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Ftem the Meadville Conservative
Ittecarras Versas.—We call the serious
attention ofevery one Who values true free
dom, to the affidavit of Messrs. Lane and
Hamilton, given below. They are both re
spectable citizens of this place. The facts
set forth in their affidavit show an extraor
dinary state of things: such as should alarm
the friends cif liberty. They are indicative
of that despotism which is sought to be fas
tened on the freemen of this country. by en
unprincipled set of men who are now at the
head of affairs in the general Government•
On Wednesday last, Oct. 14th. 1840.
three men called at the Grocery of I. Lane,
in Meadville, to purchase refreahments.—
One of us had a slight acquaintance with
ooe of them and a conversation was corn
tnenced about the election, &c. The name
of the individual was Robert White. He
stated that a company of about twenty-four
from Clarion and Venango, had gone up to
Erie ten days before the election. One of
us asked him if they had all voted. He re
plied that the) did with HARD SWEAR
ING. The queatton was asked if all who
voted were legal voters, and he answered
that th re was a number of illegal votes
given—one he specified, a young man only
16 years of age. He thought his name
was Morrison, who swore in his vote and
the Bose, who had only beau eight days on
the jab, swore that he was a voter accord.
ing to law. The of the election in
Girard, (it was there they voted) he said,
swore them that they came there to work.
but he thought that was not a fair question;
Ain he stated they swore they did. The
name ofthe Boss he did not recollect, but he
was from Pittsburg. He, the said White,
informed us that his company were all paid
one dollar a day and expenses, and showed
us an order, signed by G. Nagle & Co.,
which was to be presented to the Boss, from
whom they drew their pay and expenses.—
He said they, (his company) arrived upon
the job just ten days before the election, that
they were fourteen days from home, and
were now returning, and were Van Buren
and Planter men.
E. B. LANE,
WM. P. HAMILTON.
Personally appeared before me, one of
the Justice of the Peace in and for the coun
ty of Crawford, Ebenezer B. Lane, and
Wm. P. Hamilton, who being duly sworn
according to law, do say that the above
statement is true and correct.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 15th
of Oct. A. D. 1840.
W. W. DICK, J. P.
THE WAV THEY CROW IN GEORGIA.--
Ttii3 editor of the Newaand Gazette publish
ed at Washington, Ga., exults over the re•
suit of the recent contest in that State, in
the following manner:
"Don't talk to us about your One hundred
or yam. Ten thousand guns—all the powder
magazines in the world could not furnish
priming for the guns that ought to be fired
to celebrate the people's victory in Georgia,
and a million of such us that Turkish one
which was so big that a family of twenty
one persons lived in it conif‘rtablv (using
the tour Wild for a chimney) couldn't speak
loud enough to expiess the joy of the Her
rison party at -the glorious triumph: they
have achieXed. Somebodyloan us a volca
no or a full grown earthquake, perhaps they
might do and we will promise not to let
&bailie till atter the 2d of November; then
bees hold on to your hair."
MOOSE KILLED. -A largo moose was
shot at Tatmogouche Settlement, New
Brunswick; its length from the back part
of the head to the rump, was nine feet; its
height from the ground to the top of the
antlers eleven feet. It weighed when skin
ned and dressed 700 lbs. It has been
observed about the vicinity of the settlers.
It is supposed to have been the same Moose
that made its appearance about 12 months
since in the Middle Settlement, and killed
an et, and was shot by the owner of the
animal—as on opening it a ball was found
in its neck The inhabitants, we are told
have been feasting on Moose meat ever
since.
NEW JERSEY.—The message of Govern
or Pennington, in speaking of the fiscal con
cerns of that State, says that the ordinary
expenses of the government last year were
less,by $lO,OOO, than in the preceding year,
owing, to part, to the short sessions of the
Legislature. After deducting $30,000
(the annual disbursement from the School
Fund,) there remains $320,000. The State
is free from debt, excepting a small sum due
the School Fund, and has no bonds in the
(market. The number of lunatics in the
State is 938, and of idiots there are 358.
The number was ascertained with reference
to the establishment of a Lunatic Hospital.
The State supports fifteen deaf and dumb
and nine blind in the institutions of New
'York and Philadelphia. The Governor
suggests the propriety of an agricultural
survey, and thinks that imprisonment for
debt should be abolished.
From the New Orleans Picayune of 30th.
A ROYAL CONFLAGRATION.—The Em
press and the Monarch, two majestic boats,
were completely demolished by fire upon
the river early yesterday morning. The
Empress was up for St Louis, and would
have left et meridian on Wednesday but for
the violent rain storm which prevailed at
that time. Between three and four o'clock
yesterday morning she was discovered to
be on fire, but so rapid was the progress of
the flames that all efforts to check the
conftsgration proved , unavailing. There
being no possibility of saving the boat, and
her presence placing the other boats in
manifest danger, she was at length cut louse
and aufrared to float off into the stream.—
This produced a singularly novel and mag
nificent spectacle, for those who lett their
beds sought the Levee at the sound of the
fire bells The blazing boat, one sheet of
flame from stem to stern, fell off info . the
current, illuminating the vessels gild houses
along the Levee, spreading a broad glare of
red around the sky and lighting VA, deep
Mississippi with the long quiiering raflec
lion of her flames.. •
She floated almost directly across the
river touching the opposite shore at Slaugh•
ter house Point, and communicating her fire
to the Monarch, which was there at the
shipyard, undergoing repairs. Both the
doomed vessels were from there owned out
in the stream by a ferry boat and cast loose
from whence they floated down the river,
and the hulks sank in fifteen feet water some
six or seven miles below the city.
The Empress was owned principally in
Frankfort, (Ky.) and partly in St. Louis.—
She was commanded by Capt. Bacon, who
never left the blazing vessel until eho was
cast loose by the ferry boat and actually
sinking. It is possible that the fire of the
Empress might have been quenched on this
side, but the risk to the adjoining boats
was so great that the other crews cut ' her
loose. The loss of the boat and cargo,
which was principally salt, as estimated at
830,000.
The Monarch was valued et 840,000
upon which there was insurance to the
amount of 25,000.
OUR NATIONAL DEBT.—According to
rho Secretary of the Treasury,our National
Debt, on the first of October last, amounted
to 94,580,589. When investigations aro
properly made, it will be found more than
ten times this acknowledged sum.
OPERATION FOR SQUINT/NO•-•—Thile deli
cate operation was successfully, performed
on a young lady on Saturday last in the
presence of Drs. Wilkes Coxe and Hosack
by Dr. Cernochan of this city, the operation
consisted in dividing the interne/rectos
muscle of the eye, a. contracted state of
which produces the deformity: The divi
sing' of the muscle was no sooner made than
the eye took a straight and proper position
in the socket and the patient's expression
was immediately and favorably changed.—
Dr. C. had also operated with success for
club foot in the adult. This gentleman
merits high praise for his dexterity.— U. A S
Gazette.
CAUSES OF DEATH AMONGST WOMAN.
The highest morality of English women by
consumption may be ascribed partly to the
indoor life which they lead, and partly to
the compression, preventing the expansion
of the chest, by costume. In both ways
they aro deprived of free draughts of vital
air, and the altered blood deposits tubercu
lous matter with a fatal, unnatural facility.
31 090. English woman died in one year of
this incurable malady. W ill not this im
pressive fact induce portions of milk and in.
fluence to set their countrywoman right in
the articles of dress, and lead them to aban.
don a practice which disfigures the body,
~tiangles the chest, produces nervous or
oilier disorders, and has an unquestionable
tendency to implant an incurable hectic mai.
ady in the frame! Girls have no more
need of artificial bones and bandages than
boys.—English Registrar General's Re-
I port.
A tailor, at Brussels, has taken out a
patent of invention for ten years, for a new
make of pantaloons, by'which buttons and
Jcourse button-holes, are entirely dispen
sed with. These pantaloons without but
tons, it is said, are as easily adjusted, and
kept up, as those of the ordinary make.
SURGICAL.--We learn from the Lafayet
te Gazette of yesterday that, on Sunday
last, Dr. Luzenburg, of this city, operated
on a littlegirl nine years of age,. who was
suffering front a large cancerous tumor of
the eye. The whole eye, says the Gazette,
was completely disorganized, and scarcely
a vestige of it remained. The tumor was
exceedingly large, projecting from the
socket about three inches, and extending
latterally so as to cover one side of the nose
and on the opposite side beyond the line of
the face. The operation was performed
successfully, in the presence of several em
inent physicians of the city, by Dr. L., and
we have since learned that the little patient
is remarkably well. The tumor, when
removed, weighed five and a halfounces.—
N. 0. Picayune.
51EXIC0.—Our Havana papers contain
Mexican dates to a week or two into Octo.
ben We learn from Vora Cruz, that the
British Minister had made repeated corn.
plaints as to the delay of the government,
(probably in regard to the Imprisonment of
tncn in California, and the internal duty,)
and that unless a reply was made in a given
time, he should demand his passport.
This important step was said to have
occasioned a great sensation among the
reflecting people. So much so, that a
petition was immediately presented to Con
gress on the subject; and a secret session of
the Chamber of Deputies was held In conse•
quence; and the Mexican paper observes,
that a great many persons are dissatisfied
at the result of their deliberation.
TORASCO.-It is slated that an iniqutious
act in Tobacco, has reduced a considerable
part of the capital of that department to
ashes, and reduced a great part of the in-
habitants to poverty and wretchedness.—
N. 0. Bulletin-
ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRE
SIDENT.—The following extract from the
amendments of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States shows the mode of procedure in
the election of Pres!dent:
The electors shall meet in their respec.
rive states, and vole by ballot for President
and Vice President, one of whom at least
shall be an inhabitant of the same state with
themselves; they shall name in their ballots
the pardons voted for as President, and in
distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice
President; and they shall make distinct lists
of all personeyoted for, as President, and
tar all persons voted for as Vice President,
and of the number of votes for each, which
list they shall sign and certify, and transmit
sealed 101 the seat of the government of the
United States, directed to the president of
the Senate; the president of the Senate
shall, in the' presence of the Senate and
House of Rspresentatives,open all the certif
icates, and the votes shall then be counted
—the person having the greatest number
of votes for President shall be President, if
such number be a majority of the whole
number of ellctors appointed; and if no per
son have such a majority, then from the
person having the highest number, not.ex
ceediog three, on the list of those voted for
as President, the House of Representatives
shall choose immediately, by ballot, the
President. But on choosing the President,
the vote shall be taken by states, the rep
resentation from each state having one vote;
11:quorum for this purpose shall consist of a
member or members from two thirds of the
states, and the majority of all the states will
be entitled to a choice. And if the House
of Representatives shall not choose a Presi-
dent whenever the right of choice shall de
volve upon them; before the fourth day of
March next (Wowing, then the Vice Presi
dent shall act as President, as in the case of
the death or other constitutional disability
of the President.
ONE CAUBS OF DEFEAT.—The complete
union of Van Burenism with the agrarian
and ivhdel faction, of which the head is in
the city of New York, has undoubtedly been
one cause of its defeat. Defeated it would
at all events have been, on the general mer•
its of the question between the people and
the spoilers—between the friends and the
enemies of well ordered government. But
its route would not and could not have been
so thorough and complete—Nan Burenism
would not have been so wholly used up, in
its contest with the people, had it not been
for identifying itself with that boasted 6.knot
of the true democracy"—but more truly
known as the apostles of infidelity, in- New
York. Without question, this unholy alli
ance—this throwing himself into the arms
oLthu agrarian and infidel faction in that
citl—so revolting to the moral sense of the
country—cost Martin Van Buren many
thousand votes. !f the ill maned alliance
brought him hundreds in tho city, it cost
him thousands elsewhere. And thus may
it ever be. Such judgment, by the sound•
hearted, law-abiding. real people, we hope
and trust, will ever be visited upon such a
base bowing of the knee, by those in power,
to such revolting factions!
That our readers may know with some
precision what manner of men these lac
tionists are, who have been pronounced by
the Van Buren Quarterly a "little, knot of
true democrats, in New York city," we
copy the following from the Now York Ex
press of Monday. The bear 'reading is
enough to make one shudder; yet the pub
lishing seems in this case to become a duty
—for the whole truth should be known.—
Read, Needs of order, of religion and law,
and then say whether it is not well, that the
allies of such a faction are ejected from
power.—Baltimore Patriot.
THE MEN WE HAVE PUT DOWN.--As
the First Ward Poll was closing on the day
of our Election, there were several- of the
so called Spartan Band hanging about, one
of whom cried nut—
" Three cheers for Richterd M Johnson."
which were loudly given. Another then
cried out. '
' "Three cheers for Martin Van Buren,"
which were also as loudly given. Another
then cried out,— "''Three cheers for
Jesus Christ!"
which were given more loudly then ever,
when• the Party dispersed, after 'giving
'•three cheers for the Spartan Band."
Of those facts, there is not the least doubt,
and they can be substantiated by a great
many witnesses.
MELANCHOLY DEATlL—ORleellay af
ternoon the 3d instant, as Mr. DANIEL
KLINEPETER was returning from Milford
with a load of chop-stuff, at which place he
had taken some liquor, he fell off his horse,
and the wagon passed over his.head. lie
survived but three hours, all the time totally
insensible lie was a young man of fair
promise. But alas! the inebriating draught
of friendship put a premature end to his so
journ on earth. He had fallen off his horse
several times, and some friends endeavored
to persuade him to tarry until he should be
in a situation to take care of himself; but he
declared his ability to drive the team. His
awful death was the consequence! The ac
cident occurred a few rods from M r. (hunt's
school house, on the Middle ridge, in Juni.
ata township.—Bl omfield Pa. Freeman.
From the Savannah Republican
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM FLORIDA.
—The steamer Charleston, Capt. Ritcher,
arrived here yesterday from Black Creek.
Captain.B. informs us that a report reached
Garey's, Ferry, before he left, that on Sat
urday last, Lieut. Judd and four soldiers
were supposed to have been killed by the
Indians, near St. Augustine. A dismissed
soldier who came into St. Augustine, states
that he was ahead of the above named par.
ty, and hoard the reports of the rifles, and
saw Lieut. J. and the soldiers fall from
their horses. From the . fact that nothing
has since been heard from them, it is to be
feared that the report may prove true.
Extract of a letter to the Editors of the Re
publican received from an officer of the
Florida Army.
PILATKA, Nov. 1, 1840.
By last night's express, I am enabled to
give you the results of the conference of the
Indians with General Armistead at Tampa
Bay.
Halleck Tustenngga, Tiger Tail, and six
others, came in at the appointed time, and
among other things agreed to meet the
General with 300 of their people at Fort
King on the 7th inst for the purpose of fur
ther negotiations. It is expected that the
two Chiefs named, will proceed to Wash•
ington, and visit the President in propria
persona.
If they should deem it their interest to
c ome in good "faith, it may end.the
. war, as
they probably have it in their power to dic
tate terms of peace; but I opine . that it the
war is ended only upon the good faith of the
ludtaos, it will last forever and a day.—
They are like &gland on the boundaiy
question: they will; appoint conimitsioners
and negociate until domisd iy—and until
doomsday hold on to the country.
Cul. Worth, the gallant commander of
the "Republic's own." with tivo conipanii•e,
left here a few days since for Fort King.
where he will meet the balance (8 cornea
Mee) of his regiment.
KrWe are happy to learn by tile arri
val yesterday of an Placer of the arm:
from Florida, that the report of Lieuteniiii
Jurm's death, announced in our paper yes.
tardily, is incorrect. Lieut J was in ad
vance of his escort, and being dressed in
citizen's clothes was not fired upon. The
Sergeant who accompanied him was killed,
and two or three of his men wounded.
Great hopes are entertained by many of
the officers of the Florida army. that the
negotiations now pending. may result in a
close of the war.
THE FOLD GUARD."—The following well
merited tribute to the sound and healthful,
and true.hearted county of Lancaster Pa.,
often termed the '•Old Guard," is from the
Philadelphia U. S. Gazette:
LANCASTER.—We shall scarcely sea a
Lancaster countryman for a year to come
without a feeling of gratitude for the glori•
ous results on Friday last. Even a Van
Buren man of thug county may claim con
sideration because his party did no worse.
But the Harrison boys must be cheered
wherever found. Such a majority under
such circumstances deserves all gratitude.
The Whigs to Pennsylvania, in every coun
ty thus far heard from, have done their
duty like men. Overpowered in some pla
ces, they have at least stood firm, while
holding more vantage ground in other pin•
ces, they have gained imperishable laurels.
MARCH OF MIND.—We have received
from Lowell the first number of a neatly
printed periodical, entitled "The Lowell
Offering," the whole of which was written
by females employed in the factories. The
Schoolmaster is abroad with a vengeance•
The articles'are mostly well written, and
combine the gay with the grave. •
WINTER PROTECTION OF PLANTS.—The
best article with which to cover grape vines
and 'other tender plants, as a protection du
ring winter, is hemlock boughs. These
are compact, shed the water and are dura
ble. Straw, on the contrary, which is corn
monly used, collects and retains the wet,
and oftentimes does more hurt than good.
Pieces of board, thrown over plants, are bet
ter than hills of manure or straw placed as
a covering; It is not so much the cold at
our winters that destroys tender roots, as
the wet that is suffered to freeze into ice
about them.
Hemlock boughs, too, are an excellent
thing with which to cover potatoes, dm., in
the cellars that are liable to frost.—Marne
Cultivator.
THE NEW GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.—
The new edifices at Washington, for difl'or.
out departments of the Government, will
constitute additional ornament') to the capi
tol of the United - States. The Treasury
building, of freestone, is about 300 'feet in
length. with a wing in the rear 100 feet
king. It . has a superb colonado in trout,
comprising 32 gigantic pillars.
The new Patent Office 'is a superb pile
of architectural taste and skill. It is built
I of a like material with The Treasur) depart
ment: is about 260 feet in length and 70 in
width. The second story, consisting of one
room 250 by 70 feet. canopied and surroun
ded by magnificent arches and alcoves, is
designed as the future depository of patents
The General Post Office is a structure
200 feet long, with two wings, and is to ht.
three stories high. It will be decorated in
front and at the ends with fluted marble
columns, which are exceedingly graceful.
A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.-Tho follow
ing passage is from Mr. Webster's speeeh in
Virginia: "And I cannot find a deeper or
more fervent sentiment in my heart, or in
the heart of any man, than these institutions
—that our glorious form of government,
w.th all the countless blessings that are at
tached thereto, may be transmitted unim
paired to our remotest posterity—to termi
nate only when all human institutions ter.
minate—when the world itself shall termi
nate—
Whenwrept in fire, the realms of ether glow,
And heaven's last' thunders shake the world
below." •
FATAL AFFRAY.-.—We are called ufton to
record one of the moat painful events which
which has ever transpired within our city
or county. A few'daya since and our fel
lowcitizen Dr. VANS M. SULIVANE, for
merly of Cambridge, Md. but for the last 7
years a resident of this county, was in the
enjoyment of the best of health and the most
buoyant spirits. And now, he is the inmate
of the cold charnel house of the dead.
On Wednesday morning last, while Dr.
S. was in the store-room of Medbrs. Taylor
and Ballard, he met with Dr. B. W. MORE.
HEAD, 01 this place, and an altercation en
sued. Dr. B. was first stabbed severely in
the right aide with a paw knife—two oth.
er deep and horrible gashes wore then inflic
ted upon hid throat and neck which entirely
severed the jugular vein, 'and he bled to
death in less than two minutes.
Various and contradictory reports are
afloat as to the quarrel and unfortunate
death, but as the thing is now undergoing
a judicial investigation at Port Gibson, we
forbear all further remarks.—Grond Gulf
(Miss.) Advertiser, Oct. 16.
HINTS FOR RAILWAY TRAVELLERS
1. If you love comfort and safety, never
travel by night.
2. Always arrive at the depot at least
twenty minutes before the time. You can
then choose your seat, and make at leisure,
any other arrangements as may be necea
awry.
N. Occupy the seat near the centre of
the centre division of the centre car of the
train. The motion is les4 in that situation;
4nd 'you cannot thrust your head or arms
out of the window. Besides if the car is
capsized, or uu►Rrwise demolished, you will
1101 he so liable to be cut by the glass—and
it is not quite cerium that will be "literally
•mashed to pieces "
4. Never go by the firs! morning train,
when there is a second. If there is any oh
-traction—Or if any embankment lias been
v:►ahed away in the night, the
_fire train
,vill discover it, perhaps to its sorrow.
5. Never quit your seat, or car, when
making a temporary stop, unless it is abso
lutely necessary—tor the engineer waits
for no man—and a person seldom looks so
awkward or feels so foolish as when chasing
a •ail road train.
O. Never get in or get out of the cars
while the train is in motion, however slow.
7. Never smoke, or chum tobacco, or
sleep in the cars.
8. At the first notice you have of the
train's running o 6 the truck, or coming in
to a collision with another train of curs,
throw yourself suddenly into a heap, re•
sembling as much as possible a sphere—
curtail your legs and: arms, instead of ex•
tending them, as is too often the case—and
await with patience and philosophy the re
sult. It is, however, often the case that
effect treads so closely on the cause, that
no time is IA to assume an attitude, there.
foie it may be advisable to be prepared for
the worst the whole time, albeit the posture
may be somewhat inconvenient.
THE REHAINS OF NAPOLEON.—The ex•
pense oftransporting the Emperor's remains
from CotirbevMe to the Motel des lovafides
is estimated at several millions of francs.--
immense preparations are on foot. The
vessel carrying the coffin will arrive at
Courbevoie. A triumphal arch will be
there erected io receive the imperial re
mains, and this ceremony will take place
with the utmost pomp. The cortege will
enter Paris by the Barriers de l'Etuile and
the Champs •Elysees. Benches will be
erected on the line of passage, right and
left, and covered with magnificent drape
ries. In front albeit Invalides, a new road
will be opened to receive the procession,
and for this purpose a number of trees will
come down. To aid the perspective a fly
ing bridge will be constructed, and will of
terwards be taken down. The immense*
Court of the Invelides will be entirely cov•
ered, and hung with velvet of a violet color
(the characteristic hue of royal mourning )
and wi:l likewise be transformed by the aid
of a vast number of wax•lights into an enor
mous chapelle ardent. 24 white horses
of an excellent breed have been impbrted
from Germany, and by these the hearse will
be drawn.
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MODE t F MAKING SHEET LEAD IN CIII
NA.--The Chinese, in manufacturing the
thin sheet lead in which their teas are im
ported into this country, conduct their ope
ration in an exceeding simple manner.—
The !amine is not rolled, as, from their. ex
treme thinness, might lid' irepliosedrriot
even hammered, as the appe'arrince of the
surface might indicate, but actually cast at
once into the state in which wo see them.
Two men are employed; one of then► is
seated on the floor, with a large flat stone
standing ,at his side; hts fellow workman
stands beside him with a crucible contain
ing the melted lead; and having poured a
sufficient quantity on the slab, the other fins
the moveable stone, and placing it suddenly
on the fluid lead, presses it out into a flat
and thin plate, which tie instantly removes
from the stone. A second quantity of lead
is poured out in a similar mariner, and a
similar plate formed—the process being
carried on with singular rapidity. The
rough edges of the plate are then cut off;
and they are afterwards soldered together
for use. Mr. Waddell, a Scotchman, who
witnessed the operation in China, applied a
similar method with great success in the
formation of plates of zinc, for galvanic
purposes.
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Summar. OPERATlON•—Yesterday shout
noon, Doctor Duffle, assisted by Doctors
Condie and Duval, pet formed a difficult op.
eration oo an aneurism of the artery of the
ham. It was finished in fourteen minutes
-TO person operated upon is a young lady
resting in Eight near South street. The
enormous tumour extracted filled the whole
space back of the knee. It throbbed vio
lently the whole time, threatening every
instant to burst, a calam;ty which would
have inevitably occasioned the death of the
patient. At the close of the operation, the
beating ceased instantly. This we are told
is one of the most critical operations known
to the faculty, and the former practice was
to amputate the limb. The patient is do
ing well. The calmness and science of the
operator are creditable at melt to Ids total
duity and abilities.— Philad. U. S. Gus.
FATAL °minimum—About ten o'clock
last night an altercation occurred at the
Rolla. House, Hanover street, between a
man named Ferdinand Plain, a chair maker
and the landlord of the house, when the
latter procured a pistol and shot Plain in
the neck or upper part of the breast. The
wounded man expired in about an hour.—
Bait. Patriot.
IMPROVED CHIMNEYS—Economy of Fe.
el.—By a very simple and cheap improve.
ment to chimneys, the largest dwelling
houses may be made comfortably warps it.
the most inclement weather by a singl6 fire
of Schuylkill coal, and one half of the trouble
of keeping rooms and furniture in order
avoided. An ingenious frier.d of ours two
years ago caused tribe erected a find three
story house; in the front part of., the base
ment he had placed a grate of the ordinary
viz• and style for rooms of 'similar dime!'
sions, through which three cast iron tubes
of two inches diameter. passed from an untie;
teller, one to the second, and the other to
the third story. each eliding in a bridsome
m'iuth projecting a littly way from this
chimney into the room for which he a t was
required. The currents or heated air thus
produced were found to answer all the pur
poses or separate fires, and the trouble of
dusting furniture two or. three times a day,
and the cost or purchasing it anew before it
had seen halt its .appropriate service, were
no longer to be incurred. When it , is de
sirable.to moderate the heat in any of the
upper rooms, a rap is placed on the lower
end of the tube, and the ingress of air pre
vented. Every housekeeper whose furni
ture has "been spoiled and every person
whose health has been impaired coal fifes,
will appreciate the advantages of this kind
of chimneys, which, if known, would be
generally introduced.—New Yorker.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph
ELECTORAL TICKET.—As an UnrOCnrled
rumor has gone abroad that a portion of
our Electoral Ticket has been defeated, we
publish the following card from the Chair
man of the Harrison Central Committee,
which settics the quesliun.
HARRIPIBURCI, Nov. 9, IA4O.
MePEUE. FENN & WALLAcc—That our
friends might be relieved from all appre
hension as to any part of the' Electoral
Ticket, I called upon the Deputy Secretary
of the Commonwealth this morning, end
requested permission to examine the affi•
cinl returns. Ile, (perhaps. properly,) de
clined it, as the Governor, to whom they
ought first to be submitted, wus out of town,
and had not yet inspected them: but he us•
sured,,me that the enclosed slip, printed at
the Relmrter Office, was entirely correct,
and that there was not twenty votes differ
ence between any of the candidates on the
Harrison, or on the Von Boren tickets.—
The whole, therefore, of the Harrison ticket
is elected. Yours,
THO. H. BURROWES.
RETROCESSION OF THE DISTRICT OF CO
n the legislature of Rhode Island
on IVednesday last, a message was received
from the Governor, presenting to the House
a communication from General Waller
Jones, of Washington acctmpanied by
remonstrance from divers citizens of the
District of Columbia, protesting against
exclusive legislation by Congress for and
over iNe District. With the above was
also presented to the House a communica
tion from divers other citizens of the Die.
'rim of Columbia, requesting the Legisla
ture to adopt such measures as may seem
expedient to procure a retrocession of
certain portions of the District of Columbia
to the state to which it formerly belonged.
The whole subject was referred to select
committees, to report thereon at the next
January session.
PRESERVING POTATOES.- IV IlefOiretrAC
ticable, potatoes should be dug during dry
weather, as the earth is then less liable to
adhere to them, and they soon become dry.
They should be exposed as short a time as
possible to the light, it always injures their
quality, for whatever they are intended.—
Hence a coarse blanket or boards should
be employed to cover them in the heap or
wagon, ale:eg the time they necessarily re
main in the field. Exposure to the light
of any length offline, in a cellar, .greatly
injures potatoes; the bins, therefore, in
which they are kept,sheuld be so construc
ted as to exclude it entirely; in short they
should be kept in a state " similar to that
before they are dug, that is, secure from
air, and light, with a slight. degree of mois
ture to prevent withering, and • tempera
ture so low as to keep them from vegetating.
The difference in the quality • caused by
good and bad keeping is very rarely appre
ciated.
When they are buried in the field, a dry
piece of ground should be selected, which
shall be at all times entirely free from sur
face water. They are to be covered, first,
with straw, and afterwards with several in
ches of compact earth. A second thick
coat of straw and another ofearth is then to
be applied. The straw for the other or
second coat should be long and strait, such
89 has been threshed with a flail, and placed
in a position so as to throw the moisture and
wet from the peak down the side, like the
thatching ufa roof. This ketps the inner
coat of earth dry, and effectually preveius
the water from penetrating the heap. The
earth for the outer coat should be fine and
compact, so as to throw off the rain. If
these diioctions are carefully attended to,
there will be no danger of losing potatoes
by freezing and rotting and they will keep
in the best condition till spring.—Genessee
Farmer.
ADVERTIBI:4O.-4Th this subject Lord
Broagham says, (find certainly he is a very
sensible person,) thnt tho advantages of
wive' titling are not fully appreciated by mon.
who have just entered into business fur
themselves. Ifthey are anxious to become
known—receive patronage and acquire•
property--they must advertise freely. It
is the only proper mudo to be pursued; and
is a sure garanteo to succe,,s. I •Them's our
sentiments."
SALE OF WHITE MEN.
A sale of white men, not for debt, but
for misconduct in office, will take place in
Washington city on Thursday the 4th day
of March next. The terms °reale as pre
scribed by the undersigned, are as follows;
the lowest bidder to be the buyer—and as
the federal office holders have proven them
selves ulaithfur and worthless, the purcha
ser will not be required to give bonds and
security, as is required when articles of
value are gold. Kendall and Blair will not
he oflered, as it is believed that their char
acters are so well known that no person
would make a bid. The sale will com
mence about 12 o'clock meridian, and will
he continued from day to day (Sundays ex
cepted, and no postponement fur unfair
weather,) until the whole of the unfaith
ful servants amounting to many thousands,
are disposed of—due attendance will he giv
en by us,
THE PEOPLE.
P. S. The Globe, will confer a favor by
inserting the foregoing till day of sale.
IMPUBLIO.AN BANNER.
GETTYSIIIIIIG,Novembor 17. 1840*
aj.The time of sale of the property of Mr. M'-
eassny has been postponed until Saturday the
28th of November inst. See advertisement.
n`glarrison's majority in this State is 34n; end
not 264, es was stated in our last.
Csxzenxirres.—We are indebted to
the kindness of a friend for the excellent descrip
tion, given in another column of tooday's paper, of
the celebration and illumination on Friday eve
ning last.
o:::7•Binrtsr, the Abolition candidate, received
:113 votes in the State—precisely the majority of
Harrison over Van Buren. This is rather a sin-
gofer coincidence
azyritx vrxx hLdeiesterr is 001210•—An ex
change paper says—""at Pass Christian, in Missis
sippi, out of twenty•soven votes depositrd in the
ballot-box, twenty-six were for Harrison. The
Locofoco who voted fur Van Buren, offered the
inspectors ten dollars, it is said, fur leave to take
his vote back again."
NEW YOLIK.—The census of the city of New
York, for 1840, is completed. The total popula-
tion amounts to 313,629. The books of the Dep.
qty Marshals furnish also the following statistical
items: The Deaf and Dumb in thoxity number
260; Blind, 140; Insane 190; Revolutionary Pen
sionvs, 31. The persons engaged in agriculture
amount to 2.750; in commercial and mercantile
pursuits, 10.100; in manufactures and trades. 29,-
400; in navigation, 3 # 200; in the various profes
sions, 2,300. The number of scholars in the Col-
lege and in the University is 226; in acado•iiies
and grammar schools, 6,200; in primary mid corn.
mon schools, 19,600; at public charge, 9,200.
RETURNS Or THE CZNSUS.-Thu Northern Li
berties, Philadelphia county, have a population of
34,4' 1 7 souls. Richmond, Va. 20,552. The city
of Annapolis 5,795. The city of Washington
22,777.
THE ELECTIONS.
_ Georgia.
Official ratline from 37 counties hare been re
ceived, in which the vote stands as follows:
Harrison, 30,014
Yen Buren, 21,520
Majority for Harrison,
Virginia.
Suven or eight counties yet remain to be heard
from, which will in all prubability increase Mr.
Van Buren's majority in the State to about 1,000.
Itlaine.
We are still without complete returns of the
election held in this State. The Whig majority
now is 926. The remaining towns and plants
tions to be heard from will not materially change
the result.
Massachusetts.
The Boston Advertiser gives the result of the
late cdeclioc in 293 out of 306 towns as follows:
—Whig; 70,114; Van Buren, 52,923. Whig
majority 17,191. The Boston Atlas puts down
the majority in the State for the Harrison electo
ral ticket at 20,000. : Harrison's majority in the
city of Boston is three thousand one hundred and
thirty-three.
Ohio.
The vote in 67 counties in this State, stands u
follows: —For Harrison, 34,893; for Van Buren,
9,289. Harrison's majority, 25,604.
Vermont.
The returns from six towns in Vermont show
a Whig gain since September last of 131 votes.—
The Green Mountain Boys say they can and will
give Old Tip thirteen thousand majority!
Michigan.
The majority for Harrison in th►e State is uP
wards of 1,000. We elect out Congressmen and
both branches of the Legislature; the latter secur
ing to us a Senator of the United States in place
of Mr. Norvell, (L. F.)
Illinois.
The accounts from Illinois are quite cheering.
We have returns from 38 Counties, which give
Harrison a majority of 2,715; being a Whig gain
in the above 38 counties of 2,878 since the Au
gust election.
Delaware.
Little Delaware bas given Hartigan a majority
of about 1.000. The Locos have not, we believe,
elected a single man in the Slate. The Legisla
ture is entirely Whig. This secures us two Uni
ted States Senators.
Indiana.
The Harrison gain as far as heard from, 3,694.
garrison majority; 9,224. Sixty counties yet to
•be heard from. ,
Kentucky.
Only partial ratline have been received from
thin State. Thoy show a great Whig gain on the
•vote of August last. Harrison's majority in •4Old
.Kentuck" will not be much short of 20,000.
Tennessee.
'Harrison's majority in 37 counties in Tennes
,see, 11,19 Q; being a Whig gain of 8,600 since
=the Gubernatorial election of 1839, when Polk (L.
.X.) was elected Dcwernor by 2,566!
Mi~siSMippi.
Alt tho aeturnif received Irons Mississippi are
."o..K.".and confirm us in the opinion that the
:rit,►te las gone !or "Tippecanoe and Tyler too."
Louisiana. •
'two luivereturies from eight parishes, which
give Harrison a insjority_of over 1500. Harri
son's majority in the Stale mill exceed that given
for the Congressional ticket in July last.
PRESIDENTIA
The following is the re
of the election in the Ste
dent end Vice President:
For Harrison. .
Pennsylvania, 30
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
I Now York,
Now Jersey,
Maryland,
Georgia,
Ohio,
Vermont,
Delaware,
Louisiana,
Kentucky,
Indiana,
Tennessee,
Michigan,
Musachusetta,
Whole number of E
cessary to a choice. 148
THE CELEBRATION AND
ILLUMINATION.
Harrison and Democracy!
Friday last was a day which will long be re
membered. It was one of the most glorious and
inspiring that the citizens of this place and Coun
ty have ever witnessed. The brilliancy of the
illumination and the splendor of the decorations
was even eclipsed by the brightness of glad hearts
beaming from joyful faces, rejoicing in the delight
ful prospect which the election of the patriot Her
eon, opens to the country and particularly to long
suffering, much abused, but now redeemed and
emancipated Pennsylvania. We give as correct
a description of the proceedings, as our means of
information and short time for collecting and ar
ranging it, place in our power;
Agreeably to notice and the plan adopted by
the Committee of Arrangement, the citizens of
the town and county, together with a considera
ble number of strangers from Taneytown, Em
inittsburg and other places, assembled in•the Court
House in the afternoon at 3 o'clock as the ring
ing of the Bell, and on motion of D. M. Smirssa,
Esq. organized by choosing JAMES M'SHER
RY as Chairman, Messrs. James Bell, Sen. Cm
nelius Houghtelin, Samuel Durborrow, Esq. Al
exander Campbell, John Spangler, Peter Hu
lick, James Cunningham, Esq. and Hobert M.
Hutchinson, Vice Presidents, and Wm. Gardner,
I. U. Macfarlane, John Lilly and George Irwin,
Secretaries.
The meeting was addressed by James Coors*,
Esq. in a strain of eloquent cangratualatien upon
the deliverance of the country from the ruthless
hands of the spoilers. He was followed by DAB
zzz M. Smirszn, Chairman of the Committee of
Arrangement, who after some appropriate re
mark., announced the arrangements for the eve
ning, and the meeting then adjourned, to assem
ble again at the hour app tinted for the forming of
itie.procession..and
At, half past 6 o'clock, on the signal being giv
en by the ringing of the bell and firing of a grand
salute by the military who were on duty under
the command of Lt. Col. S. S. M'Cuirsaz a si
multaneous illun.ination of the town, took, place,
the lights being all lighted at the same moment:
rind here language fails us to describe the beauty
and gorgeousness of the scene which our streets
presented. With the exception of here and there
a dark spot where the genius of Locofocoism sat
brooding with closed doors and abutters, over its
irretrievable overthrow, our streets presented one
blaze of light. We forbear attempting a particu
lar description of the scene. The taste of the de
coratiuns of the different houses public and pd.
trate, the brilliancy of the lights, 'bedding upon
the dark hours of a moonless night, the blaze of
noon day, the shouts, the enthusiasm of the peo
ple are beyond our feeble powers of language.
At the same time, and at the same signal, the
procession was formed, under the direction of Col.
M. C. CzanKsosi, Chief Marshal, and his assis
tants, in the following order:
L A carriage containing a few of the surviving
heroes of the revolution, viz: Messrs. John Trox
ell, sen. William Brackenridge, Jacob Doebler,
John Adair, James Bell. Joseph Wilson.
H.' A large carriage freighted with more than
fifty young girls between the ages of 8 and 12,
bearing white banners, and singing patriotic songs.
This carriage was surmounted by a large and
brilliant transparency, containing on ono side. this
inscription--fiGen. W. H. Harrison; The defen
der "of the mothers will be the protector of the
daughters." On the reverse, a portrait of Gen.
Harrison on horseback. Motto "Our Country's
friend! Our sword and shield!"
111. Next followed a train of upwards of 40
carriages, freighted richly with the patriotic ladies
of Gettysburg and Aden's county, who graced the
happy occasion to which, their charms lent addi
tional lustre, with their presence and their smiles.
The carriages were splendidly decorated with
lights and transparencies, almost rivalling in bril
liancy the bright eyes beneath. We noticed on
one of them, that of Mr. J. Graham Macfarlane,
an illuminated Ball, which was kept rolling all
the time, with the inscriptions, .41 K. from Maine
to Georgia! Tip and Tyler, High Tariff. and
High Wages." On another, Mr. W. Huffman's,
a beautiful and accurate model, in illuminated
canvass, of Fort hieige, with the national flag wa
ving over its ramparts.
IV. Next followed the procession on foot, num
bering upwar.is of one thousand, and bearing
every conceivable variety of banners, transparen
cies, and mottoes. We give a description of such
as we have been able to obtain, in lime for our
paper. There were, however, an hundred others,
which our limits do not ena:ki us to give. The
following, with the names of the bearers, have been
handed to us, viz:
John Little. Transparency. MottoeS. ..Hus
zah! for Harrison and Tyler! and no Sub-Trsa
bury, no Standing Army! United States redeem
ed!" Reverse, "The conduct of the administra
tion, has opened the eyes of the people! Loco
Foco K 0.!"
Jones RunelL Transparency, containing a
likeness of James Buchanan; motto, “Ten cant
Jimmy!" On another side, a portrait of Martin
Van Buren, running in full flight to Kinkerhook;
motto, ..I'm off to Kinderhuok u, make room fur old
Tip!" On the 3d aide. the Extra Glob* represen
ted on its last lep, in the shape of a large, ti!oated
frog.
L' ELECTION.
614 as far as heard from,
es fur Electors of Pfeil-
For Van Buren.
New Hampshire, 7
ectoral votes, 294—Ne-
Hanson T. Wright. Transparency. with a
portrait of Gen. Harrison. Mottoes, "The Key-
stone is saved—the arch is safe. We go for a
Republic!"
Win. N. Hersh. Transparency, Log Cabin,
and Herd Cider Barrel.
Edwin M. Sell. Transparency, showing a
mounted Cannon. Motto, "Amos' baby wakor."
A live Raccoon represented, with the motto, "The
Coon 'a alive!" On the reverse, a ball in moti.'n,
a Harrison man propelling it with a lever, Van
Duren running in full flight before it, followed by
Kendall, who exclaims, "Do stop that ball!" A
circle of the States, the Van Buren States in
black—surrounding the words "Harrison and Ty
ler! 0. K.!"
Daniel
...UAW. Transparency. Mottoes—
. Harrison has won the victory! Down with the
Leg Treasurers!" A log cabin.
Conrad Weaver, borne by John Johnson
Transparency. Gen. Harrison, supporting the
tree of liberty and propelling a hal! with his foot,
which is in the act of rolling over the prostrate
body of Van Duren, who cries "Do step that ball!"
Reverse: The office holders in's confused heap,
making their escape, followed by old Tip, wield
ing an enormous flail, exclaiming will clear the
kitchen!" Chapman, lying on his back cries
out, "Alas! I can't crow!"
The Tippecanoe A3rillie;nt:trons
parency, containing a portrait of Goil, Harrison:
inscription, "What think . yoU of old mother
Berke!" "Harrison and Tyler." "Make way
for Tippecanoe Club Jr.!"
Quinfin Armstrong. Transparency. Portrait
of Gen. Harrison, who exclaims, "Van, clear one
S. Wearer 4 - 11.Saligiver. Transparency. .On
ens aids, a paintirig, representing the INckeye
Blacksmith in hts shop, holding Van Buren on
his anvil and hammering him with an enormous
sledge, exclaiming, 44'11 convince any man I'm
the best blacksmith in all Ohio." Van cries,
...This horrid battering will surely.undo me!" Ou
another aide, likeness of Gen. Harrison "Our Pre-
sident." On another, Van Buren exclaiming to
Kendall, "Oh! Amos, what will we do? Only
five States!"
R. G. Harper. Trausparencey over his Prin
tiog office. Inscription. "A Free Press is the psi
ladium of Civil and Religious liberty."
Daniel M. Sniper. The lower windows of his
house embellished with full length oil paintings of
Washington and Lafayette. with . 11 portrait of
Gen. Harrison in the middle. Wreath of ever
green.
Co!. Id C. Clarkion. Transparency in upper
window. Inscription: ..Pennsylvania redeemed!
Our country rescued from ruin, and our Liberties
saved!
James Cooper. Office window containing a
transparency. Inscription: r. The Young Mon of
Adams county and their Fathers!"
Most of the houses of our Whig friends were,
besides the lights, handsomely and tastefully de
corated with wreaths of flowers and evergreen,
which added greatly to the beauty and sidentlcr
of the scene.
There were also some very handsome and ap
propriate Banners home in the procession by our
friends from other places. among which we noti
ced the following from Abbottstown:
N. P. Buckley. A Banner representing Mar
tin Van •Buren smiling over a bottle of Cham
pagne acd frowning at a mug of Hard Cider.
Asaph Abbey. A Fox Chase—Martin Van
Buren the Fox, in full flight, crying out hole
at Hinderhook, and pursued by a Pack of Hounds
in full cry. representing the Harrison States.—
There were several others from this place, of
which we have not been able to get a description.
From Emtnitaburg:
Mr. Harvey. A Banner, representing a Fox
caught in a steel trap.
We give the above merely
,as a specimen. It
would require the entire space of our paper to
enumerate and describe all. the various banners
end transparencies. We have never seen so bril
liant a spectacle. It was inspiring; it was beau.
tiful; it was grand! The procession, after mo.
sing through all the streets, in the most perfect
order, and maintaining, in the midst of the irre
pressible torrent of enthrisiasm which swept over
all, a commendable regard for the feelings of their
prostrate opponents, returned to the square, and
were there arrayed in , front of the Buck Eye
stand, which was tastefully decorated with lights
and evergreens. Here the crowd, male and fe
male, was addressed by Messrs. T. BrEvEss, and
J. Cooess, and then, the boar being late, separa
ted in the most perfect harmony and good order.
Not an accident occurred to mar the pleasures
of the evening, although some miscreants having
secretly removed a plank bridge over Stevens' run
on the intended route_of tint procession, might
have coat the lives of some of those in carriages,
by causing them to upset, bad it not been fortu
nately discovered in time to arrest the march in
that direction. The mind shudders at the con
templation of the miserable havoc that might have
ensued, had the carriage loaded with more than
FIFTY young children, the hope and the joy of
many anxious parents. which led the pro c e s sion,
been driven into this Loco Foco pit fall. We
Robert Taylor. Transparency in front of his
house, representing in perspective, liarrison'a
grand entry into Washington.
Messrs. Neinstedt, borne by Henry Darnell.
Triangular transparency. Device, ball in motion
proprelled by the foot of old Tip. On another
vide, a splendid gold star, inscription, ' , Star of the
West!" Third side, the significant initials 0.
K. in tri.colored letters.
David M'Creary. Transparency in the win
dow of his house. Device: The sun in his
meridian: a large 'Menem, with expanded wings;
at his feet 13 stars, representing the original
States of the confederacy; • wreath encircling the
initials W.H. H. At the bottom the words—
'Pennsylvania 343."
Esaias Liilk. Large Square Transparency.—
On the One aide i painting representing Gen.
Harrison mounted on horseback, with a leading
truncheon in his Land, with views of the battle of
the Thames, Fort Maize, Tippecanoe and the
Maumee. Motto. ..Penneyleania redeemed from
the Spoilers." "Harrison and Tyler." On the
4th side, a large cannon on a carriage; inscrip
tion, "Amos' Baby Waked"
Jeremiah Culp. Transparency. The white
house. Old Tip pursuing Van BU/Cll with a
sail, Martin cries, "Deb's thresh me! I'm off to
Kinderhook!" A small dog following little Mar
tin, carrying the key of the Sub Treasury in his
mouth.
Valor:line Haas. Transparency. A large gilt
Star. Inscription, "Harrison and Tyler."
James P. Fahnestoek. Transparency. In.
scriptions, "What will Amos and his children
think of Pennsylvania! A National Bank and
no Sub-Treasury! Buchanan, the poor man's
Grind stone! „ •
hope the abandoned miscreant who perpetrated
this disbohcal act of auockty, may yet be detected
and punished as he deserves.
We have done—we had a glorious and splen
did celebration; and we challenge any town in
l'ennaylvania to equal it.'
TICEI WHIG PYRAMID!
Erected since the nomination of cm.
WILLIAM HENRY 'IIARRINON,
by the People of Me U. S.
OHIO.
• MAINE,
VERMONT,
GEORGIA,
INDIANA,
• DELAWARE.
KENT I\ UC KY;
NE W YORK, t
• "M A R YL A N D,
1.0 UI S I A•N A,
NEW JERSEY;
RHODE ISLAND,
•'. CONNECTICUT,
NORT-H CAROLINA,
PENNSYLVANIA.
Robert McConaghy was executed in
Huntingdon, Pa. on Friday, the 6th inst.
Ho was atter ded by a clergy man, to whom,
[ashe nuatient of being swung tiff, he sol•
emnly asseverated his inttheence, declaring
that. standing as he did on the ...very ►hres
hold of eternity, he knew nothing of the
crime for which -he was to suffer. The
clergyman withdrew, the drop fell, and the
-rope broke. The cord was doubled, and
just as the officer was preparing to strike
away the drop, the wretched man asked for
a little time to make an open confession of
his crime. It was granted. He confessed
his guilt, and was' hung. The edam; of the
•Huntingdon Journal is about to publish the
confession, yet McConaghy was about •to
die with-the solemn asseveration of inno
cence', and that is the kind of testimony to
which the law gives such great importance.
• -- U. S. Gazette.
"You Whigs expect thnt Harrison will
work miracles?" No, we do not expect he
will work miracles; but we do expect he
will cast out devils. •
Mr. J. W. Long, editor of the Southern
Crisis, asks, "When will the editor of the
Louisville Journal learn to tell th 6 truth'!"
To which - Prentice replies, "There's no
doubt but-we shall tell it before Long."
THERMOMETER.--The iherßlOllleter tell
a few days ago TIIIRTY-THRER DEGREEg
IN-TWENTY FOUR BOOR*, then iii a day or
Iwo afterwards norm IN TWENTYFOUR nouns
FOETY Point DECREES; and in the next
again tell to 30 from 54. Only consider
the EFFECT on the human system; one day
theprespiration streaming from every pore
"-THE sari' ALL CLOSED. The prespi ration
being so suddenly thrown inwardly, necessa
rily produces derangement of the stomah
and bowleg. - It is thus that DI•ENTERY is .o
prevalent—that sudden *delouse OF THE
BTODIIICE Amiss— that persons to all ap•
pearunce in relent health when they go to
bed, are awnkg with the most. miserable
griping pains. ,This is a signal that NA
TORE requires the assistance of purgative
medicine to ease her of the oppressive
burden, which she proves b} the high fever
and the strong pulse, is wanted to be renriov
ed. In other words, the body calls for a
vegetable cLEtssisici. This can be accom
plished without any convenience, by the
use of Dr. Brandreth's Vegetable Univer•
sal.Pille; which are known by the experi
ence of thousands, to perfectly cleanse Ills
bloOd from all foulness, remove every morbid
affection, and renovate weak and enfebled
constitutions to perfect health and vigor.
Remember. these Pills are not sold genu
ine at an Drug Store, either in the city or
country.
, Purchase them in Gettysburg of Thos. J.
Cooper, distributing agent; GfJno. M. Ste
venson, or only in the county or Agente
published in another part of this paper.
HY/MENIAL REGISTER.
NA It RI ED.
On the 12th'inst. by the Rev. B. Keller, Mr.
Joshua Lineh, to Miss Hannah Maria Degroff,
both of this place.
On the 10th inst.. by Prof. W. M. Reynolds,
Mr. Levi Whitmore, to Miss Mat y Ovelman,
both of Emmitaburg, Frederick county, Md.
On the 10th inst. by the Rev. John Dickey, Mr.
Samuel F.. Neely, of Adams county, to Miss
Catharine Williams, daughter of Robert Elliott,
Esq. of Perry county. Pa.
OBITUARY RECORD•
DIED.
On Sunday morning last, Adam Waller, Esq.,
of this borough, in the 53d year of his age.
On Monday the 9th inbt. Mr. John Beur, Sen.,
of.Mountjoy township.
Departed this life on Sunday morning the Bth
inst. Rfter a long and painful illness, Mrs. Ann
IVierman, wife of llarman Wiermen, Esq. of
Huntington township, in the 54th year of her age.
NOTICE.
ALL concerned are hereby no•ified that
the Book Accounts of Col. SAMUEL
WITHENOW, have been transferred to me,
for the use of certain preferred credi
tors, and also, the in.erest of the said ith
erow in the books and notes of the late grin
of Miller & Witherow. have been assigned
to me,and speedy payment is requested.
T. C. IVIILLEB.
St—:34
Nio;ember 17,1840.
SiATI VOOMQ,
I AM authorized to give notire to those
indebted to Col. SAMUEL Wrruznow,
and also those indebted to the late film of
MILLER & WITBEROW, that the books Of
the said Witherow, aid books and notes of
the late firm of Miller & Withsrow have
been left with me for collection. end suits
will be indiscriminately brou2lit without re
epect to persons, if not settled in FIVE DAYS
' • J. B. DANNER.
November 17, ltl4o • 3t-34
ADVERTISEMENTS.
HOUSE FOR SALE.
T HE subscriber being about to remove
from this neighborhood, offers at Pri
vate Sale, the lot and improvements, now
owned and occupied by her, which conatst.a
ofe large two story
ERICH. HOUSE.
. in thorough good repair, with a
so
. convenient stable and carriage
house attached, well enclosed. Thom is
also a water right to a spring, convenient to
the house, in an adjoining lot, and the :nen
tin.) is very pleasant. More particular in•
formation may be had by application to
Imtns & BRIDGES. .
CATHARINE .A. BRIDGES.
York Springs, Nov. 17. . eow3t-34
CURE YOUR COUGH before it is too
late. Remember, delays are danger
ous. Thousands die annually from that
dreadful disease CONSUMPTION, which
might have been checked at the commence
ment, and disappointed of its prey if proper
means lied been resorted to. The very
many who have thus been snatched from
Chet fatal rave ger, .hy the timely use of DR.
SWAYNE'S COMPOUND SYRUP OF
%VlLr► CHERRY. bear testimony to this
day announcing the cures, the .wonderful
mires petform9d by the use of the rnvalun•
ble medicine. For sale only at No. 19
North Eighth street, Philadelphia, and re
spective agents. •
For Sale, in Gettysburg, nt the Drug
Store of S. S. FORNEY, Agent.
November 17, 1840. . 3t-34
Trial List—Xov. Term.
CommonvrealtN vs. Wm. Laub and others.
Do. do.
Michael Hoffman's Adin'r. vs. John Louck.
John Chambers vs. Jos.;ph Miller.
Gettysburg add Petersburg Turnpike Road Com
pany vs BETIO°, M'Clellan and others
ThomaiLiridsay's Ex'r. vs, "do. do.
Andrew M'Kendrick vs. Michael Ftrasbaugh.
Adam & John Livingston es. Brotbertons & Bit-
finger.
George Himee vs. E. Buckingham and J. A
Wiorott.
George Himes, Adm'r use of Wm. D. Mutes L'.7
J. A. Winrott and T. C. Miller.
Henry - Murphy; vs. Mary Murphy and Mark
Burns.
John Reynalds vs. Susquehanna Canal Company.
William Wright r!.. do.
Dr. Charles Teitze va. George Wolf:
James Major and wife vs. John Sample, and Bob.
art M'Murdie, Executors of John Sample,doo'd.
Edward Pittman & Co. vs. Samuel Withorow,
➢OR AROUIRRNT.
Frederick Herr va. John Garvin.
Jacoh Albert & Co. vs. John & James Davis
-Grand Jury—.7rov. Term.
Menalien— Limed J. Willis, Henry Hartsell.
Borough—John M. Stevenson, Samuel Fah
nestock, John Tate.
Mountjoy—William Golden, Daniel Boy/cram
Lalimore —J am e s Patterson.
Cumberland—Joseph Walker, Thomas Linab,
George Guinn, Daniel %Voldy.
Franklin—David. Beecher. •
Straban—Henry Eckert, Jacob Harman.
Freedom—David Boseerman.
Hamiionban—Jacob Welty, Samuel Cobean.
Berwick John Flickinger, F. W. Koehler,
Jacob Bender, Joseph R. Henry.
Huntington—John L. Sadler.
Conowago—Georgo Glinter.
General Jury.
Cnnowago—John Hoslcttcr, Ben. David Orn.
dorff, Eugebius Outings, Benj. Landis.
..Siraban—Jacob Cassell, jr. John M'llhony.
Liberty—Henry Worts, Charles Donaldson,
Nathaniel Greason.
Latimore—Abraham Smith, Samuel Hollinger,
Archibald Garl.
Borough--David M'Creary, Andrew Polly,
ChristitM Doebler. Joseph Little, S H. Buehler.
Menalien—Jonas Rhodes, Samuel Diehl.
Cumberland—John Hunter.
Germany--Thomas Himes, Jameii Renshaw.
Reading—John Brough, Wm. Harlscher.
Franklin—Jacob Corer, Daniel Mickley, son.
Peter Mickley, jr.
Freedom—Nicholas Moritz.
Hamilionban—J scob Herrider, Israel Irwin,
John Irwin, Robert Slemmons, Hugh Culbertson.
Hamilton—Hugh M'Sherry.
Noun/pleasant—Peter Smith, Joe. Lilly.
Gettysburg, Nov. 17, 1840. tc-34
2; 0 2. :0 Cal ilitta CLIZI 031 0 0
WHEREAS the lion.D. DunitEß,Esq.
President Of the several Courts of
Common Pleas, io the Counties composing
the 101 h District, and Justice of the Courts
of Oyer and Terminer, and General Jail
Delivery, for the trial of all capital and oth
er offenders in the said District—and Wm.
M'CLEAN and GEO. WILL, Esquires, Judg•
es ~f the Courts of Over and Terminer, and
General Jail Delivery, for the trial of all
capital and other offenders in the County of
Adams—have issued their precept, bearing
date the 27th day of August, in the year of
our LORD one thousand eight hundred and
forty, and to me directed, for holding
a Court of Common Pleas and General
Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and General
Jail Delivery, and Court of Oyer and Ter.
miner, at Gettysburg, on Monday the 23d
day of November next—
N'otiee is hereby Given,
To all the Justices of the Peace, the Corn.
nor, and Constables. within the said County
id Adams, that they be then and there, in
their proper person, with their Rolls, Re
cords, Inquisitions, Examinations, and oth
er Remembrances,to do those things,which
to their offices and in that behalf appertain
to be done and also they who will prosecute
against the prisoners that are, or then .hall
be, in the Jail of tho said County of Adams,
are to be then and there,to prosoeute against
theirs as shall bo just.
GEO. W. NI'CLELLAN,
Oct. 27, 1940. lc
WANTED
AN APPRENTICE TO THE
PRIXTIMG BUSIX.ESS,
ADVER•i I-F;
NOTICX;
111111) G'l 7 , 11‘7, I I ,13 1 E ?v.
`'EA LED. PROPSAI,S will be - received
" by the Conintiasionera of ALms cowl.
tv, at the Commissioners' °thee, in Getty*.
burg, until Wednesday morning. the VA
of November inst. fur the erccitun of a geed
and substantial •
VTCODEN B.S.T2DOE .
a
across Rock creek, on the road leading
from Gettysburg to Tawneytown, near
Horner's Mill, of the following dimensions,
viz: The length from one abutment .to the
other, to he 120 feet, to be of 2 spans and
.of double arch, each 60 feet in length; with
n pier in the middle, to be 10 feet wide in
ithe clear; the abutments to be 8 feet thick,
21 feet wide and 10 feet higb in the clear,
from low water
.mark where the Bridge
cruises the stream; the pier to be 8 feet
thick at bottom and 0 feet on tep, to be 21
feet wide, and to be built with a regular
slope up stream, and said . slope to he well
secured by being covered with good and
heavy timber, and bound with iron, in cider
to protect it from the ice &c.; the wing
'walls on the east side to be 15 feet lorig,'aud
on the west side to be 30feet longSieliiiiive'
of the abutments; the wwg walls iolsr. 31}
feet thick at the bottom,.and 2 _feet bailie
top; wing walls to be 3 feet higher than
the filling up, and to,be under a gond para.
pot covering of white pine boards of at least
1 inch in thickness, and well painted with
red paint; the abutments, wing. walls and
pier 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 weather
boarded with white pine boards, well planed
and painted, the sides a good Venitian red. ,
and gables white; 'the arches to be plonked.
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 substantial timber; and
the stone, work of large' and gond stones,
lime, sand and mortar, and to be well point
ed; the roofing of the Bridge to extend over
both abutments; the space between the
wing walls end abutments to be filled up, so
as to have a: gradual. ascent .running on to
the Bridge not to exceed 5 degrees eleva
tion from the road to the Bridge; • the Bridge
in the inside to be weather.boarded 2} feet
high from the floor with boards.l inch thick.
The above mentioned Bridge will be let
to the lowest and HEST bidder, and no bid
will be acceyted unless accompanied by two
good securities, (to double the amount of the
contract for the faithful performance• of
the workmanship and permanency of the
Bridge.) ono of which securities at least,
must be a resident of Adams county.
By order of the Commissioners,
H. J. SCHREINER, Clerk•.
Commissioner's Office,
Nov. 3, 1840. 3
Vubtir ef:alt.
WILL be Exposed to Public Sale, on
Saturday the 28th dug of .Novem•
ber nest; at 1 o'clock, P. M. on the premises,
A FARM,
Late the Estate of ROBERT M'CRLA
ILY, deceased, situate in etititheiland town
ship, Adams county, adjoining lands of Eli
Horner,tho heirs of Andrew Horner,and oth
ers, five miles from Gettysburg, contaibing
106 ACRES;
a good proportion of Meadow and Timber.
The improvements are - a
LOG 1101MEA
. and Barn, Spring-house, ; a
never-failing sprinu of water near the house
The Farm is in good order, and 14 a deli
rablo property.
ItC'Attendance will be given and terms
made known by
S. S. M'CREARY,
Agent for the Heirs.
November 17, 1840. . ts-34
'SSW aILOCEIVirg
rrHE subscriber begs leave to inform the
citizens of Gettysburg and the Public
generally, that he hue added to his former
Flour and Iron business ri complete and
general assortment of GROCERIES, such as
' Coffee; Sugars, Loaf,
Lump and Brown, Cheese,
Candles, end Soap.—Arco--
Teas, Pepper, Allspice, ;
Cloves, Cinnamon, Nutmegs
and almost every article in . F ~
the liue of groceries, needed 11MU 5 ,„„ •
in a public or private house. '
He has also, a general assortment of.
LIQUORS
Cm." 4th Front Cognac Brun
t,
terra,y, (
Port,
1 o wpric e Li ditto,) sbon
Ata
and
Malaga Wines, lidland
Gin, N. E. Rum, Whiskey, &c.
,; 0. p.t.,
-LL~o-_
FlSH—Shad, Herring and . Muckrel
,
Sperrnamti and Fish OIL, and . Ter,
A general asssortment of Dye SNP; an
assortment of Cedar Waie; such as
Tubs, Buckets, Half hushel and pet*
measures, cite.; Clothes, Sweeping, Stine
and Scrubbing Brushes, arid Corn brooms.
He has also on hand an assortment of Nails,
Shovels, Spades and Forks.
Being determined to give his undivith d
attention to business, the public may rest
assured that his'assortment shalt always be
complete in the Flour, Grocery and Iron
business. He would now return thanks to
the public for past favors, and invite nail)
call and see him, as he intends to Fell a ny
article in his line. on the most Invorslits
cash terms. Country prt.duce witl hi' ta
ken in exchange for any article .tf goods.
. DAVID ZICC.LV.R.,
November 3, 1640. 3t-32