)e Ccmcastcr 3ntclligmccr GEO. SANDERSON, EDITOR. A. SANDERSON, AMOCtate. LANCASTER, PA., DECEMBER 13,1859. - CIRODI4ATION, SOOO COPIES I BTOBOBIPTIOW Price, $2,00 per annum. 49* B. M. PwmnnA 4 Co.’s ADTTBTtaiHQ AsiHOT, 112 Nassau street, New York, and 10 State street, Bouton. 8. M. Pzrihgxu * 00, are Agents for The Lancaster TnteUigencfr, and the most influential and largest circula ting Newspapers In the United States and the Canadas.— they are anthorixed to contract for ns at our lowest rates. COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING. The Democratic County Committee will meet at Bhober’s Hotel, North Queen street, in the City of Lancaster, on SATURDAY, DECEMBER ITth, 1859, at 11 o’clock, A. M. Every member Is requested to attend, as business of im portance .will demand the Committee’s consideration. H. B. SWARR, Chairman. H. H. Bkbhbmah, Secretary. Luroasm, December 13tfa, IMMITTEB. 8. E. W.—Geo. M. Kline s. W.W.—lacob F. Kautz. Lancaster twp.—B. Huber. Lampeter E.—J. L. Llgbtner. Lampeter W.—Sam’i Long. Leacock:—John L. Lightner. Leacock U —Dr. A. 8. Bare. Little Hritalo —M. Reynolds. Maalielm twp.—B. Eby. Manbelm Bor.—J. E. Cross. Manor—George G. Broßh. Martlc—Wm. N. Gibson. Marietta—Charles Kelly. Mt. Joy twp.—J. Nichols. Mt. Joy 8.-J. H. Brunneman. Paradise—Dr. J. J. Strewn. Penn—H. R. Hull. Adamstown—E. Redcay,'Jr, Bart—Amos Rockey. Brecknock—R. E. Shober. CaernarTon —Jacob Yohn. Clsy—John Elser, Esq. Oolerain—A Whiteside. Columbia, N. W.—T. Welsh. “ 8. W.—BeoJ. Horr. Cocalico E.—Cyrus Ream. Cocalico W.—J. Reinhold. Conestoga—Sam'l B. Welsh. Oonoy—Emanuel Nagle. Donegal E.—P. J- Albright. Donegal W Henry Funk. Drnmore—John McSparran Samuel Ringwalt Earl East—Geo. Dochman. Earl West—Jacob JtJnsaer, jr. Ephrata—P. M. Heitler. Elizabeth—John Elser, Jr. Elizabethtown—J. A. Gross. Eden—Henty H. Breneman. Fulton —Samuel Wicks. Hempfleld E.—Dr. 8. Parker. Hempfleld W.—J. M. Weller. City, N. W.W.-Col. J. Rankin. N. B. W —H. B. Swarr. . Pequea—Christian R. Herr. PruvldeDce —Dr. J. K. Raub. Rupbo—ll. B. Becker Btra*borg B.—W. T. McPhall. . Strasburg twp, —F. Clark. Salisbury—T. W. Henderwn. . Sadsbury—A. Townsend. . Warwick—T. Lichteuthaler. ..Washington—J. E. Charles. * » MB.. LOVEJOY’S ADDRESS. We direottbe attention of our readers to the first page for several interesting articles, amongst others the admirable letter of Rev. Mr. Loyejoy, of Boston, to the People of New England. It is a most powerful appeal to the “ sober second thought ” of that Aboli tioo-ridden portion of our common country, and is truly refreshing in these times of trouble and perplexity, growing out of the mad efforts of Black Republican orators aud writers, olerical and lay, to sectionalize the .Union, and thus destroy the fairest govern mental fabric ever erected by human hands. Would that there were many more such true hearted and fearless patriots in New England. PUBLIC OPINION. An immense Union Meeting was held at Jayne’s llall, Philadelphia, on Wednesday evening last, which was presided over by lion. Joseph R. Ingersoll. The meeting was com posed of lawyers, merchants, mechanics, and the business men generally of the city, without regard to politics, and was called 7 for.'the purpose of expressing their opinion in behalf of the Union and the rights of all the States, in opposition to the wicked designs of the Abolitionists. There was a long array of Vice Presidents and Secretaries, and the speakers were lion. Joseph R. Ingersoll, Hon. Edward King, llenrtM. Fuller, Esq., lion. Josiau Randall, Isaac llazelhurst, Esq., Robert Tyler, Esq., B. H. Brewster, Esq., Charles J. Ingersoll, Esq., Col. James Page, Hon. Richard Yaux and others. The resolutions which were strongly Nation al in their spirit, and opposed tn Abolitionism, were reported by lion. William B. Reed, and unanimously adopted. Speaking of this Djeeting, Forney’s Press nf Thursday says: “ It was ono of the largest and most imposing public demonstrations ever made in ibis city. The call for it was published but a few days aince, and the promptness with which it was responded to is strongly indicative of the deep aversion of the groat vbody of our citizens to all attempts to interfere with the established institutions of sister States, and to-excite Bervile insurrections among the people of the South.” Immense Union Meetings of the people have also been held in the city uf Boston, and in the Borough of Harrisburg. CONGRESSIONAL At the time our paper went to press on yeßteiday, no Speaker had yet been elected for the House, and, consequently, no urgani zation. There were three ballots, in all, taken laat week, with the following result: !_st ballot —lst day. Sherman (Rep.) Bocock (Dem.) Grow (Rep.) Scattering 2d ballot —3d day, Sherman Bocock Gilmer (S. Amor.) Scattering 3d ballot—stu day, Shercn&n Booock Gilmer Scattering THE NEW YORK ELECTION The municipal election took place in the City of New York, on Tuesday last, and, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a heavy vote (7S,GBL) was polled. There were three candidates for Mayor, and three tickets, in the field, and the result was a triumph for Mr. Fernando Wood and the Mozart Hall Democracy. The following is the offioial vote : Wood, (Mozart Hall Dem.) 30,025 Havemeyer, (Tammany Ilall Dem.) 26*;838 Opdyke, (Republican) 21,818 Wood over Havemeyer 3,187 Wood over Opdyke 8,207 Greene C. Bronson (Mozart Dem.) is eleoted Corporation Counsel, by a plurality of about 6,000 over Tilden, (Tammany) and about 8,500 over Hull, the Republican can didate. James Lynch (Mozart Dem.) is elected a Governor of the Alms House by a plurality of about 1,000 over Wm. T. Pinckney, on the Republican and other Opposition tickets, and nearly 6,000 over McElruy (Tammany Dem.) All the Aldermen elected, eight in number, and 16 of the 24 Couucilmen, are Democrats of some stripe or other, and 13 of the 21 School Commissioners are aUo Democrats. THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION. The National Democratic Executive Com mittee met at Washington on the 7th inst., and fixed Monday, the 23d of April, as the time for the meeting of the Charleston Con vention. A resident committee was appointed to superintend the printing and publication of documents, etc., consisting of the following members: Hon. C. L. Vallandigbam, of Ohio, ohairman ; Hon. J. C. Faulkner, of Virginia; Hon. John Cochrane, of New York ; Hon. John A. Logan, of Illinois ; Hon. William Bigler, of Pennsylvania; Hop William Barks dale, of Mississippi; Hon. Miles Taylor, of Louisiana; and Hun. W. H. English of Indiana. HON. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE. The Democratic members of the Kentucky Legislature have unanimously nominated the Hon. John C. Breckinridge for the U. S. Senate. This is a compliment well deserved; ; but, if the signs of the times are not at fault, the Democracy of the Union, ete long, will nominate and elect to a yet higher station this distinguished and eloquent young states man. § WILL BE HANGED. The Legislature of Virginia have resolved unanimously not to interfere, with the sen tence of Cook and the other Harper's Ferry, prisoners. They will therefore be banged on Friday next, the 16th. HELPER’S BOOK* The work of this renegade North Carolina Abolitionist, recently published in New York, will undoubtedly be extensively circulated by leading Republican and Abolition agitators for the purpose of inflaming the public mind and instigating armed forays into the border slave states. This work is full of devilish senti ments, which should be unhesitatingly con demned by every Bound patriot in the country . Addressing himself to the South. Helper says. “ No man can be a true patriot without first becoming an Abolitionist * * * * * “ Henceforth, sirs, we are demandants, not suppliants. We* demand oar rights nothing less. Jt is for you to decide whether we are to have justice peaceably or by violence ; for, whatever consequences may follow , we are deter• mined to have it one way or the other. ******* “ The diabolical institution (slavery) sub sists on its own flesh. At one time children are sold to procure food for the parents ; at another, parents are sold to procure food for the children. Within its pestilential atmos phere nothing succeeeds ; progress and pros perity are unknown ; inanition and slothful ness ensue; everything becomes dull and unprofitable; wretchedness and desolation stand or lie in bold relief throughout the land; anaspeot of most melaucholy inactivity and dilapidation broods over every city and town ; ignorance and prejudice sit enthroned over the minds of the people; usurping despots wield the sceptre of power; everywhere, and in everything, between Delaware Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, are the multitudinous evils of slavery apparent.” * * ***** “ Inscribed on the banner which we here with uufurl to the world, with the fall and fixed determination to stand by it or die by it, unless one of more virtuous efficacy shall be presented, are the mottoes which, in sub stance, embody the principles, as we conceive, that should govern us in our patriotic warfare against the most subtle and insidious ioe that ever menaced the inalienable rights and liberties aud dearest interests of America.” And yet sixty eight Republican Members of Congress, with John Sherman, their can didate for Speaker, among the number, who profess to be Constitution-abiding aud Union loving citizens, have endorsed this infamous book and earnestly recomend its publication! the charleston convention The Omaha Ncbraskian has the following very sensible remarks upon the proper course for Democrats to pursue. Wisdom is not con fined to the North, or the South, or the East, but, in this instance, it comes from the far West. If all the popular sovereigns of his Territory are equally sensible with the editor of the Nebraskian, our friend Governor Black must have a most sound and reliable Demo cratic constituency. The editor says : In the interval between this and the meeting of the next Democratic Convention, there will -naturally arise much discussion dn the ranks of the Democracy on the subject of the plat form to be laid down, and the candidate to be selected as the standard-bearer of the party, but we hope that Democrats will exercise their accustomed prudence and discretion, and refrain from that bitterness of feeling which wuuld lead to dissentions in the party and endanger the success of its candidates. We believe that it is the right and duty of every Democrat to discuss freely the claims of each candidate, and urge those of the one he deems, the most proper to be nominated, but this should be done with due deferenoe and respect for the opinions of the others, and with a determination of each to give up his choice, if the majority in Convention assembled should see tit to select some other than his favorite. There should be uothing said in reference to a candidate prior to the meeting of the Ounveution which would have to bo retracted, if that candidate should happen to receive the nomination: nothing which would interfere with a free, cordial and enthusiastic support of the nominee ; fur we hold him to be outside of the Democratic organization who refuses, under ordinary circumstances, to support the nomi nees ot the Democratic party. From the siirns of the times, it is the determination of the Democracy in all seetionsof the Union to ondeavor to promote the harmony of the party, ami not to permit the differences of opinion as to mea and non essential principles to distract the ranks of the only national party lett standing. Governor Wise’s Letter to the, Widow. —The following reply to a letter from Mrs. Brown, was sent by Governor Wise previous to the execution of her husband. Its tone is tender and kind, characteristic uf the generous heart -»f the distinguished Virginian : Richmumd, Va„ Nov, 26, 1859. To Mrs. Mary A. Brown, nowin Philadel phia : 00 80 43 35 Madam —Yours of the 21st inst., addressed to me from Philadelphia, came to my hand this morning. Believe me, madam, that I sadly thank you for your trust in my feelings as a man. Your situation touches these feel ings deeply. Sympathizing, as I do, with affliction, you shall have the exertions of my authority and personal inlluerfce to assist you in gathering up the bones of your sun and husband in Virginia/. for decent and tender interment among their kindred lam happy, madam, that you have the wisdom and virtue t-yippreciate my position of duty. Would to God that public considerations could avert bis doom, for the Omniscient knows that I take not the slightest pleasure in the execution of any whom the law condemns. May he have mercy on the'erring and afflicted. Inclosed is an order to Major General Wm. B. Talliaferro, in command at Charlestown, Virginia, to deliver to you the mortal remains of your husband when all shall be over, to be delivered to your agent at Harper’s Ferry, and if you attend the reception in person, to guard him sacredly in your solemn mission, with tenderness and truth. 107 88 22 14 110 88- 20 13 I am very respectfully your humblo ser vant, llenry A. Wise. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS At the municipal election held at New Bedford, Massachusetts, on the sth inst., Isaac C. Taber, Independent, was elected Mayor by 570 majority over Weston liarland, Citizens' candidate. The majority in the City Councils is on the Independent ticket. Daniel Saunders, Jr., the Citizens’ candi date, was chosen Mayor of Lawrence, Massa chusetts, on the sth inst., by 135 majority over Rollins, Republican. A large majority of the City Councils is also oa the Citizens’ ticket. This is claimed as a Democratic triumph. The Republicans carried everything on the sth inst., in Springfield, Massachusetts, by from 300 to 400 majority, in a vote of 2,000. They elected Daniel L. Harris for Mayor.. The Board of Aldermen and City Councils will stand 14 Republicans to 4 Democrats. Scorbutic diseases are the parent stock from which arises a large proportion of the fatal maladies that afflict mankind. They are as it were a species of potato rot in the human constitution, which undermines and corrupts all the scnurces of its vitality and hastens its decay. They are the germ from which springs Consumption, Rheuma tism, Heart Disease, Liver Complaints, and Eruptive Diseases which will be recognized as among those most fatal and destructive to the races of men. So dreadful are its conse quences to human life, that it is hardly possible to over estimate the importance of an actual, reliable remedy, that can sweep out this Scrofulous contamination. We know then we shall proclaim welcome news to our readers, of one from such a quarter ad will leave little doubt of its efficacy—and still more welcome, when we tell them that it : surely does accomplish the end desired. We I mean Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, and it is eertain |ly .worthy the attention of those who are I afflicted with Scrofula or Scrofulous com plaints.—Register, Albany, N. T. American Influence Abroad.— The Liver pool Times, in speaking about the claims of the United States in reference to the Natural ization Question, says : “ It is a remarkable fact that there is no great Power in the world with so small an array and navy as the United States, and yet whioh makes itself more feared and respected abroad." A SPtOY DEBATE; In the House of Representatives, at Wash ington, on the first day of the session, Mr. John B. Clark., of Missouri, offered the fol lowing preamble and resolution, whi'eb gave rise tq a spirited discussion and lasted the whole week: Whereas, Certain members of this House dow in nomination for Speaker did endorse and recommend the book hereinafter named: therefore , . Resolved, That the doctrines and senti ments of a certain book called the Impending Crisis of the South, and How to Meet It, purporting to have been written by Hinton R. Helper, are incendiary and hostile to the domestic peace and tranquility of the country; and that no member of this Uou.se who re commended or endorsed it Compend is fit to be the Speaker of this House. During the debate on Wednesday and Thursday, on the resolution, the following exciting scene occurred between Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, Mr. L.AMAB,*of Mississippi, Mr. Crawford, of Georgia, and Mr. Stevens, the Representative from this District: Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, conceded that there were members from, and .persons within, the North, who are loyal to the Con stitution ; but this was not the point before the Huuse. He then proceeded to read extracts from speeches delivered in Ohio, (by Mr. Seward,) in 1848, and in Rochester, in 1858, which had maintained that slavery must be abolished. Such was the fruit of seed sown by that distinguished leader; and it- had been only within the last two hours that some of the Republicans here bad found* out that the doctrines were injurious. He would see the fabric of the Government tremble from turret to foundation stone before he would take one tittle less of the rights to which the South was entitled. [Applause.] We, of the South, are on the defensive; we mean to defend ourselves. Let each party fight out the issue. Mr. Stevens believed the discussion already had ought to convince everybody that hie point of order was correct and proper — Damely, that until the House was organized it was not competent to entertain any ques tion except the election of Speaker or a motion to adjourn. He did not blame the gentlemen from the South fur taking the course they did, although he deemed it untimely to withhold from the public creditors the means which should be given them speedily. He did not blame them for the language of intimidation, or “ n*ndiDg’God’s creation From turret to foundation.” ‘ [Laughter.] It was Tight in them, for we recreants of the North were not affected by it. lie gave them credit for it, for their remarks were to operate on timid men. Mr. Crawford, of Georgia, here rose excitedly, and, interrupting Mr. Stevens, said something about the Union meetings at Castle Garden and in the North. He was loudly called to order, while others applauded his remarks, which were nearly altogether unintelligible owing to the confusion which prevailed. Members from all sides rose to their feet; others crowded to the area near Stevens and Crawford. The greatest excitement prevailed, and at one time it was feared there would be a collision. Mr. Crawford, continuing his remarks, exclaimed: “Don't sing psalms to the Union and the Constitution till we get quiet." He was again applauded, and continued speaking amid calls of “ order! order !” Mr. Morris, of Illinois, called on the clerk to maintain the order and dignity of the The Clerk said he had no power, and threw himself on the generosity of the House to come to order. Mr. Morris, of Illinois. The time for generosity has passed. Order must be en forced ! After a few moments the members seated themselves. Several gentlemen proposed an adjournment. Mr. Stevens repeated that he had made a point of order, that the only.motions in order were the election of Speaker or an adjourn ment. lie moved the previous question. Mr. Lamar, of Mississippi, in the course of his remarks, said the correspondence brought to light shows that Seward was implicated in the proceedings to excite servile insurrection, the object of which is to present the South as a bleeding victim at the feet of Northern power. [Applause.] We will, he said, have to be explicit in our avowals on this and other subjects. [Applause.] A gentleman from New York (Mr. Palmer) remarked, on Monday, that they would put the negro out. Let us see you do it. [Applause.] Mr. Lamar thon proceeded to argue that t.ho Constitution protected slavery and made it a part and parcel of the Federal Govern ment, as it is an important element of Federal power. Put the negro out at your peril! Regarding the Constitution as their protection, the South were resolved, to maintain their rights under it. But you of the North have taken issue with the Constitution, and deter mined to throw off its restrictions. This is the fight, and we are determined to meet it. He would not disturb the nerves of those timid men to whom Mr. Stevens alluded yestorday. What the latter had said was spoken in irony. So far from the North being apprehensive of danger, he believed the North desired to drive the South to disunion. But the Xorih would need no better men to lead them to the conflict than the leader of the' Buckshot War. [Laughter.] His achieve ments in that will enable him to leap out at the window. [Renewed laughter.] Mr. Lamar desired to say that he was no disunionist perse —he was devoted to the Constitution and the Union. Put out the light of the .Coasti tution, and whore was the Promethean spark which could the light relume? We will not permit any persistent violation of its terms, and will tight for this as long as the blood flows in our veins. The Republicans were not innocent of the blood of John Brown. THE EDITOR’S BOOK TABLE. “MERRY-MAKING IN THE OLDEN TIME.”—We are indebted to John A. Gray, Bablisher of the Knickerbocker Magazine, for a copy of a splendid line engraving of Frith’s picture of “ Merry-MaJdng in the Otdm Time," which they present exclusively to the $3 subscribers to the Magazine fur 1860. The subject represents the pastimes of our an cestors. and is eminently of a genial, domestic character. The pint* was eugraved in England at an expense of $2OOO, is entirely new/measures 25 by inches in size, con tains thirty-nine figures, and is unquestionably one of the finest works of the kind ever offered as a premium in this country. Mail subscribers to the "Magazine must enclose twelve cents extra in stamps, to pre-pay postage On the en. graviug, which will be sont tbeiu in strong paste-board tubes. A NEW WEEKLY PAPER.—On the first of January, ISGO, Mr. Gleason, of Boston, will commence the publica tion of the largest, most nmguificent and valuable literary weekly Journal yet attempted in this country, to bo enti tled the “ Literart Companion.” It will be an elegant moral and refined,' miscellaneous family Journal. Its ccl. nmns will be entirely devoted to polite literature , wit and humor,proscand poetic gems. An unrivalled corps of con. tributors has been engaged for the same, and every de partment will be under the most finished system that the long experience of Mr. Gleason, as a publisher, could devise. In size, the “ Literary Companion ” will bo some sixteen hundred square inches, forming a mammoth paper of six teen octavo pages, and will contain about twice as much reading matter as any other $2 weekly. Our frieads, no doubt, will be surprised at the astonishing low prices of this valuable wcokly, viz : one subscriber one year, $2; 2 subscribers, $3; 4 do., $5; and 10 do., $lO. Besides a gratis copy to the getter-up of a club of 10. Specimen copies will be Bent to any one who wishes to form a club by addressing F. Gleason, Boston, Mass. NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC QUARTERLY REVIEW.— We have received from the Editor, Hon. Thomas B. Flor ence, the first number of this new political work. It is beautifully printed, substantially bound, and presoDte altogether a very attractive appearance. The portrait of President Buchanan which embellishes it is one of the most accurate and life like we ever saw. The Review con tains Eighteen well-written and highly interesting articles on political, historical and literary subjects. Altogether the editor has achieved quite a success in getting oat the iuiatory number of his new enterprise, and we can most heartily commend hi 6 work to the favor and patronage of the Democracy every where. A Review, properly conducted, and placed above personal jealousies and factions, would bo of great benefit to the Democratic party, and such an one we have no doubt Mr. Florencb will publish. The terms are three dollars per year in advance. THE KNICKERBOCKER. —The December number of this venerable and racy magazine closes the fifty-fourth volume, and it ends like the month it represents—bright, keen and sparkling. Some of its sketches are inimitable. For the fifty-fifth volume new attractions are promised which will greatly enhance the interest of the work.— These, however, are set forth in the announcement which we publish elsewhere, and it is only necessary to call the attention of our readers to It. “The Knickerbocker” is one of the best magazines published. KANSAS ELECTION. Leavenworth, K. T., Deo. 9. The entire Republican State ticket has been elected by a majority of over 3000 votes.— Every county yet heard from, except Leaven worth, gives a.Republican majority. Halde man, Democrat, is ahead of his ticket so far- CITY AND COtfNTY AFFAIRS. The First Howard Evening. —Fulton Hall was crowded to its utmost capacity on Tnesd-ty evening last, by a highly intelligent and appreciating audience, to hoar the first Howard Lectoro of tho winter’s coarse by Sex. G. F. K&oyzl. His lecture was practical, able and interesting. It had a direct -reference throughout towards the Howard Evenings—spacing of the great amount of good they have accomplished, morally, Intellectually and otherwise. Like all of Mr. K.’e efforts, it elicited the deep eat interest and attention from the auditory. The discussion was participated in by Hoo. A. L. Hayes, MaJ. A. D. Pitman, Mayor Sanderson, Gen.G. M. Steinman, Rev. Dr. Gerhart, Rev. Mr. Rosenmiller and Prof, Porter. The next lecture of the course will be delivered this evening (Tuesday) by Hon. Thomas H. Bcrrowes, on ‘-Education,” when wo hope to rcg a foil house, as the snb ject is one which should attract everybody. Red Men's Ball. —The Ball season has now fairly commenced. Ke-shah-ke-noe Trib-*, No. 22, I. 0. R. M., give their Sixth Annual Citizens’ Dress Ball, at Fnlton Hail, on the evening of Friday, 23d Inst. From a glance at the list of managers, this will compare favorably with ail the Tribe’s preceding Balls, and tboae who have attended them know that finer or more sociable parties are not gotten up hereabouts. The best dancing music in the city is always engaged, and the refreshments are of the mot recherche kind. The management will accept oar thauks for their highly complimentary invitation. Ladies' Festival. —The Ladies connected with the Dnke Street M. E. Church will hold a Festival this week, commencing to-day, in tho Lecture Room of the Church. A Urge number of useful and fancy articles will be offered for sale. Admission 5 cents. Fine suppers will be served up on Thursday and Friday eveniugs. Tickets 50 cents. High Taxes!— Iq Philadelphia the rate of taxation for City purposes hns been fixed at $1,75 on the .$lOO. We think our taxes high in Lancaster, where tbe rate is fixed at 95 cents on the $100; bat in Philadelphia, it appears, the taxes are nearly double! Road Viewers. —At the November Sessions the Court appointed the following Road Viewers, upon petitions presented: Viewers for a road in West Lampeter township, beginning at the eorner of John Kendig’a property, on the Willow Street Turnpike, to the road leading from the public bouse of Henry M. Kreider to John Eshieman’s, at Mill Creek: — John Rohrer, Chrhtlan Huber and Jacob Zercher. Viewers for a road in Manor township, beginning at the Manor Turnpik'* road, between lauds of Abraham Bausm&Q and Rudolph Herr, to intersect Prince street, in Millers ville, ou the lands of Mrs. Zcrcher aud Frederick Gast: — Henry C. Herr, James Bones and Amos Eshleman. Viewers for a private road in Martic township, to lead from lands owned by John Spence to tbe public road run ning from Rawlinsville to Lancaster: Jacob Eshloman, James Gibson and George Campbell. . / Viewers to vacate a road in Providence township, leading from the road from New Providence to Rawlinsville, and intersecting theroad from the Unicorn road to the Rawlins ville road; and to lay out another iu lien thereof, to lead from or near tbe barn of Benjamin Herr, in Providence township, to tho road leading from New Providence to the Buck tavern: James Simpson, George Campbell and John McCue. Viewers for the extension of Frederick street, from its present termination, to intersect North Prince street. Id tho City of Lancaster: Watson H. Miller, Alexander Dan ner and David Stamm. Viewers for a road iu Drumoro township, from a point near the head of John N. Kassel’s fields on the road lead ing from the Uuicorn to Peach Bottom to a point near Chesnut Hill school house, on the road leading from Pusey’s Mill to Chesuut Level' William A. Brown, William J. Clark and Samuel Boyd, Jr. Viewers for a in West Lampeter township, from a point .on tbe road It-ading from Lampeter Square to the Big Spring, on land of Cyrus Little, to the Big Spring and Beaver Valley Turnpike, at Christian Rohrer’s land, with power to vacate such parts of the first-Damed road as may be superseded by the new road: John B. Warfel, Henry Mussolman and Jacob Bachman. Viewers for a road in West Lampeter township, from the road leading from Lampeter Square to New Providence, at a point uear Elias Herr’s wagon shed, to the Big Spring and Beaver Valley Turnpike, on line between lands of Elias Herr and Amos lierr, with power to vacate two other roads mentioned iu petition : Julm B. Wariol, Henry Mussolman and Jacob Bachman. Viewers for a road in Providence township, from a point on tbe New 9 Providence and Port Deposit road, near the public house of Absalom Gochenaur, to the public road leadiug from Quarryville to the above road, at or near tho lands of Frederick Stively and Martin Eshleman : George W. llensol, Ileory Keehn and Jacob Bushong. Viewers for a" road in Eden township, from the road leadiug from the Dry Wells to nawksville, on lands of Ilenry Keen, to intersect a public road leading from Jacob M Kckman’s to tho City of Lancaster, on land of-David Wltnit-r: Morris Cooper, Harrison Graham and Ross A. Campl>e)l. Viewers for a public road in East Earl township, from a point on the public road leading from Shirk’s Mill to Fair ville, ou lands of Alexander Galt, to tbe public road leading from lleury Martin’s Mill to the Churcbtown and Uinkle towu mail, near tbe residence of Harrison Haller: A. E. Roberts, Samuel Brubaker and Michael Hildebrand. Viewers to vacate a portion of the road in Mount Joy township, leadiog’Trom Springville to Horst's Mill, and also a portiou of the road from Groff’s Mill to the Harris burg Turnpike and Colebrook road, aDd to lay out a road in lieu thereof: Jacob W. Nissley, John H. Brimmer and Daniel Lehman. Railroad Meeting at Marietta. —At a meeting held at the Donegal House, in Marietta, on the evening of the 26th November, 1859, Henry Mussolman, Esq , was called to the chair, aud C. A. Sbaffner appointed Secretary. S. 11. Hiestaud, Chairman of the Committee on Survey, reported that they had the Engineer, with his report and accompanying maps, present—that he [Mr. Hiestand] would assume the portion of expense assigned to the Mari etta district, it. being fully subscribed by reliable men— that the Mount Joy portion was also vouched for—but the members from Wrightsville not being present, the Com mittee desired further time. Ou motion of Rev. A. B. Groeh and C. Kelly, Esq., the report of tbe Committee was accepted, aDd the Committee continued until their labors were fully completed. The report of Mr. Holler, Engineer, to the Committee was read by tho Secretary, and heard with much interest and gratification. Mr. Huffor. boing called on, gave a clear description of the several routes purveyed atid those partially examined; and gave explanations of bin maps, pointing out deviations from the ruute surveyed and leveled, which would shorten the distnuce and render construction easier, but which ho had not time to purvey fully. lie explained the nature of the ground passed over, (slate and gravel between Man helm and Mount Joy. and limestone between Monnt Joy and Marietta,) to sbuw tbe small difficulty and expense of excavations. He named tbe only two points of difficulty, dl>o* ing i fiat th-ir ules w-'uld both be very short an-l very light as compared with the route over Chestnut Hill —indeed, not uncommon on the best railroads—and even these could be further lessened by slight deviations from the route surveyed and leveled. lie further 6tated that, by cruasing tbe river a littlo further east, tbe bridge would be even shorter than at the point surveyed, and the site equally good. At the point where the route crosses the Branch Railroad, a sideling track of about 1200 feet in length, and at n grade of about 30 feet to the mile, would easily connect this road with the Branch, thus connecting both Columbia and Marietta with it. In conclusion, ho referred to a communication in the Mount Joy Herald, as embodyiug the most important guueral information fur tbe public on the subject. . • Mr. Uoffor was heard with much interest and pleasure, and the appearance nf bis very neat and beautiful maps, and the satisfactory information they conveyed, gave gen eral delight'.- His communication to the Herald was re quested tor publication with theso minutes. On motion of A. N. Cassel, E«q., and Rev. A. B. Oroah the Committoe on Survey were requested to ascertain what amount, of stock c-U'd be subscribed along the ronte for this route, and report kh early as possible to a meeting to be called by them for that and other purposes. On motion nf 8. F. Eagle, Esq., and Dr. A. Gerber they were also requested to confer wi-h the President and Direc tors of the Company, and report to them the result of their labors under the foregoing motion, together with report, maps. Ac., of Mr. Uoffor, as early as possible. On motion of Charles Kelly and E. D. Roath, Esqa., the proceedings of this meeting, including the communication of Mr. Hoffer, w re ordered to bo published in the Mariet tian, and forwarded to, with a request to be copied into, the Lrocaster, Mount Joy, Wrightsville, Manbeioi and Head ing papers. HENRY MUSSELMAN, Chairman C. A. Shaff.vek, Secretary. Departure of Trains, and Closing of tub Mails at tiie City Post Office.— The different Passenger Trains on the Pennsylvania and branch railroads leave this city as follows Through Express. Lancaster Accommodation. Mail Train. Harrisburg Accommodation Through Express. Mall Train. Harrisburg Accommodation Lancaster Accommodation. Emigrant Train. Eastern Through Mail —For Philadelphia, New York and Eastern Status, at 8 a. m.. X]/, p. m., and 6% p. m. Way Mail East—For Philadelphia aad intermediate offices, at 8 a. m. Western Through Mail—For Columbia, Harrisburg, Pitts burg and Western States, at a. m., and 6J/£ p. tn. Way Mail West—For Landisvilh,, Elizabethtown, Mount .Toy, Middletown, Harrisburg, IxJwistown, Huntingdon, Tyroue, Altoona, Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between Altoona and Pittsburg.) at a. m. Southern Mail—For Columbia, York, Baltimore, Washing ton, D. C., and Southern States, at 1 a. m. Pittsburg Through Mail, at 1 p. in For Strasburg, via: Camargo, Quafryville, Martinsvi and New Providence, at 8 a. m. ARRIVAL OF MAILS BT RAILROAD. Through Mail East 1.41 a. m., 11.17 a. m., and 2.34 p. m Way Mail East 11.17 a. m Through Mail West 4 a. m., 7.C0 a. m., and 2.34 p. m Way Mail West 8.40 a. m., and 2.34 p. m Southern Vail 2.30 p. tn CLOSIN'!! OF MAILS ON THE STAGE ROUTES. For Reading, via: Neffaiillo, Litiz. Rothsville, Ephrata, Keamstown, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at 8 a. m. For Lebanon, via: East Herapfield, Manheim, White Oak, Mount Hope and Cornwall, daily, at 2 p. m. For Milleisville and Slackwater, daily, at 1 p. m. For Safe Harbor, daily, at 1 p. m. F>ir Ilinklctown, via : Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl, ami Fariuersvillu, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 2 p. m. For Paradise, via: Greenland and Soudersburg, daily, at 2 p. m. ForLitiz,via: Neffsville, daily, at 2 p. m. For Marietta, via: llempfleld and Silver Spring, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 6 a. m. For Strasburg, via: Fertility and Wheatland Mills, daily, at 2 p. m. For Lampeter, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur- day. at 2 p. m. For New Holland, via: Binkley’s Bridge, Leacock, Barevme, Bear town, Bowmansville and Muddy Creek, daily, at 12 m. For Phoenixville, via: New Holland,Bine 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, Smitbville, Buck, Chesnut Level, GreeD, Pleasant Grove, Rock Springs, Md.; and ltnwlandsville, Md., Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednes day and Friday, at 6 a. m. < For C-olebrook. via : Swarr’s Mill, Old Line, Sporting Hill and hlastersonville, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Fri- day, at 0 a. m. For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Tri-weekly, Monday, Thurs- day and Saturday, at 2 p. m. For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Marticville, Coleman ville, Mount Nebo, Betbesda and Kawlinßville, Semi weekly, Wednesday and Saturday, at 1 p. tu. For New Danville, weekly, Wednesday, at 9 a. m. Office hours, from 7a. ui. to Bp. 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 aud payment of the registration fee of tive cents, in addition to the regular postage. All letters are required to be pre-paid with stamps before they can be mailed. H. B. Swabr, Postmaster. Toothache.— This disease can he cared by Dr. Keyser’s Toothache Remedy, prepared by him in Pitts burgh, Pa., which is put up In bottles and sold at 25 cents each. It is an excellent medicine, when diluted, for spongy and tender gnmß, and Is. worth ten times its price to all who need It, Sold hero by 0. A. Helniteh and <tU Druggists Prison Officers.— I The annual election of officers of tbs Lancaster County Prison for the ensuing year vrns held on ya ilcrday weck ; and resnlte«l iu the ro eLctiou of all the present Incumbents, viz: Keeper, Jay Cadwali; Uuder Koepers, K. Welgand, R. Resslor; Clerk and Salesman, J. L. Hoffmeier; Treasurer, H. S. Gara; Solicitor, Daniel G. Dakar; Physician, Dr. Wo. Compton; Watchman, William Kieffer. The Mural Reformer.— Messrs. Editors: The Editor nf the Bxprest has bis bands fall iu reforming the morals of this community. He has. in turn, been reg ulating the Courts, the Taverns. the Lager Beer Saloons, the Restaurants and Ice Cream Saloons, the Police Depart ment, H'jres Racing, Mad Doss. Fancy Women and Fast Men, and dow he Is after the Clergy with a sharp stick!— Her. Mr. Powell, the lilghly-eateemed and talented Pastor of the First Presbyterian Chnrch. it appears is not willing to square his ideas of Temperance with those of onr 'li7wd em hence he has been taken to task for his heterodoxy. I would respectfully suggest to Mr. P.. and all the other Clergymen of the city, who may hereafter preach on t he subject of Temperance to their Congregations, to snbmit beforehand their manuscripts to the very moral and Jemperale editor, so that be may revise, correct and improve the sermons to suit hia own notions. Besides, it is a great advantage to a city of the Eize of Lancaster, with some sixteen or eighteen thousand inhabitants, and abont twenty churches of the various religions denominations, to have one man in it so pure in his morals, and so honest in all his dealings, as that every body—clergymen and all—can look np to him for counsel and advice in all things apper taining to temperance, morality and religion. In thin re spect, Lancaster is favored above all the cities or towns of onr widely-extended country, and we ought to be thankfnl that “the lines have fallen to us in sucb pleasant places.” MELANCTHON. Attend to Coughs and Colds. —There is a significance in the above advice which, if attended to in time, would sate hundreds of persous from untimely graves. Do we uot know that many persons neglect to at tend to coughs and snch like maladies under the hope that natore will core? Nature sometimes does cure; hot she will cure much more rapidly if assisted by some such remedy as Dr. Keysets Pectoral Syrup, which is com pounded for those very diseases of the longs and bronchial apparatus, so prevaleutdn every part ot the United States. We advise onr readers, thereto: e, who may be afflicted with coughs, bronchial irritation, or any disease of the luiigs or wind pipe, to have recourse at once to this remedy, which Dr. Keyser has pyfsji&red with great care lor the cure of those cases. Ttmel/'<|ttwiilioo win save much suffering and oftentimes the life of the pers'on using it. Sold at 50 cents and $1 per bottle, by Dr. Keyser, No. 140 Wood st., Pittsburg. Sold here by 0. A. Heinitsh and all Druggists. INFAMOUS SENTIMENTS l The following extracts are taken from an Abolition sermon recently preached in Dover, New Hampshire, by Rev. Edwin M. Wbee lock. It will serve to show oar readers the treasonable spirit that exists among the Black Republicans of New England : From the martyrdom of Brown dates a new era of the anti slavery cause. To moral agi tation will now be added physical—to argu ment action. The appeals of the North will now be applied to the terrors as well as to the conscience of this great barbarism. Other devoted men will follow in the wake of Brown, avoiding hia error, and will carry on to its full results the work he has begun. Slave propagandism we have had long enough.— We are likely now to have some liberty prop agandism. I rejoice to see a man whose banner bears no uncertain sign. The North wants no more cornstalk generals,. but a real geueral, one who is,both platform and party in himself. If an honest expression of the wishes of the North could be taken to morrow , John Brown would be the people’s candidate for the next Presidency, and he would receive a million votes. He had a live religion also. He believed that God spake to him in visions of the night. Yes, incredible as it may seem, this man actually believed in God. * * * The picture of the Good Samaritan will live to all future ages as the model of human excellence for belpiog one whom he chanced to find in need. John Brown did more. He went to seek those who were lost, that he might save them. He a fanatic! He a mad man ! He a traitor ! Yes, and the fanatics of this age are the star crowned leaders of the next. And the madmen of to-day are the heroes of to morrow. It is the fashion now to call him a crazy fanatic. But history will do the head of John Brown the same ample justice that even his enemies give to his heart. It is no impossi ble feat to plant a permanent armed insurrec tion in Virginia. Within a few days march of Harper’s Ferry lies the great Dismal Swamp, whose interior depths are forever untrodden save by the feet of fugitive slaves. A few resolute white men, harbored in its deep recesses, raising the flag of slave revolt, would gather thousands to their standard, would convulse the whole State with panic, and make servile war one of the inseparable felicities of slavery. Bet us not forget that three hundred half armed Indians, housed in similar swamps in Florida, waged a seven years’ war against the whole power of the : United States, and were taken at last, not by warfare, but by treachery and bribes. It is a great mistake to term this act the beginning of bloodshed and civil war. Nev er could there be a greater error. We have had bloodshed and civil war for the last ten years. The campaign began on the 7th of March, 1850. The dissolution of the Union dates from that day and we have had no Con stitution since. On that day Daniel Webster was put to death; ah, and such a death ! And from that time to thi* there has. not been a month that has not seen the soil of freedom invaded and attacked, our citizens kidnapped, imprisoned or shut, ur driven by thousands into Canada. * * * * No, it is not true that the 'Conflict at Har per’s Ferry is the beginning of a civil war. That would belike saying that the capture of Yorktown was the beginning of the Revolu tionary struggle. The meaning of that new sign is this Freedom, for ten years weakly standing on the defensive, and for ten years defeated, has now become the assailant, and has now gained the victory. The Bunker Hill of our second revolution has been fought, and the second Warren has paid the glorious forfeit qfhis life./ ****** One such mao makes total depravity impos Bible, and proves ihat American greatness died not with Washington. The gallows from which he ascends into heaven will be in our politics what the cross is in our religion—the sign and symbol of our supreme self devoted ness, and from his sacrificial blood the tem poral salvation of four millions of our people shall yet spring. On the second day of De cember he is to be strangled in a Southern prison for obeying the sermon on the Mount. But to be hanged in Virginia is like being crucified in Jerusalem—it is the last tribute which sin pays to virtue. THE VOICE OF WISDOM, The Father of his Country—the immortal Washington —“ though dead yet epeaketh.” Listen.to his warning voice as given forth to his fellow citizens in his celebrated Farewell Address. The venerable patriot seems to have had the very state of things, in his mind’s-eye, as is now existing among US. Hear him : ...1.41 a. m .11.17 a. m “In contemplating the causes which disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations—Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western—whence designing men may endeavor to escite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepre sentations ; they tend tu render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection. The North , in an unre strained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional rescources of maritime and com mercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The fyrnth, in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand. Turning partly into its own channels the seamen of the North, it finds its particular navigation invigorated, and, while it contributes in different ways to nourish and increase the general mass of national navigation, it looks forward to the protection of a maratime strength to which itself is unequally adapted.” The Saturday Evening Post —A Premium Engraving to Every Subscriber. —We call the attention of our readers to the Prospectus of the Saturday Evening Post, in our advertisj ing columns. The “ Post ” is considered by many the “ best,” as it is the oldest, of the weekly papers. For 1860, we perceive, it offers a large and beautiful steel engraving called “ The Speaking Likeness,” as a pre* mium to every subscriber. It offers also two other large steel engravings of Falls of Niagara,” as a premium to the getters up of Clubs. The contributors to the Post are not excelled by those of any other paper.— See Prospectus. THE PARAGUAY EXPEDITION. Letter from an “Old Salt.*** No. 15. U. 8. Steamer “ Metaoomet,” ] Rio Tiore, Province o? Borhos Atrew. V Octnbor 18. 1859. ) Psirkd3 Baxi>ep.sox : I should have written to you again, long before this, had I been able to find any thing to write about that would have been of Interest to yourself or the readers of the “Intelligencer.” We are still lyiDg up here in this out of the way place, and I was about saying, that unless we soon hauled out, or shifted our anchorage, would bo in danger of “grounding on our beef bones,” wet 6 it not that for the last two or three months we hare Dot been able to procure but a very scant supply of fresh meat, and therefore, it is not likely that that catastrophe wilt be to the Jist of the Metacomet’s mishaps.— You will doHbtlees be surprised and scarcely beliovo it, when I tell you that here in this land, where cattle are slaughtered solely almost for tbeir hides and tallow, the fbrmor constituting the chief article of export, we hare, for some time past,! been hard poshed to procure fresh beef for our own immediate use, independent of that for the crew, and often obliged for days on a stretch to go without it altogether. This scarcity of the “staple commodity ” of the country, is owing, aa I hare been told, to the want of sufficient pasturage for the cattle, the winter and long continued droughts during the first spring months hare left the* plains in onr immediate vicinity parched up and completely hare of vegetation—so that thousands of horses, oxen and sheep have died of aetual starvation, and although the bids of these animals may answer all the requisite purposes for making leather, I have no fancy for using their carcasses to keep body and soul together, even though it be served up in tempting roasts or steaks—cutlets or chops. In fact, wbat little beef is brought into the market, comes in such a question able shape and uninviting appearance that the bare sight of it, as it hangs dangling from the sides of the carts, is pall the most sharp-set appetite, and gratify ing as the taste of good beef would be to oar palates, we prefer resorting to the “salt horse” of a man-oPwar to the fresh meat offered to ns on shore. It Is said that there are plenty of fine fat rattle on the pampas, in the interior of the country, but the difficulty (s to get it here, as nearly all the gauchers have boon carried off to serve os volunteers in the army, aod those loft take particular good care to keep shady, for fear of being pounced upon and compelled to follow “ in the footsteps of tholr illustrious predecessors ” on the path to glory. Although some months have now elapsed since war ho 6 been declared by the Republic (Heaven save the mark, when the press has been mnzKled,) of Buenos Ayres against Gen. Urqulza, the President of the Argentine Con federation, still vcy little has been dono in the way of fighting. It is true, Urquiza’s naval force, consisting of three vessels, made its appearance in the “outer roads” off Buenos Ayres and exchanged some shots, at a cont'C nient distahee, with the men of-war laying iu the inner harbor, after which the former proceeded to Montevideo for the purpose, I suppose, of repairing damages, when they were followed by the five steamers composing the Bueuos Ayrean Squadron, which, after Urquiza's fleet had got well inside, came to anchor well nulsitle, and commenced a regular blockade of the harbor, to prevent, oh they said, the enemy’s vessels from comiug out. After keeping up -this farce for a few weeks, the naval with all the land forces of the Buenos Ayreans proceeded up the river and invested the town of Rosario, where I understand there has been somo fighting, attended with the loss of about a score of the officers and men of the attacking party—what the loss on the other side ha6been, I have not ascertained, and from the vague accountaxeceivod from Buenos Ayreaus themselves it is not believed to havo been quite as serious and heavy os tbeir own. That a new boiler is being sent out for the Metacomet appears now to be a fixed fact, but as to what disposition is to be made of the vessel after she is agaiu put in run ning order, is, as yet, to us, a sealed book, which will not, most likely be opened until the arrival of the Flag Ship, now daily exported. It is very probable, however, that she will be kept out here, on river service, for some twelve or eighteen months to come, and if so, and her present officers are retained on board, I may yet have the gratifica tion of takiug that pleasare trip up the river which was so suddenly “ nipped in the bud,” by the bursting of our boiler, in June last, and as our trips will then, no doubt, extend to places further up than Parana, or even Ascun cion, the capital of Paraguay, and our stay at the various ports be of longer duration, there is a fair prospect that I shall bn able to give you some rude and Imperfect sketches of matters and things, as they come under my notice, and which may prove of more interest than what is contained in this epistle. Yours I’. S. We have just been informed, since writing the above, that tho name of this vessel has been changed—if 80, farewell to the “ Metacomet ” —you may expoct my next from on board the United States Steamer “Pulaski." VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE-MESS AGE OF GOV. WISE. Richmond, Dec. 5. Both Houses of the Legislature of Virginia were organized to-day. The Governor's Message reviews the liar per’s Ferry affair at great length. It speaks of the spirit of fanaticism and one idea of Abolitionists, which has seemed to madden whole masses of one entire section of the country; which enters into religion, education, politics and prayers, Courts of Justice and Legislatures; which has trained up three generations in moral and Bocial habits of hatred to the masters of African slaves in the United States, but turns not upon slavery elsewhere ; which has sent comfort and coun sellors, and would have sent rescue, to assas sins, robbers, murderers, and traitors, whom it has sent to felons’ graves. Unless the numerical majority will cease to violate the confederate faith, and cease to disturb our peace, to destroy our lives and property, and to deprive us of all protection and redress, under the perverted forms and distorted workings of. the Union, we must take up arms. The issue is too essential to be com promised any more. We cannot stand such insults and outrages as those committed at Harper’s Ferry, without suffering what is even worse than the death of our citizens— without suffering dishonor—the death of the State! It is not to be denied that we have many sound and sincere friends in non slavebolding States; but the conservative elements are passive, whilst the fanatical are active. The former are fast diminishing, whilst the latter j are increasing in number and force. j With regard to the insurgents, the message ! says: It is mockery to call them monoman- j iacs. The leader himself spurned the plea, ! and it was not put in upon the trials. They J were prompted by the evil spirits of inoondi- I arism, which demoralized numerous hosts be- | hind them, who now sympathize with them j without themaolves incurring the risk of their , crimes, and no wonder they now sympathize j with their deeds before the world. These ! men hired them—even to madness—and that 1 John Brown despised the hypooritical cant of i their pretence that he was insane. The exe cution of our laws was necessary to warn ■ future victims not again to be tools of their j sympathy. We have friends or we have not, in the States whence these invaders came.— They must now be not only conservative but active to prevent invaders coming. It was \ impossible for so much sympathy to exist without exciting bad men to action of rescue or revenge. On this reasoning, he acted. He had been compelled by the apprehension of a most unparalleled border war to place the' State in as full a panoply of military defence ! as if a foreign enemy had invaded the United | States. Indeed, one of the most irritating ; features of this predatory war is, that it has ; its seat in the British provinces, which fur- ■ nish asylums to our fugitives and sends them ; and their hired outlaws upon us, from depots and rendezvous in bordering States. There j is no danger from our State or colored people, j The slaves taken refused to take arms, and i the first killed was a respectable free negro j while running from the “ philanthropists,” who came to liberate the black race. Id closing the message the Governor says : We must rely upon ourselves and fight for peace—wo must organize and arm—we must demand of each State what position she means to maintain in the future with respect to slavery, and Provisional Constitutions, the laws of the United States, and the provisions of our State laws for its protection in our Federal relations, and to be governed accord ing to the manner in which the demand is answered. We are in arms. With regard to the reports and rumors of organized conspiracies, the Governor says they were from so many sources, so simul taneous, so far apart, from persons so unlike in evidence of education, that they could be from no conspiracy to hoax. But he relied not so much upon them as upon the earnest, continued and general appeal of sympathizers with the crimes of the insurgents. Let ns defend our own position or yield it at once, or let us have action and resolve on .a definite settlement. No more temporizing with the Constitution —no more compromise. The other convicts await execution. They will be executed, unless the General Assembly orders otherwise This will meet the open invasion, but acts only on the individual con victs and does not settle the question of our peace and protection in the future. It re mains only for me to offer myself—all that I am aDd all that I have, to the Commonwealth, whenever she may order me or mine in her services, when the term of my present office closes. The second message makes detailed recom mendations and alludes to State matters generally. German Democratic paper of Lehigh county, takes strong ground in favt r of John C. Breckinridge, aa the next Demo cratic candidate for the Presidency. HT. LOUIH CORRESPONDENCE. f’hnnge iu the Wuither — Sleighing—Suspension of Navig a* tinn in Ihe Upper Rioe.rs—Market Report—Street Rail neuls Blockaded t oiltt Snrno—Singular Re union—Seizure of a Railroad by a Sheriff—Real Estate Sales— 11 Opposi tion ” Meeting in SL Louis—Edward Bales—John C. BrecHnridge—Emgy of *• Old Brown"—Local Affairs— —*• Old Guard n on a Bunt—His Luck, <£c., <fc. Bt. Loots, Dec. 6, 1859. Quite a change has taken place in the weather since oar last date. On Wednesday night last a heavy tbander storm passed over the city, and oa Thursday it rained very hard, in the evening taming to snow, and daring tho night some three or four inches fell, and the weather sluce has been quite cold, rendering it most exrelleut sleighing. The merry bells have been jingling iu our street for the past three days. Sleighing in this country is rather an expensiveamnsement—it coats from (5 to $lO per hour, according to the style of the turn • out. We notice that those who indulge most in this amusement are youDg clerks on a salary of $5OO or $6OO per annum. This speaks for itself. The recent cold weather has caused a sasponsion of navigation in the npper rivers, and in consequence receipts of produce have been small. Sales on 'Change were Flour from $4.75 to $5.75; Wheat 98 to 114 c.; Buckwheat floor, $2 50 per 100 Iba; Corn 50 to 55c.; Oats 48 to 50c.; Barley 65c.; Mess Perk $l6; Lard 10c.; Tallow 9%c.; Whisky 20 to Eggs 25c.; Butter 16 to 25c.; Uay 85c.; Potatoes 60 to Soc.; Onions 45c.; Hides 13c.; Dried Apples $1.40 per bush, and Green Apples from $2 to $4 per bbl. Hogs $5.75 to $6.25 per 100 lbs. There were but 77 interments in the different cemeteries during tho past week. The city Ib very healthy. The street railroads haTe all ceased to run, owing to the drifting of theanow—they will be put in operation again to-day. The Burtlugton lowa, ( Hawkeyc ,) tells a very singular re-union of a mau and wife after an absence from each other of forty seven years. In 1812 they livod near Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, and tho husband enlisted in the war of that year. Sometime after this, in. telligence was brought to the wife of his death having been killed In an engagement with the enemy, when aho removed with her children to another part of the State. Years rolled by, and hearing nothing farther from her husband, Bhe removed to Wapello, iu lowa. All this time she was satisfied that her husbaod was dead. Last February one of her sons employed Attorneys to obtain for her a dowry in certain lands in Illinois, that were set apart by the United States as part compensation to the soldiers of 1812. In order to succeed iu this. Government, State and County records had to be searched. In this search it wvs ascertained that her hush,and, whose name is Crtill, entered a piece of land situated in Hancock county, Illinois, in ISIO. and that he sold bin certificate of entry in the sarao year, which facts were proof that he had not been killed, as his wifo had all along supposed. After a great deal of corresponding with mun in the States of New York and Vermont, It was ascertained that Crull was residing In Jefferson county, No* York. Ue was almost overcome with surprise and Joy upon hearing that his wife and children whom he had supposed wore dead long since, wore still alive. It seems that after his discharge from the army he re turned to his old home; and being informed tbnre that his wife and children had gone sway and since died, he took up his abode In the StAte of Now York. A few days since the old man came to Wapello, where his wife wan living with a daughter that is married; and npon being brought into her presence, felled to recognize her, and hud to be formally introduced. Neither he nor his wife bail married the second time. The Sheriff of Vigo county, Ind., has made a levy oq the real estate belonging to tho Terre Haute, Alton and St. Louis Railroad, 6ituate in the town of Terre Haute, jyith as much of the real estate as runs within that county, and the magniti -ent bridge over the Wabiish rivor, which he advertises to sell on the 9th of December. It seems that there are several executions against the road, issued in favor of three or four persons, amounting in the aggregate to about $40,000. This will be the most impor tant sale of the kind uv< r made in tho State of Indiana. In digging for water in sloughs in the town of YorkvlUe, Racine county, Wisconsin, traces of dense tamarack forests are found, ami generally in a loaning direction, with their tops towards the south east, as thuugh some mighty flood had suddenly overwhelmed thorn. Tile following sales of real estate took pine,* within the past week, in the town ol Lexington, in this State. The Express at that dry s:iys: ' 01. Anderson finished the sat** of his Addition to the city on Monday last, lie sold in all about 222 lots, 50x14U feet each, at an average of $4Ol ad apiece. Many of the purchasers of these lots have moro than doubled ttn ir money on them already. II is hricit warehouse at the lower wharf sold for $4,610, llm factory for $4,' ; 00, and his residence for $7,850. Tm« whole Addition, iucludiug improvements sold for a little over $40.0‘.i0. Tho Louisville Journal has just mitered upon its twenty- niuth year. a. In accordance v/hh a cull published in the Missouri Democrat, nil those opposed to the Democracy mot at tha Circuit Court Room on Wednesday night last. The meeting was not large or enthusiastic, but respectable. It seems that the linow-Nuthiugs took advantage of this call—(as they ahme compose the " opposition ” in Missouri—can poll an hundred votes to the Black Republicans one) —organized by officering the mooting with their own men, and putting their own men ou all the committees, yet the Black Repub. ii-ans bad tho resolutions nil prepared, and after a little dove-tailing they wore fixed up to suit both wings of tho “formidable opposition.” Nothing was said iu them of old Brown, nothing of Seward, nothing of Frank Blaln nothing of Black Republicanism, nothing of the corrupt City Administration, nothing of the empty City treasury, nolbmg to show that they entertained tho least spark of principle, or that they cared for principle, but on tho contrary denounced the present National and State Governments; eulogized Edward Bateß, and were deter mined that he should l>e President—(thoy were, of course, all office-seekers who participated in this meeting, and each one of them thought, and still behoves, that if Edward Bate 6 should be elected President, he is certain of a fat Government office; indeed, they are already quarreling over the Post Olllco, the Custom Uonse, Ac., Ac). Edward Bates Is not, never was, and never will bo regarded as a Black Republican by those who know him—hence tho active participation of Know-Nothings. Another resolution eudursing James S. Rollins for Governor was adopted. Mr- Rollins was the Know-Nothing candidate for Governor at the last election, when Gov. Stewart, the Democratic can didate was olectod. Thus it will be seen that the Know- I Nothings had everything their own way. It should be j so, for the Black Republicans could not master men j enough outside of this coanty to constitute an electoral j tlckot, and thoy had to succumb to the mandates of tho I Dark Lantern order. How the mass of the Germans will I relish this union, is yet to be seen. This meeting also I appointed delegates to the State Convention of the " Oppo- "PULASKI.” Bltiool8t8” which is to meet at Jefferson city on the 28th inat. Tbo Know-Nothings in that Conation will hare everything their own way as they had afthla meeting, and the Blacks, to keop up any kind of a show, must through necessity, unite with them, although they may put forth a ticket composed of men who would rather vote for the devil than a Black Republican—yet the Black Republicans must swallow them —or not go to the feast! Imagine Frank Blair voting for a ticket, composed of men opposed to his Black Republicanism. This be will, nay, he must do in Missouri, and whon in Congress he would rather cat bli right hand off than vote for a Know-Nothing. Imagine him electioneering for a party that opposed him to the bitter end iQ bis last race in this district for Congress, and you will perceive how much principle he and his party, iu this city, eland upon. Wo here in Missouri entertain uo fears about the combined opp-inition; that wo had always to battle with, and we think we can go over the course ar heretofore. Every Black Republican .voted against Mr. Buchanan, as well as the entire American vote, and we had rising 10,000 majority. Tho same vote went against our candidate for Governor, and wo went through with flying colors. Missouri is true to the Union and the Democratic party. Let the “ opposition” roar and howl to their hearts content, and in due tlmo the Democracy will trot out the usg who is to be the next Governor^ A word about Edward Bates and the Presidency. In the first place he is no Black Republican, and in the second, the Blacks have no more idea of nominating him than they have Judge Doaglas or James Buchanan—it is to keep the “American ” and “Old Line Whig” vote from scattering. In Missouri, they are for Bates; in Kentucky, for Crittenden; In Tennowieo, for Ball; in Virginia, for Bolts, Ac., Ac. lienee, it will be seen that the “ opposi tion,” in States where they hare no force, they light upon mon supposed to be opposed to the Democracy, and well known to be opposed to the Black Republicans or Aboli tionists. All this is done for effect—to make the frietfda l of these gentlemen believe that they really havo somo show of a nomination, vhen it is a fact well known to the initiated, that the candidate is already picked out—that ho is a rampant Abolitionist of one of the Northern States. Many of tho Americans aropf the opinion that the Blacks will be forced to nominate wo of llriir men, and some of them are elated with the Id**, and make no bones of how he will fool tho Blacks uftcr they assist in hia olection. to Edward Bates. We have known him for fourteen years; ho is a man of undisputed honesty, a character without a blemish, and no man cau, in truth, say aught against him as a man ora practitioner at the bar; he ranks here among the first of our legal profession, and Is not only a good, but a very useful citizeo. Judge Bates we cannot regard as a Statesman—not having been in a posi tion to acquire such a distinction—yet a well informed and learned gentleman. He is what some would term an “ old fogy”—forty years behind the ago. Were ho President, an appropriation bill would hardly receive his sanction— be would’nt know there was so much money in the world! He would havo made a most excellent Chief Magistrate forty years ago, and, candidly speaking, be is not, with all his honesty and irreproachable character, the man for the place jost now. We want a man of the Jackson stamp— it will take such a man, with an iron will, to preserve the Union and tho Constitution—to punish treason and insdb - ordination, and drive Black Republicanism from the boundaries of the country. Mr. Bates has not got the nerv e to undergo the responsibilities which will fell to the lot of thetocoming Chief Magistrate. Our Legislature Is now in session, and they are working in fine style—pushing business rapidly ahead. We see in all parts of the West and South a moving In favor of John C. Breckinridge tor President iu 1860. We ore glad to see the proper spirit aroased in Pennsylvania, and if the delegates of the “ Old Keystone” support Mr* Breckinridge he cannot fail of a nomination, and hU nomi nation Is equivalent to an election. There Lb this about the whole matter, and it may as well be stated in plain terms, that there will be but three prominent men before that convention—we mean three men among whom the vote will be divided, and they are Stephen A. Doaglas, Daniel S. Dickinson and John O. Breckinridge. Mr. Doug las without donht will poll upon the first and second bal lots more votes than either one of the other two, and if the friends of Mr. Douglas find that he cannot obtain a majority of the Southern delegates upon those ballots, the name of Senator Douglas will be withdrawn, when a like number of ballots will be had, with Mr. Guthrie In Mr,
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