- €ongr6Bslonai Elections* The following table will be found useful for future reference: first district. Florence, D. Levin. I?. Sivery, W 4 wards city and part of county of Phil’a, 5352 gXCOND DISTRICT. Martin, D. Chandler* W. 3714 6912 Phil’a city, THIRD DISTRICT. Landy, D. Moore, W. 6338 5604 F«rt Phil’a county, rOUBTH 2BTAX' T. ** Robbins, D. Little, W. Part Phil’.a county, 6173 4654 fifth sunder. M’Nair, D. Freedly, W 1307 1619 4618 3680 Delaware, Montgomery, SIXTH DISTRICT. Row, D. Taylor, W, 4812 4905 389 maj. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Morison, D. Dickey, W. 4671 4601 XIOHTH DISTRICT. Muhlenberg, D. Stevens, W. 4069 6701 Chester, Lencaster, NINTH DISTRICT. TENTH DISTRICT. M. M. Dimmick, D., re-elected without opposi tion. Maj. for Canal Commissioner 2385. ELEVENTH DISTRICT. Wright, D. Fuller, W 473 1707 1689 932. 3247 2948 848 619 Montour, Columbia, Luzerne, Wyoming', Majority for Fuller, TWELFTH DISTRICT. Grow, D. Adams, W. 2358 1373 1826 3160 1696 1189 Susauehanna, Bradford, Tioga, . Grow’fl majority, THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. ■Gamble, D. Armstrong, W 2146 1812 1970 1160 1507 2262. 537 695 362 248 Lycoming, Northumberland, Union, Clinton, Sullivan, * Gamble’s majority, FOURTEENTH DISTRICT. Boas, D. Bibighauß, W 1221 2200 2754 2690 , 2122 - 2164 Lebanon, Schuylkill, Xlauphin, FIFTEENTH DISTRICT. Kurtz, D. Smyser, W 4281 3356 1484 2016 For vacancy in 31st Congress. Danner, D. M’llvaine, W. 4246 3406 1787 SIXTEENTH DISTRICT. M’Lanahan, D. Bard,W. 2669 2283 1720 1074 2887 3348 Cumberland, Perry, Franklin, . McLanahan’e majority, SEVENTIETH DISTBICT Parkerj D. McCulloch, W 2055 1213 1496 1158 1130 868 1361 1869 1228 1755 Centre, Mifflin, • Juniata, Huntingdon Blair, Parker’a majority, EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT Fayette, Greene, i Somerset, Dawson’s majority, HINETEENTH DISTRICT. Kuhn’s, W. Snodg’a. M’Do’lnd. M’Ki’y Bedford, 1843 1676 125 27 Fulton, 654 335 315 23 Cambria, 889 727 792 2 West’land, 2357 . 1955 179 1664 57 >3 4693 1411 1716 Kuhn’s maj. over Snodgrass, 1050 20th DISTRICT. Power, D, Allison, W. • 3279 3216 Washington, Beaver and part of Allison’s maj 2IST DISTRICT. Salisbury, D. Howe, TV. 4347 6406 , Allegheny, 22d district. Shattuck, D. Howe, W 2390 234 C 1159 1000 1817 2047 504 891 Cranford, Venango, Mercer, Lawrence, Howe’s majority, 23d district. Warren, M’Kean, Jefferson, Elk, Curtis’ majority, 24th district. Armstrong, Clearfield, ~ Butler, Indiana, Gilmore’s majority, The above returns show that, on the Congres sional vote in the State, the Democrats have a clear majority of 6,132. In the 10th district, where there was no Opposition to~the Democratic candi date, we have taken the majority for Canal Com missioner—in the 19th, we have taken the united vote of the three Democratic candidates—and in the Ist, we have added the Native vote to the Whig column. Collector’s Office, i Lancaster, Nov. Jet, 1850. 5 Amount of Railroad Tolls received at this Offiee as per last report of fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, ’49, $42,004 27lSept. 30, ’5O, $54,032 33 Oct. 31, ** 3,528 55|Oct. 31, “ 6,61646 $45,532 82 Increase overTast year, Singular Incident. —We learn that considera ble excitement exists in Kensington, N. H, in con- sequence of the finding of Mr. Gilman Lamprey, of that place, apparently dead in his chair, several » days since; but who, after keeping a week, exhib its none of the sighs,pf real death. Mr. L., up to the time he was thus found, had been as well as usual; and no satisfactory cause of this singular state of things is yet found. We are told that, at the end of the week,, the countenance retains its full color, and that, aside from the unconsciousness which has prevailed from the first, there are no in dications of death. A few years since a brother of this person, his wife and their son, all came to their death by suicide.— Amesbury, (Mass.) villager , of he 24 th ult. - ILrThe amount of coal' transported upon the Beading.Kailroad the present season, up till Thurs. •day week, is'greater by 106,884 tons than that of Jwt-y«&r to the tame period. Intelligent & Journal. November 5, 1850. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. 4161 609 The Fugitive Slave Law.—We ask the atten tion of our readers to the able and satisfactory let ter of Judge Guizr, of the U. S. Supreme Court, published in another column. Comment is unnec essary, as every one who reads the production, will at once acknowledge the justice of the law. The letter is in reply to another from Chas. Gibbons) Esq., asking his opinion of certain provisions in : the act. jCTThe electioh takes place in New York to day. So also in New Jersey. jp»The Lancaster County Agricultural So ciktt meets at Cooper's Hotel, in this City, on Mon day next, the 71th inst., at 2 o’clock P. M. 5925 5199 £P*The Board of Inspectors for the Lancaster County Prison, recently elected, met at the Commis sioners’ Office on yesterday, for the. purpose of organization. This is emphatically the age of inventions. One of the most useful is a Flouring Mill, recently pat ented by James M. Clark, which may be seen at Prime & Colestock’s Sash Factory, in Duke Street, a few doors north of the Railroad. This mill is only about four leet square, and can be hauled with one horse and a wagon. By a single’process it turns out the different parts of the grain completely separated, such as superfine, middling, shipsluff and bran, each running from a different spout. We ad vise our farmer readers to call and examine the mill. See advertisement. JoDes, D. Keim, W. 6377 4847 4847 Starch Polish. —We have received from Mr. C. P. Weeks, the Agent for the sale of the article, now in this Citj, a package of “ Beaumonts Patent Starch Polish,” an article which is highly rec ommended for giving a beautiful gloss to Linens, Muslin, Cambrics,-Collars, Shirt Bosoms, &c., &c. Mr. Weeks is stopping at the White Horse Hotel. 6157 6206 49 Lancaster Counti Bank. —At an election held on Saturday, the 2d of November inst., the following gentlemen were elected Directors of the Lancaster County Bank, for. the ensuing year, viz: John Landis, (Farmer,) Emanuel Swope, Henry Espenshade, George Lefever, (E. Lampeter.) Sam’l Ranck, John Bushong, Ephraim Bare, Henry Bren neman, (Strasburg,) John Stouffer, Jacob Zigler, Abr'm Landis, (F.phrata,) Geo. G. Brush, Gabriej Bear, (Miller,) Daniel Brandt. 6822 6177 645 E 7" A meeting of the friends of the Temperance cause will be held in Bart township, on Saturday next, the 9th inst.. at 10 o’clock, A. M. The friends of the cause generally throughout the county are invited to be present. 6097 7054 ICrThe Ladies belonging to the Presbyterian Church, of this City, intend holding a Fair, a week previous to Christmas, for the purpose of raising a fund to furnish the new Church now in process of erection. The aid of the Ladies of other denomi nations is solicited, either by attending their weekly sewing society, or by contributing such matters as they may deem proper. 10" Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, of Somerset, paid our City a visit- on Saturday last. During his stay he was called upon by a number of our most re spectable citizens, all ot whom were gratified with his general appearance and deportment. By the way, the Judge is strongly urged in many of the most influential Democratic journals of the State for the post of U. S. Senator, a station which his superior talents eminently qualify him to fill with credit to himself and the great State of which he is such a distinguished citizen. Pennsylvania could not be represented by an abler man or a bet ter Democrat. 7266 6705 571' 7270 6863 407 We°clip the following notice of the justly cele brated brown sheetings which are manufactured at the Conestoga Steam Mills, from the Baltimore American of Friday. It speaks well for the enter prise of our townsmen, through whose energy and skill the Factories of our thriving City have estab lished a reputation throughourrhe Union: Dawson, D. Ogle, W. 3301 2382 2177 1085 926 2668 6504 6135 369 In our notice of Dry Goods, on the 31st inst, de posited for exhibition, at the Fair of the Maryland Institute, we omitted the justly celebrated Conesto ga Brown Sheetings, manufactured at Lancaster, Pa., and deposited by Messrs. Loney, Townsend & Loney of this city. Brown sheetings enter into more general con sumption, perhaps, than any oteer goods made of cotton,, and we are glad to witness the perfection this company has attained in their manufacture.— In all the prominent qualities that characterize a good sheeting, they now stand unsurpassed in this country, and we doubt not in the world. 2212 2390 5491 5606 116 U7* The locofoco journals claim the resultof the late election as a triumph of Free Trade over the advocates of a Tariff, and argue that a majority of the people of Pennsylvania have recorded their votes against the doctrine of Protection. In this they are grossly mistaken. Jf we look to the aggregate popular vote, it will be found that the Whig Congressional candidates have received a large majority. The majorities given to Messrs. Stevens, Chandler and Bibighaus, alone, are greater than all the locofoco majorities put together. Tak ing this as a test, and it is the only true one, the people of Pennsylvania have recorded their votes in favor of a Protective Tariff. Curtis, D. Walker, W. 1666 3226 1117 717 454 292 780 519 277 109 184 504 The above paragraph we copy from the Union $ . Tribune , of this City, of the'22d ult. At the time, j we doubted exceedingly the truth of the claim to ' a Whig majority of the popular vote on the Con gressional elections; but not having yet seen the returns, we preferred waiting until we could get them before attempting a reply—as we always like to resort to facts and figures to meet random asser tions. We have them now, and respectfully refer the editor of that paper as well as all our readers, to the official table in another column, as the very best answer we could give to the false as sertion contained in the paragraph. So far from the Whig candidates having received a “large ma jority of the popular vote, the very reverse is the fact. The Democratic majority throughout the State, on the Congressional ticket, is over SIX THOUSAND VOTES, and this, too, in the very face of the “Protection” issue made by the Whigs in every district of the Commonwealth. Gilmore, D. Taylor, W. 1«51 1518 1136 537 2192 191 G 1334 1677 '6513 5648 865 Will the Union have the honesty or candor to acknowledge its mistake, to give it no harsher name? We shall see. " Ohio. —The Ohio Statesman gives complete re turns, from which it appears that the new Senate comprises 16 Democrats, 17 Whigs, and 3 Free Soilers—total 36; and the - House 32 Democrats 32 Whigs, and S Free Soilers—total 72. The Con cessional delegation will stand 9 Democrats, 9 Whigs, and 3 Free Soilers. The delegation in the present Congress stands 11 Democrats, 8 Whigs, and 2 Free Soilers. The majority for Mr. Wood the Democratic candidate for Governor, is over 10,000. $60,5 >8 79 -45,532 82 $15,015 97 Jci»ge Bibb. —This gentleman, once Chief Jus tice of Kentucky, and more recently a member of President Tyler’s Cabinet, has been appointed by Mr. Crittenden to the new Clerkship in the Attor ney General’s Office which was created by a recent act of Congress. The salary is $2OOO per year. The Clerk’s principal duty will be to copy the official opinions of the,Attorney General. Mr. Crittenden read law with Judge Bibb, and probably performed many a time the same service for his preceptor, which the latter will now perform for his pupil,. * Thanksgiving Dat. —Governor Johnston has appointed Thursday the 12th of December, as a day of general Thanksgiving throughout the State. Patent Flouring Mill. Lancaster Factories. [nr There were 37 deaths from Cholera at New Orleans during the. past week. Letter from CoL Jobii W* Forney. Philadelphia, Dct. 31, 1850* Geo. Sanderson* Editor of the.L»aeMt«rlnlelli*Me*rk Joerul: My pear Sirz Absence 'from home for a few 1 days lest week, prevented me irons seeing the Lane- 1 catterian , containing a paragraph attributing to me the authorship of the article in the Intelligencer , i of the 22d instant, in which you expose the attempt i to break up the old organization of the Democratic 1 party of Lancaster County, and the unprovoked and : disreputable manner in which those at the* head of * the movement seek to thwart the decision of the 1 Democrats of the same county on the Gubernatorial 1 question, and to hunt down with calumny a states* man whose history and whose character are identi* < fied with the history and character of Pennsylvania 1 and the Union. I need not say to you that I < heartily approve of the article in question, and that had 1 remained in the position you ably fill, I would have taken the same course, under a high sense the assailed organization of the party, and oT respect for the opinions I had so often expressed in favor of Mr. Buchanait. These opinions I still cherish, and no matter how I might be inclined to change them, they .would, under all .circumstances, have sufficient influence with me, to prevent me from repeating calumnies which 1 had a thousand times ridiculed and denounced when used against him by the federal enemy.— Having myself acted as Chairman of the Demo* cratic County Committee for Lancaster county, for several years, I can fully appreciate the gross wrong | perpetrated by the last County Convention, in sum* mariiy ejecting the regular Committee of which Col. Wm. B. Fobdnty is the Chairman, after that Com mittee had been in existence a few short months— a proceeding not only arbitrary and high-handed, but wholly without precedent in Lancaster and in every other county of the State. Fitly was this outrage accompanied by springing upon the same Convention a vote on the Governor question—the delegates having been elected without the least reference to that subject, and the Democracy having . had no opportunity to choose between the candi dates. It is easy for any Democrat to imagine how this double injustice reacted upon the party, and how that brave and inflexible Democracy who had so often contended against the arrogance and op pression of the federal majority, should spurn the attempt to muzzle them, and to trample under foot the sacred usages they had'always zealously sup | ported. But fully as I approve of your masterly : article on these proceedings, 1 had nothing to do : with its preparation, as falsely charged upon me by jnhe Lancasterian. You\%ill dome the justice to say that I did not write or suggest a line of it, and that I never saw it before it was in type and published in the Intelligencer. You are abundantly able to conduct your own paper, and, if I know your char acter, you would scorn to be dependent upon any one for editorial contributions. I consider no ob- 1 ject more pitiable than an editor, who is too stupid, or too lazy, to act for himself, and who passively surrenders his columns into the hands of those who use them only to proscribe and calumniate members of their own party. It is notorious that the present ostensible editor of the Lancasterian cannot and does not write his own articles ; and it is equally notorious that he depends for editorial ammunition entirely upon one who has been engaged an ordi dary life-time attacking the Democratic party— i even to the extremity of recommending, a lew years ■ ago, that the voice of the Democracy, then the j ascertained majority of the State, should be treated S'as if it had never been expressed at the ballot-boxes. To have a person who does not hesitate to adopt the doctrines of such a man, charge upon me the preparation of your articles, ! is only to remind all how completely dependent he is himself upon others for his editorial matter —including the in famous attacks upon those who do not happen to be acceptable to his masters. Born in Lancaster County, and knowing well the sterling men who there do battle under the Demo- | cratic flag,—and with some experience of the ma- ■ lignity of'the federal majority—l can understand why the Lancasterian , controlled by the individual alluded to, should delight in defaming James Buchanan, and why be should charge upon me the authorship of an article in defence of that gen tleman. The famous Secretary of Joseph Ritnek, now the invisible editorial engineer of that paper, cannot forget, and will not forgive the' manner in which Mr. Buchanan exposed and anticipated his treasonable and audacious attempt to treat a solemn election “a* if it had never been held.” Democrats everywhere will remember, with pride, that noble letter, as the opportune denunciation of one of the most daring and oppressive schemes on record to in timidate and to subvert the decision of a popular ma jority. :That the Lancasterian and its editor should also remember it, and should seek every occasion to calumniate its author, is only another instance of an old truth, freqifently illustrated in politics. But can it be that attacks from such a quarter against Mr. Buchanan, will induce the unflinching Democracy of Lancaster to forget the high regard, entertained by tbem for nearly thirty years, for that virtuous and enlightened statesman? These Dem ocrats, in the times when I met them daily, and felt proud of being at the head of the old * Intelligencer ,* would have repelled, with indignation, any 9uch device as this to poison their minds against a states man w'hose character then awakened, as it elicits at the present day, the admiration of the whole State I and Country. In this day of progress, men refuse | to allow others to think for them ; and they justly j suspect all leaders who endeavor to induce the people to assume all the shapes which the changes and disappointments of politicians frequently exhibit to the world. The Democracy of Lancaster County ! have seen no cause to alter their high estimate of Mr. Buchanan’9 purity and ability as a Democrat; and they will not surely be taught the lesson which i Ritneb’s Secretary of the Commonwealth is so f anxious to teach them on this subject. They have i no doubt seen, as have others, how suddenly a few ! of the former friends of Mr. Buchanan were J transmuted into foes; but, surely, these individual j instances can hardly be regarded as the reflection j of the sentiments of six thousand freemen who can j see, investigate, and decide for themselves. “Men [ change, principles never,” is a Democratic adage, i and while a man remains true to the last, he can i afford detraction, and leave his vindication to time. It is absurdity to expect one man, or two men, or a dozen men, to give the law to six thousand, and to assert that this or that man is unworthy of public confidence, when right reason and an honest pub lic opinion both show the contrary. lam a friend of James Buchanan, now, as I have been from boy hood, when some of his present detractors made of his character and his intellect the fruitful text of unceasing commendation and commentary.— It is true some of these gentlemen* have changed, but as I scorn to supply motives for their transfor mation, so would I despise myself if I followed their example, when no public causes conspired to make it worthy of consideration. It is true, the Lancasterian has been devoted to the work of des troying him, from the day when it struggled into sickly existence, amid the pangs of an unexpected parturition. At first, it struck at him by inuendo and insinuation; and, finally, when it supposed the atmosphere sufficiently impregnated,- its disease broke out into the lowest and most disgusting attacks. The whigs may rest easy when they see their work against Mr. Buchanan, (whose strength in Pennsylvama-and m the Country, they know and dread,) done to their hands by the Lancasterian and its managers. But what will the old Democrats of Lancaster County say—those who have so often hung upon the praises of their favorite statesman, uttered by lips that now reek with abuse of him— what will they say when they see the old accusa tions of the whig* repeated, retailed, and gloated over, by {hose in their mid-t who have a thousand times denounced and derided these accusations? It is a fact 'full of significance and force that the chief weapons relied upon to destroy Mr. Buch anan with his old friends are those used by the common foe—weapons often turned upon that foe, by the very leaders now eager to use them. The Laneasterian even goes back into the Past, and busies itself in raking out of the grave the foetid falsehoods, that have lain there entombed a d festering, for years, amid the contempt and execra tion of intelligent men of both parties. Such are the inducement*—the influences—the appeals, made to a sturdy and intelligent Democracy to join ip the crnsade against one whose spotless honor, unchal lenged statesmanship, and elevated integrity, are among the monuments of oar Commonwealth ! Even now, when necessarily retired from public life* the calomniei of industrious enmity follow him like so many furies. The spectacle is one lor the wonder of all those who know Mr. Buchanan, bat cannot know the object of his opponents. Your defence of Mr. Buchahaiv, attributed to me, was therefore eminently just and proper. The moment that I am convinced that be does pot de serve all and more than you say in his honor—the moment I am convinced that he does deserve the censures heaped upon him by bis foes, so miracu lously andsuddenly made—l will be found among the first to desert and denounce him. 1 never would stuliify myself, however, by invoking the same slanders I had a hundred times refuted and denied, or join hands with a man whose main object a few years ago was to break up the foundations of the State. But Mr. Buchanan can neither be dama ged by defamation, nor advanced in public esteem by praise. At this moment be.stands higher in the popu lar affections than during any period of his career. The Country regards him as a statesman whose fame is a fcation’s property, and whose long life of public usefulness is unstained by any act unworthy of the patriot .and the man. The Democracy remember that PresidentMoNJtoE, more than twenty-five years ago, offered him a foreign mission, at the time when he had been in Congress but a session or two. They remember also that at the call of Andrew Jackson he was transferred from private life to the position of American Minister at St. Petersburg, to be sent to the Senate of the United States, on his return from Russia, by tbe : voice of the Democ racy of Pennsylvania. They remember that he was called upon to leave that elevated position, by the lamented Polk (acting under the earnest sug gestion of Andrew Jackson) to assume the diffi cult and harassing responsibilities of. the State Department, at a time when troubles between this country and other nations, and the unsettled con dition of European governments generally, render ed it important to have that Department in the hands not only of a ripe scholar and a profound statesman, butcool, sagacious, and patriotic American. — How he metthe public expectation during those four remarkable and exciting years, the world bears witness. His despatches have been translated into the languages of the most powerful foreign countries, and have elicited commendations at home and abroad. He retired to his native State amid the warm good wishes for his welfare of the Democrats, including many of the whiga, at the nation’s Cap ital, and with the applause upon his official integ rity and ability of men of both parties in other sections. It was amoDg his own fellow-citizens that personal malignity sought to wound him deeply by employing a poisoned pen and a pensioned press, to retail and elaborate the favorite falsehoods of an unscrupulous opposition. Thus far these efforts have been impotent. Shall they succeed hereafter 7 Will the Democrats of Lancaster County, having lailed to be seduced by the efforts gf others, be now misled by the systematic attacks of the Lnn casterian, edited by Ritner’s ex-Secretary of the Commonwealth? Remember, this reyiler, who burrows in secret, and hides himself behind others, was a noisy Abolitionist under the lead of Ritner and Stevens ; and remember, also, that the Lan casterian, under his control (now hypocritically rejoicing over the Compromise measures) showed its free soil feeling in refusing to denounce that arch traitor, Wilmot, and his confederates, while they were plotting against the usages and the organiza-- tion of the Democracy and the welfare of the Union. No Abolitionist and political free soiler will forgive Mr. Buchanan for his bold and manly course in favor of the Union and the Constitution. And, again, is it forgotten, that the attack upon the lamented Wolf, and other distinguished Demo crats, who happened to be Masons—for which cause they were dragged to Harrisburg, and threat ened with imprisonment —is it forgotten that this attack was planned, set on foot, and pushed ahead by the trio of which the editor of the Lancasterian was one?—that he assisted in the consummation of the Charter of the plundering Bank of the United States 7 —that be encouraged the frightful frauds of 1838 against the Democratic party 7 —and that he fled, affrighted, out of the back window of the Senate, followed by the groans and curses of the people he had tried to betray 7 This is the chief reviler of James Buchanan —employed to carry out the will of those whose present insatiate hatred of that statesman was only equalled by their former unquestioning and violent devotion. Will you be called away from duty, and from honor, by such a combination 7 I will not insult you, my old poli tical associates, by doubting your decisiob. The article I am charged by the Lancasterian with writing, contains also an allusion to Col. Wm. Bioler, who is prominently named for Governor of Pennsylvania. Although I have heretofore taken no ground in favor of any candidate in the Pennsyl vanian, it is the wildest folly in the world to think that the Democrats will not nominate that accom plished gentleman in the next Democratic State Convention. He is' the unequivocal choice of a large majority o i the party, and his election will follow after his nomination as certain as any event in the future. I know there are efforts on foot to defeat him, but they will not avail. The direction x»f Simon Cameron’s movement in in having & resolution in favor of Bigler laid upon the table at a County Convention, and the recent intrigue against him in Lancaster county, show that Col. Bigler’s enemies understand each other. If any further proof of this were needed the studied silence of the Lancasterian for months, on the Cameron movement, would be sufficient. One of the consequences of the opposition to Mr. Buch anan, in Lancaster, seems to be a fraternization between Cameron himself, and the men who have heretofore followed him with unreasoning bitter ness. Harmony in Pennsylvania, in 1848, would have saved the State to Cass. Fair treatment of Biqleb, the same year, would have nominated and elected him. Let us not war with the Past, however. “Letthe dead bury the dead.” “Let bygones be bygones.” But the same spirit is at work to blight and blacken the Future, and the Lancaster county Democrats are once more called upon to take the lead in the work of personal denunciation and party division. When it is remembered that Pennsylvania will again in 1852 be “ the battle-ground of the Union,” it re mains to be seen how far Democrats will agree to minister to personal and private malignity and peril a success certain to result from harmony. I make no apology for the length to which I have spun out this letter. Assailed, I will defend my self ; arid there is no man who can say that! ever allowed a friend to be abused without defending him. I have taken no part in the controversy, in Lancaster, save to denounce an example in the highest degree detrimental to the Democracy every where, by its wanton encouragement of the worst type of disorganization. Denounced for that of which I was ignorant, I have repelled the accusa tion—pot hesitating, incidentally, to give my senti ments in regard to your own course, and your plain duty in the matter as a Democratic Editor. In do ing so I have proclaimed certain opinions in my own way. They are my own opinions, and I will maintain them. And lam Your friend, truly, JOHN W. FORNEY. E 7" A Paris letter in the National Intelligencer ■says The famous Artesian well at Kissengen, in Ba varia, commenced eighteen years ago, and which it was feared would have to be abandoned as a failure, has just given the most-satisfactory results. This town is located in a saline valley, nine hundred and eighty-four feet above the level of the Baltic Bex- Last June the boring had reached a depth of eigh teen hundred- and thirty-sevenfeet, and several lay ers of salt, separated by strata: of granite, had been traversed, when carbonic acid gas, followed again by granite, was found. Finally, on the 12th ult., at a depth of two thousand and sixty-seven feet, perseverance was rewarded by complete success A violent explosion burst away the scaffolding built to facilitate the operations, and a column oi water four and a half inches in diameter spouted forth to the height of ninety-eight feet above the surface. The water—clear as crystal—is of a temperature of sixty-six Fahrenheit, and is abund antly charged with salt It is calculated that the annual product will be upwards of 6,600,000 lbs. per annum, increasing the royal revenues by 300, 000 florins, after deducting all expenses. CTHon. John H. Harxahion, member of Con gress from Louisiana, died at New Orleans on the 2stk ultimo. Fugitive Slave Law. Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 1850. Dear Sir—My official engagements have hindered me from giving that prompt attention to the con tents of your letter of the 22d ult, which it would otherwise have received. . Until informed by you, I was unable to appre hend what possible cause could be for the unmeasured denunciations with which the act con cerning the fugitives from labor, passed at the last session of Congress, has beep received by so many persons in the northern portion of our Union. Al though it would be improper tor me to volunteer extra-judicial opinions upon-doubtful questions of construction of a public statute, yet if any opinions expressed iby the Court on the late case of Henry Garnett, or which, though tot then expressed, seem to me incapable of dispute, can have any tendency to correct misapprehensions* and calm the public agitation on this sutject, I am perfectly willing to state them. In the case of Garnett, the warrant issued by the Court was founded on the affidavit of the alleged owner of the fugitive. But “on the trial or hearing” before the Court, after the arrest, this affidavit was not received in evidence, nor did the counsel for the claimant insist that it should be received. The claimant "had wholly neglected to make the proper proof, before some Court or Judge in Maryland, to establish the fact, that he was owner of a slave or person held to labor, and what was the name, age,, size, and other marks, of such person; and that the person so described had escaped. Not having avail ed himself of the privilege and facilities given him by the act of Congress for this purpose, we decided that he must be hound by the common law rules of evidence, as in other cases, where a title to prop erty has to be established before a Court. We re fused to receive the parties in interest as witnesses, and wills, and other documents of title, unless prop erly proved. The act contemplates a trial and a decision ot the Court or Judge, involving questions both of law and fact, and unless the rules of common law, as to evidence, be followed, when not changed by statute, the tribunal would be without rule, governed only by caprice, or undefined discretion, which would be the exercise of a tyranical, not a judicial power. It is the duty of the Judge who exercises it, to render equal justice both to the claimant and the person claimed. If evidence were heard on one side, only, and that, too, without regard to any rule or princi ple known to the law, gross oppression and wrong would flow irom it. Free men and citizens of Penn sylvania might be kidnapped into bondage, under forms of law, and by the action of a legal tribunal, sworn to do equal and exact justice to all men.— This much maligned law not only gives a “trial,” belore a legal tribunal, before the claimant can be authorized to carry the alleged fugitive out of the State, but it takes away from the prisoner no right which he would have enjoyed before this act of Congress was passed. In all cases of extradition, the evidence establish lishing the offence and escape of the person deman ded, is usually made in the country from which the person demanded has escaped, and is necessarily-ex parte , and the chief question to be decided by the tribunal before whom he is brought, previously to making an order for his extradition, is only the question of identity. The party demanded has a right, of course, to show that he is not the person described. But if he be the person described, he has no right to a jury trial, as to the question of his guilt, in the country to which he has escaped. The question of identity, and whether the person claimed is such a one as the treaty between the two countries requires to be delivered up, has al ways been tried summarily and without the inter vention of a jury. No complaint has ever been made when white men have been sent to Europe, on a demand for their extradition, without giving them a jury trial; and why greater privileges in this mat ter should be granted to colored persons, is not ea sily perceived. The State of Pennsylvania guaran tees a jury trial to her own citizens, or to persons who are charged with committing an offence with in her borders. Fugitives from another State have no such rights. The government to which the fugitive belongs, it is to be presumed, will do justice to its own sulk jects or citizens, and whether they do so, or not, is no concern of ours. However, individuals may fancy they have a mission to rectify all the wrongs on the face ot the earth, the State of Pennsylvania does not feel herself bound to the Quixotic enter prise of avenging the oppression of serfs in Russia .or slaves in Georgia. This act of Congress does not require that a Judge should, without trials sur render a citizen of Pennsylvania to a kidnapper. The provision, “ that in no trial or hearing, under this act, shall the testimony of such fugitive be ad mitted in evidence,” is no more than the enactment of an established principle of the common law, that no man shall be witness in his own case. If this provision were not in the act, I would not receive the testimony of the prisoner to prove that he was not the person described, or that he was a free man. It would be a temptation to perjury, which no tribunal should permit to be presented to any man. No lawyer would urge, before a Court, such an absurd construction of the act of Congress as, that it means that no evidence should be heard on the part of the alleged fugitive. If such were the intention of the legislature, it was easy to express it in unequivocal terms. In truth there is nothing equivocal in the language of the act: —it forbids the Judge to hear the testimony of the fugitive, but not the testimony of disinterested witnesses. It al most seems, that nothing but a desire to render the law* odious, for the sake of politicalragitation could ever have led to so gross a misconstruction, and so gross a libel on our national legislature. It has been objected also to this law, that it sus pends the habeas corpus act, —inasmuch as it enacts that the certificate of the Judge, or Commissioner, “shall be conclusive of the right of such fugitive, and shall prevent all molestation ot such person or persons, by any process issued by any Court. Judge, Magistrate, or other person whomsoever.” But this is a mistake. The truth is, that this provision of the law, forbidding the testimony of the fugitive to be received, and forbidding interference by other process, after a certificate, is but an enactment of an established principle of the common law’, added through extreme caution, but wholly unnecessary. “Th v e writ of habeas corpus is undoubtedly an imme diate remedy for every illegal imprisonment; but no imprisonment is illegal when the process is a justi fication of the officer; and process, whether by writ or warrant, is legal,'whenever it is not defective in the frame of it, and has issued in the ordinary course of justice, from a court or magistrate hav ing jurisdiction of the subject matter.”—(Common wealth vs. Lecky, 1 Watts, 67.) A person held as a fugitive under the certificate of a judge or magistrate, under this act, is legally imprisoned, under process “ from a court or magis trate having jurisdiction,” and cannot be by any other court or magistrate, on a writ ofr habeas corpus or homine replegiando. The act of 1793 has no such provision as that which is the subject of complaint in the present case; yet in the case of Wright vs. Deacon, (5 Sergt. and Rawle, 62,) the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided that a certificate under that act was a legal war rant to remove the fugitive to the State of Mary land, and no writ of homine replegiando would 1 lie from a State Court to try the question of freedom; and that a writ, issued under such circumstances, was “ in violation of the Constitution of the United States.” 5 The chief difference between the fugitive act of 1850, and that of 1793, is, that the former allows a warrant to be issued by a Judge, and the arrest to be made by a*ipublic officer, -and imposes more stringent penalties on those who interfere, by vio lence, to prevent the execution of legal process.— Those who believe that the Constitution and laws of their country should be regarded and obeyed, have no ground of complaint, and those who do not, will continue to rail at both, as usual. I am happy to say that my brother Kane, fully concurs, with me in the views I here express. 1 am, very respectfully, yours, &c. R. C. GRIER. To Charles Gibbons, Esq. Maryland Hams. —At the late Fair of the Ma ryland State Agricultural Society, says the Balti more American, there were not less than twenty one finely cured Hams offered by as many different parties for the premiums. Most of these were from persons who have paid great attention to thfe prep aration of this delicious meat, and who have long been celebrated for the eminent success they have attained. The distinguished compliment of the first premium for the best of all these was awarded to our townsman, Mr. Thomas E. Hamdlxtoit, who uses the old Maryland receipt, and who has kindly furnished us with it, as follows: To Cure Maryland flams:—To every' one hun dred pounds weight of pork, take eight poonds of ground alum salt, two pounds of brown sugar, two ounces saltpetre, one and a half ounces potash, and lour galions of water. Of these form a brine. The meat should be well cooled and dried before being cut up, and then suffered to lie one day in a cool place. Then rub each piece with fine salt, and pack the whole down and suffer it tp remain some two or three days, according to the weather. The above brine should then be poured into the cask or tub on the side. After being in the brine six weeks take.out the meat, rinse it in cold water, hang up and suffer it to dry for four or five days, or longer, and then smoke some two weeks with hickory wood. Tie up each ham in a linen bag, and white wash the outside. Indian. Summer is here, in all its beauty. Late from Europe. The steamer Asia arrived at New York on Wed nesday last, with Liverpool dates to the 12th ihst, making the passage in ten days and seven hours. The political-news generally is devoid of interest. Denmark aitd jss Duchies. —The Schleswig Holstein army attempted to take Freidrichstadt by storm on the sth, bat were repulsed by the Danes, after bombarding daring the preceding day, destroy ing a large block of houses close to the road. The town was attacked in the evening by two battalions ot infantry and a detachment of riflemen. Alter a desperate struggle, in which both parties must have experienced very heavy losses, the Danes gave way; but only to seek cover of new entrenchments and barricades thrown up in the middle of the town. The resistance which-they met with here was so violent and determined that, notwithstanding the exhibition of most brilliant bravery, the Schleswig Holsteiners were compelled to retire from the town at midnight. They afterwards took up a new po sition, and the conflict was to be renewed on the following morning. The loss sustained by the Schleswig Holsteiners is yet unknown. Both sides behaved extremely well. General Willisen writes his dispatch in a very dispirited' tone. The Holsteiners now find that they are in want of funds and have made most urgent appeals to United Germany. The state of Germany itself continues to excite great alarm. Austria and Prussia seem upon the verge of an open rupture; and the position of Hesse Cassel and several other of the German States renders the re lations of the great German powers still more pre carious. France. —From France there is nothiug of spe cial moment. A state of~general quietude prevails. The affairs of England and Ireland remain with out any new political feature of moment. Boston, Oct. 31. —At 2 o’clock this morning, an attempt was made to break into the Village Bank, at North Danvers, Mass. The robbers began the attempt to burst the door do, when the watchman ot the Bank, named Aaron Bateman, called upon them to desist, which they refused to do. He then fired a gun loaded with ball, hitting one of them in the side, who staggered a few paces and fell dead. He proved to be John C. Page, brother in-law of the cashier of the bank. HU father, who lived in the nearest'’building to the Bank, was aroused by the noise of the gun, and coming out, stumbled over bis son’s dead body. It appears that the Bank Directors have had warning that an attempt would be made to rob the Bank, and have had a watchman there for a week past, which fact was generally known. The three companions of the deceased are supposed to have drawn Page, who was of rather bad habits, into the attempt. They all escaped in a carriage they brought with them. Well Sold. —The hotel now occupied by Mrs. Kauffman & Son, in N. Queen St., was purchased on Monday week, by Abm. Hostetter, ol Manheim for $13,575. A “tall” bid. Murder in Cumberland County. —Last week an affray occurred on the Cumberland Valley Rail road, near Mechanicsburg, between James Hough and a .man named Sullivan, when the latter struck the former on the head with a pick, causing his death two days after. Sullivan escaped and has not been arrested. Death from Hydrophobia.— A colored lad named George, aged about ten years, who lived with Mrs. Chamberlain, at Newark, was bitten by a dog’ about 0 weeks ago, while passing along the street. Our readers will doubtless recollect the circumstance as it was published in our paper at the time. The dog was killed by some of our citizens; but not until after he had bitten a number of his species. The boy was bitten in the thigh, and the wound soon healed up. Although some excitement was caused at the time, all fears in regard to the matter had pretty much subsided—not any rabid dogs having since that time been seen in the neighbor hood. On last Sunday evening, however, be was attacked by a slight pain in the stomach and back part of the head, which continued until Monday evening, when Doctors Faris and Clark were sent for. On arriving they at once pronounced the dt6 ease to be hydrophobia, and did every thing in their power to check its progress, but without effect— Soon after this time the boy was afflicted with twitchings of a spasmodic character which contin ued until Tuesday evening when he was seized with convulsions. From the time he was attacked he refused all nourishment—water and every thing of a liquid character, being exceedingly repulsive. His spasms continued to grow more and more severe, and he finally expired about four o’clock on Wednesday morning. Those who witnessed his death represent his sufferings to have been most terrible—the veins in his struggles starting out like great ‘cords. He was buried on Wednesday after noon.— Wilmington Republican. Washington, Oct. 30.—President Fillmore has announced his determination to enforce the fugitive slave law, let the consequences be what they may, and if necessary he will protect the United States Marshals in the discharge of their duty, by calling to their aid the force of the army. The United States store ship Fredonia has been selected as the -vessel intended to convey articles of American manufacture to the World’s. Fair at London. r Storm in New York. —Severe and unusual storms of snow prevailed in the Southern and Western counties of New York State on Saturday night and Sunday morning week. The Rochester Advertiser understands that it fell to the depth of eight inches in Niagara county, and in parts ol Ontario and Livingstone counties. Much damage was done to the fruit trees. At Lima and Livonia, the snow is represented to have covered the ground to the depth of seven or eight inches on Sunday. Abolishment of Grand Juries is being debated in the Indiana Constitutional Convention. It is proposed to substitute a public examination therefor. The proposition was so modified that, after five years, the Legislature should have power to re-establish grand juries, if it did not work well. Jcst Compliment to a Brave Soldier. —The State of Maryland is about to present to General Bennet Riley a magnificent sword. The scabhard, which is of solid silver, thickly plated with gold, and richly ornamented, contains the following in scription : ‘‘The State of Maryland, to her honored son, Brig adier General Bennet Riley, United States Army, for gallant intrepidity and heroism displayed in the late war with Great Britain, and in the recent brilliant campaign with Mexico. Battle of Block House, 1813; Dacoale Mill, 1814; Plattsburg, 1814; Cha teau's Island, Anacraries, Bad Axe, 1832; Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras, Cherubusco, City of Mexico, 1847.” Westward Ho !— The following is an extract from a letter received iu Pottsville a few days ago, from the Hon. Alexander Ramsey, Governor of Minnesota Territory. It will interest such of our country friends whose inclinations lean towards the far West:— “ All we want here, is-i-more people and more capital. Land, bought at government prices, will render a richer return than the lands of Berks or •Lancaster, for which you pay $lOO per acre. ‘ Advise such of your farmers as can bring a capilal of $lOOO with them, to come here; they can in two or three years make a fortune!” Georgia.— The Athens Banner publishes sundry letters from counties in Georgia, assuring the edi tor of the strength of the Union cause. The editor says “ it is no longer a matter of doubt that the people of the up-country of Georgia, will sustain the Adjustment by an overwhelming majority.— The cause of the Union is literally sweeping every thing before it.” ITT An immense meeting of the friends of the Union was held at Castle Garden, New York, on Wednesday evening last. It was composed of Dem ocrats and Whigs, and the sentiments contained in the resolutions are such as will commend them to the lovers of the Union in the North and in the South. A similar demonstration is to be made in Phila delphia in the course of a few days. !jy The Cholera is making sad ravages along the Gulf Coast in Mexico. At Orizaba, in a popu lation of 25,000, there had been 6,000 cases and 1,100 deaths. At Guadalajara there had been up to August 29, 3174. cases and 1,534 deaths. UT-The Georgia Helicon says there are 98 cotton mills in Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Alabama, in which are inverted $1,000,000. They consume 94,000 halts of cotton par annum. Opinion' Abroad. We copy into the Gazette of to day an Address from the pen ot Col. W». B. Fohdmt, Chairman of the Democratic County Commiffee of Lancaster, wmch exposes an attempt at disorganization on the part of Col. Rear Frazer’s friends, of the worst species, and which, if not-checked in the bud, cannot fail to result in consequences to be deplored by every true Democrat in the State and Union.— Aa this disorganizing movement is not local in its character, but strikes at the party throughout the State, we deem it our duty to lay the Address itself before our readers. We the more readily do so, from the fact that we know the Lancaster delega tion in the last Gubernatorial Convention, by their act, lost us the Governor. Lancaster county, as a mere compliment, instructed her delegates for Judge Cbampxzys, but the delegation, after abandoning him, wilfully misrepresented the county by going against Col. Bigleb, who was the unanimous sec ond choice of their constituents; and now Col. Fra zer is desirous of enacting the same thing over again. 9 During the past wiuter'.we met Col. Frazer in. Lancaster, and, in presence ol several gentlemen, asked him who was his choice for next Governor, to which he replied, publicly, that he was for Bio-. ler —that the whole'county was for him—and that he intended to acquiesce in their voice. What has since induced him to enter the course for Governor, against the voice of his county, is a matter we do not wish to speculate upon. One thing, however,, we will say, and that is that the gross attack of his organ, the Lancasterian, (a paper which we are in formed by the Pennsylvanian is now edited by the ° notorious ex-Secretary of the Commonwealth under Gov. Ritneb,) upon James Buchanan, will be met with the scorp and contempt of every right thinking, man in the State. We remember when Frazer fairly deified Buchanan —when it would have been treason to have said one word against him in his presence—but now the foulest language he can employ is not bitter enough with which to -denounce the greatest Statesman of the age, al though if Frazer was placed upon his oath he could not show that Buchanan is any other than the same man he was when he extolled him to’the skies. Shame on such disreputable conduct. The poison carries its antidote with it. —Bedford Gazette. lE7* The census of Elizabeth township, Lancas ter county, show’s the following population: White males 1148, females. 1150. Colored males 3, fe males 4. Whole population 2305. Died 40. At tended school within the year 328. Married 11. Oldest male 89 years, female 92. Dwelling houses • 288, families 323; average number of persons to each dwelling house 8. Farms 214. Grist and Merchant Mills 10, Iron Works 2. County Committee Meeting. The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster county, are requested to meet at the public house of W. J. Steele, in the city of Lancaster, on Wed nesday, the 20th of November, 1850, at 11 o’clock A. M. A general attendance is requested, as business of importance will be laid before the Committee. WM. B. FORDNEY, Chairman. Lancaster, Nov. 5, 1850. County Committee Meeting. Resolution adopted by the Democratic County Con vention, September 18, 1850. Resolved , That the Democrats of the different wards, boroughs and townships of the county meet on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, at such places as may be fixed upon by the respective township, ward and borough committees, and elect not leas than three nor more than five delegates to meet and be represented Ui County Convention to be held in Lancaster, at the public house of Wm. J. Steele, on Wednesday, the 13th day of November, at 11 o'clock in tjie forenoon, for the purpose of electing six delegates to represent the democracy of Lan caster county in the State Convention at Reading, to be held on the first Wednesday in June next, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Governor to be supported by the democracy of Pennsylvania, and that the County Committee be instructed to give due notice of tjie same. TO THE DEMOCRATIC FREEMEN OF LAN CASTER COUNTY. The Democrats of the different Wards, Boroughs and arc hereby notified to meet agreea bly to the above Resolution, passed by the Demo-, cratic County Convention? for the purpose of electing delegates to meet in County Convention at the time and place and for the purposes therein mentioned. J B. AMWAKE, Chairman. Election of Delegates* By a resolution qf the County Committee, which met at the public house of William J. Steele, In Lancaster City, on the lOlh of October, 1850, the Democratic citizens of Lancaster county are re quested to assemble in their several boroughs, townships, and wards, at their usual places of hold ing elections, on Saturday the Ist day of March, ISSI, and then and there elect not less than three nor more than five delegates to represent each borough, township and ward, in a County Conven tion, to be held in the City of Lancaster on WED NESDAY the sth,of March, 186 I —said Conven tion, when assembled, to elect six delegates to represent the County of Lancaster in the Democratic State Convention to bo held at Reading on the 4th day o r June, 1851, to nominate a candidate for Governor, a candidate for Canal Commissioner, and five candidates for Judges of the Supreme Court. WILLIAM B; FORDNEY, Chairman. THE MARKETS. [Corrected weekly for the Intellice&cer.) Lancaster Markets. Lancaster, Nov. 2. Butter—l 4 to 15 cents per lb. Chickens 25 to 37} cents per pair. Eggs—l2} cents per dozen. Potatoes—so to 621 cents per bushel. Apples—2s to 50 cents per do. Philadelphia Markets. Philadelphia, Nov. 2. Flour—s4,7s to $5,25; Rye do. $3,00; Corn Meal $3,12. Wheat—sl,o2 to $l,lO. 1 Corn—62} to 65 cents. Rye—7o cents per bushel. Oats—39 to 41 cents. Whiskey —26 cents. Beef Cattle —1500 in market—ss,so to $7 per 100 lbs. Baltimore Markets. Baltimore, Nov. 2. Flour—s4,6B to $5,00; Rye do. $3,25; Corn Meal $3,18. Wheat—sl,oo to $l,lO. Corn —60 to 62 cents. t Rye—6o to 62} cents. Oats— 3i} to 37} cents. Whiskey—27 a 28 cents. Beef Cattle —$4,00 a $5,25 net. MARRIAGES. On the 26th ult., by the Rev. Dr. Cooper, Mr. B. Franklin Holl, of Philadelphia, to Miss Theresa D. Gallagher, of GallagherViiie, Chester county. Accompanying the above we received a neatly done up slice of the delicious wedding cake, for which we return our sincere thanks and kindest wishes for the future health and prosperity of the young couple. May their journey through life be smooth and unruffled, and may nothiug occur to mar the felicity which is now their lot. On the Bth ult., at Millerville, by the Rev. J. C Barnitz, Benjamin Ervin to Hanna Oxen. On the same day, by the same, Jacob Stnmp to Sarah Kissel. 5 On the 27th ult., by the same, Jacob Delp to Elizabeth Butt, both of Millerville. By the Rev. J. H. Menges, of Mount Joy, Cyrus Brehra to Elizabeth Martzell, both of Petersburg. By the same, Christian Singer to Elizabeth Kins ley, both of Petersburg. By the same, John Shoff, of Mount Joy, to Eliza beth Spickler, of Donegal. By the same, William Paterson, of Mount Joy to Elizabeth Wissler, of Aspen Grove. By the Rev. William Urie, Frederick Sawmiiler to Susanna Nase, both of. Lancaster county. By the same', Lieut. Thomas Welch to Anna C. Young, both of Columbia. By the Rev. D. O. Farrell, John Readley to Miss Elizabeth Houghendoubler, both of W. Hempfield. By the Rev. J. Wallace, Ephraim Eby, of War wick to Miss Mary Kulp, of Elizabeth twp; By the Rev. W.W. Latta, John G. Weidner, to Miss Mary Ann John, both of Salisbury twp. By the Rev. J. C. Baker, Daiel A. Balrner, to Miss Mary Ann Rich, both .of Mount Joy. By the,same, Samuel Groft to Mia Fanny Win« ter, both of Martic. By the same, Samuel Ober, of Rapho, to Miss Magdalene Rubl, of Penn twp. By the same, Philip Miller to Mitt Susan Loos, both of Cocalico. ? In Columbia, on the 27th ult., by Sam'l Brooks, Esq., Mr William Welsh, to Mrs. Catharine Fagan, both of Wrightsville. On the 29th ult.j by the Rev. J. J. Strine, Mr. Martin W. Nissley, of East Donegal, to Mia Mary of Mount Joy. . On the 31st ult., by the same, Mr. Jno. M. Krei der, of Upper Leacock, to Mia Harriet Busnong,ef East Lampeter. _ __ „ In MUlerstown, on the 31st ult., by Rev. H. Hu b»ugh, Dr. E. S. Bmi, to Cuhtrfne Petti*, | both of that pUce.
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