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4EO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
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THE DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET.
The following is the correct Democratic
ticket for City and Ward Officers, as settled
at the nominating meetings on Satur.lay
__evening last.
.Now that the nominations are
made,, we hope every Democrat in the city
unite . heart and hand in support of the
-,nominees.... The
,ticket,. also, commends itself
to thp.support of every friend of good order in
the city:
, Magor.
George Sanderson.
High, Constable
John Myers.
NORTH WEST WARD
Select Council.
Henry Bliekensderfer.
Common Council.
David R. Jeffries,
A. J. Steinman,
William Diller,
Lieut. Henry Nagle,
Lieut. John Rees.
Alderman.
Chirles R. Froth* ,
City Constable.
Jacob Grin6ker.
• Assessor
Charles Moyer.
Judge.
Mahlon Mercer
Inspector.
Mitchel J. Weaver
NORTH EAST WARD
_ Select Council.
Charles M. Howell.
Common Council
John R. Russel,
Allen Guthrie,
k, John Lippincott,
Jacob L. Baker.
City Constable
Hugh Dougherty.
Assessor
Benjamin Lichty
Judge.
James C. Carpenter
Inspector
Daniel Okeson.
SOUTH WEST WARD
Select COuncil
Dr. Henry Carpenter
Common Council
Frederick Coonley,
Philip Fitzpatrick,
Jacob Bowers.
Alderman
John A. Sheaff.
City Constable
John Kuhns.
Assessor
henry P. Carson
Georg Musser, jr
Inspector.
Christian Frailey
SOUTH EAST WARD
Select Council.
Dr. Henry Carpenter
Common Council
William P. Brooks,
William White,
Dr. P. Cassidy.
City Constable.
William M. Gormly
Assessor
Israel F. Abele
John Roy
Inspector
Jacob Foose.
CORRESPONDENCE.
LANCASTER, Jan. 28, 1860
Hole. Ono. SANDERSON—Dear Sir: As the municipal elec
tion is again near at hand, when the people will be called
upon to select the officers of the Corporation for the ensu
ing year, may we ask of you the favor to furnish the public
with a brief statement of the financial condition of the
City, so that the tax-payers may be enabled to vote under
standingly in reference to those who may desire their
suffrages.
• We remain, yours, &c.
J. ZIMMERMAN, EM'L SHOBER,
W. WHITESIDE, - JOHN SENER,
P. CASSIDY, H. C. LOCEIER,
M. WITHERS, W. CARPENTER,
0. WIDMYER, HENRY E. LEMAN,
JAMES H. BARNES, GEO MUSSER, Jr.,
JOHN RANKIN, JOHN F. U ST R,
JOHN BLACK.
°suns:mix : In reply to your communication of the 28th
inst., permit me to say that the continued improvement in
the finances of the City of Lancaster, must be a source of
gratulation to the taxpayers, whose interests have been
faithfully and. efficiently managed by all the departments
of the Municipal GOvernment.
During the fiscal year now near its termination; the
records show that, with a revenue of some $5OOO less than
last year, (owing to the reduction of 8 per ceutnm in the
valuation made by the County Commissioners and the
reduced rate of taxation of cents -in the $lOO made by
Councils,) every pecuniary demand has bees promptly met
upon presentation—besides liquidating bills to the amount
of $801,74, contracted but not presented for payment in
the previous year, of which $498,94 was for Gas, $88,30 for
Hardware for Water Works, and $36,50 for burying car
cases; whilst the special and annual appropriations have
been all sufficient for their objects, owing to the rigid sys
tem of economy observed, and on several of the latter
handsome balances remain unexpended. The items ie
maining undrawn in the Treasury are as follows:
Water Pipes and laying $ 600,00
Miscellaneous Water Works expenses, 1692,38
Contingencies, 1441,34
In all, $3533,70
The aggregate unexpended balance of these three items
last year, per Treasurer's Annual Report, was $1833,53.
The amount expended on Streets. last year, was $3569,55
do. do. Water Works do. • 3052,40
During the present year the account stands as follows :
Amount expended on Streets $4113.45
do. do. Water Works, 2454,18
The supply of water in the Reservoirs, during the present
year, has been at all times much greater than the con
sumption; and, although out of the annual appropriation
to the works, the usual outlay for steam pumping, during
low stages of the Conestoga, bad necessarily to be incurred,
and the cost of a repair of considerable extent in the bot
tom of the new Reservoir, (which has so far proved of a
permanent and substantial character,) involving the sum
of $433,24, the expenditure in this branch has been $598,22
less than in the previous year.
.The excess of $543,90 in this year over the' disbursements
of last year for Streets, is owing to an increase in the
amount of work done, most of it of a substantial character,
and for the accommodation of the greater portion of the
petitioners for such improvements.
During t h e past two years no Water Pipes have been
laid in the City--consequently the appropriations remain
untouched in the Treasury.
The Sinking Fund, during the present year, has accumu
lated $2lOO, (which is a virtual reduction of the public
debt to that extent.) and nowseaches the sum Of $35,883,87
—having been increased over $20,000 in the last four years.
Another similar reduction (5 cents in the $100) to that
made at the commencement of the present fiscal year, can
• safely be made in thS assessment of the tax for the ensuing
year, should no extraorainary expenses be incurred; but
that will be a subject for the deliberation of the new
Councils, and is one over which the incumbent of the
Mayor's office has no control. Knowing, however, that it
can and ought to be done, in order to relieve the tax-payers
to that extent, I strongly recommend the reduction.
As the fiscal year has not yet closed, and several war
rants will still be drawn, it is impossible for me to state
the exact balance which will remain the Treasury at the
end of the year. I have no hesitation, however , in assert
ing that the sum will greatly exceed the balance remaining
on hand at the close of the previous year.
I have thus been a$ explicit as possible, Gentlemen, in
answer to your request. The finances of the City have
neter been in a more healthy condition than they are at
this moment, and. it should be the earnest determination
of every good citizen to require of the corporate authorities
a rigid adherence to that system of economy and reform
from which such good results have already been realized.
I remain, Gentlemen,
Very respectfully, your ob't eerv't,
GEO. SANDERSON.
To Memo. J. ZEMMILMAN, W. WHITESLDE, Dr. P. CAS
MDT, M. WITELEES, C. WIDMYEE, JAMES H. BAHNES, JOHN
RENI:Ut, JOHN F. STEINMAN, EM'!. SnonEa, Join . ; SENSE, H.
O. Comae, W. CARPENTER, HANOI E. LEMAN, GEO. MOSSES,
Jr...* and Joao BLACE.
SPECIAL ELECTION.—At the special election
in Dauphin county, on Saturday week, for a
member of the Legislature in place of Marks
D. Whitman, deceased, William Clark, Oppo
sitione was elected by a majority of 990. The
vote stood: For George Shoemaker (Dem.)
2,328; for Wm. Clark, (Opp.) 3,318.
SEIZURE Or liIPOILTED CIGARS.—About 300,-
000 imported cigars have been 'seized by the
11. S. Marshal, on the ground that false
invoices were made out by the parties sending
them from Havana. It is alleged that the
tigers were valued in the invoice at $l5 per
1,000, while they are worth, according to the
trade list, from $35 to s4s.—Philadelphia
Ledger.
The , House of Representatives, at Washing
ton, came very near the election of a Speaker
on Friday afternoon—much nearer than at
any other .previous trial since tie session
commenced. The whole opposition to the
Republidans, alias Helperites, including all
the Ncirthwestarn -Democrats, with three
exceptions, cast their votes for Wm. N. H.
Salim, an Old Line American Wbig, of North
Carolina, giving him, when the result was
declared, 112 votes, and Mr. SHERMAN 106.
Three more votes would ;have elected Mr.
Smith; and he really was elected when' the
names were called out ; but Messrs. SCRANTON,
E. JOY Moms and one or two others of the
Opposition party in the Pennsylvania delega
tion, changed their votes from Mr. &urn,.
before the Clerk had time to sum up 'and
announce the result, and thus defeated his
election. Had these men permitted their votes
to be recorded as given in, the House would
now be organized by the election of a national
man as Speaker, and upon them must rest the
responsibility of the continued disorganization.
The session was one of great excitement, in
the midst of which the House adjourned over
until yesterday. It was thought the Repub
licans would now abandon SHERMAN, and
bring forward Mr. PENNINGTON, of New
Jersey, as their candidate.
The Louisville Journal contains a letter
over three columns in length, addressed by
Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, the distinguished
Presbyterian Divine, to Hon. John C. Breckin
ridge, Vice President of the United States.
As a political paper it is calm, dignified and
patriotic in its sentiments. In a literary
point of view, it is as the Journal pronounces
it, a " magnificent production," " one of the
most remarkable displays of one of the most
remarkable men of the age. It is national
in sentiment, noble in its patriotism,. impar
tial and wise in its views, and calculated by
its earnest, clear warm style of argument, and
address to throw oil upon the troubled waters
of politics and create a counter action to
partisan' passions and sectional prejudices.
It is the production of a statesman and a
patriot—not a mere politician. The preser
vation of the Union, he regards as the great
end and aim of our glorious nationality. As
as old man be says :
" I am not ashamed to confess the depth of
my love for thy whole country, and the
mingled sorrow and indignation with which I
witness every attempt to weaken amongst the
people the sense of what we owe to the mother
of us all. No people ever did anything
glorious, who did not believe in God, who
were not faithful to oaths, and who did not
love their country. When I reflect on what
God has already done for us, and_ already
done by us for his own glory and for the
advancement of the human race; when I
consider what our position and our influence
amongst the nations of the earth must be
when we become a hundred millions ; when I
try to appreciate the necessity of just such a
power on earth, and the majesty of its benefi
cent and 'irresistible exercise ; my very heart
throbs with overpowering joy and exultation
that such a destiny is reserved for my people,
that such a refuge and inheritance is kept in
store for man. I thank God continually that
the dust of my ancestors mingles with this
soil . ; that the hands of my kindred have
labored on these sublime mountains ; that the
valor of my friends was part of the cost by
which all has been secured ; and that the lot
of the inheritance of my posterity appertains
to such a land and such a people. As for
the South, taken in its widest sense, God has
cast my lot there, and I have been loyal to
her ; all the more loyal that I have been
neither blind to her errors, nor ignorant - of
her perils. As for Kentucky, if I have left
undone anything I could have done for her
honor, her interest, or her glory; she knows
how joyfully I would redeem that lack of ser
vice. But still I love my country ; still lam
an American. And I deny, with uplifted
hands, the right of any Court, any President,
any Congress, any State, any combination of
States under heaven to abolish from amongst
men that highest of all human ties. I have
worn it as a crown all my days on earth.—
And I implore you by our common blood and
common name, by all the love so Many noble
hearts bear for you and all the hopes they
cherish concerning you, so to quit yourself
in this day of trial and rebuke, that you shall
bear the title proudly, long after my gray
hairs are under the green sod."
MAYOR'S OFFICE,
LANCASTER, Jan. 30, 1860.
A NOBLE LETTER
APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR
Robert Morris, Auctioneer, Philadelphia
John Randall, Commissioner of Deeds, &c
lowa.
Samuel M. Quincy, Commissioner of Deeds,
Massacu setts.
Lewis W. Arnett, Notary Public, Warren
county, Pennsylvania.
Chauncy S. Watkins, Commissioner of
Deeds, &c., Illinois.
Thomas Birch, Auctioneer, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Enoch A. Banks, Notary Public, Montgom
ery county, Pennsylvania.
Ge irge C. Gibbs, Commissioner of Deeds,
New York.
Cyrus M. Robinson, Associate Judge, For
est county.
Archibald Mcßride, Notary Public, Alle
gheny county, Pennsylvania.
William R. DeWitt, State Librarian.
Jacob Eminger, Notary Public, Cumber
land county Pennsylvania.
Charles P. Muhlenberg, Notary Public,
Berks county, Pennsylvania.
Enoch Carroll Brewster, Commissioner of
Deeds, New York.
Isaac Nathans, Auctioneer, Philadelphia.
Isaac N. Stoddard, Commissioner of Deeds,
New York.
N. M. Ellis, of the county of Chester, Aid
de-Camp, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel,
for the 3d Division, composed of the counties
of Chester and Lancaster.
ABOLITION BLASPHEMY
John Brown has been likened by the Abo
litionists and Republicans, to George Washing
ton. ..He is called the last of the Christian
martyrs. The doctrine is, that to secure a
placein Heaven, it is only necessary to commit
murder under a mistaken idea that it is right;
the gallows becomes the threshold of Paradise.
Read the following extract front New York
Tribune, the leading Republican organ in the
United States :
" While the responsive heart of the North
has been thus substantially sympathizing with
the one whom they admire, and venerate, and
love, the great soul itself has passed away into
the eternal heavens. During the eighteen
centuries which have passed no such character
has appeared among. men. The galleries of
the resounding ages echo with no footfall
mightier than the martyr of to day.' He has
gone. Efforts to save him were fruitless.—
Prayers were unavailing. He stood before
murderers defiantly asking no mercy."
" Bewildered not, and daunted not, the
shifting scenes of life's drama, at the last,
brought to him neither regrets nor forebodings.
Having finished the work which God had
given him to do, this apostle of a new dispen
sation, in imitation of the Divine, received
with fortitude the baptism of blood. And
thus, beholding the heavens opened and Jesus
standing at the right hand of the throne of
God, this last of Christian martyrs stepped
proudly and calmly upon the scaffold,-and
thence upward into the embrace of angels.
and into the general assembly and church of
the first born, whose names are written in
Heaven."
WASHINGTON NEWS
The Treasury balance is under $8,000,000,
including amounts subject to draft and re
served for Mint service, upon which advances
are made for deposits of gold dust for coinage.
Half this .sum is intended to meet the Post
Office deficiency duo last July, whenever
CongreSs shall pass an appropriation bill, and
the rest is required for the six months ending
on the 31st of December.
Advices to the Department represent that
commercial circles feel the pressure of this
accumulation of specie in the public vaults,
and banks have contracted in consequence.
The organization would distribute $6,000,
000 in a fortnight, upon accounts . already
adjusted. The uncertainty of an organization
has depreciated Post Office scrip, and will
bring out large sums hitherto reserved.
THE N=MI'VACiRSIITP:-
The people of Upper Canada seem to be re
alizing some of the sweets' of, negrolsc3r,ship.
The province has been opened an asylum
for fugitive slaves, and the inhabitants, until I
recently, have eo - rdially- welcomed every cargo
,
of them that has been landed there by the!'nn
dergronnd railroad." Negro equality has
been all the talk among them, until they have ,
made the poor ignorant negroes believe them . 1
selves a little better than white men. gating
upon this idea, and supposing their white
friends there and here to have been in earnest
in their talk, the negroes there are " insisting
upon their sights." In other words, they are
developing the real nature of the negro, and
committing all sorts of outrages upon the per
-sons and I:Property - of those of their white
neighbors in various localities, who oppose
their claims to social equality. They insist
upon an equality with the whites in all respects,
and there seems to be a general understanding
among them in all parts of the province. The
grand jury of one of the western counties, in
a "presentment" to the court, last fall, set forth
the character and conduct of the negro popu
lation in the most glaring light. This caused
great indignation among the negroes, and
numerous crimes and outrages have since been
committed by them upon the white people who
upheld this proceeding. -A band of them in
Anderdon township, a few days since, attacked
a house occupied by three men and a woman,
beat and mutilated the men in a horrible man
ner, and perpetrated the grossest outrage upon
the woman, and leaving them all in such a
condition that it was thought they would not
survive. These rascals were arrested, when
there was a general uprising of the negro pop
ulation, several hundreds in number, and the
prisoners were rescued and set at liberty.—
This caused great excitement among the
whites, and at the last accounts serious results
were anticipated.
At Chatham, forty miles from Detroit, a
crowd of several hundred negroes, on the morn
ing of the 16th inst., took possession of the
school houses, and refused to allow the white
teachers and scholars to enter. The town
authorities were called upon to put down the
mob, but the negroes being more numerous
than the whites in the town, they could do
nothing. The Detroit Free Press says :
The whole town was in an uproar in conse
quence of the warlike demonstrations of the
negroes, and the crowd and excitement were
consequently very great. The negroes de
manded not only that the schools should be
thrown open to them, but that they should be
allowed to participate in their management,
which, on account of their numbers, is equiv
alent to giving them the control. They have
hitherto been allotted schools and teachers by
themselves, the latter being drawn from their
own race ; but they declared that they were
as good as
,the whit6s, if not better, and that
they must be allowed to send their children to
the white schools. It was not claimed that
any ,superior advantages were to be gained by
this arrangement, but the negroes considered
it an indignity that they were not placed in
immediate contact with the whites, and were
determined to compel the latter to submit to
their society and that of their children. As
the hatred entertained by the white citizens
against the whole race is neither slight nor in
any manner disguised, it may be imagined
what their feelings were upon being coerced
into compliance with such insolent demands.
The difficulty was settled for the time by
the town council's promising to consider the
insolent demands of the blacks, and try to
make a satisfactory arrangement. After wait
ing a day or two, the blacks again attempted
to take the schools. The Free Press adds :
They were, however, persuaded that suffi
cient time had not been allowed for the author
ities to mature plans for the satisfaction of
their grievances. They therefore desisted,
though threatening violent Measures should
prompt action of the right kind not be taken.
They now threaten that, if any distinctions of
color are suffered to exist in any department
of the public affairs, they will burn the town.
This threat has been made before when dis
turbances have arisen, but the present seems
to be a more general organization, and as they
manifest a greater determination than ever
before, the whites are becoming very generf.lly
alarmed. • Letters received from there yester
day state that the town is in a general fever
of excitement. The blacks parade the streets
in squads, abusing and insulting the whites,
frequently resorting to violence. Nor is their
violence confined to the males. Females, when
met upon the sidewalks, are roughly pushed
into the gutters to give place for the black
ruffians, and the authorities of the town die
creetly keep out of the streets at night for fear
of personal injury.
Similar proceedings have occurred at other
places, showing that there is an organized
plan among the blacks to assert their claim
to perfect political and social equality with
the whites. There are twenty-two hundred
negroes in Chatham alone, nearly all fugitive
s ayes.
At Sandwich, three miles from Detroit, a
similar disturbance took place. The Free
Press says
The whites, in apportioning the school tax,
assessed themselves only, leaving the negro
population out, in order that they might not
control the cause of education by their votes at
the ballot-box. The negroes were highly in
censed at this, and went in a body to the polls
on the occasion of the election of school offi•
cers, determined to vote. They were resisted
and driven away, and much ill feeling and
enmity engendered.
The leaders in this negro insurrection are
J. D. Shadd and J. C. Brown, two of the mem
bers of Old John Brown's " ProvisiOnal Gov
ernment," to be put into operation here after
he had overturned the present Government of
the United States. The Free Press closes its.
account of the above proceedings with the
following pertinent remarks :
"It will be seen by all these indications
that the negro population of our neighboring
province has been organized and bold in its
opposition to the legitimate institutions of the
country, and overbearing and insolent towards
its rightful citizens. We may safely say that
the hatred with which they are regarded in
return is not lees violent or open than their
own demonstrations. There are very few
whites living on the borders, where this fugi
tive race most congregate, so fanatic as to
close their eyes to the fact that their immi
gration is fast tending towards the demorali
zation of the country. As citizens they are
worthless to the last degree, while crime pre
vails among them to an alarming extent, and
swells the criminal calendar of the country
with the most revolting offences—particularly
with the violation of female chastity. With all
this in return for the mistaken kindness which
has been Offered them, they are now becoming
bold and violent, and have dared to resort to the
high-handed measures Which-we have recorded,
all of which, we repeat, are obviously the result
of a concerted movement among the great
body of negroes inhabiting this portion of the
province. Canada has nursed a viper in its
bosom, which is now prepared to turn upon
it. The hordes of blacks which have for years
poured into its border counties are beginning
to feel their power, and, if we mistae not,
will give infinite trouble before they are again
crushed down to their proper level. '
These are the creatures for whom our sym
pathy is asked, and such as these our own
State will -be flooded with, if Black Republi
can principles are carried' into effect. How
would our people relish such additions to our
population ?
MARYLAND FARM FOR SALE.—The attention
of capitalists is invited to our advertising col
umns, for the sale of a splendid Farm in
Frederick county, Md., within two miles of
Frederick city—one of the finest locations in
that State.
WHERE THERE IS A WILL THERE IS A WAY.
—There are cases of Pulmonary disease in which the pad•
oats lose hope, end are fearful of a cure. There in no need
of this when such a remedy as Dr. Keyser's Pectoral Syrup
can be had, which hag cured hundreds . of cases of lung
diseases, even in advanced stages. There is something pe.
culiarly soothing about this medicine, and it seems to
meet, and does meet, every indication in the various die
turbances of the pulmonary apparatus, so common in our
climate. Dr. Keyser says that he has cured cases with
this remedy, after the best physicians had failed His es
tablishment is at 140 Wood street, Pittsburgh: Pa. The
Pectoral Syrup is sold here, at 50 cents and $l, by 0. A.
Heinitch and all Druggists.
DEMOCRATIC CITY CONVENTI —No*INEEE
Yoe MAYOR AND moo Co:manta—The Convention Of Deter
gates of the several Wards of the City met at Idesseukop"s
Hotel, Hist King street, ,on Saturday everting,. January
28th, at 9 o'clock, for the pary.,osentiggacertidalug . the
haws for Mayor and 7 Migh : Cionsiiddfik.. Maj.-
Howru. was called to thia uhair,'..a.nie--A., .1. 'flisiriatax,
Esq , appointed Seeri3tary. The returns of that - difeient
Wards were called for and atineinnced as follow.: -
NOV?. . • High anestable.
.1'26 126
.9)6 106 .
:161
N. W. Ward.
N. E. Ward.
B. W. Ward.
B. E. Ward
' Gmeog Sarrnizamr having received the unanithous vote
of all the Wartia,.as above, for Mayor, and Jouslivsna for
High Conitable; they are duly; deelared the nominees of
the Democratic party for said offices at the ensuing election.
CHAS. AL HOWELL, Chairman.
A. &rani/A Secretaiy.-
Tng. HOWARD EVENINGS.— The splendid
audience Chamber of . the Court House Was - welifilled on
Tuesday evening last. W. W. Egown, Esq., was the leo
tired*, and his subject was ably and eloquently handled.—
He took strong grounds in favor of his propositiMi,
that sr unanimous verdict should not be required of juries
In civil cases, and his several points were urged with all
the ability and ingenuity so characteristic of the legal
profeesion. The subject was indeed interesting, and well
received by.the audience.
The discussion was participated in by Hon. A. L. Hayes,
Maj. A. D. Ditmars, Col. 0. J. Dickey, Prof. John Wise, N.
Ellmaker, Esq., .Tay Cadwell, Esq., Col. D. W. Patterson
and Mayor Sanderson.
The next lectuye of the course will be delivered this
(Tuesday) evening by Rev. Dr. Navin, the eminent then.
logien and distinguished divine. Subject: " Female Edu
cation," one that will give full 'scope to the Dr.'s great
powers of. thought.
THE McFILLAN.CASE.—Thia trial, of which
we gave a synopsis in our last issue; was brought to a close
on Monday night week, at 10 1 / 6 o'clock, when the cue was
given to the jury. The jury came into Court at a few
minutes past 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Some two i :or
three hundred !spectators were assembled. Upon the an
nouncement of the verdict, Not guilty," we never beard
such a terrific shout of Bp - plant*, which was promptly sup
pressed by the Court. It is but just to say, however, that
very few of the prisoner's immediate friends participated
In this manifestation of delight at the result of the verdict,.
The applause came mostly from young men of this city
whose sympathies were wrought to the highest pitch in
favor of the accused.' A crowd of one or two hundred per
sons followed him to his stopping place, at Kanffman's
Franklin House, North Queen street, occasionally cheering
McFlllan, his lawyers and the jury in the heartiest man-
DEATH OF REV. BISHOP SEIBERT.—Rev. JOHN
&MEET, Senior Bishop of the Salem Evangelical Church,
and well known throughoitt this State, died on the 4th
inst, at the residence of .Mr, Isaac Parker, near Bellevue ,
Sandusky county, Ohio. Mr. S. was installed as a minister
when about BO years of age; and in 1639 was elected the
first Bishop in his church, in which capacity he served on.
tit the time of his death. He was born near Manheim, in
this county, on the 6th of July, 1791; and was consequent.
ly in the 69th year of his age.
ST. MARY'S FAIR.—The Ladies' Fair of St.
Mary's Catholic Church, Pine street, last week at Fulton
Hall, was a complete success in every respect. The encour
agement was so extremely liberal that the Fair is being
kept open two evenings longer this week, closing this
(Tuesday) evening. After all said and done, the Ladies are
really the only persons in this wide, wide world who can
successfully push an enterprise of this kind through.
CONGRESSIONAL SKETCHES.—The New York
Times' Washington correspondent is engaged writing
Congressional sketches. If they are not more truthful
than the subjoined one of Hon. THADDEUS STEVENS, the
correspondent had better seek some gther calling:
"Thaddeus Stevens, by the way, deserves a notice. Still
carrying in a maimed limb some reminiscences of the
Buckshot war—Mr. Stevens has a large, closely.shaved,
and rather coarse face, of the Roman type, surmounted by
a creditable arrangement of brown hair, dark eyes, sunk
away almost out of sight, under an overhanging forehead,
and features which recall those of the late Thomas H. Ben
ton, though moulded in a commoner clay and with lees
refinement of expression. Profeeshig himself totally inde
pendent of party rule, Mr, Stevens, nevertheless, seems to
vote pretty steadily with the Republican organization
during every critical vote; and having a certain drollness
of manner, with a taste for telling the truth in a humorous
way—whenever he rises in his seat the gentlemen on his
own side give a prophetic chuckle. Hots said to be a strong
man intellectually, though a little infirm physically; an
astute, closely.calculatlng and experienced politician; a
debater of the rough and ready kind, and with many love
able, rude qualities to give him currency and vogue in the
social circles of politico."
"Still carrying in a maimed limb some reminiscences of
the Buckshot War." Hal ha! That's decidedly rich. The
correspondent must have been delving deep into the records
of history! We were never aware of any person having
been injured in that bloodless War, until the present time,
when an antiquated penny-a-liner has brought the fact to
light in a New York paper. "Surmounted by a creditable
arrangement of brown hair." Wonder what has become of
his wig? "Professing himself totally independent of party
rule." 0 Jehosapbat In this city, where Mr. S. resides,
he le known es one of the strictest party men. Nobody
will chuckle more over this truthful "Congressional sketch"
than Mr. STEVENS himself. The Now York Times' Wash
ington correspondent must either be a little near-sighted
or particularly green.
THE NEXT COUNTY FAIR.—The Board of
Managers of the Lancaster County Agricultural and Me
chanical Society met on the 234 inst., and resolved to hold
their next Annual Fair on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th
dave of September, 1660. Gen. M. R. Wrrw ea, the present
efficient General Superintendent has been re-appointed.
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS, AND CLOSING OF THE
MAILS AT TEE CITY POST OFFICE.—Tho different Passenger
Trains on the Pennsylvania and branch railroads leave this
pity as follows:
Fast Line
Through Express
Lancaster Accommodation
Mail Train
Harrisburg Accommodation
LEAVE WESTWARD.
Through Express
COMM
MEM
Harrisburg Accommodation
Lancaster Accommodation
Emigrant - Train
CLOSING OF MAILS BY RAILROAD.
Eastern Through Mail—For Philadelphia, New York and
Eastern States, at 8 a. m., 'PA p. m., and 6:14 p. m.
Way Mail East—For Philadelphia and intermediate offices,
at 8 a. in.
Western Through Mail—For Columbia, Harrisburg, Pitts
burg and Western States, at 104 a. m., and 0% p. m.
Way Mail West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown, Mount
Joy, Middletown, Harrisburg, Lewistown, Huntingdon,
Tyrone, Altoona, Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between
Altoona and Pittsburg.) at 10 1 4 a. in.
Southern Mail—For Columbia, York, Baltimore, Washing
ton, D. 0., and Southern States, at WA a. In.
Pittsburg Through Mail, at 1)4 p. m.
For Strasburg, via: Camnrgo, Quarryville, Martinsville,
and New Providence, at 8 a. m.
ARRIVAL OP MAILS DV 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., 7.30 a. in., and 2.34 p. m
Way Mail West 13.40. a. in., and 2.34 p. m
Southern Mail 2.30 p.
CLOSING OP MAILS ON THE STAGE ROUTES
. .
For Reading, via: Neffirrille, Litiz, Rothsville, Ephrata,
Reauastown, Adamstown and Gonglersville, daily, at 8
For Lebanon, via: East Hempfield, hianbeim, White Oak,
Mount Hope and Cornwall, daily, at 2 p. m.
For Millersville and Slaekwater, daily, at 1 p. m.
For Safe Harbor, daily, at I p. m.
For Hinkletown, via: Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl,
arid Farmersville, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, at 2 p. m.
For Paradise, via: Greenland and Sonderaburg, daily, at
2 p. m.
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For Litiz, via: Neffsville, daily, at 2 p. m.
For Marietta. via: Hemptield 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, Barevile,
Beartown, Bowmansville and Muddy Creek, daily, at
12 m.
For Phoenixville, via: New Holland, Blue Ball, Goodville,
Churchtown,AlorgantOwn, Honeybrook, Chester Springs,
and Kimberton, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and Sat
urday, at 12 in.
For Port Deposit, Md., via : Willow Street, Smithville, Buck,
Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grove,nock Springs, 'Md.;
and Rowlandsville, Md., Tel-weekly, Monday, Wednes
day and Friday, at 6 a. m.
For Colebrook, via: Swarr's Mill, Old Line, Sporting 11111
and Mastersonville, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Fri-
day, at 6 a. m.
For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Trl-weekly, Monday, Than
day and Saturday, at 2 p. m.
For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Martieville, Coleman
villa, Mount Nebo, Bethesda and Rawlinaville, Semi
weekly, Wednesday and Saturday, at 1 p. m.
For New Danville, weekly, Wednesday, at 9 a. in.
Office hours, from 7 a.. 131. to 8 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 preliald*ith stamps before
they can be mailed. H. B. SWAIM, Postmaster.
TournAcna."=-This disease can be cured by .
Dr. Heyser'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 game, and is worth ten times its price to all
who need it. Sold hen by 0. A. Heinitsh and all Druggists.
For the Intelligencer
Idroses. Eorreas :—ln reply to a letter in the " Press,"
of the 14th inst., headed Letter from Lancaster, Jan. 11,
1860, and signed "More Anon," I have a word to say by
your permission. This scribbler finds fault with the late
Democratic County Convention, and charges the Chairman
of the County Committee with having packed she Conven
tion, and that it was mainly composed of Postmasters.—
Now, I think it is a pity that nr. BUCHANAN has no more
Post Offices to givetn-the county, or some other places of
trust; for I feel satisfied that if " More Anon" could have
been accommodated, he would, perhaps, have been in the
Convention himself. But he shows 'himself, by the tenor
of hie letter, to be a kind of visionary creature. lie first
heaps all the abuse he can upon Mr.'SWATIE, and then comes
up ell the way to Marietta to abuse the Democracy here.
Now, I wish to show tolls public that "More Anon " is
not a man of truth; therefore, A man who cannot the
t
truth should not write at all. .111 s assertions that t e res
olutions passed at the delegate meeting in this Borough
were framed by a man; and passed through his influence,
who never voted:the Democratic ticket, and that he is a
Black Republican, and a sympathiser of Old John Brown,
are false and on/banded, and I hurl them back into the
teeth of the recteant Democrat who Penned them. The gen
tleman who framed the resolutions 'and had them offered,
will
,00mparehis..Detuncracy with any other man of Lis
age, be he who he may, or come from where he will. Be.
never was a sympathiser . with - suy plan who violated the
laws of - the ,country; much less -has,
.he any feeling, other
than contempt, ror,Old John Brown., Ile isnot ashamed of
the resolutions:passed at the delegate meeting, but is of
the opinion they were jut such as should have been passed
at every similar meeting in the county.
A TRUE DEMOCRAT.
WASIIINGTigi; Feb. 23.
SENATE.-- The galleries an were
crowded to Fear Senator Dogglas' speech.-
- The noise and confusion during the morning
hour was so great that it was impossible to
hear the reading'of the Clerk. The hour -hay-.
ing arriiod, Mr. Diaglite resolution, instruct-
lug the judiciary Committee to bring in, a bill
for the--better,;suppression of invasion, &cc:,
was called up
_Mr. Qoaglaa , :
read : the" correspondence be
tween-the Governor of - Virginia and the Pies
ident, last November, in which the former
stated that he had evidence to show a conspir•
acy had been formed in Ohio and other free
States to rescue John Brown, and the latter
replies that he finds no power in the Consti
tution to act. Mr. Donglas said this letter
produced a poWerful impression on the South,
it being-regarded as an official announcement
that the Constitution conferred no power on
the Federal Government to protect one State
from invasion by another. His (Mr. Douglas')
object now was to raise an inquiry whether it
is not in the power of Congress, and the duty
of Congress, to enact all laws necessary to
protect each State from foreign or domeatie
foes. Unless Congress afforded the protection
where was it to come from ?
The States consented to the prohibition of
keeping up armaments in expectation of pro
tection from the Federal Government. If the
people settled into the conviction that there
was no power in the Federal Government to
protect each and every State. they will demand
that their cords be severed, and the weapons
be restored to their hands for protection. The
perpetuity of the Union was involved in the
decision of this question.
He could demonstrate that there was no
wrong in this Union for which the Constitu
tion does not provide a remedy, and could
show that it guarantees to every State a re
publican form of government and protection
against invasion. He argued that this clause
gave-the Federal Government a right to pro
tect the States from domestic foes and inva.
sion from abroad, having already been provided
for in the eighth section of the first article of
the Constitution. This was clear, and was
the interpretation put upon it in the 43d num
ber of the Federalist, by James Madison, who
regarded it as a strong argument, to be ad
dressed to the smaller and weaker States. It
was, therefore, proper fur Congress to pass
laws necessary to render this guarahtee effect
ual, but up to this time it had failed to do so.
The reason is to be found in the fact, that
no Congress ever dreamed that such protection
could be necessary. But after the experience
of the last year, Congress cannot be longer
justified in neglecting this important duty;
and the next question was, that if legislation
is necessary, it will, no doubt, be agreed to be
right to place the military arm at the Presi
dent's disposal. But that is not enough. It
is not only necessary to use the military power
when invasion should come, but to employ the
judiciary arm to suppress them in advance.
There was nothing clearer in the law, than
that the intent to commit crime may be pun
ished. If the act of invasion is criminal, the
intent to invadeshould be made criminal also.
He would carry these provisions of the law as
far as the Constitution would permit. He would
make it a crime to form a conspiracy and to
invade a Territory, and a crime to control
elections or interfere with the form of Govern
ment. Whether such conspiracies had taken
the form of emigrant aid societies or blue
lodges of Missouri, there could be no domestic
tranquility.
He recommended that the United States.
Courts be authorized to take cognizance of and
punish these offences. It could not be said
that the time bad not arrived, nor that the
Harper's Ferry outbreak wa'S not to be repeat.
ed. The causes Which produced that event
still existed, and therefore might be repeated.
The Harper's Ferry outbreak was the natural,
logical and inevitable result of the doctrines
and teachings of the Republican party, as
expressed in the party platform, by the party
presses, and.in the speeches of the party lead
ers. [Applause.]
Mr. Mason (Va.) hoped the order of the
Senate would be preserved. In case of further
demonstration, he would move that the galler
ies be cleared.
Mr. Douglas concurred in the remarks of
the Senator of Virginia. He trusted there
would he no more manifestations on the part
of the galleries. Ile then resumed his speech.
He had not made this charge against the
Republicans for party purposes. The great
idea underlying that organization was an in
creasing war against slavery, until it was
extinguished. The source of their power con
sisted in exciting the passions of the Northern
people against the South. Another mode was
by repeating the Southern abuse of Northern
statesmen by the violent men of the South.—
When he contended against the Republicans
in Illinois, in 1858, he had to contend against
this doctrine of the irrepressible conflict,which,
though not announced in words by the Sena
tor from New York till four months after
wards, *as, nevertheless, substantially the
platform of his opponent, Mr. Lincoln.
He then read extracts from a speech of the
latter to prove this, and attacked Mr. Seward's
irrepressible conflict speech, and denied that
the two sections of the Union, with different
domestic institutions, could not live together
in harmony, if they only conform to the prin
ciples of the Constitution. The people may
have just such institutions as they choose.—
There need be and could be no conflict. He
wanted Congress to vigorously carry out the
power to repress conspiracy, and he would
show the Senator from New York there was a
Constitutional mode of repressing irrepressible
conflict. He would open the prison doors,
and show the conspirators the cells in which
to:drag out a miserable existance. It was not
enough for the Republicans to disavow th e
Harper's Ferry outbreak ; they must disavow
the doctrines which produced it.
Mr. Fessenden defended the Republican
party from the charge of agitation, and attrib
uted the excitement to the Kanas act.
.2.30 p. m
.4.09 a m.
.8.40 a. m
25 p. m
.1.12 p. m
1.41 x. m.
111" a. m.
2.34 p. m.
. a 3a p. m .
. p. m
.12.20 a. m
HARD TIMES OUT WEST.—The Boston Her
ald has reliable reports showing what:distress
results from the drain of money from the
Northwest. The Herald says: We have
heard of many individual cases of peculiar
hardship. One man from New Orleans invest•
ed $30,000 in St. Paul a few years since, and
a few months ago he determined to " realize"
upon it. He sold it for eighteen hundred
dollars !
A gentleman who lives in Minnesota
informs us that a few days since he was
passing through the streets of St. Paul and
saw one of the citizens, who had been a large
dealer in real estate, chopping down his well
curb with an axe. He stopped and inquired
the reason of a proceeding so erratic and ap
parently so rash. "Cone into the yard and
I'll WI you," said the, chopper, and he
proceeded to state that he had been unable
to collect a cent of monies due him fur some
time, and borrowing was out of the question.
He had not a stick of wood in his house to
cook his dinner with, and as he objected to
starving and freezing he was sacrificing his
well curb to his absolute necessities.
In Davenport, lowa, a gentleman, who,
with a partner, transacted the heaviest grain
and lumber business done in that section of
the country, is now earning hie bread by
driving an express wagon. The city of Da
venport is dead broke. No watchmen, no gas,
no money in the city treasury to pay for
anything. lowa is, in fact, worse off than
Minnesota, where a good crop of wheat was
raised for exportation last year Two good
crops will restore the Northwest to something
like prosperity. But the pressure it is now
undergoing will ruin thousands of individuals,
and check the general growth of that region
for several years.
THE PRESIDENCY.—At a Democratic Con
vention, held in Jonesborough, Tennessee,
On the 6th ink., the Hon. ANDREW JOHNSON,
of that State, was recommended as the prefer
ence of the Convention for the Presidency of
the United States. The editor of the Tones -
boron gh.Union endorses the preference warmly,
and in cioing so pays a high compliment to
the Hon. WILLIAM BIGLER, of Pennsylvania,
by naming him in connection with Governor
Johnsorl, as the, choice of that section for Vice
President. The Union says :
" Gov. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, has many
of the qualities of Governor Johnson, of Ten
nessee. They are both self-made men ; built
from the foundation up of cemented material
of their own merits, and their friends know
upon what to rely. As we propose to Levert
to this matter again, we will at present close,
by announcing our preference for candidates
in the Presidential canvass in the names of
' Johnson and Bigler.' "
meamrre, Jan. 23, 1860
Eke' Hon. HENRY D. GILPIN died at his
residence in Philadelphia, on Sunday last,
aged 60, years.
cosommessios
!err . • - Dill Vie
String Prather—The lce in Vie Ricers—Market Review—
' Hogs Packed in St Louis—Building Statistia—Preperty
and Rents—Piles Peak Emigration—Chickasaw Nation
—Jail Delivery--An Bditor..Murrkred—Kansas &nators
—7lninessee Stale Cnnisnition—MiteeUaneous Paragraphs
—lowa Senalor--Eawarct Bates and Hu Priends—Lan
easter Qunty.Delegation—John a Breckinridge, de.
. Bn. Lone, Jan. 28, 1880.
The - weather:haa been mild, pleasant and spring-llke
throughout theentiti treat. No rain his fallen, and the
gorges of ice in the . upper Mississippi, the Missouri and
Hlisole rivers are unbroken above Alton, but the Mists.
Mpg beloeht trio of Ice and boats are making their-regu
lar tripe. Receipts of produce are light', and sales on
'Change Saturday were—Plour $5.25 to $8; Wheat $1 to
$1.17,44; Corn 53 to 66c.; .oats 51 lo 555.; Barley 85 to 88,4
Rye 92c.; Pork $l7 to $17.50; Whisky . 20%c.; Sugar 73.4 c.;
Dried Apples $1.67 ; Peaches 43.25 to $3.75 ; Hides 13c.;
Potatoes $1.75 per bbl; Hay 95c.; White Beans $1.40 per
bushel.
The following is an accurate statement of the number
of hogs killed to date, at this point:
No. Killed.
Francis 'Whittaker 19,407
Jolts J. Roe & Co . 17.569
Levi Ashbrook & Co 10,710
Henry Ainea & Co 9,900
G. & C. Bayha 9.471
Matthew Steitz ' • • 3,149
Total this season
Total last season.
Increase as compared with last year 17,069
The foll Owing is the average weight of bogs, as given
by each house:
AVISIAGE WKIQU
Francis Whittaker
L. Ashbrook & Co
11. Amps tt Co
John J. Roe & Co
G. d• C. Bayha 178 192
Matthew Steitz 174 183
The Cincinnati Gauge estimates the deficiency in the
West at 100,000 head.
The following is officially reported t 0 the Chamber of
Commerce, as the building statistics of our city for the
past year of buildings commenced and finished with their
cost :
First Ward-25 one story frame; 3 two stories frame;
102 one story brick; 221 two stories brick; 26 three stories
brick. 1T0ta1,.377. Estimated cost, $543.500.
Secoid. Ward-14 one story brick; 107 two stories brick;
31 three stories brick; 2 four stories brick; 12 one story
frame; 8 two stories frame ;'2 three stories frame. Total.
176. Estimated coat, $340.350.
Third Ward-17 one story brick; 121 two stories brick;
81 three stories brick; 1 four stories brick; 17 one story
frame • 20 two stories frame. -Total, 257. Estimated cost,
$569,600.
Fourth Ward-19 one story brick; 101 two stories brick;
102 three stories brick; 13 four stories brick ; 6 one
story trams ;' , 7 two stdios frame. Total 248. Estimated
cost $682,400.
Fifth Ward-11 one story brick; 78 two stories; 78 three
stories brick ; 12 four storieft brick ; 8 five stories brick ; 1
seven stories brick; 4 one story trains; 6 two story frame.
Total 192. Estimated cost $1,834,800..
Sixth Ward-7 one story brick; 22 two stories brick ;84
three stories brick; 16 four stories brick; 18 five stories
brick; 9-one story frame. Total 166. Estimated cost
$1,766.300.
Seventh Ward-6 oue story brick ;86 two stories brick ;
76 three stories brick ; 6 four stories brick; 5 one story
frame: 11 two stories frame. Total, 190. Estimated Cost
$451.000.
Eighth Ward-16 one story brick; 129 two stories brick;
72 three stories brick; 8 four stories brick; 10 one story
frame; 9 two stories frame. Total, 244. Estimated cost
$564,500.
Ninth Ward-24 one story brick; 222 two stories brisk ;
74 three stories brick; 4 four stories brick; 1 five story
brick; 45 one story frame; 33 two story frame. Total,
403. Estimated cost $576,750.
' Tenth Ward-18 one story brick ; 324 two stories brick ;
56 three stories brick; 1 four stories brick ; 72 one story
frame; 62 two stories frame; 2 three stories frame. Total,
535. Estimated cost, $840,200.
Recapitulation.—One story hone. s, 439; two stories
houses, 1,584; three stories houses, 084; four stories
houses, 83; five stories houses, 27; six stories houses 1;
saves stories houses, 1. Total, 2,779. Coat, $7,669,400.
What will St. Louie be ten years hence at this rate o f
progress? Whilst other cities have been standing still
awaiting " better times," ours has been pushing ahead. ,
Where la there a city that can show figures like the above
•
for the past year ? St. Louis is destined to be 'the second
city of the Union.
We have no . sv street railroads running to the extreme
limits of the city—two running North and South, and four
running East and West. It was thought that after these
railroads would be completed, rents would be lowered, but
from all that we can learn, the reverse has been the case.
Property in the suburbs
that rented for $l5O and $2OO
per annum, before the railroads were constructed, is now
in demand at $3OO and $4OO, whilst inside property; if
anything, has also advanced a trifle. When one pays $4OO
rent three, miles from their business, and counts the fare
to and fro of his family, it is about equal to $6OO within a
mile of his business. Thus it will be . seen that little or
nothing is saved In his rent, and thus it ever will be In
this growing and flourishing city. Private residences on i
Fifth street are rapidly being converted into stores and
business stands, and they are eagerly sought at exorbitant
rents. Buildings that rented as private residences on
Fifth street for $ 00 to $l5OO per annum—with an outlay
of frrm $3OO to $5OO towards converting them into stores
—now readily bring from $9,000 to $3,000. A new block
is now iu course of erection on Fifth street—on a piece of
property heretofore rented for about $l2OO or 1500—and
which will be ready for occupancy early in the fall, the
owner has placed the rent we understand, at $B,OOO for the.
orner, and $6,000 each for the two adjoining—the three
.torea, built on the above property, are therefore, now held
t $lB,OOO per annum- It is too much, and no business
can be made to pay it. Our friends, the Messrs. Berm.-
Mau, of your city, have one of these stores in view, and
notwithstanding they will, without doubt, be the hand.
souiest and finest stores in the place, the rent is too stiff.
The Messrs. B. have formed a very favorable opinion of our
city, as everybody who visits it, must do, and we should
be pleased to have them locate here.
The emigration to Pike's Peak, It would seem, has
already commenced. The St. Joseph Gazette of the 19th,
announces the arrival in that city of ono hundred and
twenty gold seekers from Ohio, who were on their way to
the land of golden promise. Mr. Gregory, the discoverer
of the Gregory diggings. was to have left St. Joseph for
the mines on Tuesday last.
A recent census of the Chickasaw Nation, show the fol
owing result
Adult males...
Adult females
Children
Total 4,957
There are about five hundred slaves of all ages and
•
801.138.
The fur trade of Minnesota has grown into consequence
within the past two years. It is now estimated at over a
quarter of a million of dollars.
Four prisoners made their escape from the Leavenworth
jail on the 15th. They eleged the jailor, tool his weapons
from him, and fired the revolver at his head, the ball
grazed his temple and only inflicted a flesh wound. They
then knocked him down, breaking one of his arms and
otherwise injuring him, when they scaled the walls and
made their escape, but in a few hours were again captured.
Theeditor of the - Vicksburg Southern Sun was murdered
on the 18th inst., by a man named Shippard, his default
ing clerk. He was shot through the heart, and died
instantly.
There will be no election for States Senators for Kan
sas, until after it is admitted as a State—which will not,
and should not. Be done, the present session of Congress.
The Democrats of Tennessee in State Convention, on
Wednesday last, elected delegates to the Charles ton Con
vention instructed for Hon. ANDREW Jonsson, of that
State. They adopted a series of sound Democratic resoin
, tions—re-affirm the Cincinnati platform—endorse the Na
tional Administration—uphold the "Dyed Scott" decision
—denounce the Republican party as sectional—condemn
the invasion of Virginia by an organized band of Black
Republicans—pledge themselves to abide by the decision of
Use Charleston Convention, and wind up with the following:
Resolved, That if this war upon the constitutional rights
of the South is persisted in, it must soon cease to be a
war of words. If the Republican party would prevent a
conflict of arms, let them stand by the Constitution and
fulfill its obligations—we ask nothing mare, we will sub
mit to nothing less.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted.
• John Aymerson, an employee in the Poet Office, at War
saw, in this State, was arrested a few days since at that
place by a speCial Mail Agent, upon a charge of purloining
lettere from the mail. •
Col E. F. Cross is now in our city, on his way to Arizonta,
with men and materials for the working of the St. Louis
Silver Mining Company.
Franklin's birth day was not celebrated in this city by
the typos, as in former years.
During the present season the Quartermaster at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, has purchased over 40,000 bushels
of corn, at prices varying from 25 to 40c. per bushel, and
all received from persona within twenty miles'of the Fort
A man named David Moore, residing in Livingston
county, Ky., committed suicide last week by hanging him
self. He used a hickory , wythe instead of a rope. It is
said that the cause of:tire rash act ,was a mixture of
domestic troubles and whisky.
We see It stated that the assessed value of Carriages,
Watches and Pianos in theßtate of Ohio, show the follow
ing figures
Carriages
Watches.
Pianos....
Hamilton county, In which Cincinnati Is situated, of
course, numbers most of the luxuries. In that county
there are 12,878—value $875,577; Watches B,B72—value
$227,728; Pianos I,9ss—value $280,845.
James Hailan was re-elected U. States Senator by the
lowa Legislature, on the 18th inst. Mr. Harlan is, of
course, a Black Republican Abolitionist, and elected for
six years from the 4th of Marsh next. The vote stood,
Harlan 73; Dodge 52.
The friends of Mr. Bates in this City and Stet, are the
men who have ever opposed him—hunted him down like
so many blood.hoands,—could not find words bitter enough
in the vocabulary td express their hatred, and no paper
was more fierce than the Missouri Democrat, yet this paper
professes to favor his nomination by the Black Republican
party for the Presidency, when they .really want to see
Seward the nominee. We do not beliovelir. Bates selected
the Democrat as his " organ "—it le a self-constituted
,4 organ." The old friends and admirers of Edward Bates
will never follow him into the ranks of the Abolitionists
—we know to our personal knowledge at least twenty of
the warmest friends of Mr: Mites in this city, who have
openly expressed themselves that he and they will be
separated, politically, the moment his name is used in the
Black Republican party by authority. The Black Republi
cans may at once select their best, truest and tried advo
cate for their standard bearer, for we can .assure the
Blacks of the North, that Mr. Rates stands no better chance
in this or any other elaye-holding State, than Simon
Cameron, Chase, Seward or any other man of that stripe,
and they might as well nominate a man knimn to be"
Abolitionist-as one of doubt, for the, moment their candi
date Is - in the field,lhat moinent will he' be known aa 'an
Aixditionist, and opposed - to' disunion,
will take a stand against him. We will beat Mr. Bates
.
Just as Dad - Stateia *Odd Mr. Beward-4t 'make*
no difference to the people of Allasonri who they nominate,
for they have already made np.their miude to vote for, no
Abolitionist, be It. Bates,. of Idissorirt, or Seward, of New
York. ,
Gov. Stewart has issued his proclamation, calling our •
Legislature together on the 27th of February. There has
been a great many important measures, requiring immedi
ate attention, which was not reached by the recent session
....particularly the railroads. -
We
ate glad to learn that the Democracy of Lancaster
enmity has instructed its delegates to the State Convention,
to vote for the senior-editor of the Lancaster Intelligences
far Governor; it is an honor Justly deserved. The citizens
of Lancaster should endorse the action ot the County Con
vention by reelecting Capt. Sanderson Mayor of the "Only
Democratic City," in -February next. We say to our
friends there, give him' a long pull, a strong pull, and a
pull altogether. The Captain has our bast wishes, and if
we were there, it would do us good to vote for him. We
also want to hear of the Lancaster delegates, urging, and
uniting, the Pennsylvania delegate - 8
to the Charleston
Convention, in favor of John C. Breckinridga. ,There will
be but few votes, on the first and second-ballots, for. Mr.
Breekturidge, but after that look oat for breakers—the fur
will fly—and you will soon see who is who. It is necessary
that the Pennsylvania., or some other delegation, should
rally around the Star of Kentucky, and stick to him, and
the 27 votes of the old Keystone will bold the balanbe of
power before the balloting is done. Our delegation will
go for Dickinson, but when the friends of Breckin ridge
want the vote of Missouri, she will be friar! No one man
will get a majority of the votes on the first ballot, not
withstanding the exertions of the friends of Judge Dong.
laci—it will require a two-thirds vote to nominate. We
cannot see a possibility for the nomination of Douglas—he
will get his full vote on the first ballot.
This year. Last year
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PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENCE.
PIIILAIMPUIL, January '26th, 1860.
MECEIRS. &areas: Gilt-edged, as you are aware, signifies
something handsome, firatplass, A No. 1, if not absolutely
glorious. Applying the test to the very.charming weather,
In which humanity hereabouts is now luxuriating, your
correspondent may without fear of the commandments,
designate, specify; style, and characterize it as gilt edged
weather. The haze le golden and beautiful, and every
c loud is lined with silver. The air is as mild ns September,
and alone. the sunny sides of the streets windows are
thrown wide open, and metropolitan belles smile out at
you like so many basket* of chips, or lumps of butter
There is not enough ice anywhere in eight to frighten a .
blue jay, and, in fact everybody begins to believe we have
got into winter wrong nod foremost. But perhaps It wore
better to have tho proper equilibrium anotarned now, for
we may find after awhile that we have got the right end
of winter at the exact wrong time.
The magnificent Continental Hotel, at the corner of
Ninth and Chesnut atreets,is now receiving its final appoint
ments preparatory to the grand opening on Washington's
birth day anniversary. Thio splendid structure Is the
meet commanding and beautiful building devoted to Hotel
purposes in the United Statoo. It is the largest in size. the
moot costly, the most elegant In decorations, and the moot
convenient in comfort of any thing of the kind out of hon-
don or Paris. The richness of its interior arrangnionts dazzles
every beholder, and is everywhere the subject of praise
end congratulation. The metropolitan spirit of nor com
munity takes a Just pride In the enterprise which suggested
and completed this great work.
The Mayor of Lawrence has telegraphed to the coin
.mlttee of arrangements for Mrs. D. I'. Bowers' lecture In
this city to-morrow evening, that he thinks the generosity
of the public has provided for the pressing necessities of
the sufferers by the terrible calamity in that town. The
lecture however will come off, and the proceeds will be
devoted to the education of those who have been made
orphans by the calamity. One of the first to respond to
the call for aid was Mr. G. G. Evans, of the famous Gift
Book Establishment hero, who forwarded the munificent
sum of ono thousand dollars. •
Mr. Evans has just issued a charming Indian romance,
The Doomed Chief, or Two Hundred Yea, Ago, by the
author of The Green Mountain Boys, Gaut Gurley, etc. It
is a tale of King Philip, and his bitter warfare against
the whites, one of the most interesting episodes in the
early history of the country. Few who have read Mr.
Hollister's tine story of Mount ❑ope, or the Last of the
Wampanoags, covers the same ele.orbitt.: field, and ern brac
ing many of the same incidents and elmreeters, will Mil to
secure Mr. Th..pron's more imaginative narrative.
Several fine works are in the press, for speedy publication,
among them The Queen's Fate, a story of the Bs), o f
Herod, and The Lives of Marion, Sumpter, and other South'
ern Patriots, in one volume.
The steamship Vigo, for Liverpool, sailed from our
wharves on Saturday, presenting a noble appearance as
she steamed down the river.
Our merchants are advocating a steam line to Portland
and one to Providence. Initial edenruships will be put on
both routes 10 a few days.
TRAGEDY IN CHESTER COUNTY, Pa.—The
West Chester (Pa) Village Vecorcl, says—A
bloody drama was enacted in Chester county,
on Saturday afternoon last, the 14th inst.
Mary Poulson, a mulatto Woman, killed Alfred
Miller, alias Dahho, a colored man with an
axe. Mary owns a house and lot adjOining
the property of George Gawthrop and the
estate of Isaac H. Bailey, deceased, M East
Marlborough township, about a mile and a
quarter, east of Unionville—seven or eight
Miles west of West Chester. She lived alone
in one room of the house ; the, other portions
of the house—a room and stairway down
stairs, and two rooms on the second floor-.
were rented to and occupied by a colored
family—two women, a man, and a boy.—
Miller, the deceased, had been stopping at the
house several days, and on S , turday morning
told Mary to give him some wood out of her
room to build a fire in the adjoining room
down stairs, which he had been occupying.
She refused to -admit him into her room.
Miller then forced the door off the hinges, and
a scuffle ensued between him and Mary ; one
of the women who occupied. the up stairs,
attracted by the scuffle, came down and en
deavored to persuade Miller to go away ; but
she did not succeed. An angry altercation
continued. Miller swore he would enter the
room and refused to leave. Mary ordered
him out of the house and threatened to defend
herself. These facts are stated by the woman
from the adjoining room, who says that she
left before any violence was committed. A
fearful tragedy then ensued. As no person
was present but the parties, the account of
what followed comes from Mary herself.—
Mary states that Miller threatened her with
violence—that he assaulted her, and she seized
an axe to defend herself. Mary armed with
this weapon, mounted the , bed ; she says that
when Miller approached towards the foot of
the bed, she inflicted a blow upon him and
sunk the sharp edge of the axe into his head,
cleaving his skull. Miller fell forward, his.
knees resting on the floor and his hand and
head on the bed, in a kneeling posture. The
demon was now fairly aroused in Mary. She
descended from the bed and cut into one of the
legs of the already dead victim, cutting all the
sinews and arteries in the back part of the leg,
leading to the heel. While the murderess
was inflicting her blows, one of the women
occupying the up stairs entered the room and
witnessed the chopping of the leg. •
Mary Poulson, the perpetrator of the deed,
is a stout athletic mulatto woman, about 50
years of age. She bad been a widow for
some years, and lived in the neighborhood for
a long time. For years she had been regarded
among her neighbors as crazy. 'Although gen
erally peaceable, when left alone, when
enraged she became very violent. She was
lodged in jail for a hearing.
.64y - Sufferers with Diseases of the EU ad.
der, Kidneys, Gravel, Dropsy, Weaknesses, &c., reed the
advertisment in another column, headed •• Helnildd's
Genuine Preparation." nov 23 ly 45
dy- Watches and Jewelry.
REMOVAL.
GEORGE C. ALLEN, In business In Wall street. for the
peat vwstivir-vwo YEARS, has removed to No. 415 BROAD
WAY, one door below Canal street, where. he has just
opened a new stock of WATCHES and JEWELRY of en
tirely new and beautiful styles; also, SILVER AND PLA
TED WARE.
. -
He is constantly receiving the latest styles of Watches
and Jewelry, by 'every Steamer direct from the manufac
turers in Europe.
• w.tebee cleaned and repaired in the best manner by
the finest London and Geneva workmen.
GEORGE C. ALLEN, Importer of Watches and Jewelry
and manufacturer of Jewelry, Watch Cases and Silver
Ware, Wholesale and Retail, 415 Broadway. one door below
Canal street, New York. [nov 30 ly 46
No. Value.
.290.901 $10,246,043
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3,252 1,103,195
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