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THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Senator SEWARD, of New York, madeTa
speech at Rochester, in that State, a few days
ago, which shows clearly and conclusively the
design of the Republican leaders, and coming
from such a distinguished man, the acknowl
edged leader of sectionalism in the North, it
should arrest the attention of all • lovers of
the Union in every quarter of the Republic.
Like LINCOLN, of Illinois, he boldly proclaims
the doctrine that all the States of the Union
must either become entirely elaveholding or
entirely free-labor communities, and that a
grand battle, with no truce or compromise,
must be kept up until one or the other of these
results is accomplished. This is his platform,
as it is the platform of the ultra Republicans
every where throughout the North, and it
implies constant, unceasing agitation, without
a moment's repose, at the cost of the Union
itself. It looks to the formation of two great
sectional parties—northern and southern—
which in their tremendous struggle for power
will sever the bonds which lave heretofore
kept US together, and ultimately lead to the
establishment of two rival Republics, a north
ern and a southern one.
Such is the design of the sectional party
known as the Republican, and so bold have
they become in their treason, that their great
leader does not hesitate to avow the hateful
sentiment in a public speech. But we do not
believe that any very considerable number of
the American people will be willing to follow
such a dangerous leader, and embark in a
contest which is intended to sever this glorious
Union and inflict unheard of calamities upon
our common country. Mr. SEIVARD, it is
well understood, is to be the Republican can
didate for the next Presidency, and it is per
haps fortunate that he has so early laid down
the platform of principles upon which be
means to stand. The American people will
have time to meditate upon the danger which
looms up in the distance, and will thus be
able to avoid the abyss of destruction towards
which they have been drifting.
INDIANA AND 01110
The Democrats won a splendid victory in
Indiana on their State ticket, electing it by
majorities varying from 3000 to 5000. The
Legislature probably is a tie, and the Demo
crats lose two members of Congress.
Our loss in Ohio is by no means as serious
as we at first supposed. We have nine mem
bers in the present Congiess. They were
elected two years ago, and eight of them by
bare pluralities, the Democrats having a ma
jority in but one district in the State. The
majority was then on the State ticket forty
thousand against us; but the opposition were
divided. Now the opposition are united, and
instead of one we have majorities in six dis
tricts, and in three other districts the aggre
gate majority against us is less than five hun
dred; and instead of being defeated by 40,000
on our State ticket the majority against us
wit not be more than 17,000. This result is
rather encouraging than otherwise. The op
position can make no more , fusions to increase
their strength ; and the steady Democratic
gains which we have been making every year
will Boon bring the:opposition majority down
to nothing, even if it continues united.
NOT OVERDIUCH SANGUINE!
Many of the Republican journals are jubi
lant overmuch at their recent successes in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, and are
fondly dreaming of a similar result in their
favor in the Presidential election of 1860.
We would advise Or victorious cotemporaries,
however, not to " count their chickens before
they are hatched," as calculations of that kind
are very apt to tail in the end. Some few of
the opposition papers are disposed to take a
more sensible view of the subject, and amongst
them is the Philadelphia News. That paper
of Tuesday last has the following significant
paragraph in reference to the contest two
years hence, which is well calculated to act
as a wet blanket in dampening the ardor of
its Republican readers. That paper says :
Sanguine people think that the recent elect
tion in Pennsylvania has settled the Presiden
tial contest of 1860. We have grave appre•
hensions on the subject, and they are founded
on the malign influence of New York puli
ticiane on the politics of the Opposition.
In 1856, to serve their own selfish purposes,
they forced Fremont on us, notwithstanding
the evident fact that Pennsylvania could not
be carried for him; and the fact that he must
run as a sectional candidate. They are now
aiming to nominate Seward, or some other
equally obnoxious candidate. If the New
York politicians will abstain from all inter
ference with the, Presidential question, we
promise them that a candidate can be brought
out who will unite the Opposition, and carry
everything before him. If they succeed in
dictating the nomination defeat is inevitable.
ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER
On yesterday the State and Congressional
elections were held in Louisiana. To-day,
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Michigan and Illinois hold their elections.—
On the 4th instant the Wisconsin election
will take place ; dnd'on the 9th, in the State
of Delaware.
HARRISBURG DAILIES
The Prospectuses of the Daily Patriot
Union, and Daily: Telegraph, for the approach
ing session of the Legislature, will be found
in our advertising columns. They are both
capital papers of the kind—one Democratic
and the other Republican in politics ; and
those who may desire to have correct and
reliable information of the daily doings of the
Legislature, would do well to subscribe for at
least one of them.
MINNESOTA ELECTION
Official returns of the recent election in
Minnesota render, it certain that the Demo
crats will have a 'majority in the Legislature,
on joint ballot, of at least three, and probably
five. This will secure the election of a sound
and reliable Democrat to the 11. S. Senate.
CALIFORNIA ELECTION
The official vote of California shows the
following Democratic majorites : For Supreme
Judge, 8,401; State Controller, 16,526. A
pretty good day's work for the Democracy of
the Golden State,
PRESIDENT'S PROCLADIATION
President Beene/4mi has issued a Proclama
tion against filibustering, and specially with
reference to the sailing of Gen. Walker's third
expedition ageing Nicaragua, which is said to
be getting ready 'to sail from Mobile and New
Orleans about the middle of the present month.
THE RICHMOND ENQUIRER.—This excellent
and conservative exponent of southern senti_
ment, comes to us much enlarged and improved
in its general appearance. We are pleased to
find this evidence of its prosperity.' The Enqui
rer is in the 54th year of its existence, having
been commenced by Thomas Ritchie, Esq., in
1804.
GOVERNOR DENVER'S ADDRESS. THE VICE PRESIDENT'S LETTER.
Upon resigning his post and leaving Kansas, I The recent letter of Vice President BEECH.-
Governor DENVER issued thefollowing address. INRIDGE to the Democratic State Committee of
It is admirably conceived, temperate in tone. Illinois, having been the subject of considera
and cannot fail to have a good effect upon ble comment in the newspapers for the last
those for whose benefit it is published. Mr. eight or ten days, we publish it below so that
DENVER was unquestionably the best Eirecu our readers can see and judge fur themselves
tive the Territory of Kansas ever had, and in reference to the position of that distinguished
the people there part with him with regret.
To the People of Kansas Territory.
FELLOW CITIZENS :—The announcement of
my resignation of the office of Governor, hav
ing induced many of the good people of the
Territory to express their regrets that I should
do so, and same having gone so far as to ex
press
misgivings as to the future, it may be
proper for me, when about to sever my official
connection with you forever, to address to you
a few words at parting.
It is true that, at the time I took charge of
this office, great confusion existed in the Ter-
ritory, and that everything is now quiet; but
it is equally true that the continuance of ,
peace and quiet depends, henceforward, more ,
on the people themselves, than on the Execu
tive of the Territory.
In every county the people have a super
abundance of civil officers elected by them
selves, and an election has just been held all
over the Territory, for representatives to the
Legislative Assembly, without the occurrence
of any disturbances, and without the inter
vention of the Federal authorities. The neces
sity for such intervention is a stigma on the
American people, who boast of their voluntary
obedience to the laws, and their ability to
govern themselves.
It is riot to be presumed that the experi
ments made are sufficient to satisfy the people,
that political objects cannot be obtained by
absenting themselves from the polls on the
day of election—that peace and quiet is bet.
ter than intestine broils and civil war —that
an honest and faithful administration of the
civil law is better than military rule, and that
there is a much greater degree of responsibility
attaching to legally constituted authorities
than to self constituted leaders.
It really makes but little, difference who
may be the representative of the General
Government here, if the people are true to
themselves, and true to American institutions.
To obey the laws—to select good men to till
the local offices, and to hold their officers to a
strict accountability, is all that is nece••sary
fur the people to do, to give continued peace
and prosperity to the Territory.
Every citizen ought to make it a part of his
business to see that offenders against the laws
meet with sure and speedy punishment—that
officers discharge their duties faithfully, and
that each and every one of his neighbors is
protected in all his rights, civil, political and
religious.
There is no reasonable man who will claim
such rights for himself, and nut be willing to
concede the same to his neighbors.
The duties of a Governor of a Territory are
ordinarily few and simple. Now that this
Territory is thoroughly organized, all he has
to do is to see that the lavrs are properly ad
ministered, and to this end he must commis
sion the officers elected—sqspend or remove
such as the law directs—see that the peace
is preserved when the local officers, the sheriffs
and constables, are unable to do so—assist the
Legislative Assembly in enacting laws, and
also to do a few other acts of an executive
character. All these are plain and simple
do,ies, and such as can be performed by any
man of common settee.
Under our system of government, the chief
responsibility rests on the people themselves,
and it behooves them to exercise inwards each
other a spirit of tolerance and fraternal feel
mg.
Free intercourse and interchange of senti
went will remove many false impressions
entertained of each other by persons coming
from different sections of our common country,
and a better state of feeling will hereafter
prevail.
During the time I have been with you, I
have earnestly endeavored to discharge the
duties devolving on me faithfully, honestly
and impartially ; and if I have dine this in
such a manner as to most with the approba
tion of the good people of the Territory. I
cannot but feel gratified; and it may be
proper for me to state that in all I have done
I have received the most cordial approv from
President Buchanan and his Cabinet.
in conclusion, permit me to warn pm
against the tricks and machinations of de
signing demagogues, who prefer turmoil and
strife to peace and prosperity, for it is only at
such times that they can bring themselves into
In this Territory there has been a mania
for makiog State Constitutions, and effo r t
after effort has been made to organize a State
government before any of the necessary pre
parations have been made to meet its respon
sibilities. Without a dollar in the Treasury,
with but little taxable property, without any
well regulated system for collecting revenue,
and a considerable Territorial debt, the organ
ization of a State governwnt, at this time,
must prove an onerous burden to the people.
That these efforts will lie renewed, I have
no doubt; and whether these burdens and
responsibilities shall be assumed before you
are prepared for them, my fell .v
before you know well the men Whom you w ill
have to entrust with your dearest rights and
interests, will remain for yourselves to de
termine.
Sincerely hoping that the future of Kansas
may be as prosperous and happy as the past
has been boisterous and troublesome, I remain,
my fellow citizens,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) J. W. DENVER.
Lecompton, K. T., Oct., 9th, 1858.
KAN S AS ELECTION.
On a careful examination of the returns
already in our possession, says the Kansas
Herald of Freedom, we find the conservative
Free Sta e men and the Democrats, have
twenty Jour uut of thirty nine memher.—
These two parties will he able to act together
to prevent hasty and inconsiderate legislation
by the radical Abolitionists, and will cheerfully
co operate in preparing a healthy code of laws
for the Territory. If Brown and Nemaha
counties shall have elected a moderate man,
and Marshall shall have elected another, as
we presume is the case, then the conservatives
will have twenty six in the Legislature. We
are satisfied with the result in the Territory,
as we know our friends will be, and W 3 trust
our radical opponents will find equal causes
for rejoicing.
A SLIGIIT DIFFERENCE !—The. annual ex
penses of the State of Pennsylvania are about
five millions of dollars, of which two millions
are required to pay interest on the State debt,
leaving only three millions for expense of the
government machinery; while the expenses
for governing the city of New York was fifteen
millions fur the last year ! and this sum does
not include the amount paid by the residents
of the city for State taxes!
TREATY WITH CHINA
The Washington correspondent of the N.
Y. Times states that dispatches received at the
State Department contain the intelligence that
the Emperor of China has ratified the treaty
with this government, and also those with
England, France and Russia. The Tribune's
letter says a special messenger will he dis
patched immediately to China, to exchange
ratifications of the new treaty. Mr. Reed's
request for a recall will be granted, and he
will return during the coming winter.
IMPORTANT FROM OREGON
The overland mail brings accounts of a
battle at Four Lakes, Oregon, on the Ist of
September, between three hundred troops
under Col. Wright, and five hundred Indians,
in which the Indians were completely routed,
with the lose of seventeen killed and many
wounded. The troops sustained no loss what-
The Oregon State Legislature met at Salem
on the 13th of September, and adjourned sine
die, thus giving up the State Organization
until the regular admission of C'regon into
the Union by Congress. Delazon Smith and
L. F. Grover, elected to represent the State
in the United States Senate, were about leav
ing Portland for Washington.
THANKSGIVING DAY
Governor PACKER has appointed Thursday
the 18th of November, as a day of Thanks
giving throughout the Commonwealth.
statesman
VERSAILLES, Ky., Oct. 4, 1858
Dear Sir :—I received this morning your
letters of the 28th and _9th ult., written as
chairman of the Democratic State Committee
of Illinois, also one of Mr. V. Hickox, who
informs me that he is a member of the same
committee. My absence from home will
account for the delay of this answer.
In these letters it is said that lam reported to
have expressed a desire that Mr. Biuglas shall
defeat Mr. Lincoln in their' contest for a seat
in the Senate of the United States, and a will
ingness to visit Illinois and make public
speeches in aid of such result, and if these
reports are true, I am invited to deliver
addresses at certain points in the State.
The rumor ol my readiness to visit Illinois
and address the people in the present canvass
is withoGt foundation. I do not propose to
leave Kentucky fur the purpose of mingling
in the political discussions in other States.
the two or three speeches which I delivered
recently in this State rested on peculiar
grounds, which I need not now discuss.
The rumor to which you refer is true. I
have often, in conversation, expressed the
wish that Mr. Douglas may succeed over his
Republican competitor. But it is due to
candor to say, that this preference is not
founded on his course at the late session of
Congress, and would not exist if I supposed it
would be construed as an endorsement of
the attitude which he then chose to assume
towards his party, or of all the positions he
has taken in the present canvass. It is not
necessary to enlarge on these things. I will
only.add, that my preference rests mainly on
these considerations : that the Kansas question
is practically ended—that Mr. Douglas, in
recent speeches, has explicitly declared his
adherence to the regular Democratic party
organization—that heseems to be the candidate
of the Illinois Democracy, and the most formi
dable opponent in that State uf the Republican
party, and that on Emilie than one occasion
during his public life he has defended the
Union of the States and the rights of the
States with fidelity, courage and great ability.
I have not desired to say anything upon
this or any other subject about which a
difference may be supposed to exist in our
political family, but I did not feel at liberty
to decline an answer to the courteous letter
of your committee.
With cordial wishes for the harmony of the
Illinois democracy, and the hope that your
great and growing State, which has never yet
given a sectional vote, may continue true to
our constitutional Union,
I am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, JOHN C BRECKINRIDGE,
[I-ox. Jolts MOORS, Chairman of the Coin
mittee.
FR,SI CALIFORNIA AND JAPAN.—The news
received by the St. Louis from California and
the Isthmus is not very important. Mining
operations continue favorable in California,
but the Frazer river excitement had to a con
siderable extent died out. The citizens of
the Golden State had been amusing themselves
with an Atlantic Telegraph celebration, and,
according to the newspapers, had a great time
of it. Mr. Buckalew had been received as
United States Mini9Ler by the Government of
Ecuador. Affairs in Central and South Amer
lea were very unsettled, and it is evident that
a crisis is rapidly approaching in that part of
the world. The St. Louis brought a million
and a half of treasure.
The St. Louis also brings news from Japan
via California. It is rumored that a treaty
had been concluded with the Japanese Govern
ment by the United States Consul at Jedda,
and that the treaty is now on its way to
Washington. It is also said that a Japanese
prince, with a retinue of attendants, was to
depart immediately f;ir Washington.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE FRAUD. —The Phila
delphia Evening Argus says: The admission
is at last reluctantly made by the New York
papers, that no message has ever been trans
mitted through the medium of the Atlantic
Telegraph. The whole thing turns out to be
a humbug, if out a premeditated fraud. Mr.
Cyrus W. Field who was a few weeks ago
looked upon as a veritable lion, turns out to
be an animal of a totally different description.
As soon as the shares in the Company were
bubbled up to the proper altitude by the
general tom-foolery of the public celebrations,
he took good care to sell' out his stock, and
resign his situation as Director of the Company.
Instead, therefore, ,f being considered an
available candidate fir the next Presidency.
by those who had more enthusiasm than coin.
men sense, he bids fair, if justice is done in
the premises, to be a candidate for a very
different situation.
The credulous public, which has run mad
with excitement over the Atlantic Cable, will
now have ample time to reflect upon the
egregious fully which has made us a laughing
stock to the whole civilized world.
WHO TRIUMPHS 1
There is a good deal of truth and sound
sense in the following reflections upon the re
suit of the late election, from the Philadelphia
Evening Journal, an independent or neutral
paper, which we commend to the perusal of
those who profess to glory in the result.—
Let them look at the matter fairly, and see
what they have gained: •
" But what can they reasonably expect
from a conglomeration of three or more feeble
and mutually jealous factions, which are
induced to unite under e common name, here
and there and now and then, without any
bond of heart, and lasting union? Suppose
they carry an election, can anybody tell who
or what has triumphed? In the odd jumble
of elements, we cannot get any definite general
result. We can't decide whether Whigs,
Republicans or Americans are in the ascend
ant, while beyond the purpose of defeating the
Democrats, there is no assurance that they
will hold together an hour, or sympathize
and cooperate in anything. Can such a
political pot pourrie of odds and ends ever
come to good? Can efficient power fur any
object whatever he looked fur from such a
source?"
ROLE AND Barr.—The city of Baltimore is
in the hands of the opposition, and ha; been
so for some time past. The fruits are, riot,
rowdyism and tyranny in its worst phase.
The late election furnished evidence sufficient
to give the city-the name and reputation of
being the worst governed city in the Union,
and of being in the hands of unscrupulous and
wicked men. Scenes of riot and disorder are
not confined to election times. Instances like
the following are of almost daily occurrence :
On Friday afternoon, two persons were
entering the cattle show, in Baltimore, NW.,
when one of them accidentally trod on the foot
of abystander, to whom he instantly apologised.
The fellow, however, drew a revolver and
fired three shots at him, one of which grazed
his cheek ; he instantly ran and escaped, but his
companion was knocked down and brutally
kicked about the face. The ruffians were not
arrested. The same evening two fellows went
into the clothing store of Ansel Wurzburger,
and finding his brother Simon in the store,
demanded money of him. He refused, when
one of the villains instantly shot him in the
face, the ball entering his cheek and lodging
in the head, inflicting a very dangerous
wound. No arrests, of course."
DANGEROUS COUNTERFEITS. — The Phila. Inc!.
states that a Counterfeit $5 on the Chester
Valley Bank made its appeaiance on Friday
afternoon last. Every one should be on their
guard against being imposed upon.
Peterson's Counterfeit Detector of last week
contains, the fac simile of a counterfeit note
on the Burlington, N. J., Bank—apparently
signed by Geo. W. Smith, President, and C.
M. Rodgers, Cashier. It is eminently calcu
lated to deceive, so much so, that the public
may deem it prudent to throw out all the
Burlington Bank notes, until the circulation
is thoroughly weeded of such forgeries.
THE FOURTH OVERLAND MAIL
The overland mail which left San Francisco
~ n the 27th ult., arrived in this city on Satur
day night. No papers were brought by the
mail and few letters. The few papers in
lossession of the passengers when the stage
eft San Francisco were distributed along the
route.
In conversation with Mr. W. H. Hilton, a
passenger by this mail, we learn some particu
lars which may not be uninteresting to our
readers. Mr. Hilton left 'San Francisco on
the 19th of September, and arrived at. L,
Angeles, September the 23d. At this p pint
Mr. Hilton remained until this stage arrived,
which was on the 30th. On that day .Ir.
Hilton left Los Angeles, and arrived here as
above stated.
Through California and Arkansas the '
arrangements are complete, and the stage
glides over the country as swiftly as in all
probability it ever will. But on the plains
the arrangements are as yet incomplete. The
company, however, are rapidly filling up every
deficiency in the way of men and mules. Mr.
Hilton thinks that the trip will be made inside
of twenty days with great ease, when once
the company gets everything fairly under way.
He considers the route decidedly favorable,
and in all respects safe and pleasant.
Some of the stations are sixty five miles
apart; but most of them are from eight v, ten .
miles. On the plains the corrals are either
of logs or stone, and occupied, some by a dozen
men and some by no more than four and five.
The stage was detained fourteen hours by a
sand storm in the California desert, and two
days by reason of high water in Kern river,
at the point of crossing while the ferry flat
was out of repair, which was- supplied as
speedily as possible.
The Company are making preparations to
bridge the various streams that cross the
road, and have already engaged a large num
ber of men fir instant work.
Adobes, or Mexican brick, are used in the
construction of station houses along the route,
and in many places workmen are engaged in
making roads.
Mr. Hilton was provided with a canteen
(as also were the other passengers) filled with
water, from the want of which he was thus
preserved.
A POINTED COLLOQUY
The following dialogue is said to have oc
curred a few days since between two opponents
of Democracy in Boston:
I met at the dinner table the other day our
old friend 4I , who last year was a
shrieker second only to Henry Wilson. At the
first glance I saw he was for playing shy.—
Says I, after the usual greetings were over:
How goes the good cause up in Berkshire?—
"Lame," was his curt reply. "Lame, enough,
sir."
By this du you mean there is defection in
our ranks in your section?
"I mean just this and no more"—said M.,
filling his goblet with Scotch ale—"l have
read everything on our side from Sumner' s
bulletins to SACKVILLE ' S letters, and have
come to the conclusion that Banks is a hum
bug and the Republican party an abortion."
And this you say in the midst of the vic
tories we have achieved all over the country ?
"All fudge, sir. We are eternally gaining
victories precisely when no earthly use can he
made of them. So it will be now. Our op
ponents are, and have been, too busy in their
arrangements for 1860 to troulde themselves
much about a few State elections. When their
corns are all laid we shall find ourselves in a
Democratic trap, just as we did in 1850. The
fact is, Mr. Sackvil!e, we have triumphed in
recent elections, because we could not help it.
'rhe negro does wonders at the north, in
making governors and such sinall fry, but it
is a poor nag when put, upon the national
course."
AN EXTRAORDINARY BANK FAILCRE.—The
failure of the Western Bank of Glasgow,
Scotland, has spread unparalled ruin through
out that city. Thirteen hundred families held
investments in the c o ncern, which, in wally
cases, constituted the s.de dependence of aged
proles-h,nal men, widows and orphan daugh
tern. The total paid up capital was equal to
$7,500,000. When the stoppage occurred it
was seen that the whole of that property was
swept away, and that those who had nothing
else would he reduced to destitution. It was
hoped, however, that this would be the worst.
In a little further time it transpired that there
would be a deficiency of $1,500,000, in addi
tion to the loss of the whole capital. A call
of $125 per share was accordingly enforced
nn all who bad anything left. This was
finally paid in June last. A lull then inter
vened, and it was supposed that if there
should happen to be any further call, it would
be light. Complete astonishment was there
fore felt on the 7th inst., when it was
announced that the deficiency, instead of be
ing $1,500,000, had proven to be $7,000,000,
and that upon each share a fresh payment of
$5OO would be required within twenty-four
days.
A large proportion of the stockholders hay
ing been already ruined, the number of those
able to respond is limited, and it is calculated
that out of the thirteen hundred not more
than one hundred and fifty will ultimately
have any property left. Many of the suffer
ers have died, some have become insane, club
dren have been thrown on the charity of
friends and strangers, and there is scarcely a
family in the district which is not to some
extent afflicted. One eminent retired mer
chant who had invested the whole of a large
fortune in the concern has died of a broken
heart. Yet the directors, or, a majority of
them, says the London correspondent of the
New York Commerci.d, have adopted a bold
and unscrupulous tone to the last. They
relied upon their parliamentary influence,
especially among the tories, and the govern
ment have screened them throughout. Among
their chief apologists they have numbered
Sir Archibald Allison, the author of the His
tory of Europe.
THE LAST MAN.—The Cincinnati Commer
cial notices a curious organization of seven
young men into a society on the 30th Septem
ber, 1832, while the cholera was raging in
that city. Their panics were Joseph R.
Mason, Wm. Stansberry, Win. Disney, jr.,
Dr. Jas. M. Mason, Fenton Lawson, Henry L.
Totem and Dr. John L. Vattier. These seven
young men had met at the studio of Joseph
R. Mason, who was then a portrait painter.
when the conversation naturally turned on
the ravages of the cholera, and they got into
a controversy whether the disease was conta—
gious or non-contagious.
From this they entered into a solemn
compact to meet annually, and dine together
as long as they lived, and that a bottle of
wine should be sealed and drunk in memoriam
by the last survivor. The 6th of October was
agreed upon as the day on which to hold the
anniversary. The bottle, of an octagonal
shape, was filled, sealed, and placed in a cas
ket, and each of the men kept the key year
about. Within the casket, beside the bottle,
were small slips of oiled paper, on which each
of the men had written his name, place, and
and time of birth, and place of residence at
that time, his age and occupation.
Whoever held the key for the year was to
provide for the banquet, whether rich or poor,
even if it consisted only of a loaf of bread
and a cup of water, and it was arranged that,
however the number might be reduced by
death or absence, seven chairs and seven
plates should he set at each banquet. Should
any be absent, those present were bound to
make inquiries as to his whereabouts. Lots
were cast fur the keeper of the casket for the
first year, and it fell to Dr. Vattier. The
first annual reunion was held on the 6th of
October, 1832, since which time the lull num
ber has never baen present. On the 12th of
August, 1853, Henry L. Tatem died, leaving
Dr. Vattier the sole survivor of this singular
club, and on the 6th of October, 1858, the
Ihctor took the last solitary banquet, there
being set six empty chairs, and as many
empty plates.
EDITORS' BOOK TABLE
.$y Peterson's Counterfeit Detector and Bank Note List
Is corrected by Drexel A: Co., the well known Bunkers and
Brokers, and is the best Detector of Counterfeit or Altered
Notes, published In this country. The November number,
issued this day, fully describes Eighty six _Veur Counterfeits,
and contains a fec-simile engraving of a bogus Bank Note
that is being altered to various Banks all over the country,
and which is being put into extensive circulation. It also
contains several pages of other valuable information of
every thing appertaining to Bank Notes. We have no
hesitation In pronouncing it the most complete, reliable
and best publication of the kind in the United States. It
should be in the hands of every storekeeper in the whole
country, and we would advise all such to send One Dollar
in a letter, for et year's subscription, to the publishers, and
thus subscribe for it at once. It is published by T. B. Pe
terson ik Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
her' The potato crop in Vermont is better
than in any year since the appearance of the
rot, and good ones are sold for twenty five cents
per bushel.
CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS
AN UNCALLED Folk ATTACK' ON THE CITIZENS
or ICCASTIIIL. —We were surprised to see in The Express,
of ToPsday evenine last, a grossly unjust and uncalled-for
attack noon our citizens. Mr. GEIST certainly could not
have known what be was writing about when he penned
the artirle In question. Speaking of the sparse attendance
at the lecture of Rev. Dr. Preys:es. of Philadelphia, and
which our citizens had a perfect right to attend or not as
they saw proper, he concludes with the following gross
attack upon their intelligence and inclinations
"Sr. It ever is In Lancaster when lectures of real merit
are to be delivered. The ablest men in the country have
krtured in Lancaster to empty benches. Nevertheless, let
a performance be announced by a troupe of professional
decree—painted up to personify the "nigger"—and they
will have a full house and thunders of applause—the echo
of which seems to us to say—"the fools are not all dead
yet!" To morrow a ocean will be here, and then everybody
will have •t quarter . to spend to see monkeys. (rational
and irrational.) cutting up all sorts of capers—but how
193.12 V out of the crowd that will fill up that tent would
spend a quarter to hear a first-rate lecture. to interest and
instruct the mind. and elevate all the finer instincts of
our nature. It is a shame—a disgrace to our city, with its
boasted intelligence—but we have said as much a dozen
times before, and are tired of saying it
"We have made up our mind to this—that hereafter we
will bold forth no inducement to any stranger to come
here and lecture, but advise them to go to Strasburg. Mount
Joy, Manheim. or some other village, where they will stand
a ,better chance of getting an audience of a respectable
number who can appreciate the instruction to be derived
from public lectures. If this mortification of failure is to
be continued a feature of Lancaster, we, as a public Journal.
mean to wash our skirts of it."
Now, when the editor of The Express penned the above
paragraphs, he ought to have known. if he did not, that
there was very little truth in them. We say, and are
prepared to prove it, tbAt the citizens 01 Lancaster do
appreciate "lectures of real merit." and we will give a few
instances: When and where have better or more respectable
assemblages been convened to hear Park Benjamin, Horace
Greely, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, John G. Saxe, Rev. Dr.
McClintock, Bayard Taylor, Rev. A. A. Willets and John
B. 0-migh ? These, with others, among the "ablest men in
the country - have lectured in Lancaster," not to "empty
benches," bit to large, intelligent and highly appreciating
audiences. And he is likewise referred to the attendance
upon the Howard Lectures last winter. Although. we appre
hend, if he and one or two "old fogies" do nut hold 'heir
tongues, these peculiarly interesting lectures will be
but sparsely attended during the coming winter. And yet,
because our citizens did not choose to attend at Fulton
Hall and listen to Rev. Dr. Stevens, they do not appreciate
'lectures of real merit." We can construe this attack into
nothing else than a slander upon the taste and intel
ligence of the citizens of the City of Lancaster.
But Mr. Geist is not consistent: for in one of the para
graphs he says. "to morrow a circus will be here, and then
everybody will hare "a quarter" to see monkeys, (ratiorfal
and irrational.) cutting up all sorts of capers." and yet,
in another part of the same paper, we find the fol
lowing endorsement of said circus, including "monkeys,
rational and irrational :"
"litrms & Dusters' ("tarns exhibits in tl.is city tomor
row afternoon and evening, and will no doubt attract large
audiences front town .d country. It is said to be an ex
cellent company. and will introduce Several novelties in
the equestrian art."
"Oh! consistency thou art indeed a jewel:" Comment
the above is unnecessary. We leave to Mr. Geist to
plain to his readers the "difference 'twist tweedle dum
tweedle deer'
DANCING ACADEMY.—Frank Stnich opens
his Dancing Academy at Fulton Hall on Thursday and
Saturday next. This will be joyful news to Frank's hosts
of friends in this city.
INCENDIARISM. — An attempt was made to fire
the barn attached to Brady's Bakery, c , ,rner of East
King and Lime streets, on Thursday nieit. But by the
timely interference of one of Mr. B's neighbors the inceu
diary's scheme proved abortive.
ANOTHER FIRE.—On Friday night, between
and 11 o'clock, the Witlinger Brewery, on Vine street,
•.as discovered to be on fire. The Firemen were quickly
.n the ground, and did not let the flumes get much head
ay. It is supposed by some that this fire was the work
of an incendiary, but that is uncertain.
AND STILL ANOTHER.-01:1 Saturday night, between 9 and
10 o'clock, the stable of the Black Horse Hotel. (Hosteter's.)
fronting on Market street, was discovered to be on fire
The horses were saved, but a large quantity of hay,&c.,
was ronsumed. From the proximity of this building to
other valuable property. the danger of a vast destruction
looked throttling at one time. but the noble exertion , of the
Fire Department saved the surrounding property from any
but very slight damage. Several of the companies were
on duty until about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning. This
fire was no doubt the work of an incendiary.
REV. B. H. CREVER, of Baltimore, preached
two powerful and eloquent discourses, on Sunday morning
and evening. In the Duke Street Methodist Episcopal
Church, lfnth timt , 1., very kr:4, and stt.ntiv.• nu , liencom,
—'l'he Country
MERCANTILE APPRAISER. - -
Commisqiuuers have appointed Mr. David E. Rohrer. of
Manor iewnship. Appraiser .4* Mercantile Tax. 0. f.ir :lie
MEETING tIF TEACIIERS.--The Lancaster CO.
Teachers' Association will hold its annual meeting on Sat
urns•: next, at 10 o'cluek, a. na, in the Iligh Sebo ,- 1
Ilui Win„, North Prince street. Officers for the eneuinc year
will bo chosen—an address delivered by the Superifitendeut
of Delaware county—and essays read by several teachers.
EETING OF ConsciLs.—A stilted meeting
of Conn:ll3 will be I , ld this evening, at 7 o'clock. in
Chambers, City Hall.
DECLINED TILE Ll..—Rec. Mr. Bradley, of
Boston, recently elected to succeed Rt. Rev. Dr. Bowman
us Recto, of St. James' Church in tide city, hue declined
the call. on the ground that the mato of Isis health does
nut jtettify him in abandoning a seaboard resideni,.
LIDIIT.—The contract fur furnishing burning
fluid to the city during the ensulim year has bean awarded,
by the Lamp Committee. to John D. Sillies, of IS East King
street, at the rate of sixty cents per gallon. the bilk t.i be
paid monthly.
A .HARD-HEARTED CANAL BOAT CAPTAIN.—
About a week ago a canal boat, the •'Mai.l of the Mist,"
freighted with coal and consigned to Geo. Colder S Co.. of
this city, reached Graaf 's Landing. The captain immedi•
ntely bad the boat unloaded, and having received Isis freight
charees. amounting tojupwards of PO, took “French
his employees and assistants remaining et their destination,
in the losses part of the city, unpaid and destitute of pro
visions. The taut is owned by Marsh, Welsh, Weaver At
Co.. of Lewistown, Pa., and is now held by these who un
loaded the coal until their wages are paid. amounting to
$lO. The captain's name we did not learn.
ARREST OF ALLEGED INCENDIARIES.
Monday last Henry Metzger, a friend and neighbor of
Daniel Itobrer, whose barn was burnt on Saturday night,
made complaint before Alderman Frick. setting forth that
he has good and just reason to believe and does believe
that said barn was fired by Henry Lawrence and Benjamin
Baumgardner, both of this city. Warrants were accoid
ingly issued for the arrest of the parties, and the next day
officer Iluffnagle succeeded in arresting Lawrence, who
was committed by Alderman Frick for a further hearing.
Last night Baumgardner R. arrested by officers Gormley
and Kuhns, and today both men were finally committed
to answer the charge of arson at the November Sessions.
These men were both seen at Rohrer's the evening of the
fire, and were met coming away from that direction by
persons going to the fire. They tell contradictory stories
concerning their whereabouts and destination on that
occasion, such as would not be told by men who are able
to give a good and honest account of themselves. The
evidence was amply sufficient to justify their committal for
Baumgardner has been keeping out of the way of the
officers, one of whom has had a warrant against him for
some time, on' another charge, but was '•trapped" last
night, by the officers, at one of his places of concealment.
—Thursdays Express.
CURING HAMS.—Of the many recipes for
cooking, preserving and curing the various articles of
household use, found floating about in the newspapers. we
always regard those front the Scientific American as most
worthy of acceptance. We give one below, which will be
found serviceable in a few weeks more, when "killing
time" arrives. If npybody has a better recipe for "curing
hams," We shall be pleased to receive it, and publish it for
the benefit of the "pork eating - public
Canter, Hants.—As the time is at hand for preparing
these useful stores of rich and savory 10011. a tew words will
nut be out of place in regard to them. The legs of hugs,
short in the hook, are the best fur barns, and should be
chosen in preference to lanky hogs. They may be salted
by immersion in a clean pickle, containing a little sugar
and saltpetre dissolved, or they may be salted by rubbing
ground solar evaporated salt over them, turning them
every day, and giving them a good rubbing. A little sugar
and ground pepper added to the salt will much improve
the flavor of the meat. It requires about n month to salt
hams by the wet process, and three weeks by the dry sr
tem. At the end of this period, they should be bung up
fora few days to drip, and then they are ready for smoking.
Much depends on the kind of material used for smoking
them, so as to secure a sweet flavor. Whatever fuel is used
for this purpose, one condition should never be overlooked:
It should be perfectly dry, or else it will he liable to impart
a bitter taste to the meat. Dry corn cubs, and some dry
sweet hay, are superior to all other agents that we have
seen employed for smoking beef and hams. Mutton hams
may be prepared in the same manner as those of perk, and
they are exceedingly palatable when the meat is good, and
care iexercised to smoke them slowly.
DEDICATION.—The new Lutheran Church at
Myerstown, Lebanon county, will be dedicated on Saturday
and Sunday, the lith and 11th of November, instant. 11ev.
Mr. Krotel. of this city, will preach on Saturday forenoon.
A rare treads In store for our Myerstown friends.
A "CRYING" EVlL.—Under this affecting
head a sensible repottorial brother disc,urseth On the too
common custom of introducing babies into public ass,n,
blies, relating an incident upon which he moraliz..s. We
have seen the counterpart of the same incident enacted a
hundred times over in several of our city churches, as well
as at concerts, lectures, etc., in Fulton Hall. Here is what
our truly-afflicted brother says:
"Babies are, no doubt, interesting to these who are the
fortunate owners of them; but, after mature deliberation,
we do think very young ones are best at home. WO were
at a meeting, a taw evenings ago, and had a seat In feat
of a young and interesting mother, who had her baby with
her. From appearance we could judge it was her first
born, and therefore she no doubt felt proud of her offspring.
She took great pains to exhibit the darling, and we could
hear the ladies around us make many remarks concerning
the tw•o. The old ladies said it war a little dear; a surly
old bachelor gruffly whispered, no doubt its father's pockets
thought so. The married ladies humphed. and wanted to
know if her baby was the only baby that seas ever seen.—
Whilst the young misses blushed as they said if they bad
babies they would stay at home, and not make fools of
themselves, by bringing them to public places. In the
middle of a pretty duett, which was being sung, the baby
either got into a cholic, or some other casualty babyhood
is subject to, and the mortified "ma" bad to put out with
more maledictions than benedictions from the audience.—
The best authorities on the subject of babies recommend
home as the proper place, after dark, for all under ten years
of age, and we moat, cordially concur in the.opinion."
PICTURE OT A "FAST" YOUTH.—The follow
ing portrait of a modern "fast" youth in a perfect daguer
reotype of scores of lads in this city A cigar in his
month. a swagger in his walk. impudence In his face, a
care-for-nothingness In his manner. Judging from his
demeanor he is older than his father, wiser than .
teacher, more honored than the mayor of the city. Stop
him! he is too fastl he don't know his speed: Stop him,
ere tobacco shatters his nerves, ere whiskey makes a beast
of him. ere his pride ruins his character, ere the `lounger
masters the man," ere good iunbltion and manly strength
give way to low pursuits and brutish aims. Stop all such
boys! They are legion—the shame of their families. the
disgrace of the communities In which they live, and a sad
and solemn reproach to themselves.
THE HOWARD ASSOCIATION.—The Howard
Association held its annual meeting on Thursday evening
—instead of Monday evening. as first announced—in the
Common Council Chamber, City Hall. The Executive
Committee made their report, which was accepted. The
report shows that the entire expenditures during the last
winter—that is from the 10th of December, 1857 to 10th of
March. 1855—were $2,543,09. The total receipts, during
the same period, were s2,646os—leaving a balance in the
Treasury of $102.36. The 'Howard Evenings" will be
resumed on Tuesday evening next. The following officers
were chosen for the ensuing veer
President—Hon. Thom,' H. Burrowes.
Vice Presidents—Peter McConomy, C. Widtoyer.
Treasurer—Horace Rathvon.
Recording Secretary—James K. Alexander.
Corresponding Secretary--John Wise.
Ward Committees—N. W. Ward. Philip Pyle: N. E. Ward,
George S Bryan: S. W. Ward. George K. Reed: S. E.
Ward, George M. Kline.
WATCIDIEN APPOINTED.—Mayor Burrowes
has appointed the following Watchmen. who entered upon
their duties on Sunday night, and will continue on a
beat" until the let of April :
N. W. Ward—David Fitzgerald, George !diMaack. Reuben
Re=h and floury Leonard.
N. E Word —Adam Musketnuas, William Lambert, jr.,
and John Shertz.
S. E. Ward—John Leonard, Frederick Fleischman and
Genrge Keller.
S. W. Ward—David Kautz and Patrick Sullivan.
A CARD.—The undersigned having been an
applicant for Watchman in the City of Lancaster takes
this method of stating that he (being a poor 111411 sod bar
ing been bred and horn in the City of Lancastir. and after
having rendered «very service to the present City Admin.
Istration, and having always been a constant =lmporter of
the present party in power.) has been sham •Pilly used I.y
the appointment in Isis stead of persons alp. s(nipl li Lb in
Germany and Ireland. and I cannot tenant I),r it in nay
other way than this. that Fnreigners will oho!, c hang on
to the American teat whenever an nnT„,i,,nitv offers. LA
the public understand. HENRY KELLER.
P. M. APPOINTED.—Amos Townsend, Jr.,
Esq.. has been appointed Postmaster at Christian. in this
county, vice M. J. Speakman. resigned.
GERMAN RIFLEMEN.—The Gerilldii Riflemen,
accompanied by the Jxek.on Ititl. hand, paraded ye+tor
day snorninzatni pr,eel d to their , :r , und4,near Witmer'.
Bridge. where they anent the day in the exerrkn of tar,t
slocotine.
A NEW DA H,Y.—ArmthPr cancthiatc.
pultlic favor. named The Doily Dispatch. - made it,t -
pearanse nn Wednesday morning lost. It lit published at
Breneman's Building. in Centre Square. by ?I ours. E. S.
Speaker, W. H. 11. Cox and J. M. Gaintner. We wick the
publishers success.
COLUMBIA AFFAIRS—NON EST INVENTUs.—
Things are in sigh, quo in the usually spirited borough of
Columbia. Our good looking and sprightly friend WanotT,
of the Spy. discourses in the following strain o❑ the doll
state of affairs in his midst. We should like to know what,
has becomo of the enthusiastic and well to dr, Mize', of
Tow Hill—those peculiar kind of people who will never
appropriate anything to their own use, oaf of theirreach.
It need to he that friend W. could give us a spicy aketoh,
once iu is while. of the "love 'scrapes" of the handsotne
Sambos and lovely brunettes of Dinals in that classir
locality. But "Othello's occupation's gone, - and Wright
has nothing to 'write about; for, we opine, the belubbed
inhabitants of that region have "gone to de place what. all
good niggasgo"—whichmaans, rendered into plain Englsh,
that they have taken a trip, for Columbia's good, on the
Underground Railroad:
"Ex Niotso Seat. Frr."—We are, at the pres-mt writing,
driven to the well for lack of a local subject fig- profound
discussion. Our borough. usually teeming with excitement.
and furnishing items at every street corner. has g 1,,
sleep after the election. and exhibits no sign of awakening
bef ire publication day. We have consulted all thr most
likely gossips, frequented the haunts of public-spirited ell
izens, even suborned not unwilling juveniles to ineile to s
canine difficulty. with nothing for the result. In any or
dinary community the noble example of the New York
pugilistic chivalry would have excited n spirit of emulation,
awl en favorable a locality for the exercises of the prize
ring as our shore affords, would not have been carelessly
neglected ; we might have had the happiness of devoting
our columns to the thrilling incidents of one or mere scion
tide 'mints,' tolling how the ' . Chicken" and the "Pe'
dealt thundering -blows on "nobs," “smellers," "mugs,"
"peepers" and miler nrgo. pertninin, WO'
rely In the '-foe-y;" ce how that intense Anwrican. Pat.
rick tiqtellowsbird, s tool up for the honor of our -Our
glorious ,Conntry. ' g dost that - other distinguished Na
!ire, Phollm 'llcglitweasentl, and ihow the whole country
hung breathless upon the result. How the substantial
inhabitants of our great cities flocked to witness the en
nobling struggle for the championship of America. Had
how they staked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
hoorws on the result. blow the enterprising journals, ear
neatly deprecating the morbid curiosity r.f the public, and
crying -brutality." -immorality," -law. - care.
fully dispatched rich Ea "own specisl rspocter," and issued
peck its own exit, edition with all the entortaining and
imposing particulars. flow everything was conducted with
admirable fairness and quietness—how no man carried
tiredly weapoii*-11., tile crowd returned peaceably to
their reApwtivo hme, di,turbinT, un one—hew they
dis
ported themselves on the tiny, playing innocent jokes on
conductors, passengers and hotel keepers, and how through
the length and breadth of the land the charming details
,er eagerly sought after and read. Ah, why are we so
behind the age tint V, mount have a prize fight?
But. as we have said, our town is unnaturally sober and
quiet, leach, us no robu fir splurge, or even Laud narra•
thin. We have looked out o' window, whistled. resorted to
cranial irritation. all in va; we canted resurrect a subject
on any terms. We have tr in ied the experiment of going it
blind, but nobody has etime to us. and we are compelled
to repeat ha Niltilo Nihil Fit." which, being interpreted,
means "You can't mat, a silk purse out of a sow's ear!"
We started with nothing to writs about, and what we have
produced is both
LOCAL MAIL ARRANGEMENTS—CLOSING OF
me Tae AT TOO LANCASTER POST OFFICE.—The following
carefully prepared table of the hours for closing the various
mails at the post llTice In this city, will be f)E,,,gi very use
ful fir reference. by business men and others. A carrot
schedule of [hi , kind has often been enquired for
ll=l3
Eastern Through Mail—For Philadelphia, New York and
Eastern States, at ft. 45 p. m.
Way Mail East—For Philadelphia and intermediate ollices,
at 8. 45 a. m.
Western Through Mail—For Columbia. Harrisburg, Pitts
burg and Western States. at G. 4.5 p. no
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WIIV Mail West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown, Mount
Joy. Middletown. Harrisburg. Lewistown, Huntingdon,
Tyrot., Altoona. Hollidaysburg and Way Mail between
Altoona and Pitt,,bilrg.) at 9te, a. m.
Southern Mail—For Columbia, York, Baltiinnre, Washing
tnn, B. C.. and Southern States. at fit 4 a. m.
Pittsburg Through Mail, at '2 P. m.
For Stracburg. Camara°, Quarryville, Martinsville,
and New Providence, al S. 45 a. m.
• BY STAGE.
For Reading, via: Neffrvilto, Litir. Rothavil le, Ephrata.
Reamstown, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at S
For Lebanon. via: East Itempfield, Manheim, White Oak,
Meant [lope and Cornwall, daily, at 9 1 It. in.
For Millersville and Sine!, water, daily, att p. at.
For Safe Harbor, daily, nt 1 p. m.
For Iliokletoom, via: Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl,
and Farmersville. daily, at 2 p. m.
For Paradise, via: Greenland and Soudershurg, daily, at
3 p. m.
For Litir, via: daily, 3 p. m
For 'Marietta, via: Hernpfield and Silver Spring, daily, at
3 p. m.
For Strasburg, via: Fertility and Wheatland Mills, daily at
3 p. m.
For Lamp,ter, daily, at p. m.
For New Holland, via: Milkley's Bridge Leac.wk, Barevil le,
Beartowo, Bowmansville and Muddy Creek, daily, at 1
m.
For Phomixviile, via: New Holland, Blue Ball, Gondville,
Churchtown, Morgantown, Honeybrook, Chester Springs,
and imbertmi, Tri- weekly. T uesday, Thursday and Sat
urday. at 12 m.
For I'ort Deposit, Md., via: Willow Street, Smithvills, Buck,
Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grim, Rock Springs, Md .;
and Rowlandsville, Md., Tri-weakly, Monday, Wednes
day and Friday, at 6 a. m.
For Colebrook. via: SWIM'S 31111, Old Line, Sporting Hill
and Masterson villa, Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. at 12 in.
For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Tri-weekly, Monday, Thurs
day and Saturday, 2 p. m.
For hibeaty Square. via: Conestoga, Marticville, Coleman
vill e and Mount Nebo, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Sat
urday. at 1 p.
For Bethesda. via: Willow Street and Rawlinsville, Wed
nesday and Saturday, at 6 a. in.
For New Danville, weekly - , Wednesday, al 0 a. m.
Office hours, from 7a.m. to S p. m. On Sunday, from it
to 10 a. tn.
Postage to California, Oregon and 'Washington Territo.
ries, 10 c-nts .
Lwtters. alleged to be valuable. will he registered. and
receipt given the; °for, on applkation and payment of the
registration feu of five cent s , In addition ni the regular
postage.
All letters are required to be pro-paid with stamps before
they can be mailed. H. B. SWART:. Postmaster.
THE SEAS , rN ABROAD.—The thermometer in
England was higher during the month of Sep
tember, on the average, than during any
September since observations have been made,
and the London newspapers are discussing the
question whether the comet has anything to
do with the extraordinary mildness of the
season. Thu L-nd , ,n Chronicle has this para
graph :
•
" Comets do not affect the seasons. Taking
an interval of sixteen years, the warmest was
1794, in which there was one comet, the coldest,
1799, in which there were two, and therefore
it is not probable that comets ever killed cats,
wasps, or Julius Caesar, produced fine vintages
or great droughts. or can now be saddled with
the plague of daddy long lege, steel petticoats,
and other monstrosities."
SENTENCED.—Mrs. Gardner, convicted of
murder in the second degree for poisoning her
husband, late Postmaster II; Mass.,
has been sentenced to the 1.1,.0• ,. ,f Correction
for life.
Kimher Cleaver, Esq., of Schuylkill
county died in Pottsville„on the 19th ult., aged
44 years. Mr. Cleaver was for many years
leader of the Native American party, and was
frequently upon its ticket for important offices.
AN INCENDIARY SENTENCED TO Dneru•--A
man named Rooney, indicted last week, in
Albany, New York, for setting fire to a dwell
ing house containing several women and
children, was convicted of the crime, and
sentenced to be hung on Friday, the 3d of
December next.
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY IN N. YORK
At a late hour on Tuesday night a more
horrible tragedy was enacted in the city of
N e w York than we have ever before had oc•
casino to rec ,rd. Francis A. Gouldy, aged
nineteen years, attempted, at his father's house,
No. 217 West Thirtieth street, between Eighth
and Ninth avenues, to murder his father,
mother, two brothers, and two servant girls,
and terminated the terrific scene by effectu•
ally blowing out his own brains. Although
the wounds inflicted on his father, brothers,
and one of the servant girls, are of such a
fearful nature as to preclude any hope of their
recovery, none of them had expired at the
time of our going to press.
Young 0 iuldy entered Showier's lager bier
and oyster saloon. between Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth streets. Eighth avenue, about 9
o'clock on Tuesday night. lie was accom
panied by a boy 13 or 14 years old They
partook of oyster stew, hut drank no liquor .
Gouldy was in the habit of frequenting this
saloon, but for a long time past had drank no
intoxicating liquor. On Tuesday night he left
this saloon a little after 9k o'clock, in a per
fectly sober state. While there, hn remarked
that he had a dispute with his father about
m o n ey. From the fact that he reached home
about twenty minutes before 10 o'clock, and
that the distance from the saloon to his father's
house is no t over five minutes' walk, he could
nut have stopped at any plane on the way.—
Lie rang the d uo• bell, Isis father having refu
sed him a night key. The door was not
openel toy a servant, bur by his fattier, who
mug awaiting his :ark-al. Imincdiately on his
entrance• the old gentleman charged him with
;Ws , meting a Savings Bank book from his
private do , k :Lod proeuring money thereon,
repre-ent Mg the act to be as hod as direct rob
nu. young 111311 replied that as the
,iec.onit wits the batik was opened in his
n oar, oe ii.td a right to take the hook. Soon
atter 'up : 1; •.tl iy retired.
It tL 1 1: he pr wet , I • room
in ieitr tile h.ltlll, iin 1.1 . 1
:Ind, in id e and collected in ) • •
reniiiving i llat,
%vdtoli on ;L nail 11V ~ .„1,0
inirTdr. taking otT Id, I) ioc.
the bete links of his .:hirt. Y!o•n t tking
t thliehet in hi. h•tn'l he 10 , 0011 t'i • .1 firs
in him %,itlt , .u[ •
, tort.,l the •I!tin , ,•., 111 %OWN' l' r r w:l+
jll,l IT t h e ga, ‘le,' ' .o
•'IP t.I fr.,..1.1..11,2 hi , ,
there!r p•rtioo of ;he Ir• m t i ne
lung, an,l ts.i 111 , i a litchi
inrhr: to i , 11:1 Si] fell. awl the
fearlui ground,
lard•• tic deep 011•,1 till 01 the 11 ~ 1 ". Airs.
I `l - 10 h:111 . jll , o tt) bed, near(' the
he.tv I:1. and we. In the tlet or rai , ing tier
s m thin I lior room
exclaiming, ''M tn,.ther
he :cited her hazol, and dealt her; "enere
up ,TI the he of With t h e 11 t.•llet. chteh
,leitige , l her face ivith 1,1 Hnl. till, ,Creallied.
and ,prang 'row the • ‘vheo , the v,turiff, fel
low repe.t.ed tht• until she was render
ed then ropaired to the hall
bedr.,wil, inhere hi , ;•.n” hr,,thers, Nathaniel
awt l'irLeles. ;14:el 13 eel t; year : 4, were, sloop.
in;; ie the same bed. 110 struck . at them both
with the same ,reap m, outtiti4 rut the heel
the eldest a ili»» . e I) ate. tvol inches 'fig
and nearly apt horn wide. The was
not so severed: injured. hot his skoli roe
tured, and pieees of the hen, chipped • ff.
The assassin next pr, ie.. .I al t th e 1 1 ,11 of
the third tb, who,' tao s,o.v,i.nt girls,
Whil had heard the n dse, h td come from their
room t" listen. Ile imme•lia rely ana,•lo,l them
with the hatehet, frighttul blows
at the head. 0.. e of them e. e-te• pffil
from his grap, bilt he recove.ed it, and ,truck
her t., the Il -. , r by a ful 1,1 w. llts sis
ter Mary, hearing tile snuggle and screams of
the servants, opened the door fit her room, and
saw the girls covered with 1.1.01, but did tint
recognize her brother. Supposing him to be
burglar, she retreated into the r.iont, locked
the door, threw open the window and shouted
for the polies. Some officers ache Ward (the
Twentieth) herring her cries, hurried to the
ILO ,111 l \v, , !(• .peotat,ni
id' su,M it sceo” horror as toe, had never
hrh,re witnessed. The 'flier I•Ly upon the
floor entirely unconscious, his face and head
covered with Id The tither was insensb
Isle in the next moot, and also deluged in blood.
In the hall bedr .on, the little boys were in a
similar conditioN. Ascending the stairs, they
found the servant girls lying in a pool of gore,
entirely unconscious, while, in his own cham
ber, the wretched young man was stretched
upon the floor, wallowing in his own blood,
having committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head with a pistol. Ills brains were
scattered about the floor, and his right hand
still grasped the pistol, two barrels of which
were still heavily 'loaded, When the officers
entered he was not quite dead Ile gave a
few convulsive gasps, uttering no word, and
expired. Docters Ilarmory Sewall, and others,
living in the neighborhood, were called.in, and
rendered all the assistance in their power.
The wound which the suicide inflicted on
himself was on the right side of the head, im
mediately behind the ear, the skull being
greatly shattered. A pool of blood, two feet
in diameter, lay thick and moist around his
head. The surgeon's probe and the discolora
tion of left eye show that the ball lodged near
the frontal hone, on the left side the orbit.
He fell by the side of a cabinet, between the
door and the fire place. His coat was thrown
carelessly on a chair ; his vest was hanging
on a bedstead ; his watch was hung on a nail;
his cravat tln-own on the floor ; one best was
standing by his side, the other thrown under
a table by the window, and the stockings on
his feet were soaked with blood, showing that
before he fell he must have trodden in his own
gore. A more terrible sight than the corpse
exhibited yesterday, even those who have
•• supped on horrors," have rarely seen.—N.
17 Times.
TUE ELECTION IN lOWA—GREAT DEMOCRATIC
HAIRS—NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEFEAT BY TIIE
Fusiusisrs.—We have at last definite and
nearly official returns from the lowa election.
They are of the most encouraging character
for the Demi ;racy, who have reduced the
Fusion majority on President in 1856—sixteen
thousand—nearly to, nothing. Th, Keokuk
Evening Journal of the 22d states that tho
Fusion State ticket has received but seven hun
dred majority. In the First Cotigressional
District, Trimble (Dein.) has been beaten by
only three hundred votes. I n the S econ d
District, Leffingwell (Dem.) Gaily lay only four
hundred, although at the last Congressional
election it gave over six thousand majority
against us.
Our friends in lowa have made a most noble
fight, and have given their brethren almost
every assurance, by their large and continued
gains everywhere, that they will carry;it for a
Democratic President in 1860. The Fusion
downhill course in that State is thus :
Fusion majority on President in 'iSrir 11.W0
Lowe's (Fusion) majority for Governor iu 1h57 11,500
Stole ticket (Fusion) in 15!',S 700
The above is a g , od illustration of the party
bias and unreliability of the teleg,ra'phic die
patches to the assf.Qiated pros. We were
gravely assured in the last telegraphic dis
patch that the Fusion State ticket had b,en
elected in lowa by live thousand majority,
and that they had carried the Congressman
in:the First District by “it , thou.and majority,
and the Congres-man iti .he lid District
by thrpc 00tj.,:. j . c—;ection
of the fal,el,.d ha, eve:-
Enquirer.
AN INFAMOUS PROUILSITf , RI' LAW.— I(ll3.ll
pUblicatis of Maine, feeling that they are
firmly-seated in power in that State, have
shown their colors in a glaring light. They
have resolved that there is no sovereign poWer
in the people of a Territory, and they have
enacted a liquor law that heats the old origi
nal Maine law, by 11111.1.., :cf,gt Its. By it they
cnijitl every city, town and plantation in the
State, to open a grog shop a nd intoxicating
liquors. It punishes by imprivonm'•ut and a
fine of XlOOO, any person (except the 'agents')
who sells wine oi• cider. It provides that any
two persons may cause any dwelling house to
be searched ; that the delivery of liquors shall
be proof of sale-60 that if a neighbor gives
a glass of wine t a friend, he is liable to be
imprisoned and fined one thousand dollars.
They have also passed another act called a
"nuisance act," and it is worse than a nuis
ance, which provides, in connection with the
liquor law, that unv dwelling house in which
liquors are found, even if they aro kept for
private use and their friends, and not one drop
of them are ever sold, may be searched, torn
down and destroyed. These acts show what
Republicanism is at the core.—Easton Senti
nel.
POPULATION OF KANSAI3.—The Herald of
Freedom of Sept. 18, says, " The conclusion of
our best informed men in the Territory is that
there is an actual voting population of 20,000
in Kansas at this time. If this is so, which
we firmly believe, then we have an actual
population to—day in Kansas of 100,000."