• t • 0 G. H4USTEAD I Proprietor. TEACH THE " DEMOCRAT." • . •01011 DOLLAR ANDQIIPTT CICTI • year, In advance, or two dollars It not paid Roil the cod of the year, or Subecription. No paper discontinued until artearages are paid, except at the option of the pidilisher. ‘, Mites si Advertises... One Square, (rvre,i*e linea, or lea,) 3 Insertions, 51 00 Each aubsetwent Insertion, 25 One Square, 3 menthe, 230 6 trainee,4 00 • Ihtatnen Cards. elfour lines or 1 200 Yearly Advertise,* (who occopy e tt over 4 Reveal 700 One column. onnPear, ) 00 , 0:2" POST*PRED Onmunlcadons only wilt receive attedtion 7421:43T0 F the Boston 'reveller. THE *IN BEHIND; THE AGE. O imam, Elk! I ought to be Aye 11141 loog ago, It Ls so plait too late I dame ' into thiscimrld of wo. So hard arsfplans to understand In whicWiten's thought" engage, My perplertid bruits will not take pains To keep with the age. Men fasten;{ ghtning on a rod To exprdis all the news, And Sandetiand tells all the world What, to*' - ' body does. I wish theol‘,'pesky nieuneriste Were kaiiied of Life's stage; They e,re tirkitHigh wary thing bat truth, And keesPitp with the age. • My sole t rehat pains from pinching boom t What sc4ity coats men wear ! What modinitbacbelor does not blush At arms f 1 . !,1:1d bosoms bare ! No end tLe Il be to bloody ware While pefiticilina rage I I 'dill thatlbad not been born. Eo far behind the age. Who stealsik loaf at, famines bid Boards aqhe Eititte's expense, Who forge4o a large amount Is deew a man of sense. 0 fora atrdifg hangman's knot, A. whipping-post and cage. A ducking kijoo 1 for gossiper. ! B et i'mtokhind the age. At church Oundred lusty lungs In one gr t in , blast, join in With argent thundering treble hue. To awell*e horrid din ; 0 forthat gi;laixt "Old Hundred" lay My ear-pins to assuage, • With Coar*y on. his ! But I'm laihual the age. No soul hai4e.who bag Dot heard Sublime Niagara's roar In transpi+ikl, whsle Ole Bull Bat one fling flddka o'er. 1 7 104 'rental voice And Bart 6 Bate but pent me I would no; 4, 4ltir:an inish to hear Bull or IlKleaccianti. Thee was ithes Umiak& deigned to spin Each daye,a rue or so; . • Bat Dore wiring they understand Bat wimenthey , re after beam. . Thad throw . 1 m a bachelor, ill iwet like a sage. Take celoroqrra, blow oil my brains And bet nkarith the age. ' IC2SOMV.4I4IN7g Kr The fol li ming pretty little tale from Godey's Lady'clook for October has been se lected for our tlumns by a worthy bachelor friend, who magi be, like its author, taking the "after -thought Most sincerely, diriiie hope so. The couvOsion from cold celibaeS , of one so almost hope * sly incorrigible as our friend in question, waflila bo a great triumph indeed for the author. f 5 We have strong hopes—think the arrow took Affect : LEAVES ROM MY JOERNAL. taalr SQ.7IKE uCITLI. E INVITATION. 1 . Thermomete tat 90 0 , and no soda fountain I near. I had, wit' no little satisfaction, finished my book and tWrown it unceremoniously upon the table. T*bird of animation already had I folded its wingsand qoinposadtself to doze in 1 the warm nest tfl'iny brain, sail] wearied by its eager and exciting flight over the p . • , of Mis- 1 errimas-6-impabsloned work of a m. t cruel author—and lid left me musing over -.at II had just reakiteaching of the emptiness . f worldly please s. Row that the great King Abderame hadtzeigned fifty years, and•that it had been his t*enjkly and exhaust riches, hon ors, pleasnrea4all that the world considers worthy—yet, i4lhis own estimation, he had from , all this-long EON of apparent felicity, been really 'happy 14. fourteen little days. How I then wished tlMt to this moral legacy of the , Moorish king 144 one brief clause bad been add- 1 ed, simply tell g how those happy days had 1 Leen whiled avily, and bow men might be no i longer tudiapp,l. Vain life . :- cold -world '... 71 little jeatnesq—false and fading honor ‘..— wearisome socie L ty, whose denir - opens - inwardly, catching and Destroying whomsoever entereth to nibble at th* cheese of luxury '! Heartless, ealcalatimg bi4dship, such as exists between the eater and that which may become food, in= adulating itselri into the heart's recesses u the serpent enters he hole of its 'prey l 1 know notlhow long from the bine bowled pipe of dejectn I may have whiffed the liittmi-: eating and beim:Lathing smoke exhaled from itis anthropy4s sod-destroyin g weed, had 'not my old crony L-46—,: , , whom I had basely forgotte n .. in the earnest Mess of my rhapsody, entered the room and int+pted me with— -- . " Rollos, 34, —, I shall eipeet you to be . W fit hand at m y Wi se to-night week, without '' " Wby for r replied I,- sloiely waking my dreamyat4e- 48 Wi ly -.... r .. ye stole loressweet bait and, as my unman say, On tbis day week incorporate,two in one!' a friend or two, see the' Hereof fail not jig: ) ate.i bay siva•ml to a du )reislievandlsectio %rite _ .... •I " ' i 1 " "... . . ''' -. . - .. ''---. - - ' 1 - - --'. :'ll, - . i' .. s ' ..: - . ' " .' ' . .'' ' I • , 4 . „ : ; :. 1 : T' t. 1,,.:, ' 7.7.:..;„_..,::..,,...11, ~ 't'•''''_. ~,:.:.,. ~_ ~..__,,....,...4 „ , ~.,,., i,....... }." .. , . !..,• ....,..........i.,:. E. 1' . . . . ~..\...",......., ....,.. . .; . T N ....... - : ..'. i . . 1 . . ~." ' - • 1 1 , '• ' . . i p ' . ....; 13 , 4 .., ' - . . " 1 . . . • s , . . •'-- i _ ' _, still ringing sweetly in my ears, his op the last stair told' e that I was Yet greatly were my spirits refresh, that to• me was yet left a friend, I answered my friend's invitatio big his house at the appointed ho. the folding doors of the apartment • open 63 a happy assembly of rel friends. The scene disclosed was t hitensest interest, -which I would bri iMperiectly describe while the pea tiling between an eager. approach o fUI retreat. In the centre of-the brilliantly lig 'stood 'the bride—she in whose gos the bird of my friend's soul had b • tiicablY .entaingled—dressed with pfieity, for nature needed not the assistance of art, she appeared the tion of, goodness and innocence. T oT a spring, morning crowned her mind and feeling flooded her soul, • aii thry looked up into L—'s fa happy an expression froth between t fringed and shadowy curtains. Ho 'al:ming of a purer world, half like a a dream, she stodd in spiritual con vdtb lips more firmly closed than th the simple white japonica buds her encireled. Ey her stood L—, justly h _heart% pride, a picture of easiness nature, which even uncle Toby wont vied. Each the chosen companion o entail aught else add'anytbing of be chantncent to the happy couple ? indeed, unless Sought for in the t. bridesmaids—the one trying to cone kreed looks of comic gravity her b nature, for than sbe =cricket or w net more cheerful, nor April day in, nor suMmer breeze more graceful t erg motion. The other, I would al the self same fair one Epes Sargon t 4 other day in one of his frequent whom he — thus sings-- , The ocean's blue is in her ey - i Its coral in her lips, ! And in her cheeks the mingled • 1 - . , No sea•shell could eclipse." But llmust stay my quill, for th. I longer doubting, slowly approach ( shrine, preceded by the holy, man o and shortly the wedding: ceremon l commenced. Amber clear were the }tees that invoked the blessing o; god tip, site union about to be con but these, no sound disturbed the s. Iness andlOneness of breathing, say, gle jingle sound of the rainbow ligl of the chandelier, touched softly by - lgarment4 of the gentle summer wi n . fully leaped in at the window, imps turn to kiss the - grateful bride—an, snob a kind nurse and friend of na better right to the first kiss of one ,own offspring? A grateful kiss, too, it was to the 1 which cooled a little central spot in • !cheek, that looked for all the world] (footprint on the crimsoned Alpine I thoughtless thing though it was, fo not to gather up its garments in it - ! unseasonable flight, for the jingling f effect on her of prim mouth, unabl moulded into solemnity, and alums, little bridesmaid laugh aloud. A I too, it was, to flutter-the ruffles and !those aged grandamc4., #d deco.. Iquaint looks that seemingly said, " ;fashion has altered even this holy c wrought sadly for the worse upon t. forms of fifty years ago." And a !wind it was that, in its capers, dre Ito these things and made it heed i good man's words, tell Ms distinct hatb joined let no man put asunder " the cerem o ny finished. • -' r Then 'awhile' was - silence, as it w. holy act had been registered above what a foist of jkisses and what hen tations were exchanged ! There w. butterfly kiss o ceremony, cruelly . atl offered a dainty morsel ; the , wing, sn like kiss of parents ; m., . net° sof sister and brother !Ong, on ' wn," honey-bee kit friende, .e lips. bung together t . . 1 i ra the eockl—sh to its rocky Mute. fiiit of love ; ; 'ned altatixnti w' otsympathy, este .*. -ass the flames . ingpile, and how instantaneously it the lips of all. " , The feast- of lovb hardly over, con 14.iely and merry silver-ringing-tat birds fessi!Qcon light brideseake an . er wines, Or cantle - Im' sly nibbling des id wedding, especially fancied by lit that little urehind who, so though , marrow, glances tie watchful, big, ot a glheedless company, and th . I hrough theloorway. W offerer hide his sweeftreasures .., haystack ! Simghty. .boy—rightl when sireet-toothedi servants saw end slily shared tbe sp,oili. , ::, Somewhat excited by the champ li g ht Mai plameake of sadifaction, hid partaken until a late bout; Lb *the bride and bridegroom, and btu to mmsale , pillow. That nighl .oier• thet scenes or the . 4 other seen' ' besides, quorum' magi rar Meth° ' I stood ar.ivid b e t em of errors, frit Which the god gyro did, and "tliel jury seits - were-lillel laighing Maiden& • In refutatiOni , Mont riV4lfially m y latevin in t T le • Sheriff's bi knotta arms, of my hand ; . liisilly . bad 'it ip toti l ls 101 4 Wit *fir .I.ll,andlis -.1 proteins; et or s from • "No one he so neentsed by Ws, No one so wbolly desolate, Not some begot the unknown, Responds nom his own." r . THE WEDDIiid chambers that pretty jury rung in my ears as their rendered verdict, " The handkerchief of tied in knots, and the gold and jewels left4out !" How I then wished myself posses sorienf thmteTh - ntging of Gyges, that I could hate bec - inviable' as the flowers of the fig- mole tread gain alone. for I felt nd that in in every Chia penpy mind to turn for 11 in,my heart. led rn not murm r, she who snared ie happiest of m for it Would like to attend another wedding soon, an - 4; that one no other than mine own. by enter -just as •re thrown tives and me one of fly though are hesi a respect- THE DEBTOR. • HY D. C. COLESIVORTRY. ted parlor : mer web ome inex inute sim blunderful ersonifiea e openness row, while ming orbs c, with so eir deeply • then like vesture in ernplation, karts of oved hand • You are in debt? Poor fellow, we pity you. Wel know how you are looked upon by your, creditor. He feels that you are his property—, I bod y . and soul—to do with you and by you as Ills fancy or folly may dictate. It is his privi legii to speak of you as be may please:While r yeti shut your mouth self-condemned. You arelin debt to him and cannot pay—what right liar) you to speak? He meets you in the pub lic 'etreet and you cannot escape his eye. At first you feel like crossing the street but then youk will make your case more prominenk.and histlanee=who cannot read it ? You are ac costed, you are condemned, you aro insulted— buCit will cot do to retaliate. You have our syrOpathy, and that is all we can bestow at pre - tent. Who that knows the miseries of a poor debtor, will not struggle hard and try to keep oue;of debt ? Fr devoted and good havo en the other, ntv or en; Nothing, D fair, lily al beneath tter jovial rbling lin e variable, .n her ev- gIIE WORKS FOR A LlVlNG.—Commend us to the girl of whom it is sneeringly said, She works for a living." In her we are 11- wais sure to find the elements of a true woman —a real lady. True, we are not prepared to seea mincing step—a haughty lip—a fashion abli dress—to hear a string of splendid non settee about the ballsand the young men—the neknorels and the next, parties ;—uo—no— hit' we are prepared to bear sound words of gooll, sense—language becoming woman—and to e,ee a neat dress, a mild brow, and to witness movements that would not disgrace an angel. Ye who are looking for-wires and compan iwtS, turn from the fashiOnable, lazy, haughty girt and select one from any of those who work fora liring,--and never—our word for it—will yott repent your choice. Yon want a substan tial: friend and not a doll ; a help-meet and not a hOp-eat ; a counsellor , and not a, simpleton. Yo* may not be able to carry a friend into your bottae, but you can purchase a spinning wheel or ti set of knitting needles. If you , cannot purl:hase any new novel, you may be able to take some valuable paper. If you cannot bay a ticket to the ball, , you can,visit some afflicted neihbor. Be careful then when you i look for co4aniohs and whom you chobse. We know -many a foolish man, wbd, instead of choosing thcindustrious and prudent woman for' a wife, tpolt one from the fashionable walks, and is now lanienting his folly in dust and ashes. He ran into the fire with his eyes wide open, and who buttimself is to blame ? The time was when ladies who went a visit took their work with them. This is the reation why 'we bare such exc e llent mothers..— Holt , singular would a gay woman look in a fashionable circle, darning her father's stock ingiN or carding wool to spin. Would not her companions laugh at herd And yet.such a gay: woman would be, a prize for somebody.— Bleised is the man who chooses his wife from among the despised girls who work for a liv ing;"—Boston Ohre Branch. ost swear met tritb ambles, of guests no the inner authority, has been preacher's Almighty 'mutated; lemn still but a sin ted prisms he trailine that play- Tent of its who, than nre, bad a .f nature's 'degroom, is Darning ken white sat*. A the wind hasty and risais• had ito remain made the nde Wind, cap-ties of pose their ameleon atom,: and o good old ry wicked ' AIdIFICIAL BAIIRIERS TO SOCIAL IMERCOLTIISE. . , We are of opinion that much agreeable and pr4table social intercourse is prevented 12 t y a want of moral courage in adopting a simple style of entertaining one's friends and acquain- i tanees. Let us look around, and what do Is% fin 4 to be the general state ,of intercourse be tween friends and acquaintances in the middle an upper classes of a commercial community? Oni r ?the one liank'We see an entire abstinence froth all social intercourse (except, perhaps, with ithafaate connexions), arising from *no nolliCal motives, founded on the impossibility of complying with the supposed requirements of 1 society in this matter. On the Other we find individuals giving, once or twice a year per hallit, an expensive and formal dinner party, or 0 stiff evening entertainment, . at neither of which does any one feel himself at ease ; where oneis in the midst of a most heterogenons company, gathered together without any earth- 1 ly itference to fitness or amalgability, and from i whleh one at least escapes, thankful to find-' him lf again at his own quiet fireside—inward ly towing that nothing idled ever again tempt . 1 hint; to exchange its genial- precincts for any euoi vain and profitless visiting. During the winter, Mr. and Mrs. A have been , in vited to dinner by Mr. and Mrs. B , or thebroung people have bad "the pleasure of their company requested," ike., by-the C—s. Thie A—T- 7 s consequently feel it incumbent on Them to clear off the-debt supposed to be i °wt l'i to the saidß—s and e a, by in‘ng them in return; and in order 'to have ags mill Clearing ot of scores, they bethink thejnselves of all and sundry from whom they have received civilities during the past six or twelve months,' and without any consideration wl i tever to the liiimoriy of the ingred ient m - bers of the company, s great crow d. of per in, for the most part Ste:l,ollllmm' osaah Othlsr, are uncomfortably packed together, the hors is tuned iopTy-tart' for slew defro, , Vtit.deal of money ts foolishly squatiderod; 11 0 liikorter saiiirsation hag revolted to soy body. awl *heaths SIMr is over; thesiren _,nitita esteetainmenty oongraulat4 OW- I ' ' #' - • that a it last risWelokiste bahr• . 4 hers hsns to . 160310, 11 bli 10 404, 4 my mind ess of the ghat God nonneed till the and then felt saki : the light t m twain deep, .tear the fervid j ; and th , of 'trim maiions as What a h the dew ":the burn ' pursed up enced the o of Jody stilllight- rich tiles I , Eben— gl of the 'mod eye slily dis the a frigiint PF i k i ffi ed 7 e of se-. eta helm I obtained j and Pin l fuL ors eteitt by - Eire the iota 4r: ibe ad, tile •:-/e#,l MONTROSE PA., THUMP * * thought it all over ded that it stands truly happy with- ;_ 2 • i „SEPTEMBE4:I, 1848. any of the B--:4 ii . : c ------e, of D , s, te droyin upon them in. a ttiet! way ' . d energising.. With such pe ons there Inran!M between a fennel f me party t' <alba abstinence front all vial :ng what ' ~, ireisli e fiat lie, the true seeret of genial and im g social intercours&-4)fanything at all aching even to the nanni--is but little nn , and still less acted; upon. . i The very 1 "v isiti ng " or " meetinp of friends" tug. I • west minds the idea of expellee, domes , onvenience, anxiety Mid trouble. ' Why this he so? All kinds of seek' inter ' ought to be associated with itbe most ! g ideas. They ought to be ea sily at . le , and readily arranged, and' ehould en little pr no disamizigethent ofl , the usual tie'routine. When will; a few nph persons . ge their less wealthy brethren . by eye -1 cally adopting. in 6.01 - ente*nments a 1 .. anffmost Spartan einiplicity l i Such a 11 city * ould do them infinite onor, by g, to emancipate those less favored by the .f fortime from the; up necessity of 1- . a profusion and uncalled for eapense.: , — h ezateples were to; become Prevalent, ~ nseq ence would be; that the I apparent r titles between rich and poor mould tie sorts ed down—there Would be an ab !, of t at painful, but 'irrational feeling, constantly haunts many othernise amia ' rsonel lest their move of entertaining whose incomes are ten or twenty. times than their own may not be quiet comae --,we should have less thouight taken menteating and drinking, and more about 1 ,. s of . igher itoport.—tF.roin the-Compan- 1 s • of pleasant ratiinial.Esedys in the hes Examiner. 3 I 11 , Jr. in one of his fate sermons, gives !HO advice .to y.ting ladies :—" My maiens-1 know .oit want to - get mar s soon as you enter roar teens; but it is to remain single, and live upon the cold .£ solitude, than to many misery and wed I hare but it poverty l atricken opinion of ajority of my sex. They are corrupted re.miscalled refinement of , the age, so /.. with pride, so fOoled by' fashion, so ', of the soilon whichltbey live, so given, 1 tivarisg whiskers and moustaches, while moral ' are in the most.wretebed state for of weeding, and so evergroWn with hair, and I laziness, scarce* one in twenty is bele entrusted with a wif e ." - ~ _, ,i- REP ITT OF • lii.-" , remarkable i ~ ce of intrepidity and Peebles" was ex , d at the Blue Lick Sirings!a few days ;y Mise L., a belle OB.:whom county in .;:tetel Miss L. and Mi. F., a gentleman Jae South, on their return iceman exeur . lorseback, were riding drawn the long bout a quarter of a mile from the betel, I I speed, the lady being* little ahead: At ;den i r /irri of the road, the' gentlemen's L to r .ed, and he fell ;from his horse, but lot re 'lied in the stirrup, and the horse, i.gh is pace was somewhat; slackened, on 11 way, dragging the fallen man upon oun . The young lady seeing this, min -1 her Ism horse by a Sudden effort, leaped lim Whilst he was atilt in rapid motion, .ae,k, vetted the other ;horse by the bridle, .elease ' v eined her gallant froni his perilous situ !- . 9 1121 is n. and ever. g e . t eh: co• MUC their want snit wort. is feat was witnessed* hundreds at the gs, who could find no words strong enough presS theirltdmingioß-ef the daring cour f the beautiful youn'ir".beroinh.—Leuis ournal. A • Seri , to e age Mlle RX-OT ER AND A piattriraw.—The • •rn Atlas- states that; the Seneca County er, which had kicked 4the Taylor atiesn and was purchased from the pro rs by toe' Taylor whigs, was sold back at alarge sacrifice by, its new owners, as they heard of the Taylor letter enter to the South Carolina: arrangement with ! !lily, Taylor's lettersjare uniti4g the whip opposition to th+k authorl—Atlas. Mrs. Partington, bless her soul, is 11 live land well, in'spite sa the eXtreme heat the season. The Post sus that ; to use her n aognage, she "inten ded the copsort of the m e Cemetery, the othiiievening, and some t songs' were extricited with touching tb _ores."' She declare " the Whole thing off like a Packenhamsbot ; the young an- I -tine like syrups, add flOoked like angeli -t ..t of paradox" my good fellow, where butle you been week back 7" or a' weak back, FM Got troubled with I beeic, I thank yon."' . i• co, no! I mean where bus yeit been for g bid ?'', ,•,'' • ' 1 .- , Mack' Don't all me limg. back; . . . die] r • l l ' BO 1. 1111 L0i 1 4 4 Dair.— A case ed in liVe Supttene Coilrk presiding, in w*h the +a prohibitmg seWar bud- Y 1 4 NOY frecottnilia. 1 bt lkY 3. 4 Potter *kW violatlok of a load not to '..kis otW &mow,* or for cept tbit plaintiff, over $ specified lea of of time. tk. . _ ' ilie bond was &- A' in' foal made end " it aday *trees ' arise and ill cork o - neeemity, in coatis , tion of the e 0 - . ': i fte Or n 4 11 Ind void. mr d • , • diatitba bond in ' • ' Mail st 1 t!tim mid 0 lia r a, •..•.:., .„. •, ....._, r. - 1 , - I. .: '''.. 10 r''' , ‘• 111.1.; t • • I 'l * ' .:'s. •-' NTa t ieTB ON -e:eOtil e decide Suiti Shaw of tb statnti on tbe'Lorors tio4 was bron . Greely, for a bread cart o , tho3i person in ronte„for 3 ' P le a d e d, 11 1 ii a week day. . od the tordl t ; not b tY j c d 0 MOM V i sot; and i tido 13 • rgas r:41!. an .act Pi' in.ein was Chia lidit ness An run any ea R this wh and t hr in* • 4 • '4;41ki1"t3,,. We need not inform our readers-4er the fact is universalli known—that the .!present acting Governer df Pennsylvania, William F. Johnston, is the anther of the law that called into existence the so-called Relief Not'', which have become such a sore nuisance in all the commercial and business transactions I of our community. It liras he -who projected the scheme—he that framed the law, authorising their issue—he, that planned and arranged all its details—and he it was, who ultimately suc ceeded in urging lit jhrough the Legislature. Whatever of good ;or evil; therefore, belongs to this wholesale scheme of Paper-Money, must be placed to the Odic of Gov. Johnston. If we were to declaim either against the au thor of this notorious law, or against , the , law itself, it would most likely be -*scribed, to our partisan feelings, end our opponents Mould be disposed to disreger' &That we said on the sob iect. We prefer,l, therefore,. to ' publish the opinions of a gentieman belonging to the oppo site side . or pond* 'miff onion no Ordinary standing in the Whig party. of Pennsylvania. We adduce the testimony of -no lees a man than " honest" JOHN BANKS ofi Reading, who in 1841 was the Whig candidate for Gov-. i., ernor of-this Stat , and r 1847 was Alined by the Whig menthe of Mu State mature to the office of State reniiiier. ' Surely the opin ions of a gluttons.* holding thieprominence in the opposition nuke, and speaking under all the high sanctiaga of his oath of offin* must command the mimed, 'of Mend and foe. 0) the 6th cley of January last, Mi. Banks predented to the liegisleture hit , Annual Re port upon the Enemies, containing "estimates ill - of the public rave ue and public expenditures, and plane for the npeort of the public credit and for improving or increasing the public rev enue." Thil • -Made Abe duty of the State Treasurer by Ir In this report, Mt; Banks speaks of the l i ef ;Issues and of theii.A.uthor in the fcillowilig envied° striid.! Wei.trust no one will be deterred by the length otitis:se e=- tracts from giving- them e a amid perusal.— They are eminently deserving the piiikilie ' at tention; and will abed some light upon the fit ness of Bfr ai Tohnit i on to be placed' atltbe head of public air* Pennsylvania. ts; a man who in his capacity as arepreseritatiek delib erately violates. the Constitution of the' State, which he was solemnly sworn to support, a mb i t proper person to' aitnisi *kb the graver and yet, more respons ble Mille' of Chief Magis trate! We ch . not. , - . i . Otatirsem_frokol•• AuVka-k)LAT 4I IT-4reiil! Balms as State; Treasurer, rea Urgell ate and H. of RePresentatives, Jan, 01, 1848.] , " The circulation of what are called relief notes, has been found to; be very embarrassing to the operations of the Treasury, destructive of State credit, and prejudicial to the business and interests of the whole community. By_use they have become, so torn, and defaCed, -drat' all tests . of their being gamine, are obliterated, and totally destroye d . In many (=alit is dif ficult to determinf what denomination they are, or by What bk they were issued. Their circulation invitee to the circulaticui of small notes from other States, which are at good, if not better than they are : and while this state of things continuo, the people will receive and pay out these foreign notes; regardless of the penalties of the'llaw. The two, ebinbined, usurp the place of specie , and drive it from the State. In my judgmen4 the public ;interests demand the withdrawal of these relief notes from circulation lot once, or as speedily as I possible. As I deem this a matter ,of deepl public concern, I Will give my reasons in sup-1 port of this recomendation, at some length. It may bei out 1 place, to inquire what their m true character originally was, and what office they-were to perfcirm. By the law, Sloan was authorized, and such hanks of this , Om:non wealth as might accede to the terms ProPolcd, were authorized to issue these! notes, to Ithe amount of their respective subscriptions to said loan, and pay that into the State Treasury. When the holder Of said notes, on any one bank, to an, amonneof one hundred dollars, presented. them, at the counter of the bank that ;issued them, he was entitled tofan.order on she Audi tor General, for an equal amount of the stock created by saidw, jor the redemption of the 11 stock thus issued ' Thablinks were nailed to an interest of one per cent. on the notes thus issued, until they were funded. These notes were made receivable for all debts due to the Commonwealth. iTbeyWere to be received by the bank that Wined theta in payment of debts due it, and on, desit, payable in like eurren= ey. The State-' , reassrez and all 'the - banks o were authorised re-issue frail time to time. The faith of the Commonwealth isididged for thepayment said los* By the e a si e r 22d April, 1846, so much of the act of the, h May, 1841, es recpdredlthe,s+ral banks to receive the octet issued by the respectively, inis pay ment*. of debts,re ed. 'The foregoing in substancithi . Propii . n 'inade bylaw i n.re lation to diem nom. .1 - tie 'beaks arsine long- er bound tir race*. them inpaymentsnf debts. - There is no provision made tor the redemption in State stock of a lesi imouis t thin one hun r dreil dollars, nor is thew laniother mode of ie deniptiOn'fina lif del lak IV bat ' in,' is the true-oheineterl'ollbii. pe r?.ls it - tibi - paper of the beak that - - ti, or is . it lb. paper of theft*? 'ltin be rede emed in Mete elect t bu It is not to hi, din Mene:y. Ii does — sot,"ie .0e face,..bindi k3to pay in , mousy, nor coati the hay prof } dn An Y, ant% thirjir ' Th e 4 basis are Desibod f ta pa*cit; , ,niariliy, to eq7 extl l , ll c -a rl ° all W ee ';`,/ II t e rIPTA*P panien* or , , y , ro . :. or* payg iect It, iii pot drawn .t etlike : bank, wet is tbsresay. . .4y. iteheabeloirown, The oriesti - .4 .. .... ~ 4:. , ,t1et 'bowl for rimoLirf Fs, the . . , ',4 ,01101 r, liable *it. 11011-_ rit , ' AO . 4A - * io.l l olMeit o . - lbiljr. - .. ea 'user .10eslia k . F or W '- inc=:: I i I._ .110414 Olt,— , 711 lIMI 70E;VIMIMiile "HONEST" JOHN 110111, VERSUS JOHNSTON'S fillItIEF ISSUEL" . so it the express lettSr drawh and - emitted :by State, , - From atithe iStence. • Is' is dratin it.. State. ,It iiipart'of the has been ackno . ledged .] branches of our goyern .. the several= ban a were Commonwealth, id mabin' cing them in the State ii then emitted them, or, . Divest the..tratlSSciaonat .. rious forms, and ithitlis , The tiovernor *as' afith , ' loam'und the- ' State, ,- and iseiied';, on its own ~ loan was telte paid. ! It appears tome to bel the true character of th I not t be: notes of the seve ' impose no obligation, oa State as -Woad Iv ~thi, I , deemed, sod thcref?re th -I emitted by, the State. bills of treditiu thi:i'laii,l had been Idgned , by th Staterfaiurer, no on • their' true character. the sitne-tl4ng by .anot spots, the same role Al those notes are now ranch •• bills of credit," denorninited in the law be so on their face. Th ILLEGITIMATE, ha State in contravention t , titution of the United ' that rui "State shall Thin restriction was intinded to ett - elude from circulation; as ;saucy, every thin but old spa silver, or batik piper; wit' riptents : wild and silver, and can be conv ' 1 ed into it at the 'op." thin of th e holder, so t property idle represented by the, real oiler, and notly iti; evanescent and ever v aryi ng shadow. ,- ,,:. it, The circulation of th notes is a'very sit disadvantage to the bn ' I as of the sommuniti r. i n t And to the fisseces of t : State; thy ate !oil resenne•eud never w its place, and in truth afford. facilitiek to the perhaps, did afford tem gen,r,ellpressarc the credit of the State in taut .of, in whole, 10 eisculation,is must twist foundation of public c er, andlaid upon somet staritiil. Their (diode dener. te. depreciate a stocks:: To maintain i abroad; the interest a paid in something belt thing tb - atui 'Mike valui public credit are identie store and 'establish ere& the guide of, universal the rules,hf prude'nt ee settled, substantial an/ These are the only mer relied upon. These notes were issued under the .nimessi. ties of the -moment, int nded more as an .espe dient to relieve present distress, than AS a per— manent remedy. Now when the pesetas,* been removed and they i onflict with SolidOire. nue, let 'them be withd wn. They are dope-- - dated, because they. " not convertible: into gold and' silver, and far as the, monied en gagements of the 'Stet fare paid in them, ter stock will: also necessarily be liepreciated., 'To maintain the credit of r stocks, the . interitifi ,must be paid, not only i n the eirmilsong-znedi.-: ein of other commer cia l communities , or- that ; Which will be received xi payMenf of ,Idebta be tween citizens of differ Tit Staita and diglitkit i nations. It must be f; par value ahrOid; a s ''' well as at home. Gol and silver Amine - Ina& this, or something th i represents thank-10U can be converted into thean at their 'Mi. Tkmat, notes d 6 not partake of these qualities; q.vrill not be received as a subititute for the*, ,_ any commercial community '. It in true ilk y' ire - 2 , ' , I n based upon the', credit of the State, and the faith - of the Commonwealth it not ineelioned, -nor is the solidity of -its tunds,urthe. stack. nek of its assets doubted..: Still this luta n ot,' -will riot, and in the nature of things cannot' main- .- •tain the credit of these ;notes at par. THEY - : BEAR UPON_ THEIRFACE THE . MENTS OF DEPRECIATION AND D15.:.1 HONOR, There - is_ n 4 promise there tat par;, money. ;.,THEIR 111 31ER. HAS Nroze . _ DONE .HIS WORK B HALVES, for ems- " ontivilici`takes them' a and knows that - they : - are not to ' be: paid an ere, or by-any body in;' money. - Semethink met be discoverid'whiiki bilberto43 escaped obi rva4oP. 111 4 1414 r., . to - 6 0 1 paper : a, par ' vali in any coat i ii, community. : Its credit: is - fezinaeirniiiki*: :- :public stock , Slur ca n lie e liet' teEllai,' upon which isis - foun audit thildieissfiii she State lis paid in tiiii,4araatop4l: paopolo,-, -atonic will also be_ deprtt!iikeil l ,_-144 - allot. 6 k: wii4efroPr#from cii - 914441i . , 'l7iettikklitheiii, conc.eptioti and sprigin, 444 , d/11000a iiii '- illepliinite, 'give to - them ' - i,iiiktidniatiVz'ASOL THEY ARE NOT ONLY UNCP4I - __ IN , 'ltilt. UNCONSTITUTIONAL Aikeoo,ol7o4Y 1 area PUBLIC NUlSANCtifiteilys:b....- paidbiikiiii:tA o 0ficia4.1 4 1:'# 4 0445044, - ,'.. tie doitittidtice'r of . th'Atir :I.liiittitiiii. • I%Nr÷ tie* speidilyinto A 4111044 air mossleettit ~ Auditor General, ' . If. #lll ja1yi1i: , 31 1 6 . ;.-1 of afoo ;,,piii i and:itet . -1. ' - :* - i.;..== pat will 131,4 5141 .rr ' 00. 14 014:: filed. ~ ~ perro • -.. '''..' -; ~,,1;,-, 1 , c . is_iisioy soleatt±„,.. otaini!as4lift" ' _ fi:as 11.-; ~oi ou kr* "ell ' . I brYaidiM,, Mt* ;60.014 ju-ti. , ' .ffel out (6OU*raPlll4 -'. sou ICITOtts, - 3ii - 4 ti a thaiiiiitit "' u '? 4 # 4 14 1 1" ?- ' ..andAit4.p from i 14- '"" "1' ''''' Q 3 t ' kOrd#*th:NtYlllW- -1-11114rj M o Kis I, ~ r 7 ! . 4 . it .,,,,, . - 40,4 , , big 141041411214166" :7 4 _.17" -.- ' ',..„,.,1-:, ts . „, __ ... '% , 4' e 4 ESS ! • 1:::::;';:21Z - 1 - ,! , ,;, , El = TI, XO. BB. ill /.f the .law. • rt , was be authority of the . it deified ,its a l'. the Maditi . `of the , ebt of the Sista sad to be so `by all the '-ot. The ahem of I , IA the *Om of_this / the notes,notes,end Pk"' i -, -. y: The State S' then in ? ts I : [ Itie, OAS; irua( !. • , to segotsite. a k*, ifisiktOO 32111114 !: edit; with wifietithe 'Mpoasibiaio l .... i istiiite notes,. - -- soo.Y - ,F 11 • banksAeSautatikey 1 them to pay. lite . to toor,e t As,-,y are'" bills or' 1 they IPA 4 41 ° " Ulla lor on thi.ii fiiie , lasi Auditor Genet* ur would lave biked 13tate haiFikamr A an sod -11,rolir bcaPPliea_ natitawa, they 'mak if theylual bieW.a es aelf, apd pahleitod to being - 3%114 ire; g tkinvenritted bg that part of -the OOP" !atm which declares, '• bills of credit."— nor can bl midi: , overdid. Tbey May. MK* or Awe. end sr ,relief ate Abee,d. %tie* eirlicees that " be maintained, tithes ' their- - eontintutace . in ablE decline& The it must be mink deep r,ig more real and sub ,on has a - dlr . eet:tea. ,dsciiierem o ur s tiot . credit wi g g upon it Inuit • If the, trustily I be -404•104 some. ___ lthil i t Aidie or nea4/01,406.„; we hadbettei folliow - !' perienen, s u d, e4 f orce , 10 4 1 Y. - 10 Et ,upon a . permanent revenue s that'enti be sit IN N
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