Jntelligenter Sr, Journal.
GEORGE SANDERSON ) EDITOR
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
JOHN A. GAMBLE,
OF LYCOMING COUNTY
Lancaster, September 4, 1849.
lir The Editor is now at his post, and shall
spare no pains to make the lntelligencer acceptable
to the Democracy of Lancaster county. He hopes
that his Democratic friends (tor all Democrats are,
or ought to be, friends,) throughout the city and
county will exert themselves to increase its circula
tion. By so doing, the influence of the paper will
be extended, and a corresponding benefit result, as
well to the party, as to the Editor who has cast
his lot among them.
As a medium of advertising, Merchants, Mechan
ics, and the business community generally, will
find that the Intelligencer offers superior inducements.
The circulation will compare favorably with any
other newspaper in the city, while its readers in
clude all classes of our citizens.
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To ConlinsvoNnsnrs.—ln all cases we must
have the real names of correspondents, as a pre
liminary to the insertion of their productions. This
is a rule that will not be departed from.
Our , State Executive.
The death or the lamented SHUNS was a sore
blow to the best interests of Pennsylvania. Under
his administration correct principles, having in
view no selfish or partial object, guided the helm of
State, and directed its energies towards the general
welfare by securing the adoption of plans well calcu
lated to develope the resources of the Common
wealth, and to prevent the enactment of laws sanc
tioning corporate privileges unequal in their opera
tion, and in their results disastrous to the great mass
of the people. There was about "honest old FRANK "
an air of sturdy integrity and democratic devotion,
that challenged the respect and won the confidence of
all classes of our citizens. But, alas! how changed
are all things now under the rule of WILLIAM F.
JOHNSTON. Confidence has given way to suspicion,
and respect has degenerated into a feeling of con
tempt for the olitical trickster, who has prostituted
his character and office for the vilest party purposes,
and bartered executive influence for the accomplish
ment of individual schemes of avarice and specula
tion. Under his direction a loose rein lias been
given to dishonest and fraudulent legislation, and
our statute book is filled with charters of irrespon
sible corporations, the very terms of whose creation
invite to fraudulent insolvency.
The whole policy- of Wizzrxm F. JoaNsTozes
administration is directed to the pulling down of
that system Of' equality and opportUnity for enter
prise, so characteristic of the conduct of Governor
Suuars, whereby capital was kept on a lvel with
labor, and every man held responsible to the full
extent of his engagements, without being protected,
by corporate exemptions, from the demands of his
creditors. This truly republican system guarded
labor against the oppression of capital, and threw
wide open to individual enterprise every avenue to
wealth and employment, without being crushed, in
the moment of birth,by the irresistable opposition of
aggregated capital working under corporate forms,
conferring privileges and immunities far beyond
the attainment of any private or individual citizen.
The political quacks who now control the affairs
of the State, and who care not for the working
classes, although before the election loud in their
protestations ?I devotion to .their interests, have
regard only to capital, and take special care to
surround it with increased guards, lest its control
over labor, and those who do the labor, might be
diminished, and the increasing intelligence of the
age demand an abolition of special privileges, and
the laborer share in the wealth he creates.
Governor JOHNSTON is the willing tool of the
-Aristocracy, and has exhibited a pliant subserviency
to all their wishes and aims, whilst at the same
time he is boisterous in his hypocritical professions.
of sympathy and friendship for the poor. , Every.
act of his administration furnishes abundant proof
of this assertion, because they are in direct hostility
to the interests of the masses, and only favorable to
the designs of the rich, who are ever greedy of
special legislation, conferring immunities, and re- '
strictive of responsibilities. This base pandering
to the leech-like greediness of wealth is far behind
the progress of the age, and at open war with the
true policy of our republican- institutions, which
are based upon far 'higher and nobler principles
than those , which seek the creation of unequal con
ditions by which the few favored one's are enabled
to lord it over the oppressed and burthened many.
It is labor that should be the favorite of legislation,
and around which the strong arm of protection
ought to be thrown; for, under the most advanta
geous circumstances, it can scarcely withstand the
cruel oppressions, and contemptuou's disregard of
its claims, by individual and associated capital.—
The strong and the powerful need no protection
against the weak and powerless, who are unable to
protect themselves, much less to wage a war of
aggression against their superiors. And this fact
lies at the bottom of those earnest efforts now mak
ing to ameliorate the condition of the productive
classes, and for the developeinent of some plan,
founded upon justice nnd right, by which they shall
receive an adequate compensation for their labor,
and have some avenue opened through which they
may share in the wealth they create, and have op
portunities for the cultivation of their social, intel
lectual and moral natures.
This great object will never be accomplished so
long as the Federal party retains power, and such
men as WILLIAM F. J.:airs/um - are selected as the
administrators of Government. Sincere and true
men, imbued with those sentiments of rectitude
which cannot be turned aside from their true aim,
must be placed in positions of power and influence,
before the people can expect the adoption of a sys
tem, which, while it enlarges their privileges, will
at the same time promote the general welfare.
We can see progress no where, except in the prin
ciples of the Democratic party, which recognize no
other object than the elevation of the masses of the
people to an ample and full enjoyment of every
blessing of life, consistent with good order. About
true Democracy there is no narrow sordidness, but
a wide-spread and unselfish benevolence, that em
braces all men, of all classes, with fraternal affec
tion, and looks forward to their complete emanci
pation from the thraldom of false and unnatural
systems of law and society.
To give efficacy to these principles, we must
take care to select for office men devoted to their
accomplishment, and firm and fearless in their ad
vocacy. The people should guard against apos
tates, time-servers and tricksters, and put their
trust only in• men whose high moral principles,
unswerving consistency, and purity of life, foibid
the idea of misconduct, and guaranty a rigid and
faithful discharge of duty.
RHODE ISLAND.—This little State has within her
limits 163 Cotton mills, which annually consume
56,000 bales of cotton and manufacture 70,000,000
yards of cloth.
A Word In Season.
Are our Democratic friends throughout the
county of Lancaster ready for the contest that is
now near at hand? We hope they are all duly im
pressed with the importance of the eleetion for
Canal Commissioner, and that they will not fail to
have their organization and arrangements completed
in time, so as to _ensure the attendance of every
Democratic voter at the polls. 'Tis true, by a
rosolution of the County Committee, we are not to
have any local ticket this fall; but this is a matter
of very little consequence, as we could not reason
ably expect to elect any portion of it, even if there
were candidates in the field. The absence of a
local ticket, however, should not dampen our ardor,
or induce a relaxation of our energies. On the
contrary we should use every posssible effort to poll
the entire vote of the county for Canal Commis
sioner, as, upon the vote here, may depend the re
sult of the election throughout the State. We have
a wily, unscrupulous and energetic foe to contend
against, and it behooves every well-wisher of
republican institutions, and of the character for in
tegrity of our beloved Commonwealth, to meet the
enemy with corresponding exertions on our part,
and:to do our whole duty fearlessly and energetically.
We call the attention of our Democratic friends
thus early to the importance of making their pre
liminary arrangements for the election. Only five
weeks of the campaign are yet in the future, and
but little time is left for a thorough organization of
the party. We hope this will be borne in mind by
the Democrats of the City, and by those of every
Borough, Town, Village, and Township in the
County.
Cumberland County.
We are glad to perceive that our Democratic
friends in Cumberland County, are conducting the
campaign with activity and energy. The two pa
pers, the Volunteer," and "Democrat," are well
filleff with racy and spirited articles, and every thing
in that "ancient mother of counties," indicates a
glorious triumph for her stern and unconquerable
Democracy. And why should they not be victo
rious over their tesselated and disorganized oppo
nents? The Democratic ticket is one of the very
best that has ever been presented to the people for
their suffrages—superior in all respects to that of
their opponents. The one has all the elements of
popularity clustering thickly about it—the other
is strongly marked by its own imbecility. The
ene is composed of men whose political integrity
is undoubted—the other is made up of the fag end
of all factions, being a confused jumble of Whigs,
Antimasons, and renegades from the Democratic
party. With such a contrast in the two tickets,
the result cannot be doubted.
A Packed Whig Jury.
A few weeks since the Editors of the Chambers
burg "Sentinel" and "Valley Spirit," two staunch
and unflinching Democratic papelsoxere prosecuted
by the Whig Sheriff and Commissioners of Frank
lin County, for an alleged libel. At the Court
week before last, the case came up for trial, when
Judge BLACK decided that the Jurors for the term
were incompetent to try the cause, inasmuch as
they were selected by the Prosecutors; and laid
down as a general principle, that a Sheriff or County
Commissioner cannot be a party to a suit which is
to be tried before a Jury of his own choosing. The
Court thereupon quashed the indictment. 'The
I charge upon which the libel was predicated, was
practiced, it is alleged, in the Commissioner's
Office, with the knowledge and connivance of the
Commissioners. All the Juror. 4 for the term, with
but five or six exceptions, it is said, were bitter and
uncompromising Whigs.
Presidential Dignity.
In his conversations with the Whigs, in many
places through Pennsylvania, Gen. TAYLOR, when
s peaking of Democrats, it is said, applies to them
the foolish epithet of " Loco-Focos," indulged
in only by the slang-whangers of the "decency"
party. Such is the sense of dignity displayed by
the man who now occupies the station once held
by the immortal Wesnixozosr. It shows conclu
sively that, however high his military reputation
is, he has no proper conception of the proprieties
and courtesies of the exalted civic position to which
the people elevated him. The Boston Post thus
comments upon this improper and undignified con
duct in Gen. TAYLOR:
" Complaint is heard from the administration
prints that the 'locofoco' presses make the Presi
dent's visit the occasion of attacks upon him. They
are, perhaps, endeavoring to pay Old Zack for his
assaults upon the 'locotocos' in his speeches on his
tour. A President who has no more respect for
himself and his office than to apply a nickname to
his opponents, cannot with propriety claim immu
nity from their animadversions on account of his
high official station,"
John A. Gamble.
Hungarians from Comorn into Raab is fully
co
The Democratic papers every where, throughout firmed, and they only differ as to the booty which
the Commonwealth, speak in confident tones of the j was secured in or near Raab by the Magyars. The
greatest alarm was excited in Vienna and Presburg
triumphant election of this gentleman to the Canal
Board. His neighbors and acquaintances—thoseby—the news of the advance of the Hungarians,
• h I.
w o e u i t s p sc o i s i t , s er tret a s ll aid th t e o
t h r a . v o e ps atig i a c r h ed c . ould 0
who know him best—talk in exalted terms of his ;
unsullied character and high qualifications, and of be spared from Vienna were immediately
his great popularity with the masses. We thinkdespatched by railway to Presburg, and it is said
thatinany of the soldiers, who were raw recruits,
the State Convention was more than usually for- left with
very great discouragement and reluctance
tunate in making such a nomination, and we doubt to ch
not the people will abundantly •ratify it on the ' A continued battle on the 23d, and 24th and 25th
second Tuesday of October. ult., took place between the Russians and Hunga
rians, near Myskol, on the left bank of the Sako.
It seems that, after the battle, Georgey quitted his
position. and the Russians, a good deal cut up, fol
lowed him.
Whig Honesty
We see it stated in some of the Kentucky papers,
that Er every State Treasurer in that State, except the
present incumbent, who has been in ?Bice but a slant
time, has been a defaulter! Our .readers will recol
lect that Kentucky is one of the reliable Whig States,
and that twenty years ago that party boasted not
only .of having all the talents and decency of the
country in its keeping, but all the honesty to boot.
Verily, if the boast was true in 1828, Federal
Whiggery has since wofully degenerated in "Old
Kaintuck."
Schuylkill County.
The Pottsville Emporium, an able and efficient
organ of the Democratic party, is highly delighted
with the nomination of Mr. GAM-BLS for Canal
Commissioner, and at the conclusion of a well
written article gives the following gratifying assu
rance to the Democracy of the State:—" So far as
Schuylkill county is concerned, we assure our
friends abroad, that there will be no more political
" summersets" here. From unmistakeable indica
tions we feel confident of sweeping the bounty at
the next election, by as large a majority as she has
ever been known to give."
Florida.
Maj. Gen. Twroos is now at Tampa Bay, to
which place he was recently ordered for the pur
pose of suppressing the Indian disturbances in that
quarter. He has 13 companies of regular troops
under his command, and is authorised to call on
the Government of Florida for a militia force if he
finds it expedient.
The St. Louis Defalcation.
The Grand Jury of St. Louis have found a true
bill against N. Cumin, Jr., charging him with felo
niously and fraudulently embezzling from the Bank
of Missouri, the sum of $121,000. He is to be
tried sometime during the present month.
117 Col. DRAKE, Receiver in the Land Office at
Indianapolis ; Ind., has been removed to make room
for an anti-war Whig:' Col. D. commanded the let
regiment of Indiana volunteers, in the Mexican
war, and was complimented in the most flattering
terms in official reports over the signature of " Z.
Txxr.ort."
111:7" The Pennsylvania railroad company court
menced running their cars between Harrisburgh
and Lewistown on Saturday last, the let of Sept.
Bunkum.
We have frequently been amused with the man
ner in which the federal press of the country sup
port the administration at Washington. They
display a deal of industry which, of itself, is coin
mendable, but yet at the same time, they betray a
spirit of uneasiness that excites suspicion among
the candid and enquiring. In their ardor to tiro*
around the administration of Gen. T.tir.on, the
light of chivalry, honor and independence, they
forget that the "heroic age,' has long since come
and,gone, and dissipate their hopes of immortality
in the fleeting shadows of their, own: creation.
But, candidly, the federal 'press are prone to
"Bunkum." The organ at Washington—inappro
priately termed the Republic—is distinguished for
'fustian, and leaves its office of publication daily,
laden with the overwrought productions of politi
cal poetry and, servile adulation. It abounds
with sweet expressions for the "great mass;" it is
never slow to find a parallel between Gen. TAYLOR
and Gen. Wesars6rosr, or a striking comparison
Between "Old Zach" and Juracs Csssea. Its ef
forts are prodigious to effect the impression that
the cabinet is disposed to conciliation ; that RITCHIE
and Smuts are ungenerous in their assaults; and
that the administration of TAYLOR is all that a re
publican dare ask, or that an American could ex
pect; save and except, always, the removal of
widows from humble offices, the wholesale proscrip
tion of Democrats, and the discarding of veteran
soldiers. We look, in vain, in this "giant intellec
tual sheet," for dissertations upon sound questions
of policy; for discussions upon great ideas of poli
tical economy; for expositions of the leading sub
jects which should engage the attention of the
slatesman, and promote the interests of the people.
On the contrary, its energies are unbending in "de
fence of the administration," and to "put down"
"RITCHIE and Burins." How well it has succeeded
in the one effort, will show how soon it will ac
complish the other. •
And, then, this spirit of the Republic is eagerly
emulated by every federal press in the country,
from the "pale county organ" down to the whipper
in of the smallest faction. They all display a won
derful desire to invest "the administration" with
the triple adornments of "Military glory" and
"civil capacity." Tell them Old Zach is no states
man, and they reply that he is &good soldier ; assert
that his, (Zach's) capitulation of Monterey, was
not according to military tactics, and wanting in
discrimination, and they rejoin, that " the war with
Mexico was unholy and God abhorred."
And thus it is throughout the whole calendar.
Lacking dignity and power, the federal press seek
to bolster up "the administration" by these con
temptible means. Beneath the just appreciation of
the people, vulnerable in every point, they would
palm it off as a `•model" in forbearance and a pat
tern for energy and industry. But we fear their
efforts will prove unavailing ; and that their ful
some praises, alike with the object upon which
they so lavishly bestow them, are fated for the same
inglorious destiny.
The Draft Protested.
The Cincinnati Enquirer remarks : TRUMAN
SMITH'S draft on Indiana has been dishonored. He
drew on that State for four Whig Congressmen, and
but one has been placed to his credit, and he
McGauonEr ! TRUMAN promised offices in return,
but all of no avail. The Hoosiers either doubted
his ability to perform, or spurned the bribe: Ever:
the Wayne district has returned an anti Taylor
Congressman. In the last Congress there were
four Whigs from our sister State—there Will be
but one in the next. Taylorism under TRUMAN
SMITH'S auspices has progressed most marvellously.
It is to be hoped that be will not diminish his ex
ertions ; the fruits of his labors are so refreshing.—
This party hack we are told, is paid eight dollars,
per day for staying at Washington and franking
Whig dociunents to those States in which elections
were to be held this summer and fall. What bet
ter is that than if he were to sell the franking pri
vilege to the Whig club at Washington, at eight
dollars per day! What a rebuke has he not per
sonally received from Indiana, Kentucky and Tenn
essee, all of which States he has been flooding with
his franked circulars and electioneering documents!
We shall see what effect these rebuffs will have on
the vanity and impudence of this political trickster.
Late Foreign News.
The steamship Caledonia arrived at Boston on
Saturday last, bringing European advices to the
18th ult. The news from the seat of war is em
braced in the following extract, which we clip from
the Spirit of 'the Times. A letter received in Paris
from Vienna states that the Government had resol
ved to negotiate with the Hungarians.
AUSTRIA AND HIINGARIL—The accounts from
Vienna are of much interest. The entrance of the
THE IRON BUSINESS.--We cut the following from
the editorial columns of the Daily News, of Thurs.
day, a paper that complains much of the ruinous
operations of the Tariff of 146, upon the iron and
other manufacturing interests:
Inox rx KENTIICK.T.—The iron business on the
Cumberland river, near Hanging Rock and Eddy
ville, Ky., has been of late conducted with great
success. The Louisville Journal says that at one
of the large establishments there, and since 1835,
the average dividends have been 15 per cent. per
annum on the capital invested, while, in the mean
time, over $2.60,000 has been lost by it in bad
debts. This is mainly attributable to the richness
of the ore and its proximity to the furnaces.
Here, then, is an iron establishment that has
been realizing an average annual profit of 15 per
cent., during a period of 14 years, nearly three of
which were under the Tariff of '46. And this
enormous profit has been secured in spite of an
average annual loss of $23,174, by bad debts.
We would like to know with what profit, high
Tariff Monopolists would be satisfied. Whig papers
appear to be unwilling to limit them to 15 per
cent. per annum, and are anxious for the restora.
lion of the Tariff of '42, that the profits may run
up to 25, 30, or even 40 per cent. per annum.
What say the Farmers to this? The honest,
hardworking tiller of the soil, is satisfied with
much less than 15 per cent.; he seldom realizes
more than one-third of it. And yet, according to
High Tariff Whiggery, he should be further taxed
to increase the already extravagant profits of such
mammoth manufacturing establishments as that
alluded to in the article copied from the News !
Republican Democrat.
pg- Col. GARDNER, the late able and popular
postmaster of Washington City, having been re
moved, his place is filled by a brawling anti war
Federalist. Col. GI. was in nearly every battle of
the war of 1812, and acquitted himself like a pat
riot and a soldier. He enlisted for the war on the
very same day that TAYLOR entered the army, and
continued in the service of his country until the
last battle had been fought and the last victory
won.
Er Samuel V. Merrick, Esq., has resigned the
Presidency of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Wm.
C. Patterson, Esq., has been elected to fill the va
cancy. The new President is a brother of General
Robert Patterson.
No sin to oppose the Country. and
to aid-the Country's Foe, but a
Great Crime to oppose Taylor.
The removal of General Lawa by the present
ultra-Whig addinistration, wlaircarneinto•power
with the Battering falsehood Upon its lips, of being
hostile to party, has at last found an: apologist and
a defender. The infamous lousville Jouraq, which
denounced the war with Mexico as accursed of God,
has fitly undertaken the task of justifying the pro.
scription of one of those gallant men who aided in
turning the fortunes of the fearful day of Angostura.
Gen. Luca, according to the Awned, has been ap
propriately punished for daring to speak against
General Ti.m.oal The head and front of his of
fending, hath this extent, no more.
..In the old feudal times, when the monarch was h
almost a despot, it was no uncommon thing for a
bold baron to beard the monarch to his teeth, and
even the proudest head that ever wore a crown, did
not deem it unkingly to permit the brave knight
to proclaim his disapprobation of some royal de
cree. In England, at the present day, that public
man is regarded as a coward who will not proclaim
his opinions, no matter how hostile to the ministry.
In France, the revolution which deposed Louis
PHILIPPE began at the Banquets which he tried to
suppress, because those who attended them dared
to speak against the abuses of his administration.
A similar fate threatens-Austria, because of an at
tempt to control the free speech of the Magyars.
In Russia it is said that even among the confidants
of the Czar, the bitterest hclttlity is avowed, with
impunity, to the policy that has led him into Hun
gary. Even in Rome, now the citadel of an armed
absolutigrn, MA zzoa's proclamations are circulated
and read by the people, in defiance of papal soldiery.
The British Queen passes through Ireland, while
the Irish press denounces her government, and defies
her indignation.
But in this FREE cotrzyrny, a weather-beaten,
battle-scarred soldier, who has fought through near
ly the entire war with Mexico, ending his career
in the last gallant adventure of our arms in the val
ley .31 Mexico—now distant in the inhospitable
wilds of Oregon, whither he was sent by a former
Executive—is sought out by the blood-hounds of
Federalism, and offered up as a sacrifice to party
vengeance, because he has dared to differ with Gen.
TAYLOR, in regard to the report of a battle—and
because he was bold and brave enough to proclaim
his objections to a candidate who published and
proved his own incompetency as a civilian. The
worst despotism of the present day has rarely dared
to go farther than this; and when it has gone far
ther, a just retributio4 has been prompt to punish
and avenge.
But while General TAYLOR proscribes General
LANE for daring to say that he is neither a Napo.
LEON in war nor a WASHINGTON in peace, while
he applies the scourge of indignation to one who
will not fall down and worship himself—how does
he treat the foes and the revilers of the country?—
General LANE, who stood the iron hail of the Mex..
cans at Buena Vista, and in the engagements with
JARAITN re and his fierce banditti, is branded with
ignominy for daring to differ from General TAzzon,
while General TAYLOR crowds into the high places
of the government the violent and audacious revi
lers of the nation's honor. General LANE is decap•
itated because he will not idolize Terzon ; while
Hudson, Collamer, M'Gaughey, Otis, Davis, Pen
rose, and other enemies of the country, and aiders
and comforters Of the country's foe, receive the
supreme approval of the Regency and the President!
To differ from General Terzon is a crime, punish
able with the severest mark of displeasure, while
to defame the country's war, and to aid the country's
enemy, is a new title to the confidence and prefer
ence of the present illustrious administration! We
need not elaborate an argument which so powerfully
illustrates the utter recklessness and incompetency
of our present rulers.—Pennsylvanian.
Carlisle Correspondence.
The subjoined extract is all of our correspondent's
letter that we can find room for this week. We
shall be pleased to- hear from him weekly—but
would prefer receiving his communications on Sat
urday, as our paper is ready for press by'the time
the western mail arrives on Monday.
CARLISLE, Sept. 1, 1849
" Now a word politically. Blame me not if I
hint to you that your duty as the editor of a Demo-.
cratic paper in Lancaster county will be arduous,
but yOur friends know that you will be steadfast in
the support of those Jeffersonian principles, which
General Taylor prates about but does not practice.
Quail not, the time is not far distant when the ac
cidental, illegitimate reign of adulterine policy will
be overthrown, and all its minions brought to their
proper level in the estimation of the true republican.
Talk to the people of Lancaster County as friend
to friend, tell them how they have been blinded by
false representations, and the glare of military fame
much exaggerated; predict to them•that the ad
ministration of the new President will terminate
with less honor to the country than did that of John
Tyler, who, with all his faults, had some merit.
JOHN SMITH OF JOHN
" Myself and the Presldent.:'
In his famous telegraphic despatch to the whigs
of Pittsburg, inviting himself to partake of the
honors of a public reception, in connection with
the president, Gov. Johnson said:
" President Taylor AND MYSELF will be happy
to meet the citizens of Allegheny county," &c.
Impudent and egotiitical as this despatch was,
the speech of " his excellency," at the Monongahela
house, on - Saturday, far surpassed it. We copy be
low a portion of the speech, as reported and pub-
lished in the Gazette and Journal yesterday :
" CITIZENS OF PENNSYLVANIA: I return you most
sincere thanks for the kind manner in which you
have received MYSELF and the distinguished pres
ident of the Union."
Gov. Johnsoa has made himself supremely ridi-,
culous, by his vain and foolish despatch and speech.
,He is the butt of every body's jest. But what bet
ter could be expected of a man placed in power by
the whig party.—Pittsburg Post, Aug. 21.
Philadelphia County.
The Democrats of Philadelphia city and county
have nominated the following ticket, which we
have no doubt will be triumphantly elected:—
Sheriff, WILLI.& DEAL; County Treasurer, BANNER
'Femmes; Register of Wills, Dr. THOMAS C. BUNT
ING; Clerk of the Orphan's Court, GEORGE CARPEN
TER; County Commissioner ; Wm. VAN OSTEN;
Auditor, WILLIAM A. FAGAN; Senator, Tuomes S.
FERNON; House .of Representatives, THOMAS R.
FINLETTER, FAYETTE PEARSON, Jos. G. MoLeor,
WASHINGTON G. JACKSON, RICHARD SI3IPSON, WK.
A. SOLIDER, HENRY HASSLET, SYLVESTER CRIED-
Thomas S. Fernon.
This gentleman's nomination for Senator, by the
Democracy of Philadelphia county, reflects great
credit upon their discrimination. Mr. FERNON is
a young and ardent democrat; combining in his
character all the strong practical abilities to render
him a useful member of the .State Senate. He is
also a gentleman of well cultivated abilities, such
a one, indeed, that will do honor, not only to Phila•
delphia county, but to the whole State. We shall
hail his election with much gratification.
ED- On motion of Hon. THADDEVS STEVZIPEn
on Monday last, SA.sinar. E. Hasa', Esq., of Juni
ata county, Pa., was admitted to practice as an
Attorney in the several Courts of this county. Mr.
Hawaii passed a highly creditable examination. He
intends locating in Juniata county, where we wish
him success.—Examiner.
The Coal Trade.
We learn from the Dail; News of yesterday, that
the coal trade for the last week, from ,the Schuyl
kill mines, shows an increase of nearly 7,000 tons,
as compared with the previous weeks.
EDITORIAL NOTINGS.
ANY: MUMBLE COMITY-DEMOCRATIC Nom
riaxmiks.—The Democratic Convention of Anne
Arundle connty nominated the following strong
ticket on Saturday : For the General Assembly,.Dr.
S. Owens; T. Watkins Ligon, William Shipley,
R. J. Crabb, W. Hewer and ;for County Conamis
sioner, Dr. Edward McCeeny. This isindispntably
an excellent nomination, and cannot'fail, we should
think, of success. The proceedings of the Conven
tion have not been received, but we learn that the
most harmonious and enthusiastic spirit prevailed.
CHBSEPEAKS AND Ouso CAA-AL.—The Virginia
Board of Public Works, at their regular meeting,
week before last, took final action in regard to the
Act passed by the Legislature of said State, in
March last, authorising a guaranty to the extent
of $200,000, to enable the company toputthe canal
below Dam No. 6 in good condition and repair, and
release the company from the obligation to con
struct the Lift Lock opposite this county.—W. Star.
lII' We regret to learn that our esteemed citizen
Dr. R. E. COCHRAN, met with a serious accident
on Wednesday last, when returning from a profes
sional visit to the cousitry. When a short distance
from the borough, his horse became fractious, and
threw him to the ground with such violence as to
break his leg, and otherwise seriously injure him.
He was removed to his residence where he is doing
as well as could be expected.—Columitia
NOVEL WAY of MAKING A LIVING.—The COM
mercial states that several persons in Cincinnati
make a living by diving for boulders. A small flat
boat is owned by each party, which is moored
over the bed of the Ohio in front, or near the city,
as the case may be, where boulders are most plen
ty. By diving and grabbing up a bouldor, the boat
is soon loaded and rowed to the city landing, where
a ready market is found, the city purchasing them
for paving purposes.
ID - The mother of the exiled Irish patriot, Jonx
MITCHELL, arrived in Philidelphia city, on Wed
nesday last, accompanied by two of her daughters
We have no doubt that the patriotic citizens of
Philadelphia, more especially those from the "Green
Isle of the Sea," will take an early opportunity to
pay their respects to the mother of one, who is
suffering for freedom and humanity's sake.
Cassius M. asx.—ln a letter of some length in
the National Era, in which Cassius M. Clay gives
in account of what he calls the "Foxtown affair"—
in which the desperate recounter between himself
and the Turners took place, which resulted in the
death of Cyrus Turner—he speaks as follows:
" There was but two alternatives—either to lie
down and die like a dog, or stand up and fight like
a man ! And when you say that "you have no
doubt I mourn over this act," you entirely mistake
my feelings ; and I will thank my God if I shall be
allowed to go down to my grave with no other
stain upon my conscience than this.'
KENTUCKY EtEurtotirs.—The Frankfort Com
monwealth, (Whig) claims sq. Whigs to 4S Demo
crats in the Convention; and 57 Whigs to 42 Dem
ocrats in the House. The Whig majority on joint
ballot is stated to be about 30. After all, this
seems like running the Whigs up to the girth in
this staunch Whig State. A few more trials and
we have her.
NORTRIMBERLAND COUNTT.—The Democrats
of this county have nominated the following popu
lar ticket: Assembly, John B. Packer; Register,
&c., John P. Pursel ; Treasurer, George B. Young
man; Commissioner, William Wilson; Auditor
William L. Cook; Senatorial Delegate to the next
State Convention, William L. Dewart ; Representa
ative, William Follmer.
FRASSLIN COUNTY.—The Democrats of this
county have nominated the following ticket. It
comprises the most popular men in the county,
and we look with much confidence for its success:
Assembly—Matthias Nead, Alexander Hamilton.
Commissioner—John Armstrong. Treasurer— J.
S. Grier.
YALE COLLEGE COMIHENCEMENT.AEGOng the
students who passed creditable examination at
this College, we notice the name of our young
townsman Jonx A. BAER. His dissertation upon
" GOETHE" is spoken of as a highly comprehensive
and eloquent condensation of the characteristics of
GOETHE'S manifold genius.
oKr The sun stole down the western sky,
With silent foot and burning glances;
And wood and waters playfully,
Who, loving, leaped to his advances.
They met—and as the first warm gush
Of gladness, wakes the spring of feeling,
They gently kissed—oh, mark the blush
That o'er the water's cheek is stealing.
tE Gen. TAYLOR appears to be unable to with
stand the excitement attending public receptions.
The last we heard of him, he was laboring under
a severe attack of the diarrhoea, which has proven a
worse enemy than a guerilla. We hope the old
General will survive the shock of " public enthu
siasm."
FLOGGING IN THE NAVY.—This subject is begin
ning to attract the attention of the people. A
large meeting was held in Massachusetts, which
was marked by much dignity and magnanimity;
and which was attended by some of the most emi
nent men in that State.
Ea" The Louisville Chronicle gives a list Of dele
gates elected to the Convention by which we see
there are 52 Democrats, 47 Whigs, and a tie in
Casey county, where both candidates received 507
votes each. So the Democrats have the majority
in the Convention.
SOUTHERN MtiNtrvicruaxs.—The manufacturers
in the State of Georgia, representing nineteen com
panies, having a capital of $4,220,000, held a con
vention at the Stone Mountain on the 17th ult., and
adopted various measures looking to a concert of
action among themselves. A State Manufacturing
Association was also formed.
HUNGARIAN SYMPATHY IN ABaANSAS.-An
assemblage of the citizens of Little Rock, Ark.,
took place on the 2d ult, and an association formed,
one purpose of which was to raise funds to aid the
Hungarians in their present struggle. The meeting
was quite large.
El7 - The fall trade is opening with great activity
in Philadelphia. The hotels are thronged with
business men from various sections. The Board
of Health have discontinued their cholera reports
the bills of mortality have diminished.
ROBBERY.-A young man by the name of
Knowles, a clerk in the Post Office at New Hope,
was committed in default of bail, to the jail of
Bucks county, on Monday last, charged with break
ing the seal of a letter, and purloining $lOO which
was enclosed therein.
[GT - Papers from all parts of the Union complain
of the irregularity of the mails. One journal says:
" If ever a public officer deserved a real drubbing,
old Collamer deserves it now. Talk about Cave
Johnson's slow mails—why, they did come up some
time or other, but Collamer's never come
fIJ The Post Master General has decided that
the postage on newspapers to any point within the
United States Possessions in California and Oregon,
regularly sent from the office of publication, need
not be pre-paid.
117 - Maj. Joas R. SELL: is the Whig candidate
for the Fourth Congressional District of Maryland,
last represented by Hon. Robert M. McLane.
LimENTABLE.—It is stated that there are in Vir
ginia from 60,000 to 80,000 persons who canon
read.
ECrßaltimore City has added nine thousand six
hundred houses to its size since 1840. Its present
population is estimated at 154,000.
IstousrA.—lt is stated that the number of 64m
l:4am In We State raves fm 000,000 to 2151:4000
TOWN FACTS AND FANCIES.
Irr Summer has tone I The last day of the fair
last month of " Sweet birds And sweet,flowers,"
has 'died away ;= and r4e first day of the first
Month of - sombre, yet gletiOus Autumn, has burst
neon us.: It came, amid of soft zephyrs
and the weeping of gentleflowers; "sweet flowers,"
that knew, too well, they most perish in the rude
embrace - of stern Septet:Abet.; *those keen winds
never deign to catch their perfume,' and bear it to
the sick man's chamber, or the,poor man's cottage.
We love Summer. We love the green fields which
it creates; its golden harvests, and its fairy dreams ;
yet there is something grand clustering around the
form of old Winter. The father of Storms, it tea
ches man the sublime power of the Great Creator.
While Summer fills the soul with the gentle pulsa
tions of love and of beauty ; Winter impresses us
with the thought of the mighty and the grand.—
Farewell then to Summer; its pleasures and de
lights, its sunshine and zephyrs! Hail ! too, to
Winter! Stern, mighty, glorious Winter ! It
brings its pleasures, too. The pleasant evenings
around the family hearth ; the renewal of old affec
tions, as we are gathered together, listening to
the song of " Rude Boreas." Hail ! we say, to
Autumn, which comes in advance, to herald the
approach of WirrrEn !
DROWNED.—Avery distressing and sad accident
come to our notice, in which five persons have met
an untimely death by drowning. The accident
occurred on Wednesday afternoon last, about one
mile above Safe Harbor, in the Susquehanna river.
It appears that a party of sii, from a place known
as Turkey Hill, embarked in a skiff with the design
of crossing to an island in the river to procure some
kind of fruit. They had proceeded some distance
from tits. shore when the skiff came in contact with
a rock and immediately overset, in very deep water,
drowning five of the party, viz: Mrs. Manning,
Miss Hughes, aged 19 years, another married lady,
the wife of Mr. David Roland, Mr. Peters, and a
son of Peters's aged about 14 years. Mr. Manning,
the only survivor, obtained a foot hold upon a rock
where he was able to keep his head above the
water; but seeing no chance of rescue from his
perillous situation, he took to the water and sac
'needed in swimming to the shore.
REPORT or THE GRAND JAY.--.TO the Honorable
Judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and gen
eral Quarter Sessions of the Peace of Lancaster co.
The Grand Jury inquiring for the body of the county
aforesaid report: That they have passed upon the
bills submitted to them, and are happy to say that
although there was an unusual amount of business,
it was met and overcome by the assiduity and abil
ity of the Court. We have visited the jail and found
it in as good a condition as could be expected, the
poor and house of employment under the superin
tendence of Mr. Herr, steward, as well as the Hos-
pital, underthe management ofMr. Taylor, and found
them both , in good order, and the unfortunate in
mates under their care as comfortable as circumsta
nces would admit. Respectfully submitted.
MICHAEL BUNDEL, Foreman
LANCASTER, August 24, 1849.
AN OUTRAGE.-A most flagrant outrage was
committed against a young lady at the Camp Meet
ing near Kelsey's Spring, in this county, on Thurs
day evening last. The lady, in company with a
gentleman friend, was 'retiring from the meeting,
when the latter was attacked in the most violent
manner. In the affray, the lady received a severe
blow in the breast, and was seized and held by the
throat in the most brutal manner. It is alleged
that the perpetrator of the deed was a rejected
suitor of the lady's. We are happy to say that the
lady, although seriously injured, is not considered
in a dangerous situation. The scoundrel who com
mitted the outrage has been arrested, and we hope
that he may be punished to the extent and rigor of
the law.
n- We were again reminded, on SatUrday even
ing last, of the want of an efficient police, by the
conduct of a few young men in the vicinity of the
railroad. Indeed, the peace and safety of the city
are daily in danger; and while a community pay
taxes to ensure its safety, tire authorities commit a
flagrant outrage when they refuse to use the power
given into their hands for that purpose. Half
grown boys are permitted to range our side-walks,
cursing, fighting, and insulting females ; and not
the least effort made to suppress them. The citi
zens, themselves, should take the matter in hand.
Only give the Mayor an efficient police support,
and our word for it, the nuisance will be abated.
F. and C..STOUGH, the gentlemanly teachers
of the divine art of Terpsicore, will appear at the
Institute, in a few 'days, for the purpose of giving
nstructions in that beautiful accomplishment.—
They are both eminently worthy of support, and we
have no doubt that they will be liberally patronised
by the "dancing lads and lasses" of the city.
Frat.—Onlhursday last, about noon, the coach
and car manufactory ,of George B. Mowery, in
North Duke street, was discovered to be on fire.
By the prompt interference ofthe firemen, the flames
were subdued. The damages were slight, although,
at first, it threatened to be a destructive fire.
r Some of the side-walks in the city are in a
miserable condition, and during wet weather, are
rendered almost impassable. Persons, in putting
up buildings, should pay some attention to the com
fort of the citizens, and have the side-walks as good
as the circumstances will allow.
r Our city was visited with another refreshing
shower of rain on Friday last, which, although al
most too late to benefit the remaining crops, puri
fied the air. There is nothing so beautiful as to
visit the country after a rain. Reader, try it, and
on our word, it will benefit the inner and outer man.
irr JOHN W. FORNEY, Editor of the Pennsylva
nian, has been sojourning in Lancaster for the past
few days. We also hear that F. ANDREWS . , the ac
complished Editor of the Boston Traveller, was in
the city last week.
New York Democracy
The New York Herald, (a Taylor paper,) ex
presses its fears that the Democracy of the Empire
State, notwithstanding their two conventions at
Rome did not coalesce, will sweep the board clear
from Tammany Hall to Buffalo, at the ensuing
election. We hope Be cam's prediction may
come true for once.
NSW METEOR Op EXTORTING MONEY—The
Boston Transcript of Monday says that a gentleman
of that city was assaulted in the street on Saturday
night last by two women who threatened to hold
on to him and disgrace him if he did net give them
money. The miserable creatures succeeded in tear
ing his coat from his back, when he handed them
over to the watchman and they were lodged in
jail.
lire The Post Master General has prohibited
deputies from franking letters containing money
for newspaper subscriptions. Whether or not such
authority now exists, it is not improbable that
measures will be taken by the press which will be
successful in obtaining this privilege.
nu - When railroad iron was imported, during
the existence of the tariff of '42, the owners went
to Congress and procured its admission without any
duty. Now, under the " odious tariff of '46," the
same article is obtained at nearly half the cost,
with all the duty paid.
Sympkray roll HUNGART.—A meeting of the
citizens of Newark, N. J., for the purpose of giving
expression to their feelings of sympathy for the
gallant Hungarians was to take place in that city
last evening. The call in the Advertiser was signed
by a long list of the most prominent citizens.
117" Hon. THOMAS Jo a, for a number of years
one of the Associate Judges of Chester county, died
lately at his residence in East Whiteland twp.
INDIANA CotrarzarErrs.—The Indiana State
Journal contains a list of thirty-two different cam.
terfeiu and altered bills on the basks et that State.
Hungary.
It appears by the late advices'thut Count Batthy
any, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has
published a moat excellent circular to all the diplo
matic agents of Hungary, in which he contrasts the
hiamane conductof the Hungarians to their prisoners
with the barbarious proclamations of Haynau and
other Austtian Generals. The following extract
from the London Times gives a graphic portraiture
of some of the niw modes of warfare which the
Imperial opponents of Hungary have to contend
"A recent letter from the seat of war in Hungary
describes in considerable detail the formidable aux
iliaries the Magyar armies have found in the wild
population scattered over the vast steppes and for
ests of the interior, particularly the horseherds, or
tenders of the troops of wild horses of the plains,
the swineherds, and fishermen. The first named of
these are especially dreaded by Austrian -troops, on
account of the extraordinary weapon they carry
And use with deadly skill. It is - simply the whip
with which they select-and catch any horse of the
herd they wish to tame and dispose of. The appli
cation of it in war is quite a novelty. It has a
handle not more than two feet in length, while the
thong measures from 15 to 20'; a leaden ball is
fixed the end of it, with smaller ones at different
distances from it, like shot on_a fishing line; when
thrown it acts like a lasso, curling round man or
horse, or it strikes either to the earth with a crush
ing blow. The horseherds (or Chykasz) are so
skilful in the use of this weapon that at a lull gal
lop they will strike'an enemy with unerring cer
tainty on any part of the body they please. In
skirmishes any isolated foot soldier, if he fires his
musket and misses, is lost before he can attempt to
reload—the wild horseman rushes past, and with
the sweep of his ball-loaded thong stretches him
lifeless on the earth by a blow on the head. There
are some thousands of these men in the Hungarian
armies, and they are generally mixed with the.light
Hussars, and sent against the heavy Austrian cav
alry. They often strike the officers from their
horses with incredible dexterity. The wounds this
weapon inflicts are described as frightful. Before
it was known that these liorseherds were serving
in the Hungarian ranks, a great numberot cuiras
siers were brought into Pesth, wounded in a man
ner the military surgeons could not explain. The
injury was neither a cut, nor a -puncture, nor a
gun-shot wound, and the soldiers were for a long
time ashamed to own that it was
,caused by so ig
noble a weapon as a • whip. Fortunately it can
only be used where the horseman has ample space;
in any thing like "close order" it would be as dan
gerous to friends as foes. One of these men was
lately taken prisoner at Wieselburg, and, probably
to obtain an exact knowledge of the power of his
arm, he was ordered to display his skill in the
camp. A stuffed figure was set up, the Austrian- -
officers pointing out the parts he was to strike while
in full career. Twice he did as directed, but the
third time introduced a startling variation; swing
ing his whip in a wide circle he dashed his horse
at a point of the line of soldiers round the place of
exercise, broke through it, and was, far on his way
to the open fields in an instant, untouched
- by the
volley of balls sent alter him. These swineherds
(or kanass) are generally Servians ; their weapon
is a small axe, with a rather long handle, called
Jokosch, and they throw it with such dexterity that
at eighty or one hundred paces they rarely miss a
man, and the blow is almost always fital, as the
Austrian army surgeons can testify. Thefishermen
are employed in constructing bridges in their own
manner, on a sort of tubs, in a style which the
Austrians at first ridiculed exceedingly ; but, though
rude, they were - effective, and put together in a
very short time, and have proved of the greatest
use in the Hungarian operations."
Breadstuff's in Europe.
The condition of the breadstuffs' market and the
prospects of the crops are thus summarily stated
by the London correspondent of the National Intel
ligencer under date of 10th instant:
The condition-of-England question at present is 3 ,
the state of the crops, and it absorbs all others. A "
finer time for harvest could not. be, and the wheat
crops in Kent and Essex are fast approaching ma
turity—in another week reaping will be general
south of the Humber. The opinion as to the pro
duct becomes more and more favorable as the sea
son advances. From Ireland we are again inform.
ed that the potato comes forward in as abundant
supply as before the disease was heard of, and there
is every appearance of this root having outgrown
the malady which' during three successive seasons
so virulently attacked it. To-day we hear'ot some
rotten-hearts showing themselves among the pota
toes near London, but our Irish advices do not refer
to it. At Liverpool, both Indian corn end 'Ameri
can flour have fallen this week, prices ruling lower
than in New York, so that freight and charges have
to be borne by unfortunate shippers. Depend upon
it, unless any thing unforseen occurs, we are now
on the eve of low prices for breadstuffs throughout
Europe.
From the German ports of the Baltic our advices
state that some quantity of breadstuffs, retarded
there by the blockade, will be shipped the moment
that obstacle is withdrawn, which is not likely to
occur later than the 10th or 14th inst., but nobody
wool, charter till it had taken place; thus the ex
pectation is entertained here of considerable quan
tities arriving from that quarter very shortly.
In France the result of harvest•will leave but lit
tle to be. desired as to quantity, although in, the
north the quality has somewhat suffered from the
heavy rains. Under these circumstances it is no
marvel that prices were put down 3a4s. per quar
ter in Mark Lane .on Monday—holders losing con
fidence and buyers acting upon the policy of reserve.
At Wednesday's market perfect stagnation reigned;
a fine sample of new barley from Essex was pro
duced and brought 21s. The quality of this year's
crop for malting purposes will be exceedingly good.
We have hordes of Irish at work day and flight in
securing the crops in the home counties, and rapid
work they make of it; our farmers have found out
that old Jog-trot methods must be discarded, now
that they are exposed to competition from abroad.
The week closes heavily in the grain trade at the
decline which took place at its commencement.
Hungary and France.
A Paris correspondent of the London News has
the following. If the recognition of the Indepen
dence of Hungary, by England, has the effect spo
ken of, what would the action of our government
in the same direction, accomplish?
Here, as in England, the warmest sympathy is
felt for heroic Hungary by every man ,who loves
liberty and hates oppression; but, unfortunately,
here the people dare not give utterance to their
sentiments as you do in England. For what Eng
lishmen have done, the Hungarians, I know, are
profoundly thankful ; and, according to recent let
ters from Vienna, the infamous Government of
Austria is profoundly dismayed. Ah! if the Eng
lish Government would at once boldly recognize
the independence of Hungary, it would do almost
as much for the great and glorious nation as the
legions of the Czar are doing against it; and it
would do honor, high honor, to England. And,
though I blush to use the word in such a case, it is
our interest to do so--the interest of our manufac
turers and artisans, the interest of us all. Whether,
however, the English Government shall extend the
hand to Hungary or not, there is thus far no reason
to fear-that she will fall,-even before the gigantic
force of the two tyrants who are endeavoring to
crush her. All the last accounts have been,exiery.
thing that could be wished—the operationeof the
Hungarian •generals appear everywhere to have
been successful—they have carried the war into
the deserts and marshes of the Theiss, where the
nature of the ground will enable them to make a
lengthened resistance—they have repeatedly re
pulsed the enemy—they have carried insurrection
into the Danubian provinces, and nothing is more
probable than that by this Time they have cut the
corps of Haynau (the "doomed•tonastant-death"
tyrant) to pieces.
4ppropos of Hungary, let we warn you against
placing too much reliance upbn the accounts from
that country, which are published by the daily
newspapers. They are almost all concocted in a
spirit of the strongest animosity to the Hungarians.
They axe, in fact, taken from the Austrian news
papers, and, as if that were not sufficient to make
them suspected, they are carefully weeded of every
thing favorable to the Hungarians, whilst every
falsehood told of them is carefully retained, and
everg check they may happen to sustain enormous
ly exaggerated.
The American Prisoners at
Jalapa.
A traveller writes to the ,New Orleans Bulletin
of the 18th, that the so called "American Prisoners
in Mexico," are ,mostly foreigners. He says:
" The prisoners referred to have recently been
employed by the Mexicans to repair the public
road in-the neighborhood of Plan del Rio, and they
are probably the most abondoned set of rascals the
world ever produced. They get drunk, rob, and
commit every kind of excess. They say they have
American papers, and this-may be ; but one thing
is certain, that they all deserted from the American
army.
' American citizens are treated with kindness and ;
respect in every part of the Republic of Mericia i ?'
and I know enough of Mr. Clifford to say that he
would travel thousands of miles, and spend his last
dollar, to afford assistance to any of his country
ataa."