D. A. nuriume, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR VOL. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF ADAMS COUNTY FOR 246. a GREEABLY to an Act of Assembly, entitled' An Act to raise County Rates and Levies," requiring the Commissioners of the respective Counties to publish a statement of th e RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES yearly—the Commissioners of Taxes of said County do REPORT as follows, viz.; F7om the sth day of January, A. D. 1646, to the 4th day of January, A. D. 1817—both days inclusive : David It'Creary,.Esq. Treasurer, and Commissioners, in account with the County of Adams, as follows rt, . To Cash in hands of Treasurer, at last settlement, Outstanding County Tax and Quit Rents in hands of Collectors, County Rates and Levies assessed for 18.16, viz . Borough of Gettysburg, - $764 69 . Do. Quit Rents, - - 178 00 Cumberland T - 'Township, - 643 47 Germany 14 - - 343 76 Berwick .i - - 601 68 Huntington " - 501 39 Latimore 44 • • - 329 31 - Hamiltonban" - 651 94 -. Liberty 4I - - 315 20 thilliltOn 14 - 500 52 Menallen 44 - 723 48 Straban 66 • - 601 34 Franklin 16 - • .*• 640 03 Conowago 41 .• • . 496 11 Tyrone ll • • 322 63 44 Mountjoy - - 422 87 Mountpleasant " 569 82 Reading II - - 552 79 Freedom 64 - - 237 01 Union 41 • - 469 84 To Cash received from John Laydom, for costs, " from Win. Wright; for Costs, " from D. A. Buehler, for rent due for 18.15, Interest received on-111'Kendrick 'Fax, To Cash received from Douglass, for Costs, " from Sheriff Sehriver, for Boarding, " from Bank of Gettysburg, " from 11. J. Schreiner,ftir rent for 1815, 13 " from - Sheriff Sehriver, for Jury fines &•verdiets, 46 " from sundry'persons for additional Tax, • 6 przr The Outstanding County Tax appears to be in the hands of the following Collectors, to wit : COLLECTORS. TOWNSHIPS. Quintin Artmtrong, Borough of Gettysburg, $535 20 Henry Welty, do. 252 54 George Guinn, Cumberland, 283 47 Jacob Pitzer,f Germany, 239 76 Jacob Hare, Berwick, 220 68 Jonathan Goulden,t Huntington, 423 at) John Harbolt,t Latitnore, 109 31 John llerrinq Hamiltonban, 459 94 John Sehriner;- ; , ' Liberty, 55 20 Jacob Baker,* llamilton, .. 100 52 Daniel Plank, Menallen, 111 11 Eden Norris,f Straban, 276 34 Eusebins J. Owings,t Conowago, 335 00 George Fiddlcr,t Tyrone, 125 81 Francis Allison,t , Mountjoy, 199 87 John Kuhn, Alountpleasant, IZ4 82 John Carpenter, Freedom, . 60 01 Win. Gitt,t Union, .., • 77 84 YEARS. *Since paid in full. (Since paid in part TO THE HONOR3BLE THE JUDGES Of THE COURT OF COMJION PLE.IB OF .1D.131S COUNTY. ISA'r;7IE, the undersigned, duly elected AUDITOR, to settle and adjust the Public Accounts of the Treasurer and Commissioners of said Counts', and Nt4/ laving been sworn or :aimed agreeabl y to law, RETORT the following to be a general statement of said Account, from the sth day ofJanuatv A. D. 1546, until the 4th day of January , A. D. 1847—both days inclusive: • David M'Creary, Esq. Treasurer, and the Commissioners, in account with the County of Adams DR. DOLLS. CTS. To Cash in hands of Treasurer at last settlement, .3027 72 Outstanding Tax and Quit Rents in hands of Collectors, 5098 43 County Rates and Levies assessed for 1846, 9688 48 Quit Rents for 1846, 178 00 Cash from John Laydom for Costs, 30 62 Cash from WuL Wright, it 129 58 Cash from D. A. Buehler, for Rent due in 181, 10 25 Interest on M'Kendrick Tax, 24 Cash from Douglass, as Cost, 45 23 4 , from Sherill Schriver, for Boarding, 15 00 " from Bank of Gettysburg, 196 87 ~ from 11. J. Schreiner, for Rent, 13 75 ~ from Sheriff Schriver for fines, &e. 46 00 from sundry persons for additional tax, 6 99 ) S R, the undersigned, AUDTORS of the County of Adams, Pennsylvania, elected and sworn pursuant to law, do REPORT that we met, did audit, settle and adjust, according to law, the Account of the Treasurer and Commissioners of said County. commencing on the sth day of January. 1846, and ending on the 4th day of Jahuary, A . IJ . 18.17—both days inclusive: that said Account, as settled above, and entered on record in Settlement book in the Commissioners' Office of Adams co u nty, i s correct • and that we lind a balance due to the County of Adams, by DAVID M CnrAnr, Esq. Treasurer of said county, in Cash, the sum of Eight Hundred anil- Eighty-nine Dollars and Ninety-four and Three-fourth Cents—and in Outstandinr , Taxes the sum of Four Thousand One Hundred and Six Dollars and Eighty•one-Cents. In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, at the Commis goners' Office, Gettysburg, our place of settlitg, Public Accounts, the 4th day of January, 18.17. Feb. 5,1.847.4 t FOR THE "STAR AND lIANNEII." IfilOPE. Oh, what is hope when sorrow's gloom Enshrouds the soul in night ? A flying spectre—magic loom— Where fancy loves to light, And weave allurements new and fair, To lead the trusting to despair ! A broken staff, with cracks unseen, On which the trembling one doth lean, And fondly in its strength confide, To feel• its splinters pierce his side. R'..l. Laziness grows on pbople : it begins in cobwebs and end s - in iron chains. The more business a man has to„ do the more I , e is able'to accomplish, for he learns to twomize his time. • &RMOTO)RiaJ 631gReEtr„ IDENTIFYING AN INDIVIDUAL.--TllO Knickerbocker for January, 1847, is full of good things ; among them is this one:— "Did you know Dr. Wier?" asked an in quisitive gentleman in one of the Philadel phia cars, of a Northampton county Dutch man. "Dr. Veer?" he replied, "well, den, knowed him a little. 'I seed him onc't. We was on dat steamboat vat vash plowed up mit to p'ilerbu'Sthii, by Pitts burg dere: and w'en I Irash goin on the shore by de plank, he and de shmoke pipe rash coining down. I never seed him pe-. fore nor since !" Queen Victoria's income is 66,868 par day, $232 an hour, and 61,75 a, second.— snug income, truly. COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE, ARAMS COUNTY, PM • c R. Z'y orders paid out as follows, to trit By auditing Public Accdunts, Treasurer of Poor-house, Dockets, Books, Stationary,'and Postage, Assessors' Pay, Fox, Wolf, and Wild Cat Scalps, Public Printing and Blanks, Abatement allowed Collectors, 5 per cent; • Quit Rents paid Geo. 'Limes up to Ist January, 1846, General Juries and Tip Staves' Pay, Grand i Juries and do. Justice and Constables' Fees for committing va'grants - , Counsel to Commissioners, Repairs'done to Public Buildings, Jailor's Fees fiir keeping prisoners, Wood for Public Buildings, D. M'Elroy, Court-cryer's Pay, Sheriff's Bills of Court Costs, Incidental Expenses, Peter Diehl, Commissioner's Pay, James Cunningham, la Joseph Fink, ii Clerk's Pay, .. Officers of Spring Election, Officers of General ~ Wood Sawing for Court-house & Comm's Office, Coroner's Fees, Tax refunded, Repairs of. Bridges, . ___ Binding Books, . 75 B. Schriver, Sheriff, for summoning, Jurors, 78 00 Do. -- forconveying prisoners to E. S. Prison, 145 98 Prothonotary. Recorder, and Clerk of Sessions' Fees, 70 5.5 John 11. Reed, in trust for E. State Prison, ' 14.1 .02 Indexing Docket, 25 00 Medical attendance on prisoners, 23 00 Tuition of poor children, Iltintington township, . 5 13 Note and Interest, paid Bank of Gettysburg, 200 00 Stock in Water Company, Gettysburg, 225 0t Directors of the Poor, pay, '0 00 Collectors' Fces, -- 110' 1 Certificate of Constables' Returns, • `----, 85 31i 1 Exonerations to Collectors, -1 Z56 Treasurer's CoMmission, 2 0 001 Outstanding Tax and Quit Rents, 4106 firli Balance in hands of Treasurer, 889 Oli! DOLT.S. CTS. 3027 72 5098 43 9,866 30 129 16 45 15 106 $18,493 16 In lleStlMOny that the foregoing statement of Reeripts and Expendi- V. 44 0 4, . lures, exhibited at the O ff ice of the Treasurer of said County, is .'" - ' 4 ',. correct and true Copy, as taken from and compared with . the 441104, a . . ' . . . ' ::.; Originals remaining in the Books of this O ff ice—We have bete "• 441,4 " unto set our hands, and a ff ixed the Seal of our said 011 ice, at 4 ti" 4 . 1. xx ,o, - t. l'ettysburg, the 9th day of January. A. D. IS-17. t r.., J. CUNNINGHAM, :"' JOSEPH FINK, A. 11EINTZLEMAN, 7.1. $4,106 81 Avant N /IAUGII. Clerk DOLLS. CTS. By amount of disbursements on Commiss'rs Oilers, 11,812 85 Outstanding tax in hands Collect's, on assessm't for '45, 408 77 " Quit Rents in hands Coll'rs, on assesset 11)1.'45, 126 43 " Tax in hands of Collectors, on assessment for '46, 3478 61 Quit Rents in hands Coll'rs, on assessin't for '46, '93 00 Fees to Collectors fur 1844, 79 55 Do. do. 1845, 892 70 Do. , . do. 1840, 137 43 1)o. eronstables, 85 31i Exoncrations to Collectors, on Assessment for 1845, 233 50 Treasurer's Salary, Balance in hands of Treasurer, January 4, 1847, $18,143 16 GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1817 JACOB DELLONE, dluditors of the JOHN C. ELLIS, .5 County of ✓ldums Judge Arllenry, of New Orleans, has decided that a slave once having gone out of the country and landed upon a free soil, upon returning is no longer a slave. The amount of money expended for ci gars smoked in the U. S. is near-510,000,- -000. In 1828 there was one newspaper in Springfield, Mass. There are now 14. Worth has been underrlited ever since wealth was overvalued. Digby says that. witches, in the olden nine, were used as an article of fuel. Vows made in storms arc forgotten in "FEARLESS AND FREE." 88 13 12 81 219 30 $18,493 16 for 1840, 5 06 220 00 889 9•f $18,.11 1 3 lti Said Bob; in that spirit which Christiana enjoy, knim I nt pr tiro,* onr era CUP{ h. nn• boy !" POETRY. [From the Louisville (Ky.) Journal 72]r CC I -. , L ., r71 7 . t]r::"1 II T ' 4 .4. "I E L I •." Here is a little, golden tress, Of soli, upbraided hair ; The all that's left of loveliness, That once was thought .o fair. And yet, though time has d mmed its sheen, Though all beside hat! fled, I hold it here a link Item .en The living and the dead. Yet from this shining ringlet, still, A mournful memory springs, That melts my heart, and sends a thrill Through all its trembling strings. I think of her, the loved. the wept, Upon whose forehead fair, For eighteen years, like sunshine, slept This golden curl of hair! Oh sunny tress ! the joyous brow, Where thou did'st lightly wave, With all thy sister tresses, now Lies cold within the grave. That cheek is of its bloom bereft, That eye no mare is gay. Of all her beauties, thou art left, A solitary ray ! 'Four years have passed, this very Jude, Since la , t we fondly met ; - Four years ! and yet it seems too soon, To let the heart forget. Too soon to let that lovely face From our sad thoughts depart, And to another give the place, She held within the heart. Her memory still, within my mind, Retains its sweetest power ; It is the perfunte left behind, To tell us of the flower ! Each Itlos-toto that in morn' is gone, Bound up this sunny curl, Recalls the form, the look, the tone, Of that enchanting. girl. Her step was like an - April rain, O'er beds of violets flung, Her, voice, the prelude to a strain, _ Before the song is sung. Her liii.. ' twas as a half blown flower, Closed crc the shades of even ; Her death, the dawn, the blushing hour, That ape's the gates of Heaven. A single tress, bow slight a thing, To sway such magic art, - And bid each soft remembrance spring, Like blossoms in the heart ! It leads me back to days of old— To her I loved so long, Whose locks outshone pellucid gold; NVltos: lips o'ertlowed with song. Since then I've heard a thousand lays From lips as sweet as hers, Yet when I strove to give then praise. I only gave the'' , te.nra. LI ~ot near amid the throng, Where jest and laughter rung, To hear another sing the song, That trembled on her tongue. A single, shining, tress of hair, To bid such memories start ! But tears arc on its lustre—there, I lad• it on my heart. Oh ! when in death's cold aries I sink, Who then, with gentle care. Will keep for me a dark brown link, A ringlet of my hair. A POINTED ILT.—AR invalid once sent for a physician and after detaining him for some time, with a description of his pains, - ------------, , aches, etc., he thuS summed up: Tru: DEATH OF A MOTnErt.—Aside i "Now, doctor, you have humbugged from that of a wife. the death of a mother me long enough with your good for no has something in it more touching than a ! thing pills and worthless syrups, they don't touch the real difficulty. ,I wish you ny other event ; it btirsts,:t tie which no o ther affliction can possibly dissolve. For 'to strike the cause of my ailments if it is when such an event does happen, we look in your power to reach it." "It shall be bad: upon the days of our infancy and done," said the doctor, at the same time childhood, when a fun 1 er watched lifting his cane and demolishing a decanter 'Over our "outgoings . ul nes n . ,s," when • of gin that stood on the sideboard! the dull hours of night vere 1 0 ked by ' ______ ___ her wakenings. I "O „ VIL FIRST MEN. " — M eter C. Brooks, We think we have done our uty when of New England, is said to be worth $O,- we have laid her in the gloomy grave, wet- 000,000; J. P. Cushing $2,000,000; Ab ting it with our tears, and raised a stone o- bott Lafteuce 52,000;000; Amos, at 1,- ver her dust, and chanted a hymn to her ' 500,000; and William, at 1,000,000; T. memory. But there is a duty which ma- ' 11. Perkins $1,500,000 ; Daniel Sears 1,- ternal affection has imposed upon us, and 500,000 ; the three Appletons $1,00t),000 which nothing but stern conformity to pre- : each; Jonathan Philips, R. G. Shaw and cept can perform. It is to follow ler . William Sturgis the sante sum. Twenty precepts and example, to take home to , two millions of dollars owned by thirteen our hearts the warning which heaven-born love dictates; to practise those virtues which ornament every department of life, and to cherish fondly the memory of her to whom we are indebted for life, for hap piLess, and I might almost say fur heaven,. If we fail to perform these, We prove our selves traitors to -our nature, to our con sciences and to our God MISCELLANY. BEAUnEmbLtaisixas.—A recent tray yeller gives an account that when he was walking on the beach of Brazil, he over took a colored woman with a tray on her head. Being asked what she had to sell, she lowered the tray, and with reverend tenderness uncovered it. 'lt was the lifeless form of her babe, covered with a neat white robe, with a garland round the head, and flowers within the little hands that lay clasped upon its bosom. "Is that your child,"'said the traveller. "It was mine a few days ago," she re plied, " but the Madonna has it for her an gel now." - "How beautifully you have laid it out," said he. Site added cheerfully, ''Ah what is that to the bright wings she wears in heaven." FIVE MAXIMS TO BE OBSERVED ITHROURII LIFE.-1. Never regret what is irretrievably lost. 2. 'Never believe that which seelLs to be improbablp 3. Never expose your disappointments to the world. 4. Never complain of being ill used. 5. Always speak well of your friends, and of your enemies speak always good but never e vil. Said Torn, "you're a ja4tiss,"to Bob, in a pet, "As ions-eared a jackass as ever I met." The following beautiful passage is the conclu ding portion of an address of the Hon. Mr. Bullit; . member of Congress from Louisiana, in announ i elm; to the House the death of senator Barrow: "Mr. Speaker, the ingenuity of grief will find means of making his sorrow sweet. We have sifted the circumstances of Mr. Barrow's duath, to find a comfort amongst the ingredients of woe, and friendship may take refuge in memories that sustain its faith; but there is a sharper anguish that will not be cancelled by considerations of : worldly respect. The last thoughts of our deceased friend were turned towards home ; and the name of wife and children trembled on his lips as he expired. 'chat home he should never see mote, nor her who made it happy. I forbear to lift the veil which screens the solitary mourner from the public gaze. The sympathies of kindred, even, seem all too gross for the sanctuary of buried love. I will leave that household with the agencies which are balm to the heart made sore by Providence. (There is a God whose arm is around the orphan, and the widow's tears drop in the hollow of his hand." A Goon Osc.—The Hon. Andrew Stewart re cently paid a visit to Lowell, Mass., distinguished for its Factories. He relates, in a letter to the U niontown Deitiociat, the following anecdote : In looking over the pay roll or book, which I accidentally picked up from the table, I found on twenty-seven consecutive pages, containing eight hundred signatures nearly 'all girls, but a single one that made a mark or X—all written in a good, many. of them in an elegant, hand. The clerk I observed to me that Lord Morpeth, when ' on a visit to this conntry some years ago, happened to be pregent on pay (lay, and, with some surprise, enquired, "Whatl do !your operatives writer "Certainly, sir," said the clerk, "Americans all write." Di rectly there came in a man who made his mark. ''Ah !" said his lordship, with a smile, "I thought you said all wrote." "All 14n/erica/to, your lordship—this was an lEnglishman." Whereupon his lordship !grinned a ghastly smile." ANEPDOTE.—'Phis is too good to - be lost. A quick witted toper went into a bar-roinn and called for something to drink in New York. .:We don't sell liquor,' said the law a ! biding landlord—'We will give you a glass, land then if you want to buy a cracker we'll sell it for three cents.' 'Very well,' said the Yankee customer, Llutnd down your decanter.' The 'good creature'-was handed down, and our hero took a stiff horn when turn ; ing around to depart, the unsuspecting landlord handed him the dish of crackers, with thewernark, 'you will buy a cracker? , 'Wall, no, 1 guess not; you sell 'cm too dear. 1 can get lots on 'em live or s i x for a cent anywhere else.' A GOOD PARAPHRASE.—We have heard that previous to a recent well contested battle, a young volunteer officer asked leave of a certain celebrated Major Gener al to ;TO and see his father, who was on his death-bed. •'Go,'' said his commander, smiling sar castically: "You honor your father and mother, that Jots• days may be long in the land." General Paez, who stepped forth and saved Venzuela during the late,reyolution . that ary movement Jo a country, has gone into retirement, rejecting the honors and e moluments of office, pod carrying with ' him to the shades of private life the admi ration of a grateful people. He is styled the Washington of South America, and, like his great exemplar, is also called the Father of his Country. In the streets of - Leicester one day, Dean Swift was accosted by a,drunken weaver, who staggering against his reverence, said, "I have been spinning it out." Yes," said the dean, "1 see yuu have, and you are reeling it home." THE NOBLE ADDRESS of La Rochejac quelin to his soldiers, is one of- the finest specimens of the laconic :—"lf I advance, follow me ; if rfall, avenge me'; if f flinch, kill me." LONGEVITV.—One who is- remarkable for noting the signs of the times, states, that it is a fact of great notoriety, that those who aro punctual in their payment of suhscriptions to newspapers, are a dis tinguished for vigomf body and mind, and remarkable for lonelife! TERMS---TWO DOLLARS PLR AliNt3l IIiTIIOLE N 0.879. EDUCATIONAL.—From the report ofJES• SE MILLER, Esq., Superintendent of Com mon Schools, we learn that the whole whole number of School Districts in the State, exclusive of the City and County of Philadelphia, which have a special system of their own, during the School Year end ing the First of June last, was twelve hun dred and twenty-five, of which one thou . sand and sixty-seven accepted the provi sions of the Common School Law, leiiving one hundred and fifty-eight non-accepting Districts, nineteen less than in the year preceding. The number of accepting. Dis tricts has annually increased ever since the passage of the law. The annual State appropriation is $200,000, divided among the accepting Districts, including Philadel phia, about fifty cents to each taxable in habitant.—Fork Republican. Hisooo OATu-- s.-The inhabitants of the mountains of Hindus pay little regard to the distinctions of castes, and to many de vout practices observed by those 'of the plains, but they are exceedingly punctilious in all that regards the sacredness of oxen. Capt. Kennedy prohibits the public slaugh ter of these animals in Simla, and the mea sure tends greatly to facilitate the goodwill of the mountaineers. The Gangcs water, on which witnesses are sworn in the courts of justice, by no means deters them from perjury ; it is Capt. Kennedy's practice, therefore, to make witnesses take hold of a cow's tail and swear by the animal. The truth is then sure to come out.— Voyage to India by Victor Jacquonont. SOLILOQUV.—Uan't get along so, and yet doing as much business as 1 did twen- - ity years ago; Then I saved money— now I'm spending it—absolutely going behind-hand every season !, What's the difficulty ? Profits are reduced, whilst rents and taxes are increased: What shall Ido ? It's plain !—I must do more busi ness—multiply my profits by increasing the number of my customers. How shall I get more customers? By giving infor 'nation to a greater number of people and invitim , b their custom. How ? As other people do—through the newspapers, cards, handbills, &c. &c. In short, I must ad vertise Or quit business. As there is no remedy I will make a virtue of neeessity.=. advertise/—I will. A COLONY OF CoNI/tem.—There are now in Van Dieman's Land, about 34,000 convicts, males and females, and 27,000 free persons, many of whom are emanci pated convicts. The male convicts ara distributed over the island in gangs of 250 to 300 each;. and nearly the same system is pursued with the females. DESCENDENTS Or OLIVER CROMWELL IN THIS COUNTRY.-t 1 writer in the Litch field Enquirer says that the mother of Oli ver Cromwell was the "maternal grand parent of Hon. •W'w. Jones, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut colony, who married Hannah,youngest daughter of Gov. Eaton, of New Haven." The philosopher Bias being asked what animal he thought the most hurtful, re plied, that of wild creatures, a tyrantand of tame ones, a flatterer. FRANKLIN.—The Rochester Printers have determined to erect a monument over the rcmaims of Benjamin. Franklin, which are deposited in the Arch street (Phila.) burying ground under a plain slab. The ground belongs to the Friends or Quakers, and they may object to any ostentatious monument. Prince Albert was blaming a little boy at Eton fin not having learnt more at his age. "It's not my fault, Sir," replied the young. dunce, “for we have a holliday e ve ry time a new prince is horn." Eleven births took place among a deck. load of emigrants, during their passage from New Orleans to the mouth of the Ohio a short time since. THE OTIIER SIDE.-By the new Consti tution of Hayti, no while person can be come a citizen or hold immoveable prop erty. • Secrets with girls, like loaded guns with boys, Are never valued till they make a poise ; To show how trusted, they their power display; To show how worthy, they their trust betray; Like pence in children's pockets, secrets lie In females' bosoms—they must burn to tly. ' TIE BEST CONUNDRUM YET.-A lady is answerable for the following: Why is a good wile like Satan ? Because while the 4usband-man sleeps she sews (sows) laret. "THE WORTH OF A THING IS WHAT IT WILL BRlNG. " —Crosses of the French Le= glen of Honor have been selling in the streets of Madrid at the rate of three a penny. . Why is a drunkard hesitating to sip the pledge like a sceptical Hiitdoot 80. cause he is in doubt whether to give up the worship of the jug-or-not. t Coleman, the dramatist, was asked if ba knew Theodore Hook? replied the wit "Book and Eye are old associates:" Lire's but a walk over'a timer, and the wild flowers' that grow upon our path era too few not to gather theni when they towei within sight, even though it may eoet; Uir a step or two aside: It's, ell in the'dirit:> journ - q, arid we alitaßgeilinue 2044: -.A,