ME Veubfortt eporter. frees Soil, Free Speech, Free Men iltrairdieie for ,n-is Territorso - ea Utorday, August 21, 185.2 - ' Tiltp flavor ter. ' In ail per, annum-if paid within the year 50 eenis will iretediall sash paid senility in advance $1 00 will be = Ma paper tent aireetwo years, unless paid for. Asariestssimm, per square of ten Thus. GO caw foe the WI and IS ewe for each subsequent north En e tr aanlc eth be, , eb e b n =dame'sad EirrelPslaw offices. Minnociatits Nondnatious. POll riessinzwr. :GEN. FRANKLIN PIERCE, Or ELI" 111MInalil. pas rot mg:mart: W.ILLIAM It. KING; 1111 AAAAA 11011 CAVA& 00XXISSIONS1e **Ord Co*. Dulls • OF Ma. Szatuutiv.—A despatch from arolenstrille announces the death of Wm. Searight, the Democratic candidate of Canal Commissioner, which took plaCe there on Thursday miming,— Mr. S. had been ill for some time. The Democra• tic State Convention, which is to assemble on the 15th inst., will have to nominate a candidate in his place. The, Evening Btellelin, (a, neutral paper) up that Mr. Searight was a gentleman of very high character, and, in nominating him for Car.al Commissioner, his party selected one of the very best men they could have named. There can be no doubt that it he bed lived and been elected, he would have made one of the best officers that ever have been in the Canal Board. Canal Conunlssloner. The death of Mr. Stisaicirr, the democratic note. Ines for Canal Commissioner, will render it incum bent von the Convention to meet on the 26th, to elect a candidate tar that office, to be supported by the democracy of Pennsylvania at the ensuing elec tion. In view of the pending Presidential contest, the duty ; always of great importance, becomes of still increased magnitude. Previous to the, assembling of the last lonrth o March Convention, it hid been universally conce ded that the candidate should be selected from the portb—.that the claims of the never-flinching de.f Inocracy of 'bat portion of the State, should be no longer delemal—but that some respect should be peal to the majorities always polled for the success af,democratic measures and men. That this un derstanding, was not faithfully carried out, abated not one atom, the seal which the North manifested for the success of the ndminee. The trusahearted, kidded Detnomacy of the North, though they had been neglected, in the notinination of Judges for the Supreme Berat...though they were again Inrgolen in the nomination for Canal Commissioner—were ready to do their whole duty, at the coming elec tion, by rolling op those heavy majorities which have carried the democracy in triumph through an many a conflict. In the Providence of Cod, another opportunity is now offered the Democratic party to do the long delayed justice to the North. What will be the re e:llff Shall our claims meet with fair considera ationou will we be awarded the same treatment which we have 40 long • borne t We have imprOvements and interests in this section of the Commonwealth, which demand that we should have a Canal Commissioner Imm the North, and the progress of which have awakened a Jeep and strong determination, on the part of the people to ask that our rights be respected—and to ask it too m a manner and spirit that will admit of no longer delay. The North presented a candidate to the late Con. ventiori, in the person of Col..Goarma F. films of this county. There can be no question raised as to his,capability or integrity. ft was due to them and to him that he should have been the choice of ilia convention at that time. It is not necessary for Ass to advert to the circumstances which produced *different result. Bat his name will be presented by the north, to the coming Contention, in full con fidence, that such a spirit and disposition will pre vail in that body as will lead to the recognition and acknowledgement of the claims of the North There is no reason why be should not be the unanimous ly nominated candidate of the Convention. On the pontrary k every, consideration of welfare to :he par. ity ,Al interest to the Commonwealth, and common scsartesy to a mildew so prominent in the late body to lltmand mat intr*tively such action. The tionlh *poi Wag forward their candidate Bp can nninnially conceded to belong to them Roy appeaP to the magnanimity of the Democratic patty, that they sboold now mewl with the conside. ration to which riley we entitled. They ask it in a spirit of fraternity—and do not mean to speak met nacingly, lawn. they declare that the cterwicrarty or the Nonb, have submitted pattently to a postpone. meat of their claims, omit a feeling has been en, genderedwrnongst the peopli, which most, .until justice is ions, lead to vouseqnences disestrocs to theprooperity of the party. In eeconlance with public feeling, welters plats e4 - tbe name of Col. Mason at the-head of our pa por, not, we trust, to be taken Joan until the battle shall have been fought. That he will be the nomi. nee of the party, we have every reason to believe, for we cannot but indulge, the hops that thepatiegve ol the North, will now meet with its. toward.. Vest tell Convention. The Veer Soil Convention which meet as Pins. berg on the Hills inst., nominated Jona P. Mt.; of Kew Hampshire, lot President; and amiss 111, low* of fridians, for Vice Preaident. -Ift,inetber column, trill be found the platrenn ehiledAr the Conventm, about wind we shift wedmielike akessee lion wee week. Mr. MeComes toss sent en' to Eampefrve ban dTd end eighty•one respetsanj =win machines I bk Ittrictrti at - EINTOft -- - • - Jam UoM Csail The Books for Subscriptions to the the Stock of iiienet at iiiofroialsvirin. - iiii ireti.„PlCl., Etc,o4: on itin 17th inst., spd .410 inn* necOpinry toitenrathe *nor, 0460,00,1 iivntricritiol:4; nbat4432ooooo:vras sen by Ott caiiiits of E*lneylviVa, ebd the; bityiitce by t. cilizeiw ofUnita. this result cannot but be highly gratifying to the many 5 ears past been laboring lb secnre a connec• tion by Canal Navigation between the waters of the Lakes and the- Anttanner. Since the adjournment of the Legi.latuie they have given t h e ir pUentipnlo this as the only remaining brie to' constricts 'tins We understand that the company _w ill meet, to organize and elect offiCers''esrly §epielkiter, when, it is presumed; the wo4 s . will be..lef .. st an early day. From a sqrvey matte of the line in May last, by direCtion of W. B. Fos - rca JR., the amount neceas• ary to complete it is net down at 6365,000, We congratulate our readers upon the result, and the prospect of haling oqr lons cherished improve ment completed. B.F.BUTLEit to SENATOR. CHASE, la replyto his Wier. doted Jaly lath AIMS, urging the propriety of norainstiog is third anididate toy Me 'Presidency. • ICOPTINnID Fank FIRST PAGEI "perpetuation at slavery" at the national capital ; is and the permanent maintenance, as iireptatable; ‘ 4 .of the Fugitive - Slave leer." In this apprehension, you are, l think, well warranted for though Ido nut understand General - Pierce its committed to veto every bill amending the Fugitive Slave law—tor example, a bill which, without impairing the effi ciency ul that law should yet mane its provisions mine consonant to humanity, and introduce proper sale-guards for the protection of men of color, who are neither slaves nor fugit.ves—yet I do under titand'him as disapproving any "agitation," on ei ther of thosetwo question., slavery to the district of Callarabia aril the Fugitive Slave law. in form• er parts of this letter, I have stated in what respects, On what conditions, arid why, ( should desire leg islation on this tatter tome. It any bill confirming to the views above expressed tly me shocid be pas sed by Congress, during Gen. p'ierce's term of ser vice, I should hope it would receive his approval. And it !tom such a bitt, his approval should be with. held, all heart's mid voices in the free states would; trtibe next election, be united in support of can. didates pledged to re-enact the toll. Such a veto of such a bill would be a fatal victory of the Slave power; for it would secure, in the election of a President untrammelled by a pro-slavery platform --a President pledged to carry out the popular will. You also fear that " the saarts now being made "to introduce slavery into California by an ahem " tion al the constitution, or d ir ision of tho state, and to convert Utah and New Mexico into stavehold• " itig territortes, with a view to the creation of slate t , states, and to extend slavery by insular or coon " nental acquisitiens, in which the system now ex, ists, or may be estalished," will meet no opposi non horn him or his associate nominee, if elected. Slavery in California or in any part of it, in whatev er male attempted to be introduced, can only be brought about by a change of the present state con stitution, by the act of the people of California them. salves. The federal can have no agen cy in, or responsibilitydor, the measure, unless it be attempted through a division of the state—astep which cannot be taken without the consent of Con gress. I think it altogether improbable that the people of California will ever divide the state for the express purpose, and with the actual • effect, of creating a slave state. But if so improbable mixing shall actually occur, it would be for Congress, when it happens, to decideth wheter it should be consent ed to—and for you and me, it then on the stage of action—and others who nnited with us in opposing slavery extension in 1848—to arouse the friends of freedom, and, it needful, to repeat the efforts of that memoriable year. And ro, also, should Congress pass any of the bills suggested by you, for the pur pooe of establishing slavery in the yet free soil of Utah and New Mexico or for the acquisition of slave territory now held by foreign states. "It is," you next ask, "that the other great in terests ".of freedom and progress will be promot• ed," that anything will be done for "constitutional itnprovemehts of the rivers and harbors" of the " west-40r land reforms"—for " action or demon, titration, by our government, in favor of the na " tions of Europe contending for freedom against despot:3r For one, to each of these inquiries, I answer, " Yes " So far as either of these measures of policy to really constitutional, and necessary, and expedient, I expect them to be treated with favor by General Pierce ; and I have no doubt that under his administration, they will be far more et 'actively, as well as far more usefully, cared for, than under that of his whig competitor, to whose patronage your course, if successful, would corn• mend them. Whatever may have been the partic ular action of Gen. Pierce, iu respect to river and harbor improvements, when a senator from New Hampshire—whatever may have been.the opinions or the course of Virginia—whose delegates first named him as a candidate in respect to either of these questions-4 feel persuaded that, its President of the United States, General Pierce will treat With favor every just and constitutional measure for Ins promotion of the objects you have named. Extra vagant and unconstitutional , schemes, legislative. jobs, -Quixotic enterprisers of any andevery kind— whether at home or abroad—deserve no f a vo r f r o m any one; and the belief that they will receive none from him, hippo of my chief reasons for giving him my vote. Is it," you finally inquire: R Is it that free.soil democrats expect that what. ever may be the :emit of the pending election, the .nose of freedom Will/dill survive; that the pnnei ,iles of living democracy will still inspire determin• whin to maintain right and resist wrong! that at [ length ' the slave power with alltheoppressim a n d injustice it upholds, with all its ostracism,social and political, of earnest friends to liberty, will be over iihrowo 1 and that our national government will be come what our fathers designed it to be, a free government in fact as well as in name, with all .its influence actively and perpetually on tie side of freedom at home and ti roughen! the world I" To these questions—torming the climax of your appeal—yon give your own reply as follows: "This expectation, will not I hope, be disappoin. led; but, if fulfilled, will not be through, but in spite of such ?action as that of the Baltimore Com promise Convention. The support of its nominees lam firmly convinced, will not - hasten, but retard its fulfilment" I share with you this cheering-expectation; and though ( do not suppose that the support of the nom inees presented to the country by the r Baltimore Compromise Convention" will directly 111151e:14Ni fulfillment, yet, fur the reason already stated, and in view of. all : circumstances and relations, present and prospective, this result, I rust, be less perms, newly rebutted by the election of the democratic nominee, than by- the course of action which you have decided en pursuing. When I consider that, for the last thirty-fear years ibe quration of slaverh in some one of its forms, has constantly been coining nislor i discussion, in arid "ont of Congress that-the mitre, in its very nature, ,appsahttesistlessly to the minds-and hearts ofuhil .anthrnpbus in every buatter of the Union...Ur the -wise and cautious. as welt as the imprudent and fanatical; • that the very difffcnitiewvbich environ it do bat give it the strongest clams to the attention. of relieving, men; .that it destined to be hereafter, as ; it has been. kw the few-years passed, notmerelythe ;gravest, but, however we may lament it, the.most ;constantly recurring - or** pnblle questions—tom. tog op net only With eiery petition to Congress for the abolition of slavery hi the district. of Columbia,' for the ptehibition of slavery- in the , -territodea ref ment of the Fugitive Slave law,but, esitwece, tre quently_of a sudden,:,and when no mai.ettpects it, leaping;into,tlie anus of legislative tlettine,and as stetting;; for 'the tune, its supremeetovetill er moat :—when I consider that in 04 treestgfue t some, VelatrikintUptted with slaveirliscontinnally, Underoiseuterim4l. me meetings of eoloitikatioly enti-shiceryobotinon, and other sociliniesi, : batring Vrelatien, Mere or less direct, to the general mil). ject—in political and Adler assemblages—in the Andp„it t in lectures, anslthrougb the. press 7 -by. trea ises Iphilosophy,ineialit and' political ericonomit' —by historcial, and other work!, illustrating the evil consequences of-the systemt-by . ientincesend works of imagination, by tale and tong — by the pa l' Bodice! literature of the day, in forms and shapes: - .• when I consider that, in ;the staxr s etetates -Them a elies, the-like ' , agitation" ie now goi ng Ain, - liythc,,nossiens jittlituttblic efintsondoccasio.pully, salegislalfiit %irate, as to le expediency of man eiptitioptand.iheiima and method of commencing slid electing , it; the. propriety, or duty of so modi fying:existing laws es to protect the democratic re lations and provide instruction among slaves; the duties of religious bodies, of clergymen, aid of masters towards them ; the treatment to be extend ed to free persons of color within the slave stales, and especially to such as come within them in ves sels belonging to the free states or foreign nations; the uonnoversies which have grown out of the de tention of free persons thus arriving in southern ports; and as to carious other question of kindred n a ture :—when I consider, that uidependently of all home occasions giving rise to the agitation of this question, it'is likely to be forced on us by our rela tions to Liberia4io Hayti,. and mother foreign states: and when I consider F above all, the nature which God has given to man, the instincts and faculties, and the powers of thought and of utterance, with which he is endowned, and bow in this late age, and in this'new world, he is wont to insiston using these powers feel} , and without restraint, precisely in proportion to the attempts of !rents to preps and crush them • when I consider, though ever so slight ly, these an d such like reflections, I am amazed et the shortsightedness and the folly, of platform builders at Baltimore; but I have no apprehensions tot the cause of human freedom. I wish the'demoaraticirominees tp be elected not only for the several reasons above set forth ; but also that they and the democratic party may be charged with the entire responcibility of the gov. eminent ; that they may learn how impeent and finite are :the behests of politicians, when they at tempt to curb the free minds of a tree people. A very short experience will, I think, be sufficient to bring to their senses those who seem now to have forgotten alike the principles of the constitution and the lessons of hiwory. Rut if not--if your fears should prove real, and the democratic party and its public servants shout t lend themselves to a crus ade against treedom—still the duration of such mis rule will be comparatively short Four years in the history of the nation, are but as four days in in the life of man And thouali this period is long enough for the accomplishment of much mischief, should men in power set themselves about it ; yet in the virtue and intelligence of the people, and in the favor of Providence, we may confidently hope for an early and-ample corrective. I have now, I believe, fully met all the material points of your letter, and have given you, with entire frankness, my views in respect to them The decided character of your sentiments, and the deliberate and earnest manner in which you have expressed them, preclude any expectation on my part, that they will be in any respect essentially changed, in consequence of anything contained in this communication. I am, therefore, compelled to anticipate a difference of opinion between us, very decided and more or less prolonged; but I will not deny myself the satiataction of believing that it will neither interrupt nor impair the friendly relations which, since we were brought together in 1840, have hitherto existed between us. I remain, with she-highest respect and regard, Thy truly your friend BUTLER. HON. S. P. Olin, U.S. Senator; Washington City. Meeting in Favor of We Maio Law. AT a large and teepectable meeting of the friends of the " Maine Law" holden at the Court House in Towanda Borough August 16th 1852, Wyllys Bron son was called to the ehair, Messrs. 3 D. Montan ye, J. D. Goodenough, David Cash and Aaron Chubbuck, was elected Vice Presidents and Messrs. Geo R. Barker and A. D. Montanye Secretaries. On motion the chair appointed the following gentlemen a committee to report resolutions, vta : 11. Booth, .Leonard Pratt, Percipal Powell, Henry L. Lamereux and G. H. Drake. On motion the order of business was then sus pended to give an opportunity for an address by .1. M. Carpenter, of Binghampton, N. Y., who in a speech of great power, force of logic, and perspicu ity of statement, illustrated and sustained through• out by numerous facts, exhibited the iniquities of the liquor traffic, and urged the necessity of prohib itory legislation. The committee thronah their chairman, then re ported the following resolutions : Resolved: That in s toxicating, drinks are the canse of a Very large portion of the evils that afflict the people of this commontveaith, while they produce no corresponding benefits ; and therefore the best interests of the State require that their manufacture and sale should by prohibited by law. Resolved: That we lake no discouragement from the defeat of our eflorts in the last legislature to pro clue the passage of a prohibitory law; that on the contrary the result of those eflorts has but rendered us the more conscious of our strength, and convinc ed us that it is only necessary to persist in oar en deavors in order to secure a certain and speedy victory. Reform& That we tender hearty thanks to oar Senator and Representatives, from this district for their votes on this question in the last legislature, while they discharged their duty to their own con sciences by voting for a just and humane law, at the same time thersecured the warm approtzgian.of a large majority o f f their fellow citizen. Resolved: That this subject is ens in which we feel a deep and personal interest; that under exist• tug laws, we have no security against the evils of intemperance, for our friends, our relatives, our selves; that we demand protection in behalf ofthe raising generation, in beheld of oar semi and daagh ters, in behalf of our brothensot the human family, from a fate more to be dreaded than - death itself; and that we wilt never abandon the cause we have espoused, nor relax our efforts until our object is' obtained. .Revlved: That we recommend the eaHing of a Convention of the friends of sobriety in the Comity, to meet al ibis place on Monday evening the oth, of September next, to consider and adopt the best means for arousing the moral sense of the comma nil on this subject, and for procuring the passage of a law prohibi ing the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors. Reolced : That a committee be appointed by the chair, whose duty it shall be to prepare a eall for the Convention More eau!, and rause the same to be published in the several papers of this county The lore,going resolutions being unanimously -adapted, the chair then proceeded to appoint the aforesaid committee, (the names of the members bent will appear annexed to the call which we publish in another column at their request.) Qn Motion it was resolved that the proceedings of this meeting be published in all the County pa pers. A. 1) MONTANYE. GEO. R. BARKER. Secretaries. HP:ALTA OP LiNC.AITER, —The Lancaster (Pa.) Whig says that the - report recently maned of the prevalence of cholera there is incorrect. There have been a considerable number of cue" chn. ;fern morbus and dysentesy in the city, purl two eeighbors who were attacked died ;:but there has been no ease of distinctive cholera. or it there was,, the disease has disappeared._ Lancaster is as healthy nowits it usually is at this season. ifoisceGfastv•saye the saaandam Whirr of Wall -wiltmout•for PIERCE. • 111 IPLATACIN. --listringassembled - lir rfatiesil - ,Couventiou. lus tint delegates Of the Frei of the United gl ite n t United bi s c9m00. 3 tot, maintain the tilt against wrong eist:freedbm • Ugliest aliett7, confiding ip die:intelligence of the:Almericall- pee* ple,Tutdpg our trust fiir the triumpWof our cuse, anitil*kinChiniPjaanCe to adiance it, we now Submit to the candid judg ment of all men the following declaration of princi- I. That governments, deriving just powers from the consent of•the governed, are instituted, among 'men to secure to all those inalienable rights of life, liberty , and the pursuit- of happiness with which they are endowed by their Creator, and of which pine rbli depri vedkaii4 146101* . eiPePt for Crime - . • tailukaAt..De mousey . is -Iq, maintain the liberties of the people, the sovereign ty of the States' and the perpertutty of the Union, by the impartial application to the public affairs, without sectional discriminations, of the funds , mental principles of equal rights, strict justice and economical administrations. 3. That the Federal Government is one of the limited powers, derived solely from the constitution, and the grants of power therein ought to,be strictly construed by all the departments and agents of the government, and-it is •Inexpedhnst and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutional powers. 4., Thetas by the. Constitution, the citizens of each State should be entitlea to all the privileges andimutnnitles of - citizens in the torero! States, the practice of imprisoning termed seamen of other States. while the vessels to which they be. longed lie in port. and refusing the exercise of the right to bring such cases before the -Supreme Court of the-United States•tor test the legality of each pro. ceedings, is a flagrant violation of the Constitution. and 40 invasion of the rights of the citizens of other States. utterly inconsistent with the profess Moos made by the slavebolders that they wish the provisions of the Constitution faithfully ob. served by every State in the Union. 11. That the 'Constitution of the United States ordained to form a mere perfect union. to establish justice. and secure theblessinge of liberty.expreesly denies to the General Government all power to de. prive any person of life, liberty or property, with• oat due process of law ; and, therefore, the govern. went having no more power to make a slave that: to make a king.and no more power to establish slavery than to establish monarchy, should at once proceed to relieve itself from all responsibility for the extension of slavery wherever it possesses con• stitutional power to legislate for its extension. 6. That to the persevering and importunate demands of the slave States, new slave territories, and the nationalization of slavery. our distinct and final answer is: "No more slave States—no more slave territory—no nationalized slavery—and no national legislation for the extradition of slaves." 7. That the Acts of Congress known ac the Com promise measures of 1950, by making the admix. sion of a sovereign State contingent upon the adoption of other measures, demanded by the special interest of slavery, by their omission to guarantee freedom in free territories, by their attempt to impose unconstitutional limitations of the power of Congress and the people loadmit new States, by their provisions for the assumption of five millions of the State debt of Texas, and for the payment of live millions more, and the cession of a large territory to the same State, under a menace, as an inducement to the relinquishment of a groundless claim, and by their invasion of the sovereignty of the States and the liberties of the people, through the enactments of an unjust op pressivp and unconstitutional Fugitive Slay. Law, are proved to be inconsistent with all the principles and maxims of the Democracy, and wholly inade. quote to the settlement of the questions of which• those are claimed to be an adjustment. S. That no permanent settlement of the slavery question can be looked for except in the practical recognition of the'truth that slavery is sectional, and freedom national, by the total separation of the general government from slavery, and the exercise of its legitimate and constitutional influence on the side of freedom. and by leaving to the States the whole subject or slaver, sad We **tradition of fast. tires from sorrica 9. That a due regard Cunha rederat Constitution, and sound administrative policy, demand that the funds of the General Government be kept-separate from banking institutions; that inland and ocean postage should be reduced to the lowest possible point; that no more reventre!shourd be raised than is required to defray the strictly necessary expenses of the public service, and to pay off the public debt; and that the 'power and patronage of the Govern, ment should be diminished by the abolition of all unnecessary offices, salaries and privileges, and by the election by the people of civil officers in the service of the United States, so far as may be con sistent with the prompt and efficient transaction of the public business. 10. That river and harbor improvements, when necessary to the safety and convenien c e of com merce with foreign nations: or among the several States, are objects of national concern, and it is the duty of Congress, in the same. 11. That emigrants end exiles from the old world should find a cordial welcome to homes of comfort and fields of enterprise in the now ; and every at tempt to abridge theirprivilege of becoming citizens and owners of the soil among us, ought to be resis ted with inflexible determination. 12. That the public land of the Untied States be long to the people, and should not be sold to indivi duals nor granted to corporations, but should be held as a sacred trust for the benefit of the people. and should be granted in limited quantities free of cost, to landless settlers. 13. That every nation has a clear right to alter o change Its own government, and to administer its own concerns in such a manner as may best secure the rights and promote the happiness of the people; and foreign interference with that right is a danger ous violation of the law of nations against which they should , protest, and endeavor, by all proper means, to prevent. And especially is it the duty of the American government, representing the chief republic of the world, to protest against, and, by all proper means, to prevent the intervention of kings and emperors against nations seeking to establish for themselves republican or constitutional govern' meets. 14. That shivery is a sin spinal God ands crime against man, the enormity of-which no law or us.' • age can unction or mitigate ; and that Christianity and humanity alike demand its abolition. 15. That the fugitive slave act of 1850 is re. 'regnant to the principles of the common law, to the spirit of Christianity, and to the sentiments of the civilized world. We, therefore, deny its binding force upon the American people, and demand its immediate, and total repeat 16. That the doctrine, that any hum* law, is a fiedity, an& not subject to modification or repeal, is not in accordance with the creed of the founders of our Government, and is dangerous to the liberties of our people. IT. That the independence of Hayti ought to be recognized by our Government, and our commercial relation with it placed on the footing with the moat favored nations. 18. That it is the imperative duty of the General Government to protect all persons, of whatever color, visiting any of the United States, from IMP just or illegal imprisonment, or any other infringe. ment of their rights. 19. That we recommend the introduction into all treaties hereafter to be negotiated between the U. States and foreign nations, of some provision for the amicable settlement of difficulties by a resort to decisive arbitration. That the Free Democratic parti is not or: ganized to aid either the Whig or Deniocratio wing of the great alive compromise party o 1 the nation, but to defeat them both; and; that repudiating and renouncing both as hopelessly corrupt and utterly unworthy of confidence; the purpose of the Free Democracy is to lake possession of the Federal Government, and administer it fbr the better- pro. teCtion of the rights and interests of the Whula people: $l. That we inscribe on our banner—" Free soil; free speech ; free meat" and- under ft, will fight on And fight ever, until a triumphant victory shall reward our exertions. ' - • 21, Tito as American slavery is a sin against Clod; sad attics* opiate man, it is In the highest sense invalid. illegal:and not a law eitherDiiine et .hOunitt. and tethereforentterlylehtand orno forte 'Wore God and many •', - ,-,3 of Tithe The ' uadersugnedJaave been appoiotaditacesuzaV tie' to call ationeelatiou of fellow cilizena-lo if,the 4' Maine Last `, to meet at the Cototiluuseon MoodafevenlegAte 6th of Serembettiett• dkch tlie.dt6y, which the dettoltea uppa almr die Ciintodlife deem it propel lciatate bri the ogees contemplated in this catli, as well some of the coneideritions which itriPier a taiga' portion oldie intelligent, sober-minded citizens of this- county to seeks legitimize -rokons.. , Common obsertation is sufficient to establish the fact beyond all dispute that the liquor traffic is ,a deep, blighting curse upon the intellectual and mor al welfare, as well as the industrial prosperity of the people,ol this county- No other cause withers liie pride and Allrut, °Noce:aunty with half so deso lating 'ideal' To 08811 the repeated murders and WWI 01 every grade .which the traffic has caused among us, to say nothing of the many thou sands of dollars whichhave been abstracted from the pockets of our citizens by the collector to defray the expenses of criminal prosecutior.s and the in carceration of criminals made so by the intoxica ling draught, furnished by the liquor seller, there is enough to b e seen in the decline of morals, the de cay of manly sobriety among our youth, the idle ness and dissipation, the want and wretchedness, the quarrels and fighting;, . ; loathsome disease and miserable death, that everywhere result from in toxicating drinks, to convince every intelligent per son that this traffic is totally incompatible with the welfare of society.. We desire to make war upon the rightful occupaion of no citizen or class 61 cit izens. We wish to proscribe no one. We only wish for protection in the -enjoyment of our proper rights. If this traffic is allowed to continue, drunk ardswill continue to be made as heretofore. The loathed and leprous ranks of the victims of drunken ens must be filled - from the smiling circles of our own sons and daughters. We cannot consent that a business whose natural and successful operation is to divest our sons and daughters of all that is manly and lovely, and reduce them to the wretched conditions of drunkeness, shall continue to retain a legal existence. If this traffic is permitted to re main, the crime, pauperism and misery that result from it will continue among us and we *ball be taxed as heretofore in our industry,. our moralshin telligenee and religious well being in order to make up the gains of the liquor seller. Na other clasis of fellow citizens is supported at an expense so dear to the community. Moral suasion has been tried long enough and has proved equally ineflectual to ir.duce the deal ers to give up his traffic, or save his victim from the drunkards fate. Experience has fully proved that while the conutenance oflaw is aflorded, there will never be wanting men enough to carry on this death-dealing business ; and that so long as the op portunities for indulgence are presented the young and thoughtlessohe ignorant and unfortunate, in spite of all warnings ' will continue to be drawn within the whirlpool of intemperance. We there. fore [eel impelled in the name of humanity, to re quire that this traffic shall be placed in the same category with other outrageous oflencea against so. ciety and subjected to a similar punishment. We have learned by experience heretofore that we cannot regulate this traffic so as to guard the community against its evils. Leviathan is not thus to be tamed. Rot more recent experiments have satisfactorily shown that tike other crimes and out- rage a g ainst society, this traf fi c can be sUppress• ed by th e-strong arm of the law. The success of prohibitory legislation in the state of Maine is a triumph of humanity which we hail with heartfelt satisfaction. An attempt was made in answer to numerous petitions from every part of the Common weslth, to procure the passage of a similar law by our legislature during its-last session. It failed, but a•spirit was aroused throughout the State, which w II never be pot at rest until the " Maine Law," shall become a law of Pennsylvania. • Thia measure will be urged upon the attention of the next legislature. Last winter, our citizens without any concert of action exerted thentrefies with much spirit and determination. More than twenty-five hundred of the legal voters of the County, petitioned for the law, and our Senators and Representatives, merited and received the corn meld• ton of emir constituents by voting agreabty to their wishes. To arouse the moral sense of our telaw citizers to, a more just ap fr c anion the importance of the subject, to concert measures for giving a more complete expression of our views, and brining their views to bear upon the next legislature, is the object of the Covention which we are appointed to convoke. We hope that every friend of sobriety in the County will feel that he is personally interested in the objects of this call, and that the attendance of our fellow citizens on the evening aforesaid will be fully commensurate with the importance of the subject. Aaron Chubbuck, Eli Baird, Geo. W. Brink, C. T. Bliss, B. S. Dart. Geo. T. Horton, Daniel Brink, Jesse Brown, E. S Tracy Horace jr., E. o.Goodrich, E A. Parsons, H Booth, WYllys Brink- I son, J. D. Goodenough, David Cash, Gen. R. Barker, G. H. Bull, A. D. Itiontanye, James Mac , larlane r N. N. Betts, James Elliott, Chauncey Frisbie. Died. At Wyalusing on the I2at inst., Jour' R. ELus, aged 74 years. THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING of the Bradford County Medical Society, will be held at the Ward House / on Thursday September the Bth., 1852, at 1 o'clock P. M. C. IC LADD, Secretary, P. T. New ratwertiseinents. CanUoa. WHEREAS my wife I.LIDA, has recently lett my Bed and Board without any just cause or provocation, this is_to forbide alt persons harboring or trusting her on my account as shall not pay no delfts of her contracting after this date. B. F. BUCK. Bentley Creels, Aug. 6th.. 1 / 1 8t. ear DISSOLUTION. , - moncE is hereby given that the partnership II lately existing between E. R. Myer & Jesse Allen under the firm of Myer & Allen, is this day desolved by mutual concert, all debts owing to the partnership are to be paid to E. R. Myer, and all demands against the firm are to be presented to him for payment. E. R. MYER, JESSE. A L . ,L lityersburg, Aug. lfitb s 1952. NOTICE. TEEsubscribers wishing to close up the business of the late firm of Myer & Allen, gives aped. al notice, that all indebted to the same by book sc• count,note, or other% ise, must pay up. All accounts' that are not settled by the first day of December next will be sued without further notice. E. R. MYER. Myeriburg, Aug. 16th, 1852. notice to Subscribers. QUI3BCRIBERS to the History of the World, and Webster's Dictionaty, are respectfully notified that the Agent will commence delivering said works by the 20th of this mbnth, and will supply subseri. hers as soon as possible thereafter. The thanks of the Agents are tendered to the public for their liberal patronage of these works, which . will be delivered by F. M. Babcock, Esq., Geo. Agent for Pennsylvania. August 12, 1852. ASA KNAPP. Shoe rindings. A GENERAL stock of Findings, comprising oak 11 and hemlock taaned•Sole Leather, Calf, Binding and Lining Skins, boot and kid Morocco, shoe thread, and nails, and everything needed in the line may be fotind at Inlet MERCER'S. I.t4J. 11:41,11,1r>•, ft! Print only complete assortment of Paper Hang ings kepi fit this 'region. for sale at the very lowest rates by. O. D. DARTLETT. CAPS. RATS, BOOTS k SHOES—a large as sort/serif, sold very cheap for cash, by t AprN S . B. XIICOSIBERY% EiSE Laza of !sits of Vend. Exponas , jaf oft*Venn of Common Pleas, o r °Pt nty. aita to me directed, will be ex the sailqat the Court House in the t o A l l o w s ays Monday the lith day of te m ; l'imock,r, pl., the following lot piece or 7 land situate' in the township of Athens, County. Pa, and bounded as follows k, ht o gioniagat.thiteast aide of _Wheelock's south-west corner of a tot lately o wee - d - r Beasley.; thence north seventy-six and a a! grecs east three rods to a corner; Ole o( thirteen - deg. east one and seven -tenths rut !, north.seventy-eight deg. east seven and o u ., rods; thence north nine deg. west, four sod tenth rods; to Battons south list ; Intac t eighty-four deg. east seven and eight -1,1 1 1' 15 :1 Henry Henry Moczy's west line ; thence pooh 'vest degrees west, along !Hussy's west lin4, nute ' t three tenth rods ; thence south iixty three aq ui . degrees west nine and seven tenths rod, to " I . it tire of the road, leading from Wheelock's fat;;,l' Milltown ;thence south thirty ose and three k deg. east along the centre of said road, se re , eight-tenths rods to said Muzsy's tine ;he nce , twenty-one deg. west along said Many's fl ees , six rods to the east bank of said road; th e ,, the east side of said road to the place of N„ Containingabout one and a half acres of h i eept so much of the same as lies upon the e aii of said road having heretoiore been convered Et W. Warner and wife to Shelden C. 'llorp zn. ' improved, two framed houses and a few fou thereon. Sand and taken in execution at the salt o. H. Bradfurd vs. Elizabeth VanGorder. ALSO—The following lot piece or parcel situated in Rome township, bounded and di as follows to wit : North by lands of p i Crowley ; west by land of Henry Bible ; ,p oi and of Tobias Lent ; east by land of Bar mew Pearcal. Containing about cry acr e , acres improved, one log house, framed bars ple orchard thereon. Seised and taken in execution at the suit of vid Barber vs. Solomon C. Skinner. A r.so— The rollowizig lot piece or parcel of situated in Canton townshiplßradlord CO111)17, bounded and described as follows to w,t : p a North by lands of Amazia Mix, east by the 6: way leading from Canton to Troy, south by Ira Greenleaf and Irad Wilson, and west be Wilson. Containing about half an acre, bi same more or less, all improved, one and a half ry high framed house and a small board thereon. Seized and taken in execution at the suit of ert G. Pickards vs. H. W. nevelt. ALSO—The following described loi, piece parcel of land situated in the township of At' Bradford County, bounded and described lows viz : On the north by lands ofJohn M. In, sop, on the east by lands of Dougliss the south by Hugh Lewis ; ate.; on the lf*i ,f Daniel English and Rollin Wilcox. r 5 5 , 5,, one hundred and twenty-five acres, be the 9 more or less, two framed houses, one framed one saw. mill, and an apple orchard therm.' seventy acres .mprored t[the saw mill ther eon h r ing been burned since the levv.3 Seized and taken ingxecution at the suit thaniel N. Betts vs. Ira Dodge. ALSO—The following described. ; , :ere er rre of land situated in Rome township, imln , led •a n d : scribed as follows viz : Beginning at the east corner of a lot deeded to Roderick Nlcrc4,' south G 5 perches to a point doe east fr om .h" east corner of a lot heretofore deeded to John Col. fey. thence 89° west passing along the neoh Ins said Crowley's lot 240 8-10 perches. to the cm of the Leray tract, a past, thence north cc: said warrant or out line 05 perches, to the U. west corner of the said deed-r 1 lot to R o d r i t yk. ley. thence south 69° east 240 8-10 perches to' beginning ; containing 97 acres and In per strict measure, be the same more or less, abet acres implored, 3 framed houses, 2 framed b a steam saw mill and a malt orchard arum thereon. [The steam saw mill has been hi down since the levy.l Seized and taken in mention at ate snit ofli: N. Spalding surviving psrtner of the firm of & Spalding to thestso of E. R. Myer vs Fr MorelY. A.LBo—The following described piece or of land situated in Rome township bounded as . lows to wit On thi north by lands belorgtm R. Park. on the east by lands belonging tDI I II Allis, oristhe south by lands belonsing to llintr Richards, and on the west by lands bel•mg.nol. E. Maynard and others; containing 109 acreszci or Tess, about 75 acres improved. 2 orchards Y fray ed houses and 2 frames} barns thereon erected. Seized and taken in execution at the suit car &Spalding to the use of E. R. Myer vs. John Pan Wm. Parks. and Chester Parka terre tenants. ALSO—The following decertbect r fere or prrel of land lying in the township of Wy