INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN.
GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., SEPTEMBER 29, 1857.
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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.
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who gets up a club of 24 subscribers.
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Caroline Lee Hentz, entitled “The Lost Daughter,” com
plete in odo large duodecimo volume, neatly bound in
cloth, for $1 25, or two volumes, paper cover, for $1 00.—
The publisher has alio in press, and will issue on the 3d
of October, “ Mrs. Halb’s Receipts for the Million,” con
taining 4545 receipts, facta, directions, Ac., being a com
plete Family Directory and Household Goide. This work
will be complete in od« large volume of 800 pages. Price,
neatly bound in cloth, $1,26.
Copies of either of these works will be sent to any part of
the United States free of postage, tn any one remitting the
price of the work to the publisher in a letter, directed to
No. 306 Chestnut st., Philadelphia.
GODEY FOR OCTOBER.
We are already in receipt of the Ladle’s Book. This is
decidedly the best nnmber yet issued, and to give it full
justice, it must bo seen to be appreciated. Reader, just
send $3 to L. A. 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.
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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.