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"CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAS' PLANK, WHEN NIGHT AND THE TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM."- DANIEL W EBSTER. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET FOR GOVERNOR: GEORGE W. WOODWARD, OF LUZERNE COUNTY FOR JUDGE OF TH&•SUPREME COURT WALTER H. LOWRIE, OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY. TO THE, D.mociLACY OP THE CITY AND COUNTY OJT LANCASTER. In accordance with the resolution of the County Com mittee adopted at their meeting on Thursday. August 6th, you are requested to amiable In the several Wards of the City, and Boroughs and Townships of the county, on SATURDAY, the 12th day of SEPTEMBER next, then and there to elect the mind number of delegates to a County Contention, to be held on WEDNESDAY, the 16th day of SEPTEMBER next, at 11 o'clock. A. M at Fulton Hall, in the City of Lancaster, for the purpose of nomln siting a ticket to be supported at the ensuing October elec tion. The Chairman would resitotfully call attention to the fact, that by the past roles and usages of the party, dale• gates are elected from Wards, Boroughs And Townships only, and not from election districts. The Township Committees are requested to give early notice of the time and place of meeting for the election of R. R. TSRUDY, Chairman A. J. BTENII&N, Secretary. LaNcesrra, August Bth, ]863 Democratic Ratification Mass Neeting TEE 'UNION AS IT WAS--THE CONSTI- TUTION AS IT IS RALLY! RALLY!! RALLY !! ! In accordance with the resolution of the Democratic State Central Committee, and the prior action of the Democratic County Committee and Democratic Central Club of the City and County of Lancaster, a State Mass Ratification Meeting to en dorse the nominations of WOODWARD and LOWRIE, and re-affirm the everla'sting principles and truths of the great Democratic party, will be held in the CITY OF LANCASTER, On TERTRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863, AT 1 O'CLOCK, P. M The Democracy are, therefore, requested to rally In their might, on the anniversary of the birth-day of the Constitution of the United States, the only power to which the Democratic party swear alle. glance and loyalty. The following eminent speakers—from several Of whom favorable responses have been received— have been requested to address the meeting : Ex-President PIERCE, of New Hampshire. Hon. D W. VOORHEES, of Indiana. Ron. JAMES BROOKS. of New York. EMI. CHARLES R. BUCKALEW, of Pennsylvania. Hon. JEREMIAH 8. BLACK, of York. lion. WILLIAM A. PORTER, of Philadelphia. HOTI. WILLIAM H WITTE, of Montgomery. Ron. Burma CLYMER, of Berks. Ron. J. Utaritcr Jeri'Es, of Berks. BOIL CHARLES W. CARRIGAN, of Philadelphia. MAX 00EPP, E-q ,of New York. LIWIES C. CASSIDAY, Esq., of Philadelphia. JAMES BUCHANAN, Esq., of Philadelphia. R. B. MONAGHAN, Esq., of Chester. JOHN H BRIIITON, Eq., of Chester. Hon. Gamma W. WOODc7.IIID, our distinguished nominee for Governor, will be present with his Democratic fellow-aitizens on this occasion. Rally, rally, friends of the Union as it was, and the Constitution as it is. By order of the Democratic Central Club. SAMUEL WELCHENS, ABRAM SHANK. WILLIAM A. MORTON, HENRY WILLIELfd E. tiCHAEFFER METZGER, Executive Committee. LANOASTEB, September let, 1861. (Democratic papers in adjoining counties are re. quoted to copy.f The Delegate Elections. The election for delegates to the Democratic County Convention will take place on Saturday next, the 12th of September. We hope our Democratic friends in the several wards, boroughs and townships will elect good and true men to represent them, end that we shall have a Con vention on the following Wednesday which will reflect credit on the Demo cratic party of Lancaster county. Wilmington Election. The municipal election in the City of Wilmington, on Tuesday last, re sulted in favor of the Republicans, but by a greatly reduced majority. Last year the Republican majority for Mayor was 639—this year it is only 255. Vermont Election. , Vermont has, as usual, been car ried by the Abolitionists, but, it is said, by a reduced majority. Noth ing was expected by the Democrats from that benighted region. California Election. If the telegraphic reports turn out to be true, wELich is doubtful, California has also been carried by the Republicans. We shall have to wait a while before we get the whole truth from that far off region. jar"JUDGE WOODWARD IS A CITI ZEN Or UNIMPEACHABLE CHARAC TER, AN ABLE JURIST, AND A PATRI -0 rIO GENTLEMAN."—Phaad'a Inquirer, (Bepub/icrin) June 18a, 1863. Thisis a good endorsement of the Demo- Gratis „eandidate for Governor, coining as it doer from of the most influential Repub. lieitilcitumals of the State. thirtin's Political Record. We refer our readers to the Politi cal Record of ANDREW,-G. grjtTlltt,i on our first page,thiti as nealOd bye P,ittibßrg -azette, \ a lead* Re-. i 1 1:i ll's u p4bilTzkat pfioi^to Ue prixas -I3 em ing of - the:zAbaition' - State -Cone Eton ~Vhicii; plaied him in ponaima - fi9n Pr, 9,_ cond term. Thor therges of dishonesty and corruption are true no one will pretend to deny. They are made by a paper which now supports Gover nor CIIRTDT'S re-election, although opposed to his nomination, and no subsequent efforts of his Abolition friends can wipe out or obliterate the damning record of his guilt.— An honest man is needed in the Gubernatorial chair to bring back the government of our Common wealth to what it was in the days of the lamented FRANCIS R. SuuNK, and the great mass of the people will turn from ANDREW G. CURTIN with loathing and disgust, and de posite their votes for the pure-mind ed, able and incorruptible candidate of the Democratic party. We advise our friends, after read ing the Political Record of ANDREW G. CURTIN, to loan the paper to their Republican neighbors, so that they, too, may read and judge for them selves--as they cannot get the truth in their own party papers outside of the Pittsburg Gazette. Get Ready, Democrats ! ,8,1863 Get ready for the great mass meet ing on the 17th of September. Some of the ablest speakers in this and other States will be present to ad dress the meeting--amongst the rest we may name Hon. HENRY CLAY DEAN, of lowa, said to be one of the most eloquent men in the country, Hon. JEREMIAH S. BLACK, late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of this State and a member of the Cabinet during President Buchanan's admin istration, Hon. WILLIAM A. PORTER, late Judge of the Supreme Court, Hon. J. GLANCY JONES, late Minister to Austria, Hon. MYER STROUSE, member of Congress from the Schuylkill district, and MAX GCEPP, Esq., of New York city. Come in your might, fellow Demo crats, and show by your energy and zeal in the good cause that you are alive to the importance of the great contest upon which we have entered, and that you are determined to do your whole duty to the country. No Exemption. The city, it appears, is not to be exempted from the draft—so it has been decided by the Provost General at Washington. That it was enti tled to exemption from the proofs furnished the Governor and Assis tant Provost General, at Harrisburg, there can be no doubt; but, by some hocus pocus, the documents never reached Washington, or, at least, cannot be found in the proper department there, although the As sistant Provost General alleges that he mailed them at Harrisburg on the 11th of August. We shall have something More to say on the sub ject hereafter; but, in the mean time, the drafted men of the city must get ready to report themselves to Capt. Bolenius on or before Saturday next, the 12th inst., for the two North Wards, and Monday, the 14th inst., for the two South Wards. , i POLITICAL DEGENERACY." The Pittsburgh Gazette, which is the organ of the Abolition party in Western Pennsylva nia, in a series of articles, laments what it calls the " Political Degeneracy " of the times. The Gazette is a living example of what it weeps over. Pievious to the nominations by the late Abolition state Convention, this same Gazette charged Governor Curtin with crimes that honest men would shudder at. It said " We felt assured that be could not be elect ed. We knew that be ought not. It became our duty, therefore, to sound the alarm, and endeavor to save the party, if possible. " We have endeavored to show that he im posed upon the soldiers, by farming them out to his friends, and then denying that he had employed them. " We hitve exhibited the record to establish the fact that he had approved a bill acknowl edged by him to be wrong, which robbed the Treasury of many millions of money—that as the condition for his approval, he had taken an agreement for the State, which he abstract ed, and secretly surrendered to the parties who had given it—and that when interrogated by the Legislature, he confessed the fact, and offered as an apology, a reason which is shown to have been untrue." In this extract from the Gazette, which we may oopy without endorsing in its full and malignant extent, Governor Curtin is charged with— 'l. Imposing upon the soldiers, and farm ing them out to his friends, and then denying that he employed them." The above charge includes a gross outrage upon the men who have risked their lives for their country, and the crime of falsehood. " 2. Approving a bill acknowledged by him (Gov. Curtin) to be wrong, which robbed the l'reasury of many millions of money, and when interrogated by the Legislature. ac knowledged the fact and offering as an apology a reason which is shown to have been untrue•" This charge includes square stealing and lying. The Abolition State Convention, in spite of the Gazelle's developments and warnings, nom inated Gov. Curtin for another term. • The Gazelle hoists his name and advocates election, without one word of retraction the awfol crimes it imputed to him before the meeting of the Convention. Under all these circumstances, its leaders under the head of " Political Degeneracy" have a rare significance. It denounces a roan as a thief and a liar, and then informs its readers that that man is a proper person to receive the votes of the people for Governor. RESULT OF THE CONSCRIPTION Daily telegraphic reports are now being made to the Provost Marshal General, at Washington, of the number of men obtained by the conscription, so that an approximation of the final result can be made. It is not thought that the number will exceed one hun dred thousand. Men at Washington, who are in position to speak knowingly, say that unless the Union successes continue rapidly there must be more men raised. So let the Provost Marshals keep the wheels of chance well greased and in smooth running order. Six substitute deserters—that is per sons who make it their business to enlist as substitutes, draw their pay, and then desert to try the same game over again at the next opportunity, were shot to death in the Army of the Potomac on Saturday week. Not less than 25.000 soldiers were present to witness the execution. At the order to fire thirty-six muskets were discharged, and instant death to the condemned was announced by the our goons in attendance as the result. WORDS OF WISDOM. The New Hampshire Patriot republishes the following timely extract from the Annual Message of ex-President Preece to Congress, December 2, 1856 : **Perfect liberty of association for political objects, and the wildest scope of discussion, are the received and ordinary conditions of government in our country. Our institutions, framed in the spirit of confidence, in the in telligence and integrity of thO people, do not , forbid citizens, either individually or 'associa ted togethbr, to attack by writing, speech, or any other methods short of physical force, the Constitution and the very existence of the Union. Under the shelter of this great lib erty, and protected by the laws and usages of the government they assail, associations have been form i ed,c oily ' abise of the : States, of indi viduals, who, rOtending to seek only to pre. vent the spree of the institution of slavery into the present r future inchoate States of the Union, are rea inflamed with a desire to change the domestic institutions of existing States. To acaomplish their object, they dedicate themselves to the odious task of de preciating the government organization which stands in their way, and of calumniating with indiscriminate invective, not only the citizens of particular States, with whose laws they find fault, but all others of their fellow citizens throughout the country, who do not, participate with them in their assaults upon the Constitution, framed and adopted by our fathers, and claiming for the privileges it has secured, and the blessings it has conferred, the steady support and grateful reverence of their children. They seek an object which they well know to be a revolutionary one.— They are perfectly aware that the change in the relative condition of the white and black races in the slaveholding States, which they would promote, is beyond their lawful author ity ; that to them it is a foreign object; that it cannot be affected by any peaceful instru mentality of theirs ; that for them and the States of which they are citizens, the only path to its accomplishment is through burn ing cities and ravaged .fields," - and slaughtered populations, and all there is most terrible in. foreign, complicated with civil and servile war; and that the first step in the attempt is the forcible disruption of a country, embracing in its broad bosom a degree of liberty, and an amount of individual and public prosperity, to which there is no parallel in history, and substituting in its place hostile governments, driven at Duce and inevitably into mutual de vastation and fratricidal carnage, transform ing the now peaceful and felicitous brother hood into 'a vast permanent camp of armed men like the rival monarchies of Europe and Asia. Well-knowing that such, and such only, are the means and the consequences of their plans and their purpose, they endeavor to prepare the people of the United States for civil war, by doing everything in their power to deprive the Constitution and the laws of moral authority, and to undermine the fabric of the Union by appeals to passion and sec tional prejudice, by indoctrinating its people with reciprocal hatred, and by educating them to stand face to face as enemies, rather than shoulder to shoulder as friends!' And in the same message, Gen. PIERCE ut tered these prophetic words of warning, which although disregarded at the time, are now im pressed on our minds by their full and terri ble fulfilment in the fatal calamities which are now come upon us: " I confidently believe that the great body of those who inconsiderately took this fatal step, are sincerely attached to the Constitu tion and the Union. They would, upon de liberation, shrink with unaffected horror from any conscious act of disunion or civil war.— But they have entered into a path which leads nowhere, unless it be to civil war and disunion, and WHICH HAS NO OTHER POSSIBLE OUTLET." OCCASIONAL TRUTHS PROB. REPUB. LIC AN SOURCES. The New Haven (Conn.) Courier, a devoted Republican paper, says : Contractors have carried on the war. The blood of our men, the graves of our killed, the tears of our orphans and widows, have been coined into money. They have swindled the government out of hundreds of millions. They have piled fortune upon fortune. As a dis tinguished officer at Washington said, " all the operations of this war are managed by political swindlers." The Harrisburg Telegraph, published by an office holder under Lincoln, says : The lust of gain, the greed of power and temptation of position, which now prevail among a very large class in the free States, has had much to do with the prolongation of the war. • Again : Seven out of every ten officers now in the service deem it to their interest to prolong the war, simply because with the end of the war will come a suspension of position and salary, such as these men never received before, and never can receive in any civil position for which their talents tit them. And again : Added to these are a large class in the mer cantile and financial world, men of immense influence, who are amassing colossal fortunes solely by the prolongation of the war. These truths should arrest the attention of all sober-minded, well dispoed citizens who desire the welfare of their country. Corrup tion, dishonesty and gross mismanagement, have been, and still are the prominent char acteristics of the Lincoln Abolition Adminis tration. Shall these things continue ? It is for the people to decide. MISNOMERS The errors made by the enrolling officers in some districts is giving plenty of business to the members of the bar. A writ of habeas corpus was recently granted by Judge Cad wallader, of Philadelphia, on the application of a drafted man, whose name is Robertson, and who was enrolled as Obertson. The matter was laid before the board of enroll ment of the Second District, and they decided that, as the residence was correctly given, the misspelling in the name did not make such a difference as to exempt the person. In the case of Cornelius M'Call, before the United States District Court, some months ago, where the name was enrolled as "Neely M'Call," the Court decided that the misnomer was fatal, and the conscript was discharged.— From this it would appear that the mis spelling of a drafted man's surname exempts him, but the incorrect spelling of a Christian name " does not make such a,difference as to exempt the person." It used to be that the Christian or family name was considered the important one, but some of the wiseaores of this age have upset that old fogy notion and turned the case " end for end." A BRUTAL ATTACK ON THE farmr.—The Boston Comztonweata, the organ of Charles- Sumner, an extreme Abolition print, in speak ing of the - Irish says : " We by no means contend that he is equal in moral and intellectual endowments to the colored man ; but we insist that he is capable of a good degree of improvement. When the Demagogue is dead and Croton and Cochisuate are universal then will be the Copperhead's opportunity. Then we will bet on him (in small sums) and in the race with Sambo, Patrick may save his distance.'" This is said of that race that has produced Burke, Sheridan, Grattan, Curran, Tom Moore, Daniel O'Connel, Robert Emmett, and last, though not least, Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher, who has never shown his back to an enemy, and a host of others, whose names shine resplendent upon the pages of history. This is the race whom Abolitionism place be low the negro. THE SOLDIERS FOR THE OLD UNION The fierce Southern rebels say they will never come back into the Union. The fierce Abolition leaders of the North say they never will submit to live under the old Union again. The soldiers are away South fighting under oath for the old Union( The Democracy of the North are, to a man, working to restore the old Union. When voting day comes the soldiers of the Union will stand by the men who sustain the old Union. No other party is to-day doing that but the old Jaokson Demooraoy. GOVERNOR ctrivina. We extract the following from Forney's Philadelphia Press : " The re election of GovernOr Curtin is de manded by everyionsidaration of gratitude ; it is demanded by every consideiatiotrof self-. interest ; it is demandel s byreiery chnsidera tion of loyalty. When the rebel army,finslied with victory, attempted to penetrate our State, he rolled back the tidh of invasion. &oh st man as Seymour, in such a time of , ijsaget, -instead of calling oat-the citizens ei would have written letters to the President upon the defects of the State militia laws; with expressions of feigned regret concerning the ibefficiency of the Army of the Potomac. Governor Curtin saw that be bad a higher duty to perform, and he performed it. ' He saved the State, and in saving the:State very probably saved the nation." Is it possible for mendacity and folly to reach a deeper depth of infant' , ? Gov. Car tin "rolled back the tide of invasion !" When it is well known that in the hour of our great est danger Gov. Curtin was utterly paralyzed, and spent days and days in telegraphing to Washington to know what be, as Governor of a great Commonwealth, might be permitted to do. When it is well known that under his weak and vascillating policy many thousands' of the volunteers who first reached Harris burg, could not be mustered into service, and returned disgusted to their homes. ,When it is well known that not one-tenth of the vol unteers reached the scene of action, that could have been at once assembled by a manly call under the State lei's, which Governor. Curtin was sworn to carry out and support; and when it is well known that the few that did reach this point were kept by his inefficiency unorganized until our border counties were robbed, and plundered, and desolated, and the rebel invader at our very doors. Governor Curtin " rolled back the tide of invasion I" 'Where was General Meade and , the gallant army of the Potomao ? Shall the laurels Won by our brave soldiers on the bat tle field of. Gettysburg be plucked from their browi a mendacious politician, to adorn the head of an imbecile demagogue? Shall ' our heroic dead, before their graves are green, be insulted, to elevate ,an unworthy aspirant for gubernatorial honors ? "Such a man as Governor Seymour, in such a time of danger, instead of calling out the citizens en masse, would have written let ters to the President upon the defects of the State militia laws !" This is said in the face of the well known fact that Governor Sey mour not only called out the militia of New York, but sent large numbers of them here to defend Pennsylvania's herders. Most of our own volunteers will bear us out in the state ment that; when they reached this place, they found well organized New York and New Jersey troops here before them. It must, indeed, be a hopeless and desper ate cause that compels its advocates to resort to such infamous means to manufacture argu ments in its favor. The people, however, are not to be gulled by such transparent false hoods, and will show their appreciation of the insult offered to their intelligence by rolling up a triumphant majority for GEORGE W. WOODWARD in October next.:—Patrior and Union. THE ASSAULTS OF THE ADAVINIS TRATION ON CONSTITUTIONAL LIB ERTY. On this subject WENDELL PHILLIPS makes the following reflections in one of his speeches : " But let me remind you of another ten dency of the times. You know, for instance, that the writ of Habeas Corpus, by which government is bound to render a reason to , the judiciary before it lays its hands upon a citizen, has been called the high-water mark of English liberty. The present Napoleon, in hie treatise on the English constitution, calls it the germ of English institutions.— Lieber says that free meetings like this, free speech and a free press, are the three elements which distinguish liberty from despotism, and all the Saxon blood has gained in the battles and toils of two hundred years are these three things. Now, to-day, Mr. Chairman, every one of them—Habeas Corpus, the right of free meeting, and free press—is annihi lated in every square mile of the Republic. We live to day, every one of us, under mar tial law or mob law. The Secretary of State puts into his Bastile, with a warrant as irre sponsible as that of Louis, any man whom he pleases, and you know that neither press nor lips may venture to arraign the govern. ment without being silenced. We are tending with rapid strides—you may say inevitable ; I don't deny it, necessarily ; I don't question it—we are tending to that strong government which frightened Jefferson ; toward that un limited debt, that endless army ; we have al ready those alien and sedition laws, which in 1798 wrecked the Ftderal party, and sum moned the democratic into existence. For the first time on the continent we have pass ports, which even Louis Bonaparte pronounces useless and odious ; for the first time in our history, government spies frequent our great cities." THE DROUTH IN WEST VIRGINIA Old persons tell us that never in their lives have they known anything like the continued raging heat of this summer—especially these August days. It has prevailed now almost without intermission, since the middle of July, and the consequence is, that the country is as parched and sere as a prairie after a fire. We noticed, in a ride through this county into Brooke, that the pasture was all gone, and ,that the farmers were in a state of great anx iety about their flocks this winter, inasmuch as the hay orop was so unusually light as to amount to nothing at all, scarcely. Many persons are selling off their sheep, and others are driving them into sections of the country that have not been visited with .our dreadful drouth. Some sheep sold on Short creek the other day for a dollar and twelve cents per head that last fall would have brought from two to three times that price. It is a question of either selling or starving their stock with some of the farmers, and of course they choose the former. Butter is becoming decidedly hard to get, as may be judged from the price. Even in the country it is worth twenty cents per pound. Everything else of a vegetable kind is running up in proportion. The strange feature of the drouth is that it runs so unequally through the country. There are spots of territory within a radius of twenty miles from here that have suffered scarcely any at all, and where the people have not complained of any special lack of rain. On Saturday night at Bethany, it rained quite vigorously for a little spell, while hall-way between there and this city scarcely a drop fell. And thus it goes and has gone since midsummer all over this immediate section of country. CONTRABAND TRADE For many months past Brownsville, Texas, has been the centre ) pf a trade that has defied alike the Federaf•Ackade and all rules of neutrality. ThroW that place the rebels have not only received important supplies from abroad, including munitions of war, but they have used it successfully as a point of export for such of their own products as have gone to pay, in part at least, for those things with which foreign merchants and speculators have furnished them. The Brownsville Flag, of a recent date, after remarking that " all the commercial nations of the earth are represent ed there," adds : " Strange to say, Boston and New York are familiar names to our eight, for we have groceries and dry goods from those hostile markets just as regularly as they do in New Orleans. We send hides and wool, and—shall we say it ?—ootton, to the Yan kees,: and they send us wherewith to feed uped,and wherewith to clothe ourselves. They send us powder and shot, sulphur, phospho rus, nitre, caps, and all manner of explosive and destruotive things, and they would send us more such things if it was as accessible to smuggle a rifled cannon across the river as it is to quietly slip over with rifle powder." A TRAITOROUS Wisn.—The Harrisburg 21- egraph—an ultra Abolition sheet—makes the following infamous declaration, and repeats it, twice over, in order to give it greater em phasis : "We would rather see Lee advance with his cohorts into the heart of % Pennsylvania than witness the inauguration of Woodward as Governor of the State." Stir GOVER NOR CURTIN CANNOT SECURE THE SUPPORT OF EITHER HIS OWN PARTY OR HIS OFFICE HOLDERS." -. Speech of Alexander gainolo9B fore the Republican State 'Comphon, dug. 5, 4,813.3. ir,ilV4 IS 51 :TA :1 1 11 141 , ', IDi ANOTHER ROEIING MEETING - The meeting of the Democracy in Fulton Hall; on Thursday evening last, was another tremendous outpouring. Mt:rutty we have never 1101311 , 1110 much an t/nudism, spirit and determination among the Democracy as aza manifested in this 'campaign. Oar meetings are always attended by. crowded audiences, and the Interest 'in the truths and rinciples enduclated by the different sneakers never flags. If the saying that "coming events sag: their shadows before. be correct, then, judgingtrom the attendance upon and spiritof our meetings all over the State. Judge wooweac, onr.glorioruietandard.bears will be elected by such a majority as no candidate for the Gubernatorial position ever received before. So mote it be! At 8 o'clock the meeting was called to order,, and the following officers were chcsen : President Hos. IBA AC E. }HESTER, City. Tice Presu ItLAC G. Praurs. Warwick. BELLIMIN EOM, Blenheim Twp , Wrutalt Demmer, New Lisbon, Ohio, Qualms G. Rest, City. CHAHLIN GELLISPIX, JOHN Eseurkett, West Lampeter; Joss 8. Hosrrrna, Blenheim Twp. Sevotarie. : Alfred Sanderson, City, Harry Z. Ritrustis.pty. After a few remarks from the President, a committee of live, consisting of Mews. Dr.-Saxon Ww.casss, Aims( SHANK, HENRY Wrtanst, E. Scrtthrrth. Mamas and Torts ilaNautli, were appointed to ,wait upon Hon. Tina Snorts; of Pottsville, Member of Congress elect from the Schuylkill district, and escort him to the meeting. During the absence of the committee, Col. EDWARD lith- Govsais, of this city, late of the 122 d Regiment, P. V., who was Invited to address the meeting, was Introduced, and made a few truly appropriate and eloquent remarks on the course of the Administration at Washington In the con duct of the war, allowing In a masterly manner how it bad been perverted from its original and only proper purpose. He alsoVevlewed the claim of Gov. Curtin to being, par excellence, "the Soldiers' Friend," end exhibited the tat alty of the claim in Its true colors. The Colonel Is a calm, dlapassionate and pleasant speaker. He is of a modeat and diffident disposition, and hence is not often disposed to speak in public; but in the present sad state of affairs he conelders It the duty of every man who loves his whole country to speak out boldly and fearlessly. He was warmly applauded throughout his speech, and at the close Mr. HUMS proposed "three cheers for the gallant young sol dier and able Democrat, :Enwsan licGovskk." The audi ence rose to their feet, aid gave them with a tremendous will. Whilst the Colonel was speaking, the committee entered the hell with Hon. !dreg &Romig, whose appearance was the signal for great applause. After an appropriate Na tional air by Killian's Drum Corps, Mr. Ellsouse was Intro duced, and proceeded to deliver a bold, Aeriess and elo quent speech on the wrongs., corruptions and usurpations of the Lincoln Administration. He quoted from the Con stitution, to show far, and with what-'sad results to ithe country, the Administration had departed from Its land marks and provisions. He also quoted. from the speech of Henry Clay on Abolition, made In the U. 8. Senate in 1818, to show with whet prophetic ken that lamented Statesman had spoken of the evil effects of placing the Abolition party in power. Every word then uttered by Mr. Clay was now verified in the course and conduct of the Administration. He also spoke in scathing terms of the suppression of free speech, etc., under the tyrant's plea of " military necessity." He concluded with a stirring appeal to the Democracy to boldly and manfully do their duty Mr. 8. is an eloquent, impassioned and humorous speaker, and the audience were delighted with him. Our friends 1111 have tbe pleasure of again hearing him at our great meeting on the 17th, either In the English or German, for he Is equally fluent in both languages. On concluding hie speech, the audience again rose to their feet, and gave him three cheers, for the compliment of which Mr. b. re turned hie thanks in a humorous remark, which was received with great laughter and applause. SAILOR. H. REYNOLDS, Esq., was then called for, and paid his teepees in an especial manner to Gov. Curtin, scorch Ingly reviewing his claim of being "the Soldiers' Friend." We doubt whether "the Soldiers' Friend " can stand-many such scoring. as Col. McGovssa and Mr. REYNOLDS gave him on this occasion. The audience were wild In their applause while Mr. R. was speaking. Dr. Jona R. Reim, of Providence township, was then called fur, and spoke in a thrilling and impassioned man. nor for a short time. In an eloquent appeal he called upon the Democracy to rally In their might for the success of our noble standard-bearers. The Doctor retired amid great applanze, when the meeting adjourned. POLITICAL—CITY DELEGATE MEETINGS.— The Democrats of the City of Lancaster are requested to meet at their usual places of holding delegate meetings, on Saturday evening next, between the hours of 6 and 8 o'clock, for the purpose of choosing five delegates In each Ward, to represent them In the County Convention which meets in Fulton Hall, on Wednesday, September 16th, at 11 o'clock, A. M.: IME= N. W. Ward—Shober'e Hotel, North Queen street. N. E. Ward—Schuh's Hotel, East Chesnut street. S. W. Ward—Fitzpatrick's Hotel, South Queen street. S. E. Ward—Eilloger'e Saloon, South Queen street. B! ORDER OF TOE WARD 001(MITTER9. DEMOORATIO CENTRAL Own —The Democratic Central Club will be addressed, on Thursday evening next, by Capt. JOHN WISE and ALEXANDER HARRIS, Esq. MEETING AT Now Poovonotioz —A Democratic Maas Meet ing will be held in the oiling (of New Providence ' on Sat urday next, Sept. 12th , at 1 o'clock. P. M., to be addressed by Messrs. Hiester, Shank. Swift and Schcedler. MEETING AT MILLERSTILLE.—The Democracy of the village of Millersville and vicinity will meet at Hornberger's Ho- tel, on Saturday evening next, at 7 o'clock, to be addressed by Samuel H Reynolds, Eeq , and others. Atkozino AT Mammal —The Democracy of the Borough of Manheim and vicinity will meet on Thursday evening next, at 7 o'clock, to be addressed by Messrs. Hiester, Brown, Swarr and Reynolds. MELTING AT KIRKWOOD —The Democratic Club of Cole rain township will meet in the village of Kirkwood, ou Friday evening next, at 7 o'clock. Addresses by Messrs. Shank and Swift. 1111ETING AT LEAMAN PLACE.—The Democrats of Paradte• and the adjoining townships will hold a meeting at Bak.. straw's Hotel, Leaman Place, on Tuesday evening neat September 16th, at 7 o'clock. Addresses by Messrs Schtel ler, Swift and Shank. A GIM&T MELTING.-A glorious turn out of the Democ racy of Salisbury and the adjoining townships of Lancaster and Chester countiee took place at the Bellevue Hotel, near Gap Station, on Thursday afternoon last. The meet ing wee presided over by Mahlon Fox, Esq., of Sadabury, who, upon taking the chair, made a few pertinent remarks which were warmly received by the assemblage, many of whom were ladies. The following were the officers President—Mahlon Fox, Esq., Sadsbury. Vice Presidents—William M. Noble, Sedat:ll-y; Samuel Chambers, Chester county; George M. Boyd, do.; Clinton Frame, do.; Ell Rutter, Paradise; Peter B. Eckert, Lon cock; John Serrate, Chester county,; George Dale, Sado bury ; John D Harrier, do.; Jeremiah Swisher, Sr Cole rain; Dr. John Martin, Bart; David Kurre, Salisbury; Dr. ohn Wallace, do ; Alexander Turner, Colerain ; Da vid Walker, do.; Richard Searle, Cheater county; Bonja min Marple, Salisbury; Samuel McConnell, Coiereln ; W. N. Galbraith, Esq., do.; Cromwell Blackburn, do.; Robert W. Patterson, Bart; Edwin Garrett, do.; ergo Diller, Leacock; James Montgomery, Eden; Capt. H. W. Gars, East Lampeter ; Capt. J. Miller Raub, Providence. A series of excellent resolutions were reported by Isaac Walker, Esq., of Sadsbury, from the committee appointed for the purpose, and were unanimously adopted. We have not room this week for all of them, and can therefore only give place to the following one: Resolved, That we have the fullest confidence In the nominees of the Democratic party for Governor and Su preme Judge, George W. Woodward and Walter H. Lowrie, men of pure patriotism and stern integrity, worthy the support of every Constitutional talon loving citizen of the State. Their triumphant election will be hailed as a har binger of Peace, and Conatitutional Liberty will again be made to dawn upon the gloom in which Abolitionism bee enshrouded the land. The meeting was addressed by Hon. Geo. Sanderson, Hon. Isaac E. Hiester, Samuel H. Reynolds, J. W. F. Swift and Daniel E. Scbcedler, Esqrs.., and the speakers were frequently interrupted with thunders of applause. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed throughout, and the meet ing adjourned with three hearty cheers for Woodward, Lowrie, the Constitution and the Union. BIKrITIM IN EAST LAtalunalt —The Democracy of East Lampeter township had a glorious meeting at Keneagy's Hotel, on Saturday afternoon last. The meeting was pre aided over by that veteran Democrat, Christian Hem, EsKE 'peechee were made by Hon. Isaac E. Mester, J. W I'. Swift, Esqand Mr. D. E. Schindler, of this city, and Ben jamin G. derr, Esq., of Strasburg. The following among other resolutions was adopted: Resolved, That the Democracy of Seat Lampeter fully and heartily endorse the nominal:lotus of George W. Wood ward for Governor and Walter EL Lowrie for Judge of the Supreme Court, and that they approve the resolutions of the Democratic State Convention, laid down as a platform for our guidance during the present political campaign. Tae MEETISG to Weawtoll.—.A. large and enthusiastic Democratic meeting, composed mainly of the solid and sobatantial men of Warwick township, was held at Peter Kaffroth'e Hotel, in the village of Miliport, on Saturday evening last, which was presided over by that Coriolis young Democrat, J. Monroe Kreltor, Seq., of Harrisburg. Stirring addresses, which were received with rounds of applause, were delivered by William B. Wilson, Eaq , and; Cot. Edward McGovern, of this city. The Democrat, of Warwick are doing their whole duty. THE ABOLITION Pow-Wow.—The Abolition County Convention met in Fulton Hall, on Wednesday hat, and nominated the following ticket: Senate—Hon. Benjamin Champneya, City; Dr. J. M. Dunlap, Manheim Borough. Assembly—Nathaniel Mayer, Drumore; Realm Billing telt, Adamstown Borough; Dr. H. B. Bowman, Manheim; E. K. Smith Columbia. Sheriff—Frederick Smith, Conoy. County Treasnrer--Samnel Hess, Peones. _ Prothonotary—John Seldomridge. Leacock. ,- Register—Ool. Emien Franklin, City. Recorder—Samuel 8. Leaman, Menkelm. Clerk of Quarter Sessions—John ff. Zeller, Mount Joy. Clerk of Orphans' flourt—John C. - Raldwin, West Lam peter. County Commissioner—Thomas C. Coflne , Colemln. Prison Inspectors—P. W. Housekeeper, Drumore; Adam Renck, East Earl. Directors of the Poor—John K. Reed, City; John W. Clark, Marietta. Coroner—Absalom Bixler, Brecknock. Auditor—S. Book, East , Donegal " The nomination of that 'lifelong Democrat," Judge Champneys, will, no doubt, cause •one universal" shout of exultation among '•loyal" (1) men all over the Common. wealth. The Judge made a speech before the Convention, and, as usual, ex• President Buchanan came In for the largest share of attention from tho"lquned gentleman." "Xing John and tho Barons of Bunnymeade" do not figure In the Judge's speechea any more I Why ? He was wont In former years to have them appear In all hie speeches.— "Comparisons are odious," however, in these latter days, and it would not do to institute a parallel between the conduct of our noble and gifted President and that of King John, who was forced to grant the rights and privileges Which he sought to deprive the people of England of. "That's what's the matter." Of coarse, according to the Exprett, the nomination of the Judge was entirely unsc/iciled and uncepected 1 The "loyal" (t) readers of that delectable chant are all well acquainted with a gentleman named "Munchasen," and have a particular fondness for reading "Gulliver's travels," and that explains the reason why Gopher Geist says so. REmoious.—Rev. G. F. KROTSL, of Phila delphia, the former gifted, eloquent and eateemed pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, thin city, will preach In that church on Sunday next, both morning and evening. The mere announcement will be sufficient to crowd the build ing in every part. .Bev. Dr. CASSIA Presiding Elder of the South Philadel phia District, will preach in the Duke Street M. E. Church on Sunday morning mixt, and In Bt. Paul's M. H. Church, South Queen street, in the evening. FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—On Wednes day morning, about 10 o'clock, an accident occurred on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Leaman Place, resulting in the death of Jacob Dyein ger, a brakes man on a local freight train. Hr. D. uncoupled some care while in motion on the Strasburg sideling, when he fell between them on the track. The cars paned over both lege below the knees, severing both limbs and alio the left arm. He survived the accident about two hours. Deceased was 22 or 23 years of age and unmarried. He melded near Elizabeth town, where his remains were taken for interment. PAVING UP AN OLD SCOBB.—As one of the drafted men came out of the Provost Marshal's office day before yesterday, says Priday's Harrisburg Patriot, just three hundred dollar, shorter than when he want In, he east his glance around upon the lugubrious "fared of the throng of expectants standing In the ball, whose hour bad not yet come, and soothed his kindred spirits thus : "Boys, three years, ago I was a gay Vide Awake,' and wore a glazed cape at My own expense—bat the coal oil wee said to be free. They are now settling that coal oil account; rye paid mine, and here's the receipt in MTh"— Paying which, he flourished his commutation receipt. The little Incident set some of the listeners to thiaking, and their thoughts probably traced a strong connection be• tween their actions three years ago and their present un enviable predicament. This is a world of Compensation.— We pay for all we got—even for a gill of coal oil in a Wide Awake proceselon. Payment may be delayed for a year or two, but it is sure to come. The old proverb is yet true, that " the gods sell goods at their own fair price "—in. eluding coal oil, of course. .and many a man now stands, as OA our Wend mentioned above, thinking of torch. 1106 and sollitquislng to himself that " thus the wbtrlb. gig of Mit brine on tile mmtnum." . -- ANDREW M. Easterz, ESQ.—The following resignation was banded to the Board of Prison Inspectors by /MOM M. Flux% Mr. their So li citor. on yesterday M (Monday) morning. r. nears has authorised us to say that whoa hi- wait appointed be was not appointed as a member of the Republican party, but became he declared himself a Union Demonrat, in favor of - the Union and Con. stitudom At the August meeting the question of Goy. Curtin's integrity was raised. Some of the Board said that the war waa, a speculation. and that Gov. Curtin was a party to the transaction. In effect. Mr. Pam% took oc. canton to express his dislike for Gov. Curtin. The conver sation was reported the Evros by one of the Board, and the public no doubt . la in ressemion of It. Mr. P. dope not _recollect having "mid exactly what is charged, but if be did tt was an expiesdon of an honest conviction. The only admission, however, be Is willing to make is this, that it was expressing a great truth in somewhat stronger terms than were proper on the occasion. Mr. r &Am is unwilling to'beeome theeervile alive of party. claims the free and unrestricted right to crikicisi the conduct of public servants, and if ostracism is the reward of such criticism he L willing to suffer it: To the Board q/ I Lancarema, Sept. 7, 1863. nspectors oLancaster Pram : Drat arm: I hereby offer to you my County resignation as 80. lidtor, and hope that it may be accepted by your Board. The canoes that induce me to take this course are no doubt known to you all. Very respectfully yours, ac., DEATH LF A REVOLUTIONARY VP.TERAN.— Capt. John Blaymaker died last week at his residence in the village of Willbunstown, this county, In biz 91st year. Capt. Blaymaker was a veteran of the Revolution, and. if we are not mistaken, also served in the war of 1812. His father, John Blaymaker. was is Braddock's campaign as a wagoner, and afterwards, in 1776, he marched at the head of a company to Bergen, N. J, and took part in a skirmish at Chestnut' 13111. -0n his return home he was chosen County Commissioner, and died in 1798 at the age of 65. The subject of this notice was, In his younger days, a prominent and enterprising citizen of the locality where he resided, and his descriptions of Washington and his Generals and the cranes in the "times that tried men's souls" were graphic and interesting. FRANKLIN 'AND "MARSHALL COLLEGE.—The fall term of this Institutiou commences on Thursday, September lith, at 10 o'clock. A. IL, when the opening address to the students will be delivered in the College Chapel by the Rev. Dr. Nevin. The examination of applb cants for admission will be held in the College building the day previous, Wednesday, at 2 o'clock. P. IL The Preparatory Department, conducted by the Faculty, corn. menses at the same tine and place. The German Reformed Messenger, of last week, says:— " We are pleased to learn that Rider U. Leonard. Agent Zr Franklin and Marshall College, has resumed his inborn in the eastern section of the Church, and le meeting with very good success. In the course of two deys he obtained, in the Elizabethtown congregation, Lancaster county, Pa., five subscription. of five hundred dollars each. We trust that the good work will thus go on until It is brought to a successful termination." DEATH OF FATHER BALFE.—Rev. HENRY Batik, for the last nine years Assistant to the venerable Father Kumar, of St. 31ary'e Catholic Church, this city, died at Hellyaville, neuir'Philadelphia, on Wednesday lint Father Haire at one time officiated in Reading, and was transferred from that city to this place. He was an as. complished scholar and a fine - Unguist--speaking eight languages with ease and fluency. Seven years of his too brief life were passed is Rome, where he was educated.— He was born In Philadelphia about the year 1825. For over a year past his health had rapt fly failed, and his ten ure on life had become so that the news of his death was not unexpected. Father Haifa was reserved in his inter course with strangers, but to his friends and acquaint. ances the generous impulses that animated him were con spicuous. The large congregation for whom ha had co essiduously labored, and an extensive circle of acquaint antes of other denominations, sincerely regret his death. His funeral took place on Friday morning from the Cath edral in Philadelphia. STATE SENATORSHIP.—Me.9BI".9. Editors : Ae the Democratic County Convention will Boon be held, it is not unadvisable for us to begin coosiderhig who ehouid be candidates for the various positions to be filled, but the importance of having a good selection for the office of State Senator cannot be overrated. We need talent, ability and integrity; a tuna whose patriotism and regard for the true welfare of the country has not been sunk In the uncondi tional loyalty of Abolitionism. We need one who will be a true and undoubted representative of Democratic policy; for with that he will be identified with the only policy that can save the nation. HENIIY SELIP/NER, of Mount Joy Borough, combines the requisites for the place. He is honest and incorruptible; a fearless, unalloyed and undoubted Democrat; a fluent and ready debater, and having a sound Judgment and good, practical sense. •ills sterling character and fine social qualities have won him hosts of admiring friends and made him deservedly popular. He is emphatically "a man among men," and if selected to fill the position would do so with honor to himself, credit to the party, and advan tage to the public interests. J. Mousy JOY, Aug. 11th, 1863. PASSENGER AND MAIL SCHEDIJLE.—The dif ferent Passenger Trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad leave this city as follow.: . ... . Through Express 3.30 a. m Mount Joy Accommodation 8.40 I ancestor Accommodation 9.00 " Feet Line ; 725 " Feet Mail 2.25 p. m. Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2, 548 " Ilarrisburg Accommodation 6.03 " LEAVE WESTWARD. _.. „. Through Forprese 1.21 . m Fast Mail 10-55 " Mount Joy Accommodation 11.05 " Fast LIDO 2.23 p. m Harrisburg Accommodation 608 " Lancaster Accommodation 7.40 " Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2 7.50 " The mails arrive and close at the City Post Office as Col lows:' -.-. ..... , Through Mail from the East-1.21 a. m: and 223 p. m. Through Mall from the Wrof-3.30 a. m. and 2.25 p. m. Way Mail from the East-10.55 a. m. Way Mail from the West-9 a. m. und 2.25 p. to. Southern Mail from Baltimore and Washington, 225 p. m HOURS FOR CLOSING MAILS Eautern Through Mall, tor Philadelphia, 1.3 U p. m. and 8 Way Mall East, for Philadelphia and intermediate offices, at 8 a. as. New York and Northern nod Eastern States, 1.30 p. m. For Harrleburg, and Cumberland, Franklin and Perry counties, at 10 a. m. and. Sp m. Northern Central, Juniata and Western New York, at 10 Way Mall West—For Landisville. Salunga, Mont Joy, Flizahothtown, Middletown, Ilighsplre, Hemptbsid, Mountville, Wrightsville, Maytown, Bainbridge and Fal mouth at Ih a. m. For Columbia, York, 64e., at 10 a. m. For Baltimore and Washington, D. C., at 1.30 p. m. and 8 P. m. Pittsburg Through Mail at 1.30 p. m. and 8 p. m. For Columbia, York, Marietta and Harrisburg at 10 a. m. and 6. p. m. LINCOLN vs LINCOLN "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inolina tion to do so."—President Lincoln's Inaugu ral Address, ltfarch 4th, 1861. " You dislike tho Emancipation Proclama. tion, and perhaps you want to have it retract. ed. You say it is unconstitutional. I think differently. I think that the Constitution in vests its commander-in chief with tie laws of war in time of war. The most that can be said, if so much, is that slaves are property." —President Lincoln's letter to Hon. James C. Conkling, August 26th, 1863. Is it not enough to make every American blush, when he reflects that the man who now fills the Presidential chair has been so weak and vacillating as to put himself in such a hu miliating position before the world ? In the first place he declares that he has no intention to interfere with the institution of slavery, and that he believes that he has no lawful right to do se. In the second place he does exactly what he declared he would not do, by issuing a proclamation declaring all the slaves in the Southern States free. In the third place he writes a letter to the Hon. James C. Conkling, in which he distinctly asserts that his inter ference " with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists," is lawful. A man who can so far forget what is due to the position of a Chief Magistrate of the United States, as to be changed about by every wind of doctrine, is physically, intellectually and morally unfit for the office he holds. ALEX. H. STEPEIENS A UNION MAN The Cincinnati Commercial, a Republican paper, publishes a letter from a well-known oitizen of Georgia, who recently left that State and is now within our lines, in which the writer says : " I cannot leave this connection without reference to Alexander H. Stephens. Recently, if he had been permitted to go to Washington, the world would have felt his mission. He is Vice Predident of the Southern Confederacy, it is true, but to this moment he is a Union man. I was born and raised within eighteen miles of him, and no man knows him better than I do ; we toiled together for the Union, but when Toombs and the Cobbs kicked noble Georgia out of the Union, he felt that it was his duty to play a part. That part will only be known to that God who 'mond the shadow to go upon the dial of Ahaz. But still Stephens is a Union man and a Christian." If this statement be true, the late mission of Vice President STEPHENS, which the Abolition oligarchy at Washington refused to consider, might have been productive of important re sults, had it been held in the proper spirit.— We add this to the thousand evidences accu mulating every day, which prove the admin istration—President LINCOLN'S late letter to the contrary notwithstanding—to be opposed to a settlement of our national troubles on any fair or rational basis. War, the adjunct of tyranny, the destruction of the Union, is the only login of its policy. SAvx Your Luwas.—We often feel shocked at the terrible manner of some people's coughing in church, in the lecture room, street, home and abroad—when by a 25 cent box of Bryan's Pulmonio Wafers they can save their lungs, cure their coughs, colds, sore throat, &o. Sold by Kaufman & Co. WHERE THE ARMY IS The N. Y. Herald, of the 26th alt., says there are 50,000 Federal troops in that city, the flower of the Army ! Another paper says there are 15,000 in Philadelphia. In the two cities 65,000. In Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Lenisville, there are also large bodies ! Thoughtful men ask, why are they there ?- 111 it to quell rebellion in the North, or to in, timidata Democrats from voting at the fall eleotioas t LETTER FROM ER. BIICIFLA.LEW. Tp the Heating at Hughesville. Hastens Lynam: ag. August 28d, 1863. - Gmusrruswas OP LTOOKINO : -TOO are to be eon mended for assembling yourselves as men opposed to the administration at ilarrisbnrs. and Washington and I am glad to contribute to your proceedings the expression of some few earnest words. AO home between power and liberty is distinctly presented to us by the policy of our rulers, and ' if we stand indifferent to it, or acquiesei in its decision according to the pleasure of those who aspire to be our masters, what shams will be Ours! what loss and injury! what degradation and eternal disrace By liberty I do not mean license, but that regu lated freedom established by our ancestors which we have enjoyed hitherto without question, and the ex ample of which we have held torch proudly before other nations as the reproof of their systems and the glory of our own. By power I do not mean legitimate authority, but authority usurped and lawless, pursuing Its own ends over a broken Constitution and through the baleful flames of civil war. Between these—between power and liberty—can you hesitate in your choice? Will you hold up a balance and weigh, doubtfully, the arguments which sustain liberty against those who oppose it? Necessity—safety—are the magical • words by which despotism is to be changed in character and made fit for oar adoption? Shall the plea of tyrants be accepted as our standard of public, rule ? Shall we concede forte, and justice, and wisdom, to one of the most impudent, false and injurious doctrines ever intruded into the discussion of public affairs? But there is a necessity (quite different from that asserted on behalf of power) which we must now ad mit as most evident and urgent—a necessity that we rid ourselves of those who plead necessity as the justification of their nuatfeede. Those who cannot govern lawfully and justly are not to govern at all,•but to give place to others. For it is mon strous to say that the incapable and vicious alkali lord it over their fellows. The rulers who say they cannot govern by law and according to right, stand self-condemned. Judged oat of their own mouths, they are unfit for rule and should be voted out of power. AND. M. FRANTZ Gentlemen, the greatest eon of New England spent most of his life and won his great fame in this Oorn monwealth. We are proud that he became a Penn sylvanian, and took rank in our history with the founder of this State—with the illustrious man who established it in deeds of peace." Let us try the login of tyranny by the judgment of that great man. Let us invite the apologist of arbitrary power and advocate of "strong government," - who fills our ears with impassioned discourse upon public safety, and national life, and necessity, to go with us to our great commercial metropolis and there stand with us beside the modest slab which marks the resting-place of " Benjamin and Deborah Frank lin." Oh! how mean, and pitiful, and low, and utterly false and detestable will there sound all these apologies for wrong—all these pretexts for stealing away, or taking avraffrom the people the rights and liberties achieved for them by the great men of former times! We will hear the voice of Franklin sounding in our ears those memorable words of wisdom and warning which should be writ ten up or hung up in great letters wherever the peo ple meet for consultation in times of public) danger : " THOSE WHO WOULD OWE UP ESSENTIAL LIBERTY TO PURCHASE A LITTLE TEMPORARY SAFETY DE SERV& NEITHER LIBERTY NOR SAFETY."*. Gentlemen, your political opponents think that patriotism should be called loyalty, and made to consist in unconditional, unquestionable devotion to an administration of the government. I believe you will agree with me that this great virtue requires no new name borrowed from the literature of mon archy', that is shown in devotion to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the several States, and that -the true patriot regards public! Ma- Main with a respect . precisely proportioned to their observance of law, justice and right, and to their skill, wisdom and honesty in the performance of their public duties. Judge your public men fairly but freely. Let no man put a padlock upon your lips, nor impose upon you any of the false and pernicious sophisms of arbi trary power. An important election approaches in this Common wealth, and another Important one succeeds it next year. At these, you are required to judge those who have ruled or misruled you since 1860, and to determine, as far as your votes will go, the policy of the future. You need no labored exhortation from me to inspire you with zeal, courage, determination and fidelity in the discharge of your electoral duties. Behold the evils which afflict the nation and the dangers which threaten it! These exhort you, be yond art of mine, to right action, and justify that opinion which we hold in common, that upon Demo cratic sucpeas in the elections just mentioned, de pend the existence of free, liberal and just govern ment in this country ; a restoration of the Union founded in consent; the avoidance of future wars, and the preservation and growth of that material prosperity which results from good government when vouchsafed to an united, industrious and virtuous people. I am, your fellow-oitizen, and obedient servant, C.R.Buoluram. *Works of Franklin, by Sparks T. 111, pp. 107, 429, 430. This was the declaration of the Provinoial As sembly of Pennsylvania, November 11, 1795, in answer to Governor Morris, upon the question of ex empting Proprietary property from taxation. De spite the fact of Indian depredations in the border settlements and the danger of„extended hostilities the Assembly refused an appropriation of money for military purposes unless the same should be raised or repaid in a just manner, by placing the burden equally upon the property and resources of the colony. Equality of taxation as an essential princi ple of liberty was then sternly vindicated by the men of Pennsylvania, and military 'necessity was plead to them in vain as a reason for surrendering or waiving their rights as freemen, and bending their backs to a burden of injustice. Dr. Franklin was a member of the Assembly and prepared most of the documents on its behalf, in the dispute.—See Life by Sparks, Works, v. I, pp. 178-80. 198. FROST IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS A letter from Champaign county, Illinois, 31st ultimo, says : "The ' oldest inhabitant' has no recollec tion of such a frost at this season of the year, sweeping down the crops by thousands of acres, and spreading dismay among the rural population, as was Been here yesterday morning. " At least half of the corn is out down, utterly ruined. Vines of all kinds are killed, including every tender herbaceous plant. The leaves of the grape are nearly all killed, with most of the fruit. Tobacco has turned black, and a large part of the crop is ruined. • " The free cotton, of which thousands of dollars worth of the seed has been sold, warranted to 'stand the climate,' is gone beyond any hope of ever saving the roots. " We have no means today of knowing how far the disaster extends, but fear all north of this point. The drouth had reduced the oorn prospect to not more than an average of fifteen bushels to the acre in this part of the State, and now htirfo \ that ie swept away. Corn, beans, tobacco, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, vines of all kinds, potatoes, &0., have seldom been so severely dealt by, before the middle of of October, as at this writing. " To-day farmers are everywhere busy cutting up the wilted corn, to save what they can for fodder. " The drouth continues. The sky is almost cloudless, without appearance of a change in the weather. The apples are dropping from the trees, and the late peaches refuse to grow, and are drying up on the trees, the leaves of which will soon fall off." GIVE ME BUT NY LEGIONS General MEADS, when a sword was present ed to him by certain Pennsylvanians, in the course of a reply somewhat long, is represent ed to have said : " I have to request of you, gentlemen, who are in civil life, that, when you return borne, you will spare no efforts to make the people understand that all we want are men to Sll up our ranks, Send these to us. Give us the numbers, and the war will soon beconoluded." Gen. Dm is known to have some thirty or forty thousand of his (Meade's) men here ; General BURNSIDE has thousands in Ohio and Indiana,' who are doing nothing but police duty. Give General MEADE back his men, now here, and he can advance " on to Rich mond," instead of scarcely preserving Wash ington from Moseby's guerrillas.--N. Y, Ex. press. THE REBEL CONFEDERACY AND MEXICO. The N. Y. Tribune publishes a letter from " an occasional correspondent" at Washing ton, who writes that " It is rumored among politicians in Rich mond that Robert M. T. Hunter will be sent to Mexice'as the representative of the South ern Confederacy, in order to prepare the way for an offensive and defensive alliance between the Emperor of that country and the Govern ment of Richmond. It is said that this gentle man has received instructions for the imme diate recognition of the Emperor of Mexico, in return for which, it is hoped, his Majesty will be led to recognize the Southern Confederacy." This same correspondent adds that Mr. How- TEE is now in Paris,whither he was sent nearly two months ago on a special mission to the Emperor of the French, andt hat he will so aompati the new Emperor ofilexitio to his capital.' THE GETTYSBURG CEMETERY.—The whole matter has been arranged in regard to the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, for the in terment of the gallant dead who fell in the the terrible battles at that place. About four. teen acres of land fronting on the Baltimore Turnpike, between the Evergreen Cemetery and Captain Myer's orchard, and extending to the Taneytown road, embracing the highest point on the Cemetery Hill, have been pur chased by the State of Pennsylvania. Other States have been invited to co-operate in , the removal of the soldier dead tci these grounds. The arrangements for plotting the grounds, preparatory to the removal of the dead, are being made as rapidly as possible. It will be decorated as such a spot should be, rtndAvill be the point of many a pilgrimage by the friends of the gallant dead,,to eaer,a ftwer and shed a tear over their iredon es;—. :Blo4. ..
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