POLICY of tag DEMOCRATIC PARTY. DESIOCR tTIC STATE CENTRAL COM, STATEIH E
lENT OF TH; DEPaiuVRATIC
MITTEN. SENATORS.
The platform laid down 'at the formation of 1
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1..;,, 1864 . The following statement was presented to the
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the Democratic party as its rule of action, 7 T he C ommittee met pursuant to the call ' Senate yesterday by the Democratic members who
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to oar mind, sufficient for its guidance et all lof the Chairman. Hon. C. J. BIDDLE, in the 1 asked that it might be entered on the Journal, and
times. Devotion to the Union of the States, Chair. A. Committee from Chester county a , become a part of the proceedings. This privilege,
was admitted to confer with the State Cen- always accorded in parliamentary bodies, was re•
a strict adherence to the Constitution, and
tral Committee. I fused by the Jacobins of the Senate, for the reason,
obedience to the laws and compromises, enact-
i On motion of Col. T. B. SEARIGEIT, of Fay- we presume, that it clearly establishes the falsity of
ed under it, together with a liberal, concilia- ette county, a Committee on Resolutions was i the position they have assumed. We commend it
tory spirit towards their fellow citizens in all appointed to report to an adjourned meeting. l to our readers as a clear and unanswerable vindiaa.
don of the course of the Democratic Senators. Bating
Messrs. BIGLER, CASS, SANDERSON, PACKER
sections of the country, comprises in a few
and EVAffie were appointed on this Committee. sworn to support the Constitution, they cannot yield
words the policy under which the Democratic to which, on motion, Hon. C. J. BIDDLE, to a revolutionary proceeding which sets at defiance
party has achieved its success and greatness. Chairman, was added. both law and precedent f—fHarrisbarg Patriot of
This platform is equally applicable to the On motion, Thursday, the twenty-fourth Thursday.
ned Senators beg
e ta ni te g ment, in
i u ng nd ,.
times of war or peace. The present rebellion day of March next, e at s l a 2 te M leave to submit the
folto n w e
is no exception to the rule. The principles of the meeting of
The th Committee, t
after thet vindication of their action
downaventfiixoend fora
during the present contest for Speakership of the
the party are those upon which a republican transaction of further business. adjourned to
government is founded, and their defeat and meet on Thursday, January 14th, at V' - M
. ❑Senate:
In many respects this contest has no precedent in
destruction will chronicle the overthrow of a the history at sue Commonwealth. Its importance
TEICRSDAY, Jan. 14. to those parties anXieni tor legislation, as well as to
free government. • , The Committte met. The Sub-Committee those engaged in toe struggle, seems to justify, if it
A united government, says the Burlington on Resolutions reported the following: does nut demand, a lair statement of the case for
Argos, is the great desideratum laid down by I Resolved, That notwithstanding the ap the consideration n: e te a r t a Q t Le n eb t the
orobfli thirty-three b
• arent result of the late election in this •
Iturty•two were present P at the time fixemdern members.
our political opponents, as sought by them to
State,
the consequence, as we believe, of an I Constitution fur their meeting, and sue a prisoner
be attained. The progress of the war has
I unfair use of the military power and the of war in the rebel states. CI those present' at the
shown that one-third of our population are , practice of gross frauds on the ballot by our previous u balloting fur speaker, sixteen are Demo
disaffected towards the old Union. The Union i opponents, we are still firm in the belief of Senater t i n e d , 06.11. , t h ee . 11 5
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must be restored, either by removing the dis- the ultimate triumph of Democratic priori- cue and nominated a candidate tor Speaker and
pies and policy, and that their ascendency is Clerk. A. number of ballots were had up to the
affection, or in spite of it. The former is the
the surest means of redeemini , our country adjournment on Friday last, ler Speaker, which re-
Democratic, the latter, the opposition course from its present afflictions ; an d' to that end sail . e h d B ina tie vote eaen time.
Republicans anticipating, before the Senate
of procedure. In framing this government, we earnestly invite and entreat Democrats Met, this result, conceived tne idea of retaining
our forefathers sacrificed their individual I and all conservative citizens, in the several their friends in office by adhering to the party
counties, wards, townships and districts of the , tazation of the r
urga preceding session, ouster the plea
preferences for the general good ; in recon- that the Senate has a •• perpetual urganization ;"
State, to unite themselves together in more
struoting it, we must exercise the same liber- perfect and complete organization, as the Lest a tu n e d c ur ha c ir arr d v il o le u a t thin scheme, e
o th: late speaker took
ality. The Union, to be republican in fact, means to re establish the purity of the ballot,. toe election of senatorenawteeret readrdcr,,btehecireertku:nws..o!
must be acceptable to the people of the differ- maintain personal and public liberty, and to uueete h u tci call the toll, and the speaker announced
provide . for a final effort, at the next election, that t ii
e e d Senators tlieiu e u t r ec li t would come forward and be
ent States which it binds together. A united ew Democratic B right spr to displace the men now in authority at Wash. I nn ❑ L 1 .
government without the consent of the ington, whose policy and measures have proved p u eii e iter a of
w t r t i t e te p l , iLe , t , el a L g u ainst
qualify the them before ola
governed, would be no better than a despotism. so prejudicial to the cause of the Union, sub- he le re-elected and duly qualified himself. Still,
The allegiance to it would be forced—not versive of the rights of the citizens and op- by taking the oath of office in that manner, their
pressive to the people. names were placed upon the roll, and their right to
spontaneous, and the people would not be vole unquestioned, which would nut Lave been the
Resolved, That we deplore the enunciation
satisfied with its results. The Democratic of the schemes and purposes embodied in the e i te i
u t
L a , u o
. the w y a, dec t l h in e e n tt
e t i c ie iLu d ality ab a d t that time.
party wish to establish a Union of the hearts late Proclamation of the President, appended adapted, to proceed to an election for Speaker, and
as well as the hands of the people of the to his Message, the inevitable effect of which a t number et uusuccessful ballots were taken, under
heresolution..
must be to prolong and extend the bloody
several States. ille itepuniman Senators, finding it impossible to
TIM NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CON- strife now raging among the people of the re-eiect limit' late Speake r,pro cee ded • un ae
. VENTION• All other attempts at union will result in United States ; and to furnish an addition 1 k 1
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a ewer edgmem et their •• perpetual orgauizatiou,"
At a meeting of the NationalDemocratio Commit- a united consolidated government. With verification of the worst apprehensions enter- by introducing many matters of legislation diatinot
mites, held at New York this day, it was unani- twined as to the purpose of his a.dministra- trout that pertaining to the required annual organf
the Democratic party have nothing to
=musty voted that the next National Democratic, s l a very.
tion, to wit: the intention to subordinate Senn ors
of um satiate, and the sixteen Democratic
manors voted against such improper proceeding,
Convention, for the purpose of nominating condi- do. Such protection as the Constitution and
the cause of the Union to the cause of Ab I .
o - and defeated it. Thus the contest continued during
the session er last week ; and how much longer It
dates for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the laws extend over it, they believe their duties t i„,,.
United States, be held at Chicago, Illinois, on rte good citizens call upon them to afford it. Resolved, That no State can withdraw from will eieutintio LO one seems disposed to foretell.
Ilia conflict of opinion between Senators should
Monday, July 4, 1864. Nio more. the Union by its own action ; and that the .
be adjusted at the earliest possible moment, and
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has
By a vote of the Committee, at a meeting heldassumption of Mr.
of the war
—INCOLN, as indicated in when the Republieau side of the Simate scoff t any
in
Their s anoti , and support
7th, 1863 the number of delegates for
September
been in defence of the Constitution and Union
each State was fixed at double the number of its revolted States are now out of the Union and dents Which nave directed all past orgauizattous of
this body, or bo regarded us usurpers of place and
electoral votes —riot an assault upon the system of slavery power—disregardiug alike the acts of their prede
or the domestic institutions of the South.— cuasurs, the organic law and the bust interests of the
State.
What it desires, is to see the Union restored
The ninth section of article first 01 the - Constitu-
oder the Conetit ration, leaving the people of tiou says •• each house shall choose a Speaker and
other officers.' This is imperative and has never
all sections free at that time to compromise
been disiegarded until now by this attempt of the
their grievances and regulate their own Republiean officers to hold over. The words " each
domestic institutions. as.° ' are repeated in the Constitution several
tames, and ulnas each branch of the Legislature.
We do not believe that the people of this 1.111.•• houoo " is composed in old and new members,
and it was not intended by the framers of the Con
government are one whit less capable of self
etautiou, nor claimed by any previous Senate, that
government, than they were ten, twenty, or old officers should preside over u new Senate and
fifty years ago, and we do not think there is new members. The Constitution does nut say that
- each house" shall choose its Speaker annually,
any necessity for the formation of a stranger but that is its mewling and such has been tea prac
tice under it bar seventy odd years.
or more consolidated government. IL, divest this novel plea of " perpetual organi-
At the Presidential election the Democratic cation '' of every pretense of right ur custom on the
part of its authors, the Senate Journals hove been
party will pledge itself to a restoration of the carefully examined back to the year 1704, and the
Union. The opposition will not. Conserva- result Cl the examination is stated briefly as follows :
From 179-1 to 1861 sic late Speaker has ever at
tive men will unite with us ; radicals, and tempted to yttuhly new Senators, and Ito new
fanatics of every shade of opinion, will vote Speaker has administered an oath to any Senator
elect until qualified as Speaker himself. At every
with the opposition. The question will be aunual meeting in the bouate, alt the officers were
settled, and the Union either lost or restored. elected or re-elected and qualified in due term by
the new Speaker.
From 1791 to 1864 the chair was always vacant
during ballotiits for Speaker, and the Journals
show that the successful candidate •• took the chair,"
or was " conducted to it" by other Senators, made
his acknowledgments and invited some old Senator
to quality him.
From 1704 to 1864, all the Senators voted for
Speaker in alpliabetical order, without the official
designation, except in 1825, when thwarts Burnside
voted as "late Speaker;" but be was not a candidate
for re-election.
From 1791 to 1.52.5 in the Journals made up during
the annual organizations of the Senate, he is desig
nated as " late Speaker;" and from that time to the
present, he is designated as " Speaker," until the
motion to proceed to elect a Speaker prevails, when
he is referred to as "having vacated the chair."
In several instances there were a number of bal
lots fur Speaker, some of which were a tie, the chair
always vacant and the late Speaker voting with
other Senators in alphabetical order. It, 1842,
there were thirty-five ballots for Speaker, and much
time consumed by the contest. During the struggle,
several efforts were made to elect a Speaker pro
tempere, even for a few hour, bui they were, un
successful.
In 1833 is the only instance on record of a late
Speaker entertaining any motion not strictly per
taining to the org utizattun, and that was in rela
tion to contested teats, but when the Senate pro
ceeded to elect a Speaker. Mr. Penrose vacated the
chair. lie was re-elected on the first ballot, and
- took the chair '' again.
It, 1853 on the 4th day and on the twenty-seventh
ballot, a Speaker was chosen. The late Speaker was
the unsoccesstul candidate. He did not occupy the
chair, nor attempt to qualify the eleven new Sena
tors present. lacy were qualified by the Speaker
elected, alter he was qualified himself.
In every election in Speaker the clerks have acted
as tellers, except in 1814, when a Senator was
named to act as one of the tellers, and, judging
from the Journals, they have conducted the elec
tions as presiding officers.
In 1891, 1111, and 1119, the Speakers resigned
their offices near the close of the session, in these
words :
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OZO. SANDERSON, EDITOR.
A. SANDERSON, Asiociatit.
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Now our flag Is _ rg --
Let It float o'er our father land,
And the guard of Ito spotleas fame ahall be
Columbia" chosen band.
" CLING TO THE CONSTITUTION, AS
THE SHIPWRECKED MARINER CLINGS
TO THE LAST PLANK, WHEN NIGHT
AND THE TEMP ST CLOSE AROUND
HIM."-DANIEL " ZBBTER.
AE GUST BELMONT, Chairman
FAZD. 0. Secretary.
Nviv Tonic, Jan. 12, 1884.
Correction
There are two Assistant Assizgors
to be elected in each of the Wards
at the ensuing City Election. The
proper correction is made in the ad
vertisement in to-day's Intelligen
cer, and the other City papers will
please make the same correction.
The Inauguration
The inauguration of Governor
C.uaTrc will take place to-day, at 12
o'clock. The fact that the Senate is
not yet organized, will not interfere
with the inauguration.
The Supreme Court Of this
State has reversed its former decision
t respecting the Conscription act, and
dissolved the injunction granted by
Chief Justice Lowrie previous to his
retirement from the Bench—the new
Justice, Agnew, taking sides with
Justices Strong and Read.
Now For Volunteers
As the time for paying bounties to
recruits has been extended by Con-'
gress to the first of March, ample
Opportunity is therefore given for
the several townships, wards, bor
oughs and districts to fill up their
quotas with volunteers or substitutes,
so as to avoid the draft entirely.—
But to accomplish so desirable a re
sult it is all important to act promptly
in the matter, as the result cannot
be attained without an earnest and
determined effort.
The News
Notwithstanding the rumors of
some movements in the Third army
corps, the Potomac army remains
perfectly quiet. It is reported that
Gens. Cadwalader. Hunter, and
Wadsworth have been appointed a
commission to proceed to Chatta
nooga and investigate the causes of
the defeat of our army at the battle
of Chickamauga.
Despatches from Chattanooga re
port a cavalry fight near Strawberry
Plains on Sunday week in which the
rebels were repulsed. Gen. Long
streetis said to have been reinforced
from the armies of Lee and Johnston.
Gen. Grant at last accounts was
making a tour through his depart
ment. His army is in fine condition.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald, in British Honduras, dated
at Belize on the 26th of December,
furnishes the important intelligence
that the American schooner Joseph
L. Gerety, Capt. Nichols, from Mata
moras for Havana, with one hundred
and twenty-two bales of cotton on
board, had been seized by rebel pas
sengers, and run into Belize under
the British flag. It appears that the
Gerety had taken six rebels on board
at Matamoras for conveyance to
Havana, and that these passengers,
when at sea, suddenly overpowered
the captain and crew, set them adrift
in a boat and then painted off the
groper name of the vessel, changing
it to the Eureka—a rebel schooner.
The British authorities offer a re
ward of five hundred dollars for the
arrest of the leaders, named Hogg
and Brown respectively.
IDM ME=
As we enter upon 1864, who does not pray
God that it may be less prolific of battle and
bloodshed, of sorrow and suffering, of woe and
want, of reviling and hatred, of proscription
and persecution, than that just passed ? Who
does not pray for peace, for a restored Union ,
for the rehabilitatriM of the Constitution and
laws, and for assurance not to be doubted, that
the hereditary freed , .,m of the American people
is not lost forever ?
FRAUDS i FRAUDs x
We might fill a column of our paper every
day with frauds committed in every depart
ment of the government, civil and military.
Arrests are taking place almost hourly, and
yet, strange to tell, we seldom hear of a trial
and still more seldom of conviction and pun
ishment. Prominent politicians are now in
confinement for deeds of prime rascality, but
there we suspect it will end. Palmer and his
assistants, in New York, and Given and
accomplices, in Washington, and scores of
others, are just now under a cloud—but po
litical influence, and the fear of exposing
others still more prominent, we fear, will soon
relieve them. Frauds in the War Depart
ment, frauds in the Treasury Department,
frauds in the Custom Houses, in the Commis
sary and Quartermaster's Departments, in the
navy yards-frauds everywhere ; in fact the
whole administration is a stupendous fraud ;
and, the fountain being muddy, the stream
that.,fiows from it is disclosed through its
whole length.
-- Whenever one of the rascals now in durance
is. tried,. convicted and punished, we shall
make a -note of it. -Harrisburg Patriot.
LET US PAUSE AND REFLECT
The New York Journal of Commerce, in the
course of some reflections upon Governor
SEYMOUR'S able message, remarks :
" We are unquestionably approaching the
crisis of our national history. From the Pres
idential election, which is to occur this fall,
we shall, if conservative men succeed, begin
to restore the glory and the peace of the
American Union : while, if radical measures
edntinue to remain innower, our downward
courio will be rapid to atoireby aid ruin. We
doubt whether free institutions con p..ssibly
survive four years more of trial such as they
have endured under radical management. The
great truth brought out by Governor Seymour,
that there is a bottom to the national puree
and a limit to the national credit, is of pro—
found import. Shall the plan of war and con
. que , t„,t the expense of other thousands of
millions, continue till we reach that limit?—
till we pass it? Will prudence, caution,
reason, never resume sway at Washington:?
No one can doubt that this nation is able to
bear as great a debt as any other nation in
the world ; but that does not imply that we
can bear any amount of debt, to the extent of
unlimited thousands of millions. Let us not
blind our eyes and close our ears to the de—
ceitful promisee that the war is almost over.
It stretches away before us into years of dark
ness, fearful years to a free country. The
expenses of treasure and of blood are yet to be
enormous. We can carry our present debt
without doubt. How much more can we
carry? This is the question forcibly pre—
sented in the present aspect of our national
affairs. It does not present itself, as radical
men will pretend, as a question of abandoning
the war for the Union. It is a question, of
abandoning a war for conquest and abolition,
and resuming a war for the Union. Shall we
go back to original principles, or shall we
plunge into chaos ?"
MEETING OF DEMOCRATIC CON
GRESSMEN.
The d: rnocratic and eeuservative members
of Congress met on Saturday evening, the 9th
ult., at the Capitol, the Hun. John L. Dawson
in the chair, and unanimously adopted the
following important resolution, offered by
James Brooks, of New York :
Whereas, gold and silver is paid to our
ministers, consuls and commissioners, repre
senting the nation in foreign countries, and
gold and silver only are received from the
people at the Custom Houses in payment of
duties ; and whereas, the people are taxed to
pay the capitalists their interest in specie on
their investments in the nstiunal debt ; there.
fore, be it
Resolved, That the officers, s 'ldlers and
sailors in the army and navy should be paid
in gold or silver or their equivalents in
amount.
And be it also resolved, that the Chairman
of this meeting be instructed to prepare
amendments to the army and navy bills to
this effect.
The following resolution from a committee
appointed to consult upon the political matters
likely to come before Congress, was also
adopted.
Resolved, That the President's proelLmation
of the Bth of D cember, 1863, is unwise, inex
pedient, revolutionary and unconstitutional,
and is therefore disapproved.
A STRONG RESOLUTION
The Democratic State Convention of New
Hampshire, amongst other resolutions, unani
mously adopted the following:
" Resolved, That the freedom of the ballot
MUST AND SHALL BE MAINTAINED sacred
and inviolable ; and that we, the Democracy
of New Hampshire, will unite with our
brethren of other States, BY FORCE OF ARMS, IF
NEED BE, in resistance to every attempt, from
whatever source it may com . overturn
or abridge, by menaces or dire terference
by military force, the independe. and purity
of the ballot-box in the ensuing elections,
State and National; and to this end we pledge
each to the other, and to our brethren of other
States, our lives, fortunes and sacred honors,
being firmly resolved to maintain, AT ALL HAZ
ARDS, our rights as free and patriotic citizens
of the American Union."
DEATH OF THACKERA f
English papers give no particulars of the
death of William Makepeace Thackeray,
further than that he was found dead in his
bed on the morning of the 24th December.—
He was taken ill only the day before, and his
sudden decease is attributed to effusion on the
brain. In the death of this celebrated writer
the literary world sustains an irreparable
loss.
PUT ONE IN YOUR MOIITH.—These damp
mornings and evenings are very prejudicial to
your lungs. Sore throat and hoarseness is a
common complaint, but one little wafer can
fix it. Call at Kaufman & Co., and try a
box of Bryan's Wafers-25 cts., and note their
effect.
are no longer States, and that they can lie re
constructed as States and re-admitted into the
Union by a mere fractional vote of one-tenth
of their people cast within the limits of each,
is a proposition at once revolutionary and
preposterous, manifesting an astounding in
clination on his part to act in utter disregard
of the Constitution and the elementary prin
ciples of our republican form of government,
and at the same time foreshadowing a scheme
through which stupendous frauds may he
practiced upon the ballot at the next election,
and a still more stupendous fraud upon
sovereign States that have furnished without
limit of their blood and treasure to put down
rebels and rebellious States, by admitting into
the Electoral College men who would have no
legal or constitutional right to seats in that
body ; the consummation of which scheme
would be so gross an outrage upon the rights
of the people and the States, as might fully
wfirrant resistance on their part, by all the
means which God and nature have placed
within their reach.
Resolved, That it is our deliberate judg
ment, that the enunciation of a wise and judi
cious political policy, at this time, on the part
of the Administration at Washington, n the
effect that, any State heretofore in .It.
within which resistance to the authority of
the Government shall cease, should be allowed,
through the vote of a majority of its ele:tors,
to resume its former status and functions in
the Union, would promptly draw to the cause
of the Union thousands, if not hundreds of
thousands, of citizens of the revolted States,
thereby hastening the restoration of peace and
union among the States, and saving the lives
of thousands of our fellow citizens now in the
field.
Re3o//yei. That Lite Deai wratit - • party will
continue their efforts to uphold ;he Constitu
tion of the United States, and to re-establish
its supremacy both at the North and at the
S; uth ; s ) that neither the revolutionary
sehsmes 14 the Abolitionists nor of the Seces
sionists shall avail against it.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted.
On motion of the lion. GEORGE SANDERSON,
of Lancaster, it was unanimously
Resolved, That the thanks of this Commit-
tee be tendered to the Hon.. CHARLES J. BID
DLE for the able and efficient manner in which
he has discharged the duties of Chairman of
the Committee.
The Committee then adjourned.
CHARLES J. BIDI)LE, Chairman.
ROBERT J. HEMPHILL, SPorrtary.
PLAIN QUESTIONS.
iltvu you ever known a Democrat
fy a violation of the Constitution'
Have you ever known a Stamp Ai-t coootsd
under a Democratic Administration ?
Have you ever known a Democratic Pres
dent to suspend the writ of habeas corpus?
Have you ever known a Conscript Law
be passed under a Democratic Administn
tion ?
Have you ever known a Confiscation Law
be passed by a Democratic Admiuistrati
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad
ministration to form a new State in violation
of the plain provisions of the Constitution ?
Have you ever known a time, except the
present, when a citizen could he incarcerated
in a dungeon without authority of law'?
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad
ministration to compel the people of a State
or the District of Columbia, to sell their
property. whether willing or not?
Have you ever known an Adminixtra
except Abraham'H to create a national debt
of $3,000,000,000 in the short period of three
Have you ever known a time under a Dem
()untie Administration when a day 'e labo
would purchase only two pounds of coffeo
Have you ever known citizens t he 19 en
into banishment and exile under Democrati
Have you ever known a time under Demo
cratic rule when great crimes and out
rages have been committed hr our allele
under a plea of "military neees-sity " or
"reascins of state ?"
Have you, before this, known a time when
the military was made superior to the civil
Have you ever known a Democratic Ad
ministration to tax the people of the whole
country to buy the negroes of the States ?
Have yon ever known a Democratic Admin
istration to ignore the rights of States ?
Have you ever known an Administration,
in opposition to the Democracy, to leave the
affairs of the country in as flourishing, a con
dition as it found it?
ABOLITIONISM
The sum .;f all villainies is Abolitionism
It is a crazy, unreasoning monster, without
heart or soul. It began with an overflowing
love of the negro. How that love hail practi
cally operated where it has had a good chance
to display itself, may be seen:from the follow
ing, which we clip from the Cincinnati En
quirer:
We learned yesterday, from a respectable
methber of the Society of Friends, in a neigh
boring county, that the society to which he is
attached recently sent a committee to Vicks
burg, to ascertain the true number and
condition of the contrabands at that place and
immediate vicinity. The committee have re
turned, and report that they found forty
thousand, one-third of which were entirely or
nearly naked. Four hundred deaths occur on
an average daily.
Can this be true?
Vie BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES, for
Coughs, Colds, Pulmonary and Asthmatic
disorders, have proved their efficacy by a test
of many years, and have received testimonials
from eminent men who have used them.
" The Speaker reminds the Senate that in case of
death or resignation of the Governor, the Speaker
of the Senate is the person appointed by the Con
stitution to exercise the office of Governor until
another Governor shall be duly qualified ; that the
time for which he was elected Senator will expire
immediately preceding the day of the general elec
tion; and that his office of Speaker will expire ac
cordingly at the same time ; that from a c .nsidera
tion of these circumstances, the propriety of electing
a Speaker who may continue in that office until the
meeting of the next General Assembly in December
next, is evident "
From this language, and from the practice of those
men who framed the constitutional provisions re
ferred to, it is very evident that no Speaker, whether
he held over, or was reelected for the vacation, has
been or can be the Speaker of the Senate after the
meeting of the General Assembly.
Every Legislature has been considered indepen
dent of the preceding one, and has invariably
elected " its Speaker and other officers " as directed
by the Constitution. It has been left for the Re
publican Senators of this session to make the dis
covery, that a " political necessity," under the
cloak of " perpetual organization," will justify an
unprecedented and dangerous usurpation for the
sake of a few petty offices.
From this examination of the Journals, back
nearly to the date of the adoption of the Constitu
tion, it is ascertained that the Democratic Senators
have all the precedents—nearly one hundred in
number—to justify their course in thie contest,
whilst the Republican Senators cannot point to a
single case since 1794, to justify theirs.
And in view of the constitutional requirement
referred to, and the precedents for so long a period in
the history of the State, there,is but one proper and
incoutestible course to be pursued by Senators upon
this floor, and that is, to be guided by the law and
the experience of the past, and resist all violations
of the one, and innovations of the other, firmly and
fearlessly to the end.
In conclusion, the undersigned beg leave to re
new, as a basis upon which to organize the Senate,
on their behalf by the Senator from Berke, Mr.
Clymer, on the second day of the session, viz That
the Republican Senators shall select the first office
in the gift of the Senate, the Democratic Senators
the second, and so alternately through the list.
(Signed,)
Wm. Hopkins, Geo. H. Bucher,
Wm. Kinsey, Jno. C. Smith,
I:Hester Clymer, A. Hiestand Ulatz,
Chas. L. Lumberton, H. B. Beardslee,
Geo. W. Stein, Jno. Latta,
Berd. Reilly, Wm. A. Wallace,
J. B. Stark, Wm. M'Sherry,
D. B. Montgomery, C. M. Donovan.
SCENE .EN THE. FRENCH SENATE
A mast exciting scene tedk pines in the
French Senate a short time since, on the dis
cussion upon the address ti the Emperor.
The Marquis de Boisy, an eccentric politician,
criticised the conduet of the Government in a
manner that so astounded M. "froplong, the
President, and the Ministers, that they almost
lost their senses, and quite lost their presence
of mind. The Marquis spoke in the most
sarcastic terms of the politicians who had
sacrificed honor fur the sake of honors, and
whose servility had been recompensed with
titles and more substantial rewards. He then
proceeded to warn the Emperor that if he did
not mend his ways his dynasty would share
the fate of the Bourbon and the Orleans
dynasties, and that as Louis XVI. did not
leave the crown to his son, as the " King of
Rome" did not succeed to the first Emperor
of France, as the crown of his ancestors did
not descend to the Duke of Bordeaux, and as
the Count of Paris still lives in exile where
Louis Philippe died, so the Prince Imperial
would not succeed to the throne of Napoleon
111. unless that sovereign were better advised.
—lt is well for the Marquis de Boisy that
he did not speak thus in the U. S. Senate
about our " six-foot Government," the " best,"
so " loyal" men say, "in the world," If he
had, one of the Bastiles with which the
country is so plentifully supplied would have
been his abode the be - cf his existence on
this mundane sphere -
LOCAL DEPARTMENT
DEiIuCRATIC WARD MEETINGS.—The Demo
crats of the City of Lancaster are requested to meet
at the following-named places, on SATURDAY
EVENING NEXT, the 23d inst., between the hours
of 6 and S o'clock, to select candidates to be sup- !
ported at the ensuing City Election, on Tuesday the
2d day of February, for the offices of Mayor, High
Constable, City Constables, Select and Common
Councilmen, Assessors and Assistant Assessors,
Judges and Inspectors. [The N. E. and S. E. Wards
will in addition nominate one candidate each for
Aldermen. .I At said meetings each Ward will ap
point Tangs delegates, to meet in Convention the
same evening, at 9 o'clock, at Messenkop's Hotel,
East King street, to add up the returns for Mayor
and High Constable, and declare the nominees of
the party
PLACES OP MEETING.
N. W. Ward—Shober's Hotel, N. Queen st.
N. E. Ward—Schuh's Hotel, E. Chesnut et.
S. W. Ward—Fitzpatrick's Hotel, S. Queen et.
S. E. Ward—Effinger's Saloon, S. Queen et.
—The Democracy of the city are further requested
to meet at the above named places on Wednesday
evening, 20th inst., at 7 o'clock, for the purpose of
placing in nomination all the candidates who desire
to be supported at the Nominating meetings on Sat
urday evening.
BY ORDER WARD COMMITTEES.
EDITORIAL VISITOR.— \V e had a visit on
Saturday from B. F. Mnreus, Esq., the good-look
ing, spicy and vigorous editor of the Bedford Ga
zette, and a member of the present House of Repre
sentatives from the good old Democratic county of
Bedford. Mr. M. is looking well, and is prepared
to go into the next campaign with high hopes of
success of the Democratic party, and, per conse
quence, a restoration of the old Union and an end
to this horrible war.
LEFT Fog CHINA.—Mr. ONG 1100NG
a resident of this city for the past ten years, left for
Shanghai, China, his native land, on Wednesday
morning last. Mr. NEOK came to this country With
Dr. J. P. MESSERSMITH, Surgeon of the Japan Ex
pedition, in 185. i, and shortly afterwards entered the
Examiner office as an apprentice. tie thoroughly
mastered the business, and is an excellent Printer
and Pressman. tie is, besides, an intelligent, soci
able and amiable young man, and leaves behind
him many friends. We wish him a safe and pleas
ant journey to the " land of the Celestials." On
arriving there he will doubtless be looked upon with
greati'estonishment, for he has become a complete
"outside Barbarian!" Who knows what mark he
may make on the future of China?
QUARTER SESSIONS' CCURT.—The January
Term of the Quarter Sessions' Court commenced yes
terday—Judge HAYEs presiding.
THE LiuLIIAN OPERA. TROUPE.—TiIe famous
Holman Opera Troupe opened for a short season at
Fulton Hall last evening. From the flattering en
comiums bestowed upon them by the press of other
cities, they will doubtless be greeted with full
houses in this city.
MissieNear.—Over S3UO was raised on
Sunday last in the Duke Street M. E. Church, (Rev.
Mr. Carrow's,) for Missionary purposes.
PRIENDSIIIP EntE CoMPANY.—At a stated
meeting of the Friendship Fire Company, No. 1,
at the Engine House, North Duke street, on the
15th inst., the following officers were elected to serve
for the ensuing year: President—John S. Gable;
Vice President—George W. Brown; Secretary—
Charles T. Gould; treasurer—Godfried ;
Messenger—W 'thorn Frailey ; Chief Direr tor—Lewis
Haldy ; Assistants—John Sherif, Samuel J. Pool,
Charles T. Gould, Daniel Trewetz, Matthias Hart,
Thomas McGinnis, William Caldwell, Frank White,
Benjamin 0. Conn, Benjamin F. Srtiakez, William
Fralley, Samuel Kreiner ; Trustees--UodfriedZahm,
Henry E. Leman, John W. Jackson, Gee. M. Kline,
Robert H. Long, John Sheaffsr.
READING AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD. —At a
meeting of the Stockholders of the Heading and Co
lumbia Railroad, held on Monday, the 11th inst.,
the following officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President—W. G. Case; Directors—E. Her
shey, George Bogle, Frederick Lauer, Isaac Eckert,
C. S. Kauffman, John McManus, Samuel Small,
Michael Clapper, S. S. Detweiler, William McCon
key, Abraham Bruner, Sr., T. W. Northrop.
The Board met and organized by electing T. W.
Northrop, Treasurer; A. J. Kauffman, Secretary ;
and Robert Crane, Superintendent.
SIiOuTINU AFFRAY.—On the afternoon of
the 11th inst. a shooting affray occurred at ,Sohuh's
Hotel, in East Chesnut street—the parties being two
mulattoes, named Roland Patterson and Henry
Clark. The latter fired a revolver at the former
twice, the balls striking him on the head and under
the arm, but neither of the shots did any injury.—
W e have not learned whether Old Abe has considered
it necessary to issue a Proclamation in reference to
this speck of trouble among his " loyal American
citizens of African descent."
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-0.1 the 9th
inst. Mr. John S. Espenshade, of Paradise, this
county, was instantly killed while attempting to
cross the Pennsylvania railroad track at Ranck's
Mill, between Uordonville and Bird-in-Band. Mr.
E. was driving in a sleigh, and, the night being
very cold, had his head closely secured in a fur-cap,
which covered the ears. Being also blind in the
right eye—the side on which the Harrisburg Accom
modation Train was approaching—it is supposed
he did not see it or hear the usual signal. The lo
comotive struck the horse and sleigh, instantly kill
ing the horse and driver, and smashing the sleigh
to fragments. On stopping the train, the body or
deceased was found upon the cow-catcher. dreadfully
mutilated. Mr. Espenshade was about 37 years of
age, and unmarried.
COLUMBIA AND MARYLAND LINE RAILROAD.
—The following gentlemen were, on the 11th inst.,
elected officers of this Company : President—C. S.
Kauffman; Directors—Jeremiah B. Haines, Jacob
Tome, Joseph Ba'lance, Gen. Bertram A. Shaeffer,
Jeremiah Brown, John Long, W. W. Miller, Jacob
B. Shuman, Maris Hoopes, Ephraim Hershey, (leo.
Bogle, M. M. Strickler. '
WE DAVE RECEIVED from the Author a neat
little publication, "Fragments of Song and Senti
ment, consisting of over One Hundred Pieces," and
upon a perusal of the same have found it really an
excellent series of poetical effusions. The Author is
an esteemed friend, Mr. BENJAMIN U. Heaß, of
Strasburg, and an occasional contributor to the col
umns of The Intelligencer.
DEFINITION OF THE BUSSES.-BUS6-tu kiss.
Rebus—to kiss again. Blunderbuss—two girls kiss
ing each other. Omnibus—to kiss all the girls in
the room.
—The above definitions are given by the Lexi
cographer of gallantry and politeness—the local
editor of the Harrisburg Patriot. He is a "buster,"
and all the girls will pronounce him such. His Lex
icography is the best extant, and hence we never
dispute the correctness of any of his definitions.
ve SULDIERS' FAIR.—A meeting of the
Committee of Arrangements was held at the resi
dence of Mr. James M. Hopkins, on the 14th inst.
In the. absence of the Chairman, Mr. Roberts, Mr.
Hopkins was called on to preside. Mrs. D. W. Pat
terson was appointed Secretary pro tem.
Mr. Goo. M. Steinman, having resigned his place
as Chairman of Committee on Fine Arts, Rev. T. C.
Porter was elected to fill his place. Mr. Jacob
Stauffer, Mr. Wm E. Heinitsh, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
A. Atlee, Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Kline, Miss S. S.
Steinman and Mr. and Mrs. D. (S. Eshleman were
also added to said committee.
Mr. Charles A. Heinitsh was added to the Com
mittee of Arrangements.
Miss Annie Burford, Wee Emma Steinman, Miss
Lizzie Rutter, Miss Lizzie Eioholtz, Miss Lizzie
Henderson, Miss Maria Twelves, Miss Margie Rus
sel, Miss Louisa Russel, Miss Lizzie Rathvon, Miss
Annie Carson, Miss Mary Carson, Mr. H. Hopkins,
Mr. H. Duncan and Miss Alice Nevin were added to
the Committee on Decorations.
Mr. Brainard Kremer was added to the Commit
tee on Tableaux.
Mrs. B. B. Martin was added to the Committee
on Refreshments.
It was moved that each Lady taking charge of a
Table shall appoint a Cashier, who shall take charge
of all money—the money to he handed to the Treas
urer on the evening of each day.
It was moved that each township, town and vil
lage be earnestly solicited to select two delegates—
a lady and gentleman—to collect and take charge
of such donations as may be collected 'in their re
spective places, and to assist at the Fair.
It is also requested that the several Committees
organize, go at ones into active operation, and be
prepared to, report to the Chairman of the Committee
of Arrangements, Ron. A. E. Roberts, on Saturday,
23d inst., at the residence of Mrs. Rosina liubley.
-- TRIBUTE us RESPECT.--Tile Alowing reso
lutions are inserted at the rate of 10 cents per line.
Persons wishing Tributes of Respect, Ac., published
should bear in mind that this is the charge fixed in
the new schedule of advertising rates:
CAMP OF 2ND PA. CAVALRY,
BEALTON STATION, Va., Jan. 11th, 1864.
At an adjourned meeting of the members of " 'he
Pequea Dragoons," Co. D, 2d Pa. Cavalry, the fol
lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That in the death of Isaac !deans the
service of the United States loses a good, faithful
and conscientious soldier, and we a pleasant com
panion and true friend.
Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with his
bereaved family, and obligate ourselves to deliver
to them his body as soon as possible.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be for
warded to the family of the deceased, and also to
the Lancaster Examiner 4. Herald, Lancaster In
telligencer, and the Daily Express.
Committee—Serg't M. B. Eshleman, Serg't H. W.
Shultz, Corp. G. G. Fraim, Corp. J. F. Herb, Pri
vate Martin Buzzard, Private Sam'l Mclntyre.
Seem The Montrose Democrat has a most
excellent review of President LINCOLN'S late I
messagez, The following point is well taken.
'• The feature in the message which attracts
most attention and comment is that wherein
Mr. Lincoln proposes a basis upon which to
re-admit the Southern States into the Union.
Had he required repentant rebels to take an
oath of allegiance to the Constitution and
Union, as the terms of pardon, it would have
been a very liberal, just and appropriate offer,
and would have met the approval of all parties.
But in addition to this, Lincoln announces
that in the rebel States he shall exact of every
person, whether rebel in fact, or not, an oath
to supper; all his proclamations on the subject
of slavery, and all acts of Congress on the
same subject, as the condition of pardon—this
pardon to be a complete restoration of former
rights, except as to slaves ; and no person in
those States, even if innocent of aiding the re
bellion, shall ever be allowed a citizen's privi
lege unless he takes such oath. This scheme
is original, cunning and we believe, damaging
to the Union cause, and so intended. Why
ask Southern men to endorse all he says re
lacing to slavery any more than on other sub
jects? And when a man is pardoned why
restore him to all former rights except those
relating to slavery ? There its neither sense
nor justice irt:these remakable features."
STAMM TRIAASSREWS MMIPOMM.
The annual report of Wu. V. ktoeiturt„
Esq., State Treasurer, is a very clear and
satisfactory document, and reflects great
credit on its author. We make the following
extract to show how widely he differs from
the Governor in relation to the payment of
the State interest. It shows that, whatever
may be the public estimate of the integrity of
the Executive, we have an honest man at the
head of the Treasury Department, and we are
not without hope that his recommendations
for acting in good faith to the public creditors
will have more weight with the Legislature,
than the repudiating scheme of Mr. Deane:
1 The subject of the payment of the interest
on the public debt of the State is one which,
from its importance, ought to receive your
early and earnest attention.
For the last two years, and including the
amount due on the let inst., the interest has
I been paid in specie, or its equivalent, through
I means furnished by the banks of the Common
wealth. In 1862, under the act of April 11th
of that year, they were required to pay into
the treasury their rateable proportion of such
premium for gold, or its equivalent, as bad
been actually paid by the State. During the
lad veer under the provisions of the act of
January 30th, 1863, they were required to
exchange with the Commonwealth a sufficient
amount of coin for currency to pay the interest
of the State debt, and the State Treasurer was
authorized to issue to them specie certificates
of exchange, not transferable, pledging the
faith of the State to return said coin and re
exchange for notes current at that time, on or
before the first Monday of March, 1864, said
certificates to bear interest at the rate of 2k
per cent. per annum.
Under the provisions of this act the Com
monwealth has exchanged with the Banks
currency for coin, amounting to one million
nine hundred and sixty-eight thousand nine
hundred end four dollars, and ninety-seven
cents, ($1.,968,904 97,) interest on which, due
the banks on the Ist of March, 1864, will
amount to forty-one thousand and forty dollars
and fifteen cents, ($41,04015.)
To return this auieunt in coin at the present
market rate for gold (1511) will cost the State
$1,013 968 06. which, with the interest there
on $4104015, amounts to the sum of
1.055,0 ° 6 21 This the Commonwealth has`
pledged her faith to pay on the let of March
next.
If it he determined to keep faith with the
holders of the loans, by paying the interest on
the public debt in specie or its equivalent,
and the bunks were freed from similar calls,
I do not doubt, from the disposition they have
manifested to aid in maintaining the credit of
the Commonwealth, that they will he willing
to relieve her from the repayment of their
coin for the next year, if prompt steps be taken
" " m provide the means for their re-imbursement
at on earlier period. But to continue longer
thi stem of c ,mpelling the banks alone to
276 53 1. - .nisli coin for the interest on the public debt,
18, I think. asking more than they can bear,
57 and more than they can be expected to do.—
776 Holding this opinion, and desiring to obtain
222 for your honorable bodies all the information
c,,uld get on the subject, I last month ad-
Total, $147,612 99 dressed a circular to the banks of the Com-
The following is the amount paid from the monwealth, inquiring whether, under the
terms of the existing acts, they could be
State Treasury to Corporations and ineivid- r, lied on to furnish specie or its equivalent,
uals during the same period : 1 ,r the payment of the interest of the next
Henry E. Leman, for repairing " old" year.
muskets, 14,627 18 Some of the hanks that have replied deem
For Pensions and Gratuities,. 283 00 it unjust to their stockholders longer to (=-
Home for Friendless Children,. 1009 11) tinue this system at exchanging coin for cur
„ timl therefore decline to do so. Others
Millersville Normal School
s ' n” aro willing to e,:nt.nue the system if concurred
Common Schools, 11,350 f
in
t all hanks, and required by the State ;
Abatement of State Tax, Stilly 5 but all agree as to the impolicy and injustice
Mercantile Appraiser, (Isaac Mellinger) 19 . "' 6 f vingiing out a particular interest in the
$37,350 S'ate t..bear all the burden of doing that
which equally interests the whole people.
A THRILLING AD VE NT CRE. They claim that as they furnish an annual
The following account of on adventure in revenue to the Treasury of over three hundred
. .issod ‘I it sr .1 ire now being brought
Vie rieeiir great sii.,w,storm 011 111.!
pe i n if II soother system of bank
ivre in a private letter front Captain J:.ines
Ixi tipt 111 a large ehere of the taxation
H. Dodge, of Milwaukee:
imp upon them, it ought to he the dispo ,
FORT Leas an, Kunsan, Dec. 1
;;11t1; , i the Suite rather to relieve, than im-
On S tturday morning, Nov 28th, we started
t e.se litional burdens upon them.
loom Fort Lyon f.rr Fort Litt - cid, expecting t •
It is evident therefore, from all the infor
make the trip (the distance being 240 miles)
mation that can be hod, that the State must
in the usual time of four and it half days --
look el.ei‘ here for the means of maintaining
Our party numbered
her orrdit And is it not the duty of her
The first day we came about 45 miles 1 nt
tos.ple, ;n view her heretofore well settled
night made our bed on the bare ground, and
policy. to make some sacrifices in order to
in the morning found six or eight -inches f
imcompli-h it ?
snow covering us, and the wind blowing fear This sub t iec - was very ably argued by my
fully, as it can only blow across the plains.
predecessor in his report to the Legislature
On Tuesda
we traveled only seven miles. y came another fall of snow, and
last winter ; and fully concurring in his views
day
or
During that whole week we were only able to I take the liberty of quoting two•
the very pertinent questions therein three of
put,
thaw out our provision 4, not even making au
He says: " '1.1,e question generally asked
effort to cook anything, for on the whole route
in discussing this subject is, can the State
there are nu habitations. Until Saturday
afford to pay this large difference between
morning we were obliged, every little way, to
currency and specie in the payment of her
shovel the stage out of the snow banks, and,
interest ? Ought not the question rather to
finally, when we were about fifty-two miles
be, can she afford not to do it ? Will not the
from Lamed, we gave up the idea of proceeding
credit of the State suffer materially if she re.
farther that way. fuses to do it ? Is her credit of no value to
Hearing that there was a small Indian camp
her and her citizens ? Is the State so strong
not far from where we were embanked, I con- and powerful, so above any liability of future
eluded to leave the stage and go on to find it
want, that she can exercise her power irres
and get some dried buffalo meat, for our sup
pective ~f any effect her action may have upon
plies were exhausted, as we had only laid in
her edit'!"p
S. store for a five day trip. The Indian camp, The State, by the act of June 11th, 1840,
however, proved to be farther off than we
ppropriated a sufficient sum to re-imburse
thought for I walked fifteen miles, with the
her loan holders for the difference in value
snow up to my knees nearly all the way,
between specie and the currency in which
before the huts came in sight. When within
they had been previously paid, and then
a mile (or thereabouts) of them, one of the
solemnly declared "that hereafter the
drivers overtook me and reported that the interest falling due on Pennsylvania stooks
mules had given out entirely and he had
shall always he paid in specie or its equiva
started to go to the fort for help. The camp
lent."
being close by, I told him to go on and get ,
This is the law today, and for its obser
sbmething to eat and I would be along. I ,
vanee, and the maintenance of the present
. found him there with his hands andleet badly ' good name of the Commonwealth, no effort or
frozen, so I told him to stay there and I would sacrifice ought to be spared.
go to the fort myself—thirty-five miles. I
started The general government pays the interest
at three o'clock p. m. The mule
on its debt in specie. Massachusetts continues
carried me until sundown, and would not go . to pay in specie, and New York partially so
any farther. I had with us, fortunately, a ' though the system she has adopted of dist:Tim
buffalo robe, so taking the saddle for my pH- lusting in favor of her foreign creditors I
low, and tucking the robe close about me, laid think unjust.
down to try and keep awake till morning. I home of the States that pay in currency
was then twenty-seven miles from the fort and contracted their debts since the suspension of
'tie cold so intense that one of the mules had
to death the night before. When specie payments, and therefore harrowed cur
frozenrenoy ; but Pennsylvania borrowed money from
morning broke I was thankful to the kind her creditors, and she ought to pay them in
Providence which kept me from all harm. I money.
had nothing to eat, but saddled the mule, Let us therefore so act now, that in the
which had not strayed more than six rods future it may be the boast of our honored old
away, and started again. The poor animal, -
however, would not carry me more than three Commonwealth that, amid all the trials of
this eventful period of the nation's history,
miles and laid down. Without hesitating one shefaithfully performed her whole duty,
instant I stripped him, piled the saddle and
and came out of the ordeal with unsullied
robe together, and in less than five minutes '
honor.
was wading through the snow up to my knees. I
I knew, probably, I would have to be out I
another night, but there was no such thing as
turning back, for there were left behind six
human beings whose lives depended upon my
exertions. When within ten miles of the fort
I had to cross a stream and leave the Arkansas
river, striking across a rolling prairie. The
snow was here from one to three feet deep, and
the track entirely filled.
I had been over the road but once except
in a covered stage, and had no particular idea
of the direction. I only knew that the fort
was on a creek with trees growing along it,
and the best I hoped for was to reach the trees
that night. I kept two objects in view so as
to make a straight line. I walked all day,
and just as the sun was two hours high or so,
I saw the trees. Two miles, or about that,
beyond me I saw a lone tree, and that was the
last object I had made up my mind to reach,
but when within half a mile or thereabouts of
the tree„ I saw what I thought was the fort,
and took courage. I walked on at the rate of
a mile an hour. Before I reached the tree I
knew for a certainty that it was the fort I had
seen, and saw that a sleigh had started for
me. They were coming on a gallop ; 1 could
see them ; one or two was standing up looking
toward me. They were whipping their horses,
and the snow flying in all directions ; I knew
that I was saved, and my strength gave out;
I could go no' farther and sank down in the
snow. When they were almost to me, I saw
Lieut. Crocker driving and heard him Bay :
"Good Lord 4 it is Dodge !"
Dr. Clark jumped out with a bottle of
whisky in one hand and a pie in the other.
I was in no mood to refuse either. They had
been looking for the stage with a glass and
saw me as I came over the last roll of the
prairie, and ordered up a team to go out and
help some One, they did not know whom.
In half an hour they had two six mule
teams and one two mule team going after the
stage, with refreshments for man and beast.
They came bank in twenty-four hours and say
that ,I saved their lives. Only two were
frozen, one very badly, and will probably have
to lose his foot. One man was with us who
had been in this country for thirty two years,
and in all that time says he had never seen a
worse storm, and that he had made up his
mind' I could not possibly live through it.
Those who went out after the stage say they
never saw a more rejoiced lot than they when
they knew of my safety.
Lancaster County in Account with the State
or Penneylvania.—The report of the Auditor
General shows that the whole amount paid
into the State Treasury for the fiscal year end
ing Nov. 30, 1863, was $4,289,451.63. Of this
amount Lancaster county paid $147,642 99, as
follows - :
TAX ON BANE DIVIDES DS
Columbia Bank.
Farmers Bank....
Mount Joy Bank
TAX ON CORPORATION STOCKS
Colombia Bank
Farmers Bank
Farmers Bank of Mount Joy
Mount Joy Bank
Chestnut Hill Railroad
Columbia and Chestnut Hill Turnpike,
Columbia and Washington "
Lancaster and Ephrata
Lancaster and Litiz
Sancazter, Elizabethtown and Middle-
Town turnpike 125 93
Lancaster and Susquehanna Turnpike, 119 00
Man.'. Turnpike .. 55 31
New Holland Turnpike
'7hestnut Hill Iron Ore Company
Inland Insurance and Deposit Comp'y,
Columbia Gas Company
Lancaster " "
Columbia Water Company
Fulton 'Jail Association..
TAN . ON REAL A PERSONAL ESTATE
Real and Personal Estate
do special tax of A mill per act
of Mac 16,'61
Tavern Licenses,
Retailers du
Broker's d 0....
Theatres and Circus Licenses ,
Distillery and Brewery .....
Bowling Saloons and Billard Licenses
Eating House Licenses,
Patent Medicine do
Pharuplet Laws,..
From Peter Martin, Prothonotary...
Geo. C. Hawthorne, Register
" Geo. Whitson, Recorder
From Peter Martin, Prothouotary,..
Henry Musser, Clerk Suisions
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From Geo. C. Hawthorne, Register
To Incorporate Presbyterian Parsooage
Association of Loacock
To Incorporate Lancaster, Lebanon
and fine Grove Railroad Company.
To Incorporate the Safe Harbor and
Susequehanna . Turnpike Company.
FREE BANKING SYSTEM.
Farmers' Bank of Mt. Joy for expenses
incurred,
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City of Lancaster, per City Treasurer.
TAX ON BROKERS.
From Reed, McGratin & Co
$1,293 37
A 9 0 66
057 25
1,129 75
1,642 50
37 50
423 6 3
241 30
31 79
26 22
48 30
120 00
169 43
150 00
178 62
74 30
500 00
100 00
37 12
SS 144 31
15 S' 72
5,636 25
5,952 79
202 35
95 00
1,044 00
MEM
DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS
The New York World, in an article on
" The Democratic Party," with entire truth
says:
What we beg the reader particularly to re
mark is, that, throughout our whole political
history, although the costume has frequently
been changed, it has been the same identical
struggle between exorbitant federal preten
sions on the one side and popular liberty on
the other. To suppose that this struggle has
become obsolete only,betokens the shallowness
of the supposer. To fancy that the present is
a time when the Democratic party has no
work before it, the performance of which is
demanded by its principles, is to be as incapa
ble of discerning the signs of the times as a
bat is of seeing in the day-time. If the Dem
ocratic party were annihilated to-day it would
spring up again to-morrow. It is in the
nature of things that overgrown power will
become oppressive, and that part' of the com
munity who hope to share neither the power
nor the plunder—that is to say, the Democratic
masses—will resist.
But what is the prospect now? To those
who are capable of looking beneath thesurfaoe
of things and seeing the principles that
underlie them, the prospect was never better.
Mark ! we do not say that the prospects of the
country were never better (for God knows
they were never worse) but that the vitality
of the Democratic party was never so sure to
assert itself. Burdensome taxation, suffering,
wretchedness, will come to the dwellings of
the common people, and they will shake the
Black Republican temple till not one stone is
left upon another of its ruins. This is as
certain as that night follows day : and, in
revolutionary times Ile these, changes in
public sentiment are often very sudden. In
August, last year, the Republicans felt secure
of a large majority in every State ; but the
fall elections, nevertheless, all went against
them. This fall the Democratic raft dipped
into the trough of the sea, and the waves
went over her ; but the storm is high, and she
will mount with the bounding billow. She is
so constructed that nothing can sink her.
Louis num, January 16.
A despatch, dated Mooney Creek, Jan; 18, -says:
" A part of Col. MoClook's cavalry attacked the tith
and llth rebel Texas regiments yesterday, and
killed 14 and took 41 prisoners."
Rebel Defeat