~ADD- R ESS OP MID DEMOORA.T.IO STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. To the" People of Pennaylvania, : hopottant election is at heed, and the issues involved in may now claim your attention. The tide otivar has been roiled back from oar borders ; and With thanks todicd, and gratitude to the skill and valor which, by his favor, achieved the prompt deliyeiratioe,ofieux. invaded Commonwealth, we may now itiverehesoleuin consideration to the - causes that have. brought =to its present- condition a country ones- pesoefal, united and secure.' .it` is now the scene gra great civil war, between litatee that lately ministered to each other's prosperity in a Union founded tor their common good.- It was this Union that gave them peace at tome and respect abroad. They coped successfully with tireat Britain on the ocean, and the 0 doctrine " uttered by President Minim warned off me monarchs of Europe from the whole Amerioan eontsuent. Now, France carves out ut it an empire, and ehips built in England plunder our commerce on every sea. A great pae lla debt and a conscription burden the people. The strength and wealth 01 the notion are turned from pruluutive industry and consumed in the destructive aria of war. Our victories tad .to win peace.— Throng/lout, the land; arbitrary power encroaches upon aim liberty. What has . wrought the disastrous change? No natural causes embroiled the North and the South. Their interchangeable products and commodities, and various institutions, were sources of reciprocal benefit, and excluded oompecition and strife. .13: au artilicial cause of dissension wail found in the position of tile African tare and the ascendancy in the flattened Councils of Men pledged to an aggres sive and unconstitutionat Abelition policy, has brought our country to we coudition of " the house divided against itself." rue danger to the Union began wenn statesmen had foreseeu it; it began in the triumph of a sectional party, wooded on prin ciples to revolutionary uostility co the Vanecitution and the laws. The leaders of this party were pledged to a conflict with rights recoguized and s.,eltered by the Constitution. rimy called tots conflict " irre pressible;"- and wheuever one party is determined to attach what another is determined to defend, a conflict Can always oe wads ' irrepressible." They counted ou an easy triumph through the aid of insur gent slaves, and, in EAU reit:woe, were careless how coon they provoked a collision. Democrats and Con servatives strove to avert tile cent:Lim they saw that Union was the paramount interest of their country, and tney stood by tile great bond of Union, the 'Jonsticution of the United Mated. They were content to leave debatable questions under it to the Ingo tribunal framed to decide them; they preferred it to the sword as au arbiter between toe States; they strove hard to merit the title which their oppo nents gave them in scorn—the title of .• Union savers." We will not at length rehearse their tlforts. In toe Thirty-sixth Congress the ltepublicau leaders refused their assent to toe Crittenden Compromise. On Lilts point me testimony of Air. Douglas will suffuse. lie said: "1 believe this to be a fair basis of amicable ad justment. If you 01 tun Republican side are not willing t, accept this, nor toe ploposition of the iSsuator from Kentucky, (Mr. Crittouden), pray tell ns what you ore wtutug to do? 1 address the in- quiry to the hepublicaud alone, for the reason that, on the Co7722nittc: of Thirteen, a few days ago, every memb,r from the ~ uttlll,zuclueling those fro nt the cotton States (Messrs. D.ivis and Toombs), expressed their readiness to accept the proposition of wy venerable trmed tram Kentucky, Mr. Crit tenden, as a final settlement of the controversy, if tendeted and susationd by the Republican members. Renee the sole responsibility of oar disagr ement, and the only dtpicutty en the way of an amtcalde adjustment, is with the ileyublicatt party."—,J an. 3, 1861. The Peace Congress was another means by which the border States strove to avert the impending strife. tiow the Republican leaders then conspired against the peace ut their country may be seen in a letter from benatur Chandler, of Michigan, to the Governor of that State: To His Excellimey, Tustin tiovernor Biu,shain nod inpeit telegraphed you on Saturday, at the request of Ala.senchusetts nod New York, to seed dinegates to the Peace or Com promise Congress. They admit that we were right and they were wroug ; that no Republican State should have seat deiegates ; but they are hero nod cannot get away. Owe, Indiana and Rhode !shunt are caving in, nod there is danger at Illinois ; and now they Deg us ler bud's sake to come to their res cue, and save the Republican pony from rupture.— I hope you will seod stiff backed men or noue. The whole thing was gotten up against my judgment nod advice, and will end in tam smoke. Stii I hope as a matter of courtesy to some of our erring brethren that you will send the delegates. " Truly, your friend, " Z. CHANDLER." "P. S.—,sonio of the Matltlfatturiug .;Latta think that a Elgin would be awful. Without a little blood lettiug tars Union will not, iu my estimation, be worth a malt. " Westitriorou, Feb. 11, 1861." In Pennsylvania, too, the some spirit prevailed. It was not seen how necessarily her position united her in interest with the border States. She has learned it since, from contending armies trampling out her harvests and deluging tier fields with blood. thuvernor Curtin sent to the Peace Congress Mr. Wilmot and Mr. Meredith. Mr. Wilmot was chiefly known from the connec tion of his mime with the attempt to embroil the country by the " Wilmot Proviso," baffled by patri otic statesmanship, in Walsh Clay and Webster joined with the Democratic leaders; just as Clay and Jackson hal/joined in the tariff Comprom ice of 1833. Mr. Meredith had published his belief that the mutterings of the rising etorm were what ho called stridulous er.es," unworthy of the slightest attention. By Mr. Lincoln's election, in November, 1860, the power to save or destroy the Union was in the hands of his party ; and no adjustment was possible with men woo rejected the ,lodgment of the Supreme Court, who scorned conciliation and compromise, and who looked to a " lithe bloodletting" to cement the American Union. Till this time, the Union men of the South had controlled, with little diffi culty, the smelt but restless class among them woo desired a separate nationality. The substantial in terests of the south, especially the slaveholding in terest, were drawn reluctantly into secession. Gen. F. P. Blair, of Missouri, au eminent Republican, said very truly, in the last Congress: "Every man acquainted with the facts knows that it is lallacioue to call CiliS a slavenoiders ' re bellion.' * Is A closer scrutiny demonstrates the contrary to be true; ouch a scru tiny demonstrates that the rebellion originated chiefly with the non-aluveholders resident in the strungnolds of the institution, nut springing, how ever, Irma any love of slavery, but item an antag onism of race and hostility to the idea of equality With the blacks involved in simple emancipation." Lt was the triumph of the Abolitionists over the Democrats and Conservatives of the North, that se cured a like triumpn to the' Secessionists over the Union men of the South. The Jahn Brown raid was taken as a practical exposition of the doctrine of "irrepressible cuuflost." The exultation over its momentary success, the lamentation over its failure, had been swelled by the Abolitionists, so as to seem a general expression of Northern feeling. Riots and rescues had nullified the constitutional provision for the return of fugitives. The false pretence that slavery would monopolize the territories, when we had uu territories in which it could exist, had been used as a means of constant agitation against slav ery in the Southern States. A plan of attack upon it had been pubilshed in '• Helper's book," formally endorsed and recommended by the leaders of the party that was about to assume the Administration of the Federal Governments—leaders who openly in culcated contempt for the Constitution, contempt for the Supreme Court, and professed to follow a " high er law ." - Thus the flame of revolution at the South was kindled and fed with fuel furnished by the Abolitionists. It might seem superfluous to advert now to what is past and irrevocable, were it not that it is against the same men and the same influ ences, still dominant in the councils of the Admin istration, that an appeal is now to be made to the intelligence of the people. The Abolitionists de precate these allusions to the past. To cover up their own tracks, they invite us to spend all our in dignation upon "Southern traitors ;" but truth com pels us to add, that, in the race of treason, the Northern traitors to the Constitution had the start. They tell us that slavery was the cause of the war ; therefore, the Union is to be restored by waging a war upon slavery. This is not true; or only true in the armee that any institution, civil or religious, may be a cause of war, if war is made upon it.— Nor is it a just conclusion that if you take from your neighbor his "moo servant ox his maid servant, or anything thatls his," you will thus establish har mony between you. No danger to the Union arose from slavery whilst the people of each State dealt calmly and intelli s ently with the question within their own State limits. Where little importance attached to it, it soon yielded to moral and economi cal considerations, leaving the negro in a position of social and political subordination no where more clearly marked than in the Constitution and laws of Pennsylvania. The strife began when people in States where it was an immaterial question under took to prescribe thecourse of duty upon it to States in which it was a question of great importance and difficulty. This interference became more dangerous when attempts were made to use the power of the General Government, instituted for the benefit of all the States, to the injury and proscription of the interests of some of the States. It was not merely a danger to the institution of slavery, but to our whole political system, in which separate and dis tinot colonies became, by the Declaration of lode- pendence, " free and independent States," and afterwards established a Federal Union under the Constitution of the United States. That instrument, with scrupulous care, discriminates the powers dele gated to the General Government from those re served " to the States respectively, or to the people.' And let it be noted, that in speaking of the powers so delegated and reserved, we refer to no vague doc trines or pretensions, but to the clear provisions of the written instrument which it is the duty of every citizen, and especially of every public functionary, to respect and maintain. The protection of Ameri can liberty against the encroachments of centraliza tion was left to the States by the framers of the Constitution. Hamilton, the most indulgent of them to Federal power, says: " lc may be safely received as an axiom in our political system, that the State Governments will, in all possible contin gencies, afford complete seourity against invasions of' public liberty by the national authority." Who can be blind to . he consequences that have followed the departure from the true principles of our Gov ernment? " Abolition " vies with " secession " in sapping the very foundations of theetructure reared by our forefathers. In Pennsylvania, the party on whose ants you will pass at the ballot-box has trampled upon the great rights of personal liberty and the freedom of the press, which every man who can read may find asserted in the Constitution of ' the State and the Constitution of the United States. The dignity of our Commonwealth has •been in- salted in the outrages perpetrated upon her citizens. At Philadelphia and at Harrisburg. proprietors of newspapers have been seized at midnight and hur ried off to military prisons beyond the limits of the State. Against acts like these, perpetrated before the eyes of the municipal and State authorities, there is neither proteetion.nor redress The seizure of 'o'mm:a at West Chester was afterwards the subject of a mit for damages in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. - it came to trial before Chief Jiastime Lowrie. Rehearsing the ancient principles of English and American justice, he condemned the sets of the Federal offloere as violations of the law that binds alike tha private citlzon and the public . flirtatiously- He . Said : I " All public' funetionariei OUTRAGE BY NEGRO BOLDIERB. in this land are under the law, and .none, from the Th e f o ll ow i ng commun i cat i on apears i n highest to the lowest, are above it." Impatient at p any restraint from law, a'partiaan majority to C m . the St. Louis Republican of August 7 : pees hastened to pass an act to take from the State Ma. EDITOR: We landed at a place called Courts to the United States Courts, all suitaor prose- in Compromise, Tennessee, near the dividing actions " for trespasses or wrongs done or committed by virtue or under color of any authority derived line between Kentucky and Tennessee, and from or exercised under the President of the United heard there, from the neighbors, of a most hor- States ;" and such authority was declared to be a , rible murder committed - yesterday morning, .full defence for the wrongdoer in any an ion civil is,t -Zs - .the I Tuesday, the 4th. Eighteen negro soldiers, 'or criminal. The American Executive word imports, the executor of the dilly enacted laws. fully armed, having come from the camp on Yet the pretension is made that his will can take :lsland No. 10, went to the house of Mr. Frank the place of the laws. The liberty, the character Beckham, on the river immediately where we of every citizen, is put at the mercy_ of new run e' landed this morning, and murdered him aged forty years, - tionaries called " provost marshals." Secret won. . his old farher,(Major Benjamin nation before these officials takes the place of open hearing before a lawful magistrate, and no writ of Beckham, aged eighty)and four children of habeas corpus may inquire the cause of the arrest. Mr. F. Beckham—Laura, aged fourteen, Kate, To illegal arrests have been added the mockery of a , seven, and Richard two ten. Caroline, aged - trial of a private citizen for his political opinions' before a court martial, ending in the infliction of a y art. They first caught Mr. F.„Bezlthtm and new and outrageous penalty, invented by the Pled-tits aged father, tied them, marched them to I dent of the United States. We need not comment the edge of the bank of the river, shot and upon acts like these. The President of the United States bee no authority, in peace or war, to try even Et ibbed them, and threw their bodies into the an enlisted soldier by court martial, save by virtue water. They then threw little Dick into the and in strict conformity with the military law laid river, tied the two youngest girls together, and down in the act of Congress "establishing rules threw them in, then forced the oldest girl and and articles for the government of the armies of I boat her over the head with their muskets the United States." Yet by his proclamation of until all she sank down. The bodies of old Maj- September 24th, 1882, he has assumed to make a citizens amenable to military courts. He has via or Beckham and the youngest child have been laced the great principle of free government, on recovered. Many of our passengers and my which Washington condacied the war of the Itevolu- self went to the house and saw them. Forte lion, and Madison the war of 1812—the principle of nately two of the famil of children were off the suborditiation of the military to the civil power. y at school, and the mother and one child four lie has hated to put "martial law," which is the rule of force,at a spot where all laws are silenced, years old, went up to Owensboro, Kentucky, in the place of civil Justice throughout the land, with us on our last trip. All the rest were and has thus assailed, in some of the States, even murdered. Twelve of the negroes were call the freedom of the ballot-box. These are not mem- g siunal acts, done in haste, or heat, or Ignorance ; by our cavalry and are now confined at Island but a new system of government put in the place of No. 10. Six are yet at large. The immediate that ordained and established by the people. That motive for the deed was thought to 'be the rho Queen could not do what he could. was Mr. fact that Mrs. Beckham took up the river Seward's boast to the British Minister. The " mili- with her a negrogirl as nurse, whose mother tory arrests" of Mr. Stanton received the " hearty g commendation "of the Convention that renominated had run off, and was at Island No. 10. The Governor Curtin ; and it p ledged him and his party negroes had before attempted to steal the girl to " hearty co-operation r in such acts of the Ad- away, but Mr. Beckham drove them off with ministration in future. Such is the degrading plat- arms. The above is a correct statement of the form on which a candidate for Chief-Magistrate of Pennsylvania stands before her people. These pre- murder I got from the neighbors and a Mr. tensions to arbitrary power give ominous signift- Max Jehlan, who had, just an hour before, mince to a late change in our military establish- left Mr. Beckham's house, and is now a pas ment. The time-honored American system of oall- senger on the boat. Truly yours. ing on the States for drafts from their militia, has . been replaced by a Federal conscription, on the GEORGE O. HART. model of European despotisms. We would not minis- We call the attention of our readers to the ter to the excitement which it has caused among a b ove letter which exhibits the first fruits of men of all parties. Its constitutionality will be tested before the Courts. if adjudged to be within the radical policy pursued_by the present ad the power of Congress, the people will decide on the mi n i s t rat i on. I ropriety of a stretch of power on which the Bridal l'arlitunent—styled omnipotent—has never ventured. Ever since this war began, says the Patriot On this you will pass at the polls, and the next Con- & Union, the sanuinary warpreachers of the Kress will not he deaf to the voice of the people.— g p Fur all political evils, a constitutional remedy yet Abolition school, every Abolition orator, and, remains in the ballot box. We wilt not entertain the entire Abolition press have been advoca a fear that it is not safe in the guardianship of a free people. If men in office should seek to per- ting a course directly tending to inaugurate petuate their power by wresting from the people of such horrible scenes as that described above. Pennsylvania the right of suffrage—if the servants of the people should rebel against their master—on , John Brown has been canonized as a saint in them will rest the responsibility of an attempt at I w ... ew England pulpits, and the song, "John revolution, of which no man can foresee the cense- I quences or the end. But in now addressing you I Brown's Soul is Marching on," has been sung upuu the political issues of the times, we assume I that the institutions of our country are destined to I by Forney and his drunken fol!owers as a endure. National Anthem. Toussaint l'Ouverture, the The approaching election derives further impor tance from the influence it will exercise upon the black demon who led the massacre in St. Do policy et the Government. The aim of men not mingo, carrying aloft in the place of a flag the blinded by party fanaticism and party spirit would be to reap the best fruit from the victories achieved head of a white infant upon the end of a pike by our gallant armies—the best fruit would be peace staff, has been eulogized by Wendell Philips and the restoration of the Union. Such is not the aim of the party in power. Dominated by its and others as the greatest hero that ever lived must bigoted members, it urges a war for the negro —greater than even our own Washinton. and nut for the Union. It avows the design to pro- g tract the war till slavery shall be abolished in all It is not necessary to say to any intelligent the Southern states; in the language of one of its man, that such teachin must inevitably ro- pamphleteers, " how can a man, hoping and praying gs p for the destruction of slavery, desire that the war dace such fruits, nor are these men deceived shall be a short one?" Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, the in that respect, it is precisely what they aim Republican leader in the last House of Representa tives, declared, " The Union shall never, with my at and anticipate. The outrage above detailed consent, be restored under the Constitution as it is, w wan slavery to be protected by it." The same will make their hearts leap for joy, and they spirit appears in Mr. Lincoln's late answer to citi- will hail it as the dawn of the glorious day for zees of Louisiana who desired the return of that State uuder us present Constitution. Mr. Lincoln which they have watched and prayed. If they postponed them till that Constitution shall be could they would carry to every hearthstone in unleaded. The Abolitionists desire the war to last till treedom is secured to all the slaves. Hordes of the South the same fiendish carnage. And all politicians, nod contractors, and purveyors, who fat- this they do in the name of God and human ten ou the star, desire it to last forever. When the slaves are all emancipated by the Federal arms, a icy ! Is it possible to produce any better ev constant military intervention will be needed to dence to prove their utter madness ? In the keep them above or equal with the white race in the southern States. Peace has no place in their plat- name of civilization and Christianity, we ask form. It proclaims confiscation and abolition as the that these lunatics, if left unchained, shall at objects of the war, and the Southern leader catches up the words to stimulate his followers to fight to least be divested of all power to work out their the last. It is not the interest of Pennsylvania evil purposes. Upon you, fellow-citizens, de that a fanatical faction shall pervert and protract the war, for ruinous, perhaps unattainable ends.— valves this task at the coming elections.— \ti hat the North needs is the return of the South, Through your suffrages you can show most with its people, its territory, its staples, to complete the integrity of our common country. This, and effectually your condemnation of this bloody not mere devastation and social contusion, would be and inhuman policy. Every vote cast against , the aim patriots and statesmen. The Abolition policy promises us nothing better than a Southern the Democratic party sustains the perpetra- Polend, ruled by a Northern despotism. But his- tore of these infamous crimes, and every in_ tory is full of examples how wise rulers have as suaged civil discord by moderation and justice, while tangent man who contributes to their success bigots anti despots relying solely on force, have must be followed through life by the curse of been bellied by feeble opponents. That a temperate constitutional policy will tail, in our ease, to reap Cain. . the trait of success in arms, cannot ho known until it is tried. The times are critical. France, under It will not do far us to imagine that because a powerful and ambitious monarch, is entering on these wrongs occur in a distant State that we the scene, willing again to play an important part a th an American revolution. The English areGovern secure from their recurrence in this lo ment is hostile is us ;is has got all it wanted from tude. If the aims of these madmen can be abolition, and will have nothing more to do with it. The secession leaders, and the presses under their attained, and from three to five hundred control, oppose reunion, preferring, perhaps, even thousand negroes armed and let loose to ray. an humble dependence upon European powers. But the South, what security, in from wary parts of the South, and across the picket age and destroy lines, and from the prisoners and the wounded, has have we that, when the South is desolated come the proof of a desire among the peopleof the booth to return to constitutional ristatio, s with the and these semi-barbarians drunk with blood, people of the North. Early to the contest this desire they will not turn and rend us ? Independent was shown in North Carolina, one of the old thirteen associated with Pennsylvania on the page of Revo. of the claims of humanity, we are personally iutionary history. But the majority in Congress interested, the question comes home to our Wade haste to show that Abolition, not reunion, was their aim. ln a moment of depression, on the 22c1 very firesides. el July, 1861, being the day after the battle of Bull We have faith, however, in thegood sense Run, they allowed the passage of a resolution, offered g by Mr. Crittenden, defining a policy for the resto and intelligence of the American people, and ration of the Union. But they soon rallied, and feel assured that their "saber second thought" filled the the statute-book with sots of confiscation, abolition, and emancipation, against the remon- will, in the future as in the past, b,e right, and strances of eminent jurists and conservative men of al parties. Mr. Lincoln, too, yielding, he said, "to that a crowning Democratic majority in OCtO- pressure," put his proclamations iu place of the ber next will avert from Pennsylvania and Constitution and the laws. Thus every interest and N at ion these clinging curses—these sentiment of the Southern people were enlisted on the irre the side of r.sistance by the policy of a party which, trievable calamities. as Mr. Si CVOI3B Said, will not consent to a restoration of the Union with "the Constitution as it is." It is this policy that has protracted the war, and is now the greatest obstacle to its termination - . The reunion of the States - can alone give them their old security at tows and power and dignity abroad. This end can never be reached upon the principles of the party now in power. Their prin ciples are radically fates, and clan never lead to a good conclusion. Their hope of setting up the ne gro in the place of the white man runs counter to the laws of race, the laws of nature. Their states manship has been weighed in the balanoe.and found wanting. Their " little blood-letting " has proved a deluge. Their interference with our armies has often frustrated and never aided their success, till it has become a military proverb that the best thing for a general is to be out of reach from Washington. The party was founded upon the political and moral heresy of opposition tr Compromise, which is the only means of Union among States, and of peace and good will on earth among men. In a popular Government, the people are sovereign and the sound sense of the whole community corrects, at the polls, the errors of political parties. The peo ple of Pennsylvania have Been, with regret, the un constitutional aims of the Abolitionists substituted for the original objects of the war. They have seen with indignation many gallantsoldiers of the Union driven from its service, because they have not bowed down to the Abolition idol. They will see with hor ror the war protracted in order to secure the tri umph of a party platform, or, as Mr. Chandler said, " to save the Republican party from rupture." The time is now at hand when the voice of the people will be heard. The overthrow of the Abolitionists at the polls and the re-establishment of constitu tional principles at the North is the first, the indis pensable step towards the restoration of the Union and the vindication of civil liberty. To this great service to his country each citizen may contribute by his vote. Thus the people of the North may them selves extend the Constitution to the people of the South. It would not be a specious offer of politicians, to be observed with no better faith than the resoln dons of July, '6l It would be a return to the na tional policy of the better days of the Republio, through the intelligerce of the people, enlightened by experience. It would strengthen the Govern ment: fur a constitutional government is strong when exercising with vigor its legitimate powers, and is weak when it sets an example of revolution ary violence by invading the rights of the people.-- Our principles and our candidates are known to you. The resolutions of the late Convention at Harrisburg wore, with some additions, the same That had been adopted by the Democracy in several States, and by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. They deolare authoritatively the principles of the Democratic party. It is, as it has always been, Ibr the Union and the Constitution against all opposers The twelfth resolution declares, "that while this. General Assembly condemns and denounces the faults of the Administration and the encroachments of .the Abolitionists, it does, also, most thoroughly condemn and denounce the heresy of secession as unwarranted by the Constitution, and destructive alike of the eecurity and perpetuity of Government and of the peace and liberty of the people, and it does hereby most solemnly declare that the people of this State are unalterably oppos ed to any division of the Union, and will persist-. ently exert their whole influence and pi wer, under the Constitution, to maintain and defend it." Wo have renominated Chief Justice Lowrie for the bench which he adorns. Our candidate for Gover nor, Judge Woodward, in his public and private character, affords the best assurance that he will bring honesty, capacity, firmness and patriotism to the direction of the affairs of the Commonwealth.— Long withdrawn, by judicial functions, from the po litical arena, he did not withhold his warning voice when conservative men took counsel together upon the dangers that menaced our country. His speech at the town meeting at Philadelphia in December, 1860, has been vindicated by subsequent events as a signal exhibition of statesmanlike sagacity. Under his Administration we may hope that Pennsylvania, with God's blessing, will resume her place as " the Keystone of the Federal arch." CHARLES J. BIDDLE, Chairman. p ,HO T ALL OGELAr BRANO& Executed in the best style known in HE the art, at O. G. ORANE'S GALLER 632 Aeon Brazes, EAST 01 )337,nr, Pinups:l,l.4ra. LIFE SIZE IN OIL AND PAATIL. STESEOBCOPIC PORTRAITS, Ambrotypes, Dagueneotyp3s, 011/308 Medallions ins, Blum ho. lulu 19 213? BOILER EXPLOSION -MAN BLOWN TO PIECES. —The boiler of one of the engines, of a freight train on the Penna. Rail Road, exploded at Parkesburg, Chester county, on Saturday week. The train had stopped, and the fire man,' named WATSON, was pumping water into the boiler—the engineer having gone into the saloon to get his dinner—when the boiler ex ploded. The fireman was blown to pieces ; one of his arms was blown a distance of twenty yards, where it struck the window of the., ticket office, passing through and carrying the sash along, and then struck the wall on the opposite side of the room, knocking off the plaster and breaking one of the laths. The body was entirely stripped of its clothing, some of which was afterwards found on the top of a laree building, about fifty yards die tent from the accident. A man, sawing wood, in a shed near by, was considerably injured by being struck by some of the flying frag ments—the shed in which he was at work, was nearly demolished. Some buildings near by were considerably injured, especially the ticket office, some pieces of the engine were driven clear through the door of the latter building. The engine, which was a new one, is thought to be damaged to the amount of $3,000. THE Came OF SILENCE.—The President, in his letter to the Albany committee, says : " The man who stands by and says nothing when the peril of„this government is discuss ed, cannot be misunderstood." " The New York World asks, " was any. thing so extraordinary ever before uttered by the Chief Magistrate of a free country ? . Men are torn from their homes, immured in bag tiles for the shocking crime of—SILENCE ! Citizens of the model Republic of the world are not only banished for speaking their opin ions, but are plunged into dungeons for hold ing their tongues I Wh,n before, in the annals of tyranny, was silence ever punished as a crime? Citizens who disapprove of the acts of the administration are denied even the refuge of a dignified silence, and on malicious and partisan conjectures of the motives of such si lence, they are deprived of their liberty. Few among us ever expected to live to see such things done; and nobody, we are sure, to see them so unblushingly confessed." The President would force the people into silence, and then punish that silence as a BURNING COTTON.-A letter to the St. Louis Republican, from Northern Mississippi, under date of July 27th, says : The Confederates are burning cotton far and wide. The whole country south of the Tallahatchee river, and between that and Jackson, Mississippi, is one vast cotton confla. gration. The torch is put to every bale that can be found, and the smoke from the burning staple hangs like a dense fog over the land.— And while this is being done south of the Tal lahatchee, Chalmers is beginning the work of destruction north of that stream, and between it end Cold Water creek. Orders have been issued to burn all, and his forces are out in every direction, carrying them into execntion. They swear not a bale shall be left for Federal confiscation, and we believe that in less than thirty days Missis— sippi—proud and once prosperous Missiesppi —will be a desolate waste, a vast plain or smouldering ruins, FORNEY AEIOBO' THE Nixisozi The " Anniversary of the Association for the Relief of Contrabands in the District of Columbia," was held at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church on Thursday evening. The sentence in the Chronicle describing the audience is somewhat ambiguous. It says: "The church was densely filled with gentle men and ladies; and the large number of while citizens , present indicated the interest taken in the commendable object." From this language we must infer that the ladies and gentlemen were negroes. Colonelßenton was right in repudiating the word "lady."— It is time for the whites to reject the titles of gentlemen and ladies, and leave them to their degradation. The principal orator, whose eloquence was brought into requisition to in struct and delight the assemblage of gentle men and ladies, was Mr. FORNEY. We are sorry that the report of his speech is not more extended. The leading points of his remarks are, however, no doubt faithfully presented. He confessed that for twenty years he was one of the party bedarkened with pre jadice against the colored race. He did not quote himself, however, by stating that his conversion was a slow process, and that for years after conviction of the errors of his ways, powerful motives retained him in asso ciation with his old party friends ; at last his conversion and repentance became complete. Time, no doubt, was too brief to permit him to go into all the minute details of experience, and omissions must be pardoned. But he as sured his audience—the ladies and gentlemen aforesaid—that with far greater zeal than was ever exhibited by the most frantic of converts, he had at one bound sprung from the portico of the catechumens into the very chancel of the negro church. "He had come to the con clusion," he assured his hearers, "that if lib erty is to be secured to us—permanent and practical liberty—it must be by the aid of the colored races on this continent"— Washing. ton Union. TUE CONSCRIPTION IN NEW YORK Naar YORK, Aug. 11. A writ of habeas carpus was allowed by Justice Chambers, on Satarday, ordering Gen. Canby to produce the body of Guy W. Ilollister, a conscript, from the interior of the State. The counsel for the conscript, Jas. 0. Fabb, claims in his petition that the conscrip- tion is illegal, null and void. Gen. Canby made return this morning that the drafted men are not under his command, whereupon a new writ was issued to the officer having control of the forces on Riker's Island, where Hollister is claimed to be. OVATION TO EX-PRESIDENT Bt. MMSI On Saturday last a dinner was given to Hon. Jelin Bucilexes, at the Bedford Ho tel, and the people of this neighborhood called upon the Ex-President in large numbers, to pay their respects to one whom they now hon or more than ever, seeing that if his political views had continued to prevail in the admin istration of the Government, we could not have had the present civil war, and Disunion would long since have died for want of nour ishment. In the afternoon a number of the ladies called upon the Ex-President. Altogeth er, it was a delightful re-union of old friends, and we. believe was one of the largest and most successful receptions, ever given in this place to any public man.—Bedford Gazette of:Friday. WHITE MAN SHOT BY A NEGRO SOLDIER.- On Saturday week, Coroner Jacobus, of Mont gomery co., held an inquest upon the body of William Fox, near Camp William Penn, Chel tenham township. He was shot by Charles Wrigley, a negro soldier belonging to that Camp, on Friday evening, at 9 o'clock. F.,x was standing in the public road about eigh teen or twenty yards from the line of the road and from Wrigley, who was on guard. It is stated he did not offer to go over the line.— The ball passed through his right hand and through his abdomen, causing his death in about half an hour. He had been working for Mrs. Fanny Butler, who resides close by. The jury rendered a verdict according to the above facts. A warrant was issued for the arrest of the negro, but the Colonel-placed him under guard and refused to give him up until so advised by legal authority. On Tues• day the negro was taken charge of by the Sheriff of Montgomery county, and lodged in prison to await his trial. tier Recent developments show that the draft to be made in the State of New York was intended to be a nice trap to catch copperheads and exempt the black snakes. In Democrat ic districts about three-tenths of the voters were to have been drafted, while in Republi can districts but about one-tenth were to be taken. A long letter from Gov. Seymour to the President, relating to this as well as other points, is published, with the reply. Lincoln admits some of the points to be well taken, evades others, and gives partial assurance that justice will be done. MARRIAGES On the 11th Inst., by the Rev. J. J Strine, Edwin J Miller, of Ran, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Rice, of Paradise On the 13th inst., by the same, Daniel L. Bib, of Stras burg twp., to Miss Louisa Reese, of Strasburg bor. Suddenly, in Philadelphia. on Tuesday last, Lieutenant Colonel George Nauman, of the Ist Regiment Artillery, 11. 8. Army, In the 61st year of his age. On the Bth Inst., Prof. Elias B. Weaver, of the State Nor mal School, Millersville THE DIARKETS Lancaster Wholesale Grain Market Corrected weekly by J. B. BITNXB. IL Bao., Forwarding and Commission Merchants, No. 91 North Queen street. LAxassrsa, August 17. Flour, Buperftnei Vi bbl.. .46 60 " Extra " , 7.00 White Wheat, tiii bushel 1.66 Bed 4lll 1.30 • Corn, old 41 • 70 " new Ontv it Bye Oloverseed " Whiskey, in hhds " in bbls.. ACCOUNTS OF TRUST AND ASSIGN ED ESTATES.—The Accounts of the following named estatee here been exhibited end filed in the Office of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, to wit: John Souders, Estate in trust, Thomas R. Franklin, Trustee. Jos. Wenger, Assigned Estate, John Sigel, Assignee. Henry Sandoe, Estate, John Musser, Trustee. Notice is hereby given to all persona interested in any of maid estates, that the Court have appointed MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1883, for the confirmation and allowance of said accounts, unless exceptions be filed or cause shown why said accounts should not be allowed. PETER MARTIN, Prettily. Prothy'a Office, Aug. 16, 1963. [aug 18 4t 32 STATE OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY BANK..Wednesday flaming, AUGUST sth, 1863. Bills Discounted and Loans $769 026 28 Bonds and Mortgagee 27 600 00 Real Estate 12,844 98 Pennsylvania State Loan 20,000 00 United States 7 3-10 Treasury Notes-- 30,000 00 United States 6 per cent. Loan 50,000 00 Gold and Silver $77,603 121 r 99 061 92 Specie Cer. due from State. 21,558 80) • United Stable Cestiflcates of Indebtedness. 4 000 00 United States Legal Tender Notes 53.760 00 Notes and Checks of other Banks 17 718 74 DAM dna from other Banks 109,586 98 IM!EIi}EM Due Depositors Notes in Men Litton Dividends Unpaid... Due to 8ank5...... .... Capital Stock, $269,486 00 Lancaster Ody, ss. I certify that the foregoing statement is correct, to the best of my knowledge and belief. W. L. ER, Cashier. Affirmed and subscribed Aug. stb, 1863 P ,?RI coram J. C. VAN CAMP, Alderman. [ang. 18 lt 32 E. dr, H. W. ANTHONY, MANUFACTURERS OF PIIOTCHIRAMIC MATERIA 501 BROADWAY, N. Y. CARD PHOTOGRAPHS. Our Catalogue now embraces considerably over FOUR THOUSAND different subjects (to which additions are continually being made) of Portraits of Eminent Amer!. Cans we., viz: 72 Major Generals, 190 Brigadier Generals, 259 Ooldnels, 84 Lieutenant Colonels, 207 o.her Officers, 80 Navy Officers, 625 Statesmen, 127 Divines, 118 Authors, 30 Artiste, 112 Stage, 48 Prominent Women, 147 Prominent Forgn 2,500 COPIES ON WORKS 01+ ei Portraits. Including reproductions of the most celebrated Engray. ings. Paintings, Statues, &e. Catalogues sent on receipt of Stamp. 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Mize Albums made to order for Congregations to present to their Pastor, or for other porpoise, with suitable in. seriptions, to: . • • Nag 18 6m32 ATALOAELEI ASSIGNED REAL IILS V TATIV-T - MELLO SALE . -OnSATURDAYi 0W TEM8E121.1,21363,•the rabectibir; Asilignea of 21169,1iseni ,myder and arlfa, 1 . 111 WI ac piztUe sales at the public bowie of 0 ILlOnsy. in Earlville, West Earl township, the folkiwing audigned real estate, No. L A-LOT OF 97 PERCHES OF LAND, situate in Eariville, adjoinirig No 2 and land of Simon Zook and others, on'which Is erected a direeatorli FRAME MACHINE SHOP, a Blacksmith Cistern. r a ltpigqi -- Shop, Large Cin. Az..- • No. S. A BUILDING LOT of 96 PERCH ES OP LAND, adjoining the above, with .17.10ar."4 ,- -1111111 a never-failing Well thereon. Nos. 3, 4,5, 6 and 7 are beautifal Building lota, each containing about 100 Parches of Lend, situate in said vil lage, adjoining the rcad, lands sf kiliabeth Johns and Simon D Z,ok. Persona wishing to see the premises will be Shown it by calling on the subscriber. residing near the same. Me to commence at 1 o'clock P. M. of said day. Terms made known by sag 18 to 32] AUDITOIVS NOTICE.--AssignedEsitate of George W. Sensenig and Wife of East Earl : town. ship.—The nothrsigned Auditor appointed to distribute the balance remaining in the hands of Michael Serlisenig, designee of said George W. Sensenig and Wife, to and among those legally entitled to the same. will eit for that purpose on FIiIDAY, the 28th day of AUGUST, lost:, at 2 o'clock, - P. itl , in the Court Route. in the City of Lancas ter. where all persona interested are requested to attend. MARTIN F,. STAUFFER, Auditor.. 4t 30 ALiDITOWS NOTICE..--Assigned Eg tote of Abraham H. Metzgrr, of Conestoga township, Lancsater county —The undersigned Auditor, appointed to dbitrlbute the balance remaining in the hands of Jacob N,lletzgsr, Assignee of said Abraham IL Metsgar, to and among those legally entitled to the same, will sit for that purpose on SATURDAY, the 22nd day of AUGUST next, at I o'clock, P. If., at the public house of Levi Baldwin, lu Conestogs township, afgresaid, where all persons Inter. ested in mid distribution may attend. July 28 4 291 JACOB G. ; PETERS, Auditor. A UDITOR'S NOTlCE.—;Assigned Estate of James Curran, of the Borough of utraebarg.--The undersigned Auditor, appointed to distribute the balance remaining In the hands of Henry Miller, Assignee, to and strong those legally entitled to the soma, will alt for that purpose on WEDNESDAY, the 19th day of AUGUST, at 2 o'clock, P. M., in the Library Room at the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, where all persons interested in said distribution may attend. A. HERR SMITH, Auditor. pity 21 4t 28 A lIDITOWS NOTICE...Estate of Anna Maria Grom, late of Penn township, Lancaster goon. ty, deceased —The undersigned Auditor, appointed to distribute the balance remaining in the hands of Michael Moore and Benjamin G. ,Getz, Executors of the Will of said deceased to and among those legally entitled to the same. will sit for that purpose on WEDNESDAY, the 12th day of AUGUST next, at 10 o'clock, A. 11., in the Library Room of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, where all persons interested in said distribution may attend, July 21 W. CARPENTER , Auditor. 4t AUDITOR'S NOTICE._-Estate• of John Donnelly, late of the City of Lancaster. Drover. de. ceased.—The undersigned Auditor, appointed to distribute the balance remaining In the hands of Hugh E. Dougher ty, Administrator of said deceased, to and among those legally entitled to the same, will sit for that purpose on FRIDAY, the 21st day of euGusr, 1863. at 2 o'clock to the afternoon, in the Library Boom of the Court House, in the City of Lancaster, where ail persons interested in •said distribution may attend WM. R. WILSON, Auditor. July 21 (Examiner copy.) 4t 28 ESTATE OF JAMES MoSPARRAN.-- Letters of administration 011 the estate of James Mc- Sparran, Sr., late of Fulton township, Lancaster county, deceased, having been granted to the subscribes residing in mid township: All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make payment immediately, and those having claims will present them„ without delay, properly authen ticated for settlement. jut? 14 6t* 27] A VDITOIVEI NOTICE.-.Estate of HEN.. RY SNYDER, late of the City of Lancaster, deceased. The undersigned Auditor, app' inted by the Orphans' Court of Laoca• . ter County, to make distribution of the balance in the hands of Catharine Snyder and John B. Good, Administrators of the estate of said deceased, to and among those legally entitled to the same, will sit for that purpose on THURSDAY, the '7th day of AUGUST A. D., 1888, at 2 o'clock, P. IL, in the Library Room in the Court Home, in the City of Lancaster. when and where all per. sons Intereated are invited to attend. July 28 4t 29] PETER MARTIN, Auditor. AUDITOWSNOTICE.--Assigned Esiate of William Neely and Wife, late ct Colerain town ship, Lancaster county, deceased.—The undersigned Au ditor, appointed to distribute the balance remaining in the h 'ride of William N. Galbraith, Assignee by deed of votuntary assignment for the benefit of creditors, to and among those legally entitled to the same, will sit for that purpose. on SATURDAY, the 15th day of AUGUST, 1863, at 2 o'clock, P. 91 , in the Library Room of the Court House, In the City of Lancaster, where all persona inter. ested in sald distribution may attend. WM. R. WILSON, Auditor. July 28 4t 29 ACCOUNTS OF TRUST AND ASSIGNED ESTATES.—The accounts of the following named estates have been exhibited and filed in the Office of the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county, to aft: Stephen G. Blckham, Estate, George W. Compton, Com mitten. John W. Gross, Assigned Estate, Martin Gross, Assignee. Henry Garber, Estate, Levi Bard. Committee. Christian Knrtz Estate, John Myers, Committee. Fanny blendig, Estate, George Kendlg, Committee. Susanna Landis. Estate. Samuel Rnyer,Trnstse. Adam Ray, Assigned Estate, Abraam G. Groff and Abraham Eby, Assignees. Rachel Swayne, Assigned Estate, Joseph Italian., As sign.. Notice is hereby gives to all persons Interested in any of said estates, that the Court hero appointed MONDAY, the 24th day of A lIGUST, 1863. for the confirmation and allowance of said acceants, unless exceptions be flied or cause shown, why said accounts should not be allowed. PETREL MARTIN, Protley, PROTHONOTARY'S Omar, Lan., July 28, 1863. July 28 CI TATES UNION HOTEL, C, 606 AND 608 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA. The undersigned, begs to inform hie friends, and the for mer patrons of the " STATIia UNION,” as well as the public generally, that he has accepted the managership of the HOTEL named at the bend of this notice, and that the house has been tborough , y renovated and improved throughout, in a manner which will compare favorably • with what are called the first class Hot-ls of the city. Tho patronage of the public is respectfally solicited. The TERMS are $1.50 per day. CHAS. M: ALLMOND, Manager. Jane 0 11 22 LAND FOR SALE.-.The undersigned, by virtue of the power veined in them by she last Will and Testament of Samuel Kerr, Esq., deceased, will offer at public sale, on TUESDAY, the lot day of SEP. TEMBER next, at the Hotel, in Kennedyville, Kent eosin ty,-Maryland, all the real estate of which the said Samuel Kerr, Esq, died seized. The whole tract contains about 500 ACRES OF LAND, Iles in a very healthy neighborhood, is convenient to ohorchee, schools and mills, and within miles from Turner's Creek Landing, and about the flame distance from a landing on Chester river. The quality of the soil is fine and very improveable. The Improvements consist of a comfortable FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, a large FRAME BARN and. STABLING, an Overseer's House, Smoke House. Carriage House, Corn Cribs, and all other necessary outbuildings for a firm. There aro on the prem ises a young PEACH ORCHARD and an APPLE OR CHARD, both thriving and In full Veering condition; and there is a well of fine water In the yard There will be a survey made before the day of sale, and a plot prepared, showing the form of the Tract and the quantity of land, which may be so divided as to be sold In two or more separate parcels. Tuaxe OP Sets.—One-third part of the purchase money will be required in cash on the day of sale, and on the residue a liberal credit will be given, if Fissured by bond or note with approved sureties, bearing interest from the day of sale, payable semi-annually. No deed will be made until the whole purchase money is paid. Air Sale to commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. ANDREW KERR, JOHN 0 GROOSIE, Executors of Samuel Kerr, deceased. aug 11 to 31 A DRUG STORE FOR SALE 1--On A TL E4DAY, the 25th day of AUGUST, 1863, the no. &reigned Administrators of Joshua Lender. deceasesd, will expose to pnblie sale. on the premises. in Mount .iby Bor. ongh, the entire S RICK. GOODWILL AND FIXTURES of the DRUG STORE of the late decedent. The stock tea good and well selected asaortment of fresh DRUGS AND MEDICINES, much of it purchased t • within a few months past. The fixtures will be found to comprise everything essential to carry on the business; consisting of COUNTERS, SHOW CASES, DRAWERS, BOTTLES, JABS, MORTARS, SCALES AND WEIGHTS, SHELVING, Ac. Also, a MINERAL WATER 'FOUNTAIN. The stroe has always done an excellent business, and the building It occupies will be f.r rent to continue the business In the same location if the purchaser so desires. So good an opportunity of obtaining a first rate Drug Store, with an established business, In a thriving town, is seldom presented. Oar. The purcba.r will be required to take possession within one week after the sale and pay one-third of the Purchase money; the remainder to be paid in two equal payments, January let and April 15th, next; same to bear interest until paid, and approved security to be given therefor. At the same time and place will be sold a Farrel and Herring's Bare. anle to commence at 2 o'clock, P. M., of said day, when conditions will be made known by.. H SHAFFN LEVI ItICERatiM, Admluittratore. Mount Joy, Pa., Aug. 11th, 2883. 3t 31 U NIVERSAL CLOTHES WRINGER. No. 1. Large Family Wringer $lO.OO No. 2 Medium...." 7.00. No. 2,V .2 ' " ..." 6.00 No. 3. Small " 5.50 No. 8. Large Hotell4.l 0 -No. 18. Medium Laundry " to run steam 18 00 No. 22 Large " or hand. .1 30.00 Nos. 234 and 3 have no Cogs. All others are warranted. No. 2 is the size generally used in private families !,RANGE JUDD, of the "American Agriculturist," says of the UNIVERSAL CLOTHES WRINGER. " A child can readily wring out a tubfufi of clothes in a few minutes. It is in reality a CLOTHES SAVER! A TIME taVER and a STRENGTH SAVER! The saving of garments will alone pay a large per ceotage on its cost. We thihk the machine much more than PAYS FOR ITSELF EVERY YEAR In the saving of garments— There are several kinds, nearly alike in general construc tion but we consider it important that the Wringer be fitted with Cogs, otherwise a mass of garments may clog the rollers, arm the rollers upon the crank shaft slip and tear the clothes, or the robber break loose from the shaft. Our own IN one of the first make, and it is as GOOD AS NEW after nearly FOUR YEARS' CONSTANT ÜBE." Every Wringer with Cog Wheels is warranted in every particular. AS - No Wringer can be durable without Cog Wheels. A good CANVASSER wanted in every town. tßie On receipt of the price from places where no one is selling, we will send the Wringer free of expense. For particulars and circulars address R. C. BROWNING, aug 5 it 30] 307 Broadway, N. Y. ... 409,218 00 ... 4.254 32 .- 22,686 75 887,286 83 $506,004 66 THE UNITED STATES HOTEL. HARRISBURG, PA. COVERLY 1217JTCHISON, Thia .Proprielors. woll known Hotel is now In a condition to accomme• date the traveling public, affording the most ample con veniences alike for the transient guest and permanent boarder. THE UNITED STATES HOTEL has bean entirely refit ted throughout, and now has accommodations equal in extent, comfort and luxury to any hotel between Phila delphia and Pittsburg. Its location is the beet in the State Capital, being In east access to all the rafirted depots. and ill clue proximity - to all the public offices and business localities of the city. It has now all the conveniences of • FIRST—CLASS. HOTEL, and the Proprietors are determined to spare neither 'ex pense, time or labor to ensure the comfort of the guests. The patronage of the traveling public is respectfully solicited. pane 238 m 24 DR. J. G. LIGHTNER, A Practitioner for more than Twenty Years Having located In Lancaster City, offers Ms profe ' salonal services to the Minns of Lancaster and vicinity. Particular attention paid to Surgery and Diseasca of Women and Children. !tight calls punctually attended to. Air 07710 114—N O. 34 80IITIC DIX& ESTMEIt • apr 7 3me 33 IL B. GB.BYBILL, Assignee. AMELIA F MoSPARRAN JAMES MoSPARRAN, Administratois. PHIL ADELE HIA. MA TrgEssEs, BEDS. , FEATHERS, BLANKETS, COMPORTABLES, SACKINGS, QUILTS, CUSHIONS, And all other articles belonging to the business. feb 10 ly 5] A N. 1139 HILLBORN. pIIBLISHED THIS DAY, ANNETTE, OR THE LADY OF THE PEARLS, Br ALEXANDER DUMAS, (rue Yona - orn,) Author of "La Dame eon Cam!lias," or Camille, the Camelia Lady." Translated from the French by Mrs. Wm. R. A. Johnson, Esq , or Philadelphia. ANNETTE! ANNETTE! ANNETTE!