itteU Journal.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
IiANWTER, NOVEMBER 7,1864.
'A Column of Falsehoods t- -
The disorgan2:zing • month-piece cle*lure:
huzia and .korexx, of Wednesday last, has
nearly a column of its usual slang against the
editor of this paper, and one inly° other gez!-
ilemen whom it is pleased to designate
ing Buchanan Democrats." Such is the char
acter of that sheet, that it is scarcely necessa
ry for us to say thattheentirestring of charges
about "scheming and intriguing with the
Whigs," either in Cumberland or Lancaster
county, are entirely destitute offoundation—
foul lies from beginning to end—and when
ever the owners and controllers of that paper
will lay aside generalities and come down to
particulars, we pledge ourself to prove them
wilful and consummate falsifiers, by the most
irrefragable testimony. _ And, so far as the
editor•of the Intelligencer is concerned, they
are at perfeeiliberty to trace our political his
tory
back for five and twenty years—here and !
elsewhere ,duringall of which time we have
taken an active part in politics, and if they
can place their finger on a solitary instance
of delinquency to the Democratic •party—its
principles, its customs, or its usages—we ask
tlie - i - n to point it out, and expose us to the gaze
of the public. We have no concealments on
this score. We are perfectly willing to give
the disorganizing crew the full length of the
tether, and dare them to the investigation.—
So, come on ye vile slanderers, with_ all your
Woolly-Head Know-Knothing coadjutors in
the work of disorganization and infamy. Put
your hounds upon the scent—" Tray, Blanche,
Sweetheart," and all—and if they can ferret
out any thing treacherous, or disreputable; or
anti-democratic in our political history, from
our boyhood to the present time, publish it by
all means. We anxiously solicit the investi
gation either here, in Lancaster—or in Cum
berland county, where we spent the greater
portion of our life.
Now, then, put your blood-hounds on the
track without farther delay.
Personal
The Disorganizers' Organ is disposed to find
fault with the editor of this paper, because wo
held several offices of profit and trust in our
native county of Cumberland. We plead
guilty to the soft impeachment. We were ap
pointed Prothonotary of Cuinberland county by
Governor PORTER, (although not an applicant
for the office,) and afterwards nominated as
the Democratic candidate for the same, and
elected, too, by a majority of 530 votes over
a very worthy and popular Whig opponent.—
This office, at the time, was worth about $BOO
per annum. We were also appointed by Pres
ident Pots, Postmaster of Carlisle—an office
worth from $9OO to slooo—and that, also, af
ter having withdrawn our application and re
commended another person. In addition to
these, we were elected and served one year as
Assessor of Shippensburg, (worth about $2O)
and served three years as Clerk to the Council
of that Borough, for which we received about
$4O per annum. We were subsequently elect
ed Assessor of the Borough of Carlisle, which
latter office we did not accept. We were also
elected and served twelve years in the Board
of School Directors of Carlisle, and likewise ono
year as a member of the Town Council. We were
also elected a Captain, and served some three
or four years3M command of the oldest
llfili
tary Company, save one, in the State. These,
we believe, are all the offices we held, either
by appointment or election in that County.—
How we discharged the duties appertaining to
them, it is not to for us to say. If our Guer
rilla Woolly-Head Know-Nothing adversaries
desire to find out, they can examine the re
cords at Harrisburg and Washington' for the
two first mentioned, and enquire of the peo
ple of Cumberland county, of all parties and
sects, for such other information about them
and'the balance of the list as they may desire.
We have done.
The Collectorship
The Disorganizers' Organ—alias the ally of
the Woolly-Head Whigs and Know-Nothings
—is respectfully informed that the editor of
Intelligencor is not now, and never has been an
applicant for the Collectorship on the Rail
road—although we are well aware that its
masters originated the story, and have been
busily engaged, for the last ten days or more,
in circulating it. If it were true, we arenot con
scious that we weuld thereby commit a mortal
offence against either the public or the Demo
cratic party ; but as it is a sheer fabrication,
we wish to ease the minds of the Guerrillas
on the subject. If they, or any of their friends
wish to apply for the office, we will not cross
their path with a counter application. We,
therefore, advise them to try. their luck before
the Canal Board.
A Constitutional Party
A movement has been started in Philadel
phia which looks to the formation of "Clubs"
to protect the Constitution against Know-
Nothingism, in which the true men of both
parties are expected to unite and act in con
cert. This may be well enough, provided
the movement is not intended to accomplish
something else than appears upon the sur
face. For our own part, we are of the opin
ion that the Democratic party has always been
the Constitutional party, and has with un
flinching devotion upheld it against all its en
emies under whatever guise they appeared—
and we can see no reason now to give up our
distinctive organization, (if such be the object
contemplated in the formation of " Constitu
tional Clubs,") which has stood the test of
more than half a century; for the purpose of
forming a new -party with a new name, or un
der new auspices.
At the recent election, there were one hun
dred and sixty-seven thousand good and true
men of the Democratic party, who were faith
ful to the Constitution and its compromises.—
So that we are still a great party, despite all
the combinations that have been formed
against us ; and if we maintain our principles
firmly, there is no reason to doubt our tri
umphant success at the next trial of strength.
But how is it with the Whig party, once so
powerful in Pennsylvania? It is swallowed
up and lost in Abolitionism andKnoto-Noth
ingism—and of that once proud organization,
there are but about seventy or eighty thou
sand left (see Darsie and Smyser's vote) who
have not "bowed the knee to the image ofßaat 1"
Then, what is their -true course to pursue,
if they are sincerely the friends of the Consti
tution? As a party, or rather the fragment
of a party, they are powerless for good by
themselves—and their proper policy is at once
to abandon the name of Whig, and attach
themselves to the Democratic party, the only
organization which has been faithful to the
Country and its institutions, and which will
continue to exist long after the isms and fac
tions of the present day are buried in the deep
ocean of oblivion.
With these views, we are not at present pre
pared fully to approve of the new organiza
tion contemplated by some of our Democratic
friends and others in Philadelphia. It may
possibly be a good movement—but we would
advise Democrats' to be sure it is so, before
comtnitting themselves too deeply to the meas
ure. We want some further light on the sub
ject.
Whose Victory Is It !
It is amusing to read the oppesition.plis,
just now, and to note the complacency with
which the organs of each faction of the late
combination claim the election as their tri
umph. The manner in which they speak df
their " victory," goee far to show that their
union cannot lust, aid tluit the seeds of de
'struction, which we have often mentioned as
inherent in all coalitions, are beginning to
germinate even now: The Democracy of this
State, by a base combination, have been de
feated, but the elements composing this Gam
bination:will surely fall to pieces. In the first
place we had the *hip proper to contend
against; then we had the Free Soilers, Aboli
tionists, Snow-Nothings, and, generally
speaking, the Maine Law men. In addition
to the foice these several factions brought to
bear against us, we had the opposition of a
few miserably selfish creatures in every coun
ty (calling themselves Democrats,) who had
been. applicants for office either to the State
ational Administration. These several
factions, made up of men of all opinions, al
though powerless, for evil single handled,
form a majority when united. In the late
contest it required the united efforts of these
four or five distinct parties or factions to strike
down the Democratic flag. As we said before,
such a combination cannot hold together—it
is rotten, corrupt, selfish, and devoid of a sol
itioy principle, and must and will totter and
fall.
But, our object in commencing this article
was to draw the attention of our readers to
the position occupied, and the language now
Lused by the different journals that assisted to
strike down WILLIAM BIGLER and a large ma
i jority of the Democratic candidates for Con
gress, Assembly, &c. We have before us four
papers, all of them zealous champions in the
late contest against the Democratic party.—
We quote, first, from an old Whig paper. It
says:
- 'The election of Judge PoLLocs, is a Whig
Triumph—he was nominated by. the Whigs,
without the aid of any other party. If men
of other parties choose, to vote for him, it was
because they believed him a better and more
honest man than the loco foco demagogue who
was his competitor, but this makes Pollock no
less a Whig. We repeat, then, the Whigs
claim the election of Judge P. as their
triumph."
Such is the language of a prominent Whig
organ, and, judging from the position it occu
pies in the party, we have no doubt the editor
speaks 'by the book.' But to proceed. We
now quote from a red mouthed Abolition pa
per, published in Philadelphia. The editor
says:
His (Pollock's,) election is the greatest tri
umph the Abolition cause has ever achieved
in this State, and is a scorching rebukto
those traitors and traffickers in human flesh,
Pierce, Douglas and others. We are rejoiced
to know that Mr. Pollock received the united
Abolition vote of the State, and it was this vote
that secured his election. In the different
Congressional destricts, too, our friends have
performed their whole duty, and by their ener
gy and their votes a nearly solid anti-Nebras
ka delegation will represent this State in the
nest Congress. Every anti-slavery man in the
Union will rejoice in our great victory.'
It will be seen by the above that the Aboli
tionists claim Judge Pollock's election as a
great triumph for their party. INay, more,
they claim the election of the different anti-
Nebraska Congressmen, as an endorsenient of
Abolition principles, and are unwilling to
share the glory or the profits with the other
factiDns. Well, what say the sneaking Know-
Nothings—those men who skulk to:their lodges
at midnight wearing disguised clothing and
masked faces—what do they say? We quote
as follows from one of their most corrupt or
gans:
'lt will he seen that Judge POLLOCK the
American candidate is elected by a majority
of over 30,000! With the exception of some
half dozen, the members of Congress elect are
also Americans in feeling, and are :elected
through the exertions of the American organ
ization. The result of this election is the
death knell to both the old political parties.
Whiggery was in a measure, dead before the
election, and we think this tr, finishing stroke
to Loco focoism. In dispensing his patronage,
we feel sure Judge Pollock will not only be
just but liberal toward the American party,
for, to this party is ho indebted for his brill
iant triumph.
Such is the languge of the Knew-Nothings.
In all quarters of the country where they ex
ist at all, they are shouting themselves hoarse
over their triumph. They are becoming ram
pant, furious and impudent, and talk as flip
pantly about what they are going to do, and
who they are going to ruin, as if the whole
country belonged to them. But, to another
extract, from a par-excellent temperance jour
nal, to show the cool impudence with which
the editor speaks of the Democratic party.
'Whether or not the Main law question has
carried, we cannot yet determine, as the ma
jority for or against it will be small, but we
have scceeded inelecting our Governor, and we
think, a majority of members of Assembly.
This is a great triumph for the cold water ar
my. The loco focos made herculean efforts
to sustain their rum candidates for Governor,
Congress, and members of Assembly, but the
temperance men were aroused and defeated
their adversaries at nearly every point. Gov.
Bigler and his party of rum suckers are con
demned by the voice of a sober people. Tem
perance men rejoice at the great and sublime
triumph we have achieved.' &c.
Thus, it will be seen that each faction claims
the result of the recent election as theirtriumph.
The medicine begins to work already. Let it
work. Let the various corrnpt elements of a
corrupt combination ferment, fume, flame and
fight, A spectacle will be presented which
will amuse sensible men and instruct and
warn honest youths. In the dead of night
thieves have stolen a treasure, and at day
break they have brought the officers of justice
upon them by their loud wrangling whilst dis
tributing the spoils. There are analogies in
this world, and they teach the Democracy to
remain firm, honest, and true, by promising
success as the sure reward of firmness, honesty,
and truth.--American 'Volunteer.
lief'The pattern of morality and honesty
who presides over the editorial columns of the
Saturday Express, speaking of Col. BAKER,
the able and gentlemanly Superintendent of
the Railroad, thus gives vent to his temperate
and virtuous Know-Nothing feelings:
"We have no objections, however, to any
thing said except the puff of Superintendent
Baker, who has acted beneath the dignity of a
man, and, as an officer is a disgrace to the
other gentlemen named in connection with
him."
This is a sweeping denunciation—and. we be
gin to wonder whether Col. Baker has been
convicted of forgery, or any other heinous
crime, which should call down such a torrent
of abuse upon his devoted head.
"He [the editor •of the Intelligencer] has
charged us with belonging to the order of
Know-Nothings --we now retort by charging_
him with being a Simon pure Loyolian Jesuit,
and challenge him to disprove it 1"
We clip the above precious morceau from
the Saturday Express, the so called organ of
the_ Temperance party in this City. It is
decidedly rich—is'nt it? We now make a
proposition., If the fellow will go with us be
fore a Magistrate, we will take a solemn oath
that he lies—wilfully and deliberately:Zia; but
we shall also ask him to take a similar oath
that he does not belong to the order common
ly called Know-Nothings, as we have charged
him. Perhaps he will be afraid "to risk his
soul's salvation" by taking such an oath.
We shall .see.
Tliarsday the 23d of November (not
the 30th as stated in many papers) is to be
Thanksgiving Day—see Proclamation.
Morinonlsm Deglan.t.
It is resented that President Pierce iz .
resolved to reduce the territory of Utah, from
arornalons'attitide iridepeudenctr, to
subjection the laws and sovereignty of the.
Federal Government, and that to this end he
proposes to replaceßrightun Young by aGov_
ernor of elitist:um faith and decent demeanor.
This is a step in the right direction ; but why
not at once adopt a thorough policy? A mere
show of authority must only exasperate, while
a sudden and vigorous blow might reduce the
people of Utah to a salutary Sense of depen
dence. Perhaps, therefore, it would be wiser
if the Cabinet would summarily eject every
Mormon from office, and bestow the judicial
as well as the executive authority in the ter
ritory upon men who revere the principles
and usages of Christian
But, what if Brigham Young and his thir
ty thousand Polygamists assume an attitude
of defiance, and refuse to submit to the author
ity of the Federal Government? This is like
ly enough, for when they were lees less pow
erful and insolent, they drove away a Judge
with a Federal commission in his pocket, be
cause he did not choose to speak respectfully
of their polygamous usages. Indeed Brigham
Young has avowed a purpose of resistance.—
In an address in the Desert News of March 10,
1854, he said :
"We have got a territorial government, and
I am and will be the Governor, and no power
can hinder it, until the Lord Almighty says,
"Brigham, you need not be Governor any
longer," and then I sm willing to yield to
another." * * * * *
"Nn person need trouble themselves about
whether or no he would be removed, for the
Lord would control that matter just as he
pleased, and neither President Pierce nor any
other President would remove him until the
Lord permitted." * * * *
"Every man that comes to impose on this
people no. matter by whom they are sent, or
Who tifey are that are sent, they lay the axe
at the root of the tree to kill themselves—they
had better be careful how they come here,lest
I should bend my little finger." * *
Here is a public defiance- 2 a declaration of
war against the Federal Government, in the
event that it chooses to assert its authority in
the territory of Utah. Will the Cabinet be
intimidated by this threat of violence ? On the
contrary, it supplies them with an additional
argument in favor of an energetic and thor
ough policy. The Mormons betray a spirit of
vindictive and undying hatred of this govern
ment. They refuse to recognize its authority.
They will not comply with its requisitions so
far even as to transmit a copy of their laws,
or a statement of their public expenditures.—
They openly declare that the Federal Govern
ment must either tolerate their barbarous in
stitutions, or else prepare to vindicate its au
thority by force.
Utah cannot come into this confederacy
with polygamy as a legal institution. Squat
ter Sovereignty may affirm the right of the peo
ple of a territory to "determine their own in
stitutions ;" but there is a sovereignty above
the sovereignty of squatters. The sovereign
ty of reason, of religion, of civilization—the
sovereignty of the collective will of the Amer
icon people, forbids a fraternal association be
tween a people who profess the pure morality
of the religion of Jesus, and a people who live
under the dominion of lust, and practice the
licentious excesses of oriental barbarism.—
Utah cannot approach the bridal altar of this
Union covered with scars and polluted by the
poison of foul disease. She must purge
herself of the presence of polygamy; she must
come with the bloom of virgin innocence and
strength.
There can be no fellowship between Mor
mon and Christian. They cannot exist under
the same social system—they cannot be part
ners in political power. Freedom ofconscience
is one thing, exemption from the restraints of
decency
_and morality quite another. The
constitution guarantees religious liberty, ' ` but
gives no license to the excesses of concupis
cence.
Mormonism is theocracy and involves not
only a social gradation and inequality, but an
anti-republican alliance between church and
State. No country can be free in which poly
gamy prevails. Utah can demand admission
into the Union by no claim of reason or of
right. The people will repel its embrace with
universal and unconquerable aversion.
If, then, there is this antagonism between
Christianity and Mormonism, between the es
sential virtues of society and the polluting
vice of pologamy,.between the Liberty of re
publicanism and the theocratic institutions of
Utah, why should the Federal Government
parley and temporise, and seek, by expedients
of conciliation, to postpone the inevitable con
flict? Nothing can be gained by delay or
concession. To talk of compromising with
Mormonism, or of tolerating it in the least re
pulsive of its aspects, is to insult the reason
and the conscience of the country. Relentless
repression is the only cdre for the evil, and
the only policy which the good sense of the
public will approve. The work should he done
quickly. Already has Brigham Young thirty
thousand people under his sway, and their
ranks are daily recruited by a continuous
stream of immigration from every quarter of
the globe. Intrenched in their mountain 'fast
ness, inaccessible on one flank, and with a
wide waste of desalt country lying in their
front,—surrounded by tribes of savage Indians
who would readily respond to any invocation
of blood, the Mormons at this moment are no
contemptible foe. A few years hence they
will be infinitely more formidable, for their
numbers and their strength increase in a ge
omotrical ratio. And then their subjugation
will involve many more obstacles, and certain
intricate problems of constitutional power,
which may be now avoided. It is sound poli
cy in the President to grapple with the diffi
culty at once, and with a resolution to concede
nothing to the pretensions of Mormonism.—
Richmond Enquirer.
166- The communication from New Hol
land, headed "Tim WAR Honer. or DEMOCRA
CY," is a scathing review of Col. FRAZER'S
glorification speech at the Whig and Know-
Nothing Head Quarters, on the night of the
election, as also of his political tergiversations
generally; but want of room prevents us from
inserting it in the present' number of the In
telligencer. It will not, however, spoil in the
keeping, and may be published hereafter, if it
is deemed necessary.
ItS,. Among the names spoken of for the
Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator, are
GOVerbOr BIGLER ; WILSON M'CANDLESS, Esq.,
and Hon. Jonx L. DAWSON. Either of these
gentlemen would be a credit to Pennsylvania,
in that body—but we suppose there is very
little, if any, chance for a sound Democrat to
be elected. Some Woolly Head Know-Noth
ing, or bogus Democrat will probablybe chosen
to disgrace the Old Keystone, in the Senate of
the Union, for the ensuing term of six years.
Ur WILLIAM R. M'CAY, Esq., one of the
editors and publishers of the Lewistown
"True Democrat," died at that place on the
30th ult., in the 44th year of his age.
Sfiy-The Canal Commissioners have ap
pointed Jomv.L. LIGHTNZR, Esq., of Leacock,
Collector of Tolls, at Columbia; to succeed Ja
cob M. Strickler, Esq., resigned.
Mr. L. is a sound, reliable Democrat, a
very worthy man, and will make a capital
officer.
JOHN HODGSON, Esq., Editor of the West
Chester Jeffersonian, has been appointed by
Gov. Bigler, a Notary Public of Chester Coun
ty.
'Look at Thla.Pleturen i
. ."Ire` intrite all our readers to .look at the
spectacle presented below. If after suchl'y
expose of Knota...-NOthingismiAliiiisecret
cal
. organization (far more dangercins,than
infmnons Jacobin Chiba injthe French
laden) can any longer blind the hcatesi an.
I -
tin: inspecting people to tliii:datigezTrifch:.
ter of its doctrines, then is the disfensation . o
justice a mere sham, and our -Courts a positiv:
evil, alike dangerous to the citizen and'd • ,
etructivis of the glorious principles of our Co I
stitution. Such -a Society, should it be pe
mitted to go forward unrebuked by the peopid
will prove a terrible engine of destruction 1
the Republic. Well might the learnedJudgJ
in deicanting , upon the conduct of the witnes:l
exclaim—"this is a startling revelation tha t
men take obligations in secret societies, whit
are regaided by them as of higher authoritl
than those administered in Court !" But to th!
article :
From the Lowell Avdertbar, Oct. 28.
KNOW-NOTHINGS IN COURT.
Disclosures under Oath
At the criminal term 'of the Court of C i f)..
mon Pleas, now being held in Lowell, Bis
J., presiding, the following scene was enadte ,
yesterday (Friday.)
The case on trial was the Commonweal
vs. Michael Reardon, for rape. District
torney Train for Government, B. F. Butler any
Daniel Needham for defendant: !
11. C. Snow, of Groton, having testified fo!
the government, Mr. Butler, on cross exam . '
nation, asked him the following question :--
Do you belong to a secret society, popular!
called Know-Nothings?
Mr. Snow, having denied that he did, an.,
stoutly persisting in the denial, the questio J
was put in a different form, when he waa fib
nally driven to the wall, and asked leave o
the court to consult counsel. This liberty wfq
politely granted by Judge Bishop, who gay i
the jury a recess of ten minutes on account o
the delay.
When Mr. Snow again took the stand, the
question was again asked, upon which h
promptly replied:
I cannot answer that question without trim
Mating myself and subjecting myself to pun,
ishment.
Again and again was the question urged b
the ingenious counsel for the defendant, ever
time assuming some new form, but being the
same fearful visage to this disciple of the secre
order, until at last, having detained the cour
more than two hours and exhausted ever•,
body's patience, he replied, "I do."
Ques. How long have you belonged to ih ?
Ans. About four or five months.
Q. Is it a secret society ?
A. It is.
Q. Did you take any oath, or obligation, i '
joining that society?
A. I did take au obligation.
. .
Q. Was it in form of an oath ?• •
A. I do not know. 1
Q. How was it administered to you---di
you hold up your hand, when it was 4 admiiii:
tered ?
A. I did.
Q. Did you call upon Clod to witness the o.
ligation ? ,
A. I think I did—"So help me God"
the last words.
Q. Are there different degrees in thatia ,
eiety ?
A. There are.
I
Q. How many have you taken ?
A. Two.
Q. Does Dr. Norman Smith, (a witness i - i
this case,) belong to that society?
A. I have seen him at the meetings.
Q. Have you ever seen John A Gardner,
(another witness) at the meetings of the so
ciety ?
A. I have.
Q. What is the form of the initiation?
A. I shall not tell, as it will criminatelne
and expose me to punishment.
Hero the Court remarked to the witne
that he had a right to protect himself. If
had taken an oath contrary to law, he was , n t
bound to criminate himself. But, said Jud
Bishop, this is a startling revelation that diets
take obligations in secret societies, whicia.me
regarded by them as of higher authority than
those administered in this court.
A. M. Gage, was then called. Ile testifiek
in a frank, humorous manner, that he (Inge
joined the Order, but left it some three months
ago. Mr. Butler called his attention to ah ei
position of the oath, published in the Bostoii
PO3l, of October 25th, which Mr. Gage seemed
to think was about the kind of oath adminis
tered to him, though he did not remember ex
actly. From his testimony, we judged he had
become disgusted with the Order,, and exposed
its secrets without any misgivings.
Dr. Norman Smith called.
Q. Do you belong to any secret society, 1:$1-
posed to aliens ?
A. I do; to a society which is calculated
exercise a political influence.
Q. Does it not exercise a religious influenA?
A. Some think it does.
Q. Can a Roman Catholic join that societY?
A. Not if he is a foreigner.
Q. Can he if he is an American born citi
zen ?
A. No. '
Q. What is the object of the society? I
The Doctor drawing himself up to his full
height, and extending in a statesmaiblike man
ner his right arm, replied with great eloquent 3,
"To protect our liberty, sir ! !" at the same
time bringing his right hand, with great•vi -
lence down upon the Judge's bench, and•m -
king the court house echo with the sound f
his hand, as well as the music of his voice.
Q. What is the form of the initiation, a cl
what the character of the obligation you takb?
A. I cannot tell.
Q. Why ?
A. Because 1 have bound myself not to.
Q. But have you not sworn here before this
court to tell the whole truth, and nothing Mit
the truth?
A. I shall not tell unless I am obliged to.
. The court here asked the witness if he
thought by answering he would expose him
self to punishment; to which he answered, yes.
Q. Did you assist in getting up the lodge ht
Groton ?
A. I did.
Q. Are you an officer in the lodge ?
A. I am.
Q. What office do you hold?
A. I cannot answer that question withoit
criminating myself, and exposing myself to
punishment.
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Siiir The "HERALD Os' FREEDOW is
f a very
neat weekly paper, just started at Wakarusb,
Kansas Territory, by G. W. Brown & Co., at
$2 per annum in advance. It will be a little
singular if a paper of so large a size, can im
sustained in that wilderness region of, oir
country. But there is no telling what energy
and perseverance will do, and we 911.11 be glad
to hear that the editors and publishers succeed
in their enterprise.
litsA destructive t
occurred at Lockport, N.
Y., on Wednesday last, which destroyed the
Tremont House, Congregational Church, with
the entire block between them, and also six
bridges over the Canal,
j Mr. BELLMONTE, our Minister at the
Hague, has addressed a letter to the Washing
ton Union, denying the charges brougkt against
him by certain newspaper correspondents. He
says that he has transacted no Banking bUs
iness at the Legation, and employed no Cler ,
there or elsewhere, for that.purpose. I:1;a . o
denies that he has neglected the case of Ca .
Gibson.
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THANKSGIVING.—Maine, New Han3psh . e,
Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Massachuset ,
all have their thanksgiving festivals this yea t.
on the 30th of November, while Pennsyl a
nia, Maryland, Wisconsin, New Jersey and
A.
Florida, have it on the 23d of the same mu. uu.
Stir The President has appointed G.
Curry, of Oregon, to be Governor of the I
ritory of Oregon; Win. H. Farrar, of Ore s ,
to be Attorney of theSnited States for,
Territory of Oregon; and Benjamin Hari
of Oregon, to be Secretary of tho Territoi
Oregon.
165- The entire Russian army, scat
throughout the Empire, and actually avail' ,
for a European war, according to the
York Tribune, amounts to 612,000 men
1200 guns l -viz: 520,000 Infantry, 62
Cavalry, and 30,000 Cossacks.
• Thapksgiving
Pennsylvania ss.
in. the Name and by thO l Authority of the
. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Wnias.x
- Brumuz, Governor of said Commonwealth.
s..] PROCLAMATION.'
,'`Seitote:Cf.tizeps:—A sincere belief, itt-the ex
laic:tea of a GOd , - andis just; conception of His
rittributea lie at the foundation of truoireligibn
andOivilasedsiociety; The free declaiationhof
this belief becomes a Christian people.
This Almighty and Beneficent God 14s
gireatly blessed the Commonwealth and her
inhabitants during the year that has just
closed.
An humble acknowledgement of His -good
ness and mercy, and an open manifestation of
gratitude to Him, is an act of homage eminent-.
ly becoming a peoplo so highly favored.
The blessing of peace He has bestowed Up
on us. Our felations -with all other States
are most amicable, and the tumult of internal
strife has not been heard in our midst. All
the great interests of the people have been em
inently-prosperous except only the agricul
tural, which in parts of the State, has suffered
from the drought.
With the exception of a few communities
which claim our sympathies, the blessings of
health have prevailed. Our institutions of
government have been perpetuated,: and civil
and religious liberty enjoyed by the people.
The cause of Education and Christianity has
been advanced—the arts and scienees have
progressed, andthe moral and physical condi
tion of the country been improved.
The devastations of war which are now so
surely' afflicting the people of Europe—the
desolations of famine and the ravages of pesti
lence, have not been permitted to invade our
favored Commonwealth.
These manifold blessings are the gift of
God, and to Him our must devout thanks
should be offered. Under the solemn convic
tions of duty therefore, and in conformity with
the wishes of many good citizens, I, W illiam
Bigler, GoTernor of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, du hereby appoint. THURSDAY,
THE 231) DAY OF NOVENI3ER NEXT, as a day of
general thanksgiving and praise throughout
the State, and earnestly implore the people,
that, setting aside all worldly pursuits on that
day, they unite in offering thanks to Almighty
God fbr his past goodness and mercy, and be
seech Him fur a continuance of his blessings.
Given under my hand, and the Great Seal of
the State, at Harrisburg, this twenty-eighth
day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and . fifty-four, and
of the Commonwealth, the seventy-ninth.
By THE GOVERNOR: C. A. BLACK,
Secretary of the Commonseculth.'
Oct. 28th, 1854.
The Money Market
Application for more hanks, we understand,
will be pressed on the attention of the Legis
lature and the new administration, next win
ter, with more than usual determination. The
present stringency some intelligent people are
endeavoring to make appear the result of a
limited banking capital, forgetting that at
New York, where banks are must numerous
and pa l er almost wholly the currency, the
market is most stringent. Every man who
thinks,. and is honest enough to confess the
truth in the premises, knows that Pennsylva
nia's„exemption, to a degree, from pecuniary
embarrasment in her business circles, results
from the limited number of her banks and the
generally sound condition of her currency.
instead of more banks, embarrasment would
be lessened in our community if some of the
few banks that we have were put out of ex
istence, as we hope they will be, if they can
not be compelled to keep their bills at par at
those points where their circulation is greatest.
There is a law of the Commonwealth imposing
a tax on the circulation of such interior banks
as fail to maintain their bills at par at time
principal commercial centres of the State: The
object of the law is a good one, its intentidn
being to prevent the banks from forcing their
bills into circulation a distance from home,
and buying them up through agencies at a
discount, thus embarrassing business and
speculating on the public. This tax is too
small, as we have frequently shown, to effect
its purpose; and small as it is is very generally
neglected by the State authorities. The banks
find it more profitable to depreciate their bills,
and take the chances of escaping the penalties
of the law. The Harrisburg Bank, the Mid
dletown Bank, the Gettysburgßank, the York,
and some others are at a discount here, and a
very extensive business is driven in their pur
chase and sale, to the great inconvenience of
business, and the loss of all who handle their
bills as par currency. Such banks could well
be dispensed with. There are some folks who
are ignorant enough to believe that there would
be no money in the country were it not for
paper money banks. The absurdity of this
idea is best exposed by calling the attention
of those persona to the fact that in the pros
perous and flourishing Island of Cuba there is
not a single paper dollar in circulation; nor is
there any such thing as a paper money bank.
This is the precise case with Holland and sev
eral other countries. Instead of rag. paper
dollars circulating, they have nothing but gold
and silver for a currency,, the natural results
of which are prosperity, , stability in prices,
and a happy and industrious people.
The steamship Arctic sailed from New
York yesterday, taking out s9l3,ooo—nearly
a million of dollars. This is a large sum in
the present condition of :the money market,
and will probably tend to further stringency
in the money market of that city, which, from
all accounts, is much more severe than it is
here. In our city the pressure is confined Mostly
with the Market street men. The produce
dealers are generally tolerably comfortable;
and after this week easier times are hoped for
all round.—Ledyer, of Thursday.
itlfir. Dr. W3l. COMPTON has been 'appointed
a Physician to the Alms House, a post until
recently held by Dr. Richards.
CITY WiTCHKEN.—The following watchmen
have been appointed by Mayor Kieffer for
the ensuing winter:
Daniel Holman, box at Edward Hubley's,
corner of Centro Square and South Queen
street.
Frederick Kitch, Philip Snyder's, corner of
East King and Middle streets.
Frederick Dean, John Foidersmith's, corner
of East King and ShiPpeu streets.
Washington Bowman, David Lebkicher's,
corner of South Queen and German streets.
George Millichsock, Mrs. Slaymamaker's,
corner of Vine and Lime streets.
John Fox, John Eaveling's, corner of Mul
berry and Walnut streets.
Peterßuthe, Jacob Smeltz's, corner of North
Queen and Lemon streets.
George Ponce, 11. Blickensderfer'S, corner
of North Queen and Walnut streets.
William Flick, Dr. John L. ides's, corner
of Duke and Orange streets.
Leonard Kissinger, John F. Remley's, cor
ner of West King and Manor streets.
James Jones, Jacob Buch's, South Prince,
between West King and Vine streets.
John Maguire, George Musser's, corner of
North Prince and Oronge streets.
They entered upon their duties last Tuesday
night, and it is but reasonable to expect, that
the rowdyism and petty larcenies committed
at night during the summer months will be
stopped.
AWFUL RAILROAD SLAUGHTER.—The acci
dent on the Great Western Railroad, Canada,
which occurred last Thursday week, proves to
have been more destructive than was at first
reported. The disaster was caused by the
bursting of the head of the cylinder of a loco
motive, throwing one train out of time, so that
when near Chatham, in a dense fog, it ran at
full speed against a gravel Strain. In the col
lision, two passenger cars were crushed, one
beneath the weight of the locomotive, and the
other by a heavy baggage car being forced
upon the top of it. It was four hours before the
mangled remains of the dead could be extrica
ted. Forty-eight persons were killed instant
ly, and two others died soon after of their
wdunds out of forty-one who were wounded.
Of the killed it is known that there were
twenty-five men, eleven women, and eleven
children, and of the wounded that *ere were'
twenty-one men, and twenty women and chil
dren.
TELL ImE TRIITH.—The Whig papers are
charging Mr. Baker, the Superintendent of
the Columbia railroad, with discharging a.
number of mechanics and laborers from the
Parkesburg shops, because he suspected they
were Know-Nothings. The true cause of the
"proscription" of several of these men was
drunkenness; and they had been several times
forewarned of the consequences, if they per
sisted in the habit of getting drunk.—Reading
Gazette:
AIDING SLATES TO ESCAPE.—III the U. S.
4 e District Court at Columbus, Ohio R. A. Sloan,
, r w I a Sandusky lawyer, was convicted under the
fugitive slave law of 1850 of aiding the
escape of three slaves. Judgment waa awar
v ded foi $3,000, or $l,OOO in each case with
I coats.
Wm the Peony Gazette.
Prozers*Speeeh if . delivered at Whig
Read quatterga!aliVhitto It about, and
why must it be plibliehod twice 1....tith0
• '
can tell 1 . .
Hen, lea question to to alethe public. "Where was
Mimes born r mustombaldln abeyance till this. greater
inunirs is answered, and the "Genesis" of the New York
"Hard" give span fora time to 31-Tielr of the late Interest
itugepisodein the history of our Pennsylvania "Sen."—
(The term.belongs to political nomenclature, and bears=
allusion to mush-heads.). The question once stated has
been eagerly caught op tij. the curious and speetdatlie In
such marten, andvarkros lasiebeen the solutions attempted
Enthusiastic admirers look upon is as another instance of a
great effort °lguana about to run a brilliantcsreer through
a series of edltions,but this miler le opposedbythe fact that
the edition itself is too intdgnifleant in nrunber and limited
In circulation, got up on private account merely, to meet
the grand conception. Some, again see the clue to the re
publication of the speech in the,editorial preface which ac
companies it, which tells of the great gathering at the
Whig Head Quarters, of the "spontaneous call from the
crowd," and how the Orator, "was carried to the stand,"—
aye carried on shoulders "fit to beer" the incumbent weight
of the "mighty" chieftain. Then it was he raised that
voice at the sound whereof the multitude was moved to
loud house, and
... . . .
Know- Nothings clapp'd their handlwith joy,
And Woollies thundered, "He's the Boy."
Who would not, being the hero of such a Beene, delight In
the picture and ask to behold himself again? Others reply
that the speech embodies the platform for the new organi
sation, and like all official documents of the sort require
frequent promulgation; but admitting that it contains
stuff enough for the purpose, the builder has rather thrown
It too much into a pile to give it the character of a struc
ture at all. Next the crictimi who are always on the look
out for game, discharge their shots, and they pronounce the
effort a line specimen of cong/ameration of ideas; or, to bor
row a figure from the culinary department, of intellectual
hodgepodge, where a variety of viands are thrown together
and mixed up one with the ether—as pork and beaus, cab.
bage and turnips in a pet—the whole forming a delectable
dish to such as have the stomach to enjoy It, and which
may be partaken of a second time, after a week's Interval,
I by all who have not sickened of the first feast. And these
same critical gentry go on to enumerate the several iugre
clients entering into the compound and the manner of their
use, somewhat after the fashion of a cook-book recipe. First
1 he used words and smiles of congratulation upon a sup
' posed event that had not .exactly occurred, then gave a
chuckle, equally malapropos, over "the heretofore uncoil
qnered Old Uuard of Whiggery now felling before the forces
at Waterloo." (rather a mistake again.) Next he rolled a
lump of indignant denunciation, and hurled it at the late
County Convention for "usurping power and insulting
their constituents in the name of Democracy." Now a dash
of peppered satire was dung at those 'goading candidates
on the Whig ticket present in said Convention, urging
their brethren in feeling of not In name) to settle a ticket
and save them and Whiggery from defeat:' Here a quick
use of the skimmer to remove the!floating scum, -out, out
with such black treason, such vile hypocrisy." Then a
Battering allusion to "the old patriot" is thrown in which
might have served to impart flavor, had not the cook, at
that moment, "spoil'd the broth" by inadvertently drop
ping into the kettle the confusion that the adherents of
the great Michigan—(those -scar-wore fellowe) fearing the
'noise"-had stake l their arms upon the hatUe field and suf
fered an inglorious defeat." (The cowardly rascals, and the
gallant Colonel himself at their head!) Now he shed a
few tears of grief—(supposed to be crocodile) -I mourn for
my party, my cause, and its faith"—but dried them soon,
however, with a cheer.up that "grey-headed Democrats
wore at est elected to stations of which they had-teen
heretofore deprived." (poor and faithless comforter.) And
over all a Bush ~.f fancy- cast, showing that "the dark
ness had now passed, the clouds Were broken, and the sun
light was dawniug upon the true and enduring Democracy
of Lane/v.or co.,and ',radiating that 'proper time' canting,
when her measures, her purity, her Mith, and her true
men, (Simon aud the Orator!) will rise into confidence and
place, to guard, save ' protect, and defend this noble gov
ernment of Law and Freedom."!!! W.h.e-w double-y—but
all this we regard as mere "stringing of pearls:'
But to end conjecture, here comes along -Moses" of the
Examiuer ' and affecting to treat the subject as unworthy of
tik oti4
serious talis,applied the tones and gir It a punch that
well nigh knocked the wind out of the hole thing. lie
assimilates the case to an Instance of 'heatrical encbro
and asserts that the speech is repeated u the principle
which obtains in Circuses, that whenever e clown plays
the foolparticularly natural,the audience will have him do
it over again. This being manifestly malicious, we reject
It with all the others,aud venture to give our own theories
drawn from observation and the consideration of at
tendant circumstances. The Leuensterian, then, he the
organ of Col. Frater,and as such hasthe care of hispolitical
and literary reputation and in this latter respect it bar
votes necessary to act a subsidiary part and become the
filterer through which all the emanations of his mind, in
tended for the public eye, aro made to percolate in order to
rid them of inherent impurities, such as bad grammar, in
anities, vulgar epithets, cant and blubber, and such like;
and when the performance (as in the present instance) is
particular murky and surcharged with blather, it becomes
necessary to run it through the machine "two tiniest" and
hence thepublicetion and republication of thespeech on elec
Lion night, delivered at Whig Read Quarters, being the
Orator'sjirst public harangue to his new confederates.—
But ditch-water though by process of filtration it may be.
made in a degree translucent, can not be rendered either
palateable or wholesome. And in this connection We
venture to suggest whether the machine is !not itself
faulty and unequal to the task it has assumed. The ani
malcule and bad matter still abound—" Black Cockade Fed
eralism," "Jackall forces," "insult to the Ballot box,"
"moral honesty," "Washington crossing the Rubicon,"
dc.,—Still there is no calculating what perseverance may
do even here. So wash the sponge Billy, and treacle
the article through again.
STATE TICKET-OFFICIAL
A: 1
' 6 • - i t i
1F4,,,,A jt
Adams, 2124 2088 1153 3052
Allegheny, 10377 6115 634 4627 10191 409
Armstrong, 2689 1949 811 3630
Beaver, 2233 1458 313 .1230 2319 309
Belfbrd, 2157 2019 1562 2809
Berke, 5143 8493 157 2375 11226
Blair, • 2706 1513 3 720 3303
Bradford, 4311 2069 2020 4898
Bucks, 6498 5089 18 2870 7717 19
Butler, 2955 2381 14 1613 3E176
Cambria, 1627 1739 1174 1940
Carbon, 1056 1227 247 1950 6
Centre, 2774 2113 301 4481
Chester, 6544 4412 8715 7181
Clarion, 2915 2173 63 130 3094
Clearfield, 1183 1448 382 2036
Clinton, 1497 985 310 2077
Columbia, 1399 2189 415 3018
Crawford, 3090 2687 1667 4235
Cumberland, 3157 2581 1115 036
Dauphin. 4061 2224 13 1606 41358 8
Delaware, 2292 1556 8 1528 2304
Elk, 401 364 4 708
Erie, 3637 2526 1876 3384
Fayette, 3468 2440 101 6346
Franklin, 11579 2799 1600 4847
Fulton, 705 878 880 1202
Greene, ' 1746 2008 216 3219
Huntingdon, 2614 1601 624 8316
Indiana, 3161 1284 27 1416 2416 20
Jefferson, 1659 988 160 123 2 . 243 122
Juniata, 1170 1176 6 791 1542
Lancaster, 10982 4699 18 5596 10441
Lawrence, 2516 994 1611 1896
Lebanon, 2636 1731 1463 2875
Lehigh, . 3694 3026 1749 4342
Lucerne, 4884 4368 962 8012
Lycoming 2799 2269 291 4639
McKean, 405 602 375 490
Blercer, 3034 2550 1531 3317
Mifflin, • 1630 1787 625 2245
Munroe, 825 1917 178 2179
Montgomery, 5144 5559 3280 7233
Montour, 757 970 297 1360
Northampton, 8417 3685 875 6185
Northumberland, 2121 2182 737 3681
Perry, 2121 1412 130 3384
Philadelphia, 28817 24936 62 11593 40893 83
Pike, 207 624, 100 676
Potter, 748 656 475 858
Schuylkill, 4252 6888 188 1005 8390 200
Somerset, 2756 1268 2845 .1506
Susquehanna, 2819 2126 1068 3524
Sullivan, 329 417 88- 619
Tioga, 2448 1489 771 2763
Union, 28111 1918 2082 2504
Venango, 1679 1466 1 260 2683
Warren, 1400 1118 727 1543
Washington, 4276 3457 2000 5487
Wayne, 140 1877 355 2800
Westmoreland, 8773 3803 43 1158 6221 29
Wyoming, 1174 893 218 1710
York. 4777 4707 1134 7771
204008 187001 1813 83331 274074 1292
Pollock'a majority, 37,007. Mott's majority, 190,743.
.9myssr. Bieck. Baird. lb, Against.
Adams, 914 1952 1343 1236 2584
Allegheny, 4813 6351 6705 10032 4053
Armstrong, 783 1932 1663 2322 1711
Beaver, 1107 1450 1290 1955 1989
Bedford, 1 . 228 2003 836 1252 2361
Barks, 2474 8256 2794 2612 10599
Blair, 487 1443 2205 2253 1143
Bradford, 2014 2701 1885 4853 1072
Bucks, 2818 5148 2666 3778 5879
Butler, , ` 1656 2374 1189 2301 2199
(lambda, 761 1705 810 1292 1325
Carbon, 231 1229 784 658 107 2
Centre, 849 2133 2841 2438 1871
Cheater, 8726 4564 2670 6008 3830
Clarion. 05 2108 1981 2148 1567
Clearfield, 382 1391 900 1235 872
Clinton, 805 948 1149 1141 780
Columbia, 431 2147 720 1037 1933
C rawfOrd, 1660 2609 1744 2894 2135
Cumberland, 1068 2651 2018 2326 3210
Dauphin. 1401 2292 2653 2470 3484
Delaware, 1370 1581 1722 1693
Elk, 1 344 373 282 307
Erie, 1494 2389 1694 27 67 1501
Fayette, , 73 2354 3377 3493 1407
Frank' i u, 1457 2781 2114 2530 3241
Fulton, 303 877 387 426 932
Greene, 204 1972 1325 1186 1762
nun tin gdo ti, 585 1418 1997 2169 1294
Indiana, 1350 1223 1140 2368 1338
Jefferson, 120 945 1447 1365 1015
J u Meta, 814 1176 359 1140 909
Lancaster, 5676 4738 6564 5536 8969
Lawrence, 1568 996 902 2359 737
Lebahon, 1401 1590 1209 1091 2784
Lehigh, 1725 3092 1251 776 4733
Lucerne, 1030 4297 3573 4283 3265
Lycom ing, 260 2274 2140 2309 1889
31cKean, 284 469 30 415 481
Mercer, 1541 2513 851 5985 1846
Mifflin, 641 1292 940 1398 982
Monroe, 213 1894 223 574 1118
Montgomery, 3140 '5530 1954 3819 5789
Montour. 295 948 388 , 773 735
Northampton, 679 3785 2242 1411 6093
Northumberland. 800 2185 945 1524 2280
Perry, 143 1462 1893 1 . 297 1939
Philadelphia, 5872 25445 22104 25330 20570
Pike, 88 631 51 242 458
Potter, 460 639 214 613 560
'deb uyl kill, 896 5377 3451 27 62 6668
Somerset,S 1406 1451 1118 1740 1 642
Susquehanna, 1059 2133 1398 2610 1525
Sullivan, 114 407 160 299 349
19oga, 782 1462 1474 2041 1576
Union, 2010 1846
,707 1440 2014
Venango, 285 1413 1258 1836 832
Warren, 722 1043 543 1273 985
Waah in gton, 1931 8109 2322 4278 2572
Wayne, 616 '1769 709 1603 868
Westmoreland, 1069 3927 2433 3340 8226
Wyoming, 237 857 765 1 191 339
York, 731 4612 4044 2336 6904
79511 167010 120596 158342 163110
Black's majority over Baird, 46,414.
UNITED STATES SENATORS. The Harrisburg
Herald gives the following as a correct list of
the gentlemen named in connection with the
United States Senatorship, by the opponents
of the National Administration, named alpha
betically:---Hon. Alexander E. Brown, Eas
ton; Hon. Robert T. Conrad, Philadelphia;
Hon. James Cooper, Pottsville; Col. Andrew
Curtin, Bellefonte; Win. H. Irvine,
Lewistown; Gov. Wm. F. Johnston, Pitts
burgh; Hon. John Cl. Kunkel, Harrisburg;
Gen. Win. Larimer, Jr., Pittsburgh: Hon.
Daniel Smyser, Norristown; Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens, Lancaster; Prpf. 0. H. Tiffany, and
Hon. Fredesick Watts, Carlisle; Hon David
Wilmot, Towanda.
e The Herald might have added the name
of the great Winnebago Chief, *YON CAMERON,
of Dauphin, whose friendship for the Admin
istration is just about as sincere as any of the
gentlemen above named.
St... Louts CairrellipOildincle.
DeaVth of. Gov..Burt--Frsa—Ternlorial.Organactiion
iCtbragias - -Fiticatirsi,fi
taection—lWkno .Firoce-Reak Sy Ltritaare—
Otfijornfa
ha n d--Irk o mo ll ., of
Utah —4 Hoaa.-2' he liana ßaricra—Acquatni af
Afqi. Weighletan--Another. Afemter of Ow St. Louis Bar
Gtine—Trie fat James Z. 1 llbortrte, ate, 1
. • Sr. Louts, Oct. 30, 1804
Intelligenee has been re ceived in this city of the deplo
rable death of Gov. Francle Burt, recently appointed for •
the Territory of Nebraska, by the President of the 11. 8.
This sad event took place St Belleview in t hat taritory,on
the 18th last. Gov. had tiolenjoyed veryogood health since .
his arrival in Nebraska, trpt hopes were entertained of his
ppeedy recovery, and the organization of the territory emu
asted under his supervision. But, alnei the , melapeholy
flows of his unexpected death has cast a gloom over the
whole territory and the suirounding country. •
It has boon said that Gas. Burt organized the territory
previous to his death. Thli is incorrect, for huwas not able
to attend to any official btisiness since his arrival there.
Mr. T. B. Cl:no:ling. the Secretary of Stele foi the Territo
ry of Nebraska, becomes Ex-Officio Governor'. Mr. C. to at
his post, and will proceed immediately Pith the duties de
volved upon him by the sladden death Of Gov. Burt, and
which will, no doubt be prosecuted vrita vigor and Indus
try. There is scarcely a doubt bit thrit the Legislature
will convene the coming winter.
„1, There is considerable excitement mid iliscuntion between
the denizens of Belleview City and Omaha city, as to which
place shall be selected as the seat of Deferment. This is
a matter which acting tiov. Curaing will have to decide.
A dispatch from St. Joseph, dated the 24th, says 'that
the remains of GOT. Burt arrived in Goal city In charge of
a committee appointed by ;Secretary Curning, to acCoullet
ny them to South Carolina. The colutuittee consists of
Col. W. B. Howard. New lierk: Col. B. Oiveue, Ohio; James
H. Doyle, Esq.; and Ilsj. Wm. IL Jones, of South Carolina.
On Monday night last a destructive tire broke out in the
steam Flouring Mill in th.s city s the prOperty ° of Mr. Jo
seph Powell. The bulldlnp, with its contents. was entirely
consumed. There were SW bids. of dour iu the mill of the
time, and about WOO bushels of wheat. rho total loss on
building and contents Is tipwards of stii4oUL and the luau.
ran. about $17,000. '
Some two or throe year since the "State Bank, of Mis
souri" was robbed of $121,00, and Nathaniel Childs, Jr.,
then fast teller in the Bask, was arrested on suspicion for
the embezzlement of the Motley. but uu a full trial the Ary
acquitted him. Mr. Chll4 then comunhaced suit against
the Bank Directors, fur daiwagas. and the case has just
been decided in his favor, and the verdiet rendered, gives
him $9,110. This is the second suit fordisineges that Mr
Childs has recovered. making iu all the stun of $4,910.
The Bank, it is presumed Will feet the bill, aa the Direc
tors were acting for her interest. and upou the advise of
her counsel.
The oil:Ida! returns the election rec6ntly held iu Cali
forums, shows a large Democratic majority iu the Leghda
ture—but a Know Nothiug Mayor presides over Iran
ci.xo. The Democratic ••.kuti-Broderic"Congrussuten ate
The yellow fever has made Its appoarafice In the town of
Washington, La., stud the Citizens are thaving as fast As
they can. Col. Fitzpatrick, Register of the Laud
taco at Opelousas, was the brat victim. It has also
broke out in the parish of Plaquemine, and Dr. Hays and
nine others have died. At New Orleans. it Is on the de
crease, and the citizens arofnturuiog to :their home: A. is.
port has found elrculation;that this terrible disease was
prevailing in this city. This ire nilstak'e. Not a rasa or
death has occurred. It is true, several deaths hornoccur
red on the New Orleans boats, and their, bodies interred in
this city. This is what originated the filsu report. •
Thu town of Itr,ck Island, 11/0 now contains popula
tion of 5.337 persons. In 1,45 U, the population WAS lAA 1,741
—incniase 3,626. At this town the groat ' . Father of Wa
ters- is being bridged, and the nurocnouls railnetds now lu
course of construction and in succesq'uLopenition will make
Rock Island at no very distant day, a large att* populous
city. ,
It Is computed that,the Mormons of Utah number 64.000
and that not less than 40,000 are scattered over the Staten
of lowa, Missouri, Illinois,!Wisconsin add other Western
States, and that there are 60,000 In Bract Ibitian—nfithiug
in all 100,000 Mormons. This number :14 large as it is will
ere lung settle upon thu American Continent. and more
than likely select Territory of Utah as their permanent to.
cation. This will be the means of 'preventing any other
class of people settling in said territory-as none tan Bee
with or thrive among this hell:governed people. They de
sire to have the whole territory to theuutelves, to the ex
clusion of all others, which in apparent from the fact that
Brigham Young has declared that none other than a Mor
mon should preside over them as Govetluor. Are Ihe U.
States to be thus bluffed off by a band °flawless Mormons ?
Should President Pierce re-appoint Brigham Young, or
any other Mormon, he will do it contraine-tenths
of the American people. This matter she t..d'ae - a,,qdectat
once, for before many years their population will be double
and they will be the more difficult to stabdue. Now is the
time, and President Pierce should at ono. appoint a man
of courage and detormination--one who would nut shrink
from the fulfilment of the duties devolving upon him as
tiovernor'of an American territory.
Great excitement prevailed in our city during the past
week in relation to the reported failmalof several of the
Indiana Banks. Every ono who held notes on the Indiana
Banks were anxious to get Sid of them, and the consequence
was, all this money was brought Into the market at once,
and our private hankers and brokers witty overrun with It,
who, probably, began to -'smell the mt,lt shut down upon
it, and at the close, ou Saturday last, the 10th, they all
refused to receive it on deposit. Some df the banks In In
diana are no doubt able tei sustain thenisolves, and stand
high and in good repute with those who are acquainted
with their business, but the community generally have no
means of ascertaining this'fact, and caumot decide which
is which; the good and sdund are therefore compelled to
suffer to the same extent as the bad andlworthless concerns
established km no other purpose than spnculation and de
ception, and the only way,to rid the public of this unsafe
banking system, is to refuse them altogether. Not a dol
lar of Indiana funds could be passed iu this city on Satur
day last.
Major Weightmaa, - wholkilled Mr. F. 'X. Aubry, at Santa
Fe, a few months since, has had his trial and was acquit
ted. The jury rendered &verdict that he was not guilty of
murder, because he acted in selfidefruce
There has been a great Mortality among the members of
the St. Louis bar within the lust few mouths. I am now
called upon to record the death of Mr. Thos. P. Giles, son
of the late Governor Wm Lt. Giles, of llirginia. Ile died
in this city on the figd inst.
The members of the St.' Louis Chamber of Commerce
convened on the:2sth iust. i to take into 'consideration tho
death of Mr. James E. Woodruff, who lit his life on the
sinking of the 111-fated Arctic, to pay their tribute of re
spect to his memory. Itosnlutions word adopted recount
ing his Many public and fivivate t irtue4, and alluding In
a touching manner td his sad and horrible death. Several
eloquenteddrosses wore didivered by darer . ..lnt members or
the Chamber.
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IMIM
The Indian Summer is tineuestional4 the must delight
ful time of the year. It is; delightful tut its balmy Mrs and
cheering sunshine; the lingering lestigss of a sessenahout
to merge into the dreary ;winter, when artificial fires and
sparkling hearths must supply what native so abundantly
affords in the Spring-timel and Summet, it is delightful
00, inasmuch us it preseits material for contemplation,
self-examination and inquiry 'into the.; things which per
tain to another state of existence. Thei light of the clear,
calm sky above us, falls tipou the withered and dying re
membrance of what was once all life and animation. The
faded appearance of the earth contrasts ktraugely with the
blue, pale heavens over head.
How terribly do these things remind its of the last hours
of the departing Christian; Lingering oti his couch of pain,
Vital energies all wastiug - away,tnegOpe of immortality
nevertheless still lights his face with h smile, and ho re
joices as he contemplateS through the eye of faith, his
happy home in the future, The infiumnies el Heaven beam
upon his countenance, thdugh his limbi refuse to do their
office and the waters of his existence ace almost dried up.
So ii Is witlrfilitillre In this delightful season. The birds
cease their warbliugs in the grove, the deem throw off their
garb of green and put on the mantle Of decay, the fields
are blasted by the mildews of death, all life retires from
the woods and hills, but siill the clear !fanlight looks down
with a calm and placid while. Happy ;the man who can
encounter the decay of hie physical energies, supported as
nature is by the hopes and promises of the tuture. It be
tokens to him a resurrection, when the influences above
shill be employed to restore what the storms and tempests
below have faded. Death 'will come to; him as a welcome
friend, nor he will then INA upon it as h passport to fairer
regions, where dowers never lade and Pirds never cear,e to
sing, but where all is life and light andtjoy forever.
The contemplation or the fading loveliness el the season
furnishes relief to the mlpd, harrassed bud oppreseod as it
sometimes is by the carve, and vicissitiides of life. Who
that has borne up against the storms 9f the world, amid
scenes of joy and sorrow; disappointuiput and suffering,
until ho has become satisfied of the transient and unstable
character of all human ItoPos and pursuits, does not await
anxiously for the messenger who will Introduce hint into
that other state of existence, where seines, suffering and
disappointment are unknown. How 'earnestly ho gases
forward into the dark shadows that Ile before, and how
tearlessly he is prepared to stem the billows which ars She
boundary of his premised ho me. And even the favorite of
wealth and luxury, recli g upon Lip downy couch and
breathing the perfumed 'air of his , princely apartments,
when disease approaches 'and dangers seenfiewering over
head, can look out ppon the faded trees and blighted fields
and rejoice in the ,thought that he toolmust die. Andes
the bright sun and clear stay look down; upon the aided and
dying appearance of the earth, and seem to smile upon the
departure of what will one day again tairestored to life and,
beauty, so the light of hOpe and promises illumines the
soul and enables it to regard the grave is a mere temporary
refuge from saferiug, ouP of which in dile time will emerge
another existence as enduring as the arch of 'leaven, and
as endless as the uncounted years of eternity.
Men may profit by time conterupLatitin of the seasons as
they come and go, leaving their trace's of loveliness and
desolation behind them. The SPRING ',with Its buds and
tlowere, emblems of infancy and innocence—the Soman
with its rich fruits andl golden harvests, significant of
youth and manhood—the Accosts with its mature and
well-ripened fields, already changed Icy the early frosts,
pointing to the evidences of decline anti death—and WlN
rra with its stern and chilling winds, Mooning the funeral
dirge of the departing year, its snows te shroud of nature,
and its storms the battle cry with death. All these remind
us of the progressive statd of our belug;iour birthandinan
hbod, the gradual declind of our energies, and our final
conflict with the last euediy, In which we can entertain no
other hope, than to be numbered among the vanquishoil•
Providence in Ills wisdom has designed these lessons for
the comfort and insprovethent of man,' teaching him the
brevity of his existence, itud the cot - allay of death; im
pressing upon his mind the delusive c racier of all earth
ly things: the vanity of human aepiratione and the
of human expectatiOus-, drawing him as it were by it
strong wrd to an acknowledgement of f ibs supremacy and
power, and bending his stubborn will !to an obedience of
those lawn by which he ditties the principles of ILE moral
government; winning him by Lila bendficence to love and
adoration, and bringing him nearer oillituself by the at
tractive influences of His tnercy and juStiee.
Lancaster, Nov. Ist, 1b44.
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TUE WAR OF 184-NATIONIL CONVENTION.
—The President of i the Military Convention
held in Philadelphia on the 9:th of January
last, has issued a call, requesting the defen
ders of the country in the second war of iude
pendence who.still survive, arid the children
of such as are dead, , to send delegates to the
City of Washington, to atten4 a Convention
to he held there on the Bth of ;January, 1855,
to adopt such measure as will induce Congress,
not only to do justide to them,! but also to the
widows of those whO have go tie to their last
account. It is to be hoped the parties inter
ested, in every State of the Udion, will, thro'
county or other meetings, Joputo a large
number of delegates to convede at the federal
capital on the apprdaching an4iveiary of the
battle of New Orletins. It is 'ideemed impor
tant that the Conve l mtion shotild meet in the
immediate vicinity! of Congrlss, so that the
1812 may be seen as well is heard by the
Representatives of the People.i
par•We are again publishing advertise
ments of Ayer's Cherry Pectoial. This med
icine is taking a very strong !hold upon the
good of the people. It is regarded generally
as a - most excellent remedy lor
.Pulmonary
Complaints, Coughs and Coldtt
Having found it an excellent medicine we
cheerfully endorse 4.—/fisce/ifny, -Detroit.
U.'S. TREASITREeIp STATE3l;EiTe.+Thtoffoial
statement c 7 the S.- Treasurer shows the
•
amount in the Treasury, subj• .t to draft, on
the 24th ult, to be $26,042,111.
MIME!
Intelligencer,
W. .11.'.ELH22(