The Washington Union from Washington, District of Columbia (2024)

September 18, 1843

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The Washington Unioni

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Washington, District of Columbia

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Monday, September 18, 1843

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531 335 '317 185 186 10 qMia S241 041 jTe" president accordingly declarfidthe Hon George Bancroft and the Hon Henry Hi Childs elected delegates at large to' the national convention and the Hon Seth JVhitmarsh and Hon Isaac Davis chosen as substitutes v' A Mr Josselyn from the committee Bp pointed for that purpose reported the fol constitute the State central committee for the ensuing yean George Buufrbft Beni Hallett Cha Greene John A Holies Abel Cashing Juhi James Charles A 'Macomber Aaron Hoban' Cbas Hovey James Cheever and JG Sander son of Boston Seth Thomas rederick Robin fppf end Richard rotitinghara jr of Charlestown Lirvria josselyn Wn EL Parmenter and Tar bell of Cambridge Abbot of Lovell Gourgas of Concord Geo Hood of Lynn Ed ward Palfrey of Salem Robert Rantoul in of Beverley Isaac Wright and Wm Reynolds of Roxbury George Thompson of Milton Henry Crocker of Barnstable Jas Estabrook and LeVi A Dowley of Worcester rancis Howe of Brook field Henry Williams ot Taunton Wm Jack son of Plymouth andGWYoungtoft fcitttkta Thia report wHaccep ted itthd the gen tlemep named appoitita to constitute the said committee The Chair read a note 'from Mr Bancroft declining to derve upon ue "committee nut strong desire being manifested that he should continue a mem ber no measurer Were taken to supply his place and ft was finally voted that the committee may be authorized to fill any vacancies which may occur in their body Mr Bolles from the committee on reso futions reported the following which were read by Mr Hallett end unanimously adopted: 5 1 Resolved That it is a proud and a pure page in the history of old ederal Massachusetts that the representatives ol her persevering Democracy as sembled to day in convention can congratulate each other and the Whole people of the Common wealth that we meqt at last under a Democratic administration of our Stale a Democratic Chief Magistrate of our choice wor thy in all respects to be the successor of Hanco*ck and Sullivan and Gerry and Eustis 3 Asssfted That in exchanging congratulations upon this auspicious result we feel how much our success has depended upon' an honest purpose to reform public abuses and not to advance private a generous sacrifice of personal considera tions to a high sense of public duty a confiding faith in the virtue and good sense of the people and a manly cordial and energetic co operation with each other in the vindication of truth against error and we should prove false to onr trust if after so long a perseverance in union and har mony of action under discouragement and defeat we should now in the midst of our triumph suf fer any unworthy motive to turn us aside for a moment from the onward course that has marked our cause in its steady and wholesome progress from a seeming hopeless minority to a command ing position that require but one more united and resolute effort of the whole Democracy to a man to place Massachusetts permanently beside the Democratic States of the Union thoroughly re deemed regenerated and disenthralled from her long bondage to the selfish dominion of ederalism Resolved That while holding to free toleration in preferences as to men and regarding a cordial acquiescence in the final decision of the national convention as the sole test of party fidelity in the selection of a candidate we will not permit the presidential question (which cannot come to an issue until after our State election) nor any other question to divert ns from the true Massachusetts question which we now have in hand as the main business of this convention viz: the election of Morton and Childs anti a Democratic Legislature to perfect in another year the retrenchment and reform which hasso nobly been begun in this Resolved That the Democratic: party came into power pledged to economy and retrenchment in the State administration and we confidently ap peal to the people for their decision upon the honesty sincerity and untiring perseverance of the executive and legislative power so far as the voice of the Democracy could prevail in faith fully fulfilling their promises by the reduc'iun of the high salaries of which the r'bple have so long and so justly complained abolishing of useless effices ty the diminution of the State expenses some thirty thousand dollars per ahnbm in the retrenchment by the economy intro duced into the management of the Wttstbrn rail road from which there will be ah eventual saving to the State treasury and the people of another thirty thousand dollars per by the care of the public property in the arsenals which bad for twenty years been suffered to decay and goto waste but from which this administration by a sale of condemned and Useless articles have saved nearly ten thousand by stopping all further ex penditures on maps and Worthless surveys on which the Whigs have squandered more than one hundred thousand dollars and for the whole of which the State cannot now obtain a purchaser for this costly map who will even furnish a thousand copies for the whole plate and by bring ing to light for equal and just taxation concealed stocks that have heretofore fraudulently escaped assessment in the hands of the rich at the expense Of the farmer and the laborer who cannot hide (heir lands or their by removing from office the faithless adjutant general who had disgraced the Commonwealth and violated his trust in per mitting the public arsenal to become a den of un clean things and in loaning the public arms to the Rhode Island Algerines to enslave the a loan made without a panicle of security for the return of the arms and which has resulted in a di rect loss to the State of the sum of five thousand two hundred dollars between the cost of the five hun dred stands sent to Rhode Island and the rusted muskets returned which have been condemned by practical commissioners and sold at auction for one dollar and sixty cents apiece: a dead loss for which the Slate has no claim upon the authorities of Rhode Island to whom the late adjutant general bad restored even the irresponsible receipt he took from a military aid nor upon the irresponsible of ficer who has thus squandered the public property and was not required under a Wnig administra tion to give any bonds for its security and finally by the whole course of this administration in its moderation towards political opponents its devotion to popular rights and its restoration of the public credit by a resolute economy in all its concerns Resolved That the Democracy though coming into power not by a clear vote of the majority of the whole people without a majority to be relied on in the House and under the disadvantages arising from the party decisions the premeditated protraction of the session and the entire control of the committees through a Whig Speaker cho sen by the fraudulent vote of the Cnelsea intruder have performed all that their constituents could require of them and more than could have been expected and that they evinced the sincerity of their professions of reform by cutting down the salaries of their own men as soon as they were elected to office to take direct effect upon them this year beginning with the Governor who recom mended this reform and nobly set the example as John Hanco*ck did by having the largest deduction made from his own pay Resolved That the Deriiocratic party have also evinced their devotion to the best interests of the whole people instead of exclusive attachment to the privileged few by the introduction of personal liability into corporations thus (if this principle can be sustained hereafter) seedring to all honest joint companies their just rights and only depriv ing stock jobbers of the power to prey on the work ingmen by getting their labor to build up corpora tions and then when called upon for pay showing that corporations have neither effects nor souls whenever it is for their interest to cheat the me chanic out of the sweat of his blow Resolved That for ten years the Whigs while in power refused to retrench persisted in false selfish and exclusive legislation and continued to run in debt by borrowing until they exhausted the State credit and that the moment a Democratic ad ministration was elected it set about reform in all these respects That in the brief space they have been partially in power they have done all that resolute men could do in such a Legislature and with such an oppositionto contend with and have faithfully labored to do much more to breakdown that oppressive system of monopoly and unjust le gislation which has made labor the mere servant and slave instead of being as it should the honorable co partner with capital and credit in the just divis ions of the joint earnings of And we now ask the people of this Commonwealth to candidly examine the conduct of the two parties to look at the measures of the Legislature and then say in all honesty whom will you trust to carry on your the party that has always opposed reform and now stands' pledged through their convention and their candidates to repeal all that has been done or the Iparty that has faithfully and wisely begun these reforms: and stands pledged to carry them out fairly and faithfully if again put in power! t' Resolved i That the base slanders of the Whigs that public property and private rights are not safe in the hands of such men as Marcus Morton and 'Henry Childs are triumphantly answered not only by the whole lives of these upright and virtu ous men bot hy the practical fruits of this admin istration in guarding and turning to the best ac count' the public property which is proved was not safe in the hands of a Whig adjutant general and store keeper in raising the State credit from a discount of twenty per cent and no sale to pat and a demand in the market and in protecting tbe workingmen in future against such frauds as have been practised on them tinder the irresponsible cor poration principle through malleable iron con cerns Atlantic silk companies and marine cam a contrivance by which the poor mechanic who has reared the fabric from which the rich few are to realize the profit sees it sold over his head as the property of a bankrupt corporation and bought in for comparatively nothing by the inaividnal cor porators in their private capacity Resolved That the predominant questions' in volved in tbe List Stato election 'upon the Pcmotowy so gloriously triumphed ware retrench toe is? Stats DeuwapL'l state convention In accordance vyith the 'published notice of the: State central committee the dele gates from the several towns of the Com monwealth convened' at Worcester oh Wednesday 'the 13th Septemberand as eejnliled in the spacious" Town Hall of that town The Hon Geoy Bancroft chairman of the State committee called the convention to order and John ASBolles esq was chosen chairman pro' fem Gourgas esq was appointed secretary pro tern "On motion' of Mr Banks of a committee of one from each county was appointed to nominate a list of Officers to preside over follow ing gentlemen werpXippomtetj QRthis "committee: wW: Bsrnsuble countyS Phinney bf Barnstable Berkshire Thus Plunkett of Pittsfield Bris tol oster Hooper of all River Duties Jo sephT Pease of Edgartown Essex Browne of Salem' ranklin 8 Whitney of Conway Hampden Crooks of Springfield Hamp shire Laban Marcy of Greenwich Middlesex Loui Jowefyn of Cambridge Nantucket Mr Rand of Nantucket Norfolk dshua Seaver ot Roxbury Plymouth Wm Jaeltsorq of Ply mouth Suffolk Greene 'of Boston Wor center Mr Raymond of Hardwick Tbis committee': subsequently reported the folio winglist of officers which report was' accepted and the gentlemen' named elected to the everid stations designated: ft 's bate Dav of Worcester Bzru PWiluims of Roxbury lease Comstocx of Lenox 8rrn WamORin of Seekonk Skth Nvs of Sandwich Gaonas Eneby of Newburyport Ecus Wnb of Middleboro jJajus Ruauu of West Cambridge SecrOesriki rancis R' Gourqas of Concord RicaABD Andros of New Bedford" Apollos Munn of Springfield PstNEAs AtLEN of Pittyfield A Davis the president elect was in troduced to the meeting by the chairman jro tem Mr Bolles and returned thanks for the honor conferred upon him in fit ting terms Tlic other officers of the cons vention took the places assigned them On piotion Mr Josselyn of Middle sex a committee of one from each county was appointed to nominate for the con sideration of die convention a list of per so'ns to compose the' State central commit tee for the ensuing year Messrs Josselyn of Middlesex county Lewis of Barnstable Allen' of Berkshire White yof Bristol Rand of Nantucket for Nantucket and Dukes Williamsbf ranklin Leonard of Hampden Shepherd of Hampshire Tower of Norfolk Kimball of Essex Ypmig of Plymouth Dunbar of Suffolk of Worcester were appointed on this committee On'motion of of Suffolk' it was voted to adopt the resolutions passed by the Democratic convention of 1842 for the organization and prescribing the duties of a State central committee? On motiOQ of Mr Bo'Aes of Suffolk a committee of one'frbm each county was appointed to report resolutions for the con sideration of the convention The follow log gentlemen were appointed on this com mittee Messrs Bolles for Suffolk Phinney for Barnstable1 Jenks for Berkshire Per kins ftu Bristol Pease for Dukes Onie for Griswold Tor ranklin Chapin for jHampden Smith for Hampshire Parmen ter for Middlesex' Band for Nantucket Thompson for Norfolk Pierce for Plymouth apdj tHarrington for Worcester Subse quently' upon motion of Mr Hallett ofBoston the committee was increased by tire addition of one more member from eaclvcouuty sb far as practicable to be nominated by the 'convention at large Messrs Hallett Ricker Strong White Hood Whitney Crooks Partridge Banks Wright' Young and Waters were thus add ed to the committee Mr Wright of Norfolk moved that theconvention now proceed to nominatecan didates for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor Mr Greene ofSuf 'Tdlk moved as an amendment that the npmination for these candidates be made by acclamation The amendment was ac cepted by the mover and no objection be ing vade' the motion in this form was adopted i The president then called for a nomination of a candidate for the office of Governdr MARCUS 'MORTON was the unani mous response from the whole" assembly ahd he accordingly declared nomina ted In the same manner was HENRY CHILDS nominated as the candidate of the party for the office of Lieutenant Gov ernor!" sa Mr Hallett of Suffolk then offered resolution to the effett that the Convention would now procbed td tbe election of two delegates at large to the national cqnven 1 ti'on by ballot and make no other expres sion of their views upon the presidential question referring the selection of dele gates from the several congressional dis tricts to district conventions Mr Josse lyn to amend this resolution by striking out all except that part providing for the clectioti of delegates at large and inserting a provision for the selection of two substitutes at the same ballot' Pend ing this amehdment the convention ad journed' x5 In the afterhoon the consideration of Mr and the amendment was resumed and upon the question being taken the amendment prevailed The res olution as amended was then passed and the convention proceeded to ballot for two delegates to the national convention and two substitutes A cominittee of five consisting of Messrs Hooper Greene Whitmarsh Browne and Waitt were appointed to collect sori and Count the votes for delegates and substi tutes The committee attended 4o their uuty ana reported as follows or Deuwatzx whole number of ballots Georgi Bancroft of Boston has Henry Childs of Pittsfield Beni Hallett of Boston'1'5 Wells Lathrop of Hadley 1Scattering Whole number of ballots si Seth Whitmarsh of Seekonk hasvtf Isaac Davis of Worcester has VV UUvlMvU Hon George Bancroft and the Hon Henrv A A this Corn: a view to Vice Presidents EGETABI BITTERS SANDS'S CELEBRATED SARSAPA RILLA Just recetv edby CHJAME8 poma and OT No 19 in square 166 containing 3050 JLj square feet for salp 4ddress through City Pom Office i BALTIMORE COLLEGE DENTAL Session 1843 The regular course of Lectures in this institution will coal men the 1 Monday of November next and con tinue till the latter part of ebruary'1 Horace Hayden Dental Physiology and Pathology Chapin A Harris Practicxl Dentistry rTbomas Bond jr Special Pathology and Therapeutics Hfndy Anatomy and Physiology Tickets for the whole course $105 wR Dean Sept 3tw6w COLUMBIAN COLLEGE District of Colum The Lectures in the Medical Depart ment ot this institution will commence on the first Monday in November annually and continue until the 1st of March During this period full courses will be' delivered on the various branches of medicine 7 Thomas Sewell Professor of Pathology and the Practice of Medicine Harvey Lindsly Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children: Thomas MiUepM Professor 'of Anatomy and Physiology John Thomas Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics William Johnston Professor of Sur benjamin Hallowell of Alexandria Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy a Samuel Smoot Demonstrator of AP totny The entire expense of a course of lectures by ail the professors is $7D Dissecting tickets 10 ts Good board can be'procureat from 2 50 to 33 per week WILLIAM JOHNSTON may lawtlstNov Dean of the aculty IMPROVED PATENT LEA HOLDER or Temporary Binder for hold ing Letters Music Pamphlets JOSEPH NOCK respectfully announces that he has obtained a patent for the above invention and is now prepar ed to ihafiufacture the Same for the market gener ally The Improved Patent Leaf Holder will be found useful to almost every man in every occupation to gentlemen in the public offices for filing in con secutive order such papers as they may require for constant reference to the professional gentleman for holding manuscripts pamphlets drawings to the merchant and man of business for filing letters bills invoices and other business papers to hotels and reading rooms for filing newspapers and periodicals The ladies will also find it par ticularly useful for holding their music sheets drawings letters and such other papers as they may wish to preserve The Improved Patent Leaf Holder has already been introduced into most of the public Departments at Washington where it is highly approved ol The following from St Clair Clarke esq Clerk of the Houseof Representatives of the United States is believed to express tbe opinions of the many gentlemen in the various public offices who have had an opportunity of testing it in regard to its utility and convenience: Carvol August 3 1843 Mr Nock has finished at my request his Patent Pape'r Holder and furnished me with a number for the use of my office and for members of the House of Representatives of the United States In my opinion it is the only perfect invention for the purpose which I have ever seen MATTHEW ST CLAIR CLARKE Cler House of Representatives United Slates Also the following from Professor Hewitt and other eminent Teachers of Music in this city will satisfy all that the Improved Patent Leaf Holder is the best instrument yet invented for seedritig and preserving music sheets: Washington May 7 1843 I have carefully examined Mr Joseph Improved Patent Leaf Holder and du not hesitate in recommending it as an article admirably calcu lated for the purposes for which it was invented Ladies wishing to preserve their music sheets whole previous to binding will find ft a valuable acquisition to their musical libraries JOHN HEWITT Professor of Music We the undersigned heartily concur inlhe opin ion expressed by Professor Hewitt AWAGLER NATHANIEL CARUSI BENJAMIN REISS A lock will be appended to the Leaf Holder when desired which willenable the possessor so to secure it aS to prevent tbe removal of a singlepaper wiihout tbe application of tbe key I have appointed Mr John A Blak of Wash ington my agent for selling the Improved Patent Leaf Holder They may also be had of Mr Carusi Baltimore Mr Lipman Stationer Philadelphia and Messrs David ell Co Sta Hall New York Liberal discounts will be made to those who pur chase to sell again 1 JOSEPH NOCK New York avenue near Glass house! Aug eddlm RAME HOUSE AT On Mon day the 18th insunt at 6 we shall sell on the premises the frame house on part of lol No 2 in square 455 on street north be tween 6th 7th streets to be removed within two weeks from the day of sale Terms at sale? ROBT DYER 4 CO Sept 3tawAds Boarding and day school mis BaEscHARD Buaa respectfully informs her friends and the public that her boarding ahd day school for young ladies will reopen: on Monday the 11th September at the corner: of and 9th streets In this institution all the branches of a thorough English and rench educaticn will be taught ov competent and experienced teachers The house will be considerably enlarged rendering it one of tbe most pleasant and spacious in the city Its lo cation is central and unsurpassed for health and retirement a TBRM8: Board and tuition in English and rench per day scholars' English and rench first class per quarter 15 English and rench second class per quarter 12 English and rench third class per quarter 9 English first class per quarter 10 English second class per quarter 8 English third class per quarter1 6 Music dancing drawing Ac al charges or further particulars apply to the principal: meal la State expenses a restoration of the fublie credit and tbe practical truth of our declariuob of lights which John Davis and the whole: Whig leaders had repudiated aafd 'SAied tizrthe incon testable inalienable indefrasinle nsbtufybeprepk to establish reform alter or totally fchhnge gov eminent whenever 'heir safety and happiness re quire A of which' the people them selves in their sovereign capacity and not their self atyled masters the rulers are the supreme and sole judges Resolved That by the untoward events in Rhode Island (though not without tbe seeming but gross ly hypocritical acquiescence of tbe party of tyran ny the right of the people to have a constitution and in the extension of suffrage) the full free principle of the original and inherent sovereignty of the people remains still practically unsettled in this country the only spot on earth where it dares to elaim existence 'even in theory and that now is tbe time to make this principle a cardinal doc trine in all our elections so that no man shall be supported for office by a Democratic people who denies their sovereignty' dr claims a power be yond the will of the principal or who under pre text of preserving a free Government by keeping it in the hands of the wealthy to the exclusion of the honest pbor denies to men the right of suf frage as men irrespective of 4he accidental pos session of property i Resolved That the Democracy cherish as a fundamental principle of free government the doctrine of free sunrage as a right which belongs to men men as not as a mere incident to prop erty that in the extension of this right bf free suf frage protected by the secret ballot end guarded against the interference of the 'employer the fewho rule and legislate for themselves at the ex pehse of tbe many see the greatest danger to their spllish privileges and hence their relentless op position to every movement of the masses to better their: condition by equal laws end just legisla tion Hence their furious assaults upon the suffrage men of Rhode island and their bitter persecution of tbe man who to the dis grace of the age and the country in which we live has been banished from his native State for attempting to do just what our lathers did and are immortalized for having accomplished Hence their frantic resistance in our 'Legislature to the secret ballot the reduction of the polf tak the cor rection of mistakes or the wllfUl neglect in assess ors by which men of small means are made to hold their right of suffrage at the will of these of ficers and hence also tbe contemptuousness with which in their Worcester con vention resolves when hypocritically seeming to favor the extension of suffrage they qualify their pretended assent to the sovereignly of tbe people with sneers at "pop ular ekclte5 ment artfully and talk of a "legitimate as a power distinct from the people whom they say they are willing to trust with the extension of suffrage the farthest limit consist ent vsilk Us safe thus afrogatttly as suming to be the judges how far ft is safe to trust the people with the choice bf their own rulers and meaning to trust them jnst so far as will enable favored wealth and exclusive legislation to control the masses and appropriate to themselves all the earnings of labor but a bare subsistence and no farther Resolved That tbe great question bf jktpnlar sovereignly even more at issue in our State elections now than it was the last year: that itis plain the Whigs as a party deny this principle more and more and have grown bolder in the denial by the temporary cloud that has passed over it in a neighboring Statr: that their devotion to the cause of despotism in that State was shown eyen after defeat in their factious opposition in our Legislature to the removal ahd censure of the late adjutant general and in their defence of his breach of public faith in sehdihg our arms to tbe aid of tyrahny in Island and hence it is palpable ahd plain that if the Whigs now succeed tn this Commonwealth if will be followed by the restoration of tbe Bourbons in the return of the adjutant general to the office he has abused and the consequent rejoicing of the enemies of free dom over the prostration of the practical sovereign ty of the people in the Bunker Hili Sthte Resolved That for years Ibis Democrats in our Legislature have labored to introduce short sessions and the retrenchment which was finally achieved in the ever memorable midnight that these reforms were resisted by the Whigs in power and out of power and would never have been ac complished had the people continued to intrust them with tbe public concerns that they were carried the present year against the most factious and in veterate opposition that ever struggled to defeat if they could or stave off'if they could not defeat the will of tbe people that by the formal protest of the Whig leaders in the Legislature against the re trenchment bill by the declaration of their conven tion when nominating their candidate for Govern or that the measures of this administration should be repealed if they get the power by tbe uniform course of their newspapers and the whole action of their party the Whigs of Massachusetts go into th is election with but one united and avowed to repeal tbe retrenchment of 1843 to reinstate the high salaries and resume the useless expenditures that under their rulebad involved the Common wealth in a debt of five millions and made Massa chusetts a borrowing and begging State without the honesty to bring her expenses within her income or the energy to increase her income to meet them Resolved That there is but one issue and one whole issue upon the retrenchment sustain or repeal! that to divide it or cut off a single slice will destroy the whole that the pretence of a por tion of the Whigs that they go for restoring the the salaries only is a cloak to cover up what they dare not openly expose but what they all mean repeal of the whole that every man of common sense must see that if a governor as eminent as Marcus Morton and a judge as learned and able as Pliny Merrick can be found to perform the duties of their respective offices under the reduced salaries there is no pretext whatever for raising these salaries in order to obtain the highest talent and the purest integrity and therefore it follows that if a chief justice with $3000 is not honorably paid while the gov ernor has but 32500 the same rule will apply to every reduced salary in the State and with much more force to those officers who receive trom one hundred to a thousand dollars than to the judges with thiir $3000 'and 82500 Hence if a single salary is restored the whole must be restored and therefore if the people would not lose the whole they must cling io the whole as it is the retrenchment bill the whole retrenchment bill and nothing bnt the retrenchment bill of this De mocratic administration Resolved That we respect the judiciary when not interfering with the legislative department and will sustain it In all its" constitutional powers and rights but we deem it a duty we owe tbe people to apprize them of the fact that the obvious design of tbe Whig party if they get into power isnot merely to restore the high salaries but to make up the re duction of the present a purpose which one at least of tbe judges has in view by depositing with the general treasurer upon the receipt of his last salary a protest without assigning reasons or entering into the constitutional argument but declining to receive the reduced salary as a full compensation in the expectation and belief that the next legislature will restore it to its original amount and hence it is plainly to be inferred that the whole body of Whig office holders look to the resioratiotf of the Whigs and oflheirformersala ties as one and indivisible Resolved That the array of the whole corps of Whig office holders against retrenchment and their determination that the people shall be taxed to support their high salaries is an alarming indica tion of a disposition in this favored class td raise themselves above the reach of the people and there fore it should receive at tbe polls the rebuke of everyman who regards honest "and just equality in the compensations of labor and holds to the doc trine of our declaration of rights that ment is instituted for the common good and not for the profit honor or private interest of any one man familyor class of Resolved That the Democratic members of the Legislature last winter who were true to their trust deserve the: lasting gratitude of the people and the warmest approval of their constituents for their self sacrifices of personal comfort their dis regard of physical wants their indomitable spirit in remaining in their aeata in season and out of season and in overcoming by their inflexible firm ness the factious attempts of the Whigs to com pel them either to abandon their measures and do nothing or to protract the sessioq beyond the pa tience of the people Resolved That tbe Democratic members not on ly demonstrated that they could beat their oppo nents in argument but proved the better men in tbe physical contest which tbe Boston Whigs (who were accustomed to later hours and longer inter vals of meals than the farmers and workingmen) thought they could hold With them in midnight insomuch that one of their leaders in this caucus scheme of outsitting the Democrats was constrained to sayrin one of his midnight speeches that the Democratshad sent to the House a ret of men who would go the longest without sleepingor eating of any like number of men in the Commonwealth un he verily believed they must hake been chosen for that very purpose a good hint which we commend to the Democrtfcy in theirelwre of representatives this fall Resolved That we recognise and fully appreciate the importance of the energetic efforts of the young men and the workingmesi in our cause the true botie and muscle bf the Democracy who desire least in reward and do most in action and with yffiwniaSUttare AawricM AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY number of naif works which have appeared witbin' a few'year on the fipplieation of ehemical knowledge and principles ta agriculture indicates an inTidg iatetiest in toost 'important pur snitTlfe writings oft Leibig and of Professor Johhston published: are of great value to the practical agriculturist It is stated in a foreign paper that a number of farmers in the Lothians of Scotland lately formed themselves in to a society for the purpose of endeavoring to apply the discoveries of modern chemistry to the science oT agriculture or this purpose subscriptions were made to an amount which enabled the so committee to engage an agricultural chem ist and Professor Johnston has been employed ac cordingly at a salary of £500 a year secured to him for five years: The diltles of life jfrofesboi will be to analyze soils and also manures to as certain what element has been taken from tbe soil by the previous erop and the manure which ought tabs applied in the circ*mstances and according to the nature of the plant to be grown I rom the discoveries of Leibig and the experiments of Dr Jobnston himself much good is expected in Scot land fromthe appointment of an agricultural chemist and the result of his labors on a large scale 4 1 rbtn h'n article in Magazine which we find in very valuable Museum of oreign Literaturb we learn that a new work entitled Productive arming has met with much favor among the British agriculturists It is not so much an original work as a familiar digest uf the recent discoveries of Leibig other celebrated writers on vegetable chemistry The followihg ek tract from Mr Smith's work will be of interest to our Maryland farmers and planters It relates to the fallowing system: exhaustion of alkalies in a soil by succes sive crops is the true reason why practical farm ers suppose themselves compelled to suffer land to lie fallow It is tbe greatest possible mistake to think that the temporary diminution of fertility In a field is chiefly owing to the loss bf tbe decaying vegetable matter it previously contained: it is prin cipally the consequence of tbe exhaustion of tbe potash and soda which are restored by the slow process of the more complete disintegration of the materials of the soil is evident that tbe careful tilling of fallow land must accelerate and increase this farther breaking up of its mineral ingredients Nor is this repose of tbe soil always necessary A field which has become unfitted lor A certain kind of produce may not on that account be unsuitable for another and upon this observation a system of agriculture has been gradually formed the princi pal object of which is to obtain the greatest possible produce in a succession of ybars with the least ontlay for maniire Because plants require for their growth different constituents of soil changing the crop from year to year will maintain the fer tility oflhatsoil (provided it be done with judg ment) quite as well as leaving it at rest or fallow In this we but imitate nature The oak after thriving for long generations on a particular spot gradually sickens its entire race dies out other trees and shrubs succeed it till at length the sur face becomes so charged with an excess of dead vegetable matter that the forest becomes a peat moss or a surface upon which no large tree will grow Generally long before this can occur the operation of natural causes has gradually removed from the soil substances essential to the growth of oak leaving others favorable and necessary to the growth of beech and pine So in practical "faftfi ing one crop in artificial rotation with others ex tracts from tiih soil a certain quantity of inorganic matters a second carries off in preference those which the former bad left and neither could nor would take up" HICKORY OAK AND PINE WOOD uhi DAVID io DAY Al the corner of 14th and streets tteir the canal ANTHRACITE COAL UNIVERSITY OT VIRGINIA THE Sessions of this institution annually com mence on the 1st day of October and terminate on the 4th of July following The schools of the University with their re spective Professors 1' Ancient Dr Gessner Harrison 2 Modern Dr Charles Kraitsir 3 Mr Edward Courtenay 1 4 Natural Philosophy Mr William Rogers 5 Civil the subjects of which are divided between tbe Professors of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 6 Dr Robert Rogers 7 Dr Henry Howard 8 Anatomy and Dr James Lt Cabell 9 Moral Mr George Tucker 10 Judge Henry St Tucker 1 In both schdolk bf uinuages are also taught ancient and modem history ahd the 'literature of the respective languages in the school Of Mathe matics is included mixed mathematics in that of Engineering mineralogy and geology in that of Moral Philosophy belles lettres logic and political economy and in that of Law besides municipal law in all its branches the law of nature and na tions the science of government and constitutional UW To be admitted into this Institiition the applicant must be sixteen years of age but tbe aculty may dispense with this requisition in favor of one whose brother is a student Every student is free to attend the schools of his choice: but if he be under twenty one years of age lie shall attend at least three unless authorized by his parent or guardian in writing or by the acul ty tor good cause io attend a less number All students under the age of twehty one years are required to board within the precincts and tp deposite their iunds with tbe Patron Upon which he is authorized to charge a commission of two per centum The enactriients formerly requiring students to wear a prescribed uniform have been suspended Religious services are regularly performed at the University by a chaplain who is appointed in turn from the four principal denominations of the Statel And by a resolution of the aculty minis ursof the Gospel and young meh preparing for tie ministry' may attend any of the schools wiihout thepayment of fees to the professors The expenses of the session of nine months are as follows: Roard ashing lodging and attendance $110 Rent of dormitory $16 for half if occupied by two i 8 Use of public rooms '1? uel and candles estimated at 20 ees if only one professor be attended $50 if two toeScliprofesBor 30 if more than two to each say 75 Total ciclusi ve of clothes books and pocket money 228 In the school of Law there is'an extra fee of 320 payable by students attending the senior class The allowance for clothes Is limited to $100 and forjwcket money to $45 1 The usual average amount expended by resident students is found from the books to range about $350 which is believed to be sufficient for every useful purpose 1 WILLIS WOODLEY July 10 1843 Proctor and Patron of Va MEDICAL DEPARTMENT The plan of instruction in this department of the University presents peculiarities to be found in no other School of Medicine in the Union The lectures: commence on the of October and ter minate on the 4th of July ensuing I Owing to the length of the session which em braces a period ot nine mcntUf three Professors are enabled to perform all the duties which ih other medical institutions are usually assigned to sil and tbe students are seldom required to attend more than two lectures on the same day By this ar rangement the students have an opportunity of be ing well grounded in Anatomy Physiology and other elementary branches of Medical Science be fore they investigate their applications in connex ion with the study of the practice of Medicine and Surgery Immediately before each lecture the students are subjected to a foil and rigid examination on tbe preceding lecture oron portions of approved text books it is apparent that the plan of which tbe outlines have been briefly slated is one which al lows the student to commence as well as to com plete his medical studies in the institution andpro sents a happy combination of the advantages of the system of instruction by private pupilage and that of public lectures Any person of approved moral conduct may offer as a candidate and receive the degree of without reference to the time he has been engaged in the study ot medicine or of joining the school provided be undergoes in a satisfactory manner the various examinations prescribed by the enactments Tbe Professors are: Robert Rogers Professor of Chemistry Pharmacy and Materia Medica Henry Howard Professor of Pathology and Practice of Medicine Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence James Cabell Professor of Anatomy Physiology and Surgery WILLIS WOODLEY Proctor July 14 cply UNIVERSITY PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL DEPARTMENT session op 1 843 44 THE LECTURES will commence on Monday November the 6th and be continued under the following arrangement to the middle of March ensuing: Practice and theory of Medicine by Nathaniel Chapman Chemistry by Robert Hare Surgery by William Gibson Anatomy by William Homer Institutes of Medicine by Samuel Jackson Materia Medica and Pharmacy by George Wood MD Obstetrics and the diseases of Women and Chil dren by Hugh Hodge A course of Clinical Lectures and Demonstra tions in connexion with the above is given at the Philadelphia Hospital Clinical Medicine by Gerhard Clinical Surgery by Drs Gibson and Homer 2 Clinical instruction in Medicine is also given from the 1st day of November to the 31st day of March by Dr Wood in the Pennsylvania Hos pital i The rooms for Practical Anatomv willbe onen ed October st and continued so to the end of March They are under the charge of Pan! Beck Goddard Demonstrator with a supervision on the part of Dr Horner HORNER MD Dean of the aculty Sept Nov ISAAC DAVIS Prendeni HoftY Cushman Bui Williams Isaac Comstock Sent Wimous Srra Nyi Gaonas EmEry Euai Ward Jamcs Russell Vmaww MkHBaiAffi 1 Rkhakd 8 8 Andros I AroLLM Munn I PmaxAsAuxsr 2258 2563 MI 15 '97 2563 15 41 47 7000 7800 i Said beef andpork most be delivered one half between the first day of January 1844 and the 15th day of April 1844 and the other half by the 15th day of June 1844 unless earlier deliveries should be required by the Chief of the Bureau of Provis ions and Clothing Offers must be made for each half separately and distinctly Mhat is for the half deliverable between first January and fifteenth of April and for the half deliverable by fifteenth June 1844 ti The beef must be packed from well fattened cat tle slaughtered between the first day of November 1843 and the first day of ebruary 1844 aid weighing not less than six hundred pounds net weight The legs and leg rands of the hiid quarters and the abins and shoulder clods and at least eight pounds from the neck end of each fore Quarter or the partsmarked Nos 12 3 on the rawing or delineation of the fore and hind quart ers of an ox which will be attached to and form a part of the contract must be wholly excluded from each barrel and half barrel and the remain der of the carcass muslbe cut in pieces of not less than eight pounds each The pork must be packed from corn fed well fattened hogs slaughtered between the first day of November 1843 and the first day of ebruary 1844 and weighing not less than lwo hundred pounds each excluding the heads joles necks shoulders hams legs feet and lard and all refuse pieces and most be cut in pieces weighing not less than six pounds each Both beef and pork must be salted with at least one statute bushel of island Isle of Man or St salt and tbe beef must have five ounces of fine pulverized saltpetre to each barrel exclusive of a pickle to be made from fresh wa ter as strong as salt will make it a One third the quantity of beef and one third the quantity of pork must be packed in half barrels arid contain one hundred pounds net weight of each as the case may be The barrels and half barrels must be made of tbe best seasoned white oak or white oak staves and heading if of the former to be not less than thrte fourths of an inch thick if of the latter lobe act less than one inch thick for barrels and three fourths of an ineb for half barrels and to be hoop ed at least three fourths over with tha best whits oak or hickory hoops Each barrel and half barrel must be branded oa its bead as the case may be with the 'contractors name and the year when packed The beef andpork will be inspected by tbe in officers at the respective navy yards and stations aforesaid and by some inspector of salted who will be selected by the respective commanding officers but their charges for such inspection must be paid by the respective contractors who must likewise hive tha barrels put in good shipping order to the satisfaction of the commandants of the respective navy yards and Stations aforesaid after the inspection and at their Own expense Bidders must specify their prices separately and distinctly in separate offers for tbe beef and for the pork and for each of the places of delivery coveringall expenses audall charges The Department reserves to itself the right to reject all offers from persons who have heretofore failed to fulfil their contracts Bonds in one third tbe amount of the respective contracts will be required and ten per centum in addition will be withheld from the amount of each payment to be made as collateral security for the due and faithful performance their respective which will oil no account be paid until the contracts are complied with in all respects and is to be forfeited to tbe United States in the event of failure to complete the deliveries within the pre scribed periods And in case of failure on the part of the contractors to deliver tbe aforesaid beef and irk within the times specified the Chief of tin ureau of Provisions and Clothing shall have tbe right to direct purchases to be made to supply the deficiencies and any excess of cost shall be charged to and paid by the contractors Payment will be made by the Uniied8uues (excepting tbe ten per centum to be withheld until the completion of the contracts as before staled) within thirty days after the said beef and pork shall have been inspected and received and bills for the same shall have beet presented to the navy agents respectively duly ap proved by the commandants of the respective na vy yards and stations according to the terms of the contracts The parts of the beef to be excluded will be par ticularly designated in the engraving to be attached to theroontractSr Persons interested can obtain them on application at this office Successful bidders will be forthwith notified of their acceptance and a contract and bond will be tranemittedatbem which must be executed aad returned to this Bureau within thirty days 1 To be published once seeds until the 30th Sep tembernext in" the Globe and National Intelligea cer Washington iD Chronicle and Old Do minion Portsmouth Vaj Easlern Argus Portlasd Me Portsmouth Journal and Patriot NH Bennington Gazette Vt Morning Post and Daily Times Boston Massachusetts Journal of Com merce Sun and Aurora New York Americas Sentinel and Public' Ledger Philadelphia Pi Daily Morning Post Pittsburg Pa Sun and Re publican Baltimore Enquirer Richmond Vt Beacon Norfolk Va Louisville Gazette Lexing ton Observer and Maysville Republican Ken tucky Old School Republican and Statesman Obicq Register Illinois St Louis Republican Mo Ns Orleans Advertiser Louisiana Detroit ree Press Mich Southern Patriot Charleston BC Morning Gasette Buffalo Columbian Re gister New Haven 'Ct Republican Herald Providence National Enquirer and Demo cratic Signal Harrisburg Pa The editors the above papers are re quested to send a copy of the paper containing the same to this bureau during the continuance ot the ad veriisment as a necessary voucher in the adjust 1 ment of their accounts August 1 6 Dep QuAUTERMASm Ornes St Augustine Aug 17 1843 The United States steamboats COL ONEL HARNEY and GENERALTAY LOR no longer required for military operatic i in lorida are Offered for sale1 Bids therefore will be received by Hill Aasisuit Quartermaster St Augustine to be dorsed for steamboat Colonel Harney" cr as the case may be until the STth of September (next month at which time they will be opened and submitted to the Com manding General of the 9th Military Department 1 for his decision as to whether either of the boats shall be sold Bidders would therefore do well to be liberal in their offers especially as both boats are in excellent order and condition coppered and in every respect fitted for immediate service 11 They are as good reaboats as any others in the i Sonthero'vaters if not better They will in short time be at Savannah to be laid np where they may be seen and examined The terms of sale are cash in specie or its equivalent i THO HUNT Lieut Col and DQ The Colonel Harney was built for tbe public service in Baltimore ia tbe winter of 1840 by Cully the engine by Messrs Reeder Soos of that place her boiler is new having been pul in last winter The General Taylor was built in Charleston in 1840) has a low pleasure engine and a new boiler which was put in last month HUNT DQ 51 Aug 31 M20S 1'NAVY BEE AND OM OR 181 i' U7 Bureau of Previsions end Clouting August 14 1843 SEALED PROPOSALS endorsed for and for Pork" as the case may be will be received at this office until 3 o'clock on Monday the 2d day of October next for furnishing and delivering free of ail com and risk to the United States seven thousand eirt hundred barrels of Navy Beef and seven thousand eight hundred barrels of Navy Pork each barrel to contain not less than two hundred pounds net weight of beef or pork no excess of weight ia either article will be paid for To be delivered at the respective navy yards and naval stations as fol At Portsmouth 1 94 At Boston Mass 2258 At Brooklyn 2563 At Philadelphia Pa 107 At Baltimore Md '15 At Washington 97 At Norfolk Va 2563 At Charleston 8 15 At Pensacola lorida i At New Orleans La 47 party blittogoolthekoteroapdimpellingateirtf sociates ft zealous fttertion and prompt attendance at the pq 1 it is as hopeless to attempt to carry i ah electic as to gain i victory by an prmy pl dfficersii bout men 1 fit 1 1 Resolve That the pdrity pt the elective fran chtse was (evermore endangered or disregarded in this Com ionwealih than by the preconcerted and at first st tearful conspiracy of the Whig mana: 1 Sers to ai the return of pretended members to ie Hous upon false certificates of election with a view fo ontrol the organization of that body that this grosdfraud upon the people was shamelessly carried tut in retaining tbe Chelsea man in his seat upo 1 a falsa certificate ot election and ex eluding tie Whateley member from his because a Whig btlrd of selectmen had fraudulently with held Ills whereby the Democrats in the House wfre defrauded of the majority which they rightfully had in that body in its organization and we earnestly call upon the people to guard against another like attempt and to watch and defeat every in the approaching election to substi tute a fabe certificate for the will of tbe legal voters declared at the ballot box" 1 Resolved That the reforms and tbe retrenchment in our 8uue concerns which have so happily been begun under tbe upright and prudent administra tion of Governor Morton can only be sustained and perfected by his 're electfon That we have entire confidence in his purity of bis devotionlo tbe cause of Democracy add with one heart and One voice this convention nominate Martha Morton and Henry Childs for re elec tion to the respective tiffices of Governor and Lieut Governor of this Commonwealth t' Resolved That the short sessions which began in 1840 'when Governor Monon was first elected the check to extravagance which followed and the retrenchment ol sixty thousand dollars per an num in the State exjienses and in the manage ment of the Western Railroad which have distin guished his second administration are all to be traced to the Democratic influences brought to bear uponlegislation by his election and the power of his cegent recommendations in his messages from which a discerning people may perceive that if they value these measures ahd would have them sustained anfi advanced they can only intrust the work to the hands of their present able and faithful Chief Magistrate Resolved That we recur with honest pride to the whole life public and private of our candidate for Govemorand rejoice for ourselves and for the Commonwealth that a man able and so honest so eminent in knowledge end so affable Iti inter course so Democratic ih principle and practice and so falthlbl td the larvs and tbe constitution so deVoteHly the friend of the people who live by la bor and so regardful of every public or private right secured by the laws has been found willing to cast his lot with the Democracy end to make the sacrifices required of the statesman who takes his stand unflinchingly against aristocracy and the poWer Of associated and individual wealth by the side and in the midst of the people Resolved That no party ever had highter assu rances and stronger proofs of fidelity ability and integrity in a candidate for office than the Demo cratic petty of this Commonwealth possess in the present Chief Magistrate and we recur with proud and grateful recollections to his fifteen unflinchiag acquiescence in the wishes of the De moeracy to inscribe their State banner with his a position before the people unsought for himself but generously submitted to for the sake of the cause it has so gloriously advanced in that period from a Democratic vote of six thousand to nearly sixty from a condition ih Which the Democracy was thd ridicule of its opponents for its weakness in numbers to a triumpbantascenden cy in the councils of the State Resolved That we also remember with pride and with esteem for our candidate that though hold ing an office for life of much greater emolument than lie now enjoys under the reduced salary which he himself was the first to recommend be did not hesitate at the unsolicited call of the peo ple to surrender that oftiee with all its Immuni ties and though elected Gokerhor the first time under ciycnmstances that gave no promise of per manency identified his own interests with the rise or fall of Democracy Resolved That there is a rare and distinguishing test of purity and pre eminence in our candidate which is without parallel among in this: that for fifteen years he has been supported as the Democratic candidate and all that time has been made a target for his foes and yet so clear has been his whole life public and private that not a poisoned arrow of the myriads aimed ever reached him: and the answer of the people to all the attacks upon him has been a steady ad vance from six thousand to nearly sixty thousand of their suffrages Resolved That in this our long cherished can didate we rejoice to honor the sound jurist the sagacious statesman the prudent magistrate the pure Democrat the upright man who now fills the office of Governor of this Commonwealth and we earnestly eal upon all enlightened people without regard to party who in respecting prob ity and regarding their own best interest must admire his character and approve his course to aid in his re election and thus give a fair trial to the measures of his administration Resolved That ill Henry Childs our candi date 'for Lieutenant Governor the people have found the true Democrat the plain honest intel ligent affable plear headed conciliatory resolute and estimable man the warm hearted enthusi astic and unostentatious friend of lhe'people a man without fear ahd above reproach and we rejoice in the opportunity of again rallying (0 the support of a citizen whose Worth has grown upon the public and wiH continue to grow the more it is known who has gathered around him in his prudent just and honorable course as tbe second magistrate of the Commonwealth the es teem of all his opponents and the warmest attach ment of his constantly increasing friends Resolved That in national politics we hold to the same principles and the same measures that have been proclaimed by the Democratic conven tionsof this Slate from the beginning ofthestruggle with tbe United States Bank We are against a bank in all Its forms whether per se or an exche quer or a fiscal against a national debt and extravagance in the distri bution of the proceeds of the public lands and assumption of the State debts and against the whole programme of Clay Whig measures which are again to be attempted to be forced upon the people by another effort to cheat them into the election of a Whig President We are forthe in dependent treasury for economy in public expen ditures for paying off the old debt and contracting no new one for preserving the public faith without sacrificing the public liberty for a tariff of reve nue alone sufficient to enable the Government to be honest and independent and pay as it goes and wiih all the discriminating protection to man ufactures that is honestly incidental to such a pur pose In fine we are for re establishing Demcra cy in onr national councils upon the good old plat form of Jeflerson and Jackson BwotettZThat in reference to the presidential question we will abide by the decision of the Dem ocratic national convention to be holden at Balti more on the fourth Monday of May next which convention should determine for itself the rules to be therein adopted in Voting for Democratic candi dates for President and Vice President of tbe United States and that each State for itself has the undoubted right to determine upon the manner of choosing its quota of delegates to that convention Resolved That the first and foremost business of the Democracy of Massachusetts is to re elect Marcus Morton and Henry Childs that this is the true way to give effect to the voice of Mas sachusetts in the national convention that we mean to go into that convention under a Demo cratic administration in our own State and with a reasonable assurance to our brethren of other States that the electoral vote of Massachusetts in the great and decisive contest of 1844 shall be given as it was in the memorable election of 1804 to the Dem ocratic candidate and to thia end we here pledge our faith to each other and call upon our constitu ents to ratify and reiterate it to one another that we will devote all our energies yield all private or personal predilections forget all differences and surrender all considerations but the principles and the cause for which we are contending yj Votes of thanks were then passed to the Democracy of Worcester tor uie excellent accommodation's furnished for the meeting of tbe convention and to the officers of the meeting for the able and impartial manner in which they had discharged theif duties It was also voted that the proceedings of the convention be signed by the officers of the meeting and published in the Demo cratic papers The convention then dis solved with three times three cheers for Morton and Childs and the Democratic cause r' COEE Ac TUST 10 hhds prime sugars 30 boxes loaf sugars 20 bbls crashed and powdered sugars Java coffee 50 bags Riodo 500 galls bleached Winter oil 30 boxes sperm candles 1" orsaleby Sept 15 GEO A THOS PARKER PRIME CIDER VINEGAR JUST received 1 1000 galls pure Cider Vinegar of superior quality orsaleby GEO A THOR PARKER Sept 15 edowj 1 MAGISTRATE AND CONVEYANCER street fronting the avenue next door to Auction Store 7 Hfars froip 8 a till 1 fr ip.

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