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DEN,OCBATIC STATE LGISISATIONS
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Os :7AYETTE COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
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ANDB.EW BURKE, Cityi
EAMIJEL McKSE, Mtn inghan,
LSECCOZT :
THOMAS DONNELLY, Oollina,
PHILIP STEVENSON, Moan,
JORN M. IRWIN, City,
ROBERT MORROW, Boss.
AUGUSTUS ILIRTJE, Allegheny
BARNES FORD, Lower St. Clair
PROTHONOTARY:
ALEXAUDE.B. W. BLACK, Sewickley
011I3LESIONlat
TIIOIIA6 PARLEY, Allegheny
00110 NEB:
WILLIAM ALEXANDER City
AUDITOR:
JOILN MURRAY, South kittsburgli,
DIBP.CTOB OP TIM PO
JOHN BOYLE, Indiana.
HON. WILLIAM WILKINS
A gentleman who returned from Home
wood, the residence of Judge Wilkins, into
last evening, brings us the gratifying intelli
gence that the attack of paralysis to which ho
was subjected was very slight, and that he
has recovered so as to be able to walk and
talk as well as usual. Ms physical energy is
restored, and he conversed for an hour with
his friends in his accustomed brilliant and
entertaining manner. A few days will com
plete his restoration. We are glad to be able
thus authoritatively to quiet the alarm which
his numerous friends experienced upon the
rumor of his illness.
THE "TRUE PRESS" CONVENTION,
Twenty-six Districts Represented
out of Sixty-one !
THOMAS WILLIAMS Nominated for
Congress in the 22d District.
ANOTHER REFUSAL TO ENDORSE
MR. BUCHANAN.
I.IIE ENTIRE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
XBIDOLISED AS THE ,BEST TICKET
111 THE FIELD.
DR. lIITANDLESS SWALLOWINU A
BITTER PILL 1
Jelin B. Kennedy, of flue True
Press, Engineers . Things.
The Great True Press Convention, got up
for the purpose of nominating Thomas Wil•
hams, Esq., for Representative in Congress
came off on Wednesday. There were -,bu
twenty-six districts out of sixty-one in -the
county, represented by delegates bearing cre
dentials, and it would puzzle a Philadelphia
lawyer to ascertain where some of those who
had credentials got them. The whole thing
was got up by the True Press, and we pre
sume that institution furnished credentials as
it did the other necessaries of the Convention.
It was a body without a constituency outside
the True Press, and to that concern the entire
credit of it belongs
John. B. Kennedy, of the True Press, nomi
nated the officers ; Thomas Williams, Esq., of
the True Press, made a speech in his usual
'inflated style, in which he touched upon a
great variety of themes, not neglecting to
speak of himself and what he had dove sev
eral times ; John B. Kennedy, of the True
Press, read the resolutions, and read them
badly, too, considering that he should be fa
miliar with the manuscript of Thomas Wil•
Hams, Esq., of the True Press, who wrote
them ; John B. Kennedy,-of the True Press,
moved that Thomas Williams, of the True
Press, be 'nominated for Congress in the
XXIId District, and that the Convention
adopt the entire Democratic ticket ; John B. I
Kennedy, of the True Press, backed out of
his motion when he could readily have car
ried it if he had
_had the nerve, and thus
saved himself the trouble of dodging upon
the subsequent votes; John B. Kennedy,
Esq., of the True Press, admitted that the
Democratic party had,stolen all the thunder,
and the only way to save Thomas Williams
from utter political perdition was to place
him on the Democratic ticket as a compli
ment, well knowing that the Democracy of
the XXTId District grant the nomination to
Butler county. Thomas Williams, of the
Truo Press, wrote a letter to the Convention,
in which the great ability, usefulness and in
fluence of Thomas Williams were spoken of
in terms of elegantly modest laudation, like
Smith's cream ale, drawn mild. John B. Ken
nedy, of the True Press, proposed a resolution
declaring that the True Press was the True
Press and "nothing else ;" in fact, the True
Press imagined this convention,-- - ealled this
convention,—manufactured the delegates for
this Convention,—furnished the Chief Engi
neer of this Convention and carried through
this Convention for the great, high, magnani
mous and most patriotic purpose of nomina
ting ThomaS Williams of the True Press for
Congress, in the XXIId District, in which he
has about as much chance of election as the
fallen Star of the Morning has of being re
instated in the Celestial regions. The peo
ple were unrepresented in this convention.
To the True Press belongs all the glory.
There were a few who had been misled by
the True Press into the belief that the Con
vention meant to do something besides nomi
nate Thomas Williams and glorify his name,
They found their mistake. Mr. John Riddle,
a worthy yeoman from Robinson township,
Dr. A. 0. M'Candless, of the Sixth ward, Mr.
William Chambers, of Allegheny City, and a
few others, attempted to do something else
besides nominate Thomas Williams of the
True Press, but they found that they were of
no account, and did'nt understand the True
Press programme.
But to the proceedings of the Convention.
At 11 o'clock Robert Arthurs, Esti, was called
to the chair.
John B. Kennedy, nominated Edward Camp
bell of the Third ward, and Stephen Mercer, o f
Allegheny, as secretaries.
John Riddle, of Robinson, Vice President.
The names of the delegates were called over
and the following districts were represented.
PITTSBURGH.
First ward—James Crawford,
N. James hrßee.
Beeond ward—John C. Parry, Woods.
Third ward—Edward Campbell, Thomas B. Ham
ilton.
Fifth ward—lst precinct--John Leech.
reeinct—John R. Wilson, John
Fifth Ward-2d p
Ti. Jones.
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Sixth ward—Dr. A. G. rd'Candloss, J. C. Caul
mins.
Seventh ward—Thomas Holt, A. B. Arthurs.
Eighth ward—James Young, George Doary.
ALLEGEENT.
First ward—Stophen Mercer, John Siddons.
Socond ward—Wm. Chambers, John Gardner.
cliaird ward—Jacob Hookley, George Miller.
Fourth ward—Andrew Robinson, Thomas Brown
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West Pittsburgh—Henry Brovn. J. W. Williams.
MoKcesport—Dr. Hill, P. Marsh.
Lawrenceville—R. L. Ewalt, M. Wen'lough.
Sewickley—E. S. Anderson, A. Barns.
Manchestor—John B. Kennedy, E. Robinson.
TOWARIIIPS.
Finley—A. D. Burns, Wm. Irwin.
Robinson—John B.iddlo, Wm. Akin.
Chorteors—David Robinson, Andrew M'Caztacy.
En.w.Ttioz —LI. Wad.worth, James Means
P,;-Idwic—Dr. J. H. O'Brien. Wm. Moore.
Jefferson—Wm. Mcßoberts, Thomas M'llhenny.
Mitlin—L. 13. Pattcrs..m.
Versailles—Thomas Jones, Richey Harrison.
Moon—John Graham, Aaron Smith.
Upper St. Clair—John Fite.
Lower SL Clair—Charles King, Wm. Beltzhover.
Patton—John Morrison, S. M. Brinton.
Plum—M. S. Duffield, A. Jack.
Peebles-Ist precinct—J. C. Richey ; .2d precinct,
John B. Piper, W. H. Campbell.
Pitt—B. Arthur, A. Brackinridge.
Sewickley—Thomas Wagner, James M'Clelland.
Roes—A. Campbell, John M'Knight.
M'Candless—W. Peebles, Alex. Paine.
Indiana—Thomas S. Hart, James S. Robinson.
East Deer—Joseph Crawford, Robt. Hare.
Fawn—John Hoon, Thomas Harmon.
Franklin—A. Borland, James Harrison.
DISTRICTS UNREPRESENTED.
Fourth Ward, Pittsburgh, Elizabeth,
Elisabeth, North Fayette,
Mohongahela, South Fayette,
Birmingham, 'Neville,
East Birmingham, Ohio,
Duquesne, I Pine,
Sharpsburg, West Deer,
M'Keesport, I Shaler,
South Pittsburgh, (Collins,
West Elizabeth, Penn,
Tarentum,
Wilkins,
A Committee wan then appointed, consisting of
Alex. Campbell, Ross, S. Mercer, Alleghoy, D
Robinson, Chartiers, J. B. Kennedy, of the True
Press, J. Means, Snowden,to select permanent offi
cers for the Convention. During their absence
Mr Thomas Williams' was requested to address
the meeting.
Mr_ Williams took the floor and " spread himself "
for a grand and glorious laudation of Thomas Wil
liams, and his services to the people. He remarked
that he had not felt troll In the morning, and had
not entered the Convention with any expectation of
being called upon to Address the delegates. Ho bad,
however, been somewhat of st politician in his time,
and had learned to bow in deferenee to the wishes of
the people.—And here he shook himself like a young
lion preparing to roar.
This was a different sort of a Convention from
those that had hitherto been accustomed to assemble
in the Court House. They had mot to distribute of
flees among ravenous and hungry seekers of place ;
but this Convention had met to look after tho inter
ests of the people. He had been considered the
arch leader of this rebellion, as might be ascertained
by reference to any of the papers of this city, and so
considered It might be proper that he should sp".ak
upon the question which celled the Convention to-
gethor.
The Republican party had ceased to exist in this
county as a distinct organisation. It styled itself cr
its elements simply as an opposition to a corrupt
Administration, and having such a basis, would
cease to exist altogether with the expiration of the
Administration of James Buchanan. In using the
term Republican he did not limit it to its party sig
nification, but to its true sense. Well, the delegates
of the Republican party came here last year, and
among them were men who thought it time to look
after the affairs of the peop'e of this county. They
fOund a tax imposed upon them without their knowl
edge or consent. He took a groat interest In the sue
cogs of that party, as his provious efforts in its be
half would show. But that Convention. refused to
accept the advice of those who looked after the inter
ests of the people ; they spurned it ; they put men
- in nomination who wore the leaders of the Railroad
party, and among them mon known only as the edi
tors of newspapers, to upturn the securities of prop
erty. The speaker could not act with nor support
these mon. He and others had said that the Railroad
Tax should bo taken off; it was their wish.
The Democratic party did not respond to this wish,
but the leaders and presses of the party opposed the
efforts of the rank and tile; they gave no aid or com
fort to the reactance to the Railroad taxation. The
party, however, pledged themselves to oppose the
levy of the tax, and they did so; they elected a com
missioner, and saved the county ! (Cheers.) Had
hat tax been paid, there would now be levied anoth.
er of ten mills, and instead of any vacancies in this
convention to-day, every district would be repro-
sented.
He had been accused of seeking to advance his
own political ends by his course; he denied it; ho
could have had office, bad he chosen to accept it at
the hands of the 'elides of the Railroad party, but be
would spurn the highest office in the gift of the na
tion under any each conditions. He had certain
rights bequeathed to him, the right for which our
forefathers contended, which were baptized in - blood
at Bunker Hill and at Yorktown, which ho would
and should defend.
Ho then proceeded to pitch into the Gazette, which,
as the organ of the Republican party, he accused of
all sorts of derelictions of duty to the people, and es
pecially to one of the people named Thomas
Wil
liams.
Ile said that last year that paper had told the I
people that the tax mast be paid, and yet two days
ago it had told the people of Philadelphia, in reply
to an article in the Ledger, that there was no party
in this county which favored the payment of a Rail,
road tax, but that if the Supreme Ociart would give a
decision in favor of the tax, the people would pay it.
Bat the Commissioners were advised to go into
the Supr.eme Court with this matter, and they did so,
and before that tribunal was now pending a question
more important to the people than any issue raised
since the days of John Hampden—aed that was
about two hundred years ago. The Commissioner:
had selected the Speaker to defend the interests of
the county and city; there bad been some difficulty
about the city. He had been asked what fee he
would require for its defense. He was a poor man,
but he would not Niggle about terms, and if the peo
ple could not afford to pay, he could afford to work
for nothing. (Cheers.) He did not say that his bill
would not be a big one, but left the question of its
payment open and dependent upon the ability of the
people to pay it. (Ahem.)
Two of the Commissioners entered into the work.
One of thorn, Mr. Perkins—a good fellow enough,
against whom he had nothing personally to say—re
fused to join in your defense. He represents the
Railroad press and leaders in the Commissioners'
office. When the notice was served on the Commis
sioners to appear in Harrisburg before the Supreme
Court to answer a writ of mandamus, Mr. Perkins
refused to appear, and as a consequence of the refu
sal, a writ of peremptory mandamus was to be an.
geed before the Supreme Court in this city after
tho election. Tho railroad press sanctioned his
course, or were at least silent as to it, and it was
endorsed by a resolution of the late Republican Con
vention.
Mr. Williams had something to say about that
Convention. A delegate from the country had come
to him prior to its meeting, and desired that mein-
Hoag upon this question of railroad taxation should
be presented. He had prepared such resolutions and
they were handed to the President, with a letter.
They were smothered in the pocket of the Railroad
President, and not only his, but several others to
the same purport, were smothered in that pocket.
He compared that pocket to a certain vale men ,
tioned by Milton, in which whole armies were swal
lowed up.
At this point, Mr. J. B. Kennedy announced a
Committee from the other Convention, and Mr.
Williams ceased speaking.
Capt. Ward from the Peoples' Convention, an
nounced that a Committee had been appointed
in that body to confer with a similar Commit tee
of this Convention, and a motion was made to
appoint such a committee which was adopted and
the chair appointed Messrs. Wm. Chambers, J.
W. Bansman, Thomas Jones, John Morrison,
and Stephen Mercer, as this Committee.
Mr. Williams then resumed his remarks. He
said that he was about remarking that the railroad
press of this city was now trying to chop round on
the tax question. Therhad followed the dictates of
their masters, but had not a word of defense for the
interests of the people.
When, on a recent occasion, the spanker want to
Harrisburg to plead the cause of the people, why
was he not allowed to do it quietly 7 Why was ho
not let alone? The Gazette, which, on the day pro ,
vious to his going, had charged him with accusing
the Supreme Court of being bribed, See. Who was
on the cars and went with him to the Capital ? The
editor of the Gazette, with his pockets stuffed full of
the very papers containing the charge, copies of
which dauntless were placed in the hands of every
Judge upon the bench.
Thus admitting his belief in the power of the
Pr . e.ss as more potent than tho breath of Thomas
Williams, he assailed the Gazette in a most ravenous
manner. If the " Old Bellicose" comes out as usual
this morning, we shall hereafter have no faith in the
fierce denunciations and ravings of the candidate for
Congress in the XXIId District.
Mr. Williams then laid himself out upon the Die.
patch, one of whose editors, being upon the Repub
lican ticket, he charged with divers malfeasances in
a political point of view. This editor, he said, pro.
fussed . to be a tariff man, yet conveniently managed
t p o a.r r t e n ti e r r e t f o rom the editorial chair, and and allows his
its ke
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t e h e e ted pi w sp it a h " th ,
rather ambiguous) with placing to
hiThomas Williams, an article
charging the Supreme Judges with
baring their . pockets stuffed with railroad bonds.
Thomas Williams never saw that article till printed
—he was three hundred miles away at the time it
appeared—he would not have written it, and had it
been shown him, would not have advised its publics.
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tion. It was physically impossible for hlm to have
either written it or known anything concerning It.
But for himself ho did not ears for those attacks. It
was the cause of the people which these editors wore
striking at through him—the people's advocate. All
those things were designed to weaken his influence
with the Supremo Court, whore ho was employed to
defend tho penile's rights.
Mr. Williams referred to his argument at Harris
burg; it might not bo proper for him to speak of its
merits ;it v •nBicient to say that he was satisfied
with it. The Philadelphia papers mentioned that
Mr. Mer-Aith'e speech was full of sublime morality,
etc.. and that Mr. Williams ranted a little about hu-
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man rights, and all that. Tho speaker intimated
that the press dare not report the speeches as they
fell from the lips of the counsel, and cited an anec
dote in illustr.ttion thereof, oven at the risk of being
egotistical. He had wet a gentleman connected with
the Philadelphia press, who spoke favorably of his
(W.'s) speech. The speaker asked him why ho did
not report it in full ; he (W.) would like to have soon
it in print.. The gentleman replied that there was
not a paper in that city that dare report the speech
in full, because the speaker's ideas of liberty, the
rights of property, oto., would raise the devil in Phil
adelphia as successfully as they had done in Pitts
burgh, were they aired in the city papers.
Mr. Williams wanted to know if there was any one
who had read a line In any of our city papers in de
fence of the people and their cause in this matter?
Ho would like to know if such a line or word had up
peered in any of them. Had they ever told the peo
ple about this indebtedness, how it had accrued, /to.
Had they advanced a line of argument concerning
it? No ! For throe months past they had been tilled
with billingsgate and invective concerning him—
Thomas Williams, But ho could stand it. It was
an old proverb that if you want to find the best tree
in an °tbard seleet the ono round which you see
the most clubs lying. If these papers can make any
thing out of him they wore welcome to It. It was
another old proverb that ho whom the gods would
destroy they first make mad, and ho saw it in the
coarse of these papers. Their contortions were the
spasms of the serpent dying in the embrace of the
people. He must die ; there was no salvation for it.
They were digging their graves faster than any sex
ton could do it for them in Pittsburgh. When they
d.e, then we shall begin to livo.
Mr.:Williams referred to John Hampden;again—he
did the same thing in his speech a year ago. John
Hampden resisted the levy of a tax—precisely the
speaker's case. Tho tax•gethers thought to break
the neck of the arch agitator at a blow. How did I
answer them ? I told them that they might sell my
property, If they pleased; I was not a slave and
would not pay the tax. How did they do with
Hampden ? The judges decided against him. Lord
Clarendon says that when the court ruled by a logic
that left nothing to a man that he could call his own
with sincerity, the people took sides with Hampden ;
the House of Commons reviewed the decision of the
court. That decision cost Charles I. his head and
made Hampden immortal.
[By parity of reasoning we suppose somebody's
head will have to ho cut off to render Thomas
Williams Immortal.]
Mr. Williams then entered upon a discussion of
the rights of property ; how it was acquired ; how
sacred it was, to., Ac., but as these subjects are prat
ty well understood, and, as he advanced no new
ideas beyond what are to be found in the horn books
of political economy, we decline to follow him.
Mr. Williams contended that the tax imposed for
railroad purposes was destined not to take part of a
man's property for the support of Government, but
the whole of it for private or corporate uses. One
third of the property in this city had been so taken.
And the greedy agents of this corrupt influence had
gone to Harrisburgh to get more. He, the speaker,
and, 1 - . , con instrumental in defeating one such attempt,
and when that was lefeated, the value of securities
ran down rapidly ; they woo sol;i by tho quart
measure. What these railroad leaders wanted was
to keep ub the securities, by additional legislative
bolstering, and bad they succeeded, they would have
completely swamped the country—thus using the
taxing power to the en , ire destrwtion of property.
Mr. Williams had met a bond holder in Philadel
phia who confessed that his ideas on this subject
chimed with those of the speaker ; but he was a largo
holder of bonds, and would use influence to secure
their payment. This bond holder had told him
that ho did not know whether his (W's) life would
have been safe on Third street, Philadelphia, about
last election time. Mr. Williams desired to have a
hearing in ;.. ) hiladelphia, and address the masses, but
the bond holder objected because be would put the
devil into the people there as he had done in Pitts
tAirgh.
Thera was another remedy than resistance to the
law in this matter of taxation. Judge Black states
that the right of property was as sacred as the right
to life. In a savage state a man would be justified
in defending it oven to the taking of life. But here
the protection of property is a power lodged in socie
ty ; when society fails to protect it, the remedy is in
the ballot boa. Through it, the people must roform
the judiciary, the legislature, and laying down the
rule to vote for uo man who holds that the property
of the people can be taken for any such purposes as
railroad taxation must act up to it. This will bring
things right and re-invigorate the great principle of
the Revolution.
There are twenty counties in the State in the same
boutiwith ourselves. But the question has not boon
brought before them in a proper form. The laws are
so framed that they have not tho poor privilege of
resistance.
Mr. Williams oontinuod that if the Legislature
found it to the public Interests to authorise County
Commissioners to borrow four or five million dollars,
they would do it. Ho—Thomas Williams—had told
the Commissioners long ago that the money subscri.
bed would bo thrpwn away, and now the papers ad•
vised the laborers to pay the taxes, as the velno of
tho;r pr-per.y wnuld be enhanced.
Mr. NV Allem. predicted that when the tax gather
ers come around, levying on the property of tho peo
ple, the people will move in their might—the cloud
no bl3ge; than a man's hand now, will cover the hor
izon, and then the railroad papers will succumb :
there will not be ono of them that will be found to
say it ever countenanced the levy of the tax.
After M.. Williams had _eon eluded, the Com
mittee on permanent organization reported the
following off!.cors of the Convention:
President—Robert Arthurs, Pitt Township.
Vice Presidentit—John Riddle, Michael
lough, T. S. Hart, Alex. D, Burns, S. M. Brin
ton, Thomas Brown, J. C. Cummins.
Secretaris3—E. Campbell, Andrew L Robin
son and Thos. Wagoner.
The Committee of conference then reported
that they proposed to unite the Conventions "up
on the Anti Tax basis" alone.
After some discussion relative to the " ming
ling of incongruous elements " which composed
the two Conventions, the motion to admit the
Peoples' Convention was put and decided in the
negative.
yeae end nays was oalled for and the An
ti-Tax Convention, refused to admit the Peoples'
Convention by a vote of ayes 13, noes 43.
The convention then adjournedtill two o'clock,
a motion having drat bee❑ made to appoint a
Committee of ten on resolutions, who are as
follows :—Davil Robinson, J. B. Kennedy, Hen
ry Brown, Thomas Jones, M. McCullough, Ste
phen Mercer, S. M. Brinton, E. Campbell, Alex.
Payne and Alex" Boyd.
AFTEUBOON tiEBdION
Mr. J. B. Kennedy, of the committee on Tiles
olntions, reported' the following:
Resolved, That in the judgment of this Con
vention, comprised of the Tax-payers of this
county, assembled without distinction of party,
there is no question to be compared in interest
with that of the eminently domestic one of Tax
ation for railroad purposes.
That this question, involving, as it does, the
very existence of property, and with it, of tie
social state itself, is touching the vital interests
of great communities, is eminently political and
fundamental in its character, and immeasurably
greater than any other which now engages, or
has over engaged, the attention of any of tho
political parties of this nation, and is therefore
entitled to precedence ever every other.
That while we are always willing to contribute
our reasonable proportion in taxes toward the
support of government, local as well as general,
we hold that the seizure of the property of one or
more communities, under the guise of taxation
for the purpose of building railroads throughout
the State, is not tazation, but robbery, and can
be justified only as it has been, by a login which
leaves no man anything which ho can call his
own.
That one of the great leading objects of all gov
ernments is the protection of the property of the
eitizen,—that the taxes which he pays are but
the price of the protection which he enjoys,—
and that to withdraw that protection by depriv
ing him of his property under any protpnce
whatever, is in effect to revolutionize the govern
ment and to break the tie of allegiance on the
part of the citizen.
That in the language of the late Chief Justice
Black, " the right of property .s as sacred as
that of life," and might, like it, by the great
law of nature, which is God's own law, be de
fended by the owner at the peril of the life of
the aggressor, if the society in which he lived
had left him without any legal or constitutional
defense.
That there is, however, a legitimate and con
stitutional remedy for aggressions such as these,
in the Ballot Box, which has been wisely re.
served as the Freeman's defence, and the quiet
and peaoefal alternative for rev elution.
That while we would always endeavor to cher
ish the highest respect for the tribunal of justice
and do not by any means, despair of their return
to a sense of our our just rights under the Con•
s i ta t i
againsto n, e p aie
r o t eds
doctrine
e tmostrinee
thatarn e earnestly
are to be con
t and emphat
ically
eluded upon a great fundamental and political
question, like that of the seizure and confisca
tion of the properly of a half a million of peo-
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ple without any fault of their own by the &cis-
BiOn of any Court, ns essentially slavish and
Anti. Republican, as it is at manifes.t variance
with the great dardinal principles of public
liberty, consecrated by the succossfulstruggles
of our ancestors two hundred years ego.'
That while we would altogether . depreolge
any resistance to the decisions,Of any of our
Courts, as itielf distructlie of that, social order
which, it is above all things our desire' to pre
serve, by maintaining inviolate, all the, securi
ties of prosperity, wo recognize to its full extent,
the legitimacy of a resort in all extremities to
the bowel of public opinion and the apprecia
tion of our great remedy, the Ballot. Box, in
every form that it can be brought to bear upon
so great a question as this, for the purpose of
correcting the errors of the Courts and bring
ing them back to a full recognition of our rights
under the Consti ution and behind it.
That to effect thin object, therofore, we will
vote for no man for office of any description,
who holds the opinion that the property of the
citizens is either at the mercy of the Legislature,
or of their appointees, whether they be Grand
Juries, Commissioners or Councils, cr may be
seized for railroad purposes—or who will in :lily
way lend hie aid or give his counlisavacii
seizure
'Ma we iteeounce it as utterly Wee that, the
freeholders of this county, or any considerable
proportion of them, have either directly or indi
rectly given their consent, or were ever even
consulted in regard to any by which their prop
orty is claimed to have been mortgaged for pur
poses entirely alien to the administration of the
local affairs of this county; or that the result
has been attended with any other effect than an
impediment to our growth, and a very manifest
general decline in the value o£ our property.
That the refusal of the late Convention of the
opponents of the present administration to pass
upon the greatest of all questions, in connection
with others arising out of the inordinate chime
and formidable powers of railroad corporations—
its condemnation of the conduct and policy of
the present majority of the Board of County Com
missioners, and its implied apprcval e by direct
exoneration from censure of the course of the mi
nority member of the same board, in pro te-tiug
against the revocation of the railroad tax, and
refusing to unite in the defense of the people in
any of the suits which have been instituted
against them—and its nomination of railroad
officers, who are personally active in the imposi
tion and advocacy of that tax, are conclusive evi
dence, if all others were wanting, that it did not
represent the wishes or interests of the people,
or even of the porty for which it professes to
speak and that those interests could not be safe
ly entrusted to its hands.
That the awkward attempt to patch tip and
remedy some of the more palpable errors and
omissions of that Convention by the mg:gement
of their committee, through the editor of the
Pittsburgh Gazette, that we shall be allowed the
humble privilege of defending ourselves, and
that we shall not ba taxed by them until the
Supreme Court shall have so determined, in con
sideration that we shall give our votes to the
ticket which it had previously nominated on
other highly objectionable grounds is an insult
to the common sense of the Tax payers of this
county.
That the whole cows° of the party press of
this city in regard to the great question now de
pending against us—its coarse and licentious
abuse of every private citizen who has in any
way rendered himself conspicuous in the exer
cise of his own rights, and the defense of the
property of the people, and its bold, unblushing
attempts to prejudice their cause by endeavor
ing to create a prejudice against their mimes--
with its entire suppression throughout of all the
facts and frauds connected with these euormous
railroad swindles, and its failure ou any one oc
casion to lift up its voice in defense of the peo
ple, are evidence that if it has not other masters,
its sympathies at least are far removed from the
people, and admonish us all of the danger of lis
tening to its counsels in regard to any question
which concerns the interests of these communi
ties.
That the present majority of the Board c,
County Commissioners, iuttoad of deserving the
censures of the people, is entitled to our warmest
thanks for having, in obedience to the wishes of
the hot oonvention of the tax payers of this
county, revoked the railroad tax, extinguished
npwards of three-quarters of a million of dollars
of our erroneous railroad debt, by redeeming
and cancelling that amount of bonds issued by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
That the present County Auditors are deserv
ing of the severest censure for having passed or
allowed a large amount of payments made on
illegal warrants drawn by the previous Board of
Commissioners for railroad purposes, and have
most fully attested the influences which are pre
vailing around us, ~ rl the dangers of trusting
our interests to the men who have been govern
ing this county, by trusting the revoked tax as
an outstanding debt, and thereby endorsing the
motion which was so industrieuely urged before
the last election by the puree 3 and advocates of
the bondholders, that it oculd not be legally re
voked at all.
That we condemn the pretended eel° of tho
residue of the public works to the Sunbury and
Erie Railroad Company—an insolvent corpora
tion—as a gross fraud upon the lax payers of
this diate, transferring, in effect, the whole is
maining property of this State to the city of
Philadelphia, and brought about through rail
road influences, and by the agency of Philadel
phia voters.
That we deprecate the threatened repeal of
the tonnage tax upon the Pennsylvania Railroad
as another trend upon the public treasury and
upon the interests of the tax payers, of much
greater magnitude, and to be Effected if the peo
ple are not watchful, by the same illegitimate
means for the benefit of the city of Philadelphia
as the owner of that road, and do protest most
solemnly against it, without regard to the ques
tion whether that company shall persist in the
injurious system of discrimination egainst our
Interests or not.
That to prevent the consummation of the
grand scheme of integrity, and by way of hold
ing in cheek the enormous power which is now
ruling this State, controlling our Legislature and
presses, and threatening to find its way even into
our judicial tribunals, we shall insist on the pas
sage of a law to put an end to the nefarious
traffic in free tickets to members of the Legisla
ture, judges, newspaper editors, and all persons
in public authority, by making the offer or ac
ceptance of such tickets a high misdemeanor,
and punishable in the most exemplary manner.
'That to this end we shall Insist also on an in.
quiry, at the next session of the Legislature, as
to the number of free tickets so issued by the
Pa. R. R. Co., the names of the persons to whom
the same had been given, and the number of
miles actually travelled thereon.
Tbat we will vote for no man for any of the
offices above enumerated who will not pledge
himself not to accept any such ticket so long as
he remains in office, and to famish support to
such legislation as will put a stop to this most
insidious and dangerous public bribery.
That we deprecate extravagance and high taxa
tion es a consequence thereof In every department
of our local as well as general administration, for
the reason that it impairs the value of the freehold
and greatly retards the growth and prosperity of the
county by inducing the opinion that property is in•
secure in these communities.
That we do entirely and heartily approve of the
course of the majority of the County Commissioners
in refusing to give their countenauee tsihe execu
tion of the act of the last Legislature, authorizing
too determination of the high and low water marks
in the immediate vicinity of these cities, and charg
ing the expense thereof to the county, the same in
no win concerning the interests of the general
public, and being only another of the many oppres
sive laws which have boon obtained within the last
.ew years at the instance of private parties only,
and without the knowledge or consent of the people.
That, regarding ..he salary anaexed by law to
the office of Member of the Legislature as am
ply sufficient, we cannot but condemn the ad
dition of two hundred dollars made thereto at
the close of the late session of the Legislature,
as a violation of the spirit of the Constitution
and their contract with the people, and of the
pernicious exami,le to succeeding Legislatures.
That a standing committee of jive members he
appointed by the officers of this Convention,
whose duty it shall be, among other things, to
ascertain whether the candidates selected by
this Convention are willing to subscribe to the
principles this day announced, and in case of
the refusal of any of the said candidates to con
form thereto, then to supply his or their place
with such person or persons as the said commit
tee shall deem best in order to represent the
wishes and opinions of this Convention.
The report of the Committee was unanimously
accepted, and the roolntions adordcii.
Mr. Ketincdy then moved that this Cenven
tiou adopt by acclamation the following ticket.
Congress Twenty First District--Andrew Burke.
Congress, Twenty Second District—Thomas
Williams.
Senate—Samuel
Assembly—Thomas Donnelly, Philip Steven
elision, John M. Irwin, Robert Morrow, Augustus
Hartje.
Sheriff—Barnes Ford.
Prothonotary—Alex. W. Black.
Commiesianzr—Thomas Farley.
Coroner—William Alexander.
Auditor—John Murray.
Director of Poor. John Boyle.
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At this point of the proceedings, Mr. E. Camp
bell, Jr. interrupted Mr. Kennedy In order to
ma a long and characteristic letter from Thom
as Williams, Esq.
Mr. Wm. Chambers did not like to proceed in
bid wholesale manner.
Dr. A. G. McCandless thought this Was cool.
It had been said that this Convention had been
called to ratify the Democratic ticket, and he
confessed this looked like It. He thought the
ticket should be composed of sound anti
tax men from both parties. Ho did not like to
"swallow the whole pilL"
Mr. Kennedy said the Democratic Convention
had stolen the anti-tax platform, and it was no
more than fair that wo should steal their ticket.
He hoped the ticket would be adopted and it
would be elected.
Mr. Chambers hold the Democratic party re
sponsible for all the Railroad subscriptions in
this Commonwealth. He thought there was
nothing to expect from the Democratic ticket.
John Riddle, of Robinson, came here instruct;
ed to steer clear of all parties, and he was
bound to obey his instructions. If this resolu
tion vras adopted, he was turned out of the Con
vention, and he could not vote
A motion was made to lay the proposition of
Mr. Kennedy upon the table, which was decided
in the negative, after whioh Mr. Kennedy with
the remark that he thought there was more una
nimity in the Convention,withdrew his motion,and
on motion of Dr. M'Candless, the Convention
proceed to nominate for each office,: viva voce.
On motion, Henry Busha of the Fifth Ward,
and William Hamil of the Third Ward,Allegheny,
were. admitted as delegates.
Dr. M'Candiess made a motion to admit D. B.
Evans, of the 'Fourth Ward, Pittsburgh, which
WWI lost.
Mr. Chambers said there were some seventy
delegates here, and credentials from but twenty
six districts. He moved to exclude allwho had
❑o creaentiale
The Chair ruled it out of order.
Dr. M'Candless appealed, stating names had
been added to the list, perhaps for the purpose
of endorsing a certain ticket, of men who were
never chosen to this Convention.
E. Campbell, one of the Secretaries, thought
it too late to talk about this. The delegates had
handed in their credentials before the adjourn.
ment, and they might be lost now. He protested
against this course of proceeding, whereupon
Dr. M'Cauciless withdrew his appeal.
A motion to allow an delegate who alone rep'
resented a district to vote twice, was voted down.
Dr. M'Candless nominated Mr. Parley for Com
missioner, which was unanimously endorsed by
the Convention.
A motion to nominate Thomas Williams for
Congress in the 221 District, by acclamation, was
agreed to
A motion to nominate Andrew Burke in the
st distriot, was also agreed to—with two or
rte dionting voioes.
A vote was then taken for Sheriff, resulting as
Whole vote
11art1.421 yore, Democrat, 85
Matthew Harbison, Democrat, 14
James L. Graham, Republican, 16
"'whereupon Barnes Ford, the Democratic can
didato, was declared nominated.
For Prothonotary, the result was :
Whole vote 66
Dr. A. W. Black, Demccrat,
Daniel Armstrong, Republican,....., 16
Mr. Chambers declined voting, on Prothono
tary, not inclined (he remarked) to proceed fur
thor with the farce.
For Senate Dr. M'Candless nominated Jno. P.
Penny, remarking it was scarcely necessary—as
the whole thing was evidently Bottled. The vote
(after the remark) stood :
IPliolo vole
Patnuol M'Kee, Derr
John P. Donny, Itop
For Assembly the Democratic ticket was put
in nomination, and tho Republicans declining to
nominate, were put in nomination wiout oppo-
For Coroner the vote stood
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Altixiinder, Dein
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Alex. Pique, of 51'CAndlees, Rep
Mr. A. 1). Burns, of Finley, declined to vote
Dr. M'Candless moved Lenox Rea be nomina
ted. Mr. Kennedy moved to amend by substitn
ting Wm. Alexander, the Democratic candidate.
It was objected that this was not "according
to Democratic usages."
Both motions were voted down, and another
ballot was taken for Coroner, resulting as fol
lows, Mr. Bostwick's name having been with
drawn •
Whoie vot^
Wm. Aloxander, Dom
Lenox Rea, Dzm
For Director of the Poor, John Boyle was
nominated
Mr. Wm. Chambers, of Allegheny City, offered
ho following
Resolved, "That we heartily approve the entire
policy of Mr. Buohanan's administration worthy
of the confidence and support of the Democratic
party," which was lost.
A resolution was adopted requesting Commis
sioner Perkins to resign, and pledging the Con
vention to collect money enough to pay his sal
ary for the remaining year of his term, was
adopted.
The Convention then adjourned sine die, hav
ing accomplished the purpose for which it was
gotten up, via : endorsed the True Press, and
nominated Thomas Williams, Esq., for Congress,
In the X XLId District. The endorsement of the
entire Democratic ticket was a matter of course.
The ticket is a good one, and approved by the
people, and the endorsement of a Convention
like this without a constituency, amounts to
nothing. We can't object to it. The Democra
cy will " hoe its own row."
Before the Convention adjourned, the follow
ing resolutions were unanimously agreed to by
the lobby members and ordered to be published
with the proceedings, as agreeing perfectly in
sentiment with those which had been adopted in
the True Press office, for the use of the Conven
(ion :
Whereas, A great " whilabaloo" has been
kept up brother Williams, fora long time, about
railroad taxes rating out our substance and im
poverishing our families ; and, further, Whereas,
our taxes for school purposes have increased out
of proportion to the education received; and,
moreover, as brother Williams was right in tell
ing us that our taxes are very heavy this year,
Resolved, That we have been under the impres
sion that we have been paying a railroad tax all
along, and particularly resolved, that as we.
never paid a cent for railroads, and never intend
to, resolved this minute, that our poverty and
distress are not in any way chargeable to rail
roads, but to other causes.
Resolved, That brother William's tears are
like Capt. Sohenly's sympathy for the poor—
bogus.
Resolved, That &heals , is a cannibal, because
ho lives off his wife.
Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Central Rail
road has been a good institution for the farmers
on its route in this county, increasing the value
of their farms and coal lands, and, as they are
not particularly entitled to monopolise a good
thing, we are unanimously of the opinion, that
the rails must be taken up for twenty miles, and
the route changed, to commence at the Butler
line and pass through Pine Township.
Resolved, That although railroads have been of
greater benefit to the farmers than to towns
folks, yet we deem it expedient that the citizens
of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, in consideration of
having high sohools, theatres, and other places
of amusements in their midst, do pay all the
taxes for the next three years, and we do then
propose to elect Didimus Williams Governor of
Allegheny county, and abolish all taxes for any
purpose whatever.
Resolved, That there bo water rats as well as
land rats, and that John Bread-and-Butter Ken
edy is one of them.
Resolved, That taxation, without representa
tic;n, is an outrage, for which our forefathers
fought and bled and died.
Resolved, That the lend le tiod'a free gift to all
hie creatures for &plena= and life—free aa the
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air we breathe, the water we drink—all alike
indispensible to existence.
Resolved, That, in the words of MO9O3 ' the
great Lawgiver, " the land shall not be , sold for
ever."
Resolved, That to tax the land till it becomes
useless to its possessor - is no less oppressive than
to take it away utterly:
Resolved, That the - day will come, when the
mines of the earth—the coal and the iron, and
the silver and the gold'and the lead, all the hid
den treasures—shall be acknowledged the right
' fal property of the discoverer, not of him alone
whoiday claim feoNin thesiihrtioe.
Tilt-LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
Arrival of the Steamship Canada.
HALIFAX, August 25.—The Canard steamship
Canada has just arrived, with Liverpool dates to
Saturday, the 14th inst.
Among the passengers on the Canada is Gen.
Williams, the hero of Kars, on a visit to Nova
Scotia. He was received hero with demonstra ,
dm of intense delight.
There is a lull in the political circles of
England, consequent upon the recess of Parlia
ment.
Riots had occurred in Kilkenny in consequence
of the opposition by the honest laborers against
the various agricultural machines. Tranquility,
however, has been restored by the interference
of the military.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin intends to give a
banquet on the first of September to the princi
pal officials oonneoted with the laying of the
Atlantic Telegraph Cable. The Lord Lieutenant
will attend the banquet.
LONDON, Saturday.—The Times says that yes
terday there was an increased demand for money,
and loans on government securities were in re
quest at two per cent., or a half per cent. above
the rates on Thursday.
Although all parties throughout England have
been converts to the belief that the recent mili-
ary demonetratikats in Cherbourg, and generally
throughout France, have a serious political
significance, no special anxiety is occasioned,
there being assurance of adequate prees ution
on the part of the British government. There
is an increased feeling of security engendered
by the news embraced in thev,last East India
mails, and more confidence no* prevails than at
any previous period of the year.
The Paris Conference, it is said, have taken
up the question of the navigation of the Danube.
The returns of the Bank of France show an
increase of cash of 33,000,000 francs.
It appears certain that the Cortex will bo dis
solved on the return of the Qdeen of Spain to
Madrid, and that the state of siege will bo raised
in all the provinces where it now exists. Tresh
negotiations for the settlement of the Spanish
and Mexican dispute will shortly commence.
It is reported that the American company have
failed to raise the Russian vessels sunk at So-
bastopol. Only one vessel has been raised—a
Turkish vessel, which which was so rotted as to
be worthless.
A panic prevailed at Constantinople, both
Musselman and Christian being and mutual fear
of each other. The Sultan, in order to show
his confidence, has gone a visis to Smyrna.
A plot for the massacre of Christians had just
been discovered at Smyrna. Those who were
found guilty in being connected with the plot,
were sent to Constantinople.
It was stated that the Montenegrins have as
sailed the town of Kolasobia, and killed a thous
and of the inhabitants, who confiding in the ar
mistice, were unarmed. The woman and chil
dren were carried into captivity.
The China Mail stvtes that the interview with
the new Commissioner will take place oa the 7th
of June, which will decide the qu - estion of peace
or war.
From Santa Fe.
Sm. Louis, August 25 —A despatch from In
dependence, dated the 21st, per 11. S. Express
Co. to Booneville, says that Santa Pe dates to
the 2d inst., had arrived. A private letter re
ceived in Santa Fe, intimates that war with the
Navajoe Indians was inevitable, they having de
termed not to surrender the murderer of Major
Brooks' negro, and oven invited the troops to
fight. Business at Santa Fe was very brisk.
The Gazette states that nearly $200,000 worth
of goods had been sold there within two months.
Abundant rain had fallen throughout Now Mex
ico, rendering irrigation unnecessary. The crops
aro very fine.
Prom Kansan,
BT. Louis, Auguet 25.—Leavenworth dates to
thr 22J, are received. The Utah mail, with
dates to July 31st, a week later, has arrived,
The news is uninteresting. The army continues
occupied in preparations for winter. All was
quiet at Salt Lake. Surgeon Watts, of the army,
arrived with the mail.
ThA BOSTLI of Commissioners, 'constituted by
the English bill, have issued a proclamation de
claring the proposition rejectod by 9512 majori
ty. The whole vote is 18,088. No fraudulent
votes were received. A few precincts were ro
'eoted on account of informalities.
Congreosional Nomination.
CrnoAao, August 25 —The Republican Con
vention hold at Augusta, Illinois, to day nomi.
tutted Jackson Grimehaw, of Pike county, for
Congress in the Fifth district.
Yellow Fever In New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, August 25.—The deaths from
yellow fever, yesterday, amounted to 44,
From CoL. Al.aanT PIKE, M. C., from Arkansas
WASEUNGTON, D. C., June 11, 1857
",li. have used two bottles of your ißo3rhave's Hoe
/and Bitters,' and have found it very useful in case
of Indigestion and Headache, and recommend it to
all who need a pleasant and efficatious remedy and
valuable tonic.
DYSPEPTIC WOMAN NOTICE !—Bcerhave's Holland
Bitters has cured me of Dyspepsia by using it only
one week. I recommend it confidently to all suffer
ing from this disease.
CLARA E. SCRUCHMAN
Pirreßußott, Oct. 24, 1856.
(Mrs. S. is the wife of the noted Lithcgrapher.)
The late High Sheriff of Allegheny has given us
the following :
" I was afflicted with debility of the digestive or
gans, amounting to a severe attack of Dyspepsia,
which had reduced my Push considerably. My wife
was also afflicted under the same circumstances and
with the same disease. Having used your medicine,
called Bcerhave's Holland Bitters, we both obtained
relief, and are happy to afford you this public notice
of its value. JOHN FORSYTH.
Prrrskuma, Jan. 22nd, 1857.
Caution f—Be careful to ask fir Borhave's Holland
Bitters. Sold at $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $5,
by tho sole Proprietors, Benjamin Page, Jr., & Co.,
N 0.27 Wood street, between First and Second stroots,
and Druggists generally.
W. MRS. HANNEN, NO. 600 FOURTH STREET,
says of Dr. M'Lane's Celebrated Vermifuge, prepared
by Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh.
A child of mine showing symptoms of worms, I gave it
a bottle of Dr. M'Lano'a Celebrated Vermifuge, which
brought away a bunch of worms, nambering, I should judge,
about thirty. The child was very sick during the operation,
bat is now well and hearty.
Mrs. 'twist, No. 18 Avenue D, writes under dateof August
10, 1862, and says she had been troubled with worms for
more than a year, and that she took ono. bottle of Dr. Mc-
Lane's Celebrated Vermifuge, prepared by Fleming Bros.,
which brought away from her over three hundred worms,
big end little. She now believes herself to be entirely free
from disease.
Mrs. Bugging, a German woman, residing at 204 Riving
ton street, says, that after using one vial of Dr. Id'Lane's
Celebrated Vormlfuge, she passed two large tape worms.
The above certificates are all from parties well known in
this city. If there are any who doubt, they have the names
and addrems, and can satisfy themselves by personal in.
COlll7-
Sir Purchasers will be careful to ask for DR. bPLANEII,
ORLEBRATED VERISITHUOB, manufactured by FLEEING
BROS. of Pittsburgh, Pa. All other Vermifugee in con
parison are worthless. Dr. M'Lane'g genuine Vermlfuge
also his celebrated Liver Pills, can now be had at all re
spectable drug storm None genuine without the signature of
[En aul9 lwdaw PLEMIIiII BROS.
WAGON GREASE—In cans and kegs ,
this day, received and for sale by
HENRY II COLLINS.
9 1 0 LIST—A Store Room on Market street
an2.s:lm A. W. GAZZAM.
WE HAVE $5,000 for investment in City.
Ground Bents—person having stela securities loc
sale, will pleaso address
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FRESH SUPPLY
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Just reooll7d and for sale, by
an 24 IL BLEEPER k BRO, N 0.53 Fifth street.
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PRICE—THIRTY CENTS
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Will re-opon on the PIGI 4 T 11 iNDAY of September,
at her
residence, No. 210 Penn ~t rret. Alter the t ro t of otober
A limited number of Uoarding Scholars will be received into
the family,, , Arramg ,rnentio have been tome to accommodate
day boarders, i'' desired to eerstry' patrons. There will be
two sessions a day, from 0 to 12 end 2 to 4 o'clock. Por
terms, Orenlers, etc., ingr.iro cif qhurch Boot store Puth,
etro,A: .1. IL 31ellor, or of the P q rinc al. an261.249*.
IN°TICE TO ;:.: ill PPERB. —On ai — r ---- ,d $ - A t "
MONDAY, Angest 23d, thh following rates will be
charged by the Railroad. betwoco Pittsburgh and Cincin
nati. on the ve Hon, classrs cf freight:
First Piaui, ....sec 7 i.A 100 Rig I FlOnr 60c? barrel.
second t• ....440 '` " Whisky $l. 25 it
Third '• ....40c ""
I C0tt0.........1 50 'W+ bale.
Kurth " 55c " " :
P, L. DEVENNY,
General Freight Agent, P. 0. &IL ft. Line.
i S. J. HOUSTON,
General Freight Ag't P., kt. W. A 0. R. B.
WILL RE-OPEN ON.
TITURSDAY, SEPTEMBER W,
PROF. COVPER'S
FASHIONABLE DANCING_ ACADEMY,
AT NDVILLY. HALL, coma yOURTLI Ar.D 1.113.2.8. TY
DAYS OF TUITION—TuesdaYs, Thursdays and Satur
dups. Master and Misces 01...ar.s at 3 P. EI ; Ladles Class 4
r. M.; Gel.tlemer's Clan 8 r. m. Prof. Cowper can be seen
at the Sc. tt 13 o,uo. daily. ati2B:lm
ENRY n E foot:II/Tr of all
sizes of Hemp :tad Tarred Ropeu,tdanilla end Hemp
Bed Cords, fine and common Facking Yarn, Tarred and
Spun Yarn, Saab and Dell Cortl4Wcol Twine, Broom Tying
and Serving Twine, i• - lax end Cott nn Seine Twine,•atc. •
A fall supply of the above at - tides constantly on band, or
made to order, at the lowest ea* prima.
Warehouse, No. 480, co: n triof Penn and Walnut streets,
two squares above the Fittabar4h, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad Freight Depot, Pittsburgh, ra.
au2B:3m-o o.clib-f u a n'
INSTITC,TE FOR I YOUNG LADIES,
No. 92,8 Arch Sti, Philadelphia.
This Institttion ni:nated iruone of the ,nowt delightful
locations in the city. offers every facility for an accomplish.
ed and useful education upon nioderato terms. Pall session
commeacee Eeptember 1858. Per circulars, addree.
the Principal. MRS. SHIPMAN.
nARDWARE, AT AUCTION—On TUXS
DAY MORNING, Angttst 31st, at 10 o'clock, wlllbo
sold, at the Commercial Sale, 4odins, No. 64 Fifth street, by
order of Receiver, the etcck cf Ut city retail store, cumpria•
Mg almost rl';.7;thing kept first class hardware estab
lishment, such as 4ackson's, Spear k Jackson's,
and Diston's cope: Ic.r taws. Stool Squares, from 6to 10
inches; Fore, So.uthing Rabbit, Dead and Plough Planes,
Patent Sro,otbing and Plough Planes, Brace and Bats,
Hollow oud Shank Augerr, mortice Pinner, Framing and
Socket Chlseln, Plano Irene, !levels, (longed; Butt, Table,
Wardrobe and C Llinge, Chest, Drawer and Door
Locks; Hand Vide,brace and Iron Castors, Hatchets, Ham
mers, Coop( 7 ei nil Foot Adio9 !Ivory and Boxwood Rules,
Trowels, &nide sal single hitt:l4.VA, Shovels, Spades, Forks,
Scythes, Ilvw, Picks, Delia, Steelyards, etc., to which the
attention of the trade to invited.
an 26 M. DAVIS, Auctioneer.
XECUTOR'S SALE OF BOOK. BINDERY
I ETC—On FRIDAY MORNING, August 27th, at ton
o'clock, on the premises, fourth story of warehouse, corner
of Wood and Flfth streets, bytorder of Mrs. A Alexander,
Executrix of the late W. i•lparks, (ko.nteed, will be sold, the
entire stock of machinery, t,4311, rte. belonging to that
estate, among which are:
1 Ruling Machine ; I
I Machine for I , asteboards, etc.;
I etandlpg Probe. Several lying Presses, Typo
Cases and Tyl.e; hells, Rod:, enc., together with a quantity
of Day Books, Ledgers, and other In/Bk. Books.
eu2l p.m. DAVIS., Auctioneer.
1110 PATENT TCTIWEL RACKS, AT
A ttcqto - K-9n TUESDAY MORNING, August
31st, at 11 o'clock, at the Cominercial Sales Rooms, No. 64
Mitt' street, will to sold, 100 Patent Towel Racks.
an2d P. M. DAVIS, Auctioneer.
VUUR MILES FRAM TIIE CITY-A
Ilwa. , e and tl r rtss ncres of good choico land,
excr tient dprirgd of wotar, rtd, Hill 10 sold on easy terma_
au2n tr SON, 61 Market st.
WNV !Sll 'lO SELL two Building Lots,
of one acre each, in a toad iCiti!lo4, about 4inilea
front the cite. Pi kr both IOta,SIOL{. Terms
balance la one, tin and :bred years.
au2t3 1 CUTlll3Patrlic SON, GI Market ate.,s'et.
TRUSS AND SUPP RTER MANUFAC
TORY—Cut lwright and IYoung, No. 80 Wood street,
beg leave to coil the attt ntlon of the afflicted to the fact that
they ire the only MAt I'AOTURItItS of TRUSSEP and
SUPPORTERS in ttua city They can consequently tako
measures, and make to o.der, there articles, after the most
approved patterns, aLd (meld" them nt prices frequently
nut more than one half that demanded by mrro dealera in
them. All are co icitell to call, lifter pricing and examining
Trusses at any sb.re in the city, confident that we raneatis
fy the 6 alict,l that is is their ieterest to deal with the Mail.
ufacturer. Perth:nine attention paid to repairing.
CARTWRIGHTT & YOUNG'S,
Tra, ai Manufactory,
No. Fib Wood street.
COSTAR'S Rat Exteiminator,
vonitian Red,
Deep VerrolllMM,
La) Teti nod Liquorice
American Army' , &mt.,
Sassafras Pith,
S lit 6kinß,
Cardamon aieds,
Liquorice Root.
Sands ; Sarsaparilla.
For sale by B. L. OPALINBSTOCK CO.,
an2l No. 60 corner Yood and Fourth streets.
G UNS FOR lIIRR,
SIRE AIM OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS",
WITH ACCOUTREMENTS AND AMMUNITION.
• n c.e...T.1.0,,.__Way b e
LURED BY I. I IIE DAY, OR WEEK, AT t
DOWN it TETLEY'S,
No. lad Wcod street
B U '
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
Cornor Wood Istrcot and Diamond alley
POTATOES -60 smile new Neehannook
Potatoes, pat received and for ealo by
au2l ; HENRY H. COLLINS.
CLOCKS CLOCKS 11—To sell t our pre
sent stock at Mantle Clocks and other lime Pieces,
we offer them at prices which will astonish all. Call and
see for yourselves. REINEMAN fc MEYRAN,
42 Fifth street, near Wood.
500 ME OYANTEDI
ON N
004 RIVER,
At the different points frem Coi.Ps Mouth, on the Kanawha
River, to Peytona, for the improvement of the same. A
healthy location. Constant eninloy remit, and Good Wages.
Aiso, a NUMBER. OF CAR i'EIiTERS will be employed, by
calling early. Eteatabosts rani regularly to and from this
place to Cincinnati. Pittsburgh, Wheeling, and the different
points on the Ohio river. Add OR
HENRY . KIIPP, Contractor,
Kanawha, 0, H., Va.
_
J. H. PRINCE'S
CENTRAL PLANING MILL,
WATER STREET, ALLEGEENV,
ARE now in full operation, with Fay & Co.'
Improved machinery for the manufacturing of &lilt
Pramo4, Doors, Shutters and ;Mouldings. Builders and Con
tractors will Bud It to their ntlyantage to call and ascertain
our prices. aul9:lydaw
„eige. M . ..-- THE BEbT AN 1) wit ~
-
ai7o , ~,,1 - .. CHEAPEST P th E e S m T .3t VINEGAR is sell. •,. ••—•-. 0 .' -_,
ensice Vlti.it„;,6
.. w , NE . AI „, &JAR WaittIGOUSE ha the rv 7" .l =l l l
anwosas. , West. This Manse now etm ki l .usaestsad
t i )11 l i
~'. plies, and has Lir the last ton 4l IWO! '
• - . , . • years, more that' one-half of ' '”' - ,
--• 1 ..., 1 .. !,', the Pittsburghl grocers, and '3F"„" ill - "-•' ,
let .":. 1. - - the same In eseiy other city in ..^fe , ',:-AStii - .7 , -
which it has been Introduced.
A. BALLOII, LIS Water street,
baleen 1 4 nsitlifleld and Grant.
ans:l3 , d&w
ALLEGHENY VALLEY RAILROAD.
TARENTIIIII OA MP DIEETIDIG
COMIENOING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25th, .1858
Regular trains will leave daily from Pittsburgh (Sundays
excepted) at 7:16 A. 51. and 6 P. 5l .
On Wednesday, the 25th Inst., an extra train will leave
Pittsburgh at 9:15 A. M.
On Saturday, the 28th ir.st.; extra trains will leave Pitts.
burgh at 1:30 and 8:30 A. AI.; returning, leave Tatentum
for Pittsburgh at 1:30 and 7:21 Monday morning, 50th Inst.
On the last day of the meeting trains leave Tare:atom for
Pittsburgh at 7:20 A. M., 2 and 8:40 P. M.
Excursion tickets good dating the encampment can be
had at the depot on Carson street at 60 cents each; also at
the Methodist Book Repository, Fourth str :et.
Passengers obtaining tickets before taking scats in cars
will save ten cents.
W. REYNOLDS,
aulhts Superintendent
Madame Appeltee Tetedoux'N
11RENCII AND ENGIAISH BOARDINO
AND DAY 13011.00% FOR YOUNG LADLES, 143
Third street, Pittsburgh, Pa. This School, designed on the
plan of French Schools in ranee, and modified as to the
gnash departments on the plan of French Schools, in the
United States, offers to young ladies, bosidea a fall English
course, the best opportunity of thoroughly acquiring the
French language and literature, the Principal having re
sided several years in France, and being *resided by Mr
byllog .
Tetedonx, a native of Pada, Mai graduate of the "
Charlemagne"
French and Latin will be integral parts of the course.
The Fine Arta will be taught under the superintendence
of Mr. Teta:lona a pupil from the Conservatory of Purls.
Arrangements ' have been Made for young ladies who, hav
ing already gone through a regular course of studies, still
may wish to know English literature more thoroughly,
acquire more facility in spooning the French language, and
improve in the Fine Arts.
School will open on the second Monday of September.
Expenses
Vocalh term of Fire Months :—Board $100; Tu
ition $3O; -Music $25; in clams $l5; Piano $25; use
o f i n g e nceent $5; German andi Italian, each $25, In classes
$10; Drawing, in clams $lOl 011 and Water Colors at the -
Professor's price. All chargea payable in advance.
For circulars and Putt( r particulars apply to the
Principal.
MIL CLEMENT TIMED EX announces to the public
that he hes taken tip his reel enceinPittsbor,gh, and Inert
prepared to give lessons in,ocal Music.
For terms and farther particulars apply Pa John H. Mel
ler'a Music Store, No. SI Wehd st aullAwd
QAWYER'S. CIIEgICAL OLIVE SOAP
14j is acknowledged by all 6ho have ued% to be thii best
and most economical soap in use. One pound will doss
much washing as three of common Soap. It contains noin.
gradient that will injure thd nerves of the most del cate or
finest goods that may be washed with it. For sale by all
the principal groceries and dealers in the city. au l 3
j R. WELDIN, 7 . . o. 65 Wood street, near
V 4, Fourth, keeps eons ntly on hand a largo assort.
meat of all ordinary pattern ,of BLANK ACCOUNT BOOKS,
and is prepared with the besbforeign and domestic material
to make to order every article re,
by Bankers, bier.
chants, or Incorporated Companies, in the best manner, and
with al 'WOW of giving the utmost satiaraction in quality an d
price. - Commercial printing of every description will ha
.zoeuted with Cho greatest cre andpromptaesa„ atal
r •+~ h
KiiiiME=l
MEATS,
U ()THIN G,
CHEST R'S GOTHIC HALL