3ntelligencer Si Journal. W:-/i UTTER, EDITOR. Lancaster, April 10, 1849. IL7" Tea MAYOR'S OFFICE htui been removed to North Prince street, rear of the jail. 117 r A list of about 100 names to the letter of invitation to Mr.BI:TCHANAN, Democrats of the city, was accidentally lost. Those who have signed the letter, and 'do not find their names published, will hence know the reason of the omission. ET JOHN ESq., the eminent Aran- . test, has been elected an honorary and correspond ing member of the Royal Institute of British Archi tects—a dignity for the •first time, it is said, ever conferred upon an American. The Philadelphia papdrs notice the Diploma, as executed in a hand some Style of art, and signed by the venerable Earl Gamy, President of the Institution. The honor is worthily conferred. fl-3 JACOB &OSMAN, Esq., of Lancaster town• ship, was on Tuesday last, elected a Director of the Farmers' Bank to' - supply the vacancy occasioned by ,the resignation of Joseph .C. Herr, Esq., re moved to Philadelphia. Appointment of Judges. It will no doubt suprise our readers to learn, that the present Legislature has set the cap-sheaf on its extravagance, by the creation of three new judicial districts, at an experise of some six or eight thous and dollars to the tax-payeis. The following are the Judges appointed by Governor JOHNST oa for these and other districts: N. B. Famits.n, 22d district, nrw! D. F. GORDON, Berks, 23d distriCt, new! GEORGE TAYLOR, 24th district, new! WILLIAM JESSUP, 11th district, old. HORACE WILLISON, 13th district, old. DAFIEL DIIRIKEE, York. 19th district, old. Juan J. PEARSoN, of Mercer, former State Senator, for the Dauphin and Lebanon district, vice N. B. Eldted, transferred. All. the above appointments have been confirmed by the Senate. We have not, as yet, been able to ascertain the division lines of the districts as con stituted by the new Post Office Changes. The following additional changes in post-offices in Lancaster county, have been recently made by the "no-party" administration at Washington: S. S. lia.our., Marietta, vice J. J. Libhart. D. WEBSTER MAY, Manheim, vice G. Shaffner. A. BRENEMAN, Elizabethtown, vice S. Redsecker. Lkwis, Cooperville, vice J. Cain. Governor of Minesota ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Esq., of Harrisburg has been appointed by President Taylor Governor of Minesota, (Ex• Governor Pennington, to whom it had been previously tendered, having declined.it,) and report says Mr. R. has accepted. We congrat ulate Mr. RAMSErIe upon the distinguished honor, which, in the division of the "spoils," has fallen to his lot. In his capacity as Chairman of the Whig State Central Committee, he displayed a vigor and efficiency, which his political opponents realised but too keenly, and which were eminently worthy of remembrance by the victorious party. Mr. R has risen to his present high position solely by dint of unbending perseverance and honest industry. He has been emphatically, under Providence, the architect of his own fortune. As he is a gentle man of education and winning popular manners, we doubt not his appointment will prove every ay acceptable to the Minesotians. What Washington would not have, done. He would not have declared, that he would oc cupy the Presidency only as the unanimous choice of the American people, and then have accepted it at the hands of a mere minority! He would not have affirmed, that he would in no event serve as the President of a party, and then have appointed his entire cabinet from the most " ultra" of a particular party! He would not have said, that he he had "no polit ical enemies to punish," and then have punished all who were in the least degree suspected of having preferred some one else for the Presidency! He would not have made Honesty one of the essential requisites of appointment to office, and have afterwards conferred lucrative places on men notoriously dishonest. Vide Henry Fitz Warren, Broad Seal Pennington and Charles Biddle Penrose of U. S. Bank and Buckshot War notoriety. He would not have solemenly sworn to support, protect, and preserve the Constitution of the United States, and in the same breath have committed its interpretation exclusively to Congress and the Su preme Court. We will not say who has done these things—but we-repeat our belief, that GEORGE WASHINGTON would not do them, if he were still living and on the stage of public action. More Removals - Enwenn STUB BS, Esq., the Accountant Clerk of the State Department, has been removed by Mr. Clayton, to make place for a Mr. Gordon. There is not in all the Departments at Washington a more capable and efficient officer to be found than Mr. Sttibbs. As he disbursed the whole contingent fund of the Department, including the pay of those in the Foreign service, the post was one of much responsibility. Never a dollar has been missed in all the . accounts, for immense sums, rendered by Mr. Stubbs. But he is a Democrat, and this sin has outweighed every other merit. If Mr. Clay ton has found as competent a successor, we con gratulate him. FERNANDO WOOD, former Member of Congress, has been removed by Secretary Clayton, from the office of Despatch Agent at New York, and is suc ceeded by Mathew L. Davis. Salary $BOO. ' It is thus that the new administration is falsify ing all the fair professions by which it imposed upon the popular understanding. during the election canvass. We repeat, that we do not complain of - ,,an administration preferring its friends to its ene 7 mies. But we do complain, that Gen. Taylor be fore the election ran avowedly as a "no party" can didate, whilst he now proves himself the most "ultra" Whig of all! Another Bank Hero Rewarded! ALEXANDER Invis, Esq:, late Member of Con gress from the Clearfield district, has been appointed Marshal• of the Western district of Pennsylvania. Mr. Irvin was one of the Democratic State Senators, who in 1836 struck his colors, and ingloriously fled —to the vaults of the Marble Monster. Gen. TAT- Loa seems to cherish a remarkable penchant for the corrupt traitors who were instrumental in fastening the BIDDLE Bank on the people of Pennsylvania. Where's Dlcßar ? Where's BURDEN? Are there no sops in store for them? Good News from New York! Both wings of the Democracy of New York have united upon MYNDERT VAN SCHAICK as their can didate for Mayor, Which.will doubtless secure his election. Let us hope that the same comniendable spirit will lead to a restoration of Union and Har mony in the Democratic ranks throughout the State. 117' The body of Mr. Joan. D. COLT, of Donald sonville, Schuylkill county, Pa., who disappeared in December. last while on a visit to Philadelphia, was found in the Delaware on Friday. His watch, money and paters were all found on his person, which circumstance removes the painful suspicion of his having, been murdered. The State Legibslature. - To Dar the Legislature of Pennsylvania of the present year concludes its session. We believe we but reiterate asentiment that is common to the great mass of the people, when we declare, that its adjournment sine die excites no regret, but is .rather reason for wide-spread felicitation. Among the representatives there are doubtless some honest and sterling men—men of as enlarged patriotiim and as heartfelt devotion to the public welfare, as can be found in any state of 'the Union. We our selves know severer such, whom as citizens and friends we hold in the highest;possible esteem. We speak, therefore, of the body in a public sense, and with no desire to reflect upon individual members. Viewed in this aspect, it would be vain to con ceal, that the recent Legislature (with perhaps the solitary exception of passing the amendment for giving the choice of Judges to the People) has ac complished less, worthy of grateful remembrance, than any session - that has preceded it for ° the last twenty years. It has not been unmindful of itself in the division of the "spoils"—having despatched one of its number to the Senate of United States, and conferred upon another, by a modest vote in his own favor, the seals of the Treasury. But, whilst members have thus liberally provided for themselves, they have done literally nothing for the benefit of their common constituency. They have not called in the Relief Issues, that moving mass of filth, which is every day becoming more an of fence in the public gostrils. They have not perfec ted the wise and statesmanlike reforms so auspi ciously begun by the lamented SHUNK, but have ministered to the Money Power with open and un disguised effrontery. We doubt not it will be found, when their acts and resolves are made public, that nine-tenths are either to establish new corporations, or to grant extended license and impunity to those previousiy in existence. The craft of modem politicians works-out the ends of Oppression by insidious legislation—and does it as effectually as ever ancient Emperor did by means of absolute edicts with undisguised raps.- city in view. In former times Kingcraft was the instrumentality for the subjection and spoliation of the people, lint we live m an age of invention and dexterity, when the old modes of fleecing would be deemed common-place and vulgar. We have now no royal butchers, like King JOHN of England, who extort wealth, by tearing the teeth from the mouths of its possessors, but we have refined corporators, who levy invisible and indirect taxes on the masses, under pretence of rendering them some great bene fit! The appropriation of the earnings of the great body of the people to the special advantage of a small fraction, is now called an act of legislation for the common weal! To create ;Vlonopolies— giving to interested classes a control over the cur rency, over the price of land, of food, and of rai ment, and other indispensable articles of necessity and comfort—is ..new called a policy adopted alto gether with a view to promote Industry and protect the general interests of society! Such are the spe cious names, by which our upstart dynasty of money-monger.s manage.to subjugate the masses, and crush the principles of free and popular gov erittnent. Thus is the community most fatally di vided into classes the one of Luxury and Privilege —and the other of disfranchised Poverty and Op pression ! It is our sincere conviction, that one of the great est dangers to the cause of Free Government is to be apprehended from this -qua! ter. The history of the world attests, that a pampered aristocracy on the one hand, and down trodden masses on the other, have invariably accelerated the downfall of republics. Grants of extraordinary privileges, sub_ tracted as they always are from the common fund' Of popular equality, in the end prove as baneful and- as fatal to those who enjoy, as to those who are the immediate sufferers by them. They ener vate and corrupt the one, and oppress and degrade the other, and finally involve both alike in a com mon vortex of ruin. There are no bright spots in the annals of mankind but such as are made so by the unfettered genius and activity of a free people. It is only when Agriculture, Commerce, and the Me chanic arts have been free from legislative restric tions, that the labor of man has met with its most adequate and appropriate rewards. Sorry are we to say, that no previous Legislature has acted more in contravention of sound and enlightened policy, and more in consonance with the spirit of modern abuse and encroachment, than that which closes its session to-day. From the Senate I,ve had noth ing better to hope, for there Federalism maintains almost unmolested ascendency. But we did hope, and the people hoped, for better things from the House of Representatives. With 50 representa tives elected as Democrats, they had a right to ex pect that the Money Power would not prove alto. gether omnipotent. Things looked well at the start—but soon the presence of the "charmer" was but too painfully apparent. His blandishments were too powerful for resistance—and half a dozen professing Democrats yielded. These, subtracted from the Democratic: and added to the Federal side, gave the privilege-seekers uncontrolled ascendency. How long shall the Democracy of Pennsylvania be cheated? In the BIDDLE reign, corruption ran in the streets of Harrisburg like water, poisoning and polluting the very atmosphere, and it would seem as if no disinfecting agent could be discovered. If no other alternative will answer, the time is hast ening, when the people will demand a removal of their Seat of Government to a place farther in the interior, and more remote from the pestilent influ ence of Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the Democrats at the next election, should feel incited to redoubled vigilance and cafe in the selection of their candi dates for the Senate and House of Representatives. Let it be taken for granted, that no man who is immoral or faithless in the transactions of private life, will prove otherwise in the discharge of a pub lic trust. He who willfully cheats a neighbor, will find it quite as easy a task, if opportunity offers, to cheat an entire community. Queries and Answer. The Boston Post publishes the following signifi cant queries, and then furnishes an answer, in an extract from the inaugural address of Gen. Hin- QUERIES.—If a "no-party" president choose every member of his cabinet from the ranks of the rankest kind of "whigs," what would the same in dividual have done it he had come into power as a party president? If he would have thine precisely the sane thing, then what is the difference between "party" and "no-party" 7 If there be none at all, why should good men be proscribed for being known as "democrats" 7 ANSWER.—" It was the remark of a Roman consul, in an early period of that celebrated repub lic, that a most striking contrast, was observable in the conduct of candidates for offices of power and trust, before and after obtaining them. How ever much the world may have improved, in the lapse of upwards of two thousand years Bilke the remark was made by the . virtuous and indignant Roman, I fear that a strict eiamination of the an nals of some of the modern elective governments would develop similar instances of violated confi dence."—General Harrison. NO TIME LOST.—No less thaneightof thefemale emigrants by the William Stewart were respectably and well married before' they had been ashore 48 hours, and there is but little doubt that every one of them would have been equally well provided for had they so desired. One. of these lasses, to whom the question was popped, said she'd wait awee, as she was not sure "who she'd marry yet." CENSUS Or TRU CREUOICTES.-A committee of the Cherokee Nation, together with the 11. States agent there, have given 'notice that they intend to take a census of the " old settlers," or western Cher okees, the purpose being to ascertain what persons are entitled to the per capita allowance under the treaty of 1846. Election of Judges. . • Goon,Naws!--We are almost ready to forgive the recent Legislature many', of their sins of omission and commission, for they bave signalised the close of their selaion by a deed, WhiCh will ..Stand on re cord to their - everlasfuig Credit. They lave finally passed in both branches the initiatory proceedings Tor obtaining an amendment to - the State Constitu tion, taking away the appointment of Judges, from the Governor, and vesting their selection in the hands of the People. We have long had this measure at heart, and ' have not failed, on all occasions, to advocate and promote it, through our columns, and by the circulation of petitions in its favor,. To uproot and overturn ancient prejudices and what might might be termed Dutch stubborn ness has been an up-hill business—but the most formidable barriers must eventually yield to the onward march of Truth and Freedom. We regard this as one of the most important and truly useful acts of legislation that has been passed in Pennsylvania for a long time—and shall never cease to honor and respect the men by whose labors and votes it has been carried. 'That the,people are capable of electing as good - Judges themselves, as can be placed over them by any Governor, however eminent, no man can for a moment doubt. They elect the Giiivernor—and why not• also the Judges —an inferior grade of officers? Mere slavery of habit and thought to the practice of their ancestors, has induced so many honest and well-meaning peo ple to defend the old miserable and worn-out rem nant of petty exploded monarchy, That the people are their own worst masters, and cannot be trusted with the reins of self-government. The passage of this act leads to the gratifying belief, that this de testable dogma, like every other dogs has had its day, and that a brighter era is about to dawn upon the people of Pennsylvania. When this truly excellent measure shall be con summated, as it is sure to be,•in a year or two, we should like if some master spirit in the Democratic ranks would propose another reform, which would bring powerstill nearer to itsrightful and legitimate source, the People. We mean, an amendment of the Constitution, requiring all acts of Legislature to be first passed upon by a vote of the People, before they receive the force and efficacy of laws. If of a local character, like the division of a county or the erec tion of a POor House and County Prison, let the vote be taken in the county affected by these acts —if of a general character, like the digging of a State Canal or the building of a State Railroad, then let the vote be general. Had such a provision existed in 1833-6, when Bunnkx, PEIVROSE . vd Company sold the State to the Monster Bank, think you they would have succeeded in their iniquity A reservation likothis would constitute what might be termed the PEOPLE'S VETO—and they would then have some security against the high-handed legislative encroachments that so often weigh them and their dearest interests irretrievably to the earth. It is true, the Judges of the Supreme Court of Penn sylvania have decided, iffthe case of an act for sub. • mating the question of License to the people, that such an act 'Was vizonstitutiond, for the reason that the representative cannot re-transfer his powers to those who originally delegated them ! But even the Judges of the Supreme Court are mere men, fallible in their opinions, like ourselves--whose de cisions are not to be regarded, like the Ark of the Covenant, as too sacred to be 'touched by profane hands, or even to be looked with jealousy in the face. As all below is mutable, tossing to and fro I like the ebbing and flowing of old ocean's waves, l it may come to pass, that the Supreme Court will yet condescend to re-consider their judgment on some other License case, and decide that the other way, Which would be nothing remarkable, for its opinions have not possessed the stability which tra dition ascribes to the laws of the Medes and Per sians. At all events, if the People themselves shall engraft the proposed clinge upon their fundamen tal law, the opinion.of the Supreme Court will stand reversed by a tribunal'having competent jurisdiction. But to return to the resolutions for electing the judiciary of this State. According, to the Consti tution, the amendments will be advertised in one or more newspapers in each county for three month 4 previous to the next October election. At the next session they are again to be passed upon by the Legislature. If re-adopted, they will be once more advertised previous to the election in October, 185 U, at which time the people will vote for or .against their adoption, as part of the fundamental Constitu tion of the State. The following is the vote on their final passage, recorded in pursuance of the impera tive direction of the present Constitution : YEAS—Messrs. Ball, Bent, Biddle, Bloom, Bole, Bull, Cort, Diehl, Elliott, Emery, Wm. Evans, Eau. sold, Fegely, Fisher, Fuller, Grove, Hampson, Hens zey, Herring, Higgins, Hortz, Hower, Laird, Lewis, Long, McCartney, McCulloch, McKee, McLaugh lin, Marx, Myers, Pearce, Pratt, Robb, Rupley, Ryman, Schoonover, Seibert, Sharp, Snively, Steel, Stubbs, Stutzman, Swartzwelder, Taggart, Geo. T. Thorn, Nicholas Thorn, Wattles, Weirick, Wilcox, Zerbey, Packer, Speaker-52. NAYS—Messrs. Cornyn, Courtney, David Evans, Henry S. Evans, Fenlon, George, Gillespie, Gordon, 'Henry, Kirk, Laubach, McCalmont, McSherry, McKee, Afiller, Morrison, Otto, Roberts. Roseberry, Rutherford, Smith, Smyth, Souder Walters, Wil liams-25. Next Session---Sectional Parties. The Boston Republican has made the following analysis of the strength of. the Administration and opposition parties in the next Senate, showing how frail a party support Gen. TAYLOR will have in that body from States west of the Alleghenies: Adm. Opp. Maine, 2 N. Hampshire, 2 Vermont, 2 Massachusetts, 2 Rhode Island, 2 Connecticut ) 2 New York; 1 1 New Jersey, 1 Delaware, 2 Pennsylvania, 1 1 Maryland, • 2 Virginia, 2 N. Caroina, 3 1 S. Carolina 2, Georgia, 2 Florida, 1 1 Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, lowa, Missouri, Kentucky, 2 Arkansas, • 2 Tennessee, 1 Mississippi, 2 Alabama, 2 Louisiana, 2 Texas, 2 18 12 Thus it appears from the whole western coun try, already including, we think, half our popula tion, Gen. Taylor will have but four Senators to rely upon ° , and those four are Henry Clay, Thomas Corwin, Joseph R. Underwood, and John ; Bell. It remains to be seen how much support he gets from either of the three last named. Divorces in Kentucky. In the Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth, of the 27th ult., we find a full report of one of the most important decisions ever made by the Kentucky Court of Appeals. It declares divorces granted by act of the Legislature to be unconstitutional and void, so far as the rights of property are concerned; and that a wife so divorced, without her consent, is, upon the death of the husband, entitled to a dower in his lands and slaves, and to a distributable por tion of his personal estate, as fully as if no such act of divorce had been passed. The Louisville Courier says: " As to the effect of such a divorce upon the re lations of the partieS, aside from the rights of prop• erty, nothing is decided. That question did not arise in the.case, and the opinion does, by no means, go the length (as some have supposed) of declaring subsequent marriages of persons so divorced to be illegal and void. "The case is Gains Ns. Gains—appeal from Green Circuit Court." LANCASTER BA.sts..---The bill' for the re•charter of the Lancaster Bank, which had previously passed the Senate, having also passed the House of Rep. resentatives, by a vote of 50 to 25, has been ap proved by the Governor, and is; therefore, now a law. IJ7 - g. T9* Tawas is at Easton, Pa James Buchanan. Since his return to this city, Mr., Buc,aawsar has been, personally waited-on by numbers of his old personal and political frkrids from all sections of the comity, who' have come hi revive former . macies,. and recount the interesting reminiscences of the eventful . Past. 'fiithese visits has been ad ded a more general manifestation, by the termer of a public dinner on the part of the Democricy of the city and county, which has elicited the subjoin ed interesting correspondence. Among the signers to the letter of invitation, the reader will discover the:names of those staunch and true Democrats, who in sunshine and in storm, in good and evil report, have upheld the time-hon ored emblems of Democracy. These men have known 'AWES BUCHANAN long and well. They knew him when, pursuing his humbler profesSional avocations, more than a quarter of a century ago, and they have watched his course as step by step he has progressed to the highest honors of the re public. Whilst his brilliant public career has been to them a source of unmingled pride, they have not been unmindful of the fact, that he has passed through all the allurementsof place and power,fame and fortune, and has preserved a personal reputation pure and unblemished. Of how comparatively few of our public men can it with truth be spoken, that to brilliant talents and rare intellectual acquirerdents they have added that elevated purity of morals, which alone consti tutes a safe depository of power. The infirmities of frail Humanity—the temptations which com pass the pathway of the renowned—the flattery of friends and the intoxicating influence of riatronage and power—these too often lead irresistibly to the indulgence of those baser passions, which cast their dark sha lows over the fair fame of the most gifted of our race. It furnishes just cause for gratula tion, therefore, when a Statesman returns, like Mr. BUCHIANAN, to the bosom of his earlier associates and friends, after having endured the teste of more than two score years of public service, not only unscathed by the trying ordeal, but with the excel lencies of his character displayed, in yet more glowing and gratifying colors; Well may the fri.nds of such an one rejoice in the revival of for mer intimacies—and well may he himself be lifted , by the serenity of his mind, and the consciousness of a well-spent life, above the turmoils which too often embitter and degrade the struggles of contend ing partizanship. But to the correspondence. LANCASTER, April 2, 1849 Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN : DEAR SIR: ' On your retirement from the office of Secretary of State, to which, four years ago, you were called by President POLK, your Democratic fellow•citizens and neighbors of the city and county of Lancaster discharge a most agreeable duty in extending to you a cordial "Wel come Home." More than s quarter of a century has elapsed since you were first called from profes sional life, to engage in the more responsible and extended duties of a representative in Congress. With short intervals, you have continued in the public service ever since. During this period, many and trying haye been the scenes through which the Republic has Passed—momentous and often exci ting the issues decided by the Feileral.Governnient. In most.of them it has fallen to your lot, first as a member of the House of Representatives, then as a Senator of the United States, and more recently as the first Cabinet officer of the Executive, to act an important and conspicuous part. It may prove some recompense for your long and arduous public services, to be assured, that your Democratic Fel low-Citizens of the city and county of Lancaster , who were ever first and foremoSt to urge you upon the stage of public life, retain for you undiminished attachment, confidence, and respect. To them your unsullied private and your brilliant public career have been alike a source of heartfelt satisfaction• They have been especially gratified with the 'im portant part you have taken in the foreign and domestic policy of the late administration, which, for the magnitude and success of its measures, is without a parallel on the page of our country's history. We beg leave, therefore, on your return to pri vate' life, to welcome you to the society of your former neighbors and friends, and beg your accep tance of a public dinner at such time as may best comport with your convenience. With high regard, Your Fellow-Citizens Ellis Lewis, N. W. Sample, - Michael Carpenter, Joel Lightner, Wm. B Fordney, John Steele, Wm. Mathiot, N. W Sample, jr, Henry Kinzer, Thos. H Burrowes, John Bitzer, M. Withers, Christ. Bachman, Joel L Lightner, Henry E Leman, John R Miller, Adam Kendig, John F Lefever, . Anthony Lechler, Me wton Lightner, Henry Stambaugh, John H Duchman, John F Steinman, Samuel Armstrong, Samuel Dobson, J. N Amweg, F. A Muhlenberg, Jesse Ranck, T. C Wiley, Sample Slaymaker, Henry Geise, James Lytle, J. M Kline, M. R Sample, Jacob Groff, J. S Lefevre, James Black, John R Trout, J. Landis, Joel L LefeVre, Adam Beam Frs. Kellam Jacob Frey, Mathias Shirk, Robert Moderwell, John G Anderson, John W Meekley, Francis M'Guigan, jr, George Nair, Henry A Miller, John Swank, David Kessler, Patrick M'Mullin, John Rhea, • John Neel, Andrew White, John Gallagher, Thomas S Mllvaine, Zuriel Swope, John Slaymaker, Jacob F Kautz, George H Kinzer, John Culbert, Thomas M'Sorley, George B Kerfoot, Samuel H Slaymaker, Henry Shay, John Hamilton, ' Israel Kautz, George Slaymaker, George Cunley, sr, William Hamilton, M'lvai George Cunley, jr. Robert S l, ne, John D Miler Henry Dietrich, • Frederick Cumley, Christopher Graham, Benjamin Kautz, J. P M'llvaine, David Kautz, 'M Daniel Lefe4r, Aik e en, James Manus Hugh , Jacob Graham, John F. Hninger ; Edward Kautz, Samuel Slokom, James Boon, James Calwell, , Ellis L Hamersly, Oliver Mills A. M'Kinn, John Rocky, H. Spidle, George D. M'lvaine, Daniel Lefevre, Peter Fielies, A. J Helfenstein, James Gilleland, Francis Scott, P. Donnelly, Jacob Albright, Wm. M Sample, Chr. Shertz, E. D White, Wm. S Amweg, Francis Gillespie, jr, Daniel Harman, James Miller, James L Reynolds, Thomas N Ritten, Henry H Landis. John Reynolds, George M'Corznick, Miehael Malone, Daniel Lagen, Amos Witman, Samuel Humes, William Johnson, J. Franklin Reigart, Francis Gillespie, jr, George Miller, sr, • Patrick Dechan, • James Donnelly, . John Miller, William J Saul, J. B Kauffman, . Jacob Kautz, David Townsley, Henry E Muhlenberg, B. F Bunn, Michael Williams, Thomas Edwards, Jacob Zecher, George Ax, C. C filing, John Tripple', Yobn, John, Hamilton, Jacob Benj. M'Cutchen, Jacob Westley, jr, Henry }lnch, William Yohn, • Luther J Covington, Frederick Dorwart, S. Bickham, Adam Wilhelm, TiMmas Witman, Abraham Miller, John Miller, Chas. Nauman, William m Hoover, e, DywailviiidamEvwanist,man, E. Rogers,l James DMichael evlin, George Kurtz, William F. Miller, John-Allgier, Lot ogers, j S ose am p u h el SP°tts Lincoln,illiam Kautz, E. W Hutto; Thomas Church, James Rogers, Levi Ringwalt, Geo. B Hamilton, George Rigg, Henry Imhoff, Samuel Wilhour, Michael M'Graun; Philip Shingle, William Jenkins, David Laird, George M Steinman, Elijah M'lntire, John Dougherty, David Snavely, Charles Gillespie, Jacob Miller, jr, Geo. F Meeser, Alfred Savery, • Geo. W Tantay Wallow, Adm. Opp. 1 1 4 24 rams D'llkchman, Hiiam B Swarr, - Jacob . Neff,jr,. George H Bowa, R. E &wick, Samuel Dennis, J aco b Potts, - • Isaac Bitter; D. S Kieffer,, George L Eckert, George ,R n ni c h me n, - David-Anderson, !Peter Reed,' • I Samuel:Fenner, Daniel Milks, I Geeltge Graham, &Le, W aims, Thomas Graham, B o lde n Miller I . George Evitts, - Jacob , Steinbiser,. I Jahn Graham, -! William Echtemacht, Maurice Moriartv,, John Walker, jr, ;John Albright, John Neierich, Hannan Armstrong, John Weitzel, John 0 Brien, . Stephen Gerteisen, Erhardt Schneider, William Sharp, Jacob B Ayres, Amos Shroy, Jacob Henry EckertPheneger,, Asa Janes, A. P Moderwell, John Hall, George Wolf, Jacob Hess, John Ferguson, Henry Aument, James A Cunningham, Samuel Aument, James Barr, Amos Aument, Philip Gossler, Jacob Wentz, William Patton, John R Loger, Thomas Welsh, Robert Hall, Reuben Mullison, Samuel Findley, John Zeigler, William NVatkengs, • J . G H ess, Davis Kimber, J. C Pfahler, Samuel Brenner, John Pelen, John Paul, Christian Pfahler. 'lsaac Jones, Henry Wislar, -John G Mayer, John E Collins, F. S Gryder, William Rees, 'Henry Bartholomew, W. F Caruthers, J. Hoffman, Paul Hamilton, Joseph Bowman, John Lowrey, Samuel Evans, Hugh Boyle, Jacob Rheen, Thomas Lloyd, John M'Grann, John Arms, Richard M'Grann, Hugh Sanders, Isaac Girvin, John Kidder, Joseph Potts, William M'Chesney, James M'Phail, John D Wright, Allan S M'Phail, Francis Bradley, William Spencer, Morgan Hays, Andrew Charles, Jesse Bowyer, • Robert W Houston, Joseph Lovett, James Paul, Patrick Morris, Jos. M'Elwee, Abr. Hartman, Alex. Schultz, Oliver Secher, Christ. Menard, John Yeanish, Samuel Hagans, H. E Atkins, Benj. Musser, Thomas A Scott, John S Morton, . George Wik.4,Francis Zeigler, Martin Hoak, Thomas Cox, Caspar Heitzel, Philip Schleaff, John Gunison, E. K Boice, Amos E Cochran, M. Neil, William S Warren, William H Evans, William Long, Samuel Mathiot, Rudolph Shaub, Augustus Pelan, Augustus Winter, Jos. M'Cartney, Daniel Aument, , John W Brown, Nathaniel Pickell, Daniel Zahm, C. R Treen, William Lechler, Isaac Ridle, Isaac Hogentogler, William B Eager. Jeremiah Brown, jr,• Samuel Taggart, Robert Jackson, Hiram B Draucker, John J William Steacy, David Welch, Thaddeus N Likes, Samuel F Leckard, David Longenecker, D. F Griffith, George Anthony, Christian Groff, John Maynard, Washington Barrick, Robert Evans, Beverly R Mayer, Daniel Rosch, Charles Groves, C.. 1 Hersh, R. Williams, Adam Trout, G. W Paxson, Henry Eckman, John Stewart, Robert Patterson, Peter Hover, Thomas Jackson, Henry Rollin, James Collins, Abner M'Michael, George H Brooks, Asher Bailey, John Flack, John M'Clure, Albert G Stevens, Joseph Leader, William Shaw, Allen F Ruby, Jesse Moore, Wm. Cummings, John J Houston, Oliver Cochran, Joshua Leader, Perry Ripple, William M'Elroy, , Edwin Haldeman, John Borly, H. B Blanchard, Anthony Vetterhceffer, Solomon Fogelbaum, Elias F Witmer,. Jacob Fishter, George Young, Lewis Martin, Fiederick Myers, Adam Bell, John Raub, Adam Heiser, Joseph Roberts, Joshua Leader. Benjamin Weaver, Joseph Renn, John Shaub, - Lewis Mouse, Benj. Brown, John Peck, David Eberly, Jacob Bigler, Adolph E Diehl, Jacob Bartholomew, Jacob Miller, Wm. Montgomery,, Amos Lanning, Jacob Graybill, Isaac Overly, Jacob Shirman, J. S Miller, H. S Libhart, Marshall Lukens, Richard Hooker, Peter Zell, James Chambers, William W Evans, Jacob Wagner, Samuel Hall, Francis Flury, William Barnes, Lewis Leader, Abner Rees, William M'Clure, Christian Harting, G. W Wormley, Robert Downey, Thomas Stearce, Jacob Holl, William Kelly, D. W Scott, Simen Myers, Benj. Longenecker, Wm. Marshall, Adam Esbenshade, Cyrus S Haldeman, Isaac Weaver, Christian Miller, Benj. Brenneman, James Todd, John Snyder, Wm. Lindsay, - Isaac Holl, Thomas Bear, B. B Gonder, Michael Kramph, J C Ewing, Charles Kelly, R. S Holl, Joseph Mack, Chr. Metz, Valentine Mack, Jacob Hoover, Reuben Welsban, John Echternach, Samuel Hopkins, John K Riiub, William Miller, David Potts, Wm. L Carter, Allen Summy, James Thompson. Henry Summy, Joseph Smith, J. R Crawford, John Fryberger, Robert Camrou, Jacob Cochran, Edwin Weigand, Jacob F Young, Adison Hall, Samuel Caldron, John Roberts, John Bear, Samuel White, Samuel Bear, J. H Clark, Isaac Bear, Jacob Weaver, Henry Howeter, Jehu Gunder, Reuben Bear. N. C Holl, Alpheus Leib, Isaac Lulleberger, Charles Koch, J. Gonder, jr, John Leib, David Row, Joseph Bear, Samuel Jackson, A. W Brackenridge, Abr. D Whiteside, Moses Goldschmid, H. G Herr, J. B Baker, James Strawbridge, Wm. F Baker, David Stoner, James H Houston, John Stoner, George D M'llvaine, Joseph Alexander, James Greer, Jacob Snyder, Lafayette Baker, Henry Eberly, Leonard Rocky, Joseph Bowman, Jacob Hoar, Daniel Potts, John Rhea, George W Weidman, C. Atkins, Martin Barr, Martin Greenleaf, Jacob Bachman, Tho. N Henderson, George Withers, William Penners, John Girvin, . John Bitzer, William Girvin, David Anderson, Conrad Leod, William Rhea, • Thomas Eagar, William Todd, David Hersh, A. L Henderson, B. B Eshleman, John Gallaher, Thomas D. Kerns, John Wright, • Samuel Brua, Samuel Shaw, Abraham Dennis, Thomas H Houston, Jackson Scheaffer, ~, Samuel McNeal, Henry M Breneman, James Rhea, Jacob Diffenderfer, B. F Houston, Isaac Redsecker, Robert Steele, John Gross, John Marsh, John A Winters, George Stroud, David Coble, Isaac Walker, • Samuel Redsecker, Jacob Gamber, George W Boyer, . John R Albright, Michael Kitch, James Pearson, George Patterson, James Donehoe, William Steinecker, David H Weidler, A. Myers Redsecker, Frederick Weller, Henry Funk, J. M Culp, John Surgert, John Ferguson, B. F Baer, Martin Beave, Joseph Buchanan, John Hinkle, Francis S Bryan, Jacob M'Conklin, John Barnet, George Kline, Henry Brubaker, A.-K Rohrer, Henry Andrews, Jacob M Grider, Henry G Clark, Samuel Moore, Jacob Senger, ' Mirick M Morgan, Peter Rutt, . • Joseph D Detwiler, Jonathan Diffenderfer, Henry Eisenberger, Jacob Myers, Jacob S Metzger, John Eckeringer, Benjamin Herr, Daniel 0 Donnell, Morris Reynolds, Jacob L Gnise, William Peeples, George Surgert, Jacob L Kirk, Jacob Grosh, Robert Patterson, John Kelley, John G Patterson, Andrew Leader, D. II Beech, Bayard Grosh, Morgan I Thomas, F. K Curran, David Cope, J.. 1 Cook, ' John Jemiess, - Charles Kelly, James Steen, Jefferson Thompson, Henry Grey, ll_ .. . . Saixffieloirkinii ' Joseph White, - • George Reubencem, Robert Hogg, John Ford, . --. Abrehata McConnel, David. Jenkins, ' ---' .- "-.. Willis m 'Hogg,. James Jenkins, ' Jan Whiteside, H.-11 Whiteside,.. • . CMWelsh, J. L llliccCommon, ' A.:1) . Whiteside, D. W.Homsher, - Jiihn Hanna, • ' R. B Patterion, • _ James Hanna, David - Clendenin, . - Joseph Peeples, Jobialark • • ' - -john•W Jenkins, James Patterson, ' William Hays, jr, John H Turner, Wallace Hays, Samuel McConnel, William Patterson, .Daniel M Eaby, Philip Raub, Griah Bitzer ,1• Martin Fenninger, David Beam, John Murrey, Jacob Beam, James H M'Guier, George S S.avery, S. J Smith, George 13ellcamy, A. M Haines, Felix Moss, Martin Smith, James Pegan, Robert Pettitt, John Miller, , William Atkins, Eli M'Cardle, 'Robert Johnson, James Patton, Wm. Way Atkins, Adam M'Connell, James G Cooper, Thomas Robinson, James W Rhey, William Laird, James Crow, James Duppee, Joseph Withers, Peter Cremes, jr, Samuel Lyle, -James H Segaps, Alexander Henage, Philip Cramer, William Baldwin, John Robinson, Peter A Kirnbourgh, George Robinson, P. M Taylor, Elwood H Doan, John Watterson, John C Smith, John G Attmore, Albert Smith, Charles Vliet, M.F Mulgrew, Andrew Campbell, Washington Travis, Conrad Sojar, Job Runwi, Frederick Albright, Aaron Runwi, Alex. Harper, Isaac H. Robinson.. Jos. M Bennett, _ John Archer, John Bennett, John Johnston, Robert Hamilton, • James Ankrim, Benj. Berg er, Joseph Caldwell, James C 3owyer, David Miller, John Beamar, William Collins; - J. A Barr, Samuel Cramer, Henry Pelen, - John R. Barclay, John K Eberlein, George Cramer, John Crull, David Cramer, Alex. D Boggs, John M'Sparran, Henry Lindacumb, James MSparran, Henry Arms, Edward J Hewes, William Collins, Joseph P Hutton, Henry Welsh, William Barnes, William Wolf, James Cain, H. Bletz, Ephraim Moore, Michael Clepper, Caleb Hutton, William Brown, '• Benomi Burns, Thomas White, Alexander Nelson, .Samuel Brooks, John Wells, Wm. Mathiot, (Col.) Amos Ailes, ' Abraham Peters, William J Fouler, Samuel - .1 . Masterson, William Shanks, George G Brush-, Charles Burkins, Jacob S Mann, Emanuel D Waters, George S Mann, Phineas Ewing, James W Wrisley, Thomas N Ill'Sparran,_ Dr. Abr. Bitner, George W Shade, Georg e Overdorff, George H Smith, John A Brush, James Cooper, J. Kauffman, John Pusey, Abraham Will, . Christian Wenditz, John J Mann, e F. Zarrucher, Samuel Levenright, Benjamin F Sides, Isaac Miller, Amos Greif, Geo. W Porter, (Mt. Joy William Morrison, John Kilheffer, W. C Hoopes, John Shrader, • Clarkson Jefferies, P. H Lyne, Joseph Elliott, Emanuel Frey, Sanders M'Culloch, Mark Connell, Joseph Wentz, James V Connell, A. Dubree, Alexander Perry, James 111 Steele, Tristram Connell, P. W Housekeeper, Samuel Reemsnyder, Hugh Denny, Samuel Cowan, J. D Farrar, B. Franklin Holl, E. P Dare, Daniel Miller, Samuel Morrison, Moore Connell, Hironimus Eckman, Pe:er Vandersaal, Daniel Eckman, . Seth Simmons, Robert Moderwell, Samuel Fink, John G Robison, Jacob Holl, John L Lightner, Isaac L Bard, John Reed, George Kiehl, John M'Killips, Isaac C Weidler, John V Eckert, Wash. Simmons, William Clark, Robert Connell, Isaiah M'Killips, William Weidman, Samuel H Knox, Henry Weidler, jr, John Bitzer, Mark Connell, jr, Henry L Miller, John Miller, • ••• f - -; , . ~/1..,- . • .-. • ' "•`-`.,' LANCASTEIC v Aprli 5, 1849. , . FELLOW :--Accept my cordial and grateful acknowledgements for the very kind wel come which you have extended to me, on my return to the place from which my heart has never wan dered. Satisfied with public honors and public offices, I feel happy in the prospect of passing the remainder of my days among the cherished friends and companions of my youth and their worthy descendants. Henceforward, it shall be my am bition to perform, usefully and acceptably, the duties of 'a private citizen. To my fellow citizens of Lancaster county I am personally, professionally, and politically indebted for as much kindness and support as they have ever bestowed upon any other individual. Seven times have I been before them as a candidate for office, and seven times have they honored me with a large majority of their suffrages. Whilst I deeply regret that at present the majority honestly differ from me in political opinion, yet this circumstance can never cancel the obligations for past favors re corded on a grateful heart. - You state truly that 'many and trying have been the scenes through which the Republic has passed —exciting and momentous the issues decided by the Federal government," during the long period of more than twenty-seven yesrs since I first took my seat, in December, 1821, as your Representative in Congress. Since that time the country has ad vanced, rapidly and steadily, in prosperity and power, under the guidance of Democratic principles, with but a few brief interruptions. The impartial historian who shall' carefully trace events to their causes will find, that whenever these principles have been departed froth in the administration of the Government, whether State or National, disastrous consequences have followed ; whilst a steady adhe rence to them has uniformly promoted the welfare of the country. For my own part, after long ex perience, it is my solemn and deliberate conviction that their prevalence' is necessary not only to the harmony of the States, but to the perpetuity of the Union. Whilst the Democracy has ever built upon its ancient foundations, it has not remained stationary in the development of its principles, when all the world around it has been in-progress. On the con trary, recognising the right of the people to control their Government, it has ever advocated the exten sion of their power over their own agents, and every where with the happiest results. This may be called progressive Democracy; but it is in fact the great conservative safeguard of our liberty, property, and union. Universal Suffrage combined with uni versal Education can alone, under the blessing of Providence, correct the tendency of power to steal from the many to the few, and successfully resist the encroachments of capital upon the fights of labor —encroachments which have been made in all countries and under all Governments of which we have any historical record. Under these deep convictions, I shall ever adhere to the Democratic creed, and as a private citizen shall always cordially support Democratic men and measures. This unquestionable right, however, shall be exercised by me with kind personal feelings towards political opponents. To worship God according to the dictates of his own' conscience, and to form and express his political opinions, are inherent rights of every 'American citizen ; and to assail and persecute any man or any party for the exercise of these sacred rights would be to violate the precepts of Christian charity, the spirit of our institutions, and the dictates of true policy. . It would ill become • me to state the part J have taken in the many exciting and momentous politiCal questions to which you refer, that have. agitated the country during the period of my pub lic service. My - greatest honor and highest reward, next to the approbation of my own conscien, are, that I have been sustained throtighout my past career by the intelligent, faithful, and glorious De mocracy of my native State. I might add, that I have enjoyed.the.ce.u*ence of every penaocratic, administrationof the Federal Government since I first took my seat in Coigns", commencing with that of Mr. Moines's-'from elf of Which I have received voluntary offers of high and honorable appointinenti: Tke adthinbitration of LUCKS K. POLK, in which I licireapait, I am content to leave to the impart* historian". , Tn returning;amongst you, it shall be my pride and my pleasure, es a private citiaen, to sustain - the Democracyof this renowned old county, whethet in- prosperity or adversity, and to promote by all honorable means the harmony of the party. In union alone theta is strength. I regret that circumstances which .I need not detail deprive me of the pleasure of accepting your kind invitation to a public dinner; but I regret this the less as such meetings at best partake in some degree of a formal character, and it is my desire to mingle freely among my old friends and . neighbors of Lancaster county, without the least restraint. I, therefore, in turn, earnestly invite you, one and all, to call and see me at my residence, as often as your convenience may permit, where you,. shall meet a cordial and grateful welcome from Your friend and fellow-citizen, JAMES BUCHANAN To Hon. Ellis Lewis, Michael Carpenter, William B. Fordney, Dr. N. W. Sample; Joel Lightner, Capt. John. Steele, and others. • Well done, Connecticut ! The election for Governor, Members of Congress, State Senators and Representatives, was held in Connecticut on the 2d of April, and the result has been truly gratifying to the Democrats. There Were three candidatei for Governor—Democratic, Whig, and Free Soil—and the Deniocratic candi date, Col. SEYMOUR, has gained largely in nearly every town. Still there isno electionby the people. But the Congressional elections have resulted espe cially well. In the last Congress there were four Whigs, no Democrat—now the delegation stands as fol lows : Ist District. L. P. WALDO, (Democrat.) 2d " WALTER Boom, (Democrat.) " C. F. CLEFELARD, (Democrat.) 4th " Taoshis H. BUTLER, (Wing.)... In the Senate, the parties will be nicely balanced —there will not be two majority either way. But the House of Representatives is decidedly Demo. cratic, leaving a Democratic majority on joint bal lot—which secures the Democratic:ticket for Gov ernor and other State officers. These are among the first fruits of the policy of the TAYLOR adirt in istration. Already are the masses rising in indignation against it. Give us a popular and unexceptionable candidate fOr Canal Commis sioner—one upon whom the whole party may unite —and Pennsylvania will next October return to her ancient Flag. She will not be behind her sister States in repudiating an "ultra - Federal adminis tration. • Hon. B. A. Bidlack. Doubts seem to be thrown over the recent intel ligence of the death of this gentle Man. The N. Tribune says it has received a letter frnrh his family at Wilkesbarre, stating that they were greatly distressed by the news of his death on the 6th of January, which reached them by the New York papers, on Monday last, but that the same night they received a letter from vir. Bidlack him self, dated Bogota, January 12, in which he speaks of his health as being excellent. We have looked, says the Tribune, through .our files of Bogota p&. pers, up to January 27th, and find no mention of his death, which leaves a strong probability that the account may have been false. The news was furnished us by the Captain of the vessel which ar rived here from Savannah, bringing our files of Bogota papers. The State Debt. A citizen of western Pennsylvania has written a letter to a member of the Senate proposing a novel scheme for the liquidation of the State debt. We make no remark upon it, but give it as one of the curious things. He says that our taxes are already• too onerous to bear increase ; that the debt of $40,000,000 was incurred for public improvements that benefit the Western States more than they do us. He proposes that our Legislature pass a bill organizing a company of 500 men to go to Cali fornia and collect gold dust for the Commonwealth, that this company be allowed tvienty per cent. on the amount collected, and be under the official pro tection of the State, and this gold constitute a sink ing fund for the payment of the debt. Of course the'preliminary expenses for outfit, &c. must come out of the public treasury. UNSAFE PROPER - FL—The Pittsburg Gazette states that the loss of Messrs. Moorehead, Copeland and Co., whose extensive Cotton Factory in Allegheny city was recently destroyed by fire, was $30,000, only $37,000 of which was covered by insurance. The small amount of insurance is accounted for from the fact that since the late riots the Pittsburg offices have refused to renew policies on- factory property except at ruinous rates. A Bur Luxe or Goan.—A lumii of gold has been seen by the Boston Traveller, brought home by Mr. Brewer, (brother 6f the Cashier. of the Suffolk Bank,) which weighs five ounces heavy, and is worth $B3. Mr. Brewer brought home. shout $l5, 000 worth of gold. This lump is purer than QUT coin, and probably worth $l7 per ounce. - It came from California. COLOSSAL STRA.DDLE.--Th! Springfield Republican in speaking of a candidate for Congress, says :- 0 He stands with one foot on the Baltimore, and the other on the Buffalo platform. And the two are as wide apart as the East and West." SINGULAR CASE OF' LOVE AND SU/CIDE.,--011 Monday evening week, a young man by the name of Davis, committed suicide in. the Bank Spring Church, near Camden, in this county, because the evening previous, a young lady refused to allow him to accompany her from meeting.,On the evening he committed the rash act, he topc a gun, wept to the church, placed his hat on the aeatusually occu pied by the object of his devotion, hung the shot bag on the knob of the door, plaeed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth, and sent a bullet through his head in search of his brains, which almost chused instantaneous death. A family residing near the church, seeing it open at an unusual hour, and hea ring the report of a gun, went in and found the unfortunate victim of unrequited love in the last agonies of expiring, nature. In his pocket was found a small note addressed to the lady, requesting that she might be buried by his Side. We should suppose she would prefer being 13460 any other place.--Eaton (Ohio) Democrat, FOR CALIFURNIA.-A company of young men has been organized in York, Pa., who are to sail for California in the ship Andalusia from Baltimore in a few days. The following are the names of the gentlemen composing the "York Califorpia Association:" R. C.. Woodward, George B. 'S chmidt, Henry Hantz, George W. Rupp, George W. Klinefelter, Samuel Dick, Dr. Henry L. Smyser, Henry Holts meyer, W. C. Chapman, Alex. Wentz; Cornelius Harbaugh, Samuel A. Henry, Jacob Kent, Jonathan Stover, David 0. Prince, Thomas King. One of the company, (Dr. Smyser,) is a compe tent assayer. His services in that capacity will doubtless prove highly .valuable to the association. CA.NADA.—The Kingston (Ca.) :.drgm 'of-the 24d ult., states that a petition to her Majesty; the Queen, is circulated for signatures., in that city, to allow Canada to _apply for annexation to the United. States. Ben son THE PEA.crrEs...—The Trenton Melte says the peach crop will prove an entire !failure the present season. The buds fall off without ;Aiming to maturity. We, shall see.. ' • [Er Mr. Lusk, proprietor of the Serrersoni!iquirer, has beea elicte4 public primer of :Missouri, by majority of two votes over Mr..H:l,.Bobne, of the Metropolitan. Both candidates were dem : debits, but • Mr. L. is anti-Bentou. • .
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