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whd - se name has been withdrawn in consequence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,:
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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
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153 146
122 120
196 33 1
242, 242
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451
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233
243
190,
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241
227
121
166
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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
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1011 151•
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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
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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
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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. He is now stumping New York,
where be will get another Ww link in November,
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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
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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
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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
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