INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTRIAN. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. A. SANDERSON* Associate. LANCASTER, PA., JULY 28, 1857. circulation; aioo COPIES I Subscription Price, $2,00 per annum. - DEMOCRATIC STATU TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Lycoming County. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER: NIMROD STRICKLAND, Chester County. FOR JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT. WILLIAM STRONG, Birks County. JAMES THOMPSON, Erie County. Intelligencer for the Campaign. Being desirous of placing our paper within the reach of all who wish to understand t£e true issues involved in the coming Gubernatorial contest, we offer it at the following rates; commencing at any time during the present month, and continuing until the first of November, or until we get the official returns of the State election : Single Copy, Ten Copies,.. And an extra copy to the getter up of a clubof ten. All orders must invariably be accompanied with the cash. Post Blasters and others will please act as our agents for getting up clubs. A Characteristic Trick. It is stated that Wilmot has resigned his Judgeship. We hope this is so—but why didn't he resign sooner, so as to give the peo ple of his district an opportunity, at the ensu ing October election, of filling the office for the period of ten years? The answer is easily given. He has very little, if auy, hope of an election to the Gubernatorial chair—conse quently next year, when the people are con stitutionally authorized to act, (which can only be done when the resignation.takes place three calendar months before a general elec tion,) Wilmot will again step forward .and be elected to the Judicial office! Had he resigned sooner, an election would have been held this year, and his successor commissioned for the full term. As it is, Governor Pollock will now appoint, which appointment only holds good until after the election of 1858. A pretty shrewd trick on the part of the Black Republican candidate for Governor, and alto gether characteristic of the foul party which he represents. The Purchase Ratified -The vote of the Stockholders of the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, upon the ratification of the purchase of the Main Line of the Public Works of the State which had been ,in prog ress some days, resulted in the almost unani mous acceptance of the purchase. The vote representing the required majorityof the Stock, stands 143,546 shares in favor of the purchase to 605 shares against it, and the Company will now proceed without delay we suppose to take possession of the line. It is understood that the Union Canal Company are negotiating with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for the purchase of the line of the State Canal from Columbia to Pittsburgh, recently sold by the State, and.that capitalists largely interest ed in the Union Canal and the Schuylkill Navigation are disposed, if the line can be obtained at a fair rate, to invest largely in the effort to make this water route to the West efficient and productive, as w r e have little doubt it can be. The negotiations, as yet have assumed no positive shape, but it is understood to be the desire of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to keep the whole line open, and their propositions as to terms and the regula tions in reference to freight passing over the mountains, &c, are understood to be quite liberal. The Company desire, it is said, to devote their whole energies to making their now continuous, line of railway from Philadel phia to Pittsburgh in the highest degree pro ductive and efficient in meeting the require ments of trade and travel, and it is not doubt ed that in their hands this great central route will be able to defy all competition and realise the design of its projectors. The Main Line, it is understood, will pass into the hands of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, on Saturday next, the Ist of August. Attorney General Franklin, Injustice to this gentleman, whose conduct in entering a nol. pros, in the Commercial Bank case, has been severely, but justly, as we think, criticised by a number of leading news papers—amongst others by the Philadelphia Argus, whose article we copied last week—-we would state that the allegations made in that article we did not construe as affecting bison'- vate character or standing for integrity as a cit izen—but merely the wrong done to the com munity, in the transaction referred to, as a public officer of the Commonwealth. Mr. F.’a character for integrity we have never heard called in question, nor would we for'one mo ment think of doing so ; but that his leniency to the Commercial Bank, by stepping between it and the violated law of the Commonwealth, was a gross mistake, to -say the least of it, is as clear as the sun at noon-day, and the reasons he filed are far from being a satisfactory apology for his course in the matter. Hon. «J. S. Black. '*.■ We cut the following just remarks respect-" ing this distinguished gentleman, from the Bock Islander of a late date. Scarcely any language can express too strongly the high estimation in which Judge Black is held by all who have had the opportunity of knowing his great merits. -We confidently anticipate for him a future of even more honorable dis' tinction than that which has heretofore marked his career : < “Judge Black has in a few months made for himself a national reputation, by his clear, powerful and masterly opinions upon the points of law which have been submitted to him for decision. Judge Black has not the multifarious acquirements of his distinguished predecessor. But, as has been well said of him, there is nothing worth knowing which he does not know; and with his vast stock off legal and statesmanlike lore, he has a most vigorous and brilliant intellect, and* is master of a manly and weighty style of writing and of oratory. “Take him for all in all,” we simply rate him as the inferior of no man who has held the office of Attorney General, and in all those qualities which constitute true greatness, the decided superior of his versatile predecessor. Tile August elections. During the first week in August the annual elections will take place in six of the States, as follows : Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, August 3 I Texas, do 3 North Carolina, do 3 I Tennessee, - Alabama is to choose State officers and seven members of Congress ; Texas, State officers and two members of Congress ; Tennessee, a Governor and ten members ; North Carolina, eight members ; and Missouri, a Governor to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Trusten Polk, who was elected to the Uni ted States Senate, and a member of Congress in the Third District in place of Japies S. Green, who was elected to the vacant seat of Missouri in the United States Senate. An Old Infidel.— The Hon. J. R. Giddings has written a characteristic letter to the Tri ■ bunt, in which he says that the “ God of Abra ham” is not his God ; that he despises him and holds him in contempt; that he is an idol or the deity of the slave holders, and they are right in worshipping him. He (Giddmgs) don’t worship nor believe in the God of the Bible, but has ene of his own—that is, an anti-slavery God—a nigger, we suppose, some odious creatnre who winks at pillage and theft. -Seriouly, though is it not disgraceful that a widely eiroulated newspaper should give ourrenoy to this old driveler’s blasphemy ? Wllmot and Cousin Sally Billiard* Mr. Wilmot has written a letter to 1 some Know Nothing Council who had interrogated him aB to his views in regard to the principles of the Dark Lantern order. The letter addrsßed to him was dated May sth, 1857—but he never found time to answer it until the 10th of July—more than two months having elapsed! The letter wires in and wires out, and is evidently intended to catch Know Not hing gudgeons. His production is about a column and a half in length, and it is so worded as to mean anything or nothing, except that he evidently wants to get up a religious crusade by arraying Protestant against Cath olic, and vice versa. The Philadelphia News, the leading American organ in the State, is down on the letter with a will, and says that it was written to gull and deceive unsuspect ing and weak minded Americans, without whose votes he cannot hope to be elected.”— That paper winds up its comments as follows : It is not our purposenow to treat this letter in a tone of seriousness. No one who sits down to read it can rise from its perusal with out having the story of Cousin Sally Billiard, given by Barton in his Cyclopedia of Wit and Humor , brought to his recollection. The let ter of Wilmot is in perfect character with the scene in a Court of Justice in North Carolina; as given in that story, and we therefore pro ceed to relate it for the benefit and amusement of those who may not have read it. A beardless \ disciple of Themis rises, and thus addresses : the Court: — “ May it please your Worships, i and you Gentlemen of the Jury, since it has ■ been my fortune (good or bad, I will not say) ' i to exercise myself in legal disquisitions, it has I never befallen me to be obliged to prosecute ■ so direful, marked, and'malicious an assault— a more wilful, violent, dangerous battery— and finally, a more diabolical breach of the peace, has seldom happened in a civilized country; and I dare say, it has seldom been your duty to pass upon one so shocking to benevolent feelings, as this which took place over at Captain Rice’s, in this county. But you will hear from the witnesses.” ; The witnesses being sworn, two or three ; were examined and deposed—one said that he j heard the noise, but did not see the fight; \ another that he saw the row, but didn't know 1 who struck first; and a third that he was very • drunk, and couldn't say much about the; akrimmage. Lawyer Chops l —“ lam sorry gentlemen, to have occupied your.time.with the stupidity of the witnesses examined. It arises, gentlemen, altogether from misapprehension on my part. Had I known ae I now do, that I had a wit ness in attendance who was well acquainted with all the circumstances of the case, and who was able to make himself clearly under stood by the Court and Jury, I should not so long have trespassed upon your time and patience. Come forward, Mr. Harris, and be sworn,” So forward comes the witness, a fat, shuffy old man, a “ leetle " corned, and took his oath with an air. Chops—Harris, we wish you to tell about the riot that happened the other day at Cap tain Ilices’s; and as a good bit of time has already been wasted in circumlocution, we wish you to be compendious, and at the same time as explicit as possible. Harris—Adzactly, (giving the lawer a know ing wink, and at the same time clearing his throat) Captain Rice, he gin a treat, and Cousin Sallie Dilliard, she came over to our house and axed me if my wife she moutn’t go. I told Cousin Sally Dilliard that my wife was poorly, being as how she had a touch of the rheumatics in the hip, and the big swamp was in thefroad, and the big swamp was up, for there had been a heap of rain lately ; but, howsomever, as it was she, Cousin Sally Dil li ird, my wife she mout go. Well, then Cousin Sally Dilliard axed me if Mose he moutn’t go? I told Cousin Sally Dilliard, that he was foreman of the crap, and the crap was smartly in grass; but, howsomever, as it was she, Cousin Sally Dilliard, Mose mout go. Chops—ln the name of common sense, Mr. Harris, what do you mean by this rigmarole? Harris—Captain Rice, he gin a treat, and Cousin Sally Dilliard, she came over to our house and axed me if my wife she moutn’t go ? I told Cousin Sally Dilliard— Chops—Stop, sir, if you please ; we don’t want to hear anything about your Cousin Sally Dilliard—tell us about the fight at Rice’s. Harris—Well, I will sir, if you will let me. Chops—Well, sir, go on. Harris—Well, sir, Captain Rice ho gin a treat, and Cousin Sally Dilliard, she came over to our house and axed me if my wife she moutn’t go— Chops—There it is.again. Witness please tO Stop. Harris—Well, sir, what do you want? Chops—l want to know about the fight, and you mus T t not proceed in this impertinent story. Do you know anything about the matter be fore the Court ? Harris—To be sure I do. Chops—Well, go on and tell it, and nothing else. Harris—Well, Captain Rice he gin a treat— Chops—This is intolerable. May it please the Court, I move that this witnesss be com mitted for a contempt; he seems to be trifling with this Court. Court—Witness you are now before a Court of Justice, and unless you behave yourself in a more becoming manner; you will be sent to jail; so begin and tell what you know about the fight at Captain Rice’s. Harris—(Alarmed.) Well, gentlemen Cap tain Rice he gin a treat, and Cousin Sally Dilliard— Chops—l hope the witness may be ordered into custody. Court— [After deliberating.) Mr. Attorney, the Court is of the opinion that we may save time by telling witness to go on in his own Harris, with your story, point. r gentlemen. Well Capt. Rice gin a treat, and Cousin Sally Dilliard she came over to our house and axed me if my wife she moutn’t go? I told Cousin Sally Dilliard that my wife she was poorly, being as how she had the rheumatics in the hip, and the big swamp was up; but, howsomever, as it was she, Cousin Sally Dilliard. my wife she mout go. . Well, Cousin Sally Dilliard then axed me if Mose he mountn’t go? I told Cousin Sally Dilliard as how Mose—he was. the foreman of the crap, and the crap was smartly in grass—but, howsomever, as it was she, Cousin Sally Dilliard, Mose he mout go. So they goes on together, Mose, my wife, and Cousin Sally Dilliard, and come to the big swamp, and it was up, as I was telling you ; but being as how there was a log across the big swamp, Cousin Sally Dilliard and Mose, like genteel folks, they walked the log; but my wife, like a darned fool, hoisted her clothes and waded through, and that’s all I know about it. Judge Wilmot must have had the witness, Mr. Harris, in his mind’s eye when he wrote his letter, or he could have never produced so inimitable a counterpart of Cousin Sally Dil liard. Are Negroes Citizens. On the 18th of December, 1851, Mr. Clay introduced a resolution in the United States Senate, in regard to the Anthony Burns fugi tive case, in Boston, where a mob of negroes sought to prevent the execution of the law.— He is thus reported, in the Congressional Globe : “ But, sir,” said Mr. Clay, “ this is not all. By whom was that mob impelled onward? By our own race ? No, sir, by negroes ; by African descendants ; by people who possess no part, as I contend, in our political system : and the question which arises is, whether we shall have law; and whether the majesty of the Government shall be maintained or not; whether we shall have a government of white or black men in the cities of this country.” Now, if “ African descendants have no .part in our political system,” how can they he citizens of the United States ? Mr. Clay was not attacked for expressing such opinions, tor, at the time they were uttered, nobody hut a few ultras doubted their judicial and consti tutional correctness. £©- The Democratic State Central Commit tee met at the Merchants’ Hotel, Phiadelphia, on Friday evening last. We have not yet seen the proceedings in print, but understand an address, prepared by Mr. Buckalew, the Chairman, was adopted and directed to be published. We shall insert it in our next issue. The Augusta, (Geo.,) Despatch says that, new superfine flour i 9 selling at Sparta Hancock County, at $5 per barrel, and tto market is dull at that.” Rebellion In Eanißi»*OoTeriior Walker’i Proclamation. The Abolitionists in Kansas are in an open State qf rebellion against the government. — The proclamation of Gov. Walker, which we give below, addressed to the people of Lawrence, explains the character of this law less and unconstitutional proceeding, and warns them of the fearful consequences of a persistence in their rebellion. He declares that the laws of the Territory will be executed. The pledge of the General Government and his oath of office will oblige him to employ the whole force of that Government, if necessary, to carry out the pledge and enforce the laws. TO THE PEOPLE OE LAWRENCE PROCLAMATION. Leavenworth, July 15, 1857. I have learned that a considerable number of the citizens of Lawrence, in this Territory, have adopted, as they claim, by a popular vote, a charter for their local government. A copy of that charter has been placed in my hands; upon comparing which with that granted by the territorial legislature last win ter, I find that they differ intentionally in many essential particulars. The new charter, then, is set up, not only without any authority of law, but in direct and open defiance of an act of the territorial legislature on the same subject. On this point your committee, whose views have been adopted by you, make the following statement: “ Under ordinary circumstances the more regular method of proceeding would be to ob tain a charter from the territorial authorities. As the territorial government, however, in no sense represents the people of Kansas, was not elected by them, and can have no right to legislate for them, we cannnot accept of a charter at its hands. And, as the State gov ernment has not, as yet, deemed it advisable to proceed to the organization of local and municipal governments, we cannot obtain a charter from it. There is, left us only the alternative of a charter springing from the people, or a continuance in our un organized condition. “ Under those circumstances, you have seen fit to instruct us to present a charter, having discussed its provisions iu a preliminary as semblage, and now propose to submit it to a full vote of the people-for approval or rejec tion.” It will be perceived that the authority of the territorial government is here distinctly denied; and, whilst that of the so-called State govern ment is acknowledged, it is conceded that no charter has been granted by them. Indeed it is a tact that, although this so-called State government has in itself no legal existence or authority, yet you asked and failed to receive a charter. Under these circumstances, you have pro ceeded to establish a government for the city of Lawrence, in direct defiance of the territo rial government, and denying its existence or authority. You have granted to this city government authority to elect a mayor and board of aldermen, city assessors, treasurer, justices of the peace, city marshal, &c. You have granted'to the mayor and board of aider men most extensive powers, including the right to levy and collect taxes upon real and personal property within the limits of thooity, whether belonging to residents or non-resi dents, and all the other powers usuallyincident to a city government. You have imposed upou all these officers the duty of taking an oath to support this so-called State constitu tion, thus distinctly superseding, so far as in your power, the territorial government created by the Congress of the United States. You have caused these proceedings to be printed in hand-bill form, and have distributed them, as I am informed, throughout the territory, with the view to incite the other cities, towns, and counties of Kansas to establish insurrectionary governments, thereby placing the people of this Territory, so far as in your power, in open conflict with the government of the United States. The more conservative portion of your own party having induced your Topeka legislature to reject the laws urged by you creating mu nicipal governments, you have, even in defi ance of their authority, which you profess to acknowledge, proceeded to create such a government for Lawrence, and are now urging other localities to pursue a similar course.— Your evident purpose is to thus involve the whole Territory in insurrection, and to renew the scenes of bloodshed and civil war. Upon you, then, must rest all the guilt and respon sibility of this contemplated revolution. You will be justly chargeable in law and in con science with all the blood that may be shed in this contest, and upon you must fall the punishment. You have elected your officers under this charter and instructed them to enter upon the immediate discharge of their duties, including the adoption of ordinances and the execution thereof, under an authority having in itself no legal existance, and estab lished in direct defiance of the government of the United States. From all these facts, it is obvious, if you are permitted to proceed, and especially if your example should be followed, as urged by you in other places, that for all practical pur poses, in many important particulars, the territorial government will he overthrown.— ‘ The charters granted by that government for similar purposes will he disregarded, and. the justices of the peace, and other officers acting under their authority, will be brought neces sarily into conflict and collision with the so-called officers claiming to act under differ ent authority. The Territory will thus he involved in inextricable confusion and litiga tion ; the value of your property greatly depreciated; your titles, transfers, transactions and contracts subjected to endless and costly disputes, and all will suffer from this insurrec tion, except the lawyers who have stimulated this movement. A government founded on insurrection and usurpation will be substitu ted for that established by the authority of Congress, and civil war will be renewed throughout our limits. If your authority to act in this manner for the city of Lawrence is permitted, a similar authority must be ac knowledged in every other town,city or county; resulting in inevitable and mostdisastrous con flict ; and if successful, the territorial govern ment he overthrown in detail, as in your present purpose. You were distinctly informed in my inau gural address of May last that the validity of the territorial laws was acknowledged by the government of the United States, and that they must and would be carried into execution under my oath of office and the instructions of the President of the United States. The same information was repeated in various ad dresses made by me throughout the Territory. At the same time, every assurance was given you that the right of the people of this Terri tory, under the forms prescribed hv the gov ernment of your country, to establish their own State government and frame their own Bocial institutions, would be acknowledged and protected. If laws have been enacted by the territorial legislature which are disapproved of by the majority of the peo ple of the Territory, the mode in which they could elect a new territorial legislature and repeal those laws, was also designated. If there are any grievances of which you have any right to complain, the lawful, peaceful manner in which you could remove them, in subordination to the government of your coun try, was also pointed out. * You have, however, chosen to disregard the laws of Congress and of the territorial govern ment created by it, and, while professing to acknowledge a State government rejected by Congress, and which can, therefore, now exist only by a successful rebellion, and exact ing from all your officers the perilous a'nd sac rilegious oath to support the so called State legislature, which refused to grant you a charter, proceeded to create a local government of your own, based only upon insurrection and revolution. The very oath which you require from all your officers to support your so called Topeka State constitution is violated in the very act of putting in operation a charter rejected by them. A rebellion bo iniquitous, and necessarily involving such awful consequences, has never before disgraced any age or country. Permit me to call your attention, as still claiming to be citizens of the United States, to the results of your revolutionary proceedings. You<are inaugurating rebellion and revolution; you are disregarding the laws of Congress and of the territorial government, and defying their authority ; you are conspiring to over throw the government of the United States in this Territory. Your purpose, if carried into effect in the mode designated by you, by put ting your laws forcibly into execution, would involve you in the guilt and crime of treason. You stand now, fellow citizens, upon the brink of "bn awful precipic.e, and it becomes my duty to warn you ere you take the fatal leap into the gulf below. If your proceedings are not arrested you will necessarily destroy the peace of this Territory, and involve it in all the hor rors of civil war. I warn you, then, before it is too late, to recede from the perilous position in which you now stand. I appeal once more to your reason and patriotism. I -oak yun in the name of our common country, iu the name of the consti tution and of the Union, to desist from this rebellion. I appeal once more to yonr lqve of coantry, to your regard for its peace, prosper ity and reputation, to your affection for your wives and children, and to all those patriotic motives which ought to influence American citizens, to abandon this contemplated revo lution. If you have wrongs, redress them through the instrumentality of the ballot-box in the mode prescribed by the laws of your country. As all arguments heretofore so often used by me to you have failed as yet to produce any effect upon you, I have deemed it neces sary, for your own safety and that of the Territory, and to save you from the perilous consequences of your own acts, under the authority vested in me by the President of the United States, to order an adequate force of the troops of the United States into your immediate vicinage, to perform the painful duty of arresting your revolutionary proceed ings. Let me implore vou not to compel me to appeal to that military power which is required in the last resort to protect the gov ernment of yonr country. - You cannot carry your rebellious purposes into effect without coming into unavoidable and open conflict with the troops and government of the United States. Let me ajure you, then, once more, to aban don these proceedings before you involve yourselves in the crime of treason, and subject the people of the city of Lawrence to all the horrors and calamities of insurrection and civil war. If you will now desist from this pro jected revolution, the past will be forgotten as far as practicable ; but if you persist in passing these laws and carrying them into execution, thus defying and superceding the government, of your country, the deplorable consequences must be upon your heads and those of your associates. It will be my pur pose, if jou still persist, to spare all bloodshed as far as practicable, and subject the leaders and projectors of this revolutionary movement to the punishment prescribed by law. I will accompany the troops to Lawrence with a view to prevent, if possible, any conflict, and in the sincere hope that the revolutionary movement contemplated by you, and now so nearly accomplished, will, ere it is too late, be aban doned by you. If you can be influenced by no other motives, the evident faot that the power of the govern ment is adequate to prevent the accomplish ment of your purpose should induce you to desist from these proceedings. That the same overruling Providence who holds in his hands the destiny of our beloved country may now incline your hearts to peace, and influence you to abandon the enterprise, is the sincere wish of your fellow-citizen,. R. J. WALKER,' Governor of Kansas Territory, News from Europe. The steamship Asia arrived at New York •on Friday, bringing advices from London and Liverpool to the 11th inst., the same dates as those brought to St. Johns by the Circassian. The British House of Lords, had thrown out the bill for the admission of the Jews to Par liament by a majority of 34. Further distur bances are reported in Spain, but in Italy the insurrections are said to be wholly suppressed. A letter from Sierra Leone, gives an account of the capture and arrival at that port of the slave brigantine Adams Gray, of New Orleans. The capture was effected by a British cruiser off Lagos, on the 16th of April. In Parliament Lord Palmerston was again questioned on the supposed renewal of the African slave trade, and acknowledged he had received information that the’ French had had an offer from a firm to supply them 1200 free negroes. They could not ultimately become slaves, but they must undergo au ap prenticeship that might degenerate into the slave trade. Miss Madelene Smith, who had been on trial nine days in Edinburg, charged with poisoning M. Emile L'Angellier, at Glas gow, was acquitted on the 9 inst., amidst the moat intense excitement. It was said that Miss Smith sailed for New York on board the. Asia. It was said in Paris that the opposition deputies would take the oath to the constitu tion, although they would refuse to attend for that purpose at the palace of the Tuilleries. Napoleon was seriously disconcerted by the republican triumph in Paris. Tke African Apprentice System. The newly broached idea of African ap prentices to supply the place-of negro slaves, proposed by France and England, meets no more favor in this country than did the recent feelers of the public pulse towards the re-open ing of the direct slave trade. The Washing ton States , after showing that it is to compete with us in the production of cotton and sugar that these powers propose the introduction, as laborers, into the West India Islands, of na tive Africans—not as slaves, but as appren tices for a term of years—say from ten to twenty years, says : “such a system is infi nitely worse than absolute slavery. The ob ject is to get out of the poor ignorant Africans, who are the only people adapted to such ser vice, as much labor as possible. Without any of the ties that obtain .between master and slave, the ignorant apprentice is to be put to work under the severest discipline, and to be required to do as much work as is possible for the human frame to endure during his term of apprenticeship. Theamount oflabor imposed on him, and the cruelties to which he will be subjected, will, iu nine out of ten, end bis existence before the expiration of his term. As, in one or two years, his forced labors can be made to yield far more than will be neces sary to pay the price of the whole term, as the pay will terminate with his life, and as his place can be readily supplied by a new and fresh apprentice, the prolongation of life by means of kind treatment will be no considera tion. This is the cruelest system that was ever applied to human labor. It is a sin that cries to Heaven. If such a system were kept in operation, in a score or two of years Africa would be depopulated, instead of being chris tianized.” Now as the United States is a party to a treaty with France and England to stop the slave trade, and is required by the terms of that treaty to keep constantly, and at great expense, a squadron on the coast of Af rica to prevent that trade, and as the object of this treaty is to prevent inhumanity to the Africans, the States contends with the Charles ton Mercury , that the importation of such so called apprentices into any of their posses sions is a flagrant violation of the treaty which we have entered into with them. It cannot doubt that our Government will hold the same opinion, and thinks that should promptly be made known to France and Eng land. A Goon Recommendation. —The Harrisburg Patriot advises the people of Pennsylvania to' be careful whom they select to represent them in the Legislature. This is good and timely, advice. Men of talent and character are needed in the Legislature, and we trust such only will be elected. Especially do we hope the Democracy throughout the State will nominate the very beat men who can be in* duced to Berve. Let sober, sensible, discreet, honest men, and none otner, be selected. A Famine in China. —The Friend of Chi na, of the 9th of May, received by the last Ove Hand Mail, says that the famine prevail ing in that country, exceeds all that the oldest living men ever' witnessed. The rebels are making progress, the capital of the province ofKwang-Si, Kwei-Lung, having fallen into their hands. In the province of Kwangtung the famine is so severe that even the women are forming themselves into bands of robbers, have seized the sword and gone forth plun dering in order to obtain sustenance. CITY AID COUNTY AFFAIRS. Ladies Beware !—We have made a short synopsis of a very important trial, which took place lately in Boston, and give it below for the especial benefit of our lady readers. We apprehend that when some of onr North Qaeea and East King street belles get to hear of it, Hoop dom will howl with indignation. By the way, speaking about this delicate subject, we have heard it intimated that the w dty lathers” harea notion #f widening the pavements; or. if that is not done, the Mayor will be requested to issue a proclamation requiring ladies with certain dimensions of dress, except from “natural causa,” not to appear on those crowded thoroughfares. We are a decided friend of the dear, lovely creatures, and would, therefore, advise, them to take “time by the forelock” so as not to be caught' in a similar predicament with their Boston sister. The poor, puny male gender will have to suffer yet awhile by “Bearing the ills they-have, Instead of flying to others they know not of,” and use the common highway as their, promenading ground. In the mean time, “ room for my lady, room 1” Crinoline in* Court.— An important decision was ren dered In the Police Court of Boston, on the 20th inst One of the Police Officers had preferred a complaint against a yonng lady for obstructing the side-walks of Washington street by too great a display of crinoline. The officer testified that at least half a dozen times during the week he had been obliged to step from the sidewalk on to the street to enable the defendant to pass, such were the unprecedented dimensions of her hoops. Once, in consequence thereof, he came very near being run over by a carnage passing at the time, and he asked the Judge whether the city govern ment would have allowed a pension to his widow in case he had been killed. The Judge said that he should reserve his opinion for a week on the latter point, and inquired whether the circum ference of the lady was hot produced by natural causes.— The officer replied, by saying that be was the father of sixteen children, and, if he was lucky, expected an addition to his family next month; but he had never known his • ‘better half” to occupy half so much space as Miss Smith, ! and he hoped she never would. The officer further testified that he had requested the defendant two or three times not to stop on the sidewalk,- as people were unable to pass withoo t going into the street —bat It was of no avail, as she still continnod to occupv the whole pavement. In summing up the evidence Judge Russell said that the evil was one of great magnitude, and should be checked by vigorous measures. There was no statute under which too great a display of crinoline came, but he should take the responsibility of inflicting a fine of $5 and costs, and he hoped it would be a warning to all offenders. The fine was promptly paid, with the costs, and Miss Smith was discharged. Is Town.—Charles G. Gonter, Esq., (“Old Guard,”) the St. Louis correspondent of the Intelligencer paid us a visit in our 6anctuiu on Saturday evening last. “Old Guard” was one of the late railroad excursion party from St. Louis to Baltimore and Washington, and he speaka in glowing terms of the trip. As a consequence no letter appears from him in this week's paper. He has just been paying a flying visit to his friends and relatives in Lancaster after an absence of seven years, accompanied by his estimable lady. He left far home on yesterday morning, and in a week or two we agaia expect him to hold forth to his numerous class of readers, who look for his letter as regularly as every Tuesday morning makes Us appearance. He has written uninterruptedly for this paper for the last seven years, and his letters have afforded us, as we know many others, the liveliest satisfaction in their perusal. We tender to him and his lady our beat wishes for a safe and pleasant journey home. “May they live a thousand years and their shadows never grow less.” Franklin and Marshall College.—The Commencement of Franklin and Marshall College will be celebrated at Fulton Hall, in two sessions, on to-morrow, (Wednesday,) commencing at 9 o’clock, a. m. The gradu ating class numbers sixteen. The friends of education are respectfully invited Co attend. This morning, at 10 o'clock, the Biennial Address- before the two Literary Societi es, connected with the College, will be delivered in Fulton Hall, by David Paul Brown, Esq., of Philadelphia. This afternoon the new Halls of the Literary Societies will be dedicated In immediate succession. The exercises will open at 2 o’clock in the Diagnothian Hall. Address by Rev. Geo. B. Russell, A. M., ol Pittsburg. Address at the dedi cation of the Qcuthean Hall by Dr. L. Steiner, A. M., of Baltimore. This evening the address before the Alumni Association will be delivered, in Fulton Hall, by Rev. Jos. Clark, A. M., of Chamborsburg. Washington Fire Company—Election of Officers. —A stated meeting of the Washington Fire Com pany was held on tho 17th inst., at which the following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President—Martin Scheaffer. Vice President—Frederick Sener. Secretary—Henry M. White. Assistant Secretary—John Nixdorf. Treasurer—Philip Metzger. Chief Engineer—Henry Nagle. Assistant Engineers—Frederick Nixdorf, Wra. Spong. „ Carriage and Hose Directors—John Trissler, jr., Michael Frederick Lutz, Francis Steinhouser, Christian Nixdoft. Axemen—William Miller, John Freitensteln, Martin Dorwart, Augustus Millisoch. Torch Carriers—Henry Witmor, John Flick, John Stark, Daniel Brown. Trustees—Philip Metzger, Joseph Samson, Conrad G&st. Janitor—Augustus Millisoch. " The officers of this company were heretofore elected on the third Friday of December; but under their revised Constitption-Aboj- win bo elected on tDe third Friday of July in each year. Accident. —Mr. Moses Wenger, of this city, while engaged in gravelling a roof at Wabank on Wednesday, on walking across the same, accidentally fell through a hole to the lower floor, a distance of about ten feet, breaking his collar bone and one of his fingers. Fatal Railroad Accident. —Daniel Yeag ley, of this city, was run ovbr by the cars, near West Phil adelphia, on Wednesday, and injured so badly that ho died before ho could bo taken to the Hospital. His remains were brought to (his city for interment on Friday. Washington Pic Nic.— The Annual Pic Nic of the Washington Engine Compjny came off at Rocky Springs on Thursday last. A large number of ladies and gentlemen participated in its pleasures. The Fenciblea’ Band furnished th# music for the occasion. Resolutions of Condolence. —At a special meeting of the Calliopacan Literary Society held, in the High School Ilall, North Prince street, on Wednesday eve ning the 22d inst., a committee, consisting of Philip H. Dorwart, Amos Bowman and Wm. N. Breneman, was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the Society on the occasion of the death of John Brenner, late a member. The following preamble and resolutions wore reported and unanimously adopted : Whereas, It has pleased Almighty God, In the wise dis pensations of his Providence, to remove from our midst John Brenner, late a member of this Society, therefore be it Resolved. That whilst we bow in humble sumission to the will of Him who doeth all things well, yet we deeply deplore the loss of our fellow-member. Resolved, That, in the death of the deceased, the Society has lost one of its most worthy members, faithful and zealous in the discharge of duty, and.one who endeared himself to every one of us by his generous disposition and manly deportment. Resolved. That we deeply sympathize with the family in this their affliction. Resalved, That these resolutions be published and a copy be sent to the family of the deceas°d. Attest, SAM’L HEITSHU, Pres’t. H. R. Breneman, Sec'y- The Union Escort. —At a meeting of tbe delegates of several companies of the Fire Department held in the Union Engine Hall, Market street, on Thursday evening, Jesse Landis, Esq., was chosen Chief Marshal on the occasion of the escort of the Union to house their new Suction Engine, on its arrival from Philadelphia. The American County Convention.—Tbe American County Committee held a meeting at Lechler’s Hotel, East King street, on Tuesday last, and agreed to issue a call for a County Convention to be held in this city on the 19th of Augast, the primary election for delegates to bo held on the preceding Saturday—none to bo admitted to the Convention as delegates but those who are williog to pledge themselves to the support of Hazlehurst and the Straight-Out American ticket, and the platform of the Lancaster State Convention. New City Map.—Mr. Thomas J. Kennedy is now engaged canvassing the City for subscribers to a new Illnitrated Map of Lancaster, which he is about publishing. From the specimens we have seen of this and other Slaps executed by Mr. K., we can cheerfully recommend him to our citizens. For particulars see advertisement. Bank Election. —At a meeting of the Di rectors of the Columbia Bank, held on Tuesday laat, Dr. Barton Evans, of Wrightsville, was elected President, in place of John Cooper, Esq., resigned. Taken Down.—Hendricks and Young, two of the Gap gang, and who had served out their time in our prison, which was not the full term, as they had turned State’s evidence, were taken down to West Chester, on Thursday last, where, withsome others, they will be tried for numerous offences. Public Sale. —Rev. Wm. E. Locke, the Principal of the Young Ladies’ Institute, will offor at public auction, on Friday next, next door to Fulton Hall, his household, school and kitchen furnituro, among which are three excellent Pianos, tables, desks, beds, bedsteads, chairs, settees, bureaus, with a large quantity of othergoods. Sale to commence at 9 o’clock, a. m. * A Fine Hotel. —The Hotel of the Messrs. Reese, in North Queen street, which is rapidly approaching completion, will be tbe largest and finest in this city. We shall give a full description of it when completed. Appointed. —John Martin, Esq., has been appointed P. M. at Connestoga Centre, in this county, in place of Adam Kendig, Esq. Shooting Affair —A Man Killed. —We have just heard of a shooting affair which took place on the Pennsylvania Canal, a few miles above Bainfcridge in this county. It appears that as a boat was lying at or passing the locality named, several men on board got into a dispute about a dog. One of the parties, it is said, kicked the dog, when tbe other, to whom the dog belonged, re marked that be bad better not do so again or he might get shot, which was said, it seems, in apparently jocular man ner. The other man then ran to the hatch-way of the boat, and when about half way down turned up his back and said that he should shoot, that “he couldn’t hit any how,” upon which the other fired a pistol, the ball taking effect in his back, lrom which tbe m»u died in about an hour afterwords. The names of the parties and farther particulars of the affair we were unable to learn farther than that the man who committed the deed was arrested, and that both were persons of respectability.— Wednuday’i Express. counvxic ATioars. „ Modht Jot, July 24,1857. Capt. Geo. BANt>raSOX-2feor Su—From which appeared in the last issue of the Intelligencer, it is evident there is a disposition on the part of some of the opponents of the Demooracy, to create had feelings within the breasts of those who came from the ranks of Whiggery to the cause of Democracy in the late campaign. There Is an envious feeling existing, and to gratify that feeling, onr opponents will resort to any means, however much it may be charac terized by rascality. Some one hasbad the unblushing im pudence to direct yon an article, with my signature, rep resenting it as suggested by some of the leading Democrats of our section. It is useless to us ■ many terms upon inch hollow-hearted specimens of humanity. If they were not steeped so completely in the poison of political corruption as to be beyond all hope of salvation, I would condescend to give them a few words of advice. Now, there is a senti ment running through the article to which I refer, calcula ted to insult the feelings, the dignity, of any one haring .the least degree of self-esteem. You have been recommend ed, in the article, to mention the names of Jacob Nisley, Abraham Shelly and Daniel Herr, in connection with some of the county offices; and what reasons has that political hypocrite, the magnanimous autho-, given for desiring an ac “°V )f ’ Becausa, says be, it would be “good poiwy and it-wouid “ encourage ” them to adhere “to the advoeaey of Democratic principles;” and furthermore to , <t P ro °f onr recognition.” Does the author of that article wish to imprest upon the minds of Messrs. j aw ftn( * err that the Democrats consider them children, or that we consider thev came over to onr party with the hope of gaining favor? Does he imagine that he can impress those gentlemen with the belief that we aim to secure their “ co-operation ” by using the tongue of flatte ry or deception ? Does ho imagine that he can inspire them with the belief that our object is to “encourage' them to adhere to our party, by bringing them before the public through sinster motives? Such rascality can not be prac ticed without exposure. Now, no one will deny that the Democracy owe mnch to those gentlemen for the influence which they exercised, and that they are entitled to the love and regard of our party; but the Democracy do not believe that they came to our cause for the purpose of courting favor, but from a love of principle. This was the grand motive which actuated them. If Messrs. Nisslej, Shelly and Herr were settled-aa candidates for any of the county offices, they would certainly, receive the votes of the Democracy of our section ; not for the purpose of *•en couraging the converts, ” as stated by that political hypo crite, but because they are entitled to them. 1 learned from good authority, Mr. Editor,.that my name, was con nected with the article which appeared in your last issue. I disclaim the anthorsbip, and brand the writer as desti tute of manliness or moral courage. DEMOCRAT. Who Can Beat This? C.VMPBELLBTOWN, July 20, ’57. * Mr. Sanderson*—Enclosed I send you two stalks of oats, which I took from the field of Mr. John Nutts, near Camp belUtown, Lebanon County, Pa., measuring in length, 6 ft. 3 in. each. These are nut the only stalks of this Untrth Id *he field. Many more can be found measuring 6 feet and upwards, and one was taken from it about a week ago, measuring in length 6 ft. in. I should be exceedingly pleased to hear (through your columns,) whether I.ancaster county is able to beat it. Still Another I Walnut’Bottom. Cumb. Co., July 20th, 1857. Dear Sib:—l send you by this mall a stalk of Oats, (as you said in your last you had seen one hard to beat,) raised on my farm in Dickinson township. Cumberland county. Yours, respectfully, CHRISTIAN LENTZ. *£s“ The above-mentioned stalk measures 6 feet 1 inch Good for “Old Mother Cumberland.” Kansas. The Topeka Convention—Organization of the Free State Party — Gov. Walker's Entrance into Lawrence—Civil War in Prospect. We have reoeived the following highly im portant despatches from Kansas : St. Louis, July 21st, 1857.—G0v. Walker was camped outside of Lawrence, with eight companies of dragoons, on the 17th inst. The citizeue had decided not to negotiate with him. They will not resist the troops unless fired upon, when civil war will be deolared. Goy. Walker has warrants for the arrest ol the city officers and other citizens of Lawrence. ToPEKAf-Kansas, July 10, via St. Louis, July 20, 1857.—The Convention just adjourned at Topeka was one of the largest and most earnest ever held. A strong position has been taken in favor of the Topeka Constitution. It was ’-determined that Congress must and shall admit Kansas under it. Stateofficers were nominated, the old incumbents being re-nominated. The census returns show between twenty and thirty thousand voters. It is determined to re-submit the Topeka Constitution to the people in August. General Lane has been authorized to organize the people thoroughly, so that they may be prepared to defend the hallot box at the Territorial election in October. Mr. J. Parrot was nominated as representative to Congress. ’ Lawrence, July 18, viA St. Louis, July 21, 1857.—G0v. Walker entered Lawrence yester day, with eight companies of dragoons, under command of Col. Cook. He has camped close to town, in a threatening attitude. His pro clamation, issued at Leavenworth, and dated the 15th instant, declares that he will not allow the people to adopt a city charter. He went through Lawrence on his way to Leav enworth last Monday, to see to this, but never spoke of it at Lawrence. The people are de termined to pay no attention to him, and will not negotiate with him. Although the town officers were elected last Monday, they have as y T et taken ho step,not even been sworn in. Governor Walker has warrants for the arrest of those who were voted for, and for many Others, prominent citizens of Lawrence. The design is to stop the August election, when the Topeka constitution is to be submitted to the people. The people will not offer any opposition to the federal troops unless they fire at them or commit some other outrage, wheo civil war will at once be declared. A Specimen Black “ Republican Mayor.— The Mayor of Chicago should be a resident of New York. He would probably be selected at once to fill Draper’s place on the Police Com mission—provided four votes could be obtain ed. We are indebted to The Bridgeport Far mer for the following: - A Mayor in Limbo. —Long Went worth, the present Mayor of Chioago, has been arrested for a violent assault perpetrated a few days since, in the street, on a man by the name of Cameron. The same John, not long since, was arrested on a charge of stealing mail bags belonging to the United States, but he got out of the scrape by pleading the priv ilege of a member of Congress. Perhaps he will get out of his present difficulty by plead ing the privileges of Mayor of the city. John was formerly a printer by profession, and edited a Democratic paper in Chicago. So long as he remained a member of the craft, he was a pretty clover fellow. But John be came ambitious ; wanted to go Congress—and finally was elected. He then got into bad company ;■ lost his steady habits, together with his nice sense of honor, went to speeu lating in lands and acquired a large fortune ; became proud, vain, conceited—and finally turned Black “ Republican.” Since then he has been in all manner of mischief—and no one can tell where he will end. His safest course is to give away his money, and go back to the types. Tlie South and Kansas. The developments at the South on the great and vital points of a submission of the new constitution of Kansas to the people, are daily becoming more gratifying. Thus the Wil mington Commercial, of North Carolina, says— “We must confess that we are somewhat ‘in a fog,’ and cannot see why the submission of the constitution of Kansas to the people should be thought inconsistent with the prin ciples laid down by President Pierce and the Cincinnati platform, or at all repugnant to the doctrine of southern rights, as declared and maintained by the most patriotic of our southern citizens for years long past. A difference of opinion on this or any other topic will not permanently affect the relation ship of Southern unity, as tbe enemies of the present administration expect; manyofwhom, of the south too, would have Kansas admitted as a free state if th&t event would break the moral power and impeach the political integ rity of the present administration. With the corruptions and intrigues that may be brought to bear upon the election or ratification or rejection in Congress we have nothing to do. Better that Kansas should be admitted as a free State, and all the evils that would probably attend that event be encoun tered, than that southern citizens should repu diate the great principle, the battle for whose assertion has been fought and won, viz : “ that the question of slavery or anii-slavery shall be decided by the people of the territories .” In copying bis brief and excellent article, the Washington Union remarks : “ This is the right language and the right doctrine. Let the principle of popular sover eignty be firmly and impartially upheld, with out reference as to who are or who are not to be gainers by its practical enforcement.” Expelled from the Church for Voting for Buchanan. —The Grand Rapids (Mich.) Inquirer contains a full report of the trial, conviction and expulsion from the church of Deacon P. G. Stebbins, of the town of Alpine, in that county. He was the first deaoon of the church to which he belonged— the Freewill Baptists, and the charge against him was that he sustained slavery by voting He was jilso charged with deception, because when asked if he was going to vote for liberty or slavery, he said liberty. Stebbins admitted tbs facts charged, but defended himself by the Dem ocratic ticket, which he did vote, supported the most liberal principles of any ticket now in vogue. ' A LETTER FROM lOWA. Burlington, lows, Jaly 17,1857. Messrs. Sanderson :—At half past two o'clock on Thurs day morning, April 10,1 bade a hearty adlsn to a number of friends assembled to see me safe on the cars, and in a few minutes more we were moving rapidly away from Lancaster. Behind me L was leaving the place of my nativity, the home of my early years, endeared to me by many a scene long familiar, and the still more endearing social ties and cherished remembrance of the many, good, true, warm-hearted friends to whom I had, perhaps, just aid a long farewell. For the distant “Hawk Eye” State, beyond the Mississippi, I was destined, there to enter upon a field of duties entirely now to me; and very naturally indeed were my reflections, for the first hour or two, calcu lated to keep me in any but a lively mood, and not until the bustle and commotion attendant upon the change of cars at Harrisburg had seriously interrupted them, did I open my eyes to the realities about me. A* good fortune would have it, I discovered the other occupant of my seat to be a Lancasterian—a tarponter named Henry Bush, who with two others, of like calling, and from the samo locality, were bound, like myself, for the young and growing State of lowa. Thus in social converse with theao friends the journey soon became less wearisome. Our passage along the “Blue Juniata” was effected during the early morning hours, and this justly famous and ro mantic portion of the Old Keystone’s domains certainly elicited from us our full share of admiration; thongh six weeks, at least, were necessary to fully developo all the natural attractiveness of tho scenery. Shortly before three o’clock we arrive at Pittsburg, and, os I step from the cars. I notice my good jolly friend A. Jackson Diiler, formerly of New Holland, coming towards me, with outstretched hand good humored countenance, to meet and hid me welcome. Jack accompanied mo to the depot in Allegheny city, and shortly after three o’clock we are again on our way. At Alliance I part company with the Lancasteriaoa, they going on via Fort Wayne, and I off northward to Cleveland, at which point we find ourselves at half past eleven, p. m., in the midst of a violent snow storm. After leaving Cleveland we discover we occupy bnt a single pascengor car, attached to a long and heavy freight train, conse quently we travel quite slowly, and do not reach Toledo until seven o’clock in the morning. We are off again at ten, and at oleven o’clock, on Friday night, we are in Chicago. ! Here we again find it snowing violently, and with no j abatement until eight o’clock next morning, whon we take | the cars for Sterling, distant 110 miles due west, on the I famous Rock river. We notice thegreatost improvements ■ along this road since our last passage over it—not quite two years previous. At stations which were mere stopping plates, fine growing prosperous towns have sprung np, several of them making no mean pretensions to evidence of city airs and institntious. At Sterling we are really surprised. All our previous anticipations won’t begin to hold out with the realities presented. It now contaius at least three times os many buildings as it did two years ago, and at least thirty-five ; hundred inhabitants, which must certainly argue well for ; its growth and prosperity. In this city reside quite & , number of Lancaster County families, all of whom seem to ' be highly delighted with the country and tholr future prospects. On Monday morning I left Sterling for this city, and arrived horo at seven o’clock, on Tuesday morn ing, April 21. Burlington is certainly one of the cities in the West.— Her present population may be safely estimated to be 16.000. Her citizens most conclusively evidence, In no small degree, that spirit of enterprise and go aheaditveness so characteristic or the Western people. She can certainly boast of having many of tho finest blocks of business houses west of the Mississippi. Though immense sums ofTnonaj have already been expended in grading and improving the streets, filling up the deep ravines, and cutting through the bluffs, the citizens have just voted an additional loan of J 50.000 for the farther improvement of the city. Bho has a direct communication with the East by railroad,and and with all points, North and South, by the Mississippi,* and In a fow years her railroad will be completed to tho Missouri river; thus with all these advantages. aDd that of one of the most advantageous positions on the Upper Mississippi, her future destiny is evidently to be one of great advancing growth and prosperity. On the morning of the “glorious Fourth.” In company with several frieuds, I wont wo an excursion on tho Western Railroad to Mount Pleasant, thirty miles west of this city, and had thus an opportunity of feasting my eyes upon one of the most delightful portions of country anywhere to be found. From the car window many miles of the level, far ISH. MORROW. stretching prairie came under view at aglance. And who, save those who have actually seen such sights, can imagine all tho beauties and delights presented to the eye of the beholder by these noble, glorious, far-famed prairies of the Great West? and who* give a just and adoquato Idea of the delights which thrill, and the sensations experienced by the beholder, when standing upon an elevated mound, your eyes wander for miles and miles around on the vast level expanse of tho glorious prairies, with thousands of acres of tho blossoming wheat and growing corn, whilst beauteous groves of young timber, and many fine substan tial farm houses dotting its surface everywhere, come under observation at almost a single view ? Mount Pleasant is certainly one of the prettiest Inland towns I have yet soon in this country. It boasts of quite a number of fine brick business blocks and two hotels, the equals of which even boastful and rich old Lancaster can not exhibit. The streets are well and prettily shaded, and most of the dwellings pleasant yards and neat gar dona attached. Tho general appearance of tho place is so much like those of some of the older settlements East, that for a while I almost thought myself within the borders of tho old Keystone. ; And now to politics. In August last, the people of low* ! choso delegates to represent them in a Constitutional- Con | vention. That Convention assembled for action at lowa City in January last. In that Convention th* Black Re publican party was predominant, Black Republican creed was their guide, and as a natural consequence a real genuine Black Republican Constitution, at which the grinning face of delighted Sambo is triumphantly turned, i has been drafted by theFe nlgger-worshipplng mißrepresaai* | tives of the true sentiment of the white people or lowa. i This Constitution will be submitted to the voters of lowa at the election on tbe first Monday of August for adoption or rejection. Though lam ioclined to believe there are * great many people here who really think the negro to be as good as a white man, jet I sincerely hope this "nigger Constitution will receive such an utter repudiation at the hands of the people, os to attach disgrace in future years to the names of those who were Instrumental in forcing It upon the notice of the poople. But the result will be otherwise. Whilst tho new Constitution entirely obliterates many of the objectionable features of the present one (among them that of tbe prohibition of tbe banking sys tem) the people appear disposed to submit to the many grievous nuisances it will impose upon them, in order that a few under the presont Constitution shall be wiped out of existence. I thoreforo anticipate its adoption by a large majority, but sincerely hope the prediction will not be verified. About the time I was leaving Lancaster County, num bers of my friends intimated to me that I was going to a country where Democrats were in a decided minority. To such I would good humoredly reply that I was going where Democrats were waoted ; and as Pennsylvania had no lack of Democrats, my vote would not be missed. But scarcely had I been here one week until I had reliable Information that lowa had gone Democratic. Yes, lowa, “ the firstborn daughter of the Missouri Compromise ,” —lowa which gava such an “ awful shriek" at the last Presidential election, —lowa, which was'reported to hare gone Republican by about the tame majority given Fremont, actually came out of the contest “right side-up,” and the poor teeble Rhriek* given for “ poor bleeding Kansas ” were scarcely heard In loud and hearty shouts given for Democracy and the Union. And now>my good anxious friends, please tell me where cart I go (save abolitiooized old Massachusetts) where Democrats are waDtcd ? Where does the good cause falter? Or where have good sound Democratic doctrines met equal repudiation as everywhere given those of the Black Republican party? I am anxiously awaiting to see the action of the next Democratic County Convention of Lancaster, I hope to see a good strong ticket placed in nomination, composed Of good, true and reliable men, and I humbly tender my best wishes for its success. As regards tbe State election, w Q have no fears. We know that Wm. F Packer will be the next Governer of Pennsylvania. Wo know too, that he will beat Wilmot, the Abolitionist, not loss than 30,000 votes. • Hoping to see this verified, and wishing success to tbe Democracy of Lancaster County in th* coming elec tion, I am Respectfully Yours, New Tax Law. —The following is the 3d Section of an Act passd the 21%t day of April, 1856, entitled “An act relative.to the Sale of Lands for the non-payment of Taxes.” The Aduitor-General has advised the County Treas urers that the provisions of the Act will be rigidly complied with : Section 3. That it shall be the duty of Su pervisors and Collectors of road taxes, and of all Collectors of any other taxes whatsoever , to make return to the County Commissioners of any exonerations claimed by them, on or before the first day of Janury in ea:h year : and it shall not be b.wful for the said County Com missioners to grant any exonerations after that time, nor for the County Treasurer to sell any lands which shall have been returned, and taxes eihonerated after the said time. Extract of a letter from a gentleman resi ding in Texas, to his friend in this city, dated, Sam Houston, Texas Senator, Hero of San JaciDto, ever lasting candidate for President—-and of “big drunk” celeb rity, Is the opposing candidate to ouc regular Democratic nominee for Governor, —not, however, for th» office of Governor as an office to be held by him, hot as a motive power to re-elect him to the U. S. Senate. He is canvassing the whole State, and every littld 6 b/ 8 Know Nothing newspaper hag run his name up to it* mast head, notwith standing his Oregon and Kaos** votes; but tbe people, tbe States Rights Democracy, Mt the fle!l1 of condem nation upon him on the 3d day of August so firmly, and by such an overwhelming majority, that you will never hear of him again, either Jo public or private life. The majori ty will be about 10,000. although our usual majority in the State is more. There is a great deal of excitement among the masses of tho people. aD d it waxes warmer as the day of election draws near; but when you hear the result It will be entirely satisfactory to you—it will be the last of “Sam ” “Samuel,” “Sambo.” Yours truly, Ac. Cincinnati, July 24.—The man who scat tered poieooed lozenges along Bremen street, turns out to be a drunken German, who pur sues the vocation of selling poisoned lozenges for destroying rats. Only one of the children poisoned is dead, and the rest have entirely recovered. Letter from Texas. Jclt 14, 1867.
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