IMERMVOLUNTEER.
;OHiJ B. BBITTOS, Editor & rropj^icto^
Carlisle, pa., sept, o, issi.
Democratic State Ticket:
, . , GOVERNOR 1
WILLIAM BIQLEB,
or olEAll^rsD , copktt.
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
JEREMIAH S. BL AQ.K,
• or souEESEt court*.
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
BERRY S. MOTT,
or tike count*.
democratic county ticket.
■Cdngi'ess,
3, ECUS BONHAM, of Cumberland.
• . Assembly,
II Q. MOSER, of Lower Allen.
JAMES CHESTNUT, of Southampton.
Prothonotary, )
DANIEL K- NOEL, ofTJppcr Allen.
Clerk of the £ourts r
JOHN Mi GREGG, Carlisle.
Hegistcr ,
William litle, of Ncwviiio.
Commissioner,
GEORGE,M. GRAHAM, VTcstpcnnsboro’.
Director of the Poor.
JOHN OLENDENIN, Silver Spring.
Auditors,
'ISAAC BINGWAtT.a yr.) Carlisle.
JACOB STEIKMAN, (3jr3.)Shippco3buj-g.
Standing committee Mooting.
The Democratic Standing Committee of Cum
berland County, recently appointed by the
County Convention, will meet nt the Public
house ol Charles MAOLAuauuN, in Carlisle, on
Saturday, September 16th, 1864, at l ‘o*clock
P. M-, for the purpose oi organizing and to
attend. to business connected with the
present political campaign. A full attendence
U earnestly requested.
Three of the Committee.
CarlUle, Sept.} 7,18541
py“Xho following named gentlemen compose
the Standing Committee for the present year:
Wm. M. Matcer,Lower Allen 5 Win. L. Cock-
Hn. Upper Allen; JohnCrumer, E. W., Carlisle
WUUaFoolk, W. 1W Carlisle; Wm. Harper,
Dickinson * David Eystct, East Pennaborough;
Peter Minich, Frankford ;■ Robt. G.'Voting,
Hamden; David Uoover, Hopewell; Robt.C.
McCulloch,Mifflin;' Samuel Ecklcs/.Sf.j Me
chanlcshurg; Benjamin Krider, Monroe; Win.
KUqk, Ncwvillo; Christopher Mollingcr, Now
fon; Jno. G. Miller, New Cumberland; Wm.
Gopnman,-North Middleton; Snyder Ruply, 1
South Middleton; Benjamin Duko, Shlppcns
bmg 80. 5 T. P. Blair, Shlppensburg'Tp,;
Daniel S. Croft, Southampton 5 Dr. James Mc-
Culloch, Silver Spring; John' Elliot, West
Penns borough. "
White Hall Academt.—Wc refer our read
ers to the advertisement of Mr. Pekuxgeu,
Principal of the White Uall Academy. This
institution has been eminently successful, and
is now in a most prosperous condition. ■* Prof.
Denungeu is a gentleman qualities as'
a teacher of youth, and is well deserving liberal
patronage.
neighbor of the Herald was misin
formed in regard to the resolutions as prepared 1
in the committee room for the late Democratic|
County Meeting. No such resolution ns men
tioned by the Herald was read to the commit
tee. The phraseology of one of the resolutions
Was changed, it is true, but not in such a man
neras- to alter its sense or destroy its force.—
triic committee, as wellW. the' Meeting, molv
to denounce. Bjiow-Nothfnglsm, and to op
pose thosowho adhered tothlscontempUblefac
tijm, os a reference to the resolutions as report
ed and adopted, will show. Any more ques
tions, neighbor?
£y»The Herald is very*much distressed be
cause tho Democrats, at their late County Meet
ing* lighted tho room with faffoir candles !—
The nerves of tho editor must have suffered
much damage by Ihe'smdl of the tallow. Poor
fellow—had he told us that he intended to be
present at the meeting, we should have pur
chased one spermaceti candle for his especial
benefit.
Bad Accident.—On Saturday evening last
00 -' 1 MKiNstrt and PattoU,
(who reside, wo believe, near Stouglistown,)
wero returning homo in their buggy from' Car
lisle, their horse took fright a short distance
from town, and ran off at a furious speed.
After running some hundred yards, the buggy
capsized, and its two occupants were thrown
with great violence to the ground, injuring both
very severely. Mr. M’Kinstrt had his skull
fractured and a portion of the scalp tom from
the bead. Mr. Patton was not so seriously
injured, but yet was very much cut and bruis
ed about head and body. The injured men
were brought to Carlisle a short time after the
accident, and their wounds attended to by Drs.
Mahon and Henman. We arc glad to learn
■ that they are doing well.
Congressional Conferee Meeting.—-In
another column will bo found the proceedings
of the Congressional Conferees of this district,
by which it will be seen that our fellow towns
man, J. Ellis Bonham, Esq., is now regularly
placed before the people of York, Perry and
Cumberland for Congress—ho having received
the unanimous vote of the three conn ties. That
he will bo triumphantly elected, by an over
whelming majority, is concccded by every un
prejudiced man. Who his opponent is to he,
whether an open and avowed Whig, or a bogus
Democrat of the Know-Nothing school, has not
jot been made public.
School Convention.— Circumstances pro- 1
vented us from attending, as wo had intended,
tho- Convention of Directors and Teachers
of Common Schools In Cumberland county,
that assembled in lids borough on Saturday
last. Wo have not received tho proceedings,!
and cannot Bay what business was transacted.!
We loam that tho attendance was quite largo, I
and much interest manifested In behalf of our
glorious tichool system.
' Mbbtiko at Montrose.— One of the largest
Democratic meetings ever assembled in that
cecUon of the commonwealth, met at Montrose,
Susquehanna county, on Tuesday lost. It was
addressed by Goy. Bigler, for'two hours. Tho
poopb were enthusiastic, giving tho strongest
evidence of continued confidence and support to
the democratic nominees.
Thb Bargain Closed.— The Free Democrat
ic Convention met at Harrisburg, on Wednes
day last, and passed resolutions, withdrawing
Iheir State ticket, and recommending tho sup
port of Pollock, tho Know Nothing candidate
for Governor, The conditions of tho bargain
have not been made public. •
where is judge pollock ?
With the exception of hia visit to Philadel
phia to join the Know-Nothing order, and io
take an unconstitutional and blasphemous oath, .
Judge Pollock has not been from ,his home,
wo believe, since his nomination. , Wo had sup
posed, judging from the tone of the opposition
journals, that he was to elccrify the people by i
his eloquence IVom.thc stump. His adherents
boasted loudly about his great oratorical poyg?
era, and with more zeal than prudence, dared
Bigler to defend himself before the peo
ple. They mistook their man when they thus
wrote. Gov. Bigler, believing in the intelli
gence and honesty of the people, accepted the
challenge thrown out by his enemies, and ex
pressed his readiness to meet Judge Pollock,
and discuss such State and National questions,
great and small, ns might be deemed expedient.
After this wo of course expected. t$- see the
Know-Nothing Judge immediately lake to the
stump, and there deliver himself. Butwc have
been disappointed—he refuses to copic out. —
Wo have tried to “smoke him out” of his hid
ing place, and to “stir him up with a long pole;”
but all to no purpose—Ac will not show himself.
The fact is Pollock is afraid, (as well he may
bo) tomcct Gov. Bigler in the the presence of
the people, for he has heard of the “Susquehan
na Raftsman” before, and knows with what
dexterity he can skin a live coon. Judge Pol
lock is therefore wise after all, but it was very
imprudent in him to permit his friends to dare
Gov. Bigler to a discussion, and then when
Gov. B. says ho is ready and willing to meet
his rival, for him to back out and refuse to stand
up to the work. But our opponents (we hardly
know by what name to call them at present,)
had no idea, whtfnthcy tauntingly
boosted of the great speaking powers of Judge
Pollock and bantered Gov, Bigler to meet
him in discussion that the Governor would so
readily accept the challenge. They knew that
Gov. Bigler had deprecated the practice of
candidates stumping the State in their mVn be
half, and indeed the Democratic party have nev
er Approved of conducting a campaign in this
manner. For one we have always opposed it,
and we think we always Will, The stumping
system may <Io very well, and is necessary and
proper in sparccly settled States, where there
are but few if any newspapers, but in an old
thickly populated State like ours, where every
county has one or two newspapers more than
it ought to have, or is able to support, and where
the people are intelligent and generally well
read, makes it entirely unnecessary for candi
dates for public offices, and particularly for the
position of Gorernor, to harangue the people j
from the stump. Odr political opponents, 1
knowing Goy. Bigler's views and the views of
Ins* party on this subject, felt bold to banter
and bluster, never dreaming that Be would,
Icohtraay to his better judgment and expressed
opinions, take them at their offer. But, the
Governor was determined to disappoint tils ene
mies, and'although he disapproved the practice
of for Governor stumping the State,
he nevertheless felt it his duty, under the cir
cumstances, to meet his enemies on thdr own
ground. , lie therefore, as we have said, accept
ed the challenge, and expressed a desire to apeak
to the people ii) various parts of the State on
State and National politics. Helios made three,
speeches, so that Judge Pollock and his friends
( may know hiat he’s about, but still Judge Pol*
i lock remains in his parlor at Wilton—add from
present indications Vro /cel in saying
that the people will leave hlnV there to Cnjoy.his'
seclusion for(ft long time to come.. Perhaps lie
is meditating over tfio horrible oaths, ho took at
a midnight conclave of Know-Nothings In Phil
adelphia. Poor Pollock !—wo pneo thought
well of him, aud regarded him as & man of high
honor, but when we find him joining a midnight,
secret, sworn, political conclave for the purpose
of obtaining votes and the emoluments of ofllcc,
we consider he has disgraced himself in the eyes
of all honorable men—a man who acts thus is
beneath contempt, and unworthy the confidence
of any party. On tho second Tuesday of Octo
ber the people will administer to him such an
effectual drubbing as will last him a life-time,
and serve as a warning to sinners in general.—
His doom is scaled—his sentence is fixed—and
an indignant people will as surely put it into
execution as his name is James Pollock I
ORGANIZE—-ORGANIZE 1
It is necessary for our Democratic friends of *
the different townships and boroughs to organ
ize, and that speedily and thoroughly. The [
miserable pic-bald Know-Nothing party, com- 1
posed of wooden nutmeg democracy and all the *
fag-ends of every faction that hales the consti
tution and laws, arc busy taking the censtw of *
their various lodges and endeavoring to ascer* *
tain, if possible, where they can defeat the De
mocratic party. We arc glad to team, however, 1
that many well-meaning Democrats who were 1
I unthinkingly led into this traitorous association
I arc about to withdraw in disgust from its lep
rous embraces’. They have become perfectly
I satisfied that it is anti-republican in every fea
ture of its policy and is aimed and intended to
prostrate our noble institutions of freedom.—
We are rejoiced to learn that they are beginning
to properly appreciate the clerical traitors who
are at the head of the organization in this
county. In the meantime the Standing Com
mittee will meet and organize on Saturday
week, and adopt such measures as the emergen-
the times may render necessary. A call
, for the meeting of the Committee will bo found
> under our editorial head.
True Bill.— Tho Grand Jury of Philadelphia
have found n true bill of rape, against Stephen
T. Beale, the Walnut street dentist,'‘who stands
charged with violating tho person of one of his
patients, a young lady from the country, while
she was under the influence of either. The trial
prill probably take place next week. David
I Paul Brown has been retained os Mr. Beale's
1 counsel.
“SxaAWi buow, &c.”—No clrcumstanso in
indicates more plainly howunpopular tho Kno
w have bocoifio lately, than tho fact that
tho Phlladclphlo papers, of tho past week, con
talncd numerous affidavits made hy candidates
for office, that they arc not members of'any
orlh-hound or secret political society.
OCTCoI. S. D. Miles, United Stales Army, on
Ids way to New Mexico with a detachment of
troops, writes from Fort Atkinson, Arkansas,
that ho had been four days among the Oaman-1
dies and Ki-o-ways, and adds; ‘botoo of the
bucks offered mo ns high as ten horses for my
daughter, and I had an offer of a swap of a
squaw for Mrs. Miles." I declined both advau
| lageous offers.'
M OUTRAGE BY CARLISLE MOW-NOTHINGS.
! On Tuesday night Usfc as the members of the
KnoTy-Nothingorder of.tWsboropgh
ing, with stealthy steps t 6 th&V place of meet-*
mg (Education Hall,) one of ourfnost respecta
ble German citizens happened to bepassing said
building, when he was accosted by a
of cowardly ruffians, who demanded what he
wanted ? The Gerffian, not knowing the char-,
acter of the men who surrounded him, replied
he “wanted nothing,” then seeing the hall litup
ho inquired what was ’ going on ? The Know-
Nothings who held him a prisoner, tnade-ho
onSwerto the inquiry, but asked him, “what;
I is your name, where do you live, What do
! follow V* at the same time taking hold of th'o
German by the shoulders. Receiving no satis
factory answer, they shored him violently from
them, ordered him to be gone, and then pelted
him with stones. Four limes was ho struck
with stones,'once on the head and three times
on the body, bruising and injuring him in a
very serious manner., TheQerman thus wanton
ly assaulted,,ls, ns wo have said, one of our
most respectable and industrious citizens, and
a member of the Lutheran church of this place.
A more peaceable man is not to bo found .in
Carlisle, and the assault was as uncalled for as
it was, cowardly and devilish. Because .this,
poor man happened to bo a German And a Lu
theran,” (for be it known the Lutherans arc as :
much detested as tho Catholics by a full-blood
ed Know-Nothing,) his life was put in jeopardy.
Can villainy or devilishncss go farther ? *
While on this subject, we wopld just inquire
by what author!tytour School Directors of Car
lisle grant the use of Education Hall to these
Know-Nothings ? This building belongs to the
people of Carlisle, and wo, as a tax-payer, pro
test against its use for any such unholy and
villainous purposes ? Are our Directors all
Know-Nothings, that they grant the use (free
of charge, it is said,) of Education Hall to a set
of men who skulk through alleys, over fences,
and through stables to attend their Tuesday
night meetings? No man who 5s not of tho
order, is safe to pass that Hall on a Tuesday
night, for he is almost sure to be insulted or
stoned. We therefore askout School Directors
to abate this nuisance, and if they fail to do it
the tax-payers of thVtown, who own the prop
erty, will abate it themselves. They have no.
notion that a set of men, some of them strolling
strangers and gamblers, and but few of them
tax-payers, shall take possession of one of the
public buildings, to hold their traitorous meet
ings. Let the Know-Nothings meet in.Dickin
. son College, or any other place, but Jetnotold,
: Education Hall be longer polluted by' their
meetings.
(£7* It was the remark of Judge Since**
shortly before his death, that the People's Ad
vocate of Bloomfield, “might, for a short time;
pretend to, lie democratic and advocate demo
cratic measures, for tho purpose of gaining some
kind of standing with the party it intinded to
deceive, but lliat it was bound eventually to
show tho cloven foot of Federalism, and oppose
the nominations of tho Democratic party—‘that
i,t was established for that purpose and for that
purpose alone.” Judge Smoot's words have
been verified—tho Advocate has at last exhibit
ed its true colors, and is now in open hostility
to tho Democratic ticket of‘Perry county.—
Notwithstanding the unanimous nomination of
Mr. Bonham for Congress,by Perry, York.and
Cumberland, tho immaculate edjtor of Cho'Aif-,
, vochte thinks Mr. D's. democracy .is hot’qmtc
pure enough for him to support, and intimates
that ho will oppose both Mr. Bonham and Mr.
SPArm, tho nominee of Perry, for Associate
Judge I This is decidedly tho coolest picco of
impudence and treachery wo ever remember to
have noticed in a public journal. Arnold and
Burr, when accused of betraying tho cause
they had pretended to maintain, made some
kind of excuse in palliation of their treachery.
Not so with the pirate of tho Advocate . He
makes no attempt to defendhis present position,
but intimates that the Democracy of York,
Perry and Cumberland, in their Conventions
assembled, arc not capable of selecting their
candidate for Congress! Big idea, indeed, par
ticularly when wo consider,, the size and the
standing of tho creature who puts it forth.
But, thank God, tho Democracy of Perry arc
not to be deceived into tho support of Federal
ism by tho treachery of two or throe dema
gogues. The men who own, control and write
,for the Advocate arc small in stature, small in
intellect, small, in influence, and contemptible
in numbers. Tho democracy of Perry have re
pudiated them, over and over again, and can
well afford to laugh to scom their puny attempts
to distract tW party in that county at,lbis
time.
The Advocate, if it even desires the respect of
the Whigs, should come out boldly and at once
in defence of the doctrines of that party. It
would bo much more honorable. Wo notice
that it has a great liking to Ktyjjv-Nolhingism,
and as this faction is merely a brunch of Feder
alism, we pesumo the Whigs have assigned the
Advocate this position in the present campaign.
More anon.
Opposition to the Know-Nothings.—The
Churchman, (organ of UiollighOhurdiEpisco
palians,) published in New York, comes out in
a trong Jhrce-columncd leader, denunciatory of
the Know-Nothings, and calling upon thogood
and the patriotic of all dosses to act their faces
against any and oil auch organizations.
The Great State Fair.— The preparations
for the Stale Agricultural Fair and Industrial
Exhibition, to bo held on the Powclton Estate,
24th Ward, Philadelphia, are progressing rap
idly. About 200 sheds for horses, cattle, &c.,
have been creeled. Also a Floral Hall, 200 by
CO feet; a Mechanics' Hall, 400 by 00 feet, and
one for Farming and Garden Implements, .200
by 48 feet. Every preparation is being made
to make this tho greatest exhibition evorgot up
in tho‘country.
Imported Cattle— Laugh Arhival.— Tho
ship Antarctic, Oapt. Stoufor, which arrived at
Now York on Monday from Liverpool, brought
I ono hundred and. eighty head of cattle, consis
ting of Durham bulls, cows, heifers and calves,
Aldornoybows, fine fihoop and swino and one
Uotao,for tho Kentucky Slock Importing Com
pany. Tho ship waa forty-ono days upon tho
passage, ond yet of this largo end valuable car
, go hut three bhoop were lost.
ID* A great fire occurred at Wilwaukio, Wis
consin,on ihc26lbuU., destroying property to
tho amount of $500,000 to $1,000,000, some of
tho individual losses being quite though
generally covered by Insurance. Two Germans
died from oyer exertion at tho fire;
life
/'
will* wcthinkj
their allies that Mr. Mott
«&sfitb|rig: His letter is quite sat-
' •
• Aug. 18; 1854.
‘ v Jl4f i>MY Sit >-It has been rumored in cer
tain political cirbldJi and insinuated m some of
thb-newapatfeW of the day, that you are con
nected TvttJfcn, secret association, orgamzea lor
political piirppscs, commonly called ‘Know-
WdthihgB. , ,K , ' 1 .- ’ ,
* The chargehas been repeated with more dis
tiimthcsßra.th'o Daily Ncics of this city, of yes*
: date;'and although-your fnends do not
attach the slightest importance to these allcga
bclhg founded in fact, yet it is nothing
mbre,lhah ngTit that they should be met by a
fijrraiu denial. Such a cliargc, if bo
derogatory toy our political character os a dem
ocrat, anyplace yourself and the republican
party* of Vvhi’ch you are the nominee for an im
portant 'office; in a false position. lam there
fore the slate central committee
to mteirbgatetfou on this subject, not that we
belief for a>,iiomcnt that is true,
but your depiqfjupan authentic
and tbrm for publication,
.jr* ; .
tSifoedH-dfiLUS BOMIASi, Chairman.
■ llfiNnr S. Mow, &q.
■ ' Aug. 20,185 P 4.
J, EfteßonhaJh, Esq., Chairman State Central
■* • " / Committee:
DBAiiSiad—On my return home, after a con
siderable absence; I found awaiting my arnval
yours of ilte 18th. In reply, I have ta say that
I'am noV'wjihnected with a secret association
organized for political purposes commonly call
ed and.that I have never made
any promise; effort, or request, to be admitted
os a given the least, intimation that
I would dorso. .1 The only political membership
to which I confess, is that of the democratic
party of the union, bound in the bonds of the
constitution, and the glorious and liberal prin
ciples which have demonstrated the problem of
self-government, which has made our country
the beacon-light of freedom for a wondering and
admiring world. -
In the loysr‘orthose principles I have always
lived ana'iCipcct to die. Very respectfully,
• 11. S. MOTT.
Fibvt: Gazette of last week contains
tho and manly article in relation
to tho infamous Know-Nothings. From pre
sent indications it appears that these enemies to
Democracy, the laws and the Constitution are
attempting t& play a strong game in the several
counties.' Leagued tpgcther for the purpose of
opposing the Democratic party, and like Han
nibal, sworn-before the alter to bear eternal en
mity to dll of‘foreign birth, they are neverthe
less willing torercep into office by fraud and by
tho.votcs oflhdmen and the party they hold in
€u<jh' deadly jidslility. We hope our friends in
old York, as! wolf as in all other counties, may
ferret out Ihosc, if there be any, who by fraud
have managed tp bo placed in nomimalion by the
Democracy. Let them be exposed, denounced
and defeated wherever found:
‘‘HOW.MTDISfiS!”
Rumors are circulation, that some of the
candidates noiiimatcd by the late democratic
convention'in this county are members of the
society of ,l Kntiw-Nothings asccrot, proscrip
tive politico-religious order, opposed to religious
liberty and to. s tho principles of the American
Constitution !Qf course these rumors aro cre
ating much excitement among Democrats, who
rcgardHhojntTufiion into our Convention of men
who have attacked themselves to a secret polit
ical organization outside of the Democratic par
ty, as an act of base turpitude—and hundreds
arc denouncing itas a political swindle., -Mens
surca, to bo taken to inves
tigate rjre y/pfgnt-thAt - have - been • made—and
each i.o v dgbbtbc imenogaied Su
reference tuHjls with fire «r»dcty we
have named* hope that each will be able
to given satisfactory response—a prompt, de
cisive, unequivocal denial of all connection with
or anprovolof f/Know-Notbingisro.”
Wo learn that several of those who arc likely
to be candidate.*,, on the whig, or independent
ticket—a distinction without a difference—have
been tarred with tho same stick—i. c., that they
have, as some of our "weak brethren” arc al
leged to have done, wandered after thc strange
gods of Ignorance, Illibcrality and Bigotry, who
prcsidcover the councils of Ned Buntline’s dc
sciples. If this riiould prove true, we arc like
ly to have "a pretty kettle of fish" for a chow
der this fall. If two "Know-Nothings”—one
calling himself a Democrat, the other claiming
to be a Whig-should be opposing candidates
for the same office, there is certainly no ynfty
obligation on the part of gny Democrat or any
Wmg, to support either. The choice would be
like that of two roads presented to the traveller
somewhere out West— I “Which of these roads
is the better one ?”—said a traveller to a dirty
urchin who was swinging on a gate—" None uv
’em is best! Take the right hand one, and be
fore you get along half a mile, you’ll swear you
never ga\y so bad a road in your life—take the
left hand road, 4nd you’ll soon wish you had
taken t’other one! A Whig "Know-Nothing”
wo hold to be unworthy of live support of any
genuine Democrat or Whig—a Democratic
"Know-Nothing” is worse, because more un
natural and monstrous.
- Wo ft p-ord to soy, just hero, to our De
mocratic fricrtda, ns to the hollowness of the
professions of the leaders of the Know-Nothings.
They disavow fill political preferences os between
the Democratic and tlnrWhig parties—they
| claim to have no other object than Co strike down
I foreigners, the sons of foreigners, and the Ro-1
'man Catholic religion. Iy Tins Timr lib!—
Look at il, Wm. Bigj.bu is nn American—the
son of aw American—-and his father’s father
was an American—nor is he a member of tbo
Roman Cathode church. Yet ftt the Know-
Nothing meeting in this town, some nights
since, these base shunners of the light, who pro
fess to have no other object than to oppose for
eigners nnd catholics, resolved, so far ns their i
power could cfleet it, to stuikh Wii.uam Bia
imn down! Why ? Wo need not soy why.—
If you cannot perceive tho tendency of such
Know-Nothing acts—if you cannot sco clearly
what they prove, it were idle to attempt to point j
it out to you.
-We are not surprised that Democrats should
Indignantly enquire, ‘ ‘What business have mem
bers of sum an association within a Democratic
Convention V* 4‘Why should the tho names of
members of such ft society bo permitted to dis
grace a democratic ticket 1”
If, contrary to our hones, it should be found,
on investigation, that there are “Know-Noth
ings” on our, ticket, wo trust that It will bo
I thoroughly and effectually purged of them—if
not by the ordinary machinery known to party,
! organization, then by a higher power, THAT
OF THE SOVERIGN PEOPLE AT THE
BALLOT-BOX!
Outrageous Attempt to Desihoy Human
Life. —As tho up-train from Baltimoro, was
approaching Philadelphia, on tho morning of |
the 22d, about half-past 12 o’cloolc, a man was;
coon at some distance ahead, placing a number
of rails and pinnies across tho track, with tho
diabolical Intention to throw tho train off, and
cause a wholesale destruction of human life.—
Fortunately the thing was discovered in time to
stop tho train, when tho conductor, Mf. Jere
miah Smith, pursued tho fellow and succeeded
in arresting him. Ho gave Ids name ns Lewis
M. Iloinca, and said he was from Now Jersey,
lie was taken before Alderman Dallas, who held
him in $160(1 for a further hearing.
03?**Hon. Jkmos Cooper fc quite ill atPotls
,villo. f>-
'Judge Wilmof,
The itchings of this demagogue, it appears,
can neverbo satisfied. When he came to the le
gislature in hogging to have the judicial
•district changed in which Ijo resided, so os to en
able him elected Judge, many of the Demo
cratic members doubted the policy and propri
ety of granting the request. On his friends and
himself, however, representing that bo was anx
ious to get out of . politics, and only wished to
do so honorably, they went, with some reluct
ance it is true, for his bill, understanding at
tho same time tbathe was “put under bonds to
keep tho peace” in the meantime. We happen
to know all about tho history of that transac
tion. Bradford, . Susquehanna, and Sulli
van were made a separate judicial district
for bis convenience, Tioga being taken oil and
Sullivan added on for that purpose. ' He is now
paying the party with black ingratitude for this
act of unmerited kindness to him. • Ho will
surely get his reward/
CONGRESSIONAL CONFERENCE.
The Democratic Conferees from the several
counties composing the 10th Congressional Dis
trict, met at tho public house of A. Iluntsbcr
ger, at Bridgeport, Cumberland county, ’on
Friday, September 1,1864, and were as follows:
Cumhirland County .—John C. Brown, John
B. Bratton, and Moj. Samuel Clark.
Perry County. —David Stewart, B.F. Miller,
and Joseph Dcwalt. - • • ’ .
York (Jaunty.- 1 -David Small, and James M.
Anderson, (one conferee, Mr. Wilkins, absent.)
Tho Conference organized by calling David
Strwart of Perry, to the chair, and appointing
J. B. Bratton, of Cumberland, Secretary. ■
Mr. Miller, of Perry, nominated J. Ellis
Bonham, Esq., as tho candidate to bo support
ed for Congress in this district. No other name
being suggested, Mr. Bonham's nomination
was agreed to unanimously.;
. Tho following resolutions wero-tben agreed to
unanimously : '
■Resolved, That in Franklin Pierce we
recognize the people’s President, coun
try’s ablest protector. Always on the side of
Democracy and Equal Rights, his course, since
his induction into his present high office, has
been such as to command the confidence and
respect of thfe people.
Resolved, That in our presentable and pa
triotic Governor, William Bioleß. wo have a
statesman of whom we may well feel proud. He
has served the people of this State honestly and
faithfully, and we feel confident they will not
• now forsake him.
Resolved , That this Conference enteftain the
highest respect and confldenconn/mr nominee
' for Congress, J. Ellis Bonham, ‘Esq., and cor
dially recommend him to the Democracy and
people of this Congressional district as a gen
tleman entirely worthy their support. His
1 principles, as avowed and acted upon are tho
1 principles of Jefierson, Madison and Jackson,
r and as such, merit the hearty and unwavering
I support of every true Democrat.
Resolved , That these proceedings be signed
' by the officers, and published in the Democrat-
I ic papers of this Congressional district.
'DAVID STUART, President.
John B. Bratton, Secretary.
Perry County.
The Democratic County Convention of "gal
lant little Perry” assembled at Bloomfield, on
Monday, the 28th ult., and .nominated a most.'
excellent tickets The following resolution was*
also adopted: . ,
On motion, David Steward, Benjamin £.
Miller and Joseph Dewalt, were appointed Con
gressional Conferees, to meet llmjjqmcrccs from'
York and Cumberland counties, afeyP|ri(lgeport r
on Friday tho Ist September ncxt'fyuyi, tmani
ntously Instructed to support J.
Esq., of Cumberland 'county, for Otip^g^ssman.
■ - ■■ The Dctaocrooy ■ of Under
standing their'duties 'to .‘their principled and
their country, have required at tho hands of all
their candidates nominated by the rqqcnt.con
vention, a pledge that they do not belong or arc
in any way connected with tho proscriptive and
intolerant order of Know-Nothings.
The following is the resolution adopted by
their County Convention :
Resolved , That every candidate nominated
by this Convention bo required- to subscribe a
•written pledge that he is not a member of tho
society known to thg., public by the name of
Know-Nothings, and that he is utterly opposed
to making religion or birth-place a qualification
for office.
The llori. James Nill then submitted the
following pledge to bo subscribed by all the
candidates nominated,Mn accordance with tho
foregoing resolution :
To the Democratic Citizens of Franklin county,
Pcunsi/knata:
The undersigned, upon his most sacred hon
or, hereby declares that ho has no connection
whatever, with the secret society called Know-
Notuings, or order of United Americans, or by
whatever name they may be called —That lib is
sincerely opposed to the principles of the same
—That he is opposed to said society and asso
ciation. and to all secret societies and associa
tions, by whatever name they may be called,
which have for their object the repeal of the
laws for the naturalization of Foreigners, or the
extension of the time for the same; and which
have for an additional object the establishment
of a religious test by which members of the
Catholic or any other Church shall be excluded
from holding office.
There is “a good time corning.”
Ivkow-Nothings Still at Work.—Tfihjlo
man Catholic Church at Raritan, N. J., was
set on tiro by a committee from the Know-Noth
ing lodge, on ‘Wednesday of last week, and en
tirely consumed. Loss about $*10,000.1 The
citizens of the place immediately raised a liberal
subscription for the purpose of prosecuting the
incendiaries. From present appearances it is
believed that our different Penitentiaries will
soon contain a sufficient number of Know-Noth-
ings to organize a lodge in each one of them.
Know-Nothlngism bos been in existence but
a few months, but according to the Boston
Mercantile Journal, the members have perform*
cd good service for so short a time. Tho Jour
nal says—“ Since they first organized in New-
York, under the auspices of Nkd Buktlskr
(who is now in tho Sing Sing prison,) they have
committed CO murders,.destroyed by tiro 11
churches, two printing _ offices,' ono factory, one
orphan, asylum, ten dwelling houses, and ono
school-house.” Who will not say that tho
Know-Nothings are * ‘some pumpkins 1”, Croat
fun this for Ned Bontlinb and his cronies.
Fires.—'Tho forest Arcs inMgino arc still
raging in various directions, doing immense
damage.
Tho conflagration in Troy which occurred
lost week, has destroyed property to tho amount
of ono million ot dollars. Six largo lumber
yards were swept by tbo flames, besides a largo
1 number of dwellings and other buildings.
Tho Arc in Waldoboro,’ Mo., caused the de
struction of 47 stores and their contents, the
whole loss being half a million of dollars.—
About seventy families were rendered houseless.
•tEf-Geni’s Twiggs and Qualtman aro In
Washington.
p Rep oft id'for thk Volunteer- ,
I' CBimiNAl CODBTS. , .
; Tho several Courts of Quarter Sessions, Oyer
and Terminer and..Genera* Jail Delivery, con
yened on Monday the 28th;illt., and adjourned
on Saturday evening tile 2d Inst, Hon. Jas. H.
Graham* President* Samuel Woodbnrn and Jno.
Rupp, Esquires, Associates.
There urns, perhaps a'greater number of per
sons in attendance during the week, as parties,
wltncqscs/and Spectators, than had -been for a
number of years before. This unusual attend',
once was doubtless owing In a groat measure to
tho interest excited by the two trials for murder
in tho Oyer and Terminer, besides which, there
was a long list of cases' of a loWor grade in the
Quarter Sessions. Tho following aro tho only
ones disposed of j■ tho remainder having been
held over till tho ensuing November Term : •
Commonwealth Jacob Hommingcr, John
lleniraingcr. and Benjamin 1 Hemmingcr.— Jtiot
and Jssault and Battery* Tills prosecution ori
ginated ih - a quarrel ■■between Lehman and de
fendants respecting Lehman’s alleged ill-treat
ment of his wife', tho daughter of Jacob Ilera
| minger,and sister to John.and Benjamin. Ver.‘
diet, “ not guilty and that the prosecutor, Wil
liam Lehman, pdy costs of prosecution.”
Same vs. Ephraim M’Murray.— For the murder
of John Kennedy j Dunbar. This was one of tho
cases above alluded to. An unabated interest
was manifested from the beginning to tho con
clusion of this trial by tho immense concjyirso
ol spectators present. As various an(£rasfllcl
ing accounts have been current since tmycom
misslon of-the act, wo annex a brief bummkry of
the only part of tho evidence which bears direct
ly upon the merits of tho case, comprising the |
testimony of Charles Heighten and John String-’
fellow, on the part of tho Commonwealth, and
of Granville F. Roberts in behalf of defendant;
they being tho only eye or ear witnesses of the
fatal occurrence, and tho circumstances imme
diately,proceeding it. 1 A material discrepancy
will bo discovered between the testimony of the
two parties as to who Was the aggressor at the
time tho thrust was made.
' Reighter, after stating the mnnnerin which ho
got iu company with Stringfellow and Dunbar,
where they had been in tho early part of tho
evening, &c., says that “between 11 and 12 o’-
clock the deceased said he would go home.—
I and Strlngfollow said wo will go along as far
as wo all go tho same way. Wo had gone os
far ns Mrs. Underwood’s, (north-east corner of
Pomfret and Pitt Sts.,) when we stopped a few
minutes; while there M’Murray and Roberts
came up to us from Mrs, M’Murrny’s; M’Murray
looked mo in the face and asked “Is that yotv
Charley?” I replied <ltis.* M’Murray and
Roberts then started down Pomfret street, went |
hut a few Stops and then turned round and asked-j
us if we were not going down street; I replied |
wo were not; a student about this time put Ids,
head out ol a window of tho house on the south- j
west corner of tho saiho streets and commenced
singing;, M’Murray and Roberts come back and
went Ucross to where tho student was singing;
Dunbar said he would also go over and hear the
singing; I said it was not worth while at was
some drunken fellow; Dunbar remarked there
could bo no harm in going over; M’Murray and
‘Roberts had at this time reached the opposite
corner and were under the student’s window re
questing him to admit them to ids room*, he re
fused to do so, when they Insisted on his admit- j
ting them, hut ho again refused; when Dunbar I
had got about midway between the two corners ;
Stringleilow s'tarlcd over too; I about tho same
time, started across Potnfret street to south-east
corner of same streets; had been on the
pavement no lime when! turned' round and saw
Dunbar in tho act of stepping on tho pavement;
M’Murray walked towards him from tho iront
door; saw them moot; Dunbarlmmcdlatoly walk
ed hock towards tho comer where ho had left
us; whoa ho got hall way over he saw wo wore
not there; looked round and saw mo standing on
opposite corner; camo to mo and said “Charley
Pm stabbedl replied “I guess not Can, you
«re making fun;” ho replied “yes I am, for
God’a.sako toko mo home;” ho told mo to put
my’tfafid oh -his breast; T did so; tho blood ran
down niy fingers; got him under my loft arm and
partly carried and partly dragged him down the
pavement' towmds his homo; Could get 1 Im no far
ther than 3frs. Spottsw'ood’s house. Ho became
too heavy; laid him on the pavement up ngaipst
the fence; Strinfefcllowthen Camcrunningacross
from tho corner where ho had,last gone and said
ho behoved Dunbar’s, throat \vas cut,” &c.
Thls'h tho only part oi Uoightcr’a testimony
that relates to (ho occurrence’ itself. In narra
ting itwejhavo omiUed auuiubor.df unimportant
circumstances. -‘-'He'started ,at onccfora l*hj£.
Slclan, returned dud tbtnaincd with Dunbar
until his death, about 3$ o’clock next morning.
Strlngfollow corroborates Rcighter’s testimony
las above, and adds: “Roberts asked tho student
two or three times to come down; ho replied ho
would not <Jo‘ it; M’Murray then hallowed up‘ to
him to go to h—l, &c. Roberts then started
and ran towards Hundel’s corner—opposite side
of Pomfret street—and hallowed back toM’Mur
roy to como home that his mother wanted him.
Dunbar then stopped upon the curb stone, when
M’Mnrray ran at Dunbar and struck him with
the knife; Dunbar wheeled round and went away
M’Murray then came at mo cutting at mo two or
three times; I ran aw&y from him ; I was about
nine or ten feet from M’Mnrroy when ho struck
Dunbar; Roberts was over at Hendle’s corner;
could see something shining in M’Murray’s hand;
ran across and down tho street to where Roigh
tor had Dunbar; Reighter started ior tho Doc
tor;, had my hand on the cut; hollow'ccl murder,
hollowed for Mrs. Spoltswood, &c. She came
down; I called for water for Dunbar; (old Char
ley Spoltswood to hold tho cut, that I was sick
and could not stand it, &c.; got tip to walk a
way and full in the street; Stringfellow remain
ed an hour or so and then went home.”
Other witnesses for tho'Commonwealth fol
lowed these, but as their testimony elicited
nothing of importance to citlipr side, beyond a
corroboration of Rcightcr's and Strlnglellow’s
relative to their attendance upon Dunbar after
ho was wounded, we omit it altogether.
- Tho next witness was Granville P. Roberts,
tho young,man alluded to by Reighter and
Strlngfollow, ns having been in company with
M’Murray at tho time. Tho defence relied upon
his testimony for an acquittal, on tho grounds of
self-defencp.
After stating how ho had got into tho com
pany of M’Murrayi and where they bad been in
the early part of tho evening, h® B ®3' B { “After
leaving our company, wo went to Mrs. M’Mur
rays to go to bod ; when about half undressed
wo heard music at Pomfret street; wo put on
our clothes again and went out; wo walked up
Pitt street; root threo young mon standing on
tho comer. M’Murray thought ho knew ono of
tho young mon, and said la that you,'Charley
—I hoard him moko no reply to M’Murroy; wo
staid two or-threo minutes on tho corner, then
M’Murray said Ictus walk down Pomfret street;
I wo had not gone but a fow steps down Pomfret
I street until wo heard' Cecil singing out of tho
window at tho opposite corner. I hollowed to
1 Cecil to como down, ho said ho would not. Co-
I oil asked mo who it was; 1 told him Itwas Rob
erts; I then asked him again to coma down, hut
ha said ho could not. 1 began talking and Jok
ing with him then, after wo had boon talking and
joking awhile ho said ho would come down and
whip us. M’Murray replied ho had better try
it; ho had no sooner said’ this than two of tho
young mon, who wero standing at thatcorner,
started over towards where* wo were; “wo aro
boro,” they said as they como up. Ono of them
como right up and struck M’Murray ; I could
not tell who it wait, it was so dark ; but I sup
posed it lobe Dunbar; ho struck him
oci him almost down, as M’Murray went to Rat
up ho struck him again. When ho, trnc i c
tho second time Strlngfollow como up
mo. I than rah across to tho opposite
Whon M’MurrftV was struck tho second time no
fell gainst o™oo. I hid not boo tho blow struck
with So talfo. Alter Gtrlngrullow slrack mo
ho ran towards M’Murroy and Dunbar i alter I
Sot may I hollowed to M’Murray to como homo
and not to uso that knife, iho first time I saw
tho knife was that evening when ho went to cut
a stick and ho showed mo what It was, this was
allttlo after ton o'clock: that evening. I ran
down towards Mrs. M’Murray’s to toll hfir to
como and toko Ephraim away; sho was coming
up and I camo along with her to whoro M’Mur
ray was j when wq got (hero ho had gone, there
was no person there at all then; (hero was stones
thrown at M’Murray when ho ran away. I did
not soo tholn throw them, hut heard them falling
on (ho pavement. I saw tho knlfo aftorho camo
in; there was blood on'it; his finger was cut;
ho washed tho knife off in a wash howl lb at was
I there; I did hot know at that tlino what injury
had boon done to Dunbar, neither did ho ns fjir
ns I know. That was all I saw oDtho transac
tion. M’Murray bad boon drinking that eve
ning.”
, The Jury, after belng'out about an hour, rorfs
dercd’ a vofdlct of, Manslaughter. J
The Court thereupon mtonccd him to twrf
years and she months, Hntary confinement o§
hard labor lii Aho Eastern PcnnUonUary, pay £
lino of $1 and tho costs of prosecution, and give
a bond in $lOOO forhW gobd.'behavior, for tetf
years*.*'•Hepburn & Shearer for Commonweahß \
Watts; Bonham and Todd, for Defendant. r.
"■ Same va. Martha Washington, colored vrohi
ahi for the murder of her daughter Caroline V
infant-bastard child. This case was' clearly '
raadeent by the confessions of the prisoner'
made to different persons, corroborated by proof
of attendant circumstances, and, whs (b the fol
lowing effect; - ihe child was born on the morn
ing of the 28th of July.. Immediately after ittf ■*
birth Mnria'cndcafor«ftandhsshotlibn thought
successfully, to kill it, by throwing it ilnori tiff
.floor and other inhuman treatment, uavinjf
rendered such assistance to her dabghtei* as hen
situation required, sho picked up the child, and. '
taking with her a mattock, carried thccliild lef •
an old water course at some distance from the
house, wherein a dump' of tushes sho dug £
hole, baton raising the child from the' ground
for the purpose of placing H in the hole She dis*
that it was still alive, that it cried; she therf
took a piece of tuuslin from her pocket, with'
which she strangled it, and then hastily threw
it into the hole, covercditwith leaves and stones 5 %
and returned to the lipusc. . -
The Jury acquitted her bn the ground that,
she was at tho time insand, tt gfcitTnumber of
witnesses having been produced who scor’d ttyifc
they did not believe she knew the difference bfejc -
tween right and wTong. Some of whom haw
her at different times in their families. They
gave instances of singular conduct, which JhJ
jury inferred were symptoms of Insanity. ThJ. ,
Court sent her to the Insane Asylum until , sho'
should recover. Smith & Shearer for Comrar.
Sharpe & Penrose for-Defcndant. J • .# .
Same vs. Mary Pcsler— Fornication. —Plead
guilty, and was sentenced to pay coats of prose- -
cation and nominal fine. >V;fki
• Same vs. Baron Shurobella —Xffiaß^.ryTiib!/.
evidence in this case was that BevCnETpiitral6fv, '
boots and shoes had been stolto
Reichert of Slureraanstown, n, few montlis '
and that they were, traced to-Hie: possession on* , ’
the Baron by ofllcdrMcCartucyr“tuat he denied ,
having them, told 'contradictory *gtorys abb lit - • %'
himself nhd business imd that w’hfn ■colled op;:
to account .possession of the article* so
recently after having been stolen; he was’.unable
to do so. He could not do so on his triai t nnd
Was therefore convicted. Sentence G months to’
• County Jail, costs of prosecution, and to'
restore the property stolen. Shearer for Comnv
Miller & Hither for Defendant. _ • , . >
Same vs. Herman Hauthcrs —False Pretejith
—The defendant was indicted for procuring d
pair of boots from Dr. Rawl'h’s, by passing Upon
a little boy left in charge of his store r five dol- ■
lar bill purporting to have been issued by the
Alabama & Mississippi Railroad Company, at
the same time knowing' it tobe.wprthlcsa here,
at least, lie having been'so. informed by the
Cashier oftheCarlislc Daiik; to whom he had
shown it but n little while before. The'Jury
not being satisfied thatit was entirely
quittedhim. • ’
Same vs. John Bony, (col’d.)— -Assault ond .
Battery.-** As usual, John* is a vtty quarrel*...
some fellow when snh'quorwhichiswheneveW)o,
can get it. Uehad been out of Jail but four dajftf .
when he gotinto this difficulty. Sentence one
year to County Jail, Costs «c., Shearer for
Comm. Cole & Green for defendant. __
From the Ballinwfy-jifats.
HIE DUTY OF THE BEMOCIIATIC,||IITY. ~
In looking colmly over the
witnessing the gradual absorption of iiro|wlng j ,
party into the prevailing isms of the dasr£isio
conviction forces itself irresistibly upon our
mind that the peaefe and integrity of the Union
rest with the democratic party. If it be tmeto
its time-honored principles, if it maintain its
nationality, the country will be safe.-.Jf Hipl-,
low the example of the whig party,
doning Ha nationality, amalgamate Wiflrtnp
sectional factions. now striving for. .
the mastery throOghont the country, the day Is
not far distant •When glorious Union, now y. ;
the envy of the world, wilißc
jciviV war, jand violence, and bloodshed, aoana^V*j,
cry. t&keJU»o,plaee*nfvtbW pcacc aud *
which' hayfl hither fo attended our career.* .Under’,'*
these KsiroUmataDecs, it is the -
the democratic party to adhere strictly
principles which have so long thc? v
country in its proud and prosperous |\6silioxi.' ’"
and to frown upon every attempt to divide and,
distract its. councils. In the language of a co
temporary, we regret to'observe a disposition in.
certain quarters of the State, on the part of a
portion of the democratic patty, to blink the
fact of the existence of the new secret .political
organization, the members of which styld them-.
selves “know-notjilngs.** It.is ominous either
of an obliquity of duty result!' *
nal desire to tamper with thcs<
of offending them—in bothcaf
ted, and in both eases sure t 6
disastrous results., • %
The demoerniio jwrtyliavc
into consideration, in’.discus?
the question of expediency f ,’Xhcy ; iiu. . -.igh
to ask themselves, is it -proper to incite the op
position of the know-nothing party ? Theirs
is a stern duty imposed on them by the princi
ples to which they profcss'fealty wnd the teach
ings of those for whom they-profesa reverence.
I It will be a sorry day for than when expcdicn
' cy shall successfully counsel either the ffcnudia- •
lion of the former ppforgctftilncss of the latter.
The new secret political organization is
1 on dogmas that undermine the federal constitu
tion, and are in direct conflict with the whole
past policy of the government. It aims to tako
the power out of the hands of the people, ana
to place it in the lodges of a Jiriarian associa
tion, the revelations that have been made re
-1 specting the machinery of which must inspire _
intense disgust. It oVcrihrbws llw elective
franchise of the individual, and substitutes in
its stead the despotic mandate of an invisible
counsel. It renews in a more odious form the
cruel doctrines of the alien net, with the ad
, dltionof the fealufo abridging fcligious freedom,
which even the reckless audacity of the old fed
eral party would have shrunk aghast at. .
With euoh a party in our midst, and that in
numbers too largo to excite the contempt they
would seem to merit: appealing to the lowest
prejudices of the vulgar, and thointokrajt ,
Hnirit of the narrow-minded and the, bigotcu .
under Uiclcadersliip of
restless for tho of
complete dX’S.fo.toß on tlufr banners
things *. if Buccessfblt would sap tho
principles, destroy social order, tbo gravo
government and destroy s „
land, are charged, is to
nut down this organisation, or at least to at
imnntit. Xo shnnle from the responsibility of
discharging this duty iatoignore the history of
tho party and to saonllcc its principles on tho
altar of nti extremely problematical expediency.
They must meet the issue—meet it boldly and
squarely. Andi. t cannot be done 100 soon.
Finn on tub MountAiNS.-From all parts of
tlio country wo liavo reports of exlcrUivo fires
In tho Woods, causing great destruction of tim
ber- In tho neighborhood of Tewkesbury and'
Wilmington, Mass., about one thousand acres of
woodland have boon burnt over, and tho loss is
estimated at $20,000. Smoko Is eeon ascon
dlngin tbo neighborhood of Hillsboro, N. H>>
in all directions, but tho amount of destruction
is not mentioned. A terrible fire Is also raging
among tho pine timber lands la tho neighbor
hood ol London, Canada .West. So dense is
tho smdeo along tho track of tho Groat Western
Hallway at this point and at Chippewa Creek,
that tlio trains are temporarily discontinued. It
was hoped that tho shower of last Saturday,
which was represented to bo quite copious m
Maine, would so effectually dampen tho ground
that tho fires would all bo extinguished j but
this has proved delusive. According to tbo
last despatch, the fires romainpd unchecked, v
and things wore In a most calamitous
whole tracts oi woodland in tlio vicinity ofDan- j
gorhaving already boononilroly destroyed. «o e
nro*happy in being able lo record that
mountains and woodlands in this wlcinlty, bav®
loetfrcmarkably exempt from, such.visitations. /
lift