The Gold Movenment.
The receipts of gold from California during
the last twelve months have amounted in round
numbers to fifty-three.million of dollars.. The
export from the port of New York during the .
same period has been about thirty six millions
and a half : thus leaving a balance in the coun
try of sixteen millions and a half: Subtracting
from the specie in the New York banks the
amount held in the name of Senor Aranjoez,
and which ought not to enter into a calculation
of this nature, it will be found that the banks
hold over a million less, specie now than they
did this time last year. The $16,500,000 re
tained in the counts has not therefore gone
into their hands. It has passed into the Trea
sury and been scattered throughout the coun
try; a large portion is held in private hands, or
hoarded up by wealthy men, or used for the
purposes of trade. This amount is considera
bly less than the usual annual absoption of gold.
From the Ist of January, 1849, to the Ist of
January, 1854, the excess of our imports of
gold over our exports was $108,000,000 being
at the rate of $21,600,000 per annum. The
progress of the gradual absorption of gold is
shown in the following figures. In 1820, it is
estimated_ that all the specie in the country on
ly amounted to thirty-seven millions of dollars
From that date to the discovery of California
the mines yielded about as much again we
imparted $252,000,000, and exported $168,000,-
000, leaving some 572,000,000 gain; and thus
on the Ist of January, 1849, there was in the
country about $122,000,000 of specie. Out of
this amount the banks held some fifty millions.
From 1849 to the beginning of the present year,
the mines yielded *194,3631117, and we import
ted $26,508,774. We exported during the
same period $112,695,574; thus leaving in the
country sm the Ist of January, 1854, $230,589,-
502 in specie, which has since been increased
to something like $239,000,000. Of these two
hundred and thirty nine millions of dollars, the
banks hold about one - fourth. Allowing twelve
for the share of New York t .three for Boston,
and eight for New Orleans, the other banks in
the United States are supposed to contain about
thirty - seven millions of specie; giving a total
of bank specie of sixty millions of dollars. The
national treasury holds some twenty-seven mil
lions; and the balance is in private hands, part
in money and part in jewels,plate, &c.
The Way to do It
We consider the defeat of Gov. Bigler a fixed
fact. He eat on the fence with reference to
then Nebraska infamy and the Prohibitory law,
until the people have determined to nail him
down to his position, and leave "him alone in
his glory," as a warning and example to all fir
tore political trimmers. He has ;stained that
Lager Bill in his pockets, until the pantaloons
and their owner have become odious to the 100.
ral and patriotic portion of our community.—
He has truckled to political Jesuitism, until
Americans, at least, suspect and repudiate him
as unfit to govern this glorious Commonwealth.
We therefore repeat that his overthrow is cer
tain. But hoW is it to be done? We reply, a
gain of one hundred and thirty votes in eachcoun
ty, as compared with the Gubernatorial vote of
1851, will secure the election of Judge Pollock.
If the opponents of Nebraska, Lager Beer, Jes
uitism, promiscuous Pardons, Sio., in any coun
ty in Pennsylvania don't intend to do this, and
more that this, let them send word to Old Dau
phin, Greeting ! and we will make up the de
ficiency. We gave Gov.Johnaton in 1851, just
what he deserved, the largest majority ever
given to a candidate for Governor in this coun
ty: but our Democratic brethern have conclu
ded to punish Gov. Bigler's non-committalism,
by asking at least 500 for Judge Pollock, and
if the increase should be 1000, we can't help
it. But let no county be satisfied with a gain
of 135. We can not only elect Judge Pollock,
but we can do it by such an overwhelming
majority, as to ternly trucklers to Slavery, bad
beer and Jesuitism for years totome. Shalt it
be done 7—Pennsylvania Telegraph.
Know Nothingism in Washington
There appears to be some truth in the rumor
respecting the establishment of a newspaper in
Washington, to advocate American doctrines.
It is said that some twenty four of the most in
fluential and wealty gentlemen of Washington
have agreed to advance $5OO each to put such
a paper in operation, an 'that they have offered
the editorial, department to a gentleman of
political and editorial experience, who has the
proposition under consideration. ,The prospec
tus of the new paper is not yet published, but
it is said it will appear during the coming week
and wb are informed that a very extensive pat•
ronage has been ensured both as to subicrip
tions and advertisements. It is to be called
"The American Organ." Whigreand Democrats
will unite in its establishment, and a democratic
native will be selected as the Editor. In this
connection we may add that about one-third
of the Senators of the United States, and about
eighty members of the House of Representa
tives are said to be members of the Know
Nothing order, nod that they have resolved to
lay aside all other party considerations, and
unite in an effort to purify our constitution by
means of this organization.
Sale of a White Woman.
A Sale of a free whintwornan was recently
made at Freemausburg, Lehigh county. The
parties have been residents of that place for
some time, are natives of Germany, and the
transaction consisted in a man disposing of
his wife to another man for the sum of one dol.
lar. The parties were represented as being of
intemperate habit.. Writings are, said to have
been signed by the trio—thewife, the new
husband and• the old husband.
rii"lt is reliably ascertained that several
~ K now .Nothings" are to be dismissed from the
Post Office, in Washington City, at the reqqest
of•the Densocraey,
ifiegieter.
Allentown, Pa.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,1854.
FOR GOVERNOR '
JAMES POLLOCK,
Of Northumberland County.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER
GEORGE DARSIE,
Of Allegheny County.
FOR JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT.
DANIEL M. SMYSER,
Of Montgomery County.
The Agricultural Fair.
We are glad to see that much interest is felt
in the approaching Fair of the Lehigh county
Agricultural Society. Many who offered noth
ing last year are preparing to compete for .
the premiums this year. Numbers who did not
visit the Fair last year intend doing so this year,
and everything seems to indicate that there
will not only be a full attendance, but that the
number of articles entered for premiums will
be much larger than it was before. We have
seen, ourselves many evidences of the good
effects of the last fair and we believe that if all
the profitable results flowing from it could be
brought together and spread before the people,
every body would be astonished at them. Ma
ny farmers have been stirred up to improving
their lands, to reclaiming their exhausted and
worn out fields, and to adopting new systems
of farming in advance of the old. The ingen
uity and skill of mechanics have been put to
the task to turn out the best and most hand
some specimens of their handicraft, as well
as to Invent new plans for directing their oper
ations. We 'anticipate much pleasure in mark
ing the advance made at the next Fair.
In the mean time, it behooves the citizens
of this place to see that the most ample and
complete arrangements should be made for the
accommodation of those who may wis'a to be
present at the Fair. The arrangements at the
last Fait were not sufficient, but not so many
visitors were expected. Now, we believe,
accommodations will be provided for all. At
team, we know that oar hotel keepers intend
to be prepared to accommodate a much larger
•number than they could last year. 4i.
If WillianOigler•
Should be elected Governor, no new Banks
will be created, the currency will be good, and
the country will be prosperous and happy, so says
the "Hoyiestown Democrat." How will this
kind of talk agree with many of our Bank asking
Democrats in Allentown? They aell us, howev
er, that if we reelect Gov. Bigler, he will prom_
ise to sign a Bank charter f9r s us. Might not
our Allentown Democrats have(a "privir letter"
from the Governor to that effect, as thEt speak
with so much confidence, these "private letters"
of the governor and making him trouble. Judge
ing however, from the signs of the times, William
Bigler will have but little trouble with agning
Banksbills next winter, and may'engage his time
writing out "manifests" for his raftmen, a post
to which he is probably better fitted.
Robbers in Catasauqua
On Friday night, a burglar was in the act of
breaking into the dwelling house, of Mr. Jonas
Snyder, in Catasauqua, but was chased away
by his sons giving the alarm. About a year
ago, this same house was entered by burglars,
and thirty dollers in money, and half dozen sil
ver spoons stolen, and five weeks since, anoth
er attempt was made, which was (metre.
ted. This being the third time within a year,
that attempts have been made, to v enter Mr.
Snyder's dwelling.
Lehigh County.
The "Doylestown Democrat" says, the gallant
Democracy of Lehigh county are united to a man,
and are going it with a perfect rush, for Bridges
and the Et*, ticket. The "Democrat" heads the
proceedings of the late meeting in large and cols.
spicuous letters thus: "Great Roar from Le
high." "The DOrnocracy moving for Bigler,
Mott, Black, Bridges, States Sovereignty and
SelfiGovernment." "Speech of Col. Bridges and
able Resolutions passed." The JacksonDeinoc.
racy broke loose and in Motion !" "Lehigh will
do Better."
This we call gassing it to some purpose. In.
deed the meeting as we were informed by honest
Democrats, was the smallest ever held in the
county. Nothing but dissatisfaction was appar
ent among the few who were present, as will be
seen from the proceedings of another meeting of
the Democracy, held in another part of the court
ty. The only correct sentence in the notice of
the meeting is, that , Lehigh will do Better.' Pol,
lock will beat Bigler in Lehigh. Mark our words
Mr.. Democrat.
"A KnoW Nothing."'—
A communication over this signature ap
pears in our columns to-day. It is, as will be
seen, addressed to our neighbor of the "Demo.
crat," and we cannot imagine why it was sent
to us, unless our friend refused to publish it, add
the author thinking we would give it the light,
it deserved. The writer is evidently "A Know
Something" in regard to the Constitution of his
country. His references to that glorious instru•
ment, its framers and defenders, Washington,
Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Sm., and argile
ments appear to be well founded upon facts
Well he shall be heard, so that our unknown
friend may see the good sense he writes, al•
though dealt out in a sort of playful way.
• A New Borough—On Wednesday last, upon
the petition of a number of citizens of Freemans.
burg, the Judges of the Court, in this county,
incorporated said town into a Borough, under
tc t)
the name, e le & title of the "Borough of Free
mansburg," nferring upon du! citizens there.
thereof all the ri lte and prireleges pertaining
thereto. We co ratulate our neighbors in
their aspirations e their tarn may some
day be as large as Easton now is.--Easton Sen.
Great Dissatisfaction
Our paper to-day contains the proceedings of
a large and respectable meeting of Democratic
citizens of Lehigh county, held at the House of
Henry S. Bush, in the Borough of Ca'asauqua,
this county, on the 26th of August, 1854.
From the proceedings we are led to judge, that
the Democracy of Lehigh are not united to a
man" as the Doylestown Democrat would have
it. That'hot one word is said in favor of either
Bigler or Bridges. The would.be leaders of the
party, are charged with resmodeling the resolu
tions passed at the meeting on the 19th of Au
gust, to suit their purpose. They are alio charg
ed with striking from the series, a resolution
denouncing the order of "Know Nothings" as a
'secret, rotten, corrupt,unconstitutional and dan
gerous society' and cautions all Democrats from
joining. We are not at•all surprised at this
for we have reason to believe that the Democra
cy at the present day principally are ruled
by "Know Nothings." Who struck out the
'Know Nothing' resolution passed at the Demo;
cratic County Meeting, is now the question?
Candidates Withdrawn
A Free Democratic Convention was held at
Harrisburg on Wednesday, composed of dele
gates from various sections of this State. It
was determined to withdraw Mr. Potts as
their candidate for Governor, and resolutions
endorsing Judge Pollock's views on the Slave
ry and Temperance questions, as satisfactory,
and recommending him to the support of the
friends of Freedom and Prohibition, were
adopted.
The Business of a Newspaper.
The New York Evening Post lays down the
following correct rules for the management of
a new,epaper, which are doubtless the deduce
tions of long experience. They were called
forth by certain strictures of a correspondent
upon the alledged impropriety of spreading be
fore the public the daily details of crime.—
Such complaints are by no means rare. They
comes from one division of the numerous tribe
of newspaper censors, who are as diversified
in their tastes and inclinations, as they are in
their minds and understandings. One set thinks
this should not be published, another that; and
so on to the end of the ehapte:. But every ed
itor knows full well that his duties to the pub
lic are not to be squared 5y any such uncer
tain and impossible standard. His experience
will teach him to agree with the Post, that 'the
first business of a newspaper is to publish the
news," let it be good or bad—reflecting the
bright side of human rhsture, or revealing its
darkshades of vice and crime. Without this,
our newspapers would louse the greater part
of their interest and utility.
"The first business of a newspaper is to pub
lished the news; the second duty is to com
ment appropriately on public matters. For the
character of the news ; the second duty is to
comment appropriately on public matters. For
the character of the news, the public—the au
thors of the acts recorded—are responsible.
the views of public questions which are taken
. —for the principles and measures advocated
in the editorial columns—the journal is justly
held accountable to the judgment of the coma
munity.
"We consider that the public have a right to
the news of the day; and that it is an implied
condition of the subscription to a newspaper,
that the paper shall contain all the interesting
news which it is practicable to give, unless
some good and valid reason exists against its
publication.
"We believe that a false impression of the
true condition of the world, and the consequent
necessities of the times, may be as easily pro
duced by omitting the'publication of important
events, As by the publication of actual false
hoods."
"The Great and Beautiful in Catholicism."
Dr. Schoji; in his letter frdm Europe, as pub
lished in the "German Reformed a.r.....4-,e4 - •
of Auuest rms, mays, that "for the great and
beautiful in Catholicism, the Scotchman, train•
ed up in Calvinistic strictness, has no taste
whatever." It is manifest -from this letter
that by the word "Catholicism," Dr. Schaff
means Popery. And hero we have a man
clairninvo be a professor and teacher of Prot
estant theology, speaking of and admiring the
great and beautiful of this mystery of iniquity !
Does he mean the great and beautiful Pope, in
his scarlet Vatican, assuming titles of blasphe.
my, while grasping at the prerogatives of the
Deity ? Does he mean the great and beauti.
ful skulls and crosses, saints and sacraments,
and all the corrupt doctrines and wild formali•
ties of that unhallowed mother of Romish ty,
rants? Does he mean the great and beautiful
deeds of which Popery has been the origin,
disgracing the human race, and staining the
pages of Its history—deeds which dyed the
streets of Paris with Protestant blood, forged
the guillotine, kindled the fires of Smithfield,
and raised the scaffold on Tower Hill ; deeds
which strewed the Alpine snows with the crai
dies of murdered infants, and raised the cairns
which now mark the martyr's graves through
the hills and glens of Western Europe? Or is
it the great and beautiful Jesuitical efforts now
put forth in this . free land of America,lo sup
press the truth and trample under foot, as dead
bodies, the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New
Testaments, God's two living witnesses in the
world, and to contaminate the politics and
Protestantism of this great Republic? if these
are the great and beautiful things of Popery—
and we know of none other—which Dr. Schaff
,appreciates and glories in, every true Ameri.
can will say, away with such heretical "chat
fism," for no lover of republican liberty and
true Protestantism can have a taste or relish
for acything so common and unclean.—Phil.
adelphia Sun.
During the year ending July Ist 1854, the
whole number of marriages reported In N. York,
city was 6097.
Communleatlon.
The "Know Nothings."
To the Editor of the Democrat : Sin :—I have
been a member of the illustrious Order of Know
Nothings ever since I was born. I received my
title as an inheritance from my ancestors, as
Kings receive theirs, "Lei gratia"—by the grace
of God. lam not a member of the political
Know Notbings—my -word should be received
my friends as soon as yours, both of us disavow.
ing any connection with that organization. You
have seen proper to make your journal the ve
hicle of abuse of the Know Nothings, without a
particle of testimony to substantiate what you
assert. Why, man alive, don't you know you
are attacking the very founders of our g overnt
ment, when you write as you do I Geo. Wash.
ington, TOM. Jefferson, the Magnus Apollo of
the democratic party—(l won't say locofoco, as
they didn't belong to that stock, and beside, the
word seems to hurt you mightily)—and all the
old Fathers of the Republic were the rankest
sort of Know Nothings ! If you don't believe it,
turn back the•pages of history and read where
the Know Ncthings of 1787 established as an
unalterable rule, that no man should be a candi
date much less electcd, President of the United
States, unless he was born in the United States !
Dont you call this full'blooded "Know Nothing.
ism?" You may find it in the Constitution of
the United States, art. 2', sfction sth, and reads
as follows: •
~ N o person, except a natural born citizen, or
a citizen of the United States at the time of the
adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to
the office of President, neither shall any person
be eligible to that office who shall not have at
tained the age of thirty.five years, and been
(already) fourteen years within the United
States."
Now, sir, you profess to be a strict construe.
tionist, and we defy you to gainsay if the Know
Nothings of the presetft day are not carrying out
the principles cf the Know Nothings of 1787, of
which Washington and Jefferson were the Path,
ers and prime movers. If you don't like the
Constitution of the I.T.pited States, say so, and go
in for a change, but stop your silly rantings about
those who go for the Constitution as it is—it is
good enough forms knericans.
Now don't fly into a passion, bat hold on till
I read:lrou one or two clauses more from the
Constitution of the United States, the charter and
text•book of the Know Nothings, in the hope of
enlightening you that a certain obscure individ
ual, sometimes found in old books, called George
Washington, was the princr of Know Nothings,
for he put his name, as Prhident of the United
States, to the articles I am going to read, as well
as to the one I have read you above:
Art. 1 sec. 2.—No person shall be a Repre.
sentative (in Congress) who shall not have at
tained to the age of twenty.ftve years, and been
seven years a citizen of the United States."
What an ignorant, bigoted, illiberal set of fel.
lows the Know Nothings of 1787 must have been
to•be-sure! But listen again. how they proscribe
the pure, good, enlighened, true republican fig
eigners, one of whom, very, near your court, has
said "ii is an honor to America that he, and such
as he, have come to live in it !"
"Art. I. sec. Il.—No person shall be a Senator
who shall not have attained to the age of thirty
years, and been nine years a citizen of the Uni
ted States," &c.
What a stupid set of Know Nothings they
must have been. But . again.
'Art. 1, sec. B.—The Congress shall have pow ,
er to establish a uniform rule of naturaliza.
Sce.
0! the heretics! and Know• Nothings. lint
again
"Art. 1, sec. 9.—The migration or importation
of such persons as any of the States now existing
shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohib
ited by the Congress, prior to the year one thou,
sand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty
may be imposed on such importation, not ex
ceeding ten dollars for each person."
What a set of cracked•bra; ic
. __netor•Nt.thitsgs
George Washington, Tom. Jefferson, and "them
tother fellers" must have been.
'wow, sir, allow me to give you a little whole•
some advice, with the hope that you may profit
withal : Remember this, sir, that man is not the
greatest apostle of liberty who most bitterly de,
flounces a society about which he says he 'knows
nothing" except from hear say, for the sake of
the pay he will get. If you "know nothing,"
why do you presume to open your mouth against
men who are trying to preserve our Constitution
free from, and our escutcheon unblurred by, the
hands of demagogues, who -would trample our
stars and stripes under foot, for the sake of pan.
dering le vandal foreigners, jesuits and jacobins,
in order to secure their co•uperation at the bal
lot box 7
• If you are the patriot and constitution-loving
man you profess, in less than three years you
will be found acting and voting with this very
"midnight association," as you have seen proper
to term it. So I tell you, beware. , "Least said
is soonest mended"—and the least said now, the
less you'll have to take back and repent over
then. So I part with you, by singing the line of
the old song— "Don't be foolish, Jo."
If you are still incorrigible, you shall hear
again from A KNOW NOTHING.
The Design of the Swindle
Henry A. Wise, who has just been nomina
ted as the Democratic candidate for Governor
of Virginia, says he is in favor of the Nebraska
bill because it "repeals the Missouri Compro.
mice and fortifies Slavery." That was the kg
pose of the swindle, and for that reasoyfide
serves and is receiving the execpiti‘n of the
people. Nevertheless its ultimate effect may
be very different from what its authors design
ed. if Kansas shall be 'saved to Freedom ]- as
it may be—and if Nebraska shall, as is quite
probable, become
,a Free State by general con
sent, Slavery will have been but miserably
"fortified" by this outrageous enactment. The
encouragement of free emigration to Kansas is
now the great leading practical duty of the
North. If this duty is effectually discharged
the discomfitted propagandists will howl with
rage in less than twelve month.
GLEANINGS
I Poor Business—Watching Koow Nothings,
tar The American Party of Schuylkill have
nominated a full county ticket.
0:1•The New York Weekly Tribune has now
a circulation of 115,000 copies!
{''The New York Tribune is after the Know
Nothings with a very sharp stick. It ia also
down on the Catholic Priesthood for not using
its influence against rum and crime.
far Some of the citizens of Washington town
ship Wyoming county, had a hunt on the Bth inst.,
and killed over 2,000 squirrrels.
flirMiller,do the interior are sending to the
principal cities for supplies of wheat. Odd fact.
rif - A Broadway dandy was most unmerciful,
ly thrashed last week in front of Goodyear's In.
dia..rubber warehouse by a negro in petticoats!
Or It is a remarkable fact, that in the town
of Manchester, N. H., a town comprising 21,000
inhabitants, there has not been a single alarm of
fire for eight 'months.
'The mornings have quite an autumnal
appearance these days. If you doubt it, get up
and stroll about at four o'clock.
a" The Cairo (Illinois) Republican has piaci
ed the name of Stephen A Douglas at thcelld
of its columns for President.
ii'For Benton's Thirty Years in the Senate,
it is said in the National - Detnocrat that the Ap•
pletorts, w•ho received the copyright of this
work gave for it a check for the substantial sum
of $50,000.
rirSixty seven emigrants,including several
women and children, left Boston on Tuesday fur
Kansas
M'A Sunday liquor law is in operation in
England,
1:: - .Forty.four patents were issued from the
United States Patent Office last week.
ErDuring one year three hundred and twen,
ty foreigners have been naturalized in Louis
ville.
10" The Wheeling lntelligencer says the Ohio
river is now lower, according to the memory of
an observer ol such thipgs, than it has been since
1838, and is now only one inch higher than it
was then.
Sambo and Paddy in America
"There is no physical reason why the black
race should not increase as fast, and faster even,
than the white. The experience of the slave
States proves this, where in spite of a degrada
tion for which nu amount of personal comfort can
compensate, they faithfully fulfil the Divine com
mand to multiply and replenish the earth. Sam,
bo is naturally a laughing fellow, full of fun not
without a relish for a pjactical joke, and ready
,always for a dance/avid a bit of banjo music in
the open air—especially if Dinah be there, for
whom it must be confessed he has a strong liking.
He is too found of his case to be out of temper
for a long time; too much a man of world to work
unless obliged to do so , and by far too much a
gentleman to trouble his woolly pale with think•
ing a great deal. He is a bit of a 'swell," we
are sorry to say, and loves to deck his ebon
beauties in bright reds and blues, and not with.
out a rude idea of taste and harmony of colours
—if such a thing may be seriously suggested;
and so long as Dinah likes it, he cares little
whether it be according to the rules of art. He
has a certain natural delicacy in the midst of his
coarseness, which contrasts very favorably with
the beer.drinking rudeness of the labourer of
some countries nearer the meridian of Green
wich, and a remembrance of gootl, treatment,
which ensures his master against "strikes," as
long as he does not strike first. And when he
and Dinah at length become one, there seems to
be naturally no good reason why gkooly - pated
.piccanninnies' should not be as thick around,
his cabin, as ever cartcdv heads were on an Irish
Potato patch. In ,Massachusetts, for instance
they would seem to have everything in their fa,
vor—freedom, plenty of work, equality of laws
and rights; and yet his family his increased on
ly foar.fifths per cent. in ten years. The truth
is free Sambo in the United States, with all his
freedom and political equality, has. no reality,
of either. tits colour stamps. him forever in on.
just popular prejudice, which in stronger than
law, with the caste of labourer, whose mother,
and brother, and cousin are .slavesi and who
Might to be one himself; and, if the truth most
be told, all this makes Satnbo rather a good-fgr
nothiog fellow:' He neglects his family, is un
thrifty, gets behindhand, and before long finds
himself quite at the foot of the social ladder.—
iPat has- been coming in from Ire'
land, and has stepped a t yer him ; and in astonish
ment at finding sodrbody, underneath himself,
be becomes the worst tyrant that the poor black
has to endure. The inveterate dislike of an Irish
men to a negro, is as well known as it is -to.
markable."—English Review,
The Newspaper,—ln promotion of so desira•
bla an object as the union of the intellectual with
the useful, the newspaper is an important anal! ,
It is more. It is typical of the communi
ty in which it circulates and is encouraged. It
tells its character, as well as its condition; its
conditional, as well as the map whereon are traci
ed our tendencies and destinies—the chart to di.
rest the traveller and settler to safe and pleasant
harborage, or to divert them from the shoals
and quicksands of social degradation. At home
it brings to our firesides. it imparti to our house.
hold, it impresses on our children, its sentiment
of propriety or its lone of contamination. Abroad
it is regarded as our oracle, and speaks volumnes
for or against us. In its business features may
be discerneAl , the indications of our prosperity or
otherwise, in a worthy sense; but in its general
.mplezion will be discovered our moral and
spi itual healthfulness or disease. It is the por.
traiture of our imperfections, as well as the
chronicler of our advancement.—Notiorial
Missouri Election.—The official returns show
the election of nine Denton Democrats and nine
Whigs to the Legislature from St. Louis county
This result was accomplished by the t.
Nothing" organization, adorning the members
who are elected, of both parties.
Three at a m r ih.—The Eagle says that the wite
of Mr. Joseph Muthart, of Colebrookdale town
township, Berns county, gave birth, on the 10th
inst.,lo three chilrend, all girls.
BY REQUEST.
Demooiatto Meeting.
At a public meeting of the Democrats of Le;
high couniy,lield at the house of Henry IL Bush;
in Catesauqua, on the Saturd4 evening,the 26th
of August, on motion the following
. gentlemen
were elected officers of the meeting, Dainties
NULP, President, 'William Biery, Augustus W.
Gilbert, Jonathan Snyder, Joshua Siegfried, Wit*
tiara-liieller,Charles Siegly,7'homas Frederick, D.A.
Tumbler, Henry 11. Bush, Aaron Lambert, Aaron
Bast, Vice President and Esaias Behreg, Sec.
retary.
The object of the meeting having been stated,.
the following gentleman were appointed a tom"
mime to draft resolutions expressive of the sen
timent of the meeting to Wit: William Gross,
G. Washington Bough, John Gross, S o l omon ,
fiery and John W. Knouss. Said Committee
after full and deliberate consultation reported
the following preamble and resolutions, which
we're unanimously adopted.,
WinosAs a county meeting of the Democrats
of Lehigh County, was called on Saturday are
19th day of August last, at the Public House of
Simon Moyer, in South Whitehall, township, and
whereas in our opinion, the proceedings of said
meeting were unjust, unfair and contrary to the
usages of the Democratic. party. Therefore be
it by the true Democratic citizens of the County
of Lehigh, in public meeting assembled, at the
House of Henry H. Bush, in the Borough of Cat.
asauqua, unanimousli.
Resolved,—That the proceedings of said Colin,
ty meeting are contrary to the principals of the
Democratic party, that a foul and premeditated
wrong has been commitied upon the able and
worthy Representatives lion. Wm. Fry and Da`
vid Laury Esq., by said county meeting not pas.
sing the usual resolutions approving of their
course during the last session of the Legislature.
Reso/eed,—That we rejoice that said wrong was
not committed by the Democrats of the County
of Lehigh, but by certain office seekers and office
holders, residing at Allentown, who claim to be
democrats and who came to the County meeting
with numbers large enough to carry a majority
for any resolution they might propose.
Rem/ea.—That we deprecate, despise and in.
terly repudiate (as any part of the custom of the
Democratic party) the method pursued by cep'
twin persons, of packing said meeting and dril•
ling and turning out their forceS privately, so as
to carry out their own selfish ends, that Allen
ton is not Lehigh county, and that the democrats
of Allentown are not the whole Democratic par.
ty of the County of Lehigh, and that had the
Democratic party of the county of Lehigh been
aware of their•ohject they would have turned out
in their might and given them a signal defeat.
Resolved,—That we heartily approve of the
course pursued by our able Representative lion.
%Vin. Fry, and David Lauri Esq , that we deem
the course pursued by them, honorable and con.
sistant, and such as strict honestly and•inlegrity
and a true Democratic regard for their oaths as
Legislature would dictate, and that they are Cu.
titled to the thanks of the Democratic party.
Resolecd,—That the proceedings of the Demo.
cretin party, in county alerting assembled.ought
to be such that no Democrat should be ashamed
or afraid to make public, that certain resolution
were passed at said meeting calling the society
of "Know Nothings" a rotten,corrupt,secret on•
constitutional and dangerous association, and
warning all true Democrats, to be on their guard
against them, that other resolution were passed
and among them one directing the resolutions of
said meeting to be Published in all the Demo^
cratic papers of the county. That said resolu.
tion against the •`Know Nothings" and others
passed by said meeting have been suppressed
and not published, that the said resolution against
the ..Know Nothings" meets with our hearty ap•
proval and comments, and we call aeon the of.
liners of said meeting to inform us by what- au
thority, and for what reason said resolution and
others were not published, and whether the ac.
tion of a Democratic county meeting, is to be re
vised, and if so, whether it is at the option of the
printers, to publish just such portions of the ac...
tions or a Democratic meeting as may salt their
own views.
Resolved ,—T ha t these resolutions ,be publish
ed in tha.Allentown Democrat, Friedensbote and
Independent Republican.
kits Renato, Secretary.
August 25th, 1834. .
Wonderful Preservolion.—A writer in the Dos.
ton Recorder, as an illustration of Providential
care, relates the following marvellous incident,
and vouches for it as authentic:
ELIAH BOCDINOT, founder of the American Hi..
ble Society, was returning in his chaise to his
home late in a dark night from a court he had
been attending many days. He did not know
that a. recent freshet had carried away all the
planks from the long bridge that lay in his ac.,
customed path. Therefore he drove right on
as though there were a bridge there, and reach..
ed home safely. His friends inquired by what
road he came. •The usual road," he replied.—
"Impossible," said they, "there are no planks
on the bridge." -He persiated, and they, trembr
ling for his sanity, eagerly went with him next
morning early to survey. When arrived they
found the very tracks of the carriage at either
end of the bridge and on the sleepers, and the
very footprints of his horse on a central sleep
er. There was no more to be said ; sanity sod
veracity were both safe. Some power had pre.
sided over the instinct of that horse. had ordain
ed the correspondence of those wheels withkept
h
the
sleepers over which they passed, and
man in ignorance of his danger. Was that pow
er fate or chance I
Severe.—The Bradford Reporter is quite severe
on the third address of the. democratic state cen
tral committee. We were afraid that nothing
would'be gained by the mild tone of the address
in the northern counties, but we did not antici
pate that any democratic papers there would as
sail the chairman and the addres s as the Repot..
to has done. We are %sorry thaSa difference of
opinion should exist, in our ranks, in relatiois to
the Nebraska bill; such however seems to be
the case ; but surely there is nothing In the tone
or t'fie temper 61 6 the address that should offend a.
demod"rat in any section alba state.--Democrag
ie Union.