The Herald

IMPORTANT FROM HARRISBURGH

We received intelligence last Saturday and yesterday
from Harrisburgh, by which we learn the friends of the
general administration in that city, express themselves as
nearly certain, that Governor Ritner of Pennsylvania,
will veto the Bank Bill now passing through the State
Senate. It is stated that his principal objection is to
the improvement part of the plan. The anti-Bank party
have offered to re-elect him as long as he pleases, if he
will only take the position of General Jackson against
the U. S. Bank, to which offer he has given in his adhe-
sion.

It is further stated that a declaration to this effect, of
the Governor, was made in Lancaster, on Saturday last,
to a friend of the President's.

We scarcely know what opinion to form of this
intelligence. It comes from a good source, but on the
Jackson side. It is well known that the great mass of
people in Pennsylvania, are anti-bank—that Ritner was
taken from that class—and that he has been heretofore
in favor of the Bank, though somewhat equivocal. The
whole force of the General Government, backed by the
Surplus Revenue, may be a full match for Mr. Biddle,
and $28,000,000 capital. The contest is even and well
matched—Jackson versus Biddle—twenty-five millions
surplus revenue versus twenty-eight millions Bank
capital. These are strange times—no telling what may
turn up trumps. Be wary good people.

Meantime an extraordinary excitement is beginning
to pervade Pennsylvania on this question. On Friday
last, Dr. Burden, one of the State Senators, was burnt
in effigy in Philadelphia. In Washington, the excite-
ment is also great. At the last accounts the bill had
passed through a second reading, and was ordered to a
third reading for this day. Every mail will bring us
important news. The whole presidential election may
hang on the issue of this question.