the tatuagtet 3ntelligencer GEO. SANDERSON, :EDITOR A. SANDERSON, Associate. LANCASTER, PA., DECEMBER 7, 1858 CIRCULATION, 2000 COPIES! Busecteserwar Patin, $2,00 per annum. Sir B. EL PITTINGELL & 60.'s ADVINTD3ING AGINCY, 119 Nassau street, New York, and 10 State street, Boston. S. M. Prrzzacium & Co., are Agents for The Lancaster Intelgencer, and the most influential and largest circula • Ling Newspapers in the United States and the Canadas.— They are authorized to contract fOr us at our lowest rates. "ImoHasa," on the subject of Teachers' In :Wales, came to hand too late for this week's paper. It shall have a place in our next issue. MEETING OF CONGRESS Congress met on yesterday at 12 o'clock ; and as the same officers hold over from the last session, there will be no other delay in the organization than calling the roll and swear ing in any new members who may have been elected to fill vacancies. The President's Mes sage, which is said to be very lengthy, it is thought would be sent in immediately after the two houses were organized ; if not on yes terday, it would be the first thing in order to day. As this is the short session, and must terminate on the 3d of March, we hope to see a business time of it. The Kansas imbroglio is at an end, and other and far more impor tant matters, both foreign and domestic, clairh the prompt attention of the Representatives of the people. The last session was mainly devoted to the interests of the black race; may we not hope that the white population will have some show during the present winter. The President's Message will appear in our next issue. During the session we shall endeavor to keep our readers advised of every thing of importance that transpires. ELECTION OF GEN. KEIM Contrary to all expectation, Gen. WILLIAM H. KELE, the Volunteer (Republican) candi• date, has been elected to Congress from Berks county, over JOEL B. WANNER, Esq., the Demo cratic candidate. The vote stood 6156, to 5687, thus giving KEIM a majority of 469 ! This is a meet astonishing result in that hitherto stronghold of Democracy, and indi sates a state of things there in the organiza tion of the party which ie any thing but pleasant to contemplate. Mr. WANNER ie represented as a gentleman of talents and integrity, of high moral character, and withal a sound and unflinching Democrat ; and why he should be defeated in a c minty hat gave Mr. BUCHANAN nearly seven thousand majority, is really surprising, especially as it does not appear that Lecomptonism or anti.Lecomp tonism had anything to do with the contest. To be sure, the vote in the county was com paratively a small one, as it generally is at all special elections, but then why should Denw. crate be lukewarm and indifferent, and remain away from the polls in greater numbers than their opponents? or why should any of them desert their political friends and go over to the enemy, as must have been the case to a consid erable extent? The day was a pleasant one; but even if it had been stormy or disagreeable, the Democrats were just as able to venture out as their opponents, and should have done so at all hazards, so as to retrieve the charac ter which they lost in October by the election of Mr. SWARTZ. There is evidently a •screw loose" somewhere, and the sooner our Demo oratic_friends in Berks county re organize the better. Two consecutive defeats is as much as the party can stand even there ;let them see to it that no permanent injury results from the election of SWARTZ and KEIM. TRIAL OF A.LLIBONE AND NEWHALL The trial of Thomas Allibono and Thomas A. Newhall for conspiracy, in cheating and defrauding the Bank of Pennsylvania, com menced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday last, in the Quarter Sessions, and is still going on. The Defendants submitted affidavits, asking for separate trials, but after argument by counsel the motion was overruled by the Court. Mr. Loughead, the District Attorney, prosecutes for the Commonwealth ; and Messrs. Meredith, Thayer, Brewster and Wharton are concerned for the Defendants. The testimony, which promises to be very voluminous, is, so far, strongly against the Defendants ; and, we think, it will require all the ingenuity of their learned and able counsel to save the Defend ants from the consequences of the crime charged against them. Our readers will recollect that Mr. Allihone was at the time of the failure of the Institution, in September, 1857, and for several years previous, President of the Bank of Pennsylva nia, and was living all that time in princely splendor. Mr. Newhall was a Director of the Bank for years, and generally acted as President pro. tem. during Mr. Allibone's absence. We learn from the opening of Mr. Loughead, that the Bank was first chartered in 1793, with a capital of three millions of dollars—in 1810, and 1830 it was re chartered, when the capital was somewhat reduced ; in 1844, the capital was again reduced to $1,562,000. It was afterward increased to $1,800,000, and was in a prosperous condition in 1853 when Allibone became President. Newhall was instrumental in securing his election. and was his bosom friend. Newhall and Allibone's son were partners in a sugar refinery, and used immense snms of money of the Bank, in their business, without the knowledge of the Directors. Allibone and Newhall appear to have drawn out and used the funds of the Institution at pleasure, without consulting the Board at all. After the Bank failed, and an inventory of the assets was made, it was found that nearly $2,000,000 were gone, all of which deficiency had occurred during the administration of Allibone and Newhall. The trial elicits immense interest in Phila delphia, and the Court Room is crowded daily with anxious stockholders, depositors and others. Judge Thompson presides at the trial. DECLINES THE HONOR! Hon. JOHN J. CRITTENDEN, of Kentucky, is now on a visit to New York. In reply to an address of some of 'his political friends, on Thursday, he declined their request that he would permit himself to be placed at the head of a national party movement—and declared that he was not, and did not expect to be, a candidate for the Presidency; and that he intended hereafter to act, not in obedience to any party requirements, but in accordance with his own convictions of the public good. Whether these declarations mean that he intend to sustain Senator SEWARD in his aspirations, or whether he is going to act with the Democrats in the future, it is impossible to say. We rather suppose he will turn Black Republican. But we must wait for further developthents. 11. S. SENATOR ELECTED The Legislature of South Carolina have elected Hon. JAMES CHESNUT to the U. S. Senate. The election was warmly contested, and took place on the tenth ballot. It is looked upon as a signal triumph of the conservatives over the fire-eaters. Governor Adams was the opposing candidate. The vote stood 92 to 54. NOMINATION OF GOVERNOR. Hon. Jour? LETCHER has been nominated as the Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia. His nomination was bitterly oppo sed by the Richmond Enquirer and several other papers in the interest of Governor Wise, and is considered a triumph of the friends of Senator Hunter. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS The New York Journal of Commerce pre. sents, from official sources, a statement of the foreign commerce of the United States for the last fiscal year, ending June 30. It appears we have imported goods and specie to the amount of $282,618,150, and =ported the same to the amount of $324,644,421. Oar exports therefore have exceeded our imports by the sum of about $42,000,000, and we owe that much less to foreign nations than .we did a year ago, or they owe us that much on the transactions of the year. This shows that we have been economizing since the hard times set in ; and we are glad it is so, for economy is the best of all cures for hard times. The falling off in dutiable imports compared with the previous year is ninety-two Millions, whilst there is an increase of seven millions in free goods. The increase in free goods is made up entirely of articles added to the free list by the tariff of 1857. The Republicans who passed the tariff act of 1857 just ; before Mr. Buchanan became President, are respon sible for this increase of seven millions in importations paying no duty. As the impor tation of dutiable goods fell off, there can be no doubt that these seven millions would have been kept out of the country if the duty laid on them by the Democratic Tariff of 1846 had not been taken off by the Republican Tariff of 1857. The importation of dutiable goods having fallen off ninety-two millions, and seven mil lions having come in free under the tariff of 1857 that would have had to pay under the tariff of 1846, it follows that Mr. Buchanan's administration has lost the benefit of the duty on ninety-nine millions. The average rate of duty is over twenty per cent., and therefore the loss to the Treasury on account of dimin ished importations of dutiable goods and ex tension of the free list, during the past year, was about twenty millions of dollars. This, with diminished revenue from land sales, growing out of the financial revulsion, was certainly enough to embarrass the Treas. ury of the United States; and yet the Oppo sition, with the most dishonorable unfairness, ascribe the depleted condition of the public funds to the " extravagance" of Mr. Buchan an's administration. A man is not justly chargeable with extravagance who gets behind hand in consequence of a large portion of his ordinary receipts being suddenly cut off. The exports have fallen off too, but nut so largely as the imports. And here a fact worthy of our remembrance stares us in the face. Whilst the exports of products of the Northern States have declined heavily, the great staple of the South has held its own.— The exportation of cotton during the last fiscal year was just the same as the preceding year —over $131,000,000. Whatever may be thought of slavery in the abstract, there is no denying the advantage the country has derived from slave labor. The total exports of domestic produce in the last fiscal year Of which the exportof cotton was 131.500,000 And the export of tobacco 20,000,000 Deducting this aggregate from the total ex portation of the year, and there is left, as the exportation of manufactures and products of the firm, the forest, and the sea, but 90,- 000,000 of dollars. But a considerable portion of even this last sum was the produce of slave labor. Vir ginia. for instance, besides her tobacco, and besides her exports abroad, via New York, exports to foreign countries from the single port of Richmond alone, about five-hundred thousand barrels of flour ; which of itself makes an item of three millions and a half of dollars. To this add the grain and flour exported front Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, the rice of South Carolina and the turpentine of North Carolina, and we have, as an additional product of slave labor, proba bly twenty-five millions of the ninety millions just shown as remaining after the deduction from our total exports of the slavery produced staples of cotton and tobacco. Thus, of the two hundred and forty-one millions exported from the country in the fiscal year just ended, it is seen that about one hundred and seventy five millions was the product of slave labor ; while only sixty-five millions was the product of free labor, This productive slave labor Mr. Seward and his followers propose to annihilate. Where would we be to day without it? Instead of being better off by forty-two millions than we were a year ago, we would be worse off by one hundred and thirty-five millions. Per haps our Republican friends can extract from this fact an argument in favor of the abolition of slavery.— Valley Spirit.. POLITICS IN KENTUCKY The Louisville Democrat, in noticing the State canvass fur 1860, publishes the proceedings of thirteen County Meetings, held fur the appoint. ment of Delegates to the Bth of January Con vention for nominating State officers in Ken tucky, and adds that all those meetings endorse the Administration of James Buchanan, and thus add the influence of their name to the Democratic Administration of the President. It is clearly shown by these, and the other meetings that have been holden in the State, that old Kentucky is true to the President,. true to the Democracy, and true to the Union. Her people are not carried away by any of the crazy isms of Northern fanaticism. Messrs. Talbot and Magoffin are the promi nent persons named in connection with the Gubernatorial nomination. As far as heard from, ten counties have expressed a preference for Talbot and nine for Magoffin. None of the other aspirants for this nomination have more than two counties whose delegates are instructed to go for them in the Convention. Vice President Breckinridge is spoken of for the United States Senate. LATE FROM. -MEXICO We have advices from Vera Cruz to the 23d ult. The most important news is the evacua tion of the Castle of Perote, by the Constitu tionalists, under General Trejos, which, after a most determined resistance, they had been compelled to leave for want of provisions. The capitulation of Perote by General Trejos to the Zuloaga troops under Echeagaray, took place on the 16th. President Juarez had republished his proclamation of the 9th of February last at Guanajuato, wherein he 1. Declares all acts of the Zuloaga party null and void. 2. The acts of Comonfort, during his dictatorship, subject to his reversal or approval: 3. Declares against the disintegra tion of any territory of the Republic, and 4. Calls on the authorities to sustain him. Despatches received by the Juarez Government at 'Vera Cruz, from Gen Alatriste, in command of the Constitutionalists in the State of Puebla, announce the success of the Liberal party. Gen. Alatriste states that he has occupied Mineral del Monte, Pachuca and other points. Despatches from Tobacco, state that the Zuloaga party in that State are confined to the city and environs of San Juan Bautista, on which the Constitutional troops were about to march. The Zuloaga Govern ment at the capital had levied another distribution, in order to repair the fortifications of the city. grbrhe Philadelphians have at last suc ceeded in obtaining the passage ofan ordinance for the removal of the much talked of market sheds, which have long been considered a nuisance and eye-sore to the city. GOVERNOR PACKER'S LETTER. The following excellent letter was sent by Governor PACKEa to the Duquesne Celebra tion, at Pittsburg : HARRISBURG. November 23, 1858 GENTLEMEN :-I have waited until this moment, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it would be possible for me to be present to participate with you in the-celebra tion of the Centennial Anniversary of the capture of Fort Duquesne ; or, in other words, the overthrow of the French, and tbe establish ment of Anglo Saxon dominion in the valley of the Ohio ; but official engagements, constant and exacting, and necessary preparations for the approaching session of the Legislature, will prevent me from accepting your invitation. Pennsylvania has many anniversaries which she ought proudly to commemorate. While New England, with the energy peculiar to her thriving people, has contrived to make the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the subject of annual national rejoicing, and the re union of her sons, in whatever clime they may be found, we, of Pennsylvania, up to this time, have allowed the great event of the landing of William Penn to pass almost unbonored and unnoticed. I am glad, therefore, that you have set an example in the right direction, by calling upon the people of Penn- I sylvania to meet in the great metropolis of the West, there to revive the glory of events which transpired one hundred years ago. What renders the capture of Fort Duquesne worthy of special honor, is the fact that it was accomplished by the combined troops of Virginia, South Carolina and Pennsylvania— a pledge at that early day of the union and prosperity which have crowned the Republic, but then undreamed of by our forefathers. Little did the representatives of these three gallant colonies then suppose that a century would find them partners of a great Confeder acy, cemented by the glorious memories of a free people, and looking forward to a career which, unless the rude hand of faction and fanaticism should obstruct it, bidif fair to surpass anything that former history relates. What marvelous changes have taken place since the middle of the past century. The young Virginian, George Washington, then only twenty six years of age, then wearing the uniform, and fighting under the banner of St. George, then attached to the British Crown by oath of allegiance, he, with all his wisdom, was not yet wise enough to anticipate the great drama of which unquestionably he was the most striking personage. Then that France, which he and those associated with him aided in expelling from her long line of possessions, stretching from the St. Lawrence to the Lakes, and from the Lakes to the distant Gulf, little thought, amid her mortifi cation at the loss of such a splendid empire, that in lees than a quarter of a century her own troops, under her own flag, led on by Lafayette and other Frenchmen, would be found side by side with this same George Washington, fired by the principles of a sacred revolution, and making common cause against the very monarch, which, an the 25th of November, 1758, they had met in mortal conflict, the one to oppose, the other to sustain• But. gentlemen, there were other events at that day looming up from the future—the Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, the seven years' war fur liberty, the great peace, the Confederation, the Constitution, and the Union. After these came the majestic strides of a mighty people over a vast domain, then inhabited by savages and wild beasts. There they organized themselves into com munities, into Territories, into States, and rapidly attained a front rank among the nations of the civilized world. These are the trophies of the century which began at Fort Duquesne and closes to day. Unknown to the brave pioneers, whose achievements you meet to celebrate, they are living realities to us, and the assurances of a future still more grand and auspicious. $241,351,033 $151,500,000 I cannot better close this letter than by quoting from our great historian, Bancroft, the following splendid passage: "On the 25th of November, 1758, the youthful lien), Washington. could point out to the army the junction of the rivers, and entering the fbrtress, they ; looted the British flag on its deserted ruins. is the banners of England floated over the Ohio, the plaeC was with one voice named Pittsburg. It is the most enduring trophy of the gltry of William Pitt. A:llErieß afterwards raised to his name statues that have been wrongfully broken, and granite monuments, of which not one stone remains upon another; but long as the Monongahela and the Alleghany shall flow t): form the Ohio, long as the English tongue shall lie the language of freedom, in the boundless valley which their waters traverse, leis name shall stand inscribed on the Gateway of the West." I am, with great respect, yours truly, WM. F. PACKER A PROBLEM FOR SOLUTION How to reduce the cost of living, is a prob lem which now pressed heavily upon thou sands, especially in the great cities. Food is abundant, and cheap, but wages are low, pro fits scanty, and multitudes can devise or ilis cover no way to earn a dollar. Many are deterred from marrying by poverty and gloomy prospects ; many are compelled to look with sadness and apprehension on the faces of their young children. Thousands must find ways of living cheaper than they have done, or give over the struggle to maintain their How to make each dollar go as far as possible, is to them the most interesting problem.—Ex change paper. The plain truth may as well be looked full in the face first as last, says the Philadelphia Argus. False pride and deplorable laziness are at the bottom of a great portion of the ills which are pressing groaning multitudes to the earth. Our infamous banking system is res ponsible for a multitude of heart-breaking calamities; nest to that procuring cruse of the distress which has settled upon the coun try like a hideous nightmare, is to be placed the fatal misdirection of public opinion which makes it disreputable to he useful. Hundreds and thousands are becoming loafers and pau pers, simply because of the false pride which looks upon labor as unfashionable and un genteel. Hundreds are on the road to the almshouse or the penitentiary, because they are too lazy to work, and too proud to soil their delicate hands by engaging in some use ful employment. Hundreds of young men are prevented from entering into matrimonial engagements, for the cogent reason that the females of the present day are educated for mere parlor ornaments, and not to be help mates for a man of business. Like the lilies mentioned in the Gospel, " they toil not, neither du they spin." The present ago is degenerating with the most appaling rapidity, physically, morally, politically and intellectually. The world never produced a parallel to the present rapid deterioration, in all that goes to make up the permanent prosperity of a nation. Our esperi• ment of self-government will end in a humili ating and disgraceful failure, unless our down ward road to ruin can be speedily and effectually checked. And yet we slumber on, while the earth is quaking beneath our feet. NORTH CAROLINA SENATORS.—The Legisla ture of North Carolina has just re-elected the lion. Thomas L. Clingman to the U. S. Senate, for six years from the 4th of March next and Judge Thomas Bragg, in the room of Mr. Reid, who was temporarily appointed by the Governor to fill the vacancy of Judge Biggs, resigned. Both these gentlemen are suppor ters of the present Administration. BOLD ROBBERY.—The large stone flouring Mill of Joseph Farine, at Norristown, was entered on Thursday night last, and $l6OO taken from the safe. The safe was forced open by inserting gunpowder into the keyhole. No clue had at the latest accounts, been obtained of the robbers. BEQUEST TO THE PORTER FAMILY.—Thomas McKeen, aged 95 years, died recently at Eas ton, leaving an estate valued at $250,000. Among his bequests were the following to members 01 the Porter family, here and else where : Geu. W. Porter, Elizabeth Porter, 2000 00 Jas. M. Porter's children, each 6000 00 Sarah and Rose Porter, (Lances ter,) STARTLING DU VELOPMECNTS• "Can such things be And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder I" The newspapers of Washington city recently announced the death of the notorious gambler Pendleton, the proprietor of the most extensive gambling saloon in'that city, which had long, been the resort of grave andl!.",reverend Sena tors and members of the National House of Representatives-men occupying high positions socially and politically. A few days ago the furniture of this gorgeously furnished gamb ling hell was sold at auction, and a great crowd rushed to inspect the place where so many reputations had been blasted, and so many hopes blighted. A Washington curres pondent, who is familiar with the history of the establishment and its proprietor, says that the " notoriety which the house acquired was reflected entirely by the character of the visi tors too many of whom were in public life, and from the hold which the proprietor necessarily obtained upon his victims through the indul gence of this vice. The published accounts concerning the success of the chief character of this Pandemonium, like the description of the concern itself, were exaggerated in every respect. He is said to have died, leaving 550,- 000 of other people's money as the bulk of his fortune. As artificial display was nearly as much a part of the game as cards, his win nings were appropriated mainly to that object, and hence he flaunted a gay equipage on Pennsylvania avenue, which excelled all riv alry in decoration, and may be said to have defied competition. These gambling resorts have increased fearfully. at Washington with in the last ten years, and it is notorious that they have done more to demoralize legislation than all other debasing and corrupting influ. ences which have been brought to bear upon weak, venal, or needy members of Congress." The writer was deeply impressed by the silent but eloquent witnesses of this fact- when tile drawers of Pendleton's desk were opened, and numerous bills relating to schemes before Congress, were exposed to public view. He says: "The misery and wretchedness and degradation inflicted upon men and families by these hells are appalling, and even the imperfect disclosures which have been made accidentally, exhibit a state of morals in Congress which would astonish the country if exposed. Some of these gamblers, and others who are concerned as capitalists, with them, are openly employed as lobby agents, from their supposed ability to control votes through obligations by members, and the fact is one of common town talk, that their tables are the daily resort of a large class of such voters in preference to the hotels. Strange as it may seem, the influence has so ramified that it was feared, at one time, in the early stages of the Kansas struggle, last session, when the House was nearly equally divided, that the scale would be turned by a turn of the screw upon particular members who were known to be in the power of the gamblers. It may well be asked where are I,ve drifting, when such things can be, and go unrebuked ?" WILLING TO LET KANSAS ALONE.—The New York Tribune has come to the conclusion that Congress need not devote much time to Kansas this winter. It says : " We believe Kansas is likely to claim little attention from Congress this session. The newly elected Territorial Legislature does not 'fleet till January ; and if it should he decided to call a Convention to f•arno a new State Con stitution, the election uF delegates, assembling of a Convention, framing of a Constitution, submission thereof to and ratification by the people, return of the votes and transmission of the result to Washington, could hardly be effected within the sixty days which intervenes between the assembling of the Territe rial Legislature and the final adjournment of Con gress. We do not decide what may be the wishes of the people of Kansas on the subject; we deem it morally certain that their State will nut be admitted at this session, and that Congress will not be required to devote' much time to Kansas this winter." Whether the Tribune is honest in the above expression, or whether it is only animated by a desire to keep Kansas out of the Union until 1860, to be used for political capital in the next Presidential campaign, we shall not undertake to say. But it is so refreshing to find an admission in the Tribune that Kansas can take care of itself, that the fact deserves special notice. . SERMONS BY THE QUANTITY.—The New York Times of Friday week contains no lees than eighteen sermons and sketches of sermons preached in that city and in "the dependency of Brooklyn," on the 18th ult., being Thanks. giving Day. Surely the secular press is doing a great deal of religious work, all in the way of business ; and seems likely, by its ambition and ent-rprise, at no distant day to render the ecclesiastic journals as much a superfluity as a second tail to a pig. Of the eighteen ser mons, we observe two were delivered in the synagogues of the Hebrews. Several of them are very excellent in substance and style, but only one furnishes anything particularly quotable. Henry Ward Beecher, who is usually original and piquant, at the least, talks of the Puritans and their amusements, in the following fresh and spicy manner "When the war is ended, and the tough warriors come home, with grizzly beards, skins burnt brown, flesh solid and compact upon their bones, their hands pliant, jointed bundles of bone, none would take them for models of beauty or grace; but we admired them for their rugged strength and manliness, for the valor they hod shown, the good they had wrought, the solid strength and manli ness. Such were our Puritan fathers—not men just returned from war, but seldom out of the wars. Catgut makes very pleasant music for the saloon, but brass and iron instead of catgut and horse-hair made such music as men needed in the time of battle. The Puritans were the brass and iron men—they made such music as their rough hard times demanded. They were not joyless—they had grim pleasures of their own sort of joy, but one stately day of joy they set aside in every year—and it was a strange mixture of was sail and worship. Thanksgiving morning rose in Now England stiff as their pines, and solemn as their granite. The boys that laughed were as guilty as if they laughed on Sunday, and that was a very wicked thing indeed. The church bells rang out, not cheerily but solemnly, tolling the people to the house of worship. They went up gravely and awfully, and worshipped. But the sermon over, they unclasped their buckles and threw off the belt—the Puritan relaxed. Merry laughter rang out from the children of his household, and the old homestead was vocal with joy. The tables smoked and groaned with unaccustomed luxuries, solid and dainty. As in mid December, when every leaf is gone from the oak and every branch and twig is a bass pipe upon which the wind plays, one may see nestling amid the lower boughs tufts of mistletoe, which the old tree holds in its bosom all Winter, as if to remember Summer by. Thanksgiving was the Puritans' mistletoe." WRITE SLAVERY.—The English Parliament ary evidence of the condition of the dress makers' apprentices in London, shows that in ordinary times, eighteen hours a day is the allotted time for work, and during the height of the season young girls are sometimes only allowed four hours' repose, when they are roused to resume their toil. Strong coffee is administered to enable them to ply their needle fur twenty hours, without relaxation. According to the New York Express, the state of things, though not so bad in New York, is bad enough, where caps are made at a shilling a dozen, pantaloons at fifteen cents a pair, shirt bosoms at fourteen cents a dozen, and shirts at five cents each. There are eighty thousand working women in the city of New York, not all working at these rates, but a vast body of them are. The laborers and clerks, according to the Express, are compelled to work for nominal sums, whilst their employers riot in wealth. $2OOO 00 1000 00 ()ITV AND COUNTY AFFAIRS. REV. AUGUST! VE XtcC.,' 3S 'XIV —We at tended St. Mary's Catholic Church. Vine street, on Sunday afternoon last. and w..re greatly interested in the solemn exercises which there took niece Rev. Am:mixt J. McCoNoisx. the eldest 8 ,, T1 of our estimable fellow-citizen, PETER McCoxoxr. Esq . preached his first sermon to a large and attentive audience Mr. McC. wee ordained to the Priesthood, on Sunday week, in Philadelphia, by Bishop Nati - mass, His talents are of a superior order, his educa tion complete, and the seal and piety he displays - in his new calling highly commendable. He was for seven years a student at Mt. Saint Mary's Collego. Emmlttaburg, Md., and graduated with the highest honors of his class. He has been preparing for the Ministry for the last two years at a Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His sermon was truly an able production. It abounded in the most beautiful and exquisite thoughts, clothed in the finest language. He spoke in eloquent terms of his calling to the Ministry, and concluded his remarks by a feeling and appropriate allusion to the venerable and beloved Father KIEKNAN, who for more than thirty years has been Pastor of St. Mary's Church. If this sermon is any Indication, our young and gifted friend will soon rank among the ablest pulpit orators in the State. We are always pleased to note the advancement of Lancasterians to high honors in the pulpit, at the bar, or in any other calling. Ho! FOR THE FAIR.—The Ladies of the Duke Street M. E Church, of this city, will open their Fair in the main saloon of Fulton Hall, on to-morrow (Wednesday) evening. From what we have seen and beard we have no doubt the Fair will present unusual attractions, and the display will fully equal, it it does not surpass, any exhi bition of the kind that has ever been witnessed lb this city. Amongst the curiosities, we learn, will be two wax figures prepared expressly for this occasion by an ingenious Methodist Lady of Philadelphia, representing Martin Luther and his wife Catharine. The display of needle work, &c., which will be offered for sale, will also be immense. The first sapper will take place, in one of the upper saloons, on Thursday evening—tickets for which are placed at the very low price of fifty cents, in consideration of the tight ness of the times. Single tickets of admission to the Fair, ten cents, or sixteen for a dollar. We hope every body will attend the Fair, If it Is only to see the beautiful sights which will there be exhibited. The Hall will be handsomely and appropriately decorated, and nothing has been, or will be, omitted to make a visit there agreeable and attractive. For further particulars see ad vertisement. THE HOWARD EVENINGS—LECTURE BY REV. Dn. How:lam—Rev. Dr. HonasoN will lecture before the Howard Association, at Fulton Hall, this evening, on "Capital Punishment." This is a subject upon which we think the Dr. can throw much light, and it will admit of un interesting discussion. The Dr., as all our city readers are aware, is a profound scholar and learned writer and speaker, and always hiss a vast fund of information of a highly useful and practical nature fir his audiences. Wo hope not only for his sake, but also on account of the benevolent object of the Association, to see the Hall crowded to its utmost capacity. MISSIONARY FESTIVAL.—The Moraviane of this city held a Missionary Festival in their Sunday School Roller, on Market at., last week, commencing on Wednesday evening. The attendance of visitors was large, the prices of different articles moderate, and the success of the Pesti. vel complete. One thing we were particularly pleased in noticing: There was no forcing persons to buy against their will—everything given was voluntary on the part of buyers, and as a consequence the edibles, drinkables, and articles for wear and ornament, met with ready sale, which must have been gratifying to the Ladies who were lontru , mental in getting up the praiseworthy object. VENISON.—We saw the other day a fine fat Buck laying in front of Kautz's Eating Saloon, Centre Square. It was caught, we believe, in the mountains of Huntingdon county, and a sight of the Venison served up, as Kautz knows so well how to du it, is enough to make even a Printer's mouth water, to say nothing of how tempting it would be to an epicure. THE TEACHERS' INSTITUTE.—The annual session of the Lancaster County Teachers' Institute was held last week, at Fulton Hall, commencing on Monday.— The attendance of Teachers was very large, much greater than at any previous session of the Institute. The following gentlemen were selected as officers: President—Rev. John S. Crunabaugh. Co. Supt. Secretaries—Messrs. Zeller, Brubaker and Fry. Treasurer—Amos Row, City Superintendent, Finance Committee—Messrs. Bermes, Oberlin and Souder. Committee of Arrangement—Messrs. Peirce, Frescoln and Boyer. The opening address was delivered by Mayor BCRILOWES, of this city. The sessions were very Interesting, especially those in the evenings, and were attended by large numbers of our citizen,, the greater portion of the audiences, as a matter of course, being c , utposed ;.1 ladle, On Finlay evening, Lion. HENRY C. lIICE:A:K.:SLAto Su vrintetl,it of Schools, was present and delivered an vactedingly able and eloquent address. It abounded in pointed and practical suggestions. and at times he •'brought down the house” by the relation of mirth-provoking and telling anecdotes, which were brought in at the right places in Mr. H.'s own inimitable style. Judge Haus also addressed the Institute the sonic evening. The Institute closed its session on „Saturday morning, and nearly three hundred Teachers left for their respective homes highly pleased with the hospitality of our citizens , and we presume notch benefited by their week's labors. FAT Thos.—Our neighbor, Mr. Solomon Sprecher, has the fattest and finest looking hugs we have seen in a long time. They are of the Chester county breed, only 13 mouths old, and will average from 350 to 375 lbs. He slaughtered one on yesterday morning, which weighed 361 lbs. lie has throe of the name sort still in the pen. ELECTION.—The second election of the Nor mal Literary School, for Ibis winter's session, resulted as follows: President—A. M. Dlckie, Coon Island, Washington county, Pa. Vice President—William E. Doughty, Carversville, Bucks county, Pa. Recording Secretary&Sallie L. Vickers, Lionville, Chester county. Pa. Corresponding Secretary—lsaac W. Doyle, Frazer, Ches ter county, Pa. Treasurer—Lewis S. Ely, Pineville, Bucks county, Pa. Editress-51. Jennie Fredd. Chatham, Chester co., Pa. Critic—Jennie C. Wood. Norristown. Pa. Librarian—William M. Clark. Gum Tree, Chester County, Pa. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL—A VENERABLE BOOK.— We have received from Mr. Geo. W. Hensel, Quarryville, an old book (German) which according to the date of the preface, was prepared for the press in February. 15.18, and is therefore 310 years old. It was in the possession of Mr. Ilensel's father for over fifty years, and was given him by his lather, who purchased it at a sale of some old German gentleman of this city, by whom it was brought to America, and is presumed to be the only book of the kind in the United States. This venerable nod curious volume Is a translation into German of the Ten Books of Vitruvius on Architecture. )1. Pollio Vitruvius was a celebrated architect who flourished in the days of Julius Caesar, the famous Roman General. who was stabbed in the Senate Hall in the year before Christ 13, whose special favor the author had hoped to secure by this literary performance, and to whom also he designed to dedicate the work. However, before the work was completed, Julius Caesar was assay slanted. Ile then dedicated it to Octavius, who reigned after him under the title of Caesar Augustus—the same who was Emperor of Rome when out Saviour was born. This work is here rendered Into German by Gua'thous 11. Mullis, a Physician and Mathematician of Wnertzburg, and accompanied with extensive explanations and remarks of his own. These annotations follow each of the Ten Books of the original work. The preface of the translation is dated February 16, 1545. The title page is lost; but at the close of the volume we have the following as the date when it was printed Getzuckt zu Basel durch Sebastian llenricpetri, im Jahr sack der Geburt Christi M. D. L. XXV—that is Printed at Basel by Sebastian Ileuricpe. tries, in the year after the birth of Christ 1575. The book is printed with great care and presents a remarkably finished appearance, considering the time in which it originates. The pages aro numbered by letters instead of figures. The German is, of course, in very old style, the language having much changed since that time, so that, it is not read without some difficulty. It is provided with very extended indices, no that any plait of the matter it contains can be readily commanded. It Is also largely illustrated by drawings of architectural designs, and specimens of handiwork in ancient mechanics—from ornamental hydrant spouts up to the sublimest pagan temples.—Daily.Express. LOCAL MAIL ARRANGEMENTS—CLOSING OF THE MAILS AT THE LAXCALITETI. PosT OFFICE.—The following carefully prepared table of the hours for closing the various mails at the post office In this city, will be found very us. ful for reference. by business men and others. A correct schedule of this kind has often been enquired for : Eastern Through Mail—For Philadelphia, New York and Eastern States, at 6. 45 p. m. Way Mail East—For Philadelphia and intermediate offices, at B.a. in. Western Through slail—For Columbia, Harrisburg, Pitts burg and Western States, at 6. 45 p. m. Way Mail West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown. Mount Joy, Middletown, Harrisburg, Lewistown, Huntingdon, Tyrone. Altoona, Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between Altoona and Pittsburg.) at 9 1 / a. m. Southern Mail—For Columbia, Pork, Baltimore, Washing ton, D. C., and Southern States, at OX, a. m. Pittsburg Through Mail, at 10 a. m. For Strasburg, via: Camargo, Quarryville, Martinsville, and New Providence, at 8 a. m. MELEE! For Reading, via: . ileffsvillo, Litiz. Rothsville, Ephrata, Reamstown, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at 8 For Lebanon, via: East Hempfield, Manhelm, White Oak, Mount Hope and Cornwall, daily, at a. m. For Millersville and Slack water, daily, at 1 p. m. For Safe Harbor, daily, at 1 p. m. For Hinkletown, via : Landis Valley, Oregon, Woet Earl, and Farmereville, daily, at 2 p. m. For Paradise, via: Greenland and Soudersburg, daily, at 3 p.m. For Litiz, via: lietThville, daily, 3 p. m. For Marietta, via: Ilemplield and Silver Spring, daily, at 3 p. m. For Strasburg, via: Fertility and Wheatland Mills, daily at 3 p.m. For Lampeter, daily, at 3 p. m. For New Holland, via: Binkley's Bridge, Leacoek, Barevil le, Beartown, Bowmansville and Muddy Creak, daily, at 1 P. m. For Phceniarlile, via New Holland, Blue Ball, Goodville, Churchtown, Morgantown, lioneybrook, Chester Springs, and Kimberton, Triweekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday, at 12 m. For Port Deposit, Md., via Willow Street, Smithville, Buck, Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grove. Rock Springs, Md.; and Rowlandaville, Md., Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednea- _ day and Friday, at 6 a. in. For Colebrook, via: Swarr'a Mill, Old Line, Sporting Hill and Mastersonville, Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 12 m. For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Tri-weekly, Monday, Thurs day and Saturday, at 2 p. m. For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Martinville, Coleman vill e and Mount Nebo, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Sat- urday, at 3. p. m. For Bethesda, via: Willow Street and Rawlinsville, Wed nesday and Saturday, at 8 a. m. For New Danville, weekly, Wednesday, at 9 a. m. Office hours, from 7a.m.t08 p. m. On Sunday, from 9 to 10 a. m. Postage to California, Oregon and Washington Territo. ries,lo cents. Letters, alleged to be valuable, will be registered, and a receipt given therefor, on application and payment of the registration fee of five cents, in addition to the regular postage., All letters are required to be pre-paid with stamps before they can be mailed. H. B. SWARM, Postmaster. MEETING OF COUNCILB.—A stated meeting of Councils will be hold to their Chambers, City Hall, this evening, at 6 o'clock. STABBING AFFRAY.—On Monday last Jas. Ryan. Alexander and Patrick Wltanuns, all Irishmen. employed on the Ilanheim and Lancaster Turnpike and Plankroad, and melding at the lower end of our Borough. took it Into their heads to have "a bit of a spree," came up town, and in the evening had managed to provide for themselves • fall loads." After trying in vain for more of the critter. Mack proposed to gobome, to which Jim would not accede, when a "muss" ensued. Jim, having his pocket knife in hand, made several plunges at the former, end inflicted three wounds upon him, two of them In the region of the right lung, which. It is supposed by the attending physician, have penetrated that organ. Later in the even ing they returned home, when another '•muss" took place. In which all three participated. Jim again made use of his knife, and this time inflicted five wounds on the person of Patrick, several of them pretty deep and serious snag.— Both the wounded. we understand, are In a critical condi tion. It may not be out of place here to state that Alex ander and Patrick are brothers, and James is a brother-in law, and that the two Armor board with the latter. We have not learned whether Jim has been arrested.—Friday's Jfanheim Sentinel. THE EDITORS' BOOK TABLE DE BOW'S REVIEW will be published hereafter at New Orleans. The December number is fully equal to any of Its predecessors in interest and ability. The table of contents is as follows: Acquisition of Mexico; State Liber ties, or the Right to African Contract Labor; Origin of Civiliution; North Carolina—her Wealth, Resources, and History; The Mississippi and New Orleans; State Rights and State Remedies ; Department of Commerce,—Depart ment of Agriculture—Department of Manufactures; In ternal Improvements; Miscellaneous Department: Edi torial Miscellany. Term. $5 per annum, In advance. Each number contains over one hundred pages of closely printed matter. TEE HAPPY HUME AND PARLOR MAGAZINE' published monthly at Boston, by C. Stone A Co., at $1 pe. annum, in advance, is one of the most welcome visitors to our sanctum. The December number Is more than usually rich in reading matter and embellishments. The •• Burial of Debora," and the "Chinese Magnolia," are beautiful engravings. BUSINESS IN NEW ORLEANS.—The New Orleans Delta gives a most flattering account of the present and prospective condition of trade in that city. It says: "New Orleans was the only pity in the United States whose commerce did not fall off last year—which, under the terrible pres sure of the great financial crisis, and of many physical interruptions, was able to add about twenty millions to its export trade, with a smaller proportionate decline of imports on toe previous year, than in any other city. The business of this year, however promises to leave that of the last is Inpletely in the shade. Besides tileenurmous excess of cot ton receipts for this year—which swell so copstantly that we cannot keep up with the figures—the Western trade, in spite of the protracted low water and high freights, exhibits the most gratifying increase and improvement on the business of last year Of Hour, the receipts to this date are 100,000 barrels over those of last year ; of corn 20,000 sacks, and bale rope and bagging alike increased. Sugar is 20,000 hogsheads, :Lod molasses 20,000 barrels ahead of last year. We do not think it extravagant to say that the aggregate value of the receipts of the pro ducts of the Mississippi at this port up to the present period is double that for the same period last year. We doubt if such a result as this can be found in the history of any other city in the Union." FAILURE OF THE CUMBERLAND (MD.) CITY BANK.-It was said, some weeks since, that this Bank was in an unsafe condition. We now learn from the Cumberland Civilian that it closed its doors on Friday week. The Civilian says: "The refusal of a New York house to pay two certain drafts, drawn upon them by the City Bank, has t.bliged it to close it s doors, make an assignment, and go into liquidation. Mr. James R. Annan, of this city, is the assignee, to wham the entire property of the Bank has been handed over. Mr. Annan is a gentleman of the highest honor and respect ability, and in whose hands the creditors of the Bank can place every confidence. The concern was first established in 1848, as a Swings Institution; but in 1850 it was con verted, by an act nf the Legislature, into a Bank, called the Cumberland Savings Bank. In 1858, at the last session of the Assembly, the name was changed to Cumberland City Bank. The officers of the Bank were Mr. James T. Norton, of New York, who was only last September chosen President; James M. Scidey, Esq., our fellow-townsman, was Pres ident preceding Mr. Norton. Mr. William 0. Spayth, formerly of Ohio, has been Cashier for the past two years or more, during which time he has become generally well known to our business men, and others, with whom he is warmly esteemed as a worthy gentleman, and an honest and upright man." The Civilian thinks the loss by the failure of the Bank will not be great, and advises its creditors not to sacrifice their securities. COLD WEATHER AT ROME.-A letter from Rome dated Nov. 13, says :—" Winter has set in with great severity since Monday. It freezes, and the Sabine mountains are covered with snow. Such precocious cold weather was never before experienced at Rome. The same weather prevails in the interior of the Roman States. In the Northern provinces the severe weather has seriously compromised the oil crop by freezing the fruit on the trees. If the same effect has been produced on the coast of Tuscany and Piedmont, the price of oil, already so high, will become higher.— Foreigners, whom the winter is driving from London and Paris, are arriving in crowds. All the hotels are full, and the season at Rome promises to be very gay. From other parts of Italy we hear that the season has been there also inclement. Not a fortnight ago, at Naples, the lightest clothing was the most desirable, and it was almost too hot to walk in the middle of the day. The variation in the thermometer there in the course of three days must have been something prodi gious—if, at least, we are told, they have shared our premature winter." A SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT—A INIAIe LIVES A DAY WITII TILE TOP or HIS HEAD CUT OFF.—An accident occurred in EN pottery in the lower end of Fort street in the outskirts of the city, some days since, resulting in the death of an employee of the establishment, which furnishes a most singular instance of the tenacity with which life clings at times to the human frame. The man, whese name we have been unable to ascertain, was engaged in in the room where the machinery employed in cutting and pulverizing the clay is situa ted. This machine is a large wheel, with heavy knives or cutters placed at equal dis tances on its circumference. Some disarrange ment of this wheel attracted the attention of the unfortunate man, who attempted to reach into the wheel and adjust it while it was still revolving. In this, however, he miscalculated the speed at which the machinery was running, and be fore he could withdraw himself from under the knife, it struck him on the hack of the head, low down in the neck, completely severing the upper and back portion of the skull, on a line close to the top of the ears, and cutting through and removing a considerable portion of the brain. The most singular circumstance was that the man, in this horribly wounded condi tion walked into an adjoining apartment where other workmen were, and afterwards walked to a carriage in which he rode to his home, survi ving the accident nearly half a day. We doubt if another case of such extreme tenacity of life can be found in the records of accidents, but the actual occurrence of the above circum stance is vouched for by competent authori ties, and is beyond a doubt.—Detroil Free Press. DEPARTURE OF (JOM. STEWART.—This distin guished and venerable hero took his depar ture from the Philadelphia Navy Yard this morning, having received six months' leave of absence from the Department at Washing ton. The officers of the Yard were in full uniform, and the marines were drawn up in line, under command of Lieut. Boyd. Tho master employees and laborers were also out to take a farewell of their old commander. A salute of fifteen guns were fired, and the scene was affecting and imposing. Capt. Frederick Engle takes command of the Navy Yard during Commodore Stewart's absence.—Phila. Argus of Saturday. TERRIBLE FIGUT WITEI KNIVES.--Two brothers-in-law, named Hunter and Reed, in Grand Cute Prairie, Randolph county Illinois, got into an altercation, a few days since, while in a room alone. They went at it with knives, and when first discovered one of them was lying dead in a pool of blood on the floor, and the other was sitting near by in intense agony from a terrible gash in his abdomen, from which his entrails protruded. Both were badly cut in different places. The Sparta Times says: " One strange circumstance con nected with the affair is the fact, that though both men were severely cut, but one knife was found." ST. LOITIS OORR,ESPONDENCE. An Electioneering Tm"ck—Letter from Jahn A. Heistand, Editor nf the Lan,ster Examiner—Ms endear'''. to in, pae a Fraud upon nor Ronal, and his implication of a TMrthy and innocent Manta gain his Fraudident Ends— The Trick Erpnmi. etc —Distinguished Arrivals-,lodge Manias Serenaded. and arl-nnzoleflges the compliment in a Speech—Death of Maj. Harris—Death of R. E. Philips— Kew Democratic Paper in this city—Political and Per sonal. We have very little change to note to the weather. In the early part of the week snow fell to the depth of four inches—a few hours bright sun soon wade sad hay. of It. After it had all turned to water, and the water into mud, it again commenced raining. and the entire week has been wet and unsettled—one or two days were dear over head, but under foot—what shall we say In all our travels we never came across so much mud and slop as we have witnessed in this city during the past six weeks. The streets and side walks are iu a deplorable condition—a ter ror to crinoline, but a source of much amusement to the loungers about the street corners, who congregate there no doubt fot a glimpse at a nice gaiter-boot, with a pretty little foot in it. Business has not revived, and the fall trade =ls about over. The rivers continue to recede. and much floating ice is reported above, Navigation will a - kn be suspended in the up rivers. Receipts of produce are very light, and we have no change to report in the general market. The weather is again too mild for pork packing, and hogs are not sought after with any eagerness. The mortuary report shows 91 interments In the past week, 46 of which were children of five years and under. Col. May, of the U. S. Army.just in from Fort Kearney; Ex-District Attorney Weir, of Kansas; Col. Moare, of the Lecooapton Land Office, and It. J. Hinton, Washington correspondent of the Lawrence (Kansas) Republican, - are Among th.. notables now on a visit to our city. Mr. J. G. Miller, of Denby, N. York. has just returned from the new Eldorado of Pike's Peak. Ile brought some specimens of the e with him. Ile says that the earnings of the members of the Lawrence Company, to with-h he belonged, were from $2 to 00 per day, obtained by pan washings. but with proper materials and machinery they could average $2O to $3O per thl) . ni111.1, 4 wise plenty in the vide. its, and they Itvod well. Ile says the sup i 5...) oat s plentOnl as at first supposed, but by steady cons4xnl labor coed W.V . ...A elti In. realizod. Ile goon back In the spring. Tho p„ pun Nlarshitl has solzod alai taken posses. Men .11 the Po wilt and il.instoks (III) Itolk it I by virtue of authority killed by the U. S. Court, on 3, Milt '.l duo N. 11. Curtiss ,b Co. Thle affelr will i•ou •• s eti • dot on. ti , to to parsencers mild hindrance In until till Junted. :;,iturtlny night eloAod the long nod tedi eta roe,. between Nl,srs Bit& and Ilnrrntt. The people—the o r th e St. Loll, Cnngres.l , mal dlitylc , —selectekl Ang,nuit hoot am Owl , Itopreoont.a.vo t Ington..l Nicharti Um rot t. by o anojority Aten ovor Mr F. P. 11131 r. 010 l mono 2000 wo 110 ioVe •••r Brock th it the velum prcierrcil mtbor Barrett or Bri , Mr. Blair. thoir cambium! voto Initvns Blair iu n ni,laority of about 12,000-0114 W3II 0.1 Wiii or th.• pa/JrICI, all thrmi hail boot, }ward. and n 2.lllchint time iillawill for rcilmliou Mr. Blair's rituality and to .311 Nolisible mutt. whilst Mr to Mr. tilair's faaticism, failed ht he elii,ted, which was attributed to the fart that th e Virtr 4,,d not rot,.: enough. whop Mr. t, n trnt National Democrat, oppoitai to the fauati.•lottt which Blair at,ve e. ft.! ett upon our pe0pt,,,,,,,,t —hi Black tivery shitpo and hiriu—oppo i't'd to "hoogioli" Ut. Pro , iiloot thu Unitad d ot. u with tii the 0t . ,, Of EU:1141'111a Aid Societies. and main pArtitiolarly opposed to the moo who uniertook to misrepresent the views of the Inionntod Benton, whoa, he always admired, as did the of thin district. :11r. Barrett is a Ditimonrat and of course °primed to KI),In Nothingi.sin,Setith.llllil.l nod Fanaticism. Ho was the man to suit the people of !his district. al.! titt'.4 elecbq hini, and they intend that 11 10a/ ad Via!! t th is city eel iiounty in the ni • x t criiiti was closed on Saturday, and the evidence wit I go to Wnshingtm, and thorn r-roiro thy vordlot nl GOll gross. In all the testimony ,tiveu, there is nothin g t o show that illegal votiu4 was roe ottoi to Tor the porpdso Of de footing Mr. MAI% and that Mr. Itarrett woo fairly and hon estly elected, nud Congrvas will Lot 11.. ride otherwise. The friends of Mr. Blair all over the country have hoes backin4 him up in thin C u test tug Lim eneoursgement, cretilolence and of assisbin,e. Atm mg these letters w.• are sorry to tin I one Prow the olty of Lan- Cniter, Pt., nut no this letter is filed in Court RS an evi• dunce of illegal voting on the pert of the friends of Mr. Barrett, We Annex. 11 copy of the one now on the Court Docket, believing that it will open the oyes of some of your readers: ikTRUE COPY.] lion. F. P. ltdant—Dear Si, Taking considerable inter est In the 6111,1,18 of the Republican party in the Union and your own tattle in St. Louis. I eaanot refrain from you nu imtame of the pour oppot,eo t;.. did the titled '' in Miss .nri. AM. by the mune of J PET TERI.). left here some time ii the winter or spring to tun on voile i 4 your It Wm.'s, I think as engineer. On eke- Don day he and nett.. Oilers ran [mini, and In some county through inlet the raml ruin men by the name of Jones wns tamping fir Sheriff, was, us he said, a clover fallow and had something to do with the Railroad, at three platen at which the train stopped the nine men voted every time voting for J 071,1 and bin ticket, nod when they got to St. Louis, they all noted again for Barret and his ticket. This LIME] FETTERLY stated thin in the presence of my self and saseral others as an instance of the way they do things in St. Louis & Mini [meaning Miss ,uri. j I may get in conversation with him again, Jr. if so I titian ask him about the particulars of how you were chafe out of your notion I beee no doubt he knows. Ile is a regular `subterranean - pro-slavery Democrat. Truly yours be. The above Is a literal copy. We do nut know if Mr . Heistand ever " got another conversation with Mr. Fettorly" or not. and if he has nut he need not further trouble him• self about it, trr, as good luck happened, Mr. Fetter!y arri ved in this city on Friday week, and wlltl not known to be here until Saturday. Ifs was at once taken into Court.— We have not heard yet what his evidence in the matter amounted to, but he told several persons that the letter was false—n base fabrication, that he never was employed on the Railroad, never voted for `• Junes," anti had never cast a vote for any body in Missouri—that he was not a citizen—that be voted in Lancaster at the last election, and that John A. lieistand had threatened to challenge his vote prior to the election, and at the polls lielstand saw him vote and did root challenge It. I will endeavor to get his evidence as rendered to the Court for my next letter. hind this letter gone before Congress without the flat contradiction which accompanies it, it would have done Mr. Fetterly an immense injury—it would have impaired his reputation for honesty and veracity. Wu will hunt Mr. Fetterly up, and have that conversation " with him which Mr. LieisLand was endeavoring to do, and "get from him the full particu/nrs—as ho no doubt knows, and when we get them will communicate thorn to Mr. Ireistand through the columns of your paper. This letter is a fair specimen of the thousand and one charges made against the Democratic party, and whenever the person so charged with illegal voting can be found, the Ile is give to the charge. We stated in our last letter that Maj. Harris, Democratic Congressman of 111., was quite ill, and would not probably be at Washington at the opening of Congress, and we now regret to add, that he died a few days since at his residence In Petersburg. Lie woe a decided favorite with the pooplo of his district. Always a Democrat, and although ho dif fered with the administration on the Lecompton question, he was nevertheless recognized by those who know him best as a Democrat. The Springfield (11l ) Regiskr has the following notice of this distinguished citizen : " Maj. Thos. L. Harris was a native of Connecticut, when, he emigrated to Illinois, and nettled in Springfield in 1542, ho being then twenty live yearn of ago. Ile chan ged his residence to Petersburg the following year, and at once entered upon a lucrative law practice. Three years after he was elected to the State Senate, which office ho did not accept, owing to the breaking out of the Mexican war, for which he enlisted as a private. and was at once elected Major of the Fourth Rezituent 01 - Illinois Volunteers, in which he served with ilistimillished ability, acting a considerable part of tile lime as Colonel. It was a party under hire that planted the battery on a hill opposite Cerro Gordo, the night before the battle, a work which the Meal carts supposed to be superhuman. On his return from the war ho woo nominated by the Democrats fur u seat in Congress, and seas triumphantly eh, Led, though the opposition numbered fifteen hundred majority, and his competitor maw a great favorite with his party, and reputed to be the ablest lawyer In tho Stalse. In that menorah's, canvass Nlsjor Harris gave an earnest of his subsequent brilliant career in the councils of the nation. since that period he has bad a national reputation.— Though comparatively a young man, he ranked among the ablest men in Congress. Nor was Major Ilarris known only ea a soldier, lawyer and statesman. This many private virtues were pre-eminent. As a son, a husband, a lather and friend ha was a model of fidelity and attachment. lie was In every relatipn of Ilfo frank, courteous and truthful. We have also to announce the death of Me. Rohert E. Phil ips, who died in this city on Thursday h.:. Mr. Philips was is printer by trade, having served his apprenticeship In the office of the Pittsburgh ^ Manufacturer" with his brother Richard Philips.afior which he studied law, and more recently was clerk and part ower the steamer Flying Cloud. Ile was 38 years of age. He was one of our first acquaintaucos In this city, and we vsry pouch deplore his death. Woos noble, generous man and highly respec ted by ell who know him. Thanksgiving was pretty generally observed here on Thursday not. A race came off over our course on Thursday between Flora Temple end Reindeer, the latter winning the stake.. It IN to be repeated to day. Judge Douglas with his lady, visited our city on Wed nesday last. In the evening ho was serenaded at the Planters' House. In acknowledgment of the compliment, Senator Douglas came forward and addressed the assem blage. lie said that the Democratic party of Illinois had just broken the backbone of Abolitionism and Fanaticism —that they both received the death-blow at the tame time —whatever my Le the fate of other Free States, he mid Illinois could always be counted ahe never Democracy comes in contact with Abolitionism—as it did in the recent struggle. Ile nest gave Mr. Seward and his friends a rap over the knuckeis in the following words In Illinois that fearful and fatal heresy was first pro claimed, that this Union could not permanently endure divided into free and slave States as our fathers made It.— Illinois has the credit for it, ii it be a credit, of proclaiming first to the world that fatal heresy, and Seward, of New York, only copied from Lincoln when he repeated it. We have met the enemy, have broken the backbone of the monster in the fight that has just taken place In Illinois —that gallant State which never yet failed to sustain the Democratic nominees for President and Vice-President, stands where she ever has stood—true to the party, to its principles, and by the Constitution and the Union. We do not rejoice in the misfortunes of other free States which have deserted the Democratic banner in a presiden tial election. In our State the principles of popular sover eignty—the right of the people everywhere to form and regulate their domestic institutions to suit themselves, has been vindicated. In Illinois the Constitution as the an preme law of the laud, has been vindicated. There we hold that the rights of each sovereign State, whether it be free or whether it be slave, are to be protected with equal vigor and fidelity by the constituted authorities. Our fathers made this government, divided into free and slave_ States, each having a sovereign power to regulate its domestic institutions to suit itself. We intend to maintain that Constitution and those sovereign rights of the States, old and new, as our fathers made them. (Cheers.) If you in Sr. Loins, Nov. 29, 1858 =ED
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