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HEROIC CONDUCT OF A WOMAN.
A:cotht of Mrt. Martha Ann Patten, a Young
lady Twenty Fears of Ago, who Commanded
a Vettti. fifty fix Days During Her Hue
bands Itinea.
t"be readers of the Herald will rSßsember
an aoooeni taken from one of the California
paper*, relative to tke heroic conduct of Mr*.
Martha Ana Patteo, wifa of Capt. Patten, of
tba ship Neptune'* Car, WlO, during bar
husband's illness, took oharga of the vessel
and navigated it Mfelv info San Franeieco
The lady, together with her husband, who
ia now so sick that ba ia not axpeded to
live, arrived in thia city in the George Law,
and era now stopping at tba Battery Hotel.
Her story is an interesting and paieful one,
aad shows how mocb a waak, delicate wo
man can do when a grant emergency calls
out bar powers.
Mrs. Patten was bom in East Boston of
wealthy parents, and received an excellent
•(location, and was in every respect tenderly
nurtured and cared for. Sba is now but
twenty yeare of age, depetite faille, has small
hands and feature*, delicate blonde com
plexion, soft blue eyas, and altogether gives
ooe an idea of femenine softness and wo
manliness that it ia impossible to associate
With the daring nerve and decisive qualities
(he exhibited in a rsmaikable degree. At
eighteen years she married Cept. Patten,
then bat twenty-five years of age, he having
baan master of a vessel— the bark St. An
drew, which plied between New York and
South American ports—and was then off doty
waiting till the Cornelia Lawrence, a new
ship, waa ready for tea. Shortly after he
was married the master of the ship Nep
tune's Car sickened as tha was about to pot:
to tea for a voyage around the world, and I
tbe owners, Messrs. Foster and Nickersoo,
offered the post to Capt. Pslten, but he hesi
tsfod as ha did not wish to leave bis young
briJe. The bwnere, however, gave blm per
. mission to take her with Him , end I—'-■
hours alter tb* first notification the young
couple were on board, and lha veasel getting
ready to leave the dock. Tha Neptune's !
Car fiiet sailed for San Francisco, thence to
China, from China to London, and finally ar
rived in New York, after an absence of sev
en leen month*. Daring this lime Mrs. Pat
ten amused herself by helping bet husband
io bis nsatical observations, worked up the ;
time from the chronometers, and occaaipn-!
ally kept the reckoning of the ship. Last,
August the Neptune's Car agaio put to sea, 1
and it waa on this voyage that Mrt. Patten's !
misfortunes commenced. As the vessel
nested the straits el Maggellan, her hns
hand waa taken with a disease in tbe head
which finally developed into a brain faver.
Ha attendad to bis ship as long as he was
able, and when rt was imnoMible lo give
any personal orders, be fonnd to his dismay
that his first mate WM wholly incompetent
to take oharge of the ship, and that tbaee WM
no officer on board qualified fo take the vee-
M! into pert. He found that tha first mate
was anxioua to ran the vessel into Valpe
raiso, but thia ha eameatly forbade, as the
crew might all leave end the cargo be de
stroyed before the consignees could send for
the vessel. In thia emergency Mrs. Patten's
rare qualities developed tbamMlvas. She at
earned command of tba VMMI herself, and
tha naat ical observations aha once made in
sport for a phsstime she now undertook as a
duty. Her time WM spent between her de
lirious hnsbsnd and the writing dock, work
ing up tha intricate calculations incident lo
nantical observations making entries ia tbe
log-book in her owa delicate pedmanship,
and tracing out with accuracy tha position
of the ship from tba charts ia the cabin.—
The rough aailors all obeyed tbe "little wo
man," ae tbey called bar, with will, and
eyed her curiously and affectionately through
tha cabin windows while deep ia her calcu
lations in which bar life and theirs depended.
There WM one person on board, however,
who viewed bet bofame with jealousy and
mtatrast. Ha wrot* her e letter warning bar
bf the responsibility she was aaaoming and
proffering advice, but she spiritedly replied
that "her husband would not trail him wbila
he was Wall, and she could not do so now
that be was siek." For fifty Jays Mrs. Pat
ten did not nndisM herself nod took very
Hole eleep, working day and night, and
never leaving her eibk husband's room. Her
labors are tha more setprieiog ia view of tba
fact, that she waa all this lima in a delicate
Hoadirion, sisd soon expects to give birth te
the Neptune's Car arrived Mfety at San
Francisco on the 15th of Nfftembet last, it
having baan be filiy-*ix day* under tba
comrtiand of a daKoafo female not twenty
Jrears of age. What a splendid text fo* the
wcwuh's right's peopl*.
Mrs. Patten Is now at tbo Battery Hotel
with hot hnsbsnd, who, it is supposed i* in
a dying eoaditioo. Tha fever baa never left
him. and for eome time past he ba* been
blind find deaf. .They did *x|eei fo leave
fo the boat for Boston yesterday for her own
home, bht ba waa too sick fo be moved.
Mis Patten's cask Is ens of tba most re
markabfe tin record, and adds on* to the
many inatahees that history reaordaof female
devotion aad heroism.— New Fort fltroU.
FILqOMSBURGL COLUMBIA COUNTY,##:, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11. 185?.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONTRITION
AT RARRISRURG.
Htimitcia, March t.—The Democratic
1 Stele Convention, to DomiaMe candidate* for
Governor, Canal Commissioner, and Jsdg*
of the Supre ßM Cam, aet la the Hall of the
Home ef Representative# at 10 o'clock thia
morning, and wee called to order by Col.
John W. Forney, Chairman of the Slate Con'
tral Committee.
Col. Forney, in performing thia doty, made
a brief address. He re faired to the great
triumph of the Demoorttie party of the coon
try, laet fall, ia the election of Jamea Bo
cheftae, and the prond poaition the party io
I Pennsylvania bad oocnpled in that great
atraggle. He made a (Mioate allnaion to the
recent defeat of the Democracy in the elec
tion of a United State* Senator Irom Penn
sylvania, and remarked that the naager ef
the party hod bean abeaed, and the frtaite of
the grant eietory had been permitiad to rot
array under their faot. He rendered baek to
the lepraaantaUvee of the party tba irttet con
fided to him a year ago, and concluded by
requesting eome delegate to nominate a
temporary Chairman.
Gen. Mnrray Whallon, of Erie, was there
upon nominated aad choeen ae Chairman,
pro. tern., and Gideon G. Weaksott.of Phila
delphia, and Ales- McKinney, ef Westmore
land appointed Secretariat.
The Hart of delegatee was then called. The
Convention it nearly fall. Several delegate*
ate jet absent who will be hew thia after
noon.
On motion, a Committee of one delegate
from eaoh Senatorial District, waa appointed
by lha delogaiiona from tbo several districts,
to report officers for a permanent organiza
tion.
The contested Mats from the Tenth and
Seventeenth Senatorial Districts were con
sidered and settled io favor of Charles M.
Smyser from the Tenth District, and L. K.
Blood, from the Seventeenth district.
The Committee to select officers in the
organisation of the Convention, returned and
reported as follows:
PRESIDENT,
PHILIP JOHNSTON, of Northampton.
VICE PRESIDENTS,
Geo. \Y. Nebinger, H. L. Dieffenbach,
Charles Worrell, J. M. Crirnmill,
W. A. Edwards,* Wallace Geybert,
l'eter Kambo, John Blanding,
John G. Brenner, F. W. Knox,
A. H. Tippin, W. P. Garvin,
Samael Ringwall, Jonathan Ayree,
Edward Thomas, Wm. H. McKee,
W. B. Patton, S- H. Blackburn,
Wm. M. Breslin, Finley Patterson,
m. noiei Weysnd.
John AC. Sfater, J. H. Crawford;
Charles Burnett, John Camming*.
J. B. Danner, J. B. Searight, C *4
John Alii, Isaac Ward,
John Haizell, Edward Flaunery, |
SECRETARIES.
J. 11. Hney, Joe. Lindsay,
J no. Campbell, I.H.Shaw, I
E. I. Acker, H. A. Boggs,
A. McKinney, Dr. Brown,
| The report of the Committee ws* adopted,
and the President, on taking bis Mat, made
| a brief address, returning thanks for the honor
1 conferred, and enjoiaad harmony of action,
I predicting soother great iriompb, next Fall.
Mr. Shannon, of Alleghany, moved the ap
point of a Committee 00 resolutions, con
sisting of one irom each Senatorial district.
On motion of Mr. Cessna, thn resolution
WM amended reducing the number of the
Committee to Mven.
Adjourned till half-past two o'clock.
SPTEBNOON SESSION.
Tbo Convention re-assembled at hslf-past
two o'clock, when the Committee on resolu
tion s WM announced, consisting of Messrs.
Shannon, Bookalew, Workman, Weacott,
Shriner, Canigan and Bonsall.
The Convenrion then proceeded to make
nominations for candidates fo: Governor. A
number of names were placed in nomination,
and among tbom Hon. John L. Dawson and
Geo. Setb Clover, which were subsequently
withdrawn.
Tba first ballot for a candidate waa then
taken and resulted at follows:
Messrs. Alcicks, Akl, Blanding, Bros,
Beekafow, Bowman, Dieffenbach, Evans,
Fineb, Flaoeery, Gillilsnd, Hunter, Kutx,
Knox, Lanman, Carl, M'Cormick, McCurdy,
Qrr, Piofott, Bmyaer, Smith, Shaw, Scarbo
rough, Schnabei, Stasia, Seybert, Bberwood,
Thomas, Wonder and Ward (Susquehanna,)
81—voted for Wm. F. Packer.
Messrs. Acker, Allen, Bucher, Bonsall,
Biraaer, Campbell, Canigan, Deal, Danen
hewsr, Edwards, Usher, Killian. Lippencott,
Morrison, Miller, MeGbee, Morris, McMul
lin, Murray, McGfonoy, Nebbinger, Worrell,
Rambe, Sager, Sturgeon, Sohool, Tippin,
Woecou and Teagar, 39—voted for Wm. H.
Wltte.
Mcmn. Ayree, Blood, Blaokbura, Boggs,
Cessna, Crawford, Clarke, Dona, Gibson,
Huey, Herdman, Irwin, Jamison, Johnson,
Marian, McKinney, McCormick, (Northum
berland,) Magee, Shannon, Shriner, San torn,
Slater, Taylor, (Beaver,) and Weyand, 25
voted for Satnnel W. Blaok.
Messrs. Buyer, Brash, Frdat, linlt, fctutz,
Lmdrey, McKlastry, PsUon, Patterson; Ring,
wait, Rutledge, Seiright, Stooder, Swan and
Workman, voted for Wm. Hopkins.
Messrs. Brooks, Dannar, Forney, Grior,
Garrin, fsmaa, Prtee, Plniher, Reily, Sharps,
Sloan, Taylor, (Erie,) and Wbaltoo, 13—vo
ted for J. Potior Brawlejr.
Messrs. Brown, Bower, Ctianmings, Dillin
gar, Uemmi!, Rartxal, McDowell and Wood,
tnff, B—voted for Ephriarh Banks.
Messrs. Bnroau, Craig, Clotaf, Moore,
Wolf and Wood, B—voted for G. R. Barrett.
Messrs. BreSlin, Hippie, Horn and Ward,
(Sebnylkill,) 4—voted for F. W, Hugh*.
Trait AM K*r aw atTrar(rati.
I Mr. Beam voted fee leaao Slenker.
| Mr. Yonag voted for Thomas 8. Bell.
Whole aumbar„o< votes east 111—aeces-
I sary to a choice M.
There being no choice the names of
Messrs. Hugh**, Bvawley and Hanker wore
withdrawn.
SECOND vera.
Packer, M
Black, M
Wille, 33
Hopkins, 18
Banka, 8
Whole number of votes east, 133—neces
sary to a choice. 87.
The Id, 4th, Stb, and Bth vote* were nearly
tha Mine, Hopkins falling off 10 6, and tbe
other eandidatM severally gaining slightly.
SEVBUTH VOTE.
Packer, 49.) Wine, 38
Black, 451 Hopkins, 1
Bth vol*. 9th vote. 10th vols.
Picker. 50 - 49 49 7
Black, 44 44 44 '
Wilts, 38 39 39
Hopkios, 111
A motion fo adjourn till Mven o'clock was
disagreed to, after which four other ballot*
were had malting at follows:
Utb. 12th. 13th. 14th.
Packer, 47 47 43 44
Black, 40 38 36 39
Witte, 37 39 39 40
Hopkins, 9 II IS 10
After tha 13th ballot, a motion was made
to adjourn till 7J o'clock, but disagreed to.
Yea* 54, naya 73.
After the ISth ballot, a motion was made
to adjourn till 8 o'clock, and %e(.—Yeas 85,
naya 67.
Tbe Convention finally, after Ihe 14th bal
lot, adjourned till half past eight o'clock.
EVENING SESSION.
The Convention met again at 8J o'clock,
when lha fifteenth ballot WM taken, and te
■ulted M follow*
JIFTEENTH VOTE.
Packer, 47 | Wine, 40
Black, 331 Hopkins, 14
Mr, Cessna moved that on each successive
ballot after the nex*, tbe lowest candidate
•ball be dropped.
Mr. Carigan moved to lay tho motion on
the table.
The Chair decided the motion ont of or
der. The motion must be postponed.
Mr. Cessna advocated hi* motion. If
adopted one or the other of tba candidates
must be nominated in a few ballot*. If tbe
balloting continued aa cow, much longer,
delegate* would become embittered, and
would say harsh things, to the injury of tbe
prospects of the party.
Mr. Whsllon opposed me motion.
Mr. McDowell hoped the proposition would
prevail after another vote.
The whole subject was then postponed for
the present, and the Convention returned the
balloting with tba following result 1
16th. 17th. 18th. 19tb. 20lb. til. 23d.
Packer, 48 49 54 57 59 60 61
I Black, 24 22 22 23 23 22 25
Wilts, 43 46 47 50 50 5t 47
Hopkins, 18 16 4 2
TWENTY-THUD VOTE.
Packer, 61 | Wittte, 51
Black, 31
TWENTY VOUETH VOTE.
Packer, 68 | Wilts, 51
Black, 14
Gen. William F. Packer having, on the
twenty-fourth ballot, received a majority of
all tho votes east, was declared duly nomina
ted a* the candidate for Governor.
Tho announcement waa received with
much applauM, and a resolution was then
offered and adopted to make the nomination
unanimous.
NOMINATION OV SCFBEME JUDGE AND CANAL
COMMISSIONERS.
Harritburg, March 3d.—Tbe Convention
remiined in session till half pest 13 o'clock
Ibis morning.
The following is tha vote for Governor on
the 34tb ballot:
For WM. F. PACKER— Messrs. Alricki, AM,
Bsnm, Brown, Blanding, Blood, Boyer, Back
alew, Bowman, Bower, Carl, Cessas, Com
mings, Clover, Danner, Dieffenbach, Evaas,
Pinch, Flannary, Frost, Forney, Gemmil,
Gillilsnd, Grier, Garvin, Hartzel, Hull Hun
ter, Horn, Irwin, James, Jamison, Kola,
Knox, Kaulz, Lanman, MoCortnick, (Mon
tour) M'Kinatry, McCormrck, (Northumber
land; Moore, McCurdy, Orr, Prion, Patton,
Piofott, Plainer, Paitereoo, Ringwall, Sager,
SmyMr, Sbnner, Smith, (Berks) Shaw, Scar
borough, Sharp, Schuabis, Sloan, Staoffer,
Steele, Seybert, Sherwood, Taylor, (Erie,)
Thomaa, Wonder, Woodruff, Ward, (Schuyl
kill,) Ward, (Susqnebaana,) and Young—
-68.
For WM. H. WlTTß— Messrs. Ayres, Ack
er, Allen, Boggs, Brooks, Booker, Brash,
Burnett, Bonsall, Brenner, Campbell, Craig,
Crawford, Carrigau, Deal, Danahower, Dill
ingar, Edwards, Ether, Hippie, Johnson,
Killain, Lippincott, Lindsay, Morrison, Millar,
Martin, M'Kee, M'Dowoll, M'Kiouey, Mor
ris, M'Mullin, Murray, Magee, M'Glency, <
Nsbbingsr, Roily, Roiledge, Rambo, Slater,
Sturgeon, School, Bwan, Tippin, WMIOOII,
Whallon, Workman, Wolf, Wdnal, Wood,
and Yeager—sl.
Foa SAMVBL BLACE —Messrs. Blackburn, i
Broha, Breslin, Clark*, Dnnn, Gibeoa, Hney,
Herdman, McGee, Shannon, Searight, Sam
eon, Taylor, (Braver,) aad Wayaod—l4.
After affecting tba uomlnalfoii of GoveHior,
tha ConvßMioft proceeded to the Domination
of a candidate far Supreme Judge. The bal
lots wet* taken which stood a* follows:
Ist Ballot. 3d Ballot.
Ellis Lewie, 48 76
Wm. Btrong, 36 47
Samuel Hepburn, 20 10
Scattering, 33
I The nominalicn waa made unanimous.
Tbe Convention proceeded fo bejlot for
I Cane! Cbmtttiaslooar with tbe following re
sult; twb billots having been taken: I
. .. Ist Ballot. 3d Ballot.
Nimrod Strickland. 6? i f
David Cowry, < 39 83
Josepbdarx, 18 *
Scattering, V. 30 1
All tbe oppoeing candidates withdrew Jheir
names before the rate wee announced; and
the Bomioatico waa made ananiaoas.
On motion of Mr. Cams the eomrattiira
tion relative to Judge Lewi* wes ordered to
be isad and printed in the proeMdiog 4f the
Convention aa follows:
PHILADELPHIA, February t9, lfS7.
3b Gideon J. WeetcoU, end others, Ddegatee
/mat Philadelphia to State Convention.
GENTLEMEN The uadetsigned, members
of the bar of eddies* yoe aa
delagefoo to tho which meets at
Harrisburg Mn the seeoad of March, to'nomi
nate a candidal* for the Supremo Bench, on
the expiration of Judge Lewi*' term. W*
with fo be understood as writing this letter
with no reference, direst or indirect, to party
poliltee, bat from a eeoM of duty to tha pub
lic aad tha cattM of lha administration of the
law ia which, u professional men, we are
deeply interested. We are desirous that
Judge Lewis should be renominated by his
polilioal friends. Btnoe he has been known
to a* as a Judge, be baa commanded respect
by his learning end ability, end conciliated
the regard of na ell by hit uniform conrtesy
and kiddneaa of deportment. "This is, we be
lie re, the unanimous sentiment of this bar.
Hi* nomination and election wilt giro general
satisfaction from these personal considera
tions alone.
But there are others of still greater import
which we take the liberty of snggestiog to
yon. Tho instability of an elective judiciary
can only be eorrecled by the proof that a re
election can always b* commended by good
conduct; and that tbe people will not change
their Judges merely for the sake of change.
In the ease of the first vacancy which occur
red by rotation on tka bench, the incumbent
was without dissent renominated, and with
out difficulty re-elected. This waa tbe case
of Jodge Black, whose original term was the
shortest, being bat for three years. Judge
Lewis's term of six year* ia now expiring,
end we shall be much gratified, if by hie po
litical friends at least the same role can apply
lo him.
, la thus addressing you, wa earnestly dis
claim any attontioa to intrude our counsel on
yon, or tbe Convention of which you are a
member. With tha party you represent,
soma of na have no oonoeotion. But a* cit
izens and lawyers, we feel we are doing an
aat of simple justice la a moat meritorious
public officer, by bringing this matter to your
view.
W* are with sincere respect,
B. Gerhard, G. M. Wharton,
Beej. H. Brewster, A. J. Fisher,
Theo. Cuylar, C. Ingersoll,
Constant Gnillou, James C. Vandyke,
Semoel Hr Parkin*, - St. Geo. T. Campbell,
R. P. Kane, J. F.Johnson,
S. C. Perkins, H. M. Phillips,
H. J. Williams, Henry Johnston,
A. V. Parsons, Francis Wharton,
Ed. Wain, J. A. Phillips,
F. C. Brightly, Geo. Jor.kin, Jr.,
P. M'Cali, H. C. Townsend,
F. Carroll Brewster, Wm. W. Juvenal,
John Fallon, S. Serrill,
W. L. Hirst, Thomas J. Diehl,
John Hamilton, Jr., Geo. Barton,
P. P. Morris, Chat. E. Lax,
Fred. C. Kreider, W. J. M'Elroy,
Jno. T. Montgomery. War.. Sergeant,
Geo. L. Ashmead, Henry M Dechert,
K. Ingersoll, ' Andrew Miller,
James R. Ludlow. Js*. Bayard,
J. Randall, W. Hey ward Deayton,
Wm. E. Lehman, William B. Reed,-
Eli K. Price, Geo. W. Biddle,
H. R Knease, Kd. E. Law,
Wm. S. Price, Wm. Henry Rawls,
Joseph A. Clay, J. A. Spencer,
Geo. Northrop, Horatio G.Janes,
N. B. Browne, M. Russell Tlsyer.
A motion *u mad* and Carried, feat when
the Convention adjourn it adjourn to meet
to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.
On moiioriof Mr. Bnckalew, the President
was authorized to appoint a State Commit
tee of at least one from eaoh Sensorial Dis
trict.
A committee was appointed to irform the
candidate* of their nomination. Adjourned.
SKCOMD nav'a raocKDixts.
The Convention re-assembled it 9 o'clock
thia morning, when Mr. Shannon from the
Committee appoioled to draft resolutions,
submitted the following:
Rtsolotd, That, as representatives of the
greet petty (bonded by Mr. Jefferton, we sa
lute onr political brethren of the other Stele*
with congrsteletions upon the suspicions sod
just result of the recent Presidential eleotion,
achieved bj onr united efforts.and sacrifices,
(with the eid of patroitio men heretofore at
tached to other political bodies,) and oaeee
sary, as we believe, to the honor and pros
perity ol bar Common country, and the con
tinuance amongst us of the blsesiega of good
government.
Rttoived, that the course of recent politi
cal ectiod In the American Union bee clearly
shown thh usefulness and necessity of oat
party; as a great conservative organization,
able to resist slid pdt down extreme sod im
practicable theories of government and social
order; to praietta the Constitutional com
pact between the States from loose and dan
garoae constructions, a* Well ae open viola
tion ; to bold la check the passions of the
codniry when dirieoted by local etoitement
Or other cause, against fundamental points of
our political system, end to preserve to ode
selvUs, arid te those that coins after as, toe
rich and invaluable legacy of free and
will-ordered institutions established by oat
fathers.
Heeokod, Tliet to the existence end effi
ciency of our ; petty, adherence to its rules
aad usages ie eaaea(ial,(end that right feeaon
[ and expo*io* BO prove that without eaoh ad
herence, division, dimeter and defeat are in
evitable; ell departures, therefore, from our
party law*, fo State or local action, em to be
dapreeemd and resisted as evidently fraught
with elomaeta of deager, injury and eventual
destruction.
Resolved, That on babatf of the Pennsylva
nia Democracry, in eddition to the re-affir
mance of our past principle* aod policy, we
announce at rules for oor future action, the
limitation of pnblio expenditures to mode
rate end necessary outlays; the sparing aad
careful grants of corporate Ipower; tbe enact
ment of laws in obedience to public opinion,
rather than in advance or in contempt of it;
occasional and prudent amendments of the
Constitution as experience may demonstrate
them to be necessary to tho welfare and
protection of tho people; tho encouragement
of virtue and intelligence ar the main sup
ports of oor political system ; tho rigid ac
countability of public serrantrj and the cul
tivation of juat aod amicable relations with
oor sister Stales, without subMrvioney to
tba paMions and policy of any of them, but
with a frank concession of the constitutional
and equal rights of each- Those aro grounds
npon which, as heretofore, wo propoM to
maintain the character of our Common
wealifc, aa a fro#, powerful and illuairiont
member of Ihe American Union.
Retained, That we recommend to the sup
port of tho people tba candidate* nominated
by this Convention as m*n of character and
axpwianea, well qualified for the poets lo
which they have been respectively named,
in the full assurance that if elected, tbey
will discharge their official duties with intel
ligence, fidelity and euec**s.
R etched, That we congratulate the Demo
•critic party and tba country upon the triom
phar.t election of James Buchanan and John
C. Breckinridge, to tbe Presidency and Vice
Presidency of the United States; and that in
view of tho whole political history of Mr.
Buchanan, rendered memorable by his steady
and patriotio adherence to tbo Constitution
and to the maxims of it* fathers, we, the isp
resenistive* of tho Demootatio party of the
Slate, in foil Cooveotion assembled, do most
confidently pledge lo our brethren of the
Union, a wise, conservative and constitu
tional administration of Ihe government, un
der the guidance of .the first Pennsylvania
President.
Resolved, That in the lata proceedings
which retailed in the election of Simon Cam
eron fo tbs United State* Senate, the opposi
tion to oor party openly and shamelessly ex
hibited their lack of high principles of honor,
their contempt for the known sentiments of
the people, and their utter disregard of Ihe
character of the Siafo ; and, together with the
three apostate* from our own party, by whose
Aid the result was accomplished, should be
everywhere denounced by all men ol virtue
and honor.
Mr. Cessna then moved to add the follow
ing which was adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of ihe Democrat
ic party of Peonaylvania are due and are
hereby tendered lo Col. John VV. Forney, for
the ability, energy and contaminate tact ex
hibited by him in the diictarge of Ihe duties
which devolved npon him in the late Presi
dential campaign as Chairman of our State
Gantral Committee, and although defeated by
tbe baaed treachery, he still occupies an em
inent position in the great heart of the Key
stone Democracy.
The reeolutions were adopted by acclama
mation.
General Packer was introduced to the Con
vention, and expressed hi* gra'efnlness for
the Honor extended to him by the nomina
tion, bnt ho believed that the party in making
it had looked not so much to the standard
bearer a* to the good old Democratic flag it
self. He referred to tho loading principle of
tho party, and pledged himself to maintain
tbam in tact, and to exert the beet of his
abilities ic the conduct of the campaign to
effeet success io such a manner ** would re
flect no dishonor on himself or the Democrat
ic party. His speech elicited the warmest
applause.
On motion tbe Convention adjourned tine
die.
DXATR PAINLESS.— It is nearly certain—
indeed as certain aa any thing chiefly spec
ulative can be—that in all deaths tho physi
cal suffering is small. Even whore invalids
experience the most excruciating agony
daring the progress of the disease, nature
cornea to their relief at the last hour, and
life goes out gently, like n candle in its
socket. Those who have witnessed death
beds most frequently—especially if they
have been intelligent persons, ami there
for# capable of judging—agree generally
in considering the physical pain of death.
as inconsiderable. They say that the con
vulsive motioaa, which frequently attend
the pawling breath, are not evidences of suf
fering, for that the invalid is insensible.—
They say also, that when the senses aro
retained, there fo usually no such spasm.—
A leading medical authority states that
scarcely one person in fifty fo sensible at
the point of death; and some physicians
aaaeitthat they have never seen a death
bed in vVhieh the patient was sensible. As
life faifo, estate, it would seem, beneficent
ly interposes, deadening lha sensibility of
tha nerves, and otherwise preparing tka in
dividmal for the great and inevitable change.
1 Philadelphia ledger.
DISEASE AND CBlMß.— Light is daily com
ing in upon tho world of mind, and by the
help of clearly established facts, arguments
may be adduced, which will have a stronger
tendency to compel men to take care of
their health, than any which have arisen
from conscience, money or duty; that is,
the argument of Shame. Let men fully un
derstand that certain bodily affections tend
to crime, and that crime thus committed
confines to the Penitentiary, then may the
community wnke up more fully to the sen
timent, Health it a Duty, and therefore, the
neglect of its preservation, a sin, which in
the natural progress of things, leads to loss
of health, and life, and honor.
In a recent trial ol a forger, who handled
millions of dollars in a year s business, the
defence was that he was insane. Among
the evidence offered was that he conld
sleep only three or four hours out of the
twenty-four. In a previous number we sta
ted, that a growing inability to sleep was a
clear indication of approaching insanity,
and on the return of Bleepfulness, the intel
lect became clear. There were other symp
toms. There was the sound of trip-ham
mers in his ears; blacksmith's sparks floated
before his eyes, and there was pain in the
head a large portion of the time. These 1
symptoms, lasting so long, had at length so
ailectqd the brain, as to destroy all percep
tion, or comprehension of the effects ol
crime; and when the organ of a man's
perception is destroyed, he will plunge
headlong, and with utter recklessness, into
any kind of wrong-doing which circuny
stances throw in this way—arson, robbery,
murder, anything; and, if not detected or
prevented, the crime, whatever it may bo,
will grow into a habit, and habit is second
nature; consequently, he will revel in it, it
becomes his meat and drink, and he would
rather do it than not. Hence the prisoner
declared without hesitation, that if he were
released ho would do it again; that he rath
er liked it, and nothing could prevent him
but catting off his hand, if it camo in the
way, to forge paper.
It was shown on the trial, that there was
insanity on the father's and mother's side ;
butfru indication of it on the part of either
fatherbr mother. It is well known howev
<jf, that insanity, as well as personal fea
tures, overleaps a generation or two. Often
a child bears a striking resemblance to a
grand-parent, without a lineament of paren
tal feature.
The acts of thg prisoner were admitted
by his counsel, and the question of guilt or
innocence, rested on this—was he insane
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The use which we wish to make of these
developments is practical, and is of high
importanco. A wise and stern medical
treatment would have deferred, if not pre
vented, the combination of events. And
how ?
The prisoner was under the habitual in
fluence of constipation, and an anodyne,
which intensified this constipation every
hour, while the principle of tho medical
practice in this case, was to let the bowels
take care of themselves—which they did
not do. This individual was never seen
by his business associates without a cigar
in his mouth; he smoked fifteen or twenty
a day. The iramedia'e effect of smoking
tobacco falls on tho brain, excites it; during
that excitement he could not sleep, and the
reaction went so low that he could not sleep;
only a troubled repose was possible during
the brief transition from one to the other.—
During the excitement, the brain ran riot
in the direction of the opportunity, and ex
pended its euergies in that direction, but
during the reaction, power was not left to
carry on the bodily functions..
The effect of constipation is to thicken
the blood, to make it more impure : hence
more unfit for healthful purposes. The
more impure the blood is, the thicker does
it become, the slower is its progress, and if
nothing is done to alter this state of things,
stagnation and deaih lake place. Stagnation
means accumulation, for the moment the
blood stops in any part of the body, the
coming current flowing in, causes an accu
mulation, precisely as in the closing of a
canal gate, or the damming up of a stream.
This accumulation in the blood vessel dis
tends them, causes them to occupy more
room than nature designed, consequently
they must encroach on their neighbors.—
The neighbors of the blood vessels are the
nerves; hence the nerves are pressed against;
that pressure gives what we call "pain/'—
As there are uerves everywhere, a point of
a needle cannot be placed against the sur
face of the body without some pain, which
shows the universality of nerve presence;
hence, we may have pain anywhere, and
will have pain if them js pressure. This
accounts lor the steady pain in the head.—
The excitement of the day sent the blood
to the brain too fast, the repose of the night
was too short to allow of its removal; be
sides the energies of the system had been
' overtaxed, and there was not power enough
left to remove a natural accumulation, let
alone the extraordinary
But there is alaw of our body, whereby
pressure from any cause not only gives pain,
but may destroy the part pressed against,
and consume it, by dissolving it into a gase
ous and fluid substance, which in this con-1
dition ie conveyed out of the body. A band
1 put around an arm of a foot in circuiufor
■ enoe, will, f tightened every day, in a time
1 not long, induce the circumference to six
■ inches. Constont preasufa cannot be ex
f erted against any portion of tho human
' body without impairing its structure, or
• causing its diminution and float destruction
Those arc principles of universal admission.
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[Two Dollars frer Anno*.
NUMBER 8.
They ore first troths in rned'cine. hrom
some ooknown cause, this accumulation
and pressure was determined to s particular
portion of tho brain, where fearlessness of
consequences are situated; and we believe,
if the prisoner's brain could be examined
this day, that portion ol' it, most probably
small in the beginning, would be found al
most wholly wanting, having been destroy -
ed by long continued pressure, or to be ol
abnormal structure.
We believe that a medical treatment,
which would have steruly interdicted the
use of the cigar materially at first, and grad
ually thereafter, until its final extinction,
together with securing a natural condition
of daily acting bowels, with, a plain and
substantial diet—and kept him there—would
have saved him and all ltisfrom the subse
quent calamities. Artificial excitements,
whether from tobacco, opiusn, .or aicobol,
if largely persevered in, will work ruin to
mind, body, and soul. Tt is right that it
should be so. Omnipotence hea ordained
it. If a man is in a physical condition
which impels him to do what is illegal, or
if he be in a mental condition which impels
him to do what is illegal, the question
whether he is to be punished or not do
pends upon the manner in which he bo
came subject to that condition. If such con
dition be the result of birth, or by a fail, or
stroke, or other occurrence out of his con
trol, he should go free,of penal suffering;
bnt if he placed himself til that condition
by the unbridled indclgsnce of his appe
tites or his passions, he ought to be made
to suffer a just penalty, whether he knew
that such indulgences "tended to such a re
sult or net. h a man's duty to inform
himself of physiological as well as civil
laws. Ignorance of tho former ought no)
to work ltis escape, any more than igno
rance of the latter does ; otherwise, a man
has only to get drunk to secure impunity
from any crime which may be committed
in that condition; thus all penal statutes
become a farce, and anarchy rides rampant
through the land.
So also, if a man perverts his moral sense,
and by a course of vicious reasoning per
suades himself that he ought to commit
■aonkv, mid think* of it so much as to feel
impelled to murder some one, he is prop
erly amenable to the law of the land.
It is no very difficult matter for ordinary
minds to pursuade themselves as to any
desired course—that it is right; that there
is no harm in it; and that, if they meant no
harm by it, no blame could be attached;
but, if for such flimsy considerations, men
are to be excused from penalties, there
is an end at once to all law and to all .gov
ernment.
The conclusion of the whole matter is
this. Every roan should be held responsi
ble for his deeds, unless they are clearly
proved to be the rosult of a physical, men
tal, or moral condition which he had nq
agency in originating, or exaggerating to
the criminal point. Hence the prisoner was
convicted.— Hatl'e Journal of Health•
STUDTING MEDICINE. — Vears are entertain
ed that the medical profession is becoming
over-stocked. Correspondents and conver
sational intercourse indicate that sentiment
to be on the increase. Hundreds or more
young gentlemen are annually graduated
doctors of third of whom, at
least, cannot find employment. tlVith the
best educational preparations, there may
be a deficiency of that essential element in
any department of industry, tact, which
will account for the poor success of somo
persons as medical practitioners.
Examples are abundant, of the thriving
business of individuals who have a peculiar
fower of adapting themselves to society,
ut whose professional attainments are not
of the highest order. A consciousness of
their ovyn limited knowlerUe prompts them
to redoubled energy, apd they generally
succeed admirably; while tjie very accom
plished medical scholar, relying upon liis
stock of scientific attainments, eaual to any
emergency, is over-looked by the people,
from whom a support was expected, be
cause they have no passion for patronizing
a man who appears from bis general bear
ing, to consider them as very inferior be
ings. .
A physician who cannot adapt himself to
the society whero he locates, cannot bo
come established. In doing this, no de
partures from the elevated standard of a
gentleman are required. A kindness of
manner, without servility, and a proper at
tention to those who may hav,e good hearts,
'honest aspirations, with rough exteriors,
win the way far more successfully than
haughty indifference, and marked deference
to a few leading families. Here lies tho
concealed rock on which the ship of hope
is foundered.
There are young physicians who meet
disappointment at every turn. They change
places without bettering themselves, be
cause the barrier to their success belongs
to an unfortunate mental organisation.—
Like Dr. Watts's description ol tho agonies
of sinners—"They cluuige place, but keep
the pain." .1 •
With erudite qualifications to meet all
the responsibilities of an arduous profession,
if there are no moral powers of adaption,
combined with an innate sympathy, or, in
other words, a pleasant show of every-day
humanity, it is useless to attempt practice.
This is not a country in which physicians
are permitted to dragoon patients into hav
ing a medical adviser against, their will
There are infinite shades of physicians, tho
representatives ol all.imaginable theories —
and the sick and their friends oxercise an
exclusive right of calling on whom they
please, and they cannot be pursnaded or
driven by argumeut from the exercise of
this prerogative.
For agreeabfej gentlemanly candidates for
raedioafenterprise, there is room—and there
always will be places for them, when the
population has been increased ten-fold be
yond the present census But those who
cannot bear with the weakness, the frail
ties. the misfortunes, or the bad grammar
of tne masses, and without hesitation show
their coutempt for those of the fraternity
less fortunate thad themselves in not having
been early in life schooled In the mysteries
of the toilet and the drawing room, cannot
sucoeed. Those of that forbidding temper
ament, Ought not 10 bave studied medicine.
They leave it, ultimately, in disgust, and
engage in other parsuits, in which they are
less exposed to just criticism. The other
classes are not so numerous as to stand in,
the way of each ether's prosperity.—Afrdi
col World.
i PaovsMsMa THE THOOBUTTOI,—A truly
> great "tan harrows go iustare from splendid
. anftftitry.
Among the base, merit begets envy,
' among the noble, emulation.
A bitter jest ie the poison of friendship.
Affected simplicity is refined imposturs