COMMON SCHOOL STATEMENT. To the citizens of the city of Lancaster; By a resolatipirof the Bofttd of Directors of the Common of the city, adopted At their last meeting, it tisdaty*pf the to lay before yoa J statement of the general conditiori of to schools: The whole population of the the Census recently complied, is v Of are supposed to&ebewfceji the jpßS«rof trapd 14, being the ages'of those who usually attend schooL 'The number of pupils at the present moment, . on the rolls of the- city common schools is 1837, being within 451 of the whole number of our -’■youth betweeni 6 and 14; but if ‘ the -namesof all wbi&ttended the schools at any time during the past year were included, the numher would be over. 2100.' A large number of these 451 who are hot in the common schools, are either at private institutions, -have been withdrawn from school for the purpose of learning trades. It is presumed that the number pf tiipse . who are . absent from school without being employed at all during the day is veiy small. These figures showthe gratifying fact that some thing over a full seventh of our population are now m thecommon schools, exclusive of those who have withdrawn at tend pay schools:—a state of things supposed not to, exist in many large towns, even in those parts of the Union supposed to pos* sess the most perfect educational arrangements. Tfr? expenses of the schools, for the current year, estimated at $10,143.28. ■" east of the school lots, buildings and iuroi tmj belonging to the Board is estimated at $lB " jj’ k^ 3 *^ which, at six per cent., being aqped to the ordinary annual expense makes the whole annual cost of the school system $11,223,- 28. • Th a permanent Debt of the Board, incurred for purchasing lots and Building Houses is $$G49 36. The-whole interest of this sum is regularly paid semiannually out of‘the ordinary income of the a pd about s4o*o. of. the principal is also either paid off annually, or that? sum is applied each year out of the ordinary income, to the pur poses of purchasing lots or building houses. Of the ordinary income about $lOOO are de rived from Sthte appropriation, and the balance from tax. If the interest oncthe cost of lots houses and fur niture be added to the ordinary expenses, (includ ing interest on debt,) the average cost of educating" each pupil for Xme year (except those in the light school who will only be taught during 6 months,) is Without including interest on the cOßtoflote &c., the cost is $5,53$ per pupil. The schools are divided into three grades viz: Primary , Seondary oz.grammar, and High; there being an equal number of each for each sex. The cost of instructing each pupil per annum in the primary schools is $3,40*: In the second ary or grammar schools $6,775: and in the High schools $l4, 25. In the night school the cost per pupil for six months* instruction is estimated at $5, 375. . r^.^ ere are f - Primary schools, including one African; 8 Grammar or Secondary; and 2 High. Of the 1837 pupils on the roll of ail the schools 1514 is the number in average attendance , show ing 18 out of 100, or 9 out of a school of 50, as the proportion of absence. This proportion, however; is greater in the lower than' in the higher schools. The on the lolls of all the Pri mary schools is 1079; the average attendance 866; and the proportion of absence, 20 out of 100. The whole number 'in the Grammar schools is 414; the average attendance 340, and the propor tion of absence, 16 out of 100. The number in Ihe 2 High schools is 212; the average attendance 189; and the proportion of ab sence, 11 out,of 100. The number of seats in the night school is 132; and the proportion of abseni c, 1 of 1 00. The average age of the pupils in this interesting school is 16 years and 10 months— The branches taught and course of instruction are as follows: Pupils enter the,primary schools and remain till they are good readers and spellers; have learned the tables and the four fundamental rules of arithmetic; and have made good progress in writ ing on paper. They are then transferred to the grammar schools of the ward, where they study Geography, Eng lise Grammar, the history of the United States; the whole of Common Arithmetic; and are exer cised in writing and composition. Some also commence Algebra. In the High schools they review Geography, Grammar and Arithmetic; are regularly exercised • in Composition and Declamation; pursue the study of General History, and Algebra, with the higher branches of Mathematics, Book Keeping, and Sur veying; and study Latin and Greek, or German and French, as their parents may direct. A regu lar course of instruction by means of lectures with ' apparatus will also be commenced in a few days . in Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Astronomy . Geology and Physiology. ' ’ This course of instruction, hereafter intended to to be thorough as far as it proceeds, will occupy each pupil about ten years, if he or“ she pass tnrough the whole seven schools that constitute the series for each sex in eacii ward. One year in each of the four primary schools, will place pu pils who commence the course at six years of age, in the Grammar grade at ten; three years instruc tion in the Grammar schools will fit them at 13, for the High sfhools; and at the end.of a three years course in these, they ought at sixteen to be well, prepared for. any of the ordinary avocations of life, or if males for entrance into the Junior class of the most respectable college in the land. ■ The contrast between the cost of onr Common School Education, and that heretofore hdre and now elsewhere obtained in what are called select or pay schools, presents one of the most cheering features of the system. The cost per quarter in the lowest A B C pay school is $2 50 or Sin per annum; $5 per quarter or $2O per annum in Gjammar schools; and $lO per quarter or $4O per annum in what are tailed Classical Academies and the higher fe male Seminaries, without boarding. The following would be the coif, at these rates, of educating the 1750 pupils (exclusive of 132 in the night school) who are p; jW in the various city Common Schools : r P nmar y Schools, at $lO pr. an. S 10,790* 00 4 4 mGraß :niir d 0 at <j 2o “ 8,280 00 On. ats4o “ “ 8,480 00 ' Cost of educating the same number in the common schools, including §lOBO int. on the coat of Jots, hoases, &c., but exclusive of cost of night school. §10,523 28 Difference of cost in favor of com* mon schools, §17,020 72 But this vast saving of nearly two-thirds of the aggregate cost of education is among the least impro tant fruits of the system. "When it is borne in mind not only that the kind of instruction imparted is ’« equal to that given in any institution we have ever had, and superior to most, for one-third the - cost, but that the common or free system actually the reach of this improved degree of culture at least three of our youth for every vne who was thus reached before,' the magnitude of the advantage' becomes fully apparent, and presents a motive which cannot be disregarded, for renewed . and continued effort .in support of the glorious cause. ' ' A close examination of the progressive improve ment of the schools, daring the past year, shows hat the chief amendment has taken place in the High schools, which are now upon as good a foun dation as can, with our present knowledge and experience in such matters, be effected. Two or three years faithful attention will probably make them all that the citizens can desire. The only thing yet needed to'render them the fitting crown of our system, is such Pan improvement and eleva tion of the lower schools, particularly those of the secondary or Grammar class, as shall cnable the latter to send to .the High schools pupils of a high* er and more thorough degree of preparation than those heretofore transferred. This will naturally claim the early attention of your representatives in the Board. In conclusion, the undersigned will lake the liberty of overstepping the strict line of duty as signed them, for the purpose of calling your atten tion, as parents, to two subjects, greatly calculated to promote ttie good of the schools: One is the large proportion of absence, from school still permitted by you . You are, it is ad mitted, the owners and controllers of your chil drens* time. But is it not worthy-of your serious inquiiy, whether it is possible to make any better use of it than that causing it to be sedulously and regularly devoted to their mental and moral cultured Besides, it is perfectly vain to expect any satisfactory'degree of improvement, even under the most instructors, without regu lar attendance and study on'tticpaft of the learner. ■ is the small degree of interest which very ipanyr-parents seem to feel in the welfare, and actual-operations of the schools. ; This should not be. Frequent visits to the schobls’by tntelli. gent parents, made in a friendly and right spirit,, would'tiot only act as a stimulus both t 6 teachers and jmpils, but would probably obtain for the Board many valuable suggestions, to which it would as >nriias ditty to pay all proper attention. - GEO. M. STEINMAN, President.? U Attest »•••■' , J. ZrarxxavA2r, Secretary, '.y[ '. 0. ■ ifelligigcr J<m|tal,§ Lancaster. December lo,' |gso. GEO. SANPERBQN, EDITOR. To onr Patrons. We need money very much at the present time and would be greatly obliged to our snbscribers and advertising patrons, (we mean those who have not paid up,) if they would help us to a little of the “heedful.” Those who reside at a distance can remit by mail at our risk. Will our friends think of ibis'? If we did not need the money badly, we should not ask them for it Send us on one, two three, four, or five dollars— whatever you can spare—and we shall be truly thankful for vonr at tention to our request. Meeting of Congress. The second session of the Thirty-First Congress commenced on the 2nd instant, with a quorum of members present in both branches. The proceed ings of this session will be regarded with intense and absorbing interest every where throughout the length and breadth of the Union—as upon their character may depend to a very great extent, the future destiny of the Kepublic. It is impossible to tell what may or may not be done—but, if we might hazard a conjecture, it would be that the friends of the Union will prevail, and the Compro mises of the last session be left undisturbed so far as legislation is concerned. The session will test the. patriotism of Senators and Representatives. -"; It will expose the Sewards and Stevens* and the whole herd of agitators and djsunionists. It will demon strate who are disunionists in fact—for with the warning -'which has gone up from the wisest and best men of the nation, says a contemporary, that the continued agitation of this fugitive slave ques tion must lead to the dissolution ol'.the Union, the member of Congress who lends himself to keep up the agitation is a disumonist, and should be so re garded by all the friends of the Union everywhere.* We shall endeavor to keep our readers advised of every important transaction by either house. TUe President’s Message. This always important state paper will be found on our first page. Contrary to the usual practice, it wae sent into Congress ou & e first day of the session, and read in both houses on the afternoon of Monday—a quorum of members being present. The Message is commented upon in various ways by the press. Our readers can judge of the merits and demerits of; the document for themselves—we shall therefore not trouble them with any com ments of our own. Agricultural Convention. A State Agricultural Convention will be held at Harrisburg, on the 3d Tuesday in January, for the purpose of promoting the establishment ofState Agricultural to the one that is established in New York. lE7“ We invite the attention of capitalists to an advertisement for the sale of valuable real estate, ,in Huntingdon county. C7* We invite the attention of our City readers especially, to the statement published in another column relative tothe condition, &c. of our Com mon Schools. It exhibits a most gratifying con dition of the progress of the system amongst us, and cannot fail to enlist foi the schools a still greater degree of public favor. ID* We invite attention to Adam S. Kellar’s Boot and Shoe establishment, in North Queen st., two doors above the old Post Office. He always keeps a lull supply of th? most fashionable work on hand, all of his own manufacture, and as his"* prices are very moderate, his establishment must always attract lots of customers. For particulars, see advertisement. EfThe “Bex Hive” in. North Queen st., pre sents unusual attractions just now. A new and splendid assortment of fashionable winter goods together with very low prices, and the mefst anxious desire to please customers, cannot fail to enable Wentz to do a first-rate business the present season. Give him a call. lE7” Hon. William Strong, M. C. has our thanks for a copy of the Patent Office-Beport for 1549-50. ID* The Ladies connected with the Presbyterian Church of this City, will hold a Fair. ;at the 'Me. chanics’ Institute, from Wednesday to Saturday of next week—the proceeds to be applied towards the completion of the new Church, ' ID* A concert for the benefit of the poor of the city, will be given at the Mechanics' Institute, on Saturday evening next. !I7~Tke Annual Meeting of the Lancaster Coun ty Bible Society, will be held in the Moravian Church, of this City, on Thursday next, (Thanks giving.) at 2 o’clock, P. M. ID* A- number of advertisements excluded this week, to make room for the Presidents Message. §27,550 00 oT*rMr. B. F . Charles offers great inducements in the Boot and »Shoe line. His stock is very large, and comprises a very neat assortment of Ladies’ and Gentlemen s wear, all of which he offers at ex tremely low prices. His establishment is in North Queen St. See advertisement. lET M r c call attention to the card of Mr. 'Wil uelx, practical Paguerreotypist. Judging from the specimens we have seen, Mr. W. cannot fail to please all who may favor him with their patronage- iJT” Messrs. Glines & Mouton, from Lowelb Mass., teachers of Penmanship, Pen-Drawing, Flour ishing, and Book Keeping, have taken rooms in Kramph’s Oak Hall” Building, where they would be happy to have our citizens call and examine ,their specimens. From what we have seen of their ability to teach what they profess to be mastersof, we have no doubt ol their success in Lancaster. 017* A lecture on some novel subjects will be de livered at the Mechanics* Inststute, on Friday eve ning next. See advertisement. ID* There will be a sale of valuable stocks, this evening, at G o’clock, at Michael’s Hotel—instead of to-morrow evening, as advertised in the bills.— The stocks are.as follows, viz: 25 shares Columbia Bank & Bridge Co. 10 & Conestoga Steam Mills. 5 K ’ Farmers’ Bank. 1 mr A survey ef the Lebanon Valley Railroad has been completed, and a report on the subject may be shortly expected. 10 s * Mayor Barker, of Pittsburg, has been con victed of a misdemeanor in office. H7* Jewry Liitd gives three concerts during the present week. Her next appearance will in Wash ington City. A serioustriot occurred bn Thursday last, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near the Summit Level, between a number of Irish and German la borers. Three of the Germans were killed, and a number on both sides wounded. Some twenty-five of the rioters are now in the Cumberland jail. * ID* Hon. Amos E. Wood, of the Gth Congres sional District of Ohio f died suddenly on the 19th nit. He was elected last spring to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. Mr. Dickinson. The Reports fj Of |he beads of Departments, accompanying tho. Present's Message, v are too elaborate to publiaif' entire. We therefor£take the-following summary from the fiorth Americas, which embraces all the; lajujt&g pomtain thorfe documents; Report ofthePOstMasterCieneraL of the department for th e ,jeajyjnding. iSDfh Janey Including an 'forpaakedinatter ofthedifferent Departments, of #200,000, and deducting the'snm of #147,013 38, received for British postage, was #5,552,971 48. The total expenditures were #5,212,953 54. Gross excess of revenue #340,018 05. v Adding undrawn appropriations, &c., the net balance in the. De partment 19 #1,132,045 82. The revenues for' the current year are estimated total ®f $6,166,616 28 j and the expenditures of all kinds at #6,019,809 90. •The Postmaster Genera] recommends, among other important changes, a reduction on the rates of postage 1 on inland letters to 3 cents prepaid; and sea going letters to the Pacific, coast, South America, and the Eastern Continent, 20 cents, and 10 cents on all other sea-going letters; on news papers, inland; a uniform rate of 1 cent; on pam phlets and periodicals, inland, 1 cent per ounce; and for sea-going newspapers, pamphlets, and. periodicals, double and quadruple rates, where, the letter rates are 10 and 20 cents. He also recommends the equitable* reform of charging the expense ofthe Congressional franking privilege, as- well as of the transmission of news paper exchanges, upon the public Treasury, rather than on the private correspondence ofthe country. He recommends that these changes should go into effect at the commencement of the next fiscal year; and that the commissions allowed to postmasters at the smaller offices should be raised, to insore the services of competent and faithful officers. He recommends that the laws regulating the Depart ment should be revised, and their various provis ions re-enacted in one Jaw ; and that-the Assistant Postmaster General should be placed upon the same footing, in point of compensation, as the heads of bureaus in other Departments. Report of the Secretary of War. ■ T * e aggregate strength ofthe army, as at pres ent established by law, is 12,326 officers and men. It is estimated that the number of men actually in service and fit for duty, from deaths, discharges, desertions, -sickness, and other casualties, falls short of the legal organization on an average of from 30 to 40 per cent.; so that the above numher would represent an effective force of only from 7,400 to 8,700 men. Of the whole number; 7,700 are stationed in or are under orders for Texas, New Mexico, California, and Oregon; leaving only 4,500 in all the rest of the States and Territories. The Secretary urges the necessity of employing a cavalry force to curb the mounted Indians of Texas and New Mexico ; and suggests the adoption of some system, dictated equally by policy and humanity, for reclaiming the whole unfortunate race, by inducing them to abandon their wandering and predatory life, to live in villages, and resort to agricultural pursuits for subsistence. The statemeit. of the enormouß cost of transporting pork and flour for the use ofthe troops in New Mexico, affords a strong evidence of the benefit which the republic would derive, in a mere pecu niary light, from restoring peace and security to the herdsman and husbandman of a territory, “a large portion of which is susceptible of producing crops of grain, and nearly all of which is well adapted to grazing.” Department of the Interior. The estimates for the various branches of the public service within its jurisdiction, for the ap proaching year, reach the amount of $7,132,043- 47; being an excess over the estimation for the current year of $1,728,670 63. The increase ari ses principally from the enlarged expense of In dian affairs and the pension list; for which the es timates are, respectively, $1,441,472 66 and 52,- 644,726 31. * 9 The number of claims for whfrants undej the late bounty land-law, up to Nov. sth, was 9,415, and it is rapidly increasing. The whole number of persons who, if Jiving, would be entitled to the benefit ot the.law, the Secretary says, would ex ceed half a million ; and he estimates that the num ber of claimants will be about 250,000. Of the public lands there were disposed of, 5,184,410,91 acres; for which 1,320,902,77*were sold, and 3,405,520,00 located on bounty land war rants. For the three quarters of 1850, the quan tity disposed of hzs been 2,815,366,42 acrea; 869- 082,32 sold, and 1,520,120,00 located on warrants. The Secretary urges the importance of a nation al highway to the Pacific, within our own territory from the valley of the Mississippi to the western coasfi and the necessity of obtaining full and ac curate information.as to the shortest and best route, having reference not only to distance, but also to the soil, climate, and adaptation to agricultural purposes of the immediate country. He renews the recommendation or his predeces sor for the establishment of an Agricultural bureau; and advises the institution of a model form at Mount Vernon, “ whoso soil was once tilled by the hands and is now consecrated bv the dust of the Father of his Country.” Public Opinion. The assailants of Mr. Buchanan, in this county, may judge of the disgust with which their attacks are received throughout the State, from the follow ing able article from the Meadville (Crawford Co.) Sentinel, of the 28th ultimo. This is only one among many similar notices from the Democratic press of the State, that we’might publish HON. JAMES BUCHANAN. A small junto of disorganizing politicians in the county ol Lancaster have for some time past been engaged in a most villianous crusade against the Hon. James Buchanan. What their object can be is beyond our comprehension, without it is to give to themselves a little notoriety by connecting their name with his. They pretend to hold 'the same politidal doctrines that he does—are the advocates of all the distinctive measures of the democratic party, which the distinguishsd statesman they are now so bitteily assailing has so long ant! so ably defended—and with all their hate they dare not impeach either his democracy or his integrity. The controversy appears* to be a merely personal one—the result of disappointed ambition on the part of those who are waging it with so much in decency and venom. It these men think that they can injure the character or standing of Mr. Buch anan with the democracy of the State or nation they greasy overrate both their talent and their influence. He is above their reach. All their poisoned arrows will Jail short of the mark at which they are aimed. Their attacks may kill themselves, but cannot injure him upon whom they are made. They should recollect that “ The gun that’s aimed at duck or plover, May kick knock its owner over.” At the head: of this junto is Thomas H. Bur rows, Ritners Secretary of the Commonwealth, and the prime mover and getter up of the infa mous “ Buckshot War,” but who it appears has crawled into she democratic party of late. How or when he became a member of our party, is beyond our ken, as it 13 only since this controversy commenced that we were aware that he claimed to be such. Modesty should have induced him to leave the waging of this warfare to older if not better soldiers in our ranks. But nothing better could be expected from a man who said he would treat an election of the Commonwealth as if it had never been held, and who made out and carried to the Assembly false returns of that election for the purpose of cheating the democratic party, out of a majority in the Legislature. It has created no little surprise _among the de mocracy in other parts of the Commonwealth that a Statesman of Mr. Buchanan’s acknowledged ability, sound democracy, and unsullied private character should be the object of such’ vituperation at home % But when the name of his principal assailantls known the wonder vanishes. It is the peculiar characteristic of little minds to hate and villify those whom they cannot equal. This man Burrows has become rabid by disappointment. His course- during the Ritner administration lost him the confidance of the Whigs, and finding nothing was to be made out of them,he turns a som erset into the democratic party. Here he was met by coldness and suspicion, and in order to revenge himself commences to calumniate its ablest and most distinguished ornament. He who ranked with the first men in the United States Senate— the bosom friend and confident of Andrew Jackson, the chief minister of James. K. Polk—a man who is known and admired throughout the broad extent of our Union for his honesty, patriotism and trans cendent ability, is -about to be extinguished by the squirt gun of Thomas H. Burrowes! It must be peculiarly gratifying to those gentry to know that Mr. Buchanan pays not the slightest attention to their assaults, but passes them by “as *the idle wind which he regards not” He is well aware that they are harmless, and will only recoil on the heads of those who make them. He knows, and so do his villifiers, that he has done nothing but what the democratic party of Pennsylvania sanctions and approves, and the party will sustain Mm, when the proper time arrives, in a manner that will silence forever the mouths of hia enemies. ID* The Bedford Gazette, speaking by authority, says that Judge Black will not be a candidate for Governor under any circumstances. His friends are strongly urging him tor.the U. S.’ Senate, for which office he is a candidate, and for hone other. The Democracy of that section of the State are all in favor of { Col. Bigler -for governor, as they are every where else, unless we make Lancaster coun ty an exception. At their Foul Work Again J tad thought that a returning sense of de- induced the writer tor the Ijmcatterian tp rcease his malignaqt, vet harmless, assauUp Ppob ;-Mr. Buchaxax. Bat-in this'we'were mtatekeni ■That paper teems to haveifaked upfront itsßip Van Winkle slumber of weeks, anduommeoced anew its tirade of abuse against thiajcrnttomaq.; Even the celebrated ‘lßihbM” letter is again brought into requisition, and a re hash made of all the slang connected with its first introduction to the public. But not a word about the Wibnotism or Frcrscitism ofthe editor, and those with whom he more directly associates. The “ base bowing of the knee to the of slavery” which haunted the morbid imagination of poor old Joseph Ritskx, in tbe dajs whnbewu.GoVtnMr, seems still to trouble the minds oi those.who were then his confidants and advisers, and who shaped his administration to suit their own purposes, even to the bringing about of the noted Buckshot War. The same sentiments are still entertaiued by these men, although profes*ing,now to be Democrats, and impudently assuming to lead the party of this county but it does not suit their purpose to make an open avowal at this time. They must feel their way cautiously. A clean breast, at. the present stage of proceedings, would defeat the object they have in view. They can better distract and disor ganize the Democratic party and inject their poison into the public mind, by covering over their aboli tionism with these attacks upon Mr. Buchaxax for his position on Ihe Slavery question. This is their vocation. Their organ was established to break down, if possible, this distinguished statesman, and to accomplish’it they have labored unremittingly for the last three years—but, as yet, without a shadow of success. And it is this want of success that goads them on to desperation—that supplies them with 4 slang wherewith to bespatter a man who, in the course of a long life, has never been guilty of one dishonorable act. It is this penchant for abuse of Mr. 8., and their love for the heresies of WriMor, Stevexs and Co., that furnishes their ammunition-box with an occasional charge to fire at all who reiuee to worship at their shrine, and who will not abandon their friendship for a states man of whom every truehearted Pennsylvanian ought to be proud. These men might be better employed than in keeping up a warfare upon Mr. Buchanan. Their course is disapproved of by every Democratic paper in the State. Of course we do not include the Free Soil papers, whose business it is to attack every prominent Democrat who will not consent to bow .down to their political Juggernaut—but we mean all those journals that truly reflect public sentiment and who are not willing to join,in the hue and cry started by David Wilmot against any and every Democrat who is in favor of adhering to the Con stitution and its compromises. What these men expect to gain by abusing Mr. Buchaxax we do not know, unless it be to plav into the hands of .the Whigß. Even if they were friendly to Gen. Cass —which is not the fact, (if they have any regard for consistency,) on account of the views entertained by, him on the subject of slavery— they take the worst possible course to benefit that veteran statesman. Nor, if we know Gen. C. aright, will he thank them for trying to advance his interests by detraction and calumny of Mr. Buchaxax. Both.of these distinguished men are statesmen of whom the whole country may be proud. Democrats have a perfect right to differ in their choice between them—but they have no right, if they wish to be considered Democrats, to abuse and villify one for the purpose of advancing the fortunes of the other. Such a course smacks strongly of treason to the party, and will be frowned upon by every sincere friend to his country. It is “a dirty bird that fouls its own nest’*—and the Democrat who lends himself to the miserable policy above indicated, haa but to take one step more until he finds himself in the ranks of Whiggery. The friends of Mr. Buchaxax would 'scorn to say ought disrespectful of Gen. Cass, Gen. Houston Judge Woodbury, Gen. Lane, Judge Dousiass, or any of the other distinguished men of the party whose names have been mentioned in connexion with the next Presidential nomination. They have too much respect for the feelings of their own favorite candidate, for themselves, and tor the Dem ocratic party, to act such a disreputable‘part.— They prefer leaving that to the Whig party, and those who have a fondness for such employment satisfied that the good sense of the people will, at the proper time, enable them to make such a selec tion for Presidential honors, as will unite the party in his support, without regard to the personal enmities or unmerited abuse of a few dissatisfied spirits, who, like Milton's devil, WqulJ ralhcr rule !n hell lhaa itne in heaven.” These men may rest assured that Mr. Bochasa* ; s appeaLjo the Democracy of Pennsylvania, whom he has so long and so faithfully served, against the cruel and unjust persecution with which he has been assailed for the last three years, will not be made in vain. The people are not ungrateful. They never will desert a faithful public servant} hut will interpose a shield to protect his name and his fame from the rude assaults of an unscrupulous and fiendish opposition. A man, who never in his Legislative or Congressional career, from 1814 to 1845, when he retired from the Senate, gave any other than a Democratic vote, cannot be prostrated by faction or treachery—and those who attempt it will only dig for themselves their own political graves, instead of seriously injuring the object of their hatred. Lancaster County Agricultural Society. At a meeting-of the Society held Novembe 1 11th, 1850, the (allowing resolution was adopted. liaolved, That tile President be required to ap point from the members of the Society,-a Commit tee of two in each township, where members reside, whose duty it shall be to procure the names of all farmers, and persons of all trades, arts and professions, who may desire to become members of the Society. The President therefore appointed the following Committee, who will obtain names accordingly and report them to the Society at the next stated meeting. Conoy Township—Cyrus S. Haldeman, John H. Smith. Conestoga—Casper Miller, Benjamin Urban. Drumore—John N. Hussel, Stephen J. Hamilton Donegal East—Hon. Jacob Grosh. Elizabeth—Peter Martin, Esq., B. F. Martin. Ephrata—Jos. jKonigmacher. Earl—lVm. Boyd Jacobs, David Shultz. Fulton—John Kirk, Slater Brown, Hempfield West—Jacob M. Strickler, Jacob H. Hershey. Hempfield East—J. Hartman Hershey, John K. Landis. Lancaster City—Daniel Rhoads, John Ehler. „ L “?“ter fwp.—Hon. James Buchanan, Henry M. Reigart 3 Leacock—Michael Musselman, Mark Connel, ir Manor—Joseph Hershey. J Martic—John Rawlins, Esq. Manheim—John Miller, Henry E. Lemon. Mount Joy—Jacob Nissley. Lampeter East—Christian Herr, Geo. Kendig Paradise—Henry Eabenshod, I. K. Ryon. Penn—Abraham Kauffman. Rapho—Christian K. Long, John Baker. Salisbury—Thomas W. Henderson, Samuel C Slaymaker. Sadsbury— Moßes Pownall. Strasburg—Jacob Hartman, George Lefevre. JACOB FRANTZ, Pres't. D. W. Pattebsok, Secy. Baixst s, in Market street, south side, above 6th, Philadelphia, is the place to procure'- cheap watches, jewelry, &c., &c. Don’t, forget to give him a call. Low Pazccs afd Low Fakes are growing more and more popular. Merchants are : beginning to find out that ! the small-profit system is the only cor rect system .of doing business; and when it is uiown that any establishment is conducted upon k WP"’* becomes popular. Who has not hesrd oftho &mous clothing house inßoston known as Oak Hah, which gained its‘present popularity by adhering to the low price system and extensive advertising. front CoL Jno.'w. Forney. __ PHrtinrrywTn, Dec. 6, 1850. Mr Oeai Sxm:—There used to be a famous or aB in %^ l 9 a *®diWitt Lancaster;* fowgrekra 'ifofmho TPijffwMedHotßKtK)^ *?® e thiligß,lf not in often.- of. him-fbat a.'sort of editorial which received sU.-forts of srticle*, TtTitteß;'bj sift •awte of people,-—running thro ugh 'mil the gride* personal detraction. Every thing was grist that came to his mill. His newspaper presented as many different styles as there are “ wants ” in the Herald, or speeches in the Union. It mattered not what was written—into the paper it went.— The vilest attacks. upon character—the most contemptible fabrications —the retailings of private .conversation—the sweepings of pot-house gossip —even ..stories invading the family were alike welcome, and all appeared in season. At that time Burrowes, now the writer for the Lan easterian, was a leading and proscriptive Antima son, and as many of these assaults were made upon Mr. Buchanan, it is no new thing for that person to repeat the accusations in the ■ Lancasterian that were formerly fulminated for the Antimasonic mar ket. The similarity between the editor in question, and Holbrook, the tool of Burrowes, is complete, with this difference—the former bad many scribes to minister to his insatiate malignity, while the Lan casterian has only one, but' he makes up for the variety of his slanders, by his willingness to do all the work that is committed to his hands. There is another circumstance connected with the Lancastrian hardly Jess suggestive. It is this. The only papers that now unite with it in assailing Mr. Buchanan are the organs of Van Buren— the eulogist of Georoe Thompson, the British agitator, who was driven out of Boston for his attempt against our Constitution—the Pennsylvania Freeman here, which is in favor of the dissolution of the Union Wilmot’s Bradford Reporter —and Hague’s Horo scope. The Lancasterian has nbt had one sign of encouragement from a single national Democratic paper in the State or in the country. On the contra ry, it has been denounced with indignation by many. Every Democrat looks upon its course with disgust. Even those who 41 like the treason despise the traitor.’* Men out of the cqunty, who have ob served the manner in which the foul work began, have but one opinion in regard to it.* They have seen how utterly without provocation the attack upon Mr. Buchanan has been. They. have seen him assailed for weeks upon pretexts that would disgrace the columns of the lowest flash paper of this great city. While quietly living at Wheatland, they have seen his course as a public man misrep resented, his name coupled with corrupt intrigues, his very visiters brought into notoriety; and his private life subjected to the criticism of a purcha sed pen. Positions are fully 'reversed; and now the Lancasterian plays the part of spy, eaves dropper and slanderer, formerly exclusively enact ed by the Antimasonic Herald. All this has been done, without the slightest provocation. If Mr. Buchanan could be damaged by this bold baseness, j execution would be the proper name to give to it. But he is protected not only by his own integrity, and by the triumphant fact that he has neither provoked nor answered his calumnia tors, but by the opinion of all good men who see the scandalous objects of his persecutors, and ap preciate them at their proper value. It is a home ly adage that a man may be known by the compa ny he ; and the Democracy of Pennsylvania will have a yet higher opinion of their favorite and champion,, when they see that at his own home his enemies have been compelled to confine themselves to charges alike contemptible and ridiculous.— They will see that these enemies have placed themselves under the lead of the inau who tried to break up the State government a few years ago, and that the only papers and politicians that repeat and endorse their aspersions, are the organs and echoes of Van Buren, ol Gcorce Thompson, of Dayid Wilmot, and of the advocates of the Dissolu tion of the Union. No great man ever lived who had not precisely the kind of ad vjersaries that now try to wound your : distinguished citizen. They all belong to the class who 44 hate the excellence they cannot reach.”— Jackbon had such foes—Polk had has them now—every man who has endeared himself people by his virtues or hie. services, and who has occupied public station with credit, has been assailed by the private malice of those who have attempted to drag him down from his impreg nable eminence, reckless if they were buried in the ruins of his overthrow. Mr. Webster .drew a pic ture of such men in his celebrated reply to Hayni, in 1830—or rather be eloquently denied the quali ties then attributed to him—qualities which unques tionably belong to all assailants of our great men, whether papers or politicians. His rebuke might well be applied to. the , editor, publisher, and con trollers, of the Lancasterian, who glory in their war with Mr. Buchanan. “When I shall be found, sir, in my place here, m the Senate, or elsewhere, to sneer at public ment; when I refuse for any such cause, or tor any cause, the homage due to American talent, to ele vated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endow ment of Heaven, and if, moved by local preference or gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.” These words of eloquence and indignation will never be forgotten ; and they may always be quoted to show how the conduct of such men bb npw assail Mr. Buchanan in Lancaster County, is estimated by intelligent observers everywhere. One circumstance goes farther than anything that has yetbeen stated to prove the absence of all reason and ot all principle on the part of these enemies of Mr. Buchanan at his own home. And this is, that those who are now the prime-movers in the crusade, were the first to complain of him for not denouncing the members of the Legislature who elevated Simon Cameron to the United States Senate. It would not do that Mr. Buchanan then took high ground in favor of caucurnominations. It would not do that he then referred them to the impropriety of an officer ot the general government rebuking a sovereign legislature. It would not do to direct their attention to the well-known feelings of Mr. Polk against any such interference on the part of .one of hia Cabinet. These ultra gentlemen insisted upon Mr. Buchanan flaying Cameron alive—upon the necessity of pouring down upon the head of every Democratic member who had voted for him the fiery lava of consuming indignation. When he declined to do so, for the* common sense reasons stated—reasons that must have weighed with all men, however they may have denounced the dis organisation uiider which Cameron triumphed— the present enemies of Mr. Buchanan did not hesitate bitterly to censure him for his course. Andlo! the sequel. 1 At the very* moment when Mr. Cameron is again asking to be sent to the | Senate of the United States, the very men who were so vehement against him before, and up to within a few months or weeks, are by some necromancy, transformed into his friends or into neutrals. At the very moment when their creatures ate searching the common sewers for causes of opposition to Mr. Buchanan— at the very moment when their organ, the Lancasterian, is attempting to revive the “caßt off slough of a polluted and shameless press,” and to recreate falsehoods sunk into the general mass of loathsome slanders—at this moment not a word is said, by the enemies of Mr. Buchanan, in Lan- ; caster, against the machinations and aspirations of Cameron, or against Mr. Buchanan for not denouncing the former, though this has been the sUnding and staple calumny against him ever since « Not one word.. Even poor Holbrook in his string of specifications against Mr: Buchanan, omits the “original sin,” which, in the eyes of Judge Champ nets and Colonel Frazer, Mr. Buch t ANab comn *itted, by declining to denounce Came ron and the legislature of 1846 that elected him. This is indeed a wondrous change. Talk of dis solving scenes, by which the loveliest visions fade before cur eyes, leaving behind barren lindseapes »nd burning cities—ulk of the skill of the Ravels, who changed from men into beasts, mid fromchild erninto giants—Ulkof the poor man of icwJay rising from his bed the rich man of to-morrow— talk even of the mysterious processes by which the Bank of the United States converted certain' poli ticians into vassals?—all these' are to be explained by sbme code of ethics: Butthatthe leaders of th*e eati-C amxron movement in Lancaster county—who were at the same time its leaders in the State*— shopid suddenly become blind to the Jkul ts of Gen. to revile Mr. Buch anan fort Mot him in 1845 —that this should be so J'pasejft This is a wben I expected to*ee Colonel ftifofal antfce watch-tower, aroustfg tjft hostrto that dahg«Er|&at'environed them —hircia* ;rion take ringmgthrimgh thecamp,andhissonoro&f •tonenof alanasftjjfingLhe whole Commonwealth Jiito the sentinel is asleep on the'ram* the enemy isJbußj with the weak and the wavering. Even - the County Convention, over which Judge Champniys presided, and at which he made a speech brim full of bitterness against Demo crats quite as good as himself, was silent in regard to the arch-foe otGur organization, Cameron.— *yhe columns of the Lancasterian , however they ony .boil over with assaults upon Mr. Buchanan, for alleged transgressions, no longer rail at him for his course on the Senatorial question of 1845. This has bqen the very head of all theaccusations against Mr, Buchanan on the part of his opponents. It is the only thing upon which, heretofore, they have made a stand. Indeed, it has formed their first and last complaint of him to others, and has been used with a violence and a constancy that the® whole State has observed. And now this grave charge is withdrawn, and the war continued on such stale and loathsome personalities as Burrowes can eke out of his fertile malignity. Wby is this? Alas, who can tell? Isitbecausetherehavebeencertain mysterious meetings between General Cameron and Colonel Frazer ? Is it because (a 9 rumor has it,) the latter now declares that Cameron should be elected if he gets the caucus nomination—a con tingency which a new light makes him believe highly probable ? Is It because there is a bond o union {between both in order to parcel out the honors in the future ? Is the Gubernatorial chair the peace-offering ? or is it because both are united at this momentin opposing Mr. Buchanan ? What ever the causes, the fact stands firm, that there has been an amnesty between these opposing leaders, and that there is just now as much billing and cooing as if the wedding had already been solemnized. Meanwhile, honest men, who have heard the one execrated by the other, as all that was base and bad, and Mr. Buchanan and others calumniated by the hour and the day, fornot uniting in this opposition—meanwhile, honest men stand by, and wonder ! There is a remarkable similarity between.the system upon which Gen. Cameron acts, in order to secure his ends, and the course of the enemies of Mr. Buchanan in Lancaster county j and this may be the new affinity that has grown up between them and the ex-Senator. Both resort to disorgan ization to accomplish their purposes. The one struck down usages in 1845, and by doing so got into the U. S. Senate. It is notorious that all his present hopes of getting bask to that position de pend upon the success of the same policy in January next. The enemies of Mr. Buchanan in Lancaster county have imitated the same tactics in order to carry out their objects. In the face of all prece dent—in violation of all usage—not only of their own county, but of every other in the State at large—they attempted to expel a County Committee from power before if had exercised its functions more than a few months, and to set up another in its stead, in the hope, of course, of obtaining one more pUant and less determined to act for the party. The body that carried out this high-handed assault upon our organization, followed up their usurpation by compelling a vote upon the Gubernatorial Con vention—that question not having been before the people at the primary elections, and the friends of Col. Bigler not .having hod a chance to urge his claims. After this, came another Convention, called by the supernumerary Committee alluded to, which elected detegates to the Heading Convention, the great mass of the pirty, refusing to recognize its legality, stood aloof from its proceedings. This disorganization is worthy of ihe system under which 6en. Cameron has operated for so many years, and if the State Convention does not rebuke aud repu diate it, a blow will have been struck at our .whole party discipline, including every local organization in the Slate, from .which the worst consequences may be expected to flow. Holbrook cannot fail to see—blind and obedient as ha is—that all this is too much of a good thing for the Democrats of Lancaster County to stand, and hence Burrowes is induced to abuse M?. Buchanan personally, in order to divert attention from the scene to which I have alluded. But unless I mistake the people of Lancaster County, they are not quite ready to endorse these transparent man ffiuvres. They may have submitted for a time to dictation—to domineering—to the oppression of one or two men, who sought to rule them—and they may have done so rather than injure the party, but when they are called upon to endorse personal assaults upotfMr. Buchanan, to accept Thomas H. Burrowes as one of the pillars of the Democratic Church, to forget former denunciations of Cameron, and to turn their backs upon the choice of the De mocracy for Governor, William Bigler, —all.at one and the same time—they may well call a halt, and ask how far they have been driven by the winds of faction from their true course ? I perceive that Holbrook, in his last paper, while referring to my course in Pennsylvanian , charges me with having dealt unfairly by General Cass and Mr. Dallas, in the matter of our late Union Meet ing. His reasoning and his, statements are alike false. I allude to them not to explain, or to defend, but to show the poor meanness of the self-convicted calumniators who use that paper tor their guilty purposes. The letter to Gen. Cass was sent off when the others were sent, and that was as soon as the Committee (of which I was one of six) composed •of equal numbers of both parties, could prepare them. The letter of Mr. Dallas was not published on the day after the meeting because it was not in reply to an invitation of the Committee, and be cause that gentleman was reported in a lengthy speech at the meeting. It was, however, subse quently published in my paper with special com mendation. It is false that Mr. Bc.chanin’s let ter was circulated before the meeting was held. When I can outrage the character of General Cass by refusing to denounce the miserable trai tors that defeated him in 1848, it will be time enough to call me to account for unfairness to him. The course of the Pennsylvanian in regard to the casting vote of Mr. Dallas will, I fancy, rescue me from the accusation of Burrowes who was one of the leaders of the infamous Inquisition in 1836, when Mr. Dallas was dragged to Harrisburg to expose, on pain of imprisonment, the secrets of the masonic order. Burrowes and Holbrook also charge me with not publishing my letters in the Pennsylvanian. I will tell them why. Apart from the fact thatl have as much of newspaper fame as would satisfy a vainer .man, the local character of at least two of thejetters made it unnecessary that they should be published out of the County. But as this takes a wider view of matters and things, I will probably oblige them by giving it a place in the Pennsylva nian. I hope I will not be called upon te trouble you with any more of these missives, though I will not hesitate to defend myself against the contin uance of assaults commenced without excuse or provocation, and persisted in in the worst spirit of malevolence and faction. Truly your’s, JNO. W. FORNEY. Geo. Sanderson, Esq.. Opinion Abroad* We make the following quotation from a letter received a day or two Bince, from a gentleman re siding in Washington City, it speaks the senti ments of one who is well acquainted with public opinion not only in Pennsylvania, but also jn the National Metropolis:— - “ Allow me to express the high pleasure! derive from the perusal of the Intelligencer. The manly and triumphant stand it has taken to vindicate Pennsylvania's great statesman from the assaults oi his formereulogizen, jviirbe duly! appreciated by; the Democracy of our State. * Occasionally'the friends of Mr. Buchanan here—and they are .num erous—are met with the declaration, that the De mocracy ofhis own County will repudiate him as the Presidential candidate, and it gives me great pleasure, to yeier such persons to the facts presented io the Intelifgehcer, in proof.of the hypocrisy of his S'* ints, aud lbeir utter inability to weaken the old be has io the affections of the people.” ID* Fresh, Shad, caught in the Delaware, were served up at Jones* Hotel, in Philadelphia, on i i-horsday wee^, Farthela&eutcrtnteUigncer. Fair. This wiU;be“ beldTn the Mechanic’s Insti- J u^ C 0 'on Wednesday, December 1 8th, until Saturday evening, the 21st ; to be a grand display.- The La u*goi the Congregation and others have been ac- weeks past in getting up ancles not - only a useful, but also of a very attractive nature—many of them well suited for Christmasf presents. The season for the presenta tioQ-qi such gifts beyig at hand, it is to be hoped the gallant young men of our good old city and county of Lancaster will cheer female enterprise by their presence, together with their fair ones by carrying away with them the fruits of the associ ation, and cheering the society in their exertions in assisting them to rear up so magnificent a church in our midst for the worship of Almighty God. May it ever ba remembered by* one and all, that in giving our aid to snch institutions we are strengthening the bonds of our civil and Religious liberties, and assisting to perpetuate these privile ges to the latest posterity. The liberality of Lan caster in such cases, has not as yet been known to fail, especiallyan a case like the present, when the object lends to beautify and adorn the city. May great success attend their worthy efforts. There will be refreshments of all kinds suited to every taste, and a sumptuous supper served up every night at 8 o'clock. The dissolving views will be exhibited, an inter esting and beautiful sight. 10“ The following communication has been' re ceived from Mr. C. H. W. Ettinuer. It speaks for itself, and fully vindicates Mr. E. from the charge o (plagiarism made against him in the communica tion signed “ A Subscriber,” and published in our last paper, we are only sorry that we did not pre serve the original manuscript of the lines “ To my Mother.” as it might have been the means of de-' tecting the author of the .contemptible trick: Columbia, Dec. f). IBf>u Totlie Editor of the Lancaster lutellifeocer/ Dear Sir—l was not a little surprised at the appearance of a poetic effusion, entitledTo mi Motheb,” purporting to be from my pen, in the Intelligencer of date Nov. 26; for I was not aware of its existence until I saw it in that paper, under my name. Supposing if to be the work of some malicious person, and unworthy of notice, I paid no attention to it and not because 1 thought I should gain* any “honor” *or credit from having ascribed to me the authorship of. the “poetry;”.,for I was somewhat astonished at the publication of such trash. But-as lam attacked and accused of plagia rism, in your last week's paper, it would be con trary to all sense of honor,- and injustice to myself, to maintain silence. I distinctly disavow any knowl edge of, or connection with the “poetry” in ques tion, either in writing itor procuring its publication. If I were at all inclined to plagiarism, I would ‘‘crib’ that from which I might acquire somewhat of a reputation; but the plagiarist I cordially hate, and he who would be guilty of building a reputa tion on the labor of others deserves, and should re ceive,the scorn of every intelligent being. Very respectfully, &c., 0 CYRUS H. W. ETTINGER. Steamboat Explosion. The following account ol the explosion of the steamboat A. Douglass, on the Alabama river, we extract from the Mobile Register:— We have'to record another awful disaster by the terrific powers of steam. The steamboat Arkansas' No. 5 arrived at this port yesterday afternoon, about five o’clock, with the painful intelligence that the steamboat A. Douglass. Captain Mont gomery, had burst her boilers yesterday morning,, about four o’clock, at Tait’s Shoals, on. the Ala bama, killing a very large number of passengers. The facts, as we can collect them, are as* follows: .The Douglass, which left this city a week ago last Monday, was on her return trip from Mont gomery. She was very heavily laden, 1000 bales of cotton on board, and a barge ih tow, with about 400 more. At Tait’s Shoals, near 100 miles above this city, she got aground about one o’clock yesterday morning. For near three hours vigorous efforts were made to get her off. Her po sition on the bar prevented her pump from supply ing the boilers with water—they working from the bottom. As soon as she moved, by the action of the engine, the cold water rushed in a large volume through the pumps into the boilers, and generated an excess of steam, which instantly burst the boil ers. The explosion occurred forward and upward; tearing the front half of the boat to pieces. There were about one hundred and twenty-five passengers aboard, besides the officers and hands, who numbered some forty more. The"passengers were nearly all asleep at the time of the explosion . The front berths, however, were tom to pieces , and the steam rushed up, and completely filled and enveloped the boat. The most dreadftil confusion and alarm, mixed with the cries and groans of = the wounded, instantly arose. The fire, scattered by the explosion, had now set the wreck in flames,— Fortunately, the barge in tow had not been injured, and to this most of the survivors escaped. Many, however, jumped overboard into the shallow water,’ and reached the shore. ’ It so happened that the steamer Arkansas, No. 5, which was wooding a short distance above, heard the explosion, and came immediately to the* relief. She took off the survivors, the killed and wounded, from the wreck and barge; the William Bradstreet, ascending the river, came along near the same time, and took off several of the passen gers. It is impossible as yet to tell number of killed and wounded: !t is said that more than twenty are known to be dead, and of the entire number of passengers and crew, only ninety-five have been found. Destruction of tbe Insane Hospi tal by Fire—Loss of Life. Augusta, Maine, Dec. 4. The Hospital for the insane was totally destroyed by firs this morning. It is supposed that from twenty to thirty lunatics perished in the flames. The fire was caused by a defect in the chimney.— The alarm was first given by some of the lunatics as soon as the fire was discovered, but the keepers supposing the noise to have been made by some of fhe insane, such as they were accustomed to, gave no attention to it. Finally the building was dis covered full ot smoke. About ten or twelve of these who perished were females. The female gal lery, however, was closed without any other loss, of life. The hospital contained 125 inmates, one half of whom were males. A large number of the insane were necessarily turned out destitute of clothing into the open air. Some have found ref uge in the jail and almshouse, others to private dwellings while a few are wandering about. The hospital was a new building about a mile from the town of Augusta. Population of Lancaster County, 1850. j ropu- iDweK tfam- I lationv- \ lings, men: Townships, &c. Borough Adamstown 307 ~ Bart, 3,838 414 414 Brecknock 1,341 261 279 Carnarvon 1,651 267 282 Cocalico East : : 1,810 390 416 Cocalico West : 1,967 335 355 Colerain : . 1,604 288 288 Columbia Borough : 4,142 711 767 Conestoga : : : 3,616 625 632 Conoy : : : : 1,688 283 303 Donegal East : 2,631 872 378 Donegal West : : 1,384 246 252 Drumore : :, : 2,826 456 462 Earl : : 4,711 848 $B3 Earl West : : : 1,671 276 282 Elizabeth : : : 2,305 '2BB 823 Elizabethtown Borough : 672 , Ephrata. : : : 1,979 361 398 Fulton : : : : 1,797 801 301 Hempfield East : : 2,266 ' 444 444 HempheldWest : : 2,724 466 485 Lancastercuy, N. E. W: 3,057 476 578 “ N. W. W: 4,226 486 790 “ “ I S. E. W: 2,828 606 575 “J S.W. W: 2,269 361 429 Lancaster township : , 811 98 104 Lampeter East : 1,980 341 358 Lampeter IT est : : 1,606 253 253 teaeeek'r : : 1,943 310 324 Leacock Upper : : 1,886 . 382 349 .Little Britain : : 1,793 300 300 Mantieim Borough 779 156 171 Manheim : : 2,089 364 386 Manor : : :. » : . 3,826 650 668 Marietta Borough : • : 2,101 381. 439 Martic : ; .3,100 527 649 Mountjoy : : : 2,626 498 498 Paradise : : 1,228 309 313 Pehn : : : : 1,920 354 365 Kapho : : : : 3,949 685 . 568 Salisbury : Y : ' .1,529 . 262 -262 Salisbury : 3,646 606 , 633 Straaburg Borough 880 140 168 Straaburg ■, : r : ■■ 1,724 ' 286 ' 306 : 2,252 "387' 424 Waahingtonßorough, , : 582 126 143 Total Population (city and c 0.,) : 100 760 • No. of Dwellings; : : 16,675 No. of Families, : • ; 17$$2 Population of City, /. :\ < . : 12,*880 . IQ; the population of the County rin* city) wa584,203, and of the ,<aty, “>417/ Therecenteensuashowaanincrease-iji thecity of ahout per cent, and of 'the conn* ty about'lB-per-ceht. • The dwellinga and families in Adamstown and Elizabthtown are included in E. Cocalico and and Ml, Joy, .
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