INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTRIAN.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANOASTEE, PA., JANUARY 20, 1857
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To the Democratic Freemen olf the City
and County of Lancaster.
In accordance with tbe resolution of the County Com
mittee, adopted od Wednesday last, you are requested
to assemble in Bererai Wards of the City, and Boroughs
and Townships of the County, on - ■
Saturday the 7th of February next,'
then and thwe to elect not less than three nor more than
five delegates to represent each District in a general
County Convention to be held on Wednesday tub 11th op
Keb&ua&t next, at 11 o’clock A. M.. at the Hotel of Eman
uel Shobor, In the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of
electing six delegates to represent the Democracy of the
County bf Lancaster in the Annual State Convention, to
be held at Harrisburg, on Monday the 2nd day of March
next. The several Ward, Borough and Township Commit
tees are requested to give'early notice, In their respective
Districts, of the time and place of meeting for tbe election
of delegates.
In accordance with the established usage of tbe party
the several Districts will each nominate one person to serve
on the County Committee for tbe ensuing political year;
and also nominate their Ward, Borough and Township
Committees, and place their names on their respective
credentials to the eosulng County Convention. ,
By order of tbe County Committee,
H. B. SWARR;Chairman.
Lancaster, January 20tb, 1857.
Henry 8. Magraw, Esq.
This gentleman, the able and efficient State
Treasurer for the last year, is a candidate for
re-election—but what bis fate may be. it is
more than we can predict with certainty. The
three infamous traitors who defeated Col. For
ney and eleeted Simon Cameron to the U. S.
Senate, may defeat him, and it will not sur
ptise us in the least if they do.
The notorious political trickster, Charles
Frailey, of Schuylkill, is the candidate upon
whom tbe Black Republicans and K|now Noth
ings will unite. He is a disciple and protege
of Cameron, and that arch demagogue will
exert all his influence to have him 1 elected.—
Possibly there may be a few honest men in
the opposition who will refuse to!place the
Treasury in the hands of such a political cor
morant. We shall see. • The election comes
off to-day. We hope for the best, although
fearing the worst.
Should .Cameron, through his creature
Frailey, get oontrol of the public purse
strings, then Heaven save the Common-
wealth !
Hon. J. Lawrence Getz.
A correspondent, from Columbia, thinks
that our popular Speaker of the . House of
Representatives deserves the undivided thanks
and commendation, not only of the : members,
but of the whole Democratic party, for the
timely consideration and forethought dis
played in making up the various House
oommittees.
Tho names of the arch traitors and villains,
lebo, wagonseller and manear, have all been
placed upon the same committee—only one—
and that, too, one rarely or never called upon
to perform any duty.
By this judicious arrangement the uncon
taminated and honest members of the House
are saved from the pain and humiliation of
being forced, by business relations', into con
tact. and association with ffaen who have
forfeited all claims upon honorable society,
either social or political. May they henceforth
be assigned 6o 6ome obscure position, apart
from better men, where they can do no further
injury, while undergoing penance for their
vile iniquity.
He also says that the announcement of
Cameron's election was received at Columbia
with the same bitter and violent indignation
upon the part of the Democrats,"and with
malicious glee by tho Black Republicans and
Know-Nothings, as it was throughout the
State.
. Our old friend, Dr. Charles Leib, for
merly of this city, but for the last year or two
a resident of Chicago, has been elected Clerk
to the House of Representatives of Illinois.—
The Dr. edited and published a spirited cam
paign paper at Chicago during the resent
Presidential contest, and by his indomitable
energy both as a speaker and writer, contrib
uted largely to the success of Buchanan and
Breckinridge in Illinois. He richly deserved
the honor just conferred upon him by a Dem
ocratic Legislature, and we have no doubt he
will make a competent and popular offioer.
Election of United States Senator.
Harrisbhug, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 1857.
Atjnoon to-day the Speaker and Members
of tho Senate were introduced, and the two
Houses went into Convention for the election
of a United States ' Senator, to serve for six
years from, the 4th of March next.
The Speaker of the Senate presided, and
the roll being called, the Senators by the
Clerk of the Seuate and the members of the
House by the Clerk of the House, the first
ballot resulted in the election of Gen. Simon
Cameron. '
The vote stood, as follows :
Simon Cameron 67 I Ilenry D. Foster 7
John W. Forney 58 j Win. ” Wilkins 1
Messrs. Lebo &ndj Wagonseller of and Manear
of York, (Democrats,) voted for Qen. Cameron:
Messrs. Cresawell, Backus, Calhoun, Fausold, Hill, Nich
olson, and Smith of Cambria, voted for Henry D. Foster.
Mr. Foster voted for Mr. Wilkins. i
The following is the vote in detail;
Fo* Simon Cameron— Messrs. Coffey. Crab.b, Finney,
Flennlken, Frazer, Gaxzam, Gregg, Harris, Jordan, Kiliin
ger, Lewis, Myer, Penro6e, Schofield, Sellers, Shuman,
Souther and Taggart of the Senate; and Messre. Augustin.
Babcock, Backhouse, Ball, BensoD, Bishop, Brown. Chase,
Clover, k Cox, Crawford, Dickey, Dock, Eyster, Gibboney
Hamilton, Iliestand, Iline, Iloffman of Lebanon, House
keeper Imbrie, Jacobs. Kauffman, Kerr, Lebo, (Dem.,)
Mercer, (Dem.,) McCalmont, Mooreheed, Mumma, Mussol
man, Nichols, Penrose, Peters, Powuall, Purcell, Reed,
Shaw, Sloan, Stevenson, Struthers, Thorne, Van Yoorheefl,
Tickers, Vaegloy, Wagonseller, (Dem.,) Warner, Willeston,
Wlntrode, Withrow and Wright of the House—C7.
For John W. Forney— Mecsrs. Brower, Browne, Evans,
Felton, Ingram, Knox, Laubach, Steel, Straub, Walton,
Welsh, Wilkins and Wright of the Senate; and {Messrs.
Abrams, Anderson, Arthur, Beck, Brower, Brandt, Camp
bell, Cad, Ent, Gllden, Hamel, Hancock, Harper, Heins,
Hillyear, Hoffman of Berks, Jones, Jenkins, Johns, Johnson
Knight, Leisenring, Longaker, Lovett, Mangle, Mcllvain,
Nunem&cher, Pearson, I’etriken, Ramsey of Phlla., Ramsey
of York, Reamer, Roberts, Rupp, Smith of Centre, Smith
of Luzerne, Tolan, Vail, Walter, Westbrook, Wharton,
Yaisley, Zimmerman, Getz (Speaker) of the House-r-68.
Foe Henry D. Foster— 3fr. Cresswell of the Senate, and
Messrs. Backus, Calhoun, Fausold, Hill, Nicholson and
Smith of Cambria, of the House—7.
j For Mr. Wilkins— Mr. Foster.
: The announcement of the vote was received
with prolonged hissing and applause from the
galleries.
Mr. Browne presented a protest agninat
tire legality of the proceedings of the Senate,
in not electing a teller at least one day before
the to law.
Messrs. Ball and Penrose objected to receiv
ing the protest, on the ground that the* Con
vention kept no journal.
Pending the question, Mr. Penrose moved
to adjourn, which was lost by a tie! vote—
Yeas 66, Nays 66. i
Mr. Browne's motion was then discussed
at Borne length by various members, find fi
nally ruled out of order. The Convention then
adjourned. ' .
ftJpon the return of the Senators to their
Chamber, Mr. Browne gave notice that he
would to-morrow present a protest against the
legality of the election.
The result was wholly unexpected by the
Democrats and haB caused the greatest indig
nation, while the friends of Mr. Cameron are
correspondingly exultant.
There are great* rejoicings by the "Black
Republicans” at the election of Cameron, and
guns are firing at Capitol hill. Mr. Cameron
is here receiving congratulations.
ThelTraitort’ Doom l
Lebo, Menear and Wagonseller; were
butted in effigy, in Baltimore, on Tuesday
night last.
Treason Successful!
We have the d<»ep mortification to announce
that Simon Cameron has been elected to the
Senate of the United States, through the base
treachery of three professed Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature, Messrs. Lebo and Wa
gonseller, of Sehuylkiir, and Menear, of
York. And what renders them doubly infa
mous is the .fact, that all three were in caucus
—one of them. Lebu. voted for Col. Kornky
on the first ballot—and all voted to unani
mously ratify the nomination.
Thus has Pennsylvania been disgraced by
these political Judases, whose infamy is only
equalled by that of Benediot Arnold. Like
him they basely and dishonorably betrayed
the confidence reposed in them by their coun~
trymen, and sold themselves to the common
enemy for filthy lucre. Simon Cameron, who
less than two years ago, if half what the oppo
sition then said of him was true, was the
oreatest and most corrupt political trickster
and scamp in existance—was on Tuesday last,
elected by them to the office of U. S. Senator,
for the term of six years. He received the
united vote of the Block Republicans and
Know-Nothings, who, with the vote of tbe
threo scoundrels above mentioned, accom-
plished the disgraceful result. Some few of
the opposition journals are jubilant over the
election of Cameron, but we cannot believe
that the sober minded, right thinking men
even of that unprincipled party, will be wil
ling to endorse the conduct of their represen
tatives.
Five of the Black Republicans who voted
for Cameron on Tuesday, viz : Messrs Tag
gart, Jordan, Lewis, McCalmont and Ball,
were in a former Legislature, and signed the
protest, dated Feb. 12, 1855, which was then
made against his election. We make a few
extracts from the Protest so that our readers
may know how to appreciate the consistency
'of these worthies. In tbe opposition caucus
it was resolved to vote by ballot, instead of
tura roc* as is usual. In speaking of this they
say:
“ We could not believe that all who had
voted for the secret ballot, had done so to hide
themselves from their constituents, or to be
tray us into the support of a man despised and
disowned by every political organization in
Pennsylvania." Again—“ The power that
controlled that caucus was too palpable ; cor
ruption was behind the throne , and no wonder
that its victims skulked behind a secret vote,
and covered their beholders." “ Could we
have exhonerated deeds from the eyes, and i
exhonerate ourselves from the odium
of sucha nomination, if we had delayed our
departure, and aided to consummate such a
result? Could we have remained in that
caucus believing ourselves bound by its ac
tion, and justified ourselves in voting for a
man whose whole history is but the history of
intrigue
“ The inquiry arises, who is Simon Came
ron ? As a statesman, fame never associated
his name with the word. As a politician, he
has always professed to be a Democrat, and
yet that party only remembers him because
of his treachery, and speaks of him as a trai
tor. As a Whig, it is his boast that he never
voted a Whig ticket in his life—that party be
ing saved from such a disgrace." “ But the
people of Pennsylvania expect something more
of the present Legislature than the election of
an old political-hack." “ We consider him, a
fit representative of nothing good; and a fit
exponent of no honorable principle." “ Shall
we then, can we consistently with the oaths
we have taken, support a nomination so des
titute of every element of virtue, which would
disgrace the American organization and our
native State, and which we feel well assured,
our constituents will repudiate with scorn and
righteous indignation. We recognize no pow
er in any caucus, to require us to sacrifice our
integrity, to throw away our self-respeofc, or
to violate our oaths ; and therefore it is that
in the independence of freemen, we strike
down King Caucus, at the bidding of our
country" “ Ask us not to support a nomi
nation brought about, as we believe, by the
concentrated and cohesive power of public plun
der, and the superadded element of shameless
AND WHOLESALE PRIVATE BRIBERY."
We have thus spoken of the three infamous
traitors to the Democratic party who sold
themselves to the common enemy, and be
trayed the trust reposed in them by their too
confiding constituency. We have also'spoken
of the inconsistency of the five Black Repub
lioau Know-Nothing members in supporting
a man whom they denounced so reoently as
devoid of all honesty and moral and political
integrity—as “a fit representative of nothing
good; and a fit exponent of no honorable prin
ciple.” The eight Democratic members who,
without any show of reason, refused to vote
for Coh Forney after he had fairly obtained
the nomination, we leave to tho tender mer
cies of their constituents, who will doubtless
deal with them hereafter as their conduct de
serves. They did not, it is true, oast their
votes for Cameron, but we have no doubt their
stubborn and unjustifiable conduct was well
calculated to furnish a pretext for the three
traitors to go over to the common enemy.
As to Col. Forney, who has thus been
basely stricken down by treachery and the
power of money, he is dearer than ever to the
great Democratic party of Pennsylvania and
the Union—and he will yet rise superior to
all the unholy efforts made against him. His
grent talents and services to the du
ly appreciated, and the Democracy wilK take
care of him in the time to come. He hks not
yet reached the acme of his political farher-
He has a future before him.
Public Opinion.
The Keystone Club, of Philadelphia, held a
meeting on Wednesday evening, and de
nounced, with great severity, the traitors who
accomplished the election of Simon Cameron
to the U. S. Senate. Resolutions were also
passed disapproving of the eonduot of Mr.
Foster and his associates who refused to'sup
port the caucus nominee, Col. Forney.
A meeting of the Democratic Union Club,
of New York, was held on Friday evening, at
which denunciatory resolutions were also
passed. The New York TYner, speaking of
this aed other demonstrations, says: " The
rising voice of the Democracy will overwhelm
these three venal wretohes, and we hope that
even Cameron, whose name is synony
mous with all that is corrupt and profligate in
polities, may feel that the seat in the Senate
whieh he has purohased, only elevates him to
■ be the surer aim of popular execration.”
The people and the press every where, in
and out of the State, are speaking their senti
ments in thunder thoes..
The Canal Board.
The newly elected Canal Commisaioner,
George Scott, Esq., was duly qualified, and
assumed his seat, as one of the Canal Board,
on Tuesday morning last. He takes the place
of Thomas H. Forsythe, Esq., whose term has
expired. Col. H. S. Mott, being the oldest
member, was elected President of the Board,
and Thomas L. "Wilson re-elected Secretary.
Indignation Meeting.
A meeting of the Democracy of York coun
ty was held in the Borough of York, bn Sat
day evening, to denounce the treason of Sam
uel Man-ear, their ‘Representative in the
State Legislature, in voting for Simon Came
ron.
Thanks —to John A. Hiestand, Esq., of the
House of Representatives, for copies of the
Legislative Record.
Thi| New British Minister.— The London
correspondents of the New York Evening
Post akid Herald state that Mr. Villiers has
declined the embassy to Washington.
Post's I correspondent saya Dord Elgin wil
most likely get the appointment.
Corruption of the Freedom Shrlefcers*
In the (louse «»f Representatives at Wash
ington, on Friday week, Mr. Kelsey called
attention to an article in the New York Times
charging upon members of Congress gross
corruption and corrupt combinations to con
trol tbe legislation of the House, mentioning
the Minnesota Land Bill as a measure to be
thus affected, and declaring that evidence can
bo produced to fully substantiate its allega*
tions. The subject created great excitement,
and after some discussion, the following reso
lution, introduced by Mr. Kelsey, was adopt
ed :
Whereas, certain statements hare been pub
lished, charging members of this House with
entering int * a corrupt combination for the
purpose of passing, and preventing the pas
sage of eertain measures now before Congress,
therefore —
Resolved. That a committee of five mem
bers be appointed by the Speaker, with power
to send for persons and papers, to investigate
said charges ; and that the committee report
the evidence to be taken, and what action, in
their judgment is necessary on the part of the
House, without unnecessary delay.
The following members compose the select
committee to investigate this matter: Messrs.
Kelsey, Orr, Davis of Maryland, Ritchie and
Warner.
| In tbe discussion up<>Q this subject, Mr.
! Paine of North Carolina said he would state
I distinctly that there was truth in the allega
! tion of the article —that a distinct proposition
was made to him , by a member of the House,
in regard to the Minnesota Land Bill, to the
effect that $l5OO would be given\ for a vote in
favor of the bill.
That the most revolting corruption, says the
N. H. Patriot, is practiced in Congress—that
the vote of members are sold, almost publicly,
in favor of corrupt and swindling schemes,
there is no room for doubt, and it U a matter
of public interest to learn who are the mem
bers engaged in this disgraceful work. But
it is not probable that many of them will be
exposed. But there is abundant evidence as
to which party the chief corruptionists belong.
We have the testimony of their own organs
that the most of them are black republican
freedom-shriekers, and that tbe great leaders
of that faction are engaged in most of the cor
rupt and swindling schemes that have been
before Congress during the last few years.—
Upon this point we have the following direct
testimony from the Washington correspondent
of the Philadelphia North American, a black
republican paper. He says:—
“ The fact is patent to every eye, that in
nearly all the great jobs, and speculations, and
schemes of plunder, now before Congress, the
most radical anti slavery politicians are enlist
ed as the managers here. Artful, selfish and
arrogant intriguers, who assumed the control
of tbe republican canvass for tbe Presidency,
are now the conspicuous actors in. the lobby,
who pursue every olaim and enterprise with
keen cupidity, and openly traffic their so-called
principles for present or contingent interests.
Their audacity in olaiming power over the
votes of republican members, and their com
plicity with others, who will not be transfer
red by indirection or without a consideration,
have excited both suspicion and indignation
on the part of the South, and, indeed, on the
part of every honorable man on or off the
floor. New York has thus far furnished the
principle supply of these corrupt brokers and
traders,, and they include a considerable
sprinkling of party wire-pullers who have
heretofore affected great integrity and gener
osity, as a hypocritical disguise for the most
barefaced venality. They have at last become
to be known, and the .sceptre is fast depart
ing” i
The same correspondent, in a letter dater
Jan. 4, says :
“ And if the truth must be spoken out, sla
very seems to exercise a conservative and hon
orable influence. The lact is notorious to eve
ry observer at Washington, that nearly all
the wholesale eohemes of plunder which have
-been carried through Congress for years past;
all the corrupt jobbing; all the projects of
spoliation, and all the vile and venal combina
tions, have been planned and carried on under
the control and with the means of the North
ern managers. While they shouted the loudest
for freedom, and stigmatized slavery as a stig
ma to civilization, they took care to pillage
the treasury, by way of refreshing this senti
mental devotion. The self appointed leaders
who wereexercised a few months ago over the
demoralization that would attend the possible
extension of slavery, who mourned over its
alleged horrors, who beat their breasts in ag
ony at its mention, and who led what profes
sed to be a great moral crusade, are exactly
the men who have swarmed the lobbies since
Congress opened, scheming for the success of
new plunder, and contriving the most auda
cious combinations with the very slaveholders
whom they affect so much to abhor. Devel
opments like these, which are every day
forced before our eyes, serve to disgust intelli
; gent and honest minds at the cant of these
sordid hypQcrits, who are trading upon prin
ciples, the integrity of which upright men
proudly maintain.
On the floor of the House, and on the floor
of the Senate—for both are notoriously con
taminated, the latter only in a limited degree
—the profligate traders most known inside and
outside the hall, are not only Northern mem
bers, but they are members who have endeav
ored to figure conspicuously in all the recent
political movements. Their names are ban
died about with vulgar familiarity by the very
menials attending upon Congress, and their
audacious knavery gives qualification for far
more than has vet been charged. They devote
themselves exclusively to the business of ex
torting compensation for legislative favor, and
'some of them have paid enormously for seats
as a means of prosecuting this disgraceful
traffic. Nor is this corruption confined to a
few isolated instances. There are numbers
in the House whose votes, or silence, or ab
sence, was purchased, at the last session, for
the public printing, the railroad grants, and
other special objects of legislation. These
spoils were distributed among certain repub
licans holding seats, and others who were sup
posed to be influential outside. And although
a portion of this plunder was appropriated in
consideration of the aid and comfort given by
Southern Americans, it is not believed any of
them personally shared in its distribution.
It is due to the Southern representatives as
a body, to Bay that however much they may
suffer from the stigma of slavery, they are not
tainted with the dishonesty and glaring men
dacity of others from the free States. With
rare exceptions—and they are noted to be de
spised—the South bas never been implicated
in these infamous transactions ; and if'it has
given doubtful measures support, either mis
taken generosity or unconscious error incurred
the responsibility.- They have not chaffered
over the price of votes, pursued claimants for
retainers, or bargained with scurvey contract
ors for a division of disreputable gains. In
these high characteristics, at least, slavery
does not appear to have produced any baneful
influence, and it would be well that professed
philanthropy exhibited itself as favorable here,
or extorted something of the respect which
is now conceded to the representatives of an
institution which it so unqualifiedly con
demns."
the Traitors’ Reward.
The Philadelphia Argus of the 14th instant
contains the following:
Harrisburg, January 15. —Menear, of
York, openly boaßts that he received $B,OOO
for voting for Cameron. He says he would
have voted for Forney for $5,000. The board'
ers at Wilks’ hotel, where Menear has been
stopping, protested against his remaining.—
He was consequently dismissed by the land
lord.
Brady, to whom he applied for board re
fused to receive him. Omit has given Wa
gonseller and Lebo notice to quit. In the
House an effort will be made to expel Menear.
Senator Sumner. —A Boston correspondent
of the Religious Herald of Harford, Jan. 1,
says ; “Senator Sumner is in this oity ; walks
the streets with his accustomed ease and elas
ticity ; and the efforts of a little clique here to
hurry him to his grave, to make room for on*
other man{!) will not succeed.”
Col. John W. Forney.
Whilst many of the malignant scribblers
and politicians of the B’aok Republican Know
Nothing party, are rejoicing over their own
shame in the election of the trickster Cameron
to the U. S. Senate, and embracing the oppor
tunity to villify and abuse Col. Forney and
defame bis character, we are pleased to find
there are some honorable exceptions even
amongst them. The New York Tribune is
one of them—so also tbe New York Mirror.—
We clip the following editorial notice frwu the
latter paper. It is doubtless from the pen of
CoL Fuller, the accomplished editor. Upon
reading it, a friend beside us exclaimed, "I
would rather occepy the position of John W.
Forney defeated, than a thousand Simon
Camerons elected;"
Col. John W. Forney. —Without having oc
pied prominent posts of hooor in the govern
ment, the name of this gentleman is remark
ably suggestive of political and social events.
Col. Forney is certainly a marked man, if not
a man of mark. The tide turned against him
when he had just oast off the dock lines, and
be has been combatting the current ever
since, with a resolution aad a heroism worthy
of success. Col. Forney is a man of consider
able talent—not much genius. He has grown
up from the ranks, nor has he passed from
condition to condition without making'his
advancement felt as a sign of his merits. He
is a generous man—a warm, unswerving
friend—devoted to bis party, which has been,
his school through life, and from whieh be has
taken his lessons of economy and of patriot
ism; so that now, in middle age, he may be
said to be one of the most oomplste represen
tatives of partizan Democracy to be found in
this country.
He is able to testify to the values and the
sacrifices of friendship; for the public b&s held
him to stringent accountability for writing
that letter to George Roberts. It was a private
letter, and ought never to have seen the light;
and at this very point we have always felt
that a current of charity should set it in mit
igation of the offence. The truth is, the letter
was wrong; and Col. Forney made a mistake
in writing it, and another in attempting to
defend it. He wrote it for a friend. He had
no interest whatever, as in the aot which has
injured him, there seems to have been no.
motive but to serve Mr. Forrest. That is
saying a great deal; quite enough to authorize
liberal minds to “let by-gones be bygones."
We rather like a man who cannot be killed.
We like the energy that will survive even
great blunders. In suoh persons there are
evidences of great merit which .ought not to
be overlooked. He who commits a serious
wrong, and is exposed, seldom suffers himself
again to be placed before the community
whom he has injured. Quite otherwise is it
to a man who has made a mistake involving
no motive to inflict injury upon his neighbors.
Preoisely in the latter category we place the
Roberta' letter; and we infer, and we think
that Col. Forney has a right to demand that
we should infer, that as-a* gentleman and a
good citizen, he is to be judged not by a single
error, however great, but by his “daily walk
and conversation" amongst his brothers. We
are not of his party —not of his political as
sociations—but we are of the Press, and it is
the first duty of that powerful engine of opin
ions and ideas to deal fairly with every one.
Col. Forney was, a few days ago, presented
by his friends, in the Legislature, as a candi
date for the Senate of the United Slates—to
fill the place heretofore occupied by Mr. Bu
chanan himself. This movement has certainly
put a new fase upon his character. It is a
judgment in his favor—an endorsement of his
life—and a vindication of his name; and it is
all the more significant that the individual
who has been selected by a great party, in a
great State—the party of Jefferson and Jack
son—to be the associate and successor in the
Senate of Cass, Toucey, Seward, Webster,
Clay, Calhoun and Everett, has risen to his
present position from the humble sphere and
associations of an American mechanic.
W.e have no heart to criticise such a result.
It speaks for itself, and it is defended by the
unflagging industry, the talent and confiding
amiable and social qualities of Col. Forney.
Was he a poor printer, an adventurer, a Cus
tom House subaltern, a clerk in Congress. Be
it so; and it is right that from these positions
he should rise to be the representative of a
great State in the Senate of the Union. We
hold it to be impossible in this country of
ambition and severe personal criticism, that
a man can thus cast off the shackles of de
pendence, and receive tokens ot public appro
bation without possessing the true germ ot
American citizenship; and hence in the ad
vancement pf Col. Forney we say Amen.
The defeat of Col. Forney,, in the joint con
vention, we hold to be nothing. We cannot
even rejoice over the €>vent. We turn rather
with the instictive conviction to Mr. Buchan
an, believing that the new President will call
him—as we suggested yesterday and the Her
ald seconds to-day—to the department of the
Poet Office in the incoming Government'.
Crush the Traitors!
The Democratic press every where—in and
out of the State—are denouncing with just
severity the vile oonduct of the three traitors,
LEBO, WAGONSELLER and MENEAR,
who, Judas-like, betrayed their constituents
for thirty pieces of silver. Wo could fill our
paper with these notices. The people, too—
the constituency of these men—are also be
ginning to speak out in thunder toneß their
opinion of the misoreants. The following
proceedings were had at a meeting held at
Pottsville, on Wednesday evening:
A meeting of the Buchanan and Breckin
ridge Club, of Pottsville, was held at the
Middle Ward Hotel, on Wednesday, Januafy
14th, 1857, for the purpose of taking action
on the late atrocious conduct of the members
of the House of Representatives from Schuyl
kill county.
At half past seven o'clock, Edward O'Con
ner, the President, took the chair, and E. F.
Weston, in the absence of the Secretary, was
appointed Secretary pro tem.
The Hon. F. W. Hughes stated the object
of the meeting, and after some appropriate
remarks, condemnatory of the conduct of Wm.
B. Lebo and George Wagonseller, moved that
a Committee of Fifteen be appointed* to draft
resolutions expressive of the opinion of the
meeting, .which being adopted, the chdir
appointed the following committee:—Hon. F.
W. Hughes, Hon. Bernard Reilley, John
Clayton, Geo. D. B. Keim, Col. J. M. Weth
erill, S. K. M. Kepner, Washington Reifsny
der, Alex. Hetherington, Jacob Kline, John
Mcßroom, Enoch Bryor, Charles N. Clemens,
F. P. Dewees, David Estertz and 'John Mag
ginis, who reported the following Preamble
and Resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted:
Whereas, The Democracy of this County
have been astounded with the; information
that the persons elected to the House of Rep
resentatives,* from Schuylkill county, have
perpetrated the crime of a most gross and
flagrant betrayal of the known wishes of the
party who have elected them, and their own
solemn and oft repeated pledges, by voting
for Simon Cameron for United States Senator,
after his open and notorious action as a leader
among the Know-Nothing and Black Repub
lican Fusionists of this State, in opposition to
tbe Democratic party and the integrity of the
United States.
Resolved, That the conduct of William B.
Lebo and George Wagonseller, in connection
with another traitor from York county, in
voting for Simon Cameron for U. S. Senator,
in known and open defiance of the wishes of
the entire Democracy of Schuylkill county, is
a direct violation of their repeated assurances
and professions before their election.
Resolved, That for Buch traitors we know
of no adequate punishment provided by law,
and can only express the execration of a
deceived and outraged constituency, who will
treat -these Arnolds and Gorgeys with exclu
sion from all social and political intercourse.
Resolved, That we have no doubt this
conduct ib the result of bribery, that the
consideration for this betrayal was gold—and
that these guilty wretches and their confeder
ates may be exposed to the world, as a warning
to all others, we ask the House of Represen
tatives of Pennsylvania to cause a full inves-.
tigation of the means by which this unpar
alleled fraud and treason was committed.
Resolved , That we request the County
Committee to notify the delegates in the late
County Convention, who, by misplaced confi
dence, caused the nomination of these traitors,
to assemble at the Court House, in Pottsville
on Saturday, the 24th inst., and that a County
Meeting of the party be called to meet on the
same day and place, at such an hour as shall
be fixed hereafter, to express their opinions
and wishes, respectively, in reference to this
treason.
Resolved, That for a professing Democrat
to sustain or approve the conduct of these
traitors, i« cnmplici
tj Hi thei- 'iamo-t* ’ >■ ’*n*n<*’i<>na. nn*l t*
cunfe69 tha> *• ii-a.-t iie\ have f.>«en hypocrites
and enemies if rhe I'em'icratic ,-artv and its
princip l ***
Rcaolvvf. Tlmt we hereby *.*lion the Bu
ehaim.. iimt Breckinridge Giulia in the several
distrt-'t-'', in this county, toasretiibie and'uiake
kruwn rheir feelings of indignation at the
wrong -hat has been thus inflicted upon them.
J M. WETHERILL, Sec’y of Com.,
On mmi-m. revived, that the Hon. Bernard
Reilly and Col, J. M. Wetherill be appointed
a committee to *end a copy of these proceed
ing* to each Democratic member of the
Legislature.
On motion, adjourned.
EDWARD O'CONNER, President.
E. F. Weston, Sec. pro tern.
Indignation meetings have also been
held at Minersville and Tremont, and the
County Convention of August last, which
placed in nomination Lebo and Wagonseller,
will re convene on Saturday next for the pur
pose of taking action in the matter.
New* from th.e South and West.
We have two weeks later new* from Cali
fornia by the arrival at New York, on Tuesday,
of the steamship George Law, with $1,250,000
in gold. The steamer Sierra Nevada left San
Francisco on the 20th ult., for San Juan, with
a large number of recruits For Walker.
An attempt was made a few days previously
to search this steamer at her dock. The Su
preme Court of California has pronounced the
entire State debt unconstitutional excepting
$300,000. The Oourt recommends the adop
tion of the debt by the 'Legislature, and that
the question of repudiation be submitted to
the people. No transfer of stock has been
made since the decision. The people are op
posed to repudiation. Meetings have been
called in some parts of the State to give ex
pression to the publio opinion. At a meeting
held at San Francisco, a resolution was passed
pledging the redemption of the debt by the
people. The amount was three millions of
dollars. The Supreme Court also decided
that $1,500,000 scrip issued by the old corpor
ation for street assessments, «as also illegal.
A suit was also decided, brought by a pur
chaser of theeity slip property, for the recovery
of money paid to the city, the sale having
since been declared illegal. The decision is,
that although the sale was illegal, and there
fore the title reverts to the city, yet the pur
chase money must be recovered from the Land
Commissioners who made the illegal sale.
The amount in dispute is $1,200,000. The
Court has also decided that the eity is not
liable for $375,000 for a lot purchased for the
county buildings. The Court has also sanc
tioned the seizure of the Fremont Mariposa
grant for taxes, and the estate will be sold
unless the taxes are paid. A battle was
fought oh the 21st November at Puget Sound,
between the Northern Indiana and the U. S.
steamer Massachusetts. Twenty-seven In
dians were killed and twenty-one wounded.
The remainder surrendered. Only one of the
men belonging to the steamer was killed.
The revolution in Peru is progressing. 'Gen.
Yivanco, the leader of the movement, had been
received with enthusiasm at Arequipa. Sev
eral provinces have declared in his favor.—
Arica was atta«ked November 24th by the
insurgent steamers Loa and Apurianao.—
Business was completely paralyzed.
Advices have been received from San Juan
del Norte to December 22d. Captain Scott
bad quarrelled with Gen. Walker, and stopped
running his boats. Gen. Walker had seized
for his own use all the steamers on the lake
and river. A letter from Granada, dated
December Ist, states that- the Churoh of Gau
daloupe was still held by the two hundred
Yankees, who refuse to surrender at the sum
mons of. General Belloso. They were to be
attacked immediately, after which the bulk of
the allied army would proceed to co-operate
against San Juan and Virgin Bay. The loss
of the filibusters, since November 28th, is
estimated at three hundred, and that of the
allies but small. Private letters state that
the Indians of Omatepe had risen against
Walker, and had killed fifteen filibusters.—
Gen. Walker, with 150 men, had attempted
to retake Granada, but had beer*, repulsed.—
The advices from Rivas are to Deo. sth. Gen.
Walker had arrived within one league from
Rivas, and was preparing to attack Gen.
Canas, who had six hundred men, well sup
plied with provisions and munitions of war.
A few skirmishes had taken place between
the advanced guards. Gen. Walker's men
are said to be badly off, and dying daily of
dysentery. Two hundred men, hemmed in
the ohurch of Guadaloupe, were destitute of
water and subsisting on horse flesh, but nev
ertheless obstinately refused the quarter offer
ed them by Belloso. Mr. Morse, the Amerioan
Commissioner at Bogota, proceeded to Car
thagena in the British steamer.
tfhe Senate Protest.
Below is the Protest presented in the Senate,
on Wednesday last, against the election of
Simon Camerop. A similar Protest was
presented in the House of Representatives:
The undersigned, members of the Senate of
Pennsylvania, do hereby protest against the
proceedings of the Joint Convention which
met at 12 o'clock, M., on Tuesday, 13th inst.,
in the Chamber of the House of Representa
tives, for the purpose of electing a Senator to
represent this State in the Senate of the United
States, for six years, from the 4th day of
March next; and they protest against the
election of Simon Cameron, by said Conven
tion, for the following reasons, viz:
Because there was not a concurrent major
ity of each House in favor of the candidate
deolared to be elected.
Because the Senate did not comply with
the requirements of the act of the 2d day of
Ju1y,1839, entitled “An act relating to the
elections in this Commonwealth," in this, that
they did not appoint a teller, and make a
nomination of persons to fill said offiee; nor
give notice of said appointment and nomina
tions at least one day previous to the meeting
said Joint Convention.
N. B. BROWNE,
RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT
JONATHAN ELY,
W. H. WELSH,
GEO. W. BREWER,
THOS. P. KNOX,
JOSEPH LAUBACH,
HARLAN INGRAM,
HENRY FETTER,
j JAMES H. WALTON,
JOHN CRESSWELL,
G. P. STEELE,
JOHN C. EVANS,
WM. WILKINS.
The New Coins.
The Daily News of Friday has the following
in reference to the new coinage bill which, it
is expected will shortly become a law :
As will be-seen by the telegraphic report of
the proceedings had in Congress, yesterday,
the new coinage bill which provides for a re
coinage of the old Spanish quarters, &c., which
are circulating among us, and which also
authorizes the issue of the new cent, composed
of parts of copper and nickle, was passed by
the House of Representatives. The bill goes
back to the Senate for concurrence in the
amendments made by the House, after which
it will, doubtless, be at once sigaed by the
President and become a law. We congratu
late our readers sincerely on the passage of
this bill, as it will make a revolution in the
way of small money which cannot fail to be
of the most gratifying character to those whose
business it is to handle it. Another and a
very important feature in this bill is that it
uses a metal which is produced from the mines
of our own State in greater abundance than
in any other sectioa of the country, and so
far as the nse of nickle enters into the coin
age of the new penny, the oounty of La&oasttr
must be very considerably I»ene&tted.
<Jitt ito coturf tmm
Wasd Muting*.—The Democrats of the
Cttj frr* roqueered to meet at tba following placm, on Sat
urday evening next, the 24th Inst, between the honr* of
ft and S o’clock, to settle candidate* to be supported at the
ensuing election on the 3rd of February, for the office* of
Mayor, High Constable, City Oonstablee, Aseeeeor, Assistant
Aysnon, Aldermen, and Balect and Common Connells.—
At said meeting, each Ward will appoint three delegatee to
meet the same evening, at 9 o'clock, at Meeeenkop’a Hotel,
East King street, to reoelvt aod add up the return* for
Mayor and High Constable, and to detlar* the nnmlnsss
PLACES or MEETING:
N. W. Ward—Trgut’s Hotel, W. Orange itteet.
S. W. Ward—Tltrpatrick’s Hotel, 8. Queen street.
N. E. Ward—sHTtjrJs Hotel, fi. Chesnnt street.
£. E. Ward—Watkins’ Hotel, 8. Queen street.
BY ORDHR OF THE WARD OOMMITTBES.
County Coxkittii Mcitino.— The Demo
•ratio County Committee met, agreeably to the call of the
Chairman, at Shober’e Hotel, North Queen street. In this
otty, on Wednesday the 14th Inst. The following members
were present:
H. B. Swarr, City, Chairman; S. W. Ward, James Peo
ples; N. W. Ward, J.- B. Kauffman; West Lampeter, Samuel
Long; Ooneitoga, John Kolp; Conor, John H. Smith; Don
egal East, Jacob Spleee; Elisabeth, J. H. MeCausland; West
Hempfleld; John XI. Weller; East Hsmpfleld. Henry Hoff
man; Upper Leacoek, Dr. A. 8. Bare; Manhelm Twp„ Ben
jamin Eby; Hanheim Bor., A. J. Eby, Penn, David M.
Bberiy Providence, John Tweed; Marietta, Nelson Maloney;
Strasbnrg Bor., W. T. MoPhafl; Paradise, Dr. J. J. Btrawn.
On motion, Dr. A. S. Bar* was appointed Secretary.
The following resolution was then offered by J. B. Kemff
mas, and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Democracy be requested to assemble
in the several Wards of the City, and Boroughs and Town
ships of the County, on Satcxdat thj 7th or Fnacaar,
then and there to elect not less than three nor more than
five delegates to represent said Wards, Boroughs and
Townships in a County Convention, to be held at the Hotel
of Emanuel Shober. la the City of Lancaster, on Wxdku&at
tii lira or Vbbxuaxt, for the purpose of electing six del
egatee te represent the Democracy of the County of Lan
caster in the Annual State Convention, to be held at
Harrisburg, ou Monday the 2nd day of March next.
On motion, adjourned.
H. B. 6WARR, Chairman.
A. 8. Bari, Secretary.
Lancaster County in Account with thi
Statu Txxasuxxx.— Prom the Report of the Auditor General
exhibiting the financial condition of the State for the flsoal
year ending November 30 th, 185 ft, we find the the whole
amount of revenue received by the State Treasurer for the
year, was $6,578,240 S 3. Of this amount Lancaster county
paid oDe hundred and fifty-five thousand, eight hundred
and fifteen dollars and. ninety-five cents, as follows:
TAX OB HANK DIYIDIBPS.
Lancaster Bank % 10,919 66
Mount Jey Savings’ Institution 49 99
Tax on COBPORATIO* STOCKS.
Lancaster Bank 4,021 48
I’ladk Road Company 73 00
Columbia and Washington Turnpike Company 23 00
Lancaster and Litis do 120 00
Lancaster and Elisabethtown do 93 00
Lancaster and Susquehanna do 61 00
Inland Insurance Company 196 47
Lancaster Gas Company 310 00
MISCSLUXIODI.
Tax on Real and Personal Property 106,-723 S 3
Tav«rn Licenses 4,162 09
Retailers of Merchandise 4,588 39
Pedlers 45 00
Brokers 95 62
Distillers and Brewers 242 23
Billiard Saloons and Bowling Alleys • 232 00
Patent Medicines.
Pamphlet Laws.
Militia Tax.
Millers’ Tax.
Tax'on Writs, Wills, Deeds, Ac.
Tax on certain offices
Collateral Inheritance Tax
Tax on Loans, (city,)
*156,816 96
Duriug'the same period the county has dmvß out of the
State Treasury, as follows:
For Pensions and Gratuities 4 62* 66
For Common Schools 8,644 45
Abatement of State Tax
Leaving a difference, in favor of the county, of one hun
dred and forty-one thousand, seven hundred and eighty*
five dollars and twenty-five ceute.
From the official atatemeut submitted by the Auditor
General, we learn that the amount of Relief Notes In cir
culation, at the present time, Is as follows:
Old issues * 41,990
Re-Issues.... 178,56 ft
Total amount In circulation *220,666
Of this amount there are, in clrenlatlen, of the
Farmers’ Bank of Lancaster, old Issue * 3,112
“ “ “ re-isine 4,611
Lancaster Bank, old iune 441
“ “ re-issue 32,529
Lancaster County Bank, old issue 082
“ “ “ re-issue 1,301
Columbia Bank, old Issue 737
“ reissue 246
Total amountfin circulation, issued by Banks in Lan
caster county *43,698
Lecture at Marietta. —The eitizen* of
Marietta will have a rleh literary treat on Thursday eve
ning next. Our young friend Samuil H. Rxtsolds, Esq.,
has consented to deliver a lecture in that boiough on that
evening. His subject will be, “Oar National Literature.”
Mr. R. Is a gentleman of fin* attainments, and onr friends,
in that section of the county, In listening to him oould not
■pend an hour more profitably or agreeably.
Mayoralty. —lt will be seen by a card in
another column that Mayor Zimmerman offers himself as
s candidate for re-election, subject to Democratic rules
The Mayor baa made a most faithful aud efficient offleer.
Ex-Mayor Carpenter offers himself as s candidste, also
subject to Democratic usages.
Oscar C. M. Caines, Esq., will be a candidate, subject to
ths Democratic nomination. Both Messrs. Carpenter and
Caines are good business men, and either would make
make an excellent Chief Magistrate..
N. W. Ward Alderman.— We understand
that 8. G. Muasia, Esq., the efficient Mayor’s Clerk, will
present hlmself&s candidate for Alderman In the N. W,
Ward, subject to Democratic rules. Boa is a hard-working,
intelligent and active Democrat, and we know of no one
on whom Aldermanio honor could be more worthily con*
ferred.
Park Benjamin’s Lmctdki.— There was
quite a large audience, at Fulton Hall, on Tuesday evening
last to hear Park Benjamin on “The Humorous Traits of
Americans.” It was one of the richest intellectual treats
which those who were present, have enjoyed for a long
time. Mr. B. understands human nature thoroughly, and
Is a most •aptivatlDg writer and speaker.
Tremendous Snow Storm.— On Sunday
last, after on# of the coldest mornings v# #v#r experienced,
snow commenced falling about 12 o’clock, and continued
without intermission until the same hour yesterday. It
was accompanied with a strong north-east wind, which
drifted the snow to such a degree as to render the streets
and road* almost impassable. We recollect no snow-storm
quite equal to it in severity since the memorable one of
January 20, 1831. The wind was still high and the mow
continued to drift at the time our paper went to presi on
yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock. No mail from the east
or west need he expected for several days, as it will he
impossible to clear the railroad track for the cars to run so
long as the drifting continues.
A “Black Republican" Gathering. —A
“Cttuens’ Meeting,” alias Black Republican gathering, was
held at Lechler’s Hotel, East King street, on Saturday eve
ning last, for the purpose of making preparatory arrange,
meats for the approaching Municipal election. The prom
inent actors in the affair teemed to be Col. Samuel H.
Price, and Messrs. Csdwell, Elchelberger and Black. Very
little appears to have been done, judging from the report ef
the Inland Dally of yesterday, except to appoint a Com.
mltteo who are to report to an adjourned meeting on the
evening of the 28th Inst.
January Court. —The January term of the
Court commenced on yesterday—but to few Jurors were
in attendance, in consequence of the snow-storm, that very
little business was done.
Valuable Properties.— Several valuable
and desirable properties will be found advertised la this
paper—smongst others, the beautiful residence of David
Longenecker, Esq., one mile east of this eity, adjoining the
railroad, known as “Hardwicks.”
Lancaster Countt Patents. —ln the list
of Patents granted at Washington, last week, we find the
following:
Imac 3.'Roland, 01 West Earl township, for an improved
method of banging Farm Oates.
Augustus Stoner, of Mount Joy, for Improved mode of
tightening Felloes in Wheels.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Cuuta Cocxtt, January 12,1857.
In relation to the many applications that will be made
for bank charters to the present Legislatureof Pennsylvania,
the Oovernor has intimated in his message that be will
give his official sanction to such institutions, where the
legitimate buainesi of the neighborhood require additional
banking capital for the |necessary conducting of eueh
business, and where they labor under many in conveniences
and are at great expense of time and money, In obtaining
the requisite accommodation from Banks for such purposes.
Now, in a Committee on Banks, appointed to investigate
the claims of the various localities, from which petiUons
will be presented to the Legislature, would It not be rea
sonable to suppose that they would ask for the statistics
of each place, to examine and see what their claims are
founded upon, for the privilege asked. Those who have
petitioned from honest motives, and ean show just claims
to additional backing privileges, should certainly have the
preference; but, bow will the applicants appear In an in
vestigation of this kind, who have resorted to intrigue for
the purpose of accomplishing their ends. In the first
place, It would show conclusively that they had no just
claims to the privileges asked, or they, would not resort to
such means.
It cannot be viewed in any other light, where the statis
tics of a neighborhood are taken In which there is large
manufacturing and mercantile business done and from one
to two millions of dollars, employed, and make use of It
to ha re,a charter granted and a bank located at the ex
treme verge of such a neighborhood; or, where the actual
manufacturing interest would be in no way benefltted.
Would it not be just and proper to reject applications of
the kind, on the ground that if they resort to ‘intrigue,”
their object would not be the Interest of the community at
large, or the just and legitimate business of the neighbor
hood; but, on the contrary, would be a reckless and ruin
ous speculation by which the few would he benefltted and
the many hopelessly ruined. . , . „
There are other causes for which, I think, applications
should be rejected. For lnstanee r there Is a Bank much
needed In a certain locality and there are different opinions
in relation to the most suitable point where such Institu
tion should be located. Now, suppose different sections
should appoint committees for the purpose of conferring
together, and after .appointing a time and place for meeting
and each party entering into a mutual agreement not to
move In the matter until after they had conferred together;
but before the day arrives for such ecnfsrenee one party,
regardless of honor and agreements entered Into, or the
interests of the community at large, takes advantage of
time before the conferees meet to have a bill presented to
the Senate, asking a charter for a Bank to be located at a
point where they san show no tlalms of any weight for
such an Institution.
I hope the applications from Cheater county will be
closely scrutinized In this respect, and a charter granted
only where it la actually needed. For any sane man would
say there are net Ursa wasted In tUi
IT. LOUIS OOEUIFOIDIIOB.
OdA, Ice and Snovs—Acddenit and Sudden Deaths—XeHsr
Troupe—Eighth of January—Meeting ef the National
‘ Democracy —T he Benton Jtuiy shoving Ouir Odor*—
Boned Democrats boxing them—The Benton and X. N-
Parties Uniting—Dr. Chat. Ldb IHrterf jfi'irWlrmervi.
<fc.
It ha* been lntenaely cold during the whole of the past
week, and everything Is fro sen «p a* solid a* a rock. Wo
have had on* or two slight sprinkling* of snow, and
ground Is now white with it. Tb* river at this point te
*tm open, but thiek, harry floating 100 fills the stream from
shore to there. The terry boat «tQI manage* to cross.—
Th* tall reads North of us nr* blookod up with snow—4o
talning the trains, delaying th* mails, passenger* and
freight
A sad accident occurred at th* People's Theatre a tew
evenings sine*. Miss Milly Peters, one of the rfrrowwsr of
th* establishment whilst paming one of th* side lights,
her clothing took fire, and In a second was enveloped In
gentleman on the stag* immediately threw hi*
her and saved her from a most terrible death
and l£JaU probability th* theatre and a number of lives in
the great rush for th* door. As It was, th* shrieks of th*
(offering girl, and the running to and fro behind, the
scenes, alarmed th* andienee, and a general rush was made
ter th* main entrance—and lush a Jamming and eeramb
ling was never witnessed in that or any ether hona*. No
on* of the audtene* was injured, but Miss Peters te badly
burned, a greet portion of ber clothing having been burnt
completely off. There wen ever 2,000 people in th* bouse
at the time.
Th# Keller Troupe have now been exhibiting their beau
tiful Tableaux two weeks, and not lee* than 26,000 *f ear
oitisens have been t« see them. They remain on* week
longer.
A child, two end a half year* old, belonging to Mr* Rog
ers, residing in this county, in playing witk a bnach of
match**, ignited them and eet fir* to its clothes, and before
th# little fellow was discovered and any assistant* coulAf\
be rendered, he was in th* last agonies ef a most
death. Let this serve es e warning to parents in allowing
children to play with matches.
An old and well known oltlxen by the name of James
Powers was found dead la his bed, a tew sveninp since.
Mrs. Ann Garnty fell deed a day or two sino* from a stroke
of apoplexy.
Th# anniversary of th# Battle of New Orleans was cele
brated her* by th* military, who mad* a handsome ap
pearance. Th* National Democracy also held their annual
meeting, which Is usual for them to do oa the glorious
■lghth. Tb* Benton men wonld not unite with these, but
met et another place. The latter were addressed by F. P
Blair. Jr. Resolutions denouncing Gov. Pries, and on* or
two Benton men. —(who saw their treachery and left
them,)—end still adhering to 001. Thoe. H. Beaten, and
recommending him to th* Legislature as on* of th* Sena
tors with one or two resolves that they were ik 4m favor of Frt*
White Labor I '—were read and adopted. Whilst thsy were
being read, considerable hissing and dissatisfaction was ob
servable In the audience. To take it alt in all. It was th#
Blackest gathering we ever saw convened In this dty, an 4%
regretted the participation In It ef some of our warmest
and most valued friend*. We, as a National Buchanan
Democrat, repudiate and denoone* it as a first attempt at
Stack Republicanism In our city.
Capt. Frost end Mr. Rogers, th* two State Senator* from
this eounty—sleeted by th* Benton party—have left them,
since, their recent attempt at J«ff#r*oa city to unite with
th* Know Nothings and the east-out from every reepecteble
party. These resolutions denounced those gentlemen as
renegades, traitors to ths cans*, Ac., bat I am most happy
to remark the resolves were indignantly hissed by th#
friends and admirers of tb# gentlemen to for the
course they pursued ia deserting such a dan. W* are told
that before the Legislature adjourns there will be more of
the members leaving ths rotten veeeel.
We know not whether Col. Benton sanctions th* pro'
seeding! of this meetiug or not. bat arc inclined to ths be
lief that b* does not. Col. Benton shoald deaonne* It, for
the unwarrantable use of his name. If Old Bullion would
have cut loose from this eo-eelted Beaten party long ago,
he would now be In th* United States Senate. His diffi
culties and adverse circumstances which now surround
him, bars been brought about by men seeking power and
place, by coupling his name and reputation with a party
prvfcsrissg on# thing and doing another. Th* so-called
Benton party have told themselves to ths Know Nothing*,
and ths best men of their party are leaving them—lnstance
th* withdrawal of Capt. Frost and Mr. Rodgers.^
*14,030 00
Got. Polk was Inaugurated last week, and his Message
has been published. It Is * dignified, Democratic doea
meat; and th* New Goternor Is told to be th* most popu
lar man at th* Capital—so acknowledged by men of all
parties.
To-day has been fixed for the election of tw* Senator*—
who ifxtj will be, no on* can positively assart. But on*
thing ia evident, neither 001. Benton nor Mr. Geyer will be
chosen—Col. Benton’s professed frlsnda killed him ea
Thureday night as “dead as a hammer.”
. Dr. Chas. Lelb, lately elected Clerk of the Illinois Qouee
of Representatives, aocompanisd by F. Preston, Esq*
Member of the Honse, paid ns a visit en Saturday, ths
legislature having adjourned till*Monday. W# never saw
ths Doctor look better. Th* following w* eopy from the
Springfield, Ills., correspondence ef th* St. Louis BipnUi
non:
Next earn* th# balloting for th# Clerkship. Ths Repub
licans pot cp E. T. Bridges, ofWhlteslde oounty, t*e Dem
ocrats nominated Dr. Chas. Leib ef Chicago, editor of th*
Campaign Bugle, and familiarly known la th# Second
District as the “Pennsylvania Dutchman.” H* was also
sleeted on the first ballot.
Ths vote stood:
Lelb, 68; Bridges. 19; scattering, 6.
I am told that Dr. Lelb did good service in the resent
eanvass as a public speaker, addressing tb# people both Im
German and English. He is thoroughly qualified for the
post, and Is withal a very clever gentlemen.
Ths Doctor left Isst evening for Springfield, te easome
hia duties as Clerk.
Prior to the Presidential election the K. N.’s claimed
Texas as ons of thslr sertaln States. What Is ths rssult
Ur. Fillmore roesived majorities In only Jive of the 116
counties, and these majorities added together make but U
votes! Prodigious 1 Th# official vote of Texas, as received
at th# State Department' Qp to the time of th* meeting of
the Sectoral College, Dee. Sd, was—Buchanan, 60,642 ;
Fillmore, 16,681; Buchanan’s majority, 16,201. Had the
entire Itate been returned —(six eonntlss not reported,but
which gave about 2000 Bnchaaan majority)—th* actual
Democratie majority would be IT,OOO. There were about
60,000 vote* polled—6,ooo ' greater than ever before. Mr.
Buchanan, carries the State' more than two to one.
Th# official vote of Virginia is as follows: Bnehanan,
90,652; Fillmore, 60,132; Fremont 286; scattering. 45.
Mr. Buchanan’s maj. over Fillmore, 30,220, and yet 6,Sftfi
votes leu were cut than at the lut Governor’s election.
Hr. W. N. Haldeman, editor of th# Louisville Cburier,
was presented by the old line Whigs and Democrats with
a beautiful service of silver plate, bearing the following
suitable Inscription:
BY THB DEMOCRACY AND OLD LINE WHIG 6,
W. N. HALDEMAN, Esq.,
As a testimonial of his Independent and fsariass sour*#
In the late political eanvass.
Louismu, Jajhjaxt 1,1857.
The value of steamboat! lost and damaged by snags da •
ring the pest year, on the Mississippi river is, $338,160.
and the cargoes-lost by tbs same agsney Is $284,104-—ma
king a total of $628,864.
As the mail train from this eity to Tineeanca, was pee
ling over the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, on the 6th
inst., the engine run over and killed two deer. This Is the
first Instance of the .kind on record. The deer were picked
up and taken to Vlneennnes.
There are two or three Theatres In New Orleans, and the
Charity Hospital receives $5,0000 annually from each of
them. They make the theatres there assist in providing
comforts for the sick and poor.
A duel was recently fought near Napoleon, Ark~, between
Dr. McCullough, and Mr. Mason, a merchant of Napoleon.
The former was wounded slightly, and the lattar, It is sup
posed, fktally. How pleasant it must be to stand up and
let a man deliberately shoot at you.
The population of Wisconsin la now about 700,000. lowa
has nearly 600,000. The population of Indianapolis, lul.
is now 20,000—nine years ago it was only 4,000.
It is In contemplation to establish a new Bank, with a
capital of $200,000, at Cairo, Ilia.
Col. Thoe. F. Hunt, Assistant Quartermaster General ef
the U. States Army, died at N ew Orleans on the 22d ult
Hon. Joel B. Bassett, >aya the 8C Anthony (Mlune. T.)
Republican, last week told a parcel of real estate, consist,
lag of 140 acres at the mouth of Basset?# Creek, Minne
apolis, for s24o per acre. W. D. Garland and Alex.
Moore are the purchasers. The front of the timet is a part
of the town plot. The tract was pre-empted a year ago
last spring at $1 25 per acre.
Here la a fortune made in a year. A New York Company
of whom Joeeph Baron Palm Is President, has bought eut
the Minnesota Mining Company for $lOO,OOO.
Coal was selling in Lonlsvllle on Saturday week at 46e
per boshel, with a limited supply In the market In this
city It ranges from 14 to 16e. per bushel.
Mr. John Dirigee, a native of Wilmington, Del., died
Dubuque, lowa, on the 10th ult, in the fiftieth year of his
Ur. Ira U. Blessing was married on the Oth last, to Mias
Bffima Dora Wiescman, both, we believe, of Innesster, Fa-
We tee It stated that a lady arrived at Covington,
the other day, with her husband and thirty two children.
She was about sixty years ef age, but looked young an 4
hearty. She Is the mother ef all and all are living. If this
can be beat we are extremely desirous of receiving the In
formation.
CußA.r-The Zanesville Aurora gives the
following forciblo reason for the acquisition of
Cuba: “We pay $19,000,000 per annum of a
tax on Bagar —good sugar—the beat of sugar.
Now, the Island of Cuba is worth about $120,-
000,000, but suppose we were to giro $190,-
000,000 for that Island. You see, we eould
pay for it in ten yeare, with the sugar tax
alone, and the beauty of the calculation ie,
that at the end of those ten years we need
have no more sngar tax, plenty of sugar, and
a very fine Zeiand to boot. '*
The Dliunlon CoßYentlon.
The Disunion Contention met here to-day,
to disease the question of a separation of the
free from the slave States.
The Rev. T. W. Higginson, Lloyd Garrison,
Wendell Philips, Abby Kelly and other rival
female notorieties, are present.
A Nxw P, M.—Dr. John Wallace has been
twolnM f- X- et Boath. HsrolHga, ta this esuatf
la ,Ims sf/eba Mettflt removefe
tr. Lena, Jan. 12,1U7.
naiitnm,
OLD GUARD.
Worcester, Jan. 15,