STAR OF THE NORTH. ft. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Uloonsfiarp, A R N O M E R, ox vSlll^^oujtTr, DEMOCRATIC COUNT* CONVENTION. IN accordance with the role of the Demo cratic party, the Democratic votera of the nrveial election districts of Columbia county will meet at their reepective places of holding the general election, on SATURDAY the 36th day o( August next, between the hour* of 3 and 7 o'clotk in the afternoon to choose two delegates from each township, to meet in Ogunty Convention at the Court Houae in " "Dioomaburg on MONDAY, tho 37th day of August next, at \ o'clock, P. M., for the put nose of making the annual nominations of tho Democratic party. The Democrata of tha several townships are enjoined to elrict vigilance that none but Drm orrats participate in theae election*, and tho rucccaa and integrity ot the party imfieiativcly requires that Know-Nothings cannot end shall not have a voice either aa votera, officers or delegates in the formation of • ticket which 1 they would not support when formed, unless i by son* unfoi lunate accident some of their j own kind should be on it. 7he Democratic party accords to these men the same right which it claims for itaalf to support men of i their own principles; but they must do it in i their own household, and not attempt to force them on the people under the name of Dem ocrats. Although it may la difficult in all cases to know who belong to the Secret Order, | the precedent of the Democratic fclate Con- ] venlion seems to be tho only safe one—that (hu tree must lis judged by its fru it, and that ' those twn who year after year openly and no- i loriously oppose Democratic nominaiion* ond , euppoil Whig and Know-Nolhing candidates are not Democrata. and can have no just or honorable claim to control or direct the policy of a patly which they have refused to support and vainly attempted to destroy. JOHN . STERNER, I JACOB D. KLINE, JOHN H. Dcwirr, I HENRY MET*, ISAIAH JOHN, | Standing Committee. HIE HEEDEK CASE. We have carefully read the report of the ' Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs and i the delenee of Governor Feeder, and it is very clear that the Governor has acted at Jeaat imprudently and improperly for his po sition. It appears thai '.he Indians from whom the Governor proposed to purchase lands bad only a usufructury interest in them, and held tbem as reserves but not in fee simple. I Treaties with the Pottawatomie tribe in 1832 i and with the Sac and Fox half-breeds in 1824 are referred to as similar in provision to the treaty with the Kansas half-breeds.— But in those cases after (be Indians conveyed I •way their interest, a special act of Congress i was passed conveying the additional interest of the United States. Under President Jack son's administration Attorney General (now Chief Justice) Taney gave it as his opinion dhat in these cases of Indian reserves the "Indians have only a usufructury interest in the land reserved, and the remaining title is ' in the United Slates. w j It appears also that an application vnis ■ made in April 1852 by Hon. J. S. Phelps, of' . the House of Representatives, United States, on behalf of J. R. Chenault, Esq., for the ap proval of a deed to Clement Lessen, from Moses Bellmond and Adele his wife, for the identioal section of land now proposed to be conveyed to Governor Reederand associates. The response of the Isnd office to that ap plication was made to Hon. Mr. Phelps un der date of 20th May of th year.jhat "the half-breeds provided for in the treaty refer red to possess only a usufructary interest, therefore it is not competent for them to con vey an estate in fee in the same. Besides, these lands being situated within the Indian country, their alienation could not be sanc tioned without violating the long-settled pol icy of the government, which ta to exclude, as far ■■ possible, the settlement of whites within what is called the Indian country." Tho deed was returned "unapproved" by the government. Subsequently in July 1854 a similar reply was given by the government to inquiries made by Mr. E. H. Norton, Esq., in refer encs to these lands, and it was added that ''the Indian title must first bo extinguished before they (tlie reservers) can be subject to settlement or tale as public lan Jo." Still later two trading Companies informed the officer of the United Stales gover'tiTtent that whenever it pleased the government 10 oiler these for sale, they were willing to, give the one six and the other four dollars, per aero for the whole twenty-three eection of those which Governor Reeder's company to purchase tha moat valuable partmr tbree dollars per acre This would indicate that these trading Companies wall knew the ultimate title of theae lands to be in the government. Now if the President had approved the contracts of the half-breeds witb Reader those gentlemen and who had previ ously offeied a higher for the same lands would btve haJMMHttfed reason to complain at the of lbs government, more cause than Gpvsrnor Reed^^BrnMpL friends can now have. N The government regards the Indians as its tivards, and with commendable humanity has passed laws to protect them ngainst the superior craft and sagacity of the white man. Jn other ages aud countries great wrongs have been perpetrated on reces occupying such a position as the Indians do toward the guardian government Human nature has been the same since the d%y when the Ro man governors oppressed distant provinces, and when Hastings and Clivs ruled for Eng- Jgnd in India. A man in the position of a governor should be the first to proteet these tribes, and the |ast to weaken the safeguards of the law. The Union Argue is the title of a new pa per started at Lewis burg. It is published by Means. Ziebach and Stout, and ia wall got up. In po'itioe it professes to be Democrat] jg, OP Hie malicious abuse in the last Dtm ocrat will fall harmless where the spirit of its editor is known, but we may just re mark as a sample of its falsity that in the transaction at the Prothonotary's office, we neither went in to watch for a job nor solic ited the advertisement from Mr. Bittcnben der. We went in to procure some records, and staid no longer than that business re quired. Nor nro wo, as falsely stated, a member of the Lutheran church. In defenco we havo been compelled to address the fol lowing letter to its pastor, which wiU ex plain our position and the wrong attempted toward us. REV. E. A. SIJARRETTS ; Dear Sir —With as much regret as you can feel iu the case, I find my sense of self-respect requires me to call your attention to a most unjust, unchristian and unprovoked attack upon me from a mem ber and officer of the Church over which you preside as pastor. Coming as it does i from his position in and connection with that Church 1 feel required to know whether the Church encourages dY permits such con duct from its members and officers. 1 enclose you accordingly on article pub- i lished in a newspaper of this place from I which you will see thnt Michael F. Eyerly j one of tho members and officers of your i Church has furnished for publication a ma-! licious and landerous imputation for an I attack on me. attempting to justify and ex cuse an injury to my private business, be cause I have "refused to give anything to your support." Now, sir, you know that in the first place tho charge is Jalse . For you can bear wit ness to the fact that though I am not a mem ber of your church 1 did contribute to your support last year. If 1 refused to subscribe this year when approached and told that I "must 'J feel that is not to my reproach. But the imputation is malicious as well as false. When the very deacon of your church who now attempts to revile me needed mon ey for your support in traveling he came to me after I had subscribed to your support, to ask ma for the sum subscribed and for an additional loan for your use, and 1 free ly paid and loaned all he asked for, though I hail use for it in my" business and to pay my debts. He took his own time to repay me, and I never desired, asked or received any recompense for this act which I did from a spirit of kindness and friendship alone. 1 can hardly believe that lie would first have gone to a truly ungenerous man, or to one unfriendly to you for this favor. And not only in this private but in a pub lic manner upon more than otto occasion 1 have done all* 1 could to servo you, as this whole community can bear witness. How much I have this year subscribed to two other churches of this town without being a member of either of them 1 scorn to parade, here, for I havo yet to learn that in this Christian republic a citizen is to be ostra cised and attacked in his private business because he may not every year contribute to every church, or to just such particular church as the malevolence of some individ ual may indicate. If it lias come to this that a deacon of a chufch sj.mll bo permitted to sot himself up as a ceusqr and to break down and malign every man who will not pay to the censor's church, or not pay as much as the censor shall decide in his mind to be right, 1 wish to know thnt fact, so that hereafter I may reserve my contributions to encourage truly religious and Christian missionaries to come into this community. For with the same right this regulator of other men's business may next presume to hold mo or any other man up to the reprobation of your church-members because we may not spend money for our dress, eating or travel to euit his mind, or may not spend it where he thinks we ought —perhaps because he might think we spent too much for one and too little for the other —perhaps because we did not spend it with the members of hit church, but of some oth er denomination. But, my dear sir, it may occur to you that if it were possible for some regulator to be found with the same Bpirit in some other Christian denomination he might have as good a claim lodirect men's diet and dress as the deacon of your church; mid as their minds might and doubtless would very oft en differ, this community under such a fog ulator would bu in a very unfortunate and i perplexed condition. If it can be a cause of regret to me that I did not on any occasion contribute more I to any church or clergyman it would be ful iy justified in my conscience by the feeling and kncfwlcdge that I would sometimes have "iven rootle if Ihose who are indebted to me had pesid their honest debtssothat I might havo teen AMKLI have always tried to ! e foy being generous, and mani who proudly vaunts of his prere(aed charity be fore he is honest is a hypocrite- You will see that this false and malicious accusation has been furnished by this mart to be thrown by public print into a political coo test as an appeal to the feelings of (be mem bers of your church and your friends. It mi furnished when it was known that suob use was designed to be made of it. The jol lifying fact tpas withheld that I had both in. private and in publio done acts .of friendship and service to you by hand and heart mind, and only the falsehood was out that I had refused to give your support. This has been will see, by this person in virtue of edge, position and connection as an in yon, ohurch, and wiifetfee being yonr especial frientT A worthy an/i | respectable gentleman (Mr. I had hit friendship and interest f ut m 6) p oi . soned by the malicious imptjhtlioo as you will 1 see by the extract, and lb* wrong that would steal away the respeot it good man is no light or trivial offenoe syainst the proprieties of life —much more against the spirit of Christian brotherhood. * I cannot allow myaelf to enquire whether you encourage or permit thii wrong to be done under the sanction of your personal friendship; for the uprightness and exempla ry rectitude of your life and character, so far as I have known you, forbid me to doubt vour regret that tbis outrage has been done so near to you, and your disapprobation of the spirit that prompted it. But I feel required to de mand whether the church *of which you are the pastor, encourages or permits its member* and officers to thus use their position, knowl edge and connection to injure men in the pur suits of private life, and to drag such appeals to the leelings of the church into the arena of a political contest. Can a person who thus dregs the high and holy feelings of men's re ligion to a connection with private malevo lence, injury, passion and political prejudice be permitted to remain a member and officer of your church when his conduct is thus brought, as now, to its knowledge for repro bation or sanction. A person in my position with a conscious ness of rectitude has learned only to pity the infirmity ofhumun nature when the common slanderer spits his venont; and therefore when I have been accused r,f such acts as joining a po j litioal societj at Phil'a. a; a time which proved | to be the Sabbath when 1 was attending church in this town, I let there harmless falsehoods pass by me as the idle wind which I regard not; and only remember them "moro in sor row than in anger," just as I do the Recounts I have read of reptiles who waste their ven om in the desert wilds. But when names of respectability are dragged from the sanctity of private life to give a clonk and a covering to the n.slice of the bolTand the bad—when religion find the church Rre appealed to for aid iu public aitackson men's private charac ters Rnd business, it is a different cae ; and a sense of the common decencies and proprie ties of life demands that the outrage be rebu ked by every right-thinking aud right-feeling man in the community. With sentiments of the most respectful per sonal consideration towards you. 1 remain ." Truly, your friend, R. W. WEAVER. 41 luit a Know-Nothing Thinks. The editor of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier joined the order of Know Nothings a short lime since, aud after remaining a member i .for some two or three weeks, walks nut of j the camp, throws downffiis regimentals, and I thus delivers himself: "We never attended a single Council meeting ; but the few weeks experience since our connexion with the order has con vinced us that no man who has any self-re spect or independence can belong to it twelve months without sacrificing both. It contains features which sooner or later must cause every one who has a particle of manliness in bis composition to revolt at the organization and leave it with disgust. It is an organiza tion which may suit unscrupulous politicians to use for their own selfish purposes, but it will drive from it all good men, and will in fallibly fall from its own weakness. Not even the glorious principles which caused its rise can long prevent its downfall. True Americanism, to succeed, must do so under other auspices, and Ihejaau'er there is a re organization of the jH0 f the better for the country." Ltqnor Law Decisions. The nw prohibitory Liquor Law has been in force about one month in New York, and the following is a summary of the decisions pronounced upon its constitutionality thus far: By Birdss'lj Nsw York, Justice Marine Court, July 11—That selling imported li quors by the g'ass is a violation of the law. By Court of Sessions, Buffalo, 13th —That a constable cannot ba compelled to testify to its violation, when his evidence would crim inate himself. By Recorder of New York, 19th—That im ported liquors may be retailed in any quanti ties. By Court of Sessions, Buffalo, 20th—That imported liquor is only exempt from the pro visions of the law, while in the hands of the importer. By Justice Morris, Supreme Court, Sarato ga, 22d—That a person arrested lor selling may give bail to await indictment, and can r.ot be compelled to go to trial before a call, ed jury. By Congor, Justice of tho Peace, ytioa, 25. That the law is "unconstitutional. By Waldron, Jnslico of the Peace, Buffalo, 25th—'Thai the law does not authorize the apprehension of a man for being drunk in hi* own house. By Justice Johnson, Supreme Court. Corl landville, 30th—The grand juries shonld not presume the law to be unconstitutional, but do their part towards its enforcement. By Justices' Court, Rochester, 31st—That lager beer is an intoxicating liquor. Alabama Election. MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug. 9 —Perry Walk er, Know-Noiliing, it elected to Congress in the Mobile District. Further returns of the vote for Governor show a large majority for Winston, Hem., and although Shortbridge grains largely in some places, Winston is probably elected. Kentucky Election, LOUISVILLE, August 10th.—fn 80 Counties, Morehead's (K. N.) majority amounts to 9,- 480. The remaining counties to be heard from save Pierce for the Presidency 1,222 For Congress, are chosen, while doubt. FlecjH j|<IMiWE, Aug. 12. papers, tec,y #