INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN.
DEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
At SANDERSON, Associate*
LANCASTER, PA., OCTOBER 27, 1867.
circulation, itiito copies:
Subsomwio# Pszcx, $2,00 per annum.
To Delinquents.
There are quite a number of small bills due
us—some of them for several years—for pub
lishing Administrators' and Executors' No
tices, Orphans' Court Sales, and other matters
relative to the settlement of Estates. We
trust that Administrators, Executors, Guar
dians, eto., knowing themselves thus indebted
to us, will make payment without further de
lay. Living, as some of them do, in distant
parts of the County, it is, in most oases, impos
sible for us to see them before they settle their
accounts —nor is it at all profitable to have to
send a Collector after them two or three times
before he can find their whereabouts or get
the money. These bills ought to be paid.
The above remarks will also apply to many
who are indebted (for years) to this establish
ment for subscription, jobbing, advertising,
&o.
We dislike dunning as much as anybody—
but the truth must be told. We have thous
ands on our books to which we are honestly
entitled, and which we should have without
longer delay. . Of course, these remarks do not
apply to our prompt paying patrons, —they
are only intended for delinquents.
The Independent Treasury.
This system, whioh has now been in suo
oessful operation for many years, and which
at the time and for years after it was estab
lished, was violently opposed by a large and
respectable portion of the American people,
has - gradually worked its way into public
favor, and at this day its utility and beneficial
effects are so apparent that any attempt to
repeal it would meet with the scorn and con
tempt of ninety-nine out of every hundred of
the American popple. The wisdom and
sagacity of the Democratic statesmen of 1840
who initiated and passed the law in the face
of the most violent and determined opposition,
are now seen and acknowledged by every
body; and the present distinguished and
patriotic Chief Magistrate of the Union, who
•o ably advocated the measure in the United
States Senate, is now being praised on all
bands for the efficient part he took in estab
lishing the policy of a separation of the Gov
ernment from the Banking institutions of the
country.
Had the Independent Treasury not been
established, and were the funds of the Govern
ment now looked up in the vaults of the
suspended Banks, or frittered away by these
unsafe depositories perhaps, in large discounts
or loans to broken railroads, cattle, flour and
sugar speculators, a large portion of whioh
would be a total and entire loss, what would
be the oondition of things ? It requires no
great depth of thoughts answer the question.
Every school-boy, of twelve years of ago, can
see at a glanoe that, without the Independent
Treasury, we Bhould have a bankrupt Govern
ment in addition to bankrupt Banks, bank
rupt Railroads, bankrupt Speculators, &0., &o.
The wisdom and safety of the measure in
the operations of the General Government are
bo apparent, that in several of the States of the
Union an entire separation of Bank and State
and the establishment of State depositories is
being earnestly recommended; and we hope
to see the day when this much to be desired
reform will be accomplished amongst us, and
the government of good old Pennsylvania
entirely divorced from all Banks and monied
corporations. If the Independent Treasury
works well in the National Government, it
would doubtless be equally beneficial in State
affairs. We have the same thing, in practise,
in counties, cities, boroughs and townships,
and why should we not have it in Common
wealth affairs? If it answers the purpose
intended and works admirably in all these,
why should it not have the same good effect in
the State ? Let the people ponder on these
things. _
Hon. John K. Findlay.
The Hon. John K. Findlay has been elected
President Judge of the Third Judicial District
of Pennsylvania, composed of the counties ot
Northampton and Lehigh.
Judge Findlay is the youngest son of the
late Governor Findlay, of Franklin county,
and is, we believe, in the 54th year of his age.
Judge Findlay was named after the Rev. John
King, D. D., the pastor of the Conococheaque
Presbyterian Congregation, in which church
his parents were brought up. In 1820 he
entered the Military Academy at Wesc Point,
and graduated with the highest honors of his
class in 1824, when he received a commission
as 2d Lieutenant of the Ist Regiment of Ar
tillery on the Ist of July, 1824. In August
of the same year he was appointed Assistant
Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geol
ogy, at that Academy. In November of the
same year he was made Assistant Professor of
Ethics, &c., and officiated as such for about
one year, when, wishing more active service, he
joined his Regiment and served in it until the
13th of May, 1828, when he resigned his com
mission, and was for some time engaged as a
Civil Engineer. During this time he studied
Law, was admitted to the Bar in 1831, and
practised his profession in this city until 1841,
when he waß appointed by Governor Porter,
Recorder of Lancaster. During this time he
commanded the Lancaster Fencibles, one of
the best drilled volunteer companies in the
Union.
In 1845 he removed to Philadelphia, and
was appointed by Governor Shunk, one of the
Judges of the District Court for the city and
county of Philadelphia, and oontinued to oc
oupy a Beat on that Bench until the Ist of
December, 1851, when he resumed the practice
of his profession—during which time he com
manded a volunteer company in Philadelphia.
He is now transferred once more to the Bench,
by the voluntary and unsolicited action of the
people of the Third Judicial District, and we
have every confidence that in his new sphere
of honor and usefulness he will command the
unlimited respect and confidence of his con
stituents.
President BucnANAN.*haß deolined the
request of the Governor of Maryland, for the
use of the troops stationed at Fort McHenry,
to preserve order in Baltimore during the
approaching State election. The President is
of the opinion that the civil power of Mary
land Bhould be sufficient to preserve order and
enforce the laws.
The American Volunteer. —What Has
become of this old and valuable paper, whioh
we have been accustomed to read with pleasure
and profit, weekly, for thirty years ? We have
not had a sight of it for the last two or three
weeks. Has our friend Bratton cut our
acquaintance—or has he suspended in these
suspension times ? We hope neither the one
nor the other is the true cause. Perhaps the
fault lies with the P. M. at Carlisle—if so, we
hope Bratton will put him in mind of his neg
ligence.
19* 001. Benton is so far convalescent as
to be able to ride out. So says the Washing
ton Union.
An Old issue Revived.
The Daily Evening Express , which seems
to occupy the relation of a decoy dnek to the
Examiner , is attempting to galvanize the
defunct protective tariff system, which many
years ago was buried so deep in the grave of
oblivion as that no sane man ever dreamed
that any one would be silly enoagh to attempt
its exhumation or revivification. Bat new .
light has flashed athwart the mind of the
Examiner , and its tender the Express. They j
And that Black Republicanism is a dead cock
in the pit—in fact it did not even make a ;
respectable show in the fight, and its great
champion, Wilhot, has been utterly annihi
lated in the recent contest. In fact all the
isms of which the country has been so prolific .
in the last four years, have been literally
trodden under foot by the indomitable legions i
of Democracy, and scarcely a vestige of oppo- <
sition any longer remains. This is gall and
wormwood to our neighbors above-mentioned
—hence the necessity of putting forth a feeler
through the-. Express, in order, if possible, to
raise a new issue and re-organize their scat
tered and dismayed adherents on another and :
yet more rickety and unstable platform. They
tried that, to some extent, in the late Guber
natorial canvass —but they coujd make no
head way with a free-soil and free-trade candi
date for a leader. The deception they
attempted was too bald, and the effort fell
still-born an intelligent and enlightened
people.
The Express and its prompter the Examiner ,
may attempt to “ call spirits from the vasty
deep, but they won't come ?" It is now eleven
years since the dootrine of a “ protective tariff
for the sake of protection " was consigned by
the voice of the American people to the tomb
of the Capulets, and since then the country
has made giant strides in an unbroken career
of prosperity—ourfarmers have realized ready
markets and fine prices for the productions of
the soil, mechanics and laboring men have
had constant employment and good wages,
and every thing indicated & continued advance
ment for the country in greatness and pros
perity, until within a few weeks when the
Banks, by gross mismanagement and a series
of inordinate expansions and corresponding
contractions, have brought ruin and distress
upon the mercantile and industrial classes of
the community. But this would have happened
with or without a tariff. Like causes produce
like effects. A ruinous suspension occurred
in 1817 under a high tariff law—s<|), also, in
1837 under the high protective policy. After
; twenty years more, the last eleven under a
revenue tariff, we have a similar state of
things; and so it will continue to be, every
fifteen or twenty years, (whether we have a
high tariff or a low tariff,) as long as the
Banking system of the country is conducted
the way it has been since its first establish
ment in the oountry, and especially.since the
batch of Banks created in Pennsylvania, by
the Legislature of 1814, against, the wise
counsel and in opposition to the veto of Gover
nor Snyder.
This effort to resusoitate the high protective
tariff polioy comes with a bad graoe from
papers which have just been engaged advo
cating the election of a man for Governor of
Pennsylvania, who was the very, "head and
front of the tariff of 1846, and whoso vote
probably deoided the question at the time.—
This clearly and unmistakeably shows that
they are not sincere in their tariff notions.—
But, “ any port in a storm," as the sailors say.
Their Black Republican principles have been
so completely exploded, and the seal of public
condemnation bo indelibly impressed upon
them, that these papers must get up some
thing new, if thereby they may, possibly,
deceive their readers a while longer and keep
their scattered forces together. But it all will
not do. It is calculating too much upon the
gullibility of their readers, and their efforts
in that direction will turn out in the end to
be hut “ vanity and vexation of spirit.."
The Result in the State.
From the table we give to-day containing
the official returns from forty-four counties in
our State, we are enabled to form some esti
mate of the true majority which Geni Packer
has received. The result so far foots up
Showing a majority of.
Deducting HazeLhurst's vote.
Leaves Packer a majority over all.
Oar majority in the remaining counties,
twenty one in number, will be increased
some 3000 votes, giving Gen Packer the hand-
Borne majority over his principal competitor of
some 43,000 votes!
The Pennsylvania Railroad.
The earnings of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
for the month of September, amounted to
s49B,s46—being an increase of $82,596 over
the corresponding month of 1856.
We also learn from Forney's Press, that the
Directors of the Company have passed resolu
tions reducing the salaries of all their officers
and employees to a considerable extent, and
suspending all work not imperatively demand
ed by the interests of the Copmany.
Suspended Railroads.
Within the last thirty days the following
railroad companies are reported as having
either gone to protest on their floating debt,
suspended, or made an assignment of their
property:
Names. Total liabilities.
New York and Erie, $38,000,000
Illinois Central 24,000,000
Philadelphia and Beading, ’20,000,000
Michigan Central,..; 14,000,000
Michigan Southern 18,000,000
Cleveland and Toledo, 7,500,000
Milwauke and Mississippi T,ooo^ooo
La Croßse and Milwauke 14,000,000
Cleveland and Pittsburg, 6,000,000
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, 10.000 000
Chicago, St. Paul, and Fond du Lao, 5,000*000
North Pennsylvania, 6,000,000
Cumberland Coal Company, 6,000,000
Huntingdon and Broad Top I*2oo*ooo
Steubenville and Indiana, (estimated,) 6,000,000
Editors Elected.— A number of the edito
rial fraternity of Pennsylvania have been
chosen for various positions of trust and re
sponsibility. G. Nelson Smith, of the Johns
town . Echo, is re elected to the Legislature
from Cambria, as is also John Hodgson, of the
Jeffersonian , from Chester county ; J. Heron
Foster, of the Pittsburg Dispatch, and Col. A.
K. McClure of the Chambersburg Dranscript,
the latter beating our friend Sansom, of the
Fulton Democrat, about 100 votes. E. J.
Keenan, of the Greensburg Democrat is elected
Register and Recorder of Westmoreland
county, and Col T. B. Searight, of the Genius
of Liberty, Prothonotary of Fayette county.
i@“ It is said that the seat of Mr. Ruther
ford, of the Dauphin district, in the State
Senate, will be contested by Mr. Haldeman,
on the ground of fraudulent voting on the
part of the Black Republicans.
Thanksgiving Day.
Governor Pollock has appointed Thursday
the 26th of November, as a day of Thanks
giving and Praise throughout the Common
wealth.
Senator Hunter, of Virginia, is out in
a letter denying a rumor that be was opposed
to Mr. Buchanan’s Administration. He dis
approves, ho.wever, of the oourse of Gov.
Walker in Kansas.
Railroad Stock at a Decline.
Pennsylvania Railroad stock was down to
$32 per share, on Friday— and-Reading Rail
road Stock could only command sl3} per
share. Things look squally for the Railroads.
Pennsylvania Election* *
The following is the official vote as far as
received:
Philadelphia, 27749 10001 14335
Montour, 1080 568 71
Delaware 1598 1614 609
Union, 971 1275 162
Northampton, 4067 1111 1010
Franklin, 3186 , 3068 91
Chester, 5388 5269 424
Mifflin, 1532 1217 104
Dauphin, 3109 2656 600
Berkß, 8722 2750 874
Allegheny, 6600 7689 ' 858
Schuylkill, 5980 3079 581
York, 5314 1778 1332
Snyder, 999 989 81
Cumberland, 3078 2466 58
Bucks, 5747 4801 101
Lehigh, 3805 2957 9
Blair, 1819 1450 569
Lancaster, 6486 7690 1236
Adams, 2363 1900 58
Lebanon, ( 1980 2664 182
Bedford, \ 2338 1568 398
i Columbia, v 2410 1144 30
, Huntingdon, 1749 16i8 248
: Montgomery, 5448 2608. 1308
Cambria, 2379 1042 165
Mercer, 2539 2928 49
Erie, 1985 3305 00
Lawrence, 993 1992 00
Westmoreland, 4361 3448 24
Fulton, 817 570 9
Lycoming, 2824 1684 347
Greene, 2034 1000 8
Somerset, 1741 2277 00
Beaver, 1557 1999 26
Washington, 3725 3614 142
Indiana, 1438 2650 26
Crawford, 2576 3514 00
Butler, 2361 2831 00
Armstrong, 2409 2106 111
Wayne, 1992 1691 49
Pike, 758 190 12
Lehigh, 3805 2957 9
Juniata, ' 1108 1035 00
Total, 155937 114853 26389
Wheo the iniquity of the sale of the
Main Line was consummated, the opposi
tion were in a perfect furor gof delight,
and declared that the patronage of the
line was the groat lever- with which the
Democratic party carried the State, and
that the sale of the line would transfer 20,000
votes from the Democratic party to the oppo
sition 1 How now, ye miserable false proph
ets ? Can you explain ? Instead of weaken
ing the Democratic party, the sale of the main
line has actually strengthened it. The infa
mous bargain made by corruption has added
voters to swell the Democratic ranks and re
buke the plunderers of the Commonwealth.—
The Democrats have gained SIX members of
the House and TWO Senators in districts
through which the main line passes.
A lew years ago, the smallest Democratic
majority in Cambria county was attributed to
the Portage Railroad forces. The sixty or
seventy majority in Gaysport and the forty in
Juniata Township, according to the Register,
were always owing to the “bread and butter
patriots" on the Portage Road, who were com
pelled to vote the Democratic ticket, or lose
their situations. The State no longer owns
Road, and yet Cambria county
gives 1200 majority, and Gaysport aotually
increases her Democratic majority TWENTY
over that given for Buohanan a year ago 1 —
The stale cry of public plunderers, State rob
bers, bread and butter patriots, and other elec
tioneering humbugs has had its day. The
rotten demagogues and greedy office seekers
will probably see in the eleotion just held, a
triumphant refutation of some of the vile slan
ders tney used to stiok to so pertinaciously,
and they must acknowledge that there is a
little more involved in fighting to maintain
Democratic principles than mere governmental
patronage. —Hollidaysburg Standard.
BSk- The above remarks will apply with
equal force to the result in Chester and Lan
caster oounties, through which the Philadel
phia and Columbia Railroad passes, and
whioh, while the State owned it, was always
an eye-sore to the opposition. In Chester,
where the opposition majority used to be 10
to 1200, the Democrats have elected their
whole ticket, Senator, Assembly and all—and
in Lancaster county, their once proud and
overwhelming majority of 5 or 6,000 against
the Democrats, is now reduced down to 10 or
1200, and we even succeeded in electing our
candidate to one of the best offioes in the
county.
The sale of the Railroad, therefore, instead
of weakening the Democracy in this and Ches
ter counties, as was confidently predicted by
our opponents at the time the deed was con
summated, has had the contrary effect. It
has made Chester county democratic, and
Lancaster county bids fair to follow the praise
worthy example in a very short time.
The Philadelphia Press says that Mr. Wil
mot, thecandidate for Governor of the Republi
cans, departs the scene of his late troubles with
little dignity. Wo admonished him of his fate
in advance, in the very kindest spirit. We
foretold his fate. We implored him to desist
from hlfiahors. But he refused our council,
and lo ! he is almost as badly worsted as if he
had started out to run for the fewest votes.—
There is a moral in the catastrophe. Mr.
Wilmot was the author (putative or real) of
the Proviso that bears his name. He has been
a sort of trumpet of sedition since 1846, pas
sing through various phases of politics from
that time, and changing his coat and his name
almost as often as the rider in the circus who
starts out, like Mr. W., a very fat man, and
eods a very lean man indeed. The only ele
ment to which he has been true in all this
experience has been Abolitionism. ■ But this
was proved to be the saddest of all his specu
lations—it has weighed him down from the
first, until it has sunk him, politically, deeper
than plummet ever sounded. The place where
he descended will be avoided by all aspiring
politicians hereafter, as tbe fatal current is
shunned by the cautious mariner. His over
throw ends the race of mere demagogues on
the Blayery question in this quarter. It stops
the career of fanaticism in Pennsylvania. It
completes and closes (?), by suoh a popular
decree as the nation has never yet seen, the
career of a man, who, to gratify his own pur
poses, has for ten years disturbed and divided
as happy a people as the sun, in all its oourse,
has ever Bhown upon. There are larger les
sons taught than this, but rarely one so
forcible.
131,700,000
Gov. Packer’s Inauguration.
The Harrisburg Herald states that arrange
ments are now in progress for a grand military
and firemen's parade there, on the occasion of
Gen. Packer's inauguration. Several first
class fire companies from Philadelphia have
signified their intention of being present, and
we have no doubt companies from all the
neighboring towns will be in attendance. A
military company and a band from Williams
port will escort the Governor elect to the
eapitol, and an effort will be made to secure
the attendance of a large number of volunteer
companies from other places.
New York Banks*—JYe read that—
The King of France, with forty thousand men,
Marched up the hill, and then—marched down again.
On Monday two weeks, at a meeting of the
officers of the New York City banks, it was
resolved tha| the banks of the city of New
York are determined, at all hazards and under
all circumstances, to maintain specie pay
ments I! And on the very next day, all of
these same New York banks either suspended
or voted to suspend specie payments 1!!
Banks in Tennessee. —Gov. Johnson, in
his message to the Legislature to the above
named State, recommends the winding up all
the Banks in the State, because he says they
have their origin in error, and will end in
ruin and fraud. He wishes to return to a
hard-money Bystem.
yinrDL WILMOT.
Bale of the Main Line.
Exit Mr. wilmot,
- The Sugar Speculation.
A few weeks ago, says the Reading Press ,
sugar was sold by retail in this city at the
rate of ten cents per pound for the lowest qual
ity, and from 12 to 18 cents for the whito and
better class sugars. Molasses was sold for 18
cents per quart, for inferior quality, and good
syrup at 20 and 25 cents. This latter bad
previously sold for 15 to 18 cental Since the
appearance of existing affairs—bank suspen-.
sions and collapse of speculators, the articles
are coming down in price, rapidly, to the old
standard prices. The facilities lavishly af
forded by the banks, to heartless and anprin
! cipled speculators in the necessaries of life,
such as grain, groceries, meats and provisions
generally, inflated prices to such an extent,
that in this land of plenty, famine was 6talking
abroad, and the poor working man was actu
ally brought to want and suffering. And this,
too, in a Christian land, and many professing
Christians were ready with all sorts of specious
arguments to defend the authors of the mis*
chief. Now, however, the tables are turning.
The speculators ventured too far into the
muddy waters, and they are floundering ,in
the misery which they have invoked. May
the Lord in his mercy deal gently with them,
for they have impoverished themselves in the
attempt to starve their fellow creatures. In
the Daily News , of Friday last, we find the
following, which may give one ol the keys tb
the Bank explosion, (for the Banks furnished
the money) by which the speculations were
carried on. Read the following :
Speculators in sugar, who have recently met
with sudden reverses in their profession, must
have been driven to their wit's end in order
to procure places were the sweet article might
be Btowed snugly away lor future use. At
the present time there are hundreds of hogs
heads of the article stored in and about, a
stable, situate at' Reed street and Jefferson
Avenae, in the First Ward. There is, per
haps, enough to supply the ordinary wants of
Philadelphia for a score or more of years. If
this sugar should be placed in the market,
where the God of Nature intended it to go,
the price would come down a few more pen
nies per pound, and to this extent enable the
people to get along better. The same thing
, may be said of flour, though we do not know
that any of this great staple has yet been
stowed away in a mere stable.
The Ohio Election.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of Tuesday says, it
is now pretty certain that Salmon P. Chase,
by a narrow squeeze, has been re elected Gov
ernor of Ohio. He has, however, to meet a
Democratic Legislature, and will find his posi
tion for the next two years decidedly uncom
fortable, as his whole policy will be completely
condemned by the people's representatives.
The majority, as far as reported, foot up 24,-
704 for Chase, and * 24,049 for Payne. The
House of Representatives stands fifty-eight
Democrats to forty five Black Republicans and
one Independent. In the last House the
Democrats had but thirty-five members to the
Blaok Republicans seventy-six. The majority
for Chase, it would seem, is wholly made up
of negro votes. Iu numerous localities the
ne u groes voted without hindrance from the
Blaok Republican Judgos. At Oberlin over
one hundred such votes were cast for Chase
& Co. In Ashtabula many suoh were also
oast, as also in Trumbull. Mr. Chase's advo
oaoy of the social and political equality of the
negro with the white race has been of vital
service to him. They have saved his baoon
for him this time, sure. J
The Bank of Pittsburgh.
We take the following just remarks from
the Pittsburgh Chronicle of Friday week:
An Oasis in the Desert. —Under this capti
vating and refreshing title, the Herald, of
Thursday, lauds to the skies the Chemical
Bank, which alone, of all the New York City
Banks, promptly meets all demands, and re
deems in gold every dollar of its obligations-
But th 6 Herald commits a most egregious
blunder when it says :
“ Out of the thousand of Banks existing
throughout the Union, there is at this mo
ment only one specie paying Bank—the Chemi
cal Bank of New York."
Such an assertion is simply absurd. There
are several specie-paying banks in our State
alone, and will continue to be, and a most
notable instance of staunchness, and inflexi
ble uprightness is to be found in the old Bank
of Pittsburgh, which has not only paid all de
mands in the solid specie, but never, for one
moment, thought of doing otherwise. Every
thing that can be said in favor of the Chemical
Bank can, with more truth and reason, be said
of this impregnable and venerable institution.
It is a rule of the Herald office, as it is of tbe
London Times, never to have the candor or
honesty to correct a published error, but we
trust some other of the New York journals
will give publicity to the fact that we have a
bank amoDg us, of which Pittsburghers are
deservedly proud ; which can neither be affec
ted by panic, by rum, by pressure, or by kna
very ; which limits itself to the legitimate
objects for which its charter was granted,
and which has ever and will ever, we hope,
remain as firm and as wealth-producing as
the solid hills which surround her. Tbe Bank
of Pittsburg is verily an “ Oasis in the Desert."
It may be a gratifying fact to the New
Yorkers that one of the least considerable of
their banks has had the ability to maintain its
credit, and possibly it is but ju&t that the press
of that city should boast largely of it, but they
must not forget that with the high position
our chief Bank has maintained throughout
this trying time, the contrast must prove any
thing but.exhilirating to them. The result has
proven that the principal banking institution
of our city has been so oarefully and success
fully conducted that no emergency can ex
haust its resources, or in any degree impair
its safety. —Pittsburgh Union.
Kansas.
It is not entirely certain that the Blacks
will have a majority in the Legislature of
Kansas, but there will be a large majority in
favor of making it a free State. Parrott, the
free State candidate for Congress, has a large
majority. These results, says the Chicago
Times, “ have produced a perfect horror among
the rampant abolitionists. All prospect of
Kansas becoming, a slave State, has petrified
them with alarm. The contest iB over; the
question has been virtually decided, and
Kansas shrieks no more. TheKansas-Nebr&sks
act, which secured to the people of Kansas the
right to determine the question of slavery for
themselves, has been vindicated. The people
have resorted to the polls, and have accomplish
ed that which could never have been done by
rebellion. Kansas is at rest—the means that
have produced that rest, the simple process of
voting,"
The Rsvnlslou and the Government.
The U. S. Government is taking measures
to ascertain the effect of the revulsion upon
the foreign commerce of the country, and upon
the consumption of imported goods. Collectors
of Customs have been instructed to get the opin
ions of morchants upon the probable amount
of importations for the next twelve or eighteen
months ; the probable change in the price of
more important articles of import; and also
the probable amount of goods now in ware
house that will be withdrawn for consumption
during the residue of the current fiscal year,
with any other information that may bear
upon the subject. The Secretary of the Treas
ury wishes this information in order to aid
him in the preparation of the usual estimation
to Congress.
Heavy Failure.
Our exchanges are unanimous in the
opinion that the heaviest failure of this great
season of failures occurred on Tuesday tbe
13th, when the firm of Wilmot & Co., made
a dead break. Wilmot & Co. were extensive
dealers in wool, and the sudden decline in that
commodity has rained them.
The Cause Explained.
The New York Herald of Tuesday, has an
article on the cause of the financial crisis, from
which we make the following extract:
As to the banks, there can be little dtfubt
that too great.readiness heretofore to
give facilities in the way of discounts, devel
oped the rotten and over' inflated system of
credit, and that their hasty and ill timed
contractions! when they saw th* bubble ready
to burst, precipitated the catastrophe. Bat
they did not take the back track in time to
save themselves. The storm reached them,
and. placed them where the merchants bad
preceded them, in the condition of suspension
—merely another word for insolvency. Had
they not withdrawn too suddenly and too gener
ally, the facilities which they were in the habit
of extending to the merchants, the crash might
have been staved off for a time, and then its
effects might not have been so disastrous aud
universal. Merchants saw the storm cloud
just as soon as the 6anl» did; and ifthelatter
had not deserted thdfihip, the sails might have
been taken in and but little damage have
resulted from the gale. As it is, the banks
have gained nothing by their COWARDICE,
for they are at this moment liable to the pen
alties provided against a suspension of Bpecie
payment.
The Bank of Prance invariably acts on the
opposite principle when commercial and finan
cial affairs are iu a strait in that country.—
Instead of contracting suddenly, as our banks
have just done, it expands. It buys specie
wherever it can get it, and on the basis of this
extends its loans. The increased discount
which it derives from these loans enables it to
pay a premium on the gold, and the aid thus
opportunely given to commerce, enables it to
ride out the storm. Now, is not that a much
more sensible plan than forthebanks to contract
suddenly, as they do here and in England, and
leave the merchants to their fate ? Certainly it
is. If our banks had imitated the example of
the Bank of France, our merchants would have
been able to get safely through the dangers that
were immediately impending, and then, by
curtailing their expenses, lopping off their
extravagance and gradually getting in their
debts, things would have finally come round
into their regular channel.
Important Law.
The following bill was passed at the recent
extra session of the Legislature, and became a
law on the 13th instant:
An Act for the better security of Laborers, Me
chanics, and others, in certain Companies.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same, That for the purpose of providing
additional security for the payment of labor
ers, operatives, mechanics, and other bona
fide creditors for services rendered or to be
rendered, supplies and materials to be fur
nished, for any coal, iron, canal navigation,
railroad, or turnpike company, incorporated in
whole or in part by the laws of the Common
wealth, that it shall be competent
for any such company to execute a lien or
liens, or instrument of writing sufficient there
to, with inventory attached and attested by
the common seal of said company, if said com
pany have such common seal, and if said com
pany have no common seal, then the said
instrument of writing to be signed by the Pres
ident, Boaid of Direotors or Managers, and
attested by the Secretary, to a trustee or
trustees, upon any or all Buoh wagons, teams,
horses, mules, oars, oarts, boats, equipments,
engines, tools and machinery used in conduct
ing the business of any such company, to be
held by said trustee or trustees for the sole
purpose or purpose* aforesaid, until said debts
herein contemplated are fully discharged, by
the sale thereof, or otherwise. Provided, That
the said instrument or instruments of writing
be recorded in the office for recording deeds, in
the respeotive counties wherein said companies
transact business, within thirty days from the
execution thereof. Provided further, That
this aet shall continue in force until the first
day of February, 1859, and no longer, unless
extended by subsequent legislation.
The Editor’s Booh Table.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, devoted to Literature, Art,
and Politics. Published by Phillips, Sampson A Co., 13
Winter street, Boston, at $3 per annum, or 25 cents a
We have received from the Publishers the first number
of this new candidate for public favor—issued for the Ist
of November. The work wil be issued monthly, each num
ber containing 128 pages, and will be for sale in all the
principal towns and cities, by the Booksellers, Newsmen,
and Periodical Dealers. Where it is not convenient for
persons to obtain it through such sources, they can have
it sent by mail, prepaid, for one year, by sending three
dollars to the address of the Pnblishers.
The number before us Is well filled with choice reading
matter, as may be gathered from the subjoined table of
contents, riz: Douglas Jerrold—Personal Reminiscences;
Florentine Mosaics; Santa Filomena; Sally Parsons’Duty;
Tho Manchester Exhibition; The Rommany Girl; The
Chartist's Complaint; Days; Brahma; The Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table; Illusions; The Gift of Tritemius; The
Mourning Veil; Pendlam, a Modern Reformer; British
India; Akin by Marriage; The Origin of Didactic Poetry;
The Financial Flurry; Bonnet; The Round Table; Literary
Notices; Music.
Amongst the regular contributors to this Magazine are
Wm. H. Prescott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wm. C. Bryant,
Henry W. Longfellow, N. Hawthorne, John G. Whittier,
Mrs. Gaakell, Mrs. Child, Mrs. Kirkland, Miss Rose Terry,
and a host of others equally famous In the literary world.
We hare no doubt the Atlantic Monthly will soon have
an immense circulation.
GODEY’S LADY’S BO OK.
The November number of this first-class literary period
ical has been on our table for several days. It fully
recommends itself, and will well repay a careful perusal—
being quite equal to any of its predecessors in the variety
of Its articles and the purity of their diction. The cele
brated Mrs. Daffodil again makes ber appearance at “An
Evening Party,” and her rich saying* and doings will afford
much food for mirth to the fun-loving readers of the mag
azine. In addition to this there are stories and well written
sketches from the fruitful pens of Virginia Townsend, Mrs.
Cox, Alice B. Neal, and other luminaries of our intellectual
horizon.
The engravings are finely gotten up. The colored Fashion
Plate, and the “Governess” cannot be surpassed inliril'
Haney; and we may also mention the Patterns for Embroi
dery, Ac., Ac., all of which will be peculiarly attractive to
the Lady readers ofGodey.
A New Territory.
Lieut. Mowry, who has spent two or three
years in the territories acquired from Mexico
at the conclusion of the late war, is urging
upon the Government the great necessity of
organizing the new Territory of Arizona, com
prising the Mesilla Valley and the Rio Grande.
It has at present a population of about 8,000,
—several very flourishing Bettelments, an
abundance of silver mines, and every requisite
for a thriving and growing oommunity. At
present there is an utter laek of security for
either life or property. There are no courts,
no laws, and no magistrates. Constant out
rages are practised upon the Mexican portion’
of the population for whioh there ifl no redress.
The territory is situated between Sonora and
New Mexico, and if attached to either it will
be impossible to make it an American State,
as Mexican influence will always predominate.
There is a strong tendency in the Southern
States to emigrate to this region, the climate
being mild and the soil good. The inhabi
tants are preparing a petition to Congress for
a separation from New Mexico and organiza
tion as a separate territory.
The Vicissitudes of Commerce. —A few
months since the partner of a commercial
house in New York was taken to a lunatic
asylum, utterly deranged, as was said, by
his unparaelled prosperity in business. Du
ring the year previous his firm had cleared
$1,300,000. He died in the asylum, and his
own estate wai valued at $2,500,000, all in
vested in the concern of whieh ho was a part
ner. The firm itself failed the other day, and
is now said to be insolvent. One item of the
assets of the deceased's estate was one thou
sand shares of the Illinois Central Railroad
Stock, which was Belling at the time of his
decease at $l4O a share, and which was worth,
after paying up the instalments, $BOO,OOO. —
The same property sold lately at $50,000. All
this occurred within eighteen months—the
prosperity, the insanity, the decease and the
insolvency.
.Washington, Oct. 22.—The President, hav
ing learned that Ex-President Pierce contem
plates visiting the Island of Madeira for the
benefit of his wifes health, has tendered a
passage, through the Secretary of the Navy,
iu the United States steamer Powhattan, which
is on the eve of leaving for the East Indies,
touching at Madeira.
CITY AUD COUNTY AFFAIRS.
A Contested Election. —lt appears that
that pink of honesty la politics, Thaddzus Sravurs, is not
satisfied with the decision of the people in favor of the
election of William Caipetcxb, Esq., to the office of Pro
thonotary, but is disposed to again resort to same
expedient he did in December, 1838, of “treating the
election as though it had not taken place." Ha has,
accordingly, got some twenty or thirty of his willing and
obsequious tools to aign,'with himself, a protest against the
election of Mr; Oonmn oD account ol alleged fraudulent
voting in one or two of the wards in this city, and because
the Dnunore box accidentally fell out of the window! This
allegation of fraud Is entirely an after-thought on the part of
Messrs. SixtxsS, Dicxxt, Hood, Peer A Co. Nobody heard of
such a charge, until these extremely pure politicians found
that they coold make nothing oat of the Dratnore*box
affair.
Whilst these Black Republican leaders are on the hunt
of frauds, we would respect folly advfce them to examine
into those that were perpetrated in the Salisbury box by
their own party friends—why seven Carpenter votes were
rejected in the East Cocalico District—and also investigate
the right of Mr. Belling stilt, from Adamstown, to act as
a Return Judge and preside at the meeting of the Judges
on the Friday succeeding the election. Let us have a full
Investigation, by all means. It will be an excellent an ti
dote for ennui in these doll suspension times.
The following is the copy of the Petition filed in the Pro
thonotary'i Office, on the 22nd insL, contesting the election
of Mr. Carpxktkr for Prothonotary, which* we publish for
the purpose of informing the people of Lancaster City and
County who the persons are that desire their decision to
be set aside; and, also, that the persons who are charged
in the Petition as being illegal voters may vindicate them
selves against charges made by parties, some of whom
stand in the same category:
To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pitas
of Lancaster County.
The petition and complaint of the undersigned, qualified
electors of the County of Lancaster, respectfully represents :
That at the election for County Officers for the Couuty of
Lancaster, held October 13th, 1857, William Carpenter is
returned, by the return judges, as having obtained 7190
votes for the office of Prothonotary, and Peter Martin as
having obtained 7186 votes for the same office. William
Carpenter is therefore returned as elected Prothonotary by
a majority of ten votes, as by the return of the several
judges filed in Prothonotory'B Office, a copy of which is
hereunto appended will more fully and at large appear.
Your petitioners complain of this return, and represent
to your Honors that, on the said election, Peter Martin re
ceived a majority of all the legal’votes thrown in this
County for the office of Prothonotary,—that in the several
wards of Lancaster City illegal votes, to the number of one
hundred and more, were thrown for William Carpeuter,
thereby'alteriog the result and causing him to be returned
as elected, when in fact Peter Martin was elected. Your
petitioners and complainants proceed to specify some of
tbsse illegal votes, and they represent to your Honors that
In the South East Ward of said City. Jacob P. Kline, Heury
Simon, George Free, John Byerly, Henry Kohrer, Emanuel
Hompt, David Peterman, Johu Braunon, Cyrus Kitcb,
Jacob H. Beechlor, Washington Bowman, Charles Dern,
Michael Lint, Jacob Berter. George Byerly, and forty oth
ers, being Illegal voters, did then and there vote for Wil
liam Carpenter for the said office of Prothonotary. And in
the South West Ward of the same City, George Bowman,
Jackson Klinger, Patrick Coyle, Frederick Hambrigbt,
John Krapp, G*orge Pontz, George Waltz, Thomas D. Law
rence, Henry Humphreyville, John Garber, and forty oth
ers, being Illegal voters, did then and there vote for Wil
liam Carpenter for the said office of Prothonotary. And in
the North East Ward, of the said City, forty illegal votes
were cast for William Carpenter for the same office. Aud
in the North West Ward, of said City, forty other illegal
votes were cast for William Carpenter for the same office.
And in the Borough of Columbia one hundred illegal votes
were cast for William Carpenter for the same office.
Your petitioners and complainants further represent,
that at the election for the same officers, in the second
election district, consisting of Drumore township, at the
polls for said dh trict, held at the public heuseof Mrs. John
son, at Cbesnut Level, the ballot-box containing the votes
for County Officers was abstracted at or about the hour of
nine o’clock, P. M., through tho window, by some person or
persons unknown—that the votes in the box had not yet
been counted—that the box was taken with a view, as your
petitioners believe, of tampering with and altering the votes
that the box was in no way secured, being covered only !
with a sliding lid which could easily be removed—that the .
box remained in the possession ot the person or persons ,
who abstracted it, for the space of an hour, more nr less, j
and was deposited by him or them, when their object had i
been accomplished, on the ground outside f tho window, I
where it was found on a search being made by the election |
officers. Your petitioners and complaluants represent that 1
under these circumstances the number ofvotes cast legally
and fairly In that district, for each of the candidates for ,
Prothonotary, is incapable of being Justly ascertained— i
that the return from that district Is Illegal and fraudulent,
and should bo set aside from the general returns, which
would alter the result of tho election, and give Peter Mar- ’
tin 7044 votes, and William CarpoDtor 7009 votes as by the j
returns annexed appeared. And so that tho undersigned 1
say that the election is undue and Illegal zb regards the I
office of Prothonotary. <
We the undorsignod, theroforo complain of the return of 1
the election for Prothonotary, and respectfully ask your :
Honors to investigate the same according to law.
BAMUEL NISBLEY, HENRY ROGERS,
JAYOADWELL, PETER BEIBER,
ROLAND KINZKR, GEORGE KELLER,
TUADDEDS STEVENS, JR., EML. P. ESHLEMAN,
GEORGE BRUBAKER, E. KIRKPATRICK,
J. B. LIVINGSTON, JOHN BIIERTZ,
JAMES WILEY, WM. KIRKPATRICK,
J. K. ALEXANDER, SAMUEL WHITE,
JOHN A. HIEBTAND, A. H. HOOD,
WALTER G. EVANS, THADDEUS STEVENS,
DANIEL G. BAKER, EDWARD REILLY,
WILLIAM WRIGHT, E. M. KAUFFMAN,
S. J. J. RILEY, B. F. BAER,
JOSEPH C. SNYDER, 0. J. DICKEY,
SAMUEL H. PRICE, JOHN H. PEARBOL,
WILLIAM L. GUNION, GKO. F. BRENEMAN,
J. D. KENDIG, WILLIAM GORRECHT,
WM. F. MULLEN, DAVID HANTCH,
JOHN HERR, THEO. FENN,
ABRAHAM LEFEVER.
Lancaster city, ss.
We, the undersigned petitioners, qualified electors of
the county of Lancaster, being duly affirmed according to
law, do depose that the facts set iorth In the above petition
or complaint are true to the best of our knowledge and
belief.
Affirmed and aubscribsd EDWARD REILLY,
J. 0 I ROLAND KINZER.
The Presbyterian Synod.— The Philadel
phia Synod of the Presbyterian Church (O. S.) commenced
its annual session in this city, in the First Presbyterian
Church, Orange street, on Thursday last. Rev. Dr. Jnnkin,
of Hollidaysburg, was elected Moderator, and Rev. J. H.
M. Knox and Rev. John Thoma 6, Clerks. Several distin
guished Clergymen of that Church are present, and the
the Synod are attended by many of onr citizens,
who seem to manifest much interest in the proceedings.—
On Sunday the pulpits of several of our churches were filled
by the stranger clergymen, and they created a very favor,
able impression on the minds of their auditors. The Synod
Is composed, from what wo have seen of it, of a fine and
intellectual-looking body of men, and we are sure that their
visit to Lancaster will be as agreeable to them
as it Is to many of our citizens. We have not learned how
long the Synod will remain in session, but presume for a
day or two yet.
The Red Men's Parade —The long-looked
for parade of the Red Men took place on Wednesday last.
The day was cold and rather stormy, but the Red Men in
attendance mode,a very fine appearance. The turn-out of
the “Indians” was not fo large as expected, the cause of
which, no doubt, is owing to the extreme tightness of the
money market.
Eight Tribes, fonr State Councils, and the United States
Council were represented. The procession formed in South
Queen street, right resting on Vine street, at 1 o’clock, p.
m., under the direction of Col. J. Franklin Reigart, as
Grand Marshal. Tho Colonel wore a splendid uniform of
black cloth, trimmed with gold fringe, and rode a spirited
black charger. He was ably assisted by several Aids and
Assistant Marshals, all mounted on richly caparisoned
steeds.
Beforo the parade the Ee-shah-ko-nee Tribe, of this city,
attended by the martial music of the Fencibes’ Band, pro
ceeded to the Gift Book Store of Evans A Clark, in East
King street, where a magnificent wreath of white satin
was presented to them. The presentation speech was made
by Geo. W. McElroy, Esq., and received, on behalf of the
Tribe, by Col. 8. H. Price. The gentleman selected to bear
the wreath in the line of procession was our handsome
friend Goodall, of the Daily Times, who performed bis part
nobly, and was one of the “observed of all observers.”
The procession moved over the route previously desig
nated, and, about 4 o'clock, marched into Centre Square,
where the concluding exercises of the day took place. A
Prayer was offered by the Chaplain, Past Sachem Schuler;
the “Song of the Tribe” 6Ung by the members; ao Ode,
written for the occasion by Mr. Matthias Zahm, read by
Col. Reigart* after which, a very able and appropriate
address was delivered by Hugh Latham, Esq., of Virginia.
The proceedings in the Square were witnessed by an im
mense concourse of people—-the City Hall and other build
ings, public and private, in that space, were filled with
ladies.
After the parade the Shawnee Tribe, of Philadelphia,
accompanied by the splendid Liberty Cornet Band, marched
to the residence of Mr. Andrew Btewart, in West Chesnut
street, where a superb wreath, the handiwork of Miss Kate
Stewart, was presented to the members. Cot. Reigart made
a neat presentation speech, which was handsomely re
sponded to by Mr. Bottles, a member of Shaw'nee Tribe.—
At the conclusion of tho presentation six hearty cheers
were given for the fair bestower of the gift and the ladies
of Lancaster, and the Band struck up the “Days of Anid
Lang Syne,” which was played in most effective style.
Several excellent bands of music were in the line of
procession, and theirjsweet strains gave full tone and effect
to the occasion.
Centre Square was elegantly fastoonod with arches of
evergreen. Arches were also thrown across the street in
several quarters, of the city through which the procession
passed. On the whole, the parade, though not near so
large as it wonld have been had it taken place a month or
two earlier, reflected great credit on the Red Men of our
city generally, and especially on their Committee of Ar
rangements.
The Great Council of Pennsylvania was entertained
with a fine collation by the Ee shah ko-nee Tribe, at their
ball in South Queen street, on Wednesday, evening, and
on Thursday evening by the Metamora Tribe, at their hall
in North Queen street. We learn that a “feast of reason
and a flow of soul” prevailed at both.
Farmers’ Bank Notes.—Wo are gratified
in being able to announce that the Farmers’ Bank notes,
of this city, are again at par in Philadelphia, and also
received on deposit at the Lancaster County Bank. The
effect of this arrangement will be, that Farmers’ Bank notes
will now be taken in payment of debts owing the mer
chants of Philadelphia, without subjecting the payor to
any loss by discount, as had been the case for the last two
or three weeks. This action on the part of this old and
favorite Banking institution, has already restored confi
dence in tbe comm unity, acd business men in onr midst
begin to breathe “freer and deeper.” We hope the Farmers’
Bank will be one of tbe first in the State to resu me specie
payments.
Fatal Accident from Burning Fluid.—
On Wednesday evening, the 21st Inst., a German woman,
whose name we understand is Clemens, living near Smoke*
{own, in East Lampeter township, attempted to fill a fluid
Lamp while it was lighted, when an explosion took place,
by which she and two of her children were dreadfatly
burned. . One of the children died almost immediately, and
both the mother and the other child are so badly Injured,
that the physician in attendance has little or no hope of
their recovery.—(Saturday’* Express.
The New Sheriff. —The new Sheriff, Ben
jimin F. Howe, Esq., entered upon the discharge tif his
duties on Thursday last. He has made the following ap
pointments: Solicitor, A. Herr Bmitb, Esq.; Deputies, Sam
uel W. Rowe and Samuel Martin.
The Maytown District.— We received a
communication a day or two since, from an esteemed
Democratic friend, calling our attention to the fact that in
the Maytown election district the Democracy did wonders,
giving Gen. Pacxrr a majority of 25 votes over Wmtot—
showing a Democratic gain on the vote of last year of 411 —
This tu a glorious remit in East Donegal, and onr friends
there (including that always active aud efficient yonnf
Democrat, Thomas J. Albright, Esq., of Washington City,
at the time on a visit to his home,} deserve all prai6o fot
the glorious day’s work they accomplished. We . received
the retnrns of that district with great pleasure, and would
willingly have noticed it in the paper at tho time, but all
the districts in the County (with one or two exceptions)
did so well, we hardly knew how to make the distinction,
for fear of being accused of partiality. This is oar only
apology for what may have seemed an oversight in not
noticing specially that district.
Our Agricultural Society. —The article
below we copy from the Daily Times of Saturday morning.
We cordially endorse every word of it, and trust that its
suggestions may meet with a hearty approval from all our
farmers and mechanics,'and the Society become a perma
nent institution :
Lancaster Countx Agricultural Fair.—Tho First An
nual Exhibition of the Lancaster County Agricultural and
Mechanical Society is now over aud the officers are busy in
i paying tho premiums awarded,aud closing up the financial
■ affairs of the Society. Although the weather was unfaror
-1 able, the Fair was in every respect» complete success. The
exhibition was foil iu every department, and in those of
: Horses, Cattle, Agricultural Implements aud Machinery,
' and more particularly in tho display of, Fine Arts, it ex
ceeded any exhibition of the kiud ever before hold in this
State. The value ui articles displayed in the Hall of Fine
Arts alone was not less thau $.0,000. It was visited by
many thousands of persons, and ti• o general expression of
opiuion was ouo of entire satLtuction, while those from
other Counties aiid Slates pruuouiK-od tho arrangement of
the giounds the most complete to:-" have ever seen.
The reputation of our Couuty "has been tully sustained,
and the officers deserve, from the citizens, much credit for
their energy and euterprisc io gettiug'ft up, aud carrying
it forward to so successful au issue, aud more particularly
fo when all the facts connected with it are taken iutocon
sidt-ratiou.
it may not be generally known that, early in the season,
: the old Agricultural Society, of this county, made some
arrangements fi.r holding a Fair, but. late u. tho m uih of
August, the project was voted down by a small majority of
its members. After this, A. R. Spangler issued a call for
a meeting to form a now Society. At that and -.ubsi-quent
meetings a Society was temporarily organizod by electing-
Joseph Konigmacher, Preaideul; i). G. Eshlemau, tfecro
tary; Beujamlu Misbler, Treasurer; aud A. K. Rowers,
Mark Conuell, jr.. Samuel W. Beecher, S. P. Spencer, Marls
Hoopes and Jacob Nisaley as aIS ard of Malingers. The
season was at this lime so far advanced that only about
sir weeks remained for advertising, publishing a premium
list, aud making all tho numerous necessary
to holdiug a Fair. The Board of Managers, u -u whom
this duty devolved saw the necessity of immediate action
and c«nntaut exertion to insure au exhibition creditable
to the County. A. K. Bower*, Mark t’onuell, jr.. "'arauel
W. Beecher and 3. 1\ Spencer woro liio uuiy ac..>e mem
bers of the Board, and they *et themselves to the work
: with a det'-rmluatiou to curry "Ut successfully the object
: of the Society. They soon learued that to do th!i tney
must contract for everything iu their own names, as the
' Societf was not workiug uuder a charter, and was. there
fore. not responsible. Beiug anxious that our county
should tako its proper place with our slater counties, in
holding an auuual fair, and, beiieviug that it couid be
done successfully, they determined to and did contract in
their own Dames for all lumber, labor, Ac., mveestry to
carry It forward, amounting, we learu, to over $3,000, bo
sides the large list of premiums offered.
A. R. Spangler, who was appointed by the Board of Man
agers as their General Superintendent, has ably secouded
their efforts, and is deserving ot much credit tor the deep
interest which he has taken in the Fair, and forthoonergy
and enterprise with which he burr assisted iu carrying It
forward. The President. Jos. Konigmacher, E*q., has taken
an active interest iu everything couuected with it, and,
from his well kuown euergy and ability, his uame was a
sufficient guarantee to the public of its success. D. G.
Kshloman, Enq., Secretary, aud Beujauiin Mlhlih-r. Treasu
rer, hare boon active iu tbe performance of their duties;
and the Society could not have chosen better men for the
important positions which they occupy. The managers
and officers have worked together most harmoniously, and
have accomplished a work, In the short space of six weeks,
of which the citizens of tho county may well be proud.
We hope that tho Society will perfect their organization
by gettiug a chartor. St-eurlug grounds, aud eroding per
manent buildlugs, aud with one whole your for our Farm
ers aud Morb.-nics to make their arraugemoutK, our Second
Annual Fair will far exceed the first, aud ho such as no
other county cau hope to equal. Lot our Farmers and
Mochauics remember It, und cotuineuce their preparatlous.
Accident at Marietta. -We learn/J'rom tho
Express ol Saturday evening, that on Friday afternoon an
accldont occurred at tho Stoaui Sawing aud lMunlng Mill
of Messrs. Duffeo, lloutz A Co., at Marietta, in which a
workman, nauW George Bucher made a miraculous escapo
with his life. lie and a number of others wore engaged
rolling out timber for tbe mill, dawn a steep embank
ment. In Btartlng tho timber a pieco caught Mr. Bucher
by tbe anklo, before be could got out ot tho way, which
throw him down aud bounded over his body, hut slightly
injuring him. Another smaller log came after, which
caught him by tho leg aud seriously injured the limb. Tho
timber which passed over him was about forty foot long *j
and two feet square, and his escape from beiug crushed to
death was most remarkable, aud can only ho accounted for
by the fact that tho log was bowed and
passed over him with tho convexity upwards. Ho wa«
taken to bis home, whero ho is attended by Dr. Orove, and
though the extent ofhiß injuries cannot be ascertained,
ho was apparently doing well on Saturday morning.
Lung Diseases.— We invite tho careful at
tention of all persons afflicted with coughs or colds to the
following certificate by Mr. Johu C. Little, of Peebles twp,,
in this county. Mr. L. is one of our most respectable citi
zens and voluntarily called on Dr. Keyser, and offered his
certificate to the fact 6 stated below : —Pittsburg Post, Jan
uary 2,1853.
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Witness; B. M. Kerr*
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The Late Election.
The result of the contest in Lancaster county is a source
of congratulation to. all Democrats. If anything were
wanting to show tho vitality of Douiccraiic principles, to
vindicate its unity, unit persevering devotion to doctrines
which were originated by the gran men of the American
UniOD.and matured by fifty years of American history,
the late contest has abundantly supplied the ti. feet. Thu
secret of Democratic success is, that the part; has become
veteran, inured to success, by many contests anil many
victories like the legious ofCmaar—while its unemy com
poses the mere militia of abolitionism, the odds and ends
of niggerism, philanthropy, woman's rights, und all the
ridiculous and absurd isms which are hatched in the pro
lific hot-bed of New England. Wheu a mao loses his
Btandlog in the Democratic party, or is unwilling to hold
tbe humble position, to which bis limited talents entitle
him, he immediately throws blnioo.f into the arms of the
opposition as a victimized patriot, and rLht away he is
dressed in the guise of honesty by brtng ptv-»d oa the
ticket as a candidate. In his devoted pain cie;•., ho em
braces every office in Penusylvanii—uone too high—udne
too low. He will take tbe office of Governor, if bo can get
it; but, failing iu that, bis self-«acrificiug devotion will
allow itself to be appeased by tbe humble office of r untry
'Squire. At one election be iB out for Canal Commissioner,
at the next for Prothonotary. To-day a democrat—to-mor
row a know-nothing—tbe next day an abolitionist— and
the day after that you can scarcely tell whether he is know
nothing or abolition—so nicely does he combine the pe
culiar qualities of each, uuder tho euphouious title of
Americau Republican. He baa been a standing candidate
for office in every party, on any principles aud at every
election from the time to which the memory of tho o'dost
Inhabitant ‘ruQneth not to tbe contrary.’ Ilia lust defeat li
not a matter of joy—it is rather a source of regret ibat ma
ture age has found him just where youth first met him, viz \
hunting for oflico. Let him in future withdraw his natnfl
from election tickets, since it has become odious by re
peated defeats. He should be satisfied by this time that
this community will never honor him by any mark of its
favor. If he will still be so infatuated an to pei slst In hi*
insane hunt after office, let him at least learn from hlB
past experience that tbe surest way to get it, is first to
deserve it. A DEMOCRAT.
Lancaster, Oct. 19th, 1857.
For tho intelligencer.
Panics and Preachers.
Of all the curious things that a financial crisis dovelopes,
Dothlng perhaps ie mere curious than tho various expla
nations that are volunteered by every body. But most
curious of all are the explanations of tbe preachers. Every
pulpit in the land Is prepared to say exactly how much is
to be attributed to men, and how much to God. One
charges tbe whole thlDg to tho fact that there are throo
millions of slaves among us—another makes tbe Dred Scott
decision responsible—while a third attributes It to the
deafness of the nation to the abolition warnings that are
forever pouring down upon us from New England. Of the
fancy preachers, Dr. Cheever, of New York, stands promi
nent. He is a sensation preacher—a gentleman that
seizes every occasion to tell tbe nation ot its wickedness,
and his own virtue. Dred Bcott—bleeding Kmsas—nig
ger freedom and philanthropy are his stock in trade—-tbe
weekly subject of his sernioos. He has already delivered
three sermons on the financial crisis— each one betraying
more fauaticism and more ignorance than tbe preceding
one. He declared in the begiuniug that he did not under
stand It—therefore ho attributes the whole difficulty to
God, and says it is rank atheism to think otherwise, it
don't occur to him that it is a practical question, well
understood by practical business men, but far beyond the
reach of his comprehension. He has been feted by pious
ladies, and praised byaddle-br&lued abolition philosophers,
until he thinks he is a great man in the eyes of the nation,
as well as in his own—accordingly Christianity is thrown
aside, tho duties of a Christian minister are neglected, ajid
his pulpit is converted into a political stump rostrum for
the propagation of abolition doctrines and disunion. He
searches the Scriptures, as a lawyer does a book of reports,
for arguments to support his side of tho question, and
shots his eyes obetinatoly to everything against him. It
is by men of this stamp—by tho Cheeverg, the Beechers
and Stowea of the day—that religion is brought into disre
pute. No practical, clear headed man can read tbeir solu
tions of the financial difficulty, without contempt for tbe
jndgment that attributes to supernatural caußes what is
dearly explicab)e*on natural grounds. Their good sense,
If they over had any, is warped by their nigger theories,
and maudlin philanthropy. Heaven itself only appears
desirable to them because they hope to got into company
there that they can’t decently associate with on earth.—
Between panics and abolitiou preachers tbe nation will
soon come to think the latter is the worst of the two.
The Berks County Murder. —Up to this
hour no clue has been obtained of the mur
derer or murderers of Miss Adline Bavor,
whose body was found under the Irish Creek
Bridge, near Mohrville, with her throat cut,
and otherwise mutilated. In this connection we
may add, that on Sunday last the body of the
murdered girl was taken up for a post mortem
examination. It was ascertained that she
was not enciente , and the motive of the. crime
is still as great a mystery as the murder itself.
A vast crowd had gather to witness, the disin
terment in the churoh yard, and the examina
tion was committed into the hands of Dr
Luther, of Reading, and Dr. Spatz, of Lessport.
—Reading Fress, Oct. 20.