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DEeIIOCX.ITIC TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOHN BANKS ,
OF BERKS COUNTY.
SENATE,
rllich4~l G. Gla-rksom,
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Interesting and Important.
THE LETTERS OF RESIGNATION
The following Letters of the Secretary
of the Treasury and the Attu:lnv-General,
resigning their respective trusts, have been
placed in our hands for publication.—. Nut.
ltitclligencer.
IVA'ttzNc • roti. Sept. 11, 1841.
Sir:—Circumstances have occurred in
the course of your administration, and
chiefly in the exercise by you of the veto
power, which constrain me to believe that
my longer continuance in office as a mem
ber of your Cabinet will be neither agree
able to you, useful to the country, nor hon
orable to myself .
Do me the justice, Mr. President, to
belteve3hat this conclusion has been adop
ted neither capriciously, nor in any spirit of
party feeling or 'personal hostility, but
from a sense of duty, which, mistaken
though it may he, is yet so sincerely enter.
tained, that 1 cheerfully sacrifice to it the
advantai , es tool distinctions of my office.
Be pleased; then:4on , , to accept this my
resignation of the ofilee of Attorney Gen
eral of tho United Status.
Vary respectfully, !,uurq, &c.
J. J. CRI'II'EN 11E;s1.
The President.
Tqmisuitv DEPARTMENT,
September, 11, 1841. 17
Sir:—After the most
• Calm end careful
c e itsidorution, and viewing the subject in
all the aspects in which it presents itself to
my mind, I have come to the conclusion
that I ought no longer to remain a member
of yout Cabinet. I therefore resign the
office of Secretors , et the Treasury, and
beg you to accept this my letter of resig
nation.
'l'o avaid misunderstanding, I distinctly
declare i do not consider a difference of
opinion as to the charter of a National
Bank a sufficient reason for dissolving the
ties Which have existed between us.—
Thoug,h- I took upon that measure as one
of vast imprtanee to the prosperity of (ho
country, and though 1 should have deeply
deplored your inubiity or unwillingness to ,
accord it to the wishes' of the People and
the States, en unequivocally expiessed
through their Representatives, still upon
this and this alone, unconnected with other
controlling eircomstanrea, .1 should not
have felt bound to resign the place which
I bold in your. Adininiqtration. But these
controlling circumstances do exist, and 1
will, in my own justificaquorface them in
connexion %Ohre you. -. •
It ishul t tit say-that the 'bill which
first lisped trith hout-n of Congress, and
which was rola rned with your objections
on the lOth of August, did never, in 118
progress, as for as I know or beliyvo, receive
nt any timo either your express or implied
assont.. So for as that bill was known to
me, or as 1 was consulted upon it, I ehdca%'•
orcd to bring its provisions as nearly aa
po:;sible in accordance with what 1 unLr
too )d to In your views, and rather hoped
thou experied you,. approval. I knew the
extent to which you were committed (in
the question. I knew the pertinacity with
which you adhered to your expressed opin
ions, and 1 dreaded from the first the most
disastrous consequences, when the project
of compromise %vine!, I presented at au
early day was rejected.
It is emallv a matter of justice to you
and to myself to say that the bill which
I reported to the two !louses of Congress
at the commencement of the session,'- in
! obedience to their call, was modified so as
to meet your approbation. You may not
it is true, have read the bill throughout, and
examined every part of it; hut the I6th
article, which became tho contested ques
tion of principle, was freely discussed be
tween us, and it was understood and une
quivocally sanctioned by yourself. The
last clans:, in the b,II, also, Which contained
a reservation of power in Congress, was in
serted on the 9tll of June, in your presence,
and with your approbation; though you at
one time told me that, in giving your
sanction to ilia bill you would accompany
it with an explanation of your understanding
of that first clause.
In this condition of things, though I
greatly regretted your veto on the bill as it
.prised the two Houses of Congress, and
though I for saw the excitement and agi
tation which it would produce among the
People, yet, considering the changes which
the bill had undergime m its passage, and
its variance from the one you had agreed to
sanction, I could not find in that act enough
to disturb the coufidential relations which
existed between us. I, was disposed to at•
tribute - this act, fraught with mischief as it
was, to pure and honorable motives, and to
a coneientious conviction on your part that
the bill in some of its provisions, conflicted
with the Constitution. But that opinion nt
your course on the bill which has just been
returned to Congress with your second ye.
to,l do not and cannot entertain. Recur
to what has passed between us with respect
to it, and you will at once perceive that
such opinion is ithpossible.
On the morning of the lath of August, I
called at your chamber, and found you pre
paring the first veto message, to bo de
spatched to the Senate. The Secretary of
IVar came in also, and you rend a portion
of the message to us. He eb'SerVed that,
though the veto Would create n great son
sation in Congress, yet he thought tl e
minds of our friends better prepared for it
than they were some days ego, nail he ho
p-ed'it weulJ be calmly received, especially
'is it did not shut out all hope of a bank.
To this you replied, that you really thought
there ought to be no difficul'y about it; that
you had sufficiently indicated in your veto
message what kind of a bank'you would rip
prove, and that CongregS mlOll, they
saw fit, pass such a one in threoidays.
The 18th b eing the day for our regular
Cabinet meeting, we assembled all except
Messrs. Crittenden and Granger, and you
told us that you had a lone . conversation
with Messrs. Berrien and "Sergeant, who
professed to come in behalf of the Whigs of
the two Houses to endeavour to strike out
some measure which would he generally
occeptabl.-. That you had your doubts
about the propriety of conversing with them
yourself, and thought it More proper that
you should commune with them through
your con.At itut tonal advisers. You express
ed a wish that thewhole subject should be
postponed till the next session of Congress.
You spoke of the delay in the Senate of the
consideration of your veto message, and
expressed anxiety as to the tone and tem
per which the debate would assume.
Mr. Badger said that on iniquity he was
happy to find that the best temper prevail
ed in the two Houses. Ile believed they ,
were perfectly ready to take up the lidl re•
ported by the Secretary of the Treasury,
and puss it at once. You replied, 'Talk not
to me of Mr. Ewing's bill; it contains that
odious feature of local discounts which I
have repudiated, in my message.' I then
said to you, Lave no doubt, sir, that the
House,, having ascertained your views, ,oil
pass a bill in conformity to them, provided
they can be satisfied that it. would answer
the purposes of the Treasury, and relieve
the country.' You then said, 'Cannot my
Cabinet see that this is brought about?—
You must stand by me in this emergency.
Cannot you see that a hill passes Congress
such as , I can approve without ineousisten
cy?' I declared again my belief that such
a hill might be - passed. And you then said
to me,' What do you understand to be my
opinions? State them, so that I may see
that there is no misapprehension about
them,
I then said that I understood you to be of
opinion that Congress might charter a bank
in the District of CoNrobia, giving it its
location here. To this you assented.—
That they might nuthorizo such bank to
establish offices of discount and deposito in
the several States, with the . assent of the
States.' To this you replied, 'Don't name
discounts they hove been the source of the
most abominable corruptions, and are whol
ly unnecessary to enable the bank to dis
charge its duties to the country and the
Government.'
1 observed in reply that 1 was proposing
nothing, but simply endeavoring to state
.1/hat I had understood to be your opinion
us to the powers which Congres might
constitutionally confer on a bank; that on
that point I stood corrected : 1. then pro.
seeded to say that 1 understood you to be
of opinion that Congress might authorise
such bunk to establish egeadies in the sev
ern! States, with power to . doe( in hills of
exchangP i Withbut the asient of the States,
to which you replickiYes, if they be for.
,sign billa, or bills drown in one Sate and
pa) able in another. That is all the power
necessary fcr traugmining the r utthe funds
and regulutiug toxclianges rani the curren
cy.'
Mi. Webster then expressed, in strong
terms, his opiniiin that such u charter would
answer all just purposes of Government,
and ho satisfactory to the People; and de
clared preferenCo for it over any which
had been proposed, especially as it dispens
erl with the assent of the States to the cre
ation of an institution necessary for carry
ing op the. 5 46t1 operations of Government.
Ito exam i n ed it at some length, both es to
its constitutionality and its influence on the
currency and exchanges, in all which
views you expressed your concurrence,
desired that such a bill should be introduced,
and especially that it should go into the
hands of some of your friends. To my
inquiry whether Mr. Sergeant would he
agreeable toper, you replied that he would.
You especially requested Mr. Webster and
myself to communicate with Messes. Ber
rien and Sergeant on the subject, to whom
you said you laid promised to address a
note, but you doubted not that this personal
communication would be equally setisfiic•
tory. .You desired as also, in communica
ting with those gentlemen, not to conunit
you personally, lest, this being recognised!
us your measure, it might be rends a suriject
of comparison to your prejudice in the
course oldiscussien. You and Mr. Web
ster then conversed abent the pet:Ajar wor•
ding of the 16th fundamental article, con•
taining the grant of power to deal m ox
chancres, and c.f the connexion in which
the grant should be introduced; you also
spoke of the mine of the institution,desiring
that that should be Ghee:zed. To this 1
objected, as it would probably be made a
subject of ridicule, but yo.i Meister] that
thele was much in a - neme, and this ineti•
tution ought not to be called a bank. Mr.
Webster undertook to adapt it in this ear
fielder to your wishes. Mr. Bell then
observed to Mr. Webster and myself, that
we had no time to lose; that if this were
riot immediately attended to e another bill,
less acceptable, might be got up and repor
ted. We replied that we would lose no
time. Mr. Webster accordingly called on
Messrs. Berrien and Sergeant immediate•
ly, and 1 waited on thein,by his appoint
ment at 5 o'clook on the seine day, and
agreed upon the principles of the bill in
accordance with your expressed wishee,—,
Ana 1 am apprised of the fact, though it
did not occur in my presence, that after the
bill was drawn up, and before it was repor
ted, it was seen and examined by y ourself:
that your attention was specially called to
the 16th fundamental article: that on full
examination you concurred in its proyi
sions: that at the same time its name was
so modified as to meet your approbation:'
and the bill was reported and passed, in all
essential particulars, as it was when it
came through your hands.
You asked Mr. Webster and mvselfeach
to prepare and present you no argument
touching the constitutionality of the billeind
before those arguments could be prepared
and read by you, you declared, as I. heard
and believe, to gcollanien, members of the:
lb use, that you would cut off your right
hand rather than approve it. After, this
new resolution was taken, you risked and
earnestly urged the members of your cab
inet to postpone the bill; but you would
neither give yourself, nor suffer them to
give e any assurance of your future course,
in case of such poctponereent. By some of
us, and I was myself one, the elThrt
made to gratify your wishes, in the only
way in which it could he done with propri
etv; that is, by obtaining the general con
currence of the Whig members of the two,
[louses in the postponement. It failed, as,
I have reason to believe, because you would
gise no assurance that the delay was not
sought, as a means and occasion for has
tile movements. During this season of
deep feelieg and earliest exertien upon our
part, while we were zealously devoting our
talents and influence to serve and to sustain
you, the very secrets of our cabinet coun- -
cils made their appearance in an infamous
paper printed in a neighboring city, the
columes of which were tinily charged With
flattery of yourself and foul abuse of your
Cebinet. All this 1 bore; for I lelt that my
services, so long us they could avail, were
due to the nation—to that great and mag
nanimous People whese suffrages elevated
your predecessor to the station, which you
now fill, and whose united voices approved
his act wheti he summoned us arourihint
to be his counsellors; and I felt Celt What
was due to his memory, to the injunctions
which he !eft us in his last dying words,
arid to the people, whose servants we were,
had net all been performed until every
means was tried, and ever hope had failed
at carrying out the true principles upon
which the mighty movement was founded
that eleliated hini and you to power.
The bill, framed and fashioned according
to your own suggestions, in the initiation of
which I and another member of your Cab.
inet were made by you the agents and the
negotiators, was passed by largo majorities
through the two Houses of Congress, and
sent to you, and you rejected it. I 'lvor tan t
as was the part which I had taken, uleyour
request, in the origination of this bill, and
deeply as I was committed for your action
upon it,you never consulted me on the subject
of the veto message. You did not even
refer to it in conversation, rind the first no
tice I had of its contents was derived from
rumor.
And to me, at least, you have done noth
ing to wipe away the personal indignity
arising out of the act. 1 gathered, it is
true, from your conversation, shortly after
the hill hod passed the House, that you had
a strong purpose to reject it; but, nothing
was said [die set - tenin,g or apology to me,
either in reference to myself or to those
with whoni - 1 had communicated at your re
quest;'ntid who had acted themselves and
i n duced the two Houses to act upon the
faith of that communication. And,strunge
as it may seem, the Veto Message attacks
in an especial manner tho very provisions'
which were inserted at your request; ncd
even the name of the corporation, which
was not only agrevd to by you, bit especial.
ly chang-d to on et your expri,s4ed wishes,
is made the subket of your criticism.—
Diflirrenf wen might view this transaction
in different points of light, but, under these
circumstances,. as a matter of poison& hon
or, it N . vould be hard for Inc to remain of
your counsel, to seal my lips and leave un-
explained nod undisclosed where lies in this
transaction the departure from straight for
wardness and candor. So far indeed from
admitting the encouragement which you
gave to this bill in its inception, and explai•
tang and excusing your sudden and violent
hostility towards it, you throw into your
Veto Message an interrogatory equivalent
to an assertion that it was such a bill as
you had already declared could not receive
your sanction. Such is the obvious effect
of the first interrogatory clause on the
second pace. It has all the force of an
assertion without its open liiirness. l have
out arid refuted this, the necessary . infer
ence from your language, in my preceding
statement-, the correctness of which you
I am sine will not call in question.
Your veto to the first bill you rested on
constitutional ground and the high convic•
turns at conscience; and no man, in my
lipinion, had a right to question your sin
"eerily. Iso said, and 1 so acted, for,
through all the contest and collision that
arose out °I OW. act, you had my ndher
once and support. But how is it .with re
spect to this? The subject of a bank is not
new to you; it is more than twenty years
that you have niado it nn object of coosid•
oration and of study, cspecialfy in its con
nexion with the constitutional powers of the
General Government. You, therefore,
could not be, and you were not, token un
prepared on this question. The bill winch
1 reported to Congress, with your npproba-
on, at the commencement of the session,
had the clause relating to agencies, and the
power to deal in exchanges, as strongly de
veloped as the one you have now rejected,
and equally without the assent of the
Strum You referred specially and with
approbation to. that clause, many days
after, in a conversation held in the Depart
ment of State. You sanctioned it in this
particular bill as detailed above. And no
doubt was thrown out on the suhject by
you, in my hearing, or within my
edge, until the letter of Mr. Betts cum to
your hande..,'oon 'after the reading of
that letter, you threw out strong Minna.
tions that you would veto the bill if it were
not postponed. That letter I did and do
must unequivocally . condemn, but it did nut
affect the constitutionality of the bill, or
justify you in rejecting it on that ground; it
could cfreet only the expediency of your ac•
tion; and, whatever you may now believe
;is to the scrupli s existing in your mind,
in this. and in a kindred source there is
strong ground to believe they have their
If I he right in this, and 1 doubt not 1
am, here ie a great public measure deman
ded, by the country, passed open and ap•
proved by the Representatives of the States
and the People, rejected by you as Presi
dent, on grounds having no origin, in con
se,enee.,
.and no refetence to the public
good. The rejr etion of this measure, too,
continues the parse with the sward in the
hands of the Executive, from which we
strove to wrest it in the contest which
elevated your predecessor and you to pow.
er. I cannot concur in this your course of
policy. to nr ,out of office my opinions
remain unchanged. I cannot abandon the
principles for which, during all my political
career, I have struggled; especially I can
not be one of the instruments by which. the
Executive wields these combined, accumu
lated, nod dangerous powers.
These, sir, are the reasons for the im-
mrtnnt step which I have felt it -my duty
o take, olid I submit Meru as its justifica•
ion. I am, very respectfully, yours,
T. SWING.
To the PRESIDENT.
From the National Intelligencer.
Mg. WEBSTER TO THE EDITONB
VASUINGTON, Sept. 13, 1841.
To Jfe:ars Galee 4 Seaton:
Gentlemen: Lest any misapprehension
should exist, as to the masons which have
led me to daer from the course pursued by
my late colleagues, I wish to ea) thut I
remain in my place, first, because I have
seen no sufficient reasons for the dissolution
at the late Cabinet, by the voluntary act of
its own members.
I am perfectly persuaded of the absolute
necessity of an institution, under the au
thority of Congres, to aid revenue and fi
nancial operations, entre) give the country
tlikkblessing4 . of a good currency And cheap
oeihang co. `"
Notwithstanding what has passed, I have
confidence that the President will co-oper-.
ate with the Legislature in overcoming all
difficulties in the attainment these ob
jects; and it is to the union of the Whig
party—by which I mean the whole party,
the Whig President, the Whig Congress,
and the Whig People—tbat I look for the
realization of our wishes. I can look 'no
where else.
In the second place, if 1 had seen reasons
to resign my office, I should MA have done
so without giving the Prei•ident reasonable
notice, and affbrding hini time to seleci
hands to which he should confide the deli•
cate and important affairs now pending •in
this Department:
I am, gentlemen, respectfully, your obe•
diem. servant,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
MR. CR ITTENDON —no Alexandria
Gazette says that it - is thought the Presi
dent will . nominate Mr. Crittenden, him
Attorney General, to the seat on the. Beech
of the Suprerne Court, to be -made vacant
by the reaignation'of Judge McLean, just
appointed Secretary of ,Wor. -Should this
arrangement be made, hnd Mr. Crittenden
be placed upon the Bench of the Supreme
Court of the United States, the situation
would be as greatly adiirned by his high
judicial attainments, as it would, no doubt,
be consonant with his own feeling&
- rroni the Now York Tribune
THE NEW CABINET.
The opiiiimis awl character of thy Turn
whom Presid nt Tyler bus called around
him us advisers have become the subject of
umveisel impsiry and interest. We give
such facts with regard to each ad are
in our memory:
NV ALTER f' ' olt WAI: 0, SCC , CIa ry of the
Treasury.— Mr. Forwa
, d is a eitizu ri of
Pdtsbura, Pa. Our firs t
knowledge of him
was as a Democratic Member of Congress
from his District in 11324, and an indent
champion of the American System. Ile
united in the Caucus nomination of Mr.
Crawford for . President but afterward re•
canted, when the Jackson whirlwind swept
over Pennsylvania, and went with the cur
rent. He abandoned aen. Jackson when
it became evident that' hs was identified
With the enemies of the Protection °Moine
Industry. He has sin ce been mainly out
of public life, but- known us a National Re
publican or Clay Whig, in contradistinc
tion from the Anti-Masons, who bear
sway in his section. In 1836 he was clue
son a Member of the Constitutional Conven
tion of Pennsylvania, and distinguished
himself it, the deliberations of that budy.
Ltut he has not for many years been active
in politics tilt Inst'seaon, vlrlien' he took
the stump Col' Harrison rind `r ylei. in West
ern Pennsylvania with great efliciitney.—
His high personal character and reputation
for independence gave him great weight.—
When Gen. Harrison became President,
he made Air, P orward attorney fbr West
ern Penneylvtima which — he declined; then
First Comptroller of the Trensury, which
Ire accepted, and has since discharged the
duties of that office. lie is well qualified
fur the station to which ho has been called.
JOHN McLEAN-, Secretary of War.—
Mr. McLean came into Congress, if we
mistake not, in 1316, as n Democratic Re.
presentative of the Warren District, Ohio.
Ile there distinguished himself by industry
and efficiency, and in 1829, was appointed
Postmaster General by President Monroe.
M • r. Adams was inaugurated President, and
requested Mr. McLean to retain his De
partment, which ho did throughout, though
avowing himself a supporter of Gem Jack.
son for the Presidency. But this made nu
difference, since he and Mr. Adams were
united in the principal that no Postmaster
should be appointed or removed on account
of his politics. But when Gen. Jackson
was inaugurated, n different rule of action
was resolved on. Mr. McLean frankly
sigmhed to the President that he could not
be made the instrument of proscription,
being committed against it by hie public
career and averse to it in principle and feel
ing. Gen• Jackson thereupon appointed
him an Associate Justice of the United
Stales Supreme Court, to fill a vacancy just
then occurring, and get him out of the Post
Office, which he had conducted with signal
ability and success, and which was idler
ward so wefully mismanaged by Mr.: Bar.
ry. Mr. McLean accepted the judgeship,
and has since dis Charged its duties. In
183 . 2, the Anti Masonic National Conven
lion would have nominated him for Presi
dent had he not declined. - Ile is a resi
dent, we believe, of Lebanon, Ohio, highly
respected in private life, but very moderate
in politics. If Mr. Tyler had made him
Postmaster General, it would have been a
popular selection. We can hardly think
ho will resign his judgeship for the post now
tendered him.
HUGH S. LEcrertE, Attorney General.—
Mr. Legere is a citizen of Charlestown, S.
C., and we believe a descer.dant of one of
the old French Huguenot families which
settled there over it century ago. Ho be•
came eminent by his writings in the' South
ern Rcview," a Quarterly published In
Charleston some years since. He was
appointed Charge to Belgium, by General
Jackson, being a warm "Union" man Ils
opposed to Nullification. He returned to
Charleston in 18:36-7, and was soon after
proposed for Congress and elected, turning
out Hon. 11. L. Pickney (Nullifier) on a
medly of political and local issues. Mr.
L. went to Congress in 1R37 as an Admin
istration man, but, on the Sub-Treasury
being proposed by Mr. Van Buren, he
took ground against it in a profound and
masterly speech, as also in a powerful" Let•
ter to a constituent." For his course he
was thrown out of Congress at the next
election—Charleston being the strongest'
Sub. Treasury city in the Union— but he
abated nothing of his warfure.upon the Sub-
Treasury project, speaking •luminously at
our Conservative State Convention last
October, and repeatedly in this city and
elsewhere. Ho has recently contributed
several masterly articles on classical .
Literature to the New York Review.
The following sketch of Judge Upshur,
wheat) name has been repeatedly connect
ed of Into with great events, is extracted
from a letter dated 2nd inst., and written
from Wrishington by a correspondent of
the. New York Express.: Great as our re
spect certainly is for the personal churac•
ter, talents, and eloquence of Judge Up.
slier, we should lament to see him transla
ted from the Virginia . Bunch the. Cabin
et, at Washington. We are rather inclin
ed to think ho is one of those erratic 'Whigs
who would be very apt to oppose all Whig
measures, and unless he has been wronged
by the report which ascribes to him a
great admiration for John C. Calhoun, we
should regard that alone as a sort of politi
cal ideosyncrasy, utterly disqualified rim
for all practical purposes. They Judge is a
very honorable man, but his mental orga•
timation is ton attenuated and abstractive
for the present age.—Riehmond Whig.
JUDGE DPSIJUR.
A Washington correspondent of the.
New York Expreqs, gives Pie following
notice of Judge Upshur, a friend of Presi
dent Tyler, whom we mentioned yesterday
as likely to be of the Cabinet, if re-modell•
ed. Judge Upshur may have Virginia
abstractiens fur all that we know, but he is
undoubtedly a gentleman• of exceeding
worth, extensive reedit% and a good wri
ter. U. S. Gaz.
There n' grearexciletherli' lq , re, how•
ever, and great bitterness on all but the
Oppositii,o ride, whieWW - Cl — clituse ill en
efiStiley". Rumor says, if ;here be a 111.1 Y
ClllllllOl, illdgo Upshur„ %%111
havo a large hand in forming it. Jo(L. ,
Elpshur is a man over fifty, it lawyer, nod
plainer in lower Virginia, on the I.:lt.qern
shire, in Wise's Dish iet. 1.1 , !i4 wan of
letters, rather Quixotic, 11;14 though.
superior nuked, and can cut and shave in
an argument as close as any fill
has zealous, ideas of the beauty and
utility of the slavery system', 'and call
knock.nny man living down upon the the
oryof that point. Webster mid be 810
for anal t in opinion as the Poles. They
could not probably agree upon any tiling,
even upon L.vo and two, anti certainly not
upon two and . 3. The Judge will debate
all day whether angels can see iu the dark,
and could make a whole book nut of entity
or a quaddity. As fOr John Bull, if he is
made Secretary ofthate, Oxf od and Cam
bridge in England may give up to him both
in,maillemanes and logic. The Judge is
Whig, though a good Whig—a poetic
Whig too. Hu is wealthy and wise—so
deemed by all the IVhigs nrOund him in
his part of Virginia. His fa only is among
The first in the State. He is a good man,
too, but does not live in this practical world
of ours unfortunately, being only a looker
on at it from the loop holes of retreat on an
out of the way shorn of. Virginia.
OPPOSITION TO GOV. PORTER.
Ills OWN PARTY DISTRUST Hit.—The
A'merican Sentinel, which it is well known
advocates the re-election of David IL Put.
ter, holds the following language in rdation
to- hill prrispectp:
"Gov. Porter, will most probably, lose
Somo voters in certain districts, in. corse 7
quence of the taxation to which the State
had been compelled to • moil', in order to
meet its engagements, which is 'always
more or less unpopular, and which will be
urged against him, even by some of the
very men, who, last Winter, were among
the loudest in their appeals to hitu arid to
tho Legislature, to preserve the credit orthe
Commonwealth unimpaired, at all hazards.
He will likewise receive but a cold support
from some Democrats who.thinlc he is not
sufficiently ultra in his sentiments, on cer
tain subjects."-
Although the Sentinel seems to anticipato
his re election, "notwithstanding these
drawbar Its," yet it only hinges its hopes ou
the divisions oldie Harrison party. Here
then is an argument in favor, of united ac
tion, when our political enemi es confess that
their only hope of success rests in the de
fection of our own party . !
But the Sentinel admits that a necessity
existed for increased taxation; and let us
ask how it was brought about? Can any
man of ony party deny that the extravagant
expenditure on our public works, by the
rdlicera of. Gov. Porter, and under hts sanc
tion, bus produced this State of things?—
Assuredly not. The utter incompetency
of the present administration to carry on
the state works advantageously, is shown
in the present condition of the Philadelphia
and Columbia Rail Road. '419 work,
when superintended by Mr. 11ebafv, during
Mr. Minor's administration, paid all its
expenses of motive power, salaries, &c.
and gave to the State Treasurer a profit of
6 or 7 per cent, on the enormous cost obits
construction. Since it has fallen into the
hands of I),►vid R. Port4r's plunderers, it
has every year swallowed up every cent of
its income, and taken 30 or 810,000 from
the Treasury to make up the deheiency.—
And yet we find persons who were engaged
thereon, only two years, at a salary of four
dollars a day, buying farm after farm, and
paying, as high as fifteen thousand Dollars
apiece for then►! With these filets before
us, who can hesitate to say that Porter's
extravagance has fastened taxation on usi
The Sentinel likewise admits that he 13
not sufficiently ultra on some points, to
please
It poi lion of his political party.—
[here is no doubt, if we aro to judge from
facts, that DAVID R. PORTER HAS
DONE MORE TO CORRUPT OUR
CURRENCY, FAVOR THE BANKS,
AND BRING ABOUT TILE PRESENT
DEPRECIATION OF OUR STATE
CREDIT, THAN EVEN THE .MOST
ULTRA RADICAL IS WILLING TO
ADMIT. Every coo familiar with the
Legislature °tour State, is aware of this;
every one who has studied the political
tliistory of his administration, must know,
that he has pursffcd a.COURSE OF DU
PLICITY towards his party, ‘ili!ch Ims
completely disgusted them, and shown hat
whilo.he has PUBLICLY DENOUNC
ED THE BANKS HE HAS EVER
SECRETLY. BEEN. THEIR niOsT
ARDENT SUPPORTER. Noy more;
w e have often charged upon Gov. Porter,.
an undue partiality for the U. S. Bank,---we
have shown that it bus been his private in
terest to support it, and WE CAN SHOW
BY THE RECORD, THAT HE PER•
MaTED THIS INSTITUTION -TO
ISSUE FIVE DOLLAR BILLS WITED7 IT
%TAP PROHIBITED in the ORIGIISAL charter.
The U. S. Bank, previous to the expi
ration of Gov. Ritner!s term, had [pude,
overtures to his friends In the Legislature..
to allow them the power to issue Five Dol
lar Bills, and ofkred a half million dollars
as a bunos therefor; BUT TILE OFFER
WAS REFUSED UNDER A RITNER
ADMINISTRATION. During the first
session after Gov. Putter, had come into
ale() the proposition was renewed, wi!hout
the arm , of the bonus. A Law was passed
authorizing it loan of $2,061,000, and ono
of the sections of this net (Sea Pamphlet.
Lows 1838-39,,page 634) empowered any
bank taking that loan, or any leant after-
Wards to be creates, TO ISSUE THE
AMOUNT IN FIVE DOLLAR BILLS,
AND THIS WAS APPROVED JULY
19,1830, BY DAVID R. PORTER.—
The State did not receive one cent for this,
BUT IT COST THE UN ITED STATES
BANK $65,000, 1% 111 CH WAS , DI
VIDED BETWEEN DAVID P. you,
TFAI. AND HIS Fill EN DS.— Ltur. Tele.
COMPLETE LIST OF. ACTS,
Poised at . the Ist session of . Me 27th Congress.
An act molting appropriations for the
present session of Congress.
An act inn horrzing a Ivan not exceeding
the shin of twelve millions of dnll;trs•
An net for the relief of Mrs. Harrison,
widow of the late President of the United
Au act ranking- appropriation for the pay,
subsistence, &.c. of a borne squadron.
An net radon. , fartk.fr provision for
maintenance of pauper lunatics in the Die.
trict of Columbia.
An act to revive and continuo in force
tor ten' years an act entitled "Au act to in
eul.porato the Mechanic Relief Society of
Alexandria.
An act to repeal the act entitled "An act
to provide for the collection, safe-keeping,
and disbursement of the -public revenue,"
and to provide for the punishment of em
bezzlers of public money, and for other
purposes. •
An act to provide for the payment of
Navy pension.
An act to o,3tabli:lh a uniform system of
bankruptey. throughout the United States.
An act further to extend the tune for lo•
eating the Virginia military land warrants,
and returnirig., surveys thereon to the Gen
eral Land Office.
An act to authorize The recovery of fines
and foiteitures incurresl under the charter,
laws, and ordinances of Georgetown, before
justices of the peace.
An act to revive and extend the charters
of certain banks in the District of Wein.
bia.
An act in nddition to an act entitled
"An act to carry into effect a convention
between the United States and the Mexi•
can Republic."
An act to amend the act entitled "An act
to provide for taking the sixth C0119t19 or
enumeration of the inhabitants of the Uni
ted States," upproyed March third, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine,
and the acts amending the same.
An act molting appropriation for the fu.
neral expenses of William Henry Harrison,
deceased, late President of the United
States:
An act to appropriate the proceeds or the
sales of the public lands, and to grant pre
emption rights.
An act making appropriations for various
fortifications, for ordnance, and"for prevent•
mg and suppressing Indian hostilities.-
An ant to provide for placing Gree
nough's statue of Washington in the Ro
tunda of the Capital, 'and for expenses
therein mentioned.
An act authorizing the transmission of
letters and packets to and from Mrs. liar
rison free of postage.
An act to make appropriations for the
Post •Office Department: -
An act making appropriations for the
purchase of nitval ordnanco and ordnance
btOreS o and for other purposes.
An appropriation for outfits and salaries
of diplomatic agents and fOr other purposes.
An act to provide for repairing the Poto
mac bridge.
An act relating to dutieS and drawbacks.
An act to. repeal a pert of the sixth sec•
tion of the act entitled "Au act to provide
far the support of the Military Academy
of the United States for the year IP3, and
for other purposes," passed July 7, 13.3.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
A resolution relating to tlio light boats
now stationed at Sat,dy (look and Ilartett's
Reef.
A resolution for the distribution of seven
hundred copies of the digest of patents.
A resolution to
,provide for the
non of the pi intecl returns of the sixth
census.'
A resolution in relation to the purchase
of dotneBtie water-rotted hemp for the use
of the United States Navy.
Joint resolution making it the duty of
the Attorney General to examine into the
titles of the lands or sites for the purpose of
erecting thereon. armories and other public
works and buildings, and for other purpo
ses:
LATE AND INTERESTING FROM FLORIDA.
- -Advices of a highly interesting chew
ter have been received at the Depart
mont of ‘Var, on Saturday last, from Col.
NVonTit, commanding the Merida army, to
the 31st ultimo, inclusive. The National
Intelligencer siys: --The Colonel announ•
ces the surrender of the remnant ofCoacoo
chie's people, the seizure of the Chief Ilos.
intake, with fifteen of his chiefs and warri
ors, and the promised surrender of all his
people, amounting to 320 more, on the
I Ith of this month, the day of the arrival
of the despatch nt general headquarters.—
Iteports arc also transmitted of the recent
expedition in the everglades, conducted by
Cuptuin BURKE, 3d Artillery, and Lieu,.
ROGERS, or the Navy, and of a successful
operation under Lieut. ANDERSON, 2d
Infantry, to which he captured several In
dians. •
The Colonel gives assurances that there
'are not more thou ten Indians on the east
side of St. - Johns river; and the everglades
are abandoned by them as nn longer a safe
retreat; that the Creeks and TallahassOes
in the northern part of the Territory were
to meet him on the 7th instant; and that
the scattered families on the .Wacassa had
been so much disturbed by Captains HOFr_.
dtAN and ALciomint as to induce earnest
promises of speed:, submission; and, gener-
ally, he reports that thelndian:, on all
band's; exhibit unetpii•meal evidences of a
desire to end the struggle. It is most
gratifying to learn that, with all their pri7
vations, exposure, ant unusual activity, the
troops are generally healthy. It would
appear that our gallant little Ariny, having
in t h e millant Wor:Tlf a lender of the right
spirit, riave been enabL.d to slii,w their en
tire ethrirt,cy. .
The National Intelligencer announces
t hat Jugo Upshot has aeeepted the Secret
taryship 1 the Navy, • naq. he will take
.chargo of the Departinunt as tonna aq h e
.can arrange his private otitis in Yir,ginia.
!rOWIMNYEZZMC. VE'll%
A ZD
REPUBLICAN BANNER,
GETTYSBURG. September 21..1841.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
By and with the advice and consent of the
Senate.
Walter Forward, of Pennsylvania, Sec
retary of 11313 Treasury.
John McLean, of Ohio, Secretary of
War.
A P. Upshur, of Virginia, Secretary of
the Navy.
Hugh S. Legere, of South Carolina, At
torney General.
Charles A, Wicklife, of Kentucky,
Posunnster Guiana.
Jurnes D. Doty, Governor of Wisconsin.
Robert lf. Walsh, of Pennsylvania, Sec
retary. of Legation of the United States to
Brazil.
Isaac Roach, of Pennsylvania, Treasu
rer of the -Mint of the United States at
Philadelphia.
Satauel W. Carmack, Judge or the
United States for the Appalachicolu Dis
trict, Florida.
William 11. Brockenbrough, Judge of
the United States for the Middle District of
Florida.
Our Senatorial Ticket.
Let not the citizens of this Senatorial District
forget that, within the term of the Senators to be
chosen at the approaching election, a new appor
tionment and-districting of the State na well for
representatives in the State Senate and House of
Representatives as in Congress, must, under the
Constitution, be made. If the Loco corns shmild,
by any chance, whether through the divisions or
supineness of the Democrats, have a majority in
the Senate when that' important duty is to he
performed, it is easy- to &octet what will be the
consequence. The Districts will be so arranged,
as to insure them a majority for the nest seven
and ten years, Without regard to equality of re
presentation, or public convenience. Tho voice
of this county, for instance, would, beyond all
doubt, be lost, by its being viokutly torn from its
present cion , ection with Franklin County, and its
annexation-ti York, as a Congressional district.
We therefore earnestly cull-upon our friends
in this County, to give a hearty, cordial and un
divided support to Thomas G. McCullob and
'Michael C. Clarkon, our candidates fur Sena
tors. They are di:wrvirst: of it on,their awn ac
count, and ar4 umttied to it, ay the candidates of
the party, holding its principles and avowing its
doctrines. Of their talents and fitness there can
be no title:alien ehised; and that they will faithful
ly represent the interests of the district, we enter
tain not - the shadow of a doubt. We have been
induced to make these remarks, because wo have
understood that our opponents are endeavoring to
create the impression in other parts of the Dis
'Het, that in this County, the pa - rty will * not be
united on this part of the ticket. This is in ac
cordance with their usual crafty, insidious policy;
by sowing dissensions and shaking confidence
among us, they hope to conquer. It is a snare
of the foe; let all honest men be on their guard.—
It affords us great pleasure to be able to state,
Unit so far as we aro informed, such a surmise is
unfounded. The party never was mono united
in this county, as the result will show. All (lir
ferences ofopinion—all personal preferences or
antipathies, we are assured, will be patriotically
sacrificed on the altar of the common good; and
our party, will, on the 2d Tuesday of October
next, present an undivided front: and Clarkson
and McCulloh, be triumphantly elected. At ell
events Adams county will, ns ever, do her duty.
Let the other counties of the District do theirs as
well, and all will be safe.
'FOAM . TIMER, rice Prest
dent,by-accident ; and by a
melancholy, 01 6 to the Coun
try most disastrous Provi
dence, President of the Uni
ted Stales.
In our last paper we announced to our readers
that the President by chance, John Tyler, bad
vetoed the sccond.bi:l presented to him. providing
fur the sufe,keeping and dialiursement of the pub
lic money, and for regulating the exchanges-of
the country and securing ti sound currency. This
exerciise of the veto by the creature of accident,
who fills the scat, once occupied by the lamented
Harrison, is in itself an arrogant assumption, of
the most monarchical power conferred by the)
Constitution; and which a man of ordinary. inci
desly Would have never used. But this man for
gets that ho was nominated to the Vico Prestdon
cy by an accident, and by men to whom his char
acter was a stranger, while his own colleagues, Of
the Virginia delegation, refused to participate in
his nomination through "delicacy,' (1) or, per
haps because they 4-knew him." He forgets that Ii
ho is in the_ place ho. now occupies, by a Provi- , I
deuce, which the nation deplores more and more
as he becomes better known.
This man, who, much to tho disgrace of the
country, occupies the situation of Chief Mogis.
trate, has not only proved treacherous to his
friends, but also recreant to every principle ; of
personal honor. Alter vetoing the bill for the
establishment of a "risen! . Agent," it was'propo
sed ut a meeting of the Cabinet called by the
President, to get up another bill, in such a Shape
as would be conformable to his views. A bill was
framed, which aftcrundOrgoing slight alterations
at the sitgerstion of 'the President himself, was
pronounced by him such an ono as Ito would ap.
prove of. Tilts bill framed, substantially by the i
President himself, was submitted to the Whig ,
members of Congress; and at the same time es.
surance was given to them, that if it were pasSed
it would receive the sanction of the Executive.— i
This assurance was made to the members of the'
Senate and House of Ilepresontativcs by gentle-
men authorized by the President, The bill was;
passed. It was submitted to him and vetoed, of. ,
ter he had pledged himself to sanction it! !
- Five out of the sir, who composed his Cabinet;
feeling their honor implicated, resigned. 'L'o have
remained longer of his'council would hnvo dis
graced them. As to Mr. Wt asrea's course, we
will not now allow ourselves to say much. We
believe it is generally condemned by others, CB it
is Ly us. We regret his conduct, because wo had
hoped better things of him, and it is with pain that
we feel ourselves constrained to alter our high
opinion of the "Champion of the Constitution."
Wu hope ho will yet review the subject, and pur-
sue ilia course dictated alike by honor, self-respect
and duty.
The Veto Powei.
One of the recommendations submitted to tho
Public for their consideration, by the Whig mem
bers of Congrebs in their admirable address, is a
limitation of the Veto power, to the effect that n
bare majority of each branch of the Legislature
shall be sufficient to overcome it, instead of two
thirds as now required.
This meets our cordial approbation. What is
the object of inserting this power pt all in the
Constitution? It was to guard the people against
the effects of hasty and inconsiderate action",: r iSt
the part of their representatives, riot to enable the
President or Governor, to centrel their legislation
finally. But such is the effect of requiring F two.
thirds, as ell experience proves. .When . a Bill
goes to the Executive from the Legislature and
is returned with his reasons against it, after on
interval of the ten days or nearly so, a sufficient
time necessarily elapses to afford limo to the
Representatives for reflection and re-consldera•
lion. It is hid duty, to assign his objections to a
Bill, on returning it. • If with u this time for re
'ileetion, his reasoning fails to convince a majority
of the people's representatives, that they have
been in error, why should not thdr will govern
and not his;
We hope, ere long, to see this salutary amend,
mcnt engrafted on both our State and Federal
Constitutions. God knows, we have had suffi
cient experience in the former, at least, under our
present Governor, to make the people think seri
ously about the propriety of abolishing or restrict
ing it. If we shall owe this amendment, to the
awakening of the public mind, occasioned by the
flagrant abuse of the Veto by President Tyler and
Gov. Porter, wo could almost forgive them the
evils they have brought upon our suffering coun
try.
To show our readers, what were the opinions
entertained by the far-minted Harrison, on this
subject, end how utterly dissimilar they were to
the practice of him who is, by a most calami‘
tous•dispensatidn of Divine Providence, his suc.
cessor, We re-publish for their information the fof
lowing extract, from his speech delivered at Day•
ton, September 10th, 1840:
"I have never regarded the office of
Chief l‘lagistrate a; conferring upon the in
cumbent the power ul mastery over the
popular will, hat iti granting him the pow
er to execute the properly expressed will o;
the People, and not to resist it. With my
mother's milk did I suck in the principles
on which the Declaration. Was founded.—
That Doctor:al ion complained that the Zing
would not let the people make suet laws as
they wished. Shall a ?resident or an Ex•
emit ive officer undertake, ai this time of day
to control the - People in the exercise of
this supreme will? No. The people lire
the best guardians of their own rights.—
And it is the duty of the Executive to ab
stain from interfering in or thwarting the
sacred exercise of the law maLing functions
of their Government."
Daring* Outrage.
Th. Rev. Mr. BOND, alluded to in the follow.
ing article, taken from the St. Louis Now Era of
the Gth inst., is familliarly known to many of
our citiiens, having for several years officiated
as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal, Church in
this place. 'lle New Era says.—
"A most flagrant violation of law and re•
ligious liberty was committed yesterday, by
a body of Germans, upon a minister of the
Methodist persuasion, Mr. Bond, who bad
appointed a time fur Divine service
: at the
South Market• fie was in company frith
another Minister,..iind nt the commencement
of the service n most boisterous noise was
made by the mob, singing and hurraing.
Finally, Mr. Bond was seized and rudely
treated, and they started with him to the
calaboose, but they released him before
they arrived there. This morning infiirma
tion was kik] belbro die Recorder, and ono
person apprehended and warrant, issued
liar others. The examination was fixed
for three o'clock, and when it is through
we shall prepare a lull statement' or the
case."
Peataisylvania College.
The annual commencement of this flourishing
Institution took place on Wednesday last. The
exercises upon the occasion were highly interest
ing. The graduating class was eleven In num
ber—eight of whom delivered Addresses, in the
following order:
Latin Salutatory—by Win. B. M'Clellan, of
Gettysburg.
Argument for the Divine Existence—by Wm.
Weaver, of Adams county. •
Best mode of settling Tnternational Difficulties
—by, Henry Baker, of Washington_county,
ryland.
Russia—by Charles ,Witmer, of Northumber
lautt county, Pa.
The Jows—by Wm. Gearhart, of Wotan:tore
lan'd county, Pa.
Schiller—by Wm. Albach, of Baltimore.
Power of Circumstances—by Ephraim Miller,
of Gettysburg.
Valedictory—by Jacob Scherer, of Illinois.
The degree of A. B. was confeired by the
Board of Trustees on Win. B. M'elellan, Wm.
Weaver, Henry Baker, Charles Witmer, Win.
Gearhart, Win. Albach, N. IL Coinell, Ephraim
Miller, Henry Zeigler, J. Geo. Donmeyer, and
Jacob Scherer.
The degree OA. M. was conferred on James
Crapeter, I. R. Keyser, P. A. M. Keller, M. L.
Stoover, Gyrus Waters, and J. E. Neal, Alumni
of the Inititution; rm.l the honorary degree of
A. M. on the Rov. Professor Shoed!, Principal
of Hartwiek Seminary, in Now4rork, and Henry
W. 'Atop, Esii. Principal of the Female semi
nary in Clettysburg.—SentintL
STRAYER and COUMAN, who were con•
cerned in the late mail. robberies with Dr.
Biaddee, and pave evidence ng,ainst him,
have been pardoned b) the President.
Tine CA9R OF GOVERNOR lirrivEß.
We have made some inquiries, and learn
that the friends olGovernor Ritner in this
city Ivid not the slightest idea of his rejec.
non b) the Senate on the ground of his al
leged defective sight—nor indeed, on any
other. ground. . had they any such nppre
hensions, they would have prepared ,
them
selves RI Washington with the 'necessnry
testiirony to remove an objection, which
it is suspected was manufactured for the
occasion. The case is. likely to excite
much attention throughout the Stine, espe
cially as the _appointment of the Governor
had given great satisfattion in the inferior.
It is arrzued that he should at least have
been afforded an oportunity of refuting any
CfrOCailli misrepresentations.—P/ula. Itiq.
We,learn from an article in a tato num
ber of tbe Danville (Pa.) Democrat, that
there is now in Columbia county nine fume.
h ,escapable of making 350 tons of pig metal
.
.iir..weelt. or 19,600 iOll9 per annum, allow
ing eacbrarriace to be in blast but 46 weeks
in the year.
SUICIDE or A.CnromAt”---Tho commu
nity of Westminster, Md. was 'greatly
shocked on Thursday lasi, by a suicide
coniiniti by a colored man, named Tom
GibsOn, who had Leen tried on the same
day, bereft Carroll County Court, for nn
assault with intent - to kill his daughterond
sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of
seven years
. and eight months. The of
for tv.hichm wag tried was commit
ted several months ago, and was occasioned
by the girl's hiving incurred 1113. tlisplea•
' sure, by refusing to livo with him, on tic
count of his intemperance and violence.
After she had left him for a short. time,
the girl, ixl) is shout 18 years of age, re.
turned forhotelothing, and having heard
that he 4,lt.lie.ateried to kill her, she took
on officer 4 'tiqNher for her
_prptection.—
Upon cop4 - ig into his presence he stealthi•
ly atiacitell her, and with a butcher kni(e
inflicted up:m her a dangerous, though not
fatal, wrinid in the abdomen. For this'
crime: he was tried as , already stated.—
Previ.:usly to los being conducted from the
jail to the court house, a knife was taken
from him, which he - had secreted about his
person, for the purpose, as he afterwards
confessiid; of destroying his life should he
ho found guilty. When:the trial was over,.
ho was conveyed -,back to jail, and having
by some means obtained a razor, made
. .
n gash with it in his aria above the elbow,
and severed an artery. Although medical
aid was procured as eopn as possible, his
life could not be saved. As long as ho had
strength, he persisted in thwarting the
physiCians, by forcing open the wound, and
in the.cour.sc of,a few hours he died. •
A S.:tv.ri.al . 1 , 1)T BY nun Bicoriir.R•—A
sit,; a ,coat tata: and lamentable
accident t:acwred M Brady township,
Clearfield cranny, l'a , in the family of a
Tressler. The son lift& at a bird
which sat on the corner of the houee,.high
off the ground The hall struck nt the end
of one the house lows, glanced from thence
to the fence, and then ' struck the gill, who
was in the garden. The hall entered at
the right si&, passing immediately through
the heart, and lodged against the skin on
the left side.
ANOTHER STORY. —A correspondent of
the New York Courier asserts that the
witnesses exprcted from Canada to testify
in behalf°, McLeod, ace about to be inter
copied and carried WI by persons who wish
to embroil the two countries in a war.—
One half of the rumors that.come from the
Northern frontier are not to be depended
upon.
SUPPOSED Cum. DiscovenED.—The New
York Courier thinks' a clue has been dis
covered that will lead to the detection of
the murderers of Miss Rogers. It says—
. "A Mrs.- Lose, who keeps a small tavern
on the embankment near IVeehawken, has
been examined before the Mayor of this
city, and states that Mary was at her house
on the evening, of the 2sth of July last, in
company with several young men, and that
she drank some lemonade offered by one of
thorn. Mo. Loss also identified the
clothes found in the woods near there as
part of those worn by the unfortunate girl
on that -occasion. Whatever other clue
may have been discovered, has been kept
profoundlyy - secreti though we are given to
understand that great hopes are now enter.
tained of the ultimate success of the endea
vors to relief out the authors of this dread.
ful tragedy." . .
The National Intelligencer says - that Mr.
GBAr4onn having determined to tender his
resignation of the office of Postmaster . Ge
neral, before doing so, requested the Wing
Delegation from New York State to as
semble, and inform him whether such
decision met their approbation, and the
result was their unanimoup recommenda
tion that he should resign.
The Albany Journal states that Lett is
a man of indomitable enterprise and daring:
Having embarked with McKenzie in the
contemplated rebellion, his farm was confis
cated, and then his brother' was shot and
hie sister outraged by soldiery. This was
enough to make a man desperate. He de
termined to live henceforth for revenge.—
After his escape from the rail road cat: on
his way to prison, he returned to Canada,
where he blew up n lock of the Welland
Canal and Brock's Monument. •
A DREMDFCIL ACCIDENT.- We learn
from the Chamberbburg Times, that a man
named Samuel Lindsay, was instantaneous
ly killed on the Cumberland Valley Rail
load, a few rods above the depot,. on Sat 7
urday last, as the evening train of cars was
coining into that town.
. . .
' , Who' for you no mind you %lick, du.,
Sambol" said Cuffee, "you darn tidy nig•
get! You always is more benefit den profit
-1 wouldn't gib your willies for your elOthei.”
GOVERNOR- • PORTER AT 110MR. -2 1 . 1)0
Hollidaysbnrg Register says:
it abroad; publish it in the i.treets,
no the hill tops null in the valleys, from one
extent of the CommonweAlt to the other;
to the rich and poor, lag& and low, old
and young; to the Whigs, 'Anti-Masons,
and Locos, that. the Porter party is so near
ly annihilated in Huntingdon Coomy, that
men enough to form a county ticket con
not be mustered! They give up the con
test in a county which thri-o years ago they
declared they could have carried had it riot
been for the "big brenk!!!" Tell it in
harks—tell it in AVestmorelned—tell it
every where—that Porter cannot raise n
Porter ticket in his own counly- 7 that his
old friends have deserted him to such nn
extent, that this is the laMentable condition
of hts party nt Lome,"
SHEDDING/ OF rattt.—The members of
Congress, with the clerks, &c.. - have during
the present session, consumed fificen bar
relB oftnk, 53;000 quils, and 483 brace of
steel pens. Doubtful.
USEFUL.—TI.e bark of a willow tree,
burnt to ashes, end mixed with strong
vinegar, and applied to the parts will re.
move all warts, corns or excrescences on
any part of the b9oy.
lIYMENIAL ItEGIUTEU.
MARRIED.
On Thursday, the 9th inst. by the Rev. C.
Wcyl, Mr. Edward Wilder:, to Miss - Sarah
Knause—both of Monello' township.
On the same day, liy' the same, Mr. George
Lilly, of Cumberland 'County, to Mies Jane Tat,.
zer, of Menallon township, Adams county.
OBITTIKAY nr,conn•
DIED.
On the 15th inst., after a long and painful ill
ness, Mr. Peter Culp, ace., of this place, aged
75 yenra and 7 days.
Sheriff's Sale.
12-N of a Writ of Fieri Facing,
issued out of the Court of Common
Pleas of Adams county, and to me directed,
will be exposed to Public Sale, on the pre.
niif:es, on Saturday the lath day of Octo
ber next, at I" o'clock, r. M.,
Tract of Toana,
Situate'in Mountpleasant Township, Adam=
County,' adjoining lamb of lolin Rider,
Peter Weikerr, Frederick: Plum and oth
ers, containing siitcen.. acres more or
leaq, on Which, are erected a I
TWO STORY' LOG 4 , r i
lie 1
ons e,,
r • °5-,...fi r :
antl'Stinto tltteli Building . , a Log Barn find
othdr out huildlngs, with a young Orehard
and a well of water: The abote • property
atlltrds an excellent site for a store and place
of business, having been heretofore occu
lts such, ion well known stand, and none oth
er in the neighborhood. Seized and taken
in execution •as • the..property of William
Sleifer.
G. W.. M'CLELLAII, Sheriff:
Sernternber 21, 1841. is-2
NINE TEACHERS WANTED.
V o l' HE School Directors of Mountpleas
n t Township will meet at the house of
Mr. Anthony Smith in said township, on
Saturday the 2d day of October next, at
2 o'clock, P. M. to receive propoials for
NINE TEACHERS, to take charge of
ho public schools in said township
By order .of the Board,
.I.OIIN BLAIR, Sec'ry.
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Sept. 21, 1841.
rosublic
WILL he:offered at Public Sa to on the
promises on Saturday the 30th clay
of Oilober next,
• A FARM,
late the property of John Stewart, deed.,
situate in Freedom Township, Adams
County, adjoining lands of David Sheets,
James McCleary, Abraham Krise, nod
others, containing One Hundred and Foe
s! eight acres, one hundred and eleven
perches. The iMprovements
aro a TWO. STORY
LOG. HOUSTI,
a double Log Barn, shedded all round;
with a'gnod well of water near the door.
There are about fifteen acres of meadow of
good quality, and 'a largo proportion of
excellent timber on the Farm, also a young
orchard. Sale to commence at 1 o'clock
of said day when terms will be made known
by•
JAMES CUNNINGHAM.
Sept: ?1, 1841. d to-20
LAW NOTICE.
111111131 Eo SEVZ2Ep
Attorney &Counsellor at Law,
AVING withdrawn from publiclife,
will henCelorth give his undivided
attention to the busines4 of his profession.
The Law Partnership heretofore sUbsist
ing between Thaddeus Stevens and D. M..
Smyser still continues. Any businetis en..
trusted to either of the partners, will re
ceive the care and attention of both.
tCrOFFICE, as heretofoie, in South
Baltimore street, east side, three doors from
the Court•house.
Gettysburg, Sep. 7, 1641.
DENTAL SURGERY:
IN ADDITION TO THE
MEDICAL PRIIOTICE,
ykit. D. GILBERT, is prepared to in.
seri sillitseral Teeth, of the
best quality, and to perform climber oper
ations for. the preservation and beauty of
the teeth. Ali operations WARIZA.NTED.
Gettysburg, Juno 15. tf-12
ADVERTISEMENTS.
PIUBLIC MEETINGS.
111)MURSU ANT .
th a resolution ittleptett et
IL. 'het late County CanYonlitat,,o l o - tit Au.
'gust) requesting the County Committee to
fix the times and places far tiolding . bistriet
Meetinga throughout- the County, meet.
ing4 will he held as
''For. Germany, tinion, Mouroplensant,
and Cenowago, at the haiise of Enoch Le
fever, in Union, on Thursday Me 30th of
Septeritber. .
. .
For Berwick, nt ALbottstOwn OW Friday
the Ist of °dace.
For Reading and Flatmllon, nt linmpton
on Saturday the 2d of Qctoter.
• For fluin Itonbun, Liberty and Freedr4n,
at Milleretown on Moly/1w the .4th ofOrto,
For Franhltn,. it OrPrla's in. CaslitOwn
on Tuesday the Li th of October. •
• • For Motrotioy nrid a eurnlierhuid, nt Ceo.
Snyder's in Mcuntjny, on Thursday the
ith of October.
For illenallen, nt Hersh's, on tl:e old
Curlisle Road, on Friday the eat of Octet.
her.
For Huntington, Latimnre, and Tyrnne , ,
at Petersburg on Saturday the - 9111 of Oc•
toher.
For Straban, at Comfort's on Monday
thellth of Ortoher.
pr - 3. All at 2 o'clock, P. M.
For Borough of Gettysburg. on Monday
11th of October, at 7 o'clock, P. M. in the
Court House r .,
IrrThe friends of David R. Por ter—
the Candidates upon their licket--,and all
.who desire to hear and judge for them•
selves, n're'respectfully requested to attend.
Robert Smith, A. R. Stevenson,
• T. J. Qooper, Battzer Snyder,
Peter Diehl, J.- A. Thompson,
Jas. Renshaw, • •-
COW!, Committee.
September 14, 4641.
11;.EGISTEWS NOTICES.
S'otice, is hereby Given,
rsio all Legatees and other persons con
111 - cerned,,, that the ADMINISTR
770 -V ACCOUNTS of the Estates of the.
deceased persons hereinafier 'mentioned,
will be presented to the Orphans' Court of
Adams county, for confirmation, on 'I flee
day the 28th day of September IE4I, to wit:
The account of Henry Bishop and Abra
he in Spangler, Administrators pfthe.Estate
of OtetricA Bishop, deceased.
The account of .Frederick. %V. 'Koehler,.
Administrator of the, Estate of Mary, Tim
bfe, deceased. , • •
The account of Leonard Delon, Admin
iatrator of the Estate of 4acob Sunday, de-
he account of Leonard Dela!) and. P
etra '‘-;ilter, Executors 'of the Estate of
L'llzabetit Sunday. deceased. ,
The occount of Ant!'wlCerigan,
diet] of 'John Tolatur ansi James Toland,
minor children of William Tniand; deed
The account of Daniel Baumgardner ? .
one of the Executors' of the Estate of Peter,
I I uingardnor, deceased. '
The account of Henry Whiner, Aannit.
istt etor of the Estate of Samuel' Ma, de
ceased. • -
The account of Nicholas Bushey, , lisq
Administrator ofthe Estate of. Jacob Stres
baugh, deceased.
The account of William Wolf and George
L. Pauss, Administrators of Jos. • Miller.
deceased, who was Executor of the Estate
of Philip Miller, deceased. •
WM. KING, Register.
Register's Office, Gettysburg,
Aug. 31, MlLte
womay.am4
At PaerORSDEL I Tailor,
RESPEC'ITULLY informs the citizens
of Gettysburg and the public genera!
ly, that he has
REMOVED HIS SHOP
to the building occupied Post Mice,
next door to the American Hotel (k.urtz's)
and directly opposite the -Bank of Gettys
bare., where he is prep3red to, execntr3all
kinds of work in his line of buiimess in the,
neatest and most durable manner, and. at
Very modei:nte prices.
r [ln earnestly invites his country
friends to favor him with a call—they may
expect their work to be made in a good,sub
stantial manner, and on the most accommo
dating terms.
pa..Tlie Subscriber feels graisful for
past encouragement, and respectfully soli
cits a continuance of the same.
August 10, 1841.
4ta3DITOIt'S NOTICE.
rfrum undersigned, Auditor, appointed by
the Orphans' Court of Adams county,,
to audit and report the advancements made
to the Heirs of JAMES MC AusTER, deceas 7 :
ed: also, the amounts in which said deceas:..
ed stood bound and was liable us surety•for
any of his said Heirs, fit the . time of his•de
cease, will,meet for that purpose at the
public house cf./ames Heagy in the borough •
of Gettysburg, on ! Satur day the 25Th of
September, 1841, at 10 o'clock, • A.,. 1 .41•-of•
said day, at whtch time and place eN per
sons interested are notified to attend.
ROBERT SMITH, Atiditora •
August 31,1841. 3t-23
TO MY CIIt -44DITOR
TAKE notice that I have oppliedlo the
Judges of the Court Of Commoo Pleas of
Adams county, for the benefit' of the Insol
vent Laws of the Commoowealth of Penn-
sylvanta, end, l lbo Wiry have nicsithlti4
Tuesday the 213 t it day . ef P tem bet' ar4l,fes
the hearing of me and my erediteisi-st the- - -
Court House in the Borough ot e0 1 ,111145111rf -
when and where you may attend If ,lelt
think proper.'
JACOB B. BRINGMA.PU- -
Aug. 31, 1841: „ tc-23
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