7 -'aitt./t.tttcttigeit/Ots VOL. LIX. brazen lungs of the clock a sound which was clear and loud and deep and exceed ingly musical, but of so peculiar a noet and emphasis that, at each lapse of an hour, the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily, in their performance, to hearken to the sound; and thus the waltzers per force ceased their evolutions ; and there was brief uisconcert of the whole gay company ; and while the chimes of the clock yet rang, it was ob served that the giddiest grew pale, and the more aged and sedate passed their hands over their brows as if in confused revery or meditation. But when the echoes had fully ceased, a high laughter at once per vaded the assmbly ; the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nerveousness and folly, and made whisper ing vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should pro uce in them no similar emotion ; and then after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the cluck, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before. But, in spite of these things, it was a gay and magnificent revel. The tastes of the duke were peculiar. He had a fine eye for colors and effects. He disregarded the decors of were fashion. His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre. There are some who would have thought him mad.-- His followers knew that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and touch him to be sure that he was not. He had directed, in great part, the moveable • embellishments of the seven chambers, upon occasion of this great fete; and it was his own guiding aste which had given character to the masqueraders. Be sure they were grotesque. There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm—much of what has since been seen in " Hernani." There were arabesque BY EDGAR A. POE. figures with unsuited limbs and appoint- The " Red Death " had long devastated ' went& There were delirious fancies such the country. No pestilence had ever been as the madman fashions. There were much so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much Avator and its seal—the r ed ne ss and the of the bizarre, something of the, terrible, horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and not a little of that which might have and sudden dizziness, and then profuse excited disgust. To and fro in the seven bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.— chambers there stalked, in fact, a multitude The scarlet stains upon the body, and es- of dreams. And these—the dreams— pecially upon the face of the victim, were writhed in and about, taking hue from the the pest ban which shut him -out from the rooms, and causing the wild music of the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow- orchestra to seem as the echo of their steps. men. And the whole seizure, progress And, anon, there strikes the ebony clock and termination of the disease, were the which stands in the hall of the velvet.— incidents of half an hour. And then, for a moment, all is still, all is But the Prince Prospero was happy and silent save the voice of the clock. The dauntless and sagacious. When his do- dreams are stiff-frozen as they stand. But minions were half depopulated, he sum- the echoes of the chime die away—they moned to his presence a thousand hale and have endured but an instant—and a light, light-hearted friends from among the half-subdued laughter floats after them as knights and dames of his court, and with they depart. And now again the music these retired to the deep seclusion of one swells, and the dreams live, and writhe to of his castellated abbeys. This was an ex- and fro more merrily than ever, taking hue tensive and magnificent structure, the from the many tinted windows through creation of the Prince's own eccentric yet which stream the rays from the tripods.— augffist, taste. A strong and lofty wall But to the chamber which lies most west girdled it in. The wall had gates of iron. wardly of the seven, there are now none The courtiers, having entered, brought of the maskers who venture ; for the night furnaces and massive hammers and welded is waning away ; and there flows a ruddier the bolts. They resolved to leave means i l light through the blood-colored panel ; neither of ingress or egress to the sudden and the blackness of the sable drapery ap 'impulses of despair or of frenzy from with- pals ; and to him whose foot falls upon the in. The abbey was amply provisioned.— sable carpet, there comes from the near With such precautions the courtiers might clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly bid defiance to contagion. The external emphatic than any which reaches their world could take care of itself. In the ears who indulge in more remote gaieties meantime it was folly to grieve or to think. of the other apartnients. The prince had provided all the appliances But these other apartments were densely of pleasure. There were buffoons, there crowded, and in them beat feverishly the were improvisatori, there were ballet- heart of life. And the revel went whirl dancers, there were musicians, there was ing on, until at length there commenced beauty, there was wine. All these and the sounding of midnight upon the clock. security were within. Without was the And then the music ceased, as I have told; "Red Death." It was toward the fifth and the evolutions of the waltzers were or sixth month of his seclusion, and while quieted ; and there was an uneasy cessa the pestilence raged most furiously . abroad, tion of all things as before. But now that the Prince Prospero entertained his there were twelve strokes to be sounded thousand friends at a masked ball of the by the bell of the clock ; and thus it hap most unusual magnificence. pened, perhaps that more of thought crept, It was a voluptuous scene, that mas- with more of time, into the meditations of querade. But first let me tell of the rooms the thoughtful among those who revelled. in which it was held. There were seven And thus too, it happened, perhaps, that —an imperial suite. In many palaces, how- before the last echoes of the last chime ever, such suits form a long and straight had utterly sunk into silence, there were vista, while the folding doors slide back many individuals in the crowd who had nearly to the walls on either side, so that found leisure to become aware of the pres the view of the whole extent is scarcely ence of a masked figure which had arrested impeded. Here the case was very differ-' the attention of no single individual before. ent ; as might have been expected from the And the rumor of this new presence hav duke's love of the bizarre. The apartments ing spread itself whisperingly around, there were so irregularly disposed that the vis- arose at length from the whole company a ion embraced but little more than one at buzz, or murmur, expressive of disapproba a time. There was a sharp turn at every tion and surprise—then, finally, of terror, twenty or thirty yards, and at each turn of horror, and of disgust. a novel effect. To the right and left, in the middle of each wall, a narrow Gothic In an assembly of phantasms such as I window looked out upon a closed corridor have painted, it may well be supposed that no o i_ rdinary appearance could have excited which pursued the windings of the suite, cusensfatthionn.. night t n truth the l masquerade color These window's were of stained glass whose such sensation. color varied in accordance with the pre- licensebll the figure oe inigquewstiosnnheaardyouutn veiling hue of the decorations of the cham- Herod, andgone beyond the bounds of even bet into which it opened. That at the indefinite the Prince's decorum. There eastern extremity was hung, for example in blue—and vividly blue were its windows, are cords in the hearts of the most reckless The second chamber was purple in its or which cannot be touched without emotion. naments and tapestries, and here the panes Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and were purple. The third was green through- death are equally jests, there are matters of out, and so were the casements. The which no jest can be made. The whole fourth was finished and lighted with or- company, indeed, seemed now deeply to feel that in the costume and bearing of the ange—the fifth with white—the sixth with violet. The seventh apartment was closely stranger neither wit nor propriety existed. shrouded in black velvet tapestry that The figure was tall and gaunt, and shroud hung all over the ceiling and down the ed from head to foot in the habiliments of grave.. The mask which concealed pet of the same material and hue. But in walls, falling in heavy folds upon a car- the the visage was made so nearly to resemble this chamber the color of the windows fail- the countenance of a stiffened corpse that ed to correspond with the decorations. The the closest scrutiny must have had diffi culty in detecting the cheat. And yet all panes here were scarlet—a deep blood color. Now, in no one of the seven apart- this might have been endured, if not ap ments was there any candle or candela- proved, by the mad revellers around. But bruin, amid tue profusion of golden orna the mummer had gone so far as to assume menuthat lay scattered to and fro or de- the type of Red Death. His vesture was bled in b his brod b ended from the roof. There was no light dcb with all the fea lo tures od—and of the face, a was row, be sif-any kind emanating from lamp or can dle within the suite of chambers. But in sprinkled with the scarlet horror. the corridors that followed the suite, there When the eyes of Prince Prospero fell stood, opposite so each window, a heavy upon this spectral image (which with a tripod, bearing a brazier of fire, that pro- slow and solemn movement, as if more jected its rays through the tinted glass fully to sustain its role, stalked to and fro a and so glaringly illumined the room.— among the waltzers) he was seen to be c And thus were produced a multitude of convulsed, in the first moment, with a gaudy and fantastic appearances. But in strong shudder either of terror or distaste; b the western or back chamber the effect of but, in the next, his brow reddened with the fire-light that streamed upon the dark ra ge. hanging through the blood-tinted panes, " Who dares ?" he demanded hoarsely was ghastly in the extreme, and produced of the courtiers who stood near him— so wild a look upon the countenances of " who dares insult us with this blasphe those who entered, that there were few of mous mockery ? Seize him and unmask the company bold enough to set foot with- him—that we may know whom' we have to in its precincts at all, hang at sunrise, from the battlements !" It was in this apartment, also, that there It was in the eastern or blue chamber stood against the western wall, a gigantic in which stood the Prince Prospero as he clock of ebony. Its pendulum swung to uttered these words. They rang through and fro with a dull, heavy monoto- out the seven rooms loudly and clearly— nous clang ; and when the minute hand for the Prince was a bold and robust man, made the circuit of the face, and the hour and the music had become hushed at the was to be stricken, there came from the waving of his hand. INTELLIGENCER & LANCASTERIAN PUBLISHED rvray TUESDAY, AT NO. H NORTH DUKE STREET, BY GEO. SANDERSON FEEEC SUBSCRIPTION.—Two Dollars per annum, payable In ad vance. No subscription discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the Editor. ADVERTIBEHENTIC—Advertimements, not exceeding one square, (12 lines,) will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each additional inser tion. Those of a greater length iu proportion. Joe PRINTING—Such RS Hand Bills, Posters, Pamphlets, Blanks, Latsds. Sze., he., executed with accuracy and at the shortest notice. For the Intelligeneer THE POET E=l o love the poet ! pretty one, He pencils his scenes so gay— He sings of the hills and the mountain falls As he warbles his morning lay. He calls up views by his fairy wand, That shines like an amber light— He wafts on the breeze the purest thought, By the power of his magic might. When the fire-fly gleams in the far off west, He hasten to the silent grove, And culls from their homes the brightest flowers, To entwine for his "lady love " On the wings of the tinted butterfly He visits the primrose dell ; He joins in the wild bee's mid-day song, And rests with the sweet harebell. When the sun, in a halo of liquid light, Goes down to his bed of gold, He chants, in the stirring songs of war, The deeds of the'warrior bold. Below in tho dale, where the nightingale sings, In the summer's mellow bloom, lie pours forth his strains in a softening flood— Lit up by the smiling moon. Then love the poet ! pretty one— He pencils his scenes so free. He gathers them all in a silver wreath, And offers the garland to thee. MORGANTOWN, March, 1858. Masque of the Red Death. " THAT COUNTRY IS gem MOST PROSPEROUS WEER& LABOR OOKMANDS THE GREATEST REWARD." LANCASTER CITY, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1858. It was in the blue room where stood the the Prince, with a gronpe of pale courtiers by his side. At first, as he spoke, there was a slight rushing movement of this group in the direction of the intruder, who at the moment was also near at hand, and now, with deliberate and stately step, made closer approach to the speaker. But from a certain nameless awe with which the mad assumptions of the mummer had inspired the whole party, there were found none who put forth hand to seize him ; so that unim peded, he passed within a yard of the Prince's person ; and, while the vast assem bly, as if with laze impulse, shrank from the centers of the rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the same solemn and measured step whig s h had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple— through the purple to the green—through the green to the orange—through this again to the white—and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him. It was then, however, that the Prince Prospero, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers, while none followed him en ac count of a deadly terror that had seized upon all. He bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreat ing figure, when the latt r, having attained the extremity of the velvet apartment, turned sudenly and confronted his pursuer. There was a sharp cry—and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell pros trate in death the Prince Prospero. Then summoning the wild courage of despair, a throng of the revelers at once threw them selves into the black apartment, and seiz ing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handle , , with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form. And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one drop ped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despair ing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all. AN EILOQUEINT PASSAGE. We make the following extract from the able and eloquent defence of the Supreme Court of the United States, by Senator BENJAMIN, of Louisiana, on the 11th of March, in reply to Senators Seward and Hamlin, who had spoken disparagingly of the Court in general, and Chief Justice TANEY in particular, as also of President BUCHANAN : New, Mr. President, I come to another point in my argument, which I approach with extreme pain, with unfeigned regret. From my earliest childhood I have been taught to revere the judges of the highest court in the land as men selected to render justice between litigants, not more by rea son of their eminent legal acquirements than because of a spotless purity of charac ter, and undimmed lustre of reputation, which removed them far, far beyond even a doubt of their integrity. The long line of eminent judicial worthies, which seemed to have culminated in a Marshall, has been continued in the person of one upon whom the highest eulogium that can be pronoun ced is to say that he was eminently wor thy of being the successor of that illustri ous judge. I know not, Mr. President, whether you, as I, have had the good for tune to see that magistrate in the adminis tration of justice in his own circuit, or in the court sitting below us, of which he is the honored chief. I know not, sir, wheth er it has been your good fortune, as it has been mine, to hear the expressions of affec tionate reverence with which he is spoken of by the people amongst whom he has passed his pure, his simple, and his spot less life. I know not, sir, whether you have listened, as I have, with interest to the expressions of respect and admiration that comes from the members of his bar in their familiar intercourse with each other— spontaneous tributes, worth a thousand labored eulogie,, to his eminent sagacity, to his vast legal learning, to the mild and serene dignity of his judicial deportment— above all, sir, above all, to the conscien tious, earnest, almost painful sense of res ponsibility with which he holds the scale of justice in even and impartial hand be tween the litigants whose rights depend upon his judgment. ! Mr. President, he is old, very old. The infirmities of age have bowed his venera ble form. Earth has no further object of ambition for him ; and when he shall sink into his grave, after a long career of high office in our country, I trust that I do not rudely or improperly invade the sanctity of private life in saying that he will leave behind him, in the scanty heritage that shall be left for his family, the noblest evidence that he died as he had lived, a being honorable to the earth from which he sprang, and worthy of the heaven to which he aspired. This man, sir, thus beloved, thus revered, 'thus esteemed, has been compared upon this floor to the infamous Jeffreys, by the Senator from Maine, [Mr. Hamlin.] This man has been charged by the Senator from New York [Mr. Seward,] with a corrupt coalition with the Chief Magistrate of the Union. He charges, in fact—not always in direct language, but partly by bold assertion and partly by insidious sug_es tions—that the Supreme Executive Magis trate of the land, and the judges of our highest court, and the parties to the Dred Scott case, got up a mock trial—that they were all in common collusion to cheat the country. He represents the venerable Chief Magistrate of our country, whose reputation hitherto has been beyond re proach—he represents the venerable Chief Justice—as enacting a solemn farce, in the face of the American people, on the eastern portico of this Capitol ; and he tells us, that on the day when that great sea of upturned faces was here presented, all looking on the solemn pageant that was passing before them, the Chief Justice of the nation was whispering into the ear of the President the terms of this nefarious bargain—and that, too, at the very moment when the former was administering and the latter taking the oath of office, by which the high majesty of Heaven was invoked as witness to the purity of his intentions in the administration of the government of his country ! Mr. President, thiict accursed, is that fell spirit of party which desecrtes the noblest sentiments of the human heart; and which, in the accomplishment of its unholy pur poses, hesitates at no reckless violence of assault on all that is held sacred by the wise and good. It was difficult, extremely difficult, for us all to sit here and hear what was said, and observe the manner in which it was said, and repress the utter ance of the inuignation that boiled up with in us. All this is charged by the Senator without the proof of a solitary fact, without the assertion even of a fact, on which to base the foul charge. Luckily, sir, luckily for us, these eminent men are too highly placed in the reverence, the estimation, and the regard of the American people, to have their bright escutcheon injured by such attacks as these. Mr. President, in olden times a viper gnawed a file. TOWNSHIP ELECTIONS Votes polled for the several candidates at the Township Elections, March 19, 1858. Little Britain Jadge : Joseph C. Jamison, 131 ; Nichol as H. Wells, 75. Inspectors: William Robinson, 139 ; Dan iel Hilton, 61. Assessor: Christopher Hess, 106; Wash ington Walker, 100. Assistant Assessor : William Hays, 192 ; John J. Evans, 134; Joseph Hilton, jr., 64. Constable: Isaac Wilson, 32 ; Robert Gib son, 3 ; J. T. Moody, 4 ; John Kirk, 3. Supervisors: Samuel Wright, 162; Levi Burnet, 132; Isaac Wilson, 77; Isaac Jen kins, 35. School Directors : James P. Andrews, 197 ; Samuel E. Fairlamb, 105; Marcenas King, 102 ; Joseph C. Taylor, 5. Auditor: Lewis J. Kirk, 149 ; Joseph Hil ton, jr., 51. Clerk: Jonathan Hamilton, 174. Brecknock. For the removal of place of holding elec tion, 8,3 ; against the removal, 127. Donegal East. Judge: (10th District) Benjamin Sher bahn, 103 ; Joseph Welchans, 103. (22nd District) John Leib, 59 ; William Doyle, 11. Inspectors : (10th District) Emanuel J. Ri dk., 95 ; Anthony Terry, 91. (24nd District) Peter Brnrer, 82; Henry Way, 24. Assessor: Benjamin Gr0ve,,,,181; P. .J. Al bright, 154. Assistant Assesors : John M. Hoover, 201 ; Christian Groh, 205 ; Samuel S. Grosh, 106 ; Nicholas Clapper, 148. Constable: John McClure, 183. Supervisors: Michael Sherbahn, 192; John Ritter, 136 ; John L. Brandt, 190 ;, William Saylor. 125 ; Henry Witmer 34. Sbhool Directors : John H. Sammy, 191; John Musser, 220 ; Samuel Book, 174; Sam uel Redsecker, 185 ; Jacob Markley, 137 ; William Pinkerton, 138. Auditor : John Alleman, 192 ; John Besch ler, 145. Clerk: John .T. Brenneman, 192; Abraham Geltmacher, 143. .Ju•ice : George W. Hensel, 111 ; James Mouteomery, SO. Inspectors: Daniel Erb, 107 ; David Myers, 86. Assessor: James Risk, 111 ; John Gra ham, 83. Assistant Assessor: Elisha Hamel, 107 ; Richard Bryson, 107 ; John S. Brown, 87 ; Solomon C. Finley, 85. Constable : Robert Rea, 129 ; Abraham Myers, 49 ; John Johnston, 11. Supervisors : Isaac B. Myers, 115 ; John Howet, 108 ; Daniel Hawk, 78 ; John Dun lap, 85. School Directors : Samuel D. Farry, 174; Samuel Kauffman, 123 ; J. H. Gilbert, 116; Jacob M. Eckman, 110 ; John Graham, 83 ; Michael Row, 78 ; Oliver Watson, 61 ; Geo. Kunkle, IS. Auditor: Benjamin Witmer, 105 ; Robert Evans, 86. Clerk : Michael Phillips, 107 ; James C Ewing, 85. Heinpjield East Judge: (38th district) Isaac Evans, 62 ; John Yohn, 73. (23i district) John Garber, 116. Inspectors: (38th district) Jacob Hogan dobler, 64; John Sharich, 72. (23d district) George Foltz, 34 ; Jacob L. Hershey, 83. Assessor: Michael Dillinger, 103 ; Jacob Hershey, 150. Assistant Assessor: Jacob Sonou, 242 ; Daniel Hess, 240. Constable : Samuel Kissinger, 237. Supervisors : John Wissler, 219 ; Jacob N. Shaub, 209 ; Christian Musselmau, 48 ; Wm. Weily, 16; Samuel Deitrich, 3. School Directors : Benj. Musser, 242 ; An drew Brubaker, 248 ; Jacob Smaling, 9 ; Henry Eshleman, 4. Auditor : John K. Long, 248. Clerk: John L. Miller, 245. Leacock Upper. Judge : C. R. Landis, 181 ; Isaac L. Bard, 101. Inspectors : Samuel Bushong, 180 ; Jacob Kolb, 93. Assessor: N. F. Shaeffer, 193; J. B. Raff, 65. Assistant Assessor : Benjamin Rohrer, 179; John Mu ser, 170 ; Eli Batten, 89 ; Theophi- Iris Rndy, 98. Constable : Uriah Mumma.w, 161 ; Hugh Montgomery, 110. Supervisors : Jacob Kurtz, 194; Samuel Stultzfoos, 156 ; Henry Kessler, 120 ; Henry Weidler, 84. School Directors : Isaac Bushong, 162 ; Christian Ebersole, 146 ; Benjamin Landis, (2 years) 157; David Landis, 120 ; Jacob Van dersaal, 127 ; Frederic Kreamer, 117. Auditor: Reuben B. Johns, 178 ; Mark Connel, Jr., 95. Clerk: Jesse McQuaid, 194; Robert Barsk, Leacock. (New Milltown School District.) Judge : Benjamin Hunsecker, 10 ; John Kremer, 9. Inspectors : John Kremer, 5 ; Abraham Metzler, 9 ; John Hess, 4. School Directors: Benjamin Hansecker, 9; Jacob R. Hershey, 10 ; Moses Hoover, 9 ; Abraham Metzler, 10 ; John Umble, 9 ; Christian Hershey, 10. Judge : William Wentz, •86 ; John Craw ford, 105. Inspectors : James Hadden, 80 ; Henry Huber, 107. Assessor: James Simpson, 115 ; William E. Ramsey, 73. Assistant Assessor . : Thomas Lebiziuz, 80 ; Abraham Good, 105 ; Samuel Allison, 178. Constable : George W. Lebiziuz, 108 ; Geo. Tanger, 74. Supervisors : Hugh Oneil, 93 ; John Mull - tooth, 99 ; Hiram Watson, 188. School Directors : George W. Smithson, 98 ; Bartholomew Simpson, 90 ; John J. Good, 178. Auditor: Andrew A. Began, 98; James Spence, 86. Clerk : George Robinson, 88; Benj. Herr, M Inetta Judge : J. A. Wisner, 214; Lewis Martin, Inspectors : Charles Girod, 155 ; Philip Gorner, 81 ; Jacob Songmaster, 59. Assessor : C. C. P. Grosh, 174 ; R. Wel chans, 95. Assistant Assessor: R. Welchans, 173 ; J. Reisinger, 159 ; Samuel Ripple. 118 ; Sam. Houston, 69. Constable : A. Emswiler, 117 ; F. K. Mosey, 102 ; Albert Spangler, 36. Jostle. of the Peace : Robert Dunn, 78 ; C. M. Fonlk, 72 ; Samuel Lindsay, 60 ; David Roth, 72. School Directors : C. A. Schaffner, 270 ; E. D. Roath, 196 ; Allen S. Ruby, 73. Chief Burgess : Samuel D. Miller, 126. Assistant Burgess : Barnard Roth, 132. -BUOILA.NA.N Town Council : Aaron H. Sammy, 163 ; John Crull, 154; Thomas Stence, 194; Barr Spangler, 129 ; Edward P. Trainer, 126. Borough Constable: William Shields, 115. Judge of Borough Election : John Naylor, 162. Inspectors: John Judy, 129; Jefferson Thompson 154. Clerks of Borough Election : F. K. Mosey, 138 ; Melchoir Herline, 138. Pequea. Judge: Benjamin Martin, 75; Abraham Snavely, Jr., 46. Inspectors: Benjamin Harnish, (Miller,) 49 ; Rudolph Erb, 27; Christian B. Herr, 44. Assessor: Jacob L. Hess, 65 ; Andrew Me haffey, 55. Assistant Assessor: David Martin, Jr , 76 ; Christian R. Herr, 99 ; A. B. Mylin, 25. Constable : John Harman, 78 ; C. B. Mylin, 13. Supervisors : Abraham Miller, 101 ; Abra ham Burkholder, 77 ; Michael Zercher, 43 ; John Harman, 18. Sohool Directors: John Brenneman, 118 ; Amos J. Hess, 82 ; John Mecartney, 74 ; John K. Good, 35. Auditor: Andrew Mehaffy, 69; Rudolph Harnish, 49. Clerk : Benjamin Rowe, 71 ; Lyman Ful ton, 50. Strasburg Judge : Miller Pfontz, 133 ; Franklin Clark, 61. Inspectors : Jaoob Evans, 100 ; David Potts, 60. Assessor: J. H. Myers, 75 ; Henry N. Bren eman, 117. Assistant Assessor : Henry Musser, 135 ; Adam Herr, 135. Constabe : [Trish Hegans, 58 ; Henry Steffee, 12 ; Jacob Kurtz, 8. Supervisors : Benjamin Fritz, 188 ; Isaac Lantz, 112 ; Martin Barr, 81. School Directors : Daniel Herr, 186 ; Jac. Evans, 82 ; Martin Groff, 111. Auditor : John F. Herr, 130 ; Henry Mush selman, 56. Clerk : Jacob Martin, 134. Strasburg Bor. Judge : William T. McPhail, 102. Inspectors : William Black, 45 ; Samuel Caughey, 33 ; John E. Girvin, 20. Assessor : Jacob Bower, 103. Assistant Assessor: William Steacy, 77 ; Jacob Hildebrand, 101 ; Henry Bear, 28. Constable : Robert Downey, 85; Augustus Mayer, 18. Chief Burgess : James McPhail, 76 ; James Paul, 23. Assistant Burgess : A. R. Black, 76; Nor man W. Waidly, 24. Town Council : John P. Killburn, 67 ; Alex ander Schultz, 67 ; Jacob Hoffman, 74 ; Wm. P. Robison, 69; William Spencer, 69 ; Sam. Spiehlman, 72 ; William Black, 74 ; Henry Aument,24 ; Levi Waidley, 27 ; John Wertz 28 ; William Echternach, 26; Jacob Buck - waiter, 26 ; Christian Bachman, 31 ; John S. Rohrer, 26. High Constable : Thomas Eager, 95. School Directors : William Spencer, 73 ; William S. Warren, 79 ; Charles T. Foulk, 31 ; Rudolph Shaub, 25. Salisbury, Judge : Samuel J. Hen lerson, 296; Sam Lemmon,l7l. Inspectors : Peter Eaby, 309 : George Dil ler, 154. Assessor Lacky Murrey, 305; Jacob K. Smoker, 166. Assistant Assessor: John McGill, 323 ; Jacob F. Hershey, 321 ; A. L. Henderson, 152 ; Levi B. Lewis, 152. Supervisors: Samuel Worst, 318 ; Isaac Lemmon, 241 ; Nicholas Harting, 139 ; Mentzer, 102 ;- Isaac Worst, 119. School Directors : Benjamin Weaver, 335 ; Isaac Good, 280 ; Samuel Blank, 166 ; Henry Kauffroad, 140. Auditor : Gabriel Reel, 329 ; Kennedy Diem, 141. Clerk: Samuel Kurtz, 321 ; John Mason, 150. Sadsbury Judge : Ambrose Pownall, 91 ; Wm. F. Rea, 32. Inspectors : John McGowan, 92 ; Franklin Houisher, 32. Assessor : P. S. Bush, 91 ; Amos Townsend, Jr., 33. Assistant Assessor: J. P. Scarlett, 92; A. T. MeLelland, 92. Constable : Wm. Prondfoot, 92 ; A. C Stone, 4; James Bach nan, 3. Justice of the Peace : Samuel Slokom, 95 ; John D. Harrar, 27. Supervisors: Wm. McGowan, 95 : James Brinton, 97; Wm. Frazer, 26 ; Jehn Baker, 23. School Directors : Samuel Slokom, 95 .1. K. Lamborn, 102 ; Wm. M. Noble, 32 Warrick M. Cooper, 4. Auditor: J. T. 'Whitson, 94; Mahlon Fox, 29. Clerk : Irwin Nicholson, 92 Justices of the Peace Elected, March, 1858. Columbia, N. W.: James H. Hunter " S. W.: Francis H. Ebur. Conestoga : William Riley. CocaLica East: Chrn. Bentz, Chas. Carpenter. Donegal West: Samuel B. Snyder, Daniel Nannamacher. Earl : John C. Martin. Elizabethtown: Henry M. Breneman. Elizabeth: Franklin A. Hoffman, Samuel Schnerer. Little Britain : David Cope. Marietta : Robert Dunn. Mount Joy Bor.: Jacob Ulrich. Martic : William Idall. Providence: John Conrad. Rapho : Samuel R. Zug. Salisbury: Robert W. Morton, Silvester Ken nedy. Sadsbury : Samuel Slokom. I..j.} , .if~k•Y .:b( Much is said and written now-a-days of women's rights. What then arc her rights? This it is not only just, but expedient to give her. Man defrauds himself when he withholds it. For is not woman to be his constant companion ? Would he choose that his companion should be destitute of ideas ? Surely not. The conversation of an educated woman is a perpetual feast. If the first pleasure of life is action, the second certainly is talk. And there is almost as much pleasure in talking about things as in doing them. A man wants in a wife not only a companion, but a coun seller. No one mind even saw all sides of all subjects, nor ever all sides of one sub ject. And the wisest suggestions not un frequently come from the least informed. The Pythoness, the Sybils, were women, because women were always supposed to enjoy a nearer access to the fountain of wisdom than man. Women have a right to good husbands, because most of them mean to do the thing that is nearly right. When they marry they have a right that their hus bands shall be men and not mere wrecks of debauchery and dissipation. Oh, it is one of the cruelest of wrongs for a pure and innocent girl to throw herself away upon a broken down victim of licentious ness, who is more fit for a hospital than to preside over a family, the candidate for premature decay and early death. The mind and moral nature generally in such cases is quite ag much a wreck as the body. The freshness of life is all worn off, the gayety of innocence is forever gone. The life of such a man is cold apd hard, destitute of sentiment and enthusiasm. Woman is cruelly wronged when she has accepted such a companion. Woman has a right to the sosiety of her husband. Home should be his sanctuary, and he ought to find his happiness,there. If he does not, there is something wrong. He has promised to be the husband—that is the house-band—the band that keeps the household together. His presence there is necessary to keep all right. If he wan ders away heedlessy something is apt to go wrong. His authority is often wanted to maintain order, to arrange business, to su perintend labor. His absences ought to be as few and unfrequent as possible.— Woman has a right to this, and her rights are grossly violated when her husband is often unnecessarily away. Lastly, women have a right to the earn ings of their husbands for the support of their families. We never pass a drinking saloon, from the low groggery to the pre ponderous hotel, without saying to our selves, here, after all, is the most outra geous violation of woman's rights. We sometimes get a glimpse of these apart ments, and whom do we see there? Hus bands and fathers, who subsist 'upon their daily warms, spending one-half or perhaps all their earnings in liquid poison, to ruin their health, spoil their temper, corrupt their morals, make themselves odious and loathsome vagabonds, while their wives are at home earning, by the slender gains of their needle, the pittance which rescues their mutual offsprings from starvation. Oh ! this is too bad to be seen and suffered in a Christian country. This outrage upon woman's rights cries loudest of all to heaven, and if there were a particle of chivalry in these degene rate days, this is the first abuse in our social economy which would be abated. Tell me not of barbarism of the Malays or the Fejee Islanders, who roast their ene mies and pick their bones. Their enemies expect it, and would do the like in return. But here the black-hearted cruelty is inflicted by a friend—the one who ought to be the nearest and tenderest of all! Our boasted civilization and Christianity - of the nineteenth century—what are they ? —Baltimore Sun. STATE CONVENTION. We would gladly publish all the excel len't speeches made at the late State Con vention, could we find room to do so ; but, as that is impracticable, we must content ourselves with the following : SPEECH OP THE HON. WILLIAM HOPKINS Hon. William Hopkins, of Washington county, rose to address the convention, saying : Mr. President—•As I do not intend to participate in the discussion of these reso lutions, I desire to make a few remarks explanatory of my position in this Con vention. The Democratic Convention of my county passed a resolution disapprov ing of the President's Kansas policy ; they afterwards appointed me one of the delegates to this Convention with a full knowledge of my sentiments. I .tated to that Convention that if I would be ex pected to unite in a vote of censure on Mr. Buchanan in regard to any por.ion of his policy, they had better select another agent. A resolution was then offered to instruct the delegates to carry out in the State Convention the sentiments expressed in the resolution of disapproval. I then stated to the Convention that if the resolution should be adopted, I would resign upon the spo , for I would suffer, political martyrdom before I would unite in a vote of censure upon a man to whom I had been devoted all my life, when I be lieved that in all his acts he was governed by the purest motives and a desire to pro mote the best inter of the country.— After considerable discussion, a motion to adjourn was carried by a large majority for the avowed purpose of defeating the resolution of instruction. And now, Mr. President, I trust that I will be pardoned for making an allusion to the distinguished statesman who now occupies the Presi dent's chair. In view of the relations which have subsisted between us, it seems to me, that it would not be improper that' I should do so. Almost a quarter of a century ago, in this very hall, I voted for James Buchanan for United States Sena tor. It was in 1834, the first time he was elected. I also voted for him subsequent ly for the same position. My native county instructed for him every time his name was mentioned in connection with the office he now holds with so much honor to himself as well as to his country. I voted for him in two State and two National Conven tions, and there has never been an hour since the first suggestion of his name in that connection, that I would not rather have seen him President than any other living man. These are my feelings to-day. Is it any wonder then, that if I found my self in a position of antagonism with one to whom I had been so long devoted, and in whose patriotism and statesmanship I had such unbounded confidence, that I should pause before taking ground against any leading measure of his administration. It is due to candor to say, that when the new phase of the Kansas complication was first presented, I could not see eye to eye with the President, as his annual Mes sage was interpreted by the central organ, the Washington Union. lam free to confess, that I have always believed, and do now believe, that the whole Constitu tion ought to have been submitted to the people of Kansas, for their approval or re jection_ I admit, however, the correct ness of the President's position, when he says, that the. Convention was not bound by the terms of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, to submit to an election, the whole Con stitution. But, still I maintain that they ought, in obedience to public sentiment, as well as to the President's expressed de sire, to have submitted the Constitution to the vote of those to be governed by it. This, I think, would have been in con sonance with the spirit of the organic act. The President clearly indicated a desire and belief that this submission should be made, when he told Gov. Walker, in his instructions, that viben the Constitution should be submitted, the people must be protected in the right to vote, uninfluenced by fraud or violence. Did he not also fully endorse the doctrine of submission in his annual Message ? What else can be inferred from his language—" I trust, however, the example set by the last Con gress, requiring that the Constitution of Minnesota should be subject to the ap proval and ratification of the people of the proposed new State, may be followed on future occasions." And again : " I took it for granted, that the Convention of Kan sas would act in accordance with this ex ample, founded as it is, upon correct prin ciples, and hence my instructions to Gov. Walker in favor of submitting the Consti tution to the people were expressed in general and unqualified terms." What more could the President have done to NO. 12 have secured a fair expression of the peo ple of Kansas upon their Constitution 1— But the Convention refused to be guided by the wise and patriotic counsel of the President ; and I know of no power under the Constitution, possessed by the Presi dent, to compel obedience to his wishes in this respect; and the Convention sent the Constitution to Washington without sub mitting it to a vote of the people, and we are now brought to the question, what had best be done 1 The President, after hav ing exhausted all his power—which was but advisory—to have the people of Kan sas afforded a fair opportunity of voting upon their Constitution, and failing totta complish that object, he now recommends the immediate admission of the State, ac companied with the suggestion that Con gress should recognize in the act of ad mission the right of the people at any and all times to alter, amend or abolish their Constitution, if a majority be opposed to it as it is. This, he thinks, will rid Congress of the agitation ; and that if a majority of the people of the Territory be opposed to slavery, they can relieve themtelves frg t m it as readily, if not more so, in that Ay than in any other mode. in arriving at this conclusion, the President has doubt less looked over the whole ground, at the persistent obstinacy of the one party in refusing to vote at the June election for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, and the repeated acts of rebellion against the laws the same party, as well as the frauds and acts of violence that have been perpetrated by the other party. His pol icy is to localize the controversy, and thus " leave the people of the State perfectly free to regulate their domestic institutions in their own way." Cannot this sugges tion of the President be adopted as a basis of compromise, without any sacrifice of honor on either side I If it be admitted (and for myself I do not doubt it,) that the moment Kansas becomes a State, it will be competent for her people to alter the Con stitution, then what practical difference can it make to the people there, whether they be admitted with the Lecompton or Topeka Constitution ; if a majority are opposed to slavery—as is doubtless the case—all they have to do is to order a Convention through the Legislature, and in ninety days they can have just such a Constitution as a majority desire. What evil then can result from adopting the pol icy recommend by the President in his special Message I Can we not all unite in this, and thus put a stop to discord in our own ranks, and at the same time blast the hopes of the opposition I It is, perhaps, not all that some could wish ; but can any other mode of adjustment be devised that promises to satisfy all or even as many as are prepared to sustain the plan suggested ? If so, what is it? Is there not something due to majorities in this case ? That great and good man, that venerable statesman, whose whole life has been one of devotion to his country's best interests, recommends that Kansas be admitted at once. In this he is sustained by that monument of wis dom, patriotism and incorruptible integrity, General Cass, as well as every other of the distinguished gentlemen who are officially associated with him, together with an over whelming majority of the Democratic mem bers of Congress of both branches. Then let us rally around the President of our choice, who is thus supported. Let any diversity of opinion that may have existed among Democrats, which may have led to crimin ation and re-crimination, be forgotten.— Let that latitude of discussion which has hitherto characterized our great parfy, be now indulged. Let all remember that we are one common brotherhood, and that upon our unity of action depends our suc cess, and that upon the success, of the Democratic party depends the peace, pros perity and glory of our beloved country, if not indeed the perpetuity of the Union. Mr. President, whatever others may do, I have resolved to stand by the old ship Democracy, guided by its experienced commander, James Buchanan. Yes, sir, like the tempest tossed mariner, when he finds the billows dashing, against the ves sel which has carried him so often safely and triumphantly through the storm, and when, perchance, the raging elements may have rent her sails, shattered her arms, and riven her mast to its bale, he clings to the hull as his last hope of safety. So now, sir, when danger thteatens and the storm rages, I will cling to the President, who has served his country so long and so faithfully, as the great sheet anchor of our safety for the present, and of our hopes for the future. CARDS. E MOVA L.--WILLIAM S. AMWEO, 111, Attorney at Law, has removed hie of eo from his former place into Smith Duke Street, nearly opposite the Trinity Lutheran Church. apr 8 tf 12 ~.I. A .MYEL H. REYNOLDS, Attorney at 0 law. Who, No. 14 North Duke street, opposite the Court Donne. may 5 t(18 s E N off r eo :L K, P . R pai T . G i;ui S id tf in ßGE , Zir d E DE L NT C ISr n ' floor, North East corner of North Queen and Orange streets, Lancaster. l'a. jan 20 tf 1 IXr . T. IIIePHAIL, 4 ATTORNEY AT LAW, STRASBURG, Lancaster Co., Pa. CISME XTEWTON LIGHTNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, hes rrmoved his Office to North Duko street, to the room reeenily occupied by 'lon. I. E. "fleeter. Lencaster, nor 1 tf II ALDUS J. NEFF, Attorney at Law.-- Office with B. A. Shleffer, Esq., south-west corner of Centre Square. Lancaster. may 15, '65 ly 17 RREMOVAL.—.WILLIAM B. FORDBEY, Attorney at Law, has removed hie office from North Queen street to the buildink• in the south!east corner of Centre Square, formerly known an Hubley's Hotel. Lancaster, april 10 JESSE LANDIS, Attorney at Law.--Of flee one do, w.f. of Leehler'e liotel, tiara King etreet., Lancaater, Pa. • All kinds of Scrivening—such as writing Wills, Deeds. Mortgages, Accounts, Ac., will be attended to with correctness and despatch. may 16, '56 tf-17 WILLIA-II WHITESIDE', SURGEON DEN*2lST.—Offlce in North Qnee❑ street, 3d door from Orange, and directly over Sprenger 1 Westhaeffer's Book Store. Lan.stir, may 27, 1856 I IR. J. T. BAKER, Homcrope.thlo Phy- PUCCeSBCor to Dr. McAllister.. Office 19 E. Orange et., nearly opposite the First Ger man Reformed Church. Lancaster, April 17 JAMES BLACK, Attorney at Law.--Of lice in East King street, two doors east of Lechler's llotel, Lancaster, Pa. Air All business connected with his profession, and all kinds of writing, such as preparing Deeds, Mortgages, Wills, Stating Accounts, Sc., promptly attended to. may 16. tf-17 JOHN F. BRINTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Has removed his office to his residence, No. 249 Routh 6th Street, above Spruce. Refers by permission to Hon. H. G. Lon', A. L. HAUS, " Flosuutz BRINSON, " TELADDS9B 911117. M. nov 24 lye 5 LE XANDER HARRIS, Attorney at _A LAW. Office South Queen St., West side, near Vine St. REYERENCIS : Governor James Pollock, Harrisbmlr. Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, do. Hon. Joseph Casey, Hon. Andrew Parker, Alliffintown. . . Hon. James H. &Here, do. A. K. McClure, Esq., Chamberalmkg. apt? Ifit
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