The Couiraita is published every liouday
asseusin, by Huai J. Brats.s, at it 73 per
basun if paid strictly u sorasca—d3 00 per
atiltli if not paid in advance. No subscription
. dismaintied, unless at the 6ption of the pub
tidier, until ail atrearagn are paid.
s i`Ain-saTt sssss vs inserted at the usual rates
tea Patsvute does with neatness and die
pitch.
Orrtes la South Baltimore street, dlysetlr
opposite Wartylers' -Tinning Establiskumeat--
"Courtuut" on the alga.
Edward B: Buehler,
A TTOBSKY AT LAW, will faithfully and
promptly attend to all business entrusted
° to t im . Ile speaks the German language.—
Oleo at the caste place, in South Baltimore
*treat, near Forney's drug store, and nearly
opposite Usauer k Ziegler's store.
Gottyab wag, /Lamb 20.
D. McCcmatighy,
. TTORNEY AT LAW, (office one door west
of Buehler's dreg and book store,Chan2-
erson•g street,) ArtuaXV! Asiu SoLictroft /On
P TTTTTT AID Pisaloss. Bounty Land War
rants, Back-pny suspended Claims, and •Il
other claims against the Gorernment at Wash
ington. D. C.; also Atnertcan Claims in England.
Land Warrants I,,.:ated and sold.or bought, and
highest prices given. Agents engaged In
lo
eating warrants in lowa, Illinois and other
western States. g a r Apply to him personally
or by letter.
Gettysburg, Nov. 21,'53.
J. C. Neely,
ATTOILNEY AT LAW, will attend to collec
tions anti all ether business intrusted to
are with promptness. Office in the 8. E.
teeter of the Diamond, (formerly occupied by
Wm. 8. McClellan, Esq.)
Gettysburg, April 11, 1859. tf
Win. B. McClellan, .
TTORNEY AT LAW.—Offiee to Weet )(id
dle street, one dour , west of the uew
curt House .
Gettysburg. Nor. „J 4, 1859.
A. J. Cover,
ATTOBSET AT LAW, otll promptly attend
to Cillectious and all other hnsineis en
trusted to bin. Office betosen Fabnestoelis'
sad Danner k Ziegler's, Stores, Baltimore street,
Gettysburg, Pa. [Sept. 3, 1859,
Wm. A. Duncan,
A TTORNEY AT LAW.—Olrice in the worth
west comes of Centre Square, Gettysburg,
[Oet. 3, 1159. 11
J. Lawrence Hill, X. D.
AS his office one
door west of the s.r .
Qumran church In
Cksiabersburg street, and opposite Picking's
,tars, where those wishing to have any Dental
Operation perforated are respectfully inviteckto
call. Ilsrzszyces : Drs. Horner, Rev. Q. ;P.
liranth, D. D , Rev. 11, L. I:laugher, D. 1.f., Rec.
Prof. N. Jacobs, Prof. M. 1.. Stir.ver.
Gettraburg, April 11, '53.
Dr. A. W. Dorsey,
jiORMEIILY of Carroll county, Md., having
permanentiy located in Gettysburg, utters u
is professional services to the citizens of the
town and surrounding country in the practice ot
the various branches of his profession. Gffitte
and residence, Baltimore street, next door to
The Compiler ogle., where he may be found at
All times wizen not professionally engaged.
• •
Pref. etbest R. Smith, Baltimore. )111.
Rev. Augustus Webster, D. I)., !Lattimore Ma.
Dr. J. L. War Geld, Westminster, Md.
Dr. W. A. X.ltbiss, is
Jacob Reese, Esq.,
John K. Longwell,Rsq.,
Geo. E. Wantipler, Esq., Id
Des. Thomson Bowen, Gettysburg.
Oct. 15, 1858. Gm
Pablio Sale.
subscriber, desirous of moving to the
will offer at Public Sale, on the
premises, his desirable YARN, on St; Ila of
Argus( nest, at 1 o'clock, P. M., situate in Butler
townsbip, Adams county. Pa.. 64 miles north
of liettysberg, on the old and diEect road to
Carlisle (near Bender's church.) It contains
134 ACRKS—about 25 acres are covered with
thriving timber--the balance is In a good state
of cultivation. The improvements
con.ist of a comfortable Two-story
STUNK UOE:SF% good Barn, Corn
Crib, Wagon Shed, hay Shed,
Smoke and Wash House, Smith Shop,and other
out-buildings. There is an Orchard of choice
Apple, Pear, Cherry and Peach trees—seldom
failing to bear in abundance; about 30 acres
are in meadow, yielding heavy crops of valua
ble hay. The tarn has been limed once, and
part twice, has running water, two wells of
good water, one at the door and the other at
the garden. Possession given in Owl. Terms
easy—title good. Persons desirous to buy are
invited to attend as there will bee bargain.
siir Tereus made known by the subscriber,
residing on the premises.
July A. 1810. td
Private Sale.
TILE subscriber offers for sale the Propert.
ea which he now resides, consisting of the
HOUSE: and OUT-BUILDINGS,
4ed *bout 27 ACRES OF LAND.—
The land is in a high state of culti
vation, haring on it running wa
ter, and about 300 fruit-bearing trees. Much
of tin lead is within the limits of the Borough,
furnishing admirable sites for Building Lots.—
The property will be sold either as a %hole, or
is lota, to suit purchasers.
For additional informition and terms apply,
on the premises, tiethe subscriber.
Juse 18, 1860. I'm
Notice.
t first and final account of Jos SSTDIR,
r Jolts
osisattee of Resat . Girt, (a lutuitie) has
bees sled In the Court of Common Pleas of
Adams* toasty, and will be confirmed by the
Said Court, on the 20tA gray of Angast next, unless
cease be shown to the contrary.
JACOB 1.11;.;11EY, Proiii'y
July 23, 1860. td*
Just in Season!
GITS USA CALL I—The undersigned have
.at received from the cities an immense
Neck of CLOTHS, CASSINIERES, CASSISETS,
TIMINGS in all varieties, ke., suitable fur the
season, which they offer to the public at napre
cedestedly low rates.
"They ask a call.
To convince all "
of the truth of his assertion. No trouble to
show goods and give prices. A large lot of
SI6I)Y-MADE CLOTHING also sellingcbeaper
tkaa ever.
Cleelieenta made up for men and boys, as us
-11141,1a the very beat manner, and according to
eat style desired. The work being done in
their ova establishment, they are always en
abled to warrant it, Remember, their place of
business is the large and commodious room ad
jeials; Cabean £ Culp's on Chambersburg
Street. JACOBS k BRO.,
Sept. 19, 1859. Merchant Tailors:
J. W. Scott,
Ggitlat.r. IRr I+I7JEINISIi 4 T013, 1 2, and
1511111,1' MANUFACTORY, No. 814 Ches
ant Street, (nearly opposite the Girard Ileum)
1= Ms.. J. W. SCOTT would respectful
e attention of his former patrons and
Meads to Ms ere Store, and is prepared to ill
embers for SHIRTS at short notice. A perfect
st inerautied. COUNTRY TRADE - supplied
mid nu Snare and Cota.aas.
Pe11..17, 1859. ly
Notice.
rrIIIXISSIt'S LSTATlL—Letters tea
forresitary ow the estate of /ohs Slicker,
- eatiodiair tocreship, Adduce county, go.
. bubo, beim wasted to Site atiersiga
- Ilirr la tko coats toerackip, he hereby
to oat pomace ladoblo4 to said estate
himmessit paysinit, sad those haring
sedum tie mai to precut thect.proper•
literp!pidirito S tar oettion e
MICHAEL rralausEß,
/sir. 1118411). ato .acecider,
427.! YEAR.
TN pursuance of sundry writs of Venditioni
E1pa1444 and F.eu "sews, issued out of the
Court cf Common Pleas of Adams county, Pa.,
and to a directed, will be exposed to Pub
lic Hale, at the Court-house, to Gettysburg,
ow Saturday, the I lth day of Aorta Ned, at I
o'clock, P. M., the following described Real
kLitate, vie
A TRACT OF LAND, containing 288 Acres,
more or less, situate in Hamiltonban township,
Adams county, adjoining lands of Santurd
Shroeder, Christian Masselama, and other;
improved with a two-story LOG HOUSE,
(roughcast,) with a one-story Log Build- tp
ing attached, a Stone Bank Bars Smith
Shop, Bpribg House, with spring of water,
Smoke House, two Orchards of fruit trees, and
other improvements. Seised and taken in ex
ecution as the property of 8. C. Waimea.
A TRACT OP LAND, containing To Acres,
more or lest, situate in Mountpleasant town
alq, Adams county, adjoining lands of Henry
.1. Limier, John Shultz, Creager, and
others, improved with a two-story LUG „.
IioCSR, a one and a half story Log
Building attached, a Log Wash and
Smoke House, a Bank Barn, with Wagon Shed
and Corn Crib attached, an Orchard of fruit
trees, a well of water, tc.—Seized and taken in
execution as the property of I.:least:at Gotors.
A TRACT OF LAND, containing G Acres,
more or less, situate is Siountjoy township,
Adams comity, ailjUjuingi lands of John Bush
man, Peter Baker, John Black, and others,
improved with a one and a half story
FRAME HOUSE, a one-story Frame ;;
Building attacked, a Bank Barn, part log It
and part frame, an Orchard of fruit trees, a
well of water, kc. Seised and taken in exe
cution as the property of WILLIA x Reser.
The interest of Margaret Nace and William
Nace in A TRACT OF LAND, containing 13
'Acres, more or less, situate iu Mountpleasant
township. Adams county, adjoining lands of
William H. Lott, Esq., George Nace, and others,
improved with a one story LUG HOUSE,
Log Stable, a well of water, an Orchardjr,,
of fruit trees, ke.- Seized and taken in
_. 111
execution as the estate of MAIGAILLT•SiCE ond
WiLL lAN NACE.
A TRACT OF LAND, containing 1200 Arrest,
more or leas, situate in Franklin township,
Adams cuuuty, adjoining lauds of Robert
Bleekney, Charles Stewart, and others, im
proved with a two-story Weatherboarded
House, with a one-story Stone Back- i l l
building attached, Rank Barn, Wagon II
Shed and Corn Crib, Spring House, with spring
of water, Saw Mill, Shingle Mill, Orchard of
fruit trees, kc. Seized and taken in execution
all the property of CRAIILIN MCKCXR/C l / 4 , Jta
rts and JAnts McKanasca.
TWO LOTS 1../F GROUND, situate op the
Public Square, in the town of New thibril,
Adams county, adjoining kits of Joseph B.„(litt,
George Hersh, and others. improved with a
large two-story HOUSE, part - stone anil
part triune, with a two-story Brick Back , -
building attached, a Brick Stable, a
Frame Stable, Smoke House, two wells of water,
and other improvelneutr--loug known as Miley's
raver& Stand. sad rendered a better stand then
eter by the Gettysburg Railroad passing thro'
that place. Seized and taken in execution as
the property of Gronos F. Became.
At the same time and place, by virtue of
sundry writs of Levine Facial,. the following
described Real Estate, viz:
A LOT OF GROUND, sitnnie on the east side
of Washington strew., north of North street, in
the b.rough of Gettysburg, Adams county, ad
j.iniug lots of Peter Thorn, Wm. Steluour,and
others, improved with a two- tnt7 /trick
llwclling LIOITSF., well of water, ke.— ;:i:
seised and taken in exeratiou as the
property of WiLLIAM licit tccca , JACult
ilciucc
aa and Lsnus
Sheriff's Office, Gettysburg, July 23, 'l3l.
'Ten per cent- of the purchase money upon
all saks by the Sherif must be paid ox er im
mediately after the property is struck down, and
on failure to comply therewith, the property will
again be put up for sale.
BrairWe are requested to state that the
property advertised to be sold by the Sheriff on
the 11th of August nest, as the property of S.
C. \l's Lisa, If nut sold for cash, be offered
on time, or on terms to• suit purchasers.
Administrators' Sale
OO VALUABLE REAL ESTATE OF PETER
MONFORT, DEtro.—ln pursuance of an
Order of the Orphea's Court of Adams county,
the undersigned, Administrators of the estate
of Peirce MosronT, deceaked, will expose to
Public Sale, on the premles, ea the 12th (ley et
Srygessiker next, at 1 o'clock, P. M., the VALUA
BLE FARM of said deceased, situated In :gra
ben township, Adams county, 3 miles from
Gettysburg, on the York Turr.pike, adjoining
lands of John Tate, Sr., Isaac Miller, John Rine
hart and others, containing 173 Acres, haring
thereon erected a good Two-story
1101:SE, part Log and Weather- 11.1
boarded and part Brick, calculated ' 4 l
1111
for two families, Waeh House,.
Brick Bank Bern, Carriage llonre, and other
out-buildings, with two never-failing wells of
water with pumps—one at the house and the
other at the barn. There is a good proportion
of Meado.w and Timber Land, and a fine Apple
Orchard, and a large variety of other choice
hug trees on the premises which seldJui fad
to bear. The t ettysburg Railroad pisses
through the farm. The laud is ILI a good state
of cultivation, (part of o hich has been recently
limed,) under good fencing, and id one of the
most &Inutile properties in the county.
bur Also. at the same time and place, will
be sold A TRACT OF MOUNTAIN LAND—one
half of 15 Acres—on the Cold Spring road, ad
joining lands of John Moritz, Henry Brinker
hoff, and others. This tract is well cot ereil
with thriving Chesnut timber.
gar Attendance will he given and terms
made known by JACOB MONFORT,
JACOB CASSAT,
July IF, 18G0. td Adams:rulers.
Notice.
JACOB BEAM'
U. L. 1331:1GIIER
;NT'OTICE is hereby given that an Application
has been made to the Court of Common
ass, in and for the County of Adams, to grant
a Charter of Incorporation to en Association of
persons under the name ' style and title of the
"CITIZENS' BAND OPGETTYSBURG," and
that if no sufficient reason be shown to the con
trary, the aid Court at the next term, to wit :
oa the 3d ifooekry of A afoot, 1860, will decree
and declare that the persons so associated tl hall
become and be &corporation or body politic ac
cording to the articles and conditions in an in
strument of writing set forth and duly filed in
the office of the Prothonotary of the said Court.
By the Court, JACOB BUSHEY, ProtA4.
July 23, 1860. 3t
Farmers, Carpenters, &o.
. / l ii, TTEND TO YOUR INTERE S T S.—The
sa dersigned would respectfully inform the
pu . c., and the citizens of Gettysburg and
particularly, that they are prepared to
flattish all persons who contemplate building
bonne, barns, *c., with materials required for
said Windlass, such as RAFTERS, LATHING,
SHINGLES, BOARDS, and all HEAVY TIM
BER for bundisg.
Also, POSTS, RAILS, kc., continually oa
bead, sad upon lots terms for trash.
PLANK B SPANGLRR.
Arendtstitle, lane 18111860. Sm
fl HU COKES, (hea Heir Nat, Gam Sleeve
Hairiest, all very show, at H. G. CARR'S.
ALARGE lot of Crocks?) , Ad Queens
for sae by NORBECIE a MARTIN
01
THE COMPILER.
Br H. J. STAHLB.
Sheriff's Sales.
18110 LIGIIT.NER.
a gatutorrafic, ) tali and ,fatuilti, Nournal.
GETTYSBURG, PA.: MONDAY, AUG. 6, 1860.
3P4C0 7 / 1 1TolEf Cl4Clo
TIE lIMIGUT
•eewt tb. dun sad broodisi eight,
• east /kw with &mon light
And ►nrtb of wrestling eookep
Around Win wkrttm the reeling pials,
Lad with • damn of grim dtad.ols,
lie dances the iendword rock.
I• Wooly swamps ths low VIII stirs
The belt of biach. fseereal It.,
That osermar to tho sky,
Till, ilartlid by his mod earvor,
They soon to keep a hash of Ilsw
As If • got swept try !
Thom* sow slash. AAA hart d Watt s
D'esshastolastlirkkeds, oleos Itessath
♦ indidadght river brawls;
rules, nsamead ad the past,
Their lehe treabliag la the WM;
idalkig water6ll.!
The dasalt'rer, oa his /Met bed,
Term to t h e light hie toasty Mad,
Divested alto dream;
Logy leagues of gloms are berried o'er,
Thruegh teasel sheaths, with iron roar,
♦awl rhrlll alght•rendiag aeremes.
Peet huddling beta, peat Sy Iry berm.
U gh tarmac* Samar, whose crimes Ansa
Are grappling with the night,
Ile timers along needing lands,
To when the kingly city stands,
Wrapped La • rube of light
Pere round each wide and gashieg gale,
♦ crowd of seer Lem wall,
♦nd scary seine la tams ;
are Ulu* you, 0 thaws Titan trials—
That is the *Dr uses again,
We clasp oar loved, our ma!
Singular.
Some days ago a young man named Swan,
employed in an eastern mill, was caught by
the arm in some machinery, and the limb
was an badly broken and mangled that insme
dial° amputation was deemed neecessery.—
This was successfully performed, but accord
ing to an exchange, which relates the inci
dent, the maimed man's connection with the
dissevered limb did not cease with the opera
tion. We quote as follows:
"On recovering from the stupor (produced
by the one of chloroform.) Mr. Swan still
complained sorely of the aching kawl. Late
in the evening, his distress became very great,
and he insisted that the hand was cramped
by being doubled up. The 'Nib had been
placed it. a small box and buried. Ilis atten
dants dugic up and straitened the band and
lie was noon easier. This morning the limb
was again linried. But be soon comp6►ined
of a sensation of cold and great pain in it.
It was accordingly taken up again, wrapped
up, and deposited in a tomb, since which he
is again relieved. What does this mean'—
Is it all imagination? If this instance were
a solitary one we might think so. But there
are so many similar well-attested case/inn roe
ord, that we can only shake our beads and
Ba•.
..•There are more things In heaven and earth,
Than are dreamed of in our philosophy."
atirThe Greenfield (Mass.) Gazette
has the following :—" A curious circurn
stance occurred on Wednesday. A
young man in this village procured a
clergyman to marry him, and after the
guests had all assembled and the 'knot
j was about to be tied, the would-be
bridegroom was called out of the house;
and soon, informing the clergyman and
guests that he would be back in a mo
ment, mysteriously disappeared, and
, a ft er waiting an hour the clergyman
I left for the Sunday-school celebration,
leaving the intended bride and her
friends in doubt as to the mysterious
disappearance of the bridegroom. It,
subauquently appeared that a person to
whom the briiegmoin had loaned twen
ty-six dollarr was about departing in
the ears for New York, and that a friend
had informed him of the fact just as
t he clergyman was about tying the knot,
and . thinking that his intendial wife was
safer than his money, left for the depot
I to collect the borrowed money before
the train should depart. ilo got'there
just as the train was starting; got on
board the ears to find the debtor friend,
l and was carried off to Northampton.—
' Ile, however, collected his modey, wont
to the telegraph office to inform his in
tended wife where he was, but could
nut find the operator, and started for
Grcer.field afoot oa the track. At
Whitely the train .overtook him; he
pat into the ears and reached "Green
field at halfinist three o'clock, to the
great relief of his intended and her
friends. Ile immediately took the lady
to the clergyman's residence and bad
the ceremony completed."
A /Uodern Lucretia Boryia.—Med ford,
Otsego, N. Y., is horriffed by the de.
velopment of a poisoning ease—or rath
er a series of poisoning cases—of an
unusual character. Mrs. Elizabeth P.
McCraney, the third wife of Mr. Me.
(wbo was also her second husband,) is
accused of poisoning her husband's
daughter, liuldah, a beautiful girl of
17, and now that this murder is out the
people believe they shall trace no less
than seven mysterious deaths to her a
gency,ineluding her former husband.—
Sbe is about fifty years of age, a woman
of unusually brilliant, not to say dash
ing appearance.
sifirLewi4 1). Campbell, late an M.
C. from the Ohio district now represent
ed by Mr. Vallaudigham, has written
a letter in which he says that "accord
ing to the sew tests of Republicanism
adopted by the Chicago Convention, I
regard myself as resolved out of that par
ty." Mr. C. then alludes to the "Dutch
plank" of the Chicago platform, and
says emphatically "I spit upon it."
sirTbe New York Houston State
Convention moist Sbbeneotady on Wed
nesday week, noininatod Sam lioaston,
of Texas, for Vim President, and then
--atter some angry personal abuse be
tweenthe persons present, broke up is
a row,.
Virile weather is Intensely hot in
South Carolina and Georgia, and many
deaths him, matured trout the etTucts
of the heat.
ifirThe teeth steeds aa 11011ota4ient.
~.," ''''',,,t
"TAUT!! 18 mranrr, AND WILL PREVAIL."
In his address at the annual commence
ment of Mount St. Vincent Academy, on
Tuesday, Archbishop Hughes thus recom
mends the young Indies to learn the art of
Booking: "Although it it of the utimlst im
portance, younm ladies, that you should have
a good education, Sh.,uld be accomplishel,
cultivated, refined, and graceful, yet there
are other things that cannot be lost sight of.
Before another year rolls around, I propose
to arrange with the sisters a new branch of
study in the Academy. That branch of stu
dy is what the French call the science of cui
eras. It is the science of keeping house, and
that, we all know, commences with the hitch
ea. Every young lady, I don't care if she
be a queen's daughter, ought to understand
that department of life. Even though else
any not have to prectios it. though she may
be able to hire her cook, yet she should un
derstand it herself, for it may happen some
day that the cook will diatoms her. (Great
laughter.) What a predicament she will be in
then! Well, what I wee going to say was
that, the Sisters should arrange it so that
all the girls over thirteen years of ago should
be enabled to spend a port.un of the time in
the )thehen, and become acquainted with
cooking and house keeping. Here will he a
new bureau of education. (Laughter.) We
will then have the theory and some practice
tan. Another point end I will elese. At
the end of anotheryear, it living, and my
purse is long enough, I am going to give a
gold medal of not how than fifty dollars in
value to the young lady who will write the
beat essay, not exceeding live pages in length,
upon this great new science I have spJten
of." (Laughter and applause.)
.a..im-ir.
The New York Herald, in publishing a
number of newspaper and correspondents'
&comets of the meted(' phenomenon which
took place on Friday evening week, publish
es the following interesting editorial reports:
"At about a quarter before ten o'clock on
Friday evening, the atmosphere being very
sultry, and no perceptible mu.iun is, the air,
a light cloud appeared iu the west. from
which a blue tinted luminous globe shot out,
which at the first glance suggested to the
spectators the idea of an artificial fire-work.
Instantly it lost its globular form, bursting
like an immense skyrocket, into four p, rtions.
The first two are represented by one of our
correspondents as resembling brilliant illu
minated chandeliers, with innumerable jets
of purple flame; the others were globular
and comparatively small, appearing rather
as the tails of the first. They maintained
their relative distanece as they flew athwart
the sky from west to east, occupying in their
flight something like a minute. IVhether
they vanished in air or fell on the land or sea
we hare not yet ascertained. About a min
ute after their passage &detonation was heard
as from a piece of ordnance; but wether it
proceeded from the bursting of the meteor is
a matter of conjecture.
"One very curious optical delation which
it gave rise to is worthy of remark. To the
spectators it appeared to lie no higher than
from a quarter to ha(f a mile, and to be al
most directly over their heads, and yet, when
the fact is considered that It was witnessea
under almost identical circumstances at Phil
adelphia, some ninety miles south-west of
New York; at New Haven, eighty miles mad;
at Barnagat. forty miles south, and at NIEL
burg, on the Hudson, sixty miles north, it
will be perceived that, the tdeadtf its insig
nificant elevation was =Jet &Anglia It must
have teen at an immense elevation to have
been seen at these widely remote points, and
to have presented at all of them the same ap
pearance of being so nearly in the zenith."
The Chambersburg Repositori. in speaking
of Col. Thomas 'A. Scott, the \ ice President
of the Pennsylvauia Railroad, incidentally
gives the following :
" A gentleman from Merc‘ralnirg. and
his wife, in very feeble health. were visiting
relatives in Philadelphia. when a few weeks
since, the ljuly. who all her relatives sup-
posed could not withstand the fatigues of the
trip, desired to be Srought home, to die.—
The opinion of eminent physicians was, that
if her home was on the hue of the Pvansvlva-
Ilia or sums other railroad Leading oat of
Philadelphia, en that she would not be eotapel
led to change from car to ea, and if a bed
could be placed in a ear, she might live to
reach her piece nt destination ; but if she were
to be obliged to be removed as there are
different trains of ears between the two
1604414 elm could not survive the fativse of
the journey.
"These facts were communicated to Col.
Thomas A. Coott, when, without the least
begging, coaxing or solicitation, he had o first
class car prepare I, hauled to within one square
of where the lady was staying, and she taken
to the car, placed comfortably in a bed, and;
the molestation of any stangers, with
the whole ear given up to the accommodation
of the sick lady and her husband and mother,
and her oonveyed from Philadelphia to Green•
castle, without once baring to leave her bed
in the ear."
How a young lady endeavored to adapt her
style of conversation to the character of bet
guests is thy related by an Ohio paper:
Tom Corwin and Tom Eying being o■ a
political tour through tho State, stopped at
the house of a prominent politician at night.
A young niece presided at the supper table.
She had never seen "great men, and suppos
ed they were, elephantine altogether, and all
talked in great language.
"Mr. Ewing, will you take condiments in
your tea. sir?" inquired the young lady.
"Yes, miss, if you please," replied the
quondam salt boiler.
Corwin's eyes twinkled. Here was fun for
him. ()ratified at the apparent success of
her first trial at talking to big men, the young
lady addressed Mr. Corwin in the same man
ner,—
"Will you fake condiments in your tea,
sir?"
"Pepper and salt, but no mustard," was
the prompt reply of the facetious Torn. Of
course nature must out, and Ewing and the
entertainer roared in spite of themselves.—
Corwin essayed to mend the matter, and was
vululde in wit and compliment. The . young
Lady to this day declares that Corwin Is a
OU&Ille, vulgar, tieagresable made.
Somoatiog Neu Again.—Atnoog the pat
ents just keno:lie one to an inventor of Wash
inglow shy for a suet ingenious sad valua
ble improvement in watches. By this inven
tion watches (and other time keepers) are
made permanently sad completely air tight
and dust excluding, and consequently will
never need , Ifeening. The outside awe lan
be * ewnopeo. and the watch laid is water
fur days wittnay moisture penetrating to
the movementa.
airPaal Murphy. atter passings kir weeks
in .New York, will take kir *nal departure
iur Paris, which he inunals w lank, per*
mamma husna.
'Archbishop Hughes on Cooking
The Ketorie Phenomenon.
A Railroad Incident.
High Strung
I:MIIMMEPMICI
mut rut wasatmarem ocrisrmerrwa, JILT 7Ors.
Address of the President to the Friends
The great ratification meeting of Monday
evening, laving adjourned to the Executive
Mansion and paid their respects to the Chief
Magistrate, Mr. Bucuaziam appeared and
sp..ke as follows :
Friends and Feitmevitizens : I thank yon
from my heart for the honor of this visit. I
cordially congratulate you on the preference
which you have expressed for Major Breckin
ridge and Gen. Lane as candidates for the
Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United
States over all competitors. [Applactsel—
They are men whose names are known to the
country ; they need no eulorf . from me. They
have ihrved their country in pews and in
war. They are statesmen as well as soldiers,
and in the dey and hour of danger they will
ever be at their posts. They are conserva
tive men ; and in the course of their adminis
tration they will be equally just to the North
and 0' the South, to the E.ist and to the West.
[ Applause.] Above all, and first of all they
am Dirndl' of the Constitution and of tae
Union. teliecrs.j and they will stand by them
to the death. [Renewed cheers.] But we
might not to forget that they are also friends
to the equality of the sovereign States of this
Union iur the common Territories of the coun
try. 'Cries of " Good !"). They will main
,
tam that principle, which should receive the
cordial approbatimi of us all. Equality is
equity. I.very citizen of the United States is
equal before the Constitution and the laws;
and why should not the equality of the sove
reign Suites composing this Union lie held in
like reverence? This is good Democratic
doctrine. liberty and equality are the birth
right o(every Aineritan citizen ' • and just as
certainly as the .succeeds the night, so
certain will this principle of Democratic jus
tice eventually prevail over all opposition.—
Cheers.) But, before I speak further upon
this subject—and I shall nut detain you very
long—l with to remove one stumbling-block
out of - the way.
I have ever been the friend of relplar
nominations. I have never struck a political
ticket in my life. Now, was there anything
done at Baltimore.to'biud the political con
science of any sound Democrat, or to prevent
him from supporting Breckinridgc and Lane ?
p Nu! No 11 I was cotemporary with the
abandonment of the old Congressional Con
vention or Caucus. This occarrod a long
time ago; very few, if any. of you remember
it. Under the old Congressional Convention
system, no person tree admitted to a seat ex
cept the Democratic :limber+ of the Senate
and House of Representatives. This rule
rendered it absolutely certain that the nomi
nee, whoever he might be, would be sustained
at the election by the Democratic States of
the Union. By this means it was rendered
impossible that those States which would not
give an doctoral cute for the c.uididate when
nominated should control th nomination, and
dictate to the Democratic States who should
he their nominee.
This system was abandoned—whether wise
ly or nit I shall express no opinion. The
National Convention was substituted in its
stead. All the States whether, Democratio
or not, were squally to send delegates to this
Convention, nocuruing to the number of Sen
ators and Representatives in c o n g ress.
A difficulty at once arose which never could
hare arisen under ihe'Congressional Conven
tion system. If a bare majority of the Na
tional Convention thus composed could nomi
rue a candidate, he might be nominated
mainly by the anti-Democratic States, against
the will of a large majority of the Democratic
States. Tens the nominating power world
Le separated from the electing power, which
could not fail to be destructive to the strength
and harmony of the Democratic party.
To obviate this serious difficulty in the or
ganisation of a National Convention, and at
the same time to leave all the States their
fall vote, the two-thirds rule was adopted.—
It was believed that under this rule nu candi
date could ever Le Dominated without em
bracing within the two-thirds the votes of a
decided majority of the Demccratic States.—
This was die substitute adopted to retain, at
least in a great degree, the power to the dem
ucratie ceargreesiuual convention system.—
This rule was a main pillar in the edifice of
national conventions. Remove it and the
whole must hearse a ruin. This sustaining
pilfer was broken to pied" it Baltimore by
the Convention which nominated Douglas.—
After this that body was no longer a national
convention; and uo democrat, however de
voted to regular nominations, was bound to
give the noniielse his snppurt ; he was left
free to act according to the dictates of his
owniudement and couscience. And here, in
passing, I may observe that the wisdom of
the two-thirds rule isiiistified by the events
paining around us. ad it been faithfully
ole.eried uo candidate could have been nom .
nated against the will and wishes of almost
every curtain democratic State in the Union.
ne irly all the don airatic Senators and
more than three-fourths of the democratic
representatives iu Congress.
I purposely avoid entering upon any dis
cussion respectiug the exclusion from the
Convention of regularly elected delegates
from different Democratic States. If the
Convention which nominated 3lr. Douglas
was nut a regular Denoteratio Convention, it
inut be contessed that Breckinridge is in the
same condition in that rsepect. The Cum
vention that nominated him. although it was
composed of nearly all the certain Democratic
States, did not conceit] the two-thirds ; and
therefore every Democrat is at perfect liberty
to vote as he think, proper, without running
counter to any regular nomination of the
party. lApplause and cries of - three cheers
for Ilyeeicinridge and Lane."] Holding this
position, I shall present some of the reasons
why I prefer Mr. Breckinridge to Mr. Doug
las. This I shall do without attempting to
interfere with any individual Democrat or
any Democratic organisation holding different
opinions from myself. The main object of
all good Democrats, whether belonging to
the one or the other wing of our unfortunate
division, is to defeat the election of the Re
publican caudidates ; and I shall never op
pose any honest and honorable course calcu
lated to accomplish this object.
Tu return to the point from which I have
digressed. I am in favor of Mr. Brenkiuridge
because he sanctions and sustains the perfect
equality of all the States within their common
territories, and the opinion of the Supreme
Court of the United States establishing this
equality. The sovereign States of this Cahn,
are one vast partnership. The Territories
were acquired by the common blood and com
mon treasure of them all. &eh State,and each
citizen *Welsch &me, has the same right in the
Territories as thaw of arty other State,possess.
Now what is sought for at present is, dui& a
portion of these Suttee stiosiM turn around to
their sister States and ray, " We are holier
than you are, and while we will take our
property to the Territories mid have it pro
tected thew, yaw *ball not plea your proper
ty is this pamition."
That is pronneedy what is oonteade.l fur.—
What the Democratic party maiumin, am/
what OA tree principle of deinuomey is, that
altaU enjoy the saute rights, aml QM all
of Breckinridge sad Lana
TWO DOLLARS A-TEAR
shall be subject to the same duties. Proper
ly—this Government was framed for the pro
tection of lite, liberty and property. They
are the objects for the protection of-which all
enlightened governments were established.—
But it is sought now to place the property of
the citisen, under what is called the principle
of squatter sovereignty, in the power of the
territorial legislature to confiscate it at their
will and pleasure. That is the principle
sought to be established at present: and
there seems to be an entire mistake and mis
understanding among a portion of the public
upon this silkiest. When was property ever
submitted,_to the will of the majority t--
["Never.')
If you bold property as an individual you
hold it independent of Congress v of the
Territorial legLaleture--it is yours ; and your
Constitution iino made to protect your private
property against the assaults of legislative
power. (Cheers.) Well, now, any est of
principles which will deprive you of your
property is against the very essence of Re
publiean ipreernment, and to that extent
makes yet -a slave; for the man who has
power over your property to confiscate it has
• power ores your means of subsistence ; and
yet it is amended that although the Consti
tution of the United States confers no such
power—akhough no State legislature has any
such power, yet a territorial legislature, in
' the remote extremities of the oountry, can
confiscate your property.
VA voice. "They can't do it ; they ain't
going to do it.") •
• There is but tine mode,' and one alone to
• abolish slavery in the Territories. That
•• mode is pointed oat in the Cincinnati plat,
form, which has been u much misrepresent
ed as anything I have ever known. That
platform declares that a majority of the actual
residents in a Territory, whenever their num
ber is sufficient to entitle them to admission
as a State, possess the power "to form a
constitution with or without domestic slavery,
to be admitted into the Union upon terms of
perfect equality with the" other &atm!! If
there be squatter sovereignty in this mole
tion. I have never been able to perceive it.—
If there lie any reference init to a Territorial
legislature it has entirely escaped my notice.
It presents the clear principle that at the
time the people form their constitution
they shall then cide whether they will have
slavery or not.
And yet it has been stated over and over
again that, in accepting the nomination under
that platform,l endorsed the doctrine of squat
ter sovereignty. I suppose you have all
beard this repeated a thousand times.
(A voice. " We all knew it was a lie I")
Well, I am glad 3ou did.
How beautiful this plain principle of co*
etitutional law corresponds with the best in
terests of the peoplel Under it, emigrants,
from the North and the South, from the Nast
and the West, proceed to the Territories,-.:.
They carry with them that property which
they suppose will best promote their mate
riel interests; they live together in pewee and
harmony. The question of slavery will be
come a foregone conclusion before they have
inhabitants enough to enter the Union es a
State. There will then be no isbleeding Kan
sas"
in the Territories; they will all live to
gether
in peace and harmony. promoting the
prosperity of the Territory and their own pros
perity, until the time shall arrive when it bce
comes necessary to frame a constitution. '
Then the whole question will be decided
to the general satisfaction. But upon the
opposite principle, what will yon find in the
Territories? Why, there will be strife and
contention all the tios. One territorial leg
islature may establish slavery, and another
territorial higislature may abolish it, and so
the stru s will be continued throughout
the existenee. The people, instead
of devoting their energies and industry to
promote their own prosperity, will be in a
state of constant strife and turmoil, just as
we have witnessed in Kansas. Therefore,
there is airpossilile principle that can be so
injurious to The best interests of a Territory,
as what has been called squatter sovereignty.
Now-let me place the subject before you in
another point of view. The people of the
Southern States can never abandon this great
principle of State equality in the Union with
out self-degredation. L-Never.") Never with
out an ack.nowlegment that they are in
ferior in this respect to their sister States.—
Whilst it is vital to them to preserve their
equality, the Northern States surrounder
thing by admitting this priniiple. in doing
this they only yield obedienfe to the Consti
tution of their country as expounded by the
Supreme Court of the Unite! States. While
for the North it is comparatively a mere
abstraction, with the South it is a question of
co-equal Stale sovereignty in the Union.
If the decrees of the highest tribunal estab
lished by the Constitution for this very pur
pose are set at naught and disregarded, it will i
tendto render all property of every description
insecure. What, then, have the North to du ? •
Merely to say that, as good citizens, they will
yield obedience to the decision of the Supreme
Court, and admit the rim ht of a Southern man
to take his property into the Territories, and
hold it there, just as a Northern man may
do ; and it is to mo the most extraordinary
thing in the world that this country should
now be distracted and divided because certain I
persons at the North will not agree that their
brethren at the South shall have the *Arne
rights in this Territories which they enjoy.
What would I as a Pennsylvania say or do,
supposing anybody was to contend that the
legislature of any Territory could outlaw iron
and coal within the Territory I [Laughter
and cheers.] The principle is precisely the
same. The Supreme Court of the United
States have decided—what was known to all
to have been the existing state of affairs fur
filty years—that dares are property. Admit
that tact, and you admit everything. Then
that property in the Territories must be pro
tected precisely in the same manner with any
other property. If it be not so protected la the
Territories, the holders of it are degraded be
fore the world.
We have been told that non-intervention on
the part of Congress with slavery in the Ter•
ritorms is the true policy. Very well. I
most cheerfully admit that Congress has no
right to pass any law •..1 establish, impair, or
abolish slavery in the Territories. Let this
principle of non-intervention be extended to
the territorial legislatures, and let it be declar
ed that they in like manner have no power
•to establish, impair, or destroy slavery, and
then the controversy is in effect ended. This
is all that is required at present, and I verily
believe all that will ever be required. 'Lancia
off by Congress and bands oft by the territori
al legislature. [Loud apt:ileum.] With the
Supreme Court of the United States I hold
that neither Congress nor the territorial legis
lature has any power to establish. impair, or
abolish slavery in the Territories. But if,
In the face of this positive_ inehibidon, the
territorial legislature should ezereiae the
power.of intervening. then this would be a
mere transfer of the - Wilmot, proviso and the
Basle **we from Congress, to: be carried
into esesetloa in the Territories to the dea
l/waft of all property la slaves tkleeewai
af fit TeGapt adds tied if axle lit Congress
wowing 11101.061brithitliiii ilifrallVlOW
both hosamti b ra l ity defeated. Seise
is a reraoto . To every se* Iharvi.
tory there how rush of free seders fr ont
the Noel They
_would dist the
tint territorial legislature berm the people
of the South could arrive with their propury.
and this legislature would probahiy eetule
forever the questiou of slavery wording to
their own will.
,
•
,
~
And shall we fbr the sake of squatter sove
reignty which from its nature can only con
tinue dariag the brief period of territorial
existence, incur the risk of dividing the great
Democratic party of the country into two
sectional parties, the ewe North mid the other
South? Shall this great party which has
governed the country in pesos and war,
which has raised it from humble beginnings
to be one of the most prosperous and power
ful nations in the world—shall chic party be
broken up for such a cause ? Thai 'a the
question.
NO. 42.
The numerous. powerful, pious and raw
table Methodist Church has been thus divided.
Thb division was a severe shook to thew Union.
A similar division of the great Democratic
party, should it continue, would rend asun
der ono of the most powerful links which
binds the Union together.
I entertain no such fearful apprehensions.
The present issue is transitory, and will
speedily pass away. In the nature of things
it cannut continuo. There is but one possible
contingency which can endanger the Union:
and agaigot this all Democrats, whether squat
ter soveTeigns or popular sovereigns, will
present a united resistance. Should the
time ever arrive when Northern agitation and
fanaticism shall proceed so far as to render
the domestic firesides of the South insecure,
then, and not until then, will the Union be
in danger. A united Northern Demoeracx
will present a wall of fire against such a
catastrophe I
There are in our midst numerous persons
who predict the dissolution of theirs's' Dew
hasparty and others who contend that it
already been dipsolved. The wish is Sa
ther to the thought. It has been heretofore"
in great peril ; but when divided for the mo
ment it has always closed up its ranks and
become more powerful, even from defeat. It
will never die whilst the Constitution and the
Union survive.
It will live to protect and defend both. It
has its roots in the very vitals of the Consti
tution, and like ono of the ancient oedarsof
Lebanon, it will flourish to afford shelter and
protection to that sacred instrument, and to
shield it against every storm of faction (Res
newed appLiese.)
Now, friends and fellow-eitizenz, it is pro.
bable that this is the last political speech
that I shall ever make. (:k voice—" We hope
not I") It is now nearly forty years sines
first came to Washington as a member of
Congress and I wish to say this night that,
that whole period, I have received
nothing but kindness and attention. '
Washington was then comparatively a
small town ; now it has grown to be • great
and beautiful pity ; and the first wish of my
heart is that its citizens may enjoy anistter..
I
rupted health and prosperity. %haat yea
for the kind attention you have paid to me,
and now bid you all good night. (Prolonged
cheering.)-
Who Oppose the Onion!
The Democratic papers, par oake *lto
n
are loudest in opposition to the plan nisi:
on recommended by the State Central Cum•
mitts*, are as follows, vis :
Phihuielehio, Press, edii,ed by the Merit of
the Republican House of Ropresentatives. an
office worth from SG.OOO to $lO.OOO a yenr!
Harrisburg State Set, edited by a Nevr
Jersey adventurer, who came to Ibis Seto
omething law than two years ago, and whe
Tuts never yet, it is believed, voted a regular
ticket anywhere
Pottsville Mining Re4ord, edited by *bang
er on to the coat tail of Simon Cameron--.o reg
ular disorganiser in 1858 and 1859, soda
supporter of a President of a Know Nothing
Lodge for Congress in opposition to the m
uter Democratic nominee in that district.
West Chester American Republican, edited
by a creature of John Hickman's, and dur
ing the last session ot Congress an employee
of John W. Forney at a salary of $lBOO for
the session. This man also opposed the reg
ular State and County tickets at the elections
of the last two years, and is now in frater
nal communion with the Black Republicans.!
There are a few other papers who oppose
the union; but the above are the leading and
most boisterous advocates of a separate organ
ization, and assume the direction and con
trol ot the Douglas wing of the pnrty in this
State—not, certainly, on account of sal par
ticular love they have for the distinguished
Illinois statesman, or to further his interests;
but to disorganize and disrupt the party so
that General Foster and the Democratic can
didates for Congress and the State Legisla
ture may be defeated, and our good old Dem
ocratic State given over, in all its depart.
meats, to the Black Republicans "—Lase. Ls
lel.
The People's party of Wilmington. Del.,
met in the City Hall, oh Saturday evening
week, for the purpose Of electing delegates
to the State convention: to be held at Dover
on the 25th instant. The Dell and Everett
men, being in a majority. secured the organi
sation. The chagrin and disappointment of
the Lincolnites was hard to conceal. They
had a true family quarrel over the mod* of
selecting the delegates—the Bellites contend
ing for the appointment of a cummittee fur
that purpose by the president, and the Lin
oolnites fur an election by ballot. The for
mer prevailed, and a committee was appoin
ted, who reported a set of delegates to tho
meeting for approval. The repurt being a
greed to, midst groans, cheers, and hissed,
a motion to adjourn was carried, and the
chairman vacated his seat. A Lineolnite
immediately assumed the chair; and, after.-
some vindicative language and threatening .
from the sure ones, which was no doubt in
tended as a salve fur their own Ltcerated feel
ing., another set of delegates was elected by
ballot. A significant sign, truly, and but a
single type of the condition of the whole op
position to the National Democratic organi
zation.
°teal Fishing in Schuylkill Comar-4 Tun
of Fish Caught to Ttoo Days.—An extensive
fishing excursion was had on Monday and
Tuesday week, at Alexander Thompson's dam,
Porter township, Schuylkill eouuty. It ap
pears that the dam was put up at auction, to
be sold to the highest bidder, with irooditions
giving the purchaser or purchaser. the right
to fish twenty-four hours after the water bad
been drawn off to its lowest mark, and it
brought sixty duller'.
Danng the time that the party fished it
caught at least one ton of fish. This may
seem a large fiure; but a number of the par
ty who weighed their fish after taking them
home, found that each had from thirty to
thirty-five pounds of fish. There were six
ty shares. Three tortoise were eaught,one
of 1k Mob weighed about forty posed* They
were put up fur safe at the dass,and Wrought
$3.50. The fish caught were eat-Bth, oils,
pike, sou-fisb, and suckers. The pike way
ured from tea to twenty-sevuo Welles in tomtit.
The Ron of Hwy Clay for Breekiorierje.—
The Mountain Democrat. of Richmond.
brings to tis an amount of a Brea Leridge and
Low meeting bold there. whialt4ll4aper
any. was "Oa* of ts. largest en.
thusiastia wee assembled in Ricbmena,u—.
besge wen addressed iry nisi. James
B. C r of "Harry of dm - Ill=
anno Ws warm an
and the candidates.
air During the put week. we kuNitthet a
number of cattle here lied in Chester ty.
•Soore six died in the rug* of Chaim..
or four of which beluga - To Joehea I: re.
The tfisee!mtie also rnd to exist y
rrovilrentety of Philidelph*, led likekve
fatal. • --4. kro,•:.
Ilfertin pi*, of Anagiotioil„
aro in novllolls - 0 "be =ool l 4ll=
Ifaintion taiyinglima
„loom
Harmony.
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