= Etc getigi ALLENTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1880 PETER C. HUBER & JOHN H. OLIVER SDrCONII AND PROPIIINTONA 'TO ADVERtISERS. TILE “LIMIGH REGISTER" HAS A LARGER (BROULATION BY SEVERAL HUNDRED THAN ANY OTHER ENGLISH PAPER IN THE °DUN TY. • PEOPIIE'S STATE CONTENTION. The Citizen. of Pennsylvania, who are opposed to the principles and mestures of the present Na tional Administration, and to the election of men to adios who sustain those principles and measures, are requested to meet In their respeotive Counties, and to Mod Delegate* equal In number to their Repre sentatives In the General Assembly, to a PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION, to be held 'at HARRIS BURG, on Wednesday, February 22d, 1860, at 12 M., to iodinate their choice for the next Prost dew, nominate a candidate for Governor, form an Eleetoral Tieket, appoint Senatorial, and to designate the time and mode of electing District Delegates to the National Convention, and to transact au& other Intern am as may be deemed accessary to ensure sue- Amu at the General Election. LEVI KLINE, Chairman People's Executive Com. The Election of a Speaker. After a struggle of eight weeks the House of Representatives has been finally organized by the election of a Republican Speaker. Gover nor Pennington of Now Jersey, ono of the oldest members of the House, who years since was elected Whig Governor of Now Jersey, and who la well and favorably known in his native State as an able lawyer, and a staunch Republican, was tho choice of the Majority.— The original choice of the Republicans, John Sherman of Ohio, itwas found, could not be elected, not because of a lack of support on the part of his party friends, but because he could not secure the votes of a sufficient num ber of the Anti-Lecompton Democrats of the House. During the pretreated .struggle, in solid columns the Republican phalanx; without for a moment wavering, rallied to his support. On the other hand the spectacle is witnessed of vain efforts to combine Know-Nothings, Ad ministration Demoorats, Anti-Lecompton Dem . owe* and every shade and hue of the motley crew, who formed the Opposition to .the Re publicans. All efforts were vain. A South ern Democrat, it was found, could not com mand the entire American or Anti-Leoompton Demotratie vote, nor could an Anti-Lecompton Democrat combine the extreme pro-slavery wing of either the Democratic or of the South ern American party. Attempt -after attempt failed; until finally it was found, that Mr. Smith, under the flimsy pretext of having been an old line Whig, could rally to his support the entire Know Nothing vote, and a sufficient number of the Democratic vote, to lack but three votes of a majority. Smith, it will be recollected, was elected by the American party, and was announced in the House as the caucus candidate of the Southern Americans. This was doing more, than the Republicans supposed the Democracy would ever be able to accomplish. But the same party, once so bitter in its denunciations of the Whig party, whilst the success of the Whig party was pos sible, which again in harshest terms denounc ed .the Know Nothing party, and in bland terms kindly received the wreck of the Old Whig party to its bosom, when Know Noth ingism was the obstacle in the way of the seism .° of the spoils of office by the Delmore tsy, now was willing to forget past enmities and to unite with old foes on terms propos ed by those foes themselves, for the purpose of preventing the election of a Republican Speak er. It could scarcely be deemed possible, but with the Democracy all things are possible.— We doubt not, if the American party to-day had a numerical ascendancy in the House, and endangered the success of the Democracy in the future, the Democracy themselves would vote even for a Black Republican, rather than see a Know Nothing elevated to the Speaker's chair. To prevent the sue• case, of a Know Nothing, adopted by the Democracy, it became necessary to drop Sher man and support Pennington, and in solid col-. tunn the heroin band wheeled into line, and with the assistance of the fewidditional votes of men, elected on the basis of Opposition to the Administration, elebted Mr. Pennington. Mr: Pennington is a Republican, a warm friend of a protective tariff, and in appointing the Committees will guard the interests of Penn eylvania. Practically the result is the same to the Democracy, and the Republicans, as it would have been, had Mr. Sherman been elect ed. The Speaker's chair will be filled with ability and dignity ; the rights of the mechan ic and manufacturer will be cared for in the revision of the tariff and the interests . of free labor will be guarled in legislating for the territories. The rights of the South will be protected and the Union be preserved. Not withstanding all the threats of disunion in the event of the election of a Republican. Speak er, there was a general acquiescence in the result, save a few ill-tempered remarks by Mr. Hindeman, (Dem.) of Alabama, who called the attention of the House to the fact, that a Black Republican Speaker, as he termed him, had been elected with the aid of several Democrat., and one Representative of the Slave States, Mr. Winter Davis of Maryland. • KNOW-NOTHINGS • The Democrats of the House of Represen tatives at Washington, in a body, with a few exceptions, supported for the Speakership, and would have eleoted, if possible, Mr. Smith of North Carolina, a member presented as a can didate by a Know Nothing caucus, and elected to the House by the Know Nothing party.-- Knowing the consequences of such a course, the Democracy have •endeavored to create the im pression that Mr. Smith was an Old-line Whig. Mr. Smith may have been an Old-line Whig, as were many others, who since have been num bered with the Know Nothing Party. The fhct, however, is undeniable, that he was elected by the American party, and was resented to the House as their caucus candidate for the Spea kership. Henoe-forward the less the Democ ,racy say against Know Nothing, and of the protection, they are willing to afford the for the better. -it said, that the friends /of Mr. Pennington are making efforts to secure the nomination of Mr. Pennington by the Chi cago Convention for the Presidency. Mr. Pennington's election to the Speaker's chair has given Lillian enviable position beibre the lint* Dissoluth)n of the Union. There is doubtlees,a oleo ,411 . 2 . pollticiat l is in the South, who aril anxious for wclisseluton of the Union,. who kegtirdaßduthern contederlacy as the best ineaneoftit+ting the ends by an 'inordinnte anibition, , and 'Oho are constantly scheming to eireet The disunioniste; we believe, are confined to the politicians alone. •No other class of men would be bettered by a dissolution, or at least no class of men could expect their condition to be bettered.' The producer, the inandfacturer, and'the merchant fiourlah best in the Union as it now stands: The people of all sections, true to patriotic instinct, love the Union, and are de termined that the Union must and shall be preserved. Notwithstanding politiCal disuni enists do,the most talking on the subject, and appear most frequently on the surface of events,- the evidences of love of Union in all aec- tions will occasionally rise to the surface.— The meant visit of the Legislatures of Tennes see, Kentucky and Indiana to the capitol of Ohio was an event, which must give fresh as surances, that the Union cannot be dissolved. Slave States and Free States met face to face i pro-slavery men and Republicans, Democratic pro-slavery Governors, and'a Republican Gov ernor, of a.most intensely anti-slavery state, and yet in the general festivities, toasts, and speeches, no sentiment found a more hearty greeting, than that which brought home to the hearts and the minds of the assembled guests thoughts of this glorious Union.. It was with pleasure that we read the following response of Ex-9overnor Chase, (a few days since elected United States Senator) to the toast ; " The Union must and shall be preserved." Geyer. nor Chase is an able, prominent and noted ad vocate of Republican doctrines, and tho pro slavery Democracy regard him with nearly the same degree of hatred, with which they do W. H. Seward, and yet we are told the re sponse was no less warmly greeted by the citi zens of Kentucky and Tennessee, than it was by the citizens of his own State. It is a remarkable fact, that whilst disunion speeches come from leaders of the pro-slavery democra cy, and are not rebuked by their own partizans, the most eloquent appeals in behalf of the Uni on come from Republicans. The Democracy are fast becoming a hand of Disuniouists, whilst the Republican party is to be the only safe guard of the Union. But read the elo quent remarks of Governor Chase. " Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens : Not far from the city of Nashville, on the southern shore of the Cumberland, amid the pleasant scenes of the Hermitage, rises the modest mon ument which marks the final resting place of Andrew Jackson. " There, after noble service to his country in war and peace, the patriothero Cloeps : but his lessons to his countrymen, whether expressed in deeds Or words, still live on the printed page and in•their hearts. " Among these lessons none ever met a heartier response from the - whole American people than the simple declaration which has Just been repeated • Our Pederal Union : It must be preserved.' Far distant be the day when it shall meet a response less decided or less unanimous. "The sentiment itself, indeed, was but an echo to the utterances of all patriotic hearts from the very beginning of the struggle for In dependence. The primal necessity of the Rev olution was Union. Without it, the Revolution itself, though, in name, a success, would have been, in truth, a disastrous failure. -It was first and last among the aspirations of Wash ington and his great compatriots ; and the most impressive among the final admonitions of the Father of his Country are those which' inculcate its priceless worth, and exhort his countrymen to its perpetual maintenance. "It was fit that the first President from the new states should emphatically reaffirm the judgment and purpose of the first President from the old. " It is fit, also, when the representatives of the three states first organized in this great central valley are gathered together, as now, that this sentiment should be again affirmed with emphasis and decision. As the rivers of these states flow into one Ohio, bearing upon its bosom their common interests of commerce, KO should tho dwellers on their shores flow ,to gether in ono vast current of . devotion to the Union, laden with the precious freight 'of all their destinies. " But, Mr. President, I must not enter on this large theme; the time does not permit, nor is it needful. The number of those who, either at the South or at the North, really be lieve that the time for the dissolution of this Union has already come, is too small to excite alarm ; and if there be others wig.° suppose • tinit .in some future contingency the „destruc tion of the noblest politicatifabric ever reared by. man may become desirable, we may safely trust the login of the demonstration of their error. " For Ohio, atleast, I may confidently speak. She has ever been and will ever remain loyal to the Union and the Constitution. While yet in my earliest manhood, I put on record my conviction, ' that in all future as in all past circumstances Ohio will cleave fast to the Na tional Constitution and the National Union, and that her'growing energies will, on no cc casion, be more willingly or poWerfully put forth than in the support and maintenance of both in unimpaired vigor and strength.' That conviction remains unchanged. " Nor do I doubt, Mr. President, that the spirit and parpose of Ohio is. the spirit and purpose of all the states whose worthy and hon. ored.Representatives we so gladly greet here to-night. " We will not surrender the proud-title of American citizens. We will not renounce our portion in the glories of the Imperial Republic. We will not madly fling away the most blessed boon of free institutions ever vouchsafed' by Heaven to man. We will not prepare for our children, instead of the noble heritage of free dom, prosperity and peace which our fathers transmitted to us, a detestable inheritance of despotism, calamity and civil war. ' No, no, a thousand times, no. We will compose whatever differences have arisen or may arise, in the spirit of our fathers.' Claim ing, mutually. nothing that we thing ,wrong, we will concede, mutually, whatever we find to be just. Cherishing, above all, with the xonstant ardor of Washington, ' a cordial and %moveable attachment' to the federal Union. we will resolve, with the inflexible determina tion of Jackson, that ' IT HEST nS PRESERVED.'" TILE REPUBLICANS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE HARPER':' FERRY INVASION-001. John W. Forney, being serenaded at Washington on the evening of the day of his election as Clerk of the ROMA of Representatives, in the course of a short speech, denounced as, a vile slander, the charge, that the Republican party were responsiple for John's Brown's Invasion of Virginia. Forney, it will be recollected, was one of the most active and effective supporters of Buchanan in 1856, and subsequently was the caucus candidate of the Democratic party for the United States Senate. His opinion as to the falsehood of this wholesale. slander, should have weight, we think, with all men, who are dipoSed to receive the truth, uninflu enced by party politico. Namtisaa.—The Legislature have passed an act, authorizing the assemblage of a 'Con vention to adopt a State constitution, prepara tory to application for admiasion into the Union. MORE CANDIDATES FOR GOVERNOR. - Tho claims of Hon. Win. D. Kelly of Philadelphia, aro being urged by his friends ne a Guberna torial candidate, • , • XXXVIth C 4 , • 4 , "Jarman, 30tb.—In the NlGliiiiteiMi:kliaiiol ion'(Nat.) of fieifienee, questian. ti.the House Mr Sitermluv (iteto:),*l.llidrew his Home as a candidate fer!,,the Bp'eallietship. three ballots wars :had ibt SPeaker,-riettlting gt followa Thirty-Ninth Ballot, Whole number .of *Mee, Necessary to a choice, PenninFn ( 11 e p.,y smitfr now.Mithing,) Seattet nt, ' Fortkth' Ballot. Whole number of votee, Necessary to a choice, Mr. Pennington, Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, Mr. Davie, of Indiana, Mr. Allen, Mr: Bocock, Forks-First Ballot. Whole number of Votes, 233 Necessary to a choice, 117 Mr. Pennington, 115 Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, 113 Scattering, 3 JANUARY 31.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Hunter of Virginia (Dem.) addressed the Senate on the resolutions of Sen ator Douglas. Mr. Hunter defended slavery as right, and highly beneficial. No respectable form of civilisation had ever existed, which was not founded on slavery. Pree society was yet an expetment in the free states. Pre° labor combined with universal suffrage had thus far prospered in free states, but there was no telling, how long the expektnent would succeed, In thitilouse Mr. Smith (Know. Nothing,Y who the day previous had received the entire American vote, and with a few exceptions the entire Democratic vote, withdrew as a candi date, and after the nomination of Mr. ldcCler land of Illinois, the House proceeded to ballot for a Speaker with the , following result: Forty-Third Ballot Whole number of votes Necessary:to n choice Mr. Pennington Mr. McClernand Mr. Gilmer Mr. McQueen Mr. Minoon Scattering (among nine gentlemen) 0 FEBRUARY lst.—ln the House one ballot for speaker was had, resulting in the choice of Mr. Pennington of New Jersey. The follow ing was the vote : Whole number of votes 233 Necessary to a choice 117 Mr. Pennington, of New Jersey 117 Mr. McCleriianci, of Illinois Mr. Gilmer, of Norh Carolina Scattering Mr. Pennington was conducted to the chair by Messrs. Bocook and Sherman, and, upon taking his seat, delivered the following appro priate address, Gentlemen of thenouee of Representatives : I return• to you my grateful acknowledgements for the distinguished honor you have been pleased to confer upon me in electing me to the pleased of this House: Coining herefor the first time at the present Session to be associa ted with you as a nienther, no event could have been more tualooked fer than that I should be called upon" to preside over your de liberations ; and my friends will do me the justice to say that I have not sought the posi tion, as 'I certainly never desired it. I am, nevertheless, as conscious of tho dignity and importance of this high office as any gentleman can be, but should have been far better pleas ed had Its duties been entrusted to abler and more experienced hands. After witnessing' the most Insurmountable obstacles in the way of the organizetion of this House, I came to the conclusion that any gentleman, of any par ty, who could command a majority of the votes for Speaker, was bound, in deference to the public exigencies, to accept the responsibility as an act of patriotic duty, whether agreeable to his personal feelings or not. As that choice has unexpectedly fallen on me, I have not hes itated to accept it, In the execution of:this high trust, my object Will he to do my duty with impartiality and justice to all. I shall have great necessity, gentlemen, for your in dulgence in the new position in which I am placed, and I feel entire confidence that I shall receive it at. your hands, As a Representa tive from the State of New Jersey, upon whose soil so many dietinguished.achievements were accomplished in the Revolutionary War, and whose people have ever been distinguished for their devotion to the Constitution and the Union, I pray the great Arbiter of our desti nies that I may do no act ° impair the integ rity of either, but that by . wise and prudent counsels peace and order may Yet reign in our midst, and our free institutions be perpetuated to our descendants. I feel that I have a na tional heart, embracing all parts of our blessed Union. Again thanking you, for your kindness, I now enter upon the discharge of the arduous and complicated duties of my station. [Ap plause.] After the memberewere sworn in, the House adjourned over until Friday. EEDRUARV 2d.—ln the Senate, Mr. Fitch (Dem.) of Indiana, discussed the territorial question, denouncing the views entertained by Judge Douglas, taking the position of the Southern Democracy, that Slavery under the Constitution could not be pfohibited in the Territories, and denouncing the nomination of Judge Douglas for the Presidency by the Charleston Convention. House not in session. FEBRUARY 3d.—Senate not in session In the House Col. John W. Forney, of Penn sylvania, was elected Clerk of the House on the flrstballot being supported by all the persons voting for Mr. Pennington, excepting Mr. Win ter Davis, of Maryland, with the miditicinal votes of Messrs. Higgs and Horace F. Clark. Mr. Hoflinan of Maryland, formerly n member of Congress, and who voted against the Kan sas-Nobraska bill, was elected Sergeant at Arms on the first ballot, being supported by the persons voting for Mr. Pennington,'nided by a number of .Southern Americans. Ad journed to Monday. DELEOATES TO THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.- A call has been issued by the free-state De mocracy of Missouri to select delegates to the Republican Convention to assemble in Chica go, in June next. The free Democracy of Mis souri are a party, who look forward 4o eman cipation in the State and already are strong in numbers. The party elected Francis P. Blair to Congress, and we believe the day is not far distant, when under the influence of the party Missouri will cast off the incubus of slavery, and take a proud rank among the free states of the Confederacy. ELECTED UNITED • STITES SENATOR. —On Thursday last, Salmon P. Chase was elected United States Senator, by the Legislature of Ohio, to take the seat now occupied by George Pugh t whose term expires March 4th, 1861. Ohio will then have two Republican mem bers of the United States Senate. Governor Chase has been in the Senate before, was recent ly GoVernor of Ohio, and will make a valuable acquisition to the Republican ranks n the Senate. EDITORIAL. CONVIINTION.—The State Edi to rial Convention of Pennsylvania ail oot a Harrisburg on the 15th of the prtet. , t month Nit 7g . 47, .ar0m0. Lo- , . • Nothing can ptessOtlie Republican party in a more favor - 01010, thaii.the conduct of Its metaberstetto'Cowsresktititing present sessioqitheaiotttrasteff witlt that of Democratic letaitaL • - The Democ yly ha 4 been turbulent , iliast4 ei 4 -14 e:and oYtheg ; t4e Republicans Itie , beariealm,. / aoitservatiVe arid' quiet. The Democracy haYe threatened a dissolution of the Union ana.hltve :done their , utmost to foment sectional_ strife ; the Repub- Reaps have counselled peace and good-will, and have eloquenttind Patriotic strains declared their love and attachment for the Union.— The Democracy have been vacillating, now supporting oho candidate tor Speaker and then . another, now a , Know Netbin ; •aow an Ad, tirlisteation, and again a Douglas Democrat, without being able at any time to. concentrate ' their full strength on either, voting ter candi dates for Speaker, with mental reservations, all for the sake qf the Union, Whilst denouncing their political doctrines ; the Republicans have been united, supporting in solid column their candidate; without the fiecessity for explaining their position, changing .front but once, and then only to bring a protracted struggle to a close, and secure a signal and glorious victory. Victory won, in the spirit of conciliation, the Republicans elect as Clerk an Anti-Lecompton Democrat, because they wish to reward a man, who has had the manhood to stand up in the face of power, and make war with nn Admin istration, that has eought to crush him. With a noble magnanimity, and to convince all that the Republican party is not disposed to be sectiotial, the Republicans elect as Sergeant at Arms, Mr. Hoffman from the slave holding • state of Maryland, and find sufficient claims for their support in his vote years since in Congress 'against the repeal .or the Missouri compromise. All men in the Southern States, who are opposed to making the Federal Gov ernment an instrument for the spread and perpetuation of slavery, will find a ready re ception in the Republican ranka. Such was the spirit of Washington, Jefferson, and the other great men of the Southern States in times gone by, and there is no reason, why their sons should depart from their example. We believe the number of such is increasing and that the time is not distant, when the Ile publican party will number in its ranks a host of devoted followers in the Southern States. 234 118 115 113 32 117 115 113 233 117 116 91 PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. JANUARY 30th.—In the Senate a bill was road, for the better security and distribution of the public moneys by the State Treasurer. In the House a supplement to the militia laws of the Commonwealth was acad. ' JANUARY 31.—1 n the Senate a bill, allowing each , party to challenge four persons in civil Mans, passed first rending, In the House the report of the epeoial com mittee, in the contested election case of Messrs.• Donnelly and Allen, in the Fourteenth District of Philadelphin.. affirming the right of Mr. Donnelly, the sitting member, to his sent, was adopted. FEBRUARY let.—ln the Semite the bill al lowing the Sheriff of Philadelphia city to pub lish his advertisement of sales . inn German pa per was passed. FEBRUARY 2d.—ln the Senate Mr. Schindel read a bill, requiring the Lehigh Valley Rail road Company to station a flagman at the cros sing over Biery's Bridge nt Catasauqun. A bill incorporating the Foglesville Male and Female Academy in Lehigh County was passed. In the House the bill incorporating the Bal ton Iron Company was reported. FEBRUARY 3.—ln the Senate Mr. Schindel read n supplement to the charter of the Al lentown Water Company. Mr. Bell submit- ted a series of resolutions, inviting the Legis lature el\r lt iiiia to visit the Legislature of Penneylvani In the House a bill fixing the standard weight of clover seed at 60 pounds to the bush el was passed. _ FEBRUARY 4th.—There being no quorum present, the Senate adjourned. . . . In the House a bill was passed dividing Mauch Chunk borough into two wards. Mr. Custen read a supplentent to theeharter of the East Peiinnylvnnia Rail-road, allowing the company to construct lateral branches to new mines or quarries. Mr. Seltzer read a bill, for the hotter regulation of the militia system of the Commonwealth.. The bill is one, pi.: pared by a recent military eonventio! • the commonwealth. HARPER'S FERnr.—lt was dinclomed in the testimony before the committee of the United States Senate, appointed to investigate the Har per's Ferry invasion, that-the pikes, found in the possession of John Drown, were manufac tured by a Democrat. We presume, that this unfortunate Democrat should not bear the res ponsibility of the use, for which these deadly a nd clangorous weapons were intended. Comniissiented " Oh, Save us,' or we Sink." Such is the implied, if not outspoken, exclama tion of the Democracy. Surely, they feel that "now has the winter of their discontent," come in upon them in earnest: They coax, they threaten, they save—and, eomtimes they. criticise and burlesque, but their hearts sink within them as the . y do so. They sometimes think of trying their old " dodges" " Polk and Dallas and the tariff of 1842," "Buchanan and Free Kansas," but they turn back•with a shim der; and as we look into their faces, we almost fancy that we see tears of repentance fiircing themselves from the eyelids, and that they have resolved to "go and sin no more." But this is only the calm that precedes the storm. They look again and lo! they see "the hand writing on the wall." And - then they wring their hands in honor and bury their faces with in them, for they know that it " must conic to pass," and exclaim with much' tribulation, "Oh, what shall we do to .he saved ?" And then they cast about them, and see the many offices in the land, and they exclaim, again.— ".We cannot, we dire not yield' these cherish ed memories of our childhood ; they have kept us and our party for many long years ; they have been a splice to our old age ; and, oh, do not ask us to part with those things we, se fondly; so fervently cherish:" And now . they take heart again, because no one has reached them a helping hand—but look ! they have it I —a " Union movement!" "It saved us be fore—it may win again"-,--and at work they go to save that which hrui never been in dan ger, except from their own partizans. But, gentlemen, your time is up. You should bear in mind that you have cheated and hoodwink ed the people before. It is all over, with you, and you might as well come to us now, in the hour of your tribulation. We .will forgive you the many frauds and deceptions you have prac tised upon.the people; in by-goub years. We will comfort you—we will foster and protect you, and prepare you to share in our millenium that is to come. All this will we do, if you promise us to " go and sin no more." . • SALZBURG.. /The man who plants a row of beautiful trees by his dwelling raises monuments to his taste that will endure fresh and green, yielding shade and shelter when the most c ostly man sion he can erect shall have Mbled and been forgotten, Tkil:tailot, for Speaker. We eop4thetollowing letter from theMauch Chunk:Gaze*, written by one of its able Edo ill' 1 itors;w nue ifE sq.. tine present Clerk of • the Kthise at, Harrisburg, ',WASHINGTON, D. C,. January 28th, -1800; The, Legislature Of Pennsylvaniti yesterday, I adjourned over to MOnday, end embraced the opportunity to visit the Federal City. The public mind is considerably excited on the Speakership of the House. The unexpect ed vote of nearly every Democrat and South ern, Know-Nothing upon Mr. Smith, of North Carolina, a Know-Nothing, has settled the Speakership against Sherman, It Is now be. Bayed that exzGoy. Pennington, of New Jersey, can be, and will be elected, but it Will take the last man to do it. All the Republicans claim, With the Votes of Hickman, Schwartz, Adrain and Riggs, is one majority : possibly there will be a tie vote between Pennington and Smith. The ballot, on Friday. was very exciting.— Messrs. Millward, Morris, Scranton, Junken and Wood; of- Pennsylvania, and Mr. Nixon, of New Jersey, as their munes were called, voted for Mmith, whereupon the Democrats commenced dropping their own candidate and changed to Smith. Some of them were decid edly unwilling to do so, but upon being assur ed that ho wee/Hal-an " AMertertn," and that he had no sympathy with Republicanism—that ho favored a Slave Code for time Territories and was opposed to Protection, they came in, one by one, until every man hnd his vote recorded for Smith, giving him a clear majority of the House. But, whilst the whipping in work was going on, the gentlemen from Pennsylva nia and New Jersey who hail voted for gmith as a " conservative" and a Tariff man. became alarmed, and fully satisfied them.cli that they were caught in a trap—that Smith gave private assurances to the administratien of obedience to its commands in organizing the House. At this particular crisis, Longneeker, of Penna., prevailed upon Mr. Nixon, of Now Jersey, to change his vote, (which any gentle man could do before the result was announced. by the Clerk,) and ghvo him (Nixon) the as surance that he would, though reluctantly, drop Sherman, and vote for Pennington of N. J., an uncompromising Tariff. Republican.— Mr. Nixon agreed to change, and Messrs. Junken, Morris, Scranton and Wood resolved upon the same. Junken led off, and was fol lowed by the rest of the gentlemen named, and Mr. Smith was not elected Speaker of the XXXVI Congress! The House then adjourn ed till Monday at 12 o'clock. At 12 M. to-day the friends of Sherman as sembled in caucus, for consultation. Some of , the impracticable Republicans were unwilling to drop him, preferring defeat. although Sher man himself withdrew his name as a candi— date. Mr. Longnceker wade a powerful speech, alluding to the .fact that thr eight weeks lie had steadily voted, every ballot, for Sherman, until it is reduced to a certainty that he cannot be elected ; that now, as a Republi can and a Pennsylvanian, in order to.seenre a Speaker who will lie sound on the great ques tions of Freedom and. Protection, he, for one, would support another--and named Penning ton as the man. No vote was taken in caucus, and - no nomination made, hut Pennington will, L firmly believe. be Acted on the very next ballot on Monday. :Before this can remit the readers of the Gazette, the result - will' proba bly be known itll over the country. JOHN C. CALHOUN'S DREAM. —A correspond ent of the Mississippi Whig has ,out from an anonymous pamphlet an 11. - :count of a dream of M. Calhoun, abaft the time of the stormy Sectional agitation which preceded the adop tion of the Compromise measures of 1.850 : Mr. Calhoun. it seems. was drawing up a plan for the dissohrtion of the Union, when, late at night, being very much exhausted, he fell ttsleep and had the fidlowing dream, as re lated by binigor: " At a late, hour last night,"as I was sitting in my room writing. 1 was snrprised at the very unceremonious entrance of a visitor, who came in and took a seat opposite me. " I was more annoyed. as I had given strict orders to the servants that I should on no ac eount be disturbed. " The manner in which be entered—per fectly self possessed—taking a seat opposite me— without a word, no salutation—L-1m apol ogy—as though my room and all within it be longed to him, excited in me as much surprise as' indignation. As 1 raised my head to look at him over the top of my shaded lamp, 1 dis covered that he was wrapped in a thin cloak. which completely hid his features from my , view ; and, as 1 raised my head, he spoke:— 1 What. are you writing, Senator from South Carolina?' 'did not think ',lids impertinenee at first, but answered him involuntarily—l am drawing up it plan Pm the dissolution of the American Union !"ro. this the instrader re plied in the coldest manner possible : "Senator from South Carolina. will yott al low me to look at your right hand " Ito arose, and as he Ilia so the And: fell. and I. beheld—UnE yr Con ;ENTLEIIEN I HE HUD THE 501111 OF GEonot: WASHINOJON "As though I had no power to resist, 1 ex tended my right hand. I felt a strange chill pervade meat his touch—he grasped it and held - ear the light. thus allbnling too full time to examine every fpature of his face.-and partic ularly of his person. It was the time of NVamh ington, and he was dressed in the unithrm of: the Revolution. After holding My hand for a j moment, looking steadily at me, he said. in a quiet way : And with this right 7 i)ntl, Senator from ' South Carolina, you wool sign your name to , a paper declaring the Union dis Solved ?' " Yes.' said I, ' eertain contingency ari- • son I Just at this moment a black blotch I appeareed on the back of my hand : I seem to see it even now! What is that?!! cried lin alarm, 'why is that black spot on my Imml !' I " That.' said he, dropping mt . hand,' is thel mark by which Benedict Arnold is kniAVII in the next world I ' 0 He said no more, but drew from beneath his cloak an-object which he placed upon th table, on the-very paper on which I had been writing. The object, gentlemen, was a skele ton "There,' said he, with emphasis, ' there are the bonem of Isaac Mayne, who was hung by the British in Charleston: lie gore his 10! to establish the Uniod. And when you sign your name to a declaration of dissolution, you may as well have the bones of Isaac Ihlyne before you. Ire mein South Carolinian, and so are you ; hut no blotekows on his hand.' " I With these words he left the room.. I started from the contact with the dead in.in's bones and awoke I Overworn by labor I had fallen asleep and been dreaming." • Many other irintimecs might he recited to show that some of the most important events to man that have occurred since order was brought forth from chaos; and the •Almighty rolled the planet from his palm and set the spheres in motion, have been more or less con nected with dreams. May not this dream Of Calhoun's have a happy influenee on the per petuity of our• glorious and happy Union ? • A FUNERAL INSTEAD OF A WEionsi:.- 2 Jolin J. Bentley, a young mechanie, Who resided at N 0,22 0 Mott. st., was taken suddenly- ill last evening, while walking in the Bowery, near Pell street. He was taken into the drug store . No. 6 flowery; whore lie died in a few min utes. It is supposed death ensued from dis ease of the heart. The diseased was to 1)0 hade been married on Sunday next. In his pocket was the wedding ring, which no had just bought. lie had purchased the furniture for the house in which he was expected to move after his marriage.----,V. .1: Post. pay -Recently a man named Michael Guthrie, died in Chicago, and his friends assembled in law numbers to attend his funeral. Ile left a widow and three children by a former wife, and just as the undertaker was about to eloSe the coffin, a magnificently dressed woman en.: tered and claimed to be hig first wife and the mother of the children. This, indeed, turned out to be the case. She had deserted Guthrie some years before.. and had caused a notice of her death to be published in the papers. • Sh . e took the children away with her in a carriage. Alexander Melutyre, a soldier of the war of 1812, and,tilongdistingaislied remidentoflVieh- Ington, died there on the 24th of.Jeuuary. LOCAL AFFAIRS. parßrrequest of the,Young Men's Chris tiati Association, a sermon to the Young Men of Allentown will he delivered by the Rev. Schmucker, on next Sabbath-evening. SarlVe have received but one solution of the enigma published in our paper of the 25th 91t. The answer is, The Banda Oriental Cis Pla tine Republic, or Republic of tiraguay, solved by M. and S. of Zionsville. Lecture on the Pilgrim's Progress in the Presbyterian church. The next lecture will be delivered on Sabbath evening next, February 12th . at di o'clock by the pastor.— Subject—By Ends and his Companions. All are invited. • WY-Advertieers should bear in mind that this paper,has a larger circulation than and• oth er English paper in the eounty, that the cir culation is still increasing, and that our ad vertisements are better' displayed, which is more advantageous to the advertiser. PURCHASED OVER-COATS.--The Jor dan Artillorists have purchased sixty army over-eonts for the use of the Company. The Allentown Brass Band have also supplied theinselves with a set for their use. The Al. len Rifles also propose purchasing a set. A PPOIXTMENT.—DanieI Bertsch. jr.. Esq., of Mauch Chunk, has been appointed Chief Engineer of The Lehigh Conl and Navi gation Company, to the vacancy occasioned by the death of E. A. Douglas. late Shperin tendent and Engineer. The office of Superin tendent is still vacant. SESSIONS OF COURT.— An adjourned Court was hold commencing the present week, Associates Stabler and Fogel on the bench.— No eases being ready for trial, the Court after disposing of some matters requiring their at tention, adjourned: The argument list was not taken up. APPOINTED EXAMINERS.—The Presi dent of the United States has appointed Hon. J. M. Porter, of Easton, and lion. Asa Packer, of Manch Chunk, members of the Board of Examiners.to test the correctness of the Assay of the Coinage of the Mint, at Philadelphia. The hoard meets on the 13th inst. THE McKEAN WILL CASE—The Mc- Kean Will Case has been amicably settled by the parties interested It was agreed that the codicils should be cancelled, and that the widow should receive twenty-Six thousand dollars in addition to what she receives under the Will, which will giN'e her about eighty thousand dol lars out of the estate. IN TOWN.—On Saturday lust our Borough was visited by Messrs. Schindel, Blood, Craig, Turnev, Crawford, Muse His, Bell, Behenbach and Miller of the State Senate, Mr. Beisel of the lower House, and Mr. Diffenbach of the State Department. The visitors were favored with a ride on the Catasanqua and Foglesville Hail-road to the Iron Bridge. The visitors re turned on Monday last. St. VALENTINE'S DAY.—On Taos(lay next, will be the anniversary of the epistolary saint the day upon which, according to an cient custom and modern usage, " missiles of love" will he sent to fly through the post-of nee. Froin appearances, however, we infer that not much will be done in this line on the above. named day, and that St. Valentine's star is on the wane. BITTEN BY A RAT.,—An infant child of Mi. Henry Benkhard, of New California. a village distant a mile from the borough, whilst lying in the cradle, was.bitten last week byli rat. .The child for several days afterwards was somewhat indisposed, and the wound is supposed to have been the cause of the indis position. The child, we understand, has again recovered its accustomed health. BALL.--The Jordan Artillerists will give their Sevond Annual Ball, on the evening of 22d inst., the anniversary of Washington's birth-day. The Artillerists are a clever set of men. and we hope our citizens will not be back ward, should they call on them tbr their aid and assistance. We understand that the committee will spare no pains to make it the Ball of the season. They have engaged the well known stinger's Quadrille Band. GOT A FLOGOINtI.—Mr. Ilutter. Editor of the Easton Argus; recently was attacked in the Itreets of Easton in the evening by Mer shon Reeder, - .40n of Ex-Governer Reeder, knocked down and badly beaten. Mr Hotter had in an issue of his paper abused Oovernor Reeder, and the Son had determined in the event the almsve language was not recalled, to call Mr. Hatter to account. The offensive language was not recalled and young Reeder pursued the course. We have stated. FIRE AT SA E RSV I LI,E.—A carpen ter shop belonging to Abraham Peter of iine gersyille, Reidelberg township. was consumed by tire last week. It was rather windy at the time, and during the absence of the persons' engaged at work in the shop at breakfast, it. is supposed that a spark from the fire, was blown among the shavings in the shop. and the whole was soon in a blaze. The carpen ter tools of my. William Fry,.an industrious workman, valued at one hundred and fifty dollars, were entirely consumed. PROMOTED TO TfIE HIGH SCHOOL.— The lidlowing scholers have been admitted into the High School of the Borough. Froth the Boy's Grammar School of Mr: Tilghman Good, Williath Mohr. Milton Kershnor, Jacob LA i senring, Winfield S. •Keck and Eugene Sutler ; and frill% the Girl's 0 manner School of Miss Maria E. Cole. Martha Hagenhuch, Dora Unger, Itebo,•ea Meyers awl Caroline Schnur man. The male High School now• contents twenty-three lie !lulu rs, and the female High School twenty-tw•o. DANIIEROUS ALTERED NOTE B.—An altered note purporting to he on the Somerville Bank, New jersey, hut altered frein'the Bank of Greenslewough. Oeorgiti,..is 110 W in circula tion. It is admiral 4 executed, and it would he well to refuse nil notes answering the 1;11- lowing description :—Female ou each end with figure It) above female on right: right arm resting on n shield: left holding pole with lib erty cap cot the top female on left, looking intently out sotne it tell l tur a l implements. TO REMOVE CLINKERS IN STOVES.— Persons troubled with clinkers adhering to the lining of their stoves or furnaces may be inter ested in knowing that by placing ,a few oyster sheik into the grate: while the lire is ignited. the clinkers will become loosened so as to be readily removed without the danger of break ing the lining. We have tried this remedy ; and while the chemical action is involved in myatery, it accomplished the result to our sat isfaction. Who will explain the theory of the action of the gas emitted from the decomposi tion of the shells upon the clinkers? • THE MILITARY OF , LEHIGH COEN TY.—From the report of the Adjutant Gene sal of the Commonwealth we glean the follow ing statistics relating to the military of the county. FIELD OFFICERS OF TILE BRIGADE. Brigadier'Genercd—George Fry. Brigade In. ec/or—Tilghman Good. Colonel—W. 11. R. Hangen. • Lieutenant Colonel—Arnandes Wagner. -.3/4jor—Thomas Steckel.. Major Ist Battalion—Melchorr H. Horne Major 2nd Battalion—Peter Lentz. NAMES. OF MILITARY COMPANIES. Whitehall Troop, Washington Troop, San, con Troop, Whitehall Artillery, Lowhill Artil lery, Lowhill Infantry, Allen 'lnfantry, Wash ington Guards, Jordan Artillery, Allen Rifles, Lehigh Rifles, Washington Rifle Rangers, Guthsyille Troop, Weisenburg Troop, Cata.sau qua Rifles. =I One Iron 6-Pounder, 160 Muskets, 160 Bay onets, 80 Cartridge boxes, 100 Rifles, 100 Pow der horns, 100 Poughest QUTRAGEOUS.—We learn from the Read ing Daily Timis, that on Monday of last week a vagrant called at the _house of Rev. Mr. Schantz, in Gth street, for the purpose of bog ging. The folks, in the house offered him some good and substantial food, which he refused, saying he wanted some money. Knowing that he could only want the money for the purpose of yrocuring liquor, it was refused ; upon which the sturdy beggar got outrageous, and commenced breaking the glass in the .windows, by which amusement lie cut himself severely. An officer was procured, and he was lodged in the lock-up, and has doubtless received his des ert 4 from his Honor. lie bled profusely, and, we should suppose, would give up the business of breaking windows hereafter. THE FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTE OF NORTHAMPTON COUN TY,—At.a meeting of the Directors of the In stitute, held on Friday, the lid day of February, IMO, the following persons were elected offi cers for the ensuing year : President;---Ilon. Samuel Yohe. Vice President—Jacob B, Odenwelder. Seerelary—Goorgo W. Yates. Treasurer—Philip Lerch, Jr. The present Board of Directors are :—Hon. Samuel Yohe, President; Cleo. W. Yates, Sec. Win. Firmstone, Dr. Evan Slough, Christian Yeager. lion, James M. Porter, J. B. Odell welder, T. IL Sitgreaves, Charles Seitz, John Tindall, John Davis, Robert. C. Pyle, Joseph Sigman, 'f. B. Curtis and Christian Nagle. LECTURE,—Rev. J. Hyatt Smith of Phil adelphia will deliver a lecture on "home" in the Court House, on Tueiday evening next, February 14, at 8 o'clock. Admission 20 ate., For the benefit of the Baptist Church and Sun day School. This lecture is said by those who have heard it to be full of genius and humor. The Philadelphia Press of December 15, under the head of " Pulpit Portraits," soya of. Mr. Smith :—" In his oratory there is the dignity of naturalness, which the mere polish of art never can bestow. In his sermons, which aro never written, he deals in strong terms, start ling illustrations, and blunt phrases without number. His power of language is wonderful. lie never hesitates a moment for the right word. Ile has a keen sense for the ludicrous,. and woe to the error or custom however time honored or popular that he attempts to ridi cule." STRANGE DEATIL—Mr. Joseph Helsing or of Washin top township in this county, was found dead ast week in a barn belonging to Mr. Uor e• cuss under the following strange eircumstan . : The deceased \tits a poor man, and the evening before his death complained of a want of food for his hogs and chickens.— At :I o'clock in the morning his wife missed him in her bed, and search was immediately made for his whereabouts. He was found in the fodder-entry of the barn of Mr. Krause, lying on his back with his feet toward the door. A bag, half full of chop, was found standing near by, and at his side lay a basin, belonging to himself, and which, it is supposed, was used in putting the feed into the bag.— His nose was injured, although the extent of the injury, we have not ascertained. . The floor of the fodder-entry was a hard plastered floor. There are different rumors afloat as to the cause of the death, some assigning apoplexy, and others attrkutingit to a fall. It is thought ! , by some that4he neck of deceased was broken. The inquest was hold by a neighboring justice. It would have been preferable, if there had beau a thorough investigation, and if medical men had accurately ascertained the extent of the injuries, the deceased sustained. As the mat ter now rests, it seems somewhat shrouded 'in mystery. • RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening last, as the accommodation, train on the Lehigh Valley Rail Road had gotten some distance below Mauch Chunk, ono of the switches on the Road brolte, throwing the pas senger cur off the track. The Engine and Tender and passenger car remained on the regu lar track ; Ma g pie baggage ear followed the course of sideling on which stood an empty coal train. It rocked fearfully from side to side as it passed over the ties, and finally struck the empty coal train with terriffic force, as the passenger train had been running at a high speed. 'flte platform of the passenger car passed above the platform of the first coal car. but the car-body of the coal car passed fully half its length into the front of the pas senger car. Both cars were terribly splintered up at the point of cellission. The shock tore some of dfBe seats from their fitstening, , s. Some of the passengers were thrown forward in a fearful manner. Mr. John Lanburgh, of North ampton county. was violently thrown forward against the pews and stove, which, in turn fell on him. Mr. Lanburgh was severely, though we trust, not dangerously hurt. , Rey. John llantenvein. of Petersville, was also thrown in the samd manner, left escaped inhurt. Rev. J. S. Dubs was smerely thrown against the pew before him, but was not umell'hurt. The most wonderful escape was that of Mr. Joseph Young of our pluee. who was on the front seat. A Int:Mired sharp splinters from the neighboring coal car, broker. bars of iron &c., penetrated all around him, whilst he was violently thrown against the front of the car and covered with a Shower of tine splinters, and yet he was unin jured, with the exception of some bruises of his lower limbs. and two very insignificant nertmehes on his fingers. The stove being upset. the fire was minim ideated to the floor and side of the ear, and in a moment flames rushed up 'eking the side to the roof. Tile Rey. Mr. Heisler, of Bethle hem. made the most diligent efforts to extin guish the lire by means of snow which he brought in an inverted sent. The destroying element moon yielded to his faithfUl and untiring ef liirts. end the ear was not much damaged from this souree. One man's Yuvercout was burned leen v . . In my humble opinion. the muse of the ac cident is attrihtited to the feet, that in the switch-stock a wooden key had been made to supply the place or an iron one, which was no doubt lost.. This tkey broke and led to a fur ther breaking of the 4.111 e• parts of the switch. It seems as though a kind Providence had overruled this carelessness of men, 11)r if the ear had run on the river side of the track, it must have been thrown over an embankment of some fifteen or more feet into the rivet; and then possibly not tine would have escaped. A PASSENGER. FISII TRAP.-2, 000 bushels of cat fish were taken from Helicon Lake, Wiscon sin, recently. in one day. The Milwaukee .\curs dais relates the mode of their capture —" Helicon Lake froze over very rapidly du ring the present winter. and this species of fish being, m a measure, amphibious, must have open water in order tio exist. The closing ice drove them to the toot of the lake, 'where men 'are engaged in cutting ice for summer 11R0.- Thus collected together so thick that the eye Cannot penetrate the water to the depth of six inches, a basket is Crowded down IntO their midst and immediatoly withdrawn completely filled with the fish, which are emptied into a sleigh, and the process repeated again. They buy them to feed their hogs." DEATIi FROM Jov.—A Richmond paper gives an account of the death of a resident of that place from excessive joy. Ile had succeeded after lang litigation in the courts, in recover ing $l,lOO from a debtor, which so elated him, that on its reception he was seized with apo plexy and died in less than a day. Joy can kftlias well as grief. It is related that the doorkeeper of the old 'Congress, on hearing of the surrender of Cornwallis, at Yorktown, fell dead in a paroxism of delight. sir Amo ng the incidents attending the Law rence calamity we find notice made of the fol lowing : A young woman who was employed in the mill, while at dinner on the day of the accident, had a presentiment that something awful was about to happen. She endeavored to dissipate the feeling, but was unable to . do so. Shp went into the mill as usual, but the Matter pressed so heavily, upon her mind that . about 3 o'clock v. 74. she had to go home in, disposed. She thus escaped the terrible con. sequences ,which ensued. Ite.A. brown etudy ; how to color Sow mer 136 Burn
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