For th* Lancaster Intelligencer. THE HICKORY TREE. princi ples of the good old DEM- OORATIC party, ' secure to man social ~ and political Equality— they elevate the masses— ' V they secure the greatest good - to the greatest possible number they protect jpan in the pursuit - of Life, Liberty, and Happiness— they spread the Empire of Human Freedom—-they dethrone Kings and Tyrants—break the fetters imposed by petty despots—they laugh .Wickedness to - scdrn, and spurn the intrenchments of Iniquity —they are the Cloud by-day, and the Pillar of Fire by night, guiding the nation through all perils to the glorious consummation that Destiny has in store for it—they are the spear of Ithu riel, detecting Falsehood—the thread of Dandalus, guiding through the • labyrinth of Cunning. Topre serve and perpetuate these principles, VOTE FOR • jag 3 50 >E> f a f' 3=2 ' p fS M ffi 00 *2 a ■ - > , H oi _ st)p a v. 3 . O^o rt 3Z r *3 s?* kSo h-S a CTft m o 17 P W 5' > Freemen ! cheer ihe Hickory Tree, 111 storms its boughs have sheltered thee, O’er Freedom’s Soil its branches wave, Twas planted on the Lion’s Grave. Intelligencer & lournal. E. W.iH UTTER, EDITOR FOR PRESIDENT, (Sen. Ceuris OTass, OF MICHIGAN. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ®en. tOilliam OD. Sutler, OF KENTUCKY FOR GOVERNOR, €ol. fcOUliam Sigkr, OF cleXrfield county, Subject to the derision of the Democratic State Con- FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, Israel painter, OF WESTMUIIELANI) COUNTY. Lancaster, August 29; 1848. [ Democratic Central Committee. The gehtlemen composing the Democratic State Central Committee of Pennsylvania, are requested to meet at the house of Henry Buehler, in Har risburg, on Wednesday, August 3Qth, at 5 o'clock P, M., on business of importance. F. W. HUTTER, Chairman. Lancaster, Aug. 22. ter We owe thanks to that staunch and inflexi ble Democrat, John Barr, Esq., for an accession of twenty permanent subscribers to the Intelligen cer in the borough of CoJumbia. Aid to tiie Governor. Col. Samuel Snor.H of Columbia, in this county, has been appointed by Governor Johnston an Aid de-Camp, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the. Militia. Than Col. Shoch we know .of no man, Whig as he,is, on whose shoulders- the epau lettes,will sit more worthily. It is to be apprehend ed, however, that Governor Johnston is making his honors quite too cheap. The aids he has al ready appointed would constitute a well-sized battalion, and if the commission-mill at Harrisburg continues to grind appointments out at this l ate, they will not be worth the taking. Executive honors, like fine gold, are only valuable because of their rarity—a secret which his .tendency does not seem to understand. Thaddeus Stevens. The nomination of this gentleman for a seat in the National Councils, against the earnest remon strances of those to whom the Whig party has been lojg accustomed to resort for counsel, is doubtless the homage paid at all times, and by all men, to pre-eminent and dfetinguished talent. The conviction that thjs county, so powerful in its re sources of population and territory, should be rep resented in Congress by one capable of a more expanded effort of intellect than the drawling out of a sleepy “Jlye or “A T o," has forced upon the boards one, who for years had been banished into political exile, and between whom and the party that now claims in his behalf the public suffrage there is little genuine affinity. Mr. Stevens has never, in nam’d or in practice, belonged to that fraternity of frail politicians, who at the baptismal font,under thesponsorshipof JamesWatsox Webb, prostituted, to their use the once consecrated name of “Whig.’’ He has frequently exercised himself in the amiable amusement of “whipping in” this tractable party, but beyond the infliction of his lash he has never extended to them any especial mark of his favor. Whilst that Infatuation lasted, Mr. Stevens Was an Anti-Mason , but when tlie-ghost of William Morgan had fulfilled its purposes, and the old women had ceased to hang horse-hoofs above the doors to keep away the witches, he turn ed Native, by whom his name, was introduced at the eleventh hour into the congressional canvass, and to whom he is indebted for this triumph over the ‘“established church” ofWhiggery. We have ascribed the nomination of Mr. Stevens to the homage .awarded to commanding intellect, but there is too much reason to apprehend, that yet more potent reasons exist at the bottom. He is the ' sworn foe of the abolitionist—willing not only to exclude Slavery from newly acquired terri tory—but, what is infinitely worse, interfere with its existence where the Constitution has already planted it If we are mistaken in this, we shall be happy to publish a correction. At ail events, Mr Stevens has been avowedly selected as a champion, able.and'willing, to “worry” the representatives from beyond Mason and Dixon's line. He goes into Congress, the predetermined Agitator of sec tional jealousies and divisions—the foe of the peace and safety of that portion of the American people, whose interests are threatened with violent assault. He has been chosen, on account of his talents, and in spite of his-faults, to foment that internal Dis cord, which is already, like some fell spirit of Pan dembnium, convulsing and rocking the Union. His mission is to be one of Strife, of Division, and of Hatred, and surely none so well qualified to fulfil it—none so well calculated, by dangerous declama tion, to widen the breaches which every Patriot should seek to heal—none better designed to pull dawn the sacred compromises of the Constitution and to contemn the solemn injunctions of the Father of our 'Country, to “frown indignantly off the first dawning” of all such alarming and dangerous de signs. By these and kindred movements, may our re- publican friends at the South be admonished.— ‘•Forewarned, forearmed,” is an admirable maxim in politics. The signs portend- an approaching tempest. ; If Northern Fanaticism invokes the aid of if* ablest men, the fliends of the integrity of the Union most not fail to draw Upon their intellectual resources. - Greek must meet Greek, diamond cat diamond. When the evil’mine, the good must' countermine, else they will umpitied sacri fice, in an inglorious struggle. Let, then, the Democracy of the North and the South, the East and West, unite in the determination to send to the next Congress, not only Statesmen of enlarged public experience, hut Patriots, also, of lofty minds, and pure hearts, determined to preserve the Union at all hazards—and who have long accus tomed themselves to regard its dismemberment as the worst Calamity which a righteous Providence could send upon,the nation. Encountered by such an array of talent and virtue, these infatuated Zealots may go on, foaming and fretting, for a season, but they will ultimately wind themselves up in the filaments of their own disgrace as certainly as that they have existence. Old Berks. We receive the most encouraging 'news of the political prospect in our excellent and well-beloved neighbor, OLD BERKS. This giant of Democratic strength is fully aroused, and when once old Her cules sfiizes his club, look out for breakers. Those most familiar with the Signs of the Times, assure us, that they portend a perfect hurricane of Demo cratic majorities this fail. The republican legions of the Heidelbergs, the Tulpehockemi, the Berns, of Exeter, Greenwich, Alsace, Cumru, Rockland, Windsor and Bethel, and the other townships thSt constitute this glorious old county, are literally burning with desire to meet at the Stimndcastai, and there consecrate themselves afresh to the cause of. Democracy and the country. Together, they will roll up not less than 5000 majority for Cass and Butler, and if the Taylorities do not behave re markably proper, they will go a cool 'hundred or two beyond it. Since the last Presidential election the population has increasedright smart,” and many of the Buben , Who were then on the wrong side of twenty-one, have arrived at their legal ma jority. The old iolks intend to bring every one of these young ones along, and the way ihey will crowd the boxes with ballots for the Demokratisclie Zettel will be a caution to the Whigs, Native Americans, Barn and Churchbumers, and all that class of much deluded people. Federal Lancaster, we know, is straining hard to be even with her, but we tell the infatuated jade,. beforehand, that |t is of “no use.” - Old Berks has for once departed from her native dignity, her thumb is resting upon her nose, and with spread digits she is proudly saying to her Federal neigh bor: “ You can't come it r Neither can she, try she never so hard. Great and glorious old Berks! What Democrat does not love her in his heart of hearts! Under the wise, calm, and discreet leadership of her la mented Muhlenbeiio, and encouraged and sustain ed by the staid and dignified ministrations of the patriotic Ritter, through his-Afler, she has grown into a very empire of Democracy. Often have we found occasion to he a|i eye-witness of the way in which the Democrats'of Reading conduct their politics. Firm and immoveable as their native hills, yet ever calm and courteous. With so much to spare, they esteem it no labor to ride twenty miles to preserve a solitary vyaverer in the fold, but they would regard it no good work to walk half a square to drive one out. In this consists one charm of their gigantic and increasing strength Animated by such a spirit, it is not a matter of wonder, that the Democracy of Berks are always united and invincible, whilst other comities, under opposite counsels, are distracted and on the retro grade. Federal County Convention. j The delegate convention of our Federal oppo } nents, held.in this city, on Wednesday last, excited jan unusual degree of interest. As a nomination for office by that party-, in-this their strong-hold, is synonOmous with election, the anxiety among the place-seekers to “get upon the ticket” was intense. In addition to the customary strife for the mere “spoils, a hotly contested rivalry was maintained' | between the “Old Hunkers" of the Whig party, j who favored the nomination of A. H. Smith, Esq., for Congress, and the rebellious Anti-Masons and Natives, who at the eleventh hour of the canvass introduced the potent name of THA.nnEus Stevens: Those whose word at previous county conventions had long passed -as uncontroverted law, had for weeks before a ticket “cut and dry” for the occa sion, but the infusion of this new element made a woful dash in the reckoning, as the many wry faces bear witness. The following are the candi dates finally agreed upon: For Congress. —Thaddeus Stevens, (City.) Senate. —Joseph Konigniacher, (Ephrata.) Assembly. —Dr. Jeremiah B. Stubbs, (Fulton ) D G. Eshleman, (City,) J. W. Fisher, (Columbia ) Dr' J. B. Hower, (Brecknock,) D. W. Winner, (West Hempfiela.) t Sheriff. —Jacob Huber, (City.) Prothonotary. —Henry Stoek, (Martic.) Register. George Brubaker, (Upper Leacock Recorder. —Dr. H. B. Bowman, (Manheim ) Clerk O. Court.— B. Kauffman, (Washington.) Co. Commissioner.— H. Musselman, (Strasburg Directors of the Poor.— William. Gorrecbt, ,Citv Jacob Frantz, (Paradise.) ' ’ Auditor. —Audrey Mehaffy, (Conestoga.) Coroner. —John Wright, (Manor.) Delegates to State Convention. —Nathaniel Ell- (City,) Hiram Evans, (Carnarvon,) Marius Hoopes-, (Martic,) Charles Brooke, (Colerain,) Dr R. Jones, (Conoy,) Allen Yundt, (Earl.) Two sets of Delegates having appeared from Drumore—the one representing the Whig wing, the other the Native—the convention decided to admit one from each set—whereat Mr. Hopkins on behalf of the Whig claimants, and in obedience to the instructions of his constituency, protested against the proceeding, and with his colleagues in dignantly seceded. The second, or Native set, out of respect to the other side, also withdrew, leaving Drumore unrepresented. Most of the nominations were effected by a re markably close vote.- On the first and second bal lotings, Messrs. Stevens and Smith, in the classics of the turf, run “neck and neck,” and the race was finally decided in favor of the former by barely the required majority. The same closeness was ex hibited in the vote on Senator and Register. We hear many of the disappointed applicants complain, that there was much “ Cheating at the board,'' and that they were refreshed with many more promises than performances. A sure remedy for this evil would be the adoption of the viva voce mode of voting, which would take it out of the power of any of the delegates to “hold the word of promise to the ear arid break it to the sense.” This is the only honest, fair, and republican mode of voting—the only one which enables the constit uencies to discover the acts of their representatives —and is an effectual barrier agaihst every species of treachery, fraud and dissimulation. We trust the day is not far distant in Lancaster county, when both parties will insist upon its adoption. Musical Entertainment. The lovers of first-rate music in this city will be gratified to learn, that those celebrated performers, Messrs. Kxobb and Schmidt, will give a Concert, on the violincello and guitar, at the hall of the Mechanic s Institute, ori Thursday evening. We bespeak on their behalf the patronage of all lovers of- instrumental music,, ip which they are so pro ficient. Honorable Politicians.— Col. Field,’ (Whig,) was elected to the Legislature of Kentucky by one majority over Jesse Hayden, (Democrat,) but Col. F. has resigned, and they are both again candidates for the Legislature in [the , county. _ Field, being elected by one vote, and! finding that Hayden had voted for him, resigned, because he failed to vote for Hayden. The Model Whig. % p olM<ally .speaking, he is soulless. He has no sympatbieswith the busy world of man. He is an antiquated lan&tortoise, that moves not from tiie one narrow circle all his life-tinie, although pro tracted to’ more than a would mot" move ljrcm hik couch of down, to save ja nation from the iron rod of‘despotism/ Talk ti him of Freedom, of Independence, of Human Rights, of the high destiny of Man, of the vast elevation of which he is sueeptible, of the overthrow of tyranny, in- whatever shape it may appegr, and you might as well talk to stocks and stones. For such sub jects he has no ear, no tongue, no heart. But speak to him of Dividends, of Bank of Cor porations, Charters, and the like, and he grants you his attention by the hour. He loves nothing better than Szlf, and hates nothing so much as general laws, applicable to all. He pampers his own ap petite to the amount'of millions, and chaffers with honest Toil for the reduction of six pence in the price of unceasing labor. His plans of ease are all erected on the degradation of the masses, and his heaven on earth is the enjoyment of immunities from which they are excluded. The Model Whig is opposed to the acquisition of territory by the nation, although he never can get enough himself. He has never forgiven even the settlement of Ohio by the hardy pioneers of the West. He thinks Massachusetts the greatest of all the states, and would be well pleased if the Union could have been so kept within bounds, as that Boston would he the centre. . He is persuaded ill his hearty that the chief end and design of build ing up this great country, was to fit up a suitable place for the erection of a monster National Bank- He is in this respect equal with the tailor, who for the first time ..beheld Niagara Falls, and who, prompted by the ruling passion, exclaimed: “what a place to sponge a coat!” “ What a country,” ex claims the Model Whig, “fora National Bank!” He sees only ruin and decay around him, in the absence of any such stupendous machine for the manufacture of money from rags and lamp-black. Deprive him of this, and to his mind the prospect is dark and gloomy. He is altogether a man of expedients, attracted by the false glare of every ignis fatnus that chances to cross his path. To-day he curses the elevation of military chieftains as worse than “War, Pestilence, and Famine —and to morrow he is in hot pursuit of one, fresh from the field of battle, and reekin* with human gore. Now he denounces war as un holy and unjust, and hopes that those engaged in it may be “welcomed with hospitable hands to bloody graves ’—and anon he shouts hosannas to the very ring-leader ot the battle. Now -he denounces slavery as an abomination— and then hugs to his embrace the owner of three hundred negroes. Now he flaunts on high a banner consecrated to a High Protective Tariff; and then rushes pell-mell into the embraces of a Southern Free Trader. Now he is ail for peace, then ail for a warrior-now all for principle, then none for principle, but all for glory —now for wafting into power on the cloud of civil greatness, then for dashing into it on the wave of military enthusiasm. The Model Whig, in short, is a bundle of gross inconsistences.' He is an ‘ anomaly, difficult to understand or to explain. I Gen. Taylor’s Njegroes. It appears that Gen. Taylor denies having pur chased land on the Rio Granle, and having sent MODDO to the city of Washington, to be expended in the purchase of slaves; and therefore we must believe that he is not guilty in these particulars hut it is claimed that he is a“Wiimot Proviso” man, and an enemy to the extension of slavery. Here are some fads which it will be difficult to disprove, that are stated by a New Orleans corres pondent of the Boston Post: “If Gen. Taylor is,as alleged, a Wilmot Proviso man, and, indeed, as some presses have declared, opposed to slavery, how comes it that he, general Taylor, did, during the month'of May last, purchase of a negro trader in Esplanade street, between Moreau and Victory streets, in this city, some four or five negroes, in the name of his son, Richard Taylor? Also, he did, on the Oth day of June last, purchase of another slave trader in the same street, two other slaves; he examined them, had them disrobed, or undressed, if you please to ascertain whether they were sound or not, and paid $750 for each. These are facts, and I will send you on the documents. Again, a certain house no less than Beard, Calhoun & Co., have now an order from the General to procure for him a slave who is a blacksmith; although purchased in the name ot Ins son, he pays the money and superintends the purchase. -Does this look like being opposed to ■holding men in bondage?” What will those stick lers against slavery, who were and are willing to take Taylor as a good staunch anti-slavery man, because Fillmore is on the ticket, say to this?”' ’ j Gen. Taylor at Home. The Baton Rouge Democrat thus encouragingly talks to his brother Democrats throughout the coun try: “Our Democratic friends at a distance need not be alarmed for the safety of East Baton Rouge m the approaching contest. We have a Democra tic majority, which is bound to be maintained, not withstanding the influence which some men calcu late Gen. Taylor will be enabled to yield in a parish wherein he has his domicil. The Democrats here pay that respect to Gen. Taylor which, as a gentle man and military chieftain, he is entitled to at the hands of his countrymen generally; but in no man ner, as we can see, has this feeling had the effect of alluring one of them from the allegiance due to then-principles, or from their determination to vote for those men who are to uphold and perpetuate those principles in the governmental administration of our country. Once for all, then, we tell our Democratic brethren throughout the States, to con tinue of good cheer—do your duty, and we will do ours." United States Senator. 1 he Democrats of Columbia and Luzerne coun ties have in advance instructed their candidates for the State Legislature, to support George W. WoonwAßH as the successor of Gen. Cameron in the U. S. Senate. 117* If it be true that Gen. Taylor “ never sur renders, that is more than can be said of his friend of fiie Lancaster Examiner, who has dropped the talismamc word “ Whig ” in his account of the pro ceedings of the body that met here last Wednesday, and styles it, in terms of exquisite simplicity, a plain “ County Convention.” We had no idea that the organ, par excellence, of Whiggery, would “ give it up so.” ST* Hon. Timothy Ives, has been nominated for the State Senate by the Democratic Conference of the district composed of Warren, McKean, Pot ter, Jefferson, Clarion, Elk and Forest counties. Judge Ives possesses a good sound mind, has had considerable experience in legislation, and will no doubt hold an honorable position in the Senate. 07* The Clay Whigs of Hanover county, (Va.,) Mr. Clay's birth place, have openly revolted from Genl"Taylor. At a Whig meeting held there fately to listen to the regular whig elector, he was met, and the whole Philadelphia imposture denounced as a cheat by Mr. Perien, a leading Whig and Clay man of tlie county. There is a big screw loose in Virginia. Maine— “ The Ellsworth Democrat ,” the only paper in Maine professing to be democratic, which refused cordially to support Cass and Butler, has been discontinued, the democrats there refusing to foster treason, and withdrawing their support. ID* But 51 out of 700 Democratic voters of Taunton, Mass., the residence of Marcus Morton signed the call to the Van BurCn disunion meeting.’ .The names of hundreds of Whigs were on it. .L-' lion. WUllani Mock. We rejoice to learn, that atj the meeting ; of the Democratic conferees-at'Jonestown, on Saturday: last, the choice fell' upon our excellent friend, Hon. WILLIAM DOCK of Hafristurg, as the Demo cratic candidate for Congress, in the district com posed of Dauphin, Lebanon, and Schuylkill counties. This is a capital selection, an.d one that will, if we mistake not, be approved by: a majority of the people. Judge D. is both capable and deserving, and- well understands the wants of the district. He would make an ■ efficient representative, and we wish with all our heart that he may be elected. Specimen of the Laconics. In 1835, when Mr. Van Buren was the Demo cratic candidate for the Presidency, a large party of bolters in Tennessee nominated Hugh L. White, of that State, an eminent citizen but frail politician. To afford their candidate opportunity to make a speech, a “ glorification” was got up for his benefit, and among the distinguished Democrats invited to attend it, waa the present President of the United States. His reply was short an'd sweet, as follows: ' Columbia, !Oct. 14, 1835. Gentlemen: I have this moment received your invitation to dine on Tuesday, 20th instant, and have the honor to decline it. Your obedient serv't JAMES K. POLK Messrs. W. E. Kennedy and others, Committee. KT" The iocofocos talk of j abandoning Cass They do not like the idea of : being whipped.— Lancaster Examiner. It may be very well for a party that has aban doned both its name and its principles, to charge others with the abandonment of their candidates but we do assure the Eramiuer/that the election of Thadueus Stevens to Congress is not more cer tain, than is the election of Lewis Cass to the Presidency. ~, New-Orleans Picayune is down on the Telegraph line between New Orleans and Wash ington.—Pennsylvanian. May Pic have a pleasant ride of it. ID" Hon. Peter S. Michler, of Northampton, de clines having his name brought before the Whig State Convention as a candidate for the executive chair of State. JET At the recent commencement of the Tran sylvania University , an institution of deserved celebrity, located at Lexington, (Ky.) the degree of L. L. D. was conferred upon the Hon. Ellis Lewis, of this city—an honor worthily bestowed- From the Pennsylvanian. Governor Johnston's Reasons. I have before me a speech, delivered at Lancas caster, by his Accidency Governor Johnston, and among other queer things I find the following, as reason, number eleven, why Gen. Taylor should be elected. Hear him: He .will proscribe no man for a conscientious difference of opinion; being a lover of liberty of thought himself, he can afford to tolerate it in others. If this is a merit in General Taylor, what is the opposite conduct in Mr. Johnson? He’has now been in office a few weeks—an office to which he has succeeded without the endorsement of the peo ple, and yet in this short time, and under the pecu liar circumstances, he has already guillotined scores of faithful and competent officers, who were ap pointed by the Governor of the peopled choice. Mr. J. must have much more brass than conscience to place himself in such a ridiculous attitude. The conduct of his Accidency is another specimen of Federalism proscribing proscription. SENEX From the Muscogee Democrat. John C. Calhoun vs. the Bible, “Mr. Calhoun denied, and with much originality of argument, the generally received truth, “all men are born free and equal,’” “Men were not born,” he said, “ inliints were born; men grew.” He denied, too, with equal force that men were created, free and equal. “ Me " are llot created; there were but two ever created—one man and one woman—the one sune nor, the other inferior.” r j The commentator of Fort Hill has, we fear, not read his Bible .with the same attention that he has “Jefferson’s Manual,” or the “Hamilton Papers,” or he would not have placed himself in ‘so antago nistical a position to scripture, as he Eas in the above remarks, taken from his late great speech on the organization of territories. For example, the goodsbook reads as follows: “Yet man is born unto trouble as the-snarks Hv upwards.”—Job, v. 7. r j “ Though man be born like a wild asses’ colt Job, xi. 12th. “ Man that is born ol womamis leW of days and full of trouble.”—Job, xiv. 1. J “ Art thou the first man that was born ? Or wast thou made before the hills?”—Job, xv. 7. “The joy. that z.man is born unto the world ” John, xvi. 21. ‘‘Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us ?”—Malachi, ii. 10 “.?t! De ?? be , r thy Crea <° r in the days of thy youth.”—Eccl., xii. l. ‘ 3 ! “ Go ye into all tile world, and preach the gospel to every creature."— Mark, xv. 15. From the Retford Gazette, of August 25. President Polk. j The President of the United States arrived at the Bedford Springs on last Saturday, where he is spending a lew days for the benefit of his health. This is his first visit to Bedford, and he expresses himself highly pleased with this justly celebrated watering place. Our citizens, of all parties, called to see the President, and it affords us pleasure to say that atKare pleased with him. We have never, in the whole course of our life, seen any public’ man who combined so fully all the requisites of the Statesman, the Gentleman, rind the Citizen, as President Polk. Possessed of an elegant flow of language, and pleasant and courteous 'in his man ners, he makes all who are introduced, to him feel perfectly easy. The Democrats of Bedford county, who gat e .Limes K. Polk as enthusiastic a support as any 0i1.,-, county in the Union, are now more proud ot him than ever. The President's counlen ance is an index to intellect of the highest order anil honesty is depicted in every feature. The President is accompanied by his nephew Samuel Walker, and Dr. Foltz, U. S. Navy. WUo are tlie “ Barnburners 1 » -As the whigs profess to be sanguine that the nominations of Van Buren and Adams will make vast inroads upon the Democratic party, it will perhaps do them good to see-definite results, as they are developed. In Tippecanoe county, (Indiana,) the late election for members of Assembly resulted as follows: Democrat,! Whigs. Barnburners. Goldsbury 1,362 M’Cormick 912 Breckenridee 796 Doyle 1,401 Wade 811 Lutz B It is important to remember, that both the Free Soil candidates had previously acted with.the Dem ocratic party, so that one would have supposed that they would derive their chief support from that quarter. But-a glance at previous results will prove the direct contrary. In 1844 the vote of Tippeca noe county stood thus: Polk 1,551, Clay 1,550 in 1847 for Congress: Pettit (dem.) 1,398, Brier (Whig,) 1,351. What do these figures prove ? Why, tlie impor tant fact, that these “ Free Soil” candidates have not affected the Democratic strength in the least, whilst they have literally cut the whig vote in two. Let those Taylor editors, who are erecting such magnificent air-castles on'the Buffalo nominations, look at this and tremble. C 7“ Thanksgiving ip New Hampshire appointed for the 16th of November—the day succeeding the Presidential election. A very appropriate time, for the whole nation has reason to be thankful when the excitement of a Presidential election is over. 87-'Robert Brent, R. B. Carmichael, and Madison Brown of Maryland, have left the Taylor party, and come out for Cass and Butler. * Democratic iltate. Convention. ( The 'following delegates have been chosen, to meet in State Convention, at Harrisburg; on IXX MORROW, to nominate a ijemocratieicindUate for Governor. " ■ i ;.'1 Amettnnr County,—Henry S. MagrawyL. Kane, C. Barnett, Gibson and F. iaker—in structed for Jeremiah S. Black. An Airs County.—Dr. William Stewart recom mended for senatorial—Edward B. Buehler, repre sentative—uninstructed. , BsnK3. County.— William Earns, Peter Stroll ecker, Dr. L Beaver, Col. William Lobach-and Wil liam Heidenreich— instructed for Mobbts Lorre- STBETH. Bbtlib Couhtt.— William Beatty, John Barr one Black, one Bigler. . Blaib County. —Tfaaddeus Banks, s with in structions to support Jeremiah S. Black. Bedford County. —-Gen. James Burns and Sam uel Cromwell, instructed for Jebemiah S. Black. Bucks Couwtt.— M. Wright, Col. Joseph Morrison, William Stevens, Peter Shelly—instruc ted for Morris Longstreth. Beaveh County.— Nathaniel P. Fetterman (sen.) Benjamin Wilde, Thomas J. Power (rep.) no in structions. Bradford County.— Gordon F. Mason. Chester Thomas—no instructions. Clarion County — has declared as her first choice in favor of Arnold Plumed. Clearfield County. —Dr. J. P. Hoyt represen tative and W. J. Hemphill recommended as Sena torial delegate—instructed for William Bigler. Crawford County.— Joseph Douglass, George Merriman, instructed for N. B. Eldred. Cumberland Sanderson and Samuel Wherry—uninstructed— one for Jeremiah S. Black—one for William Bigler. Columbia County.—John Mcßeynolds, senator rial—Stephen Baldy, representative delegate—in structed for Morris Longstreth. Centre County. —William Smyth (sen.) James Gilleland (rep.) instructed forWillihm Bigler. . Chester County. —Striker Boyer, Oliver Alli son, Major John Kirland, Thomas W. Cheyney— instructed for Morris Longstreth. Clinton County.— H. T. Beardsley, (sen.) J. P. Hul mg (rep.) instructed for William Bigler. Dauphin County.— Samuel Faunce, Lieut. J. Waterbury representative delegates—and Dr. Lewis' Heck, Senatorial, with instructions, unanimously passed, to support N. B. Eldred. Erie County.— James C. Marshall, John Braw ley, Harley Sherman, uninstructed. Fayette.— Westley Frost, John A. Cummings, no instructions. Greene.— R. H. Lindsey, no instructions. Huntingdon County. —J. P. Anderson, repre sentative delegate. On the vote of instruction, the vote stood: Bigler 21, Black 21. Indiana county.—Adam Lowrey, Esq., represen tative and R. B. M’Cabe, Esq., Senatorial, both favo rable to Col. William Bigler. , Jefferson County. —Delegates instructed to vote throughout for William Bigler. Juniata County.— John Wyke .(rep.) and W. W. Wilson (sen.) instructed for William Bigler. Lycoming County.— George White (sen.) C. D. Eldred and John B. Beck—instructed for General Robert Fleming. Luzerne County. —Andrew Beaumonte, Maj. Francis L. Bowman—no instructions. Lebanon County.— Dr. N. Ranck and Daniel Brua—instructed for N. B. Eldred. Lf.higu County.— John S. Gibons (rep.) and Jacob Erdman (sen.) instructed for Morris Long streth. Mifflin County.— John koss and W. W. Wil son-instructed for Ephrai.J Banks as the first, and for William Bigler as the second choice. Monroe County.— Moses W. Coolbaugh, (rep.) James H. Walton, (sen.) uninstructed. A corres pondent of the Pennsylvanian writes that “a large majority of the meeting were in favor of Morris Longstreth.' 1 Montgomery County —Daniel Jacoby, Daniel Fry, Mehelan McGlathery, Owen Jones—instruct, ed unanimously for Morris Longstreth. Northampton County.— Henry Hillman, (sen.) James T. Borheck and Daniel Seigfried (rep.) for Morris Longstreth. Northumberland County. —William Forsyth (Sen.) J. B. Packer (Rep.) instructed for William Bigler. i Phixadlphia City". —John M. Read, Vincent L. Bradford, Francis Wharton, Daniel Barr, William ■F. Gormer, Michael McMenney, Nathaniel Holland —instructed for Morris Longstreth. Philadelphia County. —Francis Dimond, Wm. English, John Stallman, Thomas McCully, Robert T. Carter, John T. Smith, Andrew Cauffman, Joseph Sherman, Dennis, Lamon, Hugh Clark, F. D. Moyer—instructed for Morris Longstreth. Perry County. —A. B. Anderson (sen.) Joseph Baily (rep.) for Jesse Miller. Somerset County. —Joshua F. Cox, senatorial Isaac Hugus, representative delegate, instructed for Jeremiah S. Black. Sullivan County. — Dr. E. P. Allen, (rep. del.) no instructions. Sc huTtkill County.—Charles Frailey, senato rial—F. W. Hughes, Joseph W. Cake, representa tive—instructed for William Bigler. Susruehanna. —G. A. Gwin, Union County.—lsaac Slenker, senatorial—Geo Gundrum, representative—instructed for William Bigler first choice—and Morris Longstreth, second choice. Venanoo, Clarion and Jeflthson.—John W. Shu. gert, Thomas F. Newell—instructed for Arnold Plumer. first choice—William Bigler, second. Washinbton.— David Riddle, J.-D. Leet, John Jackson—instructed for Jeremiah S. Black, first choice—William Bigler, second. Watne County.— George Bush, representative delegate—F. M. Crane, senatorial—lnstructed for N. B. ELnnEn. - Wyoming Countt.— F. N. Crane (sen.) S. S. Winchester (rep.) instructed for N. B. Eldred. Westmoreland County.— Joshua F. Cox, (sen.) J. M. Burrell, John Fausold and William Ross— instructed for Jeremiah S. Black. York County: —William S. Picking, James M. Anderson, George Hammond, Robert Ritchey— instructed to support William Bigler. Bigler andstbe Banks. A correspondent of the Pennsylvanian says, he has seen a letter from Col. William Bigler, dated the 3d inst., in reply to one addressed to him by a Democrat of Philadelphia, on thy subject oi Banks and Banking, in which he says: “ The more I have seen of the faithless conduct of these institutions, the more I have felt disposed to bind them up or obliterate them. I have said upon all occasions, that if successful, I should be found, adhering with unyielding tenacity to the Deniocratic faith, and upon the subject of Banks and other cor porations will follow closely in the “footsteps’' of the lamented Shunk.” ' ' Ohio for Cass and Bader. The Washington correspondent of the Nevy York True. Sun says: “ I write seriously in saying that 20,000 plurality (or Cass in Ohio is the Ima/figure I find estimated in perhaps fifty letters from that State, which I have read within a fortnight Our friends are betting even there on 20,000; and two of these letters say that Cass will head Taylor full 50,000 votes there 1 The best informed whigs own that the defection of the Clay men and quakers Is to give us quite an equal chance for Maryland, New Jersey and Connecticut.” ID* The Worcester (Mass.) Spy states that more than eight hundred of the federal voters of Wor cester have enrolled their names as members of the “ Freedom Club” of that city, and that the num ber will go up to more than a thousand; and it calculates that not more than one-sixth of the vo ters of that old Federal city will go for Taylor 1 Spoils.” As a matter of. Information to our readers, who axe concerned to know what is transpiring on- the other side, we give the "following result of the seye ral baliotings in the settlement of a County Tic kef b? the federal Delegafo Convention, which met'in this city on Wednesday last: ’ Congress. ' •Thxddeus Stevens Abr. Herr Smith Dr. Samuel Duffield Senator. •Jos. Konismacheb Benjamin Herr Abraham Kauffman Assembly. •David G. Eshleman •Dr. J. B. Stubbs *J. W. Fisher •Dr. J. B. Hower *D. W. Witmer Solomon Diller. Jacob Reist Abraham Varley C. B. Hartman George Mullin Cyrus Miller 11 B. F. Wright Scattering Sheriff. •Jacob Huber Elias Eby John Yarns Henry F. Benedict Prothonotary. •Henry Stock Jacob E. Cassel Tobias H. Miller D. B. Vondersmith Rtgistn # Geo. Brubaker Luther Richards 0 Win. Carpenter 7 A. W. Morrison 4 2 bal. 3 bal. 4 bal. 5 bal. 10 13 15 22 » 14 , If, 10 K'B 9 3 4 2. ' 2 1 Ist bal. 2d bal. 3d bal. 14 18 23 S 14 18 C ft 1 ti 4 U 7 0 0 Recorder. ‘Dr. H. B. Bowman John Brady, jun. Levi Swope Anthony Good Scattering Clerks O. Court : •Benjamin Kauffman David • May Win, W. Passmore Scattering Clerk Quarter Sessions. * David M. Martin Jeremiah Bauihan Samuel Miller John Brenizer 1 bal. 2 bal 3 bal. 4 bal. 10 13 10 22 12 10 17 18 9 lu 8 l 10. U u u Ist bal. 2d bal 15 25 10 8 10 ft 7 3 County Commissioner. Ist bal. 2d bal. 3d bal. •Henry Musselman 1 o 15 24 David Styers 10 13 12 George Byrod f, o i j 4acob B. Tshudy 7 4 4 Scattering 3 2 ij To those marked thus * the wheel of fortune has awarded prizes—the residue have drawn blanks. Better luck the next time. Tire Presidency. The Washington Union makes a calculation in relation to the Presidential vote which seems to us so lull of good sense and probability that we afford its substance a place in our columns. The Union regards the election of Cass as sure, and says, “ We positively claim the following States for Cass and Butler f’ Maine, 'j Illinois, 9 New Hampshire, G Alabama, 9 Pennsylvania, 2G Missouri, 7 Virginia, 17 Arkansas, 3 South Carolina, 9 Michigan, 0 Ohio, 03 lowa, 4 Mississippi, r, Texas, 4 Indiana, 12 Wisconsin, 4 Total, _ 153 This is seven more than enough. But the Union adds : “ In addition to these States, we hold that Cass may now calculate with great cofindence upon re ceiving the votes of three other States, viz : Georgia, 1(J Louisiana, ~ Florida, l Total, iQ Of the remaining' States, we d» not concede to Taylor— lennessee, i j ociawaie, j Connecticut, 6 Maryland, 8 New Jersey, 7 ‘ North Carolina, 11 Total, 48 In each of these, as we think, the struggle is to be very close and doubtful. The New York Journal of Commei'ce , one of the best informed journals in the country, in summing up the results of the late elections, says: We are inclined to think that, on the whole, the movements of the Barnburners will help Mr. Cass, particularly their embrace of Abolitionism, ultra Whiggery, and the odds and ends of factions gener ally, at tbe late Buffalo Convention. They have tbus become associated in the public mind with what is inherently unpopular and odious. It requires no great sagacity to foresee the result. We state it now at our deliberate opinion, and wish it to be remembered, that notwithstanding the reinforce ment which they have received from extraneous sources, they will not be able to give Mr. Van Bu ren a single Electoral vote. No doubt they will poll a respectable number of votes in the states, but it will not be a plurality of the whole, and therefore will avail nothing. Myerstown Cass and Butler Club The Democrats of Myerstown, Lebanon county, asssembled at the public house of Mr. George Lein inger, on the 2d inst., and organized a Cass and Butler Club, by electing the following officers: President —Samuel Morrett. Recording Secretary —Washington Root. Corresponding Secretary —John G. Stetler. At the same time, a Constitution and By-Laws were adopted, for the government of the Club. The Democrats of Myerstown are up and doing; they go in, to a man, for the nominees of the Balti timore Convention, and will poll one of their stron gest votes in November next. The Tlilrty-FiiNt -Congress. The Western elections decided fourteen Congres sional Districts for the 31st Congress, viz : Illinois 7 ; Missouri 0 ; lowa 2. The result is 13 Demo crats and 1 Whig, the same' as ip the present Con gress. The new members are as follows: ILLINOIS. 1. Joseph H. Bissell, 2. J. A. McClernand, 3. Thomas R. Young, 7. Thomas L. Harris. •The only Whig elected, a gain, but the Whigs lose the 7th.district, now Lincoln's district.' MISSOURI, 1. Jas. B. Bowlin, 3. J amC s S. Green. 2. Wm. V. N. Bay, 4. Willard P. Half 5. John S. Phelps. lOWA. 1. William Thompson, Governor Johnston’s Axe. The following appointments have been made by his Accidency Governor Johnson,'in the city and county of Philadelphia: Harbor Master—Wm. Abbott, in place of A. L. Roumfort. Head Measurer —Wm; Linker. Sealer of Weights and Measures —John Rakesland, in place of Charles Mason. Flour Inspector at Pittsburg —Wm. Hemmingsey. Delaware* The Democrats of this State held their State Convention, at Dover, on the 23d inst., and nomi nated William G. Whitely, of Wilmington, for Congress, on the first ballot. Mr. W. is a young man of much ability, and, if elected, will win him self a high reputation. John D. Dilworth, Caleb H. Sipple, and Geo. Hickman, were nominated for Presidential FJectore. Our iriends in this State claim it for Cass and Butler. , - . Governor of Oregon. —Gen. Joseph Lane of Indiana, has been appointed Governor of Oregon, in in the room of Gen. Shields, declined. A Polite Editor.— The editor of the Arkansas Journal says:—Where our office was two weeks ago now runs the Mississippi river. Out of respect for the father of rivers, we left. Secret 'circular of the Whi? state Central Committee. , . Shortly before putting our-paper to press, we received, from an anonymous source—doubtless from a Democrat, to whom it had been addressed byrn-istake-ia copyof a Secret Circular, signed by Aisxasder Ramset and the rest of the Whig State Central Committee, which we learn is secret ly circulating among their party in every.township of Pennsylvania. Utbal. 2d bal. 3d bal. 18 20 .23 17 19 17 7 3 1 Ist bal. 2d bal. 3d bal. 17 21 22 17 18 20 9 3 0 Ist bal. 2d bal. 3d bal. 33 nominated 1 bal. .38 do 23 do 23 ~ ~a o 17 16 19 20 1C 12 13 3 2 9 1,1 3 0 0 3 0 0 2 3 3 7 2.2 4 0 0 Ist bal. 2d bal. 3d bal. 26 nominated. 11 It contains the programme of an extended system of operations in this State, and provides, among other matters, for <he appointment of Central Com mittees of Vigilance, at each County-Seat: Work Committees, who are to divide each' county into School Districts, with appropriate Sub Divisions: Rough and Retidy Clubs: Colporteurs, who art to traverse these districts, to talk and preach Federal politics to the people! Singing Committees, who are to assail the public ear with the artillery of the gamut, and whose “talent for vocal music’’ is to be employed in singing people into the embraces of Federalism 1 Finance Committees, who are to collect funds, and use them, a la Rein, in a manner to make “Lehigh do better:' ExritemetU Committees, who are to stir up folks “with a long pole, ’ and whose business it shall be to “overcome BY ANY MEANS " the distressing apathy of the present campaign: Slander Committees, who are enjoined to dish up all the stale calumnies against General Cass as to his having abused Jefferson! cheated a Land Company! defrauded Government! and sun dry other high crimes and misdemeanors, that never before- were heard or dreamt of! Challenging Com mittees, whose business consists in loitering at the polls on Election Day, and obstructing the Right of Suffrage. Ist bal. 2d bal. 3d bal. 15 19 32 10 II y 11 10 1 5 1 o •‘GREAT MASS MEETINGS" are recommend ed to be held “arranged so as to arouse mainly the old Whig counties—lor instance at Erie, for the North-west—one at Beaver, one at Pittsburg, one at Brownsville, one at Somerset, one at Hollidays burg, one at.Lewistown, one at fchambersburg, one at Lebanon, one in Union county, one in Chester county, one at Doylestown, one at Lancaster, one at Harrisburg," See. This Secret Circular is of such length that we find it impossible to give it entire, but the above is a fair synopsis. From it, the Democrats of Penn sylvania, can see the extent, to which our opponents are willing to go to carry this State for Taylor. Forewarned,let us now be also forearmed. Whilst we despise their clap-trap devices—their Preaching, their Singing, their Slaniiers, and their Money—let us not relax our yigilance, but commend ourselves to the public suffrage by the purity of our Principles. and the unexceptionableness of our Candidates. Up to the adjournment of Congress, great doubts have prevailed, whether tbe vote of South Carolina would ultimately be given for Cass or for General Taylor. But we are happy to discover, that the violent assaults committed by the Taylorites in Congress upon the peace and safety of the South have awakened a spirit in the Palmetto slate, that no longer involves her Electoral vote in uncertainty. The Charleston Mercury —the accredited organ of Mr. CiLHODN— contains a call for a Democratic meeting to be held in the city—and thus unequivo cally declares in favor of Gen. Cass. This settles the question, so far as relates to that State. The Mercury says: ’ That there are grave objections to Gen. Cass we do not deny. At the proper time we set forth and insisted upon these objections, a B conclusive reas ons why the people of South Carolina should refuse to take any decided part in the Presidential election. We had desired, unless the developements of the times should make it a plain duty, for us to adopt a candidate of our own, that, unembarrassed and undistracted by popular agitation, the Legislature of South Carolina might b§ left free to decide upon the vote of the State, influenced only by a sense of what was due to her principles and her honor. It is the position which, from the first, we insisted oh as the true one for the State, and which the closing events of the late session of Congress have most impressively shown to be the only one consistent «iti. piiucipies; and with the exertion of any influence favorable to the adjustment of questions identified with her own and the common safety o f the South. J We bear no part—we should be deeply mortified if we thought we had afforded any one with a pre text to charge us with bearing any part—of the res ponsibility of the movement which have induced, perhaps, a majority of our friends to yield this po sition of neutrality. The necessity has been forced upon them by the nomination of General Taylor in their midst, and the organization of a party to advance his election.' In regard to sfleh a move ment we cannot permit our position to be question able ; and as the proper answer to it ; and because a position of neutrality in such circumstances would be a position of imbecility when forced to a choice between the'nominees of the Whig party and the nominees of the Democratic party, we declare our preference for the latter; and we cannot doubt, that, for the same reasons, the Legislature of South Carolina will cast the vote of the Slate for Cass and Butler. We have the Huntsville (Texas) Banner, of the 29th of July, and find it a very interesting and spirited paper. The following paragraph indicates that there is not much hope for Taylor in Texas: It appears'that the Whigs of this State are un able to get up an electoral ticket. They have made several efforts to start one, but have failed so far. The Taylor Convention, in Austin, last winter nominated Gov. Runnels, Ex-Gov. Henderson, and Messrs. Caldwell and Epperson. The three first named gentlemen refused flatly to run The Con vention which met here on the sth instant, called upon Judge Webb, Judge Ochiltree, and- Mr. Yer ger, to take their places, and represent the Taylor party in the forthcoming election. Judge Webb has courteously declined the honor, alleging as the reason, that he is a Democrat. Judge Ochiltree, we learn, has accepted the nomination. Mr. Yerger we have not heard from. i The New Orleans Bulletin , a Taylor paper, gets mournfully merry over the defections from Taylor ism, and hits off the deserters in the following anecdote: The present position of the Taylpr party, re minds us of a story we once heard of a’ farmer who one morning let his sheep out of the pen Having put down the bars, the old man stood by to count them as they hopped over, and began— “ There goes one”—“there goes two ,r —“there goes three ‘‘theresold Ewe”—“there goes a black one”—“there goes a whole heap”—and, curse them, there they all go!” “Sp it is with the Taylor party. At first we could count the deserters—one, two, three, four; but it was soon ascertained that the bounds were ' broken—that the bars were down, and the “ old j ewes” and the “black ones” began hopping out i very fast, and followed so rapidly by “whole heaps,” as to bid defiance to any attempts to keep count, and soon poor Taylor will have to exclaim, 1 Curse them! there they all go/' ” 4. John Wentworth, 5. W. A. Richardson, 6. *Ewd. W. Baker. 2. H. S. Leffler. The Capital Quiet.—lndian Depredations continued. By aq arrival from Vera Cruz we have dates from the city of Mexico to the 13th instant/ The capital was quiet; Congress was debating the re duction of the Tariff. The government was vigorously administered by Herrera, who was becoming popular. Exer tions are making to revive the commerce of Mexi co, which has been entirely prostrated by the war. The actual whereabouts of Paredes is not known, but it is supposed that he is concealed somewhere in the capital. The revolution" is entirely sup pressed, and cannot for the present make head again. The Indian depredations, by the Camanches, still continue. Vera Cruz at last dates was very quiet. Gem. Shields. —The Hibernian Society of Illi nois has presented Gen. Shields with a gold medal. In his address, on the occasion he said: “For my own part, I will pledge myself here that if Ireland ever strikes for liberty I will join her in the struggle, and consecrate the residue of my life to her service; and I sometimes think that Heavea has preßerve4 my life for some good pur- I know of no purpose more holy or more benevolent than that of aiding in the redemption of my native land.”., POSTSCRIPT! South Carolina for Cass. Taylor and Texas. A Hard Hit. Very late from Mexico. New Orleans, Aug. 23.
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