INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN. GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. A. SANDERSON, Associate. LANCASTER, PA., SEPTEMBER 29, 1857. cmcviiATioN, aioo copies: SuBSCRiPTiojr Paid, &00 per annum. 9SMOCAAXXOjSTAVB TICKET. FOR GOVERNOR. WILLIAM F. PACKER, Lycoming Comity. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. NIMROD STRICKLAND, Chester Comity. FOR JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT. WILLIAM STRONG, Berks Connty. JAMES THOMPSON, Erie Connty. DEMOCRATIC CO. TICKET, Senators . WILLIAM PATTON, Columbia. DR. JOHN K. RAUB, Providence. Assembly, JOHN H. BRENNEMAN, Mount Joy. THOMAS S. McILVAIN, Salisbury. JAMES BONES, Manor. SAMUEL/WICKS, Fulton. Sheriff. JACOB SENER, East Hempfield. Prothonotary. WILLIAM CARPENTER, City. Register. WILLIAM. HAYS, Little Britain Recorder. HENRY RUSH, Providence. County Treasurer. JOHN S. HOSTETTER, Manheim. Clerk of Orphans’ Court. DR. A. S. BARE, Upper Leacock. Clerk of Quarter Sessions. JACOB FOLTZ, City. County Commissioner. JOHN WHITESIDE, Colerain, Prison Inspectors. 0. C. M. CAINES, City. C. HUNSHBERGER, West Earl. Directors of Poor. LEWIS HALDY. City. S. J. MORRISON. City. DR. RICHARD REAM, East Cocalico, Coroner. *, DR. J. B. FREELAND, City. Auditor. AMOS A. HAUKE, Paradise. Call for the Tickets. The Democratic State and County Tickets are now printed and will be ready for distri bution on Thursday next. The Chairman of the County Committee, Mr. Swar'r, in whose possession they are, requests our friends from the different districts of the oounty to call and get their supplies. Attend to the Assessments. We advise all our Democratic friends to see to it that they are assessed at least TEN DAYS before the Election. There is uo time to lose in the matter. It must be done on or before FRIDAY NEXT, the 2d of October,"as after that day it will be too late. The Town ship and Ward Committees should give some attention to this matter. The President at Homo President Buchanan reached his home, at Wheatland, on Thursday afternoon last—hav ing left the cars and taken a private convey ance at Columbia. His visit was unheralded, and therefore entirely unexpected, at least on that particular day. lie oame on private business, and expeoted to loavefor Washington again on last evening. Ho was in town on Saturday, and was called upon by numbers of his fellow-citizens. On Sunday he was also in town, and occupied his pew in the First Presbyterian Church, Orange street. The President looks remarkably well, and appears to be in better health and more cheer ful than he has been for the last six or eight months. George G. Brush, Esq. By some mistake of the compositor the name of this gentleman was omitted in the list of members of the County Committee, as published in their proceedings in our paper of last week. Mr. Brush is the worthy repre sentative of Manor township in the Committee —was present and acted with it on Saturday week, and was the person who nominated William Carpenter, Esq., for Prothonotary. We deem this notice an actofjustice to Mr. 8., who is perfectly willing to assume his share of the responsibility growing out of the action of the Committee. Suspension of Specie Payments. The extreme monetary pressure which has prevailed in the large cities for the last three or four weeks, has brought about a similar Btate of things to that which occurred in 18S7, and forced the Banks ot Philadelphia and throughout the State generally to a suspension of specie payments. The Bank of Pennsylva nia was the first to suspend, on Friday morn ing. This was followed throughout the day by several others, and on Saturday morning all the banks of the city, by concert, refused to meet the demands made upon them in specie. This determination of the Philadelphia in stitutions being communicated to the country, on Saturday morning the Farmers Bank, of this city, (on which there had been a consider able run for a day or two previous) and the Lancaster County Bank both suspended specie payments—the latter, however, not so much from any actual or anticipated run upon it, as from the conviction that a temporary sus pension, to be of benefit alike to the Banks and the community, should be general. This institution is one of the soundest in the State, and we are warranted in saying that they are ready at any moment to resume whenever the other Banks of the State are in a condition to do it. The cause of the run upon the Farmers’ Bank we cannot account for, unless reports injurious to its reputation were started by some evil-disposed persons for the purpose of embar rassing its operations. It, too, has always been considered one of our soundest monied insti tutions,' and there is no doubt of its solvency. It only succumbed to the pressure after the City Banks had all agreed to suspend, and will doubtless be one amongst the first able and willing to resume—at least we hope so. There are various opinions in this commu nity as to the policy of a suspension on the part of our two Banks—some condemning their oonduot, whilst others approve of it. The major* ity of the people, bo far as wehave have heard an expression of opinion, incline to look favorably upon it, believing that, under the circumstan ces by which they were surrounded, the wel fare of the community as well as their own salvation depended on their taking this course. May we not hope, however, that the suspen sion will only be'temporory, and also that the Banks will at least strain a point to redeem their Fives, so as to furnish the people with ■mall change in the transaction of their busi ness. Should this be done, we apprehend very little inoonvenienee will be felt by the public from the suspension. Sinoe writing the above we have the pleasure of informing our readers that the Lancaster County Bank, for the purpose of accommodating the people with change, will redeem their Fives in specie when presented at the counter. It is also understood that all the Banks in Philadelphia, with the exception of the City Bank, the Consolidation Bank, and the Bank of Pennsylvania, are paying speoie for their Fives and, Tens. More Bank Suspensions. The suspension is not confined to Philad’a, and Lancaster, but is general, we believe, all over the State. Thp Banks of have also suspended specie payments, and it is be lieved that the New York Banks, as well as those in the other principal cities will be obliged to follow suit. The whole thing has, doubtless, been brought about by the. inordinate speculation in western lands, railroad stocks, and in flour, grain, cattle, sugar, and tbe necessaries of life generally, (to which too many Banks were made to loan themselves,) together with the extravagant modes of living in our large cities and towns which has obtained for the last few years. Had the Banks generally confined themselves to doing a legitimate business, speculation would not have run so wild—the community would have been benefited, and we should not now be a witness to the wide spread desolation and ruin which has overta ken the mercantile and other interests of the country. We hope the people will elect honest and intelligent men to the next Legislature, and that they, when they go to Harrisburg, will institute a most searching and thorough inves tigation into the way the Banks of this Com monwealth hare been managed for the last four or five years. Let them aicertain the facts in tbe case, and if any of these institu tions are found to have been connected, in any way, with speculators, note shavers, &c., &c., by which the people have suffered loss, let them be blotted out of existence without de lay. Now is the time to discriminate—to sift the good frorfl the bad. They have all, by suspending specie payments, forfeited their charters; and that forfeiture ought to be en forced against every rotten, corrupt and swind ling concern in the State. No Sliinplasters. There is some talk in this community •al ready in favor of Shinplasters, for the purposes of change. We, for one, are dead up against any thing of the kind. It was done, we are aware, in 1837, after the Banks suspended; but, if there was a necessity them then, (which we did not believe,) there is none now. There is a great abundance of gold and silver coin in the country, outside of the Banks, whioh will soon find its way into circulation, if there is nothiug foolishly manufactured to take its place. No more shinplasters say we, and every good citizen should set his face against any project of the kind. " The Intelligencer professes to see glaring inconsistency in the course of the Ex aminer, because it now supports David Wil mot, whose vote for the tariff of ’4G it then de nounced/’ We clip the above sentence from the Exam iner of Wednesday last. And pray, neighbor, is there not glaring inconsistency in your action. You denounced Mr. Wilmot, at the time, for his vote in favor of the tariff of 184 G, and now you support him for the first office in the Commonwealth, although there is not a particle of evidence that he has changed his opinion ; —on the contrary, AVilmot is known to be as much of a Free-trader now as he was eleven years ago when you so bitterly assailed his motives and actions. Again we ask, is there no inconsistency in all this / But, says the Examiner, “ the tariff is not now an issue." We admit that it is not, nor ; did we at any time say it was—although the ! Examiner, of the 9th inst., did what h falsely charges upon us. Speaking of Gen. Duff Green’s project to promoto the manufacture of American railroad iron, that paper says, “ wo are glad to note this glimmer of returning ' sense." And again— ,l The Free trade policy has brought us as near ruin as a strong, healthy nation like this can bo brought.” Was this not an attempt on the .part of our neighbor to make the tariff policy an issue in the pre9- ent campaign ? But finding that he would be j certain to burn his fingers by making such j an issue, having the Free trader, Wilmot, as ' his candidate for Governor, he very wisely adopts the more prudent course of backing : out of the issue raised by himself, and amuses his readers by calling us some ugly names : such as “idiot,” “fool,” &c. &c., all of which I only go to prove the weakness of the cause in which he is engaged. The Exnminer and Mr. Pownall, In its efforts to extricate Mr. Powxall (one of the four members from Lancaster co., in the last Legislature who voted for the $3,000,000 appropriation to the Sunbury and Erie Rail road,) from the odium attached to his course, and throw dust in the eyes of its readers, the Examiner seizes with avidity a slight error that occurred in one of our paragraphs last week, in which the oompositor made us to say that all the members from this county, save Mr. Pownall, voted against the Sunbury and Erie appropriation. We intended to say that all the members, with the exception of Mr. Kauffman, voted for it; and because Mr. K. voted against it, he was set aside by tho Con vention (which body was under railroad and corporation influence) and one of the four, Mr. Pownall, who voted for the appropriation, was nominated over him, and that, too, upon a direct issue made by ’Squire Fisher in the Convention. We thank the Examiner for directing our attention to the mistake. It has enabled us to again call public attention to the course of Mr. Pownall, as also to the fact that the “Union” Convention endorsed his vote in opposition to what we are sure is the senti ment of nine-tenths of the people of Lancaster county. The Examiner affects a great deal of sympathy for Jacob Mters, because the Dem ocratic County Committee, for good and sub stantial reasons, withdrew his name from the ticket. These crocodile tears are well under stood by the community, and will do no harm. But, in stating how he was nominated by the Convention, the Examiner ought to tell the truth. Instead of Baying he was nominated by a vote of “thirty-five districts, against twelve votes for his competitor,” the truth is he was the choice of only a minority of the Conven tion. By reference to the proceedings, pub lished in the Intelligencer of the Bth inst., the Examiner will learn that for Clerk of the Orphans’ Court the vote stood as follows: Myers, 22—Kolp, 20—Urich, 4. Will our neighbor, in his future reference to this subject, be candid enough to make the correction? We shall see. Organize I Organize 11 But two weeks remain until the election.— Are our friends throughout the county pre pared for the contest? We hope so; but the calm which pervades Unpolitical atmosphere excites apprehension that there is too much lukewarmness or apathy in our ranks. There is still time to accomplish much in the way of a thorough organization. We hope the com . mittees and the leading men in the different districts will see to the matter at once. The enemy also appear to be inactive—but we must not trust to this. They would fain lull the Democracy to sleep by their feigned inac tivity, and, then, at the proper time, hurl their masses upon us when we are least able to resist the onset. Let o.ur friends everywhere be active and vigilant—make arrangements to have every voter at the polls—and leave nothing undone, in a fair and honorable way, to poll at least as heavy a vote in the county as we "did last fall. Recollect that every vote we poll here in Lancaster county count one in the general aggregate for State officers. THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. State Ticket. The State Ticket composed of Gen. Wil liam F. Packer, for Governor ; Nimrod Strickland, for Canal Commissioner ; Messrs. Strong and Thompson, for Supreme Judges; Messrs. Patton and Raub, for the Senate; and Messrs. Bbenneman, Mcllvain, Bones and Wicks, for the Assembly—is sßch an one, in all its parts, as must commend itself to the voters of Lancaster connty, irrespective of party. It is emphatically a strong ticket,- made up of talented, intelligent and reliable men, each of whom is peculiarly well qualified to fill with dignity and ability the station as- i ' signed him. Of tbe candidates for Gover- I nor, Canal Commissioner and Supreme Judges, whose triumphant election is a foregone con clusion, we have spoken repeatedly since the nominations were made, and we can only add that four better, or more competent and trust worthy men are not to be found in the broad limits of the Commonwealth. Legislature. ! With regard to onr candidates for the Sen ate and Assembly, it is admitted on all haifds, j even by our opponents themselves, that six | better men for the posts, in overy respect, j were never presented to the people of Lancas ter county for their suffrages. Should they be elected, and we are not without hope of their success, their constituents will find them to be honest, capable and trust worthy, and their legislative course will reflect honor upon themselves and the oommunity they represent. County Ticket. The County Ticket is also composed of highly intelligent, reliable and meritorious men.— Indeed we do not see how a better tioket could well have been formed. 'Sheriff. The candidate for Sheriff, Jacob Sener, is an honest, upright, active business man—a farmer of East Hempfield township—who is so well and favorably known to the people of the oounty, as to require no eulogy at our hands. Every body who wishes to see elected an active, humane and capable Sheriff will voffe for Sener. Prothonotary. William Carpenter, Esq., of thfe City, formerly an old line Whig, but an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Buchanan and the State Ticket last year, is our candidate for Prothonotary. He is known to almost every man, woman and child in the county, as an accomplished scrivener and surveyor, and of unbounded popularity. No more competent man to discharge intelligently the onerous and complicated duties of that important office, could be found any where. Register. William Hays, of Little Britain, is the candidate for Register. He is a highly intel ligent farmer of that township, of mature years and unflinching integrity, who, if elected, will honestly and faithfully dis charge his duties and render general satisfac tion to the people. No better man could have been selected for the post. Recorder. Our candidate for Recorder is Henev Rush, Esq., of Providence township. He, too, is a farmer—a man of strict integrity, and un doubted business qualifications, who would discharge the duties of the office correotly and to the entire satisfaction of the people. County Treasurer. John S. llostetter, of Manheim township, is the candidate for the responsible office of Gounty Treasurer. He also was one of the old line Whigs of the coupty who so gallantly stood shoulder to shoulder with us in the memorable enmpaign of last year.- His qual ifications for the office are undoubted, and his well-known activity and energy will insure him a very heavy vote where he is best known; Clerk of Orphans’ Court. For Clerk of the Orphans’Court— an office of very great importance to the people of the county, we have Dr. Adam S. BAre, of Upper Leacock. To great energy of character and undoubted business qualifications, the Dr’s personal popularity and efficient services in the party for many years, should, as we have no doubt they will, make him a very strong candidate.' ’• £ Clerk of Quarter Sessions. Jacob Foltz, Esq,, of this City, (and for several years Deputy Sheriff,) is the candidate for Clerk of the Quarter Sessions. Mr. F. is 'another of the old line Whigs who rallied under our in the campaign of 1850. Ilis superior qualifications for the correct and faithful discharge of the duties of the office are undoubted, and he deserves to be elected. County Commissioner. For County Commissioner the Convention selected our veteran Democratic friend, John Whiteside, of Colerain. A better selection could not have been made, and the tax-payers of the county, if they desire to be represented in the Board by a strictly conscientious man, well qualified lor the post, should by all means cast their votes for the honest old farmer of Colerain. I Prison Inspectors. j For Prison Inspectors we have O. C. M. | Caines, ah intelligent and deserving Mechanic and Architect of this City, and Christian Hunshberger, a worthy farmer of West Earl. These gentlemen are both well qualified to fill the office, and we hope to see them elected. Directors of Poor. Our candidates for Directors of the Poor are . Lewis llaldy and S. J. Morrison, two worthy ! and industrious Mechanics jf this City, and Dr. Richard Ream, an intelligent Physician of East Cocalico. We hope to see them elected, as the interests of the county and the inmates of the establishment would be well ; taken care of. Coroner. \ Dr. James B. Freeland, a highly respse* table and intelligent Physician, of this City, is our candidate for Coroner. The office is one which should at all times be filled by a Physician, and the choice of the Convention could not have fallen on a more worthy or competent man. Auditor. Amos A. llauk, of Paradise, the candidate for Auditor, is an excellent clerk and accoun tant, and admirably qualified for the post. Both he and Dr. Freeland were old line Whigs who assisted us in fighting the battles of last year, and who deserve well ot the Democratic party. Sush is the Democratic State and County Ticket presented to the people of Lancaster county. As we stated last week, it is one in all its parts, of which we feel proud. It is com posed of men throughout of whom any party might be proud. It is a ticket which com mends itself strongly, not only to the Demo cratic party, but to the honest and indepen dent voters outside of that party. In short, it is just such-a ticket as deserves to be elected and if the people of the county are alive to their true interests, and we believe they are, it will be elected. Senator Bigler’s Speech. According to promise we publish this week (on our first page) the great speech of Senator Bigler, at Clarion, in reply to Wilmot. It is a plain, powerful and convincing argument throughout, and is highly creditable to the head and heart of its distinguished author. Senator Bigler dissects with a master hand the sophisms of Wilmot, and shows the arch agitator up in his true light to the gaze of the people. We recommend all our readers to give this speeeh a careful and unprejudiced perusal. The State Fair at Philadelphia, com mences to-day. Be Warned In Time I The success hitherto of Railroad Companies in obtaining, from the Pennsjlrania Legisla- ture, enactments for their exclusive benefit, to the great injury and wrong of the tax-papers of the State, is an argument for extreme vigi lance on the part of the people, and for great care and caution in the selection of their rep;- resentatives. We trast and believe that the people of Lancaster county are awake upon this subject But it can do no harm to show them that preparations are already being made to approach the next Legislature with schemes for the benefit of corporations at the j expense bf the public treasury. We advise i the citizens of this great county to keep their eyes upon the schemers, and send Messrs. Pat ton, Raub, Brenneman, Mcllvain, Bones and Wick.B to watch them ! See what the Sunbdry ■& Erie Railroad is after: The Shnbdrv and Erie Road. —We trust that the County Convention, which is, to con vene on the 3d of September, will bear in mind this great work, when the nominations for the Legislature come up. We know not what measure or measures of relief and aid will be introduced the coming session, but learn that its friends design to make application, in some shape, with strong hopes of success. Erie county, more interested than any other place, should be on hand, and well represented. She should have active, zealous and working mem-, here, and men of ability. The above paragraph—says the Harrisburg Union—from the last numberoftheErie(?aze#<?, may serve to put the people, who are about to elect members to the next Legislature, upon their guard. The Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company made a vigorous and memorable as sault upon the Treasury at the last session, and came so near carrying- their point, that they are emboldened to renew their demands “with strong hopes of success.” What, the nature of their renewed plans are we have no means of anticipating, but we hope that by the meeting of the next Legislature there will be two obstacles fatal to their success : first, the adoption by the people of the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting the State lend ing its credit to any corporation ; second, the election of an honest Legislature, composed of men with the requisite integrity and firmness to resist the appeals of begging corporations, whether such appeals are made to their sym pathies or to their pockets. What shape this application will assume we are at a loss to conjecture. No doubt the managers have some plan in view by which legislative aid may be obtained without viola ting the letter of the Constitutional amend ment. Of one thing we feel assured ; and that is, that whatever plan is determined upon, it will be urged by all the appliances that cor porations have learned by experience to bring ! to bear upon the Legislature, We call the attention of the people to this matter that they may guard in time against their representatives in the next Legislature re enacting some of the disreputable scenes of last session. Extra Session of the Legislature. Governor Pollock has issued a Proclama tion convening the Legislature, in extra ses sion, on Tuesday the 6th of October, for the purpose, we suppose, of legalizing the suspen sion of specie payments by the Banks. We doubt the policy of such a proceeding at this time. Why not have waited until after the election and then, if necessary, convene the new Legislature? Were the officers of the City Banks and the Governor afraid to trust representatives fresh from the ranks of the people ? It looks very much like it. Important to the Iron Interest TheSecretaryof the Treasury, lion. Howell Cobb, has issued a circular to the Iron Manu facturers of the country, dated August, 1857, asking information on various points relative to the manufacture of Iron. The Secretary concludes the circular by saying that “ the policy of affording encouragement to this great interest, by promoting its production and in creasing its consumption, has been commen. ced by the Government, and I am desirous of obtaining all the information which can be had on the subject, with a view to its further development/' This is encouraging to our iron men. When they see at a glance that the National Admin istration, representing the Democratic party of the country, has taken a bold and fearless stand with a view of rendering aid and protection to this great interest, they may be satisfied that justice will not be withheld in case they suffer from present duties. And this, too, coming from a southern man, who has been rated as a Britishfree trader by the enemies of the Demo cratic party ! People of Pennsylvania—of Lancaster county! Whom will you choose to rule overyou, Packer and the friends of your dearest interests, or Wilmot, the Black Republican Free Trader and his Abolition allies ? Choose ye between them whom ye will serve. Sale of Port Snelltng. The New York Times and other newspapers about the country have been making a great outcry over the alleged sacrifioe made in the sale of the Fort Snslling reservation, by order of the Government, and intimations have been held out that the Secretary of War sold it by private sale for less than it was worth, to serve himself and friends. The Washington Union says the sale was made by two officers appointed by the Secretary of War, and that they went out with instructions not to sell it for less than $7,50 per acre. That they received an offer of $70,000 for it, but refused to sell for less than $l2 per acre, to which price the person who offered the $70,000 finally came up. This was a larger price than the Gov ernment has ever received for public lands, for at every public sale combinations of spec ulators are made to keep down the price, the Government never getting more than from $1,50 to $5 per acre. It was this fact that induced the Government to sell at private sale, and it has saved $BO,OOO by the sale, compared with other prices at which Government reservation have been sold at public sale. Some persons probably, have missed fleecing the Govern ment of its lands without a fair equivalent, and now then- public virtue feels outraged at the loss. If the Secretary of War has done anything wrong in the transastion it is easy enough to show proofs of the fact. At pres ent the transaction stands to his credit as a very favorable one to the Government. Justice with a Vengeance I At the Court of General Sessions of New York city, last week, Judge Russell sentenced a young man named John Henningen to foHy years’ imprisonment in the State Prison, for knocking a man down and robbing him of $5 and an old hat! What a fool Henningen was I Why did’nt he steal $50,000' or $500,000 while he was about it? They could not have punished him more severely, and, peradven ture, would have let him off altogether. Five dollars and an old hat! The rascal deserved his sentence for stealing so little. He evi dently did not know that justice is not blind, but peeps from under her muffle, examines the condition of the prisoner aiad decides accordingly. ®§L,Hon. J. Glancy Jones has our thanks for a copy of the Mechanical Division of the Patent Office Report for 1856, in three vol umes. Time was when one thin volume con tained the whole of this Report. But the business of the Patent Office has increased in a ten-fold greater ratio than any of the other Departments of Government. of Slavery In Congress, The triumphs of the National Democracy over the Biuok Republicans in the free States-, and over the Know-Nuthings in the South, have given us a gnnd working majority, in the next House of Representatives. In spite of all the slanders and calumnies of the disunion ists, says the Richmond Enquirer, theconditiqn of the National Democracy was never more | healthy and harmohio'us thatf'at present. Two years ago the successes of the Black Republi cans in the free States and the temporary ' prosperity of Sam in the slave States had re duced our numbers, and temporarily crippled our strength. The election of Mr. Buchanan was the first cheering sign of our returning power, and now the National Democracy con trol the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Executive department of the govern ment. The Supreme Court of the United States has given greater dignity and importance to the principles of the Democratic party, by render ing a decision in the Dred Scott case in strict conformity with the doctrine embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska act, and in that resolution of the Cincinnati Convention which relates to the constitutional rights of the people of the United States in the Territories. There never was, therefore, a period iu the history of party when there was more concord and harmony in the ranks of the National De mocracy than at present. North and South they occupy precisely the same position on the slavery question. There is nothing, so far as the slavery question is concerned, about which the National Democracy can possibly differ. The whole question of slavery in the ter ritories having been laid at rest by the decis ion of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, and by the acts for the establishment of territorial governments in Kansas, and in Nebraska, there is no phase ot the slavery question which can be legitimately made the subject of controversy iu Congress. We sin cerely trust that the representatives of the National Democracy in the next Congress will oppose and deprecate the agitation of slavery. They will have a good reliable majority of at least fifteen in the House of Representatives, and overy conservative, reflecting citzen of the United States desires that the discussion of slavery may forever be banished from the halls of Congress. The whole question having been settled, the agitation of a question so exciting and disturbing should be punished as a crime by all who have the interests of the Union at heart. Let the National Democracy, now the domi nant party in this country, determine to put down every attempt of factionists from what ever quarter they may come, to re-open the hateful question of “ slavery” agitation. For nearly thirty years this bone of conten tion has engaged the attention of Congress, to the exclusion of nearly every thing else. The true interests of the nation, the most impor tant questions of domestic and foreign policy have been neglected, that seotional strife en dangering the prosperity of the country might be kept up, by designing demagogues and raving fanatics. Speculators and lobby members availing themselves of the turmoil, confusion and exoitement engendered by this hateful question, have pillaged the govern ment of countless millions. All the most im portant interests of the country have suffered in consequences of this question, like Aaron’s rod swallowing up all others. Although a few dangerous extremists may desire to con tinue the work of sectional agitation, the great mass of the people, North and South, desire that the agitation of the slavery ques tion shall ooaso now and forever. Tlie Kansas Constitutional Convention. The Kansas Constitutional Convention met on the 7th inst., at Lecompton. Somo sixty members presented their credentials and were admitted to seats. Gen. Calhoun was elected permanent President, and Mr. Cary, the cor respondent of tho New York Times, perma nent Secretary. After the permanent organi zation of the Convention it adjourned until the third Monday of October next. The cor respondent of the New York Times in specu lating concerning the composition of the Con vention and its action on the all-absorbing slavery question, says : “ A majority of the Convention is, I believe, in favor of a submission of the Constitution to the popular vote. It is true there are great differences of opinion, even among those pledg ed to that policy, as to the extent of requisite qualification Of previous residence. Some go for a twelve months’ residence, somo for six, some for three months, and a few, a very few, for no previous residence at all beyond the fact of proof of actual residence at the time of voting, and of-th e animus manendi of the voter. I think it probable, that they will compromise on six months, and that six months'residence will elapse between the period oj the framing of the Constitution in October and its submission to the people next Spring for adoption or rejec tion. I say the framing of the Constitution in October, because it is now generally believed, and many of the members of the Convention state it as their belief and hope, that immedi ately after perfecting the organization of the Convention, the appointmentofthecommittees, and the assignment to these committees of their various tasks, the Convention will ad journ until after the elections in October, so as to be guided in their subsequent and final ac tion by the expression of the popular will as manifested in the interval. The Editor’s Book Table. EMERSON'S MAGAZINE AND PUTNAM’S MONTHLY. By J. M. Emerson A Co., 371 Broadway, N. Y. The October number of this consolidated Magazlue has been received from the Publishers. It is well filled with highly interesting, instructive and humorous articles, sev eral of them handsomely and appropriately Illustrated, and also a fashion plate for the month. Amongst the capital articles contained in the number are : “Up the Mississippi,” “ The Life of Washington,” “ A Tale of Lager Beer,” “ Last Evening with Allston,” “The Sublime and Infinite,” “ My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,” by Major Downing, Ac. Terms of the Magazine—s 3 per annum for single copy; two copies for $5, or five copies for $lO. A splendid Library of Forty Large Bound Volumes is presented to every person who gets up a club of 24 subscribers. NEW WORKS BY PETERSON. The enterprising publisher, T. B. 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Godey, Philadelphia, and we will guaran tee yon will never regret it. THE HAPPY HOME AND PARLOR MAGAZINE. By C. Stone & Co., Boston. The October nnmber is a capital one in its reading mat ter, and Its embellishments are superb. ‘‘The Last Supper” is Indeed a beautiful engraving, and is, itself, worth the the price of the nnmber. This Magazine is one which shonld be in every family. The moral tone running through all its articles are ad mirably adapted to benefit the young and rising generation. Terms—s 2 pir annum, in advance. MERRY’S MUSEUM AND SCHOOL FELLOW. Published •’ by J. N. Stearns A Co., 116 Nassau street, N. Y., at $1 per annum. A most capital little work published monthly, and in tended specially to interest and benefit the youth of both sexes. It is handsomely illustrated. Great Wheat Crop. —The St. Paul Min nesotian eayß, on eixty acres of land, in Wash ington , county, Minnesota, there was raised this season the enormous yield of three thou sand bushels of wheat, or fifty bushels to the acre. The grain is of the finest and heaviest quality, actually weight four or five pounds more to the bushel than the standard weight. The crop was raised from seed which has long been in the Territory, and was thoroughly ac climated. Winter's cold has no effeot on it. CITY AMD COUNTY A ; FFA.IRS Tue Monev- Panic—" Ron” on tub Banks Svspk.nsios oryenar PirmOTs—The money panic !» now at its height at lea*t we hope *o. -‘Hard time*” are upon ns in earnest, and yet, it Is to be feared, we have not seen the worst. The “run” on the Philadelphia Bank* on Friday, and their suspension of “specW-’ payments, had the effect of causing a tremendous rash on our Banks.— East King street, that is the first square, (East King is the i Wall street ot Lancaster,) was filled, on Saturday morning. with an anxious crowd longwhile before the Banks opened, i and when the opening hour did arrive there was a psrfect i £ P°H mell” rush Into the banking rooms. The excitement was most intense, however, in the immediate vicinity of the Farmers' Bank, there being, comparatively, but a little crowdinfrontoftheLancasterCountyßank. The Cashiers, Tellers, &c n politely Informed the gentlemen with their “fives,” “tens," “twenties,” andr-even “fifties” and •‘hun dreds,” that “specie” payment had been suspended, and. consequently, there was no use “knocking at the door.’*— This was a sore blow to the hundreds of country peopie who had come to town that morning for marketing busi ness generally, but for a “run” on the Banks especially.- | Some of them took the matter good-naturedly enough, but ‘ others, again, were as “cross as a bear with a *o re head.” For an hour or two the excitement was up to “fever heat.” : but by noon everything was “calm as a summer’s morn.” ’ iS-Some persons In this city are in favor of tho re-issuing of : “shin plasters.” This is the sheerest nonsense. There is : plenty of “specie” locked up in the country which must now find its way into general use. We are decidedly opposed to having oar pockets crammed full of such itufl*. the whole, perhaps, hardly amounting to a dollar. Rash measures will not do. The people must meet the “crisis” calmly and dispassionately. Good results may yet gprin~ 1 out of tho “storm” which i* now sweeping like a whirlwind over the couutry. Gyger’s New Building.— The iron front of Gyger &, Co.’s new Banking House, in East King street, was put up last week. It is elegant and massive in it* appearance, and is, without doubt, the handsomest in tho city. The building is rapidly npnroaching completion. Frank Stouch.— Prof. Frank Stnuch will re-open his Dancing Aradt-iny. at Pulton ILUI, on Monday next, as will be seen by reference to bis card in another column. This will be good news to Frank’s numerous frionds, who are fond of enjoying themselves in tho “misty mazes of the dance.” Democratic Mass Meeting.—One of the largest and most enthusiastic Democratic meeting? ever held in this county took place at the public houie of John F. Keihl, In Fairville, ou Saturday evening la.-t. The fol lowing persons were elected officers of the meeting:— President —Christian Shovalter. IV.-y Prcsittcnt*— Joseph Kuser, K. K. Snyder, Joseph Xewplmr. Secretory— Solomon Mosner. The meeting was then addressed by w. £eegvr Darrow, Samuel Hull, Jacob 15. Aniwake. Ktq..r.»i William Patton and John W. Merkley, Ksq. The Agricultural Exhibition.—We paid a visit the other day to the Fairgrounds, and found mat ters beginning to assume the shape of a real agricultural exhibition. The grounds are enclosed with a substantial board fence. Uu Wednesday last a pole, over sixty feet in length, was erected from the lop ot which floats a large flag. The race track is .’5O feet wide and fully half a mil” long. A few of our fast trotting nags’ powers have already been put to the test upou it, and It has proved quit* satis factory. Around the northern and casern .-.ides of the enclosure some 3<JU malls fur cattle havo been put up. The buildings for tho display of agricultural Implements, fancy articles, fruit, kc , are now being erected. They will l> e ten in number. The grounds are situated in the extreme northern port of the city, and the principal entrances will be from North Priuce street and tho Plank Road. The General Superintendent, Mr. Spangler, is present all the time, giving hi* personal supervision to everything con nected with the grounds. We have been iuformed that a large number of entries hare already been made of different kinds of articles, and eTery day fresh outries are being recorded. We are certain that this Fair will be an honor to Lancaster county. There can be no question about it if our citizens manifest half ns much Interest as the officers and managers of the Agricul tural Society. Lancaster, tlm “garden spot of Pennsylva nia,” ought not to be behind her sister ecuntieH in this respect, but, rather, far abend. The Fair commences on Wednesday.the 14th of October, and will continue through out the week. rp„„ a The principal sufferer* were Messr*. Wright .t Co., U. Rauh. Tue Horticultural Society.-'!he Lan- w,u. M.,rri»on ,u„i vm„,„. Th„ cUr, i„ M will caster City and County Horticultural Society has .been not fall much short of *1’25,0U0-about $50,000 of which permanently organized by the election of the following was covered with Insurance. There were between 2,1)00,QU0 gentlemen as officers, who will serve for tho ensuing year : lU j,l 8,000,000 foot of lumber destroyed. President-Dn. 11. E. Muhlenrf.hu. Another on Frld.iv night, iu a building on Fourth *trcot. JiM/VMufcMhf—Hon. John Zimmerman, Ca*por Ilillar, , , ‘ John Miller, Jacob B. Garber. iu tho rear of Broadway, and adjoining tho store of Mr. On-responding Secretary— John J. Libhnrt. Goo. Fahnestock. Loan about $O,OOO. lBfev ~- ««»• * ■-•.-nth. Librarian— Frederick Cooper. Hth lust., destroying property amounting in value to ovor Hoard of Managers^ —Hon. John Strohm, Jucob Frantz, SIuO,OUO. Tho principle sufferers were Messrs. Wooster & Thus. H. llurrones, E6q , James Black, Ksq.. D- G. Enhle- Temple, dry goods morch in I* ; Murcourt A I’age. wholesale man, Ksq., Newton Lightnor. Ksq., Benjamin Herr, Esq., J. . ... . , ~ , llnrtiunu Ilershey. Harvey Brnckbill, Levi S. Rolfit, K*n. t Froeors ; Dunlin, Morrison. McLoarnlDg, nnd Uuskamp.— John B. Warfel, Esq.. J. K. 1 [offer, Louis O. Lyte, John m' Mossrs, Marcourt «fc Page lost $15,000, and wore insured for Summy, C. B. Herr, Honry G. Herr. John Brady, jr., Aldus £l2 OUO J. Groff, Dr. Samuel Parker, John G. Hreruor, D&vld Hart- .. ~ - TT7 , , „ . . „ man, Jacob Baughman, Jacob 11. Hhoades, John Huber, ro ou '* ul * Dcs uny afternoon and Dight, a Mr. Daniel Engle, 11. A. Ilogondobler, John. J. Libhart, Henry Hughes, a strangor, was robbed of a pocket book contain w ??«°n ? f i' ? r obaati! ‘ n Kul!er - r,eo - ing $.300, and a Mr. Morton, of Pennsylvania, was relieved W. Mehaffy, C. H. Lefevro, Daniel Ilerr, tPeriuea.) Jacob * N. Miller, Dr. W. A. Shelly, Dr. P. S. Klinger, Dr. J. IT. . of a flno * oUJ W4ti:ll ' Kurtz, Dr. Tho*. Ellmaker, Dr. 8. Wolchons. Rudolph F Mr. E. W. Brocks, of Ohio, was robbed a few days since a. n?. as, K d “«” *»■** «<• »• ?• 0~-’ Collins, 11. C. Locher, Benjamin F. Rowe, Frederick Cooper tt k' v hours previous to tho robbery. His Htato William S. Ilough, F. 11. Stauffer. ’ room was entered and the lock of the trunk was forced. No A Trio of Beauties!—Brothers Goodall of cluo t 0 tho thlof ' ThB m ° n " y “‘“' on w ‘ 3 11,0 ° r ~ T, ~ fP , . „ , . the sale of a farm and stock, and was all he possessed In the Daily Times, and Whitman of the Harrisburg Herald . ~ „ ~ ... . ~ b tho world. He was on his way to Kansas, are still contending about our beauty! 0! gentlemen wo xx tr ~ , , ... „ ~, , . , . . _, , . J * e men, wo Mr. Herman fcchroeder, a Notary Public of this city, ha#t beg of yon to desist. For the sake of “suffering humanity” ■ , , , ~ . . 1T BU4 „ ’ , , , x , . s y : been arrested on a warrant from the L. S. States Oomrais do! Because you happened to be born “good looking” it • - ~ „ , , , , h K u ■ sioner, tor procuring letters from the Post Office Iwlonglng does not, by any means, follow that uv were, or that we ♦ . lf . , . , to some one olse. He ts also charged with forging land, should be placed in your galasy of beauties! However, If , rarrMt ,. N o has jet been bad. you w.Il ol *ly Ruit writing about it, we will “own up” I hut , t seems thot the nu.il of the Bth lust., destined for St, wear a goodWA-ms. Tho following u a trio oi Immhome Louis, from tho East, wa, destroyed by lire. The following young men, whom any Photographist might bo proud to , , Btt „ but „, rcl;olrcJ b tho Post „ uatcr: have in a conspicuous place in hi, Oallery. What say, | Cocomdus, 0„ September 10, 1557. our friend Johnston. Ilere they are: Whitman of the ! Postmaster, SI. Louis— Sir : Tho mail fnmi Philadolhia, Ilenild, tioodall of the Times, and—somebody also. Modesty ' Washington and Baltimore to St. Louis, of the Bth lost., forbids us to say who the latter individual is' was a l mnst entirely consumed by fire last night, on tho cars, tho fragments I have forwarded to you. Fine AOTnoTTra.-Passing along North ' Special Agent. Queen street, the othor dav, we noticed in the case, in front i , n nt , g-TA . ’ ODI A man by the name of Wm. C. Blako, an engineer by ofDellingor’s Daguernan Gallery, a large ambrotme Tlew r , ,* * . ........ i. ~, , , , it _ . , , , , 3 K •’ ve lew profoßsion, attempted suicide at the National Hotel the of the meeting of citizens he d m Centro Square ou the 4th ,» . . . . ... .. . . ~ , T , , . ® , 1 tfUII ine 4CQ other night, by first cutting his throat in a mo3t shocking of July last. The Tiew is a mn*t capital one—tho officer* „ , ~ , . , . * mur "’ manner with a small pen-knife, and afterwards jumping oratorand reporters, on the principal stand, belne easiiv . r.u .>.■ a * . . , , . , ° f hi , otuig oaanj out of the third-story window, aud strange to relate, ho ro recogmze . ronuuent ou the other stand are tho Conti- coived no other injury from tho Call, than asprainod ankle nentals who, U will he remembered dieted the N.tlon.l Ue waa „, nTeyed to th , olty lloßrita ,. Under a of Choir iu tho exorcises of that morning. delirium Iremnil, he attempted to take hie own life. It la The other 1, a view of the Keystone Cricket Club of this tLou!;ht he wiII rOCOTer . city. The countenances cf all the memheis are easily SLsrpei who wls on , rial for tho pMt wuak _ for lho recognize a a g anco. T eso pictures are really well exe- murder of Dr. Cleveland, has been acquitted. Korre, for cuted, und reflect the highest credit on Mr. Dellinror ~ . , T v - , . , . .. o uewujar. tho murder of Jacoby, was found guilty of murder in tho Awarding the Prizes.—Th© German Rifle • first degree. Society concluded their celebration on Tuesday, on their j office of tho American Express Co., at Madison, Wl*., ground*, by a competition for the various prizes. The wa * recoutly robbed of $15,000 in gold and silver. Tho contest was quite spirited, and drew together a large num- ! or thievoi wont into the ilceplng room of the agent, her of persons. There wore three targets, A, B and C, at l^e from hi* pocket and accomplished the rob which the firing was confined. Tho firing continued from borj '- S 10 o’clock a. m. until 5 o’clock p. m. Tho first prize was There has been quite an exciting time iu Nebraska, carried away by Christian Banchhardt, of Baltimore; the caufiud l> >* a desperate encounter botwoen fugitiro slaves second by A. F. Hoffman, of this' city; and tho third by J. ati< * men. The negroes, three in number, wore over- C. Myer, of Baltimore. Tho other prizes, five in number ! t:lkon in th *' r by Messrs. Davis, Clark and Hanly, were won respectively by tho following persons : Messrs. u^rafi ka, aud Mr. Myers, of MiasuurL The negroes Schmidt, Kalk and Schmidt of Philadelphia, Myers of turnt,li u P on tljem 110,1 commenced flriog, and killed Mr. Lancaster, and Dietrich of Baltimore. The persons partici Myers on the spot. Davis shot one of the negroes in tho paring had a merry time. The visitors left for their homos arm ’ nucl * ie rUQ t 0 the rlTer a,ld leapod lu i wh o was closely on Wednesday, delighted with the cordiality with which : P u,Bu « d by DavU, aud after a desperate struggle in the they were entortained by their Lancaster brethren. 1 w * te **, the negro surrendered; the olher two negroes ran RobberY—Od Monday last, the stable of . '' h ,° rB thoir '“T" 1 ! !, h “ r T'. 08 ’ cut J ’ u ° them loose, mounted, rodu them under full speed through Mr. Hiram Wilson was entered, and a valuable set of har- ! the timber, when they rwro shortly lost sight of Some ness stolen. Tho thief offered it for sale at the Franklin , forty or fifty persons started in pursuit. House, and afterward, at Mr. Rumple", hardware store, j A report been circulated hero, that the notorious next door to Mr. Wilson s dwelling, but at both places the t ; „ . ~- a , , a a . , . *' h i “>-co i Jim Lane, of Kansas, was killed in a fight at Lawrence.— very low price* asked excited suspicion that tho harness vu- i. a . , ~. r ...... a , ■ , , y waouaiutaa jhis Is another “roorback’ from the “ shriekers ” to was stolen, and it was refused. It was finally disoosed of i . , . .. Vf a . a Ta • . xr t, , , , ‘J ulh l K,Bea 01 create alarm in the Northern States. Boltevo nothing tloat to Messrs. Biandt and Vogel. Mr. Wi son, learning the . . .. al . .. . „ b , , . 6 ’ 1,10 erainates.from Kansas through the Black Republican Drintfl circumstances of tho harness being offered for sal#, made 1 ~ . r , , i , . . y , . h "“*■* mauM i —lies most foul, murdora never beard of. and roorbacJa farther inquiries and recovered it. but the thief eluded 1 . . . a „ /x v, r , v ’ „ e eiunea moat (lamning> wi n ha daily rent into Pennsylvania up to Courtable Hollingsworth , search. He i, knowu to bo au ! th , hour of Thcsa , hrM , fro ,„ K „ naaJ are , ho old offender, Samuel Stoutzenberg.r, receuU, diacharged OD , y „ pital your Black Republican party have to work from jail, where he had served hi. time ou a sentence for ' Th , » brlokor , horo are g , TlnB , n dc , r firing hay in Marietta. —Columbia Spy. • ~ „ c * . , , . . _ . b FJ j tx-Oovernor Stevens has been elected Delegate to Con- Turnpike Election.—At an election at the I B reM from WMiiington Territory by i> handsome majority. Franklin Houle, Columbia, on the 17th inst., the foliowinc ' The old s,,Miora of Missouri— the survivor, of 1812-aro gentlemen were elected officer, of the Columbia and Wash- j me et at Marshall, Saline county, on the 22d inat., to ington Turnpike Road Company: President— George G. i ro,l * i ‘ !, ‘ 1 ' measure, “ n whicii they are interested. Brush. Managers —Abraham Bruner, Isaac Pusey, George I J °t ln Shroder und lady, and Ml., Haines, pasted Boyle, Joseph Schocli, Isaac Hinkle, Jacob B. Shuman. tbro ' , B h f,ur “ fow slnce to Itockford, 111. Mr. Michael Zahm, of your city, who has been traveling POST Office. A new Post Office has for the past two month" through lowa, Kansas, and Ne been established on the route from Oxford to Pleasant bragka, arrrived in Ibis city on Saturday last, looking Grove, in this county, at the village of New Texas, ih unusually well. Mr. Zahm h direct from Kansas, and Fulton township, to be called “Lyle’s,” and Amo* reports everything in the Territory as quiet as it inhere, Lyle, Esq., appointed P. M. It will be regularly supplied and emphatically pronounced ono and all of the highly with tri-weekly mails. colored, exciting statements, as furnished to tho northern To Consumptives.—Dr. Geo. 11. Keyser, of preß * bjr Black Re P ubllcan correspondents, a* “ hugh roor -140 Wood street, Pittsburgh, Pa., prepares a Medicine for >»'*» "-miserable attempt, to docelro and humbug the Cough, and Lung Disease, that stands without a rival. It rto States. would be well for Consumptive persona to remember this. and upon the first approach of a Cough or Cold apply this remedy, which we are assured, from good authority, has cured a great Tari6ty of Lung Diseases, You can buy it at Hclnitßh’s Drng Store, 13 East King street. Canal Corruption. The Republican papers in this region are pub lishing a statement that it was proved before a legislative committee that Col. Piolett had acted corruptly while Superintendent of the North Branch Canal, and that Gen. Packer, os Canal Commissioner, had refused to remove him. The charge is not true; bnt if true, Judge Wiluot was concerned, for he was then Col. Piolett’s clerk! From 1839 to 1842, WiP mot received two dollars a day as clerk to the Superintendent of the North Branch Canal, yet we hoar the opposition talk about “ State : robbers,” as though they all belonged to the Democratic party. There has scarcely been a year of David Wiimot’s manhood during which he has not been a pensioner on the pub lic crib. —Lock Haven Register. U - T I®- Failures in all the large cities continue to he the order of the day. So far, the coun try has in a great measure escaped. ST. LOUIS correspondence:. A Tight .Voney Market—Depression of Business — Destructive. Fires—Heavy Jobberies—A Murderer Convicted and One Acquitted— Destruction erf Eastern Mail—Local Affairs — Encounter with Negroes in Nebraska—The Rumored Death of the Notorious Jim Lane-Look out for Rof backs—Old Soldiers Meeting—All Quiet in Kansas—Alarming and Ex citing Stories sent Eist- Buchanan , Democracy ti i Packer ! Tho past week has been delightfully pleasant, and we j have had several refreshing showers. In a business point jof view, everything is doll and depressed. Money contln . nes scarce and difficult to obtain, and we can report very : little amelioration in the *tringency of the market since . our last. The discounting.institution* through prudential I morlTp s. have continued to contract their line of discount* j and have been enabled to supply only a very small portion of the demand made upon them. The receipts of money from the country, though Increasing, has not been suffi cient to afford much relief. Businessmen have been there fore compelled to rely mainly upon their own resources, and the mutual assistance of each other to raise means to meet their maturing obligations.- Thus tar, T «ry few of our business houses have been vory much ombarraased and we believe that ail will get safely through this severe pressure, which has been so unexpectedly brought about. Money from the country will undoubtedly continue to in crease. as the fall trade has fairly opened, though many of the couutry merchants will probahly defer their the city until toward tho eloseof the month, that they may visit the Agricultural Fair, by which time we may safely predict the pressure in tho money market will be greatly, if not entirely relieved. Money matters are tighter now than they have been in this city for fifteen years, and tho consequenco la all do* partnienta of dull. There have boon many rumor* of failures and suspensions” in _ thi9 city, hilt we have to report that there have been but one failure and two sus pensions, aud one of the latter has again resumed, with fair prospects of tho other shortly commencing. The fact is. our linkers will not buy currency, whileour merchants aud dealer* are obliged to take it in payment for their goods, and when a note fulls due—<>wlug to the extreme scarcity of specie funds—tho drawer is unable to raise the gold and silver, and the holder refusing to accept currency, because hi.s baDker will not buy it from him. makes thing* a sreat deal worse than they othwrwlse would be. We heard of a firm paying ~}d percent, u month on a loan of a few thousand dolla. and another as high as ID per cent., and money i*. really scarce at 4,5, G and 7 per ceut. per mouth—in tact it would bo folly fur us to attempt to quote tho money market in the present state of affairs—whon those who have it have tho conscience to demand four times its wurth, whilst those who need it will submit to almost any shave to save themselves and keep alloat. We thiuk iu another week or ten days money matters will be eaaior, ami those who can weather the storm that long, need have no apprehension thereafter: but until then, we will not say at what moment some one nr other may go under. The steamboat owners of our city some time since passed a resolution that after the Ist inst., they would receive nothing but specie funds for frioght; but owing to tho stringency of the money market, they very properly recod ed from that resolution, aud willjiov take what money the merchants and denier* do for their goods. The scarcity of money has a very depressing influence up 'ii our produce market, and has largely curtailed busi ness and reduced prices. With small supplies of Wheat tho market max bo quoted a little bet ter—sales at 70c to $1 Corn <lull at 4't and 50c: Oats steady at 34 to 3ScI Itye 80 to line; Whiskey t,> 10c; Hay $1 *2O per 100 th*. Tho receipts of Corn at this port since the Ist of January, 1857, to the 17th of September, were I,WV>,”UG sacks, against 31*5,148 same time last year—sliuwiug au Increase of 774,- 14S sacks. Thu rivers continue Lo recede, and uro now quite low and difficult to navigate. Our city is now regarded quite healthy, there wel'6 hut I'4 deaths in tho past week, out of a popu- lation ef Ifio.uui) souls. The wholesale fancy ami notion store o;' Mcssiff. Lnck man k Busch, on Main street, was discovered to be on tire mi Monday afternoon lust, anti before the Haines could be stayed the two upjnr floors were burned out. Tho stock of goods was valucii at $50,000, a great portion of which The goods were iusured for $;io,l)U0, and the was saved loss was fully covered Another firo on Wednesday afternoon, which broke out in a carpenter's shop on 11th street, south of Market, con sumod the whole block fronting m 11th an*l Market, and a largo and well fillod lumber yard in tho roar. Tho wind was very high at the time, and tho tlamos crossed Market street, uud spread rapidly through another lumber yard.— We raaoot conceive what the opponent* of Democracy expect to gain by clrculating/o/w reports and false state ments in regard to the people of Kansas. Do they really suppose that the citizens of Kansas are not capable of gov erning themselves, and that theso appeals to the sympa thies of the northern people, will better their condlttion ? The real people at Kansas would take it as an insult to be tlius degraded, and placed upon a level with the Indian — the wild savage of tho forest—-and they do not thank the Black Republican correspondents, who are sent there by tho party—not os residonts, but as agitators of the peace and quiet of their new homes—for telling to the world that they aro not capablo of governing themselves. There are Just as intelligent people in Kansas as thero are to be found in any of the old States, und nine-tenths of them aro not aware of the pitiable situation they a* - ® placed la by these Black Republican scribblers, for among that number, prob ably, a northern paper is norerroen, and consequently they know nothing of the degrading condition they are repre sented as being placed in. What do the Black* expoct to accomplish in Pennsylva nia; they aro certainly not so ignorant as to bolievo that the Democracy desiro to have slavery again in Pennsylva nia. If Dot, why this evorlasting harping upon the negro question—lt is first Kansas! Kansas!! Kansas!!! then Nigger! Nigger!! Nigger!!! next Slavery ! Slavery! I Sla very !!! It is Missouri, Virginia, Maryland, Ac., Ac., Ac., they want to see mado free States. Suppose we do strike . out the slavery clauso from our Constitution, do the people, the Black Republicans of Pennsylvania, suppose that we would tolerate the negroes thereafter to infest our State? No, sir, when we strike out that clause, we wipe from the soil of our State the entire negro race—we strike that clause to get rid of them, not to extend more privileges.— Are the people of Pennsylvania prepared to receive, feed Bt. Loins, Sept. 21, 1857.
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