Sentinel Of The Valley

Executive Pardons—Gov. Porter.—It will be recollected by many of our readers, that the whigs of Pennsylvania have made Gov. Porter the subject of denunciation for exercising injudiciously the pardoning prerogative. In referring to this subject, the Post says that a resolution was adopted by the state senate some time since, instituting an inquiry as to the number of pardons granted for the last fifty years, by the respective governors of the state, in that period. It will be perceived by the statement given below, that Gov. Porter is by no means the foremost in the matter. The statement is: Thomas Mifflin, nine years administration, 541; Thomas McKean, nine, 1061; Simon Snyder, nine, 990; William Findlay, three, 431; Jacob Heister, three, 505; Jacob A. Shulze, six, 724; George Wolf, six, 424; Joseph Ritner, three, 79; David R. Porter, four, 239.