But how are these strange dogmas to be carried into practical effect I It is proposed to change the Constitution and laws so as to fix a religious test for efface. The very first step in such a scheme is a union of Church and State, in which a profession"of the estab lished religioa will be necessary to political elevation. If one class of .professing Chris tians be proscribed, will not another soon follow, until the infidel spirit of the country will predominate? The scenes of the Six teenth Century, in Europe, so shocking to hu manity, should admonish us against the idea of persecution. Our ancestors were refugees from religious oppression. When Roger Williams, Lord Baltimore, and William Penn agreed_upon terms of religious tolerance, it was the second advent of "good will to man kind." It was the greatest triumph of Chris tianity since the days of Constantine. But let us look at this subject in another as pect. I hold that the Know-Nothing doc trines are illegal and unjust. We fixed the conditions upon whichthe people of other dountries, of every religious denomination, could become citizens equal with ourselves, and their compliance binds our government and people forever. We .have allured them by our boasted declarations, that in this land of liberty each could worship God according to the dictates of his conscience, and that none shotild molest him or make him afraid ; and thus attracted, many came from every country, Protestant and Catholic. Some have felled the forest and cultivated the soil ; others have built our railroads and canals ; others have become miners, manufacturers, and mechanics; and a few have devoted them selves to the professions and the arts. In all these relations of life, they have added to the growth and general prosperity of the country. They have contributed to the treasury in peace, and have assisted us to fight in times of war. And now it is proposed to proscribe and degrade them to answer unjust and sel fish ends ; to disregard the covenants of the constitution. Has it never occurred to the advocates of Know Nothingism, that we have no moral or legal right to'do this I Teat civil rights are as sacred as the rights of pro perty ? That combinations to destroy privi leges conferred by the Constitution, are as infamous as combinations to steal away goods and chattels I or that nothing can have a more fatal effect upon the advocates of civil and religious . liberty in other countries, than the recognition of intolerant doctrines in this 7 Such a step would be a triumph of monarchy and intolerance the world over. Do they not know that the surest way to endanger our re public, is to weaken and demoralize the Con stitution, by disregarding its obligations; that it is our best means of defence against the very dangers which they pretend to dread? If they bave not considered these thingsi they are literal Know-Kothings. What otir genre errunent has agreed to do, it must perform.— If the laws are wrong, it is our fault, and is good reason for changing them ; but as long as they exist, their obligations must be ob served. Nor can " natives to the manor born" take away, even by law, rights that have been conferred by the Constitution. Measures prospective in their effect, and they only, are legitimate. However much we may differ as to these, they would furnish no just cause of complaint, and involve no bad faith. Let me not be misunderstood._ lam the advocate of no class or sect of people. The Demo cratic party has never recognized, and never will sanction the demand of any class or ' sect, as such, for office or honor. We but maintain the constitutional rights of all, for the sake of all; for. the native and foreign born—the Protestant and Catholic—leaving each individual citizen to depend upon his own merits for office and honor. This is the ' Democratic doctrine on the subject. Every man can vote as he may please. He is not obliged to vote for a Catholic or foreigner.— No man should vote for a bad man of either class. But it is the indiscriminate proscrip tion of these classes by combination of law, to which we object. There are many remin iscences in our past history to render the idea distasteful. in all the past struggles of the country the foreign-born and native, the Protestant and Catholic, stood or fell together. They did so when the Declaration of Inde pendence was adopted, and when the consti tution was made. They did so on every bat tle-field of the Revolutionary war ; in the war of 1812, and in the war with Mexico.— The recollection of all these things excites aversion to the proposed proscription. Every page of our past history speaks against it.— From the shades of Mount Vernon, where sleep the ashes of Washington, who helped tb make these covenants, comes up an admo nition against their violation. From the heights where Montgomery fell—from the grass-covered grave of Lafayette—from the silent resting places of the chivalrous Kosci usko and De Kalb—is heard a remonstrance against a violation of the faith on which the battles of the Revolution were fought: In deed,- from every source of moral and political truth comes a frown—an indignant frown -upon this scheme of treachery and oppres sions The evil tendencies of secret societies for mere partizan ends, are too obvious to require discussion. Washington has aptly described them as the means by which cunning men may usurp the power of the people, and gain unworthy rule. They are, inconsistent with the American character. We boast of free dbm of speech and liberty of the press. If evils exist, moral and political, which require reform, let us make a day-light business, and not to go about it like a thief in the night.— No practice could have a more demoralizing influence upon the character of our people, nor be better calculated to corrupt the ballot box and jury box, and to embitter the chan nels of social and politiCal intercourse: The whole tendency is vicious, and the institution will speedily meet what it merits—the uni versal contempt of all honorable and patriotic men. And now, fellow citizens, in conclusion, 1 -would persuade you that the surest way to perpetuate our republican government, and its inestimable blessings of peace, prosperity, and happiness, is to maintain with unyield ing firmness, the letter and spirit of the Con stitution; and by cherishing those liberal no-' tions of public society which have uniformly distinguished the career of the Democratic party. ' And when did a people multiply and advance in the elements of national greatness withsuch wonderful rapidity 1 It is not more than the lifetime of a very old man, since the members of our family of sovereign States numbered but thirteen, and the population of the whole fell below that-now counted for one of a family of thirty-one: The end of the present century, in this ratio, will see. the States doubled and the population trebled.— The constitution gave us a. happy union of States, and under the auspices of' both the nation has so prospered;' - and_now the obli gation devolve s ; upon us, who are actors on the stage, to perpetuate and hand these vast blessings down to our successors. This is a brave duty, and, in my humble opinion, can only be safely discharged by asserting and maintaining• the constitutional rights' of the States in their sovereign capacity; by the people of one State forbearing to interfere with the institutions of those of another"; by maintaining those great ideas of civil and re !igloos liberty, found at the vary basis of our' whole social and political system ; by avoid ing the creation of geographical parties, so suggestive of separation ; and by leaving the people of each State, under the direction of Heaven, and the restraints of the constitution, to select and regulate as they may please, those merely local institutions under which they choose to live, and for fhe good or evil of, which they, and they only, must account. These principles and practices settled by the people of all sections of the country, and I should be cor►fident in the belief that the fa; tore of our republic is to cover many centu ries of brilliant prosperity and progress. Post Office Department. WASHINGTON, D. e. 7 March 5, 1856 Newspapers throughout the United States will render a service, in our opinion, to per sons having correspodents in the Pacific re gion, by giving a conspicuous place to the subjoined circular in their respective columns. JOHN B. WELLER, Senate of U. S. from California. J. W. DENVER, House of Reps. of U. S., from Cal. P. T. HERBERT, ' House of Reps. of U. S., from Cal. JOSEPH LANE, Del. from Oregon Ter., H. R., U. S. - J. PATTON ANDERSON, Del. from Wash. Ter., H. R., U. S. To persons manig letters for California and the Territories of Oregon and Washington: —Thousands of letters sent to the Pacific coast become dead letters. To remedy this evil, the Post Office Department, under the authority of Congress, has adopted, as an auxiliary to its operations, the following plan for simultaneously publishing at each and ev ery post office in the Pacific region, in a list called the " Pacific Mail List," the names of persons to whom letters have been sent by mail to post offices in California and the Ter ritories of Oregon and Washington. By this system a letter may be sent to any post office in the PEVIi fie region for a person whose loca tion is unknown, save the mere fact that he is somewhere in California or the Territories of Oregon and Washington ; yet, if the letter be published in the " Pacific Mail List," its ultimate reception by the person for whom it is intended -will be rendered highly probable. To enable those who may desire to extend to their Pacific correspondents the advantage thus offered, the following illustration is given Suppose it.is wished to send to the Sacra mento' post office a letter for George Wilson, who' emigrated to California from Pike coun ty, Missouri, but it is feared that he may have changed his location,,and hence may not re ceive the letter. In this case direct the let ter to George Wilson, (late of Pike county, Missouri,}' Sacramento. Cat. Then, in,ot der to publish the leiter in "Pacific Mail List," copy the address of the letter upon a piece of pa per or card,-and enclose the card, tog,ether with a three-cent postage stamp, in an envel ope, and direct the envelope to the ." Pacific Mail List," New York. Deposite the letter, as usual, in the mail for California, and at the same time drop the-envelope, containing the card to publish the letter c in the mail for New York. From the - address on the card thus received at the New York post office, the name, George Wilson. will be entered in' its appropriate place in the "Paciffe Mail List," which list is printed and sent by each Mail to each and every posmiaster in California and the Territories of Oregon and Washington, and by them posted in a conspicuous place in their respective offices. The list being thus distributedever the entire Pacific region, Geo. Wilson may at once learn from it that a let ter has been sent to the Sacramento post office. No person ,of a similar name will receive the letter, fur the address on it points out that it is intended for George Wilson, late of Pike county, Missouri. Thus many letters will be received that would otherwise be transmitted to the dead letter of. The envelopes containing the advertising cards, sent to the " Pacific. Mail List," New York, pay postage like ordinary mail matter, and must be prepaid. The addresses of let ters copied on the pieces of paper or cards should be Written in a plain and distinct man ner. The three cent postage stamps enclosed in the envelopes defray the expenses of pub lication, and must not be pasted to the cards, but simply enclosed with them. In the ab sence of postage stamps, three cent coins may be substituted. It is believed that this circular has been drawn up so explicitly as to require no expla nations; but, should this prove not to be the' case, postmasters will take notice that all in terrogatories must be addressed to the " Pa cific Mail List," New York, and not to the department. The first of this series of lists will accom pany the mail of May sth, and will be for warded by each succeeding mail. OLIVER EVANS WOODS. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, March 5, 1856. Mr. Woods has my authority to put his Flan, as above, in operation, but no responsi bility is assumed by the department ; and all correspondence in regard to this arrangement must be addressed to the " Pacific Mail List," New York: That - the publid may avail itself of the advantages thus offered, postmasters are requested to give the circular a conspicu ous place in their respective offices. JAMES CAMPBELL, Postmaster General JOHN F. DENroalsKt,a Pole, who had recent ly arrived in Savannah, committed suicide short time ago. lie left the following note:— "I am tired of life. lam here as a stranger. Could not find any employment, and my mon ey was all gone, and so I resolved to commit suicide. I fought in Europe against despo tism, lost every thing I. possessed. No bu l let could find me in•the baffles, and here, in a Re publican country I am obliged to shoot my self." TRIAL OF THE WAREMANS--The New Ha wen Register of Wednesday says: "The whole tribe of Wakeman ites-:—Rhoda Wakeman, Samuel Sly, and Miss Hersey— will be on trial this morning, at 9 o'clock, before the superior court. Perhaps no trial that ever took place in this city has occupied so much of public attention as this. The in terest in the case is not confined to New Ha ven, but in other parts of the country people feel. particularly interested in the result of this . remarkable trial. r- ® GLO F. Circulation—the largest in the County. HUNTINGDON, PA. Wednesday, April 30, L 856. Democratic State Nominations CANAL COMAIISSIONER, GEORGE SCOTT, of Columbia county AUDITOR GENERAL, JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery county. SURVEYOR GENERAL, TIMOTHY IVES, of Potter county Es-Governor Bigler's Speech. The speech of Ex-Go'vernor Bigler, deliv ered at Hartford, Connecticut, previous to the late election in that State, we lay before our readers to day. It is eloquent with truth, and we hope will be read by every man in Hun tingdon county. Read, and hand to your neighbor. • MORE AID.-Wm. Sergeant, Esq., a son of the late distinguished Hon. John Sergeant, is out in a letter in the Philadelphia papers resigning his position as a member. of the Whig Committee of Superintendence, and an nouncing his determination to support the Democratic ticket at the coming municipal election in that city. Charles Gilpin, Josiah Randall, John M. Reed, and a number of other heretofore lead ing Whigs of Philadelphia, have avowed their determination to _attach themselves to the Democratic party. THE PHILADELPHIA NOMINATIONS IN IVIAS SACHCSETTS.—Lieutenant Governor Bench ley has written a letter in reply to an invita tation to address a know-nothing meeting in Worcester, in which he says : . "The nomination of Mr. Fillthore was un expected and unfortunate, and the nomination of Donelson not only unfortunate but an in sult to the North." ['The LiotuE JOURNAL, printed in New York by Messrs. Morris &Willis, is one of the best literary papers in this country ? :Will the editors favor us with an exchange? • RENouNcING KNow-Norxitsiors3r.—The Bedford Gazette publishes letters from David 0. Shoemaker, Frederick H. Beegle and Jacob Harshbarger, renouncing and exposing Kno!,v- Nothingisrn, and denouncing the Order as "a sink of loathsome corruption and falsehood." A . K.Now-NoT HIM.; Plt A I:r r !—A clerical member of a know-nothing Council in Frank.; lin county, addressed the pious 'petition to Heaven-- " that hell might open her ponderous jaws and swallow the Pope and all his adherents!" The reader can make his own comments. RETIRING . SENATO M.—the term of office of the following named SenatiitS; Tepresenting the districts ilesignated, expired with the late Legislature l'Eti K. Price, 17 W. M. Platt, 2 Henry C. Pratt, 19 Thomas Hoge, • 11 David Mellinger, 21 John Ferguson, 13 Samuel . Wlierry, 22 J.R. Ikl Ctintuek, 15 1 .Cresswell-, J r - 25 S. S. Jamison. 16 C. R. Buckalew, The following resolution was unanimous ly adopted by the democratic convention of the sixth destrict of Maine : "Resolved, That the - confidence manifested by the people of the United States in the ca pacity, integrity ; and sound principles of Franklin Pierce in his election to the presi dency has been amply justified by the ability, firmness, purity, and patriotism, which have marked his conduct of public affairs." The Rising Tide'of Dembcracv During a few weeks past we have had the pleasure of recording democratic victories al most innumerable, and in all parts of the country. Seldom have the democracy with in the same period of time achieved so lengthy a consecution of 'triumphs. As the Oswego Palladium well remarks : "The tide of demoeratic power is rising steadily and surely on every hand. It purged up in New Hampshire, increased handsomely in Rhode Island, has nearly overthroi,vn . the opposing billows in Connecticut,. and rides triumphant through the_ cities, from St. Louis, through Chicago, Milwaukie, Cleveland, Oswego, Sy racuse, and hundreds of other places, to Al_ bany. These waves, increasing in size, are destined to swell on, until, by the ides of November, they shall all unitedly and harmo niously till the full flood-tide of victory, whose waves are surely destined to carry up, on their crest the democratic standard-bearers of 1856. Let the glorious tide sweep on till it overwhelms every vestige of fanatical dem • aao.ism This it will do !" . 0 Distinguished Recruits It is said that many prominent members of Congress, elected as Whigs, seeing the hope less condition of that party, and detesting the doctrines of Republicanism and Know Noth. ingism, have Openly avowed their determina tion to act, hereafter, with the Democratic party. Among the rrames we have heard mentioned are those of Messrs. CARUTHERS and Ouvnit, of Missouri, STEPHENS and CRAWFORD, of Georgia, TALBOTT and JEW ETT, of Kentucky, CLINGIVIAN, of North Caro lina, Bowls, of Maryland, and WATKINS, of Tenn. Mr. OLIVER 4 we know, has openly dec:ared his intention to unite with the Dem ocracy, on the ground that it is the only Na tional and Constitutional party ;-and we have no doubt that the other gentlemen named, and tens of thousands of others, will pursue the same course in the ensuing struggle for the Presidency. We welcome them under the folds of our banner. Know Nothingiam in Huntingdon county Know Nothingism is on the decline in Hun tingdon county as well as elsewhere. The novelty. of a midnight meeting has ceased to attract the curious, ,while th!d honest spurn its overtures with indignation. Scores of those who, within two years past, were in veigled within its meshes, . enslaved by its oaths, and made cowards by the secrecy it imposed, are beginning fully to realize the ex tent of their duplicity, and heartily ashamed of it, are leaving the Order in disgust. The consequence of this is, that some very strange as well as ludicrous develonmentd are being made, which will come in play at the proper time. • We will venture the assertion that in no county to the commonwealth was the Society of Know-Nothings - more completely and thor- Oughly organized than in our own ; in every district in the county they could tell their strength to a man; nor was there a man un approached-who was susceptible by prejudice or bigotry of-being drawn, into their organiza tion. Acting in secret, and imposing upon the confidence of others, all efforts of a coun teracting tendency were paralyzed, and turn ed to their own advantage. So formidable did they appear that honest men, and men of nerve, paled before the magic wand of Know- Nothingism: But all honor to the great body of the Democratic party who remained true to their colors, who never deserted them, and in proportion as their enemies pressed upon them, fought 'with greater zeal and determi nation. And it is a fact worthy of notice that those democrats who were induced to join the Order are now . its most formidable and energetic opponents—thus redeeming their characters in good time; for, one year hence, the . cogn omen Know-Nothing will be only spoken in derision—it will be numbered with the things that were—thrown side by side with the dead ttarcase of Anti-Masonry, from thence to emit its offensive smell, when stirred, as a warning to all future political fillibusters ; 'but some of its hucksters that we'wot of, we fear, will never outlive the dis grace-it entails; like the Shirt , of Nessus, it will stick to them until their shroud covers it. -We can heartily join a cotemporary in for giving those who were deceived, who went into the new. order, captivated by its promises, and specious pretensions. But now that its corruption has been exposed, now that :he common judgment of mankind has pronoun ced it a hideous lie, the man who holds on to and sustains "Know-Nothin2ism," is guilty of impugning the known truth, and is destined to political damtmtion. At the Spring elections in this borough one year ago the Know-Nothings carried every thing before them ; in fact,-there was , no or- ganized opposition to them. At the late March election, however—contrary to our most sanguine expectations—they were de feated. Eiasperated at this unlooked fur re sult, they resolved on total annihilation of all opposition .at the' corporation election on the first Monday of this month ; but in this, as our readers are aware, they sign : ally fdiled —a more decided victory over them followed their unexampled exertions to maintain their ground. As was anticipated, the results of these two elections have told with considerable effect throughout the county. The Midnight Order is now in a state of disorganization; there is no union, no harmony, no confidence existing among them. Some declaring that 'the present leaders of the party are ruining iu attempting to rule it ;" others complain that what was to have been a principal fea ture in their organization, to wit, "a proscrip tion of office-seekers," has been set eside, and that instead of "the office seeking the man," the old office4mnters of Huntingdon county are still extending their hands, crying "give! give !" and declare that t_ he attempts made to 'thrust such candidates upon them will beyesisted. • A. few. of their leaders have embraced black Republicanism, while those that are left are busily piping for their nomination for the State Senate. (Have they ever thought of the utter impossibilty of a Know-Nothing being elected from this district') Some of the rank and file who were formerly Whigs, have gone back to their first love, and some have openly embraced Democracy. There is no mistaking the fact—the evidences Of :it are to be seen on every band. They have loqt. scores .of their best' men, and the "good work goes bravely on." They may • well sing— If I was so soon to be done for Oh! what was I begun for ?" . An Old-Line Whig In the course of the speech made by Senator Jones, of Tennessee, at the celebration of Henry Clay's birth-day at the Slashes, Vir ginia, he said: "1 do not belong to the so-called American party, and I thank God for that.' [Continued laughter.] I belong to the Henry Clay party. I have never veered to the right or to the left. love the memory of Henry Clay; but I nev 7 dr worshipped any false gods. I stand now, Mr. _President, where T have ever stood, and where 1 mean to stand as long as 1 shall stand at all. I am an old-fashioned, old school,. Henry Clay, Heaven-descended and censecra ted whig. [Great laughter.]" WESTWARD no !—We learn from the Chi cago Democratic Press that during the forty eight hours endintr" Saturday morning, the eight trains 'on the Michigan Southern road brought eighty one coaches, containing 4,000 passengers; and in the same time the six trains over the Michigan Central took into that city sixty-three coaches, containing 4,662 passengers, nearly nine thoulan.a fiassengers arriving in two days. The Old-Line Whigs of 'Kentucky. The old-line whigs of Kentucky held a State convention at Lexington on the 12th instant. If we are correctly informed (says the Memphis Appealj the object of this as semblage is to take the sense of the old-line Clay whigs upon the *sent attitude and as pect of affairs—to determine whether they will stand aloof for the present or unite in the support of one or the other of the contending parties. We learn of a gentleman just arri ved from Louisville there is a strong proba bility that the great mass of the whigs will sustain the democratic nominations, provided they are such as the democrats pledge them selves to give to the country—sound in poli tics, pure in character, patriotic in motive, capable of adminiitering the government, and "faithful to the constitution." The dem ocratic nominees will have all these qualities and qualifications. The Kentucky whigs may, therefore, prepare to join hearts and hands with us. The convention spoken of adopted a plat form. The subjoined planks may be regarded as fair samples of the whole structure. "That the constitution vests in Congress no legislative power over slavery or any other domestic institution of the States, having ade quate population, adopting republican gov ernments, and co:nplying with the just re quirements of the constitutton and the laws, ought to be admitted into the Union on a foot ing of equality with the other States, with or without slavery, as the good people thereof— being citizens of the United States—in their municipal character may be pleased. to or dain ; that all agitation of the slavery ques tion, whether in States or Territories, should cease in Congress, and the existing laws should be acquiesced in by all lovers of the peace of the Union. "That every right protected by the consti tution should be faithfully accorded to every class of men to whom its provisions extend, without regard to section, birth, or religion, of parties entitled to such rights; and that loyalty to the government ; honesty, and ca pacity are the true tests of the eligibility of men to the enjoyment of the franchises of citi zens." - The Louisville Democrat of the 15th instant has a full report of the proceedings of the con vention. That paper says : "The proceedings were short, and the con currence in them unanimous. A motion was made, we understand, to adjourn immediate ly upon the adoption of the address and reso lutions, but it was too plain that the audience wanted semething more. A call was made for the Hon. A. Dixon, and he responded in a broadside against the new revelation at length. His speech is highly spoken of as determined and withering. He was follow ed by Mr. Stevenson, who denounced the , know-nothing party just about as it deserved. ' It is refreshing to. see these old-line whips again in open organization, as in old times. It is so infinitely above the recent fungus of sin in the opposition that it looms up like an oasis in the desert. The resolutions are gen eral and unexceptionable. There is a slight squinting at protection, but not more than will, perhaps, be found in any tariff that could be framed. They embrace . only political subjects, such as political parties have a right to differ about. The position of the men composing th:s convention will extort- re spoct. The mass of their old'assoCiates have gone and left them, a small remnant. They would not be tempted by party associates, nor the hope of position, to take up a new revelation. They refused to go with the multitude to do evil. They do their own thinking, and need no advice. Let them pro ceed ; if they can bring their old associates out of a secret, oath-bound, Jacobinical asso ciation, they gill perform an important ser vice." What we have gained in Connecticut. The New Haven Register thus briefly sums up the result of the recent election in Connecticut : "In the last legislature the Hindoos had a majority of about seventy in the house, and all but two of the senators. This year we gain more than fifty members of the house, and elect nine senators ! Minor run ahead of Irnzharn, who, though he was in a minori ty of the popular vote about ten thousand this year, will lack only about one thousand votes of an election by the people over the Hindoo, abolition, and Whig cadidates combined ! This shows where Connecticut will be in the presidential contest soon to come off. Al most every town in the State shows a demo• cratic gain on the popular vote; and, whilst we have lost the election by the skin of our teeth, we have the satisfaction of knowing that the democratic is the only party in the State, and that the _opposition is doomed to fall before it." The splendid achievement of our friecds in Connecticut challenges the admiration , of democrats everywhere. The Providence Post says : "It was accomplished under the most em barrassing and discouraging circumstances, and by a most .determined and unflinching effort. The nomination of Welles for gover nor by the republicans, it should be kept in mind, did not resnl(from any dissatisfaction on the part of the leaders of that party „with the Hindoo nominee, but was a mere trick to entrap democratic voters. It succeeded to some little extent ; but that it effected so little is creditable in, the. highest degree to the firmness and intelligenoe of the, democratic masses.. The, nomination of Mr. Rockwell by the 'old-line" whigs was another move ment calculated to •tveaken the democratic chances of success; but it could not, and did not, dishearten the friends of our , glorious cause.. In spite of these and a score of minor discouragements, and in the face. of an oppo sition as reckless and unblushing in its false hood as that which met the democrats of this State, they marched forward in an , unbroken column, and accomplished a work which ren ders it certain that old Connecticut is all rea dy to wheel into line when. the presidential tocsin shall give its first sound. The result is emphatic in its story that the democratic party is larger by six THOUSAND than any other. party in the State ! Last year our can didate for governor,. Mr. Ingham, Jacked about.ten thousand votes of an election, and was behind Minor, the H Hindoo candidate..— Now, Ingham lacks but little more than one thousand of an election over the Hindoo, re publican, and Whig candidates combined and leads Minor, so far as heard from, six thou sand sikhundred and twenty-one votes." f The Campaign Opened in Missouri. We of already been . advised by tele graph of the signal victory achieved by the democrats of St. Louis over thii know-noth ings at the municipal election held in that city on the 7th instant. 4. St. Louis paper thus records this brilliant democratic triumph —this successful assault - upon the dark-lan ternites in their oldest and strongest citadel: "Nobly have the gallant democracy borne themselves in the struggle with the dark and serried ranks of the know-nothing order, and the victory they have achieved is the grandest ever recorded in the annals of St. Louis ! They have elected tke . entire ticket by a ma jority of nearly twenty-five hundred votes. They have carried eight wards out of ten, and hold a preponderating power in both branches of the city council. They have elected thetr nominees in almost all the va cancies and new memberships of the school board. Such are the first fruits we present to the country of the uprising of the people of the West. It was the initiative battle of of Fillmore and Donelson in Missouri, and their defeat by so overwhelming a vote will, dissolvd their party in this State like snow before the summer's sun. It was the last desperate effort of the midnight fraternity to perpetuate their spremacy in the commercial and political centre of the Valley of the Mis sissippi, and they have been routed with no common overthrow—disbanded in no casual conflict. Grass will grow on the threshold of their lodges—the echo alone will answer to their watchwords—their grips, and signs, and oaths will be numbered amongst the things that were." Foes Without, Trators Within! The Belfast News Letter, one of the oldest and most respectable journals of Ireland, makes public the following statement of its Liverpool correspondent "We are assured that Charles Sumner and Lord Carlisle have been in active correspon dence on the Slavery question. The league between the Aristocracy of the old world and the abolition disunionists of the United States is perfect." "The Earl of Carlisle is Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—and Chas.. Sumner is an Abolition ist Senator of the United States from Massa chusetts, and a kind of Drummond Light of the Black RepubliCan faction. "This disclosure of the Belfast journal, is only a new evidence of the close and inti mate alliance between the • Black Republican Abolition Party in the United States, and the aristocracy of Great Britain, which was al ready known to exist. It is not long since that the London Daily News,—the oracle of the British Anti-slavery Society, declared right out, that in the event of a war between England and the United States, it had the ful lest assurance that the Anti• Slavery Party here would be with Great Britain. Quite na tural, all this !—What sympathy can the Aristocracy of Great Britain have for the American Union, which was reared on the ruins of a monarchy "I What love can their Abolition and Black Republican allies, on this side the Atlantic, have for that same Union, which is held together by a constitution which they are in the • habit of denouncing as an 'atrocious bargain,'—nay, the Union itself, as a 'League' with Death, and a Cove nant with Hell." Mr, Buchanan's Reception. PHILADELPHIA. : April 25.—At exactly twelve o'clock to-day the citizens were in formed by the sound of cannon of the arrival of Mr. Buchanan, Ex-Minister to England.— The avenues in the vicinity of Walnut street Wharf were thronged with excited and curi eus spectators. and upon the pier itself a con siderable number of persons gathered. On the arrival of the boat the crowd form ed into line, as Mr. Buchanan, accompanied by the Board of Trade, stepped on shore, and proceeded to his carriage. Cheers in abun dance saluted him. One exhilarated individ ual shouted loudly for President Buchanan, and seemeldeterrnined to inspire surround ing persons with his enthusiasm. Accompanied by several Councilmen, Mr. Buchanan proceeded to the Philadelphia Ex change heading Room, where he was recei ved and welcomed in a short speech by John Welsh, Esq. Mr. 8., in reply, said he felt as if his foot was again upon his native heath, and he knew that in the opinion of his fellow citizens, he had not disN.elite,d his country nor its prin ciples. He had been absent above three years, and was happy to be once more in his native laud. He was addressed by a com mittee of Merchants as a visitor, not_ as a party man, and he would respond in the same feeling. The large hall in which the reception took place, was crowded in every part. During the p►ogress of Mr. Buchanan's speech, he was interrupted by frequent ap plause. At the termination he. was loudly cheered. Mr. B. then proceeded to the Merchants' Hotel, where he was greeted by many friends. Patriotic Advice to Patriotic Whigs. We copy the following from the Kentucky Statesman : "The issue in this contest demands of these old-line Whigs no amalgamation, no fusion, no surrender of principle, but simply that they shall for. a time stand united side by side with the democracy in eradicating, dangerous and alarmine , political heresies ; and this they must inevitably be forced to do, or stand com mitted against us. After this is done, and our sovereign equality as States in the Union put beyond peril, and the reorganization of the old whig party can be accomplished, we shall then be ready as ever to meet them in open, honorable, and American discussion, and de fend those great fundamental principles ofthe democratic party upon which we think our couatry•has attained its present prosperity and diory.,, (0 - The Cleveland Plain Dealer in noticing the election of :he Democratic ticket in that city by a majority of four hundred, says: cc This, is, indeed, glOry enough for one day. Fusionism and know-nothingism have run their race in Cleveland. , Councilmen and constables must, seek some other hobby for the future. The black-republican ruffians who hung Douglas in effigy on the publin square one year ago are themselves now dang ling in the air. There is a tide in the affairs of men' tf . DEmocnATs, be firm! Relax not your organization ! Keep the enemy always in your sight ! This .is presidential year, and this is its glorious beginning. There is not a ward in the city we cannot carry at the next election by the proper exertion. The city is rousingly democratic, and so will be the whole country in November next !"
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