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B. F. SLOAN, Editor
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sATURDAY, JANUARY 28, lwil
Democratic County Convention
A Democratic County Convention will he held In the
CI Orate, on Tuieday, the Tth day of Pabrom7 next,
st o'clock, P. M., for the purpose ot'afpointing delegates
to the Ptah Conveatien, and to hansect each other nu•
Moms an may corn before the Convention, appertaining
to the intereet of the gluey.
Printery meetimp will be held to the mereml Townships,
Boroughs, and Wards in the County of Brie, at the usual
places of holding the Township and Borough elections
se the Calmly, and at the Select and Common Council
Rooms la the Swot and Weed Wards for the Ctty of Kr*
on Saturday the 4th day of Petry, w. U. )dew, between
the hours of 9 and 4 o'clock, P. M., except the City of
tn., 'chid' will be at T o'clock. P. M.
JAMES r. MARSHALL,
th'll Co. Com
gri., Jul 7, 1860.
LE PAPE ET LE CONGRgB
Ms Emma —Recently there has appeared
in Europe a small pamphlet in which the great
question of the proper and respect(til arrange
teen( of the Pope's temporal authority to suit
the state of things existing at this day, is dis
posed of with such clearness and perspicacity,
that it is at once underatOodi and appreciated
by every reading man on the continent and
the Islands of Europe I give von the head
mgx as I hare taken them from a semi-politi
l. send-humorous London periodical, ilivemt
tml of certain ribaldry exhibited in the paper
trout which I copy, and you will at once per
how the whole subject is exhausted by a
pry short schedule of but eleven paragraphs.
I Let tie keep our tempers
ll The Ripe must hare some temporal pow
ri there might he danger of his leaning
u.)111.•101111 100 much towards the nation which
hemt somtain hint
111 But his ruleabuuld he paternal, Anil to
(h , end he-need not here a largo temporal (10-
Iv The l'ope it is beliered would then not
utterer' !mitrelf with political matter., hut
.10VntY himself exelurivelc to hir hole
~earage
Hut army shall he respectable and snit
~ent for the sustaining of his authority, and
t ,, ne t on In, de (ert • alwar , as I.t.c.untmi a
t,riAtinti *rniv
VI Rut i. the Pope to h LT. the Homggne+e
t.tru •rV retttrued to him'
% 11, The It glie.e poupie, two n 11111.1119 in
number. do not desire tilts
VIII. Fdree therefore would be necessary.
Ind France 13 not disposed to couti-oe the
,ttippurt of au army ill the papal state*
IX It would be a re-introduction of Austri
an power into Italy should the Austrians offer
such force a state of things not at present de-
suable
X And as for Sople.. the King of Naples
Lau with difficulty sustain httnselt
XI The Congress must therefore settle the
question May return Romagna or may not.
But must at least secure Rome to his Holiness
and give him nu Italian Militia to sustain his
power in the city of Rome instead of a foreign
army At present as a political or temporal
ruler, he sometimes finds difficulty in relying
••upon the_love and respect of his people
There, Mr. Editor, is it simple table of eon
teut••-ot the little pamphlet which is making
such a noise in all t•atholic Christendom In
this country it is not for us 10 offer opinions
upon it But the subject is so admirably han
dled,rand NU briefly and perspicuously stated,
that u to deserving of the compliment that,
••he who runs may read.•• as much as any po
litical paper it has ever been the lot of this
writer to meet with. Any man. from the above
little table, may take such side as t o his reason
pamplikt -
1 dismiss the subject and offer no opinion.
premising that the essay appears over the sig
nature of a certain Monsieur De la Guerroni.
ere, but is universally attributed to the Em
peror of France
What a pity it is, Mr. Editor, that we have
out some intelligent Prench gentleman in this
tountry who could state our political case of
to-day, in simple language like that which
Louis Napoleon is supposed to speak • What
infinite volumes of "sound and fury signifying
nothing we would be relieved of " Prom what
long stupid congressional debates From
what longer and stupider leaden; articles would
we be delivered But alas ! clothed, smoth
ered in the twaddle of ten thousand politicians,
all speaking at once. it is indeed, as Charles
Dickens would say, "all a muddle."
The African is the great question of to-day.
With his wooly, head he seems to have butted
out, or stunned, the very brains of our states
men. editors, and politicians And yet I he
here the whole subject can liens simply stated
as the Papal question has been in the Europe
an tract Let us essay it. Let 40IIIP elem. headed,
quiet Amertean gentleman, write a similar
pamphlet under the title of •• Le (..ongr,s er lo
.Veyre," or in English. Congress and the Ne
gro. I will propose the headings. The first
shall be straight from kf De la Ouerroniere,
I. Let us keep4ur tempers
If Revelry h existed front the earliest
times It existed and was permitted at the
adoption of the constitution of the United
namely
:Rates in which slave holding and non-slave
holding communities joined and were equal
contracting parties That constitution con
tains a clause commanding that the obligations
of contracts shall not he uppasrfd.
111 The rights of both are conceded in the
constitution. and until that instrument shall
have been abrogated. those rights must with
eqnal and exact justice he respected.
III : The humanitarian view of slavery has
therefore nothing to do in this discussion. ex
cept it shall be admitted by both parties--and
et en then it would be irrelevant
V New accessions of terrpory come in en
rarely subject to the morale of thatconstitution
VI. And a slave holder has an equal right
with his stares to that territory as Connecticut,
New York and Pennsylvania had • right to
keep such slaves as, at the adoption of the Con
stitution, they possessed. Tu keep them until
such time as they chose to set them free.
Vi!. The North cannot get rid of this re
sponsibility to do as she agreed to the begin
ning, and until she - admits this. the South has
ju-t cause of complaint.
VIII. Let therefore Congress define its po
sition on this subject in acconlance with the
Constitution of the United States as herein
before stated. And the slavery question will
cease I , uce and forever. Always, except
ing the restless humanitarians who may
be permitted to meet as often as they like in
Exeter Halls, and can can do no harm, but let
them beware the fete of John Brown by desist
ing from overt acts.
Here rare but eight paragraphs, whilst Le
P6pe a ie Cularei required eleven, and yet, sir,
do contend that in those eight paragraphs
the question is solved in the only honorable
and manly way in which it can be solved.—
stick to your agreements whatever you do.
• And now let us look at this in a Northern
point of view, And in doing so, let us employ
the enlightened selfishness always conceded to
1 Timmy.
The worst thing that can happen to us here
after,.by adopting this manly course, will be
simply that when a territory r ready to be- A Cutksetnacr.--There is an acknowl
come • State if we wish to .holish slavery we edited compact in the lionse of Represent-
have to provide for the sale or inanomil- stivee. consisting of fi° 3l3 °°/ 111 ".
together with 'a written and signed
of such few slaves as may have dribbled to prevent an organization 01 teat
the territory during the lnterregum. This The conspirators have no e lisi gu to k
tax upon us to a certain extent, Provided 1 boldly set at defiance thisdemagidilef t
we do not choose to establish slavery But is I and the necessities of the cossry
not this tax justly due to our brethren of the I fy their own passions for mischlat:
South' Did not our fathers agree with the I shr e l h d eatlt azyd all be hurls() ftorn_the
Southern fathers to recognize slavery, and with ; nee t they ingewitt s tb . their unhallowed
it all its consequences! Most unquestionably. The reply to tie is very simple. The
Mr. Editor ; and still I say stick your agree- , mocrat i c p a rty ha s in Con Just 93
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meats whatever you do. But, sir, some of us
votes--the opponent, of the Demdcistle Oaf=
Northerners are afraid of the extention of slaw
tv have 136 rbtea, or a meltwity of 43.7 r
cry, and such is our horror of the institution ' •
Now, it does not taks a great deal of aritli
that I will admit that it might be to us • grove '
met ical knowledge to demonstrate that the
cause of alarm. Nothing, however. oan be
proved with greater certainty, from Oven our I one hundred and thirty-six opponents of
Present experience, than that slavery will sot the Democratic party an organize the
extend. The whole South has labored for i house by the election of a Speaker when
years to Wad it into Kansas. Yet how much ever they please. The Democrots do not
LEM
Bit extended there? It is not at all extended,
and not only can it not he extended, but it
eannot be even retained for many years la the
border States of the South West—in Missouri.
Ray, and Arkansas. And as for more 'South
ern border States--say Texas for-iuslauee—l
would ask : is it not well known that the
south has gradually for years observed with
painful interest the approach of Northern, pre
ponderance in our National Legislature? Have
not the free States even now an inevitable over
balance in the Senate ! And the South, always
with jealousy alive to this probable prepon
derance, always vilgilant of power, would she
not have left no stone unturned, no political
artifice untried, to retain this power ! You may
ask what stone was there lift to turn whit
political artifice was there left to try ! Where
is the great territory of Texts. Mr. Editor !—
Is that not South 7 Is that not an area on
which the slave power could be enlarged—the
Senatorial representation increased. There
has been no time since the admission of Texas
as a State at which the South had not a right
upon certain accretions of population to make
of Texas new slave States. Will it be pretended
that;this accretion has not taken place—that the
condition, on which new shire States oonkl be
made out of Texas, has not fulfilled itaelf • Yet,
sir who has heard a whisper front the South
e 'tieing the remotest disposition to make an
oth. slave State nr two out of that territory
in whi'ali her right is conceded to make them!
Sir, if tilie \ disturns the subject as it now sleeps
in Texas, alai State may wake up and enfran
chise herself. To use a vulgar expromnon—
there is the difficulty—there is the ••nigger in
the fence."
All that the South asks at this moment is
her plain, inalienable right to occupy the ter
ritories according to our agreement, tacit if
you like, but implied most fully in the Con
stitution of the United States—the contract
tinder which we all live. And what is this
that she asks, It is not the power to extend
slavery--she can no more extend slavery North
than we can extend our winters South so as to
get lake ice from the reservoirs near the city
of Mexico.
Again, Congress cannot legislate slavery in
to or out of the territories, Slavery is in the
territories already by the Constitution of the
United States, and irremovable, except by
-sovereign power. Sovereign power cannot exist
in or over a territory until it shall home become
a State. The united power of Congress and
the people of the territories, while territories,
is provisional, inchoate—temporary, not sov
ereign Attempts of the people of the territo
ries to oust slavery are usurpatioes, or rebel
lion., which can he quelled by the Federal
Government under the clause of the Constitu
tion empowering Congress to "make all need
ful rules and regulations respecting" the ter
site/time .vrtsherrtutf sivrds - ^rares Ina regu
lations," instead of the word "laws," is a re
cognation of the tac tthat the territories a re not
sovereignties, or peopleti; nor has sovereign
power been given to Conjese. What the tee
ri t Conies were at the adopt ion of the Constitution,
that they are now. Then twelve, if not the
whole thirteen States, hod slavery. Then the
territories had slavery. Slavery the territo
ries have now, and it cannot be removed until
they become States. Then why all this con
fusion or Washington" The South asks but
what reason and common sense should at once
grant—indeed, what a 'sound tribunal could
not help admitting—whitt she already has by
Constitutional light. admit this right, and
the negro question will sink into insignificance.
In a word, the South! asks an abstraction.
It is our duty to grant this abstraction.—
What possible evil can ofrise from the granting
an abstraction. Yet thq granting of it would
produce inestimable goal to clotting once and
forever. as I said hefori, this baneful slavery
quest ion
DC LA U rgi*OXIICAR, Aneerwain
('oasts ox Jon N Badw N.—From Corwin's
late speech in the Hotsse when he was ma
king his best bid for the Speaketship, we
extract the following choice morreou, in re
gard to "Old Brown."' We copy it sepa
rate from the speech for the especial ben
efit of I.OIIrRY. CAI% iN & CO. We have
been looking for it in the Americas, under
the crushing head of "Satanic," which it
gives to less noticeable extracts from Dem
ocratic paper?, but have not yet seen it.—
In speaking of Brown, Corwin says :
"I admit that there have been some dem
onstrations—at least I take the newspaper
accounse true—in various places North,
with rapect to the death of .John Brown.
I cannot account for them. I have tried
to find some philosophical reasoning for
any man (except his family relations) going
into mourning for the unhappy death of
John Brown. It must be attributed to an
intellectual cholera—for there are intel
lectual as well es physical epidemics. I
have seen it in politics and religion. One
of these epidemics has gone over the coun
try. In Cleveland it is said some hare
draped their houses in mounting for the
death of John Brown. • * Gov. Wise
amid that he was the gamest men he ever
saw. Now, men will admire that charac
teristic in anybody. We admire it in the
game cock and in the bull dog. and why
not in our own humanity ? * * Wheth
er or not he could be considered insane ac
cording to your medical jurisprudence, is
another question. I believe, however, the
beet course was to hang him. I think he
said so himself. [Laughter.] I think he
said that be was worth more for hanging
purses than any other. [Renewed laugh
ter.
" hese men of the Garrison school take
up the statements of Gov. Wise. that John
Brown was the bravest man in the world—
that he was truthful and honest—and then
allege that for so_gresit a man Vitsinigt only
had a gallows. That is the way m which
those self-deceived. and I dare say very
sincere men, will pervert the truth. They
never tell their audiences that this brave
man, this sincere man, this man who al
ways told the truth, found no better em
ployment for such great attributes than
that of cutting throats. A very brave man
may oonunit murder, and a man who never
lied might get up a rebellion ; and a man
may be very sincere who is half scam, but
men who understand the organisation of
society well know that man, in his very
best estate, cannot be turned loose without
law, "
NIL It is said that Rider Peck is making
a clean breast of the Maine treasury defal
cation. He says that heexpended $36,000
to elect various Republican Congranstmen
from that State. "And that's the way the
money goes, pop goes the weesel."
prevent them, end for the beet of reasons
—they can't...! Ninety-three cannot control
one handrectand thirty-six, no more than
two and two will make eight. This talk,
then, about "conspiracy" on the part of
the Demo to prevent an orgstanstian
is all a humbug. There is nothing in it.—
If there is any "conspiracy," it is on the
part of the opponents of the Democratic
party. Our opponents have a clear major
ity of forty-three members of Congress, who
were elected to their seats in that body in
opposition to the candidates put forward
in the respective Representative districts
throughout the Union by the National
Democracy. Why do they not elect a pre
siding office. organize the House, go to
work, pass appropriation bills, relieve the
starving. public creditors, revise the tariff
laws. if Deetalary, and do all other things
demanded by the exigencies of the coun
ry t But, say the Southern Opposition to
the Northern Opposition—" You have put
a man up for Speaker who would war up
on our institutions and our property rights
and interests--who has endorsed an incen
diary publication declaring the deadliest
hostility to the people whom we represent,
—a programme of antagonism, which. if
carried out, would drench our soil with
fraternal blood, give our wives and daugh
ters up to imperial rapine and butchery,
and ferment a strife that would eventuate
in the extermination of one or the other
of the races ; we cannot and will not vote
for him." Are the Democracy responsible for
du!Say the Northern Opposition to the
Southern Oppositiqn—"We will not vote
for your candidate—we will not vote for
BOTZLILI, or Glm., or Hassansanse
they represent a slavenolding constituen
cy, whom we hate and abhor as partici
pants in the 'sum of all villainies ;' and as
we are determined that the 'irrepressible
conflict' shall go on until all the States are
either slave or free, therefore we will stick
to SafaaAN or some other odvocate and
embodiment of this glorious and patriotic
and sublimated doctrine." Ars the Democ
racy respontible for this P If the opponents
of the National Democracy choose toadvis.
este one doctrine in one section of the
Union, and its very opposite in another
section of the Union ; and when their rep
resentative men come to meet in the arena
of the nation, and cannot reconcile the
disagreements produced by such a Mach
iavelian course of policy, cannot harmon
ize on any question wide as the Union itaelf,
are the Dernocreey responsible for their potaieol
prostitution dproftigary f No, no— this in
dictment against the Ain. locracjaig t
be current in any court in christendom,
DM will it be received as worthy of a tho't
by the great tribunal of the Republic, be
fore whom all must bow in reverence—the
thinking, reflecting, patriotic and Union
loving people, whose destinies are bound
up in the unity of the States and the pres
ervation of the Confederacy.
Tar. Ca Ax PION or IB6o.—The Pottsville
Standard raises its flag for the next cam
paign, inscribed with the names of Joax
C. Baxcittristoos, of Kentucky, for Presi
dent Faucets W. Ifroats, of Pennsylva
nia, for Vice President ; and Jaws Far, of
Montgomery county, for Governor. Speak
ing of its nomination for the Vice Presi
dency the Standard says it was induced to
named Mr. arottas because of its "admira
tion for the man, his political course and
great abilities, and by an anxious desire to
see the Democracy triumph in the next
Presidential contest. We are convinced
that with Newsman:xis and liconits for
ous nominees, our success in Pennsylvania
would be certain and complete. No one
who scans the political elements now boil
ing with intense heat in the tuitional cauld
ron, can doubt that the Keystone State
will be again the great battle ground upon
which the Costitution and the Union will
be preserved and placed on a firmer basis
than ever."
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sir We gave last week the particulars
of an accident on the Hudson River Rail
road, by which several persons lost lives—
among them a Mrs. Field, of Brooklyn.—
The York papers state that she had been
a wife only six hours, having been married
that morning. Her name was Ann 'NUIe,
of Bloomingrove, Orange county, and was
married on the morning of her death, in
the Second Dutch Church of Kingston, to
Mr. Fields, of Brooklyn—with whom she
became acquainted while serving as a school
teacher in that city. She and her husband
took the cars at Rhinebeck, at 12:48, and
at three o'clock the accident occurred
which caused the injuries of which she
died at seven o'clock the same evening.—
Married at twelve o'clock and dead at sev
en. Her remains were carried on Friday
from the same alter where she was made
a bride on Wednesday. It is very seldom
that so melancholy a tragedy strikes upon
the public heart.
lir The Harrisburg Patriot of the lith
instant says : "Two prominent politicians,
one spoken of as the Republican candidate
for Governor of Pennsylvania, while ap
proaching our borough in . the northern
train of cars yesterday, had some misun
derstanding in reference to political
mat
tete, which finally led to blows, and a gen
uine old fashioned knock-down. The
combatants, fortunately, were separated
before any serious injury occurred.." Who
were they
Tel Noun 'Mom.", t x C .--The
Detroit Jinn Press, of Friday, says tho negro
disturbances in Canada, at Chatham and tint
neighboring towns, continue. 'rho negro." are
101 on by two notorious persons of their men
eolor, nansed/. D. Medd, and J. C. Brown, both
of whom tigured conspicuously in dm oelersted
"Provisional goverment." affair of old John
Brown, whisk it will remembered, was organ
lied at Mama
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ifir A coonipahy of "oil seekers" at Frank
lin, in sinking a shaft, have e . truck a vein of
salt water, which the Citizen of dial place sape
is three sr toile demo dot mid The quail
thy, is Dot
Sir we hope no one will 101 to read, on
account of its length. at lii Reeneh title, the
drat article under our editorial head. The
writer handles the alt engrossing question of
the day with a master baud. Read h
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The "oil fever" has reached! Summit
tewnnhip in this county--so veleta. Several
"eligible sites" have been selected, and the
work of boring will commence with the open
ing of Spring.
air The Erie & Pittsburgh Rail Rosa is
represented by Ifr. Ono. H. Molsrats as gen
eral agent. Mr. Melly:gm is lately of the
height departmest of Cleveland & Erie Rom',
and we are assured that the interetes of the E
& P. Company will not suffer In his hands
sir We are requested to state that the Bap
tist Church of North East, Pa., purpose to ded
icate their new House of worship, on Wednes
day, February Ist. Services commence at lu
A. NC
Ber The "Wayne Guards" give their first
annual ball next week, int/isNew Nall in Com
mercial Buildings, when • flag constructed by
the fair bands of the Ladies o* our city is to
titipreaented to them, and a good time had
generally. HANSIa gets up the supper. which
tea guarantee that in that department the
thing will be all right.
agr We have received the first number of
the Titusville Gazdte, a. paper that has been
brought into existence by the "oil fever" raging
in that part of our •'moral rinyard " it pro
fesses to be independent in politics, and de
voted mainly to the "oil question."
Sir We dropped in at the Hardware *tore
of J. C. Holden St Co , the other et•ening, and
were shown the "entire animal" as our friend
Ely quaintly expresses it, from the primitive
hair on his attenuated proboscis, down to
the last kink in his sytastriesl mil. A Letter
arranged and betterlooking stock of Hardware
will hardly be met with. Our thanks for
"creature comforts."
1116 We do not wish to set ourselves up for
censor in affairs involving questions of sitquette,
and especially not in cases where obedience to
custom may MITT, as * partial excuse for the
nen-observance of the usual requiretnents of
society. But we cannot help alluding to
custom which prevails, to some extent, with
the congregations of a number of our churches
—that °Naming the beck to the officiating
clergyman during singing ! It is generally
supposed that the congregation is party to this
most beautiful and expressive portion of pub
lic worship—choirs being instituted merely for
the purpose of kadaw the audience in its per.
formance : then with what propriety, setting
aside the question of proper deference to the
clergyman officiating, can a congregation rise
and turn to the choir to be sway at .'
lir Brown, of the Kansu Herald of Free
dom, has been making a speech at Conneaut-
Title to his old neighbors on "Kansas work."
As he did not make out that other Brown—.he
upttCans are own on him like a "thouswl
Of beiek." The Republiaans have a wonderfttl
light of trouble with their Browns. it seems to
us.
Mr The Editor of the True Amman three
ens to write the history of soother "Punk"
one B. F. Fotak—if we don't shut up ! Well,
we shan't—no go ahead ; and when yon get
through we'll try our hand —t It, too, not
only on a fellow who is mean &ough to steal
coal, rob a Rigor like Tabs Grose—borrow his
landlord's money, and cheat him of two years
board—but we'll try our hand on that fellow's
matter and owner. Writing histories is a
game, not only that two can play at, but we
can play at two; and more than that, our his
tories shall be made np offorts, not fiction So
"pitch in," my pod sir, just as soon as you
like!
Ear The Gazette says "e Democrat of the
Forney etripe ' propounded the query it, it,
"Who will be the notable* of the Charleston
Convention "' Certainly, a "Democrat of the
Forney stripe." could not bay* went to a more
appropriate source for Information "The or
knoweth its owner, and the ass its master's
stall.-
Mant's Band blew themselves •high
and dry" under our window the other night,
discoursing music worthy of their fame and
name, which we endured with Christian forti
tude for some time; but our benevolence was
melted, and we invited them in "out of
the wet." Come again ;‘our latch string is
out, and the supply of fluids ample.
N` L. I. lial.nwo intends removing hit
Drug and Oil Store the coming spring from
No. 5 under the Reed noose to the improved
wareroom No. 6. Baldwin has of late shone
as ••a bright light set npon a compared
with his neighbors, btu now. like the proud
man, he ban his 'loll!"
j The Pittsburg Journal, in speaking of
the Republica* platform for 1860, says it
••de
sires a good, read, substantial plank of Penn.
eying& oakimt Into that platform, inscribed
with protection to American labor." Well
now, would'at we like to me you get it at the
Chicago Convention t What a :precious • row
there would be, to be sure, with those New
England free traders!
gir An e?eideat eesarred on the linffalo
ead Erie Railroad, about two miles this side of
North East, on PAW weenie% UK, which re
melted is the euesshing a< roar height cars of
the seeeensedatioa train west. .The accident
wail caused by the breaking of a car-wbeel.
We understand that the room mire
the Reed Boom. at present occupied by M.
Sanford & Co., Bankers, is to be 'get down to
grade," and lengthened to the full extent of
the bloek from the Park to nth street, and
otherwieeinnorowed, the coming season. When
this cow --o..isted hiprosentent is made, it will
be the Lir a ,t Mama in the city, except
those of the new Commercial Buildings.
New Geo. F.& as ban assoei
sled with him J. H. tsl;‘ , l is the establishment
ea the Canal fbr • ntauwilletare of bent
work, Ike.
Mr. L. J. blicanstst;x has opened a produce
Cimmalssios Meuse iu Noa. 1 Commar-
Mai Buildings. next doer east at Caughey
MAL Mr. M. is a capable business mita,
mad will no doubt build up for himself a thriv
ing trade is this city. We wish him success.
P. Mutate has estoelattel with him in the
Bream, sad Provhdoe bathe". his brother.
:mob ;distal'. The Gra is good oats
High Rents or Low Rants.
E DITO .—I am antongilsoee who thank
you for your judicious remarks, in lilt week's
Observer, upon the *West of inereiWed recta.
There has beep noiaor•exacesuettrominent
measure of the aluggialloMis of th...ey of Erie
than this very men( rental. It if certain that
no pLtce can he a growing and prosperous one
in which the rents tin not- pay some approxi
mation to the interest of the money invested in
buildings, and notoriously this is not done in
Erie at the present time, nor will it be dune by
ihe advanced rates of rent. for the miming
year As a rule, It is impossible for property
holders to exact more for the Use of their, prop
erty than the demand for such use will justi
fy; and if thousands can be exacted where
hundreds are now, it will indicate a propor
tionate increase of business, population, and
general prosperity That prosperity Will be
realized in the ittoreame of work, in the• fuller
employment of mechanics and laborerii—the
diffusion of money—lead the increase of cue
tomere to butcher, baker, grocer, editor, law
yer and doctor.
It is not Mg rents which drive people away
from a place o which they have an aolive in
terest in c ing, but low rents which show
they Ole a y gone, or 'never came; and
hence all wh have hope and faith in the pros
perity of E ' , will be glad to see the evidence
of that rosperty_ in stteh an increase of rents
an will invite to the . eonstruetlon of buildings,
and the actual employment of, all asiociated
trades and arts.
With low rents. Erie isa beautiful place as a
point of refuge for all who can afford best to
live where rents are low, becausethey have no
dependence upon the business "of the place.—
Such cities of refuge and asylums of retired
competency, are not apt to be places of growth
and activity. Will Erie become other than
such an asylum underany policy which would
keep rents down—in other words, under those
induennes which in the past have sunk it into
the repose and lethargy of the "sleepy bor
ough
Every one admits tits natural advantages of
Erie It 9 founders anticipated for it a stately
stature, and all wonder it te not more of a
place. But "there is a title-ia the affairs" of
communities as of individuals. "which taken at
the flood Wads on to forttme." Ilse Erie taken
that flood tide in the past • Will she now •
Certainly not, while her local improvements
and facilities are directed by sectional jealous
ies rather than by principksuf general utility;
while her main thoroughfares are left in the
darkness of desolation, becanse her whole ex
panded borders eetnnot be lighted: while im
provement is refused to the central points to
Which capital lends. because it cannot be
eipidly given to those remote points to which
it does not tante Such It policy may he one,
apparently, of equal and considerate jtuitiee,
but it is letting the heart die amid vain at
tempts to animate the extremities. whereas en
ergy and rigor given to the former would ex
tend their influences* the latter.
Certain general and local influences will in
all places indicate particular points and direc
tions as those of building capital. - When such
tendencies are manifested. the trite pallier,' is to
foster them . It is a contingency which must
be accepted that one sett of individuals will be
more benefited than otkeri . but still there Will
be benefit to all, whereas by a repressing and
strangling policy there will be advantage to
none---bricks will remain to their primitive
clay and money in mortgages.
It is evident that at the present time there is
manifested a tendency to improvement gener
ally, and especially on West Sixth street, but
have the city authorities done what they justly
• I_ _ . _ , .
and to develop the employment of capital'
Many years ago when there was no settle
ment in this laudity, property was burdened
with long lines of plank walks which have
fallen Into ruin before they came into use ; and
now when the section has increased in build
ing and population. ♦here remains, tinder the
sanction of the city, a miry 'tlough for the
punishment of all who hare ventured to im
prove beyond it.
Again--good e, CliallUlUll, sense. and com
mon justice, together with a ••decent respect for
the opinion" of visitors and strangers who are
unaccustomed to touch sights, in thriving villa
ges would indicate instead of the present rick
etty rattle trap. a crossing at the canal corres
ponding to the character of the street upon
which it is plated---a street, which, if encour
aged to improve would be second in beauty to
none on the lakes. But, in addition to the
shore motives, it is now well known that there
is no local improvement within the competency
of the city. which would at once call into use
so much building capital. flue of the mast ex
tensive properly holders and largest capitalists
of the City, has said that lie only waits a
proper cropping of the t 'anal, handoomely to
Improve his property it6that‘neighborhood.—
One improvement will necessarily bagel an
other If then a city improvement in one place
will cell forth the employment of fifty to a
hundred thousand dollars building capital
Within a reasonable period of time. it is clear
ly a more general benefit than improvements
Which are not 'likely to develop any such et-
penditure of {capital within any time. Th e
benefit will be not only in the creation of tax
able property in Our section, but in the growth
of small house* in remote sections—a greater
growth of the. than will arise from any local
improvements which do not induce so great an
expenditure of building capital Our enter
prising friend, of the boundary street tan
nery. and the rarnete on the kill, would find
the . stimulas of these improvements reaching to
them and their neighbors.
But will the necessary encouragement fur
these results be given': or will the flood tide
of fortune which is now rising, be again pee
n:di:l*d to roll by our city One fact is unhap
pily too evident—the sectional policy of the
past has been a failure. Erie is now far be
hind her wonderful natural advantages—is
dwarfed in stature below her age. The same
policy will perpetuate-the failure, lock up cap
ital, leave her waste places still waste, put
rents—post office boxes and all—upon the de
scending scale of a down hill existence, and
leave to the "oltie•t inhabitant" the melan
choly satisfaction of telling ••what. might have
been"—hut is not_
, gar We notice that some of our cotempo
raries are s little jealous because a liquor Rouse
in Cincinnati sent our neighbor of tho Oar.si.
and us some samples 9f their wares "hh ,
wares," we suppose some would 'call it -a ti
they turn up the whites of their eyes as much
as to say, "0 Lord deliver us foal suck a temp
tation." They evidently have not made up
their minds to live up to that command of the
decalogue, "Thou shalt not covet thy neigh
bor's good'."
or Congress is still unorganized. The
Howie ballotts every day or PO with about the
same result. The interminable ••Sherman"
comes within five to three of an election, but
there he sticks like a tly in a jug of molasses.
•When he gets out and into the Speaker's chair,
well tell our readers.
101111
! J The contract for repairing the Steam
er Michipsi. the advertisement of which ap.
peered In oar columns lately. hal been award
ed by die Searetary of the Nary to the Novelty
Works, New York. We understand 'bit the
bid of Liddell k blerdtpf this city, woo $2,000
WA. dicr egßt in Om Buffalo ; but the
Norqgty Irlerkebid sgitpo below Mom., 1.
St
sir AO ealuinge eve, it ay it+ opinion
that wives who do not try 10 keep their 1104-
bands will lose them. A man does the -court
ing" before marriage, and the wife must do it
after marriage, or some other woman will.
giff• We notice our friend Tsia.sa kiss been
"spaking" at Harrisburg, and his
. theme was
economy. On * proposition to print a certain
number of a public document, he said : "The
treasury Is not overflowing, we are heavily in
debt, and, as a Republican party, in the ma
jority, profitosing to be eootiontista, do net let
us by our first acts give the lie to our profes
sion."- Very well said, Mr. TeUer ; but don't
you know the Republicans "give the lie to
their professions" every day .!
ser We guess it must be so, for all the
papers have repeated it, that this is "leap year.'
Well, what of it! Not much truly, only it is
said that this year the ladies, "Gal bless 'em,"
have the undoubted privilege of choosing from
among their male acquaintances the person
they desire to "love, honor and obey." What
a glorious privilege'—but softly ; we hope no
one will take It into her beautiful "noddle"
that we are her "atlisity," because we hare an
aoqualabutee, a very intimate one, that -leap
year" or no "leap year," will certainly Or
'eat.
A GOOD NOMIDIATIOL—At their recent state
Convention in Dianna, the Democracy nom
inated M. C. Xs's, Bag., of Floyd, Reporter
for the Supreme Court of that State. Mr
Baas is a native of Titusville, Crawford coun
ty, and studied lair la Um alaae of Judge Gat
in this city. He is a young wan of
good abilities, an uncompromising Demo rat,
whose election will add honor to the party
He vs' nominated on the first ballot, by a rote
of 314 out of 39C0, a most flattering endorse
ment which his friends in this section of the
state cannot but fed proud of.
Igor A patent pocket umbrella is among
the latest inventions that hare been pat
tented. A company, with a capital of
itlo,oUn, and employing about fifty men.
has been started in the East for their man
n &awe.
Goss lbinwa.—The Brie Express has ceased
to exist. The materials have been purchased
by the *as 4wwrican. The Express was a die
organisingpretentier, claiming to be Democrat
ic, sad has met with a just fate —.l/.7yini/e Sen
tinel.
True ; it has fulfilled its mission, and gone
where all Nish politicians as it represented
will eventuAlly go into the ranks of the Abo
litionists ! There is an eternal fitness of thing•
in polities, as is every thing else
IRS. The Philadelphia hedger complains t ha
Waimea' in that city is thoroughly p, ostrated
There is literally nothing doing —l4:x,hany•
If the complaint of the Ledyer ie true, 504
we have no doubt it is, it goes to show that
there Is more than our Republican friends are
willing to allow in the threats of the South to
cease purchasing northern manufacture. and
products. The trade of Philadelphia is almkett
entirely confined to southern and south we.t
ern demand—her manufacturers are, to a large
extent, supported by the Southern states . in
a word, the wealth of Philadelphia, like that
of Pittsburg, has been drawn trout the sweat
of slave labor. This being so. is it tiny won
der that both' fides are threatened with the
withdrawal of the "rapport of the South. which
fft.ll their mechanics, enriches t heir merchant s
and manufacturers, and adds prosperity to the
state. We think the mercantile and manu
facturing interests of the north will find in
the end that Abolitionism does'nt pay
BLow 1 P THU EDlTOR,—Whenever the paper
is_dull and uninteresting, don't he mealy
mouthed in expressing your disapprobation.
Go right to work and berate the editor...wild
ly He seeds it occasionally. He has uo
business to be /tick. His brain and hiy pen
should always run smoothly. whether they are
in running order or not If you will sit down
some day when you hare the toothache —the
real jumping kind—or the ague. or the sick
headache, and write out two or three intere'.t
ing articles, you will understand his obliga
tions and capabilities better. and he ahle to
..blow him up" more effectively titre him
fits. 'Twill do him good.
$,. It is a remarkable fact. says an ex
change, that nearly all of the candidates
for the Vice Presidency in the Democratic
National Convention at Cincinnati. in
June. lALG, have 'since paid the debt of
nature. Lynn Boyd, of Kentucky, .1. c.
Dobbin, of North Otrolina, General Quit
man, of Missisaippi. General Husk, of Tex
as. Arnim V. Brown, of Tennessee. were
presented as candidates by their respective
States, and obtained a large support. They
are now alrdead ! Genera] Quitman got
the highest number of votes of any candi
date on the first ballot—more even than
Mr. Breokinridge, who finally received the
nomination, lie was nominated bt the
eloquent and gifted Harris, of Illinois, who
is also deceased. What changes time makes
in four years!
sir The Washington lssatution says :
rn the Post Office Department troubles
seem to thicken. A number of letters
were received yesterday morning from mail
contractors in different parts of the Union,
declaring their intention to break of their
lines if no appropriation is made by the Ist
of March..
11.6 A man by the name of Smeltzer was
arrested in Natchez, Miss., on the 14th
inst., on the charge of attempting to com
mit a rape on a little girl of 12 years. and
amid great excitement taken to prison.—
In the evening the people, more excited
still, assembled in a great crowd and
marched deliberately to the jail, took the
prisoner from his cell and hung him in the
court house yard.
A WICIERD LITTLZ WOMAN MITI! GREEN
Srscts.—One Rev. Mr. A. S. Finch publish
es * card, in which he says "that while at
tending the Brockport camp meeting, a
woman, small in stature, wearing specs.
and pre *rig in appearance, appeared,
pursued him in a , told him of her
esteem and how much she was worth, and
induced him to many her. He consent
ed, the knot was tied,
and she having ac
complished his ruin, forsook him, probably
to find another victim. Mr. Finch says
she served two men the same way before ;
one in Canada and the other in Wisconsin;
the latter is in a destitute condition. He
gives warning that she may not inflict sim
ilar outrages again."
Ouoirr TO lExow.—lfinton H. Helper has
the following in his "Impending tisis :"
"We believe tht►t. thieves are, as a general
role ' less amenable to moral law than
slave holders." The man who stole s3oli
from his employer ought to know some
thing about the feelings of thieves.
sir Father Ctiuiquy, the excommuni
cated Priest of Kankakee, has joined the
Presbyterian (lurch. About two-thirds of
his Six& Went with him. The remainder
will join the Ihiptist Church.
sir The number of people ktlied
railroads last year. in this enuntrr Ri
over one thousand, Entilai! I t
the same time the number t. 101, I, ,„ „,,..
hundred.
11196. A game dealer in lialetut ..1„ 1 ,
l over two tbouw►nd dozen ~1
*aides a largo quantity of other L , rtni, th,
QM=
The latetot trout 1-:liglatl.l
tinnounces tlin (loath T
ton Macaulay, the etninen
Han. I [is Tf intory of England 14 witilll4l,.
DILATHS
On the :4th inst , %LSI.% E
David M. and Ruby Ann lialdwui ~f Atuo.
aged 7 months and 9 day.
At the residence of her qun
King. Esq.. in Erie, onth.• 22.1 ihni
MARY G. MeLEAN. widow of Rev I) u ,,
McLean, late of South Sht•natig , ,
County, aged 7i yeant
In Girard, on the 21st lost Mr Fit 1%.
WEBSTER. aged a years .
IKABRIA.GBB
On the 19th inst.. by Re• Jos H
Mr GEORGE M. McKINLEI". of I.#
and Mitre )MARY DCNCAN, of West Miller. 4
gro-fatt's Adrertionutnts,
w M. WOOD.
060. at hi. WIPSt et ath 3tr.".1 4 , 3
THE WAYNE GUARDS
I=3
First Annual Re-Union !
AT FARRAR'S HALL.
In the City of Erie, on Thursday Evi•t m , 4
/Peolariiiiiii"y act, 1860.
TICKETS INcLUDINO SUPPEft $3 zo)
- Coolooditto of :A rraisgeoseoto.
Capt J W. XCLAxL, For W 1,. I' 2, ~ TT,
Lt. B. 014.3 T, II I, Iskorx,
IA- 4 Sax's, '• A .1 1 OtOrital.
lA. A KING, M WAL Lam, s.,
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MATRIMONIAL !
Ayot - 5 . ( , . virtuou, .Inierican gentL
man is to...unlit • I forming a matrimonial slim....
with a rouse, rirtunus, kiwi, wealthy American lady I
WC an tot,prutinK boo n.s . ftriso.t, qu‘lllllfti to supeno
tend two tbocuttod atrao of cram .a.O. Kith a srl fie wortf,
ten thousand dollars, I ma confident I man malt, opa sun
dred and fifty thousand dollars le twenty .ears I
rekrenee , Oren sal isommtsately,
Lust \T Lis KELL,
3an.25--3t.3.1• tmnit.... (ie....we Co, N Y
tTOTIOE.
New Arrangement !
IHIVE a.stiociated with mks m tiku
eery and Pron.-Woo Bounces, JArrat
Daemon will be ...11:am0k...1 ea the Dame 'LTA style g !
J. 1111510. j an..2W-34 tf %%V.,
What is the Best and Cheapest Light
%ND WHERE IT IS TO BE OBTAINLI.
SERIES nf experiments,
eeientlfically mule, show a 3,1 , 1" OA IN .of from y •
Tux to Flrrtax to, cent in U.fir AND TINE
of the Coal Oil of A.i.tir h Pce ter, over v.ll other
market—Brrekesimig• mot g , ./11/IMO. !
chilli'''. free from sasoko, 040(.014 elpionloll. •14.1
bprier body .11,,h rnuduce to make it the 0.•,/,
est sod best oriiele to use The Llorr thus throw% -
tore c o m m mers rilible them to An the right ur
which fs sold only by ~,n2, 4 -34 C kftTEI:
U960-NOW 14 TOE TIME T. , I:18E
“THE lUNTHY ';EN I'I.E3IA \
Wi1t...4 the Hon. Jon WPZ VT% ..RTH 14 the 1 1,1 , 11
Democrat, to tLe name of, irtre ,, er E•TIQN THE •
AGRICI . I.V. RAE etEicE IS THE E
VITD kTATF:v
THE C(. I I . NTKV t.EVTI.F MAN 1.4 pistol shad A'eek, •
16 pages ytsrto, and entered upon rte h %to
1111 With 1 4 .0)-111.W.111 , 111“,01
protrllMltlt•—.mono them as rtitarzt..l papre,
sod an totring.4 am , ,unt of l'onter..
THY, COUNTRY GENII-EU \ form• far th• ••
idete and pm-tint Jonrm: for tiAr Fern, r • • •
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one ol th« very Lest ',lacks hi iihrCll.34li•
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Good Sound and Clean Goods,
wi„eh toutlntle o. —:t ,n , an. 1 b!•,-,r•
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ma be la.. ilatatlon !mewl, a 4 nitre •
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LAMPS FOR BURRING OIL
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10)0 FRS st 11F:S I
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Administration Notice.
y El - ITM of Administration on ••
tate of Willman Wlghttnan, late of licKean 1,.•
ship, decesmal, having been granted to the oo.ieol.
notice Is hereby 'risco to all persona indebted to ...•
tate to mats immediate paytnent, and thus. !lanai •
agshart it wilt please present theta duly authenticate I I
aettharnest PIKWTOX pram-.
JAMES HANNAH,
latslB---6w31 glreutor•
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