arcii g t Xtgisttf. ALLEFITOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, (880 PETER C. HUBER 8 JOHN a. OLIVER 110t111113 AIR* PROPIUSTORII TO ADVERTD3IIRS. THE "LEHIGH REGISTER" HAS A LARGER CUMULATION BY SEVERAL HUNDRED THAN ANY OTHER ENGLISH PAPER IN THE COUNTY. FOR GOVERNOR Sliadvew G. Curtin, OF CENTRE COUNTY OUR CANDIDATE'. We this day place at the head of our col umns the name of Col, Andrew G. eurtin as lie the People's candidate for Governor.' The nomination was expected, and the wishes of the People of Lehigh county have been grati fied. The of Col. Curtin in the Con vention is conclusive of hie strength with the People. No name would have rallied to its support a host of warmer friends, and no can didate could more have strengthened the par ty in all sections of the State. Col. Curtin was Secretary of the Commonwealth under Gov. Pollock, is well and favorably -known in all sections of the State, and is the idol of his par ty at home. Prepossessing in appearance, of acknowledged abilities, genial and social in his nature, and an orator surpassed by few if by any in the State, he will make friends wherever in the course of his labors in the campaign he makes his appearance. In his speech in the convention, which made him their standard-bearer, he pledged unceasing effort to the cause from the day of his nomination to the eve of the eleotion. In his own stirring language, he will plant the standard of the party on the shores of Lake Brie, and carry it to the Delaware. A lawyer by profession, and an ornament to the Centre county Bar, ono of the ablest Bars in the State, he has devoted a portion of his labors to agriculture, and is in terested in an Iron Furnace at Bellefonte.-- The People of Pennsylvania, have presented foi their suffrages a candidate, Who represents the protective principle. If Governor, he may not be called on directly to further the policy of protection, but his triumph is the triumph of the tariff party in the State, and his strength in the campaign is the strength of congressmen, who shall bo submitted to the People of the State as tariff men, and who, if elected, will assist in engrafting upon the rev enue laws of the country the doctrine of pro tection. There is no power in the Democratic Party to defeat our candidate, and his elec tion, we aro of opinion, is as certain as his nomination. We copy the following tribute to his worth and merits from Forney's Phila delphia Press. HON. ANDRW G. CUR TlN.—The Opposition Convention have put in nomination Andrew G. Curtin, of Centre county, for Governor of the State of 'Pennsylvania. It gives us great pleas ure to speak of this selection in terms of high praise. Col. Curtin is a gentleman of irre proachable character, and more than ordinary abilities ; a fine speaker, a thorough -bred Pennsylvanian, An d . a national man. He wields a great and just influence in the region in which he lives, and comes of a family that hut entitled itself to the confidence of the peo ple of middle Pennsylvania. His fine pres ence, generous character, and noble mature, will attract to his standard many voters. Mr. Curtin, while Secretary of the Commonwealth under Gov. Pollock, made numerous friends by the liberality of his course and the upright ness of his action. It remains now for the Democratic Conven tion, which will meet at Reading on the 29th of February, to put in nomination a candidate who 'will be a fitting competitor for Andrew G. Curtin. When the opponents of the Democrat ic party choose such men. as Curtin as their standard-bearers, it becomes and it behooves the Democratic party to put their best foot foremost. No mere speculator-will answer as an opponent of Curtin ; no jobber in national politics, or in Washington plunder; and no man, above all, who has lent himself to the proscriptions of the - Administration of James Buchanan, Should the Democracy at Read ing, out of the list of names presented to it, place - before the people a good man, it will be a matter of small account to the voters of the of the Commonwealth whether he or Curtin is elected Governor. When both the great par ties choose their trustiest, firmest, and most patriotic men, no dunger can come if either should happen to be the choice of the people. The State Convention The Proceedings of the People's Stale Con vention will be found in another column.— Whatever were the differences, which divided delegates upon assembling in convention, the results arrived at were such as met with uni versal approval. The question, upon which difficulty was apprehended, was the fixing of the mode of selecting delegates to the Chicago Convention. A number of Congressional Dis tricts had declared their preference for the ec .leotion of the delegates by the State Conven tion. After thorough discussion and mutual concession, the Convention finally determined that the delegates from each District should select the delegates to the Chicago Convention, that Delegates already appointed by the peo ple be ratified, and that when the delegates refused to seloet, the selection should be sub mitted to the People. The result was general satisfaction, and the unanimity, with which the result was reached, is ominous of the un broken front, with which the opposition in Pennsylvania in October next are to march forward to victory. Whatever be the opposi tion, which we shall moot from Loc , rfocoism, which we expect to be fierce, we shall have the satisfaction of knowing, that no opposition is to be encountered in our own ranks. This' was the enemy which vanquished us in 185(1, and not the Democratic Party, and fortunate is it indeed, that no such enemy is to be encoun tered now. , The Convention was the largest political gath ering of the kind, which has assembled in the State for years, and our gallant standard-bear er, Col. Curtin, well remarked, that success is augured in the intense excitement of the public mind. The Convention has established the fact, that the Peeple's party of Pennsylva nia is a unit. Divided, we may be defeated, but united, there is no power in all the pow ers of Loco Focoism to defeat us in Pennsylva nia. The first step has boontaken in the strug gle, and to insure a glorious victory in the fall, every friend of the cause from this day on, must devote himself to unceasing effort. That' such effort will be withheld, we have no appre hensions. As to the result we have no fears. As sure as the setting sun rises on the morrow, so certain is a decisive and glorious victory. larThe prooeedifige of the State Comet tient tozeltulee other Natter Ude weeks 1. THE PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION The People's Stab Con Warden was called to order at Harrisburg, on Wednesday last at 12 o'clock M., by Levi Kline , Chairman of the State Executive Committee: Hon. Francis Jordan of' Bedford-was selected as temporary Chairman. A committee of seven was ap pointed on credentials and contested seats: A committee of thirty-three, the delegates from each Senatorial District selecting one of, the committee, was appointed on permanent or ganization. The committee on permanent or ganization reported Hon. James Pollook as Chairman, assisted by thirty-three Vice Pres idents, and a number of Secretaries. Gover nor Pollock upon taking tho chair delivered the following address which was received with unbounded applause : Gentanen Members of this Convention,—l thank you or the honor in calling me to pre side over j•our deliberations. My only pledge is I will endeavor to discharge the duties of the position with impartiality and fearlessness. We have assembled upon a day of glorious memory, a day hallowed as the natal day of him whose name is the synonym of honor, truth-and greatness, [applause] of justice, lib erty and. right. • Pennsylvania, true to every constitutional and confederate duty, has ever been as willing to recognize and maintain the rights of her sister States as to defend her own. We are here to-day, gentlemen, friends of the Union, and of the States. Advocates of law. and order, pledged to fulfil every legal obligation, every Constitutional requirement, and pledged to resist every attempt, come from what quar ter it may, to prevent the due execution of law . or Constitution, State or National. [Applause.) We have no sympathy with fanatidism, politi cal or social, whether it be in the form of Northern abolitionism or Southern slavery propagandism. We have no sympathy with fanatics, whether they be John Brown or his confederate traitors in the prisons of Charles town, Va., or the plotters of disunion in the legislative halls of Chareston, S. C. [Several voicesL-" Hum! hurra I" Cheers and over whelming applause.] He concluded by say ing—Let us, then, gentlemen, as members of this Convention, gird on our armor and prepare for the contest. Let us, strong in the strength of our principles, move onward and forward, until our work is done—until success crowns our labor with victory. Mr. Lowry of Erie introduced a resolution declaring Hon. Simon Cameron..the choice of the People's Party of Pennsylvania for the Presidency, subject to the decision of the Chi cago Convention. A lengthy debate followed. The resolution finally passed by a vote of 89 to 39. Mr. Lowry, of Erie, offered the following: Resolved, That a committee of one from each Congressional District be appointed to report an address and resolutions expressive of the views of this Conventien ; to report the names of two Electors at largo and one from each District, and to report the names of eight dele gates.at large, and four from each Congres sional District, to the Chicago Convention, which shall be submitted to the Committee by the delegates from the respective Cougression al Districts, and subject to the approval of the Convention; and that the delegates to Chicago thus selected, he and are hereby instructed to vote as an unit in the National Convention for the nomination of General Cameron, and to ad here to him unitedly, as long as his name is before that body. Mr. McClure offered the following as a sub stitute : Resolved, That this 'Convention proceed to choose eight delegates at large to the Chicago Convention ; that the several Congressional districts of the State shall, at such times as they may respectively determine upon, select four delegates in each district to said Conven tion. and that it is hereby recommended to the delegates to he chosen by the several Congres sional districts, as the sense of the Conven tion, to support the nomination of Hon. Sums CAnzitox for the Presidency. After a lengthy debate on the resolution of Mr. Lowry, several amendments were accepted of by the mover, and the resolution finally passed by.a vote of 127 to 4 in the following shape: Resolved, That a committee of seven lie ap pointed by the Chair to prepare an address and resolutions, and also to report the names of eight Senatorial delegates to the National Convention, to be held in Chicago; in June next, and the names of two persons for Sena torial electors ; and that the delegates from the different Congressional districts report to the Convention the names of four persons from each Congressional district, who shall be the Representative delegates to the National Con vention, and one from each district as elector. The delegates appointed- by this Convention to the National Convention are hereby instruct ed to cast the vote of the State as a unit, and to vote for General Cameron while his name remains before that body. Provided, That in the districts where the delegates are already elected, such delegates be accepted by this Convention. Provided further, That when the Congres sional districts represented in this Convention decline to present the name of any delegate to Chicago in those districts, the election of del egates to the National Convention at Chicago shall be referred to the people. On motion, the Convention proceeded to nom inate candidates for Governor, when the fol lowing named gentlemen were placed in nom ination : Andrew G. Curtin, of Centre county. Thomas M. Howe, of Allegheny county. John Coved°, of Westmoreland county. Samuel Calvin, of Blair .county. Townsend Haines, of Chester county. David Taggart, of Northumberland county. Levi Kline, of Lebanon county. Lemuel Todd, of Cumberland county. George W. Scranton, of Luzorne county. A letter from Lemuel 'Todd was read, in which that gentleman respectfully declined the nomination. On motion the Convention then proceeded to ballot for a candidate for Governor; whtch re stilted as follows: A. G. Curtin, Thomas M. Howe, John Covode, Samuel Calvin, Townsend Haines+, David Taggart, Levi Kline, . George W. Scranton, 4 0 On the 2d ballot, Mr. Cunrirr, having receiv ed the highest number of votes polled, *as de clared duly nominated;• and on motion the nomination was made unanimous. On motion, a committee of three was appoint ed to wait upon Mr. Curtin and inform him of his nomination, and invite him to appear be fore the Convention. • A committee of three was glee appointed to wait upon Den. Cameron and inform him that he had boa designated as the choice of this Convention for the Presidency, and further to invite him to take a seat in the. Convention. . Several motions were made, and a resolu- Aion adopted inviting the Hon. David Taggart to address the Convention. • Mr. Taggart appeared and made a very hap py spceeh . giving in his firm adherence to the nominee on the Convention. He came hero a very decided Taggart man, and would go away as decidedly a Curtin man,. and would buckle on the armor to fight in his behalf. • Just as Mr. Taggart had concluded, Mr. Curtin appeared in the hall of the House, and •was vociferously cheered. • • After the applause with which he was greet ed had in a measure subsided, Mr. Curtin spoke as follows : „ Mr. President and Gentlemen: I would riot be false tei tho natural pride which I feel in my nomination by this intelligent body. It is to me no personal triumph. I am happy to ho in the exalted position in which your kind ness has ph...od me—the representative of a great party , .4 , enJoy l, . r.QQat political senti ments, It is not that' should persoluslly have been preferred by this body to other gentle. men A•Vho contested this nominntiois, fof I do nut pristend to nay superiority tle tltont*tileh • should have subjected me to ycnir Mezked kind= ness. It is not a personal triumph. I hive no animosity. I have no epmities to the fiien'ilei that now surround me in this .phiee, and I would obliterate from m y memory this record of the vote bY which triumphed. ;lam a party man, [Cheers.] My allegiance to the party has never been doubted, and when the drum beats I Wits not the tardy soldier.to fall into the ranks at any part of my life. [Cheers.] I congratulate you. upon the harmony and unanimity / with which the protracted sessions, of this Conven tion have closed. There is success intimated in the extreme anxiety of the public. • !Cheers.] You have given me the nomination. You have placed me there, my friends say, unanimously. [Loud cheers.] lam thankful that there was no animosity to me in the breast of any dale. gate in this body to make him refrain from giving to the candidate of the party that una-• comity which ho deserves at the hands of the Convention. You have placed me in nomination. Do you imagine that .your duty is performed? We battle with a foe long in power, well versed in political tactics, with means and applian ces of men and money, and I need support in i. the great struggle which to follow your ac tion. I call unon the o hundred and thirty three delegates, with the President at their head—whom I know well—to come into the field, make a bold effort, surround the stand ard bearer, and victory will perch upon him. Your duty performed, I have a duty to per form, and can assure you that my covenant will be performed with fidelity. I will take • the standard of the party and. plant it upon the shores of Lake Brie, and carry it to the Delaware. [lmmense applause.] The fight will commence soon, [Cheers.] If I fall in the struggle ) no matter.—lt- is a man that has sunk under the pressure. But if I do fall, I will elevate the standard—for principles can never die. Carry . the unanim ity and sense of this Convention into the Chi. cage Convention; make thoisentiment nation al. Give us a candidate for the Presidency worthy . of the place. Let the voice of Penn sylvania be heard. [Cheors.l Let us have the position which we deserve in the affairs of this nation, and the rank our position and ne cessities demand: If victory go with us, something has been achieved for the country ; nothing for the in dividual. Having served long and faithfully in the party, my personal triumphs must orig inate in the triumph of principle. If the principle fails, it is, your fault; not mine. I am a feeble man, but I will perform my duty faithfully. Here I pledge myself. to perform every covenant I this day make with Lou.— [Cheering, loud and long-continued.] Tho Convention re-assembled at two o'clock P. M. Several substitutes were appointed for delegates who had necessarily returned home. The President announced that the first busi ness would be the report from the Committee on Resolutions. Mr. Lowrey informed the President that the committee was not yet prepared to report.— The next businessin order was reports from the several delegations on an electoral ticket, when the following names were presented by the delegations to compose the electoral ticket, v : Majdote. 1 —Edward C. Knight 2 . —Robert King. T—Henryßurnm. • 4.—Roboit M. Foust. G.—Nathan Hills. o.—Jobult. Broomnll 7.—James W. Fuller B. Smith 'D.—Francis W. Christ I.o.—David Mumma, Jr. 11.—David Taggart. 12.—Thomas R. Hall. 13.—Francle Piannitrian The committee appointed for. that purpose reported that James Pollock and Thomas M. Howe bad been elected as the electors at large. Delegates at Large.—David Wilmot, Homy D. Moore, Samuel A. Purvianco, Andrew 11. Reader, Thaddeus Stevens, Titian J. Coffey, John H. Ewing, Morrow' B. Lowrey. Delegates to the Chicago Convention.—The following gentlemen were reported to compose the delegation to the Chicago Convention to he held in Juno next: First district—Referred to the people. Second do. do. do. Third do. do. do. Fourth do. do. do. Fifth district—Not reported. Sixth do. do. do. Seventh do. do, do. Eighth district—lsaac Eckert, David E. Stout, J. Knabb, S. Bowman 8011. Ninth district—O. J. Dickey, C. S. Kauff man, Samuel Schoch, Joseph K. Pownall. Tenth district—Chas. B. Forney, Jos. Casey, William Cameron, Israel Gutelius. Eleventh district--Robt. M. Palmer, Jacob G. Frick, Semi. A. Gergstresser, William C. LaWson. Twelfth district—H. Hoyt, P. M. Osterhout Frank Steward, Davie Alton. Thirteenth district—Cnarles Albright; Wm. Davis, W. H. Armstrong, Samuel E. Dimmick. Fourteenth district—Not reported. Fifteenth district—Wm. Butler, Kline G. Furst, Lindsay Menaffey, G. B. Overton. • Sixteenth district—Kirk Haynes, W. B. Irvin, Alex. J. Fry, Jacob S. Haldeman. . Seventeenth DistrietWilliam McClellan, D. McConaughy, John J. Patterson, Francis Jordan. Eighteenth district—A. A. Baker, S. M. Green, Wm. M.,Lloyd, Wm. H. Koons. Nineteenth district—Not reported. Twentieth district—Andrew Stewert, Smith Fuller, Alex. Murdoch, Wm. E. Gapen. Twenty-first district--Not reported. Twenty-second district—Not reported. Twenty-third district—Not reported. Twenty-fourth district--John Patton. S. P. Johnston, James S. Myers, D. C. Gillespie. Twenty-fifth district—B. B. Vincent, Thos. J. Devose. S. C. Hays, S Newton Pettis. ' The Committee on Resolutions then subinit ted a report as follows: PREADDLIB AND RESOLUTIONF. • The people of Pennsylvania, assembled in Cavention, at Harrisburg, on the birth-day of the Father of his Country, hereby nominate General Simon Cameron for the President of the United States. IST BAL. 2D DAL 56 74 13 10 22 27 5 1 5 4 16 11 12 7 This act is not done hastily, nor without careful consideration of all its consequences, and of all the issues invoked in the present momentous struggle for the highest office in the gift of this great nation. The reasons which have influenced us in coming to the conclusion ire have reached we now present to our fellow citizens: Ist. General Cameron is the only man, so far as we can see, of all those now mentioned for the Presidency, who can unite the entire body of people who are opposed to the present corrupt and disgraceful Administration. That a majority of the nation are opposed to it we fully believe ; but their is eminent danger, from the want, not of strength, but of union, a failure to elect any man who will be an hon or to, the country. It is very clear that any candidate who, on the one hand, is considered ultra or extravagant in hie views, or who, on the other, would be considered as untrue to his principles of liberty, which are the very pulsations of a freeman's heart, could not com mand the suffrages of the united Opposition.— The man who will be elected must be able to carry Pennsylvania and the States which lie west of it, while, at the same time, there must bo nothing in his character or history which will prevent his being received with entire cordiality by the Eastern States, by New York, and by the North-west. We are unable to name any statesman who combines these requisites except the -man of our'choice. For more than half a century no President has been elected without the vote of Pennsylvania. The loss of this State and that of the others to which we have adverted, was the cause of our defeat at the.last election. Let us learn wis dom by experience. 2. That General Cameron's name is a tower strength in Pennsylvania appears from our ac tion to-day. But the causes of it are not ob scure. Ile has been the early and unwaver ing friend of every measure calculated to de velop the resources of the State, and to pro tect its domestic industry: Not a inns of (Mal has been dug ' tior emotion of railroad APTERNOO,4 SESSION I Districts. U.—Ulysses, Mercur. 15.—George Brimsler. 15.—A. B. Sharpe. 12.—Daniol 0. °abr. 18.—Sattittel Calvin. 1 19.—Edgar Cowan. Meßermon. 21.—J. M. Kirkpatrick. 22.—James Kerr. 23.—Richard P. Roberts 24.—Henry 'Souther. 2b.—John 'constructed, in which he hail taken an interest. In bringing the iron and opal frcm their mines, and 'making them, produetlye and Useful, he huts been constantly' actiVll; and ,to tin 'him More flint to General Omicron can we . eon& deftly look for the ohinfrild hum of neglecitod industry in this old' Commonwealth; by. Na ture so highly fantod. : A Pennsylvanian's heart is in him, Ruda° man dare day that he has not constantly and unswervingly given his best energies to her welfare; and /she, as is fitting, now presents him to the nation. His faithfulness to her is a pledge that he will be faithffil to the whole country. . • S. We present General Cameron to the peo ple as a national 'man in the best and highest sense, With some persons national character means only sabeervleney to an aristocracy who are content to live in ease on the sweat of the brows of men whom they look down upon as their inferiors, only made to be perpetually servile. General Cameron believes in no such nationality. He is' n self-made man. He not only believes in free labor in others , _ but he has exemplified it in his own life. Possessed at first only of an honest name / derived from a virtuous and not undistinguished ancestry,l having only a strong arm and a clear brain, ho has himself gained by his own manly exer tions every step of hie way. He can sympa thize, by experience, with all classes of his fellow-men. Iltbas shown his ability to gov ern others by first governing himself. He has never thought a station which he has not gain ed ; he has never failed in any undertaking which be seriously essayed. He has been equal to every citation he has reached, and he knows himself so thoroughly that be will ac cept nothing for which he is not fully quali fied, In regard to that great question now be fore the American people, and on which all men have a right to demand a frank expres sion of opinion—the extension of slavery— General Cameron's record is clear. Against the earnest pleadings of personal friends, high In power, he voted for the Wilmot Proviso.— Everywhere, and at all times, he has been on this subject a thorough Pennsylvanian. This State, the first to abolish slavery, in her great emancipation law passed in 1780, seven years before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, used the following remarkable language : "We conceive that it is our duty,. and we rejoice that it is in our , power, to ex tend a portion of that freedom to others which bath been extended to us, and release them from that state of thraldom to which we our selves were tyrannically doomed, and from which we have now every prospect of heingde liiered. We esteem it n peculiar blessing granted to us, that we are enabled this day to add one more step to universal civilization, by removing, as much as possible, the sorrows of those who have lived in undeserved bondage, and from which,•by the authority of the King of Great Britain, no effectual legal relief could be obtained. In justice, therefore, to . persons BO unhappily circumstanced, and also, in grate ful commemoration of our own happy deliver ance from the state of unconditional submis sion to which we were doomed by the tyranny of Great Britain"—they proceeded to pass an emancipation law, In these noble sentiments, General Cameron has ever concurred. While maintaining the absolute right of every State to manage its own domestic affairs, ta• adopt and control its own institutions, without interference from any quarter, he has inflexibly resisted all attempts to extend slavery: believing that its influence is always deleterious to the prosperity of any State where it is established. At 'the same timephe is an earnest and cordial friend of the Union, and the Constitution under which it was formed. But, while upholding those prin ciples, he has never yielded anything to arro gance or assumption. He has calmly main tained the rights of his own State, understand ing well that great principle that, if we would have others to respect us, we must respect our selves. We ask with confidence, then, in what res pect General Cameron fails of meeting the pre cise want of this time F Strong as adamant at home; capable of carrying the States esteem ed as doubtful in this contest; without one characteristic which is obnoxious to the Opym sition party in any quarter ; a man over calm, cool, able, clear, successful, patriotic, we ask his nomination by the National Convention, as the certain presage of his election by the peo ple of the United States. Resolved, That the following gentlemen be the delegates at large, viz: David Wilmot, Henry D. Moore, Samuel A. Purviance, And. H. Reeder, Thaddeus Stevens, Titian J. Coffey, John H. Ewing, Morrow B. Lowry. , Resolved, That Gov. James Pollock, and the Hon. Thomas M. Howe, be electors at large. Resolved, That the present National Admin istration, by disregarding the just claims of tho industrial interests of the whole country ; by fostering sectional excitements and anta gonisms rby conniving at schemes of land pi racies, and by the rankest corruption, diffused throughout all the departments, has forfeited the confidence and respect of the people ; has disgraced republican institutions in the eyes of all observers whether at home or abroad, and deserves a signal rebuke from the friends of constitutional order and of political justice. Resolved, That corruptions in the Adminis tration of the General Government, combined with Federal usurpation, both of the delegated rights of the States, and the reserved rights of the people, have become so flagrant and auda cious as justly to excite the most serious ap preheneions in the breasts of the intellectual and thoughtful of our citizens for the stability of free institutions, and especially for the maintenance of personal liberty and State sov ereignty. Resolved, That believing slavery to be an element of political weakness, and of social in felicity, we are unalterably opposed to its ex tension into free Territories. Resolved, That the dogma that the Consti tution, of its own force, carries slavery into all or any of the Territories of the United States, is a new and dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of the in strument itself, with contemporaneous exposi tion, and with legislative and judicial prece dent ; that it is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the people. Resolved, That the African slave trade is a relic of barbarism, condemned alike by Cie civilization, the humanity, the laws, and the religion of,the age, and that the attempt to re open it is an effort of the powers of darkness to bring again the reign of "chaos end old night," which patriots, philanthropists, and Christians are under the most weighty and solemn obligation to oppose. Resolved, That we view with just apprehen sion and alarm the reckless extravagance in ' expenditure which pervades every department of the Federal Government, and the steady and persistent departure from 'the principles and policy of the founders of our institutions ; that the restoration of a system of rigid econ omy and accountability is indispensable to restrain the plunderers who feast upon the Treasury, and to prevent our politics from de generating into a wild and shameful scramble for the spoils, in which decency and public morality shall be overthrown. Resolved, That to maintain inviolate the rights of the states, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own do mestic institutions according to its ownjudg ment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endur ance of our political fabric depends, and we denounce now, as heretofore, the lawless inva &lion by armed fordo of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under whox pretexts, as among the gravest of crimes. Besolved, That it d:es not enter into the scheme of the Oppositton _party to seek the abolition of slavery in the States where it pow exists, but to leave the amelioration and ulti mate abandonment of the system to the moral; religious, and economic forces which pertain to the elaveholding commdnities, assured of the final prevalence of justice throughout all the land, among all the tnhabitants thereof. Resolved, That to the Union of the States this nation owes its unprecedented . increase in population, its surprising developMent of ma terial resources, its rapid augmentation of wealth, its happiness at home, and its honor abroad; and that, consMttently, we hold in abhorrence all .machinations for dissension, Come from tritaterersottrod they marl Resolved, That the threat of disunion in case the Republicans and their affiliants shall elect the next President, repedtedly made in both Rondos df Congress by Democratic members, not :simply without rebuke, but with uniform applause from their political associates, is a denial of t hat vital principle of popular gov ernment, free election, and a bold avowal and countenance of contemplated treason, whiclrit is the imperative duty of the people to sternly confront and forever silence. Resolved, That while we are now , opposed, as we ever have been, to the extension of slavery, we hail the people of the South as brethren, in whose prosperity we rejoice, and whose constitutional rights and privileges we are prepared to sustain and . defend.. That in the s pirit of f,ood neighborhood, whenever the passions of different sections of our common country come in conflict, we stand on the ground of mutual forbearance, believing that a fraternity of feeling is a chief element of our national strength. Resolved,. That in the enactment of revenue laws by the General Government, fair and ad equate protection should be systematically af forded to the industry of all classes of our citi zens. ' That we maintain a devoted attabh ment to the policy of national exchanges, which secures to the working men liberal wa ges, to farmers and planters remunerating prices for their products, to mechanics and manufacturers of their skill, labor, and enter prise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence. Resolved, That we approve the policy of a 'donation by- the General , Government of a homestead to every actual settler upon the public domain, and we hereby request our re presentatives to urge the passage of such a law without delay. Resolved, rhat the purity and ea f'.•l v or the ballot box must be preserved, and that frauds upon the naturalization laws, continually re sorted to by our opponents,-ought to be coun teracted by proper and wholesome legislation. Resolved, That the influx upon us of foreign criminals is an evil of serious magnitude, which demands the interposition of a proper and efficient legislative remedy. Resolved, That this Convention most cheer fully recommend to the people of Pennsylva nia Col. Andrew G. Curtin, the nominee of this Convention, as a candidate for Governor, and mutually pledge themselves to hie sup port ; that on account of his long and proved devotion to the wotection of American Indus try, involving the dearest and most material welfare of,the people of this CoMmonwealth, and hie earnest fidelity to the intrests of the white man, and opposition to the extension of slavery over our Territories . • and, as a repre sentative of the principle ofreform, retrench ment, and integrity iu the administration of govern Mental affairs, he is well qualified to receive the suffrages of the-people of this cen tral, . conservative Commonwealth, which is unalterably and inalienably pledged to the maintenance of the Union, and the perpetua tion of the 'Cimetitution of the United States in its entire integrity, and according to its exan ime interpretation, and the real sense of its terms and language. The resolutions were adopted by acclama tion. A communication was received from Gen. Cameron, thanking the Convention for tho honor conferred upon him. Mr. Po Dock, efore adjourning the Conven tion, made a most eloquent speech. At 41 o'clock the Convention adjourned, without a day, with threo cheers and a tiger for Cameron and Curtin. SPITEFUL REVENGE.—The Buffalo Courier relates that a young man, who had been pay ing particular attentions to a young lady of that city, was seated at her side at tho tea table on a late evening, when, during the course of n jovial conversation, the mother of the lady turned upon him with the question: "When are yyou• and M-go mg to get married?" The gentleman respond ed, with an apperance of great astonishment, that he had never entertained any such inten s tion, and proceeded to joke upon the idea. The young lady immediately arose without a word; and went into a room adjoining, from whence she shortly returned, with a bottle of vitriol in her hand, and, without a syllable or gesture of warning, dashed the fluid into the face of him whom she had supposed her lover, shockingly disfiguring his features, in stantly destroying the sight of one eye, anti injuring its fellow hopelessly. SLAVERY IN NEBRASKA.—Oovernor Modary of Kansas has vetoed a bill passed by the Leg islature abolishing Slavery in the Territory.— The boast of the Democratic party in 185 e was, that to the People of the Territories should be submitted the question of the estab lishment or abolition of slavery and yet in the cases of Nebraska and Kansas, Ciovernors ap pointed by President Buchanan have vetoed laws passed by the People, abolishing slavery. The significance of the vetoes lies in this, that they represent the wishes of the President and the leaders of the party. Henceforth the .par ty must be regarded as wedded to the princi ple, that Slavery exists in the territories, and that neither congress nor the people have a right to interfere with it. Republican lead ers predicted this result in 1856, and their predictions have been fulfilled. PRICES OF PRODUCE IN N. Y.—On, Wednes day, common to extra State flour sold at $5.10 to ss.4sper barrel ; common to extra Western $5.10 to $6.50 ; extra Genesee, $5.50 to $7.50 ; extra St. Louis, $5 to $7.50. Rye flour, $3.70 to $4.40 per barrel ; •corn meal, $3.35 t 054.15. Wheat is firmer, with a more active demand ; white Canada, $1.43 ; , white Michigan, $1.60 ; Chicago spring, $l.lB ; rye, 87 cents ; oats 38 to 46 cents ; corn, 80 cents. Hops-8 to 15 cents for prime. Prices of bareled beef and pork have not changed from quotations of pre vious week. Live beef cattle, 6 to 10 cents per pound—average 8 cents. In the retail market•there is no change in prices of meats. Poultry, 11 to 17 cents per pound. Potatoes, $1.50 to $2.25 per barrel. Apples $2.25 to I per barrel. Butter, 20 to 28.cents' per pound —eggs, 10 for 25 cents. THE POPULATION OF KANSAS.- Washington Feb. 20.—Judge Amy, of Kansas has re ceived from Hon. J. Robinson, Secretary or State under the Wyandot Constitution, the census taken last spring, as filed in the office of the Secretary of the Territory, which shows that there are 70,916 souls. It leaVes more than a hundred towns unroturned and fifteen counties not returned, Mr. Robinson says there are now 110,008 inhabitants in Kansas. Riley county is one county of which not a word is said, Atchison county is not returned.— Atchison city alone has about 5,000 inhabi tants. lie says the official election returns for delegate when receivod here, will show that Kansas has over 100,000 inhabitants. A LUCKY POLITICIAIC—MiIton S. Latham the newly elected Senator from California seems to have been "born to good luck." He is now but thirty-five years of age, and has hold the following important offices: Having emigrated from Ohio to California, he was, in 1852, elected one of the representatives in Congress in that State. Failing in a ro-elec tion, he was appointed by President Pierce Collector of the Customs at San Francisco, which post he occupied for three years. Two years after his retirement he was elected, in September last, Governor of California, and immediately thereafter as United States Sena tor, in place of Broderick. This has been a singularly successful political career. NEW POST OFFICE STAMPS.—A Post of fico Stamp has been invented by a gentleman in Philadelphia, which is calculated to.meet a public want that has long been felt. The pe culiarity of the new patent stamp is this :—it leaves its impression not only upon the envel ope enclosing a letter but upon every fold of the letter itself. ' This is effected by means of a steel die, the letters and figures upon which are formed by a series'of fine points, which pierce the envelope and its contents in each a manner as to impart, ineffaceably, the name of the poet office and date upon which the let ter is mailed. Since the general introduction of iinvelopes, mai inoonvdnlenoo has bead suffered front the wane of etteit id it:Motion, LOCAL AFFAIRS., DeL.The amount of iron made at the Lehigh Crane Iron Works during the last:month is 3,549 tons. LEG BROKEN.—A son of Ruben Moyer, thirteen or fourteen years of age, living near Wheelers lock along the Lehigh canal, had his leg broken on Sunday last, whilst en gaged in wrestling with a comrade. )Lectures on the Pilgrim's Progress in the Presbyterian church. The next lecture will be delivered next Sabbath evening, March 4, at 7 o'clock. Subject—" The De lectable Mountains." All are invited. Heath's Lecture will be given at Laubach's Hall. at 7} in the evening of the 27th of March at Catasauqu and Examinations and Advice Free at the Eagle Hotel on the 28th up to the leaving of the last train for Allen town. ATTEMPT AT BURGLARY.—An attempt was made on Sunday evening to break into the Grocery Store of Charles Schermerhorn, at the corner of Ninth and Hamilton Streets.— Some time since a similar attempt was _made at the same place, but whether by the' same parties, is unknown. A HINT TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—A few drops of aqua ammonia in a little warm rain water, will prove a safe anti-acid ; and will change, if carefully applied, discolored spots upon carpets, and indeed all spots, whether caused by acids or alkalies. If a carpet is in jured by whitewash, this will immediately re store it. SMASH-UP.—There was an accident on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at thhi place, on Wednesday, by which a number of cod cars were smashed and an engine pretty badly in jured. One coal train was waiting for a passen ger train to come along, when another coal train run into it, the men on the running train not being able to see ahead on account of the togs •COAL.—The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com pany brought down for the week ending Sat urday, the 13th inst., 14,100 tons of coal, against 9,750 tons for the corresponding week last year, making for"the season, commencing Ist of December, 149,972 tons, against 104,821 tons to correspondingperiod last year, boing an increase thus far, for the season, of 45,151 tons of coal. MAMMOTH SWINE.—Two Swine wore lately . slaughtered at the Hotel of Peter Buch man in this Borough. One slaughtered on the 22nd weighed 713, and the other 613 pounds. They are said by persons, who know, to he the weightiest bru tee of the kind, which have been slaughtered for years in our town. Wo should like to learn of any cases, beating the above in weight. PAID US A VISIT.—Last Wednesday, the Foglosville Brass Band, paid our Borough a visit. As they could not parade the streets on aocount of the rain, they regaled our citi zens with excellent music, from the portico of the Allen House. Though the Band has not been organized for a great length of time, the music discours ed by them was such as is seldom heard out side of the cities. iIDROWNED.--OnNednesday last, a man the name of Knauss with a wife and child under took to cross the Little Lehigh near Emaus in a wagon. The rains of the previous day arid night had considerable swollen the stream, and the horses becoming entangled the wagon was upset, and Mr. Knauss and his wife and bhild were thrown into the stream. The wife was 'drowned before she could be rescued. The others escaped. Mrs. Krauss is thirty-five years. of age,' and leaves• seven children to mourn her untimely death. A NEW COUNTERFEIT.---A very dan gerous counterfeit, as we learn from Peter terson's Counterfeit Detector and Bank Note List, has made its appearance. It is a very poor imitation of the genuine 4's on the Bank of Central New York, Utica, N, Y.: vignette; three females and figure 5. spinning wheel, boxes, &c ; medalion head, with 5 above and " Five" below on right end ; State arms, with 5 above and "Five' , below, on left end ;' three story house between signatnres. Some are of a yellow tint. Look out for . this plate, as it will be altered to many other banks. NEW COIN.—Dim half dialog of the new coinage hav •S t been sued from the Mint. The re neat and beast ul coins, and we have no doubt will meet with general ap probation. They differ from the old style in having on the obverse, around the female figure the 'words " United %States of America,' in stead of the thirteen stars : on the reverse the 'words " One Dime," " Half Dinte," surround ed by . a wreath similar to that on the nickel pennies. They will soon be in general circu lation, and our citizens can pass judgment upon them. STAN DA RIMER:7 ttl? C LOVE RSEED. —We haVe no doubt our farmers will be pleas ed to learn, that a law is about to be enacted by the Legistatiiiit, reducing the weight of a bushel of clover-seed from sixty-four to sixty pounds—the bill having already passed the House of representatives, and We presume there is no doubt of its passage through the Senate. This will correspond with the stand ard weight of cloverneed ill the adjoining States, and enable the Pennsylvania farmer to maintain a proper position in the market, in stead of being overreached by New York tra ders, who naturally took advantage of the short-sighted policy of our Stat 6. STORE AND SHOP WINDOWS.—The at tention of the police is politely requested to a number unisns& of youngster's who make it Their business to insult females who may psis along, or who may be desirous to take a view of the contents of the windows of stores and shops. Now ae goods are put into these wir.- dows lira the purpose of being displayed td the View of passing customers, it is a trying nuis ance to have these fellows standing right in front of them, cursing and swearing, and snak ing indecent remarks. We know this is a free country, but the space in front of a storekeep er's window is not part,of the public domain, and trespassers had better take a note of it. SUIT FOR DAMAGES.—Proceedings were commenced in tile Court of Nisi Prins, at Phil; adelphia, on Naiads:7 last, in a suit brought against the the Lehigh Valley Railroad COIll• pany.by the widow ofJoseph Fields, one of the two unfortunate employees of the Company killed by the breaking down of the Bailroad bridge at Allentown, in July, 1858. The suit is brought . to recover damages for this loss of a protector. The damages in the first place were laid 'at $50,000, and subsequently on being left Wan arbitration, $15,000 were awarded her, from which the Company appealed, and is now brought up before the Nisi 'Prins in Phil adelphia for trial. The widow of . Landis, who lost his life at the same time, effected an amica ble settlement with the Company, the latter having agreed to pay her $2O per month as long as she bears the name of her deceased husband, to educate her children, and to live rent free. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.—A Panorama of the Pilgrim's Progress executed by Messrs Kyle & Dallas exhibited at the Odd Fellows Hall this (Wednesday) evening. Tho Panorama has been very favorably noticed by the Press. We copy the following extract from the Now York Tribune PANORAMA OF THE Pummels PROOMENS.—WO . at tended, on Monday evening, a private exhibition of the Panorama of the Pilgrim's Progress, which ha. just boon completed by the talented artiste, Kyle and Dallas. The figures and architectural drawings of Mr. Dallas, especially in the Palace Beautiful and Vanity Fair, are execnted with great spirit and a breadth of effect quite above the reach of ordinary panoramic landscape. Mr. Kyle, in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and the "Land of Beulah)" gives evidence of a fine poetic Imagination.. The entire work has ,been highly pelted by the artialo of ow , City, who , have paned reselhltont •teitifying to ft. ittpollot thigh) ohimototi . SC.ALRED.—On Wednesday last a daugh ter of Polly Reinhart, of the age of two years, living at the dwelling of Israel Lehr, in Sixth Street, being left alone in the house, upset a bucket of scalding water. Her body was teri bly scalded, and the injuries were so serious, that a recovery is not expected. THE TWE NTY - SECOND:—The 'Anniver sary. of Washington's birth -day proved 'rainy and unpleasant. The Allen Infantry, the Jordan Artillerists and the Lehigh Brass Band braved the storm and paraded in the af ternoon. The Allen Infantry numbered fift y one men, and their fine appearance served but to add to the favorable opinion already en. tertainedof them by the public. The Artiller ists and the Lehigh Brass Band aPpeared for the first time in their neiv army over-coattl. The over-coats add much to the appearance of the military company and Band, as well as serve the purpose of convenience and comfort on such a stormy day as last Wednesday. We believe the time is not for distant, when all the military companies in oar borough will be provided with over-coats. siarLAUER'S ARTESIAN WELL.—An analysis of the water taken from this well, at a depth of 1060 feet, has been made by Mr. Charles Lennio, of the Tacony Chemical Works, who writes to Mr. Lauer, that "it is very soft, and contains, a very small quantity of Sulphate of Magnesia or Epsom Salts, and only traces of Line, showing evidently that it comes from other than Limestone strata. If its contents of Magnesia increase somewhat in quantity, it will assume the character of an active mineral water, which may be of useful quality ; from the borings you have since sent, you are evidently out of the limestone, and in a formation of different range of strata, which may tend to success." This is regarded as a very favorable report, and encourages Mr. Lauer to look for a speedy realization of his Most sanguine expectations. The well is now 1700 feet deep, and the borings are through -a hard stratum of primitive rock, with a strong er impregnation of Magnesia in the water. MAN SUFFOCATED BY COAL GAS.— On Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock Mr. Win. Leibert went to the house aids neighbor Mi. Wm. Woehler in Water Street, and enquired if they did not feel fearful of high water.-- , Mrs. Woehler came down, but did not seem to understand the question. She seemed uncon scious that it had, been raining, and spoke as if it were morning.2--Onlhe—whole-her man ner was very confused and strange. At last she asked Mr. Leibert to go up stairs and bee 1 her husband, who she said was so very eald. When he went he found Mr. Woehler dead, and to all appearance he had been dead some time. He had been in delicate health for some time past. From what could be ascertained from Mrs. Woehler it appears, that before re tiring to rest last Tuesday night, she had giv en sonic antimonial wine to her husband.— They went to bed at 9 o'clock. She recollects that Mr. Woehler got up at 11 o'clock in the night. From that time she slept till 5 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, when Mr. Leibert came to the door. She thought it was then morning, and appeared to be surprised that it got darker instead of getting lighter. The Coroner, Mr. Samuel Brunner was coiled, and a jury was summoned to invesSgrte the cause of Mr. Woehler's death. Dr. Wilson was also present. The jury consisting of Messrs. Ja. cob Luckenbach, foreman, Chas. N. Beckel- Robert Peysert, Wm. Leibert, Christian Bell ing and Felix Fenner, after due examination, brought in the verdict that Wm. Woehler came to his death by inhaling eoal gas, from a stove in a room adjoining their chamber.— It was a long time before Mrs. Woehler and the child living with them could get over the effects of the foul air. When they were dis covered on Wednesday afternoon the fire was out, and it was thought that Mr. Woehler had go about midnight. The house in which this sad event occurred 'is situated in Water Street, opposite to Mr. Wm. Leibert's tannery. It is an old brick building, one of the oldest in Bethlehem. The sitting room and adjoining chamber are small and very close rooms with. low ceilings. The family used very large coal in the stove ; and it is thought that the draft regulator in the pipe turned round and pre vented the escape of the gas, which filled the room and suffocated Mr. Woehler, who was the most delicate person in the family.— Some persons have susPected.that the house was entered, and chloroform ailininistered with the design to rob the occupant, but Mrs. Woehler has missed nothing, and the house was fast looked with old fashioned locks. The jury after examining the premises could find no signs of any one having entered.— Bethlehem Advocate. EIGHT WITH A MAD DOG-FIERCE STRUG GLE AND NARROW ESCAPE-A few nights ago Mr. Owen HaMilton of Chester county, was aroused by his dog going mad in the room oc cupied by his wife and family. Lighting a candle as quick as possible, he saw the dog coming towards him as if to make battle. ' Not knowing in the amount of excitement what to do, lie jumped 'upon the bed; but see ing the danger of his wife and -children, and having no weapon at hand to kill him with, he made an effort and succeeded in catching him hack of the neck. After a desperate strug gle, we might say for life or death, he over powered the 'dog. Then came the trouble to dispaeh him—being almost overcome in the struggle. The gun wan brought, but it was unloaded ; the axe, but both hands were re quired to hold the dog. Finally. a rope was procured and the wife tied him. Ile was then killed. Mr. Hamilton fortunately received no injury: but one band was completely paralys ed for a time from the effects of the struggle. WEALTH OF LOUISIANA.—The report of' the State Auditor of Louisiana Chows the taxable property in the city of New Orleans to be $106,646,838, more by six and a half a mil lions than one-fourth of the whole taxable property of the State. Including the right bank of the river, the assessment of the parish orOrleans complete is $109,192, 668. There are ten parishes iu the State which are assess for over ten millions each ; fit e for nine mil lions, two for seven millions, and five for about six millions each. The total taxable property is set down at $400,450,747. The free popula tion of the State is given at 336,986. The as sessed value of taxable property, therefore, averages more than $l,lOO per head for every free person of all ages, sexes, and colors. A DRUNKEN MAN BOILED TO DEATH:. A man named John Stuble, met with a horri ble death in Westmorland county the other day. He was engaged in some capacity . or other at the salt works, and, while intomea ed, fell into a vat of boiling salt • water. He was extricated with all possible dispatch, and, when taken out, presented a horrible specta cle. The flesh fell from his bones in large flakes, while ho was so horribly disfigured that he bore hut little resemblance to a human be ing.. Ile lived h short time, suffering the most excruciating agony, and then expired—anoth er victim to the demon of intemperance. MEEI-IT IS SAID that President Buchanan entertains the idea of purchasing a rural resi dence near. Washington city ; and. settling down after ifie close of his term, having few inducement to return to his homestead at Wheatland. The old gentleman is so wedded to slavery that he cannot abide the atmosphere of a free State. A rich miser in Auburn, N. Y., has made arrangements to be buried in Owasco Lake. a beautiful sheet of water near that town. Ile has a stone coffin made which takes twelve yoke of oxen to draw it. Ile gives a man a good farm for burying him. Ile is to take him to the middle of the lake and sink him.— seirAn enemy to the Domestic Cirolo—the husband who objects to his wife wearing hoops at home. 091-It is asserted that there are not less than 700 persons engaged in counterfeiting money in the State of Ohio; • * ieep.Who is she?.-There is said to be a lady n this neighborhood , go 'ignorant of all domeei le 'moth that ehe cannot - milt her brews!
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