ILK tantada Intelligencer GEM SANDERSON, EDITOR. SARMIRSON, Associate.- LANCASTER, PA., JAM:TART V, 1863 . sire. miiiiriaini& co.re eirvismaw Amor, 87 Park Bow, Now Yarbelty, and 10 We street Boston. LM. Preewmta - Oa, are Agouti for The 14neasfer —PeirViorweeo, and thO , meat hullnentlal and largest drawls. lamN in ithei United Stater arid the Oweadaap— ro47 arb „ toc9ntatet for tor at our towed 'rota 0 T-T IR. IJ Now our ling is flung to the wild winds free, ..let it float o'er our father land, And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be • Columbia's chosen baud. "CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."-DANIEL WEBSTER. Last Notice. We have erased a few names, but shall postpone striking off the most of our delinquent subscribers for two weeks more, in the hope that within that time they will pay in whole otr in:part what is honestly our due'?-- A:: number have already paid, and' many others are probably waiting an opportunit3rto do so. We hope that all who wish to continue TrIE INThL LIGENCER will see the necessity ,„s?f complying with our terms, at least so long as we are compelled to pay the present enormous price for paper, and that those who do not care about it, will at least have the honesty to pay what they owe, before we part from them. DEMOCRATIC CITY TICKET Mayor. George Sanderson. High Constable Samuel Huber. NORTH W EST WARD. Select Council. Adam Trout. Common Council. William Diller, George Yeisley, Emanuel Shober, John A. Scheurenbrand, Frederick Pyle. Alderman. Charles F. Voigt. City Constable. Jacob Gundaker. Assessor. William B. Striae. Judge.. Joseph Barnett. ' Inspector. George H. Albright. NORTH EAST WARD Select Council. J. J. Sprenger. Common Council. A. Z. Ringwalt, Philip Ginder, Daniel Okeson, Frederick Coonly. Alderman. John. Zimmerman. City Constable. John Clare. Assessor. Garret Everts, Si Judge John; Rose. Inspector William .Lowry SOUTH WEST WARD Select Council. • Dr. Healy Carpenter. Comrdon Council. Philip Fitzpatrick, John Wittlinger, John M. Rutledge. Alderman. Jacob Foltz. City Constable. Christian Frailey. Assessor. Eugene Harkins Judge. Jacob Weaver. Inspector. Richard Kirk. SOUTH EAST WARD Select Council. , Dr. Henry Carpenter: Common Council. James MacGonigle, Gottleib Swilkey, Philip Deichler. City Constable. Samuel Shroad. Assessor. James H. Barnes. Judge. William P. Brooks. Inspector; John H. Reigart. The Democratic Tickets. Above will be found the Demo cratic - iCity and Ward tickets, as regularly settled by the Democratic Ward Meetings on Saturday eve ning. They are all known to be relia ble and trust-worthy men, and are entitled to the support of every Democrat and every conservative man in the City. In their hands, if elected, the interests of the City will be faithfully guarded ; and, in addition, they are all true Union men, alike opposed to the dangerous heresy of Secession and the • mad schemes of the Abolitionists. In short, they are for TH HI UNION AS IT WAS and T H CONSTITUTION AS IT IS, and will oppose any and every attempt to destroy the one or trample under foot the other. Let every friend of the Constitution and the Union—every man who thinks more of the interests of the white man than he does of the negro— rally to, the support of these tickets, on Tuesday next, and they will be elected by a triumphant majority. Party Discipline. The triumphant election of Mr. BUCKALEW to the U. S. Senate and of Mr. MCGRATH to the State Treas nryship, shows a healthy state of discipline in the Democratic party of. Pennsylvania. The sixty-seven Democratic members of the Legis lature have faithfully reflected the popular will, and they will be grate fully remembered by, their constitu ents. The period for bolting regular nominations, if at any time such con duct could have beep_rialliated or ex cused, which' we very much doubt, has passed away. Our country is in imminent danger, and if - ever-it is to be extricated from the difficul ties which surround it, the good work Must be accomplished by the conservative element of the Nation acting through and with the Demo cratic organization. For that reason alone, to say nothing of others that might be mentioned, the people ex pect their representatives at Harris burg and Washington to set their faces like flint against any and all attempts to pander to the dark and diabolical designs of the radicals, who are bent on bringing ruin and disaster to the Republic. The peo ple are right themselves on this mo mentous question—they are for the integrity of the Union, and will not permit the destructives to steer the ship of State into the maelstrom of disunion and anarchy. Hence the necessity of, the strictest party disci pline at this crisis in the destiny of the Nation. The Democratic party of Penn sylvania has a great duty to perform, no less than the salvation of the country from the perils which sur round it. To do this effectually, it is the bounden duty of every Demo crat and every conservative man in the Commonwealth to stand shoul der to shoulder in support of proper principles—to preserve the strictest discipline in the ranks—and to de fend• the Constitution and the Union against any and every assailant.— The old Union must be restored, and the stars and stripes float in tri umph throughout the length and breadth of the Confederacy, but all this can only be accomplished when the twin sisters of disunion—Aboli tionism and Sedessionism—are put down and crushed out of existence by the strong arm of the Demo cratic organization. Qn the Advance. The Army of the Potomac is once more on the move, and, it is rumor ed, are to cross the Rappahannock 'several miles above Fredericksburg and give battle to the enemy. Gen. BURNSIDE has issued an address to his soldiers, which We give in another column, announcing that they were about to be , led against the rebel army. The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee and Ar kansas, he says have divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappa hannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived, in his opinion, to strikA; a great and mortal blow at the rebellion, and to gain that de cisive victory which is due to the country. The heavy rain storm of last week would delay BURNSIDE'S advance a few days, but it is more than proba ble that we are on the eve of another bloody battle, if it has not already been fought. God grant that our brave soldiers may be victorious, and not be led into the very jaws of death, without a hope of success, as they were at Fredericksburg some six weeks ago. Mr. Boyer's Expose. We direct the attention of our readers to the startling expose, made by T. J. BoyEa, -of Clearfield county, in reference to the infaipous attempt made by SIMON CAMERON to purchase an election to the U. .8. Senate.— Such conduct is a lasting disgrace to the Commonwealth, and CAMERON should be visited with the severest penalties of the law. And not only so, but the Abolition members of the Legislature who were cognizant of the fact, and aided and abetted the outrage, are unworthy the seats they have disgraced, and should have the finger of scorn pointed at them for all time to come, as unfit to he the associates of honorable men. Paying Dear for the Negro. Congress talk of appropriating $10,000,000' to free the slaves of Maryland, and from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000 more to accomplish the same purpose in Missouri. This vast. sum of money will have to come out of the. pockets of the white citi zens of the North. And this is only the beginning of the end, but it goes so show withwhat recklessness the dominant party in the present Congress squander the people's money to carry out their diabolical schemes of disunion. Formerly, when a State wished to set their slaves free, they did it without being reimbursed from the public treasury. This is the way slavery was abolished in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and all the rest of the now free States which were then in ex istence. But we have fallen upon evil times. The fanaticims of New England rules the hour at Washing ton, and we suppose the country must continue to suffer as long as it influences the legislation of Con gress. God speed the day when the Congress of the united States will again be composed of men who will faithfully reflect the will of the American people, and bring the Government back to what it was in the palmy days of the Republic.— We want it administered for the benefit of white men—and not ex clusively for th% negro race, as it is at the present time. THE WORDS OF HENRY CLAY Henry Clay said, twenty years ago, of the Abolitionists :—" With them, the rights of property are nothing ; the deficiency of the powers of the general government, is nothing; the acknowledged and incontestible powers of the States, are nothing ; the dissolution of the Union, and the overthrow of a government in which are concentrated the hopes of the civilized world, are nothing. A single idea has taken possession of their minds, and onward they pursue it, overlooking all barri ers, reckless and regardless of all conse quences." And Henry Clay told the truth. Obstacles to Peace. The chief 'obstacle to an early peace, and the restoration - - 0 f. .-the Union, either-.by force of arms or , honorable couipromise, arises; says the Pittsburg • Post, *from - a - fact not often referred to—the multitnde of persons dependent upon the war for subsistence, 413 well as the thousands. who are accumulating colossal for tunes, in various ways, not entirely ' apparent to the people. It is per fectly clear that our thousands of officers of various grades, from Ma jor Generals down, are not disposed to curtail their own importance and income, if they could, by bringing hostilities to a close. Then we have members of Congress, who, because of their position in the party in power, have secured for worthless sons and relatives snug appointments in the service, which takes so much burden off their paternal shoulders. Other men in Congress are up to their eyes in contracts by which they are " lining their sleeves " with the fittest material. Then come the hordes of sutlers, contractors, pay masters, assessors, and tax-gatherers, who, when added to the hosts alluded to, comprise a multitudinous army of " war patriots," eating out the substance of the Union and far more terrible to our people than several rebel armies with floating banners. These are the prominent patriots of the country, who proclaim no peace lYith the South as long as we have a dollar or a man ; no peace with the South until every slave is basking in the sun of frdom.— These persons have many powerful reasons for their booming and glow ing hate against everything and everybody not absolutely sanguinary against the entire Southern people. It is their vocation, and they are laboring in it. Should peace take place they would starve. Another class, not seen anywhere, but whose influence is felt in every locality, is working cunningly and effectively to prolong hostilities.— These are the Republican and. Abo lition editors of the country. FOR NEY, in his Washington Chronicle, the organ of the administration, in view of the tone of the Southern press upon the President's Emanci pation Proclamation, which was and is contemptuous and defiant, speaks as follows : "Whoever, after this seventeenth day of January, A. D., 1863, whispers the word peace, or allows himself to breathe other counsels than those of subjugation, and if necessary, extermination of the rebels, should be written down, not a traitor, but a coward." The author of this pleasant para graph is himself Secretary-- of the 'United States Senate, a positi on given him by the controlling majority of that body, while he has two promis ing young men, sons, luxuriating in gay uniforms, much to the admira tion of their doting parent. lii order to keep these two young gallants in pleasant places the solicitous author of their being, advocates through his two organs, (the Washington Chronicle and the Philadelphia Press,) a war of " subjugation and exter mination !" This is done, to be sure, in the name of patriotism, but that dodge is no longer attractive to our inquiring tax-payers. The North American, the Evening Bulletin, and the Inquirer, of Philadelphia, have, like FORNEY, representatives in the army, or occupying places under the Administration ; and thus the entire radical press of the great city of Philadelphia is directly interested in prolonging the war. Come out , here to Pittsburgh, and how is it`! The Gazette, the only daily of its party in the Western part of the State, was well thought of in the distribution of favors. It has a Postmaster in Allegheny City ; a Paymaster in the army ; a - United States tax collector in a neighboring Congressional district; a Washing ton correspondent who can afford to write lying letters to it for nothing, because of holding a lucrative sine cure from the Administration. The reader will perceive from these facts the many reasons our radical cotem poraries have for sustaining the ex treme ideas of their leaders, as well as for -insisting upon a war, not for the Union and the Constitution, but for the "subjugation and eXtermina tion "of the Southern people. "It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, - and this is aptly illustrated in what we have written. While the blunders of the Administration bring about startling massacre of the poor soldiers at Fredericksburg, the prudent people to whom we have al luded are luxuriating in the salaries and picking, belonging and incident' ; to their countless positions. - GENERAL FITZ JOHN PORTER DISMISSED The Court Martial held at Washington, to try the charges brought against Gen. PORTER by Gen. POPE, has rendered• its verdict, and the verdict has been approved by the Presi dent. The charges were of the gravest char acter—of having refused to obey the orders of his superior on the field of battle; of having neglected to attack the rebels when our army was in extreme peril from superior numbers ; of having moved in a slow and tardy manner and, in short, of having been the cause of the defeat and retreat of our army under General Pope, at the second battle of Manassas. The findings are that he is guilty on every one of the charges preferred, and the sentence is that he be dismissed from the service. The review of the testimony by Judge Holt, which forms a part of the record, is considered extremely able. The Court which thus dis• posed of a case of multiform and, in one sense, national interest, was composed as follows : Major• General Hunter, presiding, Major , General Hitchcock, Brigadier-Generals Rufus King, Prentiss, Ricketts, Casey, Garfield, Buford and Morrie, with Col. Holt, Judge Advocate General, as Judge-Advoca RE-ELECTED.—The Legislature of Ohio has re-eleoted Mr. WADE, 11. S. Senator for six years by 24 majority. The Legislature of Wisconsin has re-elected Mr. Doolittle to the Senate for six years. LlTERARY.—Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine, for February, is already on our table, full of interesting reading matter, and magniticently embellished . "What Big Eyes you have, Gfandmitmma," and "The Old Manor House in Winter." are engravings which cannot be excelled, and then the Fashion Plates, Patterns, Ice.. Ac., • go to make up in richness and variety the beauty of this "We understand that Mr. B. declines the nomination. number. We are pleased to see this evidence of the enter. prire and gdaheaditiveness of Mr. Peterson, as also of the THE COUNTY CORMISSIONERS.—The new increasing patronage extended to the National Magazine. Board of County Commissioners met yesterday, and orga. Terms $2 per annum, in advance. For sale by the Pub. , nixed by electing JOIIN Donis, Esq ,President. They also Usher, and at all oar Bookstores. re-elected Juan LANDIS, Esq., Solicitor: PETER G. Eliza- The North British Review, for November, 1862, (from MAN, Clerk ; and JOSEPEI 0. SNYDER, Janitor. Alr good the American reprint of Leonard Scott & Co., New York,) appointments. has been placed upon our table by J. M. Westhaeffer, of . .., this city. The following articles comprise the table Of PJLECTION OF PRISON OFFICERS.—The elec contents, viz: Christian individuality ; The Austrian Ern- time for officers for the County Prison yesterday afternoon, Ore hi 1862; Poems by A. H. Clough; Amdmilation of resulted as follows: Keeper, C. Cromer; Under. Keepers, Law; France and Scotland; Popular Prophetical Liters. I Rudolph Reveler and Daniel A . Shifter; Solicitor, A. M. tura • Syria and the Eastern Quedlon; St. Clement's Eye; Frantz ; Physician, W. Compton ; Clerk, Samuel Brubaker: The !American Conflict. 1 Watchman, Geom. Ulmer. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. • COURT PROCHICDINGS. -. The January Term of the Court of Quarter Sessions was ball las , week—judge Long presiding.— The Court opened at 10 o'clociriin Monday morning, and the charge was delivered to tbe Grand Jury, of which John Mecartney, Esq., of Num. was appointed Foreman. The morning session was - occapied-by , theliearisig of pinata hies' returns, and 'ha consideration of OSPBars' Court and Common Pleas business of no menial lmpoitance. - The C .- Dewing Ones were dispcied of durinithe week Com'th en Margaret Ettinger. Indkted for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be such. The diferidarit Was found guilty of the same offence - lit the Magnet Bee; gloss, but a new trial woo granterther. and Osamu core. frig up at the present term she was acquitted. Com'th vs. John Wiestling and Henry Miller. Appro- priating tobacco to their own pie. On this case being called tor trial, it was fsund that hillier was among the missiog Process was issued. George Casber plead guilty to the larceny of a pair of boots, and was sentenced to three months in the County Prison. C..mith vs. t rederica Blumenstock, (Plicebus, what a none!) for larceny of woallerf yarn. belonging to a Mrs. Chink. The larceny having occurred some three yoars ago. and milt only havindrheen_ breughL it_ WM C vered with the statute of limitation, and a verdict of not guilty was taken. Sire. Catharine Henderson was arraigned for disorderly conduct. but the ease was dismissed, the Court having no jurisdiction in the matter. . Com'th vs. Charles Bllenmyer and Charles Wallop.— Surety of the peace, on complaint of John H. Hull, a schsolleaeher In Leacock township. Bound over iu the sum of $2OO to keep the'peace for six months, to pay the costa of prosecution, and stand committed until the eon tense is complied with. William Henry Haines plead guilty to roar indictments for larceny, and was sentenced to fourteen months in the ' County Prison for all. Com'th vs. David Essworthv. Larceny of a double-bar- relied shot gun from George Stern, of Salisbury township. Sentenced to eight months in the County Prison. Margaret Caldwell. a 'free American of African descent," for assault and battery upon another woman of like com plexion, was sentenced to pay a fins of $1 and costs of pro secution. Com'th vs. Joel K. Sharp. Indicted for obtaining a set of teeth from Dr. William P. Rife, undor false pretence.— Verdict guilty. A motion for a new trial wa• made. George James Vaughn plead guilty to a charge of assault and battery, and was lined $t and the costs. Wood Shrivel.. a Contraband, who has been frequently before the Count, was indicted fur receiving stolen goods, and found guilty. Com'th vs. John Bentley, for stealing the grols, the re ception of which constituted Shriver's offence. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to eight months in the County Prison. Com'th vs Henry Miller. Indicted for the larceny of some money from the Beer Saloon of John footman, at Russel's Hall, ou tho 7th of January. Verdict guilty.— Sentenced to six mon Gag In the County Prison. Com'th vs. John Wiestßog. Indicted for the larceny of game chickens from a Mr. Lipp, of East Lampeter town ship. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to two years and nine months in the County Prison. This sentence was made so severe because Wiestllng Is a professional thief. Com'th vs. same defendaut for larceny, on three indict ments, of quantities of tobacco from different parties.— Verdict not guilty. Com'th vs. John Murray and Frank Heller, for assault and battery upou Frederick Brenner, on the 27th of De cember loot, on the road leading from this city to itohrerw town. A verdict of not guilty was taken as to Murray, but Heiler was found guilty, and sentenced to one month In the County. Prison, and to pay the costa. Com'th vs. George Dunmore. Indicted for assault and battery. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to two months in the County Prison. Martha Long., another Contraband, plead guilty to the larceny of borne bed quilts, and was sentenced to three months in the C..unty Prison. Corn'th ye. 'Henry E. Young. Indicted for n,snolt and battery nn John Zook. Jr., Postmaster at Old Line, this county, on the 27th of November lust. The Jury returned a verdict of nut guilty, and directed the defendant to pay tteo.thirds and the prosecutor the remaining third of the costa. Cotreth vs John Zook. Jr, for sidling liquor to minors. Verdict not guilty. Prosecutor to pay one third, and Zook the remainder of the costs C an'th vB. same defendant, for selling liquor contrary to las , on Sunday, the 'Nth of November lest. Verdict guilty. Com'th vs. Sylvester Gordon, for kidnapping John Brown, a Contraband, (some relative, we suppose, of do funt.t "Old Ossanalamie,") was continued until the April Session,. Com'i li vs. Peter C Eckert. Indicted for the larceny of several bags of grain, belonging to Isaac Dunlap, near In tercourse, on the 22.1 of A imust, 1861. This case attracted a good deal of attention, owing to the position the defend ant occupies in society. The evidence not being sufficient to convict, the Jury were so instructed, and rendered a verdict of not guilty without leaving the box.' Com'th vs. Inane Wallace. Indicted for the same offence as above, and the Fume verdict rendered. Com'th vs. William Slouch, one of the name parties, was nol proased—there being no additional evidence against him, and he being among the drafted men was unable to attend. Com'th vs. John Whitehill. Indicted for committing a nuisance in encroaching upon a public road In Donegal township, by extending his fence upon it. The case was given to the jury, who rendered a verdict of guilty without leaving the boa. The Court sentenced defendant to abate the nuisance, pay a line of $l. and the costs of prosecution. GRAND JURY REPORT. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace in and ter the County of Lancas ter. The Grand Inquest inquiring for said County at January Sessions, A. D., 1 6 63, respectfully report That they have passed upon all hulls of Indictment sub mitted to them by the District Attorney, thirty-three in number, of these after a careful examination, thirty-one were returned "True Bills" and but two "Ignored." They are pleased to be able to state that among the charges pre. ferred there were none of great magnitude, they were mostly misdemeanors and Minor entices, many of which they believe might have been settled by the committing Justices, by the exercise of a little care and discretion on their tart. In the performance of their duties under the direction of the Court, they visited the Lancaster County Prison, Poor House and Hospital. The Prison Is well conducted, so far as they are able to discern, everything appears to be clean and neat, and the welfare of the urif,rtunate Inmates seems to be properly attended to. They would recommend that the Inspectors have the 'steer yards In front of the Prison put in grass. instead of corn, potatoes, tomatoes. he, and that some pains be token to beautify and adorn them; and that they also have the Jail yard prover which is enclosed by the wall, arranged for the pi:trues', for which it was originally Intended, a place for exe-cise for the prisoners, and that it be no longer kept sea cabbage garden. They also found the Poor House and Hospital in good condition. but matters there are far from right; there is en unfortunate difference between the Steward of the Poor House. (Mr. Fairer) and the Phyti, lane in charge of those Institutions. which is highly prejudicial to those ender the charges of the Steward. A must diegrnefitul occurrence took place In the presence of the Grand Jury, between the Steward and one cf the Physicians, the Steward exhibiting great violence of pas,i.m. and using language unbecoming a gentleman, and especblly a man having charge of a pub. Hr institution of this kind. Under the circumstances, and fern other facts preeented to us. we have no hesitation In ' , questing the Directors to make an immediate change. being well satisfied that the Steward cannot be removed too soon for the good of the Institution, and of those who are unfortunately under hie charge. They also particular ly recommend that both Institutions be placed under the charge of one person, who shall have general superinten• dance over them. The Steward of the Hospital appears to be careful and attentive In the discharge of his duties, and his wife de serves special commendation for competency and for kind ness to the sufferers entrusted to her care. They condemn the use of the "Black Hole," as it Is called, ae a place of punishment; it is unfit and unhealthy, and its use for anch purpose ie a disgrace to humanity ; it should at once bo abandoned, and some other mode of punishment adopted. The Grand Inquest most heartily condemns the issuing and circulation of the trash with which the country is being rapidly flooded. called "shinplasters;" they noticed one bill of indictment before them in which the prisoner was charged with stealing a lot of this vile stuff, and had there been no other charge therein, they would have ignored the bill; they had hoped that, the Court in that case would have expressed such an opinion as 'Would have entirely driven them from circulation—this does not seem to have been done, and they therefore would recommend that she Court instruct the District Attorney to prepare bills of indictment against all persons, firms and corpora- Eons within the County, who shall make, and utter any thing in the shape of a shinplaster or a note, to be used as a circulating mediem or money, which is not authorized by law, and submit such bills to the next Grand Jury for their action. AThe Grand Jury in concluding, return their sincere thanks to the Court, the District Attorney, Sheriff, and other officers, for the kindness and courtesy extended to them in the performance of their labors. John McCartney. it. P. Spencer, John H. Hershey, George SEldomridge, Tobias bushman, Levi Campbell, John Ed- ! wards, Samuel El Miller, John M. Frantz, John Kreider, C. J. Plitt, AL S Haines, .T tcob C. Kready, W. Whitaker, H M. Meteor, Joel L. Lightner, David Styers, John Den linger, Henry Shreiner, Jacob Erisman. DEMOCRATIC CITY CONVENTION—NOMINEES TOR MAYOR AND MOH CONSTABLE.—The Democratic City Conventi - n, to add up the returns from the different wards and declare the nominees for Mayor and High Constable, met at Messenkep's Ertel, East King street, on Saturday evening last, at 9 1 ,4 o'clock. Jones B. KAUFMAN, Req., was veiled to the chair, and Joust AI. A MITECI and SAMUEL H. REYNOLDS, Esqrs., were appointed Secretaries. The tot. lowing delegates were present: N. E. Ward—Maj. Charles M. Howell, Samuel R. Rey nolds, Hugh E. Dougherty. S. E. Ward—J. B. Kaufman, John Deaner, James H. Barn, e. S. W. Ward—James Peoples, Abram Shank, Henry Schema. N. W. Ward—Andrew J. Steinman, Mahlon H. Mercer, John M. Amweg. The returns from the different wards were then called for and presented, as follows: 871 GrORGII SANDEP BON for Mayor, and SAMUEL Malta B7l for High Constable, having received all the votes cast, were declared the unanimous nominees of the Democratic party for Mayor and High Constable. Attest: J. 13. KAL'YMAN, President. pgJonii7 7'i p; VNOLDII, AMWE '' secretaries THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.—The Republi_ cans met at Ditlow's, East King street, en Saturday ev. nlug. and nominated Dr. PATRICK CASSIDY for Mayor. Th.l Dr. baying voted for THADDZUS STKVENS and the whole Abolition county ticket last October la, of course, consid ered all richt nn the negro question. Last year be run RP a pretended Democrat, and deceived a number of well meaning, honest Democratic voters; Dot that game of do. motion iv ' - played out." The people can longer be gulled by su^h a shallow pretence. For Nigh Constable they placed in nomination JOAN .TEPPERICS, of the N.. W. Ward, and their other nominations aro as follows: N. E. R Select Council— Robert H. W L o ong D Common Counml—Anthony Lechler, Reuben A. liner, Jacob R. SmeHz, William Hensel. Alderman—William B. Wiley. As...or—George P King. City Constable—Philip 8. Baker. Jrige—Samuel H. Price. Inspector—Roland Kinzer. Rel 8. E. WARD. ert Council—Henry C. Locher. 0 , !ninon Council—Horace Hathvon, Conrad J. Plitt, William P, Brroks.. Anilelemr—Jacob Gampf. City Constable—A. A. Memonkop. Judge -11 F. Cox. Inspector—George F. Breneman. • .. N. W. WARD. Select Council—John R. Ditties. Common Connell—Jacob B. Amwake, Jeremiah Mcklii gott. Michael Zahm, Daniel Edemas', Joseph [blithest. Alderman—A. E. Roberta. Amersor—Charles P. Eberman. City Condable—Reory Eshbach. Judge—Henry Rankine. Inspector—George Hoffnagle. ' " " - S. W. WARD. Select Council— A. 0. Locher. Common Council—Henry Gaut, P. lilram Keller, John Fritz. Alden:ono—John O. Wallop. Assenor—H. L. Franey; Judge—Luther Richards. Inrgector—Frederick Albright. • Tax " SPORTSXB," old friends of ours, will give their Ninth Annual Ball. at Fulton Hall, on Thu re day . 37 "h* next, for the benefit of the ''Children's Home." Of course they will have a "bumper," as they ought to have. Our "sporting man" degree as to say that he takes great pleasure In accepting their invitation to be present - ori this interesting cur-anion; he always makes it a point 'to'attend the “Sporters'!. well-managed scireee. A BURGLAR SHOT —On Thursday night . last an attempt was made to blarßiariptlttlYenter the Liquor !Gime cfldr..Bricher corner of .Lecnat and Front streets. Columbia. The burglar was a German, named J. F. Myers, said to be from Philadelphla,aind paid dearly for big at -tenanted robbery. The proprietor, owing to the numerous attempti at burglary which have been made in that bor ough of late, bad taken the precaution to be prepared for much characters, and received the burglar by discharging a pistol at him, the charge from which inflicted a severe wound and prevented his getting away. He was arrested, when it was toned he was d.ingerously hurt. --We have learne I since that the burglar was brought to this city, in the 9 A. si. train from Columbia Os Fatal-- Of, and conveyed-to the County Prison, but he died In a few minutes after his arrival there. HARRISBURG CORRESPONDENCE.. lianarsauon, January 24, 1883. MESSRS. EDITORS: The good work goes on and fealty to principle still continues. Mr. WILLIAM 4:Molinaro, of Philadelphia, was elected last Mon day State Treindirer, in spite of predictions to the contrary and strong attempts to prevent it by the opposition. Harmony and good will pervade Demo cratic councils and will doubtless take up their home with them. Mr. M.'s qualifications for the office are admirable, and no doubtslare expressed that he will give entire satisfaction to all parties. The revelations of Mr. T. JEFFERSON BOYER, member from Clearfield county, in reference to , Simon's attempts to bribe him, have excited the ire of the Abolitionists and ,the oommendation of all lovers of a pure and incorruptible Legislature. The Abrahamites threaten all manner of evil against Boras, but we presume that enough of stamina still remains in the Democratic party to meet them at least half way, and send the miserable tools of a more pitiable party back to their dens far quicker than they could come out. Every honest man of this Commonwealth mast feel disgusted and dis mayed with the record of vice which Mr. B.'s state ment proclaims to the world, and a sense of our own honor as citizens of the Old Keystone should make us demand that the closest scrutiny be made into the affair, and let all those who have been thus fat tening on the substance of the people be brought to a speedy judgment. The sores on the body politic are festering and require speedy relief. A committee of five has been appointed in the 'House to inquire into the bribery and corruption, and when they have laid their testimony before the House no doubt astounding evidences of villainy will be revealed. The committee is composed of gentlemen whose knowledge of the law and of its prying intricacies would make a " change of base " very desirable to some of the worthies, and perhaps the change will be &we enough, though suitable for them.. The affair is in competent hands and will be moat thoroughly silted. An interesting debate took place in the House on Thursday while a resolution for payment of the in terest of the State Debt in notes of legal tender or gild was pending. Messrs. RUNE, PERSHING and an Abolition member from Erie county were the principals Mr. LUNE'S appearance is command ing and his style of language is very energetic and impassioned, never failing to call the attention of all upon him, and stamp him as one of the leaders in nearly all debates. Mr. PERSHAG, while very modest in manner, cannot entirely conceal his legal attainments, which render him a dangerous compe titor wherever any law point is concerned. Both of these gentlemen possess argumentative powers of great weight, and contended masterly in favor of the debt being paid in gold or its equivalent,,hioh, though strongly opposed by the other side, appears to be the best way in which we can keep up our State honor, honesty and pride. The Banks can loan the amount required and will be protected from insolvency—if ever solvent at all—by the bill now before the House. The " Old Folks " have been delighting us with their choice music here this week. A great addition has been made to the troupe in the Paige Sisters, whose warblings were the delight of all that heard them. Both the young ladies are beautiful and in manners bewitching. Take care that sweet Emilie Paige does not take you all captive when you see her. Your readers gill miss a great treat by not seeing them. J. IfLams. EDITOR!: : It would he highly amusing, if it were not so expensive, to notice the ingenuity of our wiseacres at Harrisburg, in their masterly efforts to spend our money by organizing Admiration Societies. What a high old time they will hare, when all the witnesses are assem bled In Harrisburg before the two august Committees, then and there to testify the truth, the whole troth and nothing hot the truth, in relation to the late elections of United States Senator and State Treasurer. What an array of corruption and bribery on the one side, and exalted piety and integrity on the other, and then what an awful amount Cl bad whiskey sail! be consumed, and thus put of the way of the rising generation. Great good must indeed result from these invoithrations, but I em afraid the unthinking public wilt not properly appreciate the motives of our most excellent public servants in these their efforts to prove themselves ` . above suspicion." and I appeal to you, Messrs. Editors, to use every means in your power to bring the matter fairly bet ,re your numerous readers, with all the light and InformatOn that you can possibly give. I t will all he needed. But to be serious; Are these investigations necessary? Can it lie possible that our representatives are. , conscious of their own unworthiness of the confidence of their fellow men as to need such investigations ou every trivial oc casion J Who, I ask, will have ale better opinion of their honesty after the ffivestigstion? Or wh, is simple enough to suppose that ever) a tithe of the existing corruption will ever he brought to.the light by any such means? All I have to say is. that If our legislator, think their ennstitu• onts are so miserably blind as to ho gulled by any such hunabuggety. they -are certainly in much need of the straightjacket. W 6 have witnessed too many investiga tions at our own expense. resffittng in a verdict conferring it character a; 'pure and exalted that the recipient did not know what to do with it or how to wear it. Out upon all snob' nonsense and child's play. We should have mar, men who possess a proud 4. 01.Ci01.1.31,6 of the purity and reetiffi Jr of their motives—who will make it their busl nese, as they feel it their duty, to guard the Interests and husband the finatiqs of the state; men who have suffici ent capital in character to afford to let all SU, h rumors go for what they aro worth. Oh! that we had such men In both our National and State Councils In this the time of one country's great peril. Now, Mesons Editors, allow me to suggest t, our wine legislators that, after their committees shall hays concluded their rer.ti arduous labors, and effectually whitewashed every body and every body's friends, they appoint another committee, "with pdwer to Send for persons and papers," for the purpose of Worming themsdres of the opinion of their constituents in relation to all such legislation. Lot them draw at random from the wheel of each county one or more witnesses in .the case, and my opinion is that after each Investigation they will be wiser. If not better, men. January 23d, 1868. EAST DONEGAL. ME,3888. EDITORS: As you did not publish a piece that was sent to you some two weeks ago in reference to the abuse and slander of the Lancaster Express against one who to above all their filth and black principles, we thought to let them die in their eon dark negro dungeon of African worshippers. But we are again to make some remarks on their heated violent° against the Democratic party, In publishing naked, black falsehoods, which they have been doing since they took up with the Abolition party, to gain some .110tict, from the followers of the heated zeal of fa natics, who would mob sooner follow up the African regi ments to slay their own white brothers than come out on the true merits of hunianity and Democracy; but instead, clothed in the crimett of prison's guilt, and sailing under false colors, call out names and misconstrue every princi ple of right to feed their hellish thirst for blood. Please tell those black adv Mates of the foul slander that the men belonging to the large and respectable company at Pea• niugtonville, and the cause of Democracy, of which they and the apeakera are members, will triumph when such Moll as the Editoren( the Lancaster Express will be so deep In the dark dungeons of crime, that their falsehoods will not be seen outside of som e prison. Tell them to quit wearing the nigh t.caps of darkness of the African skin be fore their eyes. MANY. FULTON, Jaanary 17, 1863. INTERCEPTED REBEL DISPATCHES. The National Intelligencer publishes eight columns of rebel despatches, being letters of instruction to Mason, Slidell and other rebel agents in Europe, which were captured on the person of a rebel Major who was recently taken prisoner while endeavoring to leave Charleston in a small boat. The first is a letter from Secretary Banjo. min, dated in September last, exaggerating the rebel victories and summing up the Fed eral loss in all the battles up to that time at 350,000 men. The most important portion of the corred pondence relates to a movement on the part of the French Consuls at Galveston and Rich mond, supposed to have originated in Paris, to induce Texas to secede from the Southern Confederacy and establish an Independent Government. The result of the discovery was an order to Gen. Magruder to send the Consul at Galveston to Mexico as quick as possible, 'and the Richmond Consul to leave forthwith. The order with regard to the latter was how ever rescinded. It further appears that the reception award ed by Earl Russell to Mr. Commissioner Mason, at London, is not such as comports, with the latter's sense of propriety and with the expectations of the authorities at Rich mond. Bandernon. Huber 173 173 . 171 171 343 343 184 184 of the arrangement. Patterson went immedi- Mr. Mason is, however, complimented for ately to Cameron, who was in the car, and his self-abnegation in consenting to remain at returned in a few minutes, stating that, his, notwithstanding the annoyances to which although Cameron regarded the price big, be would pay it in order to save further trouble, he conceives himself subjected by the evident and d, therefore, not ything to the coolness of the British Secretary of State for mem woul bers then on their way say to an Philadelphia, Foreign Affairs. I and that they might return, and thus prevent The second portion of the correspondence any disarrangement of the plan that might relates to the European operations of the Con- -rise from their absence. Saturday evening was ten d upon as the tim for the nex federate Treasury and Navy Departments. intervihew.a Ig st ree opped at Reading; so did Pat- t Mr. Memminger explains the schemes devised terson, who returned that same evening to I for raising money in England by the hypothe- Harrisburg. Cameron went to Philadelphia. cation of cotton in the Confederate Stales. I came up on Saturday evening, and found The modus operandi by which coin may be Cameron on the train, as well as at least one transmitted in British naval vessels from the of the men who went to Philadelphia the day blockaded ports to be employed in England before, and I think both. At the depot at , for war purchases and payments, receives Harrisburg I met Patterson, who said the in-' elucidation at the hands of the Confederate terview would be at Don Cameron's. Accord- Secretary of the Treasury, while the use to ingly Patterson and myself went direct to the which a portion of the funds is to be put finds house, and found the General there ahead of explanation in the accompanying correspon- I us. He invited us up stairs, and by a dismal donee of Mr. Mallory, the Confederate Secre- light, we agreed upon the pride, viz : Cameron retary of the Navy. assented to the bargain between Patterson and The utility of iron-clad vessels and the myself by agreeing to pay the $20,000—55,000 means by which they are to be procured in of which was to be paid in hand—and would England form the burden of these interesting deposit it in Patterson's hands in my presence papers. at some future interact°, subject to my snspec- From them we learn, too, the names of the tion. A little incident which occurred here financial agents of the Southern Confederacy it would be a pity to lose to the world. After in England, and whose houses are ready to the bargain was concluded Simon straightened fill the military and naval orders from Rich- up on his chair, rubbing his legs with his mond. hand; saying, " Well, this ends it. I will be For The Lancaster Intelligencer. Foe The lutellhoncer NOCCASIN'TRACKS! Attempt to Bribe a llember of - the Legislature ! Astounding Developments! GEN. CAMERON'S OPERATIONS TO EFFECT EIS ELECTION TO THE 11. S. SENATE STATEMENT OF T. JEFFERSON' BOY ER, MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY FROM ci.EARPIELD COUNTY 7b the Editors of the - Patriot 41—Union : As many rumors are afloat in regard to cer tain- transactions which took place between General Cameron and - inyself on Several Occa sions previous to the late election of United States Senator, I think it my duty to make a plain, unvarnished statement of the facts, so that there may be hereafter no misunderstand ing or misrepresentation. Believing that there would be attempte to bribe members in order to defeat the election of a Democrat, I con ceived the project of putting myself in the way of the operators and trying how far they were disposed to go in the matter. Once conceived, I determined to act upon it, and communicated my intention to several friends. The first opportunity that offered I embraced—and here is the result I had been to Philadelphia, and on my re turn, perhaps a week or more before the elec tion, I met Mr. Wm. Brobst, of Lewisburg, with whom I was acquainted, at the Pennsyl vania House, in Harrisburg, for the first time this winter, and noticed some unusual nervous ness on his part, and from his conduct was soon led to suspect that his business at Har risburg was not of a very public character. In the afternoon he came to me and asked to see me privately, and we proceeded at once to my room, where he very soon commtinced dis paraging the several prominent Democratic candidates for United States Senator, and con cluded by expressing his decided preference for Gen. Simon Cameron. This, of course, left me no room to doubt the object of his visit to the State Capital and to me, and I at once asked him whether that was the object of his visit. He said it was. In reply to my ques tion, whether General Cameron authorized him to come to me in this way, he said he was authorized by Cameron to see any Democrat of the House or Senate, and enter into pre• litninary arrangements to secure a vote for Cameron. I then asked him in what manner they expected to secure the election of Cameron. He answered, "by getting three Democrats to absent themselves on the day of the election." I then asked him what they would pay. He said he was authorized by Cameron to offer - $5,000. I told him the figures were too low, and desired him to tell me who the other members were. This he refused to do at the time, but would try and get permission of his principal to do so. He then left, and returned in a short time, and said that General:Came-on wanted to see me, personally, at his residence out of the city that evening. I told him I could not make the engagement, but would answer him in ono hour, and if I could get clear of another engagement I had made, I would go with him. In the meantime I consulted with Dr. Earley, of the 'House of Representatives, my col league, to whom I related the foregoing facts. I then saw Brobst again, and told him I would go. He told me he would have a carriage ready in front of Herr's Hotel at 7 o'clock ; that he was authorized by Cameron to get a carriage at any time. When the time arrived Dr. Earley and myself walked down to Herr's and saw the carriage and Brobst there. I then made some excuse to Brobst, and told him it would be beet not to go. (I deemed it prudent at this state of the proceedings not to manifest too much eagerness, lest I might de feat the object in view.) The next day he (Brobst) called and said Cameron wanted to see me at the State Capital Bank. I called, and was ushered into the back room of the hank, and bound Cameron there alone. He addressed me as follows : " Boyer, do you think you could have courage enough to rote for me 7" I answered that it was a very business like question, and that it wruld depend very much on circumstances. He then said, ' sup pose the circumstances are all right !" I asked him how he meant " all right." He answered. " the financial consideration; in' short, the dollars and cents." 1 answered him, " certain ly." lle then asked me what I would take. I told him I had not been in this business long, and did not know exactly how to answer, but wished him to name the sum. He asked what thought of $lO,OOO, " right down, after the work was done." I then asked him, whether he wanted a vote or an absentee. He answered " a rote," and that it would be very trouble some to get the men away, and besides he only regarded the money paid as the first instal ment, and that he felt in duty bound to take care of the person that made him Senator afterwards, and, if he had so many to take care of, it would embarrass him, but if he had but one he could do it well and profitably as long as we lived ; and said besides, there would be no more danger in voting directly for him than in being absent, for they would make every provision for the protection of the man that would vote for him. This ended the interview, and we agreed to meet again to fix the compensation. The next day he sent Brobst for me. I declined going to see him. but agreed to see him at my room, No. 15 Pennsylvania House. Mr. Brobst, who was still, up to this time, figuring for Simon, went after him, and in less than twenty minutes.re turned with him. Cameron then said, " Well, let's come to an understanding." I said, " What for ?" He answered, "In reference to the Senatorial question." I then said said, "I must have $15,000." He said, " Iwill give it," and wanted to know who I would prefer to arrange further interviews and do the finauciering of the husinese. I told him my limited knowledge of his friends did not en able me to name that person. He then pro posed Jim Burris. I said he would do. He then left, stating that he was going to Phila delphia to arrange another matter which he had in view, and would return on Saturday evening. This was on Wednesday. On Thursday I met John J. Patterson. He desired to see me, and asked me toicall at his room at Herr's Hotel. When I met him, I asked him where Burns was ? He told me he was sick. He then said, "Boyer, the money will be all right." I asked him, " What money ?" He then said, "Oh, I know all about it ; I saw Cameron," (1 must not forget to state here, that, prior to my meeting Patter son, Brobst told me Patterson wanted to see me on that business,) and, by Cameron's ar rangement, he would go down in the cars on the Lebanon Valley road on Friday at 2 o'clock, and that we would go together and settle the entire affair. We met according to arrangement, and, in the baggage apartment of the New York car, concluded the bargain for $20,000 for a vote for General Simon Cameron for the office of U. S. Senator, with the agreement that no other member should be bought, and that this should end the matter—provided Cameron 'would agree to the terms, and deposit the money in the hands of Patterson, to be paid to me immediately after the election warrover, and that the two members (with whom Pat terson said Cameron was also in treaty) who were in the care on their way to Philadelphia, should return on Saturday. We considered the fact that, if they were sent off, the House would not go into an election, and our agree ment c aild not he consummated. This state ment seemed to determine his mind in favor Senator and you shall never regret it"— (addressing himself to me)—" I WILL HE THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THAT SENATE; THE ENTIRE STATE OF AFFAIRS or THIS GOVERNMENT WILL BE CHANGED; NOTHING 18 MORE CERTAIN THAN THAT, THE SOUTH WILL GAIN HER INDE PENDENCE, (this sounded like treason,) AND THEN WE WILL HOLD THE CONTROL OF THE Gov- ERNMENT AND I WILL BE ABLE TO SERVE MT FRIENDS;" and so we parted again, to dream of Southern Confederacies and Winnebagoes for Senator. Patterson and I then agreed to meet , on Monday. We met at 5 o'clock, in Patteison's room at Herr's, on Monday afternoon. Here Patter son told me he had the $5,000 hand money locked up in the safe down stairs, but wanted me to see Simon again before paying it over to me. I insisted on the hand money.— This I deemed necessary to keep up the delu sion. We then parted to meet at the same place early the next morning. Immediately after breakfast on Tuesday, (the day of the election,) I met Patterson, according to agree ment, at his room, Simon being present, lying on the bed, complaining of a disease of the bowels. It was then desired that I should see some Republican member of the Senate or House, who would be sent to me, and i-torm him of my willingness to vote for Cameron in case he was nominated. To this I made some pretended objection and demanded to know the necessity for it. Simon saidit was this, that unless I did this they might think he just wanted their d—d nomination for effect, which was not true. He declared he would not have the nomination and a defeat for the whole Legislature. So, of course, I consented, and the voting price was voluntarily raised $5,000. Patterson said the gentleman who would wait on me there was Dr. Fuller, of the Senate, who would be present as soon as I was ready to receive him. I said that was all right, b t must now be convinced that the money was all right too. Patterson then hurriedly showed me a largo bundle of notes, which he repre sented as being the amount of the final pay ment. He assured me the day before I should have the hand money, and again on Tuesday morning said I could have it I told him I deemed it better on reflection, not to have it about me, inasmuch as there might be a row after the election, and said I would trust it to them, (Patterson and Cameron,) knowing them to be honest. Patterson again assured me the hand money was down in the safe, and, together with the residue, should be forthcom ing as soon as the election was over. (I may here state it did no:: come.) Cameron then said his carriage would be at the State Capitol Bank after the election, and I should come right down and go over to his house and remain there awhile. 'This, of course, I agreed to do, (but did not ) Now, then, all things being arranged, Dr. Fuller was ushered in by Patterson. The introduction completed, I said : " Doctor, I presume I understand the object of this inter view." lie then said : `. lam chairman of a committee appointed by the Republican caucus to wait on you to see whether pal would vote for Cameron." I said " Yes ; I assure you that if you nominate Gen. Cameron (pointing to the old Winnebago lying on the bed) it will be all right." Ile said : " You give me that assurance ?" I said : " Yes." Dr. E. then said : " You need have no fears of personal danger, or anything of that' sort. We have made every provision to meet all danger." Thus the last scene in this strange farce ended. Simon assured me that he would bo ever grate ful, and I hope he will. It is proper here to say that during this entire adventure with 'Simon and his agents, my colleague, Dr. Earley, W. A. Wallace, the Senator from Clearfield, and Robert Vaughn, the proprietor of the Pennsylvania House, in this city, were in the secret, and Dr. Earley, especially, knew constantly what was going on. In one of my interviews with Paitersou, on the ears going to Heading, he said in case there should any investigation grow out of the transaction he would he the only witness that knew anything abr.ut it, and he would swear fahmly and put it through. In regard to the dates given in the above statement, as I made no memoranda at the time, I cannot be certain that they are correct, but I believe they are. T. JEFFERSuN BoYEkt WHAT DOES IT MEAN MR. LINCOLN MAHE A MISTAKE! Our readers will remember that Mr. bin coln, out long airier, nppointed Daniel F. Miller, of lowa, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. They doubtless feared, as we did, that this appointment was one step towards abolitionising that heretofore august and very respectable branch of the Govern ment. But the following letter, written by Judge Miller, under the date of Keokuk, lowa, November 11, 1862, in answer to an invitation to attend a "grand jubilee of the friends of Constitutional liberty and of the Union," will go far to dispel such fear. How it happened that Mr. Lincoln appointed a man capable of writing such a letter we can not imagine. There must have been a mistake made, though, if we may judge from the fol lowing letter, it was a very fortunate mistake for the country : "The recent elections have gladdened my heart more than I can find language to ex press, for I feel that by the success of the Democracy we shall have a speedy restoration of the Union and Constitutional liberty." • "I am an old Clay Whig, as you all know, and when that party went down, I united with the Republicans, in the hope and belief that It would succeed to all the loyal and national virtues of the Whig principles and policy pre vail under another name. But I got snore than I bargained for. It was not in the covenant that we should have civil war as a consequence of Republican success ; that the public treas ury was to he plundered by wholesale; that ' free soil ' in loyal States should be covered with martialt•law ' • that ' free speech' should be chained in the dungeon of the bastile ; that free homes should be sacked to desolation, and the free men should be confined in its practi cal application to the negroes of the South, and the Abolition wing of the Republican party, did not consent to be a party to any such violations of Constitutional liberty. " Had the counsels of Gen. Scott, John J. Crittenden, Stephen A. Douglas, and indeed of all the wise and good men of our nation been heeded, we would not now be afflicted with the civil war that is upon us. They could not have prevented South. Carolina from her attempt at revolution, but the Crittenden proposition would have saved all the rest of the Southern States, and long before this, at a trifling expense of money, and at a small loss of life, that rebellious State would have been humbled before the flag of the Union. " But how did the phrenzy of the Abolition leaders meet that proposition ? They said away with it, away with it, and crucify all who advoc,tte it. They farther said, leave the slave States go ! We can do without them, and we will speedily reap the advantages of a separation. When the conservative element of the nation proclaimed itself for the Union, then the Abolitionists assumed that they were the war party, and denounced all others as rebel sympathizers. " That the Abolitionists are in favor of prosecuting the war for the love of the Union, lam sure is not the case. Their object is to abolish slavery ONLY, and if that should fail, they will again speedily raise their old cry of " let the Union slide." "Gentlemen, it is the mission of the Demo cratic party to save the Union. "It has always been a loyal and national party ; it has ever upheld Constitutional law as the only safeguard of freedom. It was the party that hurled from 'power the authors of the alien and sedition laws, sixty years ago, and for all that period they guided our ship of State successfully and gloriously through the waves of civil commotion and the dangers If foreign wars. " I regard the old Clay-Whig party, and the Douglas Democracy as genuine branches of the old Democratic party of 1798. " When I see Gen. S , ictt and Millard more, and Crittenden, and Ketchum, and . Hunt, and all the old prominent Whigs of twenty-five years ago, now united at the polls with the Democracy, I can have no doubt that if the immortal sage of Ashland, that purest of patriots, most eloquent of orators, and wisest of Statesmen, Henry Clay, were still alive and in our midst, he too would lend his voice in favor of that party whose watch words are the ' Constitution as it is,' and ' The Union, it must and shall be preserved.' " The Abolition leaders had so little idea of the character of the contest they were enter ing upon, that they proclaimed the war would be over in sixty days. They have had all the , money they asked for, and yet the war wages with unexampled fury at the end of 500 days. The result for the last eighteen months. demonstrates clearly the necessity of univer. sal change of rulers, and as old Whigs claim to love their country more than party I hope, they will all speedily unite under the Demo °ratio flag, for the salvation of our Union.'P " Respectfully yours, " DANIEL F. Musa."
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