ABOLI'fIO.NISM j.\ ENGLAND.
W ? copy from the New York Presbyte
rian) oneoftfio oj.ost influential and witfo
tM feiigious papers or tho
the, following article in re
laHipn to t|te abolition movement in Eng
iflhcf and the reception of Mrs, Stowe in
thfiltblfnlfy, 'Written,- ns iho .article is,
religioup oiid more I. ra ther'than A
pOKflCal poirit of view, we commend it to
x)(ir>i)feßrdeyB as a powerful exposure of the
•vilsVof that social system in England now
parp&tiiaied and maintained by ilio same
drjstdC/atic class Which has .made the rp*j
ception of ,Jlrs.. Stowe an. uninterrupted j
(exhibition of ignora nce, extravagance and
laftAtatism on the subject of slavery in the j
United States. . i
' frum iho'Prrahytoi-inn-
Mrs- Stowe—Etlluburgli Banquet—Slavery
Our papers'from Scotlutid are largely
occupied .ivii'h the honors done to Mrs.
SidnVt'c iTiip l Edinburgh Witness of the
aSitmlt;, contains a report extending thro’
several of its large, closely printed col
uraa.of a banquet given her in Edinburgh
in the 20th ult. Tickctß had boon in de
mand for sortie days before, dijd the great
hsll' tvhoro thebanquet Was held was tilled
Aflihourbefore tbo -ctommencement of tho
proceedings. Tile' most remarkable fea
tote'of the. occasion was, that over tho
platform wore oxtended a number of flags,
amongst which was the American flag
frtttiilATEU, displaying the stars but not
HKPWripes;” and that Mrs. Stow and her
idite were willing to sit under tho dishon-
mediated'flag of their country, io
ifeilWrtg tHe incense of flattery n» tho ex
petfeoPoflho honor of the land which gave
tthdrni birthi We had boforo supposed that |
ilO American abroad,- however low the
flartSS Of his patriotism might have burned
home, could ever soo the flag of
Ihlfe'CoUhtry unfurled without a glow of na
iidrial pride and patriotism. The s : ght of
<hdt flag, ‘whetlior run up at mast-head in
imUPocean, or floating lazily amongst the
Shipping of a foreign port, or hung out
■frtfrti the United’tkates consuluto in some
(ittfang<9 dld ; clty, or whfcrOvor else abroad,
.has 'isrtldoin failed to touch tender cords in
•ati 'A'mericnn bosom. For onco wo have!
aft'-exception. Here nronlrioof Amori-|
'ijdhs, Beated under the mutilated ensign of:
country,- in a foreign land, in the I
! a#St i fii embrace of the very parties whohad
-aflhoted its profanation. No remonstrance
'is?heard from them; not one word of lofty
pttftibtism escapes their lips. Bewitched
|jjr tho - (recompense they are receiving for
-having held up their country to odium in
every land where its namo is known,
'thrOtigh a fiction which presents in exag
gerated colors its worst features, they
drink up the nectar of flattery poured out
forthdm, and are content to witness their
h&ubn'a dishonor. Whenever they speak
hf their country it is in apologetic terms.
Betas if they felt that they had been
eaugbtin bnd company in being citizens
of the'llrtited States, and that they must
irtailAi thtf best excuse possible. They
speak as so many martyrs, who had un-
Bergone they know not what to remove a
national evil, and now need the en
fOtrrtigerrient abroad which they cannot
flfid at home. We are glad to see, howev
d»,: that whilO Mrs. Stowe and her party
dW content' to hold upoiir sins for denun
ciation, there are persons even in Scotland,
-#hb' , 'cahhot altogether forget that those
Who are there throwing stones at us with
such good will are not altogether without
din'thbiriselves. They ore constrained to
admit/lhat even though there is a beam in
hbrByd,'’thero is at least a moat in their
oWn^Wndsome of the public journals
Wvb ilie honesty to say that they hope that
’thbWutb'orofUncle Tom’s Cabin will bring
to light tlie wretchedness which is nearer
■ TWite' - tp ; them ‘ than arc the plantations of
-southern States.
" Dr. jGtithric, who judging from the re
port, rtUtide by fir the most elbqucnt and
effective jpepch at'this banquet, seems to
.have beeti conscious that there might be
rqpft for tin retorting upon them. “Pjiy-
Blciftn/heal thyself.” He alludes to'the
''%iqrt i qtBde in the letter of'the American
' tiidTO ib lbply to that of the Stafford House,
'’diiiij'herO'is the best excuse he can M make
' 'jor .himself and his counlrymbn: ,
, , ?“l.:have no hesitation in saving of tho
Jflttep Which appeared in newspa
f‘tS?profqsqjijg .to come from’American
it did so or not, they best
tow : who wrote it—in.answer toShat most
nobfc, and geijtle, apd most Christian ad
it lsWihj*Wcß went from, Stafford House,
fflat if ivqs only b bad heart or a very
.iOTP O # head that could have confounded
our defects With the deep-stain
,J aiapjf.XtP)3) , jcbn slavery- Ido not da-
are defects , jn bur country ;
say is this—thaf they are inci-
-to an ; bW country like
Dr. Simpson knows very well,
and so does .eye/ry metjical man, that
?! ,8 ets oW he gets infirm,, his
get ossified, and so on; but
01 enter ipto that part of the sub*
is true of an old country is
. men; aye, and old women, too.
7iA m .ViY'Wv much disposed to say of this
,/*,y<Wsg nat»>p pp America, that their twit
.'Mog-VfiWfl b 'r. defect's plight just be met
bjjfW'.Tfft a , n .®L ® r Wsjitch a worthy minister
gave to his son,
an dtssausfien ,; ith fa defoctB j n
that he fcrljli ato
■ co pvsrjo u young commu-- j.;
youjK
na lang as ours, it, will maybe jireea..-
; "f^.’jtool 1 ’.; ;Row, I. do not deny tha^| (
; wiping; everybody knows 1 haU,
'"s3* singing out about sweeping for the
five years. Let me teli my good
. iVLends th Edinburgh, and in the country,
sooner you.sweep thp better; ejso
, ' ilw chimney may catch fire, and redpco
vout noblo.Jabrin to ashes... 1 hey told us
jp.thnt. letter abput the pp.oy needle-women
, that hpd to ,yvprk sixteen Jtopr? n
‘ ‘’Tis true/’tis pity, and pity ’da ’tip;.true.
,But does the law compel, jtlietn to work
boms a‘dnyTV.)l^pp!d.lik<ih> v ask
the writer of tiiis letter, Are they bound do if sho should live to Methuselah s age*;
down to their garrets nnd cellurs (or six- and still they have never had their
teen hours a day ? May they not, go whore blazoned abroad for it, nor had their pock
they like, and seek better wages nnd bet- ets lined with money—but contrariwise
ter work I Can the slave do that?” i ’crpplied—nor received free tickets for Eu.
| Wo have po hesitatipn.in saying;that'ropean tours, nor been banquetted mid
] [here is a.' law in Britain as stern .and' in- presented-with silver salvers. On the other
j vincibro'es tfrty which ever wns enacted byf jiaiid, their ;namos havo either been juri
j the legislature of;a soiitherti' State, which! knojvh, or, incommon,with tho whole class
'compels the : poor ! needle : wqmen to.labor''io wheh they belong, they, havobeen yil
' sixteen .hours a day-—the'London Tinics lifietl by*tho'vory lips which arc now sing
land tho Edinburg Witness themselves'be* ing hosannas to Hurriet Beecher Stowe,
ling the witnesses. The needle- women Wo think it would bo well for the public
“cun go where they like and seek belter to think on these things a little—at least
wages;” yes, they may cease to work whon they havo dono flinging up their hats
sixteen hours a day—they have liberty to ' over Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
go elsewhere; but such liberty is.tho lib- The longer wo look ut this subject the
erty to starve —the liberty to sacrifice vir- more fully wo uro convinced that the best
tue to gain bread—thu liberty to livo in friends of the slnvo are dwellers in his own
prostitution and die innn almshouse. The 1 South. In that South are those Who recei
ivon law of necessity declares that theso ved a poor,naked suvage,fresh from Africa
poov wome/i s.hall toil through their.miser- and tho horrorsof tho middle passage; they
übie existence sixteen hours out of the have clothed him, fed him, visited him in
thcy shall beshuL up in sickness, have taken charge ofhischildrcn
eejjarp or garrets, or else meet the inevit- in infancy, and provided for him in help
pble penally, an infamous life and achcer- .less old age; have taught him a Saviour’s
loss, horrible dpath, jnamc, and been 'instrumental in shedding
We have no desire to defend or perpet
uate the evils of slavery ; but wo nru com
pelled to say that we have never seen or
| heard of such things amid southern slaves
[as we have ourselves both heard of and
seen in Great Britain. In tlmt very city
of Edinburgh, we looked from our hotel
windows, the first morning wo over gazed
into its streets, upon a cluster of. wnn,
halfsturyed wretches begging for bread.—
In tho beautiful Emerald Isle wo were
pointed to multitudes who, as we wore as
sured on the best authority, never enjoyed
the luxury of a morsel of meat for months
at a timo. Who over heard of n southern
slave bogging for bread f Whoever heard,
except in the rarest instances, of thoir
wanting for meat from unco to twice a day ?
In lyhnt portion of the South aro slaves
compellod to work sixteen hours out of tho
twenty-four ? Sluves aro held in involun
tary .bondage, to be sure, but (he condition
of that bondage is such that tho wretched
poverty-stricken thousandsofflritain would
coll it pnradise, if a lot so easy and so well
provided for could be made their own. It
is vain, 100, to say that British law has no
part in oppressing theso wretched sons and
daughters of want. British law establish
es privileged classes; British low entails
property.; British law Inys heavy taxes;
British law upholds the expensive bauble
of monarchy,gjnd British law is responsi
ble for the results which such a system
necessarily induces as regard tho lower
stratum on which this great
Tho voice of the oppressed poor, crdlned
to tho dust under such a superincumbent
structure, has just as little hopo of being
heard, and just as powerless to remove it,
as is the voice of the southern slave in se
curing relief from his condition.
It is curious to sec how Dr. Guthrie!
fends off when the thought of Britain’s own i
sins is suggested: “I do not deny," snys|
he, “that there are defects in our country;
but what I will sny is th : s—thut they are,
very much incidental to nn.old country!
like our own.” But the long experience!
and large resources of an' old country
should enable it to throw off mere incden-i
tal delects: nn old country has no I
right to denounce a youthful ono for not i
overcoming incomparably greater difficul-,
ties than any which have lain in the path!,
of the older ones. The existence of slave- 1
ry in the United States is by no means nnj
“incidental” thing. It exists here this day
because of the deliberate intention, persist
ed in, in despite of all remonstranco from
the earlier settlers on this soil, by the Brit
ish people, who themselves brought the
captured sons of Africa to our shores, and
made merchandise of them for gain.—
Slavery was planted here by British hands
when what is now a cluster of free and
independent republican States was but us
a tender plant; it has been ever since to!
us as the parasite to the tree to which it!
clings. It has grown with our growth. It!
has wound itselfaround the tteetrunk, and!
covered the limbs and branches, until.the
great question of questions,' wilidh no orie
as yet seems üblo tosqlye, js, how to sep
arate the perasitb from u the tree without
destroying either o'no or tho other, or .both.
To makedenuhciatory 'speechesat banqu
ets,’ or giving penny offerings; or sing
pseans.to novel writers, Qr io“glower” iri|o
Mrs. Stowe’s carrpge, are all rpuoh
than lo solve this question. '
After all, too what has Mrs. Stowe done
that she should be so suddenly, turned into
a Diana of the Ephesians? Has shoeyer
emancipated a'slave ? Has she ever con
tribulpdU solitary one hundred dollars out
of the many thousands which have been
poured into her pockets tobolp, some son
of bondage to purchase his freedom ? Has
the book, which has given her .so wide n
fame, led to any measures which will in
Dny way meliorate the condition.of the
slaves ? or is it probable’that such, will be
the result? She‘has drijiwn many, tears
from septicmental young.ladies; she has
set staid, quite pien. to uttering such ex
eprptiops against the South that their fam
ilies have wopdered what was the matter
wjlh then); sl)o has;, led excellent- old
ladies, who had beep,wont to call the very
naiqe |‘noyel” with pious horror, to read
her nqvel, opd laugh und! cry over it as
[much as anybody; Bhe has had puffing
enough from the newspapers to liuye made
a small hurricane; elm has lined her
poppets with money ; she hus gone on a
transatlantic! tour, free of expense; she
hau been feted and feasted by throngs of
foreigners, who, have received her as if she
tserq almost more; than human; and yet
jjjyUiaa sho dope? One would think, she
have.broken all the , tetters;in
pated a .vet elm has hot enjanci
a successful ftleve ; eho has phly writteo
giblo good is- ciflce. So: far. as nny tdm
see it. ' .She is neYJed, wo Irnvo yet \o
Mowajfdj d-Mrsi 'Fry,' Wilberfpfce. ;n
deed wo have khoWb 1 w&liss DixL In
hlavebolder ddi
slave tliaij MpuStbwe proJiablji'Obr tho.
' 'Will
abroad in his heart a Saviour’s lovo, and
preparing him for a crown and a kingdom
in heaven. A whole nation of his people
has grown lip here, and, under tho'genial
influence of southern homes, they hnvo
been elevated from barbarism to civilisa
tion and Christianization with a rapidity
and to an extont to which history shows no
parallel, A part of his people havo gone
back to Africa, bearing with them the price
less treasure of the Gospel—a compensa
tion ample for nil their hardships; more of
them are going to join those already there;
others are to go* and what is to be tli3 final j
result will bo known, porhaps, in that day
when Ethiopia shall strotch forth her hands
unto God. In all this process of elevating
in the mass a whole people from barbarism,
whoso hands hnvo plied tho lever but those
of southern men? Who have had tho res
ponsibility, care vexation, expense, even to
tho impoverishment of their land and their
fumdies, but the people ol tho south / wo
beliove that God in his providence is work
ing out a mighty wonder for Africa’s sons
both in their own and in this land, through
what, for the time, seems an evil, and that
the final development will be full of joy
and gladness; and the results will then ho
traced to their right sources, when Uncle
Tom’s Cabin shall have crumbled to the
dust, and Mrs. Stowe’s name, her silver
salver, nnd her British banquets are re
membered no moro.
lal.er-From New Mexico
Independence, Mo., May 20. —Majors
Hoare, Black and company arrived here
to-day having left Santu Fo on the 3d iost;,
to attend a court martial. They brag
hut little news. They met largo purtieffof
emigrants and immense herds of cattle.—
Tho Pawnees had killed ntuumstcrand ran
of with some of the cattle.
The Salt Lake mail urrived hero last
evoning, having occupied only 25 days to
Fort Lurnmio and buck—the quickest
trip on record. Snow was very deep on
tho mountains. There was no sickness
among the emigrants fallen in with on the
route.
Fnoji Mexico. —A telegraph despatch
from New Orleans, under date of Tuesday
last, states that dates of the 9th instant
have been received from the city of’Mex
ico. Santa Anna is adopting severe meas
ures against all Mexicans holding what he
conceives to bo pernicous opinions. lie
had ordered the nrrest of nil who served
as guerillas in the American army during
the late wnr, and they were to be tried by
n court-martial. He had published a list
of Mexican officers surrendered as prison
ers of war to Gen. Scott when the capital
was taken ; and he has issued u decree
degrading them from their rank, and dis
missing them form civil employment. The'
Mexican army is being reorganized and
increased. Gov. Trias, of Chihuahua' has
marched to.oppose tho occupation of the
Mesilla valley. Tho national guards was
to be orginized.— -Wash. Union. <,
WATKR;SjpouT.-t-Ai letter to tho Nor
folk ‘‘News”! give. l ? the . following account
of the.teriible'effdctstof 4h‘o Into 'storm in
that, part,ofithecountry :
‘iOn Sunday last, 'between three'and
four o’clock, p: ni.i a wator-spo'nt oppear
ed in-the North river, near the residence
of My. Morris, which, entering the
vvesterh point of the woods,.in its progress
laid’wdstd everything before i|! An im
mense quantity of tirnbei* \yas‘destroyed ;
dwellings wero overturned, unci human life
destroyed. Tjlp suffdrersurp Mrs. J,' Beqs*
ley,'-Who 1 whs' badly wounded; two, child
ren; nhd a‘young lady on a visif slightly
injuredi'ui|d dwelling And. but-ho'udes total
ly destroyed'; Mrs. Judd Stotid and delight,
or both seriously injured ; and dwellings
of every description destroyed. The dwel
lings of Mr. Raleigh Grimsteud, with every
other building on the 'larm, were destroy
ed, Kie' wife tihd one *daiighter killed, and
three others soverely injured, their bodies
being' so mangled And' crushed us to be
scarcely recognised. The daughter of Mrs.
Pain was wounded,and John Itilgers killed;
M. D. Salman, Mrs. A Carrell, and James
Bowen slightly injured.”
A Man in disguise.— -Last summer a
(reputed) fpmalcfwas going the rounds,
instructing ladies in the-ftrt ofeutting dres
ses, <ssc., h'qillng from tho North, we be
lieve. We understand' that this person
recently died in the upper counties, when
the discovery was made that tho cutter of
ladies’ garments was a man in disguise—
one whet'lind donned the petticoats for
some unexplained reason, ahd’ passed for
a female until after death.— Fredcickfoirg
jjerald. 1 ; ■,, ; ■ ' ‘
.Cir The easiest way to.write editorialis
to,copy ,from An exchange, und about the:
second or third sentence insert ‘‘snys a
qotemporary.?|; , v■.: .
> u(KrThe issue of the stamped loiter en
velopes Ijas' beeni postponed until the first,
of July,' i/.f'J: «'• f " '-■‘■'.’•.v ■ ■ •
THE REPUBLIC/^.
CLEARFIELD I’a., Juue 3, 1853.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
Canal Commissioner,
THOMAS 11. FORSYTH,'
Of Philadelphia County,
Auditor General,
EPHRAIM BANKS,
Of Mifflin County.
Surveyor General,
J. PORTER BRAWLEY,
Of Crawford County.
03~D. W. Moore-, Esq., has not yet re
turned to his post.
To Correspondents. —Wo have two
communications on file, from our corres
pondent * Rambler ,’ but owing to the hurry
to gain time, and get out with our present
number in time for the mails, wo have
been compelled to defer them until next
week, when one or both shall appear.
The lines by *J. J. B.’ cannot have a
a pluce in our columns, for various rea
sons. Ist, we know not whether the real;
name of the author is given—and 2d.,'
we are disposed to doubt the sincerity of
the writer, believing that he intends it as a
rub for some of our worthy contributors;!
and last, though pot least, should neither,
of t|io abovo objections apply to the case,
we cqnsider the production unworthy of
room in our columns. ;
Oifln unotlier portion of to-days paper,
will be found the proceedings ofan anti-log
floating meeting, which we copy from the
Centre Democrat of the 26th ult. It docs
not state where the meeting was held, por
bv whom attended—but we doubt not that
the sentiments therein contained were ex
pressed in good faith, with a determination
to curry them out should it prove necessa
ry. Those owning mills, and other prop
erty on that stream, and who have been
in tho habit of navigating it in the old and •
proper mannej' do not'complain without;
cause, ns they have suflerred many and
serious inconveniences, occasioned by this
new mode of railing, and it being now
well established that both branches of tho
business cannot bo successfully pursued on
our small streams, at one and the same
time, it is but right that thoso who have;
erected mills on said streams for tho man
ufacture of lumber, and navigated them
properly and successfully, previous to the
establishment of the business of log float
ing should nt least make an effort to main
tain their'rights.
We have been told time and again, that
the Moshannon creek is small, rough, and
hard to navigate by rafts. That there arc
but few mills orected on said stream —and
that if the floaters can pursue their business
to advantage, let them do so, even if they
[should interfere somewhat with the navi
! gation of rafls. This is not right, and all
the arguments that could be produced
would fail to convince us of the correctness
of such reasoning. If the Moshannon is
so badly qalculatcd for the running of rafts,
and so well adapted to tho business of
floating, those owning mills and timber
lands on said stream, will bo ready and
willing to dispose of them at reasonable
rates, while the floaters, in this, case would
bo afforded an opportunity of piirchasingl
all such property, and thus obtain posses-1
sion of the right to navigate said stream j
in tho manner which they have nlready;
practised. If these experiments had found
their rqod o ' navigation more safe and
profitable than tho old and long establish
ed system, they would now have no difli
culty in'.iflducingnil lumbermen, who hnvo[
not beep to the expense of erecting mills,!
to iCmbajrJi in tho busihess, and tho mill
properties could bo purchased at no great
Expense:- This is the mode that will
havp to be' adopted, otherwise the busi
ness ,niust')bo suspended. If there was
hut ono mifl °!» the. stream for the manu
facture of lumber, erected previous to tho
adoption of this new mode.’of rafting, de
pending on said sltdam as a means of run
ning their production?' to market, oven in
that case thoy ,>vould have no right to ob
struct the navigation in the manner here
tofore done. The rights of the few must
be respected as Well ns the many.
Cleahfieid Regulars, under
command of Lieut. J. W. Baird, paraded
our streets on Saturday aftornoon* last.-
They looked well and made quite a grand
display, so say those who hadmn.opportu
nity of seeing them. They will again ap
pear on the 4th of July next, greatly im
proved both in their uniform and military
discipline. The company nt present num
bers about thirty-five or forty;members in
full uniforni, and is rapidly increasing in
numbers, . I
. farmers from all sections of the
county, give the most!flittering accounts
bf the growing crops. The fruit has not
as yet sustained anydnmftge from the
frost, .jantl tye, Jiaye fair.promises :pf!a
plentiful yield.
Do 1 I'm Independence Day.
The Pictorial Brothfr Jonathan, a
mammoth sheet of spirited Engravings for
the Fourth of July, has bqen sent to us by
tho publisher, Mr. B. H. Day, 48,;Beek
rhan street-Pfew York. Among (ho larg-.
est of tho series of pictures con wiped in it,
tho “Early Settlers of America” is a very
appropriate and elegant one. But we have
no room for particulars—suffice it to say,
tho paper has a numorous variety of live
ly and witty pictures, besides those of
historical interest. It is a pictorial of un
common neatness and beauty. Tho price
is 12£ cents per copy, or ten for ono dollar.
03-A citizen of our county, a fow miles
from this place, succeeded somo few days
since, in capturing a 'full grown bear, in
the following singular manner: It ap
pears that tho hero of our story, whoso
namo, we have forgotten, was wandering
in tho woods, when in tho course of his
travels ho came across bruin. Having no
fire arms in his possession, and not being
scared at a trifle, he resolved to try what
virtue there was in the stones that were
laying around in great profusion, ho gath
ered up an nrmful and commenced the at
tack, and actually succeeded in capturing
the animal.
03-Tho latter part of last week, it was
quite cold find disagreeable in this region,
but during tho whoio of this week it has
been warm and comfortable —and wo
shouldn’t wonder if it was rather too warm
for thoso who have business out of doors.
ANTI-LOG FLOATING MEETING-
At a meetiogof a lurge portion of tho
citizens of Centro and Clearfield counties,
held on Thursday, the sth duy of/May, i
1853, the following preambjo and /esolu,
tions were unanimously adopted y
Whereas : A large portion at tho citi-,
zens of Centre and Clearfield counties
having been ongaged lumbering
business for may years and havipg large
amounts or money-irfvested iq timber lands ,
mills and other property pertaining to the
business. And having good faith in the
protection of our property by the laws of
this commonwealth have expended largo
amounts of money in the improvemnt of
the navigation of the Moshannon Creek,
nnd also a large amount of money haying
nt different times been appropriated by the
States, lor the further facilities and safety
of runningjGufts, Arks, &c. And that
now within three years past, certuin men
frgpi the State of Maine nnd elsvyhere,
j have come on tho creek and monoplized
tho whole navigation by driving loose logs,
without any person or persons to guide
them, in such largo quantities as fo fill the
creek from bank to bunk, breaking loose
and destroying rafts that are tied safely to
tho shore, tearing out mill dams and at
limes gorging and filling up tho creek,
and remaining during tho whole time of a
freshet making it impossible for anything
of craft kind to pass them. And Where
-Ins : Those men connected with tho, log
driving system have so pre-arranged their
business, in* most cases, as to evade the
laws by putting the driving in tho hands
of irresponsible persons,nnd consequently
persons sustaining losses thereby have not
the power to recover the redress which
the lows of tho commonwealth, if not so
evaded, would allow. And Whereas:
We have petitioned the legislature from
time to time lb pass a law to remedy the
evil, (suffering in the mean time grievious
losses) but the propielors of the driving
system, by foul means linvo prevented
passage of such h. law. Therefore,
Resolved: That we have suffered all
we can suffer peaceably, that the laws
have been evaded and disregarded by
j them ns far as public highway is concern
ed, and wejiave been deprived of tho pro
tection of our property which the consti-
I tution of this commonwealth guarantees to
us by those men thus monopolizing th.q
whoio navigation of Moshannon creek.
Resolved : That we know our rights as
freomen and will protect them in this case
in future at all hazards.
Resolved: That if those men proceed
any further in tho way they .have done or
again attempt to float-logs on- Moshunnon
creek, they may pxpect to abide by tho
■penalty that a long suffering and grently
injured but now determined community
will inflict. . ’
Resolved: That this preamble and reso
lutions bo published.
Last Mc&BiiTs op ! Vice President
King.i— ‘Rhe-Southern Republic has re
ceived- from F. If. Beck—a kinsman of
the Vice President—a brief account of the
last moments of Mr. King. It says:
“He was quiet and resigned to the fate
which he had seen for sometime awaited
him. Shortly before 6 o’clock on Monday
evening, while a few friends were sitting
around his bed side, the only ones that ho
would allow in the sick room, he suddenly
remarked that ho was dying. The watch
ers arose to their feet, under some excite
ment* when the Colonel said—‘Be still—
make no noise—let me die quietly.’ He
refused to have the balance of his house
hold notified of his dying condition. His
physician came in and examined him, —
The Col. said to him—‘Doctor I nm dy
ing. It seems as though I shall never
get through with it. lam dying , very
hard. Take t|ie pillows'from under .my
head.’ Thp pillows were accordingly tak
en from upder his head ; but aflbiping .no
relief, the Doctor turned him from his
back on his side, whe'h’he died in a morn
ont.” v ‘ .'W''V ' ,
,05”A„modest- ootemporary; calls veal
“unfinished beef.” .Thisis pretty;good; but|
why not extend the vocabulary ?, Suppose
we*>term laWb'“ihcipient mutton”’ and de;- 1
nominate pig “premonitory pork 7”
Meeting of tiio Deiiioeratic State Central Com.,
mittee of Pennsylvania, , . (
Tho Committee mot at the Merchant's
Hotel, in PhHadelphyi, on tbo 21st ult. <
I On motion it.was .Resolved, 'That Win,;
Curtis of Philadelphia and 'William Hs
Welch of York, act as Secretaries of this
committee. t, -jj
Mr. Badger, of
by Mr. Jameson of York, moyed that #
committee of three be appointed to express's;
tho feelings of this committee on the occa.
sion of tho death .of Jqhn Bannister Gib.
;sqn. Adopted. , ‘> '"■ "r
The following gentlemen were appoint. !
ed: Mr. Badger of Philadelphia,'Mr. Car.y
son, of Dauphin, and Mr. Miller, of Perry.,
After a short absence the Committee re. -
turned, and reported the following:,
- Bewalipg in common with tne whole
people of our beloved Commonwealth, the.
demise of J. Bannister Gibson, tho Into'
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wp. 1
deem this an appropriate occasion to pub
licly manifest our feelings on this great rut-'
tional bereavement Therefore, Resolyed,
That the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, in Convention assembled, do enter,
tiain for the memory of J. Bannister Gib-'
son, for his profound learning, for his great 1
legal acquirements, identified as they are,
with the judicial history of Pennsylvania,
for n period of almost a half century, and
for his unblemished character as a man,,
the most ynnerated respect. That we re
gard his death, a greut public calamity,
which we mourn as becomes those who re
gard the loss which the country lias sus
tained, as one universally deplored. |
Resolved, That as a (oken of respect, i
we will wear tho usual badge of mourning j
for tho remaining period of tho tern} ofour ;
official appointment, and that these procee
dings be enrolled upon the minutes of the
Central Committee.
Mr. Kneass, of Philadelphia', seconded
by Mr. Mott, of Pike, moved that tho late
State Convention shall re-assemble at Har
risburg, on the 28th day of July next, for
the purpose of nominating a candidate for
the Supreme Bench, to be supported by tho
Democratic party of Pennsylvania at the
ensuing election, and for the transaction
of any business that may become necessa.
ry. . .
Mr. Vaux, of Philadelphia, seconded by
Mr. Fret?, of Montgomery, moved to
amend by inserting in place
of Harrisburg.
Mr. Vandykq, orPhilndelphia, second-;
ed by Mr. Monaghan, of Chester moved to
amend the amendment, by inserting Phil
adelphia, in plnce of Norristown,; which
was lost, the amendment being alsq lost,
the original resolution offered by Mr..
Kneass, was adopted,
Mr. Carson, of Dauphin, seconded by
My. Cessna of Bedford. Jiovecf that u Slate
Committee of Correspondence, consisting ]
of one person front each county be ap- •
pointed.
The following gentlemen \vere appoint*
ed:—
W. H. Blair, Centre.
A. J. Glossbrenner, York,
Joseph Weaver, Jr., Delaware#
William A*. Williams, M’Kean.
John Goodyear, Cumberland, • '
Samuel B. VVilson, Beaver,
John G. Frick, Northumberland,
Ulysses Mercer,. Bradford.
Reuben W. Weaver, Columbia.
Thomas B. Searight, Fayette.
William Kjtteli, Cumbria.
Murray Wliallon, Erie. ,
N. L. Dike, Rotter.
Edwin Dyer, T*°go*
John M. B. Petriken, Lycoming.
W. R. McCay, Mifflin.
J. Kacy, Perry. ,
B. B. Bonner, Franklin.
\V- H. Lnmberton, Venango.
J. D. Roddy, Somerset. '
Augustus Drum, Indiana. > ,
Theophilus Snyder, Blair. ,
John B. Reed, Bedford.
Andrew J. Fore, Fulton, ' ,
Henry Frysinger, Clinton!, tjfl
Joel B. Wanner, Berks. "
Gen. William Lilly, Jr., Carbon. , ;
Caleb E. Wright, Bucks,, ■ ' "
Nimrod Strickland, Chester.. V . - '
Nathaniel Jacoby, Montgomery!.. .
William McWilliams, ArmstfongL.
Robert A. Lumberton.'DauphitjßK s *,™
The above list not being full,
Committees are requested to sehd io .tiiy ,
Chairman of the State Central Committee, j
the names of the Committee dfCorresppjy-1
donee for those counties in which there
have been no appointments made. !
Mr. Phillips, of Philadelphia,
by Mr. Brodhead, of : Carboni, meyfd.’^ 1
the Chairman of this Committee be. att
thorize'd to divide the State,
in order to make such arrangements as ftp
may deem best for the canvass of, the
Stato in the npproaching contest by mem*
bers of this Committee arid others. Aifop*
ted. . ' , 'V:'iV
Mr. Cessna, of Bedford, seconded By
Mr. Swarr, of Lancaster, moved thot.wlren
this Committee adjourn,it'adjourns to jijetit
in the Senate Chamber,atHurrisfjtgajiri
mediately after tho adjournment.,
Democratic Stato Convention.';. Adoppfc:
Oh motion the Committee ndjourhedi'
VV.L. HlRST,iCHairmani
Wn\.Curin % W. Jl. ' Weldtf ( .secfc ~
AnOTUER EROM CllCopbr'pßM,rJ|
A man named ,Lewis FritcH,cut.his’tfl
very bad ly near Pittsburg, some;\vepW
ago, and not,hpying improperly dresseij,
mortification began to. (qkq place. 0i
Monday Jim .nhysiciana undertook ,to am
putate the: tho, use of chloroform,
but unfortuuatelyctHe dose;, proved tqo
large for his debilitated and,.nerypus. sys
tem, and.he. died nbopt a .mjnuft afte/mits'
application..; '.fthe ebroner’s jury, ’in-thi|i*
verdict,' -l nodical
faculty he.extrep>ely’cojcprul,!ic>'v.they.ad?
phdpl^Tieydj*use
tion.y ‘ ’ • -