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J. STAIIILT., F.l I r“R AND 'PROI'IIIETOW,
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Monday Morning, Aug. 17, 1957.
-100 CIVIC %ME NOMINATIONS.
• /OR 110'i
'WILLIAM F. PA cK EU, of Lycoming
CANAL COIOIIIIIIIIOWILR,
liL1i1L01) STIZICK: LAN 11, of Chatter
irDOU or v ILFPILUit COURT,
WILLIAM STRONG, of lierks,
JAMES THOMPSON, of Erie.
Tie Ne.et Ilouee of Repreerittatires.—
FAcetions of members of the House of
Representatires of the next Congress
hays now been held in alt the States of
the Union with the exception of Mary.
land, Georgia, Mississippi and Louisi
ana, The Washington Union makes
the result as follows :, Democrats 110,
Republicans 91, Americans 8, vacancies
2. Supposing no changes to occur in
the remaining four States where elec
tions aro to be held, the next Bowie of
ReprciaMtatives will stand as follows:
Democrats 125, Republicans 91,.Amari
-pans 16, vacancies, 2... The house eon
sists of 234 members-11s constituting
a majority. The Democratic minority,
therefore, will b, 16—subject, however,
to any changes that may occur in the
States vet to vote.
'nited . State.i Senatior.e.—The Legis
tlatures of Tennessee, A'irginia, Texas,
.Kentucky and Alabama are to elect
3„initod. States Senators at their next
iomions. Tennessee has to choose two.
liuntbr And Wise are prominent candi
dates In 'Virginia. Ex-Governor Pow
ell, ex - -Seeretary Guthrie, lion. Geo.
W. Johnson, lion. Wm. Preston, and
ifon.;john W. Stevenson are spoken of
in Kentucky li'y the ,Democrats. (n,
MeCulough, the Texan Rsnger, will
k ,
Aruba 1)- be Gen. Rusk's successor from
Texas. .
_
p®-The Kentucky election secures
the returit of a Democratic United
States. Senator in place of lion. John
B. Thompson, Know Nothing. This
State, with the exception of a few
monttui service by Mr. Merriweather,
under the executive appointment, has
never been repr4nted in the United
States Senate by a Democrat.
Kansas Affairs.—A Waclingt4 , ll let ter
of Tuesday - sa3 - s:—Govorner Walker,
acebrding to adviecs received to-day, is
besieging the city of LawrenPe
111.8615 t his force quietly down before it,
•to - s Wait the movement anticipated from
those within it. The dispatch says
that the Topeka constitution is to be
adopted by a nearly unanimous vote—
meaning,- of course, unanimous in Law-
renee. In other parts of the territory
it is ivpresentect that the Democratic
--Nifty has a majority of the resident pop
ulation.
it the Free State party has the
strength to adopt the Topeka constitu
tion, they will reject any constitution
whiek the legal territorial convention
may adopt in September. Congress
will reject the Topeka constitution and
probably pass a law authorizing the
tall of a convention for the formation
or a constitution. It iastill uncertain
whether Laneand Robinson and other
Free State leaders intend to proroke a
collision with the United States aa-
t Itotities
The Prooptet to Ohio.t-A patrols re
siding in Obio— . --in a letter enclosing
the amount of a yenr's subscription for
the Compiler in advance—remarks:
"The prospect of Ohio being redeem
ed from the hands 1!1' Chase., Gibson &
Co., (the Treasury -sharks,) is very
flattering. The no,nnations that have
just been made hythe Ohio Democra
cy, give general batisfaetion. 11. B.
Payne, the nominee ;11.n. Governor, is ail
excellent man ; not a political hack nor
office-seeker, hnt an honest and straight
forward Democrat, and an excellent
speaker. lu Met, he is just the kind of
man that will do honor to the Guberna
torial chair of Ohio. Our motto is,
'Ohio mast and shall be redeemed:"'
116 Y -Judge Davison ha.k refused to
admit lire. I.%inningliam to\ k bail.. The
New York journals are hinting that
some further discoveries respecticg the
murder of Dr. Burdell are likely to 001110
out of the roeent Cunningham farce.
A New York correspondent of the Bos
ton JegriNg says that, Dr. B. "was kill
cd soon after outered his house at
seven o'cli - x.k.Akat evening," and that
the person whe entered the front door
at eleven was the assassin, with Dr.
B's. cloak and hat on,
Case Of Ciokra.—lt is stated that a
case - of pure and unmistakeable Asiatic
cholera occurred in Newark, N. J.. ou
Saturday werik l and the cause assigned
is the filthy °Condition of the out-houses
it the neighboyboed Olen, the ease ap
peared. Two deaths from. cholera also
Look place last week in New Teak city.
sarGesoNiimP Wise $ an. ADYStid at
TordvettSprings, Virginia.
fudge Wilmot a Know Nothing.
t inaportnet to the people of this
pubic old Commonwealth to know, that
,Tcl4o Wilmot is a Know _,Vothing in the
true sense of that term as a party des
ignation. Tie may be a -I,Voolly Mad"
as much as he ',teases, bat he has, in
his recent Fetter, deetwred hittiaseif, in
principle, a faithful disciple of "Sam."
lie stands on the Know Nothing plat
form of principles and avows them as his
ow•n. We eittle not - (remarks 'the York
Press,) in what guarded phrase he may
bare made the avowal. We care not
for the manifest and studied caution
with which ho has taken his position.
' The position itself is unmistakable, and
is,that of au advocate and supporter
of rank, uutuitiguted Kinow Nothing
ism.
Hero then we have the doctrine of
proscription, revived in, its full extent.
It, mutters not that the advocates of
Know Nothingismdisivow tho doctrine.
It, is proscription and nothing else.
The proscription of Catholics on account
of their religion, and foreigners on ac
count of their birth, is the soul of the
system. If it is not that, it, is nothing,
and neither Judge Wilmot or any of his
followers can so delude the people of
Pennsylvania, as to make them believe
otherwise. Proscription and Know
Nothingism are convertible terms. We
had thought that as a party policy,
Know Nothingism had become a thing
as effete and murrowless as an Egyp
tian mammy, and that its skinny re
mains were to be forever laid aside
among the relics of the folly and wick
edness of other times. But it scums
not.—Sudge Wilmot takes the loath
some carcass in his arms and hugs it to
his bosom. Ile will tint! it a vain aml
powerless attempt, however, to breathe
into it the breath of life. Contact may
destroy his own political vitality, but
can never infuse any into the caress.
Must Stand It
The Clinton Democrat says that the
dog days appear to have about the same
effect on Republican editors as they
have on the canine species. All around
us they are snapping and snarling, as
though they imagined that ill-humor,
hard names, and vile epithets, wore
means of improving their dreary pros
pects. Gentlemen—perhaps we should
ask \ p . ublic pardon for such use of that
term—permit us to remind you that
such a course of eonduct will not relieve
you of your misfortuncw; your doom is
before yon and yon mu.st endure it—
you need not apply hard names or epi
thets to us, for they won't stick—and
you cannot make your black cause look
white by trying to blacken other causes
and people. Take onr,advice, then; en
dure your defeat:cooly and complacent
ly; and above all, do not fly into a pas
sion because of the certainty of it.—
Negro Republican Ping Ugly Know
Nothingism is down, if uotoT must go
down with it, and you must go with
them. Then you will have reached the
lowest depth, and then you can got
some other humbug to rally around.—
In the mean time, " keep cool."
likir - As evidence of the correctness of
the policy of the Administration in
Kansas, it is a fact worthy of mention
that the most respectable of the old er
g/ins of die Whig party, are endorsing
both the corNetness and patriotism of
that policy. tho National Intern
gencer is out_ with a long and able leader
of this chanteter. The New York com
mercial .Adeertiser does the same thing.
They all pronounce the present defiant
attitude Of Laho and his Topeka party
in building up a government within a
government as a rank rebellion, not on
ly against the laws of the Territory,
bat against -the laws of the tiuited
States.
liir-We do not hesitate to my that
ninety-nine in one hundred of all the
thieves, murderers, blacklegs, gamblers,
rowdies, shouldcr-hitiers, disbursers of
wet ckslawation," in fine of all villains,
vote the Democratic ticket.—Xew Hit t
rea. Courier.
sarThis is the old slang, but as Re
publicanism claims -to have nothing
black about it but its.principles, and to
possess all the honesty of the nation,
the Detroit Free Press says the late
State Treasurer of Ohio, a Republican,
is a defaulter to the amount of $700,090
or 8800,000; the Treasurer of Sandusky
county, Ohio, a Republican, is a default
er to the amount of 50,000; the Treas
urer of Van Wert county, Ohio, a Re
publican, is a defaulter to the amount
of $1,215; the Treasurer of Delaware
county, Ohio, a Republican, is a de
faulter to the amount of 818,00
ler" Boys," said a colored individual,
disclosing a small coffin winch he
carried along, nnder ilia cloak, Boys,
don't laugh—F:le a funeral."
This eolor"d gentleman somewhat re
sembles Isaac liarAchurs_t, the +straight
out, X. N. candidate for Governor.
Ilazlehurat iatenda stumping the State.
It will be a tnelaachuly cortege, and we
hope the State will ltiaintain becoming
gravity.
Newspaper Change.—Gen. Bowman
has disposed of the Bedford Gazette,
which paper he has edited with ability
for about twehty-five years, to Messrs.
D. F. Myers and G. W. Benferd.
ilkirA Boston paper states that a
young and remarkably handsome lady
Las boon arrested in that city for ob
structing the side walks by too great a
dibplay of crinoline. The lady was
fined tive dollars and coats, which oho
paid.
A Just Contrast.
The Lytirtnyttrp, (Va.) Rrpridican; in
speaking of existing parties, draw's the
foliowing contrast : " Then• just the
contrast between the I)en►ucratic party
and the party by N% h ich it 13 01/1/013'.1
that there is between an army of Uni
ted States regulars and a band of Mexi
can guerillas. The one is a pern►anent
organisation fbunded on prinetpk) end
necessity, with one common flag and
unifor►n, of which they are ever proud,
and the colors of which they never
change without experiencing an in
stinctive sense of shame and disgrace.
When sattmtoned to battle in the cense
of their country, its legions are formed
in massive columns upon the epos plain,
and they march to battle with flags
and drams beating to conquer or
die. The guerilla is a different animal.
His mixie of warfare is fixed by no prin
ciple; his flag, he has none, except now
and then, when he assumes a false one,
with which to deceive and deooy his ad
versary; his uniform is changed to suit
the change of circumstances; he con
ceals himself in the chapparel instead
of meeting his adversary in the open
field; he fights for plunder and the
spoils irtatead of for God and liberty;
and when fairly driven from his hiding
place, instead of honorably cupitula
ting„he-skulkm to the rear of the army,
and, when opportunity offers, fulls upon
the baggage wagons, and plunders them
of their contents."
Democratic Naminations.—Tho Demo
crats of Frederick county, Md., assem
bled in convention in Frederick cite On
Saturday week and made the following
nominations: Fin. ('lerk of County
Court—Edward Shrive!.; Register of
Wilts—George Iloskins; Senate----(;e0,
R. liennis; House of Delegates—John
Ritchie, James 11. Steele, John F. Sign
ingnids, Daniel Kailer, Samuel Bowles
and IL T. Deaver; Commissioners—
Joshua .Motter, John Stockman, Ezra
Cramer, James 11. llesant and LeHuy
Griffith; Shoff—Peter Goodmanson.
*dr A capital ticket, which deserves
to be triumphantly elected—and if our
friends across the line but bestir them
selves, we shall feel hopeful abaci) a
result.
"It IS . reported that Gip:o. SANDERSON,
of the Lancaster hitc//iyenerr, will be
appointed Treasurer of ,the Mint at
Philadelphia."—ErduinA.
Whether true or not, lie ought to be
appointed', and we hope is. The office
is a good one, and therefore such an one
as a good edinr deserves. Mr. SANDER
SON is one of the oldest and best editor
in the State, always energetic and able,
and like all such men has received but
little reward for it, because he does not
work for reward We trust, however,
that for once Madam Rumor is not ly
ing, and that the Mint at • Philadelphia
will be honored with the presence of Mr.
SANDERSON as its Treasurer.—Clintbn
Democrat.
Let 11 .57ide.—Rev. William Beecher,
in a speech at North Brookfield on the
4th, is said to have made use of the fol
lowing expression : "God help the
(
Union to !slide to perditi "
While so many of h' self-styled min
isters are giving it ali that way, says
the Boston Past, we don't see ' much in
consistency iu the requi±st. It would
not be orthodox to reply that only the
devil has an interest in the peopling of
perdition, and that his calling on God
for help shows that consummate impu
dence tins not ceased to be the le> of
Satanic virtues. Seriously, the rever
end gentleman's invocation or impreca
tion rather, is what would be deemed
in a layman little short of blasphemy.
lirLong John Wentworth, K. N.
aril Rep. Mayor of Chicago, has been
sued for amanit and battery on a law
yer, asuml C. S. Cameron, whom he
had hocked up on the charge of resist
ing an officer. It is stated that Went
worth was drunk at the time.
IfirWe learn that the "hog cholera"
has again made its appearance in Para
dise, W. Manchester and North Cador
us townships, in this county. A
.large
number of hogs have been attacked
with the disease, and with few excep
tions, all have proved fatal. We are
told that several farmers in the last
named township have lost iheiir entire
stiiek of hogs. Mr. John .Eyster, of
West Manchester, lost fifteen head.—lt
is said that the disease has broken
out among the horses and cattle, and
that a number of them have died, in
the above named townships.— York
PAW.
*gene ceiling's of the Senate and
Representative Chambers of the State
Capitol, at Harrisburg, arc about to bo
re-plastered and painted in fresco. The
plaatcrers haug, alread;i . „ - commenced
operations in the latter chamber.
ser-Ali old woman out west is collect
ing all tho Republican newspapers she
ran lay her hands on, to make soap of.
She says they aro a "doaput sight bet
ter than. ashes—they ,are moat as good
as clear
tar - Gen. Lane has boen re-electal to
Congrese from Oregon by a bandanas
majority.
Look Out for amitterfeits.—A nninher
of munterfeit $5 bills on the York Bank,
Pennsylvania, are in circulation at, Har
risburg, and will doubtless find their
way here. They are said to be well
executed, and liable to deceive even exl
perieneed judges of bank paper. The
Harrisburg Herald mentions a gentle
man who took 815 of this trash before
he discovered it was counterfeit. •
cur
most fashionable amusement'
ai ng r young men just now is ehas
in hoop 1.
Overwhelming_ Know Nothing
Detests!
urnE %coax coEs sittynx ON "
Kentucky Election.—The Democrats
have certainly eight of the ton members
of gongress, the State Treasurer by
14000 m aj ority, and a majority of the,
Legislature. Tho latter secures them
a Democratic U. S. Senator, to succt4ed
Johull3. Tbonipaon, N., wbosi term
expires. The mambera of Conhivas
eketeil are - -henry C. ilarnett,Samuel
0. Peyton, Albert G. Talbott, Joshua
H. Jewett, John M. Elliott, James B.
Clay, John C. Mason and John W.
Btevermon, Democrats; and Humphrey
Mutshall and Warren L. Underwood,
Know Notlidigs, (the latter ascertain,
although he had 1,179 majority two
years ago.) The Democrats gain 4 and
the know Nothings lose 4, in:skim; a net
Democratic gain of 8.
Tennessee.—Tho indications are that,
notwithstanding the success which at•
tended the gerrynutntlering efforts of
the Know Nothings a few years ago,
the Democrats have carried both branch
es of the State Legislature by decided
majorities, thus securing the election of
two U. S. Senators. It is believed that,
the majority for Gen. 'Harris, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor, will ex
ceed 10,000.
The delegation to the next Congress
will probably stand 7 Detriderats to 3
Know Nothings—a Detnocratic gain
of 2. •
.2tiorth Carolina--In the second, third,
fourth, seventh and eighth congression
al districts the Mins:rats have elected
their candidates by very largo majori
ties. In the first and simh districts tho
contest was close. but the Washington
Union believes has resulted in the elec
tion of both the Democratic candidates.
In thZ) fifth district the Know Nothing
candidate is elected.
The delegation in the iwxt Congress
will stand 7 Ddmoerats to 1 Know
Nothing. This is, indeed, a must bril
liant and signal victory.
Texas.—llere Sam and Sam Houston
are both licked out. Tho'returns indi
cate that Runnels, Democrat, has been
chosen Governor by 12,000 majority ;
and the
,Know Nothings havo not cho
sen a single member of tANLegislature
as far as heard front.
Akbaina.—The election in Alabama,
like that in Texas, prOVelt to be a one
sided affair. The State is Democratic
to the core ! Not a vestige is left of
Know Nothingisin ! Mobile, once the
quongliold of Sam, gives 400 majority
for the Democrats. In the most vigor
ously-contested district in the State,
Dowdell, 1 einocrat, has 116 majority.
Wm. R. Smith was the only Know
Nothing in the last Congress from this
State, and Mr. Moore, Democrat, de
feats him by 400 majority. This is the
end of Sian in that State.
In Missouri, the Know Nothings and
Emancipationists joined, and have prob
ably elected Rollins, Governor, by 1500
majority. Joseph B. Clark, Democrat,
has been elected to Congress from the
third district, to fill a vacancy—a gain.
Pura foots up something like 1500
majority fur the new constitution.
Election of .I urns B. Clay.—Prentice,
of the T,ouisvilleJoursof, is howling like
a condemned fiend over the defeat of
Hanson, the grrat Know Nothing chum
pion, and the, election of Mr. Clay in
his. stead. No wonder the howl is so
fierce and so prolonged. The guilty
culprit dim hard. I t is the expiring cry
_of • Know Nothingism in Kentucky.—
The High Priest of its inhuman sacrifice
feels that the sceptre has departed from
bis bloody Moloch and therefore he
sends forth his howls of rage and grief.
Howl on, encourager of mobs and
slaughter, your grief is the houor and
salvation of the country. and while you
gnash your teeth with rage, honest
men and patriotic men everywhere re
joice. A thousand Cheers for the gal
lant Democracy of Kentucky, and chlu
hie honor to James B. Clay, of the Ash
land District.
Ifenry Clay's Lan' Puce.--The Lex
ington Statesman says: "In view of
the attempted use of Mr. Clay's name
to arouse the long buried animosities
between Whigs and Democrats, the
Statesman deems it not inappropriate
to mention the last vote over recorded
by the old statesman. In the firbt
State election under the new Constitu
tion, sixteen officers were to be chosen.
Twelve of those candidates had Demo
cratic opposition, and between these
twelve Mr. Clay's name stands record-
ed on the poll hook as folloWs: For
Democrats, 7; Whigs, 5."
1,
kirivifrr n “Ittirrest Home."! --The fol
lowing paragraph from the f:hicago
Tribune of Tuesday, gives au idea of
how harvesting is done at the West :
A friend of ours says that one (lay last
week he went np to the top of a hill
called Mt. Zion, six miles from Janes
ville, Rock county, Wis , and counted
on the surrounding plain one hundred
and sixty four horse power reaping UM
climes, busily cutting down wheat.
There were one thousand men, women
and boys following after, binding and
shocking up the golden sheaves. It
WtiS a sight worth seeing, Ito behold the
grain falling *Lad being gathered up
at the rate of two hundred acres per
hour!
Tall Oata.—A. stalk of oats was U.
ken from a Held of Mr. Aaron Funk,
near this place, a few days siucv, which
measured tight feet orui four inches, and
which is said to be afair average of the
Whysesboree Record.
A Large Hay Field.—Mr. Guthrie, of
Chicago, Illinois, has one field of 850
acres of hay, enclosed with good pine
board and cedar post fence. lie is tut
ting trim other fields 1,000 acres be
sides, nd expects to cut and press this
year .5,000 tens of hay.
Disfranchising Naturalised Cit-
bens.
We !save every reason to be saastied
with the Denix.ratic triumph in Ken
ttuky, hut it ((mull( have been snore
still, but for the shameful conduct
of the Know Nothings, where they had
the uncontrolloit power. The Madison
IPnwerit toll.; u: that in that county in
155,1, Gov. Morehead, the candidate of
the Know Nethiug party, obtained a
majoriiy.of four hundred and seventy
seven votes; this was reduced at, the
Presidential election in November last
to two hundred and titty-five and at
the 'election on Monday week, one of
the Know Not hi ng candidates was elect
ed by a majority of only twenty-six
votes, and the other by only seventy.
Iven tins majority, small as it is, was
bidught about by mind iu the town
precinct all naturalized citizens from
the right of suffrage, whose papers were
not two years oki, and all whose papers
were gruated by County or City Courts,
and by 'excluding others legally entitled
to vote. One man, who was a legal
voter and a native citizen, who avowed
his intention near the polls to vote the
Democratic ticket, was forcibly taken
by KnOw Nothings, locked up, and
kept from voting, against his will awl
consent. Besides this, many illegal votes
.were received on the Know Nothing
side.
. York County.—The " Toil Gazette,"
in an article upon the importance of
at tending the Delegate Elections in that
county, remarks: With the power now
possessed by the Democracy of York,
they owe it to themselves, to their
county, their state, and their country,
to see that they exercise their power
wisely, discreetly and for the genets!
welfare. Regardless of the clamors of
those who seek the offices in their gift,
they should spare no pains to select
"the right oxen for the right places."
We have hr.d enough—in ore than enough
—of , incapacity, and cupidity, corrup
tion, and disregard of the paldie inter
ests, in our c•ountt' offices, and in our
legislative halls. Let us have no fur
ther disgr: e at Ilarrishurg thren.di
such represontatives as M.anear—LET us
FIX A al ITCH smtvnAttn, morally 'and
intellectually, ire which to gunge our
candidates for oilice. And at the dele
gate elections-on 'the 15th irist_, is just
the pt:x•e to begin the work. Let us
elect no delegates who haveitn v political
affinity or association with those who
Lave fietraved and disgraced our coun
ty, or with their sympathisers—let us
rut them and their backers clean off—
the party wants no aid from them, but
would be benelitted by their excision.
Guard the outposts, men of York ! In
looking lbr honesty, lose riot sight of
capacity—in seeking for capacity, for
get not the essential requisite of hones-
ty. Your umteriais afford an opportn
nity of presenting a ticket every. ntan
upon which shall combine these quali
ties. and td these shall add sound Demo-'
cratic principles. With a ticket thus con
stituted, your progress In the coating
campaign you, BE .4. TRIUMPHAL MARCH.
Do not forget the importance of the first
carp—the Delegate Elections! -
Cost of One Day's Labor.—A novel
case was decided before the Superior
Court to-day. It was the case of Jarvis
Curtis rtt Jos. White, of 31,arlbom. An
1
action was brought be,fore J ust ice Foote,
of Marlboro', to recover for one day's
Libor at haying. Tlie justice rendered
a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for $l.
Mr. White (defendant) appealed to
the December term of oourt ; and
then IL. Gilbert, F o sq., of Hebron,
WILS appoirited an auditor of the ease.
The auditor heard the case about
the first of June last in Hebron, and
awarded to the plaintiff Si 25, and
made his report to the March term of
the Superior Court, then in session.
The ease was then put over to the pres
ent term of the court, to allow the - de
' fondant to remonstrate ag tinst the re
port. To-day the case came ap, and
judgment,was rendered in favor of the
plaintiff, (Curtis,)" with double cosh,
amounting $l4O 22 ! ' Rather a steep
price for one day's wC'rk, even at hav :
ing. The value of the time
.that, bus
been wasted by those persons who have
attended upon this ease, we are not able
to state, hut we understand that a large
portion of the inhabitants of the sur
rounding towns have heen more or less
involved hi the case, either as witnesses
or friends of the parties. But the cost
of-that day's work alone amounted to
enough to purchase a mowing-machine
that would curt eight acres of grass per
dfy, or it would have paid for mowing
nearly ninety-four acres of grass, at the
rate of 51 50 per acre. But these are
matters of no paticular' consequence
whenw
e take into consideration the
fact that this is a free country.—Hort.
ford (Cons.) Timm:.
Canto:kiting in the Wet —For years
the western States have been overrun
by extensive and well organized bands
of counterfeiters, and the arrests and
punishment of the offenders have been
few in comparison with the extent and
boldness of the crime. Ono of the most
formidable bands, however, which has
ever infested the country, has recently-,
in Indiana, had an inroad made into its
ranks by the officers of the law, who
have arrested tire of the gang, including
no less than thin- physicians, some of
them having a largo practice, mid one
of them sixty years of age. A large
quantity of counterfeit bills and coin
were found on their respective premises.
Among the bills were 10's on the North
wokern Hank of Vkginia, and 50's on
the North Carolina Ilsnk. Two of the
physicians were detectiki iu selling the
notes on the tirst namel bank. Sever
al other arrests of prominent men are
expected to be male in a few days.
Deatityr - Gwi P'right.—A rutin in a buggy
had recently crossed the railroad truck
at Indianapolis, Indiana, when his horse
commenced backing and rearing, but
not violently. The man was observed
to fall ovr t- on one side, andsvas s n''
°
oti to have fainted, but when picke dup
ho was dead, as is sul . posod, from fright.
Protection from Monopoly.--In various
counties of Englund protective societies
have been formed of persons who pledge
thentsetres not to purchase a thimble
full o sugar nntil it has declined four
cents per pound.
3fortality.Antong U. S. Senators.—Out
of the fifty.nine members of the Senate
daring the last Congress no less' than
live have tOready passed:away, viz:—
Messrs. Clayton., of Delaware; Bell, of
New Hampshire;
Adams, of Mississippi;
Butler, of SeaehCarolina; and Elul, t ,
•
Texas. P.
flatttro.
Hmw Stolen.
A boric was Ittoleti from the premises
of Mr. JO If N Fir r. ,in Mountpleasant
township, on Wednesday night last, by
a peon who had been in his employ
upon the Railroad. As soon as the dii
appearance of the horse was discovered
-in the morning, riders were started out
in different directions, and one of them
came up with the thief at Abhottstown,
where be was about trading off the
stolen horse forauother.
• lie thief) was arrested and taken
before a magistrate, who committed hint
for Court. lie is now confined in the
Jail here, and may get his trial during
the present week. We are told that, he
acknoVedges the act.
Painful Accident.
A sob of Mr. SAmtEt. WINTRODE, TO
sidingin 31onirtpleasant tbwiiship, was
kicked upon the forehead by a colt, on
Mnday last, causing a severe flesh
wound and fracturing the skull•bone.
It gives us pleasure to be able to say
that, the boy bids fuir to recover.
Property Sold.
Mr. ions HOKE has purchased the
property of Mr. DAVID TisoxEL, on the
northwest corner of Carlisle street and
the Railroad—bein a lot of ground,
with a one-story d elling thereon—the
price 81000. It i Mr. ll's. intention
to commence building a large three-sto
ry Grain and Produce Warehouse upon
the premises as soon as he gets po4ssk.,s
sion—about the first of October, we
believe.
ler_To Tomatoes.
We are indebted to 11r..lous JO►thAN,
the elevergardener at Mount St. Alary's
College, near Enonit.gbuyk, fur half, a
dozen ?WI /7, ninth Tomatoes, the lut7est
weighing 'me piitnid and fourteen (inners,
and the whole nine jortndB! We have
never seen► a finer lot. He hag our
thank-4.
al - We learn that Mr. CuAaLKs Mc-
FADDEN, the energetic contractor' for
the grading and 'aiding of the Littleg
town Railroad, has already prepared
two miles of the seven of the entire
liNigth of the road, for the laying of the
track. It is, supposed that the Railroad
will be tini-hed by the first of January
next, if the 'Directors, during this
month, can make a favorable contract for
the delivery of the iron.
IgirWe arc requested to announce
that a FANCY BALL will take place at
Caledonia Springs, on Friday evening
next. There is a largo number at this
inviting watering-place, and the Ball
will doubtless be a novel and brilliant
affair.
ilerjOSF.Pll F f Yh, Eq., placed upon
our table. a few days ago, several very
fine stalks of Timithy, one measuring
I six fed four inehes, and the other six feet
four and a half inehes !---figures which
rank among the tallest of the tall. If
Timothy keeps on improriny at this sea
son's rate for-p few years, the cutting of
it will reluire the introduction of the
'chopping axe.
Skirl friend at Iteidlersburg writes
114 that he measured, a few days since,
in a field belonging to Mr. JOHN BoLKN,
a stalk of Corn, which ran np to the
high figure of thirteen feet three ificha:
"That will do to start with."
MrThe following is the answer to
the n►athematical question which ap
peared in the Compiler, some weeks ago,
over the signature of " Many Persons,"
as it is furnished by the contributor of
the question : •
Length of ladder, 122.61 feet.
To first tower, 118.811 feet"
" 2d " 115.827 "
" 8d " 111.875 " •
The answer sent in by the UCono
wago Farmer" does not exactly corres
pond with the above, but the difference
between them is hardly worth mention
ing.
lier A Methodist Camp Meeting at
IV Chapel, in lln9tington township,
to Minmence on the '2Bth instant. A
boarding tent will be opened to accom
modate persons from a dista'nc©.
e& The 4, Blues" have, we under
stand, selected Black's Dam, on Bock
reek, as the place for their contemplated
encampment.
sir We find tho.following item in the
local columns of the Baltimore Ameri
can. We believe the Company has not
positively determined upon a visit to
Baltimore; but, bhonld they do so, they
will, no doubt, have a "good time:"
Military ri,iit.—Tho Independent
Blues, a militars.company of (4ettys
burg, Pennsylvania, ifurpose visiting
Baltimore some time during the coming
fall. They will ino , t undoubtedly re
ceive a warm reception from their
brothersoldicrs of the Monumental city.
Sitir The August Term of Court com
mences to-day.
Sir The Prothonotary has received .
the Pamphlet Laws of 1857.
Drowned.—BosTos, Aug. 9.—Four
young ladies, two of whom were daugh
ters of B. F. Soule, and the other two
of a Mr. Grant, a ere drowned at Water
ville, Maine, on Thursday,—bathing.
aiiirEx-Gov. Henderson, the former
laytpartner of (ien. Rusk, is spo
en' Of as his successor in the U. S.
Senate.
oar Ono of our exchanges asserts
that the ladies do not sot their caps for
the gentlemen any morn; they spread
their hoops. This is a very wide spread
blv. utter
Par Ompiller
The Weather, the Election, and
.._ papery. „
Mc. imairoa :---These are the groat
topical of the day. The weather is the
time honored subject of remark. The
election is the all engrossing subject of
wily politicians and demit ictie , k p o .
pery the set topic, the spier of riff e on .
venation. Rowanism esiriortiirrd in at
tacked, thrown down, killed, tliesetted
and buried in 365 stupid "leaders" of
daily papers every year. Denunciations
of it echo week after week from the
pulpit and lecture desk, like the ever
lasting rub-a-dub-dub of ,the denims Of
recruiting barracks; the con-lin : Toe the
Great Beast to take America is s'andow
-414 forth in fearful whispers by tea-tak
ing grand mammas about
. the rink sitla
or tea table. The pleasure of sacra
meetings is pickled with tart vitupera
tion of the "Foreign church encroaciiiisy \
on our liberties." Travel on a steam
boat, and you will hoar Popery demol
ished by a dozen wordy champions ; in
the cars you will be regaled with hum -
merable demonstrations of the absurdi
ty and witkeduese of Roman Catholi
cism, without - haying to pay a cent for
them. In coffee houses, in taverna r
young libertines, reeking with the th mew
of bad brandy, and morally beslimed
with the corruption of the dens and belle.
they frequent, describe to their maudlin
companions, the iniquities of priests,
with colors fresh taker from the impu
rities of their own hearts. In business
circles, men will explain why they do- •
not go to, or deal With, such a one—
unless they want to borrow, or eovet
his money—by say ing that such n'one
is a Catholic. Th e beggar shivering at
the door Is asked, betbre getting the
cold victuals or grudged mite, whether
or not bey is a Vatholie. In; short, Po
pery is an inexhaustible topio r -an om
nipresent scare crow standing grimly up
before every age, scx, condition, circle, -
time mid place of this great country.
IfCattlired notorinty,theycer
tainly might be' well contwit. If they
were so much al t of for their intrin
sic important s, t ry light be proud of_
(.....
the sensation they create. Theymight
laugh at the idea of their fictitious im
portance, were it not that weeping over
the ruin of souls, occasioned by this
systematic • misrepresentation, were
n o ir e proper.
There arts loons Ant i-Nebratika preach
eis4 and Kansa4 -freedom loriekt+P in
New England than priests in the whole.
United States. There are more Metho
dists, Baptists, Lutherans, Prellbyto
rians, Infidels. &c., taken separately,
than C'atholic's in the country. Gone
rall;.t speaking' Catholics are poor; me
chanics, laborers, small tradesmen, ser- -
vant girls, among "the least rntighti'ned
of our pqathitimi" as the lion,. David
Wilmot, late a President Judge ofPenti
selvania, (-lasses thein-,araf. a "low
heed rabble" vs the " Baptist Review"
pulitviv wills them. Antkie it not ridie
ulous and ludicrous to see "men"—not
old women—quaking with fear lest this
unenlightened, this insignificant rqbble of
poor- people, should rise up and wrest
the government from the odueuted,
wealthy, vigilant,,argus-eyed- and pOl4- 1
erful nine-tenths of the American per,.
pee: should drown American Liberty in -
a vase of Holy wafter, pop down the
American eagle w ith their roseq heads,
and plant in tisumpli over and above
the stars and stripes and oiorthiagrave -
of the American Republic, the sigair
the hated cross 1 _
- Yes! If Catholics desired notoriety,
if they were vain of their own intrinsic
importance, what compliment could
more flatter their vanity, what could
more inflatetheir self importance, than
the high, yet unintentional and unmet ,
ited complinwid which David Wilmot
pays them when he says-.-that the late
Prebidential eleetirn was controlled by
the milt e d Catholic rote :---that it was
owing to their votes that the . preSent
administ ration hits its exitttence. If in
deed the Catholic votes were the eitict:
means of placing the Yenerablu James
Buchanan in the PresWntial chair—
James Buchanan, whom the Hanover
Spectator used to style "ten cent
in}'," but whom it now eulogises us
"President Buchanan, who by his plain
republimn manners, and the kind manner
in which he reeeiefl all who approach him,
has endeared him totheir hearts, and when
he makes his yearly visit (at Bedford
,Slirinys,) they receive -him with erpressions
ofjoy"—it would. be glory enough for
tbo Catholics tbr one day. If indeed
they were thus the chief instruments in
raving the Union and Constitution
from the fanaticism of Black RepUbli
caninm and theTri iSticriptive bigotry of
Know Nothing Americanism, all,hail
to the patriotism of the Catholic voters;
they might indeed be proud.
But if such ideas are entertained of
the subversion of our liberties by Pope
ry, that certainly is no proof of the AU-
perior intelligence of the American peo
ple and in ruskilig Popery us common
a topic its the weather, the people show
no more wisdom, equally with 3h►cid
Wilmot, than in the nloinnlities they
and he utter when writing or ocuyerti-
in,6 on it
Mount lernon.—=One or more of the
Masonic Lodges of Richmond, have or- -
ganized a plan to purchase Mount Ver
non. It is to gut the subordinate.
lodges to contribute 81 for each member.
' Thu , price asked for the Mount Vernon
estate is 8200,000, and the Masonic sta r .
tisties show that the order numbers.
three hundred thousand; so that italit
the lodges in the l nion accede to the
proposition—and the probability is that
they will—the purchase of Monub Ver
non may be looked upon as a fixe4hwir.
The suggestion, as given out, do& not
stop here. Whon the land is possessed
by the Masons, they propose to.present
it to the State of Arginia, only reserv
ing to their order the right to meet
around the tomb of their deceased bro
ther once every year, to celebrate his
imperishable deeds, and to keep alive
his great name.—DUtpatelt.
Northern Central Realivay Bridge.—
The Northern Central Company are.
building a very fine sabstantial bridge a
across the Susquehanna at _Dauphin,
Pa., which they expect to have corn
ted by the lapse of one year.
Harrisburg Herald says the bridge.
progressing finely at presenty.l* s
foundations of all the piers hart:been,
laid, and we believe alt of them ellivaied
some' distance abovo the water ;
some of them, especially those near4e4
two shores, are nearix completed.
- i3dr. Marcy was the obiesk 11.4 1 4 ix
ber of President Piereo's csbixtetoioda
Mr. Dobbin She youngest.
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