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ALINEMOWN. PA.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1860
PETER C. HUBER & JOHN H. OLIVER
INDITORII ♦ED PROPMETOIIII.
TO ADVERTISERS
TEE "LEHIGH REGISTER" HAS A LARGER
:CIRCULATION BY SEVERAL HUNDRED
THAN ANY OTHER ENGLISH PAPER IN
Tam COUNTY. ' •
TIOICBT.
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ABRAM LINCOLN,
OF ILLINOIS.
YOR VICE PRESIDENT i
HANNIBAL HAMLIN,
OF MAINE.
1E1121p170014,1 TWEET*
BLECTOBI AT LAO
HON. JAMES POLLOOK,
HON. THOMAS M. HO WE,
DISTRICT ELECTOR&
L Edward C. Knight, 13. Frani:do B. Penniman,
3. Robert P. Ring, 14. Ulysses Meroer,
3. Henry Hamm, 15. George. Breeder,
4. Robert M. Foust, 16. A. B. Sharpe,
5. Nathan Mlles, 17. Daniel 0. Gehr,
6. John M. Broomall, 18. Samuel Calvin,
7. James W. Fuller, 19. Edgar Cowan,
8. Levi B. Smith, 20. William Moiannan,
9. Pratte's W. Christ, 21. J. M. Kirkpatrick,
10. David Mumma, jr., 22. James Kerr,
11. David Taggart, 23. Richard P. Roberts,
12. Thomas R. Hull, 24. Henry Souther,
25. John Greer.
STATE TICKET
Yon oovziuros :
Col. it.W.a.rew G.,Curtin,
OF CENTRE COUNTY
Col. Curtin and the Allentown Demoorat.
Latterly Democratic papers have become
very bitter in their attacks upon Col. Curtin,
the People's candidate for Governor. The oer
tainty of his eleotion, we presume, has excited
their ire. They would, doubtless, be more mild
and indulgent toward one, who had less chances
of an eleotion, and who less endangered their
political prospects. Opposition Journals, so
far as our knowledge extends, have treated
General Poster with fairness, courtesy and can
dor. Not a word has been said against him
personally. General Poster, in one of the first
speeches, made after his nomination, spoke in
the highest terms of his political rival. We
could only wish that hie example should be fol
lowed by the supporters of his cause. In the
work of personal detraetion, the Allentown
Democrat le equal to the vilest of the vile. No
slander, soyile, it will not retail ; no falsehood
so glaring, it will not endeavor to circulate ;
no depths of infamy, so deep, to which its Ed
itor will not sink, if necessary, to help,(aa he
supposes,) the fortunes of the Democratic Par
ty. The mendacious and libelous articles,
found in the Democrat, have long since depriv
ed it of credit with honest and intelligonflnen
and should banish it from every respectable
family in the county. We speak thus with
reluctance of a political opponent, and are on
ly oompolled to do so by its libellous, vulgar
and mendacious attack upon Col. Curtin, in
last week's issue. We shall reply to the
charges, made upon CoL Curtin, so far as our
knowledge extends.
The Editor charges, that Col. Curtin, in the
winter of 1858, was engaged in lobbying
through the Legislature an iniquitous bill for
the sale of the Public Works to the Sunbury
and Erie Railroad Company. We pronounce
the charge false. The bill for the sale of pub
lic works was passed, when both branches of
the Legislature were Demooratio, and when
there was a Demooratio Governor in the chair.
Governor Packer was denounced by. Democrat•
io papers, and conventions, for his alledged
dishonest connection with the sale of the pub
lic works. We do not regret, that the public
works were sold. If, however, the State was
robbed in the sale, Democrats did the work,
and the Democratic) party must bear the re
sponsibilitj.
The Editor charges, that Col. Curtin was en
gaged by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
last winter, in engineering through the Legis
lature a bill, for the repeal of the tonnage tax,
whereby the tax-payers of the state would be
robbed of $300,000 annually. We pronounce
the charge again false. No such bill was evor
offered in the Legislature, last winter. Col.
Curtin was not in attendance on the Legisla
ture. He may have, accidentally, stopped at
Harrisburg, during the session, for a day or so,
but never longer, and wo learn from the Al
lentown Democrat, for the first time, that the
Pennsylvania Rail-road Company ever thought
of attempting, last winter, the repeal of the
tonnage tax. This same mendacious Jounial.
the-Allentown Democrat, last fall, on the eve
of the election. circulated the Falsehood, that
$2,500,00,0r $8,000,00, was employed by this
same Rail -road Company, for the purpose of
electing Opposition Assemblymen, from Le
high and Carbon counties, favorable to the
repeal of the tonnage tax. One of the Op
position candidates for Assembly, (Samuel J.
Kistler, Eeq.,) was elected and yet no attempt
was made to repeal the tonnage tax. Both
branches of the Legislature were overwhelm
ingly Opposition. Why was the attempt not
made? Was it because of a.Deanooratio Ckrver
nor, whom Democrats, themselves, had con
demned, as dishonest? It was known, before
the election, that Packer was Governor, and
the company would not have invested large
sums of money, if they knew Governor Packer
to be an insuperable obetaole in their way.
The Editor lied last fall and he lies again.
We will nob say, that General Foster is
pbsdied to favor the repeal of the tonnage tax.
It would be unjust to say so without conclu
sive proof. Of several things, however, we
are certain, and they are, that, at times past,
. acted as Attorney of the Pennsylvania
• Company, and that he liven on the
Company's, Works. Col., Curtin
• • don of the State, among
•rest in the repeal of
1 Poster, when a
did vote for a bill
tax. This is
• enied.
Curtin is
Aim.las, • • • what fin Massif .
Senator %galas is the flret ineteakee of a
Preeldential candidate stumping the country
in behalf of his own , claims.' The office has
been considered too high and exalted to be de
'graded to the level of pot.house politics. We
trust that in hii overwhelming defeat the bad
prattle°, for the first time inaugurated, may
'find its qnietus, so that no one will undertake
hereafter to imitate the example of the bold,
impudent, reckless and unprincipled agitator,
wtio for the past six years has let loose upon
the country the dogs of sectional agitation::—
When Senator Douglas started out on his elec
tioneering tour North, he gravely stated, that
he was on a visit to his mother, in the State of
New York, and that ho was iu search of the
graves of his fathers in Now England. He is
now down in North Carolina, and has neither
seen his mother, nor found the graves of hie
fathers, although he has roamed over New York
State and the whole of. Now England. His
pretense for going South, was that he wished
to attend to tho settlement of the estate of
some friends of his deceased wife. He is
searcely below Mason & Dixon's line, before
we:hear'orappointmenta for speeches in Eastern
Pennsylvania. We will venture to assert that
be has not 'Liven four minutes of his time and
attention to that estate, of which so much has
been said. If he wishes to stump the country
on an electioneering tour, w has he not the
manliness enough to say so Jones? Why at
tempt to deceive the people by vain and false
pretenses ? A more noted Demagogue has nev
er been known in the history of American
politics.
Poster and Curtin on the Stump together.
Hon. Henry D. Foeter him challenged Col.
Curtin to address the people of the State from
the stump upon the political issues of the day,
The challenge was promptly accepted, and.the
arrangemente for the canvass will be made by
Mr. Welsh ani McClure, Chairmen of the
Stab.. Executive Committees of the two oppos
ing parties. The challenge comes rather late
in the canvass. Col. Curtin has already pass
ed over half of the State, and•arrangementa hove
long since been completed for canvassing the
balance of the State. Col. Curtin is already
worn by the labors of the campaign, whilst
Foster has remained quiet at home. Still we
are glad that the challenge ,has been =lade,
and we have no doubt. Col. Curtin will avail
himself of the opportunity of finding out the
opinions of General Foster upon the political
questions, which agitate the public mind and
which now divide the Democratic party.
IlifirAndrew G. Curtin is amply,able to de
fend his own character and prbteot his own
reputation—but we submit to those who in
dulge in inuendo against both. that if private
character is to be made an issue in this con
test--if the privacy surrounding the domestic
history and professional career of the Gub
ernatorial candidates is to be invaded, let
those who commenced this warfare conceal
their candidate in a darker and a deeper cave
than the one into which they plunged him
when they refused to allow him to appear be
fore the Democratic State Contral Committee
at Cresson. Let them oloth , him in garments
of brass and steel, if they do not wish to see
him fall, blasted and withered by the truth,
the truth brought from among the archives of
Pennsylvania and the records of Westmoreland
county.—Harrisburg Telegraph.
PROFESSION vs. PRACTICE. --The false profes
sions of Pennsylvania • Democrats in regard to
a protection tariff are again fully illustrated in
the fact that they have thrown overboard the
late Representative at Harrisburg from Carbon
county. Mr. Long was the only Democrat in
the Legislature who voted with the Republi
cans to instruct our senators and Represerita-.
tiyee in Congress to vote for a proteetive tariff.
This was an impardonable sin in the eyes of
slave-oode Democracy, and it has therefore
been ordained by the Carbon and Lehigh
Democracy that Mr.. Long shall have leave to
stay at home, and. a better Democrat sent in
his stead ; ono who understands "the ropes" of
Democratic manoeuvering and shifting on the
tariff question.
(Er We obmmond the• following to the anti
progressive party of this county, (the Demo
orate,) who quake in their boots when Yancey
makes a'speeoh and Keitt issues a pronuncia
mento. It le from the English Quarterly Re
view for'Mareh, 1842. It will bo apt to cure
the night-mare with which our old fogy Demo
crats are troubled:
"We are not advocates for visionary pro
jects that interfere with useful establishments.
Ws scout the idea of a railroad as impractica
ble. *What can be more palpably absurd and
ridiculous than the prospects held out of lam
motives traveling twice as fast as stage ooach
es? We should as soon expect the people of
Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired eff
upon one of Oongreve'e ricochet rockets, as to
put themselves at the mercy of such a machine,
going at such a rate."
AN ABOLITION CIANDIDATB.—The Abolition
ists met in oonvention at Syracuse N. Y. last
week and nominated Gerrit Smith for the
Presidency. Gerrit appeared, acknowledged
the Compliment, expressed but poor hopes for
the success of abolitionism at present, and
paid $50,00 toward paying the expenses of
printing tiokets. Gerrit was a candidate be
fore the people in 1856, and his success this
fall, we believe, will be about equal to his
success then.
The Houston Demoorate of New York
have formed a full electoral ticket ; and the
Evening Post thinks it will get from 8.000 to
10,000 votes in that State. , A similar ticket
is to be formed in New Jersey. The candi
dates of this branch of the Democratic family
are : Sem. Houston, of Texas, for President ;
and Commodore Stockton, of. New Jersey, for
Vice President
IliekaLeary M. Fuller and his 'brother plot
ters have been taken to task by the Harris
burg papers for sending out the monstrous
telegraphic canard of an " immense Bell acd
Everet meeting at Harrisburg, in whioh every
congressional district in the State was fully ,
represented." The gairishurg papers say
that there wore only twenty five Bell men pree
ant, and they were nearly all from Philadel
phia.
COMORIIIIIIONAL Nom ENATIONs.—The People's
party of Philadelphia, in the fout Congree
atonal dietriots have made the following nom
inations for Congress let distriot, John M.
Butler; 2d. district, E. Joy Morris, (renomi
nated; 3rd district, John P. Verne ; 4th die-
It has not come to light yet which of the
two fusing factions is to be cheated by the
Know Nothing and Douglas wire•workers and
plotters. It may be the Irish and German
Democrats, or it may be the rank and file of
the Know Nothing or American party. The
evidence is strong on both sides. The New
York Express, the chief organ of the Know
Nothing party, speaking of the ten Know-
Nothings on the Douglas electoral ticket, says:
" The Bell and Everett electorb will, if elecliti
ed, vote for Bell and Everett in the electoral ofil.-
lege."
It will be seen by this that the Expr ess ,
seems to speak with confidence and autho rity
There are no ife in the case ; It does not quib
ble about the
_matter, but asserts boldly, and
without reser ve,. that these ten Know-Noth
ings on the New York Douglas ticket will vote
for Bell and Everett, if elected.
On the same mongrel electoral ticket we
find the name of Mr. Oswald Ottendorfor,
editor of the New York Staatazeitung. Mr.
Ottendorfer was taken to task severely by the
Germans of New York for allowing his name
to appear on the same tiokot with ton Ameri
cans or Know-Nothings. The Abend-Zeitung
also charges, first, " that of the 35 electors
nominated at Syraduse, 10 aro Know-Nothings ;
second, that these 10 Know Nothing are under
no obligation to vote fur Douglas, if elected ;
third, that their votes in the electoral college
would be given to the Know Nothing or Amer
ican candidates."
To this ohargo Mr.Ottendorfer, in the &data
Zeitung, replies with more force than polite
ness, that "each of these statements is a lie."
He denies all these charges, and he avers that
nothing in the proceedings of the S3rraouse
convention would ju stify anybody in making
snob assertions. Having denied these asser
tions in a manner that shows the intensity, of
hie excitement, he further says :
" At the Democratic State Convention at
Syracuse it was expressly understood, and in
the proceedings of the State Committee it was
declared, that the electors appointed by this
Convention, in care of their election, should,
under all circumstances, cast their votes for
Douglas and Johnson, and that the result of
the Presidential canvass, either in this or any
other State, should in no wise influence (or
change) this determination—that, therefore,
every vote given for this' ticket shall count
WHOLLY ♦ND ENTIRELY for Douglas and John
son."
Now this Is not the version given to the Sy
mouse bargain by the Know Nothing journals
•and orators. The Express says to its Know
Nothing readers : " Better ten votes than
none." The S'Eaatazeitung avers that these ten
Know Nothings are used only to get the Bell-
Everett men to vote for the Illinois demagogue.
Washington Hunt, the principal intriguer in
setting up this fusion ticket, said in his speech
in Jersey City: " These ten electors, if ekcted,
will vote for Bell and Everett." The Troy
Whig, the Know Nothing organ of Central
New York, says : ,
"The ten Americans on the electoral tiokot
are honorable :men, and if elected, will oast
their votes for Bell and Everett."
Now why is it that all these attempts at
fission end in confusion t Simply because the
politicians—the oontracting parties—are not
governed by princip le:
3 they are a ft er the
spoils; and in their lied zeal in concocting
schemes for the defeat of the Republican nom
inee for President they forget the important
fact that the rank and file are generally actua
ted by higher and better motives and cannot
comprehend why they should unite or fuse for
the sole purpose of beating a certain candidate !
Nay, what a humiliating eight to see the once
proud and powerful Demooracy (7) down on
their knees before the high priests of Know
Nothingism, begging those whom they onoe
so fiercely and fearlessly denounced to " save
them from the wrath to come." • And if we
glance at the elements which the political plot
ters are attempting to unite, the spectacle seems
still more singular. When men attempt to
unite two such antagonistic elements as Irish
Catholicism and Know•Nothingism, we have
no alternative but to believe that they must be
very nearly related to the old gfintleutun called
"Phool." I am aware that in the eyes of
these fusionists anything is practicable that
looks to a grasping of the spoils; but when
they come to the rank and file, the masses,
the men who do the voting, they will find that
these incongruous elements cannot be united ;
as well might they attempt to unite oil. and
water. If there is one adopted citizen within
my hearing,—and I would not appeal to him
as a foreigner, but as an American citizen—l
would say to him, " Do you now see the falsi
ty of those appeals of the Democratic press to
your prejudiced, not as American citizens b
as foreigners 7" They appeal to your prejti
dices as foreigners—they do not even boor
you with the name of American citizens—to
come forward and vote the Democratic tiAket,
while at the seine time they are plotting and
and bargaining to sell your votes to thosewhom
they have denounced as your bitterest enemies.
Suppose, for instance, that you, my fellow
citizens who have come across the waters,
should become a party to this union of Demo
crat. and Know Nothings, and the fusion
should succeed, what sort of a triumph would
that be for you t Bear in mind the words :
"Though strong their oars, still stronger is
their fate.
They guile! and while they triumph they
expire!"'
Even if we overlook the fact, that the Demo
=tie party would mingle you now with those
whom they have taught you to regard as your
foes, what else do they offer you in return for
your votes 7—Free trade and Slavery I—the
degradation of labor to the level of slavery !
We (Republicans) offer you protection. for
your labor from European competition, the
freedoni of the territories, and homes upon the'
public domain for you and your brothers, who
have come across the deep blue sea. Nor
would we insult you by offering you a home
in a slave territory, where your labor weal
come in competition with slave labor. INT:);
we seek to stay the further epread of that in
cubus to free labor, and would offer you free
homer upon freeterritory Nor are we egreri
ane, that we would seek to place all apta
level with each other ; nor do we seek to do
away with ell the ills that humanity is Afflict
ed with ; but we do seek to alleviate the suf
ferings of the poorer classes and pleeethem on
a higher level, for we know eat the true
wealth and greatneetrof a natioc consists not
in the strength of its ainiles and navies, but in
the comfort and independence of its laboring
classes ; its real glory consists not in the splen
did palace, lofty spire, or towering dome, but
in the intelligence, comfort, and happiness of
the firesides of its citizens. And knowing that
slave labor degrades both the slave and the
master, that it brings into disrepute the labor
of the free white man, and that itis a stupend
ous monopoly which opposes and oppresses the
poor white laborer of the North by opposing a
protective policy, therefore we seek to prevent
its further extension, and would give the pub
lic domain to free white labor, so that it may
add to the glory, wisdom, and prosperity of the
nation.
" What constitutes a State?
Not high-raised battlement or labored mound,
Thick wall or moated gate:
Not cities proud, with spires end turrets orowned I
men, high-minded men."
15ouTit WHITEHALL, August 25.
Maws. EDITORS :—As your paper is open to
all kinds of intelligence, allow me to give you
an outline of a Democratic meeting held out
here on the evening of the 23rd inst., at Guths
vile. In point of numbers it ranged between
a hundred and a hundred and twenty,—littlo
boys included. Laying all else aside, let us
see what has been said. First speaker was
Mr. Barton from Cataaauqua. With this gen
tleman I•have frequently conversed on politi
oal topics, at which times ho alwajs expressed
a deep-seated aversion to the tariff ; pronounc
ing it the biggest humbug nut. This opinion
not agreeing with mine,—l however believed
him to be conscientious. But alas 1 what a
transmigriticationis produced in the mind of
this man when he faces an audience unani
misty for tariff ! At least so web so disc
our party friend
• convention of
t i . be
he a
COlindlniflOATlONAL
The Now York Fusion.
he vehemently speaks in favor of it. This,
thinks I, is enough to satisfy ma of this man's
political honest'. He concluded on popular
at sovereignty. I must .however not for to
hold up to him tho sheer untruth he a
against our " Honest Old Abe," saying at
he voted Igainst supplies for the Mexican army;
when it is known the world over, what his po
sition was on the war, namely : That he op
posed the opening of the War, . but when that
" conflict" was found to. be " irrepressible"
and declared, he was always found among the
first to vote for supplies for the innocent
soldiers. So much for Barton.
Marx cornea next, principal subject—Negro
equality. He tried to make folks believe that
the Republican party was pilaf( to establish
an equality, socially, morally and politically,
between the blacks and the whites. Poor
man I Have you not courage enough to face
the true principles of the party ? It does not
appear so. Next be levels a bibadside on the
" Wide Awakes." He remarked that these
are the identical Know-Nothings, with this
difference, that the K. N.'s used to carry con
cealed light, and the " Wide-Awakes" oarr l y
them on the shoulders. Good Marx I This
man concluded with a " popular sovereignty"
dose and a word on the Dred Scott decision.
Stiles appeared next. Ho was oonsiderably
troubled with Andy Curtin. After exhaust
ing all his vocabulary of defamatory words on
him, he suddenly fell into a dissolution of the
Union swoon ; whore he fairly made himself
an object of pity,—standing before an audi
ence composed of men, at least no fools, preach
ing such despicable, nonsense. Well I suppose
he done the best ho ouuld. Bravo John !
Next comes the renowned Able. (By this
time the crowd had become rather thin, having
withdrawn into the bar-room, where .Lagor,--
their favorite drink, wee to bo had in abun
dance.) This Able had rather an improve
ment ou Marx's opinion of the Wide Awakes.
After (as he thinks) bringing them to a level
with the Know-Nothings, on top of that asserts,
that it is 'nothing but a band of rowdies and
drunkards. The Republioans4l think, have
just cause of being alarmed, on aocountof the
vast influence such a man wields ; having be
longed to all shades of partiee,—temperance
an anti-temperance. This man therefore
must have considerable experience. Surpris
ing however that his experience, and the wis
dom obtained thereby hai never yet gained
him an office. Let an uncharitable people re
form and elect him to any office—excepting
where he gets the disposal of any amount of
money, for it might be appropriated to private
instead of public) use.
Mr. Woolever had the honor of putting the
finale to the whole performance. The best
generally comes last. Here is hie whole
speech verbatim :
Fellow Citizens :—(Applause.) Demoorits
of Lehigh, (applause,) you have an importtnt
duty to perform, (applause,) you must peipet
siate the glorious Democratic party, (apphuse.)
This groat and noble Democratic party is der
tined to save the Union. (Applause.) Va
must put down these vile, corrupt Republican
Abolitionists, (applause,) stand by this pat
and glorious Democratic party, that has ,toed
since the foundation of our government cad all
is safe."
The speaker retired with deafeninsicheers.
(The groat amount of spirits imbibe9rthrough
the evening accounts, I think, fug the vast
amount of applause elicited during the last
speech.) Through the course 0 1 the whole
proceedings I have not heard s single word
said against the principles of t/e Republican
party. Their very silenoe oosterning the true
issues of the parties is enoug) to satisfy any
candid man of the strength, And unassailable
ness of our principles and ue weakness, and
groundlessness of those ofv.ae Democracy.
AUDITOR.
NORTH Wt/TEII , August 27.
DEAR Enirotts : —Tarsuant to previous no
tine,Cur-
tin the friends of .linooln, Hamlin and
publio house of Elias Kuntz, on Saturday
form
ing themselves hto a Club. The people turn
evening, August2sth, for the purpose of form
ed out in a gorily number. The meeting was
called to ( iron., and the first thing was the
election of Actors. Owen L. Sohrieber, was
chosen Pissidsint, __Ms. SohroMor lorool. YIN. eMblo
and give / Alm the next topic' in order,
to be
the glee ' n of Vice President and Secretary.
w i
Emelt hoads was chosen for the former of
fice, a John P. Kohler for the latter. In
the ti/sence of a constitution, the chair ap
pointed Messrs. L. D. Steckel, Wm. H. Price
andLowis P. Hecker as a committee to draft
a,preamble and resolutions , to express the
viawa of the meeting. The committee retired,
Old at this stage of the proceedings, " The
tiGnionsville Braga Band" made their appear
ance, who treated the audienoe, with excellent
and appropriate music. This band understand's
their business, and in the oouree of time will
make an A No. 1 Band. Long may they blow.
The, foramentioned committee, now made their
appearance, and read and presented their re-'
port. Condemned the detrimental course of
the present administretiospind argued claims,
strong and weighty, whf Abraham Lincoln,
should be elected in the Presidential chair.—
William Leisenring to/v addressed the meet
ing in the German language. He raked up,
the frauds and pericries, that have cursed this
administration of Ames Buchanan, and show
ed that the Denooratio party is so corrupt,
that she can nolonger be trusted. Mr. Lets
enring was extremely witty and kept the lis
teners in a god cheer all the time. Next. L.
D. Steckel addressed the meeting, also in the
German language. He discussed the princi
ples of tht , Republican party, and exhibited
their oonsbtenoy and usefulness. He argued
the benelt of the tariff and homestead bill.—
The lair he defined very clearly and beauti
fully. After this speech, John P. Kohler en
ierWied the audience, in the English language.
Hearted out with the assertion, that he be.
HOW that he was speaking to members of
every party, and that he would endeavor• to
~,iow them all how, they could consistently
sustain, the doctrines of the Republican party.
He reviewed and examined the platforms and
candidates of tho different parties, and held up
the fallacy and corrupt tendencies of each of
the other parties, and wound up by giving his
reasons, why the principles of the Republican
party were constitutional and true. After this
gentleman .had finished, on motion, the chair
appointed Messrs. J. P. Kohler, L. D. Steckel
and Charles Schaffer a committee to draw up
a constitution for the club, and report at the
next meeting, which will be on Saturday even
ing, September the let, at the public house of
Milady 3r, Clausen".. ,
On motion the club adjourned, and every
Republican went home, strongly confirmed in
his faith, and some of the Democrats wavering.
Thanks are due to the accommodating host,
Elias Kuntz, for his unswayable willingness
to make everything agreeable for the meeting.
So much for the first meeting of the North
Whitehall Ropublican Club, and you may
rest assured we wily keep the ball a rolling.
• A MYxaYg.
COUNTY COMUTSSIONER.-A few weeks ago,
when " S" mentioned the name of J*con J.
Lreaznaont, of Friedennville, as a proper per
son for the office of County Commissioner, the
proposition at once received my' approval, and
I am glad to see others " second the motion."
Mt. Ueberroth is just the man we want for the
office, being honeet, intelligent, and energetic.
Besides, ho is a young man—one of " nature's
noblemen"—a high.minded honorable man,
lyiepeoted for his virtues and his liberality.—
Lat us not tollovriu the wake of the Democrat.
is party, taking the view that the Commission
et's office is of "no account," and nominate
men of'no education whatever, who km* noth
ing of the duties and responsibilities of,tho of
fice, and who ere therefore nothing but a
"dead weight."
SALYBURO
MESSRS. EDITORS :-I, for one, (and I think
I could say the same for a large number of
my neighbors,) heartily endorse the proposi
tion of your correspondent " North White
hall," that JACOB J. UEBERROTR, of Salmon,
would make a capital County Commissioner.
I hope the County Nominating Convention
will give us Jacob 3. Ueberroth as a candidate
for Commissioner on the Republioan ticket.
Host Munson ETHERIDOIL—The Memphis
Avalanche keeps the following good paragraph
for a Southern paper,standing at the head of
ita leading column, in large letters. It ex
peets to kill the author by giving prominyt
publicity to his noble and patnotio sentiments :
"We understand that the Hon. Emerson
Etheridge made a speech at Dresden, Tenn.,
during which ho read the Black Republican
platform, and asked if there was any man
there who could find fault with it. He furth
er said' that the election of Lincoln on that
platform •-ould give peace to the country,
whilst Breckenridge's would dissolve the
Union."
Whoever knows Emerson Etheridge know;,
that this is not the only noble, high-toned fild
fearless expression of that noble and gene us-
hearted patriot. Emerson Etheridge ii no
demagogue, no °coward. When the demaplogue,
Stephen Arnold Douglas, moved heav/n and
earth to repeal the Missouri compromise, Em
or
i t
eon Etheridge, of Tennessee, altho b from
a slave State, stood upon the floor o ngress
and boldly and fearlessly denounced he author
ll
and his measure, What a coat' tto men
like Henry M. Fuller, Washi ton Hunt,
Brooks, and others in the nor thern States,
who, whilst pretending to be for Min Bell are
using all their endeavors to a;ithe true Bell
mon to one of the Democratic f lions, because,
as they assert, the Republica's, and their plat
form are too radical on the livery question.
Yet suoh men like Emerson 'Etheridge, Hen
ry Winter Davis, J. Morrison Harris, and
other Southern mon, can see nothing in the
Republican platform or parr, to wl)tch even
a Southern man can objed And I might
add the evidence of nearly all the Bell and
Everett press of Marylandand other Southern
States, that they regard abraham Linooln as
a conservative, and thatthe Southern opposi
tion in Maryland ic., ,could rather see Lin
ooln eleoted than eithe of the Demooratio can
didates. CONSERVATIVE.
Dovotss Maw, tear in mind the faot that
ZACHARIAH Losc/Esq., wall thrown overboard
in the Carbon covnty convention because he le
a Douglas Dervocra* and W. IL BUTLER a
Breekinridge ,entocrat, nominated in his stead
for the Legi‘lature. " Union and harmony"
i
is the cry &the Breekinridge nterventioniste ;
but it is only " Union and harmony" whew
their own selfish and disorganizing purposes
are ti be subserved. Mr. Long was entitled
t o ( mother term in the Legislature, and if the
Deekinridge party were honestly in favor, of
pion and harmony, they would have used all
lonorable means to have Mr. Long renomina-
Sad instead of defeating him.
NON INTBRVENTION.
stirWe find the following catalogue of the
diseases, which have interfered with the pub
lic duties of Mr. Douglas, in one of our ex
changes:
Where was Douglas, when the Homestead
Bill passed the Senate?
He had the gout.
Where was Douglas, when tributes of re
spect wore paid to Broderick?
He had the pleurisy.
Where was Douglas, when the Davis reso
lutions passed the Senate?
He had the dysentery.
Whore was Douglas, when the bill, for the,
admission of Kansas,
came up in the Senate?
He had the bowel complaint.
STATE MASS MEETING AT LANCASTER ...4i.
State Mass Meeting of the Republican party
will be held 19th. Addressee will be delivered
by Carl Schurz, Hannibal Hamlin, Senator
Cameron, Ex-Governor Pella*, Ex-Governor
Reeder, and a number of other distinguished
speakers from this and other States. It is
expected, that the mass meeting will be such
an one, as has been seldom seen in one State.
a:7qt is a singular coincidence that almost
simultaneously with the passage of a tariff
resolution by the Lehigh county Democratic
convention, the Democrats of Carbon threw
overboard Mr. Zechariah Long, the only tar.
1. et.o,7uw keogtennure. 1c must
be apparent to all men that the Democrats of
Lehigh are trying to obtain votes under false
pretence.
`The San Fransisoo Times predicts that
Douglas will not get as many votes in Califor
nia ae Breokinridge by five thousand, and will
be behind both him and Lincoln, the latter of
whom will carry the State, imloes all the signs
CONGRESSIONAL NOIIINATION,--Wm. M. Da
vie has been nominated for Congress, by the
Opposition, of the Fifth Con grpssional District,
of the State, ooinpoßed of Montgomery county
and a portion of the city of Philadelphia.
WITHDRAWN-7-00V. Samuel Houston has
withdrawn as a Presidential Candidate. We
suppose that the trinmph of the Breokinridge
Party at the next election in Texas, has indi
cated the withdrawal.
co-It is reported that Carl Schurz, Frank
Blair, Daniel Ullman, Senator Seward, and
other Republican orators are coming to Penn
sylvania.
11:71dr.. Ogden,' one of the Bell men on the
Douglas-Know Nothing New York fusion eleo
tond ticket haa declined. He has found, that
be cannot " serve two masters."
ItBl..lion. John F. Nixon has been renomi
nated for Congress, from the let Congressional
District of New Jersey, by the Cont , ention held
in Camden, on Thursday last.
Costly Wedding Toilette.—The wedding
dress of the Princess of Polignac, who married
the rich banker's son, M. Mires, in Paris,' is
described in Le Follet. It wasof moire, quite
plain in the skirt, but with a long train, high
body, buttoned in front with fine pearls ; an
English' lane coller, fastened at the throat by a
diamond brooch ; the bouquet of orange-blos
soms fastened at the waist; the ooiffure was
a diadem of white lilac and roses ; the hair
fastened behind under a rich comb of die
monde ; an immense veil of English. lace thrown
over the head, and falling nearly to the bottom
of the dress, completed this distingue toilet.—
The second bridesmaid had on a dress of white
silk, trimmed round the skirt with three rows
of pinked silk ruching, the third row carried
up to the waist. The bouquet of orange-ffoiv
ers placed in the bow of the sash, which was
also trimmed with ruches. A diadem wreath
of white roses and. Mee of the valley, over
which was thrown the large square veil of
plain tulle, simply hemmed. The third brides
maid, who wait young and beautiful, wore a
dress at once simple and elegant. It was
composed of white tarlatine, very fine and
thin, covered with pinked tlounoesof the same.
A high, full body, with a ruche round the
throat. A wide scarf of white silk, with fring
ed ends round the waist, fastened in a how at
the side, in which was placed the orange-flow
er bouquet. A diadem wreath of white moss
rose-buds in the hair, over which .a large veil,
also of tarlatine ' reaching nearly to the feet.
Perhaps, says Le Follet, the beauty of the
bride may have given a charm to her dress, but
we must confess we have never seen one that
pleased us altogether so much, not only for its
simplicity, but for its real elegance.
4gir" Healing on its Wings," say all who
have made use of Dr. Wietar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry, and by such nee cured themselves of
coughs, colds, and consuption. The prudent
will always keep this remedy by , them.
ite...There'a a vile counterfeit of this Bal
sam, therefore be sure and buy only that pre
pared by S. W. Fowt.z & Co., Boston, which
has the written signature of I. BUTTS on the
outside wrapper.
SALZBURG
*.Returned honte—tbe Chicago Zouaves,
with $l,OOO in their treasury, the profits of the
olllihitions 'they eye.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
rrOAtOE MORE I—We publish no anony
mous sOmmunications.
arSeveml communications came to late
fin Ws weeks insertion.
he scholars of the Dub's German Re-
f ad Sunday school will hold another Pio
io on Tuoaday next.
VirAdvertisers should bear in mind that
the Rscasum has a larger circulation than
any other English paper in the county„
parldl those in want of cheap dothing
should not fail to call upon Messrs. Neligh
Breinig, see advertisement:in to-day's paper, s.
I$ The public schools of this place opened
on Monday last, and we are told that they
have greatly increased in numbers'since last
year.
SOY-Those plums presented us by our friend,
A. G. Weikel, were not bad to take. Those of
our friends who thus remember the printer
have his best wishes for their prosperity.
IS TO SPEAK.—A great State Mao Meet
ing is to be held by tho Republicans at Lan
caster, on the 19th of September, at which Ex-
Governor Reeder of Easton is announced to
speak.
NEW GOODS.—Our merobauts are reoeive
ing new supplies of dress goods for the season
and persons who wish to know where to get
thorn, can consult the advertising oolumns of
Register.
BELOW PAR.—Bethlehem Demooraoy is
seventy oente below par. A few weeks ago the
Demoorsoy of that Borough settled their debts
contracted in the campaign of 11356, by paying
thirty cents on the dollar.
NEW DEPOT.—The excavation for the
foundation of a new' Depot at Cataeauqua has
been ooramenced. It is to be 80 feet front,
favoring the Gothic style, of architecture, and
will be erected opposite the old one on the bank
of the river.
BUILDING—is actively in,progress in South
Bethlehem. A number of good brink houses,
containing from one to half a dozen dwellings
each, are going up, and will be occupied as
soon as finished. • Several places of business
will also be opened shortly.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.--Our thanks are
due the Directors of the Berke County 'Agri
oultural and Horticultural Society for a com
plimentary ticket of admitsion to the Fair of
the . Society which commences on the 25th and
ends on the 28th of Semtember.
GONE TO CAMP PATTERSON.—The Al
len Rifles, under command of Major Good, left
for Camp Patterson, to be held at York, on
Monday morning last. Thirty-two privates
and officers were in the company. The Rifles
expect to return on Saturday. 'We wish them
a pleasant trip, and hope to hear a good re
port from the company.
A BIG WEEK'S WORK.—The engine
" Mauch Chunk," John MoMakin engineer,
hauled six hundred and forty•eight loaded oars
from Mauch Chunk to Easton last week, ma
king in all three thousand two hundred and
forty tons. During the same week the "Mauoh
Chunk" also took six hunted and seventy
one empty oars from Easton to Mauch Chunk.
DOUGLAS TO VISIT EASTON.—The Phil
adelphia Press announces that Senator Douglea
will address the Democracy of Northampton
County at Easton on Monday, September 10th.
The time of day hail not yet been announced.
The friends of Senator Douglas will make an
effort to induce Senator Douglas to visit Allen
town. "Whether they will be successful or not
is not yet kwown.
EPISCOPAL SERVICE.—There will be
mplefenpai . aerveinm, n, 1.110 Clouro iitrUsep - Or tIIII9
Borough, on Sabbath morning and afternoon
next, at the usual hours. The Rev. Dr. May,
of the Theological Seminary, at Alexandria,
Virginia, will ofliei . ..The Rev. Dr. May is
Professor of (hnr6l3-Elifory, in the Theolo :
ical Seminary, and MS well-known reputation,
as a Divine, will, doubtless, insure a general
attendance of our citizens. •
CENTRAL REPUBLIG I AN:' , OyO--. Mr.
Price in the,ohair pro terk.' l—
Resolved, Theta grand torch light prooes
sion with .20:110 Awal will.parade on
Saturday evening:the Bth of-September...l*
after the adjournmentof the .Connty 0,
tion in Allentown, at 73 o'cloOk
speakers will address the meOurou Said
evening. Come one and all to see and
By Order of 0;41011:LI?. •
GUTHSVILLE FAIR.—The .trot annual
fair, of the Guthsville Association, for the im
provement of the breed of tiftock,wlll be held
next week, commencing
.SePlastllmr,-.42th, and
ending September 16th. 'Libertill premiums
will be awarded, which have been announced
in another oolumn. Each day of the faifltill
afford some new amusement and entertainment,
and we expect to me the new grounds of - the -
Association crowed duringsthsfair.
'.. . •
BUDWORTIO.XitiSTRIII.A*BudwoIth's
Minstrels, of. New (late. Woods!,:Min
strels,) gave an entertainment ..te a Aro*led
house, at the Odd thlCTler
ough, on Wednesday evening The Ater
formances, consisting of comic songs, Mgr°
imitations, fully delineating negro characters,
gave universal satisfaction, and equalled any
thing of the kind, that we have ever witnessed.
If the Minstrels ever revisit Allentown, they
may expect a crowded house.
MELONS, &o.—Watermelons continue to
command a pretty high price, although there
is no scarcity of the article. This however, is
accounted for because all other kinds of fruit
appears to have failed. Sweet potatoes are of
good size and quality, and the price must come
down to a decent figure, as there is no eoaroity.
Irish potatoes also turn out better than was
expected. Apples are apples, and sell at
winter prices at the begining of the season.
What will be the price of them next January?
ACCIDENTALLY KILLED.—Mr. James
Kaiser, of Seigersville, met with with an acci
dent on Thursday which resulted in his death.
He had been riding &spirited horse, and when
near the stable, the animal, it seems, espied
the door standing open, for which he made a
rush, Mr. K. losing hie control over him and
entering the stable door at full speed the ri
der came in contact with the wall of the stable
and was thrown violently to the ground, inju
ring himself in such a manner that he died on
Friday, the 'day following.
elg.Lauer's Artesian Well has how been
bored to the depth of 2,ooo'feet, 'without any
perceptible increase in the volume of water,
which still remains ten feet below the surface
of the ground. It is Mr. Lauer's intention to
suspend operations at the Well for the pres
ent, and take time to consult with experienced
geologists as to the probable result of boring
deeper. Meanwhile, he makes use of the wa
ter, which is of exoellont.quality, and slight.
ly mineral in its nature, by means of a force
pump.
INSANE.—A young man named Frank
Shaffer a native of Berke county living in
Now Jersey for the last three or four years
was found wandering about our streets on
Monday in a state of insanity. The queer
pranks that ho indulged in, caused his arrest
by the officers of the law, when the fact was
ascertained that ho was insane. After dilli
gent inquiry, it was fonnd that the young
man had a mother living in Maxatawny town
ship, Barks county ; and on Monday afternoon
he was taken home. We can imagine the
feelings of.the father' and mother when they
saw their boy brought home a raving man
iac
A I :10IILTURAL FAIRS.—As the time
tbr h.) •di the annual Agricultural Exhibi
tionlia t is State, is near at hand , the follow
ing Het o the days upon which those nearest
ll
to our own county will occur, may be interest
ing to ma.dy of our readers:
Live Stock Pair of the " Guthsville Associa
tion - for the improvement of Stook," at Guth*.
ville,Liltig_h county, September 12th to 15th.
Lehigh County, at Allentown, September
25th to 28th.
State Fair, at Wyoming, near Wilkeebarre,
Sept. 25th to 28th.
Berke County, at Reading, September 25th
to 28th.
Philadelphia, at Powelton, September 25th
to 28th.
Lebanon County, at Lebanon, September
26th to 28th.
Lancaster County, at Lancaster, September
?sth to 28th. •
Farmers' do Mechanics' Institute, at Easton,
&member 18th to 21st.
Northampton County Agricultural Society,
at Nasszoth October 2d to sth.
Oarixtit ounty,e at Lehighton, CrolOber 3d to
Bth.
Schuylkill it:eunty, at Orwigeburg, Sept.
27th to 29th.
Buoke County; at Newtown, Sept. 26th and
27th.
Dauphin County, at garrieburg, Sept. 11th
to 13th.
Clinton County Society, at Lock Haven, Oct.
lOth to 12th.
A RELIC OF TILE PAST.—The follow
ing, published in the Easton Argus in 1835,
will show, we think, that that dal - edible sheet
has not improved much since then, in the
chasteness of its language or its style of dis
oussing political measures :
Wkal a long tail our ram cat's got I
Democratic, Antimasonio, Nova Scotia, Blue
Light, Hartford Convention, Black Cooked°,
Federal, National Republican, Nullification,
American System, Silk Stocking, Billy Mor
gan, "Little Hook," Spook, Ram Priest, Tum
ble•bu British Bank, Tory, Sucking dove,
Beer - fiddling, Nanny, Slaymaker'elig-bull
ticket.
For Congress.
zJAOOB WEYGANDT ! 1 lin
.dasembly.
Jacob Saylor,
Henry Bauman,
„ Wm. - Van Buskirk,
Commissioner.
James J. Horner,
Auditor.
James Leib ert,
L---- "
-A LITTLE GIRL CARRIED THROUGH
A CULVERT AND INTO THE BUSH
KILL—During the very heavy rain on Wed
nesday a week a little girl aged about eleven
years, daughter of Jacob Fulmer, through
some means got into a stream of water that
swept through Locust Alley and its force be
ing so great that she was unable to help her
self, the child was carried off with the current
about fifty feet and then plunged into a culvert,
through which she passed a distance of one
hundred and eighty feet, and from that out
into the Bushkill, bringing up finally on a
rook in that stream. The culvert is three by
four feet in size and those who saw the child
carried into it by the water thought that she
would meet her death by being dashed against
its sides or be drowned, but their surprise may
be imagined when we state that only a few
bruises on one of her lege and about her head
oould be discovered when she was taken, very
much frightened, from the rock in the Bush.
kill. The escape of the little girl is one of
the most remarkable that )re have heard of for
some dme.—Earton" Exptess.
.DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET OF
BERKS.OOUNTY.—The Democracy of Barks
,CottntY pave placed the following ticket in
noniination :
For:A:lngress, ( Unexpired Term,) J. R. /do-
Kenty,of Reading; Congress, (Regular 2ertn,)
S. E. Ancona, of Reading ; .State Senator,
Hiestor Clymer, of Reading ; Aesembly, Eli-
Boh Penn Smith, of Womelsdorf, Michael P.
yor, of Reading, Henry B. Rhoads, of Cole
brookdale ; Prothonotary', Adam W.
/11.81'.4.youjeutill2 Et.
Dry, of Rookland ; Recorder; 0 rlee N. KO
ler,.of Washington • Clerk of G phans' Court,
Daniel Hahn, of R eading ; Clerk of Quarter.
Sessions, James Bell, of Tln telaun ee ; County
, mmissioner, Paul Wenrich, sr. of Bern.;
villa ; Director of the Poor, Aaron Gets. of
Reading; Auditor, William Steffy, of Brook
nook.
SALE OF THE WEST WARD WATER
COMPANY'S WORKS AT EASTON:.-The
Works of the West Ward Water Company
were sold last evening. A. H. Reeder bought
them for $40,030. Associated with Mr. Ree•
'der are a small number of gentleman, all of
. them among the best business men of the Bor-
Ough, who, we are reliably informed, will go on
Atiergotioally to oomplete the Works and con
duct the Company without any debt. The
purchasers of the Works are men of the right
etemp, who will not be troubled with a lack
of mean., and who know how to manage the
workM hand. They have a set of works worth
ei Ijty thousand dollars, which were bought
atglfpriee, and we have reason to hope that we
eh have no more trouble with our supply of
wain.. The new ConipanY expect to collect
water rent at once, from September Ist.
4 11.14E0TURES.-1. N. GRZOOIIY, A. M.,
read a. series of six consecutive Lectures,
lit the Hall of the Allentown Academy, com
mencing on next Sabbath afternoon eta quarter
before 8 o'clock, to whichthe public ggeenerally
are cordially invited. S'utijede :—Fint Leo.
ture---"Row to think of the Divine unity and
trinity , eo as to believe with Isaiah, that the
Lord Jesus Christ is not only the eon of God,
but the everlasting Father and the Prince of
Peace." Second Lecture—" How to think of
the atonement, so eat° worship only one God,
and that one as a Redeemer of infinite love."
Third Leoture—" On the Christian Life."— ,
Forth Lanttift;" On Death and the Resurreo- -
don:" MAC Lecture—"On' the judgement,
individnar46 general." Sixth Lecture.—
" On the &wld coming of the Lord.'
COAL AND •IRON.—T he Lehigh Valley
Railrped Company brought down fottbeYweek
ending tattuday, the 25thialit,folurteen thou
sand and seventy tone zxvituot ten
thousand six hundreei n apd'thirty tons for cor
responding week I.lr, making for the
season commencing December ht., five hun
dred and twenty-three thousand six hundred
and thirty.three tone, against three hundred
and eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and
eighty tons to corresponding period kat year ;
being and increase of one hnndred and thirty
six thousand and three tons of coal to date.
One thousand three hundred and twenty tone
of pig iron were also carried over the road for
the same week.
CURE FOR IN-GROWING NAILS.—It is
stated, by a correspondent, that cauterization
by hot tallow is an immediate cure for in
growing nails. He says : I pat a small piece
of tallow in a spoon, and heated it over a lamp
until it became very hot, and dropped two or
three drops between nail and granulations.
The effect is almost magical. ' Pain and ten
derness Are at once relieved, and in a few
days the gratulations all go,leaving the deceas
ed parts dry, and destitute of all feeling, and
the edge of the nail exposed so as to admit of
being pared away without any inconvenience;
I have tried the plan repeatedly since, with
the most satisfactory results. The operation
causes little if any pain, if the tallow is prop
erly heated.
TO TELL THE TIME OF NIGHT BY THE
MOON.—To the hour which the moon's shad
ow indicates on a sun dial add four fifths of. ,
the moon's ago, and the sum will be the time'
sought ; or subtraot the hour shown on the di
al from four-fifth of the moon's age,land the re
maindpr will be the time sought. The first •
mode is to be adopted if the moon's shadow
falls on an hour in the foreuoon, and the latter
if it falls on an hour in the afternoon. In
rookoning the moon's ago, if the new moon
happens in 'the forenoon, that day must be ta,
ken u the first; but if itlappens after tioon 4
the following day must he count 4 as the fire).