1 3ntelligencer & 3ournal. Lancaster, Oetpber. 19,-1852. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR FOR PRESIDENT: EN. FRANKLIN PIERCE, OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOR VICE PRESIDENT, COL. WILLIAM R. KING, OF ALABAMA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS SENATORIAL. NATHANIEL B. ELDRED, Wayne. WILHON M , CANDuces, of Allegheny ADDITIONAL DISTRICT. ituacaT Peprzason, of Philadelphia. - DISTRICTS. I. Peter Logan, H.C.I's. 2. Geo. 11. Martin, 14. John Clayton, 3. John Miller, 15. Isaac Robinson, 4. F. W. Bockius, 16. Henry Fetter, 6. R. McCay, Jr., 17. James Burnside, 6. A. Apple, • 18. Maxwell McCaslin, 7. N. Strick.and, 19. Joseph McDonald, B. Abraham Peters, 20. W. S. Calohau, 9. David Filter, 21. Andrew Burke, 10. R. E. James, 22. William Dunn, 11. John Mcßeynolds, 23. J. S. M'Calmont, 12. P. Damon, 24. George R. Barrett. THY ELKCTORAL Ticxr.T.—The Hon. Nathaniel B. Eldred has been placed by the Democratic Stat e Central Committee on the electoral ticket, as Sena torial Elector, in place of Hon. G. W. Woodward, whd - se name has been withdrawn in consequence of his nomination for the Supreme Bench. ID' At the Governor's election last year, the whole vote of this City'was 2006—0 f which Col. 134oLEn had 1155, and Gov. JOHNSTON 851, mak ing the Democratic majority 304. - This year the whole vote polled is 2035-01 whiCh Judge WOODWARD had 1203, (a gain of 48 on last year,) and Mr. BUFFINOTON 832, making a Democratic majority of 371: or a gain of 67 on the majority of last year! We rather think the figures show conclusively that the Democrats of the city were pretty well organized. Bat we shall do still better at the next heat. Behold the Figures The Democratic majority for the State ticket in good old' PENNSYLVANIA will be 16,000 In Ohio the Democratic majority for the State ticket is about 17.000 1 And in INDIANA, WRIGHT, the Democratic 'candidate for Governor is elected by a majority of nearly 20,000! The result in these great States clearly shows beyond all cavil, or doubt, that Planes and KING will sweep the Union like a tornado in November ! Baltimore. The Pemoeratic Allayor elected by 3,700 majority ! All Honor to Lancaster City. We have as gallant and invincible a body of Dem ocrats in this city as can be found in the State.— All that they require, in order to show their strength and power, is to be united. On Tuesday last they accquitted themselves nobly, and increased their majority of last year some sixty-seven votes. Noth ing was felt undone by our friends. They stood np manfully at the polls, and each one seemed to work as though the success of the State ticket depended upon his exertion alone. We congratulate our Democratic friends through out the city upon the glorious result of their labors of Tuesday. They did well, and deserve great credit; but they can do better at the next election. The majority in the city must be increased to five hun dred—and it can be done with a little more effort. An average increased vote of lesOthan 33 in each ward will do it. What say our friends? Will they try To ask the question is to answer it. We know they will. Then pick your flints immediately, and get to work—and relax none of your efforts until the polls close on'the evening of the second day of November. After that you can repose upon the laurels you have won in both en engagements with the enemy. The Old City in Motion ! A very large Democratic meeting was held in Centre Square, in this city, on the Monday evening preceding the election, over which Hon. JAMES Bo- CHANAN presided and made a speech. Addresses were also delivered by Col's Amweg and Frazer. Another tremendous meeting assembled at Sho. ber's Hotel, North Queen street, on the evening sub sequent to the election, which was addressed by Messrs. Sanderson and Frazer; after which a pro cession was formed under the directionpf Mr. Henry Schaum, and marched through the principal streets of the city. And yet another was held in the Court House, on Saturday evening last, over which Dr. JOHN Mix- Las presided, assisted by W. G. Evans, Peter Spea• ker, John Dehuff, Jacob Wineour, Geo. Huffnagle, P. J. Gorner, Frederick Sener, Sam E. Gundaker, Jacob Weaver, Thos. Rooney, Geo. Miller, as Vice Presidents—and Secretaries—Jno. Reese, John W. Jackson, Amos Row, A. M. Spangler, Jas. L. Jones, John R. Walker and H. S. Myers. The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Frazer, J. B. Amwake, Wm. S. Amweg, Myers, Walker Eichelberger, - and Sanderson, and a resolution was adopted authorizing the Chairman to appoint vigi lance committees auxiliary to those appointed prior to the last election. irrThe Whig majority has been reduced from 4838 last year, to 3914, which is Buffington's ma jority, and which may be considered the test vote . A reduction of 924 in one year, is pretty well for a beginning. Dr. N. W. Sample. The heavy vote received by this gentleman, for Congress, is a flattering endorsement of his great moral worth and the high esteem in which he is held by the Democracy and the people of Lancaster county generally. He is only defeated by a major ity of twenty-three hundred and eighty-four votes, in a county that has heretofore boasted of ita five thousand Whig majority! The Dr. may well feel proud of the glorious run he has made. Attempt to Assassinate Napoleon. By the Steamship Franklin, which arrived at New York from Havre on, the 11th inst., we learn that an infernal machine designed to assassinate Lome NAPOLEON, was seized at Marseilles. It was comprised of 250 gun barrels, loaded with 1500 bullets, beside, four blunderbusses, charged with grape shot—and so arranged that if fired during the passage of the cortege, would have completely swept away the President and his attendants. Ma ny concerned in it were arrested. The plot was • concocted by a secret society. It was expected in France that the Empire would be declared on the 15th of thii month. Victory! Victory,: -fi___ y.A.,-,-: _. -,--?,------..-, ,-Ap•; '.4 .11;.---577: j;=,- %-;.---': W.:,'".0-*---; The 0 tl Keystone leads the Column WOODWARD & HOPK INS T LUMP HANT BY FROI 15 to 16,000 maj. RZPOUTED MAJORITIES. Dem. Whig. J 914 Lancaster county, Phila. City & county Barks, Cumberland, Franklin, York,. Allegheny, Blair, Huntingdon, Cambria, Lebanon, Luzerne, Westmoreland, Dauphin, Adams, Fayette,. Centre, Chester, Northampton, Lehigh, Northumberland, Union, Schuylkill, Perry, Carbon, Delaware, Montgomery, Washington, Montour, Mercer, Crawford, Venango, Warren, Lawrence, Bucks, Columbia, Wayne, Sullivan, Erie, Monroe, Clearfield, Clinton, The Battle Fought and Won; THE FINAL STRUGGLE APPROACHING Tuesday last was a great day for the Union. It was not so much a questign to be decided who should be elected Supreme Judge and Canal Com missioner, as it was who should be the President of the United States from and alter the Fourth of March next—FRANKLIN PIERCE Or lA/INFIELD SCOTT. The great battle forthe Union was fought in Pennsylvania on Tuesday last, and the result of that election settles the Presidency in November not only in this State, but throughout the Republic. , The doom of Federal Whiggery is now sealed—the hand-writing is upon the wall—and.nothing can prevent the election of Gem Pinacs, if we are but true to ourselves and the noble flag the Democracy so proudly and gallantly bore aloft one week ago. • * We met the enemy," on Tuesday last, ..and they are our's." But the victory is not yet com plete. Another great conflict is at hand, and we must at once prepare for it with all the energy in our ['owe], if we would improve our present advan tage. One defeat has crippled and dispirited the i enemy, but that is not sufficient. They must be routed awl annihilated on the second day of No vember. Then let our Democratic friends buckle on their armour without delay. Let them see to it that a still more complete and thorough organi zation is had in the several wards, boroughs and townships, than was so effectual .on Tuesday last, so that every friend of PrEncx and KING may be brought out to the polls. Recollect there is but \two weeks left to Vjork. Whatever is to be done, must be done well and without any delay. We elected our State Ticket by over 15,000 majority. We must give the electoral vote of the State to PIERCE and KING by 20,000! What say you ; Democrats of Lancaster county? Can you increase your vote from 6,000 to 7,000 at the November election? We have no doubt of it, if every man does his duty. Here, in the old city, we intend to give Planes 500 majority, and we will do it. Will not our friends throughout the county_ be actuated by the same spirit and increase their vote in the same ratio? We are sure they will—we know they are determined to do it. The City and County The official returns of the State election held on Tuesday last, show that the Democracy of the city and county are efficiently organized, and that the party generally was aware of the importance of turning out in their strength. The vote was larger than that ever given to any Canal Commissioner. The vote of Judge Woodward was 5527, within 399 of the largest vote the party in this county has ever polled. We can and, will do better on the '2d of November next. Many Democrats remained at home, from the mistaken opinion that the State election was comparatively of minor consequence, and that the election of the State ticket being cer tain, they would discharge their whole duty to the party and the country by voting for Pierce and King. livery Democrat; who voted on Tuesday last voted for the candidates of the party in Novem ber; and we are confident that those who did not attend the State election, will retrieve their error by rallying for Pierce and King at the polls, and contributing to swell the majority of the Keystone State in favor of the democratic candidates and democratic principles to 20,000. Under the present organizatia of the party we think we can poll a larger vote in the county then we have given since the election of Gen. Jackson. In 1848, the vote of the candidate for Governor, Judge Longstreth was 5514, and that of General Cass was 6080 being an increase of 566. The or ganization of the party in the good old city of Lan caster, is thorough and complete. The result of the election has surprised our friends, and paralyzed our :enemies. Prior to the election it was repre sented that the organization was defective. The confident boldness of the assertion deceived the Whigs, and may have misled some honest Demo crats. Its falsity is made apparent by the official returns. The vote of Judge Woodward is 1203, a larger vote than we have ever cast. That the ex ecutive, block, ticket and poll committees, labored earnestly and successfully, the vote polled shows beyond all doubt. The city did well ; that she will 'do better in November we confidently predict.— There will then, we trust, be no striking of tickets and no difficulties or obstacles interposed to the performance of the duties devolved on the regular organization of the Democracy of the city and county. orlous Result. A Democrattlge and Canal Commissioner elected by 16", majority! FIFTEEN of the twenty-five members of Con grass!! fit SIXTY-THREE of the one hundred members of the House of Representatives—and a Democratic majority of 21fir on joint ballot in the Legislature!! A PRETTY GOOD DAY'S WORK. 1:1:1 - The great speech delivered by Mr. BI:7011114AN at the Green - A:mg Mass Meeting, is published in the Pittsburg Post, Pennsylvanian, Washington union, and various other papers, with high commen dation. It is very lengthy, but we shall endeavor to makc some extracts for our next. Tao Whig Platform—The Tariff. GO'vernniebt should be conducted upon prinhiples of the strictest economy, and revenue sufficient for the expense thereof, in time-of peace, ought to be mainly derived/from a duty on imports and not nom direct taxes; andin levying such duties, sound policy requires a just discrimination and protection from fraud by specific duties, when practicable, whereby suitable encouragement maybe assured to Ainericari industry, equallyio all classes, and to all portions of the country.—Whig Platform. The Whig party has certainly lost its "-pecific' . gravity. Having, by a solemn covenant at Balti timore, virtually renouncal protection to domestic industry, in order to obtain favor with the cotton ocracy of the South, it is now vainly endeavoring, with unblushing effrontery, and by falsehood and quibbling, to conceat its infidelity to its formidable ally—the manufacturing interest of the North. It is attempting to ride the tariff hobby double, by pro fessing protection in the North, and Free trade in the South. The sagacious Whigs ui the South, hav ing been taught, by experience, how little reliance can ht placed in the word of houor of their North ern coadjutors, have, this year, made assurance doubly sure, against their bad faith, by nailing them down to a written agreement, couched in lan guage which was supposed to be too unambiguous to admit of misconstruction. No man would be able to recognize the resolu tion quoted as a Whig product, but for the ear-mark "specific." "Words," said MIRA II RAI7, "are things... But it will require some ingenuity to prove that the solitary word "specific, - when applied to the du ties upon imports, implies of itself, that such ditties shall be protective. A specific duty may be one per centum, or it may he one hundred per centum. The Whigs have define themrelves, upon this sub ject, with all possible uncertainty; !hey have left a a wide margin for explanation. , and interpolations. Their tariff resolution is as indefinite as the old washerwoman's mode of testing indigo. "Mrs. Brown, do you know how to tell good indigo'?" said Mrs. Jones to Mrs. Brown.—Why, la me, yes;' replied Mrs. Brown, 'if there is any thing, in the world, that I do know, it is how to judge good in digo—jist take a piece, and put into a tin of water> and, it it is good, it will sink, or swim—l declare, now if I recollect which." 1500 4000 200 F, 4UO 900 600 100 .1301) dal 500 600 75U It requires no elaboration to show that a specific duty is not necessarily a protective duty ; or with out the least departure Crum the recommendation of this resolution, Congress might establish a system of duties lower than has ever characterized any for 600 9.3 u 2.00 20u mer revenue law. If the Whig convention had le this resolution, to urge upon Congress the adoption of high specific duties, it would have been an easy matter to say so plainly. But, the truth is, the term specific was purposely left without qualification, so that the adjectives high or low may be inserted to correspond with conflicting opinions in different sections of the country. In the South, and in the West, the Whig s will aver that the ellipsis is /ow But in the Northern and middle States, they will I stoutly maintain that. by some accident, in tran scribing the resolution, the superlative •'highest" was omitted. Relying upon the efficacy of this double dealing process, they contemplate a swindle from which moderate depravity would instinctively recoil. • The tariff of 1842 was based upon the specific principle. The tariff of 1846 is based upon the ad valorem principle. The Whigs claim the paternity of the Tariff of 1842; they contended that it had shed numberless blessin ,s and benefits upon the country—they resisted its repeal. They have attri buted all manner of evils to the Tariff of 1846. If they are to be believed, it is daily scattering ruin, as with the besom of destruction, throughout the land. Here, then, was a lilting opportunity to pre sent the whole tariff question, in a tangible shape, to the people. If the Whigs were honestly and sincerely desirous of a direct and intelligible verdict in the popular tribunal, why did they neglect to avail themselves of the chance for trial which was afforded to them? Why did they not embrace it Why did they not pass an explicit resolution con demnatory of the act of 1816, and urging the resto ration of the act of 1842 ? If the Tariff of 1846 is as injurioos to the country as the Whigs have al leged it to be, it ought. forthwith, to be repealed— Whydid the Whig convention fail to denounce it?— Or if the tarif of 1842 was so productive of beneficent results, why did not the Whig conven tion proclaim for its revival? The Whigs could not muster up the courage to tight under the spec tre of their deceased monster. It is dead and effete —they have not dared to disinter its skeleton— they will never again rattle its dry bones. A specific duty means a duty rated by the quan tity of the import—say that the articles imported are ten yards of broad cloth worth $5 per yard and ten yards of broad cloth worth $3 per yard—, Under a specific system of duties, both pieces of cloth would be subject to the same duty—for, by that system, the duty is assessed according to quan City only. without regard to value. An ad valorem duty means a duty assessed accor, ding to the value of the imported article. For in stance, it the imports are ten yards of broad-cloth worth $5 per yard, and ten yards of broad-cloth at $3 per yard, the duty upon the piece worth $5 per yard will be proportionately higher than the duty upon the piece worth $3 per yard. In a word, the ad valorem system is the same which prevails in the ..ssessment of our state, county, and township taxes—while the effect of the specific system, if it was applied to the ordinary taxation, would be to subject every acre of land in our county, good, bad, and indifferent, to the samAmount of tax.— Here, then, is the difference between the two sys tems, in a nutshell. It is needless to remark that if the Whigs had re solved, unequivocally, in favor of specific duties, the Democracy would have given them battle, on that issue, to their heart's content. But the Whig he roes have nol had sufficient pluck to screw them selves to even that point; for, as will be perceived, their resolution does not expressly affirm the prac ticability of specific duties, bqt it merely asserts, with cautious brevity, that specific duties, "wheys practicable," should be adopted. It will at once oc cur, to every candid mind, that if the framers of this resolution had not intended it for a hoodwink, they would have indicated, intelligibly, whether, in their judgment. specific duties were practicable, in any case: and, if so, when, and upon what species Of imports. The parenthesis, "when practicable," was doubtless stuck in to destroy the force of its relative "specific." Nor is the resolution commended to Protection ists by its unmeaning sentence about ' , suitable en. couragement to American industry." Who can de_ [ermine, from the context the extent of encourage. meat that is to be deemed suitable to American in dustry It may be contended, and truly, that low duties will encourage American industry—for the lowest duties will have that effect measurably.— Again—it may be maintained, in perfect conic tency with this resolution, that the slightest "en. couragement to American industry" will be "suit able." The diction of the Whigs seems to have be come costive. Before promulgating their princi ples they should have swallowed a few pages of verbiage. But, the fact is, they deliberately resol ved to kill the protective principle, and to conceal their guilt, they perpetrated the deed as clandestine ly as possible. With all their precaution, however, murder will out. They may, therefore prepare themselves for an introduction to Jack Ketch. He will put them upon an appropriate platform.—Dem ocratic Herald. Gore. SCOTT'S CONFIDAFT.—Hon. Mr. Archer, o f Va., to whom Gen. Scott entrusted his confidential letter, during the late Whig National Convention, once presented a petition to the U. S. Senate;for a total repeal of the Naturalization Laws, and made the following remarks:; " When that party , shallnorneinto power, which give effect to views of sound policy, I will myself introduce some measure, such as the memorialists JUST LY CONCLUDE has become necessary; At the en suing session of Congress, I WILL SET THE BALL N MOTION." North East Ward t 45 North West Ward VA South East Ward South West Ward 118 Drumore 214 . 1 Elizabethtown 263 4 New Holland 308 5 Elizabeth 208 6 Strasburg Ilor 75 7 •lllsnheim Bur 280 8 Salisbury 433 9 East Cocaltco 141 10 Maysown 134 11 churclitown 163 12 Marne 358 13 Bart 183 1 4 Colerain 129 15 Fulton 181 1.6 Linz 237 17 Marietta 230 18 Columbia Borough 306 19 Sadsbury 109 20 Lencock 228 21 Brecknock 81 2.2 Mount Joy 412 23 Petersburg 165 24 West Lampeter 226 25 Conestoga 3811 o 0 Washington Bob it 137 27 Ephrata 251 28 Bainbridge 193 29 Nedkville 930 30 Alillerstown 213 31 West Earl 202 31 West Hemrfield 077 33 Strasburg township 34 Indiatitown 168 35 West Cocallco 102 38 Blue Ball 035 37 Paradise 155 Rohrerstown 108 39 Lancaster township 66 40 East Lampeter 244 \ 41 Little Br tain 185 42 Upper Leaeuek 152 43 Penn 105 44 Adamstown as 45 Pennville 154 Total 9741 0 -Whigs in Roman D should he added in that Fuss, FcaTnuus Ann ExTHAVLGASCE.—It is an extraordinary tact, says the New York 'Morning Star, that not one of the accusations against Gen. Scott's notorious wastefulness of public money hate eve: been fairly refuted by his friends. They give them the go-by in prudent silence. He has been a fortunate and victorious general, because he was at the head of the bravest and best supplied army in the world; he could not help winning battles with such men and such means. The generous provision made for the health and comfort of 'our army du ring the war with Mexico and the systematic energy with which the Secretary of War, William L. Marcy, arwarded supplies, were the incessant wonder and admiration of foreign officers, who were always declining they never saw the like in any !ountry. How tar the poor soldiers were cheated out of them by their officers, was another thing.— It is wilfully false, therefore, as well as unspeakably mean, in Gen. Scott, to insinuate, as he is forever trying to do, that it was nothing but his individual and unparalleled wisdom that saved the country from defeat. He is the most exacting and extray. agent General, by full one-hall; this country ever saw, and this is notoriously admitted at the Wor Department, and by all the Heads of the Military Bureaus. For one item, he demanded 250 surf-boats to be built expressly for the landing of the troops at Vera Cruz. Mr. Marcy, General Gaines, and General Jessup warmly remonstrated against the enormous expense of building so many boats for one day's service, as all the boats belonging to sixty or seventy vessels of war and transports would be in the bay and at his command—without counting several light draft steamers—but he, insisted on his fleet of surf-boats, and would hear of no 'abatement in the number. At this time there was in Congress an organized band of Arnolds, headed by Corwin, planning, in all manner of ways, how to betray their country to defeat, and as Scott belongs to the one who will flatter him the hardest, they always counted him a surz . card to use against "the Bu- chanan men"—that is, against the party that de sired to have Mexico, and not our people, pay the cost of the war. This set forced I%larcy to pro vide the surf-boats, of which only one-fourth were ever used at all, and those only nine hours and a half each, after which they were all abandoned to the beach, to be picked up, as they were by the Mexicans. Neither Scott, Marcy, or Jessup ran deny this, or escape from the fact that $12.8,000 was squandered uselessly, merely to gratify the os tentatious pride of General Scott. Yet this is but one item, out of twenty on record against him in the War Department. Legislature. The Legislature will stand as follows SENATE. Holding over, Allegheny, Berke, Erie, Bucks, Northampton and Lehigh, Phila. County, Montgomery, Lycoming, Clinton, Centre, rind Sullivan, Schuylkill, Tiogn, MlEcan , Elk, 4.. c York, HOUSE OF' REPRESENTATIVES. Dem. Whig A dams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Clarion and letter- Bon, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence, 3 Bedford, Fulton 4. Cambria, 2 Berke, 4 Blair and Huntingdon, Bradford, 2 Bucks, 3 Carbon and Lehigh, , 2 Centre, Chester, 3 Clearfield, M'Kean and Elk, 1 Clinton, Lycoming and Potter, 2 Columbia and Montour, Crawford, 2 Cumberland, I Dauphin, Delaware, 1 Erie, Fayette and Westmoreland, 4 Franklin, Greene, Indiana, Lancaster, 5 Lebanon, Luzerne ' 2 Mereer,Venango and Warren, 3 Mifflin, Monroe and Pike, 1 Montgomery, 3 Northampton, Northumberland, 1 Perry, I Phila. City, County, II Schuylkill, I I Somerset, Susquehanna, Sullivan and Wy oming, 2 Tioga, 1 Union and Juniata, Washington, Wayne I York, 3 WHO IS THE HERO OF LUNDES LARE.—The Whig party claim that Gen. Scott is the hero of Lundy's Lane, and if it is mildly suggested that some honor is due to the gallant dead, they fly into a passion and charge you with, tearing off Scott's laurels. In the U. S. Senate, on February 25, 1828, Wil Barn H. Harrison, one of the Senators from Ohio, introduced the following resolution , Resolved, That the Senate have learned with deep regret, the death of Major General Jacob Brown, the late commanding General of the it rmy , and the distinguished leader of the glorious battles of Chippewa, Niagara, and Erie in the late war. - Th is resolution passed the Senate unanimously. LiarcrisTxri Bases BAND.—We clip the followin complimentary notice of this excellent musical as sociation from the Lewistown Gazette of the Bth • • The Lancaster Band, which was retained by the democracy to give eclat to their meeting, seienaded a number of our citizens on Saturday evening, (our selves among the number,) for which we are sure all are duly grateful.' Doris? their stay, they fa vored our town with excellent music on various occasions, and so far! as .bas come to our knowl edge left a favorable impiession as musicians and as men. LTNC.kSTER COUNTY ELECTION re : I ET 161 ,153 231- 227 153 146 122 120 196 33 1 242, 242 - 320 451 '263 233 243 190, 109 241 227 121 166 111 9." ) 153 139 1591 323 140 330 349 165 161 223 231 27:, 321 139 139 121 245 171 172 2001 210 1691 171 173 1 , 4 256 256 209 206 1591 157 100 101 215 217 179 147 92 94 60 93 1 2311 220 1141 101 1741 190 1061 105 10! 2 1011 151• 3351 16 232 29S 146 329 =ME Letter .from Rev. Mr. Catholic Pastor of Manchester and Concord, New Hampshire. The Federal papers have been publishing a Rom - back, purporting to be a letter from the Roman Catholic, neighbors of Gen. Pierce. We give an extract froin the Rev. Mr. M'Elonald's letter to show how the infamous docuMent_was manufactured.— , He says "I know something about the MANNER in which the signatures were obt iced in Manchester and Concord. FEW, I BELIEVE, OF THE SIGN ERS, .A RE VOTERS. When I state that Man. chester is a whig city, that it is supported by cor porations—is alive with factories, founderies and machine establishments—l suppose that I state no new thing when I say that:many of the operatives, in matters of this sort, act under a species of moral RESTRAINT. What inducement sufficed to bring Mr. Cooney all the way from Albany, to help the Cathcilics of this State to settle their own affairs, I will not stop to enquire. Perhaps he is PERSONALLY inter ested in the defeat of Pierce. Perhaps Mr. Robin son iS—for he, also, although he has no part or lot with us, kindly undertook a journey rum New York to New Hampshire, that we, Catholics, might understand that we had been badly treated by Gen. Pierce—a thing we did not understand befo.a. and 1 1 which . WE CANNOT, with all the pains Robinson has taken, UNDERSTAND NOW. The countevertificates were, I believe written by Protestants. Perhaps one of them was not.— Independently of external evidence, there are phrases and expressions in them which betray their Protes tant origin. They may have been, and probably I were, copied by Catholics. An Irish NAME. as the Pilot says, will command any price—certainly any promise—from politicians, until November ; next. Why Protestants betray such a tender iti terest in our welfare, add wlt y those Protestants happen to be interested in the coming election, is a phenomenon which I do not profess to explain. ! The person, y t ho was employed in this place to obtain signatures' from the operatives. IS A PER SON OF WHOSE EQUIVOCAL CATHOLICITY I WILL NOT NOW SAY A WORD. Few of the signers understood the import of the paper to which they affixed their names. SOME WERE CAL LED UPON TO SIGN IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR'EMPLOYERS. Two persons, in one—to give only,one instance—were morally FORCED to sign. Some were told that the document was a pe tition for the establishment of the TEN HOUR SYSTEM. Others were told that the mills would he stopped, and they, in consequence, THROWN OUT OF WORK, if Pierce were elected. Some were told that it was a document leveled at En , glish influence. Some were told that it was a pe tition tar equal rights. Others signed it, simply be cause they , were asked to do so. We need not won ! der at all this; Messrs. Editors, for such things oc. I cur frequently, also, among persons who claim to, be better informed. The MONSTER PETITIONS we so often hear of, are, I am persuaded, got up in i a similar way. Petition bearers commonly find that the general run - of people will sign any paper. I am confident, after investigation of the matter, that not more than some half dozen persons knew !just what they were doing when they signed the COONEY DOCUMENT. I know that some here I REFUSED to sign the paper, and yet FOUND THEIR NAMES APPENDED TO IT.- Dein. Whig 8 14 Report on the Gardiner Franil. The Washington Union, of Friday, publishes the report of the Committee appointed by Congress to investigate the Gardiner fraud. In doing so it makes I gain 1 il the following remarks , The following features are made clear by this report; and we ask the reader to pause and ponder upon them: Ist. That Mr. Corwin, whilst acting as Senator from the State of Ohio, and receiving eight dollars per day for watching over and guarding the Nation al Treasury, took a large contingent fee for the pro secution of a claim against the United States—the amount of his fee depending upon the amount of money he could get out of the United States Treas ury. , I 2d. That when lie was appointed the head of the , Treasury Department under the present administra. i lion, and received the custody of the National Tres vary, and when this claim, if paid, must be paid I upon his warrant, he sold his contingent claim for 1 :1 large sum of money. I We may be answered, that the committee of in ' vestigation declare that in their opinion Mr. Cor win did not know that the Gardiner claim was I fraudulent; but it is apparent and undeniable, that , he received a large sum of money for his services i in this case; that be advocated it in the face of the i notorious suspicions that surrounded it—suspicions ieven shared by the commissioners, (who were cen slued by the committee;) and that he still retains the money and refuses to surrender it on the ground that he did not know the claim was a fraud! As i it is now proved to be a fraud, which public opin ion long suspected it to be, Mr. Corwin can rid himself of all complicity in the dishonor of the claim by returning the money to the Public Treas ury. He is bound to, do this. The law may not be sufficient to compel hint to du it; but common equity and justice to the plundered Treasury of the people deinarni that be should pay it back to the Treasury; make it good to those who purchased his 1 interest in the claim; and stand before the world I vindicated from the condemnation which his pres -1 ent position will drifw down upon him from the 1 honest men of all parties. . THE LAW or OBSTRUCTIONS WA Rat LBOADN— Judge Gibson, in a case tried at Pittsburg before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, recently wheie a suit was brought to recover of the Erie Railroad the price of an animal which had been killed on the road, laid down the sound doctrine that ." an owner of cattle, killed or injured on a railway, has no recourse to the company or its ser, vante, and that he is liable for damage done by them to the company or the passengers." The Court below had given a different judgment, but the common sense and legal knowledge of Judge Gibson put the matter right. He says:—" The ir responsibility of a railway company for all but negiligence or wanton injury, is a necessity of its creation. • A train mustmake the time necessary to fulfil its engagaements with the post-ofFice and the passengers ; and it must be allowed to fulfil them at the sacrifice of secondary interests put in, its way, else it would not fultil.them at all. The maxim of "suliu pcpuli" would be inverted, and the paramount affairs of the public would be postponed to the petty concerns of the individual. Every obstruction of a railway is unlawful, mischievous and abateable at the cost of the owner of it The lives of human beings are not to be' weighed in the same scales with the lives of a farmer's or a grazier's stock ; and their preservation is not to be left to the care which a man takes of his uncared for cattle. 63 37 The Democrats of 'the city of New York fired one huhdred guns upon the receipt of the glo rious news from Pennsylvania, and Old_ Tammany blazed up with all the splendor of former days. irs." Gen Scott has recently received blue licks from F'eneylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Baltimore and Alabama. 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City and County Items IrrA tine chancefar capitalists is offered in our advertising columns. See sale of Mr. Moderwelfs City Property. ur An excellent Cumberland County Farm is offered for sale, on reasonable terms. It is a most desirable location, and is well worthy the attention of capitalists. See advertisement. Our readers are directed to the advertisement of the NEW LONDON AC.I.DEMT, in another column.— This 'ancient institution of learning has always maintained ,a high reputation, and under its new management, we do not doubt that it will continue to prosper., 117 "The AZTEC CLIILIMEN are here on exhibition this week. They are certainly gieat curiosities, and every body ought to go and see them pt the Mechanics' Institute. AMUSEMENTS, &C. DUELING TILE WEEK.— ' flee Infant Drummer; Aztec Children ; Ole Bull's Con cert ; Philharmonic Society, do ; Gipsy King ; Panorama of Mexico ; Ethiopian Serenaders ; Mts. Powell's Concerns. 117 Mrs, Powell, her sister, and La Belle Genine (Danseuse,) and Messrs. Duckett, Riley; G. Clark T. J. Clark, and Jenkins, will give a con,. ert to morrow evening, at Fulton Hall. 'Er The AGRICULTURAL RIM commences to morrow. .Our city is already crowded with sti au gers, and still they come by hundreds. Should the weather he fine we expect that nearly all the world "and the rest or mankind" will be here to witness The Exhibition. ET" FULTON HALL was opened With imposing ceremonies on . Thursday evening. A very neat and appropriate address was delivered by Hon: ALEX- L: HATS, and a number of excellent pier: , s of music were performed by the Philharmonic So. ciety, and the Lancaster Brass Band; amongst oth ers, a new piece called the "Fulton Polka," arranged expressly for the occasion, was peculiarly fine and elicited great applause. Notwithstanding the eve ning was wet and disagreeable, the Hall was crowd ed and as there were fifteen hundred tickets distrib uted, we suppose there were' nearly that number of personsmale and female present—all of whom were delighted with the entertainment. First in War, First in Peace, First in the Hearts of his Countrymen. WELCHS WASHINUTON AFTER STUART.—This superb engraving is eliciting universal and unqual ified admiration. We have seen a large number of letters lrom many of the first artists, authors, states men, jurists, and amateurs in the country, all anon imously, testifying to its high excellence both as a aultless translation of STUART'S artistic skill as an engraver From a large number of notices appearing in various papers,,and of a highly flattering descrip tion, we'select the following from the Washingion National Intelligencer— As a.production of artistic skill, the printre flects the highest honor on the engraver. It is a facsimile, a mirrored reflection of the original; and could but the rich coloring, for which Stuart was so justly celebrated, be transferred from the canvass and thrown upon paper, the print would be a rout. tiplicatiqn instead of merely an imitation of the picture. Stuart's style was remarkable for breadth and boldness; both are here ; the very touches of the pencil, in all their unreserved and masterly , freedom. have been preserved to us; insomuch that no one familiar with the works of the great painter I can tail at once to recognize his brush. With sound judgment and equal modesty the engraver has ab stained from all attempt to add a line to the ori ginal, though unfinished. We have the noble Gatt i like head, and nothing more. It is enough. It meets and satisfies ever} wish. If it be true that Stuart himself, having succeeded, -thus far, beyond his hopes, was afraid of adding lest he should di minish the effect, how much more does it become one whose sole aim in this case, and whose highest attainment was perfecf imitation, not to overstep the modesty of his artistical position, and attempt to complete, jn drapery and background, a produc tion so perfect that even the author trembled to add another touch. On the whole, we cannot but congratulate Mr. WELCH on his happy success in a most diffcult un dertaking. It will indeutify him, in his place and degree, wild the wide-spread fame of the work of our greatest painter, and thus far give him to share; as far as perishable art can he a sharer, in the im mortality of WASHINGTON. - The print, supplying as it does all that can he desired in its way, must of course, have a wide dif fusion: It should adorn the dwelling of every American who can afford to procure it ; and the publishers have wisely set the price as low as the cost of such an enterprise will allow. Would it not be a very becoming and no less popular act, should Congress order a supply for distribution among their constituents! What more suitable or worthy present could.be made, for example, to a public institution for education 3 What fitter to be placed before the eye and the ambition of the youth of Anienca, than this exemplar of all the civic, all the social, and all the domestic Virtues? We conclude the above article from the Intelli gencer with the .urgent request that 'our readers will call at our office and examine this most superb and only faithful likeness of the immortal Wabhing toil. ;This valuable portrait will also be found ad vertised in another part of our paper.' The Infant This little prodigy has excited unusual wonder and admiration wherever he has been exhibited.— The Philadelphia Ledger has the following notice of his extraordinary performance in that city: Another Infant Drummer has sprung up in a child only three years old, named George Cadwalader Sanders, whose parents reside in this city. We have heard this little fellow, whose head is not much a:,ove his drum, beat marches, pines, and the hmg. roll, with a skill rarely excelled by full-grown men. He Will play over a hundred tunes, and all with equal accuracy. How a child of such tender years can be taught such musical proficiency, is a won der.. The public may enjoy the pleasure of listen. ing to him, for he commences a series of exhibi- I tines to.day, at the Masonic Hall. The Infant Drummer will be in Lancaster du. ring the present week, and perform during the day time(should the weather be fair) near the ground of the Agricultural Exhibition, and in the Court • House each evening. SHORT AZ(1) USEWUL Russ —Solid feet multiplied by 45, and divided by 56, gives bushels of 21502-5 inches each. Example.—How many bushels in a wagon-bed, box, or granary, eight Met; long, four feet wide, and two feet deep? So/idiom—Eight, four, and two multiplied together, make sixty•four solid feet, which, multiplied by fortv•five and the product divided by 9. ft gins 61 6•1 lfr ` 4 292 212 261' 462 254 22.5 164 Itifl 274 179 143 2 - 25 2t2 3 ,5 458 255 257 163 169 111 163 360 r, 1:20 166' 230 229 306 lis •227 1 87: 407 1681 978 ilo Jui 3. 1:1•. 197 /TO 199 277 4,U1 1133 182 sell 151 91 143 14 1 121 4.0 t r 3 4 , 1 . 1 1151 I 4 1 - 011 1 a 6 P.. 1511 4., U7B4' 6'15 e suppose through spurious tickets) oh oatnirl The Foreign Policy of the Whig Party. Most truthfully is it asserted by the Deficit Free Press—that the foreign policy of the Whig party is enough in itself to drive every true A uteri, an from their ranks. Let us explain. We Licquired Louisiana •• in the lace of their most violent deirun dation State which "opened to us the whole valley of the Mississippi—with its control ol the Gulf of Mexico, and which gave us the power of a future Empire greater than the world now wit- Florida was another acquisition, not less beneficial to the Union in a maritime point of view, control ling the Gull of Florida, and enabling us to exer cise the authority of our Admiralty over the mo:,t dangerous coast for navigation on our ocean borders; but the purchase of Florida was bitterly opposed by the Whigs. Texas came next with all its boundless benefits to the Union, commercially and otherwise; the Whigs assailed the annexation of that country too, as a measure fraught With the elements of war, and as fatal to the Union. Then came New _Mexico and California! Leading Whigs in the senate and in Congress even opposed the Treaty by which we acquired these Territories! California has already yielded more than Two HUNDRED milioNs OF GOLD! California has opened the Pacific Ocean to our commerce; stretched our political power across the Continent, and unlocked a bound less and fertile country for the agriculturalist. The greatest event connected with the social and polit cal condition of the human Family during this century was the acquisition of California. The Whigs opposed it to the bitter end. Thus we find the destructive power oi 'the mill. ciples of the Whig party—that immobility—that Asiatic element which would fasten us to one place and hold us there in'eternal bondage. They have opposed every measure of progress, every advance ment, and every proposed advancement .t the De mocracy; they would make us live in the present and die in the present. 'ate Democratic party looks to the Future—its destiny is in the Future ; its true lite is in the progressive development of every laculty of the human mind, and to min to practical and renovating uses, each succeeding dia. covery in the moral, social and political world.— Its most distinguishing mark at the present day, is its tearless and truthful adoption of every measure calculated to advance the common good of man kind, and to distribute the benefits of absolute Free . dom to man—to every people who can appreciate its blessings and enlarge its power a' NEGROES IN CANADA.--There is in Canada what is called n'lle Elgin Associatio . n :or the set tlement of colored persons, - and from this body proceeds an annual report. The third of these documents has recently been issued land we give below some of the statistics best calculated to give a correct view of the colored colonies.. The report states that the number of families who have settled on the lands of the Association is only 75, and the total number of persons 40U; al though thousands of colored per-ova have come to the Province since the establishent of the Associa tion. It is utterly impossible to induce many of them to leave the towns, where they find the occu pations most congenial to their habits. About 50 houses have been erected, alter a particular model. It is obvious that one class of colored persons does not like to submit to the restraints of systematic colonization, but are nevertheless inclined to agri cultural occupations. This is evinced by the tact that 25 colored families have settled in the imme. diate vicinity of the Elgin Association. The asso cianists had cleared, on the tat of August last, 350 acres, of which 204 were under crops. The soil is best adapted to the drowth of wheat, but it also produces tobacco, hemp and corn. A premium was offered for a garment made of wool grows in the settlement and spun by a settler. In three months two of the required garments were produced. The moral condition of the associated settlers, is extolled in the report—no case of drunkenness or .curred, and the absence of a litigious spirit is at tes'ed by the existence among them of an extra judicial Court of Arbitration, before which only five cases have been brought. Schools and church es are established among them. That this scheme of colonization has not extensively met the appro bation of the colored people themselves, is obvious when it is considered what comparatively little pro gress it has made, there being between 30,000 and 40,000 colored T.ersons in use Province. Despite all that interested parties may say to the contrary, our climate is too rigorous in the •winter for the comfort of the colored man, and he makes a bad choice when he selects Canada in preference to the British West Indies or Liberia. A large Democratic meeting was held at Row's Tavern, on Saturday the 9th 11191', The following officers were selected: , President—Jouri L. LIekITNES, Leacock. Vice Presidents--Christian Erb. East Lampeter ; Samuel o. , erley, Bart; Jacob Becher, Leacock; John F. Lefevre, Paradise; John Connell, Upper -Leacock; Jacob Zeigler, Lancaster City; John Kil burn, Strasburg Township; William McCaskey, Leacock; John A. Shultz, Paradise; Gotlieb Gril bortzer, Leacock; Elijah Bard, Strasburg Township; John Graham, Upper Leacock. Secretaries—John McKillips, Leacock; John R. Miller. East Lampeter; Eli Batton, Leacock, Cas. per Reese, Paradise; Cyrus Jackson, Leacock. On motion, Dr. Sample was requested to take a seat with the officers. Drummer The speakers were Messrs. Mendenhall, Wesley Warren and James L. Reynolds. GEN. SCOTT ' CAUGHT WITH ass BREECHES DOWN —His SPEECH IR TILE Isillowr.—The following speech, made by General Scorr, at Carrollton, Ken tuckr,:lste.find in the Cincinnati Times: Gen. Scull's Speech of Carrollton, Ky.—My coun trymen—l have, fur 111 lit , time in my lite, been caught with my breeches down. (Cheers.) Fa tigued with the exertions of the day, and supposing that in the quietness of the night I should not be called upon by my countrymen, I had undressed and retired to my bed. I was t,iiddenty awakened with the news that the people of Carrollton desired to see and hear an old soldier. (Tremendous cheer ing.) To rise at any hour is no hardship, to m but really I think my appearance before you, gown and slippers, not very becoming. (Laugh ter and cheers.) Allow me to thank you for your kindness, and assureyou that nothing can be more gratifying to the feelings of an old soldier than such' hearty greetings as you have exhibited towards me to-night. May God bless you. The news from Hellam township, York county where the Whig*Prees asserted that 120 Democrats had changed for . Scott, shows how errantly they lied, for she has reduced the Whig majority 51 votes. Who will believe a Whit nrfaspapir afar Wit 455 ti 151 1.96 I 10 =IMEEI MEETING AT ENTERPRISE NEWS-FROM RELLAM!!
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