4ntelligencer, St , Jaunt-al.
Lancaster, February 24,11852.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
FOR P RESIDENT:
BtcII . ININ
(su„hea.,o the decision of the National Contrtion.)
PUBLIC DOCITMINTS.-Our thanks- are due to
Hon. James Cooper, Hon. A. Fetch, Hon. R. Brod.
heEUI, Hon. James X. M'Lanahan, for public docu
ments; also to Messrs. Kinzer, Hunsecker,;Schaef
fer and Pownal, of the State Legislature, for simi
lar l favors.
The Slavery Qtastion, &c
In another part of this paper will be fclund the
first of a series of letters, (three in number,) from
a gentleman residing in Mississippi to his friend in .
this city, on the subject of Slavery, Abo4onism,
&c. They are written with great force and ability,
and cannot fail to have a happy effect in enlighten
ing, public opinion in the North in referende to the
real condition of things as growing outrof these
questions. It will be seen that he takes uphe sub
ject in all its bearings—moral, political and finan
cial—and places it in such a way before the peOple
that every body can read and understand for them
selves. We therefore, commend these essays to the
attention of all our readers.
Or Mr. SPRECRER offers great attractions in the
Hardware line, at his store in North Queen Street.
See advertisement.
AURORA BOREALIS.—An unusually grand
Aurora Borealis was visible on Thursday evening
last, about 10 o'clock. The corruscations were of
a brilliant hue, at times becoming quite. a deep
rose color. They occupied nearly, one-third of the
heavens, extending at intervals to the very zenith.
The School Journal.
The first number of a neat , monthly periodical,
containing sixteen large octavo pages, with hand
some cover, has just been issued from the press—
THOMAS H. Boanowas, Esq., Editor, and M. D.
Homstioox, Esq., Printer. The Journal' will be
issued on the first Saturday of each month, and
the subscription price is $1 per annum, payable in
advance.
The number before us gives evidence of the abil
ity of the Editor, whose attention to the I interests
of popular education for many years has made him
familiar with our Common School SyStem, and
will enable him to make the Journal a useful aux
iliary in the great work to which it is to be devo
ted. We wish Mr. BURROWSB abundant success
in his undertaking. It is a work that should be
encouraged by every friend of the Common School
System in the Commonwealth.
LONDON QUARTERLY REYIEW.-WE have re
ceived from the American Publishers, Leonard
Scott &Co., New York, the January number of the
London Quarterly, which is considerejl among the
leading periodicals of Great Britain. ItS literary
character is of the highest order—and although of
the Tory school, its political articles can be read
with great profit by all. The January number con
tains 152 pages, and amongst other able produc
tions has a long and interesting essay cOhe auth
orship of the celebrated Junius Letters, who is sup
posed by the editor to be Lord Lyttleton, instead o,
Sir Philip Francis, as has been generally supposed,
and strong reasons are given for this opinion.
A Mammoth Eagle Shot
On the 13th inst., our young Democratic friend,
Mr. Henry D. Stehman, of Conestoga township,
shot a Grey Eagle, on the farm of his father, which
measured 7 feet and 1 inch from the tip of one
wing to the other!
Since last fall, Mr. Stehman has also shot twenty -
three Chicken Hawks, besides game in abundance
of various kinds. He is a first-rate rn!arksman,
and any thing that comes within the range of his
rifle is a "gone coon and no mistake."
California News.
The Legislature of California met at 'Vallejo on
the sth of January, and organized by the election
of Democratic officers in both houses. Hon. TQIIN
BIGLER, brother to the Executive of Pennsylvania,
was inaugurated Governor, and Ssrausi. PCTD7,
Esq., Lieutenant Goveruor,—both on the next day.
Governor Broxan's inaugural address is a . very able
and sensible state paper , he goes for the, Compro
mise Measures and the Union, and speaks with
confidence of the prospective greatness Of Califor.
nia. The retiring Governor, 31Dougall; two days
after he vacated the office fought a duel: with the
Editor of the San Francisco Picayune, J for some
attack upon him in the paper, and inflicted a flesh
wound upon his antagonist. The Legislature an
journed on the 9th to meet again on the 16th at
Sacramento City, whets a U. S. Senator would be
chosen. Politics appear to be running high in the
new State, and the Presidential question was begin
ning to be agitated.
G. Washington Baker, Esq.
By the following article, which we copy from
the Alto California of the 16th of January, it will
be seen that our friend, G. WASIIINOTpN BAKER,
Esq., formerly of this city, has been elected Recor
der of the city of San Francisco, an office of great
responsibility and profit. He was eleCted in Sep
teinber last, but owing to some difficulty, about the
rights of the old and new City officers, he has been
kept out of the office until now:
RECORDER WALLER:This gentleman with the
singleness of purpose which has characterized him
throughout his official career, has signified to G. W.
Baker, Esq., that he is prepared to give up his office
whenever it sh}sll be claimed by that gentleman.
Mr. Baker, it will be remembered, was elected in
September last, as one of the new city gbvernment.
This conduct on the part of Recorder Waller is
highly, praiseworthy ; and is a befitting final act to
a laborious, faithful, and able discharge of the pub
lic duties which have devolved upon him for the
last six months.
An Agricultural Bureau.
A strong memorial, signed by the President and
Secretary on behalf of the Pennsylvanih State Ag
ricultural Society, has been presented to Congress
in favor of the establishment of an Agricultural
Bureau, as recommended by the President in his
last message. After showing that while Congress
has been legislating from the beginning of our
Government, in behalf of every other', branch of
the industry of the country, that of Agriculture,in
which three-fifths of the population are directly
employed, has been totally overlooked. In view of
this, the memorial prays "that the present Congress
Will establish a distinct Department, whose office it
ahall be to gather/ and disseminate seeds, to collect,
examine and encourage the use of valuable im
plements, and, above all, to difilise knowledge of
that art and science in which threeJohrths of the
whole world are actually engaged, and!in the profit
able success of which all are so deeply interested."
The Monthlies.
"Gonv,v's LADE 'S BOOK," for March is at hand,
and a rare number it is, filled with the best of every
thing. The engravings are the—" The Cottagers
Sunday morning." The Soldier's Dream of Home."
The Model Cottage" and the Fashion Plate, entitled
—"lt is a Secret."
GRAHAM'S. MAGAZINE," we admire with its fine
tales and still finer engravings—the latter of which
are "Beauty's Retreat," "A Dacotah Indian Court
ing," "Oh Share my Cottage" and "Stars of the
Summer Night," both of the latter having poetry
attached.
" The Lima's KEEPSAKE " for February is as
neat as ever, Containing the portrait of "Martha
Washington" and a short sketch of 'her life, with
other reading matter, among which we notice par
ticularly, a •tale entitled " Light and Darkness,"
Mr. Clay and the Democracy.
The Whig journals denounce, as hypocritical,
the kind words spoken of Mr. Clay by some of the
Democratic papers, on the eve of his final ietire
ment froni the stage of life. ;They reason that
they are far from being a sufficient atonement for
"the vile and monstrous calumriies and wrongs
that they (the Demoiratic papers) and their party
have been heaping upon him for the last quarter
of a century." They ungener4usly refer it to the
fact that he is no longer in the 'way of the prilitical
and personal ambition of Democratic leaders, and,
that "his name, so long a tower of strengthito his
friends and of terror to his enemies, is now hallow
ed by the advancing shadows of the graye."l Now,
while we utterly dissent from and abhor the wild
and extravagant construction of the constitution by
Mr. Clay, which would lead to an overshadowing
centralization of power in the federal head, we
have always looked with respect upon the bold and
frank bearing of Mr. Clay, who, unlike the insid
ious Taylorites that struck him down, always won
his white plume in full feather, and scorned to re
sort to the trickery which defeated his nomination,
humbugged the whole country and involved the
confederacy in the turmoils and danger from which
it has just escaped. With Clay as the lender of
the Whig party, we always knew what enemy we
had to fight, what principles to assail. We honored
the man for his boldness and manliness, while we
deprecated the mischievous principles he avowed.
Such has been the Democratic policy and bearing
towards' Mr. Clay. How has it been with the
Whig party, whose leaders. now sneer at the De
mocracy for doing justice to the bold frankness of
Mr. Clay? It is well known that, in the farcical
and ridiculous era of Taylorism, the selfish ledders of
the Whig party, the former eulogists and idolators
of Mr. Clay, looking alone to "availability" and the
spoils of office, threw out:hints against the clear
ness and vigor of his faculties. Their ambition for
victory, under a "military chieftain," induced them
to insinuate that age and infirmity had greatly im
paired the intellectual power of Mr. Clay. But,
now that he may be regarded as no longer a living
actor on the political stage—having in influence
become as it were historical—they whistle him
down the wind as unworthy of note. How else can
we explain the following circumstances narrated
by the New Orleans Delta? Mr. Clay wrote a
warm letter in favor of General Downs, his col
league in the Compromise, advising his. Whig
friends in that State to vote for him for Senator,
declaring if-die was a Louisianian he would do so.
This letter fell still-born—it did not gain General
'Downs a single vote. The voice which was once
omnipotent with the Whig party, could nOt now
stir up a single sensation of gratitude and iconces
.
sion in that party.
To the same effect, speaks the Whig New Orleans
Crescent in trumpet tones, as follows:
"The whig party may talk [or prate?] Of what
it has done for Henry Clay. The future historian
will fairly settle the debit and credit of that account.
Henry Clay has been the soul, the life, of the whig
party; and paltry recreants have alone stolen off
from the:dying lion. He made the whig party.
It is his creation ; and the-child which foFgets its
parent is accursed in all generations. He 'has up
held it through half of a century; and in the pal
triest and most selfish ingratitude, when his strength
ebbed away and his eye-sight waxed dim, it has
stolen off into Taylorism, and we will not say what.
Was there ever so gallant la leader for such a re
creant host? Was ever a Roland so deserted in
the pass 'of Roncesvalles
" But the country has taken him up, ere yet
dead, as one of its chief historical glories ; and
parasites crowd around with eulogy for the great
old man, who is passing from earth. Well; be it so.
We are glad of it. Better late than never; and
the gravest punishment of his cowardly and'rresolute
supporters, is in their position, quivering in uncertain
equivocation."
Let no Whig paper hereafter, dare to tsneer at
the Democratic journals for what they say of Mr.
Clay t—Richmond Enquirer.
The New Court House.
We understand the County Commissioners have
selected as the site of the new Court House, the
ground known as "Breneman's Lot," at the corner
of Orange, and Lime streets, in the norti-eastern
section of the City. This, although a handsome
location in some respects, is, according to our no
sion of things, quite too far removed from the bu
siness part of town to be either convenient or desi
rable. The lot in question is three squares from
the present Court House, and, consequently, will
be a serious drawback to people from the country
attending Court, and especially to those who may
have business in the County Offices—to •:say noth
ing of the inconvenience 'that Attornie.4 (and, of
course, their clients,) will be put to frony:the great
distance intervening between their office's and the
public buildings.
Our idea always has been—and we so 'expressed
ourself several weeks ago—that the new County
Building ought to be as near the centre of the
City as possible, so as to suit the convenience of all,
whether .in town or country; and'eo viewing it,
we were in favor of locating it in Market Square
—or, at farthest, within one square of the old
Court House, where the population, convenience,
&c., would have best been consulted. But the Com
missioners, it appears, have decided otherwise; and
as they are, by law, constituted the gu'ardians of
the county, we suppose that they conside}ed the in
terests and convenience of the people would be
best promoted by locating the building is near the
suburbs of the City as possible. Of course, we
nrilist submit to their superior judgment in the mat
ter—but, nevertheless, we hear a great deal of
complaint, since the site has been determined on,
especially by citizens from - the country.;
1:13 The Legislature of Mississippi have elected
Walter Brooke, (Whig,) U. S. Senatoi to supply
the vacancy caused by General Foote's tesignation.
This result was brought about by a colition be
tween the Whigs and (so called) Union Uemncrats,
and is the first fruits of the third party sorted in that
State by Gen. Foote.
The Legislature subsequently elected Stephen
Adams (Union Dem.) for the unexpired term of
Gen. Davis, now filled by Mr. Mcßae.
FORREST'S Prtorzwry.—ln the progress of the
ForrestAivorce trial at New York, a I)4r. Whitely
was examined in relation to the value,of Mr. For
rest's estate. He said—“ From my knowledge of
up town property, I should suppose them worth
$6,000 or $7,000 each; his residence in Twenty
second street, I suppose to be worth $lB,OOO or
$20,000 ; the estate on Font Hill about $55,000;
the Covington estate, near Cincinnati, the most
beautiful site in the neighborhooll,l shOuld suppose
to be worth $25,000; he also owns some .property
at the corner of Main and Seventh streets, Cincin .
nati, which I should think worth $15,000 or $2O
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A MODEL SIIBSOMBEIL—The WOTCElier (Mass.)
Spy, states that a person called at thei office a few
days ago, for two or three missing numbers of the
Spy, who had been a subscriber for sixty years, and
now possesses the entire paper during all that [late,
substantially bound in volumes! This is not only
a fine example, but it seems to go fat. to establish
the axiom so often advanced, that good,old, prompt
ly-paying subscribers live to a great age!
1u The Conferees of the Senatorial district ,
composed of the counties of Butler, Beaver and
Lawrence, met fit ,Zelienople on the 31st ult., and
elected Hugh M'Kee, Esq., of Butler,'as the Sena
torial delegate to the Fourth of March Convention
with instructiops to support the nomination of Mr ' .
Bnca►sas for the Presidency. . ;
113-The steamer El Dorada, from :Chagres, ar
rived at New York on Tuesday lash, with 250
passengers and $1,1.00,000 gold dust. The time
made was the quickest on record—the passengers
being only twenty-three and a half days from San
Francisco.
Wooi has written a letterin o'ppoeition
to Kosiuth'e doctrine of intervention,
Correspondence.
Mr. Bucaarras, on his recent trip to the South,
extended his visit to Richmonk l Va., to see his
friend and former colleague in Mr. Polk's Cabinet,
the Hon. Joan Y. Mason'. Whilst theta he was
treated with great courtesy and respect—and a
public dinner was tendered him by the Democratic
members of the Legislature and a number of the
citizens, which he declined. Tlie following is the
correspondence, which we find in the Richmond
Enquirer !
RICHMOND Feb. 11. 1852
To the Hon. Janus Buchanan:
Sur We have heard with pleasure that you are
expected in this city to-day, and ( desire to seize the
opportunity to testify, in some suitable way, our
high appreciation of your private worth and public
services, and especially of that elevated patriotism,
so consistent with the previous history of your life,
with which you lately employed' your great talents
and influence at home in defence of the federal
constitution and laws. We therefore tender to you
a hearty welcome to the metropolis of the Old
Dominion, and request that you will accept a pub
lic dinner, to be given on any day that will suit
your convenience.
With sentiments of profound esteem and admi-
ration, we are, sir. your obedient servants,
S. F. Leake, President J. H. Poindexter
of the Senate. ' Hiram B. Dickinson
J. B. Stovall WI A. Patterson
Arthur R. Smith Geo. W. Toler
William B. Shandy John M. Patton
T. Carrington R. H. Glass
E. M. Braxton James Dove
George W. Brent D. Truehart
J. T. Martin P. Claiborne Gooch
J. W. H. Parker Chastian White
B. B. Douglas D. H. London
Arch. Stuart Thoinas H. Ellis
James H. Paxton C. B. Hill
P. Pitman ' Alex. Craig
A. G. Reger R. 0. Haskins
W. H. Edwards Jeremiah Wellman
Wm. Hevener . John Goode, jr.
Wm. G. Stevens Wm. M. Howerton
1 N. Bare C. S. Lewis
Hiram Martz Wm. L. Jackson
Thomas Wallace Morris D. Newman
Z. E. Cheatham , B. W. Jackson
W. P. Bocock W. H. Browne • .
W. 0. Goode. Isaac B. Dunn
Z. Kidwell, jr. Walter D. Leake
Geo. W. Munlord ThOmas B. Hamlin
H. B. Tomlin Wm. B. Power
S. Wheeler E. D. Talbott
Robert G. Scott A. S. Brooks
John Womble S. Decatur Whittle
A. Wade, jr. GO. E. Sadler
Wm. A. Moncur N. B. Hill
M. S. Granthan R. M. Nimmo
W. M. Ambler ° C. S. Morgan
Charles Mason V. Bargamin
Wm. F.:Thompson Samuel D. Denoon
S. T. Brown N. M. Martin
Douglas B. Layne Roscoe B. Heath
Thomas H. Daniel John A. Selden
Thomas E. Bottom C. B. Luck ,
Samuel Downing .1. Y. Mason
Wm. B. Taliaferro W. F. Ritchie
William Old. jr. . George Taylor
James Barbour Geo ff l W. Randolph.
R. G. Rives
RICHMOND, Feb. 12, 1952
GENTLEMEN: On my arrival in this city last
evening I received your very kind letter, welcom
ing me to the metropolis of the Old Dominion and
tendering me the honor of a public dinner. I re
gmt—deeply regret—that my Visit to Richmond
will necessarily be so brief I cannot enjoy the
pleasure and the privilege of meeting you all at
the festive board. Intending Merely to pass a day
with my valued friend, Judge Mason, my previous
arrangements are of such a character that 1 must
leave here to-morrow, or, at the latest, on Saturday
morning. •
But whilst I cannot accept, the dinner, I shall
ever esteem the invitation from so many of Vir
ginia's most distinguished and estimable sons as
one of the proudest honors of Imy life. Your an
cient and renowned Commonwealth has ever been
the peculiar guardian of State rights and the firm
supporter of constitutional liberty, of law, and of
order. When, therefore, she endorses with her ap
probation any of my poor efforts to serve the coun
try, her commendation is a sure guarantee that
these have been devoted to a righteous cause.
You are pleased to refer in favorable terms to my
recent conduct "at home in defence of the federal
constitution unit laws." This was an easy and
agreable task, bee :.se the people of Pennsylvania l i
have ever been as loyal and faithful to the consti
tution, the Union, the rights of the sovereign States
of which it is composed, as the people of the an
cient Dominion themselves. To have pursued a
different course in my native State would therefore,
have been to resist the strong current of enlight
enee public opinion.
I purposely retrain from d i cussing the original
merit of the Compromise, bedause I consider it, to
employ the expressive languiige of the day, as a
"finality"—a fixed fact—a Most important enact
ment of law, the agitation or disturbance of which
could do no possible good, but might produce much
positive evil. Our noble vessel of State, freighted
with the hopes of mankind, both for the present
and future generations, has passed through the
most dangerous breakers which she has ever en
countered: and has triumphantly ridden out the
storm. Both those who supported the measures
of the Compromise as just and necessary, and those
who, regarding them in a different light, yet acqui
esce in them for the sake of the Union, have arri
ved at the same conclusionthat it must and shall
be executed. They have thug, for every practical
purpose, adopted the same platform, and have re
solved to sustain it against the common enemy.—
Why, then, should they wrangle and divide and
waste their energies, not respecting the main ques
tion, which has already beed definitely settled, but
in regard to the process whiCh has brought them,
though from different directions, to the same con-
elution? Above all, why should the strength of
the democratic party of the 'country be impaired
and its ascendency jeoparde d' for any such cause?
We who believe that the t4iumph of democratic
principles is essential not only to the prosperity of
the Union, but even to the preservation of the con
stitution, ought reciprocally', to forget, and, if need
be, to forgive the past, and cordially unite with our
political brethren in sustaining for the future the
good old cause of democracy,. It must be a source
of deep and lasting pleasure to every patriotic
heart that our beloved country has so-happily pas
sed through the late trying[and dangerous crisis.
The volcano has been extinguished, I trust, for
ever ; and the man who would apply a firebrand,
at the present moment, to the combustible materi
als which still remain may Produce an eruption to
overwhelm both the constitution and the Union.
With sentiments of high and grateful respect, I
remain your fellow citizen,,
JAMES
JAMES BUCHANAN.
==l
Mr. Editor—lt is with sorrow I would pass some
remarks on the fate of Mr.j Gorsuch, in this State.
When I view the result of the trial of the murderers,
I am lost in astonishment{ that, an honored and
respected citizen 01 a neighboring State is shot down
and murdered, without provOcation, and the perpe
trators of the brutal outrage permitted to go scot
free! What sensitive mind can remain silent when
such thins are permitted in a peaceful and law
abiding community? The, murder of Mr. Gorsuch
has brought shame and diSgrace upon our State—
has tarnished her escutchedn, and inflicted a wound
which can never be healed. My heart bleeds when
I think of thearansactions of that fatal morning at
the Brick Mill, which left • fond wife a widow, and
a family of children fatherless.
As Pennsylvanians we never can forget our sis
ter State of Maryland, whose noble sons fought
side by side with us in the great Revulutionary
struggle. And as brethrefi of the same household
we should love them and cherish them, and not
permit their rights to be trampled under foot by
fanatics and traitors-to our common country. We
should all—North and South—cling to the Union
..,
as the ark of our political safety, as the only hope
of freedom throughout the world. Let us hold fast
to it, and it will prove str ng enough to crush ty
ranny in every shape and form. Let us be united
as a Nation, and we can bid defiance to the combi
ned despotisms of the world. Such is the wish—
such is the determination of the Democracy of
LANCASTER COUNTY.
Feb. 11,1852.
Hoar. GEORGE W. RorioN.—lt is now rendered
pretty certain that Judge BARTON, formerly a res.
ident of this city, was drbwned in the bay at San
Francisco on last Christmhs night. A letter writ
ten to a gentleman in Philadelphia, dated San Fran
cisco, January 'l4, 1852; says:
There are no tidings of Judge BARTON, and all
hopes of his return are yielded. His death is re
garded with so much certainty, that they have ad
ministered, I learn, upon his effects. Thus has run
to waste, with fitful glare, this lamp of genius."
lErThe Senatorial delegate to the State Conven
tion from Union, Mifflin and Juniata, is instruct
ed for Mr. BUce►x►x.
lET A fire occurred at Pittsburg, on Friday night
last, which destroyed property to the amount o
$75,000.
LETTERS ON SLAVERY, I ABOLL ,
TIONISM,
BY A GENTLEMAN OF MISSISSIPPI, TO
HIS FRIEND IN THIS. CITY.
NO. I.
NEAR NATCHZZ (Miss.,)
November 1, 051.
My Dear Friend—l send you a disci:lame written
by the Rev. Dr. Wheaton, of New England, upon
a subject which, for some years past, has agitated
our whole land, North and South.. No man among
you who professes to take the Bible for his guide,
and will carefully read the able, independent arid
manly exposition of this gentleman, but must be
convinced what his duties are to his brethren of the
South in regard to the return of fugitives from labor.
Dr. Wheaton does not stand alone; among the
northern clergy, is his views upon this question.
It has been cheering to the South to see that your
ablest divines, especially in the large cities, have,
pointed out as clearly as Dr. Wheaton his done,
the course which patriotism, and wisdom, and the
laws alike of God and our country z enjoin upon
all your citizens in regard to the enforcement of
the Fugitive Law. But these sermons do notreach
the masses, and for this reason I hope you will
have this discourse of Dr. Wheaton printed in such,
one of your local papers, as will give it a large
publicity.
Is it not time then that you, and I, and all men
who appreciate theblessings of this glorious Union,
should rouse ourselves to counteract the efforts of
fanatics who are aiming at its overthrow.
Putting aside, however, the plain injunctions of
the Bible, let us look to the teachings of the Con
stitution of our country, which alone ought to quiet,
the whole people of the North in relation to this
matter. I quote you the language of one of its
ablest expounders: " Historically ksays Judge
Story,) it is well known that the object of this.
clause (the fugitive bill) was to secure to the citi
zens of the slave-holding States, the complete right
and title Of ownership in their slaves, as property,
in every State of the Union into which they might
escape from the State in which they were held in
servitude. The full recognition of this right and
title was indispensible to the security of this species
of property in all the slave-holding States, and in
deed was so vital to the preservation of their ia
terests and institutions, that it cannot be doubted
that it constituted a fundamental article without
which the Union would not have been formed.—
The clause was therefore of the last importance to
the security and safety of the Southern States, and
could not be surrendered by them, without endang
ering the whole property in slaves. The clause
was accordingly adopted in the Constitution by the
unanimous consent of the framers of it."
Another distinguished judge of the. same court,
(Judge Baldwin,) in refering to this same clause of
the Constitution, says : " Thus you see the foun
dations of 'the Government are laid, and rest upon
the right of property in slaves. The whole structure
must fall by disturbing the corner stone." Here
then is the opinion of two of the most distinguished
jurists of their age, upon the Constitutional rights'
of the South as regards slavery, and fugitives from
labor. And has this plain provision of the Consti
tution been carried out in good faith by all our
northern brethren 7 Why, since this' abolition agi
tation began, the legislatures of some of the north
ern States, instead of co-operation, have given aid
and comfort to the fugitive, and have even panned
laws to render the fugitive law a nullity. I could
instance States wherein Governors, Judges, Sheriffs
and Magistrates, have palpably violated their oaths
to support the Constitution of their country, by'
conniving at the escape of fugitive slaves by sham
legal and other proceedings; and when this re
source failed, mobs of black and white have rescued
them by force. The ashes of a murdered Kennedy
are scarcely cold, befo we hear of another victim
in the person of the venerable Gorsuch, offered up
to the bloody Moloch of fanaticism. Need I call
your attention where even murder 'and rape have
been committed by slaves in the South, and who
escaping to free soil States, have set their - pursuers
at defiance. Aie not such cases as these calculated
to keep up in the breasts of a high-iipirited people,
conscious of their rights under the Constitution, a
deep sense of intolerable insult, and or a broken
covenant. Look too at the character generally of
these runaway slaves. We are told that the Gor
such runaways had committed theft—and in a more
recent case, at Syracuse, New York, (where also
the fugitive was rescued) the papersassert that this
negro had been four times in the penitentiary of
that State. Now we do not envy the abolitionists
the possession and companionship of the black
thieves, murderers and rakes, they are taking to
their bosoms; but will your honest and reflecting
citizens permit such a class to become domiciled
in their midst 7 Mark my prediction! If this
state of things should continue much longer, Penn
sylvania will be forced to pass laws as Indiana has
already done, expelling the negroes from your
borders.
Let me now call your attention io the condition
of our country, when our fore-fatliers established
this Union, and see what this much abused Consti
tution has done for us. As you well know, we
came out of the war of the Revolution with an
immense debt, and with little or no commerce.
Industry was paralyzed, rebellion against the laws
a not unfrequelit occurrence, and all was,chaos j
and confusion, until our present Constitution was
adopted. Under its benign rule see what we have
effected. WheXe is the country upon the face of
this globe, so blessed with plenty and strength, and
beauty and grandeur? And has slavery had nothing
to do in bringipg about these sublime results ?
Look at the vast superstructure' of wealth and
power which has been reared upon the foundation
of slave labor in this country. The exports of the
great southern Staples of cotton, tobacco, rice and
hemp alone, amount annually to over one hundred
millions of dollars ; while the exports of the north
do not generally equal one third of that amount.
To be more exact, I will give you the exports of
North and South for several years past, drawn from
the reports of the Commissioner or Patents :
1846. Northern exports, - 27 millions.
1846. Southern 4 4 - - 74 44
1847. Northern " - - 48 44
1847. Southern " - - 102 44
1848. • Northern " - - 34 44
1848. Southern 44 - - 98 "
1849. Northern 44 - - .32
1849. Southern 44 - - • 99
1850. Northern ' 4 - - 34 4 4
1850. Southern 44 - - 100 44
For the lotelligencer.
Thus you see in a period of five years, there has
been but one year in which the exports of the North
have approximated to one half of that of the South ;
'and this is explained by the unusual demand for
bread stuffs for Europe caused by the loss of the
potatoe crop. I would also mention that a hirge ;
item in your exports is for manufactured articles
out of southern staples. Now ae the imports of a
country are paid for by its exports, is it not plain
that seventy-five per cent. of the entire importa
tions of our country are annually paid for by.the
product of slave labor ? Again, Look at the
millions we annually spend'at the north in travelling
expenses, (and which is underrated at fifteen mil
lions) as well as for purchases of food and Clothing,
for our three millions of slaves = , as also for horses,
and mules, and cattle, and ploughs, and wagons,.
and other implements for carrying on our planta
tion operations: For the iron and stone coal, and
steam engines, and cotton gins, not to mention the
thousand articles of luxury and comfort for the
white race, and for all which the South is annually
pouring millions upon millions into the lap of the
North, either in money or in exchange for her pro
ductions. See again the industry called into life
and, activity among you, for the transportation of
our great staples upon the ocean. Your lumbermen
who float down the giants of the forest to the ocean,
your shipwrights, blacksmiths, sheathers, caulkers
and others who convert them , into ships. Your
sailors, stevedores, cartmen, clerks and merchants,
all, all, are mainly dependent upon the great carry
ing trade which our southern istaples, has devel
oped. Need I point you furthei to the vast amount
of capital invested in commercial houses, in cotton
factories, in rail roads, in machine making, and all
the trades and occupations connected with these
great interests, a capital which may be safely es
timated to exceed Three hundred millions of dollars,
all of it dependent upon slave labor, aed which
the abolition of slavery would demolish at a blow.
And there too is our great internal marine, the
thousand steamers which ply out- magnificent rivers
—an internal trade which eclipses that 01 any other
nation, and which the interchange of our produc
tions hie built up in less than thirty years. What
American heart does not swell with patriotic pride
at the contemplation of such a picture of industry
and grandeur ? and yet we - have Fanatics among us
who say, let our industry become annihilated—let
Commerce disapper—let the spindle's of the north
cease to run, and silence reign over the deserted
streets of our cities, and famine rage round our
habitations. Let contending armies riot over our
fields, and the earth drink in the blood of brothers.
Let wild beasts come from the mountains of the
north and the cane brakes of the south and occupy
the land. Let even the temples of our holy reli
gion disappear, and mourning, and desolation, and
woe, cover the earth, rather than have slavery !
I now purpose to look at some of the objections
made by ,these people against the 'institution of
slavery, and which have so 'bleared and perverted
their judgment and conscience as to cause them to
combine (in laboring for its overthrow) to bring
upon their country the appaling calamities I have
above depicted. And first: The foundation of
their warfare against slavery rests upon the quick
sands of error and falsehood. They assert ihat
slavery is a sin and a crime. We contend that
slavery was established by divine authority, and
among God's own chosen people, tre Hebrews.—
Caa the following plain wofds of the Bible be mis
understood ? " Both thy bondmen, and thy hand
maids which thou shalt have, shall be from the
heathen that.are roundabout you, of them shall
ye buy bondmen and bondmaidens. Moreover of the
children of the strangers that sojourn among you,
of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are
with you, which they begat in your land : and they
shall be your possession—and ye shall take them
for an inheritance for your. children slier you, to
inherit them for a possession : They shall be your
liondmenforever."—Ley. xxv, 44-46. '
In reference espe'cially to negro slavery, we point /
to the fulfilment of the curse pronounced upon
the descendants of Ham: Cursed be Canaan,
a servant of servants shall he be to his brethren."
And again Japheth shall dwell in the tents of
Shem, and Ham shall be their servant." Has not
this prediction been most literally fulfilled 9 Have
not our North American Indians, our Creeks, and
Cherokees, and Choctaws, and Seminoles, at this
very day, thousands or the none of Ham, held as'
slaves, among them I But I have no desire is waste
words upon the Bible argument for slivery.. In
relation to this matter, the Rev. Dr. Hodge, one of
the giants of the Chitral, says "If we are
wiser, better, more courageous than Christ and
' his Apostles, let us say so ; but it will do no
good, under a paroxysm of benevolence, to attempt
to tear the Bible to pieces, or to extort by violent
exegesis, a meaning foreign to its obvious sense.
Let God be true, but every man a liar."
Again. Do they tell us that slavery is a moral
and political evil, and ought-for this cause to be at
once abolished 9 We answer, that we do not deny
that slavery may be considered an evil ; but we
further 'say that the evil was not of our choosing
in its origin. That old England, and New England
fastened these slaves upon us, against our repeated
protests, and that they shall not now dictate to us
the time or manner ih which we shall get , rid of
them. If slavery then is in evil from the power it
confers upon the master, may not in the same sense
the marriage relation, as well as the parental rela
tion, be considered an evil 7 Civil government
even is an evil, since it is an ahridgement of our lib
ties, but who does not prefer the evil of government
to thegreater evil of anarchy 7 And so may the slave
prefer the evil of slavery; to the greater evils of
want, and barbarism, and crime, which attend upon
his race when out of that relation. Need I adduce
, proof in confirmation of this assertion 7 Look
then at Africa. That noble missionary, the lion
hearted Ashmun, in writing from Western Africa,
tells us that "children seldom receive parental
correction, or are restrained in any course to which
their passions and propensities incline them. Lying,
petty thefts, and the entire catalogue of childish
vices and follies, when seen in children only excite
merriment as long as the consequences are not
seriously injurious to themselves or others: The
adult is commonly devoid of moral principle alto-
gether. Polygamy is universal; and a licentiousness
of practice which none, not the worst part of
any civilized community on earth can parallel, give
a hellish consummation to the frightful deformity
imparted by sin, to the ritriral aspect of the negro
tribes. They are degraded to the condition nearly
of the better sort of brutes." Another missionary,
speaking of their kings, says : " They are them
selves poor, ignorant, naked savages, living in huts
but a single grade above the burrows which the
lower animals prepare for themselves, and there
indulge in reckless indolence, or wallowing in
beastly sensuality, regardless alike of their own
good, or that of ,there, they make scarce an effort
beyond what is necessary for. the supply of their
wants, or the gratification of their animal ap.
petites."
The Landers, when in western Africa, insert in
their journal as follows : " The " rainy,riason is
fast approaching, and what makes us still more de-.
sirous of leaving this abominable place, is the fact
that a sacrifice of no less than three hundred human
beings is shortly to take place. We often hear the
cries of many of these poor wretches, and the heart
sickens with horror at the bare contemplation of
such a scene as awaits us, should we rsmain here
much longer."
Or, need I point you to Hayti, where the black I
race left to themselves, have relapsed into more
than African barbarism. Her exports which, during
the existence of slavery`; amounted to more than
twenty-five millions annually, are now reduced to
a cypher. Her beautiful hills and vallies become ,
a desolation, and her population given up a prey
to anarchy anddeepotisM, and, if travellers reports I
are correct, even to Cannibalism.
Had the abolitionists expended their philanthro
phy for the slave, in discreet and honest efforts to
ameliorate the slave laws of the South, they would
have met with the most respectful consideration on
the part of many' slaveholders. But ! even these
laws, obnoxious to blame as I admit some of them e
to be, have been magnified and perverted by the
abolitionists, to keep up an angry feeling between
' the North and South. Harsh these laws may seem
to all your peopld, but I can safely assert that pub
lic sentiment in tfie... South is against their general
! enforcement, and most of them remain a dead let
! ter upon our statute books. If slavery however is
so clearly sanctioned liy the Bible, and recognized
I by the Constitution of our country, can !the South
! he condemned for passing laws, which they deemed
necessary for sustaining it ? Now we do not com
plain at all, at being told that these laws are afflic
tive to the slave, and ought to he modified or ex •
punged ; but we do with justice complain of the
unmerited calumnies that too often, for political or
interested purposes, are heaped upon the South and
her institutions. It is a fashionable: outcry, for in
stance, among demagogues and abolitionists at the
North, in order to make slavery odious .to the
popular mind, that wahold three millions of slaves
in a state of the grossest concubinage. There is
some truth, but' a greater degree of falsehood in
this siveeping assertion. Throughout the! entire
southern States there are tens of thousands of
slaveholders, embracing all the religious denomina
tions of Christian' sects, who employelergymen not
only to preach and gxpound the scriptures to their
slaves, but also to administer to them all the rights
of the church. Marriag4 and religious services at
the grave being ministered alike to-white and black.
Concubinage to a certain extent I admit may exist,
but should the large class of slaveholders be in
sulted who disapprove and labor to suppress it
Might not the slaveholder with as much justice
denounce theyeople of the North for countenancing
vice and sensuality, because many instances occur
among you of parents prostituting their children,
and because brothels are permitted an all your
towns and cities. Again. There is another matter
in respect to which.the slaveholder has been mis
represented and calumniated—and that is, the
modes of punishment we adopt for the s uppression
of vice and crime and idleness among our slavert.
You degrade them, nays the abolitionist, by the
punishment of the lash. The lash I will not deny'
may be abused by slavhholders, just as it may be
by parents, but this does not constitute a valid ob
jection either against slavery, or against this par
ticular method of punishment. We all know that
the labor of the negro in the production - of the
great tropical staples (a production which has ex
erted the most powerful influence in the civiliza
tion of the white race) must necessarily be compul
sory. Their refusal to .work in the West India
Islands, where this. mode of punishment has been
abandoned, has set7this question forever at rest.
But the nse of the lash is not often called for to
compel the slave to labor—the fear of its applica
tion being generally a suffiMent stimulus to the
idle; though for the.orrection and prevention of
crime, we hold it up' as a terror to evil doers, just
as you do your jails and penitentiaries at the North.
In connection with this subject let me refer you
to the laws of England, where, if "a man steals a
pig, perhaps to keep himself and family from down
right starvation, he is torn from his wife and chil
dren and parents, and transported to the antipodes.
If he break into his neighbor's cottage he is hung
for burglary." Now if our- slaves commit like
offences we punish them with the lash. Which
punishment, I ask, is the most revolting to human
ity ?
Again. Might we not ask the British abolitionist
if the lash is never heard in England ? Hear the
sworn , testimony of a factory overseer before a
committee of the House of Parliament: "I was
obliged to chastise them (the factory children]
when they were almost fainting, and it hurt my
feelings—then they would spring up and work
pretty well for another hour ; but the last two or
three hours was my hardest work, for they then got
sci exhausted." And in her armies and navies, num
berless instances are upon record where the lash
has been applied with such severity and continued
application, that the' subject has died under the
hands of the person who inflicted it ; and yet these
people have sent over their members of Parliament,
and Cockney novelists, and sentimental old maids,
to teach us lessons of humanity ! Although such
cruelty in the use of the lash as P have depicted,
would not be tolerated among slave-holders, yet
they have found a judicious application of it
to be the most prompt and certain corrective
against the vices and crimes among slaves; and
although they will not tolerate cruelty, yet their
feelings' of humanity in respect to its use have not
yet exhaled in sickly sentimentalism.
Again. There are but few of us who in our
younger days have not felt that potent stimulus., to
lazy school-boys, the birch ethe pedagogue; but
do we deem ourselves to have been debase by it ? '
Or did Solomon suppose he was requiring parents
to debase their children, when he exhorted them nut
to epoil the child by sparing the rod.
I now conic to the most important consideration
of all, in regard to this crusade against American
slavery. You will agree with me that Abolitionism,
like Socialism, and Communism, and Fourierism,
are all exotics, and the offspring of a hot bed of
atheism and infidelity. Who ever heard of an
abolitionist among us until England began to agitate
the emancipation of her slaves in her West India
colonies I And what enlightened man in her do
minions, who does not see that her commercial
greatness is paleing before the giant strides of her
offspring; and that she well may fear the adult
Hercules, if even in his cradle, his strength has
been so vast? Yes, my friend! her statesmen see
and know that the foundation of our wealth and
industry, and commercial prosperity, springs from
our tropical productions, the results of slave labor.
If she can distract and divide us, and induce the
North to keep up an agitation against slavery that
would eventuate finally in the emancipation orour
slaves, she knows that she will at once -enjoy a
monopoly of the tropical productions in her East
India colonies; a trade which would give her the
control of the commerce of the world, and bring
hundreds of millions annually into the hands of
her subjects. Well could England afford to eman
cipate her thousands of slaves in her West India
colonies, at the cost even of a hundred millions to
their owners, if by so doing she could destroy the
.labor of millions of slaves in this country.
If it was motives of philanthrophy (as-the aboli
tionists contend) which actuated her, why then, I
ask, has she done nothing to raise up the starving
millions of the white race at her own doors ? Where
was her philanthrophy when she ground down her
suffering people to support a twenty years war for
the "divine right of Kings?" Where her philan
throphy when she drove out the native princes of
Hisodstan from their fair dominions, and plundered
their millions of treasure? Where her philantbro
phy, when more recently she sent her armies and
navies to burn down the cities and slaughter the
unwarlike Chinese, because these people had dared
to expel from their ports a poisonous drug, which
was bringing thousands of them annually to a mis
erable death ?
, scHer philanthrophy ! my friend, twist you and me,
Is all just tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee."
Presidential
Washington County has unanimously instructed
for Mr. BocuArrarr. Bucks County has gone for
. Gen. Cass. Clinton County instructs for Gen. CASS .
There are, we believe, but four more delegates to
elect in the State, all of whom will be for Mr.
BUCHANAN.
Distressing Accident.
A singular and painful accident occurred on
Wednesday morning last, at Huling's Mills, on
Mosquito creek, about six miles from this place,
the particulars of which, as near as we can glean,
ate as follows: Two men were employed in the
mill at which the accident occurred to superintend
the sawing during the night: Mr. John Henry ta
king his turn at work, from 12 o'clock until day
light. Having been awakened at midnight, as usu
al, he went underneath the mill for the purpose of
arranging some of the gearing preparatory to pur
suing his night's task, when, unfortunately slipping,
his light was dashed from his hand, and in his en
deavors to grasp at something to support himself
and prevent a fall, his fingers were caught in the
tneshes of a cog-wheel which was slowly revolving
above him. The wheel gradually drew in his arm
crushing his strong, muscular hand like a wafer,
entirely severing the bone above the wrist, and
mangling him in a most horrible manner—until
he was drawn up so tight he had harely a loothold
upon the points of his toes. In this position, his
own weight and the entering wedge formed by his '
arm stopped the revolution of the machinery.—
The poor fellow, who must have been suffering the
most excruciating agony, screamed frantically for
help, but the noise of the rushing water drowned
his voice, and his fellow laborer, who had immedi
ately dropped asleep, in the mill, above him, ac
customed to noise and clatter, did not awaken nor
hear him. There was none other likely to hear
him. What an awful position for a strong, athletic
man, full of life and vigor! He screamed unheed
ed, until his voice failed him. For fire hours he
remained in that position—his right arm wedged
between the impinging wheels, in a winter night,
the warm blood trickling over him from his
wounds! His wife awakening from a frightful
dream, and seeing no light in the mill, surmised
that something had happened, ran from the house
to the mill, heard him moan and discovered him,
and arousing the neighbors, at ii o'clock, alter Con
siderable difficulty, he was released from his fright
ful captivity. His arm was amputated on Wed
nesday by Dr. Thomas Lyon, from whom we gath
er these particulars, and who now has the mangled
limb at his office. As late as yesterday we learn
that Mr. Henry is in a fair way of recovery from
the terrible accident and exposure to which he was
subjected.—Lyconring Gazette.
ARRIVAL OF THE FALCON
NEW . Yonx, Feb. 17.—The Falcon from Chagres
and Havana arrived at 12 o'clock. She brings fifty
passengers, but no gold.
There was considerable indignation felt at Ha
vana in consequence of rumors of a new invasion.
The Cumberland line of battle ship Vice Admi
ral George Seymour, and the steamship Devasta.
[ion, had arrived at Havana, from Jamaica.
The U. S, steamer Saranac arrived at Navy Bay
soon after the Falcon.
Senor Manuel Diaz would assujne the Governor
ship of New Grenada. •
The ship Superb, which lett New York more
than a year since, with stores for the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, had arrived at Panama.
The steamer Bolivia reached Panama on the 19th,
with late and important intelligence from South
America.
The movement of Gen. Cruz in Chili against the
Government of President Montt, has been entirely
suppressed. One of the bloodiest battles that ever
occurred in Chili took place on the plains of Lou
gomillk on the Bth December.
The Government troops, alter a hot engagement
of seven hours, came off victorious, leaving '2OOO
dead and wounded on the field. A treaty was after
wards concluded, which will secure peace to the
Republic for years. A treaty of peace, commerce
and navigation has also been concluded between
the Chilian and and 'Peruvian Governments.
Terrible & Fatal Accident on the
New York and Erie Railroad.
The most terrible acccident which has yet oc
curred upon the Erie Railroad, befel the train corn
ing to New York yesterday morning. The writer
of this account was an eye witness and participant
in the thrilling scene, and will briefly sketch what
came under his note.
When the engine, with a baggage car and four
passenger cars attached, had come to a sharp curve
in the road, about two miles west of . Equinunk,
those of - us who were in the next to the last car,
were suddenly startled from our seats, thrown
hither and thither by that peculiar jolting motion,
which is well known to the experienced in indica
ting that the car is off from the track. We were
drawn over the sleepers for the distance of forty
rods, expecting every instant that the car would
fall to pieces. The stove was at once upset, and
the coals scattered in every direction, blinding our
eyes with smoke and ashes.
When the engine was stopped, upon rushing to
the door, the first sight that met our view was the
Delaware river rushing by, directly beneath, at the
foot of a walled precipice, of at least thirty feet in
height. The next moment the conductor of the
train came drifting by upon a cake of ice, calling
for help, assuring us that he had already fallen
through the crumbling
foothold two or three times.
A short distance behind him was a passenger in a
similar situation. The ice was drifting at the rate
of five miles an hour, and it required fast running
to keep in a line with them. Ropes were procured
from the engine, and after some minutes of fearful
susprnse, with the aid of a skiff and a board thrown
to one of them, to be used as a paddle, they were
both rescued in a helpless condition. By this time
we learned that the passenger car behind us, the
last of the train, was just the other side of the
curve, thrown entirely into the Dela Ware river,
with all who were in it.
We hastened to the spot, and lo! thirty feet be
low us was the car, almost buried under the water,
and the poor creatures within were thrusting their
arms out of the windows calling for help. Two or
three of them had crawled upon the root and were
beseeching us to save them. The scene at first
seemed to strike every one dumb with horror. The
smooth walled precipice could not be decended.—
We were obliged to go a little further up the river,
where there is no wall, but only a gravel bank,
and there slide down to the water's edge. The
car, at its nearest end, was about 23 feet from the
shore; the water was deep and running very swift
ly. Boards were found upon the beach, but none
of them were long enough. After half an hour's
hard work a dead trunk of a hemlock tree was
shoved into the last window, and the other end
resting upon the shore: With the aid of this a
bridge was built, upon which those able to walk
were led, and these too much frozen to move were
carried. An axe was procured and holes cut thro'
the roof, and one after another the unfortunate pas
sengers were lifted out.
A young girl was drawn up, and at once began
to plead that her mother might be saved; as hus
band begged for his wife's rescue—friend struggled
to save friend. An old lady - of seventy years was
drawn out of the water insensiblut she afterward
revived. Upon getting the sufferers ashore, the
only way to get them to a place of relief was to
put ropes around their bodies, under the arms, and
draw them directly up the precipice. The severe
cold incapacitated them for raising hardly a finger
to aid themselves. The hair and garments of the
ladies were frozen stiff as soon as they were drawn
out of the water in the car. One man by the name
of Hyatt, was quite dead when taken from the ice.
The sufferers (wounded dreadfully some of them,
and all more or less bruised,) were taken into the
two' remaining uninjured cars and there made as
comfortable as they could be, chilled through with
di ipping garments. Though two 'fir three persons
were said to be missing, it was thought best to
come on with the wounded, and they were left
some of them at points upon the route, and those
able and willing to do so continued their journey
to New York.
There is every reason to believe that four persons
have been killed, and the number of wounded must
be twenty or thirty. The energy of two or three
gentlemen, who were themselves injured, in getting
out the sufferers, was most praiseworthy. It is only
a proper tribute to the self-sacrificing endeavors, to
mention the names of Mr. John E. Tollree, of Ith
aca, N. Y., and Mr. J. W. Armstrong, an agent of
the firm of Stone & Starr, No. 41 Broadway. The
latter had received a severe wound behind the right
ear, but was indefatigable in devising means of re
lief; cutting through the roof; breaking out the
windows, and with his own band, extricating one
after another. The immediate cause of the acci
dent was the breaking of a rail at the curve. It
is the general opinion of passengers that the cars
were not moving faster than twenty miles an hour.
Whether that was a prudent rate of speed at a
sharp curve upon the edge of such a precipice, the
public can judge.
. .
But what can be said in extenuation of the fact,-
that the signal rope connecting with the engine did
not run through the-last two cars? When the ac
cident began, a dozen men made a rush for the bell
cord and it was not to be found. Judge of our dis
appointment, our horror, when it was known, in
an instant, that we had nomeans of preventing the
ruin that seemed inevitable. Several have since
said that they remarked before the occurrence that
there was this neglect. Let there then be a thor
ough investigation, and let us know who was thus
culpable. The conductor was in the last car
himself, and could instantaneously have rung the
bell at the engine, and those in the next car could
have done so. This carelessness is deeply felt by
the passengers as a most grievous wrong, not only
done to the dead and wounded, but to all those
whose lives have thus been periled.-Tribune Feb.
Is.
Tribute of Respect
The following preamble and resolutions were
adopted by the Penn'a Association of I. 0. of Phil
ogatheans, No. 38, of the city of Lancaster, on the
death of Sister Mary W. Swentzel :
Whereas, it has pleased Divine Providence to call
from our midst, Our beloved Sister Mary W. Swent.
ref, Worthy Associate of our respective order we
are called again to mourn our loss which we shall
ever hold in remembrance. Therefore be it
Resolved, That we will forever cherish and hold
in future rememberance the social meetings we
held with her in our respective AssOciation.
Resolved, That in the death of Sister Mary W.
Swentzel, our order has lost a good and true mem
ber; that the charter of the .Penn'a Association be
hung in mourning tor the spare of thirty days.
Resolved, When - 'those we love are snatched
away by death's resistless hand, our hearts the
mournful tribute pay that friendship must demand:
Resolved, That we sympathise with the bereav
ed husband in his loss of an affectionate and be
loved wife, kind and affectionate mother, worthy
and beloved sister.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be
sent to the family and published in the city papers.
ELIZABETH HAMM-BACH, MARIA COYLE,
SUSAN OKABON, ELIZABETH KENDIG,
MART ERISMAN, Committee.
Feb. LBth, 1852
lEr At a meeting of Lancaster Council, No. 25,
Order United Daughters of America, the following
Preamble and Resolutions were adopted
Whereas, An allwise Providence having called
Irom our midst our beloved sister Mary W. Swent
zel, Ex-Gov. ol this Council, we are called to mourn
again the loss of one of the most useful members
of our order. Her zeal and useful devotion has en
deared her to us and is well worthy our future re
membrance. Therefore be it
Resolved, That we will in future cherish and
hold in remembrance our late sister Mary W. Swent
zel, for the many virtues rendered to our Order, and
the many social meetings we held with her in our
Respective Council.
Resolved, That the hall of the Lancaster COUR
CII, No. 25, Order U. D. of A., be hung in mourn•
ing for the space of Thirty Days as a tribute of
Respect for our deceased sister.
Resolved, That we view in the character of our
deceased sister, a virtuous and kind wife, an affec
tionate and beloved mother.
Resolved, That we sympathise with the bereaved
husband in the loss of an affectionate and beloved
wife, a kind and affectionate mother, and a respected
and beloved sister.
Resolved, That a copy of these resOlutions be
sent to the family and published in the papers of
this city.
SUSAN S. HAMBRIORT, ELIZABETH KENDIO,
SUSAN . OELSON, SUSAN A. SELLAIIO,
MART YACIILET,
Riot at Cleveland.
A serious disturbance occurred at Cleveland, CO.,
on the 16th inst., in consequence of the discovery
near the Homeopathic Medical Cojlege of several
dead bodies obtained for dissection—amongst others
that of a young lady who had died but a few
days previously. The excitement ran so high, that
the military companies of the place had to be called''' .
out to prevent the destruction of the College build
ings by the mob. The ringleaders of the rioters
were arrested.
!Er Mr. BUCHANAN reached home, from his vis
it to Richmond and Washington, on yesterday
Committee.