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TILE GARLAND.
—"With sweetest flowers enrieled
Prom various garaeuicuird with care,"
A titiOntrnit. lot.tatt.43 VA:ANFAIL
of futile. Atlttr
Ohl when I trod life's early wept,
Hope winged my fleeting hours;
I saw tto Abdo* ih tier rays,
No serpent in her flowerd;
I thought on &ye tif present joy,
And years of future bliss,
Nor &coined that sotroiy could olio,
Se bright a world as this.
Alas! the fairy dreams I wove,
Soon front my fancy fled;
The friends who owned my tender love,
Wore numbered with the dead;
tpon their pallid lips I pressed
Affection's parting kiss;
they loft us for a world of rest,
A brighter World than this.
Not' did the dpieione *orld opply
tieh of Opening life;
Pelee thte its hooking flattery,
Neon iohd ite bitter etrife,'
And then I fires tician to 160 k
Poi - pirrer ? inuiv '
Arid brio to trace in God's! ortn Wok,
A brighter world then
My wounded heart desired relief,
I found the good I eought;
And now, in trial and hi grief,
I feel the soothing thought;
That though the worldling may deePairi
When robbed of earthly bliss,
The Christian humbly hopes to Aare;
A brighter world than this. .
Mtl@qlffitt2/11CaSTEIrDlOo
11180VIUS, HEII(3.II.ANtg UM AND ?Ohl
rtir, 1840.
Whoever sojourns tit Naples, were it
only but a dtiy, ekperiencee the irresistible
&Arts of going to is'ee What is passing at the
helical of that orator which perpetually
sMnkes. It ie especially toward evening,
when the sun has disappeared beneath the
fibriten, that the vapors'of Vesuvius assume
the dattge tint, and deck its summit with a
bouquet of brighter whiteness. At Regina
You find horse, donkeys, and conductors,
Who CbtiVey travellers .half way up the
Mountain ma spot called the "hermitage."
The gild riad is not an uninteresting one.
Here nature not yet dead. You pass
through vineyards planted in ashes, which
yield did celeb'reted tatichrynii Chrice wine,
two aorta of'Which are much inferior to
their fatties thendo— r.;
e some nameless Irons,
the foremo.st sentinels of vegetation, which
the nett eruption will devour; and lastly
you reach the "hermitage," surrounded on
all sides, save one, by the lava of 1794,
1810, 1822. Here you alight and enter a
region or chaos. No' more trees, vegeta
tion, birds on insects are to be seen. Ev
ery thing is dark, bri,tiing. with points, rent
into deep and rugged fractures,. covered
with scoria, of a sulphurous smell, which
tear yourTeit before they burn them. You
are now at tho foot of the cone: and all that
remains` to be done is to ascend vertically
along tlui exiernal' vides of the volcano, halt.
ing on yOtkr way to cast a glimce at a
plateau, called La Somata, whichi no doubt,
al'ond time, the main focus of Vesuvius.
. If year heart has not failed you along
this lailder . of dried lava, you will reach the
top of the . Volcano in three quarters of - an
hour. Ilere the sight begins—a terrible
original, and unexpected one,'notwithstand
ing allthe descriptions- giver, of it. lm
aginoii . . funnel five hundred metres deep,
whaie upper edges present innumerable
crevicei, while from the lower part rise
cliiuds sUlPtiurious vapor, which escape
by
.numberlesd apertures, bordered with
dusuola lively orange - color. If you stop to .
admire in the distiince . the . city of Naples,
softly spreading. round the gulf, and at your
feet the ever-smelting crater, you feel the
tire Penetrating year boall; the guide will
urge yen tir , walk to avoid accidents. The
ground, when strongly Pt ruA, yields a cer•
la i n „ l oathe—in - MO, and as you go round
th e mountain you meet with gaping aper
tures, at bottom of which burns a red
and fatt,sl,l3 one. I have plunged into one
of these pits a long chesnut tree stick, fresh
cut and covered with its still moist bark,
and it has instantly caught fire. As you
kneel before these infernal gates to ascer
tain their depth,you di'stinctly perceive with
in hand reach the flume bending upon itself,
dense, qthet,and almost limpid: it discharges
clouds of sulphurous acid gas,which excite n
cough, and soon compel the observer to quit
the spot. The ground, if , such name can
be given to the dangerous floor which
covers the orifice of the volcano, isetrewed
with 'grey lava, ashes, melting sulpher and
p 3 rite substances, whence escaperoat inter
vals a white smoke which affects your eyes
and lungs, and yet you cannot retire .with•
out reluctance from the awful scene. One
can scarcely conceive how that crater, to
narrow in its lower part, has vomited heaps
of lava large enough to form a mountain
lour times as large as the Vesuvius itself,
without mentioning the ashes, small peb
bles, and masses of boiling. water, which
the wind has carried to enormous distancee.
Notwithstanding its tearful aspect, the
Vesuvius may be easily approached, even
when its eruptions take place. The lava
itself, whose progress is so formidable and
inflexible, advances with extreme slowness.
Ono has time to avoid or fic before it. The
slightest obstacle stops it; it turns round
objects, burns them if combustible, and en
velopes and petrifies them ns it cools, if•
they be not , so. Thus it is that the city of
flerculanceum has been sealed into a semi•
metallic mass, and as it were, cast in the
lava which now covers it. Pompeii has
disappeared under - a discharge from Vesu•
vius—under a shower of ashes and little
stones, which have gradually though rapid
ly covered it, just as certain Alpine villages
disappear beneath the snow, in our severe
winters. Such is the-reason why so rrluch
money is expended in uncoveting but a
few small parts of Herculanceorn, namely,
its theatre,
,which continues hid in utter
darkness; while a third part of Pompeii has
been celared, exhibits itself to the open sky,
and renders us contemporary with its in
habitants. Lit us, therefote, hasten drisvn
the Vesuvius, and view itti ravages, which
have miraculously preserved for us in lie
whole splendor, a city of thiity thousand
souls, buried for eighteeh hundred years
past.
Herculanctsum and Poinpeii admit both
very distant from the of Vesuvine.
They are nolo)•separated frein it by inliabi
tants; and Cultivated opticealitive been con
quered from the fat a, and rectWered ['rem
this volcano. The village of Portici its
built urns Tilt iti:so.F.4 of the firiii Of thtde
two .0 it les,. which weiat. oss fined
of its death, and into the tomb of viffueli
one decendsa6 into a mine, by'sort, of
shaft, ending at ihd theatre, *herd, it is
conjectured,the inhabitants were disembled,
when the eruption shrpriadd them. It Wee
in 1689 that the ruin's of the city made
their appearance for the first tithe in tin
excavation mhde at raodoin, which was
resumed in 1730, and finally organized in
1739, with admirable ducces.S. The die
covery of the theatre and of every thing
else had taken place since that period. 'the
theatre is of Greek arehitecture; it is orna
mented with d fine front and With marble
columns standing on the stage itself; the
spectatcirs occupied 29 scows of steps, With
a gallery above embellished with bronze
stattles. One can still•distinguish the pla
ces allotted to the magistrates, the scene
behind which thoz, actors withdretii and
number of objects Which excite in the trav
eller mingled astonishment and emotion.—
There are also at Hercalanceum, a forum,
sirrounded with porticos and temples,which
are dlmost all of theta deinaged, and a jail
with old rusty iron bars, to which thd pri
soners were chained—a melancholy feature
of all times and places, and a monotonouti
emblem of aboietyat all periods. As you
leave these excavations, Which have as yet
made little progresd, and cannot be much
extended without endangering the safety of
Portici, you distinctly pfiectiiile several
strata of lava proving beyond doubt that
Herc.iltinctsuin Was' droWded in repeated
eruptions of Vesuvius.
The difficulty of carrying on the excava
titine at so groat a depth, and',. under the
very foundationd'ot a new town; has caused
the ruins of Herculanceum to be althodt
abandoned for theed of pte
sent afar more striking' interest: At, Her-
I culanceum there are only catacombs. At
Pompeii the ROthabif entirely revive; the
houses sttitid, and are furnished add orna
mented with picturesque painting's; the cel
lars are sleeked as Well as the 'tables; in
more than one dwelling' theidintier has been
found on the table, and the skeletims . oldie
guests around it, and then yoU enter ()Very
where on'the seine floor; amid ad the ashes,
which lie but a few ntetrei thiCkujihn the an.
dent buildings tire clehied, the tbWii eti:
peara, as ours dente to light again When
the snow melts coithtrita.
You arrive by a suhurb wholly lided With
Etonian toinbe; and Walk over ' a Rennin
pal/or:nem; WOrii out by Rornitd vehicleq,
yeti may 'Alter therein, thgrd are the stables
with rings to fasteathe horeeef cicise' by it
the farrier with'hia sign over the. dobi. If
you penetrate into one of these Writhe, you
will find urns containing aehiss; air, rind
fragments of calcined bone. 18yary 'where
are displayed inscriptions, uneifaced, digni
fied and touching, such as this' epitaph dedi
cated by a woman to her husband:'
to the frietid of het' soul. Let us advance;
we are in town. To the right of the gate
you behold the guardian'a sentry box cut
into the stone. raker the footway, 'for
there are footways at Pompeii, Roman foot-
G. trArszalro , rorT Zowni\r, ZDITOR Tw pnoznivron.
"the liberty to know, to utter, and to , y
CU2iPU 4 TOZEttbn2(IIO ZPcdcie malt ac e aaaa.
ways, with post at intervals on both-sides;
footways wherein ono ceases not to gaze on
wheel ruts,made eighteen hundkd years ago!
Whom do you wish to bo taken to? Yon
have but to speak—the names are written
on the door of every house, in large red let
sere. Here is an apothecary's shop, with
his drugs in Phials, with surgical instru
ments and balsams still, yielding a smell.—
Here are far different things, by my faith!
Enter, you have nothing to fear; but I dare
not tell you whore you are, unless you per
ceive the sign oiler the door. What think
you it? and yet facing one of those houses
stands a temple , of Vesta!
Let us , then pay a few visits; we are in a
baker's shop, and hero is the flour grind
stone; suppose a stone sugar loaf, . covered
with, an ' extinguisher also of stone—rub
one against 'the other, after .throwing some
corn between them, and you have a Roman
mill. The wretched pica of machinety
was entrusted to the hand of Maims. But
1 have resolved a surprise for you; here is
some bread—do you read the baker's name i
hollowed out of the carbonized pancake?l
take and break it. Open that cuphoard,ynu
find there preserved olives, dried figs, W-
I tile, and eatables of (+eery description. A
sauce-pan has been carried to the Naples
Museum, containing a piece of tneat as well
preserved as by Mr. Abbert's process.—
What a number of meals Vesuvius inter
rupted ou that woful day !
I, nevertheless, do not think that the
Romans were great eaters. I have care
fully explored a number of kitchens and di
ning rooms of Pompeii, and I have found
even in the richest houses, but very trifling
cooking apparatus and miniature table uten
sils.. Their plates were real saucers, and
the tables upon which the dinner was ser
ved up but little stands, in general of stone
or marble, which could hold but ono dish
at a time. The guests lay down around as
soldiers around their mess. What is ad
mumble, delightful, charming, rind over
whelming to us barbarians of the nineteenth
i century, is the exquisite pureness and deli.
cacy of. shape of all the utensils which ser
ved in Roman domestic life. One must see
those charming little bronze calefileters,
(for every thing was bronze) those tripods, l
scales, beds, chairs, those graceful and so
ingeniously wrought shields, ivhich fill up
the whole rooms at the. Naples Museum.
One, must, above all, sec the toilet arsenal
of the Roman ladies, their combi, tooth pica
I curling irons, and the pots of vegetable or
mineral rogue found in a boudoir. Thus
the Roman ladies used moue and deceived
people, just as is practiced now n days; they
wore, like our those neckTaCeg, rings
land ridiculous ear-rings,-which add nothing
to beauty and assist nut ugliness. How
times resemble ono another, in spite of the
space that separates them. •
About thirty streets of Pori-mei' are now
restored to light; it is a third part of the
town:—The walls which formed it's aniient
inclbsure have bead recognized; a magnifi
cent amphitheatre, a theatre, a forum, a
temple of Isla, that of Venus, and a number
ofother buildings have been cleared. The
secret stairs by which the priests of those
times slily crept to (prompt the oracles,
have been detected. On beholding so ma
ny monuments which display in so lively a
manner the importance of public, and the
independence of private life among the Ro
mans, it is impossible to resist .a feeling of
sadness and melancholy. Behold, along
that fall of earth, and the breast of a woman
who was buried alive, and stiffened by death
—behold the stones of that wall, worn by
the rubbing of the topes—examine that
guard house covered with earricatures of
soldiers—one might suppose that the Ro
man people still existed, and that we were
strangers in one oftheir towns. Who
knows what future discoveries may be Made
in those august ruins? Murat employed
uponthem two thousand men.every year.
Only sixty men and ..elOOO are WAY em
ployed upon them. The excavations pro
ceed. in consequence, With dismal sloWness
however great may be the interest which
his Sicilian Majesty takes in their success.
It is npt in Rome—devastated and disfigured
Rome, that one must go to study the Ho:,
mass; it is to Pompeii. Pompeii, as regards
antiquities, is worth all Italy together.
TO THE IiENNsI/LVANIA.
' [coNciamci).]
But this engrossing subject is not the
only one for which legislation was nee
ded. Nor is it the only one in which the
wishes of the people have been frustrated
by the unstable and preverso will of the
Executive.
At least ten Eiecutive vetoes disfigure
the Joninale of this session, and in but one
of them has the Governor pretended to in
didAir other` than considerations of local
expediency of Which the replesentatives of
the people believed they were the begt
jedgee. And to thesingle,cooptiori.straine
OS it may seem to onr fellow citizens, so
few orwhonaare igherant of the provisions
of the Colisithrtion wider, which we hve.the
Goveinor (enacted his objection on a clause
in an obsolete, ,Constitution which more
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than two 0 3 ; ego, was abrogated by a
vote of the peciple. Nor had the Execu
jive the manliness either to admit the error
41* error it was, or assign the true cause of
the misrepre section until it had been dis
Covered and rebuked by the vigilant action
of the Representatives of tho people. For
proof of this assertion, now made with re
, gret but from a sense of justice, the under-
Signed refer to Journals, where it will be
seen that in a message o n the 10th Fain.
ADDRESS
ry last, the Governor quoted Ds in force
the old Constitution as justifying his nega
tive to an important bill, and that on the
12th, now however, until after the mis-quo
tation had been detected in the House of
Representatives, ho acknowledged it in 'a
supplemental communication and attribu
ted it to a mistake in transcribing. No
one can read the passage with tlse context
and believe that it was an accidental error.
We ask the people to examine the Journ
als and then judge for themselves.
This is the solitary instance in which
the Governor has frustrated our Legisla
tion on account even of pretended constitu
tional scruples. A few instances of his
abuse of the power the constitntion has
conferred upon him are fresh in our 'reeol
lection. They will show to the people
how the public time has been wasted by
the constant and frivolous Executive inter
ference.
It became necessary to supply the o
mission of a Prothonotary in lluntangdon
I county to note the record of a deed baring
an entailed estate—A'petition was presen
ted, referred axkl.eiamined, and a ball to
the effect rehuired was passed into law.
No remonstrance was presented though am
ple time was afforded. No public policy
was effected. The bill passed in connee.
lion with an important public ball exten
ding to all Religious societies withuut dis
tinction, the right to hold lands for church
el and burial grounds Notwithstanding
the public exigency, and for no adequate
reason, the executive returned the measure
with his unexplained objections. The
stein of religious intolerance was len on
our Statute Book, and the public time was
wasted by the necessity ofmenacting thlit
which was confessedly unexceptionable.
lithe people of Lancaster county desire
to abolish an useless court prostituted to
party uses, the Executive differing in open
ion, at suggesting no constitutional' difficul
ty, vetoes the bill but suggests the refer
ence of the question tq the votes of a por
tion of the people of the country.
If according to his suggestion, the ques
tion is referred to the decision of-all who
contribute to the support of the court have
a right to decide on its continuance, the
obduracy of Executive will is not softened
and he vetoes the bill again, becausti Ise
thinks on the question differently from the
Representatives whom the people of the
very county has elected.
But eform'than all—the Governor will
not permit the Legislature to regulate the
dicipline of a county prison—a bill plodding
fur a change in the mode of appointment
of lospectorinilaisions, and - Doorkeepers
of a prison in Chester county was passed
by both Rouses, and has been vetoed by
the Governor for no other pretext than that
which differing views of expediency offer-
ded. The people must judge of this abuse I I
of power.
If thisbe tolerated—if on all questions
of local interest when the people have spo
ken first in the choice of representatives,
then through those representatives, and the
Legislature has exercised its sound and
honest discretion, the Executive is to inter•
fere and thus defy the popular will, fur bet
ter would it be to dispense with the com
plicated system of popular representation.
its expense and its delays, and give to the
government that unity of design which ap
pears in the view of the Executive would
stem to be its perfection.
'At any other period than this, the under
signed are free to admit they believe a diff
erent course would have been pursued by
the Governor. A wanton abuse of power
without object, they are disposed to attrib
ute to no public functionary. But on -the
eve of an election, when the incumbent of
the Executive office is a candidate for re
, election, the infirmity of human nature,
always devolved in the tenaciousness of offi
ce, is only overcome by a spirit of indepen
dence, such as even by his friends is not
claimedfor the present Executive.—To re
tain this possession of patronage and power,
to'
. cultivate factions or party in fl uences
howeier minute—whether among the tip
staves of a Mayor's Court, or turokev of a
Colmtvt goal;-• , ;•to secure - all doubtful friends
;-:-I•;:disperele With the execution of tho laws
—to pardon admitted libellers before trial
and give a -plenaVy •-•indulgence to them to
violate all la w - hisafter; are some of the
fruits of the privilege of re-election opera
ting on unscrupulous partisans. The un
dersigned have had no
_reasou to regard
the present pos.:iv:ors of power to be excep
tions to the rule. .
Bensible of this exposure to temptation
and yielding to the expression of public o
pinion on this point, the undersigned at an
early period of the session procured the
passage of an amendment to the Constitu
tion limiting the Executive to a single term.
!fon any point the public voice has spoken,
it is on this. The promise of the venera•
ted EtARRISON, a promise, the sincerity of
which even political animosity did nut ques
tion that in no event would he be a candi
date for re-election, and his opinion that
such an amenCment to the Federal Consti
tution was desirable, has consecrated this
One Term principle in the affections of the
people of Pennsylvania. and each day's ex
perience tends to ripen that sentiment into
deliberate judgment. Does any one doubt
that had the present Governor of Pennsyl
vania been intelligible for a second term,
he would not have more faithfully dischar
ged his high daties and would have raised
himself beyond the sphere of party move
ments to which he seems to be confined!
Unfavorable as is the judgment which the
undersigned have been compelled to form
of the present Executive they have no hes-
itation in saying that his conduct and policy
would have been dill:new had the tempts
lion to do wrong been withheld.
Before the 4th ofMarch last, when the
present Governor was re-nominated, the
amendinent to the Constitution had pas
sed the Senate where it was resisted by
the friends of the Adwinultration, and
was under consideration in the House, of
Representatives. It afterwards passed the
House of Representatives by an overwhelm
ing majority, but eight members voting in
the minority, and they all accredited friends
of the Executive.
It must next indirectly be submitted to
the people, alivays the last and serest re
sort, and by them at the next general elec.
lion it must be decitled.—Wo submit it to
you as part our acte. Having weighed
it well, having looked at it in all its rela
tions to the interests of the people which
we were sent here to guard, we submit
to you and to your decision now as ever
shall wo submit. The next legislature
must revise this act of ours and ive appeal
to von to make this the test hereafter.
There was one matter of great public in
terest to which the attention of the under
signed was early called. They refer to the
condition of the public works, and to the
abuses which were supposed to east there.
There was a prevalent opinion among the
people that the Canal Commissioners, de
pendent immediately on the Executive, had
prostituted their high functions, and had
bestowed on personal end political favorites
a large share of the patronage which un•
happily for the people, they are author.
ized .to dispense. The public has been star
tied from its confidence by the astonishing
disclosure that the public works during the
last two years under the care ofthe present
Canal Board have cost for management and
repair the sum of two million one hundred
and fifty-jive dollars=or an average of ,
one million and 'seventyfive thousand and
forty dollars for each year of GoVernor
Porter's administration, whilst during the
late administration "the average- even at pe
nods of extraordinary accident never excee
ded eight hundred and six theusand stir
hundred and ninety six dollars. Unable to
account for this by any theory but that
which is founded on a conviction of the
want of integrity of the public agents and
earnestly desiring to restore public confi.
denco to the tringniflicent system of improve
rnenta for which somuch has been expended
and in the success of which the best hepes
of the people are centred, the House of Rep.
resentatives soon niter its Organization in.
stituted d thorough investigation into the
conduct of the Canal Board. Its results
Will soon be before the world and to those
results we direct your • et4l . Y attention.
They justify suspicion—they authorize and
demand . the strongest reprobation—they
are the results of Calm and deliberate en
cjuiry in which justice was fairly dorie, am•
pie opportunity Of •exculpation afforded;
witnesses were publicly examined and
cross examined, and the 'Canal Commision
era will stand before the public, convicted
on unquestioned evidence of gross and pal.
pable abuse of potver. Who can wonder at
the increasing expenditure on our public
works, when they road and • hear of each
instances as ono or two, which taken at ran
dom from the report of the investigating
Committee, are but specimens of B worse
and more startling developements hereafter.
It became necessary to purchase ropes
for the inclined planes. The best article
was offered by manufacturers Of unquestion
ed merit a'nd could have been procured for
the aggregate• amount of $7,877, a political
partizan offered it to the , disposers of the
public bounty for 89,049. The competi-
tion was no imager equal, the partizan ob
tained the contract, and on this one article
the Commonwealth lost eleven hundred
and seventy-one dollani.
It bedame necessary to relay eleven
miles of railroad near the city of Philadel
phia. It was hi unquestioned proof that
this work• might have been done and well
done for thirty.six thousand dollars. it
was done and cost the Coinmonwealth fifty
tour thousand five hundred and eighty-six
dollars, causing a loss of more than eigh•
teen thousand dollars; for reason no doubt
as patriotic as those which" regulated the
purchase of ropes.
Among the laigest and most important
work on our Canal line is the construction
of the Reservoir near Hollidaysburgh.
For this work three officers were made and
the contract given to a 'political friend
at what cost to you felloW-citizens, will thus
appear:
For grubbing and clearing, two contrac.
tot's offered to do it for $950; John Mitchell
charged s7oo,"and has the contract.
For rock Excavation, two contrActors off-
Fret thirty nine eents,and Mr. Mitchell has
it for forty-ezght cents: '
For common excavation below water—
two contractors offered, ono twenty and
one twenty-four cents, but Mr Mitchell °ti
ered thirty-three cents and he has• the con•
tract- too. •
For good earth embankment one con
tractor offered seventeen cents and one 15
cents, but Mr. Mitchell - has done it„for.
cents.
For coarse stuff' embankment , one
.con
tractor offered nineteen cents, another set%
enteen cents., and Mr.
,Mitchell has it for
thirty cents, and so it will appear through.
out till it Is demonstrable thnt the loss to
the Commonwealth in this one, wolf( wilt
not be loss than twenty thousand dollats.
On the western reservoir tt was serer • ..
tained that it cost the state upwards of twen
ty thousand dollars to clear. from timber
about four hundred acres.
7. 1 . 4 2 . 440.0ci['0,q,
!lad no other indueemmit eiteifed," there
would hove been in these disclosurea etiorigh
to j , ihtify immediate action and weliange in
the tenure of rheie Canaj ComMiiiionere.
A Bill 'was immediately , matured 'to that
of with the design of changing the ftn•
ere and 'giving to the Leaislathre
. and lho
Governor a concurrent potver of reppeint•
merit.—But the tenaciousness with 'which
ovrer holds on to patrenaAe'y was' net , to be
relaxed, and this measure' adapted - to the
wishes of the people an'd their neressities
fell before the veto power. • The Executive
sugg,esied a reference to a vote of the peo
ple, to that E. uguestion We have aeaeded,arld
there is now in his hands a Bill to carry it
into effect: Its fate we do not pretend 'to
conjecture. Let the people wait on the Ex
ecutive decision. • •
11'e are now about to separate and to
mingle again with our constituebte. We
shall find them oppressed by difficulty and
embarrassment such as we' have labortd
anxiously to alleviate • and rerbove. The
period will soon come when the popular will
is to be again determihrd into whose hands
the Executive power of the State is to he
entrusted for the next three year's. What
that decision will be we do not doubt. The
events ofthe winter have added to the ne
cessity of a change and to that change a•
lone must the people' look for permanent
substantial relief.
SENATORS.--Samuel . M.. Barclay, Nn
theme! Brooke, Abraham Brower, Elihu
Case, Thomas •E. Cochran, , William Flies
ter, John T: HuddlesOn, Rilbert P. , Man
ley, James Mathers, 'John - L Pearson,
William B. 'Reed, Henry 'S' Spackman,
Joseph M. Sterrett, John Strohm, Charles
C. Sullivan, Thomas Williams, John H.
nrItEBENTATtvra:---Hugh And reit,
James Bunks, Richard Bard, 'Joseph A.
Bell, Jacob Bruni3r, John 'D Chriiman, S.
•H Clark. William K. CorreY, P. Cox
John' Cumnime, GeOrge Darsie,-
Dilworth', James D. Dimlap, Jnillua P.
Eyre, George. L. Fauss, Jocob Foreman,
John Funk, Robert Futhey, Jodi b Grati,
Johd Fianna, Joseph Higgins, B. Mr
flincFi
man, M. T Kenneday, Aarbn , ..Kerr, Chris
tian Kieffer, Edward E. LaW, Jonathan
Lethertratn, Isaac Lightner, Samuel Liv
ingeton,•Joseph, M'Clure, Daniel Went cly
Ner Miciclleswarth, J. G.,Mike ; James
Montgomery, Benjamin &fusser, haat Mey
er, J. S. Pearson, Benjarriiit Pennell; Joseph
Pumroy, John Rush, gict'pben Skinner,-
Rush Smith, Daniel M. Smitsgr, Andrew
Snively, James Sprott, &rah Titus; ladob
Steele, Philip Von Neida; Daniel Washa
baugh, Wm. A. Citibb. •
Harrisburg, May A, 1840:
BurtoiLinY.-4-The afore or Me'itsts, Thbm
as & Co. was entered yesterdry Morning
through the trap'doer of the• roof, the (Loot
of the vault ofwened, and money to the al.
mount of = 8150 stolen. The' motley is
principally in goid and silvdr, and the re
snainder- in bank notes.. The manner or
the robberry -would seem to indicate' a
knowledge, on the part of thil thief; with the
Store, but suspicion is at lauli. Sob adverJ
tiaement in another column ' .
LOVE 131 AUSTRALIA.--TlllB is fl curious
matter.—The lover goes to a neighboring
tribe, flies' his 'eagle.'glance' upon, the,
maid that fi lls his eye, Watches 'her move
ments with perseve'rance day by .daY,
tintil she happens to stray in some retired,
ipot, by grove or rivulet, then, intransport
of ardor, rushes upon her Witha'raigh club
or wooden sword, firkicks her down, beats
her ever the head until she !poodles tiense
less, then drags her rift° hi,. own tribe, and
receives thebhishing conf'ession than her
heart is wdu. They then•become man and
wife. A complete illuetretion, this' cuss '
torn, of the saying that "a faint heart nev.,
or won fair •ladv."
-=•wow--
FOLLOW TUE PLonoti.-LGood hind' 6-
mite a pleasant and refreshing smell when'it is dug up, and often otiords relief to inval. ,
ids. It is said to bo highly - beneficial for
consumptive man to follow the plough-- thuf
is, walk behind the ploughman, as he turns
up the furrow.
TIIE Moox.—A Dublin , correspondent
of an English paper, , gives_ the following
observations of Dr. Robinson, of Armegh
on the appearance of the moon; as seen
through Lord Oxrineritown'S immense tel
escope.
"The sharpness of the rocks 'and , hetike
in the moon is quite surprising; lira this
fact alone would show that air and wat.'r
are absent.' He states atlint no volcanft;
action is now at work in the menu; nor; has .
been since the invention'telescopes:,
Ono of its mountains is nearly 17,000 feet
in height ahtivo the plain from which it 'ri.
sea. Generally, however, they are about
5,000 feet.
A man is supposed to tplet'ably well
occupied, whcn he hits a wire ou'une . atini a
baby on the other, currying a basket and a,
cline in Ins hand, a eiJnr in hiq woulh, and
his hapetul heir holding oa fie akitt 01-hut
Coat.•
TO MAKE NAMEFOIZoW Vlll.lllN—When
peaches and neetnrine4 are about ha l f ripe,
, ,
says the Charleaturi Patriot, cover the slue'
exposed te,tile pen ‘9ll. at.ipax or, specs or ,
wax, in any deiired klit,itie or ~form,- which
hinders. the !tin fictin eoloring2tbe part noy.
erect; and, when the fruit is kit*, end 4 be
wax removed, it' will he found marked' in
the mellow described.