- -Biddle and Barnum. It i» interesting to the political reader, rays the Washington have his attention occasion ally directed to subjects that are not less important than politics, as pictures pf the changes that take place in the fortnnes of men as well as nations; and we do not know that'we have seen anything of this kind which has been' better conceived than the communication of pur correspondent “Old Bucks, which is inserted below. The thoughts suggested by the fact that Mr. Barnum has become the pur chaser’of the beautiful mansion once the property of Mr. Biddle, the former president of the United States Bank, are well calculated to illustrate the caprices of fortune, and the frailty which belongs to everything human. CURIoas AND BABNUM, It is announced in the papers that Mr. Barnum, of the New York Museum, has recently purchased the splendid country seat which belonged to the late Nicholas Biddle, on the Delaware river, between Philadelphia and Bristol, called “Andalusia.” Every traveller on the route to New York must have observed on the bank of the river a perfect archi tectural miniature of the United States Bank, now the custom-house in Philadelphia, surrounded by trees, shrubbery, flowers, and vineyards, like, some old baronial castle'of southern Europe.' This is Andalusia, built and adorned by Mr. Biddle' some twenty-odd years ago, when the Bank of the U. States was in the full flush of its glory and its power, and when Mr. Biddle could proudly assert that he was the bank. In those days Mr. Biddle carried each morning in bis rosewood portfolio the hopes and the destinies of four-fifths of the business men of Philadelphia, and a large portion of those of all parts of the country. The highest “merchant prince” would . run ten squares for a nod of that graceful ApolloVhead, and would go off in ecsta cies for a shake of that potent hand. But in an evil day for the bank, though a fortunate one for the country, Mr. Biddle attempted to measure swords with General Jackson, and fell in the encounter to rise no more. Mr. Biddle was no ordinary man.'. He was descended from' a gallant ancestry. • He was proud of it, and was ambitious to increase their fame. He had a finished education, a brilliant wit, and a fine imagination. It was he who so graphically decribed the speeches of politicians in Congress “as only eternal when they thought they were immortal.” He was enterprising and liberal, and thought, as most of the world did in those days, that he was a great financier. But all the.beautiful soap-bubbles he blew up in the “marble halls” of the bank exploded, and went down as quickly as those ot a like nature' blown up by boya for amuse ment on a bright summer day. They floated as long and shone as brightly, and they' vanished in the same mysterious way. All his . beautiful schemes, together with himself, were wrecked with the bank; and we all remember that painful spec tacle, exhibited before the close of his life, when -his foes gloated over the fallen man in the clutch of the officers of justice, while those who had cringed for a nod insulted him in his misfortunes. The great Darius was but his prototype. « Fallen, fallen from his high estate, And weltering in hie blood, Deserted in his utmost need By those his former bounty fed,. On the bare earth exposed he lies, ( And not a friend to close his eyes.” Mr. Biddle was brilliant, but deficient in judg ment. He was ambitious and unscrupulous.; nence his tilt at General Jackson, his cotton ant! other wild speculations, which prostrated alike his hope of political and pecuniary renown; hence, too, the unheard of system of bribery which had touched and corrupted so many public men and presses throughout the country; 1 hence, in fact, his total ruin. Let us now turn from him who erected Anda lusia, and kept his magnificent state in its tasteful hall, with his vines and fig-trees flourishing around it, and the flowers, of all quarters of the globe blooming in its parterres, to him who is now its master; and what a contrast 1 About the period when Mr. Biddle finished this mansion, Mr. Barnum was, if we have not beefi misinformed, keeping a ferry on one of the rivers of Connecticut. From this pursuit he changed to various others, .usually proving unlucky, till he hit upon that- which has made his fortune. It is no disparagement to Mr. Barnum to pronounce him to be the very prince of humbuggery. He engages in it with equal tact and judgment. He knows the weak side and the credulous curiosity of human nature; and he says, as the renowned hero of the play did— "The world is mine oyster , Which I with my sword will open 5” and he has opened it to some purpose. We believe that Joyce Heth, that antiquated specimen of negro longevity, was his first gold mine. The moment he had got the control of her, she rose at once to the dignity of Washingtons nurse. Yes; those long bony fingers, tipped nails like the claw 6 of a vulture, had smoothed the morning face and twined the bright curling locks of the future Father of his Country. Proof of all this was abundant; certificates and assurances confirmed it; the news papers; were frantic with delight at the discovery; crowds gathered round jthis living skeleton; and Bamum made his fortune! Well, if she was not the nurse of Washington, she might hav.e been, and no doubt would have proved a good one. Why, then, complain ? After her came successively Feeje mermaids —city belles converted into stone—ourang outangs—giants —Tom Thumbs—Jenny Lind— and, last of all, a cargo of elephants and kangaroos; by means of which be has contrived, and will still contrive, to lay the country under contribution for some million or two of dollars. Ah! Curiosity, thou art Barnum’s jewel and his lamp of Aladdin ! There is only one class of men who can 'beat him in the successful artof “putting money in its purse,” and that consists of. the venders of “patent pills” and other “quack medicines.” From the days of Dr. Hornbock down tp. those of his follow ers, Drs. Swain, Brandreth, and Jayne, the world has submitted to tbeir humbuggery as readily as to that of the cicerone of Gen. Tom Thumb! ’ Should 'the echoes ol Mr. Barnura’s menagerie awaken the slumbering memories of other days in the villa of Andalusia, how would the spirits of Nicholas Biddle and ex-King Joseph Bonaparte, and the thousands of others, foreign and American— illustrious men, heroes, statesmen, orators, poets and artists—who once'congregated there at the festive board, he startled out of “ their propriety /” In early days schemes were concocted and resolved under its roof that affected the commerce, governments, and literature of nations. Now, how changed will he the scene! Should Bamum adorn it with em blematic symbols of his rise and fortunes, what ah interesting “curiosity shop” would it display! His own museum would fade into insignificance , before it, and Andalusia could boast as many visiters as Mecca or Juggernaut of old. By the way, it would he a triumph worthy of his genius to purchase Mahomet's coffin, and suspend it in the portico of this facsimile of the whilorntemple of Mammon ! What armies of pilgrims would flock to the shrine! • We could not resist these reflections upon seeing it announced that Barbum had become the owner of Mr. Biddle’s once favorite abode. The ambition of the purchaser is just what we might expect. Barnum is resolved to be known—“to do or die.” How tickled will be the tympanum of his ear as each passing stranger receives this reply to his inquiry, “What place is that?” “It was once Mr.. Biddle's it is now Mr. Barnum’s.” The seal of im mortality will be thus set upon his name—Biddle and Barnum will be fellow-passengers to future ages together. How unstable is human elevation ! The great financier—the tl ohserved of all observers” —he wh'o dared to grasp the thunderbolt to hurl it at the head of the President, and that President General Jackson—descended to his grave a broken ruined man, while the humble ferryman—'the Connecticut Charon—rows his little skiff safely into port, freighted with close-fisted earnings of ingenuity and cunning, and at last lords it over this place of the defunct great! Both were equal adepts in the sublime art.of humbug. The the, one were grand and lofty—the other narrow and selfish; the one soared with the eagle—the other burrowed with the mole; the one was struck down in his pathway towards the sun—the other emerges into daylight, and is snugly ensconsed in the vacant eyry of the bird of Jove! No man’s fate can be foretold. The smallest may get the “start of this' majestic world”—the greatest may be trampled on by beggars. The very dust of Csesar may “stop a bung-hole!” Barnum has some good years of work in him yet. What isr-he destined to accomplish ? Let the vanity, credulity and folly of the world tell. . He knows how to coin more gold out of that mine than ever glittered amidst the boulders of Feather river. OLD BUCKS. JET The St. Charles Hotel, at New Orleans, now in course of reconstruction, is progressing rapidly towards completion. The foundations are finished, and the contracts for furnishing the brick and gran-" ite have been. made. When finished, it will be; it is 6aid, the most spperb building of the kind in the world, both in dimensions and architectural quali ties. It is to have at least one hundred rooms more than the old hotel, and will excel it in the style of its finish and interior arrangements. A Mass op Puns Coppeb.—The Cliff mines on Lake Superior have .more copper uncovered than can be got out in three years. . One single sheet, on which they are now working, is forty feet long, eighteen feet high and from six inches to three feet thick. Its estimated weight is 300 tons—still the miners have not yet reached either end or the top of the sheet. Vi ; ; —.y , &JOB PRINTINGS J< b PBnrrufo of Aii mhbb, roc? as AmUthi CUalogntt, Mop MU, BanJc ,<yuck9t jpi*c*rd*i Concert Bill*) Visiting iutd Buaineaa Card*, Foetera, Funeral Ifotlce*, *e-,*e., kivtlt Ann raoM?*ir naetr™" FiHe, took modeeate teem |ntelligmccr & Journal. Lancaster, May 27, 1851. | GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR; | • FOR GOVERNOR: i | COL. WILLIAM BICIEBi j: OP CLEARFIELD COUNTS’, Subject to the decision of the Democratic Convention 5 A proposition. kny person forwarding the names of fire good: neb subscribers to the Intelligencer, shall have a copy ofithe paper for one year, gratis; or, if he be al ready on our list, receive creditor one year's sub scj’iption. ®y the hew postage law, it will be seen that from anil after the Ist of July, papers circulate through the mails, tree of postage, to subscribers within the county in which they.are published. ID" The Mercantile Appraiser’s List of Dealers, &c., will be found on our first page. |ID" We direct attention to the advertisement of & Dbvenei, Manufacturers of Iron Railing, Philadelphia. Their establishment, although com paratively a new’ one, has already a high reputation, and those of our readers in want of any thing in tlieir line, would do well to give them.a call. United States Album. | We are under obligations to our friend and fellow townsman, J. Franklin Reigabt, Esq., for a copy of’ this beautiful work, arranged and designed by himself, and published in 1845. The book is ele gantly bound, printed on the first quality of paper, and embellished with the Arms of each State and other appropriate engravings. It also contains the autographs of President Polk and his Cabinet, the Twenty-Eighth Congress, Judgeß of the Supreme Court, Ministers Plenipotentiary, and other officers of the General Government —and is in all lespects a work of fare merit, highly creditable to the au thor which should be in the hands of every citizen. United American Mechanics. 1 The National Convention of United American Mechanics, which met in this City on Wednesday last; numbered 112 delegates—representing Coun cils from the States of Pennsylvania, New York* New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Connecticut and Missouri. The Convention numbered among its members men of the highest character for intelligence and respecta bility, and their deliberations we understand were marked with the greatest order and decorum. The proegssion was quite imposing in’its appearance, about 300 strong and was highly creditable to the gentlemen who composed the bedv. The permanent organization of the Convention ■ was as follows: President — John Marshall, of Maryland. Ptce Presidents — Daniel Melot, Missouri: Wil liam H. Wirt, of Ohio; James Hindman, of Vir ginia; Charles Lord, of Delaware, Secretaries —L. Blanche, of New York; T. L. Founder, of Pennsylvania. Doorkeeper-— S. A. Hurlb’urt, of Connecticut. Scargarit-at-Jfrms — lsaac T. Agar, of N. Jersey. Marshal —B. G. Peck, of North Carolina. THE RED MEN.—We understand the “ Meta mora Tribe, No. 2, ,: of this City, intend having a Grand Parade in full costume, on the coming 4th of July, on which occasion the Ladies of Lancaster will present a Banner to that Tribe. As many of the different - Tribes from various sections of the State and Union have signified their intention of joining in*the contemplated celebration, and the Metamoras here are using every exertion to make a grand affair of it, we may expect fo see some thing that will astonish us “pale faces.” It being the first public demonstration of the Tribe since its organization, it is expected that at least one thous and “Injuns” will participate in it. Juniata County. The. Democrals of Jnniata county held their County Meeting on the Gth inst., to appoint confe* rees to meet those of Union and Mifflin counties, to select delegates to the Judicial Convention at Har risburg, on the 11th of June. Dr. Joseph B. Ard was recommended as Senatorial delegate, and Sam uel E. Hench, Esq., as Representative delegate.— The meeting adopted resolutions in favor of Col. William Bigler for .Governor, and also unanimously instructed the delegates in favor of Hons. Samuel Hepburn, Ellis Lewis, Abraham Wilson, John. N. Purviance and William Strong, for the Supreme ’Bench. . . The. meeting also passed resolutions approving of* the election of Hori. Richard Brodhead. to the U. States Senate, complimentary to the present Board of Canal Commisioners and to the State Treasurer, Gen. Bickei, to the Democratic members of the last Legislature, in favor of the Fugitive Slave Law, &c. ; &c. Appointments bt the Canal Commissioners. Gen. Wm. Bmndle, to be Superintendent of uew work on the North Branch-Canal. Hon Timothy Ives, to be Superintendent of new work on the Portage railroad and Western reservoir. In making these appointments, says the Harris burg Union, we think the' Canal Commissioners have been fortunate. Both gentlemen are well qualified for the position they have been appointed to fill, and there is every assurance that the important works'in their charge will be pushed forward with the utmost despatch. Protestant Episcopal Contention. —The sixty-seventh Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, commenced its session in St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, on Tues day evening last, and adjourned sine die on Thurs day evening. Bishop Potter presided. Amotion to admit the Rev. Mr. Shannon, Pastor, and Chas E. Let and A. Potter, Delegates of the Church of the Crucifixion, to seats in the Convention, was negatived. The vote being taken by orders, stood thus: clergy, ayes 44, noes-43; voting by churches, each church having one vote, ayes 30, noes 41. So the orders not concurring, the niotion was lost! This congregation is composed of colored persons, but they have a white minister, and the delegates are white persons, chosen from among the corporators who originally obtained the charter for the Church. Subsequently, a Committee was appointed, to take into consideration the subject of admitting this Church into union with the Conven tion. No other business of particular public inter est, was transacted.—Reading Gazette. 07* Witmer & Patterson’s Ware House, Salunga, about 10 miles west of this City, was de. stroyed by fire on Thursday night last, together with a portion of its contents. There was a par tial insurance on the property. How the fire orig inated is not known. 07* The Cotton Factory recently erected at Har risburg, commenced operations last week. The trial of the machinery was highly 'successful, and showed that every thing was in complete working order. ; The~ establishment presents the highest evidences of excellence in all its departments: 07* Hon. John Bbedin, of Butler, died suddenly, at his residence in that Borough, on Wednesday last. ’For the last twelve or fifteen-years, Mr. B're din was President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Butler, district; and, at the time of his decease, was spoken of as a candidate for Meat on the Supreme Bench. Heave Defalcation.—The Postmaster at Ma '-con, Greorgia, Capt. Z. T. Conner, has absconded, being a defaulter in cotton sold by him for planters to the amount of from $13,000 to $70,000, and on j account of the post office, $4,400, it is said. I ReadingConvention—A SftjPf We look to this body to adjust thedifficulty that ban for several months disturbed the harmony pf the Democratic party in this county.. It is wdl known: that two setts, of Relegates have been ap pointed, both of whom will appear there to urge their, claims .to a'seat on the flow, and both pro fessing a willingness to abide the decision o! the Convention. Doth divisions cannot be right in the positions they-have taken, nor-can both be admit ted or rejected without still farther disorganizing the party. It is therefore bf immense importance in the ensuing Campaign that this difficulty should be settled by the paramount anthority, and settledi too, npon the principles of justice and right The convention no doubt will have all the facts before them, and it will be their duty to say which sett shall be admitted, and which rejected. The friends of Col'. Bigler here pledge themselves to abide by the decision whatever it may be, although they feel confident that they have right on their side, and can scarcely anticipate any other decision than one in favor of their admission. We believe the friends of Col. Frazer are equally anxious to have the matter decided and -are also willing to pledge themselves to abide by the result and submit to whatever the Convention may to—at least we know this is the sentiment entertained by all the Colonel’s friends w’ith whom -we have conversed on the sub- at THIS QF- ject This being the state of the case, we feel that it a matter. of vital importance to have the diffi culty settled by the onjy competent tribunal —the Reading Convention. The six thousand Democrat ic votes of Lancaster county are of vast impor tance in our State elections, and it will not do for the Convention to admit or reject both setts of del egates. This would not settle thedifficulty. In fact, it would settle nothing. On the contrary, it would add fuel to the flame of discord, the consequences of which would inevitably be a useless waste of strength in continued brawls, and a cor responding increase of the Whig majority in the county, which, in a short time, might seriously en danger the success of our candidates in the State and the Nation. We hope, therefore, to see this question finally settled, and settled, tdo, upon its own merits. If this is done by the Convention, then the Democ racy of Lancaster county will again move forward in solid phalanx. We shall then have but one or ganization—and, although, we may difier in opinion about men, that difference of opinion will no long er keep us estranged from each other, bbt we shall all be prepared t,o unite heart and hand in support of the regulan nominees of the party. Let the Convention do but simple justice in the matter. —, That is'all we ask, and all either party has a right" to expect. We therefore submit the whole case with entire confidence to the arbitrament of the higher power, and earnestly invoke a settlement. It is not many years since, says the Pennsylva nian, two young men, without means, started in . life. They -were both brothersj-and both printers. Both were Democrats. tfßoth subsequently aban doned their profession—after having earned public confidence in the .editorial chair—and since then they have pursued almost the same career, and, though resident in different States, seem to have gone together, filling nearly the-same public posi tions, and winning all hearts by the gentle suavity and steady consistency of their character and con duct. Both are still very young men ; and yet it is more than probable that both will in a few months rise to the Gubernatorial Chairs of Pennsylvania, the California of the Atlantic, and California, the I Pennsylvania of the Pacific. The brothers alluded to, arh.WiLLiAM and John Bigler, now the cun iceded favorites for the highest honors of their re i spective States, and the admitted choice of the Democratic party in each. The parallel will no doubt be completed when each is, as each will be } chosen to fill the posts for which they are candi dates. Their past history is a guarantee that they will go on, with equal jnarch, and unfaltering de votion, in the fulfilment'of their high duties. There is. in this picture much.'of encourage ment to the poor young man. Both of these Broth ers Bigler started money, and almost without friends. No academic honors crowned their earlier, manhood—no luxurious habits enerva \ted their frames—no wealthy friends encouraged their first essays in life. In the battle of the world they fought with no weapons but those, furnished by their own indomitable energies. In the strug gles for subsistence, they gleaned more knowledge from men than from books; while in the acquisi tion ol /noney, came also the golden opinions of t roops of friends. Let the young man, who’ would 1 despond over his own future, take heart from this example, and try to imitate the two brothers. The Falsehood Rebuked! We clip the following extract from the Cham bersburg Valley Spirit , by the way one ot the most spirited and efficient Democratic papers in the State. After enumerating various slanders and misrepresentations that have from time to time been coined and used by the Whigs to injure the character of some of our most prominent Democrat ic statesmen, the editor concludes his article as fol lows : But the meanest slander propagated during the hard cider campaign, and the one which has been most unblushingly adhered to in the face of better knowledge, is the one which ascribed to the Hon. James Buchanan a desire to reduce the wages of laboring men to “ ten cents a day.” If it had been true that James Buchanan, the son of a poor Irish man who kept a station for pack horses at the mountain beyond Mercersburg, and earned all the bread he ate by the sweat of his brow, had in the United States Senate advocated the reduction of wages to ten cents a day—if he had at any time or in any place so far forgot his duty to the class from whose bosom he sprung, as to propose to les sen the reward of labor, he would have deserved all the abuse that has been heaped upon him. But as he did not advocate a reduction of wages to ten cents a day, nor propose to diminish in the least degree the reward of labor; but as, on the contrary } he eloquently pleaded the cause of the poor labo rer, and proclaimed that "that country is the most prosperous where labor commands the greatest re ward” is not the individual who chargeahim with being an advodate of “ Ten Cent Wages ” guilty of an act of meanness that ought to be despised by any man who&as been blessed with half a soul or even a good sized gizzard 1 We have no hope that the whig party will change its system of election eering. We have no expectation that it will ever behave so decently towards Mr. Buchanan as to fairly state bis sentiments in regard to the wages of labor; and because x we have no such hope and no such expectations, we have gone to the trouble of making an extract from his “low wages” speech, so that the people may see what views he advan ced. As Mr. Buchanan the next Demo cratic candidate for President,'it is important that the Democracy, and especially the Democracy of his native county, should know how villainously he has been misrepresented. We are gratified to learn that Col. John W. Fob net is to be the Democratic candidate for Clerk of the House of Representatives at Washington, at the ensuing session of Congress, and there does not seem to be a sfiadow of doubt of his success. He was the nomihee of the party at the commence ment of the last Congress, and was only defeated by the peculiar position of parties at that time, and the bitter hostility of the Free Soilers, in conse quence of the bold and manly stand which he took in his paper in favor of the Constitution and the Union. Withirf the limits of this broad Union, we "know of no man better entitled c to this honor than Pol. Forney v When the storm of Abolition fanaticism threatened to sweep the whole north, as with a besom of destruction, and .many of our leaders were ready to yield to its influences, he was the first to stand out in defence of the true principles of the Constitution, and help stay the torrent that was bearing everything before it. Now that the danger has well nigh passed by, all can see the wisdom of his course ; all admit the service that he has ren dered to bis country, H and we trust the National Democracy will unite, as one man, in conferring upqn our gifted fellow craftsman this honorable and .important position. —Harrisburg Union. The Two Brothers. Col. Jolin W. Forney. Time was, says the Louisville Democrat, when the editor of the Journal snuffed from afar all symp" toms of extravagance. in the federal government. The columns of his paper teemed with frightful exhibitions of figures, showing to what an extent of prodigality the corruptions - of locofocoism had gone. Lately, when appropriations to the amount of fifty-three or four millions we ashed, for, and a pressure for more by a whig administration he is as damb as an oyster. Indeed, the editor does not think that any paper, except the Democrat, would dare to accuse tbe administration of extravagance. After all the monstrous appropriations, the com plaint is that the locofocos in Congress had the estimates made for- military forces on the frontier, and, refused to allow the money. So we have it confessed that whiggery to get along wanted =more money. The $53,000,000 was not enough L And yet whiggery wanted in addition $5,000,000 to pay old Freneh claims, 12,000,000 acres'ofland to give to insane asylums, and $2,000,000 to squander away on duck ponds, mill creeks, &c! In the name of conscience, how much money would satisfy them! Would it not hp better for the federal government to mortgage the States, and; raise what is needed for the whig.party to carry on the government for the next year? Prentice has the impertinence to assert that these enormous appropriations were made to pay tb* expenses of the war. This is utterly false. The ex penses of the war have been paid. There is nothing Jeft but the interest of the debt, about $3,000,000; the indemnity to Mexico for territory, $3,000,000; add the additional charge of the acquired territory, say $1,500,000; put all together, and you have only seven and a halt millions. The expenses in time of peace, before the war, were only about $25,000,000. Thirty-two or three millions should be amply sufficient now. The claims that may be decided to be due to our citizens for Mexican spo' liation reach perhaps $3,000,000. The overplus about twenty millions is a mere corruption fund to reward parlizans—to Crawfordize, Ewingize, and Galphinize upon. We are asked to name one itemjto be retrenched. That is the duty of the departments, and not ours. It is not even possible for Congress to perform it judiciously. The country knows that $53,000,000 are not needed. The federal government isn’t worth the money. There is not enough'for the federal government to do, of any benefit to the States, that s worth that sum annually ; and a party that can’t get along with less should be scouraged out of office and political power. Depend upon it, the next Congress will apply the pruning knife. The hypocritical simpering about the Mexican war, to hide reckless profligacy, will not answer the purpose. We referred to Corwin’s report—a shallow partisan production—9f which any party ought to be ashamed. Corwin made out the expenses of the Mexican war about $200,000,000. And how do you suppose the cunning calculator made it out? He computed the expenses of some years before the war, and guessed what he would want to get along lor an equal number of years now. The balance was a formidable sum. We don’t know why he stopped where he did. If the whig party should keep power twenty years, the expenses will be a thousand millions over what they have been the last twenty. This, however, would not be the expense of the Mexican war, but the expense of the whig administration. It will cost the country more than the Mexican war. If our,frontier suf fers, set it down to the mismanagement of a whig administration. The revenues of the worjd would hardly support it, if it and its partisans had their way. If the whigs had passed all the schemes they labored lor at the last Congress, the expenses of this year woitld have amounted up to at least $75,000,- 000. If they had the next Congress, they would break up all nature. They would mortgage the government, but they would get the millions to Galphinize upon. : A Whig Meeting—“ but not by any means llie most respectable.” Under the above quaint heading, the Pennsylva nian of Friday published the following highly diverting account of a Whig indignation meeting held in Philadelphia .on Thursday evening, for the purpose of calling Mr. Collector Lewis to account* j for the “insulting and aristocratic doctrine” pro- j claimed in his recent letter to the President.. It would seem, from this description, that the harmo nious hosts of Whiggery are in a state of glorious confusion, just now: . The meeting last night at the Museum of those “who are well enough in their sphere,” was a little bit the funniest, the noisiest, and at the.same time, the biggest demonstration we have had for a long time in Philadelphia. In ordinary times, if the j large saloon of jhe Museum is anywherfe near full, the turnout is thought to be very good; but on this occasion it was not only completely filled, buj: the entries, stairs, nooks and corners were all thronged, to say nothing of the outsiders who filled Ninth st., from Chesnut street to the Walnut street Theatre. There were a great many parties and interests pres ent, including the “Lewis men,” the “anti-Lewis men,” Mayor Gilpin's Police, who fairly distanced the proudest achievements of the “ Martial Police,” and a large.body of Democrats who occupied the outer circles of the “sphere,” but were by no means the most indifferent spectators of the fun. Peleg B. Savery, Esq., the whig Senator from the county, a gentleman who is “respectable” in any sphere, oc cupied the chair, the resolutions being read by Mr. Samuel Lloyd, of Penn District, who may be “well r enough,” but as yet, we have no vouchers as to bow he rates at the big White House; but what the res olutions were about, or who were the Vice Presi dents, there was too much “noise and confusion,” to permit us to ascertain. As soon as the proceed ings were fairly commenced, the stand was mounted by a body of the Kellys, intluding Johnston. Jim and John, a rampant gentleman named Buck, and several others from the Court House and Post Of fice delegations. .eThis was the signal for a regular “knock down and drag out.” Several of the “most respectable” were arrested and taken to the Mayor's Office. Amongst them was one of the Kelly's who had “pistols for two,” but was obliged to go with out his “coffee” till this morning, when he will take it at Mr. Gilpin’s levee. From this time out, the meeting was one continued scene of uproar and tumult, enlivened every now and then by the marching out of some unlucky wight, who, not knowing how far the proceedings were under way, would sing out “No P when he should have an swered “ Aye,” and vice versa. The “groans for Lewis” and the “cheers for Cooper,” and the “groans for Cooper” and “cheers for Lewis,” were proposed in such rapid succession, in different parts of the room, that it was impossible for any but the most active men to keep up; but all that was nothirfg to the Mayor's police,, for they! pounced without ceremony and without mercy upon every fellow who made his response in the w’r’ong way and at the wrong time. But which was tKe right way and when was the right time, nobody but the police seemed to be able to make out. ; j The Stbipid Pig in Illinois.—The legislature of Illinois, passed a law to prohibit the (retailing of intoxicating drinks within that State. At Spring field some genius has hit upon a novel way of sup plying his customers with the critter ir defiancte of the law. Thus: “ The premises.consist of a room divided by a partition into two apartments. Upon entering the first apartment, a square opening, and it is the only one, is'discovered several feet from the ground in the partition walL Immediately before this ope ning in the second apartment a number of glasses labelled ‘rum 1 ‘gin* ‘whiskey,’ &c., are standing upon a table. Upon a picayune being dropped into one of these glasses, the table begins to turn upon'its axis, and by the time it has made a horizontal rev olution, the glass is filled with the liquor indicated and stands in its original position.”' The Mayor and Marshal of the city have exam ined said‘premises’closely, without being able to find any ‘man, woman or child’ acting as salesman or of dicovering the means by which the 'table* is turned. And up to the last accounts the thing was still in operation. Virginia anb her Resoubces.—The value of the real estate in Virginia, as exhibited by the cen sus returns is $278,000,000.. The value of slaves, $147,000,000 ; of other personal estate, $105,000.- 000 ; making a total of $530,000,000. . , ißter^ngCorrespondence. It is, wit£t pleasure we publish the follow corres pondence j between our worthy townsman, J. FKivxtnr Rxibart, I his; Excellency, Louis ; Nifotpov, President of the French Re public. * j j' The'Author of thei**United States Album” has* certainly a spirit of patriotism in jib* publication of a workj eo interesting, containing the likenesses and autographsof mofet of our great men together with the epbellished emblemsof Amjer ica, and a'beautiful copy of Jhe Declaration of In dependency elegantly printed in letters of gold, to gether with a fac simile ofdhe signatures to that immortal ; instrument- And by directing these Takem to j the first President of France, in a style so ‘suitable as to be honorably received, and, with distinguished consideration, thankfully acknowledg ed by the* Head of th;e Republic, (it being a‘ high compliment paid to a Lancasterian,) was a novel and praise-worthy act which merits a .flattering notice l from the ; press. The following, is the cor respondebce alluded to; Lancaster, November 30, 1848. Hon. Richard Rush,Envoy Extra. & Min. Plen. of the U. S. to the French Rtpublic : Dear Sir: —As one of your Pennsylvania friends, you will | allow me to present you with a copy of my “ United States Album,” and take the liberty of requesting you to'present the other copy to the first President of France, at your favorable oppor tunity, which will be gratefully remembered by Yours, very respectfully, J. FRANKLIN REIGART. , Paris, January 6th, 1849, J. Franklin Reigaßt, Esq.: Dear Sir :—I beg)to acknowledge the receipt ot your letter, and with it the copy which you are so good as to present to me, of yourbeautiful “United States Album,” for ; which, gratifying mark of your kindness, I beg you; to accept my sincere and best thanks. I have also received safely the copy you design for the President of the French Republic, accompanied by your letter to him, dated , the first instant; the latter enclosing an autograph letter from General Washington, dated “ Head Quarters, Philadelphia, Feb’y Ist, 1779,” to Captain John Hopkins, of Lancaster city, an officer of the Revo lutionary Army. I will bo happy to fulfil your wishes in the way that may be most appropriate to this occasion. With renewed thanks for yourbeautiful work, I beg you to believe me, With great respect, your friend •And fellow citizen, . RICHARD RUSH. City of Lancaster, State of Penn’a, United Stales of America, > January Ist, 1849. ) To his Excellency, the President of the Republic : Sir .--i-Permit me, one of the humblest citizens of these free and blessed United States, to offer and present to you, a Freeman’s New Year’s Token. The motive which prompts or induces me thus to act, is merely to gratify my own feelings of de light, which at this moment afford’* true American, whose heart palpitates for the destiny of France, from the nature and happiness of his owm loved land, such enjoyment that neither power of his pen, or the force of his language can properly express. As a free and independent citizen—one of the people, of no other title than that of being anlictive member of the great Democratic party of this glorious Union, I feel happy to present to the first President of; France, a copy of the “ United States Album,” containingthe autographs of'the immortal signers of the sacred Declaration of Amer ican Independence,-and showing the prominent sta tions that all our go«d men now occupy in this «land of the free and home of the brave,” and more happy in soliciting your acceptance of an Original letter, the true and genuine hand writing of General George Washington, an ever pleasing memento of him, who was our first President — “ Who was first - in.;War, first in Peace, and first in the hearts of his Countrymenand the companion in arms ot the great and good La Fayetfe. * May the Great and Good Being, who presides over the Universe, who has so abundantly blessed this now happy country, in his kindness and mercy, bless you and the people of France, and may each New Year find you a happier and mofe prosperous people, and may your name and your'memory, be beloved.and revered in France, as George Wash ington’s was, is, and ever shall be in America. This, in sincerity and respect,- is the prayer of your humble American Friend. JOHN FRANKLIN REIGART. Presidency of the Republic , ) Paris, April 4th, 1851.) Sir: —You have had the exceeding kindness to present to the President of the Republic, a beau tiful United States Album, of which you are the author, with an autograph letter of General Wash ington enclosed. These precious objects were re mitted to him through the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, the 28th day of. March last. Thfey were., received with particular interest; and touching the? expression of your anxious solicitude in favor if France and for his own person, he charges me-do address you, and return his earnest acknowledge | ments and thanks. | Accept, sir, the assurance of my j ’ distinguished consideration, I Chief of the Cabinet, ! MORGUERED. M r. John Franklin Reigart, at Lancaster City, Penn sylvania, United States of America. The following interesting letter has been placed in our hands by Judge Lewis, ol this City It will doubtless be interesting to many of our letter from Gen. Tlios. Jefferson Sutlierlam Table Creek, Nebraska Territory.) April 21_, 1851. ’ J Table Creek—The Missouri River—The Shores of the Upper Missouri, and the fertility of their Soil—The Nebraska Territory—lts Natural Resources, fyc. To the Hoii. Ellis Lewis : Dear Sir: —Believing that a lew items of inlor mation, from this verge of civilization, would be pleasurably received by you, I will avail myself of this opportunity to furnish you with the jottings of this sheet. I write from a position on the right bank of the Missouri river, distant about thirty miles from the of the Nebraska or Platte river, which pomes in to the Missouri at the expressed distance, above this place. lam consequently within the proposed “Territory of Nebraska.” Opposite is Fremont county, lowa. Previous to the commencement of the late war with Mexico, there was a military "post called “ Fort Kearney.” But Fort Kearney is now at the head of Grand Island, (situated in the Ne braska river,) distant two hundred and thirty miles west. The Missouri river, from the mouth of the Big Sioux on the north to the Kansas on the south, has a general course nearly north and south ; and it is this northerly and southerly stretch of the Missouri river which forms the east boundary line of the proposed Territory of Nebraska. The north-west ern counties of the State of Missouri and the west ern counties of the State of lowa, embrace the shores of the other side of the river. ’ Take both of the Missouri river, within the stretch between the Big Sioux and the Kansas, xnd include one hundred miles east and west from the Missouri, and equal soil cannot be foand in Americs. Indeed there is no parallel to its fertility. I have treaded the continent from the regions of Canada to the shores of* the Gulf of Mexico, and no where else have I seen lands, as productive as these. It is true that in this Territory of Nebraska there is some deficiency in the quantity of growing tim ber ; but by an economical use, the timber of the Territory would be found sufficient' lor two hundred thousand inhabitants, and made to suit all purposes until timber in abundance can be grown ; which might h#accomplished in a few years. This Territory possesses great natural resources aside from agriculture. Below this place, eight or ten milesj on the Missouri river, a vein of semi bituminous ;coal shows itself in the bluffs. Fifty miles 'further down the river a vein of coal has been opened and worked for the benefit of the U. S. forces stationed at Fort Leavenworth. I "am also informed by credible persons that a vein of coal has been discovered on the Bigßfue River, a tributary 6f the Kansas. On these facts we may found the belief that coal of a good quality and in abundant, quantities, may be had in almost every corner of this Territory. In every section good clay, for .the purposes of brick, may be obtained in any quantity; limestone exists without lirpit; and other varieties of stone, fit for the p’urposes*of building, may be also had in great quantities. In one of the bluffs on the north side of the Nebraska river, I saw a vein of sand stone similar to the sandstone of the valley 01 the Ohio. Along ithe bluffs-of the Missouri river, on this side, thereiare shown large quantities of the same description of clay, which is found on the banks of the Ohio \ side, and which is there used for pottery and. fire-brick. On the North side of the Nebraska, fifteen or twenty miles from its junction with the Missourij I found in the bluffs Iron ore of a, good quality. ; It makes its appearance in boulders, and extends along the blufis several miles, and exists there, nb doubt, in almost iooxhaustablc quantities. Distant about forty miles west from this, a small stream of brackish water empties into the Nebraska river. This stream is familiarly called “Salt Creek;” and at the head of one of its.branches there is a salt spring sufficient for the manufacture of salt enough ppresenrehalfofdiemnneriofthis con-, tiheht— kind of pfckle 1 ” would" save them. - - This Territory i* alto well*watered. Ihavetrav elled the distance or five hundred miles within the Territory, and have seen no^ stagnant pools. In every taction I have found ibe water nitre and running ; and there are numerous streams, affording any amount of water-power which may be required, for mills and; machinery. -This cannot be otherwise than a healthy territory of country. s As proof of the fact, I have to testify -that from the 2d to.the- 9th of April instant, 1 en* camped out, add suffered'ho* inconvenience from the cold. The atmosphere, here is as pure and 'bracing to the lungs as in the West Indies. The latitudes of Nebraska are those of Pennsylvania, but the snows here are less; and the winters more mild here than there. The prairies are-new covered with flowers; and the trees of the groves are putting out their leaves, and the grass is now so far grown as to afford food for cattle and horses. Such is the Nehrasba Territory; and this is now only occupied by’.the remnants of a few tribes ol Indians, who are lazy, ignorant and miserably .poor —-and vastly overrated in numbers. The shores of the Missouri river included in the State of lowa and Missouri arc without lime, or stone of any kind in any considerable quantiles. On that side of the river there are neither salt springs nor coal-veins; and the bluffs there are from two to ten miles from the river, and are but sand clay-bluffy at that, while the bluffs on this side are of rock and gravel, with some pointß of hard clay, and have the river hugging the base; From these facts, you will perceive, the town sites are all on this side of the river; and as the resources for manufacturing purposes are all here, there can be no full development of the agricultural resources of the opposite side, until these miserable Indians now here shall be removed and an intelli gent popoulation allowed in their place. Yours, very respectfully, &c., TH. JEFFERSON SUTHERLAND. For tha L&nouter Inldlifeocer. “ Regular.” Ha! ha ! ha! My dear Editor, excuse my hi larity—but really your correspondent “ Tiddle” is ' a queer specimen ! He has gone off into one of < his fantasies about noseß, and the dear knows now,- where he may stop. Next thing he shall attack,' will be, I suppose, mouths and chins, and so on until he crawls over the whole “corpororum” as. dear old Mrs. Frisby would say. But he has over looked ono kind of nose —a fact that will speak volumes againsthim—;should he continue to neglect its description. =1 refer lo the parrot or hawk-bill.' This is a kind much worn by the dealers in “ole Clo,” in South and Shippen and various other fash ionable thoroughfares in Quakerdelphia. It is more like a “regular” nose—“ Tiddle” to the contrary notwithstanding—than any pattern now on exhibi tion. The McGubbins family, of which “ Regular” of the Lancasterian is supposed to be a lineal des cendant, and which at one time flourished “drop ping liko the clouds of May” the “mountain dew” in the classic,“via Shippenienais,” to the great comlort of all and singular the inhabitants thereof, and adjacencies; have long worn,and cherished this sprt of nose. It forms, when crossed with the “retronsse” or terrier nose, a splendid variety. It indicates business habits, no matter where the habits may lead, so that money be had. But this nose has also its faults. After having led a fellow into bus iness, it may stand in his way—stick out in such bold relief as to frequently tempt a passer-by to hit it a bowser for thq fun of the thing, or a crusty, dis satisfied customer to take hold of it in the (vain) hope of drawing back his lost dinner. *• Vain hope ipdeed, sir! One might as well at tempt to suck a mint julep out of a milestone. I give an episode in .the life ot an ancestor of the family to prove the fact. Dr. Wolfe and the rest may draw from the light of history their own con clusions —but Tam 'inclined to think their hope of succeeding against the McGubbins nose fallacious indeed. It is a “point de appei” most difficult to oppose —is the nose of the McGubbins’—so, to avoid theprobability ofinglorious defeat,let all take warn ing from the fate of quandam friends of the McGub bins’ depicted in the following 4 . SCENE.—A GROCERY IN PHILADELPHIA. : Dramatis Persona, Jemmy McGubbins, - - Landlord. Jemmy McGubbins, Jr., - - Son. Arty Malone, Esq., Bartender. p AT} A Drayman. Tom, A Stevedore. Pat. —Good mornin’ Mr. McGubbins, nn how’s the ould leddy an the children 1 Jemmy.— Ob, party well—wbat’l be , to-day, Pat. Pat.— Och', by ray sowl, McGubbins, its develish little I am the betther of the cursed stuff yez passed upon us for the rale owld lnnishower, the last night at all! Tom. —By the Hill o’ Howth yez have murthered intirely the swatest family that iver kern from Ulster —ye ould omadhaun! Its the devils dew yez give out, ye bloody Ban-shee ! May the nager o’ night grate ye kindly ! Jemmy .—Be this an be that —its the natest shop in Shippen atrate thatl’m afther kapin’—blurinage, yez are a! purtj; pair o’ bliggards to spout lik that! Wud yez take,off a dacent man’s ca-rac-ter7 Tom.-f-Oh, good mornin’ till ye ! Won’t some body hould me till I faint! a:swate jewil ot a swindler ye are to spout yer car-ac-ter in the face ov a dacent man ! , Arty Malone.— B’ys don’t yez see the leddies ! Kape yer timper, here’s the laiidleddy smilin’ as swate as a Warms jist poppin’ out o’ the say. Kapc yer timper b’ys! Pat. —Arty hould yer whist —kape yer nice talk for nicer company, or be jabers I’ll whack the nose aff ye! Tom.—Hould up Pat, ye divils bird —if its a nose yo’d iikeAo rap,, take the ould cock ;be sowl he’s one that hangs over his face lik the neb av a turkey ! Tap it any way—the bloody ould Jew ! Jemmy, Jr. —Oh pappy,,pappy! don’t let that nasty Irishman hit your nose—you know Mr. B—, the preacher said it was a noble one. You know, pnppy, we ain’t Irish any more; we are going to be quality when we shut up shop ! pdf, Dear! oh dear! me complements to the ■ young nosey ! Och but yer a b’ys av the rite grit —a bud o’ the ould stick. Tom.— Yis f the .curse o’ Crufhmel on the tribe, they’ve fobbed us poor deludered craters av half we’ve made for the last five years, an now wid a small stock av .beans they’re not Irish ! Oh my. country! my country! Jemmy. —Get out-ye bliggards—l’ve jined the Fetheral party, an Mr. B’s wating—so yez can’t think I wud associate with the dirty trash as yez are. (To Arty.} Take down the sign an.shut up the wundies, Arty; be jabers I’m a gintleman. (Exeunt omnes.) BUMBLE. “ Squib.” “ Chap. i. “A large mountain and a small pole»cat. Hist! iush ! —a pole-cat and a mountain ! Huzza ! “Chap. ii. “ The pole-cat views the mountain —ami the mountain frowns upon the pole-cat! See, its huge brows contract, (not the pole cat’s, but the moun tain’s) and the thunders crash —and theriightnings kick.up a row! See—hist! hark! " Chap. iii. “Oh! ah!—Um! ****”’.., From a late and highly interesting novel by Lip-hard. Who does not, my dear Editor, see in the above a splendid concentration of intellect—throwing “Burke on the sublime” entirely into the shade! Lip-hard is great—in his way—but “Squib” is greater any way. New for his theme. An oration and Dr. WoUe—a Wolfe and an oration! An idea strikes Squib! Did it knock him down ? No ! But it gave him cacathes scribendi —and the Wit flashes—and the language groans—grammar gives out—and into fits ; all are too weak tepexpress the horror of a Squib, at the presumption of a Wolfe! .Ha! to the rescue!. Ring the bells— blow the toot-horns—run, somebody, and rouse somebody else! A Wolfe has borne off an idea belonging to another! Yes! Put another rrians language into an oration—a Fourth of July oration! Why opens not the earth to vomit forth its toads and straddle-bugs, in horror at the scene ? It is too much for Squib! Can he bear it? Must he en dure it? No! Crash goes the thought through his brain like the blade of a state saw-mill through rotten hemlock! Ah! * • * * v [Here the author caved in and died—calmly as a catfish on the strand, and I, Puck; am forced in ex ecution of his dying request to lay this, his master piece, before the world. \ may here too, say, that I have' from good authority—that inasmuch as there are several fourths of July in prospect—and that as there is a possibility that |Dr. Wolfe may be again called upon to mount the nostrum—he will in all probability never be 4 again guilty of the naughty trick of quoting Dr. Nefi and Mr. Sparks* Washington. He intends engaging a certain phy sician (by courtesy), who formerly lectured on Cal oric, and played the clarionett, to 1 the great amuse ment and a edification of our citizens, to assist him in future* in all great undertakings. So Squib, Simon, Regular, Squib, Jr., and Dr. Bumfoozle, will have no further cause to complain, nor the world in general to be convulsed by the i matter. So mote ft be. PUCK. Columbia, May 23, 1851. s Tbe Shout Route from China.—The New York Herald states that among ;the wonderful im portations in the Empire City, arrived on Saturday, is a small chest of tea, which Jia* been sixty-nine days only from Shanghai to Neiv, York. It was thirty-four days en route to San Francisco, and thirty-five to New York. It came by Gregory s express, and is^intended for President Fillmore. “ Meeting or Bigler Club So. aI” A large .and intelligent portion of .the citizens of Columbia,:met pursuant to public notice with' “Bigler Club No. 2” on .the evening of the 17th Inst, at the Town Hall;.and in the absence of the regular chairman of the Club, on motion of P. Morris, Dr. N. B. JVolfe was called to preside.— Afler.the binutesof the meeting of the 33 inst. werti read; and adopted, the Chair followed with a few appropriate remarks tending to sustain the principles upon which Bigler Clubs in Lancaster county were founded, and at tho conclusion .of which, announced and introduced W. H. Welsh, Esq., oi York, who had- kindly consented to ad- dress the Association. As Mr. W. took the stand, he was greeted with a warm and enthusiastic reception, which contin ued at intervals throughout the delivery of his great speech. He reviewed the political and civil history of our country from the days of Hamilton, Madi son and Jay, down to the present time, and traced with a master mind and glowing eloquence the his tory and changeless character of the Democratic party,—founded upon an enlightepethand compre hensive system of laws, and a recognition of the capacity of the people in the aggregate to govern themselves. In contra-distinction to this party, he asserted, the centralization of power advocated by Alexander Hamilton, (though successfully combatted by the venerable Madison, Jay, and other enlightened and patriotic statesmen) con stituted the nucleus or centralization of Whig principles at that day; and although that party had changed its positions by “ stooping to conquer,” as often as the chamelion changes his complexion, and donned as many names as their were patches upon “ Joseph’s coat of many colors,” still it had <« a habitation and a name” with the Whig party * ol the present time. The speaker then commenced an historical pil grimage, bringing his auditory up through the sev eral administrations, and as he carried, them along over the civil fields of legislation, he brought out io vigorousexhibition the character ofthetwo great political parties of the country. In the one we recognised an open, manly advocacy for the great principles, that mankind are capable oPgovernUig themselves, and that ail legislation should conduce alike to promote the comfort, the happiness and the general prosperity ol the entire people t In the other, we had ever forced upon our view, the insid ious and cunningly devised schemes to promote- a centralization ol perpetual power among the few, who njlc the many by whim and caprice j.and who encourage “ a splendid government, by the encour agement of splendid monopolies, and the special protection ol splendid men.” Occasionally tho speaker would linger by the way-side ty point out some interesting incident in the glorious past, and to illustrate some of the cardinal political virtues of the Democratic party. Thus, when he arriyed at the administration of Mr. Madison, its glorious achievements were presented with a truthfulness of description —a vigor of patriotism—a dignity of virtue and an elevation of soul, that brought down thunders of applause. Again he opened to our gaze the fruitful fields of Andrew Jackson’s labor, and a single glance at his Roman character and brilliant achievements, spell-hound the audience in admira tion, whilst every heart beat eloquent with praise. From this oasis the genius of his elequenco passed 1 on over an almost barren waste, until we again be* held it hovering over the administration of the la mented POLK. Hero, the glory of.the past is again revived in all its splendor ! Here, admira tion fixes its eye, whilst the Presiding Genius of our country looks down and inspires the hearts of all with Hope, by placing the mantle of departed ♦ greatness upon the shoulders of our own BU CHANAN ! Here, the great, comprehensive and luminous mind of that distinguished statesman, exerts its holiest energies' for the reputation, the glory and the power our country. The storm cloud, pregnant with the elements of annihilation, threat ening destruction to the proud edifice of human liberty, is, by his mighty genius, dispelled and all is bright and beautiful again. The speaker dwelt upon this portion o( Ameri can history with peculiar felicity. It was the brightest page —illuminated with the. name of BU CHANAN —a name that is now “ a cblumn of cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night,” tolead ‘ ua through the portentous storms which threaten all around us. Ho then, with a beautiful flight of imagination and a legitimate exaggeration, pointed I his auditory to the ultimathule of progressive democ racy ; and after paying a just and merited tribute to the character and public sorvices of Col. Wn.- " liaki Uiolzr, concluded amidst much applause. Col. W. S. Amweo of Lancaster was then called for, and appeared upon the stand j and with some well selected and highly judicious.remarks, enter tained the meeting for the space of a quarter of an hour, amidst frequent interruptions of cheerjng.— At thexonclusion of his speech the following reso lution was offered by Mr. John Slack and unani mously carried: Resolved , That the thanks of Bigler Club No. 2, be, hereby tendered to W.H. Welsh, Esq., of York, and to Col. W. S, Amweo of Lan caster, for their very able addresses upon this oc casion. >, The following resolutions were th&n presented by Dr. N. B. Wolfe, as embodying the. spirit of a portion of Mr. Welsh’s speech, and were- passed by acclamation. Resolved, That we have undiminished confidence in the integrity, wisdom, patriotic devotion and un sullied. character of the democratic party of the country, to minister our laws with equity—to gov ern our people with prudence, and to preserve the Union of the states with firmness; and as members of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania, and citi zens of the United States, we ar-2 in duty obligated to furnish no “ aid or comfort” to Northern fanat icism or Southern ultraism ; but view the actions of both extremes as impiouß factions and .anti-Ameri can —as inimical to the perpetuity of the consti tution —as destructive'to the harmonious operations * of our government, and as injurious fb the best in terests oi the body politic. Resolved, That the sentiment of the lamented Jackson-=-“ The Union must and shall be pre served !” is our sentiment; and should awaken a patriotic echo in every heart thatloves the country, and should excite an iron nerve in every arm to strike in that country’s defence. After the passage of the foregoing resolutions, Dr. Wolfe offered the following one, which was carried without a dissenting voice, prefacing it with somefremarks, urging the necessity of keeping up some active democratic organization in our bor ough during the entire approaching campaign. Resolved, That when we adjourn, we adjourn “ Bigler Club No. 2” sine die, but that we' meet again, as members of “ Democratic Union Associ ation No. 1 of Lancaster county ” on the evening ol the 14th of June next, to respond to the regular democratic nominations to be made in the state conventions to be held in Reading and Harrisburg, on the 4th and tho 11th of June. On motion of Harry Wolfe,' ; - Resolved, That the, thanks of Bigler Club No. 2, arc hereby tendered to the officers of the Associa tion lor the able, energetic and efficient manner they have discharged the severa* duties of their respective offices. On motion' of Adam Maxton, Resolved , That we now adjourn. J. J. GAULT, President. C. M. Strein, Sec’ry. For tba lattlligcoccr. Steamboat Disastiti in the Delaware. —On Tuesday night last, at 8 o'clock, the steamer Ohio, from Newcastle, with about 100 passengers on board, was run into near Greenwich Point Land ing, below Philadelphia, by the steamer Commo dore Stockton. The Ohio was sunk and the upper decjc / covered in thirty minutes. Terrible conster nation prevailed. Many swam ashofe. A large g number of ladies and children were ! aboard, and many were taken off in small boats. The conster nation was so great, a all the lights being extinguish ed by. the water, that it was impossible to tell the extent of the accident. Two or three are known to be drowned, and it is apprehended that several others found a watery grave. Nearly all the baggage floated off and was lost. The Ohio was completely stove in.' The .Commodore Stockton was also severely damaged, but did not sink. j New and Dangerous Counterfeit.—Counter feit two’s on the old Relief plate of the Lancaster Bank, have been put in circulation, the general ap pearance of which is good, and well calculated to 'deceive. On the true note, around the lower mar gin, the word “two” is repeated ftcenfy times, and between each is a small block of white. On the counterfeit “two” appears twenty-one On the upper margin of th'e genuine, on either side o the “two,” are a number of blocks of white, resem bling those in the lower. On the counterfeit, the blocks on the upper right end and the lower left end are wanting, differing in this respect from the good notes. The words “on demand m the genu ine, begin within a sixteenth of an inch from the marginal line on the left part of the bill,. «hi e in ■ the counterfeit the space is more than double.— v Reading Gazette. Cumoca Phekomkso.v. —We are informed, by a ■gentleman who witnessed the Phenomenon himself, (says the Winchester Republican,) that there was a mock sun observable in the sky on Saturday morning last, about the hour of seven. There seemed to be two suns, the artificial one presenting a solid and brilliant appearance, and scarcely dis tinguishable from the true one. The distance be tween the two might have been ten degrees to the eye, and they were at about equal distance from the horizon. It must have been a curious sight. Cj-The Loeusfs have made their appearance
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