3tttelligentex & 3ournal.
Lancaster, September 2S, 1852.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
FOR PRESIDENT:
GEN. FRANKLIN PIERCE,
OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
COL. WILLIAM R. KING,
OF ALABAMA
SUPREME JUDGE.
GEO. W. WOODWARD,
OF LUZERNE
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
COL. WM• HOPK INS,
OF WASHINGTON
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS
I=E!
GEORGE W. WOODWARD, 01 Luzerne
WILSON M'CANDLEss, , of Allegheny.
ADDITIONAL DISTRICT.
ROBERT PATTERSON, of Philadelphia.
DISTRICT?.
1. Peter Logan, Ls. H. C. Eyer,
2. Geo. IL Martin, 14. John Clayton,
3. John Miller, 16. Isaac Robinson,
4. F. W. Bockius, 16. Henry Fetter,
5. R. McCay, Jr., 17. James Burnellle,
6. A. Apple, IS. Maxwell McCuelin,
- 7. N. Strick.and, 19. Joseph McDonald,
8., Abraham Peters, 20. W. S. Colahan,
9. David Fieter, 21. Andrew Burk,
10. R. E. James,; 22. William Dunn,
11. John Mcßeynolds, 23. J. S. M'Calmont,
12. P. Damon, 24. George R. Barret.
COUNTY TICKET.
CONGRESS.
Dr. N. W. SAMPLE, Leaeok.
FOR ASSEMBLY.
JACOB L. GROSS, Ephrata.
SANDERS McCULLOUGH . , Drumore
CYRUS S. HALDEMA N, Conoy.
EMANUEL SCHAEFFER, City.
JACOB R. LONG, Mount Joy.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER
JOHN WHITESIDE, Colerain
DIRECTORS OF POOR.
HENRY STAUFFER, E. Lampeter
HENRY GORRECHT, City.
AUDITOR.
NATHAN WOBLEY, Manheim Bor
PRISON INSPECTORS.
ROBERT M'CLURE, City.
JOHN HOLLINGER, E. Donegal
A Substitution
:Mr. B. F. Bills having declined the nomination
for Auditor on the Detnocratie County Ticket, the
County Committee have substituted the name of
NATUAN WORLEY, of Manheim Borough—he hav
ing been the next highest in vote before the County
Convention.
Democrats are You Assessed"!
This is an important duty, and should not be' ne.
glected, but immediately attended to. Upon this
may depend your right St suffrage. Remember that
the law of the State requires you to be assessed
TEN DAYS before the election, and pay a State or
- county tax within two years. Unless this duty be
strictly performed you Will be denied one of the
highest privileges known in our free republican
Government—THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
Stick to the Ticket
We hope no Democrat in the county will for one
moment think of scratching the County Ticket—
idle rumors to the contrary, notwithstanding. The!
gentlemen selected for the various offices, from!
Congress doivo, are all well-known and tried,
Democrats, who have been faithful to their!
party obligations, and whose general character
probity and intelligence. are, a sufficient guarantee;
that, if elected, they will discharge their duty hon-;
estly and faithfully, and to the entire satisfaction of,
the people of the county. It seems to be admitted!
on all bands that in point of general intelligence, ! :
good moral character, and business qualifications , :
they are far in advance of their competitors on the
Whig ticket. Then why should any of them be,
struck 't We know of no earthly reason, and we
are sure every good Democrat will hesitate long
before he consents in - his own mind to 'commit so
suicidal an ac . ts, Tire-candidates were all fairly
placed upon the ticket—and, although some of our
friends may have , had other preferences, still as good
Democrats, recoguk;ing the great republican prin
ciple that the will of the majority when fairly ofi
tamed is binding on every member of the party ;
we are sure they will feel themselves obligated to,
support the ticket as it is—"the whole ticket, and
nothing but the ticket. Should this be done—al
though we may not be able to elect any portion Of
our ticket, we shall give it such a vote as will ma
terially diminish the boasted Whig majority in this
county, and show to our brethren throughout the
Commonwealth that, although in an almost hope :
less minority, the Democracy are as true as steel
to their ,principles and to the candidates who are
the representatives of those principles. We, there
fore, earnestly urge upon all our Democratic friends
to STICK TO THE TICKET.
Tremendous Rally!
The Democratic meeting, in this city, on Satrir
day evening last, was a perfect avalanche of free
men. In the afternoon a beautiful hickory pole,
with a flag and streamer attached to it, was raised
in front of Sampson Resh's Hotel, in North Queen
street—and in the evening a large number of Dein
ocrats assembled there, including ab'orit 175 from
Columbia, who were addressed by Capt. Geo. San
derson. They then formed in Procession and mar
ched to the Court House, to the sound of music,
where an immense crowd. had already assembled•
The meeting was then re-organized by the appoiiit
ment of the following officers, viz:
President—JAMES L. REYNOLDS, Esq.
Vice Presidents—Col. John Barr, Michael Mc-
Grann, Dr. John Given, Michael. Barry, 'F. C. Wiley,
M. D. Holbrook, John Black, Capt. James Don
nelly, Jacob M. Strickler.
Secretaries—Dr. N. B. Wolfe, Henry S. Miers,
Dr. Samuel Welchans, John M. Johnston.
After the organization, DANI EL DOUGHERTI, Esq.,
who was in town by invitation of the Pierce and
King Club, was introduced to the meeting by Wm.
Mathiot, Esq. His speech was a most masterly
exposition of the principles of the Democratic party
—and in a strain of impassioned aad burnin,g elo
quence, he held the vast crowd spell-bound,:for one
hour and a halt, which was only interrupted at in
tervals by their frequent bursts of applause It
was one of the most eloquent political speech 6 we
have ever listened to, and the only regret Of all
present was that be did not speak at least an hour
longer.
4 At the conclusion of Mr. Dougherty's address,
Dr. WOLFE, of Columbia, being called upon made
a few pertinent remarks—when a resolutiOn of
thanks to Mr. Dougherty for his able and eloquent
speech was passed, and the meeting adjourned at a
quarter before 10 o'clock.
Get your Tickets in Time.
We commence printing the Democratic COunty
Ticket today. The different township and borough
Committees, throughout the county, can be sup
plied by calling at this office.
Woodward and Hopkins
A:desperate effort is being made by the whigs to
diminish the vote of these gentlemen by personal
attacks upon them. The miserable and often ex
ploded slander of Nativeism, re-vamped against
Judge Woonwssin, is circulated, with uncommon
industry, with a variety of groundless additions to
suit each locality it is intended for; and it is also
attempt, d to connect Col. Hornuss with the exist
ing diffi, ulty between the Canal Commisioners and
' the Pennsylvania railroad company. Will not all
democitt's readily perceive what is the object of
these cii nningly devised tricks? If either Woos
wean w - Horxtris can be defeated in October, what
chance ttill there be to carry PIERCE and Kiss in
Notteml,,tr? Just in proportion as the vote of eith
er Of th , in can be reduced, just so much better
chance will the whigs have for carrying the State
for Scos-r. Every democrat, therefore, who casts
his 'yote against either of them directly .opposes
PIERCE and Rise and the party whose candidates
they are.
The charge of Nativism against Judge W 000•
WARD has too often been proved false, malicious
and libelous to require further reference to it from
us. It is a groundless, contemptible, exploded
charge, and no honest man will again, if any ever
haVe, utter it against him. The man who utter s
it, lies, .shamefully lies, and if he has a conscience.
must lie in the face of its admonition that he is
slandering an honest man 'who never injured him,
a warmhearted and liberal-minded man whose
every inclination is to serve his fellow men to the
extent of his capacity, e man of exalted talents,
admitted worth, and unimpeachable integrity, who
would adorn any public station, a man whose great
pOwers of mind, admitted genius and purity of
character while life lasts will make him the pride
and boast not only of hosts of devoted friends but
of the entire State. Such a man can never be kept
down by slander and detraction, but whether in or
out of office must ever exercise a powerful and
commanding influence.
!No tangible objection has been raised to Co
HoPKINS. His honesty and capacity to fill with
efficiency and profit to the State the office for which
he is nominated, is not questioned by his opponents.
But they hope to divert democratic votes from him
along the line of the Pennsylvania railroad, by
identifying him with the existing difficulty between
that company and the Canal Commissioners. It is
not pretended that he has had any connection with
that transaction, or that he has expressed or enter
tains any opinions about it, but JAMEY HOFFMAN,
his opponent, has pledged himself to the railroad,
and it is therefore attempted to induce the friends
of the company to vote against Col. HOPKINS.
We appeal to every democrat not to permit his
vote to be caught with such bait. The object is
not to effect the ends pretended, but to defeat WOOD
WARO and HOPKINS, or one or the other of them.
so as to add to Scorr's chances of carrying the
State. This object must be evident to every man
who reflects on the subject, and we therefore ap
peal to every democrat to vote for the nominees of
his party, and to treat with contempt the petty
'subterfuges by which it is attempted to array him
in opposition to its regular nominees. It is all
sheer humbug, and has no oaer purpose than to
give the vote of the State to Gen. SCOTT. Demo
'crats, be on your guard—whiggery is an adept at
trickery, humbug and chicanery.—Keystone.
Irr The Whig orators and presses are just now
busily engaged • in the fruitless attempt to place
Gen. Scott on a par with Gen. Washington as a pa
triot and statesman. It is a ridiculous assumption I
and should be frowned down by the American peo- I
ple. The world never produced but one Washing
bun, so patriotic and so unselfish in all his aspi
rations. Gen. Washington conducted the eight ;
years, war of the Revolution without having re
ceived any compensation whatever, over and above
his necessary expenses, from the Government, and
when. the war was ended voluntarily relinquished
the sword for the plough. But no so with General
Scott. He has already received nearly three hun
dred thousand dollars for his services in the army,
and in addition to this a number of years ago he
desi. ed to have his name placed upon the pension
roll, by which operation he would have received
double the salary he is now receiving as a Major
' General. Failing in that he is now seeking an elec
tion to the Presidency, (an office for which he is
totally unfitted by education and experience,) by
which he could add another hundred thousand dol
lars to the large lortune he has already made off
the country.
Like Washington, forsooth ! The attempted com
parison is worse than sacrilege—it is supremely ab
surd and wicked.'
A Fire in the Rear
The Catholic Mirror, a paper neutral in poli
tics, thus speaks of Wm. E. Robinson, the famous
Whig Stump orator of New York, who has LENT
his services for pay, to rake up a nr.morous TEST
in the ensuing canvass.
"WILLIAM E. Rontssos.—We suffered ourselves
a few days ago to read over a speech recently
delivered by the creature whose name forms our
caption. The object of this string of low vulgar
isms is to instruct the Irish Catholics how to vote
at the approaching Presidential election. We do
not intend to waste many words upon this misera
ble man, who seeks to make political merchandise
of his countrymen at every election that occurs ;
for, unfortunately for him, we know him well.—
The speech before us is the most consummate
piece of puppyism we have ever read. We know
not what other epithet to apply to the unblushing
impudence of such a man, undertaking to lecture
Irish Catholics how they shall exercise a right
which they do not value as a matter to be bought
and sold by political gamblers. At one time there
was a prospect of this Robinson securing for him
self the confidence and respect of his countrymen,
but the nature of the man soon manifested itself.—
He is now regarded by Irishmen of all parties as
one only suited to do the dirty work of his pay
masters, and consequently only entitled to their
most sovereign contempt. If. Mr. Robinson chooses
to do the dirty work of politicians, we caution him
to leave Catholics and Catholicity out of his lec
tures and speeches. He has no sympathy with eith
er; his protessed sympathy and himself are despised.
He cares no more for Catholics than the best Derry
educated Orangeman in Ireland. This is our opin
ion, and we will venture to say that every one o
our contemporaries will endorse it."
All the Decency
At the recent commencement of Jefferson Col_
lege the degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred
upon Judge Bzscx, whereupon a Whig editor re
marks that the initials L. L. D. means that the
Judge will "lie like damnation;" and this chaste
and beaOtiful expression is copied and endorsed by
P. C. Sedgwick, the Prothonotary of the Supreme
Court, over which the man thus villified presides.
We fully concur with the Editor ot the Investigator,
that "none but a brazen-faced villain could look the
the Judge in the face after such an attempt to dis
grace the highest tribunal in the State, and that the
Court owe it to themselves to kick the defamer out,
if they have the power, and if not, to make his
place a little too hot to hold him."
Such a vile insult, from such a source, is unpar
alleled even in the annals of Whig calumny.
Druwore Aroused
A large and respectable meeting of the Democ,
racy of Drumore and the adjacent townships, was
held at the public house of J. A. Moore, (Drumore
Centre,) on Friday last. The officers were as fol
lows:
President.--WILLIAM BARNES.
Vice Presidents—Robt. Montgomery, Samuel B.
Moore, George Hughes, S. P. Moore, Maj. S. Broome,
William Hays, Arthur M'Kissick.
Secretaries—Col. David Laird, John S. Morton,
Isaac Sharp, Robert Evans.
The Strasburg Brass Band was in attendance, and
the meeting was addressed by Messrs. Sanderson,
Reynolds, Mendenhall, Johnston, Frazer & Myers.
Wrx.r.Lut Losromett, a prominent English
pulisher, has tried in vain to find an editor to pre
pare a new edition of Johnson's Dictionary, and has
adopted the Revised Edition of Webster, Unabrid
ged, by Goodrich, as a perfect English standard.
111 The charge has been very industriously cir
culated by the Whigs, and is also promulgated
through the colurns of the Examiner & Herald, that
Messrs. ScUZAFPER and M'Cuctnuott, two of the
Democratic candidates for the Assembly, are pledg
ed in favor of. the Maine Liquor Law, and also that
-a "corrupt coalition" exists between the Demo
crats and the' Temperance men, through which
those gentlemen were placed hist on the Demo
cratic, and then on the Temperance ticket. The
whole charge, from beginning to ecd, is entirely
destitute of foundation, and to prove its falsity we
call the attention of our readers to the following
A Whig Trap for Democrats.
Mn. Enixon :--On my return from York county
last evening, I saw in the Examiner & Herald, un
der the head of "Temperance Ticket' - -the fol
lowing: " No nominations were made for the other
officers, Messrs. Schaeffer and M'Cullough are also
on the Democratic ticket, -having been placed there,
as was stated in the Temperance Convention, WITH
THE UNDERSTANDING that they would be put
on the Maine-Law ticket."
As I leave this morning for Chambersburg, I
have not time to reply at length to the whole edi
torial of Mr. Darlington ; but wish to say 'that the
above statement is " false in all its length and
breadth—false in the aggregate, and false in de
tail." No such statement was made in the Temper
ance Convention. Had such a statement been made
there, - or any where else, it would have been as
false as the above from the pen of Mr. Darlington
—or somebody else. No such understanding was
ever had. The statement made in the Coniention
in reference to these gentlemen was made by my
self in the following words, viz: " The Democratic
Convention knew the character and sentiments of
Messrs Scheaffer and M'Cullough on the subject
of temperance before they were settled." (I would
here remark in adddition, that we temperance men
have never received any pledge from either of those
men, nor am I aware that any has been given by
them.) No allusion was made to any "under
standing about the Maine-law ticket," for the sim
ple reason that no such understanding could have
existed. At the time the Democratic ticket was
settled, and up to the morning of the Temperance
Convention, it was by no means certain that a
Temperance ticket would be settled, at all. That
Convention was called " to consider the propriety
of settling a ticket;" and such was the diversity of
opinion among the friends of Prohibition on the
subject, that the Executive Committee did not even
recommend any particular course, but left the mat
ter to be decided by the Convention itself. How
then, could any understanding have existed?—
Again: Instead of any understanding of the kind,
between the Democrats and the friends of Prohibi
tion, I know from the most positive evidence, that The Public Expenditures.
the Democrats were opposed to our settling any The country knows very well, by sad experience,
ticket. That ticket was settled for the very pun- with what a loose and lavish hand whig adminis
pose of avoiding the charge of uniting with the Demo- trations have always governed it; and the enormops
crass to defeat the Whig ticket. For the evidence of extravagance in the public expenditures since Gen.
this, see the Report of the Executive Committee to Taylor's accession to office. has been whig all over.
the Convention. It says, -' The Convention should The expenditures of our republican government
also be careful to avoid the charge of uniting with- I are now increasing at such a rapid rate that we
the Democrats for the purpose of defeating the Whig shall soon equal the extravagance of the monar
ticket. The very appearance of such a union in our I chies of the Old World. In a time of profoundMeace.
estimation, would be ruinous to the cause of Pro- the army and navy expenses have been increased
hibition. To be consistent, we must avoid all "en- 05 per cent., sa:, $5,1100,000, without any apparent
angling alliances" with either of the present polit- j cause. The number. of men employed in the army
ical organizations. Where, then, is there any "co- last year, was 10,000, and the expenses of the army
alition?" The same coalition would have existed proper $5,730,000, or more than SSOO a man, per
between the Whigs and Prohibition men, had they l annum. In I 547, during Mr. Polk's administra
given us two men we could have voted for. In tion, there were 43,500 men employed on the soil
York county, where 1 addressed a large Mass Meet- of Mexico, and the expenses were $33,800,000 or
ing yesterday, the Whigs have declined to nominate $770 to a man, per annum, including transpcirta
any ticket, and left the whole field to the Temper- tion.
ante men. there any coalition there, Mr. Darling- The navy expenses have also been increased 20
ton? The whole matter is evidently a trap on the per cent. Payments have been made upon the public
part of the Hiester Party, to catch Democratic debt and its interest, particularly Mexican payments,
votes. If thdy are foolish enough to be caught, I until the whole amount of $15,000,000, with inter
am greatly mistaken in their sagacity. Like their est, due under the Mexican treaty, is now dischar
"Higher Law" Resolution, it will "kill more at the ged. Is it not natural then to expect that the ex
breach than it does at the muzzle." This hypoerit- penses of the government will in future be reduced
ical anxiety that the Democrats should have their and the taxes of the people be thereby lessened!
'opinions represented: . should unmask the design.— Yet instead of this, we find our whig administra-
When were the Silver Greys anxious to 'secure the lions es:imating the expenditures for the next fiscal
representation of Democratic opinions I I year at $55,000,000, and callidg on Congress to
Mr. Darlington's course on the Temperance , provide that sum of money! Nearly doidde the
question is an apt illustration of the old adage,l-expenses of the government under democratic: ad
" Put a beggar on horseback and he will ride to de- ministrations, about which the whigs and whig
struction." , newspapers cried out, charging extravagance, cor-
As for peculiar reasons the Express is already ruption, &c. After deducting all payments on ac
printed for this week, I will be obliged if you will ' count of the public debt, it will leave more than
give this an insertion. P. COOMBE. ' $14,750,000 that is asked for, to carry on the goy-
Lancaster, Sept. 23d, 1352. ernment. And this will not be enough. There
l will be another deficiency bill before the next Con
gress, to meet sums expended beyond the appropri-
Hopkins and Hoffman
COI. HOPKINS, the democratic candidate for Ca
nal Commissioner, is a FARMER. JAKEY Horn- i
MAN, the whig nominee for the same office, is a I
LAWYER. Nothing would be more gratifying to
the democratic party than to see these men on the
same stump together, giving their views on the
management of the public works to the people.—
A lawyer of any talent, while he would be the last
man on earth competent to discharge the duties of
Canal Commissioner, ought to be a better public
speaker than a farmer. Yet the democrats every
where are anxious that the candidates for Canal
Commi-sioner should meet at some of the princi
pal
points in the State and discuss the duties of the I
office for which they are candidates. The people
could in that case decide with unerring certainty
which was most competent for the office and which
understood their interests most thoroughly ; but
they will have no such opportunity, for the whigs
do not dare to let their lawyer candidate meet our
farmer HOPKINS on the stump.
As diminutive mentally and intellectually as
physically—a mere dwarf in person and in mind
—JAKE! HOFFMAN is blessed with that low species
of cunning which can give success to the pettifogger
in legitimate pettifogging—that accomplishment
which instinctively trails a fip to its hiding place—
that which would send him out of the Canal Board
a Girard! The singular infatuation which induced
the whig convention to nominate him has never
been, and will never be explained. Had the whigs
intended to burlesque popular elections they could
not possibly have hit upon a better expedient than
the nomination of Jess! HOFFMAN for Canal Com
missioner. . .
COL HOPKINS, the democratic candidate, is in
every respect well qualified fur Canal Commission
er. A practical farmer, his interests are identical
with a vast majority of the voters of the State—
an experienced statesman, he thoroughly under
stands the whole machinery of our improvement
system and the measures necessary to secure the
economical management of and largest revenue
from the public works—honest, able, energetic,
pleasant and agreeable in his intercourse with his
fellow-citizens, he is every respect peculiarly qual
ified to discharge the duties of Canal Commissioner.
Between such men the people must decide—be
tween them they will not hesitate—Keystonr.
Strange--Very !
The Sheriff of Clarion county is now engaged
selling out all the Iron•masters in his bailiwick—
so say the Whig papers. It is a most singular cir
cumstance that just prior to every Presidential and
Congressional election for the last twelve years, the
Iron men of Clarion have had to undergo the same
process, if Whig reports be true—but the mischief
is they won't stay sold out. They take a new start
immediately atter the election, and we hear nothing
more of them in Whig papers for about one year
and ten months, when the monetary epidemic again
seizes them, and the Sheriff, like a skilful physician,
is called upon to administer for their relief. Strange,
that so frightful a disease never gets beyond the
the limits of Clarion county!
GB.REILAL SCOTT ITEPHII SIIRRENIARS. — This
was the motto on one of the Whig banners at the
late Whig procession in this city. Is the sentiment
true? If so, how does it come that he was de
feated and taken prisoner by the British in his very
first battle—we allude to the affair at Queenstown
Heights—in the summer of 1812! Either all the
'histories of the late war with Great Britain that
we have ever read are false, or else the abolie mot
to is a modern Whig fie. Our readers can judge
for themselves as to the truth or falsity of the senti
ment.
Tan APPROPRIATIONS OF Cosoness.—The ap
propriations of the last session of Congress amount
to over $41,000,000. The Civil and Diplo
matic Appropriations are $8,038,000; Army, $B,.
738,000; Navy, $6,952,000; Poet Office Transpor
tation, 7,537,000; Indian Appropriations, $2, 026,-
347; Foreign Mail Steamer, $1,740,000; Deficien
les,' $5,500,000; Indefinite Appropriations, $4,500,-
000. Total $47,171,000.
The honest tax-payers of the country will be apt
to think it high time that the Government was more
economically administered, and so thinking will
doubtless again restore it to Democratic hands.
EY' The Washington Union publishes a card
from the Hon. DANIEL JENIFER, of Maryland, late
Whig member of Congress and Minister to Austria,
renouncing Gen. Scorn, on account of his affilia
tion with Abolitionism.
Gen. James Shields
This gallant soldier and accomplished statesman,
who occupies a seat in the U. S. Senate, recently ,
delivered a speech at Pittsburg, on his way home
from Washington city, from which we take the an- 1
nexed extract. The position taken by Senator
Shields is one which should induce the patriofic
and reflecting portion of the Whig party, to pause
awl consider well what they are doing before they
cast their votes for a mere soldier to fill the high
a: d responsible office of President of the Unßed
States—an office which requires all the ability, ex-.
perience and knowledge of a sound and able civil
ian. The Republics of antiquity commenced their
rapid downward career from the moment they look
ed to the head of their armies for their highest civ
ic rulers. The same fate may await our model Re
public, unless we profit by the teachings of history
and avoid the rock upon which the ancients split.
Let the people beware:—
"I- have nothing against Gen. Scott. If he has
failings, I do not think it my province to expose
them. But lam a Democrat, and on the truth of
the principles I profess, I oppose him as a Demo
crat. There is one thing, however, which may be
urged against Gen. Scott, which has been noticed
before this evening—l allude to his Peculiar and ex
clusive military character. Here is a man, nearly
seventy years old, who hai been all his life a sol
dier—and nothing else. Now, fellow-citizens, I ear
nestly ask you whether, in view of this fact, (it is
an incontrovertible one,) a man of this description
can with safety be put at the head of a Democratic
government? I feel confident—and I know you
will bear me out in the declaration—ithat he cannot
be so entrusted. I have served in armies myself.
and well do I know the despotism which is essen
tial to discipline; for it is not army unless subordi
nation and blind obedience be strictly and uncom
promisingly enforced. And it is natural that "it
should be so. On the one hand we4iave arbitrary
command; on the other implicit obedience. YOu
cannot make a Democratic President of a man who
has no other recommendation than military glory.
Washington'and Jackson were, eminent both as ci
vilians and warriors. They were soldiers in time
l of danger; and when peace was in the land they
? were found in the councils of the nation. It is no
thing more than t..e duty of a good citizen to assist
the arms of his country in the hour of danger; and
it is a poor argument indeed, that would insist Minn
the elevation of a military chieftain to the Presi
dential chair—the highest civil office in the land—
simply on the ground of his having rendered the
state good service in the field. Some other qualifi
cations are needed, in addition to the merit of mili
tary renown."
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ations.
During the fir'st three years after Gen. Jackson
came into power, the annual cost for carrying on
the government, was about $14.000,000, and our
population was about fourteen millions. Now,
with a population of twenty-three millions the cost
of carrying on the government is $50,000,000,
double the ratio we paid under Gen. Jackson.—
The system is all wrong. It must be checked, or
the $50,000,000, will soon be swelled to 6100,000,-
000—to give where it has already gone—to con
tractors, jobbers, agents, and Galphins. The de
mocracy are now called upon to put forth their
best efforts to reform such abuses by the substitu
tion of new men for those in power. It will be
done.—Buffalo Courier.
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GOOD POSTAGE ARRAN GEMENT. — Th e Washing
ton correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial writes:
The cheap postage system has been much prej
udiced by the difficulty of pre-paying postage on
letters; one cannot always go in person or send
another to pre-pay his letters. It would be a hun
dred-fold increase of the postage tax to do this.—
Stamps were therefore, prepared and sold by the
post offices. But these proved useless, because they
were uTrustwortlay;—many have been deterred
from using them by the fact that some of them
will slip off as fast as put on.
I have'mysell noticed many instances wherein a
messenger, taking a bag o. letters to the city post
office, finds, there, that the stamps have disappear
ed from the letters.
Congress has provided an excellent remedy for
this evil. Some one moved an amendment to the
post route bill that meets this case, and in spite of
the committee, it prevailed, and is now a law. The
Post Office Department is to cause envelopes to be
made, with suitable water marks oa the paper,
identilying them as offvffal, and with a printed
stamp, for single or double postage, with a suitable
device. These envelopes are to be sold at all the
post offices, at the price of th - stamps now sold,—
with the very small addition of the actual cost of
the envelopes.
• HA.Y.—The New York Day Book says
A Long Island farmer received during last week
one hundred and nine dollars for three loads of hay,
brought to the city over the plank toad by one span
of horses. Hay is the most profitable crop raised
an Long Island, and with the Guano double the
quantity might be raised that now is. We V'ave
cut eight tons of hay from tnree acres in a mead
ow that has not been ploughed in seven years.
It is a mistaken idea with farmers that grass
land to be improved, should he broken up every
few years. Mr. Webster has meadows in Marsh
field that have not been plowed in fifty years, and
they now produce as much as the best in New
England. A good dressing of barn-yard manure,
ashes and lime, or guano, is at all that is necessary
to keep up the crop.
Character of American Flour in England.—ln a
commercial circular of Messrs. Richardson Broth
ers & Co., of Liverpool, received by the Europe, it
is stated—
ttThe low quality of the most American Flour
that has been received here for some years past has
caused the difference of prices between it and wheat
to be much greater than the relative portions of
seventy pounds of the former to the barrel of the
latter."
The comparison here made shows that the de
fect in quality arises from the manfuacture and not
from the quality of the wheat. It is furthei - stated
in proof of the interior quality of the American
Flour that,
"Whilst 21s. per bbl. has been the outside value
of the best American on sale, French the same day
has freely made rs. per 28 bbls., or about 255. 10d.
per bbl., and Irish 345. to 355. per 28 bbls., or 245.
to 245. 6d. per bbl."
It would appear from this statement that there is
a loss of three shillings, to four and ten pence ster
ling, per barrel, for want of care or skill in the
manufacture.—Boston Daily Adv. ,
Democratic Meeting.
On Saturday the 25th inst., a Democratic Meet
inv.° was held in Ephrata twp., at the public house
of T. G. Bach.
The meeting was organized by appoing the fol
lowing officers, viz :
President—Gen. Ise .c WINTERS.
V. Presidents—William Amweg, Sr., B. F. Hills,
Andrew Urich, John Gross, Esq. 0. P. Gross, P.
Albert, E. Killian, John W, Gross, Jeremiah Moh
ler, Isaac Holl and Dr. Robinson.
Secretaries—Dr. H. Reemsnyder, Alex. Martin
Sarni. Slough and Israel Herman.
On motion of Col. Wm. S. Amweg, Dr. N. W.
Sample, the demociatic nominee for Congress, was
requested to be seated with the officers of the meet
ing—and, on motion, the meeting was addressed
by Col. Reah Frazer, Col. Wm. S. Amweg and J.
B. Amwake, Esq. The meeting adjourned with nine
hearty cheers for Pierce & King and the Stafe and
County Tickets.
City and County Items
Ur On next Sabbath evening; Rev! P. Coomns
will preach lin the First Meth dist Episcopal
Church, the last of a series of sermons on Prohibi
tiaiLl Subject, The responsibility bf thepeople in this
matter. - The public are invited to attend.
17J.PLAoss & Co. propose to publish a large
and extensive, view of Lancaster, prov ded sufficient
encouragement is given to justify the enterprise
The view will be from 34 ,to 36 inches in length,
and proportioned width, and got uP in the best
style of Tinted Lithography, and afforded to sub
scribers at fii%e dollars per copy, payable on delivery
of said work, The place designated to make the
draWings from will be the top of St. Joseph's (Ger
man Catholic) Church, overlooking the whole of
Lancaster; and bringing out clearly and distinctly
all the leading and prominent features of the city,
andimaking at once a perfect lac stmiie, thereof.
The drawings will be madelhy an eminent artist
under the direction of the publisher's. No pains
will be spated in making this view, A above descri
bed! in everylparticular • and frOm the specimens
of their draWings of other cities, we have no doubt
that they will do full justice to the undertaking.
l At : a special meeting of the Members of the
Lancaster City and County Medical Society, held
September 25, 1852, the following preamble and
resolution's were-unanimously adopted :
Whereas, :it has pleaied Divine Providence to re
move from the sphere of his labors and usefulness
the senior member and first President of our So
ciety, as he was of the State Medical Society, Dr.
SAMUEL Huinss, whose zeal for the welfare of his
profession, ardent love for the'hencrable and dili
gent practice of it and faithful and unremitting de
votion to his patients while his health permitted
afforded a brightexample tO. those who survive
him, and •
Whereas,'in all the relations of life as a Chris
tian, gentleman; a patriotic arid liberal minded cit
izen, and faithful friend, he had secured the esteem
and respect not only of his Medical brethren, but
of the whole community. therefore,
Resolved,,: That this sociefy,;i4 deeply sonnible nl
the bereavement, and will hold w I vely
trance the recollection of his ow,
Resolved; That we will luneral ot
deceased,fellow member , ' and requeet the pt iv]
lege of carrying his remain to theft final te,iire/,
dace.
Resolyed, •That the,'• procet:4l..4, 1, entet , l
on our Inhiute?, and a copy of Ihl•rn to: pre,et,' , .l
to Ike nearest itdativen o I the
JOIIN 1.. ATLEE,
President L. C. and Co. Medical Society
Tipmes ELI.3IAKER, Seery;
A BEArTrFur. MoNumsyr.--Me looked in a New
daysago at,the Marble lard of Mr. CIiAILE4 HUNS
ELL. in Not i th Queen street, and were forcibly struck
the beautiful monument which has just been
completed as a tribute to thi ; memory of the le'e
Dr. GEonoi: B. KERFOOT and his three deceased
children. On one side of the!Die arc engraved' the
name and age of the Dr. at fire time of his decease ,
surrounded with a wreath ofi appropria.te Masonic
emblems, of which Order he was a prominent and
distinguished member,,and'held the office of D.
G. M. On another side are the names and ages of
his children, beautifully and tastefully arranged.—
The remaining two sides are lett plain, for the names
of the'rernaining members of his family at their
decease. 'The Monument is composed of lour sec
tions, viz c Ground Base, Die, Moulded Base, and
ObeliskaLogether, about 11 feet in height—the
two latter being in shape an irregular octagon. The
whole structure is of highly polished Italian marble
—the obelisk being a Plainshaft, with the excep
tion of the figure of a bible on one of the sides.—
The beality and admirable finish of the Monument
reflects great credit on the skill of Mr. Howell, as
well as on the Mas6nic Lodge of this city at whoie
expense 'it has been constructed. It will remain
a lew days in the yard, where it can be seen before
its removal to Woodward• Hill Cemetry.
New Publications.
We are under obligations to Mr. I. W. GOUGLEIL
Philadelphia, for copies ol several of his new and
splendid pieces of Piano music, just published.—
Each , copy is embellished with a very fine engrav
ing descriptive of the. Poetry, the latter of which is
sublime in sentiment. The following pieces are be
fore us, viz Roan POLKA, composed by
Gougler; Manx's BEAUTY, Poetry by Geo. P. Mor
ris, Esq. Music by Gougler; THE GRATE or NY
MOTHED, Words and' Music by Gougler.
The Music and Poetry we think cannot be ex
celled; and those of. our young friends who may
want something deciedly superior in the musical
way, would do well to call at I. W. GOUGLED . s,
No. , * Race street above Eighth, Phila.
THE PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL JOURNAL, for Sep
tember,'is a capital number. Its columns are en
riched 'by several , valuable communications—
amongst others one from the pen of Mr. JOHN S.
CRUMIAUGH, the Principal of the Male High School
o; this City, on the subject of “Connnunisni in the
blald High Schools." The editorial articles are also
characterized by great force and ability. We are
glad to be informed that the School Journal is
rapidly . winning its way to public favor.
Cholera in Poland
The steamer Pacific brings frightful accounts of
the ravages of this disease in Poland. The New
Prussian Gazette has the following from Warsaw
of the 2Stholt.
"Above 500 have died in the hospitals here, and
the total number of those who have been carried
off by the cholera is probably greater than 20,000
Cars, wagons, britskas, and conveyances of every
possible kind, are perpetually conveying corpses to
our burial grounds. The pest rages most horribly
among the Israelites. In one fortnight—namely,
from the Sth to the 224 of August-1,602 Jews
have been buried:' From Posen we read in the
same journal : "Forty-three persons have died here
yesterday, August 31; there are 405 under tnedi
cal treatment. The wife of the Commandant, Gen
eral Teitzen, was one, of the fated victims of the
pest." Some deaths are said also to have occurred
on board a vessel at Hamburg.
The accounts of the cholera from Posen, still
continue alarming..' On the Ist, 97 persons were
attacked, of whom .50 died; in Jarocin, in a popu
lation of 2,130, the number of deaths, to the 30th
ult. were 210. During the past month it had been
impossible to collect the taxes; the funds of the
municipalityare exhausted, and there were no means
of furnishing attendance for the sick or to bury the
dead, and for the ratter duty no one could be pi o.
cured without immediate payment. The disease
had appeared in Schrimm and Nanislau (in Sile . sia;)
where it had already existed, as in the Grand Duchy
of Posen, no decrease likely to be permanent can
be reported.
In Warsaw on the 29th. there were 79 ne,v ca
ses, of which 36 were fatal, 513 still remained un-
der treatment. Two of the most distinguished
names in Polish literature had fallen victims to the
disease, Adrian Krzyxanowski and Felix Beatkow
ski, both Professors in the University of Warsaw.
Since the appearance of the epidemic, it was sup.
pdsed that more than 4000 persons had died in the
hospitals. To convey the dead to the burial grouuds
every kind of vehicle was put in requisition—carts
wagons and britschkas. Parties of sappers were
ordered to the Poss'enzker church-yard and the Jew
ish burial ' , round , to dig the graves. The pest has
raged with peculiar severity among the Jews. ln
their burial place, says one account, it was fright
ful 16 see the number of new matte graves; in the
night between the 21st and 22d ulto, alone, 102
Corpses were buried, in those two days together,
350 died. As on the Sabbath no Jewish burial can
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take place till night, but on Sunday morning 60
bodies still remained unburied, and more were con
Candy being brought to the grotind. The help o
the military was therefore called in, and the inter
meats were obliged to be made without ceremony
The. Jewish population exclaimed against this prof
anation of their religion, and to prevent it, men o
all ranks volunteered for the labor.
. , .
They said that since the earliest ages, each corpse
had been washed and buried in a separate grave;
and the) would not allow the ceremony to be omit
ted, or that all the corpses should be thrown into
common trench. -By the voluntary aid thus afford
ed by people of all conditions, without any distinc
tion of rank pr wealth, the required forms were ob
served, and the Jews state that all their faith have
have had a separate grave. In fifteen days 1662
Jews were swept away by the disease. Private
accounts state that the deaths have exceeded the
number stated in the official report.
EU" The celebrated aeronaut,:John Wise, has re
turned to this plbce, having recently made his one
.undred and fifth ascension at Cleveland, Ohio,
; : during the State Agricultural Fair. He is now prepa
ring his mammoth balloon Hercules, for the pur
pose of testing the practicability of an aerial voyage
across the Atlantic. Several gentlemen of New .
_York and Philadelphia have raised the sumtof $lOOO
to defray the expenses of an experimental trip from
St. Louis to Philadelphia or New York. The voy
age, it is said, can be accomplished in 15 hours.—
It will 8001 l be attempted.
For the m!.nio•
The Whiggery Mass Mectiag
The Marshals—,Ground and Lofty Tumbling—Ban
ners, Standard Bcarers—Orators— di C. :is h ing
¢c., 6-c. •
Thellass Meeting, which the Whigs t'f Lancas
ter county attempted to get up on Thursday the
16th inst., was one of the most massive failures of
these modern times. Kettle drums, brass bands
and Glee-baby-jumpers, could not make the good
common sense people dance to Whig music. Mam
moth show bills, exhibitint , General Sccr-r as the
hero of every battle recorded in American history,
with the promise of a large Whig biznocr and im
mense quantities of soup. did not suit the tastes of
our sober minded farmers and mechanics. and they
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Jemmied quietly at home. Hence it Wit S that in
the '?banner Whig county of the Union, - at a gland
mass meeting, they could not muster inure than
four! en hundred persons! "lake from tiro number
the delegations and stragglers from Philadelphia,
York, Dauphin, Lebanon and other contiguous
counties, and there were not eight hundred made their
appearance trom the good old county of Lancaster.
.13Ut, talking, of processions, this mass failure con
cernj was a rich affair—rich in all its characteis,
incidents and details. Postmaster General Geo. II
Hatnersly was one of the principal Marshals. 140
was 'mounted on an iron horse, belonging to one 01
our most respectable and wealthy. Iron master,
with " the tariff of t 542 beautically gilded, in
large Iron letters, upon the saddle cloth.
Next in importance and magnificence, to the
ComMander-M-Chief, was Major
.General
He was mounted on a nice littlebrown mare
upon' which he sat gracefully erect, with his
toes pointing at right angles at the crowd, his arm
ed heels against the flanks of the little bows mare,
and his beautiful gold-headed cane held sword l'ash
ion.Verpendicular against his right shoulder, a la
Gen. Scott. But the General—we mean Gen.. -
-was unfortunate, as he fell early inn the action.—
Before the grand parade was halt over, the little
I rown mare took the management of the reins nit
government all to herself, and off she went at a
most killing pace, - driven to madness by the
_armed heels unhitch bestrided her, and which were
wider. the tender parts of her tore shoul
ders. At Kenidig's corner, however, near the Rail
a,l, sine relinh'ed herself of her Tormentor, The
hOwen al le!l; but whether from "pain and exhains•
11011, or other -causes, ve have not heard—and \ve
were glad bt learn that a sprinkle of Cuile—l'ologne,
n e o n!' liroormand a little brandy :toil wale:. not only
pot him 011 his bet 11,44111, tilt upon the back of his
little fiery ,harlfer ! The confusion in tile lank , .
produced by this little episode, shwa ing the possa
bility of I, Whig General falling horn his horse, x,
all pill to rights again so soon as tire General re•
mounted. and they loutid it was not a horse, but
only a—little brown mare !
First in the procession was the prize banner. got
up by the
,"Old Guard of Whiggery, to bestow
-upon the largest delegation which would be present
from arty borough, district or township in the
county.. This. banner, it is said.,cost one hundp-il
dollars, and:was considered an irresistable bait to
bring torth an immense crowd as nibbl"r,. The
banner-bearer was the big man with the n white
hat, - named: BAnnAcK:s, an ex-auxiliary police of-
In side, "Jefferson Barracks, - or any other
Barracks, are mere pigmies to him. His artitibrii
were the forth-coming right honorable Is,ro, C
Hicifer, of the "Silver Greys," and Oh! .1.
of the Woolly Heads," a law partner and clerk of
the great 27taddeus ! These fgrmidable rival.. were
kept apart by the tall Bart - mks, whilst they
-marched on each. side, steadying the Banner by
holding gracefully the tassels, like good boy=_ ought
to do upon such glorious occasions.
When, afterwards, the several delegatlOlJS wer e
counted, it was found that the delegation from Co
lumbia numbered la), and to the Colombians,
therefore, the prize banner was awarded,
as rnu
taring the largest force in the Whig column. It
was presented, after the meeting, at Mr. Fratink's
biuger Bay saloon, by 1. N. Ellmaker, Esq , in one
of his red hot. fiery speeches, and received by Mar-
Thal Heart, the leader of the Columbia phalanx,
and will be considered a big feather in his . cap,
when an honorable member of the Legislature.
The other banners carried in procession had a
very common thread-bare appearance, and had ev
idently seen la2tt r days—old articles, which hail ,
undergone dying and scouring operations. Th . e in
scriptions-and mottoes wete amusing. real tut.ny
thin g,s--Lindy's Lone, Queenstown Heights. Chi
,pol tepee, Churtibusco, Shite-poke Valley Delega
tion,- and' all the hard names of Mexican towns
were unsparingly interspersed. Some, and the most
prominent anti valued, had large 't soup bowls
with pictures representing the hero at his homely
meal. This was done to show his civil qualifica
tions. Others had as mottoes," General Scott nev
er surrenders!" That was stealing thunder from
‘. Old Rough and Ready. - One, (East HemptielTs
we believe,) bore a sweet little ditty, tommericing
with "Ho-yaa and up she rises!' But the cap-cheat
teas the Conestoga wagon, with a tall, magnificent,
feather, made out of green sprigs of the box-wood
peeping out most eotrancingly from the Centre of
Ire vehicle.
The s:eakers at the stand in the Orchard and at
other points, before and alter the meeting was tin
der organization, were numerous, and motley in
character." Hon. Mr. Stanley, a member of Con
gress from North Carolina, Hon. John kVilliarnson,
of Huntingdon, Judge Conrad, the Poet, and Mor
ton MMichael, from Philadelphia, and various oth
ers of lesser calibre, were all employed m.d doing
service or •dis-service to the great Whig party.—
But Stanley and Williamson were evidently the I
Li , es of the day. The former proved conclusively
that FRANK PIERCE was a man of no earthly ac
count or consideration, as he (Stanley) was a mem
ber of the H. of Rep. during the whole time Pierce
was in the Senate, and he never -knew there was
such an individual in that august body ! Think of
that, ye loco-focos! Can Frank Pierce be any bo
dy at all, when the honorable Mr. Stanley did not
know him? But, unfortunately, Mr. Stanley's
speech was brought suddenly to a close by the plat
form
giving way and precipitating orators and of
ficers pelt melt upon the ground, to the great danger
of the heads and limbs of Whigs and Whiglings
upon terra firma.
But Gen. Williamson—Lhe's the broth of a boy,
as a Whig orator. He can talk and drink, and
drink and talk to all eternity about" things that be,
and things that never will be. He wandered over
a vast deal of ground in his speeches on the day of
the meeting and on the evening previous. On the
night of the meeting (fay, he was oblivious! His
oratory even carried him to England—told of the
loco-focos being under the government of VICTORIA
and her petticoats, and made such a havoc of the
Queen's under garments, that the ladies in the
neighborhood of his "sight seeing' - exhortations
were compelled to retire within doors.
Thus has'gone by the intended great Scott Mass
Meeting of Lancaster: The day and the night
were seasons of drinking and. carousal, without a
solitary attempt at the edification or elevation of
the mind; and some of the Philadelphia free ticket
gentry remained in town for several days in a state
of liviorish insanity, in which their leaders left
them. A LOOKER UN.
Lancaster, Sept.
Pole Raising in Columbia
FRIEND SANDEREON :—The Pole-star of our noble
candidates Pierce and King, is in the ascendant. This
week, the Junior Democracy of our Borough have
placed erect two beautiful poles, on each of which
are suitable flags and banners. On Friday evening,
at the corner ot. Fourth and Walnut, the Juniors
raised a hickory about 90 feet, after which Jai-on
M. GARBER, a little boy about thirteen years of age.
delivered the following pretty little address, w hi r l,
was very much applauded by the large number of
SPEECH.
)ersons present
My Fellow Democrats:All the great men that
have lived, or live now in the world, were Once
buys, and perhaps felt as proud of quite as small
achievements as the one over which ave now exalt.
We have reared our little standard and flung out
our banner to the breeze—on - which are inscribed
the deathless names of PIERCE and Rise; and I
know every young ,heart here to-day glows with
lervor, as his bright eye rests upon those beacon
lights of democratic faith.
To be sure, we are only boys—little boys, now,
but the Government of this, our glorious country,
whose achievements under democratic administra
tions; have challenged the admiration of the world,
will some day be placed in our hands, and then we
will be men—big men—and I hope, big democrats
like Pierce and King!
It is said, that it children are trained up in the
way they should go, that they will always remem
ber their training. I believe that to be a demo
cratic truth, and the remembrance of this occasion
will exert a controlling influence over our future
actions.
We must stand firm, my fellow democrats, in ttre
faith of the party of the people! It wars against
wrong, tyranny and oppression. It is the party of
patriotism, the hand-maid of liberty and the hope
of the world. I thank you for your attention—l
havetnished."
After the speech, the Juveniles formed a torch
light procession, and marched through town. The
watch-fires of the older Democracy are burning
brightly, and the young men are again putting on
their harness to work. Peace to the ashes of Coon
ery,. when
,the young lion-hearted democracy be.
come aroused,
AwFor. TRAGEDT.—A frightful tragedy
oc
curred at Brownstown. Indiana. The details are
thus given in the Madison Banner:
seems that two brothers, named• Hiram and
Warren Francisco, and well known as respectable
and peaceable citizA , m, followed the ocupation of
clock peddling. They usually travelled different
routes, but made a practice of meeting each other
frequently. They agreed to meet at a public house
in the vicinity of Brownstown, on Friday last. One
of the brothers reached the tavern, about U o'clock,
'and inquiredif his brother had arrived, and was
stormed by - the landlord that he had not. Atter
eating his supper he called for a light and asked to
be shown to bed. The landlord informed him that
he had no candles about the house, but if he would
follow him, he would take him to bed. Francisco
followed the landlord into a dark room ar.d undress
ed himself and retired to rest. The bed seemed to
be wet, arid having some matches ahout him, he
struck a light. Upon examining the bed he found
than it was wet with bloat! Discovering a candle
on the table near by, he lit it, and looking under
the bed, saw the body of his brother with his throat
cut Iron' ear to ear, and perfectly lifeless! Fasten
ing the door immediately, he proceeded to load a
revolver which - he had, but before he could do so
there teas an effort made by several men to enter
his room. Pretending not to be alarmed, he asked
them to wait until lie dressed himself. As soon as
he h d finished loading his pistol be opened the door,
and the landlord and two other men rushed on him,
when he fired off his pistol, immediately killing the
landlord and one of his accomplices, after which
the other roan tied:'
41i111.44 , 1 ES
On the itith inst., by Rev. J. Strine, Henry
Froelich to Catharine Kreidee, both of West Lam.
peter.
On the ..Ist list , by same, Christian Shelly to
t'Usan Hornier. both of Lancaster comity.
By Rev. S. M — Saie, Thomas MemMe, to Han
nah, Quieg. all al tleorgetown, Bart twp.
In Milton, ,on the 11th inst.. by Rev. 1). Y
Heisler, Rev. Wm. Goodrich, pastoeut tier. Refor.
Church, COlunibia, to Caroline Straub 01 the former
place.
On Sunday evening last. by the Rev I I Strine
Samuel Greiner to Sarah L Mee, bath of this city
YDEA'fi S.
In Manor Gyp., this county, Lewis M. Wiles, of
tnistimption. aged '27 years.
In Reading. of convornption,
I Rec. \Vett Pauli, aged 35 years.
In Golumina, on 17th inst., Geo. Hale aged 63
In East Latripeter, John Alexander, aged 56.
In Sadsbury ttvp. , Sarah, with oh Levi Pownall,
ged 57 year ,
Iti Marietta, on the Itttii ititd lohn It'. Clements
Ugl,l t yettra •
a lin Friday last. in this eity,tittin protracted ill
”e , ,. Dr. Samuel Ilinne, in lint tAtit year of hii
t un... Ili, remain; %Vele at' COlllparliOti In their
last resting place, on ttialtirthiy, hl tilt intrnense
itonatottrsti tit
In this borough on 1 Friday morning last, Col.
Richard M. Crain, in the 77th year of his age.
Col. Crain was well known and highly esteemed
oor cummunity„ At the time or his death he
held the °thee 01 Deputy Surveyor General, a posi
tion he had tilled ever since the (Slice of Secreta
ry of the Land otlice was abolished, and its duties
turned user to the Surveyor General. For many
years previous Col. Crain filled the situation of
Deputy Secretary or the LADD! Office, pelhrtning its
duties in such a manlier as to render his presence
ahnost indispensable to tle Department. In all
the relations of laic, Col. Crain SiDdathed the high
cut character, and died larnentml by our whole
community. The following just tribute to his mem
ory has been furnished us for pull cation'
A meeting of the Governor, Ileads of Depart
ments and Clerks, was held at the office olthe Sur
veyor General of Penna., at 5 o'clock on Friday
the 17th day or September, the object of which was
stated by Gen..l. Porter Brawley, on whose mo
tion Gov. Wm. BIGLER was called to the chair
and on motion of Maj. Thomas J. Rarer, E. S.
GOODRICH, Esq.. was appointed Secretary.
The following premable and Resolutions were
then offered by L. G. Dimock, Esq., which were
read, and after a short but eloquent addrmis by
Gerd. E. Banks, were unanimously adopted.
WHEREAS, GOd in his inscrutable wisdom, has
removed from our midst, Col. gichard NI. Crain,
late a clerk in the office of Surveyor General, there-
Mre be it
Resolved, That we deeply deplore the death of
our esteemed associate and friend Col. Richard M.
.Crain, who during a long life of public services,
sustained a character of unspotted integrity, and
by his uprightness and affability, won the respect
:Ind confidence of all who knew him.
Resolved, That we tender the five ily of the de
ceased our sincere and heartfelt sympathy in their
afflictive bereavemnts
Resolved, That out of respect for the deceased,
the Land Department ahall be closed on the day
of the funeral.
Resolved, 'Phat as a mark ofregard for our depart
ed friend we, will attend the funeral in a body.
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting
be pub.ished in the newspapers of this borough ;
and the officers of this meeting and the Surveyor
General be appointed a committee to present a
copy thereof - to the deceased. WM. BIGLER.
E. S. GooDiFicii, Sec,y Chairman.
The Markets.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, SEPT. 25.
. The Flour market has been very dull since our
last report; sales afresh ground ;lir export at 54,37.
Extra is held at 54,87.
Rye Flour has been selling acrs3,B7. ,
Corn Meal is bringing 53,500,75.
There iv not much Wheat of ring sales of good
Southern red at 96c, and 5000 •114shele old Penn
sylvania white sold at 51,02, afloat.
A sale of Southern Rye was made at 75c.
Corn sa4es of yellow at 70 cts.
Oats remains steady at 35c for Southern.
Cattle Market.—The offerings of Beef Cattle for
the week were 1400 head. Beeves arelolling front
57 to $8 per 100 lbs.
DEMOCRATIC RIEETINGS
Llrr The Democrats al E. Lampeter and th..ad:
joining townships, will meet at the public house of
.bo his Row, at the "Bird in Hand," on Saturday the
9th of October, at 1 o'clock P. Ms
ID" A Democratic meeting will.be held at the
public house of Martin M. Fides, in Williamstown,
on Saturday evening, the 2d of October at b o'clk.
ID- A Democratic meeting will be held at the
public house of David Fulmer, (Lampeter Square,)
on 'Thursday, September 311, at I o'clock I'. 1.
C - 11 A Democratic meeting will be held at the
public house of Samuel Overly, (Hart township,)
MI Saturday, October 2, at 1 , 1 o'clock, A. M.
Democratic meOing will <be held at the
public. house of Benjamin H. Long. in Penn town
ship, on Saturday the 2,1 of October. Several spea
kers from Lancaster will address the meeting.
[U - A Democratic Ma , s Meeting will be held
in the Borough of Colombia, un Saturday evening
next, at rt o'clock
Mount Joy AcademY.
Lancaster t:ounty, Pa.
THE Winter Session of this Institution will COM•
!pence on the First Tuesday in November. The
elementary and higher English Branches, Mathe
matics and Languages are thoroughly taught.
Terms—Per Session ol 5 months, $O5.
Circulars containing full ititimnation furnished
on application to the Principals.
E. L. M( y )RE,
J. W. SB1()NTON,
sept
.2t6t-36
3lechanics lootltute.
A T meeting of the Mechanics Society, held en
11Monday evening the 20til inst. lin motion it
NVRS
Resolved, That the thanks of this Society. he ten
dered to J-o. W. FORNEY, ESO., Rif having present
ed to the Library ofthe Institute, a valuable collec
tion of books; and that the msolution be published
in the different papers of the City.
PETER WCONOMY.
Sec y.
sept. 2:441-363
PHILADELPHIA DRY GOODS.
VirIOWNSEN'D SHARPLESS SONS, 32 SOUTH
SECOND Street, have received a full assort
meet of AUTUMN 4 - WINTER Goods, of their im
portation of carets! selection, which they are daily
receiving.
All the new and desirable styles of Dress Goods;
Merinos and various Woollen Goods for Cloaks;
, ilousselines, Alpacas and fancy dress Goods;
Silks of every deEcription, Velvets and Satins;
Shawls of woollen, silk, broche anti cashmere;
Blankets, Quilts, Liner.', and Furnishing Goods;
Sheetings, diapers, shirting, and table iinens; e
American cottons ¢ woollens, prints Si. Flannls;
Cloths, cassinieros 4- Vestings of the. beet styles;,
Shoe Lastings, worsted damask, and sattinetts;
Hosiery, cravats, liandkiS and gloves;
Goods for Friehds in complete variety.
3m-36
- Sept 28
. _
Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, &c.
AVING attended the Pomological Congress
EL lately held at Philadelphia, I was enabled to
make satisfactory arrangements with the principal
Nurserymen of New Yolk, New Jersey, and this
state, for procuring a full supply of fruit, ornamen
tal and evergreen trees, - shrubs, flowers,¢,
I am now therefore enabled to offer any article in
their line of business delivered in Lancaster at the
catalogue prices of the respective nurseries.
It is not necessary to say more in explanation of
the advantages of this to such as desire
to purchase. J. ZIMMERMAN,
Sept 28 3t-36] North Queen st. Lancaster.
311, Ann Paull, wit , 1.44,