Stye Ccmcastct Intelligencer
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
AUDITOR GENERAL:
* RICHARDSON L. WRIGHT, FLilada.
SURVEYOR GBNEBAI*;
JOHN ROWS, Franklin.
IGF The 83d Anniversary of American In
dependence occurs on Monday next. We shall
anticipate our usual publication day and issue
The Intelligencer on Saturday evening.
Advertisers will please hand in their favors at
as early an hour as possible on Saturday
morning.
X@*The Democratic State Committee are
requested by the Chairman, Robert Tyler,
Esq., to meet at Buehler's Hotel, Harrisburg,
on Wednesday the 29th inst., at 2 o'clock,
P. M.
latest from europ:
The steamship Bremen arrived at New York,
evening with Liverpool dates to the 15th.
The British Ministry had resigned in consequence or
the passage of the want of confidence ‘resolution in the
House oi Commons. A new Cabinet has been formed with
Lord Palmerston as Premier, and Lord John Rossell as
Secretary of Foreign Affairs. They are both looked upon
as v friends of Italian independence, and averse to the
claims of Austria.
The latest intelligence from the seat of war is that the
Austrians have evacuated Piacenza, Pavla, Lodi, Bologno
and Ancona, after having first blown np the fortifications.
.Ther were falling back on their strongholds of Mantua,
Verona, Ac.
The death of Metternlch is announced. It is rumored
that Napoleon is about to return to France, leaving Pellls-
*ler in command of the army of Italy.
The Emperor of Austria, it is said, is to take command
of his army dn person. The Austrian head-quarters would
probably be at Mantua.
Wheat had declined three shillings in London, and
breadstuff* generally doll sale. The weather in Europe
has been favorable for the cropß.
THE RETREAT OF THE AUSTRIANS.
The river Adda, beyond which the Aus
trians have retreated in good order, connects
with streams from the lakes Como and Lecco
on through Lodi—one of the first Napoleon's
Italian battle-fields—to the Po; near Cremona.
If the Austrians have taken their main lines
from Pavia, beyond the Adda, without inter
ruption from the Allies, they have achieved
no mean military exploit; for the French
division posted near Stradilla was in position
to pursue on the South, and the French di
vision at Milan at least as well able to pursue
on the north as the Austrians they had fought
with were to retreat.
Considering that before the Allies occupied
Milan the Austrians were in force around
Abbiate Grasso, we cannot easily understand
how the French allowed that part of their foe
to retreat to the Adda under the very walls of
Milan ; and if the Austrians on the Ticino
near Abbiate Grasso did not make that their
route, then they must have wheeled more
southward through Barrioolo, and passed in
front of the French who had been posted on
the Tioino above Mortara. We deem either
of these movements exceedingly doubtful,
chiefly because we do not think the French
are such slow soldiers as to allow such a re
treat without pushing forward to prevent it
at any other spot than Malignano, which is
so far forward from their regular lines.
This latter place is Baid to be the scene of
a gallant fight (in which the slaughter on
both sides was great) between the Austrians
under Gen. Benedeck and some French. The
dispatch announcing it is dated at Milan, and
comes from a source which makes us doubt
all about it, except the fact of the encounter.
Malignano. is a town on a fork of the river
Lambro, about ten miles southeast of Milan,
and within four miles of the river Adda, be
yond which the Austrians are now said to be
placed in considerable strength, ready for a
general engagement, to which they are repor
ted to be eagerly looking forward. This gen
eral engagement* will decide whether, the
future of the campaign must be conducted in
the open field or before fortresses.
The City of Ludi, near which the retreat
ing forces have concentrated, is watered by
the Adda, which is crossed at this point by
the bridge celebrated in the battle of May 10,
1796, with which Napoleon the First’s fame
is nobly linked. It is eighteen miles from
Milan, and contains more than 20,000 inhabi
~ tants. Cremona is conveniently situated
toward it for the action of reserved or the
reception of routed forces.
The fact that 4,000 of the prisoners who
are Baid to be in the French bands are Italians,
may be taken as very significant. It would
86 em from this that there is value in the sup
position that Austria had not employed in the
“ advance attacks " the Boldiers in whom she
moßt confided. But we hope this is as little
true as that the Zouaves were atrooious in
their treatment of wounded Austrians.
Garibaldi, instead of pnrsuing D : Urban,
has, it is said, made his way to Bergamo, and
is thus, if not attacked from the, north, in a
position to annoy the Austrians in connection
with the French from Milan who shall assail
the position of the foe on the Adda. From
there, march by march, back to the banks of
the Tincio will the Allies have to‘push their
progress through blood and with glory, before
the Austrians may be regarded as-jon the verge
of defeat—a mighty task for heroes, but they
are mighty heroes who have resolved to accom
plish it.
The German Evangelical Lutheran
Minieteriom, of Pennsylvania and the adjoin
” ing States—the mother Synod of the Lutheran
ohurohin the United States—commenced its
one hundred and twelfth annual meeting last
f Monday week, in Salem Lutheran Church,
Lebanon, Pa. This Synod held its first meet
ing in 1748—twenty-nine years before the
signing of the Declaration of Independence!
Our farmers are now .busily engaged
with their haymaking operations, and working
their corn. The wheat harvest will commence
ahont the latter end of the present week—
indeed, we have heard of some having been
already out in the southern end of this county.
The harvest will be an unusually heavy one.
President Buchanan. —The President, it
is Btated, will make his annual visit to his
summer retreat, the Bedford Springs, about
the middle of July, where he will abide for
about two weekß.' Then he will go to the
Soldier’s Home to escape the heat of Wash
ington, until October.
|@* Hon. D. F. Robinson, ox-member of
Congress from the Franklin distriot, died at
Ohambersbnrg, on Tuesday last, from the
disease whioh he contracted at the National
Hotel, in Washington City, in the Spring of
1857. t
WSF In Republican Massachusetts, negroes
have a right to vote, and at the late election
■ these .negroes aided the white leaders of their
~j>tttyin adopting an amendment to the con
sfatution of that State depriving white men
born abroad from voting until two years after
THE KANSAS ELECTION.
The result of the late election in Kansas, so
far as ascertained, says the Pennsylvanian,
has filled the Black Republicans with the
deepest mortification. Even that wonderful
machine, tho telegraph, with all its negro
proclivities, will have nothing to do with it,
but maintains a chilling silence. In times
past the case would have been different. So
important an event as the election of Delegates
to a Constitutional Convention in Kansas, and
that Convention to assemble early in July,
would have enlisted the sympathies of Black
Republicanism from one end of the country
to the other, and every change would have
been wrung npon every feature of the news
from day to day. The change is simply owing
to the fact that Black Republicanism, despite
the mission of Horace Greely, has been virtu
ally beaten, repudiated and rejeoted, by the
free and independent electors of Kansas. The
returns are not fully in, but nobody dares to
claim with any confidence a Republican
victory. Even the St. Louis Democrat, a
Republican organ nearest to the scene, and
enjoying the best facilities for obtaining the
news, is silent and makes no claim to a tri
umph for its party. Whatever may he the
precise result, whether the Democrats or the
Republicans shall finally control the Conven
tion by two or three votes; the late election is
a crushing blow to those who have so noisily
and so falsely proclaimed that the people of
Kansas were the friends of the party in the
East which has so hypocritically claimed to
speak in their behalf. It is now more than
probable that the Democrats have carried the
election by choosing a majority of Delegates;
and it is certain that Parrot, Ewing, and other
Republican leaders, who by the aid of Horace
Greely, have attempted to deliver Kansas over
to the Republican party, are badly defeated
in their own districts. Leavenworth county,
once the very stronghold of the negro worship
pers, gives a Democratic majority of nearly
five hundred ; Wyandotte, once a nest of free-
State freebooters, is Democratic by 134
majority; bo also with Doniphan, Jefferson,
Atchison and Johnson counties. Lawrence
alone iB thus far reported to have gone for the
Republicans. The returns are not sufficiently
full to settle the complexion of the Convention,
but while the result is unquestionably very
close, we think it not at all improbable that
the Republicans are in a minority.
Defying the Germans. —The German Re
publicans denounce Massachusetts, and de
mand, as the price of their continuance in the
Republican party, that her delegates should
be refused admittance to the next Republican
National Convention. To these threats the
Boston Atlas and Bee replies:
As for excluding the Massachusetts dele
gates from the National Convention unless
they repudiate the two years' amendment, all
we have to say is: Let the Convention try it.
The Massachusetts delegates would probably
not leave alone, and those who urge such a
proposition will find that a Massachusetts
Republican is as good as a German one, and
they will find, also, that Massachusetts will
take no step backwards in this or no other
proposition she can honestly and properly
maintain.
We say again that we have no unkind feel
ing towards the German voters of this country.
At the Bame time, Massachusetts will permit
no one, native or foreign, living beyond her
boundaries, to dictate terms to her. Let it be
known, now and forever, that if the Western
Republicanssubmit their party and themselves
to be lorded over by a few German voters,
that they will break up their organization in
their own States, and sow the seeds of another
American party, which will exert a power
more vast than those who now traduce Mas
sachusetts to obtain favor of the Germans
have the remotest idea of.
Should the National Convention, by reso
lution or otherwise, be silly enough to attempt
to single out Massachusetts, and discredit her
for having in her own way amended her own
fundamental laws, or should they attempt to
exclude the delegates from this State from
holding seats for any such cause, a storm will
be raised such as has not been heard of since
such Convention had an existence. We hope
we shall hear no more of this kind of talk.
ALL WOOL, AND NOTHING'ELSE l
The Republicans in New York, in Ohio, at
the West, and indeed every where, are for
going the pure, unmixed, Black Republican
creed, and for nothing else. Witness as an
example, the following from the Racine Advo
cate. This is the way the Wisconsin Repub
licans talk:
“We will not knowingly vote or support
any man who does not stand square on the
Republican platform. If the party should be
so foolish as to nominate a Botts, or a Bell, or
a Bates, or a Banks, for President, the party
and Mr. Greeley may go to the d—l by them
selves ; we do not enlist under any such com
mander. So long as we have spared to ub
men like Seward, Chase, Fremont, Wade,
Blair, and a dozen others that could be named,
we do not propose to take up a doughfaced
Bates or a ‘supple Jack' Banks. We are
enlisted for the war, but we will not fellow
ship with political freebooters and Swiss
guards for a consideration in the division of
the spoils. If in 1860 a majority of’ the
voters in these United States are not willing
to vote for a trial of Republican management
of our national affairs, why let them have
another four years' trial of modern Democ
racy. We can stand it if the people can."
The result of the Kansas election for dele
gates to the convention to form a constitution
is still indoubt; but there has been a fair
trial; the Demoorats and Republicans have
met each other at the polls; and it is stated
that the Republicans have got three majority.
It will require further returns before this
result can be conceded. A great change of
politics off there in Kansas—law afid order
reign there, and consequently Democracy and
patriotism are becoming in the ascendant.
Four Fine Farhs For Sale.— The two
New Castle county, Delaware, farms adver
tised in this paper were not sold on Wednes
day, the 15th instant. They are now offered
at private sale on accommodating terms, with
two other farms, containing 151 acres each,
Bituated between Newark and Christiana, with
buildings nearly new; good fencing; soil a
light loam, suitable for raising any kinds of
grain or peaches. By a short sideling from
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad, fruit can be sent to the Philadelphia,
Baltimore or New York markets without
transhipment. Address Egbert Heisler,
Christiana, New Castle county, Delaware.
New Counterfeit.— A counterfeit $lO bill
on the Bank of North America, Philadelphia,
has just been put in circulation. The vignette
is an Indian family, plough and sheaf of grain,
with mountains in the distance. On the lower
right hand corner is a female Bitting, leaning
on a horn of plenty, and on the lower left
corner a female representing justice. On the
back is the letter X in red ten times. The
note is unlike the genuine.
Cheap Beef.— The New York Atlas, of
Sunday last, says the cattle market in that
city last week, showed a still further decline
in the price of beef. Cattle are cheaper now
in that market than they have been for several
years, and yet (says the same paper) the
butchers keep up the prices of “ohoice cuts.”
New York is not alone in this matter. The
-good citizens of Lancaster have cause for
similar complaints. The eshorbitant prices
we have to pay here for flour and beef are too
bad in a ohristian community.
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Iffi” A Texas correspondent asserts that
that State is the best wheat-growing Btate in
the Union; and that the orop of the present
year is the best he has ever seen, the wheat
WaitfhtflM Auvm W In. 0/1 1 1 .1
THE DUKE HE MAGENTA-
The real; hero of Magenta it would seem ia
Marshal McMahon, a descendant of an illns*
trious Irish family. For his bravery and
generalship at the recent great battle in Italy,
the Emperor Napolean created him a Duke
whilst yet npon the field of conflict. We clip
the following notice •of this distinguished
officer from the New York Tribune:
Marie Edme Patrick Maurice de Mac Mahon
is a scion of one of those illnstrions Irish
families which followed the Stnarts into exile
two centuries ago, and have since given so
many brave and brilliant names.to the history
of France, Austria, and Spain. The gallantry
of the Sarsfields and the Tyrconnels has hot
faded out of this ancient blood with the lapse
of time, and the valor of the Irish Brigade
which broke fcbe English squares at Fontenoy
lives in tbe storm or of Malakoff, and the
leader of the desperate battle at Magenta.
The father of Marshal McMahon was a
Peer of France under the Restoration, having
been as loyal to tbe Bourbons as his ancestors
bad been to tbe Stuarts; and a personal friend
of Charles X. of France. The son, born.in
1807, entered that nursery of heroes, tbe
school of St. Cyr, in 1825, and fought in
Algiers with the first- French army of invasion.
Returning to France in tbe suite of Gen.
Acbard, be marched with the Due d'Orleans to
the siege of Antwerp, in 1831, and was one
of the officers who saved the pompous Belgian
lion erected on the field of Waterloo from the
rage of the French infantry by a few good
natured witticisms at the expense of that
rather ridiculous beast. Action being the
element of men like MacMahon, be is found
again in Algiers in 1837 prominent in the
assault on Constantine. He afterwards com
manded a battalion of rifles, and a regiment
of tbe Foreign Legion, and in 1835, as general
of brigade, governed the province of Oran.
July 16,1852, he became a general of division;
and in 1855 was despatched to succeed General
Canrobert at Sebastopol. On the Bth of Sep
tember of that year the perilous honor of
leading the storming party against the Malkoff
was confided to him, and in an instant he
found himself famous. He was almost the
first man to enter the Russian works, aDd
swearing to Btay there, “living or dead,"
rallied his troops so constantly and ardently
to the defence, that all the obstinate gallantry
of the Russian battalions was wasted upon
the attack. He commanded in Italy the
second division, and has now won the distinc
tion, unparalleled, we believe, in history, of
receiving on one battle field his ducal coronet
and his baton of Marshal of France. Our
Irish fellow citizens will doubtless take no
small share of the glory of Magenta to them
selves in virtue of the new duke's share in the
action, have certainly reason to be
proud of their kinsman.
GOVERNMENT EXPENSES.
FACTS AND FIGURES YS. WINDY DECLAMATION.
The Opposition press have much to say
about the expenses of the General Government.
They continue to accuse the Democrats in
Congress of extravagance in making the
appropriations. They claim credit for their
organization as being governed by a spirit of
economy. That the public may judge of the
truth of these assertions and know who voted
generally for the large Congressional appro
priations in the last Congress, we give the
following, taken from the official records. It
will be seen that the Opposition did its best
to run up the expenses of the Government to
§100,000,000. If they had done so they
would have laid it all to the Democrats:
“ May 14, 1858. On the bill to appropriate
$lOO,OOO for a wagon road in New Mexico.—
Yeas: Democrats, 22; Opposition, 42. Nays:
Democrats, 37 ; Opposition, 32.
“May 15, 1858. On the New York Fire
Bill, involving over $5,000,000, the motion
being to lie on the table. Yeas: Democrats.
75; Opposition, 12. Nays: Democrats, 14;
Opposition, 56.
“ May 19, 1858. On certain resolutions of
the Printing Committee to save $330,000 to
the Government. Yeas: Democrats, 94;
Opposition, 21. Nays: Democrats, 9 ; Oppo
sition, 56.
“ May 26, 1858. On a oertain amendment
of the Senate to the Legislative Appropria
tion Bill, to violate the compensation law by
paying mileage of new Senators, at a called
session. Yeas: Democrats, 6 ; Opposition, 19.
Nays: Democrats, 97 ; Opposition, 56.
“ May 28, 1858. On the Mail-steamer
Appropriation Bill, giving bounties to mail
steamers. Yeas: Democrats, 47 ; Opposition,
54. Nays: Democrats, 57 ; Opposition, 37.
“June 8,1858. On the amendment to the
Civil Appropriation Bill, making appropria
tion of $257,000 for certain custom houses.—
Yeas: Democrats, 18; Opposition, 32. Nays:
Democrats, 52 ; Opposition, 21.
“June 8, 1858. Un the amendment to the
Civil Appropriation Bill of $340,000 to pub
lish the American State Papers by Gales &
Seaton. Yeas: Democrats, 21; Opposition,
65. Nays: Democrats, 59; Opposition, 20.
“April 22, 1859. On Mr. Morrill's bill
granting 6,000,000 acres of land to the States
for agricultural colleges. Yeas: Democrats,
19 ; Opposition, 68. Nays: Democrats, 90 ;
Opposition, 10.
“ February 21, 1859. On a motion to
suspend the ruleß to introduce a bill repealing
the fisbiDg bounties. Yeas: Democrats, 93;
Opposition, 11. Nays: Democrats, 19;
Opposition, 85.
“ February 9, 1859. On Mr. Phelps', of
Minnesota, amendment to have an overland
mail from St. Paul to Fort Union, Washing
ton and Portland, Oregon. Yeas: Democrats,
14; Opposition, 63. Nays: Democrats, $4;
Opposition, 20.
“February 9, 1859. On striking out
amendment appropriating $13,939 20 for
Congressional Globe, building, &c. Yeas:
Democrats, 64; Opposition, 27. Nays: Dem
ocrats, 30; Opposition, 52.
“February 9, 1859. On the proposition of
Mr. Curry, of Alabama, to repeal all laws to
build public buildings not contracted for.—
Yeas: Democrats, 67; Opposition, 52. Nays:
Democrats, 30; Opposition, 74.
“ February 8, J 859. On striking out two
appropriations—one of $49,333 42, and the
other of $18,046 —for the Congressional Globe.
Yeas: Democrats, 65 ; Opposition, 14. Nays :
Democrats, 26; Opposition, 53.
The Rights and Liabilities of Natural
ized Citizens. —The following full and explicit
letter of the Hon. Caleb Cushing, United
States Attorney General under President
Pierce's Administration, clearly sustains the
views upon the question lately advanced by
Gen. Cass, Secretary of State:
“Boston, June 18, 1859.
“ Sir : In response to your inquiry as to
what legal condition you, born in Turkey, and
a naturalized qitizen of the United States,
will have in Turkey during a proposed sojourn
there, I state:
“The laws of the United States do not
admit the indefeasibility of natural allegiance.
The assertion of the right of Belf expatriation
iB one of the principles of the fundamental
public law of the American Union. We hold
that the power to change domicil is of univer
sal natural right, subject- to such conditions
as may be requisite to reconcile the general
with individual interests. These conditions
are the exercise of good faith in the time and
circumstances and the purpose of the change
of domicil, the actual consummation of the
purpose, and the discharge of all subsisting
obligations in or to the country you left.—
Such, according to my understanding of the
matter, always has been, aud still continues
to be, the doctrine maintained by the Ameri
can Government.
“It being material to you, however, to
possess official assurance on this point, I have
presented your case to the notice of the Sec
retary of State; and I have his answer to the
effect that, in the case of a person emigrating
to the United States and becoming naturalized
here, with no present liabilities to his native
country, military or other, existing against
him at the time of his emigration— in such
case the law of nations, or the opinion of the
American Government, gives no right to any
foreign country to interfere with him, and an
attempt to do so would be considered an act
unjust in itself and unfriendly to the United
States.
“And therefore, subject to the reservations
above stated, you will be entitled in Turkey
to be regarded as. a citizen of the United
States.
“ I am, respectfully, 1
“ Mr. Alexander Sidi.”-
|@“The SomersetDemooratsays thata large
quantity of maple sugar was made in that
.county last season. H. Beam* of Somerset
township, alone made 5000 pounds of sugar
CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS.
Franklin and Marshall. College. —Tbe
final test examination of tbe Senior Class of Franklin and
Marshall College elosed on Friday last. The honors of tbe
fii«w were awarded as follows: — R. J. Nxvth, Lancaster,
Marshall Oration; Joe. H. JoHSsros, Waynesboro, Pa.,
First Franklin Oration; 8. W. BnaiM, Lancaster, Second
Franklin Oration; A Caat Wamnß, Green Castle, Pa*
First Salutatory Oration; H-Leaxah, Jr* Paradise, Pa*
Second Salutatory Oration; Ea B. Brazza, Strawstown,
Pa* German Oration; Waitxr'Scoti Ditto, CondeocHeague,
Md* Valedictory Address. The present Seniqr Class num
.bers 22 members. The Annual Commencement will be
held on Wednesday, the 27tb of July.
Immediately after the distribution of the honors, a meet
ing of tbe niftgg was called, Waiter S. Ditto, President,
and Jos. H. Johhstos, Secretary, at which Horace A.
Yuott, of county, and W. H. Sasnuxr, of Lan
disburg, Pa., were elected Master Orators A committee
was appointed, Ansisting of Messrs. E.R. Eshbach, W. A.
Ridowat and 8. B. Moore, was appointed to draft and pre
sent to the Class, for their adoption, resolutions suiting
tbe occasion of the separation of the- members. The com
mittee reported the following, which were adopted with a
hearty unanimity:
Whereas, The time has come when the Class of’s9 most
separate, and the tender ties of College life and brotherhood
be sundered; and, whereas, oar intercourse has ever been
characterized by a spirit of harmony aDd friendship, there
fOT£uolved, That it is with the deepest regret we sunder
the relations wehaveeolongand pleasantly sustained; and
that thongh we now separate to scatter out over the world,
and thongh our paths may lie very far apart, we will ever
carry with ns the same good will and spirit of brotherhood
that bare thus tar bound ns; farther,
Resolved, That the Class of’s9 meet at the Annual Com
mencement of our Alma Mater, three years hence, to renew
and strengthen the friendships here begun; and that
every member departing this life of single blessedness before
that time be accompanied by his better half; and that
these resolutions be published in the Lancaster papers.
Law Librart Dinner.—The annual dinner
of the Lancaster Law Library Association took place at
Wabank on Saturday. The dinner, we understand, was
prepared In Youarf s best style, and ample justice was done
the same by the hungry disciplee of Blackstone. The Bar
was well represented, but the Bar, was, as a matter of
course, not very extensively patronized—at least we have
the word of the Lawyers for saying so, and they would’nt
leU stories l
Fourth of July. —A meeting of citizens
was advertised to be held at tbe National House, North
Queen street, last evening, for tbe purpose of making
arrangements towards & proper observance of the coming
Anniversary of American Independence.
Answer to C. D. A.’s Problem. —A corres
pondent, “ Maytown,” has seat us a solution and answer
to 0. D. A.’s problem, which appeared in The Intelligencer
some two or three weeks since. We regret that we cannot
give tho solution, on account of not having the proper
algebraic signs. The following is the answer: “ Time con
sumed in performing the journey is evidently % the di*
tance the father traveled with the child plus the distance
the child traveled alone; or, plus 40 minus x equal 415
divided by 41, equal to 10 5-11 hours.”
Gymnasium. —A project is on foot to estab
lish a Gymnasium, or School for Physical Exercise, In this
city, which will be under the charge of Mr. Louis Stultz,
a gentleman who has had much experience as a teacher of
gymnastic exercises, &c., in Europe and in our Atlantic
cities. His testimonials are of the very highest character,
and he is recommended to establish this school in our
midst by some of our most influential and respectable cjti*
zens. Nothing can contribute more to the health and
development of the muscles, especially of persons whose
occupations are sedentary in their nature, than the exer
cise in a Gymnasium for an hour or two in a day. We hope
Mr. Stultz may be successful in his praiseworthy under
taking, for it is an institution much needed in this city.
Floral Festival. —The Ladies of Sfc. John's
Lutheran Church, West Orange street, gave a grand-Floral
Festival, in the Lecture Room of the church, during the
latter part of the past week. We paid a visit to the Festival
on Friday evening, and were surprised at the fine display
of flowers of every hue and description. The taste displayed
in their arrangement excited the admiration and favorable
comments of all visitors. In the evenings, sappers, which
epicurean tastes could not fail to appreciate, were served
op and hugely partaken of by the large crowds in attend
ance. We must add a word of commendation for another
feature of the Festival, and that was the choice music fur
nished by members from different church choirs in the city.
We are pleased to learn that a handsome sum has been
realized by the bolding of this Festival, exceeding, we un
derstand, $3OO.
Attempted Sdicide.— Od Tuesday evening
last, about 6 o’clock, a French tfoman, apparently forty
five years of age, named Mr 6. Doman, residing in West
German street, while under the influence of liquor, at
tempted to commit suicide in a small run in the vicinity
of the Gas Works. On plunging into the. water, and after
floundering about in it for a sufficient length of time to
become sober, she crawled out, alleging as a reason for not
finishing the job that ‘‘the water was entirely too cold.”—
Domestic trouble, as in most all such cases, was tho canse
of her suicidal attempt.
To the Public. — First Grand Annual Ex
hibition of the Fulton Institute to be held at Fulton Hall,
Lancaster City, Pa., commencing on the Third Monday in
November, 1859, and to continue for one week next ensuiDg.
The undersigned committee respectfully beg leave to
announce to the citizens of Lancaster City and County, and
the public in general, that the Fulton Institute has now
completed its organization and matured its plans of opera
tion, and proposes holding its First Annual Exhibition
at the above-named time and place. --'And here let it be
distinctly understood, that the Fulton Institute does not
wish to assume a position antagonistical to kindred associ
ations; but that it is a separate, independent, co-operative
institution, designed for the proper encouragement and
development of Ml those industrial and scientific pursuits,
the products of which contribute so eminently to the ele
vation, the comfort and the convenience of the hnman
family. Whilst it attempts to express no sentiment, indi
vidually or collectively, ag&inrt the propriety of other as
sociations holding similar exhibitions, it claims such pub
lic collections and displays of the mechanical, scientifical,
natural and artificial productions of our city and county,
and elsewhere, as the special and peculiar objects of its
organization, and the fostering of which constitutes its
highest aim and end.
Lancaster City and County are rich and varied in the
character and quality of their natural productions, inven
tions and handiwork, and need only the proper occasion to
insure 6uch a public display as wonld do honor to an em
pire; and Fulton Institute being the first to publicly sug
gest its intention to bold au exhibition in 1559, confidently
relies upon the countenance and support of their fellow
citizens iu forwarding its laudable designs.
Pursuing the general plan and policy of the Franklin
Institute of Philadelphia, in reference to its public exhibi
tions, a cordial invitation is hereby extended to all classes
of the community who may feel a desire to place the pro
ductions of their own minds and bands, as well as those they
have accumulated iu their private cabinets, on exhibition
here for, in addition to articles entered for competition
only, others of merit and calculated to ornament and add
to the attraction of the exhibition, will be admitted, effici
ently cared for, and suitably rewarded. This feature will
have a tendency to make known among the various mem
bers of society the tangible results of each other’s labors
of head and heart and baud, aud excite a spirit of emula
tion and improvement in industrial pursuits, which may
direct many minds into channels of usefnlness, that other
wise would only indulge in frivolities or listless idleness.
At the same time a marked discrimination will be made in
favor of the inventions, manufacture and workmanship of
the individuals originating them and placing them on ex
hibition, over those who merely exhibit the productions
of others.
The Fulton Institute addresses itself especially to the
Ladies of Lancaster City and County, and solicits their co
operation, because it deems that their contributions to the
useful, ornamental and domestic arts have not been here
tofore properly appreciated or suitably rewarded on similar
occasions.
A great and attractive feature of this exhibition will be
its picture gallery, and therefore arrangements are already
being made, through which the finest pictures and statuary
will be secured and tastefully arranged iu appropriate
apartments, after the manner of all the great Galleries,
displaying their beantles to the best advantage.
All exhibitors have the privilege of depositing articles
without paying the usual entrance fees; and upon the
award of competent committees, having a practical knowl
edge of the departments over which they are called to act,
and selected from among disinterested and reliable citizens,
outside of the membership ot the Institute, they will be
entitled to premiums, or silver or bronzed medals os the
case may te; and there being no salaried officers to pay
and no fund to create, the whole of the proceeds over and
above the actual expenses will be faithfully devoted to
that purpose.
Among the objects and articles in the contemplated exhi
bition, tbe following may be enumerated os the most prom
ioent and essential, without intending to exclude those of
a useful and ornamental nature that may be here omitted,
viz:
Agricultural and Mechanical implements of small bulk,
or miniature models of larger ones; including also light
machinery, useful and curious inventions, and domestic
utensils.
All kinds of Agricultural, Horticultural, Floricultnral
and Vegetable productions of tbe garden, the forest and
the field*
The Mechanic and Fine Arts, including statuary, plain
and ornamental marble work, the various kinds of oil and
water-colored paintings, engravings, drawings, the pro
ductions of tbe photographic art, and plain and fancy
frame making.
Ladieß’ plain and ornamental wax, head, shell, bur and
needle work in all their various branches.
Musical, dental, medical and philosophical instruments
Objects and collections of natural science, including
those of the mineral, the vegetable and the animal king
dome.
Articles of domestic and household manufacture, includ
ing butter, cheese, pastry, cakes, bread, confections, jellies,
conserves and pickles.
Toilet implements, embracing all kinds of perfumery,
soaps and brushes, for ladles and gentlemen.
Domestic wines, cordials, shrubs and beverages in general.
Books and stationery, book binding, hats, caps and bon
nets, boots, shoes and slippers, and the various styles of
clothing in vogue for ladies, gentlemen, youths and Infants.
Hardware, cutlery, fire-arms, porcelain, china, glass and
queensware, and all kinds of foreign and domestic fabrics,
and in short everything nsefnl, ornamental and beautiful
in nature, art, science and the mechanical branches.
Ample arrangements will be made to insure the safety
of all articles placed on exhibition, and a day and night
police will be in constant attendance for that purpose, as
well as to preserve good order during the hours of exhibi
tion.
A programme, including a list of the premiums and
medals, the examining committees, and other necessary
details, will be ifflued in ample time before the commence
ment of the exhibition. In the meantime, all persons de
siring to enter articles for competition, or for exhibition
only, can do so by reporting them to the Secretary, Mr.
Wm. E. Heinitsh, at his office, No. 13% North Queen at,
provided that none will be received if not reported at least
ten days before the third Monday in November next.
A stationary engine will be erected, which will be kept
in operation every day daring the exhibition, for the ben
efit and use of those who may wish to exhibit, and put in
motion, light or model machinery.
The object in issuing this address at this early day is,
to give sufficient time for preparation to those who intend
to become exhibitors, and to ascertain as early as possible
the nnmber and bulk of the articles offered, and the quan
tity of space that will be necessary for their accommodation.
B. S. RATHVON,
J. J. SFEENGEE,
WILLIAM MILLER,
Committee on Address.
MANAGERS.
R. H. Long, President. Emanuel H. Gast,
J. H. Longenecker, V. P. T. H. Miller,
W. E. Heinitsh, Secretary. W. H. Keffer,
8. S. Eathvon, Treasurer. Charles M. Howell,
John Herr, J. J. Sprenger,
J. Aug; Beck, J. Franklin Relgart, ■
Jamas Cross, .G. T. Zabm, .
William Miller, ' George Hansel,*
John Dellinger, J. p. Glbbs,'. \ : w
A. B. Kaufman, Henry E.*Leman,
John A. Shultz, J. M. Westhaeffer.
“C. CUSHING.
Staff Officers.—Col. Herr, the newly
elected commandant of the Ist Regiment of Lancaster
County Volunteers, has made the following appointments:
Adjutant—Lieut. M. H. tocher.
Surgeon—Dr. Samuel Rlo'gwalt
. Quarter Master—Charles R. Vralley.
Bergeant U^Jor—Thomas McCulley.
Dram Major—F. H. Stauffer. |
Regimental Band—lameaster Fenclblea* Band—Leader,
Oapt. George ERlsger.
The above are truly excellent selections -all the gentle*
men being amply qualified for the important positions to
which they have been assigned, j We happen to know that
if the “pomp and glorious circumstance of war” should
' call them forth to unsheath their swords in their country's
, defence, none would obey the call of duty with more alac
rity. Long life to the Ist Regiment, 2d Brigade, 3d Divis
ion, P. fiL, and Us gallant officers.
—Siqce the above was in type Saturday’s, Mount Joy
Herald has come to hand, and,; we are sorry to say, con
tains the declination of onr handsome military friend,
F&ascis H. Szaufteb,-editor of the Mount Joy Herald, and
DRUM MAJOR of the Ist Regiment. He received the ap
pointment from Col. TTiran on account of his well-known
musical and military (?) abilities. We insist, therefore, on
Major Stactteb withdrawing his resignation. Oar incli
nations are decidedly military, and nothing would give ns
greater delight when “In line” than to see the tall and
elegant person of Frank, (we beg pardon, Mr. Dram Major,
for not being more respectful to onr military superiors; we
are a raw militiaman as yet, and are not up to giving titles,)
in all his nice “military trappings,” at the head of the
musicians, leading ns on to “victory or death.” Ft re la
■Stauffer, DRUM MAJOR of the Ist Regiment, 2d Brigade,
3d Division, Pennsylvania Militia. We give the Dram
Major’s declination in full, as follows:
“Y* Editor of the He qetteth ah Afpoistmikt
fob Drum MAJOR.—Onr friend,.Col. Herr, has appointed
os to his staff, either as Drum-on! Major, or Major Dromo,
we don’t know which; bat as we. are not in the military
way, we almost wish him at the bottom of Lake Drum
mond. We peremptorily declined the honor, and do so
again. We ain’t at all elevated; we don’t tread more
firmly; onr eye has not grown brighter; we shan’t call up
the whole town to drink; we shall pursue the even tenor
of onr hum-drum way. Nor are we particularly provoked;
only at the fact that Jouesby has.had the audacity, on the
strength of the appointment, to ask ub for a quarter we’ve
been owing him for six months. We’ll drill him for it I
shoulder forms! present bills! order paper! carry paper!
support paper! load shooting stick! charge! (two dollars
at the end of the year,) shift for copy! fpllow copy!
“We are sorrv that the Colonel will be compelled to make
another appointment.”
A Prison Bird Flown. —Jack Remick, an
old Prison Bird, in feet, an inmate of the County Palace
almost from “time immemorial,” escaped from that Insti
tution on .Thursday evening last, and has not been heard
of since. The Keeper, Mr. Cadwell, offers a reward of $2O
for his arrest We opine that Jack will claim the reward
himanlf, for the very simple reason that he cannot Btay
away from his “first and only love.”
Meeting at New Ephbata.— On Saturday
evening, 18th Inst, a meeting was held at New Ephrata,
when on motion Dr. D. E. Shirk was called to the chair as
President; Samuel R. Hess, John S. Hacker, John Keller,
jr., Adam Konigmacher, Jacob Roth, Reuben Landis,
Martin Bentz, David Pfautz, David Hallacher, Geo. Becker,
Jonathan Raether and John 8. Heiser were appointed Vice
Presidents; and Peter Martin, and J. L. Yeager, Secretaries.
The object of the meeting was stated by the President,
Dr. Shirk, and Adam Konigmacher.
The following resolutions were passed unanimously
Resolved, That the utility aod great benefit which will
be the result of the construction of a railroad from Read
ing to Columbia, we, therefore* will give our united influ
ence and aid in constructing said road.
Resolved, That Dr. D. E. Shirk, John S. Hacker, Peter
Martin, Samuel R. Hess, Samuel Nissly be a committee to
solicit and procure subscriptions to said road.
Resolved, That we have the flattering encouragement of
a large number of farmers, who offer to allow said railroad
to be located over their farms, and if any damages be
sustained by such location, stock wiil be taken for such
damages.
Resolved, That it is of the utmost importance to all
classes of citizens within at least seven miles of the line
of this railroad, and especially to the landholders.
Resolved, That all publishers of papers favorable to this
enterprise will please insert the proceedings of this meeting.
D. E. SHIRK, Pres.
Peter Martin, Sec’y.
Tr»dte of Respect. —The following pre
amble and resolutions, expressive of the feelings of the
members of the .Union Fire Company, No. 1, on the death
of their late fellow member, Behjamin S. Keller, were
reported by Messrs. Alex. H. Shertz, 8. A. Wylie and W.
Michael, a committee appointed for that purpose:
Whebeas, It has pleased Almighty God, in His wisdom,
to remove from our midst our late esteemed friend and
fellow member, Benjamin 8. Keller; and whereas, we, in
common with his numerous friendß, feel deeply the terrible
loss and afflictive bereavement which have fallen upon his
family, therefore, be it
Resolved, That we mingle our sympathies with their
tears, and with them deeply deplore the calamity which
has turned the brightness of their household joy into the
darkness of mourning, and robbed the family circle of one
of its best and most beloved members.
Resolved, That in testimony of our appreciation of de
parted worth, and as a token of respect in memory of the
deceased, the Hall and Apparatus be shrouded in mourning
for the space of thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the
family of the deceased, and that they be published in the
various papers.
Directors Elected.— At the election for
Directors of the Mount Joy Savings lustitntion, held in
the banking house, at Mount Joy, on the IBth inst., the
following were chosen for the ensuing year:
Abraham Shelly, Joseph Detwiler, John Shirk, David
Brandt, Aaron H. Sammy, Benjamin Grosh, John Brenne
man, Jacob Reiff, John F. Pyle, Chrirtian Grube, William
McDannel, Martin B. Peifer, J. L. Ziegler.
The new Board met on the 20th inst., and organized by
electing Abraham Shelly, Eeq., President. Jacob R. Long,
Esq., the present gentlemanly and efficient officer, was
re elected Treasurer.
A Thief Caught and Caged. —On Thurs
day night the 16th inst., J. Leslie G. Carroll, a slater from
Fulton township, was robbed ofanew suit of clothes, which
were taken from an unfinished bnilding, on which Carroll
was at work, on the farm of Joseph Charles, in Manor
township. Stephen J. Towson, who was at work with Mr.
Carroll, also lost, at the same time, a pair of pants, a hunch
of keys, a silk handkerchief and a pocket book, containing
some silver change and an order for $4.50 Suspicion rested
upon a man named Michael Mick, aud Carroll tracked him
to Millersville by means of peculiar large nails in his shoes.
Ho was arrested and taken before Justice Denues, who
committed him to prison to answer the charge of larceny.
He has since confessed his guilt, and all the missing arti
cles have been recovered, except Mr. Towson’s pocket book
and contents, and the bunch of keys.— Express.
Struck bv Lightning. —During the thun
der storm, on Monday evening last, the Colombia Bridge
was struck by lightning at the fifth pier from the York
county shore. The Btroke scattered the shingles of the
roof, slightly shattered .some ot the adjoining timbers of
the structure, and passed off without further damage.—
There is no mark of fire where the lightning struck, for
tunately, or we should most probably have bad the destruc
tion of our noble bridge to chronicle. On the same evening
we saw the lightning strike the iron railing at the Frank
lin House, producing only a slight flash, and accompanied
by a crack as of an exploding percussion cap.— Columbia
Spy, 2bth inst.
Toothache. —This disease can be oared by
Db. Keyser’b Toothache Remedy, prepared by him in Pitts
burg, Pa., which is put in bottles and sold at 25 centß eacb;
It is an excellent medicine, when diluted, for spongy and
tender gums, and is worth ten times its price to all who
need It. Sold here by C. A. Heinitsh.
LATE FROM CALIFORNIA.
$2)643)000 In Treasure.
New Orleans, June 23, 1859,
The steamship William H. Webb arrived
here to-day from Minatitlan, bringing San
Francisco dates of the 6th inßt., and nineteen
passengers.
■ The steamship Golden Age left San Fran
cisco on the 6th, with 1,000 passengers, and
$2,643,000 in treasure.
When the Webb left Minatitlan a rumor
was current there, that the church party had
taken Oajaco,
The Isthmus was healthy while the rivers
were full, and the transit route in excellent
order.
The ruins of a city have been discovered
near Huatuleco. They cover four miles, and
embrace stone fortifications and bastions
extending to the sea. Curious and rich anti
quities were found, including vases and
silverings.
Advices from Mexico report Minister
McLane sick at Vera Cruz. Gen. Cabos was
at Jalapa with 1,000 men, and it was rumored
was about invading -Tehuantepec by a Moun
tain road to the cities of Tehuantepec and
Juchitan.
The Patricios had massacred large parties
of Juchitecos.
From California we hear of a sudden
advance in navigation stock quoted at 40 per
cent.
General business was more active, and the
accounts from the mines are more flattering.
From Frazer .River gloomy accounts con
tinue to be received.
Oregon dates are to the 26th ult. The first
message of Gov. Whittaker reports the State
generally prosperous.
Large Sale of Durham Cattle. —We
notice by the York papers that John Evans,
Esq., of the borough of York, will offer at
public sale on Tuesday, July 19th, on the
grounds of the York County Agricultural
Society, his fine stock of Durham cattle, con
sisting of over fifty bead of Cows, Heifers and
young Bulls. This stock is of the best in the
country. It has received the highest encom
iums of the Judges of our Agricultural Fairs,
accompanied by very liberal gratuities, special
premiums, although not entered for competi
tion; and has taken the highest special pre
mium yet.awarded to neat Cattle by our State
Society. We feel warranted in calling the
attention of our Lancaster county cattle rais
ers to this sale of agricultural stock, which is
not excelled if equaled, in Pennsylvania.
ggy*The New Hampshire House of Rep
resentativespassed a bill through its first-read
ing, on Thursday, by 134 yeas to 101 nays,
providing that any person who Bhall aid or
abet in the rendition of a person claimed as a
fugitive slave, shall be pamshed for the first
offence byfive years and for the
second by imprisonment for life.
THE EDITORS’ book table.
“THE KEYSTONE.”—This is the title of a new,Urge
and admirably printed weekly—the first number of which
was issued oh Wednesday last, by Jos. Beverns A Co. Phila
delphia. It is to take the place of the Weekly Argus, and
wiU be famished to subscribers at $2 per annum, payable
in advance.
Those of onr readers who wish a sound, conservative and
ahle Democratic and literary paper from Philadelphia*
should send on their orders at once for “ The Keystone.’
Every subscriber will be entitled to receive a book worth
$1 Into the bargain.
By the way, why U it, friend Sbtebh3, that the Daily
Argus comes so irregularly to our-sanctum ? Some weeks
we do not receive more than two copies of It. We regret
this the more, as the Argus Is one of the best papers we
receive from any qo&rter, and we do not like to be without
it.
THE GREAT REPUBLIC MONTHLY.—This great work
has now been published six months, making a volome of
nearly 700 pages. The Joly number commences the sec.
ond volume, and folly sustains the high reputation the
Great Republic has already won for itself. See Prospectus
for the second volume in another part of this paper.
THE LADY’S BOOK.—This old and popular Magazine
continues to sustain its high reputation. The number for'
Jnly contains a large number of fine plates of the fashions
and a large amount of interesting reading matter. The
age of this Magazine attests its fevor with the public. It
is 28 years old. Iu that length of time many similar pub
lications have gone to the tomb. It is emphatically “ the
Lady’s Book.” Published in Philadelphia, by L. A. Godxt,
Esq., the Napoleon i u his line. $3 per annum, for a single
copy: To clubs, at a much lower price.
THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.— I The publishers of this
widely circulated and popalar illustrated weekly journal
of mechanics and science, announce that it will be enlarged
on the first of July, and otherwise greatly improved, con
taining sixteen pages instead of eight, the present size,
which will make it the largest and cheapest scientific
journal in the world; it is the only journal of its class that
has ever succeeded in this country, and maintains a char
acter for authority Id all matters of mechanics, science and
the arts, which is not excelled by any other journal pub
lished in this country or in Europe. Although the publish*
ere will incur an increased expense of SS,OOO a yoar by this
enlargement, they have determined not to raise the price of
subscription, relying upon their friends to indemnify them
iu this increased expenditure, by a corresponding lncreas #
of subscribers. Terms $2 a year, or 10 copies for sls.
Specimen copies of the paper with a pamphlet of Informa
tion to inventors,famished gratis, by mail, on application
to the publishers, MUNN A CO. No. 37 Park Row, New
York.
THE CAVALIER; AN HISTORICAL NOVEL, by 0 P.
R. James,Esq., Author of “Richelieu,” “Mary of Bur
gundy,” etc. etc. Complete in one duodecimo volumo of
400 pages—with paper cover, price $1,00; or handsomely
bound in cloth, $1.25.
T. B. Peterson A Bros, have just issued from the press
this new work —one of the very best from the pen of tho
gifted author. Mr. James’ style is calm and strong, but
graphic and vigorous. He does not deal in extravagance
of diction, or monstrosities of character; but interests by
the simple and natural portraiture of exciting scenes, and
heroic and beautiful personages. He sympathises not with
vice and impurity, but with all that is noble, lovely, and
of good repate. He belongs to the historical school of fic
tion, and takes np a real person (as In the book before us)
or a real event, and, pursuing the course of history, makes
out the Intentions of nature by adding circumstances and
heightening character, till, like a statue in the hands of
the sculptor, the whole is in fair proportion, truth of sen.
timent, and character. For these reasons—for tho healthy
and vigorous and heroic spirit which breathe alike in his
style and his subjects, the works of Mr. James occupy a
place in the libraries of every land where the English lan
guage is spoken.
The work before us—“ The Cavalier ” —is of this charac
ter, and we cheerfully recommend it as deserving of the
moßt extended patronage. It is embellished with a por
trait of the Author. Copies will be sent to any person,
free of postage, or remitting the price to the Publisher.
THE KNICKERBOCKER, for June, has the following
interesting table of contents, viz :
1. New York Illustrated; 2. Romantic Aspects of Cali
fornia and India; 3. Alone; 4. The Seat of War; 5. A
Character; 6. The Romance of a Poor Young Man; 7.
The Lark; 8. Deipnologica Variosa; 9. A Schoolmaster to
his Wife; 10. Young America; 11. Aunt Patto and her
Nieces; 12. Tho Water Bpout; 13. From Museum Dellae ;
14. Literary Notices; 15. Editor’s Table.
BLACKWOOD’S EDINBURG MAGAZINE, for May and
Judo, have been placed upon our table by Messrs. Spreng
er A Westbaeffer, Booksellers of this city. They are both
capital numbers, and fully sustain the high reputation the
work has already achieved. Published’'by Leonard, Scott
A Co., New York.
For The Intelligencer.
Lidertt Square, June 17th, 1859.
Messrs. Editors : I have just returned home from wit
nessing the most heart-rending scene that was ever my
painful duty to behold. It was the recovery of the body
and seeing the burial of the remains of my dear young
friend, James C. McCall, son of James L. McCall, Esq., of
Lower Chanceford, York co., Pa. Young McCall loft his
happy home, mother, brothers and sißter, (his father being
on a visit to Lancaster city at the timo.) ou tho 14th inst,
for the purpose of fishing in the Susquehanna river. At
the river he met a neighbor’s boy, when they proposed
bathing. Young McCall got into deep water and, being
unable to swim but very little, was drowned. Tho other
boy also was near losing his life in his efforts to save that
of McCall. When information of this sad occurrence reached
the public house of Mr. Richardson, where I was at the
time, Mr. Parethee and myself immediately started to
where the drowning bad taken place. After searching a
short time, we succeeded iu bringing the body to tho shore,
but too late to resuscitate life.
Word was immediately sent to his family. O what a
message! His mother became almost distracted with grief,
lor that boy was the pride and comfort of her heart. He
was always so dutifnl, obedient, loving and kind. The
blow also fell heavily upoo bis brothers and sister. His
father was 6ent for the same evening, and the sad intelli
gence fell with crashing effect upon his heart. The blow
was a severe ODe to the community in which he lived, for
he was beloved by every one who knew him.
Ths funeral took place on the 16th inst. It was attended
by a vast concourse of relatives and friends, who assembled
to pay the last sad tribute of respect to the memory of the
beloved oue. At the house a beautiful and impressive dis
course was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Farquahar, Pastor of
the Chanceford Presbyterian Church. After tho close of
these services, the corpse was conveyed to and interred in
the family burying ground. Deep was the grief of bis
family, and many the tears that fell from the eyes of his
friends.
I had known James C. McCall.for several years, and'the
closest intimacy existed between us. For bis high and
noble character, his moral conduct and friendly disposition,
I entertained the highest respect. My friendship for him
has ripened into that love and attachment which death
cannot obliterate nor time erase from my mind. I sincerely
hope the Father of Merclea will sustain and uphold the
unfortunate young man’s family In this their most trying
affliction. I firmly believe that bis spirit is at peace and
rest with his Father in Heaven. We should all live such
a life that when it pleases an all-wise Providence to call
us from this earth, we may be prepared to meet where grief
and sorrow never come and parting is unknown.
For The Intelligencer.
Messrs. Editors : Having a few leisure hours to spare, I
concluded to write you a few lines. Though lam but a
poor correspondent, still I made np my mind to give you a
slight description of our beautiful little village, the sur
rounding country, and its inhabitants. Earlviile is a beau
tiful village, situated about eight miles north-east of Lan
caster. There are about 20 dwellings, and it can also boast
of a tailor shop, cabinet-maker’s, shoe-maker’s, an excellent
store, a fine hotel, Ac. The surrounding country looks
delightful at present, rfiomo of oar neighboring Farmers
have already commenced Hay-making. The Wheat crop
promises fair, though it is considerably lodged in some
places. Take it altogether, I think we will have an average
crop. The Fruit crop will cot be so large as at first antici
pated.
I will now give you a history of a certain individual who
resides Dot 1,000 miles from onr village. He is trying to
sad havoc with our hotel-keepers generally; bathe
can’t do much. He is a great temperance advocate, (at
least he pretends to be;) he will outstrip Neal Dow yet.—
I most confess that he seems to be very temperate in his
habits; but his actions are of quite a different stripe. If
a man iB temperate in his habits and not in his actions, we
consider him no better, if as good, than a rum-sucker.—
This individual is a greaX contributor to the columns of
the “People’s Friend,” of your city, a little 8 by 10 shoet.
He styles himself “Absence.” By the way, the very best
Dame be could have given himself, as he is universally
known to be veryabsentrminded. Healmost-weekly writes
for the columns of that paper in regard to his neighbor’s
affairs, and more particularly to our hotel-keepers. He
seems to take a great interest in meddling with other peo
ple’s business, but takes care not to attend to his own. In
bis last article he speaks about crops, Ac. J fear his crops
will be very short if he does not pay a little more attention
to them.
“Absence” pretends to be a great admirer of pretty la
dies; but whether he is admired by them in return at
present is hard for me to tell. Bat we would advise “Ab
sence,” if he wishes to be respected by pretty ladies, to
show the agreeable a little better to them than he did to a
certain yonng lady whom he took to Lancaster on Whit
Monday. And we would also advise him, if he ever takes
a lady out again, not to sit down to the table and tako his
dinner, and let his lady be furnished with her’s at another
gentleman’s expense. Such acta do not speak well, and it
shows that he does hiß own business, but
pretends to know a great deal about others.
* In one of his articles he says, thank God wo have a few
Temperance men in onr midst. They the 6ame stripe
as “Absence,” viz: Temperate In habits, bnt not in actions!
He seems to be a kind of Prophet. He says, in his last
article, that one year hereafter will bo the end of our ho
tels. But we fear if “Absence” keeps on growing so wise
that he will hardly live to see that grand event. “Absence”
thinks that he is the next in wisdom to Hint; Solomon.
In most of his articles he grumbles wonderfully about
“Infernal Dutchmen,” os be calls them. We think “Ab
sence” had better savo his Ink and paper, and attend a
little more to bis own affairs, than to be always grumbling
about “Infernal Dutchmen,” and more generally about onr
hotels. For it is well known that there are no better con
ducted hotels to be found in the county than those we
have in our neighborhood. O Absence! yon bad better
take a little wine for tby stomach’s sake, as the Scriptures
6a i'will come to a close by bidding “Absence” a kind
adien As he has signed himßelf “Absence,” I will snbacrib©
£yself PRESENT.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, June 24.
Secretary Floyd continues in delicate health,
and serious apprehensions are felt for the
result. His family are anxiouß that he should
retire from his present position. He has
removed to the Soldier’s Home.
Judge Douglas left this morning for New
York, where he will spend several weeks.
Ex-Governor Walker dined with the Presi
dent on Saturday last.
The War Department has issued general
orders with the view of enforcing the greatest
posssible economy in the military service,
especially as to the conveyance and distribu
tion of supplies. No buildings are to be
erected nor any extraordinary expense incur
red, except by authority of the War Depart
ment, and no persons shall be hired for
purposes immediately connected with the
troops excepting the necessary guides and
interpreters. All hired persons, not author
ized by the tenor of these orders, will be
forthwith discharged, and the services, if
necessary,.be performed by the enlisted men*
The receipts into thetreWTylastweekwere
$1,200,000. The; drafts issped were $1,421,-
000. The amount subject to draft is $0,0w,»
,000.
THE ’RIGHTS AND LIABILITIES OF
NATURALIZED CITIZENS.
There is an evident disposition on the
part of a portion of the opposition press,
whose invariable habit it is to find fault with
and misrepresent every aot of Mr. Buchanan's
cabinet, to create a false impression as to the
meaning of General Gass’ letter to Mr. Felix
Le Clerc, a naturalized citizen born in France,
and to make it appear that the Secretary of
State has departed from the previous praotiae
of.the State Department, and sought to deny
to naturalized citizens certain rights and
immunities to whioh, it is contended, they are
entitled.
Nothing can be more entirely at variance
with the faot. In the case of Simon Toasig,
an Austrian snbjeot who emigrated to this
country, declared his intention to become a
citizen of the United States, returned to the
land of his birth, and, being liable before his
emigration to certain penalties under the
municipal law of Austria, was held to bo still
liable after his return, but claimed tho protec
tion of the United States as a relief from the
liability, Mr. Maroy wrote to Mr. Jackson,
United States oharee d'affaires at Vienna,
January 10th, 185 f: “Tousig voluntarily
returned to Austria himself within
the reach of her municipal laws. He went
by his own free act under their jurisdiction,
and thereby subjected himself to them. If he
had incurred penalties and assumed duties
while under those laws, he might have
expected that they would bo enforced against
him, and should have known that the new
political relation he had acquired, if indeed
he had acquired any, could not operate as a
release from these penalties. Having been
once subject to the municipal laws of Austria,
and while under her jurisdiction violated these
laws, his withdrawal from that jurisdiction,
and acquiring a different national character,
would not exempt him from their operation
whenever he again choße—to place himself
under them." Wheaton also, while United
States minister at the court of Prussia, settled
this point in the case of J. P. Knooke, a
native of Prussia, who, being a naturalized
citizen of the United States, returned of his
own free will to his native country, and having
been called on to perform military duty,
applied to the United States legation for protec
tion. Mr. Wheaton replied to his application
in the following language :
“ Had you remained in the United States,
or visited any other foroign country (except
Prussia) on your lawful business, you would
have been protected by the American authori
ties at home and abroad, in the enjoyment of
all your rights aud privileges os a naturalized
citizen of-the United States. But having
returned to the country of your birth,
native domicile and national character reYert,
(so lung as you remain in the Prussian
dominions,) and you are bound in all respects
to obey laws exactly as if you had never
emigrated."
There is certainlj nothing in General Cass'
brief letter to Mr. Le Clero which can be
justly said to go further than Mr. Marcy, or
to curtail or abrogate the rights and privileges •
which naturalized citizens possess and enjoy
under the municipal laws of the United States,
by which those rights and privileges are
described and limited. The fact is that
General Cass’ letter did not raise the question
of the rights or liabilities of tho naturalized
citizen. It merely stated the tact of tho exist
ence of a certain law of France by whioh
citizens of that country are held to be liable
to military service, not with a view to express
any opinion as to the propriety or impropriety
of that law, but with the benevolent purpose
of warning natives of France, who'may havo
emigrated to this country before they have
discharged their liability to serve in the
French army, and have become naturalized
citizens of the United States, that in case they
return to France, and bring themselves with
in the jurisdiction of the municipal laws of
France, they, expose themselves to bo required
to fulfil the obligations whioh they had incur
red prior to their emigration. In further proof
of this assertion, we would draw attention to
the letter from the Secretary of State to Mr.
Hofer, of Cincinnati, [which we published
last week,] in which he cleaxly enunoiates the
views of the Government of the United States
both as to tho right of expatriation and the
protection extended to all those citizens of
foreign nations who exercise it by. becoming
naturalized citizens of this republic —protec-
tion in all the privileges of their adopted
domicile, not only within the limits of the
United States, but in every country in the
world. The Secretary explains, with equal
brevity and effect, the position of the United
States with regard to naturalized citizens who
may voluntarily return to the country of their
birth, which is, that “ they are not liable to
any duties or penalties except Buch as were
existing at the period of their emigration," of
which the naturalized citizen is always aware,
and to which ho cun only be subjected by
voluntarily placing himself within the juris
diction of the municipal law of the country
of which he is a native. It cannot be said
that there is anything harsh to the naturalized
citizen in this interpretation of the law of
nations, since the operation of the munioipal
law of foreign States for penalties incurred
by naturalized citizens before they left their
native country iB not confined to them.
If a native citizen of the United States had
committed a crime, or Bubjeoted himself to
penalties under the municipal laws of Prussia
or France, or any other foreign country, in
the absence of any treaty stipulations, his ex
tradition cannot, of course, be demanded from
this Government; but, if he voluntarily
returns within the limits of those oountries
wherein the crime was committed or the
penalty incurred, he would be properly sub
jected to the punishment awarded to his
- offence by the municipal laws of those States.
The principle is, that, where orimes have been
committed or penalties incurred by an indi
vidual under the municipal laws of the State
of his birth, he cannot avoid those penalties
or that punishment by naturalization iuA a
foreign country in case of his return to the
place of his nativity. The municipal lawß of
one nation, whether of naturalization, exemp-v
tion, or otherwise, have no extra territorial \
effect so as by any retrospective energy to
repeal the laws of another State which had
been violated by a native of that State prior
to his emigration here, in case of his return.
He has the same privileges and protection
here and elsewhere as a native, and no more.
It is obviously unfair to attempt to consti
tute any comparison between the supposed
case of Mr. Le Clerc and that of Martin
Koszta. The latter was different from the
former in every particular ; and so Mr. Marcy
considered it, as may be seen by a reference
to his argument in the Tousig case. Koszta,
whether he committed crimes against the
municipal laws of Austria or not, did not
return within the jurisdiction of those laws,
and was, therefore, improperly arrested by
Austrian officials in Smyrna, since no treaty
obligation existed between Austria and Turkey
which entitled the former to demand the
extradition of offenders of that character.
That such a case has no point of similitude
to that supposed by Mr. Le Clerc, must be
obvious to everybody who gives himself the
trouble to reflect, or who honestly desires to
form a just opinion.— Washington Constitution.
JAMES M. DUNKLE.
SIX MURDERERS EXECUTED
Within fourteen days six murderers have
suffered the extreme penalty of the law in
Upper Canada, and three have been reprieved.
This gives a most deplorable proof of the fear?
ful condition of society in that country. Three
of these culprits were led to the commission
of the greatest of crimes, through a love of
money, onethrough intemperance,one through
lust, and one through destitution. They all
confessed being guilty of the henious offences
they were charged with, after the sentence of
death had been pronounced on them. We
learn from a Canada paper that three of the
criminals executed were men of the negro race;
one Canadian, and the other Irishmen. It is
thought that the numerous terrible examples
shown lately of the end all murderers may be
sure to meet with in Canada, will be a terror
to evil doers. Hithorto reprieves were too fre
quently granted. The wretched men who were
lately hurled from the gallows into eternity,
clung, up to the last day, to the hope of their
lives being spared, and punishment for life in
the Penitentiary substituted. Yes, terrible as
the punishment is, to be shut up within dark,
dungeons until death comes, the condemned
criminals prefer it to execution. Although
branded by the world, as deservingofan igno
minious death, still they will desire to live,
even to be subjected to years of excessive mis
ery, May it not be — , ■ ;
. “ That the dreadof something after death
(That undiscovered country fronxwhoeebourn^
'No traveler returns) poxsleetbe arUL - •*
And makes them rather hear those ills they navnß
I Than fly to ottora that they know not ©0” jJR