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ADVETITIREMENTA not exceeding a square will be inserted THILEE times for $l, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion—the number of in sertion to ho marked, or they will be published till forbid and charged accordingly; longer ones in the same proportion. A reasonabletleduction will be made to those who advertise by the year. IV. All Lottorsand Communications addressed to the Editor by mail must be post-paid, or they will not be attended to. TUE GARLAND. —"With sweetest flowers enrieli'd From various gardens cull'd with care." THE FORSAKEN. DT 74116. 21011 TON I knew, I knew the end would come, And thou host willed, and we must part; But oh! though banished from thy home, Thou cause not thrust me from thy heart No—vainly wide, with all its storms, Between us rolls the distant sea; Though many a mile divido our forms, Thy soul shall still bo full of me! When the glad daylight shall arise, And wake to life thy troubled breast; Or thou shall miss the laughing eyes That hung enamor'd o'er thy rest: When from the midnight blue and deep, The sad moon gleams o'er land and sea, The night winds in their rushing sweep, Shall bring thee back the thought of mo And thou shall shrink before my name, And sigh to hear the lays I sung; And curse the lips that dared to blamo Her, whom thy own reproaches wrung Thy life is charmed! a weary spell Shall haunt thy spirit day by day; And shadows in thy home shall dwell, Of scenes forever past away. Years, chilling years, shall slow glide by, And find thee lonely, joyless, still; And forms more fair shalt charm thine eye, But have no power the heart to fill. Even while they pledge thee,passiou'e vow, Tho sudden pang, that none may see, Shall darken on thine altered brow,— Thoul't answer them—but think of me. When languid sickness numbs each limb, Fancy shall bring my stealing tread, And weary eyes, with watching dim, To visit thy forsaken bed. Go, rove through ovary clime on earth, And dream thy falsehoods sot thee free; In joy, in pain, in love or mirth, I still will haunt thy memory. ataooma,a,amanwc3. THE BROTHERS. FROM THE GERMAN OF BCUILLEH. Ma. Enrrom—Annexed is a Translation of a narrative from the pen of the great German dramatist, Schiller, the insertion of which may gratify some of your renders. As I have rendered it into English through the medium of a French translation, it can• not be expected, in its present dress, to pre sent anyof the peculiar style which char. acterizes the original: but although dives ted of these, it is interesting, on account of the incidents which it contains. 13" d. The following account of two young Ger mans, a narrative which I write with pride presents one indisputable claim to attention: it is true: and the truth gives it more pow er to affect the heart, than all the letters of the Pamelas and the Grandisons. Two brothers, Barons of Werra, had be come devotedly attached to a young girl in Werther, neither being aware of the pas sion of the other. Eaeh loved with his whole sole; and with each it was a first at• tachment. She was beautiful, gentle and intelligent: The passion of both the young men continually increasing in strength, while neither was aware of his •misfortune in having a brother for a rival. Neither was tedueed to make an untimely declara tion, and entirely unconscious of the state of the other's feelings, until the occurrence of an unexpected event suddenly revealed the secret attachment of both. Bat before that poriod had arrived, love, that most overspreadtng of all the passions whose victims are scarcely outnumbered by those of hatred, had gained so deep a mas tery over the hearts of both, that neither thought it possible for himself to make a sacrifice of his own feelings, for the happi ness of the other. The object of his mutual attachment, keenly sensitive to the misery of their try ing situation, nod dreading to seal the un htippine,s of either, could nut compel her: sell to declare a preference, and submitted her tate to the decision of their brotherly grim inn. Al IPtigih, gaining command of his fcez links, in it strogglo between passion and du ty, a sulrct on which theorists often reason HO erroneolsly, and in which the practical man frequently finds it so difficult' to decide the elder Baron of Wenn addresbed his brother. • "1 know you deeply and truly love the object of my admiration. 1 inquire not in whose favor tbo claim would be decided, if it depended upon the question, which of us felt the earliest attachment. Remain here —I will flee from her—l will travel over the world, and endeavor to forget her. If I can accomplish this, my brother, let her be yours: and may God bless you both! but if I fail I must return—you must then tear yourself away, and succeed me in the trial." He 101 l Germany and went to Holland, but the image of the loved one was with him still. A way from the sky which was above his home, away from the land which held his only source of happiness, ho could not live. He languished in misery, drooping and fading like the Asiatic plant which the European removes, and endeavors to rear in an arid soil, deprived of sunbeams which were its life. He reaches Amsterdam, and was soon laid prostrate by a raging fever. In the dreams of delirium the loved one is ever before him—he must return or die. The phyiscians are alarmed, and feel that her presence can alone prolong his life He commences his return, pale, worn, ema ciated to a skeleton—he reached his native land, a fearful example of the wasting pow er with which the mind destroys the body. He staggers to his brothers house, and in the presence of his beloved. "Brother, I am here, *God knows how mach my heart has striven—but I can done more," and he fell senseless into the arms of the young girl. His brother evinced a not less noble spir- it—he did not faulter hie emergency. In a few weeks his preparations were comple ted and he was ready to depart. "Brother you went with your suffering to Holland; I shall endeavor to bear mine to a greater distance. Do not load her to the altar until I write to you—my brother ly offection imposes on you only that condi tion. If I can gain the victory over myself, lot her be yours, and may God—bless your love!—l11 cannot—then lot Heaven judge between us! Farewell. Take this scaled packet; and do not open it until I am far from you. lam going to Batavia.'! He sprang into the carriage, and left the pair borne down in an ngonv of sorrow.— In greatness of soul he had surpassed his brother; and they could not but love his magnanimity, and mourn the necewip which separated them from a being so gen - . orous and noble. The sound of the depart ing wheels smote on their hearts like a peal of thunder. The poor girl—but nu!—let us wait until the end. The pocket Wll9 opened. It contained a Will, drawn in due form, giving to his brother all the property which he possessed in Germany, in case he never should re turn. Already the generous youth was far from home. He embarked on board a Dutch ship, and arrtved - without accident, at Batavia, from whence, after the lapse of a few weeks, he sent the following letter to his brother. "Here is Ibis distant land, when I offer to the Almighty my prayers and blessings, 1 think of you and our unfortunate love, with the feelings of a martyr. My unac customed situation; the new scenes which are round me, have expanded my soul Heaven has vouched me strength to make the greatest sacrifice to friendship. She is thine. My Godl I have shed a twir— l( is the last. I have succeeded in my self-conquest— she is thy wife! Brother, it I was destined to possess her, I cannot believe that she would have been happy with me. But if she should ever think that she might have been'l—brother, brother, that would weigh heavily on thy soul. For get not at what a price she might have been purchased for thee--that wife. Let thy bearing towards her be ever like that which is now dictated by thy youthful love.-- Look upon her as a precious legacy from a brother whom you will behold no more. Do not inform me of your wedding day; for my wounds are still bleeding--but write me when it is past.—The power which has been given me to make the sacrifice, is to mo a certain pledge that. God will not aban don me in this land of strangers." ' The marriage was performed—a year of happiness succeeded—and then, the young wife died. In her last moments she dis closed a terrible and fearful secret, which till then had never escaped her soul. She had most loved the absent brother. The two Barons are yet living. The elder is still in Germany , and has been married to a second wife. The younger has succeeded in obtaining that place for which he sought. He has made a vow, never to be married—and has kept it.-- Providence Literary Jour. "LIFE" IN AN OINTER. — The liquor in an oyster contains incredible multitudes of small embryos, covered with small shells, perfectly transparent, swimming nimbly about. Ono hundred and twenty of those in a row would extend one inch. Besides these young oysters, the liquor contains a great variety of animalcule, five hundred times less in size, which emit phosphoric light. The list of inhabitants however, does not conclude here, for besides the last mentioned, there are three distinct species of worm called the nystsr worm, found in oysters half an inchin length, which shine like the glow worm. "We do not know—neither do we wish to know"—says the National Eagle, (N. G. WACIECINGTOII 13=77411, ILDITOR gEr. PROPRIZTOn. ~7!he liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, freely, is above all. other liberties."—Mwrov 02 4 .0U 4 rteKEIWIL416 0 zEicea.. fevaanowzo_ eraztuizzaa - p % aa4a. 11.) "the rascal who. wrote the above peiru graph, but 0110 thing we know, and . that is that oysters are good, aye delicious—"good any way," as our friend of the Telegraph has it. 'Some great lover of shell fish in a moment of irritation at being charged too much for his "bowl," or finding them not cooked in a la mode, must be the author of this splenetic tirade? We hope he will • shut his "clam shells" in future. Talk aboUt "animalcules and small embryos!" Why who does not know that your litile,young, delicate oyster, like brook trout, are best of all? Besides, ,we should like to be told what liquid—even the beat champ,igne— docent contain a host of these little spark ; ling suckers by way of "encouragement to goon?" its to the •oyster worm, no ad mirer of oysters has ever seen one, and it is probably an invention of some old clam digger, who is anxious to injure the repute. tion of his great competitor, the king of shellfish—the imperial oyster! Wo hope that he and his clams will get "sucked in" one of these days, and be made to pay for his excessive "oirszEn-ity" toward those slippery little patrons of Salt River." WEATHER WlBDo3l.—The following are a few ofthe common or popular proverbial "saws" relative to tho weather: "A rainbow in the morning gives the shepard warning." That is, if the wind be easterly; because it shows that the rain cloud is approaching the observer. If at sun rising or setting the clouds ap pear of a lurid red color, extended nearly to the zenith, it is a sute sign of storms and gales of wind. "If the moon shows like a silver shield, be not afraid to reap your field. But if she rises halood round, soon we'll tread on del uged ground." "A rainbow at night is the shepherd's delight." This adage may also be a.gond sign, provided the wind be westerly, as it shows that the rain clouds are passing away. "When the rooks fly sporting high in air, it shows that windy storms ore near." "n ening red and the next morning gray are- certaic signs of a beautiful day." "When the glowworm lights her lamp, the air is always damp." • "If the cock goes crowin ,-, to bed, he'll certainly risdowith a watery head. "When black snails cross your path,black clouds much moisture !lath "When the peacock loudly bawls, soon we'll have both rain and squalls." "When you see the gossamer flying, be 'Ye sure the air is drying." A BUCKEYE GIRL.-ILANNAII CROUSE, a girl of six years and seven months old, has been here for a few days. She is a mammoth child, weighing 161 pounds.— She has a large bony frame and powerful tnuscle,—is active and exhibits more mind than children generally do, at her age. She can lift, 'ti, said, her own weight;—is four feet and 2 inches in height, and measotes the same around the chest, taking in the shoulders, just below the shoulder joint— her limbs are large and muscular•. Her temperament is sanguine, bilious and lim [ilium, giving strength and activity. She is on her way to Columbus and Cincinnati. She is truly a prodigy in size and weight. The race of giants will he revived in Ohto and Koiltuelty.—Massillon, (Ohio) Gaz. There are is many amusing anecdotes in circulation respecting the interviews be tween Gen. Harrison and Mr. Van Buren. They are certainly.onyery good terms,atie crack jokes freely at each other's expense. Harrison's call, and tho .weather being ex tremely cold, conversation naturally turned upon it—when Gen. 11. jocosely expressed a wish, that Mr. V. B. would improve it to fill the President's icehouse, which Mr. V. B. much amused promised to der.— Alex. Gas. Pints WANTED.--The whole population of Cook County, Illinois, in which is the vil lage of Chicago, is 11,045. Of these, the number of males between 20 and .30 years of age, is 2479; of females of the same age 1220—less than one half. Of those between 30 and 40 years of age, the males are 1162, the females 590, a disproportion as bad. Under this state of things, the Chicago A. merican requests to have sent on a cargo of first rate marriageable women. TEE EXECUTION OF A WYANDOT. — The Crawford county, N. Y. Democrat gives the particulars of a trial for murder and ex ecution of a young Wyandot Indian, ac, cording to the laws of the tribe. The exe cution took place at Upper Sandusky,Craw ford county, on the sth of October last. The trial was by the males of the tribe assembled in full council. Witnesses were examined before the whole assembly, and cross examined by the accused, and after they had heard the testimony, and the ac cused in his own defence, he was by an almost unanimous vote, pronounced guilty of murder. lie was sentenced to bo shot, which sentence was executed accordingly. A case in which a husband was sued for articles furnished hie wife, after she had quitted "his bed and board," was tried in New York on Wednesday last. Judge In glis charged the jury that if a wife leave her husband of ber own free will he is not even liable for her necessaries. But if he drive her out, he is in effect giving her n bill of credit upon the world, and she binds him by all the necessary contracts she makes. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant-- the husband. U. S. SUPREME COURT.—A letter Itom Washington to the American says: "The I Supreme Court has been thronged thrnuah the day to hear the argument of Elenry Clay in the Mississippi slave case. I beard the opening of the argument; and it wasequell to almost any thing I have . henid from the elm - pent Kentuckian—as eloquent and able at the bar as in the Senate—unequalled any . where as an -advocate. Mr. Webster will reply. With ' such men for counsel, the case would excite intense interest every whore, but in the case before the Court, millibus of dollars aro involved." AGGIRESSIONI-A resolution has been introduced in the Maine Legislature, providing to repeal aggression, and "that the resources of the State be, and they are hereby placed at the disposal of the Gov. ernor, and the specific sum of 8403,000 bo appropriated, to remove the stroops of Her Molests' , Queen Victoria, now quartered on the territory called disputed by the British Government; but by the treaty 0f1783, and by the •resolutions of both Houses of Con• gress passed in 1833, and by resolves of the Legislature of Maine, clearly,' and un• equivocally a part of the rightful soil of this State." .' A POLITICAL SIGN.—The Van Burenites of Berke do not appear to consider the pre sent Governor of the Commonwealth a very 'strong candidate fin. re-election. The Readiniz Democratic Press contains an ar ticle • upon the subject, which concludes with the following language: "We feel called upon by our desire to promote the success of the democratic par ty, to say, that either Francis R. Shunk, David D. Wagoner, Samuel L. Carpenter, James Clarke, or any other new man,wmild receive a much stronger and more cordial support than the present . incumbent, froth the honesty democracy of old Berks. On a new man they .could unite with energy, without which we fear the days of democ racy are numbered for nt least some time to come, a prediction which we hope some people will bear in mind, until the election." TUE ELECTORAL VOTE OF ALADAMA...-- It, is worthy of remark, considering the statement to the contrary which has been in circulation, that, when the electoral rote of Alabama came to be opened, on Wednesday last, in presende of the Senate and nouso ot Representatives, it •was found to be "all right'? and conformable to the requisitions of the Constitution of the United States. —...sel 0 6.•-.. HORRIIILN.—We find the following in a ate number of the Lowell Courier: Lass Thursday, Dr. Huntington was call• ed to Mrs. Aryan, a miserabie iriebri*te, living in Belvidere. He left medicine for her and she was again visited on Friday and Saturday, and eac time was found to have been drinking, not withstanding the remon strances of the Physician to the contrary. She, her husband, who had just returned from the House ofCorrection, and their two little boys, aged seven and nine, all slept in the same room. Sunday morning, one of the boys got up and went into another ton ement in the same house, and told a woman whom he had found there, that his mother was dead. Some of the neighbors were immediate ly summoned, and, upon entering the room, they found that the words of the boy were true, and that his mother Nyns indeed dead. She lead died some time during the ni, ht to the trundle bed, with two boys. Oa aa other bed, in the same room, lay the beast ly husband, sound asleep, end entirt-ly.igno• rant of his wife's death. The woman had drank a pint of brandy, which she sent for by one of the boys •on Saturday; the bus band had drank according to his own con fession, a pint of rum, procured in the same way, and under the head of the wife's corpse lay. a, half-emptied rum bottle! The little boy, to protect himself from the cold, had again crawled into bed, beside his mother's dead body, where his brother was lying: FRANKLIN BANK OF BALTDIORE.- In the Report of the committee appointed to examine the affairs of this institution, the available assets of the Banks are estimated to be 8677,487,65. Its liabilities are set down at 8407,157,25, and thus, after all the demands upon the Banks are paid, there will remain of the capital stock $270,330 40. --•e•e«• ANOTHER MINE bN FIRE.—We are 111' formed that the mine of Messrs. Steen and Oliver, near Pinegrove, which took fire about a month since, continues to burn with increased fury. The vein is a very largo one . —we believe the Mammoth vein —and consequently must prove very disastrous to the proprietors of the land, who reside in Philadelphia. The mine lryond New Cas tle, which we have so frequently noticed, continues burning as usual, and the craters upon the summit of the mountain are in creasing in size and number.—Phil. Sent. Tun EDITOU. — The editor of the Boston Atlas has recently recovered ficorn severe illness, and his convalescence iv made more delightful to himself, and, we add, gratify. ing to his friends, by the knowledge that during his sickness some kind, generous, warm hearted friends placed in his printing office a new press at the cost of two thou sand dullars.—U. S. Gazette. Ozortiry.--There was a fist fight lately at Jefferson City, Mo. The combatant's were the mayor of the city and the judge of the circuit court. MSEM2 Oen STATE Dkna.--4-kVe should. suppose i "A very 111.a:11;101 y our.; ,en the there could be no doubt that eirery man iii PeiLt, rot 1en,...r• s.nee, ,-,,eee her m 0., : .; Pencsyliania; at least every tax payer, or temperance pledge, 'op,: or to:,0 every man who ever expects to he ono, is 'prelet,,i,.,l h ‘ . l .(o l ' , :cthe em , fully sensible of the colulisibe of thin State ;attention of any young t! , was to relation to her public debt; and yet if it jin anv way eiven to ietei»pe,auce. It hap were so, we are at a loss to account for the , potted that the tenderhearted damsel had, almost total supineness with which it is lei the very time she put her name to, Ihe fered•to increase 'by millions and millions paper,-a betin with whom 'he every year. Our state Debt is now about std, hut who, unfortunnirly. (according to 837,000,000: Se r mons% nothing will be ad report) took occasionally 'n leqle too mulch.' tied to it excepi the . interest- 2 01m no ap- The maiden was therefore under the painful preprintions are made for pUblic imprOVe- necessity of addressing her 'fondly loved meets; and those already constructed afford one' a polite note, stating her situation, the a sufficient revenue to keep the whbels of nature of the pledge she had taken, and the government,moving, which is hardly a sup- utter.,lmpoesibility of her 'ever after receiv poaable case—in,eleven years our State Debt ing his attention as a lover. love you as will be not far from'severayfive millions of purely es ever,' was the languag e of the dollars. In twenty. two years it will . be note, 'but my word has gone forth , and hen nearly one hundred and fifty millions,. and er bids me to respond to your kindeeseonly in flirty three years; three hundredmillions• in the light of a friend. . The young. man of dollars. h not this a little startling? A found himself correpletely subdued. The • ',tate, debt of THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS! words 'I love you as purely as ever,' Were Yet it must reach thatnnormous sum simply too potent. Determined not to forfeit such by the system now matted, of contracting devoted affection, he sought the earliest op. new loans to pay the interest on those,al• portunity to become a temperance advocate ready contracted. And ifavo go on making himself, signed the pledge, and is now extravagant nppropriatione every year as member cf the Washington Temperance we have been doing, and there still seems Society. Young love's dream with them a disposition to do, there may be one here has already brightened into engagement, dred millions more be added to the above and . is; we understand, shortly to be con amount. The course our State is now par- summated in matrimony.. ,Powerful and suing will inevitably lend to this alarming' be a utiful i s thy i ti n gon e,: , , o h women." state of things, as that day will succeed night. ,• • • - With such facts staring them in tho fitee, does it not become the people to ponder well this matter; and will not the Legislature hesitate before they take any steps tlftit may hasten the bankruptcy of the State. When they know that Pennsylvania is to have her, share of the proceeds of the Public ,Lands, or some other means of raising money to defray the expenses of government and car ry on our Internal Improvement system is provided, then they will be justified in ma king appropriations. Until then neither the interest of the State nor sound policy requires it.—flar. Citron. Cuprous!—At the parish church m this town, on Sunday, last, a man of about forty years of age attended the morning service, and among the banns of marriage published ho listened to those of his own father and his own sonl Probably such an occurrence is not in the memory of that traditionary person, the "oldest inhabitant."—Black burn (Eng,.) Standard. GENRRAL HARRISON'S HOUSEHOLD, the Madisonian says, will not be completed un til atier the opening of the spring, when Mrs. Harrison, now at North Bend, is ex pected to join the General. Mean time the domestic arrangements of the White House will be superintended by the family. of Mr. Taylor, the General's son-in-lr, who will be his private Secretary. Temperance Department. BE WARE OF THE MODERATE USE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS. 1. It describes neither quantity nor strength is unkithomable as the abyss, nr.d uncertain as the wind. 2. It is a great deceiver; promising health and long life, yet destroying more than war, fionino, or the plague. 3. It is the firxt instalment of inebriation, usually followed by a ready disposition to pay the rest. 1 4. It is the popular leaven which is threat ening to loavon the whole lump. 5. It is a sweet morsel in the mouth, but gravel in the belly• , G. I t is the A B Cof drinking, the pie. I ture•boolc. i 7. It is a 'regular quack. medicine, ma ' king splendid promises but performing no cures, and yet demanding full pay. 8. It the. starting chair to the workhouse, the prison, the abylum, and tho gallows. 9. It is the doctor's easy chair, lined with yellow, white and brown, in which all the patients feel quite happy. 10. It is a light fingered gentleman who feelsevety.corner of the drawer, .and the very . bottom of the purse. . 11. It is an inclined plane of rapid descent smooth its marble, and slippery as glass 12. It is a . beautiful serpent, whose fangs and deadly venom , are concealed bribe dazzling - of its:ceits, 13. It is hyPocresy personified; and af fected out side sobriety,. but all agitation and uncleanliness within. 14. It is a ship on a troubled sea, without anchor, rudder or compass. 15. It is the landlord's birdlime, by which he secures his victims and shuts them up in his cago. 16. Lt is a delightful. avenue lined with beautiful flowers, charmed with melodious sounds, but leading to the caverns of the dead. 17. It is an ignus fatuus, tempting its fa- ded followers over trembling bogs, and tumbling them down a frightful precipice. 19. It is the license which says to the barrel, and the jug, "by prescriptive right you ere here." 19. It is the whirlpool of rum in which thousands have sunk to rise no more. 20. It is the enemy's flaming sword, by which he keeps up a perpetual war with the temperate reformer. 21.1 t is an angel of light assuming a smiling countenance, but is in reality the chief of the powers of darkness.—English Paper. A TE3IMANCI: STORY.—The Balti more Clipper relates a pleasant anecdote in relation to n'Temperanee pledge, thus: ......0 0 eur,•.• P , O. 1 A: 44 . 7 71 [1 . eJ o Rproirr ON 'ITATPI7O2I,iNCE. ,mEmpnr7 Mr. Reed, from the Commipee no the Judiciary, to whom was referred the Me morial of the State Tempernoce Conven tion, made a report, which was read as fol., Tows, viz: That they have bestowed on the mem• rial committed, the corNideratlorrto which , its importance, end the high respectability„ of the body from which it emanated, enti- tled it. The memorialists pray, that"Cerrv l minces of both [louses of the Legislatorn,, may be anthorized . with power to send for, persons and papers, to institute a thorough inquiry into many end various crimes pro, duced by the use of intoxicating drielts. It seems- to the committee, to be inexpedient ..- to accede to this. suggestion. Were 'any other question: than that as to the beet rem edy for a confessed evil, before 1.15; such an inquiry might: be desirable.. But: as it is the frightful results of the use. and abuse of spirituous liquors, do not need the illusl tration which legislative inquiry could ar ford. They are the subjects, of deilv, per. sonal observation—of the . current ohEorvii - !inn of every one who walks the smj ,, ts of our cities or villages, or who, trailing, to : the records of guilt, the close and : easy:re lationship of crimp, can see the lep,itioeite progeny of a parent, -when lilz ....eme.s.is ticy. er effaced. -No legislative investigati(ti it necessary here. . : ' : The memorial also represents the wish of the Convention to be, that alaw, be passed, ' authorising a popular vote to be ~taken in the different counties, on tho questioniwheth, or licences for the sale ofspiritueus liquors ought to tie tolerated. This scheme .of leg. : illation, your committee think liable to ob.' : *lion. The appropeinte object of the e lective franchise is, the choice of represen tatives, in the public colnleik, and agents for public trusts. The theory of our gov. eminent as its true felinalti..n, confidence on the part of the constituent.. It is the representative who is to determine on the remedy which an evil dent - nide, or in oth. or wortlg, it is through the representative that the people act to relation to reined:es. Ilthere,be difficulties in determining what remedy is best, the representative must meet and overcome them, as best lie may; but it wotilAc worse than unlee.s if every. question of mbrals o a r economy; which arises to puzzle a legidater,- wore to be , referred in popular decision, and our elections, instead: of being a choice arming competent indi• viduels, he converted into means of (loci.. ding on mere measures', of government. Nor would it be possible to separate such questions as the one proposed to be,submio! . ted from party or political considerations. The. same instinct of party would seize on one side or the other of the "retail" ques tion, and temperance would be made to minister to nt least one of the many species of intemperance, which periodically agitate the public mind. "License," and. "no li cense," would be the watchword of party conflict, and the result would be not a con clusive determination of the question sub mitted for decision, but the boast ofsome cunning partizan, who, having electioneered on temperance, would forget his obligations even to the name, as soon as he was elected. Let the Legislature, this Legislature, or that which is to follow it, do its duty, and submit no questions of the legislation to the popular decision. The prayer of the memorialists as to the amendment of the tavern license law, by which public notice of all applications for licenses shall be given, and the names of those who recommend a tavern stand, published, meets with the approbation of the Committee. They have accordingly re ported a Rill to that eirclet, (Mn. 73.)—They (do not doubt it will predece favorable results. Such a publication can do no harm and is, it seems to the C o mmittee. requited for the security of neigh nin e Any rigorous ly penal enactments on ihe subject o f th e sale of spiritn , ll4 I;(1 , 1 -,r, would ur queation. ably do mono harm than goes - I.—Public o pinion, now stimu'a:cil to unusual activity, and duetted by hi g h tlitlrA tied religious influences, can do no more good than the extreme vigor of penal gt,i I l i ps. 73. 1 . Nn ;et ;upplerilf - !ortr v . to lho vuri• ,-ii: Acts reliitia to la% ern lieere:e 4 ' P .J. I ) 4 ...7.9:r5.3 u4.ra..wi J4.~f~.r'..~
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