fig E LEHIGH TIEMSTEL T ALLENTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY,' JUNE 11, 1856 C. P FDITOIt [a" ANPNYMOUS,' North Whitehall.—lf you will send us your real name your communica tion will appear next week. It is absolutely necessary that we should be entrusted with the real name of our correspondents, otherwise they may rest assured that their labor is in vain. Answers must also in all cases accompany enigmas. EMMA, Catasatujua.—Can't tell you anything about Henry's character. Some smart' young men• do wear blue coats and brass buttons. The blue is indicative of their feelings the brass of their manners. Ga'ANSlVfilt TO ENIGMA.—The Enigma in our last was solved by Wm. Ziegler, of Philadel phia. The answer is " Edwin G. Martin." The Cincinnati Convention. We give in another column, to the exclusion of much other matter, a report of the principal doings in the - Cincinnati Convention. James Buchanan, " Pennsylvania's favorite son," was on the seventeenth ballot unanimously nomina ted for President, and John C. Breckenridge, of Kentlicky, was' unanimously nominated for Vice-President, on the second ballot. The news of the nomination was received with great rejoicing in nearly all the cities and principal towns of the Union. Mr. Buchanan was born in Franklin county; PennsylVaida, on the 19th of April, 1791. Ile was elected to the Pennsyl vania Legislature in 1814 and 1815. In 1830 ho was sent to Congress, where he continued for ten years. In 1831 lie was sent as Minis ter to Russia by General Jackson. lie returned home in 1834, and was iminecliatly elected to the United Siatcs Senate, where lie remained until 1842. Afterwards he was appointed Sec retary of State by President Polk, which lie held fur four years ; and soon after the acces sion of Mr. Pierce to the Presidency lie was sent as Minister to England, Flom whence lie re turned a few wecks ago. Merl:toting Corn. In.convcrsing with a farmer front the lower end of the county, we were informed that in many cases in their neighborhood fields of coin planted this spring failed to germinate. On making examination it was found that the grain was in the process of decay, and conse gnently a great deal of replanting had Wire done. We find this to be the case in many of the counties in the eastern part of our State, which has given rise to n good deal of speculatiOn as to the cause. Some have an idea that the ex treme cold weather of the past winter froze the germ of the grain, thus destroying its vitality. If this be the case, it will not do for our far, mers to expose corn intended for seed in the open corn cribs. Others attribute it to the imperfect ripening of the grain last season, which is the most probable reason: The wet summer and fall last year prevented the cobs from becoming as thoroughly dry as they should have been before housing, which has led to the decay of the grain itself. It will have 'the cr feet of retareling the ripening of the crop to a' late period, and may perhaps materially ditnin- ! isb the production. In some localities the old corn has been found to be much damaged on , taking it from the crib, and in some instances i has been found to be almost worthless for food. Hail Storm. A hail storm of considerable severity passed over a section of the upper end of our county on Saturday afternoon. The wind accompany ing it wns very violent, prostrating sheds, fences and trees. Some of the hail stones were as large as hickory-nuts. Considerable damage was done to grain, fruit trees and garden truck. Painful Accident. A young . znan named Mounn, an iron ore teamster, met with a serious accident near Tenth andllateilton streets, in thiS borough, on Saturday afternoon last. In attempting to get on his wagon, which was leaded heavily at the time, ho made a mis-step and fell so that one of the fore wheels passed over both of his legs near the :mole, crushing one of them ill a shocking manner. Ile was taken to his resi• dente at the A • • • •. • Fourth of July. The birthday of American Independence is fast, approaching. No observing person can hail) failed to perceive the diminution of inter est of late years, by our people generally, in Fourth of July Celebrations. This is to be deeply regretted. That day should be an uni versal festival. Every eye should beam, every heart should. beat with noble emotion,, and every voice should be raised in the expression of gratitude to the men of 1778. On the Fourth we love to hear the joyous shout, the wild hur ra, the loud peal of bells, the roaring of,?rtille ry, the sharp crack of the Chinese crackers, the blazing bonfire, and to see the steady tramp of the volunteer soldiery. Thera is something glorious in the oft repeated American sentiment, " 4th of July," a mysterious power, that acts with enthusiasm upon the hearts of the people, and makes each man, woman and child feel greater and nobler when the sun of that day shines down upon us. Althimgh but little freedom appears to he tolerated by fanaticism in the National Capitol and on the soil of Kan sas, still we are thankful that in Pennsylvania, and the other great Free States of the North, we are yet free in the streets to walk ; free to speak and act. Americans are , doubly blessed, for they are not only free, but surrounded on all sides with smiling plenty, their soil yield ing up her treasures to the touch of the hardy husbandmen, and industry rewarded by labor's fair - remuneration. Let us conduct ourselves becoming the inheritors of this immense coun try, bequeathed by sires who have handed down to us a day of freedom to commemorate. Let the people assemble together as of yore. Let them hold their feasts and thseir festivals ; for i we maintain that in the frequent assembling Of j the people is_ the chief corner stone and safety of the Republic. After the above was put in type we were in formed that the " Columbia Assembly" had taken the matter in hand for the coming Fourth, and were making strong efforts to rekindle the patriotism of days gone by. They intend to 2.et up a grand Pic Nic, which is to be a gener al celebration, and wherein all the citizens are invited to participatd. The place selected is the beautiful grove at Helfrich's Spring, in North l‘litehall township, about 21 miles from town. The Managers are men of well known ability to get up such affairs, and we have no doubt will on this occasion arrange matters in such a way that none will come away dissat isfied. Sec advertisement. Death of the County Recorder CIIAILLE:i Gauss, late Recorder of the County, expired at his residence on Wednesday evening last. The disease of which he died was Yellow Jaundice. From the first, his illness assumed a violent and alarming character, and notwith standing eminent medical skill, that strove faithfully in, his behalf, terminated' fatally on Wednesday evening, as above announced. Ceotl Will leim At a late meeting of the " Good Will Fire Company," of the Borough of Allentown, the following resolution was adopted and ordered to be published: Resolved, That the thanks of this Company arc hereby tendered to the ladies of Allentown for the elegant mirror with which they ortia mooted our Hall. Struck by The sharp thunder• clash that was heard by so many of our• citizens during the thunder storm on Wednesday night, was occasioned by the lightning striking a small untenanted house in South 'Whitehall • township, belonging to James McShane. It done no material damage. Atlvantatrus of lint 'Winter's Snow. In traveling over the country at this season, the advantages of last winter's snow to the grass and grain is plainly observable on every side. Where the snow was blown ow of the fields or covered the ground but thinly, the grass and grain , is wore' or less killed ; but wlnre the snow covered the ground to a good dept , to grain and glass now stands thickly on the gi' nd, and presents a healthy appear ance. The great 'benefits of the snow, which covered th ground for nearly three months during the intensely cold weather of last win ter, protecting the grass and grain beneath, P.m almost beyond' estimate. ; and yet• seine of us complained • bt.::::iase of the great abundance of "now. . • • :•_:treet Sprit'lain* During the ptist week the street sprinkler lad a .sulistitute in his place, old madam Na ore taking the job into her ownThmuls and do ug it up most effectually—so effectually, in eed, that notwithstanding the occasional warm appeals of old Sol, the streets utterly refused to "dry up." Franklin and Marshall Collctgo at•e in the receipt of the annual Catalogue of this Institution for 1855-6, from which we learn that there arc connected with the College proper 73 pupils; preparatory department 36 --making a total of 100. The expenses of each •tudent for the year are set down at 8166,00, ncluding boarding, washing, tuition, &c. Accident. Gen. Paul Applebach, of Bucks county, 'bile returning from Canada with a drove ol• verses, niet with an accident at Shimersville, 'orthamplon county, week before last, le vas riding in a buggy, having four horses tied o the reat• of his vehicle and n string of horses n advance of him,' when some of them be •oming frightened, they turned round and up .ct the buggy and threw everything into a gen tal wreck. Gen. Applebach was mixed' up among the horses and was considerably injured. His escape from very serious injury seemed to be almost a miracle. • ID'On Thursday evening, June 18th, (second day of the Fair.) a Citizen's tress B a ll will come °Nat the Odd Follows' Hall. THE LEHIGH REGISTER, JUNE. H. 1856.00 Columbia Fire Cothpany. • Whereas, the members of the Columbia.Firo Conlpany were kindly invited to partake of a collation at the Island House, by. Preston Brock, Esq., upon which occasion the Allen Brass Band tendered its valuable services, therefore; Resolved, That the Company do,hereby ten der a vote of thanks• to Preston Brock, Esq.) of the Island House, for the hospitable and lib eral entertainment with which he favored us. This Convention met at Cincinnati on the let in, but did not organize until the 2d., when the`v \ eport of the Committee on organization was adopted,, and General John E. Ward, of Georgia, chosen President. He was formerly Speaker of the Georgia Legislature, and deliv ered some appropriate remarks on taking the; chair of the Convention. The difficulty with regard to contested seats waS settled, so fair ns the two sets from Missouri were concerned, by the formal admission of the antiHentonites. ' On Wednesday the Platforin was read and adopted. The first part of the report endorses I -and affirms the gehei:nl principles of the last IDemocratic National Convention held in Balti more in 1852. The report then proceeds as follows: And whereas, since the foregtitng declaration was unanimously adopted by our predecessors , in National Conventions, an adverse political and religious test has been secretly organized ; by a party claiming to bo exclusively Ameri-1 cans, and it is proper that the American Dem ocracy should clearly define its relations there to: therefore I . Resolved, That dig foundation of this Union ofl States having been laid in its prosperity, expan sion and pro-eininent example in free govern ment, built upon entire no in matters of ' religious concern, and no respect of persons in regard to rank or place of birth, no party can justly be deemed national, constitutional or in accordame with American principles, which, bases its exclusive organization upon religious opinions and accidental birthplace. r Resolved, That we reiterate with renewed' energy of purpose the well considered dechtra- I tions of former Conventions upon the sectional -issue of domestic slavery, and concerning the' reserved rights of the States : and that we may more distinctly meet the issue on which a sec- I tional party subsisting exclusively on slavery agitation, now relies, to test the fidelity of the! people North and South, to the Constitution andl the Union it',:so/»rd, That claiming fellowship with and' desiring the co-operation of all who regard the preservation of the Union, under the constit '- don, as the paramount issue, and repudiating all sectional parties and plat forms concerti ig ! domestic slavery, which seek to embroil le c.. States and incite to treason and armed r rist ance to law in the Territories, and whose atw ed purposes, if consummated, must e nd in vii• war and disunion, the American Democracy .- cognize and adopt the principles contained in i, the laws establishing tHe Ter4itories of Kansas, and Nebraska, as embodying' the only sound! and• safe solution of the slavery question upon which the great national idea of the people of-this whole country can repose in its deter- mined conservatism of the Union ; nen-inter- ference by Congress with slavery in States and Territories ; that this was the basis of the Comm omises of 1850, confirmed by both the Democratic and Whig parties in National Con ventions, ratified by then people in the election of 1852, and rightly applied to the organization of Territories in 185-1 : that by the unifum ap plicadon of this Democratic pritr.:iple to the organization 'of Territories and the admission , of new States with or without domestic slave rj-Enrr.Axrixu.-Many of the farmers in ry, as they toy elect, the equal rights of all the this county have been engaged the past week ,States will be preserved intact. the original in replanting their corn-that which was plant- l e • i i ) t i e " , P t t i c lt t l the of tilileer p c e o t u u s a t t i constitution onini and maintained expansion i o ir t i l o i .- ed in the early part of the month or last of . Union edsured to its utmost capacity of eine , April, not having come up. In sonic instances' bracing, in peace and harmony every fticurel, we are told that the failure, of the kernals to . American State that may be constituted or an- I gerinirate was owing to the corn having, been ! nexed with a republican form of government. 1 ilel the uld i r n ig , h i to a ftl a i s e spoiled while in the crib. The fall Was damp recognize pta l q 6 )l s e ° (rill i t ' l l i l e at 'li v i e tori es and the corn in many cases, heated, and thus ; and Nebraska, acting through the fairly expres the germinating 'principle was doubtless des- ! sa-il will of the majority of actual residents ; and troyed, but some ruiners, we are informed,; whenever the number of their inhabitants justi attribute the failure to sprout, and to the sever- 1 fies it, to form a constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the ity of the winter. -Del. Rep. : l'ition upon terms of perfect equality with the -..-....... other States. 0.7 - DANIAGED Cony.—A farmer from Pocop- . /ipso/red, finally, That in view of the condi son, Chester county, intermit us that he hull I lion of die pnpularinstitutions of the Dlil World, and the dangerous tendencies of sectional agita- , in his granary 'one hundred bushels of corn, shelled in March last. A few days ago on ex- i t l io a t i t i ,dio r i e t i l i b g i i i o w n i s l t ( v i i is tl a i b t i l l i i e u t e tt .; te ri 7 a t i t i t ls t t e e i t i l i f e ot r i;e ,h c t iv o - f l undoing it, he found it greatly damaged, and acquirin g and enjoying citizenship in our own i so warm that he could scarcely bear the heat land, a high and sacred duty has devolved an increased responsibility upon the Democratic on his band. He took a sample of two bushels to the mill, and when ground the cattle would country,i t :: ) tr u t3 l , a ci to f i t d hi a s n i,i maintain li d le t the l p ie ar t t i y d o il f s (,r l7 e n v i e o r n l; not eat it. There is no doubt a large amount of Slat e , and thereby the Union of the States, and the corn harvested last fall is damaged to an, sustain the advance among us of Constitutional liberty by continuing to resist all monopolies cqual or less extent. The grains in this ease ! In SLATE Pima , MUT IN Tilt: U. SrAms.---Ac- ; heat. and all exclusive legislation for the benefit of time tscoloredby fermentation and ucat. were ( • d' fermentation and few at the expense of the many, and by a cording to the Unitcd States census for 1850,1 li • csi chc ., l , 7 , Rtcord. vigilant and constant adherence to those grin, there were then in the slave States three mil- -0.40.4.-- .." 1 chiles and compromises of the Constitution, lions one hundred and ninety-five thousand nine rir - A 1111.7. has been introduced into the Mas- - which are broad enough to embrace and uphold hundred and fifty-one slaves. Taking six hun- . snchusetts Legislature, making an appropria- I the Union at it was, the Union as it is;and the ' Union as it shall be, in th full expansion of Bred dollars as ihe average, and allowing for lion of $20,000, to aid the Free State party of`. U erietgies and capacity f e this great and pro the mate ial increase since 1850, the total val- Kansas. The American State Cotincil of the , gressive people. tie of slaves in the United States at this time is same State have resolved that, if such outrages ; 1. Resolved, That the questions connected estimated at two thousand millions of dollars,l as that committed upon Senato r Soma. are; with the foreign policy of the country are info the annual interest of which, at six per cent.,' repeated, they will go in a body to Washing- ' rior to no domestic question whatever. The thne has come for the people of the United will amount to one hundred and twenty lions. mil- ton to protect the representatives of INlassachu, i setts. States to declare themst , lves in favor of free seas . I and a progressive free trade throughout the 1 The estimalid v. - One of slaves emancipated in [ I world, and by solemn manifestations to place the British West Indies was only fifty millions,l ID---A whole family, 7 persons-a man of 45, ; their moral influence by the side of their sue not half the amount of the United States. Yet a woman of 40, a young man of 13, a girl of 16 ; cessful example. 1 and 5 small children, have been MU • I , • it Lied or ! ~2. • Resolved That our geographical and oli t- : it is estimated by an able writer in Blackwood's i ' al position with. reference to other States P of burned in the neighborhood of St. Louis, They Magazine, that the loss of productive property I 1 i tiie Continent, no less than the interests of our' were all sleeping in the room of a cabin 16 feet ! commerce and the development of our growin in land, houses, machinery of various kinds, ; square. Their bones were found in the ashes ; power,. requires that we hold to the sacred - prin•l which arc rendered valueless by •emancipationl ; of the burnt cabin, in the morning, by their ciples involved in the Monroe doctrine. .Their , was not less than four times the amount of the bearing and import, which admit of no rmscon-1 whole value of the slaves. : nearest, neighbors. t I struction should ; be applied with unbending -.........- I [l.-To remedy the Sunday sleepiness which! rigidity.' ri - Tris Sun says that Preston S. Brooks I bothers so many good people who want to keep I 3. Reso/Hed, That the great highway which was severely wounded in a duel with one Wig- awake, • the Christian Intelligencer says :- nature, as well as the assent of the States mostl : fall, of S. C., before going to Congress. Both- ,< The patient must lift his foot seven inches ! immediately interested in its maintenance, has I Brooks and Wigan w marked for a free communication between the; were ounded in this duel, above the floor, and hold it there in suspense,l Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, constitutes one I the former severely. Wigfall, not satisfied, without support to the limb. Repeat the rem- lof the most important achievements realized by says the Sun, afterwards challenged the father edy as often as. the attack comes on." • the spirit - a modern times and the unconquera-1 of Brooks. The old gentleman refused to fight ! fa - A marriage took place a short time since, ble energy of our people, and that this result and Wigfall posted him Os a coward. A young in New Orleans, La., at 7 o'clock in the even- should be secured by • ' time]Y • and efficient eer tion of the c . x control which we have the' right to ; relative of Mr. Bird, attempted to tear down: ing, but the bride was taken suddenly ill and claim over it. No power on earth should be ! the placard, and was shot dead by Wigfaill, who ! died at 0 o'clock ; so that the same paper that . suffel'ed to impede or clog its progress by any I had previously said Ile -would kill any one who chronicled her nuptials, also published her' interference with the rerations that may suit I should attempt it. decease. , our policy to establish with the governments of; • . States within whose dominions it lies. We can' I ( 1 l Aneditor out West says-" If we have ; under no circumstances surrender our prepon-1 Ca - AmitauLts nom. AT MAITCII OMSK.-- . offended any man in the short, but brilliant derance in the adjustment of all questions axis- I We stated recently that Mr. D. M. Krause had• out of it. I . course of our public career, let him send us a I ju g ° become proprietor of this popular house, which i ' send 1 4 P •co/r !/Tlat in view of so criminandingl new hat and say nullity , . more about it." ' .- ""•• " ' i was a mistake. D. Conner, Esq., is the propel- I ___ -„ . n ,an interest to the people of the United States 1 11_," In Glasgow, there is a chimney 460 feet ! they cannot but sympathize with the ellitids etor, and Arr. Krause, superintendent. I in height. It is used to carry offthe deleterious which are being made by tlte people of Central Ca'GILOWto or A CmartnusiA 'l'owN.-A ; i gasses arising from retorts in manufacturing - America: to regenerate that portion-of the Con tinent which covers the passage across the year ago therd were but three houses in the, chemicals. • : Oceanic Isthmus. neighborhood of Oroville, Butte County ; the I ri - Col. Richardson, at pressent a member ' 5. Resolved, That the Democratic party will other day the place was chosen County Scat, ; of Congress, has accepted the Democratic nom• , expect froth the next administration every pro and has 3,000 inhabitants. Motion for Governor oflllinois. per effort made to assure our.ascendency in the Gulf of Mexico, so as to maintain the perma ---....----------- -• .rr 'Naomi the dawdlter of Enoch, wasr'ito ! a,.. • 071 - .Saow to the depth of three inches fell at' ' - ° mint protection of the great outlets though , ; years of ago when she married. Courage, la- i which is emptied into its waters the products : Ontonagon, Lake Superior, the 11th oflllay.l dies , raised the soil and the create fr7The Astor House-New York-prOprio-1 [-•• There were eighty arrests for drunken- !by the on industry of the peoplecommo uf our s western d tors have failed. 1 ness in New York out Sunday. !valleys and the Union at large. After the transaction of a largo amount of f Oa - Louis Napoleon has borrowed since the i I:',john AL Niles, one a United States Son- other business, it was on the sth moved that coup (1' alai, 1,700,000,000 francs. , ator from Connecticut, is dead. , the Conventino tiroceed to ballot for :t candi- Resolved, That the lasting obligations of the Company are due to the Allen Brass Band for the rich musical s treat which they presented on the above occasion. Resolved, That these proceedingS be publislad in two papers, and that. a certified copy be for warded to Preston Brock, Esq., and the Allen Brass BaUd. AUG. G. RITZ, } Committee WM. REIAIER. Attest—J. P. DILLINGER, Secretary. • The Sumner and. Brooks Anil'. The Senate Committee of investigation have reported in the Sumner and Brooks affair, and have referred the matter to the House. The Committee of the latter have prepared their re port. It gives a synopsis of the evidence taken, which covers more than sixty printed pages, and concludes with a resolution expelling Brooks and censuring Keitt aneEdmundson. The minority report that there has been no breach of privilege, and if thgre had, that the House has no jurisdiction. It requires a vote of two-thirds to expel. Mr. Sumner is reported as slowly recovering. From Europe. The steamer Indian, from Liverpool, with dates to the 21st ult., arrived at Quebec on Monday night. The political news is unimport ant, if we except a speech from Lord Claren• don, concerning Central American :advs. Ile stated that the agents of Costa Rica and other Spanish American States had frequently ap pealed to the British government for aid against Walker. The requests had been refused. A British fleet would be sent to protect British property from damage by Walker. Arms had been loaned to the Costa Ricans, but the agent of the tatter had never taken them. Despatch es from Vienna state that a convention had been concluded between the Porte and Western Powers. VOTE op"ritA:S:Ks The Columbia Library Association tender a vote of thanks. to the Hon. Samuel C. Brad shaw, Member of Congress,' and to Nelson Weiser, Esq., Clerk of the Stale Senate of Penn• sylvania, for valuable documents presented by them to the association. JNO. P. DI 1,T,1N( R, Secretary [1.7) The accounts as to the growing crops in Ohio, Indiana, .lichigan, Illinois and Wiscon sin are highly encouraging, and it is predicted that the yield of breadstun the present year will largely exceed the last, enormous as was that product. Throughout Pennsylvania the crops are unusually promising, and farmers estimate that a full fourth more of wheat and corn has been planted than in any previous year. (r.7'Speculators iu breadstuff's arc footing •frightful losses just now. All kinds of produce have largely declined, and leave to the unfor tunate individuals who had not discretion to " stand from under," ample margin to lose. Speculators in corn on the Wabash river are sull'ering. They have been giving forty and forty-three cents per bushel, and corn is now down to twenty-live cents, with an immense supply on hand, and almost a moral certainty that it must go still lower. LADthS, WIIAT NEXT ?-OUr duty to our la- Ay readers makes it incumbent upon us to chronicle still another addition to the volumin ous list of female apparelitigs, which have re cently mode their appearance. We refer to a new style of skirt which resembles the lattice. work around our Summer-house in the country, or thread-lace magnified one thousand times. It is appropriately termed the " Skeleton Skirt," and consists simply of a frame of ropes of fine texture, on which an . ordinary skirt will stand out " like quills upon the fret ful porcupine,"' IVe must be permitted to in quire, with the greatest respect : 'Ladies, what next ? First it was hoops, and now it is hen coops, and we feel very much alarmed lest the sex should become so thoroughly assimulated to barrels and chicken-houses, if they go on at this rate, that we shall forget that the are an gels. Surely some jealous fairy, envious of their charms, is striving to metamorphose them into immaterial substances, so that they may no longer be compelled to contend with them for the golden apple. We saw a lady alight from an omnibus in Fifth avenue, on Thursday, who had on one of these new-fashioned skirts. Un fortunately, the rope-work became entangled around the step of the stage when she reached the ground, and before she discovered. it, the vehicle' started. Of course the lady was com polled to run, also, after the omnibus—and, be ing : rather short, none of the passengers per ceived her and her predicament, until she had followed thus, against her will, fastened by an infrangible cord to the stage, for nearly half a block. We apprehend the lady threw aside her " Skeleton" when she reached home, with a vow never to wear it again.—Nor Yen: HOHMID INHUMANITY OF A STEP MoTurat.—A recent trial before the Hardin County Court; has developed a systematic course of cruelty ! by a Mrs. Hnbbard toward her step-daugiper, a girl of thirteen years, that exeeds anything o which we have ever read. It appears that for two years past, the young girl has been subject to constant dyspepsia, and to occasion- ' al convulsions, with the most excruciating' pains in her stomach. Recently she vomited up thirty-three pins of various sizes, and five needles issued 'from her side. This led to an investigation, in the course of which the girl stated that her mother, assisted by another wo- ' man, had at dilli•rent intervals thrown her down and compelled her to swallow pins and needles. Since the girl's stomach has been re- lieved of the pins her general health is rapidly improving. Democratic National Convention. date for the Presidency. Mr. Meade, of Pio% ginia, rosdand nominated James Buchanan, Of Pennsylvania. Henry Hibberd, of New Hampshire, nomina ted Franklin Pierce. Mr. Ingo, of California, nominated Lewis Cass. Mr. Richardson,- of Illinois, nominated. Ste phen A. Douglas. • Much applause succeeded the nominations of Buchanan and Douglas, but the name of Pierce was received coldly.. The Convention then proceeded 'to ballot for a candidate for the Presidency, when fourteen ballots were had, resulting severally as follows : Buchanan. Pierce. Douglas. Cass. Ist ballot, 135 122 33 5 2d do 139 119 31 6 3d do 139 119 32' 5 4th do 141 119 30 5 sth do 140 119 31 -. 5 oth do . 155 107 28 5 7th do 143 89 ' 58 5. Bth do. 147 87 56 5. 9th do 142 87 48 7 10th do 150 80 59 5 11th do 147 80 63 5 12th dO • 148 79 63 5' 13th do ' 150 77 63 a 14th do 152 79 63 5 The following is a detailed statement of the first ballot by States : "ilea. Baelmurtn. Pirree. Douglite, Cu... Maine, 5 3 N. llampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, R. Island, Connecticut, New-York, • N. Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, L uisiana, Ohio, Kentucky,' Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, - Michigan, plorida, 1 Texas, lowa, Wisconsin, California, 135 124 31 5 The New-York Softs cast 18 votes for Pierce, the bards cast 17 votes for. Buchanan. On the second ballot Mr. Buchanan gained 36 votes. (len. Pierce losing 3, Mr. Douglas losing 11. and Mr. Cass gaining 1. On the third ballot Buchanan lost 1, Pierce 1. and Douglas gained 2. In Kentucky, Buch anan gained 2, which Douglas ifist. In Wis consin, Douglas gained 1, and Cass lost 1 in Ohio. On the 4th ballot, the only change except the regular New-York change, was in Kentucky, where Buchannan and Pierce gained 1 each, and Douglas lost 2. On the sth ballot, Buchanan gained 1, and Pierce lost 'I. In Massachusetts Buchanan lost On the Gth ballot, Tennessee changed 12 votes front Pierce to Buchanan. in Kentucky Buchanan gained 2, Pierce .1, and Douglas lost The announcement of the Tennessee vote was received with cheers, which were checked by the President. On the 7th - ballot, Tennessee turned from Bu c ban an to Douglas 12 votes, and Arkansas changed her 4 votes from Pierce to Douglas. Buchanan gained lin Massachusetts. Georgia changed 7 votes from Pierce to Douglas, 3 for Buchanan. On the Bth ballot, Buchanan gained 1 in Maine and 2 in Kentucky. On the oth ballot. Buchanan gained 1 in Ma ryland and Massachusetts each , but lost in Ken t u rky. The Alabama delegation asked and obtained leave to adjourn for a few moments. (ht the 10th ballot; Vermont changed from Pierce to Douglas; 5 votes, and Douglas also gained 2 in Ohio. - On the 11th ballot, Maryland gave her entire vote to Buchanan. The 12th ballot showed no material change. On the 13th ballot, Rhode Island broke from erce, casting 2 votes for Buchanan and 2 for lerce. On the 14th ballot, Rhode Island cast her whole vote for Buchanan. • The 15th ballot, which was taken on the Gth, resulted as follows : Buchanan, 168 ; Pierce 3 ; Douglas 11E4 ; jot.3;ii:S, 44. 'rhe name of Pierce was now withdrawn, and ; the 16th ballot resulted ns follows: Buchanan 168 ; Douglas 121 ; Cass, 6. The 17th ballot was then taken, when Buch anan received 296 votes. No pen could describe the scene of tumult that ensued on the announcement that James Buchanan was the unanimous choice of- the Convention as a candidate for the Presidency. There were cheers and congratulations on.all sides, and it was HOMO time before anything like order could be restored. Ir.rilollqiuciy's Pills possess most astonishing powers in the cure of General Debility.—Copy of a letter from Henry Antorne, of Houston, Chickasaw, Mississippi, to Professor Holloway. " Sir,—l suffered for a number of years from weakness and gendtal debility,find was brought to death's door by the same. I was told by those 1 consulted that there was no hope of my recovery, when I resolved to give your Pills a trial. After using them about five weeks my health was considerably improved, and at the expiration of two mouths every symptom of my disorder disappeared." (Signed) aj'WARIIEN COUNTY BANK FAILED.—We see it stated in several of our exchanges that this institution has failed. The Public Ledger cre dits the rumor, and cautions the bublic to have nothing to do with the notes of this bank (O'PRESIDE:WT Palms, Preston S. Brooks and Col. George have been hung in effigy in .Concord, New Hampshire. O:7*A Liverpool onmaker has invented a hreech-loading rifle, which can be discharged 400 times in an hour. ll:7'The New Jersey American State Conn eil have endorsed the nomination of Fillmore and Doneison by a vote of 100 to 5. 11 MB H. ANTORNE.
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