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FOR PRESIDENT
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS, of Illinois
- 7013 TICE PRESIDENT:
HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, of Georgia.
. FOE PRESIDENT :
JOHN C:BREPKINRIDGE, of Kentucky
FOE' VICE EREMDENT :
OM. JOSEPH LANE, of Oregon
- FOR GOVERNOR:
HENRY H. FOSTER, of Westmoreland
Aar The Democratic Party recognizes in its creed no
"Higher. Law "—it teaches no "Irrepressible Confllct"—lt
does not teach. the treasonable dogma of Lincoln, that
"this ilivernment cannot endure permanently half slave
and half-free"—it incites no deluded fanatics to disturb
the hallowed shades of Mount Vernon and Monticello, by
a traitor's call for servile insurrection. 'VI
ELECTORS:
• ••• MINATOBJAL =GTO=
George M. Heim, of Barks county.
Richard Voltz, of Philadelphia.
torn ELZOTOM
14. J. Beckhow,
15. George D. Jackson,
16. J. A. Ahl,
17. J. B. Danner.
18. J. B. Crawford,
19. H. N. Lee,
20. J. B. Howell,
21. N. P. Fetterman,
22. Samuel Marshall,
23. William Book,
21. B. D. Hamlin,
25. Gaylord Church.
1. Frederick Server,
2. William 0. Patterson,
8. Joseph Crockett, Jr.,
4. J. G. Brenner,
5. J. W. Jacoby,
6. Charles Kelly,
James,
8. David Scholl,
9.. Joel L. Lightner,
10. B. S. Earbiir,
11. T. H. Walker,
-12. , 8.8. Winchester, _
13. Joseph Lanbach,
RESOLUTION OF .THE DEMOCRATIC STATE EXE—
CUTIi r E coralurrEE
Profoundly impressed with the importance of prompt,
vigorous and patriotic action on the part of the Democratic
State Committee, in order to avert, if possible, the conse
quences which must inevitably result from the unhappy
diVislon now existing in the ranks of the Democracy In
our State and nation, we cordially andluinestly recommend
to the Democracy of the State that they unite with heat
and voice in the support of our excellent and competent
nominee for Hoiernor, Henry D. Foster, and that in all the
local elections they act as one party, forgiving and forget
ting any differences that they may have entertained for
the Presidency; bat with a view to a perfect unity against
the common enemy, we recommend to the D.mocracy of
Pennsylvania to unite their votes for President on the
electoral ticket farmed at Reading on the Ist day of March,
1860, on the following basis and understanding, viz That
if said electoral ticket should be elected by the people,
and it should appear, on ascertaining the result in the
other States of the Union, that by casting the entire vote
of Pennsylvania for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V.
Johnson, it would elect them President and Vice President
over Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin, then said electors shall
be under obligation so to cast said veto; if on .the other
hand it should appear that said vote would not elect
Messrs. Douglas and Johnson, but would elect John C.
Breckinridge and Joseph Lane President and Vice Prost
dent over Messrs. Lincoln and Hamlin, then mid vote shall
be cast for them; and in case the united vote of Pennsyl
vania would not elect either of these tickets, then the
electors may divide it between them according to their
own judgment of what would be the best for the country
and the Democratic party—the basis of this united action
being that it is the first and highest duty of all Democrats,
however they may differ about men and minor points of
principle or policy, to unite against a common enemy, and
to avert, If possible, the greatest calamity that could befall
the country, the election of a Black Republican President;
and further, the Chairman of this Committee is hereby
authorized to correspond with the several Electors is the
State, and obtain from each of said Electors his written
pledge, within thirty days from this date, that he will
faithfully carry out the object of this resolution.
COUNTY COMMITTEE MEETING
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The Democratic County Committee of Lancaster * Count y
will meet at the Hotel of Emanuel Shober, in the City of
Lancaster, on SATURDAY, the ISth day of AUGUST, 1860,
at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Every member is earnestly desired to nttend, as business
or great importance, connected with the approaching cam
paign, will demand the consideration of the Committee.—
The:Committee:will also, at the same time, elect a Chairman
and other officers for the ensuing political year.
H. B. SWARR,
Lancaster, Bnly 31st, 1860. Chairman.
ns constitute the Committee
City, N. W W.—F. S. Pyfer
N. E. W —H. B. Swam
The following named perm ,
Adamstown—Timmy Stauffer
Bart—Amos Rockey.
S. W. W.—Jacob F. Kautz.
S. E. W.—Geo. M. Kline.
Lancaster twp.—B. Huber.
Leacuck—John L. Lightner.
Leacock U.—Dr. A. S. Bare.
Little Britain—R. Helton.
Nlanheim Bor.—A. J. Eby.
Manheim twp.—Benj. Ehy.
Manor—George G. Brush.
Marietta—Charles Kelly.
Martic—H. L. Thompson.
Mt. Joy Bor.—H. Shaffner.
Mt. Joy twp.—J. Nichols.
Paradise—Eli Rutter.
Brecknock—David McColm
Crernarvon—Dr. B. F. Bunn
Clay—John Bluer, Be q.
Colerain—A. D. Wlsiteside.
Columbia, N. W.—C. Grove
" S. W.-9. E Maxtoo
Cocalico E.--Cyrus Ream.
Cocalico W.—Wm. Bechtel.
Conestoga—A. R. Hess.
Conoy—Henry Nophsker.
Donegal E —P. J. Albright.
Donegal W.—J. Dostecker.
Drumorri—John Hastings.
Earl—John H. Hull.
Penn—Hiram R. Hull
Earl East—,Geo. Buchman.
Earl West—Jacob Banner, jr
Ephrata—P. H. Bottler.
Elizabeth—Jos. S. Keener.
Elizabethtown—J. A. Gross
Eden—Henry H. Breneman.
- Fulton—Wm. F. Jenkins.
Hemp&ld IL—Dr. S. Parker
Hempfield W.—J. H. Weller
Lampeter E.—J. L. Lightner.
Lampeter W.—Samnel Long.
Pequea—Lyman Fallon.
Providence—Dr. J. K. Raub
Ronne—lL B. Becker.
Strasburg B.—W. T. McPhail.
Strasburg twp.—F. Clark.
Sadsbury—John D. Harrar
Salisbury—T. %Vallace.
Warwick—T. Lichenthaler.
Washington—J. E. Charles.
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According to promise we have com
mence razeeing our list, and striking off the
names of those longest indebted for subscrip
tion to THE INTELLIGENCER. We intend to
continue the same course of procedure from
week to week, until we have made our packet
book, what it ought long since to have been,
a list of paying subscribers. Those persons,
whose names have been erased, will have
three months time in which to pay up their
arrearages without costs; after which their
accounts will be placed in the hands of a
proper officer for collection
So soon as we can collect in a few hundred
dollars, of as many thousands owing to us,
it is our intention to enlarge and otherwise
improve the appearance of THE INTELLI-
BEAIOCRATIC STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE
At the meeting of ,the State Committee on 2d inst., it
was resolved that the next meeting be held at Cresson, at
the call of the Chairman. In pursuance thereof, the
members of the Committee will assemble at Cresson, on
THURSDAY, the 9th day of AUGUST, 1860, at 3 o'clock,
P. M. As business of great importance will be Lid before
the Committee, it is earnestly hoped that every member
will be present.
Air- Democratic papers will please copy.
WILLIAM H. WELSH,
Chairman.
July 29, 1860
ATTENTION DERIOCRA.TS
The Democrats of the City of Lancaster are invited to
attend a meeting at the public house of Emanuel Shober,
on WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST Sth, at 7 1 A o'clock,
for the purpose of organizing a Democratic Club, whose
object will be to aid in se,tiring the election of Hon. Henry
D. Foster to the office of Governor, and the election of the
Electoral ticket as settled at Reading.
BY ORDER OF THE COMMITTEE
GEN. RENUY D. FOSTER
The triumphant election of this gentleman
to the Gubernatorial chair of the Common
wealth is, we think, a foregone conclusion.—
We have never known a nomination more
heartily and zealously endorsed by the press
and people of Pennsylvania. Whatever dif
ferences of opinion may exist amongst our
Democratic friends in reference.to the Presi
dency, there is not a single voice raised against
our excellent candidate for Governor. He
will receive not only the united support of the
Democracy, but, in addition, will get thous
ands of votes of the patriotic and Union.
loving citizens identified with other party
organizations. He is, emphatically, the right
man for the right place./ He is both honest
and capable in the fullest sense of the words,
and will be a worthy successor to those able
and incorruptible Chief Magistrates, SimoN
SNYDER and FRANCIS H. SHUNS, whose mem
ories are held dear by every true•hearted
Pennsylvanian.
NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION
Partial returns of the election held in the
old North State, on Thursday, indicate the
triumphant election of Governor al.'s, the
Democratic candidate, by a majority of from
6 to 10,000, and a decided majority in both
branches of the Legislature.
Elections were held yesterday in the States
of Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri
and Texas. In Missouri there are four State
tickets in= the field; in the other States there
are three.
LET.IT BE REMEMBERED!
That Hannibal Hamlin, the Republican
candidate for Vice President, voted against
the adniisi3ion of Oregon, with its free consti
tution, into the Union ; while -hypocritically
hypocritically
profikeing.to be.oppoeed only to the winds: don
of 8 41*§t 11 *
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WHO. HAS CHANGED GROUND)
alleged_that_lllr. Boo:akin and the
Southern Democracy have changed ground on
the slavery question since his election to the
Presidency. Let us see how this is. On the ,
4th of March, 1857, previous to taking the'
oath of office, in his inaugural address he said,
speaking of the right Of, the people of a Ter
ritory to regulate their" domeatic affairs in
their own way—" A different , opinion has
arisen in regard to the point of time when the
people of a Territory shall decide the question
[of slavery] for themselves. This is happily
a matter of but little practical importance ;
besides, it is a judicial question, which
mately belongs to the Supreme_Cnurt of the
United States, before whom it is now pending,
and will, it is understood, be speedily and
finally settled. [This was done a few days
thereafter in the Dred Scott decision.] To
their decision, in common with all good citi
zens, I shall cheerfully submit, whatever that
may be, though it has ever been my individual
opinion that, under the Kansas-Nebraska act,
the appropriate period will be when the num
ber of actual residents in the Territory shall
justify the formation of a Constitution, with a
view to its admission as cs-State into the Union."
This was the doctrine held and promulgated
by Mr. BucuarTAN when he assumed the duties
of the Presidency, and his Inaugural Address
gave universal satisfaction, not only to the
Democrats, but to the conservative portion of
the Amerizan people outside of the Demo
cratic organization. The same doctrine was
shortly after enunciated by the Supreme
Court in their decision of the Dred Scott case.
Everybody, except a few rampant Abolition
ists, was satisfied with the position taken by
the Executive and Judiciary, and not a dis
senting voice was heard in the Democratic
party for nine months thereafter, and until
the Annual Message was transmitted to Con
gress in December following. Then it, was,
and not till then, that the first"symptom of
dissent to the doctrine of the President and
the Supreme Court assumed the form of open
rebellion in the Senate of the United States,
and from that day to this the country has
been torn and distracted by a question which
the President very justly observed was a
" a matter of but little practical importance."
The President's opinion, unless we greatly
misconceive his position, is precisely the same
now that it was on the day of his inaugura
tion—nothing more, nothing less. He was
then in favor of the people of a Territory,
when they come to form a Constitution pre.
paratory to asking for admission as a State—
and not before--to decide whether they will
or will not have slavery. He is in favor of
the same thing now, and nothing more. The
Supreme Court have decided the question' in
the same way, and have farther decided that
the people of a Territory, so long as it remains
in that condition, are entitled to the protection
of the General Government in their p6sons
and property, whether hailing from the North
or the South.
From the above, then, it is evident that
Mr. BUCHANAN and the Southern Democracy
have not changed their ground, whatever others
May have done, since his administration com
menced. They stand now, as they did then,
cn the broad platform of the Constitution as
expounded by the Supreme Court, and time
will show that their position is impregnable,
and no successful effort can be made to drive
them from it.
II J S I) S 1
The friends of Mr. BRECK.INRIDGE. in Penn
sylvania, advocate to a man the support of the
electoral ticket formed at Reading, eben
though its 'election may redound to the benefit
of Judge Donn Les. They do this for the
reason that, whatever personal or political
objections they may have to the latter, they
vastly prefer his election to that of LINCOLN.
The leading friends of Mr. DOUGLAS, (we
believe there are but few who entertain such
feelings,) oppose the compromise suggested by
the State Executive Committee, and openly
avow their preference for LINCOLN over
BRECKINRIDGE. With gentlemen entertaining
such sentiments we can have no feelings in
common as Democrats. They are very near
the confines of Republicanism, and will soon
find themselves in the ranks of the common
enemy. The masses who honestly support
Mr. Donotas are sincere in their attachment
to the Democratic faith, and will heartily
join with the friends of Maj. BRECKINRIDGE in
opposition to Mr. LlNCOLN—preferring the
success of either to the triumph of Black Re
publicanism.
The honest friends of BRECKINRIDGE and
DOUGLAS not only desire the defeat of LINCOLN,
but they also wish to secure the election of
General FOSTER and a majority of the Demo
cratic Congressmen, State Legislators, and
County Officers—all of whom can be carried
with union in the party on the same electoral
ticket. Without such concert of action we
lose everything—President, Governor, Con
gressmen and all. This union, we think, can
be accomplished. The masses are for it, and
it will be consummated, we believe, despite the
efforts of HALDEMAN and his disorganizing
confreres: We go for union, and wish to see
the electoral vote of the State cast in the way
and manner recommended by the State Com
mittee.
UNION TICKET IN NEW JERSEY
Three State Conventions assembled at
Trenton on Wednesday, the 25th ult. The
regular Democratic Convention assembled
under the call of the State Committee, formed
an electoral ticket pledged to cast the vote of
the State for either of the candidates opposed
to Lincoln and Hamlin whom it will elect.—
The ticket is composed of two Breckinridge
Democrats two Douglas Democrats, and three
Bell and Everett men. Judge Naar, editor of
the True Democrat, and a friend of Douglas,
made a powerful speech in favor orunion and
victory. The Douglas straight-outers, like
those in Pennsylvania opposed to Democratic
success, for Med a separate electoral ticket,
and so did the Bell and Everett men. Three
of the names on the latter ticket are the same
as those that were placed on the Democratic
Union ticket, and the Bell and Everett Con.
vention gave full power to their Executive
Committee to make such changes in the ticket
as might be rendered necessary, which is
considered in substance a union with the
Breckinridge men.
LINCOLN AND THE TARIFF
Before Congress adjourned, a distinguished
member of the United States Senate sent a
copy of the Morrill Tariff Bill to Abraham
Lincoln, with the request that he would give
it his endorsement and return it. It was de•
sirable to place him right upon the record so
far as Pennsylvania's interests are concerned,
but he was not disposed to be thus caught.—
He has not been heard from since upon the
subject, and, we suppose, intends to keep the
bill in hie pocket until after the Election.—
Can the Republican papers tells us why Mr.
Lincoln don't endorse the Tariff measure
which the Republicans think is necessary to
the salvation of the country ?
FREDERICK P. STANTON.—This gentleman,
late Secreta4 of Governor Walker, in Kansas,
during the Lecompton troubles, has come out
flat-footed for LINCOLN and HAMLIN. He ad
dressed a Black Republican meeting at St.
Louis on the 23d ult. Like other apostates
from the party, he claims that he has been
a Democrat all his life, and that he has not
changed now 1 ' -
PUBLIC PRINTING.
Algreat- dear-of money was' spent by In
vestigating Committees, last winter, in_ their
efforts to ferret out what they pleased to term
corruption in the printing department; and
enormous frauds in contracts, all of 'which
were predicated an the feet that contracts with
the government were afterwards subdivided
between partizans and;friends. A new „rale
was adopted by Congress and ati " honest,
pious, trustworthy" man, named Tom Ard,.
of Ohio, was chosen to do the work. Here is
the first chapter of Abolition economy, and
reform :
THE COVODE COMMITTEE REPORT-SCHEME
OF THE POLITICIANS DEFEATED.-It 1S under,
stood, says the Washington Star, that Mr.
Ford, the House Printer, has virtually sold his
contract with the House to Mr. Pangborn,
after previously selling it to Messrs. Larcomb
& English, who have' executed the work for
Mr. Ford up to this time. The • public know
that Larcomb & English deny Ford's right to
make the second sale, and have enjoined Mr.
Heart, Superintendent of Publio Printing, not
to pay over a dollar to Ford or his second
assignee. Mr. Heart will respect the writ of
injunction. So .if Mr. Pangborn essays' to
execute theworkremaining to be done, he must
haie rich backers in the speculation ; for
while it will require a heavy capital, the
chances are ten to one that the Circuit Court
will decide in favor of Larcomb & English's
claims to the sub contract ; covering of course
the right to execute whatever portion of the
work Pangborn may do. In the meanwhile,
Larcomb & English have possession of a large
quantity of executed House printing, embrac
ing 30,000 copies of the voluminous report of
the Covode Committee ordered by the House
to be printed especially as a Republican party
electioneering document for the current Presi
dential campaign. That large batch of docu
ments, as well as others, are now ready for
delivery to the House binders; but not a sheet
will Larcomb &.English permit to go out of
their possession until the Court decides
whether their sub-contract or that of Pangborn
is the valid one. The legal question will be
1 in abeyance quite long enough, we apprehend;
to entirely defeat the partizan purpose of the
RepubliOan majority of the House in ordering
the printing of the immense edition of that
expensive work, the cost of which they saddled
upon the National Treasury. We apprehend
that there are not a few others in the District
of Columbia besides Larcomb & English, and
Defrees, who having claims growing oat of
the House printing of this Congress, are not a
little nervous over the condition in which it
now stands. So much for the public printing
stench which the last House raised ; the odor
of their own printing rascalities being likely
to smell most offensively in the nostrils of an
honest public.
We are truly pleased to see the good feeling
which prevails among the Democracy of the
State, of all shades and stripes, in relation to
General Foster, the Democratic nominee for
Governor. All are disposed to accept and
cordially support him, as he was unanimously
presented by the Reading Convention, and the
signs of the times plainly indicate that he
will be the next Governor. Of all the Breck
inridge and Douglas papers in the State, the
Philadelphia Press is the only one that mani
fests open hostility ; and opposition from such
a source will, among all honest men of every
party, benefit rather than injure Gen. Foster.
The Pittsburg Post, on this subject says:
" Mr Foster will get every Democratic vote
in Pennsylvania. His eminent talents, his
private worth, the many services which he
has rendered to the people of his native State,
and hie large acquaintance with the people,
have insured him a personal popularity which
nothing can resist. Large numbers of the
Opposition are prepared to vote fur him, as
being the best man, without regard to politics,
and others will follow. His nomination was
a spontaneous, free will offering, from a peo
pie gratified from past services which he had
rendered. He is not the candidate of any
section, but of the entire Democracy of the
State. The name of his opponent we seldom
hear mentioned. Even in his own party he
seems to be regarded with entire apathy. His
name is never heard. His public acts would
do him no good before the people. His politi
' cal record is so variegated, that one half of
the Opposition are doubtful and distrustful of
him. He finds it impossible to lobby himself
into notice against a manly, upright, straight
1 forward man of the people, like Henry D.
Foster."
DAUPHIN COUNTY FOR UNION
No fewer than thirty five of the sixty dele
gates composing the late Democratic County
Convention of Dauphin, have protested against
the action of the minority refusing to endorse
the compromise plan suggested by the State
Central Committee. The Chairman, who
happened to belong to the minority, behaved
in an outrageous manner, refusing to entertain
any motion made by the majority, or even to
take the negative on the resolutions. The
minority were determined to have things their
own way, and to accomplish their purpose
resorted to every unfair and dishonorable
means. And this is heralded forth, in tele
graphic dispatches, as the voice of the De
mocracy of Dauphin county, speaking through
their County Convention
se. Judge Terry was lately acquitted of
the offence of killing Senator Broderick in a
duel by a jury in Marion county, under such
circumstances as leave no doubt of a collusion
between the prosecution and defence to pro•
duce such a result. The witnesses establish
ing the guilt of Terry were all on their way
from San Francisco to Marion in a small boat.
They were delayed so that they did not reach
the Court House until about 12 o'clock.—
Judge Hardy opened the Court at 9 A. M.
The District Attorney announced that his
witnesses had not made their appearance.--
The case went to the jury without a word of
testimony, and, under the charge of Judge
Hardy, a verdict of acquittal was rendered
before 10 o'clock.
fcer• The Harrisburg Sentinel calls Hick
man a "double dyed traitor." Just so. 'When
he opposed the administration of Mr. Buchan
an, and pretended to be a friend of Mr.
Douglas, two years ago already, we pronounc•
ed him a traitor to the first and a hypocrite
to the second, but the Sentinel patted him on
the back as a good Democrat. Now he ap
pears in his true colors, and the Sentinel
acknowledges his treason then and his treason
now by terming him double dyed. Let the
Sentinel look sharply over its list of good
Democrats and it will find some others under
going the same process of double dyeing.
10=!
The Democrats of King's county, N. Y
have set an example worthy of imitation.—
At the meeting of their General Committee,
to call primary meetings for the appointment
of delegates to the Convention to be held at
Syracuse, August 15th, a resolution was
adopted " recommending the seledtion of del.
egates who are in favor of a union on State
and Electoral tickets." This resolution, the
report says, was adopted by an almost unani—
mous vote.
fiEr Of the twenty six gentlemen from
Lancaster county who attended the Haldeman
Convention, 16 were from the City, 2 from
Columbia, 2 from Warwick, 2 from Ephrata,
1 from Manheim Borough, 1 from Manheim
township, 1 from East Hempfield, and 1 from
Elizabethtown. The other 49 townships and
boroughs appear to have bad neither lot nor
part in the concern.
See- The Democracy of Delaware county
had a mass meeting, in Leiperville, on Satur—
day evening last—which was presided over by
Hon. George S. Leiper. A number of ad—
dresses were delivered, and the resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted, endorse the
nominations of BRECKINRIDGE and LANs, and
also the plan of union recommended by the
State Executive Committee.
CITY AND COUNTY . AFFAIRS.
CENSUS RETURNS.—We have received the
following additional Wants Returns from the county since
our last:
Taz Crrv.—We have received full returns of the CeltSl2B
in the city. The following is official, and embraces all the
Wards:
QM=I
Number of inhabltante..-..
Increase since 1850
Humber of Dwelling Houses 1 009
22
" Deaths ddring the list 71
Hnttcr .13Licasztvranta, Deimtiltarshal.
B. W. WARD..—
. Population...
Maur P. CA18024 Deputy Marshal
N. B. WARD.—
Population
Number of Houses --
--- -Deaths:. ....
8. E. WA/11).
Population
Number of Houses
" Deaths.
LOWET, Deputy Marshal
ItsceprEtriarsoN.—
N. W. Ward...-.
S. W. Ward
N. E. Ward—...
Total p0pu1ati0n................._......:._.............17. 6 52
Population in 1850 . .. ...................................12 369
'lncrease
O...EENARYON TOWNSICIP.
Population
Increase, since 1850....
White males
fema1e5.........
• Colored males
females
Males over 81. years of age.
Females over 83 years of age.
Pied during the year..._...... ,
Births
Married " " "
Foreign born •
Deaf
Dumb
Insane
Idiotic
Convict
Total number of scholars attending school 380
between 5 and 20 years of age who
did not attend school 193
Persons over 20 years of age who cannot read or
write 37
Dwellings 298
Families 304
Farms • 121
Manufacturing Establishments 20
Number of bushels of Lime burned 35.000
Wheat ground iu 5 mills 32,841.
" Corn chopped " 13.200
cc oat. 3,000
Oats and Rye, mixed, chopped " 10.50
Barrels of Flour made 5.108
GEO. DUCEIII.OI, Deputy Marshal.
COROT TOWNSHIP.—
Population of the township
6, of Bainbridge....
Total population 1879
Number of Farms 81
Number scholars attending school 495
Persona who cannot read or write 50
Births within the year 76
Deaths " " " 14
Persons from 75 to 80 years of age 9
One person 82 years of age, and one 90.
EMANUEL R. Nacuat, Deputy Marshal.
MARIETTA BOROUGH.—
Population, 1860
• 4 1850
Increase
Marron:N.
Population, 1860
1850.
- Increase
EAST DONEGAL TOWNSHIP.—
Population, 1860
1850
This apparent decrease in East Donegal township is ex
plained by the fact that what was part of said township,
in 1850, is now part of Mount Joy borough.
P. J. ALBRIOHT, Deputy Marshal.'
RAPHO TOWNOMP.—.
Whole population 2435
Males 1249
Females 1185
Negroes 1
Number of Dwellings 765
Families 789
64 Farms . r. 366
Persons over 20 years of years who cannot read or
write
Numbr of children attending school
Marriages within the year 81
Births within the year 8
Deaths within the year 2
Deaf and Dumb
Blind
Paupers
Idiot and Insane It
BENJAMIN DONAVEN, Deputy Marshal
EAST MEMPPIELD TOWNSHIP.—
Population. 2614
Males 1330
Females 1284
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LANPIRVILLE.
Population 115
Males 69
Fenples 46
PETERSBURG.
Population
Males 69
Females 46
HEMPFIELD.
Population 299
Males 149
Females 160
Colored persons 9
CHRISTIAN HOFFMAN, Deputy Marshal.
ELIZADETTIToWN BOROUGH.—
Pnpuintion 700
NEWN - ILLE -
Population 183
HENRY FUNS, Deputy Marshal.
WEST LANIPETER TOWNSHIP.—
Population, 1787
Number of Houses, 290
Deaths, 17
CITY SCHOOL BOARD.—The City Board of
School Directors met statedly on Thursday evening last in
their Chamber, City Hall. There were 34 members present.
The following Teachers were reelected to the positions
they at present occupy Amos Row, Misses Matilda Jeff
ries, Emma White, P. Rathvon, C Wenger, 0. Moore, E.
Swentzel, M. Diller, Rose Voigt and Mrs. Reinstein.
Hon. A. L. Hayes, President., offered s resolution rescind.
ing the following resolution adopted at the mooting of the
Board, July Ist, 1858:
Resolved. That hereafter the Male and Female Depart
ments of the High School shall be under the superintend
ence of the Principal of the Male Ilizh School ; who, with
the approbation of the Superintending Committee, shall
make such arrangements with the Assistant Teachers of
the Female High School as will be most conducive to its
efficiency.
John W. Jackson, Esq., offered the following as an
amendment: "That the consideration of the resolution be
postponed, and that it be referred to the Superintending
and High School Committees to enquire into the expediency
of the change, and report to this Board; and further, that
the Superintending Committee be Instructed to re•advertise
for a Principal of the Male High School."
Dr. John L. Atlee, Sr., asked for a division of the ques
tion on the amendment; and the first division of the same
ending with "report to this Board," was agreed to; and
the second division, instructing the committee to re-adver
tine, was rejected on a call of the yeas and nays. Yeas 15,
nays 17.
The resolution as amended was agreed to.
Dr. Atlee moved that the Board proceed to the election
of a Principal of the High School.
Wm. Carpenter, E.g., moved to adjourn, and on the
motion the yeas and nays were demanded, and the adjourn
ment carried. Yeas IS, nays 15.
NEW P. M.—Mr. Christian Rowe has been
appointed Postmaster at Strasburg, this county, vice James
Paul, resigned.
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS, AND CLOSING OF THE
MAILS AT THE CITY POST OFFICE —The different Passenger
Trains on the Pennsylvania and branch railroads leave this
city as follows:
Fast Line
Through Express
Lancaster Accommodation
Mail Train
Harrisburg Accommodation
LEAVE WESTWARD
Through Express
EIDEEM
Harrisburg Accommodation
Lancaster Accommodation
Emigrant Train
CLOSING OP MAILS DP RAILROAD.
Eastern Through Mail—For Philadelphia, Now York and
Eastern States, at 8 a. m., 1 4 p. m., and 8 p. m.
Way Mail East—For Philadelphia and intermediate offices,
at 8 a. m. -
Western Through Mail—For Harrisburg, Pittsburg and
Western States, at 9% a. m., and 8 p. m.
Way Mail West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown, Mount
Joy, Middletown, Harrisburg, Lewistown, Huntingdon,
Tyrone, Altoona. Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between
Altoona and Pittsburg) at 9% a. m.
Southarn Mail—For Columbia, York. Baltimore, Washing
ton, D. C.. and Southern States, at 9% a. m.
Pittsburg Through - Mail, at 14 p. m
For Columbia at 9% a. m., and•s p. m.
For Strasburg, Pia: Camargo, Quarryville, Martinsville,
and New Providence, at 8 a. ILL
ARRIVAL OP MAILS BY RAILROAD.
Through Mail East 1.16 a.m., 10.35 a. m., and 2.38 p. m.
Way Mail East 10.35 a. m
Through Mail West— ... 2.36 a. m., 8.10 a. m., and 2.22 p. m
Way Mail West 8.60 a. m., and 2.22 p.
Southern Nail 2.22 p. m
CLOSING OP SUMS ON THE STAGE ROUTES.
For Reading, via: Neffsville, Litiz, Ephrata,
Reamstown, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at 8
a. m.
For Lebanon, via: East Hempfield, Manbeim, White Oak,
Mount Hope and Cornwall, daily. at E p. m.
For Millersville and Slackwater, daily, at 1 p. in.
For Safe Harbor, daily, at 1 p. m.
For Hinkletown, via: Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl,
and Farmeraville, Tri-weekly, Tuesday, Thursday and.
Saturday, at 2 p. In. '
For Paradise, via: Greenland and Sonderaburg, daily, at
2 p. m.
For Mit, via: Neffsville, daily, at 2 p. m.
For Marietta. via: Elempfield 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, Barevllle,
Beartown, Bowmansville and Muddy Creek, daily, at
12 m. •
For Phcenisville, via: New Holland, Blue Ball.. Goodville,
Churchtown, Morgantown, Honeybrook, Cheater Springs,
and Kimberton, Tri-weekly,Tneaday, Thursday and Sat
urday, at 12 m.
For Port Deposit, Md., via :Willow Street, Smithvil le, Beek,
Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grove, Rock Springs, Md.;
and Bowlandaville, Md., TrLweekly, Monday, Wednes
day and Friday, at 6 a. m..
For Colebrook, via: Swarr'a Mill, Old Line,. Sporting Hill
and Mastersonville, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Fri.
day, at 6 a. m.
For Vogansville and Terre Hill, Tri-weekly, Monday, Thurs
day and Saturday, at 2 p. m.
For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Martieville ' Coleman
vine, Mount Nebo,' Bethesda and Itawlinaville, Semi
weeklyi Wednesday and Saturday, at 1 p. m.
For New Danville, weekly, Wednesday, at 9a. tn. •
Offiee hours, from 7a.m.t08 p. m. On Sunday, from 9
to 10 a. M.
Postage to California, Oregon and Washington Torrito
ries,lo cents.
Letters, alleged to be valuable, will be registered, and a
receipt given therefor, on apPlication' and payment of the
registration fee of five cents; in addition to the regular
postage..."
All letters are required to be vruvold-with etrupe before
they oanbe mailed. . B. Etwass, Rcututaater.
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„._AN EXCELLENT ...a.proirurmswr.—We.- con•
gratulate air glorioneTwhide-aonled friend JACOB F. Kann,
Esq., of this city, on his end luck. He has been appointed
by the President the Quarter Master or Commissary for
the Corps of Engineers raised to ascertain and surrey the
boundary line between California, Utah and Oregon, and
will sail from New York for California on the 20th inst.—
Capt. Maury is the Commissioner,. Theysy of Mr. Hants
will be $l5OO per annum, and it will require abdut two
years to complete the surrey. We thinks better selection
far the post could not have been made, and we wish air.
K. health and prosperity daring his absence, anti trust
that he will return• safe anti sound to his tunny with a
.pocket fall of rocks” into the bargain. - '
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REV. HENRY 11AanAucm.Thie gentleman,
pastor of the First German Reform e d Church of this city,
has had the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity conferred
upon him by Union College of Schenectady, New York.—
Dr. 11. has an extensive reputation as an able divine and
writer, and is deserving of It.
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"THE CONSTITUTION."—We have received
the first number of a new campaign paper just started by
the Bell and Everett Club of this city, and having the
above heading for Its name. It is published by a committee
of the Bell and Everett Club, presents a fine appearance,
and is ably edited. We think we recognize in the editorial
columns the pen of our old friend Eta Bowmr, Fag., whom
we heartily welcome back to the ranks of the fraternity.
The Bell men are enthusiastic and working like Trojans
for the success of their candidate. They are thoroughly
organized in this city and county.
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STATE Tax PAID. —Michael H. Shirk, Eq.,
County Treasurer, paid into the State TreasurTat Cards
burg, on Wednesday week, the full quota of State tax due
from Lancaster county for the present year, amounting to
upwards of $90,000.
"THE MINUTE MEN OF '6O."—A number of
the Bell and Everett men of this city have formed them
selves into an organization called "The Minute Men of '6o.'
They have adopted a uniform consisting of a silver-colored
oil-cloth cape, with red, white and blue stripes around the
outer edge, and the words "M. M. of '60," and a large bell
in the centre ; the cap is made of the same material, fatigue
style, with a shield in front, and the words "Minute Men
of '6O, Lancaster, Pa." thereon. The following gentlemen
were elected officers of the organization:. President, Eli
Bowen; Vice President, Thomas W. Mayhew; Secretary,
John C. Eicholtz ; Treasurer, Clifton W. Kimball; Marshal,
Henry E. Slaymaker. The association already numbers
about one hundred members, and will shortly make a
parade id their neat and serviceable uniform.
MILITARY INSPECTION AND REVlEW.—Briga
dier Gen. M. IL Witwer having ordered the Second Brigade,
Third Division, P M., to meet In this city to-day (Saturday)
far inspection and review, the companies attached (a the
brigade in the county arrived this morning and were pro
perly escorted to their quarters, and were dismissed until
1 o'clock P. At. During the morning the streets of the city
were enlivened by the gay uniforms of the visitors.
At one o'clock the companies arrived in Centre Square,
when they were formed into line by Adjutant Locher, the
right resting on West King street. They were then re
viewed by Brigadier General Witwer and Staff. The cow
nerdes composing the brigade are as follows: Lancaster
Fenelbles, under the command of Capt. Franklin; Jackson
Rifles. Capt. Ilatubri4lat; Maytown Infantry, Lieut. Book;
Washington Rifles. Capt. Waltman; Manheim Rifles, Capt.
Ensmillger ; Safe Harbor Artilleriets, Capt Hess.
Brigade Inspector Cox inspected the arms and accoutre
ments of the brigade, all of which were found in good con
dition.
The companies looked well and performed their move
ments in a creditable manner. The excessive heat of the
day proved a drawback, the men being compelled to stand
under a burning sun for upwards of an hour. The review
was witnessed by a large concourse of spectators from the
surrounding streets and windows. The brigade at the
close of the inspection marched through several of the
streets of the city, and were finally dismissed and departed
for their homes.—Saturday's Express.
FIRE IN MOUNT JOY.—Saturday's Mount
Joy livid says nOn -Wednesday afternoon, at about 4
o'clock, a fire broke out in a stable, situated in the East
Ward of this borough, belonging to Mr. Michael Hoffman,
residing near Maytown. Though the bells were rung and
the town people assembled, little could be done bodies
saving the adjoining buildings. The stable was burnt to
the ground and the contents destroyed, the latter embrac•
ing three or four hogs, a carriage, four setts of harness,
seed.drill, lot of hay, de., the property of Andrew Hershey
and William liateer, renters of the double house to which
the stable belonged. The wind was favorable, blowing
eastward, in a direction where there were no very immedC
ate buildings. lied the wind been blowing westward the
tannery of Mr. Kurtz, the carriage shops of Mr. A. B. Lan
dis and a whole range of buildings would have been
without a doubt destroyed. When will our citizens, or
their representatives, the Council, move in the purchase
of a go'd fire apparatus?"
DEDICATION.—Moe. A. M. Weidler, the
polite and enterprising hostess at the Half-Way House, on
the New Holland Turnpike, has built a capacious and very
pleasantly-located Hall, to be used for singing schools and
other public purposes. On Sunday a week this Hall was
duly dedicated. Our young friend Wm. Seeger Darrow,
Esq., of this city, delivered an address on the occasion, and
notwithstanding the weather was unfavorable, a large
number of persons from all sections of the country wore in
attend , ; . nce.
At the same time a Singing School was formed with Mr.
Jacob Kolb es teacher. On Sunday next, the 12th, the
members of the Singing School will again convene, sobers
and when all favor Able to the cause are invited to attend.
Barevillo has long been identified with Singing Schools,
and we know no more suitable p10..0 that could be selected
for these meetings.
A FIRE RAs.—This city and the surround
ing country, especially south and east of us, was visited
with a heavy and refreshing rain on Saturday afternoon.
Since then the heat has not been Bo excessive, although It
Is still hot enough in all conscience, making us wish for a
"lodge In some vast wilderness." Vegetation has been
somewhat revived. More rain, however, would be very
desirable at this time.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CELEBRATInN.—A Sunday
School Celebration•will take place in New Ephrata, on
Saturday, September let, when able addresses will be
delivered. Those favorable to the cause of Sunday Schools
are invited to attend,
A THIEF ARRESTED.—SOITIetiriIO in Febru
ary last, Mr Benjamin Landis, of Bird•lndland, was rob
bed of a number of carpenter's tools, and suspicion falling
upon a German named Charles Buchmoyer, a reward of
ten dollars was offered for his arrest. Buchmoyer, how
ever, left for parts unknown, and was not seen until Fri.
day, when he turned up in 'daring Garden, in this city—
Falling under the eyes of Officer Gundaker, who had the
warrant in his pocket, he arrested him and lodged him in
jail. Mr. Landis will please call at the Mayor's
When arrested Buchmoyer had in his possession a smooth.
bare rifle, which, it is supposed he bad also stolen some•
where. The rifle csh be seen at the May-r's office.
N. B. The rifle has since been identified by a gentleman
in that neighborhood.
LIST OF JURORS to serve in the Court of
Common Pleas, commencing Monday, August 37th:
John Bowman, 7ilanheitia twp; John A Brush. Washing
ton bor; Samuel Brubaker, Earl; Moses Minton, Colerain;
William Childs, Jr.; Marietta bor.: Amos Cowen. Upper
Leacock; Joseph C. Dickinson, Salisbury; Washington Et
ter, City; Daniel Engle. Canny; Daniel Eckman, Strasburg
twp; Samuel E. Fairlamb, Little Britain; John H Good,
Brecknnek; Henry D. Good, Conestoga; Jacob Grabill, Sr,
West Earl; Thomas Prost, Manheim twp; Benjamin Gil
bert, Eden; John S. Hostetter, Manheim twp.; Jacob R.
Hess, Elizabeth; John Herr, Manor; Cyrus W. Herr, West
Lampeter; Joseph Hogoedoblor. Columbia bor; Adam Ken
dig, Conestoga; John Lehman, Manor: William Lowry City;
Jacob Myers. Jr., Mount Joy bor.; John B. Mytin, West
Lampeter; Christian II Moyer. Manor; Christian B. Mylin,
Pequea, Benjamin Mylin, West Lampeter; John
Salisbury; August Shober, Warwick; Jacob C Stanger,
Manor; Moses Shirk, West Cocalico; Christian W. Shaub,
Thomas Wilson, Salisbury; William Wentz Marne.
List OF JURORS to serve in the Court of Common Pleas,
commencing Monday, September 3d:
Henry Baumgardner. City; David Bricker, Warwick;
Isaac 1.. Bare. Upper Lescock: Henry IT. Breuernan. Eden;
Moses IM Brubaker. Elizabeth; J. lin Curley. Leacork; B.
Copeuheffer, West Ilempfield; Dr James C. 11038.13. Mari
etta b ; Joseph S. Devilinger. West Hampfield; Abrsh
Espenshade, East Lampeter; William Ensminger. Manheim
bor.; Jonas Eby. West Hempfield; John Fondersmith, City;
Henry Frank, Warwick; Henry Gaul. West Lampeter;
Gunkel, Ephrata; J..hn L Gish, West Donegal; Jacob
Grubs, 'Cmrnat von; Michael Groff, Strasburg; Benj. Gruff,
East Lampeter; Jacob Holizinger, Earl; Henry Hess, Con
estoga; Chambers Hahn, Ear.; Benjamin 1,. Landis, East
Lampeter, Samuel Leaman, Saliaborm Samuel H. Miller,
Elizabeth; John Mueselman, West Lampeter; Thou. N.
McSparren, Drumore; John A. Messenkop, City; Benjamin
It. Landis, Manheim tarp; Jacob Rathfon, City; George
Cternarvon; Joseph :Avert, City; Solomon Sbeaffcr,
Earl; Matthias Smith, Coney; Milton Wike, Columbia.
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The advocates of Mr. Douotto allege that he adheres to
the Democratic principle of Congressional non.in terven
tion in the question of slavery in the Territories. as set
forth in the Cincinnati platform, whilst Mr. BRECKINRIDO6
has abandoned the principle and is opposing. it. This is
not correct r and is a deceptive representation of the Issue
between these distinguished statesmen. Mr. BRECHIN-
BleOE, as I understand it, and as he avows it himself in
his letter accepting the nomina ion, adhere. to Cougree.
sional non intervention—to the true policy of leaving the
settlement of the slavery question to the people of the
Territories. He stands, on that question, precisely where
he did four years ago when a candidate for Vico PresideoL
The issue between him : and Mr. borates is not on that
question at all ; but upon what is alleged to be a new po•
sition of the latter, taken since 1856 that a Territorial
Legislature may abolish slavery, notwithstanding the de
cision of the Sup eme Cimrt that the Constitution pro.
hiblts such an exercise of power. Tho real issue, there
fore. is whether the Constitution shall be respected and
obeyed; whether the decisions of the Suureme Coors shall
Ise regarded; whether Southern men shall be stripped r,f a
Constitutional right, in defiance of the Constitution of our
common country, as solemnly expounded by that tribunal
which the Constitution itself established, its its own inter
preter.
Many well meaning Democrats have been deceived by
this representation that non-intervention is the question
At issue betvieen BRECISINRIDOE and DOEW AB. But they
cannot be deceived much longer. The positions of the
candidates are becoming every day better defined. Mr.
Donates is for stripping Southern men of their Constitu
tional right to hold slaves in a Territory before It becomes
a State. Mr. BRECHIMPIDGE lo in favor of placing Southern
men in an equal position with Northern men, so far as the
rights guarantied by the Constitution are concerned—
nothing more, netting less, and this is the.true issue be
tween the two candidates. Non intervention by Congress
and the Territorial Legislature with the rights of property,
is the poSition taken by Mr. ISHECEINELIDGE. Tho position
of Mr. Dunotes is against Congressional, but in favor of
Territorial Legislative intervention. Let the people judge
between them.
CLOSE VOTING.-A vote was recently taken
on a railroad train passing through Virginia,
to ascertain the presidential preferences of
the passengers, with the following result :
Breckinridge, 45 ; Bell, 45 ; Douglas, 45 ;
Lincoln, 1. The vote for Lincoln was cast by
a colored individual. One woman who
intended voting for Douglas, flew into a
passion because the :canvassers refused to
allow her to, vote.. She thought she had a
better right to vote than the nigger.
For The Intelligeucer
NON-INTERVENTION
A NON-INTERVENTIONIST
THE ItiSS&CEE IN SYRIA-LAWFUL
- - - - -SCENES.
By the Canada, at Boston, we have many
shocking details of the massacre in Syria. We
copy the following from the" aiston Traveler:
THE. CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA—BBItter IN DANGER.
• BEIRUT, June 22.--Pair el Kamer (a town
of.several thousand inhabitants) was, but is
no . longer. The accounts from there are heart•
'rending beyond description ; were our minds
not incessantly occupied with other and more
trying - matters, we should sink under the
burden. The dead, who:can number them?
and the widows and orphans who can tell their
distress? .-
All the people of the town referred to were
deliberately slaughtered in cold blood after
they had given their arms to the Turkish
authorities. The Turks after disarming them,
turned them over to the Druses, who put them
to the sword, aided by the Turkish soldiery.
JUNE 23 —The . state of this poor country
beggars description. The large towns of
Z ihleh and Deir el Kamer have been put to
the sword and thousands of dead bodies lie
exposed to the jackals and hyenas which infest
that part of the mountains.
The news is heart - rending. Men that we
knew have perished in this awful butchery.
Widows and orphans are ort eying slowly
towards Beirut for safety, But alas! they
will find no safety here. Moslems are in arms,
and Christians are trembling in their houses,
fearing a general massacre. Even while lam
writing I am surrounded by multitudes of
men, women and children crying for protec•
tion. The houSe of a Frank is considerel as
an asylum, and the house of every American
is filled with the despairing unfortunates.
Beirut is now filled with Turkish troops just
landed from a Turkish man•of war, but what
confidence can be placed in them when their
conduct indicates hostility to all Christians?
Such an intense excitement prevails at this
moment as to prevent us from finishing this
letter. Christians have closed their shops and
have retired to their houses, where they
tremblingly await the issue. 'Moslems are
rushing about the town crying " This ‘ is the
time to kill the Christians," and their women
and their children are rushing aboutthestreets
shouting " May God cut off the Christains."
It is impossible for us to buy provisions, and
our servants are rendered useless from fear.
Christians have been beaten, and some of them
most severely.
The Paris Journal des Debals publishes a
letter from Father Rousseau, of the Jesuit
Mission, Syria. The details which he fur—
nishes, and written on the spot, are heart—
rending and frightful. The Catholic Vicar
General of the Beirout district had been cut
into four pieces, with his brother and sister,
and their remains thrown to the dogs. The
Turks, he says, rejoice in such sights, and say:
" See, here, these Christians and their priests;
is it not natural that the dogs, their equals,
should make a good meal of them ?"
The stench of the dead bodies all around,
under the excessive heat, is des .ribed as in—
supportable. Twelve hundred Christians of
Gazine were surrounded in a wood by the
Druses, and murdered or burrit. A woman
met by one of the savages, with her three
children, was made to sit down while he
slaughtered her infants on her lap ! A Ma
ronite cure, with five young children, was cut
to pieces himself, and the children torn limb
from limb !
The whole country is ravaged with fire and
sword, and hundreds are perishing of want in
the woods and mountains. "We have col—
lected more than five hundred children," the
same letter says, " all of them now orphans."
The North Carolina Standard supports the
Breckinridge and Lane ticket, with this pro
viso placed. before it:—" We shall support
this ticket for President and Vice President
on these conditions: That the electors will
vote for the strongest man, Breckinridge or
Douglas, us the case may be, against Lincoln.
That is, if the vote of this State will elect
either of them over Lincoln, or will put either
of them in the House, it is to be cast, accord
ingly. But if the vote will elect neither, nor
put either of them in the House, the electors
to vote as they please." Senator Clingman
approves this position in the following letter
to the editor of the Standard:
ASLIEVILLE, July 22, 1860
Dear Sir: I am much gratified to see the
position you have taken in the Standard of
the 18th inst. I have myself uniformly
advised our political friends, without regard
to their individual preferences, to sustain the
Democratic electoral ticket already in the
field. Any other course, by d.viding our
strength, might defeat the object which every
Democrat has at heart. No one acquainted
with our electors can doubt but that if elected
they will do whatever intelligence and patri
otism may indicate as best calculated to ad—
vance the interest of the Democratic party,
and promote the welfare of the country.—
From all I have seen since I came into the
State, we shall have a decisive victory in
August, and unity of action will insure the
same result in November.
You are at liberty to publish this note,
should there be any doubts as to my opinions
in your section of the Stare.
Very truly yours, &c.,
T. L. CLINGMAN.
WILLIAM W. 'HOLDEN, Esq.
THE TRACK OF THE METEOR
The track of the great meteor of the 20th
of July is being gradually traced out. De—.
truit, Michigan, was the farthest point West
at which it was first noticed, according to the
Cambridge astronomers. It, however, ap—
peared still farther West, as we learn from a
correspondent of the Albany Journal of the
2d inst., writing from Sycamore, DeKalb
county, Illinois, who describes it as " a shoot
ing star, crossing about one half of the
southern sky, from west to east, moving
slowly, and leaving a large track, like a
comet." sycamore is within a hundred miles
of the Mississippi river, and no doubt further
'information from the West will prove that
this fiery traveler in the firmament first struck
the earth's orbit on or near the Pacific ocean•
Its flight, says the Journal of Commerce, has
already been traced 300 miles eastward on
the Atlantic Ocean, and ships yet to come in
will probably give us further accounts of its
course. We see no reason to doubt the truth
of the theory published in this journal on the
23d, that this meteor was a fragment of a
broken planet, or an accumulation of nebulous
matter circulating around the sun and ignited
by the friction of our atmosphere. Judged
I by the above facts, and also by the opinion
of astronomers, that the least diameter of the
meteor was not less than half a mile, there is
I reason to believe that its velocity was not
overcome by the gravitation of the earth, and
that it still pursuing its course around the
sun, in an orbit whose plane is coincident
with the planes of motion of the other bodies
in the solar sptem,
1 A correspondent, in another column, in—
dulges in the belief that the meteor was
• nothing more or less than a comet!
THE EDITORS' BOOK TABLE.
GOOEY'S LADY'S BOOK —The number for August is
already on our table. Those who have a taste for a Maga
zine with handsome embellishments, refined literature
and many things pertaining to horn comfort ae well as
ornament, will be more than gratified with GODET for
Angina. The frontispiece, is an apt , illustration of life.
We are all "blowing bubbles." . an.l Mr . Godey has blown
his to some purpose; we sympathize most however, with
the sightless old lady in the' corner of the picture, as the
artist seems to have forgotten to dot her eyes.
TILE KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE.—The August
number of this •• time-honored" Magazine, has been re
ceived and a capital number it is. Its contents embrace
"Passions of the Reign of Terror" " King Roll—a Dream
of a Winter's Night," "Capt. Garbas—a tale from the
French," "The Observations of Mace Sloper " one of the
most entertaining writers in the country, with a variety of
other choice articles in prose and poetry. Nor can we for
,the "Editor's Table," one of the most attractivea
tures of OLD KwzcL; a melange of wit, sentiment and
anecdote to be found no where else.
Those who wish to while away the lazy hours of these
sunny afternoons should secure a copy.
A &4n- IN CHESTER COUNTY.—We learn
that there is an old colored woman residing
in Valley township said to be 115 years of
age. She is a fixture to the place where she
resides under the law abolishing slavery in
the Commonwealih, and. has been \fold as a
slave several times within the "past twenty
years, along with the' property on which she
I lives.—Teffersonian... -
_l(o2r .The
THE BRILLIANT METEOR 1... A. SEMI.
ANN UAL COMET 1
It is well known that the upper of the atmosphere
of our earth is of the positive electric state. It is a lona
tabs of Force, and it impels the air ia.asialrotatian, with
greater velocity than 'that of-the 'earth's surface, and a
urylng wind is from west to east in - the direction of the. .
earth's motion. The splendid Meteor ' which I believe to be
a".Bemi-Annusi Comet," that passed from west to east, on
the evening of the 20th of July, predated an agitation of
the wind, that has continued to blow from north-west to
sunith-east, and changed the equilibrium of tetaperature,
and forced the electric currents in undulating waves upon
the atmosphere of the-earth. producing Tornadoes .1a its
'skimming flight . from west to east It is not possible that
it was an offspringof earth, though of the transient form;
it had the wooderfal sublimity of the eternal fabric of the
heavens, to transfer force from where It superabounds ti
another field of action where it Is required. It is a great
body of electricity, replenishing the earth with its emlit
stone and surcharging the vast electric currents that belt
the earth. -
This Meteor which we givittie name and title of ° Semi- -
Annual Comet," is whirling round on its own axis, is no
longer a gaseous vapor, but red hot lava and cruet the
crust and smoke are the dal k intermediate sp ices between
the molten fiery lava; and the particles following after,
dropping down apparently in red hot drops, are compressed
and petrified in the air. and as it is propelled by the force
of the sunlight, It is melting and heating by the friction
or arrestation of its progressive motion. developing, dis
charging and scattering itsrlaectrie light broadcast over its
trackacross our lend. and is approa iting nearer and nearer
to the earth. This grand and interesting stranger was
first seen on the evening of Thursday, -July the twenty
first, eighteen hundred au i fifty-nioe, between the hours
of 9'and 10 o'clock, P, M, at Washington city. (See
"National Intelagencer," of July 25th, 1859.) It was
again seen at half-oast nine o'clock. on, the evening of
January twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty. (doe
v• New York Observer," of March Bth, 1860, for the follo.w
ing description f)
At hiiihpast nine o'clock, on the evening of January
04th. a very extraordinary Meteor, both as to size and
shape, passed from west to east. through the enti,e span of
the heavens. It rose bright above the western h irlauti, a
little to the north of -west and sailed through the sky, la
, almost due east entree, from the point of drat appearance.
It rose apparently to an elevation of 45 degrees, after four
days of uncommonly mild southerly weather, the wind
changed to the north-west. blowing a terrific gale; the
thermometer stood at 40 degrees above gore. It appeared
it string of the most brilliant globes of fire imaginable;
the globes were not altogether regularly strung. /leading
the apleudid 'exhibition came two large globes of tire, then
three more. then anotherl,pace followed by two or three
mere sparkling balls. There were thus Irregulary strung
along the curved line some eight of these fiery globes.
They had the brilliancy of a meant on a most magnificent
scale. Its motion was in keeping with its size. It was
slow and grand giving the beholder time to consider, and
adiuire the strange visitor. It was about two minutes in
making the circuit of the heavens."
On Friday. July 20th. 1860, it again appeared In its regu
lar touriai, at halt-past 9 o'clock in the evening, in all its
grandeur and sublimity, after an absence of one hundred
and seventy-eight days—having swept around the earth in
nine days less time. than in the preceding six mouths,
showing most conclusively that it to semi-annual in its
circuit, mil approaching the earth with great rapidity and
velocity. It has, without doubt, traveled with the electric
current 'of the earth for twelve mouths oast, without
diminution in size or appearance, whilst its descending and
approximating course is worthy of the closest observation.
The reason this same Comet was not so plainly visible
and generally seen in this vicinity, on the 21st of July,
1859, and the 24th of January last, as on the 20th ult.,
was, that at ten o'clock on beth those evenings it was
cloudy and rainy. The records of the weather here, and
at Washington and Fhil.delphia. are evidence of the fact,
and hence the newspapers did not publish their glowing
descriptions so generally.
It is quite amusing to read the various observer's ac
counts of this Coinetnry Stranger, that on the 20th ult.,
s-ress the heaven's span, and especially by men
professing to haven knowledge of Astronomy. " That it
was a Meteor, and when near the zenith burst and exploded
like a rocket bomb shell. Ac.—went off into space. or fell
as a Metorx stone to the earth, or perhaps into the Atlantic
Ocean " It those persons ever observed a railway loco
motive, at night, with lie shining lamp in front. approach
ing from a distance, and watched its passage, they would
have see., a long train of lighted cars burst upon their
rush post with the locomotive fire, and as it receded
from their view, they would tone sight of the train, until
it seemed a single speck vanishing in far off epics. That
this Comet's train appoected with fiery front. then burst
upon the observer's virwatind as it passed beton, them,
' their visual organs were dltgled with the electric rays, aud
th-y imagined its explosion; but so certainly is it appear•
ed before, it will return in less than six months time. In
waving noon m, through the electric currents that belt the
orbit of our earth.
Having noticed these nets, which seem to show the
brilliant Meteor to he u periodical visitor and Semi-Annual
Comet. I would respect fully suggest to the offivere of
Observatories to keep a sharp look out in January next.
J. R.
For The Intelligencer.
MESSRS. EDITORS: If one may judge of the signs of the
times by the ebullitions of p puler feeling, the political
aspect of affairs is changing iu the sectiM•of country from
which I write. The .time hat been when 'Abolitionism
showed a brazen front—vtimi its adherents dared icknowl
edge the leadership of Gerrit Smith, and the sew intents of
Garrison. Weed awl Sumner,—w lieu they dared to appear
in public halls of debate in defiance of the conduct of John
Brown and his coutederates—advocating unblushingly the
cause of treason and murder—the murder of • merle on
CD zoos; qu sting as g •spel the c dualities of Sum
ner and helper, and echoing the hlitsphemy of that worse
than traitor who declared that '• Brown was a martyr In
the Cause of liberty, arid his gallows sacred aa the cross of
Christ." But Linculnism has been compelled to change
Ito front. Outraged common ernes has revolted. Con
servative men refuse any longer to receive such teaching,
even from their political leaders, and the latter have been
c !needed to 111'.11110 a more moderate toile. Now they
comment mildly that Sumner does not speak the seetl
mauts his party—and the Brown raid. their legitimate
first born—more gent,y chide, and others disown. tk re
action has taken place and the enthusiasm - of Lincolnism
is Ist - owing by degrees and beautifully less"
A meeting of the triennia of Lincoln and Abolitionism,
was attempted en the co• fines of ear county—in Christer—
a neighbor hood until lately the very hot bed of Lin olu
and Brownism—which resulted in utter failure. Flaming
posters alltictinCed it weeks in advance. Speakers were
promised from a di-trines, and every note of preparation
presaged a tremendous outpouring. Thirty three se erg
were presort, loci ediTig 3'.11 humble set vent. Three
sneakers w re in attendance, but navy one of them was
able to reach the rostrum This speech wee a fair specimen
of the Forney Sumner school of Oates. The main topic
of course—sr mod abuse of the South and her instituti
One or two It(' his stater...to were too palpably false even
tora man who Was inn drunk to tell the trollas
serted that ` every setter sent front North to Strath is opened
and ,= , hined." Ile pronounced • the CUOIIitiOU of the wnite
man in the South worse than that of the serf In Mardi'
(I am not sure he said • Russia.' but I thick that was
what he tri-d to say) lie declared the Democracy of
l'enns)lvania a set of double headed Dorchmeu—with
polished sneer of • erne r ' and • lager' (I don't believe the
speaker drinks • lager' hims Ifl) The nth-r speak .re slid
not respond ti the call. One was f mid at a neighboring
tavern Mo sick to appear—a third Wee f mod engaged iu
surporting a consumptive carriage.—and SO the roll of
spaskere being exhausted the meeting ndj creed
I h .ve •it from good authority that the committee of
finance for the is•casb•n made a collection and raised nearly
a dollar apiece for the speakers to defray their expatiate!
PLQUEA, July 30, 1800. FRANK.
For The lutolligeucHr
Messes. Enrrons: In the Lancaster Union of the Tath of
July is a Slountville misrepresentation, signed E. IT W
Au Tam inrimately acquainted with E. 11 W., and a little
1n the ''Frelluderhaft," I think it not out of place to say
that T was tor, y to see his initials foaling such perversion.
I am Inclined to think that he did It rattier to be seen of
men, and that lie would not intentionally endorse a wrong,
dangerous, illiberal, unsubstantial production. I have
ever found him heretofore lib-ral and reasonable on all
subjects, hence my surprise and conclusion "that he knows
DO better." I must admit that it's a well-written afftir for
a country boy, but it wants candor for the man and truth
for the Chrl , tian. If show was not his motirn, it might be
possible that ••Brown like" be hos been brooding on one
subject till his sanity has, on "color," slipped a notch or
two.
Our Slave question may yet make us as crazy as the
Crusade question did the Europeans. IVs have too many
Br woe, Smiths, Phillips' nod E. II V7.'s to persuade, and
to aid and abet in making bigots more fanatical. some for
meat and drink. some for a perverted conscience sake, and
some out of sheer ignorance. Fortunately our Buchanans
have not been talked into their mad profe, ts, as the Ethan
and Queens were into that of the notorious mad Crusade
question. But let my young friend be cautious how he
lets his tongue glib or his pen scratch, or, like Peter the
H-twit, be may have the whole North, with bag and bag
gage, mothers and babes, moving on en masse towards the
South to atop the desecration of (not the country of our
religious birth) but the country of the 'colored gammon."
It is well we will not have's° far to go as the Crusaders,
but the misfortune is that its locality is so Southern, and
it might give us warm work to thrush the Southern
and perchance have to eat them, as the Crusaders did
their enetniee, and then to provide fur all their slaves and
roar all their little shining papooses. All such men as E.
EI W.—that's If it would not keep them from office—should
thank fortune that we yet have such men as James Buch
anan to counteract the folios of an ever too fanatical and
Yankee progeny ; and very little does it become such young
riplinge to attempt to misrepresent and abuse,' man that
Es as far above them sit the sun Is above a fire fly. If such
must rail lot them rail at their equals. misrepresent men
who have never done more for their country and humanity
than they themselves have. "Birde of a feather should flock
together." Stich boys should know that they are mere
babes in comparison with the President of the greatest
nation on the globe. Common sense should toll them that
Bochanan's name will lie handed down to posterity as one
of the brighest stars, when not FM animalcule spot or them
will be discovered with theald of the most powerful micro
scope that will ever be invented. N 5 %bat prFeumption in
such little souls to libel and misrepresent such men! They
ate young and inexperienced—a lit le learned and more
conceited. They are a little like the frog In the fable--
wanting to swell themselves up to the size of a Washing
ton or a Buchanan. Ste., &c., and the way they often burst
is laughingly ridiculous.
It may show more tact to make a misrepresentation ap
pear 'rue than to advocate a self-evidebt fast • but fur cacti
smartness a man pays too dear; he will only be looked
upon by men of good sonse so a smart trifler, selfish or dis
honest. A in-rson that has the good of his country at
heart, and is perfectly sane on the Slave question, would
rather be accursed it he saw the evils that may result: and
no doubt will, from blowing the coal.of the crusade fire,
already burning hot in the veins of too:many of our North
ern zealots. Through. unfounded assertions and false con
clusions, drawn from the highly necessary and ablest arts
of one of our wisest statesmen, such men have ever been
the cause of dissension and bloodshed in chu'ch and state.
They are the small mice tMit undermine edifices till they
topple over—disseminating dissensions broadcast over the
country till often a majority become religiously or politi
cally mad or !tdarnied." I know lb .t my young friend
only hawk with the party, but he hollows too loud for his
heir; he had better think more and say less, or Micah ail,
3 4. will be applicable: Thus doing "Evil with both hands
earnestly, they tittered their mischievous desire and so
they wrapped it up, for the best of them was a brier, and
the most upright was sharper than a thorn hedge."
To ferment strife to set one-half against rho other in so
beautiful a country as ours, is less excusable than the
Crusade fanaticism; and merely because some slaves may
be ansused. As well midst we interdict marriage, for some
men misuse their wives; or the farther propagation of our
speries ' for some parents are cruel; even apprentices are
abused. The North has enough to weed at home to let the
South alone. OLD MAN.
For The Intelligencer
A MASS MEETING!
GnEAT OUTP , MEING of THE WOOLLY-HEADS AT HEAMSTOWNI
—TERRIBLE EXCITEMENTH—ACCording tO Drolly/Mme, on
Saturday last, the quiet village of Reamstown w,n in a
bustle froth early morn until late at night! Active pretia
rations had been arida for a meeting of the
et the publle house of Henry Rhoads. About u..on the
viila,e woo crowded There must have been at least from
15 to 20 persons present including bats. and there were 8
or 10 oftlee bunters atriongvt the ,number. The meeting
was addressed by 'Squire Fisher, of Columbia, Alexander
Hamilton Hood, Esquire. of Lancw.ter, And 31r. fluosecker,
all of whnto acquit,ed themselves in their usual able and
eloquent style. Q.
•
lteAtitivowti, July 30,1860.
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sir There's a vile counterfeit of this
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prepared by S. W. FowLE & Co. ' Boston,
which has the written signature of I. BUTTS
on the outside wrapper.
Ttia. A new counterfeit five dollar note' On
the .Farmer'e Bank of Sohnylkili Onnniy, hae
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