.rittiligenttritiottrital i GEO. * SANDERSON. EDITOR. !LANCASTER, AUGUST•2B,IBSS. FOS CO. At, COMMISSIOMIR.: 'I,AII.NOLD multza, of Veining°. TO THE DEMOCRATIC FREEMEN OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF LAN- CASTER In accordance with the Resolution of the Connty Committee adopted on Saturday last, you are requested to assemble in the several wards of the city, boroughs and townships of thci County, on Friday, the 71h dayof Sep twitter next, then and there to elect not less thlin three nor more than five Delegates to represent each District in a general COUNTY CONVENTION, to be held on wavaioiday the 12th of September next following, at 11 o'clock, A. M., at the public house of Emanuel Shober, in the city of Lan caster, to settle a ticket to be supported by the Democracy of Lancaster county at the en .; sumg . election. The several Township Committees are re peated to give early notice in their respect lve districts, of the time and place of meeting fol. the election of delegates. ' By order of the Cuunty Committee. H. B. SIVARR, Chairman, Lancaster, August 21, 1855 The name of Samuel Dobson, is to be ad ded to the Democratic Executive Committee, furl Paradise township. DELEGATE ELECTIONS. Friday, the 7th of September. The Delegate Elections We hope our Democratic friends will make early preparation for the approaching dele gate elections, sothat "good and true" men may be selected to represent them in the County Convention. As some of our readers may not understand the reason for changing the day from Saturday to Friday, for the election, it may be 'well enough to state that it was done to avoid any difficulty with the Know Nothings, who hold their elections in the sev eral districts of the County on Saturday the Bth. of September. Our friends will, therefore, recollect that FRIDAY THE 7TII of SEPTEMBER, (next Friday week,) is the time fixed upon by the County Committee for the delegate elections, of which we hope all will take notice. Lebanon County. The Democrats and old line Whigs who intend to act with the Democracy hereafter, of Lebanon county, met in convention last week and nominated the following excellent union ticket: Assembly—Jacob Weidle, (Dem.) Treasurer—Conrad Hoistich, (Whig.) Sheriff—Philip Shaah, (Dem.) Coniutis'r. —IL H. Missimer, (Whig.) Prothonotary—W. M. Weigly, (Dem.) Director—Henry Hilman, (Whig.) Coroner—J. P. Umberger, (Dem.) Auditor—Henry Warner, (Whig.) The Convention appointed WILLIAM W. MURRAY Senatorial, and Wm. M. BRESLIN Representative delegates to the next Demo cratic State Convention. Crawford County The Democratic Convention of Crawford County met at Meadville on the 14th inst., and nominated the following gentlemen for Assembly, viz: JESSE SMITH, A. B. RICHMOND They also .appointe(Lthe following delegates to the next State Convention : Senatorial—Vincent Phelps. Representative—J. Porter Brawley, David M. Bole. Allegheny County The Democratic Convention of Allegheny County met at Pittsburg, on Wednesday. A resolution in favor of fusion with the Whigs was defeated by a vote of 78 to 8. The fol lowing strong and unexceptionable ticket was settled: Senate—Hon. William Wilkins. ;Assembly—Samuel Smith, E. A. Ransman, James B. Fulton, L. A. Patterson, Christo pher . Magee _ _ Sheri —Body Patterson. Prothonotary—John Birmingham Cumberland County The Democratic Convention of "Old Mother Cumberland" met at Carlisle, on Tuesday last, and nominated a most capital ticket. The following are the nominees for Assembly: WILLIAM HARPER, JAMES. ANDERSON. These are both intelligent men, and firm, reliable Democrats in whom the party can place the fullest reliance. We hope to hear of their election by an overwhelming majority. xue. The delegates from York County to the nest State Convention, elected at the late County Convention, are as follows: Senatorial—Col. John Rankin. Representative—Edie Patterson, Wil4m S. Picking, Wm. S. Anderson. CLINTON COUNMY.—The Clinton County Democratic Convention, assembled at Lock Haven on the 21st inst. The following ticket was placed in nomination on that occasion: Assembly—H. L. Diffenbach. Prothonota ry—Dr. Jonathan Moyer. Treasurer—J. B. Dies. Register and Recorder—Wm. Henry Stnith. Conunissioner—Coleman Grugan.— AUditor—Wm. A. Simpson. 01"ENING OF TUE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD. —The officers of the road and a large num ber of citizens made an excursion over the road, on Tuesday last, as far as the Gap, when an entertainment was served, and speeches were made by the Hon. Ase PACKER and others. 'KENTUCKY.—The Kentucky Congressional (.11egation stands 6 Know Nothings to 4 Dem ocrats. The State Senate has 17 Know Nothings, 7 Democrats ; and the House 61 Know Nothings, 86 Democrats. Morehead' (Know Nothing,) majority for Governor will be abmit 4000. A BURNT OFFERING TO RELIGION.—The Louisville Times of the 9th inst., states that about 4 o'clock. on the previous evening, a woman and ten children were found in the ruins of Quinn's house, on Main street, in that city, BURNED INTO CINDERS ! Such are the legitimate fruits of fanaticism and religious intolerance—such is Know-Nothing ism ! A BANK IN TROUBLE.—The Supreme Court, in the case of the Commonwealth as. the Com rnercial Bank of Pennsylvania, charged with loaning money at illegal rates of interest, and other acts in derogation of its charter, has re fused to quash the quo warrant() which had been granted by the lower Court. This de cision takes the case to trial, where, if the al leged facts against the institution be proven, its charter will be-annulled. • Bel,. Numbers of honest men in this county, who had been deceived by the falsehoods of the enemies of Democracy, have come out, and acknowledged their error in joining the dark lantern party, and have pledged themselves to vute with their old party hereafter. Our belief is that by the day of election, every honest Democrat in the Order will have left it, and that no man professing to j l.)e a Democrat will remain in it, but such as are engaged in a "wild hunt after office." Let honest Demo ei•ats come out at once—being careful, how ever, to leave behind—all the "office expect ants." • Abolitionism _Speaking of the issues in the approaching election in the "Empire State," the New-York Herald says:— "The most prominent, as far as the North is concerned, of thgse issues, and that which: excites the deepest interest, is that of the res toration of the - Missouri Compromise. It has become to the negro-worth:ppm what the polar star is to the mariner- 7 a point of gen eral observation." - The Herald is right. The repeal of the compromise was a god-send to the Abolition ists. Without that to carp and lie about, they would have nothing left to hang a hope upon, so utterly despised and detested are they by every honest and intelligent American citizen. They may fret and fume, however, as much as they please, all their efforts to restore that Compromise will be in vain. Even should the. next House of Representatives be so silly as to attempt a restoration, the Senate and the President are in the way, and they consti tute an insuperable barrier to any legislation of so foolish a kind. The doctrine of popular sovereignty is firmly engrafted in the minds of the American people, and any attempt to restrict it in the Territories belonging to the Union, will be frowned upon by every good citizen. air The President has removed Judge ELMORE, of Kansas, for the same reason as signed for the removal of Governor REEDER— speculation in Indian lands contrary to law. But we hear no regrets amongst our free-soil friends at his removal—no tears are shed over his fate! Why this difference—why make "fish of one and flesh of the other ?" If it was wrong to remove the one, it was equally wrong to remove the other for the same cause. Why, then, this usiarats silence in reference to the Judge? Is it because he happens to be a Southerner, or is the fountain of their tears exhausted? We cannot, fdr the. life of us, perceive any difference in the present po sition of the two men. rta.. A Trial of Reaping Machines, at the Industrial fair, in Paris, has taken place, and, as usual, the American machines carried off the palm from the French and English ma chines. Already the wealthy farmers from all parts of the country are coming to Paris to see these machines. A more lively interest is taken in them than was anticipated, and no difficulty whatever will be experienced in their introduction into general use. ES. The Hon. ARNOLD PLUMER, Democratic candidate for Canal Commissioner, was in town last week-, on business before our County Court. During his stay a large number of our citizens, in, town and country, had the pleas ure of greeting him. His dignified and manly presence made a very favorable impression upon all who met him; and he left for home bearing with him their best wishes for his success in October.—Meadville Democrat, 22d instant. ELECTION OF TREASURER.-At a joint meet ing of the Board of Trustees, of the Stock holders and Depositors of the Lancaster Sav ings Institution, held at the Banking House on Thursday last, the Hon. ANTHONY E. ROBERTS was unanimously elected Treasurer. Mr. R. accepts, and will at once enter upon the discharge of his duties. This is an excellent selection, and we think the Trustees were exceedingly fortunate in securing Mr. R's services. From his well known business qualifications and undoubted integrity, together with his easy manners and excellent social qualities, we are free to say that he is the best suited in every respect to conduct the affairs of the Institution—especial ly at the . present time—of any man who could have been selected in the county or elsewhere. Under his management, we have good reason to believe the Institution will in a short time, be extricated from all her diffi culties, regain the confidence of the commu nity, and be placed on a safe and permanent basis. ros. we don't hear much about the reli gious test in the Constitution of New Hamp shire now-a-days. Some of the persons that are now leading Know-Nothings, used to be much distressed at the injustice it inflicts up on the Catholics. P-rentice, the inciter and apologist of the Louisville demons, thought, in 1852, that New Hampshire was a "misera ble abode of most infamous bigotry," and that "liberal-minded Protestants should set their faces against her as lon'g'as she retains the most infamous test in her Constitution." oacbThe Trustees of the Bank of the 'Uni ted States will make their final dividend on the 28th of September, when the concern will cease in any shape to exist. It has taken fourteen years to wind up the concern. The assets realized are insufficient to pay the cred itors of the bank, so that the loss to the stock holders will be total. APPOINTUENT.-Dr. Jacob 11. Kurtz has been appointed Superintendentof the New Pa per Mill, on the banks of Conestoga, at Eden. The Dr's. known business qualifications are at once an endorsement of the correctness of the choice, by the Directory. ' DIED.-A man named Johnson, from Wil mington, Delaware, and who represented him self as State's Attorney there, died at Shober's Hotel, early on Thursday morning last. An inquest was held on the body, who returned a verdict that he came to his death by infla mation of the lungs. Ile is said to have been a man of intemperate habits. THE KANSAS DIFFICELTIES.-WASHINGTON, August 22.—The reply of Cul. Isaacs, U. S. District Attorney for Kansas, to the charges similar to those alleged for the removal of Gov ernor Reeder, has been received. No reply has yet been received from Judge Johnson. Andrew B. Moore, of Alabama, declints the appointment of Associate Justice of the Su preme Court of Kansas, vice Elmore, removed. ge.. We callattention to the real estate and other new advertisements in this week's issue of the Intelligencer. The public are beginning to find out a proper channel through which to make known their wishes to the community. DR. BEALE.—The judgment of the Supreme Court of this State, in the case of Dr. Beale, the Philadelphia Dentist, was delivered a few days ago by Chief Justice Lewis. The Court refused to grant the motion for a new trial, but reversed the sentence on the ground of some informality, and directed the Court be low to sentence him anew. The Court :was unanimous in this opinion, with one exception, (Judge Black,) who favored a new trial. The Editor's Book Table AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES OF THE REV. WILLIAM JAY, Now York, Robert Carter 6 Brothers, 1855. Know thyself was a precept in such repute among the Heathen moralists, that they ascribed it to the oracle of the wisest of their gods. To know one' s self, and to write about one's self, are two very dif ferent things. Every man ought to at least attempt the one, but few ought to try the other. Mr. Jay was one of these few. His usefulness and promi nence as a Minister of the Gospel, his eventful life, his varied experience, his sound judgment, gave him warrant to do what he did especially at a time of life when there could have been no selfish end to subserve. The two volumes are interesting, and will be found so to all readers, but especially to young Ministers, and others who would like, from their ap preciation of the " Morning. and Evening Exerci. sse," to known something about their excellent au thor. THE MIND OF JESUS, New York, Robert Car ter h Brothers, 1855. A charming little volume, worthy of the pen which produced "Morning. and Night Watchis," ac., au. It is writtein a sweet and winning style, and will be found a profitable hand-book for the disciples of Him who hath "left us an example, that we should follow his steps." The above book, axe for sale by Miramar & STOEIC, in-this city. .ADDEXISS Of_this_D ttis:_StatezCentral:_Com. mittee to the People , of Pennsylvania. FELLOW CITIZENS: Among the duties assigned to us• by the Democratic party, we are obliged to address yon, setting forth in a plain and simple man ner the issues, that will be submitted to The people at the approaching election. A - pnaper regard for the opinions of men requires that we should endeavor to explain to the people the reasons why the Democratic party again ask them to combine in one common cause in support of its,principles and chosiza men. The offices to be filled in the coming elec tion, may not, of themselves, be of sufficient consequence to excite popular interest, yet that of Canal Commissioner involves large public trusts, which should only be confided to a man 6f known experienCe and integrity. For that office the Democratic party have cho sen as their candidate, ARNOLD PLumes, whose past life, both public and private, justifies us in saying that he possesses the experience, firmness and unblemished integrity, which pre-eminently fit him for that office, and ren der him worthy of your confidence and choice. But far beyond the success of any candidate or the obtaining of any office, are the sub jects now before you to be examined and dis cussed, and by your determination, probably, forever settled. Their infinite importance, not only to your selves and to Pennsylvania, hut to all the people and States of this Confederacy, should stimulate you to a zealous support of the prin ciples and candidates of the Democratic party. We cannot abstain from dwelling upon these subjects, and' by our appeals to your reason and sense of duty to your country and to hu manity, we shall strive to rouse you to an ef fort that shall be worthy of the occasion and your past history. The Democratic party of the United States is the great conservator of this vast political ' organization, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and covered with teeming millions •of freemen'. To its guardianship has been confided the , custody of the simple elements of are at the basis of our institutions. In - allhe changes of public af fairs it has been the proud privilege of that party to stand by the Constitution of the Country and to restrain all attempts to pervert its provisions or corrupt its principles. It has been, and still is, the citadel of our liberties and the bulwark of those just doctrines, to es tablish which the people rose as one man, and with the sympathies of the whole civilized world overthrew an aristocratic and legislative despotism and established a government, which by its mild and humane temper, offered to mankind the hope that, in one land at least, there should be a refuge from oppression and intolerance. This has been the duty of the Democratic party, and with unfaltering fideli ty has that party kept its sacred trust. From the first moment—even before the organization of this government—and while the States were deliberating upon the adoption of the Consti tution of the Country, the great men who were afterwards to become the leaders of the Dem ocratic party exerted their powerful energies and truthful intellects to secure upon a firm foundation, as upon a rock, the principles that are incorporated in the body of the Constitu tion and in its subsequent amendments.— ..Again, we say to the Democratic party belongs the duty of standing resolutely and unflinch ingly by that Constitution . and by the purest and most holy of its principles. The earliest history of this government was identified with the contentions between the grea- parties whose doctrines were the sub jects to which the' thoughts and labors of the statesmen of those days were devoted. The Federal party were anxious to establish a strong consolidated government, made fur the people, and to be controlled by the men of property, and education and social condition. The Democratic party resisted this scheme of grand nationality to be raised upon the ruins of Independent states, and at the cost of pop ular liberty, and urged and secured the estab lishment of a Government limited and restrict ed in its powers, acknowledging State sover eignty, intended for the benefit and welfare of all, based upon principles of equality and jus tice, created for the people, and governed by the people upon broad and enduring princi ples of human rights. During the many years of important and stirring political events that have since succeeded those days, the two par ties thus arrayed in the beginning on opposite sides were often engaged in disputes arising out of a multitude of questions and issues, all of which could be resolved into the original ground. of contention between them. The Fed eral Party being a party of expediency, and relying upon State craft and politieal man agement, and still distrusting, the people have, under'various names and with as various pre- texts and contrivances, sought by indirect and crooked ways to obtain those ends and aims from which they were driven by the letter and spirit of the Constitution. It was supposed I that the time•-had gone by when the people should ever be in danger of any open attempt to subvert the Constitution and its acknowl edged principles by any organized political 1 action tivowedly directed to such purpose.— I Implication and flirced interpretation of its letter, were the only meant by which the peo ple were sought to he abused, and their gov ernment turned against themselves for the advancement and profit of adroit political ad venturers. That supposition was an error, for now we are again reminded by the action of a new and dangerous combination, that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. Fellow Citizens, we have again to confront the same issues that were made in 1799, and to fight for the same principles that convulsed this country then, and in vindicaticg which Jefferson triumphed, and Madison earned the love and gratitude of a thankful people. The insignificant and minor subjects of difference that have for some time past divided the pub lic men of the country, are all obliterated by the magnitude of the question now before you. Your opponents under no deluding and tempt ing cry demanding that "Americans shall rule America." have at last, with forced and com pulsive candor, acknowledged that they wish to establish two principles. I. That none but those born in this country, shall enjoy the rights of citizenship. 11. That there shall be established a religi ous test for office. TO reach these ends the Constitution of the United States must be changed or its provisi ons evaded, and the spirit of our Democratic Republican fihms of government thus alto gether subverted. The Declaration of Inde pendence itself charged upon the King of Great Britain, as one of the most serious grief atleQS under which we had suffered, that "he had endeavored to prevent the population of these States, for that purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners, re fusing to pass others to encourage their mi gration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of land." The complaint thus made, was a part of the first public pro test of a united people against arbitrary au thority, and in favor of Human Rights. The reasons that then prompted this, have beep ever since acknowledged as an element of our institutions that has secured to us the confi dence of mankind, and been the first great cause of our marvellous success as a people. When the defects of the Confederation were apparent, and the necessities of the public called for a more stable and perfect form of Union, the Constitution was adopted; among its most conspicuous provisions was the au thority delegated to Congress to establish an . uniform rule of Naturalization, and in the very last clause of the very last section of that instrument the following words were inserted, "No RELIGIOUS TEST SHALL EVER BE REQUIRED AS A QUALIFICATION TO ANT OFFICE OR PUBLIC TRUST UNDER THE UNITED STATES." Thus seal ing, as it were, the Bond of our Union with the sacred and rational principle of the Liber ty of Conscience and the right of Private Judgment. When the Constitution was submitted to the States fur their adoption, it is to be remem bered that New Hampshire, New York, Penn sylvania and Virginia, all ratified it with solemn declaration of rights, which they set forth as explanations consistent with it, and which they proposed should be adopted as amendments thereto. Rhode Island and North Carolina, in a spirit of sturdy resistance to absoluteism and of manly devotion to the .cause of Liberty, for their own sakes, for the sake of their posterity, and for the sake of the human race, re•asserted the doctrines and dog ma's of the 811 l of Rights, and for a while de clined to ratify the Constitution until these sacred and inviolable principles of natural right were acknowledged and adopted as a part of its text, and in all of these proposed amendments were incorporated a solemn de claration in favor of civil and religious liberty. At the first session of the first Congress the amendments to the Constitution were adopted and subsequently ratified by the States, and the first article of those amendments set the question at rest forever by declaring that "CoNorttss SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION OR PROHIBIT INC TEE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF." IS is worthy of ,observdttion,. , • that whert.i.wl Convention:Lit was proposed by Mr. Pinckney to add to the Sixth Article the clause prohibiting a religious test, that Mr. Sherman thought it unnecessary, the prevailing liberality being n sufficient se curity against such test, after which Mr, Gou verneur Morris and Gen. Pinckney approved the motion, and it was carried, unanintusly. Theseenlightened men were too well aware of the disastrous. consequences attendant upon any interference by the State with the religi ous opinions of its citizens. The bloody record offanatical persecutions was spread out before them, and in it they read of those atrocities that were the darkest stains upon the charac ter of the human race. From the earliest: days down to their own time, had the history of mankind shown that its advancements in civ ilization had been retarded, and sometimes almost stifled, in the ferocious conflicts between contending sects and exterminating propa gandism. In all parts of the world had fire and faggot, the sword and the spear, brutal ized men into implicit obedience to religious opinions they did not understand, and faiths at which their consciences revolted. From religious persecution had their fathers fled, and by emi g ration had their sovereignties been established. Cp to that time, by God's prov idence, had this land been the refuge of op pressed men, and with God's protection they were resolved to dedicate their country to the cause of civilization and religious freedom, and from that day to this time has their noble work remained untouched. May it List for ever! But now, after we have enjoyed the bles sings of these sacred provisions, has 'a party arisen in our midst, and with secret oath bound combinations, resolved to blot out this pure and life-giving principle, and by force and violence of law restrain and abridge the liberties of men and limit their civil rights by an odious and impious religious test. As cit izens of this-mighty Republic, as members of the great Democratic party, as men for the sake of mankind at large, we call upon you to resist this sacrilege and rebuke those con spirators ageing; the honor and4ipity tbf_ Q uy Constitiation and laws. After the adoption of the Consthution, and during the administration of the elder Adams, Congress enacted two Statutes, one concerning aliens, and the other entitled an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, known as the Alien and Sedi tion Laws. Immediately upon the enactment of these statutes; the States of Kentucky and Virginia passed resolutions, condemning them as violations of the letter and spirit of the Con, stitution and reprobating them as gross at tempts to establish arbitrary authority and as subversive of the libertigs of the people. The Kentucky resolutions Avere written by Mr. Jefferson, and those of Virginia were written by . Mr. Madison, and both of these were ad dressed to the Legislatures uftheaeveral States, inviting their co-operation to resist these Sta tutes. 'Some of - die Legislatures refused to co-operate with Virginia and Kentucky and pronounced these resolutions to be of a dan gerous tendency, and therefore not fit subject for further consideration. To these refusals the Commonwealth of Virginia replied in the form of a Report drawn by Mr. Madison, and adopted by the Legislature of the State in 1799. The object of the Alien law was ex posed in these resolutions and its mischievous consequences fully explained and demonstrated in those masterly papers. In them it was pro claimed to be inhuman, impolitic, illegal and irrational for Congress to restrain the current of emigration-tha t our shores, caused by the high tides of civil' convulsions and public discord that were rag ing in Europe. Mr. Jefferson there said that the Alien law will furnish new calumnies against republican governments, and new pretexts for those who wish it to be believed that man cannot be governed but by a rod of iron, and that a very numerous and valuable description of the inhabitants of these States would by this precedent, be reduced as out laws" and that "the mild spirit of our coun ty and its laws had pledged hospitality and protection to these friendless strangers." It was denounced by Mr. Madison in his report, as tyrannical in its spirit and conferring a des potic power upon the President, to banish "an alien from a country into which he had been invited as the asylum most auspicious to his happiness, a couutry where he may have formed the must tender connections, and where lie may have invested his entire proper]" This law thus resisted, and nullified, and defeated, never assumed to do more than es excise a restraining power over Aliens; and harsh as it was, had nu relation to naturaliza tion, and no man amongst the hardiest of its supporters at that day, dared to propose the disfranchisement of emigrants or the abolition of the naturalization laws. The public that was indignant at the tyrariical spirit of that statute, would have burst out with one shout of condemnation at any attempt to outlaw free men and reduce them to the condition of slaves, because they were born in another country and were of another people. Upon the re sistance to the Alien and Sedition Laws, end in support of the principles announced-in those resolutions and that Report of '99, was Mr. Jefferson elected and the Democratic party established as an organized element of polit ical action in this country. From that day to this, has it been steadfast in its integrity and purity, upholding and vindicating the liberties of the country. Our Constitntion was not wrestled from the reluctant h inds of lawless kings. It was the free compact of free sovereignties of freemen, made With each other for their own domestic advantage to the common cause of human free dom, and for the perpetuation of human rights. Our commercial and public necessities, and our political principles, all prompted us to encourage emigration, and by its healthful influence have we prospered as a people. We have myltiplied in our inhabitants. We have increasea in our wealth and grown mighty with a population that has been driven ta us. for shelter and - to whom we are pledged be fore the world to secure religious liberty, and upon whom we are likewise pledged as Demo crats, to confer the rights of citizenship as inalienable right of their manhdod. In the making of the laws that govern them they as the freemen have a right to.,participate. To refuse them that right would be impolitic, and inhuman. By adopting them we Piave secured the services of men skilled in all the mysteries of the mechanic arts, and we have, despoiled Europe, and European Monarchies of greater sources of national and personal property, individual happiness and public renown, than if we had conquered in a hundi ed fights. Treat them as aliens, dis qualify them by statute, and we have in our midst a body of oppressed unhappy and dis satisfied men, who would feel their degrada tion among- freemen and sink to its level. There is not an evil complained of in the whole catalogue of accusations preferred against the naturalized voters of the country, that would equal the wrong that would be done to our principles and our people, by the refusal to allow the right of suffrage and the equal right of office to all citizens. In coun tries where the government is a fraud upon the people, and the right of suffrage but a name, restraints upon the rights of citizenship and religious tests may be in strict harmony with their constitutions, but in this country dedicated to civil and religious liberty, laws for those purposes would be violent inconsist• encies that must shock all right minded men. We know that there are ninny, very many, honest and well meaning men who wandered off from the pruner path, and in their desire to correct alleged abuses of the naturalization laws, have suffered themselves to give their support to this new and pernicious political heresy. To those men we especially appeal, and earnestly entreat them to pause before they shall aid in furthering projects the re sult of which will startle their understandings and appal their hearts. Let thew beware of a political party that has been afraid to re veal its principles, and conceals its actions— let them consider how unmanly and irrational must those men be who would thus secretly „ unite and binding each other in the spirit of r , mutual distrust by solemn and illegal oaths, to carry out a great public purpose and to s , produce a great political revolution. In ty rannical countries, where political intolerance and persecution prusribes men for liberal opin ions, such combinations are sometimes neces sary but always dangerous for the cause of freedom. But it was left fur a Democratic country, in a Democratic and liberal age, for men thus to conspire in favor of political in tolerance and persecuting bigotry. To the pure minded man who have thus erred and strayed away, do we submit these considera tions for their action, hoping that they will yet return to correct views, and sustain the cause of republican liberty by a - zealous op. position to the pernicious principles and in tolerant discipline of this new and dangerous faction Before we conclude this appeal to your rea son and your patriotism, we must invite your attention to the subject of domestic slavery. With that institution Perinsylvanians have .______ othing to do. In the exercise of a wise , hilarithrOphyhits'ekiEettiffboliiht'4 . t,. But because weliave exerted our sover eign power over it, we must not endeavor to pontrol sister States in the regulation of the object. If we entertain sentiments adverse to its introduction, we must not tbropagate those . opinions at the cost of the 4opiestic tranquility of other States, tir ,at the) - i-isk - of riling our; common Union... It would pot rue freemen to belnvolved in inappeasa le discord, for the sake of a sma4 , number, f elves whose condition we . cannot change. flieCOnstitution was the result of many.ad ustments and compromises, and with it we are secured domestic tranquility, . private prosperity and public libert,-. Time will re; Veal the end and purpose of this institution of slavery, existing in some of the Stator Of ibis Union: but while we live under the COll - we must abide by its provisions and its solemn compacts. All attempts to regulate this subject by congressional action must prove ibortive and end in tumult and distirder. With s the Constitution is partltuount to the laws, nd it is disobedience and insulkordination of lhe worst kind, to strive, by political ag.tt ion, to subvert the one, and encroach with he other. Like all other questions of stri tly local con ern, that of Slavery should be subMitted t.. i he exclusive jurisdiction of the people id he territory or place in which it is pro- used, to'establish or reject h. This principle If self government is the basis of all our in ititutions, and is essential to political freedom. t may for a time, he abused and trampled on • other rights have been, but men should lot, because of that, be deprived of it. It i, lir the common interest of all that each and very citizen should freely and peacefully. ex rcise the right; and the principle and prim ice thus universally ordained and recont mended by the founders of our government, ill be firmly maintained by the Democratic arty. J. F. JOHNSTON, Chairman H. A. GILDEA, ) Secretaries J Apt' ZIEGLER, Court Proceedings. MONDAY, Au . 20. At 10 o'clock this morning the third regular I ourt of Common Pleas and Court of Quarter !". essions of this year commenced before Judges on. A. L. Hayes, Pre's and 11. G. Long and . Brown. The greater part of the morning was taken ,p in presenting petitions, empaneling the _in es, and swearing the constables, of the varl us townships, to their returns ; as soon as the rand Jury were sworn they received the lodges charge and retired to their, delibera t ens. The following is a synopsis of the:most MI ortant business that Caine before the Cour iuriug the week : QUARTER SESSIONS. Gil. Patterson District Aunt:hey, stater at this being the day for the scnteace unuel .Johnson and he not being in Come w•ruld ask the Bench to make ;Nene order the e tse.- The Court directed that the K ~r the Jail make an affidavit of the fitets muel J.ihnson being dead, an affidavit ti at efileifi was filed. Com. vs. Cowan.—On application of Mr. S ovens this case was continued. by consent. A id the recognizances that had been forfeited were relni tied. District Attorney moved to st ty the opening o' a road iw Ephrata township. Rule granted. Com. vs. Ilirkey, et al.—Surety of peace, trine pros entered on account of th death of the complainan t. COMMON PLEAS. Girard Roth vs. Elmira loth,—D positions i this case fir divorce were prod cod, and vorco decreed by proclamation. Elizabeth Myers, by her next kit', vs. Fred ick Myers.—Application for su6pcena for curse, awarded. / Joseph 11. Cottrell vs. Cyrus S. F aldeman. On motion of Mr. North Court gpint a rule show cause why Sheriff's sale shAuld not be . i t aside.' I ..j. Coin. vs. E. McElroy and Samuel Hopkins, Recognizances remited upon '(l•tiyment of sts. QUARTER SESSIONS. Com. vs. Sauman.—This was a • surety of tl e peace ease ; the defendant, a ptior decrip it old man, had in his imbecility gone to the p aintiff, a Mr. Groff, of Leacock twp., and a ked alms, which being tendered hitt in v etuals, he refused and demanded money ; he wlas then ordered Lathe place and subserluent ly threats about firing the 'premises. lie was ordered to find bail in ssooi to keep the peace, and committed in default: Com. vs Paul Rawlson.—Surety of the Pace. The defendant was charged by Rebee cti N. Moore, teacher at the Buck school-house, tqth having conducted himself violently to whrds her, and used threats of injury to her, iv ilst a pupil in her school, and tlu•eatening tA shoot her, for which purpose, some of the mlars—witnesses—said that defendant car ri•d a loaded pistol. Adjudged to .give bail i $5OO to keep the peace. !Com. vs Mary Thomas, (colored) Charged th keeping a tippling house. Plea, guilty. • judged to pay a fine of $2O and costs. i • Corn - . V 8 Anderson—Surety of the Peace. us application arose out of a disagreement th defendant's step-son—as before related the police reports. Court ordered defend , t to enter bail in the :Toni of $3OO to keep ace. Qom. vs Livingston—The circumstances of _ ... . t e case are fresh in the memory of our read e .:, who may recollect that he was arrested w dist returning from the west, concealed iii a box ; and that then in consequence of his it health, he now delivered himself up for j dgment, and by his solicitor ho prayed the el mency of the Court, as he was still suffer i a—he came into court on two crutches. Trim District Attorney did not wish to press a excess of punishment, but as he had an- . . er charge against the defendant on Arida had been bailed, he demanded his vendi nat once. Court after some consultation ered defendant into custody of the Sheriff. 1 . _ .. Com. vs. Jacob Ritter.—This defendant s charged on seven indictments for 'ar my; he was' tried and convicted in 3, cases 1 sentenced to 2 months imprisonment in ch. Com. vs Wm. Caramel.—Keeping a gam bling house.—The witness for the Common. wealth, Mrs. Mary E. Williams, testified to gcing down to defendants, who then kept a t: vern in Safe Harbor, at 3 o'clock one morn in and looking through the key hole, and s: v her husband and others playing Bards, b t although the witness professed to know al about the festal days, she could not be got to disconnect Christmas Day with the 31st of D comber—the day charged, in the indict or nt, but over and over asserted that it waQ 01 e and the same time. Several witnesses w re called for the defence who averred that t. defendant did not know one card froM I. other, and- that they had never seen any rds played in the house except by the pros trix. During the examination some little -riminations took place among the ladies— ch as, 0! lor, now Mrs. Smith, well I never, which created some diversion. Jury out. Herr Smith for defence. Cora. vs Henry Shuman.—Fornication and stardy.—The prosecutrix gave undenied of of the facts charged only acknowledging t she went to his room. There Was no de ce offered,:yet the jury considered it so in: -, cate a case, as to retire; under these circum- . noes, there is no time set for their return. True Bills.—Com. vs. Charles Lutz, Larce- • ; Corn. vs: Lewis Lawrence, assault with ent to kill; Com. vs. Henry Livingston, as : It with intent to kill; Corn. vs. John I Divit, assault and battery; Joseph Glasgow, - , :cult and battery: coin. vs. Jacob Albright, •nishing intoxicating drinks—two indict . nts. . COMMON PLEAS n the case of Catharine Musselma an al :ed lunatic; the inquisition was returned, .d and confirmed, nisi. E g lo ., h to n R ta . k ß e o d y e e p r os v it s i . o L ns y . dfa Royer.—ln this le the Court appointed Ezra Burkholder, ti o n . , th p e ra m y a i n t g ter t h c o f c D o u a r v t i d to C a a p s p s o e i l n , Jr., t v i e I t v h e e rs p t e r; as ess damages against the Portsmouth, Mt. J and Lancaster Railroad Company, was or ered to he filed. n the matter of divers inhabitants of Mar: h• in township for a mandamus. Respon ts read in open court by A. Herr Smith a.d filed. Ile petition of the Sheriff and the Commis -Imere of the county of Lancaster, praying a oval of the Jury Wheel by a new selec- I n of persons, was granted and order of rt made. Wednesday, Any. 22. n the Case of Com. vs Win. Cammel, indicted keeping a gambling house, before reported, the 1 r returned a verdict of not guilty and County for n the Case of Com. ye Homy Shuman, indicted fornication and baaterdy, before reported the ry returned a Ter diet of gam y ; sentenced poy llobtlyisgArsid the Com. vs John Hoffer.—lndicted for the larceny of 8i lbs of Butter from the wag on - of J. Evans, whilst in Michael's tavern yard. Proof was given that the accused' sold the Butter to Mr. Miller, chandler on . the4th cif July.- Verdict ' guilty, sen tenced to 5 months imprisonment in the county jail. Coln. vs ;obi Arnentiabiclicted for assault sad tiattskry-onr Holllngswet' Constable of Columbia; Prone the evidence, .it,appeare& two, Mr. Derrick. the ;High Constable, lied the eon of deft:, and that whilst in a:ptvttin, the prisoner escaped, he made after, and tesinghim go into defendant's house, the.onstable wantin after him but not find-, .lag him, be retired and. returned with Hollings worth ; ' they then both attempted to go in, and then the assault and battery is alleged to have taken place. The evidence was very.contradictory as to the conduct of the Constables, when they entered the house; the defence asserting that they refused to give any explanation or show any authority, and the daughter was at the time in fits from their vio lent conduct ; whilst the commonweath asserted that very necessary legal requirement was adopted. The deft., is an old and highly respectable citizen of the Borough. Verdict not guilty and . proseautor for 'costs. - Com. vs Wm. Shields, Samuel J. Shay, John B Shelly, Leonard K. Seltzer, John Dunuavon Ben jamin M. Greider and Christian Leib —lndictment for forcible entry and detainer. It appeared that the defendant, Shelly, rented a part of his house, in Mount Joy, twp., to prosecutor about August 1354, for a term differently stated. In April, Shel ly, having previously served notice on the plaintiff to quit, proceeded to eject him and take possession, for this purpose he went accompanied by the other defendants, of whom the defendant, Shields. is the township Constable ; it was for doing this that the action was brought; thf,, evidence, as in all such disputes had two sides not very reconcilable with each other. E. C. Lambert, prosecutor. Verdict prosecutor for costs. COMMON PLEAS Royer ye. Royer. , --On motion of J. B. Ant wake, Esq., the Court appointed Jaeoh Sou ders, Esq., Commissioner to take testimony this ease. A sit...pc:um for, divorce. Isaac Kuhns vs. Joseph Hirst.--On mo tion of defendant the Court grant a rule t. :how cause why the sale of his real estate should not be set aside. John Cooper et al. vs. Peter Haldeulan. On motion the Court grant a rule to shoe eause why the sale of defendant's real estate should not he set aside. Smith vs. Vaughan.—Deferidaht pleads non assunipsit afill - W.usier, and ()Qui , tics the sum . or $2656 96 tendered, is directed bepaid into Court. FRIDAY, Aug. 24. On Thursday evening, the jury in the ease of Commonwealth vs. Isaac Hershey, AASIII.III ;md Battery, reddered a verdict of guitty.— Sentence, a fine of' .1.0 and costs. Coin. vs. Eliza Heisehuan. Keeping a baw dy house. Plea guilty. Sentenced to pay a tine of SR/ and costs and to be imprisoned for eio days. Cons, vs. Michael D. Sneader. Ass mit and Battery on Fianna McCord. The evidence ot the prosecutrix was that some three weeks ago she had a part of her washing hanging un the line and the white clothes laid on the grass iv the adjoining lot, in the occupancy of Sica der. An apple tree stood on the line. Sneadei and Mrs. Ruth came in for some apples, lle stepped over into McCord's lot :Ind took the clothes prop to knock them down with. Mrs. McCord, who looks like a strong.hauded and stra , -minded woman, told him to put it back. which lie slid, telling her at the same time she must take her clothes off his grass. Ile then sent for a pole, but it being too short lie tutu his buy to climb the tree and shake everj damned apple oil' it. Mrs. McCord, thinkin g she had a right to some of the tipples, ran for. ward to pick them up. She had picked up two when lie struck her with his open hand on the side of the heat!, took up the pole and swore lie would knock her brains out. Ilu then picked up her white clothes, and threw them over the line into the fiatato•pateh. As he reached for the last piece she was a little too quiek for him, got it herself and knocked it round his head. The statement of this wit ness was confirmed by the testimony of three or four others. Verdict not guilty, county I'm costs. Corn. vs. Joel Sharp. Assault and Battery. The complainant in this case was a woman. the wife of one of the hands at the Gap Mines. Protb some of the facts given in evidence, it would seem that the defendant was more sin ned against than sinning; but the jury to.,k a different view of the matter, and fimud him guilty. Sentenced to pay a fine of $lO and costs.- Con. vs. David Fulmer. Selling liquor tt intemperate persons. The defendant keeps tavern in Columbia, and it is alleged sold li quor to a man named Timis, who was of in. temperate habits. The fact that liquor had been sold to him on one occasion was not de vied, but it was proved that he obtained the drink from . the bar keeper who was unac quainted with this person, Fulmer, the land lord, having previously warned the bar keeper not to let him have any under any circum stances. It was also argued for the defence that no notice had been served on Fitlmet relative to the matter, the counsel for the de fence contending that an advertisement in a newspaper was not sufficient notice. Verdict nut guilty,. county for c.tsts. Corm vs. John Rosenmarkle. Surety of the Peace, on the complaint of his wife. Ordered to give bail in $lOO to keep the peace for Six months. Com. vs. Joseph Peters. Larceny of a gold dollar and a half dollar from a beer heuse Columbia. Verdict guilty, sentenced to siN months in the county jail. Cont. Vs. E. C.Zarlington. Libel on 11. E. Slaymakei , published in the Extiminer of the '2Bth of February last, WILS then called. Mr Wester asked fur an attachment ItAainst Fr:it-- cis 11. Carpenter, which was ' n•rtinted. Mr. Hiester read •to the Court the Indict ment, and remarked that as the alleged libel grew out of matter relating to a secret politi cal society, he would oak whether there is any thing in it which might make it improper for any member of the Court to set in the ease. His Honor, Judge Hayes, replied "It don't touch the Court all—if the question has refer ence to me." The case was then laid over till 8 o'clock. Com vs, Gotleib Swilkie et. al. Selling li quor•to minors. This case occupied the re mainder of the . afternotm, and when the jury retired the Court adjourned till 8 o'clock P. M. At the meeting of the'Court in the evening, a mistake was discovered in the indictment, Cum. rs. Darlington, upon which the District Attorney entered a not pier. A new bill of indictment was sent to the Grand Jury, and a new bill foUnd against Mr. Darlington, which will be tried at the next tettn. SAvu'am', Aug. 25. This morning the Court met at the usual hour. The calling of the jury being over, the Court read an order directing that hereafter the compensation of the crier shall be $2 and that of the tip staves $1 5 pero day. The following rule of practice in relation to surety of the peace cases was made, viz.— That in eases of surety of mile peac'e, the court will hear the testimony of the complaiu ant, under oath, and the statement of the de fendant, not under oath, and nu other witnes ses. The jury in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Swilkie rendered a verdict of Guilty. Mo tion for new trial and an arrest of judgment entered. Com. vs. Jacob Kreider. Recognizanc forfeited and respited to first Monday in Oc tober. In this case a motion, was made to discharge defendant on the ground that two terms had passed without trial. As one of the continuances had been on motion of de fendant, the discharge was denied. Henry G. Imhoff; convicted .of nuisance in Petersburg, in. March last, was sentenced to pay a•fine of $l, to pay the costs and abate die nuisance complained of. Col. Frazer presented the petition of sundry citizens of the South East Ward of Lancaster city, praying the Court to an nrder election to ascertain the settee of the voters of the ward relative to changing the place of holding the election. Motion ilenied on the ground that there were not a sufficient number of petition ers. The Gland Jury came into Court and re turned a large number of true bills against persons for selling liquor and beer without li ense. There was also a trim bill returned against Edward C. Darlington, fur a libel on Drury - E. Slaymaker. The report of the Grand Jury was then read. It is rather longer than most of such documents usually are. It says they passed upon i 47 bills, viewed the prison, the hospital, the poor house, and the Ameri can Engine and Hose Company, to which they re commend the Commissioners to pay $3lO, to aid the Company to pay for the repairs being done to the Engine. It returns thanks to the Court, to the Dis trict Attorney, to the Keeper of the Prison and the Keeper -of the Hospital, for their courteous treat ment, and recommends the erection of a warehouse in the Prison yard to store the goods manufactured there. It also endorses the School System, and just ly speaks of Mr. T. P. Wickersham as a highly effi cient and meretorious officer. After the reading of the Report the Jury was discharged. The case of Commonwealth vs. Jacob Kober, charged with the murder of William Freeman, the old-school master, was then.called and the following persons sworn as jurors, the last three of whom are talesmen, the regular panel having been exhausted, via : John Mollinger,..Elias.Becker, Jacob M. Mayer, John Armstrong, Henry Shelly Joseph MoCommon, James Baird, 13.,8. Pattersdn, John. Senor, ,William `Goes; Ja - cob L:Biiet, and•josiah Cox: - Frederick Derti testified !that ho was sent for to hold an inquest .::::n the body . on or about the first of i April 1854. lie teund it ly ing beside a stack on the land of Mr. Musser in flppT Leacook township, the body covered with stack ea 3, only a little of the face sticking out.' There was a largo ragged wound in the throat, the y head cut half off, ..a few auuill holes on thinege and sales, but n other marks of violeuce; trio appearaneMef . struggl there Oso signs of blood. , The head of the ecea.sed lying on the projecting .end off rail free the boo mof the Black, with the arms close to the 'des. T ere was no clothing on tho body but an nder shir and drawers. An emp t,r bottle. anlsld vooden co b and some love letter papers Fens four beside t o corpse.. if buts o ther Seldomridge testified that he was the first to find the bod y. lie first saw it on Saturday the lot of April 1855. Ills levidence as to the body, was verflauch the same ai the preceding witness. He had been at the stacks On the Monday previous, but not at the spa where Cite body was fuund. lie was acquainted siith decenUed about 20 yours. Saw him lastt alive st.tructime- about the holidays. Ile was a man of intMaperate Faints. Adjourued to 21 P. M. i AFTERNOON' SESSION. The trial of Kotier still ',regressing. John Musser testified the wouidi was inAa too itimat Morn to the collar bone.. it saw ho ter before ; en the day we gut tee clothed at Shultz dome s taveru iti Fee ruary. She, his 'vile said,-be nod taken the clothes irom a ticad maul Went tel their house with .'quire Weidman, lice. Seltbourniga anti inners. Ile said tie was going to Brubaker i Lull, and passed the stack. lie was ihen frosin stiff as a buck. That three or. tour daydauterwanN he went back and took all the clothes uttl Ile was then trusem Ito said ne took all of thew,' boots and all. lie said diet he did, nuts tell may Luc of this bee:luau tie old not knuiv the aws of tht. country. Lis Smd us ,eok them te the ouse at mattiymes . . he wild tie did out kuow its w at, mental/ has. ills. no Lived at thtutbytuos Mimit eix weer 4. It was beano April tut tue eseather a'a.sculd. lie saint be aid nut nide We clothes. r o te LILA. 1t It., Ilan told tier LO Ltd diem, diem, Put he deul ed it and aid tie had Lamm thew off iu daylight an . brougut Ethan to the !MUM in daylight. alio clOtLice wore alto, c two eviler beams ....in nil noose. Tibiae are the mottles. lie raid Limy were the clothes hts nod take. trout the de.ul 'Luau sue emir is I:icon/I.l's and .his bouts and Vest, I san't say tor thepants. Ilvald there was a hat, out it has gaud lbw noun k r,. lle Sant no tusk a snuff box, witu sued' La t, T.I. 1M cent. Irvin tau dead luau, the 94/Lie affect arils used. 11.e.niut not say what Le did Np.li Cue qu- rter.. the staea is in die second field from SLattLiims . . It is nearly in a direct litre Irma tile house t Brubaker's min when sue goes on lost. Isis who nod sued him for as sault and battery.t lie did ay that he saw a but Linn, which mul e him go Ind took tit the stack. Preeruad would g t drunk and lay out sometimes. sttim wm„ a rewaa.l offered Or um murderer. sam uel Deibler iftliett r t_. be cootPlittui• • - sty . 3 , l, ilisca Un Monday the loth or ,January, 1 , gion Freeman $l.l. .114 aid lie wanted to i go to Lancaster to see Font about his fortune from ireigiud: :Op Fri. uay the 20th, he chine to my house, said he bail Delia at Lam:aster, that his bustatas was gulag ou, awl that Lie wanted tuiluey, mud IL gave him s2,eo. into has the lust .1 saw' et hive. /..ii 41.0 course of a Week after people begat to ask, 'where is sTecusaii i' 1 thutiglithe was iuMtlliag ocher waist' J. ladt saw hint; out Le had been titiuking. IL was sometime in Feb ruary, she said, hd told tier he had I and the body. Freeman oas pre4ty old—ay he sixty. Ile mien went away in smatter two o three muutits, and um budy knew where' he was. 'ouietinies he would be isl at% ay uu sprees a week or tam Squire Bustiungg in regardto finding the clothes, gale the same sta*useut us the preceding witness. Alalreir Kulp Li/staled tll4 sullitlinne in the win ter, Ise Chiliad in iFOUrtlaryl Freeman iMele to his lather's tavern on Sunday 'evening. Said ho was gulag to Laileastir en aulaley; mat ou Monday it morning he said had been at John alutwer s, mat gut $10; started uto Lancaster. Un 'ltturrelity eve slug he came bac in the sitike anti stopped. tie was very drunk. In t e morni tic begged ter Lis / bit ters; raid lie had been en 'a spree in Lancaster, had spent his money add left Ms./tinny .Lind watch with aceSe, toe oysterman, in latnaster, and that he must go to Musser's tar Money. 1 1e then left, but I don't anew which way 10, went. 'the Commonwealth havint , closed its testimony, ~ the Court adjourned to 7 eel /ek, P. M. EVE,Nr:Iti sESSMS.—The Court met at 7 o'clock, and the Lleteaelnil offering no testimony the ease way closed on bottiteides. she Jury wens than ad dressed by illessrsi McElroy and Patiersou for the CUllllllollhealth, aid I. 'n. bllinaker Mr defenee.-- Judge Hayes delivered the etiar,i,e of Wu Court, a ham was 0 very s(ble and interesung one, whom the Jury, after being Out a feet Minute:, returned into Court with a verdift of sVat Gallty. The prisoner was then disamrged, and it o Court, adjourned at a tell' minutes beture LO o'cloyk. i...... 1. s'l'. LOUIS iCOII.II.E.SP(iNDENCI.I. 1.7 e We'ather—.ll.lurc Steal/Pna Dtsasters—lllt 'tole—Presidential Gaildt r ates—riaasas Legis lature, 4-e., 4-c. 1 I Sr. Lots, August 20, 1855. The weather continued wet Mil Friday last, when I quite a sudden qtnigu to k place, sumo which time woolen cluthidg has felt quite comfortable and is still in demand. More rut ties [mien during the in peat and present nth iu the Western country, than in any previous sesPion. la swim sectiousp. Lies done injury Ilhthe slimed, but it is thought i to Do consider alas extent. Last Light. it was coat enough ter trost, sod this, moruiag"teets mu • like Nuvember than August. i 'sou riVera arc ad rising, al we have had lately have es above, we are is d.suger of IL 1 would be, quite slid nausea season of the ye 4. Our e must excellent health. In nearly every flutter, I more aceinents ucciirring on LI ern waters. This wPek..L leper Kate nwinney, whilßt had no slime to carry Ousi/rinuent itror. She struck idsuag the trip, about duo utiles above alissouri,Land Miult ilu thirty f minutes.: The uMetn and er the yawlrital lite-tdmt, bat 1 their effects. Nutmeg was sit, she Captain and /Several et! river n the life-buys u distal, she Kate Swinney4,vas a gu $20,050, and was natured iu 0 uva The wreck wii6 sold to a' ,rho were building is village 1 tastrophe, for s2'oo. The steamer steal West w suun river, on britlisy lust, n ington. She lies it about test loaded priucipully li lamb 1 , A worth about isoal ~ on whit anee. She will bell total lest 'the State of Illiabis is rapid and population. Iler rail/aim the principal ineaue by which to outstrip bur sister states, a vernal haprevetueuts so sue • are aware of the great benefit iron her railroads bond pubic daily arethnius tkle irnal ...1 elicumferehee. Slip has gro perhaps, than any other sum 13th of April, ItitB" a bill w on ItepreSebtatives,'alumst u iniesion 01 Illinois uto the 1 nenate concurred b a large i - contained thirty nallion acre fifth larger than Ohio, and th. 05)0. In 1020 the number of iv. lhe first Senators lien: Jesse .1: Edwards;, the first liepresentil the State now hap nine it populatiM, must beiover one in The Illinois Roc4 Islandeti JeretniuhiS, Black,lol Penney dency in 1 56, and Polio C. 1 tacky, for the Vice fPresidenci the Memphis (Tenn.) Em Millard Fillmore lei the nex t support for the VieciPreridenc of Washington City' Wm. R. ens, of Alabama; Kenneth IL line; A. J. Denelsoii or N. S. sre; Stephen Adanse, of lilissh Califon.* W. C. DalcSon, 4 phut., ofellissouri; of Solon Bar of Arkansas. The cholera is sa i d to be extent in Town CR)", lowa. ' among the victims." Mrs. Fannie Ferree, wife o (of Dickinson Seminary, Will i dannibal, Mo., on the 13th i . her age. The members of tie Kansas Legislature seem to bo disposed to select a Govern for themselves, and relieve Uen. Pierce:def what a pears to be a difficult matter—a Free State man wi ling to accept the ap pointment. This bend of L islators, Or conspire tors, as you please, Mot deetitiug Mr. Lawson of the right stripe, and litly. Shanuctn most too Democratic to suit their purposes for plum er, have recommended to the favorable cnsideration of President Pierce, ry the personage of MM. Woodson, the present Secretary of.of, the as Governor, vice Reeder removed. Well, the smoke "of the p is itical battles recently fought in the different State is now beginning to clear from off the fields, leavi g the dead. and wound ed exposed to the neon-day s n. In Alabama, notwithstandi g the repcirted "largo and overivhelmingl Know-. othiug majorities, the Democracy have swept the S ate from centre to cir cumference, electing their Gs, enter by their usually proud and overwhelming ;.o e; also, their Congres sional delegation—five Lem rats and , two Know- Nothings. The Legislature s largely Democratic, i • which Meares the rt.-election f Senator Fitzpatrick. Sam has been' mostlwofully bpaten in Alabama, the K. N.'s have retired in disgust to their dark caverns, and the probability) is never lo show themselves in broLul T d e a n y p i me ight e,o again. j nston, the Democratic candidate for Uovertior, has Mean elected by over 2,000 majori ty. The Democrats have elected a good proportion of their Congressmfin, and also a large number to the State ilsegulatufe. The .K...N.'s claim but two majority in the Sedate and oe in the Rouse. Con sidering that Tenn&see was it Whig State, the De mocracy have done nobly, and are entitled to much credit, for the manner in which they have met and overcome the enemies of our ouuntry and our coun try's Constitution. ) In Kentucky thetDemocrac have come up to the work bravely, except in th e o districts where the polls were taken pessession o by the dark-lantern murderers, (who and justly e itled to their booty,) and as the Democratic party always been one of order ancLdecency, these districts were left to the mercy Of ruffians De ' niocrats rowdiee ould not and bul so lie m s, aad the resuleis, t he much as honor them with their prose t ea at the polls, and lave them the election of their candidates without opposition, preferridg bad ens 4 in office rather than to seek their blood, es the Rage-Nothings have done in Louise-RIP. As Kentucky now stands, the Denio crate ran be conaideied as ac ieving a great victory in that State, for a first attemlit to wipe out the foul stain of /{now-Nothingism. LLLOOOOOOk at her vote, and . compare it with former electidns, and it will be seen that in 1852, the smallest ma i jority ever given to a Whig Presidential c indidate, was 4.000, and as far the returns of the recent eleotipn have been received, the /inmrNathin ,1 120 4Prity p las 3 than 4,000, not witlittanding.flie Enemas° of four years' population. The Congressuinal fielegatiOn) will atand six Enow 7 . . Nothings to font Anties, • In Togas the Peirocrats hive carried everything before them, in they face of SHouston's nproola. Wien," end endinement o fthe dark-lantern or. !LI if thoso heavy rains •toniiiiii to Ulu country loud, which, nownver, circhinaLance at this ty couttutieS to enjoy ave to record one or Ise Western and &lath e!. the luzd ul tee steamer u Matto:ll'lA some time _tares up tea Missouri 'Cher day uu her return Cutibeil Iflutla, in thu •et water in abbut live .w made their escape in L nearly the WIRtiO of :ell trout the wreck.— thiers flouted down the riof about lied miles. l bout and valued at derma uniees for $15,- ,aupany ui emigrants, ear the spot of tne ea- also sunk in the MiS r the town of %Vast, feet water. Silo Wa9 r. The hen West was •h there was no insur to her Oliber.l. y inereasiug in wealth euterpriee.s nave been she has been enabled ' d peen ahetd her in- Teel ully. her people the sLate late derived works, and they are. utu uruunii tier entire Ivn more wonderfully, in the Union. lln Lne • pLomed by Lho House anituously, for the ad- I Won as LL 'State. The 1. jortty. The new State • of laud, being one , population was aletants was 546,034. . Thuuius and Niuiun ive was John McLean. •presentatives, uud the illiun. suggests the names of • ivuuht, for the ?resi • reekenridge, of lien- ' k yle hoists the flag of Presidency, and will , either M. B. Maury, or Jere. Clem ' yner, of North Caro- Brown, .of Tonnes sippi; 11. S. Poole, of , f Georgia; CUI. Loni land or Albert Pike, revelling to a fearful he lter. fllr. Belden is J. W Ferree, A. M., inuisport, Pu.,) died ut to the 24th year of
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