Ittelligenter Sr, 3ournal. Lancaster, March 2, 1852. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR FOR PRESIDENT: Bucllng .7 (Snidest to the decision of the National Convention) Dangerous Counterfeit Notes. There is a number of Counterfeit Notes now in circulation, (some of them heretofore noticed in our columns,) which requires the closest scrutiny by, good judges to detect their character. We ap pend the best description of them we can obtain • and would caution our readers to be on their guard id, receiving notes of the banks on which. these spurious ones purport to be, xithout satisfactory evidence of their genuineness: • • BANK OF AIIDDLETOWN, PA. (ilfer•cer Brown, Pres.—Simon Cameron, Cash.) 55, re.issue—vig. head and bust of a female in a frame—large figure 5 each side of it—a medallion head and three figures 5 on the right—on the left a medallion head, and a figure 5 above and below it. This is so close an imitation of the genuine that persons not WELL acquainted with the bills should refuse all .$5 ngtes of this plate. The word FIVE on the bottoreihargin appears 26 times—on the genuine 27. ss, good imitation of the genuine, having an ea gle for the centre vig.—a large female on the right, and reapers on the left end—large female is rather pOor—the clouding around the eagle poor: r and the reapers on the left particularly poor—has no (.) after the word DF.3IAND, and no (,) alter the name of Danforth, the engraver. ss, engraving coarse. In the first batch the "Jr in "Middletown" on the upper left margin, had an extra flourish, which has since been taken off to Make it correspond with the genuine—this leaves the ...M" an eighth of an inch farther from the Margin than in the true bill, in which it !is clOse on to it. HARRISBURG BANK, PA. [Thomas Elder, Pres.—J. W. Weir, Cash.] 2s, imitation of relief re-issue, let. Th—the fa ces in the vig. are poor—the stars on the shield on left end of note are very taint—in the genuine they are plain and the fares are well done--the shading of. the words "Harrisburg Bank" is not regular— the letters in the :word " IRDEPENDENeitt on the right lower corner slant like italics—in the genuine they are straight. 1 as, re-issue relief notes—good lithographic imi tation of genuine—in the engravers' names SPEN ems is spell SPENER. In the genuine there is a space•, between the flower on the left hand and the fine of small FIVE—FIVE. In the counterfeit the flower touches both above and below. tis, a tip—top imitation of genuine—vig. a fe- Male with a sword and scales, resting on a short column, and the letter V in a square die each side —with a female and two figures "5" on- each end —this note should be thrown out by persons not acquainted with the true bill, and let the bank is sue a new plate. LANCASTER BANK, PA.- [D. Longenecker, Pres.—B. C. Bachtnate,;Cash.] is, relief note—good imitation of genuine, and very likely to deceive—the neck of female on left whose hand encircles the anchor, appears strung with beads; not so the genuine—her right hand and arm are imperfect and indistinct, in genuine they are well done. 2s, poor imitation—re-issue relief notes—vig. a female with a child in her arms—the spaces be t Ween the word TWO on the upper and lower mar gins do not correspond, and the word Two on the lower margin appears 21 times—the genuine has the spaces alike, and' the TWO only 20 times. A new batch of these is said to be in circulation.— Refuse all notes corresponding with this description. fis, good imitation of genuine relief cotes— vig. State House, with figure 0 on a medallion head each side of it--medallion head and three figure Fives on each end—some of the letters of "Lancas ter," touch the medallion on the left of the vig.-- not so in the genuine. FARMERS' BANZ OF LANCASTER, PA. [C, Hager, Pres.—G. Clarkson, CaSh.] 2s, counterfeit relief notes—the • re-issue—the ground work around the figure 2 on each side of the vignette is made up of small noTs, while the genuine have FINE CROON 'axis; R. F. Rauch, Cash., is engraved—the genuine is not. Another batch of these have been issued, which look more like the genuine—the word "Co." in the engraver's names quite touches the "N" in New l'od,; not so in the genuine. WYOMING BANK, WILKSBARRE, 10s, vignette, an ox and plow at rest, with a man reclining against the ox. On each end of the note a female figure, and at the bottom a small coat of arms of Pennsylvania. Letter A., and dated May 7, 1851. Purports to be engraved by Draper, Tap pan -& Co., whose imprint is at the top of, the note. The general appearance of the 'note is bad, and the engraving poorly executed, though calculated to deceive those nut accustomed to the handling of Bank paper. The shading of the title and the de nomination is very coarse and irregulaii In gen uine notes the shading is always in fine parallel lines. Several persons were arrested inj Philadel phia and New York, within the last ten days, fur attempting to put these notes into circulation. Yonx Bens, PA. h's, have not seen them, but said to be poorly done—in the engraver's name "BALD"; is spelt "13Ar.a."' FARMERS' AND MERCHANTS' BANE, BALTIMORE. female with key, shield, &c.—a i large female,i eagle, goblet, &c., on lett end--anchor, female, &c,, on right end—plow and sheaf of grain between the signatures. . STATE SANE Or OHIO. 2s, letter A--the lathe-work on left margin and head of Wm. Penn are poor—the right foot. of the Indian in the vignette is poor, and looks more like a, stump than a toot. The letters in the word CIN CINNATI are crooked and irregular. The above gives the particular defects of the note—its general appearance is good, and very likely to lions unless closely scrutinized. We regard the s9's on the Middletown Bank to be the most dangerous, and they should not be re ceived by any one not well acquainted with their character. The 2's on the Harrisburgll3ank, are excellent imitations—and so are the 2's on the Farmers' Bank of Lancaster, and the 2's on the Lancaster Bank. fEr Ens EN'S "United States Clothing Store," No. 35 North Queen st., presents unusual attractions just now. All sorts of ready made fashionable clothing can be obtained there, at prices theinost reasonable, and their customers may always e. pect to be well served in every respect. For particu lars of the establishment, see advertisement in an other column. Tr A TF.3IPERARCE IVIcsTING is to be held in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, in Duke st„ this evening, at 7 o'clock, which will be addressed by Rev. Messrs. Barnes, Chambers, Crooks, and other Clergymen tram Philadelphia. lEF" A MISSIONART MEETING will be held in the same Church, on Thursday evening. An address will be delivered by Rev. Mr. thus, of Harrisburg. WHITE HALL AcAnnlT.—This Academy, located three miles west of Harrisburg, is in a: very flour ishing condition, and is rapidly acquiring under its excellent management, a high character in the community. The advantages it posseses offer strong inducements to the public. For particulars, see advertisement. 117 A new Volunteer Company, Called the itLATICASTER LIGHT INFAFTII.Ir," Capt. W. K. Leon ard, has been organized in this city. The Lieuten ants are B. W. Lantz, John M. Amweg and Samuel H. Price; Orderly Sergeant, R. C. Weil% 11:7 The First Presbyterian Church of this city have elected Rev. Mr. Scuence, of Princeton N. J.; as their Pastor. We have not learned !‘vliether the . Reverend gentleman has sigdied his acceptance of the call. EY' The Democratic State Conventign will meet at Harrisburg, on Thursday next. It's ,duty will be to appoint Delegates to the NutionalConvention, nominate Presidential Electors, select a candidate for Canal Commissioner, and appoint a State Cen tral Committee. There are also some ten or twelve candidates for Canal Commissioner spoken of by their friends, all of whom are good men, and the Convention can hardly fail in malting a good se lection. rig" The celebrated NEW Onuthis OPERA !TROUPE are to give their second and last concert, tonight, at the Mechanics' Institute. BanlEs—Shinplasten. Whilst the legislatures of Maryland, Virginia and several' other States of the Union, have com menced a movement which looks to the exclusion of all notes of a denomination less than five dollars from circulation, the law makers of Pennsylvania seem to be taking a retrograde step, and are seri ously deliberating upon' the propriety, not only of chartering a batch of new Banks, with power to issue small notes, but also repealing the act of a former Legislature which e x cluded the small notes of other States from circulation amongst nal When we say the Legislature, we do not mean all the members ; for there are some " good anktrue " men in both branches who will neither " touch, taste, nor handle the unclean thing." Bnt, we are very much afraid that a majority will Be 'found who are willing to bow the pliant hinges of the knee to the paper god, and who will compromit the substantial interests of the people at the shrine of the money changers. So for as the action of the Legislature has yet been h •d, things look gloomy in the extreme. But ' we still have hope that better counsels may pre vail, and that our good old State will yet be saved the humiliation which is sought to be inflicted by some, at least, from whom we expected better things. At the worst, our hope is strengthened and eur fears are allayed from the pleasing refiectior. , that we have a Democratic Executive who can apply the proper corrective, and whose firmness and integrity are a sufficient guarantee that he will use h is .‘ constitutional prerogative in such a way as to protect the people from the infliction or a curse that would inevitably tollow the enactment of the measures above alluded to. We want no more banks or shinplasters. The currency of the State is now sound and reliable— barring the counterfeit notes that are in circulation --and any tampering with it, or inflatiori of it by the creation of additional Binks of issue,!is calcu tated to again trotace the same state of things which, commencing with 1837, was ortlyiermina ted by the establishment of the Independent Treas ury a few years ago. "Let well enough alone," is a good motto, which is peculiarly applicable to the currency question. The Court House Question. This seems. to be the all engrossing subject among our citizens, since the purchase of the " Brenetnan Lot," by the County Commissioners for the erection of a new Court House. Remon strances are being numerously signed against the location, and the State Legislature is asked to in.. terfem so as to leave the decision to a vote of the County. An injunction is also talked of to prevent action on the part of the Commissioners. , Whilst all this is going on, we understand the commis sioners are determined that the buildings shall be erected there, and have already_ taken measures to commence operations as soon as the Spring season shall have fairly set in. What is to be the upshot of this matter time only will determine. It is a very. exciting controversy as the thing now stands, and bids fair to become more and more inter esting as the season for building approaches. The whole' difficulty might have been avoided by lo cating the new Court House in Market Square . II that had been done, we presume there would have been but little or no objection frorri any sec tion of the county. Still, as we, said last week, we incline to the opinion that the Com Missioners have the power to locate the building where they please, and we apprehend that all these efforts which are being made to prevent them will prove una vailing, unless they choose, of their own accord, to change the location. Union Canal - Company. The Reading Gazette says that the Managers of the Union Canal Company, whose works extend from Reading to Middletown, a distance of some eighty miles, and connect the waters of the Schuyl kill and Susquehanna rivers, have just made their annual report public. .This Company has no per manent debt, though for the purpose of improve ment and enlargement a preferred stock has been f created, and means in this way have been raised partly to effect the object desired. The business on the Canal, during the past year, was necessarily limited, in consequence of the enlargement going on between Pine Grove and Portsmouth, thus con fining operations to the Eastern portion, between Lebanon and' Reading. The tonage on that por tion, was but 46,786 tons, and the tolls collected $17,316 74. The enlargement being now com pleted on the western end, and ready fo'r opening as soon as the weather will permit, a large trade is looked for the ensuing season, to supply the lum ber, coal, &c., that will be required on every part of the line, the stock of these articles having been entirely exhausted. The coal trade, the coming season, it is estimated, will not be less thah 150,000 tons, and may be increased to 300,000 tons, should the demand warrant it. A basin has 'been con structed at Pine Grove; which, when supplied with the railroad tracks and chutes, will be capable of shipping 1,000,000 tons per annum, a trade as large as can be conveniently accomodated with but one set of locks.' When wetook at the Schuylkill coal trade which in 1323 was but 8500 tons, and was last year 2,184,240 tons, and consider the rapid increase of consumption of coal for steamships,lopoznotives, and iron works, it is not unreasonable to expect this canal to be filled to its utmost capacity in a few years. The report argues at some length in , favor of raising means to enlarge the eastern por lion of the Canal, from the Lebanon water works to Reading. From Washington. New Presidential Movement —Buchanan 'and Bid ter—Free Soil Disappointments, etc. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 1852 The announcement that General Butlei has writ ten a letter disavowing free soilisrE; has crested great commotion among the Free Soil Democrats. They have determined to cut Butler, and take up Houston and Marcy. The latest regular Democratic ticket now, is Bu claanan for President, and Butler for Vice President. It is stated that Butler will run on Buchanan's ticket, but would rot again play second fiddle to Cass. Buchanan will go into the Convention with the full Southern vote. Of course, this is only the present aspect of affairs, and may change before the time for action arrives; but shrewd politicians are inclined to believe the movement will be adhered to.—Letter to. Neu' York herald. "Onssnvan," of the Ledger, whose propensity for falsifying is so well known all over the country,. don't like the above item of news, and tries hard to !break the force of it, by saying that Gen. BUTLER would be willing to run again on the same ticket with Gen. Cass. He is forced to admit, however, - that "Mr. BUCHANAN seems to be popular in Vir ginia and North Carolina"—a fact which, in all his previous letters, he took especial pains to deny.- 13e will probably find, before he is much older, that even in Kentucky and Tennessee the same state of things exist that do in the first two-mentioned States El3'The Urge Ware Home of Mr. Daniel Kapp, in Marietta, situated between the Canal and the Diver, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night last, together with all its contents, embracing about fioo bushels of wheat, a lot of California Whiskey, Furniture and Farming Utensils, and a lot of To bacco. The fire occurred, about 10i o'clock, and s supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. There was a trifling insurance on the buildiug—but it will not near cover the loss of that, to say noth. ing of the loss of the grain, &c. Roaszn.—On Saturday night week, Mr. John .McCaskey, of Leacock township, at Bletz' tavern, in Mount Pleasant, of a pocket book containing $l5O in cash, besides three checks on the Lances• ter County Bak for $650. The robber is supposed to an an Irishman who staid at the same house over night. " Honor to whom Honor? &c A paragraph in the Ledger of Tuesday last, does great injustice to J. B. BIKER, Lsq, the Superin tendent of Motive Power on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Mr. HAUnT, or rather his friends connected with the Central Railroad, claim the credit of an arrangement entirely matured and established by Mr. BASEll—which has extended great facilities to transporting merchants on the railroad line of the State improvements, besides being an actual saving to the Commonwealth of nearly one hundred dollars per diem. The para graph alluded to says: The allowance heretofore made for each car was 13,000 pounds; and through the instrumen tality of the Superintendent, it has been agreed to increase the allowance of freight to 16,000 pounds for each car. This will make a vast difference in the shipment of freight to and from the Wes:; and in a short time a much larger amount of business will be done, as the 300 new cars contracted for by the Pennsylvania Railroad will be completed and immediately put in use. There are now 550 freight cars running on the road, belonging to the Cotn panY• The " Superintendent " through who instru mentality the above arrangement has been effected, was Mr. &man ; and it is due to the business com munity that they should be rightly informed to whom they are indebted for so great an accommo. dation. Mr. B. made his calculations for this al lowance on the 13th inst„ and presented them to the Canal Board on the 14th inst., requesting them to pass a resolution, which they did, permitting 3,000 lbs. to a four wheeled, and 10,000 to an eight wheeled car. He also suggested that no journal should be less than 21, inches, but would have had them limited to three inches, were it not that the freight cars on the Central Railroad are never more than 2g-. These are the real facts of the case, and it is proper that the public should know them. The State Printing. ANOTHER SINKING FUND. A recent debate in our State Legislature, has dis closed the fact that the letting out of the State print ing to the "lowest bidder," is a project of economy deserving of rank squat with the Ex-Governor's "sinken-fund it having turned out quite as mys terious in its operation and as costly in its results. The present printer, Mr'. FENN, a Whig, took the printing at a rate fifty pr cent. below that paid to NFKINLEY and LESCEME, Democrats, and though FENN had less work to perform, his bill was about twenty five per rent. heavier than that of his prede cessors. In five years the average charge of MK.. and L. was a little over $1.5,000, the highest in any one year being short of $lB,OOO, but the Whig econ omist, for rather less work, and at charges fifty per cent. less, has some how pr other managed to work up a bill rising $O,OOO. ;Upon the whole, we think the worthy , Ex-GovernOr's financial operations, shrewd and mysterious as they were, were no touch to the above. The Leislature is looking into ib and into the delay of the printing, also.—Peowyl vanion. How It was Done. During the last campaign tue whigs attempted to make the people believe that Gov. Johnston had paid over $BOO,OOO of the State debt by means of the Sinking Fund. Now we have arrived at the how it was done. The loan under Gov. Johnston of the 10th of April, ISO, was $400,000 ; the de ficit left in the treasury jwhen Johnston left office was considerably over $300,000, for which Bigler had to sign a bill authorizing the State Treasurer to contract a loan. These two loans, over $700,000, far overbalances the money paid by Johnston into the sinking fund. Does this show economy on the part of the Whigs? Far from it. It has been shown that Gov. Shunk really did reduce the State debt, and although it waS not in such large amounts as claimed Gy the JohnStonites, yet it was really done, and not by taking from one place and turning it over to another.—Lebsinon Advertiser. That is the Whig plati, of paying State debts.— During the late canvass ;Gov. Johnston declared in his speeches that Ritner had not increased the State debt during his term of ciflice, in the face of the fact that he left unsettled ' liabilities amounting to some ten or twelve millions of,dullars for the Democrats to pay, in addition to the funded debt, besides squandering over six millions of revenue. John ston claimed to have paid six or seven hundred thousand dollars of the Slate debt, yet the liabilities of the State were no less' at the time of his going out of office than they Were when he came in.— Such is whig reform.—Keystone. Franklin Marshall College As the Legislature of this State, on the 19th day of April, 1850, pas§ed itt act for the union of Franklin and Marshall Colleges, under the above title, to be located in the city of Lancaster, or its immediate vicinity, which College by said act, was to be incorporated by the Governor of the State, issuing letters patent for that purpose, as soon as the sum of 23,000 dollars should he paid by the citizens of;Lancaster city and county, to a joint Committee of Franklin and Marshall Colleges; and an amount equal to the I one-third of the valuation of the funds and estate of Franklin College, should be paid by the Germenlßeformed Church in the manner directed by said act, to the Trustees of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg; and as the sum of 25,000 dollars and upwards, has been sub scribed by the citizens of the city and county of Lancaster, "to be paid in twelve months from this date," that is from the sth day of January, 1851, the date of the subscription paper, " in four equal quarterly instalments ;" and as it was not deemed advisable, on the score of economy and for other reasons, to push the collections of the said quarterly instalments, but receiving them from any by whom they were offered, to wait u til the whole became due, for a full and final collection; it is hoped, that as additional time has thus been given for the pay ment of the stibscriptidns, all of which are now past due, they will now be at once cheerfully and promptly paid to the Rev. Jonre C. BUCHER, agent for Franklin College, or ; left at the Farmers Bank of Lancaster, or at the Lancaster Bank, as early as practicable; inasmuch as no further proceeding, however important and desirable, can be had in the organization ' location or erection of the new Col loge until the said 25,060 dollars shall have been collected and paid overlto the joint committee of Franklin and :Marshall Colleges, as above men tioned. JOHN L. ATLEE, JOHN REYNOLDS, SAMUEL HUMES, DAVID LONGENECKER, C. HAGER, Committee of Franklin College. The Public Works. Mr. MoacENßrao, of Barks, has presented a bill to the Senate for a change in the regulation and management of the Public Works. provides, amongst other things, for the abolition of the pres ent Board of Canal Commissioners, and for the ap pointment by the Legislature, of a Secretary of Public Works at a salary of $2500, Clerks at $l5OO each, an Engineer at $5500, to have imme diate control of the linei of improvementsi,&c„ &c. Whether the change, if 'adopted, would result ben eficially to the Commonwealth we ate not prepared to say; but, we incline very strongly to the opinion that, if more efficient than the present systempf management, it would be also more expensive. It is, therefore, a matter of doubt whether the change would, in the long run, be for the better. Mr. Buchanan In Maryland. The State Capital Gazette, a sound and reliable Democratic paper published at Annapolis, Md., has in its issue of Wednesday last, a very able corn munication in favor of Mr. BucHANAN for Presi dent. The writer says i " The people of the South, with remarkable unanimity, have fixed their hopes upon this gentle man, [Mr. B.] In the National Convention, which will soon assemble at Baltimore, he will receive, it is believed, the lindivided vote of every Southern State, with the exception, perhaps, of our own." And the writer goes onto say that he has very strong hopes that Maryland also will cast her vote in the National Convention for Mr. BUCHANAN. 117' A resolution hah passed both branches of the Legislature, authorizing the Governor to em ploy counsel, on the part of the State, in the case of the colored girl, RACHEL Perticza, recently ab ducted from Chester county, and now in jail at Baltimore, where she is - held as a slave. A true bill has been found by ;the Grand Jury of Balti more against the alleged kidnapper, -M'Crtsear, and hence the emplayrnent of Counsel on the part of Pennsylvania to prosecute the case. Reminiscences of 1643. On the Bth of January, 1843, a Democratic State Convention was held at Harrisburg, which unani mously nominated Mr. BUCHANAN for the Presi dency. ThEee - disys thereafter, on the 11th of the same month, Mr. Bucamor was re-elected, lor the third time, to the U. S. Beliate,—and the next day, the following letter, signed bf-every Democratic member of the Legislature, save °ne t (Morrow B. Lowrey!) was forwarded to him at WasbingEon HARRISBURG,January 12th, 1843. ' Ta the H9n. James Buchanan: • DEAR Sta : The undersigned Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsyl vania, cannot avoid the expression of their pride and gratification inoinnouncing your re-election to the Senate of the /United States. As a renewed testimonial of our high regard for your undeviating adherence to the great principles of Democracy, your stern integrity and eminent talents as a States man, we once more most cheerfully entrust you with the interest and honor of your native State. Nor do we claim any merit in selecting you to fill this exalted station. It was the united voice of the Democratic Party, and our act was but the legiti mate representation of its wishes. We witness in the distinguished Statesman and Champion ot popular rights, the ripe and matured excellencies ot the youth who marched during_ the late war in defence of his . country, and in the Legislative Halls ably advocated and nobly. sus tained the proper and efficient means of defence against the common enemy, and, who has since by ' a long series of brilliant services in the Councils of the Nation, earned a reutationwhich will en dure as long as the history and glory of the Re public. On ecconnuof these services, as Pennsylvanians we cordially 'unite in the sentiment that you are not only entitled to fill the distinguished post of honor to which you have been. elected, but we should desire to see you elevated to the highest office in the gift of the People, and we would there fore proudly tender you to the Union as Penneyl vania's favorite candidate for the next Presidency. We remain, very respectfully, your friends, B. Crispin, D.B. Long, Joieph Russel, . H. B. Wright, Thomas M'Cully, William Bigler, • Chas. A. Black' Joseph Baily, Benj. Champneys, Asa Dimick, Jas. X. M , Lanalan, E. A. Penniman, W. P. Wilcox, Sam , l A. Smith, Henry C. Eyer, Samuel Fegely, Wm..R. Gorgaa, Samuel Headley, John. Hill, J. C. Horton, Franklin N. Avery, A. L. Roumfort, Jacob Geerhart, Thos. O'Brien, Henry M'Bride. L. Kidder, Daniel Snyder, Joseph J. James, Richard Bacon, John Shenk, Daniel Sherwood, J. H. Deford, Thos. J. Postlethwait, David Glenn, Samuel Reber, George Bush, John Sipes, John Potteiger, G. R. Barrett, George M'Culloch, John Marshall, Samuel Moore, Henry Myers; Thomas Tustin, Jacob Walter, J. L. Hancock, Geo. T. Boat, Emmor Elton, Wm. B. Hahn, Am Packer, S. N. Bailey, Joseph Kerr,Joseph Thomas, Wm. S. Picking, Charles Kugler, Edward M'Gowan, Wm. Bell, Samuel Kerr, J. K. Heckman, William Karns, A. Heebner, T. K. Kline, William Bean, Geo. Frederick, M. Overfield, Franciscus Clinton, Samuel Goodwin, W. M. M'Kennon, Joseph Deal, Joseph Baughman, John Morgan. But this was not all. On the 13th of April, 1843, a caucus of the Democratic members of the Legislature was held at the Capital, " accor ding to the accustomed usages of the party," for the purpose of making arrangements for the meeting of the 4th of March Convention in 1844, and expressing their opinion as to the proper time and place of holding the National Convention. Hon. BENJA MTN CHAMPRETS was chairman of the Committee, and reported an ex cellent address and resolutions to the meeting, which were adopted. We are sorry our limits will not permit us to publish the whole. At that time no person entertained the absurd idea, (as some appear to do at the 'resent time,) that our great Commonwealth should present a candidate for the Presidency, to the Union, and then send Delegates to the National Convention selected by each of the Congressional districts, some of whom might exert themselves to defeat the will of the State and the instructions of their constituents. Accordingly, after adopting a resolution presenting Mr. BocuANAN, in the strongest terms, as the can didate of the Keystone State, they also unanimously passed the following additional resolution: " Resolved, That the Democratic party of Penn sylvania should adhere to its ancient usage of sele=ting Delegates to the National Convention by a Democratic State Convention of Delegates assem- bled according to the invariable custom of the party, who will select a Delegation to represent the State, ~equal to the whole number of Senators and Repre sentatives in Congress; and, so far as Pennsylvania is concerned, ice entirely disapprove of the election of Delegates, by Congressional Districts. - . Such was the sentiment of the Pennsylvania De mocracy in 1843,—and such, we trust, will be its ac tion, through the State Convention which meets at Harrisburg, the present week. Capt. Sanderson :—The Lancasterian of last week has been just placed in my hands by a friend, in which I find the following language: " Why was Hambright defeated ? ' The reply (by the Editor) is that I have been an open Whig for years—that I have voted for Johnston for Governor and against Mr. Longstreth —and that I voted for Taylor for President and against Gen. Cass. Now, Sir, it the Editor of the Lancasterian is a Gentleman he will, I am certain, give me the name of his correspondent, whom I distinctly charge as a slanderer, a liar, and a cowardly Guerilla who fights limn behind the bush. I await a reply from the Editor, who I have no doubt will endeavor to make the charge good. If he does not, I shall have something more to say in your next. FREDERICK HAMBRIGHT March 1, 1552. For the Intelligence, MARIETTA, Feb. 25, 1852 Friend Sanderson—Will you lend a Democrat a place in your valuable paper, to introduce the name of a man for the office of Canal Commissoner, without disparagement to the claims of either of the gentlemen already mentioned, from various parts of the State. Allow me to name REIIIIIN MuLlascut, of Lancaster county. He is a gentle man who is well qualified to discharge the duties of the office, is a sound and unwavering democrat, who has never sought office, and if nominated 'would be the man to lead the Democratic party to battle and to victory. I think it would be the duty of the delegates from this county, to bring his name be fore the 4th of March Convention, and, if nominated by that body, it would be hailed by acclamation, not only in Lancaster county, but throughout the. State. A MiniETTA DEMOCRAT Monroe Wins the Banner ! The Democratic State Central Committee have decided that Monroe county shall have the Banner promised by our Democratic brethren of California —she having given the largest Democratic:majority, in proportion to her vote, of any county in the State for Governor WILLIAM Brow. Success to little Monroe, say we—and double success to our friend RINGWALT, of the Democrat, who contributed so largely to the result. -Gover nor BIGLER should commission him an Aid forth with, and by general consent he must be selected as the "Standard Bearer.", g7An interesting correspondence appears in the Baltimore Jacksonian, of Saturday, between a num: begot the prominent Democrats of that City and the Hon. JAMES BUCHANAN, who was invited by them to partake of a puhlic dinner, but which he he declined. We will publish the correspondence next week. Lenin' KERESAX.E.—TheThIarch no. of this beau tiful little monthly is already issued from the office of John S. Taylor, Publisher, New York. This no. is embellishea with a highly finished engraving, representing "General Warren taking leave of his wife and child on the eve of the battle of Bunker Hill." The "Keepsake" is always a , welcome visitant It is furnished to subscribers at ;fit per annum. Irr Col. J. B. WELLER (tormerly of Ohio) has been elected, by the Legislhtiire of Calitocnia, U. S. Senator. Col. W. is a first-rate Democrat. ru- The Canals are to happened on the 12th of March, LETTERS ON SLAVERY, ABOLI TIONISM, &C., BY A GENTLEMAN OF MISSISSIPPI, TO HIS FRIEND IN THIS CITY. MEE NEAR. NArcsr.z, Nov. 5, 1951 My Dear Friend—l called your attention, in closing my last letter, to the fact, that motives of philanthrophy never actuate the British statesmen in measures of State policy a.and that their conduct towards the Chinese, as well as other State mea nies, was evidence of this assertion. The pro duction of opium in the British East India colonies, as you are doubtless award, is worth Boise twenty million, aanually'to the East India Company, and the Chihese take nearly or quite.,the whole of it. The Rei: Mr. Malcom, a missionary of the Ameri can Baptist Church, who travelled thiough the East some years ago, thus alludes to this trade : " No person caii describe the horrors of the opium trade. The drug is produced by compulsion, ac companied with miseries to the cultivators, greater than slaves endure in any part of the earth. The prices paid to the produCer scarcely sustain life, and are many per cent, less than the article pro duces in China. The whole process of carrying and rending is an enormous infringement of the laws of nations, and such as would immediately produce a declaration of war by any European power. The grandest and grossest smuggling trade on the globe! The influence - of the drug upon China is more awful and extensive than that of rum in any country, and worse. to its victims than any • outward slavery. That the government of British India should be the prime abetters of this abomi nable traffic, is one of the grand wonders of the nineteenth century. The proud escutcheon of the nation, which declaims against the slave trade, is thus made to heir a blot broader and darker than any other in the Christian world." [See Malcom's Travels, vol. 2, page 160. Although the enlightened men of the Chinese nation saw and deplored. the demoralizing effects of opium eating upon their people, and passed the most strOgent laws to prohibit its importation, they found themselves out-witted by the ingenuity of the British smuggler; and when, in aelf•defence, , they seized upon and destroyed the obnoxious drug,:war, with all its appiling accompaniments, burst upon their country, and deadlier pills than opium eoon compelled them to yield again to its introduction. Here, then, is a specimen of England's boasted philanthrophy; and has conduct so atrocious roused the British nation to redress the wrongs of these . deeply wounded people ? Not at all. There is nothing in this cruel policy; so long as it brings twenty millions annually into the coffers of the East India Company, black enough to disturb their feelings of humanity. Another matter. It is not generally known that in these same British East India possessions, there are millions of Hindoo,,slaves. Let me in ?root of this assertion quote you another page from Malcom, who travelled through Hindoatan, and published his work in 1038. Here it is ; just look at it : " The number of slaves in the Carnatic, Mysore, and Malabar, is said to be greater than in most parts of India, and embraces nearly the whole or one caste. The whole number in British India has never been ascertained, but it is supposed by the best informed persons I was able to consult, to be on an average at least one in eight, that is, about ten millions. Many consider them twice as numerous. The number is kept up not only by propagation, but the sale of children by their parents. It is strange that the British public - should be so slow to open their eyes to,this great subject. For twenty years appeals and pamphlets have fre quently appeared. In 1828 a volume of 1000 pages of parliamentary documents on East India Slavery was printedi and within tour or•five years, some strenuous efforts have been made to call at• tention,to this enormity, but as yet nothing into been done to any purpose. Surely the zeal which has achieved the freedom of a few hundred thous- and slaves in the West Indies, will now be exerted in behalf of twenty-five times that number in the East."— [See Malcam's Travels, vol. 2, page 71. Allow me to call your attention to another fact. Contemporaneously with the emancipation of her slaves in her West India coloniee', the British gov ernment sent agents into thee southern States, and employed numbers of young men at large salaries, to go mkt to her East India possessions, to instruct the natives the most approved methods of cotton culture. If she effected by her emancipation act and the influence of her emissaries, the downfall 'of slavery in this country, she well knew our cot ton crop must fall with it ; but with millions o acres, and millions of slaves in her India empire, she hoped readily to replace the loss of the Amer ican crop ' • and, at the same time effectually to carry out her gigantic project, she claimed (under the pretence of suppressing the slave trade) to en graft the right of search 'upon the law of nations. Well did an honest Frenchman, who wrote a pam- phlet, calling the attention of iris countrymen to England's ambition during this juncture, exclaim : " pour quoi sa Philanthropic n'a pas daigne, doubler le Cap Do Bonne Esperance 7" Why has British philadthrophy never deigned to look beyond the Cape of Good Hope' But I revert to still' louder calls upon her phil an throphy at home—to the frightful destitution, and utter want of morals which characterize her labor ing poor. I will give you authorities which.can not be gainsayed or - controverted. I extract from the reports of commissioners appointed by Parlia ment and published by order of the House of Commons : Collieries.—" The pits are worked by boys with a dog chain and belt on all fours. These poor boys have to drag the barrows with 100 wt. of coal sixty times a day, sixty yards, and the empty bar. rows back along a passage with only two feet head way, without ever once straightening their backs." —Report on Mines. Robert North—" Aged six teen : Went into the pit at 7 years of age—l drew about 12 months. When I drew by the gir dle•and chain my skin was broken, and the blood ran down. I durst not say anything, if I did so the butty, and the reeve who. works under him would take a stick and beat us. The usual punishment for theft is to place tho culprit's head between the legs of one of the biggest boys, a i nd each boy in the pit (sometimes there are 20) inflicts twelve lashes on the back and rump with a cat. They work 12 hourt; a day." I might go on extracting frotn reports of laborers in cotton and woolen mills, where children are kept at the spindles from 14 to 10 hours continuously, and when exhausted nature flags, are "sprung up" by the lash. I will now quote from these reports upon other subjects, and first. Destitution.—Commissioner's report " that forty. thousand persons in Liverpool and fifteen thousand in Manchester live in cellars; both sexes crowded promiscuously together while in other parts of England twenty-two thousand pass the night in barns or in the open air." Again. " There have been found such occurrences as eight and ten per sons in one cottage, I cannot say for one day, but for whole days without a morsel of food. There they lay upon straw under the impression that in a recumbent posture the pangs of hunger were less felt." Morals.—" ; Elizabeth Barret, aged 14. I always work without stockings, shoes or trowsers. I wear nothing but a slip. I have to go up to the headings with the men. They are all naked there, but lam gotused to that." The report again adds: Illicit sexual intercourse universally prevails. A lower condition of morale could not be found, not that there are not many more prominent vices among them, but that moral feelings and sentiments do not exist." 'Education.— ,, Robert Guchi:on, aged 16. I don't know any thing of Moses. Never heard of France. Don't know how many weeks are in the year." "Ann Eggly—l never go to church; never heard of Christ at all. I don't know who made the world. I never heard of God. I don't kno , :s Jesus Christ: I never saw him, but I have seen Foster who prays about:him." And so I might go on and fill pages tram these parliamentary reports, but I desire to introduce another authority. I will quote you a page or two from "Colman's European Agriculture ;" the work of an accomplished clergy man, a New England man, who spent some years recently in England, investigating her improved methods of agriculture, and the condition of her laboring classes. He tells us that a distinguished nobleman asserted in the House of Peers, that fifty thosnand individuals perish annually in Eng land and Scotland from diseases arising from want and privation ; and that this same nobleman, is discussing this important subject, stated that in ten years a larger number perished in England alone from these causes, than the whole number of slaves emancipated in their colonies. He further remarks: " I was conversing with a friend on this subject, a gentleman of great intelligence and not wanting in benevolence, and his remark was, that an increase of production would do little for the lower Classes, for they would get no more ; with the price of bread their wages if lower be possible, were likely to be reduced; the :advantages of such increased pro ducts would, of course, go into the hands of the landholders and mill owners, and that for his part he saw no ultimate remedy ut starvation; that is, such an actual 'reduction of the means of living, that multitudes should gradually perish from want, and so thin off the surplus population. ,He said this toor with all the coolness and indifference with which he would speak of brushing off the Hies frOm the dinner table. 'Good God,' I said within myself, has it come to this, that familiarity with want and misery can render the heart of man capable of con templating such a result with calmness, and that human life on earth should come to be deemed utterly worthless p 'lf there be any humanity, or any religion left in thenvorld, they must be roused to prevent such a catastrophe."—Voi.:l, page 139 The quotations just' ade refer alone to England and Scotland. Hear what Mr. Colman says of Ireland : " Nothing can exceed the destitution and wretch edness in which millions of these people live. I have been into many of their cabins, and have seen the habitations of thousands and thousands of these miserable people ; and in regard to external ac commodations, I can searcely think that there is upon earth a lower condition of human existence. Certainly the wigwam of an American savage may often be regarded with envy for its comforts, com pared with many an Irish cabin. I have been into those which were mere holes dug into the sides of a peat bog, and have put my hand upon the wet and velvety walls, that I might be certain that my senses did not deceive me. In these caves, cover , ed with sticks, sods-and straw; without chimney, windows or floor; with a turf slowly burning upon the ground and filling the place with smoke ; with out table, bed, chair, or knife or fork, with indeca no article of furniture save a kettle in which to boil their potatoes ; with no other seat but a bit of turf, and no bed to lie down upon but a flock of straw (shared in common by the children and the pigs,) I have found a crowded family, with rags for clothing that'scarce hid their nakedness, living from one year's end to the other upon potatoes and water, and never more than once a year tasting . either bread or meat."—Vot. 1, page 291. Again, page 333 he says "our horses and oxen are well fed and cared I'or, in proportion to the labor they are compelled to perform; what should we say to the man who refused them this I But alas for the poor Men ! I have seen hundreds and hundreds of the laborers, who after a most scanty breakfast, in the midst of their labors, sometimes severe and always unremitting, had nothing for their dinner but a hit of dry bread i and a draught of water, and who would return at night, when the toil of the day was over, to a supper as scanty. Even the inferior 'batter is not suffered to reach them, but is mixed with tar at the custom house, that it may be dee troyed as human food. In one of the great brew eries in London, where 40 of the famous dray horses are kept, they are worked but for six years, and then sent into the country to enjoy rest and comfort the remainder of their lives. What an enviable condition is this compared with that of many of the human laborers, in a country enriched by their toil, and flooded with a wealth unknown - before in the history of the world." If time permitted, - I would give you further ex tracts, especially his description of the "gang system," where out door laborers, men, women, boys and girls are put under a cruel task-master; the shocking state of their morals-, and the painful and protracted, and unremunerated Libor to which in these gangs they are subjected. Contrast now the statements of Mr. Colman with the picture of American slavery as drawn by Mr. Solon Robinson, one of your agricultural writers, and a northern man, who a year or two ago visited nearly every plantation of importance in the planting Stales. His essays are too lengthy for insertion here, but you will find them in the New York Agriculturist. I lope you will read them, as I can vouch for the accuracy and truthfulness of his delineations in respect to the physical comforts of our slaves. See how his enthusiasm was fired at the sight of our hale, hearty, robust, well fed and well clad slaves; how universal their cheerfulness and contentment ; how the joyous laugh and merry dance greeted 'his ear upon nearly -every plantation • and then their tidy appearance on the Sabbath day as they sat in the negro chapels along side of their masters, to listen to the words of eternal life. flow pic turesque and comfortable their lodging houses or quarters in many instances surrounded by gardens and pou ltry yards of their own. He tells us also, that he had eaten the crust of the British laborer, and been an eye-witness to scenes that Mr. Col man has but faintly pictured. That he has seen these same gaunt and haggard millions kept in sub jection only by the bayonet. That for this purpose regiments of horse, or foot, were quartered in nearly every town and city in the kingdom; while in the planting States of this country, he saw a single white man, isolated for miles from any neighbor, keep hundreds of slaves under perfect discipline and subjection. He states too, that in all his intercourse and time he spent upon Southern plantations he saw no instances of cruelty in punishment, and none tint was not abundantly merited, and yet , when he came to the South he expected to see nothing but chains and whips, and the deepest moral and phy sical degradation among our slave population.— In closing Mr.- Robinson's essays, I was reminded of an anecdote I have somewhere read of a raw paddy, who had found his way into one of the large manufacturing establishments in our country, where meat three times a day and all the plenty which graces the laborer's tattle in our - happy land was paddy's portion. With the generous heart of an Irishman lie longed to bring over his kindred to share his happineas and bounty. He gets a friend to write them a letter to tell them of all his riches, and meat once a week. His employer chancing to review what was written, took paddy to task for not telling the whole truth. Hint! my honey !" was his reply, 4, lave me alone for that. Ef I towl'd them mate three times a day, divil a word would they believe in it; but mate once a week will bring them quick enough." And so of Mr. Robinson's glowing pictures of negro slavery among us ; if he had told but half what lie saw, he would doubtless have made a deeper impression upon the northern mind. But I revert again -to English slavery. Let the Thompson's, and Garrison's, and Marryaws, and Martineau's tell us what they have done• to eman cipate the down-trodden millions at their own doors, before they upbraid our negro slavery. If their philanthropy is not all a mockery, there at home are objects for them—objects that they have never yet raised from the condition of-brutes, to the level even of our slaves. Have we organized societies in tine country to send over emissaries to enlighten the English land holder upon the enormity of the evils which their system of primogeniture and other laws entail upon their starving millions ? or havq we loaded their p'ress with burning appeals to rouge the passions of the oppressed laborer, against the nobility and government ? And yet such proceedings would be but a counter-part of the insults they have dared ' to heap upon our government and citizens. I have dwelt then, my friend, at some length upon the condition which the laboring poor of Great,Britain presents to her philanthropists, from the fact, that from her borders first originated this crusade against American slavery ; and I express my sincere belief, that the abolition of negro slavery in her West India colonies would never have been sanctioned by her statesmen, had they not believed it would tend to call off attention from the grinding oppression of the white race at their own doors, and create an agitation in this country which might eventuate in a dissolution of our Union. Let us then, tear the mask from these hypocritical philanthropists, and show to our countrymen, who are deluded by them, that it is not sympathy for thq slave that has actuated them ; but that it is the example of our free institutions, and the greatness and strength we exhibit to an admiring world, that has filled them with tear and trembling for the safety of their own. Well do they know if they can embroil us in a civil war upon this slavery question, (a war that would cause us all, eventually, to sink exhausted into the arms of military despots,) that Constitutional Liberty becomes extinct upon the face of this globe. That the kings and despots of the earth will then sit securely upon their thrones, and a long night of centuries of oppression become the inheritance of their people. Do not understand from all I have written, that I consider our system of negro slavery as entirely unexceptionable, or that it is even desirable in an economical point of view in all the slave States. But I do contend that the negro race have prmied to be happier, and in every respect better off as slaves, than when thrown upon their own resources. I also contend that slavery is neither a sin or a crime. As well might we condemn the relation of husband and wife, or parent and child, or civil ruler and the ruled, to be sinful and criminal. We daily see instances of shocking cruelty on the part of husbands to wives; of desertion and drunkenness; and of violence resulting even in death to the wife; , yet who pretends to contend from these evils that the relation is sinful and criminal and ought at once to be abolished. Again. Some parents com pel their children to haunts of vice and prostitution, to commit theft and other crimes, and yet no ra tional man would contend from these evils that no parent should exercise authority over the child. The same may be said of the civil ruler and the ruled. Restrictions upon our liberties and other evils attend upon all systems of government, and yet we know that government is not only sanction ed by the Bible, but is necessary for the happiness and well-being of our race. But this popular out cry of the abolitionists that slavery is a damning sin, does not appear to have found favor with the great body of Christians at the North. It is enough for me to know that all the eminent commentators on the Bible are against them, and that our great denominations of Christian sects agree that slavery was clearly sanctioned by both the Old and New Testaments. Indeed, so plainly is this the case, that the only consistent abolitionists have rejected the Bible is a' fable, and have flung their banner to the breeze with the motto, " Let the Bible fall, but not the rights of human nature." But I have said that slavery was not desirable in an economical point of view. Slave labor in our northernmost slave States is acknowledged to be dear labor. Manrof your people make as an objection to slavery the fact, as they say, that the slave gets no wages. Was there ever an idea so preposterous? Hear what Professor Vethake says in his Political. Economy, upon the subject of wages: " We must be careful not to confound the real wage's of the laborer with his money wages. The latter as has been before sta -Ted, are only instrumental in procuring the former. The laborer who receives. money for his services, exchanges it again for' the necessaries and com forts of life, both of a material and immaterial nature, which he is enabled by means of it to ob tain end the money is only transitorily in his possession."—&e Velhake's Polit. Econ. page 33. The real wages of the laborer then are food, clothing, house-room and all the comforts and ne cessaries of life. Now your most violent abolition ists are forced to admit, that our negro slaves are the most heartily fed, and most comfortably clad of any lab oring population on the face 'of the earth. And this is not all. They enjoy many of the lux. units even of life. Upon my own plantation in a single year, the money made by the negroes in the holidays, and their own time, would fur'nish them with luxuries such as the free white laborer at the north does not often enjoy. The slaves in all this region, and I may safely say all over the south, are allowed to raise crops for themselves, for sale.— Corn & poultry and vegetables, which they sell eith er to their masters or to the towns in their vicinity. Upon many of the river plantations they are al lowed to cut cord wood, and sell to the steamboats, which gives to the industrious an opportunity of handling more money at the end of the year, than even the free laborers of any other country. In the northern slave States it is proverbial that slaves consume more than they produce, and that in many instances they keep the master poor ; in a word that they receive mare wages than they earn: Their food, clothing, house -rent, fuel, taxes, religious education, their support in infancy and old age, and medical attention, all impose an immense tax upon the master. Now the English employer pays the laborer barely enough to keep body and soul together. If the laborer appropriates his wages in the purchase of comfortable clothing, he must deny his muscles the stimulus of meat. If, on the contrary, his wages are expended in a sufficiency of food, rags scarce hide his nakedness. And thus Millions toil on, until life's best energies are wasted, when they are "turned out" to meet a premature grave, or the walls of the pauper's prison, while expectant crowds are ever ready to fill ti.eir places, all glory ing in the farce that their masters "dub them freemen." Let me now go back to the topic with which I started, the Fugitive Slave Bill, but which, I see, I must reserve for another letter. We will then take a cursory review of all that I have written. I have shown you then, that the mighty impetus given to the northern labor and capital in this country, has its foundations in our slave labor ; and that, under the benign influences of our insti tutions, we present to the world a sublimity of greatness and strength, that is shaking the thrones of Europe. That Great Britain, alarmed for the stability of her government, has struck a gigantic blow in an attempt to prostrate us, by destroying the basis of our labor, and thus to transler to her East India possessions all ,the productions of the tropics, which would enable her to monopolize the commerce of the world. I have shown you that in her East India colonies there are ten millions of slaves, and it you will read that parliamentary document to which Mr. Malcom refers, you will find them sunk to a depth of ignorance, degrada tion and want, compared with which our slaves are princes. I have shown you the heart-rending pic ture which the laboring poor of Great Britain present to their philanthrophists, and that to this day nothing has been done to emancipate either them or the slaves in the East. I have shown you that slavery is clearly sanctioned by. the Bible, and that the abolition excitement had its origin in Great Britain, and that this excitement has been transferred to our own shores, and led r and fostered by British gold, with the unrighteous intention of undermining the glorious temple of American Constitutional Liberty. Meeting of Innkeepers At a meeting, comprised of Innkeepers, resi dent in the city and county of Lancaster, held in said city, on the 11th of February, A. D. 1953, the following Preamble and Resolutions were unan imously adopted: Whereas, the Court of Quarter Sessions, in and for Lancaster county, of January Term, 18.5.2, adop ted and directed the publication of an order of said Court, requiring the Constables of the several wards and townships throughout said county to enforce the provisions of the act of 1705: and whereas, the provisions of said act of 1705 are, in themselves, clear, easily understood, and relate, simply, to the suppression of the practice of Tippling on Sunday.- and whereas, there appears to be il mistaken view, with regard to the requirements of said act, hon. estly entertained by some, while by others a desire is strongly and unmistakeably manifested, not only to injure our character and standing as citizens, but to interfere with us in the pursuit of a calling, as well recognized by the laws of the country as it is necessary to the wants of the community ; there fore, Resolved, That ars citizens of Lancaster county, having a due regard for the interests and well-being of society at large, we highly approve the action of the Cana in making it incumbent on the several Constables throughout the county, to enforce the provisions of the act of 1705. Resolved, That while we yield to no class of citizens in respect tor and obedience to the laws, we are indisposed to consider ourselves bound by any construction not warranted by the terms of its provisions; and this being the case, any measure recommended by the Court and calculated to sup press the growing evils of intemperance, shall re ceive at our hands what is due from all good citi zens—respect and support; but in questions street. ing either public or private rights, we claim to be guided by the:express requirements of the law, and nothing short of them. Resolved, That we do not believe the Court, in publishing the order above referred to, contemplated the necessity of closing our houses and entirely sus pending our business on Sunday: The suppression of Tippling is all the law authorizes, and we are in clined to hope that such only is the desire of the Court. To this extent the measure shall have our support, freely and unqualifiedly, but no further. Resolved, That we will continue to keep our houses open on Sunday, as heretofore, taking due care, in doing so, that no violation of the law be allowed or encouraged, by countenancing tippling or any indulgence approaching intemperance: be lieving that we can comply with the requirements of the law as well with open as with closed doors: and knowing that if we now agreed to suspend bus iness on Sunday, the next demand made on us would be that we should not open or resume at all. Resolved, That in t ense any one of our number shall, at any time_.lrAreafter, have his application for a license refusEiron the special ground of his hav ing kept his house open on Sunday, we hereby pledge ourselves to aid and assist him by all the means in our power to have a full and fair ajudid of the question before the highest tribunal in which the matter can be heard. Resolved, That these proceedings be published in all the papers in the city and county of Lancas ter. ID" The Treasurer of the Ladies Dorcas Society , of this city, acknowledges the receipt of donations from Mr. Jacob Gable, Mr. Sfichael Lapp, Mrs. Eichelberger, Messrs. J. N. Lane & Nephews, Mrs. Wm. Carpenter, Mr. H. Wright, Mr. D. Longe necker; also 00,74 from Mr. T. S. McDonald pro. prietor of the Panorama lately exhibited in this city, and $65,21 from the Subscribers to the Co tillion party. ID - From the Toll List, just published by the Canal Board, w•e select the following, relating to the Columbia Railroad : Resolved, That the toll on live stock, from Co lumbia, Dillerville or Lancaster, to Philadelphia, be fixed at $1 50 per ton of 2,000 pounds, including all tolls on cars ; empty cars to return to Columbia free of toll. Provided, That no car containing live stock shall be permitted to clear for less than 9,000 pounds. Resolved, That no owner or conductor of cars on the Philaddlphia and Columbia Railway shall have precedence for the same, under the denomination of "Market Car," unless the loading thereof consists of articles liable to perish or depreciate in value with in 49 hours from the time they are presented for transportation over the road. Nor shall any per son travel in such cars, except the conductors there of, without paying the toll established for passen gers travelling in he regular passenger trains. CLostruo or CANALS ox Stnum.—The Pennsyl. vania Board of Canal Commissioners have adopted a resolution that the locks on the several divisions of the Pennsylvania Canal shall be closed on every Saturday night at 12 o'clock, and remain dosed until 12 o'clock on Sunday night, except for the passage of packet boats. _ Erßon. Wil.mAst R. Kixo, President of the U. S. Senate, has recently written a letter to Bradford county, in this State, in which he expresses great confidence that Mr. BUCHANAN Will be nominated for the Presidency, by the National Convention. TIIE PORTSMOUTH (VA.) BANK portant Arrest.—A man named Jack Stevens, one of the flash gentry, was arrested in Philadelphia on Thursday, atithe instance ol Mayor Gilpen, charged with being one of those concerned in the recent bank robbery at Portsmouth, Va. The, Bulletin says some strong testimony, pretty clearly connect ing him with the robbery, as well as daring bur glaries in Philadelphia, was elicited at the exami nation before the Mayor.
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