INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN.
OEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., DECEMBER 23, 1856
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Mr. Buchanara's Policy
Some of our friends at Richmond and in
other parts of the South seem to be unneces
sarily excited in reference to what may or
may tint be the policy of the incoming Ad
ministration as it regards Slavery, Squatter
Sovereignty, &c. The speech of Senator BIG
LER, in which, by what we conceive t., be a
forced and unnatural construction of his lan
guage, he is represented as advocating hereti
cal principles; and a recent article in the
Pennsylvanian eulogistic of Col. Benton, are
made thq - subject of an elaborate criticism iu
the Enquirer of Tuesday last; and fe: • are
entertained by the editors that Mr. BUCII.INATN
endorses these views of Senator Bigler and
the Pennsylvanian.,
Now, without assuming to speak for Mr.
BUCHANAN, or to, promulge his views on the
topics treated of in the Enquirer, we nger
theless venture to assert that Governor B ier,
and nobody els isNliinisell responsible for
what he said the th Jr of the Senate—arid
farther,\q , :iat either th Pennsylvanian, nor
any other naw.Lpaper, specs by authority of
the President elect. Mr...i&itesas is now,
what he has been for the last thirty years or
more, a thorough-going State Rights Consti
tutional Democratic statesman of the Jefferson
and Jackson school; and in his administration
of the Government will be actuated, we have
• not-a doubt, by a determination to do equal
and exact justice to every portion of the
Union. His course of policy will know no
North, nu South, no East, no West. Tire
Constitution will be his compass and his chart.
By it, and it alone, will he seek to guide the
ship of State; and of his skill as a pilot at the
helm, and the lofty patriotism with which he
will be actuated, no one who is 'personally
acquainted with the man, can have a solitary
•doubt. The kmpiirer may, .therefore, well
reiterate its expression of "implicit confidence
in the President elect." This confidence, we
venture to anticipate and predict, will not be
shaken during the next Presidential term, by
arty act of his. his course of policy, we doubt
not, will be alike satisfactory to his friends
and the lovers of the' Union in Virginia and
Pennsylvania—in Georgia and Indiana. But
that policy has not yet been adumbrated,
except in his endorsement of the Cincin
nati platform and in his letter accepting the
nomination.
We; therefore, respectfully advise our
Southern Democratic friends to keep cool.—
The President elect has always stood by their
Constitutional rights when assailed by Aboli
tionism ()revery hue and grade; and, we firmly
believe, he will stand by them to the end. Reis,
therefore, entitled to their generous confidence,
even in advance of his inauguration as the
Chief Magiitrate of the Republic. Let them
not permit the opinions of A, B or C, who, wo
again aver, speak on their own responsibility,
to weaken their faith in the integrity of the
President elect. If Providence spares his life
until the Fourth of March next, lie will then
take the oath of office and enunciate the prin
ciples and policy which he intends carrying
out in his Administration, and when he dues
that we have every reason to believe the
Enquirer will be abundantly satisfied.
So far as Senator BIGLER is concerned. we
know him to be a true-hearted, conservitive,
Union-loving Democrat, who will stand by the
Constitution and the rights of the States in
every emergency. He is a well-tried and
faithful Democratic 'statesmaniTrind we have
no fear that he will prove recreant, in word
or deed, to the great principles which have
always been his guiding star, ati'd which are
so dear to every Democrat throughout the
- broad expanse of our glorious Union.
Senator Bigler's Speech
On our first page will be found lengthy ex
tracts from the great speech of ex-Governor
BIGLER, delivered in the U. .4, Senate, on the
Bth inst., in the debate growing out of the
motion to refer and print the President's
annual message. The Democracy of Pennsyl
vania, says the Washington Union, will rejoice
at an occasion which has placed their repre
sentative's love of country and the peculiar
powers of his well-balanced mind in such a
prominent and advantageous light before the
nation. The Keystone State may well be
proud of her popular and distinguished repre
sentative in the Senate of the United States.
Mr. Buchanan, at Philadelphia
The President elect has been absent on. n i l
visit to Philadelphia, since Tuesday last. He
is expected to return to Wheatland to-day or '
to-morrow
During the time he has been in the city, we
learn from the papers that he has been visited
by great crowds of his fellow citizens, who
were anxious to see and make the acquain
tance of the Chief Magistrate elect of this
mighty Republic to whom has been entrusted
its destinies for the ensuing fuur years. They
were receird with that kindness and cordial
ity for...whA Mr. B. is so nOted.'
do Editor turned Preacher
Saint Theephilus is lecturing against baud
and hypocrisy.' See Independent Whig of
Tuesday last. 0 tempera! 0 mores ! A wag
at our elbow says he is almost tempted to
apply the old distich of
"The Devil was sick, the Devil a Saint would be—
The Devil got well, the devil a Saint was he l"
To be serious. We are of the opinion that
the morals and integrity of the people of this
community must be at a low ebb indeed when
the State Printer under the corrupt adminis
tration of Joseph Ritner feels it necessary to
utter a reproof for conscience sake
Alas ! and lack-a-day ! What is the world
coming to! It is getting so infernal bad-so
corrupt in morals and religion, that even FESN
has his tender conscience wounded ! We ad
vise oar neighbor to imitate the. crying Phi
losopher of antiquity, who shed omens of tears
at the vices and follies of the age in which he
lived.
Col. "William Hopkinev
This gentleman made a brief visit to our
city on Saturday last. lie looks hale and
vigorous as he did eighteen years ago when,
as Speaker of the House of Representatives, he
so gallantly and successfully resisted the at
tempted treason of the " buckshot and ball "
administration of Joseph Ritner. The Col.
left in the evening train of cars for his home
in Washington county.
• Col. HOPKINS is spoken of in several quarters
as a candidate for Governor. Should he be
the nominee of the Convention, we know of no
man (and we say this without disparagement
to any of the other gentlemen named in con
nexion with the nomination—for they are all
good and true men,) around"whom the Dem
ocracy of the State would rally with more
enthusiasm. He is emphatically an honest
man, in every sense of the word, and therefore
enjoys the confidence of the public to the
fgllest extent.
Congrossional
WASHINGTON, DEC. 16.—SENATE.—On
lion of Mr. Dodge. a resolution was adopted,
calling upon the Secretary of War, for all
letters addressed to that Department, or to
Wilson Shannon, late Governor of Kansas,
by Colonel Sumner, relative to Kansas, which
heretofore have not been communicated. '
Mr. Brown gave. notice of his intention to
introduce a bill providing for the construction
of Railroad and Telegraphic communication
between the Atlantic coast and the Pacific,
and for other purposes. Mr. Wilson intro
duced a bill, amendatory to the act to organize
the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas
Referred to the Committee on Territories.—
On motion of Mr. Rusk, a joint resolution
granting further time to the creditors of Texas
to present their claims and other purposes
was taken up. Mr. Rusk explained and ad
vocated the resolution which extends time to
January lot. 1858, and repeals the provision
of the former act, for distribution - pro rata"
of residue to those who have filed their release.
liousz.—Mr. Whitfield introduced a bill
providing for the assessment of damages, sus
tained by loss and destruction of property be
longing to the citizens of Kansas, during the
recent disturbances in said Territory; also, a
for establishing District Courts at Leacen
wor h city and other places in Kansas ; also,
a bill establishing two additional land districts
in Kansas. Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, from
Committee of Ways and Means, reported that
the Indian civil and army appropriation bills
were referred to the Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union. Mr. Campbell, of
Ohio, reported a bill amending the twenty
eighth section of the Tariff act of August,
1842, so as to prohibit importation of indecent
and obscene prints, transparencies, statuetts,
&e.,—the parties offending to be proceeded
against by due course of law, and the articles
destroyed—passed. On motion of Mr. Camp
bell, of Ohio, further consideration of the bill
reducing duties ori imports, and for other pur
poses, reported last session, was postponed un
til the first Tuesday of January. The debate
on the President's annual message was then
resumed.
WAsuisnros, Dec. 18.—The House ordered
twenty thousand copies of the President's
Message and accompanying documents, to be
The consideration of the President's Ales
sage was resumed.
Mr. Quitman believed that every word the
President had said on the Slavery question,
was well timed and true ; of the develope—
ments in the House show the objects qnd the
Republican party were such as the Executive
had attributed to them. Leading men in that
organization had declared their purpose to
destroy that institution which is entwined
with the existence of the Southern States.
Speaking on the subject of Central America,
Mr. Quitman said he was opposed, as an
American, to bowing and yielding to England
or France, this being the rock on which we
have split. We want no treaty with any for
eign nation relative to our duty on this conti
nent, and should not therefore call on any
European power to come across the ocean, to
regulate Central American affitirs. We should
ourselves settle this matter.
He believed General Walker 6)%e r an in
strument in the hands of Providence to carry
on American civilization, and it was the duty
of our government not to throw obstacles in
his war.
The new Kansas appointments, and that of
.J. W. 11. Underwood, of Georgia, as Associate
Justice of the United States Court of Nebraska,
vice Haden, resigned, wer`e, in executive ses-
sion of the Senate yesterday, referred to the
Judiciary Committee. The President likewise
sent to the Senate the treaty between the U.
States and Great Britain, relating to Central
America, which was ordered to be printed for
the information of Senators only.
Gubernatorial Candidates
The following named gentlemen are spoken
of in connexh , n_ with the Gubernatorial num-
inatic,ri, viz
fie ;c. WILLIAM F. PACKER, of Lyeoming.
Crn...Wmunm Hormss, of Washington.
HON. WILLIAM H. WITTE, Of Philadelphia
COL. SAMUEL. W. BLACK, of Allegheny.
Hos. Joys L. DAwsos, of Fayette.
Hos. CHARLES R. BUCKALEW, of Columbia
Supreme Court
A candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court
is to be nominated by the nest State Convert
tion—ChiefJustice LEWIS' term expiring next
fall. If the Judge desires to remain on the
Bench, we think the Convention would do well
to re—nominate him. His great ability and
experience are undoubted, and we think the
Supreme Court would be likely to lose more
than it would gain, in character and reputa
tion, by the withdrawal of Judge LEwis from
the Bench.
U. S. Senator
Col. JOHN. W. FORNEY, is strongly urged in
many of the leading Democratic papers of the
State, for F. S. Senator in place of Hon.
RICHARD BRODIIEAD, whose term will expire
on the 3d of March. There is no man in
the State more deserving the honor, and of
his qualifications for the post there can be no
dispute. He would do honor to Pennsylvania
iu that or any other station.
HON. HENRY D. FOSTER, of Westmoreland,
HON. C. R. BUCKALEW, of Columbia, lIoN.
Jous Howss, of Philadelphia, and Col..
WILSON WC-isourss, of Pittsburg, are also
urged by the presi , rind by many friends for
the same station. These are all worthy and
talented Democrats, and with such 'an array
of good men before them the Legislature can
hardly fail in making a judicious selection.
Fremont at Home
If, as the opposition affirmed during the
canvass, Mr. Buchanan admitted that Col.
Fremont was entitled to the appellation of
" Conqueror of California," the vote of that
State makes it clear that Buchanan is the vic
tor of the conqueror. The poet says " 'tis
cruelty to load a fallen man," but the truth
of history compels the Hartford Times to pile
it on thus :
" California gives her son Fremont an un
merciful drubbing. He falls so far behind
Buchanan that he is really among the ' scat
tering.' His own county-- M ariposa—(all but
one precinct) gives the following vote
Buchanan
Fillmore
Fremont
The Telegraph (Republican) will also he
issued semi-weekly during the session of the
Legislature. The weekly and semi-weekly
paper will be furnished to single subscribers
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to Reading, that t was contracted for last fall, legislative proceedings, had better commence
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is to be completed by the first of April, 1857.
In Mercia county the Pathfinder gets but .
two votes out of 400. In Stanislaus, where '
there is a vote of nearly 700, he does not get a
single vote I
Oh, oh. oh: such n nominee
As Johu C. Fremont of Mariposa!
COUNTERFEIT.-The Harrisburg Herald
says, counterfeit 10's on the Harrisburg BakgerThe Harrisburg Telegraph notices the
have made their appearance,and are executed sudden death of Jacob M. Haldeman, Esq.,
with sufficient skill to deceive persons who are one of the oldest and wealthiest citizens of
not familliar with the genuine. that Borough. The sad event occurred on
Monday evening week. Mr. H. was seated
at the time in his office, conversing with one
of his sons, and but a moment before remarked
that he never felt better in his life. The dis
ease was apoplexy. Mr. Haldeman was the
President of the Harrisburg Bank, was an
extensive landholder, and was well known in
financial circles. He was 76 years of age.
WY - Letters from Liberia state that the cul
ture of sugar has been carried on so prosper
ously that several sugar growers are talking
about exporting it largely to the United
States. One of them,' named Richardson, ex
pects to ship two hundred hogsheads of sugar,
8f his first grinding.
American Affairs in Europe
The British and French press cannot, it
appears, reconcile themselves with the fact of
Mr. Buchanan's election tmthe Presidency of
the United States. They had come to the con
clusion, says the Baltimore Sun, that such a
calamity was seriously impending ; and now
the shocl of the reality is upon them; the
crisis is about their ears, and we have yet to
learn whether Europe will survive or perish.
The fact is, Europe--or rather the people who
constitute the substance of Europe—have
nothing to fear from the success of democratic
principles in the United States, and they
know it; and they do not hesitate to say it
whenever an opportunity offers for an expres
sion of their opinion. But we have seen dur
ing the late campaign in this country, all the
sympathies of the government presses of
Europe thrown around the "black republican"
candidate. In fact Col. Fremont has been
extolled fLS the very embodiment of heroism
and statesmanship. His name has been ex
alted above every name, and the sentiments
he has expressed and the platform he repre
sented have been extolled •as the only good
things in this Nazareth of the United States.
His portl•ait has been copied from the illus
trated papers of New York, into the illustrated
papers of London and Paris ; while the baser
geniuses, Buchanan and Fillmore, have been
Painfully neglected. Indeed, Mr. Buchanan,
although he was quite a proper man as a
Minister to England, very seriously deterio
rated in British and French estimation as a
democratic candidate fur the Presidency.—
And the discourtesy of journalism, which
prevails there as well as here, indulged in
some very unhandsome and unkind aspersions
towards him.
These things are worthy of observation, and
afford significant criteria of European senti
ment. There is with all the governments of
Europe and the affiliated presses of royalism,
an unyielding detestation of democratic
principled By whomsoever they are repre
6sented, he must bear the odium of their
success. And it follows, as a matter of course,
that a democratic administration will receive
from European governments m.thing more
than the decent courtesies which custom and
interest exact at their hands. Gem Pierce
and his administration have been abused
without stint, and with a vulgarity utterly ,
beyond tolerance in responsible journalism.—
And this only because he has done his duty,
fulfilled the obligations of his office to his
fellow citizens, and held the powers of Europe
to a just accountability in all matters touch
ing the dignity and welfare of our country.
Europe is only waiting for a weak point in
the career of our government, and the servile
dupes and emissaries of royalism hold them
selves always prepared to provoke, expose
and take advantage of it. In the florid and
even exhuberant admiration of Fremont, and
the undisguised anxiety for his success, we
have an expression in part of British fanati
cism in relation to the legal institutions of our
country; but mainly betrayed in the style of
remark upon the subject, the monstrous hope
that his success would seal the destruction of
the Union. It is to this as an end, that the
government press'of Europe extend their favor
to every movement or prqject that promises to
conflict with our interests, or to shake our
stability. And we may rest assured that if
ever any event occurs which threatens very
seriously to disturb the equilibrium of the
States, the interferance of Europe will be
thrust upon us in some insidious form so as to
widen and perpetuate rather than to heal the
breach.
In view of these things, it ought to be a
theme of much gratification to the conserve_
tive masses of the Union, that a national can
didate has been elected by an emphatic expres
sion of the popular voice. It is a result which
rebukes the impertinent intrusion of European
sentiment into American politics, and * proves
that foreign influence is powerless yet, to
carry its various designs against the integrity
of our common country into effect. But it is
not only through an issue originating in sec
tional feeling and relating to one topic, that
foreign influence can be directed against our
domestic welfare. There arc other principles
at issue, in reference to which it will be ready
at any favorable opportunity to exert itself for
the aid of this party or that ; always sustained
by the hope that national dissolution will be
our ultimate fate. As we are at present, we
can defy foreign influence, and all the efforts
of the combined thrones of Europe. But if
we disturb the social equanimity, vitiate the
cardinal principles of our political Union, and
put life and liberty at the disposal of preju
dice and faction, foreign influence will soon
exert its insidious wiles, our peace and pros
perity be seriously impaired, and the very
structure of our government, in time, crumble
away under the perversion of those coniierva
tive principles by which, alone, it can be
perpetuated.
Au Important Case
The case of DRED SCOTT, now being argued
before the Supreme Court at Washington, in
volves the constitutionality of the Missouri
Compromise and the power of Congrese to
prohibit Slavery in a Territory, in the foll6w
ing manner : Scott is the son of a slave
woman belonging to an army officer, who
moved with his family and slaves into the
Territory where, by the Missouri Compromise,
Slavery was prohibited. There Scott was born,
but was afterward carried back to Missouri,
and is now held therein as a slave. He sues
for his freedom, on the -ground that he was
burn free, by virtue of the Missouri Prohibi
tion. The case has been before the Supreme
Court a year or more, and was argued, but not
decided last winter. It is supposed that the
majority of the Court will decide, that Con
gress has no,,power to prohibit Slavery in a
Territory, that the Missouri prohibition was
unconstitutional, and that Scott is lawfully
held as a slave.
Harrisburg Papers
The Harrisburg Patriot and Union (Demo
crat) will be issued twice a week during the
ensuing session of the Legislature, and will
contain full and acchrate reports of the pro
ceedings. The price for the session alone will
be two dollars ; for the whole year semi-weekly
during the session, three dollars; for the whole
year, once a week during the session, two dol
lars.
Iron and 5t..1
Among the statistion commented on in the
report of the Secretary of the Treasury, are
those relating to iron and steel ; and, when we
remember that it is only about one hundred
yearn since it was seriously resolved upon, in
Great Britain, that America should not be al
lowed to make a hob-nail, the facts are en
couraging! This country now shows a menu.
facture of iron and steel of $78,406,538 io
value. But this failed to supply ..or want. :
and the imports of the -raw mate. and the
manufactured article, in 1855. were 823,945,-
274 in value. We now export a portion o
this, and deducting this, we have an annual
consumption of this manufacture of $98,-
598.340. The':Secretary makes the remark
that the estimate of the production is too small
by ten millions.
The Secretary takes the following view of
this vest interest:—
" We have in the United States more iron
ore and more coal, with the usual fluxes, in
convenient connection and of cheaper access.
than all the other civilized nations of the
world, and have the necessary capital, skill
and labor to produce all the iron and steel, and
manufactures of iron and steel, required for
our consumption, or that may be required for
our consumption for centuries to come, and
also to enable us to supply the markets of
other countries, in fair competition, with the
• iron and steel of other nations. These tables
show that our production of iron and steel,
and manufactures of iron and steel, was
greater, in proportion to population, in 1850
than it was in 1840, and that it was greater in
1855 than it was in 1850, giving us the right
to assume that, influenced by the same causes,
it will be greater in 1860 than it now is, and
in time will be sufficient for our own con
sumptiun, and then give us a surplus fur ex
port. i' ut taking into consideration , our
present population and accumulated capital,
with the amount of capital annually drawn
from other countries in the course of emigre
! tion, and the great cost of carriage to the in
terior of our country, with the late improve
ments in the modes of production and manu
' facture of iron and steel, it would not be rash
• to expect a full supply for our own consumption,
between this and the returns of the census of
1870. •
The tax tibi n iron a i steel, and the manu•
factures therelif because of general use; in all
sections and in all industrial pursuits, has been
considered as equitable and fair a tax as it
was possible to impose upon the country, con
sequently no material change has been con
templated or recommended ; but, if continued
at present rates, it is not supposed the same
amount of revenue will continue to be derived
from it, even should the use of iron, as no
doubt it will, be extended to many other pur
poses, and be consumed in much greater quan
tities. In commercial intercourse with other
nations, based upon equivalent exchanges, as
it must always be, if profitable and continuous,
we may well look forward to the time, when
we shall produce, within our own limits, all
articles that are essential to national defence,
and the use and comfort of our own people ;
and of these there is none more necessary to
the defence of the country and the use and
comfort of the people, and of which we have
better means of producing in the country, than
iron and steel, and the manufactures of iron
and steel. Yet the production should not be
stimulated by unequal and unjust taxation,
nor the period of an abundant supply, from
our mines and factories, retarded by impolitic
legislation. The home production of iron and
manufactures of iron and steel is on the in
' crease. The tables prove the production and
manufacture of these articles have increased
with our increased population, and that we
import less, in proportion to our population
and consumption, than formerly."
The Boston Post says this compact extract
presents a forcible view of the importance of
this vast interest. Iron is one of the essen
tials of social economy ; essential to agricul
ture, commerce and manufactures ; essential
to our national independence, progress and
defence; essential indeed to progress iu
civilization. Russia produces in vast quanti
ties the raw material, but it exports it to such
an extent that its use, in the interior provinces ,
is an article of luxury : the peasantry, or serfs,
using wood where Iron is now considered
, indisperiAable. This ie the article that Ureat
' Britain once determined that America should
not be permitted to manufacture at all; and
• it was for years a matter, of debate whether
even the raw material should be allowed to be
imported into the mother country from her
colonies.
No sooner was American enterprise released
from its shackles than it bent itself•to develop
this interest. In 1790 it made a feature in
Hamilton's report on manufactures. In 1809
the Secretary of the Treasury portrayed in
just terms the inexhaustible resources of our
country fur this manufacture, and in 1810
treated it as firmly established. It has had
its years of depression, and its difficulties and
struggles; but, after all, its course has been
steadily onward. In 1835 it was estimated
that the value of the blade and manufactured
iron was over forty millions of dollars ; and it
has now reached the proud figure named in
the report, of seventy-eight millions!
How far the use. of this wonderful metal
will extend time only can develop. We have
before us a list of articles manufactured from
iron, drawn up twenty years ago ; but in it
are neither vessels, houses, nor articles of
furniture. The consumption of iron for these
purposes, and hundreds of others, is daily in
creasing. But large as may be the demand,
our iron mines, and the materials necessary to
work them, are absolutely inexhaustible.—
New beds of ore are continually brought to
light, and the old world end the new will con
tinue to supply the labor that will work them.
The more this interest is examined, the larger
will appear its national importance.
The Official Popular Vote of the 'Union
We are at length enabled to make a pretty
accurate and complete table of the popular
vote of the United States on the Presidential
question. The true figures are about thus—
the first-named twenty-seven States being
official, and the remaining four very nearly
correct:
. Bri,:ht:lot,. Fillm.y. Fremont .
Alabama, 46,637 28,862
North Carolina 48.286 38,886
Missouri, 58,160 48,521
Kentucky, 72,917 66,822 371
Maryland, 39,051 47,462 281
Delaware, 8,103 6,175 306
Georgia, 56,417 42,352
Ohio, 170,874 28,125 187,497.
Indiana, 118,672 23,386 94,816
Illinois, 105,344 ' 37,451 96 , 290
'Warm°iit, 117,577 546 ~,
39,963
Connecticut, ''.4. 0 79 2,742 42,492
Rhode Island 6,650 . 1,675 11,467
lowa, 36.241 9,444 44,127
Michigan 52,139 1,561 71,152
Massachusetts, 39;40 19,726 108,190
New Jersey, 46,492 ' 24,115 23,315
Pennsylvania, 230,500 " 85,290 147,548
New York, 195,314 124,206 275,440
Wisconsin 52,843 579 66,090
Louisiana, ....x.............22,164 20.709 .
Tennessee, 7",638 66,176 . ,
New Hampshire, 32,782 420 28,342
Virginia, 89,975 60,037 211
Florida, 6,358 4,833
Arkansas, 21,906 10,787
Maine, 38,036 3,235 65,614
South Carolina, 35,000 t ., ..
Mississippi, '15,472 26,127
California, 60,000 35,000 19,000
Texas, , 30,000 15,000
Total 1 55.1,771 835,234 1.338,48
Buchanan's majority over Fremont in the
Union is 546,243. The total vote is over
4,000,000, being about double what it was in
1840. Mr. Buchanan has got 250,000 more
votes than any other Presidential candidate
ever received.
COL. Wit. HOPEINN—The Easton Sentinel,
noticing the proceedings of the Democratic
Convention of Washington county, which
recommended Col. Hopkins for Governor,
speaks in very strong terms of that gentleman's
qualifications. It says :
" Col H. has an extensive acquintance with
the affairs of our commonwealth—an acquain
tance derived from experience in the various
positions of trust he hai already filled, and
should the convention fall upon Jilin as the
candidate, we know of none better fitted to
bear the mantle. He is a true and unswerv
ing Democrat, and one who has rendered his
party essential service.
Gen. Cass and Howell Cobb.
Col F EV. in his nhle and elnrinent ad
drew. 11.0.irprtNi imply nt WestehP.t,.r. Pa.
paid the , folbosinz merited and beautiful tri•
bute t.. mt (Patingui , the.i national demo-
•• It would be invidious to signalize those
who came here in our behalf froin other states,
and it would be almost impossible to specify
those who spoke on the right side and who
greW tip amongst us, but I am sure the de
nwra c ,if Chester county will pardon me if I
refer to two names conspicuous in the recent
conflict, the one because this was the theatre
upon which he won an ennobling triumph
~ ver prejudice. and the other because his fame
is national and his merits universally admitted
and venerated. Howell Cobb is the type of
a high toned constitutional nationality. He
came here from the south to speak to northern
communities, inflamed by abolition misrepre
sentations, and, in too many cases, poisoned
by preconceived judgments against himself
and the•region where he was born. Without
abating one jot °Phis opinions, without com
promising a single principle of the creed of
which he is so eminent a champion, without
yielding an inch to the arrogance and the
recklessness of his adversaries, he went forth,
and with his persuasive eloquence, his unri
valled candor, and that characteristic fair
nets, which, while it challenged reply, never
shrunk from controversy, he confounded those
who came to denounce, and he converted
those who came to listen. And I know you
will allow me to add that much of the good
result which crowned your exertions here
flowed from the captivating arguments which
he delivered upon your invitation. Take next
that other name, that northern, that western
name, the name of the venerable Lewis Cass.
In the midst of our congratulations let us not
forget him who, when beyond the Psalmist's
age, mounted the hustings and spoke day af
ter day to listening crowds, travelling hun
dreds and thousands of miles, that his appeals
might be heard by his countrymen and his
example followed by them. It is true that on
the scene of some of his proudest triumphs,
it is true that in the State which he has done
so much to rescue from barbarism, and upon
the theatre where he has long been a distin
guished actor, a sudden irruption of fanaticism
has temporarily prostrated him, and an in
grate posterity answered to a brilliant life of
usefulness and patriotism by a declaration
against the Constitution and the Union which
he has so long defended. Ingrate, let me say,
not by way of including the crowd of good
men and true who gathered around him from
the beginning to the end of the fight, but in
grate in the sense which comprehends the
men who are now realizing in their own pros
perity the value and the efficiency of his phil
anthropic and heroic efforts.
Mr. Burke, in one of hie finest speeches, re
ferred to a British statesman who had touched,
during his lifetime, two great extremes of na
tional prosperity; and I have often been re
minded of the picture while reviewing the ca
reer of the Michigan statesman . . Beginning
with his own humble adventures, and while
the great west was in the infancy of its devel
opment, he has marched onward from scene
to scene, from stage to stage, comprehending
within its range alike his own rapid and bril
liant advance and the rapid and brilliant ad
vance of his country itself. But suppose that
the angel of this auspicious man, foreseeing
the many virtues width made him the most
eminent, as he is one of the most fortunate
leaders of his age, had opened to him in vis
ion, in his early youth, that in the fourth gen
eration the thirteenth president of the Uni
ted States—he having seen the first elected—
should take his sent in the chair of the chief,
magistracy of the Union ; and suppose, amid
the exciting scenes of the earlier life of Lewis
Cass, ;hat angel should have drawn up the
curtain and unfolded the rising glories of his
country; and whilst he was gazing with ad
miration on the advancing grandeur of Amer
ica, the same genius should have pointed out
to him a gpot of earth hardly appreciated in
the mass of the national interests, and should
tell him—' Young man, there is the northwest
—which at this day serves for little more than
to amuse you with stories of savage men and
uncouth manners ; yet shall, before you taste
of death, show itself equal to the whale of that
commerce which now attracts the envy of the
world.' Had this state of his country been
foretold to him, would it not require all the
sanguine credulity of youth. and all the fervid
glow of enthusiasm to make him believe it
Fortunate man, he has lived to see it! For
tunate, too, that the greatest act of his life has
been to contribute to that victory which has
secured to his country uninterrupted peace
and freedom, let us hope, throughout endu
ring ages. What need such a man repine at
the false judgment of a perverted public opin
ion ?"
Land Robbery on a Large Seale
During the present session of Congress,
every effort will be made to swindle the gov
ernment out of the public lands. Land spec
ulators
and adventurers' of every hue, who
glide through the world by diddling the pub
lic, will lay all kinds of plans and invent all
kinds of schemes, to enrich themselves at the
expense of the people. Encouraged by the
wholesale manner in which Congress die
posed of the public lands during its last
session, they now infest the vestibules and
lobbies of the capital, and and with the worn
out plea of "public good" cry "more—give us
more." The Pacific and other railroad schemes
already before Congress, are nothing less than
gigantic attempts to swindle, and we sincerely
trust that every attempt of the kind to rob
the government of the public lands will be de
feated. There are men at, Washington, in and
out of Congress, who are constantly inventing
plans by which to defraud the government and
enrich themselves. They get up railroad and
other schemes by which to accomplish their.
obj eot.
The close of the present Congress, if we are
informed aright, and can judge correctly of
the signs of the times, will exceed all preced
ing sessions for attempts to swindle the Gov
ernment. There are men in Congress now
who know they will never have another
chance to "make a good thing out of it," and
are:determined to make good use of their time.
Already we see gigantic and impracticable
plans proposed to build a Pacific Railroad, and
branches from all quarters of the West and
Southwest to connect with a Pacific Railroad.
We are opposed to all those plundering, swind
ling schemes, and sincerely trust they will be
rejected.
In noticing one of these immense schemes,
the Cincinnati Enquirer says :
"From all parts of the country and from the
press of all parties, do wo hear condemna
tion of the bill now pending in the House,
entitled the Pacific Railroad scheme. The
corrupt speculators, politicians a lobby-men
engaged in it, have been baffled by a timely
exposure of the provisions it co sins. Such
a great fraud could only be su essful by being
hid from public scrutiny an observation:—
By it not only are two huct red millions 'of
acres of land given up to sp ulators and rail
road corporations, and the rnment bound
to pay five millions of dol Ei\year for post
office services. but there sno guarantee what
ever exacted of the railroad corporations that
they will finish the road. The latter can talty„
up the fertile lands as far as Fort Kearely,
but when they come to the great desert, with
its fifteen hundred miles of arid waste, they
are at liberty to abandon the road and let
the Government finish it."
The New York Evening FM, whose con
ductors are favorable to a Pacific Railroad, on
the same subject says : "As friends of the
Pacific Railroad, we counsel every honest
member in Congress to strangle the monstrous
imposition and fraud. Let no man be seduced
by the pretence that opposition to this meas
ure is opposition to the great measure to which
all political parties are, in some measure,
pledged. The people understand the differ
ence between this bill and the bill they want;
and they know perfectly well that its passage
will prove the most fatal blow which the -Pa
cific Railroad Scheme can possibly receive—
that it will render its consummation an impos
sibility—and that the only desirable conse
quence of its success will be the extinction of
the men who have been engaged ,in its con
coction."
The honest members of Congress—and thank
God there are some such—should use their best
efforts to expose the objects of the framers of
these land monster schemes and defeat them.
And when they return to their constituents
they will be welcomed home as good and
faithful servants of the people.
CITY %ND COUNTY
Cr' alsr.liaS par.—A merry, happy Christ
mas to our patrons. The compliments of the season to you
allAand may health, wealth. prosperity and long life at
temgyou. What a pleasant re-union, at the festive board,
will take place on Thursday. Christnias is here—yea,
happy. joyous Christmas of the olden time.
Who among us does not remember the halcyon days of
onr childhood, when we hung our stockings by the fire
place, and when the good St. Nicholas, more familiarly
known as .•Krisakingle," filled them' with the nice things
of the AOSSOri. For the benefit of the little folk, who are
now looking for the Saint. and may be desirous of knowing
how the old gentleman travels, we stihjoin a favorite poet
ical description which cannot fail of being interesting:
"brae the night before Chriotmas, when ell through the
house
Not a creature was stirring. not even a mouse: '
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hope" that St. Nicholas soon would ba there.
The children were nestled all snug in their beds.
While visions of sugar-plums danced through their heals:
Aud mamma in her 'kerchief and lin my cap.
['adjust settled onr brains for a long winter's nap
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter
Away to the window I flow like a flub,
Tore open the shutter and threw up the sash,
The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow,
Gave the lustre of midday to objects below;
When, what to my wandering eyes should appear
But a minature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer.
With a little old driver so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be at. Nick.
More
rapid than eagles his coursers they came, '-
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
"Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer! now, Vixen!
On ! Comet! On! Cupid! On! Bonder: and Blixen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away. dash away, dash away. all:"
As the leaves before the wild hurricane Hy,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
80, up to the housetop the•coursers they 86w,
With a sleigh full of toys—nod St. Nicholas too.
And then in a twinkling d heard on therfoof,
The prancing and pawing of each little boot.
As I drew in my head and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound:
He was dressed all in fur from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot:
A bundle of toys he bad flung on his back,
And he looked like a pedlar just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples how in
His cheeks were like roses: his nose like a cherry:
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow ;
And his beard on his chin was as white as the snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight in hie teeth,
And the smoke, It encircled his head like a wrea`b.
He bad a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when be laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.
He was chubby and plump; a right jolly old elf.
And I laughed when 1 saw him iu spite of myself.
A wink of his eye. and a twist of his head,
Boos gave me to know I had nothing to dread,
Ile spoke not a word but went straight to his work.
And filled all the stockings: then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose.
And giving a nod up the chimney ho rose.
Ile sprang to his sleigh, to his lean: gave a whistle.
And away they all flew like the down of a thisle:
But I heard him exclaim ere he drove out of sight.
"Merry Christman to all, and to all e good ahzht!"
ODD FELLOWSIIII' fY LANCASTER COUNTY.—
The returns of the Order of Odd Fellows, received by Mr.
WES - MAL/VLF., a D. G. M., shown that there are fifteen
Lodges in the County with about 1.400 contributing 'nem.
hers, of which nearly rho hundred belong to the three
Lodges in this city, namely, the Lancaster, Monterey and
Fulton Lodges. The reports further indicate that the Order
In this district is in a flourishing .mdition. We append
the names and number of the different Lodges. with the
time and placm - tf meeting, the names of officers and number
of contributing member., which will be interesting ne a
matter of record and reference to Lbws interested in the
progress of the Order:
Lancaster Lodge, No. 67—Lancaster—Thursday Evening
—341 Members. Patrick Cassidy, N. G.: Peter hill. V.
O.: .1. M. We-sthaetfer, Sec y.; John Evans,..l. Sec'y.; C.
Erben. Treas. -
INe l t s mnna, No. bO— Columbia —Monday-141 Member,.
Ja Myars, N. G.; Georqs Milford, V. G.;'l'. Itch. S.;
Pete Fraley, A. S.; DIWi.9 F:: Murphy. T.
:Ilsabethtown, No. ITi—Elizabathtown—Thursday—:".i.
Members. I leorge Redsoeker, N. G.: Jacob Grove, V. U.;
B. F. Bear, e Ge.. W. Boyer, A. S.; F. S. Bryan, T.
Donegal, No. 120—Marietta—Tuefiday--n1 Niro:hers. Sanil
Soudan, N. (1.: John Naylor, V. U.: E. D. Itoatb. S.: A.
11. Sumnly, A. S.: David !lorry, T.
Pequea. NoSlol—Paradise—Saturday-35 Member, TWO
Brun. N. G ; Sarum.) F. Fn ter. V. G.; J. G. Foster. S.:
Henry Crawford, A. S.
Monterey. No. .2.12-I.ltnenster—Friday-151 Members.—
Michael F. Steiger',lt, N. G.; Ilesiy FL Huh, V. (1.:
Jamee M. Channel. S.; A. 11. Kauffman, T.
Mount Joy, No. X7—Mount Joy—Tuesday-46 Members.
G. W. Porter, N. (t.; Andrew Myers, V. G.; Benjamin M.
Grelder, S.: James Mooney, A. S., Adam Sheller. T.
Conestoga, Harbor—Saturday-4 , - 0 Men - ion..
Win. Courtney, N. G.; Ibirid Morgan. V. G.; Lawton.
S.; M. E. :Mellinger. A. S.: Jacob Sourbeer,lT.
Strasburg. No. nrg
61—Strasbu—Turaday—ck Menibera.—
John E. Girrin, N. G.: John J. Kinkead, V. G.; {William
Clark, S.; Franklin Clark, A. S.: Jacob Hildebrand, T.
Kosciusko, No. :374—RawlSaturday—fql 3lembers
Jacob C. Otto, N. G.; Frederick Hill, V. G.; D. NI. Duakle
S.; W. A. Crawford, ANS.; Hugh O'Neil, T.
Cocalico, No. .4121, , ,—Reaistown—Se.turday-94 Members.
John S. Royer, ti./G.; J. M. Kline, V. (1.; E. H. Rhoads.
Henry S. 'Stickle, A. S.; Andrew Ream. T.
Earl, No. 413—New Holland—Monday-71 51embers. 11.
Nagel, N. G.; Franklin Thompson, Y. G.: Elias Glausser,
S.; Wm. Setley, A. S.; Miclixl Schneider, T.
Little Britain, No. 420—Oak Hill—Saturday-01 Memborr.
JorepbC. Jamiaon. N. 0: Benj. Passmore, V. 0.; Wm
Wood, S.; Isaac Wood, Robert Patton, T.
Fulton, No. 454—Lancaster—Monday-59 Members. Edw.
Carter, N. G.; IL 11. Musselman, V. (I.: Semi D. Fraim,
S.; Semi Welchem T.
Drumore, No. 509—Fairfield—Sntnrday-14 Member', L
F{lppla. N. G.; F. W. Swagart, V. G.; F. McSparren, S.; N
lionpel, A. S.; John Kennedy. T.
CITY POST OFFICE.—The improvements
made in the Post Office In this City, since Mr. Swannbas
taken charge of it. are the subject of Commendation all
round. Every convenience and comfort for the citizens as
well as the officials in the establishment base been attended
to, and It is a pleasure to witness the promptness and ef
ficiency displayed in the management of the office. Mr. S.
and his excellent subordinates, Messrs. Morton, Fahnestock
and Reigart are all kind and obliging in disposition,nnd
are universally popular with all who have Mainess at the
office. They deserve, as they are receiving, the thanks of
the community.
THE WATCHMEN'S CA I.L.—The Watchmen
having turned I'octs, will be about on Thursday (Christmas)
morning with their Addresses. Be prepared with your
Quarter: and Fifa,. Remember the guardians of lb•
night In your Christmas gifts.
MR. Viruiri , LE's LECTURE.—There was quite
a large and appreciating audience present, at Fulton Hall,
on Wednesday evening last, to hear the lecture of E. P.
Ititurrtc, Esq., of Boston. Ills subject, "Joss OF ARC,"
was treated in a milisterly and captivating manner. The
history of this heroine, and the vast influence she exerted
over the French people during her brief career, partakes
largely of the marvellous; and were it not that her actions
are well attested by history, one would be almost led to
doubt whether such a character as the }laid of Orleans
actually existed in the fifteenth century.
The speaker acquitted himself handsomely—his style
and manner being unexceptionable. The earnest attention
of the audience indicated that they were well pleased not
only with the subject b'ut with the lecturer. Altogether
the lecture was a good hit, and Mr. W. made a very favor_
able impression on all who heard him.
The next lecture of the course le io be delivered, we
believe, by PARE BENJAMIN, Esq., of New York.
THE LANCASTER BANK.—We learn that
about one.half the amount of stock ($200,000) contemplated
by the plan - adopted at the recent meeting for resuscitating
the institution, bee been subscribed, and the presumption
is that the balance will shortly be taken. An adjourned
meetidg of the stockholders will take plaro, at Fulton Hall.
on Saturday next.
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT.—The 0110 . ay
we paid a visit to the extensive Book Establishment of
Murray, Young k Co., and were surprised at the immense
and beautiful stock of books, of every description, which
that enterprising firm have on laud. The their., up
stairs and down, are crowdtd with interesting and Instruct
ing. volumes, and which are bound in the most superb
style. The gentlemanly proprietor., and their attentive
clerks, take great pleasure in showing the stock.
LIST OP Jl.:ll.o7o.—The following is a list
of the Grand and Petit Jurors to servo In the Court of
Quarter F.118101:0, commencing Monday. anuary 10th. 'O7
GRAND JURORS.
Christian Bentz. East Cocalien.
William T. Boyd, Drumore.
Israel Brady, East Donegal.
Esalim Billingsfelt, Adamstown for
Reuben Cook, Fulton.
George Dehaven, East Earl.
Christian Garver, East Donegal.
Matthias S. Horst, Leacock.
Levi Haverstick, Manor.
Michael L. Huber, Lancaster.
Henry Kauffman. Ranh°.
Jacob M. Long, City.
Abraham Lehn, Manheim twp.
Isaac Leamon, Upper Leacock.
J. W. Mifflin, Columbia Her. '
C. D. Mahaffey, East Donegal.
James Myers, Columbia Bor.
Samuel Mellinger, West Cocalico.
Isaac Oberholtzer. Salisbury.
David E. Rohrer, Manot,
William Itakestraw, Bart.
Henry Shenk, East llempfleld.
Michael Seichriet, East Flemplield.
William Withers, Eden.
PETIT JURORS.
Nathaniel Burt, Salisbury.
Jacob Bawler, Ilanhelm.
Philip Brehm, East Ilemidield. -
Joseph Ballance, Fulton.
Isaac Bear, Loacock. _
John D. Boring, City.
Samuel Bowman, Brecknock.
Benjamin Breneman, Mount Joy Imp
Joe..ph Brubaker, jr., Warwick.
Anthony Carpenter Earl.
Jacob Druckemll ler, City.
Jamea M. Dickinson, Salisbury.
Peter Eby, Salisbury.
Henry B. Erb, Clay.
Jacob Foreman, Conoy.
Henry S. Erb, Clay.
Frederick Frey, Manor.
Samuel Fairbank, Little Britain.
Robert Ferguson, Colerain.
Jacob Fehl, Manic.
Solomon Good, Adamstown Bor.
William Gibbon, Sadebury.
John W. linbley, City.
John 31. Illestand, East Donegal.
John Ileidelbach, Bart.
Samuel King, Manheim. .
Henry S. Kauffman, East llempffeld.
Moeee Light, Conoy.
Lewin Lutz , East Cocalico.
David Light. Dast Earl.
Jacob N. Miller, City.
Thomas A. McNeil, Salisbury. ~
Akraham B. Mylin, Perinea.
31a-tin Nlealey, West Donegal.
N. M. Peek, East Donegal.
Abner Peoples, Strasburg twp.
John Quigley, Fret Lampeter.
Enoch Rudy, Weet Earl,
John Rider, Conoy.
David Ryer, Crernarvon.
Amos.B. Shuman, Manor.
Jacob Shallenberger, West Hempfield.
Jacob Shirk, East Earl.
Rudolph Shenk, Conestoga.
John Warner, jr., Salisbury.
Joseph Wenger; Upper Leaoosk.
George Wallace, East Earl.
/habil W. Witmer, West Etwapeild.
POST OFFICE HOURS Or thEMLISTMAS.—We
are requested to Oath that the Poet Of In this city, will
be open between the henna or 0 and 1.0 - o'clock A. M., on
Thursday next.
THE LANCASTER TRAIN.—The Lancaster
(Accommodation) Train again commenced running on
yesterday. This train his become of so much aim to our
business community, that it has bees found almost im
possible to do without it. The train leaves Lancaster at
7,30 A. M., and ieturning,leaves Philadelphia at 3,15 P. M.
RonMRS ABOUT.—It appears that there are
still highway robbers lurking in this vicinity aim conduct
their operations with daring boldness. On Saturday eve
ning last 'Squire Albright, of Maytown t was robbed of all
the money in his possession. Ile was met by four men, on
the Columbia and Marietta Turnpike, kPocked down, and
his pockets inspected and dirested of th4ir contents. They
only obtained about four dollarsfor their villainy.
On Tuesday morning last, .1. Houston Mifflin, Esq.'s car
riage was stopped on its may to Norwood, his residence,
about one mile from this place. Mr. Mifflin, starting on a
visit to Philadelphia, left orders with his boy to meet him
with.tbe carriage here, it being his intention to come up
in the night line. Detain.' in the city longer than ho
expected. he did not ante here that morning. The boy
started home, and, when bout half a mile from our town,
was saluted by two men, who peremptorily ordered him to
"deliver." One seized the horse's head, and the other
mounted to the carriage and asked for Mr. M. The boy
replied that he wee not present: that he had nothing him
self. .to. After a careful 1.4 Z to see that the boy was
truthful in his statement, the robbers permitted him to
go on his journey. Their Intention was evidently to rob
Mr. Mifflin. who. 'Co trust, will be ready to give them
cordial reception the next time they make en attempt.—
Clgurabia Spy.
CLOSED I.7t . .—The river is again frozen up,
and communication on the ire will, we anticipate, speedily
take place between our citizens and our neighbors on the
ether side. The river Was frozen ever last week, but the
rain of Saturday night , dissolved the ice, and on Monday
it was bare. It now looks as if the .. second edition" was
going to stay 00 hand some time. As our merchants and
business men,generally have a rush, as soon as the ice is
strong enough to bear "tikvigation," we trust It will s‘sin
be t'ound in that delightful state.—thlionbia .Spy.
To CoNSUMPTIVi.S.—Dr. Geo. H. Keyser, of
140 Wood street. Pittsburgh. Pa., prepares a Medicine for
Coughs and Lung Disemes that stands without a rival.—
It would be well for Consumptive persons to . reinember
this, and upon the Oret approach of a Cough or Cold. apply
this remedy, which, wo are rt.ssured from good authority,
has cured a great variety of Lung Diseases. You can buy
it at the Drug Store of C. A. lieinitsh, No. Li E. King st.
KANSAS AFralßS.—The President sent a
message to the House, on Monday, coveting
dispatches from Gov. Geary relative to Kansas
affairs. The Governor reports that he has kept
an hourly record of his xecutive action since
he entered upon his duties. Peace is perma
nently established in the Territory. A hand
of robbers still remain in die south part of
the Territory, not exceeding seven, for whose
arrest rewards are offered. The regular set
tlers have agreed to leave all contested ques
tions to be determined at the ballot,-box. He
alludes to the collision between himself and
Judge Lecompte, and expresses a desire that
a Chief Justice will be appointed who is im
partial, and not complicated with the late dis
turbances. lie alludes to a speech he made at
Leavenworth oti the occasion of the land sales,
by invitation of the authorities. his remarks
were well received. lie thinks the sale of
public lands to well disposed settlers the
surest method of maintaining the peace of the
Territory.
Extremes Meet.
The Charleston -(S. C.) Mercury is pub
lishing the letters of a man front the North
favoring the disunion of the Confederacy.—
The Mercury must, of course; be aware that
they come from the most ultra Abolitionist ;
yet it publishes them with evident.gratification.
The Abolition journals return the compliment
by publishing with much commendation, ar
ticles from the Mercury. These exchanges of
compliments between the ultra men North
and South affbrd a curious illustration of the
nature of "extremes." Their common hostil
ity to the Union and to th Confederation
brings them together, althoua from different
motives. The manner in which they seek to
manufacture political capital for each other,
attracts not a little attention, and is calculated,
if properly exposed to weaken them both, and
to strengthen the Union and national feeling
of the country.
llAllThe Editor's Botik Table. \
ERS' 'MAGAZIN 1:".
We have on our table the January no. of Harpers' Meg.
nine, through the kindness of the enterprizing firm of
Murray, Young & Co. The contents are more than usually
interesting and entertaining. The Annual Declaration of
Independence, full of comical illuStrations; Earthquake In
Honduras ; Journey to Median and Mecca; together with
some piquant stories and a continuation of Dickens' Story
of Little Dorelt, serve to make it unequalled, or at leant
not surpassed by any of the Magazines of thls - cmintry.—
Terms $3 per annum, or 2.5 'cents a single number.„ - 7
THE HAPPY HOME AND PAItLOR MAGAZINE. ...-,
The January no. commences a new volume of this Inter
citing and popular work. The number Is handeomoly
embellished, and otherwise more than usually attractive.
Published by C. Stone, Boston, at $2 per annum.
Correspondence of the Rochester Democrat
A Bloody Affair.
1%10:atom", Illinois, Dec. 12.
A bloody tragedy was P t e7rormed at the
" Baldwin House," in this city, this afternoon.
I was conversing with a gentleman in Dr.
Thayler's Drug Store, about two o'clock, when
the terrible cry of murder was heard, and we
alt—started out to discover the cause. We
were soon directed by a throng of people to
the above named hotel, distant only a few
yards, and there weltering in their blood ley
the victims of the most sanguinary, single
handed conflict it has been my lot to witness.
It is impossible to describe the horror which
depicted the visages of that throng of spegta
tors called there at a moment's warning.
Tho circumstances are as follows : Mr.
Fleming, an elderly gentleman, and two eons
about 25 to 28 years of age, had called upon
a Mr. Crosier at his rooms in the B. House,
armed each with a loaded pistol, to coerce the
latter gentleman into a concession and retrac
tion of a calumny affecting their.daughter
and sisterovith which they charged Mr. C.
Mr. C. after some pretty warm language had
passed between the parties, agreed to and did
sign a retraction in the presence of a friend
whom the Messrs. FleMing had brought with
them.
Immediately after delivering the paper into
the possession of a friend, the Messrs F:, or
one of the brothers, says to Mr. C., "I am
now going to cowhide you," and one of the
boys holdin'k a cocked pistol to his head, di
rected theQsther to inflict the threatened pun
ishment, which he immediately commenced.
Ho had struck three or four blows, when C.
drew a dirk knife from his side pocket, and
passing at the same time his left arm around
the neck of the one who plied the lash, stab
bed him in the left breast, and as quick as
thought withdrew the knife and struck the
one who held the pistol a back handed Now
which reached, as it did the 'first, the heart of
his victim.
Both brothers received their death wounds
in less than two seconds, and were both bloody
corpses in three minutes after they were struck.
The old man had gone out into the hall and
locked the door, and stood upon the outside to
keep out assistance. The affair has created
an immense excitement here, I assure you.—
The young man Crosier is under arrest, hav
ing surrendered himself into custody, and is
to undergo an examination tomorrow.
The sympabies of the people are mostly
with Crosier. lie acts and looks the picture
of despair. He is a young man, some 27 to
30 years old, and unmarried. He is said to
have been engaged to the lady in question,
who is at present out of the State. The other
parties were respectable farmers, and two of
them,4 understand, members of the church in
good standing.
GREENE COCNTY DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.-
Instructions for Dawson . for Governor.—The
Democracy of Greene county met at Waynes
burg, on Monday, the 15th inst., and appoint
ed James Lindsay delegate to the 2d of Msqch
Convention, and unanimously instructed him
to support the Hon. John L. Dawson, of Fay
ette county, as the next Democratic candidate
for Governor.
SALE OF ONE HALE OF A FURNACE.-ME
glement Brooke, of the Borough of Pottstown,
this county, sold a feW days. since, one half of
the interest in the Reading Furnace, situated
in or near the city of Reading, for the hand
, some sum of One Hundred T hounnd Dollars.
We did not learn the name of the purchaser.
—Reading Gazette.