GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
_LANCASTER, MAY 1, -1855.
County Committee Meeting.
I The Democratic County Committee of Lancsater
County, will meet at the public home of Emanuel
Sheba/I', in North Queen street, in this City, on Wed
itesday the 9th day of May ensuing, at 1 o'clock !
P. M., for the purpose of Axing a time for the eke--
Nod - of delegates to a County Convention to select
delegates to represent Lancaster County in the ensu
ing State Convention of the 4th of July next.
A general attendance of the - members composing
the. County _Committee. isdesdrable. -
. H. B. SWARB.,
Chairman Co. Com.
April 24, 1855.
How Theinkkut We Should Bet
The Legislature has actually resolved to
adjourn sine die on Tuesday next, the Bth
.1
met I How thankful should we all feel for this
only good act of as corrupt and inffiecient
body as ever convened; in this or any other
state. It has been poiverlesa for good, but
powerful for evil, and the people will long
feel the blighting effects of its actions. The
deep degradation into which the State. has
been plunged, by a Know-Nothing, imbecile
Azeoutive and Legislature, should be a warn.
lug for all time to come.
Hari. Asa Packer.
This gentleman, the honored representa
tive of the " Tenth Legion," in Congress, has
been.fevorably spoken of by a correspondent
of the Pittsburg Union, for the next Guber
natorial nomination. No better man or truer
Democrat than Judge PACKER exists in the
Commonwealth, and on no one could the first
honors of the party •be more worthily be
stowed.
Outrageous Proceedings in Kansas
Squatter sovereignty is carried to a high
pitch in Kansas, if we are to believe the news
paper reports—and we have no reason to dis
believe them, for they are fully confirmed by
our St. Louis correspondent who is well
booked up in e ( v.aqthing about which he writes.
To show the -litter lawlessness that prevails
there, we subjoin the following copy of a hand
bill headed, "People's Proclamation," just
received from Kansas, dated April 9. It was
not circulated there until after the departure
of Gov. Reeder, who is now on a visit to his
family at Easton, in this State. It reads as
follows:
WHEREAS, Governor Reeder has shown
himself incompetent and unfit for the duties
of his position ; and whereas, the appointment
of a man to the Governorship, without con
sulting the choice of those to-be governed, is
an arbitrary exercise of power, the citizens of
Kansas have, therefore, resolved to hold ad
election at Leavenworth on the 28th inst.. to
eject a person to succeed Governor Reeder,
whose removal will be solicited.
Calls have been made for delegates from
each district to meet at Leavenworth on the
28th to elect a suitable person to fill the office,
whose name is to be forwarded to the Presi
dent for appointment.
1, Such illegal, anarchial conduct deserves the
severest reprehension of the Nation, and we
hope a lesson will be taught these cut-throat
ruffians and desperadoes which will now and
forever put a stop to mob-rule and lawlessness,
there and elsewhere. Governor Reeder,
throughout the whole difficulty, has shown
himself to be an , honest, upright and fearless
Executive ; but what can he do, unless the
strong arm of the General Government is
brought into requisition. His life is in dan
ger it he returns among them, unless some
thing is done by the President to protect • him
in the discharge of his official duties.
What is to be the result of this state o
things time only can determine.
M. A bill has been reported' in the Legis.
lature, authorizing the appointment, by the
Court of Quarter Sessions, of a Moral In
structor for the Lancaster County Prison and
Almshouse, at a salary of S l 5OO per annum.
It be his duty, if. it becomes a law, to
preach in the Prison and Almshouse every
Sabbath, and to visit those Institutions on
every week day for the purpose of imparting
moral' instruction to the inmates.
. JOHNSTON es. DARSIE.—The, Chambersburg
Trhig has information that Gov. Johnston has
signified his willingness to accept the K. N.
nomination fur State Senator in the Allegheny
district at the next election, and that the nom
ination will be conceded to him. On the other
side, it is understood that George Darsie, pres
ent member, will be supported by a fusion of
the old line Whigs and Democrats. This will
make an interesting and exciting contest.
War upon the Press
The Boston correspondent of the N. York
Evening Post says, the Hindoo leaders in Mas
sachusetts propoSe "to put down the newspa
pers—to break them down by systematic at
tacks upon their subscription and advertising
patronage." He says " they , boast that thro'
the lodgeq, by means of speeches made and
documents read there, they can command a
public or rather a party opinion which is in
dependent of the newspapers, sand enables
them to dispense with and even defy the
press." This is a very natural and appropri
ate step for this infamous cabal tto take. Hav
ing heguTs- with a warfare upon the freedom
of religious opinion, an astack uptn the free.
dom of the press would seem to follow as a
matter of necessity ; for they cannot perma
nently succeed in lotting down religious free
dom as long a free press remains. But we
apprehend they will find this rather a difficult
job; when they enter upon it in earnest, we
think they will come to the conclusion that
they have rather a hard road to travel. But if
they are disposed to try it, they should begin
at once, for their time is short. Everything
tends to show that their days on earth are but
a shadow, and very soon there will not be
enough left of them to 'cast even that!
tia..l 7 . B. PALMER'S Newspaper Adverti
sing Agency, one of the best and most relia
ble establishments of the kind in the Union,
has been removed from Third and Chesnut, to
the corner of Fifth and Chesnut sta., Brown's
new Iron Building, Philadelphia.
Wusia CROPS.—The Franklin Review says
the wheat crop in that region of Tennessee is
unusually promising, and the only danger now
apprehended to it is that it is gpwing so rap
idly that the late frosts may injure it: If not
the crop promises to be a first rate one. A
correspondent of.the Alexandria Sentinel Writes
from Westmoreland county, Virginia: "I nev
er saw a better prospect for wheat than they
have in this portion of the county. Hon.
Willoughby Newton, who lives at this place,
has a splendid farm which cost him four dol
lars per acre. Last year his average crop of
wheat was 20 bushels to the acre. This year
he expects to make 25."
• YOUR COUNTY PAPER.—The following ex
tract from Fowler & Wells' "Life Illustrated,'
is so good and to the point, that we recom
mend it to our friends without further corn
ment:
"Ws occasionally receive• letters in which
the writers express an intention to stop their
county or village paper, and take one of our
publications instead. We always regret to
receive such intimations. We think a man
ought to support his own paper run?, and
then if he can afford to take a paper from a
distance, let him do so, and we shall be happy
to furnish him with "Life Illustrated." The
country press, in our opinion, is the most im
portant in its effect on the enlightenment of
the nation. It conveys in ten thousand rills,
intelligence to nearly every home in the coun
try. • The country press ought to receive a
cordial support. Every place should try to
have its paper of such a character that—the
people could be justly propd of it. To this.
end let theta pay promptly ,
. advertise liberally.
recommend warmly, and-in evertway stand
bitheir eAitor as long as they conscientiously
can."
The Landon Tinton and the Snow Woth-
The London Times comes gout, April 6, tin
full fityor of the know nothings. It regards
their "establiihed principles" not merely with
"sympathy," but with ".considerable.sympa
thy ;" it regards their language "patriotic and
-wise;" and far'more akin to
." the true
princi
ples of the founders of the commonwealth than
the ricandalous,tterapta of inrideza flemocrats to
couk - Popularity at the expense of honestyand
honor." It adds to the know nothing stuff
about "foreign influence" the scandalous libel
on the American press that this element ex
ercises "an undue and almost exclusive infln
ence over the American press." It also says
that it is "always endeavoring to embroil the
' United States; for its own sinister purposes,
with the European powers!'
The London Times understands itself per
feotly and well knows what it is about: It
would rejoice to see emigration to America
completely stopped ; for every emigrant that
leaves the shores of England diminishes by so
much British power,and on landing in Amer
ica increasing by so much American strength.
Hence for two hundred years the British oli
garchy has endeavored "to p:iwent the popu
lation" of these states; in early days by royal
proclamations, and in later days by bold lying
and misrepresentation, as to our condition.—
They have by turns ridiculed and denounced
America, holding. its institutions up as licen
tious and anarchial. But all to no purpose.
The tide continues to flow west; and now Eng
gland, more than she wants anything else,
wants these millions of emigrants to save her
honor and her power. At this very hour she
is scouring all Europe for men to fight her
battles, and for want of better, has been obli
ged to take into pay twenty thousand Turks.
Well does the London Times know that the
longer emigration continues, the more will
England, in a crisis, need men.
The Times admits that the emigrants who
come here are against European powers. They
have no love for the oligarchy that governs
England, or for the despotism that rules France.
But they love their adopted country. Let a
time come when American armies will be
needed, and how promptly and gladly will
the emigrant enrol himself with the native
born to sustain the flag of the republic ! All
this the London Times understands. Hence
its readiness to step forward to sympathize
with and defend the know nothing cause,
because it believes it will help to stop emi
gration and stop our growth.
This is an arrogant ardele. It may serve
to open the eyes of many patriotic citizens
who have given their adhesion to the
know nothing doctrines. These are at bot
tom old tory doctrines—proscriptive, anti-re
publican, and intolerant—and hence it is that
they command the sympathy of such tory
presses as the London Times. So says the
Boston Post. _
Or We copy the following hit at Gov.
Pollock from the Philadelphia Ledger :
We have fe . monstrated against all in
crease of banking capital in the State, as so
much added to the taxes c n our- industry ;
for whatever bankers make over legal inter
est, is, of course, an extra levy on the
producer for the sole benefit of the speculator.
We have taught that the way to get rid of a
bad system is to let each institution die out,
as its term expires; and thus quietly, and
without disturbance of existing fashions in
finance, we should be freed from all chartered
privileges to the few to impose on the many.
We are not quite sure that Governor Pollock,
in his sly way, has not the same object in
view, but adopts a different and much more
objectionable way to accomplish it. In our
prisons they wean the inebriate by lessoning
his allowan e of grog a little every day, till at
last "no ,:rog" is the law. In this way no
desr-t-. ,, tive constitutional disturbance is
ci In} the new
. prison of Schuylkill
county, it wei:s at first the practice to stop the
grog on every bruiser when he came within
its walls. But the mortality was so dreadful
from this course, that the tapering off system
has been substituted with good results. In
Sweden they take Governor Pollock's plan,
viz : The - rummy is at once served with gin,
(the usual drink there) without stint, but in
the following way : In his tea and his coffee,
in his bread and his milk, in his water and
his gravy, gin is mixed. His bed clothes are
scented with it—in short nothing is allowed
in his cell that has not been well scented with
gin. Bland by the poor fellow becomes so dis
gusted thvit the smell of gin ever after presents
no attraction, and the man is safe. It is said
that our Governor claims this Swedish prece
dent in justification of his course and in con
sistence with his message doctrine.
Late Foreign News
The steamship Africa arrived at Halifax, on
Wednesday, bringing news from Europe one
week later. An official document. has appeared
in the Paris Moniteur which has caused much
excitement, and seems to be an apology for
soon raising the siege of Sebastopol. It says
that Gallipoli was occupied to prevent the
march of the Russians to Constantinople, but
the Russian retreat to Silistria rendering it
unnecessary, the siege of Sebastopol was un.
dertaken s 5 as not to remain idle. From the
Crimea there is no news of consequence. The
Vienna Conference had met again but withou
any result. At Sebastopol the military opera
tions progress rapidly. The Russians have
converted the ambuscades into an advance
parallel, and the French are advancing to the
Malakoff tower by a serpentine sap.
Omar Pacha and his Turks have enlarged
their circle of fortifications to shelter 5000 then,
and have occupied two villages a league and a
half from Eupatoria. Russian agents at Vi
enna report a sanguinary engagement on the
26th of March, and it is also said that the wo
men, children, and sick are being sent out of
Sebastopol into the interior of the Crimea.
Breadstuffs had slightly declined, and the
market was dull.
Our Relations with Spain.
The Baltimore Republican 'says :
"Every day seems but to complete our rela
tions with the Spanish government. Her offi
cials at Cuba are hurrying on the hour when
an open rupture must take place, and the
question to be tried whether France and Eng
land are to uphold these insults upon our flag
and these outrages upon our honor. The Na
tional Intelligence; true to its foreign in
stincts, stands up unreservedly in defence of
General Concha and his tyranny. It justifies
the butchery of Pinto and • Estrampes, as it
did that of the gallant Crittenden and his
friends, and 'Would, doubtless, the seizure of
our vessels and their condemnation for daring
to sail in sight of this gem orthe Spanish
. Crown. But while the Intelligeneer thus up- .
holds any and evbry foreign government in op
pisition to that to which it professes allegi
ance, the people of the country are sound and
patriotic, and need but the word of encourage
ment or command- to precipitate themselves
upon these tyrants and murderers, and hold
them to a strict account for every outrage and
every drop of American blood spilt by them
in their ettorts to put down the spirit of lib
erty.
"Let these minions of a corrupt and imbe
cile despotism prOceed one step farther—let
but a shot ba fired into an American vessel,
and the blood of one American tar be shed—
and it will bethesignal for an avalanche upon
the•shores of Cuba, before which the hired sol
diery of old Spain, and the mongrel regiments
of Captain-General Concha, will be scattered
like chaff before the whirlwind.
"Never, while the Union of these United
States continues, can we see another negro
despotism erected within sight of our shores,
or permit our flag to be daily insulted by the
petty officials of any Crown."
*The Marysville (Cal.) Express says
that an immense nugget, weighing, quartz
and all, between seven and eight _hundred
pounds, was taken out of Smith's Flat in Yu
ba county. It is supposed to contain about
two hundred pounds of pure gold, which
would make it worth about $50,000.
M==Ml
The present Know•Notiing Whig govern
ment of Philadelphia has proceeded to such
leths in ite extravagance, that evert EIMIY.nf
those who assisted in elevating it to poker
Imre become thoroughly disgust:et' :with: its
recltlesilness and Mismanagenient. Of , this
,class is the Nara" Arnerrican, the if:tiding:
Whig organ'ofPhiladMphia. - Hear wha the
editor says in. his leader of Wednesday -last
There Ca.o be nu doubt that the affairs of the
city goveriuuent are in a deplorable condition.
Notwithstanding any and all..financial state
ments to the contrary, it is certain that -our
municipal expenses have largely outrun the
revenues, and that there is a heavy . debt in
curred, with no present means to pay it.
Provision must necessarily be made to meet
the current ordinary exigencies of the admin
istration, as well as to liquidate the indebt
edness which exists. How 'both* these ends
can be accomplished with any sort of conven
ience, is a problem which may well puzzle
the wits of the most expert financiers. There
can beno extrication from the difficulty without
imposing new, and.we fear, oppressive bur
dens on the citizens. Taxation has reached
already a figure which is alarming. There is
a general cry of complaint under it. Property
is becoming a source of loss to those who
own.it. The public charges upon it are eat
ing it up and impoverishing the holders.
Rents are raised on the tenant to cover as
far as possible, the exorbitant exactions made
upon the landlord. People are forced to oc
cupy dwellings and stores, and the like, of
smaller dimensions and less price than they
could once afford to occupy, and the number
of spacious and costly buildings in our city
now vacated in consequence of the causes
named, is daily increasing. Business in all
its relations, indeed, is feeling the depressing
influence of this condition of things, and per
sons of all classes and circumstances are be
ing obliged to retrench their expenditures,
while they cannot, by a process of stinting
themselves in their usual and merely necessa
ry wants, save their income.
And again :
To what are we to attribute the evil?
Universal opinion, sustained by the records
of the Departments, declares that there has
been, during the past year, a fatal amount of
extravagance in our local government. It is
alleged by many admittedly shrewd and
practical and discreet citizens, that the city
has been legislated to the very verge of bank
ruptcy. We need not enter here or now into
the details of this wastefulness. It,is enough
to know that, through unprecedented appro
priations and expenditures of the public
money during the last ten months, for a count
less variety of purposes, the treasury is worse
than empty—it is indebted to . the extent of
about two millions of dollars. The credit of
the municipality is suffering under this fact,
and we are afraid it is doomed to suffer a good
deal more from the same cause before it can
be got fairly out of the difficulty. It was on
ly a few days ago that authority was obtained
to negotiate a loan of half-a million of dollars,
and the probability is, that we shall be re
duced to go on borrowing, until the value of
the city securities in the market will decline
as the city debt mounts up, and the resources
for a jis payment are more and more -dimin
isheWf proportionately.
RENUNCIATION OF KNOW NOTHINGISSI.-
Mr. Wm. D. Doll, of Frederick, Md. having
joined the Know-Nothings, and found out
what the concern is made of, now renounces
and denounces it as a thing of evil. He says,
in a communication to the Citizen:
I attended; I think, but four meetings,
certainly not more than six, which were
amply sufficient to convince me that no man
of true patriotism and liberal feelings could
remain among them without sacrificing his
honor, and compromising his freedom of will
and opinion. Instead of meeting with the
patriotic, the intelligent, and the liberal, with
a few exceptions, I met with the bigot, the
intolerant, the proscriptionist, the superannua
ted, and broken down leaders of the old Whig
party, and the disappointed DlEce-seeking
Democrat. Its main body being men of that
creed, the residue, those who had once acted
with the Democratic party. I saw that its
aim was to break down the party of which I
had been a Member from my youth, and un
der whose ‘‘isc, republican, and generous
policy my Country had grpwn rich, great and
powerful, and I determined to eschew it as a
thing of its origin and evil in its
pursuits. Under Wmocratic rule I had al
ways been free to act, think and speak for
myself. I had never been controled by cau
cuses or cliques. I voted as I pleased, and
no one ever dared .to question the propriety of
my conduct; but there I was bound in will
and purpose, to do as those in authority might
dictate, under pain of the dreadful displeasure
of those who seek power, place and profit by
the organization, and who give direction to it.
I regard it as a foul egg, hatched after a pro
tracted and elaborate incubation in the old
Whig nest, and whose chick strongly resem
bles in form and feature, the Craven bird, sin
civil Federalism, and advise all my Zemoorat
ic fellow-citizens to give no heed to its out
ward and speciousprofessions of "American
ism," for those are a farce, a mockery and a
lie, and to avoid it as they would the viper,
whose presence is contagion, whose sting is
death.
gtir:The Nunnery Committee of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature have been placed in an
unenviable situation by the development of
the investigation concerning their disgraceful
proceedings. It turns out that they gave an
entertainment after their Roxbury visit, at
which they had Champagne wine, the whole
bill being paid by the State, thus making the
latter a party to the breach of its own laws
against the sale of intoxicating liquors 1 . It
was also shown that Mr. Joseph Hiss, the
member of the committee, whose disgusting
attempts at familiarity with two of the ladies
of the Roxbury school, admit of no excuse or
palliation. During one of its previous visits
to Lowell on a like errand, he had a female
companion stopping at the hotel with the com
mittee, whose bill was included in the gener
al bill of expenses paid by the State. Her
name was registered as "Mrs. Patterson." A
pretty set of fellows these are indeed, to act
as censors of the alleged moral and religious
delinquencies of Catholls. The Philadelphia
Ledger truly re&arks: "The whole conduct
of the committee was such that, if they had
behaved in the same scandalous manner in
any gentleman's residence, would have indu
ced the occupant to have expedited their de
parture with an application of the toe of his
boot. As ethe building contained only la
dies, the 'committee escaped the punishment
their indecency deserved, but the press are
very properly holding them to account, and
the committee 'seem to sit very uneasily under
the investigation."
The Legislative Committee appointed to in
quire into the doings of the Roxbury Nunnery
Inquistion, made a lengthy report to the
House on Tuesday, in which they censure the
Visiting Committee, but recommend no definite
action in the matter accepted. The Report was
THREE KIDNAPPERS CONVICTED AT .HARRIS-
BuRG.—We learn by the Harrisburg Herald
that on Tuesday last, Solomon Snyder, David
Thomson and James Jackson were convicted
of a conspiracy to kidnap George Clark, (a
colored youth) and sell him as a slave to the
South. Clark was a lad 18 years old and had
been raised at George Craighead's about 4
miles from Carlisle, where his parents lived.
He was at Harrisburg on the 23d of February
last, ana was decoyed• by Jackson and Thomp
son to 'Snyder's house, where he was seized by
Snyder, but was rescued. These men were
tried for the crime or kidnapping and convict
ed. Snyder is considered as one of the most
worthless and abandoned creatures that walks
the earth ; and had been engaged in numer
ous similar scrapes before. He was one of
those who murdered a fugitive slave in Colum
bia, after he had had been arrested and was
being led along by this Snyder, and tin; police
officer from Baltimore. Himself and two or
three others in Harrisburg have been notori
ous for some years as men of most abandoned
habits and principles, some of whom had to
leave that community to escape arrest and
punishment for their crimes. It is to be hoped
that those who have been convicted will have
meted-to them the.lawful measure of justice
for-their iniquity.—lnland Daily.
A . _SeiSaist .A.bsve his *sates,/
In the Honse of R.epresettives sometime
since,•:whilst- the'-resoltition or the final ad
jouinnient of thetegislatine orris under discus
sion,
Mr. E. JOT 4 MORRIS, o f Know-Nothing
Whig member frotd - -iPhiliplelphia, delivered.
•
himself as follows, We - ..quote frau the Leg
islative Record—the utEeial . Paper:.
"Mr. Morris said, that it *ifs. a matter of
.tittle moment to the people when!-the Legisla
ture adjourned—in fact it wbsnime of their
business. The people did not 'understand the
position of affairs here as weans the, members,
and if they thought it right to stay, they should
have the firmness and decision to do so, wheth
er the people desire it or not. If the bill fix-
I log" a salary of $5OO for eachimeniber dUring
the session should pass, then, it mattered nut
how long they remained in session."
Mr, Morris like most men of his school of
politics when they get into suffice, (says. the
Reading Gazette,) seems to I have forgotten
that he is merely a servant of the people ; and
a servant, too, who holds his place by the brief
est tenure—so brief that it is scarcely begun
before it comes to an end. He would "play
the fantastic trick" of being master; while
his "little brief authority" lasts—and a tyran
ical master he is disposed to be. "None of
the people's business when the Legislature ad
journs," elf ? Well that's decidedly cool, con
sidering that the money to pay them comes
out of the people's pockets, and that the peo
ple have already made it their business-to pro
vide against long sessions So far, as to cut
down the pay of the LegislatOrs one-half, after
they have been in session one hundred days.
The people may "not understand the position
of affairs' at Harrisburg, (no one cdn who is
not "in the ring,) but they understand quite
enough to know that a great deal of time
which ought to be devoted to their business,
is wasted in idleness, or worse. They know
that from twenty to forty members are daily
absent from their seats ; and two days of eve
ry week are as good as lost by the adjourn
ment from Saturday morning tu Monday after
noon. They also know that all the legitimate
public business could readily be disposed of
within the one hundred days for which full pay
is lawfully allowed, and that all the time spent
beyond that, is an additional tax on them.—
The people desire their representatives to do
nothing but what is right ; but unfortunately
their notions of right are very different from
those which men like Mr. Morris entertain
when they get to Harrisburg. The R. N.
brotherhood to which lie-belongs, profess great
love for the Bible, and reverence for the pure
precepts of Christianity. Would it not be
well tor the "Instructor"- of the "Council" to
which Mr. M. belongs, to read him a discourse
from the text, "The servant is nut above his
master !"
Senator Seward and the Know. Not hinge
Just before the close of Congress Senator
SEWARD, of New York, made a speech in which
he used the fidlowing keen and cutting lan
guage, showing up the dark and proscriptive
policy of the Know-Nothings :
"Before I would place my right hand be
tween the hands of other men, in a secret
Lodge, Order, Class, ur Council, and bending
my knee before them, enter into combination
with them for any object, personal ur political,
good or bad, I would pray to tiud that that
hand and that knee might be paralyzed, and
that'l might become an object of pity and even
mockery of my fellow men. Swear, sir:—l, a
man, an American citizen, a Christian—swear
to submit myself to the care and guidance'
and direction of other men, surrendering my
own judgment to their judgments, .and my
conscience to their keeping ! No, sir. I know
quite well the fallibility of my own judgment,
and my liability to fall into error and tempta
tion. I therefore know too well the danger of
confiding power to irresponsible hands to make
myself a willing slave. Proscribe a man sir,
because he was not born in the same town, or
county, or State, or country in which I was
born I Why, sir, I do most earnestly advise all
persons hereafter to be born, that they may be
born iu the United States; and if they can,
without any inconvenience ; be burn iu the
State of New York, and thin avoid a great
deal of trouble for themselves and fbr others.
[Laughter.] Moreover, I do most affectionate
ly enjoin upon all such persons who are here
after to be born, that they be burn of fathers
and of mothers, of grandfathers and of grand
mothers of pure American blood. Still more,
sir, I do affectionately enjoin upon all who
shall thus have the wisdom' to come into ex
istence on this side of the Atlantic, and of such
pure and untainted ancestry, to be either horn
in the protestant faith, or be converted as
speedily as possible to that good and true pro
testant Church, within whose pale I ant accus
tomed to worship. Thus, being in this free
and happy country, and being burn white,
they will be born free."
Philadelphia Correspondence.
PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 1855
The Chestnut Street Theatre, familarly
known among our theatre-goon as "Old Dru
ry," is to be torn down in a few days and
new stores to be erected upon its site. For
many years it was the leading place of enter
tainment in our city, and I vo nightly thronged„
with the beatity and fashion of the city. Upon
its boards nearly all the great players who
formerly added lustre to the drama have play
ed their parts, and its managers, luxuriating
in all its enjoyments that overflowing treasur
ies could command, moved in the highest cir
cles and were always favorite guests at the
most brilliant soirees. But somehow or other
a change came over its fortunes.
After reaching the summit of theatrical
splendor they began, slowly'at first, to wane.
The drama lost its charm. The management
was no longer successful. Lessee after lessee
involved himself in hopeless bankruptcy in
vain attempts to win back for it the liberal
patronage it had once possessed. Rival es
tablishments sprung up and gained success,
where it met failure. And so it has gone uu
dwindling away year by year in its attrac
tiveness. All sorts of experiments have been
tried in it,-sometimes with apparent tempora
ry success,—but at last Thespis has been ut
terly routed in her unequal struggle against
adverse fitte to retain posseSsion of her once
favorite temple, and it is about being irrevo
cably snatched from her, to be henceforward
re-arranged in such style as will best promote
the worship of all powerful and grasping
Mammon.
The ship Siddons recently arrived at this
port from Liverpool, with 425 emigrants of
the Mormon faith, . They were all apperantly
English by birth, and generally in fine health.
They intend proceeding at once to the prom
ised laud of Utah, by the overland route.—
Among them were a number of females, and
if any of them are still undergoing the pains
of celibacy, the "blessing" of a husband will
no doubt be vouchsafed to them immediately
upon their arrival at halt Lake, for the opera-'
tion of their revolting and disgraceful institu
tiona
necessarily expunges the words "old I
maid" from the Mormon Dictionary.
One of our ambitious daguerreotypists has
proposed to the Councilmen to take their por
traits and have them hung, in Independence
Hall, side by side, with thelikenesses of ma
ny of the illustrious sages and patriots of the
revolutionary era, which now adorn those
walla. However gratifying it might be to the
vanity of some of them it is hoped they will
have good sense enough to reject the proposi
tion. The Ledger proposeslthat if they decide
to do it the enormous debt they have saddled
upon the city should also be daguerreotyped
and hung by their side.
By a recent report of the Managers of, the
House of Refuge, it appears that since 1845,
over 4000 uhildren have been subjects of disci
pline in it, nearly three-fouitha of whom are.
believed to have reformed and become useful
members of society. On the first of January,
1855, it contained 364 inmates, of whom 251
were white and 113 colored. The current ex
penses during last year were $37,500.
Another disturbance occurred on the last
Sunday night meeting of the Spiritualists, at
Jefferson Hall, which seems to be a favorite
resort ofmischievous young bloods, on purpose
to annoy the deluded devotees of this new ism
The steamer Africa has. arrived at New-
York, with Liverpool - dates to the 11th of
April. Active skirmishing was constantly
going on before.Sebastopol e but the condition
tion of affairs had undergone no important
change. The Vienna ()Difference had re-as
sembled on the Bth inst., but the result had
not been made public.
Our markets have not recently ondergone
any importaut change. Beef cattle sell at the
exhorbitant rate of from $lO to 12f. Flour
commands $10,75 to $ll iper barrel : Rye
Flour, $7,25 ; Corn Meal, $4;75, Wheat sells
for from $2,75 to 2,88 ; Rye $1,50 ; Corn, 110 S
111 c; Oats, 68a70e,
sm. The steamship G6orge Law arrived at
New. York, on Tuesday kit, from Aspinwall,
with 372 passengers fronidalfjornia and $772;
000 in gold.
lEzrcirceror Sertooz: DtatorOws.—This day; be
ti een the hours of 1 and 7 o'clock P. IL, the elec
tf:r twelve School Directors, to serve for three
will be held *Fulton Ball. The people should
e sufficient interest.itzt.hesuocesa of our. Cormairm
to Atte:eagle eleCtion" and yobs- for thibest
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n to fill so important a statiori,
19 or the Brit time,Bi the history of the COmrnon
' oois Di this city—or rather the second time, for
'lett year thet,lihow-Nothinv 'attempted the same
:tiOng—a hold. (and now or ) .effort is being made to
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give a
them sebtaan character. ft ticket - was,
formed on last Friday evening - composed entirely of
members of , the proscriptive order—and Unless the
mass of our people evince more interest in the cause
of th e schools than they have heretofore) done, the
li ow-Nothing ticket will be succearful.
meeting of citizens was also held at Cooper's Ho
tel, on Saturday evening, at which the following
ercellent ticket composed mostly of the old !
p mem
o the namessfatlemen of both
lineal
placed
i# nomination. If the people are true to their own
interests, and have the welfare of the schools at heart,
they will turn oat in their strength 70-DAY and
elect this ticket. The candidates are :
Dr. F: A. Muhlenberg,
George M. Mine,
M. D. Holbrook,
John Bear,
H. B. Swarr,
H. Hotharmel,
William Whiteside,
John M. Jackson,
Wm. Carpenter,
Joseph Clarkson,
Dr. Samuel Welchers,
Henry Stock.
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kW At a stated meeting of the " Lancaster , City
and County Medical Society," held April 18th, '55,
the following gentlemen were elected delegates to
die "Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania,"
tai convene at Hollidaysburg, on the last Wednesday
of May 1855, at 10 o'clock A. A., viz :—Drs. J.
Beam, A. Sheller, J. L. Atlee, Sr., S. K. Raub, B.
Duncan, J. A. Ehler, H. Carpenter, P. Cassidy, M.
A. Withers, F.. Hinkle, W. S. MoCorkie, J. B.
Stubbs, W. F. Thomson and T. Tlimaker.
P. CASSIDY, President.
I M. A. Wrranns, Secretary.
lar A Grand. Festival for the benefit of the Suni
day School, of the German Lutheran Church, wil
be held at Fulton Hall on Thursday and Friday
neat, the .3d and 4th of May. This festival has been
arranged by the Ladies and others connected with
that Church, and we are assured that it will be the
most attractive one ever held in this city. A supper
*just such an one as the Ladies only know how to
Prepare on these occasions—will be in. readiness for
those who desire, in that way, to give ad4litional en
couragement to the worthy object of the entertain
ntent.
lEr A corps of Engineers under Mr. Mifflin, are
now engaged in locating the Octoraro
Several preliminary surveys have heretofore been
made. The engineer has satisfied himself that the
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road can be made at a moderate cost, at a grade not
eceeding forty feet. The probabilities Are Max_
Ord Borough, New London, Kimblerille, bWark,
will be points on the route.
Ad mulstnwn—Martin T.:Writhe:tn. Hooey S. Shirk.
Bert—Adam Itu t tee..Le . t..,, V. Lytle.
D. ii.Aliunich, Wardwell, S Wen
einan, C. Tyson, Andrew Writer . B. F. Stouffer, Daniel Sul
pier. John McDonnell, Joseph. IL Black, W. W. llayea .1
Pat, Jeremiah Brown,Rebecca Eberlin, James 3.lellenr)
relay—George W. Stinmetz.
Curnarvon--George A, Martin Seber.
O,llilCO East—Henry Ruth, Nrael 11,,Itler. Andrew
'.G cnliro
Went—Jere. Bucher, 11. liegerise.
A brnbam
Bu'ldwilt. Jere. Swisher.
Cote,togn-1:11.slr-th us . 11. Ile.: .1. K..uit
Dian, Jacob Gsll. A. S. ./ohit
111=1=11
Donegal 111,1ataig•llilli Diffenderfer.
Drutnore—E.4. Hess, John Keumtly, Felix Swei,;ert.
Nathaniel 313 ers.
lEarl—Jacob Stambaugh, Juhn Styer, Susan Slylulu
6/Imuel Rile, Jehu Fasnacht.
Earl IVest—Henry Fritz, Jacob Busser, Adam Wiwi,
I iritto Slough, Levl 0. Kemper, Peter filbert.
Earl Coleman.
Eden—James (2. Ewing,
Elizitbeih---Jannb Swart., tinorgn hentz
,EliaaLethloivil--Cliarks W. Murray, Catharine }olt;
Lleorge W. Iloyer f -lsaae Weiler.
iptlphrata—Jusepli Kollignucher, Martin Gross, Chris.
tau flerehelrote. :mune] Iluliett, David 'l'. Bear, .laeub
I anger.
Fulton--E. E. \Voudi‘uni, 11. Lektnau, Allen S. Steel,
J web Bartlettm.
Hempfield East—D. S. Royer, Emanuel S. Hall, Simon
5 innieh,laeohdlostetter Henry M. Bear, C. L. Hershey,
eel Hera, Jacob '.lletz.ger, Martin Kendig, Adam
Dietrich.
I Hempheld West—Samuel Hippie, J. Klugh, Joh❑ H
ogoudobler, John Margurnt. Brown.
Leacock—lxvi eummJ, Juba ,healfor, Martin I:11.W,
Leaeock Upper—John Lehman, B. M. Starr, AOOO )1
3Veidler, Jacob Bard, John Kiehl, Michael Bender.
r Lamp:ter East—Henry Keneau, Allen Suunny, Lee
H. Rhodes, blichael S. Metzger.
Lampeter Rest—henry Wit, John 11. Miller, Mielnie
Steer, John McAllister, M. H. Kreider, Oeorge Ludwig.
Lancaster twp.—Sarah Haines, Charles Nauman, Wni
Dietrich. •
Mount Joy bor.—Selonum Shell, Henry Shaffner, 1.. It
Seltzer.
131ount Joy twp.—Daniel O'lkumell, Jacob Iliestand.
Marietta—Wm. Appold, Geo. W. kleckroth, Samuel G.
3 iller, George Peters, Philip Deitrich, Sarah Flury.
1 Manheim bor.—Abraham H. Heist, Michael White.
31anheim twp.—Jacob Minnich, A. Landis, Thompson
Brubaker, Barbara Hubbs, Jacob R. Buckle, Shreiner .14
Groff, Peter Maurer, Daniel Hoffman, John Buckle.
1 Manor—Christian Zimmer, Thomas Fisher, Jacob S.
.Mann, Jesse ,Engles, George Miller, Edward Hess, I. 11.
!heitheiser.
Martic-Juliu Wilson,Benjamin Herr, John Fisher.
Paradise--John Fallc, Isaac Blair, Robort Taggert,
usey J. Nichols, Christian Hersh.
Peun—Chrlstian Hershey, Benjamin Long.
Providence—John Tweed, John M. Jones, !Lary Smith.
Peguea—lsaac lieiney, . Semi Charles, Benjamin Bowe
Wheel Zercher.
Itapho—Samuel 11. Fry, Jac . nb Summy, Jno. It. Evans.
Sadsbury--Samuel I). Smoker, Marshall k Dickson, 311
;awls Roland.
Salisbury—Winfield S. Kennedy, Martin Bear, James 11.
Houston, John Ammon, 11. H. Harman.
I Strasburg bor.—Henry lkatr, Issachar Reese; Martin
ilerr. Wm. Kehternaeht.
Strasburg twp.—Benj. Fritz, Amos SWF., John K. Herr.
Washington•bor.—G. E. Selmer, Benjamin Kantinuin.
Marivics—bleorge B. Stiober, Jeremiah Ha Locher, Thos.
Sands, John Render, Samuel Lichthenthaler.
1 City, N. W. Ward—Henry Rosenfelt, Jacob Leaman, 9
Rush, Samuel Showers, Reuben Weidler, Andrew Bear, II
A. Zug, Abraham Hostetter, Geo.' Ruth, Adam Trout, II
S. Shenk, Shober Frederick; Cooper, Hiram Rendig,
ileuq Blickenialarfer, Mliler & Kauffman.
City, N. B. Ward—John Hamilton, Barnot & Co; Con
ad Miller, Anthony Lechler, John Cosgrosp, Andrew
Matthias, James Donnelly, Owen floppier.
I City, S. E. Ward—Mary 3lessenkop, Rachel Miller, Con
rad Plitt. W. T. Youart, Margaret 31cGonigle, J. G. Pries,
John It. Watkins, Philip Snyder..Wm..ll. Gormley, John
Tymouy,
City, S. W. Ward—Margaret Need, John M. }lasting, Ja
cob Wolfer, Christian Shenk, urban 4k Son, S. liormeny.
LTP The County Convention of Know-Nothings
favoabrle , to an open organization r_of that party,
which met in this City, on Saturday week, was, we
learn from the American Register, pretty well Eaten,
ded. The officers were—President, Jacob Fehl,
Conestoga ;—V Presidents, G. G. ClaibOnie, Colum
bia, M. Roekafield, and W. Balton, City, J. M.
Frantz, Lancaster township, and J. Buseer, Jr. W.
Earl ;—Seeretaries,F. H. Carpenter, City, and Ja
cob Franciscus, do.
I The object of the meeting was stated by Mr. John
irise, and a series of resolutions reported by J. Cad
roll were adopted.
The following delegates were appointed to the State
the 10th instant, viz :
Jacob Fehl, G. G. Claiborne, M. Kookafield, Wm.
Batton, J. M. Frantz, Jacob Boner, Jr., Daniel Hess
arrison Hibshman, Philip Byle, Jacob Franciscus,
ay Cadwell, F. H. Carpenter, John Wise, S. J. Mus
a, Jacob Kauffman, Charles R. Frailey, A. M.
rantz, John Carr, Thomas Cox, H. ICKendig.
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a,NOTICER MURDER.—WO learn that another
wful mUrder has been committed in the
Southern part of this county. A man named
Bare, the son-in-law of a man named John
,titz, of Fulton township, has been arrested
Ein suspicion of murdering the' latter. We are
flfernied that at an inquest held on the body
,f Lutz, which was found on the public high
way, Doctors Raub and Miller stated that he
Was killed by a great gash which was cut in
lds head by some implement or weapon. `On
the day before the body of Lutz was found,
Bare went to Lutz's house to get some money.
that Lutz was known to have. The two went
to the Susquehanna together to set fish nets.
They were accompanied by a son of Bare.—
On their return in the evening, Bare told his
Son to go on before them, who did so, and
'reached home long before his father, who did
not arrive until midnight. Lutz did not re
turn with ' him ;. and in the night Bare. told
his wife that Lutz Was either killed or drown
ed, when she accused him of the deed. In
Ithe morning a search was made for Lutz,
(when his body was found, as above mentioned;
his gun broken at the breech, and the hand
kerchief in which he had his money tied, ri
fled. The body was buried; but on the ar
rival of another son-in-law of Lutz, named
iClark, Who lives in Drumore, Coroner Liebble
'was called, the body was disinterred and a
(juryu of inquest summoned, to sit upon the
ease, and Wheels were sent from this city to
'arrest Bare.' He was accordingly arrested
by officer Baker, and - is now in prison to
/ await his trial.
AtEir Ve copy the above from the Inland
Daily. Since it was set in type, however, we
learn from officer Baker that there is very
little, if any, ground for the arrest of Bare.
The belief is that the deceased came to his
death thrOugh accident.—. Ed. Intel.
lar The following letter (which had been a long
time on the road,) was received a few days since.—
It relates to the death of a soldier'of the U. 8. Army,
who is believed to have been a native of this County :
FORT WASHITA, OROCTAW NATION,
March 11th, 1865.
Sin :—I would feel obliged by your, inserting in
your next edition a notice of the death of Jona IL
Mum.un, a private in Light Company ~C ," 3rd
Regiment of Artillery. He is a native, it -is be
lieved, of Litiz, Lancaster County, but no certainty
of the address of his relatives can be , ascertained--
He was unfortunately drowned by the upsetting of a
canoe, in crossing the Washita River, on the night
of the 30th of January last, and notwithstanding ev
ery effort was made, it was only this day that his,
body was recovered. And although'a poorooniola;.
tion to his friends, they will have the satisfaction' of
knowing that he will receive sttohluneral rites as he
is 'entitled to, as a zealous, manly, and upright
soldier. Very.respeotfully,
Yolif most ob't aerv't -
- 'WEN , T ~
It. Col. Coin's ard.,VdilerY,
-Editor of the “Lanetisterluteltigendet
Liluffirtir3Ts.
Truly tours
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Con*lOL }fool Election,
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At ineeting s of : Citizens, friendly to the
Comn n St44xoLSyetr4held atCooper's ho
tel,
on Satrirdei:oiening; April 28th, to nom i
butte a-ticket for Directors, , CHARLIE I
.110 WEL L. ryas - 4611E4 to-the clutir,
Joan JC...ltEr.D 4 nPpoiritedpocretary. - - I
On motion it wanyrolved, that the members
of therpresent Board whose terms are about to
expire, benominated: for re-election. The
ticket thus nominated is as follows :
SlittOOL Diancroas.--George M. Kline, Wm..
Whiteside, H. 1). Holbrook, John W. Jackson,
Henry Stoek, Henry Rotharmel, John Baer,
Hiram B. Swarr, Joseph Clarkson, liaisha ei
ger, A. H. Hood John C. Van Camp.
And on motion, it was resolved, thst ad
dress be issued to the Voters o f Lane;Liter city,
setting forth the question at issue in die
pending election, and the facts cenueeted
therewith. In pursuance of which the follow-
jug is issued :
To the Independent Voters of Lancaster City
FBuow Crrunos: The Directorh of the
Common. Schools of this city have hitherto
been chosen withoutdistiuction of party. As
the political principles and preferences of
them offices can have no effect upon the edu
cation of our youth, thqy have been selected
solely with reference to their capacity and
willingness to discharge the responsible duties
assigned to them. By this course the people
have secured the efficient services of many
who are actuated duly by a sense of public
duty and would decline to engage in a parti
zan contest. Aud under the administration
of Directors chosen in tthis manner, the Com
mon Schools have become the pride and boast
of our city.
According to usage, a meeting was adver
lisedlor Friday evening last, of citizens with
out distinction of party, to nominate candi
dates for School Directors to be supported at
'the eleetion,ou Tuesday, the first of May.—
This meeting, as became apparent, was occu
pied and controlled by an organized combina
tion of the political order of "Know Nothings,"
who placed in nomination a ticket composed
exclusively of members of their own order.—
Such of the retiring Directors as belonged to
them were renominated, the residue rejected,
and their places supplied with members of
the order.
The object of the meeting having been thus
perverted, another was held on Saturday
evening, at which the whole of the attentive
and capable Directors whose term is about to
expire, were renominated,and the undersigned
directed to submit their names to the public.
We discharge this duty with pleasure.
Our candidates are citizens of unspotted
character, tried capacity and approvedlidelity
to their arduous and unprofitable public du
ties. They include representatives of every
shade of political opinion, some of them being
members of the very order that seeks to mo
nopolize this thankless ollice. They go before
the people, not because they covet the station
but to obtain the reward they have complete-
ly earned, of "well done good and faithful ser
cant."
Our object iu thus presenting their names
to. the people, is not to obtain a victory for one
party or combination, or to indict defeat upon
another. It is to prevent the introduction of
partizan feeling into a sphere that should be
Clevated beyond every consideration but the
public good. It is to prevent the estrange
ment of any portion of our citizens from that
which so deeply interests them all—the man
agement of our Common Schools. It is to
secure to every one, of whatsoever political
sentiment, .a representation among those who
are entrusted with the education of his chil
dren.
We therefore earnestly appeal to those who
desire to preserve our Common Schools from
the dangers of partizan management to attend,
and urge their neighbors to attend, the ap
proaching election. Let every citizen express
his opinion at the ballot box. If it be the
will of the majority that the minority shall
be deprived of representation in our system
of education, it will become our duty to, sub
mit ; but let us first make a faithful effort to
avert what we are compelled to consider a
serious evil.
C. M. HOWELL,
JOHN K. REED.
The Easton Argus of Thursday last thus
speaks of the body, to all of which every intel
ligent man in the State will heartily subscribe:
It is now the 26th day of April, the Legis
lature—the reform Legislature has been in
session 116 days, and what have these reform
Know-Nothings dune for the people? have
they disposed of the Public'works to an advan
tage to the State ? No, they have failed to pass
any bill for that purpose. Have they passed
a bill for the better organization of the Canals
and Railroads of the , Commonwealth? No,
not even considered such a bill during the ses
sion. Have they devised any plan by which
to lessen the expense of the State government,
or to anticipate the payment of any portion of
our State's indebtedness? No, they have no
man among thorn of sufficient experience to
either draft or discusS'such a bill for such a
purpose. Have they brought any reform in
the system of legislation ? No ; they have
done, and are now doing more reckless legisla
tion than ever has been done in any session of
the Legislature of tile state, even than was
' done in the days of the most open and high
handed corruption, when anti Masonry held
her inquisition at Harrisburg. What tben
has this Know-Nothing Legislature done du
ring its session? It has run riot ever since it
assembled at the Capitol. It has turned the
halls of legislation into a kind of town meet
ing, to pass every and all kind of reckless leg
islation. It has bargained away the rights of
the people for the purpose of elevating to an
honorable and proud position, a corrupt and
weak man., It has passed a tyrannical and
unequal License law, which will never be sub
mitted to by the people. It has been led and
governed by such political hucksters, and sanc
timonious knaves as Cummings, Strong, and
their 'co-workers in dishonor and disgrace. It
:has dragged down the high character of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, and cast reproach
and shame upon tice State. It has exhibited
weakness, recklessness, and bold and shame
less fraud and corruption among its members.
And what the remainder of the session will de
velop nu mortal can anticipate—fur such a
pack never before the present, occupied the
chamber of the House of Representatives at
Harrisburg.
More of the " Decency" Party
We observe, by the local items of news in
the Cincinnati papers, that several Knovi-
Nothing Deputy Sheriffs in that county have
been held over by Judge PRCDEN, of the Po
lice Court, to answer to the crime (f murder,
in the sum of $5;000 each. The name of the
man assassinated is Captain IsmAsi.. What a
cry the organs of Know-Nothing Whiggery
would have raised if this scandal had occurred
with Democratic public officers—if the impu
tation, even, had attached to their garments!
As a further illustration of the conduct of the
party which lays claim to all the "religion and
decency," we publish the following from the
Portland State of Maine. it will be remem
bered in that city the, Know-Nothings and
Maine Lawites succeeded, by a few votes, at
the municipal election. The 'disgraceful
scenes of rowdyism andviolence that followed
are thus described
"FIRST FRUITS OF THE ELECTION.—The night
of Mr. Neal Dow's election as Mayor will long
be remembered in this city. On ascertaining
that he had a majority of votes, the crowd ad
journed from the Advertiser office to Lancaster
Hall. Violent speeches were made by seve
eral persons, and, among others, by a notori
ous character by the name of Richmond. The
crowd was not only inflamed with anger, but
they showed all the symptoms of a more ph
tent stimulant, and with a drum-and fife these
ruffians marched through the principal streets
of the city, doing violence on their way. The
windows of the residence' of John P. Boyd,
.Esq., in Free-street, and of Henry • Merril, Esq.,
in Congress-street, were smashed with stones,
greatly endangering the inmates of the houge.
Mr. Boyd and his wife were . , absent, but one
of their children narrowly escaped. _
"A terrific row was got up on Market
square, in front of the Yreble mansion, and
the wreck of torn jackets yesterday, teftr.on the
ground, showed that the fight was blocny•anil
severe. Windows were smashed in Clapp's
new block, on Federal-street, and -the night
was made hideous with•sc.enes of drunkenness
and disorder. Had Mr. M'Cobb been elected,
and such scenes fidlowed, it, would have been
called a drunkedrow. But as it was:in,hon
-or of the success of the author of the liquor law,
it was; we suppose; a'-very' becoming affair. 7
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sew A—resolution Fowl the Hotme of Rep•
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resentatives, on Wednesday last, by a . .vote of
.+lB 37, - to remove the* seat of Goveri:unent
froth HarriabOrg to Philadelphia.." It ha yet
to be acted 'upon by the Senate.
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N - BT. LOUIS 1645 • : : SPONDENCE.
;live 4-.llatton—lttUnieipal . Elections—Local IV
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ifairs-Kanstis B‘ection—Gov. lieeder—Great
• iExciteintntt in-_ ,I 1 huts: Ciuntß—Destruction of
' ~ the Piiikville Ditininar. '.Printing Office by a
• Mob—The Edita'rE.Thrititened hate the Halter
i —The Northern .21rethodt Church Denounced
Iby the Rabble, 4-cl, 4.c... .:. ~ • -
1 ,. • . , .„, • • 1,1 'BT. ' 018, April 23, 1855.
t ! Quite a change bits 'taken place in the weather
-1
the. thermometer dnring'th past week has ranged
'froiri 88 to 90 deg. I Basin continues brisk, and
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our levee elin presents a scene of bustle.
1, Ate meeting, of the creditors of Page Lt , Bacon,
held in this CRY on Thu ay last', the following
resolution was passed t •
Resolved, That we accept e proposition of Messrs.
Paged Bacon for liquidati n of their indebtedness
to us, and severally; agree t receive payment in full
in stock of the Ohio and ssissippi Railroad Com
pany, (Illinois Diviiien,) waiving the cash portion of
twenty per cent., on conditiOn that the same be paid
into the Treasury of the Ct mpany.,, and applied to-'
the completion of the'Road en such terms as may be
agreed upon between Messrs Pigk, d Bacon and the
Directory of the ComPany.'
The municipal election in Quincy, 111., came off
,on Monday last, and Iresulted in Hit election of the
entire Democratic ticket over the ITlttigs and Know- + •
Nothings, by majorities ranging frtm 100- - to 270.
This city has formerly .been atrougly Whtg.
• At the election in Belleville; Ill; - the Democrats
also succeeded over-3h° Whigs and Know-Nothings
by 500 majority. The re-action is now beginning to
'take place. ! .
Judge Dale is a candidate or the office of Judge of
the Circuit Court, an the, istrict composing. the
counties of Madison land St. Nair, in Illinois.
There were but 9p deathstin this pity in the past
week.
The U. S. CircuiV Court • now in session in this
'city, and the case of Judge ward Milligan, which
was up for trial at the last session, and postponed
until the present, will be pu on trial to-day. Judge -
' Milligan was formerly Local Mail Agent for this
city, and is charged with puiloining letters contain
ing money from the mails. 1.
By your permission, I wiD intrude a few additional
remarks upon the recent - Legislative election in Kan- •
sas. Since my last, I have come in possession of
some facts touching the fraud practised upon the
ballot box at the different election precincts of that
Territory. The - whole probeedings seem - to 'have
been a base fraud upon the 'settlers. It was decreed '
before hand by theiSlaveocacy that Kansas should
be governed and controlled b y slave-holders, if brute
force had to be brought in4o requisition, and from
all I can learn their preconrtect throats were made
manifest un the ddy of election. It appears that
large sums of money were raised iu this State,
to
transport men by the thousand into that Territory,
to take charge of the polls, and do the voting for the
negro-skinners of this, and - some of the Southern
States, no matter how base and foul 'night be the
means. Three thousand _men are said to nave been
encamped about Lawrence, I and to have voted with
out the slightest regard to actual residence or the
legality to the elective franchise. So it was at every
poll in the Territory, lu one of the precincts, a
Missourian presented himself at the polls, anti when
the Judges were about to aminister the prescribed
11
oath, these Missouri cohort rushed forward and de
manded of the Judges a del verunee of the poll-books
to them, and. sealed their deMand with the following
threat : "Yield uS up theoll-book, and let us ise
lect Judges of our !own,. or we will in live minutes
unroof the house and storm it... The Judges, fear-
ful of their lives, vacated their places, and were su-
pereeded by men of their (the mob's) own choice.—
The clerk was threatened pith Lynch law if he de
posited an Anti-Slavery vote. In several instances
the Free Soil candidates wdre made go to the polls,
under the penalty df instant death, and there com
pelled to vote for Pro-Slavery men—in stone cases
they were made to Make Pre-Slavery speeches. All
the polls were seized by thiS Missouri banditti, and
not the slightest regard was paid to the law, and all
the Pro-Slavery men were permitted to vote without
being challenged. : The Fee Sellers finding that
their lives were in danger, left the field iu the hands
of these Missouri hirelings ; that they might reap the
benefit of this . outrage up dn the ballot box, and
shameful mockery of the Laws of the land. These
highwaymen boastingly ass rted that if Gov. Reeder
refused to give these Male invaders their certitl- •
cotes of election, -ids life s euld , pay the forfeit—he
will never see his friends atiain,' dc.
Another outrageous and unwarrantable act was
instigated by these( desperadoes—they put in nomi
nation a Rev. Mr.! Johnson for Governor, (and of
course he was elected,) awl; they soot ho will grant
the fraudulently elected candidates their certificates,
if Gov.' Reeder wilt not, aed that President Pierce
shall remove the present Chief Executive and ap
point their choice ! What presumption, indeed !
shall appoint a man Governor of Reuses who bas no
more regard for law and common decency, than to
allow his name to be used fur so contemptible a pur
pose, as this same individual has. His appointment
would not only disgrace thli Territory, but leave a
lasting stigma upon nine- enths- of the American
people.
Gov. Reeder is Said to save acted bravely and
fearlessly throughout. lie Iliad laid down his path
of duty, and walkoil in it gaiust the fury of their
wrath. If he bus given thbse, rowd.os their certifi
cates,
as it is said he has dote, it was only done with
the brandished sword before his eyes, and for the
love of his family In a disut State. lie has gone
to Washington uity i , no dou ifor the purpose of lay
ing this mutter betore the P esident, so that we way
shortly expect a rumpus i the camp. These cer
tificates were no doubt obta ined from Coy. Reeder in
the some manner its were the poll-books from the
Judges, for I know 'that he ts not a man to sanction
any ouch unlawful: and fratidulently achieved
icon
quest. In all Gov. lteeder' actions, so far as I have
been able to Uscertitin ' sine he has been in the Ter
ritory, he has horde himse f firmly and manfully
I ,
throughout, and I "cannot elieve that he, with his
own good will, and' with th knowledge he has of the
whole damnable t insactio , did give these con
temptible, ranting negro-drivers their certificates.
Ever since the eiection lair fall, tile Governor has
been pursued with it blood-hound avidity, and with
out doubt would have Leda stricken down like a
wolf in the forest, had not their cowardly hearts fal
tered and refused le do their bidding. Hear what
that incendiary sheet, the!. Kansas Pioneer—sup
ported and kept going by 'the slave-owners of this
State, to du their dirty work for them—says of a man
who has endeavored to r advance the interests, murals •
and integrity of thin diw country, and who has used
every exertion in the disch4r ge of his ofiicial duty to
please and administer uli to Pro-Slaveryites and
Free boilers, in thel Territory over which he presides :
" We would notl like to see the Governor dang
ling in the air b - Y the neck—he will soon be dead,
dead, dead, without that- ;merely because we con
sider him a fair specimen of Eastern chivalry, and a
very fair sample oil a Free Seiler; but if he IS an Ab
olitionist at heart o.nd in action, and would abet in
running oil darkies into Confide it might be,well
enough to place the noose around his neck, by way
of experiment, if id were only to hear him cough and
see him make pretly faces.l'
What now can be expected from such incendiary,
unlawful and reckless demagogues as infest the Ter
ritory of Kansas and its Venters. They should be
hunted down, like the wildt'easts of the prairies as
they have been endeavorin to do with Gov. Reeder,
—and if they continuo ore as they have begun, it
will be necessary so to dot protect the settler and
the traveler in their lights and privileges, and from
the thirst for blood and . plunder of these hungry
wolves.
The Kansas election is slid to have cost the slave
holders of Missouri from 851.),000 to $7.5,000 :
• Now for the outrages thid band of lawless despera
does have committed upon I.he rights and liberties of
a free and independent people. The office of the
Laminary riewspop.r, published at Yorkville, Mo.,
by Messrs. Geo. 6 Park 't Wm. J. Patterson, and
which is of Free Sill proetties, was attacked by a
ri
mob of Missourians; — York ado good his escape, but
his partner, PattT
wasn, Waslcapturedand brought up
before this unscru ulous tribunal to receive his sen
tence. It th intention of the mob to tar and
feather these two 'editors, b ut as one of them had
made his escape, some of the more conciliatory of
their number suggested the propriety of setting the
prisoner at large, deeming it union- to make him
suffer the penalty lapportioned out for him and his
associate. Flaming andrendiary , speeches were •
made, strongly censuring a d condemning the course
the Luminary had pursued, and all Govrn now - eh
' tertained or upheld its viewa--that they were in
arms against all Reve Boilers then there i and would
be with all those who might hereafter come, either
rri ,
among them or to the Te tory of Kansas. It seems
that they are determined to rule or ruin that new
country, let the Tequen es be what they may.
In addition to his, the have denounced in the
most unmeasured erms, a d intolerant manner, ev
eryilc man, woman rind el:ild onnected with the Meth
odist Church Norih., and ave threatened its Minis
ters with the rope land da„,ger if they again preach
the mercies of the Redeedier to the good people of
Platte ! This is carrying the war a little too far,'
and further thin it has ever reached in this country
before. If these men havel no scruples about voting
gi t
illegally and fraiffiulentl out of their own State,
they are not too good tosla ughter and drink the
blood of their fellow bein .
The following resolutio s were offered and ap
proved singly by the mob embled, without a:dis
senting voice. The fifth lution is certainly in
dicative of the cluiracter o the people then and there
congregated—no Sabbath, o Church, no ministers- ,
to preach the word of od, no enlightenment for
them—blood vengoanco an Negroes areall that they
crave :
Resolved, 1. That the arkville Industrial Lu
minary is a nuisance, whi h has been endured to
long, and should how, be a ated.
2. That the editors, .to- it : O. -S. Park and W.
;
J. Patterson; aregaitors the State ant county in
which they live, d sho o dbe dealt with as such.
3. That we meet here ain, on this day three
weeks, and if we find G. Park or W. J. Patterson
in this town tinn, or it i t s ty subsequent time, we
throw will them into the, • uri river, and if they
t i
go to Kansas to reside, we ' ledge our honor as men,
to follow and hang them wh erever we can take them.
4. That, at the i aggestio of our Parkvilla friends,
we will attend to some o er Freesoilere not far off.
5. That we wiL suffer person belonging to the
Northern Methodist Chlinp to preach on Platte
county, after this date, under penalty of tar and
feathers for the futt offen.sc,. and a hemp rope for the
second.
6. That we earl estly call on our sister counties
throughout the State to rise in their might and clean
themselves of FriesollisanA
7. That our petite, our Property and our safety re
quires us at this time to d, our duty.
8. That we request ezry pro-slavery paper in
Missouri and Kansas to p is lish the above resolutions.
' The Luminary office completely. demolished
by this desperate and inf4iated crowd: - The Press
was carried through ,the treets, with a white cap
drawn over Its head, and labelled "Boston Aid ; "
they then marched With their booty to the river
1 4
bank, and there, With e hearty cheers, deposited
it la y the tomb of 'iall the apalets"—the Missouri
river. Speeches *ere made, and the entire
country around echoed wi h their hyena-lik e: yells.
.Such is the conduct :of some of the .people of Mis
souril; they hav not; only disgraced themselves but
the state and hi . on; and; measures should - betaken •
•to bring the guilt parties( to 'speedy. justice.. i Hear.
how ; he Plate gan. cOmirientaupon the disgrace
'hlia fill proceeding's enacted- * t that - county; crows • and
boasts about the *Lori handitti lof som e four.
maneor fife hundred achieved over two Juno-
• pent and'; )rinoffensivo hillividuals, laitii-' dated' too,
speak their sontimenfs in the °ohms)* . `icif'tb,eir: own
~. __....... ..
The peo_ple aroused---strongarmS -an t'stout
hearts are 17/11.4ted—not for a day, , or. si. singlecuai-
.iiiiign, but for Mir soar I rWe light for peace -1, final
peace--foijustice and. Our rights. ' Again wasayiin
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