Valley Spirit

A band of colored musicians from Hagerstown visited this place on Monday last. They discoursed some very fine music through our streets and after enjoying themselves among their "free brethren," on this side the line, returned home to "bondage," in the evening train, very well convinced, we have no doubt, that the worst form of Slavery that can possibly exist may be found among the negroes of Pennsylvania. We believe it is the custom in Maryland, at Easter time, to allow the negroes the largest liberty, and this Band had the audacity, on this occasion, to come into a free State as if for no other purpose than to show the sympathizers of John Brown, deceased, that their pikes and Sharpe's Rifles were not required to improve their condition, and that all the Republican philanthropy expended on the slave could be more appropriately used in bettering the condition of the free negro in the North.

Be it, and it is, hereby Ordained, by the Burgess and Town Council of the Borough of Chambersburg, in Council Assembled:

That from and after the passage of this Ordinance, if any person or persons shall ride or drive any Horse, Mare, Gelding, or Mule at any unreasonable or dangerous rate through the Public Square, or on any of the Streets, Lanes, Alleys, Pavement or Side Walks of this Borough, or shall, by negligence, permit any such animal to run loose, gallop, or pass through said Squares, Streets, Lanes, or Alleys, or over or along said Pavements or Side Walks, to the danger of the citizens or others, every such offender shall forfeit and pay, on conviction before the Burgess or any Justice of the Peace of this Borough, a fine and penalty of not less than Five Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars, at the discretion of the Burgess, or Justice trying the case, with costs of suit, one half of which fine or penalty shall be paid to the informer, when collected, and the other half shall be paid into the Borough Treasury; and any person or persons failing or refusing to pay the fine and costs imposed as aforesaid, immediately after conviction, or failing or refusing to give good and sufficient security for the payment of the same, within Ten Days thereafter, shall be committed to the Jail of the County of Franklin for the period of Forty-eight Hours, unless said fine shall be sooner paid.

Passed and Ordained this 3rd day of April, A. D., 1860