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BY H. EUCHES SWOOPE.
Clearfield, Pa., Wednesday, July 18, 1E53.
In order to arrange our books, give
subscribers an opportunity of discontinuing
and make necessary arrangements previous
to commencing the econd volume, no paper
will be issued from this office next week.
ILLINOIS STATE COUNCIL.
, ..The American State Council of Illinois,
closed its session at Springfield, on the 13th
inst. The Anti-Slavery Platform was adopted.
Considerable difficulty arose upon the ques
tion of the restoration of tha Missouri Com
promise, and the vote being finally taken, the
platform was adopted by a vote of 71 to 88.
LYNCH LAW AMONG THE RAFTSMEN.
The trial of a man named Maybury, at Jancs
ville, Wisconsin, for the murder of a raftsman
having been brought to a speedy close from a
defect in the indictment, a crowd of raftsmen
who were in attendance from the place where
the murder was committed, become greatly
exasperated, and taking the prisoner from the
Sheriff, hung him. The afiair produced a great
deal of excitement.
STATE ELECTIONS.
Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Mis
souri and Texas, hold their elections on the
first Monday iu August; Tennessee on the first
Thursday, and .North Carlina on the second
Thursday of the same month. On the second
Monday in September the election in Maine oc
curs, and that of Vermont on the first Tuesday
of the same month. Iu Alabama, Kentucky,
Texas, North Carolina and Tennessee, Mem
bers of Congress are to be elected.
OHIO NOMINATIONS.
The Free-Soil Convention of Ohio, which
met at Columbus on the 18th, nominated the
following ticket :
For Governor, S. P. Chase; for Lieutenant
Governor, T. II. Ford; Judges of the Supremo
Court, Converse and Jacob Brinkerhooff; Au
ditor of State, F. M. Wright ; State Treasurer,
Wra. II. Gibson; Secretary of State, J. II.
Baker; Attorney-General, F. B. Keinball ;
Board of Public Works, A. G. Converse.
EXHIBITION.
.The annual Exhibition of the pupils of the
"Clearfield Institute," came ofT on Thursday
evening la-it, on the green in front of the Town
Hall, which was brilliantly illuminated. We
have seldom witnessed a spectacle of the char
acter, more interesting, or which passed off
more harmoniously. The blaze of light, the
flowers and evergreens, the music of the band,
and the throng of people all conspirod to ren
der the scene highly beautiful. Ono could al
most imagine he was iu fairy land.'
The students acquitted themselves with great
credit, and evinced considerable improvement
s.ncc the close of the preceding session. Eve
ry person appeared to be well pleased with tho
exercises, and accorded to tho performers
their full meed of praise.
THE APPROACHING CAMPAIGN.
Onr American friends should remember
that the approaching fall campaign will ba one
of no little importance to our county. In ad
dition to the office of State Senator and Rep
resentative, we havo also to elect in our own
county, a Sheri!T, Treasurer, Commissioner,
District Attorney, and the other minor officers.
Our party should be looking around for
good substantial men to fill these offices. With
a ticket composed of men who arc honest and
capable, wc can easily carry the county. The
rapidity with which our organization has in
creased throughout tho county since last fall,
places our success beyond a doubt. Let the
members of the Executive Committee in the
different townships bo up and doing, and take
the proper measures to sscure the formation
of a good ticket.
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
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It is now more than a year since our paper
ras first established, and notwithstanding the
numerous predictions of the failure of the en
terpriza which were then made, it has lived
and flourished, and from all appearances, will
still live," for some time to come. We have
endeavored to print a good county paper ; how
far we have succeeded our readers must de
termine. We have been bold, fearless, and
free, in the declaration of our opinions and
the support of our principles, and while, doubt
less, we bare made some friends, wc have also
made many enemies. It is impossible to
please ali, and none but a fool would attempt
it. As our course has been for the past year,
so it will be for the future. Our readers have
had a fair trial, and those who see proper to
continue their support can do so, while we
will quarrel with no man who may resolve to
4o otherwise.
We intend to make some improvements on
the nest volume, and will endeavor, if possi
Lle, to print a better paper than we have ever
done before. The first number will be issued
on Wednesday the 1st of August.
THE NEWS.
at
There are no additional news of importance
from the Crimea, since our last issue, in which
we recorded the defeat of the Allies, and their
loss of five thousand men. The arrival of the
Pacific only corroborates the report.
Notwithstanding this check, the investing
army keep in good spirits and do not permit
their repulse to stay the progress of the siege.
Lord Kaglan is dangerously ill, and it was re
ported had asked to be recalled, but Lord
Palmcrston denied that the report was true.
Sir George Brown is also on the sick list.
Rumors of battle on tho Chernaya and else
where had caused somo distraction to specu
lators, but were untrue. There is no imme
diate indication of further operations on the
Sea of AzofT or in the Baltic.
Administrative Reform keeps its ground in
England. At a meeting for this object held at
Drury Lane Theatre Mr. Charles Dickens de
livered an address which was much applauded.
Mr. Peabody gave a grand banquet to Mr.
Fillmore in London. Capitalists arc exercised
respecting the probable amount and condi
tions of the new French loan. Austria con
tinues to disband her army. Elsewhere in Eu
rope everything is dull.
AFFAIRS IN KANSAS.
The Missouri Kapublican confirms the re
ported fight between Governor Rccdcr and
the outlaw Stringfellow. The latter, it seems,
met Reeder and demanded of him an apology
or explanation of something said by the Gov
ernor in one of his eastern speeches, and when
this was declined he attacked the Governor.
The report respecting McCrea, who killed
Malcolm Clark, is also confirmed. McCrea
was taken before Judge Lecompte, of the IT.
S. District Court, by a writ of habeas corpus,
and after the examination of a large number of
witnesses, he was remanded to prison for trial,
bail being refused. The olSceis at the fort re
fused to take McC.rea into further custody,
and a public meeting has been held, which has
resolved to guard and protect the prisoner un
til his case shall have been decided.
MINISTERS OP STATE EXCOMMUNICATED.
The Ministry of Sardinia have suppressed
G3 of tho 70 Monkish orders in the Kingdom,
under the law recently enacted by the Parlia
ment, and their revenues are appropriated to
the support of their infirm members, and the
poor benefices and schools of the country.
The organ of the Church at Turio, The Arme
nia, announces that the Ministers and Mem
bers of Parliament who voted for it are excom
municated under chap. XI. of the Council of
Trent, without a special Bull, and that they
cannot receive the sacraments of the Church.
It is intimated, however, that a new note from
Rome mav be looked for.
For tho Raftsman's Journal.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE.
To the President of the Eoard of Trustees of Clear
field Institute :
The undersigned Committee respectfully re
port : That, according to appointment, they at
tended the examination of the scholars of
Clearfield Institue, upon the studies w hich they
havo been pursuing during tho last two quar
ters, under tho direction of Mr. W. A. Camp
bell and lady, assisted by Miss Campbell.
The examination was lung and thorough.
Tho majority of the scholars, though younger
than those who generally attend an Institu
tion of this grade, with few exceptions, acquit
ted themselves well, and some with great credit.
Your Committee have had abundant evidence
that tho Teachers havo been faithful, patient,
and laborious; that they have had the advance
ment of their scholars fully at heart, and that
they have succeeded in a degree seldom equal
ed, both in imparting instruction, and in gain
ing the love confidence and respect of those
whom they instruct.
In some cases, here as elsewhere, tho pro
gress of tho pupil has been impeded by irreg
ular attendance. Of all causes retarding the
advancement of scholars, this is the most com
mon and injurious; and is, almost invariably,
to some extent, the fault of the patents. It is
most strongly recommended, that all parents
enforce upon their children a constant and reg
ular attendance, and that they do, as far as
they can, personally encouiage them in their
studies. No labor and faithfulness of a teach
er can insure the advancement of a child with
out the co-operation of the parents.
The Committee aro pleased to report thv.t
the School is in a highlv prosperous condition,
and bids fair, under tho able management of
the present Principal, to realize the best hones
of its friends. fc. M. Cooiee,
fc. M. Cooiee, J
W. A. Wallace, S Cc
J. B. M'Enally,
om
Clearfield, July 1G, 1855
As Invitation Declined. The Salem (Mas
sachusetts) Gazette, one of the conservative
Whig papers of that State so kindly invited by
the Democratic "organs" to form part of the
Rum and Slavery Coalition, responds in the
following polite yet firm manner. The Gazette
has the ring of the true metal. Hear it :
"The federal papers that is, the papers
which are fed from the pap of the federal gov
ernment are filled, just now, with the most
seducing invitations to conservative Whigs, to
fall into their ranks and form a 'coalition' for
the support of Gen. Pierce and the Platform
of Perfidy. But we must ask to ba excused.
We do not like to train under such oilicers.
The Democratic party meaning thereby the
Administration party is extinct. There is
nothing left of it but a skeleton, composed of
custom-house and post oilicers, with a few laud
agents and such like, and a corps of retainers
so small as to bo almost invisible to the naked
eye. It can never be resuscitated under Pierce,
Douglas and Atchison, as a national party. It
is a mere sectional concern, and not even rep
resenting a large section. It represents noth
ing but the most intensely bitter fraction of
the turee or tour hundred thousand slavehold
ers. It has been beaten out of sight, iu every
State but one, in which an election has taken
place, aud has been almost extirpated in Con
gress, bcarceiy a corporal's guard is left in
the House of Representatives: and in the
country at large, there is not enough left of it
to form a nucleus for a revival; and if there
were, it is so thoroughly rotten, that nothing
can live which is built on such a core. Its
very bones are carious."
CF" Schuyler, the alledged railroad default
er, though professing in his recent letter to
be somewhere in Europe, is believed by sev
eral New York city editors to havo never left
the United States; and iu proof of this it is al
ledged that his signature was furnished recent
ly to a docuuieut which never crossed tue
ocean.
THE IRON TRADE.
From he Report of the Iron Dealers Association.
The intelligence from Europe this week does
not materially change the aspect of the Iron
market either there or here. Welsh rails have
advanced 5s. to 10s., and their merchant bar
mills are more active. The past depression in
the iron trade has served to attract from many
a more earnest attention to American iron,
which has advanced in price, in advance of
any foreign encouragement, under the stimu
lus of reviving trade, the recommeucement of
activity in manufactures of wares, aud cheer
ing confidence infused throughout the country,
especially in the West, by generally heavy
crops of all the principal products of the soil.
The present activity of the merchant and rail
way bar mills in our country is unprecedented
during a state of the British manufacture sim
lar to that now experienced there. Through
various sources we are assured there was an
underselling up to tho latest date, 10s. and
even 20s. below the prices fixed atqusrter day.
The reported advance at Liverpool of 5s. to
10s. was undoubtedly nominal as a general
thing, while only a few of tho best brands for
special purposes, command quotation prices.
From Birmingham we learn tLat orders for
wares are not very satisfactory, and we may
say of all the iron manufacturers, save as
above, and of railway bars and implements of
war, that they are in a depressed state. Amer
ican hardware manufacture are extending
under the reviving influence of trade, and there
is a good prospect for them, affected as they
are by the state of Western crops, which can
not otherwise than create a corresponding de
mand for utensils, building and miscellaneous
hardware. Transactions for the past week are
mostly the consumations of previous negoti
ationsthe 4th interfering with trade. Sales
of Pig were 3575 tons, at quotations, as per
brand $25 to $2S, for No.l, $23 1 to S25 for No.
2, from $22 to 21 for Forge. American Mer
chant Bars are in excessivo demand, and or
ders havo been declined at the advance of $5
above previous quotations Sales for tho week
exceed G50 tons. Juniata Roads aro firm and
in fair demand at $100 to $105, sales, 45 tons.
Several heavy contracts for caBt Water and
Gas Pipes were made, but terms have not
transpired. We quote as beforo, varied accor
ding to brand: Foundry Pig $25 to $28; Forge
$23 to 25; Car Wheel Pig $30 to $35; for
Maleable Castings S35to $38; Charcoal Blooms
S70 to $75; Cinder do $40 to 50; Gas and
Water Pipe Cast $40 to $55; Boiler Plates,
first quality, 5c; do. second quality, 3J a 4c;
Merchant Bars refined $75 to $85; common do.
$70 a $75; Shafting and Axle Bars $80 to $85;
Railway Bars $00; Railway Chairs, castings, 21
to 3; do. do. No. 1, machine made, 4Jc; do.
do. continuous lips, 5J,c; Nails, first quality,
53,00 cash; do. ordinary, $3,80, do.; Sheet
Iron $1,20.
THE PLATF0E7I OF 1S50.
Resolved. That the Democratic party will re
sist all attempts at renewing in Congress or
out of it, the agitation of the slavery question,
under whatever shape or color the attempt
may be made. Pierce Platform of 1850.
This is tho platform which General Pierce
accepted when he was renominated for the
Presidency, and without which he could not
have beendected. It vas distinctly stated,
at the same time, that the Compromise meas
ures settled by the last Congress, (1850) were
to be adhered to, with fidelity. How was this
platform and pledge "adhered" to by Frank
lin Pierce, after his election ? Did he not im
mediately "agitate" the whole subject through
his adherents in Congress, and by his support
ers out of it? Was not the whole question re
opened in its most terrible aspect in all its
threatening dangers to the Union, by the bold,
treacherous and sacrilegious repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise of 1820? This act. the sum
total of moral and political perfidy, from the
time of Judas Iscariot, down to the treason of
Benedict Arnold, was consummated by Frank
lin Pierce and his Cabinet, against the Amer
ican Union. He is the author of the storm
that is now lowering over our country.
It is a deplorable circumstance, that the ago
in wLich we live, looming over and above all
other ages, should produce men like Pierce
and his confederates, so utterly regraMiass oi
all moral obligation. We had thought that tho
nineteenth century had inaugurated a now era
of enndor and integrity i;i rulers, and f rom
which there could be no departure, as at the
day when life, fortune and honor were pledg
ed. The treachery of Franklin Pierce has
taught us to beware of our faith in men.
Berks Press.
The Locomotive Telegraph. The Flor
ence correspondent of the Newark .'1 deer liner
savs: A second successful trial of Bonnelli's
Locomotive Electric Telegraph has been mads
on the Turin Railway, with the concurrence
of the Ministers of State and tho diplomatic
Representatives of France and England. Two
trains traversing a five mile track exchanged
communications until all parties were fully
satisfied. The correspondence with tho sta
tions was equally satisfactory ; and orders to
" stop" and to " proceed," were obeyed as by
volition. Morse's apparatus, reduced to tho
dimensions of a coat pocket, including paper,
&c, was used on this occasion, ihe simpli
city of the invention is amusing. Two wires
running from the littlo pocket machine thro'
the bottom of the car, trail on parallel insu
lated iron rods, which aro the mediums.
Strange that the notion never occurred to the
Yankee nation ! The inventor, who is the Di
rector of the Sardinian Telegraphs has sub
mitted to tho government an expensive pro
ject for working them, and also for continuing
the submarine line now in use between ue
noa and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia,
(200 miles,) by way of Malta and other inter
mediate points, to Constantinople, and the
lor.g Black Sea line ; and which will also be
propounded to the electricians of the thousand
leagued Atlantic.
"DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION."
Governor Johnson, of Georgia, the Loco
foco Administration candidate for re-election
to the office he now holds, has written a letter
to Col. Lennox, in which ho declares what
course he shall pursue in case Kansas is refu
sed admission to the Union as a Slave State.
In that event, Mr. Johnson would promptly act
with a view to dissolve the Union. He says :
"If Kansas should be thus rejected, I would
feel bound to take such steps as would elicit
the action of the sovereignty of the State in
execution of the Georgia Platform. Indeed
I shall bring the whole subject before the next
Legislature, and recommend to them to pro
vide for the calling of a State Convention in
the event of such rejection, to determine tho
time and mode of the 4 disruption of every tie
that binds her to the Union.'
TnE "Oldest Inhabitant." The editor of
the Annapolis Republican had a visit on Friday
from ono of the oldest men perhaps in Mary
land, Mr. Richard Crandell, who was born m
Anne Arundel county, on the lGth of July, 17
47, and therefore will be 108 years of age the
IGth of this month. He has not the appearance
of a man of more than 80, and even last fall he
sowed nearly all the grain on his farm. He is
in the enjoyment of most excellent health and
spirits; and at 100, he savs, he had not a gray
hair in his head. He served as aprivateer during
the revolution, and relates many interesting
facts connected with the struggle for Auaeri
can Independence.
i rirst Trial Under the New Liquor Law in Alba
ny Charcoaling the Informer Considerable
X.XC1 iement.
From the Albany Register, July .
The case of the people, C. D. Williams com
plainant, against William Landou, for elling
liquor m violation ot the prohibitory statue,
came up before Justice dole vestcrday alter
noon. Sometime previous to the hour of trial
the police court room was filled with spectators.
At the appearance of Mr. Landon and coun
sel thev were greeted with cheers and bitter
sneering cries of " Williams," "Carson," &c.
The Justice, however, immediately quelled
the confusion, by ordering the arrest of any
person making any noise whatever.
The case being called, Messrs. Werner and
De Forest appeared as counsel for complain
ant and Johu K. Porter, Esq., for defendant.
A lengthy argument was had upon the ob
jection of tho defendants counsel, that the
complaint was informal in not setting forth
facts, but simply stating what was theinforma
tion and belief of the complainant.
The defendant's counsel claimed that an ac
cusation had not been brought in legal form,
and therefore the defeudant should bo dis
charged. Objection was alse made to the want
of a specification that the liquor claimed to
have beon sold was not imported liquor.
The counsel for complainant, Mr. Werner,
Insisted, in reply, that under the statute it was
only necessary, for the purpose of issuing a
summons, to compel the attendance of witnes
ses, that the complaint alleged upon informa
tion aud belief ; and the Justice had recogni
zed the complaint as sufficient to authorize the
issuing of a summons, and the testimony of
the witnesses had warranted tho arrest of tho
defendant.
After elaborate debato, Justice Colo deci
ded the summons to have been sufficient to
warrant the issue of a mandatory process to
compel tho attendance, and sustain the pro
ceedings thus far.
Tho complaiuar.t's counsel then desired to
file a new complaint.
To this the defendant's counsel objected.
The Court ruled that the trial should pro
ceed under the original complaint.
Mr'. Werner (complainants counsel) then
6tafed that he desired time to examine the
law, that he might fully settle in his own mind
whether the new complaint was admissible.
If it could not be admitted, he should advise
the staying of farther proceedings as certain
specifications had been omitted in the first
complaint, which he desired to appear in the
complaint, if it was to be carried to the Court
of Appeals,
After consultation, the case was then, by
consent of both parties, put over till Thurs
day afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The crowd then began to leave the court
room under considerable excitement.
Mr. C. P. Williams, the complainant, at
tempted to pass out into the street, but as he
reached the head of the stairs, he was seized
by a number of persons and violently hauled
down the stairs upon tho platform half way
between the two floors, where ho fell or was
prostrated, unable to rise.
His hat was knocked off, and then a bag of
powdered charcoal, previously prepared and
brought to the office, was emptied over him,
covering him from head to foot, penetrating
every seam of his garments, and filling bis
eyes, ears and hair. He was then assailed by
the jeers and taunts of those who assisted in
or witnessed his treatment with cries of "He
is drunk," "he is drunk." The only officer
in attendance made his way to the stairs as
soon as possible, but too lute to secure the ar
rest of any one engaged In the outrage. In
deed, the multitude cried a " hundred did it,"
and seomed prepared to defend any one indi
vidual from the charge.
The New York Liquor Law. According
to the Herald, the new liquor law does not ap
pear to have effected much towards suppress
ing the traffic in intoxicating drinks in tho ci
ty. The public houses carry on their business
as quietly and as profitably as ever, and no ono
seems disposed to interfere with them. Thus
far not a single complaint has been entered be
foro any of tho police magistrates for violation
of the statue, nor lias any seizure of liquor ta
ken place. The Carson Leaguers have either
abandoned tho field or are holding back for a
grand coup d'etat upon somo of the top-sawyers
of the liquor interest. There is one case of vi
olation of tho law for selling liquor on tho 4th
inst., pending in the Marine Court, but the
Judges and tho lawyers lind great difficulty in
arriving at a determination as to the powers
and requirements of the various judicial func
tionaries under the act. The police reports de
tail about tho usual number ot case3 of arrests
for drunkenness, which is suggestive at once
ot an active trade in imported liquors, tno vi
gilance of the police, and the utter failure of
the excise law to suppress the vice of immod
erate drinking. Wc have accounts of the op
erations of tho law from various parts of the
State. In Rochester, it is said, the bar-rooms
exhibit no signs of anything stronger than wa
ter, and no instances of violation of the law
had been heard of. In Buffalo and Albany but
little difieronce is made, dealers selling as usu
al. Prosecutions have been commenced against
several hotel keepers at Saratoga. The dealers
at Seneca t alls subiuittted to the law by re
moving from their bars and shops all intoxica
ting liquor. In Schnectady the law was also
observed. At Utica most of the retail shops
were closed. At Troy the trado continued as
usual, but no arrests had been made. At Syra
cuse many of the dealers have sold off their
stocks at auction. As much as $20,000 worth
of liquor was thus disposed of on the 2d and
3d iHsts. The Mayor of Albany, in his direc
tions to the police force, remarks, that "when
a policeman volunteers to act as complamtant,
informer or public prosecutor under the act,
it will be regarded as prima facie neglect of
duties now required by law," and ho strongly
cautions them not to run any risk of pecuiary
liability by making seizures.
State Temperance Convention. A Mass
Convention of the friends of Temperance will
be held in Reading, Berks county, on Wednes
day the 8th of August, to commence at 10
o'clock, A. M.
As tho enemies of the Liquor Law arc ma
king the most determined elforts for its repeal,
it is important that all its friends should at
tend this Convention. No one need wait to
be appointed a delegate, as all who come will
be members. Come to the jubilee and show
the friends and foes of the law that it cannot
be repealed, except by the passage of a more
stringent one. .
The Address of the State Committee will be
delivered to members of the Convention for
circulation, and they are requested to collect
funds to defray the expense.
P. COOMBE, Chairman, &c.
Philadelphia, June 25, 1855.
A Mitint among Americas Troops. A
correspondent of the Washington Star, wri
ting from Don Fernandez de Taos, in New
Mexico, under date of May 31, says that a
court martial and a military court of inquiry
had been forsomc time in session at that place.
They were instituted for the purpose of inves
tigating a riot which occurred there several
weeks previous, in which Major A. II. Blake.
of the 1st regiment U. S. Dragoons, was as
saulted and beaten by a number of intoxicated
privates belonging to that regimaat. Five sol
diers were being triod by tho court matial for
mutiny.
GEN. WASHINGTON'S LAST VOTE.
Every incident in tho lifo of Washington is
full of interest. - I lie plain, heroic magnitude
of mind which distinguished him above all
other men was evident in all his actions. Pa
triotism, chastened by sound judgment and
careful thought, prompted all his public acts,
and made them examples for the study and
guidance of mankind. It has been said that no
ono can have the shortest interview with a
truly great man, without being made sensible
of his superiority. Of too many, who have
some way earned tho title of great, this is by
no means true. Its applicability to the cha
racter of Washington is verified in the follow
ing interesting circumstance related by a cor
respondent of tho Charleston Courier :
"I was present," says the correspondent,
"when Gen. Washington gave his last vote.
It was in the spring of 1799, in the town of
Alexandria. He died the 11th of December
following. Tho court house of Fairfax coun
ty was then over tho market house, and im
mediately fronting Gadsby's tavern. The en
trance into it was by a slight flight of crazy
steps on the outside. The election was pro
gressing several thousands of persons in the
court house yard and immediate neighboring
streets; and I was standing on Gadsby's steps
when tho father of his country drove np, and
immediately approached the court house steps ;
and when withiu a yard or two of them, I saw
eight or ten good lookiug men, from different
directions, certainly without the least concert,
spring simultaneously, and place themselves
in positions to uphold and support the steps
should they fall iu the General's ascent of
them. I was immediately at his back, and in
that position entered the court house with
him followed in his wake through a dense
crowd to the polls heard him vote returned
with him to the outward crowd heard him
cheered by more than two thousand persons
as he entered his carriage and saw his de
parture. There were five or six candidates on the
bench sitting; and as the General approached
them, they rose in a body and bowed smiling
ly ; and the salutation having been returned
very gracefutly, the General immediately cast
bis eyes towards the registry of the polls,
v.hen Col. Dencale (I thiuk it was) said :
" Well, General, how do you vote? ihe
General looked at tho candidates, and said
" Gentlemen, I vote for measures, not for
men;" and turning to the recording table,
audibly pronounced his vote saw it entered
made a graceful bow and retired.
A Formidable Body ! We learn from the
Pennsylcanian that the Liquor Dealers' League
for the State of Pennsylvania, now number
about twenty thousand members, and are tho
roughly organizing the interior of the State
with great euergy and rapidity,, their object
being a concert of action, to protect them
selves and their interests, by legal, pecuniary,
and political process, against legislation upon
the prohibitary question. Will the Pennsyl
ranian explain to us tho " pecuniary process"
against legislation. We are a little anxious to
understand it. Our neighbor is of opinion too
that our Restraining License Law will be a
dead letter upon tho statute book ; that the
last legislature would have done better, as con
sistent friends of temperance, to have brought
all their energies to bear in favor of a strin
gent license law, as they could in that case
have had the aid of thousands of influential
citizens who will probably now not only aid
in the repeal of the law, but assist in rendering
it nugatory. We do not ourselves believe that
all the Liquor Dealers in the State can cause
one step backward iu the great Temperance
Reform. If tha License Law is repealed, we
shall most assuredly have Prohibition. The
cities with their hives of busy rum cells, may
object but the country is all right and will
come to the rescue. Sun.
All Talk and Nothing in It. The Leba
non Courier truly remarks that the Locofoco
papers have much to say against the Ameri
cans, but in their denunciations, they gener
ally set up objects of straw to knock them
down again. Thev attribute much to the Amer
ican party, which that party, so far as we can
learn from its avowed principles, docs not in
the least endorse. In this way they seek to
make capital ; but its unfairness is transparent.
Y e have carefully examined every declaration
of principle that has thus far come to us from
auy American organization, aud in them we
are unable to find either that intolerance or
bigotry which i3 charged on the party ; bat on
the contrary, they avow a determination to
protect religious liberty, &c, just the contrary
to that which their calumniators attribute to
them.
The locofoco party has always disliked every
thing American ; but the time has passed when
it can carry the people with it in its unpatri
otic snubbing of our own country. Ihe issue
is now being fairly joined between those who
are friendly to giving America a nationality,
and those who will prostitute her to any depth
of humiliation and disgrace to accomplish
their selfish ends. On these grounds we meet
them, and may " God favor the Right."
The New York Demociiact. The "Hard
Shells" at their recent demonstration in Now
York city, did not manifest a very tender re
gard for the feelings of tho Administration,
nor for tho "softer" members of the "happy
family." Ono of the resolutions alludes to
the Tammany (administration) brethern as
"hypocrites" and "knaves," who havo turned
the old wigwam into a regular "House of
Refuge" for "rascals" whom honest Demo
crats had cast out! Mr. Marcy is regaled with
some hot shot; and at his door is laid the
failure of the Administration to get possession
of Cuba. But the 1 lards go a step further,
and show no disposition to make only Marcy
tho 6cape-goat for the Administration at large,
another resolutioa (passed by acclamation)
declaring that "the only safety of the Demo
cratic Party now lies in an unconditional re
pudiation of the Aaministration. The call
was "heartily seconded" for a Democratic
State Convention, on the 5th of September,
to make a State ticket that "shall be neither
Free Soil, Prohibition, Know-Nothing, nor
fanatic, of any other class, degree or color."
We opine that the President will find this
"shell" rather a "hard" one to crack.
Arrest of a British Consul at Cincinnati.
Chas Rowecroft, Esq., Consul of the British
Government at Cincinnatti, arrested in that ci
ty on Tuesday morning, on complaint of the
U. S. Deputy Marshal, before the U. S. Com
missioner, on the charge of enlisting recruits
for the British service. Warrants were also is
sued at the same time, lor tho arrest of a
number of persons enlisted for the British ser
vice, and the officers proceeded at G A. M. on
Tuesday, to the depot of the Little Miami Rail
road, where they arrested 13 persons, alleged
to be recruits, just preparing to depart. . Two
others were arrested in another quarter of the
city. The Consul was subsequently allowed to
depart, on his pledgo of honor to appear when
the Government should be ready for the exam
ination. Tho others accused were held to bail
in $300 each. It was also reported that a large
number of Irishmen had beon enlisted, and
would be arrested during the afternoon.
03- The receipts of the Pennsylvania Rail
rna.l dnrinsr the month of Jnnn wiro SKIV l7r.
79, being an increase of $74, G21 75, or 32 per
cent, over the receipts in the correspond in
ii. ..
luouiu ui lata j cai .
f , J- " Reportd for the Journal.
TnE FOUKTn IN MORRIS.
The 79th anniversary of our national inde
pendence, was celebrated near Brown's School
House, in Morris township, in a patriotic and
becoming manner. Several of tho Sabbath
Schools, together with a large number of the
citizens of Morris, assembled in a beautiful
grove selected for the occasion.
Peter Swartz, Esq., being appointed Presi
dent of the day, assisted by a number of Vica
Presidents, &c. Tho Declaration oflndepeu
dence was then read in a clear and impressive
manner.
Mr. Joseph C. Brenner, being called upon,
delivered an address in his usual eloquent and
patriotic manner, after which the citizens par
took of a very snmptuous repast prepared by
the ladies on tho Pic-Nic -principle, after
which the Rev. Mr. Saterfield, addressed tha
Sabbath Schools, in a very clear and impres
sive manner.
J. Test, Esq., was then called upon who de
livered a very able and appropriate address,
after which the following regular and volun
teer toasts were offered and read.
regular toasts.
' 1. The day we celebrate Distinguished In
the annals of the world, as the birth-day of a
mighty and wonderful nation; as also, for tho
introduction of new and great principles of
political philosophy, which in the lapse of
time, are destined to change the political, so
cial, and moral relations of the world.
2. The President of the United States.
3. The Governor of Pennsylvania, we honor
the man and respect his high office.
4. The heroes of the Revolution In tho
days that tried mens' souls, these gallant foun
ders of the Republic, freely shed their best
blood, and endured the greatest privations in
the cause of liberty. Their country owes them
every thing, and their memories will be cher
ished ns long as time shall endure.
5. The Union of the StaUs " Liberty and
Union, one and inseperable, now and forever."
Palsied be the hand that would sever the small
est strand of our bond of union.
C. The Constitution of the United States-
Like gold in the furnace, each firy trial but
developes its purity.
volcnteer toasts.
By J. England, Esq. The day we celebrate-
May each returning anniversary find the day
and its memories, more and more deeply root
ed in the hearts of tho American people.
By a Guest Sunday Schools The colleges
of tho people ; the Intellectual nursery of our
youth. So long as they are liberally sustained,
America has nothing to fear. The founders
of Sunday Schools, will be gratefully remem
bered in all time to come.
By Jos. C. Brenner Gen. Geo. Washing
ton Who has not heard the revered name
pronounced over and over again ? At the sound
thereof a nation's gratitude breaks forth from
sea to sea, and calls him blessed; millions
upon millions yet nnborn, shall lisp his name,
as the father of his country, the greatest, the
purest, and the best of men.
By a Guest The Ladies Form one of that
sacred trio to whom we this day pay our hum
ble and heartfelt adoration our God, our
country and woman ; and on our country and
the ladies, wc invoke the richest and most
munificent blessings of Heaven.
By A. Brown, Esq. The Army and Navy
of the United States Often tried and never
found wanting. The honor of our country ia
safe in their hands.
How TnE Socth Did It. The Slavery part
of the Know-Nothing platform is styled that
of the majority of the National Council, but
the National Intelligencer, in publishing tho
list of yeas and nays on the question, calls at
tention to the fact that the yeas represented
fifteen States, with 146 electoral votes, while
the nays represented sixteen States, with 150
electoral votes.
Tho system of representation in the Con
vention is well designed for the triumph ot"
tho South. Each State was allowed seven
delegates, without regard to the numbers rs
presented, and thus Delaware was equl to
New York or Pennsylvania, and the Southern
delegates, though representing but little mor
than one-half the actual votexs that the North
did, was equal in power in the Convention,
and was given the supreme control by allow
ing the District of Colnmbia to have seven
delegates. The North was shorn of her just
power, and with the positive recreancy of New
York, the South carried its favorite platform.
Female Shot. The Monongahela Heptibli
cuh states that a lady named Mrs. Allman, of
Pike-Run, Washington county, got shot in a
very singular manner, a few days ago. Her
son-in-law, Mr. Carson, had been out gunning,
and, as he alleges, put a ball down before tho
powder. He took the gun to his father-in-law,
Mr. Allman, and after pouring in water, took
oil' the breach, when tho ball waa visible, and
no powder was to be seen below it. He boat
ed an iron to melt out the ball as it could not
bo driven up or down. When the ball molted,
the gun went off, and the ball, passed through
a chair and struck Mrs. Allman in the small of
the back. Drs. Biddlc and Cotton wore call
ed and probed the wound into the bowels,
where the ball is lost. As yet, Mrs. Allman
is in a fair wav to recover.
Scene Betweex Gubernatorial Candi
dates. Col. Winston and Judge Shortridgo,
tho two gubernatorial candidates in Alabama;
came near having a serious personal collision
during a discussion a few days ago, Winston,
it is stated, in response to an assertion oi
Shortridgo, said You are a liar !' Judge Short-
ridge replied to him " i on are an mraraous
liar sir," and as ho said this he made his way
off of the stand towards Winston. As tho
Judge descended from the stand Winston drew
bis pistol by this time the whole house was
thrown into confusion. A largo crowd sur
rounded the combatants, and a gsneral fight
was proventod only by the interferenco of
friends.
The Largest Mill ix the World. Tho
largest , and most comprehensive mill in the
world is the Pacific, at Lawrence, Massachu
setts. The floor surface of this immense struc
ture is sixteen acres the largest mill in Eng
land is elevon and a half acres. There are
now in operation 40,000 cotton spindles and
10.000 worsted spindles ; and these are to bo
increased to 80,000 and 20,000 respectively.
There are 1,200 loom in operation, to be in
creased to 1,400. These, with 2,000 hands,
produce 300,000 pieces of cloth per annum,
one-half delaines. The weekly consumption
of cotton is 20,000 lbs., say 1,500,000 lbs.
wool. Once a month tho 2,000 hands assemble
at the cashier's office, where Mr. Clapp pays
out $50,000 to them for wages, appropriating
to each one the exact amount she has earned.
Fiendish Attempt at Murder. Providence,
R. I., July 13. Tho dwelling houso of John
;tv va blown ud and en
tirely destroyed by gunpowder last night while
me iamuy wero in oea. v "
had been placed Under Mr. Tucker'a bed, and
the trail carried outside the houso and fired.--None
of the inmates of the house were injured.
Their escape was miraculous.
Erie Conference. The Erie Conference of
the M. E. Church, meets at New Castle on tho
11th instant. It embraces the entire Western
Reserve, three counties of Western New l ork
and a number of the Western counties of Pennsylvania.