Inelligencer & Journal.
GEO, SANDERSON, EDITOR.
Lancaster, August S, 1854.
FOR GOV*RNOR:
WILLIAM MOLE% of Clearfield County.
JUDGE or SUPREME COURT:
JEREMIAH S. - BUCK, of Romerut County.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER
HUEY S. MOTT, of Pike County.
Ottice - of the Intelligencer.
In Kline and M'Clure's Buildings, Puke
street, 3d door north of E. King, and di
rectly opposite the east entrance to the
new Court House.
County Committee Meeting.
The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster county,
will meet tittle public house of Expron &mass, in N.
Queen 'street, in aks city, on W24..eay, the 16th of Au
gust, 185 , i, at 1 o'clock, P. Ai. Punctual attendance Is re
quested, as business of great 'importance will be presented
for the action of the body. H. B. WARR,
Laminar', August 1, 1864. Chairman.
0011NTY COM9ITTPII.
H. B. Swarr, City-Chairman, , 4 W. W--Col. W. S. Amweg.
Adamstown--William Sleet S. E. Iff. - -Walter G. Evans.
B a rt-Issac Messner. If..E W-j. L. Reynolds.
Bart-Thomas Murphy. Lancaster turp.-Philip Fisher.
0 2m mow...La Rogers. Lampeter .E.-John R. Miller.
Clay-John Ei lsar. Esq. Lampeter W-Simnel Weaver
aicrain--Abnl. 'Whiteside.
Columbia N. W.-T. Welsh. Leacock lb-Dr. A. S. Bare.
S. W.-J. S. Gleen.Little Britain-Wallace Hays.
r emake E.-CoL A. Ream. Mar/heft Bor.-Andrew J Eby
Coca/too W.-Col. J. Reinhold.Manlscim twp.-Benjamin Eby
Conestoga-Adam'Kendtg. Manor-John Killheffer.
Amoy-John H. Smith. Martic-CoL David Laird.
Donegal E.--Jacob Spiese. Marietta-John J. Libbart.
Donegal W.-John Gross. Mount Joy Bor.-R S 31611 vain
Drumore-John Hastings. Mount Joy tutp.-J. Sheaffer.
Part-James Darrow. Paradise-Joseph S. Lefesre.
Ear/ East-Geo. Duchman. Penn-Aaron Longenecker.
Earl West-Henry Haffroth.Pequa.-Benjamin Rowe.
.Ephrata-Dr. H. Reemsnyder.Prosidence-John Tweed.
Etisabethtown-B. F. Bear. Raphollenry Ebersole.
Elizabeth-L. R. Hlbehmau. Strasburg Bor.-W. T McPhail'
Potion-Oliver Caldwell. Strasburg twp-Jacob Neff.
Nempjleltl E.-1.1. Hoffman. Salisbury-Thos. S. Mclivain.
Hempffeld W-Dr. A K RohrerSadsbury-Samuel Slokum.
City- Warwick-Dr. Levi Hull.
N. W TV-11. Blickensderfer. Washington-Dr. A. Bitner.
Behind the Times!
The last Independent Whig, under the head
of "Startling Disclosure,' copies a cock and
bull story, which appeared in an obscure Wllig
paper of Washington county in this• State,
about two months ago—to the effect that Mr.
John A. Parker,ex-Librarian of Congress, had
revealed a conversation between himself and
Postmaster General Campbell, relative to an
alleged "bargain and sale" between that func
tionary of the Government and Gen. Pierce
prior to the last Presidential election.
The story is a very pretty one—but, then,
it lacks one very essential'partieular, and tha
is truth 1 The whole thing is a sheer fabrica
tion from beginning to end—and was promptly
and flatly- contradicted at the time it appear
ed in therWhig papers, by Mr. Parker himself,
in a communication over his own signature,
and published in the Washington Union.
Mr. Fenn was, at the time the story firs
appeared and for several weeks afterward,
rusticating somewhere in the land of wooden
nutmegs and steady habits, hence the mistake
he ,has committed. In charity we are disposed
to excuse him for this reason, as we hardly
suppose he would knowingly and wilfully per
petrate a falsehood, even in his anxiety to
serve the cause of Native Americanism' Ito
which he seems to be a recent convert. -
A Nut for " Know Nothings.”
In the 9th article, 3d and 4th sections of
the Constitution of Pennsylvania, we have
the doctrines of religious liberty clearly defi
ned. The following quotations are made from
the sections referred to:
"All men have a natural and indefeasible
right to worship Almighty God, according to
the dictates of their own consciences. No man
can, of right, he compelled to attend, erect or
support any place of worship, or to maintain
any ministry against his consent. No human -
authority can, in any case whatever, control
or interfere with the rights of conscience, and
no preference shall ever be given, by law, to
any religious establishments or modes of wor
ship.
"No person who acknowledges the being of
a - God, and a future state of rewards and pun
ishments, shall on account of his religious
sentiments be disqualified to hold any office or
place of trust or profit under this common
,wealth."
This was the doctrine it4ilcatecl by our fath
ersby the patriots of '76—by the good and
pure men of the Republic for three-fourths of
a century—by every man, of every party,
(save and except the proscriptionists of the
present day,) who is in favor of civil and re
ligious liberty.
But the "Know Nothings" of 1854 are op
posed to this doctrine. They contend, in ef
fect, that their neighbor, if he happens to be
long to a particular church, has no right to
worship God according to the dictate of his
own conscience; and they go a step farther
and say that, because of his religious senti
ments, he shall be disqualified to hold office.
And this proscriptive, intolerant and uncon
stitutional doctrine is held by the Whig can
didate for Governor, Mr. Polzoca, who is a
member of a "Know-Nothing" Lodge, andhas
taken an oath to carry out their views, and
must do so or violate his oath if elected to the
Gubernatorial office!
Can it be that such a monstrous doctrine
will find any favor with the intelligent voters
of Pennsylvania? We do not believe it. We
are sure no Democrat will be found arrayed
against the Constitution and the civil and re
ligious rights of any portion of our citizens;
and we have too much respect for the honest
portion of the Whig party, we mean' those
who are not seeking office, to believe that they
will sanction an attempt to strike down the
Constitution and destroy the proud fabric of
freedom erected by the patriotism and wisdom
of our revolutionary sires.
Another Screw Loose!
J. W. FISHER; Esq., of Columbia, offers
himself as an Independent Candidate for the
State Senate. Heretofore the 'Squire has been
looked upon as one of the leading and most re
liable Silver Grey Whigs in that section of the
county, who was always willing 'to endorse
any nominations the city dictators would make.
The Whigs might go farther and fare worse
by not electing him.
Air We have read with much satisfaction
a beautiful ant appropriate Address, deliver
ed by Governor BIGLER, on the 26th of June
last, before the Harrisburg Female Seminary,
at the close of-the scholastic year.
We have also seen a Catalogue of the Sem
inary, from which we infer that the Institu
tion, which was commenced in 1849, and in
corporated by the Legislature in 1853, is in a
highly prosperous condition, and well worthy
the support and encouragement of the public
at large. The educational departments are con
ducted by Mrs. ANNA LE CoNTE, Principal—
assisted by Misses HANNAH B. BRADLEY, MARY
JANE PARTCH, Lind others. The branches
taught are English, German, French and Ital
ian, with Vocal and Instrumental Music.
Ser Mr. J. F. EEUBER is mistaken, so far as
the "Intelligencer " is concerned. We did
not charge that the "Citizen," alias ":Know
Nothing" organ, is owned and controlled by
Messrs. Darlington & Hiester. We did not
mention the latter gentleman's name. But
, ff e did intimate, and we now repeat our belief
with more confidence , than ever, that it is
owned by Mr. DARLINGTON, edited by Mr.
Kurtz, and is under the control of the former,
who is doubtless cognizant of all that appears
in the filthy sheet; for it is well known that
the proof sheets are read in, the Examiner of
fice, and that,„ too, by the writer of the edito
rials—Mr. J. F. HUBER'S card to the contrary
notwithstanding. •
The Fishery and Reciprocity Treaty.
The New York Times, by , some•. means an-
known to the •public, obtained a copy of this
document which has recently been ratified
by the Senate, and published it on Satur
day, 23d ult. It gives citizens of the United
States in common with British subjects the
right to take fish of every kind, except shell
fish, on the sea, coasts and shores, and in the
bays, harbors and creeks of Canada, New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Isl
and, and of the severttl Islands thereto adja
cent, without being restricted to any distance
from the shore, with permission to land upon
the coasts and shores of those Colonies and
the Islands thereof, and upon the Magdalen
Islands for the purpose of drying their nets
and curing their fish.
The following are the articles to be admit
ted between the United States and the British •
Colonies, free of duty:
Grain, Flour and breadstuffs of all kinds:
animals of all kinds; fresh, smoked and salted
meats; cotton, wool, seeds and vegetables; un
dried/fruits, dried fruits; fish of all kinds; pro
ducts of fish and all other creatures living in
the water; poultry, eggs; hides, furs, skins or
tails undressed; stone or marble, in its crude
or unwrought state; slate; butter, cheese, tal
low, lard; horns, manures; ores of metals, of
all kinds; coal, pitch, tar, turpentine; ashes;
timber and lumber of all kinds, round, hewed
and sawed, manufactured, in vrhble or in part:
firewood; plants, shrubs and trees; pelts, wool;
fish oil; rice, broom corn and bark; gypsum,
ground or unground; hewed or wrought or
unwrought burr or grindstones; dyestuffs; flax,
hemp and tow, unmanufactured; uninanufac
tured tobacco; and rags.
The navigation of the St. Lawrence is to be
as free to American citizens as to British sub
jects. In return for this concession the Brit
ish are to have the right to navigate Lake
Michigan, with their vessels and crafts. and
the Government of the United States further
engages to urge upon the State Governments
to secure to the subjects of her Britanic Ma
jesty the use of the several canals, on terms
of equality with the inhabiants of the United
States. -
The British Government can suspend the
right of navigating the St. Lawrence to citi
zens of the United States, by giving due-no
tice to bur authorities. Our Administration,
n that event, cap suspend the Canadian re-
ciprocity arrangement.
And it is further agreed, that no export
duty, or other-duty, shall be levied on lumber
or timber of any kind cut on that portion of
the American territory in the State of Maine,
watered by the river St. John and its tribu
taries, and floated down that river to sea,
when the eame is shipped to the United States
from the Province or New Brunswick.
ART. 5. The present treaty shall take ef
fect as soon as the laws required to carry it into
operation shall have been passed by the Im
perial Parliament of Great Britain and by the
Provincial Parliaments of those of the British
North American Colonies which are affected
by this treaty on the one hand and by the
Congress of the United States on the other;
such assent having been given, the Treaty
shall remain in force for ten years from the
date at which it may come into operation;—
and further, until the expiration of twelve
months after either of the high contracting
parties shall give notice to' the other of its
wish to terminate the same, each of the high
contracting parties being . at liberty to give
such notice to the other, at the end of said
term of ten years, or at any time afterwards.
The Secrets of the Order.
The Pennsylvanian has been ferreting out
the dark doings of the Know-Nothings, and
laying them open to the scorching rays of
light. It is no joke. The Sun, the organ of
the order in the city, takes it to task, and says:
"One thing is very certain out of - three
guesses—either the Pennsylvanian is a wag
and would run a saw upon us, it is guilty of
scoundrelism in betraying secrets entrusted to
the custody of his honor; or it has secured
some Judas with thirty pieces to do the dirty
work for it. Which of these is the fact. we
shall nut put our neighbor on the confessional
by inquiring.
This iS responded to as follows:
1. That we are waggish and practising a
oke upon ourneighbor. We have already said
that we assert the truth and defy contradic
tion from any reliable respectable member of
the order. Our friend knows full well it is no
joke, at least to him and his Know Nothing
Mayor and candidate—that it may be a pretty
rough saw is quite possible.
2. That we are a member of the order, and
are guilty of betraying their secrets—he knows
we are none of them—nor do we, or will we
keep about our establishment any man who is
bound by so unlawful an obligation to violate
the laws and the Constitution of the land.
3. That we have procured some Judas, with
thirty pieces, to do the dirty work of divulg
ing these secrets. This is also a mistake: but
as we said before, the wise ones iu the Whig
party who created this order in the vain hope
that they could do by it that which they have
failed to do by their previous associations with
unconstitutional organizations, should have
been careful ind_Aot have taken in amongst
them any honest men. It is only "traitors"
who seek the dark and hide their political
creed from the light. Remember, Know-
Nothing friend, that after the first oath taken
by the candidate for initiation, which is an
oath of secrecy, your presiding officer assures
the candidate that he is about to take a serious
and solemn obligation, and also tells him that
there is nothing in that obligation derogatory
to himself nor in violation of the laws of God,
or of the land. Upon the faith of this assur
ance, he is induced to take the oath prescribed
by the order. He believdwhat you tell him.
Imagine his surprise when, as he proceeds in
the order, he finds that the very essence of
your institution is in direct conflict with the
whole of our government. What honest man
does not recoil at the knowledge that there is
organized in our midst a set of men whose
aim is to breakdown the free institutions of
the land? How naturally he falls back upon
his oath to the constitution, and how indig
nant he feels at the duplicity you have prac
ticed upon him ! What does he acknowledge
to be his first duty? Why, to repudiate and
expose this treason in our midst—and is it
wonderful if he does it? But there is much
'more in this charge of betrayal than at first
sight appears. It amounts to a very strong
implication of an admission of the truth of all
we have asserted. It, is not trne, there is no
betrayal—and if it is a betrayal there, must
be truth in all we have said.—Jeffersonian.
First Onth taken by Pollock, on entering the.
Ante-room of the Order.
"You do swear by Almighty God, the
searcher of all hearts, that you will not reveal
or divulge any of the secrets of this order
which you shall hear or see, and so you shall
answer to God at the great day."
Mir The "know Nothing" organ has hatch
ed up a table purporting to be a list of office
holders under the 11. S. Government—in
which a large preponderance is given to for
eigners. This is a lie manufactured out of
the whole cloth, and Messrs. Darlington &
Kline know it to be so. But this is the way,
they attempt to gull the readers of their delect
able sheet.
Book Notiecs, ek.c
Ala- The "GUARDIAN," for August, is well stored with
useful and interesting articles from the pen of the editor,
Rev. H. EURILWOH, and others.
. The PEOPLE'S Jouns.u.„ for August, is a very at • act
ive number, and embellished with any number of superb
engravings. The Journal is published monthly, by Al
fred E. Beech, 86 Nassau street, N. York, at $1 per annum
—each number containing 32 pages beautifully printed on
fine paper, and profusely illustrated with engravings. It
Is intended to be an illustrated record of Agriculture. Me
chanics, Science and Useful Knowledge, and richly de
serves an extended public patronage.
11. S. DEmotraorm Ravi:ay.—The 2d number of the 3d
volume of this ably conducted periodical, has made its ap
pearance, with the following table of contents, viz: Aboli
tion and Sectarian Mobs, Drop the Curtain, The Missouri
Prohibition, Ode to America, on Festus, Lunacy, tinfortu
rzatein Ma Normandie, Sydney Smith, Wearlepen, the Po
eta and Poetry ofAncient Greece.
Published by Lloyd B Brainard, 80 Nassau street, N. Y.,
at $5 per annum. -
:Mr. Tyler's Letter..
We take the following extract from a letter
of ROBERT TYLER, Esq., published in the Phil-
adelplat' I Argus, in reply to a "Know Noth
ing" article in the. Evening Bulletin. Mr. T's
communication has great force and ability,
but its length prevents us from inserting it
entire. The extract we subjoin is to the point
exactly, and fully exposes the duplicity of
modern Nativism :
As regards the sapient correspondent's sec
ond main proposition, in which he charges a
corrupt coalition between the Catholic church
and the Democratic party, really I feel I ought
not to make a reply. He refers to the case of
Jndge Campbell as being strictly in point, but
nevertheless fails to present a single fact in
support of the allegation. If the charge-has
any meaning at all, it is, that Campbell's
nomination first, and subsequent appoint
ments, were the result of a political under
standing or negotiation between the Demo
cratic party and the Catholic 'Church. But
this is the gibberish of a madman or idiot.—
Who conducted the negotiation and effected
the arrangement? By whom, when, and where
was all this dune ? It is notorious that Judge
Campbell lost his !election on account of cer
tain political animosities, which seized on his
Catholicism as a successful point of attack
against him. Nu one could deny that he had
always been a Sound and useful Democrat to
the best of his ability, and his official qualifi
cations had been backed by the Democratic
State Convention, and by numerous profession
al endorsements from individuals of eminence
throughout the State who had a right to speak
authoritatively on the point ? And the cor
respondent knows that immediately after his
defeat, by the treacherous defection of certain
Democrats, the position was openly taken ev
erywhere, (without any particular interest for
udge Campbell as an individual) that lie
ought to be appointed Attorney General by
Gov. Bigler, because the party had been be
trayed at the election by dishonest men, and
because the party, itself the victim of betrayal,
required the vindication of its discipline not
only as a matter of party necessity, but in
reference to a great principle that had been
insulted in his person. I have reason to be
lieve there was no particular intimacy at the
time between Gov. Bigler and Judge Camp-
I
hell, but he yielded to a request preferred, on
the grounds I have described, by most of the
prominent men, and all of the prominent jour
nals of the party throughout the State. -While
I need not pursue this subject further, I can
not but remark that the ascription of an
I proper motive to the President and those ivUo
may have advised with him in the selection of
Judge Campbell ffir the office of Postmaster
General is equally groundless—l will not say
equally malicious and false. General Pierce
is, I believe, a Presbyterian in his religious
views; and although many may suppose they
} have reason to find fault with his acts, no one
has any reason to question his sense of honor.
When Gen. Jackson appointed Roger B. Ta
ney Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States, at a time ton when inure Cath
olics voted the Democratic ticket than either
before or since—a great 'man to a great office
—there was no one wicked or foolish enough
to prefer a similar charge against him. But
the charge might have been presented with
just asimich truth and force.
Here is a charge that concerns the honesty
and patriotism of a vreat party—the integrity
and dignity of a Christian Church, and the
honor and truth, both moral and political, of
a number of our most distinguished citizens ?
It should not have been prelmred, unless ca
pable of being sustained by overwhelming
proof. But the author of it eisdains the pro
duction of a single b.ei. It is true, a majority
of the Catholic citizens in the State voted for
Judge-Campbell, but the same men voted with
eagerness for et of the ticket, though all
the ii unities' were Protestants. The same
men had voted the Democratic ticket, in all
probability. Mr five or ten, or twenty years
before.. Is it Mir then, to allege that their
votes Were given to Judge Campbell, merely
because he was a Catholie. Can it be denied
that a large and influential bod 2, of Democrat
ic Catholics in the cit y and county of Phila
delphia, opposed his nomination, or that the
Whig Catholics, in a mass, opposed hint at
the polls. just as deliberately and decidedly as
they did the other Democratic candidates.—
The But/e/in correspondent knows well, that
since the days of Jefferson, the larger portion
of the Catholic vole—without reference to any
"invisible leadersitip - -lue- been Democratic,
and he is just as well infi,rmed that there has
always been a respectable body of Catholic
Federalists or Whigs in the ecututry,and what
was the condition of things. in this respect,
ihrty or fifty years ago, is precisely the state
of things now. But having written thus much
in vindication of my party froth calumny, I
- dismiss the subject.
Knott' Nothingism!rosily seen through.—
It is partly a religious and partly a political
movement. But while I admit there is a vast
deal of smoke, there is after all very little
flame. The authors and leaders of the move
ment have no more real fear of Catholic than
they have of Protestant adopted citizens. It
only suits their purpose to indulge in this
thing partly as amusement, but principally as
business. The politicians are engaged in it
as a means of making a Fillmore or Clayton
Presidential party for '56. The discordant pie
, bald oppositiOn in the Northern States are all
agreed to break clown the Democratic party
first, lint they differ as to future proceedings.
Seine desire, such as Messrs. Seward, tireely,
Weed Co., to cut loose from the Southern
Whigs altogether, and to make the next Pres
idency a purely Northern movement, and thus
to precipitate the crisis of Emancipation or
Disunion. The friends of Mr. Fillmore, as
well as those of Mr... Clayton, have all along
perceived that they have no manner of chance
in a purely pee State party, Hence they in
sist on a _National Convention, and a Southern
representation in it, and all the old issues hay
ing disappeared upon which to effect such an
arrangement, they have cunningly resorted to
this anti-Catholic and anti jbreiyner agitation,
with the view of constituting an American
Union for Presidential objects. It is no bad
idea—considered merely as a spoils and office
making machine; hut it is my solemn convic
tion such a party can only succeed it the sac
rifice of the Law the Constitution and Ameri
can Liberty.
per. The Daily Register, speaking of an ad
dress recently issued by the Democrats of Phil
adelphia. on the subject of a division of the
SchodLl'und, says : "It reviews the legislation
giving a part of the fund to sectarian schools
or religious societies. and shows that the now
obnoxious parts of the late school laws were
passed in 1836, 1838 and 1549, by Whig leg
islatures and approved by Whig Governors.—
The document is a spicy one in many of its de
'tails, and shows clearly that the Whip Com
mittee had forgotten a few things in the his
tory of its party.
tlEir The Penusy Iranimi is publishing a
series of able articles in favor of the "Retro
cession of the Several Districts [of Philadel
phia] into their Original Corporate and Polit
ical Elements." The writer's expose of the
enormous extravagance of the present Whig
municipal government, and the vast increase
of taxation under Mayor Conrad's administra
tion, cannot fail in making a deep impression
upon the minds of that community, and cause
thousands of the eltizens to regret that ever
consolidation was adopted.
Another able Address has been issued
by the Chairman of the Democratic State Cen
tral Committee—but, owing to its great length,
We are compelled to omit its publication in the
present number of the lutelligeneer. It shall
appear next week.
SCHOOL BooKs.—We are gratified to learn
that the "National Series of School Books,"
published by Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co., is
adopted in the schools of this city ; and that
many of these works are abOut to be intro
duced in the schools of Lancaster county.—
We call the attention of friends of Education
to the advertisement of these books in our
columns; the enterprising Publishers having
authorized us to give notice, that the Presi
dent and Secretary of each Board of School Di
rectors, in the several townships of this county.
may obtain copies of their text books for ex
amination, free of cost, by addressing Messrs.
MHRRAY & STOCK, Book-sellers, Lancaster.
its.. The President of the U. S., upon leav
ing the Capitol, on Saturday afternoon, was
grossly insulted by three ruffians—said to be
Southerners. They asked him to take a drink
which he declined, when one of them threw
en egg and hit the 'President on the head.—
He was arrested promptly, but discharged at
the request of Gen. Pierce. The men were in
toxicated.
BentOn s s ThirtyVear's View. e
The first Volume of Col.!Benton's work, de- j
scribing his experience and obervations du
ring alieriod of thirty years in the United
States Senate, has been pUblished by Messrs.
Appleton & Co., of New York. It is a very I
elegant large octavo volunie. The editor of
the New York Evening Past, who. has exam
ined
it thoroughly, speaks of it as follows :
This, we believe, is the first American book
written by a native of a slave state which can
make any pretensions to a permanent, place in
the literature of our country. Jefferson's . ge
nius, culture and experience, qualified him to,
write for posterity, but he was content with
working for them and writing for his contem
poraries. The 'Notes on Virginia,' his most
considerable literary performance, though em
bellished with passages of literary merit, and
displaying powers of description, of reasoning
and of statement of the first Order, were never
designe'd as anything more than a desultory
compilation of facts and figures about his na
tive state and country, thrown together not so
much for the instruction of his own country-:
men as to dispel a portion of the profounder
ignorance of Europeans in relation to Ameri
can affairs. The book - was out of print before
its illustrious author died, and is now rarely
to be found except in old libraries and auction
rooms.
Marshall's Life of Washington, which is the
most voluminous work yet written by an
A.nherican slave holder, is no longer read. If
it bears any traces of its author's uncommon
powers of mind, it is in the depths of dullness
which he explored, and the rigor with which
he has excluded every feature of interest which
might reasonably he looked for in a life of
Washington from the pen of one of • his most
intimate and eminent friends. As one or the
earliest biographies of one of the most remark
able of men, Marshall's book may continue to
occupy a place upon the shelves of our public
libraries, until the edition now in print is
worn out. If it is ever reprinted, it will not
be out of compliment to any permanent liter
ary or historical merit which the work pos
sesses.
Edward Livingston's Criminal Jurispru- .
donee was prepared for and partly at the ex
peuse of a slave state, but he was a native of
of New York, and had achieved his full men
tal stature long before he.became a citizen of
Louisiana or was known to the country as an
author.
Calhoun's "Essay on aovernment" has fall
en dead from the press, and has entirely failed
to attract any attention beyond the political
circle of which,during his life, he was the cen
tre. We cannot learn from the European
press that a single copy has ever been read
the other side of the Atlantic. Though the
work possesses many traces, of its author's pe
culiar talent, and may be read' hereafter by
the diligent student of political science who
is ambitious of leaving nothing upon the sub
ject unread, it has no more title to a perma
nent place in the literature of the country
than Brougham's Political Philosophy or Sid
ney's:Discourses have to a permanent place in
the literature of Great Britain.
Legare was a laborious student, an accom
plished linguist and a tolerably successful es
sayist; but both he and his writings are al
ready forgotten,'though he is scarce ten years
dead. The slave states have produced many
other writers who have won the temporary ad
miration of their countrymen as biographers,
poets, novelists and essayists; but we cannot
name one whose writings have any chance of
being read fifty years hence, except, perhaps
from a curiosity like that which induces peo
ple sometimes to preserve the furniture and do
mestic untensils of their ancestors, to mark the
progress which the world has made iii civil.-
zation since they departed.
The slave States of Anierica have exhibitod
great talents in the field, in the forum and in '
The council chamber; but in authorship they
can hardly be said to have added anything to
the fame of their country. Thomas Hart Ben
ton, a native of a slave State, has proved the!
first exception; for by pretty nearly the unan-!
imous adjudication of all parties and classesl
of his countrymen, he has produced a work'
which possesses a literary power and vitalitt
quite independent of the historical value whit!!
necessarily attaches to the recorded experien
of one who was fur thirty of the most eventful'
'years of our political history, a leading mem-I
her of the C. S. Senate; "in confidence of half
the administrations, and aclolcobserver of the!
others."
The literary execution of this work, the sim.
plieity of its style, and the unexceptioitablo
taste which tempers all its author's allusiorn,
to his contemporaries, have been the subjecto
universal admiration. The well-known fear!,
lessness of his character—his fierce enere-yR
his contempt for all indirect methods of' act
complishing his ends—his temptation to em
brace the opportunity which this work afford
ed him, of taking complete vengeance upon
the numerous political enemies, he had made
during his lung and active public life ; all
these circumstances naturally created sonic ap ,
prehension lest the writer's retrospect of hi
senatorial life should be somewhat distemper
ed by its contemporaneous partialities, ani
mosities and prejudices.
The appearance of the hook has dispelled
this apprehension, and though its merits havh
been very generally and quite elaborately di
cussed by the press during the brieftwo montlo
that it has been before the public, its frcedodi
from those defects which would naturally b•
looked for in a work, written by a statesman,
about the political contrwersies in which he
.himself took an active part, has been univef
sally recognised and almost uniformly co -
mended.
Our general estimation of this work is al
ready familiar to our readers. It was ovr
privilege to publish voluminous extracts from
it in the columns of the Ere#iinti Poet duridg
the year preceding its appearance in a voltur e
and we then stated the favorable impressions
which a subsequent and more complete peru
sal of the work has 'confirmed.
The "'Thirty Years' View," like the Thirty
Years' War of Thucydides, has one element if
immortality, of which it cannot be deprived,—
It embodies an experience which no person
but the writer enjoyed. Hatt Benton died he
fore commencing this work, it would ha 'e
been impossible for the loss to have been e
paired.
It is likewise the best handbook of practi al
democracy to, be found in print. It embra es
a survey of our political history during t e
ssttlement of the most important issues n
volved in the great problem of popular, sov r
eignty in America.
It was during his thirty years' senators' ip
that the divorce of bank and state was acco n
plished, resulting in the establishment of the
independent treasury, and in breaking up he
corrupting alliance between the friends o a
high tariff and of a large surplus revenue.
It was during the same period that our gov
. eminent succesfully contested the right claim
ed by foreign nations , to impress, Ameri an
seamen.
It was during the same period that Con
- Tes
abandoned the "American system" and all
protective tariffs, except as incidental to r ve
nue.
It was during the same period that the ;de
mocratic party took its stand against all inter
nal improvements by the general government,
except for national objects—ricers of nationa
character, and harbors yielding revenue.
It was during the same period that the pre
tended right of a state, or combination 0
states, to secede from the Union received it
quietus.
It was during the Caine period that the dem
ocratic party planted itself in distinct opposi
tion to the agitation, abolition or extension of
slavery by the federal government.
The adoption of a policy for the payment of
the national debt by a corresponding retitle
tion of the public taxes, and the establishMent
of a sound currency upon a basis of unihictu
li
ating and ascertained value, to the excl sion
of irresponsible and fraudulent paper mo ey,
were also the offspring of the thirty years'
legislation in which, as a Senator, Mr. Ben
ton participated. Upon all questions he took
a leading part, and uniformly advocated; the
railicy which was ultmately sustained by; the ,
country. In no other place can be found. so '
full and compact a statement of all the great
principles of public policy with which' the
democratic party has been identified since the
election of President Jackson; and hereafter
it will he convenient to turn to these pages,to
see whether the party professing to be dnmo
cratic has departed from those great princ9les
here so distinctly and sometimes so eloquently
enunciated.
The extraordinary popularity of this work,
which has, thus far, exceeded that of any ork
of its cost, in this -or any other country • has
not surprised us. We have for years ben in
the habit of remarking the wonderful eager
ness with which the least word that falls from
n i a
Mr. Benton's lips or pen are caught up b the
press and the public. His most casual re ark
upon public affairs if it finds its way ' to a
newspaper, is sure of being , quoted from one
. r
L ,
d of the country to the other. ,
We doubt if therejs another man in the ne
n whose speeches and writings, whether ,
lief or elaborate; whether pon private or .
n public affairs, are sure so large and
eager a body of readers. part of this in- i
est springs undoubtedly, from the promi- I
r nt political position which I he has always
occupied, part from his strongly defined indi
viduality, but chiefly from the certainty that
whatever he writes or speaks' will bear the Mt- ,
press of` is athletic intellect and heroic char
acter.
gr . Mr. JONATHAN DORWART; Of this city,
hlts the agency for the sale of the work in
Liaiacaster county.
i From the Pittsburg Morning Post.
Th e Gubernatorial Election--The
. Game of Brag. ' .
EDITORS or POST :-As an old and observing
Lemocrat, I.see no ;cause to be frightened at
the desperate game of brag again played by
the Whig leaders to deceive *heir rank and
file before the election, which they manage to do
)ear after year, thereby causing many of their
followers to lose thousands of dollars by their
repeated misrepresentations, for the Democrats
are compelled in self-defence to cover their
piles when offered. t Their bragging in:1851, '
that JOuhston was to lead Bigler some 20,000;
also, a year after, that Gen. Scott was to lead
('en. Pierce from 30 to 50,000, is of so late a ,
date that every one may remember that Big-'
ler's majority over -Johnston at that election
Was about 0,000, and Pierce's over Scutt
nearly 20,000. The principles that these brag
4.adocia leaders talk :,o much about is whittled ,
'f
oso small-a point, that the principles of any I
f the isms that they arc now connected with,
completely overthrow theirs. And notwith-
Standing a few weeks 'ago they appeared to
;lave theinselves inflated to almost the bursting ,
stint, yet I will venture to assert that after;
he votes have been counted in October next,
I hey, as heretofore, will tell .us with much ap- I
! -mrent pleasantry, that they were fully aware
I hat the democracy would beat them from 10
u 15,000, but as leader, they were bound to
.tri(ct!kj
ticking
t
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oint o k e h e i ti
NN tl i. ; N e .
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r, geeirnti the ones faee tot
of ie
all i
',,heir present buoyancy, which by the by has
1.
o r n e t ( ev t h i
o a nha
t cooled tt t h
ev
latterly,
otes of
the
Democracy
l i l vent tl ie
u v e
; next October will more than hear me out in
the following estimates, and that a profitable
investment might be made by any Democrat
:who has the money to spare, only for about
three months, by betting one hundred dollars
on each of the following divisions, taking them
collectively. The counties arranged under
Democratic gave Bigler majorities in 1851,
and those under Whig gave Johnston major
ities:
- First Division.—'The six Democratic counties
!of Clarion, Clearfield, Westmore
land, Fayette and Greene will give more of a
majority for Bigler, than the six Whig coun
i tie , of Allegheny, Lawrence, Butler, Bedford,
Evi.• 3.1.1 Putter will give to Pollock.
The six Democratic counties-of
Armstrong, Cambria, Centre, Luirerne, Co
lumbia and Susquehanna will give inure of a
ittaji city fur Bigler, than the six Whig coun
ties of Washington, Indiana, Somerset, Blair,
Iltimingdon and Pnimc-will give fur Pollock.
Third. The two Denmeratic counties of
aml Monroe will give Bigler more of a
nmiority, than the two whig counties of Lan
ca-ter and Lebanon will give for Pollock.
Fourth. The two . Democratic counties of
_Montgomery and Schuylkill will give Bigler
in.ire of a majority, than the Ovo 111lig coml.-
tiei of Delaware 'and Chester will, give for
1.4
i th. The Democratic counties of W ne, Per
ry and York wilbgive more of a majority for
Bigler, than the three Whig counties of Dau
phin, A•lants and Franklin will for Pollock.
Sixth, That one-half (twelve) of the thllow
ing twenty-foOr Democratic counties, all hav
ing given Bigler majorities in 1851. not in
cluded in the above estimated divisions, and
which completes the whole number of the
State, [Forest not ineluded in the count,] will
give Bigler more of a majority, in defiance of
every combination that Whiggery may be
able to form against him, than the city and
• • ooty of Philadelphia will give Pollock.
r.,1-!e following ate the twenty-four counties
refered to:—Northampton, Pike, Carbon, Le
high, Bunks, Cumberland, Tiogn, Bradford,
Ly•coMing Northumberland, Montour, Wy
oming, Fultoh, McKean, Elk, Crawford, Mer
cer, Beaver, Sullivan, Juniata, Mifflin, Clin
..
ton, Jefferson, and Warren_ The above esti
mate includes all hut twelve Democratic coun
ties, whose majorities will largely swell those
already claimed for Bigler.
A JACKNON DEMOCRAT.
BRIDGING Tice INITS:gSSIPPI.—According to
the information of the Boston Advertiser, a
new obstacle has been presented to the bridg
ing of the Mississippi at Rock Island, by tip
Ruck Island Company. The Mississippi at
this point is divided into two channels by the
Island of. ROck Island, which Is several miles
long, and contains seven hundred acres of
land. The island belongs to the United States
and the Rock River Company proceeded, un
der the general law of •Congress granting a
right of way to railroads through the United
States public lands, unless such lands are act
ually occupied by custom houses, navy yards,
forts, &c., to build their .bridges across both
ChanneLl, for the purpose of flirming d connee
tion with the Mississippi Railroad. But re
cently, after the bridges have nearly arrived
at a state of completion, the island has been
claimed by the War Department as a military
reservation. • It seems that String the last
war with Great Britain, a fort was built on
the southern end of the island. This fort was
occupied as long as there was any use fur it,
and then, a number of years ago, abandoned.
Now, however, the Hon. Jefferson Davis, Sec-
Iretary of War, maintains the claim of the War
Departinent to the island, and refuses to sell
or lease on any terms, the right of way. Mr.
Davis has further sent an officer to the island
with instructions to remove
. the trespassers
from the spot. -The Company, however, are
determined to persevere in the construction of
the bridges, unless they are forced by the Sec
retary Of War to give up the work.
A P.iiRALLEL.—There is a striking parallel
between the action of the opponents of De
mocrac3• now, and the opponents of Democra
cy in tlie days of the liartfordConvention. This
parallel is remarked upon by the Teri/ion/
Patriot. in the follomiing truthful terms :
The Hartford Convention was called,among
other things; 'to check the encroaehments of
the slai - e power," winch it was said the pur
chase of Louisiana N'RS intended to advance,
and which Mr. Jefferson and the Democratic
party *ere accused 'of secretly aiding. And
this was to he done 1?y the formation of a grand
SECTIONAL NORTIIEnN PARTY, whose objeet was
treason to the Statds and dissolution of the
Union. The Northern men who favored the
Convention denounced their
. Southern party
friends, and cutting loose from them, attempt
ed a magnificent coalition of all parties to car
ry out their treasonable schemes, under the
specious pretext of (checking the advance of
the slave power, arid meeting the overwhelm
ing influence of thelSouth in our national coun
cils. What is the difference between the ori
gin, the objects, and the pretexts of the old and
the new Federal parties? None at all! Now
as then, disappointed office seekers and bro
ken down party hacks and their leaders; trai
tors, tories. fanatics, infalels,atheists, the tools;
the pretext, the slavepower and the influence
of the South; a sectional party the instrument
and a dissolution of the Union the object
The instinct of the tuen,the material, the tools,
the pretext and the object are identically the
same. •,
TUE SCHOOL FUND.—The Whig State Cen
tral Address takes ground against a division
of the School Fund for sectarian purposes, al
leging that such a thing is to be apprehended.
This is modest, verfmodest. It is a fact, that
the Secretary of the Whig Central Committee
that issued that Address voted for a division of
the School fund. It is a fact that George Dar
sie, the 'Whig candidate for Canal Commis
sioner, bored for the same measure.. It is a fact
that both Governor Ritner and:Governor John
ston, whig governors, approved the measure.
It is well, after this display of morbid desire,
that whigs 'should emblazen on their banner
an opposite idea, supported by an inuendo
that the school fund was in danger by the
democrats.—Jeffersonian.
ige. The Democratic State Central Commit,
tee is to meet at the Merchants' Hotel, in
Philadelphia, on the 17th inst.
The Last Hours of the Session.
Confusion worse confounded--Sam. Houston
helping matters along—The Minnesota In
vestigating Committee Col. Forney Trium
phantly Sustained--Attempt to prolong the
Session—The New York Murder.
• WASHINGTON', July 3- P. M.
The closing hours of the session are closing
with the usual noise, bustle, excitement, con
fusion and diaorder.• Most of the alwropria
tion bills have to be retouched and revised by
the House or Senate, and,minutes are as valu
able now as days were a few months ago. In
order to expedite business, Sam Houston is
holding forth in the Senate about Texas in gen
eral, and Commodores in particular. Is not
this a sweet exemplification of the ruling pas
sion (to waste time) strong, not exactly in
death, but in l dying moments of the ses-
This has been a proud day for Col. Forney,
fur his character for honor and integrity has
been fully' endorsed and nobly vindicated by
the.representatives of the people. The Min
nesota Investigating Committee made their
report this morning, in which they fully crone
rated Co!. John w. Forney, Clerk of the House
front all censure. The valiant Col. Hunt, of
Louisiana—fly what motive the Lord only
knows !—then moved that Col. Forney be ex
pelled from the House 1! The yeas and nays
were called, and out of a body composed of two
. hundred and thirty-four members, sixteen men
bees were found voting to sustain Cul. Hunt's
' motion. After the persevering slanders of
the Whig and Abolition Members, only
a corporal's guard could he raised for the
work of malicious destruction ! Sixteen mem
bers—all told ! As a matter of curiosity,
their names should be preserved. Here is the
list:
,Messrs. Abererkuube, Beuhett, Carpenter,
Cux, Flagler, Grey, Hill, Huut, Leteher,
son, Parker, Powell, Stuart, Wheeler and
Aiken.
The Minnesota land bill was repealed abso
lutely by the House, by a vote of 105 yeas to;
a 9 nays.
Owing to the late period of the session, the
reciprocity treaty cannot be carried into effeci
tier the want of the necessary appropriations.—
So also in regard to the President's recommen
dations as embodied in his message to the
Senate un our relations with the Spanish Gov
ernment.
Francis Burt, Esq., of South Carolina, has
been appointed Governor of Nebraska. The
appointment is an excellent one in every re
spect. Mr. Burt at present occupies the post
of Third Auditor of the Treasury.
• An attempt will be made in the Senate sonic
time this evening to prolong the session until
Monday next, at noon.
Governor - Reeder is in the city. Ile leaves
fur Kansas on the Ist of October.
The New York murder causes considerable
excitement in Washington. Both Dr. Graham
and his victim, Col. Loring, are well known
here. Col. Luring held the office, at the time
of his death,' of ReceiVer of Public Lands at
California. No less than nine appli
cations were made to the Secretary of the In
terior, this morning, for the vacant office.—
cor. PelinNyirantan.
FANATICIS3I.-" The Constitution of the U.
States vas solemnly burnt on the 4th of July
at Farmingham, Massachusetts, by the Aboli
tionists, amid the loud applause and rejoicings
of the assembled crowd. These are the indi
viduals who resolved to celebrate the anniver-
nary of American Independence with funeral
ceremonies. We du not know any set of men
who have greater cause for mourning than
those imbued with, suehmiserable fanatteism."
—Philadelphia Ledger.
Su say we. A set of men who lives in this
country, claiming the privileges of citizens,
ai,d asking the protection of law fur them
selves and property, to solemnly burn the Con
stitution a/ . the Culled; States, to show their de
testation of it, proves clearly that all the ti)ols
are nut yet dead. Fanaticism, like a cancer,
is eating up the once patriotic feelings of the
people of Massachusetts, and producing in its
stead political, as well as moral, rottenness.—
When such men as Parker and Philips, two
as crazy fanatics and unmitigated humbugs as
the world ever saw, rule the people of the
State, what can community:expect from them,
on the 4th of July, but just such an act as
burning the Constitution/ And these are the
men with whom the Whig party of the coun
try associates and sympathises! These are
the men who desire to abolish slavery, by
burning the Constitution of the Union! if
justice had her due they would be consigned
to the lowest depths of infamy.—Butler Her
ald.
THE SUpREME COURT.—The Miners' Jour
nal, speaking of the recent decision of the Su
preme Court in Barr's case, says "all the
Philadelphia papers," including the Ledger,
"denounce it." Not quite so fast, neighbor.
The Ledger does no such thing. Some news
papers may think it proper and decent to de
nounce the Court, and endeavor to show its
action inconsistent, but every lawyer knows
that its decision was funned upon a correct in
terpretation of the statutes, and that the dis
tinction it makes between
,proceedings under
the Sunday law and proceedings under the
license laws is not only good common sense;
but strict legal justice. The business of the
Supreme Court is to interpret law, and inter
pret
it strictly, not to make laws. If the law
is not sufficient in all cases to reach a public
evil, there is the same recourse to the citizens
they always had for a sufficient remedy—they
can apply to the Legislature and have a law
passed which will accomplish the object de
sired. All the denunciation of, and appeals
to, the Supreme Court are not only in very
bad taste, but - in very bad judgment, for if
they have any of the effect for which they are
intended, the tendency is to weaken that res
t pect for the law and those who administer it,
which is the best safeguard to the citizen of
his civil onpolitical rights.. The Mayor may
have considered it proper, under the opinion
of an inferior Court, to bind tavern keepers
over for keeping a disorderly tippling house
when they open their taverns on Sunday; but
if this is not law, the Supreme Court is bound
to say so, and show the true legal remedy, as
they have done. If it did not do this it would
'be derelict to its duty, and deserve to be im
peached before the Legislature. With Legis
lative action always within reach, there i 4 no
necessity for straining the statutes, or giving
them a construction which will operate 'op
pressively upon any portion of our citizens.
At the next session of the Legislature such
laws may be adopted as will effectually pre
vent the sale of liquors on Sunday—that is, if
a majority of the citizens of the Commonwealh
are in favor of such a prohibition.—Public
kedger.
JUDGE POLLOCK'S POSITIOS.-ID an article
upon Judge Pollock's position on the Nebras
ka question, the Pittsburg Commercial Jour
nal, a leading Whig paper, says:
"We published yesterday a letter from
Judge Pollock, which ought certainly to be
satisfactory to the opwnents of that measure.
His position on the I\ ebraska question is all
that can be required by the most devoted
friend of freedom. Recall his words:
"Slavery can have no legal existence in those
territories either by the act of Congress, or
under the false pretence' of "popular sover
eignty."
We do not recollect to have seen the letter
in question, but if Mr. P.'s position is a core
rect one, and if as he says "slavery can have nO
legal existence in those territories," what in the
name of common sense is all the agitation
against the Nebraska Bill based upon? If
slavery can't have a legal existence there
since the passage Of the new territorial bill,
we are at a loss to comprehend how that bill
was such a terrible blow to the cause of free
dom. According to Judge Pollock's lo , rci the
condition of Nebraska and Kansas with refer
ence to the slavery question remains entirely
unchanged by the new Territorial Bill; for
while the prohibition which has been abolish
ed could certainly have done no more than
make slavery illegal there, Judge Pollock con
tends that ever since its repeal, slavery still
can have no legal existence in those regions.
It is plain thereforethat! if Judge Pollock's
judgment in the Nebraska question is sound,
the hue and cry about the extension of slavery
is all a humbug. All that legislation could
do upon the subject would be to make slavery
illegal, and that he contends already has been
done, despite the new bills. Our opponents
mar take which ever horn of the dilemma
suits them best, either•that their nominee is a
`"linoiv Nothing," on this subject, or that
their well feigned agony about slavery exten
sion is all gammon.—Pennsylvanian.
• SErThe election in North Carolina, it
is thought has resulted in the election of the
Whig candidate for Governor, Mr. DOCKERY.
Bar Congress' adjourned sine die on yester
day morning—after a eeseion of eight months.
, .
Chester County la Slottonl
The Democratsl4of Ch ter met in County
Meeting, at West Chests on Tuesduy last.—
The meeting is said to I ave been tery large
and enthusiastic. 1A n ber of spirited and
patriotic resolutions wer unanimously adop
ted, amongst whiah,are t e following :
Resolved, That Vie sel tion of WILT,T AM
BIGLER by the late deknocmtic cnvention,
as the standard bearer of e democracy in the
present gubernatorial co test, meets with our
most hearty approval. is entire administra
tion has been eminently_ emocratic, unselfish,
and devoted to the
,best i terests of the i whole
people of the State. s frank and manly
lh
course upon all great qu tions--hi4 action in
relation to the Erie diffi lties,—his vetoes of
bad legislation—his bol opposition-to the en
croachments of incorpo 'ons, and his success
in bringing about a radial reform in omnibus
and special legislhtion, r ceive our unqualified
approbation. The dem. racy of hester, in
common with their bre ren of the tate, hail
his re-nomination with light and pledge him '
the united vote of the de ocracy of {ho county.
Resolved, That-the qu . lifications of the Hon.
JEREMIAH S. BLAC "., for th office of
Judge of the Supreme C.urt,-to which he has
been nominated, none spute. LOug exT:ieri-
in, official station,
ence as a Judge, well e
ties, amenity and court,
a;;;Iiiv:Ii; social life,re the ,qualities which
fit him for the office and insure his election.
Re.yoired, That in the choice of AENRY S.
MOTT. as the candida for Canil Commis
sioner, the Democracy v ' the statd have done
justice to the "Old T nth legion" of the
North by placing in n minittion One of her
cherished and favorites us, and we will prose
our fidelity to•her inter st, aqd her unwaver
ing democracy by his t iumphantielection on
the second Tuesday of etober next.
Re.olrel, That as tr e Reinibllan Demo
crats we can have' nos ?upathy ilor associa
tion with any secret or ath bound organiza
tion for political purpo es, whateler name' it
may assume, especially one whoselobject is to
proscribe any, portion o our people; but we go
now, as always, for tha exalted philanthropy,
which proscribes no ma for ()Omen sake, dis
criminating neither fur or against, any on ac
count of religion Or bi th, but iuuiting to our
American Republic the oppressed} and down
trodden of every natio i. as Litchi safe reTuge
from tyranny, and the ionic for the freemen
of the world!
SPECIAL MESSAGE .F THE PIIESIDENT IN
REFERENCE. TO THE B - LIBARDNENt OF GREY-
To 3 WN.—The President' special message in re
ply to the call of the h use for information in
relerence to the bomb trdment of Greytown,
occupies about seven c lums of thp Union, and
is accompanied by the orresphndence between
Mr. Marcy, the secre cry of state, and Mr.
Borland, minister to C ntral America, in ref
erence to the outrage c unnitted du the latter,
the correspondence be ween Mr.l Marcy and
in
Mr. Sabin, the stru .tions of the secretary
of the navy, and Mr. obbin to Cap. Hollins,
and the official report df the lattei relative to
the bombardment. Ir. Bobbih instructed
Capt. 11. only to dem nd apology and repar
ation, but the department approves of the
course which he purse d. The correspondence
shows other gross ou ages committed upon
the American flag , d Amerhian citizens;
than the outrage upo4 Mr. Borhind, and is a
full vindication of Captain Hollins' conduct.
siilNGTosdAtigust 2
aty was eo`nfirmed by a
Ito eight nays. Messrs.
-Pratt, Clayton,
e voted in: the negative.
proposes to-morrow to
at bill for the acquisi
liendment to the Army
'ill oppose it, and the re-
The Reciprocity Try
rote of thirty-six yeas
Cooper, Brodhead, 1.
Foot, of Vt., and Wa
Mr. Mason, of Va.,
bring in the ten milli,
tion of Cuba. as at'
bill. lien. Houston IN
suit is doubted.
d early iii Consequence
he friendti of the Land
ind IfarlAr bills. The
The Ifouse adjourn
of a contlictt between
Graduation and Riverl
prospect is bad for. Lo
Two or three
and Army and Navy
b - the Senate.
d Consuls, Postmasters,
ronaitionsi were passed
P. UNTY ITEMS
CITY AND CO,
10 - The Whig County Convention will meet in
this city to-morrow. There is fun filmed !
CoN.rnAc - r.—Messrs.kau!z &Kink have receiv
ed the contract for the Millersville and Safe-Harbor
Pike, at $20.000. Theylwill commence operations
immediately. ,
Fins.—The barn of 11r. Kitik Ewing, in Little
Britain township, was uestroyed by:fire orrSunday
evening week---tsupposeil to have been the work of
an incendiary. Mr. E's loss is eh/int s2soo—on
which there was ° slooolinsurance. j Two valuable
horses, about 1000 busiels of wheat, and a large
quantity of hay, were consumed.
11:7 - The VG fkafrtundi commenced its 47th year
on Tuesday last, and 37th under th 4 editorial man•
agement of Mr. Beart.l Herealter lit will be con
ducted by JOHN BEAR k Sons.
THE LATE RODBEHT.I—It Will lie remembered
by our readers, that .Ir. Alalonela railroad con
tractor of this city was lately robbed of a large
sum of money. at.a ho el in Philadelphia. The
thief or thieves, as e learn, p+eeded to New
York with the money, inch they exchanged for
gold on Friday last, an at once sailed for South
ampton. The propliet r of the office in which
the money was exchan v ed, suspecting that all was
not right. telegraphed lo the offwecs of the Lancas
ter Bank, the bills being on that institution, when
the track of the thieves was discovered. Before
measures could be taken for their arrest, they bad
sailed for England. Tiey will be ifollowed in the
next steamer. The amount obtanted was $4OOO,
—lnland Daily. I ,
ID' At a meeting i+he School pirectors of this
city on l'hursday evenng. last. the- following per
i
sons were fleeted teaci
ers: /
Male Teachers, M. avis, Rev. Drisdule, Messrs.
Preston, Rowe Twitting, Nourae.l
Female Teachers, M ..s C. Mussel, Miss M. Gill,
Miss A. E. Eberman Miss !O'Donnell, Miss S.
Smith, Miss A. Smith,, Mrs. N. Mailey, Miss S.
Musser, Miss Magee, Miss White.lMiss D. Miller,
Miss H. Hoffmeir, Miss C. A.lEberman, Miss
Sampson, Miss C. Wenger, Miss bale)", Miss Gil
lespidf Miss Boyd, Miss Hassard, Miss Rakestraw,
Mrs. C. Reinstine, Mrs. Eicholtk, Mrs. Moore,
Miss Benner, Miss A. H. Crornwell, Miss H.
Mayer. Miss Markee; Miss Vogdi,, Miss Walker,
Miss Jeffries, Miss Brboks, Miss teigerwalt.
Leaving Mr. Rowe'ic t present station open.
Miss ussell's 1 ' "
Mien 1. •Voigtit's t
Those Ladies being unable to be examined by
:he County Superintehdent but will do so •belore
'he next meeting of board, which will be on
:he lltb of the preseot month. I
I
For the Intelligencer.
• CAPT. SANDERSON —DE.../LA Sia :—There is
miserable faction amOng us endeavoring to create
political capital, by pretending to fear a , division
of the Public School Fund , for the benefit of our
Catholic citizens in such districts wherein they
may have a majority of tax-payeis.
Now we all know that there is no such question
before the people, end no partyasking or expect
ing any such division. But for tear of it transpir
ing at some unexpected moment l the "Know NothL-....,
logs" of Marietta aya determined to take "time
by the forelock," and buckle bn their armor, as
may be seen by the following extract from an ad
vertisement in the Mariettian of August let ;
"NOTICE TO TEACHERS)?—"The Board of
School Directors of arietta District are desirous
to engage the services of five competent Protestant
Teachers, to take charge of the schools of
the Borough for the ensuing session j° &c., &c.
An editorial also gives a rather glowing deicrip
tion of the new fesitures about being introduced
into the future management' of the Public Schools
under the present board, without the slightest
"note or comment' on the nnafeature of it being
a requirement, that all candidaies for examination
most per force be Protestant', nr teach protestant
ism. Now, Mr. Editor, what clo you think of this
outrageous assumption of power T What is the
object, and at whorre instigation 7 Is it merely an
outburst of prejudice in those would-be Solonsi the
requirements of a Isecret association of Church
Burners, or in consequence , ofian order from our
new County Superintendent of Public Schools?
I designed making applicat(on for one of the
schools myself, butinot being a;member of any re
ligious body, nor timing any particular predilec
tions, (not having stifficient hypocrisy to undertake
the implied course pf psalmisinging and long pray
, ors, nor the moral (courage! to force the doctrines
of one denomination upon persons belonging to
another,) I, of course] cannot be an applicant with
the most remote hope of success.
I had always understood andlbelieved, any citi
zen to be entitled to teach in 6 the Public Schoe/4
who had the necessary qualifications to impart a
general education, !independently of all sectarian
ism; and that religious exercises were never in
tended by the spirit of the , School law) to be in
troduced in our tichools by any denomination
whether Jew or Gentile.
As our dounty SeperinteMdent is a resident of
Marietta, it will bid interesting to know whether
this has been done with hie sanction, apd whether
he grants his certificates to teachers upon these
tering, instead of ability. horie not, because it is
hie duty to impeach this Board of Asses for their
illegal action, and have another appointed who
may be at least supposed to "snow Sgmathing."
Whether he will or not, remeins to be nen. In
the,mean time I remain, I
• Yours truly, I A TEACHER.
Donee& TAT., lug. 4, 1864.