la • Itisfeit - • - -" • , , - - ' 44, • ' f. • , * , ll , tip' I C % jo y .Pa. dati,...att ''. , 4 7 + • la THE COMM-LER. 4 %1 NERTY, Th E UNION, AND VIJE CONsTiTt7I)N.," !Mil G Tryspr'Ro, pE 'A .: Monday Morning, Aug.. 4, Domopratic :Llational Nominations. Fur Presidcnt, .L&MES EUCHANAN, Peno,ilvania Fire l'ro:idcid, JOIN C. I) Itr,C K 1 ...\; 11 11)(3 '4, of untuay Dolor:rat lc Tieket. L TO Rg 1 T LARV't;. Charles 13.. litnAnlew, of Col ni)11,4) county, IVilaun 3leCatulle4s, of Allegheny county. DISTRICT r,LIXTOII. 1. Qen. W. Nebitiggr, 13. Ahraltam Edinger, 2. Pieree Butler, 14. lieuben lyillu r, 3. Sthvard Wartman, 15. (ler). A. Cynwford, 4. Willitun IL Witta, 16. Jame ,, Ulna, 5..10hn 111eXair, 17. lieury .1. Stable, 6..ibhrtll. Brinton, 18. John D. Noddy, 7. David ' salty, • 19. -.Ta 0 , )1) To ..ni.y, S. Charkg 211..1.., .1. 1:1.11'111inaTi, 9. JOSePh Patterson, 21 .Witratn NY Akins, _ 10. Isatto 22, tittg, (lanipbell, 1.-Pro. W. Hughes, 23.11)0.).(J1111ningliatn, 12. Thus. Osterbont, 24.44)1111 Kcalty, 25. Vincent Phelps, Canal Commissioner, GEOR,G.}.; SCUTT, of Columbia, county. Auditur General, JACOB FRY, tin., of Moiltgomory Co DEMONLAM COUNTY CONVENTION' At a meeting of the IYeinocratic Standin;. - ; e...onntitteeof Mains county, field on the 26th ut .ittly,,Diflti, Ulu followiog resolutions were unaiiimoindy AdopWl.l: /eixavcd, That the Democrats, the friends of Buchanan and Brockinridgo, tho Union and the Constitution, .and the oppouutits of pro. seription ua account of hirth,place or rolig, ion, in Adams county, bo requested to 11)COL ;#,t • their usual places of holding Township and llorough meetings, on ,S:a!,ii./day, the qt 4 day Atlyeast wi r and elect . two I)elel.„%tus from each Township and Borough, to meet in euanty Couvention, iu llattyshiirg, on J 1 oL flay jollutoing, the Ilik,--for the )turpose of 'nominating a Ticket to NI supported zit' the .election, appointing. 'Cotigrwilunal end Senatorial Conferees, itnti Duleg,utes to the next State Convection,, L',..?„w/yed, That a rotinost also-he, and it is berelly . wade, that at the I)alegate Iklectitigs called in the above resolution, preliminary t •le,pB .he taltetr.towards the, organization of .“achanati And. C labs, in _order to secure; a otoro thorough orgunizatio4 in ovary - district of tho county? StrThe l)ologate Edections willhe bold be tween the hours of 2 and 5 o'clock, P. ex cept in the Borolloi of tiottysharg, where it wilt Lv !)old hotwe . en 7—antl P. M.. (Afar/min. Jolts. DUMMY; Sr., Recilattry. July 28, 1.850. LILLY, DEMOCRATS The BUCILAN.V.I .VSL) BilfiqLll4loDGE el,l-1) 'it 1 meet at the liver& of AV attleH, cfoadaY) Eittlang, o'Qluuk. litwine:is ui Llterest will IAI transacted, •;.a/(1 a 11111 at. Lelia:V:loo4S Iliquested, 1.11;(). la Y. 4 3, i'resitiot. August, 4, - • . 'TILE DEIJEGTIT t;LELVIONS, 'rho:,Dentooratip Delegate I.;loctions ,will take , place throughout the county on - Saturday • ntal—ithe:Cottvention 'to nominn,te a ticket to L Tho choice of j)elegatcs is always 44 ituPortant muter, iiontandim the refection or our y Q ry bust murk to represent the several (litriet.:•.--but it is peculiarly so at this juncture, whon the desperation proms. ;laced by aCUCM disappoialmeat is prompting the Know-Nothing loa,doN and manngors to the execution of • any plot, no molter how questionable its-character, in order to hold on to county' oat= and the patronage inciden tal thereto;. Let us but have a good strong tieket,z 7 the arts of dark lamternine ,will fall harniles` befiire it, and the euunty will be safe hj a majority of hundreds.. The Mass Chawber3burg. - The ridley ,Spirit is of the opinion that the Denim:rade 111 . -&s Meeting tti take itia,CO at Chambersburg On l'itureday next, will be the grandest political .4.6teotn=tration that has u\ or occurred. in 016 see tio no of Pennsylvania. I t says the 'adjoining counties, both of this Statz and Mar land, will be ropreAtuted by Inuarreds of enthusiastic fri e t Ids of our 1.0;1 riottS no'_llilhees f3r President 4.atitl. 1 re: . 3ident. LattelL,.- ter, the home of liccu4...\ - a.N, scud at least a thousand of her :tow; to 'lathe county on the occasion ; Dauphin county will turn out a large number ; aml' probably !miry county uu tho line of the .11,ailroad friun to Pittsburg-will be well repre::ented; Thu Eire tare . to be on the laoNi: ontensive veal°. Wu hope our friends in till:, u.iunly will attend. this great assetohlago in largo .numbeis. The distance is tilto.rt and the e - pan se will be tri iii ur. lion. A. Lt. 81'0'111;s:3, of Cloorgin„ long asd , known as one of 64 inort aeuoia plished debaters in Con...;res, and for years a di 3 tingaslied Old Luc Whig, 311111) 1 4 need as certain to be tnuong the not.akers. So is Col. SAM. 131.ACK , Pittsburg, To heal: prove a, rare treat. ra"'CoJ. J. W. 4.; I:A itr, of Pent ia I: a , ..; been nominated to the Senate, by Llu. ayton. The leaders of the party are odd, calculating politicians— speculators in stocks and lands—who care less for a soul than they do for a dollar, and who would-sell a negro as soon as they would a sheep, if they eouhl ''put money in their purses" hy the operation. The honest people of the country aro daily humbugged by thom,_ and unless they pause soon nod leave the ranks, they will become the instruments of treason and disunion in the hands of a set of cowardly scoundrels who will desert thtlta in the first monnAtt of danger. Dr. Cutter, a Yankee lecturer on Kansas trauHes. at a recent fusion meeting at Mont pelier, Vermont, let the cat out of the bag in such a way that none but the wilfully wicked or h•polossly blind can fail to sco the animal. lie slid: "IE YOIT WOITLD CARRY THE ELEC TION NExT Nov EmBEN KEEP BLOODY OPT I .I.ItIES is KANSAS BEFORE THE EY ES OE E PEOPLE. YOU . HAVE NO OTIIEI PLANK. sETTLE THIS QUES TION AND YOU ARE DEFEATED." Peoplo Ponn: , yhvania—vitizens of tho tjuiou—opon your ours to the truth. • ..- -, T-Tho.linow Nothings hold their County Novinathig Convention to-day, The meet ing: for the eheien .of Delegates in this Bor on:1i ;Lod Cumherland township, were, as we anticil:ated, altogether in the old hands—tln very mon ulm controlled the dark lautern said meotin,42.:s. It is he /ton the Penusylown4/1 $24,7'50 143,301 MOM lieep 11 Before the People, tlv3 tertnn of the Sic bill Tor the pa, eilloation of Kazuw4 wore prop/ounce(' by John , P. llnle t.,0 be unexecepuoinwh;; ul , yet the Mork opp*se : this hill :Lb(' thoso 'lnca! laws which (;en. Clts3 deJumnees 'AA unworthy of the age ; !,,ct the Blade Ikpublu a,IY 011e,.q.e —That it abolklies thiHe ofttlp; wliieh the Kanikas legislature itapoi , ed as to the fugitive kdave bill; yd the • llepalicans oppose, it: —That it abolishes all objectionable qualifica . - tions as to the manner of voting ; and yet the Herthlicans oppose it • —That it also prohibits the Kansas legis lature from enacting similar lawl4 in future ; and yetTMe Black Iteptib!ream won it —That it provides that ali Actual - settlerA driven out of Kansas may return and vote ; and yet 1119 Black Thrthlicans. (ippon : —That it provides for the protection to the settlers of the whole army of the United States to uphold this law; and yet Me Black Republican:l oppnBe Rat. November the Time to Drive Them! Rev. Dr. Bethune, in his address on the 4th, at the inauguration of the statue of Wash ington, in Union square, New York, spoke as follows of the Father of his .Country, our Union, and of those who would - tear it asun- "God made him and gave him tons, in him self the type of what our republic should be, in all his elements great, oven, consistent— .etteh -yigorous-in-its own action, - yet - all held in harmonious balance , by the unity of a single purpose. No wonder lum work survived him. Survived him ? No. He still lives, though his mortal frame has long been dust. tied, who gave, kept that life with us, fot when that spirit is lost, when our elements revolt from their oneness, foul, like the maniac among the tombs, w hosei devils were legion, we cut and tear ourselves, this fair confedera cy will soon lie beneath the heavens the most mangled, loathsoml: corpse that ever polluted the.hrertth of humanity with its petrification. 0, for the God of' our Cabers to drive them out and down into the sea of an infamous oblivion. ' November ides will do this, Doctor. Vox populi will then be, if it never has been before, vox Del. Into that deep sea the people will then hurl the disenionists. f boll and persistent falsehood will elect Fremont, he - will not hick fur votes. We have shown ILOW false is the Republican boast that the Germans are going for Fremont ; and there is the hest reason to suppose that if they make false representations in (Memo they will in another, - The numher of Germans in the United States who will turn Know Nothings for the sake of Fremont is, we suspect, rather small. Will they support a man who is pi t dyed lo proscribe ihon / Fremont I..?l)l , dgecl body owl breeches to the Know Nothing part f. Let the Germans ask for the secret agreement which he signed with the Know Nothings at New York. le-Nebraska appears to ho filling up with large bodies of emigrants, mostly young men. They go.with the plow and. the axe in hand, and not Sharpe's rifles, This may account for tho peaceable and secure settlement_of th e. territory, in such striking contrast to Kansas, which was commenced With swagger and vio lence, and has continued 'with trouble and outrage-ever sink nerThe llartford (Connecticut) Times thus boars testimony to the talents, 9.tperience, and exalted patriotism of the Democratic candidate for the Presidency : "The life of Mr. Buchanan has been a life of (Votion to the country, and very much of it has been spent in tho country's service.— Few men, even of hiS advanced ago, have boon bottor 'trained in civil affairs, or are more il lustrious for commanding power of intellect. We look upon him, and the country and the world look upon him, as one of the ablost and most aceomplishod of the -statoqmon of his age; an ornament of his country's legislative halls, and a respoeted, able, and dignified reprosen t—aEVo of country in foreign courts. it , ‘Z-Tite Natienal lll9cm:ex' says : "Mr. Buchanan is a man of character, of stainless private life, and of long and varied experience in public affairs." It says if the anti-Demo cratic power of the country should fail to beat him, "they may still hope that his success will give to the country a President wlio will prove a friend to the Union." Ek'F.:llr. Joseph hiss has Wined up again. fie is a supporter of Fremont and "American ism," and has Loon chosen a. delegate to the State Convention of the Fremouters from the first Ward of Boston. ..Keep it vp . —One of the abolition N. N. ep Rublican writers from Lawrence, Kansas, to the N. Y. Times, says to the editor : "You must keep up the Kansas excitement. It is the only element of success for the Re publican party in the coining Presidential election." llow'Can an Old Litte Whig Vote for Fremont ? It is said that John. C. Feenirml, the Black Republica - I candidate, remarked: "Sir, 11wec lief, I 011 Mirk Beef awl Gra.ll,,,pper ri es , b u t WHIG Principles-sicken and di . ..vitst the more 'bon either." rlow, then, can any who ever had any respect fur "Whig principles" vote fur the Abulition candidate? Republican Sentiment, The True American, ono of the Republican organs in this county, in its last issue, in eornmonting; upon Jwlge Thompson's speech llvt week, iudnigei in the following atrocious sentiments: "The twaddle about the `Liiio/1' an il its .preserratian' istm and sickening for any good effect." The preservation of the Union is "tAraddle." is "siekeninl. - , , " and "sil ly;" according to this Rentwit organ ! Again, continuo the Amerivan, "Put we think the liberty yf a since re(4clll more Ann AL L THE UNIoNS (Jon's UNIVERSE TAN nail?! " llf this is not treason and profanity condensed aantl combined, we klloW nOt what is. And yet it is the sentiment of an organ of tho republican party of Erie county.—Erie - full Filler re eleet4 , ral ticket _lfe7 , r)whoty Patedity,—Mr. Ifarris, an nominated in Indiana on the ltitit, the "Re- ' neer, killod at the time of the recent collision pni.licaos" having in vain, tried to pre out it. on the North Pennsvlvania Railroad, was tim an 1 1_1,__(.....3,=,0,1eir_e for thir+l,44on-4-hif, visjri ac c; toe State at large. Filfinoro w ill got a , Gents. It is slated that there are two broth -I,h, ‘ ,.t e in ...ton,. parts f Indiana, i , ut lie- ers of anotlosr family now in the employ of tho clianan Hill. Lunt hiLa and Freinuitt put to- ReaditPB . Rwlruad QaClt of wheat It‘t4 lust a gt.tt,t..r 1 loe4l i'filiciits. SEVERE TIIUNDER STOlMS.—Several severe stornss of thunder and lightning visited this region during the put week, the heavy rains attending Chun being s adly needed by the parching vegetation, New life is visible on every side, and the hopes for a fair cons ele(rp are again revive& The storm of Tuesday evening was regard ed as one of the most terrific that has oecur red here for years ; yet little or no damage was done by it in this neighborhood. In the ad joining counties, however, heavy destruction of property ensued, five barns being burnt in Cumberland county, and - several in Franklin► county. Benjamin M'Keehan, of West Penn : . horo!' township, Cumberland county, lost his entire-crop of hay, wheat, rye and oats, about 900 bushels of last year's corn, and a number of farming implements. His loss amounts to ss,ooo—no insurance. lye learn from the Westminister Demoirlit that during the thunder storm on .Tuesday night, a fine barn, owned by Mr. Dennis Grymes, in the vicinity of Finksburg, Carroll county, Md., was struck by lightning and de r stroyed, with its contents. A number of in dividuals were stunned and made sick. The valuable barn of Mr. John Thompson, in thb vicinity of Taneytown, was also struck by • r I I r_o_y_ed„logether • contents, consisting of his crop, five head of horned cattle, four excellent horse's, Ace.; on which there was an insurance of $5OO. Loss $4,000. The barn of,Mr. Altoff, in the same neighborhood, was also destroyed; Loss un knoivn. Four horses ftnd a colt, valued at $lOOO, the property of Abraham Martin, near the Spring Forge Mills, York county, were killed.while standing under a tree in an open field. The point of the lightning rod to the barn of Mr: David Shriver, in Cumberland township, was melted off.. A small dog in ono of the cells of the jail here was singed on one side, and it is the opinion of the per Son who was nearest to him at the time, that it was caused • by lightning. The storm was an extensive one, despatches from Cincinnati, New York, and Boston, giv; ing accounts of destruction by the lightning. THE NAMES of tho three miners who lost their lives at the Caledonia Pond Bank, on Wednesday week, are stated as David Miller, Edward .Kane and James Murray. Miller was aged about twenty - years the other two about thirty-five years. Two wore single and one a married man. The particulars of the occurrence were given last week. • RAILROA.D.—Messrs. WARREN & NOUS itt, on Wednesday last, commenced work on the Railroad immediately east of Carlisle street, and have a good force (:)f hands. mph g ad, -Work along the entire tine is, since hat- vesting is over, again vig,orously pushed for ward, and at least halfof the road will be grad ed before many weeks. geir-The Chambersburg Transcript ; says there aro ono hundred visitors ut CaltAleniu Springs, D -1 7-The difficulty between Mr. Brooks and Mr. Burlingham, of the House, at Washing ton, has not resulted in - a duel after all. Mr. Burlingham, in accepting the challenge of Mr. Brooks, named the "Clifton House," ia Canada; as the place of meeting. and imme diately started east—but Mr. Brooks didn't see proper to pursue such a wild goose chase, and of course-did not follow. Burli ugh= e, though said to he a pod shot, certainly show od feather," in naming•the place.- SkirMon and women are traversing the - country in every direction, making speeches and begging money in aid of Kansas. A.Kan sag ,correspondent-of the New York Post, (an . boll ti tm-pa per,-)---whom---the-)ditor-endor-ses--- as highly respectable, says “not a dollar of any of Me money subscribed in Me East ha t s ever reached these parts!" . ge".The "explorations" of Fremont in Ore:;. gon and California -were judged of so little im portance by Dayton, his associate on the Prey idential ticket, that he 'voted on August the, sth, 1848, against an appropriation of W.:- 000 to continue and complete them. The Mariposa Grant.—tive Oak anti fipples. It is, agreed upon by certain high-contract;- ing parties, chiefly editors and that in the - event of Fremont's election, the whole power of the government shall be exer— cised in driving off the squatters from the Mariposa grant, thus securing the spoils ; also, that the claim Fremont has against .the United States for $900,000 shall be inconti nently confirmed, though it has hitherto been rejected w ,fraudulent. In, such a happy event, what a ridieulong sight it wilt be to see Brethren Greeley and Bennett, James Watson Webb and George Law, arm-in-arm, parading their beautiful persons at the White (louse ! how we apPleti will swim ! Live Oak, too, will take a rise in market ! Wall street, stand from under ! Exchange. ,Pl',D-Among other silly mottoes displayed at a late Know Nothing Fremont meeting in Ilartfbrd, was the following : • "We neither knock down Senators nor shoot Irish waiters I" Oh, no l you hang no Senators in - elOgy fir "freudorn of ITeeoli" iu Conim-tieut, and shoot no Trish and German voters in Cincinnati, St. - Louis, Louisville And ICew Orleans: on burn no Ursuline Convents, "Hiss" no timid girls at Catholi. institutions: rob no churches,. Oh, no rvric Daily New.. More Nominatiwo.s. —The "Bible Times," a religious publication issued in Baltimore by the Rev, Thos. 11. Stockton, nominates nil on its own responsibility, Jndge ,IPLean for tho Presidency, and Hon. Theodore Frelin,g- Luyson, of Sew Jersey, for the Vice Presiden cy.—Ll'hil, Amer.