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MONDAY MORNING, 171 T. 17, WA
Extraordinary Re-action.
The surest evidence that the people of
sett Euglund are coining to realize the pres
eat, dangers that threaten us, is found in
the results of the recent elections in that
section. Towns and cities that were large
ly Republican for Lincoln-,,have within one
abort month reversed their opinions, and
declared in favor of conservatism and anti-
Republican candidates. But in no place
is so remarkable a re-action _manifested as
in the city of Boston. With4but employing
the figures of the Presidential election, we
will simply compare the vote of Monday
with the returns of the municipal election
last year. Then it stood as follows: •
Lincoln (Rep.) - - - - 5,958
Wightman Dem.) - - 4,830
Palmer (Citiseu4)
Lincoln over the Democratic candidate 1.128
Lincoln overbut4 conservative • 483
On Monday the votestood
Wightman (Union)
3Limball (Rep.)
Union majority - - - 3,087
This is a net gain of 3,500 in the conser
vative rote !
Ur. Wightman, the successful candidate,
threw open his house, and was visited du
ring the evening by thousands of Democrats
and Whigs and heartily congratulated; after
which, speeches were made, and a determin
ation expressed to go on and redeem the
State, until the present United States see-
Lionel Senators and mambers of the House
are succeeded by sound, national men. All
the union aldermen elect also threw open
their houses Aoki received their friends.
The scene of oicing and festivity was
kept up throughout the city to Is late_hour
of fhe night.
In Roxbury there was similar rejoicing,
Mr. Gaston,. the union candidate, haiing
been elected over a republican.
Better asd Better.—We learn from the Bos
ton papers that in sir of the seven munici
pal elections held in Massachusetts on Mon
day last, tits republican' were defeated. In
Charleston the anti-republican ticket had
603 plurality ; in Roxbury. 200 ; in Worms
ter (abolition hot-bed,) 176; Lynn, 250; New
buryport, 443. Total majorities in fire cit
its, 1,697.
New Jere ey.
A State Convention, called to consider
the dangers which now threaten the Union.
assembled at Trenton, New Jersey, on Meg
day. The attendance was large and enthu
siastic.
Col. Wm. C. Alexander was chosen presi
dent. Commodore Stockton, chairman of
the committee to prepare an address to the
people, presented an address with resolu
tions, both of which were adopted amid
much enthusiasm.
The address declares that the North has
committed greai wrongs, and must retrace
her steps by the repeal of all laws prevent
ing the execution of the fugitive slave law,
and allowing the citizens of the Southern
States to travel North with4heir property.
The resolutions say that "all the South
oaks is the acknowledgment of her clear
constitutional rights. She looks not for in
demnity for the past, but security for the
future.
The following committee was appointed
to consult and advise with other States :
Corn. R. F. Stockton, R. M. Price, Peter D.
Vroom, Benjamin Williamson, Joseph J.
Randolph and W. C. Alexander.
'WA grand Union mass meeting was
held in Independence Square, Philadelpl4,
nn Thbrsday last. Mayor Henry presided.
The molutiorg adopted urge a repeal of
the Northern "personal •liberty ". laws—re
1110gIliali the obligations of the fugitive slave
Iste = •recommenti to the Legislature of our
own State, the passage of a law which shall
give compensation in case of the rescue of a
captured slave by the county in which inch
rescue occurs, precisely as is now done by
eziating laws in case of dr.•truction of pro
perty by the violence of mobs—approve the
suggestion that a convention or congress of
delegates from the States contemplating se
cession be held for the purpose of consulta
tion upon the causes that induce them to
meditate such a step, and of suggesting such
remedies as they would propose. The Square
was densely thronged.
the six members of Congress represent
ing New York city have addressed a letter
to Mr. Humphrey, one of the "committee
of thirty-three," urging him to advocate cer
tain amendments to the constitution in or
der to ensure greater justice to the South,
and the submission of those amendments
to conventions or the Legislatures of the
States for ratification within the course of
the next two months. They say the South
cannot be expected to remain in the Union
without further prOtection from Northern
siCiGreleiml•
Stir Th e national convention of Union
prayer meetings, in seseion in Washington
on I'litcraday, passed a resolution unanimoue.
ly rbeoramendillg to all Union prayermeet
ings, ail taluistian churches, and all praying
people, to set apart the first Monday of Jan
int*, as a day of humiliation and prayer, in
view If the present dearth in spiritual things
3es the abashes, and the present dangers
which threaten the peace and prosperity of
our,emantry.
affi`Hon. 110wt24. Cosa, of Georgia, has
iesisted the Secretaryship of the Treasury,
' ?in the President has appointed Hon.
Titus Ti 24. - Ttrosu, of Maryland. in his
Xi. !Tisanes has been Commiesion
.Geediosaisk upbo this time.
lila "Thiele die" ihisks of as ifswiege.--
ra lreidynnapts 'very severely on its &drum.
iiiiiriihke lT towerds the North, and says his
own' vim* are inimpaseanted," rep or t s a
, 111611016Cfrebi tipt3stp4lol, Why don't he
i ell then,
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The Reptiblieetta ascribe the Enflamed
suite of Cooking at the South to the misrep
resentations of the alma and- purposes of
the Repub!loan party by the Democrats of
the North. They allege, remarks the Pe.
trio( and Union, that. the South his derived
distorted and exaggerated notions of the
designs of the Republican party, through
the agency of the Democratic party ; and
that consequently the Dcznocrats are re
sponsible for the secession feeling kindled
and funned into a consuming fire by means
of this system of deception. This feeble
iatenipt at recrimination hill not enable
the Republieurui to shift the responsibility
for the impending dissolution of the Union
from their own shoulders. The - Southern
people derived their impressions as to the
purposes of thipepublican party, not from
the representslebns of Democrats, but di
' rectly from the speeches of the leaders of
that, party, and from the tone of the presses
high in its confidence. They reed the pule
lic addresses of Seward, of Sumner, of Gid
dings, of Lovejoy, and other recognized cap
tains of the advancing host of Republieane
and ascertained directly from them what
were the principles of the party they mar
shelled. The worst things that the Demo-'
crate of the North said against the Republi- ;
can party were furnished by the public
declarations of their acknowledged leaders. ;
It was not the duty of Democrats to palliate
or gloss over the ultraisms of the Republi
can leaders, or to undertake the task of ex
plaining Mr. Seward's "irrepressible con
flict," and Sumner's poisoned rat simile, as
mere figures of rhetoric which really meant
no hostility to the institutions of the South.
But it was the duty of Democrats to show
how such insane and wicked violence would
imperil the existence of the Union ; and if
by doingso the sentiment of resistance to
Republi&n aggression was deepened and
strengthened among the Southern people,
whose fault was it? That of the men and
the party who fulminated their anathemas
against the South, or that of the men and
the party whci denounced such violence,
and besought the people not to doom the
country to certain destruction by entrusting
these mad sectionalists with the 'direction
and oimtrol of the Government ?
• We fling back the charge of deception in
to the teeth of the Republican party. We
charge them with the guilt of distracting
this confederacy. If their purposes were
constitutional and oenserrative, and-it was
slanderous to su?cuse them of Abolitionism,
then they were guilty of promoting, exciting
and inflaming hostility to the South—
warming into life every grade of anti-els
very radicalism for no higher or deeper pur
pose than to secure a party triumph with
the spoils of office---encouraging men whose
affections should comprehend the whole'
country, to hate and despise the South—all
for nothing more enduring and exalted than
a brief repast at the public flesh pots. And
now that the South has taken them at their
word, by accepting the declarations of their
acknowledged leaders as the true exposi
tion of the purposes of the Republican par
ty. they say that it is a sad mistake for the
South to believe that they meant what was
said.,;- The devil is not as black as he is
painted. The Republican party is not eon
servative, constitutionaL•national ; and they
rave and cry out "deception" because the
South believe that Republicanism is the
hostile aggressive thing that its recognized
expositors have represented it to be.
Yes—there has been deception, gross,
damaging deception, practiced upon the
people of Penroplrania. The Republican
leaders never allowed their party to see the
true issue. They prattled about Tariffs and
HomllsSeeds and retrenchment. and cover
ered over the mouth of the yawning gulf.
When Democrats told the people that the
issue was Union or Disunion—that the elec
tion of Lincoln by a sectional party would
precipitate the calamity which has threat
ened this country ever since Abolitionism
has gained a footing in the North, they
laughed in derision. This Union could not
be dissolved, said they. The election of
Lincoln would cement and make it more
enduring. Disunion was a Democratic bug
bear to frighten the people from exercising
their free choice. There was not the slight
est danger. The trouble would all blow
over in a few weeks after the election, and
then the good times would come—Tariff,
Homestead, freedom and a universal jubi-
I l e e. The people were blinded and deceiv
ed by such a&ersnces ea these. They did
not believe in the reality of danger; they
did not think that there was lightning in
the cloud above them, and that it could de
cend to shiver and blast their dearest in
terests. The majority of the citizens of
Pennsylvania voted for Lincoln under the
false impression that his election would not
endanger the Union ; and this false im
pression was produced and encouraged by
the Republican party. Had the people
seen the true issue *a they now see it, Lin
coln would not have received the vote of
this State. They were deceived, cheated,
betnayed. And now the guilty authors of
1 this fraud, who should hide their faces in
shame, have the brazen impudence to re
sort to recrimination by charging the Dem
i ocratic party with producing the excite
ment at the South. They cannot escape the
,; fearful responsibility of their criminal pro
! eeedings by "teeing it through," but must
ever stand accountable to an outraged people
' i for the disasters that hare overtaken thi•
once peaceful, prosperous and happy Union.
8.768
- 5.681
Why Republicans Want Negroes Free.
The Monmouth _Rains tells why the Re
publicans want negrocs free. It is not for
the - benefit of the negro, but far the reduc
tion of the poor white man's wages. The
above named paper says : "A somewhat
prominent and very fanatical Republican,
living not over fifty miles northeast of Mon
mouth, in old Warren, says he longs for the
election of Lincoln, for then, remarked he,
the, sitgers will be set free, and Illinois Will
filled with them e and we can get
triousijisiaprk for fifty dollars a year, instead
efilhaving to pay such enormous prices to
common farm hands. All this freedom-lov
in,g.Republican wants, then, is to have North
ern Illinois drugged with niggers, so that he
can work their soul cases out at SW a year,
instead of paying honest_ clay laborers a fair
reuumeration for their toil. Consistent Itse
publican, that."
gerThe seeesaion feeling is spreading in
Texas and Loin:4n. , It seem almost cer
tain that 413 or seven 8 tea will go out, un
less iii* 2gcYiLstp &Moak gps,dily , repeal
tairriditistiapemonattlikiiittuvi" ••
Deeorption.
1
001 41 MIL f fiarin the Star of Friday week appeared
Nohldnirsof,special interest has yet trans- another art i cle in regard to Jori"--I
piredlso Cosigsess" 'r- But it differed vastly in its t jig-401
o e , f eee d e7, the Boma. eatised. after al, other , The first was strikingly bo -
dap its 4'll=-- _....._
the debateon the staldect.to tetcuse ifr. lap— eccuiettioas and instillashing Widmer" ! i FATAL ACCIDE-17.—Wlik learn that
kiss, of Florida. from service ost the co th. of tt serious niters spinet dialogist. upirl ol ik"." Bccaaa• rat.. of leitto , er , P at
an accident in that Place onlrhuredel
ado" of 441 V -time. to who tbaSportion Xigitt of our Cititexte With the cool ralsiof of Ai*
which resulted f i khiltillithlst Zdoldiy.
of sbe Presideura Nonage rei t din t o t i o , Artterfputoo44 aillideadfsoossuntabastra
refused also to eseu..4e Mr. Boyani;jl South, uPon the Jurors atAlie :Cove:111)er Capri, as p"" near
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"I"44ll646l.lt ;l• seeras th K a o t h h ler 7aa s tiellemet lnadiS . lin g d °lt attiorse% '''llllll!lifr.et
taelicil to a wagon running off betbsd hiin.
Carolina, by a tie vote, and Mr. IligOrris, o f to declare that in " one case" the opsration
Illinois. also. Mr. If iwkins, licoonorar, tie- of political influences upon the verdict WAS struck Mr. B. with great farce, felling him
clued that be would nut act with the cora- toomanifest to escape the attention of even to the earth, causing a severe wound upon
mittee. . the moat obtuse." We looked upon this
his forehead, and rendering him insensible
On Wednesday! in the Llonse, a number as a most grace accusation—too }nave to (fe
ar propositions were naide sreheting to the cape a call for proof, or at least the. men
present condition of the country. Nearly tion of the particular case the writer allwl
two dozen petition* were presented sessirse., ed. to, . Wes hence. made a call for the Ctu'e
ferred to the special committee. Many of —made it phunly and without reservation.
them laopossetnendm e nt s to the Ceinstita.. But what is the reply of the ,I,siatereAted in
tion, and all look to conciliation, dividual? Does he "face the music" as a
' fair and candid man should? Far from it.
(In the other had• he seeks 'to wriggle out
of Mr" tight place," by the miserablelitthe
terfuge that, he" but reiterated the sincere
conviction which many citizens freely and
publicly expressed, as to ' political influences
upon tie verdict.' In that *piion' they way
have been 'mistakes or stay not." First he makes
the accusation boldly himself, but when
brought to account, tries to place the re
iaponsibility upon " many citizens,"—and -they
t stay hems been mistaken!" Thia is so palpable
an acknowledgment of au attempt to mils
; lead the public by this writer, as to need no
1 1 comment at our hands. But he is not to
I get out of the dilemma (altogether of his
own seeking) so easily. Ile made a distinct
accusation of wrong against sworn Jurors.—
We call on him again to make it good. Let
him mention that "ones:are," if he dare.
When he does, further Inquiry may be made.
The writer takes courage enough, in his
last article, to deny that but few Democrats
were placed upon the Juries before the
Democrats carried the county, and chal
lenges vs to the proof. We will refer to
our tile.
At the place we first open the ben * lc. proof
in point is presented—which is, tliit at the
August term. 1847,•there were buWetno
crats upon the Grand Jury and hut 3 „Demo
crats u )0n the GenCral Jury. Other nearly
similar instances could be cited, if so well
Iknown a fact needed proof. But we have
thus met the &A:hap-P.:Wand ilisingenu
et's " writer's challenge. Let him meet
our's for that " one case " in which the
" verdict was controlled by political intlu
ences,"—let him meet it categorically.—
or forever hereafter give vent to his hot
; tied wrath " in some leis offensive, less slam-
The bill to issue ten millions of Treasury
notes on Friday finally passed both 110u -Sea,
and of course will receive the signature of
the President, and diukbectune slaw imme
diately.
I=l
Committee of Thirty-three.
Speaker Pi,rwrcorow has appointed the
following Committee, (one from each State, )
on that portion of the President's liwisage
referring to the troubles which now agitate
the country :
Ohio. Thomas Corwin, Repub., Chairman,
Virginia, John S. Millbou. Democrat.
Maiaactiusetts, C. F. Adams, Republican
North Carolina, Warren Winslow, Dem.
New Yorks)) amen II um phrey,Rspubl ican
South Carolina, W. W. Boyce. Democrat
Pennsylvania, James 11. Campbell. Rep.
Georgia, Peter E. Love, Democrat.
Conneeticut. Orris S. Ferry. Republican.
Maryland, 11. Winter Davis, American.
Rhode 'shin& C. Robinson. Republican.
Delaware, W. 0. Whitily. Democrat.
New Hampshire, Mason W. Tappan. Rep
New Jersey. J. L. N. Stratton. Republican
Kentucky, Fran. M. Bristow, Democrat.
Vermont, Justin S. Morrill, Republican.
Tennessee. T. A. R. Nelson, American.
Indiana, W. McKee Dunn, Republican.
Louisiana, Miles Taylor, Democrat.
Mississippi. Reuben Davis, Democrat.
4 /11inoia, Wm. Kellogg. Republican.
Alabama. Gee. S. Houston. Democrat.
Maine, Freeman H. Mane. Republican.
Missouri, John S. Phelps. Democrat.
Arkansas, Albert Rust, Democrat.
Michigan. Wm. A. Howard. Republican
Florida, Geo. S. Hawkins. Democrat.
Texas, A. J. Hamilton. Democrat.
Wisconsin. C. C. Wiedibunn, Republican
lowa. Gunnel R. Curtis, Republican.
California, John C. Burch, Democrat.
Minnesota. Wm. Windlratn. Republican.
Oregon. Lansing Stout, Democrat.
The Committee has not a Democrat from
the North upon it, except from California
and Oregon, in which there was no other
choke.
The Committee, on Thursday, silnpted
the following resolution, on motion of Mr.
Rust, of Arkansas:
Reis!red, That in the op:nion of this com
mittee the existing diecontent among the
Southern people. and the growing hostility
among them to the federal government, is
great!y to be regretted; end that whether
such di=content and hostility are without
just cause or not, any reasonable, proper anti
constitutional remcdie. and effect nal guaran
tees of their peculiar interest+ as recognized
by the constitution, flee.e.waitry to preserve
the peace of the country nn(l the perpetuity
of the Union. should be promptly anti
eheerfully grunted.
Yeas--Ifeasot. Corwin, Wilson, Winslow,
Campbell. Love, Davis of 3faryland, Strat
ton, Bristow, Nelson. Dann, Kellogg. Min
ton. Phelps. Rust. 'toward, Hamilton. Cur
tis. Blurb. Windham. Stout-2(.
Nays—M errs. Adatna. Humphrey. Robin
son, Tappan, Morrill, Norse, Waabburne,
FCITV.--S.
Mi. Bore. of South Carolina, Iva. 'trent.
Reuben Davis, of Mississippi, declined to
vote.
Where will 13ecessicrn End?
The Harrill/tug Patriot 11, Union says
—Many persons suppose that in the event
of the States of South Carolina. Georgia,
Alabama, Florida and Mitadasippi seceding
from the Union, (the five Atator that now
appear determined to take the (dal plunge.)
that the Government may move along hi its
wonted course, and that Virginia,Maryland,
Kentucky and Tennessee, the border States,
will remain attached to the Union as here
tofore. But this hope is fallacious. - Inter
est will inevitalsly draw all the border States
with the Cotton States. The same concee.
sicms that would he necessary to attach the
border States to the North and secure the
protection of their constitutional rights,
would prevent the cotton States from going
out of the Union; and if the North will not
take the proper steps to prevent dissolution
before the process of dismemberment begins,
it in not likely it will take such steps after
five States have seceded, to save the border
States and prevent total disintegration.
The probability that the secession of the
five cotton States will result in the se
cession of all the,Southern States, is pre
sented with. a
much force in the following ex
tract from letter of - Independent," in the
Korth Atherican:
Unless some mode of extrication be found
and that speedily, the secession of South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
Florida may be considered nearly certain.— I
How far the infection of that example may
extend afterwards, cannot now be foreseen,
hut the prospect is saddening to contem
plate, even when partially cheered by the
glimmering hope that this separation will
ultimately result in a reunion of the old ties
strengthened and revivedin its attachments
by the temporary estrangement. When we
reflect uton the sympathies, kindred and
couimurnty of interests existing between
the border and the cotton States, and see
the temptation of a common cause and fate
held out to the former, in the visions of am
bition, power and direction in the new con
federacy, resulting fron:k their numerical
strength, it is difficult to comprehend why,
in such a contingency, they should seek afls
- with the section where they would be
in a hopeless minority, rather than with that
where, by concert, they might hold absolute
, control. The laws of natural gravitation
would lead them to a southern, and not a
northern Union. This is the belief of all
their sagacious men. and it is precisely the
reason why the leaders in South Carolina
have repulsed any overtnree from Virginia
and the border States. They aim at a cotton
eonfedelacy, in which the Rhetta and such
like shall be the depositories of power,—
Hence, in the view suggested, any secession
new, be itsmall or large, must be encom
, passed with momentous hazards, and once
began, human agency cannot lift the veil of
the future.
DEN - The depression in business is no
where felt more seriously than in the man
ufacturing towns of 3faseachusetts. A mirn- ; --
ber of cotton mills are now only runningl AGENTS WANTED.—The attention of
half time. The wages of the laborers on the persona in want of employment, is dirceed l
Troy and Greenfield (Mass.) railroad have ! to an advertisement in another column, for
been reduced from Si to 75 cents per day. 1 canvaesers for Township and Local Laws of
ser Senator Seward is evidently alarmed ; isth State.
at the evil he has oontributed so mush so ggirldr. Pamir Wirirse has seld his two
bring upon the country. In a late speech Ikon' brick Dwelling , ll 'Ai s ' inizi ll Christ
at Auburn, N. Y., he recommends oonoflia- Church, to Dr. Jonl4 L. HI" (the present
(lee, harmony, gentleneas, and e ven a m ° . residence of the latter) for $2,000.
tion of the North for the South. This 121 ser Thu enemy of mankind, Commlimp
like a culprit cabling the prosecutor and tke, efts be cured, but it 'is I
j ud g e ' hile P eg a lightening hi. Illath by prevent the ornel disease from
lessening the yummier i eelf on the /UVont, bY the time s .
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ed. such as Dr. Wilier's mamma
Dr. Zsaie vriaii.—Thi•teiebrat:d Chokes a m arry '
Wir Florid* has notonly celled a 0010101- doctor has hie ' xell i h i eD ,,,, ee In the' ellx;e4tee e e i miliTheree a sae eeenterfele
tkut" hee l-- a -- - 2 "'" 'len 00D to agm of
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reverta.
TAe Total ropulaaon of the Coiled States.—
As near as can be ascertained, the total pop
ulation of tir. States and territories is 31,-
000,000-, therefore the ratio of ispreeentation
hi the House of Representatives swill be
about 133,000.
! &Tome. form.
lair The Solin.el says there were but 11
' Republican Jurors drawn for the Norembor
term. Such a thing may easily happen.
though a majority of the names in theirheel
be those of Republicans--the rhie of draw
ing
them, under the direction+ of the law,
bc!ing a lottery. But the Sentinel is mistaken
in the number. Acecrtlinz to our knowledge
of the politics of the Jurors, and we behove
it to be quite as accurate as that of the &a
. tine/. there were 15--cnel at the August Gittrt
:14 or 25 RepulAican Jurors. The .Sent....cfs
bsg-a-Loo i nct so "startling" after all..
11112 r -A caucus of members of Congress from
the farther South was held at Washington
on Thur:4l.ly, at which • manife4:to was
adopted and signed. declaring that "the
argument is exhausted," and that the
honor, safety and independence of the
Southern people are to be found only in a
Southern confederacy : " It is signed by
twelve members, and fifteen more, it is said,
will sign
DST It waa rumored at Washington on
Thursday that Gen. Cass . had resigned tho
Secretaryship of State. The rumor was
doubted, however.
&fir Lieut. General Scott has expregesal the
opinion that additional forces should be sent
to South Carolina for the protection of the
public property. The President, however,
is still opposed to such an increase, for pru
dential reasons, being apprehensire that it
would but augment the . •• - •at excitement.
MT The New York Herald says, that ma
ny Northern manufacturers, despairing of
Peeing trade restored to its acctstoinecl
channels, are preparing to transport their
establishments down South.
ThelS New York Journal Qf Comnitrre
has the following paragraph.; The Prosi-.
dent of one of the banks of the city who'
has few superiors as an intelligent man or
a sound financier, expresses his conviction
that, during the prase. financial crisis,
this city has already lostflry milhona of dol
lars. A depressed Republican earnestly in
quired of him "when this decline in stacks
WAS going to stop?" Ile replied—" Never ;
until you repealfill your 'Liberty llilla,'und
give the South their rights."
eir•lfichigan gave Lincoln 20,000 major
ity.—Michigan has 4,000,000 bushels of
wheat to sell, which before Lincoln's elec
tion brought readily $lOB. It now is a drug
at 80 cents. The loss on 4,000.000 at 28
rents per bushel, amounts to the snug little
sum of one million one hundred and twelve
thousand dollars. This falls almost wholly
on the farmers. The same may be said of
all the wheat States.
itrWe find the following in one of our
eastern exchanger : The Shoe Business--
the great staple of productive industry in
Eastern lia..mhchusetta, and which depends
on the South for a rnarket—has been brought
almost to a dead stand by the anti-elawry
crusade upon the South.
Torai_Ntt
up to his death. lie was somewhat hard of
hurting --otherwise. be would doub tleas hare
heard the approaching horse in time to get
out of his way. Mr. 13. was well known and
much-rt;speCteiT.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING.—We have
unmistakable evidence on all sides of us
that Christmas is coming. The shop win
dows of every description present a fair ap
pearance, and MI kinds of 'are dis
played in the most tempting and inviting
manner. This, together with the approach
of the 2.5 th of December, and the_ merry
twinkle in the boys' eyes, prove beyond a
doubt that Christmas is comirg ; so get
ready, boys, for that greatest of holidays
among the juveniles.
TOWNSHIP AND LOCAL LAWS.—We
have received from the publisher, Eawsan
F. J•ses, Esq., a copy of the above valuable
compilation, by Ws. T. Hamm, Esq., *mem
ber of the West Chester Bar, a work which
will be found useful not only to every man '
who fills or may fill any borough or town- I
ship office, but to the public in general. It
contains, besides the laws governing justices
of the peace, school directors, constables,
supervisors, assessors, &c., valuable fortes
for the transaction of daily business, and a,
copy of the work be found an important ;
aid to every business man. For sale at
Betntea's .Rook Store, Gettysburg. See
advertisement in another column.
' CARItOLL CO. ITEMS.—We take the
following from the Carvell away Democrat:
.If.4+cAo!y DoatA.--We learn that 'PHILIP
&Ern, a resident near Tnneytown. this
county, war accidentally killed, on Tuesday
last. De was hauling lime, slipped and fell
under the wheel, which ran over his breast;
and before a PlilysiCian could be procured,
he was dead. He was in the prime of life,
and leaves a wife and children.
Death/rola the LOC kialllP.—W ILLI AN
Srtruaa-
SON, a young man who resided near town,
while out gunning, week before hilt, acci
dentally shot himself in the foot, inflicting
a severe wound, from which he suffered
intensely, and on Friday last was taken
with the lockjaw, and died, on Monday
evcnutg.
Heavy Hrs.—On Tuesday hrt. Col. Dr
moor., proprietor of the City Hotel. West
minster, killed four hogs, seventeen months '
old, which weighed respectively as follow:
5434, 476, 4Z, 394 pounds, the aggregate
weight being 18394 pounds.
' RALPH JARBOE, of Emmitaburg. re- ,
eently slaughtered a porker weighing 5434
pounds.
iHorse Stoten.—On Saturday night the
stable of Josses( Brows, in the upper part
of Carroll eo., was broken into by some slow
straggler ; and his finest horse taken and
rode to within a short distance of Getty...
burg. Pa., when ho was turnedtloose and re
covered by the owner on Sunday morning.
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SPLENDID ENGRAVING.—Mr. H. G. ;
flares. the Agent, has placed upon our ta- !
`ale a copy of the splendid Engraving gotten
up by the Coataopelitale Are Association for
1 the present- year. It is one of the finest
• Engravings of the age, and we doubt not .
' will prove a paying card to the Aseociation..
Seascanta Now I
GOODS FOR TFIE HOLTDAYS--We
were reminded a few days ago of 'the near
approach of the Holidays by stepping into
the Store of our friend, Mr. E. H.
k next door to the Plat Office. He has just
returned from theMity with his new goods '
—selected expressly for the Holidays. A ;
finer display of fancy articics, of every de
scription, suitable for Christmas tokens, was
never opened before in Gettysburg. In k
laying in his stock 'Mr. M. kept in view the
peculiar aspect of the times, and purchased
not only with a view to beauty and durabili
ty but also to cheapness. Persons, there-1
fore, wishing to make presents to their
children or friends, will purchase at such
a store as fully comes up to the exigency of t,
the times. Mr. 3finnigh
.has displayed
great taste, in the selection of his articles,
and we advise all to visit his t.tore, knowing
if once there they cannot resist the tempta
tion to buy, *
LOOK TO YOUR DOORS.—The carpen
ter shop of Mr. Lai WAGNER, of "Sew Ox
ford, was entered on Sunday njght week,
and robbed of a number of tools, clothing,
a razor, a set of mathematical drawing in
struments, a pistol, a long rope, bags, £c.,
to the amount about $2O.
sir e "Cadets of Honor and Temper
ance," had a highly interesting Exhibition
at the Blues' Hall, on Thursday evening
last. The young men acquitted themselves
much to the satisfaction of the large audi
ence ; and some of them indicated high
promise for the future, from their masterly
style of elocution.—&-ntinet.
StirAt an election held by the stockhold
ers for Otlicers of the Berlin and Hanover
Turnpike Company, on the 7th ult., the
following gentlemen were elected for the
ensuing year:
President—Wm. Wolf, East Berlin.
Treasurer—Jos. R. Henry, Abbottstown.
Socretary-,—lfenry Wirt, Hanover.
3fanavrs-Bam'lllollin or,Jacob Young.
Jacob Reeser. Daniel n and 305.1.1
Cremer.
GET THE REIM DETECTOR.—Peter.
r te Detecrtor and Bank Note!
been received by us,
as zel k Co., the well
*
e
knave . and Brokers, said it is the
bee tor of Counterfeits and
.
A ' de is (Ai* country. The
ismilitlids day fully describes IVty
)44-01.4044 and contains full descrip
tions o 4 fl bOgus bank notes that are being
altered to suit various banks all over the
country, and which are being daily put into
extensive circulation. It also contains sev
eral other pages of very valuable informa
tion of everything pertaining to bank notes.
It has been considerably enlarged, having
now forty-eight pages, and contains fac
tyiTikimisf s t i g s t a_ hogusiginlk.plates and the
coat of arms of all the United States. We
have no hesitation in pronouncing it the
most complete, reliable and best publication
of the kind in the United States, as it isnot
used to subscrve the interest of any bank
_. ... „lie Moat of theld-called Detectorl
are. It should be in the hands of every
storekeepet in the )rhole 13otontrY; and we
would advise all perefOns Viao handle paper
money to send One Dollar in a letter, for a
year's subscription, to the publishers, and
thus subscribe for the monthly issue of it at
once; or Two Dollars for the semi-monthly
issue. It. is published by T. B. Peterson &
Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut street, Philada.,
to whom all letters should be addressed.
sir We understand that the Public
Schools will be closed from the 14th of De
cember until the 14th of January—the
Board, instead of giving a recess of three
months in midsummer, as heretofore, hav
ing determined to have but two months re
cess in summer, and one in midwinter. The
examinations last week were quite patio
factory.
Manzzsow has been transferred
to the Commit tee on Naval Affairs, from the
Committee on Public Buildings, in room of
Mr. Schwartz, deceased ; and Mr. MeKts-
Tr takes his place on the latter Committee.
sar-A very fine two4tory School House
is SOOCI to. be erected at New Oxford. .
Dec.—We are indebted to Senator
Brous for four bound volumes of the Con-
Th.tates
and Pr9qoa_clingfr of the „Firm. Session of the
, Thirty-kith Coopers; es; also. of the
Special Session of the Senate. These are im
portant toltames. and we return our sincere
thanks to the' aptinguished gentleman for
Lis kindness in supplying us with them.
j$ Black Republican journals charge
Democratic papers with sympathising with
section, because they keep their readers
informed of what is actually going on in the
South. Reptblicnin journals, on the con
trary. have become so alarmed at the result
of their own doings, that they dare not give
a true history of the times.
Laat week we furnished our readers with
the last annual Message of 'resident Buch
anan, and by this time, we presume, all have
expressed opinions on it. We regard it the
ablest State paper that ever emanated from
any American Executive. and, we doubt not
it will besoregarded by the future historian.
The Message has been read,we feel satisfied,
with more than usual interest- particularly
that portion which has reference to the dif
ficulties between the North and the South.
Mr. Buchanan has plowed through a logg
life of active experience, has filled
measure of his ambition, and will soon retire
to private life. Thr,e facts give force to his
but Message to Congress, wherein he refer;
to the long oppressive policy of the
towards the South. and to the suggest
which he makes to re.tore harmony. s,
As all expected, the Message is assailed
by Northern fanatics who desire the disrup
tion of the Union. and who seek to embroil
the country in the strife of civil war, as well
as by the extremists of the South, who have
determined to establish a goverment of their
own; but it is heartily endorsed by all con
servative, Union Well.
Those who expected to enrage Mr. Buch
anan in a war, for the benefit of free negroes
at the North, against the Southern white
man, are the loudest in their denunciations
now that they find they mubt fight their own
battles.
For four years they have heaped abuse,
contumely, and falsehood upon Mr. Buch
anan, caring not for the consequences, un
til they have hmught the Union to the very
verge of destruction ; and now, in all kind
ness and charity to his uncompmmising en
emies. Mr. Buchanan is perfectly willing
that they and their Rail Splitter shall have
all the credit of fencing to the Union on
more pacific terms. They ought to be sat
idled ; but they are fearful of the respensi
tic, and well they may be.—Cariale l'o', deer.
fir The Black Republican papers are bu
sy estimating what ••we" have paid for the
Louisiana, Florida, Texas and California pur
ehases. Who is " t.l " ? The agricultural
States, of which the South is the largest part,
have paid nio.st in custom duties upon arti
cles of consumption. The settlers in these
territories Lave paid for the lauds by the
mere! The whole cost is extinguished, and
for every dollar paid the North has received
at least a hundred fold. The "home mark - et"
of ten millions of consumers at the South
who pay tribute to northern commerce and
ma.uulictures under *system of commer
cial, restriction and protection will be appre
ciated when lost to us. Then how vast die
disproportion of expenditures at the North
and the South for internal improvements?
Take also the question of fishing bounties.
See what has been paid and who has got it!
The following is a list of th 6 States, and the
amount they have received directly out of
the Federal Treasury for this purpose:
Maines4 175 OSO
...... , ,
New Hampshire 563,034
IlaasachaAetts 7,926,273
Connecticut ..... ......... ....... 182,8:i3
Rhode Island 78,895
New York 18,317
Virginia-. ...... ..... ....-... 498
QM
- R 4 w 8 9 ,8 qf Dipaeria.—This disease, hetter
known as putrid sore throat, is still desola
ting many homes in different sections of the
country. Mr. Georg.. W. Dingier, of Radon,
recently lost Ai his children three in
number—in quick snoceesion, who fell vie
thew to this fatal disease. It also rages in
Rockingham county, Va., and quite a num
ber :of deaths have occurred, as many as
fora in the same family, (Mr. David Vanfoe
sen's,) within. the last three or four weeks.
It 'pares neither age nor sex.
•
Counterfeit $2O gars on thalamus'
Back of Bowling, are in circulation. altered
from some other beak. In the mitre of
the counterfeit there is it vignette of Wash
ington, on the left the figure of & aailor
leaning an a capstan, and on the right a fe
male with a sheet o! wheatin her hands,
•Issale," tbf
The Message.
=1
$l2 ,044 ,CM 9
Tlisi "Baltimirs'Aiiesistas aeon Whig • s
Jed titan
who last fifty yews the of slaves have uscapetl from the '
is fi fteen hundred annually, and the • A`" , •'
loss about forty tailliotu of dollies. ?kern
snit can be determined with aceuram, by
the difference between the actual /wow
of the black populatiot. of the Nortit-troan
Ono census to another, and what Ore, in
crease would have been had it been eetlihi
ed to natural causes. There a otiose...in
teresting facts connected with this
The slave population of the South dts t ra
once in thirty years, the free nepoes or the
South double once in twenty-five; Meryl*
negroes of the North and West double once
in forty years, - *dm the •nstare - inelltinlee
alone. The free negroes of the z.. are
the most stabl e and least rafirratorr . yr
class of population in the tnitetl S -
leaving out of question their migration to
other slave States. Many more free n
lI E
migrate from the free States to the a
...
States than from the slave States to the •
States. Forty-nine-fiftieth s of all nativeate•
groe s of the slave States who are found is
the free States were fugitive slaves whoa
they left the slave States.
These are significant facts. They exhibit
at a glance the immense losses which the
South has sustained from unfaithfulness in
the North to the federal compacts. What
do the Abolitionists make of the feet that
more free negroes migrate from the free
States to slave States than from the Slave
States to the free t This does not show
that their condition in the North is favora
ble to their materiel or moral elevation.
What Lincoln Bays About it;
It seems that Lincoln admits the right of
a State to secede. One of his organs=
$o one now questions the rigAt of
sion ; men only differ as to the °apathetic',
of it. Even M.r. Lincoln himself says
South Carolina desires to secede, lithergo.' "
We have never had any doubt oflineota's
position. He refuses to say whether he,is
in favor of disunion or not, but lie doesn't
hesitate to say that if a State "desires to pa
cede, let her go." Lincoln says "this
ernment can't endure part free and
slave," and that's precisely what South r
eline says. Lincoln says it, and South Car
olina is trying( to prove dud what Lincoln
says is true. 'Which is the most to blame--
Lincoln or South Carolina f—Jefcraisianif
Row We Grow.
In 18.10 there were twenty-three Rtates in
the Union; now there. are thirty-three.--
Then- its area was 1,757,150 square mites ;
now it is 2.936,167. our population filen
was 9,583,171; now it is 33,000,000 , fur
shipping was then 1,280,165 tons ; now it is
6,146,137. Our a rut unlimports th en amoun t
to $74,4.50,000; now theyantount to $366,-
768,130. Our exports then were
766; now they are $366,659,402. Our ref:ma
ne then was $16,779,331; now it Is $70,000.-
000. The real andpersonal estate of our
citizens then carte no t over $1.000,000,000;
now it is estimated at $10,1,00.000,000.
Oil Q/ Lire Puppies.—A little boy named
F. M. Audet win, before Recovler'Adams, in
Netv Orleans. recently. under eircutnittateere
at least ludicrous. He was discover 4 In
Sorapard Market boiling-up a lot of pup.nt.
He said he was told by a woman to boil the
puppies in sweet oil, to make a medicine for
the cure of rheumatism. the explanation of
which is that he mistook the word pop es,
which she ordered him to procure. •;ifs
mistook the wonl with a vengeance, for ha
actually got a lot of puppies from one to
two weeks old, end put them into the pot
alive.
ZAILI/11111=1X3ELID.
( On the 6th inst., et the Littberan Persosage,
at Areudtaville, h . ) the Rcv. J. K. lliCer, Mr.
JACOB nuu - DE.44.lnit,i, to Mho SUSAN E.
SMITH, both of Harniltonban township, Adams
county, Pa.
On the 13th inst. ' by the Rev. Jacob Ziegler,
Mr. ABILAHASI HART to Miss HANNAH M.
HARTZELL, both of Franklin township.
At Wilmington, Delaware, on th 62136 of
II th month, 1860, according to the Society of
Friends, WM. ELLIS, of Menallen township,
Adams county, Pit., to MA FLY FISHER, of' WU.
mington,Dtl., formerly of this-county.
On the 29th nit., at the Parsonage of St_
James' Church. by the Rev. J. R. Keleeß Jr.
DAVID DAUWIRRTY to Miss ELIZA. :MR
HERBST, both of Cumberland township.
On the 29th ult., by the Rev. Jacob tioebler,
Mr. SAMUEL BUCHER to Mies MARY ANN
i STALEY. both of Adams toasty.
Ou the 25th of October last, at Hartford City,
Indiana, Mr. ELI. HUGHES, of the former
place, to Miss SUSAN ASHBACOII,. formerly
of this county.
.10n the 27th ult., at Conowago Chapel,., r.
EDWARD SMALL igyMiss AL NES AD d,
near Haabver.
On the same day. by the Rev. James Cobble,
Mr. HENRY C. HERD, of Cumberland COllltir,
I to Miss LILLIE LIVINGSTON, of this minty.
On the 9th inst.. by the Rev. Jacob Steiger,
Mr. EDWARD ECKENRODE to Xiss kU
HOWICKER, both of Adams tamely.
On the 9th inst., by the same, Mr. WILLIAM
A. LIPPY, of the vicinity of Hto Miss
Lt.IIV lIEAGY, of Baltimore county, 'Md.
ro=xp.
I On Wednesday asurnieg last, in this plat/,
Mr. WILLIAM WISOTZKEY, is the bOtb year
of.his age. His remains were interred in Ever
green Cemetery on Friday moiling, accom
panied by the members of Gettys Lodge, / % 4J.
I O. F., and the old Beueficial Association.
On Monday night week, Capt. PIIILIP4.
GRAFT, of Strah.th :ow fish ip--it highly esteem
ed utisen—aged 4G years.
' On Sunday evening week. after a short ill
ness, of bilious colic, Mr. JOHN McILIJ ENNY, a
highly respectable and much esteemed citizen
of Strahan township, aged 68 years add it
months.
On the Bth inst., in Hanover, at the residence ,
of her ;au-in-law, Charles Barnia, Mn.e CA
THARINE SIVOPS, aged 00 years 10 months
, and 19 days. The deceased was the mother of
Gco. Swope, Esq., of this place.
On the 811' inst., in Adams county, Mr. Joarr
SELL, aged 82 years 1 month and 9 days.
• On the Ist inst., at Kindig's mill, LYCERUEI
ABRAHAM ADAM BIEHL, aged 17 yen&
months and 24 days.
On Monday night week, HEZEKIAII GAL
LOWAY, near Abbottstown.
1 At Fountain Dale, Adams county, Joi' P.,
infant son of Sanford and Amanda Shrerder.
On the 30th oft., of polmoonry consumptive,
I which abe bore with great fortitude, LYDIA,
wife of Mr. Jacob Noel, Postmaster at Stiliitis
Corner, Adams county, aged 41 years 1l =Was
and 21 days.
' On the 6th last.; RUTH ANN, daughter of
Mr. John C. Mackley, of Butler tdwriship, aged
; 1 year 9 months and 5 days. —et death was
' occasioned by a grain of corn in the dilpe,
causing etranguisttlos.
On Thursday, the oth Inst., of diptli
Cumberland township, JOHN QUINCY .
14 death was
son of David W. and Susan iii
aged 1 year 6 months and 18 days.
la New Oxford, on the 7th hut., GEOROW
SINES, son of John R. and Elizabeth C.liensb,
aged 9 years 1 months and 3 days.
On the 20th . ult., in lieriallen township, Of
scarlet fever,;VIRGINIA, aged 11 yeses as& 1 1
days; and on the 22d ult., MILLS, aged 9 OA,
and 28 days--eblldlren of Hiram and Loulen
2!, . •
Grilses.
On the lit Inst.,ln Xensdlen townsl3l2,LYDLt
HOOPES, formerly of Lewisberrp, yosis cobs.
ty, In the 87th yeas of her age.
Oa Taaaday aight,Dec. 4th, 1860, dap
HUGH MeREA, eldest Km of B oob O.
Sarah Neflheny, aged b - years cud 4 us
Counsendeatuk i .
On th e 6th inst., MARY JANS sun,
daughter of Jacob and 4lart N. iteefaurirl-it
Mounijoy towasbip, aged 1 year 9 mouths bed
2 days. • ,
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li, sirestly sleeps * U li eta;
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. - ,:, akirabis taw of ionswie r ~_ _
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