AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JOHN B. BRITTON, Editor &’ Proprietor. CARLISLE, PA., JULY 28, 1850. Democratic State Nominations. ' FOB AUDITOR GENERAL, RICHARDSON L WRIGHT, Of Philadelphia. FOB SURVEYOR GENERAL, JOHN ROWE, Of Franklin County. „ DELEGATE ELECTION. Agreeably to notice the Democratic Standing Committee of Cumberland county met at the hotelof D. Marlin, in Carlisle, on the 16th inst., when the following proceedings were had: Resolved. That the Democratic voters of the several wards, boroughs and- townships, are hereby requested'to meet at their usual places of holding.borough’ or township elections, on Saturday, the 6th.of A'ugust.next, fur the pur- pose of electing two delegates from each waf37 borough or township, to meet in County Con vention, in Carlisle, on Monday the Bth day of , August next, for the purpose of placing.in nom ination candidates to be supported at the ensu ing election. Said election will be held in the borough of Carlisle and Meohanicsburg. between the hours of 3 and 7< o'clock. i>. a. ; in the bor oughs of Shippcnsburg. and Newviilo, between the hours of 7 and 9 o’clock, and in all the oth er districts between the hours of 3 and 0 o'clock. Resolved. That it be hereby recommended to the Convention to adjourn at or before half past 12 o’clock, to enable the delegates to return home the same day, ■ Resolved, That the Convention be requested to transact the business with Open doors and to vote for candidates viva voce. JACOB WOLF, Chairman, Ab'm.. Lamberton, Seo’y. By The'United Brethren will hold a Camp Meeting, one 1 mile west of Hockersville, near the Walnut Bottom Hoad, commencing on the 9th of August. GEN. JOSEPH IJJiE,. OF OREGON. . On our flrst page-wilt be fond a well written Biographical'sketch of the character and servi ; ces of Gen. Joseph Lane, the distinguished Sen ator from the new State of Oregon! Gen. Bane, it is well known, has been favorably mentioned in numerous States, North and- South, as the next Democratic candidate for the Presidency. Wh wish it understood, how ever, that in publishing a brief history of his life and services, we have not committed our self oriour paper bn the ■ subject of the Presi dency, nor do we intend to. It is right and proper that the people should be made familiar with those whose names haVebeen mentioned in connection with the exalted position of Presi dent of the United States. Beyond question, Gen. Lane possesses the elements ot populari ty in an eminent degree; and should Ijg bo the choice of the National Convention, Pennsylva nia Will go for him with a rush. Altobess or the State Committee.— TVo pttb ifsh to-day, and ask for it a careful perusal from every-reader; another Address from the Demo cratic State committee. The subject to which if is principally devoted—Expatriation and Na f arabisation—is oneliiattlas recently been much agitated, and the views ot the Democracy thero- on/ greatly-misrepresented, by Know-Nothing Republicanism. The Committee present it fair ly and clearly, and treat it with marked ability. And in doing so, the hypocrisy and dishonesty of Opposition leaders and presses receive a pro per exposure and just condemnation. To all ire say, read this Address. It is creditable alike .to the Committee and its talented and ac complished Chairman, and the Democratic par ty of the State. 3Aie op ■■ .Cumberland Valley Railroad ; Stock.— Eight hundred thousand dollars worth , of the old stock of the Cumberland Valley Hail : Bond, which was owned by citizens of Phila delphia, was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. last week. As every share of this stock has a vote, its new owners will have con. trol'ot, and will hereafter manage the affairs of the Cumberland Valley, and of course will re quire outforwarding men to run their freight cars to Philadelphia on tho Pennsylvania Cen tral instead*)! the Lebanon Valley, as they do at present! It is supposed that new officers will be selected to manage tho Cumberland Val ley road, and new energy employed in conduct ing it. Tho sale of this stock to. tho parties wo have named, appears to give general satisfaction to our people,, and wo doubt not it will prove to their advantage. • Gaulisle"Wiute * Sulpher Springs.— The fervid and almost intolerable heat that charac terizes this month, in this latitude, is calcula ted not only “ to take the starch nut of a fel low,” but to make him sigh for •• a lodge in some vast wilderness.” Governed by this feel ing. we paid a visit to tho favorite retreat,Car lisle While Sulpher Springs, a few days since, and were de'ighted with the arrangements and accommodations. These Springs, which are located near tho base of the Blue Mountain, fdurmilcs from Carlisle, are'highly inipregna ; ted willnfiulphcr, and the water has Keen fre quently recommended- by physicians. The buildings arc large, substantial, well ventilated, and -well located, and, the- hundreds of young shade trees that were planted some ftve or six years since, are growing btau'ifully, and form a delightful grove. The present proprietors. Messrs. Owen, Clendenin and Visiter, are admirably calculated for the position they occu py, and arc assiduous in their afentions to who visit them. Certainly these Springs only want to be known to be well patronized, for a ' more delightful, healthy place of resort, cannot be found .in Pennsylvania. We are surprised they are not. more resorted to by city folks, for we feel satisfied, ns at present conducted, they Offer, greater inducements than are. generally fdund at watering places Let our city friends, if they desire real enjoyment and comfort, pay a visit to the Carlisle While Sulpher Springs, and our word for it they will jho.l regret i!.— * Though a visit to this secluded spot might, and 1 undoubtedly.docs, assuage tho.“ stipgs” of old ' Sol’s scorching beams, still it must-not be pre- 1 Sumed that thia-is the only recompense for the trouble of geng there--oh, no 1 far frofn it.— The palate, too, can be tickled, here; and that not only with a “straw”—(in a glass of some favorito -beverage)—but by the eating of some of those unapproachable “waffles and chick ens” which daily appear on and disappear from the table sei by the popular and highly esteem ed proprietors. OS’" The Black Republicans 61 Minnesota Rave nominated Alexander Ramsey as their candidate.fo Governor*. Peace! —P«acc!—-Peace!! The steamer North Briton bungs the impor tant news that peace has been declared between France and Austria. The Emperor,Napoleon telegraphs to the Empress that peace has been signed upon the basis that the Italian Confede racy shall be under,the honorary Presidency of the Pope,, (which is apparently, in this case, it new name for an empiy honor,) and that Aus; tria concedes her right in Lombardy to the Emperor of the French, who'transfers thorn to the King of Sardinia, in compliance with the assurances given at' the commencement Of the campaign. The Emperor of Austria preserves Venice, but she will form an integral part of the Italian confederation. The news was re ceived with acclamations at Paris, and the whole civilized world will rejoice that peace has stayed the fearful ravages of war. It is not more than three months since war was declar ed. and within that short period the Allied ar mies have repulsed the Austrians in every en gagement, and finally wrested from her iron grasp a province which she has misgoverned for more than a century. Tbe history of war scarcely records S' more brilliant chapter, than this cam: in in Italy. ; JES!6! O* A fearful'insurrection of tlio negroes of the villages surrounding Puerto Cubello, in Venezuela, broke out on the 15lh of. June. They assassinated Goiquaza, a judge in the vi cinity, and-murdered lour oilier peaceable citi zens. Afterwards they advanced wiih a force of two hundred and fifty men to attack Puerto Gabefib; but were repulsed by the troops sta tioned'at that place. Since-that time they have committed'a number of outrages in the vicinity; and at last accounts it was feared ' that they would yet returrt in sufficient num bers to successfully attack Puerto Cabcllo. The rising is said to be not a political move ment, but a question of blacks and Whites. fT7* Miss Mar}' C. Zechcr, of Lancaster, died' on Monday of last week, under peculiarly af flicting circumstances. The Union says that on the 7th inst.. whilst engaged in looking af ter some poultry on her fa tiler's premises, as she Jumped from an elevation* one of her feet struck a leupenny nail in a board lying on the ground, which not only perforated the shoe but penetrated through the foot, tnflaination and lockjaw ensued-, aud after lingering several days her sufferings terminated in death on Mon day. Miss Z. was in full vigor of life and, health when the accident occurred. She was highly esteemed by all who enjoyed her ac quaintance. . Death ok the King ok Sweden. —The Af rica brings intelligence of the death of Oscar. King of Sweden, at the age of sixty years. He was born oh the,4ih of July, 1799. He was a much belter and more prudent monarch than some who have made much more noise in the world* and was beloved by his people. For Several years past. the. government-has been in the hands of his son, Priijce Charles,- who now succeeds his father, under the title of Charles XV. ITT’A Utah correspondent of the New York Times notices the remarkable fact that the in stitution of polygamy is becoming unpopular among the Mormons since the accession of the recent large emigration from, the States ; and that Brigham Young is beset with applications for bills of divorce. In consequence of this state of affairs, the “ Prophet” has issticdor ders to suspend the ceremony of sealing.” The Harrisburg Elopement — D. Burton Williams, late local editor of Patriot and Union,- is the name’of the man who eloped on the morning of the-sth hist., with a jhilherto-respectablc young lady of that town, with whom he had been in clandestine inter course for some lime. Williams has a wife and family in a neighboring State. 1 BROTtiEßißßlcnAM.Lecturing bis People. ' —Brigham Young veils the .--saints” some se rious truths. He said-in alatcsermon Many of you will exchange your last bushel of wheat with the stores for ilbbons-and'gcw-gaws, when you really need it for breadi AnJi-w-iihshame facedness I say it. some will take the last peek of grain to the distillery to buy whisky, and then beg their bread.” Killed bv the Cars. —On Wednesday night a Week, about 11 o'clock, the fast line going west, pn tho Pennsylvania Railroad, when passing one of the mountain stations, ran over and killed a drover, who was on the train com ing cast. The name of the deceased was Hen derson ; he was on his way cast from his home in Indiana with a drove. It is supposed that he was caught iu the darkness, between the twu trains, and not being able to make his its cape, was knocked down by the advancing train. Fires from Lightning.— Adams county has suffered severely from lightning. On Wed nesday night, a large bunk barn on one of the farms of Win. Jenkins, Esq., near Lilly’s dam, was thus destroyed. The barn of Mr. Joseph Robert, in Franklin township, wasalso destroy ed by lightning, with 748 dozen of wheat, ten or fifteen tons of hay-, and a carriage' and har ness. The loss is about one thousand dollars —no insurance. Terrible Railroad Accident.— On Friday last, Mr, I. N. Nichols, a contractor on the Lackawana & Biootnsburg Railroad bq the part of the extension between Rupert andGatnwissa, in attempting to spring on the cars while in motion, missed the step and was fun over be fore they could be checked. His both limbs were severed from his body. He lived a few hours after. O* Mrs. Horace Fry, of Philadelphia, lately brought so prominently before the public by her application for a divorce from her husband, has gone to Europe with her fattier. Bathing. —At this season, when school-boys have holiday, and therefore are- inclined to amuse themselves by paddling: in ■ the water, or by swimming, it would be well for parents and guardians to exercise a supervision over the ju veniles. Accident. —Mr. A. Martin, of New Cumber land, had his collar bone broken, and his head severely cut, by being, thrown from a buggy, a few days ago. Enough of’ the Chinese Sugar Cano has been raised in lowa this season to make one millions gallons of syrup. Dexp,—Dr. Ajideew Pobteb, bod of Kx- Govornor Porter, died suddenly at Capp May, ou Saturday, last, Late from Europe. Arrival of the steamer Africa —Hostilities Sus pended I—Armislic agreed upon—Hopes for Peace, sc. ' The steamer Africa brings the very important news that an armistice of fifteen days had been agreed upon between the Allies and the Austri ans, proposals to that effect having proceeded from the 'Proneb. Tills is doubtless for the purpose of-affording an opportunity for the re newal of peace negotiations between thb bellig erents. The Allies, after the series of brill! nt victories .which have crowned their anas, own. demand nothing less than the fulfilment of the object declared at the commencement of the war, v.iz: the absolute freedom of Italy Crum Austrian rule. • The Emperor of Austria, taugiit by this time the lesson that his magnificent ar my has been overmatched by the French, and is not likely to ro'riuvu its losses by prolonging the wai, may bo persuaded to yield to terms thus early in the -campaign, rather than have heavier conditions thrust upon him after anrth er series of bloody disasters. France is in a position to offer terms gracefully to. her discom fited enemy, and if the latter refuses to make peace, Italy will bo the theatre of more desper ate and bloody engagements. , THE LATEbT NEWS. Peace! Peace: Peace ! FOUR DAYS LATER, ARRIVAL OE THE NORTH BRITAIN. highly niPomsT! ITALY BftBJEPENSJENT. FATHER POINT, ) BELOW QUEBEC. JULY 24. J The steamship North Briton, from Liverpool on,lhel3ih inst.. and bound for Quebec has been intercepted off this point, and a most im portant budget of news obtained. Tim steamship Anglo Saxon from Quebec ar rived at Liverpool on the 11th inst. The advices by the North Briton are four days later than those furnished by the s'camer Africa, and are of a highly important charac ter, both in a political and UnanciaLpoint of view. A treaty of peace between Austria and Franco and Sardinia had already been concluded. The provisions of the treaty are briefly as follows ; - An Italian confederation's to be formed un der the Honorary Pres deitcy of the Pope of Koine—Austria cnncedes-Lom hardy to France— Napoleon, in Turin,.grants those possessions to Sardinia-. Austria retains her right of rule over Venice. Tile steamer' left Liverpool before the effect of the news had lime to be deve'opcd. The Paris Munileur explains the circumstan ces attending.ihe armistice, and says the great neutral powers exchangedcnmmunica.ions with the belligerents, offering mediation, but was rather unsuccessful-until the French fleet was about to commence hostilities against Venice, and a-conflict before Verona was imminent, when Napoleon, anxious to prevent further bloodshed, ascertained the disposition of the Emperor of Austria, and finding him wiling, tile armistice Was concluded. The two Emperors had an interview on the 11th, at Villa Franca. The followjng is a copy of the telegram from Napoleon to :the Empress -Eugene, announcing that peace had-beett concluded upon ; Vallegio, July 11. A treaty of pence has been signed between the Emperor of Austria and myself on the fol lowing basis. The Italian confederacy is to be under the honorary Pres dcncy of the Pope. The Emperor of Austria concedes his rights in Lamb-n-dy to the Emperor of the French, who transfers them to the King of Sardinia; . Thu'Emperor'of Ao.vria preserves Venice, but she w II form an integral part of the Italian confederation. Napoleon. EFFECT OP THE NEWS IN PAKI3. The dispatch of the Emperor announcing the conclusion of peace was bulletined in Paris on the 12th; when the French fund immediately rose 24 per cent. “ Root Hoo on Die.” —In one of the conn ties of Wisconsin, It is said there are three can didatea idr tho Legislature : J. M. Root. Demo, crat; Robert Hogg, Free Soil, and T. 11. Dye, Whig. So, on tho election day, it will be “Root, Hog, or Die” with tho voters.— Ex. Wo don’t believe a word of it. Such a con catontation ol fortuitous coincidences ns is con tained in those names never occurred. Some reprobate editor who bad nothiilg to put in his paper, must have invented it. Cv* The rattlesnakes are making increasing inroads upon domestic, appearances and pence. ■ We have already had to record some of a peon liar nature. Here is another: “Miss Surah 11, Dyer was - bit ten by a rattlesnake last Satur day two weeks, near Morgan, Calhoun county, Ga.. from the effects of which she died on the following day. She-had been out with a fish ing party, and returning home in Iho noon.-ac cidentally stepped upon the monster. She suf fered intensely, but most of the-time uncon sciously. The lady was just eighteen years of age.” KVSt; Louis is a lively place. The body of an unknown man was found in that city, on Wednesday night, who was stabbed in twenty places, robbed, and-t.hen thrown as a slinking carcass in an open (li-ld. Tito same day, Mrs. Wood, wifu of a well .known daguerreotypist, committed suicide by taking poison, and there were two attempts at murder, and several rob beries. DV There were 28 (Ires in Baltimore, Md., on. Monday of last week, and a loss of property thereby to the amount of about $40,000. OV Mr. Hiram James, a young and woll.to-do farmer in Rye, N. IL, formerly an extensive trader in Port-month, terminated Ida life by cut ting bis throat with a razor, on Saturday, the Dili inst. Ho was about 81 years old,.and leaves a wile and one child, BVIt is stated that at the recent Fireman’s Muster in Worcester, there were over 400 grog eriesin full blast, where liquor was sold open Iv, in utter defiance of the authorities and the Maine Law. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania have decided that it is incumbent on owners of mills, factories, tanneries, &c., situated on streams, to keep the dust, shavings, tan, bark, &0., out of the same. Any deposit of these, renders them amenable for damages. Cinoos PnorniKTon Killed. —Mr. Leonard, ono of the proprietors of U. Buckley & Co.’s Circus, was killed on the Ist instant, at White Spring, Florida, by Lewis Hogans. t DC?" During a severe thunder storm the other day, Mrs. George.W. Potter, of Potlsvilio, Pa., was so much scared by the thunder and light ning, that she died in a few minutes. She was a niece of the Hon. George M. Dallas. D?“ A drunken toliow named Floyd isbn tri al at Lunenburg, Va., lor shooting a boy of sovon years old, because he refused to pick up his hat for him. Forty-eight .shot entered the body of tho boy, and, it is- thought, ho would pyobably.dlcl ADDRESS of; the DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE. Fellow-Citizens of Pennsylvania We now proceed to present to you, ns briefly ns circumstances will permit, tire views enter tained, ns the State Committee believe, by the Democracy of the State nnd'of the N-tion; to spooling the righis.of mir naturalized citizens, nnd those principles of natural justice and free dom whjch we are prepared to maintain in bur intercourse with foreign Stairs, -os a part of our cnirgheened American Policy, This subject •has been n't all tithes an inlwesling-one to ns ns our history shows. The (list article in the Constitution, authorizing Congress to establish on uniform ru e of naturalization, and.the soy eral acts of Congress, passed in pursuance of the power granted,nlj indicate this fact. It so happens now, that The slate of , war in which several of the leading nations of Europe have become involved,,and which may possibly em brace in its unhappy circle the. whole of that continent before peace shall be re estnb ishetl. has impnrud, for obvious reasons, an immedi ate and most important significance to all chore questions depending on the principle of the right of expalria>ion, as' we understand it in this 1 country, nnd which, in connection with our act • -of Naturalization, arc not only extremely inter esting to our citizens by adoption, but directly' concern the dignity, power nnd international - consequence oi nnr Gnvefninent. it ih :rue that many or all of the Governments of Europe have made provision , in some mode or other. for«the naturalization of foreigners, by which they are invested with a pnr'lon or all of the rights of native born subjects, in a country of . their native adoption, but, nevertheless, these same Governments, almost, without exception, cither openly affirm or tacitly maintain the doctrine of perpetual allegiance, absobite or qualified, on the part of an alleged subject to the Government under which he, happens to bo born. In opposition to this, the people and Guvcfhment of the United States have always l denounced the idea of perpetual allegiance as i unworthy the em in which we live, and us in , consistent with and inimical to the generous principles of our. Government, and it is Well . known that on one occasion we successfully re sisted its application at the cannon’s: month- I In the same spirit, the Imperial or Monarchical . Governments of Europe, still inore or less sub servient to old Feudal influences, regard expa f trialion as a iiinlter.of grace from the Govern ment to the subject, not ns a matter of right in i the subject, and of course as being subordinate , to their claim of perpetual nl egiance.' We, bn the contrary, regard expatriation its a natural and indispensable right, bite the right to enjoy • the sunshine or to breathe the air: we believe . it to be superior to allegiance, and that it can , only be limited or modified, postponed-, or-in any way impugned or affected, by some actu ally existing debt, penalty or obligation due to the law, civil or criminal, at.the period of emi gration. The Government's of Europe have all been disposed to treat naturalization as being no more than a mere municipal regulation, which each nation might make for its- own par ticular interests or convenience, operative with in its own jurisdiction, but which did not war rant anything to be done lira naturalized sub ject. iii contravention of the.international code of Europe, perpetual a IcgianCe being a part of that code. On ihe olhcr hand, with a larger comprehension of civilization and liberty, we regaid the act of naturalization as placing the naturalized citizen in ail respects, except in the one Constitutional reservation of ineligibility to the Presidency'; or Vice Presidency.'on the same footing, imd in the same degree of rights and'honor, ns that occupied by the oadve-boro citizen —ns in point of, fact, inducting a mam hitherto lor tile period of probation required by the law. an inhabitant or resident, in the land, info full nnd perfect citizenship under a Govern ment which proclaims expatriation to be a nat, oral right, and which disaffirms the doc,tine of perpetual allegiance as conflicting equally with justice and reason. It must be bornl in mind, however, that in dependently of the tie or duly ■ of allegiance, and really distinct from it. there is and always must be in tbe necessity of the case, (is the very cement of any organized political society, en dued with sovereignty, a ctrtain contract be tween llte Government and its snbjecs or citi zens. Under this contract, the Government engages, among other things, to give protection to'persons and property, to preserve, order, to guarantee civil and political rights, and -to de fend the nation against its foreign enemies, nnd the subject or citizen for bis own part engages to obey The laws arid pay to the Government whatever debt, or penalty the judgment-ot the law may justly demand ot him. What may be an actual subsisting, debt or. obligation in the law whmji one may attempt to evade or escape by expatriation may be hereafter the subject ol diplomatic controversy between the Govern -1 inent of the Union and foreign States, but it is certain, that while the United Stales, so long as the Government remains in the hands of the Democracy, will permit no insulting visitation of the claim of perpetual allegiance on our adop ted citizens, or any political distinction's to he drawn in principle between native and natural ized citizens at home or abroad; no act of linlii talizalion, whether of an American citizen by a foreign government, or of a foreigner by our 'aws, can release citlur. from an actual—not constructive—existing debt, penalty or obliga lion tinder the contract referred to between a I governments.and.their citizens or'subjects, in ctirrcd and owing at the time of expatriation, nnd unpaid at the moment of a re turn to the jurisdiction of the deserted country. [ But there is np need to occupy your atten tion further with any observation of our own on this topic. It is, fortunately, in our power to lay before yon'an-extract from it'dispatch addressed to our Minister at Berlin, from the Department, of Stale, by order of President Bu chanan, and. which, relating ns it does to a practical case, lias been most carefully prepar ed. It presents the true American position in a manner so clear at once in statement and sat isfactory in argument, as to be well nigh be yond cavil: Extract of a Despatch from the Department of State to the Minister of the United States at Berlin, dated JulyS, 1859. ‘■The question then arises, what righ sdoour laws confer upon'a foreigner by granting .him naturalization? I answer, all the r ghls, priv leges and immunities which belong to a native born citizen, in Their full extent, with the'sin-, gle qualiUnatidh that, under the Constitution, “no person except.a .natural born' citizen, is eligible to the office of. President.” -Vfilb this 'exception, the naturalized citizen from and af I ter die date of his naturalization, bo h at home and abroad; is placed upon the very same fool ing with the native ci iz.n, Ho is-neither in a better or, worse condition. If a native citizen chooses to take up his residence in a foreign country, for the purpose of advancing his for tune or promoting his happiness, he is whilst there bound to obey its nmnioipallaws equally with those who have livgd in it all their lives. He goes abroad with his eyes open ; andil these laws be arbitrary and unjust, he lias chosen to abide by the consequences. If they at e admin istcred in an equal spirit towards himself and towards native subjects; this government have no right to interfere authoritatively in his be half. To do this would be to violate the right ! of an independent nation to legislate within its own territories. If this government were to 1 undertake such a task, wo might soon be in -4 volved in trouble with nearly the whole world. To protect our citizens against tho application of tliis principle of universal law, in its full ex ' tent, we have treaties with several nations se curing exemption to American citizens when residing abroad from some of the onerous du ties required from their Own subjects. Where no such treaty exists, and an American citizen has committed a crime or incurred a penalty for violating any municipal law \vhatever of the country of his temporary residence, he is just as liable to be tried and punished for his oilunce as though ho had resided in it from the day of his birth. If this has not been done before his departure, and he should voluntarily return un tier the same jurisdiction, bo ran; punished for the offence ppon pri vcrsal law. \ - Unde'r such circumstances, no person would think Of contending that an - Intermediate re-i deuce in his own country for-years would de prive the government whose laws he had viola ted of the power to enforce their execution. The verv same principle, and no other, is ap plicable'to the case of a naturalised citizen, should he choose to return to his native coun try. In that case, if he had committed an of fence against the law before his departure, ho is ri sponsible-far it in the same manner as the native American citizen to whom I have refer red. In the language of the jatc Mr. Murcy, in hts letter of the 10th January . 1»54. to Mr. Jackson, then our Charge ff Affaires to Vienna, when speaking of Tousig’s case-.‘ 4 evcry nation, whenever its laws are violated by any one.ow ing obedience to them, whether he be a citizen or a stranger, has a right to infftet thfe penal ties incurred by the transgressor, if found with in its jurisdiction.” This principle is too well established to admit of serious controversy. If one of otlr native or naturalized citizens were to expose himself lb punishment by the commis sion of an offence against any of ottr laws, State or National, and afterwards become a naturalized subject of a foreign country, he woo'd not hardihood to contend, upon volunta rily returning, within ottr jurisdiction, that his naturalization relieved him from the punishment due to his crime: much less could he appeal to lire government of_his adopted, country to pro tect him against his responsibility to the Uni ted Stales, or any of the States. This Govern ment would not for a moment listen to such an appeal. Whilst these principles cannot be contcs'cd, gi'cat care should be taken.in their application, especially to our naturalized citizens. The mo ment a foreigner becomes naturalized. Ins .allegi ance to ids native e&tmtfy is severed forever, — He experiences a new political birth. A broad and impassable line separates him from his na tive country. He is no more- responsible for anything lie may say or do, or omit to say or do, after assuming his new character, limn if lie had been born in the United States. Should he return to his native Country, he returns as an American citizen, and in no'other character In order to entitle his original government to punish him for tin offence, this must have beeti committed whilst he was a subject and owed allegiance to that - goverment. The offence must have been complete before his expatriation It must have been of such a character that he might liave been tried and punished for it at the moment of his departure. A future liahili. the at my will not he sufficient: because, before the time can arrive for such ser vice. he has changed his allegiance, and has be come a citizen of the United Slates, ft would be qtitle absurd to contend that a boy, brought to this country fiim a foreign country with bis father's family when but twelve years of age and naturalized here,, who should afterwards visit lite county of his birth when he had be come a mun.ihiight seized and com pelled to per|||&llnilitary service,' because, if he hail the intervening years and been .-spared. he would have been bound to perform military service.— To submit to such a princip'c would be to make an odious distinction between our naturalized and native citizens. For this reason, in my dispatch to you of May 12, 1859. and again in my letter. Holer, of the 14th ultimo. I jurisdiction in regard to our to such of them in called into it” at the lime they left Prussia. That is. to the case rtf. actual desertion or a refusal -to enter.into the I army after having been regularly, drafted, and called into it by”thc government to which al the lime they owed allegiance. It is presumed that neither 61 these cases presents any difficul ty in point of principle. If a so dier or sailor wore to desert from our army, or navy, for which offence he is liable to a severe punishment, and, after having become a naturalized subject of another country, shoo'd return to the United States, it - would be-a sin gular defence (or him,to make that he was ah Solved from crime because afteritsconmijssibn;; he had become a subject of another government. It won d be still more si range were that, govern ment to interpose in lijs behalf for any such reason. Again, during the last war with Great, Britain, iti several of the Status —I might men lion Pennsylvania in particular—thfe militia man who was drafted and called into the ser vice. was exposed to a severe penalty if he did not obey the draft and muster himself into the service, or, in default theieof. procure a stibsti tute. Suppose such an individual, after having incurred this .penalty, had gone to a foreign country and become naturalized there, and then retunud to Pennsylvania, is it possible to im agine that for this reason the arm of the State authorities would be paralyzed, and mat they could not exact the penally ? I state these ex amples to show more clearly both the extent and the limiia ion of rightful Hanoverian juris diction in such cases, his impossible to foresee all the varying circumstances which may at tend cases as they may arise ; but it is believed that the ptinciples’laid down may generally be sufficient to guide your conduct. It is to be diiep y regretted that German gov ernments evince so much tenacity on this sub-, jecl. It would be better, far better, for them, considering the comparatively small number of their-native subjects who return to their do minions after being naturalized in this country,' n«t to attempt to exact military service from them. They will prove to be most reluctant soldiers. If they violate any law of their na- tive country during their visit, they are, of 'course, amenable like other American citizens It would be a sad misfortune if. lor the sake of an advan age so trilling to such governments, they should involve themselves in serious diffl , cullies with a country so desifogs ns we. are of maintaining with ihim the most friendly rela tions. ‘ It is fortunate that serious difficulties of this kind are niain'y confined to the German Slates —and especially that ,ihe laws of Great Britain do not authorize anji compulsory niili tary seivice whatever.” - ; This perspicuous despatch is an official ex pression uttered by the government of the Uni ted States, under the auspices of a Democratic Administration. It announces the law of the question os it is understood and felt by our people, and its tone is ns temperate as its lan guage is firm. lam wiling to admit that it is somewhat in advance of the position held by preceding administrations, but we must remem ber such has has been the wonderful progress of the United Slates in population, wea-th and power, that but a few years have intervened since, from the character of a third, or at best, second-rate nation, our great republican Con federacy has sprung to the, first place among ihe sovereignties of the world. The inlittence of our country is now greater than ever before —its vast intellectual and physical capacities are well .known abroad—and it s ems a 111 time and fit occasion in the particular case at issue, if ever, to make the declaration which has now been sent to an European Court. Thus it is, fellow citizens, of Pennsylvania, and thus it has always been, that the true spir it of our free American institutions has been re. fleeted in the noble history o(. the Democratic party, and- thus it is-that the record of the De uiocraoy is preserved'in its purity and strength. It was certainly appropriate, 100, that the par ty which reduced the probationary term of nat uralization (rom ns it was du ring the administration of theelder Adams, to five under Jefffcrson'-whtch b olted from the s alute book the- •• alien law." indicating o’ set tled purpose on the part of its friends to hnrraas and expel, from our shores the unfortunate per sons who had lied hither for refuge—Which quired Louisiana and the month of the Missis sippi, notwithstanding theory of the Opposition that there wei-e foreigners on those fertile lands, who. by the terms of the treaty, would become citizens—which has always encouraged emigra lion and territorial extension with the same hand -which made the (lag of the Union the protection of adopted citizens in 1812. in many a bloody nod glorious victory by land and sen— which quelled the fanatical insurrection of 1844. and trampled the contemptible insignia of a Know-Nothing usurpation in the mire—and whoso terrible wrath will yet teach the -Black Republican prosonplionisls of Massachusetts how perilous a thing it is to dare to trifleTwith legal equality or liberiy'in our country—ho one can deny, in fine, how appropriate it is that this same Democratic party should have assumed the initiation of a new idea in the gradual atid sure solution of the great problem of human rights. ' ■ Demagogucism is said to bo Inc leading vice of republican institutions. A ways in search of political capital, it never looks to seo wheth er it is even consistent with itself. This dis graceful fact has been recently illustrated by the shameless course of the two Opposition fac lions. Not content with grossly misrepresen ting the meaning of General Cass's letter to Mr Lo Olcrc— a mere semi-official business! no:e of a'few lines, stating’a fact by way of cautioning his correspondent, and not intended as a politi cal text in llie discussion of a principle, ns is quite p'atn up.ott its face—the factions of the Opposition, Whose oppressive, tyrannical and bigoted hostility to the.naturalized citizens may bo seen in the ruins vif churfches destroyed-by (h e. and in the mouldering rerhafns of hundreds of victims from New Orleans to St. Louis, de prived of life while endeavoring to fulfil their duty as freemen at the ballot box, have endeav ored to patronize this despised and ill-treated class of our (ellow citizens by pretending ft new born zeal in their welfare. Well may each adopted citizen exclaim in view of this sudden manifestation of friendship, as did the Trojan of obi. - Timer) Duniios el dona ferentc.i"—! fear the Greeks when they brings us gifts. • ■ • But as a further proof] ol the hollow heal ted hypocrisy which has marked the. meretricious display you have witnessed; yon will permit us lo call your particular, notice- to reCellt amendment of-the Constitution of the Stale of Massachusetts, a Stale wholly and hopelessly given to Black Republicanism, (ns disinigiiised from pure Americanism,) providing that “No person of foreign birth sha'l be entitled to vote, nor shall be eligible to office, unless be shall have resided within the jurisdiction of the Uni ted Slates for two years subsequent lo his nat uralization. and shall be otherwise qualified ac cording to the Constitution and laws of the Commonweal tin” The langungeof this amend ment speaks for itself, and requires 'no expla nation or cottimt-nli Before it could be sub mitted to the vole of the people of the State, the law required that it should be acted on and passed by two successive Legislatures. Accor dingly this was done. . It is an undisputed fact that four-fifths of each Chamber of these two successive -Legislatures,' were neither Demo crats, nor Americans, but Black Republicans. The vole of Massachusetts at the Presidential election in 185 G .wits; in-round, numbers, one 'hundred and five thousand voles for Fremont. f bo tried and nciples.uf nui- (Black Republican.) twenty nine thousand for Buchanan. (Democrat.) and twenty thousand for Fillmore, .(Know-Nothing.) ■ The proof is therefore incomesiiblc ihat this measure, origi nating with the Black Republicans, was passed through two successive legislatiiie.s in which that party was overwhelming predominant, and tliai it was finally consummated at .the popular election by .their suffrages. The immoral not to say illegal effect of this extraordinary amend ment is two told. Ii lirst discriininaiesagninai the naturalized citizens by setting them apart as a class among while men. unworthy to par ticipate in elections with them, or.in the active affairs .of government, tor the period of two : years after they have become, in compliance | with all the forms of the natura'ization law, I full citizens of the United States. : In the sec- { ond place, it makes, in derogation of the,rights atid respectability of naturalized citizens, an ex cessively insulting demonstration'in favor of negro.equality with the native-born and negro, superiority to the foreign .born. For white the naturalized citizen is prohibited from voting, although a,perfect citizen in the sense of the Constitution oi the United Stales, negroes in Massachusetts, are not. simply per mitted to vote, but arc eagerly courted to as sume the badge of electoral power. Not only j this, but ntofo.. While every white man, no i matter how long he may have resided in this country—no matter hoW immense his fortune or • heavy the amount of tits he pays, or large his family( .who miry bo made a full citizen of the United Stales to day. or who was even-made so on the tenth of last November or at liny linur since, cannot rote before or at the next Preaiilenr tial election in the State of Nassacluiscth‘~n ne gro who has rim away or been stolen from Mary land or any other slave holding State, and who (Ices into Massachusetts before the first day of next November, and remains there, may proceed to the polls and assert then and there ins politi cal equality with the native born, and his politi cal superiority to every citizen, naturalized with in' two years, who may happen by fixed resi dence, or otherwise, to be within the limits of that Commonwealth. And ,is it not apparent (hut 'if the Black Republicanparty ol Maasacliu. setts has altered ithe fundamental law ol'the State, by the introduction of a clauso restrain ing naturalized citizens from voting for two years after naturalization, that they may here after, on the same principle, extend the period of restriction to live, ton, (ifleen or twenty years; Some other Slate, unless this unconsti tutional and oppressive movement be iit'once resisted and subdued, may next amend its Con stitution with a restrictive provision in duration of time still more offensive, until, to all intents and purposes, should the example be followed by others, the old Native American doctrine of iwenfij-onc years’ residence before-, naturaliza tion. may be established in all or a majority, ot, the Slates of the. Union. It must be confessed that flits is a grave question occulting hero in the United States, under the American X'lag it self, in which every naturalized citizen ja inte rested either in respect to his honor or hisfran cliise. There is consequently no-cause for sur prise in the circumstance-that the. newspapers and politicians.of the opposition have so stren; uously endeavored, by their impudent and silly effusions regarding general Cass’ brief nolo to MivLe Clerc, to divert the popular attention from a case like this, the dread responsibility of which they cannot escape, in which, by a delib erate and solemn act of Government, they have placed the naturalized citizen, not merely in n position of political inferiority fir white men, but to negroes, and by which, they have inangu. rated a policy that,- if fully developed, would load substantially to the disfrauciiisement of all future emigrants. It docs not admit of doubt that many worthy men among the adopted citizens have 'been se duced Irom the protecting ranks of the Demo cratic party by some of tlio shallow humanita. riah theories branched by the Blacn Republican wing of tlio Opposition. They should now be satisfied that all Ibis rigmarole and rant concern ing “ freedom and human'-.rights,” and, the “ir. reprossiblo conflict between the slave-bolding and non slaveholding Stafes of the Union, until all shall become free or all shall become slave,” means the political inferiority (o whitonntive boin men and to negroes, ol other white men who are citizens by choice and law in this conn, try. This is, not the first occasion upon which Black Republicanism has manifested its dispo sition to insult and to outrage Ihu foreign horn citizens. No doubt all remember that, in the year 1850 the Know-Nothing or American Re publican Party of that day, met in Philadelphia to nominate candidates for Hie Presidency and Vico Presidency, and that their Cdnrention, or Council, proved a failure, because of non agreo menl aiming its members from the North and South, about what was called lha 12th Section. It will not and cannot bo denied that what is now the Black Republican faction throughput the North and West was largely represented in that Convention. Many of the present leaders in this faction wore delegates. Their names ctm-easily be found and clearly idontilied. The 'platform submitted contained the most coward, ly and violent attacks oh the patriotism and civil rights of the whole body of naturalized citizens. A largo, proportion of the members of the Con vention came directly from the secret midnight conclaves. And yet neither the attempt to vio late the' dearest interests of citizens on the ground of religion iu some cases, and of birth place in others, nor the companionship of Know Nothing conspirators, then embarrassed the now tender consciences of our Black Republican philanthropists. But you will remember that this American-Republican Convention broke up in confusion on the 12th section of the plalfprm, and that contained ilie negro question, ol course, and fiiothiiig' but the uegro question. .There was a German question, there was an Irish question, pnd other questions of a kindred m.."" actor,then', asnow, staring llioau f rCod “’ N mongers, and sensitive ■ philanthropist,, face,! but tho Black Republicans only had i n , rest enough in thorn to kicle them,under tlm i ’ ble, while all their best energies wore Mc i. and all their worst passions infiamed, by ti,.-’' desperate contentions over thA beloved neerri' 1 And from that day to this no.nuliohal convpn tion of ,the Opposition party, under whatever name it may have chosen lo appear for the nones has railed lo adopt q resolution sustaining, eith or directly or by (air implication, this Km,..' Nothing sentiment. "• It is true that some,of (lie men and 80mo . tins presses ot the Opposition have' pronounced against this Massachusetts aboinlliulion, fo.t the '6pist6i4ry de’CldrAtidns Of , 4 tew partizsij, .and the mouthing editorials of a fe«r mercenary newspapers amount to little or, nothing. the proper political party organs speak out their condemnation of this brutal wrong 1 Yota'taVo seen that; in the Northwest, after an exciting and ienlhencd contest in a Stale Convention or two, the Nnfivo American element Ims been com polled to yield to the naturalized influence in the Black Republican organization, and havo repudiated it. But how is it elsewhere, and penally how is it in Pennsylvania 1 There ij not a single word o(. reprobation in any one of tlie senseless reSdihlio'nS of the Opposition Con vention of the Bth of June last, but in that pro! fligato caucus sat Black Republicans anji Nothings, “ cheek by jowl,” every Black Hehhb. lican trying to fancy himself a KnowNotMdg and every Know-Nothing trying to fancy him’ self a Black Republican, deceiving each pifc|- ahd; roally ngfSoiiir in nothing except not to repudiate the Massa cli'usctls usurpation, and in sinking what )iu| o principle they ever possessed into tho nmnean. ing compromises of an unprincipled coulili|ijj';' But we have already, kllow-cilizebs, HiUyo than tilled ouralloftcd space. In fearlessly,ahit so far successfully, supporting the principles of the .Constitution, Hie Democratic parly, hns boon arid is now the true friend and-support o( the rights and interests Of the naturalised'citizens. If they, or any portion ofthem, no lhallcrwhnt their race or religion, will persist in listening favorably to the high-sounding phrases and empty promises of those who, as a parly, i 0 heartily despise them, and who will, if trusted, assuredly lead them to destruction, be.it »o.=- It may bo truthfully'asserted that nothing hns ever been done in tills cphhtry more- insulting to the patriotism and,honor of imiurallked cfil zens, or more dangerous to them, as a preen dent, than this malevolent discrimination against them by the restrictive amendment of the Con. stitulion of Massachusetts i and it is strange, with all their abundant professions, that the “People’s party” of Pennsylvania should havo maintained silence nf the outrage. In any event, it innst.be plain that, not to meet shell an net sternly and at once, is to invito -aggression and contempt ROBERT TYLER, Chairman. By Instruction of CummilUt, , Murder in Kanawha County.—A murder was perpetrated on the Sth inst.. near the hisd ; of George's Creek, in Kanawha county. Virgin ia. at the house of John Iloneyman. Stephen tlookc and John Ilagerman went up the creek from Malden to help Iloneyman to hoe'hiscnrn. They had a jug of whiskey. After supper they were a 1! drunk ; a genera! quarrel ensued, and Ilagerman got ki led. Uagerman’s skull was cleft with an axe in two or three places. The Kanawha Republican says: Iloneyman and Ronkc were, on Wednesday night, committed to jail, to await their trial. Each charged the quarrel with Hagerman. upon the other. lioneyman is about 57 years old, Ronkc is 40 odd—bo h have bad charac ters. The deceased was peaceful iii his habits. Oats.—At its last, session our Legislature passed an Act to reduce the standard weight of o its from thirty-two, to thirty pounds per bush el. w.ith a proviso that nothing contained hnhe act should he Construed ha to prevent persons from selling and buying oats by a measure. Death fiiom Look Jaw. —An interest tie son of Mr. Samuel Herat, died from loci' jaw, in Gettysburg, on Monday of last week. Cmil'olil) SfiilNUS.—There are now several hundred visitors at Bedford Springs, and the -season.promises lobe the must successful‘yet had. Ky Hon. James L. Oil’.is, of Pennsylvania, has been appointed a special agent to the Paw nee Indians, with a view of arranging all mat ters of difference between them and the United Stales, PnETTV IsctbEKT. —As Marshal M’.Mahon fil tered Milan, a little girl of live years- of age, dressed.ill white, presented him .with a boqtut nearly ap big as herself. Ho raised her upward Sridtipiatmd her standing before him on the sad djjj. “Tlio child,” says a lot ttSr, “ threw kef little arm around the sun burnt bend of tlio Con queror of Magenta, and ‘klssed-bim repealed!/ amidst tiie loudest cheers I over heard. Tlio Marshal seemed delighted with the child, and londicd her most tenderly, looking frequently .if her pretty features, And so they botli entered, Milan, amidst a' shower of boqnets imJsp- ' planse,’.’ CT-At a meeting of the Cumberland Fits Company, held on tlio 16th Inst., tlio following resolutions were adopted: liesoh’eri, That the thanks of this CoftifiatiyM tendered to Messrs. M. Mitiinich; £. D. (Iniglf/i J. S. Main, L. Parker alid L. Minnich. (or their exertions in collecting monies for Ihe purcluuo of the Hove Carriage at Philadelphia, lot the tfse of the Cumberland Fire Company. Jiesoleed, That the thanks ol this Company ha tendered to Mr. .1. T. Wallace, and tlio membntt ol tiie Pliila. Hoso and Steam Fire Company No. 1, for their kind treatment of the Commit teewhile in the city. Also to tlio Washington Fire Company at Meclianicslinrg. .for the pre sentation of three hoaulilul boqnets. Also to the members ol llie* Union and Good Will F>f° Companies, and Empire Hook and Ladder Co mpany, for escorting us to our Hose House on il» arrival. 'Resolved, That these resolutions by signed by the officers and published in, the county papers. PtTKn Spahk, Pres’t. Pro. Tim. P. Quigley, Sect’y. ftlarmb. On the 21st inst.. in the Frank ford Church, by the Rev. F. W. Kroner, of Lebanon. Bcr. Jbntr Ault. Pastor of the Siilphcr Springs Cha pel, to Miss L. Bulla, daughter of Mr.. Jacob Waggoner,.of Frankford township. , County Treasurer* AT the solicitation of numerous friend** I odor myself a candidate*for,tho office 01 County Treasurer, subject to Ibe decision ol me Democratic County Convention. . LEVI K. DONAVIK. isb’g. July 28, 1869. Slilppen: Teachers Wanted. NINE Touchers to; take charge of the Filbh® Schools of Frankford (ownship. Appu* cants will meet the School Directors, at Blosors ville, on Wednesday, the 10th of August nest, at 10 p’ctodk A. M.. whore they will bo oxani by the Superintendent, of Common Schools.; . JOHN DONER, Scct’j. July 28.1869—3t* Teachers Wauled. r PHE School Directors ol Silver Spring town" I ship, wish to employ thirteen teachers for the ensuing session, to whom a liberal salary will bo paid; Applicants will moot at Hoguos town.-for examination, on Saturday, the 6th ol August. J. 0. ECKELS, S«<V July 28, 1869-31’
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