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WHIG NOMINATIONS.
FOR PRESIDENT,
General Z A CHARY TAYLOR,
OF LOUISIANA.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
Hon. ITIILXARD FILLITIORE,
OF NEW YORK.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
NER niDDLESWARTH,
OE UNION COTNTY.
SENATORIAL ELECTORS.
Thomas VI. T. M'Kennan, of Washington,
John P. Sanderson, of Lebanon.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
1 Joseph G. Glarkson,
13 Henry Johnson,
14 William Colder, Sr.
15 (not filled)
16 Charles W. Fisher,
17 Andrew G. Curtin,
18 Thos. R. Davidson,
19 Joseph Markle,
p2 John P. Wetherill,
"3 James M. Davis,
4 Thos. W. Duffieid,
5 Daniel 0. llmter,
6 Joshua Duncan,
7 John D. Steele,
S John Landi,
9 Joseph K. Sinucker
10 Charles Snyder
1 1 William G. Hurley
12 Francis Tyler,
20 Daniel Agnew,
11 Andrew W Loomis,
22 Richard Irvin,
23 Thomas H. Sill,
24 Saml. A. Purviance
The Elections.
The Whig candidate for Governor in Notth Car
olina is elected by a majority of about 500. This
is certain. The Whigs have a majority, also, in
the Legislature of two on joint ballot, which se
cures the U. S. Senator to be elected. In Mis
souri, as usual, the Locofocos have elected their
candidates by large majorities. The Congression
al delegation of Illinois remains the same as last
year. In Indiana, the Locos will have a small
majority in the Legislature. The popular vote
shows a whig gain, and the Indiana State Journal
says there is no doubt the State will go for Taylor
in November. In Iowa the whigs have a majori
ty in the Senate and the locofocos in the House
while the latter have returned the members of Con
gress. Chaules W. Pitman, Esq., of Pottsville, has
been nominated by the Whigs of the 14th Con
gressional District, composed of the Counties of
Schuylkill, Lebanon, and Dauphin, as the candid
ate of the friends of Gen. Taylor, for Congress.
Ner in id dies war 111.
The following extract, taken from the Lewisburg
Chronicle of the 11th inst. an independent paper,
published at Lewisburg, Pa. is worthy of the at
tention of every voter in the State.
" Last Saturday we accepted an invitation to at
tend a meeting, opening the political campaign,
held by the Taylor men of Kelly township in this
county, when we first had the pleasure of hearing
a speech from Mr Middleswarth, a nominee for
Canal Commissioner, who entertained an audi
ence of 500 with remarks which in matter and
form were worthy of attention. He evinced a
clear-headed, discriminating, practical mind, which
concentrates all its energies upon any given point,
and the conclusion when arrived at is strong as
adamant. His acquaintance with all matters of
public concern which have fallen under his ob
servation, is unexcelled. Born without even the
common advantages of our age and country, he
has coped manfully with poverty, with ignorance,
and with the hindrance of a language not adapted
to public life, until he has become independent,
highly intelligent, and as a presiding officer at any
civil organization perhaps unequalled in dignity
and just appreciation and execution of his duties.
Aside fiom political bias, we doubt whether any
man in the State would be a more competent oi
acceptable member of the Canal Board. His in
timate knowledge of all State affairs, and his keen
eyed vigilance and admitted integrity, render him
eminenrly fit for that important trust. We may
perhaps mention in this connection, that the lace
Gov. Shunk expressed his regret that Mr. M.'s
Senatorial career terminated last winter, as, in the
event of his disability he (Gov. Shunk) knew of
no man of the Whig party who he would rather
see Governor pro tern, than Ner Middleswarth, in
whom he had great confidence as an honest and
competent man. A compliment from such a source
is valuable to any one. Mr. JVI. must be 60 years
of age, (having been a Captain in the war of 1812,
but he seems as hale and hearty as many men at
40, ard looks little older than when we first saw
him ten, years ago.
JQ3 The Governor has inburd write lo the
Sheriffs of the several counties of Pennylva
jyVjantering an election for .Governor on4li
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second Tuesday in October next. -
Great IQTass meeting'.
ine iate oentrat uommittee have called a
Mass Convention of the friends of Gen. Taylor, at
Harrisburg, on Thursday next, tho 31st ist. Some
of the ablest speakers and statesmen of the coun
try will be present. The Convention to nominate
a candidate for Governor will also assemble on
that day.
Appointment by the Attorney J
General.
HENRY D. MAXWELL. Esqrf been ap
nointed Deuutv AttornevG($?al for NorthamD
ton countVjirybfSceof Washington M'Cart-
ney, .esq.
There was i spirited Mass Meeting of the friends
of Taylor and Fillmore in Philadelphia on Tues
day evening of last week. Charles Gibbons pre
sided and spoke ably ; so did Hon.Mames Pollock,
Hon. John Strohm, Robert T. Gonrad and Joseph
R. Chandler.
Pennsylvania.
The Delegates from Pensylvania to the Buffalo
Convention held a meeting at Buffalo on the 10th
and resolved to call a Free Soil State Convention,
to assemble at Reading, Berks Co. on the 13th inst.
and nominate an Electoral Ticket in favor of Van
Buren, Adams and the Buffalo Platform. Joseph
Neide of Montgomery was Chairman and Dr E.
D. Gazzam of Pittsburg was Secretary of the
meeting.
The eccentric and warm-hearted editor of the
" Jonesborough) Tenn.) Whig" was so grieved at
the defeat of Mr. Clay in the Philadelphia Con
vention that he refused to run up the names of
Taylor and Fillmore. Time, however, has mol
lified the old gentleman's resentments, and he now
urges all good Whigs to vote the ticket. We quote
below the conclusion of two long articles on the
Presidency, published in his paper of August 2,
and both signed with his own name, as follows :
" All good Whigs who intend to vote in this e-
lection ought to vote for Taylor and Fillmore. If
the ticket is elected, as it certainly will be, the in
fluential Whigs of the Union may influence the
measures of Taylor ; and, if so, we shall have
a sound administration. If Providence should call
Taylor away, we shall have a sound Whig Presi
and an able statesman in the person of Millard
Fillmore. Should Cass and Butler be elected, we
can hope for nothing good for four years to come.
Then let all good Whigs vote for Taylor at a ven
ture and, when four years shall have rolled round
let them again put on the harness and wheel into
line in support of their principles.
W- G. BROWNLOW.
" Editor of the Jonesboro? Whig'"
" You can say to your friends that Tennessee
will go for Taylor and Fillmore by a majority of
five or ten thousand votes ; that this district, here
tofore Democratic, will give them a majority ; and
last, though not least, that this county, always
Democratic will go for Taylor and Fillmore.
" Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
" " W. G. BROWNLOW."
"Hauling down the Flag."
The " Telegraph," published in Louisville, Mis
sissippi, contains the following announcement :
" We have hauled down the names of Cass and
Butler, and placed in their stead those of the
People's choice, Taylor and Fillmore. Of Gen.
Taylor it is almost superfluous to speak. His
image is enshrined in the hearts of the people.
He is emphatically the man for the peo
ple, and there will be such a rush of the masses in
November next, from hill and dale, hamlet, village,
and city, to elevate him to the Presidency, as has
never before been seen. The fabric
reared by Democracy is tottering to its base. Its
fall is inevitable the party know and feel it. The
political bull has been issued from the Presiden
tial Vatican, and the office-holders and office-seekers
are enthusiastically obeying its mandates; and
their veiy existence depends upon their success ;
but, alas ! they are destined to an overwhelming
defeat."
The Louisville Journal is responsible for the
following hit at the different " Lives" ofthe Dem
ocratic candidate for the Presidency :
" One ofthe Boston transcendentalists says that
too much life is death.' If that's the case, we
apprehend that Cass's seven lives will be the death
of him."
Loco Bolting in Ohio.
The Hon. Jacob Brinkerhoff, of Ohio, and one
ofthe best stump speakers in the Buckeye State,
has bolted the Cass ticket, and taken the stump in
opposition. He was for several years a member
of Congress from Ohio, and knows Cass too well
to vote for him.
Another Omen.
Our worthy townsman Mr. Peter Archdeacon,
in order to please both parties, last Thursday pre
pared two balloons one called Taylor, the other
Cass to be sent up from Forest Garden. The
balloons were hoth cut loose and the Taylor one
darted up steadily and swiftly ; but the Cass one,
" owing to the noise and confusion" in the audi
ence, or to some other cause, was " no go." It
turned naturally to the South, and, after making
few gyrations through the air. was " used up"
as effectually as " The Hero of Hull's surrender"
will be in November. Where's Amos Kendall !
Paterson Intelligencer.
Probably there are no two words which more
distinctly point oul cauge and. consequence than'
Ihese gin and .bitters. ' . . , -
'Adjournment of Congress.
The New York Tribune, in speaking ofthe ad
journment of Congress, which took place on Mon
day the 14th inst., says :
This Day will be a joyful witness of the close
ofthe First Session of the XXXth Congress, af
ter a duration of considerably over eight months
During that protracted term it has seen the end of
-the Mexican War and passed the essential Appro
priation Bills, with a great many unessential Ex
tra Allowances appended to 'them. Three months
extra pay to the Army ; $250 extra compensation
each to the regiment of overpaid servants of the
two Houses; $12,000 for reporting Debates of
the Senate to the dissatisfaction of that august
body and $2,500 for leave not to do so any more;
increase of pay to various Judges and other func
tionaries, but never a cent of reduction on any
pretext whatever j $600 worth of books each to
the new members and a lot to the old (this book
item has got to be ' regular ;') and all manner of
payments, allowances and gratuities to everybody
except the People who must pay for all such is
the substance ofthe doings of this Congress.
The work which should have been done yet
was left undone demands a far more voluminous
recital. Nothing has been done toward admitting
and confirming the right of every landless man to
his needful portion of the unoccupied Public
Lands. The gross blunders and pernicious ine
qualities in details of the Tariff of 1846 (to say
nothing of its radical defects of principle) remain
uncorrected. The excessive Pay and outrageous
Mileage ofthe Members of Congress remain un
retrenched. The unjust and anti-republican Frank
ing Privilege has not been abolished. No bill
(we fear) providing for the prosecution of our
River and Harbor Improvements has been passed,
or, if passed, it has doubtless been pocketed by
the President. In short, very rarely has a long
or short Session done less for the People or more
for the stipendiaries of the Government than this.
The payments of Mexico for her cessions and
Mexican claimants for spoliations' has been se
cured, but the equally righteous claims for French
spoliations forty years ago remain unpaid and un-
thought of
But if no great amount of positive good has been
effected, much serious evil has been resisted and
prevented. The Army has been cut down to
something like the old Peace Establishment,
though it remains much larger than it should be,
especially in officers. The desperate efforts to'pro
cure a legalization of Human Slavery in so much
of the New Territories as lie South of lat. 36 30'
have been defeated. We hope some sort of a
Postage Reduction bill has been passed, though
nothing effectual can be done in that respect until
the Franking Privilege shall be given up. Wis
consin has been welcomed into the Union. The
protection of Oregon has been looked to, though
her prayer for a government has been drowned by
the fierce clamor of the Slavery Extensionisls for
the concession of their demand. We shall be
glad to hear that arrangements have been made to
extinguish on fair terms the British possessory
rights in Oregon and especially to the free navi
gation of the Columbia, but we presume this has
been overlaid in the general scramble at the close
of a session.
We speak unflatteringly of this Congress, for
we think many of its Members have paid too little
attention to their own proper business, and too
much lo that of their constituents namely, the
choice of a President, Yet we know that many
of the Members have labored zealously, steadily,
faithfully in the strict line of duty deserving prais
es which they have neither obtained nor sought.
The People, we trust, fully understand that it is
not by the habitual speech-makers that the busi
ness of Congress is transacted on the contrary,
these are obstacles, impediments and dead-weights
on the progress of legislation. It is quite another
class who patiently labor in committees, in the
examination of official documents, the maturing of
bills, &c. &c. and who often enjoy the greatest
influence in the capitol while their names hardly
appear in the daily proceedings. Several such
are present to our mind at this moment, yet we will
name but one who has labored with pre-eminent
assiduity and efficiency through the present Ses
sion, and who has doubtless saved the country
many thousands by his vigilant scrutiny of ap
propriations demanded, while never forgetting the
claims of an enlightened liberality. We allude
of course to Samuel F. Vinton of Ohio, Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means. He
has declined a re-election and will retire from pub
lic life at the close of this Congress, but his pro
tracted and useful public career will not soon be
forgotten.
Signs in IuTisissippi.
The Vicksburg Whig states that the Mississip
pi Telegraph, published in Winston county, and
hitherto a Cass paper, has hauled down its old col
ors and raised the banner of Taylor and Fillmore.
The Vicksburg Whig says that this is the third
change in the Mississippi press which it has re
corded since the nomination of Gen. Taylor, all
of them favorable to the old hero, whose generous
bearing to her sons, when placed under his com
mand in a foreign country, will never be forgot
ten or neglected by that proud and chivalrous
State.
The Red River Republican, heretofore the lead
ing Locofoco organ in the parish of Rapides, and
in the northwestern part of Louisiana, has struck
the flag of Cass and Butler, and has come out for
"Taylor and Fillmore." This change, it is
stated, will have a powerful effect upon public
sentiment in. the Red River parisljes'j
IMPORTANT-NEWS FROM IRELAND-
The English General ftlacdeualcl
Killed.
Slaughter of 6,000 English Troops.
The JNTew York Tribune of Monday last gives
the following Intelligence of a great battle fought
in the mountain of Slievenamon, in Tipperary.
The insurgent troops were upwards of 5,000 strong
and commanded by Smith O'Brien. The corres
pondent of the Tribune, gives the following ac
count ofthe great victory which the Irish People
have gained.
11 Gen. Macdonald, the commander ofthe Brit
ish forces, is killed, and six thousand troops are
killed and wounded. The road for three miles is
covered with the dead. YVe have also the inspir
ing intelligence that Kilkenny and Limerick have
been taken by the people. The people of Dublin
have gone in Thousands to assist in the county.
Mr. John B. Dillon was wounded in both legs.
Mr. Meagher was also wounded in both arms. It
is generally expected that Dublin will rise and at
tack the Jails on Sunday night, (Aug 6.)
We are informed that the 3d Buffs (a regiment
of Infantry) turned and fought for the people. The
31st Regiment, at Athlone, have been sent to dis
arm them.
The mountain of Slievenamon is almost inac
cessible. There is but one approach to it. It is
said to be well supplied with provisions. It was
a glorious place for our noble Smith O'Brien to
select. It is said he has sixty thousand men a
round him, with a considerable supply of arms,
ammunition and cannon. In '98 the rebels could
not be taken from Slievenamon until they chose
to come out themselves.
A lady who came to town yesterday and who
had passed the scene of battle, said that for three
miles the stench arising from the dead men and
horses was almost suffocating.
The Great Fire in Albany.
Most of the business portion of the City in ruins
Hundreds of Buildings and Millions of Proper
ty destroyed.
We copy the following particulars of this disas
trous fire, from the Albany Argus, of Friday last.
Our city is literally desolate. A fire broke
out at about noon yesterday, in a stable in the
rear ofthe Albion Hotel, corner of Broadway
aud Herkimer St., between Broadway and the
river. The wind was a gale from the South,
the heat of the weather and the fire uuense,
and every thing dry and combustible. In an
inconceivably short lime, the fire spread over a
wide surface, prostrating everything before it.
The efforts of the firemen, aided by the Troy,
West Troy, Greenbush, Arsenal, and Schen
edady companies, were directed as well as
they could be under such appalling circum
stances, but they were powerless against such
an amazing force of flame, of raging wind, and
the fierce heal of the wide-spreading and all
consuming element.
The fire was not arrested until five in the af
ternoon ; and only then by a providential change
of wind, which ihrew the current of flame back
upon its vast track of devastation, followed by
a heavy aud drenching rain. This alone pre
served to the city all the business and com
mercial portion of it that has escaped.
Full four hundred buildings are consumed.
and properly probably not lea than two or three
millions, although no estimate of value is yet
attainable. We hear of two forwarding lines,
that estimate properly under their charge to the
amount of $90,000, all consumed. Another
line suffers to an amount from $60,000 to $80,-
000. The loss of flour afloat and m store is
not less than 10,000 barrels.
The erea of ihe fire embraces many acres,
perhaps fifty or sixty, of the most compact and
valuable part of the city. It includes at least
twenty squares. Amidst the ruins, which eve
rywhere meet the eye, it is difficult to trace the
outlines of the former state of things ; but those
familiar with the city will perceive the extent
ofvthis most calamitus visitation, by a few gen
eralities.
Broadway, from the intersection of Herki
mer, to the south corner of Hudson street, on
the west side, and to Van Schaack's Variety
Store on the east side, nearly half a mile, is,
with all its structures and stores, including the
Eagle Tavern, the Townsend House, and the
United States Hotel, level with the earth.
From Broadway to the river, including the
ranges of lofty stores on Quay street, through
out nearly the entire space above mentioned,
all is a heap of rums.
All the cross streets entering Broadway,
Herkimer, Bleecker, Lydius, Hamilton, Divi
sion and Hudson, west as far as Union and
Dallius streets, are nwept away. Amazing ef-
orts preserved Goold s great carriage and coach
establishment ; every thing on the surrounding
streets hein demolished i
North, the living cinders, with which the air
was filled, caught the Columbia street Market,
and of that large structure nothing remains.
I he adjacent buildings were saved by the
prompt efforts of the two Schenectady fire com
panies.
But the ?cene of ihe most striking arQ abso
lute desolation is the Pier. Scarcely a vestige
of it remains. Throughout ii.s entire length,
from Hamilton street to the cut opposite Bos
ton depot, it is utterly consumed, including the
wharves, ware-houses, nearly all the shipping
in the Basin and outside the Pier, tow boats,
huge floating warehouse arks, with all their val
uable and vast contents of goods and products,
the three bridges at Columbia, State and Ham
ilton htreets, lumber yards, flour stores, in short
every thing that teemed with life and value in
that great mart yesterday morning.
The scene in State streets beggars all de
scription. Thousands, flying from the conflagra
tion, pressed every conceivable vehicle into
!?if SSFYlcOj depositing goods, furniture, fami
lies, children, every thing animate and inani
mate?. Every point in that wide street -at ihe
Exchange, at the City Bank, at the cower of
all the intersecting streets, in front of St. Peter!
Church, all along the Parks, and finally, at rhe
State Hall and City Hall were crowded with
bales, boxes, furniture, goods of every descrip
lion, &c. No point was deemed too remote
from the devouring element. The store. every
where were closed, or were only opened lo the
flying citizens and their effects.
Two buildings were blown up, i the hope
of arresting the progress of the firtr. One be
longing to Mr. J. I. Boyd in Broadway,, and the
other to Mr. John Knower, corner of Hurdsun
and Liberty streets ; with little effect.
All the insurance companies suffer largely if
not ruinously.
Among the shipping destroyed, was ihft
schooner Cotuit, of Boston, arrived yesterday?
morning, and the schooner Eliza Matilda, ate
of Boston, seriously damaged. Some twenty
vessel, below the Basin, were hastly drawn
out in ihe river and preserved. The Isaac Nevr
tou and Rip Van Winkle steamers were also
rescued, with much difficulty.
The roofs every where througout the city
were thronged with occupants, anxiously guar
dins their property from the falling cinders.
it in to be feared that several lives were lost
certainly several persons were severely injured
or burned ; but we have no positive information.
Colonel Wynkoop.
"Another Richmond in the field !"
We perceive by the Locofoco papers, that
Col. Wynkoop has mounted the slump, in be
half of that party. In a speech teceu'Iy deliv
ered in Bucks county, and which is reported
verbatim in a Philadelphia journal, he Mate
that when he left home for Mexico he was a
Whig. ' went out a Whig," say h, "with
a musket on my shoulder and a knapsack on my
back."
It is a pity to destroy the "pretty thing" the
Colonel is manufacturing for his ernpluyers ;
nevertheless the truth must be known. We
reiterate, therefore, what we have before ta
ted, viz. that when Colonel W. left (hi Bor
ough for the seal of war, he was a political Na
tive American ; that for some time previously
he had published and edited the Anthracite
Gazette of this Borough a Native Ameriaan
paper then, and a Locofoco concern now; that
he was the Native American candidate for
Congress in 1846, and canvassed the whole
district thoroughly. In this County, where he
resided, he received 9a vote, while ihe aver
age number of voles polled by the other candid
ates of that party was 136 thus evincing the ex
traordinary "popularity" of the individual where
he is known ! During this campaign, when
the most important considerations were iuol
ved, he denounced and abused the Whig in
the most furious terms, and it is positively as
sorted that he received "aid" from certain Lo
cofocos interested, to defeat the Whigs.
That he was a Native American while in
Mexico is substantiated bv his own candid ac
knowledgement to Captain Binder of Philadel
phia. At a supper recently given in Philadel
phia, in honor of Capt. Binder, that gentleman
arose, and said, as reported in the Ledger :
"In regard to Col. Wynkoop he entertained
for him very different feelings now, than he did.
npon the departure of ihe troops for Mexico.
He looked upon him at that time as an intol
erant Native, but his sentiments were changed,
when, at the Castle of Perote, Col. W. re
marked to him, that he could no longer be a
political Native, when he saw the devoted pa
triotism and heroic daring1 of the German sol
dier." When Capt. Binder had concluded, CoL
Wynkoop arose, and in the course of his re
marks said :
"That he endorsed the statemen of Capt. B.
as to his remark at Perote, which was the re
sult of a well founded conviction of its truth
He acknwlodged that he had been a Native,
but had seen his error, and would endeavor to
atone for the unconscious injustice that he had'
done a portion of his fellow citizens. In conclu
sion he addressed the members of 'Company
E. extending to each and every man a cordial
invitation lo visit him at his home, where theyr
would find the door ever open to receive them,,
a bed provided for their comfort, and a plate
awaiting them at his board."
Now, it is not worth wile to be wasting pa
per and ink upon this matter ; for here at
home, where Col. W. is known, no one care,
a straw what his politcal professions may be
they have heretofore rested upo one comrrjoit
basis and object, no matter whether Onlertainedl
under the Whig, the Native American ar tho
Locofoco organization. That basis was c$ce
and he has liule lo loose so that the vision, of
his day-dreams ray be realized.
We have Nothing to urge against Col. W,
as a mili'.ary-man. ve regret the necessity
which compels us thus to refer to his political
movements. But large aa are his claims to
t military renown, they will loose their lustre
when borne thus disrepuiably into the political
arena. Miners' Journal.
Gen. Coombs addressed an overflowing meet
ting in the Lower Market House, in OinciMa
on Saturday night, with marked effecU Yh
Gazette says :
"Gen. Combs, since the nomiftalKwi of Tay
lor and Fillmore, has addressed the people in,
eleven States and he assured us. thai the Bull
was rolling on with resistless, fatce wherever
he had been. He had been, in, fcltf- New $ng
land States, New York and Pennsyfcani)a,.si)d
every where iho cause of 'Old Zac'k' is sues of
winning."
Mr. Wilson, an honest Democrat from Indi
ana, took ths stand in favor of Taylor, wh.99.
Gen. C. retired,