a- J o>B PjO N'T, I N G I ■»_■ Job PiINTTKO Kuroii*BUCH ; AB. : PtcmpKUtt, fkijdotnu*,, Shop , BUlt, *•»* Check*' Flucarisi OoHoert Blll»i Vliltiiiff . «ina Buloeu Card*, Porter*, funeral,: " ' ' JToUCWh 4°‘» **•’» ; ' ni? BIITtT am' PBOMPIXT-EXECOyED AT; ltllO «*- ' FICE, ptow' b^>P»»A tis J intelligencer & iontnol. Lancaster. July 8, 1851. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. FOR GOVERNOR COL. WILLIAM BIGLER, OP CLEABFIELD COUNTY,; j FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER : v REN. SETH CLOVER, OF CLARION COUNTY. [for, JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT. JEREMIAH S. BLACK, Somerset. JAMES CAMPBELL, Philadelphia. ELLIS LEWIS,-Lancaster. JOHN B. GIBSON, Cumberland. WALTER' H. LOWRIE, Allegheny. A Proposition. Any person forwarding- the names of five good new subscribers to ihejntelligencer, shall have a copy of the paper for one year, gratis; ox, if he be al ready on our List, receive credit for one year’s sub scription. > , By the new postage law, it will be-seen that from and after the Ist of July, papers circulate through the mails, free of postage, to subscribers within the county in which they are published. County Committee meeting. The Democratic County Committee of Lancas ter county, are requested to meet at the public house of William J. Steele, in the City of Lancas ter, on Saturday the 2d daf of dugust> at 1 o’clock, P. M., on business connected with the approaching general election. A general attendance of the members is requested. NEWTON LIGHTNER, Chairman. ' N.- B. The members names will be published next week. [July 8,1851. JE7-A powerful Address from the officers of the late Democratic Judicial Convention, evidently from ihe pen of the Hon. James M Porter., one ol Jhe Vice Presidents, has appeared in the Pennsyl vanian-covering more than three columns of that journal. It is, a production of great and remarka ble ability, and should be read by every Democrat in the State. We shall publish it at length in our next issue, DR. DICKINSON’S DISCOURSE.—We have received from the Committee of the Presbyterian Church of this City, a pamphlet copy of the Dedi cation Sermon delivered by Dr. Dickinson, in May last. His subject was “The Church of Christ,” and his text Col. 1. IS*. To say that it is a well arranged and able dis course, all will admit j but fault has been found with the Rev. gentleman for some of his allusions to sister churches. We do not feel disposed,to give any opinion on the subject—hut rather advise our readers to call with the Committee, who have a large supply on hand, and obtain copies for them selves. They can then form their own opinion .in reference to the merits of the discourse. The price per copy is only twenty-five cents. , A Relic of tbe Olden Time. We were shown, a few days'since, by Mr. John Kilhzffeb, of Manor township, an ancient Spanish medal, dated 1546, which He dug up in hoeing com r near the little Conestoga, about four miles south west of this City. The* medal appears-to have been worn and is of the best quality of hell'metal—brass forming the principalT>arr, with an admixture of. gold and silver. It is two inches in diameter, and is about the thickness of a Spanish dollar. On one side is the representation of the Crucifixion, with the two malefactors on either side, ihe Roman sol diers surrounding the Cross, and in iront is a wo man in prayerful attitude. The foreground is cover ed with skulls. On the other side of the medal is a representation of the Feast of the Passover •, above the table is suspended a chandelier from the centre of the arch resting upon Egyptian Columns, whose bases rest upon . solid inscription (which is tolerably distinct,) surrounding the edge ot this side, is as follows: “Desiderio desireravi hoc Pascha manducare vobiscum antequam patiar." The translation is as follows: “ With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.” Luke chap. 22 ver 15. For a correct deciphering of the inscription we are mainly indebted to Mr. Samuel E. W. Bf.cker, Principal of the Male High School, and to Aider man J. Franklin Reigart, both of thi§ City. What this ancient relic was designed for, or how it got there, is, of course, somewhat ol a mystery. The presumption is, that it was brought by the Spanish Clergy, who came over after the discovery of the American continent for the purpose of con verting the Indians, and that it was given as a sign of baptism in, and conversion to, the Chris fian faith. In his wanderings through the wilder ness,.the aboriginal convert probably dropped, it on the bank of the Conestoga, where it was lound, about three centuries afterward, by Mr. K. It was evidently fastened to a chain or string, and suspend ed irom the neck, as there are marks ob the medal indicating places for fastenings. i The medal is certainly a great curiosity in its way; but inasmuch as we are no antiquarian, we do not profess to be able to dive into its history so as to give a more minute description of it. Which Is True? The Examiner, in speaking of the Democratic Ratification Meeting, on Saturday week, says it ‘'was about the slimmest affair, for a county meet ing,' that ever came off in this neighborhood;”— and .a correspondent of the same paper, in another column, with somewhat more regard to truthful * ness, says it was “a pretty numerous assembly.” Well, it was truly “a numerous assembly,” all things considered; and the large number of. farmers • from the country in attendance, (some of them residing more than twenty miles from town,) must have been any thing else than gratifying to our Whig friends, who could hardly raise a larger meeting at ' this busy season Of the year, if they were .to try.— Indeed we doubt whether, at their State Convention, a few days previous, they had as many, of their country friends in attendance as the Democrats had at their ratification meeting. Taking off the dele - gates in attendance and the residents of town, Dem ocrats and Whigs, who were present during the deliberations of the Convention, and the old Court Room would have presented a beggarly account of j _ empty, seats. This would not have been the case, | we presume, had the Convention been held at some ; other time; but the Examiner must recollect that the same rule will apply tojboth parties. The truth is, the Democratic meeting was a large and highly*respectable assemblage—and its effect upon this community cannot be lessened by any attempt to underrate its numbers. The proceed ings are before the world—and the substantial plat form laid down is in happy contrast with the rick ety concern upon which our Whig opponents • have taken their stand. * ‘‘ • IETThe National Whig, a scurrilous'campaign sheet in this City, seems to be almost a literal tran script of the Harrisburg American and Lancaste rian. ,: Birds of a feather always flock .together.”—* We can hardly suppose, however, that the low scurrility and vituperation indulged in by this new organ will be pleasing to a large body, ofWhigs in this county, whatever chuckling and delightitmay produce amongst a few professing Democrats. • Independence Day. r The seventy-fifth anniversary of American Inde i pendencewas celebrated,in various i places in this county, with much spirit and enthusiasm.. At Manheinf there was'amilitdry and, civic celebration, which pissed off very'pleasantly, we understand.-?- There was also a celebration at the Village of Lexington, in Eliiabeth township, which we learn was pretty well attended. In this City the day was ushered in by ringing of bells and firing; cannon—then came the crackers, which kept going off incessantly until late at night. In the morning a very handsome i procession of Firemen marched through the principal streets.— The 1 companies on parade were the Friendship, i Washington, Sun and Union Hose Companies, the whole under command of Newton -Lightner, Esq.,, assisted by several aids. Th» occasion was the re ception,of a splendid heW3Tose Carriage, by the latter Company, the manufacture of Messrs. Cox <s■ Suydam, of this City! Upon partaking of some.re freshments, after their march, at the Carriage House of the Union, the several companies were dismissed at an early hour.. The next thing in order 'was a very imposing procession of the Improved Order of Red Men, which assembled at 11 o’clock and proceeded to the Court House, • where a very tasteful and elegant , banner was - presented by the Ladies to Metamora Tribe, of this City. The presentation address was delivered by John A. Heistand, Esq., on behalf of the Ladies, and the reception speech was made by. Mr. Geo. S. Ball, on behalf of the tribe—both of whom acquitted. themselves handsomely. This done, the procession, including a large number of the Order from Philadelphia and Baltimore, was marched through several of. our streets, under the direction of the Great Chief, Lewis Haldy, who was assisted by a number*of subordinate Chiefs, when they were dismissed for the day. ; - Many of the Firemen and Red Men had - beauti ful wreaths to decorate their persons—presented, no doubt, by their lady lov’es upori the interesting occasion. ; In the evening, a magnificent display of fire works" from the west end of Chesnut street, closed the cel ebration of the National Jubilee.r This, gorgeous entertainment was under the superintendence ol Mr. Geo. S. Ball, and was seen by thousands of our citizens, all of whom appeared delighted beyond measure at, what they witnessed. Take if all in all, and Independence Day was more generally and appropriately observed in Lan caster than, perhaps, any other town of the same size in the Union. So may it always be. A Leaf from History. It will be seeij that the "'Whig State Convention, assembled at Lancaster, has placed in nomination for the office of Canal Commissioner, the Hon. John Strohm, of Lancaster. This gentleman was a representative in Congress during the Mexican war, ahd when a proposition was pending to vote supplies for the* brave and noble band who compo sed the American army, U7"HE (with thirteen others) VOTED’AGAINST nj,«ol.in order to .thwart the efforts ol the’ administration, and inflict misery, if not death on our gallant troops, in pref erence to extending that “aid and comfort” which every man who valued American honor or felt desirous of sustaining American : rights, was eager and anxious should be liberally bestowed. A Whig Convention assembled in this-city o.n the 19th of June, of last year, grid Mr. Strohra was very warmly urged for the office to which he has now been nominated, by the Lancaster delegation; but such was the apprehension j of the Whigs of defeat under bis banner, that the vote he received was a very meagre one. He wa,s openly denoun ced in Convention by Mr. Gibbons, of this city, and Mr. Cornyn we believe of Huntingdon, who both expressed their belief that what'they termed Mr. itrohm's “unfortunate vote,” would be disastrous to the Whig cause, We copy, from our file of June 20th, 1850, the following record of the Convention: ■ Mr. Cornyn moved to procee4 to the nomination oJ a candidate for Surveyor General, when Mr. Dickey moved to amend by proceeding to the nom ination of Canal Commissioner, j This was resisted by Mr. Penrose of Cumberland, jwbo did not know who to vote for. Mr. Gibbons Appeared to, be in the same predicament. He stated that if Strohm were nominated, he would, in consequence of vot ing in Congress against supplies for the American troops, during the Mexican be a most unpop- • ular candidate. This brought Mr. Dickey to his I feet, and he indignantly repelled the charge, but j [ made a most lame and impotent defence. A kind of a small fight was now got up to avoid going into an election, but Mr. Dickey succeeded in getting his resolution adopted. Mr. Cornyn then took - the floor and eulogized Mr. Sadler, and then took the same grounds as Mr. Gibbons, in reference to Mr. Strohm’s “unfortunate vote,” about supplies for the Mexico. Cornyn and Gibbons have become patriotic in these'latter days of Tay lorism and Galphinism. Several motions to adjourn were now made, which were all voted down, and the Convention proceeded to a ballot for Canal. Commissioner,, which resulted as follows: Wm.R. Sadler, ‘ 38 John Strohm, 15. Joshua Durtgan, 20 Shuman T. Phelps, 9 Morgan L. Reese, 2 , The President, announded’the Committtee on Resolutions, with Mr. A. K. Cornyn, as Chairman. Mr. Dickey, on behalf of the delegates from Lan caster, withdrew the name of! John Strohm. He did not think th.e claims of Lancaster met with much favor in the Convention. It was evident that the “unfortunate vote,” to use Mr. Gibbons’ phrase, did the business for Mr. Strohm. | So much for the specimen!of the Whig consis tency exhibited by the Whig Conventions. The vote” will do Mr. Strohm’s business as effectually in 1851, as it was done in 1850. Pennsylvanian. A Disinterested Opinion. We clip the following sensible article from the Baltimore - Clipper> a neutral jprint—but, as neutrals generally are, with strong affinities for the'Whig party. From the general course of the paper, we are very sure praise of the Whig platform, (if it had deserved it in the remotest degree,); would haye been much more agreeable than censure;but,'inas much as “ the Whig Convention has not come up to the hopes and expectations of the friends of the Union,” the Clipper cannot iwish success to any man or to any party, that will not discountenance the factionists who seek to dissolve the Union: — Politics in Pennsylvania. Both the demo cratic hnd whig parties of Pennsylvania, have held their Conventions for nominating State‘officers.— The resolutions ot the Democratic Convention ap proved the compromise acts of Congress, and fa vored the repeal of the law of Pennsylvania which prohibits the use of State prisons for the confine ment of fugitive slaves. The Whig resolutions are restricted to an approval of the compromise meas ures, and a proposition for the repeal of the State , law just mentioned, was refused consideration. So that the Whig Convention lias not come up to the hopes and expectations of the friends of the Union. ' To carry into full effect the'compromise acts, the use of the jails foi the temporary confinement of fugitive slaves may be absolutely necessary; and, yet the Convention would not sanction the motion for the repeal of the prohibitory law. The Con vention also failed in its duty in another important particular... An amendment to the resolulions was offered by Mr. John M. Scott, of Philadelphia, “rec ognizing the right of owners of slaves to reclaim their property,” which was icut off by the call of the previous question; and thus the Convention re fused to recognize said right. The Democratic Convention met the subject fairly and boldly, and resolved to support the compromise acts in good faith, and we regret that the Whig Convention adopted a different policy, j We cannot wish suc cess* to any nian or to any party, that ■will not dis countenance the factioiiists who seek to dissolve the Union. • . i : A Bloomer is Showy a. —The Boston Gazette speaks of witnessing the effect of several sharp showers upon the'new costuriie. The Turkish trowsers lost their contour,land-flapped around the pedestals of the wearers like a wet banner round a nag staff, while the tunic- was deprived of its stiff ness, The fair Bloomer was in a most awkward position, and reminded thej Gazette of a seriously indisposed hen, who had been caught some way from her nest in a thunder | storm. The Whig Platform— Agata*--, < The Examiner is veryanxious to make it appear that the pUtform of the^fe'g;St*te Convention i* identical withthe piatiprm ofjthe Wh*6 -Cattity Convention ofJlte “O&Goarf” and charge* n* with miHrepresenting tKe'fdrmer.- Wehad expect-, ed better thing* of ; «ur neighbor—knowing, as -we do, hi* hostility to the course pursued hjr Mr. Ste vens on the slavery question. Bnt, whiggery is whiggery in Lancaster, as -well as eyery where else, 'and we are not at all surprised at the euddeSchange in the Examiner's views. -Whether the equivocal and wishy-washy resolutions,of-the State Conven tion will satisfy all the, Whigs of this region, re mains to be seen. Some ot them, who are sincere ly devoted to the Union and in favor of carrying out all the compromise measures of the last Con gress, to the very letters, may wonder how it was, notwithstanding the'seeming resemblance between the resolutions of the County Convention and that of the State Convention, (which are paraded, it may be said, in juxtaposition in the Examiner,) that the following resolution, offered John M. Scott Esq., ■of Philadelphia, should have been rejected in the latter Convention by a vote of 92 to 27—or more than 3 to 1: Resolved, That the’provisions of the Constitution in reference to the rendition of fugitives held to ser vice or-labor, demand and shall receive from our party a faithful, manly and support Now, It must be apparent to every intelligent reader, that this resolution is nothing more nor less than an endorsement of the Constitutional rights of the Southern people in reference to a reclamation of their fugitive slaves—and Convention re fused its sanction, on the ground, as Mr. Sullivan, one of the delegates, alleged, that it would lose the Whig party the benefit of some three or four thou, sand Abolition votes —and he might have went a step farther and said, that such a resolution was in opposition to the wishes and feelings of Gov. John ston, which was really the case. If the delegates composing the Whig State Con vention had been in favor of adhering to all the. nomproraise 'measures ol the last Congress, as the Examiner would peem to intimate, why should they have rejected such a resolution as the above? But, the truth of the matter is, they were not in fa- Vor of all those measures, and that is the true se cret of its rejection. They prefer dealing, as is their usual practice, in broad and unmeaning gen eralities which may be construed to mean any or every thing. They seem to have acted upon the principle that every thing is fair in politics, and did not hesitate to appear all things to all men, so that they might retain power. But the Whig wire workers will perhaps learn, at the close of the pres ent campaign, that the masses of the people are in. telligent, and that they are not just so easily hood winked as they have supposed them to be. The New York Journal of Commerce thus re- the doings ot the late Whig Convention, and exposes the duplicicity of Governor Johnston and his party leadeas. We recommend this extract to pur neighbor of the Examiner. The Journal of Commerce is a neutral print, and its opinion is en- titled to great weight: “Among the resolutions adopted by the Conven tion on Tuesday, (92 to 27) one declared ‘ that the adjustment measures of the last Congress shall be faithfully observed and rejected by the whigs;’ but from the remarks of Gov. Johnston and others, it is evident that the acquiesfience thus promised is is only to last till such a time as a modification can be effected. An amendment offered by Mr. Scott, of Philadelphia, ‘ that the provisions of the constitution in reference to the renditron of fugitives held to service or labor, demand and shall receive from our party a faithful, manly, and unequivocal support,’ was shut out by the previous question; yeas 71, nays 48. Are we to understand that a majority of the convention will not agree to give a faithful, manly and' unequivocal support to the provisions of the constitution in reference to the rendition ol fugitives 1 If so Pennsylvania whig gery is in a bad'way. Looking at these votes, and at the fact that dlmost all the whig members of the legislature at its last session voted against the repeal ot the state enactment which refuses the use ol its prisons for the temporaay lodgment of fugitive slaves when claimed by their masters and arrested under due process of law, we are compelled to be lieve either that the feeling among the whigs of Pennsylvania on the subject of the compromise is not what it ahould be, or else that, under the lead of Gov. Johnston, they are playing a game with a view to secure the votes of the abolitionists. Gov. Johnston in his speech before the convention, stated that ‘if the fugitive slave law could be.amended,or made perfect,’ i e. abolitionized so as to defeat, its own objects, ‘he would, if called upon to vote, sup port the amendment.’ He said, ‘ the peoplo were told not to ask the amendment .for fear of disunion; but he did hot think that any act of congress would dissolve this Union.’ And again, ‘he esteemed it the duty of eyery man to teach his neighbor the impossibility ol disunion.’ This is so exactly the lingo of the Sewardites of this state, that we cannot doubt there is a concert ol action between the par- The nomination of Gen. Scott by the convention, in exact choru9 with the Seward organs at Albany, and elsewhere, is another evidence of a foregone conclusion, All the other whig candidates for the presidency are avowedly in favor of the compro mise as tt is. But Gen. Scott is supposed to be , uncommitted, and the Seward and Johnston whigs l have therefore pitched upon him as a man who, I with adroit management on the part of the wire pullers, may receive the votes of the abolitionists. They are evidently shaping their course lor a coa lition,-with that miserable faction, in the choice of presidential electors. If the whig party sustain this course, we hazard nothing in saying they will be whipped out of house and home. The democrats will take advantage of the blunder, and elect their bwn candidate with a rush, Brought forward un- Ule? such auspices, Scott will not get the vote of a single slaveholding state.” M. Cartwright, * 5 (J. J. Ball, 3 Ajdara Gittinger, . 2 Wm. Wilkins, 1 Increase of Exports. We extract the following article from the Public Ledger, of Tuesday last. The statistical informa tion, as well as the recent favorable news received from Europe in relation to the advance of flour and grain, cannot but bi highly ratifying to the friends of the present tariff, and especially to the agriculturalists of the country. The Ledger says:— The United States have sent to England, for the present year, down to the 17th of June, the follow ing quantities of breadstuffs, as compared with the same:period last year:— Bbls. Wheat, bu. 1850 - ■ 307,015 - - 430,329 - 1851, - - 1,018,869 - - 944,830 The excess of export is equal to 730,000 bbls., worth nearly three millions of dollars. So much for free trade. What would our farmers do with this large surplus, and what would be the price of flour and wheat, should we return again to a high tariff, and so cut them off from the market of the world. The last foreign news, we are glad to notice, brings us information of improvement in the price of bread stuffs—an advance, by the way, that has taken our dealers by surprise. It was wholly unanticipated. The cause of the sudden rise is thus stated by Liv erpool merchants, as published in the Liverpo’ol Times: “Last harvest was firmly believed, by parties moat conversant with calculation, to have been much below an average. Notwithstanding low pri ces have ranged, under large importations of foreign produce, but by far the greater proportion has gone into consumer’s hands; and, since the commence ment of the present year, putting into store has been more from necessity than choice. We lately,' and especially this week, witness a demand upon ns from a distance in the interior unknown since the memorable year of 1847. Does this intimate ; that the growers are not holding stocks usual at this period of the year? lam strongly of opinion tha the farmers and millers have not held shorter stocks of wheat than they do now, at a similar period, for a number of years, and that low prices have dot only caused immense consumption, but that, under dispiritedness, this prime article of food fias been to some extent wasted, as was the case after the good harvest and low prices of 1834 and 1835. There are tolerably large stocks of wheat and flour in the ports, but if these are to be drawn upon from a distance in the interior, they would soon prove small enough.*’ mrThe Shippensburg News, a Whig paper, has passed into the hands of John McCurdy, Esq., by whom it will hereafter be conducted. Mr. McC. is the same gentleman who formerly published the Whig paper in Fulton county—but a sudden de privation of sight compelled him to return to his former home in Shippensburg, Cumberland county. He is now totally blind, and bis friends have assis ted him in procuring the News establishment He is a clever young-man, and, pecuniarily, we wish him abundant success in bis undertaking.. Politi cally speaking, we could wish Mac were a Demo crat. t ’'i *; ]%e Keystone, tlie LancaJ i! terlaou. " ■• ■ - -^t- prefees Were brought into mart encefomoother purposethan to*hbitte.ha4^ e, “ >o °ff •Sfri Bochanan. Tbat ; they nay do' this'the effectually, they assume thetiile of Democratic presses, whilst slandering the man who Jor many long years had enjoyed the-unbounded confidence and the higheat official rewardsof the Democracy .of. Pennsylvania—having received the unexampled honor State of three successive elections to the Senate of -the United States, by a purely Dem ocratic vote. Can they expect that the intelligent Democracy of Pennsylvania will, at their bidding, become like themselves inconsistent, and denounce and proscribe the man whom they have bo long saßtaih&rby their generous support? As well might journals who, under the mask of Democracy, should personally abuse General Cass in Michigan, Judge Woodbury in New. Hampshire, Judge Doug lass in Illinois, Gen. Houston in Texas, or General Butler in Kentucky, attempt thus to succeed jin destroying the fair fame of Demo crats and accomplished statesmen. | The Keystone is under the control of a shrewd, sagacious and cunning man, who has no passions; and'prejudices beyond self interest, and who well knows that he can never use Mr.’Bucbanan for any but honorable purposes, should he be elected Pres ident. Not so, the Lancasterian. It is under the control of a gentleman, who, to say the least jwe can, is a very excitable personage, and whose pas sions are very-apt to get the better of his judgment. These have necessarily led him into the messes prepared by the very man who in his better days he denounced more bitterly, if possible, than he has since denounced Mr. Buchanan. ; These passions will eventually, we fear, much to our regret, for we have always highly esteemed the man, land him in the. Whig party; and, Irorri present appear ances, we shall not be astonished if this should be his destination much soon?t than we had, or he himself has, anticipated. Quite as strange things have occurred in the political history of Pennsyl- vama. [ i; These two presses, well knowing that theii: at tempts to injure Mr. Buchanan have only recpiled upon themselves, and by arousing his friends to action, have made him stronger than he ever jwas before with the Democracy of Pennsylvania* are now, as a last resort, endeavoring' to convince) the South that it would be in vain' for them to support him, because, Jorsootk, he cannot obtain the vote of Pennsylvania! ‘ There is not an unprejudiced rtian in the Commonwealth who does not know this assertion to be unfounded, and that if he cannot obtain the vote of this State, no other Democrat in existence could have any chance of 5 receiving it. The South are not to be deceived by such pretexts They are already wide awake to the wiles of the Keystone and Lancasterian, and their confederates. We have been induced to make these remarks by an article in a late number i of the Keystone, copied of course into its affiliated press, the Lan- casterian, entitled “Mb. Buchanan and' the South, :> This article presents the strength of their case against Mr. Buchanan, and ; happy must; that public man be against whom nothing more plausi ble can be scraped together, throughout a long and distinguished public life. It does not contain a single charge of any want of fidelity to Democratic principles during the whole period of his long pub- lic career, from the first* Monday of December, 1821, when he first entered Congress, until the present hour—a period of nearly thirty year£— During the whole time his bold onward con sistency, his steady devotion to principle in the storm as well as in the sunshine, has never been been questioned by friend or foe. Not one of his public acts, during this long and eventful period 1 ; has ever been assailed by the Democratic party, and throughout he always enjoyed the confi dence of, and haslfe& offered high office by, every Democratic President. Of what, then, is this article entitled “ Mr. Bu chanan'and the South 11 made up 1 ? The 4th of July oration, of 1815, delivered thirty-six years, ago, (which has, we believe, been published and re-published, over and over again, by the most rabid of the Whig presses, in years gone by,) con stitutes the principal staple oi the .article. The Whigs have long.since ceased to publish this ora tion, and it is now taken up by presses calling themselves Democratic. It has already been twice published in the Lancasterian, and by evincing th e personal malevolence and spirit of persecution of its controlling spirit, has served to strengthen, in stead of weakening Mr. Buchanan in Pennsylvania. As well might the Apostle Paul, to use the lan guage ot a well known gentleman, be denounced for acts done before his conversion, as Mr. B. for what he had said in his youthful days, so long ago as 1815. Besides, it is well known that he was ever in favor of prosecuting the. war against Great Britain with the utmost' vigor, and he himself vol unteered his services and performed a tour of mili tary duty in 1814 as a private soldier, and whilst in the Legislature oi 1814-15 had supported all the measures which he deemed most efficient to bring the war to a speedy and honorable conclusion. But, Mr. Buchanan in 1819 or 1820 was one of the members of a committee, of which his legal pre ceptor, the late Mr. Hopkins, was chairman, which, under the influence of the excitement then universal in Pennsylvania, reported resolutions to a public meeting, in the Court House in this City, against the Missouri Compromise; and this, it is expected by the controllers of the Keystone and Lancasterian, will cancel his uniform, consistent and able support ot the just and constitutional fights of the South in regard to slavery, ever since he first entered Congress, nearly thirty years ago! Now, we venture the assertion that he has made jmore speeches in defence of those rights, both in the Senate of the United States and in Pennsylvania, than any man living at the present day. We could not have supposed that the' personal malignity even of the Keystone and Lancasterian, hyena-like, would have attempted to revive the subject of the Carter Beverly affair, which had long since been to the tomb. Mr. Buchanan’s letter explanatory of that affair,.dated Bth'August, 1827, and published in the Lancaster Journal, which we have -recently perused, was considered so abun dantly satisfactory, that the papers of both .political parties were content with it. In October, 1828, he was elected to Congress as the Democratic candidate, in the district of which Lancaster county formed a part, by a large majority; and the illus trious hero and statesman, General - Jackson, in 1831', volutitarily tendered Mr. B, the Russian Mis" sion, and ever since, until the day of his lamented death, was his constant friend. Among the last acts of his patriotic life, he strongly concurred with Mr. Polk in opinion that Mr. B. ought to be ap pointed Secretary of State. And yet the controllers of these two journals, from personal hostility, seek at this late day to bring the great name of Andrew Jackson before the Democracy of this State for the purpose of prejudicing them against Mr. Buchanan 1 Again, it is sought to connect the name of Mr. Buchanan with the amendment proposed last session of Congress, to the tariff act of 1846. by Mr. Strong, the able and distinguished Representative from Berks county. There is not the least foun dation for this attempt, at Mr. Strong himself has repeatedly declared. We are assured that Mr.. Buchanan never knew and never heardof this amend ment until after it was offered: and being.in Wash ington at the time, publicly and repeatedly declared that he-had the misfortune to differ from hit friend, Mr. S., in regard to its meritt. i Then the Keystone and Lancasterian, in their malice, even bring forward, though without directly endorsing iti truth, the Stale and ridiculous slander circulated by the lowest of the Whig party, during the Log Cabin and Hard Cider campaign of 1840, that Mr. Buchanan had used as; an argu ment’in favor of the great Democratic- measure of the Independent Treatury, that if would reduce the wages of labor to ten cent! per day. This alaoder was indignantly denied at the time by every- Democratic journal, throughout the Union, and by none was.it denounced with moreemphatic reprobation Ihm byj Mt. Blair*, the Veteran Demo* chitic editor" of the j Giotei who'Says .be heard every word i'af the speech, and bestowed, npon it his warmest commendation, as his paper willsbow. This charge is as absurd as it is false, because a principal head of Mr. Bochanan’s argument was to establish the proposition that the Independent Treasury Would not iredace the wages of labor, but would benefit the laboring man—in opposition to Mr. Clay, who had Contended that it would reduce the wages iof labor and injure the laboring man.— This,, in fact, was the issue between the two parties. The slander is thus; not .only without foundation, but in direct opposition to the whole tenor of the speech. In 1840, this speech of Mr. B/s, which is unquestionably ode of ablest he ever made, was circulated by hundreds of thousands over the Union, by Democratic members of Congress, for the purpose of proving the wisdom and justice of the Independent Treasury which experience has now established. In 1851, two professed Demo. cratic journals present to their readers the forgotten Whig slanders against it, for the purpose of dis paraging’its author in the eyes of his countrymen. Strange inconsistency for true Democrats; but altogether in character for’pretended ones, who would sacrifice their party to gratify personal ma* ignity. But last, though; not least, comes the famous 11 Bundel ” letter, which has '.been published over and over again in ;the Lancasterian. And what does it amount to? ; After Mr. Buchanan had actu*' ally resided nearly a year, in Washington, Mr- Bundel, the Assessor of taxes, singularly enough* enquired of him by letter, whether he considered himself a resident of Lancaster. To this Mr. Bu chanan made the Only reply possible, that he had removed from Lancaster nearly a year before, and had ever since been an actual resident of Washing- ton, where his official duties required him jo reside. This fact mpst have, been known to every man, woman and child in Lancaster; and the County Commissioners, acting in obedience to | the laws of the Commonwealth, decided that his personal estate was not subject to: taxation, whilst he was a resr dent of the District of Columbia. But it was al once proclaimed by the Lancasterian, whose con troller refused to the obvious distinction be ween residence and citizenship, that Mr. Buchanan had denied he was a citizen of Pennsylvania, and had expatriated himself and become a foreigner to the State of his birth? And this ridiculous non- sense has been harped upon ever since—together with the assertion,, that Mr. 8., known ■to the world for his liberality, had denied his citizenship for the sake ot getting clear of a personal tax which, we venture to say, was never before thought ot being assessed upon the citizen of any other State, during his actual residence as a Cabinet' officer in Wash ington. But the fact is carefully concealed that •Mr. Buchanan never profited by this exemption to the value of a single cent;, but added the amount of. the tax to the lib'eralbonation which he had previ ously made, to the s poor widows of Lancaster to supply them with fuel during the winter season. We have nqw answered the attacks of the Key stone and Lancasterian in detail, and must apologize to our readers for occupying so much room. We thought ifoecessary, but promise not to inflict the same thing upon them again. The efforts of the two papers in question to blast Mr. Buchanan in the affections of the Democracy of Pennsylvania, will prove unavailing. They have long known him well, and the country knows him' well. Indi cations from every section of the Union point to him arf rite next Democratic candidate for the Pres idency. All that is wanting to accomplish this object, is the support of the Democracy ol his na tive State; and we venture to predict that he will receive this at the next Fourth of March Conven. tion, by an overwhelming majority. Pennsylvania will at last be honored by the election of one of her own sons as President of the United States. To show the estimate which is put upon this essay of the Keystone abroad, we clip ing notice of it from the Easton (Md ) Star : We have received a No. of the Keystone published at Harrisburg containing an elaborate article on “Mr. Buchanan and the South:” If the editor of “The Keystone” supposes that he can injure Mr. Buchanan in the estimation of true democrats by his assaults, he is much mistaken. The efforts of those who are the especial friends and endorsers of Simon Cameron can have but little weight with all honest and reflecting men. He may rest assured, that when he places himself before the public as the especial friend and champion of one who is un sound upon a cardinal doctrine of the Democratic party in this country, His profession of orthodoxy on other points will be passed by as totally un worthy of credit. Unlike Mr. Buchanan, his change has been from good, £hd not the reverse.— We would especially invite his attention to Gen. Jackson’s opinion of the great leader of the Anti- Bnchanan forces in the Keystone State. In it he will find quite-as ample food for reflection as in the letter which he quotes against Mr. Buchanan, from the old Hero’s letter to Carter Beverly. If Mr. Buchatian has ■ been inconsistent in his political course, he has never attempted to run with both “hare and hounds” or bribe himself into office. — And a defender of his country in 1812 is entitled to at least more respect than that which has been bestowed upon Mr. Buchanan by the Keystone. Col. William Bigler. ' While at the Reading Convention, we had the pleasure of forming the acquaintance of this gentle man. He is a fine specimen of nature’s noblemen, and the true type of an upright and straightforward Democrat It is not improbable that he will visit this county during'the coming campaign; and if it is possible for’the Democrats of Monroe to form a more ardent attachment for him than they already possess, we are sure that his frank, manly bearing, —bis plain, unassuming, but commanding deport ment,—rhis impressive, clear, and truly eloquent style of speaking*—will fill their souls with the warmest admiration, and nerve their arms for the most ardent and strenuous exertions in his behalf at the coming!- election. He has been most emphatically the architect of his own fortunes, and has won his way up from the humble' position of a poor printer’s boy, to wealth and honor, by his own unaided genius, in dustry, aud unswerving integrity. He has always been a decided Democrat, and he now stands boldly upon: the true Democratic platform. Upon the ex citing question of the day, while his opponent Johu ston, is courting the votes of abolition incendiaries, —he .has manfully come out for the Constitution and the Union. Like all true Democrats, he wor ships these bulwarks of our liberty with.no mere dip service,—with! none of that timid servility which prates for the Umon in one breath, and fans the fire of fanaticism with the next;—but he boldly plants himself upon the broad platform of the Constitution, and “sink or swim” resolves to adhere strictly to all its compromises and requirements. Around the standard of so gallant and manly a leader, one so eminently worthy of their warmest confidence, w(e hope to see the Democracy of Mon roe rally with the most determined enthusiasm, and we trust they will not consider their duty fully dis charged without giving Bagler, “the Susquehanna raftsman,” and tbe.entire democratic State Ticket, at least sixteen hundred majority.—. Monroe Dem. "Hon. Jobs Bibleb. —Almost simultaneous with the nomination of Col. Wm. Bibles, as the demo cratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania, was the selectioniof his brother, the Hon. John Biolsb, as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Cali fornia, as will be seen from pur telegraphic newi this morning. It will not be forgotten that we prophecied Uiis resull in our article headed “the two brothers,” sope ’weeks ago. This is a rare and gratifying coincidence, and is evidence of the value of good character, of energetic habits, and of intelligence and consistency, in a young man.— One thing is certain,'that if the Pennsylvania of the Pacific wants to excel the California of the United States, in tie majority for her Bietxn, over that we have bespoken for ours, she will have to get up very early in the morning—that’s all.—Penn CotiscToa’s oFries, ) Lancaster, July Ist, 1851,5 The amount of Tolls received at this office from December Ist, 1850, to June 30th, f 851, inclu sive ! $51,876 36 For same time last year Increase over last year J, J. KELLER, Collector. Tbe Judicial Ticket. Having spokensomewEat at length last week of Chief Justice Gibson.Sye propose now to say a word asto EUi? Lewis and the remaining portioo ’of the ticket. Judge Lewis is among the learned legal'menof the age:'vThere few men, indeed, whose minds are better disciplined than that ol this gentleman. For a period of twenty years he has been.on the bench, and in our Intercourse with the bar, we have never heard the legal capacity or in tegrity of Judge Lewis questioned. He has been at the head of the bench, and has in his time ruled some of the most important legal questions of the age, and in most .of them he has been sustained by the high Court of Errors of the State. While at the bar, in Northern Pennsylvania, he had a commanding position, and as an advocate or counsellor he had no superior. From his first ca reer in life, at the printing press, down to the pres ent time, his whole course of conduct has been marked by' zeal and energy of character. If elect ed, (and who doubts?) the bench will have an in dostrious man—a worker: no man's cause will be overlooked. All that perseverance and industry cad accomplish in ferreting out and deciding the merits of the case may'be expected at the hands of this eminent judge. He belongs too to the progres sive branch ol the age—is fully up with the times, if not in advance of them. While the old regimfi would, in a conservative manner, condemn this, with us it is the argument of the greatest power. We advocate advancement, and those who oppose it are behind that spirit which is everywhere ma king, in broad and living characters, the wonderful times in which it is our good fortune to be cast. — Every department of the government should be in the hands of men who have the inspiration of the moment, ii not, the whole harmony of the machine is destroyed. In this view ol the case, particularly does the Hon. Ellis Lewis come before us, strongly and powerfully recommended. He is the very Napoleon of reformation. Wherever he goes he makes his mark. We like the man, and will give him our hearty support. With Hon. Jeremiah S. Black we are not so well acquainted. Fame, however, of the man, has* reached us, and that too in a most favorable light. Judge Black was a prominent man for Senator of the United States, and came very near getting the caucus nomination at the last election of Senator. He has had much experience as a judge, and been for many years acting in that capacity. The single fact of his receiving nearly all the votes in the nominating Convention, is evidence of his fitness for the station. Like Judge Lewis, he is a pro gressive, radical democrat, and a man who will act as fearlessly, and as honestly. Such are the men the people of this State want on the Supreme Bench at this time—men who have the judgment to keep pace with, the times, and who will think there will be no error in overruling those principles of juris prudence which an hundred years ago might have been sound law; but which in an age of steam, railroads' and electricity, are far too slow in their operations. Bonaparte himself settled the leading features of the “ Code Napoleon,” to the great ter roor of the ,; Juri9 Consultus,” but which, in its operation, became the most popular code of law's ever presented to the world. Theywere governed by precedent, he by the spirit of the age ; so should our laws in this State be administered at this time. I Black, ,if we are not mistaken, and* Judge I Lewis, are two of them, who are fully competent for this business. We know it! Of Judge Campbell we have heard but one opin ion of his fitness for the bench with those whose information can he relied on (tee mean democrats ) —and that is, that he is au able man and sound jurist. But there is one reason why we are more anxious for the election of Judge Campbell than any other man on the ticket, and that is, because he is persecuted on the score of religious belief.— We had supposed that in this land all religions were tolerated, and that this* creed, or that, had nothing to do with the office qualification! It seems we are mistaken. If there be one thing more despicable than another, it is religious bigot ry, and particularly in its bearing on the affairs of this government. Those who could excite the Native American feeling in this country, are the subjects of deep, of abiding censure. There will be an attempt to bring this to bear on the election of Judge Campbell. It will be futile. There is not a naturalized citizen of the Stale, let his poli tics be what they may, but will sympathise with Judge Campbell,.and sustain him in the ballot for this very reason. Mark our prediction; Judge Campbell will be the highest man on the returns, and for qd reason but on the score of this scheme of religious, Native American, one idea proscrip tion. “ Proscription will be proscribed.” With Judge Lowrie w f e are less acquainted than with either of the other gentlemen. He has been many years a Judge of the District Court of Pitts buig, and we have alwavS|heard of him as a sound lawyer and an honest judg€. He is strong in the ■ West, and this fact will make him strong here.— Luzerne Democrat. Gen* Seth Clover. This gentleman, the nominee of the Democratic State Convention for Canal Commissioner, is in every way worthy of the full confidence of the Democratic party. An intelligent and upright man, his business qualifications are of the highest order, and he has long been one of the most active working Democrats in the State. The county in which he resides, Clarion, has, we believe, nearly forty furnaces in it, tha proprietors of ail of which, except two, are active Whigs, and use every means in their power, at elections, to advance the Whig cause. Against this stern array of capital and in fluence, Clover has been battling with undismayed energy for years, and he has done much to preserve unbroken the ranks of that county. His character is unblemished by a single stain, and his election will prove alike beneficial to the best interests of the State, and the Democratic party. It will take a longer scythe than Whiggery can boast of to cut_ down such Clover , and the returns of next October will proclaim his triumph in a loud Clarion tone. Horrible Murder nr Williambburqh, New York.. —The N. Y. correspondent of the “Penn sylvanian,” gives the following account of a horri ble murder“which took place in Williamsburgh on the 28th ult: A man named Lawrence Riley, suspecting a criminal intercourse going on between an acquain tance and his wile, Mary Ann Reilly, took certain means to satisfy himßelf, either of her innocence or guilt Last night, contrary to his usual custom, he slept in the garret ol his house, (No. 10, North Fourth street,! his wife, and her mother, sleeping both together, ih the room below. Shortly after daybreak, this morning, Reily coming down stairs, discovered his wife’s paramour leaving his wife’s room. In a paroxysm of rage, and panting for revenge, he drew a dagger from his bosom and stabbed his wite to the heart, until life was extinct. The weapon still reeking with the blood of the daughter, was plunged in the bo som of the mother, who expired in terrible agony. Just at this moment a girl, living in the same house, alarmed by the groans, was coming up stairs to see what was the matter. Riley at once aimed a blow at her, but the girl was fortunate enough , jo get out of the way, without gettiug more than one thrust. The alarm beiDg given the police came and took the murderer into custody. The wretch, when placed in his cell, seemed de jected and sullen. He said “he expected to die, but that he was ready. “He would rather die than live.” He also stated that he and his wile had lived unhappily for years past,that her family were possessed ol some property, and they were all opposed to him. He worked hard and had done all he could to earn an honest living, but nothing could satisfy them. He further stated that on re turning home from his work, he repeatedly found the room closed and a young man in the room with his wife. ; On being asked whether he would have some breakfast, he replied, “No, he could not eat,” and inquired whether the other woman was dead"?- When asked why he'committed the awful deed, he replied that his wife was not true to him; that he had lived a miserable life. The greatest excitement has grown out of this most atrocious transaction. In the neighborhood of the house where the tragedy was enacteu hun dreds of people are standing talking over the affair. The Coroner is summoning a jury as I write this, and it is probable the inquest wilt terminate to night. The luneral will take place to-morrow af ternoon. A warrant is out for the arrest of the person supposed to have been the paramour of the, ill fated wife. - * '» I ' _± : THE SHUNK'MONUMENT.— The'ceremony of erecting the monument over the remains ol Governor Shosk, took place, at the Trappe, m Montgomery county, on the 4th 'inst. It was wit nessed by an immense number of peopie-probably ten thousand, amongst whom were about five hum dred volunteer soldiery. An eloquent address was delivered by Hon. Gaoaos W. WooDwaan.— Among the distinguished strangers present was Col. Wriuasi Bioisa, the- Democratic candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania. To be Hung* The Governor of Maryland ha* signed the death warrants of Taylor, Shelton and Murphy, who were convicted of the murder of the Cotden family, in Kent county. They are to be executed on- Friday the Ist of August 38,980 83 ' Tat th« tatalllcwMr. Mechanics’ Institute and market Houses. The Managers of the' u Maryland Institute ,*»have forwarded.to your humble correspondent, an ele gant engraving representing the “Hall of the Afary tand Institute” prith the regulations and arrange ments of the same.' It would afford me much pleasure to give your readers some idea of what -, Baltimore/oqr sister city, has been doing in the way of Melanies’ Institutes and Market Houses, — at the very time our own'citizens are awaking to the necessity of having public exhibitions, for tho purpose of encouraging mechanical genius, and improvements in agriculture. The plan of operations by the citizens of Balti more are well worthy of our immediate attention ■ and imitation. How is it possible for the citizens of this, the banner county of the United States, to invite onr fellow citizens of neighboring counties or States to support any contemplated ezhibition we may desire to hold ? How to receive their ap probation, and to encourage men of intelligence and public spirit ? How shall we form classes for mutual improvement, agricultural society meetings, debates and discussions,f How can the one hun dred thousand citizens of this far-famed county hold public exhibitions for the promotion of excel lence in the mechanical arts, when we have hot even a decent public building or market house to accommodate 500 persons? The citizens of Lan caster city and county would surely not make use 7 of an old bam, or erect a temporary shantee fbr such purposes. For several years past we have strenuously advocated a substantial improvement for the interests of this whole community, but all that is useful must be effectually put down, because the court house, 1 market houses and public improve ments, cannot all be located at one favorite corner. Who amongst ub does not know that there is no country op this wide continent to equal Old Lan caster, in climate, health, soil, productions,' valua ble minerals, and the industry of her citizens? And yet almost every little village outrivals us in enterprise, and in fostering and encouraging me chanical genius, and agricultural improvements. And why is this? Shall a fowcontrol our markets, and conspire together to prevent our farmers, raef chanics, inventors and artists at all times from bringing into public notice the products of their honest ingenuity and skill ? How is it in' Baltimore 1 The mechanics know their interests and with creditable pride maintain them. They have erected an elegant market house 355 feet in length and 60 in width, with an average height of 65 feet—and this edifice presents one of the most important and beautiful improvements in Baltimore, chaste in its architecture, solid in its construction, and capacious in all it 9 parts, and in ' tended for the advancement of tho mechanic arts. The apartment or hall above the market house com fortably holds six thousand persons, and tho fourth annual exhibition of the Maryland Institute for the promotion of the mechanic arts, will bo opened there on- Monday, October 20, 1851, and many of our Lancaster county farmers and inventors will be there to enter the lists for competition , and there receive premium*denied to them at home. Articles designed for exhibition will be received there free of charge _ Not only are manufacturers, mechanics, artists and inventors from all parts of the United States cordially invited, but ladies, apprentices and minors are there allowed to extend the usefulness of the various productions of their labor, skill, ingenuity and taste. The machinery department will be under the care of special superintendants, and the Committee offer every facility of steum power, fixtures, labor, &c., free qf expense.* If our Lancaster Mechanics’ Institute Society, without further delay, would erect a substantial market house 300 feet in length, and build a hall above with a neat cupola at one end, and a colossal statue of Robert Fulton on the other, they could at all times secure the ablest Lecturers on scientific subjects could found a permanent Library and Museum; could have public exhibitions for the promotion of the mechanical arts; and, being able to accommodate about four thousand persons, would' realize and establish a profitable fund to render their Institute worthy of the encouragement and support of the men of public spirit of the county as well as the city, and thus rival the enterprize of the mechanics of Baltimore or Philadelphia., Lancaster mechanical now is the opportunity, or’ the advantages and benefits of this moat important public improvement will be lost to you. One annual ezhibition would pay the cost of the building. Let the name of him who, by the unparallelled power of steam, has joined the Old World to the New, urge you now, and let us prove to the world that here still lingers the spirit of •Robeht Fulton. fFor tb« Intelligencer. ielphiAj July 3, 1861 Mr. Sanderson :—Some of the Democrats of your county were very anxious to have Dr. Thohas Dunn English to address your meeting at Lancas ter, ani applied to him, through me, for the pur pose. As it was through me, principally, he drop ped his professional avocations for a day, to gratify the wishes of our friends, (and very well gratified I understand they were,) I was very much hurt to learn that Bome who profess to belong to tho De mocracy were silly enough to report that he was, or had been a political “ Native.” Down in this quarter, as the Pennsylvanian'yery aptly remarks, lin regard to this rumor, the charge would only excite ridicule; but it might be otherwise where the subject of the attack was unknown. Dr. Eng lish has been abused as much as any man living by the Natives. He was a prominent man, at its first inception, in the Repeal Agitation, became Vico President of the Repeal Association, and among other things wrote a very severe phillipic called *« The Church Burners,” which brought down upon him the wrath of the whole Native faction in this city. No man lives more liberal than Dr. English: in regard to naturalized citizens. His views on. Nativism, as on other subjects, have always been expressed with the frankness for which he is noted; and while he has never stooped to flatter any class. for political favor, he has always opposed political Nativism as anti-republican, bigoted and inconsis tent with the policy of our constitution. It is not likely that he will stoop to notice the originators of this slander; which is fortunate for the parties con cerned. Did they possess a position to justify a man of his ability and reputation in meeting them, I should really pity the lashing they would receive. I think it due to myself to take up this'matter, and to say, that, no matter what animal may bellow the * charge of Nativism, or any other narrow, illiberal, or bigoted sentiment against ThomAs Dunn Eng lish, it only utters a falsehood without the least foundation. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, H. H. Far th* lotellijeoctr Tbe 4th at Mahhelm. Mn. Editor: —Having just returned from Man-, heim borough, permit me, through the medium of your paper, to say that I was highly gratified im seeing the manner in which the citizens of that place celebrated the late anniversary of our liberty. Arriving at Manheim about 10 o’clock, A. M.,of yesterday, I beheld the town fitted up in a very handsome and appropriate manner. The commit tee ol arrangement was busy in attending to their various duties, and escorting the volunteer com panies to their respective quarters. Martial music Bounded in the streets and every countenance beamed with joy—every motion spoke that order and regulation were to attend the proceedings of the day. In a short time the streets began to be filled by strangerrifrom different parts of the county and elsewhere. . Between the hours of 12 and 1 the procession 'formed in Market street, consisting of the marshals, two volunteer companies with their bands of mar tial mußic —next came the speakers and the Com mittee of Arrangement, and then the citizens from various parts joined, until a large and extended column was in motion. ** And thus, with colors floating and drums rattling, the procession passed through the streets of tha borough. As it passed along«we beheld the ladies of Manheim in front of their houses, ready to cheer us by their smiles of approbation, and many were the beautiful wreathes of flowers and ever greens which they swung in their hands; and many were tossed to their friends as they passed along. Having thus proceeded with much pleasure along the principal streets, wo proceeded .to the green where preparations had been made for the speakiog, and also for a splendid celebration dinner* / . On arriving at the grove "the procession was sa luted-by the roar of the opening cannon, and in a very short time the procession were comfortably sealed. The large number of ladies present, gave . a pleasing appearance to the whole scene. The exercises of the day were pleasing, interesting and edifying—that- pleasing flow of kindly feeling was felt under each succeeding speaker. But we most leave this to be described by some abler band,'and we would now refer to the dinner which we found prepared on the ground—and one it was which does honor to the lovers of liberty in Manheim. A table 210 feat; long spread in the most pleasing manner, and laden with the rich pro ductions of their industry and skill. There was something tome in this pleasing repast whioh I cannotexpress. Some two hundred free,intelligent citizens, without regard to party, names or creed, sitting thus harmoniously together, all exulting in thisonegreat blessing, namely, our country’^liberty. But there is one more feature in the case which I wish to touch; that is the good order and moral ■bearing which was shown so fully in all the arrange ments and proceedings. This we ascribe to the credit ot the place, and especially to those con cerned in the arrangement and management of the affair. May that liberty which thev have shown they love,go to their children and to their children’® children, untarnished unsullied. M. G. M. SpringvilUy July S, 1851. ComfTXßisirxß Arhsrtid,—On Monday morn ing last; Constable Conner arretted that notorious and successful counterfeiter, Clement Steele, of York county. Several attempts had previously been made to*entrap this wily fellow, and as. often failed, until Constable Conner got on his trail,— Steele, it seems, was fully aware that the officers of justice were on his trail, consequently he secre ted himself in the upper-story of the chimney con-' nected with his dwelling at York Shore, to avoid them but it was “no go,” as he soon found out.— Conner spied the villain in his hiding place, and politely invited him to come down, which he did in double-quick time. He was conveyed to Wait Chester, where he had a bearing, and was hound over for trial in the sum of s2ooo.— Exprm.
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