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Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-06-03
TO MY DAUGHTER LILY.

BY P. P. COOK.
Six changeful years are gone, Lily,
Since you were born to be
A darling to your mother good,
A happiness to me;
A little, shiverng, feeble thing
You were to touch and view,
But we could see promise in
Your baby eyes of blue.
You fastened on our hearts, Lily,
AS ay by day wore by,
And beauty grew upon your cheeks,
And deepened in your eye;
A year made dimples in your hands,
And pumped your little feet,
And you had learned some merry ways
Which we thought very sweet.
" A nd when the first sweet word, Lily,
Your wee mouth learned to say,
Your mother kissed it fifty times,
And marked the famous day.
know not even now, my dear,
Ii 1t was quite word,
But your proud mother surely knew,
For she the sound had heard.
When you were four years old, Lily,
You were my little friend,
And we had walks and nightly plays,
And talks without an end
You little ones are sometimes wise,
For you are indebted,
A grave grown m an will start 10 hear
The strange words OF child.
When cares pressed on our house, Lily,
Pressed with an iron hand
l hated mankind for the wrong,
Which testered in the land
But when | read your young, frank face,
Its meaning sweet and good,
My charities grew clear again,
felt my brotherhood.
"And sometimes it would be, Lily,
NV faith in God grew cold,
For l saw virtue go in rags,
And vice in clothes OF gold;
But in your innocence, my child,
And in your mothers love,
learned those lessons of the heart
Which fasten it above.
"At last our cares are gone, Lily,
And peace is back again,
As you have seen the sun shine out
After the gloomy rain.
In the good land where we were born
We may be happy still;
A lite OF love will bless our house
The house upon the hill.
Thanks to your gentle face, Lily
Its innocence was strong
10 keep me constant to the right,
When tempted by the wrong
The little ones were dear to Him
That died upon the Rood
| ask his gentle care for you
And for your mother good"
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-06-03

NOTICE.-The subscriber respectfully informs the
VI citizens OF Henrlco county that he has purchased
from NJ McKeever the right for CRANES PATENT
WASH MIXTURE tor said county, and that his as
Segment is record in the Patent Office of the United
States.
l hereby warn all persons from purchasing the said
Cranes Wash Mixture from any other than my autho-
rzed agents.. JAS. S. PIPER.
AGENTs-E. J. PIcoT, Druggist, corner Main and
streets; IT, j. MILLER, Druggist, No IT'S Broad street.
my l7-lm*
e CRANES PATENT WASH MIXTURE
Ne AND CHEMICAL SOAP.-Havng heard and
read OF the extraordinary facility of washing clothes &c
by the above Mixture and the great saving Of time and
abour was induced from the many respectable refe
rences and cards lately published in this city by gentle
men who bought family rights try its utility myself
In doing So found it to be equal to- it surprising
its widespread reputation have succeeded in obtain
ing exclusive right from Mr.. Mathew McKeever, to
manufacture and sell the above Mixture, &C. in the City
of Richmond and County of Henrco, for the full term
the said manufacture in all the counties East of the
Blue Ridge Mountains until the right in said counties
sold by Mr.. McKeever myself, being authorized
by him to sell the same. On Monday, May 18th, 1850
will sell by wholesale and retail, the
above Mixture and Chemical Soap, at my Soap and
Candle Factory Franklin street, in OF the City
Hotel Any person or persons wishing to buy family
rights, the above Soap will please call none other
being authorized to sell after the 1th inst.
my 10 3m EDW'D McADAM.
n HOLD the Articles of Agreement between Mr.. Nc
IL Keever and myself which were drawn up by an emf
nent lawyer of this cy not having violated any of its
to his contract. E. McADAM.
nv 10
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-06-03

M FOR RENT, the small store on Pearl street
E Immediately opposite the Penitentiary store. has
been fitted up within the last month, with shelves and
counters, and every other necessary fixture for small
confectionery. Rent $l2 Oper month. Apply TO
TOLER & COOK,
my % Agents and AuctioneerS.
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-06-03

NJ MADAM has laid before me the articles oil
lie agreement drawn by other counsel of this city,
and bearing date the LIST May, 1850, between himself
and Mr. McKeever, for the sale of the Wash Mixture
of Stephen Crane These articles appear be in all
respects perfect and carefully prepared and binding
the parties. ROBERT G. SCOTT.
nR. ID. b. BROWNS CELEBRATED
hp REMEDY FOR THE PILES-A fresh sup
ply just received. Also, DR.. Browns unrivaled Cold
Plaster for Spinal Affection Rheumatism, Neuralgia
&C., for sale by H. J. MILLER, Agent,
my24 IT'S Broad street.
Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-06-03

49, FOR RENT the House in the occupan-
EAcy of Mr.. Rob Cochran, on the South side Of
Grace street. between Third and Fourth. 1t is very
convenient place for small family.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
Refarm in View York.

Messrs Loomis, Graham and Field, al
lawyers of high standing, who had been
appointed by the Legislature of New York
to revise the codes of Civil and Criminal
Procedure. have submitted the result of
their labors. In their report they say
The purpose of the constitutional provision
and of the statute under which this code is pre-
pared, was to make legal proceedings more in
telligible, more certain, more speedy, ana less
expensive. Heretofore the records oi the courts
have been sealed books to the mass Of the people
Though concerned in them as suitors, and par
ticipating in them as Jurors, they were repulsed
by strange forms and technical language. II
the law could have been administered WIN ap-
soiute certainty, without delay and without e%-
pense vet if it had been unintellIgIble to them,
it would not have been satisfactory. In a coun-
try where the people are sovereign, where they
elect all officers, even the Judges themselves,
where education is nearly universal it was not
long possible to keep the practice OF the courts
enyelopeG in mystery.
"The commissioners have never lost sight Of
these considerations. In aiming at directness
and efficiency, they have aimed also at dlilusng
a knowledge of legal proceedings; and there IS,
they trust, nothing IN this code which any per-
son of ordinary intelligence and education can
not understand And although the law of rights
is vast science, the accumulation of numerous
countries and ages which it requires study and
patience TO learn, yet it Is believed, that the
practice Of the courts is here set forth in such
manner, that no person need have occasion TO
witness a legal proceeding, read pleading or
render verdict, the meaning OF which he does
not comprehend"
That the Reform devised by the Com
missioners is thorough and radical, will ap-
pear from the following paragraph of their
reported Code under the title Of Civil
Actions -
THE distinction between actions at law and
suits in equity and the forms of all such actions
and suits, heretofore existing, are abolished and
there shall be in this State, but one form OF ac-
ton for the enforcement or protection of private
rights, and the redress or prevention Of private
wrongs, which shall be denominated a civil ac-
ton"
1t is to be regretted that our Legislature
does not take some steps to simplify the
practice in this State, and bring it within
the comprehension of the masses. At
present suits are brought in one form, and
after years of expensive litigation decided
in the lower courts-they are then taken
to the Supreme Court, which probably de-
cidcs that another form ought to have been
adopted, and the whole farce has TO be
enacted over again with mere change of
words. In criminal cases, indictments are
drawn up with ridiculous technicalities, and
if any one is omitted, Or a word wrong,
the whole thing is "quashed." All this,
with the attending expense, might be easily
remedied by adopting a practice similar to
that recommended by the New \ ork Com
missiOners.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23

to lay on the table, to adjourn, asking to
be excused from voting, taking appeals.
&C., until fifteen minutes after midnight,
when the House finally adjourned without
coming to a vote on the question.
On Wednesday, the slavery .questio n
was again the subject under discussion IN
both- Houses Of Congress. Among the
speakers in the House, was Mr. Stevens.
of this State. In tie Senate, the debate
was more animated. and the more interest
ing from the fact that both Mr.. CIav and
Mr.. Cass were participants. Mr., Cass
has suddenly found himself in a peculiar.
and certainly not all enviable position, the
Southern members hitting him right and
left. lie however ably defended himself
In this storm of passion and feeling, said Mr
Cass, all reason seems to have been discarded
but he desired now TO speak out plainly H..
had been misunderstood heretofore, but it would
not be his fault if misunderstood hereafter The
storm had passed over him and borne him down
He was here for the last time, and felt that IN
der all the circumstances he had the riyht Ia
speak Slavery was exciting institution, for
which this generation is not responsible, and he
felt that Congress had no control over 1t. This
he had ALWAYS believed and held. Bat if man
did not believe-as he never did and never
should-that slavery was a blessed institution.
wise, morally and politically, he was denounced
by certain Southern gentleman a fanatic. On
the other hand, If a Northern man is not ready
to put the baYonet to the breast Of every South
erner in order to free the negroes, he was de-
nouuced as a Northern dough face. 1t was thus
that the storm passed over the Northern Repre-
sentatiyes, and thus that they were broken
down. Could not gentlemen see that such
course this was as ungenerous as II was I'M
polite? In conclusion, Mr.. Cass said that
when Mr.. Clemens suggested such thing
peaceabe dissolution of the Union, he talked Of
the widest chimera ever imagined. lie hoped
God would give TO the councils OF the nation
more of the spirit of justice, conciliation and
compromise-that the Union might be bound
together as with bars Of Iron.
Ma DoDGE, of Iowa, defended himself, as a
Northern man, against the accusations of Mr..
Butler He, as q Northern man, with several
others, had voted continually, and until the last,
in favor OF the proposition which was intended
to give law and protection TO California. The
gentleman from South Carolina was then ready
to give to the President, who hailed from the
South, the authority to spread over that country
every class of officers-but now, when another
President had honestly done what seemed Just
and proper-charges were made against him of
usurpatlon such charges as should inpel the
Senator making them-if he believed them-lo
seek the impeachment of Zachary Taylor He
then alluded to the distribution of political hon
ors in California, and showed most conclusivey
that the people of the South had not ony
shared them, but that they had received nearly
the whole Of them. What, then had The South
TO fear from the admission of a State which had
shown SO strongly It's partiality for them
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
Correspondence Of the Gazette.
BALTIMORE, Feb.

BALTIMORE, / eD. ~. lcOU.
Ma. EDITOR -NoInconsiderable excitement
continues to prevail in regard to the contempla-
ted repeal Of the /" Sunday-Eaw," referred to
in my last The yotaries of temperance are
lndefatigabIe in exerticns TO prevent the - Ca
lamity," as they term it; but their advcrsaries
are equally ardgons, and learn from reliable
source, that their labors among onr legislators
have not been without effect, aud the probability
Is the law will be abolished Some thirty tavern
keepers were arreigned before the City Court
yesterday for selling liquor on Sundays, and
fGed from $50 to $50 each To-day some
twenty additional cases were disposed Of, ma
KING the amount Of fines levied on tayernkeep-
GRE for selling liquor Oh that day s. ,2-0 one
half OF which goes to the nfouners, the oihel
10 the Pntl'c school fund
st Valentines Day was observed as usna'.
by the beaux and bellies Of ,his city. Eight
thousand Valentines passed through The pest
Office on that day, besides the Immense number
which were transmitted through the medium
oi the different despatch posts. Last year the
number received At the post Office amounted "a
fourteen thousand, thus showing thnt the Gus
tom OF 50 king love" IN this manner is rapidly
becoming unpopular. The fact is, the custom
has been Of iste years sadly ABUSED. Carlca.
tures-faleely called Valentines-whlch are
indeiicate IN design and gross IN execution
alike dI52racefgl 10 thosc who send them and
insulting 10 the recipleuts-are sold by thou.
sands. Quite + namuer Of the heads Of families
IN this city gave directions that 40 Valentines
should be eil at their houses, lest their dauah
ters he iusui,ed.
murderous assault was perpetrated by some
unknUHn persons on Saturday night last 4
stranger, whist passing along Charles street
suddenly feicd 10 the ground by two bricks
one striking him in the forehead and the othr
OF the back Of The neck, Dhlcting a deep cash
Ena 4-ciihg hin in.eHsibir iof Soae liUc. -
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23

DEMocRATIc PRoGREss.-The Georgia
loeofocos have passed bill re-organizing
the congressional districts Of that State,
although they have At the present time an
equal number of representatives with the
wings. Thus far, apportionment laws
have been considered as binding, unless
most hagrantly unjust, but the party of
progress is annually making new discov-
cries which will soon make laws an empty
name, if not a reproach.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23

II The Democrat calls the rejection of
James Watson Webb as Charge to Aus
tria /" a good beginning" As this rejec
ton was mainly brought about by Mr..
Cass, because Webb left just before the
Senate met, we hope Gen. Taylor will
second the :" good beginning" by forthwith
recalling the son Of Lewis Cass, who was
appointed Charge to Rome at the eleventh
hour of Mr. Polk's administration-drew
his outfit, and left for parts unknown be-
fore old Rough and Ready could say
whether he approved it or not. We care
but little about Webb or his rejection, but
what's sauce for him ought also to be sauce
for the son of Lewis Cass.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23

REDUCTION OF FARE.-By reference to
the advertisements of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, it will be seen that the
fare from Lewistown TO Philadelphia has
been fixed at So.
We understand that an additional pas
senger train will be put upon the road as
soon as the Canal is in navigable order,
thus offering unusual facilities to the trav-
elling public.
The following are the Stations on the
Pennsylvania Railroad and the distances !:
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
For the Gazette.

FOf the GG=ffke-
Mn. EDITOR Il hope YOU and Your
readers will hear me for few moments,
and lest he troublesome | shall be brief.
My pen is unused to write, and conse-
quently | must claim your Indulgence for
blunders ii NAV make.
In looking over your last two papers
was not little gratified TO find that the
lovers of order have determined that they
will be no longer silent-that they will no
longer continue inactive, while a band of
God-defying, law-delying desperadoes are
turning your once peaceful borough into d
modern Sodom. Friends of order in
Mlilln county, keep no longer SILENT
Speak, and let your voice be heard Let
me assure you, the time is not far distant.
If anarchy and rowdyism Is winked at, as
now and heretofore. when Miiliin county
viii become 6ylc0rd-wiIl be spoken of
IN subsequent history rs Jeroboam, the son
of Nebat who made Israel TO sin, is spo-
ken of by the sacred historians. Why, why
should this state of things exist An an
swer IS at hand, and, IN the language Of
" An Inquirer" be not startled, if | tell
you that not only is Lewistown without
an officer, but 1he entire county, or, at least,
apparently soz This conclusion has not
been arrived at hastily. 4 short residence
and close observation have satisfied the
writer that what he asserts Is true. Let the
work of reform commence in LeWistO1ln.
Elect officers that will do their duty fear
less of frowns and regardless of favors, and
let the people see that they do II; have
the haumts Of the vicious, the profane, the
drunkard, and the licentious broken up
Then, and not till then, may female deli
cacy pass along your streets uninsulted
but at present, sights revolving to the more
hardened sensibilities of man are witnessed
even in the broad glare of the noon-dav
sun. Then what must night present =
The stranger fears to tread your streets
In vain does Lewistown boast, that she has
more churches than sister towns of her
dimensions, while she countenances the
grand rendezvous, whence issue a elan of
regular disciplined desperadoes, armed with
Bowie knives and pistols, having no other
OBJECT IN view than 10 annoy the peaceful
citizens of the surrounding country, break
up meetings for pleasure or religion, &c.
The reason Is obvious the yiolators ot
law and order escape. The law Is good il
lawfully used. Citizens OF Lewistown
citizens of MifFlin county do your duty
Then may you occupy that position among
the counties Of Pennsylvania to which your
natural location entities you. Begin now
and let success be your motto.
ORDER.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
BY DEEDS OF PEACE

Resoired, That sum not exceeding one thou
sand dollars, is hereby appropriated for the Par-
pose of carrying out the provisions Of the tor'-
going resolution.
In the House, on the 10th, the bill sup
Elementary to the act relating to counties
and townships, and c6rfhty and TOWNSHIP
officers, came up in order for considera'
ton The bill gives the Court of Quarter
Sessions power TO fix the place for holding
elections, at the place a majority OF the
qualified voters may designate. and eA-
cepts the city and county of PhlladelPnla
from its provisions. II also directs tue
manner of giving notice of application tor
a change, by publication IN newspapers
printed in the county, and passed hn,I
reading-veas 6i, nays l5.
In the House, on the 18th, the bl!
erecting parts of Columbia county, into
new county to be called Montour. came
upon third reading the question pend
ing being motion 10 postpone its further
consideration until tomorrow
MIR. Frick moved to amend the motion
by postponing the subject until TUESDAY
week {; which was not agreed to-yeasli'
nays l6.
The question recurring on the mouoa
to postpone ,ntil tomorrow, il was nega-
tived without a division.
The bin then passed final reading BY
the following vote Yeas D. nays II.
On leave given, Mr.. Bcawiey read N
his place and presented to the chair, lolA'
resolution relating TO the volunteers OF 'E'
war of 1912, as follows:
Resolrsd, That our Senators in Congress as
hereby instructed, and our Representatives :"
quested 10 Use their best efforts 10 PE"ca'S' -
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
Another Dish of Coffee.

The recent rise in the price of Coffee
gave us AN opportunity of turning some
locofoco artillery on that party, and from
the iluttering along the Juniata apparently
with some effect. The Democrat, Stan
dard, &c, seem to have understood the
drift of our remarks in using weapons
heretofore employed by themselves, but
the Juniata Register, being as yetuninitiated
into the sublime ethics of locofocodom,
{" out-Herods Herod' in his virtuous indig-
nation against this " infamous attempt at
deception - Nay more-the man is so
astonished that he can hardly believe such
a thing would appear in the Lewistown
Gazette, and therefore has to look second
time to see if it could be it lie thinks
we must have known better, and stoutly
contends that the Tariff has :" no more to
do with it than a tariff on boot jacks in
New Orleans would with the price of but
ter in Lewistown."
The editor then proceeds to make known
the great respect he has for us, and shows
it by calling US knave, fool, &c. Well,
we will not retort on our friend down the
river by calling him hard names, because
it is not only against our nature but against
the resolution lately adopted in editorial
convention,) but we must say that if Mr..
Cooper don't know that his party papers
the Register included-only few years
ago told the people that the tariff of '46
had put up the price Of 1cheat, &C., when
famine existed in Europe, he must be
decidedly green in politics, or awfully
deficient in memory.
But is there any attempt at deception In
the paragraphs referred to! The first ex-
pected a rise in the Juniata from the tears
of our brethren, and the other laid it down
as a simple fact that i the tariff Of 40
had raised the price of wheat when a
famine existed in Europe, the same tariff
must have raised the price of coffee also.
There is certainly nothing unreasonable in
forming such a deduction, and we think the
readers of the Register will not be quite
so hot-headcd as their champion of the
British tariff has been in demolishing us,
after reading the quotations and the scasi-
! bLe remarks thereunto attached. And be-
sides, what will they think of their editors
/ who few years ago taught them that this
! yaunted tariff had put up wheat to 50 !!
If they believe what the Register now says,
all the locofoco editors in the State, saving
and excepting Mr.. Cooper, must be KNAvEs'
/ FOOLS, and INFAMOUS DECEIvERs, or eise
they must possess the faculty in wonder
ful degree, of straining at fence ran ana
swallowing a barn door
The North Pennsylvania is the title
e H. ,,o,,,. naner about to be established
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-02-23
Pennsylvania Legislature.

In the Senate, on the, 18th Mr.. Malone
presented petition praying for the pas
sage of law authorizing hawkers and
pedlars 10 peddle throughout the Com
monwealth.
Mr.. Cunningham, six petitions praying
for authority 10 erect a poor house in the
county of Miffiin.
In the Senate, on the 10th, Mr.. Gun
ningham presented four remonstrances
against the erection of poor house in the
county of Mifilin.
The bill providing for the election of
Reporter of the Supreme Court was again
called up. The question was upon the
reconsideration of the vote which negatiyed
the motion to transcribe for third reading.
The Senate refused TO reconsider without
4 call for the yeas and nays. So this
measure was killed. and we hope the Gov
ernor viii now go on TO make the appoint
ment, the place being vacant, and relieve
our locofoco friends from the intense dis
tress into which thev were thrown bv his
failure 10 make it so long as the Legisla-
ture threatened to deprive him of the right
of doing SO.
The following resolutions, &c, relative
to the Washington National Monument
passed final reading-yeas IS, nays 3:
Resolrsd by the Senate aud House Of Representa-
tires ofths Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania fl Gen
eral .7Ssembly met, That the Governor is hereby
authorized and requested to cause an appropri-
ate block Of the native marble of this Common
wealth, to be conveyed to the National Cap
itOi 10 take its Mace in the monument 10 the
memory of Washington, and to have inscribed
thereon the State coat of arms, and these words
PENNSYLVANIA,