the Hair Tonic,and has now a fine growth
of now hair over all that part of his,hoid whom.
ho was bald, writes:—
"Aly hair re growing finely, I aseuteyou."
L. FLETCUER
West Chostor, Pa. March 2, 1839
Prepared only by Dr. D. Joyce, solo proprie.
tor, No. 20 South Third Street, Philadelphia.
Price 91 a bottle.
For Belo et the Drug Store of
S. H. BUEHLER.
Gettysburg, Fob. 18, 1840.
aIIiOUGILASTHISIA,SPITTING OF BLOODA
\UP of Sixty Years Standing, cause by Dr..
Jayno's Expoctot ant:
PHILADELPHIA, August 16111, ISM
Mr. AT/tlNsort— . -Dear Sir: A fow weeks ago I
noticed in your paper, an account of the surpri.
sing afflicts of Jayno's Carminative, in •restoring.
n groat number of passengers on board a Miesis.
eippi steamboat, to perfect health who were affec
ted with Bowel Complaint. I was glad to se.,
you notice it eo kindly; you may rest assured it.
deserves the praise bestowed upon it. The ben
efit I have recoivod from this medicine, more es.
peciall y his Expectorant, Induces me to state my
case to you.for the benefit of those who are afflie.
tad in the same way. It has boon my misfortune.,
sir, to labor under a cough and.ristlimatical op.
pression, for more than Palf a century. When a
soldier in the American camp, in 1778,1. with
many others, (owing to groat exposure,) had a
violent attack of disease of tho Lungs,by which I
was disabled from duty for a long time. Sauce
that period until recently, I have never been free
from a violent Cough and difficulty of breathing.
Year after your 1 have expectorated over a gill a
day; often touch more, and sometimes mixed
with blood. For months together, night after
night, I have had to sit or be bolstered up to ob
tain my broath.Tho weakness and debility cau
sed by such constant expectoration, frequently
brought me to a state borderhag on death. It has
been a mattor of asionishraent to my family and
friends that lam here to write this to you. I
have had skilful physicians to attend me, and
every thing alone that was thought likely to give
me relief; without any beneficial effort. Last
winter I had another severe attack of Inflame
lion of the Lungs, which I fully expected would
be the last. I then considered my case as past
the aid of medicine,
when I was persuaded to emit
on Doctor Jayne. With the assistance of Divine
Providence, through him,l was once more raised
tram my bed, but the coughing and wheeziog'
wearied me day and night. He advised me to use
his Expectorant. 1 did so, e ,
with a strong hop
that, as it had eured many of my acquaintances
of various diseases of the Lungs. it might at heist
mitigate my sufferings. Need I say bow gratifi
ed I felt? It has EFFECTUALLY CURED me. As
soon as I commenced taking it. 1 found it reach
ed my case, and I began to breathe with more
freedom. My expectoration became more env,
and my cough entirely left rne. 1 now feel as
wall as ever 1 did in my life, and am bettor than
I have boon for the last SIXTY YEARS. Lust sum.
mar I spit a groat deal of blood; now, thank God, .
lam perfectly cured Now, Sir, after suffering
so long,and finding at last such signal relief from
Jayne et Expectorant, I feel anxious to inform
my follow. citizens where relief may bo had. If
you think this worthy n place in your paper yeas
will oblige mo by nmiciug it.
ICHOLAS HARRIS, SEN.
No 35 Lombard Street.
Dr. Jayne's Office is No. 20 South Third street.
Philadelphia.
For sale at the Drug Store of
S. 11. BUEHLER.
Gettysburg, Fob. 18, 1840.
WORMS! WORMS!: WORMS!!!To remora
theme dangerous and troublesome inhab.
hunts of the Stomach and Boweli, which so
Minn impair the health and destroy the lives or
children. use Dr. J ayno's Tonic Vesmifugeot cer
tain and safe preparation for the removal of the
various kinds of %Yonne, Dyspepsia, sour Sto
mach, Want of Appetite, iniantito Fever and
Ague, and debility ot the Stomach and Bowels,
and organs of digestion. To be bad at No. 20
South Third Street, Philadelphia. Price .50 Os.
For sate at the Drug store of
S. if. BUMMER.
Gettysburg, Fob. 15, :510.
S. S. FITCH,