BY DAVID OYER.
I'oqv.sat of several Idemocrafs of
■ ''a.inty, who had intended to vnie for
Thicker, atter hi? nomina'ion, and before
♦hn fact beenuio Itiiown that he had sirpport
-d a strong Prohibitory Maine Liquor Lour,
st in the Senate of Pen nsy Iran is, we
ir article of scvera.l weeks ago
on .. subject. The article speaks for
an 1 \ves the tuost important see
i — .3 of the liw, and also, the vote of
• A kOKK'i on this question, with the dates
pages of the Senate Journal, which wa
have it our possession, and will show to
my pcr.-jns who may be anxt njs to exatu
liis matter for themselves. We have
}■ a ibi ;iere will he many honest I>emo
c-its who will vote against Packer on this
question in Bedford Couuty. irere
• ida and the proofs :
fUIBPi FBI PItOSIBITIOJi.
KE4S> THE PROOFS'
Op toe -'II Mirth, lSo'2, Mr". Cafothers,
fr ti the tloirtuiittca on Yi *e arid Iminorali
tv, reported Seuito Bill, No 119, entitled
"M/i act to pioiibil the m inuf icture and
s tie of intoxicating tiqrtsrs f Sea Senate
yifflw,TMrr. y" SS3.""' i' !
M rch LT'h, a liintiou TV i? mrde to con
eider the biii. Th ; ? was objected to, aud
the order? o f the day called. A motion
wis then mil? to .?'t?pend the order? to get
•if the coaaideritien of the bill. Oa this
uiYion the yea? and nay* were called, wlrrn
ib J vcas were *2 )an 1 the it iys 11, go the
tuition \v-i3 lo?,—two-third? being neccsa
rv t'> suspend-the orders. On this niof'mn
J 'ACKER voted yea. See Sen. Jour., Vol.
1, p 480. ' -
M irch *221, the b;!i Was taken up for
consideration: and on the quc?tion whether
the Cr?t section should putw, the vea? and
nays were called, aud the section passed by
a vote of 1!' yeas to 14 nays. i'ACtCEtt be
iug on? of the yeas. See Sen. Jour*, Vol.
i, p. r> iA.
Tite biii wa? further debated and conhl
erei iri>• that day, and the "day follow
in?. as -ippears by the saut? voluaw of the
.11} ia.-., r,t paggs oiil, so>a, A.0., land
i' ye;;? nd ways were frequently called on'
■ iff*'re; c<rt;on? of the Bill, and in every
tns :r.ce l\ >. n in%<-of WW. K. I'AcKta is
fount recorded in fatter of the hill, ,-vtid.
• long with the names of the other warm
friends of that prohibitory Liquor law.
March 31st —1852, the sectioun having
been a!! agreed to, tbo hill eante up ou its?
final p •>? ig-: anion the question, •'shall
'•fnc bill j ,-s? due yeas and oays were
••req-i i ;v Mr ('ribband Mr. PACKER,
• and wen i? fol vr<: viz;
"YEAS. Messrs. B irne?, Oarother?, Uai
•'l?iin. , Feraon, Guernsey, Il imilt'in,
• ilnoltn, llasiett, llnge, MeF.irland. Me
" lurtrie, Malone, PAL'KKH, ttobertson
"S mdeoon, and Siifer.—l7.
• v . . Messrs. Bailey, Buckalew, Crabb,
"Dirtii gJ'Mt, Frailry, Fulton, Joiqi?, Kiu
'•Z'-r, Ko'ik-1, MeOa?iin, Matthias, Muhten
"lvtig, Myers, Shinier, and Walker, Speak
"-r—ls.
• l :So the question was determined in the
nffiruiativc." .See Senate Jourual,c>{ 1852
Vol. 1. p. fil2.
BUCK : GENERAL WM. F. PA<?I?ER"S
-'"• : ! -in the Senate iff 1852, and such are
•I'.A "O. - NJV.ni tire subject of the prohili
n>ry liqiinr iiw which pi-ed the SAIUTC
tha; yrtr, as PROVED BT the Journal of tl.e
S .'.ate, Wl.iab is the ociy authorized record
of proo-odirtge. And ret his ptrtizan
friend?, IU 1 THE nnprincipled press which
ar;? him for Governor, are mean enough
R I rcctiies? enough, to deny that he is or
. er ..; favor ot prohibition, and round
ly abuse uii who asssrt that he voted for
PI-'-H, 'Uorv liquor laws. We sav AIWIC "*•
-"2 tlfsa Sen ate Journal.? in our nmce,
AT;d can EIII'W them, tiwy, and date, and
page. r ti any man win, WISHES to see litem,
WHO desires to know the whole truth on
tc subject. And wc will here remark that
net I .lv did Genl. Packer NOIKC epeeclier
in :Li Senate iu favor of the bill, nad vote
a? here proved, but according to the well
r'eteniberc'i LOGTC of the Bedford Gazette,
he. gnv ' fhi: casting vote on the final passage
of this monstrous Mtine Liquor Law.
i aR on ion-ring at the final vote, it will be
observed;'. he bill passed by 17 yeas to 15
nsys. (AU)?ERP#NTIY if G#UL. Packer bad
voted nay, the bill would have been defeat
ed oil if? final passage, by U fie vote, .and 1
evidently his vote for the bill wm what sa
ved if.
lJut the satoe recklessness and disregard
nf the triitfi which lias heretofore denied
thrif Packer a prohibitionist, nt iy also
ti-ny !')' the bill which passed the .Senate
in iS*,j was a prohibitory M boc Law.
I'ito biil was wide up of fifteen sections,
An 1 is therefore too long for j indication
entire, h>ll in order that all doubt* may ho
removed on this point, and ail mouths stop
ped, w • will give otfr readers some extracts
troirf t r : hill us specimen*. As before sta
ted, jr was on title-!, .del to prohibit
ft", ri tnufautere mid tUt of intoxicating
liquor?" And to demonstrate that the bill
itself corresponded with the title, we pub
lish the fir-it three section* of it. ay follow*:
Src. I. Tit it tnarit I, frc. That no person
sba!i be a .owed at any tin.t;, to manufacture, or
♦'£/, ly himself, his clerk, servant, or agent,
directly or indirectly, enj intoriciting liquor t,
*i ether the same in* spirituous, vinous, or
:n .It, or A misw.ro oi tit a s.,i"ij -IF Fof tlimu,
.-r any MTicf'Tujnor {idtirVssffic Ti.t-ccioating
oropenl -Sv except as hereluAt'ef presided.
<r.c. -■ i b-t ju }jr<"s of the ott rf of Quarter
Sa*- t >n. **i t tfret C*wtty GOtniiiiMSfotfefe, on
the li.'.-vt M'i;i is* of .'u>v, nntiwal y. or tis soon
t'.:>*re*:terHS iiut t>- iveivenient, may p]woM
niiUW.* per** *f wMI-fcimrn, h nr. ■■■•(. f*nr
i'brite,-aid * her hiWts, <n 4%y, or maiwtfie
' ■ <t" ; * i| nt >mr convenient* point in /Mirth
• >tr iships, boroughs,and c,ttles. within
<>*', '• lltef im> doom expedient and
i ."in", i f other liquor*, for sacram:ulal,
*..ti lit'., tnec i f nice I and arlitHcal flip:, ct.
A Weekly Paper, Devote to Literature, Politics., the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms : Tro Dollars per annum.
AND PPIT K% E efcwoteils #3 VT^OBVE*. —
SsicJi [iei'B'Mi sb ifl We appointed. for tUo term of
One yeir, but may be remove'! at an\ time at
the pte isu -e of" said judges i rd Cotrnnissidfiers
foi violating this act.
-SEC '3. That each person appointed to sell
liquors as aforesaid, shall keep an accurate ac
count in writing of all tie liquor bought or
PSaaficture l by hi hi, specifying the quantity
ofeaßh kind purchased or manufictured, tb'o
price of that purchased, tho name of the pursue
from whom it was purchased, and the date of
the purchase, the quantity of each kind sold,
and the date of the sale, its pricu, thu name,
'renames', a&d occupation of the person to
whom it sold, and the purpose for which ii .
wis purchased by iiiiu; uul he t'taii cause the ]
person to u-hom the sole is mrde, to stun the said |
specification at the end thereof; l,c shall 'semi- j
annually, if required, on a day and ai.a place J
to be appointed by said judges and commis
sioners, wligrehf public nofic; shall he given in
one or more newspapers published ia tlieeoun-'
ty. exhibit upon his oath or solemn affirm ition
th • twokor hooks in winch said arc dint End
sffocilicayoii are kept, to the said judges and
commissioner.?, together with a ha lance sheet
showing the qu th'.ity of sch kind of liquor
boa; oit ami sol.l Uy hha during the period
■vni< ti lias elapsad since Ids l ist exhibit, and the
agaregst* ciBt'and pwdeda thereof; and if it
shall to the saiJ. ju igeg and c .minis- j
sinners that the profits Of sai 1 business amount •
to more than wh .t won Id be s ftir and/nst.!
compensation for transacting tip* same, tbey
shall,fix" the amount to be retaWd by lhm for
shch c->mpen?.itbr;. a.i'i shelf reqonc hihi tv
pay thr surplus to tba Treasurer of the coufttb
for the use of t'pe Commonwealth.
Sec. 4 Provides for the giviug of a cer
tificate of ajp .intinent to the perron au
thorized to eeil, upon tit.?*gfoTi;<* bond with
at least two Poeurities in-the penal sum of
five hundred dollars, conditioned for the
faithful nbscei'auce of tip? lavj,&c.
Sec. 5. Imposes fines of from thirty to
two hundred dollars, S costs, for violations
of the act together with sen dry terms of j
imprisonment of not less than two, nor more
than six muni Its.
Suoli ara the first three section? of this
beautiful liquor law iu full, and the sub
stance of the fourth and fifth; and we doubt
not they are more than sufficient to satisfy
all that a more ultra, radical, out and out i
prohibitory law <ra,i never pfssed hi the i
State of Maine or anywhere else. It not
only prfifi&itaHifc Asfere penal- ;
ties, of all sort? of liquors, ad by Avery
quantity great or small, except. "lor sacra
mental', .mechanical, and artisi 1- ?
cal purposes," hut it absolutely prohibits ;
the manufacture ,f any and ail liquors, ex- '
cept for the putpo.sCs just mentioned. If
this be npt prohibition with a vengeance, we j
know not what would he, subsequent
seCtton Ma tho right eiT foarcll iUi J tW |
right to sfPzd and destroy the liquors lrnpt '
contrary to the net; an I in short, the law
.secios to contain fit itself all the yltmniro I
thi? subject that were ever heard of, and!
some others whieU strike us u.s entirely new
and original,'"pemHy that registry which
is to lie "signed at the end thenof" hy the '
man who pun-Haws the liquor, stating for 1
what purpose he g<is /.
We liave now given our readers a true
and full explanation of Getd. I'i -kefs view-,
votes- and position as a prohibitory liquor
law man; and we will await with pleasure
such explanations aa his panizsu friend*,
in iy manufacture for this desperate euter
gcncy- .
THE GE.\i;HAL.
Inquiries have boon made, "Onwhat san
i guimrij field did If7. F. Pecker win his
tills? wheliter in Revolutionary, British,
Indian, Mexican, Cuban, or Kansas V) :rs '(
or vhtihet he is only a Mililiz herof—
From all the histories, botii "national" and
Stales, we cn obtain, we can say that the
Genera! never mounted his stood upon the
! "tented plti.i" whore red Mars watt in ear
nest—nor ims he oouunntided even a brisntde
of cornstalks ami umbrellas amid the-oheers
of pea-nut, gingerbread, and small-beer ven
der?. Hi? sword a goose quill, and the
stains Upon it are ink instead of blood.—
8 too hen and Scott are not his text-books—
vriie-pulling being more congenial to his
mode of warfare. His mostga Hunt "cbnr•
g>" were—as mud-bos?, supervisor, collec
tor, Canal Commissioner, or Auditor Gen
eral— upon the Stale Treasury, from which,
during a serl?? of campaigns covering twen
ty years, he emerged victorious after many
a close 1|" -Contested ajri doubtful,
desperate contest for,the people's money,
General Packer has proved no cowardly sol
dier, as the rich tropicus of himself, bis
.brother, and his person 11, fiienus abundant
ly testify. lii? Just and most briitiunt dis
play of (actio—j rov;t;g him to be a very
Fabjus in j iii? drawing out
Judge Wilmot.and then Lis pmtorle n>-
tu-4t tbrouga the juoqitJSMU jiyas.of enquuit
teedom, whereby lie saved him-elf, (as did
not his vaunting prototype, GMinth of Guh,)
and uheicby, iie is now .ill ; to dis
charge a fierce volley of words at a safe dis
tanco. —jdxchanjff.
'Hie Detroit Tree. Press, in attemptting In
glorify Mr. Buchanan's reufy to Prof. Silli
rimi and others, tiida expose* itself:
"The clergy wanted the troops .*jfith'ifauvrf,
so that, evidently, Jim Litne and /</*. yt.-r/y
mi rftT tih tie mailers nit the ir (Pcj. in tj."
—IV! mt is this but a clear uiiiEit
tiug that fhe y. titer, w>Jl knows
''Jim Lane and papty" to bo the I'ciiple
of Kansas, or at least a great majority of i
♦hi tnV Majorities in this country don't ask j
the assemblage of regiments of United States
itwp# tr> protect ihem sgwitlst theif iniiieri
>tr Hfighfeor* sf. Y. Tribune
Tbataoker i.s thQ same ]Suct of a (
I man as Jacliin is evident from his career. '
Ilea I thq .''Uiary of taken from !
ilu- Y*.:rk
\ here c been in public life, the \
people should k. a ; their past history,
aud see IUW ey have conducted them-T
selves —whethqar have acted hon
estly— whether mouey has stuck to
their fiiigei?—Wither they have grow." un
accountably nc wiihoyt any apparent'
means of proper Cumulation, and whether
tliore are any <fi(Vm?tancos which throw
.suspicion on the! administration of the
public affairs confiil j a thm, Tako Win.
F. I 'acker for inst;;- e . : . inherited no
patrimony, wl.ic.i is tortainly "no cause i>f
r|pro(Msh. He lcarnthe tnulc of a print
er, which is to his crqit. For a few years
lie eonducted notespapys—all right perse,
though the Keystone , llarrisbnrg, under
his auspices u<i during the notorious ad
ininisUation of i'erter, us cue of tho most
prnsGtuted and uiq>ti?ijded qiresses in
Pcnnsjttrania. Now all \,a we h??e hero
stated w'onld not imlce h\j rich". 13 At he
held oflitcs on the Public works —he was
Canal Corniaissinner aud., ~r - Gencral
also under Porter's a luiinitration. Emee
lie retired Frt*n these positWe, he
living a grtitteniao af Inrgc, having no vis
ible means of support and n< regular occu
potion, devoting himself toqolitice In their
partisan atK?r—a momborNf the fcegbd i
ture, but receiving a regular par which
would not more than defray ,ii.s v.v
sett at llairishurg and support :'aj .u at
iiome. and.assiduously laying plans for his
election as Governor the point of bis nmbi- j
tion.
Yet lie \srich— how h;vr lie become so?— ■
This might he a very impertinent inquiry in i
respect of a mer# private citigen. But Pack-;
et io u candidate for. GovertiO.",-aii>i wc Want j
honest nni nnoorruptible men in offioe.— j
Tiiht is the crying need of the times. Un
questionably, General Packer bus not obtain
ed his wealth by labor, nor by the industri- j
ous prosecution of any LB?UII'?S pursuit, lie i
had not earned it when he quit printing for
politics. lie has since bold offices, whose 1
lawful salaries could not inuke bint rich
Where has the money coum from? it has '
been shown that while Ganal Commissioner
a very large ane expfln-lvc contract was
given to" a conpany, of win -It hi? brother
wa? one, though fathers offered to do the
work for kiss. Of cm;.so G-n. Packer was
not ignorant of that— r Wi he a private por
s n d interest of hi? own in that contract 7
The people can odly determine from the cir
ruins-hnces. Sicii tiling? ar? nrt permitted
to appear. B. u l cortaijly yucb an interest
would accouut fyr.jsgute of Gen. Packer's
wcal'h. This is only one case; how many
more of ihe same sort, if uot with biothers,,
with intimate f|wi)ds,or partueis, pro rr na
/a, may have occurred, it is i'Mpossii lc to
till.
It' theseeret? of the Canal Cemaii?|Wtiej'
( Office could all be .disclosed, wfiat a sicken
ing t.ale of co|-fptioa..fram| and dqifiiquen
cy iu public .< fficcrs—he very guardians
rubbing the Treasury—would appear! But
tli,ey are probably buried lr ever.. From
the glimpses we Lave -ciecssicuaLy bad of
theui, however, wc con fwrui soiuepouistptioii
of the immense auto tout of publia plunder
that ha? been enatched by the < ffijors, who
from time tune ha ve been intrusted with
Ute e-ire of the Stat# luiprovctin'iits. One
of the mo*t ftgniSciint circuuistaticeseonnec
ted with theui us been the sudden aodtun
acconntable aocutnulation of wea th by offi
cer? of every grade, from thediighest to the
lowest, who have been employed upon them.
Arid this is one very Temarkahle circum
stance connected with the public life of Gen.
Packer. lie held offices on the .Public
Works, and le has Income vary wealthy,
with no apparent sources of accumulation.
Ii this man Packer tit to he entrusted
with the executive power of the Common
wealth? He and his friends have been ca
nal office-holders ui their !ive3. In there
small positions they have wade fortunes- —
Gboulvi f bey To truat<iJ wfih Tarter offices 7
04' li SITSKMti JliiuivS.
The political importance attached to the
ofiiw of Governor Onuses nsusllj a great
deal of excitement thrdrtghvit the 'State,
alnl wc are apt,ln tlie jnWst of ifiat oicite
mnt, uh Ti'sn*tlneV fHo claims aoA weigh the
intporMlnce of other lod-eed,. > f.4r
ns the rcaPsnbstiintial fhrtinHs tnffu-' -t* 1 cf
the oofcMtuuiftr are emtern?d, the rdfrch <if
tfu*Wre is itiffhifofy of nforo Inijidr-
Utite. -fc Is a grcilt ex'ent from
tho pMfti<#P&rdWP&>rW on MtfttffciW in
its opefntlPii*, a'iflP, r>r^?, r 'likeft'
•< attract so niuWfrmehtinii hi the Chief
Mufbtnitfy* which is essential nature
nwd'ch.ir-rcttu'o political offiec: rh.U> t-houl i
twit bo so. \V T e .should inosf iiißflPfflly scan
the. rtihn* mi# qnatifie itlcni of-leaodtthtw
; for this position."
< BEDFORD. PA.. ERIDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1857.
' WeTcputfUii gladly the 'following excel
lent ii<?tic'e'bf the peripleV candidates for
these cttces, taken from the columns of the
TauiaqAi Sebfiucl, which, by the way, is
dbittg good service in the cause of Free Li
bbri
''JmtojiTi J. Lew;?, of Olics'cr County, is
one of thfc ablest and best lawyers in Eas
tern Pennsylvania, and as a sound jurist lias
nd superior in tho State. It is said I hat
there br not a more popula? or more highly*
respected tftan in Chester ctfuiity than Mr.
Lewis. Honest, sober and siueere—a man
witliour gttilo and ibkssptiot!, he is a fit can
didate for the high a\i ! responsible station
cf Jfmprcmc'Judge, sfil>e confidently be- 1
iietc thatVhoster CC'iljly will return him a
majority fatipiirirHehid by tiny candidate who
has over been up before the people ia that
county for office, and jus is fq.ly deserving j
of all Onester can for him. The balance j
of tne State, wo ire, ?ure, will give him a
woriiiy testimOnisl of their e.,iecin and op
pieciutlou by ilectiug l.iin to one of the
highest posts of -hoiHir witßiu t,he gift of tho
j people cf our Commonwealth.
-"James Yeech, of Fnyotte county, ranks
high at the Judicial Bar in Western Penn
sylvania. This is not an assertion, but ati '
cstabli-.hcd fact, lie will bring dignify and i
honor to the position to which the people"j
arc about-to call him. Cherished and re- )
fpected at home by Ins fellow-citizens, and j
a uioujresh aud vigorous in tlmfiusb of ri
pened manhood, 1?0 comes to tho per- |
formancu of Ids uigb.,duties with a moral |
liuftnisuilied, aud ajioliiicnl character to j
I be envied by every public man and private i
j citizen."
iXOTIIEK sm'vmo RCfiULI
tAX ritTORl
j Sf.Nff tne Gr.fiJ SHOOT c>r VICTORY
AUROAD! The pc iof M tin s have again
p reclamed the and d- liberate cr.nv ie
| lion of the wrong apl iniquity of thai "Bor
j der iluffi iu' ' policy which would elerate the
i Slive power in ihi? t]ic.supreme
| conirvl vf iiiLthe d<JwrJa?mtsntj the Gwv
j rmmeht. Th- c.ioquEn lias been aim in-
S gubiidy free from excitement—and therefore
| in the highest degret favorable for uu uu
j prejudiced expressi qof opinion; and the re
( suit is, that Maine stqid? us firmly for "fre c
soil, free speech, and free man" in Septem
: ber, IS.*)7, as she did September, 1"85 G.
!li wa? therefore nd mere excitement of a
t'resi Icntjjl election tint induced the peo
j pie of Maine to roll up a majority of more
j than SEVENTEEN THOUSAND I t
HANNIBAL liAMI.IN, for ai'icr tho so
i ber second thought they have elected LOl'
;M. MQHHfL, by n majority nearly as
large. The present strength of Hannibal
I Hamlin or of Lot M. Men t ill, ba.3 bad iitl.e
to do in either case with the result. They
1 wre voted for a? tin Representative? of a
. great pfiwfijllo which it? dear above all oth—
frr,political matter? to the people of Maint.
llt is huiior enough to the gallant and du
jTi'igtwi'hcd men .under whose these two
transcendent victories have been woo, to
| say that they arc worthy and honorable lep
; iescntatives of the great cause of wiiich tln-y
havc been made the standard bearers.
We feel peculiar pride in the great tri
umph achieved yesterd iy. The ,irgus and
all tii-' other Border Huffijw papers in the
State have been boasting for weeks past,
that the Hej abftcaits would fall off .sadly
front t?;elr vote of last year, and that the
"Democracy" would very nearly hold their
own,thus making a very large relative gaitt.
They kept this game of"bmg" up with such
persistency, that som* of our timid friends
were redlly disposed t Believe there was
something in it, and prepared themselves to
real if? a meagre victory. But the day of
"talk" has gdtio by, and now we have the
figures tO Mow that, although the aggregate
vote has fallen off ? every one anticipated,
(he Refihb!leans sun! in every way as well
as thi?V did last year. The "Democracy"
indeed, have shown no signs of vitality, ex
cept in the "cackling" and' bragging" of
the'Ctistom Tlon?e organs an l the Federal
offi ('-holders. They are repudiated and
C ndenn'fd by t'.e peojne.—-i orllpnd Ad
vertiser.
The Ptnnsyfwniat bus a long article
i in the na'n-e of an inquiry into the cause*
i vrhitfb have operated to place or to "leave
| Pennsylvania in a commercial and mnnu
| factoring position so' unworthy of such a
; State. It 3VS: *
"Rid we fully availed ourselves of our
i resources," we sHottli nave monopolised, by
1 this timie 1 * ih" mam|f aciutiug business of
I tfU Utitled States.' *fbe New England
j Tf afes cdnld hot Havc'compcted with l'enn
j syWnialn iudustYy, *nß tae trade of New
! York tyi-hld hot have gained a prcpond.r
--j aticfi oVcr that of Philadelputa. 1* or it is
I n6t aline the liirbur, but iu resoitrse.s of
' the coiiofr* In the rear of a vea-pcit, which
I'dctcrtiithes iU commerce. This principle
| is most convincingly end practically "eluci-
' dated by the aetoni-bing progress, and the
immense trade of Liverpool. England
has many harbors equally and more access
ible than ihat ef Liverpool; but the latter
city commands, by its po?iuon, the manu
facturing -centre of England, and hence
her commercial preponderance. Philadel
phia is the Liverpool of the United States
by nature, though, and wo regret the cir
cumstance, not as yet ly art. Had wc
paid more attentiou to manufacturing, the
means would not have failed u? to com
plete our railroad connections with the
Lakes u.-oi the West. New York accom
plished their purpose with the proceeds of
her foreign commerce; Boston with those
of New England industry. The foreign
trade of these two ports depend? solely on
the railroad connection wi;h the interior.
We having failed to iuiLh burs, our foreign
trade declined. This would not have ta
ken place, had we in time recognized iu
what the real vital force of oar State lies.
The special aim of Pennsylvania should be
the promotion of manufacturing industry,
and it i? the true policy of the Lotted
State? to develop both manufacturing and
agricultural iudustry simultaneously ft'"
harmoniously.
Yet it. lias always been the p- Ley ol tin?
I uartv wl.teh rho Pennsytmnian hi? cou
i tended for through tliiok and thin, to keep
this State just where she stands now in re
lation to the other States of the Union.
IIAZF.I. HIRST, the "straicbtoui" Ameri
can candidate for Governor, ha? given up
hit list of appointments an 1 returned to i
Fniladelphia in disgust. 11c dressed too j
well and was altogether too much of the j
fine Philadelphia gentleman to relish con-'
stant association with such fellows a* k'wup",
an i so he iiteontinwtly left Bwope to do the
r. uiaiadcr of the dirty work that had been j
assigned him. Beside?, hi? meetings were j
small, cold and chilling, nude op principally
of loeofoco loader.?, and there was too much |
of tits dl 1 spirit of whiggcry in him to en
dure tiitef HP ha? taken refuge from them
' at home.— Pittsburg Gazette.
THE 15M.A0 GAME- —'Ibc I'hiladciphia
I Pre~s take? things very easy, politically,
■ and if Backer i? elected it will not be
' through any of its - fforts. Still it i- dis
j posed to brag, as fkut:
"The General Election iu Bcnnsylvauia
; will take place on the 13.1: of October, four
; weeks from this day. There appears to be
but liflte rxcUqiueut on the subject. The
election of Genera! Packer by a larg> major
ity i? conceded by all parties.
Easy there. There is a sma 1 parry in
i'.l? Sta'e, nuir.l ering something like 20C',-
J 009 voter?, which concede? nothing of the
kind. Neither doe? Packer feci sure of it:
; if he di! he would not be flitting about the
! State, trying to counteract the effect o!
' Wihuofs speeches, nor would he he dragging
! rim tretnendoti? BIOTER in his wake. IF
' is evfcifnt'y unensjr, no in after how quietly
' die Press nlay take i*. — Pittsburg Gazette.
Sirprn o? DECAY.— The tocofncn party
our. west i? fast losing its vitality. In lowa,
tue lowa City Crfscpit, lorineriy Reporter,
and tho leadiuj Democratic, and ol3ci.i!
paprr of that Stnt, has sa?pended its daily
issue. This ewni, happening just 'at the
opening of the most important-State canvass
lowa has ever soon, does not speak very
loudly iu the praise of the Democratic party
and is r.ol indicative of (he possession on
their part of any very sanguine hopes of
success. In Wisconsin, the Milwaukee
Grad .lus, Vl atertown Jlnzeiger, Madison
Patriot, Waukesha and Milwau
kee ,imeThxen, Ave paper? olsrmiug to be
♦■Democratic,'" either refuse outright to
snvrain the Batstiv ticket, or damn it with
affaint support. The .Imeriean, which was
But Know Nothing, then "Sen J-Tteptrblieafl,
anil now Democratic, maintain? "an expres
sive silence," a? to i's ptesetit politieal re
lation?.
Wfil AT iMppKRK -DEUOC RAC* OoNStHTS
IN. — 1 Enslaving .uiggers*
t l. llie public uiotjev.
3. Raying the blamo on Republic.-, IVJ.
4. Dragooning the people. of K ittbas into
j obedience to R>rer Iluffiin rule.
I Tbis is the Alpha huH O.neg*, the be
ginning and the cud of modern PfuMMcj,
i and ull intelligent Rem 'eratn know it, ami
u!l honest ones]ailinit It.— Vletrdaul Lender.
The Richmond Espminer very pertinevt
|ly propounds tl,e question, "whether it is
! best for the South to secure Santas by a
I swindle, or t secuee the whole Democracy
j of the North by the honorable observance of
| her plighted faith?''
TiiE WOOL Tr,.\DC. - At the reoent wool
sale in London, the foreign dcnuttid, it is
stated, was larger wan USHalf and ibe rate*
i estauif*lteq w'crn ' higher tliftn any
known fc>r many years before. The total
number wdd wis 50,305 bales.
I MACAUI.AV A. I'EEU. —The great his
torian of the century i? to be raised to a
peerage, but like William Pitt, whose life
Macauliy himself has illustrated, a dozen
J #
1 peerages would add nothing to hi? fcuie.—
Everybody to-day know?about Pitt, wheth
er (Ley live in Pitts-Burgh or elsewhere, but
a great many people would be puzzled to
teil who the Karl of Chatham was. What
Mr. MaeauUy has said of ihe Puritan?, we
inav say of him. "Fe i? a noble by the im
position of mightier hand., than those of
1 earthly potentates." He will reflect more
: houAr upon his title thsn he will receive from
it. lle is a nobleman without the touch of
1 knigt-t'iy sword or roy.il band.
Mr. Macaulay retired from the House of
! Commons, where he represented the proud
' old city of Edinburgh, two years ago. lie
was induced to this step, as we were at the
i time informed, Loth by the stato of hi?
1 health and by ids literary engagements. —
lie is now in his fifty-eighth year aud a
t bat-holm. At the rat.'in which his History
i of England has been published thus far, it
will require yet €0 tears to bring its story
down to "within the .memory of men now liv
iog" which is what he proposes to do. IYe
' hope he may live to complete it and "wear
His brushing honors thick upon him.—Pitts
burg Gazette.
i °
IVTKTTESTIXA STATISTICS.—The United
i States are composed of thirty-one States and
nir.e Towitcnss.
'j'hoy contain a population 0f'27,000, OCO.
of wbtMU '23,000,000, arc white.
The extent of sea coast is 12,55*3 mile?.
The surface of the five great lakes is 90,-
000 square miles.
The number of miles of railroad in opera
tion L? 20,000, which cost §78,000,000.
The length of canal? is 5,000 miles.
It contains the longeet railroad oil the
globe, tie Illinois Centra]—wldch is 784
miles.
The annual v alue of it? agriculiurui pro
-1 auctions is §2,L(VPjOOO,OOO.
I Its most valuable production is Indian
; OOF ti, which yields annually 40,000,000
I bushel?.
Tho amount of registered and enrolDd
j toncage is 4,07,010.
The ameuut of capi.ui invested ia manu
• facitiit's is §3000,000.000.
j The value f farms and live stock i.?
§400,000,000.
lis mit.es of gold, copper, lead and iron
are among the richest ia the world.
The value of go] I produced is 100,000,-
; 000.
The surface of the cnai fi.lJs u 238,151
sijuare aerie.
\V it Lin -her borders are SO,OOO SCIK-OIS,
5,000 academies, 251 col.cges, 2.800
churches.
LOVE OF Host:;.— It is only shallow
miudeil pretenders who mrtke either dis
tiuguinbed origin a matter pf ptrFO.i.l merit
; or obscure origin a ipatter of personal te
j proach. A uiaa v.ha is cot ashamed i f
himself, need uot be ashamed of his early
condition. It did happen of me to he boru
in a log cabin, raised among the snow-Oi iits
J of New Ilauipsbiie, at a pern d J eaily,
that when tire smoke first rose from its rude
chimney, and curled over the frozen hi.ls,
theje was no similar evidence of a white
man's habitation between it and the set
tlements on the rivers of Canada, Its re
[ mains stiil exist: [ make it an annual visit.
I carry my children to it, and teach them
the hardships endured by the generations
before them. 1 love to dwell ou the tender
recollections, the kindred tics,, the eail/
affections, aud the narrations and incidents
which, mingle with all I kuow of this
j primitive family abode; I weep to think that
, none of those who inhabited it are amougsi
I the living, and it ever I full in affectionate
I venerating for Itiut who raised it, and de
i feuded it against savage violence and
aest motion, cherished tli dom-siic oouilerts
I herttath its,roof, aitd through the fire and
blood of eleven yogis' revolutionary war,
shrunk trout no toil, no sacrifice in serve
j his couutry, ami In raise bis children its a
| condition better iLan libs os iy utty my rviuie
■ and the name of my posterity U> blotted
i front the memory f mankind,. — Danir/
j Webii r.
I ■ *
UKI.AWAUE AS A Kuytp SrtK.—The
; Independent has investigated . tho history
j and stati.-tius of . -livciy in I\l.ware. L
j 'h found that the precentage of siaves in the
; population of that StiU.-,, uot halt tint of the
; southern states at period, Las steadily
j diminished at every oe.ntiJ, from fifteen p.-r
cent in lyOSy to two and a naif per cfut in
ISSO. The whole number of slaveholders
| iti the Sufe i> how ot.ly 500, and of these
I only twenty possess from ttn tw.nty sl.vos,
j and 47- have less titan five! Tho pto-da
| very attitu le of the State, an 1 the existence
| of slavery ihore at all, are duo solely to the
[ corrupt combination of political parties.
VOL. 30. KO.'O.
THE SOKOUQ —ITS YIELD.- -J. Maxey
Tiuimous, Esq., has presented to the Dar
lington (S. L'.) District Agricultural So
viet). a report on Sorgho, which appears ir.
the Family Friend of the 30th, ult. lie
describes the results obtained as follows:
These experiments, with numerous oth
ers that Mr. Ward and I have tried, con
vince me t'-at at the lowest calculation, ta
king the cuuc us it grows on an average,
large and small, it will y.ieli one gallon of
juice to every twenty eat)us —or five gallons
to every hundred canes— wd that eight
gallons of juice, boiled in properly eon
,strncted vessel", will yield one gallon of
syrup. 1 havi accurately .measured the
| ground, and counted and calculated the
cane, so that I am able to lay down the fol
lowing statistics as reliable, flere. T have
| put the figures lower than in my siutiitical
journal, because I preferred to be ou the
sure side. I have laid dowu four feet as
rhe distance apart for plautiug, though my
conclusion now is that three feet or three
and a half at moit, is sufficiently wide,
which of course would u.ake the j'ield
: greater. One acre of land that will yield
| fifteeu bushels of corn, will, plauted 'u Cbi
i nese Sugar Cane, in drills four feet j ait,
; make 17.500 stalk"; tweuty canes to the
i gallon will rntke 575 gallons of jue;
eight gallons of Juice to oue gallon of syr
|up will make 109 gallons of sytup. This
at only fifty cents a gallon, will make about
| five dollars ]*r acre. Seeidea you then
h-jved e blades and tops for feeuitig your
1 horse" aud cows, or the seed for feeding
! your fowls, all of which eat it most greedi
ly. , .
A ride from making molasses or sugar, it
is Irighfy woitb the attention of our plaut
!ers for feeding stock. t)ue acre of land
th at wiii make fifteen basbels of corn, will
5 yield in Chines* Cotae 17,500 pouuds of
provender, averaging tiw cairn, after it is
, cured, at only one, pound each; then, at on
ly fifty cen's per hundred, it is worth eigh
i rj-seven dollars and fifty cents per acre.—
jlf planted nearer than four feet, the yield
will be greater. Besides, the cune may
; be cut down once or twice for feeding, in
the eaiiy part of the year, and then uia
! ture for seed.
Not being prepared for it, I have not
: tried to make sugar, though 1 have no doubt
! it would answer the purpose.
My experiments 1 cousidet all very un
fair nod imperfect, because I have not only
labored under the disadvantages of uot
having proper verse's for boiling, but I hava
myself no experience aud but little knowl
edge about the process of uiakiDg molasses
■ or sugar.
VLEAMNQ GRANARIES. — Bjfore storing
nray your wiic-.it, yon sboul 1 cleanse your
granaries. In the fitst place, the ftoers,
walls and ceiling shonhf be carefully swept
the dirt cobwebs and insects gttbered and
burnt—not swept out of door. Then tl.o
entire interior of the grsuary shouM be
secured with Lot ley, made strong, and
when dry the whole room, from floor to
coiling, shonll be whitewashed. Such a
cleansing would probably d-.-troy the wee
vil that proves so destructive to stored
paiis. We have seen it stated that by
sprinkling I'me through the grain, it would
preserve it from the ravages of the weevil.
The following plan i* the one pursued by the
late lion. William Curtisiobael, resident of
Queen Ann's county, Maryland, a gentle
man of great agricultural experience, giese
observation, and hence to he implieity relied
upon. if
"The wi-evii-fly deposits its egg in the "
grain in its green and tender state If the
Wheat is threshed soon aftc* harvest, and
thrown into fculk.it undergoes a haat which
destroys the egg. and itsustains rut injuty
bnt K it fbfnahis lons in the sintek or stalk,
the weevil hatches and make* Its way out
of rbe'gmui to i's greater injury both in
weight and qnantiu. One degree to the
North of u--, rhis pernicious iu*ect is bat
filtle known. The Blatk tV,ewl b*unt
our gmfcurie?, where they are geeerewo-
Some retire ago 1 suffered much injury '>•*
♦lo-m, but have now an -flTectuaf defctce. -
When mv prnoaries nre claer of grain, '"I
j Ismd ;xrjciere.| br itn.Woue in riir c.rth&c
pan, which, for grui-i ! puf'ftll the flrdr ht k
(d if Mid; cbising doors and windows,
and fie it-Mite smoke ei'h-r de.-trots tfr
rh-ives them off."
{LJj* DEMOCRATIC DiSftATnFAC-}i,)r. v<
Scua Vfitttr.t..—There i.< a strong
faetiou autoug tho democracy of Scbuy 1 kill
QootQty lying io that portion of tint omul j
which lies cast of the Center Turnpike, y
They met in Tcrnaqn i, at the United Statya
Hotel, las-t week, and in euujunction with
their paLtioaJ opponents nominated an in
dependent A-iwdilate for tho Legislator^
S Js , > ■(s*&
QCF"A dentist advertises that 'As sg.rre*
no pnins' to reader his oprra tons satis, to
tciy.