AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. JOHN 8.-BUTTON, Editor & Proprietor CARLISLE, PA., OCT. 18. 1860. FOR PRESIDENT, STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, Or Illinois. FOR yiCE PRESIDENT, HEKSCHEL V. JOHNSON, OfOeoroia. FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS, ELECTORS AT LABOR. Geo. M. Keiji, of Berks pounty. Richard Vacs, of Philadelphia. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 14; J. Reckhow. 15. Geo. D. Jackson. 16. J. A. Ahl. 17. J. B;. Danner. 18. J. R. Crawford. 19. 11. N. Leo. , 20. J. B. Howell. 21. N. P. Petterman. 22. Samuel Marshall 23. Tfm. Book. 24. B. D. Hamlin. 25. Gaylord Church. 1. Fred’k. A. Server. 2. Wm. C. Patterson, 3. Jos,Crockett, Jr. i 4. J. GL Brenner. , 5. J. W. Jacoby. 6. Charles Kelly. 7. 0. P. James. 8. David Schall. 9. J. L. Lightnerj 10. S. S. Barber. 11. T. H. Walker. 12. S. S. Winchester. 13. Joseph Laubach. Wild Geese. —Several large flocks of Wild Geese passed over our town recently, on their journey to the Southi , Electoral Tickets.’—ln a day or so we will commence printing the electoral tickets, and invite our Democratic friends of the town ships and boroughs to call and supply them selvcs. • ■ Bain. —Daring the last two weeks wfi have had very little clear weather. The ground at this writing is like a saturated sponge, and the roads, are in a wretched condition. Our town presents a most filthy appearance, and should be cleaned before winter sets in. We hope our borough authorities will see to it at once. ' . Buckwheat 'Cakes. The prospect for Buckwheat cakes is decidedly good. The far mers are 'nbw harvesting the Buckwheat crop, which, they inform us, is a very abundant one.- ' Granville Stokes.— Thename of ‘ Stokes/ proprietor of the extensive and popular'clpth ing emporium in Philadelphia, is “familiar as a,household,word”.to all newspaper read ers. Wo advise those of our citizens who may visit/rho city to call on Stokes and procure supplies of his elegant winter clothing, which he sells cheap, and bestows upon his custo mers a gift of intrinsic worth with each arti cle sold. We invite attention to his card in another column. . Appointment. —-'At the Orphan's Court in this place, on Tuesday, Judge Graham an nounced that‘the- Court pad appointed Mr, "\Villiam Moore, of South Middleton town skip, Sequestrator of the Hanover and Carlisle I Turnpike Road Company* in place of Hon. Samuel Wood burn, dcc’d. This is a. judic ious appointment, and will give general satis faction, to the public as well as to those direct ly interested-in the road. : Fire.— About " noon, on Tuesday, a fire broke out in the old frame building, occupied" ias a cabinet-maker shop, by Mr. Pilkev, sit uated in the rear of the frame building, in Hanover street, a few doors South of our office. Before the firemen arrived; the buil ding,' which was a more shell, was nearly flo'molished,' but no other properties were in jured. ■ The fire -originated from a stove-pipe, and occurred when Mr. Pilkev was -at din-> ner.' Mr. Pilkev’s loss in tools, furniture, is .considerables , St.' Patrick’s Church. —Our Catholic friends in this place are using active measures to raise means for "the re-building of their church, which; it will be remembered,'was to tally destroyed by fire (the work of the incen diary,) a-few weeks since;- We learn, with pleasure; that the collecting committees have been quite successfuLin.this borough, having already raised some SHOO. The congrega tion worshipping in this church; it must be re membered, is small, and, with a few excep tions, its members are poor. Tt' is-right, there- 1 fore, that our citizens render a liberal aid to the re-building of their church. Let all con tribute something (according to their means,) and; Phqenix-like, the church will-soon-rise l from its ashes. , , Pure Cognac Brandy, tor Medical Pur , foses. —There is no kind of liquor more gen erally used for medical purposes than genu ine French brandy, and its medical virtues is well attested. It is seldom, indeed, however, that a pure article can be obtained, owing to the tricks of the trade. Mr. Udolpiio WoIEE; of New York, is now engaged in importing pure Brandy and Wines, which he bottles him self, and seals with.his seal. Mr. W. has been induced to embark in this enterprise at the urgent request of scores of physicians, who have felt the want of good liquors for medical purposes in their ■ Of the undoubted purity of those liquors there can be no doubt whatever, and we are tpld by those who have used the brandy in the sick room, that it has been highly extolled by the attending physi cian. It can bo 1 had at Inhoee’s Grocery store, and is sold for medical purposes only. 86?“ The American Democrat of last week contained an article under the caption of “ The Election in Cumberland," from which wo take .the following extract; * Jlr - filler substituted®^ofM ” Bfa gaw,, and circulated throughout the county ” We answer the above in a few words, by - .pronouncing it a deliberate, premeditated; in tentional lie. Every ticket printed in this of ’ flee contained the name of Mr. MraAw for County Commissioner, and were letter for let ter with those printed at the Democrat office. We stated (in ourpapor two weeks before the election,) that all tickets printed at our office IVpuld contain Mr. Meoaw-’s name, and so they did.- We were applied to-by hundreds to print tickets “ with the name of Mr. Milieu substituted for that of Mr. Megaw,” an d as pfton'rpfused. This we can prove by the per e.-nri-who applied to us, as well as by the jour neymen and boys of our office. THEE GREAT ISSUE TO BE DECIDED IN NOVEMBER ,NEXtf SHALIf THE CONSTITUTION ANn THE UNION UTANft OR FALL? Wo now. make Iho prediction that, in the event of Lincoln’s election to'the Presidency, a dissolution of the Union will follow. We are no alarmist, but wo can read the “ signs of the times,”—the “hand-writing upon the walk” The Southern States, jealous of their rights and their interests, will never permit a sectional, instead of a National Federal Gov ernment, to rule over them—never I Possibly, all the Southern States are not ready to take the responsibility and secede, but a number of them are ,ready, and when they strike, they will soon Jmve the sympathy of the balance, and eventually all the Southern States- will lock shields and stand and fight together. As sure as there is a God in Heaven, we will have fearful times in our country should the Northelect Lincoln. His election will not only be an intentional insulttothe South, but will bo regarded as a declaration of war. Mr. Lincoln has declared that “ this Union cannot endure half slave and half free,” and Seward, and Biddings, and 'Wilson, and Scmner and Love joy —the men who are regarded the body guard of Lincoln —declare boldly from the stump that the decisions of the Supreme Court (in reference to slavery,) are not binding, and should not be respected. They preach up the “higher law” principle, and talk flippantly about “an irrepressible conflict." Is it rea sonable to expect the South to pocket the in sult? What party ever dared run sectional candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pres idency ?—what party over dared to take both the men for the two highest positions in our Government from the North ? Did the Dem ocratic party ever attempt to thus insult the South? Did the old Whig party, with Henry Clay, a slaveowner, at its head, ever commit such an , outrage upon the South ? No, never. But this Black Repub lican party had to take both candidates from the North, because of its sectional character, and its hostility to Southern men and South ern institutions. It is a sectional Abolition party, and its aim and object, as Sumner de clared in a recent speech, is ,r to humble the , South and root out slavery.”: Humble thd. South, indeed!-—root out slavery! Beforethatis accomplished, every State in the Union will be bathed in- blood. Where now reigns peace - and quiet,mw’o will hear the clash of arms and the shrieks of the vanquished. Humble the South! It ean’t be done. The Northern De mocracy—the men of the Union—will assist, with strong arms and willing hearts, to strike I down the traitors who will dare to trample upon the rights-of any portion of the Ameri can people. Here in Pennsylvania the Abolition orators and editors to sneer at the alarm felt in the South. They say “ there is no danger— it is all bombast; elect Lincoln and the South will have to submit.” No danger 1 Why, the Republicans, by their acts, give the lie to their, own declarations. What means this 1 drilling of Wide-Awake companies ? What necessity is there, for teaching men the man ual, and making them acquainted with mili tary tactics in time.of profound peace? John Brown’s desperadoes in Kansas—the men who stole negroes in .Missouri, .and murdered men, women and children—were called “Wide ‘Awakes.” They had an object in view, not only in Kansas but in Virginia. They ac complished their object as far as they could, and finally their leader and a portion of his band expiated their crimes upon the gallows.' The Lincoln Wide-Awakes have also an ob ject in view; that object, Sumner tells us, is to “humble the South and-root out slavery." (Already the Wide-Awakes have commenced to arm 'themselves. A' few eyenihgs since, some two hundred Wide Awakes paraded ia l the city of Washington, • and,-according to Forney’s Washington correspondent, “Occa sional,” each man carried a : six-barrel revol ver! What for?- For the purpose of letting Southern men see that Lincoln and hiis party are determined to Carry out their sectional j doctrines at all hazards, and at any sacrifice. Has it come to this ? Are wo to submit to a military despotism?- And yet in the face of all these preparations, the stump speakers for the Black Republicans of Pennsylvania assure us there is no danger of the South becoming offended or alarmed 1 Lincoln, should he be 1 elected,' (if we are to believe the Republican journals,) is to be inaugurated by 50,000 Wide-Awakes—all armed, of course! They will “ humble the South" by their numbers and the display of their arms I They have made the threat';' we Will patiently await the sequel. We have said that'the election of Lincoln will bp the death-knell to out; Republic. We say so, because wP‘believe 1 it. Already the Black Republican Wide-Awakes are arming and drilling in- the North. They are also nnning'in the'Soutb'.- Who Knows how soon wo may hear the sound of the bilglc and the clash of arms ? And.for what is all'this con- tention ?—what is it about?- About slavery —about the negroes in the SoUth-“-aboUt a' race of beings who are happy and contented' and well cared for, (we know what We say, for wo have lived in the South, and witnessed slavery in all its phases,) and far bettor off than our free negroes of.the North. Oh, that Clay, and Webster, and Calhoun arid Silas Wright now, lived, that they might thunder forth their anathemas upon this injuriously wicked Black Republican party—these dis turbers of the tranq'iiility of the country. Men of Pennsylvania l !—Freemen of old Mother Cumberland! an awful responsibility rests upon you; A' great, a fearful, a vital issue is to be decided on the 6th day of No vember next 1 • Through the ballot-box, before the Supreme l "Buler of the Universe, (we speak most reverently,) ;and in the’eyes of the civi lized world, the citizens-of this great country will bo called npon to decide whether the Constitution and the Union our fathers made shall stand or fall—whether this great' Gov ernment, -the freest and the best the sun of Heaven over shone- upon—-shall go on in its high career of prosperity and renown, or l bo torn asunder by civil war 1 ’ Disguise it as you may, union or disunion is the question to bo decided in November. No man with n-tliim bleful of brains in his head can-foil ltd sco-that the triumph of a sectional party, wh’ose-nvow ed object is to war upon the institutions of the other half of the Confederacy, leads inev itably to a dissolution of the Union. Honoo it was that the Father of his Country warned as to beware of sectional parties, and to in dignantly frown-upon the first attenpt to alienate one section of the Union from the other'; ,{ A house divided against,itself can not Sltind,'’ holds true in the political as well ns the religion's tvorld. This weir of one’ sec tion upon the other section can have but. one. end—the disruption of the Confederacy. If continued, it must lead to estrangement, then hatred, then open and violent altercations, and then the dissolution, of the bonds that bind us together as one people. THE 14TB GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST. . So far as the two candidates wore concern ed, the.late.contest for Governor in this State was conducted in a kind and gentlemanly manner.: Gen. Foster, in nil his speeches, spoke in the most respectful terms of his op ponent, and Col. Curtin pursued the same course, and referred to Gen. Foster in the kindest manner. This was right, and it goes to prove that gentlemen can disagree upon cer tain questions of public policy, and yet remain personal friends.; It too often happens, in these degenerate times, that candidates seek ing the same office become personal enemies, and consider it their duty to deal in slander and vituperation. Too often are our political contests disgraced by the candidates them selves, who speak of each other in language at once obscene and libellous. Messrs. Cur tin and Foster —to their credit, bo it said adopted a different course of policy, and in" stead of abusing, they praise drench other.— They have always been personal friends, and will be so still. We hope the example they have set may henceforth, bo observed by all candidates. 0“ Reading aloud develops the lungs just ns singing does, if properly performed. The effect is to induce the drawihgof a long breath /every once in a while, oftener and deeper than of reading without enunciating. These deep inhalations never fail to develops the capacity of the lungs in direct proportion to their practice. Common .consumption begins Uniformly with imperfect, insufficient breath- I ing; it is the characteristic of the disease that the breath becomes shorter and shorter thro’ weary mouths, down to the close of life, and whatever counteracts that short breathing, whatever promotes deeper inspirations, is cur ative to that extent, inevitably and under all circumstances. Lot any person. make the experiment by reading this article aloud, and in less than three minutes the instinct of a long breath will show itself. This reading aloud develops a weak voice, and makes it sonorous. It has great efficiency, also, in making the tones clear and distinct, freeing I them from that annoying hoarseness which the unaccustomed reader exhibits before he has gone over half a pages when he has to stop and hem, and clear away, to the confu sion of himself, as much as that of the sub ject. tjN HEALTHINESS OP Hot BREAD.— When will our good housewives learn the science of preparing andsetting forth only healthy food. Hot bread and saleratus cakes ought to be indicted for murder in the second degree. Hot bread never digests. Bear this in mind, reader, ifyou are-accustomed to eat the light and tempting biscuit at tea, or the, warm loaf that looks sd appetizing at the breakfast ta ble. After the long season of working and tumbling about in the stomach,, it will begin begin to ferment, and will eventually be passed out of the stomach as an unwelcome tenant of that delicate organ, but never di gests—never becomes assimilatad to, or ab sorbed by, the organs that appropriate hutri- tion to the body. It is a first-rate dyspepsia producer, and should bo ignored by all who are afflicted with, or wish to avoid, that terrible disease. Stand Fast. ■ Democrats of Cumberland county, the enemy has triumphed in the preliminary or first bat tle of the campaign. But let not this dis hearten you. ■ Stand fast to your integrity, and continue boldly to,advoc3te and contend for the doctrines of the "Constitution; as band ed down to you by Jefferson, Jackson, and Polk. Maintain your organiz ation in tho several township's and' districts, and prepare for the great battle inNovefnber.- True Democrats are never driven from' the field by a defeat. Oh the contrary, it but prompts them to increased activity and en ergy, because they know that if they" are faithful to the good old cause, victory will,’: indue time.be their reward. Rally, then, fellow Democrats. United we Stand I— Now that the Demo cratic party in Pennsylvania is happily uni ted upon one electoral ticket, past errors ought not to ho vindictively remembered. Recriminations and curses make no friends. Their real significance now is to tench us the road to future reformation. “ Let the dead bury their dead," and let every patriotic, Un ion-loving citizen unite upon tho only course which will bring safety, peace and prosperity to the Nation. BSf A boy named Env had his foot taken off by the cars at Harrisburg, a few days since. Ho attempted to jump oh tho cars when they were in motion, when he fell, with foot under tho wheels. Another sad' warning to boys. . A Goon Law.— The last Legislature of New York passed a law that no person having a husband, wife, child, or parent, shall, by will give more than-one-half of his property to any benevolent, charitable, literary, scientific, re ligious, missionary society, association or cor poration, in trust or otherwise. Any gift of more than one-half, is void as to the excess above one-half. BST The equinoctial storm has raged over tho middle and southern portions of our States with fearful-fury. In New York the flood in the harbor was so high that tho Vanderbilt could not proceed to sea on Saturday. We al so leorn by telegraph that a greater portion of the town of Norfolk, Virginia, was sub merged by the flood. Sworn In.— Capt, Miller, the new County Commissioner, took the oath of office on Mon day, and entered upon his dutios.- B 6?“ Gen. Cass, at present' Secretary of State, has been in high public positions since 1 1802, a period of 68 years. ■ The Straight-Out Dohglai Ticket Withdrawn, ■ The bougloa Straight-out Committee met in Philadelphia on the 18th inat., tind determin ed to withdraw the Straight-out Rouglas elec toral ticket, and also recommended the Head ing electoral tioket.to the support of the Doug las iqen of the State. As theDcm'oorn'tio State Committee has already recommended the Rea ding ticket as it was constituted by the State Convention, without conditions or pledges, there is now only one ticket in the field clai ming the support of Democrats. Dndor these circumstances wo can urge upon Democrats everywhere, without regard to Presidential preferences, to use their utmost exertions to have the full Democratic vote of the State polled in November. We agree vAth the Harrisburg Union, and do not feel disposed to quarrel with the mem bers of the Straight-out Dougins Committee for the reasons assigned in their resolutions and address for withdrawing the disorgani zing electoral ticket, now that they have thought proper to take tho back track. They are perfectly welcome to extricate themselves from a disagreeable position with all the plau sibility and grace at their command. But it is somewhat difficult to preserve a respectful degree of gravity while reading tho excuses which this Committee have rendered to the public. The sum and substance of their apol ogy is, that their only object in getting up on electoral ticket in opposition to tho ono regu larly constituted at Reading, was to induce the regular State Committee to adhere to tho Reading ticket unconditionally; and that they never wished the electors to bo specifically pledged to vote for Douglas in the event of their election; regarding the resolutions of the Reading Convention as binding them to vote for Douglas arid Johnson os the regular nomi- ncos of tho National Convention. Since the State Committee has rescinded the compro mise resolutions, they are perfectly satisfied. This is certainly drawing it very mild. The Straight-out Committee might have saved themselves much trouble, and possibly the De mocratic party from defeat, if they had made known their intentions several months ago . The sole object of the regular State Commit tee in proposing a compromise, in view of the divisions existing in the Democratic party, was to concentrate the vote upon a' single elec toral ticket. Had tho Committee been aware that the. Douglas men would have been satis fied with the Reading ticket, pure and simple, without specific pledges,, we have no doubt that it would have recommended that ticket to the support of tho party without a moment’s hesitation. The only reason why they did not, ■ was because the .Douglas men insisted upon the electors being all pledged to vote for Douglas. If a return to tho Reading ticket was the only object of the Douglas Commit tee, why did they insist upon interrogating the electors, and why did they strike from the list all who would, not answer unequivocally ■in favor of DouglaSand Johnson? ■ Bat Mr. John Cessna gives a much better reason for withdrawing the Straight-out tick et than the resolutions and address of tho Com mittee. He expressed apprehensions that if this ticket was kept in. the field it would'.get only an insignificant nyjmbor of votes, and this would he taken as niv. indication of Douglas’ strength, or rather in'Pennsylvania. As hefbte remarked,mowCver, wo will not quarrel, with these' gentlemen for doing a good, thing, or seek to deprive them of any excuses for their misconduct. We are gratified to find that tribulation has brought repentance, and that they have at lost been brought to see the virtue of adhering to tho regular organisation of the party. , The Next Congress. The late elections indicate, beyond a doubt, that the next House of.Reprosentativcs of the United States will bo opposed to the Black Republican party. At present they it, having organized it with a Republican Speaker, after along and desperate struggle The Democrats and opponents of the Black Republicans have elected the following mem bers in the free States: Oregon, Ohio, Pennsylvania;- Indiana;- To these mhy be ad<ied' the five Shutliern districts in Illinois, the two members in Cali fornia, and’ at least ten, if not m6re, in New York, marking in the free States, at least thirty-five, with a chance of others in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Michigan Massachusetts. Every member from the' slave States, savd Blair, of St. Louis, and perhaps Winter DAvis,' of Baltimore, if ho should bo elected, will opt pose the Republican party/ The house will thus stand: ■ ' : ■", ,' Democrats in the North, Anti-Republicans in the South, This gives a majority against tho Republi cans in the House ofnine, as it consists, in. all. of but two hundred and thirty-seven members. The United States Senate—which meets after the 4th of March—will also contain a major ity opposed to the Republican party. If so inexperienced and extreme a man as Lincoln should unfortunately, be elected President, he would meet both houses of Congress opposed to him at tho beginning pfhis Administration, and would be unable to carry through any Executive measure. There would be a dead I lock, and unfriendly feeling to begin with, between him and Congress. . As it is now certain that both houses of Congress will be opposed to Lincoln, how foolish for any American citizen to vote for a President who cannot accomplish anything, if he should be chosen, and whose Administration would be a pitiable specimen, of iihpotoncy, England fob- Lincoln.— Monarchinl Eng land desires nothing bo much ns the election of o Republican President, and the London Chronicle tells us why, “Wo would be very sorry to see Mr. Douglas elected,” it says, 11 because ho is in favor of the obnoxious in stitutions ns they exist, and the unity of the States. There is no safety for European monarchical governments if the progressive spirit of the Democracy of the United States is allowed to. succeed. Elect Lincoln, and the first bloto to the separation of the Viiited States is effected I” Jdgy» The Legislative Council of Canada have taken a firm stand against death-bed bequests —enacting that no bequest 'will bo valid if 1 mode within six-m’ontlurof the testator’s death*’ High-Handed Outrage. r Black Republican Fraud —A Democratic • Congressman ovt or ms Election 1 • The Black Republican party in this State, ■ not satisfied with thcir_ success at the late • election, have resorted to a base fraud in or • der io deprive tho Democrats of the represon ■ trition in Congress ,to which they are fairly • entitled; Tito victim is William E. Lehman, i Esq., the member elect in tho First District, ■ comprising a portion of tho city of Philadol '■ phia ; and tho instrument by which the fraud 1 upon him has been practised, is one William 1 Byorle, a Return Judge of the notorious 1 “ Fourth Ward.” Tho returns, ns filed in the i Prothonotary’s office, show that Mr. Lehman was elected by 148. majority; but .when the ! Return Judges met, it was discovered that ■ the figures of the Ward represented by Byrelc i had been altered so as to elect . John M. But ler, the Black Republican candidate, by 198 • majority, and the certificate of election was given to him. The Judges of the several pre cincts swore that the return made by Byerlo was a forgery, os they had never signed it; and tho matter was immediately brought be fore the Court. Judge Thompson said the Court had no jurisdiction in the case, and so Mr. Lehman wili be compelled to go before Congress, and await the slow process of the investigation of a contested election case by that body, to settle his right to a scat. Byerlo has been arrested and hold to bail in §l5OO on tho charge of forgery, and wo hope he may speedily get his deserts, Although tho fraud committed is so palpa ble that even the Republican papers admit it, and recommend Mr. Butler to give up .the certificate which rightfully belongs to his competitor, that gentleman has published a card, declaring his determination to hold on to it, and claim a scat under it.. A more dis graceful case of political rascality was never exhibited, .and that man must bo lost to all sense of honor and common honesty who would in tho face of it, take advantage of the wrong. ExTßAonniXAnr Soicjde.— Tho son of Mr. Bradbury, of tho eminent firm of Bradbury & Evans, of London, printers, and. proprietors of Punch and other well-known publications, has recently committed suicide, in a remarkable manner. He went to Cremorno Gardens and spent tho evening in the amusements of that celebrated place. Towards the 1 close of the entertainment he procured silver for a ton pound note, and going to tho front of the dan cing platform, scattered it among tho crowd. Ho then called for a glass of grog, and having emptied into it a phial of prussic acid, made a speech, proposed the health of the company, drank off his glass, and alas 1 fell dead in the midst of that scene of wild riot and confusion. Ho was a young man of great ability and pro mise, and was very recently presented with a gold watch by the Emperor of tho French, in acknowledgement of the value of an improve ment he had made in printing. What do Von Think of This ? Wo request the attention of every voter to the following notice, which wo find published in the Pittsburg Daily Dispatch,, tbc lcadlng Republican paper of that oity,io^®p|pbcf' f. People of Cumberland county;- wnntr' do you think of it: BSST- COLORED MEN OF PITTSBURG AND VICINITY—You are requested, to bicct and form yourselves into WIDE AWAKE CLUBS immediately, for the purpose of further ing the interest of the friend of " the human race, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Our colored brethren had a tremendous demonstration in Boston recently. Already New York has spoken in favor of universal suffrage. ; They who would be free themselves must strike the blow.” And if colored men ’ would have their rights, they should move, for the success of their friends. Do not leave the Dutch and Irish monopolize all the honor of electing Lincoln and Hamlin. Colored men have a right to act at the Polls as a Vigilance Com mittee for the prevention of illegal-voting, John Brown, the hero of Harper's Ferry is yet to bo avenged. OSS AW ATOMIE. C 7" A large number of letters wore found broken open and scattered about the streets in Galveston, Texas, a few mornings since, and rumors of a robbery were immediately in cir culation, but an investigation revealed that two little girls were the authors of the mis chief. They saw the boxes full, and took out as many as they could conveniently carry, to sfee what was in them. When found, one of the girls was admiring a draft for $l,OOO, The poSt-litUtt'tbf Vbb'hdk'fhat office in charge deserves an inefease of salary. A curious case of longevity is riftticed'in a letter from Key West, Florida; to tbd'Ncw Orleans Picayune: “ The curiosity of visitors to this place may be gratified by witnessing a connecting link of bygone times,'in'the per son of a negfess;' aged one hundred'and twcii ty-seven years. She lives with her sfin, aged sixty-nine—who owns her; —in a comfortable little house outside the limits of the town. Aged as she is, her faculties are good, and she walks every Sabbath, a distance of a half mile, to attend church. I question if many other instances of longevity, greater than this, . will have been developed by the late census.” Nebraska Territorial Election. —lt now appears that J. Sterling Morton, Democrat, instead of S. G. Daily, Republican, is elected Delegate to Congress from tyeljraska. The returns of the Territory are all in except Shorter and Salem counties. Morton (Dom.) has 55 majority, and the two counties to hear from will probably increase the Democratic majority to 150 or more. The Legislature stands; House, Republicans 22, Democrats 17. Council, Republicans 6, Democrats 6. In doubt 1. Down on Tobacco.— The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at its late annual session, adopted the following pream ble and resolution: “ Whereas, The use of tobacco is a great evil, and leads to other evils; therefore, “ Resolved, by the Ohio Conference, That after the present session, we will not receive any person into full communion who persists in the use of tobacco." ■ O’ The most graphic drawing of the char acter of Hannibal Hamlin, Kepublicah candi date for Vico President, was made by Senator Brown, in a recent speech, ns follows: “Mr. Hamlin is a man of fair mental en dowments. If he.is remarkable for any thing, it is for knowing which way the wind is going to blow, and always getting his sail set so as to catch the first breeze. He took up politics as a young- duck takes to water, because it was his element. If I owed the devil a gen uine, simon-pure Yankee, and meant to settle fair, I would sdnd him Honhibsl Hamlin." OFFICIAL VOTE. CURTIN’S MAJORITY 32,024. Wo aro at last enabled to present the offi* oJol vote from the whole State, from which it will bo seen that the official majority is 32,- 024. The table, as published, has been made up from, the official returns deposited in the Secretary’s office:. ' COUNTIES. i .Adams, j Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, ’ ■ Bedfifd,' ' i Berks, i Blair, Bradford, Bucks, Butler, Cambria, Carbon, Centre,' Chester, Clarion, Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia, Crawford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Elk, Erie, . Fayette, Franklin, ' Fulton, Forest, Greene,, 1.529 Huntingdon, maj.9so Indiana, 3,072 Jefferson, 1,880 Juniata, 1,503 Lancaster, 13,012 Lawrence, 2,045 Lebanon, 3,847 Lehigh, 4,105 Luzerne, . 0,002 ■Lycoming, 3,015 M’Kcan, 1,048 Mercer, 3,624 Mifflin, , 1,723 Monroe, 822 Montgomery, 5,812 Montour, : 983 Northampton, 3,507 Northumberland, 2,429 421 5.013 3.382 4,053 828 Perry, ■ 2,410 2,128 Philadelphia, 40;233 42,119 Pike, 324 . 843 Potter, 1,410 615 Schuylkill, : 7,301 , 7,067 Somerset, mnj. 1,605 Snyder, , 1,704 .1,134 ’’ullivnn, 50,1 Sullivan, 394 ' 543 Susquehanna, 4,110 2.456 Tioga, 4,147 1,331 Union, , 1,820 1,019 Venango, 2,581 ' 2,122 Warren, 2,112 1,172 Washington, 4,768 ■ 4,200 Wayne, 2,610 .2,537 Westmoreland, 4,830 5,276 AVyoming, maj. 174 York, 5,322 6,665 Total, 257,546 ’ 225,522 The United Slates Senatorial Contest. . Both branches of:thc . Xicgislaturo . being largely Kepublican, that parly will, have things their, own way. As a United States Senator is to be Olecfcd the,, coming winter, there are, of bourse, a great hinny candidates fur that exalted position, some worthy and capable, and others very, unworthy and in capable. The I’ennsylcunidn has heard the names of David Wilnfbt, Morton M’Miohaol, Alexander K„ M’Clure, Ex-Governor Pollock, A. 11. Boeder, Thaddeus Stephens, Eli Slifer, Henry C. Carey and William B. Mann, men tioned in connection with the. office; and doubtless there are scores of others who would have no objection to servo in it. Wilmot and Boeder have suffered some in the. cause, and for this reason claim the sympathy of their party friends. M’Cluro will claim the' credit of engineering this campaign, and will not bo partially modest in demanding his re" ward. lie has many failings , and frailties, but modesty is not* one of them. Neither is Mann much troubled in this way. The West, will also probably have some candidates to offer. We have heard the name of Gen. J. K. Moorhead mentioned among the rest, How. they Talk.—The Richmond Enqui rer, in predicting a dissolution of the Union as inevitably consequent on the election of Mr. Lincoln, holds the following extraordina ry language with reference to that conserva tive old ComnWmwfettltht vllrfeh the late Wil liam C. Preston was -rf-ont fb call the 1 '" #lag Ship” of the Union: . _ “ Virginia can no more prevent the dissolu ;ion of this .Union after Lincoln’s olc’otion Jinn she can prevent that election. Slftf'will bo powerless to present civil war, with all its attendant horrors. Any one of the Southern’ States can, and some of them will, involve the whole country. North as well as South, in the internecine strife of a bloodyn'nd desolating civil war. Virginia will, by a majority of her people, decide upon resistance, while a large minority may desire to postpone resistance for the “over,act;” but. hitched as she is to the Southern States, she will bp. dragged into a common destiny with them, no matter what’ may be the desire of her people. Wo believe that a largo majority of the people of Virgin ia, if the opportunity of a State Convention was allowed them, would vote for immediate resistance and for a common destiny with the Southern States; and with this belief we would advise the slave States not to hesitate.to strike an early blow fron\ fear that Virginia may hesitate in her duty to the South.” JJjay* IfOOtard, the brilliant trnpoz performer of the Paris circus, has been engaged in Lon doner one year, at a salary of §25,0001 Think of that, Mr, President of the United States. • * One hundred and eighty double setts wore on the floor at one time at a late ball in San Francisco. Two thousand eight hundred and eighty people were simultaneously “ bob bin” round. ; 1 S®“Tho Petersburg Express soys that the lady, the Hon. Edward Everett is ongaged to marry, is-the widowed daughter of Judge Pet- tigrew, of South Carolina. The lady is de scribed ns. a blande, attractive, intellectual, wealthy, and about thirty-three years i>f,'age." Mcnbpi of a Missionary by : Indians.— Judge Greenwood, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, has inclosed to the Secretary of the Interior a letter from Mr. Robinson, superin sionary to the Crow Indians, by a party of Oncpapa Sioux, Lincoln'* Want of Pairioii,^ In the House., of Representative,' 21st of February, 1848, Mr. Chase ',” 0 ’ unanimous consent of the House to : following resolutions of thanks to th ° officers and soldiers who distinsui.t.i selves'in the war with Mexico- iq jressiimal tiobe, Vol. 18, l st s'.' 0 «•» Congress, page 380.) v 0B »^. Rcsolv.d, Ac., That the thanks of n are due, and are, hereby tendered , IP dier General!). Ei Twiggs, Bro Vet W. ' neralW.J. Worth. MalSr’ Genera, ft? low, and Brigadier General James , and, through them, to the officers and 2 of the regular and volunteer corn, Command, for their gallantry and d °T skill, displayed at the siege and'l”!' 1 Vera Ciifz, and the San T" Ulua, March, 1847 ; and at thc I? Oerro Gordo, April, „ 1847 ; at battles of Contreras, San, Antonin rubusco, August, at the mil • SS^:W That the thanks of Concresa i tendered to Major General R. Patte« " through him to the officers and his command, for thAir gallant bearCS siogo of Vera Cruz, and the cantn™ 7*i castle of San Juan de Dlua and aUI. ■' “i of Cerro Gordo, in March in d Ap Vi 75 That the thanks of Congress are hereby tendered, to Major Generic A. Quitman, and through him to lb fe and men Under his commahd t fcft ism and good conduct at the fall o fVm?’ and the strong castle of San Juan b in and at the Splendid victories achieved!,7 arms in the valley of Mexico, in Au-tuiS September, 1847. ’ Au S" sl^ That the thanks of Congress are doe J are hereby tendered, to Brigadier GciJ Franklin Pierce. Pcrsifor F.4 nith an ff Cadwalador, and through them to tbofe end men under-their command, for tb* tary skill and good conduct exhibited bvit« at the splendid victories ohlnirtaife. in the valley and.before the Ci«TOlcxito,i August and September, 1847. , ■ Resolved!, That those victories, foH m each other in quick succession, and mi from the enemy under all oifottirista n( create a doubt which to admire the most skill and gjlantryof the commandotslL indomitable , courage of the soldiers, stt prompted this band of hCrob to press f uniJ r into the heart of thC Cridiiij-’a country,!* coming every obstacle, scattering the arts of Mexico like chaff beforo the wind, unlilti most signal triumphs are crowned hj (hep. session of the far-famed “ Halls of the JMlt zumas.” 033 2,409 3,550 3,379 957 2;C09 Resolved, Tlmtthe President of the Cnild' States bo, and ho is hereby requested, toaw to be struck eight gold medals, with iletia emblematical Of the series of brilliant rite ries achieved by the army, and that one hi presented to each of , the generals namedia those resolutions, ns a testimony of the hid sense entertained by Congress of their il and good conduct in the brilliant cammijjr 1847. Objections being made, Mr,'Chose irod/ suspension of the rules .to allow him to of the resolutions; Tho vote was talta, stood—yeas 110, nays 54. ABRAHAM W/ COLN, now the Blnok Republican candiJ for President, voted against this motion, ' with the Abolitionist GIDDINGSI On ordering the main question on (lie passage of the resolutions, Mr. LINCf along with the Abolitionist GIDDINGS, voted against them. . (See Congmii Globe, vol.lB, page 381.) j • What American, with a spark of li triotism in. his soul, can give his vote tc so bigoted and unpatriotic us ti) reft just tribute of gratitiiilp who so nobly vimlitvitea' the..- hpuffto) country in the hnttlc-lields (if Mexico! 1\ soldier who fought in thoso uhUle.s— wlial tizen who had a friend or relative that pci out his life-blood in the achievement of ll brilliant triumphs of American valor,canm his vote for the man whose heart is socnllw to every patriotic* bittotiun, that lie culillyit fuses even the poor meed of “thank you"(i the nation's heroes who survived the siifi nary war? I ' IC7” Wo have intelligence of- no less Ihi two railroad accidents in the Western Sils On Friday a collision occurred on the Detroit and Milwaukee llailroad, two miles mild the toWn of Birmingham, between the Irn/ and express trains. Three of the attatlf the train,,,wero killed. The other teeHsit took phico on Saturday, on the CJevclidv Erie Uailroad. Xhomnil train going' ran into a wagon near Painsvillo. A arid boy on the cars were killed, another and infant being seriously injured'. Danger from.. Lincoln’s Eitciiox.- i parties agree that if Lincoln is elected Union will bo in'da'hger/ Dal the' Bind publicans' themselves do not even protein the Uniorii will bo-jeoparded by the siicc either of the other candidates;' Nb pi will oast rt' voto thdt cSti a'ny possil of thegoyVhiilfcnt •will do so bait the 'eneffilds bf'theTl o'oiii i 0“ At the Ball in New York City, ii or of the Princoof Woles, the following! twelve in number, had the honOr of di wifh . himi ’Mrs. Morgan, sHss JpA- Mason, Mrs. Gould Hoyt, Miss H. Mrs. Edward Cooper, Mrs. Auguili Mrs. Belmont, Mrs. M. B. Field, Boren, Mrs. Kernochan and Miss Bn* The Prince and the his stay in Boston , the Prince enco to Edward Everett, who W r Ralph - Farnham, the last surviving who,fought at'Bunker. Hill. ' Heisonn dred-years of ago, and his youngest dong who accompanied him, is a sprightly w ( of Sovonty-six. The Prince was very* 11 the old gentleman, and quite won hw os was evinced by his remark, that 1 1 1 allers acted like this to a body, them be less wars.” Hon. John 0. Biwokiniupok w#» *> Covington,, Ky.,i last Thursday ov(»ingi was expected to visit Cincinnati— -ttcoti haying bean appointed to invite him Bcrnino in ErFiav.—A number of D ( ornts in Lancaster burnt Cbl. Forneym in Centre Square, on Saturday evening* treatment to the Colonel, at the han B ' old neighbors— he native o 8@“ On Sunday night of last wec ’ gro,'ih attempting to escape with son l ® bacon, (the Wner being in piwwuWJ* down a preoipioe thirty feet high and atantly killed, in Lynchburg, Vo. f First Snow.— Snow fell at ttU ° j.i, in this State, on the night of the, W to the depth of two , inches, add at ® ir . ton, ,N. Y., to tho depth- df throe >» cl the same time^ I'**’*' ->•
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