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GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR
A. SANDERSON, Associate.
LANCASTER, PA., OCTOBER 19, 1858
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THE ELECTION IS OVERT
- The election is over and we are right down
glad of it, and we presume our readers have
the same sensation of pleasure. We have given
and received some pretty hard knocks during
the campaign ; but nobody has been killed by
it, nor has any very serious wound been
inflicted. We still survive, and so do our
opponents—with this difference that we have
been pretty essentially used up in the affray,
whilst they have the best reason in the world
for feeling oantented and happy.
We have secured good quarters at the head
waters of Salt River, and shall sail for that
famed region in a few days; but expect to
return on a fast sailing steamer in the course
of a twelve month. In the meantime we shall
eschew politics for a season, - and give the
readers of THE INTELLIGENCES the general and
current news of the day, which will doubtless
be more gratifying to them than the feast
spread before them for several weeks past.
LANCASTER CITY
The unterrified Democracy of this glorious
old City, although sorely pressed in the recent
contest by all the factions of the Opposition,
and all the influences and outside pressure
that could be brought to bear against them,
nobly did their duty—carrying every ward,
and gallantly sustaining its ancient character
as one of the most reliable Democratic
Cities in the Union. Whilst almost every other
City has faltered in the good cause, and is
now in the hands of the enemy, old Lancaster
still stands erect as she did in days of yore,
and her majority of 154, although small, is
neverthe less a proud monument to the sterling
integrity of her Democracy. The enemy openly
boasted before, and on the day of the election,
that they would beat us; and to accomplish
this MONEY was freely used and the most
open and unblushing BRIBERY practised,
but it all would not do. The stern Democracy,
many of whom are poor, spurned the gilded
bait held out to tempt them, and gallantly
stood firm to their principles and to their can-
didates. All honor, therefore, to the 1279
faithful and true men who bore the old flag
aloft on Tuesday last. They deserve, as we
have no doubt they will receive, the thanks of
the entire Democracy of the County.
LANCASTER COUNTY
The Democracy of thix County have made a
better fight—all things considered—than any
other Congressional district in the State, save
one, Reily's. Let us look at the figures : In
1856, the united majority of the Opposition at
the Presidential election, was 2470; and at
the Gubernatorial election of last year, when
WILMOT and HAZLEHURST Were the candidates
against Gov. Pacxxs., their united majority
was 2440. This year, with all these elements
of opposition arrayed against us, and the im
mense amount of money used to corrupt the
voters, together with the general depression
in business, the Opposition majority is but
3,173, or only 700 of a difference. This
change was made in the City alone. With few
exceptions the rural districts did remarkably
well, and our friends in Manheim township
and borough, Elizabethtown, the Earls, Stras
burg, the Lampeters, Providence, Martic, Dru..
more, Bart, , Eden, East Cocalico, Colerain,
Maytown and other districts, generally des
erve great credit for the masterly manner in
which they conducted the contest. The only
0 1 0 nts where there was any serious falling off
• defection, was in Lancaster, Columbia,
Mount Joy, Indiantown, Marietta, and West
fempfield ; and in all of these places it is no
difficult matter to trace the effect to the cause.
But, as we said above,.our friends did well,
and we have no reason to complain of Lances
ter County. Indeed, we believe, that when
the official returns on the Congressional vote
are published, it will be seen that we are the
banner district of the State. With a fair field,
and no under current at work, and no unfair
means used by our opponents, we should have
elected Mr. Horsims by a handsome majority.
The majority on the State ticket will be
ery large against us-30,000 or more. We
ace seen the official returns of but few
ounties as yet, anil therefore defer publishing
i ny until al] are in. In our next we shall
robably be able to give the official vote of the
rtate.
THE LEGISLATURE
The next Legislature will be 'Republican in
ne branch. In the Senate parties will
I robably stand 17 Dem. to 1(3 Republicans;
nd in the House 70 Rep. to 30 Democrats.
The revolution throughout the State has
, een complete. In our next we shall give a
et of the members elect.
HENRY E. LEMAN
This gentleman made a capital run at the
ecent election. See the official returns in
nother column. So, also, did our excellent
,andidate for County Commissioner, Mr.
ENDERSON, and indeed all the candidates
om Congress to Auditor.
OLD BERKS
The result in this old citadel of the Democ
acy has astonished every body, so far as the
ongressional election is concerned. Hon. J
',Army JONES is beaten by 19 votes, and yet
he Democratic State ticket has 4,684
najority. This latter vote shows that it was
not the Lecompton question which disturbed
the politics of that county, however it may
ave affected us in other sections of the State.
On great National questions Old Berke is
l always right side up.
OHIO AND INDIANA
Both of these States have been carried by
he Republicans ; but the defeat there is not
o the same extent that it is in Pennsylvartia.
n Ohio, our friends have elected five or six
13ongressmen, and in Indiana three or four.
HON. JOHN M. HEAD
This gentleman is elected Supreme Judge
1.3 , a large 'majority. Whilst we regret to
lose the services of so able and promising a
Member of the Bench as Judge Porter, we are
pevertheless gratified that, as we had to suffer
kdefeat, so eminent a Jurist as Mr. Read takes
his place. It is not often that the Opposition
party nominate so competent a man for that
or any other station.
NEWSPAPER CHANGE
The Examiner & Herald, we understand,
has changed hands—Mr. Darlington having
sold the establishment to Messrs JOHN A.
HIESTAND, JOHN F. HITHER and FRANCIS
HECKERT. We shall be sorry to part with so
honorable and gentlemanly an editor from the
corps, as Mr. D., but are pleased that the
paper goes into the hands it does. We wish
the parties pecuniary success in their enter
prise.
M.. WILLIAM H. WELSH, Esq., is reelected
State Senator from York county, by a majority
of 353 votes. This result gives us the Senate
by ons majority.
THE GENERAL RESULT
It is useless to deny the fact that we are
badly beaten in Pennsylvania, having lost a
large majority of the Congressmen and State
Legislators, as also our candidates for Supreme
Judge and Canal Commissioner. This result
was not entirely unexpected to us. We were
all along fearful that there were causes, local
and general, sufficient to bring a temporary
reverse to the Democratic party, and therefore
we are not as much disappointed in what has
transpired as many of our Democratic friends.
There was an apathy in the party, growing
out of the Kansas imbroglio, which doubtless
kept thousands away from the polls, in the
same way that our defeat was brought about,
in 1846, just after the passage of the Demo
cratic tariff of that year, and in 1854 by the
passage of the Kansas Nebraska act ; still we
do not believe that the disaffection growing
out of the Lecompton question was sufficient
of itself to produce the present disaster. The
leading cause is doubtless the hard times of
the last twelve months, brought about by
over-trading and speculation, and which were
unjustly attributed to the National Adminis
tration. The Harrisburg Patriot & Union
thus forcibly alludes to this subject:
Depressed trade, stagnation in all business,
absence of employment to thousands of labor
ers, suffering and want among the poor, are
tangible and positive causee which must
always impel masses of people in some direc
tion or other. Political theories, partizan
machinery, and party drill, are as nothing
when men are interested for their daily bread.
Such has been the cases with tens of thousands
this fall, and such, alas ! will be the case this
winter. It is therefore simply sufficient to
ascertain the direction which these needy and
unfortunate men would probably take, to
know the true reason for the present over
whelming defeat. Many of our voters come
from abroad, where all look to the government
as the source of their prosperity or adversity,
and even among our native born population
nothing is more natural than that they should,
in many instances, ascribe commercial disas
ter to governmental policy. They have done
HO this fall. They have held Mr. BUCHANAN
and Guy. PACKER responsible for the stagna
tion of all trade. The existing governments
have seemed to them, without further examina
tion, to be in some way ur other at the bottom
of all national or social troubles. That the'
Tariff has caused our present difficulties is
impossible, for we now have a Protective Tariff,
which might be improved certainly, but it is
nevertheless highly protective, and no more
the true source of the present distress, than it
was in 1837. The Tariff might be made une
quivocally protective, yes prohibitive, and the
price of iron and other articles of Pennsylva
nia manufacture would not be now affected.—
Prices are low, because trade is depressed, and
trade is depressed because, for the last five
years we have been over trading, over-specula
ting and giving out promises to pay which we
could not meet. These are general causes
with which our governments have nothing to
do. Yet the people have unjustly held them
responsible. It was not Lecompton or Anti-
Lecompton, as is proved by the fact of the
defeat of the candidate for Supreme Judge,
who did not stand on any platform. All Demo
cratic candidates, without exception, have lost
votes by reason of this sentiment among the
masses that the dominant party is in some
way responsible for the hard times. If we are
correct in this position the Democracy has
much to hope in the future. The hard times
will pass away and this defeat will he forgot
ten. The Democrats will have learned a valu
able lesson—they will place proper men in
nomination and they will unite upon them.
They now remember that defeated most
crushingly in Pennsylvania, in 1854, they car
ried off a great national victory in 1856.
LOOK 'TO THE FUTURE
The present defeat of the Democratic party
should be no discouragement to our friends—
on the contrary it should nerve them for the
future. We met with a worse defeat in 1854,
and yet we achieved the glorious victory of
1856. So it will be in 1860, if we are but
true to our organization. The Democratic
party may occasionally be defeated; but it
can never be conquered so long as it is true to
the old land-marks. The Pennsylvanian thus
speaks of the present reverse:
The present defeat in our State is wide
spread and terrible. Some of our most
cherished champions have been unhorsed, and
many Districts, which have heretofore been
considered impregnable, have fell before the
attacks of the allied forces. This state of
things would seem to indicate a complete
prostration of the Democracy in the old Key
stone. It is so considered by the Opposition,
and already their presses are jubilant over the
prospect for 1860. The friends of Seward and
Crittenden are separating on the question of
nominating their respective candidates, and
thus the fight opens with all the eviler• e of a
fresh and exciting contest. But the Opposi
tion are mistaken as to the character and extent
of this defeat. It is not unparalleled. The
great victory in 1856, which elevated James
Buchanan to the Chief Magistracy of the
Nation, was heralded by a defect compared
to which the present is a summer flaw. Then
the question was the endorsement of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill which had been passed
under the administration of that fearless and
indomitable Democrat and upright public
servant, Franklin Pierce, and the result in the
five States of Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
New York and New Jersey was as follows :
Dem. Opp.
In Penna. the members returned were, h 20
Oblo 0 21
Indiana 0 11
New York " 5 28
New Jersey " 1 4
This was a sad falling off from the former
elections in these States, at which the returns
R tood —l2 members from Ohio, 23 from New
York, 4 from New Jersey, 16 from Pennsylva
nia, 10 from Indiana. Yet, notwithstanding
this defeat in 1854, in two years from that
time the Democracy, not only of those States,
but in all sections of the Union, rallied for the
fight, and after one of the most desperate
political contests on record, carried the Union,
endorsed the Kansas Nebraska bill, paid a
just tribute to Franklin Pierce, and placed in
the Presidential chair the present worthy and
patriotic officer, Mr. Buchanan. Who would
have thought that such results would flow
from the defeat of 1854? Yet they did, and
similar ones will follow the present overthrow
if the party be true to itself, true to its princi
ples and true to its organization.
THE DIFFERENCE
Mr. STEVENS, the Republican candidate for
Congress, was beaten in this City, where he
resides, 154 votes, and in his own immediate
ward, 33 votes!
Mr. liorKlNs, the Democratic candidate,
who resides fifteen miles from the City, had a
majority of 27 votes in his own township!
These results must be highly gratifying to
the Democratic candidate.
A STRANGE AMALGAMATION
In the recent contest in this City, it was no
unusual sight to witness Black Republicans,
Know-Nothings and Foreigners in loving
embrace, all harmoniously united in the sup_
port of the Black Republican Know-Nothing
candidate for Congress! Verily, "politics
makes strange bed.feflows." What our Irish
and German friends who voted for Mr.
STEVENS expect to gain by the amalgamation,
is more than we can divine. We apprehend
they will find out, when too late, that they
have "paid very dear for the whistle." Those
of them, and we are pleased to announce that
there were many such, who remained true to
their principles and the party that has always
stood by them and their rights, deserve, and
will receive, the continued confidence and
esteem of the Democratic party.
THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION
The Congressional election in this State has
resulted in the choice of 19 Republicans, 1
Anti-Lecomptonite, HICKMAN, 4 Democrats,
allowing Gnus to be elected, which is
probable, and 1 Independent Democrat,
SWARTZ, of Berke county. The 4 Democrats
are Messrs. FLORENCE, DIMISICK, MONTGOMERY
and Glum.
,Nudge Gums is believed to be elected
to Congress, from the Elk district, by about
200 majority.
THEIR REWARDS
Those of our German friends who voted with
the Black Republicans in this city and county
on Tuesday, may be able, perhaps, to draw
Some consolation from the following article
which we copy from the Chicago Times of
Wednesday last—at least they can see how
handsomely their friends are treated in Illinois
by the same party with whom they affiliated
here in the election of Mr. Srav - mvs. The
Times says:
It has been pretty well known that the Re
publicans of Northern Illinois have long been
divided upon the policy to be pursued with
respect to the German
.population of Chicago
and the surrounding country. Four-fifths of
the party hold the Germans personally in de
testation ; look upon the sale of beer as a traffic
of the devil ; declare that saloons and gardens
are " ante chambers of hell," and that all the
crime and licentiousness of the city is to be
attributed to the freedom with which liquor is
allowed to be sold. But the exigencies of
politics have been too great; clergymen have
been restrained from denouncing the saloons,
because the votes of the Germans were neces
sary to elect Lincoln. Pulpits which have
been heretofore filled with noisy declaimers
against vice and drinking have been silent,
because the votes of the beer sellers and beer
drinkers are needed to elect Lincoln !
" Wait until after the election" has been the
cry ; and then you gentlemen of the pulpit,
and the newspaper press, and all the Republi
can party of Chicago may unite and sweep
out of existence the breweries, the beer shops,
and the saloons, which now are doing a thri
ving business. And so, for many months, the
Republicans of Chicago have been waiting for
the election ; they have been waiting to have
the Germans vote the Republican ticket, and
then, they are to let slip the police, the sheriff's
deputies, and with club and mace they are to
break up the saloons, close the gardens, seal
up the theatres, and forever put an end to
whatthey choose to call the " licentious habits
of the Dutch." But, until the election, noth
ing was to be done ; the newspapers were to
keep quiet, the police were to encourage the
saloon keepers. and to tickle them with the
idea that the Republicans were their especial
friends.
Knowing as we did, that as soon as the elec
tion was over, and as soon as the Germans had
been cheated into voting the Republican ticket,
that the war was to commence upon them, and
to be prosecuted with a bitterness and a cru
elty not surpassed by the outrages in 1855, we
endeavored to draw out the Republican party;
we endeavored to shame them into an avowal
before the election of what they had intended
to do after the election. We endeavored to
get them to admit before the election, that
they had resolved, as soon as the election was
over, to shut up the Sunday gardens, not only
in the city. but in the county towns outside of
the city. We endeavored to force out of them
an admission that they had resolved, by
general consent, as - soon as the Germans had
elected a Republican sheriff and voted for
Lincoln, that they intended to open a war
upon the sale of beer, and prosecute it with a
vigor that will drivh one thousand Germane
out of business and as many more out of the
city. We endeavored as well as we could, to
induce the Republicans to admit that after
having used the Germans as long as they wan
ted them fur election purposes, they intended
to turn upon them as they did in 1855, and
by force, by the bayonet, and by revolver, close
their houses and shoot down all who attempted
an escape. But we were not successful in our
efforts to draw out an expression of their pur
pose. Not a Republican paper in the city ex
cept the Zeitung would say a word. But chance
has done, what Republican caution prevented.
To this county, in the town of Evanston, the
Republican leaders, not as prudent as their
friends in the city, would not wait until after
election. They have hunted and prosecuted
every German in the town who dare sell a glass
of beer. They havefiled prosecution after prose
cution upon them until one after another has
been furred to quit the place. One only stood
firm. Each time he has been fined he has ap
pealed his case, until at last, Republicanism
resorted to those means which have been post
poned in Chicago until afer the election, and
they broke into his house, destroyed his stock
of liquors, broke his furniture, and left his
premises a perfect wreck. We passed through
Evanston on Monday, and saw the scene of
Republican liberality. A poor honest man
turned out of his own house, his property bro
ken up by an armed mob, his family abused,
his household made desolate,—and all this
because he, a German—presumed to sell lager
beer.
When we looked upon that scene we could
not help thinking of the one we witnessed in
Chicago in April, 1855. At that time, the city
prosecuted hundreds for selling beer, under the
absurd notion that the city had power to pro
hibit its sale. The cases were appealed, and
the court was hearing those appeals when the
German defendants and their friends gathered
near the court house to hear the result. They
were ordered off by the police • they refused to
go, and then ensued that mob which lasted
three days, in which Germans were shot down
like dogs, and hunted like wild beasts.
We thought also, of the scenes which may
take place in Chicago, after the election, when
the Republicans of this city carry out the plan
which has been prematurely exposed by the
over zealous men at Evanston. We could not
but feel that the contemplated deception of the
Germans by the Republicans is even meaner
than the breaking up of their business. They
intend by German votes to elect Gray as
sheriff, and then with a Republican sheriff
apply all the rigors of an exterminating war.
They know that Keith, the Democratic can
didate for sheriff, in his capacity as alderman,
endeavored to have the hundreds of Germans
who were arrested in the 1855 war, released,
and for his' efforts in their behalf, was set upon
by the police, and himself arrested.
They do not want Keith elected, for he would
not serve them in their warfare upon the Ger
mans; but by postponing all demonstrations
until after the election, they hope to get the
Germans to elect a Republican sheriff, who
once elected, can bid defiance to the men who
elected him, and unite in making every Ger
man saloon in Chicago a scene of desolation
like that in Evanston ! Will the Germans
who remember the spring of 1855 forget those
days? Will they wait until after the election,
when the Republicans no longer want to use
them, to learn that though the spots may be
hidden, the monster is the same at Chicago,
as it is at Evanston ?
TEE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPEL—The statement
made by Mr. Varley, the electrician of the
Atlantic Telegraph Company, is not calculated
to raise any groat degree of hope in the minds
of the stockholders of the company or of the
public that the cable will ever be good for
much. He finds " a fauit of great magnitude,
at a distance of between 245 and 300 statute
miles from Valentia," and possibly in water
but of 410 fathoms in depth. There was a
fault in the cable before it was submerged, at
a distance of 560 miles from one end and 640
from the other, which he thinks is the one
which caused such alarm when the ships were
500 miles from Ireland, and when the signals
ceased altogether and never certainly recov
ered. The cable is yet unbroken , but it is
not at all improbable that the powerful cur
rents from the large induction coils have im
paired the insulation, and that had more
moderate power been used the cable would
still have been capable of transmitting
messages. The power used, he thinks, will
shortly eat away the explAed copper wire in
the faulty place by electrolytic decomposition.
MONEY. —Peterson's Counterfeit Detector,
gives the following account of the money
market in Philadelphia. Business must soon
revive under such a favorable condition of the
finances:
" The money market remains very easy.
Bank discounts and loans are swelled by
including the sums invested in Treasury notes
to an unprecedent amount, yet the specie line
is not diminished, and the deposits continue
to increase. The demand for State loans and
other undoubted securities is steady, with but
little fluctuation as to prices. Railroad bonds
improve slightly, and mortages on real estate
of known value are a good deal inquired for,
and are rising in the market. The transac
tions in paper outside of the banks are limited
to small and almost inconsiderable sums, and
there is no prospect of any speedy change in
the value of money."
INDIANA ELECTION
The latest returns indicate the election of
the Democratic State ticket by from 3 to 5,000
majority.
THE BALTIMORE ELECTION.
The Municipal Election in the - City of
Baltimore, on Wednesday last, was a perfect
mockery of the elective franchise. Every
ward, save one (the Bth) was in the hands of
the Know Nothing rowdies and ruffians, who
were encouraged in their acts of Violence and
bloodshed by the Mayor and his Police. It
was at the risk of his life that any Democrat
ventured to the Polls, and when there he was
shamefully maltreated and abused—so much
so, that, about the middle of the day, the
independent candidate for Mayor, Col. Shutt,
unwilling to. place his friends in jeopardy of
their lives, withdrew from the contest and
permitted the election to go by default. The
result was about 4,500 votes were cast for him,
and some 24,000 or more for the Know Noth
ing Mayor Swann. Speaking of these outrages,
the Baltimore Exchange, a neutral paper, says :
The fact that Mr. Swann has been re elected
to the Mayoralty by violence and fraud is less
discreditable to our city, than the supposition
that he has been retained in office by the
voluntary suffrages of its people. The truth
is, that there was no election on Wednesday,
nor even the form or pretense of one. From
the opening of the polls in the morning until
their closing in the evening, in nineteen wards
of the city, they were occupied and held by
bands of armed bullies who; with compare
tively few exceptions, as the returns will show,
permitted nobody to vote who did, not openly
show and as openly vote the " American"
ticket. That ticket, moreover, was so marked
upon the back with a chequered diamond
shaped pattern, resembling that upon the
back of the ordinary playing-card, that,
however folded, it could be recognized without
difficulty in the hand of the voter. By this
means, the secrecy of the ballot was effectually
destroyed, and the ruffians who guarded every
avenue to the polls were enabled to tell at a
glance whose votes might be admitted, and
whose were to be excluded. Not content,
however, with excluding legal voters opposed
to the election of Mr. SWANN, an immense
quantity,—probably not less than from two
thirds to three fourths of the whole number
polled—of purely illegal votes, were cast in
his favor—not only men but boys, frequently
voting—not twice or thrice, but ten or twelve
times,—not only in different wards but in the
same ward—not at different hours of the day
merely, but half a dozen times in succession,
with scarcely an attempt et concealment or
disguise. Other votes were polled which were
purely fictitious—tickets being handed to the
judges, and received by them which were
falsely represented to have been tendered by
persons in omnibusses and carriages, who were
unable to get out and walk to the window.
In short, every trick and stratagem which
fraud could invent, and every extremity to
which violence could resort, were successfully
employed for the purpose of electing Mr.
Swann. The outrages upon the ballot-box and
upon the persons of voters, the judges were
unable and the police were unwilling to pre
vent. The former did not so much as dare to
question an illegal vote, even when, as was
frequently the case, they knew it to be such.
The latter habitually refused to interfere for
the protection of anybody. If appealed to for
the purpose, their almost universal reply was
—that "they had no authority to interfere,"—
"that ''they could arrest nobody without a
"warrant," or that "if people wanted to vote,
"the independent candidates might protect
"them." We, of course, do not mean to say
that these outrages were perpetrated to the
same extent in all the wards in the city, or
that every policeman was equally remiss in
his duty. Some there were, doubtless, who
endeavored to do what was right, and others
there might have been, who only required a
little encouragement and support of their
comrades to follow the example. We merely
mean to assert that the general characteristics
of the election throughout the city were such
as we have described, and that these were the
means by which Mr. Swann has obtained a
re-election.
FOREIGN NEWS
The steamship Africa from Liverpool, with
dates to the 2d instant, arrived at New York
on Thursday night. Her news is not very
important. The London papers comment upon
the favorable revenue reports, the positive
gain for the quarter just ended being £850,000.
Shares of the Atlantic Telegraph have advan
ced to L380a.f..420. A new project is on foot
for laying another telegraphic cable across the
Atlantic. A gentleman proposes to lay a new
cable from Valentin to New Foundland for
£182,000 or £200,000 less than the present
cable cost.
Additional despatches from India state that
four native regiments, which had been disarm
ed as a precaution, broke out in mutiny near
Kurrachee, and endeavored to seize the guns
and arms of the Royal Fusileers. They were
repulsed with slaughter. The rebels were
also moving in a menacing manner in other
portions of the Bombay Presidency.
By the arrival of the steamship Philadelphia
we have news from Havana to the Bth inst.—
One hundred and twelve persons were killed,
and about one hundred and twenty•eiglat
wounded by the late explosion of gunpowdel\
in the naval magazine. The scene of the ruin
was frightful to look at, and property valued
at over one million of dollars .was destroyed.
The American captain of the slaver Haidee
was in Havana. Sugar was declining in price
and the market quiet, with one hundred and
ten thousand bbxes on hand. The city and
bay were healthy.
Arrival of the Star of the West
A MILLION AND A HALF IN GOLD-RUMORED
MASSACRE OF SEVERAL HUNDRED MEN BY TUE
INDIANS OF OREGON-NEWS FROM FRAZER
NEW YORK, Oct. 15
The steamship Star of the West has arrived,
with San Francisco dates to the 21st ult.—
She brings $1,400,000 in gold. She left As
pinwall on the sth, and Kingston on the Bth.
The advices from Oregon are to September
Ist. Various rumors prevailed of Indian
fights. One of these was to the effect that a
train of several hundred men . under General
Palmer, formerly Indian Agent in Oregon,
had been attacked near Walla Walla and
every one killed.
The California news is uninteresting. The
advices of the success of the Atlantic Cable
occasioned great rejoicing, and Monday the
27th has been selected for a grand celebration
in honor of the event.
The Government stables at Benicia Barracks
were destroyed by fire on the 13th ult., to
tether with the carriages, provender, &c.—
The horses and mules were also burned.—
Jas. lleunesey, one of the Vigilant Committee
exiles, recently brought a suit at Downingville,
against the Committee, for damages ; but it
being impossible to empannel a jury who wore
not prejudiced in favor of the Committee, the
suit was abandoned.
The advices from Frazer river are to Sept.
7th. The mining news was cheering. The river
was falling rapidly. The miners were rea
lizing as high as eight dollars per day. Dry
diggings had been found near Fort Yule.—
There were no new Indian difficulties.
WOOL GROWING IN CALIFORNIA.—The San
Francisco papers say that the wool business
in California at the present day is one of
immense importance, and its steady and
rapid increase promises to place it ere long at
the head of our articles of export. Shortly
after the settlement of California by the
Americans, small parcels of wool were now
and then exported to the east ; but no atten
tion, however, was paid to assorting or
grading, and consequently the finest wools for
making broadcloths, doeskin, and fancy
cassimers, were mixed up with the commonest
grades—used for ingrain carpets, etc.
At the present time the wools are packed
in grades, twelve in number, and a manufac
turer requiring fifty bales of blanket wool can
procure them immediately, without being
forced, as heretofore, to purchase twice the
amount required, in order to get at the right
grade, and then having to turn the balance
into the market at (as is very often the case)
a serious reduction on the price paid for them.
California, in a few years, will produce wools
equal to the finest Australian, so desirable in
the European markets. It is supposed by
parties competent to judge, that the clip of !
the present year alone will reach a million
and a quarter pounds.
CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS.
DEATH OF LIEUT. VAN CARP.—The sad in
telligence reached this city on Saturday of the death of
Lient. Van fkmip. of this city, who was killed in a battle
recently fought between a detachment of the Second
Cavalry and the Comanche Indians, near Witchlts village,
bordering on Texas. - We „Aire as: yet without the partial
lars of the - battle, but it intuit haire been a desperate contest;
four men beside. Lient Van Camp and Major Vonelaw
were killed. and ten men wounded, while forty of the
Camanchee were killed.
The death of this gallant and aoccanplished young officer
has cast a gloom over many In this city, where he was
generally admired for his noble qualifier of mind and heart
Lieut. Van Camp was the only eon of Alderman John C.
Van Camp. He was a graduate of the High School of this'
city, and entered the West Point Military Academy in
1851. He graduated at that Inatitntian in 1855 with the
highest honors of his clam, and since that time has been
in active service in the Army. We knew poor Cornet. well
—and a braver spirit never went into the battle field. A
dutiful and loving son, a kind and affectionate brother, his
untimely death falls with crushing effect upon his family,
and we deeply sympathise with them in their terrible
affliction.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.—At a special meeting
of the Union Fire Co., No. 1, held in their Hall, Market
street, on Friday evening last, the following preamble and
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
WITEIIEAS, It has pleased the Great Dispenser of human
events. with whom are the Issues of lite and death, to again
visit this company, and remove from our midst our late
fellow member, Marcus Dorr Holbrook Gaiter; therefore be it
Resolved, That the announcement of the death of Marcus
D. H. Geiter is received by the members of this company
with feelings of the deepest sorrow, and that we have, in
this bereavement, been deprived of one of oar most zealous
and active members, strongly endeared to us by the kind
ness that ever marked his intercourse with us, and com
manding the respect and confidence of all who enjoyed the
pleasure of his society.
Resolnui, That we tender these, our sincere expressions
of em.dolence, to the family of the deceased, trusting that
the pungency of their grief will, in some measure, be sub
dued by the release he received in death from the short
though painful sickness through which he passed.
Resolved, That, as a last mark of respect to his memory,
the members of this company attend the funeral in a body,
and the Hall and apparatus be clothed in mourning for the
space of thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted
to the family of the deceased, signed by the proper officers,
and published in the papers of this city.
HENRY E. SLAYMAKER, President.
Ciao. K. REED, Secretary.
Mr. Geiter'a remains were followed to the grave on Sunday
afternoon by the Union Fire Co., No. 1, the Printers of this
city in a body—he being a compositor in the Union Office,
and an honored member of the craft—and a large concourse
of relatives and friends. Ile was very highly esteemed for
his many good qualities. "Peace to his ashes."
WOODEN BUILDINGS.—The ordinance passed
by the City Councils, at their stated meeting on the sth
Inst., prohibiting the erection of wooden buildings within
certain prescribed limits of the city will be found in our
advertising columns. This action on the pert of the city
government will meet with general approval: the only
thing to be regretted being the non-passage of the ordi
mince when the subject was formerly agitated in Councils.
Bat wooden buildings are now unlawful within the pre
scribed limits, and those interested will please read and
observe the ordinance.
OCR "FAST NAGS."—
`• We'll bet our money on the bob-tail nag
Somebody bet on the boy."
We had not the time or room last week to notice the
result of our " fast nags' " powers on the race course at the
Fair grounds. The trial of speed took place on Thursday
and Friday afternoons, and below will be found the result
of the different matches, which of course excites the deep
est interest among all "lovers of the turf:"
THURSDAY.
Trotting—First (In Sulky).
Copeland 6: Kline, bay mare 3.02
Jos.B.McCaskey 3 00
Second
Daniel Hoffman, dark bay horse.
Jacob Leman, bay horse
George Flory, sorrel horse - * 9.05
J. 11. Strickler, bay horse 3.10
Fourth.
B. N. Winters, roan .. ..
9 52
Reuben Shenk, white horse 3.34
Fifth. •
IL W. Breneman, dun horse 3 9 2
Amos Nobleman, bay horse 3.55
Sixth, double team.
. _
D. Stoner, a sorrel and black
Longenecker & Zook, pair bays...
Seventh.
- • ..
Jnel Wenger, bay colt, 3 years 3.30
Benjamin Hershey, bay filly, 3 years 3.29
Eighth.
Joel G. Hannah, gray mare 3.17
E. D. Waters, bay horse 3 41
•
J. S. Kauffman. bay pony
George Bard, bay horse...
Trackman ponies 310
Yundt ponies 1.05
Between the above, John Styers drove his brown paring'
horse alone—time ^
Eleventh—Trotting.
Lemon, bay horse 053
Strickler, bay horse, broke and abandoned the track.
Copeland & Kline. sorrel horse....
MeCaskey, sorrel horse
Thirteenth
Lemon, alone
Fourteenth
Hershey, colt
Wenger, colt..
Seventeenth.
El h een h
Breneman, dun
Harnish, gray mare
FRIDAY.
First—Trotting.
J. H. Gross, horse, "Billy Patterson," time 3.12
Shenk 322
}Tarnish, gray horse
Breneman, dun, broke and abandoned the track
Third.
Groee
Shenk, broke and gave it op
Fourth.
Bard. bay
Kauffman. bay
Shenk, grey
Bitzer, bay, broke up
Bard
Kauffman, bay, broke up
Amos Eshleman, bay horse, alone
Eighth—Pacing.
Owen Hoopla, dark bay pacer,
Tenth.
0. 11. Bowman, pacing mare, alone
Eleventh.
•
SUCCESS OF FAWKES' STEAM PLOW.—The
State Board of Agriculture of Illinois sometime since offered
a premium of $5,000 for Steam Plows. It was expected that
floe° different inventions would be exhibited and tested
at the State Fatr, but only one was on the ground,—and
that was the one of our own Fawkes, which excited the
most Intense Interest among the prairie farmers, and per.
formed its work admirably. The machine and apparatus,
with fuel and water, weighs only about seven tons, and
by the use of a drum or barrel-shaped driver, for propelling
the difficulty of miring in soft soil, and slipping on hard
soil, is overcome. The Steam Plow is easily managed. It
lea cross between n locomotive and a tender, combining
the essential elements of both, mounted on two guiding
wheels and a huge roller. The prairie ground on which it
was tried was baked nearly as hard as a brick. but the
engine turned six furrows aide by side in the most work
manlike manner. The excitement of the crowd was beyond
control, and their wild shouts and buzzes echoed far over
the prairie. All honor to JOSEPH W. FAWKES, one of Lan
caster County's most distinguished inventors.
A BIG CALF.—An attentive and esteemed
correspondent sends us the following:
Now Iloct.A.No, Oct. 15, 1858.
MESSRS. SANDERSON: I read in several of the Lancaster
papers a notice of a calf, owned by Mr. Levi Groff, which
weighed 114 lbs. at birth. I wish you to notice a calf,
owned by Mr. Wm. A. Shaeffer, tavern-keeper in this vii
lege, which was calved three days ago, and weighed at the
time of birth 121 lbs., and measured as follows: From tip
of nose to root of tail. 434 feet; height, 2 feet 10 inches.
The cow, which gave birth to this calf, is a beautiful and
well-formed animal--of a bright bay color. The cow and
calf U gether are well worth seeing. Persons living near
or passing Mr. Shmffer's residence ehonld call to see them.
Yours, be., S.
THE SPANISU EXPEDITION AGAINST MEXICO.
—The following is translated from a letter dated
Madrid, Sept. 21. It confirms the report that
the Spanish Cabinet are determined to act
energetically against Mexico :
"In the early part of October four ships of
war belonging to the squadron of Gallica, will
depart from the waters of Cuba, two of them
being the Petronilla and the Isabel-la-Catoilea.
They, and the transports accompanying them,
will carry 3000 soldiers of all arms, with con
siderable war material, destined for the
Antilles.
"It is designed to have at Havana a con
siderable squadron, and a disposal force of
12,000 men, destined to compel satisfaction
from the Mexican Republic. The trip of the
Minister of Marine to Cadiz, was principally
with a view to prepare maratime reinforce
mentsdestined for the Gulf of Mexico."
THE EPIDEMIC SOUTH.—The yellow fever is
on the decrease at Savannah, and in Charles
ton the indications are that it has about done
its worst; but it hangs on at New Orleans
with a pertinacity and a malignity that has
always marked its ravages there. It is to be
hoped the warning of the Howard Association,
that strangers stay away till frost sets in, will
not pass unheeded. To go from this to that
climate, just now, is but to add fresh fuel to
the flame. It is a curious fact—attested by
common experience—that, during yellow fever
epidemics, clear and beautiful weather mostly
predominates. Such is the case the present
season at New Orleans, and such was the
case on previous visitations of the pestilence.
Who can explain this apparent phenomenon ?
' CHRONICLES OF WOOLLYDOM.
1. And the two grand armies joined battle on the twelfth
day of the tenth month, in the great valley of the Conestoga
—the King's forces on one side, and the legions of James
of Drumore on the other.
2. And the battle raged eore from early in the morning
to the going down of the sun, and many were the slabe
end wounded of the people on that day.
3. And it mine to pass at eventide, after the sun had
gone down, that the Chief Captain, anxious to stay the
efiUsion of blood,proposed tolling Thaddeus an armistice
Ortwo full years; au that they each might bury their dead
and heal the wounded in the kingdom.
4. And the saying pleased the King well, and he straight
way commanded his captains and lieutenants to cease the
warfare, and to extend a general pardon to all his subjects.
5. And the - trumpets were Bounded. - end beTitids - were
sent forth from both armies proclaiming the will of King
Thaddeus and the Chief Captain, and every man laid down
the weapons of war, and returned to his own home.
- 6. Then there was great joy arid rejoicing throughout the
land, when the King returned to his palace, and James of
Drumore to his tent on the Conowingo.
7. Thus eudeth the Book of the Chronicles of Wooll ydom.
FROM VIE PLAINs.—A correspondent of the
St. Louis Republican, writing from Fort
Leavenworth, Oot. 4th, says:— s
" Yesterday, the Engineer Company which
went out with Col. Andrews' command early
last Spring, ari ived from Fort Bridger. It is
under command of Lieuts. Dunne and Alex
ander of the Engineer corps. The command
is in excellent health. It will be recollected
that Col. Andrews' command marched to Utah
by the way of Bridger's Pass, in order to
ascertain if a practicable road could be found
through that part of the Rocky Mountains.
The report of every officer goes to show that
although it is some 80 to 100 miles shorter
throughout Bridget's Pass, still there are
obstacles which will prevent the use of that
route by large commands, and by large trains.
Grass is very scarce, and the water is very bad,
being so strongly impregnated with different
salts as to render it dangerous for animals to
drink it. particularly during a dry season. It
appears to be now well established that the
road through the South Pass must continue to
be the great thoroughfare to Utah and the
Pacific.
This morning, there was a large arrival
from New Mexico. Gen. Garland, accom
panied by Major Nichols, Assistant Adjutant
General ; Captain Eastman, Assistant Quar
ter Master, and Dr. Letherman, reached
here in twenty two days from Santa Fe. The
General is in bad health, but the other officers
are looking well."
IMPORTANT VERDICT.—The Pittsburg and
Connellsville Railroad Company has obtained
a verdict against Gen. Wm Robinson, Jr., of
Pittsburg, tor the sum of $6OOO. It appears,
by a statement in the Pittsburg Chronicle,
Gen. Robinson subscribed for one hundred
shares of the stock of the company in 1857,
when Gen. Larimer was the President, but
never paid up. The defence was that the
subscription was made at the instance of gen.
Larimer, with the understanding that Gen.
Robinson would never be called upon to pay
it, the company desiring only to have the
influence of his name. It was further con
tended that the stock had been transferred by
Gen.Rubinson to Gen. Larimer, and by the
latter to the company, and that therefore any
claim that might have existed against the!
defendant was extinguished, and the plaintiffs
could not recover. The jury, however, thought
otherwise, and gave a "verdict against Gen.
Robinson for the whole amount of stock, with
interest.
IMPORTS OF RAILROAD IRON.—The total
imports of Railroad iron from Great Britain
to the United States for the first seven months
of 1858, compare with those during a like
space in 1856 and 1857, as follows:
. 3 19
3.19
The above table shows that in seven months
of the present year we have imported less
railroad iron by 100,000 tons than in the
corresponding period of last year. Since
August let, however, there has been more
activity in this department, and considerable
quantities have been imported by the Mobile
and Ohio and other roads, and several compa
nies have contracted for supplies to be
delivered before the end of the year, so that
the total importations for 1858 will not fall
far short of last year, as the above figures
would indicate.
CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY.—AIthough a young
State, a variety of industrial pursuits have
been developed to a remarkable extent in
California. Indeed, but a few of the older
States surpass her in some respects. Accord
ing to an address recently delivered before the
Mechanics' Institute at San Francisco, there
have been enclosed in California since 1850,
for agricultural purposes, upwards of half a
million acres ; and there have been erected
135 flouring mills, at a cost of two and a half
millions of dollars ; also, 175 saw mills, worth
$2,600,000, which are now not only supply
ing the house demand, but exporting $300,-
000 of lumber annually. Within the same
period there have been constructed 4400 miles
of canals and flumes for mining operations, at
a cost of more than $12,000,000, exclusive of
eight hundred miles in course of completion.
In addition to these, there have been erected
150 quartz mills, the machinery of which is
valued at $2,000,000, besides numerous other
extensive and valuable works, such as sugar
refineries, metallurgical works, tanneries, (of
which there are twenty of a capacity sufficient
to supply the State,) breweries, paper mills,
cordage manufactories, iron foundries and
machine shops, adapted to the construction of
every conceivable description of machinery,
from the most delicate mathematical instru
ment to the most powerful steam engine, and
of a capacity sufficient to supply the entire
wants of the Pacific coast. These improve
ments, together with others, have, during the
last nine years, increased the taxable property
of the State from comparatively nothing to the
enormous value of sl6o,ooo,ooo.—Boston
Journal.
NICARAGUAN AFFAIRS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Jerez to-day bad a
long interview with Secretary Case. Not
withstanding he had previously asserted that
he had full power to ratify the Cass-Yrissarri
treaty, and to finally arrange all matters
pertaining thereto, without the necessity of
referring it back to Nicaragua, it appears
from the official document just submitted by
him to the State Department, and of which a
translation was immediately made, that he is
empowered only to act, in order that the
amendments made by the Assembly of Nicara
gua to the treaty may be substantially carried
into effect. This is the language employed,
but it is not considered sufficient to meet the
demands of our government. The Secretary
of State will have a consultation with the
President on the subject to-morrow, and Jerez
will soon thereafter be informed of the result.
His mission is generally considered at r..n end,
and unless he has documents of a more
satisfactory character to present he will very
shortly be dismissed.
From Utah and the Plaine
ST. Louis, Oct. 15.—The Salt Lake mail
arrived at St. Joseph's on the 9th inst.
The troops had nearly completed their huts,
and would go into winter quarters on the 15th
inst.
Everything was quiet in the Valley.
The Fort Smith (Ark.) Times, (Extra,) of
the Bth, contains a letter from Lieutenant
Powell, dated from Fort Arbuckle, October 2,
giving an account of a battle between a de
tachment of the Second Cavalry and the
Camanche Indians, near IV; rohita village, on
the first, in which Lieuten n Camp and
four men were killed and Major Vonclaw and
ten men wounded, and forty of the Camanches
killed.
A BANK OF GOLD. —There is a project on
foot, in New York, to establish a bullion bank,
which shall use nothing but coin in its transac
tions. It meets with the cordial approval of
many prominent men, among whom are
Martin Van Buren, Robert J. Walker, John
A. Dix and John J. Cisco. The capital is
to be $1,000,000, and the revenues are to be
derived from loaning this sum, and charging a
very small commission, from the two-hundreth
to the one-tenth of one per'cent. on the sums
deposited with the bank, which will always be
payable in min.—Phil. Press. Bth.
From, the tie! York Jottniel ot Commerce, Oct. 9th
LETTER FROM GOVERNOR DENVER.
The New York Tribune having published
an article on Kansas affairs, September 20th,
which contained several gross misstatements
as to the action of Governor Denver and:Presi
dent Buchanan, the Governor addressed the
following courteous letter to the editors of the
Tribune, correcting their errors, but they had
not the fairness to print it. Under these cir
cumstances, the gentletntin to whom it was
sent for transmission to the Tribune, has hand
ed it to us, and we cheerfully lay it before our
readers:
LECOMYTON, K. T., Sept. 30, 1858
To the Editors of the i'Vew York Tribune.
GENTLEMEN :—My attention has been called
to an article in reference to Kansas affairs
published in your Daily of the 20th instant,
and Triweekly of the 21st. in which you sug
gest that I had probably been compelled by
the Administration to resign the . post I have
held here for some months past, and on that
supposition you proceed to make some serious
charges against Mr. Buchanan and his Admin
istration, for all of which there is not the
slightest foundation. It is true that I have
resigned the office of Governor of Kansas, but
it was an act of my own free will. The Presi
dent desired me to remain, but the condition
of my private affairs would not permit me to
do se longer. In June last I sent up my resig
nati..n to take effect in August, but while in
Washington in July, tit the urgent sulicita
tinns of many persdne , interested in Kansas,
and also at the request of the President, I then
withdrew it for the time being. Those who
are conversant with the facts know it has been
with extreme reluctance that 1 hive remained
here trout the first,. and that I have always
declared my intention to resign the, office of
Governor, a. , • di as it c o u ld t w i t h
safety to interest. I.i, leceived
the most ample assurances of tie • o hal ap
proval of my course in this Teri 1!,Ily lc, Ihe
President and all the members “i
and here I must he permitted t i., all
my conversation with the Pre -mean about
Kansas affairs, be has always monilesdal the
deepest concern for the peace and Ita l udnes,
of the country. aid a determinati, that the
people of the Territory should a fair
opportunity at. the ballot box, . Ltd• the
questions at issue belure them in ;heir own
way. and without any extrtteou , influences.
Such has been the character of all his eommu
nicatbins to me, whether verbal or written,
and while endeavoring to carry them out in
good faith, I Its a met with no opposition front
the moderate men of the Territory, nor from
those who have been classed as pro slavery
men.
The frauds perpetrated at the election its
January last, were committed by the violent
and unscrupulous men of all parties, and the
of them was partisan and partial.
Such acts as the foregoing of the returns from
Delaware Crossing were paraded before the
public with great gusto, while the destruction
of the ballot box and bailout at Sugar Mound,
by Capt. Montgomery, was passed by in silence.
The actors in till these transactions ought to
have been severely punished, but there Were
no laws that would reach them, and the late
Legistative Assembly, which was all Free State,
made no sufficient laws to meet such caces in
the future, but endeavored to paralyze the
powers of the Circuit Courts, arid invest the
Probate Courts with powers they could not ex
ercise. You admit that things have gone on
here quietly under my administration. This
is not exactly correct. There have been sonic
disturbances in Doniphan, Leavenw“rth, Linn
and Bourbon counties, and in every case the
disturbances have been produced by persons
calling themselves Free State men. In Boni
phan county an effort was made to assassinate
the gentlemen who were elected to the Legis•
lature on the first Monday in January last, and,
although they escaped with their lives, they
were plundered of their property, and their
houses burned. No steps have been taken to
punish the perpetrators, end yet all the county
officers were Free State men The troubles in
Leavenworth city continued nearly all winter,
and if the Mayor, and other city officers did
not encourage them, they certainly took no
measures to have them suppressed. In Linn
and Bourbon counties all was quiet until Mont
gomery and his band commenced plundering,
and driving off the people who differed with
them in political sentiment, in the course of
which they committed some outrageous acts,
one of which was to drive a farmer away from
his borne, on pain of death, and then to take
the ladies of his family, strip off all their cloth
ing, and in that condition compel them to
walk backwards and forwards for their amuse.
ment. I passed through the counties where
these outrages were perpetrated, and for some
30 miles it presented such a scene of desola
tion as I never expected to have seen, and hope
never again to see in a country inhabited by
American citizens. Is it any wonder that the
people on whom such outrages were perpetra
ted, should become exasperated ? Some flute
hundred families were thus robbed of their
property, driven away from their homes, and
compelled to fly from the Territory. About
two-thirds of them from Lion county where
every local officer was and is a Free State
man, after providing plaoes of security for
their families, some of the men, maddened and
desperate with the treatment they had receiv
ed, returned to seek revenge, and perpetrated
the bloody and unjustifiable act of the Marais
des•Cygnes. This was followed, on the part
of Montgomery, by setting fire to the town of
Fort Scott, in the middle of the night, while
the people were asleep, and then pouring in
volleys of rifle ball to prevent the people from
extinguishing the flames. Although no
serious consequences resulted from this act,
though several persons escaped very narrow
ly, yet in its inception, I know of nothing
worse in the whole history of Kansas. If
such an act had been committed by a band of
hostile Indians, it would have sent a thrill of
horror throughout the country. Such have
been some of the troubles in this Territory,
and yet the perpetrators are running at large
without any effort to arrest them, in counties
where the Free State men have all the local
officers, upheld by a portion of those calling
themselves Free State men: Among the
most active of whom have been the hired
reporters of the Eastern newspaper press. If
any further disturbances occur in this Terri
tory these are the people who will be justly
responsible for it. = The pro Slavery party
have abandoned the contest. The Free State
men have a majority in every county in the
Territory, and they have the sheriff and all
other local officers in all but two or three of
the counties, and there is no county in which
the sheriff cannot preserve peace if he de.Tires
to do so.
91.003 tone
105,6 3 .'
5,530
You make another complaint against the
President, that he has twice postponed the
sales of the public lands. If 1 mistake not,
last Spring you complained because the sales
were ordered for July. The first postpone
ment was made at the urgent solicitation of
the people in all parts of the Territory, and
so anxious were they to have it done, that
they sent on a committee of three to see the
President on the subject, and the result of
their interview was published by you. The
second postponement was more necetaary
than the first, for money had become more
scarce in the Territory, the rates of interest
had gone up to 5 and 10 per cent. per month,
and there was a good deal of sickness through.
out the whole country. By adhering to the
second order for the sales to take place in
November, the settler would be placed at the
mercy of the money lender, when to postpone
it the settler would have another year within
which to obtain the means to secure a home,
without having to give away one-half of his
land fur the money with which to enter the
other half. No good government would
knowingly impose such terms on her citizens,
and hence the second postponement of the
land sales until July next. It was a measure
demanded by the condition of affairs here, and
of which I have heard no one complain, except
such as were determined to be dissatisfied
with anything and everything the Administra
tion might do, and a few money-lenders whose
percentage has been greatly reduced by it.
By giving publicity to this, you will correct
some erroneous impressions conveyed in the
article alluded to, and oblige
Yours, respectfully,
(Signed) J. W. DENVER.
44 -Equality to All t Uniformity of
Price! A new feature of Business: Every one his own Sales
man. JOllOll it Co., of the Crescent Oue Price Clothing Store.
200 Market street, above 6th, in addition to having the
largest, most varied and ashion-tble stock of Clothing in
Philadelphia, made expressly for retail gales, have constl.
tato! every one his own Salesman, by having marked in
figures, on each article, the very lowest price it can b e
e oht for, so they cannot possibly vary—all must buy alike.
The goods are all well sponged and prepared and' great
pains taken with the making, so that all can buy with the
fall assurance of getting a good article at the eery lowest
price.
Remember the Crateent, in: ➢Market, above 6th, No. 200
fob 2015.6 JONES h 00.