BECIANIIII LETTER OP ATCEPTINCIL
We publish , below the Correspondence be- I
twee* the Committee of tie We Democratic
Nadel:lel:Convention to infairtilti. It titian au
of his - nomination and Mr., Buchanan, The ,
letter of acceptance will be reed with especial.;
;attired at this time ; embod y ing es it does a
- tab% clear and statesitianiiies.-vuer our
leitalitlairs„ • airel_preientingAleith—fereenzuti
eoundreasoning the duties and responsibilities
of the Democratic party of the country in the I
. Fenncab uncfure •
‘cLA,NbiglifElt,,Jvine 13th, 185 g.
Netieual Qo.l2VoatiOkOf the Dem
ocratic party, which assembled at Cincinnati,
on the first Monday in iTiine,• untitimeueo
nominated you se's; candid ate' for the Office of
President - of the United States, .-
Xe haeterbeen directed by the Convention
Woonrty to you this intelligence, and to re
flesticiulln their name, to it-cceptrthetiomi
-140.,... Oulted trust whiehAhe. •
Chief
.61Sumwtroftlits Union imposes,
e,xtktkistintion, founding their nation upon
the tiorrAuruered principles qf the Democratic
perty,:home Sitineuneed their, views in relation
to the' eliteiquestieus which sugar , the public
adhering -to4he truths of
the..zpset.irave , manifested the ,policy of the •
prtstent in-sorties. of veselutiOns,
.to which we
Invoke yourettentien..
The Convention feel assurod,in tendering to
jolt Aldellignel proof of the owed, and esteem
efyousteeentryineni that they voly : reaoot the
opaline which the peciple of the United States
taitertsin of .your eminent character and die
tinguishod public services,. They cherish a
. roil:mud oouvietion.thst your, elevation to the
rot office in tee Republic.
_will• give a moral
itumuitee_to_ the country, that , the true prin.
- ofitior oftbe.Censtitution will-be usseited - and
tutiontained; •that the tumultaof faction will
be:stilled; that our domestic industry, will
ileiirish;, that _our foreign affairs' will be eon
such wisdom and firmness as to
Imam prosperity of the people at home,
while the interests and honor of our country
owl wisely; but inflexibly maintained in our
fututoeurse with other nations; and especially,
that your public experience end the confidence
9flour4oontrymen will enable you to give cif
feet4eDemocratic principles, so es to render
indissoluble the strong bonds of mutual interest I
and uational glory which unite our confedera- .
by and.seaure the prosperity of qur people.
-,Vollcire offer to the country our sincere
eoutrittiono upon the fortunate-auspices of
the' too, we tender to you, personally, the
sisiorsooos of the , respect, and esteem•of,
Your fellow citizens,
JOUN E, WARD,
EMMY HIBBARD,
W. B. Lewaerms,
A. 0. Baoww,
Juo. 1. MANNING,
Josh F0'01714,
W.R'essTorr,
J. r.tarnouu Tuogze,
_ lionsho Sermons.
-Now. Atm BUCIIANAN.
11111
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VirfLEA.TLA,iiD, 'EM IR LANCASTEg,
• 1 . . June 16, 1856,
Az have the honor to aclinowl
-ellsetlxe receipt °flour communication of the
Maiiiiat,„,inforaiing me officially of my nomi-
Ration •by the, Democratic National Con yen
tion,, *Batty held in Cincinnati, as the Dom
- ocratiii . ;candidate for the office of President of
414. 1 antiiiii States. ; shall not attempt to ex:
press my ea.teful feelings.which I entertain
towards ,the Democratic fellow-citizens for
hitvieg deenitid me worthy of this, the highest ,
pelipcal honor on .earth—in 'honor such as
th c.P9oPle-of no , other country have the power
tso , 4 ll knr,t. • s
the rapt sind varied, respon
gWity„attacliecl to ,the Station, ,especially at
tp4epreaonterisis in
,nur affairs, - I have care-,
fitlly,,iefrained from' seeking the nomination
elttheF i by word - or by deed. Now that it has
WI °fired, by the: party, laccept
i z t — witii „diffidence in my own abilities, but
'humbio trust, - that ;the event of my
,-
~tillactinnilinay, be enahled to — discharge
my
dgV 4 such a manner as to allay 'domestic
strife; ; Keser ve peace and friendship with for
. sign nntions, and promote this best interests of
the R. iub 'a
„ accepting the nomination, I need scarce
ly,. eity that: I accept in the same ; spirit, the
- kesolntioni ponstituti
ng the, platform of prin.
erectO, •by: the et - invention. To this
„„„ _platforin-liitindCfentne myself through-
Mit the canvass. thati have no right,
as 'the. candidate of the' Democratic party, by
answering inbirrogatories, to present 'VOW and
• dtillbrelif mailed-before the people. -
It Will be - expected that in this answer,
I.thquldapecially refer to, the subject of each
of the reVeliztionsi and I shall therefore confine
fri3telf tti the' two topics now moat prominently
- --And in the - first place, I cordially concur in
the sentiments - expressed by the 'Convention
on , the , subject, of civil and religious . liberty.
Ifo partyfourided on religieus.nr political in
tolerance towards one class of American citi
eons,' whethefbarn in our own or in a. foreign
/end s can Nil* continue to exist iu this' coun
try.. We are equal before God and the Con
e itutioa and the dark spirit of despotism
sitidlligotry which would create odious: dis
tinctions, among our fellow-citizens, will be
speedlly: rebuked by a-free and enlightened
publics opinion:
The' ftgitatilin on the question of domestic
Onveti has' too long distracted and divided the
*nide ef this -Union, and alienated their item
' sions . frOrn each other. This agitation has as
carded many forms since its commencement,
betit new:seems to be directed chiefly to the
Territoriesl.'atid, judging from its present
haraoter,l . think we . may safely anticipate
that it le'-rapidly approaching a "finality.”
The recent legislation of Congress respecting
domestic slavery, derived, as it has been, from
the original: and pure. fountain of legitimate
peliticalixiwer, the will'of the majority, prom
ere* long; to allay the dangerous excite
ment. This legisla.tion is founded upon prin
ciples as ancient 113 free government itself,
and-in , accordance with them,. has simply de
clared that the people of a Territory, like those
of a State, shall decide for themselves whether
slavery shall or shall not exist within their
limits.
-The Nebraska Kansas act does no more than
eye the force cf law to this elenientary
principle of self-government; declarinr , it to
be "the true intent and meaning of this act
" 17 . " 1. "7 7 7 r -717-777- i ny erri •ry or
State, ner-to exclude it therefrom ; hut to leave
the people thereof perfectly • free to forte and
regulate their domestic , institutions in their
out lvay, subject only to the Constitution of
the United States." This principle will sure
beeontroverted by any individual of any
petty professing deiretton to po . pular Govern
ment: Besides, bow vain and illusory would
attyAother prineiple prove in practice in re
gati the Territories. This is appeza t from
titilactiadmitted by all, that after a Territory
shall hive entered the Union and become a
Statroxi•Constitntionalpower would then ex
ist•lrbil* axrtdd prevent it from either a bol is h
ing at estaiilishing,sinvery . , an the case may
iA according to its sovereign sill and pleas
ure. -
8 411olstlapv. would it be for the country if
this-long Agitation were et au end. During
its whole progress it tae .roditeed no iraeti
- •-• taw — if - 11 euag, at .11 -
as
bein,4,.aoarte of vest and dangeroiii evil.
It has . iiireattid and e;tra.r.ged ome por
tca of the Union from the other, and baa even
seriously threatened its
erny-ihwirpersonal knoy,ll
the impression among fo
greats/glorious emit
danger o dissolution),
injury, because acknowl
bility, always command r ,
and are among the best b..
g.rtssion and in favor of th, on
honorabbylpeace. -fi '
May we not hope that it is the mission of
the Democratic party, now the only surviving
conservative party of the country, ere long to
overthrow all sectional parties and restore the
peace, friendship slid mutual eore6dencewhich
prevailed in the good old time, among the dif
ferent members of the confederacy. Its char
acter is strictly national, and it therefore as
serts no principle for the guidance of the Fed
eral Government which is not adopted and
sustained by its members in each and every
State. For this reason •it.is everywhere the
same determined-foe dell geographical par.
ties, so much and so justly dreaded by the
Father of his Country. From its' very nature
it must continue to exist so long as there is a
Constitution and a Union to preserve, A con
viction el those truths has induced many of
the purest, the ablest and most independent
of our opponents, who have differed with us
in times gone- by upon old and extinct party
issues, to come into our ranks and devote
themselves with us to the,-cause of the Coned
tation and the Union,
Under these circumstanees I 'most cheerful
ly pledge myself, should the nomination of the
Convention be ratified- by the. people, that all
the power and influence, constitutionally pos
sessed by the executive, shall be exerted, in
a firm but conciliatory spirit, during the sin
gle term I shall. remain in office, to restore the
saws'harmony-aniorig-the sister States which
prevailed before this apple of discord, in the
form of slavery agitation, had been cast into
their ,midst. . j r.et the , members of the family
abstain from intormeddling with the exclusive
domestic concerns of each other, and cordially
unite, on the basis of perfect equality among
themselves, in promoting the great national
.objects of common interest to all; and the good
work will be instantly accomplished.
In regard to our foreign policy, to which
you have referred in your communication—it
is quite impossible for any human foreknowl
edge to prescribe positive rules in advance, to
regulate the conduct of the future administra
tion in all the exigencies which may- arise in
our various and ever changing relations with
foreign powers, The Federal Government
' must, of necessity, exercise a sound discretion
in dealing with international questions as they
may occur ; but this, under the strictest re
sponsility which the Executive must always
feel to the people of the United States and the
judgment of posterity, You will therefore ex
cuse me for not entering into particulars;
whilst I heartily concur with you in the gen
eral sentiment, that our foreign affairs ought
to be conducted with such wisdom and_firm
ness as to assure the prosperity of the people
at home, whilst the interests and honor Of our
country are wisely, but inflexibly maintained
abroad. Our foreign policy ought ever to be
based upon the principles of doing justice to
all nations,,and requiring justice from them
in return ; and from this principle I shall nev
er depart,
Should rba placed in the Executive Chair,
Ishall_use m_y-best exertionato-eultivatepeace
and friendship with all nations, believing this
to be our highest policy as well as our most
imperative duty; but at the same time, I, shall
never forgot that in case the necessity . should The Easton Argus says that the 10th Le
arise, which I do not now apprehend, our nas
tional:rights and honor must be preserved at gion will give Buchanan and Breckinridge
all hazards and at any sacrifice. 6,500 majority, which will be the largest of
Firmly convinced that a special Providence any congressional district in this State. "Old
governs the affairs of nations, lot us humbly. Northampton" can give 1800 or 2000. We
implore His continued blessing upon our coun
try, andthat Ho may avert from us, the pun- are assured by the leading Democrats of .Sa
istiment we justly deserve for being discon- con, that that glorious township, which wa.
tented and ungrateful whilst enjoying privi- last fall erected into a State, can alone con
leges above all nations, under each a Constitu- tribute 500 majority. She can poll 725
tion and such a Union, as has,ever beoa vouch
safedto any ether people. votes, out of which not more than 100 can
-be
Yours, very respectfully, got to vote against Buchanan. He is the
. Janes Beenerrair__ choice of-the people, and-they will rally around
Hon, John E. Ward. W. A, Richardson, liar
::ralibbard, W. E. Lawrence, A.G. Brown, him with a zeal that has never been equalled
~ • ' r ola -
..' ••• : • ••
. e thu daps of JACKSON 1
- ... . . . .. . .. . • _
ton, J. Randolph Tucker and Horatio Sey
mour, Committee, &,e.
They are Branded as lneapables,
Yeti, over, all the land; they are branded as in
capables.' We mean the Black 'Republicans
and the Know Nothings, whether in Congress
or out of it,
; whether in State Legislatures,
whether in city or town governments, whether
they control townships or school districts,
they are everywhere branded as incapables..
The curse of incapacity sits upon them like a
--n ightm are,--:Obserk.---them — irr — the
House of Representatives I What a gather
ing of addle-pated, inexperienced, raw,.and
corrupt men do we find in the majority !
From the beginning it has been a bargain and
sale. What a throwing up of individual in
famies—what an exposure of political false-.
hood and tergiversation! How, they run from
their oaths to which they had sworn, (when
the oaths are held up betbre theM) as if each
oath had been a pestilence. When the Com
mittees, the great avenueS_ through which the
business interests of the country are transact
ed, were constituted—what a sublime farce—
'what an" exhibition of meanness on the part of
the Speaker, and of greedy grOvelline• t - on the
part of his creatures upon the floor. , We say
incapables all, becausethe really able Know
Nothings in Congress are from the South, and
have grown to be so disgusted with. their Nor
thorn confederates, that at last they assist
others in ridiculing them.
Look at Know Nothing experience in Phil
adelphia, in Louisville, in Boston, in Balti
more, in Washington, in Cincinnati and in
New Orleans, and incapacity is written upon
its
.record in blood: If there had not been
gross ignorance and gross incapacity in the
whole organization, then there had not been
that political disfranchisement and religious
proscription which shame our age, and stand
out attesting to the ignorance of our whole
people to these who du not know otherwise.
But the climax has been capped by these
incapables. They fulfil the promiSe of the
beginning. They assemble in National Con
vention and throw over the venerable jurist,
John McLean, a man who—we do not speak
of his opinions—is beloved by thousands and
. a in th - e — great North-West,
and whose%ame would, at least, have rescued
that Convention from the charge of being so
eager for sucebss that they forgot both charac
ter and capacity in their preference; and in
his stead they erect as a candidate, one who
has no claim, no single claim, to present to the
American peoplecin his own behalf, and who
is no more entitled to the Presidency, so far
as high intellectual qualities and' statesthan
like experience are concerned, than George
Law himself, but who has been put forward,
at the last hour,
the type of4the incapacity
which haS marked the whole Know Nothing
! movement from the beginning. They started
ar i acahables, and they a ill end as incapables.
I Pennsylvanian .
„o„larThe Philadelphia Pennsylvanian says:
Wz are authorized to state, that if the _gentlp
zaat who yin g, nt tha_Calza.r.4l-114u r s.e.,—mitit
who has expressed a - willingness to bet $lO,-
000 oa the election of Mr. Fremont as Presi
dent, wi l leave his na.me at this office, he can
hC ceecomx.r.orated
THE. COMPILER.
"LIDER.TY, TIDE UNION, AND rug CONSTITUTION."
GETTYSBURC, I PE,NIPA.:
Monday Morning, June 30,1850.
Democratio National Nomination.
• -- - -For President. .
JAMES BUCHANAN # of Pennsylvania.
Vice President,
JOHN C. tIRECKINJUDG, of Kentucky.
Democratic Electoral Ticket,
- ELECTORS AT LARGE.
Charles R. Buckalow, of Columbia county,
Wilson McCandless, of Allegheny county.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
1. Geo. W. Nebinger, 13. Abraham Edinger,
2. Pierce Butler, 14. Reuben Wilber,
3. Edward Wartman, 15. Ceo. A. Crawford,
4. William H. Witte, 16. James Black,
5. John McNair, 17. Henry J. Staple,
6. John IL Brinton, 18. John D. Roddy,
7. David Laury, 19, Jacob Turney,
8. Charles Kessler, 20. J. A. J. Buchman,
9. Joseph Patterson, 21, William Wilkins,
10. Isaac Slenker, 22. Jas. G. Campbell,
11. Frs. W. Hughes, 23. Tbos.Cun ningham,
12, Thos. Ostorliout, 24. John. Kealty,
25. Vincent Phelps.
Canal Commieffloner,
GEORGE SCOTT, of COlurabia county.
Auditor General,
JACOB FRY, JR., of Montgomery co.
Surveyor General, -
TIMOTHY IVES, of Putter counts.
Judge Ives Declines Running as a Candidate
for Surveyor-General.
A State Convention to be held on the 6th
Auguot.—LlAßiissußG, June 25.—At a meet
ing of the State Central Committee, held at
Otnit's Hotel, this day, Judge Ices sent in a
letter of declination as a candidate for Survey
or-General. The letter was accepted, and the
Committee, appointed the sixth day of august
for the assembling of - the State Convention,
at Chambersburg, to nominate a candidate in
his stead. After transacting other business,
the Committee adjourned, to meet at the call of
the Chairman.
• refutation, on our first page, of the
"ten cent" charge,is a regular mealier. There's
no getting over*, so complete and successful
is it. The article is of greater length than we
would have preferred, but the work Vo ‘ well
_d one-that think of cutting aline
from it. Read it all—it cannot but convince.
Good News.
'Gov. Wise, in a letter to jo - lin A. Mar
shall, Esq., promises that Virginia will sus
tain the nomination of Buchanan and Brock
inridge by 20,000 majority.
Tho Hards and Softs of New York have
agreed to unite iu the call for only one State
Convention. That's "a good sign" for Bu
chanan and Breekinridge.
---ziEr-Mr.,-Fillmore-has-recently - Written
I his friends that in no - event and under no cir
cumstances will he decline running for the
Presidency, unless it is the desire of his origi
nal friends that ho should do so. We may
therefore calculate with considerable certain
ty upon a triangular fight—two sets of F. D.'s
acid Donelson and Fremont and
Dayton,) against the two B.'s—Buchanan and
Broekinridgo.
,Ater-Commodore Stockton accepts the nom
ination for the Presidency tendered him by
the bolters from the New York Know Noth
ing Convention.
,Hen. IL D. Foster, John 'Fausold, Esq.,
and Samuel Hill, Esq., of Westmoreland, and
P. A. Johns, Esq., of Fayette, have been re 7
riominatcd by the Democrats of those counties
for the Legislature. 3his is a compliment
they richly deserVe.
The Democrats of Bedford county have
P
nominated W. M. Hall for *the Legislature,
and G. H. Spang for District Attorney. A
strong team.
Death of a Member - Congress.—The Hon.
Thomas H. Bayly died on Monday afternoon
last, of consumption, at hid residence in Ac
comae county, Va. The deceased .was a
prominent membor of the Democratic party,
and sustained a very high position in both po
litical and social relations. Ho was,a repre
sentative to Congress from the AcNmac dis
trict for several years, and was elected to the
present session, but in consequence of ill
health occupied his scat but a few days in De
cember.
12& - The steamer Illinois brought from Cali
fornia, the other day, $2,250;00Q in gold.
tar There was certainly "something up"
among the Know Nothing leaders and sympa
thisers of this place last Reek.. Their caucus- I
ing at the street corners was unusually earnest.
'Endo° Defection.—The .National Know
Nothing Fillmore Club of Neu- York city
have declared for - .
not P "Birds of a feather flock together."
Mr-Address of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee in our next.
_llllOll-4f ERNES.
In the U.S. Senate, on Monday, Mr. Toombs
gave notice of his intention at an early day
to ask leave to introduce a-bill to take the
census of the inhabitants of the Territory of
Kansas, to secure the integrity of the ballot
bor. therein, And -to authorize the, white male
inhabitants over twenty-one years of ago now
residing therein, to elect delegates to a con
vention to form a State Constitution prepara
tory to admission into the Union. He remark
ed that itwas his desire to 'present some meas
ure which should be complete and final for the
pacification of the difficulties in Kansas. 'ln
order to effect this, it seemed to him that the
first thing to be done was to have a census "ta
ken, of JP the .present,. inhabitants. _ Tbis
would take away all motive for either section
of the Union to attempt to force'people into
Kansas, and thereby endanger the peace of
the, country, in order to promote. sectional ad
vantages, by having institutions made for the
people of that Territory by a population who
have no interest in the matter. It also pro
poses to secure the integrity of the ballot-box,
and to that end provides that five commission
ers shall be appointed by the President of the
United States, who shall cause an enumeration
of the people to be made for the purpose, first,
of having a proper distribution of represents-
tion, so as to give a fair and equal representa
tion
to a population very unequally distribut
ed
I and second,-of having a registry of all-the
real bona fide inhabitants of the Territory.
The bill 'further provides that all white male
inhabitants over twenty-one years of age shall
be registered as legal voters. It also propos
es that Kansas .shall be admitted into the
Union as a State without delay. As soon as
the census shall be taken, and it shall he as
certained who are the real inhabitants of Kan
sas, they shall proceed forthwith to the elec
tion of delegates to a convention to form a
coristitution preparatary to their admission into
the Union as a State. He would propose that
this election should take place on the first
Tuesday of November next: for that would
allow four months' residence to the inhabi
tants; and that would be a day when the peo
ple of the different States of the Union would
be so busily engaged in their own presidential
election that they would have no opportunity,
if they had the desire, to-interfere in the Kan
sas election. This proposition was liable to
but one objection, and that was merely an ob
jection founded on expediency and not on prin
ciple. It was solely as to the small number
of inhabitants there ; but that objection had
been waived by a considerable portion not
only of the Senate, but Of the people of the
country. He presented this measure to the
Senate, hoping that it might prove of service
in rest); log peace and quiet to that unfortunate
Territory.
ta"The more rabid of the Pennsylvania
Know Nothing editors are in an unenviable
sweat. A few months ago they shouted lusti
ly for "Fillmore and Donelson !" and placed
•• es o gentlemen 'at their mast
heads. But since then "events of a startling
character" have convinced the darklantern
writers that Fillmore and Donelson won't do
to make a "union" ticket of, (in order to secure
the spoils—that being the object of all their
efibrts,) so they are now dividing their favor
between Fillmore and-Donelson-antFremont
and Dayton !—with the ultimate design, of
-ourse, of failing -upou the latter .
Know Nothingism
,and Black Republi
canism have become ono and the same.
The. rank and file work in the same har
ness, - and are led, 'or driven, by one and
the self-same set of leaders. The numerous
political somersets of some of these Know
Nothing editors would form an interesting
column or two, and we are not certain but
that we tray,- some day, hunt up a few; "for
the salie of history."
XerThe moment theroAs a prospect of peace
in Kansas, the
_whole Republican camp is in
alarm. Like the follow who, when put under
arrest with -the assurance that he should
liave justice done him, exclaimed, that was
all he was afraid of, peace in Kansas is all the
agitators and demagogues fear. The moment
quiet is restored in that Territory, they will
become politically insolvent. Their platform
for the campaign will slip from under them.
Their principles will be gone. •
XPE5rThe question 13 not will Mr. Buchanan
be elected., but how large will be his majority?
No man doubts the result, and no man, how
ever well posted, can say that he will not car
ry at least 25 of the 31 States.
,The New York Express says of Fre
mont: The Colonel claims to have been the
first man to have discovered Salt Lake. We
do not like to discourage him, but he may as
well make up his rind now to another dis
covery—the discovery of Salt River.
NW-There will be i;'.x eclipses this year—
two of the Sun, two of the Moon, and two of
the Know Nothings. The first eclipse of the
Know Nothings will occur on the second
Tuesday of October, and the second on the 4th
of November—the latter to be total, and to
stay at that.
Prodigious Contplinzcnt.—The lion. DAVID
WILMOT, the ex-tinguished statesman of Penn
sylvaiiia, was proposed as a candidate for the
nomination of Vice President, by the Black
Republican Convention. Five Hundred and
Thirty-nine votes were cast, and out of Penn
sylvania, he secured Aiirlttrclre—on the first
ballot, and—stx--on the second! Pro-dig
ions ! He hrs done the traitor's work, and
now receives the traitor's doom.
Giving Up the Ch4arge.—ThelNTY. Tribune
has the unwonted manliness to acknowledge
that 31 r. BUCHANAN never made a proposition
to redaeo the wages of Labor to ten cents a
A Republican Team.—Bennett and Greeley
hitched abreast, with the Woolly Horse ahead,
sad the Woolly Heads in the wagon.—PerA. 1
We have never undertaken, says the Penn
sylvanian, to enumerate the so-called National
Conventions of the Know Nothings and Black
Republicans, during the last year, but they
seemed to tread upon each other's heels, so
fast they followed. .They were called in-Pitts
burg, and Cincinnati, in Philadelphia and
blew York, and at Cleveland. At last, they',
have succeeded in making a nominatio - •
which we are told has been receive4l with va
rious demonstrations of gratification.
The Democratic party has held - but one
Convention. ' That party did not fritter away
its strength in useless diacussions, in midnight
-orgies, and in reckless attempts to unite fac
tious for the simple purpose of success. It
assembled in one grand Convention, with a
Full delegation from every State in the Union.
It laid down its principles with dignity and
unanimity; it reconciled feuds between friends,
and it has put forward a ticket which has
made the adversaries of the Constitution pale
with fright.
Such is the contrast with the party,
which after worrying through almost a dozen
Conventions, has „ended, by selecting an en
terprising young man like FREMONT, for Presi
dent, who begins his career as a candidate,
with the prophecy of TISADDEBS STEVENS
ringing in his ear, that he is to be beaten 50,000
in Pennsylvania, and who, as he runs along,
will speedily discover that however successful
he may have been in exploring the fastness-1
es of Oregon, he has a severer- task before him
in attempting to deceive and humbug the
American people.
Still They Come;
ROBERT C. WALKER, Esq., Secretary of the
State Agricultural Society, hitherto an unwav
ering Whig, has joined the Democratic ranks
and goes for Boca and BRBCK. Mr. Walker is
only one of thousands from the' Old Line
Whig party who have come over. . •
At the ratification meeting in Harrisburg.
last week, Jouzi 11. BRRRYHTLL, a prominent
old lin& Whig, iu a chaste and eloquent ad
dress, gave in his adhesion to the glorious
principles of Democracy.
J. McDowsia. SHARP, Esq., an old line Whig
lawyer at Chambersburg, recently addressed
a Democratic Ratification Meeting there, .and
expresied his, determination hereafter to act
with the Democratic party.
We learn from the EbensbureSentine/ that
Michael Dan Magellan, Esq., the great leader
of the old Whig - Party in Cambria county,
boldly proclaimed himself in favor of James
Buchanan at the ratification meeting held in
Ebensburg on the 10th inst. So we go.
The 13aton Times says: Among the Old
Line Whigs in this city who have declared for
Buchanan, are Col. N. A. Thompson, Otis
Kimball, John 11. Eastburn, Peter Harvey,
(the fast friend of Webster,) Harry Horton,
Col. John C. Boyd, Col. J. Putnam Bradlee,
Capt. Edward Young, Seth Sprague, and oth
er active and distinguished. national men.
From Maine we hear of large accessions to
the Democratic ranks from among the_ Old
Line' Whigs—and so far as the apostacy of
Hamlin and Morrill have any injurious effect
upon the Cause in the Old Pine Tree State, it
has had the effect of stirring up our friends
there to renewed efforts, which are sure to be
rewarded by a . triumphant victory.
In Connecticut, Henry P, Graves, son-in
law of Gov. Dutton, the Know Nothing Whig
Magistrate of the State, has.come out against
the Black Ilepublicani, and announces his de
-termination- hereafter - to - vote with the De
mocracy.
TlLe_Stan. a-
- , 3Ja-lintnn viThaimtar—iais-that •J. 1
SPEICE, Esq., a prominent lawyer and an in
fluential citizen in Albemarle county, not
heretofore acting with the Democratic party,
has declared his purpose to support the Cin
cinnati nominations.
Buchanan and Pittsburg.
On the 10th of April, 1845, a large-portion
of Pittsburg was laid in. ashes by the Great
Fire. There was no telegraph to Pittsburg in
those days, and the news of our calamity
could only reach Washington by the 14th of
April. Mr. Buchanan was then Secretary of
State. On that du the following document
left Washington for Pittsburg. addressed by
Mr. Buchanan to Wm. J. Howard, then May
or of our city. Comment is unnecessary, even
to those maligners who would represent Mr.
Buchanan as cold and selfish :
WASHINGTON, April 14, 845
Cashier of the Bank of the Metropolis=Pay
to the order of Wm. J. Howard, Mayer of the
City of Pittsburg,, for the use of the sufferers
by the late fire, Five Hundred Dollars.
DEAR SIR :=--Yon will please accept and ap
ply, the above towards the relief of the suffer
ers in the tate dreadful calamity. My feelings
of sympathy and compassion have never been
s) strongly excited upon any similar occasion.
—But let the people he of good cheer and ex
ert their ac , ,mstotned energy, and under the
blessings of Providence, s.ll will yet be well,
and Pittsburg will arise more glorious than
ever from its ashes.
Wm. J. Howard, Esq
VerThe last intelligence from California
represents an excited state of feeling. Casey
and Cora were hung by the Vigilance Com
mittee, and Yankee Sullivan, whom they had
arrested, committed suicide in his cell. The
Committee still held control in San Francisco,
and martial law was declared.
A Singular Robbery.—A singular mode of
robbery has been detected at Dublin. A man
used to send a large press by the Liverpool
steamer headed "this side up." In this press
was a compartment in which he hid himself.
At night, when all was still, he would get out
and rob the warehouse of valuables, and re
treating to his hiding place would be safely
conveyed with his plunder to his own house.
.Awful Trayedy.—Two boys, aged respect
ively 16 and 18 years, at school, at Tustagee,
Ala., got into a fight on the 13th inst., when
one of them named Williams drew a knife and
cut the throat of his antagonist, named Ashley,
from ear to ear, causing instant death,
Barnum Going to Leavrrs.—The N. Y.
Sunday Courier understm_- - Js that Barnum i
lias received an offer from the SycLorthaxa
oTrvstal Palace in England for five thousand
dollars a year to go over there and take charge
of one of its departments, and the editors learn
that B aum thinks seriously of accepting the
offer.
New Wheal.—The Charleston Standard notes
the arrival there of a consignment of DO sacks
of new wheat from the tlantation of Mr. Rice
Dalin, which was a very firm article, and con
aidered dry enough for foreign ahipment.
A Contmt.
JAMES lICCUANAN.
RODOI JOTTIM 4 CLtPPITG&
Sec fourth page for an amusing letter
in reference to Elk county lands.
....Mr. Fillmore arrived at New Ito*,
at 12 o'clock, on Sunday night, and was re•
oeived by several Reception COrilMitteet,
-.Col. Fremont, it is stated, wee in the
11. S. Senate only thrssi woloelta
....Charles Anderson, Esq., of ckopsii,
a popular and able old line - Vii‘ofekee, quor
and Webster mehOol, is addMuliulfgle 611 mt.
of Ohio in favor ofßnehananazei Breekinridge.
. : The Denman* papers of Cenneetioat
claim the State for 8101141,114 and Breekia
ridge, byrivattaj();* of Are thousand, and user
to bet on it.
....The Lonisville Dannend says. thatvir
friends in Tennessee ere "eiaiminire. inajarity
of fifteen thonsand for' the Buotititui aad
Breekinridge•ticket in that State.
....The North Georgia Times, intlisliaa
at Dalton, has renounced Know Nothingiew.
and raised the names of Buchanan and Breole
iaridge.
....Judge Strickland has resigned
nation es Warden of the Eastern Penitentiary.
and will return to his residence in West
Chester about the first ofjulY,
....The wheat crop of Ohio is said `to bila
a very fine condition. There are more - aeree
covered with wheat in 'Ohio than were ever
before planted in that State.
....At an exhibition of flowers which took
place at Manheim, Germany, a prise was
awarded for a very extraordinary floral curi
osity—the most notable item in the exhibition
—a green rose. The petals of the flower were
green, : and had somewhat the form of leaves.
....The Old Line Whigs. of the Ashland
Di strict ; of Kentucky, have presented the Hon.
J. C. Breckinridge with a handsome pair of
horses, "as an evidence of their pride in their
fellow citizen, though of opposite politics, and
as a pledge of their confidence in the coming
administration, of which he will be a prong-
nent member."
....The markets of New York ara"inun
dated" with strawberries from New Jersey,
which are retailed as low as four cents per
basket. .
. ....A Yankee has invented a plague wbich
kills off all who do not pay the printer. It
has played sad havoc in New England.
....There is a divine out west trying to
persuade girls to forego marriage. He might
as well undertake to peralliade ducks that they
could find a substitute for water, or rosebud*
that there is something better for their com
plexion than sunshine. , the only convert he
has made is a single lady, aged sixty.
....An exchange records the marriage of
John N. Strange and Elizabeth Strange as
strange event The next event will probably
be a little stranger.
... -Some one recommends sending Yaukee
girls, instead of Sharpe's rifles, to K1L113113.--.
Not bad.
....The Daily News, formerly Clay Whig.
now Fillmore Know Nothing, says that irk&
Fremont is "without a character as a states
roan, or any qualification or public experience
for the office."
....It is somewhat singular that Gen. Sam
Houston, who but two years since was 're
garded as the American candidate for the
Presidency in 1856,i5e not even. been named
in either of their late Conventions.
too far South.. The tieket . rauat be aection*Z
throughout.. Poor "Sam !"
...."Of all the bitterest enemies of the un
fortunate negro, there are none to OOMpar,
with the Abolitionists, their pretended friends;
who like the centaurs-lef old, mount not the
back of the horse, but the back of the negro,
to ride themselves into'power."—Cay in 1850-
.. ..A Synod of Rabbis will shortly beheld
in Paris to discuss the propriety of
the observance-o€-the-Jewish-Sabbath
from Saturday to Sunday. -
1 ....The other day, a conscientious Know
tNothing declined to buy a steak of Durham
Ibeef because the butcher failed to convince
him that it had been in the country heraty-one
years , ! The butcher is getting up a set of
I horns with twenty-one rings on them, for fa-
ture emergencies.
Tho Cloveland Plaindeder says :—The
nominations just suit the backbone counties
of Ohio. They are a sort of Pennsylvania
people, and are enthusiastic for "Old Buck."
We shall expect to see these counties rolling
up their old fashioned majorities this fall for
the Democratic ticket.
... _it seems that Barnum is not the Vice
President upon the Republican ticket. We
suppose that he declined the place upon the
ground that the woolly horse was sufficiently
represented in theperson of John Tremont.--
Under these circumstances, perhaps, Barnum
was right..
....There is still remaining in George
town, Madison county, a snow drift.fiva rods
in length, one in breadth and four feet deep.
....A lad recently tumbled into an indigo
vat at Lowell. A contemporary thinks he
"got the blues."
. . . The next political battle will be between
the friends of the Union and the enemies of
the Union. The great masses of the people
are with the country, and the country will be
safe.
....The Georgia Flag of the Union sayer
that fully twenty thousand -Old Line Whigs
in Georgia will vote for the nominees of the
National Democratic Convention.
....The Boston Courier, an old line Whig
paper, has come out in favor of James Bu
chanan for the Presidency.
....Mr. Littlejohn said in the Philadelphia.
Convention that he w0u1.3 "sacrifice all things
to secure tho election of Fremont." No-donbt
there will be great sacrifice of Lig Johns, lit.
tle Johns and demijohns, and if CoL Benton
•••• • • • •••• .."
will close with the sacrifice ofJohn C. Fremont
himself.
....It is stated that Gen. Percifer Smith
has been ordered to Kamm.