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CARLISLE, PA`
WEDNESDAY, odcOBER, 054.
IHE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST)V - WSPAPER
' *: ~:IN cipintar.ANO cutlN : ir
Terms:—Two Dolkes'a year,
_or. One..D liar and
IVIy 'Cents, if paid putettiallif :Adaanee.
i 1 ?5 .f ponfwithim the year.
THE OCTOBER ELECTIONS:
Inpertapt elections took place' on the
lOth of October, the issue of:which will
be likely to leaVe a lasting, impress Upon
the politics 'of the country. 'l . he impor
tant States of 011ie, Pennsylvania and In
diana, elect their• State officers - and•fifty
seven Members of the Booze of Ilepre
gentatives. .In the present Congress these
States arc represented by eventeen- whi ff s,
two Free Sellers and thirty-eight Loco
Feces. Several of the latter have, how
ever, separated from their old party asso
ciations and are now the candidates of
the,oppositien uf_ the_preserit--administra-,--
tion. Twenty-one of the thirty-eight vo
ted for the infamous Nebraska bill, of
whom but a small portion are Candidates
fur re-election, with the exception of those
from Indiana, all of whom have present
edthemselves to receive the verdict of
popullr condonthation.whieb surely awaits
them. Besides this the legislatures of
Indianmand Pennsylvania will have each
-,a United States,Senater to elect, one in
the place of Petit, Nebraska Loco Foeo,
the other in place of Cooper, Whig. It
is some time since any elections have ta,
km place in either, (,)f these States that
have excited so general an interest. The
repeal of the .Missouri Compact has ex
cited the deepest feeling of indignation
among the people against its :litters and
abettors, and the contest, for the most
part, turns upon this issue alone.'
In the present Congress from Ohio,
there are two Free Soilers, seven Whigs
and twelve Loco Focos. Pour of the lat.:
ter voted for the Nebraska bill, 'Of whoni
only one has been nominated for re-elec
tion. In one or two districts Democrats
who voted against the bill, and have been
discarded by their party, haVe been nomi
nated by the , Anti-Nebraska Union.—
Throughout the State. the most complete
anion has been perfected between the
Whigs, Free Soilers and" Anti-Nebraska
Democrats, and the Prospect is that they
will sweep nearly every district. in the
State
Indiana elects eleven members of Con
gress, ten of : whom in the present are
Democrats. One- of these, Mr. Mace,
voted against the Nebraska bill,- and has
'netepted an anti-Administration nomina
tion. • Chamberlain, another, also voted
,a Ni bill, but has been re-nominat
ed by his party. ;In thii'State, also, there
is a coMplete union of tho - Aopponents of
the adrninistration,lvith . .eviy prOspeet
- of sweeping the State.'
By next week we - Shall know Witlfsonie
aceuraey the results :.in these three great
States.
THE LAST CARD
One of the last cards of the locos before
,;the election was the issue of a
,flaming hand
bill frorrethe Platform office at Harrisburg,
purporting to be a report of the proceedings
of nitnow Ninhing council, held. in Phila
delphia on Tel evening last. Our le
,
eofoco friends caught them np eagerly, and
for a brief period felt their hopes revived.- -
, All intelligent persons, however, felt, upon
•. reading the statement, that it' was — a tissue of
falsehoods, and that it bore its ownicomplete
refutation upon its titce. These It:fret/1:16
,•'Nyere .senttered broade,,ast through Cumber
,llrlntl'.eounty, but, as the result proves, could
not save the sinking 'cause of Bigler. The
Know Nothings; instead of %being .demolish
ed,...were evidenelj , viand yesterday.
Schaythill krie counties are the
only I)laces where Bigler holds hhi„own; or
raplce.gains. They cant save his bacon.
Donaldson and Criswell,' ‘vhigs, elected to .
Legislature by large majorities,
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GREAT AND GLORIOUS ' VICTORY.
Mil
Grand Trim=Pix of W hig, American and
Anti:Nebraska Principles!
20,000 Majority for Pollock !
The returns we have received by tele
graph.Of yesterday's contest., show a grand
and glorious triumph of Whig and Ameri
can principles ! The People have spoken,
and Pierre, Bigler& Co. are utterly over:
thrown ! •
In Cumberland:county the triumph of
if Pollock, Todd and the greater part of the
Whig County ticket is complete. Pol
lock will ca.tl'ry Cumberland county by a
Majority of oot less than 500, Todd by,
1000 and the •Whig Legislative calla- I
'.later by majorities equally gratifying.—
in the Carlisle distrect which three years
ago gave Bigler 121 niajoritk, Pollock has
now 125! The revolution Of opinion in
Ne‘Vville, Dickinson and other townships
• is of an equally astonishing and sweeping
cha - racter -1- o . f - the - candidat es for county
offices we cannot speak definitely, but few
returns having: Yet, -been received. We
fear however that our Candidates for coo
ty offices are defeated.
The fullowiug majorities are reported by
telegraph from other counties:
POLLOCK MAJORITIES:
Philadelphia,
A lleghany,
Franklin,
Lancaster,
Juniata,
Clinton,
Blair,
Union;
',yenning.,
Centre,
Dauphin, '• -
BIGLER MAJORITIES
Berk,
Greene,
Carbon,
WAtyne,
Montour,
York,
The returns indicate Pollock's election by
From TEN to TWENTV7THOUAND MA
fORITY
GLORIOUS FRODI OHIO!
Great Arai:l-Nebraska Victory:
The first returns by telegraph from' Ohio
show a mighty revolution. The A nti-Nebras•
ka majority in the State it is supposed will
reach FIFTY THOUSAND I To Congress
in the first district, Day, Anti-Nebraska, is
elected. 'ln the second, Harrson, Whig. In
the third, Lewis D. Campbell, Whlg, has
2500 majority. In 'the Bth, Stanton, Whig
and Anti-Nebraska has 5000 majority. In
the 12th di,;tiet; Galloway, Whig,' 'elected
over Dr. Olds, by 1500 majority. ' In the
21 s( district., Bingham, independent, elected.
A THOUSAND CHEERS FOR THE
:EYE STATE!
Indiana Opening Rights
A despatch from Madison, Indiana, reports
the success of the People's Anti-Nebraska
ticket, by a majority of not less than 700.
TIIE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Large Idajoreilica for TODD in Cm/ober
! land and Perry.
So far as lieard from, Todd has majorities
in Cumberland county as • follows!: In the
Carlisle district, 2604'in ShipHnsburg 112; ,
in-Newville 60; in A.)ickinsan 221 in Up
per Allen Pi; iii..MechatiieshurgAl_aind - in-
MOuroe 68. Several other strong Whig dis
tricts not yefbeard .from will give him prob
ably at least 100. These majorities will count
up nearly 1200. Mr. 'Bonham bus a major
ity of 160, in Silver Spring, and may liavC'
small 'majorities in Hopewell and . Leesburg.
Todd's majority in the county thereliimwill,
not be lesS than 10001
From York we learn that Todd haS, so far,
as beard from, made handsome reductions
on Bigler's • majority of 1851, which was
11000. • 13onliam's friends 'report this iniirn,
ing that•his majority in York will be about
700, but. this is for the most part an estimat-
•
ed majority.
ilgat;Liater" returns from York assure
that Todd's chance of carrying York count•
is better than,Bonham's!- if the- latter has
any majority it will be very small.
Tile Dull FROM PERR Yi
. .
A de patch this morning from Perry•coun
ty reports Todsl's majority at 8,291 That's .
" popular sovercignty" foryou. A thousand
reheers for gallant Perry!
IION• Jolll'4 . .11)[ .! ' klii,lolN ' A
IN D A 111 EU".
Some time since n letter was addressed
to Senatoi• CLAYTON, of Delaware, on he
half of seine. gentlemen of Philadelphia,
who are "deeply impressed with the
portance of having all the daces under
the General and State Government JUIN]
with able anal intelligent men free from
the prejudice and igporance of our insti
tutions,. Which foreign birth, education,
and influence is so apt to produce."—
These gentlemen feeling a high respect
for Mr. CLAYTON'S perBonal character,
and admiring the ability displayed by him
in conducting the affairs
. of the nation,
whilst filing a station but little inferior
in'responsibility to that of the President
of the United l Statcs himself,' are encour
a!,•ed to hope, from, some of his late
speeches and votes, in the Senate of the
United States, that he 'coincided w
them in sentiment, and would endeavor
to carry out their views by consenting to
be their candidate for the highest office
within their gift, requesting him to state
whether, if elected, he would pledge him
self to exclude from all civil offices per
sons who do not possess therequisitecon
stitutional qualificatiOns for tillitm.; the of-
flees of President and 'Vice President of
the Whited States; except, in .the case of
foreign diplomatic or commercial agencies,
or . other wise, where the services of per
sons possessing the above mentioned qual
ifications; cannot be commanded, without
detriment to the public interest." \ir.
CLAYTON prefixes his reply' by stating
that he never will be a candidate for the
Presidency, and answers the questions
propounded in the following letter :
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 1854.
D. RODENT liixn, liSq.--31y Dear
Sir—Protracted and severe sickness„si nee
the receipt of your letter of the 3d ult.,
has prevented me from keeping up my
correspondence. --But for this, your letter
would have received an immediate an
swer. Let me begin then by replying to
your principle question. I respond
. to
that,by_declaring. frankly, -that I - - never
was, am not now, and
-,.never shall be, a
candidate for the Presidency. .. I have
seen enough of it to form a decided opin
ion, that for me, there is no position in
this egantry less desirable. I shall be
content with the seat in the Senate of the
United States, which the kind partiality
of friends, in my native State has assign
ed to me. Indeed,- I would not exchange
it for any tinder the government.
The year 18513 must decide a momen
tous issue in this coutry. Are the Ameri
can people prepared to share with aliens
the right of governing thisnation;nt the
ballot-box, as soon as these aliens can
make a declaration of intention ? They
may, and often de, nake such a leclara
tion' within a week, even a dayolfter
landing ; on our? soil.. the
American people.prePitied' tn-shar4iWith
aliens; every, blessing and -benefit confer-.
red upon them - eta American - citizens,- and
even to give them a share of the public
domain? By the Nebraska bill, (.7ongress.
has conferred upon them the right of vo
ting, and by the homestead bill, which is
still pending, and to be decided upon next
winter, they are , to'have nqunlAnirst,
of the public doinain, on the • Same' term's
with, native and naturalized citizens.—
Again, ib'e:Ame,rictut people must decide
whet,heri, Other circumstances being equal,
the native citizen is or is tiot
titlecnna'preforenee in the distribution
of honors and offices in the country which
gave them birth
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The state of 'my health will not permit
me to discuss these questions in a letter.
- Our Jaws are unquestiona-'
bly defective, or-ont alms-houses, would
not now be filled with paupers.,- Of the
134,000 paupers' in the United States,
68,000 arc foreigners and 66,000 native's.
The Annals of crime hav_e swelled as the
jails of Europe have poured their con :
mitts into the countly,.and the felon. cpiii
yict, reeking froM a. murder in Eurepb.,
or who has had the fortune to escape pun . -
ishinent for any other crime .abroad easi
ly gains naturalization here, by spending
a part of. five years"-withini the ;limits of
the .United,States i Our country has
be
conic.a Botany- Bay,linte- which" Europe
annually discharges heircrimihals of every
escription.
. I haVe no.prejadices, agairist the hon
est foreigners who come hero to seek an
asylum from the tyranny of rulers abroad.
All my sympathies are with them, and
when they become naturalized I will
fend them, as American . citizens, in all
their righp, as fully as those born on-the
.
,
(e n.
soil. I. would. i culcato andpractice i'%a
ligions toleia ' e ni,-'in .its:broadest sense,
but I w(iiil see to it that•no man of any
't~tll'i~3~C` f~:ttl~tl.
C,»ls) .
sect, whei;C creed teaches them to deny
religinusleleration to me -and-my coun
hymen, should ever hold office here, 01
power of any kind to persecute us for out
°religions opinions. No 1111111 who fte
kilo*tigTs Allem - jut/cc b) fitly foreign po
tentate or power,. or who holds himsel
under obligations to obey-Ihe edicts of
any such potentate or ptriver, shall be by
thy vote placed in any post or office un
der the American government. I would
defend the rights of,-men of - all religions
to the full extent to which those rights
are .guaranteed by the American Consti
tution. But while I would advise every
American citizen to defend the religious
rights of all others, even at the hazard of
his life, I would at the same time advise
him to peril his life not less freely in de
fence of his. own.
I do not undertake to enter into the
subject how far foreigners, who are not
naturalized in this country, should he per
' wiled to hold office. You will find that.
you can lay down no general rule upon
this subject, to which there: will not ne
cessarily be exceptions. •It is sufficient
for
. Iny puipose, standing, as I do, with
out the, powex t ,..to;confer offices upon oth
ers, to sayit - hafin my judgment, a native
American Citizen, under equal circum
stances of qualifications and merit, is
better entitled to - the honors and (Zees of
the country than aforcigner, whether na
turalized or not
Aml now, seeking no office from you_or
vonr friends or nny body else, I have the
honor to subserilie myself,
Very sincerely and respectfully, .
Your. friend,
JOHN CLAYTON.
D. Rodney King, Esq., Pliilad'e.
GEN. CASS'S POSITION.
A democratic war of some interest has
just sprung. up. General Cass, in a re
cent speech at a political meeting in Mi
chigan, took occasion to repeat sentiments
similar to those long ago made by
disclaiming . all sympathy With slavery,
and hoping for its extirpation. This ex
cited the ire of the Richmond Enquirer,
which in a leading article of considerable
length and bitterness - denounced the old
Democratic chieftain, and in good set
onus proceeded to read him out of the
affections of the Seuth, and class him
with M. Van Buren. To.this the Detroit
Free Press, which is understood to be the
org,an of Cass, replies with far wise bit
terness, saying that the Enquirer requires
at the hands of statesmen, divines and
the press an endorsement of the right
eousnesS and usefulness of slavery, on
pain of its i vehemert wrath ; that it has
sunk to the lowest estate of journalism ;
and is the, mouth-piece of mono-maniacs
the subject of slavery. The,fopowing
extract is explicit :
"We doubt not that Oen. Cass desires
that. the last cord may be.severed, which
bound him to such fanatical fool 5, such
'unmitigated asses, as the Enquirer rep
resents . .. Indeed;' if. he ever has been
supposed
by any cord to them, he must havo
supposed it long ago sdvered; . for he holds
no sentiment in common Witli them, uny
more than he holds sentinients
com
mon with the abolitionists of the North,
the Garrisons, the Thillipses, &c. lie
looks up(`► the whole 'batch of southern
and northern cracked headsrai better fitt
ed-for lunatic asylums than for any other
theatre in life." .
Tug;. . Ii lIINEK 9 LY ITRUALD.-This is
the title of a, paper just published at the city
• of Levenworth; Kansa:7;llnd is the first news
paper established in'. that territory 4 The
first number' was set up in a cool pleasant
'ollice,viz: under an dm tree in the
,eity of
Leavenworth. In this office, the editor:says,
he wrote his editorials, tnade his'Seleetions,
and - read his proofs — With a big shingle omhis,
knee for a table, The. "'Kansas Herald"
lnVbewever, since been. removed to amore
l'conyenient The 'city of Leavenworth,'
where the Herald is published is about ,a
mile and a half below fort Leavenworth, is
"laid out" . into streets, squares, 4., and is
growing with true western rapidity and thrift'
It is destined to become a large and impor ,
taint plac&of business. it is not far from
the city, ef,Kieka,Poo! The population ()film
city, is stated by thelPiiitel to . be: 99 men
I woman, and fl babies—total 4100. - Of the
99 male population 10.advertine themselves
"attorneys and counsellers.ntdaw." . .
. THE ALLECEDCWIFE MURDER AT CHICAGO—
The eorouer's jray have found a verdict a- ,
going George W. Green, the wealiby;eitizei‘
of Chicago,charged with poisoning his iqfe
with strichnine. The Chicago :journals - think
that from the wealth and positiOn'of the ac
cused, his trial is likely to make a sensation
only less than that of Dr.. Webster's a few
y o. • .
UM—Tyson and Mille•ard are reForted . ..ele:•
cd'to Congress from Plikindeliihin. Charid-
er LoateH
ir, otun nub Couniu Walters.
, .
Si%c:Ob oP PE'RNsirtNASlTA:=The'ail
nual meeting of the Synod of Penimy
of the Pres,byterian Cliurch, (New' School)
will be held in the FttltPresbyterian Church,
in Carlisle, Tuesday' the I.'th of October,
inst. Synod will hold its, - first meeting, on
Tuesday evening, at 7il o'clock, and contin
ue in session several (lave:4
The meeting of this body we understand
will probably bring togetherirom seventy ti
eighty 9 members, elergymun and- laymen.--L
We trust the hospitalities of our town will be
warmly extended to them.
M ECH A N ICSBURO 'A PEA - MS.-WC fire
glad to learn from the Gleurier; that in the
Court of Appeals at Lewisburg, Va. Istr.
John A. Reigle, of Mechanicsburg. has re•
covered about $lO,OOO damages of Fanish
Co. for injuries sustained by the upsetting of
one of their stage Coaches, over a year since
near Wheeling.—_l veey interestimr exhibi
tion of the pupils of the Cumberland Valley
Institute, a flourishing school under the
charge of Rev. Joseph S: Loose, took place
on the 22d ult. The entertainment consis•
ted of vocal •musie,
,cleclamaticm, A:c. and af
forded high pleasure to a large audience.—
The Mechanicsburg, merchants are receiv
ing large-supplies of new Fall-goods-. As
th e ilera/f/ has a large and increasing circa
lation in that section they would subservo
cir owl) ititC!rests advertising in our col
11114
FINE A PPLES.—Our old friend, Wm. Cam
eron, presented us tv - few days sinve «ith Sev
eral magnificent Tnlpehochen Apples, the
largest of which weighed One pound two oilm
' ces. Large as they were, however, ive FA-T
that Our neighbor of the Denweral achnoul,
edges the receipt of EIM end from Mr. Benja
min Puffer of Diainson township, the lar
gest of which weighed one pound.flye ounces!
ken- Grahant'.l lfagazine, for Oetoher,. is
one of the post interesting numbers we
haVe perused. Aline steel engraving, "Tire
Maiden," will be acceptable to the lovers of
the beautiful. Una I) LEV'S Life of Washing
ton-is clontinued, and grows more interesting
—tile present part of it relatileg to the events
of the revolution enacted in ?int' State; Bran
dywine and Germantown, the Paoli tnassa
ere and other scenes of those-trying but glo
rious days are vividly portrayed and the heatt
involuntarily responds to the 'patriotic lan
guage of the ‘Friter. The comicalities in
the latter part of the magazine acre decidedly
the best we have seen fur a long time. CL.Q9
per annum. Sold by Mr. Piper.
Tilt: NArlosAL BABA - Snow.—The much
talhed-of National Baby Shuw took place at
Springfield; Ohio,.on Thursday. One him.
dred and twenty children were entered for
competition. The first premium for Ns
finest bahy of two years old or under, was
tea set with a salver, valued at s3bo; the
second a tea set valued at $200; the third
premium, for the finest child under one year,
200; 4th: premium a Parian marble grouve
The first premium was awarded to Mts.
Rennes, of Vienna, Ohio, the second to Mrs.
INl'Dowel, of Cincinnati ; the third to Jim
Arthur Cannon, 'of PhiladelPhia, and the
fourth to Mrs. 'Henry Howe, 6f Cincinnati.
,A letter was received from Fanny Fern.,
which was read, greatly to the edification of
all concerned: •Letters' were also received
from Mrs. Swishehn, Mrs. Crittenden, Mrs.
Mott, and from brace Greeley. The latter
thought that much attention should be givo
to the deVelopment 'of the human constitut jot
in tv coantry where ablediodied men are sold
for`"l .5 0 Mrs' Mot et/ -
bl ack babies shOradble admitted.
~ ,Amoug the exhibitors there was, an old •
woman, who came with her seventeenth child
and claimed a premium on that ground;'
IMPRISONMENT OF AMERICANS.—We ern
from late Texas papers that several gentle.
•
tmen arrived at San Antonin on the 4th (4 . '
last month, who reported that in the prisOn
)f the city of Durango, they found three A
mericana confined in a stone dungeon of the
:nest filthy description. 7 - Their •fiames are
William Shirely of Broome co., N. Y., and
Wm. Rogers, of Stark co., and,John (intim!,
Dayton, Ohio. They. slated that for over
four years they. had seen no face but that of
.he jailer, mid about half of the time had
beln chained to the floor, in total darknesf•
that they were imprisoned on the charge of
robbery and: Murder, but had never }won
granted a trial; at , although 'they had
repeatedly written to the U. S. Minister at
Niexico, they beli , ' , ve lie had never .reeeivo tf
their 'letters. - ' •
Ater- ;ice telegraphic head,