i.l A i 'WE CO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY J WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW.' JEY lfl. I8SL I. IT V0L1I MIMfilR 33: AIM I i' From the rennsylvanian. Dinna Say Ye Canua. BY J. C. GBIER LM3TEAU. Say is your heart e'er prone to love, And can ye lo'e me, Anna, Ur are ye me sae hie above; Oh! dinna say ye canna. jay ia your heart fa' free as yvt. An' will ye pledge't to me Anna, My troth I niver wad forget; Then dinna say ye cauna. Or think ye that I'd faithless be, An' would na keep my plight, Anna; Wha' heart could e'er be l'a'se to ye? Oh! dinna say ye canna. I ween my heart for lo'e was made, An' ye could ca' it forth, Anna, Tak' pity on a forlairn blade, An' diuna say ye canna. Na ithcr lass I lo'e sae well, To me there's but ane Anna, To her I maun be ivcrleal; Then dinna say ye canna. Locks like night, an' e'en like morn, Bonny more' has Anna, Nature's grace her steps adorn Oh! dinna say ye canna. There's many lads mair braw than I, An' blessed wi' far mair gear, Anna, Cut wha like me for ye wad die? Then dinna say ye canna. Vour'e a' my thoughts on ilka day, An' ilka nicht my dreams, Anna, For lo'e and Heaven's sake, I pray Ye will na say ye canna. MCUUMOIS. PeimN Conference and Treaty witli the Indians. YfcOM DIX02TS .LIFE OF PESN. This conference has become one of the most striking scenes of history. Artists have painted, poets have sung, philosophers have applauded it ; but it is nevertheless clear, that in words ani colors it has been equally and generally misrepresented, because painters, poets, histo rians have chosen to draw on their imaginations for the features of a scene, every marking line of which they might have recovered from au thentic sources. The great outlines of nature are easily obtained. There the dense masses of cedar, pine, and chesnut, stretching far away in the interior of the land ; here the noble river rollinz its waters down to the Atlantic ocean ; along its surface rose the pur ?lo sraoke of the settlers' homestead; on the opposite 6hore lay the fertile and settled coun Ty of East New Jersey. Here stood the gigantic elm which was to become immortal from that day forward and there lay the verdant council formed by nature m the surface of the soil. In the centre stood William Penn, in costume undistinguished from the 6urrounding group, save by the silken sash His costume was simple, but not pedantic or nagainly. An outer coat, reaching to the knees, and covered with buttons ; a vest of other ma terUls, but equally ample ; trousers extremely full, slashed at the sides, and tied with strings or ribbons; a profusion of shirt sleeve and ruffles, with a hat of the cavalier shape (want ing Ay the feather,) from beneath the brim of 1 which escaped the curls of a new peruke were its chief and not ungraceful ingredients. At hi3 right hand was Col. Markham, who had met "the Indians in council more than once on that identical 6pot, and was regarded by them as a firm and faithful friend ; on his left, Pearson, the intrepid companion of his voyage; and near his person, but a little backward, a band of his most attached adherents. When the Indians approached in their old fvrest costume, their bright feathers sparkling in the sun, and their bodies painted in the most gorgeous manner, the governor received them with the easy dignity accustomed to mix with European courts. As soon as the reception was over, the sachems retired to a short distance, a& after a brief consultation amonor them selves, Taminent, the chief sachem or king, a man whose virtues are still remembered by the sons of the forest, advanced again a few paces, Md put upon his own head a chaplet, into hich was twisted a small horn. This chaplet was his symbol power; and intho costume of the Leani Lenape, whenever the chief placed it pon his brow, the spot became at once sacred, ai the person of every one present inviolable. The venerable Indian king then seated him elf on the ground, with the older sachems on right and left, the middle-aged warriors ranged themselves in the form of a crescnt or pf moont round them; and the younger men formed a third and semi-circle. All being atcd in this picturesque and striking order, e olJ monarch announced to the governor that he natives were prepared to hear and consider word. I'cnn then rose to address them, his countenance beaming with all the pride of manhood. . He was at this time thirty-eight years old; light and graceful in form; "the, handsomest, best-looking, most lively gentle man" sho had ever seen, wrote a lady who was au eye-witness of the ceremony. He addressed them in their own language ; the topicswere few and simple ; and the beauty of his ideas would compensate with such an audience for the luiuor errors of diction. ' The Great Spirit, he said, who ruled in the heaven to which good men go after death, who made them and him out of nothing, and wlio knew every secret thought that was in the heart of white man and red man, knew that he and his children had a strong desire to live in peace, to be their friends, to do no wrong, but to serve them in every way to the extent of their power. As the Great Spirit was the com mon Father of all, he wished them to live to gether not merely as brothers, as the children of a common parent, but as if they were joined with one hand, one heart, one body, together; that if ill was done to one, all would suffer; if good was done to any, all would gain. He and his children, he went on to say, never used the rifle or trusted to the sword; they met the red men on the broad path of good faith and good will. They intended to do no harm and had no fear in their hearts. They believed that their brothers of the red face were just, and they were prepared to trust in their friendship. He then unfolded the writing of the treaty of friendship aud explained its clauses one after the other. It recited that from that day the children of Onas and the nations of the Lcnni Lenape should be brothers to each other that all paths should be free and open that the door3 of the white men should be open to the red men, and the doors of the red men should be open to the white men that the children of Onas should not believe any false reports of the Lenni Lenape, nor the Lenni Lenape of the children of Onas, but should come and see for themselves as brothers to brothers, and bury such false reports in the bottomless pit that if the Christians should hear of anything likely to be of hurt to the Indians, or the Indians bear anything likely to harm the Christians, they should run, like true friends, and let the other know that if any son cf Onas were to do any harm to any red skin, or any red skin were to do harm to a son of Onas, the sufferer should not offer to right himself, but should complain to the chiefs and to Onas, that justice might be declared by twelve honest men, and the wrong buried in a pit with no bottom that the Lenni Lenape should assist the white men, and the white men should assist the Lcnni Le nape, against all such as would disturb them or do them hurt and lastly, that both Christians and Indians should tell their children of this league and chain of friendship, that it should grow stronger and stronger, and be kept bright and clean, without rust or spot, while the wa ters ran down the creeks and rivers, and while the sun and moon and stars endured. He then laid the scroll on the ground. What King Taminent replied is not known, except that in substance he was favorable to the views of Fenn. The sachems received his proposal with decent gravity, and accepted it for them selves and for their children. No oaths, no seals, no official mummeries were used; tho treaty was ratified on both sides with yea, the only one, says Voltaire, that the world has known, never sworn to and never broken. This scene remained to the two races who we're witnesses and actors in it, an inheritance of good will and honorable pride for an entire century. From year to year, says tho venerable historian of tho Six Nations, Heckewclder, the sachems assembled their children in the woods, in a shady spot as like as they could find to that in which the great Onas had conferred with them, when they "would spread out his words or speeches on a blanket or clean piece of bark and repeat the whole again and again to their great satisfaction. " In a few years Penn, going beyond the seas and never returning, became to them a sort of mythical personage, they not only held his memory in great veneration,' but treate'a thq whole body of white men with more kindness for his sake. To be a follower of Onas was at all times ft passport to their protection and hospitality. ; Nor have his own countrymen been less in debted or less grateful to the Great Treaty. To it, and to the strictness with which its provisions were maintained by Tenn, is owing that striking fact recorded by Bancroft: that while every colony in the New World was visited by tho hor rors of Indian warefare, no drop of Quaker blood wag ever shed by a red man in Pennsylva nia. It i3 humiliating to the pride of the white man to think that one of his race should have been the first to break this noble league of peace. Forty years after the famous treaty, and five years after the death of Onas, one of his un worthy children murdered the first red man who lost his life in Pennsylvania. The deed was attended with circumstances of unusual attro city; but it shows in a striking light the power of a noble sentiment, that the Indians themselves prayed that the murderer's life might be reared It was spared ; but he died in a very short time, and then they said, the Great Spirit had avenged their brother. Tho venerable elm under which the meeting took place served to mark the spot until the storm of 1840 threw it to the ground. It measured 24 feet in girth, and was found to be 283 years old. A piece of it was sent home to the Penn family, by . whom it was mounted on a pedes tal with appropriate inscriptions ; and the remainder, was manufactured into vases, work stands, and other relics now held sacred by their possessors. A plain monument has since been erected on the spot, inscribed on each face with four 6hort and simple sentences commemorative of the Great Treaty. from the Washington Union. Ccii. Scott ami Gov. Joluistou llic IVomiiiees of tlie AnolHionisls. It will be seen from the speech delivered by Governor Johnston that he looks to the repeal of the fugitivc-slavc-law, which he regards as open to discussion and alteration in the same manner that the tariff of 1816 is; and that he maintains the position which identifies him with the abolitionists, applying the term kidnappers to all those who would aid the southern man in the recovery of his property, and uses other terms of ridicule and contempt for those who have taken the side of the constitution and Union in the great struggle to put down the worst spirit of disorder which has ever afflicted our country. The wire-workers, however, in this scene of disreputable management have not failed to gild their resolutions with profes sions of patriotism and protestations of sub mission to the laws of the land. They interlard their pledges to the abolitionists with solemn resolves to carry out the provisions of the con stitution, and declare that it would be a libel upon their fair fame to doubt their loyalty to tue cmon. in tins respect tneir language is but a paraphrase of that employed by Wade, Seward, and Sumner, all of whom mask their attrocious assaults upon a compact of the Union by the abstract use of terms used by schoolboys when writing Fourth of July ora tions. But neither the people of Pennsylvania nor those of the Union can be deceived on a ques tion of such great and momentous importance as tho faithfuP execution of the fugitive-6lave law. Governor Johnston was elected to the present position with solemn pledges, reiterated at publio meetings throughout tho State, in favor of the Wilmot proviso. -With the aid of these pledges, and the support he derived from tho promise of General Taylor to proscribe pro scription, he was enabled to deceive a large number of democrats, and to control the entire abolition and free-soil interest of tho State of Pennsylvania. No respectable man dare deny that Governor Johnston was opposed to the compromise measures, and especially to the fugitive-slave feature of them, which he now says must be repealed. He separated himself in this respect from Mr. Cooper, tho conserva tive whig senator from his State, and from Mr. Clay and his friends. Such being tho state of the case, the legislature of Pennsylvania, at its last session, passed a law repealing so much of their previous law as refused the auihority and jails of the State for the safekeeping of fugitive slaves. This law which is essential to the execution of the congressional act on the subject of fugitives Governor Johnston has refused to sign, and has applied to it the pocket veto. lie avows and proclaims aloud his oppo sition to this law; and with such sentiments on his lips he is cheered, and enthusiastically re nominated for the office of governor by tho whig convention of the State of Pennsylvania. But this is net all. Tho same convention has voted down and negatived, by a majority of nearly threo to one, resolutions in - support of the fugitivo law, introduced by Mr. Scott the whig delegate from tho city of Philadelphia. This convention thus places itself directly in opposition to the democratic convention on tho same subject; for as our readers well recollect, this last convention openly endorsed the fugi tive-slave, law, and obtained from Col. Biglcr the unequivocal ' declaration that, if elected governor, he would in- good faith execute the provisions of that law, and Eupport all the provisions of tho compromise. , The' issue, then, is now fairly presented: Shall the fugitive-slave law bo enforced by the repeal of all State legislation which obstructs and dcfcat3 its operation? The democrats in the State convention answer, Aye the whigs in their convention answer, No. The question thus emphatically, in Pennsylvania, becomes Union or Disunion. The democrats arc for the Union the whigs arc against the Union, by retaining in force State laws which make the execution of the fugitive-slave law impossible. This is in truth the momentous issue. The fate of the country may now depend upon tho deci sion of tho people of Pennsylvania. Tho se cession of South Carolina, and all the horrors of civil war, may hang upon the result of this election. " ' Their must not be their cannot be longer deception on this subject.' All the people of the Union, but most especially the people of the South, because it ia their special intcrc: which is threatened, must be dealt with fairlv. and enabled to comprehend the immense conse quence's involved in this issue. Pennsylvania has been called the keystone of the arch pf our Union, an proudly can she point to her past history an'l vindicate her title to the noble ap pellation. ? Let her now waver let her be moved fru her position by traitors, abolition ists,'' demagogues, and ' disanionists--kt ' her people be betrayed and deceived, and civil war will stalk through the land, and all that our Washington, Jeffersons, and Jacksons have done to perpttuate our free institutions will be paralyzed by ihe higher-law follies of the John stons, and Sewirds, and Scotts. The time has not yet elapsed to enable us to hear( from the South ; but already we find a zealous whijr paper in the city of Baltimore rallying its readers to the platform cf duty, and denouncing the traitorous purposes of Gov. Johnsttn. Throughout the entire South, without regvrd to parties, whether among whigs or democra-'s, we anticipate but one voice of withering denunciations for the man who can thus openly trifle with the dignity of official position, ani give up the hopes of Union, rath er than the rood-will of abolition fanatics. In many ?f the States of the South these tidings frouj the whig party of Pennsylvania will be received like a clap of thunder by men who are locking alone at the safety of the Union, and yho give their votes, under this feeling, without asking whether the candidate for the State t and federal officci are whigs or democrats. The great thought is, How best shall my vote heal the bleeding wounds of the country, and pave the constitution from the brutal attacks of fanaticism ? In those States such a man as Johnston could command no democratic or Thig vote, and wo are confident that no party or candidate identified with him will faro any better. The Union of Scott and Johnston, as the type of the whig party, will be that of sin and death a death from which there will be n resurrection. IX.ULS LEWIS. Judge Lewis, now President of the Second Judicial District of Pennsylvania, was born in 1799 in Lcwisburg, York county, Pa, a pleas ant little town winch derives it name from his father, by whom it was founded. His father, Eli Lewis, was a Democrat of the school of Jeff erson, and upon the election of President Jeff erson, was chosen by a portion of the citizens of York county to prepare an address to the Pres ident. This address, together with Jefferson's reply, Judge Lewis still carefully preserves in his possession. At nine years of age, Ellis Lewis was left an orphan, and while yet quite young in years was sent t Harrisburg and . learned the prin ting trade. He next went to New York, and worked as a journeyman printer by the side of Geo. r. Morris. He returned to Lcwisburg and commenced the study of medicine, but soon went to Bal timorc. Failing to profit himself there, he purchased. a printing establishment at Williamsport, Pa, where he commenced stud ying law and edited his paper. He soon dispo sed of his printing establishment, and in the year 1822 was admitted to the bar. Next year he was appointed deputy attorney general for Tioga and Lycoming counties, and in 1S21 re moved to Tioga county, where he had a large and lucrative practice. A few years after this he resigned his appointment under the Attor ney General, and removed to Bradford county. In 1832 he engaged actively in the political contest for Gen. Jackson, and was chosen to tho State Convention of that year. He y.-'aa al so that fall elected a member cf the State Legis lature, and while in that body voted against resolutions expressing the opinion of that body against any reduction of the tariff. : In 1833 Mr. Lewis was appointed Attorney t General of Pennsylvania by Governor Wolf, but in the fall of the same year he resigned that appointment, and became President Jndgc of this Judicial District. This station he filled until about 1845, when he was appointed Judge of the 2d District composed of the city and county of Lancaster a district whose popula tion and property exceed that of some states in the Union. But even there Judge Lewis found time (in addition to his Judicial work) to discharge the duties of Professor of Law and Medical Juris prudence in Franklin College, Lancaster, and, in connection with . Messrs. McCandlcss and Troubat, to edit a scries of valuable law works. In 1817 ho also published a work on "American Criminal Law," which is in the hands of almost every practicing member of the profession. Judge Lewis has also rendered valuable assis tance in the publication of tho American Law Journal, or "Pennsylvania Law Journal" as it was first modestly called, the best publication of its kind in the conntry. His legal reputation extends wider than tho Union, for even on the other side of the Atlan tic, his learning aud philosophical mind have been appreciated, and received the highest tes timonials of esteem. Wc shall never forget his decision in which he pronounced all tuth cx-ei-ciccnc3 of IcgLdatic-n a:; the stay law of 112 unconstitutional, and exploded all such subtile distinction as were sought for between the rem edy on a- contract and the contract itself. Judge Lewis properly felt that the remedy con stitutes part of the contract, and enters into the contemplation of the contracting parties as much as any part of the bargain. That deci sion of Judge Lewis was in consonance with the spirit of a republican country and a republican ago, while the subtle cobweb-work he exploded was only worthy of the old English bench which decided that such words were not actionable "you have poisoned your husband." "Sir Thomas Holt struck his cook on the head with a cleaver, and cleaved his head; the one part lay on pne shoulder, and the other on the other," because hi the first case, although the husband was poisoned, possibly he did not die; and in the second case, though the cook's head was cleaved into two parts, possibly the wound was not mortal. This decision of Judge Lewis showed thai he understood the true spirit of our constitution. His opinion made a powerful impression on the thinking minds of the country, and we notice that in the new states of the West that opinion is received as the law. The last decision of the kind is in the 4th vol. Missouri Reports p. 50, where a stay law is decided to impair the obli gation of a previous contract, and to be against the constitution both of the state and Union. Tho provision of the Missouri constitution in this respect is similar to ours in Pennsylvania. We will close this hasty sketch by the follow ing incident of Judge Lewis' early practice in this region. A number of years ago ji fugitive slave was rescued from the possession of his twncr in Danville, then this county, through a writ of homine replrgiando. The Hon. David Pctrikcn was the Prothonotary who issued the writ, and of course actions was brought against all concerned with the writ of rescue. Under the act of 1793 the penalty of $500 was recov ered from several defendants, and suit was then brought for the same amount against Mr. Geo. Sweeny an editor of a public journal. Judge ment was obtained against him and he was im prisoned. " With every confidence he sent near ly one hundred miles for Mr. Lewis, who came and in his argument showed that there was a distinction between penalties imposed as a punishment, to be recovered by any one who may sue for them, and those given by statute to the party aggrieved. In the former case, each individual engaged in the illlegal act is liable to the full penalty. In the latter case, but one penalty can be recovered for one illegal act, al though many might be engaged in it. Mr. Lewis also showed that with respect to costs, under the act of Congress, where the plaintiff had his election to bring joint or several suits, and elected to bring several suits, he could only recover costs in one of them. The result was that the imprisoned editor was liberated to the great joy of his family and friends. Star of the JYorth. Gov. Jolmslon Re-nominated. Since the dark days, when Joseph Ritncr stained the honor of our noble Constitutional Commonwealth, by assailing the Southern States, we have had no executive who has dared to raise in Pennsylvania the pestilential flag of Abolition. Even the candidates of the Whigs have heretofore been scrupulously guarded against this cardinal offence; and men have been called upon to vote for Governor, more because they were decidedly egainst Sectionalism than because they bad the slightest leaning to it. It happened otherwise since Johnston has been inflicted upon us; for, from the beginning, he has been in the toils of the bitterest foes of the Union. He began bis career in 1848, by the most violent professions of Free Soilism, aud wc will do him the justice to say, that from that day to this he has not abandoned an inch of his devotion to the cause of the opponents of the Constitution. It appears that a grand State meeting of his party have re-nominated him for re-olectiou, and this, too, almost by acclama tion; an insolent defiance of the opinions of an overwhelming majority of the people. He re tains in his possession the hill to repeal the most important section of the celebrated Ob struction Law operating in mischievous con flict with the National Constitution in regard to fii(ritivcs from service. We refer the reader for o particulars to our telegraphic accounts of the Lancaster Whig State Convention. . It matters nothing to us what the resolutions of the Whigs were after this nomination for Governor.'. All professions, on their part, must now be regarded as hollow and heartless. They might pile Ossa upon Pelion in tho way of pro ffxjsirms for the Constitution, and yet. after such a nomination for Governor, their profess ions would be laughed at and despised. The line of demarcation is nowdrawnbetween the two great parties in this State, and wc enter into the contest assured of an honorable and commanding victory. The issue is, Biglcr, the Constitution, the Compromise, and the Rights of the States: versus Johnston, Sectionalism, Free Soilism aiid Hostility to the solemn behests of the Constitution. What white vim will hcsit.itc between the two alternatives'.' KJr fnn'.c the ;iVov: 7"ai in type, wc learn that when the Compittec waited upon Governor Johnston, to inform him of hi3 nomination, L 1 stated that he would not give his consent to ac cept it, until he knew the charaefcr of the rcso- lutions which would be adopted by the Conveu tion. Any resolution censuring cither directly or impliedly his course in refusing to sign" the fugitive , slave bill, would prevent his accept ance. Pcnnsylvanian. Tlie Queen in Ilie Glass Palace. The Albany .Evening Journal publishes the following among other extract from a private letter received in that city from Mr. Johnson, agent from that State to the Great Exhibition: But the richest scene transpired last Monday. The Queen has commenced going through the Exhibition for the purpose of ascertaining from the exhibitors any particulars Ehc may desire to know. She commenced on Monday with n, certain number in the English department, who were notified to meet her Majesty. They did so, and she passed along, familiarly examining the articles, and making such inquiries as she desired; and on accosting one of the exhibitors, a stout, hearty beef eater, he was so much ex cited that he fain ted a w ay. It would take con siderable of a woman, I 'recken,' to make a Yankee faint away he might be 'skeercd like," but I think Jonathan would keep on his trotters. When the Queen passed through our division, she requested information in regard to several articles the Grain-Reaper, the American (Troy) Company's Chairs, Indian Corn, &c. I an swered her questions, and went on talking much as I would to any respectable lady in our country, with all proper deference, of course, to the Queen and Trincc Albert and the aston ishment depicted in the faces of the John Build about, was truly farcical. But such is the force of custom and education, that these people from the highest to the lowest, will walk backwards, "crab fashion," as Punch says, and in some in stances, be frightened out of their wits, when hci Majesty appears. I have no doubt that it would be far more agreeable, if the people would treat her with politeness; but now she i3 annoyc-J. when she appears, by a thropg pressing around her, requiring continually a body guard to keep the way clear, so that she can pass along. San Francisco. The following extract of a letter pulTlishcd ir the North Amercian is pronounced by that jour nal to be from reliable source. It is dated May 15: "The conflagration of the Gd or 4th inst., has consumed four-fifths of the business part of the city. I am happy to say that the loss, severe as it is, falls lightly on American mer chants, but European and China merchant.; have lost large sums. This is accounted for by the privilege American merchants have in per mitting their goods to remain on board cf ves sels, there being no duty to pay. Hundreds of persons worth independent fortunes have with in the space of four hours, been reduced to pov erty. At the time the fire took place it was perfectly under the control of the fire compa nies, but before it was extinguished a wind sprung up which increased to a hurricane, aud caused the immense destruction." TnE Postage Railroad. Wc learn that Co1 Fattcrson, the able President of the Central Railroad, has made an arrangement with th Canal Commissioners to keep the Tortage Rail road open during all the coming winter so ai to accomidatc the vast trade coming over the Central and State roads. Our buisincss men will not fail to thank the Commissioners and Col. Tatterscn for this prompt and timely anti cipation of their wants, in a matter so impor tant to them, as well to the interests of the State. Hon. Jeeemiau S Black. It is with feeling of pride and satisfaction that wc refer our read ers to the vote rcccivod by this gentleman the highest received by any candidate in the Ju dicial Convention. This vote not only shows the estimation in which he is held by the Dem ocracy of Pennsylvania, but it conveys a with ering rebuke to his enemies who have so long and bitterly denounced him. Such a lesjon should teach men to put a proper estimation on their powers before they set up for slanderers. In this and adjoining counhes, where Judge Black is known, he will receive a vote that h will have just cause to feel proud of. Mart our words. "Washington Co. Examiner. Fattier DIatf hevr. The Cincinnati Commercial of Monday say. "The Rev gentleman preached in the Cathedral yesterday. At the close of morning service he administered the Temperance pledge to over five hundred persons, and to seven hundred in the afternoon. The number of the members received yesterday exceeds twelve hundred, and the daily average are still increasing. The number admitted at the residence of the Arch bishop on Saturday was nearly five hundred. The crowd at the Cathedral, yesterday, to see aud hear Father Matthcwi was plater than on the preceding Sabbath Thousand., wci' away without being a'-le t ct iu-i-lr -f h-chuich. i ; i : . I
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