Intelligencer & Journal.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
Lancaster, February 26,1850.
Meeting of tbe County Committee.
A meeting of the Democratic County Committee
will be held at the public house of Christian
Shebtz, in the city of Lancaster, on Saturday, the
2 d day of March next, at 11 o'clock, A. M.
Tbe object of the meeting & to appoint a time
for holding a Convention to elect Delegates to rep
resent this County in the State Convention for the
nomination of a Canal Commissioner.
WM. MATHIOT, Chairman.
Lancaster, Feb. 26,1850.
The following gentlemen compose the Com-
William Mathiot, City; James Patterson, Little
Britain; Samuel J. Masterson, Rapho; George G.
Brush, Manor; John J. Libhart, Marietta; Dr. Lem
on Winters, Earl; John Echternacht, East Cocalico;
Col. John Barr, Columbia; Dr. Henry Carpenter,
City; Dr. Levi Hull, Warwick; William Hamilton.
Paradise; Jacob B. Arawake, City; David Laird.
Martic; Andrew Dunlap. Lancaster twp; Emanqel
Shober, Elizabethtown; Jacob Gillman, Maytown;
John Kulp, East'Donegal; Joseph M. Watts, Col
umbia; Dr. Amos K. Rohrer, West Hempfield; Ma
thias Shirk, R. Lampeter; Joseph Potts, Strasburg,
Elliott E. Lane, City; John Rockey, Bart; Geo. M.
Kline, City; Henry Shaffner, Manheim Borough;
John S. Morton, Strasburg twp.; John W. Jackson,'
City; Joel L Lighlner. Leacock; Jacob L. Garber,
West Earl; Dr. George B. Kerfoot, City.
Io*Mr. Brawlet, of the State Senate, and
Messrs. Meek and Rhet, of the'House, have our
thanks for their kind attention.
• Gas.— The gas was let into the pipes on Wed
nesday list, and on Thursday evening a number of
stores, hotels and private dwellings in the central
part of the City were lighted up for the first time.
The gas burned dimly at first, owing, we presume,
to the atmospheric air in the pipes which requires
some time to exhaust; but the light has been grad
ually increasing in brilliancy since then, and we
doubt not that in a short time it will fully come up
to the expectations of the most sanguine.
Congress—The Union.
Congress has now been in session nearly three
months, and no legislation has yet been had for
the benefit of tlje country; nor is there likely to
be for three months to come, unless the Slavery
question is settled in some way so as to satisfy, as
far-as possible, ; the different sections of the Union.
How this desirable consummation is to be brought
about is hard to divine—and yet. we think the cool
and dispassionate judgment of a majority in both
houses, ought to predominate over the wild and
reckless fury of the ultraists on both sides of Mason
and Dixon s line. This glorious Union is too strong
in the affections of the great mass of the people to
be broken up for any cause. They cling to it as
the ark of their safety—as the life boat upon
which is' embarked all they hold .most dear in
. this world—and nothing, we think, unless Heaven
first deserts us, will ever permit them to see the
torch applied to the temple of freedom, without
putting forth all their efforts to save it from the
hand of the destroyer.
Surely, the-wisdom of our most eminent states
men can devise some plan of compromise by
the question will be permanently settled.—
Surely there is some one who, Curtius-like, wilj
into the breach and save his country from the
desolating scourge that threatens to engulph it.—
The Administration, by its suicidal policy, has
rendered itseli powerless for good in-'the present
crisis—yea,'rather, has driven the ship of state
upon the rocks by its want of decision, and its in
termeddling in the California business. Nothing,
therefore, is to be expected Irom that quarter, even
if dt were attempted, at this, stage of the business.
Our hope—the hope of the country, is in the great
body of the Democratic and the moderate men of
the whig parties. We sincerely trust that some
thing will be done speedily—some plan devised,
some compromise suggested—which will settle the
vexed question forever, and rally in its support the
good and the wise of ail parties. May kind Heav
en effect for us a speedy deliverance from the evils
that are now impending over the Republic.
A Glance at Europe.
The Liverpool Albion glances at the past history
of Europe, and at the prospect for the year 1850,
and gives this brief but view :
“ What ''may happen on the Continent of Europe
before it also shall go down into the grave of time,
he would be a. bold prophet who would venture
even to guess. France is always uncertain. Ger
many is unsettled, and in a state of effervescence
from one extremity to the other. Italy is groaning
to be free. Hungary is only held down, but neither
conquered nor pacified. The blood of her murdered
patriots and martyrs has yet to be avenged. There
is an ill-feeling growing between Prussia and
tria. The young,.eagle of the soaring house of j
Brandenburg is eager to take advantage of the 1
dotage of the race of Hapsburg. "Russia, too, is
only biding her time to pounce upon Turkey. It
may be, then, that we have not reached the end of j
the 6torm, but only a lull between the gone and ;
coming blast. We -walk upon gunpowder. A [
spark is enough to cause an explosion, and we have
firebrands flying about in all directions.”
England and the United States.
The London Illustrated News, in an article on
the signs and prospects of the new year, compares
England and the United States in the following
manner:
An empire twenty, thirty, fifty times as extensive
and as rich as ours, has already arisen on the other
side of the Atlantic, to entice into its bosom the
best blood which remains to us. The young, the
hardy, the persevering of our country, and of all
countries of Europe that groan under the weight
of debt and difficulty, and a surplus of population,
and that cannot say as the New World does, that
every man is a man, welcome for the sake of his
manhood to the great feast of nature, where there
is enough and to spare for the meanest, are daily
invited to leave the shores of effete Europe, and
settle in America. The growth of the United States
is in fact the downfall of Great Britain. All the
unhappy circumstances that are of prejudice to us.
are of benefit to them. With us, the mouths that
clamor to be fed, are'causes of decay. With them
every additional mouth is an additional pair of
hands, and every additional pair of hands is an in
crease of power, .wealth, and influence. Let us
pour out millions into the great valley of the
Mississippi, and it will hold and feed them all, were
the numbers quadrupled. While in this old coun
try the pauper vegetates and dies, in that new
country he no longer vegetates but lives and counts
by thousands hib flocks—a Job in the land of plenty.
Let those who dream of a perpetual Britain
think of these things. The signs of decay are
around us on every side. Events are more power
ful than we are. We must sooner or later, yield
our place to the most prudent, the less embarrassed
and the more vigorous offshoots of our race, and
consent to occupy the easy chair of our senility. Nor
it there anything to regret in this. The civiliza
tion that is removed is hot destroyed ; and the
of our people can exert itself as well on the
' h * rj k‘°> as on the banks of the Thames,
and t<A+. tr.e world with as much propriety
from the House as from the palq.ce of St.
James. Eu/op* nas enjoyed power and has abused
it, and !b«r.tc*p'/e o t n>H worlds dominion is pass
ing from her gfatp Civilization, as of old, is fol
owmg the 'oe.vjrj, and the doctrines of
human.tyw.il ■«.»», oul in a new field
and on a large wvsle.
Franklin and Mar.lmii College.
Mr. Eosiojuchm ba» r*a/l a l„|| H ena , ei
to unite Franklin College, at Lanr:**?*?, v»,»h ( y ar ,
shall College, at Mercersburg— -to \m at
Lancaster.
Noty that an amicable arrangement has
made between the trustees of the two den wtuh*
tions having control of these institutions, we hop*
ihat the bill read by, Mr. K. will speedily paw
both branches of the Legislature and become a l»w.
Glasses with Doable Vision.
A Mr. Gall, of Albany, N. has, after a great
deal of labor, succeeded in manufacturing spectacles
with two distinct visions in a single lens. * The one
vision is for ordinary distances—the other for remote.
The improvement has been examined by gentlemen
skilled in such matters, and they pronounce it good.
The above, which has heen going the rounds of
the papers, is thus humorously noticed by the St.
Louis Union
Whig Spectacles. —The double vision speefa
cles, announced as a late invention, is no new thing
after all. The Whig party has long been using
the identical article, and at this time scarcely a
member of that heterogenious political family has
not a pair upon his nose.
It has been but a short time since all northern
Whigdom protested against the non-interference
doctrines of Gen. Cass in relation to the territories.
Horace Greety was horrified at the idea, and could
scarcely find language sufficiently strong to express
his disapprobation of the views of the Michigan
Senator. He said:
“ as Gen. Cass does, of the inherent right
of the people of the territories to settle this question
of slavery for themselves, is quibblipg, shuffling,
paltering. * * * *
“ It is humbug, it is knavery, to talk of awaiting
the action of the people of the territories on this
subject. The thing is not even possible.”
This was the result of one vision of those specta
cles. The figures change, however, when the “Sec
ond Washington” steps forth with his famous mes
sage. The case is now altogether different! What
was “humbug,” “knavery” in Gen. Cass, is genuine
doctrine when pronounced by the “slaughter-house”
President. Greely now says
“ Wha' is said with reference to slavery, non-in
tervention and State organization, is as unexcep
tionable as we had reason to expect—indeed, is the
only view of the matter which the President in his
critical position, could take without invoking, need
lessly and fruitlessly, a tornado. If he had favored
the proviso, the South would have revolted; if he
had favored the introduction of slavery into the ter
ritories, or the claim of indefeasible right to take
slavery there, set- up by the propagandists, the
North would have denounced him. He hat spoken
as wisely as he could, if he m ust speak on the subject
at all.”
“As wisely as he could!” No doubt—without
repeating those identical words of Gen. Cass, which
the Tribune thought so repugnant to common sense!
But this is all by virtue of the double glasses—tbe
same which Horace wore prior to the election of
General. Taylor.
The Whig party owe much to the President for
thus breaking the ice for them; for the great pacifi
cator to give them a still more potent
dose. But the spectacles will set all right. The
light of Mr. Clay's proposition might have proved
too strong for even eyes so well used to sudden
transitions. The middle shade, therefore, of Gen.
Taylor was well-timed. Now, the Whiggies can
see as plainly the propriety of Mr. Clay’s surrender
of almost every thing to the South, as Polonious
saw the camel and jhe whale. “ Very like a
whale,” is it not? Oh, those specctacles!
State Treasurer Ball.
Mr. Ball's letter to the Senate, from which we
gave an extract last week, is, as we anticipated,
going the rounds of the Whig presses, who would
have it regarded as a “complete refutation of all
the charges’’ made against him. Now, we hesitate
not to assert that this letter is mere quibbling and
special pleading, and designed by its author to
make a false impression on the public mind, as
will be most conclusively shown when the House
committee of investigation make their report of
the lacts.
•j
Mr. Ball alleges that “Messrs. Norris & Co*
never personally presented at the Treasury lor pay
ment, nor did any person for them, an order of the
Canal Commissioners, for the amount of their
claim,” &c. Yet Mr. Ball knew when alleging
this, that the Messrs. Norris had personally and
frequently called on him to know whether he was
ready to pay, in order that if he was ready, the
Superintendent might order from the
Board and draw the money; and that, in all these
interviews, he relused to say that he would pay.
Col. English, also, called on him several times for
the same purpose, and with the same success.
As to presenting an order from the Canal Board,
that was unnecessary, without some previous inti
mation from him that it would be paid. Besides,
if the Superintendent had procured such an order
from the Board, it would,- so long as unpaid by Mr.
Ball, have prevented him, to that amount, from
procuring other orders from the Board to pay the
laborers and others in the State employ—that offi
cer being allowed to have orders but for a limited
sum at one time.
As to the price of the new Engines, and the
amounts for which the old ones were sold, the ap
propriation bill of last session is a conclusive
answer. Section 16 of that bill appropriates the
proceeds of the old Engines, and $40,000, if re
quired, to the purchase of five new first class loco
motive engines—clearly showing that such could
not, in the estimation of the Legislature, be pro
cured at less than a sum exceeding $BOOO each.
Mr. Ball says that the old engines sold, were
worth at least $5OOO each. How much truth is
in this, may be inferred from the fact that Mr.
Moorhead who purchased one, subsequently sold it
for about $l5OO, after going to the expense of re
pairing it!
Mr, Ball says he n'ever refused to settle the ac
counts of the Superintendent of the Philadelphia
and Columbia Railroad. This is no denial that he
delayed settlement. The examination which his
office gives to accounts, is well known to be but
hasty and superficial; and yet it is strange that he
should, as he did, keep the accounts of the Super
intendent laying on his table for weeks, thus pre
venting that officer from drawing funds to meet
the claims of the laborers and other creditors of
the Railroad. He knows that from the 29th of
September to Bth of December, inclusive, he
was called upon eight times by the Superintendent,
for funds, but refused to furnish it.
Air. Ball, alleges that the Canal Board never gave
him a moment’s notice of their intention to draw
on him for funds. He knows, however, that it has
been the practice ol Col. English, and probably of
other disbursing officers, to call on him and ask
whether he would furnish funds in case they pre
sented orders from the Board. What more could
Mr. Ball desire ?
As'to the Engine furnished by Messrs. Norris
to the Central railroad, at less price than those to
the State, that is well understood at Harrisburg
The correspondence between the Central Road and
Messrs. Norris, fully explains it, and will show that
the kind of engine for which the Central Road
contracted with them, and which they agreed to
furnish for $7600, would have been far lets expensive
in its construction, than those made for the State ;
that the reason why they furnished the one they
did, was that the Central Road might have an op
portunity of testing the merits of one like those
used by the State, and thus open the way for the
general introduction of their engines upon that
road ; and that they have since refused to furnish
their first class engines to that road, for less than
$B3OO each. Mr. Ball- probably knew all this at
tbe timed he penned his-letter,, lut he thought he
might make some capital by miSepresenting it.—
West Chester Republican.
CD* The Dauphin County Convention, which met
on the 18th inst, appointed Thomas B. McCord and
Jeremiah Harner delegates to the State Convention
of the 29th of May, and instructed them to support
Edward B. Hubley, Esq., of Berks County, for
Canal Commissioner.
ETC. W. Cabrioan, Esq. has retired from the
fyirit of the Times, and is succeeded by Air. J.
OrtTfunn,
R 7" A bill has passed the Legislature incorpora
ting the Odd Fellows’ Hall at Columbia.
lnftolence and Entreaty.
The Washington Republic, the organ of General
Taylor and the cabinet concludes a long article
apon Senator Bradbury’s resolution, (asking the
President the cause of so many removals, with
the following paragraph:
shall hare occasion, probably, to recur.to
this topic again. " Our present object is merely to
suggest that there are matters.enough within their
constitutional jurisdiction to occupy the attention
of die Senate, and to furnish matters of agitation,
without recourse to personal attacks upon President
Taylor. We are told that, in the wars of chivalry,
1;* ij U customary, when there was a king in the
field, for the enemy to demand, by a trumpet, in
what part of the camp he was postetf, that they
might avoid firing upon the royal pavilion. This
was perhaps an excess of politeness; but the spirit
of it might be well carried into the political con
troversies of an age that lays claim to a higher civ
ilization than that of chivalry. In the paper wars
of our day, however, the person of the President is
the shining mark of all the bullets and pellets, the
poisoned arrows, bombshells, and infernal machines,
of a bitter end opposition.
This, says the Washington Union, is the voice of
Gen. Taylor and the cabinet.' Appearing in the
adopted and authorized organ of the nominal Presi
dent and his conclave, we have a right to assume
that it was dictated by them.
If authorized by Gen. Taylor and the cabinet, as
we have no doubt it is, (they being responsible for
the language of their organ,) in what light do they
exhibit themselves before the senate and the country?
In the first place, it is an insolent command on
the part of the General and his cabinet to the Sen
ate, to the effect that the latter had better mind its
own business, and not meddle with the matter of
appointments, which General Taylor and the cabi"
net claim they have the exclusive power to control’
notwithstanding the constitution vests in the~Senate
a concurrent power on that rubject.
And, secondly, it contains a craven entreaty, on
the part of the nominal President and cabinet, to
forbear any opposition or inquiry in relation to their
action with reference to appointments, to make no
attacks upon the President, and to take particular
pains to avoid hitting him, although he is the head
of the conclave of proscriptionists who attempt to
shelter themselves from responsibility behind his
name and position. In the days of chivalry, it seems,
according to the organ of the cabinet, that particu
lar pains were taken not to fire upon the “royal
pavilion,” when it was known that a king was in
the field. Gen. Taylor is to be spared from the re
sponsibility of his acts, and the acts of those whom
he has chosen as his counsellors, and in whom he
has vested his presidential functions, because he is
the “king in the field,” and occupies the “royal
pavilion.”
Is this the language which is to be held out to
the Senate and the country by the organ of Gen.
Taylor and the cabinet? Is the Senate of the United
States to be addressed by the mouth-piece of tbe
Executive first in the language of insolence, and
then in that of craven courtesy? And have the days
of royalty come upon us, with the success of the
federal party? is the maxim now to be adopted,
that the “king can do no wrong?” And are we to
be told that we must not fire at the “ royal pavilion ”
because it is occupied by Gen. Taylor? Is this the
way that the vaunted hero of Buena Vista seeks to
6kulk from his civil responsibility?
If the General or his cabinet, or the common
mouth piece of both, expect any such exemption
from accountability for the public and official acts
of the executive, they will find themselves greatly
mistaken. Where truth, principle, and justice are
concerned, the maxim that the “king can do no
wrong” will not be observed, nor will the “royal
pavilion” be spared.
General Taylbr and his cabinet lorgel their rela
tions to the people. General Taylor is not a king,
nor are the members of the cabinet dukes and prin
ces. There is no sovereign in this country but the
sovereign people, of whom General Taylor and his
cabinet are the servants—servants already con
demned by their masters for incompetency, blun
dering and mismanagement. Let us hear no more
of “kings in the field” and “royal pavilions” from the
organ of a dynasty already condemned, and holding
their power and place because their masters cannot
at present eject them. Surely, in every point of
view, they bear a shabby contrast with the “kings”
and “pavilions” of chivalry in olden days.—Nash
ville Union.
Eloquent and True.
During a discussion of the Slavery question in
the House of Representatives, at Washington, on
Tuesday last, the following among other eloquent
remarks were made by the talented Representative
from the Cumberland district:
Mr. - McLanahan, after a few preliminary re
marks as to the Whig party and their disappoint
ments, said that he rose simply and solely to ex
press the se/itiments of a vast majority of the peo
ple of Pennsylvania. The storm may howl in this
Capitol, but there is no danger in the public mind.
The sentiment is as true now that “the Union must
and shall be preserved,” as it was when u' tered by
the illustrious Jackson. The old Keystone of the
Federal arch is in the right place, and the founda
tion is laid firmly on the breasts of the people of
Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania regards the Wilmot
Proviso as a humbug. She looks on nullification
as worse. She regards alike Northern fanaticism
and Southern fury. Her people regard slavery as
a national curse, and a national disgrace, but they
remember the constitution of their country, and
would not take from it one jot or tittle so as to dis
turb slavery in the States where it exists. That
California is to be admitted as a State is a foregone
conclusion, and the rest of the territory being now
free, will ultimately come in just the same as' Cuba
would with her institutions existing. This nation
has but one heart, and every pulsation beats strong
for the Union. The Union is safe. If the President
and Congress cannot preserve it, twenty millions
of people will. There is an electric chain, which
binds them in a common brotherhood.
The North and the South.
We copy the following well-timed and sensible
remarks from the New York Globe, and we would
ask our readers to contrast them with the suicidal
course pursued by many journals in the same me
ridian :
When we see, beyond dispute, the whole South
preparing calmly and deliberately for a dissolution
of the Union, and taking decided measures to effect,
in case'of certain contingencies, that end; when we
contemplate the horrors of the civil, war which
would he the inevitable consequence of such an act,
we are amazed that any northern man does not feel
an invincible disposition to exert himself to coun
teract, by a judicious forbearance, the fearful calam
ity that awaits us; we are astonished that every
whig press, however fanatic in its general course
and tendency, does not hesitate in its thoughtless
career, and peek, by tranquilizing language and a
conciliatory spirit, to avert the impending ruin.
For one, we are resolved not to say a ( word that
can-be tortured into material for popular exaspera
tion upon the subject of slavery. We shall advo
cate, in this matter, neither the North nor the South,
but the best interests of our whole country. We
shall not look for Mason and Dixon’s, or any other
line of national distinction; we shall keep to the
strict line of honest patriotism. We shall only
know the democratic party in its most comprehen
sive sense, and democratic doctrines as they were
taught by Jefferson. Jackson, and other patriarchs
of pure Republicanism. We are convinced that if
every other Democratic journal will do likewire,
there will be little difficulty in healing the breach be
tween the North and South, which the whig newspa
pers are so pertinaciously endeavoring to widen into
an impassable abyss. “Bear and forbear” should
be our motto. Let us observe it, and we shall yet
defeat all the subtle machinations of the enemy to
bring about a dissolution of the Union.
The New Cemetery.— ln our notice last
week of the contemplated Cemetery near the Con
estoga, we were in error in stating that Jas. B. Lane,
Esq. had been appointed Treasurer. This is not
the fact. Mr L, we understand, is the Treasurer
of the lot holders in the Cemetery near the New
Holland Turnpike.
RIGHT.—The Legislature of Tennessee, before
its adjournment, passed resolutions against the dis
solution of jhe Union, and declared, as legislators,
they would take no action for the appointment of
delegates to attend the proposed Southern Conven
tion, at Nashville. So jays the New York Herald.
Great Union Meeting In Phila-
delpbla*
On Friday evening last, the 22d inst., one of the
largest and most enthusiastic meetings ever con
vened in Philadelphia, was held at the Chinese
Museum. The vast room is capable of containing
5,000 persons, and the Pennsylvanian states that it
was crowded to overflowing, and that hundreds bad
to leave for want of room: The meeting was pre
sided over by Hon. Charles Brown, late member
of Congress from the Third District. He was as
sisted by 104 Vice Presidents and 20 Secretaries,
embracing the names of many of the most active,
talented and thorough going Democrats in the City
and County.
The meeting wu ably addressed by Hon. Chas.
Brown, John Cadwalladsb, Esq., Col. Jakes
Page, Robert Tiler, Esq., Vincent L. Brad
ford, Esq., and Daniel Dougherty-, Esq. All
the speakers look strong ground against the Abdli
tionists and Freesoilers, and their remarks were
euthusiastically responded to by the vast multitude
present.
A series of resolutions were offered by Col. Page
and adopted by the meeting. We copy the fol
lowing :
Resolved, That the Democratic citizens of the
City and County of Philadelphia, in the meeting
assembled, in common with the almost unanimous
people of the State, entertain a passionate affection
for tbe Union . They can never forget that the
Union, embodying the spirit and principles of the
great struggle lor American Independence, and its
birth in the bosom of this ancient city, the capital
of this ancient Commonwealth; and by all the
glorious memories of the past, by the best interests
o r the present, and by the proudest hopes of the
future, they are bound in deep, lasting, and devoted
attachment to this, the noble and happy work of
its wise, virtuous, and ever-to-be-venerated authors.
Resolved , That in the opinion of this meeting,
no more appaling misfortune could befall the whole
country, both the free and slaveholding States, than
a separation from each other by a dissolution of the
Union; whether in regard to their material pros
perity and wealth, their moral power, or the se
curity and perpetuation of their liberties.
Resolved , That in the opinion of this meeting, no
greater calamity than tbe downfall of this Republic,
could possibly befall mankind, since, (what is now
apparent to all) if the Union of these States shall
continue to exist, and, for the future to increase in
strength and influence as heretofore, the pure, noble
and holy mission of our country, will be, to con
duct to the enjoyment of its blessings under re
publican systems of government, all those nations
in the world fit for freedom.
Resolved, That the Constitution of the United
States, vests in Congress no power to make laws
for the people of the territories, acquired by or
annexed to the Union, but only “to dispose of and
make needful rules and regulations respecting the
territory or other property belonging to the United
States.”
Resolved, That, by virtue of a natural and ina
lienable right of self-government, the people of the
separate territories, when politically organized,
have the power of making their own laws, and of
executing them so far as they do not conflict with
the Constitution and laws of the United States
and therefore have then exclusively the right to
prohibit or allow slavery in such territories.
Resolved, That the principle of the Wilmot
Proviso is not an harmless political speculation or
abstraction, excused, if erroneous, by its alleged
philanthropic intent, but is the same ancient, aris
tocratic, pernicious and pestilent political heresy,
(ever repudiated and denounced by the Democratic
party of the Union.) which seeks, by means of an
implication of power of Congress, gradually to un
dermine State sovereignty, destroy legislation in the
respective States, consolidate the Union, and estab
lish on the ruins of State Rights, a central sove
reignty, easily controlled or managed by the few
at the expense of the “many.
Resolved, That it is contrary to the spirit, in
which the Constitution of the Union was framed,
and by which alone it can be perpetuated, to abol’
ish, by act of Congress, the institution of Slavery
in the District of Columbia, without the consent
of the people thereof, and the consent of the States
which ceded the District for the use of the Govern
ment of the United States.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the
subject of negro slavery in its bearing on the Union,
does admit of adjustment, and should be speedily
settled Forever, on a fair, just, and constitutional
arrangement between theslaveholdingandnon-slave
holding States.
Resolved , That we rejoice at the votes in the Na
tional House of Representatives, laying the Wilmot
Proviso upon the table, as an appropriate di- posi
tion of a measure which did so much to procrasti
nate the war with Mexico, and to embarrass the
late illustrious administration; and which events
have sufficiently proved to be without any practi
cal importance, except for purposes of irritation
and insult; and we rejoice also, that Messrs. Gilmore,
Mann, Robbins, McLanahan, Ross and Dimmick,
six of the eight Democrats from this State, in Con
gress, voted to extinguish the fire brand which has
been productive, of so much disaster and dissension.
Resolved, That we regard the Union of the States
as a blessing of inestimable value, among the rich
est bestowed by God upon man, and in the lan
guage of the immortal Jackson, declare, that it must
and shall be preserved .”
State Legislature.
Harrisburg, February 22.
Senate.— The resolutions relative to the integri
ty of the Union ol the States, were taken up and
adopted, as follows:
Whereas, The Members of the General Assem
bly of Pennsylvania have seen with deep regret, in
several sections of our happy and glorious Repub
lic, indications.of dissatisfaction with our funda
mental organization, as embraced in our constitu
tion, and an apparent disposition upon the part of
some to effect a raJical change:
And whereas, In these feelings of dissatisfaction
toward that sacred instrument, the people ol Penn
sylvania do not participate: therefore
Resolved, by the Senate and House ol Represen
tatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in
General Assembly met, That the Union is identi
fied with all the glories of the past, all the blessings
of the present, and all the hopes of the future; and
that Pennsylvania, true to the Constitution and all
its principles, will never waver in her fidelity to
that noble charter.
Resolved, That the Governor of this Common
wealth be requested to forward a copy of the fore
going to the Governor of each of the States and
Territories, and to the President of the Senate and
Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States.
Pennsylvania’s Tribute.— The following res
olution finally passed in our State Legislature, on
Saturday week:
Resolved, That the Governor is hereby authorized
and requested to cause an appropriate block of the
native marble of this Commonwealth, to be con
veyed to the National Capital, to take its place in
the Monument to the memory of Washington, and
to have inscribed thereon the State Coat of Arms,
and these words: Pennsylvania —Founded 1681
—Bv Deeds of Peace.
Canal Commissioner.
Mr. Editor : — As the time is approaching for
the assembling of the Democratic State Convention,
to nominate a candidate for Canal Commissioner
in place of Mr. Longstreth, and as the eastern sec
tion of the State is entitled to the honor of furnish
ing the man, permit me to recommend Mr. HEN
RY lAIHOFF, of Petersburg, in this county, who
has already been widely named for the station.—
Mr. Imhoffisa sound and reliable Democrat, an
active, intelligent business man who, by dint of his
own energy and industry, has risen from a poor
boy to occupy the high position he now does in the
community. Lancaster county claims to have a
right to the candidate, and in the person of Mr.
Imhoff presents one who is abundantly qualified to
discharge the onerous duties of the office, and who
would do credit to himself and be a vigilant guar
dian of the interests of the State. Give us such a
candidate and then good bye to Federal Whiggery.
Manor, Feb. 22, 1850.
More Ruin. —The Naumkeag Steam Cotton
Company, (says the New York Globe,) which does
business at Salem, Mass., during the year 1849,
divided a profit of 8 per cent, on i£s capital, laid
aside $48,500 for what is called a “reserved fund,”
and paid $48,000 for new machinery, &c. This is
pretty well, when we consider that the manufac
turing business has been “ruined” past redemption
ever since the Tariff of 1846 was enacted.
iH"A BUI has been reported in Congress propos
ing to change the valuation of “fips” to 5 cents,
and “levies” to 10 cents.
Washington Correspondence.
Washisotojt, Feb. 21,1850.
Since vrj last was written you, a new and very
important aspect has crept over the face of political
afiairs at the seat of government; and of course but
a short space of time is required to diffuse the change
over, the almost entire country. The change is
nothing more, probably, than what all have ex
pected—but hot to appear so soon; it is this: the
division of the Union into two sectional parties
upon the question of slavery in the territories.—
This position of things has been fast crowding upon
us from the' commencement of the present session
of Congress. Its features were first made visible in
the actions of the South during the election of offi
cers for the House. So strong was these to South
ern propensity, that they could hardly find it in
their hearts to vote for Northern men; while some
even went so far as, in the case of Mr. Venable,"and
others, to vote for a Whig Clerk—because he was
a Southern man, —and for a resolution continuing
in office the old Federal officers of a previous Con
gress ; this, too, when Northern votes had been lav- x
ished upon a Southern candidate for Speaker, who
was finally elected by Northern votes.
And notwithstanding that six months ago, South
ern politicians and statesmen, were favorable and
even desired California to be admitted into the Uni
on as a State, —settling for herself the question as
to whether slavery should or should not exist within
her territories, —yet, since she has done so, they
drown their former opinions, and now resort to
every subterfuge as argument to prevent her ad
misssion.
By some it is now pretended that California had
no right, no power to frame a Constitution. Some
aver that she ought not to be admitted because her
sea coast is too extensive. And all of the Southern
ultras agree that if she is admitted with her present
constitution, that the rights of the South will be
betrayed, to a sufficient extent to warrant a disso
lution of the Union. Now the objection is too
absurd that her right to form a constitution is not
valid. If it is notso now under the civil govern
ment of the country, now established there, how
could it ever be, or if ever, at what time ? Her
population is sufficient, and her population are desi
rous of assuming the natural power and right of
self-government. They have taken the initiation
of all territories asking admission; have as much
right to admission as any State ever admitted—
then them out? That her sea coast is
extensive, is true; but that they are so much so, as
to prevent her admission, or operate against it, is
denied. Her coast is not far from 900 miles in
extent. Supposing it is, Massachusetts, until Maine
was cut off, had a sea coast of over four hundred
miles; yet no objection was made against her ap
plication to become a member of this confederacy.
When Virginia adopted the Federal Constitution,
her territories reached u almost to sunset.” yet the
other States did not prevent her from signing the
compact. Florida not long ago came into the
Union with a shore line of sea coast larger in
extent than all New England together, on the East,
South and West, yet did the North make that a
pretext for keeping her out of the Union? By no
means. No; and the only objection to the admis
sion of the golden California is, that she has deter
mined to prohibit that blight upon her soil which
most Southern men admit is a curse—the blight
and curse of slavery. This is the rock upon which
they split. The people of California, true Demo
crats as they are, foreseeing all the evils of a long
discussion of the Wihnot Proviso ovef a plan of
territorial government for them, and the consequent
damage to them of waiting so long for some relia
ble government, possessing a sufficient population,
stepped magnanimously forward, and upon the
Democratic platform and principle that the other
States ought not to inter,fere with their internal
affairs, adopted their constitution to suit themselves;
which, not pleasing some few who were desired to go
there, and never expect to, seem to feel like dissol
ving the Union to remedy what appears an evil to
them.
Not content with making the issue one of sec
tionalism, the gallant leader of the Democratic
party in 1848, —Gen. Cass, is now being abused
by them in all sorts of shapes. Though his policy
of non-intervention, original with himsel/, so far as
applies to the present territories, and sanctioned by
the great National Democratic party throughout
the Union, yet have they endeavored to read him
from the party! And he told them in the Senate
yesterday, that they, by their precipitate action
had drawn him where he could go back no farther
—to the wall. He told them he could not be ans
werable for any inauspicious results of their course;
farther, he could hear no more. This is .the real feel
ing of many Northern statesmen. Goaded and
brow-beaten by the fanatical lew of the South, they
are, as they say—“ heartily tired of it.”
On Monday the lines of sectionalism were fully
and snugly drawn. It was on a motion of Gov.
Doty, instructing the Committee on Territories to
bring in a bill for the immediate admission of Cal
ifornia into the .Union, with her boundaries as de
fined in her Constitution. A motion to lay on the
table brought out the strength of both South and
North —it ivas not laid upon the table; the North
voting'“7lo,” the South “ yes I ' —yeas 98—noes 121.
Three votes were taken on that day, all testing the
sectional strength of the North and South, and the
entire day was spent in one continual recapitulation
of voting by yeas and nays, on motion to adjourn,
by the South, which were all promptly voted down
by the North, until 12 o'clock at night—32 votes
by yeas and nays having been taken during the
day’s session.
Thus is the country at last divided—divided as a
house against itself. The right is undoubtedly with
the North and California, and God speed that right.
It is to hoped that the true spirit of conciliation,
however, may yet prevail in our councils, though
many rash and inconsiderate men be there. But if
the question of slavery is destined to shake our
Union asunder, better‘now, than ever; if it is to be
now settled forever, better now than ever hereafter,
also.
The South, a 3 I have said, has courted, aye
brought about this state of things itself. She has
gone too far for the North to recede much; and if
by pressing a dissolution of the Union she forces
civil war, bloodshed, and all the accumulated hor
rors of them upon the country, the responsibility
will be with her, and wo be the day if it shall
come, when the Northern legions shall pour down
upon them to suppress their treason to the Consti
tution.
For tbe Intelligencer.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Hon. Alexander
W. Burl, of Michigan, while the House was in
Committee of the Whole, made the best speech of
the session—so acknowledged by all who heard
him. It was upon the subject of our foreign affairs
—but more particularly w r ith reference-tothe course
of the present administration in-regard to Hungarian
Independence. No speech which can be made in
Congress will have a more powerful effect in pre
senting to the American people the imbecility of
the Taylor administration, than this spirit-stirring,
patriotic, and noble-souled speech of Mr. Burl’s. If
the martyred spirit of Hungary does not haunt the
powers that be, for their dereliction in not assisting
her by their moral influence, and in not recognizing
her independence, after they have heard and read
Mr. Burl’s speech, they must be impervious to
ARAM.
A DEMOCRAT.
impression. Yours,
dT"In reference to the nineteen cases of cholera,
mentioned as having occurred during the
among the immigrants on Ward’s Island, th^ ! N. Y.
Journal of Commerce of Monday says—
The majority of the deceased were persons lately
arrived. The physicians do not consider it a mat
ter justly calculated to excite apprehension; though
the inference from' their testimony is, that there
still continues to exist, as ■ heretofore, a peculiar
state of the atmosphere, that inclines to the at
tacks of diseases of a choleric stamp, those persons'
who are already obnoxious to disease, from habits
of extreme filth, or the hardships incident to a long
sea voyage.
The Senate Apportionment Bill.
On Thursday -last, Mr. Packir, from the select
committtee to whom was referred the apportion
ment of the State into senatorial and representative
districts, made the following report:
SENATE.
Senatorial District «.
L Philadelphia City,
TI. Philadelphia County,
111. Montgomery,
IV. Chester and Delaware,
V. Berks,
VI. Bucks,
VII. Lancaster,
VIII. Dauphin and Lebanon,
IX. Northampton and Lehigh,
X. Franklin and Adams,
XI. York, x
XII. Cumberland, Perry and Juniata, 1
Xm. Northumberland, Union and Mifflin, 1
XIV. Clinton, Centre, Lycoming & Sullivan, 1
XV. Luzerne and Columbia, i
XVI. Bradford, Wyoming and Susquehanna, 1
XVIL Tioga, Potter, McKean, Elk and Jef
ferson, i
XVHL Mercer, Crawford, Clarion and Ve-
nango, 2
XIX Erie and Warren, 1
XX. Butler, Beaver and Lawrence, 1
XXI. Allegheny, 2
XXII. Washington and Greene, 1
XXIII. Somerset and Bedford, 1
XXIV. Indiana, Armstrong and Clearfield, 1
XXV. Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria, ]
XXVI. Schuylkill, 1
XXVII. Carbon, Monroe, Wayne and Pike, 1
XXVII. Fayette and Westmoreland, 1
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Members.
Philadelphia City, 4
Philadelphia County, n
Delaware,
Chester, 3
Montgomery, 3
Bucks, - 3
Berks, 4
Lehigh and Carbon, ' 2
Northampton, 2
Wayne, j
Monroe and Pike, .
Schuylkill, 2
Luzerne, 2
Susquehanna and Wyoming; 2
Lancaster, * 3
Lebanon, j
Dauphin, \ 2
Cumberland, Perry and Juniata, 3'
Adams, ■>
York, o
Franklin, 2
Union, 1
Bedford, j
Huntingdon, j
Northumberland, i
Mifflin, 1
Columbia and Sullivan, 2
Lycoming, Clinton and Potter, 2
Bradford, 2
Ti oga, 1 , 1
Warren, McKean and Elk, ]
Centre, - j
Clearfield and Jefferson, 1
Somerset, j
Cambria, j
Westmoreland and Fayette, 4
Greene, ’ j
Washington, 2
Allegheny, , q
Armstrong, j
Beaver, j
Lawrence and Butler, 2
Indiana, j
Clarion. j
Venango,
Crawford and Mercer
Blair, J
Erie, 2
Aoe of Wonders.—ln this age of wonderfnl im
provements and travelling facilities, merchants think
nothing of travelling a thousand miles to make their
purchases, when such a purchase is made profita
ble to them. There are many clothing dealers
throughout the Union who go to Boston for the sake
of trading at the famous Oak Hall.
BOOK NOTICES.
Sabtain’s Magazine. —The March no. is deck
ed in all the beauty and taste of its predecessors.
The principal illustrations are “Christ blessing lit
tle Children,” “Hungarian detachment crossing the
Waag by moonlight,” and the “Ale House Politic
ians.” In addition to these there are ten other fine
wood engravings illustrating several of the contri
butions.
Godey s Ladt s Book.— This spendid periodical,
for March, is on our table. It is illustrated with
fourteen fine engravings, the principal of which are
“The Confidante,” “The Young Anglers,” and a capi
tal likeness of Julian Cramer, the musical editor of
the Magazine. The contributions are excellent.
Graham a Magazine. —The March no. is splen
didly embellished. The illustrations are, “The Idle
School Boy,” “The Brigand and his Wife,” “The
Dangerous Student,” “Portrait of Gen. Greene,”
“Resaca de la Palma,” “Come rest in this Bosom,”
a Plate of Fashions and Music. The contributions,
as usual, are not to be surpassed. For sale at Gish’s.
Mr. Gish has kindly placed upon our table, the
following new and useful publications, viz:
“Gregory's Guide for California Travellers, via
the Isthmus of Panama.”—ln addition to a great
amount of useful information to persons taking the
Panama route, this little publication contains the
Constitution of California as lately adopted by the
people of that Territory. Price 25 cents.
“Infancy, or the proper management of Children,”
by Andrew Combe, M. D. An excellent work of
over 300 pages. Price 50 cents.
“The Natural Laws of Man.”—By Dr. Spurzheim.
Price 25 cents.
NEWS ITEMS.
Removal of the Florida Indians. —General
Twiggs, has, it appears, finally prevailed on the
Florida Indians to consent to emigrate. The fol
lowing are said to be the terms of the agreement:
Each warrior is to receive (before he goes on board
the boat) $5OO, each woman $lOO, each child $lOO.
Bowlegs himself will receive about $lO,OOO, and
two or three sub-Chief* about $5,000 each. They
are to be provided with rations for one year after
their arrival in Arkansas, and to be guarantied in
the possession of their negroes. It is estimated
that the whole cost of the removal will be about
$225,000. It is believed that the Indians will all
be out of the country by the last of May.
A Distressing Case.—A day or two since, an
accomplished young lady of this city, who was
admired by a w’ide spread circle of friends, died
from the rupture of a blood vessel, induced
cumstances almost indescribably painful. It ap
pears that a young gentleman (a widower) had
been paying his addresses to her for some months,
and finally the day was set apart when the nuptial
ceremony was to take place. It appears, however,
that the widower had promised his first wife, on
her death bed, that he never would get married a
gain; but when time had soothed his feelings con
sequent upon so painful a bereavement, he forgot
his vow, fell in love with the young lady, and went
so far as to agree upon a final engagement with
her. On reflection, the death of>his wife and the
sacred vow he had made, flashed on his memory.
Accordingly, with feelings best known to himself,
he wrote a letter setting forth the facts, and ex
pressed his determination not to comply with the
engagement he had made with tbe young lady in
question. She receive the missive, carefully peru
sed it, read it over and over again; horror chilled
her frame, she suddenly became raving crazy, and
after living a maniac for only three hours from the
receipt of the letter, she burst a main blood vessel,
and fell a corpse. Thus perished a fine, talented
and accomplished young lady of Philadelphia, one
who was beloved by all who knew her.—Sun.
Freights. The Mobile Advertiser remarks that
few persons, probably, are aware of tbe heavy
amount paid annually for shipping our cotton crop
to Europe. Estimating the quantity of cotton at
1,600,000 bales, and the freight at $5 a bale, which
is about a fair average, and it amounts to eight mil
lion* of dollar* —a sum which would buy half the
cotton crop of Alabama.
The Blind.—The Harrisburg Union says;—
u We have had a most interesting exhibition in our
borough for the last few days, by about twenty-five
pupils, from the Institution for the Instruction of
the Blind in Philadelphia. The progress which
these unfortunate children have made in reading,
writing, arithmetic, mathematics, geography, as.
tronomy, and philosophy, astonished every one who
witnessed their examination. It fully established
the claim of this class of our citizens to the sym
pathy and bounty of the Legislature, and we are
happy to announce tnat the bill granting an appro
priation ot $15,000 to extend the buildings for
their accommodation, passed both Houses, and be
came a law, before they left. .
The Government Printing.— The aggregate
cost, according to the revelations of the Blue Book,
is about s4oo,ooo—divided among the Departments
as follows: State, $11,500; Treasury, $18,250-
Intenor $38,500; Navy, $53,400; War, $14,500;
Post Office, $77,800; Congress, $182,300.
A Prediction FiiEviEEEn.-Among the items
of foreign news, current in the newspapers, is one
which we cannot trace to any authentic source
that the Hungarian- chief Bern, now Murad Bey
has died suddenly in Turkey. We are reminded
by the Boston Transcript that a paragraph had a
large circulation, last year, in which Bern was said
to have often declared his conviction that he should
die in 1850—that he had seen his own tomb, in a
vision, with the date ISSO engraved upon it.
Interesting from IVew-Mexico.
The Xiches of the Gila Region—The large deposit
of gold—The trade of Chihuahua.— The “ New Or
leans Picayune, of the 6th inst, says': We learn
from the San dntonio Western Texan of the 17th
ult., that B. F. Coons, who, for some years, has been
engaged in the overland trade from Independence
to Santa Fe and Chihuahiia, arrived at San Antonio
on the 4th ult., from El Paso, having"found a good
road the entire distance. His train of twenty wag
ons and some three hundred mules were a few
days behind. The Western Texan says: Mr.
Coons informs us", that after a careful examination
into the resources jot this section of country as re
gards means for fitting out the trains of traders, he
is convinced that goods can be taken from New
York to El Paso or Chihuahua via Lavaca, for at
least 20 per cent less than by the old route, over
the plains. On the Missouri route, traders cannot
travel before the middle of May, nor after the mid
dle of September. The trip from Independence to
El Paso occupies about eight days more, making
together ninety-five days. Mr. Coons is of the im.
pression that the trip from here to Chihuahua
should never occupy more than fifty days. The
road is good and well supplied with wood, grass,
and water—even at this season of the year he
found grazing better than it is on the Missouri
route in the months of May and June.
We shall at another time allude to the subject
again, and give the trader further statements how
and why it is to his advantage to adopt the route
from this point to the States of Chihuahua, and
Durang(j, and even to Santa Fe itself Mr. Coons
estimates the trade that has passed through El
Paso for Chihuahua and the adjoining country, at
a yearly average ot two hundred and fifty wagons,
carrying five thousand pounds each, and valued at
$2,500 per load; in the aggregate, 625 tuns of
height, worth $265,000. Mr. Coons saw at El
Paso several gentlemen who had been in the inte
rior of the State of Sonora, and report the Mexi
cans to be busily engaged in gathering gold from
the Gila, and its vicinity. He was shown large
lumps of gold, such as taken from the “dry dig.
ging” of California. He thinks that Hour Govern,
ment will only extend its protection over the Gila
country, a large population will very soon be found
upon its banks and tributaries. At present, the
Apaches are continually molesting small parties,
and have at lasL openly declared themselves hostile
to the Americans. A mining party is now engaged
in working the celebrated copper and gold mines,
near the head ot the Gila, about 180 miles from El
Paso. Several large and very promising silver
mines have been discovered, and were creating
great excitement on the American side of the Rio
Grande, near El Paso.
It is said that the Mexicans know of many mines
in this vicinity, but refuse to give any information
-to the Americans until the government of the Uni
ted States, or that of Texas, will give them some
guarantee that their rights and titles will be res
pected, and be protected by the laws of the country.
Persons recently returned to Socorro, one hundred
and seventy-five miles above El Paso, from Califor
nia, having made the whole trip on the same ani
mal in from twenty-nine to thirty days, speak of
the route north of the Gila as a good one for wag
ons, and presenting no difficulties of moment. From
information gathered by Mr. Aubrey, from various
persons familiar with that section of country, he
thinks a very favorable route Tor a railroad will be
found entirely through the territory of the United
States north of the Gila. The face of the country,
the mildness of the climate, the advantages, for the
use of government, of a route running along the
southern frontier of the Union, all indicate the bays
of Matagorda and San Diego as the termination of.
the great railway to connect the waters of the At
lantic and the Pacific. Mr. Aubrey makes mention
also, of persons who have accounts of its riches in
gold. He says the depredations of the Indians, in
New Mexico, continue without abatement.
Mr. Aubrey arrived at San Antonio on the 12th.
ult., having left Santa Fe on the Ist Dec. The
Western Texan says: He had with him 20 large
wagons and 250 mules; out of this large number
of animals he lost only four. He found good living
grass throughout the route, and he says his animals
are in better strength and condition now than when
he started. He left his teams near the Leona, with
directions that they should come on leisurely. Had
they continued their usual speed in travelling, the
whole distance from Santa Fe to this place would
have been made by the train in 45 days. Mr. A.
is of the opinion that this is the legitimate route
for the Santa Fe mail, and that New Mexico can
be supplied with goods cheaper this way than from
St. Louis and Independence. He confirms^the esti
mates of Mr. Coons in relation to the amount of the
Chihuahua trade, and his opinion that it here
after take his route. The danger from Indians on
the Texas route is m less—their parties seldom
numbering over twenty, while on the Missouri route
they are met in bands of several hundreds.
The Public Schools.— The following exhibits
the arrangements for visiting the public schools,
during the present month :
visiting members. schools.
Mr. P. McConomy, j High School,
Wm. Mathiot, Esq., Mr. Gilbert,
Mr. G. A Miller, Mr. Nourse,
Rev. Mr. McCarter, Miss Thompson,
Mr. H. Rotharmel, Miss Diller,
Mr. Jacob Weaver, Miss Middleton,
Reporting Member, Mr. Male Department, ,
P. McConomy. # East.
I. N. Lightner, Esq. Miss S. Smith,
H. B. Swarr, Esq. Mrs. Magee,
Mr. G. Zahm, n Miss Hoffraeier,
Mr. J. Zimmerman, Miss C. Eberman,
Dr. J. L. Atlee, Mrs. C. Reinstine,
Rev. J. C. Baker. Lewis Hood.'
Reporting Member, I. N. Female Department
Lighiner, Esq. East.
Mr. J.~W. Jackson, J. Price,
Tho. H. Burrowes, Esq. Miss Mayer.
Dr. P. Cassidy, Miss White,
Mr. P. G. Eberman, Miss Samson,
Geo. Ford, Esq, Mrs; Snllivan,
Mr. Peter Gerber. Miss O’UoonrlL
Reporting Member, Mr. Male Department
J. W. Jackson. West.
Mr. C. Gillespie, Female High School.
Mr. M. D. Holbrook, Miss A. E. Eberman,
Dr. S. Humes, Miss A. Smith,
Rev. B Keenan, Mrs. Boyd,
Mr. C. Keifier, - Miss Russel,
G. M. Kline, Esq. Mrs. Moore,
J. C. Van Camp, Mrs. Gotta,
Reporting Member, Mr. Female Department
C. Gillespie. West,