4r 141 te A (so vitiabA PWm likuwalor Aimak „. P 4 1).1,1 .11'1%)--.004 SCIQ OfHoe of the Star & Banner COUNTY BUILDING, ABOVE'. TUE OFFICE OF Til E DEG ISTF:D. AND It LCOII DIS It 1. T in Sr tu & Ri:sunt.ietN BAN NEU is pub 'idle] at TWO uoLLA Its per nnnuni (or \'ol u nt of n plstible h 71f -yearly in ad twine: or TWO D01,1,A Fl cENTB, if 4,1 p,zid until after the expiration of the year. H. sabi:ription will be received f•r n shorter p riot th in sjC gn inths; nor will the paper be die .cantinue.l until all arrearagos are paid, unless at oini in of thn E litor. A failure to notify a die continuanne will he considered n new engagement a id the p iper forwarded accordingly. Arivrarisanemrs not exceeding a square will bo inserted Tone e times for ,Sl, and 25 CC nta fir each subsequent insertion—the number of in s irtion to be marked, or they will be published till (~.bid and c!targed accordingly; longer ones in the SamaiNportion. A reasonablededuetion will 11,1 made to disc who advertise by the year. IV. All Lettersand Communications addressed to the Editor by mail must be poet-paid, or they will not be attended to. ADVERTISEMENTS • • 'a4 1 .. .; l . 1 g.`..:: 0.. le NOW ..• 1.. e PARTNERSHIP. filllllE Subscribers have this day entered 11- into Partnership in the Shoe & Itoot• making business , . wit! will be itt all times prepared to accommodate the public with work in their line, made in the best and most fashionable manner, and on favorable terms. Their shop is in Chainhersburg street, opposite Mr. Dillerlioe's Tavern. DANIEL, BALDWIN, WM. GUINN. f;ettysburg, Aug. 15,1840 .Iu elpprentice Branded. Alad of 16 or 17 years of ago, of gond character, will be taken as an A men lice to said business. u) ‘-.. s .- 0 - 1 I I-. r-1 -a.: 0 E . ci , ~., Eu ..s i ,2 c 4 .... co , c , E.)) ..-, ~..., P. rn , 1 MI r) = QO. .-:-. ~. Hi Q . /.0 ~, 1.- c. , Q 5 co = • - '.. _ 0 ~.) ct c.) 8 • Q 0 ,'.2-2, 1,-, EE ✓ 0 t....., c. , 1,-. : cd cu , 0 . • 0 c) ,_., v, -.." ..4 , a , 1-, , _ —. 0 5 ki bn e:A ' , t l • '..- 1 a c> -1 , oo —, C. p. g.. •-.. 4 . ... r:: . • . 0 0 CM •;. 8 —,. 0 '.'74" c „ ~.., ~ ~.) .--z -- >-. cd -• = c ,, z ,c) :.,-, 0 ~.. c., ct t „, ct z C. , 0 t:o A ~ 5. ... 1 . ~-.; .. ... .4 1 ,-,, a.- .4 ... A— . ~., a. Q 4,, ,_...., .... h .......„.•... _._. CU ~, .., s •-• -- 0 . 0 ''' 0 0 .... tz in ..e. , tn. ~, ~......-..,...s ..... s I- , c . , 0 .6-I 4./ 0 ' $ •ul ......'" = 0 0 vo ,-, 4 1 C u) C. ) = -,-' Cr 4- ' .-0 ''' -..... 0 ;..". 'V s-. 0 j .., •• o.= . .4a dP ...= CI ;. 5 if) ''-' " a CI U) CD a. ...,.... • = C 4 ,-. CU • .." ou rOt I—l ® ..-. • ...IN CU i-, - ....., .--.--. 1 - 25 . _ cn 'CA 0 „ i ll 5., . 5 ,' Zi.i - E5 u'7 ..= C.) 4- 1 -I- , -.'" Cr C.) C./ WANTED. TWO or THREE journeymen Plaster ers will meet with constant employment if immediate application be made to tho sub scriber. Also, an APPRENTICE to the plastering business. J A NIES BOWEN Gettysburg, Aug. 11, 1340 WORTH ATTENTION. It. G. Zll.4Vreavy, Fir ASidsit received a fresh supply of czNi 111- sonable goods; embracing a glum vn riety of rine Cloths and Cassiancres, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF Very cheap Calicoes. Manchester Ging hams, Cotton Stripes, Checks, Irish Linea, Cambric+ and Jaconett Muslins; Swiss and Book Muslins, French Bombazines, Super Mousdine do Lnines, Thread Lace and Edgings. RibLuns, Gloves, Stocking, (very cheap,) Heavy Domestic Muslins, Fine Bleached Shirting, 5 4 and 6-4 Sheetings, Very cheap Tiekings, American piunkeens, Marseilles Quilts.l ngrain Cu rpetings;flemp du., Umb:elltis, Palm Ha!s, &c. —A LSO-- A full Stock of Groceries. The Public are invited to call and exam ine hie stock as they may save money by doing so August 11, 1940 TO MY CREDITORS. TAK Ilnotiee that I have applied to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas' of Adams county, fur the benefit of the Insolvent Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and that they have appointed Tizesduy the 29th doy of September next, for the hearing of ma and my creditors, at the Coart•house, Lathe borough of (:ettys burg, when and where )ou may attend if you think proper. JOHN BEIGHLY. September 8, IQ4O. 3t-24 CLOTUS: CLOTIIsII CLO1'I1S!!! 11UST opened a fresh lot—comprising °IF Fine wool dyed Black, Invisible and Buttle Green, Blue„Olive and Mulberry Browns, Light Drabs, Oxtlird and Cadet Mixed, (ef different qualities.) Fur sale at low prices, by It. G. M'CREARY: August 4, VAIL 1649 . JOB PILIN'rING, . OF' ALL xmls, Needy and expeditinuAly executed et the office of 4.7111? STAR 3r. BANNER." TVINUttKraZ2GgaU26O ZPathe wwmaxlcareo enarPuemmia.raza 929 aade% DEFERRED NEWS. Motu: I Nntix Muancas.—We h ive re. ,ceived a slip from the office of the Sayan ! nah Geuroian, in which a correspondent, writing under t ' date of August 24th, from St. Mary's, Ga., states that the Indians n ' gam infest the Suwaiiee river, and during the preceding had massacred eleven individuals nod humeri the same number of settlements. A (Mr. James Howell, whose wife and child had been butchered, furnish• ed the particulars. About ten days before they attacked the family ore Mr. Courcy, hi instil being absent from home at the time. On his return his leeliiigs may he itnagined but not described, to find his dwelling and every house in the place a mass of smoking ruins, his wife and six children murdered, tied their bodies lying about his field, rout i !utod. Mr. Howell saved three of his children, but his wife and one child were overtaken and slaughtered. A Mrs. Green and one child acre also killed. A Mrs. Patrick was shot in the lonise while preparing a ' bed for her children. Mr. Thomas Davis and two children were killed, and , Mr. Pat• risk's daughter. The dragoons had been despatched in every direction in pursuit, but PO far without success. We have fill account of ;molter attack upon two }dung men in a field near New riansvilie, one of whom, named Samuel Smart, was killed.— Philadelphia lag. A NILSERABLE Nlarn CR- —The Baltimore Sun states that Cul ly on Sunday morning, a woman calling herself Margaret Green, was round sleeping in the yard of a house in Front street. She had in her arms an infant about ono tear old, who bud nestled in the bosom or her drunken mother, during the night, exposed to the damp and sicken, tog air of this miser). The woman, when arrested by Mr. McKewon and a citizen, acknowledged that she had been drunlc, and went there to sleep. In the watch-house, the poor taint eagerly fondled on her and sucked from the polluted fount of 119 pater nal nourishment, that which may give it the appetite for which will prove its earthly misery, or perchance, its death. They were sent to the alms-house. E%•STEAKER POLK PRESENTED BY A GRAND JURY.—TIin Grand Jury, at the Sevier County Court, in Tenneevee, have PRESENTED GuY. Polk, of that State, us fol- "Tho Executive of our State, Jame K. Polk, instead of being found nt his post, ex ecuting the laws, and deyming ITICaIIS for improving tho deplorable condition of the country, and restoring it to the prosperity it has lost, ho our said Governor, is lound tray( rsing the State, conducting an election eering campaign for the elevation of and to keep in train the system which is so oppressive, and in power the rulers who ask power at such a price. This we present as a most serious grin vance—a dereliction of duty in one who ought to be a hi . .:11 functionary—an evil ex. ample to others who may be prompted to do thehke, and which, in the end, will pros e the overthrow of our free institutions. We therefore call for a change of rulers, and in the spirit of that freedom which we so much prize, we call upon every man to inquire, and as he wish3s to avert the hor rors of Civil War, that in November each and every one will appear at the polls, and by means oldie ballot-box, make the change and revolution effectual. JAMES SEATON, Foreman of the Grand Jury VAN BUREN'S RETRENCIIMENT!—Let It be remembered that John Quincy Adams expended nn an average but TWELVE MILLIONS a year, and Martin Van 13u: ren spends three - times that sum, or 'I'IIIR. TY-SEVEN MILLIONS. John Quincy Adams, paid off Forty Five itlillions,•three hundred and three thousand, five hundred and thirty three Dollars of the Public Debt. Martin Van Buren exhausted the Treasury in his first year, ALTHOUGH lIE FOUND A SURPLUS OF FORTY AULLIOI9, and created a new National Debt, by issuing Ten Mil lions of Treasury notes, and has been in• creasing it ever Since! And yet Mr. Ad ams was turned out for extravagance and Mr. Van Buren pretends to Reform. All the revenue of the Government was not sufficient fur Mr. Van Buren, while it was more than enough fur Mr. Adams, and he paid off on the old debt, about as much as he spent.' Look at these things —they are facts, to be found in the public records of our country. They are not—"wmo ms:" they are unfortunate truths!—Har. 'ld. WATCHWORDS OF THE BRITISH TORIES. "Duwa with banks!" cries Brownson. "Down with the ManufactoriesP shouts Hill. • "Down with %1 , ages! 11 cries Buchanan. "Down with the Priests and Schoolmas tern!" cries Brotonson. "A shilling a day!" shouts Tappan. "Let them eat no meat!" cries Williams. "Stop wages altogether!" cries 13rown son. "Let there be no employment!" sayi Rodolphas Dickenson. CURIOUS FACT. —Dr. Smith, the celebra 'ed oculist of Troy, N. Y., performed the following successful operation, in the aboye city:—Wilbert, son of James Moreland, aged ten dears, born blind at Patna, N. J. underwent the successful operation :or cat• ivraet, al,proy, N. Y., Oct. .9, 1839. Ten days after the operation, the boy could G. vrAcalirroirorr now= 132:DITOn & PROPMETOP.. 6 6 The liberty to know, to utter, and to a y . . , • "-.5 • see objects the size ore pin's head, but could not call the most common article of d lilt use by nan o •, without having firbt associa fed the sight with the sensation of touch; ter instance, a knife, fork, or spoon, being pre sented to his view he must feel the article before giving it n name, but the moment he touched the article he could call it by the proper name. CAN MARTIN VAN BUREN BE RE ELECTED. Suppose first we Arid then give [Tar give Van Buren the rison the following: following States: Vermont, 7 Maine, 10 Massachusetts, 14 New Hampshire, 7 Rhode Island, 4 Pennsylvania, 30 1 Connecticut, 8 Maryland, 10 I New York, 42 Virginia, 23 I New Jersey, S South Carolina, 11 Delaware, :i Georgia, 11 I North Carolina, 15 Alabama, ' 7 Louisiana, r-i Mississippi, 4 Kentucky, 15' A rkanses, Nlissnetl TeritieEsec, Now, glint reason has Van Buten to claim many of the States in his list as made above? To Tennessee, fur instance—where White carried the State in 'Of/against Van Buren by near 10,000 maj:Prity, and in '37 Cannon (Whig) carried it against Arm stroug..(lc. B.) by near 20,000 majority., and winch has been temporarily swung otr 'from the Whig cause by Polk with his great popularity, and a cry against Whig corruption and for Rahn in! By what law at logic dues he claim Vit.. which has j ist doclared by a inaj oi ly on the popular vote and in its Leg pia lure, for Rives and Reform, and againsi Van Buten, a standing army, and the sub treasui)? How dues lie claim Maryland, whirl' was againit lam by 3,500 uniiirity in.';lti? flow lieo•gte, which gave I:,i U ilgalliel hilti in '37? These deducted— 50 in all—leave Van r.tien 61. New, on the other hand, what right line Harrison le the States which voted for Van Buren in ';36? eau - he claims b:enusi.., be has had it for 'bleu yea's, and the other party acknowledges he will carry it? lidDE ISLANII—IteCALISe it istlg been with him since %313, and is now Whig . ull over, giving n large iucreased major i;y, at its lart election —Governor, Senate, House, and the PEorme all min, OIiTIL CAROLINA — BOMA U6O. it has made at its late election, BROWN feel strange and STRANGE turn brown, by giving the Whigs over B,OOU majority and a large majority iii both (louses of its Legislawre. Li vistANA—Becau,e she has jJst given the hall a push with 20011 Wliig majority . ICIIIGAN — Becrwse she gave at het last election a large majority fir a 'Whig Governor and elected a Whig Legislature. And all oldie other States which in voted for "Old Tip," and which are in our list, we claim— Because they have given at their late elections astounding riu . rrities fur him. We repeat, . CAN MARTIN VAN BUREN DE ItE•ELEC TED? The voice of the States says—Nid and not in a whisper, but in a laud and angry tone which cannot b 3 misunderstood.— Alb. Journal. RETURN or EL J. LEvre —Hosea J. Le vis late President of the Schuylkill Bank, has returned from Europe, and arrived in Philadelphia on Saturday night lust from Baltimore Intelligence of this important fact was yesterday morning oflicia4 corn• municated to the Board of Directors of that institution. lie is still at large, but prompt measures for his arrest have been taken by the proper authorittos.--Pearroyfraniuu. PROGREPS OF TEMPERANCE.—Extract of a letter from an officer on board the United States frigate Potomac, dated Rio Janeiro, July 4,1840: "You will, I am sure, be glad to hear, that of a crew and officers amounting to 279, about 220 have voluntarily stopped their grog! and have strong hopes that before the cruise expires,the number will be increased." Two PREDICTIONS.—The New York, Courier and Enquirer of August 30, places on record the following TWO PREDICTIONS, as to the result of the coming contest:— “We predict that GEIS. HARRISON ' S major. ity over Van Buren, in the State of Now York, will exceed twenty thousand; and we also predict, that his majority in the Electo. ral Colleges, will be greater than Mr . . Van Buren's whole vote!” Prentice says.—!'Amung • the big guns used at the great Nashville Convention, there was one of vast dimensions that roa• red liken hundred lions. Above it streamed u flag with the inscription—Amos's WAXER.' " "CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. "— Preniice's Last.—Loco Focoism, it is now said, has such an irresistible tendency downwards now•a•days, that the boys can't tiy kites made of Loco Foco newspapers. Michigan, 4 Indiana, 15 104 This will elect Old PALACE FURNITURE. Speech of inn Ogle, OF Pr.tiNSVLVANIA, ON THE REGAL SPLENDOR OF 'l'llL PIIESIDENT'S PALACE. De'ivertd in the House of Reprcsentotives, April 4, 1 S4O. leorichuntm.l The various suggestions, draWings, plans, &c. submitted to the President, finally re. suited in the adoption and completion of some very material "alterations" in the pal ace; the specifications whereof have been duly detailed in several reports made hr the Commissioner of Public Buildings to Con. aress. The report of that 0fT1,...er, dated in December, 1837, states, on the hllbject of the President's ii use, us Arnow,: 4•7'he arcaded screen dividing the con i• dor from the hall in this building lira liven completed, as also the screen at the north entrance into the hall, both of which were so essential to the comfort of the house.— To add further to this, an air Inmate has been. coestructed in the ha eeriest sorry, ern conduits formed from the slime, so as to cell vey the heated air into the corritleis below 1111 d above, as also the great dirtieg room and other rooms." "'Twas piti:ul, 'twir.3 wondrous pitiful," that none of the farmer ('residents—inclu ding Geit—fackson—nevcr disceveted Owl an "arcrided screen, dividing the corridar from the hall," and a "screen, at the north ! entrance into the hell," wet a so essential ; to the comfort of the house. "'Twas I strange, 't was passing strange," that an i "air furnace. had not been constructed," with 1 the people's cash, at an earlier day, by the I operation of which the occup int of the p .1 ace would have reduced his hiel bills. l The President's commissioner, by his I report, dated in D..cetriber, 1.938, informs us of sundry other important "alterations" within the palace, constructed during that year, amongst which is the billowing: t ! ‘lii the basement story a reservoir Inns been constructed, which by means 01 . a double forcing pump, supplies the kitchen, i pantry, baths, &c. with hire pure water." Air! sir, I thought we should soon arrive 't the Grecian Baths, fur without them the' extrisies of the palace would be incomplete. As early us the dais of Homer the delights' i iilf n viliac.r bath were highly appreciated. 'ie writes that a bath was prepared tor; i- , Ulysses, the son of Laertes, at the palace of Circe, and that, alter he had enjoyed the ' l , :luxury of the bath, he was annonited with i i cosily and delightful perfumes, and attired in gay apparel. lam not a little surprised that Mr. Van Buren is the first President who made the. discovery that the pleasures of the warm or tepid bath are the pi per 1 accompaniments of a palace licit. Fur tt 1 appears that our former Presidents were il content with the application, when necessa ry, of the simple shower bath. Albeit one I of them (Mr. Adams,) indulged his nristo- I cratic pi opensities, almost ever) morning, I the weather being favorable, by aristocrati cally walking some 00 or 100 red r, "be- 1 tvreen daybreak and sun-rise," to the banks 1 of the Putionac, and then and there al isto- I eratically laving his aristocratic body,al- I ter the manner of the antideluviaus, in the I writers of the river. And, oa smile occa. I siring, more aristocrat ieally still, swimming lefoSi the stream, about one mile and three i quarters wide. At the royal baths, in some' cf the palaces of Emilie, servants I are in attendance who, immediately after I ilie princely bather leaves the laver, gently whip his bark and limbs with wet birch rods, remove the hard skin from his feet with pumice stone, anoint his body with triple distilled Arabic, end present a, little white a me, sugar, and citron, to invigorate him before Ire lapses into a sweet slumber. I presume the luxury of all these royal practices will be duly appreciated at the Pre.!idential palace. 'l'his luxury might doubtless be materially enhanced by cau sing such "alterations" to be constructed as would introduce to the President's baths, by means of particular conduits, and 'dim • ble forcing pumps," a copious supply of sea water, after the manner of the magnificent Wit establishment of the old Roman aris• tocracy. Withholding, on the present occasion, all further observations relative to the palace baths, let us now make an examination of the moneys expended by the reformers lnr furniture. You will recollect, Mr. Chair. man, that I presented to the committee, in tine early part of my remarks, a list of the various appropriut:ons made by Congress since the retirement of Jelin Q. Adams, "for alterations arid repairs of the Presi dent's House," planting trees, improving grounds, &c. &ie. Those appropriations amounted, aliiigether, to the sum of $6'4,- 72258. I will now, sir, offer to the corn mittee a similar list of appropriations, du ring the same period, for furniture for the ' President's Douse. . .. Act of 3d M arch, 1929. For furnishing President's House, under the direction of the President, 814,000 ( 0 Act of 2d March, 1831. For furniture and repairs of furniture, $5,000 OD Act of 2d March 1933. Furnishing ;President's House, in addition to proceeds of such decayed furniture as he may direct t,o be sold, ,;.` Act of 30th June, 1 '`For com pleting the furniture of . to President's House," 86,000 00 Act of' 3d March, 1837. For furniture of the President's House, 820,000 00 To these appropriations may be added the proceeds, as before stated made by the sale of decayed and unfashionable furniture, $5,6-_:0 40, and we have the gross 1 .op• seventy thouaand six hundred nod el . : at, dollars and forty (12.1g8, CXlo,llded by the I efortuero for furuiture kr the Prosidcot's llout:r. And this, teo,air, if et the rehean. ors had thetter , kes coetenilal ;led i n .: l ,3l°d that the President's Hearse had been for. eished by John Q A (1 , 1131 ti in a ,•,:yle of "re al But let es look a little closer at the matter. by the 14th clause of the Is' section of the act of 90th June, six thousand dollars w"re npproprin nal "for emirate:tier ; the furnitutp, of the President's llou-e." The furnii-nre was therel'ere vemelete slier the expenditure of this $6,000. Now, Mr. Chairman, ran vru tell Inc how it came to pass that Mr. Van Bureu expended . $29,127 DS on the palace furniture during Cie summer and autumn of 19:17? The last sum ($29,127- 99) et - insists of 820,000 a pprepr'ated by the act of Zll of March, I9:!7, nod $4,127 0 4 , 'he nmount of the five bills already read, fur what are &Dominated "repairs and alterations." is it to be credited that the ermine rs have destroy NI, in the short space of three soars, furniture worth $29,127 087 A bout $9,000 anautilly wasted; a larger sum $2 009, than has been invested in the furniture of his priecely mansieu on the north side of Franklin square, and iminedi• lately opposite the ;enlace. If au expendi• Itore of $6,000 is sufficient to provide uppro• I (prime end suitable finniture for the must elegant private mansion in the city of IVashing,ton, what will the plain, repub I lican farmers of the country say to the ex penditure 44870,630 40 by the reformers in completing the furtnerre of the Presi dent's Douse, ellich was crowded with the rich , st furniture on the globe at the time the reformers came into posessioe.l The President's House, from the lime of its destruction in 1819, was not refinished and occupied until Sept. 1617. It was then taken possession of by .Mr. Monroe. The furniture in the former building had been destroyed with it, and the little that had been purchased afterwards, for the accom medation of Pi esident Madison, in the house which had been rented for him, (the east- I ern end of the Seven Buildings,) was only second hand furniture, and of trifling value; there mas not a carpet in the house, the fluor has hug been covered with blue and green baize, which was entirely worn out; indeed, it is said that there was not a sin gle article of furniture used by Mr. Madi son suited to the new building. Mr. Monroe, however, had considerable fur niture of good quality, most of which he had procured abroad as American Min• ister, and the residue fur l.is accommoda•l t ion as Secretary of Sate. This furniture, including a small service of plate, he placed to the President's Douse, at a valuation (9. 071 2210 fixed upon it by Iwo of the most' respectable citizms of the Dist rict.. A bout the Mile period, an order, limited in amount to twelve thousand dollars, was transmitted by Mr. Monroe to the Messrs. Russell and La Fargo at Havre, with instructions to procure some articles of farniture, "strong massive, and durable," to he manufactured for the room 9 fur which they were respec tively intended. These gentlemen, acting under the erroneous impression that the hots oldie President was to be furnished in the style of a king's palace, deviated greatly from die instructions of Mr. 1110e roe, nut only in the richness and splendor of the articles purchased, but actually : . an up their bills to 02,055 85 francs, or $13,- 417 17, being $6,417 17 higher than the extent of the ruder which they had receiv ed. All this splendid French furniture was forthwith shipped to America, and Con gress subsequently granted the necessary appropriation to cover the deficit. Although Mr. Monroe was somewhat unfortunate in the selection of his agents, he was little to blame in the whole eflint; for many of the articles deemed proper for the President's Douse could not at that day have been pro. cured in the United States; and, besides, the statute which directs "that ail furniture pur chased for the President's House: shall be, us fiir as pi acticable, of American or domes' tic manufacture," was not enacted until May 22,1826. The furniture oldie President's [Luse was further increased by the pur eliese of articles in Philadelphia and other Atlantic citme, frota time to time, during the administration of Mr. Monroe, amount ing to $22,511 60k. The entire suit?, therefore, invested in furniture by him was $50,000, viz. Private furniture, appraised at $9,071 22; Bought iti France .19 . 417 17 Purchased in Philadelphia, &c. 22,511 GO This sum was paid by three several up• propriation bills passed by Congress, to wit: Atureli 3, 1 837 , for 820,000 April 20, DAB, for • 20,000 April 20, 181 8, fur deficiency 10,000 To the rich stock bought by Mr. Monroe, there was added during the administration' ofJohn . Q. Adams other furniture, including a service of plate taken from Mi. Crawford at the time be left Washington, upon rett ring from the head of the Treasury Depart. meat; all of which amounted to the sum of $20,000, and fur which Congress had gran ted the necessary appropriations, viz: February 25, 1825, March 2,.127, The entire cost; therefore, of the gain-, Lure in the President's House on • the day the reformers took possession was 87.0 , 5 tW0. But all the flue things which had been gath ered into tho palace by Monroe and Adams q)/ 4 44 il4lEtcb wets not ei and ent.eel , ler our reformed.; (~es . n.. 1,1 le- pro% Oleo with huge barn doler sa.r mantel end Fier mirrorii; Irs gulden frames; magnificent cut glass claindeliers, royal and imperial wilions, Italian gold slab pier tables, golden stars, golden rays, Turk• ish cI.V;IDS, French conifer fa bles,Threign cut wine coolers, barrel shape flute decanter s :, with cone stoppers, end one hundred dollar ar i ifi c i a i th,wers. Our reformer:, would not be satisfied without the dulcet notes of the "rosewood piano torte," (octaves;) nor could .hey - enjoy their French ceekery without the zest era golden spoon. Oh! how they binged after the genuine democratic gold and . silver service of the Russian Baron, "le fitment' Baron de Tuy II." Hence our reformers have expended sevenly thousand six hundied and eighty dollars and forty cents to purchase all these loco ("ice. baubles. The furniture, therefore, at the present time, in the President's palace, cost the People the sum of 6140,080 40. Whet; 'sir, will the plain farmers of the country say—la hat will our industrious, and frugal mechanics say—what will the poor daily la borers say about the expenditure of $149,-• GiSO 40 in providing furniture for one house? --and such furniture! Is there a loco feet> within this Hull of the People's Rapreac,'..: knives who will justify this extravagance? If there be, I denounce him as the tool of the Executive. The plain, republican cit. ins of the United States will not excuse' Mr. Van Burcu for paying for a bunch of artificial flowers to adorn his table a larger sum nun the year ly.wages of a poor, hire. liog; .ay, sir, more than the annual pension. granted by the nation to the brave and he. . role soldier: who endured the seven years' toil dour Revolutionary strtle•le. Immediately after the installation :it Neiv - York in 1789 of General Washington as President under the new Constitution, he took possession of the house in Pearl street, in which the President of the Old Congress had resided. After the removal of the seat of Government to Philadelphia; President IVashington lived in a house in Market ' street, in that city, which had been leased by-Robert Morris to the Government at an annual rent of. 83,000. The rents and all the other expenses of the President's estabS fiefunent were paid out of the Treasury, but Gen. Washington received no pay whatever for his services. On the contrary, be cod.; -idered that lie was in duty bound to relit . .? quish to the People of the United States two hundred thousand dollars, the amount antis i. salary Mr eight years' services as President.., in consideration of the rents and otherrx: penditures incurred by the wrtion in Maim. ' tinning his establishment while in their .. service. How does the conduct of Geor i ga Washington contrast on this subject with that of Martin Van Buren? Washington and Van Buren! Bless my soul, what a fat. hog off! [Loud laughter.] Yes. What a fall was there, my countrymen? Then • you, and 1, and all of us tell down. After looking back down the long liue of illustri ous worthies who have occupied the Presi. dentin' chair in this country, is it i.ot enough to make the heart of a ['atria bleed, nod to cover hie cheek with blushes to see in what that illustrious line ends's* What his Martin Van Buren ever done? IS'ho can tell me? I can inform you, sir; h e h as n o t only taken twenty-five thousand dollars in gold and silver for his salary, bo la- has compelled the People to pay for hen inting his dish rags into the,harguin.— Why, sir, he knows no' wire of the henora tile and higliminded feelings of ,ti patriot • than he does of the hardships or. n.soldier. I think I can tell about all he knows on that subject; and it is expressed in the nightly prayer of an Irishman impressed os a ute ri:it : "God ho thanked that 1 never killed any body, end that nobody over killed me! God bless the. world, and huzza for the Mt' v‘!" [Loud luugliter.] Ido not see whyi. it is that such a nation as this should ever 'Y .have made so much of so small a pattern of a man. - . . flu never originated stay thitig to benefit his country; he never fought to secure her glory; he has done nothing but plot ele .. veto himself; and yet here ore we all inreVr.l into turmoil about one little man, as if rut was a hero o r a statesman—as if, in the hour of hie country's extremity, ho had been first to face her foes and present his body to their bullets, and, when her danger was poi sed, had retired, like another Ginemmites, to his plough, and had shone yet more in all the peaceful. % irtues of private life thatrhe Ind before shrine in the field. Placed by the side of Harrison, what is he? and what has he done? Let him read Gen. Harri son's letter to Bolivar, when that pure minded patriot pointed out to the great lib•" erator the path of true glory and immortal fame, recommending him to take Washing . - ton tor his model, and to become, like him, the father of his country. This would have sent him down to posterity .with a shining brow. My soul rejoices that we aro at last going to have a President something like te Father orthe Revolutien.. Why did the American People advance Gen. Wash ten to the Presidency? Because ho had been the Father of his Country, hying and acting only fin. her. Why did they then choose the rider Adams? Benue he had been the eloquent defender of independence; because his living words had stirred the tiro and blond in ill'? 'War 19 of his country. men, and land iti , ';oiled Own; , n- do and di* in the cause oi freedom. %Vily did they mike ,Jiliereon their Chief Nlagistrate?— Because he WA ben the eloquent writer or the Declaratioe al Indelaindence. And ‘bhy Madison? Because he had been thry able, the profound e x poun dee of the Cons( it u 8)0,000 00 850,000 814,0(x 6,001)
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers