-.latelli gencerBr , llottrual. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. La caster. January 24. 18154. Colo .ty ComMittee Meeting. A m ting.of the Democratic County Com- mittee of L iteasteVeyoty, was held; pursuant to the oak of Chairman, at the public house of JaeOb Ziegle th - e - tity 'of Lancaster, on Wed• nesday,, January 18th, 1854. On motion, Col. Win. S. Amweg, was appointed Secretary. i The folloWing Resolution, were offered and adopted, viz: Resolved, That the Democracy be requested to aisemble in the several Wards of the City, and Boroughs and Townships of the County, on Satur day, the 18th•day of February next,,then' and there to elect not less than three nor more than five del egates to represent said Wards, Boroughs and Townships in a County Convention to be held at the public house of Jacob Ziegler, North Queen street, in the City. of Lancaster, on Wednesday the 2.24 day of February next, for the purpose of electing six delegates to represent the Democracy of the County of Lancaster in the Annual State Convention, to be held at Harrisburg on Wednes day the Bth day of March next, for the nomination of candidates for Governor, Supreme Audge and Canal Commissioner. Rewhaid, Thit the Chairman. of the Cpuuty Committee in him call, recommend the Democracy of the several Districts to elect their delegates to the County Convention by ballot. H. B. SWARR, Chairman County Committee. Wg. e. Axwzo, Sec'y. To the Democratic Freemen of the City and County of Lancazter . Is accordance with the mallows, of the Coun ty Consiglio's adopted oa Wednesdaytut, you are requested to assemble in the several Wards of the City and Boroughs and Townships of the County, on Saturday, the ISth day of February next, then and there to elect not leas than three nor more than five delegates to represent each District in a generi al County Convention, to be held on Wednesday the 2241 day of February following, at I l o'clock, A. M., at the public house of Jacob Ziegler, in North Queen street, in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of electing six delegates to represent the Democracy of the County of Lancaster in the Annual State Convention, to be held at Harrisburg on Tuesday the Bth day of Much next, for the nomination of candidates for t,overnor, Supreme Judge'and CanaiCommissioner. In pursuance of a resolution of the Democratic County Convention, the Chairman would respectfully recommend the Democracy of the several Districts to elect the del egates by ballot. The several Ward, Borough and Township • Committees are requested to give early notice in their respective Districts, of the time and place of meeting for the election of Delegates. H. B. SWARR, ' Chairman Dem. County Committee. Lancaster, January 24th, 1854. The• Delegate Elections. It will be seen by the proceedings of the Demo! cratic County Convention, published above, that Satin - day the 18th of February is fixed upon for the election of delegates, to meet in County Convention on the Wednesday following, for the purpose of ap pointing delegates to the Bth of March State Con vention. As the latter body will have the impor tant duty to perform of.nomivating candidates for Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, and Canal Commissioner, it is highly important that the pri mary elections be well attended by the people, and such'men elected to represent them in County Con vention as will fairly and honestlyicarry out their wishere, therefore, direct attention to the sub ject thus early, so that our Democratic friends may have time for reflection. The delegate elections, as above stated, will beheld at the usual places in the several wards, boroughs and townships of the county, on the third Saturday of February ensuing. Criminal Court. No business of much importance was transacted in the Quarter Sessions last week, although a large number of cases ;yere disposed of. The only trial that clic led mu of public attention, was She cave of the Commoy‘ealth vs. John Stone, who was in dieted for sZuction. He was tried and convicted of the often under the act 01 1842, at the No vember Sessidps, and a new trial was granted for reasons satisfactory to the Court. The testimony did so: difTer - materially in the second trial from that adduced on the first. The Jury, after deliber ating 21 hours, brought in a verdict of guilty!— The counsel for defendant then made a motion for a new trial, on the ground that four bottles of brandy were smuggled into the jury room to as sist them in their deliberations! The Court refu sed a new trial, and sentenced the Defendant to pay $lOO fine and be imprisoned one yea'r in the Coun ty Jail. Womssr IN THE FIELD I—The men of Erie hav idg failed in their efforts to privent a change in the guage of the railroads at that place, the women have entered the field, and, on Tuesday last, about 300 of them, (in imitation of their sisters in [IA French Revolution, some sixty years ago,) assem bled at the bridge; which had been re-built in the streets by the U. S. Marshal, and commenced tear ing them down. They drove the city police, the sheriff and his posse off the ground--and a tele graphic dispatch says—"We can do nothing with them !" We do not wonder at this; for who can withstand the women when they undertake to car ry a point' They might as well try ,to stop the north wind from blowing, as to prevent those Ann axons from carrying out the doctrine of Women's Rights to its utmost extent. All the pollee officers in the Union would be inefficient, when broughtlin contact with a few regiments of women. to. The present number commences the fifty. -fifth volume of the Intelligeneor. There are but one or two other papers in the State that can date their origin so far back. The paper was commen ced by WILLIAM Dixon, Esq., in 1799, during the " Reign of Terror " under the elder Adams, and from that day to this it has never wavered ,in , its fidelity to the Democratic party. The papers' is now in as fl ourishing a condition as it ever ws, and bide fair to outlive many of its present con temporaries, as It has nearly all those of fernier days. 1 The new City Hall, sittiated in the Park, in New York, was destroyed by fire on Thursday eve , ping. Loss estimated at $50,000 on the building ~ and $25,000 upon the contents. The building was formerly the old Alms House; but was remodeled and repaired several years ago for the use of the Courts and the various City Offices. It was built of brick and in length extended nearly 300 feet. 'The Daily Evening Star, at Washington City, ham been again enlarged—the beet evidence in the' world that the enterprising editors and publishers, Messrs. WALLACH & HOPE, are getting along fine ly in their business. These- gentlemen deeerve success, as the Star is one of the most spicy and interesting dailies the we know of an where. 61; The vote for State Treasurer, on the 16th inst. - , stood as follows: JOSEPU BAILEY 80, JOHN Samosas 12, N. P. 1:10BA5 8, scattering 20. Mr Bens was declared duly elected. 03 - Hon. A. G. Snu'vrn has been elected to the 11. S. Senate, by the Legislature of Mississippi.— Re 'O3 a Democrat of;the.State Righte'achool, and a statesman of considerable ability. . VI- We had intended publishing In this week's paper one or two...veto messages from G - overnor BIGLER ; but, by some means, the paper containing them disappeared from our desk and we werelelt without a copy. • Should we procure them hereaf ter, they will appear in a subsequent number of the Imelligencer. - PRANNLIN CANAL COMPANT.—A bill , passed the Senate unanimously on' Fiiday, repealing the charter of the Franklin CanalCon3pany. :Millis com mendable on the part of the Senate, and we hope the House will be equally prompt.. The violations of its charter by this Company has been one great cause of the difficulties at Erie. lIT A special election is ordered for the 4th of February, in 'Berke county, to supply the vacancy in Congress occasioned by the.death i of Mr. Mon =Nan& Sale of:the Public Works. The -Whig newspapers of late have little to say on the subject of the sale of the public works.— Some months ago they were insisiing that these valuable works must be sold, end that the Legisla ture of this winter ought to provide for their sale, as.soon as possible. They, at the same time, ar gued that the railroads ansl canals owned by the State were almost worthless. These works have cost the State many millions of dollars, and . we believe they are worth all they have cost, and ought not to be sold for less. They were never before in as good a condition to be prof itable, and afford a large revenue to the Common wealth, as they will be next spring. The Dela. ware Division Canal affords a handsome revenue to the commonwealth, more than twelve per cent. per annoin on its entire cost. The North Branch Canal will be in good working order throughout next spring, and will, undoubtedly be, in a short time, a source of large revenue to the Start-- That is a 'very _important division of the works owned by our Commonwealth, opening, as it does, to the great markets of the country a large section of Northern Pennsylvania, with iticinixhaustable coal fields, and rich farming lands. The business OD that canal cannot tail to be large, and the reve nue from it consequently large. The mainline of the works, the canals and rail roads extending from Pittsburg to , cost the State many millions of dollen, and is stile incomplete. The new road over the; mountains to ' avoid the inclined planes, will require a emends's ble appropriation yet to complete it And, we be. limo if the Legislature now in session does its duty it will, seideast delay, make the necessary appro priation to posh forward the entire work to com pletion as speedily as possible The money appro. primed last session is exhausted, and the work must stop till the means are fumished i to carry it forward Every day's delay in making the appropriation is a loss to the State. The new road completed, and the planes all avoided, the expenses of the State will be immediately reduced to the amount of atom four hundred thousand dollars per year,more than a thousand dollars der day, in kikeping up and working the Old road and planes with its costly and lumbering machinery, and its army of officials. This now road over the mountains completed, and the double track on the Columbia road laid doWn, this line of worm; from Pittsburg to Phila delphia will become one of the most profitable and thronged avenues of commerce in the country. A letter from Mr. Baker, published in this pa per some time ago, discloses several facts worthy of remembrance. This has been an unfavorable year for i this line of Works. The Ohio river has been low nearly all the season, and that has doubt less reduced the amount of freight arriving at Pittsburg for transit eastward over this line. The water in the canal was sometimes so low as,to im pede its navigation. The tolls had to be consider ably reduced last spring to enable it tio'cpuipete successfully with rival lines. It has had ,t'o r cam• pete, mot only with the New York - and Maryland railroads, but with our own Central rd Yet, notwithstanding all these diaadvantages,the receipts from it have been larger this year than ever before —some $35,000, we believe, larger than last year. Complete speedily the new road over the moun tains, and avoid all the planes, and the vexatious delays they occasion, and the business of this chan nel of commerce will soon be nearly doubled, not withstanding_ all competition, while the expense will at the same time be greatly reduced. The rea sons are obvious. :„It will be the best channel for heavyfreightsebetween the East and West. All know how rapidly and vastly the trade between the East and the West is increasing. It will require all the avenues that can be opened to accommo that vast commerce. And this line properly man aged, will ever be one of the most successful and popular of those avenues; and the State will de rive from , it a revenue to - reduce and perhaps - ulti mately extinguish the debt. We as s ert that this line of worse has already been profitable to the State. It is not difficult to find reasons for the assertion. The property of-the city and county of Philadelphia is now assessed at about $155,000,000. What was the valuation be fore thewi public works were commenced? We have not the figures before us, but it is doubtless safe to say it was less than ball that sum. The same is true of Pittsburg and Allegheny county,and of all'the counties along the line of the public works. This avenue,to the seaboard markets has greatly enhanced the value of every acre of their soil, and of the products of the soil and mines.— While individual and general wealth and prosper ity have been thus increased,. the revenues of the commonwealth have proportionally increased, from taxation upon this enhanced value of prop erty. We believe the people of this State have no rea son to regret the imnStr . uction of these works at the time they were undertalien. Individual am! corporate Wealth and eredit could not then have done it. If it has run the State largely in debt, it has vastly increased its capacity to pay. Complete the new road over the mountains, and the annual expense is at once greatly reduced, the capacity of the line for business greatly increased, and will pay for itself It would, in our humble opilion, be the most suicidal policy to attempt to sell the main line in its present unfinished state, yet so near completed, and in the midst of the constant clamor of the Whig presses that it is worthless. Complete it, and test fairly its capacity for producing revenue, and a favorable result W I not doubtful as the pest year's experience proved. The New. York canal has not been injured by competing railroads. On'the contrary, so great is the pressure of business upon it, that it isproposed to enlarge it to double its present capacity. Under proper management the main line of the Pennsyl vania canal and roads may become equally pros perous and profitable. They will then sell 'for cost, and the State be subjected to no loss, as it would undoubtedly be by selling them now.—Pittsburg Poet. DJ' We have ieceived a pamphlet entitled a 'Report of the Delegation appointed by the Phila delphia Emigraat Society to enquire into the nature and operation of the Emigrant Laws of the State of New York, with,4& ,. memorial to the Legislature of Pennsylvania for Antler laws." The intention of the persons engaged is to procure a'charter - for the establishment of an Emigrant Society in Phil adelphia, having for its object the protection and welfare of emigrants arriving at the port of Phila delphia, and providing employment for them. If such an object is carried out in good faith, it will result in incalculable benefit to such emigrants as accept the requirements of the society, and prevent much-of the misery accruing from ignorance and the grasping cupidity of many of their 'own coun trymen. When fully in operation it will be, a self sustaining institution. .137- Toe new Organ erected in the Church of St. Mary of the Assnmption, in this City, was ex hibited to the public on yesterday afternoon, about the time our paper went to press. We shall have something to say on the subject next week, as well as itir?lerence to the beautiful new church build ing in which the °igen is erected. Ecr The Pittsburg papers are beginning to agi- Ate the subject of consolidation—that is to say , the union in one municipal corporation, of the cities of Pittsburg, Allegheney, and the boroughs of Birmingham, South Pittsburg,&c. It is said that within a circuit of five milesyrom the Court House, there is a population of 100,900 souls, divided int o eight municipal corporations. 0:r. A mad dog wai killed near Strasburg on Thursday week. Portrait of a Whig. The Lancaster Exaniner of a recen tdate, thus takes off General Lammas, who is warmly urged by a portion of the Whig party as their next can didate for Governor: •Some of the western papers_are taking ground in favour of the nomination of Gen. Wm. Latimer, of Allegheny, as the next Whig candidate for Gov ernor. We can scarcely believe that an idea of this kind will be seriously entertained by any consider able portion of the Convention—especially after Gen. L's political history has been generally made known. So far as we are acquainted with his history/it is firiefly this: In 1844 he supported Birney, in opposition to Henry Clay. In 1845 he was. the Abolition candidate for Canal Commissioner, for which office he got twenty-eight hundred votes. (This extraordinary vote must be the basis . • which his friends build such extravagai teas of his popularity, as it is the only time he was before the people. He was beaten two to one, in his own county, by the native candidate for the office.) In 1848 he supported Van • Buten, and the Buffalo Platform, against Taylor. In 1852 he supported Scott, on the ground that he was opposed to the Compromise—and the fact that the leading Aboli tionists, generally, did the same, gave rise to the unhappy misconception in the public mind, which resulted in the disastrous defeat of the gallant yet eran. In Allegheny county, where Gen. Larimer supported him on the grounds just stated, Scotts majority was just half what it should have been. With sucha standard-bearer, be majority against the Whigs at the next election would range some where between one and two hundred thousand. We greatly doubt whether those Whigs of the old who wept over the detest of the patriot Clay, and rejoice,' in the triumph of the gallant Taylor, and have never yet been found wanting in the hoar of need, could be brougut, very cheerfully into the support of a man whose sympathies were not with them in 'the limes that tried mens souls.' 'We would greatly prefer supporting ■ whig of undoubted character and capacity—such as Pollock, Kunkle, Irwin, Fuller, or many others who could be named—under a probability 01 defeat, to certain success with a candidate of any other political faith. If the Whig party is doomed, better should go down with colon flying and its face to the foe with honor untarnished, than be merged into what the dying Clay so keenly deprecated—‘a contemp tible faction of abolitionists' At least, let those who have summered and' wintered in its ranks.and labored with an holiest zeal to promote its interest enjoy, in after years, the poor privilegeof not being ashamed to acknowledge once having belonged to t ne Whig party I' We do hope that our opponents will give us a better man to defeat. It would be no credit to boa t one who is so decidedly unpopular with his own party. And, after all, it may be that Gen. Larimer is the only one who can be prevailed upon to ac cept the nomination, with the unpleasant appre hension fastened upon his mind that the Demo crats will re-elect Governor Bigler by an over whelming majority. THE HOMESTEAD HILL.—The Homestead bill iutroduced in the house ol Representatives by Mr. Dawson, is likely to encounter some opposition by members from the old States, on the ground !her it will attract farm labor from those States, and thus raise .the price of labor. Should such be the result, it would form nct serious objection to the bill. An increase in the price of labor is no serious griev ance. The same argument pressed a little fflrther would prevent the sale, or disposition in any way, of any of the public lands of the west. Every new farm carved from the prairies of the West gives a new competitor, in the produce markets, to the old States, and withdraws a laborer from their harvest fields. Shall the unoccupied domain of the West be withheld from cultivation for all time on that ac count 9 As well might it be contended that Cincin nati should not be permitted to increase in popula tion and manufacturing industry, lest it shonld draw artizans and people from Philadelphia and New York. We would have our unoccupied domain filled up with a happy and thriving population, til lers and owners of the soil, rather than have them confined t t the crowded cities, or dependant only on low priced labor in the old States for subsistence. The government will derive more revenue from the increased ifnrc.rtltions to supply a doubled po. pulation, than from the sale of lands at $1,25 per acre. The government can thus be liberal without loss. It can make no better use of its unoccupied domain than to cover it as speedily as possible with a hardy and substantial yeomanry. The old States have elements of prosperity that the home stead bill cannot diminish or impair. - The sth of February is fixed for tie considera• tion of the bill in the House; and from present in. dications we believe it will pass the House, and probably the Senate. THE LOST OFFICERS OF THG ARTILLERT.—Maj , and Brevet Lieut. Col. John Marshall Washington, of the United States Army, .was' one of the most distinguished artillery officers belonging to the ser vice. He was a native of Virginia, and about the age of sixty years. He graduated at West Point in 1813, was commissioned Third Lieutenant in the Artillery in 1817, and roseyto his majority in the i :Laird Artillery, in 1847, February 16.. In a week from this promotion he won his brevet as Lieut tenant Colonel, by-gallant and meritorious conduct on the hotly contested field cif Buena Vista. He was a thorough tactician in the Artillery service, and.as early a 5.1824 . ivas made instructor in the Artillery School for practice at Fort Monroe. Af ter the close of the Mexican War, Major Wash ington was appointed to command an expedition across the plains of Mexico via El Paso, to the Pa cific Ocean, which he accomplished amidst the greatest physical difficulties, and the rigors of the climate. Fron October, 1848, to October, 1849, he acted as the Military Governor of New Mexico, and has since, we believe, been chiefly attached to the service on the Pacific. Mrjor George Taylor was a cadet of the class of 1833. • He won his first brevet—that of oaptain-1- in the Florida War, in 1840, and was commission ed Captain in February, 1847. Id 1843 be served as Assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Point. In October, 1847, he Won his brevet of Ma jor by gallant and meritorious conduct at the bat tle of Huamantla, in Mexico, and in July, 1847, distingushed himself in action at Atlixco. He was a native of Georgia. Captain Horace B. Field was of New York—a graduate at West Point of 1836. He was made Brevet Captain for gallant and•mer itorious conduct In the battle of Huamantla, in Mexico, in October, 1847. He first entered the 3d Artillery] in July, 1840, as Second Lieutenant.— Lieutenant Richard H. Smith, wag of Tennessee, appointed to one of the additional infantry regi h ments authorized in 1847 the 14th—es a Seconl Lieutenant, and was transferred to the 3d Artillery in June, 1848. WHO WAS MARY OF BURGUNDY 4—As BOHM of our readers may like to know something of this lady the mention of whose name by the young Duke of Alva, brought on the two Soule Duels, we . give the following brief sketch of this remarkable lady: " Mary of Burgundy was the only daughter of Charles the Rash, Duke of Burgundy, and of Isa belle de Bourbon, his second wife. She was born in 1457, and on the death of her father, which oc- curred when she was only twenty-one years old, she became the heir of his vast estates. She was one of the most beautiful women of her up, was gentle, modest, accomplished, and cobepicuons for her constant regard for duty. She married Max imilian, son of the Emperor Frederick 111, and dted at the early age of twenty-five, in conse quence of the neglect of a wound received in fal ling from her horse, which her excessive modesty prevented her from making known to say one.o Thus it seems that the sneer of the Duke was at the modesty of Mn.i Soule, who did not choose to appear in the abandon style whieh la i■ vogue at the court of Spain. • Mr Hon. hams .Coopaii, at present Ti. S. Sena tor, has been elected President of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company. The questions now are —will he resign his Senatorship S and it so, who will be elected to succeed him in that body / CITY ANDCOUNTY-ITEMS NORTH Ws= Waun.—At a meeting of the Dem ocratic voter% of the. N. W. Weill, held at the pub lic house of Adam Trout, according to utevious notice, on Satuiday evening the 21st of January, 1854 Capt. Geo. Sanderion was appointed.',Chair man. d William B. Wiley and John L. Ketiecip. point Secretaries. The following persons Were placed i nomination for the various offices, the nominati ns to remain open until Saturday evening the 28thlinst„ at ei o'clock when an tuijourtied meeting Will be held at the same place to detetriline who amilngst the persons so:nominated shall be the nominees of the party, viz: , MAYOR—Andrew W. Deoison,Reuben S. ROll - Gorrecht and Mahlon Mercer. /". SSESSOR—Michael Runde!. ertir.....G HIGH CONST BLE—John Conner, Juo. Myer. :, WARD CONS ABLE—George Huffnagle. SELECT CO N CI eorge Wilson. 'COMMON It —David Reese, William F. Miller, Daniel Erisman, Adam Trout, George Hanghman, Bernard Broome, Henry M. White', Adam Dellet, Wm. Miller, (Dr's son) Jno. Troyer. JUDGE OF ELECTIONS--William R. Wiley. INSPECTOR OF DO.James Chambers, Henry Gibbs. . . It was then on motion resolved, that Col. John H. Duchman be Judge, James Wiley. Inspector. and John L. Keifer and Henry Gibbs, Clerks, to conduct the election on Saturday evening the 98th inst. (Signed by the Officers.) Sods EAST W•llo.—The Democratic Citizens of the Smith East Ward, are requested to meet at the public house of Jacob G. Leber. East King at.. on Saturday the 25th day of January, 1E154, be tween the hours of 3 and CS o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of balloting for candidates for Mayor, Assessor, High and City Constables, and five Dele gates to settle a Council ticket for the Ward, and Judge and Inspect l ira for the general election. The election wsit be conducted by William P. Brooks as Judge: 101. n H. Reigart and kihn Sheri' as inspectors. NORTH EAST Wnn.—The Democratic citizens of this ward will meet at the public house of C. Miller, in E Chesnut street, on Saturday the 28th inst., at o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of placing in nomination and balloting for ' , candidates for Mayor, Assessor, High and City Constables, Select and Common Council, Judge and Inspector, to be run on the 7th of February. By order Of the Committee, JOHN WEIDLF.R, Chairman. Soure MIST IV/RD.—The Democratic citizens of this Wald will meet at the public house of P. Fitzpatrick, South Queen st., on Saturday. evening the 28th inst., at 6i o'clock, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Mayor, Assessor, High and City Constable, Select and Common Council Judge and Inspector, to be voted for on the 7th of February. By order of the ,committee Ir BAYARD TAYLOR, recently,, connected with the Japan Expedition, and who has seen more of the world, perhaps, than any other man of his age, will deliver a Lecture on Japa.rs, in Fulton Ilall in this city, on the evening of Wednesday the let of February. A rich treat may be expected,, and we hope to see the Hell crowded on that occasion. LANCASTER YOUNG LADIES' INSTITUTE —The next quarter of this Eery important Seminary, tin 7 der the supervision of Rev. W. E. Locke will begin Feb. 9th. next. We are happy to hear oi its pros. perity, and hope it will continue to increase in boarders and day scholars until the earnest wish of its numerous friends shall be fully realized. ELECTILO PSYCH °LOGY .-Dr. Wtimlititts' Lec tures on the Philosophy of Human Existence, de livered in this city last week and the week before, were attended by some of the must intelligent and cultivated among us, who express ther great inter est in the lectures and the advantage they have derived from them. Having been present- at the lectures on one or two ocasions, we were impress ed favorably with the claims of this new theory to a full and impartial investigation. It possesses, certainly, many interesting points relative to the causes of disease, its prevention and cure, and moreover, concerning the laws which govern the material and spiritual universe. His explanations of the mysteries of clairvoyance, mesmerism and their kindred subjects, is the most satisfactory we have ever listened to. His lectures throughout are very interesting, and his oxperiments of the most amusing and entertaining character. FIRM—The Steam Flour, Farina and Hominy Mill of Stoll & Co., in this city was destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning last about 2} o'clock.— The Srma originated la the second story of the build ing and was the result of accident. The firemen were promptly upon the spot, and by their timely efforts the adjoining Irame buildings were all sa ved. Tho lode of Stoll & Co. is heavy, as there wan a considerable quantity of wheat and corn in the mill. The loss is partly covered by insurance, in the State Mutual and other companies. 12,The barn of Mr. Robert Swisher in Colorain township, together with the contents was dettroy ed by fire on Saturday evening week. The fite was discovered about 2 o'clock and extinguished; but it appears not fully, for about 3 o'clock the flames again burst out and ell efforts to suppress them were unsuccessful. The family with the ex .ception of a small boy were absent at the time, So that there is scarcely a doubt but that the fire was the work of an incendiary, and doubtless ons of the gang of outlaws whom we mentioned last week as infesting the neighborhood. RAILROAD Accinzlirrs.Two fatal• accidents have occurred on the state road within a week past. On Saturday last a Mr. Nagle, an Agent in the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was knocked oft the Cars by a bridge, near the 'Steamboat.' Part of the train psssedover him com pletely severing his legs from his body. He was taken to his residence in Philadelphia where be died the same day. A man named William Kelly, a fireman on an engine running between West Chester and Philadel phia, was killed on Monday last by jumping off the engine, and striking his head upon the ground, causing a fracture of the scull. He was frightened by the biiisting of a flue, which caused him to make the fatal leap. What seems strange is that Mr. Kelly was injured' and barely escaped with his lice, about four weeks ago, when the engineer with whom be was running was killed. Mr. K . made his first' trip since his recovery on Monday last, which unfortunately for him also proved his last.—Columbia. Spy. GRAND JURY REPORT. • Previous to their adjournment on Friday last, the Grand Jury made the following report : To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Quar • ter Sessions of the Peace of Lancaster county: The Grand Inquest of the County of Lancaster, inquiring in and for said county, for the January ,term of said Court, 1834, respectfully submit the following report: We have-passed upon all bills presented to us, and are happy to state that none of an aggravated nature came. before'us. The criminal calender, in this county, appears to have considerably diminish. ed since the corresponding term of last year. At that term there were seventy-nine bills presented to the Grand Jury; at this they did not exceed thirty-nine—showing a dimunition of about fifty per cent. This fact we attribute mainly to the better observance of the Sabbath, by the closing of taverns and beer houses, and the consequent sup pression of the sale of spirituous liquors on that day, which gratifying result, we hesitate not to say, has been the legitimate consequence of the com mendable determination manifested by the Court to enforce the law, by a recent construction of which it has been made a penal offence to vend spirituous liquors on the Sabbath. In contemplation of the reduction of crime alluded to, we respectfully, but earnestly suggest that, by any-just method of rea soning, the conclusion seems to us irresistible, that ft the disparity existing between .the present and preceding terms in the numbet and nature of crimes is owing to the cause which we have assigned; this disproportion would be still more largely increased and crime would dwindle into comparative insig nificance were the same beneficial cause to operate during the other six days of the week. We have paid the usual visit to the Jail, Poor House and Hospital, and found theni in excellent order—everything appearing neat and cleanly. It is with pleasure that we boar testimony to the uniform kindness and courteous attention which the State's Attorney, Mr. Patterson, and the Sheriff; Mr. Eby, have extended to us in the capacity whiCh we have been called to act, and it is with equal pleasure that we tender, our grateful acknowledge ments to the Court for .their courtesy extended to us during the Session. S. S. Patterson, John Alexander,: • Foreman. Wm. Pinkerton, Nath'l S. Wolle, David Kling, Frederick Smith, Cyrus Miller, Jacob Reinhold, ` Arthur Patterson, Christ. Hiestand, . John Hastings. We, the undersigned, approve of the above re. port, excepting that part that se.ems to approve of the prohibition of the sale of spirituous liquors du ring the six secular days of the week, to which we respectfully dissent. Christ. M. Crider, Christ. Diehm; Reuben Bowman, David Gochnauer, John S. Weaver, Henry Breneman, John. Forney. er A Court of Common Vl.. ie being kohl Ude week, in Felton Hell. - Lineman I Carrarrr Lzetszsrtras—The fol.- lowing proceedings , mostly relating to Lancaster county were before the ksgislature last week : Hoosz.--Mr. Hiestand, read an act to incorpo• rate the Baley . Insurance Cempany; also, an,act ie latiet til to do Latteaster county, and one relative to bitthes, arriageliand deitha inisaid county. I t Mr. Herr an act to authorize the Govemor..to inporporate the SusquebanzuOteambont cempany:, An act incorporate the Columbia, Reading and Allen , wn railroad compauy. SzeiTi.—Mr.Darlington presented a petition from Slater and Jeremiah Brown, tor authority to deposit rubbish from their sLte quarries in the Sus quehanna. Also, for a repeal of so much of a certain act of last session as requires the.election of four rea sons int - Lancaster city. , Also, a petition from citizens of Lanacsty co. for a lbw to require the election of townsb and countY officers upon the same day. , M. Darlington introduced a bill, aut °rising Courts of Common Pleas to incorporate ientific and Agricultural societies, Cemetery or Burial as sociations, and societies for the detection of thieves and the recovery of stolen property. On motion of Mr. Kinzer, a bill authorising the North Lebanon railroad.company to borrow mo ney, and reducing the number of directors, was taken up and passed finally. A committee was drawn, to try the right of Mr. Foulkrod, sitting member from Philadelphia county, which is contested by John. W. Stoke. The committee consists of Messrs. Price, Buckalaw Mellinger, 'McFarland, E. W. Hamlin, Jamison and B. D. Hamlin -" Mr. aiestand presented a petition relative to the change of place at holding elections; one for liberty to deposit rubbish in the Susquehanna rivet, one relative to fishing in Lancaster county. Mr. Hunsecker, one for a new school distri't in Lancaster county. - An act relating to the State Library and Libra rian, which provides' for the appointment of a State Librarian by the Governer, subject to confir mation by the Senate, to continue in office for the term of five years, was considered. An amendment was adopted, limiting the term to three years, when the bill passed finally. Mr. Herr read an act relative to the the appoint. ment of Notaries Public • Er. Hiest.ind an art supplementary to an act incorporating the borough of Marietta. Mr. Rawlins, an act to legjmatize E. Merrell. Hionwar Roaasas.—On Sunday evening, the 15th asst, about 8 o'clock, as Robert Boston and another colored man were returning, in a Rocka way, to this city, from a visit to York county, they were stopped on the Columbia Turnpike, about 4} miles west of this place, by two white men, with pistols in their bands, and a silver watch and some money taken. from Boston. The other colored man bad no money' about him. The same night two horses were stolen from Mr. Stayman, residing near the Same road, about two miles west of this city, which. with other cir cumstances, renders it pretty certain that they are the same men who robbed Boston. Iniormarion of the tact was telegraphed to Phil. where olie of them was arrested on Chtmelly. Officer Conner and Mr. S:nyman went mottling. and identified the horse vie one of those wh i ch were sto len iv. Sunday 111410 The Ihiet ssho ease he mune (;...1 flopkin , , was hroimht back on Fri .] q ro.nii y drill committed u, mu prison to awei; his tf inider•tand thic 1t r. Boston is able In hle,tity him as :he same man who robbed him on !hat evening. The public officers of Philadel delphie are on the track of the ocher thief, having head nt him in New Jersey, and it in supposed he will likewise be arrested. LANCASTER LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE AND Macaroni MA KIrrACTURING CONPANY.—At a late meeting of the 5.-ckocilderu the following named gentlemen %sere elected Directurt for the ensuing year: John Black, Liavtd Cockley, the N. Lane, Michael Ma lone, C. liager, , Benjamin Eshleman, Henry Mos selman, James B. Lane, James Black, George T. Lane, Abraham [Weisel. Mr. David Cockley Woe re-elected I / resident and M. 0. Kline, Secretary and Treazurer.. We a.e gratified to learn that the buildings have been coinplcted so far, That the shops will be open ed about the fifteenth of February next. The com pany have already contracted for several first class locomotives, besides having secured orders for va rious other kinds of machinery. From the enter prise of the gentlemen composing the company— the amount of their capital—and the facilities they enjoy for manufacturing, there can scarcely be a doubt that a few yearei will see this one of the beat Machine Shops in the Union. 11J At a meeting of the Stockholders of the Mount Joy Car Manufactory, the following persons were oniTiirsday evening elected directors, for the ensuing year:—Emanuel Cassel, Dr. J. L. Zeigler, Henry Kurtz. Henry Greiner, G. W. Porter, Benj. Greider, Eli Kurtz; E. Cassel, was elected President, Dr. J. L. Zeigler Sec,y. and J. E. Cassel Treasurer. ID" The School Directors of Earl township uf fer a reward of one hundred dollars for the appre hension and conviction of 'the persons who set fire to aechool hokise in that district onihe evening of the 26th ult. CORIIB:BIA ANTI OCTORARO RAILROAD.—At an election held in this city, on Thursday last, for President and Managers of this contemplated Rail road, the following persona were duly elected, viz: PAZSIDENT—Joeeph Schoch. Draacton•--J. Houston Mifflin, Joseph W. Cot trell, Dr. Abraham Bitner, John Griffin, Cornelius Collins, James Patterson, Daniel Good, fteory W. Breneman, Amos Grofl, John Rawlins, `Geo. Ford and E. J. Dickey. THY TREATY WITH Mrxrco.—The Washington correspondent of the Journal of Commerce thinks if the terms of the Gadsden Treaty are such as are reported, it will, certainly meet with the speedy approbation of the Senate. Theaequisition of terri tory by this treaty probably embraces thirty mil lions of acres, lisides the Xesilla valley, and in chides a slip of territory iti;Chiliciahua and Sonora, as large as the State of Virginia. It includes not only the railroad route to the Pacific but gives us a mineral region more important, perhaps, than any in the world. It has long been known that Sonora is rich in gold and so attractive has it become to our people , on that account, that neither our gov erment nor ;bat of Mexico seemed to be able to pre. vent them from taking possession of the Territory . To prevent another war with Mexico, and to pre. vent , fillibusterism, ate objects of more importance with the Senate, and, indeed, with the House, also, than the appropriation of' twenty millions of dol lars. The-Senate would agree to pay fifty millions rather than have another war, and its train of pol itical disasters, from which we have not yet re. covered. If we are correctly advised," the Treaty secures the Tehuantepee right of way to citizens of the U. States, for which alone we offered in the negotia tiyn which resulted in thatreaty of Guadaolupe,the sum of fifteen millions, and which was declined by the. Mexican government, on the ground of the pri or grant to Garay. So far as .we can learn; it would appear that the American Tehuantepec Company claiming tattler Garay, are to t l e fully in demnified for the loss of their. contract, as they ought to be; and that the company of which Col . Sloo is,Preeident, will go on to execute their con tract. Still, we are yet in the dark as to the par ticulars of this Treaty. Col. Gadsden was about to leave Mexico, without concluding a treaty,when a change in Santa Anna's, policy, created by his own necessities, occurred. ' • At the time, a. fortnight ' ago, when the Union denied that there Was any treaty. !here was not only , no treaty here, bat the - Presideut had a private letter tram Cul. Gadsden, stating his regret that he had failed in the object of I hi e negotiation Da. Crania ox Tin Trauma Wdß.—The Rev• Dr. Durbin, in the course ot the delivery ot a high ly interesting missionary sermon, Washington, on Sunday week, clearly showed that the war now in progress between Turkey and Russia had its or igin in a religious policy on the part of the Czar, who is apprehensive that:ttoleration' by the Turk ish government, of all Christian creeds, may en courage a thinking and investigating spirit which may extend to the heart ot his dominions, and thus imperil the stability of.his' empire. Ten years ago, while the doctor w as at Smyrna, a young man, a Christian, for the purpose of securing by marriage, the heart and band of a lady of that city, apostatized to Mohammedanism. But three months afterwardi, stung in his con• science, that he had forsaken the religion of the Saviour, he returned openly ; to his first love. For this he lost tali head, which was thrown to the dop 1 J For the latelligencer._ Columbia and Octorara R. Road. Giorrsextur: Raving by your request contin ued my survey tram the State Line to Safe Harbor .a distance of 13} miles, and made an estimate of the proposed continuation of the Line, l submit the following _Report : From the: State Line following the river bank with very light grades, the average grade being 6i it...per mile,l was enabled to overcomathe difficul ty to whichieroad along the river ahme is liable, viz: the high freshets which occur in the spring and fall, and at the same time making it an easy descending grade with the heavy freight and stream from Columbia to the intersection with the Phila delphia, Wilmington and. Baltimore Railroad. The material of which the side hills along the river is composed, and from which the embankment would be made, forms at once a most substantial and sol id road bed, and at the same time, a sure resistance to the water and ice freshets to which it would be exposed. The beefiest grade in the whole distance would be 10 ft. per milelor 4 miles. Owing try the peculiar location of the side hills. and the abi'upt points of high and hard rock, and also to the extreme boldness of the liver shore at many points, the line must necessarily, contain many degrees of curvature, and none of a radius less than 1090 It. The masonry kir bridges ie estimated for a doub le track. Crossing Peter's Creek, 13 It. above the sorface of the water, with a Stone Truss Bridge of a span of 150 ft, the masonry and superstructute would cost $4,148'00. . Crossing Fishing Creek, 15 ft. above the atartace of the water, with a Stone Truss Bridge of al span of 100 ft. the masonry and superstructure would coat $3,440 00. Crouing Fequa Creek, 28 It. above the surlsce of the water, with a grout Trues Bridge of a span of 200 It., the masonry and superstructure would cost $5,646 00 Crossing the Conestoga Creek at its mouth ow ing to the peculiar location of the bluffs on either side s would require a bridge of 900 ft. in leng•h, with 2 abutments and 5 piers; the grade at this point being 28 It. above the surface of the water, with a Stone Truss Bridge, the masonry and su perstructure would coat $4,684 UO. These are the only bridges that would be requi red. The other creeks of less importance are To quasi, Neal's, Ctesar's, Muddy, McCall's, Barn's, and Shank's, which would be crossed With open drains, the whole number costing $4,326 00. The number of small brooks crossing the line and requiring Box Culverts is 10, the whole num ber costing $1,182 00. Total cost of 4'Bridges, " Drains, Culverts, Total cost ol grading with super structure for track with rails 60 lbs. to the yd. $342,883 00 Total cost of masonry with super structure for Bridges, 53.420 00 ;Submitting the nbo• Report with the Mdp tutu Prof& of the Line, and the details of cost as the result of Surveil, I remain Your ()ht. Servant, CHAS. FL HEN,rIAW, liNginter. To John C. Walton and others. For the Intelligencer HISTORY OF THE CEDAR GROVE PRENDYTERIAN CHURCH AND CONGREGATION. — MR. EDITOR.—The above is the title of a discourse prepared and read by the Rev. Jolla LEAMAN, N. D. before the pres ent worshipping Congregation at Cedar Grove, Earl Township, this county, on the occasion at the dedication of their new Edifice to the service of God, in August last. It is published in a neat pamplat form and embodies a minute and detailed history of the Church, from its first organization, prior to the American Revolution down to the present day. Several of the papers, I obedrve, have spoken favorably of this production, and as none of our county papers have thus far noticed it, I have tbought proper to trespass on your columns with a view of obiaing for it an introduction here. The discourse is certainly one of rare merit. It is written in that able and classical style for which Dr. Leaman is so eminently distinguished, and it embraces matters of peculiar interest to the pres ent, generation;now that those to whbm It makes special reference have passed away. No Presby terian, indeed no christian, should be without one in his or her family or possession. f understand that an Agent will shortly visit our city with a . view °Croaking sale of this history, and I have no doubt that all who leel an interest in the affairs of the Presbyterian Church, and the strange and sometimes mysterious dealings of Divine Prov idence with his chosen people, will esteem it a rare privilege to put themselves in possession of a copy. A PRESBYTERIAN. Lancaster, Jan. 20th, 1864. Important Proclamation The subjoined important proclamation, issued by the President. of the Uuited States, will be read with interest. It relates to a subject which has at tracted a large share of public attention, and will be received with general approbation. It shows that the President is determined to interpose to main tain the integrity of the laws against violation; and to this end, he calls upon all good citizens to dis countenance the proceedings alluded to, requiring all public officers to exert their authority to arrest and bring to trial all offenders. This step was called tor by the intelligence received by the President, and will be properly appreciated: BY THE PRES IDENT OF THE UNITED STATES--A PROCLAMATION. Whereas information has been received by me that an unlawful expedition has been fitted out in the State of California with a view to invade Mex ico—a nation maintaining friendly relations with the United States—and that other expeditions are organizing within the United States Ibr the same unlawlul purpose; and whereas certain citizens-and inhabitants of this country, unmindful of their ob ligations and duties, and of the rights ofa friendly power, have participated, and are about to partici pate, in these enterprises, so derogatory to our na tional character, and so threatening to our tran quility, and are thereby incurring the severe pen alties Imposed by law against such offenders : Now, therefore, 1, Franklin Pierce, President ol the United States, have issued this my proclama tion, warning all persons who shall connect them selves with any such enterprise or expedition that the penalties of the law denounced against such criminal conduct will be rigidly enforced; and I ex hort all good citizens, as they regard our national character, as they respect our laws or the law of nations, as they value the blessings of peace and the welfare' of, their country, to discountenance, and by all lawful means prevent, such criminal en terprises; and I call upon all officers of this govern ment, civil and military, to use any efforts which may be in their power to arrest for trial and pun ishment every such offender. Given under my hand and seal of the Unitad States, at Washington, this eighteenth s.) day of January, in the year of our Lord one thdusand eight hundred and fifty-four, and the seventy-eighth of the Indepen dence of the United States. FRANKLIN PIERCE. By the President: W. L. Manny, Secretary of State Perlodlcalsc. ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF Ai .—The Decem ber and January number; of this excellent serial publication is on 'ourdesk, and capital numbers they are. The literature, illustrations and entire execution are unrivalled. ' The Magazine of 1854 is to exceed that ,1 >53. Ne; , features are to be added. The additional em banishments will embrace American Art and Ar um, American Mechanics and Machinery, Amer ican Industrial Art, Characteristic Great Men o the Nation, and the Beautiful anu Grand in Nature Each number will contain at least 30 superb engra ving... The Magazine is published monthly by Alexan der Montgomery, No. 17 Spruce st. N. Y., at 25 cent/ per number, or $3 per annum. To clubs of four or more persons, $2,60 per annum. THE POPULAR EDUCATOR, published;at the same establishment, is also a very useful and interest ing work, issued monthly at 1.2 i cents pernumbei. It treats of the different departments of education, in very able and erudite essays, accompanied with handsome . illustrations descriptive of the several branches treated ot, such as Botany, Geology, Ge ometry, Drawing, physiology, &c., &c. PIEttIISON , II LADLES' NATIONAL VIAGAZINT., fox February, is one of the very best numbers of this valuable publication that has yet been issued. The Fashion Plates are superior to any thing of the kind we have seen any where. Edited by ANN S. S.:waw' and C. J. Przansow, 102 Chesnut at., Philadelphia, and published at $2 a year, in ad. vance. GRAHAM'S MAGAZINZ, for February, is also on hand, ever welcome, as usual. To say that this is a capital work, and that the number before us, is fully equal to any of its predecessors, is what all will admit who dee it. The fashion plates and va rious other embellishments all go to prove the in deEaugable industry and excellent taste of the Ed itor and publisher. Terms $3 per annum. No. 106 Chesnut at., Phila. Pmansirmaars Smoot, Jot/max.—This excel lent monthly continues its usefulness and prosperity. The Joinery number contains much that will be interesting to the friends of education. The editor; Mr. Burrowes, is indefatigable in his exertions tb place Pennsylvania among the foremost states of the Union, in regard to the diffusion of learning and intelligence among the people. dt. Louls,Correspondence. _ ~ • .. ST:Louie, Jan. 10,18541 Since my last the business of the city has br, extremely 'dull.' The cold weather of the past we t has entirely suspended navigation in the upper -r4 ers; the running •ice and low water in the Mild 'sippi beloW this city, has prevented boats from 1 South Coming to our port. We have not had I • arrival from New Orleans for a fortnight—a m' 'unusual circumstance. It is said that the river I•• low has gorged, and the Louisville packets, all I which the eastern Mails are carried, are unable: ' .. reach our city; we, therefore, only. get an eastr i mail semi-occasionally, and when it does turr ' (but by what route I am unable to state,) it con in such quantities—almost incredible—say fri A lorty to sixty bags. Our city has also been dull of local and otf , • news of importancewe have had but two murd in the past three weeks; one on Christmas evi;' , two men engaged in a raffle disputed on some pci:', and the result was the murder of one of the parti , The murdered min, Murphy, was literally cut cil , . by a person bearing the name of Rogers, who tr.:. arrested, and is now in jail awaiting his trial at' next term of the Criminal Court. Ancither muril was committed a -short distance from the cittl few nights since. Another man is still missing, t: ' the probability is he has been murdered and body thrown into the river. A new paper is to'be established in this city; ) a few days by Messrs. Buckner & Neidper, the f\- mer was at one time editor of the late St..Lo - i, l , Times, an Anti-Benton sheet. This new paper iir••:, be calledihe 'Pilot,' and to support Gen. Pierci . l Administration, and In-all probability will operiN batteries against Thomas H. Benton and his re-ef lion to the U. S. Senate. The editor is strongly •-;‘• posed to him, and the concern has no doubt tio put on toot for the purpose. the Governor of Illinois has at last issued proclamation calling an extra session of the Lei lature. That State is increasing so rapidly that present conalitution is a great way behind the I: - in which we live—the Stain has actually out-gro'. 1111 present laws, and it has made such rapid stri in its railroad improvements, and grown in po. !anon and magnitude to. such importance, the is deemed necessary for its legislature to cony' once a year, instead of once in every two yearr i its constitution provides. The newspapers in this :State, lowa and 11144 are calling aloud for the construction of railro i, sod should they build one - halt of the roads as for, you can go to almost any point behind the i. horse. lola and Illinois appear to be completh swallowed up in the railroad mania, and are t: tined Lt on very distant day .to be among the f States of the Union. ;] The Nebraska question is creating considerai excitement in many of the Western States. Western lowa, as well as the northern,part of t,' State and Illinois, is alive on the subject, and me Logs have u.esi held in the different counties, tf delegates appointed to represent them in the gri Nebraska Convention, which was to have been lit, on the 9th inst., at St. Joseph, in this Slate. large number of delegates have been appoint $47,912 00 4,328 00 1,132 00 $53,420 00 rum the different States—Nebraska alscrsends r. egutes. The people, it appears, are determineo hive a Territorial Government over' Nebraska.l Thousands of hardy farmers ., are ready to settlei said territory, but they are 'awaiting the action! Congress, as to the establishment of a territoti, government for the protection of their lives $396,303 00 .operty from the ruthless, hands of the Indias, who ay the whole unbounded continent is the m who are ever and court committing murders in; foul, and atrocities most cruel and brutal. 1 dot: flat but that ere long those fertile plains and w;- spreading prairies will become the home of white man—the red man driven to seek an abidij place far, far away—and the cottage of civilisal: will be ream] over the ashes of the last expic wigwam of the poor, untutored A large and! enthusiastic Democratic meeti) was recently held-at Platte City, in this State; mtt, good teeling-prevatled, and among other resolutid the iollowtog were unanimously passed: • "Resolved, 1. That we re-affirm and re-endo the principles promulgated by the Democratic C.' ventions of 1852, at Baltimore and Jefferson Cit 2. 'Filet we heartily desire the early establi ment.ol a Territorial- Government for Nebrasi, the extinguishment of Indian titles, and the enal meld of such laws, therefore, as will ensure early settlement without restrictions. . • Resolved, That we will support no man for a_ office who does not subscribe to the principles-; the first resolution. - This is tne true Democratic doctrine, and it party was so thoroughly organized throughout entire State, and particulaily in this section, would have much less cause of complaint, Pursuant to public notice, and as is usual up, the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans t Democratic party of the city and county of , I Louis, met in mass meeting at the Rotunda on t. evening of the 9th to do honor to the occasion, 51 . more particularly for the purpose of forming anti, organization, upon which platform the party; henceforth to battle. At an early hour the Rots; da wan thronged with the bone and sinew, and 14 meeting was duly organized; a committee was pointed to draft resolutions, and in its absence eral gentlemen were called upon who addressed q Democracy ably and eloquently. The committl returned, and through their chairman reported t following resolutions, amongst a number o 1 othe which were unanimously adopted : Resolved, That the great issue before the De ocratic party in the elections of 1854, is the re-el., tion of rhomas H. Benton to-the Senate of the States, his policy and principles being identis with those of the Democratic party, and that do not recognise as Democrats those who have t ceded from those time•honored tests. Wleereas ' It has long been a fundamental Fir . Ciple of the Democratic party that the people shot; have the whole and sole control of all public fairp, and that all who are to carry out public sures and fill public statiohs should be selected well as elected by the people; and whereas, the et, cos and convention system, hitherto resorted to a means of rallying and uniting the party, bail late years been abused by designing persons their own base and selfish ends, and has conseque* ly often thwarted instead of promoted the ends justice and the will of the 'people; therefore, be i Resolved, That the Democratic party of St. Loc. county, in view of the great importance of the e proaching contest, and desifous of placing In t field their strongest and best men, deem it expe; . ent to hold a primary election, to determine up the candidates for tne various offices to be MK and thus obtain a more direct, distinct and true el pression of the will of the parry. ' You will see, sir, that the Democratic party. this city and county have given the death-blow ; conventions—that they have adopted another ph; of selecting candidates tor the different offices; he:i it will work is yet to be seen. I will here. stute !- the benefit of your readers "and the rest/of ma; kind," the: this meeting is termed in this section -Benton Democratic Meeting," and that this ne organization is the first step to unite the party upc Thomas H. Benton and his return to the U. S. Se' ate. How this portion of the proceedings of ti t meeting will go down with the Anti-Benton pt: ty, is oleo a matter for the future to determine.-:: The speaker; as well es the resolutions call alot for his return to the Senate. Thomas H. Bento& a great man, all must admit; he has hosts 'of a mirers in the western country, but I can see no ju grounds in his friends striving to,,and actually r pudiating the time-honored usages of the Democrq lc party—the platform upon which we have 0 'implied time and again. It is true, we are the pr 6ressive Democracy; our principles are not base upon .one idea,' but upon that which _gives th• greatest good to all. One of the speakers irrhis r marks upon the resolutions of organization, obse ved, "that under this new code the people could ma • their own choicg.who they preterred to fill . Presidential chef, and when they did so, it won!' be Thomas Hart Benton, of Missouri—the poop! wanted him, and the people would have him there. Well, suppose his friends did desire it, and the Nt Lion put in nomination, according to the usages c: the party, another gentleman, which of the tw.l would they support! Martin Van Buren once trio; that game. Who are the men that supported him and where do they staid now! I know of no Mat more capable for the station than Col. Benton- 2 when I except "Pennsylvania's Favorite Son"—an. none to whom I would more readily give my you' were he the Democratic candidate or the Nations . Democracy. But lam opposed to "crowding tti mourners" upon a single idea/ Previous to the adjournment of the meeting, fast Mend of Col. Benton, thinking that the corrr mittee on resolutions overlooked an important idea' rose for the purpose of adding another resolve t the,above, to the effect that i the Democracy of thi city and county endorse theadministration of Gen Pierce. When he-was informed that it had not bee 4 overlooked or forgotten—that they did not incept" it should be embodied—the gentleman insisted. it being put to the meeting! when the motion t• adjourn was called and carried. So the adminie tration has been repudiated—the convention system ' killed off, and the carcass buried deep in the boso of the ocean! OLD GUARD. DEATH or • Ccr.nonisn.—The Bey. Dr. Pitmen long a well known and popular clergyman of the) Methodist Church, died on Saturday but, at his, residence in Trenton, N. J. He was for several yeais the corresponding secretery of the Missiona ry Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, • • during his secretaryship svarattacked with paraly sis which, obliged him to resign his office; sine which he has resided in Trenton. He was deser vedly esteemed as a popular and useful minister not only;ltyhie own danomination;but by:all wit had thiplianus of his &squinting& 1
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