taoiga' adze a littow•Notit•
/, ling :Lodge.
The Conspiraiors Driven Out—Grand
bardnzaa ! - -
Correvctuknce ofge Salon Argus.
litrasuuno, Jan, 5, 185,5.
. Hurrah : 1 1,We had
. quito a lively.timo
.here, on WedneSday..evening, v.ith„ the Ned
Buntline conspirator; commonly known as
the "Know 'Nothings." It had• been whis
pered about for a` week before, that on that
'evening ir lodgowas to be openeOn the pub
lic. ItouNi of Henry IL Miller, in this, village,
and some - of the neighbors,
.whO &It curious
to know - itho the men Were ivho intended to
establish such a Mean institution our midst,
kept an eye on therp.. A little room near the
garret was chosen for theirsecret caucus, and
after daik, one: O'er another cane creeping
.
aleugourd sneaked into the house, until some
twenty-five Or . thirtyhad assemble:l.. Most of
these were old coons, some fevi - men who pre-,
tended to be democrats were also coaxed in,
and some who were deceived as to the object
Of the meeting, also came.' But the peoply. of
the neigilhor hood -vowed that no such nuisance
should be toleratedin thercinity. They de-.
terrained that no such - secret sworn establish-'
ment, which aims' to deprive the free citizens
of this- republic , of their
. rights, and rob the
people of privileges , guainte.ed them by the
constitution of the United.Stmes, should be
organized in this; neighborhood. So when the
meeting was ithitit, organized,!somsf sixty 'or
seventy of the neighbors, without distinction
of party----whip . ..,s,and democrits-assem
, bled around the; house, and give them a. reg
ular serenade.
Each man was provided with a bugle, a
horn, a int.'cedruto, or some other instrument;
and 4very . man. t I
iinfectb s. part good style.
A fifty-sir-pounder was loaded-andlired
under 'the window, and. -with each report of
the gun, the glass rattled, and • On, Nichts
Wisscrs began to groan. The firing was kept
Up until tbera,was scarecly a Whole pane of
glass in the houSe. It sok - nt had the desired
etrect-;-,---the bombardmetrt drove them out
of the house. The doori-and windows were
opened, and the:conspirators made their es
cape -from the premiss. the best •way they :
could. .Sorneltunped-out of the. back win
dg s,-like Thaddeus SfeYens,at the buckshot.
warrd and rati - acrossthe fields as though the :
Wai,after them, leaving their hats
and oiercoits
_behind, and' such another scat
tering' has never seen-in this region. In
less-than ten- minutes the whole house was
cleared,and.we)tare not; seen the face of a
Know-Nothing 'Conspirator here since.
_The
'people then took up a collection to pay the
expense - of putting - in the glass, and went
Miller was President of
the meeting=—Reuben Hellman, Vice Presi
dent, and -Jacob Schall, 'Secretary.
The peoplecf.Xfoere township do not want
any secret cauens lo.do their work for them.
They are able to do. it themselves. Up in
this Blue Mountain countxy--- , we ask noth
ing -but "fair-play-in open daylight," and we.
wOnt tolerate - Any such thing as a conspim
tont I;xlgo.arriong us. --If their work is good,
let them come
_out in -open daylight. - If they
try it again, they may not-fare 'quite so well.
Youz . • JUBILEE.
•
• Tionble hi the Camp.
, ..
After the la.steleption in Netv York State,•
-itte vote' for ViAm l : R., the Ittk , ow-N9l.lting en
ditlnte, for: govecte.r.; ..was *.o inuch. - vaulter
"than the numbCr of menthersin the Lo6gcs,-
that the grand ic.ouncil suspected many of,
theinliad been ';' kielirigout of the'trae6." . l
in order to •as4rtain who the 'delinquents.
were ; orders-were issued . from bead-quarters I
to, the subordinate Lodges,, to arraign their
members as far as possible;
to-State under with for whom they voted. 1
Those who voted for LT.Lmt.tx have been con- ,
sidered . . worthy bf continued membership in
the Order, and those who voted for either of
the other Gubernatorial , candidates have been
expelled. Under this process of purification,
as the "Jacobs tlerm it, the Order has be- .
cemegreatly -thinned 'as to members; and
weakened in its power to do .mischief. A
course of procedure so Inquisitorial, in its
Character and So'inarkedly at war with per
.sonahrig,hts, 114 been met with becoming
spirit in Many inStanes. .
, The -Buffalo Democrat publishei the follotv
. it:lg resolutions which were offered. at,a . regu
lar meeting oft Know- Nothing Lodge in a
town near that:)eity, and voted ' dozen k r a
. majority:of threvafter which the . mincrity
•vadated the confessional
IV/areas, Therarchy of . Rome by and
through the aid `of the! J es uits in America
having (as we
. believe) a majority of ;nem
. bets - in • the hite Grand Counci. and en
deavored to% c4t,
rol the .conscience of the
members of this our well helot-Cid 'Native
American Association, in adopting h resold
lion, wherby, niembets . of this Order4(Native
born AmericanlProtestants) are - required and
directed, tinder pains and penalties, to degrade
and place i themSelves upon a level with the
Ignorant . papist 4; by "confessing" under oath, ,
whether they hive dared, to act in accor
dance with the idictat. of 2their contrycienee,
exercise the right of the elective franchise,
(guarantied t o .l3Very 'citizen of the United
• States,) advocate the freedom of speech . or
the liberty of the press, and binding us un
der pain of eiVommunica,tion, to yield a - blind
obedience. to - tbei r dicta tion, _and by so doing,
acknowled - eto th e world at large, our 1.10-
'worthiness ad incapacity for self government
the enjoyme t Of that civil and religious lib
%
• erty, which is the. great. corner-stone of our
Republican institutions.
-• . And Whererq, The aforementioned reso
lution adopted by the Grand :Council, directs
the expulsion ot.sueli members as did hot
vote in accordance with the dictates of the .
Grand Council. :
Therefore Resolved, That. the fear lof .of.ex ,
• puision held. out 'as an inducement .to vote
.., contrary to mail wishes and better joudgment,
is-ip direct:violation of sec. 4, title 7. chap.
6,- part first of ; the revised. statutes of the
State of New York.
.... . .
• Resolved, That we, as Native ;born Amer
ican citizens ; descendants of pa,iriot sires,
*hose blood :was freely shed in defence of
the! Cause - of !American Independence, do ,
hereby repudiate and condemn the afore-men- 1
tioned action of the Grand Council. as anti-
American; 'anti-Republican, and tending
speedily to exterininate " Tflat pestilential
error," alluded ?to by -Pope. GrftgorYl 6*
-• Resolsed,• hat` - " we, as American citizens,
will not so.far def,, , mde our4Slitit as to sub
mit, body and -Soul o'llm:dictation and keep
!:ing of the Sianish Inquisition, let it lie
hailed or known by whateieri name it may
choose to appr4ptiate, even though it should.
- style itself: The supreme ordfr, of the Star
. ..Spangled litatuSef. i • • •
The idea that a set of men 'Claiming to be
free inen,;"sliUilld be asked to submit to smelt
an ontragecius:l,--such an abominable -act of
l epubr
tyranny,-In a m government.; an governent. is: It
• i
=matrons. And fcksuch 'worthies to prate!
of.telieons replionir Mn.ti who join such
a Misertible society almoit -deservp to be de
rived of. their rights.
AirA telegtaph Alebputelt from Mobile,
Alattanut, ;bay& that paper-- :is,
ciroulatingnmong the black pOpulution :of
th4t oity for the relief of the - buffeting pOor
_
the North.. , ,
.PttlfriOt . :Ppiti;(cOlt.,,
!8618:'aGE3T CI FiCVLAT lON IA XOEOTE 11 N:Pptled.
E . it CH A SE ALVIN AMY ton*
E.•
Montrose; Thursday, Feb. 1, is4s.
GtioW paid our town a visit, gn
,
Friday last.' Ilets Absent from Washington
a few • davVon business.
. ,
.. .
. .
,10:1 - A very hirge and:9nthusiaqic. A titi.:
Know-Nothing Cotivention.was, held last week
, - 1
in Livingston county N. Y. It Ni - tis ccmpoLed
of prominent metk Of boOli.N)thig - iritt.-Deito
eratio, partiOs. ,
' tgrldr. Mason - onr miniiter- to Fran. I , is
not dead, as has been reported, but his reebv
ery is conidered doubtful. - At all event
successor will bei appointed, - -
'Air. , Redfield of Tuukhaimock Was
killed instantly be,yond Owego, last Thursday
by jumping: frnmi the ears'on the. N. Y. A:. E.
R. R. when the ears were. l at full •speed.
gErJottx HAtcrOcx, .F l =4., Into County
Compissioner, bns been appointed Post Ikt:is
,
ter nt Fairdale (Jessup) vie& Dan'! null' re
t
move L ; 1
. ,
, ,
We are req . tilted tO l caii theattention
of tax-pay rs to the Cpnrts f .!Appe4 adver- .
ti-sed in another eolu4nn. -
I.
,tz'''the Rev. Mr. pood‘ v n' i a Whig Know
Nothine,was elected- tate .9.nator,totheN l Y.
) D
Leglslatnre, from the istri4t ,'forinerly,repre
,sented by G,or. "Cpstix.. Mr.
.Goodwin is. a
Maine Law flard'S.heil. Tliislis nnoilier of
the many 14 . 0-slavery ItriuMOS of thei Know
Nothings. • ' • • 11 .! •
, i ,
. wickedly Fake:
'
" Oar present member of Congress (in 1818)
ruaLle.speeclies. in .oppsition to the ,Wltuot
Proviso, and in favor of l'ojiulsr Soverinlity,
all over the county,. and 'wits well 6 . usta'ined
by the.party ! "--Repu/iNcari.
• We:invite s attentia t n to We above i l af4rnotis
and malicious fallehekod the Repukiian.
last .week, and which we have transferred to
our .columns in •otder that t.lte peopleo; ener-:
ally : may see it,.and be prepared to- p . tt the
proper estimate upon the statements ofthat
print in reference to men and measures?; and
also in justice to, and by the authorifyiof Mr.
GaOw, that it .may receive :the onlyi epithets
which the'Engifsh language has coined, for
such statements:, -:—a , bash. 0/ 1 / 4 4 , ntailcivas,
and inexcusable falachobd. Vac , mot*, and
thatithc- man (?) who,penned it, and the men
ho. publish 'edit ,kactr it to be false 14 they
lint it fora - '
d •
' We-are ,aware - that we, are using ftrong
language,j,and that it involivs, in its general
sweep; the senior Editor oft.tho' Reirt?lican,
Mr. RiAD,. Avlio•bal maintained it, .chtracter I
for truth :which stands unimpeachc4l.l We
do not believe he would p4lisli a . faNelloo[l 1
1114,..13t6 Ideove for iho'purpOse of ea . sting: sus
picioia upon the, poll ticat r).rtv.....u, nnit_ con- ;
SiSteney ot Ma..Gr.ow,- 7 .--al character i which
the people of this Dis:triet :bare :so triumph , -
antly vindicated by three 'sneeessive. el'tetions
to Congress:. We''inay th,in be'-asked, bimv
, ' 4
we exempt. Mr. Ila.-..t0 from Ithe. charge; when
llifi name stands at - the , head .of the gaper,
i t thereby morally, and legall'r endorsing what-
i ever may..appear lin its. c.olmnus. • lip -..an ex- I
Ic enipt him only by stating (what is - titie, that I
lie haerio more to do nith the pi:Peri kaki i
than he has with the 'New', York Tr 4 eine.-- 1
. . : 1
The paper is nothing mire! nor less than the'!
old Register,: wi th anotheOlead: ..It i print. 1
ed on the same press; and'
the
in th , e same
office, edited in fact by the' , same tnn, an d
owned and controlled-.by the same influences I
1 and for the same tebjecti that it has been iii
past years. When it
. h4d entirelv lost the
.. - ,
confidence.ofl all intelligent apd high-;Winded • e, ~
men, and was about glvini up 'the ghpst, the
delusive expedient nits hii upon to chimp:llle
,; : --
name, and put Ifr.'llcad'stat its head; for the
,
purpose of giving it respeJtability and reseu-
kg it from
,bankroptcy. Put it is .:11:0 same
paper stiltSs ive have 1)(t'Oore. saidi and as, i
is fast revealing i it f self to be.• . Pretending to 1
haVe:been eon veittd .I . rom Vhiggery to Dem- I
ocracy,ltscolonnA are th 4 mediurn of attack
1 upol l '
.every I).rinciplc 'of the democratic creed
and of fuisome laudation of the old and often
condemned men a`nd Meaflur'es'ef the Whigs. i
It lea bald and transparent attempt, by fie.-
eeption,_by pretending 0 have changed its
co:it and creed,—to 'impo4 uPpn the i co:4- ,
dense which! the public titay be led to put in
its professionr-, and ,bx att l 'ifice,i--by a .there'
trick; cheat IMen of their I votei 'and elect a
i few Whigs t.o 'Office. This is'theWhole spiry
1 _th e whole!ixplanati'on, ishich we make, for
Mr -
.-R 1-
EAD's be teefit.; in.orddr that,' he in:ty be
saved frorn ihe r scandal 'wh'ich this Malignant
i and libelous;l attack ; Upon!, .r...Cinciw -brings
upon its a:oms. We .shall not; however
make futuredistinctions, hut leave .Mr...llnAn
1
to take care :Of his own ,reputation, if be is so
careless of it hiuiself as to allow it to be eon- I
taminated wit:lE46 conneetions. - -
In 1848 Mi. Giow
,supligrted. Geii. ,
.CAsn
for tholiresittency, though he by -no -means
agreed with' fritn on the slavery :ilu4;tion. I
Bat this was the -only e:lioice left, between the
principles of the democratic party and the I
whigq,—belween a northc i rn staiesuian, and a
southern slave driver. At Mr. ltr..in, the
senior Editor or the Repi /fray, -which now
attempt todesiroy/
publi' i , confidence. in Mr.
' Griow, for that t act , dull p recisely • the earn
thing! But what did tll , se Whig worthies,
who now own arid contr4l i thaßepablican, in
that contest ? If they 11 the•rheeks of inen,
and die heart. of shine, t, ev wouldiblush at
1 their own ineonsisthncv iiiid• abandonment bf
I principles, for they; were then foun4 in , the
boisterous support of pl. Taylor t i the pet
candidate of the slave! risers, and 4 slave
1 driver liiinself! NA i 6 at all. By ; thateetk
1 vass'.they gave to tpti c tintry the lAdminis i l
trail= of fillrnorei. ( andpsteined il.tiii-otigh
its infatuotts career` of F Otive slave. Law en=
aelments; and, in rfio sent their Jessup to the
Baltimore Cenrendon iiiiiperdc and rote for a
Resolution declari4g IE4I. Law An; imerttild
article in the Whig creed, and pledging thein
selves to resist its *peal Mud aid in . l.a execu
tion! And yet the, are Oen:ten, aqd this
' prta which now r 4tic l onsistay of Mr,
,t • , ,
ORO.. on the slave:ry qiicstiob,--a consistency
which .has won lihntwo unanimous elections
, .
to Congresafroin this Distrjet.
, • 1
M. Gnoiy made_ . apeeChes - 'against the
"-NlTtliatot - Pikviso.r, rlt is false • and -We aro
rized by
antli Mti, 'l3lttow . to pronounce it
; • ! •
O
infaniously false, and fttrther, to challenge the
• 1
Man,lwoman or cJiild,jin this or. any
. other
County, to come fOrward and say that they
over heard l him 'inane such a' speech,
.any
where, tit -• any time, or on any occasion.
I
We ask the honest , citizens of this County
• -
for what reason do they suppose these contin
ual attacks itre•made upon Mr. Gaow iu that
•
paper, for . it is Imi i twO or three weeks since
we Were called. upon -to refitte one equally
false as this, Ls there . a man in this District
. - 1 •
who will saytbatiltr.:.Gaow has hot fulfilled,
the highest expectations of the District on
.
the questionof Sl.4very extension' in Congress I
-1
We Venture to say there is not one.
.Then
why dOes this Republican pretending •to be--
the Exclusive ativOcate-of , freedoM, without
distinctien of party, constantly take occasion
to assail him with the Most inbluShinglalse-
.'
hoods, calculated of believedtilievcd to prostrat hist 1,
character and inflirenee at home and abroad ?
.
There ts,—there can he_ but one answer to
this question,and i that is this: The real own! ,
ere and directors Of that paper care no more
for the extension. f Slavery than they, do for
truth Land lioneste,-and how much they care
for these is fully shone by their attacks upon
Mr. Crow. But ?they :oppose, by making
loud professions Of ‘-‘ free Soil," they may•
decei-e the honest. voters _Of- this. county to
follow their lead.iill they shall secure • them,
fast in the folds of their Know-Nothinzparty,
linalY to lielp•theininto fat offices and aid
'themi l to elect a Slave driver,- or a. Fillmore
for President 'in 'l , i6. ' This is what they. are
after,--thin is Why Mr. GROW is to. be pros
tratell, that he may • not be in the way of
their Sucee't-s,- . ---atid this is why the Register
changed its name, the better - to deceive the
unstiSpeetirk maes'of the people. We. do
not say that this was Mr READ's object- or
that lie : ever saw the attacks upon Mr. GROW
till they appeared in print. Ile is a mer
chant of large blqiness :mid ha nothingto do
witlilthe paper.. .IBut be should consider that
they go ot4under'the sanction of his name
and influence, and if he expects community,
will .not held hini responsible for their prop
-1
1 agatton, lei Mal i come out and dis Solve a
I connection which he has been- so foolishly
1 drauJn into, instead. of 'servinn. the Si niSter and
,
unwi j irthy purpost,S.of those who are using
his nano tre -give icoufidence and respeot abil
ity t... their dupliiAtY and iniposition. '
1 --- . ----L-r- 41814.-------
Practice as Well as Preach.
! . .
All recollect the argument used by the
Whirs last cam - pitigtr! I:gainSt Gor. i,3IGLEII,
that rts Governor !of the State he shodid have!
interilired With the business, of Congress, and
! • -
that .}y doing 'sit' he might - have prevented 1
the Repeal. of thei Missouri Compromise. 'Now
We desire fair play -and a clear record. ' Our I
r... , ;.-‘, are - nwlar4 that a Bill has beeir.intro
duc,ll into 1 - -.0,,,,0,-.....t.„., Is, , ii.,,....., r,.( rextore
the Missouri. Compromise;; and wri- Want :to
! k .
know, if Govermlr Bigler , hatisuch influence
at Washington, if Governor Pollock, Occupy-
Mg 'the same po s iition, has not an equal inilu;
ener i J and equal duties to discharge ili - hr r,...f
- !
crenee to the rinestion‘ of slavery ? Sell
whyl sbOuld not: he interfere ! and dirict Con
, g4iS to pass the Bill of Mr., Mace - , and thus
,'restore thellissOuri line I ! Certainly' he has
rhisiduty, voluntarily assumed, for he. aSser
ted in
,liii speech in !this place that 4 was the
busibe;s of Mei Governor to interfere with
COnL4;rt,..s.s: in this manner, and condemned
GovernOr Biglerfor not. doing it. :But we
I look, in vain through the inaugural of Gov,er
nor,Pollockfer i, single .sentetice, even inti,
4 • I
mattry , that the line should he .restored ?--
;- e' f
I Wh, if he was honest and truthful last - fall;
' did,he not in hi 4 inaugural - address allude to
thislsubject and make the .requisitien !upon
Congress with reference Ito the restoration of
i that! line, which ilie-cauderimed Governor Big
ler for not makihg with reference to its •re
t
pea l i :Ih, tbere is ..the nib I Mr. i Pollock
is a Know Nothing, and to nationalize that
party for the I*ideircy in '56, the slavery
1 qoe4tiori must be ignored. Come now, gen
.
ilemlen, let us bare fair play,—let -Mr. Poi
lark Come' out, avid. call on Congres4,io - iYIS.S .
ithe ! Bill restoring the Misseuri Compromise,
ampthea we will believe him honest. - Why
doe fiat Judge 'Y'illnot, who held Governor
i-Big er risponsii4e for the repeal, . 14. w hold
1 1 M IP il Iresponsible e • • , , • ,
i r. 1 0 0t or asrtstonat.ionr—
; Will he do it? IWe shad see. :
h
New Ji t udi ia
clDistrict
We 'are , informed from Ilarrisinircr, that
Judge Jessup's ; ecenti visit to .
l i that place was
for the fiurpoi Of indUcing the Legislature to
make d new Judicial District fur his benefit, to
eomposed of the counties of Susquehanna,•l
Wayne, =11)44 of .Luzerne, which will be
set Off into anew county this whiter, or Wy:
offing. •
• This would he a -handsome thing indeed,
to have an extra! District in order to give the
Judge nine saliry from the •taxes of the peo
ple.; lie evido ti i tly supposes that the fusion
movement, and the Know !irothings, have F•e
,
cured enough Democrats to give birn a fine.
wor4erthet . he:and his friends
were socloquei:tiu renouncing their old , Whig
faith at .the "Fdsion
- I this be .tru4, of which +!. - e have no doubt;
we hope that otsr " Knew Notl:ii - ie
ture will give him the District, for if hers not
. -
satisfied with running fur -Judge before., the
people, ve - are . 4ntious slioitld have' tinotli
'
1. •
The Tariff.
'Whence came the idea Of the'-present tar,
jiff?, alt was priiposed by Henry. Cliy; a Whig
(whoil'' the party organ is gracious' enough to
term a just statesrfian,) as a corupromise be
tween the Free !Trade of the Democrats, .and
the High Tarilliof the Whigs. By the slates ;
`monship an d elogitence and energy'of Clay, it,
leas ur g ed throi t igh. the .National Legislature,
and hy virtue of _Whig votes, became i-the — Set•
tre:d policy of the country._ • •-•-
We clip the nhoile . from the Repnigican
last week. We thick the presentage will be
surprised. wheal it is informed that the pros,
eat' tariff was si Measureof Henry CLAY and.
Ali; Whig partil What school boy IktesnOt
k4ow, that the nt tariff was an Adminis.
tration ineastire of AMPS K. T , m.x, the prom
•
inent issue between him and CLAY in ;their
eaiva.ss for the rresidertey—that, eiet7 Whig
member itc:Congretti:cotett agtOnst
that Mr. &AY
.*aiti-ttota nernbeiCS : Corigiuts
when it passed We hope that:the Reittittli
can. will:not claim that Pas *its it‘ whte,
- and •CiAY a Detrc...;-4 in 1844,'nr that Pcit.r.
was defeated, a t d CLAY elected in 'that e4n
test,.and yet, dui; would not be more alistird
and-untrue than the above extract. -
Hartford Contention Approved.
. The Philade phia North American, Ole
Suite organ of t le Know Notl►ingx, tblA
proves of the old Hartford Convention ; rind
eitola. those Whip acre_thc.. members.
the
"American
The noble reform contemplated by. the
"American mo!'ement : will, when perfectlxi,
serve to remove; front the minds of •the pres.
ent generation those nfamous calumnies ;Which
have blasted the fame of thepatriotic rind aide
men who assernhled at. Hartford io Conven
thin. • - 1
•
It is the first time that. wehave heard it
acknowledged y authOrity, that the kn 4 w
nothing order Was a counterpart and "pari ,
otie7 off,pring pf, the infamous and treasolia-.
Ilaitford.COnvention of 1814:
Comment is quite unneeek . iry . .while the
motives of the bigoted tories of an early lay
arc familiar to ali t and while'the knoW
,
ings of the . present imitate their exanipte:.—
The fate . of one is immortal in infamy, rind_
the fate of-the other will ever be 4ehrot.ieled
with a IlatiOns cUre. •
BROOKLVS, Tan. 21, 1855 k
MESS:h . :4_2 Ent - ions :—Some of my. neigh
bors and I have had . some dispute abort who i ,
the un-changed and. incorruptible man is t),, m , I '
; - , 1 ,
RuFs: has been writing about- in the De a ne-i
crat. They say it is Judge: Wilmot..- 11.34 I 1 .
can't hardly believe it, because I tilways 1 1
thought he was an honest politician, parti,en- 1
holy as he was always boasting in his 'H ell-
es about his own perfections, and eltin4nig I
most every body ebiewith corruption. 1; didn't
think any Man could be such a hypo(' :tit' e,•iind
y 4 , sometimes things 'didn't loOk exa i lly
right:. I was al Ways agin slavery and it fur If
the Wilmot .Prdvision, as they call. iti Inn if '
he is 'the man Ittife mends: - l'in Swanipell if,{
I'll have any thing mote to d - with hit or I
hiS new party, either, and . there is a , oust 1
many More just the same way about 4.1—. 7 1 ,
We begin to think the gnat fuss is Mort! for 11
`• Beef," or something to line'the Pockets pith I
than anything else. : . .- ' J. 'l'.
. „
, FOR ME DEMOCRAT:
-iressr.3 Editors. • I i j
.
Dsia Szas,--A few evenings since ! I Itad .
the pleasure of being present at i a . donation'
Supper, • gi%len by the friends of Prof.Riehitrd
son at the house of Bela Jones Esq.'iti Liher
ty. To me it. had a. charm, tierthat . few haps
~
Can appreciate aSI did, fur there' I rbetl for l!
l i
the first time in years,those that.in • childhood
I loved. There. I met thtisethat but ; a Ifew I
- vests ;Igo, I saw . walking erect, ih the, vigor, II
strength and pride of manhood; now boWing l!
beneath the weight of yeais. Those that 11-ere r,
young when -I wits a lad, now hind their, holites,j,
and nett-hearth ta.u.noe:mitrictinsdati with twitit , o- I
hold 40,6; so that I could look upon the 'as., i.
seMbled multitude as' they were seated ar-
round the beiutifully'arranged; and- hounti-.1
t
fully supplied tables (whnsays provisioul are 1
so:tree.) and address only one person of 1 the
I young in that assembly, in the - langitage -of 11
old
.Mr. Benjamin Bolt, " There is - only' you
and I: • The rest; of those that were , : yckung
when Iwas young, are either inhabitants of
the "old `church yard, base 'married, • or? are
wandering I know not. %thither. '. .
'. • The record that we hre passing away, ci)uld
not hay . e. been. mere impressive, though tr i aced.
with a sunbeam bp, the finger of Pod. i
' 1. have often wondered why these old fash
ioned meetings of the old nnd the vdnng.
'Should have been abandoned ; furl see no *ter
. Method of cultivating properly, the social le- .
lations in life, than thus - mingling together;
and I ant so much iof an old fashioned Man
that I could-cheerfully at any time, hang up
the fiddle and the bow ; for an old fashiimed
chat with somebodies : grandfather. -Thit as
all things have an•end,so had our feaspng,
and there is no sweet Without the bitter; nei
ther was our party without this 'concomitant, 1
!or 8n breaking up (about 'eleven o'cick,)
some of - our friends ascertained that a giintle• : , :
man! without their knowledgehad tal4ot t%
way their learn, anti left them to walk three
or four Miles en an icy road.' : Practical.jokes
are seldom adinieirle, nit d • the man that ahantd
perpetrate one of this kind, would:outrage a
ny oche, principle. of decency known to Civil
ized
society. Aside)from-thi, the 'who're af
fair passed Off pleasantly, - :mai hoping ithat
Prof.R. and his liberal -friends may life to.
lave many such meetings, and that I nufy be
with them eren-Unt - o-the end. .- t -
I .am very Itespeetfully yours,',:-
Teachersi Aiwociation.
The Suscittehanna.Co. Teachers As%oeuttion,
met at the Baptist Chtirch .14f:k!" . on 1 Jan.'
p7th, 180 according to previous adjourn
ment. •
. The weather being 'very' unfavorabhi the
officers were all absent. G. U. Foot wei
;
sen chairnian. On motion .of E..W. lipgers'
II? subject of j the practical operation ! andl
benefits to be derived from the office of Coun
ty Superintendent was taken up and discussed
with much interest and defered .t 6 thel' next !
meeting for farther . discussion. , The .fitibject
of school government was then taken up an
discussed at some length. All agreed! that
moral suasion is much better than! the
4od.
- . 1 1
Resolved, - That the proceedings of, dos
meeting be I)ubljthed the 'County pipers.
Miguroed to meet in the shoved - named
place on the lOth i daYof February" next of
;ten o'clock A - % A general attendane of
'tencheis and citizens is respectfully solicited.
1; 'G. 1). - YOOT Chairman.
- E. 8..N0 . n445 Secretary.
jam' It is said, thst the late_ Gov. Dc4r has,
left. a iiistinsaiipt- biography which - 1:14115e544:3,
much Fiolitienj.hiterest.
sir The Delaware and Schuylkill Cana
will both be 'Open for navigation on the 15tit
of February.
AarrisOurg Corttsponbeitct:
- • . : i .
.1 Iliantsapno, Jan. 24, 1855 .
n . g P: c .l4: l i ta kenwe rit S e l t ßi el ia: L .—N tlt t it i' s n i g tir - t. 4s d f S a i . ll V :p - : the o r .
lle interest-.
t-
-ng of the I.4gislature. It is generally :O
-r
tiaitted that it '‘niore. shabby" LegislatUre-nev
er assembled, and that the people of Pena
rylvaniawere never."worse humbugged" than
they were list' fall. 'From : all parts of the
state I see Ole papers filled with long arti 7
-tiles,.headedi " we are is:lrayed,". which forces
me to believelhat -die, rogle of thisgood old
Colon:top weto tit will be
,ntore careful in future
Ld.M'they elicttooti;e,and e.; , peciallY. to so
important alstation as representative.- If the .
"old Keyskine State"? has been found wan,
-ling- in prit4iple once, it will be more careful
in future. =' 'how whO, as they thought; vo
ted for freedont and free institutions last rill ;
. can trow.see where they 'were
.deceived and
" mired the Mark." .A pro-slavery, Filltuore
I Whit , :is SpHker of the House, and 'hose who
ll' noft;e' d - frtie principles for merely the put
pose of being_ elected, have .now proved
.the
I rareness - or' their principles by
. voting. fur
Quito a discussion : occurred the , other day .
in referencelto the "remoial of "Joint' Htin- ;
cock's chain' to Philadelphia. The meMoril
id was tires itekt by Mr. Smith from the c r oml
mon councils ofPhitadelphin. Messrs. Thom
pson, MeContbs, Frady, and others .opposed:
the removal!
of the chair, as'it Nyasa "relic of.
old iatriot . is i in, to which this State more than'
• - il
any other 'alas entitled t 0.7 Messrs. Simpson,.
Johnson and Cummings Would -retnove it to l
Ithlepetideqe'llall, "as the Hall wits Saeredl
in the remetnbrance of evervtrue America:l,l
land all the ielies of the revolution (night thetel
ito be placeci."" They. would leave it
~ where;
the "natio+ pattiots might gaze at it, and,'
recall and fight
. up the fires of tuitional pittil-:1
otism, Whielt now'‘ . ere blaring' in all their"l
legitimate qtkliance." -How it. will-be :settled .
retn-tin4 foritho future to develop. The ttr-,
guments n . +l by both ,sides are , very plausi4 '
ble and 1 will. not side with either at' pres , l,
cut, althott it looks Wrong to me to see men
tigh•tingw9 the property of the dead I Noth;
.ing k,f a very . interestihg or attractive maitre
has transPiired in the Senate of late.: Thei
Speaker, oni the 17th inst., laid before: it. u
communication• from Gov. Pota.ocx inform;
ing .
the jAkga'slature that he had appointed
Hon..A.NraiOr G. CuarAlN., of Centre county;'
Sectelary 4. the Commonwealth, - and ' Jon
NI. Sci.LIVA his Deputy. •
.- • •-..,
You reniember that'lvhen our present Gov
ernor was 'l,stumping" the State•last fall, he
laid aside al "State issues and took: up . the
one great :Oa only issue which icoald • ensure
, iiis dection,l! and Which he could htive noth";
iiing to do skids as Governor, and discuSsid it
1
through the State,'-;—that "should he be plec' , .
ted he would 'repeal the 'Nebraska Bill , and
Irestore the'lMissou ri Compromise." Bat by
1 reading his' Inaugral 'Address we tiud. that i:t
ii.evitlent he has given .tite idea uP,:-119._.#
-.4,4titreCr try tiZ•"dtitic. ; z or lll: soßice ins
stead of tit:it of Congtess.• W find hint
the same pOsition that oar t4ost.worthy GGV . F .
ernor, Wl4.lAll' BIGLER, : was 'III while -the
Nebra , ka 14ill was being tlise.usied, anitaftei•
its passage:' That it was . a "thing he had
nothing to do with;--Land that he was not
•
responsible ifor the acts of Congress."
has found liitn , elf incapable of - festering the,
Missouri line. Yet he told the -people he
could do it, that Gov. BrOCER might have
stopped Oil passage of that Why don't
he restore that line?, The people of Penn', 7
sylvania and "part of York Skrte: have- hem?
lopking to him 'for the restoration of the Misl
ciuri Compromise ever since lie . toek 14 . 80,
as Governor. It is My wish that by rtiy-fies.
I shall be Ole: to inform 'you that Mr. Poo-
LOCK
.
has dime as - he . agreed, and met the
people's wishes!.Yours,
• •
•
From Europe.
News by the Pncifie is biglily, : importrint,
on' account; of a prospect of peace. .Iketweek
the EuropeanipoWers: The Czarltits . itecept- .
ed the 4 fear, points" proposed by Etigianii,
and France— Negotiations fo• peaeo .1
once . be entered upon. The following rtie
the points i agreed 'upon. • •
1. - 'Mel abolition of the Protectorate Of
Russia ()yet. the Danubian Principalities, 'mid
the privileges of those provinceS placed under:
the - .collective guarantee- of the contracting
powers. .•
.2. The free navigation of :the' mouths Of
the Danube secured-according to the princi
ples eAtablisliell by the Congre4s.of Vienna.
3. Thelrevision . of the treaty of 13th July,
1814, "in the interest of the balance of power
in Ettrope.i'l
4.. Thel.abandonment by- Russia of her
claim to e4citise an uiTcial protecturage over
the christiati subjects of the Porte (to what
ever rite tley may, belong.) in consideratiOrt
of the poivi:rs git: i lig their Mutual its;i4anee
to obtainfrout the Sultana, eptiftruiation aid
olzservante of the religious privileges •of •all
Christians vurnitinities.
. •
. -• Political litteltigence. ,
( itir
' KEN . = .—George W. William?, ttie
Tempernn . aindidate for Govertfor,ims writ.,
ten a lettl l in.which he. states that be will
hold lite n mination under consideration tkii,
til - td)out the Ist of March. • .
- Jolin-R4watn declines being considered its
a Detnocrhtic candidate for Governor, for the
reason that his wife is a Catholic, and tbht
the prospeets of his'party mightbe jeoparded
t ) running. 'Mr. Rowan howere,r, expresseS
"great pride in-the fact that Ile has no -cd:rt.
nection. with Know. Nothingism, and takeS
occasion oppose the. principles or- the
cret petition' organization. He further says;
trust[that entertain a proper respect
-for all- rettgious dentnnittiitionS, although:: I
belong to no church; and Pod forbidgthitis' I
ever may belong to one. so wanting in charity
as to ad vo'eate. proscription for nion sake.,"'
The Wbigs-of'Boyle Co. propose. a Wliig .
State Convention :it k'rankfort, :April- 1;,.
(henry Cihy's birtb , l4,) for the noininatrpn
- of State officers.
WisCor.—Tlie joint resolutions fr4"in
the. State Senate, instructing their Members
of Conglis to.- oppose any, change in the
United'St tes Naturalization Laws, was
_ta. z
ken up . in-:the Assembly and 'passd unal4i
mously.
. Him. Jon 131.roist, bas been' re-elbo
ted U. S. Se n ato r , by th e Legislature of
mann, far Rir years from the 4th of March.
. Pursuant to notice, the - Editors rind PahHSI
. 2rs . ef tuzerue Cuunty;,met, at the,. Wyoming
4fouie. in Scranton; on Wednesday,
.January
17,1 . 856, and . organizea by the Ipt - intment
of S. S. WINCII ESTER, Esq, ef teqerne_
Unitya;-fts President, and, C. E. Lathrop, .of
the Lackawannl ilerald, Secretary.
On motion a business committee, consist
ing; of IV. P. Miner, Esq, of - the ~." Record of
the Mines," G. N. Richart, of tin, ." - Pittston
Gazette," J. B. Adams, of the "Spirit of the
Valley," D. - A. Yarrington; late of the" North
Branch. Democrat," and G. 111. Reynollh!, of
the." Carbondale Transcript," were appbinted
to report bUsiness for.the consideratiou'of the .
•
meeting.
' During the deliberations of the Committee,
the President f aelivered an able address, in
which he congratulated
"the Fraternity:. open
the (appy. auspices' under which _they. had
convened; anti also upon the elevated' clime,
ter which t
. the_Cotin ry Press, generally , is, nit
smiling ; 7 -not .arrogating to itself any supe,
rior„quatiticatiOns; bat gradually fixing char;,
ncteristics.of independence and ;
which ho reptile') as a matter: of great inn
.portafice. He exhorted his brethren of the
Profession, to pcirst:vere in their efforts; until
the Press-of Lit zerne. Con it ty ; and the country
generally,.should. reach :such a position of"
character:lnd influence, as they Were clearly
entitled to. His speech was receivee with
approval; and no doubt will stimulate ;:each
one . who heard it to . a careful' compliance.
with its well-timed suggestions.
After sit adjournMent for a short time, the
meetine; came.to order, for the purpose of
receiving- the report of the above committee ;
which upon due elf:libel-310cm and - discussion.
wad adopted by acclianation
Resdwa, That wee dtittn it appropriate ou
anbecasion like the preseno meet, togeth
er purpose of prOtnotin`o,_ our buquess
interests; for the cultivation an ' enjoyment:
of t,koCial intercourse; had to,honor name so
illUstrions in the annal.of the Prifitt tg Art.
as our. great prototype, BENJAMIN FIpiXKLIN
-hose weinory isalike dear to every tra .
man and. friend of his countrv•••
-' Regotoed, That we organize aaAsisociation
to be styled the:NO(ITO PENNSYLYANIA TYP
OGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, which shall meet !HUM
allyom the 11th of. January, and : he clan
of Elitor , iand. regular
Joarney-Men Printer The officer's of :said
Association shall be a President, Vice Pres
ident, and Secretary, t-ito shall constitute ab
Executive Committee, with- power ,to call
meetings, and exercise - general superinten
dence over its affairs.
In pursuance of the above resolution, the.
following officers were elected for the ensu
ing year,' viz F. WM: P. Mtn% Othe
bane 'Lines; i'-rident; d; M .11,E:vsouns,; 1 of
the carbondale Transcript, Vice President;
and C. Lathrop,.of Lackawanna Herald,
Secretary.
Resolved, That this, association 'hold its
next annual meeting at the "Plicenix Hotel,"
iy .Wilkesbarre, . .
Resolvq, That a Committee of • three per
sons be appointed to draft a memorial t 9 the
Pre,e - nt Legislature of Teunsylvani4,,
or eisct lottiffentioll of . the, Laws in
the newspapers of the *ate, •and that said
coMinittee publish their Report :as soon as
practieaLle,and call upon theditlerent papers
throughout the Commonwealth _to
,Joni • in
the movement. • • .
E. 13. Chase, :of the " Montt ose'Demoerat,"
B. Beardmlee, of the "Honesdalelletald,7'
and "W. P. Miner, of the" I kesbarre Ti Mes,"
.
were unified .a . . 4 said Coinmatee: .
.- Resolved, That from rind aftei the close of
our present volumes,,wnwill receive no sub
scription to our respee;toile papers' for a less
sum than $2 per year.. • -
.
• _Resolved, that_
.while we . would ''recom
. , , ...
mend, as far.as practicable, the. . adoption,. of
the advance system . inpayme4 for • sukicrip
tion, ives deem- it;.,44Visable to .leave. every'
Publisher to atlOpt - ,*elt. a uo.o rse as may
seem to him moatjaktt;ettiritig - to express,
however, Onr . firin onaViCti,on that the advance
system is . tlecidedlYihe - -'best; .for. ~411.- c O -
.
cerned. -. . - --'. -- - •. :
_Resolved, That We adopt Aha' follening
schedule of priees: ' ' ;,
Advertisements not 'exceeding one sq. of
12 lint's, 1-ort3.inaertionit,' . - : .81 00
1
Each auhsgqiient.inier ion less than thirteen 25
,One sq. 3 months, -1 ' - - - '2 5U
Do., 6 months •- - , . 3 '5O
Do„ 9 months, ,- - - . •. : -- - 500
- - Do.; - year ---•::: -,.
,::-._.- -, - .- ...' 600
Blerchrints advertising by the' year, not ex-.
seeding two squarcs, with occasional ito..„ .
.tices, (in all cases ronfiked to their busi- : ..
nras.) - I - - • - -.-. -. • - 10 00
Adminiatratur's and Executor's 'notices each ' ...,
estatii, - - .'.. " 1 , i. !. 200
Auditor's notices .- ' . -' -. •7 •'. 150
_ Piiifessional ur business Cards, not ex, •
- reeding 8 lines:, per year, -- -
One ei.littnil, per year,, :
Hal eu!anta,-per year, -..
- - .. JOBiIV ORA:
• Handbills, per 50 Copies or less,
1.8 sheet, -81'501-4 siceet,. $2•50
I
1.2 sheet,' - • 3 . 50 1 sheet, .. 5 . 00
Eir Every additional 50 one fi fth the . above
JONATHAN.
. , •
prices. . . .
. ~ .
Plain cards, first hundred, - : 4
. - Each additional fifty, -' ,- ..
Circulars, on fancy paper, first 50, .
Every additional 50, .
-
. . . - .
BLANKS. . - -'.
One Quire. -.; • - , 04
.Tveu ; - . • • . 345 9
Three Quires, • ••• . - 300
Each additional Quire, - • - • ' 75
•Fur one Ream, . - • 15 op,
131. mks kept for sale at OprOtrieeS,•
eup,size, at onm dollar p-r Quire./
War. P. MINER.f, Vilkesbarie Times
.S. WixciiKsvia..buzerne trnion.h •
G. M. RICHAIit; pittsfini Ouzette:
G. M. Itt:Tsot.usi Carbondale Transcript.
ALt.toca, & ADAMS, Spirit gf.theValley.-
- C. E. LATHROP, Lackatraniat:Herald.;•
Resolved Tlint. this Meeting tender to Mr.,
Bunoass, the obliging proprietor of the
0172ing House, theirtlianka for the. hospitality
nod kind attention bestoWed ,. .izpOn ua during
our present session :.• - ~!
Resqued, That 'ull :Editors. iii, Northern
Peuteti.; who desire to unite ":With the Aisoci•
ution, he request 4 to publish these
,proceed
hip; and attach their signatarea to the iche-.
dule of priCes, and insert the same as a stand
ing ndvertisernent, in their- respective jour
nals. . • I • ; -
' S. S. WTSCIIESTER; 'Presideut.
C. E. Limsor,.Sectetaty. — - r .‘
• tar Mr. - Jordan Wooley, one of the coron7
ers of
he.
cOnnty, - Ni J.; gives notice
that he has hisilesSessicia n • qtiantity -of
clothing - Anil - some jewelry,.such - as rings and
.watches which were taken front the deadbo•
dies that came.frOnt the 'wreck of 'the New
Era, and that he will tooviurrpniler any of
Ihe'eaid property to the relatiVes of•thO
ceased,' if any them be ibo ten come forward
And identify. the time. • '
Editors' Convention.
- -- 500
. .
- - - BO 00
- 30 00
`:The--New ._ York Evening Foal;: that
startlif4"""_ fieesoil - paper" thus discouries on. l'
Ea . low { { Nothings t
._:
11:to*atist tit Poreign Ittiliterwe 1
"Our] reatieri will, bear witness that this Ise ...
warnswarniq., witi(svhielr the columns of , the Ewa
in.9
"
Amiliar. We " - have neve r
beforelibdulgekin the expression .ot any , ap
prelietfsion of.dangor from the alien emigre-
tion to the United States. Oa the contrary,
we have invaribly treated it as -rtw_iinportent.
source of national wealth and. p rosperity.
.put we can no longer shut our eyes to the _
existence of ;danger from this source," which
Willett° we {have deemW Only worthy-' of a •
smile or .n.sneer. Thu --facts . !ROL . . have
wrought this cha n ge ittoniconiicioiiill : •
nOw proceed briefly to state. -
-- - We - Ea e `itac - eitifeet;teetieetitimisatlifee- - :
tion that there is 4 secret and yerjrnkln#oll3l
organized on, Is i th!risisterioui atettel4hOrear- ''-.
ly-every -village in thetnited Statits,'new ae
tively eupgefl in banding together the peo
ple
of ferogo birtiveleOng us, and in keep- '.,
ing alive anio . iig'tteiii'all thOfitioiliffpreju- .
diVes and preferences, Political, social ind're
ligiOus„ which they:inay , have, brottghtociitk''
them' to our shoe .1 It seems te-betberpriw , %
ciple Object of this{ organisation - J4
**, tonit.: ,
alien : residents fro7becoming intereatisd - , in;..
:and identified with the Ainerican-latitutiotie .
and people,: cud from Partingariththeir. - . 8 4 4 .•_ .•
gianee to the goveinments mula ivhich they
were born. In aceOmplishing ihisyesult they
neglect no ppportu j nity of fomenting the ncosti -
malignant antipathies and jalousa* - ii3 , , A 1 0 -
breasts of alien residents ; they induce theiate"
believe that.they ts:lldeprived of employ-, ,
14
input, the their lives 5
rid property,-are i •nise- ~,
cure, and that their el, reheewill be Wrested '
from them, by the cooks, or . perhaps. burned
by tlke mobs. The secret.instruments of this
organization have. secured prominent po
sitions in our legislative assemblies 7 meas-
tires of their 4evising Occupy a's'erycorisider: :
able share of the time :ofbur represeitatives—
its tnem4er4 exert.* pcovetful , and„oftelya con-
trolling influence at "our politifat ;meetings,
and there are those among them who4o not
disguise their expeelation of elevating one of
their order to .the Prelidency at the text elgc-
tion.. ,
But all theiriplans,ns we bane before sta
ted, conteinPlaie, seperation,.9l., feeling and, -,
of interest bet:reed T'Our,. native:: and foreign
born poputation,.and inifiirtheranee of this
object they haqe recently procured the'intro
duction of a bill irito4he United. State s. Sea- -.
a s which is d4igned, to_ limit the' privileges
of e . izenship iO . perions Who hive resided in •
in the' 4untry - ifor a period Of iii:leaSttwenty
•one yea Ibis insidious prof:64oOn
vocated up.tt gronnds'of pretended' .patriot
ism, but no o • who . retlects upon. its oper a-' ,
tions for, L a 0,9,4 *merit 'Can: se* - ' the
darker ptirpOse[Whitli
thi foreigners Oget43 . ; by, the. ties4of
a. com
mon inj Ai ci.,..arid 4 a gin p ri!ittion, and t
at:the same date dune i'sbilirot TO .destroy
all interest in the proSperity . .ftheir ithipted
country: : They reason Collr t‘4l/11.t.,* the
half million of ernigrantifriiiu't old coin= ,
try who . anually seek' a home in United
Statei were required t&Witif -tWerity=l)
_before they were 'allowed ,any intluencelttina
kiiigthe laws tii,whieh - they
.rieni'Mquired to
submit, or in .:Ixpetidinithe'revennei,toiiiiids
which they were regime& t 0 ... contribute;
Very few i '3 earal their numbers,. would :become
so great' as to create a mighty :nation' in our
I midst; disgusted by our intolerance; unfriend,
ly to our insti..tattir-indisposed.: tcr : mingle
with our oruuxuaa,.uthuther inter* . or. ester
nal, at a inoment'ionOtine: r - -
This iniolernt organization, we (save good
reason for believing, already numbers several
hundred thousand members. What , renders,.
it the More danger 11 as,ijgracefuli
is the fact that eac run
.
der themost. solemn and impressive oaths.: to
conceal not only its objects and doings hat
tlurnati...of- all 'wholielimg , to iL
O raw. vait 'army who compmie this Foreign ,
Legion,' thertris „not A soul who , . darer' •ndna '
thrit ho is or ever was a member of it., Upon..
this point they are duinb,.Amil Wider:oath, in.
our courts of justice. - -Though ititi ire*: as
eertiii tied that_ members- of this erianitaition
occupy seatsin both brauches i of , lira United;
States.. Congress and in nearly l e. very state leg
islatnie intjlie republic, we-are -not *ware ,lof,
is t alagle instance in - which - any - member of the
orderihas",Admitted own or anyother per- 1
sou's - connection' with it: , 2 L.
' 'Of course„such secrecy eau only he':teemed
by 'Severe ffenaltii , , , V:r which it is difficult • to
see how any person Could saki:tiger antwor
`thy or honorable purpose. - '
We presume what we havedisclooed oftheir
proceedings will satisfy air readers that What
orer their purpose May be, the results whi'plx
they, are laboring to accomplish are most ,
cliievons; that-they Arvin war with the Spirit,
dour institutions and _with the trite , interests'
of our country, depend:lin a-very:meat
degree upon the contributions of iMpOrted
bor 'and card tal. - •-* •
We Must content burselvesio-dl4, with thus.
briefl,y \iiirecting attention to , thii imp: winos.
and formidable enenly, which, in an impene
trable disguise, is distributeir,atriopg.our-peo
ple like Spanish brigands at,a Maypole: festi
' yid, ready at the' first signal of ',their com
mander to strike some fatal titAbeprivi
leges and pieasures they are -pretending .-to
share.' - ;.1
Kninw. NOthing /410illikki• °
The Lancaster kutatiner, On. Old, organ of
the Whigs of Laneastat County,' thins speaks
of our present Knuir:Ncithing Legisla
ture'
-CA
The Legislature last er,eek took iinOtlier step .
forward in " reform" . y edee ng, tie . tight
or ten additional, officers precise .floto
her .we dont see stated, but idtogellierthe 'sem
ployees,.pf the present;LegislitureoutnuMter
those of the huu. 14 atleasta dozen
'This - is not a very, important_matter; it is.
Artie, as the additipmil expense. ivill.not Much
exceed $3,090,--but it'. exhibits A principle
which if not-prompili6hecked; 'will become
the fruitfu linother,ota hilialr4 more. tThese.
4:4lices are created foTtlic sole' iurposO of iiik
kiug places for-idle - followers of "Sam" to
loaf at the public
_eXperaie. ~ The ;umber . 4
ell *
employee* might _Wye tieeti. - ' '' Drably re-_,
Aimed without. detriment to, Wail 'Pie inter
est, but reform of that kind is. on y, intended
to be talked about with those gee d istu;ed
people, whose easy credulity . forms " the, chief
stock in trade of crafty pillitieiriMt - -'-its not for
use. The Arse week of a 1110 A, Tl`Tohing,Leg
islature sees ths .. number Of its . , officers ite
creased thirty, Kr cent.;_ .. -- ',.
_; '
We commend theie.fsets to 6010 640 ' 1 1
tion of those citizens who , looked upon the
Know Nothirit movemetivas
. ii :1 t:ery goodl
thing," and, w o gave it a liftattlits 44 61 ' 1 1
r.tion, yet are in the , hatit , of liat*ttifilhli their
tax-bills sou ewhat eleselY. - It .nos,:Yo very
pleasant toleleet members to. the,kagislsturt
merely because they "know net ing;"/ bee /
i ft
the farmer who spends ten hour!' ti (let chop'',
ping wood in the snow, mould; not fi nd (ch
pleasure in the refection that.. he r . he d to
'put a party ; in power ; whose first exp loit w 4
to establish a dozen loafers l ia‘th ;capitol, to
receive their thretdoliAMia di from the pub':
lie troPmil7 :for: doing net,i g.
_ri r et so i t
tarTO stOinshipsPorgelawliasarrived
at lq, Y., from'Califorma with $1,251,000. - 1