alp tancaster lintelligenter - - GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. A. SANDERSON, Associate. LANCASTER, PA., OOTOBER 5, 1858 CIRCULATION, 2000 COPIES! BOBSCEILPEO/! Pam, $2,00. per annum. • DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS. JUDGE OB THE SUPREME 0017ILT : WILLIAM A. PORTER, Philadelphia. OANAL COMMISSIONER: WESTLEY FROST, Fayette. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. Congress. JAMES M. HOPKINS, Drumore. Assembly. HENRY E. LEMAN, City. HENRY SHREINER, Manheim Twp. SAMUEL. HOLL, Earl. JOHN H. BRENNEMAN, Mt. Joy Bor County Commissiemer. THOMAS W. HENDERSON, Salisbury Prison Inspectors. HENRY SHELLY, Rapbo. JOHN REINHOLD, West Cocalie°. Directors of the Poor. JOHN ROWE, East Lampeter. • FREDERICK KREAMER, 11. Leacock Auditor. WILLIAM F. JENKINS, Fulton ler ELECTION ON TUESDAY NEXT, OCTODEIR . 3.2...(91 see We shall anticipate our regular publi cation day by issuing the next number o THE INTELLIGENCER on Saturday afternoon. DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS Mr. HOPKINS, the Democratic candidate for Congress, addressed a meeting at Safe Harbor, on last evening. Mr. HOPKINS will address the people of Columbia, this evening (Tuesday.) The meet ing will also be addressed by Capt. GEO. SAN plasm, of Lancaster. The people of Marietta will be addressed by Mr. HosaiNs, and SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, Esq., of Lancaster, on Wednesday (tomorrow) evening—the people of East Earl and the surrounding townships, at the Sorrel Horse Tavern, on Friday evening, by Mr. HorxiNs, —the people of Mount Joy on Saturday after noon, at 2 o'clock—(Mr. WESTER will also ad• dress this meeting) and the people of Eliza bethtown, on the same evening. JAMES L. REYNOLDS, Esq., of Lancaster, will also ad dress the latter meeting. On Monday evening, the 11th inst., the people of Lancaster City will be addressed by Messrs. HOPKINS, SANDERSON and WESTER, in Fulton Hall. EXAMINE YOUR TICKET I Let every voter in the county opposed to THADDEUS STEVENS and AI3OLITIONISM, he sure that he votes the following ticket : Judge of Supreme Court WILLIAM A. PORTER. Canal Oomm Ondoner WES TLEY FROST. Congress. JAMES M. HOPKINS Assembly. HENRY E. LEMAN, HENRY SHREINER, SAMUEL ROLL, JOHN H. BRENNEMAN County Commissioner. THOMAS W. HENDERSON Prison Inspectors HENRY SHELLY. JOHN REINHOLD. Directors of the Poor. JOHN ROWE, FREDERICK KREAMER Auditor. WILLIAM F. JENKINS DEMOCRATS, ARE YOU READY' This is a pertinent question. Before another issue of our paper can reach many of our subscribers the battle will have been fought, and victory or defeat be the result. We be. lieve a glorious triumph is in store for the Democracy of Lancaster county, if our friends do their duty. Are you all ready, therefore, Democrats I Are you prepared to go to thepolls on TUESDAY NEXT, and to see that your neighbors go with you ? We sincerely hope you are. The glorious cause for which many of you have battled a lifetime, is in jeopardy, and demands that you should redouble the efforts which you have made on former occa sions. The enemies of our glorious old party, the revilers of Democratic men and the foes of the Constitution, are busy at work. No labor is too hard, no intrigue too dark, no trick too mean for their leaders to engage in, in order to carry their point. Shall we, therefore, fold our arms and rest satisfied in the goodness of our cause? Shall we stand idle, and permit our unscrupulous opponentsNto profit by our own neglect ? No ! a thousand times NO ! Let us, then, rise in our strength t Let us go to the polls, and vote the whole Democratic ticket, and see that our friends do likewise ; and let us be sure that we have the names of William A. Porter, Weetley Frost, James M. Hopkins, Henry E. Leman, Henry Shreiner, Samuel Holl, John H. Brenneman, Thomas W. Henderson, Henry Shelly, John Reinhold, John Rowe, Frederick I(reamer, and William F. Jenkins upon it. BEWARE OF SPURIOUS TICKETS I We caution our Democratic friends against spurious tickets, with which the County will be flooded on the day of the election. The enemy will resort to this device, as one means of deceiving and imposing upon honest voters. Beware of them, and see that none such are put in the ballot-box by mistake. Be sure that your ticket contains the names of all the Democratic candidates, and that the names are correctly spelled. EVERY VOTE COUNTS 1 DEMOCRATS ! Remember that 0N E VOTE may decide the election in this county, on Tuesday next. Hundreds of examples elsewhere might be given to show the fatal effect of one solitary vote remaining away from the polls on the day of election. Good wishes alone for success amount to nothing. Do not indulge in the fatal delusion that our ticket is safe enough without your vote. Put your own ticket in the ballot-box, and see that your Democratic neighbor does the same.— WATCH-WORK-BE VIGILANT-AND WE HAVE EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT WE SHALL BE REWARDED WITH A GLORIOUS VICTORY ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO GULL I A prominent Abolition leader in town, it is said, has promised over one hundred voters in the North West Ward alone to have them ap pointed WATCHMEN, on condition that they vote for THADDEUS STEVENS ! We hope none of our Democratic friends will be caught with this bait. If they should be, they will find out after the election, that they have been egregiously deceived I CONTEMPTIBLE MEANNESS I Several men came to town a few days ago, from Drumore township, for the purpose of being naturalized. They, were met, upon their arrival, by one or two of the Republican leaders here, and told that they would procure their naturalization papers for them, without any expense, if they would pledge themselves to vote for Mr. hTEVENS. These honest, hard working, laboring men indignantly spurned the offered bribe, and gave the minions of Stevens to understand that they could pay for their own papers, and that they intended to vote for JAMES M. HOPKINS and the whole Democratic State and County ticket The Abolition pimps went away with " a flea in the ear!" THE TRUE ISSUE. The friends of Mr. STEVENS are endeavoring to mystify the issues of the Congressional canvass, and divert public, attention, by talk ing about the tariff and popular sovereignty. But these are not the real questions at issue. Even admitting Mr. STEVENS to be a tariff man, and if we are to take his own declare tions, he is in favor of aprohaitorst tariff—it is certain that Mr. HOPKINS, on that question, occupies more tenable ground than his com petitor. Mr. H. does not favor a prohibitory tariff, but will advocate a tariff for revenue, with such discriminations as will afford all proper and reasonable protection to Pennsyl vanfa interests. This is the only kind of a tariff which it is possible to obtain, and the only one which any reasonable man should ask for. We therefore take the broad and unequivocal ground that Mr. HOPKINS is a better tariff man than Mr. STEVENS, and here we dismiss this part of the subject. With regard to the doctrine of popular sovereignty, we contend that Mr. STEVENS is opposed to it in Coto. He took the ground in his speech accepting the nomination, that Congress had the right in all cases to control the legislation of the Territories ; whereas, Mr. HOPKINS advocates the Constitutional right of the PEOPLE of the Territories to legislate for themselves. Here, then is a wide difference between the principles entertained by the two men. But the true issue between the two candi dates is Abolitionism and anti-Abolitionism.— Mr. STEVENS, it will not be denied by any intelligent man in the county or in the State, is a rampant, undisguised ABOLITIONIST, and advocates the perfect equality of the white and black races. So strong is his pre judices in favor of the Negro, that, when a member of the Reform Convention of 1838, he refused to affix his signature to the amended Constitution, because it confined the right of suffrage to white citizens, to the exclusion of the colored race ! And, although, twenty years have passed over his head, he has not abated one tittle of his peculiar friendship for the Negro ; in fact, the older he gets, the stronger and more deep-seated his prejudices become in favor of Abolitionism, and all the foul and pestilent heresies connected with it. Mr. HOPKINS, on the . cuntrary, is opposed to Abolitionism in every shape and form. He believes this model Government of our's was formed by white men for the benefit of WHITE MEN ; and whilst he would not oppress the negro, nor deprive him of any of the rights and privileges which he enjoys here in Pennsylvania, he is for keeping him in his proper place, socially and politically, and will not consent to place him on an equal footing with the white laboring men of the North. ABOLITIONISM, therefore, is the leading issue to be decided by the people of Lancaster county on Tuesday next ; and we ask them in all seriousness to ponder well upon it before depositing their ballots. Those who desire the county to be abolitionized, will vote for THADDEUS STEVENS—those who do not wish to bring about this state of things, should by all means cast their suffrages for JAMES M. HOPKINS. 163°- The National Foundry dodge, got up in the late Democratic County Convention, which it was fondly hoped would secure to the Dem ocratic candidate a few hundred votes, a la Lecompton land bribe, has been prematurely knocked in the head—Mr Buchanan's com— missioners having reported in favor of a Southern site, somewhere in Virginia. This fact has been communicated in a private letter to one of Mr. Buchanan's friends in this city, but the knowing ones at once concluded that the fact should be suppressed until after the election. Of course if the proposed national foundry is located during . the present adminis tration, it will necessarily be in the South, where the President's affections all seem to fly We clip the above paragraph from the Saturday Express, for the purpose of pronoun cing it an unmitigated FALSEHOOD from beginning to end; and GEIST knew it to be such when he penned it. Not only have no Com missioners been appointed by the President, but the law authorizing such appointment has not yet been enacted by Congresel This, of itself, is sufficient to contradict the bare-faced and wicked LIE of the unprincipled editor of that Abolition sheet ; and the falsehood must be so apparent to every intelligent reader, that we shall not occupy any more space by noticing it further at this time. A WORD OF CAUTION We have been advised that quite a large number- of tickets, purporting to be Demo cratic, have been printed with the name of John H. Brenneman left off the Legislative ticket, and that of SAMUEL H. PRICE, one of the Woolly-Head candidates substituted ! This cheat is intended, we suppose, more particu larly for this City, Columbia, Marietta, and one or two other points in the county. We hope our friends will be on their guard against this, and every other attempted fraud of the enemy. THEY CAN'T VOTE FOR STEVENS I None of the old line Whig friends of WIL LIAM CARPENTER, our popular Prothonotary, can vote for THADDEUS STEVENS, when they reflect on the tremendous efforts he made, and the vast expense he put the county to in order to " treat the election as if it had not taken place," and prevent Mr. CARPENTER from tak ing the office to which he was fairly and hon estly elected. Surely none of them will so far stultify themselves as to vote for the bitter enemy of their favorite candidate last fall, and whose efforts to prevent him from taking the office after he was elected, cost the tax-payers of the county not less that THREE THOU SAND DOLLARS! WHAT HAVE THEY DONE' What has Abolitionism done for Lancaster county? We shall answer this question in few words. It murdered Mr. GORSUCH, a white citizen of Maryland, at Christiana, a few years ago ; and, less than twelve months ago, it brutally murdered Mrs. REAM and Mrs. GARBER, two respectable white women, in Manheim township 1 It robs our barns and barn yards, burns our dwellings and store houses, fills our Jail and Poor House, occupies two-thirds of the time of our Crimi— nal Court, and costs the tax-payers THOU— SANDS OF DOLLARS every year 1 This is what Abolitionism has done, and still does, indirectly for us; and yet, with these facts staring the public in the face, the free while citizens of this county are asked to vote for the leader of the Abolition party—the man who sympathises with the degraded wretches who are guilty of these violent outrages in our midst! COL. SAMUEL H. PRICE This gentleman—one of the Abolition can didates for Assembly—claims that he is the father of the new license law, and expects to get Democratic votes on that ground. What ridiculous presumption 1 Mr. PRICE was at the tail-end of the Committee, principally composed of Democrats, and was of about as much use there as the fifth wheel would be to a wagon ! The bill was framed by Democrat:, passed by Democrats, and would have bean enacted into a law, had Mr. P. been on the other side of the globe. The only thing he did was to sign his name to the bill along with his Democratic colleagues of the Committee, and to vote for it on its passage through the House. A man of straw might have done the same. THE MASONIC INQUISITION. The sums paid witnesses and printing alone in the investigation of Free Masonry, in 1836, exceeded TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, and the pay of members and officers of the Legis lature, during the time consumed in the in vestigation was not less than TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS more—making in all, some FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOL— LARS. Add to this the interest of-twenty two years, and we have the round sum of THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS of the people's money recklessly squandered by TwennEus STEVENS in his wicked crusade against the venerable order of Masonry ! What think the Tax-Payers of Lancaster county ? In his report to the Legislature, Mr. STE yams, Chairman of the Inquisitorial Com mittee, June 13, 1836, 'thus spoke of Free Masons and Odd Fellows : " Many of the ceremonies, which we have not space to notice, are of a most HORRID and BLASPHEMOUS character. Many of them, to the casual observer, appear to be merely childish, ridiculous, and foolish. But they are far from deserving that character.— They are founded on the deepest knowledge of the human heart. For the safe execution of the ultimate DARK. objects of secret socie ties, it is indispensably necessary to secure perfect secrecy. Although the candidate is bound to this by the most APPALLING OATHS and HORRID PENALTIES, yet the strongest guarantee is the personal degradation which he is made to endure. Pride and shame operate more powerfully than even conscience. A Mason might disclose the VILLANY OF THE ORDER, and justify himself by plead ing the unlawful and demoralizing character of the oaths. But he would, with much more difficulty, be persuaded to exhibit himself to the public, naked, hoodwinked, with a rope round his neck, cuffed, beat, and bruised, by his fellow members. * * * * * * * " The testimony disclosed the secret oaths, penalties, ceremonies, and objects of the Society of Odd Fellows ; an institution little less dangerous to the community than Free masonry. As Masonry has declined under the pressure of public opinion, this institution has flourished ; and if the elder brother should be doomed to premature death, this seems designed to reign in its stead. It is feared that it may become even more dangerous than Masonry itself. It is cheaper, and conse quently accessible to a more numerous and less cultivated class of people. MASONRY IS THE ARISTOCRATIC, AND ODD FEL— LOWSHIP THE PLEBEIAN ORDER OF INIQUITY. NEITHER OF THENI CAN BOAST OF ONE VIRTUE TO ATONE FOR A THOUSAND VICES." After reading these extracts we marvel that any Mason or Odd Fellow, or any other citizen who is opposed to any interference with the rights of conscience, or other indi vidual rights guaranteed under the Constitu tion, can think for one moment of voting for the author of this infamous outrage. DO YOUR DUTY, DEMOCRATS The obligation to support our candidates, is at all times strong, and should never be forgotten, under any circumstances ; but the strength of the obligation is increased when good and able men, whose time and talents are worth much to themselves, and who have much to lose and nothing to gain by serving the public, consent to permit their names to go on the ticket. We should manifest our appreciation of the self-sacrificing spirit of such men, by exerting our utmost energies to elect them. The only reward we can offer them—for the emoluments of office afford them no adequate compensation—is a vote that will prove to them that their fellow citizens are not insensible to their merits. Feeling sure that our ticket is made up of some of the best men of the county, we are jus tified in thus invoking for our candidates the earnest and active support of every Democrat in the district. The southwest breezes blowing over the political battle-fields of Missouri, Ar kansas, Kentucky, Carolina and California, have come to us laden with the triumphant shouts of our victorious Democratic brethren. Let us send them a response on the wings of the bracing wind of October, that will assure them that the Keystone Of the Arch is still the Keystone of Democracy; and not only so, but that Lancaster county, for the first time in thirty years, has gloriously wheeled into line, and is now acting with them. We have our share of this gratifying message to write, and let us be sure to write it in characters so leg ible that even the jaundiced eyes of Repub licanism may read it. A FEW FACTS FOR TAX-PAYERS Many years ago THADDEUS STEVENS left Vermont, the land 'of wooden nutmegs and Yankee notions, and pitched his tent in good old Pennsylvania. From that day to this he has been an eye-sore and a trouble to our peo ple, and has cost the State more than any ten men who have ever lived in it. Look at the figures : The Gettysburg Tapeworm (prin cipal and interest) about $2,000,000 The Buckshot War (principal and interest)3oo,ooo . .. . . The. Masonic Inquisition (princi pral and Interest) 30,000 The Contested Election Case of last year, 3,000 Amount, To this might be added THREE or FOUR MILLIONS more of the public money, reck— lessly squandered by the Ritner administration and by his Canal Commissioners (of whom STEVENS was one) in their futile attempt to perpetuate their power in the State. During that administration, they also received about THREE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS from the General Government—the State's quota from the sale of the public lands—and that, too, was spent in their electioneering efforts; and all the time the State debt, instead of being reduced, was increased to the amount of some SIX or EIGHT MILLIONS in the three years of their misrule ! We wish the voters of Lancaster county to consider this matter well before they vote on Tuesday next. If these Yankee adventurers have Made the people of Pennsylvania "pay so dear for the whistle" in the past, they should be deprived of the power of repeating such experiments in the future. We want the tax payers to reflect on the matter. CAN DEMOCRATS BE BOUGHT T Never! NO NEVER! Yet the Abolition leaders are boasting that, in this city alone, they can and will BUY scores of Democrats to vote for THADDEUS STEVENS, the very head and front of the Abolition party in Pennsyl— vania, and the most dangerous and vindictive enemy the Democracy ever had in the State! It is a gross libel upon Democrats—no matter how poor they may be—to say that they can be bought and bribed like NEGROES to do any thing their would-be masters tell them ! It is a base insult offered to free White Men, and they should resent it at the baliot-box, and teach STEVENS and his minions a lesson which they will never forget. EDITORIAL CHANGE The Lancaster Weekly Times, with its change of ownership, has changed its name, and is now published under the old title of the Lancaster Union, and edited by THOMAS E. COCHRAN, Esq., of York. The new editor wields a vigorous pen, and is strong in the support of THADDEUS STEVENS ; but we doubt whether he will be able to save his patron from the fate which awaits him at the ballot boa. Barring his politics, we have no doubt Mr. Cochran is a clever man, and we there fore welcome him to the editorial corps of the county. MR.. STEVENS IN CONGRESS We want the respectable white population of Lancaster county to look at the subjoined chaste and classic effusions of the Republican candidate for a seat in the National Legisla ture. After reading this extract, can any man, who has any regard for decency and for the. character of our county, vote for him Extrad of a speech in Congress by Air. Stevens. Tune 10, 1850 : " I do not remember one of the numerous gentlemen who have referred to my remarks, who has attempted to deny one of the facts, or refute one of the arguments ; they have noticed them merely to vituperate their author. To such remarks there can be no reply by him who is not willing to place himself on a level with blackguards. I cannot enter that arena. I will leave the filth and the slime of Billings gate to the fish-women, and to their worthy coadjutors, the gentleman from Virginia, [Mr. Millsond from North Carolina, [Mr. Stanly,] from Kentucky, [Mr. Stanton, ] from Tennes see, [Mr. Williams,] and all that tribe With them I can have no controversy. When I want to combat with such opponents and such weapons, I can find them any day by entering the fish market, without defiling this Hall. I beg those respectable fish-lathes, howeyer, to understand that I do not include my col league from Bucks county among those whom I deem fit to be their associates. I would not so degrade them. There is, in the natural world, a little, spot ted, contemptible animal, which is armed by nature with a foetid, volatile, penetrating virus, which so pollutes whoever attacks it, as to make him offensive to himself and all around him for a long time. Indeed, he is almost incapable of purification. Nothing, sir, no insult shall 'provoke me to crush so :filthy a beast! Mr. Chairman, I crave your pardon for this unprofitable digression. I trust I shall never again be betrayed into a similar one, even to brush off these invading vermin. I will not go into a discussion as to the original equality and identity of the human race. lam not learned in those things, nor unfortunately, in any other. But I appeal to the learned men of this House, the gentleman from Alabama, [Mr. Hilliard,] from Massa chusetts, [Mr. Mann, ] from - Vermont, [Mr. Meacham, ] to say if the ethnological research es of the past and present age—whether drawn from the physiology or the philology of tribes and nations of men—do not all corroborate the recorded fact that "He hath made of one blood all nations of men ;" and that their pres ent great variety in color, form, and intellect, is the effect of climate, habits, food, and edu• cation. Let not the white man therefore des pair on account of the misfortune of his color. Homer informs us that the moment a man becomes a slave, he loses half the man ; and a few short years of apprenticeship will expunge all the rest except the faint glimmerings of an immortal soul. Take your stand, therefore, courageously in the swamp, spade and mat took in hand, and uncovered, and half naked, toil beneath the broiling sun. Go home to your hut at night, and sleep on the bare ground, and go forth in the morning unwashed to your daily labor, and a few short years, or a generation or two at most, will give you a color that will pass muster in the most fastid ious and pious slave market in Christendom. Your shape also will gradually conform to your condition. Your parched and swollen lips will assume a chronic and permanent thick ness of the most approved style. Your feet, unconfined by shoes, and accustomed to a marshy soil, will shoot out behind, and side. ways until they will assume the most delight ful symmetry of slavery. Deprived of all edu cation, cut off _from all ambitious aspirations, your mind would soon lose all foolish and perplexing desires for freedom ; and the whole man would be sunk into a most happy and contented indifference. And all these facul ties, features, and color, would descend to your fortunate posterity ; for no fact is better estab- Used than that the accidental or acquired quali ties of body and mind are transmissible and become hereditary. True, your descendants will be black, stupid and ugly. But they would only be so many incontestible evidences of their natural right and fitness for the enjoy ment of this state of moral, political, and personal happiness!" MR. READ AND THE TARIFF We see by the North American, of Tuesday last, that Mr. JOHN M. READ, the Republican candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, has authorized that paper to contradict the charge made against hiin of having signed a letter to Vice President DALLAS, congratu lating him upon his casting vote in favor of the tariff of 1846. That paper says, that the name appended to the letter was Mr. John F. Read—hence the mistake. We make the above correction with pleasure, as we do not wish to do injustice to any man, no matter how much we are opposed to him po• litically. We, therefore, take it for granted that Mr. READ did not sign the letter; but it would have been more satisfactory to the public, had that gentleman defined his position then and now. If he did not approve of the act of Mr. DALLAS, he might have said so in a few words; and if he approves of Protection now, he might have been equally explicit. ,If Mr. READ has not been greatly misunderstood, he was, for several years, looked upon as one of the most radical anti-tariff and anti-bank men in the State, and always violently opposed to monop olies of every kind. He may have changed his opinions on these subjects with his change of politics; but, if he has, would it not be the part of candor to say so, rather than leave every thing to inference? The following toast was drank at the Anti' Masonic celebration of the 4th of July, 1834, in Gettysburg, Pa.: By THADDEUS STEVENS, Esq. Political Anti—Masonry—lt trill never sleep nor slum ber, until MASONRY shall be, not only dead, but BURIED BEYOND THE POWER OF RESURRECTION. $2,333,000 What say our Masonic friends to this toast? After reading it, can any of them or their friends, or any body who wishes well to that venerable and:time-honored institution—which numbered amongst its votaries a WASHINGTON, a LAFAYETTE, a JACKSON and a CLAY—vote for such a man as STEVENS, the foul-mouthed and bitter reviler of the Order? THE ABOLITION FIZZLES I At Mount Joy, the White Horse, Strasburg, and indeed every other place where Mr. STE VENS has been addressing his friends, the meetings have been remarkably slim, and entirely destitute of enthusiasm. Even at Mount Joy, one of his strong holds, where be had JOHN S. KuNKLE, of Harrisburg, to help him, the meeting was almost a total failure. Mr. STEVENS may summons " spirits from the vasty deep," but they will no longer obey the call. Verily, the political race of the old demagogue is nigh at an end. MONEY I MONEY I I MONEY Wby is it, Messrs. Editors, that money has become all at once so abundant in this city? 1 have seen, within the last two or three days, certain men (all brawling advocates of STEVENS' election) having their pockets and hands full of money—and offering to bet it too—who, less than two weeks ago, hadn't one half dime to rub against another, and whbwere never worth a dollar in their tires I The query is, who furnishes this money? and for what corrupting purpose is it so lavishly scattered in this community? Is it for the purpose of bribing and buying Democrats to vote for the Abolition candidate for Congress? Or, if not, what is the object? Can any body tell? CUJIIM PECUS. JOHN H. READ AND FREE TRADE Mr. JOHN 3f. READ,Or rather his Committee, denies that he signed the Dallas letter, and we are bound to be lieve him, for we do not suppose that he would wilfully prevaricate or equivocate on the subject. But Mr. Joan F. READ, whose name, it is said, is affixed to the letter, also denies having signed it. So, then, the. public are as much in the dark as ever; and as Mr. DALLAS is in Europe the truth of the matter cannot be ascertained from him in time for the election, especially as the Atlantic telegraph is not in working order. Perhaps this wee the reason why the denial was kept back until this particular time. Be this as it may, there to no question ;about Mr. Rasp's tree trade sentiments, and, if his mind has undergone a change, it must be of comparatively recent date, for it is well known in Philadelphia, that, for many years. he was con sidered the very head and front of the Free Trade party. ONE WHO KNOWS HIM. DEMOCRATIC MEETING.—A Democratic meet ing will be held at Rawlineville, on Saturday afternoon, the 9th inst., at 2 o'clock. The meeting will be addressed by eREDERICIL S. PYFER, CHARLES P. MIIHLENBERO, SIMON P. Esv, Esqrs., Dr. Juni K. RAUB, and others. For the Intelligencer For the Intelligencer CHRONICLES OF WOOLLY•MOR 1. Now James the Chief Captain of the Democratic host was a mighty man of valor, and the army under his com mand was composed of brave and true men who feared not the wrath of King Thaddeus, nor trembled at his name. 2. And it came to pass that James pitched his tent in the great valley of the Canoeing°, as than ;meet toward, the south or great river of Susquehanna, and to him all the Captains of the Democratic and Silver Gray tribes revolted, and therelris a very great multitude. - And •the Chief Captain. sent Birth heralds in every direction—north, south, east and west—and gave mm• mandment to them saying: 4. Make proclamation in all the provinces of the king dom, and thus shalt thou announce my decree, that all who lay down their arms in every part of the realm and retire peaceably to their homes and tireeddes, shall receive full and free pardon; but to three who resist my authority and disregard my decree, it le my command that they be slain with the sword, and . their wives and children carried into captivity. 6. And the Chief Captain further directed his Lieuten ants to attack the King's forces In the provinces of the bill country, from the Chief City of the Kingdom even to Mount Libanue in the north, and from the City of Adams M the east even to the Conowago in the west, and to cap ture alive the King's Captains Mains and Peter and Joseph, so that he might take summary vengeance on these men of blood. S. The Chief Captain also directed that an attack should forthwith be made on the strong holds of Conestoga and Martic in the south country, of Paradise and Salisbury in the east, and on the second city of the Kingdom, called Columbia, in the west, and to slay the woolly tribes with the edge of the sword, but to capture alive Samuel the Ring's Banker, and to bring him into Wei presence, so that he might receive a just retribution at his hands. 7. And James of Dnimore further issued orders to his Lieutenants in the west country, Joshua and John and Henry and Charles and Nathan, to capture the cities of Mount Joy, and Marietta on the great river, and Maytowu, and Elizabeth, and Manheim, and to slay all their 'Dhabi. tants with the edge of the sword, and to rase the founda tions of the walls, to burn the cities with tire and to pass the ploughshare of destruction over them, so that not a vestige of their former greatness might remain. 8. And the Lieutenants of James Went forth, they and the tribes of valiant men who followed their standards, and the enemy fled dismayed at their approach, and many of the King's troops were slain, and their wives and little ones carried Into captivity. Many also of the chief men were captured alive, and there was great commotion and bitter lamentations throughout all the country of the Susquehanna. And the Chief Captain directed the King's Banker Samuel, to be deprived of his inheritance and banished from the land. D. Meantime King Thaddeus had lied from his palace on the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, having at first determined to take up hie abode with Nathaniel the Boisterous, In the Gap country; but finding the forces of James, under his Lieutenants Thomas and David and Eli and Isaac in hot pursuit, be continued his flight to the extreme eastern border of the Kingdom, in the City called Christiana,. and there took lodgings with one George the Moabite, a chief of the Woolly-Heed tribe. And the Moabitea dwelt in that land. 10. And thither his Chief Captain and Scribes and Counsellors repaired, namely, Oliver the Rampant, Edward the Counsellor, Jay the Keeler of the King's Prison, Esalas the Empty, Alexander the Lusty, Anthony the King's Cupbearer, John the Keeper of the King's Seal, Walter the Sly, Philip the Bailiff, James the Rechabite, William the Inspector of the King's Balld-Box, Abraham the King's Armor Beeper, and the Chiefs of the Woolly-head Tribes, and they took counsel with tte King. 11. And the King was grieved in his heart, and spake many bitter things to his Counsellors, saying miserable comforters aro ye all. And they all got them quickly from his presence, and he retired to hie Chamber and would not be comforted; whereupon Roland the King's Page lifted up his voice and wept. 12. And it came to pass, that whilst the Ring remained fir his chamber, behold! Benjamin the Gray Beard, a trusty messenger, arrived with the tidings that Jacob the Jebu site, one of the royal gunners, had been captured by Isaac and Samuel, two of the Lieutenants of James of Drumore, and that his battery had been turned against the King's forces in the chief city of the realm. 13. Whereupon, the King summoned to his piesence Willis, and Thomas cf the country of the Gadarites beyond the great river, two o! hie principal Captains and Gunners, and commanded then to retake the battery, and to bring Jacob the Jebusite bafore him. bound hand and foot, so that he may be dealt with according to the laws of Woolly dons, which altereth not. And Willis and Thomas departed from the royal chem . )°, 14. Then did the King's countenance change, and ho summoned into his presence Alexander the Lusty and James the Little, and command them to proceed through the realm, and with a loud voice make known the King's wishes to his subjects. And Alexander and James girded up their loins and proceeded forthwith on their journey. 15. Meantime the Lieutenants of the Chief Captain, James of Drumore, waxed valiant In battle, they and the men under their command, and many of the King's sub jests were slain with the edge of the sword, and many others to save their lives, enlisted in the army of Jame. 16. And the whole country of the Conestoga resounded with the shouts of brave men going forth to the war. A GREAT STATE PAPER The New York Herald contains the sub stance of a bold and comprehensive despatch from Gen. CASs to Gen. LAMAR, U. S. Minister to Nicaragua, which will command universal attention, by developing the policy of the United States Government with reference to the Central American States. The immediate occasion of this despatch was the mendacious declarations of Presidents MARTINEz and Mo- RA, in their appeal to the powers of Europe for protection against, what they are pleased to call, the fillibustering tendencies of the Ameri can Government. Its tone and tenor will teach the Governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as certain European powers, a lesson they will not soon forget. The sub joined paragraph will show the spirit of the whole document. After speaking of the bad conduct of these Central American Govern ments to the United States, and of our forbear ance, Gen. CASs says: " And still animated with these sentiments, the United States will deal with forbearance with this uncourteous provocation, having no fear that their moderation will be misunder stood. But you will give these governments distinctly to understand that a suitable repara tion will be insisted on, or the United States will no longer be restrained by the considerations I have adverted to, from seeking by more effica cious means proper redress for these unworthy imputations. Besides the reproaches which this effusion of ill feeling is made the medium of communication to the world, it indicates a line of policy looking to European intervention with American affairs, to which the United States have long since avowed their opposition, and which they will resist under all circumstan ces. I refer to the protectorate demanded by the proclamation, and to the governments of France, England and Sardinia to assume the duties attached to that position." REMEMBER, DEMOCRATS : That at the present writing, it is not im probable that the selection of the next Presi dent of the United States may devolve upon the Lower House of Congress. The impor tance, therefore, of securing a majority of Democrats in that branch of our National Legislature should not be overlooked. A single vote may be of vast importance. It may lose us a Congressman, and the loss of said Congressman's vote may place the choice of the next President in the hands of the Op position. Let those Democrats who feel luke warm, and who hesitate about going to the election, remember this importapt fact. This is no time to falter ; neither is it the time to indulge in crimination and recrimination.— All cannot think alike—and as the unfortunate Kansas question, which for a time bid fair to distract us as a 'party, has been finally dis posed of, we should again rally round the good old flag-staff, and, by every honest means in our power, seek to perpetuate the time-honored principles of our party which are far more important than the Kansas issue ever was, but which for a time, may have been lost sight of. We say again, let no Democrat lose sight of the importance of casting his vote for the Democratic nominee for Congress, JAMES M. HOPKINS, and the whole Democratic State and County Ticket. Every man on it is worthy of your cordial and zealous support, and we hope no Democrat in the whole county of Lancaster will be recreant to his duty when `such important interests are at stake, and when, too, we have such promising tokens of a glorious victory. DEMOCRATIC MEETING.—A large and enthu siastic meeting of the friends of JAMES M. Hombre and the whole Democratic ticket, was held at the White Horse Tavern, in Sal isbury township, on Saturday evening, which was addressed by Hon. ISAAC E. Hama.— His speech was warmly received, and he was repeatedly and loudly cheered during the pro gress of his eloquent remarks. Our friends in Salisbury are in high glee, and they will give a splendid account of themselves on Tuesday next. CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS. THE FAIR.—The Second Annual Exhibition of the Lancaster County Agricultural and Mechanical Society commences to-day, on their grounds, directly north of Franklin and Marshall College. Should the weather prove favorable, we anticipate a greeter number of visitors to our city than were ever here before. The Pencil:Re' Band has been engaged to furnish the manila during the continuance of the Fair. The following bibs list of Judges: Class No,.l—~d t tl e-Hna. John Strohm, Jacob Shenk, Henry Ynndt. Clan No. 2—Working (lien, Fat Cattle and Mich Cows —Jacob M. Frants, Michael Barry, Mark Connell, Sr. Clue No.S—Horses—No. L Stallions, Brood Mares, Draft Horses, Match Horses, Colts, de., for Fenn, and Jacks and Mules—John Styer, Francis Lytle. John W. Gross. No. 9: Stallions, Brood Mares, Match Horses. Colts, de., for Road and Riding Horses—Cromwell Blackburn, Joseph Lefever, Peter Martin. Class No. 4—Fast Trotting and Pacing Horses—B. F. Hell, Christian Reneagy, George Louis Eckert, Jacob M. Strickler, Dr. Isaac Winters, Col. Abraham Greenawalt, Jacob Jamison, Samuel A. Worth. Class No. 6—Ladies Riding—WWll:n P. Brinton, Robert Clarkson, James Mehaffy. Class No. 6—Sheep—Wellington lundt, Martin Green leaf, George Metzger. Class No. 7—Swine--Levi S. Raist, William Bell Levi W. Groff. Class No. B—Pantry—Horace It/haven, Lewis Zeigler, Dr. Levi Hull. Class No. 9—Farm and Household Implements—James Bones, William Konigmacher, Jacob B. Tahudy. Class No. 10—Farm Implements—William C. Worth, David Styer, Christen B. Herr. Class No. 11—Farm Machinery—Col. J. Franklin Reigart, Oliver Caldwell, William B. Jacobs. Oboe No. 12—Manufactured Articles—No. 1. Carriages, Harness, Bridles, Saddles, Cabinet Ware, Marble Work, Lc. —David Coakley, Adam Kottigmacher, Samuel Lichten• [haler. Class No. 13—Manufactured Articles—No. 2. Hats, Caps, Millinery, Dry Goods, Jewelry, Dentistry, Painting, Ac.— Barton B. Martin, John W. Jackson, Henry H. Breneman. Class No. 14—Manufactured Articles—No. 3. Leather, Hardware, Copper Ware, Brushes, c.—. 9. B. Spencer, Henry E. Slaymakor, Jacob Huber. Class No. 15—Stoves, Castings, &o.—Elisha Geiger, Pat rick McEvoy, Nathaniel E. Sinymaker. Class No. 16—Agricultural Productions and Field Crops —Christian Wise, Jacob S. Kauffman, Richard McGrann. Class No. 17—Flour, Corn Meal, Grain—Hiram Erb, D. B. Bartholomew, Samuel Allison. Class No. 16Vegetables--Christian H. Lefevre, John Ehler, Moore Connell, Jr. Class No. 19—Fruits, Wine and Cider—Jacob B. C..rber, Hon. John Zimmerman, Cyrus N. Herr. Class No. %)—Butter, Cheese, Honey, Bacon, llstu,, etc. —John Heller, Col. Samuel Shoch, Amos S. Henderson Class No. 21—Ores, Metals, /re.—Simon S. Raihron, Dr. Eli Parry, Paris Hiildeman. Claes No. 22—Ladles' Work—Dr..l. Augustus Ehlor, Mrs. Bennett, Miss Kate Zimmerman, Miss E. Yundt, Miss Adeline Hensel. Class No. 23Household—Col. D. W. Patterson. )ba l l Margaret Reed. Mrs. John Michael, Mrs. M. A. Misses. Miss Rebecca Wright. Class No. 24—Flowers—Gen. H. B. Jacobs, Abraham Kauffman, Thomas Class No. 2..a—Musical Instruments—Washington Erffer. Jacob M. Westhaeffer, Francis W. Mt is t. Class No. 26—Plows and Plowins:—.lohn B. Warfel, Je..ob Rohrer, Daniel Sensenig, Jscob Eslsmsh:tde. Miehael Shirk. Class No. 27—Fire En,iines—This lit not fully completed. Class No. 28—Xliarellanroue Arriclea—Herrin Boardman Henry Stauffer. Thomas Carpenter, William C. Beecher. George D. Hensel. "CAMP CoNESTOGA."—" Camp Conestoga" was hold, according to anoruncement, last week at {{'shank , and participated in by all the companies of the Brigade.— The encampment commenced on Tuesday afternoon.— Ihrring its continuance it was visited by great numbers of civilians, and on` Thursday afternoop fully three thousand of our citizens must have been present at the grand review, which was a decidedly flue affair, The Camp broke up on Friday,—the military wore marched back to the city, n distance of four miles, and drawn up in lino In Centre Square, where, after a few manceuvres, they were dismissed. On Friday evening our city had resumed Its wonted qulet ness—the heavy tramping of fierce-looking men In regi mentals having ceased. We believe every man who shared in the duties of camp life was delighted. G:.,OD TEM PLARS.—A lodge of Good Temp lars wee organized in this city, on Friday evening last, by Mr. John J. Jones, of Harrisburg, chief officer of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania. The meeting was hold In the American Mechanics' Hall, East King street, and the (hi lowing officers were elected for the present term W. C. T., James Black; W. V. T., Miss E. R. Kieffer; W. S.. James F. Downey; A.. George W. Kendrick; W. C., Rev. Dr. Hodgson; W. F. S., John H. Penrsol; W. T., S. W. Murray; W. M., I. Newton Pierce; D. M., Miss Susan Miller; 1. G., Mice Odell; 0. , Samuel S. Holbrook; -5., Miss Mary Miller; L. 11. S., Mit.. Amelia Along's. ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Yesterday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, a man namod Simon Smeoch, who had been committed, from Maytown, on Sat urday last, for vagrancy and sentenced to thirty dove' imprisonment, endeavored to commit anicide by cutting. his throat. About the time Mentioned, the under warden Went to the cell of the prisoner and found him on his hands and knees bleeding profusely. The warden imme• 1:1lately apprised Mr. Cadwell of the circumstance, who had him laid on the bed. and discovering that only the wind tpe was cut he held him In a position to close it until be flispatched a messenger for Dr. Compton, the visiting phy 3iciari, who upon his arrival found that the unfortunate I man had nearly severed the wind pipe off and cut a deep !gash in his left wrist, evidently with the intention of reaching an artery. The Dr. immediately dressed his wounds and at nine o'clock last night he was so far recovered as is be able to talk a little; be gave no explanation of any reason for the commission of the act, and only attributes it to the same cause that the keeper and wardens do, namely, that he was laboring under a flt of mania a poets, which disease be has not been free from since his incarceration; to-day he is improving fast. how he got the weapon with which he inflicted the injury Is not accounted fcr, unless he managed to secrete it about his person before being taken to jail.— Wednesday's Express. LOCAL MAIL ARRANGEMENTS—CLOSING OF THE MAILS AT THE LAKCASTER POST OTTICE.—The following carefully prepared table of the hours for closing the various mails at the post office in this city, will be found very use ful for reference. by business men and others. A correct schedule of this kind has often been enquired for: Eastorn Through Mail—For Philadelphia, New York and . . Eastern States, at 6. 45 p. m. Way Mail East—For Philadelphia and Intermediate offices, at 8. 45 a. m. Western Through Mail—For Columbia. Harrisburg, Pitts• burg and Western States, at 6. 45 p. m. Way Mail West—For Landisville, Elizst.thtown. Mount Joy, 3Eddletown, Harrisburg, Lewistown, Huntingdon, Tyrone, Altoona. Hollidaysburg (and Way Mall between Altoona and Pittsburg.) at 9% a. m. Southern Mail—For Columbia, York, Baltimore, Washing ton, D. C., and Southern States. at W/ 2 ' a. m. Pittsburg Through Mail, at 2 p. m. For Strasburg. via Camargo, Quarryville, Martinsville, and New Providence, at. S. 45 a, m. BY STAGE. For Reading, via: Neffsville, Litiz, Rothsvllle, Ephrata, Reamstown, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at 8 For Lebanon, via: East Hempfleld, Manheim, White Oak, Mount Hope and Cornwall, daily, at gy., m. For Millersville and Slackwater, daily, at - 1 jt. m. For Safe Harbor, daily, at 1 p. m. For Hinkletown, via : Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl, . _ . and Farmeraville, daily, at 2 p. m. For Paradise, via: Greenland and Eouderaburg, daily, at m. For Wiz, via : Nefreville, daily, 3 p. m. For Marietta, via Efempfield and Silver Spring, daily, at 3 p. m. For Strasburg, via : Fertility and Wheatland Mills, daily at 3 p. m. For Lampeter, daily, at 3 p. m. For New Holland, via: Binkley's Bridge Leacock, Barevil le, Beartown, Bowniansville and Muddy Creek, daily, at 1 p. m. For Phcenixville, via: New Holland. Blue Ball, Goodville, Churchtown, Morgantown, lloneybrook, Chester Springs, and Kimberton, Tri. weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat, urday, at 12 m. For Port Deposit, Md., via Willow Street, Smithville, Bock, Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grove, Rock Springs, Md.; and Rowlandsville, Md., Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednes day and Friday, at 6 a. m. For Colebrook. via: Swan's Mill, Old Lloe, Sporting Hill and Mastersonville, Tri- weekly, Monday, Wednesday and, Friday, at 12 m. For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Trl-weekly, Monday, Thorn. day and Saturday, 2 p. m. For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Martirville, Coleman vill e and Mount Nebo, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Sat urday, at 1 p. m. For Bethesda. via : Willow Street and Rawlinsville, Wed nesday and Saturday, at 6 a. m. For New Danville, weekly, Wednesday, at 9 a. Office hours, from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. On Sunday, from 9 to 10 a. m. Postage to California, Oregon and Washington Territo ries,lo cents. Letters, alleged to be valuable, will be registered, and a receipt given therefor, on applioation and payment of the registration fee of fivo cents, in addition to the regular postage. All letters are required to be pre-paid with stamps before they can be mailed. H. B. SWARM, Postmaster. COLUMBIA AFFAIRS.—WO glean the follow lug "items" from Saturday's Spy: Tits Co:trim:lx Thursday evening this band of Vocalists gave one of its delightful concerts at the Odd Fellows' Hall, which was, as usual, listened to by a large and appreciative audience. The company has always been favorite one In Columbia, and the announcement of its coming is certain to excite pleasing expectations which never fail of fulfilment. The entertainment of Thursday was a treat and in every way satisfactory to the audience. RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-00 Thursday morning a wagon driven by Mr. Joan Kane, of Washington borough, was run into at the crossing of Perry street, by the engine of the 11 o'clock mail train, the horse killed, the wagon broken to fragments, and tho driver seriously Injured.— Mr. Kane was carried with the splinters of the wagon to some distance above the street and when taken up was thought to be fatally hurt. Upon examination, the bone of his thigh was found broken and his bead cut, the latter wound not serious. Hewes carried to the Asesrican House, where he has received every attention. Mr. C. Strawbridge was very efficient in his care for the Injured man, and de serves credit,for his unremitting exertions to render him comfortable. Dr. John is his attendant physician and pronounces his state favorable to speedy recovery. It Is seldom that our streets are the Geese of serious rail road accidents, but we have always dreaded the crossings of Union sad Perry streets, and anticipated fatal cORISIOnt. at these points. There is such a positive difference ln the accounts of the accident, emanating from equally reliable sources, that It is difficult to fix the blame where it really belongs. By one party it Is asserted that no bell was rung by the engineer and thatlgr. g r ane had no warning of the approach of the train; whia,..dn the other hand, it Is as positively declared that the usual signals were given and the ordinary care taken on entering town. It is not our business to decide the dispute. but we are too deeply inter ested In the safety of our / 1/.4 to insist that such dangerous crossings as our loour ttr—te shall be approached with extraordinary care, and every signal given that can warn travelers of danger. MAINE ELECTION.-Our latest papers from the State of Maine, positively declare that Mr. Bradbury is elected to Congress in the Sixth District, and the probability is that the Dem ocratic candidate in the Third District has also succeeded. It is, therefore, settled that the Democrats have gained one member of Congress in that State, and quite likely two. The loss to the "Republicans," on the Con gressional vote since the last election two years ago, is over seven lhousand votes. The next trial the Democracy will clear the decks in Maine. THE TARIFF PLANK From present indications, the opposition called by themselves the "People's Party".:._ or the "Republicans"—intend to add the Tariff Plank to their Fusion Platform this fall hoping thereby to humbug a few voters into the support of their candidates, who otherwise would vote the Democratic ticket, as heretofore. This trick of that tricky party, we presume, will not prove very profitable in this part of the Commonwealth. The leaders of that ever changing party have exhausted their fund of deception, and any renewed attempts at their old tricks will be exposed, and the imposition 'made to recoil upon their guilty heads. All their old notions—called by them principles —they have abandoned, and now for want of something better, revive the Tariff question— an unlucky hit for them, when the proceedings of the Congress that reduced the rates are more fully known. At the organization of the 34th Con gress the Republicans outnumbered the Democrats nearly two to one—and after an unprecedented struggle of months; succeeded in electing Banks, of Massachusetts, Speaker, over the Democrats. In forming the Commit tees of the House, the Tariff question was kept in view. Speakef Banks, the tool and choice of the Manufacturing Princes of the East, placed CAMPBELL, of Ohio, the leader of the Republicans in Congress, at the head of the Committee of Ways and Means, because of its control of the Revenue questions, and because Mr. Campbell was a low Tariff man. That we may not be contradicted nor be disbelieved, even by those whose party preju dices would incline them to do it, we will publish in this connection a few extracts from the speeches made by Mr. .Campbell during the discussion and passage of the Tariff bill now complained of: "I wished to ascertain whether this general debate is to go on pending s , important a question as that of reducing the Revenue of the Coutory."—(l G.. page 40ti "In the higher schedules 3 , n find a reduction, taking the importati. os ' rI. , last year as a basis of calculation .bout 03,000,000; and if the importati , t , .1 :.,•:cles in the intermediate schedules iii ,, more in the future than they were last year, you will have an aggregate reduction of al..iit ON." * * * 5 "The redaction of the Revenue great object to accomplish."—C. 0 , p Mr. Campbell, as the loader ,od w .uth piece of the Republican force , . and as the employee of the Eastern Manufacturers, at tempted to coax into the support of his low Tariff bit. the Democrats of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, by telling them that there should ho no "party politics" in the measure, and that they could affe , rd a reduction of duty on Iron in order to have stability in the system, and be assured of a rich harvest in a I'Mv years. Read his no party and free trade 41 , tinients: I am very glad that the gentleman from Kentucky is willing to take this feature of the bill, because Kentucky has a growing Iron interest, as Ohio has; and I believe that great interest may well afford a reduction of duty in order to hive that great question withdrawn from the party politics of the time, and placed on a firm and stable basis. "Agairr, I believe that if thin question were Reified, taken, ns I said, from the arena of party politics, and placed upon the basis reported by the Committee of Conference as a finality, Pennsylvania will, before many years roll around, reap a rich harvest from the bill; but if Pennsylvania will cling to her old policy which sees no other interest than her iron and coal, and prevents the passage of this bill, upon the shoulders ..f Pennsylvu i e must rest the responsibility, not Cong. Globe, page 060. According to the leadership of Mr. Camp.. hell, the bill passed, by the votes of the great body of the Republicans. Now we submit the question to every candid reader as to the party who caused the reduc• Lion of the Tariff of '4O; and who is to blame for the "hard times," if they are attributable to the modification of the Tariff laws in '57? From the facts of the ease it is very clear that the Republicans managed and rated through Congress the modification n ,w complained of in their party platform. 11 , ,w shamefully it becomes them, then, to attempt to repudiate their own acts and cast the blame upon the Democrats. Not eighteen months from the date of their efforts in favor of reduced rates and a free list, they turn around and claim to be the friends of higli rates and a protected list. The Democratic Tariff of '4O had given , general satisfaction and wide spread prosperity to the country for twelve years, and its "sta• bility" would not have been broken, nor the. Federal Treasury been bankrupted, and the. loan of millions resorted to to keep the wheels. of Government in motion, had the Black Republicans been in the minority in the 34th Congress. They then had the power to do misohief, and most effectually did they execute it. The Nabob Manufacturers of the East contributed their gold and their influence in favor of a reduced Tariff. Theysucceeded by electing their man Banks for speaker, who, according to arrangement, appfinted Camp bell to the head of the Tariff Committee; who also by arrangement reported a 'lin of reduced rates and a free list; and the Republicans, as a party, carried the bill through Congress in spite of opposition. The $78,000 corrupting fund contributed by Lawrence, Stone & Co., a rich manufacturing firm in Boston, throws a little light upon the means and motives at the root of the offensive changes in the Revenue laws. The Congressional Committee of In vestigation developed the fact that the Republicans paid liberally- to secure the passage of the law, and even went so far as to offer Greeley, of the N. Y. Tribzne, $l,OOO for his assistance.—Honesdale rferzld. HUZZA. FOR CALIFORNIA I The steamer Moses Taylor, with the Cali fornia mails of the 6th of September, upwards of 300 passengers, and nearly $1,600,000 in treasure, arrived at New York on Wednesday evening, from Aspinwall. The most important news is the triumphant success of the Administration Democratic State ticket by a majority of from 6,000 to 10,000, and a large majority in both branches of the Legislature ! It is a terrible rebuke to BRODERICK and M'RIBBIN, who were arrayed against the Administration all through the last session of Congress. The San Francisco National has an able editorial in relation to the glorious Democratic victory in 'that State, an extract from which we subjoin, and ask our readers to peruse it with attention. The National says: " The steamer which goes East to-day heath glorious tidings from the Democracy of Cali fornia. Since the last sailing a great battle has been fought—a battle of principle against faction, and once more our banner of victory floats proudly in the breeze. Never in the history of party movements was met a more unscrupulous foe than that whose head we have just-bruised. Never did a more corrupt conglomeration of despicable isms meet a more signal overthrow at the hands of the people. The issue was distictly made ; the true Democ racy rallied under the flag of the Administra tion, on the one hand, and the mongrel hordes of Black and Broderick, Republicans, leagued in fraternal embrace, on the other. The latter was truly an incongruous mixture. Disap pointed office-seekers—broken down party hacks—ballot box stuffers, whose occupation had gone—political mountebanks, Who have boxed the whole compass of inconsistencies -1 brawling demagogues who, prating of the dignity of labor, never spent an hour of hon est toil in their lives—sectional agitators, bummers and election brokers—these were some of the delectable elements that went to make up the Opposition. Of such was the ragged army that we have so signally routed. " For the large mass of those who have been deluded and led astray from their party by designing and unprincipled men, we have no I other feelings than those of pity. We regard them with mercy, for verily they knew not what they did. Many of them see their error and already regret their defection. For those, however, who'ave knowingly and deliberately betrayed their party—who, with their eyes open, have leagued themselves with our enemies —who by misrepresentation and falsehood I have sought to break down the Administration, nothing remains but to mete out to them the traitors' doom. Let a mark be set upon them I —let them wear the brand of political infamy. They are now in congenial company—there let Ahem remain. They are where they have been at heart all the time, and where they must continue to be. Even when prating most flippantly of Democracy they were Black Re publicans 'full fledged, ready to take wing the first fair day.' That day, as they thought, lad come, but alas I it was one of gloomy, ,and ominous result for them. The verdict of the people stands-registered against'them and in favor of our revered President, whom they have so vilely traduced."
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