Voutrost ginuntnt. ray. LARGEST CIRCVLATIOJ I PCiIiTREEIN E. B. CHASE J. 13. McCOLLUM, Eurrons Noutrese,Tintrsday; 114/6 Tkc News. Two ladies Were murdered at South Gard net, Mass. last Week, and the house in which they lived ransacked for valuables. There is a regular stampede of Know No .things in New Hampshite; and as the. Con cord. Patriot has it, . I ‘Satan's kingdom is tumbling .!own." =Over 100 have'whhdrawn from the order in Concord, and ;1500in the . State. Wu: have been informed that about recently withdrew. in a body from the at Great Bend, this county. 'Our latest teiws from Harrisburg states tat.the Llonset passed four Bank Bilis last Situnlay, and that. some ten or twelve. more ate •in prepatataot. Don't this look like \Vliiggery 1 • Advice:a front the city of Mexico, dated February l9th, reprent . Santa Anna as dai ly 'wing, and • Alvarez as g,aining ground. It is said that - Santa Anna has several steamers in readiness to twelve him on the apptoach of Alvarez, and•has sent alt that he could of the,seven millions received from the United States, and other viluables, out of the court- . . try. - lie is also! mid. to have sold the three millions yet to be paid to Mexico by tbe.Uni ted States. • , , . The notorious , Bill Poole.; whose death we chronicle today: was one of the foundersof the Know Nothings. He an i Ned Buntline were active Whig ward Bullies of N4w York. Our readers Will recollect that the know 1- Nothings burned Mr. Littlejohn, Speaker - of the New York 'Assembly, in etrmy, because like an honest Irian be renounced their Order and. voted for Seward. - List Week the,anti • 4now Nothint,prof Oswego nominated him for Mayor, and he was elected by - 500 major ity over Culver, the K. N. candidate, who was most officious in denouncing him for. what 'the K. es.icalleo , .Treason ! ',Honesty brings its-reivard: .• -• Not Tame. : ' • . The Ripubtin denies our 'atifithent in e reference to the] o I nt'woe edinms 'of the Know Nothings in Franklin, on the' day of the Ejection;and aars that Mi. •Warsoii ides its truth nisei.. Now we know..that kr. Watson has . taken. council of ati2Attorney,. and that he doesj not deny the truth at our statement substantially. We believe thuse sane -know Nothings; too, are - endeavoring to treat that election as though It never had been held, true to_. their Joe Ritner, Thad; Stephens, :Whig instincts. At the proper tine we shall expose the wicked plot to the public, that those engitesd in it may meet the reward of their condact-- public odium and everlasting infamy. P. S. • Since writing the above, one of the editors of the Pentocrat, has been informed by Mr. 'Watson that he never gave anybody any authority to contradict Our:stato'nent. Mwwlaciletisetts. , Yn the late township elections, in the Old. Bay State," the K. N's. were defeated in 28 towns: But a few-months ago they carried all but font' or fivee towns in the State: This indtcates a change. in the political atmos phereja the hilt-bed of the secret order. Horneltsvl Ile. - A.correspondent of the Tribune in referr ing to the .4efeat.of t.he Know Nothings. in that place `elores biti letter with this signifi canipaf , nge: " Hindooistn is dead in Thrn-, ellsville :" ' Auspleions - omeas cheer' us! "The Work Goes Bravely og." In Detroit the Know-INT - ogling candidate for Mayor is defited by . a majority of 600. In Oswego, the' anti's triumphed 'with a rnkj. of 500. In yracuse, a Deatiocratic,May- Or•hasibeen elected over a K. 'N., with .400 mnj. In Utica the K. N. were beaten by about 400. In tockport the anti's carried 4he entire ticket. The "Hindoos" are destined to an early political grave. Thus saith the people. -Mr. Setward's Speech. A short -extract from Mr. Seward's great speech in the Se.nate will be found in our pa per to day. *epad intended to publish the whole rpeech, but have lost the paper con. taming, it. If any of our readers have IL they will greatly. 'oblige us by forivarding it, 'as we are extremely anxiout to publish it en tire. It will be seen by this short extract that Mr.earard isnot afraid or ashamed to define his .'-position on know .- ICothirigs. In what bold contrast does his manly and statesman like position stand out by the side of David Wilmot's. Mr. Seward does not truckle-- does not ploy the ''etuagozue—at the foot stool of this erne], unchristian and intolerant power.. Ile winks not at this horrid wrong to obtain votes. He was.not found ,sneaking about their caucus to obtain a nomination for the U. S. Senate. Not he'; but he threw:, defiance in the face of this great wrong, 'showing to the world that be prerred to re tire to tbe deepest`obspurity of private lire, ra- ther than degrade his manhood by courting the favor of 'Oa' , . intolerant Order. But nal so did David :*l - itnot. Ambitious for a seat in the Senate; he scrupled not to turn his :back npon the well-tried friends of his. ' h o w life ( ---6?eiking a death blow at the deaus principles of ht+ity and right, and lend influence and active exertions to the propagaticin of religioulstrife and intolerance. s9r is this alllaying aside those great ideal of univenal freedom which he so long • hail advocated, C. he strikes lianas with the alareocracy of the South in their merciless ,attempts, through this order, to disfranchise hundreds of thousands of Northern Freemen, —to place the shachles of a most degrading servitude upon the manly limbs, as wtil as consciences; of the:white men of our North ern clime. • Magnet heart overflows with philapthrivy for, the - Idea *hie of the south, bat it has no word Of sympathy when thoie of his arre color et- the North, are threatened with infamous enactments spinet theirOoti -4iven rights of .Conscience and freedom 2-- Will the people sustain such hr ritical pro fmsions as these,—al! made to obtain a seat in tho U. S. Senate I G ls the man who aets thus worthy of they ou6derice from Ole hands of a people wlici lovU right and justice ! sir °lir:readers, will le.arn with lis issue of the Penwerat, that henceforth +Mother pen besides- ours will be weekly emplqyed for their benefit and interest: We lum'e made an . ....; arrangement wl l th atr. uocoui-pt to &mist us , in its editorial dbpartnienti. -We have taken 1 this step for several reastoni,proininent - among which may be enumerated the following.— There bakprobably never ;been* time in this county, when the rights and inlerest of the people were in such jeopady as 9ow'r Dem agogues' have - become bold •anrilacting, and the great hope ;tor the triumph of 'collect. Principles now ri:ate !tr. the, fea . rlesi boldness. of the preas-L'a if.,oldness= that shallunn' , i task; the designs of the venal and lay them open! to the light of i dity. Unleaa this shall :be' one, time Only can i develop the consequences.— Our civil and religious tights are' nsrailed with all the madn e ss that ambition lends the vile;--our political 1 iii titutions, and those great. fundamental .principlea oni which the . gvernment-was based, and. has 'n ad min ile ist o ered, are thre4ned with' subv ykion and destruction. ,An i ,able, bold; and incortupti- I press, only, can turn' back the tide - and bring repose to the districted st a te of our internal political relationsi i ' I 'ln the past welhive done - our bi6t to poini. out the dangers, 4nd the remedy. But there la enough .to employ the tir4eland, tibility of • more than 'one, especially ;when tha p one, as is the case Ivith; UN is' obliged to { att end much to-other duties, requiring attention ihroad.as 'well as at honie. The Democrat niinif speak. Tie people here must and; shall have' at least afradesif organ. *R. 1 1 l fePOLLVAI is a young w man of fine parts as.a riter,..of unblemished character / . and will, undoubtedly l ' add .largely to the inferes t muilability.:pf the 'paper. IVe Mean to make the /;ocrnociat cnte'of thelablest I • i ; . papers in Pennplvania •; and, it it shall not prove to be, it livillinot Wirer want of earnest and untiring effort ;on the Olt Of its- present Editors. - 'I 1 1. '; - . , Ileadeia co* the itemitperniti ' In appearing ibefore you; in ai editorial ca pacity I shall yield to an approved . and np- i propriate 'custom by giving a brief statement of the principles I\ shall laber to uaintinn . , It,is the duty of tl4 political journalist \to state facts and sustr.in• principles; to , shrink' from no responsibility that he intiy liaifir• in the support of a just .f aiise. : ,It isliis busi-, ness to vindicate and irstain7eternal truths ;• to combat corruption and lerror in high pla ces and low ; to festiosly discuss Measures , 1 1 , ,-, • of.governmefit rwd the qua i dificationti and the claims of the asifirant i for L publie honora, re cording correctly and„ faithfully his virtues and his vices. An uttsh4kled Press :is the the guardianof-a RepUblidtibold and decisive in Its defence of right,,,itiiii, to perceive and condemn every infrinlpirieht ofthe peoPle's liberties, its inflhence it fetrj and respected.— 'lt moulds public .opini 3 On; M a measure, and prepares the m. es to r ; act understandingly. Such being its office ; its independeice and purity are dear to' th 6 pOpular heart, and should be maintained. N4.ver `since this gov ernment was instituted hai the piibiiC stood in greater - need of afearlest ' , end untramme)- ed Press, than at the preient l , time. The avb7 nuei to distinction are'crnided with corrupt and unprincipled !aspirants; who resort to ar tifice and treacheiy, in he hope' iof . gaining positions of trust 'and profit, who, disrg,ard pledges and principles liii!,l the struggle for poWer. The designs of neh must be thwart ed; their doubleidealini !exposed 'land the 1.1 • • I rights of the maises,ctentlel. , T i o do this, is the appropriate ' k of ;the; ,Preits, which should ever be o , in unCompromising hos tility to every s pec 'es of deceptionn, and trawl. It should be ready , to' txl virtue and de iituncesice, tosu,stain, principles, in prefer ence to men, when the latter come in contact, with the father. ', 1 . ' di .. Within the past lyear RD , element has bcn, introduced into; political world, that is hostile to the mostprecious rightssecUred to: 1 i it. • ais by the constitutlon, and d • to`tb e', peade and _permane ` ncc.of the overnment.--- 1 It is the principle 13r fitoser ng a man for' his reli'gious - belief, which itv,it, itself wrong, i while the cleans employed to ustain and-ex ecute itore,suclu as lionest:m , ti',' inust repu . diate and condem n . It is the n n rural and in herent right of every Man to crihip his 34- ker in the manner his conscie ce dictates; it is a"right that 'hum* laws annul destrciy, and any etak to abridge it, ii: tyrannical and 'unjust. 11 affairs of thi t ;government are to bC controlled in the; lo.dgi of a secret order, "if the ambitiOus, designingland:Forrupt ones in our midst, are to creep iiqo high pla ces by virtue of midnight plotting and in de fiance of the popular will Constitittionall,ex pressed, the future career of this eountry ,will_ be a libel upon itsglorionS past -- ilOur prog ress as a people depends inl al great rnersiire, upon the open and fearlessi discussion of any principle proposed .to i‘be 4c , rporated 1 into governmental meastwett. '4.it I khis' Democra tic i t. government everyt Mall htui a', vel' em in thelen tieing of laws that are tO g' oiernihim. Itti l 'o'- licity.is an indei to viluntisjaCtion, the prop ; er symbol ofintegrity i>p the'pOliticu pf- l i ' l6 " public ; .secrecy inithe tninage4ent of :putt lic affairs is ominotis ofi cerruptton, tyranny and wrong. .1(. tie ret riolitimllerganizatiouil instituted for ambitiens ,and unholy purposes exists in our coutitiY today; its'scbetnes,coti- : coded at midni6t ere' , fraught with ruin, prejudicial to the rigts l of the adoPted 'citi r zen and colutequ en.t'i tly hostile to 66 1 1 progress li of the nation. , T combat an d defeat the plans of this consOrs4y tO unfold and expose its corruption rex!langernus tenderieies ii clearly the dui t:lfi an ind , ependent Presit.-- Snow-Nothingiseu ;,isid at present the'''para mount iviitical - q4s4on before. thepeople; it has obliterated other i issues, in itii, *tides towards mtionalityi tilreci ' , its ents and power with the party : tltf A very p iingod inn and'must be Min iithlbold and deter mined opposition, More it shall have crushed , the free-soil sentim4t of the North and im- Prx 4l " ned the spirit of reform. In making it i.. 1. , • . . , war , upon this secret party we are!fighting the f" battle of !freedom ;" Know-Noiliingit.m is the !right arm of the " slave'powdri" and until it is overthrown slavery has a ixtwetful ally 'Fully,persuaded that the power, of sla- Vecaw be mosteffectually crippled, )1 , the 1,3 defeat of this secret Party, no, effort pf 'mile wili be wanting-to Make the pensOwt its fea4ess, yet tempemt4 opponent. 4OA la; 1 bor an honest purpose, to sfmngdien and 1 support Northern free-soil sentime n t -shall ,f -not hesitate to criticise calmly attedispas . sio ateV the conduct of men in highli places wh the public good demands it., and, shall 1 11 not ndulge in personalities and partinan bit terness. I shall spare no pains to mako the .Detikocrat what it haS been, a paper of inde pendent and fearless. tone, the advo4te of sound morality, the organ of the people. 1 - C• J. B. McCotivst. • 1 Goodrich on the' Cnnni .OUr attention has recentlYibeen oille.d to an a r ticle in , the Bradford Reporter, britaiii in it vile personal assault urn rye , which tip:. peitred' - that paper_ while we werqahsent from home a few weeks ' The article in - 1- question seems to be a lahored effort of the. editor, E. 0. Goixlrieh,ito ,cast personal odi uni i t uid' spleen upon u! We are not sensi ble Of ever, by Word or deed, in our paper or out of it, having given Mr. Goodrich the slightest cause for a personal attack upon us. We have never aUtled., to our - recollection,. • either to himself or his paper, in any other ttaanE the most ,courteous and decent tOanner. rlo, l . tbis friendly bearing on.. our Out has been! reciprocated by him let the tileaof the ea . r.,. procated by mm 3..... ._ neporter for the past few weeks alum*. . 1 1 i Atriong other mean thrusts which the :mil elein question contains, is one in reference 1 • to tit l e canvass which resulted in our e,ection l ' as Speaker of the ,House of Represetita t tives at Harrisburg. The insinuation is. thrown our ,' , that we i obtained th e favor of the .pre4 of t h e ! State through begging lett&s, addre4ed tO saur brother editors, while they, amused. at oiu • `'t greenness, „, would give a puff editOrial,nev er • , o for a mment stispeking tilat thei wer v l thus ititaking.a great -- man out of a veri• stivilh patter]. At least he relates this as his own experience.. Looking over our file of !letters' we Itit've come across the following: I Tow.ANDA,'May 4, 1/343. Friend-Chase: -Ohase : .„ 1 . I -iitent.l to bid for A section, at the)etting at thi s place, on Saturday next, and'oCeourse don't, svant to bid in vain. Now whatl want o f yciti is, a letter to the C. C's., asking them tofirrar tue if _ possible, (and it is - poSi.ible.) If you can conscientiously -write • tok , la few line4-yoti will do Inc a 'great . faror, and the strotiger:.the more intense the obligalin. • Should you cone 1 ude to do so, send it 'to nie - 1 . as scio as possible. • r- 0 • . • . .* .1. • I • • ” ' ruly yours 7 . E: 0. GOODE:ik. IL 4 ,, Tie plain Entlish'of the above letter, as our readers will. see, is that Goodrich `Vanted ' a se