' ’ ,r ’ r * S' »i> w . , . Peteh J. Gouveh, i»North West Ward GSOBOE VriSLEV, •: J • , . 1 p. B. BARTHOLOMEW, **} Jacob Wilhelm, ! c , JoKwCtAmV'" -VSouth KflPt Ward WILLXAH J .I Thomas R/.To&b, ~) | . Jouk Weidleh, I . _ . , j ~f Joiin Cabr, VNorth East Ward Aecbeh S. Rorbeb, • WltltAir M ATHIOT, Ephraim Zellarv, , Aram Wilhelm, JaJgtt. , i JOHN BOMBERGER, West Ward. PHTETI' LEONARD, Eas: Ward. litspedo/t. WILLIAM HOOVER, Weat Ward. FREDERICK ZERCHER, East Ward. • City Constables. 1 MICHAEL McGRANN. JOSEPH BRINTNALL. Mdennan. JAMES CARPENTER, Sontli Weat Ward. Appointments by the governor. Benjamin CuixrxtTs, Esq., re-appointed Attor ney General of the Commonwealth; Emajtoel Shaepi-er. to be Associate Jud*e for the eounty of Lancaster. I Bavis Brook, for the county of Blair. JoHir H. Bbodbead, for the county of Pike. James Mcctoiid for the. county of Wayne. Ewlbaim Festo.v lor .Montgomery. JloßtnT M.l.ss, to be Recorder! of the Mayor’s Court of Philadelphia. | : These appointments were on Tuesday last con- I'limed by the Senate, in Executive Lssion. Appolnlmentsiby the Canal Coni ' inlssloners. [ George B. Hamiitov, of C/m-Jou county, col lector at the city of LammUr! i The above appointment, made Ly the votes of .ycßsre. Power and Bobs*, has taken this whole city by surprise, It would have required only u few more miles of .easy travel, to have brought a collector from the state of Ohio, an.t certainly the compliment to the'Democracy of this city would have been about the same. Cupimiugs, PMIaiMpW. ; William (iambic, Panli. .'I Robert l.avorty, Parkcsbiirg. John P. Houston, Columbia, John 11. MamlerlleM. Portsmouth. A. Stewart, Nwaiiirn Aqueduct. Samuel Mnrquarl, init-l.illuck, Portsmouth. Samuel S. Bigler, Harrisburg. H.cargo Ziegler, Duncan’s Island liridiie. Aqueuuet. YVjllliiui il, iW’Coy, Lowi»to\wi. i Good Nihon, Johnstown. Jumun \. M’CiiJlnrh, Fri'cnnrl. . I Heummin Dikn, Kritoporl Aiiuoilm l. Uvi <;. t'lovor, MitlNlMii-tf. * J {• 11. Mnrriimn, Nuitlnimhnrliin.l. Jumort S.Campbell, Uurwlok. • Juini'N A. Dunlnn, Nuritnu. .litr.ob liihltN, ’ StiMmrt haw, Nmvpori. (ienrgn \V. Patterson, llullidavslmra. Edward Curltun, Hlairsville. ; ; Allison White, Wellshnru. Joseph S. Williams, Williamsport. Samuel Darragh, New Hope. ( J. Wagonselliir, Schuylkill Viaduct. ■ wtiomiAsriiits. Jared hutchain, Philadelphia. Joliir il. Duchmiui, Lancaster. A.PrModcrwell, Columbia, kcorgc 1.. Vlvtinger, Portamouth. mJTtW locl<> Hollidayeburg. KK. West, Weigh Scales, ./ * James Shannon, Weigh Scales, Johnstown. George A. Kurtz, Pittsburg. Jacob G Chesney, Northumberland, nm W l , Wc ygant, Easton. ?'\7, D " kc ' ’ wei Sh lock-at Johnstown. L. M. Strom, keeper of out-let lock, Columbia. SUPERVISOR. Jo.m Maglauchlin, Eastern Divisinn. James Turner, Lower Juniata. R°ss, Upper Juniata, illiam M’Pherson, Upper Western, f.eorge Blattenbcrger, Susquehanna. I homas Bennett, West Brancli. JVilham k. Huiihagle, Delaware Division A.lesander Power, Western Division. STATE AOENTS. Cnburn, Philadelphia. Charles Beiddman, “ Pol. John Rankin, Vork countv p. A. Cunningham, Lcwistown. THE ELECTION! ■ TO DAT j 'Ve trust none of out-Democratic friends w ill' neglect going to the polls ToDav. a„d depositing his vote for the regularly nominated ticket, found at the head of our columns. The candidates are alt good men and true, deserving of public confidence and well-qualified to discharge the duties'of the places for which they are .respectively named. Although our Federal opponents, conscious of their own weakness, have not ventured to raise an oppo sition ticket, yet the regular nominations may at the eleventh hour be opposed by iudependent candi dates, which is Federalism under another aid more dangerous guise. The, tideet-s-the whole ticket— and nothing but the ticket—should be the watch word of every Democrat to-day. Tl»e Meeting at Kliuer’i. We perform, a pleasing duty, in the publication of the proceedings of the Democratic meeting, held on Saturday last, in Paradise township. A more numerous, respectable, and gratifying meeting, it has not been our-fortune to attend, since we have chosen Lancastcras our residence. The very “.bone und sinew" of the Democracy of the Eastern; sec tion of the county were present. Dr. !f. W. Sm ut*, the Polk and Dallas Elector of 1 S 11, presid ed—assisted by the venerable Capt. Jon* Slat shaker as first Vice President—and on the Com mittee of Resolutions will be found the name of -Jobs L. Lightneb; Esq., one.of the Delegates to the March Convention. Besides and weU-jjpmvn Democrats, there-were present the Henbersonb, the Lefeveus, the Slatmakerb, the Mcllvaises, the Bakers, the Hocstons, the Ejbbthehs, the Dobsons, the J£jneees, die Whites the Girvins, the Titles,, and-.other old and influ ential republicans, who hsve never swerved from ! the glorione-old- eause. 1 - :We hopedolieable.iqonnieirr.topuliliaha sketeli ofcthe.traly ebquent tpcechbf CoI. Fornet, whose pEsincer.witsqenthusiaaticaUy.grevted by hispid and devoted dfjenfia.'i . i -.-, -1 lnterest. . die bill ap •>£ d» »M«iMt UU the iiind&t 4^it{f^l^St^t^;^^|eM!). v bn(b branches of the ]fgWa_tuj;f- "7 The Tow’hship Delegate were elected in Cum-! berjand countj-bii last Satimlay, and meet in eon- &4ay. 7! A' telegrajjihie despatch tdtMf' J&tdfijsthaP; HiiSv&' lajt evening 'from*a “SYalfiir l ii heart fcnh, thST BffcbmadT'fi' for tMllae. 52 to heqr from. 1 ' " : Our paper of tha Rat and prevloti* eH I^atognof^ppewle °nr Dcmocrata, who have most perilous contests, swerved from the straight line of duty. .Wc cun. with einire-trutlq.appiy-tu-lhix.la.tmeet-, ing the remark we made respecting 1 the others: that'it sprang from the free and spontaneous action of daefeaple, and was the result of no other prompt ing than that of their warm, abidiil", und'anlmslud attachment to the great Statesman, whom-in early life they learned to know so well, and never to know unfavorably.„... We point to these .spontaneous 'with pride and pleasure. Much as those may at feet to despise them, who neither know nor care to appreciate the moral grandeur of a free, people, sit- ting in council on the actions of one of their own distinguished citizens, they possess a value in our sight, more to be prized than line silver or gold. Unanswerable and triumphant is the proof which they lurnish, that . Acre, .among his early'associates and neighbors— here, where the foundation of that greatness was first .laid, wliich has. since risen to u superstructure, visible to. the whole Union here, where that glowing Eloquence first resounded, w hich has since coped in a ltigher sphere with the master-spirits of the age, Cut, Wzbbter, and CaLHOOT—that here, the tame of Jsxzs Bvchisis has- sustained no detriment. But that the effort to drag hiru, without a reason, from his well-earned eminence, has proved as impotent, if not as absurd, as is the presumptuous essay of the lisping infant to tear a particular bright star from its place in the firmament. | South Weat Ward. One of tire main-reasons of Mr: Buchanan's strong hold upon the attachment of his earlier as sociates and neighbors, aside from his eminent public services, is to be sought in his unspotted and irreproachable private character. And hereisa foun dation of popularity, than which the Alleghenies have not a corner-stone more secure. Among the many distinguished men, who have, at various times, served in the high stations bf the republic, it is too seldom that we have discovered those, who to brilliant talents and rare"'intellectual acquirements have united that elevated purity of morals, which alone constitutes a safe depository of a trust so responsible and exalted as the Chief Magistracy of the American Union. The infirmi ties of frail humanity—the temptations which at every atep encompass the pathway of the renown ed the flattery ot friends and the intoxicating in* ■ fluence of patronage and power—all these but too often lead irresistibly to the indulgence of those baser passions, which cast their dark shadows over the fair fame of the most gifted of our race. The history of Mankind—alas ! abounds with melan choly attestations, that not Genius, the most dazz ling—not Learning, the most varied—not States manship. dhe most- profound— not all the graces and accomplishments of tlie head, are' a safe-guard against tin- insidious approaches of the monster 1 ice to the heart. At the sight of such examples, we may how in deep homage at the shrine of in tellectual superiority, but we cannot repress our poignant sorrowing ove, the absence of those ster ner \ irtues, which so much moreu-ontribute to dig nity and adorn human nature. Perhaps no one, unnmg 'the distinguished and honorable of mfr laud, unites to his high qualities us a Statesman a more unsputted pcrmnal elmraeter than Janus Htviuxix. Called into active politi eal lift*, ut uti early age, anil progressing, step by Step, 111 the highest liunors of the republic, he bus passed through all llm alluremenls of power uud slutiinu'jhrongh all the hlaiidislmiuiits of liwor anil lorlutff, with u reputation pure mill unblemished, liuuililitiou to these inestimable moral qualities, he possesses habits of social friendship, which he has sueeessfillly preserved, umiil ull the ehanging triuls and vicissitudes ol liti*. Notwithstanding his ele .ration,to high ilflleial stations, those crowning ex eellcnqivs hate ever shone, forth conspicuously in his character, and he now displays the same gene rous and unostentatious qualities, which marked his conduct when pursuing in early life his humbler professional avocation?. _ -'* r - Bociiaxax'B occasional visits to this city tvhich, owing to his responsible and almost Her culean public labors, are not so frequent, as they would otherwise be—are always distinguished by the familiar greetings of old, and true, and never to-be-forgotten friends, who are 'scattered over every j part of this large and populous county. Then it is | that former intimacies are revived, and the remin i iscencds of the past reviewed. Many can hear | testimony to his oit-repeated manifestations of friend- I ship, and all. whether friend or the, are compelled I to render him the tribute of a perfect specimen of | personal probity and honor. - Such a man Envy may assail, and disappointed Ambition seek to traduce, but how unavailing tire attempt! By the serenity of his mind, and the con sciousness of a well-spent life, he is lilted tar above the reach of all envious and malignant foes. The Future is concealed front our view. But thus much is revealed to lis. Whether James Buchaxax, at the close of the present presidential term, shall be chosen as the successor of Mr. Polk, or whether he shall retire to the tranquility of private file his will ever be the fortune to rejoice in a body of as ardent und devoted friends, as has ever fallen to the lot of any public man. And nowhere will he find truer,mr firmer, or faster friends, than among the bone and sinew of the Lancaster County Democracy ■With feelings of honest and heartfelt satisfaction, they point to his brilliant career in Congress' and m the Cabinet, and to the spotless purity of his character us a Man, a Citizen, a Neighbor, and a Iriemj—and they proudly challenge a comparison wuh imy or all of his opponents^ Slxtli Cougi’csNlodal District. The Governor has issued his writ for holding a special election in the Sixth Congressional District, composed of Bucks and Lehigh counties, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Jons W. llon\- beck, on Wednesday, : February 23. The political complexion ‘ of this district is a* mong the most varying and uncertain in the State. 11l lb-I-l Polk's majority was 0-17—in 1 tidbit gave to Mr. Hornbeck (Fed.) 135 majority, and in ISIS, it gave a majority for Shunk of 688. rf the voters in dhe district can all be brought to the polls, the return of a Democrat, in place of Mr. Hoax beck, is certain. At no former period were strongerindneements presented for united and vig. orous exertion. The state of parties in the House is so close, that upon the result m this district may depend the ascendency of. the one party or the other. We have every confidence that little Lehigh will "do better” than ever, and that'old Bucks will dol its full dtiry—and thc-young Lucies, too. ftll«sls8ll>l>l Convention. We have the proceedings' of the Democratic State Convention of Miseifsippi; which assembled at Jackson. Ex-Governor McNutt presided, and the following Electprallieket vvaa nominated: . Tar Electors at forge.—Joseph W. Chalmers Alex. G, McNutt. •Out. 1. Daniel B. Wright-; 2: Geo. W. L. Smith • W. W. McWiUie; 1. Ji A. Ventriss. No choice for President was indicated, Hon. R. J ; w " k ” I ! a ™’ s fcawaa-to be presented. *1 he of the' t&Ulufe 'Sea **"*W**3W c °n v fc>tioh carefully &vbided : any expresajoii of preference in regard toihe for Presidency or Vice Presidency, to be nominated at Baltimore,'bnt that the impression is, that in a vote, tile favorites would lave been Boc fuzxx and QriTaiA2r. From the happy results of this important first lesson, we have ever opposed, and trust we shall ever continue to oppose, any increase of banking privileges, by whomsoever sought, or onywliatsoever pretext. If the altars of Pluti-s are to be attended by more numerous and more devout worshipers than those of the Most Hion—it shall not bo by our humble agency, at least. Nor does it afford any consolation to be toid: “If you don’t like the banks, don’t deal with them!” We have a parallel for this in the seech of the member of British parlia ment, who, in descanting upon the blessings of England, exclaimed: “If any man don't like Eng land, let him leave it.” Jf it were possible for Brit -oUB,in a body to give up the ties of country and kindred, and if they had the means and the liberty of emigrating, this generous license would soon be withdrawn. So with our banks. So closely are they interwoven with all onr business ramifications, that it would be oa difficult almost to abandon country and family, as to dissolve all connection with them. What we cannot eradicate, if is, there ibre, our duty to curb and to reform. They: grew up out of the indulgence of the (leople—and dhc people should hence exercise'the necessary vigi lance that this indulgence is not used to the gencri) injury. With pleasure -we notice in the Nacogdoches Tima the proceedings of a democratic meeting held in San Augustine on the' 18th December, to take the necessary- step to have a' timely'State Convention for the 'purpose of appointing delegates to-the National Convention. Every county in the State will probably follow this ■ movement, and send delegates, to the Convention proposed to be held in Austin: on the- fourth Monday in January. Jntulditioii to agpoiatiiig delegates- to Baltimore, an electoral ticket.will, be nominated. * guaranty, that no ncjv charters will be granted* nor re-charten either, unless the Banks asking for went, can shew, they have hitherto sustained a good to a good currency, as well as the wish for making money. >- ■'. .7. v ; .We observe too, that notices in several instances have been given of intended applications for new charters of both Banks and Sayings .Institutions, without any name, being appended 1 * thereto, as if those interested in'establishing them were-for kome reason or other anxious to keep their names out of .view, ox.pferiiapft.4nn modest *.«> appear4n-» pnbW- Such notices are clearly defective under the act of Assembly, and if we were a member we should so consider them, and at once reject the applications without further enquiry. The constitution and laws both require a notice to be given,—and as there can be no notice without a name, the neglect to publish, and intentionally withholding the names, vitiates the notice, and whoever inserted it can pav Uie printer tor publishing it, but cannot expect the Legislature or the Governor to [sanction', such a dodging of a plain duty. The names must appear, that the people of the place in which tlie Bank is to be located, may know whether the applicant is or is.not a citizen of the commonwealth, and is oris not a proper person to be entrusted with a charter. If charters arc to be granted bn notices without names, hereafter names will be appended in no case, and the act ot Assembly requiring a notice will be a nullity. Under a notice without a name, any man may have the right to ask tor a charter as well as he who published it, and we think ourselves just as much entitled to ask for charters under all these defective notices, as they who gave them. We believe it was the meaning of the framers of the constitution, and tho legislature passing the law, which directed the manner in which notices should be given, that a strict compliance with the spirit and meaning of the law should be required j that full notice should be given to the community of the originators of the Bank as well as of the Bank itself, and uot that a charter is to be granted as a matter of conrsc, like the privilege of making a turnpike, or a less impor tant matter. But having full faith in the wisdom of our Governor and Legislature, wc do not apprehend that either Banks or Savings Institutions will find much favor this session, and those who are so anx ious lor an increase of paper money, must bide their time until they find an administration favorable to their views—if ever such an administration will hereafter be created by the good people of Penn sylvania. We cordially endorse every sentiment and opin ion, advanced in the foregoing extract by that able and intrepid exponent of Democratic principles, the Pennsylvanian. The multiplication of Banking Institutions would inevitably raise up an Aristocracy in our midst, portending a fearful prostration of the public rights aud private independence of the peo ple.'', designed for great and noble pur poses—Ho assist the operations of industry and en courage laudable enterprise—too many of the Banks have become'the mere centre-points, at which the artful Few collect profits from the necessities of the unsuspecting Many. Whilst we readily concede, that some of theie Institutions are conducted on safe and prudent and by men of the purest and loftiest integrity. iKmust It admitted that the remark is not applicable to .all Many and severe are the sufferings and losses."Ayhich badly managed Banks have inflicted on the community, by flooding the land with their paper promise,?, and theu with the utmost jiO/ir/<«/a>ur shuffling offlheir .wholesale engagements. \ There i« not. in our opinion, a solitary evil in our land, so tntul to the freedom and prosperity of the people, ns the multiplication of banking estab lishments. liung will Pennsylvania mourn her disrespect of the the warning voice and veto of her excellent Governor SNYDKU—■whose name a, print in capital*, in token of our reverence of |,is memory, and of our gratitude for hi* refusal to sign the hill for littu-i.m Hunks in tins siule. In Governor SMI’NIv wc luckily have u Chief Mugis trute, who ha* the willingness and the firmness to follow closely in hi* ibotsteps, But—to keep the Hanks under proper restmiut—it is necessary, also, to encourage a sound anti enlightened Prime ion, which is ever stronger than llm law ilsell— uud to this end we pledge our hourly co-operation, however humble. When, more than a dozen years ago. in the com. meiiccment of our political career, we participated in the politics of another county, the Nartkamptuu Hank applied to the Legislature of this Stale for im increase of capital We took a bold stund in uppos. ition, and as the Editor of a Democratic journal privately and publicly remonstrated against it. Our course was condemned by, probably, nineteen, twentieths of our own party-friends, many of whom were directly interested in the success of tile appli cation for increasing the local paper-currency. We were threatened with the loss of many kind ‘ pat rons," if we persisted in our opposition, and not a few of the high-priests that officiated in the money temple menaced the destruction of onr business! Alter a violent struggle, the application was defeat ed by a few votes in the House of Representatives, which was then largely Democratic, uud the swarm of Bank Borers, who had been sent to Harrisburg to “lag-roW the bill through The Legislature, re turned-disappointed. Subsequent events have so fully demonstrated the propriety of our course, on that occasion, that we refer to it with pride and pleasure. The North ampton Bank, long before the expiration of its char ter, proved to be the veriest sink of corruption and dishonesty, and, like the Marble Monster in Chest nut street, has gone the way of all flesh." leaving only suffering and wretchedness behind. Stock holders, depositors, and bill-holders vverc alike en gnlphed in a common vortex of insolvency, and we could this day buy as many of its notes as would till a well-sized bread-basket, lor a halfieagle, constitutional currency! The Cashier of the In stitution, after having been for a period incarcera ted in the county-jail, has been driven into exile, whilst one ol the Democratic representatives from the county', who had the nerve to oppose the ap plication, has been honor'd with a seat in Congress! Such are the idtimatc triumphs ol Right over Wrong! Texas and the Presidency. uay, Jannary 29. The follow ■•wig gentlemen.jvcce chosen officers: j President : [Tilt I'oLK.and Klieior for Dari, in JS44.} | Vice Presidents: Capfc Joii| Slatjtxker, of Paradise. inoMAs N'llvauo:, of Salisbury. & /CiLßKt‘o|i&fc-GRAii4.M I of Bart; i 'i r ‘ , * I \\£LL£Ajjt McCaskey, of Leacock. > * *'■ Joseph Ljteveji, of Paradise. ww. ofPayadise.' jsi Jy ! • ■ Secretaries:; i)’; f John V. Eckert and Thomas McSobley C>n named gentlemen were appointed a committee to.’draJ’t-resolutioiis. exprcs aive ot the of the meeting, viz : John L/ Liglitner ut Lcjcock, George D. M'lhuine of Salis bury, Henry Eckert of Paradise, Joel L. Leftver of Paradise, John Miller of Lampeter. Mdses John son ol Bart, llinry Kiuzer of Paradise,. George Sla viuaker of Paradise. Andrew Wliifc of Leacock. Hugh Akcu ofjP;u-adi.se, William Baker of. Salis bury, A. L. Hcpderson of Salisbury. James-Hous ton of Salisbury! Joel L. Lightner of Leacock. Eli Rutter of Leacpck. I be committee having retired for some time, re ported the following resolutions, which .were read by the ehuirmaf, and unanimously adopted, viz: ..: Resolved? -i ' hi t- administration of- James K. Polk lias been Characterised by great wisdom, pru dence, and firmness, and : by an enlightened regard for the perpetuity 6f our glorious Union, and that we have discovered no reason to regret that the choice of the American people in 1844 devolved upon one, who'iji 6uch an. eminent degree unites the demanded by the illustrious Jef ferson: Honest#,!Capacity, and Fidelity to the Constitution. i \ . Resolved, Thatjwe approve of the continued and vigorous prosecution of the Mexicau war, and are opposed to any policy, which does not secure to our people and government, full indemnity for the past, and full security .lor the future. * Resolved, That we approve of the administration of Francis R. Shunk, and rejoice with exceeding gladness that the State has secured, for another term of three years, a Chief Magistrate, so faithful in his adherence to the sound and truc principles of Democracy. ' ' Resolved, That we are in favor of the holding of a National Convention, for the nomination of can didates for President and Vice President of the U. States, regard such an umpire as the only pro per and safe mode of bo uniting the Democracy of the nation as to insure harmony and success. We regard adherence to the regular usages and consti tuted authorities of the Democratic party as vitally essential to the ascendency of its principles an± candidates. Resolved , That among all the. distinguished citi-' zens named in connection with the high office of President of the United States, we yield our un qualified preference to our own illustrious fellow citizen, JAMES BUCHANAN, whom we have, known, throughout the almost entire period of his life, and thus knowing, reverence And admire.— W hether we regard him in his private and social in tercourse, or in his public rclatinns«wc have ever found him honest, high-minded, and patriotic. In his earlier life he won his way to our esteem by his purity and singleness .of character,-and since his participation in the affairs of the nation, in the. Congress and inthe Senate of the United States, in a diplomatic mission abroad, and in the still morti responsible post of Secretary of .State,-he has diJ .played such vast and gigantic poweru as a States man, and such patriotic devotion to the institutions of bur common country, that wo can safely point to him, as one qualified, by every accomplishment of the houd-.aiid heart, to preside over the destinies of our great and growing republic. Resolved, 'klmt for tho reason that the delegnten to represent >,iiine«nter county In the Democratic Mate t'nnvontlniKlo be bullion in Harrisburg, on tln’ lth'of March ihqyt, were chosen in September Inut, before the iiminl lime, When the question of the nextllVesideney ImX dot boon agitated—uml without any mention t\f the sutyect in the notire yuan, li'nve not chipscd, since tlieiu was u gW struggle in the Legislature, between the nl' the Pennsylvania Hnil Road and the friends the Right oi' Wuy—nr rather between the States -pf Pennsylvania anti .Maryland. The inuin argument in lhvor ol' the iurmer was, the interest it wm ild\r outer upon the Cninmonwealth in The shape oftolls\nd on Philadelphia. as a mar ket. Now we have\}to same cnntest in another form, and it is hoped tftyt, us then. Pennsylvania interests will prevail, over Hutse of Maryland. Rejection of dilutee mill. The Federal Senate of Pennsvlvhnia have again rejected Judge Nile. of the Chester apd Delaware district. Our correspondent " i?f/ori», 'pin his able article on the Judiciary, suggests the mneityfor till such factious proceedings—the election of' Judges by the People. We trust, the time is not far dis tant. when the Constitution of Pennsylvania wiu\ be so changed. Judge McLean on Uie War. Another candidate for Presidential honors is over board! Judge M'Leax of the Supreme bench has written a letter to some one in Ohio, on the Mexi can War, which we copy from the Cinmmatti En quircr. Washington, Jan. 7,184 S. My Dear Sir— -lo all human appearance the ter* mination of this miserable war with Mexico i* more remote than when the first blow was struck In my judgment, it was unnecessarily and uncon stitutionally commenced, by nurrehibg our armr in to disputed territory in the possession of Mexico. And, I think, that Congress, who unquestionably have the power, should put an end to the war oil just and honorable principles.' • After agrccing'flpon the terms on which a treaty should be made, they should call upon the Execu tive by resolution to offer a peace to Mexico upon that basts; and during the negotiation hostilities Bhould be suspended. If the President shall refuse to do this, m the military appropriation bills, the army should be required to take such positions as shall carry out the view's of Congress. These bills the President could not veto, and ho w-ould be bound by their requirements. This may be done by the House. I hope that Congress will refuse to issue any more treasury notes. The notes demanded, in ad dition to those already in circulation, would flood the country with that description of paper. Such an emission would constitute a government bank controlled and managed by a party administration’ We have noiv fifteen millions of treasury notes in circulation, and authority to issue five millions more. I w-ould not increase this circulation a dol lar; but reduce it as rapidly as possible: > Such a system would be incomparably more dangerous to the public morals and the public liberty, than anv other systsm of banking that could be devised. To meet any deficiency of the revenue to pay the current expenses of the war, I would authorise loans at par, paying not more than six per cent interest, and if loans cannot be made at this rate let the administration resort to a system oftaxation! which shall caiise the people to feel the expense of the war. All wars should he accompanied by a syßtem of direct and internal taxation. Nothing short of this can show, in addition to the sacrifice of life what we pay for military glory. This war the policy in the better days of the republic. , The late war with England was nobly sustained oy the people, not only in the field but bv the pay ment of taxes. And they will sustain "every just war in which our country shall be involved. But I risk, nothing in saying that an attempt to adoot such/ a system of taxation would . wind up this Mexican' war in sixty days. And this shows that the v w/r should be put an end to. This may ho done bv Congress in ninety days, ahd I pray God that thev may do it. „. . .Truly youre/ 7' ■ / John McLean^• Sew York Democratic Convention. This body adjourned at Albany oh Friday. Be fore adjournment, Mr. Ciurrox, from diie com mittee, reported the name 3 of Presidential electors for the State at large, as follows: Cistraii.i p. Whits, of New York: Hssu* J. Rsnnsih, of Genesee.. The report was received with applantfe, and unanimously adopted. The districts were called, and the names of electors were proposed by delegates, for each, under the resolution heretofore adopted. - CLCTha Juniata Register raises the BceaxS AS gag or the neitPresidency. ihiira hOthe W ® ,a P"*# th» ~.^ by ,”., on JBrandny, ! IWt '" ,tl6 P BQ pJe on the svli- W^gar t war m ”*pj' to »«*• ««• wo#th‘or i'i?^rihuS t that War the Fw, , >. . speedy and honorable peace,land s§ck ..not,to blot The subject laugh at. iV'maki'v i f<'s Ration, wo Wl > „ . , , , . i insist upon the establishment of such a bhundarv the heart of the -patriot sick, null impels:d;e invcs-; between the two countries as'will preserve the in"- tigatiiig reformer to search where the evil lied, mill 1 of the State or Tesaij and give loins “in seck an appropriate remedy: What citizen IS’not ! fhr the past, and dccjtrity for the future.” vitally interested that the Judiciarysliall be able and pure? Who can claim exemption from the eviU f .f a corrupt or inefficient .set of Judges?>o one. All hold their lives, their fortunes. 1 and-4hrir peered honors.: upon no better teuure. Any. dnv : mit bring down upon the devoted head of a citizen, I theSwrong of unjust judgment, from which there is i no appeal. The primary eviliies in the nominating choice oi men by the Governor. Irresponsible, he too often selects from a political pledge' made to some demagogue parlizan. previous to Iris own. election, as the price of his support. Such nomination is not made front the promptings of unbiassed judg ment ; but guided entirely by slavish committal, made thruugh dishonorable fear of his owii'clectiun. If not the result of such fraudulent pledge, the nomination may be,.and . often is made, with a liew to re-election—or to please a Secretary, or Deputy, or some irresjtonsible backstairs sycophant oi w heetller. Are nominations, thus procured, the best that can be had? Let experience, give the decisive answer. Look at marly districts. of the State, covered with imbeciles. The presence among them ofsuch eminent Judges as Lewis and Woor. ward are,like angel’s visits, few and far between.'' and by contrast makes the deficiency of the others, the greater. In fine, where, since the days of Ti Limn an, do we see the Judge selected, uutGUi-iU'i. or without low intrigue and grovelling importunity ? It has grown into a habit, that the Governor must be importuned, or he will not appoint, lest lie there by lose the golden opportunity of securing a parti san friend on the bench—a place' of supposed in fluence. Is it any wonder, then, that’we see the Senate plied by every motive that can influence them to reject such nominations? Or, can it astonish, that the Senate, feeling power, may also forget right i That they may, and even do, usurp the übminating prerogative—playing upon Executive fear by sug gesting at the back-stairs, that such an one only some favorite of a Senatorial deinogogtie—can be confirmed, if nominated! I.neod not follow out the long list of corrupting and corrupt influences engendered under the present system of nominating and confirming candidates for judicial: appointments. The evil la. festering, growing into a horrible excrescence, and must come to an end, or end the welfare of the Stulv. Nor should we sit down, supinely desponding, when the time for movement Inis arrived. It is liol the part of energetic virtue to consider all, or liny thing important, ns Inst, whilst u feasible step remnins to lie tnken Ihr snlbty, Tlio impulse of (ho new t'onsliunioii hits carried us too fur In recede. Wo cannot, If wo denlved it, gel Imek'to the life or good-behavior tenure of the .1 edges. And I do not 'think it desirable, if we goiihl, under Executive mlminisirutinns such us we Inn n swmliincs hud in l’cunsykniiiti. Nothing else is leit us,but to liillow the oxiunpln of New I'ork, mill muke the whole Judiciury di rectly elective by the people. The men, who' think, work, nod suffer—the bone and sinew, us they lire properly called—the universal constituen cy, who, Inning their own, mid therefore, the gene ml welfare at heart, ure necessarily honest. Their united judgment, compounded out of the unbiased judgments oi each and all. must necessarily be sodnder than the judgment of one. or n part, witli a separate interest. To doubt this conclusion is Anti-liepublican. It must coins from one, who doubts our ability tor self government; and who ought to go live in a monarchy. It js the sentiment of that class of ine,j: who. reared to believe themselves possessed of all, or nearly all the talent and virtue in the country. hah honestly think it just to client the rest into doing right. They will not appeal to their reason, because they think them incapable of exercising it even to discover their own true interest. What a mistake! It is tliuj are ignorant of human nature And not that the combined opinion of the mass is so Louisiana r. S. senator. Two ineffectual attempts to elect a U S. Senator have been made by the Legislature of Louisiana. Each time there was a tie vote. Jou.v Slidell is the Democratic and Mr. Rkxxf.s the Federal can didate. * Colored Member of the Bail—There was a (p eat crowd in the Boston Court of Common Pleas, Friday last, to hear the debut argument of Rob ert Afonin .Jr:* law jq the office of EUis.G. /Luring. . Rhe Post says he gotnhrough than of “ pale feces.” : ; '- i.-iv; . WuraW Bohst:— Forty Livet Supplied to hem been Lost—The steamboat Wlabusha was de stroyed- by fire on The IbtK instant, while on her w'ay froml&d Riyfrr to NewOrleans.aiKlweregret to , state that no less than forty persons are supposed to have lost their livesby this'inelanchbly accident. The Pittsburg papers- contain the cal! of.a meeting, very numerously signed, of those citizens who are’ in fitvoy of nominating Henry Clay for *he Presidency. riiHiitnocr* f } •( A Compliment to Agricultural*. The sincere and ardent devotion of sox.to the Agricultural portion ot society ivasprn i verbin-:. Ho was wont to repml . “tillers of the soil' as the chief prop upon 'whose i patriotism and energies our (country mu>4> relv in | any eventful crisis. In his ‘‘nates on Virginia' s lie pays the farming interest the following Eloquent j tribute, which is as I>eautifully expressed ins it is i ju§t and true: j: • who labor* in 'the..earth arc the; chosen i People ot God, it ever he ' ha!d any chosen: people, . '. Pauis, April —777. .Sir: —The beaver, going: to the United States, presses me to give him a letter of recommendation, although I iknow nothing of him, not even his name.- This may seem extraordinary, but ;lj assure you it is not; uncommon here. Sometimes, {indeed, one person unknown brings another equally so to recommend him, and sometimes they -cecoihmcnd one another. As to! this gentleman. I must refer you to himself for his character and morals, with which he is certainly better acquainted 'than ! pos sibly can he. I recommend hirn, however; to those civilities which every stranger of whom We! know no harm has a right to; and I request yoA will do him oil the good offices and'show him all the favor that, on further acquaintance, you shall jflucl! he de lves. ! B. FRANKLIN. Prom Hip Pciin*ylvnnlnn. Tlio Wllinot Hiovlho in ppimsyi- Yesterday tfe published tin' renolmioim of mu political fiirmU in Idii eitr nnd dreene counties a* guinst the Wilnml lboyish. Kverywhcm in our ifoml-oHI State, with hol'd ami there a soli'tti’ry ex ception, thin linn bm'ii tho tl’i'liiiK of thuDoimici'iitio inunnot,- Wti gave the apiillonn of Berks county u fow days ugo, Olil .Westmoreland npcikv.! 1 1 tier grant war dmiioustriilioii in yoptuinbor,-'lin’d Allc nhony ut both lira- Into nieutings. Jiveii jo tliiwv counties whore tile ipiostioij him tint yot bcejdiinui oil, it in clour that thi> Doinbcrni'y regard the Wil mot Proviso an u ininiMini; i worthin' of tho! mhlir contempt than of the national indignation, 'At leant much in imr muling of, tho Di'niocriitiy papers in these, counties, ' j , Thero in in thin gratifying unanimity a giwt ««- mrmutof our future sue mi. ' Wo cun nil ;siiu the nail fruitn of tho Wilmot Provino in our sisterjConi monwealth, New, York. They urn to he Jbiiiisl in bitter and revengeful divisions, ami in a state 01 things between the two sections of the Democratic party, which'.cannot,We fear, be repaired in time lor the great fight in November next. Iluppi y for Pennsylvania, .she Iran refused to intermix tliin ele ment of;discord mid disunion with her po itical duties. And what in better than all, happy: fir the Democratic party of the''Union, that the great State which will secure the Presidency to thti De mocracy in ISIS, in almost a unit on this ipiestion. However honestly, we repeat, the Wilmot Proviso was supported ut the fust, by anv portion lof our liolitical; friends, it is abundantly clear that adher ence to its principles, at present and in the' fature, must place its advocates gradually, but certainly in the position of hostility to' the Democratic; party. I he course dt such of the .leaders in New York, an have taken it to their bosoms—the' coiirsejoti Mr. BniNK.Eniidrr; of Ohio—Mr. Wksiwojitii, :oij flli l(l e' il not.mejitibn— ith .that rubs di >n, | I, ■ to refer again ipon the Icgls la prosecution, ;of this yvar. proofs: of: its and ii mien i able. Stale of bur -'nil arch—the ics, hit is pebii maintain and projects, tliat irrneut of opr to excite the irth .and the tould not exist impossibleibf wiso. to! main- I Rexona of Peace.—Rumors of a peace-k-of a treaty of peace-of a pre/d; of’peace—Jm so rife today in the city, and iff the Capitol, thattffrthink It our duty to state there is no official account to ™?«?- We We mire ti.an, o\ce stated that Mr. Trist has no. powgr or inatructitfs to treat with the, Mexicans: But no treaty or** met of one, has ibeen received. r The Washington correspondents have sent these rumors toall poiiltsof the cbnipassi One even goes so far as to say!,'that,' he is prepared.'to see a Peace, Written oil paper or pajehment, sent intP:the Senate, ppA ratified--; by ; Congress,.- But .this; state ments certainly Union, Jam 37. ’ STOwisd THE 'PirEB.—EnM Byrdrt; ifr refrreifce m ihepttaSkis made pit hiS flpiirs’of, ddldrsj' raid: "There is J no.man,’however, thick headodor heartless, who would not smar tender the knowledge that he was held up in even fitly copies of a news paper; -there , is, however, no one but/a yery thin skinned fooi who-would, as' the phrase goes, Stop a paper* beedaie it;di*not.'cHimcHn:*ith/Mfshis 'no- or btfrause.itattackedhhh. -WhateVCr-finKe I may have.l.am not guilty ofithis mjsetablefobl ery-’ - i - '-m- , BoßiWi'i-o.i-ltont borrow'unlesa yon nre ob liged to, It is generally speaking, vexing To the lender; 3nd in the end unprefitable/to th» borrower vnulu. .—On Monday, vas to assem- i to. Democratic 1 disorganized. ! ijonty offour. i nng the day \ )rm a quormn, . dG, all Bemo rhigs, Except : /, which had -ity and in the \ form a quorum, elected. The d in vain sent •bstinately. and olemn obliga >f the House, xtyapd order *' r dttempted tp hodies.jßut madne&j’h'ill iana witif&end at, in place of )rleans TjVTng ?-