V.imil S1ITUII Andrew J. Rhey, Editor. EBEKSBURG, PA. Thnrdy, September g, 1853. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President, .-FRAiraiJKY PIERCE, of New Hampshire. For Vice-President1 If'ILLIAN R. KIXG, of Alabama. For Supreme Judge, GEORGE W. WOODWARD, of Luzerne County. Por Canal Commissioner, WILLIAM IIOPKESS, of .Washington. County Nominations. For. Assembly, THOMAS COLLINS, of Washington. For Sheriff, ATJGTJSTIN DUKBIK, of Washington. Commissioner, JACOB H. STTJLL. of Richland. Auditor, JOHN A. M'CONNELL, of Clearfield. Coroner,"' CAMPBELL SHERIDAN, of Johnstown. The Editor is absent this" week which will account for the lack of Editorial in this number, The State Nominations. We have the treasure of announcing to our readers the harmonious termination of the Dent ocratic State Convention, and the nomination of lion. Geo. W. Woodward, of Luzerne, for Su preme Judge, and Col. William Hopkins, qf Washington county, for Canal Commissioner. No better selections could have been niade.- Both of these eentlemen were the choice or a large majority of the party throughout the State, and both 'will rally to their support a united and enthusiastic Democracy. Speaking of the nominees, the Pennsylvania. has the following well-deserved tribute to their worth and integrity. "Judge Woodword at present occupies place on the Supreme Bench a position which, in a short time, he has adorned with the influ ence and power of the most brilliant abilities As a jurist he has no superior. Sound in all his opinions well fortified and balanced by great legal attainments incorruptible in mo rals and generous principles, he is a man em inently fitted for the high honors and responsi bilities of a Sunreme Judge. No man in the State has more thoroughly studied the histori cal jurisprudence of Pennsylvania no man giv en more attention to the resources, the wealth and the Lwants. oftheMpcpjaeand thjwrejfcs the Commonwealth will be eqnally fortunate in securing the eminent services of Geokge W. Woodward. William Hopkins belongs to that class of men who have made the prosperity of Pennsyl vania part of their ambition. He is a stern, re liable and uncompromising Democrat. A man imbued with the largest principles of public en terprise always successful in his projects for the public good, ne has resisted for many years the encroachments of Federalism in this State and during the memorable buckshot war, he manfully battled against the party that desi red to treat the elections as if they were never herd. He is known to the people of the State has discharged every trust with honor and abil ity and will be supportedwith that zeal which attaches to every honest public servant. Who Is William A. Graham. The Cincinnati Commercial, which has an ed itor who is a fast man generally, said the other day : "bince writing the above the telegraph an nounccs the name of William A. Graham, of North Carolina, as the nominee for Vice Presi dent. Mr. G. was, we believe, Secretary of the Navy at one time, and has acted as Representa tive and Senator in Congress from his State.' The Cincinnati Atlas gives the following ac count of him : Mr. Graham has been Governor of North Carolina, and became a member of the Cabinet after the accession of General Taylor, from which he retired after the death of the Presi dent. So here we see how the present most distin guished and highest admired Secretary of the Navy has been perpetrating greatness to little purpose. He is set down by this whig editor as one of the squad of Galphinites who slid away from the public gaze upon the death of General Taylor, very much to the relief of the country m general, and of whiggery in particular. Whig Exiravagacta Sixty millions of dollars a year I Only think of it. Nearly one hundred and fifty tons of gold, or twenty-five hundred tons of silver. This is the annual expenditure of a whig admin istration, and it is truly monstrous to contem plate. by, the annual expenditure of the government would load a train of a hundred wa gons with silver. Two-thirds of the annual pro duct of California cannot more than keep the treasury supplied. The cotton crop of this country is reckoned to be immense, but the an nual expenditure of the federal government would swallow up the whole of it. Sixty mil lions gone, eonsumed and sunk in a single year! This 6um would educate every youth, male and female, in the Union. It would build three thousand miles of railroad, nearly one-third as many miles as have l.een built in the ' United States up to this time. This is paying too dear ly for government, as it would require all the savings of nearly half a million of day laborers to support the government. It is time that a reform was made in thU kind of extravagance. The Chnretf Against Gen. Scott. In reply to the Nashville Banner, which stated j that the charges against Gen. Scott were made , upon anonymous authority, the Nashville Union has the following cogent reply, imbodying facts which should be kept before the people : "1. The first and most serious charge is that Gen. Scott is in the hands of Seward, the abol tionists, and free soilers. For the truth of this charge, among other good and true men, Messrs. Gentry and Williams, of Tennessee, are respon ble. "2. Another charge against Gen. Scott is that he is opposed to the existence of slavery. The proof of this charge is found in his own letter, in which he declares that it is 'a high mo ral obligation of masters and slaveholding Slates to employ all means not incompatible with the safety of both colors to meliorate slavery, EVliJN TO EXTERMINATION.' "3. Another charge against Gen. Scott is, that he is in favor of annexing a large number of free States to the Union, and thus giving to the anti-slavery power an overwhelming weight In the councils of the nation. The proof of this charge is found in Gen. Scott's letter, dated June 1849 which we have published in full in which he says : 'In my judgement, the inter ests of both sides would be much promoted by the annexation the several provinces (Canada, New Brunswick, etc.) coming into the Union on equal terms with our present thirty States.1 And further : 'Though opposed to incorporating with us any district densely peopled with the Mexican race, should be very happy to f rater, nize vith our Northern and Northwestern neigh bors1 The territory which Gen. Scott is thus in favor of annexing to our Northern and North western boundaries is nearly as large as all the territory now embraced in the Union. "4. Another charge against Gen. Scott is, that. Tie is in favor of a national bank. The proof of this charge is fouud in his letter to a ! committee of gentlemen, dated October 25, 1841, j in which he says that he regards such an insti tution as indispensable, in peace and in war, to the operations of the treasury and the wants of commerce. "o. Another charge against Gen. Scott is, that he is in favor of a practical destruction of a bankrupt law. The proof of this charge is al so found in his letter of 1841. "G. Another charge against Gen. Scott is, that he is in favor of a practical destruction of the veto power. In his letter just alluded to, he declares himself in favor of reducing the veto now so essential to the slaveholding States so aa to give a bare majority in Congress the power to overrule it. This would be a practical de struction of the power. "7. Another charge against Gen. Scott is, that he is supported almost entirely by the ene mies of the fugitive slave law at the North. The fact that Seward, Johnston, and Greely, the leaders of the higher-law men, are his warm friends, is sufficient proof of this charge. "8. Another charge against General Scott is, that he is in favor of modifying our natu- tive franchise upon only one condition, viz : that they serve one year in the army or navy of the United States. The evidence of the charge is found in Gen. Scott's letter of acceptance, an in a communication written hy him to the Na tionvl Intelligencer in 1844. Taken together, these two documents show him to be in favor Of this dangerous and unjust modification. "9. Another and a most serious charge gainst Gen. Scott is, that he stubbornly refuses to define his position on the compromise. The proof of this charge is abundant, but we wil not go into it in detail. Suffice it to say that Gov. Jones has declared that he, 'with a hun tired to back him, implored General Scott to define his position on the Compromise, 'and he would not.' "These are the principal and most importan charges against General Scott. With the ex ception of two or three, they are susceptible documentary proof from under his own hand. And yet the Banner would have its readers be lieve that they are made upon anonymous au thority ; and that no known person is responsible for them." Catholic Testimony. 1 The New 1 ork Freeman's Journal, in refer ring to the statement that General Pierce had sustained the religiouse test m the Constitution of New Hampshire,' thus speaks : "The Democracy have nominated a man ac knowledged as an able lawyer, a man of a fami ly, and of antecedents entitling him to respect and confidence, and one who has the rare and high qualifications of rather shunning than see king official promotion. Every thing that we have known or beard of General Pierce has been in his favor, ne hails from a State that has an invidious distinction as sustaining persecutin laws against Catholics, but we have heard that General Pierce has been one who has favored the repeal of the shameful statutes imposin disabilities on Catholics in New Hampshire. On this subject we will have ample time to ob tain correct information. He is a Democrat of the old school not a French radical Democrat. ne has not been mixed up with the base pand erings to the mob, that have characterised too many Washington politicians." And the New York Truth Teller adds its tes timony, refuting the unjust charge of religious intolerance against our brave ond noble-minded candidate for the Presidency : "Mr. Pierce, it is universally conceeded, pos sesses all the requisite qualifications to adminis ter the affairs of Government with credit and a bility. We are assured by those who have known him long and well, that a more liberal, high toned, true republican, does not live. On the question of the -"Catholic test," which has ever been a bone of contention in New Ilamn- ehire, Mr. Pierce has been faithfully and zeal ously arrayed in just opposition to the stain up on the laws of that State ; and, although un successful in his efforts to have it expunged, he is nevertheless fully entitled to the gratitude of every liberal mind, for his exertions in the mat ter." I 'Gen. Scott as a Civilian In favor of the old Laua distribution bill, United States Bank, and Bankrupt Liw, As General Scott has become the whig candi date for the presidency, (by a small majority,) his fitness for that highest civil station on earth becomes a matter of most serious inquiry. With his character as a general we have nothing to do. As a commander of our armies he has been successful, and so, as a general thing, have all other commanders of our American troops. ; It it would be important to canvass the merits of a mere civilian who should aspire to the chief command of our armies in time of war, it certainly is imperative on the American people now to seriously examine the claims of an ex clusively military man who aspires to the chief directorship of the civil affairs of our nation. General Scott's name has several times been mentioned in connexion with the presidency, when the whig party have been casting about for purely an available candidate, and as often has the old General sat down and in "haste" scribbled his opinions to somebody. Last Oc tober, the 27th day, he issued from Washington a"general circular in answer to numerous ques tions, giving his views on civil affairs in extenso. We shall from time to time make extracts from lugubrious document. For the present we will give our readers his views in his own words on "land distribution," "bankrupt law," and a"U nited States Bank." Extract from the Circular. "Leading measures of the late extra session. If I had the honor of a vote on the occasion, it would have been given in favor of the land distribution bill, the bankrupt bill, and the second bill crea ting a fiscal corporation having long been under a conviction that in peace, as in war, something efficient, in the nature of a Bank of the United States, is not only "necessary and proper," but indipensable to the successful operations of the treasury, as to many of the wants of our commerce and currency. W INFIELD SCOTT." Here we have it. The extra session referred to was that called soon after the coon campaign of 1840, at which an "old-fashioned United States bank" was attempted to be thrust upon the country, but was three times vetoed, in dif ferent shapes and under different names, by John Tyler. "Land distribution" was one of the same nefarious schemes a measure to arrest the increase of new States by giving the monop poly of the public lands to the old States, cut ting off all homestead bilb and all revenue ari sing therefrom to the gauaral government. The "bankrupt law," got up fr the benefit of stock jobbers, defunct bankers, and unsuccessful spec ulators, 'which did mora to doom and damn that administration than all other schemes put together a measure ol general repudiation which even now stinks in the nostrils of the people to this now, or as late as last October, 1841, Gen. Scott gives bi entire sanction. This is all the democraScparty want to know of Gen. Scott's ideas of a civil government. A ... , ranker blue-bellied, oia leaeraust ana iogy aoes not live than hfi. and the honest .portion - J orse Ureeley a opinion of him, as expressed in a private lester to a friend just before the Whig Convention in 1848. The extract reads thus : "Send a delegate to the convention, if you can, for Clay ; if not for Clay, for Corwin ; if not for Corwin, for Seward ; if not for Seward, for Taylor. But last of all for Scott. Scott is a'vain, conceited coxcomb of a man. Sis brains all that he has are in his epaulets ; and if he should be elected President, he would tear the whig party into tatters in less than six months." Cleaveland Plaindealer. Gen. Scott's Hatred or nls Officers. So bitter was the hatred of Gen. Scott toward the gallant and lamented Worth, that ha suffer ed no opportunity to pass, whereby he sould in sult him, and bring him into disgrace, and so palpable had his design become that the . De partment at Washington were obliged to inter fere to protect him. The following is from the scathing, withering rebuke administered to him by Mr. Marcy then Secretary of War : "When a General at the head of an army of freemen, who do not lose their rights as citizens by becoming soldiers, sets up pretenfcons to DICTATORIAL POWER when he contemns the authority of his Government, and is much more ready to censure than execute its orders and instructions when he denounces as an out rage and a punishment the attempt to submit his acts, charged to be an offence against a sub ordinate officer, to an investigation in the mild est form when he administers an indignant re- proof to his superior for upholding the sacred right of appeal, upon which depend the securi- j ty and protection of all under his command, such a General sets an example of insubordinate conduct of wide and withering influence upon sound military discipline" It will also be remembered that Pillow and Duncan were implicated in the same court martial, and preferred charges against Gen. Scott to the Department at Washington. In re ferring to this, Mr. Marcy uses the following just language : ' "The crowning outrage, as you regard it, is the simple fact that you and "the three arrested officers," are all to be placed together before the same court ; "the innocent and the guilty, the accuser and the accused, the judge and his prisoners, are delt with alike." "Most impar tial justice !" you exclaim. And why is it not impartial justice T On what ground of right can you claim to have your case discriminated from theirs ? It is true you have determined to be their judge, and have pronounced them guilty ; and complain and repine that the laws of the country do not allow you, their accuser, to institute a court to register your decree. But you are not their rightful judge, although they were your prisoners. Before that court you may have the self-satisfying conviction that you are innocent and they are guilty, the gov ernment could act upon no such presumption. By becoming an accuser you did not place your self beyond the reach of being accused ; and unless you are clothed with the immunity of des- potio power, and can claim the benefit of the maxim 'THAT THE KING CAN DO NO WRONG," I know not why your conduct, when made the subject of charges, may not be inves tigated by a court of inquiry, nor can I per ceive what other, or better right you have to complain, and arraign the government, that the other officers whom you have accused, and whose ? cases, with yours, were referred to the same court. If your's is a hard case, theirs is not less so : if you can rightfully complain of per secution by the government, so can they, with equal justice, and an equal claim to public sym pathy. If your extraordinary pretentions are to de rive any support from your distinguished servi (on in thn field, vou oucht to be mindful that three accused officers put under arrest by you, ! hivA lik claims for distinguished services. On the pages of impartial history their names, and deeds, must appear with yours, and to monopo lizing claims, seeking 'malignant exclusions, at th oTnpnsn of the 'truth of history ' will be permitted to rob them of their fair share of th glory won by our gallant army while under your command." Gen. Seott and Gen. Taylor. Oen. Scott and his friends have calculated largely on the prestige of General Taylor's tri umph availing him in the canvass. They are mictalron in that calculation. No two men could be fonnd in the army of high rank, more unlike each other, or impressing the popular mind more unequally. Taylor was supposed to be a simple-hearted old man, (they might have added simple-headed, who was plain, frank, un nsanTninnr and meaning well, and who would honestly try to perform the duties of the office of President, if elected. His manners wer so plain as to amount to vulgarity on some occa sions, if tested by the ordinary standard of po lite society. His clothes were always made to do full duty, and were never discharged, except upon "certificate of disability." That old brown coat of his, which was the subject of as much comment as SuvarofTs old coat, won him thous ands of votes. At a barbecue in Virginia in 1 848. I received the first foreboding of defeat for the Democratic ticket, on hearing a gray' haired old lady, who may have seen the revolu tion&rv war. for aught I know, launch out in y , blessings on the dear old General, and his old coat, followed by a croaking warning to pre pare for defeat as certain as election day came round. How does General Scott figure in com Darison with this picture ? He is known to be the very quintessence of splendid show on par ade, a situation he always seeks always wear ing every inch of tinsel, and every button, feath er and chain which the army rules permit as vain as a peacock, evidently courting the admi ring gaze of every spectator, down to the boys and negroes while at the same time, his man ners, not only to the masses, but to his equals. I are haughty, presuming and aristocratic. Even . at a resneetful distance. at a respectful distance, under circumstances which would unbend any man's manner, who had a soul of chivalry or kindness. Military service and the participation in common dan gers and hardships, bring all men, except Gen Scott, to a certain community of sympathy and feeling, or makes them feel like brothers. General Scott is not a man of sympathy. His vanity swallows up eveey noble emotion and has made him a solitary man in the midst of thous ands. Such is not the man who can rouse the popular enthusiam. There is no element in his character, which will inflame the love, affection or esteem of the people. None but those who expect to gain political preferment, will raise the shout when his name is heard. The people remember his concomitants, of Seward, Aboli tionism, slavery agitation and danger to the U- nion, and they fly instinctively to the standard of the only National parties in the Union, now represented by Pierce and King on the Balti more platform. WAYNE. From the Daily (Indiana) Madisonian. Gen. Scott and the Catholics. The whigs have been making great efforts to secure the Catholic vote, as such, on the false assertion that General Scott is friendly to the Catholic faith. We commend to these gentle men and to Catholic Democrats the following slur upon the Catholic religion in General Scott's celebrated platform letter : "I do not consider it respectful to the people, tor otherwise proper in a candidate, to solicit .fivor on a pledge that, if elected, he will not ac j cept a seccond nomination. It looks too much iite a bargain tendered to other aspirants- yield to me now : 1 shall soon be out or your way too much like the interest that sometimes governs the cardinals in the choice of a Popo many voting for themselves first, and, if with out success, finally for the most superannuated, in order that the election may tne sooner come round again. WINFIELD SCOTT." Rendered into plain English, this sentence reads: The Popes are elected by improper bar gains, by voting for themselves : and not be cause of their fitness, their piety, and a life of devotion to the cause of religion but because they will soon die and make room for other as pirants. This is the slander upon the Catholic religion put forth and endorsed by General Scott. " SThe editor of the New York Tribune, Scott, whig paper, says: "Strictly speaking, there is but one organized, disciplined party in our country that which as sumes to be the champion and embodiment of democracy. This party enjoys certain advan tages in a contest over any which can be mus tered against it In the first place, it has the more popular name one which the most igno rant comprehends, in which the most deprssed finds promise of hope and sympathy, and which the humble and lowly emigrant, just landed from his Atlantic voyage, recognizes as the watchword of liberty in the Land whence he is, for liberty's sake, an exile. Proceedings ofthe Democratic State Convention. Hakkisbcbg, A.ug, 26. In pursuance of the call of the State Central Committee, the members of the Democratic State Convention of the 4th of March last, as sembled in the hall of the nouse of Representa tives at 11 o'clock, A. M., when they were call ed to order by the Hon, Wm. Hopkins, Presi dent, who addressed the Convention as follows : Gentlemen of the Convention: We have met under circumstances very different from those under which we assembled in march last. Then we were full of hope. A large majority of this body believed that the time had arrived when Pennsylvania's distinguished statesman James Buchanan, could be nominated for the Presiden cy. To this end delegates were appointed who were known friends of that gentleman. With what fidelity these delegates discharged the trnst that was renosed in them, let the four days balloting which occured at Baltimore, ans wer. Thev adhered to him with a devotion " rarely equalled and never surpassed. Thev were not alone in their prdferences for ef the man of your choice. They had the prond satisfaction of receiving the warmest co-opera tion of the sterling Democracy of the 'Old Dom inion,' of North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and MississiDDi. but they were obliged at last to yield. This great and good man had to be offered up as a sacrifice to the union and harmony of the Democratic party. The sacrifice was a grea' one, and one which seemed like parting with the last friend, but still, it was not too great to be made, in order to accomplish so desirable an end. It is proper to state in this connection that a respectable minority of this Convention express ed a preference for another distinguished gen tleman, the patriot and statesman of Michigan He loo had a large, perhaps I might say, con trolling number of friends at Baltimore, who with equal fidelity adhered to him. He was al together worthy of this support. Then again, the intellectual giant of Hlinois. and the scar covered patriot of Texas had their admirers, who ebhibited as much anxiety for their nomination, as did the others for their favorites. Thus it became apparent that per sonal preferences must be laid aside and some one selected who would harmonize all the con flicting interests. After surveying this widely extended confed eracy, the attention of the Convention was turn ed towards New Hampshire's favorite son. The moment his name was introduced (in the lan guage of a delegate in my eye) "it took like wild fire," and Pranklin Pierce was, by the unani mous voice ofthe Convention declared the nom inee of the great Democratic party. And who. I ask, could have been selected that would have been more acceptable to allt Superadded to talents of the highest order, hi will bring to the administration of the government a large amount of political wisdom and experience, and besides a nnrer. hrm posted patriot does not live. As to his entire fitness for the ex alted position assigned him, he has the endorse ment of some of the most eminent statesmen of the age. It is only necessary to mention two James Buchanan and Lewis Cass who would desire more ? Of th e nominee for the Vice Pres idency I need hardly speak. The name of Wm li. King is as familiar to the Democracy of Pennsylvania as "household words ;" with them he has long been a favorite. Perhaps there is not a man in the Union who would command a more cordial support. But, gentlemen, now sadly different are the circumstances which surround us now, from those under which we last met. Then the Hon. Richard Coulter was, so far as we know, in the full vigor of health occupying a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court. Now, his mortal remains lie slumbering in the dust. He was, in deed, an eminent jurist a profound scholar and a courteous gentleman. Then, the lamen ted Searight was a member of this body, with a promise of many years of usefulness, and it was my pleasing duty, as your organ, to procure him thenominee for the office of Canal Commis sioner. Aow it is my mournful duty to an nounce to you that he, too, has "gone down through the valley of the shadow of death." This is not the occasion for pronouncing a eulo gy upon his character, nor would I be compe tent to such a task. But you will, I know, al low me to make a remark or two. It was my privilege to enjoy the personal acquaintance of the deceased for upwards of twenty years, du ring the last fifteen of which our .intercourse was of the most friendly character.' I was both nis predecessor ana ms snecessor m omce as Commissioner of the irumberlandroad, and trans acted business with him to the amount of thou sands of dollars, and I here publicly (aa I have often privately) bear my humble testimony to his inflexible integrity. A more honest, honora ble, or gentlemanly man I have never met. In all the relations of life, he was courteous and kind. His heart and hand were always open to dispense of his ample means towards allevia ting the wants of the necessitous. But the cha racter of this truly good man was still more strikingly exemplified in the domestic circle. A more indulgent and devoted husband and father could no where be found. But he is gone, and I respectfully suggest, in view of the relation he sustainel to this Convention, that appropriate resolution should be passed expres sive of our profound sorrow on account of his demise. Thus you see. gentlemen, that an in scrutable Providence has, within a few brief months, stricken down two of our most promi nent citizens each of them representing one of the political parties of the country and thus demonstrating the great truth that "death is no respecter of persons" or parties, and reminding us of "what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue. Should we not, therefore, learn from, these afflicting dispensations of Divine Providence, to cultivate a spirit or mutual forbearance and brotherly kindness towards those of the same political faith, with ourselves, but also our polit - icai opponents T L.ct us remember that is human, to forgive divine." While we should adhere to our principle! -,u manly firmness, we ought at tie same time to treat those who differ with us, courteously a litter cav vi uie uTing wnat we would r. having said after they are dead. But I must not detain you. It only remain for us to proceed to the performance of tLe du ty for which we have met. In accordance with the recommendation 0f the President, resolutions, expressive of tl high regard of the Convention for the lamented Mr. Searight and of sympathy with his family in their bereavement, were introduced hj ylt. Fuller and passed unanimously. The following resolution, submitted by Jjr Hirst, of Philadelphia, was adopted unanimously Resolved, That the members of this Convcn tion cordially approve and will support heartily and enthusiastically the nomination cf Frank, lin Tierce as president ofthe United States and Wm. R. King as Vice President of the United States, and that we adopt as sound and endur ing Democratic doctrine, the National Platform of principles of the Baltimore Democratic Con vention. Mr. Dougherty, of Dauphin, moved that tLe Hon. George W. Woodward be nominated by ac clamation as the Democratic candidate for the Supreme Court The motion was agreed to amid much applause. A large number of nominations were made for Canal Commissioner. The Hon. Wm. Hopkins the President, being among the number, he re quested permission to resign his potiition as President of the Convention, which was granted. He then named the Hon. Hendrick B. Wright, as his successor, who took the chair. On motion, the Convention adjourned until 2 o'clock this afternoon. AFTERNOON SESSION. The Convention re-assembled at two o'clock. On motion of Mr. Badger, 'the Convention pro. ceeded to a first ballot for a candidate for Canal Commissioner with the following result : William Hopkins had 43 votes 44 13 44 " 14 4. n .. " 9 44 c 44 1 u " 5 44 5 44 3 ( 1 t Joel B. Danner Henry S. Mott F. R. West Pery Baker A. S. Feather J. P. Tatters on Forsyth Thos, Ousterhant John Creswell T. J. Tower R. J. Lloyd No candidate having received a majority of all the votes cast, there was no choice. A sec ond ballot was then had without effecting a choice, as follows : William Hopkins had 47 votes. 04 tl " 1G " " 9 " j4 0 " o " 5 " Joel B. Danner Henry S. Mott Terry Baker F. R. West J. T. Tatterson Forsyth D. B. Kutz TH1ED BALLOT. William Hopkins had 70 votes. Joel B. Danner 44 CO 44 II. S. Mott " 14 " F. R. West " 11 Wm. Hopkins of Washington county, having received a majority of all the votes cast, was de. clared the nominee of the Democratic party for tne omce oi canal Commissioner. On motion the nomination was made unani mous. Mr. nirst, Chairman of the State Central Committee,invited the members ofthe Conven tion to attend the Democratic Mass Meeting to be held at Reading on the 4th of September next which was accepted. Mr. Strong on behalf of the Berks county Committee, promised a cordial welcome to all who might attend upon that great occasion. After a brief address from the chairman, tha Convention adjourned sine die with three cheers for the nominees, Woodward and Hopkins. A Clincher. The Baltimore Argus has been furnifheJ by gentleman just from Accomac county, with an account of a joint Democrat and Whig meeting held in the district of Hon. Henry A. Wise. The latter spoke four hours, and was replied to by Mr. Mass, a Whig preaidential elector and a member of the Virginia Legislature, who char ged Frank Fierce with being identified with Free Soilism and Abolitionism, and gave for his au thority the Concord Democrat and Manchester Democrat. He had been in New Hampshire, some two years ago, and heard speeches from John T. Hale and General Tierce. Mr. Wis took the stand, and rebutted the charges most successfully, and made Mr. Mass acknowledge that Franklin Tierce was not what these Aboli tion Whig papers (although called Democrat) represented bim to be. The following thrilling dialogue took place : Mr. Wise. Were you in New Hampshire two years go, and did you not hear Hale speak, and say in his speech that "he would head an army to march upon the South, to put down slavery ?'' "Mr. Maas. I was there: heard Mr. II ale speak, and say what you state. Mr. Wise. Did you not hear Franklin Fierce reply to this and say "If Hale should head an army to march on the South, he had first to march over his (Pierce's) dead body, for he would head an army to oppose him Mr. Mass. I did. The court house rang with shouts of applans repeated again and again. Mr. Wise then re quested his opponent to Btate the facts ag"1 which he did to an almost breathless auditory. General Pierce did say (slapping his hand up on his breast) that Hala would have to pass o- ver his dead body before he marched upon taa South." A pretty figure these Southern Scott Whigs cut in charging Gen. Pierce with Abolitionism, No wonder such impudence is W'ateriooed after this fashion. It ought to make every soul of them, all their lives long, "The sad burden of some merry son ft
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