3ntelligencer & 3ournal.
Lancaster, July 20, VS:I,2
GEO. SANDERSON, EDIT()
FOR PRESIDE NT:
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CEN. FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
COL. WILLIAM R. KING,
OF ALABAMA
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WILLIAM SEARICHT;
OF FAYETTE -COUNTY
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
SENATORIAL.
GEORGE W. WOODWARD, 0! Luzerne.
WILSON M.TANDLESS, of Allegheny.
ADDITIONAL DISTRICT.
ROBERT PATTERSON, of Philadelphia.
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DISTRICT , .
1. Peter Lng n, la. H. C. Eyer,
2. Geo. 11. Martin, 14. John Clayton,
3. John Miller, 15. Isaac Robinson,
4. F. W. Bockius, 16. Henry Fetter,
9. R. McCay, Jr., 17. James Burnside,
6. A. Apple, 19. Maxwell McCaslin,
7. N. Strick and, 19. Joseph McDonald,
8. Abraham Peters, 20. W. S. Colahan,
9. Oavid Pieter, 21. Andrew Burk,
10. 11.. E. James, 22. William Dunn,
11. John slcßeynolds, 23. J. S. M'Calmont,
12. P. Damon, 24. George R. Barret.
irr Those of our readers in want of the weed,
would do we!l to !aim a peep at 'he varied assort
ment of Tobacco and Segars kept by EVANS &
SCUULTI., at their new establishment in North
Queen street. See advertisement.
The ODD FELLOWS ot this City and County,
In need of Regalia, are 1., look at the Card
of Mr. GEORGE SPERRIER, iu anothui column.
He has a splendid supply on hand, which he offers
at very moderate prices
Appointment by /he Governor.
DAVID Lunn, Esq., of Mantic townsoip, in this
county, to be Aid to his Excellency, with the rank
of Lieutenant Colonel
We congratulate. our friend CO] LAIRD on his
appointment. He is a first-rate Democrat, and we
have no doubt that he wilt be equall firm and re ,
liable in his official capacity
Err Col. Joan J. :11cCAnEN, of Philadelphia, has
been . appainted by GOV. Bigler a Commissioner to
proceed io England for the purpose of negotiating
the conversion of $5,000,000 of oar State debt,
bearing 0 per cent. interest, into a four per cent.
loan, tor a period not exceeding thirty-five years --
This is an excellent movement and a good appoint
ment, and should Col. IlcC. be successful in his
mission. it will be a saving of about one hundred
thousand dollars annually to the State
1:1:71 - ne law enacted by the last Legislature for
the registration of births in this Commonwealth
went into effect on the let inst
fl The rains last we have vastly improved
the prospect for an abundant crop of corn and pota
toes the present season, in this region of country.
Adjutant Genera: ROGER JUNES, 01 the U. s . i ;
Army, died at WriEhingion City on Thursday lasi.'
[Ur The Steamer Illinois, from Chagres, arrived
et New York, on Thursday afternoon, with 389
passengers and over $2,000,900 in gold dust from
California.
FRAIVAL/N MARSHA Li. COLLEGE.—We learn from
the Agent, Rev. :kir BUCHER, that about 20 of the 25,-
000 dollars subscribed have now been paid in, and
it is coneidethly expected that the remaining $5,000
will be collected in time to secure the Charter and
place the necessary buildings under contract at au
early period in the ensuing autumn It is to be
hoped that these expectations will all be realized,
and that such an institution will be established here
as shall be creditable to Lancaster and to those n-ho
have undertaken to accomplish the work. TO say
nothing of the intellectual and literary advantages
which must result from having a College located
in our midst, and they are incalculable, in a pecu
nipry point of view it is a matter of great impor
tance to our citizens. Let the Institution be once
in successful operation, and we hazard nothing in
saying that its effect will be to bring here from
abroad and.expend amongst, our people from $50,-
000 to $60,000 per annum at the lowest estimate,
not one dollar of which would ridd its way to this
place without the College. We hope our citizens
will look at this thing in its proper light, so that
they may be stirred up to assist the Agent and
others in expediting the enterprise. It is a 'subject
that should enlist the, warmest sympathies of all
our people, be they rich or poor.
THE COLLINS' LINE TRII , NPOANT.The House
of Representa , ives have agreed to the Senate's ap
propriation to aid this line in its competition with
the Cunard line. The latter being sustained by the
British government, has now the Amerioan
government to sustain him, thus
. putting them on
equal terms in that respect, hut the Yankee boats
are the swiftest, so that it is certain that 'Colum
bia will rule the sea; in the matter ol competition
between them. The compensation granted by Con
gress to this line of Steamers for twenty-six trips
(to, Liverpool and back,) per annum, is $33 , 000 per
trip, making $858,000 per annum, instead of $ 85 , -
000 as heretofore received. Congress has reserv
ed the power at any - time alter the list of Decem
ber, 1854, to terminate the arrangement for the ad
ditional allowance, upon giving six months' notice.
C:;, - 4 , s Age
According to the New York Atlas, whose editors
say they have a letter still in their possession
from Mr. CI.AT, written in 1629, at a time when
they were collecting materials for his biography,
in which be informed them that he was born on
the 11th of April, 1775—consequently, at the time
of his decease he in was the 79th year of his age, or
two years older than he is generally represented
to have been. The editors of the Atlas also an
nounce that they will "speedily commence the
publication of a work, entitled THE LIFE AND
TINES OP HENRY CLAP."
Tr The Whigs of western New York and else
where are making preparations to , have a grand
Mass Meeting on the battle ground of Lundy's Lane,
in Upper 'Canada, on the 27th inst. We suppose
the next one they will hold will be in the Valley of
Mexico. If so, we would respectfully suggest to
them the propriety of securing the services of Tom.
Conwur and JOHN Smoma, as orators upon the oc
casion. During the Mexican War they were both
members of Congress. The one advised the Mex
icans to welcome our brave soldiers with bloody
bands to hospitable gravee—the other refused to
vote supplies to save our gallant Army from star.
valiant They would, doubtless, both be peculiarly
acceptable to their Mexican friends--and more es
pecially, too, as Gen.S.corr, according to Whig ac
counts, was offered the Presidency of Mexico with
a !salary of a million and a quarter per annum
11:7 Thr Minnesota Democrat says there are acres
of ground in the vicinity of St. Paul, covered with
delicious strawberries, and that large quantities are
picked by the Indian women, and sold in the town.
That Letter.
The letter of Old Hickory-to Gen. Scott, which -
is now going the rounds of the Democratic press
and which.we published last,week, has fallen like
a bomb-shell among the Whigs. .Even our staid
and moderate neighbor of the Examiner seems to
have lost his temper at seeing It in-the Intelligen
cer, and squirms and twists considerably in the con
templation of the effect it will be likely to produce
even here in this Gibralter of Whiggery., The fact
the correspondence alluded to places-Gen. Scott
in a 9 awkward predicament—one from which his
political friends, with all their ingenuity, will be
unable to extricate him without the greatest diffi
culty. Nobody ever accused or suspected General
Scot of being a coward, for we all glory in his
brilliant exploits as a soldieri and yet why he should
refuse to fight Gen. Jackson on the plea of
'religi
ous" and "patriotic scruples," and then turn round
and challenge- De Witt Clinton, a Civilian whose
oath of office prevented him froth engaging ina duel,
is a problem which we would like to see solved in
the Examiner or some other respectable Whig jour
nal. As the case now stands, the General's incon
sistency of conduct is so glaring, that, if left unex
plained by his friends, it may lead to conclusions in
the public cpind that will not redound to his Credit
either as a soldier or a gentlem . an.
Speaking of this affair, the Hollidaysburg Stan
' dard very justly observes:
The friends of General Scott have nobody to thank
but themselves for the production of this trouble
some "leaf from history." Had they been content
to pursue an honorable, open mode of warfare
against the Democratic nominees, this and other
unpleasant reminiscences which are daily being de
veloped would never have been brought to light.—
Bat confident in their own security against attack,
the nominatio., of General Pierce had scarcely been
announced ~ e re the bloodhounds of whiggery were
set upon his track, his patriotism and courage
doubted, and he sneeringly stigmatized as the "faint
ing General." But as usual, they have been calcu
lating without their host, and the probabilities are
that unless they change their mode of tactics and
adopt a more honorable course, they will get hold
Jf the hot end of the poker. Detraction is a wea
pon that always recoils upon the heads of those
who use it, and the course pursued by the whigs in
this instance is ifot likely to prove an exception to
to the rule. Having discovered, however, that Gen.
Scott lives in rather a brittle glass house, it may
-he that his friends will see the propriety of throw
ing as few stones as possible at his opponent's dom
icil. We hope so.
Searight.
'lbis gentleman has been nominated by the De_
mocracy of our State, for the responsible post of
Canal Commissioner; he is in every way qualified
for the office, which an united Democracy have
determined to confer upon him. Some time since
a correspondence was published in a Federal print,
said to have taken place between a certain Hugh
Keys and Mr. Searight, in which attempt the is
made to prove Mr. Searight a dishonest man and an
ignoramus.
We have the best authority tor pronouncing
this publication a lying fabrication, such as no de
cent journal would publish. All who know Mr .
Searight, whose veracity is worth a straW', say he
is an honest, upright man, and a gentleman, which
is more than can be said of the reckless libellers
who are now endeavoring - to blast his fair name.
It any one is so simple as to believe that the Demo
cratic candidate for Cabal Commissioner ever indi
ted the mass of gibberish published in a morning
print, purporting to be his letter, we invite such
individual to our office, and examine the produc
tions of Mr. Searight, now in our possession, which
will brand the lie on the frontlets of his villifiers.
In this connection we will state that Col. J. 0.
Toiabs, of this city, called on the, publisher of the
print above alluded to, with a letter from Mr. Sea
right, written snme:ime since, and asked its publi
cation that the public might see hOw foully he had
been slandered, whie: was refused. This is in keep
ing with the course of that sheet. It abuses honest
men, and when convinced of its error, refuses to
make the amende honorable. Pennsylvanian,
Hon. James
_iguebanaa
The following eloquent letter was written by
Mr BCCEIAR'AN, to the Democracy of the 3d and
4th Congressional Districts of the cowl* y of Phila
delphia,. in answer to an invitation to unite with
them in celebrating the 76th anniversary of Amer
ican Independence
WHEATLAND, near Lancaster, July 3, .1852,,
Gentlemen have been honored by the receipt
of your invitation, "on the part of the Democratic
citizens of the Third and Fourth Congressional Dis
trims of Pennsylvania," to be present at the festival
to be given, on the approaching anniversary of our
National Independence, and I regret that engage
ments at home will deprive me of the pleasure of
meeting them- on that interesting occasion.
It must be a source of sincere satisfaction to ev
ery Democrat throughout the land to know that
"the Democratic citizens of these Districts, with an
abiding faith in the time honored Trinciples of the
party endorse, without hesitation, the broad and lib
eral doctrines laid down by the Baltimore Conven
tion, while they accept with the utmost satisfaction
and cheertultiess, the distinguished candidates pre
sented to the country by that body.
For' one, I most :cordially respond to these just
and patriotic sentiments. Our platform and, i 2ur
candidates are eminently worthy of the support of
the American people, and their triumphant success
will strengthen the bonds of our glorious Union and
prove to be the rainbow of peace after the storms
which have so recently agitated our country.
You will confer a favor upon me by presenting
to the assembled company the following sentiment,
in my name:—
Pierce and King—Their election will restore the
days of true Jeffersonian State Right's Democracy,
and thus place the Constitution and the Union on
the surest foundations.
Yours very respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN
To the Committee
Mr: Searight's Letter
The following excellent letter was written by
Searight,:the Democratic candidate for Canal
Commissioner, to the Democratic celebration in
Philadelphia
UNIONTOWN, July 2, 1852
GENTLEMEN . —Your polite letter inviting me to
be present at the celebration of the approaching an
niversary of American' Independence, by the Dem
ocrats of the third and fourth Congressional districts
of Pennsylvania, has been received, and I hasten to
reply. It would afford me great pleasure to mingle
with the noble hearted Democracy of the third and
fourth districts, on the interesting occasion referred
to, but owing to previmis engagements at home, I
will be unable to do so. I heartily coincide with
the Democracy of your districts in their high en
dorsement of the doctrines contained in the Balti
more platform, and theif attachment to the distin
guished gentlemen who have been chosen as the
candidates of the Democracy for President and Vice
President of the United States.
The warm approval given to the Baltimore Plat
form, all over the country, is a gratifying evidence
of the nationality of the Democratic party, and the
enthusiasm wtth which the nominations have been
received, is an unerring indication of a splendid tri
umph. in November next. With my warmest
thanks for your polite invitation, I give you as the
sentiment of considerable experience.
The American Union and the American Democracy
—There is no danger of the former, while the latter
exists.. T am, gentlemen,
Very truly yours, &c.,
• WM. SEARIGHT.
To the Committee,
117"IVIr. GEORGE C. WASHINGTON, of Virginia,
who was nominated by the Native American Con
vention, at Princeton, declines the Honor, and says
'he i 3 in favor of the election of Scott and Graham.
Mr. WEBSTER has not yet declined the nomination
of the same Convention for the Presidency.
SHOCKING AccinEwr.—On Wednesday afternoon
last, a workman named William Cowan, employ.
ed at the Chemical works of Messrs. Powers,
Weightman & Co., at Schuylkill Falls, near Ger
mantown, fell into a tank of boiling oil of vitriol,
and though rescued almost instantly, was so horri
bly injured, as to leave but slight hopeaof recovery.
A more awful accident, it would be difficult to
imagine.—Philadelphia Sun.
LOrrIBVILLn, July 19th.—The mimber'of persons
estimated to have been present at the funeral of Mr.
Clay'; in Lexington, on Saturday week, is thirty or
forty thousand. The horses and carriages present
if placed, in the procession, would have extended a
distance of 25 miles. The pageant was a most im
posing one, and the utmost f eeling 'vvas evidenced.
Pierce aud.Klng Club
The adjourned Meeting .:of the Democratic citi
zens of Lancaster, at kdr..Leber , s Rotel, on Fri
day evening last, (July 16th) was one ot the old
fashimied gatherings of thei people, truly gratifying.
Jamas L. Reynolds, Esq.., Cliairinan of the Com
mittee of seven appointed at the last meeting, July
9th, mide the following Report of the By-Laws
and permanent Officers of the PIERCE AND KING
CLUB, which was unanimously adopted.
Article 1. This Association shall be called the
PIERCE AND KING CLUB of the City of Lan
caster.
At ticle 2. The officers of this Club shall consist
of one President, six Vice Presidents, two Record
ing Secretaries, one Corresponding Secretary and
one Treasurer. There shall also be a Committee
of Finance consisting of one member from each
ward, and an Executive Committee of twenty-four,
six of whom shall be residents of each ward.
Article 3. The 'object of this Club shall be to
promote the election of PIERCE and KING, of IVIL
LIAM Seim:call. and the Democratic nominee for
the Supreme Court, and to advance the interests
of the Democratic Party.
Article 4. The President shall preside at all
meetings of this Club, and preserve order. The
Vice Presidents shall assist the President in the
performance of his duty, and in his absence act in
his stead.
Article 5. The Corresponding Secretary shall at
tend to the correspondence of the Club, and when
instructed answer all communications that may be
received.
Article 6. Alter the commencement of the ensu
ing political campaign, stated meetings shall be
held on Saturday evening in each week, alternately
in each ward—the place to be designated by the
Club, or if they should omit to do so, by the Presi
dent. Special meetings shall be called by the
President whenever he thinks proper, or at the re
quit of any ten members.
• Article 7. The Recording Secretaries shall keep
exact minutes of the transactions of the Club, and
whenever ordered shall cause the proceedings to
be published.
Article S. The Finance Committee shall examine
all accounts against this Club, and shall give an
order on the Treasurer for the payment of such as
they ascertain to be correct. They shall colldct
money to defray the expenses of this Club, and
shall pay the same over to the Treasurer.
Article 9. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer
to receive all loonies contributed to the. Utah, to
pay all orders drawn on him by the Finance Com
mittee, to keep a correct account of his receipts
and expenditures. and to report the same monthly
to the Club.
. - .
Article 10. The Executive Committee shall bring
before the Club any business they deem of impor
tanegs; shall co-operate with the regular poll com
mittees of the part' in brinzing out the full vote of
the party at the elections, and shill procure a suit
able place fur the transaction of the business ef the
Club.
The following are the permanent officers of the
President,
Capt. HENRY HA ItBRIGHT.
Vice Presidents,
HENRY M. REIGART, DAVID REESE,
JADIRS 11. BARNES, FREDERICK BERNER,
THOMAS Cox, PHILIP
Recording Secretaries.
.Col. J. Franklin Reivart, Daniel Lager,
Corresponding Secretary—John L. Keifer.
Finance Committee,
John J. Keller, Zuriel Swope,
Frederick Voight, Jacob M. Westhaeffer
Treasurer—Jacob F. Kautz.
Executive Committee.
Capt. John H. Duchnian, Peter Miller,
Lewis Haldy, John Williams,
A. Shultz Reese, Dr. Henry Carpenter,
Daniel Hartman, Samuel Huber,
William R. Wilson, Edward Kautz,
James Wiley, Jonas D. Bachman,
Reuben S. Rohrer, Cyrus Winters,
Benjamin Foltz, Michael Trissler,
Thomas C. Wiley, William P. Brooks,
Samuel Rupley, John C. Rote,
Joseph Samson, Henry Wilhelm,
Wiliam Whitehill, John Hensler.
The meeting was addressed by Col. WILLIAM S
AMWEG; JAMES L. REYNOLDS Esq., and Capt. GEO
SANDERSON.
Mr. Sanderson offered the Culla, ing resolutions
which were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That in Gen. FRANKLIN PIERCE we
recognize the sound Democrat, the able and accom
plished statesman, the soldier and patriot, who is
in all respects worthy our confidence, and for whose
success we pledge ourselves as Democrats to use
all fair and honorable means.
Resolved, That Col. NVILLIAM R. KING, our
worthy candidate for Vice President, merits and
will receive our warm and enthusiastic support.
Resolved, That WILLIAM SCARIGHT, our candi
date for Canal Commissioner, is a gentleman of tin
doubted integrity, a sound and reliable Democrat',
and we hereby pledge ourselves to give him a warm
and enthusiastic support.
Resolved, That we will unanimously support the
nominee for the Supreme Court, who may be select
ed by the Democratic State Convention which is
to meet at Harrisburg on the 2fith of August. At
the same time We are in favor of the nomination of
the able and learned WOODWARD, and trust that
he may be unanimously selected.
Resolved, That we hereby pledge ourselves to
support the ticket, the whole tickets and nothing
but the ticket.
And amidst the most unbounded enthusiasm in
terspersed with able addresses and strains of enli
vening music performed by the excellent Lancas
ter City Band, a Democratic Association was organ
ized never before equalled in the City of Lancaster•
The Association then adjourned to meet at the
Public House of sir. John Schirenbrand ia %Vest
King St. on Saturday evening July 31st.
(Signed by the officers.)
" The Truth Will Out!
The Democratic press have always contended
that the Federalists or Whig, ate incompetent to
the task of conducting the Government either to
the benefit or honor at the country, and that they
never obtained power which was not abused by
th , in. The se allegations have always heretofore
been denied by the Whig pres s ; but we are gird to
perceive that even on opponents are beginning to
open theireyes to the fact. • The Washington car.
respondent of the North Ancrican, the leading Whig
paper nt Philadelphia, speaking of the treaty be
tween Great Britain and the United States in regard
to Central America. which hos recently ben con
summated by Daniel Webster and thelßrijsh Min
ister, talks in' the following indignant strain.
which we respectfully recommend to our Whig
readers.
"The Secretary of State and the British Minister
have recently' signed the basis of a treaty, which
virtually repudiates a convention made two years
ago, and saciitices all the important advantages se
cured by it. In a word, it abandons a great Amer
ican doctrine; concedes pretensions to Great Britain
that have not a shadow of claim, and admits Brit
ish influence on this Continent, where it is most
likely to prejudice the future prosperity of the
United States.
These are reasons which might well make any
friend of the Administration pause before subscri
bing to conditions calculated to degrade the Gov
ernment .in the eyes of the world, and at the same
time to surrender principles which are dear to ev
ery American heart. If Lord Palmerston had drawn
this projet avith his own .hand, he could not have
more carefully guarded the unfounded claims of
Great Britain. or have more offensively outraged
the honor of the United States. The whole scheme
seems to be designed to insult and to disregard the
obligations of the ulayton and Bulsver treaty, and
to set up another, which shall be marked by hu
miliating concessions on one side, and exorbitant
acquisitions on the other. This proposition sur
renderimevery thing that I , :icaragna ever granted;
and more than that, it gives back all that England
heretofore yielded.'"
GREAT CHEESE FACTO it r,—lieorge Heelep s
great cheese factory in Ohio, converts the milk of
about 2,200 cows, belonging to farmers in the
neighborhood, into the best cheese, by labor-saving
machinery. The cim r l is made, sacked and marked
by the farmer, and sent to the factory in a wagon
which goes the rounds. Eight teams are thus em
ployed. The curd is then weighed, sliced rapidly
in a machine, then passed through a double curd
cooking aparatus, then through a machine, that
cuts it fine to powder, and salts it while passing
through. It is then pressed, sacked and again
pressed. A machine sacks two hundred and forty
pounds per hour. The factory makes three hun
dred cheese daily, weighing about:3ooo pounds.—
Nearly 400 tons are turned out yearly.
Bianca. DOANE.—The Episcopal Diocese of New
Jersey have adopted, with only one dissenting voice
the report of an investigating committee, to the el
iect that none of the charges brought by the Bish
ops of Ohio, Virginia and Maine, against Bishop
Doane, of New Jersey, have been sustained ; but
there was no affirmative evidence of the Bishop's
guilt, but strong circumstantial evidence of his en
tire innocence of the charges. A resolution wan
also adopted by the Convention, for the appoint
ment of a committee to lay said report of the In
vestigating Committee leefore the Court on the
trial of the Bishcp, and'to remonstrate with the
three Rev. prelates against proceeding further in
the matter.
An Eloquent Extract
The following eloquent tribute to Mr. Bunn-
ASAN and to the fidelity of the Pennsylvania delega
tion in the Democratic National Convention, wa.
extract from the very able and patriotk speech of
Roßßax Trixa, Esq., delivered at the recent Anni
versary Celebration, in Philadelphia :
Mr. President, I will now pass from these more'
general observations, to a few- brief reixiarks upon a
subject of more immediate and present interest to
us all. I allude to the approaching State and Pre
sidential elections, and to the proceedings of the
late Baltimore Convention. It is known to this
company, that I had the honor of representing,.in
part, the Democratic party of the Stale of- Penn
sylvania, in the late National Convention. It was
the only public office I ever held. or: to which I
ever immediately aspired. It was, to me, an office
of pride and of love. It was ap office to which I
felt that even in my humble capacity, I might pos
sibly aid in doing something to promote the honor,
interests and dignity of my adopted State, at the
hands of a portion of whose people—the Democracy
of this city and county—with only the most ordi
nary claims of personal deserving, I have received
so much hospitality, kindness and favor. My friends
will pardon the egotism 'of the remark, when I de•
clan, thdt I discharged my responsible duty in the
Convention, to the entire satis'laction of my own
conscience, I went to Baltimore to serve the inter
ests and to advocate the claims of the State of Penn•
sylvania—and the Pennsylvania candidate received
my vote on every balloting, from first to last, with•
out one thought of change. If there had been five
hundred and forty-nine ballotings in addition to
the forty-nine taken, my Vote ShOtild have been
cast in the same direction. Such I believe, too,
was the strong and united feeling' of my noble,
earnest and devoted colleagues. There were one or
Itwo in the delegation who really, and without pre
judiee, preferred another honored and most distin
guished statesman Jorihe Presidency: But, to their
old and beloved State, and to their 'own integrity,
they were as true as the [lied steel. God bless
them, for their fidelity. We were unfortunate in
our confident expectations; but my'
' colleagues so
behaved themselves that the conduct of tne' Penn
,sylvania delegation became a subject of universal
approbation and praise. They proved themselves
to be Pennsylvanians—Democrats—gentlemen!
Mr. President, considering the extent of her ter
ritory and the multitude of her population, Penn
sylvania presented with .n....,„01ar unanimity the
name ofJames Buchanan, her own great citizen, to
the nominating Convention at Baltimore. Nor was
the fact of their unanimity at all singular;—spring
ing from humble pares: one, he was horn and bred
on this sail, and is and has ever been' a true Penn
sylvanian. in heart and deed. Front:the period of
youthful manhood, to that healthy age he has now
attained—sixty-one years in all—while the body is
still erect and vigorous in its undiminished strength,
while the mind has acquired all its ripest and most
useful powers, he has continually filled responsible
posts in the service of his State and. Country. In
his private reputation he is without a single, stain,
and in his public life, both for length of time spent
in the public service, and the imp , rtant character
of the service rendered, he has few equals and no
superior in the Union. Indeed it may be well said
that almost since the commencernenrof his political
life, his State and himself have been united by the
strongest ties—living, he has served her, and in de
spite of all factious strife, she has cherished him—
and when like other great spirits of the Republic
—many—many years hereafter I trust, he shall
have passed to his reward, and there will be no
memory and no monument among those of all her
, sons in which Pennsylvania will have a prouder
interest than in his.
Well, Mr. President, as I have said, Mr. Buchan
an _s name, adorned with private virtues and illus
trious With historical associations, was presented
with great unanimity by . the Democracy of our
State to the Convention, and thus backing his own
acknowledged qualities of statesmanship with her
own just and unanswerable claim, she requested
from her sister States the honor of a nomination,
that no citizen in the country 'Was more competent
to take, and no State in the
known
had a greater
right to ask. The result is known to all. I confess
I was profoundly disappointed at first, but while I
have entertained regrets, it does not become me to
indulge in complaints. The truth is, Mr. President,
that or.e's personal feelings sink into utter insignifi
cance in such a relation. After all men hota'ever
distinguished in their earthly characters, are but
the creatures of on hour, or perhaps the exemplars
of an age, but principles are the eternal attributes,
of God ; and Democracy is the voice of God speak
ing in principles, His higheilt intentions of good,:
Hi; noblest plan of mercy-justice and benevolence to
mankind. It in not yet comprelninded in its fullest
and widest philosophy, and it may require the
gradual develupements at centuries to solve the
problem: but there can be no doubt whatever that
the Deinueratic party in this Union is the best -
living exponent of its character.
The unity of the party. and its capacity for useful
ness. can only be preserved by respecting its disci-,
pline. The only occasion in which -I will give rip
the right of my private judgment, is id the unques
tioning support I have, and always Will yield to a
regularly nominated ticket of my party. But apart
from these considerations and the strong claims, in a
personal point of view, which both of our nominees
have to the respect of the whole country, in their,
public character and public service, I look not only
with consolation, but with exultation, to our Party,
Platform—that granite foundation, as it were, of
solid principles, in which Union, Harmony, States
Rights, Progress, and Freedom, constitute the com
ponent parts. No man could stand upon such a
platform, without being at once so invigorated by
its almost miraculous vitality as to acs a me the alt
tilde and proportions of a giant.
News Items
117 - There is now a daily line of stages between
this place and Lancaster. leaving Lebanon at 3
o'clock in the morning, and returning at 9 in the
evening , . This arrangement, which gives us a daily
mail to and from Lancaster, commenced the Ist of
the month.—Let,anon Courier.
MunnEn.—A most shocking and cold blooded
murder was perpetrated on Shaver's creek, on Thurs
day last. The particulars, as far as we have been
able to learn, are as follows —A young man named
Thomas Steward and another named Lightner, were
working in a harvest field, together with a number
of other persons, when a :riding controversy arose
between them, as to which could mow th, fastest.
Lightner said, " I can mow fader than any Light
ner of the name. I can MOM' an fast as Ton Stew
ard can walk." Steward said, "that is an insult"—
and immediately took up a scythe and ran Lightner
through the body. 'The scythe penetrated his side
about the region of the stomach, corning out on the
opposite side, a little higher up. Ile died in less
than hall an hour. Immediately after inflicting the
mortal wound, Steward, without waiting to with
draw the scythe, ran to f e woods and escaped. He
was taken and lodged in jail on Sunday afternoon.
We learn that lie is a young man about IS years of
age.—huutingdon Globe, 14th.
CHOLERA IN Missounr.—A letter to the St. Louis
Republican dated Jackson, Mo., June 28, states
that for two weeks the cholera had been raging in
and about that place. Forty-nine persons bad fal
len victims to it in the town, besides some forty in
the adjacent country. Several physicians had died,
and the residents were deserting, the country in a
complete panic.
SENATOR FROM KENTUCKY.—TIie Governor 61
Kentucky has appointed the Hon. David Merivveth
er to fill, until the first Monday in September next,
the place in the United States Senate make vacant
by the death of the Hon. Henry Clay. Mr. Meri
wether is a Democrat, and will be succeeded in his
position by the Hon. Archibald Dixon, whc; was
chosen by the Legislature of Kentucky to succeed
Mr. Clay at the psriod in hen his resignation, had he
lived, would have taken effect
WORCESTER, Mass., July 15.—TheCathrilic Col
lege, situated about a mile south of this city, took
fire yesterday afternoon, and was entirely consumed,
with the exception of a portion of the east wing.
The fire commenced in the Lipper sfory of the north
east` corner, from a defect in a chimney. Loss es
timated at $40,000 to sso,ooo—uo insurance.—
Most of the furniture was burned or destroyed.
A large portion of the valuable library was saved.—
There were over one hundred students in the build
iug. Some of the professors and tutors have lost
their all.
' Two Flax Moons MONTlll.l.—There was a full
moon on the Ist of July, and there will be another
on the 31st—a circumstance that has not occurred
since 1776, except in 1795, 1814, and 1833; and it
will not occur again until 1871, unless the Lunar
Cycle of nineteen years is changed.
Mirrzur, Juniata Co., Pa., July 17.—A man
and woman died here this morning of cholera.
Another man is now lying at the point of death of
the same disease, and cannot live through the morn
inn.
BOSTON, July 18 —Rumors have been afloat for
the last twenty-four hours, of a serious difficulty
having arisen between the British and American
Governments,
growing out of the seizure of an
American fishing vessel at the 'Magdalen Islands,
and her subseuuent re-capture by the American
fishermen. -A special messenger arrived here yes
terday, from Franklin, New Hampshire, (where
Mr. Webster is at present) and left again for WaA
ington, with despatches for the government. The
documents in relation to the affair, it is said, will
be published in the Caw ier of to-morrow morning.
The trouble is mid to be of a most serious nature,
end likely to disturb the peaceful relatioashetween
England and the United States.
City and County Items
Tax Gamy". FOR THE STATE FAIL—The Board
of Managers of the Lancaster Colinty Agricultural
Society, .(to whom tile' State Committee referred
the selection of a snitabte place for holding the next
State Fair) . have contracted with Messrs. J. H.
Kurtz- Sr - Emanuel Shober, of this city, for a field
containing about fifteen 'acres on their farm, lying
on the Plank Road, in Manheim toWnshp, about a
mile north of the city, for this purpose. The com
mittee found much difficulty in getting a field, and
, hough some may perhaps object to the selection
on account of its distance from the city, it will be
admitted that a more suitable place for the holding
of such an exhibition could not have been chosen.
There is fine spring and a stream of running wa
ter in the field. The principal objection to the field
in which the last State Fair was held at Harrisburg,
was the 'Avant of good water on the groAnd. The
most extensive preparations are already in progress
and those who have the matter in hand are deter
mined that the second PennsylvaniaeState Fair shall
not be exceeded by and other similar exhibition.—
Examiner,
LID" Mr. H. G. Kindig, residing at Mill Creek,
East Lampeter township, has made Flour of new
wheat, which weighed 66 pounds to the bushel.
AT HIS OLD TIIICK.S.-A young man about twenty
years of age, named Nelson J. Hildebrand, was ar
rested in Philadelphia on Saturday week, in Market
street, by officers Durnell and Neff, of the Marshal's
police. He is charged With having stolen two
horses on Thursday night, from Mr. Cyrus Good,
of Bareville, Lancaster county. The horses are
worth, one $llO, and the other $6O. They were
sold by the thief, one on Friday, for the sum ot $O5
to John Walton, near the thirty-five mile stone, on
the West Chester road—Hildebrand telling Mr. W
a very specious story in regard to them. Hilde.
brand immediately took the cars and went to Phil
adelphia, where he fitted himself out with a new
suit of Clothes, &c. About $6O in money was found
on him.
Alio& IS months since Hildebrand was sent to
the House of Refuge for having stolen a number 01
horses ,in this county. There he feigned insanity
'and was sent to the Blockl-y Asylum, from which
place he escaped, but was sub.sequently arrested and
taken back to the-House of Refuge, and afterwards
discharged in consequence of ill health. He is a
butcher by bade, but has travelled the country with
shows, playing the magician, ventriloquist, &c.—
He.has,respectable connections in this county.
pa - Gert. W. F. Packer, of Lycoming county,
has been chosen as orator at the dedication of the
Odd Fellow's Hall in this city, on the 2d of Sep
tember next:
Balls DESIROTED Br LIGHTNING.—During the
heavy storm on Thursday afternoon, the Ist inst.,
a large barn belonging to Mr. Christian Royer, in
West Cocalico township, this county, was struck
by lightning, and entirely destroyed, with all its
contents, consisting of eleven tons of hay, oats, glair) ,
&c., and a large quantity.of bacon which was kept
: in the granary. Two valuable horses, of five that
stood harnessed in the barn, were also consumed in
the flames. Fortunately the men engaged in put
ting away the hay crop that had just been harvest
ed, left the mow a few minutes before the lightning
struck, for the purpose of taking their afternoon
meal, otherwise lbss of human life might have at
tended the catastroplie.—Examiner.
Book Notices
lir MURRAY & STOEK hay just placed upon
our table a handsomely bound-,book of 300 pages,
entitled,' A Practical Treatise on Business; or
how to Get, Save, Srend, Give, Lend, and Bequeath
AlLney With an Inquiry Into the chances of suc
cess ;led causes of Failure in Business." The book
contains a vast amount of valuable hints and sug
gestions.whieh will be of great use to farmers and
business men generally, and we advise them by all
means to procure it. Pricb $.). per copy.
Fes' Murray & Sfoek, of the Bookstore, have pre
sented us with a copy of the "Lirr. OF GENERAL
WINFIELD Snort. - It is a neat little volume of
nearly 200 pages; published by Peterson & Co.,
Phila., with numerous illustrations, all going to
present the Whig candidate in as favorable a light
as possible before the public. Of course, our Whig
friends will all purchase the book. For. sale at
i♦lnnRAY & STOEK'S.
U" THE LADIES ' KEEPSAKE, for July, is a capi
tal number, and beautifully embellished with an
engraving representing " Washington at Valley
Forge." Published by John S. Taylor,' , N. York.
GRAHAMS MAHAZINE, for August, is all that the
friends of the book
. could have anticipated. Rich,
racy and interesting—beautitully embellished, and
in all respects equal:to any of its predecessors.
pr 7 The CHRISTIAN PARLOR MAGAZINE, for Au
gust, has been received from the Publishers, James
H. Pratt & Co., No.. 116 Nassau street, N. Y. The
reading matter is of the most interesting and in
structive character. and the number is handsomely
embellished with two excellent engravings, viz:
Rev. ALBERT BARNES, of Phila., and a View of the
Rocky Bridge, in Virginia. Terms $2 per annum.
Important from Europe
Riot in Ens.land—.3 Plot to kill Louis Napoleon.
New YORK, J,uly 15. The steamship Asia, from
Liverpool, with dates to the 3d instant, arrived this
morning.
ENGLAND.
A serious riot had occurred at Stockport .be
tween the English Protestants and Irish Catholics,
and' several houses of the latter had been pulled
down and their chapels sacked by the Sob. A de
ta chmen't of troops finally put an end to the riot,
and took over one hundred of the ringleaders into
custody.
• One report states that sixty persons were carried
wounded to the Hospital. One person was killed
on the spot and several houses were torn down.—
The Catholic Chapel was sacked, and the organ and
altar furniture were burned in a bonfire in the
street. Nothing was left standing of the church
but the bare walls, The military were called out
and ;succeeded in restoring peace. The town is
now occupied by troops, it being reported that a
Catholic mob from Manchester and other towns
intended to come and retaliate.• The riot grew out
of the ill feeling engendered by the Queen's recent
proclamation against the Roman Catholic proces
sion.
The latest reports states that the total number ot
persons arrested was 114, many of whom were
wounded. doe man had been killed, named Barney
McCarl.
AUSTRALIA
There have bedn several arrivals from Australia,
bringing 61,000 ounces of gold, and dates from
Melbourne to the 15th'of 31.rch.
A large amount of ships were detained in port for
want of seamen.
Gold was arriving at Melbourne at the rate DI
about two tons per week.
FRANCE.
Thirteen individuals were arrested on Thursday
the Ist., at a house in the, Parignolles, charged with
making an infernal machine, composed of 14
barrels, capable of containing each about twenty
bullets. Some of the men were actually at work
in moulding at the time of their- arrest. The po
lice subsequently arrested ten others.
It has been rumored that many others have been
arrested, but the whole affair has been kept in pro
found mystery. The machine upon which the
conspirators were at work contained fourteen bar
iels, capable of containing each about twenty bul
lets, and so arranged that their firing in a wrong
direction would have been utterly impossible.
The senate was still - in session.
LOUISVILLE, June 16.—The will of Henry Clay
was presented in court on Monday last, and admit
ted'to record. It is drawn up by his own hand, and
bears date of July 10, 1851. It relates almost en
tirely to the disposition of his estate among the
members of his family. The only exception being
that which Jelates to his slaves. It provides that
all the children of his slaves bon after the Ist of
January, 1850, are to be liberated and sent to Li
beria. ,The males at the age of 28; and the females
at the age of :25-:—three years of their earnings prior
to emancipation to be reserved for their benefit for
the. purpose of fitting them out; prior to their re
moval they are to be taught to read and write and
cypher. Slaves in being before 1850, are bequeath
ed to his family.. Ashland it left to Mrs. Clay, (or
her sole use and benefit during her life, and at her
death is to be sold, and the proceeds divided amongst
his children. The following are the only sPecifics
devised outside of his family:—To Dr. D. W. Dud
ley, the goltl_--tinuff-box presented to him by Dr.
Hunt, late of Washington; to Henry S. Duncan,..a
ring containing a piece of Washington's coffin, and
to Mr. W. N.'Mercer, a snuffbox said to have be.'
longed to Peter the Great. v
Mrs. Clay was Appointed executrix, and the Hon.
Thos. A. Marsha)! and James 0. Harrison, ezecu•
tore, with the provision that no security should be .
required of either.
The Democracy of the Supreme
Court.
Three of the members of' the Supreme Court of
our State were invited to participate in a celebra
.tion of the anniversary of -American lndapendence,
at Philadelphia. other engagements prevented
them from accepting the invitation, and from their
replies we extract th e sentiments. Chief
Justice Jllack alludes. to the late opposition of the
Whig party to the compromise, and their fanatical
attempt to overthrow the Constitution and interfere
with the domestic institutions Of the States. and
cautions the people against their sudden Conversion
and their affected loyalty to the Union and the
Constitution
Thus, I will not deny that my warmest wishes
are with you. The country never bad a stronger
claim upon the best efforts of the Democratic party
than she has now. It is said (and I presume truly )
that our opponents are tbrmally admitting the cor
rectness of our principles on trade, currency, for
eign policy, &c. But it must not be forgotten that
'hey fought the truth boldly, and blasphemed it
bitterly as long es they hoped to conquer ir, and
only gave their assent to it when th ••yr saw it was
likely to conquer them. They are converts without
conviction, and they will backslide on the first
temptation. Let us not be deceived by this pro
fession of a sudden and singular change in their
opinions. They find the walls of the Constitution
too high to be "scaled, and too strong to •be carried
by open assault, and hencetheir offer of the wooden
horse which they ask its defenders to admit. Tinto •
&nava. The enemy is more to be leansl when he
brings gifts, titan when he comes with aims in his
hands. We are not yet absolved from the obliga
tion of vigilance, and I fear we never will bo. The
friends of political truth must keep ward and
watch until the day of the new earth and heavers.
Judge George W. Woodward, lately appointed
by Gov. Bigler to supply the vacancy arising from
the death of Judge Coulter, aes the followicg im
pressive language, asserting the entire independence
of the Stales in the enjoyment of their reserved
The great lesson so impressively taught
that the Union itself, the prOduct of the States, is
to be preserved only by maintaining the just rigt
of the States. This truth, as old as our institutions.
is too often forgotten. I thank the Convention for
its re-assertion.
That the States were pre-existent to the Union,
.s sovereignties absolutely tree and independent.
accountable to no power on earth for their domes
tic institutions and internal economy—that they
exist still in all the plentitude of their original sov
ereignty, save in the few particulars and In the
precise extent of their voluntary surrender of it in
a written constitution, are first principles to which
see do well often to recur, ana for the vindication
of which in both of the recent Conventions, we are
called upon to exchange mutual felicitations
In the same strain is the letter of Judge Eli:.
Lewis'
When the duties of love to God and man wen•
enjoined, a foundation was supplied for the who!,
moral and reli g ious platform. "On these two hang,
all the Law and the Prophets.' In like manner a
Fundamental principle of liberty was furnishEd by
our Federal Constitution, when it declared that
all powers not delegated to the United States by
the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States
are reserved to the States respectively, nr to the
people." A firm support of this principle will se
cure that strict construction of the Constitution
which sustains the platform bf National Democra
cy. So long as we keep this great foundation'of our
principles firmly in its place, the licentious con
structions of our political opponents. in iegard to
the U. States Bank. the tariff, the public lands, the
slavery question,• and a hundred other schemes
Which have their origin in gross ignorance of th
nature of our government, or in a deliberate desigt
to subvert it, will pass by us as the idle wind....
Let us, then, gather ourselves together on all suit
able occasions for the purpose of strengthening the
foundations of our Democratic platform. As the
principles of Democracy can alone secure the per
petuity of our free government, no occasion can be
more appropriate for their promulgation than tin
anniversary of our Nation's birth. :May they thus
annually be sanctified and handed down from father
to sqn forever
It will be seen that there is a striking unanimity
in the sentiments expressed in the foregoing letters.
affirming a fundamental doctrine of the Democratic
faith, to which our party has ever religiously ad_
hered. 'All our National policy is based upon the
Constitutional limitation of the powers of the Fed
era! Covernment. Every measure proposed is
tested by,this touchstone. The Wilmot proviso
Free Soil agitations, and the doctrines advocated by
Seward, Hale and Greely, were unable -to stand this
test and sexhibited to the sense of the politieri
chemist the presence of a destructive fallacy that
would' have subverted the sovereignty of the Stater:
and the liberties of the people.
It is gratify i ng to look back and find ibe llemo
cratic party always true to this test, and it is n
little sattsfrction to hare the approval of thre
members of the Supreme Bench of one State.
Democratic Union.
For the I.lll:encer
•' The Lancasterlan."
MR. EDITOR :—ln the last No. of the Lances
terian" I noticed an article under the head of
"Abuse of Candidates," and thought at the time I
read it, that if the Editors of that Journal would
practicoti the precepts taught in the article, that it
would be mu ch
, to their credit, and that the public
would be more inclined to believe they were honest
in their teachings.
Hear them.: "that the low and contemptible as
saults upon the private character of candidates,
heretofore so customary, would not again be re
vived."
And again : "It is wrong to say any thing derog
atory to the character of a man, either when the
person who . utters it is aware at the time that he is
speaking au untruth, or knows nothing relative to
the matter of which he is speaking which assures
him that fie is correct. This will at once be stamp
ed not merely as slander, but as bearing the impress
of the most reckless calumny. It is not only un
just to the man whom it is intended to injure, but it
is also injurious to the public, whom it is calcula
ted to dereive."
Let any unprejudiced pers.m look back and ob
serve the course pursued towards the Hun. James
BUCHANAN before the nomination by the Baltimore
Convention, and say if the article in question could
not be taken home by the. learned Editors, be of
much benefit to them, and add much to their repu
tation for consistency and honesty of purpose. But
not content with abusing and villifying himliefore
the nomination, they still persist in their attacks,
although Mr. BUCHANAN is not now before the pub
lic for any honors. There has always been much
enquiry on this suhject by the Democracy of this
State and elsewhere, to know the first cause of all
this abuse, and to know if they are really actuated
by motives for the welfare of the Democratic
or whether it is to gratify private malice. It is a
question that the Democracy should like to have
solved, and we know of no persons more compe
tent to solve it than the Editors of the " Lancas
terian."
We had hoped that after the nomination there
would be an end to this abase, but observe with
sorrow that the Editors, or some one else,still con
tinue in their old course,and are determined not to
leave Mr. BUCHANAN rest. One wnrd of advice to
them, both for themselves and for the good of Ur
great party—let them go to work in good earnest
and do battle in our cause and leave private indi
viduals alone, and my word for it they will be the
gainers. SUSQUEHANNA.
Columbia, July 14, 1852.
The Express says, ' To those who know both
'X. X.' and 'Reformer,' it must be amusing to see
how far 'X. X.' sits from his eggs, in attempting
to hatch out his young cockatrices. He is, emphat
ically, 'off his eggs !,"
Yes, Mr. Editor, I was most decidedly "off my
eggs" in attempting to " hatch any thing from such
an egg" as "Reformer." The labor of the moun
tain has brought forth an extremely small mouse, ah
will be seen by reference to his second "card."---
Is it possible? Who would have supposed this
"latter day saint," after promising so much
"snuff and salt,"' could have dwindled down to
such a pitiful rejoinder.* To soar so high, and fall
so low
How the silly soul does "peg it" into poor Queen
Victoria, for being more of a 'Republican' than him
self. Then needlessly expose his Religious Prin
ciples, by saying "Any rum conscience could pick
ten thousand flaws in the Bible." Indeed ! why
next he will have the presumption to 'reform' that
good book. And this is the promised , snuff, , and
expected sneeze. Well, after such a mortifying
'hatch' as I have made ofit, I must console my pride
by washing my hands from any fun her sparring and
tilting with an opponent of his calibre. Either,
has not had that "spare time," brain enough, the
egg may have been a rotten one; or, he has 'Re
formed, in the use of 'snuff,' as well as of liquor;
although his article savors most confoundedly strong
of the bar-rciorn. His effervescence closes be a,.
abortive attempt to 'puff' a certain Rev, gentlemen's
"Appeal in pamphlet form," in such a manner that
I suspect he feels most particularly interested, in
"Peter Finking" than, upon credulous" Daughte rs
of temperance" and Sabbath school children. Only
$3 a hundred, just a going, g-o-i n-g! Dog cheap,
ladies, no profit, only got up for the love of suffer
ing humanity,—g-o-i-n-g—gone I
The. - cloven foot will sometimes appear in the
race after the " Almighty Dollar." This is What
the Express calls I. very amusing,”—very.
Yours truly,
July 18. x. X.X.
Gen. Pierce's Bravery.
The following letter from fkl. Smith. of New
Hampshire, a gentleman who rendered distinguished
services to the Americans in Mexico during the
invasion of that country by our troops, has been
presented to us for publication:—
You are Probably awire that at the commence
ment of the war with Mexico I had been more than - ,
fifteen years a resident of the city of the Aztecs.--r .
During the war I was twice expelled from the city,
the suspicions of the government having been
awakened and its displeasure incurred in canoe- •
qiience of the manner in which I treated Major
Gaines. Borland and the other Encarnacion prison
ers. Immediately after the second order_ for my
expulsion, desiring to control my own movements,
I made my escape, passed the mountains in two
nights, on horseback, having bribed a famous guer
rilla chief, Colin, who accompanied me with five of
his desperate associates. I carried despatches from
-- to Gen. Scott, (then at Puebla) which I
delivered at four o'clock in the morning, and after
wards continued with the noble commander, he
availing himself of My minute knowledge of the
country—until I again entered the city with the
American army. I arrived at Puebla two days be
tore Gen. Pierce's brigade arrived there--and was
never prouder of my country, and never so proud
of my native state, as when' that fine command
marched into the city. All balconies were crowded,
and such a reinforcement spread general joy thro'
the army. The circumstances of the march, the
energetic, prudent and skilful manner in which it
had been performed—the daring,. courage mani•
tested by the commander, particularly in crossing
the National Bridge, when his hat was shot from
his head—were of course the subjects of much
conversation, and secured fed General Pierce high
admiration and entire confidence. And these, I
may safely say, were never abated duringthe cam-
I do not propose to g;ve you details of that cam
paign, hut to state some facts within my own
knowledge in relation to ti,e operations of the 19th
and 20th of August, and the Sth of September. On
the 10th of August I was at St. Augustine, about
seven miles from Contreras. Pierce's brigade
.-naicheit out early to open the road across the
mountain, tar the artillery which followed that af
ternoon. I did not see General Pierce again till
Isar noon the next day. 1 had been with General
'con's staff all the morning of the 2mh, and had
heard of the dangerous injury Gen. Pierce had SlM
tained by the tall of his hone on the Pedregal, the
atiernoon helot e. The horse was supposed to have
caught his fore foot in the clelt of a rock, being at
a hard gallop. The preservation of the life of the
oeneral seems Mire, as at the National Bridge, to
have been providential. Although the bones of the
horse were broken, so that he was left upon the
spot, the tenacity with which the rider held to his
command during that day and the next, was the
wonder of all. He rode, during the residue of that
evening, the horse of the gallant Lieut. Johnson,
i.o had just been shot in his saddle
I met General Pierce on the 20th, near Co - janan,
Gen. Twigg's division had advanced on the road to
wa he church at Churuhusco, and when I met
Pierce the heavy firing of the batteries had opened.
I shall never forget his appearance as he rode at
the head of that noble brigade destined to suffer so
terribly in the afternoon. He was exceedingly
thin, worn down by it e fatigue and pain of the day
aril night betore—and then evidently suffering se
verely. Still there was a glow in his eye as the
cannon boomed- that showed within him a spirit
:early for the conflict.
The brigade was soon formed on the west side
of the plaza of Coyacan, opposite the church. I
was lamilar with all the roads and paths in that
neighborhood, and informed Gen. Scott,ee'ho was
in his saddle, under a tree, near the church, from
which lie was issuing orders to different members
of his staff, that I knew a route by which the ene
my could he attacked in the rear. Having decided
at once to send Pierce's brigade, and •to support it
by other troops that mig , t be at his command, he
despatched me to call Gen. Pierce. I did so; and
when he rode up, a conversation, in substance, and
as near as I can recollect. 4 M the following words,
took place:—
Gen. Scott said—" Pierce, my dear fellow, you
are badly injured—you are not fit to be in your sad
dle.- "Yes,l am,' said Pierce,"in a case like this."
Gen. Scott said—:- It is temerity, we shall lose you,
and cannot spare you I ought td order you
back to St. Augustine. You cannot touch your
foot to the stirrup' " I can, one of them." said
Pierce. "and that is enough tor to-day. This will
be the last great figlit,and I must lead my In igade."
The order was then given, I acting as guide by the
direction of Gen. Scott, iNlr , jor Lie, of the engineer
corps, accompanying the command. The brigade
mqved rapidly forward for about a mile, when we
came to a ditch, as I recollect, ten or twelve feet
wide, and six or eight deep. Pierce was lilted from
his saddle, and as it to tread upon impossibilities,
he led the brigade, then under fire, in his crippled
condition, for a considerable distance on foot, when
he fell from exhaustion and suffering, too great even
tor his energies. He refusal to be carried from the
field, and remained till the final rout of the enemy
More inflexible determination and daring; courage,
I do not believe was ever exhibited upoti a battle
field.
On the night before the battle of Molino del Reyf
Getteral Pierce's brigade was at the hacienda of
San Pedro, about one mile from Tacubaya, where
it had been held from ear list dawn under arms.—
You know how General Worth's rno-t gallant di
vision suffered. The carnage on the field was dread
ft.l. General Scott despatched me to accompany
my Iriend Alajor Gaines with an order for Pierce to
advance. They were ready in an instant, and mo
ved rapidly forward. 1 was upon the field and wit
nessed Pierce's'fine movement upon the King's
Mills, to relieve Cul. Garland who had been fight
ing till that hour. He advanced with the 9th in
rantry (and as I recollect, al artillery not of his
brigade proprr.) The enemy, whose tire had near •
ly ceased, upon the movement of these new regi
ment=, re-opened with round shot and shell from
Chepultepec. I will remember that the bay horse
which the general took from the states, became,
under fire, difficult to manage, and was well nigh
plunging over a precipice close by the King's Mill
at the bridge, in consequence of the bursting of a
shell but a few feet from him. Nothing could have
been more cool and admirable than this whole
movement
I made the acquaintance of Gen. Pierce thous•
ands of miles from our native land, under circum
stances that •`tried men's souls.' 1 found him there,
what all know him to be here, and cannot with
hold this act of justice tram one, who has as brave
a heart, and as self-sacrificing a spirit, as ever warm
ed a true man's bosom. I know Gen. Pierce needs
no vindication of4iis military conduct. His merit
in this respect is Proclaimed by the united voice of
officers and men—Those who participated and who
know. But at the same time he may not be dis
pleased with these hasty reminiscences from•me.
I have been so long from the country, that I feel
but little interest in mere party conflicts.
REMARKABLE CASES OP CATARACT —Two broth
ers, named Wm. and John Devor, who were born
deaf and dumb, and afterwards became blind, from
cataract, were operated upon lately by Dr. George
Doe,r, o, Haerisburg, who succeeded in restoring the
vision of one of them so perrelly as to enable him
to lead and write, and has such a power of sight
that he can distinguish a honie more than a mile
distant in the country
The other brother's sight is so much improved
as to enable him to walk about alone; and distin
guish obj , cts tolerably well ; but the nerves of his
eyes are not so vigorous as the younger brother's,
and will take a longer time to become es useful.—
They are fine, intelligent men—one 50, the other 39
years of age.
The elder was blind nearly 15 years•; the other
about 10 years. We cannot well imagine a more
sad condition, than to be thus entirely cut ofi - from
the external world, by being deprived of hearing,
speech and vision, and we doubt not their joy must
be great indeed ; to be thus restored to tneir long lost
sight, and gaze for miles up . and down the beauti
ful valley in which they live, and scan again the
green hills and lofty mountains which surround
them, and over which they can now gambol as they
did in times long gone by.—Deus. Union.
Forte
GRAFI•H ASID TUE RELIGIOUS TEST.-•MGCh has
been said against General Pierce, because the State
of New Hampshire has in her constitution a re
ligious test, although he used all possible efforts to
have the odious leature expunged. But what will
those honest opponents say of Mr. Graham, the
Whig candidate for the Vice Presidency, whose
North Carolina, has in her con titution a
similar provision, which Mr. Graham never at
tempted to have obliterated. That constitution
provides. 'that no person who shall deny the being
of God, or TILE TIICTII OF TILE PROIESTANT REJIG
tor, or the Divine authority of either the Old or
New Testament, or who shall hold religious prin
ciplea incompatible with the freedom and safety of
the State, shall be capable of holding any office or
place of trust or profit, in tkie civil government
within this State."
We utterly abominate the connection of religion
d W r i a t g h s p t o h l e iti m ca ett b e u r t
hwefhereen
thean puenhiscureuyttulhoeuesempaeretya
duty to repel their attacks, and in this sense only
do we notice Mr. Graham's "religious test."--.&11.
limo* Argus. ,
Gr LmANTials, N. H., June 24, 1552
Your obedient servant,
NOAH E. SMITH