ie Cancasitcr Intelligencer
OKO. UIDBRBOH, EDITOR.
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LANCASTER, PA., JULY 5/ l&jfc
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
—AUDITOR GENERAL:
UICHARDSONi X. WRIGHT, Phtlada.
“SURVEYOR GENERAL:
JOHN ROWE, Franklin.
fQT For the' purpose of giving’all the
persons oonneoted with thia establishment an
opportunity of enjoying the Fourth we. have
anticipated our usual pulieation day, and
issue The Intelligencer, oh Saturday evening.
THE GRAND BALLOON ASCENSION.
The first grand experimental air voyage from St Louis
to the Atlantic seaboard commenced last evening. Pro
firm TTTiii. Tn Mnnntnln and Gager, In company with
Ur. of the editors of the St. Louis Republican
Started Injth© “ Atiantio ” at 40 minutes after 6 o'clock.—
The inflation of the balloon was witnessed by thousands’
The balloon took, a direction towards Lake Erie, but when
last seen was pursuing a coarse almost due east.
LATER.—A despatch this morning from Sandusky,
Ohio, at 7 o’clock, states that the balloon had just passed
over that city. According to this, the air voyagers may
descend somewhere in the vicinity of Lake Erie
the declaration of indefen-
DENCE,
This immortal document —the great char
ter 6f our free institutions—will be found on
the first page of The Intelligence's. It is a
State paper which will continue to command
the admiration of the world through all com
ing time, and should be read, aud re read, and
committed to memory by the youth of our
country, and cherished as a priceless boon be
queathed to them and to us by the sages and
patriots of a by-gone age, who freely pledged
** their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor " in defence of the liberties wo now
enjoy.
DEUAGOGUEISM RAIUPANT
All the political hacks about the country,
says the Philadelphia Ledger—such men, for
instanoe as Botts, Hickman and others of the
same kidney, but of smaller calibre —are
having themselves addressed by letter, with
names appended to it as unpronounceable as
possible, asking them to air their ignorance of
municipal and international laws, by giving
their opinions of the rights which naturalized
oitizens ought to enjoy in their native land. —
Of course these modesti jurists, who have
studied international jaw in Fourth of July
speeohes, know a great deal more than Messrs.
Calhoun, Clay, Litingston, Webster, Ever
ett, Marcy, Cass, or any of the other dis
tinguished statesmen and j urists who have filled
the department of Secretary of State. They
unhesitatingly lay down, as acknowledged law
Among nations, what has never been regarded
as law in any country, and which the laws and
practices of our own country directly deny. It
is very easy for an irresponsible individual
to publish his loose notions of international
and municipal law; but if the inquirers are
really desirous of correct information as to
the nature and operation of existing laws,
abroad* or at home, affecting the rights of
Amerioan oitizens, they had better take the
authorized statement of the able and learned
Secretary of State, an old and experienced
statesman, and one whose business it is to .be
thoroughly acquainted with such subjects.—
If they do so they will be less likely to fall
into mistakes and get into trouble, from which
the demagogues who advise them wrongly
oould not relieve them. As for the opinion of
these “ shyster ” lawyers and politicians they
Are not worth a straw, and would be laughed
out of any Quarter Sessions Court, if pre
sented there, as a burlesque upon either law
or equity.
the GARDNER FRAUD.
The telegraph announced a day or two since
that the Government had recovered $lBO,OOO
of the total amount lost by the Gardner fraud.
It will be remembered that a Dr. Gardner,
some years after the late war with Mexico,
made afiofcitious claim for about $200,000 on
the Mexican indemnity fund, which claim,
bolstered by legal and fraudulent vouchers,
was finally allowed, and the money paid over
by the Government. Gardner was subse
quently tried and convicted at Washington
for the fraud, and committed suicide in prison,
leaving $130,000 of the money on deposit
with the New York Life and Trust Company.
The publio administrator of New York took
ont letters of administration upon the estate,
hut the Government intervened and enjoined
the deposit. After years of litigation, the
prinoipal of this sum has been awarded to the
Government, and the accumulation of interest,
about $40,000, to the estate. The former has
been paid over to the sub-treasury at New
York. v
THE MORMONS..
Later news from Utah indicate a continu
ance of the troubles in that Territory. It
was reported that a company of armed Mor
mons were encamped some distance from Salt
Lake City, bidding defiance to the Federal
officers. Kirk Anderson had been removed
ifrom the editorship of the Valley Tan, the
anti-Mormon organ, the tone of the paper
being offensive to Gov. Cumming and John
Hartnell, to whom belonged the property of
the office. Jndge Cradlebaugh had made a
personal visit to the mountains for the purpose
of collecting testimony against the rebellious
Mormons. A fraudulent flour contract had
been reported at the camp of the army, by
whieh, it was said, the sum of $400,000 was
to he made by speculators at the expense of
the Government.
“ Jarvis- Island Guano.” —We direct at
tention to the advertisement of Messrs. Allen
A Nredles, in another column. They have
just received at their wharves in Philadelphia,
direot from the Islands, a very large cargo of
this oelebrated fertilizer, all oi which they
are prepared to sell at unusually low rates.—
One of the ehief meritß of this Guano, is that
it is not only -quick in its action, but also
permanent in its effects upon the soil—two
qualities not possessed, to the same extent at
least, by some of the other fertilizers in
market.
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Foam: Fine Fob Sale.—The two
New Caatle comity, Delaware, farms adver
. tieed in this, paper were not sold on Wednes
-dny,tbelsth instant They are now offered
' at private sale on accommodating terms, with
two other farms, containing ISI acres each,
situated between Newark and Christiana, with
buildings nearly newgood fenoi&g; soil a
light loam. enitable Yon-raising any kinds of
Or peachoß. abort sideling from
§&'' W¥fiUaclelphitti : and Baltimore
sjjf Baiboadjiruit-canbesent to the Philadelphia,
gt Baltifnore markets without
ggl. transhipment Address Eqbert Heisler,
New Castle county, Delaware.
PRACTICAL AMALGAMATION.
A' WHITE GIRL RUNS AWAY WITH A NEGRO.
occurrence which has given rise to a'
good deal of excitement, took place, a few
.days since, in Oxford township, Chester coun
ty. A y6ung r white'woman, respectably con-,
nected, was living in a" farmer's family as a
domestic. A mulatto was employed on the
farm asa laborer. The two became enamored
of each other,; and resolved to marry. The
party to whom they applied to perform the
ceremony, however, declined. . Before the
marriage was effected tbS girl's parents were
informed of the condition of tbiDgs. They
were much distressed. No-time.waa.losfc,
and every effort waifmade by them to dissuade
the deluded girl to forego her purpose. Her
brother also remonstrated with her. All efi
: forte* however, to induce her to give-up her
swarthy lover were unavailing. They only
made her cling to him the closer. The mat
ter became noised about the neighborhood,
and a disposition was manifested tolyneb the
man. • This;came to tbeearsbf'.tbe’lnfatuatedr
girl. • She met her Othello and. they deter
mined to elope together. They disappeared
froin the neighborhood, and have not since
been Heard from. It is supposed they have
gone “West.' The girl's parents are almost
distracted.— Bulletin.
figy* There ought to be no unnecessary or
unusual excitement in that particular locality
on the subject. If people will be constantly
preaching up Abolitionism in their neighbor
hood and even in their families,. 1b it any
wonder that the kindred doctrine of Amalga •
mation should take a deep hold on the feelings
of their children'; and especially on young and
inexperienced girls? We look upon the twin
doctrines of Abolitionism and Amalgamation
as one and inseparable, if carried onfc to their
legitimate consequences —hence we are not
surprised at such runaway matches as the
above-mentioned. If the negro is entitled to
the privilege of being the equal of the white
man civilly and politically—as taught by the
Abolitionists of Chester county and elsewhere
as a matter of course, he ought to oc
cupy the same social position, and it is a
marked infringement of his rights to “ lynch,”
or attempt or threaten to “ lynch,” him lor
the exercise of those rights. The Abolitionists
having made their bed should not object to
reposing on it, although it may not be one of
down. The Democrats, not recognizing the
equality of the negro with the white race, in
any particular, are averse to any amalgama
tion or commingling of the two races.
THE CUBAN QUESTION.
The National Intelligencer, of Thursday,
contains a letter from Mr. Dodge, late Minis
ter to Spain, written to correct an alleged
misrepresentation of his views in reference to
the acquisition of Cuba. Mr. Dodge com
plains that he has been charged by a corre
spondent of the Philadelphia American , and
also by the editors of the Intelligencer, with
asserting that Cuba can never be purchased,
and that even the proposition to buy it is an
indignity to Spain. In commenting on this
letter the Intelligencer observes :
“ It will be Been that to this extent Mr.
Dodge confirms the accuracy of the inference
which we sustained by quotations from the
correspondence designated, as he states in
this communication ‘ that the prospect of
acquiring Cuba by purchase, under present
circumstances, is inauspicious.’ But he takes
occasion to add that he has never ‘ said or
intimated that the proposition in any way
involved the honor of Spain, or that the pur
chase might not at some future period'be
effected.’ It is but just to Mr. Dodge that
any erroueous deductions drawn from his
statements, with, regard to the present
inauspicious aspects of the negotiation should
be corrected, and that his views should be
placed before the. public in their true light,
coming as they do with the weight attaching
to his opportunities for personal observation
during the period in which he has discharged
with so much acceptance the duties of his
recent official position near the Spanish
Court.”
Mr. Dodge embraces the opportunity thus
presented to express his full concurrence with
Mr. Buchanan’s Cuba policy, as will be seen
by the following extract:
The President hr his last annual message
recommends that; we should endeavor to
acquire Cuba by honorable negotiation,
adding “ we would not if we could, acquire it
in any other way.” He further recommends
that ho should be Entrusted by Congress with
the means of miking an advance to the
Spanish Government on the signature of the
treaty and before its ratification. I share and
approve, in their [fullest extent, these views
of the President. I believe that if they are
acted upon we stjall sooner or later obtain
Cuba by honorableinegotiation : and believing
this, I watched with much anxiety and saw
defeated with greaJt regret Mr. Slidell's bill
to appropiate thirty millions for the object
referred to. Sooner or later, I say ; the time
depends mainly oh ourselves. If we go on
defeating appropriations proposed for this
object; if we continue to circulate just such
opinions as you, Messrs. Editors, are incul
cating—namely, that it is 1 a party, not the
nation, that desire Cuba—if these opinions
are taken up, as they have bseD, by all the
papers throughout Spain, and the Spaniards
are made to believe (as they do) that, even if
a treaty be made, the American Senate would
refuse to ratify it; if, by a suicidal policy like
this defeating the wishes and efforts of the
Administration, we place stumbling blocks in
our own way, then all must admit that the
prospect, as to time, is disoouraging indeed.
Graph!*:. —John Mitchel, the Irish patriot
of former days, but now the editor of the
Southern Citizen has, somewhat recently,
written and published a letter addressed to a
friend in the old country, on the subject of
“ President Making,” from which we extract
the following graphic description of Gen. Joe
Lane. After referring to Mr. Breckenridge,
his character, claims, &e., at some length,
Mitchel, says: j
<r Call up another Kentuckian, General Jo
seph Lane, born ja Kentuckian, but long a
Governor of Oregon, and now
Senator from thatjinfant sovereignty. Have
you ever heard of General Lane? He is a thin,
wiry man of fifty five, in height about five feet
eight, with well bijonzed face and grizzle hair.
Well he may be both bronzed and grizzled.—
When a young man he was a wood cutter,
and a fiat-boatman on the Ohio and Missis
sippi ; and in that; region it was proverbial
that Joe Lane never gave a short cord of wood;
for he sold his lumber at 75 cents per cord to
be üßed on the river steamers ; and he knew
that was a fair price for a good honest cord,
so he gave an honest cord. By industry and
integrity, based on the essential foundation of
an indomitable manhood, he raised himself
(as thousands of men do*in this country, thank
God!) to office and consideration. In the
; Mexican war, the old wood cutter was a Briga
dier-General ; and [at Buena Vista tore through
the ranks of Santa Anna in such terrible style
as to earn for himj the title, of ‘ Marion of the
Mexican war.' (Shields was the Monfcgomey
thereof, in his gallantry and almoßtin his fate.)
In Bhort, be tendered as honest an account,
and furnished as foil a cord, of Mexicans, as
ever he had done of white oak and hickory.
He is a Democrat [and that of the most South
ern and States Bight.persuasion. Southern
by birth, and an Oregonian by adoption, he
has just led his young State by the hand and
introduced her affectionately to her sißters. —
He is popular, honorable, resolute; and if he
were President a [Briton or a Spaniard would
thing twice before pulling us by the beard. —
All these things turn towards him the
thoughts of men intent on saving the Union ;
for the use of a President be it known to you,
is not to govern tlie country, or to guard the
Constitution, or td execute the law ; it is to
save the Union. [Lane, like Breckenridge, is
put forward not for his virtues and talents,
but for his supposed availability; to keep
things quiet, and give the ‘ Party ' another
four years’ lease of eighty millions.
“ What man or President can do anything
' for such a country as this, bound hand and
foot by art magic |? Here is a man who would
make a President after my own heart, if it
were indeed a President that was wanted and
not an Union Plaster.”
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CITY AND COUNTY AFFAIRS.
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The of July.— The glorious Fourth
will be' celebrated in thia city in "tbs usual manner,
viz : by the ringing of bells, firing of cannon; parade:.
.of the military, Ac, - - .
The Feocibles are' ordered -to meet at their Armory at 6
o’clock, A M., for parade. : Balates will be fired by than
in different sections of the. city. In the afternoon they
will proceed to Litiz, to take part in the celebration at
that beautifol village. . ' . ' /
The Jackson Rifles are also ordered to parade at 6 o’clock,
A.'M. We have not learned their intention of spending
the day out of the city.
Various private picnics and parties are on the tapis, and
hundreds of citizens will spend the. day at Wabank and
Litiz. We have no doubt the day will be celebrated with
as much enthusiasm as In former yean. -
The Fourth at Lmz.—The citizens of Lrtiz are
extensive preparation* for a-grand-obserrance-of-the-
Fourth. The principal, peculiar and concluding feature of
the day will be the illumination .of the beautiful Spring:
and grounds attached. A gorgeous display of fire-works'
will also be given. The Fenciblee will' take part in- the
afternoon and evening part of the celebration. The fine,;
Band connected with this, gallant corps .will be present
theSpriog, and add to‘the other interesting features by,
their exquisite music.
The Fourth at Columbia.—The Fourth will be appropri-'
aiely celebrated in this borough by the Cadet* of Temper
ance; Including the section from this city. They will parade,
in the afternoon, after which James Black, Esq., of this
city, is expected to deliver an oration.
„ The Fourth at Mount Jot.—The National Anniversary
will be celebrated by the citizens of Mount Joy at the
Cove, commencing at 10 o’clock, -A. M. The Declaration
of Independence will be read* addres§es delivered, Ac., Ac-
The Washington Rifles, .Good Templars, Schools, Ac., have
been invited and are expected to attend. ‘ The services of
the Mount Joy Brass Band have been engaged for the.
occasion. This Is the proper way to celebrate our natal
dav, and worthy of emulation.
The Fourth at Peteksbubg.—The citizens of-Petersburg
and vicinity are celebrating the Fourth today, (Saturday)
f or what reason has not been stated. They are no doubt
having a glorious time of it.'
The Foubth at Maxheim.—The military companies—the
Rifles and Continental Cadets—will celebrate the comiDg
•anniversary by parading during the morning through the
principal streets of the Borough . They intend spending
the afternoon at the Indian Spring, a short distance below
the town, where refreshments will be provided. Several
eloquent speakers have been invited to deliver appropriate
addresses on the occasion.
No doubt the day will be duly commemorated in various
other parts of the county ; at least it ought to be.
Post Office Hours on the Fourth. —The
City Post Office will be open on the Fourth from 8 to 9
o’clock, A. M., and from 2 to 3 o’clock, P. M.
The Washington Pic Nic. —The season of
Pic Nics has commenced, and although there may not be
so many of a public nature as last year, those that are
will, doubtless, be far superior. Washington Fire Company,
No 4, give their 3d Annual Pic Nic, at Rocky Spring, on
Thursday, the 21st inst. This company has the reputation
of getting up about the best parties and picnics of the
season, and from the preparations whioh have been mada>
and are still making, we hazard nothing in saying this
picnic will be the grandest affair of the season. The list
of managers is a sufficient guarantee for such a prediction.
Enlarged. —The Lancaster Inquirer made
its appearance on Saturday last in a considerably enlarged
and improved form, and now makes a decidedly pretty
appeaiance. The Inquirer is conducted with spirit and
ability, and we are glad to note the prosperityof the enter"
prising publishers, Messrs. Wtliz A Gaiktneb.-
Robbery of a Toll Gate—Two Hundred
and Six Dolubs Carried Ofp.—The office at the first toll
gate on the Philadelphia turnpike, at Witmer’s Bridge, was
broken into sometime last night, or early this morning,
and a drawer that contained two hundred and six dollars,
being the receipts for the last forty-eight days, carried off.
The money was in notes, gold and silver—much of small
change. The burglars effected an entrance by prying off
the shutter, which was doneso noiselessly as not to disturb
any of the family who were sleeping in an adjoining room.
The first intimation Mr. Huber, the keeper, had of the rob
bery was on getting up this morniDg about four o’clock,
when he discovered that his money-drawer was gone.
The drawer was not locked, Mr, If. having the utmost
confidence in the vigilance of a brace of dogs which were
generally around the house, and always gave the alarm at
the approach of any person after the house was closed. The
dogs last night, however, gave no alarm and had probably
been spirited away. As soon as practicable this morning,
search was made in the neighborhood, and on the road
leading to Willow Street several papers were found which
had been in the drawer, but this was the only clue to the
burglars. Several suspicious characters were seen in the
neighborhood of the gate last night, and the police are now
on their track.— Friday's Express.
—Since the above was in type the following persons have
been arrested on suspicion of haviug committed the rob*
bery : Khrraati Iluber, Catharine Huber, Henrietta Ifeiler,
Charles Klinger and George neioey. The two latter, in
default of bail, were committed for a hearing on Tuesday
next, at 2 o’clock, P. M. Officers Gundaker and Gormley
made tbo arrests, and are deserving of the highest praise
for their promptness and efficiency in the matter.
Robbery.—Mr. Wagcmer, residiDg od Mr.
Michael Kelly’s farm iu Manheim township, was robbed
of some $3OO on Friday night. Suspicion rests on a boy
named Yeager, some 16 or IT years of age, who had lived
for some time wijh Mr. Wagoner.
“The Morning Heralp/’— Weaccidentally
omitted to notice in our Inst issue the daily, under the
above title, just commenced in this city, at No. 33 East
King street, by Messrs. E. S. Speaker & Co , at three cents
per week. It'is small, to be sure, but is well gotten up
and makes a creditable appearance, and as the price is very
low it cannot fail to have a good circulation. Mr. Speaker
is one of the most industrious and indefatigable men we
know of any where, and his indomitable perseverance
deserves success. hope he will get it, and that The
Morning Herald will have S prosperous time-of it.
Departure of Trains, and Closing of the
Mails at the City Post Office.— The different Passenger
Trains on the Pennsylvania and branch railroads leave this
city as follows:
Fast Line
Through Express
Lancaster Accommodation
Mail Train
Harrisburg Accommodation.
LEAVE WESTWARD.
Through Express.
Mail Train.
Harrisburg Accommodation.
Lancaster Accommodation
Emigrant Train.
CLOSING OF MAILS DY RAILROAD.
Eastern Through Mail—For Philadelphia, New York and
Eastern States, at 6.45 a. m., 134 P- m -» aQ d ®P- m -
Way Mail East —For Philadelphia and intermediate offices,
at 6.45 a. m.
Western Through Mail—For Columbia, Harrisburg, Pitts
burg and Western States, at 934 a - m -> ® P- m *
Way Mail West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown, Mount
Joy, Middletown, Harrisburg, Lewiatown, Huntingdon,
Tyrone, Altoona, Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between
Altoona and Pittsbnrg.) at 9J4 a - m -
Southern Mail—For Columbia, York, Baltimore, Washing-
ton, D. C., and Southern States, at 934 a - m -
Pittaburg Through Mail, at 134 P- m -
For Strosburg, via: Camargo, Quarryville, Martinsville,
and New Providence, at 6.45 a. m.
ARRIVAL OF tfAILS BY RAILROAD.
Through Mail East IJ4 a. m., 1034 a. m., and 2K p. m.
Way Mail Ea5t......... a -
Through Mail West 9 % a. m., and 2J4 p. m.
Way Mail West 934 a. m., and 6p. m.
Southern Mail ? ® P-
CLOSINQ OF 31 AILS ON THE STAGE ROUTES.
For Reading, via: Neffsville, Litiz, Rothsville, Ephrata,
Reamstown, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at 8
a. m.
For Lebanon, via: East Hempfield, Manheim, White Oak,
Mount Hope and Cornwall, daily, at 2 p. m.
For Millersville and Slackwater, Tri-weekly, Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, at 1 p. m.
For Safe Harbor, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat-
urday, at 1 p. m.
for IJinkletown, via: Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl,
and Farmersville, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, at 2 p. n?-
For Paradise,via: Greenland and Soudersburg, daily, at
3 p.m.
For Litiz, viar: Neffsville, daily, 2 p. pi-
For Marietta, via: Hempfield and Silver Spring, Tri-weekly,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 0 a. w-
For Strasburg, via: Fertility and Wheatland Mills, daily at
2 p. m. ?
For Lampeter, daily, at 2 p. m.
For New Holland, via: Binkley’s Bridge, Leacock, Bareville,
Beartown, Bowmansville and Muddy Creek, Tri-weekly,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 12 m.
For Phcenixville, via: New Holland, Blue Ball, Goodville,
Churchtown, Morgantown, Honeybrook, Chester Springs,
and Kimberton, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat-
urday, at 12 m.
For Port Deposit, Md., via: Willow Street, Smithville, Buck,
Chesmit Level, Green, Pleasant Grove, Rock Springs, Md.;
and Md., Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednes
day and Friday, at 6 a. m.
For Colebrook, via: Swarris Mill, Old Line, Sporting Hill
and Mastersonville, Semi-weekly, Monday npd Friday,
at 6 a. m.
For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Tri-weekly, Monday, Thurs-
day and Saturday, at 2 p. m.
For Liberty Square, Tia: Conestoga, Marticville, Coleman
yille, Mount Nebo, Bothesda and Rawlinsville, Semi
weekly, Tuesday and Saturday, at 1 p. m.
For New Danville, weekly, Wednesday, at 9 a. m.
Office hours, from 7a.m. to S p. m. On Sunday, from 9
to 10 a. m.
Postage to California, Oregon and Washington Territo
ries, 10 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-paidwith stamps befor
they can be mailed. H. B. Swarr, Postmaster.
Staff of the 2d Brigade. —Brig. General
Sraeffer has appointed the following Staff Aid,
James P. Dysart, with the rank of Captain; Brigade Quar
termaster, Jacob H. Smith, with the rank of Captain; Bri
gade Paymaster, Frederick L. Baker, with the rank of
Captain; Brigade Surgeon, Dr. Elias B. Htrr, with the
rank of Major; Brigade Judge Advocate, Oliver J. Dickey,
with the rank of Major.
A Drover Robbed in a House of 111 Fame.
—On Wednesday evening last a man named John M.
Stoner, representing biip Kfl lf as a drover from Ohio, made
complaint, before Alderman Wiley, against one Margaret
Stoatzenberger, awormtn of tarnished fame, for t£e robbery
ftf $l2B. This woman keeps a disreputable house in the
alley near in the the Washington House, North
Queen street, where Stoner had been lounging about fpr
several days, On he drew some money at the
Farmers’ Bank, when himself and the party in the house
got on a “bit of a spree.” Shortly afterwards he missed his
pocket book, and charged the woman, Stoatzenberger, with
being the robber, which, she denied. Later in the day,
however, the woman Eent a $5O bill to Reed, McGrann*
Kelly & Co.’s Banking House to have changed, which fact
coming to the notice of Stoner he made complaint as above.
The money was in two fifty and one twenty dollar bills on
the Fjymers’.Bank, and the balance in gold, none of which:
has yet .beep repovorqL had a bearing on
Thursday afternoon, before Alderman Wiley, and was
committed, in default of ball, for trial at the August
Sessions.
For Tbo Intelligencer.
THE iI>BBP OB' HOUSES i* AQKICpi— j
- TDBAI PAIOS.
Somelqng-vboged gentry, anti-amoseflieht hypocrites,:
lair, sluggards, envious busy bodies, who cann
neither’ride*-drive or manage a
iznorttiee of the good qualties of thir C*
the beet and most nsefal that the wise Creatorhas given;
to man,) and lately exhibited their bitter effiupons In the ;
colmhffsofthe “Daily Express”against the ejflffbitipnoE
the speed;of horses at our Agricultural jraixs>ThavB wur;
follv misrepresented the-intentions and honorable conduct;
ofthe Manages* of those Fairs, by styllngthgffggdff the,
trottihg-th&ambling, the pacing of the nbmeamniala
*»Hobsb Racrsa,” “unworthy of premiums, and a ■ dis
eracefal practice.” . 1 , '
I have attended a number of State and County Fairs,:
and at each and every one was more impressed with the
benefits of their improvements, their utility, their advan
tages to the whole public, and their.mauagement.ipr. the.
best interests of the community; I went to learn, aadnot
to find fault I Went to encourage the active,
and enterprising vpirtta that desiredtb'gratUy the stbuc<
and benefit all, and I have ever felt gratefnl to those for
the pleasure they afforded to all. The trouble, the expense,
and the 'numerous difficulties that the Managers' of such
Institutions are subjected.to are tasks nottpbeperformed,
Without much uneasiness arid -extraordinary energy, and
to please all the varied dispositions of the vast multitudes
who crowd together on such occasions, and especially the
pusillanimous,'selfish and envious, Is a -well-known Impos
sibility. Suffice it to say, that whilst one -has. hu Whole,
mind and fortune centered iff Ids novel; useful and ingeni
ous Farm Implement—a second in the wonderful working,
of bis Steam Engine—a third his skilful and beautiful
Household-Furniture —fourth his Field and Garden pro
ductions—a fifth bis noble Dnrbam^Devon*Leicester, Short:
and* Lobg Horned Cattle—a sixth' Ida jpnocent-looking
Southdown; Merino, Cheviot, Mountain«and Cashmere
’Sheep and Goats—a seventh, his .Mules and. Asses—and
others their great variety of-Poultry, Game, Spanish,
Shanghai and Golden Bantams, Peacocks, Pigeons. and
varied plumaged Birds, I respect their selections and tastes,
and like’them all, hut, mosfofall, I like the Horse, the
full-blooded, high-mettled, prancing Hunter, or Racer, or
Wild H6ree of the American Prairies. T want a good one,
I want the best, and every other generous-souled exhibitor
will allow me to enjoy the same feelings of competition,
and allow me to exclaim for “a Horse,'a Horse, my Ktng
dom for 'aHorse’?—the'noblestauimoi of God’s creation—
the strongest, fiercestand swiftest, nextinbeauty to Queen
Cleopatra/ Aye! made thru parts likethose of the loveliest
Woman,, viz:, the breast, which is to be broad, the hips
round, and the*mane long; ‘three of a Lion, viz :• his coun
tenance, intrepidity and'fire;-three of a Bullock, viz: the
eye, nostril and joint; threo of a Sheep, viz: the nose, gen
tleness and patience; three ofa Male, strength, constancy
and foot; three of & Deer, the head, leg and hair short;
three ofa Wolf, the throat, neck and bearing; three of a
Fox the ear, : tail and trot; three of a Serpent, memory,
sight and turning; three ofa Hare or Cat, running,; walk
ing and suppleness.
If I could but bring Alexander the Great, who excelled
all his contemporaries in horsemanship, to match his far
famed “Bucephalus” on these Fair Grounds, as he did in
the presence of hundreds of thousands of his delighted sub
jects—or the immortal Andrew Jackson to exhibit the
speed of his celebrated coursers that won the plates on the.
Southern Turf—or John Randolph, the distinguished
American Orator, who imported the best stock of Spanish,
Turkish, Neapolitan and English Blooded Horses into
Virginia, and made that Btate so femous for the rearing of
the finest animals, together with the Black Arabian and
Golden Sorrel that he brought to Washington City from
Russia in 1828, a present to President Jackson, and almost
daily exhibited their speed, on the commons at Washing
ton. in presence of the President, his Cabinet, the members
of Congress, and thousands of admiring citizens—or the
great American Statesman, Henry Clay, with his celebrated
long-winded horse, “John Bascomb,” that won the four
mile heats and purses at every Southern Race Course, and
established the fame of the Kentucky breed of horses—or
the renowned chieftain. Zachary Taylor, with bis affection
ate, watchful and fearless War Horse, “Old Whitey.” Oh!
that I could bring upon the Pennsylvania Fair Grounds
the great and good Washington with his favorite English
bred Hunters, “Blueskiu” and “Valiant,” and Arabian
Racer, “Magnolia,” that skimmed the race coursesand the
wild places and forests of Virginia, and excelled in speed
the fleetest and fastest of their company, and who chose
the fleetest hounds he could get, so that he might keep his
horse up to the height of his speed; and with his noble
Turkish Stallion, “Ajax,” that had been selected for his
'strength, courage and swiftness to drive the British Lion
from our land, and theso latter day Saints and Pharisaical
Reformers would hang their heads in shame and confusion.
When Hambright, Reigart and Huffnagle selected and
bought the horses for Lee’s flying and terrible Trory of
; Horse in the Revolutionary War, they did not select the
■ heavy, dull Flanders’ draught horses, celebrated for their
thick heads, long buttocks and rough legs, but they chose
from the Spanish breed the best, as creatures of great fire,
of unfailing strength and show upon parade, whose open
nostrils and snort gave spirit to the Troop; and they pur
chased none unless they knew eaoh horse’s generation, his
grandsire or grandam. None of these great men, and no
good horseman now, could know the speed, wind, force
and heart of any horse, or could choose for hunting, breed
ing, or the road, without trials op speed. None would
stand the hazard; good horses would be unknown; and
as it is well known that every good horse himself takes
pleasure in the trial of speed, it is evident that even they
have more sense than these croaking reformers; and when
at a certain hour of the Fair the multitude crowd the
booths, encircle the course, and make the welkin ring as
the neat shaped feet, the wide nostril, the-back, sinews
and bones of the spirited horses are stretching over the
course, those who cannot appreciate or enjoy the sport
should be decent enough to retire, and generous enough to
allow the more sensible portion of the community to eDjoy
themselves, and learn their children the make, color, age,
temper, good and bad marks, mettle and qualities of horses;
their respective countries and climates; their uses and
services; whether the raoo, the wars, saddle or labor;
their diseases and remedies; and to understand the art of
riding or directing a horse to advantage, not only in the
ordinary motions, but more especially in the managing to
excel in all trials of speed, so as to know the best horse,
and not to be cheated with a bad one, and our Pennsylva
nia Farmers would raise none other than a good and beau
tiful race of horses.
No one dare deny but that the only way to prove whether
a horse has any natural or acquired habits, good or bad. is
by a complete trial. Some are brisk and active, of a quick
apprehension, as well as retentive memory ; whilst others
are dull and sluggishly stupid. Some are calm and gentle;
others are fierce and furious. Some are skittish and fear
ful; others are resolute and bold. And when a horse hat
learned to know and love his feaster, he is of all other
brutc9 the fondest creature of man, and in all respocts the
most obedient, and the art of riding and managing him
one of the most accomplished exercises and pleasures,
worthy of the brightest premiums. If the best plow and
beßt plowman receive an honorable and meritorious pre
mium at oor Agricultural Fairs, why should not the best
horseman and horse be rewarded accordingly f Let the
course or ring be open for competition, and let him who
can best teach a good seat upon the horse’s back, a free,,
easy, disongaging posture, and make his horse carry to
advantage; let him walk, trot aud gallop, with the fastest
horses in the fastest time, and how to manage in jumping
and vaulting, that he may be of use in the dangers of war,
in the necessities of life, and in the pomp and splendor of
festivals and public shows; and as he vaults and leaps and
wheels, be may sho\r the best soldier’s horse with hia gal
lop of unequal swiftness, whilst “the longer he rides him
the better he likes him,” and the more deserving of a
PREMIUM.
Mr. Greely in the Gold Diggings. —Out
of pure respect to the white coated philoso
pher of the New York Tribune, we have kept
our readers apprised of his journey to the
land of gold, and the incidents connected
therewith. We announce now that he has
reached the auriferous regions : has taken off
his ooat and rolled up his sleeves—has seized
the shovel and hoe, and commenced digging
for filthy lucre. In the Tribune of Tuesday
laßt we find a long letter from him, dated at
Gregory’s Diggings, on the 9th of June,
from which we extract the following. Mr.
Greeley undoubtedly tells the truth about
what he has seen and heard, and hepce the
information he furnishes is valuable. He says:
..1.38 a. m.
.10.27 a. m.
..230 p. m.
..5.35 p. m.
..8.00 p. m.
~.1.00 a. m.
41 1 presume less than half the four or five
thousand people now in this ravine have been
hereon week ; he who has been here three
weeks is regarded as quite an old settler. The
influx cannot fall short of five hundred per
day, balanced by an efflux of about one hun
dred. Many of the latter go away convinced
that Rocky Mountain gold mining is one
grand humbug. Some of them have pros
pected two or three weeks, eating up their
provisions, wearing out their boots—and
finding nothing. Others have worked for the
more fortunate forsl per day and their board
and lodging—certainly not high wages when
the quality of the living is considered, And
I feel certain that, while some—perhaps many
—will realize their dreams of wealth here,” a
far greater number will expend their scanty
means, tax their powers of endurance, and
then leave, soured, heart sick, spirit-broken.
Twenty thousand people will have rushed into
this ravine before the Ist of September,
while I do not see how half of them are to
find profitable employment here.
44 Unless, therefore, the area of the diggings
shall meantime be greatly enlarged—of which
there is no'assurance —l cannot imagine how
half jfl) 6 number are to subsist here, even up
to that early setting in of winter which must
cause a general paralysis of mining and con
sequently of all other Rooky Mountain
industry. With the gold just wrested from
the earth still glittering in my eyes —and one
company has taken ont-to-day, at a cost of
not more than $25, a lump (condensed by the
use of quick-silver) whieh looks like a Bteel
yard poise and is estimated as worth $5l0 —I
adhere to my long settled conviction that,
next to outright and indisputable gambling,
the hardest (though sometimes the quickest)
way to obtain gold is to mine tor it—that a
good farmer or mechanic yill make money
Faster by sticking to his own business than by
deserting it for gold-digging—and that the
man who, having failed in some other pursuit,
calculates on retrieving his fortunes by gold
mining, makes a mistake which he will he
likely to rue to the end of his days.
44 We had a famous gathering a few rods
from this tent this evening. The estimate of
safe men puts the number present at 1500 to
2000. Though my name was made the
excuse for it, brief and forcible addresses were
made by several others, wherein Mining,
Postal and Express facilities, the Pacific
Railroad, the proposed new Rooky Mountain
State, Temperance, Gambling, &c., &c., were
discussed with force and freedom. Such a
gathering of men suddenly drawn hither from
every section and nearly every State, in a
glen where the first axe was raised, the firet
tent pitched by white men, less than six weeks
ago, should have inspired the dullest speaker
with earnesthess, if not with eloquence.
44 Mining quickens almost every department
of useful industry. Two coal pits are burn
ing close at hand. A blacksmith has set up
his forge here, and is making a good thing of
sharpening picks at 50 cents each, A volun
teer post office is just established, to which
an express office will soon attaph itself. A
provision store will soon follow ; then grocer
ies ; then dry goods j then a hotel, &c., until,
within ten years, the tourist of the Continent
will be whirled up to these diggings over a
longer but far easier road, winding around the
mountain tops rather than passing oyer them,
and will sip his chocolate and read his New
York paper—-not yet five days old) —at the
14 Gregory- House,” itp utter unconsciousness
that this region wqs wrested from the elk and
the mountain sheep so recently as 1859.”
AOD&EBS of tlie »tA , P&-c6HBaf T»®*
VT& publish, to the exclusion of other mat
ter, _the addre*w of - the -State Committee,
adopfed in on
We caV
iidiscufuses the .polecat issuesnow before the|
perusal. The principles gqyenH
ang v diie s
stronger, andtbe misrepresentation s-by-which*
they are constantly assailed more feeble, than*
after a calm survey of the field, accompanied
by a vigoroos exposition of the fundamental
doctrines of the great coostij-uripnal .party of
the conn try. The time-honored custom' of the
State Committee in addressing the :people of
the Statedirectly has been followed- in the
past by the happiest effects, and we trust that
the same consequences may flow from this
ably written address. ' 'X ; r ; .- -
ADDREBS.
Fellow* Citizens of Fennsylbaiiia :
We are happy to address you at a moment
when unmistakable manifestations of return
irig confidence and courage oh the part of the
Democracy are begin ning to exhibit themselves
in all quarters of the Commonwealth. You
have already seen with what unanimity the
State Convention, which assembled at'Harris
burg on the 16th of March last, passed resolu
tions'affirming the principles : and policy to
which we hold ourselves pledged before the
country, and how it pronounced, by acclama
tion, in favor.of our excellent and unexcep
tionable candidates. With an occasional ex
ception' in the nature of an amicable protest
or suggestion, the proceedings of the Conven
tion have been iu the highest degree satisfac
tory to the entire Democratic party of the
State. Since its adjournment there has been
an almost perfect restoration of cordial good
: feelings among Democrats, where they had
' beeninsomeinstances temporarily interrupted.
Unfortunate and unmeaning dissensions have
; entirely disappeared. In earnest of this, the
! State Central Committee, although composed
i of forty-one members, representing every dis
trict in the State, and some of whom you will
doubtless recognize in their long and faithful
connection with the Democratic organization,
have been found an unit in the resolute purpose
to sustain that organization at all hazards,
against open or secret hostility. The county
meetings, wherever they have spoken, have
shown themselves fully conscious of their
responsibilities, by forming local tickets of
the most acceptable description, and by
otherwise exhibiting an earnest and, we
trust, invincible determination to crown the
canvass with the success that can hardly, fail
to attend their zealous and efficient exertions.
We are glad to state, also, that the Democratic
press have dropped, with one accord, all
unfriendly and unprofitable discussions on
irrelevant topics and settled issues, and are
properly-directing their undivided and power
ful energies against the common enemy. For
every professing Democrat who values consis
tency and principle, the path of duty is now
broad, plain and inviting. No one can be' so
ignorant as to pretend to misunderstand the
present relation of parties in this State; the
importance of the contest, both in its State
and National aspects, upon which we have
now fairly entered, aDd the preoise import of
the issues that have been formed in this pend
ing controversy. The line which divides the
two contending parties, whether drawn on the
map of the State, or that of the Union, is too
deep and striking to escape the eye of any one
who may not wilfully choose to be blind. On
one side of this line stand the Democracy of
Pennsylvania, harmonious in our deliberations
and fearless in the exposition of our views,
with a platform and ticket challenging honest
criticism; while on the opposite side you
perceive two factions—the Black Republicans
and Know Nothings—composing the Opposi
tion, each afraid to avow its ultimate designs,
or its present distinctive characteristics ; each
emasculated of its original distinguishing
quality; each declaring itself opposed to the
other on certain vital points, yet conspiring
together to secure place and spoils, by delib
erately ’ ignoring all sound principles of
Government, ana all enlightened inspirations
of true American statesmanship.
We do not approach you, fellow citizens, in
the name of a “ People’s Party,” concocted
on yesterday, composed of the shreds and
patches of all opinions, and intended to serve,
not the masses who may be deceived by its
empty promises, but the politicians, who have
invented it for their profligate purposes. We
speak in the same language used by the
i founders of our glorious party sixty years ago.
No candid man will deny that, from the
inaugurationjof Mr. Jefferson to the present
: date, the Democratic party has been the real
| representative party of the genius, character,
honor and interests of our free institutions.
It has been so recognized by the people of the
United States, who have so constantly imposed
upon it the duties and burdens of government.
It has happily eliminated the leading truths
of the Constitution, embodied them in simple
though imperishable formulas of doctrine, and
applied them firmly and efficiently in practical
administration, until it has become the actual
reflex of all the great constitutional principles
at the.basis of our republican system. Its
ancient creed is unchanged, and remains
substantially at this day what it has ever been.
More than half a century ago, as at this* hour,
one of its articles watched with faithful vigi
lance, over the rights of the States and the
union of. the States ; another insisted then,
as now, on civil and religious freedom for all
classes and sects, discriminating for none and
against none, whether Catholic or Protestant,
Jew or Gentile, but permitting “ every man
to worship God after his o.wn hearta third
invoked, as it now invokes, in the shape of
generous laws, a liberal hospitality towards
the oppressed of all lands, as well for reasons
of sound policy as from motives of humanity
and a love of liberty; a fourth demanded, as
it now requires, territorial expansion to meet
all exigencies, whether military, or commer
cial —for security, defence, or national aggran
dizement—arisingoutof the natural, inevitable
and benevolent progress of American civiliza
tion, and hence.it has happened that every
foot of Territory annexed to the Union , has
been acquired by the Democratic party ; in a
fifth article of our faith was and is presented
the noble Jeffersonian conception of universal
suffrage with universal education ; in a sixth
was ana is proclaimed the grand principle of
equal rights, before the laws, of all citizens,
rich or poor—native or naturalizedin a
seventh was and is announced the doctrine of
a strict construction of the necessary powerß
of government, as being alone compatible
with sound political morals, and in the unwise
relaxation of which debt, extravagance,
tyranny and corruption would soon find their
way into the very citadel of the Constitution,
to bfetray and destroy it. Under this head
the labors of the Democracy have been
invaluable. We have opposed National Banks,
destroyed them and established the Indepen
dent Treasury. We have steadily and
successfully resisted the imposition on the
people of heavy federal taxes by excessive
duties.on imports, and have obtained the con
currence of a large majority of the country
in the rule that taxes shall be limited to the
demands of revenue alone, with incidental
protection, by judicious discriminations, to
Home Industry. We have defeated all
propositions for the distribution of tbe proceeds
of the public lands among the States. We have
sedulously and effectually guarded the Public
Treasury from heavy charges for internal im
provements in cases admitted to or
National, but special and local in their
character. And we have steadily refused our
assent to, and resisted many cunningly
devised senemes for squandering of
the public money, and tens'of millions of acres
of the public domain, on objepts whose useful
ness and legality have been alike questionable.
We might extend the enunciation of our
principles, concerning which there has been
no change of sentiment whatever in the
Democratic party since its earliest
were made, but we think we have already said
enough to convince every intelligent citizen
del!rouß to know the impartial truth, that we
now speak 'as one of the constituted organs of
a great and glorious party, not of an epheme
ral faction, or combination of factions—that
we represent on this occasion a pnrty as
venerable for its age as it is and
honorable, in view of the extraordinary
services it has so long, so honestly and so
ably performed. Can it not be asserted as an
unquestionable fact, that no party ever yet
existed in any country on the face of the
earth, that can justly claim to have rendered
the same amount of valuable services to that
country, which the Democratic party has
rendered to ours ? On any issue therefore in
volving honorable historical anteoedentsyior a
consideration of general merits in the, past or
; we shall appeal with confidence to the
vbters of thntisylvhma. ' £ , ‘
As regards the personal character and
qualifications of our nominees for Auditor
General and Surveyor General of the "Cbm; -
monwealtb, Messrs. ILL. Wright and John -
Rowe, wo earnestly deaireto call the atten- -
lion of i>nr fellow citizens tpthhir nnHemish:
ed private reputation, to. experience
thaiWvipB;of-the State
vatiouaiireepoiinhle offices,' and to the
%dinftfed and efficiency,-marking
lives&aa, offering the
guarantee of Jbescyteess, in all
forddiß-positidoai'SdXwluafcthey now
aspire: ,
. Bat there is one question comparatively
new to the country, in the fohn in which it is
presented, tbat'has occasioned some diversity
of sentiment among us, and which has not.
been settled authoritatively, as some Demo
crats contend, by the highest counoils of the
party. -We refer to what-is commonly known
as the Territorial question. The most ingen
ious and labored efforts have been made to
confuse the public mind on this subject, but
when -rescued from the incomprehensible
jargon of the demagogues,; it merely,.raises
an enquiry which should be calmly and can;
didly met,* as to the nature and extent of the
Legislative power possessed by the inhabitants
of a Territory«uf ’ the United 'States, in the
political relations of such Territory to the
Government and States of the Union.. We
.do not now proposo to discuss this question at
any considerable length, or to say much more
than briefly to express our views regarding it..
We presume that every true Democrat will
yield his ready adhesion to the principle of
Popular Sovereignty, when rightly interpreted
and applied. But real Popular Sovereignty
is not a spurious political idea, indefinite,
vagrant and accidental. It is, when .properly
defined, nothing more nor less than the right
of self-government pervading pur entire sys
tem, but expressly limited in its action by the
Constitution and the laws. It cannot exist
legitimately outside of these. Otherwise,,
instead of being, as it is .under our Govern
ment, the touchstone of order, justioe and
peace, it would become the Source of multiplied
disorders and constant anarchy. Thus
defined and limited, Popular Sovereignty is
equally incompatiblewith the rash proceedings
of a mob, as with the edicts of a tyrant. We
cannot, therefore, subscribe to the illegitimate
assumptions of “ Squatter Sovereignty.” We
are clearly of opinion that a Territory of the.
United States oan in no respect whatever,-be
regarded as either a Foreign or Sovereign
State. Nor can it enjoy, by possibility, any
political capacity independent of, or incoDsis
tent with, the government of the Union
established by the States, by whose agency
they, the States, through an expenditure of
their treasure, and it may be, their blood,
have acquired the very Territory in question,
as so much public domain or “commonprop
erly.” Where, let us ask, resides the right
of eminent domain over a Territory of the
United States ? js it not admitted by all to
be with the Federal Government? Where
shall we look for the right and power to
ascertain and fix all Territorial boundaries?
Is it not to the Federal Government ? Where
shall we seek the right and power and duty
to dispose of all lands embraced in the Ter
ritory? The answer is, in the Federal
Government. Where in the government of
a Territory is lodged the Executive authority ?
It is lodged in the hands of a Federal Gov
ernor. Where is the judicial power of a
Territorial Government? In the keeping of
a Federal Jndioiary. Where is the Legislative
power? Every one knows it did not exist,-
and that it could not legally exist, until
oalled into being by the Federal Congress, in
the organic act of Territorial Government. —
In all these demonstrations of power, and
there can be none others outside of them in a
Territorial Government, we behold the direct,
positive and tangible evidences of the presence
of the sovereignty of the Government of the
United States, excluding the pretensions of
Squatter or Territorial legislative sovereignty,
or Popular Sovereignty when used as a con
vertible term with these, as being alike
untenable in fact, and preposterous in logic.
Rut it must be borne in mind that the
Federal Government cannot act in a Territory
as a despot, or arbitrary ruler; and here is
the difference between our doctrine and that of
the Wilmot Provisoiles. It must govern in a
Territory in the sense of the Constitution,
from which it derives its life and its every
function, and it is bound to respect, with
strict impartiality, the rights and interests of
all parties concerned, these parties being the
States and people of the States respectively.
Now tho Government of a Territory is not
natural and indefeasible, but derivative from
the Congress; otherwise, the few thousand
inhabitants of a Territory, after its acquisi
tion by purchase, or as indemnity for war
expenses perhaps, would have the right to set
themselves up as a foreign State, if they so
liked, and to deny the jurisdiction of the
United States- But Congress, when establish
ing a Government in a Territory, cannot
impart to it authority to do, by feeble Terri
torial enactments, what Congress itself cannot
undertake to perform under the Constitution,
and can never venture to undertake, except
in flagrant usurpation of powers not delegated,
but reserved to the States.
We are opposed, however, to the introduc
tion of any provision particularly protecting
slave, or any other kind of property, into an
act organizing a Territorial Government. Bat
if a Territory attempt nullification, or rebel
lion, in the shape of resistance to acts of
Congress, or to judicial decisions in their
proper logical and legal consequences, or to
any other legitimate acts done in and by
virtue of the Constitutional authority of the
United States over the same, then the Federal
Government should at once interpose and put
it down, not so much for the sake of the
slave, or any other kind of property, or even
of the personal rights of oitizens that may be
thereby invaded, though constituting a
sufficient reason for the movement, as looking
to the necessity of its own preservation. But i
before the happening of any such act ofj
nullification, or rebellion, and at the time of:
organizing a Territorial Government, the |
presumptions are all in favor of a legal and
peaceful course of political conduct on the
part of the inhabitants of a Territory;
whereas the doctrine of Congressional inter
vention would assume the reverse. In fine, we
are disposed to maintain on this question,
and at alj times, the fundamental principle
of the equality of the States. We are distinctly
opposed to any compulsory relinquishment,
in the name of squatter sovereignty,- of the
rights of the State of Pennsylvania, as one
of the sovereign proprietors of all the public
domain or Territorial property of the United
States, and we still occupy, without any
change of opinion, the ground held by the
following resolution of the Cincinnati Con- I
vention of 1856, to wit: I
“ Resolved , That we recognize the right of
the people of all the Territories, including
Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the
legally and fairly expressed will of a majority
of actual residents, and whenever the number
of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a
constitution with or without domestic slavery,
and be admitted into the Union upon terms
of perfect equality with the other States,”
This resolution distinctly represents the
marked difference between the revolutionary
efforts of the first squatters in a new Terri
tory to abolish Negro Slavery or to prevent
the introduction of Slave property into the
Territory, by the incompetent agenoy of a
Territorial Legislature, and the constitutional,
and quiet exercise of the rights of Sovereignty,:
by the people of a territory in the formation
of a State Constitution with or without
domestic Slavery, as they may determine.—
In the meantime, the citizens of each and
every State, being in all respects equal with
each other under tfio Constitution, take their
various kinds of property with them into the
Territory, and in a Territorial condition
they and their property are all equally pro
tected by the Constitution of the United
States and the Dred Scott decision. We thus
stand on the sure foundation .of the Constitu
tion and the Law, which sternly and justly
deny the arbitrary power of one set of settlers
to confiscate the property of another set. We
thus avoid, too, those contests between settlers,
by which the people are kept in a constant
state of commotion and turbulence, with
mifrder, rapine, burnings and" alf kinds of
violent acts, throughout their entire Terri
torial existence, and to the prejudice of their
interest, and of the peace and harmony of |
the States of the Union.
A little more than two years ago Pennsyl
vania had the proud satisfaction to witness
the elevation of her most distinguished States
man to the Presidency. This illustrious citi
zen, her choioe and that of the country for the
first office of the Republic, was elected after a
doubtful and dangerous contest, as the can*
didate of tho National Democracy of the
Union, over the nominee of a sectional move*
ment suddenly springing into its calamitous
existence on a single fanatical idea, avowedly
confined in its operations to one moiety of the
Confederacy, and in its reckless disregard of
the Constitution seeming to indicate, as its
proximate design, the total rain of the coafi*
- Having- sustained - iriniBeH7ChlrfT>£ tlis
period wbioH.bas elapsed sinoe he entered on
the duties of the Presidraay, against tfie most
extraordinary opposition .that any Chief.
Magistrate ever yet encountered Mid survived,
the Administration of'James Buahanan stands
now above the impotent reaoh of its enemies,
strongly" entrenched ih the confidence and
respect of? the tSonaervative iutoes of the
nation. Inducted into his great Offioe as the
chosen* lepKssentetivffof law, of union, and of
the true principles of the Government, he has,
in his offioial conduct, fully justified the confi
dent expectation of a large majority of those
.whose votes were given for him. The foreign
policy of the Administration has not been
merely satisfactory; it has been bo eminently
successful that it is agreed, almost by common
consent, the country never before filled a
position so enviable in the estimation of
foreign States. Although 'opposed most
earnestly and Indefatigably throughout; and
in-many instances meanly, treacherously
vindictively by his opponents, he has consum
mated measures in- the. .direction of the
diplomaoy of the Government that stamp his
Administration with the seal of
honor. The Paraguay expedition, notwith
standing its failure was so confidently
predicted by the olamorous organa of the
Opposition, was attended, nevertheless, with
the fullest success. The treaty with Japan,
opening new ports to our present and future
trade TOth that crowded empire; the treaty
with China, by whose careful provisions,
besides covering the entire of com
mercial advantages, the light of Christianity,
lor the first time, is permitted freely to shine
among the heathen millions of the Chinese
world; the consummate skill and judgment
with which, in the face of never ceasing
difficulties and surprising complications, the
Central Atnericau questions have been manag
ed now just ou the eye, apparently, of produc
ing their well nigh invaluablefruits; and, above
all, the final settlement of the Right oCSearoh
question with Great Britain, dearly on
American principles; all make up a chapter
of history whioh, if it should contain an
account of nothing else of note, would seoure
for President Buchanan's Administration a
prominent and gloriouß place in our annals %
When we turn to Mr. Buchanan’s domostio
. Administration, so far from its affording
reasonable cause of complaint, it deserves the
heartiest commendation of every oitizen who
scorns the petty, personal, paltry politics of
the hour, who admires the conceptions aDd
practice of real statesmanship, and who
detests the miserable evasions and dishonest
expedients of office seeking politicians. While
the President may have offended, in sopae
instances, the morbid sentiments of
localities, we aver that no one wpq sp.eaka
seriously and truthfully, can point his finger
to a single case in which he has not endeavored,
according to his best convictions, to vindicate
the laws he was sworn to maintain and,to
execute. Nor can his bitterest opponent
honestly accuse him of having sought personal
popularity at the expense of the Constitution;
or that ho has at any time deserted his rigid
official obligations, by coinciding with the
prejudices, or peculiar interests of any
section, or State, North, South, Bast or West?
We speak somewhat warmly, fellow citizens,
because we have been and are conscientiously
indignant at the course of misrepresentation
and vituperation adopted by the Opposition,
as the electioneering trick of a parly , against
• a great and venerable man, the purity of
whose private life, or public conduct, oannot
really be questioned by any honorable person
on honorable grounds. Besides, we wish to
declare that, if to their discredit, others may
forget it, we always remember that James
Buchanan is a Pennsylvanian born and bred;
that his fame as a statesman, while
with the highest reputation in the most
responsible trusts under the Government, is
inseparably a part of our State glory ; and
that by force of his virtues and splendid
abilities, he is the first and only Pennsylvanian
to whom the nation has accorded the Chief
Magistracy of the Union.
When he assumed office it is well known to
us, and to all, that two important Territories
of the United States were in a condition of
revolt and civil war. We need not point out
the fact that both of these Territories arc now
at peace with themselves and obedient to the
Government. It is in every one's recollection,
too, how angry and perilous was the excite
ment prevailing both North and South on the
subject of negro slavery ; —an excitement con
stantly fanned into a flame by “ Kansas
shrieking” inventions, and other sensation
appliances of the same sort, until patriotic
men began to fear the worst, and to turn pale
with apprehension. It is due to the President
to say that he has restrained the wild and
vicious spirit of faction with a strong
moderate in its grasp, though strong—until, at
last, the whole Judiciary of the land , Federal
and Stab, at Washington, in Ohio,in Georgia,
in South Carolina and elsewhere, may be seen
coming <6 the rescue of the Government;
while in the august presence of the Courts,
the storm of political violence begins sensibly
to subside, common sense begins everywhere
to master unreason, and the victorious presence
of the begins to conquer the hydra of
license and disunion.
In the year 1857, a commercial and finan
cial revuhion, overwhelming as it was sudden,
swept over the country, threatening not only
private, hit public solvency. No one will
think of seeking to hold the President in any
way responsible for this extensive and disas
trous convilsion of business and credit. But
we believe (that we have a right to insist that
all proper acknowledgment should be made
for the sagteity, prudence and tact character
izing the proceedings of the Administration,
by means cf which the Government' was taken
through ail unexpected crisis of profound
embarrassuent, without the least depredation
of its credit, and without any addition to the
taxes, or permanent increase of the public
debt. i • • • , ‘
We miglt say much more, and equally to
the purpoffi, in defence of the President and
his Admiristration from the scurrilous gossip
and slanderous attacks of those who degrade
themselvej and the press, by resorting to
such contemptible devices, bo certain to be
exposed—hut we forbear, leaving the whole
subjeot to the sober investigation and serious
judgment sf the people.
We hac intended calling your attention,
fellow citizens, to other topics; to offer some
suggestions in reply to the misrepresentations
made by he Opposition of Gen. Cass' recent
letter*to Jr. Hofer, and to refer to and to de
nounce, ii appropriate language, the present
amendment of the Constitution of Massachu
setts, effected by the votes of the Opposition
there, being at once, as it is, a deadly insult
to every naturalized citizen in the United
States, md an excessive demonstration in
favor of he pet Black Republican doctrine of
negro eqiality, or rather shall we say of
negro suprioriiy. But we feel that we have
already deficiently occupied yoijr attention,
and we \jill reserve what we have fprtbe? to
pother occasion.
ROBERT TYLER,
.hnan in behalf of the Committee.
Chal
John <
John 1
Jacob[
N. P.f
C. Freeze, I
BLolgson, I c pprphll .; pfl
TurAet, r Secretaries.
pETTERMAN,J
A Yo(ng Ladt in a Trance —Narrow Es
cape frJh Burial. —The Peoria (111.) Union
of the 6 h ult., learns from Mr. R. D. Story,
of Medina, in that county, that
Elizabe b, a girl of about nineteen, had a ver
itable thnce a few day ago. The only pro
monitoiy symptoms seem to have been thqt on
the prefioqs morning she “ felt like she had
nut slept all night, and yet was not conscious
of having been awake.” She was in good
health knd spirits through the day, (31st ult.)
retiredjearly, and seemed to be sound asleep
when ber Bister came to bed, that the latter
sot wake her. Id the morning she was
Ipparently dead. In a lew hours pre
(ns were in progress for the burial of
iy, and Thursday set for the funeral.—
aghbors were called in, and all decided
pas best to bury her at the time sue-
I—no one considering it necssary to call
could
found
pdratii
the boi
The n<
that it
gestedj
a pbyncian.
On Wednesday evening, however, before the
coffin pad been brought, while the younger
brother waß looking on the face of his dead
sißterjhe thought he saw the lips move, and,
livid pith fear, ran to communicate his suspi*
cionsjto.bis mother. She was just entering
the flont door, receiving some friends from
Henry Co., and at the announcement, uttered
a mffit agonising shriek of surprise. This was
instantly followed by one from the chamber
wherb Elizabeth was lying, and when her
mother and friends entered the room, she was
sitting on the cooling board, as muoh surpri
sed it the alarm of her friends, as they were at
her Hidden recovery from what they thought
the crave. Mr. S.’s statement stands endorsed
by families residing near him. On Saturday
Miss Story was in perfeot health, hut from
dpeai superstition will not explain her feel
ings while in the state of trance. She avoids
speiidng of it.