$. f. AF+lpia, W.IIIIXUIt AID Paorturset 4111T1rVIIISCIAG. rAL; MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1859 Inurratic flab Cirtit, For Awditor General, lIICTIARDSON L. WRIGHT, of Philadelphia ' For Salve, or General, JORX BOWS, of FraDlJin county liThrB, STC fly, Mgrray Who'llon has been ap palmist imad otiallimed as Collector of the Pot of gria, pa. The General is, and has beim, au of the" wheel-horses " of tie De mocracy of Western Pennsylvania, and do llar/al tie peat ulTiee the President has to be- esaw, We learn from the Mount Vornon Record got the third installment in payment fur West Vernon, with the interest thereon, was paid upon the 23d ult. The association Iwo bqw paid $158,333 2.2 of the sum of 000 milked to secure the title to Mount Venue _S-74150,000 of which has been paid in e, *tip more than three months. It is not believed at Washington that any Illibgitering expedition is now reedy to start for Cub*, as recently reported. The most re lieble advice* are altogether contrary to the robaliility of such a movement. The story Is *Aar to the programme of General Remsau, pmmulgated months ago. The article on our first page in regard to an Zara Bunion of Congress, was in type for last Ildondaro Compiler, but went over on aseasstl of a press of other matter. It has mot lost any of its force by the delay, Reed it. .74aose Buchanan Henry, Esq., recently print. &minty of the President, has re drid Ilia place, and commenced the practice of 4 w in New York, in partnership with Q. 11. Scharff, Esq., of Newark, N. J. Clark's Ferry Bridge, at Duncan's Island, above Efarrisblrrg, was carried away daring the storm of Friday week. It was built by the Btste, but belonged to the Central Rail -1004 Company. Os the Bth of April four persons are to be recaeutod in Baltimore, Md.; on the 15th, one is Vera* county, Ga.; on the 26th, two at Albsay, b. y.; on the fith of May three at (Nemo; and on the 27th, OWO at Cincinnati. There ye, also, two at Pittsburg and one at Boston under sentence of death. Mr. Joseph Miller, of York, pas l it an Meer a few days ago, which measured four feet,nine inches in length, and weighed about tamary pounds. The otter was caught in a trap, # the forks of the Codorns creek, about has miles from that borough. A. fetal affray occurred at Duncannon, Pa., shoat 18 miles above Harrisburg, Saturday sight week, during which one man wits kill ed lad pother had his nose cut off. We have the pleasure of acknowledging a homeroom addition to our list of subscribers thetas the past few weeks. Tilers is still NM for Wore: Sam Prior, colored, died at Petersburg, Va., op Saturday, at the age, it is stated, of am hundred and thirty-two years. If he Oonpeaut Reporter records the kilring et *snotty crawl at a single shot by J, J. Whitney, of that place. Big shot, that, g amy have a /tuna ttaturce at picinn .ti, tits shape of an Irish child seventeen isteadts old, who never cries or *lke, but ends** instead. He doesn't whistle tune* of siostese, but his whistle is as clear as an elelt's. A young locomotive probably, J. D. Cameron, of Harrisburg, son of the Soon Cameron, was, on the resignation • tho kAst, elected cashier of the Bank of 3614100wn, on Monday week. We hop from the Middletown (Pa.) Jour nal that woman appoereil at the polls there ea deedoe day, and claimed a right to vote as tp ad of being a tax-payer. iihe is oppossto the doctrine of " taxation without representation," and thinks all lady tax-pay. me ;eight to be entitled to the elective (ran tides. We admire her t` spunk." As die season for bugs approaches, says tire Ciadoned Times, it will be well to bear Is mind the advice of the Country Gentle no," Persons not desirous of being carried of thin world by bugs will be glad to learn that they C 41411 stand hot alum water. Take tee rends of alum, bruise it, and reduce it sew" to powder ; dissolve it in three quarts of boiling water, letting it remain in a warm pion Attbe alum is dissolved, The alum wan is to be applied hot, by means of a Lack, to every joint and crevice, Brush 'the ermines in the door or the skirting-board if they V. suspected places ; whitewash the seines putting in plenty of alum, and there win be as end to their dropping thence. Political Marryisig: The Republicans and Know Nothings of Chmehugati have united on one and the rime debit The elect of such 44 unions" between the fw leadlag wings of the Opposition will be tibind the Democrats, the friends of word and exact justice to all men," the mare Andy together, and make them the aeNiriha Proceed with your "show," mongrels. The "son=s 111:COND peonies" will drive you to the wall" yet pirThe 800- comes lustily to the defence_ of Afroonse Packer. This is as we expected, for soma smiaser—but more especially on account aolitott"ftdow-feeling " which we thought, ddidt, existed for some time between -.lllle4resolt writer or the political editorials of AA popllr mad the Governor. We hare no ob 411111MS to wire wises this course of the Star. 'ltlitempownione. homes from the risk loaner. Wit Ina the SW will continue its adrock , silks Clovermt--uo ether ergoinent will be . rude& by the Deesocrata at Mesas to be con. ipftosi eflibulpir atTicter. i , Is said to have Wei,' remarked, are sore to cony the Presi •"Xlinliii aid where did Douglas so re. • ~..__. Aim isgsatieulars. You make span ~ ANIIINOW *l4 ill lip vidt the truth, or forever 0. lir of matigmeo *ad hummod ~ .— . .....„---. 010 , d p......_. • krorilPli PIM. i IMO known citizen VlLEsinety, XL, and pzeptieter albs lbw, p tawrinnt, died oa :14101.001•084 Howard many • "e- _- "~_~= ..-:. ' The Ni4,ll==rielte Pleat is ssyirg thell Pertblisaniess Is aeshlag bat 4.bocitioelent, served up on the political tren cher under the disguise of a new name. he Northern Abolitionists, after soma years of endeavor, found oat that thsy could not pre vail on the people to swallow their hash of white and black meet, in the style introduced by cooks Garrison and Uiddings, and 000kess Abby Kelley ; and so they resorted to the se cond class 'bowl device of giving to the old dish a new name on the bill of fare. But, nickname be dish as they would, and cram it to the full with the most savory Yankee onions, as they did, and hide it under a thick covering of African pepper, as was their role of economy, they could not make their indigestible, though ingeniously con strupted hash go down. It would nut suit the palate of healthy patriotism. American citizens could not be brought to fraternize with men who aimed to get power, only tl4 at they might be safe in their denunciations of the Constitution, and advocate with more reckless boldness resistance to laws that stood in the way of their selfishness ; with men who expressed the chief delight of their heart, to Le the mingLng and commingling with negroes in every walk of life—religious, social, financial and political ; with men who hypocritically called it philanthropy to de generate from Saxon privilege down to Afri can serfdom. The American throat would swallow no such stuff. Consequently the shrewd quack druggists, upon discovering that their nostrum would not sell under the name of Abolitionism, changed the label to Republicanism. The contents of box and vial remain the same. The eitraet of negro is the substance of the pills ; and the tincture of negro is the chief ingredient in the ril -1 lainous vial. Republicanism is disguised Abolitionism. W. U. Seward of New York has in recent speeches demonstrated it to be snch with an exact honesty that almost oommands respect. Its imaipg joernOs are inking their every column with negro laudation; its private wire-pullers employ negroes to do their drudgery ; it preaches regro from the pulpit; lectures negro at the lyceum ; equalises negro in the school—week day and Sunday ; talks negro on the streets ; forms societies to ad vance negro interests ; and loves negro to Quch extent, that love becomes idolatry. • Now it is not in our first thought even to itisinui4 that this Republican negroism has anything in its insido or on its outside that is politically b l uing.. It is disgraceful clap trap to catch this rotes on men who mean much bat know little. It will pray in a church or pray in a bar-room if either opera tion will inslueoce a voter. A more formida ble foe to American nationality. to American interests, to American privil4A to American integrity, to American niece's, hip never yet swiped. It 14 a snake in the grass,-ecaly, squirming, slimy ; and he who will sputch it will perform most patriotic service. no Opposition and Forney's Convent The Opposition journals are using all their powers of language in an effort to de ceive the public into the idea that the re pudiation of Governor Rice's lathe Demo cratic State Convention wu Obi result dills disagreement with the President on the Nausea question. But the attempted trick will fall itill-born, because nothing could be wider of the mark. The incidents of the Convention so cleorl7 refute the charge, that the merest child can somprehend it.— Mr. resolution only asked the endorsement-4 the Goverum's State policy, and the mover expressly dieolgimed en de sire to procure an endorsement of his opin ions on the Kansas question. Ifad this reso• lotion passed, no one could have claimed that it approved of the introduction . of Na. tinnal issues by the Governor in his message. It was confined entirely and exclusively to State affairs. How, then, can it be said that the rejection of this resolution, relating only to State issues, was a condemnation of the Governor, because he differed from the Presi dent upon a National question? If the pas sue of the resolution would have endorsed, nothing but the Governor's State policy—as the mcver expressly declared—then certain ly its rejection condemned nothing bat his Stale polity. Never was there z more cordial desire not to make the Kansas question an issue, but to treat it as dead, than was manifested in this Convention. But the majority could not overlook the disorganizing coarse, and sus picions circumstances enveloping the Goren nor with a most immoral atmosphere, so that when his friends implored a verdict on these transactions, the Convention was constrain ed to pronounce an honest one. ser-The Philadelphia Argun, in an article on the "move" which Forney and his equal. ly disappointed supporters are now making, says that's the great aim has been to secure pledge from the Black Republicans that they will support Governor Packer for the next U. S. Senator, and his Attorney General, Knox, fur Governor." The same assertion is made in other quarters and no doubt with entire truth. At all events, the Opposition leaders are becoming uneasy. They fear that Forney will ask too much for his treach ery to the Democratic party, Although they "love the treason, they despise the traitor:" Forney has issued a secret circular, urging his followers to attend the "Bogus " Convention on the 13th, but it has had the effect of disgusting many who sympathised with him last fall, Their eyes are being opened to the fact that to follow biro further, is to follow him out of the Demooratio party into the mongrel Repablicanillinow Nothing opposition. The line is now wr plainly drawn that no Democrat can fail to perceive its in dal:ibis character. It is " tlitOutadwriting on the wall." gar There ars not a. half doses Demo cratic editors In the State who "bolster up" °Vv. Packer, and a majority of these rapport Wright and Rowe sarnestly,and discountenance Paean , '" Convention. The "bolt" is nothing like as "threatening" as the lying Opposition pram would hare their readers believe, Os the contrary, the political atmosphere boded s bemired per cent, worse for the true and tried old Democracy last fall thaa it does now, The clouds are rapidly disappearing from the Dem ocratic sky. , iffrAt Homy, Carroll amity. MIL, WI Hissaraw Ms be &mimed Paitenster, vies Aaressisik Rinehart, ruigmed, filletkree is ...diary Ares Isste oesurrei al O.:lisle withiq a week. A. as:Wu Ante of things, tion. 34N r• •110016 11111114serli A. Pittsburg eorreepoatimai et the Pestruyl plaaes says of the liven fro that city to the 0 call" for the irarsey-Kaox Onoveatitto, co the 12th, that about oae•third of them were Tan Boren 0 bolters" in 1848, abort the ease* number are disappointed Mice seekers, several were "intent ely American " and are nearly, if not quite, full-blooded Re puhlicsn ; whilst all of theta bi4ted the Demo. crane State Ticket last fall, so far as their actiou is known. The Harrisburg "'atrial and Usion under• stands that the persons from that locality whose names are appended to the call for the Forney Convention deny having signed said call or authorized their names to be attached thereto. The same is the case in other places. Daytzt Porrsicsa, of Reading, hiss author ised the Cavite to state that his name ap pears without his knowledge or conspnt. It is also stated that C. Ust,t and Istsc llt - ors.who appear on the call, never signed it. The Pennsylvanian has received the follow ing notes from citizens of Germantown, whose names have been attached to the " Coll " for the Bogus Convention without their knowl edge or consent: GICILMANTOICN. March 29, 1859. liessra. Editors :—I was greatly surprised and highly indignant, on discovering my name iu connection with several others from German town, as one desiring the assembling of a new - Convention to repidiate the nominations made by the late Demi.truhe oar. I hold no allegiance with those traitors who, for paltry gain, desert pure Dasacraur doctrines to gratify disappoint ed ambition. Such has been the motives prompting the prime movers in their effort to disorganize the Democratic party. I have the utmost confidence.in the able and just adminis tration of Jame Buchanan, and will ever wield my power In sustaining it.. I conceive it to be scarcely requisitk to state that my name 'was used against my dintire and entirely contrary ,to my judgment and Opinions. flat my friends in the. Interior of the State may not be led to misapprehend my po ion,,you will please re fute my connection wit said band ofd isorgan liars. Yours, truly, \ 'C. C. RO.ICII. Messrs. EJitors :—You wt greatly oblige me by noticing the following i your paper: In looking over the Press of yes rday, I find my name attached ton letter dal "Germantown, March 27, 1859,"' answering the,call fur a new Convention to nominate othek, candidates, which I pronounce to be a base Yorgery—my name being used without my censeht and with old my knowled,;e. Yours, ke.\ N. 1)1..L0N. Also. the following 1-..\ . /ram Use Yeasiere Spectator. PRILADIMPUIA, March 29, 4.59. The refugia; of the Convention to endorse Editor Poussytroisiea:—la the "Press" o last the Administration of Coy . Packer, was the week, appears a call for a Black Republ an legitimate result of his fostering, by hie pat- Convention, to meet in Harrisburg on the 1 stli rune and influence, men claiming to be of April, to which I find my name attached. -•r Democrats, yet everting themselves to the Will you do me the favor to say th at it was put,' utmost to mow dissensions and bring about there without my knowledge or consent? I \the overthrow of the party. The rebuke, was have always been a Democrat, and always ex- II" I merited one, and the Democracy of Venan pect to be one, anckhave no sympathy with the !,, getters up of the Bogus Convention. I have no' g ,!'", won I doubt, but that a great many of the names at- \ taehed to that call, are there without the \ Tram the Lemmas talon. AtV moment that (lover our Packer took knowledge of the persons. Yours, kc. . THOMAS WILSUN. Judge nox to the highest pushup in his Ad ministration, the confidence of the true Dem- The following is "decidedly rich "—and ocruts ofTennsylvania received a shock. It trite, every word. The ittriot mad Union , was a mos unfortunate selection, and seemed says : to throw t Governor into the hands of the Forney's Press, the organ of the rump Con- covert enem 3 of the !Csio. lied Leen . . . . _ _ vention, to be held on the 13th proximo, has some very funny correspondents, who are draw ing Me wool orer die eyes of lir. Forney most wufully, as the following specimens will show: (In the list of indignant Democrats who sym pathise with Forney and his coadjutors, in their revolutionary movement, are to be found the following names, furnished from the county of Selman!, viz :—Dr. D. C. Bobb, a crazy negro, who resides in Pottsville ; Jacob (2. Donn, a crazy whits man. the butt of the town of Potts ville; Solomon Williams is a negro, who lives in Ashland; Samuel Zeobe, Christian Vonts berger, and Arnold B. Spetzel, are myths, and have no existence, either in Schuylkill county or anywhere else, according to the recollec-• tion of the " oldest Inhabitant." How many more such indignant Democrats, as those above enumerated, are la the Unpub lished from other counties, in the Press, we are not, at present, informed, bet for the truth of the above we can vouch. If the Convention is to be made op of such material—and it would seem that but .few of any other quality will venture hess on the 13th of April—it will have the merit of being one of the most unique Conventions that ever assem bled at the State Capital. 'The Greensburg Democrat states, upon the au thority of Wi1.1.1111 A. Stoges, Esq., that his name has been signed to this call without his knowledge, and without any intimation to him, "Victory or Death."--Gov Hicks. Gov. Hicks, in a speech in Baltimore. in the presence of many of the Club members, used the above language prior t 3 his elextion. The effect of such language is apparent ; and His Excellency is now forced to determine whether it shall be all victory and no death; or victory interspersed with death. The Clubs took up the cry of " victory or death," and victory was achieved, but not without murder and a host of grievous out- ragm. The Governor owes his election to the faith. ful manner in which the Clubs carried out the programme se laid down by himself— "victory or death." They placed him in the executii e chair,at the expense of the political, civil and religious rights of the people of the State, They obtained victory for the Guyer nor, but not without ••Death." The Governor may outlive his great crime of inciting the Clubs to action, with the ral lying cry of "victory or death," hut the mis erable dupes of his eubtilty will expiate their crimes on the gallows. It is a question in the minds of many, if the men who instigated the Clubs in their Devilish outrages are not more to blame than the actors themselves. The Governor's position, in respect to the men now deserving and awaiting death, is truly lamentable. Filling his Oboe through the paramount aid of Death and Fraud, be is daily beset with hosts of his secret-political friends, urging him to an act of compassion for those will worked energetically in the infamous programme he himself laid down.— He will not,bowever, succumb. He dare not do it, The law must take its course. A man who can incite his political friends to action by the cry of "Victory or Death," can refuse the slightest aid to his dupes. He can see them dangling in the air and then complacent ly exclaim, "Blood for Blood."—Hogerstoten Wanted. A suitable reward will be given for an able bodied admirer of Gov. Packer, to represent Franklin County in the sepoy Convention.— Free Railroad tickets and tree whisky suppli ed on application to Forney. A "tree blow," with the privil eg e of rolling in s'free dirt," guaranteed to all attending.-.-Citasibersourg Pretty Tall Week'sWork.-..The Kansas Herald of Freedom, edited by our oW friend, George V/ ashington Brown, of Con n eau twine, thus sums up one week's work of General Jim Lane, the notorious Kama thrieker, aiut would-be Senator from that prospective State. The Herald it should be recollected, is a de aided Fr. , State PaSsr: General Jiunes U. louse. the Hanna hero, cause to Kansas a proaavery man; be tried to buy slams he sided with the Pro-Slasery men; herecognised theirst bogus Legislature, by trying to get a divorcee from his toffs; the Issgire refused; Lane got mad, and turn ed Free State man; stumped the Territory, and west for a Free State because it was not a hemp-growing country. He seduced a wo mut, tat dranki joined the Teespereees Seel. Sthe Clutreis, and wig elected United tates nesator wider tbe Topeka Clonatitutiun --an in cue week, se-The 7th of April h► to be oboe:opt ed as a day of fasting and prayer in . _ 31.4ssach upend. The Dasearitict . nue of Mitquirirs• xis Speak t Tr RTOSR IeXTBACTS. Fro. Vie Rat Meter IMlNini. Tbs Avtcrt.—The refasal of the Democrat ic State Convention to endurse_, unreservedly, the State Policy of Governor Packer, is made the pretext of those Democrat* who joined the B lack Republican party, last (all, to call another Convenuon. So far as Porney, Hick man 4 C,'., are concerned, it would have made but little difference; they wuuld have found some other pietext to endeavor to di vide and disturb the Democratic organisation. But to our Republican friends, who affect so much oommiseration for poor Packer, in his " disgrace," we have a special word to say. We wish to remind them, that when tho Black Republican Convention met tit Harris burg, and nominated David Wibnot for (Joy senor, Tarr, too, refused or neglected to en dorse the "State policy" of Governoi Pollock. Was that an insult? Was that • disgrace sufficient for him to call an extra Convention to bolster him up? 11 he approved of acts that did not meet a hearty response frcm his party, he bad the modesty to submit. The Democratic party hare dealt less severely with Wm. F. Packer. They were not willing to endorse his " State policy," and we doubt very much whether Forney and his associates DARE DO ir, without reservation. Let them venture upon the experiment. /rota tla♦ 'flags Dimmenat We will not here repeat the charges against him, (Goy. Packer,) nor will we name the particular acts which have made his admin istration a stench in the nostrils of Demo crats; it is sufficient to say that he has be trayed his friends, and given place and power to the enemies of the party that made him what he is. The action of the Convention proves that the majority of its members en tertained the same desire for conciliation that we have expressed. Indeed. it was a peat step towards conciliation, on the part of the majority, to pass no resolution touch ing the Governor's conduct, and it should have been gratefully met by him a n d his friends. There were men who had labored to secure his election to the office he now dis honors, and whose feelings had been outraged by his course; but, instead of denouncing him, they charitably threw the mantle of si lence over his many' sins. Endorse his poli cy they could not, without establishing a pre cedent, behind which any political apostate might shield himself from the just condemna tion of his oonstituents, and without saying, in effect,•to every official, that to enhance his own he might sacrifice the public interest with impunity. in the confident:gig' Wilmot: and well nigh con sented to run 4is the Opposition candidate against Packer\hiniself. The appointment upon its face, loolted bad, and fully justifml, as the sequel balcsh own, the worst \appre hensions of Democ ts. Then came the In augural Address, in hick the Governor , af ter having, by letter and public speeches, deprecated the interfe enee of State execu tives with the slavery cation, and declar ing that question practie ply settled, at one stroke contradicted the ole record of his' election, and attempted to y the Democ racy of Pennsylvania against the National Administration, on this very uestion of sla very, in a most aggravated form Then came the appointment of such men a corgi, Lea man to the best places in his gift ; nil follow ing hard upon that, the stupendou fraud of 1 the sale of the public works, in w ieb the Governor's complicity was too put t and \ i t glaring not to attract th e attention f the humblest voter in the Commonwealth. The I canvass of '5B came round, and when the , Democratic party found itself beset with d -' culties, not the most inconsiderable of whi i had been brought about by Governor Pecker's.; policy, yet his very Attorney General, linos. , took the stump openly against Democratic nominees and the National Administration. flow could a Democratic Convention, with all these things staring it in the lace, and 1 more to which we have not alluded, stultify , the party by endorsing the Notate Adininietre- I Lion / fled it done so, it most certainly would, havelost its prestige fur ouniiistent devotion to principle, which it has obtained by wore than Wife century of earnest endeavor to' merit the confidence of the American people. ' Peon the Rimiambs Vistas. The patient and lung-suffering D‘mocrney of the heystone State might have borne all this. But, Governer Packer committed another offence which was altogether unpar donable. Ile gave his influence and his ap proval to the perpetration of what is popular ly called in Pennsylvania "Me Sunbury and Erie Swindle," by which the tax-payers of the State were plundered of many millions. It was to these misdeeds that the bemocracy in Convention assembled refused to give thoir approbation ; and no right-minded or just man will say that they could have done oth erwise. The Johnstown Mountain Echo, edited by G. Nelsbn Smith, Esq., Speaker of the House during the session of 1557, sends forth no doubtful or uncertain sound : "The State policy of Governor Packer met with little favor in the Convention, ittl a reso lution offered by Mr. Lamberton endorsing his policy was ignored by a decided tuAjority ; its frieuds standing as 37 to t,41, " We have lung beard the policy of Gover nor Packer denounced. The course punned by Judge Knox last fall, was universally con demned, and Governor Packer severely cen sured fur permitting one of his cabinet to persist in such an unwise and ruinous course. "We have many warm feelings for Ctuv. Packer, and regret much that he should have given any cause to bring about the unpleas ant position in which he is now placed, be lieving that he was misled by false advisers. The course of Judge Knox was regarded by the masses of the party as rank disorganise tiun, which we felt convinced they would not wink at when the time arrived to administer a rebuke. The result of the Convention is what we have lung feared and anticipated.— However much we desired conciliation--how ever much we hoped for harmonious action in our ranks—still we cannot question the justice of the action of the Convention. It could not do otherwise than modem' those who have used their official position for sel fish purposes, and acted with the cou t z i wo enemy by giving them aid and comfort, "It is true, we wished fur ounciliatold measured', so as to secure the most efficient strength and harmonious action of the party bat en overwhelming nutprity of the Clots, vention, honestly considering that harmony could not, nor should not be purchased at ea dear a price; and at so crest a sacrifice a winking at gross disurgantaation. we cannot but acquiesce in their will, and do not pre tend to deny the jestlee of their radial. As we b a y s Lun t bialed in the Ihunomstie ranks, and never yet forsook the party in its dark• est hours, we asonot now hesitate to take a bold and fearless stand in moiling the dill. ankles which appear to surround the Daewoo racy of this State.' llltimi es Nair Oweilly Ilitarlsait, We mama batsprove of the entire aetkte of the Coorrestiess. If it (same diessiidao. ties* to mene t it wee not the fault of the dile , gates. 'hairline of duty wa4 plainly nutted out. 'Try hid bet to Wow the worm had dowel to dies by tbo pros. If sons one. Woo 11101■0111•11111 no afgrievad so to Te ller to vote the tiokot, it u better tbot the pruning knife should now be applied, when so very important issue is before the people. that the body may regain its healthy action before the time when its needed. We have no objection to tac'h a progress being occa siotially used. If the factious diserganizers are lopped off, the party must be purified. and, as a consequence, grow in strength and power. /rim WI York Oaselts The proceedings of the late Democratic State Convention are still the subject of ear- I nest conversation among all classes of people. The bold and unequivoeil manner in which i that body sustained the National Administra-1 tion meets with the unqualified approbation H of the Democracy of the State, and it is truly gratifying ix, witness the hearty greeting which its noble vindication of James Buch anan receives from the true men of our party in every portion of the Commonwealth. As' a matter of course the Republicans are loud in their condemnation of that part of its ac tion, and it is intensely amusing to hear their mock tones of sympathy for the State Ad ministration. They seem in perfect ecstacies at the prospect of a dismemberment of the Democratic party. They know that a united Democracy are invincible. They are well award that a division in our ranks is their on ly hope of success ; and consequently they have been spending any amount of superflu ous breath in expressing their deep regrets at the peculiar manner in which Governor Packer was treated by the Convention. The call for a meeting of disorganizers on the 13th of April meets with their hearty approval.— I t is just the thing they want ; and, uo doubt, they will fill the the lobby of the Capitol, up on that important day, with a well organized corps of claviers, to applaud to the echo the schemes of treason that maybe concocted by their sillier. It now remains to be seen wheth er Governor Packer will coentenance this ill disguised act of rebellion. The cloud which lit this time overhangs his political fortunes, casts its long shadow in the future—there is yet time to drive it back—an act of true nobil ity to his party may fling a light around his pathway, that will redeem the past and illum inate the future—but if he "play the spend thrift with this great occasion," if he join hands with the common enemies of that or ganisation which has crowned our country with unnumbered blessings, the hour of his redemption will pass away forever and the harvest he may hope to reap from his unhacpy consort with the open foes, of Democracy will turn, like Dead Sea's fruit, to dust and ashes on his lips! The Cal i,of the Ditorgaxisers.—ln accord ance with apossuaciameato which made its appearance in the Philadelphia Press, of the 21st inst., A number of individuals—we will nut call them Democrats—design assembling at Ilarrisberg, on the 13th day of April, to assist the Opposition in their attempt to de feat the Democratic party at the next election. This step, on the part of the avowed enemies of the National Administration, should have been well considered, before it was finally taken. Its results may be more fatal and dis astrous, than sortie of the parties lending their countenance to the scheme may now iin. agiue. It deserves no other mule, and can be spoken of in no other terms, than that of bold and reckless disorganization. As such, we know that every true Democrat in the State will brand it with the burning seal of condemnation. No one claiming to be a Democrat—no one desiring in future- to act in concert with our time hubured organiza tion—can hope to escape the scorching indig nation of a basely betrayed party, who per mits himself to be unconsciously drawn into the evil councils of the men now plotting against the Democracy of Pennsylvania. Nu offences are punished with more certainty, than treasons against party orguriizati'in.— There are no mammas that can make them venial—years may pass after their commis sion—the men may die against whom their violence was levelled—the recollection of them limy for a season grow dim—but "time, which at last makes all things even," will in the end recall the disasters they . produced, and gibbet, without mercy, the guilty actors in the crime. They are like the poisoned shirt of Nessus—clinging with destructive power' to those who forget their party in their thirst fur vengeance—and, sooner or later, the warning cry will be raised, loud and piercing, shrill and defiant, whenever they again seek to counsel with the men they have betrayed—"room for the leper, room ! " The Clinton Democrat.—Among the many notices in our exchanges of the proceedings of the recent Democratic Convention, no one has gratified us half as much as that which appeared in the Clinton Democrat, of the 25th instant. This journal is owned bthe Hon. Ileury L. Dieffenbach,Deputy Seer t art' of the Commonwealth, and, of course c osely em nected with the present State Admi istrathin. While the editor regrets the actibu of the Convention in rejecting the resolution endors ing Governor Packer because itti adoption would have tended to harmonize the party., he fully approves of the action of that body in every other respect, and enters the field boldly in favor of the nominees of the Conven tion. Ile says: "So far as the Clinton Democrat is con cerned, it will support the nominees of the regular organization of the party, and oppose all_ who may come in opposition. If friends must separate, be it so—but the pro prietor of the Democrat and the Democratic party, its organization, and its principles. NRYIR WILL, while be or it and they exist...— That's our platform. We shall watch palming events with a 'scru tinizing eye, and lie who strikes the party shall not go unscathed. Democrats of Clin ton county, we appeal to you to stand by your time-honcred party and its organisat ion!— Let no quarrel of men, no ephemeral issues divide you to induce you to abandon the well established usages of your party. Remember the motto of old Tow Benton, in his palmy days, that preserved the par ty . in the stormy times of Gen. Jackson : " tiNIOY AND HAR MONY, CONCESSION, SELF-DRNIAL, EVICRY 'MINI] rue TH4 cAt3s, KOTHINO roc MEN :" A Philadelphia correspondent of the York Prue, after stating that the Bogus Con vention to come off at Ltarriaborg, was deter mined upon in a mid-night micas at the Girard House, in that city, in which Forney figured as generalissimo, remarks: We are daily gathering strength here, and we assure oar brother Democrats in the coun try districts, that not a stone shall be left un turned until we hare wiped out of tho arena the bogus Democracy, and placed the true principles in she front and foremost ranks; with this intention we enter the campaign and ask that, assistance which has always been so cheerfully given us from the country, to be given to as in the coming battle and with renewed rigor. If this is done there cannot be the least possible shadow of a doubt that fortune will once more smile upon us and oar ticket be triumphantly elected. trot tlbs Xrle Obrorrior The late Democratic State Convention hav ing refused to peas a resolution, after having been ineßlored to do so by Gov. Picker's rep resentative upon the floor, Mr. Umberto's, endorsing the 4. State policy " of that funo tionaryt w e see that the arch demagogue and polities& Mahar, Col. J. W. Forney, ie out th a eall fbr another State Convention to assemble at Harrisburg on the 13th proximo. To b sure, there are other names thee" For ney's to the esll—birds of the same feather— bed the whole teaor of the plot, the laagaage of the manifiwto, the froth sad fury" - with which it abounds, points usetriy to its paternity. Forney is the ammeter, prime mover, and oomataader-lmoldsfof the squad. A 11.,niatari ocaTeutpondent of the Paw spisesion wrilas : _ . , The adherents of Packer and Forney are making prestigious stardoms te drum ap a ereesd ter their Oamsention on the la* of Amil. Forney has imaml #etresdar addressed to the faitbrul, imploring them to 2 ~~ T be active In the work at inducing persons to ottmod. No &alit o crowd will be collected at this place on the 13th. as every man who desire, can elect himself a delegate. Gen. D. K. Jackman, whose name heads the call for this Convention, I. very active., and boasts that it will be the Inhgek political demonstration ever held ic y Pennsylvania.— There was a striking propriety in putting him forward as the the leader of this movement, fur no man in the State could better illustrate its character. He was a member of the last House and the chief engineer of the Sunbury and Erie project—that is, be kept open room, helpt to perfect the necessary arrangements, and acted as paymaster of the fortes. He is now a Director of the Company, and is real ising a large fortune out of the operation by which the State was swindled. Occupying this position, he can induce all the Sunbury and Erie contractors, sub con tractors, and the host of persons whose bread depends upon the road, to assemble at liar risburg, denounce the President, and uphold our amiable and virtuous Governor. Already the call for the Convention abounds in the names of Sunbury and Erie contractors.— This influence will be the back bone of tho Convention, and it is perfectly right and pro per that they should back up the Governor. The Slates, Douglas's organ at Washing ton, in speaking of Forney's proposed Con vention at Harristurg, uses this emphatic language: " We confess ourselves at a lose to under stand the object of this movement. We know nothing of the individuals responsible for it, nor are we apprised of the purposes they en tertain. In this case we are reduced to the necessity of investigating their motive in the light of their own public declarations. If there had been any avowal of principle by the Convention at Harrisburg which the authors of this schismatic demonstration could not approve, they might very properly vindicate their consistency by formal remon strance. But from a comparison of the Har risburg platform with the protest of the re cusants in the Philadelphia .Press, we du not discover a particle of difference in respect to fundamental policy. They are agreed in sup port of popular sovereignty, &c." Again : " An attentive and imrartial observation of the course of the disorganizers,satisfiss us that they . are animated by no other motive than. an impulse of personal hostility to the Administration. Their movement is resolv ed into an ebullition of resentment against the President. And this is the most-charita ble construction of their conduct ; for some persons contend that it is no sudden outburst of anger which transport them beyond the bounds of reason, but that they act upon cal culatiors of selfish expediency, and hare de y resulted to take refuge in the bosom of the Black Republican patty." Again— " Whether or not this he the purpose of the men who have ranted the flag of rerolt against the Democratic or g anization w Pent,- eyli matt, the obvious and inevitable effect of the movement is to prubiGle the hatreds of the Opposiliwi." And again— •• It in :he apparently unprincipled motive and the inevitably pernicious effect of this schismatic uturementin Pennsylvania,n t ainst which we are bound to protest fur th e Inter ests of the National Democracy." Speaking of the call fur Putney's "Bogus" Cenyetition, the Philadelphia Aryls. re marks : But we do not of to this Convention.— Ic may be productive of good, because it will be a buzzard's feast at which the carrion crows will assemble. and the public will thus be able to distinguish them hereafter. In the East they build cities iu which the lepers are minced, that they may nut spread disease and death among the pe Lot these po litical lepers confine themtelves within a known circle, so that the sound, honest mass es of the Democracy may avoid them as they would the.pestilence. The pare, sound, wholesome Democratic doctrines enunciated from the Suite Conven tion, and the fearless, truthful, stin,,wing re buke administered to .those who under the guise of Democrats were sating in full fellow. ship with the Black Republicans, is exerting t. beneficial influence on the party in all sec tions of the Commonwealth. Democrats now perceive that the small band of man who fol low the lead of Knox, Forney and Lauman are fairly outside the 11:aioeridie party, and iaside that of the Block liepaLlicasss. and that the true issue is the success of the De mocracy of the State, ultder the old party banner as unfurled by the State Convention, or a triumph for the Black-Depublicans, on their Sectional Anti-Union Doctrine. Knox, Forney, and LaJman can uo longer deceive Democrats by professions of party attachment. The State Convention has traced out theyath of party action, and those who du nut walk therein must be counted with the enemy. Our Future.—The Pennsylvania Democra cy is like Milton's young mow waking from &Jeep mad shaking his invincible lucks. All corruption and impediments have been sloughed ufi—a►ll the crushing munplicity with rascality has been removed, and we stand before the people in the proud attitude of defenders of popular rights and the Union of the States. Packer and his satelites are harmless before the unbr(ken column which we now preser t t ; fur hundreds of the honest yoemen will gather to our standard, where one double-dealing knave deserts. Hereto fore we have been stricken down by secret foes; hereafter we have them in front. In the past, we were forced to bear the load of indignity which recreant Democrats heaped upon our shoulders; in the future, we shall present a bold and honest front to the enemy of American nationality. Therefore are we stronger far, than we have been fur yearn.— Indeed no party ever stood forth so proudly as the righter of the wrong, and indicter of the guilty. This undaunted and loyal popu lar position attracts the sympathies of the masses—it confounds truckling politicians, and terminates the miserable clap-trap about popular sovereignty and Kansas. From the day of the last Convention we date the regen eration of the. Democratic party, and an era of new triumphs for the friends of the United States. An Opposition Conclave in Baltimore. The Washinbton States is informed of a recent caucus in Baltimoiie, of dis tinguished representatives of the seve ral wings of the Opposition, with the view of effecting a complete coalition for the canvass of 1860. The conclave was held at the residence of a member of the Maryland judiciary, and there were present Mr. Fieward,Mr.Cameren, and certain other personages in the interest of the "Know•Nothing-Whig" faction. We are not apprised of the results of the consultation. It is suf ficient for the Democracy to be inform ed of this movement to combine the forces of the Opposition; and they will at once appreciate the importance of union and harmony in their own ranks. /iris is said that one of the stzong. minded women in New York has chal lenged the "Benicia Boy" to a trial -of the manly art. ifirA widow in Canada lost herfint husband by the falling of a tree, and the second from the same mule. She bad a brother killed in the ease way. "c f nipany lit' being formed n 4 YlrimpOni, to be compos ed of men who - minted In the Mexican war, It is to be callettthe Scott Gaard. Prom the Poway%vision. /tom the Ilarristairg Patriot. Hon. Z. Glassy Joni and _Pie Bea- dim Steam POMO. The Philadelphia Ledger of Monday last, contained the following letter from its Washington correspondent, In which reference is made to the charge brought against the lion. J. Glancy Jones by the minority of the late Investigating Committee of Congress, of having re ceived pay for the use of his influence in procuring work for the Reading Steam Forge. It will be soon tliatilr. Jones positively denies having ever ac ted as agent in the negotiation of con tracts with the Forge Company, or that the officers over offered hint a price for any such service : WASHINGTON, March 19, 1859. - Mr. Flinn, .Navy Agent hero, is in the receipt of a letter of J. Glancy Jones, stating that ho has very courteous ly received at Vienna by the Emperor and Empress, and by Count Buoy, tho Primo Minister. Mr. J on & f am ily h as spent the winter at his country resi dence, some five miles from the metro polis. In the autumn ho will set up his town establishment. Mr. Jones speaks of having received letters from friends, reciting in u gone rail way, that charges of having acted as agent for pay of the Reading Forge Company, were preferred against him. Expressing regret that precise points are not stated, he uses language as fol lows : 4, 1 n the course of five years the Reading Forge Company paid me fees for services from two hundred to four• hundred dollars, which is till that I ever received. I never made contracts for them with any man living—all -con tracts of theirs have been gotten (as I suppose,) by their being the lowest bid ' dens. I. recommended them to every one as a good Company, and advised those having work to be done, to invite their proposals at least. I never went, behind this. Sonic of the Company told mu, some time ago, they were willing to pay for the expense of getting con tracts, but never pretended to offer me a price—they were honorable men and would nut do it." This statement of Mr. Jones seems confirmed by the testimony before the Naval Investigating Committee, since that about the sum above .named way shown to have been paid by the CUM puny for expenses of .11r. Janos in vis iting Washington on three oecusiens. An Arch Demagogue. The lion. John Sherman, of Oldo,lmw fairly won the title of "demagogue," by his (mum in Cungpss. The Mt. Ver. non (Ohm) Defibtie Banner draws. the fullowingpiettie of him : "There is-no- wan in Congress who. has made greater outcry than Mr. John Slterman„of the RA:bland District, about, the 'extraragantaf' of the Govern ment; and yet no man living has done more towards swelling the expenses of the country than himself. Under tho ridiculous pretence of investigating t he 'frauds' in Kansas ' he and others of political ilk, in July, MG raised a Spe cial Committee of Investigation, with power to send foe persons and papers.— This Committee visited Kansas, and mado a long 4*k-end-burn report, oe cupyingover IJUU closely printed pa geav all about - matters which the people were already familiar with, the leading facts having been published in all the newspapers throughout the country.— The expenses of this ',smelting commit tee,' if our memory is nof at fault, were sonic forty or fifty thousand dollars.— It was a regular treasury plunder, ten times worse than anything that Was oven charged upon the Democratic par ty. Rut the object was not to expose 'frauds' in Kansas, but. to make politi cal capital far the Black Republican party. "Of a similar character was the recent Invoitigating Commit tee, gotten up hy Mr. Sherman relative to tin; Traudt,' nn the Navy. The expenses attending this second effort of thel -di are.i _emagogue, are said to beat least, Ailli,ooo, to the enormous bum previously drawn from the treasury to defray the expen- WM of the Katoots foolery, will show to, the people of this et:Untry how and I,y; whom the national treasury is 'plunder ed? o VZ•I terrible outrage trapeomm't ted at Baltimore unriliersday morniog week, about 1 o'clo4c. •Tlin.Parsunago of the Church of the luiluaeulate Curs ccption, on Moshcri street, near Boss, was entered by two burglars, doubtless bloody Plug Cglics or Tubs, and the rooru of Father thustinium, who was sleeping, was robbed of his watch, his pantaloons, containing a large sum of money, and a shawl. The prelate pro. bahly awaking, one of them struck him two severe blows with a bltulgeun, which kiloAed him insensible. The back cliarubiir was occupied by Father Quigly, assistant pastor, who hearing some disturbance, gut np, and was as sailed by the burglars, who fired a pis tol at him. lie wicaped,into the room, and called the watch froin the window. They speedily came, but the burglars had escaped. Father Giustiniani was found lying almost insensible in his bed, his pillows, sheeting and counterpane saturated with. blood. Ills brain was much injured, and Lis wounds in the head were severe. It is to be hoped that he wilt be tibia to identity the scoundrels. Dreadful Collision on the Ohio—Melan choly Loss of Life.—Cintionati, :M.—The steamers Nathaniel Holmes and David Gibson came in collision last night on the Ohio river, near the town of Aurora. Both bouts were so badly damaged as to be rendered totally use less, and not less than fi ft y persons losp their lives by this catastrophe. Most of the unfortunates wore emigrants on board the !tliolmei," bound for the Pike's Peak gold diggings. The cargoes of both vessels were totally destroyed, involving a loss of $100,000,. on which there was an insurance of 00,000. The freight of the “Gibson' ineludod 600 hhds. mow. airA mac aaked - Jaaais .14tinaged about go ram% a residankofgariin oonnty, was harmed to death on the evening or the 9th sit.—, HO had prokinrod-impotatity of-liquor at a tavernifi an* eet his way hum, et into an enonnopied shanty. A Cooking stove andapila of shavings Imo in tho room It in *opposed - he andartook to build a ercioad sat Are to the shavings, *gob etvvl4oPed thei5° 1311 1 , ,,.#4 4, ban Si tc fall a "lOW kto 116 es a villa and row Ave chit to morn this sad feta of. their husband and father : . • INNZI =MI
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