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,
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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.