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STATE CONVENTION. PROCEEDINGS of the Anti-Masonic State Convention, held at Harrisburg, February 25th, 1830. At 10 o'clock the Convention was called to order by Dr. Fussell, of Chester. The names of the Delegates being called over, the following gentlemen answered to their names.

Adams Renshaw, Thaddeus Ste. phens, Thomas Stephens. Alleghany--John M' Donald, Cornelius Dar. ragh, John M' Masters, James Logan, Francis Lorns. Armstrong--John Sloan.

David Grim, John Rhonds, John Wal. ter, William Hain, Valentine Wagner. Bucks--John Fackenthall, J. B. Calvin.

Butler--George W. Smith. Centre- Murry, Esq. William W. Houston.

Chester--Thomas Ashbridge, George Gregg, Evan Evans, Dr. Fussel, David Hayer. Crawford -William Perkins. Cumberland--John Fsq. F.

Watts, Esq. Isaac Eby, junr. Delaware--Dr. George Smith. Funk and Thomas Brown.

Eries Miles, Esq. Smith, Esq. John Welsh, John B. M'Lanahan. Fuyette--John Miller.

-Benj. F. Black. Huntingdon-John Kerr. Indiana and Jefferson-John Taylor.

-Emanuel C. Reigart, John Miller, Esq. Dr. Michael Kauffman, Dr. Richard E.

Cochran, Roland Diller, Maxwell Kennedy, Mi. chael Musselman, Hugh Andrews. -Gen. John Burrows, John K. Hays, Lehigh-Col.

Joseph Sagar, Michael D. Ever. hard, and Maj. J. Wilt.

Lebanon--Geo. W. Kline, Esq. and Michael Shoch. Montgomery--Paul Dowlin, John Barnitt, Benjamin Bartholomew, James Nair.

Mifflin-Wm. M. Hall, William Shaw, and Jonathan W. Aitkin. Northumberland--John Taggart, Jas.

F. Mur. ray. City of Philadelphia--John Clarke, Henry Witmer, Samuel Rush. Philadelphia County-L.

Lardner. Perry--Jeremiah Madden, J. Everhart. Susquehanna--George Walker. -James Price.

Somerset-Gen. William Piper, George Moose, John Hanna, Esq. Union Barbin, Dan. Rangler. Washington--Joseph Ritner, Joshua Dickerson, John M'Coy, and John Reed, Westmoreland-Jacob Waltz, Samuel Jack, Jamison Hendricks.

Warren--R. Faulkner. York--Peter Wolford, Esq. Dr. Hugh M' Donald, Jacob Rieman, Charles M.

Poor. The Convention was organized by the choice of JOSEPH RITNER, Esq. of Washington, President, SMITH, Esq. of Franklin, and Dr. MICHAEL KAUFFMAN, of Lancaster, Vice Presidents; Wm.

HALL, Esq. of Miffin and FREDERICK WATTS, Esq. of Cumberland, Secretaries. On motion Mr. John M' Donald, of Alleghany, Resolved, That the chair appoint a committee of nine to report on the business to attended to by this convention and the order be adopted.

committee were Messrs. M' Donald, Piper, Rhoads, Witmer, Stevens, Kennedy, M' Keehan, Calvin, Hendricks. Ordered, the Committee report at 3 o'clock, this afternoon. THURSDAY Afternoon, Feb. 25.

Mr. M'Donald, from the committee appointed to report on the business to attended to by the convention and the order to be adopted, reported the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, That a committee of fifteen be appointed to prepare resolutions to be submitted to this convention. 2. Resolved, That a committee of fifteen be appointed to draft an address to our fellow citizens to be submitted to this convention.

3. Resolved, That this meeting will appoint twenty-eight delegates to represent this state at the National Anti-masonic Convention, to be held on the 11th September next, to be selected from the several Congressional districts. 4. Resolved, That a committee consisting of one from each county, now represented, be appointed to nominate suitable persons as delegates to represent this state in the National Convention, and seven persons in each county to be a standing committee of correspondence and vigilance. 5.

Resolved, That in case any delegate to the National Convention finds it inconvenient to attend, he shall have the power to substitute, and in case no such substitution be made, the National Convention have the privilege to exercise that power. 6. Resolved, That the President, assisted by the Vice Presidents, appoint said committees, as also a standing State Committee, consisting of nine. On motion of Gen. Burrows, these resolutions were severally read and adopted.

The President then announced the names of the following gentlemen, as a committee to act on the different resolutions. On first resolution: Messrs. Reigart, M' Donald, Hain, M' Nair, Fackenthal, Wolford, J. F. Murray, Rush, Miles, Kerr, Hanna, Fussel, Wilt, Everhart, Waltz.

On second resolution: Messrs. Clarke, Thaddeus Stevens, M' Masters, Diller, Burrows, Sloan, M' Donald, Kline, Reed, Brown, Wm. Murray, M'Lanahan, Madden, Piper, Perkins. The President postponed the appointing the remaining committees for the present. Mr.

Barnitt, of Montgomery, offered the following resolution. Resolved, That we have 20,000 or more copies of the pamphlets containing some account of the kidnapping and subsequent abduction of Wm. Morgan, together the trials and convictions of some of his abductors, struck off for the purpose of distribution. After some debate the resolution was postponed for the present. The Convention then adjourned.

FRIDAY February 26th. Convention met according to adjournment. The committee appointed to report the names of twenty -eight persons to represent the state of Pennsylvania in the National Antimasonic Convention, to be held in Philadelphia, and also committees of seven in each county to be committees of correspondence, made report. The report was accepted. The following are the names of the delegates appointed to the National Convention.

The names of the committees of vigilance will be given hereafter. Senatorial Delegates. Amos Ellmaker, Joseph Ritner. 1st, 2d and 3d Districts. Horatio G.

Jones, Lewis Passmore, John Clarke. 4th District. James Pattison, David Potts, Jr. Samuel Davis, Esq. 5th District.

N. B. Boileau. 6th District. William Rutherford.

7th District. Daniel Rhoads, Peter Knepply. 8th District. Michael Fackenthall, Jr. 9th District.

Ner Middleswarth, E. Greenough, Walker. 10th District. John Kauffelt. 11th District.

William Line, Thaddeus Stevens. 12th District. William Brown. 13th District. Charles Ogle.

14th District. James Todd. 15th District. Thomas M'Call. 16th District.

Wm. Ayres, Harmar Denny. 17th District. Alexander Plummer. 18th District.

William Miles. The committee appointed to report resolutions be submitted to the convention, reported the following, which were severally considered and adopted. Resolved, That this convention, in the spirit which has brought its members together, has a decided conviction of the moral and political evil secret societies; and viewing the craft and calling of masonry, its unwarranted principles, its sonable practices, its mock heroic titles and its irreverent ceremonies and source this evil, that it is the duty of all those who enter. tain such convictions to strive by every honest effort to oppose the cause of Masonry, and to pros. trate its pernicious influence.

Resolved, That with satisfaction the course recently pursued by many of our fellow citizens in renouncing the tenets and practices of masonry; and with such we are in unison of feeling and of relation to those who adhere to masonry and its observances, we confidently trust that the rapid advance of public opin. ion hostile to the mystic tie, will soon practically convince them of their error. Resolved, That from the disproportionato number of offices held by Freemasons in this Commonwealth as well as from the positive testimony of their own members, this Convention firmly lieve, that that body exercises an unjust and dang. erous political influence which cannot be correc. ted but by the withholding from them such favours as are within the gift of the people.

Resolved, That in selections of men to fill fices of the most important sacred trusts, our con. fidence as citizens must be diminished, if not destroyed, in men, who are known to have bound themselves by obligations and oaths, at variance with paramount duties to their country and religion. Resolved, That we rely on the revealed christi. an religion to inspire to charity the moral virtues, not on secret societies whose principles and practises may be discovered too late to be subversive ofour rights as citizens and as a republic. Pu The committee appointed to draft an address, asked further time to make their report.

The Convention adjourned. RENUNCIATION. THE REVD. JOSEPH STEBS CHRISTMAS. We involuntarily dwell upon the last words of an esteemed friend, and treasure up his dying monitions with affectionate regard.

It matters not whether they were uttered in the near view of death; it is enough that they were expressive of his sober convictions, that they were pronounced with deliberation, as he unconsciously approached the tomb; and that they appear on record, among the last acts of his generous life, breathing the spirit of the saint, and giving a sweet example of his tender and faithful discharge of duty, whose face we shall not see again, until the heavens be no more. Affection goes forth in the path he walked, and gathers the fragrance of his memory from those objects which gained the attention of his last moments upon earth; we delight to view the last works of his hands: and while we read the finished lines of his pen, we call to mind the erect form, the cheerful countenance, and the happy voice of the man, and recognize the gentle spirit in the living tones with which our fancy supplies the dead letter. Such is the following renunciation of Freemasonry, written in the full enjoyment of that health, which enabled Mr. CHRISTMAs to fulfil every duty of a kind minister, during the whole period of his connexion with the Bowery church. He, while the hopes of thousands centered upon him for great usefulness in years to come, put his renunciation into the hands of the editor of the Investigator; but ere it could come before the public, his body was laid in the tomb.

As a voice from the dead, it speaks to his surviving friends, especially those in the ministry, who carelessly stand among scoffers, and give a thoughtless support to impiety, by retaining their rights in a Review. Oh my soul! come not thou into their secret, unto their assembly mine honour be not thou -Gen. xlix. 6. To the Editor of the was much surprised a few days since, upon being informed by a friend that my name had been mentioned in your paper, and held up to the public as one of those clergymen who still continue in the fellowship of Freemasonry.

Although mortified by such a use of my name, I do not regret that I have been thus reminded of my duty. I am a mason, and it is due to myself to explain the extent of my connexion with the fraternity, and the occasion of my remissness in not having earlier disavowed that connexion. About five years since, in a season of comparative youth, when I had but just passed my minority. I made application for admission to a lodge. For this misstep, (for such I now deem it,) I might offer some apologies, such as that the moral and Christian character of masonry had not been then to my knowledge, called in question, that many of my most esteemed friends, and members of the congregation of which I then had charge, and most of the Protestant ministers where I then resided, were masons, but I now feel, that I did wrong in assuming the unqualified obligations of an institution of whose interior I knew nothing.

I was initiated into the order, took the apprentice's degree, and never afterward entered a lodge, or gave or received a masonic signal. Through the subsequent trials and duties of several years, masonry scarcely entered my mind, nor was it till of late that I have been convinced of the intrinsic evil of the institution; nor did I then feel it my duty to renounce, first, because I concluded from my slight connexion with the lodge, that I had but little to renounce, and secondly, because that connexion being with a lodge in a province of the British empire, I supposed it not known in this country, and therefore not injurious by way of example. But I was mistaken; and as I have been emblazoned before the public as a Freemason, neither modesty nor duty require any apology for the publicity with which I wipe the stain of masonry from my conscience as a man, and from my office as a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ. Should any member of the fraternity say that the opinion of one who has made so little progress in the Craft is nothing worth; I reply that the pretensions to secrecy still maintained on the part of the institution are false, and can be proved so by the concentrated light of the manifold testimony, which no reasonable man can deny. My opinion may be nothing worth, but this at least will be gained man shall henceforth put me in the catalogue of clergymen abetting masonry.

It is not for me to explain how it is, that many upright and honorable, and conscientious, and pious men are still found in the enclosure of the mystic tie. I would hope that many of them are ignorant of the mysteries of iniquity which exist in the higher degrees, and that others still preserve silence from wrong views of Christian casuistry, and have yet to learn that sinful oaths, like that of king Herod, bind to nothing but repentance, and fruits meet for repentance. Explain their conduct as you will, it is enough for me to know in ascertaining my duty, that masonry is useless, containing no motives to duty, nor sanctions to morality, paramount to Christianity; abounding in no results of benevolence which are not tenfold counterbalby the necessary expenses, and incidental temptations of the system; imparting no useful knowledge, unless a few cabalistic words, and traditionary fables be useful knowledge. It is enough for me to know that masonry is false in its pretensions to antiquity, and may be proved so not only by the entire absence of documentary testimony, but the internal evidence of imposture, palpable to every linguist and biblical scholar. It is enough for me to know that masonry is anti-christian and impious; an assertion which may be verified by a reference to the nature and frequency of the oaths; to the rejection of a Mediator from its worship; to the blasphemous titles which in certain degrees are given to its officers; to the ludicrous application often made of scriptural language; to the profane introduction of sacramental ceremonies, and to the principal duty of the lodge, which is, in every degree, the dramatic performance of what I can describe by no other name than a farce, founded on scriptural history, whose serio-comic effect indeed betrays that no master in the histrionic art was engaged at its composition.

For these and other reasons, I cannot but consider speculative masonry as one of the "unfruitful works of darkness," with which a high authority--higher than all the unlawful oaths of the craft, bids me "have no fellowship, but rather to reprove them." And when that time, which I confidently expect shall arrive, when the word of GOD shall grow mighty and prevail, we shall see a repetition of what occurred eighteen centuries since in the city of the Ephesians. And many that believed came and confessed, and showed their deeds. Many of them also which used curious arts, brought their books together and burned them before all men; and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." Acts xix. 18, 19. If these remarks should meet the eye of any follower of the Redeemer, who still worships at the altar of Masonry, I beg him once more to consider whether imposed on by the mock solemnities of the lodge, and the pompous pretensions of the craft, he is not really attempting to effect a concord between Christ and Belial; and whether he does not owe it to the souls of masons, to the honour of the Church of Christ, and to the good of mankind, to come out and be separate.

JOSEPH S. CHRISTMAS. Pastor of the Bowery Preshyterian Church. NEW YORK, March 2, 1830. RENUNCIATION.

The following renunciation is worthy of the deepest attention. It discloses FACTS in relation to Masonry in our own State which ought to be deeply pondered. It will be noticed that Mr. Page was distinctly given to understand on joining the lodge, that DEATH was the penalty of revealing masonic secrets. On entering the lodge blindfold, haltered and stripped, he felt his naked left breast pricked by the point of a sharp instrument, and his conductor warned him "as this is a prick to thy flesh, SO MAY IT BE a prick to thy conscience, a shield to thy faith, a SURE AND CERTAIN DEATH, in case you should ever attempt to reveal the secrets of freemasonry unlawfulBoston Free Press." From the Anti-masonic Christian Herald.

I was inducted to freemasonry, in Union Lodge, in Dorchester, in 1818, at which time I took the two first degrees; on the 12th of January 1819, I was passed to the SUBLIME DEGREE of Master Mason. At the establishment of the Norfolk Union Lodge, I was chosen Chaplain and officiated for the first year, when it appeared to me that the expressions used by me in addressing the throne of grace, were objectionable, and did not suit the infidelity of the Lodge. The second year the Lodge dispensed with the formal choice of a chaplain, and occasionally I was invited to officiate. I had discovered no peculiar benefits from my being a mason or from my attendance on the Lodge; I therefore inquired of a Knight Templar, who had gone high up the masonic ladder, if he could tell me the benefits of freemasonry? he observed that "a mason need not be hung for crime, for if he has the grand hailing sign of distress, though he were on the gallows, he would be rescued, for masons were bound so to do." This together with the frivolities of the Lodge room and the seeming infidelity, led me to serious inquiry, and I came to the conclusion in Sept. 1822, leave the Lodge entirely; accordingly I took my discharge, and the next year I received the following certificate: To all whom it may concern.

This certifies that Brother Samuel Page, of Milton, was on the 26th day of September, A. L. 5822, honorably discharged from his membership in N. U. Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons.

Given under our hands and the Seal of said Lodge, this eighteenth day of September, A. L. 5823. GEORGE Clark, Secretary. I was initiated into the Lodge under the ancient form of lectures, and as "I received the point of some sharp instrument piercing my naked left breast in the name of the answered Lord, I was asked if I felt any I I I did; what was it answered a prick;" the individual who was performing the ceremony, continued, "as this is a prick to thy flesh, so may it be a prick to thy conscience, a shield to thy faith, a sure and certain death in case you ever after attempt to reveal the secrets of freemasonry unlawfully." In this I know that the lesson of death is taught as the sure and certain result, to any one who shall reveal the secrets of the order.

On this, and the information received from New York, I base my belief that Morgan is murdered, for he has essentially revealed freemasonry as it was given to me. After Morgan's abduction I had a conversation with a Royal Arch Mason, in the town of Milton on his way from Boston. I asked him what should be done now Morgan had published 1 the secrets of masonry he replied, "go to Randolph Lodge and you will learn what is done, the lodge have instituted the test degree." I went and received the degree, and I affirm that the test degree as revealed, by Elder Bernard in his light on masonry is the same as was there given to me in RanLodge. In further conversation with this same man, "he said that it was the opinion of the GRAND LODGE that he (Morgan) ought to be killed." the sake of brevity we omit Mr. Page's comments and reflections, and subjoin merely the following sentence from his closing I do therefore dissolve my connexion forever from the institution of freemasonry and consider myself no longer bound by its oaths, and I would warn all my Christian Brethren who are in this delusion to search for the truth, and be separate from the unholy institution.

SAMUEL PAGE. Stoughton, Feb. 19, 1830. INTERESTING LETTER. The following extract from a letter from Le Roy, N.

Y. (a town, situated near the seat of the Morgan outrages) contains a succinct account of the cause of the AntiMasonic excitement. It i is directed to Mr. Ephraim H. Foss, of Leeds, Me.

and appears to have written at the request of Mr. Foss to satisfy his scruples in regard to the truth of the kidnapping of Wm. Morgan. It may help the minds of others, if it should meet the eyes of any who are still in doubt touching the reality of those outrages and disclosures. "Dear letter, requesting information on the subject of the abduction and murder of William Morgan, was duly received.

In reply, I would inform you that the principal events in relation to that most cruel outrage were acted in this county--Morgan was taken in the morning from Batavia by several men, forced into a stage-coach and carried to Canandaigua, a distance of about 50 miles, through a populous country; from the last mentioned place he was taken in the same manner, his hands closely tied behind him and a handkerchief bound fast over his eyes, to Fort Niagara, a distance of about 100 miles, and confined for several days in the Magazine of the Fort. Whilst in the latter place numerous meetings of masonic bodies in various parts of this state were held for the purpose of deciding the prisoner's fate. At length it was concluded to execute upon him the penalties of Masonry. He requested an interview with his wife and children; this was denied him. He then requested as a last favor, a candle and the Bible; these were also refused.

He was soon after executed and his body sunk in Niagara river. These transactions aroused the people who began to inquire into them--The masons told them it was no use to inquire or to prosecute, for the sheriffs, judges and almost all the officers of the government were masons, and that no jury could be found but would have several masons on it. On an attempt to indict individuals it was found that witnesses would not testify, sheriffs would summon masons as jurymen; and judges would refuse to try masons because themselves were masons. At length however, several masons were indicted, and when this was the case, the Grand Lodge of the State and the Grand Chapter voted large sums of money to aid those that were indicted, to get clear, and paid several eminent Lawyers their fees for attending their trials. When the people discovered that masons were determined to screen the guilty from punishment at all hazards, they then began to inquire into the causes of such strange and unaccountable conduct.

About the same time many honest masons began to leave the several Lodges, and soon after a large meeting of masons was held at this place, who resolved to leave the institution of Masonry and expose its secrets and wickedness to the public. This was accorddone from the lowest to the highest. The causes were then discovered why masons tried to screen their guilty brethren. It was the horrid oaths which they took in the highest degrees to protect each other in all cases, right or wrong, murder and treason not excepted. We have had many trials here since, upon those transactions, and masons who still tenaciously adhere to the institutions have testified to the truth of the disclosures made by Morgan of the three first degrees, and by the meeting of Freemasons at this place, as to the higher degrees--so, as to the truth of the disclosures there can be no doubt." have so many public documents, accounts of trials, confessions of masons, Reports of Legislative Committees, proving what I have here written, that no reasonable doubt can remain in the breast of any man as to their truth and ac- curacy." "Respectfully yours, A.

P. HASCALL." The a mason to vote for an Anti-Mason and he indignantly refuses. But let an Anti-mason refuse to vote for a Mason and, hurra boys! cution! persecution! New intelligence us as to induce the encouraging belief that this whole State will be redeemed from Masonic Tyranny this very year. The Sovereign People are visiting the Masonic Institution with a lawful but terrible retribution. The blood of a free American citis to receive a fearful atonement at their hands.

Ohio State Convention is called in Ohio, to appoint delegates to the National Convention. The Prairies on and Alabama have heard of Morgan's death; Anti-Masonic Meetings have been held in various places. The "Old Hand-maid" must kindle back fires to save herself. The word received from Virginia, state that Anti-Masonry is gaining ground in that state. All they want is information.

A righteous cause needs only that. Hold on Jack, and as Masonry sinks, you go down with her. following toast was drank at a Masonic dinner in MassachuMay Universal Masonry be the only Universal Monarchy Turn him man has been expelled from a lodge in Vermont for exposing secrets. We never heard of one expelled for -Rochester Enquirer. -009- The Anti-Masons of Michigan are to hold a Territorial Convention, on the 24th of June, 1830, for the purpose of choosing delegates to attend the United States Convention.

They come up boldly 1 to the work in Michigan. The Western Emigrant is a sterling anti-masonic paper edited with great skill and talent. 69p A State Convention is proposed in New Jersey. Also measures are in progress to call conventions inKentucky, Maine, and New Hampshire. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.

TITLES OF ACTS PASSED AT THE SESSION OF 1829-'30. An act authorising a temporary loan for the continuance of the Pennsylvania canal and rail-road. An act authorising loans from certain banks. An act sanctioning the loan of one hundred and six thousand dollars made by the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia banks, and the Columbia bridge company for canal and rail-road purposes. A further supplement to an act, entitled tan act to amend and consolidate with its several supplements, the act entitled 'an act, for the recovery of debts and demands not exceeding one hundred dollars, before a Justice of the Peace, and for the election of Constables, and for other An act regulating tin and clock pedlars.

An act to prevent the issuing of bank notes of a certain amount. An act relative to the discharge of mortgages filed in the land office. An act to authorize a loan to defray the expense of the Pennsylvania canal and rail road, and continue for a further time, fan act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of Pennsylvania, and for other An act explanatory of the act, entitled 'an act relative to the patenting of lands, passed the 8th day of April, A. D. A further supplement to the act 'for the prevention of vice and immorality, and of unlawful gaming, and restraining disorderly sports and dissipation, passed the 22d April, A supplement to the act, entitled tan act to protect the public in the full enjoyment of the works constructed for the purposes of inland navigation.

A supplement to an act, entitled 'an act to authorise the governor to incorporate the Columbia, Washington and Port Deposit road company, in Lancaster county; the Monongahela and Coal Hill turnpike road company, in the county of Allegheny, and the Mount Pleasant Free Road Company in the county of Westmoreland. An act making appropriations for canals and roads. An act directing repayment of loans from certain banks. A supplement to the act, entitled 'an act relating to collateral An act to enable Molton C. Rogers and Nathaniel W.

Sample, Jr. guardians of the minor children of Jasper Slaymaker, deceased, to sell and convey their interests in certain real estate. An act regulating hawkers and pedlars. An act providing the means of employing and supporting the convicts in the eastern and western penitentiaries of this state. An act relative to landlord and tenant.

An act to incorporate the Marietta, Bainbridge, Falmouth and Portsmouth turnpike road company. An act concerning weights and measures. An act to authorize the executors of John Painter, dec'd, to sell certain real estate. An act relative to the appointment of canal commissioners. A supplement to an act, entitled 'an act for taking lands in execution for the payment of debts, passed in 1705.

An act relating to the service of process by the sheriffs. An act for the levy and collection oftaxes upon proceedings in courts, and in the office of register and recorder, and for other purposes. A further supplement to the act entitled 'an act for the regulation of the militia of this An act authorising and requiring the Surveyor General to accept returns of surveys in certain cases. An act to provide for additional clerk hire contingent expenses in the office of the secretary of the land office and of the Auditor General. An act graduating the duties upon wholesale dealers and retailers of merchandize and prescribing the mode of issuing licenses and collecting said duties.

An act authorizing the executor of Jacob Miller, late of Lancaster county, deceased, to sell and convey certain real estate. An act to regulate Inns and Taverns. A futher supplement to the act directin the descent of intestates real estates, an for other purposes therein mentioned, pa sed the 19th day of April, 1794. An act for the furtherance of justice be tween obligors, obligees and other creditor and debtors. A further supplement to the act entitle 'an act to declare and regulate escheats, An act regulating election districts.

RESOLUTIONS 1. Resolution relative to Purdon's Digest 2. Resolution relative to the payment collectors and lock keepers on the Penn sylvania canal. 3. Resolution relative to furnishing the executive chamber in the state capital.

4. Resolution relative to authorising the payment of a certain sum of money, now in the treasury of the commissioners of the internal improvement fund. 5. Resolution to rescind a resolutiou relative to a road adjoining the Pennsylvania canal, in Hemlock township, Columbia, county, passed 23d April, 1829. 6.

Resolution relative to the tariff of 1828. 7. Resolution relative to certain obstructions on the rivers Lackawaxen and Delaware, erected by the Hudson and Delaware canal and rail-road company. 8. Resolution relative to a revised code of Pennsylvania.

9. Resolution relative to the Delaware and Hudson canal company. The Last Night of the Session. The legislature of Pennsylvania had resolved to adjoun on the seventh of April, and return to their constituents. On the afternoon of the sixth it was agreed not to meet in the evening, although there was some important private business that must lie over to the next year.

A motion was made and carried however, to meet at five minutes past midnight, not to do business, but to adjourn. This was done for the purpose of drawing pay for another day. To have adjourned five minutes before midnight would not do, five minutes after, would put into the pokets of these men whom the people delight to honor, five or six hundred dollars more of the public money for which there was to be: no services rendered. The evening session being dispensed with, the members (not all of them) collected in groups in the different taverns, drinking healths, wishing each other re-elections, and singing. "Here's health to jolly Bacchus, I I 01 I The midnight bell rang, and five minutes after, the usual rap and exclamation was heard from the speaker's chair66 The house will come to order." This was not to be expected, however now -it had rarely happened during the session.

After waiting a considerable time, it was found that counting was in vain. The clerk was ordered to call the names of the members to ascertain whether a quorum was present in body, for it was evident that the minds of some had been left behind at the taverns. The two houses, besides the business of adjournment, had to wait for the governor to read over and number of billo ing had that during the precedday, This thing like two hours, during which time the house was a scene of all sorts of fun. One honest old gentleman from the committee of vice and immorality had the day previous made a report on the subject of intemperance. It was then laid on the table.

One gentleman from the tavern, who was so full of patriotism that he could scarcely walk without staggering under its load, moved that 500 copies of the report be printed: The motion was seconded by one nearly or quite as patriotic. The honest old gentleman was then called on to explain and defend the principles of his report. No sooner had he risen, than balls of paper were whizzing past his head from all quarters, and the old man after explaining 66 for a moment," dodged to his seat amidst a roar of laughter, which showed how great was the moral dignity of the representatives of the people. The speaker was unpleasantly situated--he was obliged to put the senseless motions. A member from York made a motion to reconsider the vote on the division of Mifflin county, in order to tease an old gentleman who had been in its favor.

The old gentleman retorted, by reading in his place the dolorous resolves of a York county meeting upon the loss of the rail road.The old gentleman acted as speaker too, for at the end of every resolve, he would sing out in his humorous tone will the house agree to the resolution? Aye! was the universal response, accompanied with paper balls at the old man's head. When the old man had finished his rail road resolutions, he concluded by asking leave of absence for the rest of the session for his friend from York, as he understood there would be a cock-fight the next day at York, and his friend probably wished to attend. This was granted and the whole house rung with laughter. The York man was completely put down, and thus ended the fun. During the whole time, the speaker often requested members not to leave their seats as there were present but one or two more than a quorum.

A joint committee was appointed to wait on the governor, and inform him that the two houses were ready to adjourn, and ask him if he had any more communications to make. This committee performed their business and reported. A committee was then appointed to inform the senate that the house was ready to adjourn, which performed its duty and reported. A committee from the senate then informed the house that the senate was ready to adjourn. The house then adjourned sine Intel.

09 Letters from Smyrna, as late as the 10th February last, state that the United States frigate Java had been in that port for several weeks. All were well on board. Commodore Biddle and his officers were treated with much honor and kindness by the Pasha and the Turks generally. His ship was a subject fdaily admiration..