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GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., OOTOBER 5, 1858
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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."