Why Monroe? •-Because,he was the last of
that band of worthies who had shed their
blood in out revolutionary struggle. With •
him ended the revorutiobary race. Why
had they then appointed John Q. Adonis?
Because of his Bing diplomatic experience,
his known political wisdom. Why Jack
son? Let New Orleans answer. And why
Martin Van Buren? Echo answers, why?
It is true he put on Gen. Jackson's coat,
and drew on his heavy military boots, and
tried to straddle into his toot.ter, and that
is about all.
I had a mind to turn the attention of this
committee to a description of Martin Van
Buren, by his loving friend and cousin. Al
exander H. Everett, of Massachusetts, but
I will not do it—the man is small enough
already. Let his friends here point out any
one act he ever did to benefit his country—
let them lay their finger on one single
bright page in her annals which has ever
been illuminated by deed of his. When
we would talk of Harrison, we can say, and
say truly to all the People of the Northwest:
he was a father to your country. Ile saved
it from a savage foe. He made all the In
dian treaties by which you hold your lands
in peace, and lie promoted the impro%ement
and well being of all your settlement afler
he had first rendered them secure. Under
his government there was no Indian war,
like the contest in Florida, hatched in fraud,
and prosecuted in reckless improvidence.—
The Indians themselves admitted the fair
ness and .equity of all his proceedings.--
They could rely on his word, they trusted
his sincerity; no arms was there to march
to remove them from the lands they had
sold to the white man; they retired volun
tarily and peacefully. But how is it now?
You cannot negotiate a single Indian trea •
ty, bat what your democratic commission
era turn out to be such fraudulent rascals
that the Indians all complain they are
cheated, and being themselves, for the most
part, meo of uprightness and integi ity,they
become indignant at the wrong, and set
your power at defiance. What was the
history of your Creek war? How did it
originate, and were you not obliged to re•
move the Cherokees by the bayonet, thus
compelling them to observe a treaty they
had never made? Is there not at this
hour a storm brewing amongst the Win
nebagoes in the northwest, because, like
the Seminoles, they were cheated in a
treaty? It will not do to saddle the blame
of the ware upon the Indians, and, when
charged with all the millions you have
spent, to say: we cannot help it—it is not
our fault. Your own abominable frauds
and oppressions were the cause of the war.
and you are justly chargeable with every
dollar 'it has cost the People.
But, sir, I must come back for the pre
sent to the "old grudge," the expenditures
for the palace. On the 2d of March, 1797,
Congress passed an act directing "decayed,
out of repair, or unfit for use" furniture to
be sold and the, proceeds of sale, and so
much of a sum as the President may judge
necessary not exceeding 814,000, to be in
vested in now furniture for the ine of the
President, (the elder Adams.) In Decem
ber, 1900, the Government was removed to
its permanent seat at Washington, but be•
lore its removal, viz: 24th April, 1900, the
sum of $15,000 had been granted to pro
vide "furniture for the house erected in
Washington for thei'resident, to be expen
ded by the heads of State, Treasury, War,
and Navy." The furniture was subse
quently increased by three several appro
priations of $14,000 each by sets passed
3d March, 1805, 2d March,lBo9, and 26th
July, 1813, respectively. There had,
therefore, been expended on the furniture
of the President's House from the time of
its first occupancy in December, 1800, up
to the period of its destruction by the Brit
ish army, fifty-seven thousand dollars.
I shall not descend to the basement story
of the palace, and remark upon the furni•
tune which appertains to the numerous
rooms provided filr the stewards, cooks,
and other servants, but content myself with
the single declaration, that all the arrange
ments upon the basement story are in ex
act harmony with the style and magnifi
cence displayed in the other stories of the
palace. •
I have heard many improvements sug
gested by court favorite; as proper for the
interior of the palace, amongst which are
the following: Ist, a library of gilt bound
books; 2d, a cabinet or museum of medals,
coins, gerrs, minerals, shells, plants, in
sects, worms, fishes, birds, and beasts; 3d,
a suit of rooms garnished with paintings by
Titian, Habeas, Rembrandt, Itatnelle, Sal
valor Rosa-, Vandyke, Leonardo da Vinci,
Carlo Dolci, Porweio Rittloni x Andrea Sac
an4
eCorregio's MagJalen and Night,
The Matron of tho Chair,
Guido's fleet coursers in their flight,
And Claudea et least a pair."
These paintings would form a beautiful
contrast with the charming E•rench prints
now understood to be within or near the
palace. All these improvements would, of
course, be properly chargeable under the
bead of "Alterations and repous of the Pre
sulenea house." Other "alterations and
repairs of the President's house" have doubt.
less been mooted, but with more abundant
caution; these.consist in the erection of a
throne, and the purchase of a crown, dia.
dem, sceptre ,and royal jewels. The pro
and con arguments in regard to these alter
ations and repairs readily suggest them
selves. On the one aide it may be conten
ded that the introduction of these palace
appendages might alarm. the democracy;
that, at most, they are but the empty en.
signs of royalty; and that, at all events, it
will be best not to agitate the matter until
the sub• Treasury system shall be firmly es.
tisbbahed. and the projected law for raising
a standing army of 200,000 men shall, be
telly enacted. On. the other hand, it may,
with great propriety be alleged that, as.we
already have the palace, with its tabaurets
and other splendid regalia, palace grounds,
Woe gardens, grind levees, state ban•
quota, Court ceremonials, Court costumes,
4141.41; the royal ateeds,,and royal rm.
!noes, we should not hesitate about a. throne,
which, according to the definition of Napo
leoc,Bounparte, is "six planches sepia et
wimp: velours"—or six pine planks and
a -velvet harpet. Why refuse a crown,
which is merely a broad ring of gold, with
diamonds and precious stones set in ouches,
the ring being attached to a velvet gold
embroidered cap, .terminating on the top
with a golden ball or cone? Why deny a
diadem, or richly variegated riband. form
ing the border of a velvet cap garnished
with gold tufts and tassels? Why reject a
sceptre, or stick thirty inches in length, and
lackered with golden varnish? And, as to
the royal jewels, they can doubtless be ea
sily procured under the excellent counsel of
the twenty-two Kings whose good wishes
have heretofore been manifested in recom
mending to the faiorable consideration of
Mr: Van Buren the Independent Treasury.
Moreover, there is not a letter, or syllable,
or word or clause, or section, or article,
found in the Constitution which forbids the
introduction of these regalia; then why hes
itate? Will not the pseudo-democracy be
better pleased with a President who poses
ses not only the power, but is also covered
with the trappings of royalty? Caesar was
omnipotent at Rome with the plain title of
Consul; Cromwell, with the simple name of
Protector, controlled all the power of Eng
land; Consul Bonaparte was as absolute and
despotic as the Emperor Napoleon.
Sir, am unwilling to grant the appro.
prtation of $3,665 in the bill under consid
e ration" for alterations and repairs of the
President's house," because the money may
be expended in the erection of a throne
within the "Blue Elliptical Saloon," and
for the purchase of a crown, diadem, seep
tre, and royal jewels, with as little impro
priety as former appropriations "for altera
tions and repairs of the President's house"
have been expended; and because, after these
regalia shall have been prepared, it will not
be very inconvenient for President Van Bu
ren to exchange hi's . splendid Spanish cloak
fora royal stole, and, having placed the
crown upon his hand, the diadem on his
brow, and bedecked his person with the
royal jewels, with the lackered sceptre in
his hand, take his seat on that throne.—
And thusthis democratic President although
deprived of the title of royalty, will be in
vested, not only with its prerogatives, but
with its trappings also.
If, sir, it is inexpedient in these hard times
to appropriate the money of the People for
opening and improving harbors, fur erect
ing light-houses, for constructing roads and
canals, for improving the nivigation of riv
ers, for completing the Cumberland road,
and for other objects of real utility, I think
the times aro too hard to apply the cash of
-the People "for alterations and repairs" of
the President's palace: I believe that the
individual who now occupies that mansion
might suggest such "alterations and repairs"
as would not meet the views of the gentle
man who will occupy the same house on
the 4th of March next; and, as the building
is in excellent condition--as it is as splen
did as the palace of the Autocrat of all the
Bossing, and as richly adorned as the grand
est oriental mansion, think the present
occupant might be content with it, partic
ularly as the furniture, since the accession
of General Jackson, has cost the people of
tile United States no less a sum than $70,.
680, and the palace grounds and gardens,
during the same period, the additional sum
of 888,722 58. This, one would ' think,
might, at all events, be sufficient to satisfy
a plain, frugal, economical, hard•handed,
democrat. But whether he shall be sails
fled or not, hope the committee will not
pass the bill in its present shape: for Ido
not think the People want any more slippe
ry elms on the President's grounds—they
had rather see a good row of buckeyes.
Sir, I have been conteoled in the remarks
which 1 have deemed it my duty to submit
in relation to the President's palace by the
' same inotives and principles which govern
ed the Jackson party, of which 1 was an
ardeot supporter, during the administration
of John Q. Adams. You will doubtlesare
collect that the . Jackson party at that day,
both in and out of Congress, went into the
investigation of the palace concerns most
thoroughly. On the &I of March 1825,
the following joint resolution was adopted
by the two. Houses:
Resolved, &c. That the Commissioner
of the Public buildings be, and he is hereby,
authorized and directed to take an invento
ry of the furniture of the President's [louse
at such time as may be convenient to the:
President, and to deliver a copy thereof to
the President elect, and one copy to each
House of Clingress."
In pi:feu:ince of this resolution, a sell--
dule of all the furniture in the President's
Holm, including the articles in the bed
chambers and kitchen, was reported to Con.
gress on the sth of December, 1825.
Subsequently, (Bth February, 1826.,) the
House of Representatives, through its com
mittee, requested the then President to cam
muricate in what manner the last appropri
ation for furniture for the President's House
had been evpended.• After the information
had peen obtained, the committee made a
report to the House, viz. 17th March, 18.
26, to which the} not only atinexed a mem
orandum of all the table linens, sheets, pil
tow cases, chamber towels, &c. in the pal
ace,.but also a 'list of all the articles pur
chased by Mr. Adams from the 10th of
March,. b82:1, till January, 1826. Embra
ced in the list were the following items:
"1825. May 26. Legere Kervand,
billiard table, 850 00
" June 6. kattlejphn for cues, b 00
" Dec. 29. B. F-Pcuneroy. bil•
Bard balls,
1926. Jan. 1. P.'fbornpsonleheas
Who does not remember the indignant
bursts ofeloquence that were then launched
forth within this Hall -against gambling,
waste °Mime, neglect of public business,
extravagance, dr.c. dzc.? With what corn
mendable biely and holy zeal did the lead
ing ehtunpions, retrenchment-ands reform
at that day exhort all devoted Christians
to open their eyes and lend their ears to a
full and 'thorough examination of these sub ,
jectsi I have before me, air, a ispeech in
this subject delivered on the 4th of Februa
ry. 182 i, by the lion. James Buchanan on
Mr. Chilton's resolution to retrench the
expenditii , es ofthe General Government,
in which he elaborately discusses the merits
of this enormous expenditure, and shows
exceeding great regard for "the scruples of
the pious„ in regard to the purchase with
the public money of instruments for aurise•
meats; an example of wastefulness and ex
travagance which he appears to have oppre.
!tended "must have a most powerful and
extensive influence upon the morals of the
youth of our country."
It turned out, indeed, in the end, that
Mr. Adams had really paid for the billiard
table, &c. out of his own pocket. But no
matter, the Jackson party in Congress con
tinned to denounce the purchase of the bill
iard table, balls, - cues, and -chessmen.—
These were the articles of palace furniture
upon which we Jackson men arraingod the
Administration of Al r. Adams before the
country. These articles of extravagance
amounted 10894 50. We were afraid to
pay for a billiard table for the President
to spend his precious time at, because he
had so many important duties to perform.
The arguments used at that time will tin.
gle in the ears of the old Jackson men when
they shall discover, what is the tact, that
two hundred doPars have been paid for
boot money on the exchange of a mahoga•
ny piano forte for one constructed of rose
wood, and that the very reformers who made
each an everlasting din about the price of a
billiard table have expanded more than sev
enty thousand dollars of thin People's cash
for nine feet mirrors, go:dAnives, -forks,
spoons, rays, stars, &e., not omitting, how•
ever, the bills for hemming Mr. Van Bu
ren's dish rags and strainer cloths, and for
griuding his servants' knives.
PURE LOCO FOCOISM
D own with Religion! Down x•ilh Education!
Wu have already laid before our readers
a large amount of evidence to prove that
the ulterior designs of the loco teen party
is to prostrate religion, and banish education
from among us. But it is a subject that so
nearly involves our individual, as well as our
national character and happiness that we
feel that we shall be pardoned for our fre
quent recurrence to it. The following ex•
tracts embodying the I 'co foco creed as at
present avowed, are from a work published
in Boston by the Rev. Mr. Brownson, us
will be seen by the remarks which preceod
them from the /V Y. Star. If there are
any preachers of the gospel in Harrisburg,
or in Pennsylvania who adhere to the party
which boldly avows such alarming and clan
prone doctrines, we would respectfully.
commend these extracts to their attention,
and ask them the question, "can you sup
port the party which avows such principles
consistently with you sacred calling?"
"Considerable sensation has been produ•
ced by an article in the Boston Quarterly
Review for July, a Loco Foco periodical,
edited by O. A. flrownsun, a Government
officer, in which the most startling doc
trines are avowed and the most dangerous
measures are recommended, striking at the
very root of our social system, and which,
when coupled with the declaration that the .
SularTronsury was merely the entering.
wedge, are sufficiently alarming.
The article is written with ability, and
hence is more dangerous. We are now.
very much ►n the position that France was
during the revolution of 1793. Men of
eminent talent • clothed the most dangerous
theories—the most revolting objects, sub
versive of order and good government, in
language the most alluring; and under the,
name of affording the greatest liberty to the
greatest numbers, the greatest atrocities
were committed, and anarchy and confu
sion, for a time reigned throughout the
country.
Mr. Brownson makes a direct attack on
the Church and the School—a feUr extracts
will serve to thew the character of the
Book:
We have no faith in Priests and Peda
gogues. They merely cry peace,. and that
too, when there is no peace, and can be
none "
"For our part, we are disposed to. seek
the cause of the inequality of which we
speak, in religion, and to charge 1.1 to the
priesthood."
"But, having traced the inequality we
complain of, its origin, we proceed to• ask
again, what lie the remedy? The remedy
i s fi rs t t o he sought in the destruction of
the Priest."
"The priest in universally a , tyrant, uni
versally the enslaver of his brethren, and
therefore—it is Chrisliamity that condemns
Mall"
It may be supposed . that we, Protestants,
have no priest; but for ourselves, we know
no fundamental difference between a Cat ho.
lic priest and a Protestant clergyman, as we
know no difference ofany magnitude,. in re
lation to the principles on. which they are
based, between a Protestant church- and a
Catholic church."
'"I'HP:RE MUST BE NO. CLASS
OF MEN SET APART AND AU
THORIZED• EITHER BY LAW OR
FASHION, To, SPEAK TO US IN
THE NAME OF GOD, OR TO BE
INTERPRETERS OF THE , WORD
OF GOE), THE WORD OF GOD
NEVER DROPS FRONI. A PRIEST'S
LIMP'
"But one might, as well undertake to dip
the ocean dry with a clam-shell,. as to cure
the evils of the eocial state by converting
men to the Christianity of the Church."
"We object not to religious.isistructioru
—we object not to the gatheriug together
*
,of the people.one,
, y in seven, losing and
pray, and•to , lis ,a discoursefrom a re
ligious teacher, ~
_,, " e object to , erery thing
like an outward' risible church—things
that in the remotest degree partakes of the
priest.
This is not new, it is all borrowed from
the revoluticumate of France 10. 1701,'!1
BS4 50
. .
and IA: -Tho . next attack is on the bank
ing system.
"thicompromising hostility to the whole
banking system should therefore be' the,
motto of every working man and of every
friend of humanity. The sYstenz nose be
destroyed. On this point there must be no
misgiving, no subterfuge, no affiliatMn. *
• * * * Every friend to the system
must be marked as an.enemy to his race, to
his country, and especially to the
. laborer.
No matter who he is, in what [arty he is
found, or what name he bars, he is, in our
judgment, no true democrat, as he can be no
true christian."
Hero we have .10nAnt.tici- , 31 openly ad
vanced.
"Following the destruction of banks must
come that of Monopolies of all PRIVILEGE.
There are many of these. We cannot spe
cify them all; we therefore select only one,
the greatest of them all, the privilege which
some have of being born rich, while others
are born poor. It will be seen at once that
we allude to the hereditary decent of pro
perty,—AN ANOM MLY tN nun A ME.
RICAN SYSTEM, WHICH MUST BE
REMOVED, OR THE SYSTEM IT
SELF WILL BE DESTROYED."
"A man shall have all he honestly ac
quires, so long as he himself belongs in tho
world in which he acquires it. BUT HIS
POW ER OVER HIS PROPERTY
MUST CEASE WITH HIS LIFE,
AND HIS PROPERTY MUST THEN
BECOME THE PROPERTY OF THE
STATE [I I] to be disposed of by some
equitable law, for the generation which
takes his place!"
"It is a great measure, and a startling
one. The rich, the business community,
will never voluntarily consent to it, and we
think know too much of human nature to
believe that it will ever be effected only by
the strong arm of ph ysicalibrce."
"IT WILL COME, IF IT COMES
AT ALL, ONLY AT THE CONCLU
SION OF WAR, THE LIKE OF ,
WHICH, THE WORLD, AS YET,
HAS NEVER WITNESSED, AND,
FROM WHICH, HOWEVER INEVI
TABLE IT MAY SEEM TO THE
EYE or PHILOSOPHY, THE HEART
OF HU VI A NITY RECOILS WITH
HORRORM"
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TILE IMMENSE GATHERING AT DAYTON.
—The following extract of a letter to a gen.
tleman in this place, dated Dayton, Sept.
11,1840, will give our readers some idea of
the immense gathering of the People at
Dayton, Ohio, on the 10th instant.—Lfar.
Telegraph.
We are in the midst ofa great Conven
tion at this place. Such a gathering of the
people as were at this place yeAerday, I
never saw before. The multitude was va
riously estimated from sixty to one hundred
thousand people. The most accurate cal.
culations made by scientific men, place the
!estimate between SEVENTY-FIVE AND EIGII
-- THOUSAND. They were ably addressed
by Gen. HARRISON, Gov. METCALF,
CO. CHRISTA of La., and Col. CHAMBERS
of Ky. Last night, various stands were
occupied by Messrs. Wood, Bibb. Preflit,
Reridan, Rhoads, and n host of others.—
The military aro now parading the streets,
and we are to be addressed to-day, by your
old friend, Mr. Penrose of Pa., Mr. South
gate of Ky., and others. I think the multi
tude to day numbers thirty thousand, all
good and true."
--«• • •»r
STANDING ACHY
The Pennsylvania Intelligencer contains
the following synopsis of Mr. Poinsett's
stai.ding army scheme, so strongly recom
mended by Martin Van Duren.
Stripped of all the 'lwo' which the Sec
retary has thrown around i:, the, nuked pro
position is as follows:
1. To enroll every white male citizen
between the ages of 20 and 45.
2. That within three months EVERY
ONE should arm himself at ENS OWN
EXPENSE.
3. That within a given time 1100.000
should be drafted tor actual service.
4. That ANOTHER 100:000 men
should be constantly kept armed and orga
ni'eeil.
5. That this body of 100,000
should be kept up by constant drafts from
the whole body of citizens enrolled.
6 That the Union should he divided off
into military districts—Ronnptsrre fashion.
7. Thnr the PRESIDENT may call out
whenever he choosey, in their district, the
whole of this body of 200s000 men
twice a year.
8. White thus in the fileitt this nrmy of
100,008 men is under the control of the
,President, and subject to such regulations
ess he chmea to. prescribe!!
P. If any citizen fails. to march into no.
teal service whenordered by the President,
!he is to be fined not less than five nor more
than thirty dollars.
If. he refuses twiny the fine, he is
subjected to IM PRISON NI ENT IN cr.osz
JAIL riNTir. THE FINE IS PAIDP.
IL Offenses against the-htw are not to
be punished in the civil courts, but by mill,
ta ry COURT 11l AR TI ALS.
Such are the provisions of this monstrous
scheme. Argument to show their gross
ness would be a superfluity. The enormity
of the whole is apparent—and the . people
will trent it and its authors accordingly.
LOOK AT THIS, FREEMEN!'
MARTIN VAN BUREN in the last
struggle between this country and Englund
sided' with the British,
OPPOSED THE WAR,
Avid offered a resolution denouncing it as
ttr:SUert AND IHTOLITIG; In the•conventien
which amended the Constitution of New
York, Van Buren ofl'red and urged a pro•
iingition requiring a PROPERTY QUAL.
IFCATION FOR PEE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGR,
arid
Robbing the poor man of his vote!
1 . 0 the great Democratic stmagle which
elected Madison, Van Buren sustained. the
Pedeint Ticket and'openly and..bjtterly
OPPOSED JAMES IVIADISON!
In the Presidential contest which hiaught
General Jackson before the people ns the
Democratic. Candidate, Van Boren •
OPPOSED ANDREW JACKSON!
As Minister to Englandi Van Buren to
effect his own purposes,
SLANDERED HIS COUNTRY!
As a politician, Van Buren is known to
be treacherous, selfish and corrupt, and
boasts of being the
Father of the Spoils System,
By whirh the public trensure is used to
corrupt the people and despoil them of their
rights.
He also boasts of being the author of the
Sub Treasury Scheme;—a system avowed
ly got up for the purpose of
Reducing the Wages of the laborer
To the lowest standard of Despotic Nations
in Europe;—a system which in its mildest
form has proved itself to be RAGS FOR TUE
PEOPLE. AND GOLD AND SILVER FOR THE
OFFICE HOLDERS—n system of Aristocratic
Plunder by which the poor man is robbed
of his hard earninus to pamper an idle OF
FICE•HOLUING NOBILITY.
Van Buren though he has richly served
himself, never served his country. He has
made millions from the people, and now
rides like
A FOREIGN PRINCE!
In his carriage and four, with footmen
and outriders. As for his principles, they
are EVERY THING AND NOTHING.
Ho has in hts turn sustained and be+tray•
ed all parties and all principles. His latest
expresion of opinion may be found in his
reconimeodntion of a
STANDING ARMY OF 200,000.
Van Buren hus nothing in common with
the people. lie is an intriguer, an aristo•
crnt and a federalist—corrupt and selfish
without genus or principle.
DEATH OF THE OLDEST METHODIST
PREACHER IY TH E WOR LD. Vied, at
Kingwood hill, in the Kingswood Circuit,
the Rev. James Wood, Wesleyan minister,
in the eighty-niteh year of his age. He
entered upon the itinerancy in 1773; and
was, at the 1101 e of his death, the oldest
Methodist preacher in the wr.lrld. Having
travelled fifty-three years, fourteen years
ago (reckoning from next conference) he
became a supernumerary. He continued
to preach as long as his strength would al
low, nod only desisted when the infirmities
of advanced age had entirely disabled him.
"Had I strength" he once said to the writer
of this notice, "I could preach thirty limes
a week. It is blessed work." He had
been confined to his room from about the
lime of the Centenary Meeting at Bristol.
So great was his desire to be present on the
Occasion that he begged his friends to en
deavor to carry Sim down stairs for the
purpose of ascertaining whether it would
be practicable to lake him to the meeting.
Ile was brought down stairs only to be ta
ken up again with great difficulty, and he
never descended again. In all the affiiirs
of Methodism lie continued to take the live
liest interest. The extensions of the mis
sions, Mr. Newton's visit imam, the Atlan
tic, and the approaching conference, were
topics of chret ful coniersation with him
during the last I.:iv days of his life.
..••••• 0 111n0,....
Vcrrn OF ILLsxots.—The Spvingfiekl
Elsl—
linois) Journal of the 4th instant, gives
complete returnaof the vote inall the coup•
ties of Illinois, at the recent August eke.
lion. From these, it appears that the
aggregate vote of the Whig ticket is 40,-
2W); and the aggregate Van Burets vote,
41 ; 843—showing an aggregate vote in the
State of 82,046, and a Van Buren majority
of 1,64 D.
Now, as every hay knows that Harrison
is strongr r—mirch stronger, than the Whig
party in Illinois—after seeing the meager
majority which the administration obtained
at the August election, we presume, that
few persons will ern - eosin any doubt, but
that when the question conies directly up
between Harrison and Van Buret,. the
State will go for the former by a decided
majority. The personal strength and pop
ularity of "Old Tip•," will easily overcome
this, 1,640, in the whole State, and worikl
do ie as we believe, if it were twice as large.
If that is the party majority in a vote of
more than 82,000,the sucker State may be
safely set down for Harrtson.—Ball. Pat.
A SHOCKING Tnecnoi...,-,---A melancholy
Seen° occurud a short time since at Tour
nay. It is stated that "a man named Four.
nier. who had occasionally shown symp•
toms of lunacy, and been under treatment,
liveJ wit!; his sister, her husband', named
!Wier, and their daughter. In the night
at the 29th ult.,.Fournier entered the room
in which his sister and her daughter were
sleeping, Bodier, being absent,. and assailed
them with a knife; giving , both several
wounds. He had fastened the door,but the
daughter made hen escape by the window,
and roused the neighbours. When this
assistance arrived the woman Bother was
found lying on her bed with numerous
wounds on her body, and Fournier welter.
mg.in his blood on the floor, with a wound
on his breast: The tlaught.er was severely
woentled• also, but not so dangerously as
her mother. Fournier, on being examined,
declared that, after a terrible dream, he
awoke and found himself surrounded by
gm's from purgatory, who urged him to
murder his sister. Under this influence he
got up, took a knife which they had deem
.nided to him, but could not muster resolu
tion to do the deed, and, returned to bed.—
Ilete the spectres again tis.miled him, and
heat length went into his sister's room, be
-ginning by striking her on the lens, and,
to she resisted, continued stabbing hen WI
the knife was wrested from him." He- was
sent to an insane hospital:
Last Sunday, saya.the Portland Argue,
the wile of Mr. G. K. Norris, of Monmouth,
Kennebeck county, gave birth, to FOUR LLV:
Ira cUILDREN — three daughters and a son,
two of whom (the son. and a daughter) are
still living ! The mother. ia. "doing. well.',
'• •
rESTIIIatIY OF A VETERAN.--T he st.
Louis papqrs by the .hilt mill, contain a
long and interesting letter ftom Major Gen
eral I'. GAixes, addresed to Gov. Can—
non, of Tennessee, in which, after discus
sing the subject of National defence, as set
furth in his system, Gen. 'Gaines prorreda
to give him opinions in regard to Gen. Har
rison.
It appears that Gen. Gaines se•ved tin
der Gen. Harrison, in the North Western
Army, during I lie principal part of the sum
mer and atumn of 196, part of which time
he held the mpeintment of Adjutant Gen
eral, which brought him "into daily, and
often hourly intercourse with Gen. Harri
son." With such opportunities of judging,
the veteran writer bears the strongest tes
timony to the "vigilance, devotion to the
service, energetic simplicity, systematic
accuracy of view, and zeal and prompti
tude," of Gen'l Harrison, in the arduous
service in which - he was engaged—the Fort
Nleigs - campaign. Referring to the peri•
od of that comnaign,abd to the strong force
of red and white savages by which he was
threatened, General Gaines says In his let
ter.
'Gen. Harrison ofi• n protected by
fewer men than the Life Guards who ac
companied our distinguished Gen. Jackson
upon his Seminole campaign in the sear
181 P, while the force opposed to him woe
not half as great as that with which Har
rison was menaced. With an equal knnwl
edge of Jackson and Harrison, 1 should be
unjust to both, and false to my country, if I
did not declare that upon the occasions here
alluded to, more trying to the real soldier
than any thing the field of battle often pres
ents; I have never known Gen. Jackson,
whose military honors are beyond MI dis
pute to evince more cheerfulness under the
privations of fond and rest, or (110.9 intro •
pidity of purpose in danger, than Harrison
uniformly exhibited. and, although I had
the deep mortification to be unable to ac
company him from Detroit, in the pursuit of
Tecumseh and Proctor, which terminated
in the battle of the Thames, October 5,
1.813, yet I was assured by Gnv. Shelby
and Cominodore Perry, than whom there
never brenthed truer, or mere chivalric spir
its, that Harrison proved himself to be an
able General,"without (oar and without re
preach.'"
Such testimony—the testimony of Suer.•
BY and of PEERY, cited and avouched by
the veteran GAINES—MUM be indeed, con
clusive.
A Cunious CASE. -A young man named
Young, who was arrested at Baltimore re
day or two ago, on the deposition of a• gen
tleman named Dr. Elul ze, of Pensacola, and
chargyd with being the same individual who
in the Spring of 1838 was arrested in Pen.
sacola, on suspicion of murdering is Jew
pedlar named Isaacs, somewhere in Geor
gia, and who subsequently escaped form
Pensacola jail before being brought to
has been acquitted on testimony whielvr•
proves his entire innocence of any associa
tion with the discreditable circumstance al
luded to above. 51r. B. 'Fiteninb. a gen
tleman from the eastward, who happened to.
be in the city, !cornier; the circumstances,.
appeared before the magistrate, and testi
fied that he knew W. H. Young, and also
knew Justus W. Cowles, the individual who ,
had been apprehended. hi Pensacola on sus
picion of the murder- The latter had black
hair and eyes, whilb Young had light hair
And blue eyes. Cowles at the time of dm
murder was about the height Young is now..
while Young at that time was fully a het
shorter than he is at present. It is strange.
that Dr. F. should have made so singular
a mistake. He still persists in the indenti--
ty of the two persons.
AN AWFUL Sue:sc.—The Louisville:
Journal states that "on the night of the 28tli ,
of August, the house of John Robinson, or
Logan county, Plltneis, was struck by light . -
ning- while the neighbors and family were
attending the dying bed of Mrs. Robinson..
John Robinson, Jr. of Sangamon, was , [tided
at the bedside of his dying mother. His
sister. Ellen Jane, was severely shocked,
and was considered dangerously hurt, and
all m the house were more or less injured."
The Baltimore American states that.
"about a week ago, Mr. Daniel Von Soubi
ron, the proprietor of a boarding house in
.Fligh street, near Halm, was summoned
, tothe door at 10 o'clock at night, where+
he found n very respectably dressed fermili-,.
who represented herself to be Mrs. Eliza.
beth Hassinett, the widow of a former
storekrper and constable of Cambridge, ors
the Eastern Shore of Mary land, and stated
•that she was a stranger, and belated in the
city, and solicited Mr. S')ubiron to admit:
her ns a boarder. Her situniion nt once
induced the worthy man to take her in, but
his benevolence was somewhat subdued
when in the course of half an hour he was
called on to go•for a doctor, who open his.
arrival sooty brought aynung stranger into
,the world—and a flue boy is master [lesser
ett. Every attention was fold both trfl
mother and child until Monday last, when',
niters] brief absence, one of the family wend
into Mrs. Efassarett's apartment, and we:*
not a little astonished to find her missinr,
though she had left as a hostage her newly:.
born son. The lady has not since returned•_
Towr; DvNTuoyEr).—A letter datedr,
Plaquemine, La. September 4th says:
We aro in the midst. of desoltaion; then
whole levea'in front of the town iauone; my.
newspapers office has taken a trip down'
tie river in company with several other
buildings, and 1 have only had lime to save
the meterialS of the printing establishmert...
I urn completely exhausted with thtigue,
and beg you to excuse my not giving mom,
ample details of ibis public calamity. r
can merely add' in a few words, that• more
than eight a rponts front by' an average depth.
:of about 80thfeet has been sweptaway.andi
it is my opinion that it will not stop therei,
for every thing seems so , indicate that!thet
ground will continuo ta, ofErPr, ativArd
daxs. to aPautt.
R.EPUBLIOAN BANNER.
9El' FY8111.111.E.. September 23. 1840.
PEOPLE'S C✓IJV'DID.9TES.
FOR PRESIDENT,
GEN. WILLIAM H. HARRISCN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER.
3ENATXI.I A L ELECTORS.
JOHN ANDREW SIIULZE, JOSEPH RITNER
REPRESENTATIVE DELEGATES
Ist Dietrict: LEVIS PASSMORE,
2d do CADWALLADER EVANS,
~ do CHARLES WATERS,
3d do JONATHAN GILLINGHAM,
4th do AMOS ELLMAKER,
. do JOHN K. ZF..!LIN,
do A. R. McILVAINE,
sth do ROBERT STINSON,
Gth do WILLIAM S. HENDRIE,
7th "do J. JENKINS ROSS'
Bth do PETER FILBERT,
9th do WILLIAM ADDAMS,
10th do JOHN HARPER,
11th do WILLIAM M'ELWAINE,
12th . do JOHN DICKSON.
13th do JOHN WKEEHAN,
14th do JOHN REED,
15th .do NATHAN BEACH,
15th 'do NER MIDDLESWARTH,
17 t h do GEORGE WALKER,
ISth . del BERNHARD CONNELLY, Jr
191 h do GEN. JOSEPH MARKLE.
20th a. JUSTICE G. FORDYCE,
21st do JOSEPH HENDERSON,
22d do HARMAR DENNY, "
3d do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON,
0 4th do JAMES MONTGOMERY,
2 5th do JOHN DICK.
Our Manner.--"Wx HAVE FLUNG THE
DHOAD DARNER OF LIBERTY AND THE CON.
RTI•CVTION TO THE BREEZE, mientnEn WITH
THE INRPIRIN WOODS :—ONE PRESIDEN•
TEAL TERM—THE INTEGRITY OF THE
PUBLIC SERVANTS—THE SAFETY OF
THE PUBLIC MONEY—AND THE GEN
ERAL GOOD OF THE PEOPLE."
Democratic County Ticket.
CONGRESS,
James Coov ex .
ASSEMBLY,
Daniel ~IL. Sraser,
Ur. Gorge 1.. Yauss.
COMMISSIONER,
AV illiam Douglass .
AUDITOR,
James Russell.
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
liewry Lott.
It will bo seen from an advertisement in an
other column, that the celebrated BUCK-EYE
BLACKSMITH, is to visit Gettysburg on the
2ath instant, for the purpose of delivering an ad-
Areas. There has no person appeared in the coun
ty for a number of years past, who has created
more sensation than Jour; W. &ten, the Buck
eye Blacksmith; and in truth ho is a wonderful
man. The citizens of the county, of both political
parties, are cordially invited to attend the meeting
and hear this orator of nature. It will ha worth
more than ono day of a man's life to hear him.—
Let all come.
Maine.
The election for dovernor, members of Con
gress, &c. took place In this State on the 14th
ink. The returns thus for show that the 'Whigs
have succeeded in electing a majority of members
in both branches of the Legislature, and have car
ried at least FIVE, if not SIX, out of the eight
members ordongress. Although, notwithstand
ing the favorable character dt the returns which
have been received, we consider the election of
Kent, (Whig candidate for Governor,) extremely
doubtful. In the towns already heard from the
Whig gain since 1839, is 6,512.
Mr. Ogle's Speech.
We hope our readers have been carefully rea
ding the able, truth telling speech of the Hnn.
Charles Ogle, which is concluded in this week's
paper. Although of an unusual length, no ono
should become wearied in perusing it. It speaks
facts unanswerable, Wath the records before
him, and all his information coming directly from
public documents, he sends forth this expose of
tho prodigality, corruption end royalty, that is
practised by the present Administration, and in
vited a contradiction. Each voter should put
himself in possession of this speech. It is care
fully collected, almost entirely from the public
records al Washington.
Do the Laboring men, the Farmers, the indus
trious tax-paying citizen of Adams county desire
hinge? to feed up an Administration, at the head
of which is Martin Vaii Buren, who is thus squan
dering their substance, in gilded tapestry, wall
hangings, Wilton, Saxony, and Brussels carpet
ing, Tubourets, &c., &c.l
By reference to another column of this day's
paper, it will be perceived, that the County Com
. roillef, have invited the candidates and orators of
'both political parties, to attend all political meet.
Ingo, to be held until the election. This is right.
It is the true democratic system, and will have
great goad effect. When the candidates of both
parties aro present, it will prevent misrepresenta
tion, and afford to the people en opportunity of
hearing the truth, and enable thorn to make up a
correct judgment in relation to the capacity and
principles of those soliciting their suffrages,
Meeting together will have another good effect.
It will acquaint the adherents of the different Par.
ties, one with the other, and teach them that the
mass of both arc honest and patriotic. Thi■ will
soften the asperities of politics. Men will not
then look upon their neighbors as wanting in de
•otion to the interests of the country. They will
learn to tolerate a difference of opinion In politics,
withoUt loosing their respect for each other, or,
Imputing to one another improper motives.
A first thought might lead ono to suppose that
joint meetings of the different parties, would ge..
yi rate party rancor instead of Allying it. But
experience prow•• that this is not the ease. In
Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana,where
ibis system prevails, there is much less bitterness
in politics, than there is hero or in Ohio, *here the
parties meet separately. The debates ara.condoc
ted with courtesy. This must be so, or they could
not be carried on at all. Appeal is made to res.
son and not to passion; and a speaker, arhente is
in the presence of another, who is to reply to him,
will rot dare to state falsehoods, to deceive or
mislead the people. He would know that such
conduct would expose him to contempt and hit
party to defeat. He will therefore abstain from
fdlsehood, the people will learn the truth, and
the righteous cause will prevail. It is also as we
before remarked the true Democratic system, and
the people should require its adoption and we
hope they will.
The Federal Loco Foco papers endeavor to ap
ply the healing unction of .ihurntlig," •Whig
trick," and divers other soothing cognomens in
their valuable nomenelatuie, to the warnings that
the friends of Gen. Harrison have given to the
freemen of the Union upon the tendency of Mar
tin Van Buren's approved Standing Army Sys
tem. We ask the attention of every Loco Foeo,
who has been told by his party leader that we are
deluding him, and of every man who wants the
strongest evidence to convince him, to the follow
ing candid admission, by a whole toned Tory
paper, the Montreal Herald, respecting the De
mocracy and Republicanism of Mr. Van Buren-
Read it! Read it!!
"The people of the United States may
wince as much as they please, but it is not
to be cavilled at nor doubted that their des
tiny is now in the hands of the individual to
whom this article alludes.
"To the posession of the sword, President
Van Buren has now. by the independent
sub-Treasury law, added that of the purse;
and, if any further disclosures of his inten•
tions are required, look for one moment at
his recommendation to the last Congress of
a standing arms of two hundred thousand
men. flaying one-half of this disposable
(loco in constant set vice, commanded by
officers of his own creating, and himself
commander-in-chief, possessed too of a civil
bodyguard numbering forty thousand office
holders, and aided by the moneyed power,
Von Buren may laugh at his opponents, and
the result who can doubt?
"A judicious distrZbution of such a force
in what are called the Whig States will
enable the President either by votes to con
trol the elections at the polls or to e& force
obedience.
(U►nnorn
"Our republicnn neighbors, therefore,
may as well prepnre for the change, should
Van Buren be elected for the second time."
Fellow citizens! are your rights not in danger,
when your adversary warns you as Republicans
to •prepare fur a change should Van Buren be
elected for the second time," inasmuch as he (Mr.
Van Buren) intends to "enable himself, either by
votes to CONTROL the elections at the polls, or to
EN-roncr. ourtorser."l Will you slumber?—
Will you remain away from the polls' Will
you not come to the rescue of your country?—
Even the Herald stands aghast at these innova
tions, and warns the people of the designs of an
aspiring despot. Bruise! every man to the work!
and the people will triumph.
Great Meeting in Hagerstown.
Tho Meeting held at Hagerstown on Wednes
day last was indeed a mighty gathering of the
people. The number present has been variously
estimated at from 8 to 12 thousand. Williams
Price of Hagerstown, presided, assisted by a num
ber of Vico Presidents and Secretaries. The
meeting was forcibly and eloquently addressed by
Mr. Coale, one of the Electoral candidates; Mr.
Cooper, of Pennsylvania; Mr. Bradford of Balti
more; Mr. Laird, rf Georgetown; Mr. Orten, of
Indiana; Mr. Bowie, another Electoral candidate;
and Mr. W. Cost Johnson, of Frederick.
Our neighbor up street quotes from the “Magi
cinn." 'We understand that sheet furnishes news
occasionally from this latitude, which might prose
interesting to our citizens. To those to whom
the thing comes "by authority," 'it belongs to
read us Its lessons on morality, &c. approved, os
we are informed they are.
Lancaster Convention.
Dv spite the unfavorable weather, this Conven
tion is sold to have exceeded any thiugof the kind
that has ever taken place in that section of the
Union. The Adams County delegation number
ed upwards of 300.
Erie Conveation.
The following is an eztract of a letter, address-
ed to the Editor, dated,
EDlTOil—Presuming that the good Whigs
of the Southern port of the State feel no small de
gree of interest in the proceedings of their fellow
laborers in the glorious cause, that is now agita
ting the boom' s of all lovers of their country, I
have sent you a cursory nutline,of the proceedings
of the Great Harrison Convention, held in thu
place on the 10th, in commemoration of the splen
did victory achieved by our gallant Perry on that
day 191:4,
On the day previous nearly ell the delegations
froth the different Nines had arrived, and early on
the morning of the 10th the delegations from the
adjoining counties, bearing appropriate banners
and flags, beside the insignia of the various clubs
which they represented, came pouring in, in such
vast numbers that our anticipations of a large as.
senibl Igo were more than realized.
They commenced gathering at eight in the
mottling, on the diamond, in front of the Ett;ed
House, (a splendid hotel recently opened in this
place,) and at nine o'clock the procession—form
ed under the discipline of Gen. Dick of Crawford
—moved out of the square, to the place appointed
for their meeting. On reaching the ground the
Convention organized by electing for President;
the Hon. FRANCIS Gazivosa of New York, and
appointing a number of Vice Presidents and Se
cretaries. The Convention was then opened with
an eloquent and appropriate prayer by the Rev.
Mr. Lyon of this place; after which Mr. Granger
rose to address the multitude. Although laboring
under indisposition at the time, his speech was
marked with that spirit-se ig eloquence fur
which he bi so remarkable; He• was followed by
Gen. Wilson, the 'noble pon of the Granite State,'
who rivned the attention of that vast assemblme
for nearly three hours. Histruth-telling speech
was highly effective, particularly that part relative
to the tendency of the present Administratirn to
destroy the credit and energies of the country.—
He spoke at soma i kngth against the Sub Tress*,
ERIE, Sept. 13, 1890
On the 17th inst. by the Rev. 8. Gateli9a, Mr
Samuel Rhodes, to Miss Elizabeth Patterson, all
of Freedom township, Adams county.
On the 17th insf. by the Rev. B. Keller, Mr.
John Tennenl, of ibis county, to' Alias C. Miller,
of Frederick county, Md.
BUCK-EYE
1 53 / 1 1SMOSEZIT3c,
THIS distinguished Mechanic* will ad•
dress his fellow citizens of Adams County,
at Gettysburg, on Monday the 28th inst. at
1 o'clock, P. M.
07Accommodations will be provided for
all; and all of both political parties are cot.
dially invited to attend.
Sept. 22. • tit
ry, and wound up hie argumentative and conclu
sive speech amid the hearty and enthusiastic ap
plause of the thousands around him. 7Nr. Marvin
of Ohio was then introduced to the audience, who,
in his characteristic and energetic style, occupied
the attention of the people for sours time. He in
his turn was succeeded by Harmer Denny, who
gave us • speech worthy the high reputation he .
has for a public speaker. After him came Mr.
Bliss of Ohio to address the vast concourse;
which he did very 'satisfactorily, coining in the
meanwhile a new word, (which I send you for the
benefit of your political friends.) Speaking of the
present course of those who call themselves the
Democratic party, he said, .mo—l will not say
Democratic, they are Locofo.cratic." There was
much pith and humor in his speech. He was fol
lowed by several other gentlemen, ■ll of whom
spoke with much ability. The night advancing
the Convention adjourned. But in the evening
the greater part of the multitude met again at the
Whig Head Quarter; (the Reed House,) where
speeches were made till a late hour, when they
dispersed in much harmony and good feeling, each
and all fully convinced they would hail on the
fourth of March Gen. Harrison as President and
Hon. John Tyler Vice President of these United
States.
It has been impossible to make a correct esti
mate of the number of person■ present, but it is
supposed by those who are in the habit of witnes
sing crowds that there were between twenty and
twenty-five thousand. It was, not even except
ing the Fort Meigs Convention, the largest and
most imposing meeting of the kind ever remem
bered in this part of the Union. There were sev
eral military companies from Buffalo and Detroit
in attendance. The day following, being the an
niversary of McDonough's victory, it was celebra
ted by • civic and military procession. The
people still thronged in crowds without any appa
rent diminution in their numbers. The troops
and companies arrayed themselves i•En militarie,"
to perform their evolutions with the "flying
cry" which they did with wonderful skill and
rapidity.
The "Locofocratics" also held a convention on
the same day. It, as all their other maelings have
been lately, was a total failure. They numbered
somewhere between four and five thousand.
From the enthusissrn exhibited by all present
and the great turn out of New York, Pennsylva
nia, and Ohio, we feel safe in assuring our friends
at a distance, if the same exertions are continued,
they will carry these States with an overwhelming
majority. Press on then fellow Laborers! to the
brave, belongs the victory.
I feel this is an imperfect and inadequate ac
count of our Convention, but my time and space
will not admit of a more elaborate description
Excuse this hasty sketch, and believe me, though
an inefficient, yet a sincere friend of the Whig
Gil. , lx() IT nr.—the Hudson (N. Y.) Re
pub!icao says:—lt is currently reported tliat
the Hon. Aarel Vanderpoel acknowledged
a few days since to a clique of his friends
in Kinderhonk. that Mr. Van Buren could
not be re elected!
BRANDRETIIIAN SYSTEM. -If there be
any persons who honestly doubt the truth of
the Brandrethian System we would entreat
them to ponder well upon the following facts:
The food taken into the stomach is con
verted Into blood, which vitil stream, flow
ing throngh all the ramifications of the sys
tem, not only imparts strength and continues
life, but actually CB EATE3,FORMSIThd BUILDS
UP each and every parts of the animal ma
chine. If the blood, therefore, is pure and
healthy, the body which is formed &Om and
supported by the blood, cannot be diseased.
If there is a single pain or ache in any part,
it proves we have no health. Nothing can
be more absurd than to say we have "bad
health."
DR. BBANDHETO VEGETABLE UNIVER
SAL Pius enjoy the enviable distinction of
being feared and hated by the Medical Fan.
oily, because they ore destroying disease
and spreading health and consequent .hap
piness through the length and breadth of
our beloved country.
Purchase them in Gettysburg of Thos. J.
Cooper, distributing agent; dine. M. Ste
venson,
or only in the county of Agents
published in another part of this paper.
ASETIMORE PRICES CAURREMT.
From the Baltimore Patriot of Saturday last
Et.one.—We quote $5,25 as the uniform store
price to diy. and $5, as the receipt price. The
stock of all qualities of Howard at. flour in market
now is very small, and the receipts continuo very
light.
Wheat.—ln the early part of the week sales of
old Pennsylvania wheats were made at 108 a
111 c. but yesterday a parcel of prime was sold at
103 c., and one of common quality at 104 c. We
quote old Pa. wheats at 105 a 108 c.
Cola.—Sales ofyepow on Monday at 56 conta
on Wednesday at 56 a 57 cents; and to-day a
55 a 56 cts.
Rm.—Sales of M. at 80 cents. Penney Iva
nia is worth 65 cents.
t•srs.--Ssles at 26 a 27 cents, including trans
actions to day..
CLO SSSSSS D.-SOLOO parcels of LIM halm
reached ibis market, which is selling from stores
at $7 per bushel.
TIMOTHY blaso.--.New Timothy seed comes
into market slowly and is scarce. We quote the
store price at $3 to $3,50 per bushel.
FLAX SEZIP.—SeIIs from wagon■ at $l, and
from stores at $t,121.
HYRIENIAL R.EGIISTEIi.
MARRIED.
ADVERTISEMENTS
Ul2l ICIFA'ET CU 'S.
THE County Committee, hereby cordi
ally invite the friends of both candidates for
the Presidency, to nttend ell political meet
ings, which are advertized to be held, nr
which 41911 hereaft. r be advertised to be
hold during the present campaign. The
committee also respectfllly invite the can
didateti and orators of both parties to attend
and address these meetings. It is highly de
sirable that they should do so; and no man
can consistently claim the name of Democrat,
who will refuse to take the trouble of ap•
peering before the people, to make known
his views in relation to public men and
measures. The people haven right to require
to see end hear those who are to be the re
presentatives of their interests.
BY THE COMMITTEE.
September 22, ISO. to-26
$25 REWARD.
THE House of the subscriber, in Fraldin
township, was broken into on the night 0
the 14tI► inst., and robbed of a sum of n►o
noy (in silver,) the amount not exactly
known, by three villians who it is supposed
had blackened their faces, to escape deter•
tion. The above reward will be given for
the apprehension and ennvictrn►i of the
robbers. HEN RY GROVE.
September 22, 1840. - 3t-26
NEW PALL AND
wiltiNtimm oaameg
Thomas 3. Coo-vex,
HAS just received a new assortment o
Goods, consisting of
Cloths nfdtlPrent colors, Cassimere, Cassi
nett, Kentucky
. Jeans, Meriunes, Bornsn
=es, Silk and Velencia Vestings, Meri•
no Thtbit and Persian Show!s,Spit I !afield
and Bandano Handkerchiefs, Flannels,
Senrlet red, Yellow and White Canton
;Flannels, Comforts, Checks, Tickings,
Cotton stripes Muslins. Calicoes, Cover
lit and Cotton Yarns, Cotton Laps, &c.,
&c.—Ar.so—
Hardware, Queensware,,
GROCERIES, SHOES, &c
All of which will be sold low to suit the
hard times. The highest prices will be
paid for produce.
September 22, 1840
d -r‘.l 1 2 DI g
attend, to 'jour Intexestkt
THE subscriber respectfully informs the
pi hlie, and the Farmers particularly, that
h has ready for delivery his
Improved Two Horse -
THRASHING MACHINES;
Oie ni which is now in the possession el
Mi. Abraham Fisher, residing in Menallen
trlimship; Adams County, Pa. Messrs.
FisheOindTorney having !Indy trsie.d the
utilitytif this Machine; furnish the following
Ccrtificnie:—
CERTIFICATE.- - -We certify, that we
have in use one of Mr. S. 11. LITTLE'S
PATENT
. 1-101f,SE PO %V E It 6" and b
lieie it to be decidedly superior to nnything
atilt) kind we have ever seen. From the
snail degree of:friction and the rapidity of
motion, Iwo horses haw) thrashed at the
rav - of two hundred dozen a day, %%ilk the
grtatest ease, and withnut Injury to the
grain. ABRAHAM
.11S;HER.
DANIEL FORNEY.
kienollen township, Sept. 5, 1840.
WE. the undersigned, do hereby certify
ant we have seen one of S. 11. Little's
Ten Horse Patent Portable Thrashing Ma
chne nt use and can assure the Farmers
and the Public that it is worthy of the
highest praise and patronage, as two horses
car do the work of four with more ease and
less hands. It saves one half the labour
andperforms the work io the host manner
postible. It possesses a decided advantage
over any other machine, being less liable to
got out of order, and easily to he removed.
Tosee it in operation is sufficient to satisfy
any one of-its weal utility and the propriety
of our statement.
George Smvser,
David Ziegler,
C. Btirluchy,
John Barret, Robert King,
IVillinin M'Clellan, Joel B. Danner,
A. B. Kurtz, S. It. Rußsell,
Wm . Taughinbaugh, John Gilbert,
Jesse AshbauLth, Mickel Rupp,
John 13. %I'Pherson, James C. Watson,
Daniel Culp,
John Hamilton,
C. Stout,
D. Horner,
J. White, (Freedom) H. Aughmbaugh,
David Troxel, Jr. Joseph Little,
Amos Maginly,
David M'illardie,
Quintin Armstrong, Barnhart Gilbert.
Farmera who have been waiting for
something better than heretoforb offered (nn
sale, will find this to be the article. Come
see it, gentlemen, and judge for yourselves.
S. 11. LITTLE.
Gettysburg, Sept. 22, 1840. tf-26
NOTICE.
AHARRISON pole and fl ag will be raised
in Petersburg, (Y. S.) on Saturday
the 2(itli inst. The Senatorial candidates
Of both parties; the county candidates or
both tickets, and the public are invited t,
attend. Several distinguished Speakers will
address the people present.
JOSEPH TAYLOR,
THOMAS S'IsEPHENS,
Committee of Corretfiendenee.
September'22, 1840. . td-26
. FOR %MUIR
AT the Gettysburg Foundry Opplt
Mills a very superior kind.—Al
sek:Corn a nd .Piaster Minx.
GEO. ARNOLD.
September 1,1840. 4t-28
Min F. M'Fnrlane,
Wm. N. Irvine,
W Winn) Settle,
Geo. C. Strielthouser,
S. S. King.
John M. Stevenson,
Benj. Lefever,
James D. Paxton,
John Scott,
in Harrisburg, where he keeps constantly on
itand a good assiotment of FRENCH BURR
BLOCKS Of a very superior quality, which he
is prepared to manufacture to order, on fa
vorable teems and cheaper than the same
quality of French Burrs can be had at any
other place in the United States, and will
warrant them equal in quality to,any that
ran be made in America.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
WATIERI kTERI.I
A N adjourned meeting of the citizens of
the Borough of Gettysburg, will be
held THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, at
the Court house, to take into consideration
the propriety of supplying the town with
water. By order of
THE COMMITTEE.
September 22, 1840. tin-26
CERTIFICATES OF AGENCY FOR THE SALE OF
331114117),RMT1t
'Vegetable' Universal Pills
are held in Adams county by the following
ogonts:
Tilos. J. COOPER &
Gettysburg.
JNo. M. STEVENSON,
Abraham King, Hunteratown.
Ickes & Bridges, Petersburg.
Win. Hildebrand, East Berlin.
Cook & Tudor, Hampton.
A. S. E. Duncan, enslitown. •
Nl'Sherry & Fink, Littlestown.
A. MTarbiLd, Abbonstown.
IL W. Slagle, Oxford.
M. Lawyer, Fairfield.
As pills, purporting to he mine and put up
in imitation, aro vended in various quarters
prrjudicinl to health of those who use them,
it is but just to worn the public against pur
chasing of any but such as are the avowed
anti nahorized agents. By so doing they
will be secured aoiiinst deception.
B. BRANDREIII, M. D.
&Timber 22, 1 8 40. Iy-26
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS.
T HE Democratic citizens of Adams
county n►e Tequested to meet et the
house of John Green in Caslitown, Frank
lin Township, en Friday the 251/i of Sep
tembe• inst. nt 2 o'clock P. M. to consult on
the state of the country, and to take mea
sures for its deliverance, by the election of
Harrison and Tyler. Persona from nil parts
of the county aro invited to - attend. The
meeting will be addressed by several gen
tlemen.
r E D 0 .
THE Democrats of Adatnscounty,fiiend
lv to Harrison and Tyler, and in favor of
tryin ,, the effects of a•change of adnunis•
trillion, in curing the evils.under which the
country groans, will meet nt the public
house of Peter 'Moritz, in Freedom town•
ship, on Saturday the 26ik - of 6'lp/ember
inst. at 2 o'clock P. M. All persons are
respectfully ir.vited to attend. Addresses
will be delivered.
E N rav
TIIE Democrats of Adams county are
requested to meet at the public house of
Capt. John Burkholder, in MenaHen town
ship, on ~.aturduy the ad of October next,
at 1 o'clock I'. M. to take measures for the
deliverance of the country, arid to promote
the election of Harrison and Tyler. All
persons are invited to attend. There will
ho several addresses.
September 15, 1840.
FEMALES who are troubled with sick
headache, pain in the side, breast and
hack, loss of appetite, flatulency, lowness of
spirits, palpitation of the heart, faintiugs or
giddiness, sickness at the stoma, billions
affections, tightness at the chest, nausea,
vomiting, noisa in the stomach, flushings of
heat and chilliness, diseases of the nerves
and organs ofdieestien &c. &c.; those who
may he thus affected should not neglect to
procure Dr. Harlich's Compound Strength
ening Tonic, and Geeman Apperient Pills,
which are warranted to give immediate re
lief. Thousands do we almost daily behold,
whose countenance and pale emaciated
cheeks bear occular witness to sickncas and
affliction. Could those persons ho persua
ded to use this invaluable medicine, they
would soon find their weak and debilitated
frame strergthened, their minds composed,
and all pain and distress driven from the
system, when the body will again renew its
lost vigor and put on a "new life," and death
fora while be deprived of its prey. What
heart but feels glad to behold their near rel.
atives and dear friends snatched as if by
magic from that fetal destroyeuDeath- 4 ye
who are laboring under disease•let not ono.
ther day or night pass without procuring
this medicine as it will in a majority of ca.
ees effect a permanent cure. Remember,
delays are dangerous; and if diseas si
neglected, its ravished will doubly increase.
For sale, in Gottysburt', at the Drug
Store of S. S, FORNEY, Agent.
September 1, 1840 ot-23
HARRISBURG
rnEmnic BURR MILL STONE
51.4.:N1TF A.CT 4) TOL.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the
►tillers and Millwriglis, and the trade in
general, that he still continues to rnanufac-
riVeiCh null* ✓3Mill Stones.
The subscriber will, if desired, deliver
?urn at any given point along the Canals
it Railroads, at his own risk.
.L . Orders by mail will meet the same
'rompt attention as if personal application is
iiade.
W. IL KEPNER.
July 28,1840. [Her. Int.] Bns-18
MA NY.
MANY VOTERS.
MANY.
Nn-25
across the Great Conowago creek, on the
Pine Grove road leading from Hunteratown
to Latehaw's Mill, of the following dinien.
sioris, to wit: The length from one abut.
ment to the other feet.span, and of single
arch; 16 feet wide in the clear, end the
abutments to be 8 feet thick and 21 feet
wide and 8 feet high from low water mark,
where the Bridge crosees the stream; wing
walls on the north side to be 24 feet long,
and on the south side to be 16 feet long ex
clusive of .the abuttments; the wing walls
to ho Si feet thick at the bottom, and 2 feet
on the top; wing walls to be 3 feet higher
than the filling up, and to be under a good
parpet covering of white pine boards of et
least 1 inch in thickness, and well painted
with red paint: the abutments and wing
walls to be built on rocks, or otherwise on
good solid foundations; the Bridge to be
12} feet high from the floor to the square;
the sides and parts of the ends to be weath
er-boarded with white pine boards, well plai
ned and painted, the sides a good Venitian
red, and the gables white; the arch to be
planked with white pine planks 2 inches
thick, and on the top with 2 inch oak plank,
to extend the full breadth of the Bridge;
lower planks to be pinned, and the whole to
be covered with white pine shingles; the
wood work to be built of good and substan.
tial timber; and the stone work of large
and good atones, lime, and sand mortar, and
to be well pointed; the roofing of the Bridge
to extend over both abutments; the Bridge,
to be built on the same plan, as the Bridge
over Great Conowaeo creek, near Martin
Byers' clover mill, in :Mennen; the space
between the wing walls and abutments to
be filled up, so as to have a gradual assent
running on to tho Bridge not to exceed 5
degrees elevation from the road to the
Bridge; the Bridge in the inside to be
weather-bearded 2i feet high from the
floor with boards 1 inch thick.
The party contracting for .building said
Bridge, to give security to double the
amount of the contract, for the faithful per
formance of the workmanship, and perma
nency of said Bridge.
By order of the Commissioners,
H. J. SCHREINER, Clerk.
Commissioner's Office,
Sept. 15, 1840. 5
THE Pamphlet Liws passed the lest sea
sum of tho Legiglattire of PrOnsylvania.
have .been received nt this Office. and
are reudy .for thstribution to those entitled
by law to receive them. -•
. ' A MOS .31 A GIN LY, Prodey.
Prothonotary's Office, Got- 2 .
tyaburir, Sept. R, 4410.
ADVERIISEMENTS
OOUNTT APPEALS.
1 N pursuance or an Act of the General
Assembly of Ponnsylvntirs, approved the
15th day cfAnril, A. I). 1 Eith4, entitled 'An
Act rehiring to County Roes and L.! , vies,'
the iindersiwned, 03,1416mo:iris of Adams
Comity, will proceed mid attend to hear Ap
peals, fir the several viwi , 41 , 11 , i, from ail
persons who may apply for redress, in ac
cordance with the directions of said tic'.
and will grant /tech relief end mice sorb
corrections as to them shell appear jam( and
reasonabld The Boards of Appeal will be
held in the following order, at whieh tunes
nod places the several Assessors will attend
for their respectiVe Townships, %Ix:—
For the Townships of Hamiltoohan, Li!t
erty and Freedom, on Monday the rith,day
of October next, at the house.of Isaac Rob
inson, in Millerstown.
For the Townships of Straban, and Cum.
berland, and the Borough of Gettysburg, on
1 uesday the 6th cloy of October next, at
the Commissioners, Office in Gettysburg.
Fur the Townships of Germany, Monht
joy and Conowago, on Wednesday the 7th .
day of October next, at the house of James
Davis, in Littlestown.
For the Townships of Berwick, Mount
pleasant, and Hamilton, on Thursday the
Sth day of October next, at the house of
John Miley, in Oxford.
For .1 he Townships of Reading, Hunting.
ton and Latimore, on Friday the tub day
of October next, at thil house of Moses My
ers, in Plersburg.
Fur the Townships of Menallen, Frank
lin and Tyrone, on Saturday the 10th day
of October next, at Burkholder's Tavern.
in Menallen Township.
The Cummissioners. for the information
' of all interested, make know that by an Act
of Assembly afbtesaid, the Commissioners
are bound not to.'make any allowance, or
abatement in the valuation of any real es
tate, in any other year than that in which
'the triennial assessment, is made, excepi ing
where buildings or . other improvements
have been destroyed, substquently to such
triennial assessment, and in cases of person.
al property, offices, professions, trades and
occupations, where there has been any nl
[orations writhe assessment, occasioning a
different valuation from the former year,
and also where persons have come to in•
habit in the county since such, triennial as
eminent," and that no notice in the two
years succeeding the triennial assessment
is to be given td the taxable inhabitants a 7
foresaid, but in the latter recited cases only.
WILLIAM REX, LI
DANIEL DIEHL,
JOSEPH J. KUHN, U .
A nest —H. J. SCHREINER, Clerk.
Commissioners' Office, Gettys
burg, Sept. 15, 1840.
NOTICE TO
c I3II,IIDOE BITIZZIERS.
EA LED PROPOSALS will be receiv.
eJ by the Commissioners of Adams
county, at the house of PETER Lairs§rAw,
on Monday the 12th day of October-, be
tween the hours of 9 o'clock A. M..and2
o'clock P. M. for the erection of a gocd and
substantial
WOODEN BRIDGE
LA WS