THE OBSERVER. B. F. SIA)AN, 118 It MS: SIBQ PE YEAR IN ADVANCE SATURDAY, lx2T. : 1577!MV1 =3 NCHARD VAUX, DISTRICT SLICTORS 1 PRIM. A. Szivia, 14 IsA AC Recxxox, 2 Wx. C. PATTrasoLIS Gin U JAcrsoN. CROCICRTT. 'lB J A AUL, 4 J 11. Buoixsa, 17 J B DANNzft, 5 0 W JA.cosT, 18 J R Ci‘wrort, 6 ORARLIVIRILLSS, 19 11 N 7 0 P JAxcs, 20 . 1 B 8 DAIRD &NALL, 21 N P FETTIIRM.OI, 9 4 1.. I.I.O4ITNER, 2:: AXI IL MARS/UAL lv. EARBICR, 23 WILLIAM 1100 R, 11 T. H WALICIR, 24 B U HARLIN. 12 S S. WiNcuicsrEit, 25 11ATLORD CHI 3.'14 13 Joss's LArs.tcu, The BAssult in Pennsylvania We acknowlAge that Na ate• ehugrtly<•(l and mortified at the result of the eleCtion for governor in this state We s:neerely be. .lieved that Foster nuld be elected, but we were much ruts ken No thut the smoke has somevrhl t cleared away from the geld of battle, we would fain look around to .see what has caused the defeat of the,Democracy in the good old C,,m monwealth. Pennsylvania has ever before been the steadfast supporter of correct principles, and has been the barrier that has arrested those wave, of fanaticism which has threatened to engulph our be- loved country, arid break in pieces the federal onion. Rut ghe has faltered at hut, and her hitherto stern patriotism has been driven before the storm of alxilition ism as the gale drives the frail bark, and to-day the true men of the country, the oonservative Constitutions! States-right men. stand aghast at the ineflancholy spec tacle. They see nothing in the future but agitation and disaster, and lainent thr.t.the history of a thousand glorious deeds are to be wiped out, and u dark page inserted in which to record the triumph- of the negro race over that of the white man cessful crusade is being inaugurated against the constitutional rights of the isouthein half of our Union. The people of Penn sylvania, forgetting the past, and reckless of the future, seem determined to place in the same chair -which has been occupied by Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mon roe and Jackson, a man who holds to no doctrine, no opinion, no priciple but that the white man shall divide his blood-bought patrimony with the negro, and that a de cree shall be made, and a contract entered into, that the white man and the negro are equal now and forever In view of the Presidential election soon to be decided, a great responsibility rests upon the voters of this country. ' Disguise it as you may, ignore it as you will, Union or disunion is the question to be decided in November This war of the North upon the South must produce its legitimate re sults, and can have but one end. "A cause divided against itself cannot stand," holds true in the political as in the religious world. There will come estrangement, then heated, then open and violent alter eations, and then the dissolution of the Federal compact. Let all good men who deprecate such an end come out and work with the Democracy in the comingstrug gle. Let us all unite and adopt any meas ure that may be presented to secure us a sectional President. For the sake of union and freedom let it not he said that we were so blinded about our choice of men, and so mad in our foolish differences, and so divided as to permit the elcction-of a geo- graphical chief' officer We point our fin ger and refer you to 'Washington's Farewell Address, warning you of the danger If you heed not the voice of the father of your country, you are lost to all advice.— Like Ephraim you are joined to your idols. ♦s ►sentinel on the watch -tower, we apprise you of your danger, and we urge you to avoid it. It remains with you to decide this matter As for ourselves, Ise feel that w• have done our duty, and having done so, wash our hand* from any participation in the coming evil. --..-..1.1i. , --- Curtin and Railroads From the returns of the election it is very certain that the Sunbury aftcl, 4 Xrie, the Pennsylvania Central, the Great West ern, and the Lake Shore roads all cent in strong for Curtin. This distinguished in dividual had frequent conclaves with the officers and friends of each before the elec tion, and it seems has been successful in obtaining their united aid. Now, what is it that these roads want' Why, nothing else ; than legislation ! The sunbury & Erie must have more help from the State to complete her line. The Pennsylvania Crin tral wants to get rid of the tonnage tax.— The Lake shore roads want to be released from their obligation to go to the harbor with their depot. The Great Western wants • slice from some quarter, and together awl will occupy the attention of the Leg islature the whole winter to accomplish their ends. Curtin is to do it all. Like St. Paul,he has been "all things to all men " Some of these roads will slip up—some of them be awfully cheated, and if Senators Finney and ISUClure, the confidential friends of Curtin, are to manage the matter,' it is plain to prophesy that the Sunbury & Erie will come out, as it did last winter, at "the little end of the horn " The people of this State will never agree that the Penn sylvania Central shall be released from the tonnage tax, and that road will prevent any favors being given to the Sunbury & Erie independent of this release of tax.— The lesser sad poorer corporation must give way to the greater and the richer The promises made to the Sunbury & Erie road will never be redeemed—the intere.,t of the subscriptions made I,v our city and county to the Sunbury & Erie must, for years, be paid by assessments upon the la bor of her citizens. We are friends to this road from Erie to Philadelphia, but turn this question which way we will we cannot see any hope in the future, nor any sunshine for this great work. Gov. Packer, a thorough and tried friend of this road, with all his zeal and influence, could not, last winter, get the right kind of legislation for the Sunbury d Irie. Can Curtin do more? We think not, but are ' willing to wait and see, and hope for the nest La us all unite, however, without dis tinction. of party, in demanding of the legisla ture • complete recognition of our rights in regard to this greet enterprise If not done now thoroughly and well by our political op sensate, who have the power, tka'majority Will fads away like the mist of the morning. "14.1. %i••• Lit on .111 , 1fle tn. 14-1 camp • % negro emuslit% 11.4 d grown unprotitaible." the reprh hoar,- 1,141 rd I •uOl until the people were gulle , l into th. I.e',,ef that they were it „, vf.. the per. altar friends ul protection In this the% mete bupremely byj eritreal' All their orators, from And% t 'tiro» don'n to the Slatille-t 'pouter, t.dke I r tog iter ur tariff, ii*ldllted thou liattlCulax lota• tion, and their newspaper, echoed the same unvarying strain ' In a ha: they were to give protection to Amenenii inter est,, no one of them vouched to explain-- that party will have neither the Senate the House in the next Congre-s, and how r 6, a e raise the tariff on Import•• we ettlint t.ee—.Vo. the eountry, AS ever. must I , sik to the Democratic part!, as their real frieru-Is rhe repohlieans of Pennsylvania deli) to the South Lereonstitutiunal and then demand of them protection to Ler peerileir tit. re is - the\ -teal their nigger., from them on et eru ocea,ron • and then send up piteous howl. heeau-e those outraged estate , - iefuse protection to their fhe repuhlioan% net tunl lieu el •r. p is• fuiff law. a- Are needed in our peo d•• liie,r whole %toek ut trsofe the . ttlizgel. mud it they glue 4, the protection that they prom..e, tt wi ll h e t he 1 11 ,• ih. N e% .•r fulfillea We hat .• proue,l aga.n, that the Demoeruov of Periii , ultailia have 1.% er been fitohlid to thi, grolt interest, and true to the • roteetive p01,..v Let tn, again repeat. that 1.1n0. , 1n it ,1,-ott,i, %%ill not glue protection to the in a interest- of Penn-% Ivan:A No Pie%olent can etreet ant I a the g,.."1 ~f Ow people The - Irrepre.s.f.l. o. , nflict - of their doe trine% 1, the fugue- , ami .)I theli dom, and it di. , .-dart of their state-,mathip CEO M KEIM I=l F. , RNFV 81 - 4•7 i. 1:F111:1 night, .10ot 13: a ninnhei of the young Detuociats of Ili. , r ite.-ion to their indignation at the tre.icher ~f .lohn W. Forney in the late ..tats election. by burning him in effigy in the centre .quare. The stuffed figure of a man holding a copy of Tie Pr ut hi. hand, Iva. placed upon a pile of Kcxel, and consumed in the pres ence of a crowd who manifested their .at• isfacti in with the proceeding. by lowd groans as the effigy toppled over into the flames —RA/ /in; I;.: !!, IMIII There net er existed a matt who has made himself so vile as ForneN ' A traitor to his friend and patron Buchanan ' a re vealer of the confidence, of friendship ' a tool of Forrest in a base attempt to make Jam is on drunk, and then betray the reve• lation, of the Cup--and now. while pre tending friendship for Foster, he betraye.l him at e% ery step and v‘as the secret frien , l of Curtin' A republican , lerk of the House he does their dirty work with a will --in open warfare he has no force of (freet --it is only as a friend that he ran gi%e the fa tal stab No gpvotnlcu the) burn him in effigy, and no wonder that the people of BOrks county who know him well exhibit e4t their disgust and contempt of the man 14 - loud groans to the effigy toppled over into the flames." This poor devil of a flirney has done more to injure his friend uglas than can be undone for awhile t us Democrats not trust him under any c curnstance.. Let him go down to that o livion where no mention of him shall e er be heard. Just read what this Bene / ct Arnold Forney says about the elev.- tson . "The Republican party have just achiev ed a magnificent triumph, and in the joy with which they hail this triumph the) have tike ~ympathy of thousands of honest Democrats. They cannot afford to stain their victory with fraud. They cannot af ford to assist in striking down, by the basest agents, the men who have stood in the fore-front opposition to Mr. Buchanan and his Admini tration, and flu ' whom, in a large degre:, they are indebted for the re suit over w ich they are Ow exulting organl7atir,i this city an , and thorns, verene ne%• been a ‘.eti them as to tractrong phsh the gr• dation they erected cher ex pendit ure flap, pules a without nu alike with ti far and wid The bein•wr and the le,s of future be to knot% trot of dollar. rep hurrah Ti ev furui who µkwl a the nec Hui concern' pay anythin Walker! 1 from grumb Lid Sterrett tw, LL , '(,/ 0 . in know: she oral, and th. had ' Presc 9J. Thi4 lii bill, which . We are told and that bit money flowed like writer for the Clll - 4(' an i that lie w to p a y his way to the heal of the republican column in this county Who knows how tn., this ' This sanguinary individual bled, no doubt. during his celebrated visit to John Bowu ' lie bled while lighting Sterrett and others for district delegate to Chicago. lie bled to get-into the state Convention, Re bled again as a delegate to Chietgo, having a suit of rooms there at a gr,..it expen•••• liebled for his Indian leader t. ameron. lie We,' for the Babbitt ! What will they (In for him or his, now that the battle is won N'othing literally nothing. lie spoke upon every stump, as in every meeting. and he opened his pocket every time he ripened his mouth The money, howevery, we are inclined to think, came front the East. lie was the almoner of has friends elsewhere—but the comorants here are done with him now, a nd in the distribution of offices, they will see that none of his kith, or kin, or friend's will be remembered. The quiet smiling chaps, who done nothing and paid noth ing, will run off with the spoils. "Repub. ioans 14 ungrateful." TARIFF I TARIFF Let Traitors read this ! , 4 o\ or TUE REI4 AN`..—The of our political opporient in county way both complete . Their energy and perie r flagged, and the result has v almost a, unexpected to ORGAN ILA All minor disputes and die tire thrown aside R.. a.-eom f itt re-ult. Thi- was the Emil and th.• Nuporstructure 4ron was accomplished by Transpirancie-. ban ners4. 11 , 1procen.ion, were multiplied 141.: at. 1 were Their sus:,etir. travuled iacrea.4e L a• tiov wont ,cv e , ):npar oft% L 1, 1. 1.•,1111.-/ 111.1) ettt, Vl".• are much ever. ts , ed when •,e came the thou•antl, utretd for all tilt- parade an I Rei,111.1.,- •lenv t hit tn , ,t, he 1 theta from It .ref Wh )Ne purees Wilt) Were the lihoral• of thf. the linnorable Mr Bal,r , ttt Very little if Inc ! 1)..I enough tA, keep in* friend -111.1 Kelqo Nary red' of th ri ' Pct hap. about ' kui ' Don't if McLane w t, •runcw hat lib , youn , r Lvov' 1041i , 1 all they t Nfetotlf p. 11.1 !Wont I a- uci howe‘c:..l,•ll . l foc4 th. Ust La near hat if h bolero, blea ft eels. 2,469 I'bi• Democratic vote in Erie county is ' Let ther, patriots and true friends of the country stand firm ! Let nothing , p revent from going to the polls on the t4tit day of November, and cast n g their votes for the -Democratic elec toral ticket All is not yet lost. An ef fort twist be made to redeem the past.— We have been defeated, but not conquer ,.l In the Presidential contest that is still to ootne off, you will have occasion to try )our .trength The wiles and stratagems of ouriopponents are now distinctly seen. Many 'of them who were friends of Curtin will now vote against Lincoln ! Now is the titn& to show your perseverence and deter uttnatton, and your devotion to correct principles Let ui give them one more fire along the lines, and victory, perhaps, may yet perch upon our banner ! "For tune favors the brave." ELLCTOIt•L TICICIT.—In another column will be lound the proceedings of the State Central Committee at Reading, Oct. 12, It will be seen by this that the elec toral ticket as made at the last State ention is to be adhered te. This is 118 it •hould he--we have alwa)s resisted any attempt to change or alter it. The action of Forney and his particular h i uds against Foster has been a lesson for futurk•--no compromises can be made with such men—they have deserted us, Breve gone across the river, and now dwell in the tents of the rkpublizans. They have •leirnt the bridges and sunk the boats" ales the Democracy have wisely concluded io let them remain there, and to incur no expense and take no trouble in bringing them back again They want no more e‘asion—no more I dsehood—let all who are for us support the electoral ticket as it t. ut else leave the party. Let us get cleat 01 all these dead branches ••vihose fruit, like the apples of Sodum, w er e fair to the -ight, but eruml.led to ashes in the touch," and from this time forward the tree of Ns; tional Democracy will acquire new life and vigor, and put forth living branches, bear ing good fruit So may it be. ' , roil.. —The Republicans of Erie seem heartily to sub , cribe to the doctrine that •to the victor belong the spoils." It was thi, one desire that made "hail fellows, well met" of such men as Lowry, Walker, Bal,; t,.S'ten elf. Lyun and others,who supped, and bedded, and speechified together all over the country Truly it was a strange mixture of the most incongruous materials. Now the victory, they think, is won, they again separate with the old war cries one against the other, and the cry is the "devil take the hindmost." They are all hungry, hut all cannot be led. Babbitt says that as r, ett has dune up all his dirty work for him. that A, must have the post office.— A gain.t this move, all the others will unite, not caring much who gets it so that the old fogy of the Gazette does not. Walker will see that this matter is all right, and young A. M'D. Lyon, who done the greater part of the hard work,w ill take good care that the Congressman he worked so hard for, shall not prove ungrateful It is a sweet fami ly fight, and no one can tell how it will end—perhaps dike the Billkenny Cat Sto ry Watch and pray. "The Good Time is Coming." un our 4treets and highways we hew the sounds of rejoicing of our negro popu lation. The election of Curtin has made their hearts rejoice. They sing aloud, "Bress de Lord, the good time is coming, de nagger is gwine to he raised up, the mil /minium is coming." We hope our republican friends will live up to their views as to the Negro ; that our friends Ball and Teller will see that bill is introduced into the Legislature giv ing them the right of suffrage, and make them eligible to office. By so doing, they will for once be consistent, thelowill in crease their majority, and may, perhaps, hay u a bouncing big, black fellow, sent with them as a colleague next year. Look out for the riarkey! lIEZI= Neat° EQUALITY IN Onio.—The Cleve land Piamien/ci of Oct. 10 says : "Full blooded negroQ voted in several of the wards yesterday. At the Second Ward ne gross as black as coal peddled tickets. Ne groes hired carriages and carried white men to the polls. Negroes were every where The refrain commencing— *sharps meat 'a too rood for slam"- I , an adsurity Here on the Western Re .erces roast beef is hardly good enough for them They •it at the first table and white men are forced to lap up the crumbs at the second. That's the style here.— That's what ad- us. We have met the Alneans and we're tAntir. , ."' It the Republicans of Pennsylvania are sincere in their professions, we shall goon 4ee the same disgusting spectacle in , tats• A considerable plot of the black republican majority in Ohio is easily accounted for. Brinkerhoff is a Judge of the supreme Court. and was a candidate of the black republicans for re-election. A -lion time -ince he made a decision by which about fourteen thousand negroes were. invested with the elective franchise. A more high handed abuse of the judicial otth•e has never been perpetrated in this country Negros. in Ohio will here..,:ter hold the balance of power, and so they will in even• ‘diver state where they shall be permitted to vote. To what a condition of things is black republicanism bringing u-. The country ruled by negroes ! Tea TRU'. DOCTZINIL—Thus speaks that distinguished patriot, James W. Gerard, , of New York, to his old whig friends who are leaning toward Lincolnism. •• It is vain for the respectable and con servative portion of that party to assert that their policy is to prevent the spread of slavery into the Territories now tree ; that may be their view, and they itt.ty sin cerely think so, hut that is not the limit to the policy of their leaders (whose dupes they are) if their own acts and speeches are to he credited. The secret circulation of Helper's book in the Southern States was not necessary to keep slavery out of the Territories , a conflict between the free la her of the North and the slave labor of the south, which they say must be so severe (irrepressible) that one party or the other must yield, is not necessary to prevent slay extended to the Territories. •• I . therefore, oppose Mr. Lincoln for his abolition doctrines, declared in his speech es, that slave labor must conquor free her, or the reverse , 'that the two areit compatible in Our country, and both can not oxist together. Now, as one supposes that the Southern people will ever make slaves of us at the North, it follows that the intention of this party is that Northern freemen shall leap over the-boundaries of the Constitution and make free the slaves of the South." We pray that Heaven will commend this -ound advice to the conscience of all Chris Liana and law revering men Gus. Forma it Hors.—The Hon. Henry D. Foster, late Democratic candidate for Governor, reached his honzein Greensburg. on Wednesday last, and was met at the depot by an immense crowd of hip fellow citizens, with a band of music, and escort ed to his residence, where he was weloom ed by Gen. William A. Stokes, in an elo quent speech. Gen. Foster wan loudly cheered, and responded briny as follows . GILX. STONJIS AND DT FRILNDS :-It IS IM possible for me to express the deep grati tude which I feel for all your kindness. I am defeated, but I trust not disgraced. I come among you *gain to live in peace, and I hope to show in the future, as in the past, my allegiance to the Democratic par ty, and my warm sympathy for my friends. During the whole contest just ended, have assailed no man by word or act. I have neither said or done anything which I regret, and I hope nothing for which my friends need blush. Firmly standing on Democratic truth, I gladly resume my place in the ranks of the party--ready to fight the common enemy of the Constitu tion and the country. Accept, Gen. Stokes, my heartfelt thanks for the too flattering terms in which you have expressed the feelings of our friends. The Greensburg Democrat says : No language is adequate to express the enthusiasm of our people in behalf of our great citizen and distinguished friend.— Successful or defeated, Westmoreland will ever prove true to Henry D. Foster. Ile returns to us without fear and without re proach—the Bayard of Pennsylvania poll t les. ICI Cot. E. L. Dlazt.—We we .e pleased to greet, the other day, our friend, Col. Drake of Crawford county. He I'Vai the Demo cratic candidate for the. Legislature in that district. His integrity and competency was fully endorsed by his own county, he having run ahead of his ticket. In these days of black republicanism this was a corn pliment of which he may well be proud - Nest year, when the "sober, second tho't " oomes over the people, we confidently ex pect to see him elected. ICI ENGLAND FOR LlNCOLN.—Monarchial Eng land desires nothing so much as the Lion of a Republican President, and the London Chronicle tells us why We would be very sorry to see Mr Douglas elected," it says, "because he is in favor ‘.l the obnoxious institutions as they exist, and the unity of the States. There is no safe ty for European monarchial governments if the progressive spirit of the Democracy of the United States is allowed to succeed. Elect Luteoln, and As first blow ru Me ,ep a r u ( um of the United States is effected ! &ACC REM. BLICAN DOCTIt I N E.—Cassius M. Clay, recently addressed a Republican meeting at Tiffin, Ohio. In the eourse of his remarks he said "They (the Democrats) tell you we are for liberating the blacks—for ,ietting the negroes free. SC) WE ARE. We believe, as you do, that In 1776 "all men were cre ated free and equal ; endowed with certain inalienable rights! * • • * * They meant just what they 'said, and they repeatedly spoke of n42l E roes as men, and as persons. THEY ANT THE NE GROES WERE EQUAL WITH THE WHITE MEN !" This is pure, unalloyed Republicanism wiliiie men of Pennsylvania how do you lik it 1 Pssrxinvasti.—Nothwithstanding, in the recent State siection in Pennsylvania, - the Democracy were defeated by some sev enteen thousand, we gain largely on the vote of 1858, when the Republicans carried the Congressmen 'by an aggregate majority of about fifty thousand. Pennsylvania is not stall a reliable State. For twenty years past it has constantly vibrated between the two great parties. In 1840, Harrison carried it over Van Buren by 349 majority. In 1844, Polk carried it over clay by 332. Birney polled 3,138 votes. In 1848, Taylor carried it over ass ley 14,337, Van Buren poUing 11,263 votes. leaving Taylor's majority 3,074. In 1862, Pierce beat Scott by 17,3V4- Hale, Abolitionist, polling 8,525 votes. In 1856, Buchanan carried this State over Fremont. by die great pl4ality of 409. But, Fillmore carried 82072 votes and there were 119 scattering, 'so that Bu chanan's clear majority over all was only 1.119. In 1858, the opposition carried a majori ty of Congressmen, by votes which showed the aggregate majority of 50,tkN 1. In 1859, the Peoples' party ticket vras elected by 17,000 majority. Meeting of the Democratic State Central Committee THE RLADINu ELECTORAL. TICKET TO HI ♦DULIDD TO The Democratic State Cen tral Committee in pursuance of the following call met it Reading yesterday DEMOCRATIC ST•Tf. ES6I I. TIVE CUICIIITTEL Rooms, No. 419 WALNUT STAILLT. Philadelphia, Uct. A meeting of the Democratic St at. Ex ecutive Committee will be held at REAL, IXG, on FRIDAY, October 12, Ititio, at I I o'clock. A. M. Business; of great import ance will be laid before the meeting. and every member is earnestly requebted to he present. WILLIAM H. WELSH, Chairman At a quarter past eleven Mr. Welsh call ed the Committee to order. Mr. Frank M. Hutchinson, the :)ecre tary, called the roll, when thirty nine mem bers answered to their names, RY follow Messrs. Stephen D. Anderson, J. Henry Asking, Vincent L. Bradford, Hugh Barr, James P. Barr, W. H. Blair, Reuben F. Brown, H. B. Burnham, Charles W. Carri gan, James C. Clarke, John W. Clarke, John Cummings, Alfred Day, Henry L. Dieffenbach, C. M. Donovan, henry Dun lap, Peter Ent, J. Lawrence Getz, A. Hie stand Glatz, Joseph Gleim, H. A. Guernsey, John Hamilton, Jr., J. H. Hobart, Charles H. Hunter, F. M. Hutchinson, Robert L. Johnson, Isaac Leech, F. P. Magee, Robert McCts_y, Thomas C. McDowell, 0. 11. Mey ers, Howard L. Miller. William H. Miller, Robert E. Monaghan, H. H. Muhlenberg, Joseph W. Parker, R. Bruce Petriken, Ber nard Reiley, Nelson Weiser, and William H. Welsh, President.. The roll being called, Mr. Hutchinson moved that reporters be admitted. Agreed to unanimously. Capt. A.l:ied mr, of Philadelphia, otter ed the following resolution, and called the previou44 question, which seemed to be sus tained by commr mutant. Resolved, That this Com in i Let. ,/,) here by rescind its action ti Philadelphia, on the 2d of July, and :tt Cresson, on the 29th of August last, and that we recommend to the Democratic party of Pennsylvania to stand by the Electoral Ticket made by the Democratic State Convention at Reading, on the first of March, 1868. Passed unan imously. Barman ! Barites :—The greatest variety and the largest stock ever brought into this market, oaa be Nand at the store of •a-19 CARTER & BRO. the u Watt. Mature:lay, Clatob4ra. 20. 1500 MEMM=MI Local, Personal and Nisoilianeous. FIUITIV AL.—The Ladles of the 'Fourth street Catholic Church, will hold a Festival, to con sist of Music, Tableaus,. Refreshment,., tc., in Farrar Hall, on Thursday, Oct. 26th. FA lE.—The Fair of the Uwited Boaryelieal Protestant ChtsreA, la progressing hasty, and will continue until Saturday night. The draw ings will take place on the first of nest week. Let everybody attend on Saturday evening. at the Reed House. mar There seem to be well-grounded &ppm hension4 of scarcity and want in old Ireland again A London paper says —"lt is now al most certainjhat the failure of the potato crop is greater than in any year since 1847, kale year that preceded the famine ) The root crops are full of weeds in most cuss, and where tolerably clean they cannot trow from want of sun and from excess of moisture." ghze- The Continued wet weather, Says the Press, is resulting in a sad destruc tion of the potato crop by the rot Whole fields are said to have been abandoned as a total loss We hear complaints of the rut in this county also, though the injury does not seem to be very extensive as yet Early dig ging: and careful garnering or burying in a dry place, would doubtless save large quanti ties o f these excellent esculents which will otherwise go to destruction. per An infidel convention was held last week in the city of New York; and et en the Tramp.. is compelled to make the fortng record of its doings • "But the grand staille of buvine..4 before the convention was blasphemy so gross, and assertion so. state, and talk so trivial, that perhaps the only literal report of infidelity for 181:4 that can be made is the fol lowing list of officers . President, Horace Sea ver . 1 rc. Presidents, Ernestine L Ruse, - .kc , &c {app• The grape crop appears to be very abundant this year, but is more than usually affected with the mildew. In several cases within our knowledge, what promised two months ago to be fine crops have turned out al most entirely worthless. The mildew of course is caused by too much wet or dampness —The great secret of Grape culture," says one. '•ls to give The roots plenty of air and , nutriment In all heavy soils, care mast be taken to secure perfect drainage, so that no water shall stand about the roots; then make a deep and wide bed of rich, mellow earth, and well rotted ma nure, adding some old bones, leached ashes, snorter, brickbats, etc " gar The next time the "Wayne Uuards appear in public, the public will probably be somewhat astonished at the lofty and imposing appearance they will present They are about supplacing the rather ungainly head-ge‘r that they have heretetore worn by, bear-skin hats, high and lifted up , wh;cli will have the effect of making the tall men look like very sons of Anak, and the short ones like grandsons of the same distinguished giants Nervous ladies and timid babies had better stay in the house the first time the Anakim turn out, for they will look indeed, like Russian bears, or ••fierce Hussars - going forth to battle, sir Now, when we are impatient and cross it we do not travel at the rate of at least —SO miles an hour including stoppages," it is curl out, to read such a paragraph u the following, taken from the English Quarterly Revtese for Jlarch, 1820. -We are not advocates for the visionary pro jects that interfere with useful establishments. We scout the idea of a railroad as impractic able. What ran be more palpably absurd and ridiculous than the prospects held out of loco motives traveling twice as fast as stage coach eq. We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich tq suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate." wer Mayor Wool", though nu longer trou- Med with the reputation of being the model mayor of the country, may certainly be put down as the model speech-maker. On the reception of Baton -Rasrnaw, alas the Prince of Wales, alias many other titled personages, in New York, the Mayor delivered himself of the following discourse -Your Royal Highness • As Chief Magistrate of the City, I welcome you here, and believe hat in so doing I represent the entire popula tion, without exception.' The Prince replied : •'ll affords me very great pleasure to accept the Welcome, anti have no doubt that it will be worthy of the great City of New Vork.!' SW Oil, oily, and still more oleaginous! The Vaerne states that a company with which 1 9. A.. Bennett, S 11. Kele , / and Z. Rogers, of this city, are connected, recently struck oil in great abundance at a point about twelve miles from Franklin, Venango Co., and that the present yield is about seventy-five barrels a day! That at ten dollars a barrel—a moderate price.—would be only $.750 a day We hope our lucky tellow-townsmen will allow us to tell our reader. that they al-c now pumping only neNeelty-four and a halt barrels a day. But if they insist, we will make it seventy-five next week, Another company, constituted in part of Erie county men, has also, the same author -been eminently successful, and is now pumping a large quantity day." /Or. Mist ••Podgere," the very plidesant San Frenetic° currespendent of the X. Y nine' sa.ri of the "females," as he is pleased to tall the women.l of that city, is not entirely inapplicable to the same portion of humanity in this latitude. In the particular mentioned.— ••11•4 ' 11:14., monstrous hot '" says he, Sept. 17th; -but; for a wondef, I have not seen a fur cape to the Street. Something new—for you must knowl that furs are very fashionable here. And if so, must be worn, regardless of the state of the t hemometer. There is not. a 'day scarcely in the year that an Over-cost is required—in fact, hundreds never think of owning such a thing--yet there's not a day you don't see poor,: wretched females 'sweltering and labor ing under an accumulation of cat skin or musk rat, (yclept sable,) enough to suffice a Kam.- ehatkan—perfect martyrs to fashion I have seen immense for capes in the street with the thembmeter at 700." With regard to the use of the tei in _ft, in stead of treason, noticed above parentheti, we may quote appropriately a remark of Mr. Marsh, in his recent "Lectures on the English Language." lie says pet phrases of hack journalists, the euphemism that but late ly characterized the American newspapers, are fast giving place to less affected and more ap priSpriate forms of expression. It is only the lowest class of dailies that still regard woman as not an ,honorable or respecful designation of the sex, and it is in their columns alone, that, in place of 'well-dressed or handsomi women,' we read of 'elegantly attired females,' and of 'beautiful ladies.' " P 701 l STORXT WIATIIIII. —Putt and Glass, all sieve - and qualities, by the ]• t or box. Sold by Et. CARTER a, Although a thing so greatly abused and misrepresented by all kinds of remarks by ever t j . ody *bout it. we cannot avoid saying semw 'lig regarding the 'multifarious weather that has as or blessed this communit) for a few weeks ilea. No two days have been in any respect alike, and sometimes no two suc cessive hourti have looked like brothers In feet, if the nit Kin and all the planets had agreed together to fiirnieh us with an average speci men of the bitet and worst weather belonging to each of them, on successive days, the aggre gate result could not have been of a much more varied character than that which has fallen to our lot since: about the 10th of September Heat, cold, rain, sunshine, clouds, winds, blue skies, calms,: thunder, lightning, hail, kr , &c , have been promiscuously stirred up together— making a fusion about as confused as fusions are generally If •'variety is the spice of life," we have certainly been spiced If "confusion worse confounded i* • poetical expression-- and Milton armed it was—we have surely been favored with the thing that occa.ions a poetical expression Sur;isa say that a hard winter is before us— the firot of a series of hard winters that will cumulate in the hardest kind of a hard winter about Is7o Scientific men, tracing back the history of winters fur several centuries', Have reached this conclusion, and announced tpis period The science of the weather, however, is quite as uncertain as the weather itself, and 'we would not advise a householder to lay in mote than twice his usual quantity of wood and coal, on the announcement even of an evil inept scientific individual that the cooling winter was going to he a Lard one 10/W• Gas is a great inatituelun We speak no* of the carburettekl-hydrogen not of the metaphorical article so abundant in these po litical times. We would not say anything le the world to disparage gas, or. to discountenance or discourage its use for illuminating purpos es. We only hope to see the time when we shall have, in this goodly city of eleven thou sand inhabitants, councilmen, with minds so enlightened and judgments no clear as to point out to them the duty of having our black and often muddy streets lighted with burning gas, and that thus not only the night traveler may be guided on his way, but gas stock made a paying investment. Nevertheless, it must nut ' be forgotten, that harm and death, as well as light and profit, sometimes result from the use, or the misuse, of gas. A certain propor tion of gas mingled with common air forms an explosive mixture, which, when ignited, pro duces an explosion, with sometimes dreadful consequences Such an accident occurred re cently in England and though so far away. the warning should not be unheeded by any who use this servicahle, obedient; but power ful agent •Thericliad been an escape of gas in the house, says the account., valid when:a candle was lighted on Monday evening, the explosion took place flie door and the whole of the windows of the house were blown out, and three Iverson., %Ir. Finningly. Mien gin ningly, and John Padget a joiner, who .hiip pened to he in the room s, she time, were severely injured. Padget he. , qt the Infirmary in a prec•rious condition \loral If you find the gas escaping in your hotole, have the pipes examinedand repaired immediatel y Never leave a jet 6t gas burning in your cb t•- , .et when asleep, unless it iv turned down to s t ,s! small point Some accident might happen ikt the gas works, cutting off the pressure fit moment, ;which has happened several times here,i and PUtting out your lights, and, the difficulty having heels removed, the jet would How out again to suffocate you. or produce an explosive mixture to blow you up when you struck a match Be careful I; Is tame. tractable, obsequious. but don't lei it get the start of yein Camphene has slain its hundreds where gee has maimed its ones still it is too strong and'facile an agent to be trifled with w ar Here is something worthy of imitation in this quarter In Springfield. 11l , recently, a ipellany match took place. in which all Sin gamon county was invited to participate. The prise, an Unabridged Pictorial Dictionary, WAS awarded to a little girl about twelve years 01.1. she having —stood up the longest Tht•, we say, is worthy of imitation here, for what the scholars at the present day are wore deficient in than in almost anything else, is a .•orrevt knowledge of the orthography of their native tongue Some modern, patent teachers even go so far as to scout the idea of teaching 'pi:- ray at all, and have thrown the spelling-hook out of school, Substituting nothing equivalent In its place. The result is that when their pu pils lest* school, they are laughed at the rest of their days because they are unable to spell even the common words of a business corres pondence The old-fashioned spelling-schools were a great institution in their day , and it would he to the advantage of the rising gener ation if they were an existing institution. There is no use in blinking the fact that the acquisi. tion of the orthography of the English lan guage require+ time, labor and close attention. It is hard to wake Ilia. 114:411141t1011, hilt it iv shame ful and therefore harder still to be destitute of it School Director+ could not expend a few dollars of the public funds more usefully than in providing a N elister Unabridged I. he awarded annually a- A prize t.i the b.s.t in each of the pail', .ehouls and the exhibi tion that would prove by trial who wits hest Speller, would be gime a+ tat ere.ting anul cer tainly as useful as the eotnposittons, rehearsals plays, Ste , that gel:wally make up-the per torn:lance at the close of a tertu we- It is a truth-telling label that is upon De Land S: Salerstus, and it gives us great pleasure to say that thin brand o f Saler, stile Is making many friends among the Intel iv gent housekeepers of this vicinity IN perfect purity ought to recommend it, certainly It can be procured from must grocers and store keepers Manufactured and for sale at whole sale, at. the Fairport illieruical Works, Fairpert, Monr . oe , N 1 Quite a number of our Attorneys are at Pittsburgh this week attending on the Ses sions of the Supreme Court At the sitting on Monday, Chief Justice Lowrie was rresent, with Judges Woodward, Thompson and Strong. The following items of business we find to one of the Pittsburgh papers of Tuesday morning • D. M Forrely, of Crawford county, on mo tion of John W. Walker, and Pearson Church, of Crawford county, on motion of llenj ,Grant, were duly admitted to practice in the Supreme Court. The list for the counties of Brie• Crawford, Jefferson and Forrest was caled over Dunlap's Ada:Cr. ♦e. Loomis Erie. JuAg meat of non, pros. entered. Van Winkle vs. Young. Erie Argued by M'Creary for plaintiff in error. and by Mar shall, contra Kennedy et al. vi. Kennedy 'Erie Argued by Vincent for plaintiff in error, and by Gal linath contra. Edinboro Academy v Robbinson. Erie -- Argued by Walker for plaintiff in error, and by Marshall contra. • gal. The following specimen of ”fusion 'in a small way we find recited in the N. t Herald The town of Leckroy, in Bradford county. Pa., at the late election gave Curtin 200 and Foster 2 votes. In 1866 Bechanan had one vote, sad Fillmore one vote. Understanding the t t in the rest of the State the Bell men and democrats had united, these two voters "fused" and Went for Foster. Nor Vi'e are glnittO ienrn that Th. I, ...Id, tf toll, on the Omni during the current •PR • tare hren con.l4lPt,thly morons.-1 gorpr tiops, ant rear The tulle sip to the I cd . hof thin year 111111. aliMpUnt (y 1 To name date la.t year in 1 Making an increwie .iviir P..0.' "I It 21'0)95 And over 1,459. It le proltetblr !het the ratio VI be shout the foliate for thp remainder 1.• season. Thi. tnrrrn,r.l revenue 14 prin. 1i..1 wUributetbk to the large "f Lake perinr Irou ore earrntel flown ihp rand Camas' roan,. ' comn4 Dresmait Circular and Fine—of Ivory. Sh+.ll. It ber, Buffalo and ettrlllll , .ti 11.,111 qualities and prices tk, ewt rlc•ryloxl .) 3t -19 t • klt TE NM. An 16411011th named Murtough oy I tyti, on Friday afternoon. to murder faintly of (lemmas, living near int line ,! Sunbury d. Erie Railroad ,n r t La l. ship In a fit of davit/es trem•r4, he prt,cure a butchor knife and rual,..d the house, who escaped fr..n. hint after badly cut lie siren attacked a Ali I at, , ,ut seven yearn old, intitctitg woutithl whrrn t ,,,, stoned its death lie then turned up , ,tt a employed in the faunly. lacerating her .o that her recuvery de.pik,ted The alarm being given, he was arreltt 1 .1. brought to town. and iv itow in Jail lip w%• formerly omployed on the Railroad an , li• to ben letkperste, reeitlees fellow There are cootlicting stories relative I *flair. but we believe the above brief statemet, comprises the material facts.—Gcuet,, HAIR Bat •Ints —By the dozen or -togi, at pries ranging from twenty cent twenty shillings each. At the aline of CARTER it BR,' ILABRIAGEIS In Oils city, tin the Isth tort , t.y Her Joht, Prate, Dr. Win H and Miss C. AYRES, both e of till§ city Wirh the above ositte the usual comforts The happy pair have gone, West .n a ' trip IVe wi4h the Doctor and 1119 lII` bappinesl 1. DIATIII3 In this city c'u the 'Mil inst. NIARI E LYNCH. aged yearl and 17 dacj The neral will lake place at 12. cl cL t..tai 'o urday On the 6th inst , THI)S H n'11:1s Alt j aged 14 yearn.nnd s months #pecial lEZIE TOPCON SU /APT/ VES. rt, A J Lacing tern r•otnrod to braah ta a few we-a. by a rerr at 11,1 p rrmr•li aft., hann, •utirry-d a..r•ra 'wall with a aft•er. luwK and that drawl diaea.- C ,, w•Eampt lOW la WWI I. U• • ..nukr known to his IC., • tug tb• 21,112311 ni curt To all who deetre It, !AO VI 'wad a r..py of the pre r-ipe of rh•re• ~ Mt the thrwellona prepwriui and using t h....the, w bleb they eta find •CIP Crick ok °Spit al • Ast/1.11•, RILWICHITIS, 6. The only object of the adleri leer to mendtag the preacri,, Lion IS to benefit the edit, t.d s and spread uifortnslith. wlttrh he enneelves to be Invaluable, sod he hope, .Yet sufferer will try ht. rem...ly, as it will reef. them nothta sod may roe. a b•o„ " Par. look 1r I. Of a., 41111(r.• %; S RI, A W I I—i" ; ; King. roan!? S. %% IRK TO IF. I, {-4 rri f. no. x• • I li k! ° .OrT • •'l4, ; st..! Ft.,•-• 1. • t” .1.. .•• ELIk.:/ 0 In i'1,1.14 idl I.: I'l, BM 1 AN'.. 1.110•14 NthLl4. T4r WWI cert.,. gad vend . , .arcs rn at r - r • all /hoed.s of tAr Chen snd Le•gs C ..444 Ca.sarneptows. RruarAttes, /.11..t.ra 11..a r ••..• Br , olArog. •ut t h 7 on:, TII I Vi %P. KU.. • • ill • r. and • • r•• s • •. ••t• 11=N111! a •• !nett ..tin-r m.. ua ID /•••,, tutint, are ruatior e.l ot 11.11.11,, ■tru,tur. el every "I* alliteteit Vor'LLI,T• i peculiarly valn.hl • I al, . • lAI • irro•S I. • 1f ir,••••1, dera,..* tt •••••• .invarlaas • •// LItA, '1,14. A •1. • • . 111 oNi I. 11 • • molt ACTOrt OCT-I.lookt 1.• ' ar•-0.06.0 &I. 114. r F., a fr., days With at •. 11...nrafa the • dorthallay o f the ~zr, all) 11111/Oil-Ile '5l rsr. pan and .r aht h are a nord by a ru•r,. Pr ,, pr.ter, Itiwbv.ter, N 1 2.5 ernta per Loa }or •alo • roal,r Ak, s t Lidld•rtn. jlily .1 - rLit„ VA.LPEAU'S L The. iirrat....t ',err of the Agr ' - almost inatuntaneoua cure of canker in th,.1....11. or stornarb, resulting h,.13/ ..rariattna or Tnablu er • or any other mum : sore nippier., ulcerated gonna t . lore. of all kind., Impure breath. ac It a the beet purill•r for the hreath ~f offered to the public To whiten and pre eeeee the teeth, apply with • bruhr, It .111 iustlut.t rem.,e a, tartar to, other torelirn BuL , st.heept, sod :ear.. the teeth a white and clear as pear" It is cot:lt-el, try.. Ir..ru a.I poo.ouous aubetanew, an I ra_ be riven to an infant with perfect %fey It i. a vall.ahle article for every . family to Ls% s ,n 'L.- houae, s. it Iv rriaore into row cute awl burns guizk.: than anything knoau ,4 • .111 warrant it t. one s.c„. faction in every ca, Price 'l:i Lents par bott,e J kI 111{11.1. . ...two, 110.: Napa greet, York. al ill.: in Erie, c I 1\ n. R ea d f4,., 0 5a • Carter rt Bro , Park IiarBILMKILL'S TC/IMI kill LINIMENT iThe recipe f .r tusking this celebrated Llntmeh ..ontattued t,.• a esntleman while visiting- the Turkish 'I Erni lrY e: , ' w .errs ..n •• While there he witnessed Its use up,” , ..., A^ ' s , remarkable were the turn. h• e 4111 1 .11.1..... Ip it t'hlt" . toe recipe ir making it for Ls, ow Ii oar, if 4shrug more After returning to the coon 5.1 , , Le mule some, and toed It in several rases of SSVIIII lI,S, the , imatisru bruises, etc, and found it to cure more speedily t kV" any article ever aiscosered. Becoming n 41.1altalt.: with the gentleman, 1 purchased the recipe, ass. hay• mails and used it with great success. and found oa. ha .f hal never been told of Itsar intrihmc value. lor Rh*. tnatism, Sprsiiiii. hL,it,.ains, Patna in the Hack or Chest, Crawl" '`wY''^ ,l T0r..., , . Throat, Neuralgia, Tosll, eche, ur • wellings of ever) bind—i: Is warranted to Syre ler florin • Sprat uell, t. baled, ti ind-galled, L racked Heels, etc ,it is the moot valuable medicine to rogue. The pro pnetur, It...ring fui I cell its merits., will authorise ereie agent to refund the money where perfect satisfaction , o not green A ler:, number of certificates could be given if neeeseary, but one trial will &stuff the Most skoptlimi It is perfectly sate to tate inwardiy in cue of lolly ~r Cramp The Liniment is for sale by all Druggist... .1 HURitil.l. k CO., Propnetots, N. lag Nassau-s:. New N mt. ...old in Kne, by 1.. I. Baldwin, No 5, Kee.: fifIUMN VII l'atter ,S Hr. , , ?ark Kole apnl2*--1: 70-!aleo adrertionneuts. NEW GOODS! it 4. J. ii iiAl.l. 1 , now reeeting di sect from Neer York her Stuck of Fall and *Mt.. %thee.) , and Fury firma, eousist.ing of Uslret, Salk and 'ltems Boweeta of the latest at, le., Shaker Hood., mum, Haas, Rib/pees and Flew, a Caps, Iltud Dread.. and not. at snows deecriptions. jepto r and Shetland Wool. for knitting Gilt Ornaniente, lioop Skirts, atos,le C o ; lan, Banda Yankee Notion., Hosiery and many other thing. too numentro. to mention, vetch will be 1 , 0111 :heap for Cash or made pay rir Particular attention paid to bleaching and pressing Bonnets colored any dottrable color Siti:len; from the Country supplied at Who:ens eta annul! percentuec nitre New lora priors. M S. ff. BALL, Pesch Sr:above tlas Depot, Erie, I A 6 , „.,,w (,ualitv of ITHE l'11)ER VI Ett A Ft, m•y to h•d at the ro•tdowte of th• sortoor. r.o 4 troot, 3 Jmd It ..at of eampakaim, at I.NAA MT 0 ALIA IN. of n.rn•pa.aior low ISsurea for l•ri. T. lit Krf , N °ail% 14-3 t ri , RA V ELI N .1 tineaftsortmoffi at low price*. at the story of 00t.13-1t) lu the m-•rrr 4.1 the Ketate p In the Ovrphatua Court of Autlttu I' Heiden, decd (4, the Courtr r (Erie, No 14, Nat Term, • The uuderucne.l •ppolnted Auditor to mato diatribe tion m..ney rema•iling in the hand• of the etaIIILIAO LAW'', II •Iteml to the dittoes of said ■ppolntmeot.at his omen in Kli*, ou the '-'l'th day ..r I of at the hour ~! P. 11 J Ku.. Tllolll‘. Auditor CLOAKS & MANTILLAS. HAYE>i A: .11 IRIIIN trill open this day Tie Imiteet Pena Norrituts to Neck sod Preto Cloth amt Reamer, Shaw lett., Mumma, Areha„ Japer r, he , one third cheaper thio moats, prier., Printed French Merinos. SMALL Ftul H.ES Huth colors, just tiosa, 3 Cart•tp., ("stop, •t - - Winter Gloves and Hosiery. LADIES Cloth Silk and Liftle, aud I.l.q q q. Lind Woven, fine mirth mot. upPitiug. Also Laillea, Nimes atilt Chili no, loud Merlon Hoes, of every quality, eh*, * the HK V itTt/Ht. • SHAWLS. LADIES hind HISSES Long and :Seism Fine ell Wool 'thawls In entirely nee efeeete, .. 1, open tiu dey ea Gee Cheap Dry Goods Hones of 0rt.13-19 HAM t JORDA2.; i• 7•4 ir,f; 41 0. , .:471 h haw. ll= CARTtR d Blto II tVES k JrIRDAN'4